Tag Archives: Nonduality

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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