CIM Lessons 1-4—A Suggested Daily Practice Outline:
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*Start your day right. As soon as possible after waking, take your quiet time. Do your lesson.
2. *Remember God all through the day.
3. *Turn to Holy Spirit as soon as you feel any threat to peace.
4. * Respond to all error thought/judgment/fear by reminding yourself immediately of the Truth. God is Love and God is All There Is—Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent.
5. *Repeat your quiet time at night, reviewing your lesson for the day.
(T-30.In. 2-5,7-8) “The goal is clear, but now you need specific methods for attaining it. The speed by which it can be reached depends on this one thing alone; your willingness to practice every step. Each one will help a little, every time it is attempted. And together will these steps lead you from dreams of judgment to forgiving dreams and out of pain and fear . . . So now, we need to practice them awhile, until they are the rules by which you live. We seek to make them habits now, so you will have them ready for whatever need.”
Lesson 1—“Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) means anything.”
This one really freaks the ego out! Its purpose, like all the first thirty lessons is to begin to break down the ego’s thought system. Its purpose is to teach me to let go what I “see” with my body’s senses so that I can learn to “see” with my Christ vision. This lesson asks me to become as a child, to assume a beginner’s open mind, to ask Spirit.
Lesson 2—“I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning that it has for me.” The purpose of this lesson is to begin to let go of my judgment about meaning. The only meaning anything has for me is the meaning I give it. For example, if I see a dog, I feel happy because of my experiences of unconditional love with dogs. However, someone else may see the same dog I see and experience extreme fear because his or her own experience with dogs includes a life threatening attack.
Lesson 3—“I do not understand anything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place.) To see with my Christ eyes, I must be willing to let go of my current beliefs. I must clear away past associations projected onto the present and, thereby, let go of my faulty understandings. There was a time that all people of sound thought believed the earth was flat. Subsequent information proved the error of that thought. It is just this kind of open-mindedness CIM is asking for.
Lesson 4—“These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).” This lesson is designed to train me to lump all ego thoughts, good and bad, together. Everything I see “outside” me is meaningless. This practice begins to open my spiritual eyes to the realm of God’s Reality.
Miracles Principle #1: “There is no order of difficulty in miracles.” This principle is the seed of the entire thought system of CIM. Course teaches there are only two basic contents in the world: God or the ego; love or fear. There is always only one problem—fear—and one solution, love.
The way we define a problem determines how we will resolve it. If you think the problem is anything other than belief in separation the solution will be off course. (Read Many Forms, One Correction, T-26.II)
The Laws of Chaos (T-23.II) describes the five laws that make up the ego’s insane thought system, which are the complete opposite of the miracles principles.
Assignment: Lessons 5-11; Miracles Principle #2.
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