In this video recording of a class (given for the School For A Course In Miracles (SFACIM) curriculum hosted by Lyn Corona and Tim Wise), we review Ken Wapnick’s commentary on a portion of ACIM’s text quoted below contained in his book Taking the Ego Lightly Protecting Our Projections. The portion read aloud and discussed in this video derives from these two paragraphs with Ken’s detailed responses:
“You who believe that God is fear made but one substitution. ²It has taken many forms, because it was the substitution of illusion for truth; of fragmentation for wholeness. ³It has become so splintered and subdivided and divided again, over and over, that it is now almost impossible to perceive it once was one, and still is what it was. ⁴That one error, which brought truth to illusion, infinity to time, and life to death, was all you ever made. ⁵Your whole world rests upon it. ⁶Everything you see reflects it, and every special relationship that you have ever made is part of it.
5. You may be surprised to hear how very different is reality from what you see. ²You do not realize the magnitude of that one error. ³It was so vast and so completely incredible that from it a world of total unreality had to emerge. ⁴What else could come of it? ⁵Its fragmented aspects are fearful enough, as you begin to look at them. ⁶But nothing you have seen begins to show you the enormity of the original error, which seemed to cast you out of Heaven, to shatter knowledge into meaningless bits of disunited perceptions, and to force you to make further substitutions.” (ACIM, T-18.I.4:1–5:6)
Here is the opening commentary excerpt from “Taking the Ego Lightly: Protecting Our Projections” by Kenneth Wapnick in response to the quote above:
“Everything else we ever made, from what we think of as the beginning of time to what we will one day think of as the end of time, is that one error. We took the tiny, mad idea of being separate from perfect Love seriously, made up a body to tell us how serious the mistake was, and instead of dancing gaily through the silliness of our life, we plod along—the Course talks about prisoners in chains, echoing Plato’s Allegory of the Cave—never realizing the whole thing is a fiasco because we banished from our kingdom the one Person who would tell us that.” – Ken Wapnick
As Ken reminds us, the only error – which has already been corrected by Holy Spirit and merely awaits our acceptance of that correction – is that we took the absurdly forgivable idea of separation seriously – we believed in it and wanted to have a separate self, knowing that peace would be impossible by identifying with that impossible identity! As he often gently suggested, the belief in the ego (a maladaptive solution to a non-existent problem) isn’t evil, sinful, or wicked … just silly!
This video was recorded on February 28, 2022.
(I highly recommend Lyn and Tim’s almost daily SFACIM zoom classes!)
