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Split Mind

Differentiated Mind, ego, thinking, intellect, illusion (awareness developed from sense) (and duality) as opposed to Undifferentiated Mind, Whole Mind, Cosmic Consciousness.

Two Minds - Split and Whole
Figure 18.04 - Two Minds, Split and Whole


See Also


Christ
Christ Consciousness
Compound Interetheric
Desire
Ego
Figure 18.08 - One Still Mind of Cause before Differentiation
Jill Bolte Taylor's story of her experience of her Whole and Split Mind
One Balanced Whole and Two Reciprocating Dynamics
seventh subdivision
Split Mind
Undifferentiated Mind
Thought
Whole Mind

Q #328: Two questions dealing with existence:

1) I was recently introduced to A Course in Miracles by a friend, but remain confused by statements, i.e., "the entire physical universe is an illusion." If true, then the Course doesn't exist, and if it doesn't exist, then no one could study the Course or be helped by it. But if it does exist, then the Course is incorrect because something in the entire physical universe is not an illusion. Does A Course in Miracles exist?

2) Since God does not know of our existence in our current state, why then does prayer to Him do anything? Further, if the Holy Spirit was created to take care of this challenge, then the existence must have been known.

A: The answer to these questions lies in understanding what the Course teaches regarding reality and illusion. Reality refers to God and the life we share with God as His one Son in Heaven. Only that is real and only that truly exists. The metaphysics of the Course tells us that: "Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh" (T.27.VIII.8:6). The "tiny mad idea" is the thought that the one Son can be separate from God. Choosing this thought results in what we are experiencing as our lives as bodies in the physical universe. The Course tells us it is an illusion, a dream: "You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality"(T.10.I.2:1). This is the Course’s "explanation" for the seeming existence of the physical universe; this is the illusion. Yet, because the Son cannot be separate from the Father, he carries with him into the dream the memory of God in his mind. The thought of separation and the memory of God are the two parts of the split mind of the dreaming Sonship. It is very important to remember that this is all part of the dream. It is therefore not real and does not truly exist. Although we have chosen to identify with our bodies there is a part of our mind that remembers who we truly are. The Course refers to this part of the mind of the Sonship as the right mind. Since we have dissociated ourselves from our minds altogether our right mind is symbolized in the Course by Jesus or the Holy Spirit. They are our teachers in the dream and A Course in Miracles is Their curriculum that we may "Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God's sleeping Son holds no power over him. He will learn the lesson of awaking" (T.13.XI.9:5, 6). So, although A Course in Miracles does not exist in reality and is part of the illusion, its message reflects the memory of our reality and leads us to our awakening from the dream of separation.

The prayers in the Course that address God the Father are beautiful expressions of the content of the part of our minds that remembers God. They are formulated in a way that helps us to remember God, and to learn that in spite of our belief in the separation we have not truly left our Source. You are correct in saying that God does not actually hear these prayers. They are gentle reminders to ourselves in a form that comforts us, because we need to know that God has not forgotten us though we seem to have wandered off and forgotten Him." ACIM - Q&A

See Also


Ego
Figure 2.4.1 - Keely Harnessed Mind Force in his Machines
Figure 3.2 - Thinking Mind Creates a Universe of Motion
Figure 7B.11 - Full Gamut of Mind to Matter and back to Mind
Intellect
Light of Mind
Mind
Mind and Matter
Mind as Flow or Stream
Mind Force
Mind Force is a pre-existing Natural Force
Mind in Machines
Mind In Matter
Mind in Plants
Mind is the Builder
Mind of God
Mind Over Matter
Mind The One Universal Substance
Mind to Mind
Newton of the Mind
Part 18 - Mind as an Engineerable Force
Popular Definitions of the Word Mind
Sympathetic Flow of Mind
Thinking
Undifferentiated Mind
Vibratory Physics - The Connecting Link between Mind and Matter
Whole Mind

Created by Dale Pond. Last Modification: Thursday January 2, 2020 01:34:45 MST by dale.