"The avoidance of magic is the avoidance of temptation. For all temptation is
nothing more than the attempt to substitute another will for God's. These
attempts may indeed seem frightening, but they are merely pathetic. They can have
no effects; neither good nor bad, neither rewarding nor demanding sacrifice,
healing nor destructive, quieting nor fearful. When all magic is recognized as
merely nothing, the teacher of God has reached the most advanced state. All
intermediate lessons will but lead to this, and bring this goal nearer to
recognition. For magic of any kind, in all its forms, simply does nothing. Its
powerlessness is the reason it can be so easily escaped. What has no effects can
hardly terrify.

There is no substitute for the Will of God. In simple statement, it is to this
fact that the teacher of God devotes his day. Each substitute he may accept as
real can but deceive him. But he is safe from all deception if he so decides.
Perhaps he needs to remember, "God is with me. I cannot be deceived." Perhaps he
prefers other words, or only one, or none at all. Yet each temptation to accept
magic as true must be abandoned through his recognition, not that it is fearful,
not that it is sinful, not that it is dangerous, but merely that it is
meaningless. Rooted in sacrifice and separation, two aspects of one error and no
more, he merely chooses to give up all that he never had. And for this
"sacrifice" is Heaven restored to his awareness.

Is not this an exchange that you would want? The world would gladly make it, if
it knew it could be made. It is God's teachers who must teach it that it can. And
so it is their function to make sure that they have learned it. No risk is
possible throughout the day except to put your trust in magic, for it is only this
that leads to pain. "There is no will but God's." His teachers know that this is
so, and have learned that everything but this is magic. All belief in magic is
maintained by just one simple-minded illusion;--that it works. All through their
training, every day and every hour, and even every minute and second, must God's
teachers learn to recognize the forms of magic and perceive their meaninglessness.
Fear is withdrawn from them, and so they go. And thus the gate of Heaven is
reopened, and its light can shine again on an untroubled mind."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 16, "How Should the Teacher
of God Spend His Day?"

So, when you press the gas pedal and the car goes forward, that's magic. When you
stitch up a cut, that's magic. When you move a cup across your desk, that's
magic. The miracle just goes, "stupid, what is?" and you go: "the cups there;"
and so it is. *You see what you want to see*. There is no substitute for the
will of God. Did you want to be a monkey? Did you want to move a cup across your
desk? Did you want to stitch up a cut? If you wanted to, then it was God's will.
So any response to poverty, health, or people problems, other than the will of
God, is magic. If you want to be at the end of the two hour car trip, be there.
The internal combustion engine is not the answer. God is the answer. Whatever you
want, is God's will:

"What is the peace of God? No more than this; the simple understanding that His
Will is wholly without opposite. There is no thought that contradicts His Will,
yet can be true. The contrast between His Will and yours but seemed to be
reality. In truth there was no conflict, for His Will is yours. Now is the
mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. He does not seek to keep it for
Himself. Why would you seek to keep your tiny frail imaginings apart from Him?
The Will of God is One and all there is. This is your heritage. The universe
beyond the sun and stars, and all the thoughts of which you can conceive, belong
to you. God's peace is the condition for His Will. Attain His peace, and you
remember Him."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 20, "What Is the Peace of God?"

"There is no will except the will of love."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 331, "There is no conflict, for my will
is Yours."

"the advanced teachers of God... seek for God's Voice in this brother who would so
deceive himself as to believe God's Son can suffer. And they remind him that he
did not make himself, and must remain as God created him. They recognize
illusions can have no effect. The truth in their minds reaches out to the truth
in the minds of their brothers, so that illusions are not reinforced. They are
thus brought to truth; truth is not brought to them. So are they dispelled, not
by the will of another, but by the union of the one Will with itself. And this is
the function of God's teachers; to see no will as separate from their own, nor
theirs as separate from God's."
- A Course in Miracles, Manual For Teachers, Section 5, "How Is Healing Accomplished?"

So you remind your brother of his true self.

"The miracle is the act of a Son of God who has laid aside all false gods, and
calls on his brothers to do likewise. It is an act of faith, because it is the
recognition that his brother can do it. It is a call to the Holy Spirit in his
mind, a call that is strengthened by joining. Because the miracle worker has
heard God's Voice, he strengthens It in a sick brother by weakening his belief in
sickness, which he does not share. The power of one mind can shine into another,
because all the lamps of God were lit by the same spark. It is everywhere and it
is eternal.
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 10, "The Idols of Sickness," Section 4 (5pdf),
"The End of Sickness"

So when someone works a miracle for you, you worked a miracle for yourself. And
when you work a miracle for anyone else, they worked a miracle for themselves.

"There is no conflict, for my will is Yours." Lesson 331, - you can look at that
two ways: what I want God wants, or what God wants I want. Both are true. You
need to stop attacking yourself and let the love of God enter. You need to search
for this One Voice, which is One with you.

"The Holy Spirit is in you in a very literal sense. His is the Voice that calls
you back to where you were before and will be again. It is possible even in this
world to hear only that Voice and no other. It takes effort and great willingness
to learn. It is the final lesson that I learned, and God's Sons are as equal as
learners as they are as Sons."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, "Healing and Wholeness," Section 2 (3 pdf),
"The Voice for God"

"Would you know of One Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?"
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, "Teaching for Truth," Section 4 (5pdf), "Your
Function in the Atonement"

So Jesus' mind does not attack anything, and is loved by God?

"My purpose, then, is still to overcome the world. I do not attack it, but my
light must dispel it because of what it is. Light does not attack darkness, but
it does shine it away."
- Jesus Christ, A Course in Miracles, Chapter 8, "The Journey Back" Section 4,
"The Gift of Freedom"

"Magic is the mindless or the miscreative use of mind. Physical medications are
forms of "spells," {("but if you are afraid to use the mind to heal, ...it is
safer for you to rely temporarily on physical healing devices")}
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 5, "Healing and Wholeness," Section 2 (3 pdf),
"The Voice for God"

"The changes in wave length which the healing brings about, occur within the
radius of 5 feet. It does not matter in what part of the body the healing takes
place, nor by what means it is brought about. From the theoretical point of view
it can be said that healing can only be the result of a change of mind which now
accepts healing where it formerly accepted sickness. The change of mind alters
the thought field around the patient, which seems to represent the place where he
is. These changes cannot be different for a healing presumably brought about by
medication, surgery, or faith. Healing can only be faith healing for sickness can
only be faith in sickness."

"the apparatus... is not capable of noting the more subtle changes that accompany
a healing, nor of measuring the almost incalculable distances across which they
occur. Within the 5 foot radius, however, the equipment will pick up energy
changes that "register" a healing. In a sense, these might be called shadows of
an illusion; in the world of dreams they signify the sound of a different voice."
- Notes on Sound, Page 22, January 15, 1973

* "These changes cannot be different for a healing presumably brought about by
medication, surgery, or faith. Healing can only be faith healing for sickness can
only be faith in sickness." *

Thus,
"These changes cannot be different, for an enrichment presumably brought about by
lottery winnings, work, or faith. Enrichment can only be faith enrichment, for
poverty can only be faith in poverty."

Thus,
"These changes cannot be different, for a room cleaning presumably brought about
by vacuuming, sweeping, or faith. Cleaning a room can only be faith cleaning a
room, for a messy room can only be faith in a mess."

Thus,
"Change can only be faith change, for state can only be faith in state."

So you believe in the world you see?

So you believe the past creates the present?

You are lost in the past, and that is why you die:

"Awaken. And come back to the present."

And you shall remember yourself and see a world of light.

CHOOSE once again.

CHOOSE.

"If you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize,
and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force.
It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that
thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 2, "The Separation and the Atonement," Section 7,
"Fear and Conflict"

"you believe that you can change what you see by putting little bits of glass
before your eyes. This is among the many magical beliefs that come from the
conviction you are a body, and the body's eyes can see."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 92, "Miracles are seen in light, and
light and strength are one."

So, if I hold my hand in front of my eyes, I will still see what I want to see?

"It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not
recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see
them. This is how your "seeing" was made. This is the function you have given
your body's eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of
seeing, replacing vision with illusions.

This introductory idea to the process of image making that you call seeing will
not have much meaning for you. You will begin to understand it when you have seen
little edges of light around the same familiar objects which you see now. That is
the beginning of real vision. You can be certain that real vision will come
quickly when this has occurred."
- A Course in Miracles, Workbook, Lesson 15, "My thoughts are images that I have
made."

"When you have looked on what seemed terrifying, and seen it change to sights of
loveliness and peace; when you have looked on scenes of violence and death, and
watched them change to quiet views of gardens under open skies, with clear,
life-giving water running happily beside them in dancing brooks that never waste
away; who need persuade you to accept the gift of vision? And after vision, who
is there who could refuse what must come after? Think but an instant just on
this; you can behold the holiness God gave his Son. And never need you think that
there is something else for you to see."
- A Course in Miracles, Chapter 20, "The Vision of Holiness," Section 8, "The
Vision of Sinlessness"

"There is no problem, no event or situation, no perplexity that vision will not
solve."

"Vision is freely given to those who ask to see."

"this world is an hallucination... Hallucinations disappear when they are
recognized for what they are..."
"And all you need to do is recognize that *you* did this."

So, when you change the world in huge ways, what happens to the other people in
it? Do you like disappear, and they keep seeing the same things, or does it
potentially mess them up?

Say like I wanted my house to be on the beach, so I put an ocean in in front of
it. What happens to my neighbors?