David Wilcock, ACIM, and my major downer

[Questioner]

I tried so hard to "get it" (ACIM) but just couldn't.

Kristy, I couldn't either.

One of the things I love the most about the L/L Research channeling is the "disclaimer" that runs something like this in many sessions: "Thank you for inviting us to share our spiritual perspective about these topics you asked about today. As we speak freely, please take what is helpful to you and set aside the rest, Know that if you don't get anything helpful from our words today, there will be another opportunity for the Creator to inspire you with other words. We want to be sure to not interfere at all with your own free will or your own evolution. Thank you for remembering to use only what you feel serves you."

My own goals with the long discussions of the L/L Research material are to help myself understand it by explaining it, and to invite you to explore whether or not it resonates with you. That's different, I feel, than how most ACIM enthusiasts present their Course.

I haven't seen any type of disclaimer like this in ACIM. And the people I've met who are really, really into the ACIM material are also really, really pushy that they know best what you (and everyone) "should" think, feel, do, and understand, based on what they think ACIM says. If you just don't get it, then obviously they need to try harder to explain again and push you to agree, rather than respecting that maybe it's not the right next step on your spiritual path right now.

What a difference with Ra's indifference to Don's questions about whether to aggressively publicize and market the Ra sessions. I think Ra wouldn't object to how L/L Research has marketed the material, Ra just didn't care about attempts to reach people who were fundamentally not interested in the material or didn't resonate with it.

There are warnings, especially in the Ra material, about those who would use a few sprinkles of positivity and hope as a kind of salt for otherwise tasteless, indigestible, toxic negative messages. My own personal feeling is that this warning applies to much of ACIM, which can create confusion and breakdown of rational thought at least as much as it provides positive spiritual perspective.

This is just my personal point of view. I'm not here today to tear down ACIM but to build up Kristy so I won't go further into my issues with ACIM right now.

Later this year, when I discuss my own experience leaving behind cult thinking, I imagine that some of that might resonate with you. I can certainly appreciate the depth of challenge, confusion and guilt that can come up when one's been indoctrinated that eternal life or hell is in the hands of someone else we have to trust even if every fiber of our being shouts, "That's not for me!"

On David Wilcock's site, divinecosmos.com, I see that his musical collaborator Larry Seyer has a section where Larry gives Larry's perspective on ACIM. I see this as pretty clearly separate from David's own work, which is based on the Law of One, plus David's dreams and David's research into science and conspiracies, but not on ACIM.

David clearly loves and respects Larry's essential contribution to David's musical projects. With this respect, David lets Larry share Larry's own opinions on Larry's part of David's site. Well, it's nice that Larry has obviously found his own sense of spiritual home and contentment with ACIM, but that says nothing at all about David.

More importantly, all of this says nothing at all about Kristy!