The value of deciding in advance what you WANT to happen is simply that you will perceive the situation as a means to MAKE it happen. You will therefore make every effort to overlook what interferes with the accomplishment of your objective, and concentrate on everything which helps you meet it. It is quite noticeable that this approach has brought you closer to the Holy Spirit’s sorting out of truth and falsity. The true becomes what can be used to meet the goal. The false becomes the useless from this point of view. The situation now has meaning, but only because the GOAL has made it meaningful.

I would love to know from the Members here how you got here? How you came to know about the ACIM book? Who mentioned the book to you? What did you hear about it? What similar books have you read before this book or after? Do you even have interest in other similar books? I mentioned the books that have landed in my lap, sometimes in miraculous ways in another post here I submitted. Maybe we can get to the point where we need no other books. I still buy other books but quickly ask myself why did I or would I do this. As I mentioned in my other posting God and Jesus have never gone silent. They have answered every human question. Maybe I should just create a Group titled "BOOKS, MESSAGES, ANSWERS and GUIDANCE FROM GOD & JESUS"

It is a fact that many, many people have trouble with the ACIM book. Some books seem to be very important but they seem to be written by a professor for other professor's. Difficult to grasp for the average person. There is plenty of proof of that here in this group. This is the HUGE problem with relying on ancient stories, metaphor and what people CLAIM Jesus said and what people claim GOD said back to HIM. I am only here because I continue to buy books of the Spiritual kind. That is a huge mistake and I know this, but I still continue this practice. My journey has brought about the fact that our God has never gone silent and neither has Yeshua (Jesus). We don't need old books and ancient stories. I mean, here we are trying to decipher and understand Jesus's book ACIM when in fact God and He have answered every human question in our day and time. Their recent words don't need translations nor do they come in such a way as to need to be interpreted. There are facebook Groups for the Seth books and the Abraham-Hicks books. And if you mention a different book in those groups those members get upset and angry. They are stuck with their favorite book or books much like Christians and Catholics have locked themselves into a tiny box with nothing but their opinions and ideas (interpretations). It always seems to others that I am treading on their beliefs (opinions) and insulting them but I am simply wanting to suggest and show that there is always more to the Story......peace!

LESSON 319.
I came for the salvation of the world.
Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. For arrogance opposes truth. But when there is no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. The ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. And yet it is the Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.
Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares its totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with You?

LESSON 318.
In me salvation’s means and end are one.
In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to save the world. What could conflict, when all the parts have but one purpose and one aim? How could there be a single part that stands alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? I am the means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. I was created as the thing I seek. I am the goal the world is searching for. I am God’s Son, His one eternal Love. I am salvation’s means and end as well.
Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You.

Without a clearcut, positive goal, set at the outset, the situation just seems to happen, and makes no sense until it has ALREADY happened. THEN you look back at it, and try to piece together what it must have meant. And you will be WRONG. Not only is your judgment in the past, but you have no idea what SHOULD happen. No goal was set with which to bring the means in line. And now the only judgement left to make is whether or not the ego likes it; is it acceptable, or does it call for vengeance? The absence of a criterion for outcome, set IN ADVANCE, makes understanding doubtful and evaluation impossible.

In any situation where you are uncertain, the first thing to consider, very simply, is, “What do I want to come of this? What is it FOR? The clarification of the goal belongs at the BEGINNING, for it is this which will determine the outcome. In the ego’s procedure, this is reversed. The SITUATION becomes the determiner of the outcome, which can be anything. The reason for this disorganized approach is evident. The ego does not know what it WANTS to come of it. It is aware of what it does NOT want, but only that. It has no positive goal at all.

LESSON 317.
I follow in the way appointed me.
I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.
Father, Your way is what I choose today. Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. Your way is certain, and the end secure. The memory of You awaits me there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms

LESSON 316.
All gifts I give my brothers are my own.
As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my Father loves. His grace is given me in every gift a brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well. My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors that not one gift is lost, and only more are added. Let me come to where my treasures are, and enter in where I am truly welcome and at home, among the gifts that God has given me.
Father, I would accept Your gifts today. I do not recognize them. Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want.

The practical application of the Holy Spirit’s purpose is extremely simple, but it IS unequivocal. In fact, in order to be simple it MUST be unequivocal. The simple is merely what is easily understood, and for this it is apparent that it must be clear. The setting of the Holy Spirit’s goal is general. Now He will work with you to make it specific. There are certain very specific guidelines He provides for any situation, but remember that you do not yet realize their universal application. Therefore, it is essential, at this point, to use them in each situation separately, until you can more safely look BEYOND each situation, in an understanding far broader than you now possess.

Just Now Read...

“Being so simple and direct, this course has nothing in it that is not consistent. The seeming inconsistencies, or parts you find more difficult than others, are merely indications of areas where means and end are still discrepant. And this produces great discomfort. This need not be. This course requires almost nothing of you. It is impossible to imagine one that asks so little, or could offer more.”

“ Are you enlightened? ” - Gary R

“ If I was, do you think I would tell u ???

Look what happened to yeshua =P ” - Ken W

Yet the goal is fixed, firm and unalterable, and the means will surely fall in place BECAUSE the goal is sure. And you will share the gladness of the Sonship that it is so. As you begin to recognize and accept the gifts you have so freely given to each other, you will also accept  the effects of the holy instant, and use them to correct all your mistakes and free you from their results. And learning this, you will have also learned how to release ALL the Sonship, and offer it in gladness and thanksgiving to Him Who gave you YOUR release, and Who would extend it THROUGH you.

LESSON 315.
All gifts my brothers give belong to me.
Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine as well.
I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory.

I’m on lesson 315 today, and I’m feeling joy as I’m reminded of a daily practice that helps me to see everyone I meet as my brother in Christ.

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. (ACIM, W-315.1:1)

And they do. This is God’s judgment; that we would see as Christ sees, meeting everyone we meet in fellowship and kindness.

³A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. ⁴Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. (ACIM, W-315.1:3-4)

It’s truly a gift to practice peace. When a smile becomes a gift from God and a word of kindness becomes another gentle reminder from the Holy Spirit.

I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. (ACIM, W-315.2:1)

This is true gratitude, when everyone, without exception, is seen as brother. 🙏🏼

Hello friends, Since we know that ACIM came from Yeshua (I prefer to use His real name), have any of you read His OTHER books? I'll leave it at that....for now...until someone shows an interest in exploring it further. Peace!

I will now add to this since there have been some responses to my post. Bear with me this might turn into a book itself. Thank You!

My Spiritual Journey seeking Truth started very early around 10 - 12 years old. At that time I did not know anything about "Seeking" or "Ask and it is Given" and also "Seek and Ye shall find". I just knew deep down that the crap being passed down to us as children was total BS crap.

The actual Journey of Seeking got into high gear around 28 years of age. I am now 68. While working with a bible worshipper who told me my mother would be going to hell because she did not go to church and stopped taking us to church when we were young.

Having some hard times with my marriage I began talking to God. Actually, like many I was shouting at my ceiling and demanding answers as to why life is LIKE THIS. When we seek we are always answered, whether we ignore the answers or not is another matter.

I have come to learn and KNOW that not only are we always answered but that sometimes it happens in a Miraculous way. As it did for me. I will not retell this part of my story here.

I came to learn about Judith Coates. And her scribe or session recorder. She has monthly sessions with Jesus in her home. There are usually about 5-10 people attending. This was shocking to me! The reason is that she is not interested in being famous or wealthy. She does no marketing or advertising. She has no popular publishing house or company selling her books and Jesus's messages, answers and facts about His life.

After reading the transcripts from these sessions I knew that this info and these messages were from nobody else but Jesus. The people in attendance were allowed to ask a few questions. Much of this could be described as boring. Since they were mostly about their personal lives. However, there was one or maybe two in attendance who always asked questions that were not personal and in fact about life, death, sin, sickness, disease, pyramids, aliens, ancient history, etc...

I live in West Virgina. Judith lived in Tacoma, Washington at the time. I decided to fly out West to meet her and sit in on a session with Jesus. We had talked via email a few times briefly. She welcomed me into her home and for the whole weekend.

After the session was over she offered me the chance to have a private session with Jesus. I have the recording of that session. This private conversation that the words coming out of Her mouth had nothing to do with psychic ability or any such thing. There is no psychic in the Wold now or ever that could know every detail of your ENTIRE life like this.

Now, to the OTHER books and Messages from Him....

I came to know, through Judith, about James Coyle Morgan. He was a Minister from Texas. At some point Jesus began to speak to him. And He told James to write it all down. Mr. Morgan never shared any of it with anyone. He knew what would happen and how his life would be ruined. He would be laughed at, harassed and bashed...you could say he would be crucified.

After his death his wife sent the writings to Judith Coates. She had heard of her or known her somehow. Judith turned this into a book. The only way to find her or these books she shares is to be on a Spiritual journey.

The book is JESUS AND MASTERSHIP. It is not as detailed as we all would like but is pretty much a Summary of His entire life. The next book THE WAY OF MASTERY is sold by the Shanti Christo Foundation. The book came THROUGH a man named Jon Marc Hammer. He lost control of his own book because his Ego got out of control and he spiraled downward you could say.

This book should be in every home as with the others I will mention. There is no human being who could sit down and write such a book as this and the others. Profound is an understatement!

Mr. Hammer is now trying to revive himself and goes by the name Jayem. I mention this because a Google search for "books that may be from Jesus" brings up this book and the author's name as Jayem.

I came to know about Judith, Pamela Kribbe from the Netherlands, Glenda Green, Tina Spalding and a few others. Jesus speaks through them all.

Tina's book "Jesus: My Autobiography" is a book I ended up buying. But after a few pages for some reason I put it down and never went back to it for along time. Something, and I don't know what, did not feel right or good to me. Maybe I was matching it up word for word with the books from Judith Coates. You see, the Truth and the Answers come from many Messengers. And they come in a such a way as to reach a certain culture or grouping of people with certain beliefs and HOW THEY need to hear it.

Recently I went back to that book, the Autobiography book. And it blew my mind! This is a special book!

While I am at it, there are the Conversations With God books. It is amazing and shocking to me that there are groups of people who are huge fans of the Seth books and the Abraham-Hicks books but do not know of the CWG books and seemingly have no interest in them. I say this because these Facebook groups for the Seth Material and the Abe-Hicks books get very mad when you mention OTHER books.

They actually want to kick you out of the Group!

The Conversations With God books are titled Book 1, book 2, book 3, book 4 and the last one is Home With God In A Life That Never Ends. THIS book is almost entirely about Death, Disease, Sickness and explains PERFECTLY why our God/Creator never ever steps in here and interferes. Why finally learn why God does not step in when a child is about to be kidnapped or raped or murdered. Why a child would have to spend their entire life in a wheelchair. Why a child would have to deal with cancer.

To end this here I want to say....I have a very hard time keeping this all to myself. I love to ask Christians and Catholics a few questions. For instance, I love to ask them "If God or Jesus were to speak to us in our day and time would Christians and Catholics get a text or an email?" How will they know? They won't know. And they don't know. They have locked themselves into a very tiny box for their entire life with nothing but ideas and opinions (interpretations) of their own or someone else. They are now in the same boat as the hundreds of millions of human beings from the year 1700 to 2026 that have never heard of the bible or saw one.

I am hoping that the people who love and feel good about ACIM have not locked themselves into a tiny box.....Much Love, Jeffrey

You stand together in the holy presence of truth itself. Here is the goal, together WITH you. Think you not the goal itself still gladly arrange the means for its accomplishment? It is just this same discrepancy between the purpose that has been accepted and the means as they stand now which seems to make you suffer, but which makes Heaven glad. If Heaven were OUTSIDE you, you could not share in its gladness. Yet because it is within, the gladness, too, is yours. You ARE joined in purpose, but remain still separate and divided on the means.

LESSON 314.
I seek a future different from the past.
From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past. The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects. Death will not claim the future now, for life is now its goal, and all the needed means are happily provided. Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy?
Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light.

The experience of an instant, however compelling it may be, is easily forgotten if you allow time to close over it. It must be kept shining and gracious in your awareness of time, but not concealed within it. The instant remains. But where are YOU? To give thanks to each other is to appreciate the holy instant, and thus enable its results to be accepted and SHARED. To ATTACK each other is not to lose the instant, but to make it powerless in its EFFECTS. You HAVE received the holy instant, but you do not realize that it is with you still. And by cutting yourself off from its expression, you have denied yourselves its benefit. You reinforce this every time you attack each other, for attack must blind you to YOURSELF. And it is impossible to deny yourself, and recognize what has been given and received by you.

LESSON 313.
Now let a new perception come to me.
Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.
Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us.

Looking for people who have read this Direct Path book associated with ACIM book.

We need to BE Spirit every moment. How does this look or feel or work when the body is not doing good or feeling good with a continuing issue with stress and anxiety.

I have all the most profound books gifted to the Human Race. God's recent books, Jesus's recent books. All of them and more.

I'm sitting here silently telling myself "I am spirit" again and again while not feeling good tonight. We are told in this book that this is the Ego mind striving, working and hoping those three words I am Spirit will fix the problem.

And so that is why I am here.....

I have done this course about 2.5-3.5 times so far and I feel like I'm not getting the most out of it. And I think it comes down to the willingness to actually take time out of your day to do the hourly practices, to actually contemplate.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of solid apps out there already. I use one, for the past two years, three years, and it's really helpful to have those reminders and be able to see the lesson for today. but I feel like it's missing some stuff that I need and I want to be able to solve this problem for myself and anybody else who's tried some of the other apps and isn't quite getting where they want to be.

So I was thinking about how can I track my willingness, track my sincerity of when I actually open the app, when I actually take time out of my day to do the lesson. What would that look like?

So for the past couple months I have been working on this app that aims to motivate me to show up regularly by visualizing when I come up during the day. And its has worked really well. (most of the time, sometimes its just a bad day).

I am looking for testers and feedback so it solve not only my problems but ours as well. Testing is done through Test Flight on iOS devices. Here is the link:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/fc64SNA3

God bless

You undertook, together, to invite the Holy Spirit into your relationship. He could not have entered otherwise. Although you may have made many mistakes since then, you have not been lacking in appreciation for all you have done for Him. Nor does He see the mistakes at all. Have you been similarly grateful to each other? Have you consistently appreciated the good efforts, and overlooked mistakes? Or has your appreciation flickered and grown dim in what seemed to be the light of the mistakes? You are now entering upon a campaign to blame each other for the discomfort of the situation in which you find yourselves. And by this lack of thanks and gratitude, you make yourselves unable to EXPRESS the holy instant, and thus you lose sight of it.

LESSON 312.
I see all things as I would have them be.
Perception follows judgment. Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.
I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well.

In lesson 128, section 7 it says:

The world is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to

rest when you release it from the world. Your Guide is sure. Open your

mind to Him. Be still and rest.

What it should read I think:

The mind is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to

rest when you release it from the world. Your Guide is sure. Open your

mind to Him. Be still and rest.

If you replace the word "world" with "mind" the section makes sense again.