In reference to a post in the "Ask the Real Jesus" website that discusses the accuracy of A Course In Miracles:

Answer from Jesus:

A Course in Miracles does indeed contain true ideas, as do many other religious and spiritual teachings. Many people, especially in the New Age movement, have used the course to develop a deeper understanding of the spiritual path and of my true, inner teachings. On their fruits you shall know them, and the Course in Miracles has helped many people.

You are correct that the course is not 100 % accurate, but I can tell you that no spiritual teaching found in the material world is 100 % accurate.

A spiritual teaching is always given through the consciousness of a person in embodiment. It is therefore inevitable that the spiritual teaching will be affected by the consciousness of the person acting as a messenger. In some cases, as explained elsewhere, the personal agenda of the messenger can color the spiritual teaching or even distort the message. However, even if a person has no agenda, the contents of the person's consciousness will affect the spiritual teaching.

This message itself clearly identifies that even these messages through Kim are not 100% accurate. It must be a self-referencing statement, otherwise it is itself a false statement.

In this message, "Jesus" is actually finding fault with ACIM and other similar teachings, yet leads the reader to think that Kim's messages are 100% accurate, which they could not be based on the aforementioned self-referencing statement. For a pot to call the kettle black is an example of a twisted viewpoint ("I'm not like you, and you're not perfect"). This is clearly not a message you will find in ACIM.

ACIM explains early in the text that the course is intended for those whose language (referring to understanding of definition of terms) resonates with the language of the course. It further explains that other people with a different language will find a course that resonates with them. That explanation in no way finds any fault with other "paths", but allows each to find their way back to God, and further asserts that ALL will find their way back to God in time (which will be explained). There is no suggestion of a "right way" other than to let go and let God (ACIM Workbook lesson 189).

Furthermore, in the ASK THE REAL JESUS material, there is a reference that God is impatient with His creations and does not allow them forever to find their way back to Him. This is an implication that God is not perfect (that He is impatient), and that His creations are imperfect (not all will be allowed to come back to Him). If on the one hand there is an agreement that God is perfect, then His creations must also be perfect. And if we agree that God is Love, then it follows that His creations are Love since God cannot divide Himself in any way (being ONE) to make/create something not of Himself or that exists outside of Himself. What constitutes imperfection (sin, a mistake, a belief in something not true which leads to actions that are contrary to truth), from a human point of view, is the idea that we are not one with God. Since this is clearly a mistake, it can be corrected - but only if the thinker is willing to let go of the idea that it is a mistake to consider himself as separate from God. And, in time with the right nudging (from the Holy Spirit), this thought will be rejected by all minds - which, by the way, are one in God. How else could it be?

Since the unity of God can never be contradicted (from His viewpoint, not from our ego's viewpoint), then in His reality we (His creations) have never left Him. In His reality we have no need of salvation because we are as He created us - perfect love. Since we (our self-imposed identify seemingly ruled by an ego that we made to adhere to the idea that we are not one with God) consider ourselves separate from God, it follows that we would need time to find our way back to God - and this is what is called salvation (to be "saved" from ourselves - our imagined separation from God). Notice that time is involved here. When we have found our way back to God (having fully realized our oneness with God, hence, a realization that we never left), time itself will then be the framework of the eternal "now" without a past nor a future; in other words, there is nothing to separate us from our unity in God. There would then be no "place" but what is God. Literally, our perceptions will have been transformed from "time" and "place" to "here" and "now". Time, in effect, from an ego-based perspective, ceases to exist since time is defined (in material terms - an ego-based reality) asthe indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole (Webster). This is where it may be possible to interpret that God does not allow Man "forever" to find his way back to Him. The concept of "forever" is time-based. Whereas, "eternity" has no real meaning to the ego, and this makes it all the more improbable that, to the ego, salvation (returning to the awareness of our unity with God) is not just unlikely, but impossible since it has to occur outside of time, which, to the ego, is not possible.

I find it incredible that the "Jesus" talking through Kim continues to talk in terms that engender fear (you won't make it unless...) and guilt ("they" don't have the "right stuff", but "I" do, so listen to me) without putting it in the perspective that the ego is the prisoner, not "you" who are eternally free and perfect as God created you, although this is hinted at in some messages thereby making some messages "incorrect" and others "correct". I have stated elsewhere (see post for Sunday, January 6, 2008) that such contradictions always contain an element of a lie making the whole improbable that there is any truth in it at all. Truth does not contradict itself. This "Jesus", or rather Kim, seems to be forgetting that God is not only perfect love, but has no need for patience or forgiveness since from His perspective we have never left Him and, being perfect like Him (created in His likeness) we have never "sinned" and therefore we have nothing to be guilty about and nothing to be forgiven for. It is because of our belief in "separation" that we need to forgive ourselves, and also to forgive our brothers for the seeming "sin" that we see in them (which means nothing more than to see our brother as ourselves - one with God). This brings back into focus our unity with God. It does not "return" us to God since we never left. The idea of returning to God is a concept that refers to "let go and let God". Be yourself, your perfect love. Teach only love, for that is what you are.

To rephrase Kim's message, the material in "Ask The Real Jesus" has plenty of meaningful and useful material, but, as he says, not all of it is 100% accurate. And as he says, it is useful to seek out other material. The truth is within you, not in the words you read.

Look up books by J. Krishnamurti and Joel Goldsmith. Compare those works with ACIM and "Ask The Real Jesus" and see where the coincidences and differences are. Discover what the basic teaching is in each.

Teaching perfect love and unity with God cannot possibly lead to fear or guilt, It brings the freedom (salvation) which comes as a result of the gift of the peace of God. Except that the ego insists on persecution and abandonment, there is no need for forgiveness or salvation. Deny the ego and its claim on you and you will be free.

He who has eyes to see, let him see.