Social media is like anything else in this world, i.e. projected thoughts with the content of a bad ego mind. Online community attacks on A Course in Miracles (ACIM) are through many comments, quotes, and other posts responding to our interpretation, which then becomes the justification for our response (T-12.I.1) or our reason for posting etc. All students have a basic confusion between form and content as well as what it means to connect, so let’s not gloss over it: Social media is the forms (the projected content of the ego’s bad mind) from connecting with the bad mind. Therefore, it is from the beginning a series of attacks until we forgive and begin to identify (connect) with the right mind.

Even in the course, we are all sitting online with some kind of electronic device mindlessly doing our egos. Well, some may stand, lean, or lounge:

An unkind reminder

In the course “To teach is to demonstrate (M-in.2) and we are always teaching or demonstrating at every moment the ego or God, i.e. the content mind with which we have chosen to associate or identify. the content of the ego is many projected and various forms and the content of the right mind is unity, sameness, i.e. Love (no projections). There are no exceptions. It’s one or the other.

Our brothers are part of us. They are the ones who teach us who we are, because our learning is the result of what we have taught them (T-9.VI.3) – ego or God – always. As dreamers (T-27.VII.), our dream characters (those online with us and our brothers) do what we dream they do based on what we have taught (demonstrated). That’s why they’re innocent because it’s our dream. We have taught separation or the murderous attack of thought against God, and so we all demonstrate this attack in many fragmented forms. However, if we forgive what we have been taught (chosen) instead of attacking, we find out who we are through our brothers who are the same.

When we post quotes, comments, or use the language of the course “on” another, we are really attacking (an unloving reminder). If we think about how we feel, we know that we believe in separation and difference. The commands or demands of the ego must be answered “on” the separate fragment (brother), so we continue to demonstrate our original offensive thought and suppress our guilt. The students of the course then go and join the internet with these many ideas of exceptionalism and their unkind reminders that shatter the mind and perpetuate separation (the opposite of unity) which is the problem.

Loving reminders

The loving reminder has absolutely nothing to do with forms, for it is the exemplary kindness of the mind that is the vision of sameness and unity – the One. If nothing is different, there is nothing to attack, because Man is at home with God in this world and sees only Christ in his brothers. One would show something quite unique:

(2:1) God’s teachers come to them [those who are sick] to present another choice that they have forgotten. Your only function is to remind others that they can make the same choice as you – not necessarily with words, but with the love and peace you show them. (2:2-3) The simple presence of the teacher of God is a reminder. His ideas demand the right to question what the patient has accepted as truth. The patient – ​​all of us, really – have accepted the ego’s thought system as true.

To reiterate this important caveat, most of the time you would never say the words, “You can make the same decision I’m making because our minds are one.” The presence of love, which is outside the ego’s thought system, is what teaches, not with your words, but with the teacher you have chosen in your mind, the presence within you. You could teach acim app and get every theological point right, but if you don’t have love in your heart, you don’t teach ACIM (Ibid Kindness, Vol.1, Kindle Locations 396-399, emphasis mine).

Do no harm

In the appendix, “The Healing Power of Kindness: Vol. 1,” Wapnick reprinted, “Harm no one.” It is a short essay on the implementation of the Hippocratic Oath in ACIM practice, a simple reminder for all A Course in Miracles students who seek to apply its principles to life in the world (Kindle Location 678). It examines how we need to thoroughly and honestly examine how we have used others in our lives to fulfill our desires and needs, and how it is harmful because we do not consider the well-being of others. Using people for our needs is an attack on them that makes us feel guilty (Kindle location 699). A “eureka” moment occurs – I finally realize that I used the written word for the attack (Kindle location 709, underlining mine).

Damage is the result of judgment. It is a dishonorable act that follows a dishonorable thought. It is a judgment of guilt against the brother, and therefore also against oneself. It is the end of peace and the denial of teaching (M-4.IV.1)… (being an unkind reminder of attacks on others and thus on ourselves)… So Jesus explains to us how the judgments of others precede our judgment of ourselves (M-4.IV.1 and ibid., Kindle location 729). He states unequivocally—quite early in his training—that the student of A Course in Miracles must learn that harmfulness must be completely removed or he would never learn the lessons of the Holy Spirit (M-4.IV.1:8-11, Ibid., Kindle Location 739, mine to add parentheses)