Author Archives: Jiffy Read

About Jiffy Read

Twice a month I lead an ACIM group in eastern Massachusetts.

Separation is not a mistake

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Jiffy Read

“The Garden of Eden, or the pre-separation condition, was a state of mind in which nothing was needed. When Adam listened to the “lies of the serpent,” all he heard was untruth. You do not have to continue to believe … Continue reading →

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“A healed mind does not plan”

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Jiffy Read

“A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. It waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it. It … Continue reading →

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One Self, Infinite Expressions

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Jiffy Read

Just as a prism refracts light, and separates it out into an infinite variety of colors, so does Mind refract God, and separate out limitless expressions of Infinite Being. And just as refracted colors are never apart from the light from which they receive their illumined quality, … Continue reading →

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Consciousness and the brain

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Jiffy Read

“You also believe the body’s brain can think. If you but understood the nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insane idea.” (W-92.2) One of the most vexing—if not the most vexing—problems in science is known as “the hard … Continue reading →

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Sinlessness

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Jiffy Read

There’s a tendency among Course students to conclude that the individual self is responsible for the separation from God. This is a misunderstanding of the Course‘s central message. The separate self did not split from its source. A separate self can’t separate. How can that which doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Free Will

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Jiffy Read

The separate self feels as though it is free to think and do as it pleases. But all its thoughts and actions arise from the ego thoughts in which it believes, and ego thoughts are not original; they are the thoughts of conditioned thinking. … Continue reading →

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“What am I?”

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Jiffy Read

The world’s thinking states that the mind is a functioning of a brain contained inside a body, and that outside the body is a world. In this way of perceiving, the mind is the result of neural wirings and firings—there is no … Continue reading →

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“Anger is never justified”

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Jiffy Read

  The Course statement that anger is never justified† is often interpreted as a criticism rather than a fact, leading to the idea that anger is wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth! Anger is not good or bad; it’s simply the … Continue reading →

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How did the impossible occur?

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Jiffy Read

ACIM makes it very clear that the impossible—the split from God—did not happen, that “we” are forever safe in God. This makes no sense to the ego, because it doesn’t experience itself as being in God. But the ego itself … Continue reading →

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“Yet sickness is not of the body, but of the mind”

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Jiffy Read

Oftentimes when Course students learn about and adopt the teaching that sickness is in the mind, they become obsessively preoccupied with their thoughts in the hope of preventing any sickness from manifesting in the world of form. I know I myself went through a … Continue reading →

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