A Course in Miracles

To Be Free or Not to Be Free? (This article is reprinted by permission from The Holy Encounter, a publication of Miracle Distribution Center, Anaheim, California)   www.miraclecenter.org by Beverly Hutchinson McNeff “To Be Free or Not to Be Free? That is the question.” If this question were posed to us, of course we would choose freedom. After all, only a fool would want to be imprisoned! And yet, many of us walk around feeling imprisoned by time, circumstances, and a variety of other situations in our lives. Our minds have the power to impose many more limits than this world ever could, but our minds can also free us from a world of seeming limitation with merely one thought. A Course in Miracles tells us this world is not our home. It says the world was made as an attack on God, the foremost expression of separation. This can seem rather startling, but every spiritual truth reminds us “something” has happened to distance us from our Creator. Christianity states its rendition of this “fall from grace” in a couple of different ways. In the Bible when it says God created the world, it’s referring to the world expressed by Eden (which represents our pre-separation state) wherein Adam (who represents our pre-separation awareness of our oneness with God) abides. And yet, when he (and Eve) ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (duality or an opposite to what is all-encompassing), he was banished from (or no longer aware of) this […]

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