A meaningless world engenders fear. · Wb.13

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v1.0 · Course text used under CIMS license

Workbook for Students

Contents

Opening

Introduction

Wb.In

Part I

Lessons 1 - 50

50 lessons

1.Nothing I see in this room[on this street, from this window in this place] means anything.

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2.I have given everything I see in this room[on this street, from this window, in this place] all the meaning that it has for me.

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3.I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

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4.These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place].

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5.I am never upset for the reason I think.

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6.I am upset because I see something that is not there.

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7.I see only the past.

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8.My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

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9.I see nothing as it is now.

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10.My thoughts do not mean anything.

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11.My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

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12.I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

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13.A meaningless world engenders fear.

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14.God did not create a meaningless world.

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15.My thoughts are images which I have made.

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16.I have no neutral thoughts.

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17.I see no neutral things.

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18.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.

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19.I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.

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20.I am determined to see.

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21.I am determined to see things differently.

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22.What I see is a form of vengeance.

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23.I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.

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24.I do not perceive my own best interests.

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25.I do not know what anything is for.

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26.My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

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27.Above all else I want to see.

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28.Above all else, I want to see things differently.

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29.God is in everything I see.

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30.God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

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31.I am not the victim of the world I see.

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32.I have invented the world I see.

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33.There is another way of looking at the world.

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34.I could see peace instead of this.

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35.My mind is part of God's. I am very holy.

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36.My holiness envelops everything I see.

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37.My holiness blesses the world.

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38.There is nothing my holiness cannot do.

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39.My holiness is my salvation.

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40.I am blessed as a Son of God.

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41.God goes with me wherever I go.

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42.God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

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43.God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

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44.God is the Light in which I see.

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45.God is the Mind with which I think.

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46.God is the Love in which I forgive.

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47.God is the Strength in which I trust.

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48.There is nothing to fear.

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49.God's Voice speaks to me all through the day.

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50.I am sustained by the Love of God.

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Part I

Review I [51 - 60]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 61 - 80

20 lessons

Part I

Review II [81 - 90]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 91 - 110

20 lessons

Part I

Review III [111 - 120]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 121 - 140

20 lessons

Part I

Review IV [141 - 150]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 151 - 170

20 lessons

Part I

Review V [171 - 180]

10 lessons

Part I

Lessons 181 - 200

20 lessons

Part I

Review VI [201 - 220]

20 lessons

Part II

Introduction

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Part II

Lessons 221 - 230

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 231 - 240

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 241 - 250

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 251 - 260

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 261 - 270

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 271 - 280

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 281 - 290

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 291 - 300

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 301 - 310

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 311 - 320

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 321 - 330

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 331 - 340

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 341 - 350

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 351 - 360

10 lessons

Part II

Lessons 361 - 365

5 lessons

Closing

Epilogue

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Part I · Lesson 13

A meaningless world engenders fear.

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1Today's idea is really another form of the preceding one, except that it is more specific as to the emotion aroused. Actually, a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it.

2Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego "challenge" each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space which meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own "ideas" there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own unreality. And on this alone it is correct.

3It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes which it does not possess and crowd it with images that do not exist. To the ego, illusions are safety devices, as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego.

4The exercises for today, which should be done about three or four times for not more than a minute or so at most each time, are to be practiced in a somewhat different way from the preceding ones. With eyes closed, repeat today's idea to yourself. Then open your eyes and look about you slowly, saying:

5I am looking at a meaningless world.

6Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about. Then close your eyes and conclude with:

7A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God.

8You may find it difficult to avoid resistance in one form or another to this concluding statement. Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the "vengeance" of the "enemy." You are not expected to believe the statement at this point and will probably try to dismiss it as preposterous. Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse. This is our first attempt at stating an explicit cause and effect relationship of a kind which you are very inexperienced in recognizing. Do not dwell on the concluding statement, and try not even to think of it except during the exercise periods. That will suffice at present.