ACIM for Social Justice Warriors
This posting is a reflection on social activism in the light of the Ukraine War. It’s an experiment for me with video presentation. I’d appreciate any feedback about its effectiveness and even more importantly about its content. It’s not what Americans usually hear about the war that’s on everyone’s mind.
What joined minds think within Plato’s Cave is never neutral. It always supports the powerful elite whose way of thinking in turn supports white supremacy, capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy.
We see nothing as it is – not even the walls of our room or our own bodies. Everything is shaped by what our keepers have taught us long before we’ve had a chance to think for ourselves.
ACIM recognizes that our world is engaged in a bloody class conflict in which we must take sides. We’re either on the side of the poor or the world’s aristocratic oppressors. Neutrality is impossible.
Here’s a simple reflection to put in perspective Lesson 15 of ACIM’s Workbook for Students. Please read the lesson first (here) then listen to my interpretation.
In Lesson 14, A Course in Miracles proposes a profound redefinition of reality – of the word “real.”
The meaning stories we were raised on have disintegrated before our eyes leaving us with a meaningless world. Understandably, we find that extremely unnerving.
None of the most common convictions of our culture is anything more than a human creation. Not one of them is part of Life’s inherent order.
The lesson asks us to clear our minds of all falsehoods (i.e., of ALL our brainwashed thoughts without exception) and even to make our own the prayer, “Release me, Lord, from all that I now believe.”
"A Course in Miracles" for Activists