MIRACLES FOR YOU Sondra Ray & Markus Ray on A Course in Miracles

Miracles transcend all limitations and all "hierarchies of order" and "degrees of difficulties" that the lower levels of our perception can contact. First we have to clean up our "perceptions" first and see through loving perceptions, joyful perceptions, grateful perceptions. Then we can see everthing NOT THAT as a "call for love." This switch in our perceptions begin to prepare us for an awareness of the Limitlessness of Spiritual Awareness.

The Joy of God is all around us. Can we let it in? This is a discussion on feeling the Love of God all the time.

The Characteristics of God's Teachers are varied, yet there are some essential characteristics that all Teachers of God have for a bsis of their teaching. Trust in Divine Forces is one of these, even if this Trust is not based on the body's senses. There is a Power in us but not of us. This Power keeps all things safe. This Power helps us to make contact with the Gifts of God. Trust is essential in the sorting out our world in which we may need to relinquish the "valueless", without a sense of "sacrifice."

Can we be still and listen to the truth? What would the truth tell us? What would we receive from the Truth that we would then give? The "mighty voice of Truth" is certainty with a power that bestows an absolute Peace on us. The Truth would be Heaven on Earth. We can find the Source of Life today that is immortal. This is our Source. This is our Truth. "Love which created me is what I am." This is Life Immortal. "Heaven is the decision we must make." We can listen to this truth and go past fear and abide in the Truth of peace, love and joy.

WILL WE CHOOSE FOR THE CHRIST IN US? We always choose between the ego's weakness and the Strength of God in us, which the Christ bestows on us. We have to make a decision for Heaven, which is to claim our Self-Identity in the Christ Mind. Deciding for Heaven and choosing to be the Christ in our True Identity is the only choice we are ever going to make that has ultimate meaning. Can we Choose Once Again? This is our clarity given to us as students of A Course in Miracles.

Can we look within and see our Innocence as God created us? The TRUTH of Who we are as God created us would be Love and Fearlessness. Are we willing to look within, past all the racous fear, guilt and anger that are causeless? In present tiome we can decide for Heaven. This would put us in another awareness of a Reality of the Christ Self. Are we willing to do this? To be truly responsible, we must.

Do we receive the Peace that Christ bestows on us? Do we want that "above all else?" Markus & Sondra Ray discuss Lessons #305-#308. The Peace of the Christ is bestowed on us. This is His Gift to us. Do we value this above all else? Do we put ourselves in the Thought Sysyem of the Holy Spirit, or do we vascillate into the "opposing wishes" of the ego? The Stillness of the Peace of God would be Christ's vision of a totally forgiven world. Would we enter into this state of mind unequicocally? This possibilityy is held out for us to enter.

MARKUS RAY & SONDRA RAY discuss Lessons from #301-304 in the Section of the Workbook called "The Second Coming." Will God Himself remove the tears of our pain and suffering? Will we be willing to change our minds and go a different direction? We can look upon the Light that is God's Will for us to see, but we have to forgive ourselves for the darkened vision of fear, anger and guilt that gave us the "tears" in the first place.

Can we give this Holy Instant our attention for practice.? This is our responsibility. We can practice this Holy Instant to be in more connection with our Divine Source. Can we be led? Sondra and Markus ask us this question in their commentary on this important section in ACIM on the HOLY INSTANT.

There is an instant now in which Heaven abides, and is God's Will for us to inhabit. A Course in Miracles calls this The Holy Instant. Markus Ray and Sondra Ray introduce us to that Holy Instant in this Podcast.

The MInd has an ability to heal, in fact healing must include the mind because that is where the "sickness" begins. We look at the "cause" of the illness which is some judgment that perpetuates the "separation." We belief the Body and personality is our self. We do not condemn and we have the power of forgiveness on our side.

Sondra & Markus discuss section seven in the Teacher's Manual: Should Healing Be Repeated. The question is to rise above the doubt and concern that the healing has taken place. Doubt and concern are a lack of trust that the Holy Spirit's Power can really make a diffenernce in solving our problems, especially "health problems." To doubt that healing has taken place is a lack of trust, and an attack on the whole situation.

When you give the forgiveness of Christ's Vision, you get clear that you have this Holiness, and it increases in your awareness the more you give it away. We receive the boon of forgiveness, which is certainty of our unconditional innocence, when we give this innocence to others, regardless of the mistakes they have made or are making now. We aspire to realize Christ's Vision instead of the hellish world of guilt and conflict we made up for ourselves.

Markus & Sondra Ray continue with the threme of "What is a problem?" and "How do we solve it?" Lesson #80 says, "Let me recognize my problems have been solved." The solution to all of our "problems" has been given us in our Divine Connection. Can we accept it? Can we let go of projecting "problems?" This is the question these Lessons put before us.

What is a PROBLEM? Why do we have them? What is our MAIN PROBLEM? This Dialogue between Markus and Sondra and the Lesson #79 in ACIM will give us a new perspective of solving our problem.

How can we see past what is not really there, but what we "think" is there? This Lesson #99 asks us to "forgive" and be "saved from" what is not there. There is a Will of our Creator of WHAT IS. Then there is the ego's world of illusions "that could never be." But now illusion and truth are "equal" now. Non-truths are lies. Lies are not True. What is not true does not exist. The problem is we think the illusiions are real. We need forgiveness of these illusions. Forgiveness and salvation are the same. This Lesson #99 helps us to see that our Truth as God created us in God's Will is our only Reality. Everything else is not the truth and does not exist. We need Salvation from something that is not even there!

The Presence of the Christ is here for us. How do we make contact with this important part of our own consciousness? This Lesson #157 is a kind of Invocation to the Christ to enter into our consciousness and Join us there. He has already been present; but we have been absent. His words of A Course in Miracles are for us to use, but we must make the committment to use them. Today we enter into His Presence and receive the Gifts of God. He wants us to have peace and eternal Life. Pure Joy is His will for us in all of our thoughts, words, deeds and actions.

We make a secret "vow" to forget the fact that it is the mind that rules the body. The body does not "think." But is does store memory of what the mind "thinks." Will it respond to guilt, fear, or anger? All sickness that the body appears to act out with pain or suffering begins with the sickness in the mind. Thoughts are "off," but the mind took a vow to transfer "responsibility" over to the body. This is a mistake the miracle needs to correct. Real healing begins and ends in the mind. The body is simply a "print out" of this process of inner correction. The "secret vows" to keep this miracle hidden are ending now. We can see that God's Will for us is perfect happiness, and this corrects our mind from all notions of sin, guilt, anger and fear. We are free to allow ourselves to "Be as God created us" now. This sets us in the fields of heaven in which our minds are free to be at peace. And our body can now be released as well. AMEN

Why do we feel unsafe? What would make us feel safe? We have an opportunity to call upon the miracles to undo our fear. We are in danger nowhere in the world. Do we believe that? Are we fearful in the feelings of danger and threat? We can believe we will be calm in the face of adversity, but usually we are activated and feeling unsafe and fearful. God keeps us safe. We are among the ministers of God, and the Energy of Creation protects us in our Mission of Divine Service. "Your peace goes with me Father, it sheds its light on everyone I meet." God will send us the people we are to save. We recognize our Self in them, and give them peace and miracles as we have been given them to extend to others. In the giving we realize the receiving. We give the miracle of Divine Safety, and receive it too. AMEN.

Are we prepared for Grace? What is the prerequisite to receive Grace? We first have to come to an inner silence in which we have let go of the ego's thought system. "Grace is the acceptance of the Love of God in world of seeming hate and fear."The goal of the Course is to give us miracles that undo our blocks to receiving the Grace. Grace, like Love, is from our Source. Miracles make our MInds clear enough to recive the Grace. We clear our minds enough of attack thoughts, grievances, anger, fear, guilt, judgments, etc. in order to receive and live by Grace.

DO we ask God what are we to do? Do we ever make decicions independent of our ego? What would that look like? We have to let go of our plan in order to receive a new plan that is divinely directed. The problem is we can deceive ourselves in thinking the ego's plan is a pretending of "God's Plan." We do not drop our plan long enough to receive Higher Guidance. This Lesson #71, "Only God's plan for salvation will work," there are three important questions we must ask of God to give us directions: Where would you have me go?What would you have me do? What would you have me say and to whom? Can we surrender to a Higher Truth that may feel like facing the Unknown, and trusting we DO NOT KNOW now, but will be told. We can hear the Voice for God tell us what to do—and have a Plan Greater than Ourselves.

What do we think with God? Are the thoughts of anger, guilt and fear thoughts we think with God? Obviously not. There is only Peace and Joy in that Mind. We have to practice holding our mind in that Mind of God. The "brain" is the computer of memory. But the Program of our Divine Connection takes those thoughts we think with God, ones of Love and Peace and Joy, and forms our Mind. "My Mind holds only what I think with God." This is a Fact. Today there are two review thoughts we think with God: "Forgiveness is the key to happiness, " and "Forgiveness offers everything I want." What do we have to lose except the conflicting thoughts we are NOT thinking with God. Amen.

W are asking our brothers and sisters to give us their blessing. We use Christ's vision to see our own "sinlessness" and see the "sinlessness" of our brothers. We ask all those we encounter for their blessing. We will receive it to the degree we give the blessing. We see the totality in the Mind of God which contains all minds. Not only is our mind joined in this Holy Mind, but our brothers' minds as well are part of this One Mind. We use the body as a "separation device" instead of a "communication device." The Body has no meaning essentially, but it can be used to communicate a blessing, which joins us in the Essence of our Self of Love. Can we transcend the fear and hate that starts in the mind and undo it. The blessing / prayer we can extend: "Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.I behold you with the eyes of ChristAnd see my perfect sinlessness in you."

I WALK WITH GOD We are as God created us. We are the Light of Holiness as God is That, and we were created by that Light of Holiness. We did not leave our Source. We walk with God in our Perfect Holiness. We are alive and He is Life. We share that Life. Nothing can be apart from Life and Live. Life, Love, Truth, God, and our Identity in Holiness are all ONE. 

The Decision for Atonement is to accept ourselves as God created us to be. We put our foot down and make this decision for heaven. We have certainty of our Identity. Atonement is the end of confusion. We are certain of our innocence and our joyful nature. We are fully alive in our Awareness of our Self-Identity. We give up all the self-deceptions of the ego. We let forgiveness rest upon all things and hold nothing outside the all pervasive nature of Atonement. We accept Atonement, and we do not avoid it. We no longer want to become something that we are not. We see simply we already are as God created us to be. This is already in us. And we are aware of this. We accept the Atonement for ourselves. 

There are two imprtant lines in this Lesson #93 that are essential for us to realize: "Light and joy and peace abide in me.""My sinlessness is guaranteed by God." Can we accept thses statements as our truth? This would put our entire life in a state of inne Peace and Joy. Byt the fact is we reject this truth for lesser conditions of conflict, guilt and anger.We have obviously made mistakes from our "ego self." But our ego sef is not our real Self. The Self God created never made these mistakes. But we have not been in so much awareness of this Higher Self. We can leave behind our "ego self." In this liberation we are freed from the consequences of the ego. We can then say these lines as our TRUTH: "Light and joy and peace abide in me.""My sinlessness is guaranteed by God."

Can we be still for an instant? Do we have a contact with absolute peace of mind? Are we free of all fear and anxiety of any kind? "Fear is not justified in any form." Have we justified our fears? giving reason to our "concerns." Can we have the sense of security, of "HOME" so deep that we are suspended from all concerns? Are we willing to drop all of thought that distracts us from our true Spiritual Connection? We can be still and instant and go Home when we value this connection with moments outside of time. Our senses are super attuned. This is a heavenly awareness of the Now.

We can join with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Masters. But we have to be the ones to make the invitation for them to come into our awareness. The Holy Spirit is always present to help us, but we are absent. We have not invited the Holy Spirit in. Even a little willingness, a small invitation is enough. We can let go and allow God to guide our life today through the Holy Spirit. We make the invitation for healing. This can be the point of real change. We can make the space to receive the Holy Spirit's spark to give us a new remembrance of God and Creation.

MARKUS RAY presents A Course in Miracles to the people of Bilboa, Spain. For someone unfamiliar with ACIM this TALK could inspire them to become a student of this important work. ACIM "is the most important book written in 2000 years." It can give us a direct relationship with the Christ, Who abides in us. The Lessons are designed to awaken us. Markus presents in the most simple what what being a student of ACIM means, and entails. What you need to start the Course is explained. What can you expect? What will you gain? Why would you want to study this "modern day scripture." The Self God Created as YOU is awakened. The LOVE that created the Cosmos is at your feet. Heaven's door is in this book. Why would you not want to go through it?

True Prayer is not entreaty. Entreaty is "asking for stuff." If we perceive a need unmet, we usually pray for it through a "prayer of entreaty." This is not the highest form of prayer. This does not mean that "needs" will not come up for us, but True Prayer would see that the fulfillment of that "need" is already provided. Our number one need is our awareness of our Divine Connection with our Source Energy, Who meets all of our needs already. True Prayer is one of gratitude and thanksgiving. This is our premier focus with prayers. We can ask the Holy Spirit to ANSWER our prayers in the faith that any need we have is already being met. "All the help we can accept will be provided, and not one need we have will not be met." So where is the "need" to "entreat?" We pray and ask for nothing, because we recognize we already have enerything. AMEN.

What would happen if we let go of the past, and see that it has no real effects now. The miracle shows that the past is gone, and has no real effects. Our ego is not letting go of the guilt we made from separation. We remember our mistakes and project guilt on to ourselves, as though this memory is real. Remembering the present is to remember God. This is what has a real Effect. God is the only Cause. We need do nothing to have awareness of this Source Energy.

The "Son of God," which is Who we are as God created us, beyond all gender and personality of the ego, is free of all death. This lesson describes to a "T" the "unconcious death urge" and what its composition does to us. We have been mistaken about Life and death. We have thought "death is inevitable." The belief in death is a function of consciousness, and we can ascend to a new Consciousness. The reality is Life is Immortal and inevitable. Death is a decision we make in error. This Lesson #163, "There is no death. The Son of God is free," is the ultimate liberation from the ego's belief system. Death is the main "idol" constructed in the imagioned "separation" from our Source. As Teachers of God, we are the Messengers of Life, not death, of immortality, not of the "inevitable end" of our self. There is no death. There is only Life and we are Life itself. God blesses us with Immortal Being as the Christ, God's Child, who is free to be immortal, like God Himself. The Divine Mother joins our body with this Thought of Truth, the Immortality of Life. In Spirit, we live forever, and this Spirit can be infused even into our bodies which can then be the Communicator of this PURE JOY! Used to communicate only Divine Joy, we can keep them for this purpose as long as we choose. AMEN

Resurrection is the surmounting and overcoming the concept of death. This is a complex of thoughts and beliefs that compose a "death urge" that is the stronghold of fear. Getting over this completely is the "resurrection." The "end of dreams of misery" is the realization of perfect happiness, God's will for us. We live in the "Gifts of God" that surround us and protect us and uplift us into the Heavenly Dimension. This is our only reason to be here—to resurrect and realize our God Consciousness.

Yes, and we have to want to make contact with the Life Force that is not necessarily a "physical thing." It is helpful to have Spiritual Masters such as Jesus who can help us make this contact. They have reached GOD completely. They are immersed in the awareness of their Divine Connection. Are we interested in making this contact? The Holy Masters are here to help us, but we have to ask in their Name. We look toward the Christ for "all the help we can accept." Can we accept the help? We can have the help when we “accept" it, and "not one need we have will not be met." AMEN. 

MARKUS RAY gives a general Discussion on A Course in Miracles to the people in Valencia, Spain, who came to the Revolutionary Spiritual Healing class. He discusses some of the reasons we would study this modern day Scripture. Our awareness of the Self God created is accessible through study of A Coure in Miracles. This Podcast is for those who are considering the study of A Course in Miracles on a regular basis. Why would we study it? What is it giving us that "organized religions" do not give us?Overcoming conflict, fear, guilt and anger is a main reason for studying ACIM.

Do we really want the Peace of God? We have to understand its conditions. There is a Peace that "surpasseth understanding," as it is unlike anything we have ever experienced. The Peace of God transcends all duality of opposites. There is no death. There is no "war" that is the opposite of Peace. There is no "hell" that is the opposite of Heaven. The Peace of God is Heaven, Unconditional Love, the Reality of Truth. Are we willing to enter into It? Death is no "escape" from our problems we made up. Nothing real we experience has one iota of death, fear, threat, conflict, or anger of any kind. God's Peace has not opposite. This Will of God's Peace is our Peace as well. It is our heritage. God's Peace is how we remember Him. "The Peace of God is shining in me now." Lesson #188. Do we really want to step into this State of Being?

Correction of an error is not accomplished by making the error "real." What is our reaction to error? In ourselves or in others? Heaping on guilt makes the error real. And this is a form of attack and anger, which is never justified. "Anger screeches, guilt is real," which keeps the error alive. Only the ego makes an error. The ego is a false self we made, and is an illusion. We are transcending the ego by seeing it has no real consequences. God's Love remains the only thing there is. From this place of equanimity is there no interpretation, no projection of a false judgment. All "sins" have been forgiven. "The sole responsibility of God's Teacher is to accept the Atonement for himself." 

TO THE ADVANCED TEACHER OF GOD, this question is superfluous. God will send the "ordained work of the day." And in this Divine Providence no plan is necessary. There are some guidelines in the beginning—doing the Lessons in the Workbook is essential. Also, quiet time when you awaken for your day and just before going to sleep is important to give to God. Bracket your day with some quiet time given to God. A thought of Pure Joy is also essential. We are encompassing all that God sends to us to be in the flow of Joy in the moment. Even "disruptions" can be seen as part of this Joy. Waking up in this state of Joy is the real Gift of God given to His Teachers.

The Prayer of the Heart transcends words. Healing is granted according to our request. When we ask for healing, it is a deep request from the heart, and our Creator already knows this deep request. The Higher Prayer of Healing acknowledges that what is needed is already provided. God knows what is in our heart, and the needs of the Heart are already provided. This transcends the words that ask. The Energy needed to grant the request of a healing experience is always available. The Energy that manifests a miracle or a shift in the Heart of the one who asks is not necessarily born of words. Let us use words to increase our awareness of this Healing Energy of truth, peace and joy that are the conditions of the Blessing of Healing we receive.

SALVATION is the CURE. The Cure comes from our Holiness, of which we are aware when we have accepted the Atonement for ourself. We have forgiven everyone and everything in our life. We have no grievances and no attack thoughts. We are in the "happy dream" of the forgiven world. This is the Real World in which forgiveness rests upon all things. We are in the present Heaven of our Holy Mind, not in the sickness and illusion of our ego's thought system. We look within our Holy Mind for peace and joy. This is our cure and our inheritance. Can we step out of the ego's thought system, which is sick? The mind can bring illusions to truth to be shined away. Are we willing to take this up this "cure" as our action? Are we ready to heal our mind with this Salvation which can cure us? This is our responsibility to make this decision.

Does Jesus have a special place in healing? What does it mean to call on Jesus for help in our healing? Are we being answered? Have we accepted the Atonement for ourself? Does Jesus respond to our call? This invocation of Jesus the Christ is a request for the Power of God to help us in our particular situation. We can remeber Jesus and thus remember God. Jesus has promised He will be here for us. Are we asking in absolute certainty that He will answer our call?

A miracle is a Gift of God given to us as a blessing, usually applied to a situation in our life that asks for a shift, a "different outcome" that may be beyond our ability to "know how" to achieve it. This is not magical, but it does invoke Higher Laws, a certain "order of things" that is consistent with these Higher Laws.Heaven is our inheritance, and we can align with these Laws that produce Perfect Happiness in us. We align ourselves with principles and laws that assure us the Kingdom of God, the REAL WORLD of perfect happiness, is ours to claim. Miracles are accessible when we are willing to give up the world of "pain and suffering" that we made up. We deserve release from that illusion of this painful world we projected. Heaven is the decision we must make. This Will is our true Will that we join with our Creator, Whose only will for us is perfect happiness. AMEN.

SALVATION is total healing, total liberation from all problems in life. Complete freedom, salvation is a plan to release us from all forms of fear, guilt or anger, and to be saved from the confusion or pessimism that seems to grip our souls and keeps us tied to the troubles of the world. God has a plan, and it will work. The ego has a plan, and it will not work. The rule of the ego is to seek a better state of being but make sure it never finds what it seeks. We look for the answer where it is not. This Lesson asks us to surrender our question, our serach for guidance, over to our Creator's true guidance. We invoke this guidance in certainty. All things are possible to God. Salvation is God's plan for us. We simply need to ask for it, and not project our own separated "plan" that would not be so complete. Let us expect we will be shown.

The HOLY SPIRIT is the mediator between the Truth of Heaven and our dreams of hell. It iprovides the means for us to forgive and arrive at a perception of the world that has no fear, no attack, and no guilt. One could say it is an Energy that helps us discover the Truth of Who we are as God created us. It is the Great Restorer of our awareness of our Identity in the Christ. This is a shared Identity—One that joins us with each other and with God HImself. We are created perfect. That is the Truth. Any "imperfections" we made up are "illusions." We can stop projecting illusions, of course, when we accept our True Identity, and give up our false one. We let forgiveness rest upon all things through the help of the Holy Spirit, whose main purpose is to liberate us, to heal us from the hell we made.

What is guiding us on this journey through Life? Have we ever felt lost, in need of a roadmap for direction? Do we have a Guide along this Way we are on, One Who assures us that we are making the right choices that lead us to more Peace and Joy (not more suffering)?We walk the ways of Life, not death. We have a Guide in our Higher Self, yet we must "step back" and allow that guidance to come forth within us. We need this Guide to give us our essential directions. A Course in Miracles is the Holy Spirits Gift to us that keeps us aligned with the Way to Truth and Peace and Joy. Will we go to the place in ourselves of Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service. Will we bring forth in us the Self Whom God knows and Whom we can know? This is the one decision we can make and must make to discover our Certainty of Purpose in this Heavenly State of Being.

God's Voice Speaks to us. Are we listening? Are we connecting with this Divine Communication? What is the Will of God that I could be joining with in my highest aspiration? God is trying to tell us something. There is an Energy of God's Love that sustains us in a state of perfect happiness. Contact with it requires we want that above and beyond other pursuits. The Voice for God is speaking to us, and it is possible that we hear it and receive the blessings.

Pain is an illusion. This statement is made in this lesson #190 in A Course in Miracles. Pain does seem real, but what is the "cause" of the pain? A thought in the mind of the ego has not accepted it's wholeness and oneness with the Absolute Life of our Creator. This thought is a thought of pain. We accumlate pain and then choose death to escape from it. We can be hurt by nothing but our thoughts. What are they? Are we willing to let them go? Change them into thoughts of Joy? Can we bring the healing, the dropping of the illusion, in the present. This is where and when the healing can take place NOW. The solution is in the present. We choose the Joy of God in this holy instant.

What are God's Thoughts? And How do we hear them and apply them in our Life? We have to silence all of our other erroneous and conflicted thoughts. Fear, guilt, and anger thoughts are OUT!We cannot hear God's Thoughts as long as we maintain the ego's thought system of fear, guilt and anger. Death is not God's will for us. The ego leads to death. ETERNAL LIFE and JOY are God's Will for us. But to hear this Truth, we have to silence our ego. IN QUIET, then, is the condition we need to be in to receive God's eternal Word of Love. In the quiet is the Love Given to us, in full measure.

THE GIFTS OF GOD are given to us. Can we COMPLETELY FORGIVE and receive them? Can we let go of our girevances? our attack thoughts? Can we "completely let go?" This is the doorway into Heaven. The sign over it says "total forgiveness." We have to forgive ourselves and everyone completely. This is the key to happiness. Are we willing to do this? The Garden of our Heaven is held out to us for our care. Will we nurture these Gifts of God? Will we exercize good gardening practices to nurture our garden to reap the fruits of this Holy Home? Who do we "hold out" undeserving of our forgiveness? Who is the enemy who has "hurt us" beyond our absolution of them? Could it be ourself? Is it someone we once considered close, whom we feel violated our trust? The challenge is in our lap. And the Heaven is awaiting our complete forgiveness. It offers all the Gifts of God—everything we say we "want." Forgiveness is the only Answer that will provide the solution to our one Question.

When we are healed, we are not healed alone. This is Lesson #137 in the Workbook. There is a belief in sickness and death, which are but "illusions" introduced into the mind by our ego, the "separated self." Healing is Life, and Life encompasses everyone. Ultimately healing is the overcoming of all forms of death by our True Self, the Christ. This Truth is strengthened in us when we share this immortality, as a fact, with all of our brothers and sisters. When we let ourselves be healed, all those around us, and those whom cross our mind, are healed along with us. "Legions upon legions of people will be healed" when we open our minds for a new possibility for total healing, even of death.

We defend against the truth by thinking that "pain and suffering" are more real than a Heavenly State of Being. We have violated our Peace of Mind as the Truth, over which God has given us Free Will. We rule our Mind, and to think thoughts that contradict JOY, such as "sickness," then we get the results that proceed from those thoughts. GOD's Will for us is perfect happiness. To think thoughts that go against this happiness is a "defense against the truth.”