The beauty and simplicity of A TRAINING COURSE in Miracles (ACIM) really shines through one of its major principles: The Law of Cause and Effect. That is different from regulations of Attraction, a topic which so much has been written about these last few years. ACIM answers not merely why things will be the way they are with the mind, but also how exactly to implement these mind corrections needed to change your life. What it ultimately boils down to is the choice to change beliefs while staying in this world, or the choice to correct the mind and return home.

Affirmations are not part of A Course in Miracles as they are not essential and here’s why: There exists a “wrong” ego mind, and a “right” ego mind, both of which are still the main same ego side of the split mind. Within the ego mind (error), the wrong side is all the negative judgments; and the proper side is all the negative judgments attempting to convince you how wonderful it is to live within this negative world. Neither is the truth of your nature nor what your location is trying to return your brain, according to ACIM.

REGULATIONS of Cause and Effect is this: In line with the actually use as cause, you will see the corresponding effect. Ideas do not leave their source: You.



Let’s use this example:

Someone is feeling the effects of being “poor,” or lack, in this world and really wants to change their beliefs to now have “rich” (abundance, prosperity, money) show up. Both “poor” and “rich” are judgments of the ego deploying it as cause that may only produce ego effect. Ego being an unstable thought system, what you choose as “rich” will eventually go and you also end up back with “poor.” It’s just a question of “when.”

The ego’s choice system is: (1) one or another: (2) poor or rich; and, (3) ego or God. It asks you to choose between a couple of things within the ego illusion rather than to choose out of the illusion.

This is as opposed to choosing correction of your brain (forgiveness) where both “poor” and “rich” do not exist. A choice for correction of your brain allows the Holy Spirit Right Mind to be your cause which affects the you in this world; however, it generally does not have the consequences you imagine because the ego cannot relate. It returns a portion of your brain to peace and ends senseless worry over rich and poor. It also produces effects that you experienced here but you will have to choose correction to see them.

Let’s look at how ACIM breaks this all down into a simple group of principles based on Cause and Effect. It only includes a few components and when understood and used, they could be “mind” correcting!

The Metaphysics:

Remember, in accordance with ACIM, your brain is split by the ego’s judgment that people could be separate, generally known as the “tiny mad idea,” or the error that never occurred. This part of the mind is simply hidden in darkness because it banished itself from Knowledge (Heaven and Oneness) whenever we forgot to laugh off what could not be true. It didn’t, however, separate.

So in ACIM it isn’t about affirmations or changing beliefs, as the mind never left God but still resides at home with Him. There are no “belief” judgments in Love, Oneness, Heaven and Knowledge as everything may be the same, all one, and nothing to trust or judge between.

Instead, it is about changing your internal Teacher or rather, who you’re hearing for interpretation of events nowadays. The only real change is in the choice between the split mind (error) of the ego or the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction) as that internal Teacher.

This is where the simplicity is evident in ACIM because there is no convincing the ego wrong and right mind of another way of thinking. You simply quit what you no more want. We do it on a regular basis with ego stuff; and now we just take action with the ego beliefs themselves.

a course in miracles Forgiveness:

This says everything: Forgiveness is correction of your brain. In ACIM, you’ll find nothing to forgive because no error has happened, i.e., no separation happened. What you are really doing is simply returning your brain to God, where it never left, and to its natural state of peace. To achieve that is simply either which side of the split mind to listen to for interpretation of events and turning on the judgments you no longer desire to the Holy Spirit Right Mind for correction (forgiveness).

The Holy Spirit is the treatment for the separation put into your brain by God and every answer is there looking forward to you. Atonement, forgiveness, salvation and True Perception are other words that are synonymous. You need to be willing to use the Holy Spirit Right Mind for interpretation of events and do the specific work of giving judgments (beliefs) to this side of your brain, via your choice maker, because you no more want them.

It really is that easy and only confusing due to belief that the only real choice is between ego judgments of “poor” and “rich,” to use the earlier example, and not understanding concerning this third option being available. The decision for True Perception is to choose neither ego judgment and relinquish both for correction of the mind. This is what is takes to return the mind to God.

Decision Maker:

ACIM is aimed at the decision maker in your brain. The complete point is that you have a choice of which side of your brain to hear and use for interpretation. That’s all that ever happened in the first place. It was a choice to pay attention, believe and choose judgments of the ego that separation happened and the ensuing sin, guilt and fear. Judgments could be dismissed as easily as you dismiss anything else you do not want because they are not real.

A couple of things stop you from relinquishing judgments: (1) your attachment in their mind as being true and real; and, (2) not acknowledging the way you feel keeps them hidden which means you don’t realize they are judgments.

You do not “feel” in Heaven, Knowledge and Oneness. It is an experience shared by One.

The decision maker may be the mechanism between your two sides of the split mind. It really is neutral, an observer and is something you will need to employ to watch your brain and the judgments being created by the ego. When you realize you purchased something from the ego error of the wrong or right mind, you need to be ready to hand them to the answer, or the correction, of the Holy Spirit Right Mind. It requires care of the others because the Atonement or solution is already there. No affirmations are essential. You are simply giving up that which you no more want. It really is, and certainly can, be that easy.

Form and Content:

The last component to know from A Course in Miracles is form and content. Form is this world and everything in it. In ACIM, form will not matter and is section of the “beliefs” to be turned over. However, you utilize everything in form, combined with the judgments in your thoughts, as the curriculum of what to start for correction (forgiveness).

What does matter is content and in ACIM, content is the mind. The mind you’re using for interpretation (perception) of people, places, and things, etc., counts for everything. You can only have one master: (1) the Holy Spirit Right Mind (correction); or, (2) the ego wrong mind (error) and that includes both interpretations of the ego mind.

In conclusion, consider the simplicity of ACIM that is a Course in training your mind how to perceive properly. You must return the mind to peace as the Kingdom of God is peace and you cannot start to see the doorway from judgment. You only see peace in peace and while sharing peace with everyone.

All ACIM says is you have the willingness to understand how to do that, study the ideas and put it into practice. The assist you to need will arrive; but you, my friend, must do the task of this inward journey back to the mind.

The Law of Cause and Effect is the form, or mind, you’re using for interpretation will be your effect in this world. It will affect you in other ways by returning your brain back to back to peace where you eventually start to see the illusion of choice, because no separation occurred, and elect to give it up once and for all.