ACIM does speak of bitterness, although not with the sustained attention I discovered ACOL gives it. What most intrigued me was the way ACOL places bitterness in the heart alongside the ego in the mind, a parallel I had never considered before.
Ground level seems to symbolize our every-day experience in our physical world. But the whole mountain is real, as real at its base as at the peak. Despite this, I have met many ACIM students that describe “ground level” as imaginary, as an illusion. Even the editor of ACIM, Kenneth Wapnick, was a very strong proponent of this description.
I come to you with a message that is specifically designed and focused on living on the Earth during times of warfare.
While on a retreat recently I had a dream. In this dream I am a guest teacher of some kind for a group of students. …I tell them to go out and practice blessing people, and to come back the next day and share what that experience was like.
Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. (ACIM) A Holy War is, of course, an oxymoron like “loving hate” or “pretty ugly,” yet sometimes we find ourselves in these absurd ambiguities.
