FACIM FAQ#1210 … and ego’s incessant wanting divine intervention to fix our hopelessly dysfunctional dreams … is the topic of this audio recording of Lyn Johnson and Bruce Rawles. Lyn suggested – and we read – these related this pertinent quotes from the section “The Justification for Forgiveness” from Chapter 30 of ACIM’s text:
“… Pardon is always justified. It has a sure foundation. You do not forgive the unforgivable, nor overlook a real attack that calls for punishment. …” – T-30.6.2:1,2
“…It must be true the miracle can heal all forms of sickness, or it cannot heal. Its purpose cannot be to judge which forms are real, and which appearances are true. If one appearance must remain apart from healing, one illusion must be part of truth. And you could not escape all guilt, but only some of it. You must forgive God’s Son entirely. Or you will keep an image of yourself that is not whole, and will remain afraid to look within and find escape from every idol there. Salvation rests on faith there cannot be some forms of guilt that you cannot forgive. And so there cannot be appearances that have replaced the truth about God’s Son. …” – T-30.6.7
The real alternative – the antidote to believing that a repaired dream is possible … or that if that were possible that it would ‘make’ us happy, is to forgive the dreamer of the separation, and we do that by realizing that our peace is not dependent on our projected dreams; we can reverse our crazy, dark course into unhappiness, crafted by an insane mental architect and escape by seeing our shared interests that restores the innocence we ALL share and have never left. We talked about the movie Inception, which has been reviewed in this initial post and this follow-on one.
