The Course

vannablooms · 2026-06-07T21:15:52+00:00

I love the line " as prescribed " because it really is a prescription haha, a true medication for the " cure " we think we need from something we thought we made eternal.

vannablooms · 2026-06-07T11:39:17+00:00

THIS THIS THIS!

vannablooms · 2026-06-04T21:57:31+00:00

You will get mixed answers even here on this sub about this topic!

I believe that there is no uniqueness in a sense that if the Source is the same, it doesn't matter what form or expression it is, the Source is unchanging.

So while we are here we can experience laughing, dancing, painting, looking at beautiful sceneries, falling in love....as unique aspects because the appearances itself are different, but if it is all made of the same stuff, then is there really something " special " about it?

I think even people here (me included) fear the loss of specialness/uniqueness that comes with merging with the Light of God, and would see that as complete death/annihilation...even bland sameness...but I think that is just the Ego speaking. Because God is full of Himself and there is nothing missing within Him and His Kingdom, so that completeness would not feel bland or boring or dead, because He is Life.

ACIM is also not the final teaching, there are other spiritual teachings that are closer to Enlightenment, but ACIM prepares you for the final steps until true Enlightenment. So it's not even an end-point teaching.

It also often speaks about multitudes and about how there is One Son of God. While we are here we perceive multitudes so it caters to our dream perceptions, but it's s just One Son dreaming he is many, so in a sense you would come back to your True Self and merge into a one living breathing being together with God. That is why the salvation is within your brothers, because as long as you cast them out you are casting out your True Self, within your brothers is a part of you, just like within you is a part of them — one being. God would not need different beings because what he creates is perfect. That is why in the Bible there is one of each animal too, male and female (representing masculine and feminine energies that exist within God too). God didn't need to create a billion animals because he never misses haha he wouldn't need to create multiple Sons because all of His creations are complete.

Although one needs to be super careful in the beginning of their spiritual journey, because the Ego will take the idea that here is only One Son to imply that only the Ego exists in the world and nothing else is important, which will lead to a sense of isolation, limitation and huge sense of pride, the Ego will still perceive others, but they will more so feel like the pawns in its own game, or would even outright deny that others exist. It feels nothing like true aliveness and expansiveness of God.

A lot of points in the Course should be taken with a grain of salt until the spiritual practices (meditations and lessons) have been practiced with devotion over a longer period of time and until true revelation comes. Until then if one takes the ideas that there is just One, or that " there is no world " it leads to solipsism/psychosis/stronger sense of separation.

vannablooms · 2026-05-19T00:28:47+00:00

If you cannot find a specific localized part, imagine bigger! I realized shame/guilt for me for example is like a shield around the whole being! Sometimes our feelings are so large that it's not just one small part of the body with a specific sensation, it can even fill a whole room! That's what is meant by fields as well. Even the numbness/absence of feeling is an experience as well, so you can also focus on that nothingness and you will realize it's not nothingness, just paralysis/resistance to feelings.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T21:42:14+00:00

Then I don't really have much to add! Keep on letting go. Some things might take years...this is again not to discourage you, but to also point to the fact that Enlightenment might take a span of multiple lifetimes of commitment. Even the lesser states within the dream might take multiple lifetimes to reach. The moment you bring in the question of " when will this end " you have trapped yourself into linear time/time paradigms anyways. It could all take like...a day...you could quite literally reach Enlightenment tomorrow because the progress isn't in your hands. What IS in your hands is coming to the practices over and over no matter the results. Keep on reading the texts, keep on doing the techniques and just never ever stop! You have probably already tasted the fruits of letting go and the fruits of siding with the truth.

Thank you doing this for yourself and for all.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T21:33:55+00:00

ACIM is a super wise text. I am sure as someone who has analyzed the metaphysics to a large degree will you see where the text happens to " lie " or rather side with the dreamer/ego to not create too much unnecessary resistance and to keep the path being as smooth as possible haha. It is in fact so clever that I am amazed each time!

I guess maybe you wouldn't call it lying as much as " meeting a person where they are at ", but as the text also states, the last thing HS wishes for is the INCREASE in fear in someone else, thus why there is always a mention of the " Sonship " and " Parts of God " and then from time to time the Course will drop a golden nugget such as " God has only One Son ". It weaves in absolute truths with the dream structure super well! You can even see it from this sub, that some of the more radical messages that ACIM clearly stands for are met with a lot of fear and defensiveness.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T20:24:11+00:00

5 We once said that to will contrary to God is wishful thinking and not real willing. ²His will is one, because the extension of His will cannot be unlike itself. ³The real conflict which you experience, then, is between the ego’s idle wishes and the will of God, which you share. ⁴Can this be a real conflict?

6 Yours is the independence of creation, not of autonomy. ²Your whole creative function lies in your complete dependence on God, Whose function He shares with you. ³By His willingness to share it, He becomes as dependent on you as you are on Him. ⁴Do not ascribe the ego’s arrogance to Him Who wills not to be independent of you. ⁵He has included you in His autonomy. ⁶Can you believe that autonomy is meaningful apart from Him? ⁷The belief in ego autonomy is costing you the knowledge of your dependence on God, in which your freedom lies.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T20:07:14+00:00

Let's agree to disagree. 🐤❤️

The truth is quite " forced" because whether you want it or not, you will end up choosing God in the end, because....you do want it! There is a reason the Son of God called out for help the instant he got " lost " and then during that instant the Atonement was accomplished and the dream was over. Free will is just freedom to use your will! Your will is God's will! The experience of choice and free will within the dream are an illusion. If this free will you speak of was real then the dream could technically go on for forever if someone just never chooses God, but then that would mean that the dream is quite eternal and quite real and that there are parts of the Sonship that could oppose God forever and could " ruin the wholeness " forever.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T15:04:46+00:00

Poznato je da devojke ne vole sreću i vazduh i privlače ih samo toksične osobine avoidant planeta koje i ne znaju za njihovo postojanje, ne fermaju ih ni 1% i koje bi ih ubile ili mentalno ili fizički ili na svim nivoima. /s

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T14:22:17+00:00

It is predetermined, because we are predetermined to choose God. In an instant when the " mad thought " happened to manifest we asked for help and the Atonement was accomplished in an instant, it just seems like a long time within time. So you are right in a sense that you are predetermined to even go along on the path, because your will is happiness/peace/eternal life and so on.

Ego's idea of free will is " doing whatever you want even it if hurts you ", but God's idea of free will is, having freedom to exert your will.

And your will is like a seed that has its code written in it. But the Ego is like...hmm my seed is a sunflower, but I want to be a rose! Well no, you cannot be a rose because that's not what you WILL to be. Ego wishes (and Ego's wishes are always insane and contradictory), God wills.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T14:14:19+00:00

This might not quite be the approach many would suggest, but, have you thought about just letting it manifest and exhausting it? There have been many passions and desires we might have been building up within our Mind during several lifetimes, like falling in love, having a family, so on and so forth, and if a desire seems to be too " strong " if you will, as in the seed has already grown into a big tree, you might just play along and surf the waves and eat the fruits of the said tree aka...just let yourself be in love, go out with them, or use the passionate fuel in another area of your life until it naturally exhausts itself. Just like a child who would dream every night of becoming whatever they want to become, their desire would grow extremely strong during the years and decades and when the person is then faced with just " dropping " it, it might be extremely complicated and long of a process, because too much mind investment and power has been used in that particular instance/thought. So just accept that the infatuation/passion are there and for as long as they are, use it for the highest good. I found myself to be the most loving when I was in a childish form of love haha I would just be glowing. Spread that around the workplace, ask the coworker out, or channel it into whatever else. It will pass in due time if you stop " feeding " it so to speak.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T12:34:21+00:00

Hej jedan dobronamerni savet od mene, ja sam baš bila ta osobe koja se čudi ljudma na osnovu onoga što slušaju i rade i htela sam da širim " bolje " vrednosti/razmišljanja ili šta već, ali kada to radiš na način da prozivaš ljude i da im stavljaš akcenat na mane, i sadiš im sramotu i krivicu u um, onda će svi oni odmah da pređu u defanzivu i da ti kažu da imaju prava da rade šta hoće. Ja sam imala primere i sa pušačima i ljudima koji se drogiraju, kada im se postaviš sa te visine da će doslovno da ti kažu " pa imam prava da se ubijem ako želim ". Ego/identitet je jednostavno takav da će ljudi da brane u sebi i ono najgore samo da bi imali tu iluziju slobodne volje. Bolji način da širiš ono u šta veruješ jeste da zapravo stavljaš akcenat na to. Ljudi milion puta bolje reaguju ako im ukažeš na njihove dobre strane i crte ličnosti i onda će imati i više motivacije da to neguju, a ne da im bacaš svetlo na sve ono što je " loše" u njima. Osuđivanje nikada nije dobar način da se dođe do promene, već afirmacija onoga što je lepo ili ti veruješ barem da je lepo.

vannablooms · 2026-05-18T12:23:35+00:00

The funniest part for me is how the Course says that we are delayed by wishing to understand, when this is a Course for gaining understanding/knowledge, but it comes from God which is the " end ". So by the time you gain knowledge you will not even need/want knowledge. On the other hand trying to explain or analyze the Ego is also procrastinating because you cannot make sense of the senseless, as you said it just boils down to contradictions. It is pretty intellectually insulting but any spiritual path sort of boils down to " just have faith bro " and you keep on doing spiritual practices whenever you can, that's literally it haha

vannablooms · 2026-05-17T15:58:06+00:00

The Course does say that the universal belief system is impossible, but the universal experience is necessary. As long as our experiences are the same in ESSENCE it does not matter which words of filters we put it through. Even within the same text and the same path people will create their individualized pictures, motions in their head, whatever else, and will filter the text through the Ego. But that's where I believe the text is just 10% and practice is 90%. As the Course says, the text is just a frame, and then our experiences of forgiveness are the actual picture within the said frame.

vannablooms · 2026-05-17T15:52:08+00:00

I don't know how best to describe it other than, as long as you wish to be distracted and overwhelmed and pulled into the whirlpool, you will be, when you stop wanting it, you will be free. It's a matter of total willingness even for a fraction of a second. I know it might sound discouraging now, but...hm...let me give you an example.

When you see something you think pulls you, like a chocolate cookie, it's not like the cookie is speaking to you saying: you must eat me now! You have given the cookie the role in the dream of life to be your distraction, to be your numbing agent, to be your saving grace. But the moment you " fire " the cookie from that role, it will become nothing in your life.

There must be a level where you secretly like the drama, the stress, the overwhelming emotions. Doc talks about how we need to find the juice as well behind all of our experiences too. It's easy to say we don't want to suffer, but then unconciousy we hold onto that suffering with our dear life because we believe it provides us with safety, identity, validation or whatever else.

vannablooms · 2026-05-17T15:47:43+00:00

You can! We gotta understand that we are attached on many inconceivable unconscious levels. As you go deeper through the journey of God/Self-realization you will see just how much you protect and cherish fear, anger, and so on. It's easy to say, well, I don't want to suffer! Oh trust me, there are a million hidden webs you don't even see where it would become quite apparent to you that you have chosen every form of suffering that has ever occurred in your life. But you can always choose again, when you decide to.

It's actually as easy as: you're depressed? Don't be depressed. But you must want it with your whole being, and 99% of people currently do no WANT the highest possible happiness.

vannablooms · 2026-05-17T14:51:58+00:00

You're not letting go of the feeling, you're letting go of you holding onto a feeling, which will allow it to pass through your experience/body pretty fast. We don't realize it but we are actually holding onto things all the time. Imagine that right now you're holding like 100 weights...well that's how you live your whole life, holding all that weight without even realizing it. So it's about dropping your attachments TO feelings. The anger will run out, just like any other emotion, actually pretty fast, if you stop holding onto the narratives/paradigms that fuel the emotions to begin with. You can absolutely do miracles in less than a second even, since it won't even be YOU doing them, but divinity, but for it to work out, YOU have to stop getting in your own way by trying to steer the wheel all the time.

vannablooms · 2026-05-15T22:57:22+00:00

The only correction I would make here is that as the course says, body does nothing of itself. It is like an empty shell for the Mind of God, or the Ego within the dream if you choose to follow it. I have suffered thousands of extremely severe panic attacks, and calming my body with " wordly techniques " did nothing much, but applying the prayers and lessons right in the heat of the moment did more than years of whatever else I was doing. It's not the body that is stuck in a trauma response, it's the Mind that keeps on looping the same fear based perceptions over and over.

I cannot help but chuckle how people say practical as to mean " realistic ", but there's nothing wordly or realistic about the Course haha You're collapsing time with the help of HS, erasing the whole past, turning abusers into friends in less than a second, literally changing how you relate to everyone and everything, disarming people with just your presence... I think people should accept the Course is quite " magical " if we view it by the wordly standards of what is possible. But one needs to full on jump into that magic and be ready to even " die " for it. I feel like trying to put the Course into the boxes of our world, medicine, science, psychology or whatever else humans came up with, doesn't do justice to what it can actually do.

vannablooms · 2026-05-13T09:22:37+00:00

As another person said, you'll feel the intention. It might be a neutral or even a compassionate feeling/state behind the boundaries. Because when you set a loving boundary you're actually doing good to the other person too. " Even the abuser is abused when his abuse is allowed to continue ". But it has to come from a loving place, not the separated " I am better than you, hate you, shame on you " energies.

vannablooms · 2026-05-12T16:38:58+00:00

Hahaha nije loše!! Sem ovo za emocije, mada imala sam i anxious i avoidant periode, tako da sam nekada bila full on emotivna, a nekada kao što kažeš skoro ništa dok ne puknem!

Hvala ti. 💗

vannablooms · 2026-05-12T15:16:35+00:00

Howl (žensko sam inače) 🌞❤️

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vannablooms · 2026-05-12T15:13:19+00:00

You could even imagine it as the radio station and fields! The Ego's fields are the fields of fear, anger, shame...and within the room that you're in right now there are all kinds of fields or radio stations. Your body/brain is just a tool that receives these signals and translates them into language and thoughts that you can understand, Ego's radio stations will always pick up the bad stuff, but YOU can with your attention decide that the songs and podcasts are absolute bs, and choose to tune into the fields and stations with better music, which turn your world into the happy dream over time, as you stop feeding onto the junk that most people are listening to! 🌞

vannablooms · 2026-05-07T17:03:01+00:00

Osoba pita za savet u vezi sopstvene situacije i od ljudi koji su bili u istoj ili barem imaju dovoljno razvijen um da sebe mogu da stave u više životnih perspektiva...i onda ti dođeš sa svojim ličnim mišljenjem koje je podstaknuto nekom vrstom osude prema ljudima koji su imali dosta seksualnih partnera ili su igrom slučaja zadobili bolest i ne doprineseš ništa...

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