Ark: переводы

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→Nearly everyone, at times, feels as if their mind is split in two. There seems to be a "good" part, that wants to be loving, and a "bad" part, that is afraid and wants to hurt and to destroy. It almost seems as if there are two voices in our heads, each voice pulling us in opposite directions.

→We are simply a mind, and that is all. This mind is either believing in a false image of itself—the ego, separate from God—or it is experiencing the truth of its unity with God. The ego and the Holy Spirit are, in a sense, just states of this one mind. One state, the ego, is only an illusion. The other state, the Holy Spirit, is reality.

→1. The General Structure of a "Split" Mind

→The ego's thought system originates in our guilt over our imaginary separation from God, and fear of punishment for our "sin." It is composed of judgment, attack, and ultimately, a deep death wish.

→The Course says we all come into this world programmed to perceive things from the perspective of separated consciousness, a way of thinking it terms wrong-mindedness, or the thought system of the ego (another word for separated consciousness). We begin life not even being more than dimly aware that there is another way of looking at the world. This "other way" is called right-mindedness, which is the thought system of the Holy Spirit (universal or oneness-consciousness).

→B. Another Way of Seeing the World

→A. Guilt and Its Undoing

→There are many different ways I could try to summarize the central theme of the Course. I am going to present three different ways of summarizing the message of the Course, three different perspectives or ways of looking at the same thing. This will be like three snapshots of a house taken from different spots; each one presents a whole picture, but taken together, they give a kind of three-dimensional representation.