The Miracle And The Mind: Fragments

[Micheal Jorden]

In this fourth article in the series on the "miracle" and the "mind," we are going to discuss the way the unkindness of specialness is translated by the ego into making the Sonship appear fragmented. While nothing is obviously fragmented or separate in reality, the mind (because everything is in the mind) has the looks to be fragmented because of the projected forms which are nothing more than ego judgments of specialness, uniqueness and individuality. These are accustomed to make us stand out as special in a crowd of sameness and thus they divide the Sonship. This speaks to the very heart the one problem: The separation. These judgments maintain it. No body is different. Many people are exactly the same regardless.

Only equals have reached peace and to be equal we must look after dark differences seen with the body's eyes to this major point in A Course in Miracles (ACIM): Most of us have exactly the same ego (the same fear and guilt in our mind) and that unites us. We also all have exactly the same right mind and exactly the same ability to decide on between them. To state we're spiritually different (special) from what is really a part folks (the same) says we prefer to steadfastly keep up the separation from God and that's what we shall actually learn and teach.

The event of the miracle isn't to have us stop choosing our egos. It's to have us remember that we're choosing the ego. Again, I can't emphasize this enough a course in miracles. This is exactly what gets almost all Course in Miracles students way off the mark (Rules for Decision, Kenneth Wapnick, underline mine).

Fragments are merely the dualistic manner in which we perceive differences where you will find none. Understand this quote from Kenneth Wapnick:

The Sonship [the whole] in its Oneness transcends the amount of its parts" (T-2.VII.6:3). Quite simply, one cannot appreciate the pure wholeness and oneness of Christ by simply adding up the billions and billions of fragments that the world thinks could be the Son of God, a quantifiable entity consisting of certain level of separated fragments. Christ in His very nature is a perfect and undivided One, as Mind, and He loses that essential characteristic which defines His Being if fragmentation of any of its forms is acknowledged as real (The Message of A Course In Miracles: Few Elect to Listen by Kenneth Wapnick, page 67, underline mine).

Because of this series of articles, we've been using spiritually special Course teachers as our example wherein they use "spiritual dress" to make themselves more special and chosen by God to complete His work. This makes them different, i.e., stand out in a crowd as special from others who're their equals. In the context with this discussion, this makes fragmentation real because judgments are manufactured about differences. Where you will find differences (instead of sameness) there is no peace and and so the spiritually special cannot learn nor teach peace.

The ego thrives on the comparisons of specialness. Once you compare yourself with others, wherein you are essential and they're not because Jesus gave you a special assignment... you see differences where you will find none (because you're dedicated to forms which don't matter). The only way you need to consider yourself as having a significant function is to understand everyone else has an important function too: forgiveness (The Healing Power of Kindness, Vol. 2: Forgiving Our Limitations by Kenneth Wapnick, location 884, Kindle, underline mine).