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"I can escape the world I see by giving up attack thoughts." (2)

mstreet #243 开云体育 "I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts." (W-23) This is taken from Ken Wapnicks commentaries on the Workbook Lessons. (Volume 1...Tape 3.)? continuing from paragraph 4. ? ?"The world you see is a vengeful world, and everything in it is a symbol of vengeance." ? Ken: These are very strong statements. And they are as uncompromising as anything that you will find in the Text. Everything in this world is a symbol of vengeance. Why? Because if you believe there is a world, and there is something in the world, then your saying that God no longer exists. And if God no longer exists, its because I killed him and? now I believe He is justified in taking vengeance on me. And I block out that whole horrendous thought, project it out. And I believe in the world that will seek its vengeance on me. ? "Each of your perceptions of "external reality" (and obviously "external reality" is put in quotes, because there is no reality outside.) "is a pictorial representation..." ? Ken: Which is a fancy way of saying "projection." ? "of your own attack thoughts." ? Ken: This is the same idea that he says early in the Text: "that all thinking produces form on some level." It's the same idea as we saw that "every thought you have, makes up some segment of the world you see." And this thinking - and he is only talking about in the ego thought system... this thinking would always be, some aspect of attack. ? "One can well ask if this can be called seeing. Is not fantasy a better word for such a process, and hallucination a more appropriate term for the result?" ? Ken: Fantasy is of course a psychological term for thoughts that are not real. And they are thoughts that give you what you want. So if you really want to defend against your guilt then you have fantasies of pleasure. Of getting what you want. ? Well everything in this world comes from a fantasy thought. The world is giving me what I want. Basically its giving me a haven so that I could hide from God. "You see the world that you have made, but you do not see yourself as the image maker." ? Ken: That is what denial is. That is exactly what he discussed in lesson 136 - on sickness. That we make up the sickness and then forget that we made it up. And its another way of saying that we are the dreamer of the dream, but we have forgotten that we are the dreamer, and believe the dream is dreaming us. ? "You cannot be saved from the world, but you can escape from its cause." ? Ken: Ultimately you can't be saved from the world, because there is no world. What you are saved from, is your belief system that tells you there is a world. And the belief system is always predicated on the belief that "I" have killed off God, so that I could exist in His place. ? "This is what salvation means, for where is the world you see when its cause is gone?" ? Ken: So - when your in the real world, your literally outside the dream. You are no longer identified with being separate from God. You are identified completely with the Holy Spirit's love. At that time, the world doesn't exist for you any more. You may appear to be in the world the way Jesus did, but your reality is outside of the world. You are outside of the dream. Therefore, for you - the world has disappeared. ? "Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now." ? Ken: Vision, of course would be the Course's term for right-minded perception, or for identifying with the Holy Spirit's Thought system of Atonement. ? "Loveliness can light your images, and so transform them that you will love them, even though they were made of hate." ? Ken: This is a reference back to lesson 15. "My thoughts are images I have made." Which talked about the little sparks of light that creep up around objects. And I explained, that was not to be taken literally. It was originally meant for a friend of Helen and Bill's. But you should understand it, in terms of its content. Which means, you learn to see things differently. And that "seeing" is what light represents. And this is even clearer. "Loveliness can light your images." ? So everything in the world now becomes lovely in your perception because its purpose has been changed. ? Later on, we will discuss purpose. So even though these were images we made out of hate (which is stronger than attack) but its the same idea. Its purpose now has changed. The purpose of making up a world was made to protect individuality. Our sinful thoughts by projecting them out. Now the purpose is changed whereby the world now becomes a classroom, in which we learn literally that there is no world. That is a lovely thought. That is a thought that frees us. And it is that loveliness that then lights up our vision. It lights up everything we see. ? So again, we will look at all of our images and love them, even though they were made out of hate. ? "For you will not be making them alone." ? Ken: This is the same idea as we have already discussed - how minds are already joined. Jesus is not talking about joining on this level. And he is not talking about the brain. He is talking about the mind. ? So, we will not be making them alone because when I choose to identify with Jesus or the Holy Spirit, I am? making a distinct choice against separation and full unity, because that is what being with Jesus means. ? If Jesus is the Christ, because he is God's one Son, and I join him, then I am Christ too. And in that holy instant everyone is one with me. ? When I choose the unholy instant, since everyone is still one with me, within the ego thought system as well, then I am giving everyone a message that says, we are all right and God is wrong. We are all right that we separated . We are all right in feeling unfairly treated. And I am right in being unfairly treated or in feeling angry at you. ? That we are not alone in experiencing the effects of our thoughts - the effects of what we see or the effects of vision. But this has nothing to do with the world - nothing to do with our experiences in this world. It has to do with the thoughts that are in my mind. And there are only two thoughts in our mind. And both thoughts that are perfectly unified. The thought of separation and the whole thought system of the ego, which we all shared as one Son. And on the other side is the correction for that thought that we also share as one Son. ? So in the Text,? Jesus says - "vision or judgment are your choices, but not both of them." So on one side is the vision that sees us all as one. In this world is reflected in that we share the same purpose or goal. On the other side, we all share the same judgment. Now we are all guilty of the same sin of murdering God so we could exist. And because we all are guilty of it, we are all trying to do the same thing to each other. 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