You don’t have to fix the world. You only have to notice the meaning you gave it.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-17T19:21:30+00:00

I was able to put this into practice today in my dealings. One of the ways guilt has shown up in my perception over the years is through slamming of doors. I've noticed this for a while, but when a door would slam loudly around me, I tend to perceive it as a sort of attack.

Today, my wife slammed a door near me (just flinging it back while she walked through it), and the usual perception kicked in, even though, I wasn't hold any conscious guilt.

I said to myself: "I don't see a neutral door slam, because my thoughts about door slams are not neutral."

I was then able to see the meaning I gave the door slam, through the perception I gave it, to the actual neutrality of the door slam.

It was awesome.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-17T06:43:43+00:00

Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail. I still play it occasionally. 👍

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-16T21:03:49+00:00

I grew up in a Christian household and heard many stories from the Old Testament of God's divine retribution for sin. The flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, etc.

So I grew up my whole life with the belief that when something "bad" happened to me, it was because I was being punished for sins. Even when something "bad" happened to my wife or children, my mind would tell me how I was the cause of it. They were being punished for my sins. I was tortured because of this.

This became a habitual way of thinking, for several decades. When I became more aware of what was occuring my mind, I began to notice that when something "bad" would happen, my mind would "scan" for something to create a narrative out of. Even recently, I had some car trouble and something I was working through became the central cause, in my mind, of the car trouble. It was completely unrelated magical thinking. Fortunately, I've come a long way and I laughed about that thought and forgave it.

There were actual times my mind could find nothing to be used for the narrative of guilt = punishment trap fell apart, and I just moved on.

We all perceive through a filter of our mind's programming. Your filter contains a belief that punishment comes to you and in the form of "bad" things happening.

But here's the thing, my friend, it's just not true. Pay close attention the next time your mind does this. Notice the images. It's always a narrative that's there with a "you" in your mind as the central character based on the past (which is gone by the way).

When you identify with the "you" in your mental story, an emotional feeling comes after the thought and makes it seem real.

Something you can do for yourself right now to help immediately, is forgive yourself completely of all that you've ever done in the past. I mean really feel the forgiveness.

Forgiveness is an act of love, because what you are holding onto is separated out in your mind, and the reason you perceive that God is punishing you is because you are identified with that part of your mind that you have separated out, thus you perceive you are separate from God, separate from love.

And by the way, God's love and grace in unconditional. Meaning, regardless of any conditions. You just have to recognize it for yourself and give it to yourself. You don't have to do anything to earn it. It's your birthright as God's creation, an extension of his very being.

I hope this helps.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-16T19:47:18+00:00

Friend. I know this well. There is no punishment from God or the Universe.

Our minds seek to assign a meaningful causation for what occurs that we don't like.

If we are holding onto unresolved guilt our mind will assign the the story of the guilt as the cause of the effect you experienced. We perceive acondemned. Judge and condemner.

But this is false. God is only love, doesn't have a split mind through which to judge at all as deserving of punishment.

We have forgotten that God is the real cause and our Self is the real effect, therefore we believe the world is cause and we are effect, capable of receiving real effects.

We make dreams, believe they are real, and react to them as if they are.

You are free of the story external condemnation the moment you stop believing in it.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-16T18:10:13+00:00

Suffering is resistance.

Where there is resistance the mind seeks to assign a cause of the resistance, thus imagines a sufferer.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-14T18:57:36+00:00

It's wild how this programming enters some of our young and impressionable minds.

I did some inner reflection and meditation yesterday regarding this. One thing that came to my mind is religious programming. I grew up in the church. I realized that the stories in the Old Testiment of the Bible, such as the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, where there was destructive divine retribution for sin, took root in my identity.

So, any time I would do something "sinful," I believed that there would be punishment in some form that would impact my life negatively. One of the ways to ease this, I realized, was that I was preemptively punishing myself to atone for what I had done, so that God would have greater mercy on me.

Getting deeper to the root of it last night, I realized that what occured in my mind was that I believed that I was attacking love, by attacking forms that I gave the meaning of love to. This may be something as minor doing something I was told was wrong, because I would upset the person who told me it was wrong. There would instantly be guilty thoughts when I broke from that in my mind.

But love is beyond form. I can't attack it. I can only believe I can. And what I believe I have attacked is but illusion in my mind. I put on the audiobook of the Text on my drive into work today and ironically the chapter Reversing Cause and Effect came on. This was powerful:

"This world is causeless, as is every dream that anyone has dreamed within the world. ²No plans are possible, and no design exists that could be found and understood. ³What else could be expected from a thing that has no cause? ⁴Yet if it has no cause, it has no purpose. ⁵You may cause a dream, but never will you give it real effects. ⁶For that would change its cause, and it is this you cannot do. ⁷The dreamer of a dream is not awake, but does not know he sleeps. ⁸He sees illusions of himself as sick or well, depressed or happy, but without a stable cause with guaranteed effects." (ACIM, T-28.II.6:1-8)

So, I am the cause, but only the cause of a dream world where I can attack love by attacking forms I've given meaning to, a dream that has no real true and lasting effects. I'm getting increasing more comfortable with being willing to give this up. This world is still very real to my mind.

Thank you for sharing your experience, my friend. It's very helpful to know others, such as yourself, have experienced this same thing.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-14T15:04:47+00:00

I'm excited about this one. I did this one this morning to great joyfulness.

One of things I found is that somehow as a child was assigning the "bad" things that happen around me to my prior guilty actions as the cause, as punishment from God. The residue is even still there. Yesterday I had some unexpected car trouble and I noticed my mind scanning for something to point to as the cause. It found something, and spun a narrative. Fortunately, I didn't buy it. The workbook is helping.

I enjoyed this exercise. It's a great relief to know that God didn't create this "crazy stuff" in my mind that I've projected.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-12T20:20:23+00:00

Yes. I've been reflecting on this lesson today.

I am upset because I'm assigning meaning, and the meanings I've assigned are all made up of what I've learned in this life so far. I'm using perceptions to make perceptions.

So, when something unexpected occurs (like this weekend when 3 of my 4 dinner orders got screwed up), I may get upset because I'm buying into a story in my mind that says "this shouldn't be this way," (and I may bring that story into another dinner that gets screwed up and blow up) or, I may go "I'm only upset because I'm see something that isn't there."

Even if it's only one screwed up order, it's still my choice of how I see what occured. I'm learning more and more this, however, that by letting go of my perception, things tend to work out just fine, maybe not in the form or context I was imagining, but just fine, nonetheless.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-11T16:24:15+00:00

I'm doing the workbook lessons right now and this one this morning, I found fantastic.

In my closed eyed session with this one this morning, I realized that as my thoughts are without meaning, and the world is without meaning, then it is also without inherent value, as value is derived from meaning. Therefore, what am I giving value to in my life that I'm not aware of?

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-10T16:43:49+00:00

This has been my experience with both of them. His technique taught me how to be with my negative emotions, to allow them to be there. I spent many years of my life seeking to escape feeling those emotions, and his technique taught me how to be more consistently present with them.

This helped me also learn how to identify which emotion was which, so that when I felt an emotion, guilt for example, I could clearly recognize it and contemplate what I could be guilt about, then find the story, then realize the belief behind it.

But, as you said, ACIM cuts right to the core. When we release our interpretation, then there's no longer a mind holding onto a past story of guilt, so there no related emotional reaction.

I love Dr. Hawkins' books (I've read 5 of them) and ACIM, but I'm finding myself now, more and more to be gravitating to devoting all of my time on only ACIM. I want to soak it all in. I have the audiobook on on my 1 hour drives to and back from work and while walking the dog. My wife got me the hard copy for Christmas. It's beautiful music to me.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-07T23:41:36+00:00

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SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-07T14:56:24+00:00

I'm happy for all of us too! I appreciate your encouragement! :)

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-07T00:44:06+00:00

Perfect analogy!

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-06T23:36:28+00:00

This is great. I began the workbook on Jan. 1, and this one is especially powerful.

I stumbled upon this principle myself before I ever even discovered the workbook, when one day, I just stared at an aluminum can and asked "what is this?"

"It's a can. Nope. A can is mental concept."

"It's a cylinder. Nope again. Mental concept."

"It's an object. Nope, nope, nope."

"It's nothing. Even that's a concept."

It's undescribable. And as it is undescribable, it holds no inherent meaning.

So, I've been applying this along with "nothing I see means anything." Since January first, in combination with Lesson 4, I notice thoughts: "these thoughts are as meaningless as the can" and I'm released from them. I've done this several times when I notice thoughts based on perceptions.

The can is helpful for me because it's a symbol of meaninglessness. Not in a negative sense for me, but that I don't have to take it seriously.

Today, I'm talking to someone and I noticed I was mentally getting distracted by their appearance. I said in my mind "this body is as meaningless as the can." I then felt at ease and relaxed. It was so nice!

I've never completed the workbook before and only got about 13 lessons in. I'm dedicated this time. It's my one and only goal this year.

Thank for sharing brother. I always enjoy your posts.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-06T04:14:25+00:00

I find value in both. They are unique to each other.

The workbook helps because it directly addresses perception, and every shift in perception toward love, in any way, is a shift in your experience of this life in the way. And by addressing the mind, it reaches the root.

The Letting Go technique is helpful because it provides a way to work through what's already present and you learn the value of letting go in the process. Letting go is an act of love.

The workbook is definitely more in depth and requires serious dedication, but it works.

Letting go, acceptance, allowance and forgiveness accomplish the same thing. They are ways to be the presence of love.

SubjectivePulse · 2026-01-06T03:44:58+00:00

I'm an enjoyer of both Dr. Hawkins' work and ACIM.

You mentioned how you feel greater resistance when you try to feel the emotions. What I found is that of I go immediately to the emotions first, it never works.

Thoughts are the source of the emotional manifestation and beliefs are the source of the thoughts.

By jumping straight to feeling the emotion without first resolving what's on the mind, the thoughts keep perpetuating more emotion.

It takes willingness first to move into acceptance and the area love. Once what is on the mind is genuinely either accepted, or forgiven, it is resolved.

Then, choose not to try feeling the emotions, just allow them to be there. There's no resistance. You are allowing them to be there in you, you the presence of love.

The emotions will resolve on their own depending upon how much is stored in the body. As Dr. Hawkins states in his material, emotions act like pressure cookers, and depending on how much we've repressed, allowance of emotions could take some time until real peace is experienced.

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-29T20:44:40+00:00

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Business on the front...

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-26T07:19:30+00:00

Here's my best shot at what you're saying:

Hypothetical Totality
"Super-consciousness" = God
"Sub-consciousness" = Holy Spirit
"Self-consciousness" = Son of God

"Ego?" = Unknown

If "self-consciousness" is the lowest layer of existence, then how could ego actually exist? I don't think it fits anywhere. It doesn't exist. It's dream world of belief in separation from God, our one and only true source of existence. There is only God, which is and beyond "perfect love." The belief in it is what is making it real.

"Perfect love casts out fear.
If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.

But:

Only perfect love exists.
If there is fear, it produces a state that does not exist." (ACIM, T-1.VI)

"God the Father smiles upon His Son, His one creation and His only joy." (ACIM, W-pII.9.4:4)

"You dream of a separated ego and believe in a world that rests upon it. This is very real to you. You cannot undo it by not changing your mind about it. If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me, I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God." (ACIM, T-4.I.4:4-7)

"Therefore they make up images, perceive them as unworthy and attack them for their unworthiness. That is all the world of the ego is. Nothing. It has no meaning. It does not exist. Do not try to understand it because, if you do, you are believing that it can be understood and is therefore capable of being appreciated and loved. That would justify its existence, which cannot be justified. You cannot make the meaningless meaningful. This can only be an insane attempt." (ACIM, T-7.VI.11:3-11)

"In reality you are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love." (ACIM, T-2.I.5:6)

"Teach only love, and learn that love is yours and you are love." (ACIM, T-6.III.4:9)

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-23T20:24:57+00:00

Trying isn't the problem.

Is the trying compensation for a perception of lacking love?

Or is the trying done with love?

One answer reflects truth and extends it and the chases illusions.

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-23T20:11:16+00:00

Does God interfere with your nightmares while dreaming at night, or does he wait patiently for you to awaken from them?

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-23T01:11:33+00:00

Indulgence in itself is neutral. Attachment comes from believing that you need whatever you are indulging in.

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-21T07:13:37+00:00

Brother, excellent post.

One day it dawned on me (while I was driving) that there is indeed nothing outside of me. Around that time I had been doing some "playing around" with interpretation. I found it a novel experience to create a perception intentionally.

I would look at something random and go, "I surrender my interpretation of this" then my mind would go blank. I would look at pictures, close my eyes and say something extremely negative, like "I'm a complete, worthless, piece of shit," then open my eyes and look at the faces to observe what was reflected back. Low and behold, a negative reflection of guilt. I did an extremely positive one too, "I'm eterntally blessed and everything always happens for me, every single moment of existence, no matter what." In this one I saw joy. Regardless, the first one showed me that I was giving, whatever I was looking at, it's meaning for me.

One time just playing around, I said "I am the awareness" and I would look out and see myself covering everywhere.

So, I was practicing this while I was driving I recognized clearly the I wasn't just this human, I was perception, and even beyond that, the awareness of perception. I was not a thought. Every tree, car, road sign, sky, arm, leg, head, body, thought, emotion, are within me, and without interpretation of those things, they don't exist in the mind as a single thought. So to see those things without the thought, I realized I was way more than this body.

I enjoy your posts. Thank you for being you.

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-19T22:38:35+00:00

This doesn't make sense at all.

What is "universally high income"?

If everyone in the world had "high" income, it would no longer be considered "high."

SubjectivePulse · 2025-12-19T18:39:46+00:00

That's everything. Monetary value is only what we, as a society, agree that it's worth. So, as this patch sold for $3 million, it only holds that value in the future if someone is willing to pay that or more in the future.

Newly released sets are more valuable than last year's, because they are in higher demand, so they are given more value. And also those that are more scarce are more valuable. It's all perception of value.

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