7 Out Of The 10 Most Viral Articles About Angela Merkel On Facebook Are False

The most popular fake news post about the German chancellor leads to a Catholic version of YouTube that's apparently run by people in Moscow using servers in Moldova. Yes, seriously.

There have been hundreds of articles and videos published about the Angela Merkel, but no German-language post has attracted more shares, comments, and reactions on Facebook in the last five years than a video from Gloria.tv headlined, "Angela Merkel: Germans have to accept foreigners' violence."

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With about 273,000 Facebook reactions, comments, and shares, it's by far the most successful German post about Merkel on Facebook. It's also false.

In fact, a BuzzFeed News analysis found that 7 of the 10 top-performing German posts about Angela Merkel on Facebook the last five years are false.

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Using BuzzSumo, BuzzFeed News identified the articles about Angela Merkel published in the the last five years that generated the highest total number of shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook. Of the top 10, seven were false or a hoax, and the remaining three were either true or based on an opinion. All 10 were slanted against Merkel.

The analysis found that false stories and fake news about Merkel spread widely on Facebook, especially when linked with the topic of refugees. These stories come from far right websites and other non-traditional media, and outperform traditional media coverage of the chancellor. One reason this content spreads so widely is that it's shared by a variety right-wing Facebook pages and groups.

This finding is similar to a previous BuzzFeed News analysis of German and English-language content about Merkel that looked at the top-performing content in 2016.

The analysis also shows that German websites are not the only ones getting in on the action. One of the most successful posts is based on a video by far-right Canadian media outlet The Rebel.

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Although Ezra Levant of The Rebel is highly critical of Merkel in the video, he does not label her “insane” — the German version simply added that to the headline.

The list of top-performing content also includes supposedly satirical articles that fooled people. One claimed that "Angela Merkel was run over in a traffic accident," and was published by a "website for funny pictures," debeste.de. That site is registered to an address in Poland.

German website Eine-Zeitung.net also published the article "Merkel wants to give all refugees the right to vote as soon as possible", which earned the second-most engagements on Facebook. But, aside from the words "In Satira Veritas" ("Truth In Satire") in the logo, there is no indication the post is satirical. Many readers thought the satirical articles were real and scolded Merkel and the lying press in the comments.

The top post about Merkel, from Gloria.tv, is a 7-second video clip in which the chancellor only says one sentence.

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Since its publication in January 2015, the clip has generated 639,400 clicks, according to a traffic counter on the page. The video title says, "Angela Merkel: Germans have to accept foreigners' violence."

But does Angela Merkel actually promote acceptance of foreigners' violence like it says in the headline? No. The sentence in the video is taken out of context and the headline turns her real statement into the opposite of what it meant.

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What she actually says is "...but we have to accept that the number of crimes is particularly high among young immigrants."

The clip is taken from a 2011 video, according to German fact-checking website Mimikama.

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Here is Angela Merkel's full statement:

"The thing here is to ensure security on the ground and to eradicate the causes of violence in the society at the same time. This applies to all parts of the society, but we have to accept that the number of crimes is particularly high among young immigrants. Therefore, the theme of integration is connected with the issue of violence prevention in all parts of our society."

Merkel doesn't mean that Germans have to accept the fact that there's more violence among young immigrants. Instead, she says that the high number of crimes needs to be recognized and not ignored. By being shortened and headlined as, "Germans must accept the violence of foreigners," the meaning was warped.

Gloria.tv's slogan is, "the more Catholic the better." It's a platform similar to YouTube where users can upload videos.

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In 2013, news site Die Zeit called Gloria.tv aggressive and right-wing after it showed German liberal priests, who supported the morning-after pill, with swastikas. The website itself was founded by Roman Catholic priest Reto Nay from Switzerland. However, since 2014 his name is no longer associated with the website. It's not clear who runs it now, but the Gloria.tv servers are registered in Moldova, and have a contact address in Moscow.

This is the building where the contact for the website is supposed to be based. There is no email address or telephone number. BuzzFeed News mailed a letter containing questions for Gloria.tv to its address in Moscow, but has not received a response.

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BuzzFeed News contacted the user account, Tina 13, that uploaded the viral video on Gloria.tv. The person who replied denied they are the creator of the video.

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A few minutes after our exchange, Tina 13 deleted the video from their, but it can still be found here.

It's unlikely that Gloria.tv user "Tina 13" is the person who made the original shortened Merkel video. The YouTube version of the video dates back to 2014. However, the YouTube version only has about 50,000 Facebook interactions, which is much fewer than the Gloria.tv one.

How BuzzFeed collected the data:

BuzzFeed used the content analysis tool BuzzSumo. This tool allows you to search by keywords, URLs, and time periods and to sort the results according to the number of interactions in social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube.

BuzzFeed News searched in BuzzSumo for all articles in German which have the keywords "Angela Merkel", "Merkel", "Chancellor of Germany" or "Chancellor" in the title. It is therefore possible that either us or BuzzSumo missed articles about Angela Merkel. If that's the case, we would appreciate any feedback on what we missed.

BuzzSumo only allows for the last five years to be searched. We collected our data between July 17th, 2017 and July 25th, 2017.

At this point, it is important to emphasize once again that Facebook interactions do not translate automatically into website traffic. This analysis focused on the most successful individual articles about Angela Merkel. This does not mean that alternative media generate more overall traffic than the websites of traditional German media.

Congress Just Almost Unanimously Called Trump's Bluff On Russia Sanctions

The limits to Trump's ability to roll back sanctions on Moscow come as part of a package along with economic penalties against North Korea and Iran. It's still unclear whether or not the White House will sign the bill.

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The Senate on Thursday took time out from debating health care to pass a bill to keep current sanctions on Russia in place until Congress says otherwise, setting up a potential clash with the White House.

Despite weeks of vacillating from the president's spokespeople over whether President Donald Trump would sign the bill, it passed easily by a margin of 98-2. Only Sens. Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul opposed the measure.

Along with hardening sanctions already in place against Moscow, stripping Trump of his ability to lift them without congressional approval, the bill adds new economic penalties against Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

The House of Representatives voted 419-3 to enact the sanctions package on Tuesday, giving it a veto-proof majority moving forward. Two-thirds of both the House and Senate are required to overturn a presidential veto.

The White House did not immediately respond to a BuzzFeed News request for comment on whether the president will sign the bill or force Congress to vote to override a veto. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said following the House vote Tuesday that Trump had been “very vocal about his support for continuing sanctions on those three countries” but would wait to see what the final legislation looked like.

Sen. Bob Corker, who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters after the vote that he had spoken to both Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson over the last week and had received "no indication whatsoever that they plan to consider a veto."

“When you have this kind of overwhelming vote, you know... I can’t speak for them, but if I were advising them, to even consider vetoing something with this support is not probably in anybody’s interest. ... They can count. They understand the math," he added.

Senators from both sides of the aisle spent the short window of time debating the bill on the floor Thursday night not so much trying to convince their counterparts, but praising each other for its bipartisan nature.

Sanders, one of just two no votes, said on Twitter following the vote that while he supported the sanctions on Russia and North Korea, he opposed the bill because he "worr[ies] very much about President Trump’s approach to Iran."

Russia, on the other hand, has said that the legislation further threatens relations between Moscow and Washington, which have been icy for the last several years. The current sanctions were put into place by the Obama administration in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2015, its support for rebels in eastern Ukraine, and its interference in the 2016 US election.

Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, praised the near-unanimous vote on Thursday.

“This bill passed with overwhelming majorities in both the Senate and the House, sending a strong message to Vladimir Putin that attacks on our democracy will not be tolerated," Warner said in a statement. “President Trump should sign this bill as soon as it hits his desk. Otherwise, he risks encouraging Russia’s interference in future elections.”

Asked whether signing the bill would indicate that Trump believes Russia interfered in the 2016 election, something he has been reticent to say, Corker said likely not. But, he added: "I think the lack of strong statements in that regard probably affected the outcome on this piece of legislation.”

ACIM Free Audiobook Insights Trailer, David Hoffmeister A Course in Miracles

This continues to be an amazing gift for my mind—the text and lessons read by David Hoffmeister—the clear and beautifully aligned teacher of ACIM, along with his insights on the lessons. The lessons of the course are a knock out blow to the ego, and truly practiced as Jesus asks will help you awaken, however the resistance is what makes the process of awakening seem difficult. David gives his practical experience that helps gently let go of the resistance and help align with what the Course teaches. If you have never done the lessons or have done them numerous times, I invite you to do a lesson a day with david for a few days and feel for yourself the beautiful impact it has for your mind.

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The spiritual journey is the pathway inward, the undoing of every scrap of belief that stems from this core belief. You have had glimpses of the “light behind the veil” and this is very encouraging. The ego is terrified of the surrender and when the mind is identified with it, you experience its feelings. The ego is terrified of the Light. The ego is the belief in separation; the spiritual journey is its undoing. I am glad you are turning back to the Course; we are deeply joined in our holy shared purpose of awakening to truth. 

It is a pathway through the darkness to the light, so the fear will come up, along with all kinds of other uncomfortable emotions (that are all really just fear), but when you have a firm context, knowing that you are going for a healing, for a mind-overhaul, then there is no need to run away from it. The mind, in the full awareness of the Atonement, knows that the separation never happened. The full awareness of the Atonement is that the separation never happened. I always hear the same questions, “How did the impossible occur?” “To whom did the impossible occur?” I call them the top questions. 

How did this happen in the first place? How could perfection, how could God, ever make a mistake? Or how could Christ, who is a perfect Being, ever make a mistake? And basically, it is a statement. When you ask the questions, “How did the impossible occur?” or “How did this happen in the first place?” there is an assumption underneath the questions. And what is that assumption? That it happened! Of course the ego likes that assumption. Then it can ask all kind of questions including how this happened. It is like you are on a wild goose chase to find the right theology, the right teacher, the right technique, the right mantra. Oh my gosh, the guilt of trying to solve that question. But the very assumption is something we have to learn to release. 

There will be no theology that will come along to get you out of this. There is not going to be a concept. There will be an experience that will come that will end your doubting. In the Course that experience is the Atonement. The Atonement is full awareness that the separation never happened. In this respect, A Course in Miracles is a launching pad. You are on a launching pad where you are ready to take off in a rocket and get up in orbit where you have no sense of gravity. You are happy and free. A Course in Miracles is a book that is just designed to help you get up into orbit, into Being-ness, into your perfection. An excerpt from Unwind Your Mind ~ Back to God by David Hoffmeister. This book meets the mind where it believes its self to be, in a deeply personal yet transcendent experience, it unwinds us from the stories that have kept us bound for millennia. Offering an intimacy and immediacy that is truly helpful in releasing the world by focusing on current upsets as portals of awakening. 

This trilogy of deep dialogues and sparkling correspondences draws the reader through a myriad of scenarios past the presenting problem deep into the mind and back home to God. "I hardly have words to express my gratitude for this book. Clarity, joy, light and love leap from every page!" -Gabrielle Bernstein, New York Times best-selling author of Miracles Now. Unwind Your Mind ACIM

Judi Bola Online

In the world of gambling, especially gambling betting online there are many sites or websites that provide online gambling gambling bets of course.tar gambling balls online is like a bet that must be played every gambler online of course.

One of the sites or online gambling websites that provide various types of sports along with the exciting markets is Asia77.

Asia77 is an online soccer gambling site that is rapidly growing in the world today.

Operating in the country asia precisely in the country kamboja asia77 has various branch companies in asia today.

Along with the current technological developments such as smartphones or computers with highly sophisticated technology many people prefer to play this game asia77 at home or even in the office when there is spare time.

In addition to the additional income as well as activities to fill the existing spare time.

Currently asia77 is already growing with a very pampering view of the eye along with the number of bets in various types of sports to make more and more interested in many online gambling enthusiasts today.

In Indonesia today this online gambling gambling game is already very popular and widely played by the Indonesian community today.

Seeing this many gambling agencies are vying to provide this asia77 game for you lovers of online soccer gambling around the world.

What makes online gambling enthusiasts like to put their bets on this asia77?

What are the advantages of this game that make many people play it?

Here we will explain the benefits of online gambling gambling asia77 this as follows:

1. All data members who play in game asia77 is guaranteed security
2. The gameplay is fair play and away from the word cheats
3. Many bets from various sports that can be played or at bet office
4. Fast payment
5. How to put a simple and uncomplicated bet

How can we play online gambling asia77 this?

Here we will explain the steps that must be done in order to play this asia77 as follows:

1. Before you play you have to choose in the gambling agency where you want to play
2. After finding a gambling agent where you will play immediately register to get the id and pass to be logged into the game
3. After getting the id and pass immediately go into the game link
4. After entering the link immediately enter the id and pass that you get from your gambling agent before
5. If you are able to login immediately select the bet you want to play in it

Those are some of the benefits of this game that make many people like to play it.

But what kinds of bets are there in this game?

Here we will describe the types of games that exist in this asia77 games are as follows:

1. Handicap 
   This is one of the most playable betting types played by the world's best soccer lovers. Handicap games are played based on existing voor markets such as: 
   0 (lek- 
   lekan ) 0-0.5 = 1/4 
   0.5 = 1/2 
   0.5-1 = 3/4 
   1-1.5 = 1 1/4 
   1.5 = 1 1/2 
   1.5-2 = 1 3/4 
   That's some of the voor market in this handicap bet and there are also some provisions in this handicap bet game: 
   - if the winning team Full = the odds are fixed 
   -if the team that wins half the odds is reduced to 1 in divide 2 and add 1- 
   if the team loses half odds to 0.5- 
   if the team draws then the odds are not counted
2. 1X2 
   This is also a bet that many gamblers play, this bet is very simple and simple we only guess who wins in one game only whether the home team win or draw or the winning 
   team 1 = home team 
   x = draw 
   2 = Guest team
3. Over Under 
   Bet where we have to guess whether the number of goals in a game is larger or smaller than the market, this bet does not see which team wins but the number of goals in that one match.
4. Odd / Even 
   Not much different from the over under bet above here we have to guess the number of goals in one game is odd or even and these bets also do not see which team wins but the number of goals in one game.
5. Outright 
   In this bet we have to guess which teams will come out as champions in a tournament like league, european cup or world cup, usually if our guess right in this bet will get a very large fee of course.
6. Mix Parlay 
   In this bet we can bet 3 matches or bets in 1 package, if we win we can get paid a lot and if one of the team or bet we bet here lose then 1 bets or parlay package will lose all too, though So this mix parlay game is very much liked by many people and many who play this bet as well

That's some of the most frequent gambling bets played by gamblers today.

In various types of gambling game whose name is luck is the main determinant of victory because gambling game is a guessing game but here we will share to you tips to win this online gambling game asia77 of which are as follows:

1. Do not be rash in doing betting because if the bet already in bet can not be canceled or dicancel.
2. Try to stay calm in the play so we can focus more on reading the market provided.
3. Do not often bet small teams because we will be hard to predict who will win.
4. If in some games there are teams who often score more goals in trying to bet over the possibility of winning open.
5. Do not just fix on 1 bet in bet bet other bets.
6. Pray for luck to come with you.
7. Try to get experience when playing because losing does not mean we can not play but with a defeat we can learn to the fore you can play better than ever.

Those are some tips that we can give you some tips and explanations from us this about asia77 can add insight and useful for you while playing.

Happy playing and good luck always.

ACIM and the Mystical Teachings of Jesus

Enlightenment is the Falling Away of the Idea of a Separate Self

Following the mystical teachings of Jesus, our approach focuses on the Guidance of the Spirit, which acts as an inner compass allowing the form of the path to be given moment by moment. This is a practical, direct, and single-pointed approach, like ACIM, where absolutely everything in our daily lives is used for one Purpose: to come to the experience of true freedom. The Spirit meets us where we believe we are, unwinding and taking us deeper and deeper into an expansion of the mind to the awareness that there is no separate self. Stepping stones were Given to gently bring us along the path into the Present moment, where the idea of a path disappears in the release of all concepts and the recognition that there was never anything wrong (and no path to walk on)!

To dive deeper into an experience of prayer with Jesus and to better hear the guidance that is given, sink into The Mystical Teachings of Jesus prayer-meditation book compiled by mystic David Hoffmeister.

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David Hoffmeister—The Miracle of Forgiveness

Resting in the Present Moment

David Hoffmeister teaches the Present moment is an experience of the Miracle of Forgiveness, of completeness, in which nothing is perceived as lacking, and the idea of time disappears. The concerns and worries of the world fall away and Love is all that remains.

Only One Solution

It seems as if there are many problems in this world, all requiring a separate solution, but actually there is only one seeming problem, the idea that separation is real. The world has been used to cover over the Truth and distract the mind from looking within. The Solution will never be found at the level of the problem, and so we need to question everything we think we know and everything we think we are in order to come to the realization of our True Nature. The One Solution, mentioned in ACIM, is the transcendence of the idea that there could ever be a problem.

Truth is Within You

The days of seeking outside ourselves are over; this was merely a distraction! The Truth is within you. The only thing we have to do is open ourselves up to receive what's already been Given. There's nowhere to go and nothing to reach for because it's already Here, and nothing outside ourselves can give us what has already been Given. The Truth of Who We Are reveals itself to us when we desire nothing else and rest in the Presence of God as our only focus.

Following Intuition is Peace of Mind

Following intuition is living in the flow; dancing a perfect dance. Intuition is a Present moment experience; it is a listening and following without any future goal. Although following Guidance is about Present Joining, beyond form, it is also very practical. We are Given what to say, where to go, what to do, etc. This Voice or this Feeling is our Inner Wisdom, our True Self, that Guides us to the realization that we ARE the Guidance.

Enlightenment is Right Here, Right Now

No matter how improved or inflated the limited self seems to be, it will never be the changeless, eternal Self that God created. It is necessary to recognize the trap of thinking that happiness, peace of mind, and salvation are somewhere off in the future, so that you can see that every moment is the opportunity. The linear (past/future) concept of time is part of the dualistic belief system that must be questioned. There is great joy and contentment in the experience of NOW. God isn’t holding out on us or dangling a carrot of eternal peace before us, saying, "Here’s Enlightenment, keep reaching… OOPS, you missed again." Enlightenment is right here, right now.

Heaven is Now

"The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand" means it is Now. Now is the gateway to the Eternal, for time and Eternity cannot both exist. All is One with God, and we are grateful for the Beloved Eternity which is Real and True. Now is the time of Salvation!

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Living Miracles is a devotional community founded by A Course in Miracles teacher, David Hoffmeister. We are committed to living the experience of God’s love. The term “Mystic” is often used for those who have a deep call of the heart and have devoted their lives to this inner experience of God, truth, joy, and peace. We have heard this call and we have answered. Our journey now is a commitment to the heavenly realms of Love, forgiveness, innocence, and Holiness, which are our natural state. This is a non-dualistic experience that can only be expressed as Divine.

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This website is a free video library devoted to that Divine expression of Love. As we go deeper within, we find that each of us has a unique expression through silence, laughter, song, prayer, poetry, music, etc. We feel blessed to use this medium solely as a backdrop for our own deepening into this inner relationship. As the flower was created to bloom, so are we to continue to open and expand in our natural state of grace and beauty. We welcome you to delve deeply with us.

A Course in Miracles – Chapter 1: The Meaning of Miracles – I. Principles of Miracles

T-1.I.1. There is no order of difficulty in miracles. 2 One is not "harder" or "bigger" than another. 3 They are all the same. 4 All expressions of love are maximal.
T-1.I.2. Miracles as such do not matter. 2 The only thing that matters is their Source, which is far beyond evaluation.
T-1.I.3. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. 2 The real miracle is the love that inspires them. 3 In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
T-1.I.4. All miracles mean life, and God is the Giver of life. 2 His Voice will direct you very specifically. 3 You will be told all you need to know.
T-1.I.5. Miracles are habits, and should be involuntary. 2 They should not be under conscious control. 3 Consciously selected miracles can be misguided.
T-1.I.6. Miracles are natural. 2 When they do not occur something has gone wrong.
T-1.I.7. Miracles are everyone's right, but purification is necessary first.
T-1.I.8. Miracles are healing because they supply a lack; they are performed by those who temporarily have more for those who temporarily have less.
T-1.I.9. Miracles are a kind of exchange. 2 Like all expressions of love, which are always miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses the physical laws. 3 They bring more love both to the giver and the receiver.
T-1.I.10. The use of miracles as spectacles to induce belief is a misunderstanding of their purpose.
T-1.I.11. Prayer is the medium of miracles. 2 It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. 3 Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.
T-1.I.12. Miracles are thoughts. 2 Thoughts can represent the lower or bodily level of experience, or the higher or spiritual level of experience. 3 One makes the physical, and the other creates the spiritual.
T-1.I.13. Miracles are both beginnings and endings, and so they alter the temporal order. 2 They are always affirmations of rebirth, which seem to go back but really go forward. 3 They undo the past in the present, and thus release the future.
T-1.I.14. Miracles bear witness to truth. 2 They are convincing because they arise from conviction. 3 Without conviction they deteriorate into magic, which is mindless and therefore destructive; or rather, the un creative use of mind.
T-1.I.15. Each day should be devoted to miracles. 2 The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. 3 It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. 4 Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.
T-1.I.16. Miracles are teaching devices for demonstrating it is as blessed to give as to receive. 2 They simultaneously increase the strength of the giver and supply strength to the receiver.
T-1.I.17. Miracles transcend the body. 2 They are sudden shifts into invisibility, away from the bodily level. 3 That is why they heal.
T-1.I.18. A miracle is a service. 2 It is the maximal service you can render to another. 3 It is a way of loving your neighbor as yourself. 4 You recognize your own and your neighbor's worth simultaneously.
T-1.I.19. Miracles make minds one in God. 2 They depend on cooperation because the Sonship is the sum of all that God created. 3 Miracles therefore reflect the laws of eternity, not of time.
T-1.I.20. Miracles reawaken the awareness that the spirit, not the body, is the altar of truth. 2 This is the recognition that leads to the healing power of the miracle.
T-1.I.21. Miracles are natural signs of forgiveness. 2 Through miracles you accept God's forgiveness by extending it to others.
T-1.I.22. Miracles are associated with fear only because of the belief that darkness can hide. 2 You believe that what your physical eyes cannot see does not exist. 3 This leads to a denial of spiritual sight.
T-1.I.23. Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective. 2 This is healing because sickness comes from confusing the levels.
T-1.I.24. Miracles enable you to heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death yourself, and can therefore abolish both. 2 You are a miracle, capable of creating in the likeness of your Creator. 3 Everything else is your own nightmare, and does not exist. 4 Only the creations of light are real.
T-1.I.25. Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement. 2 Atonement works all the time and in all the dimensions of time.
T-1.I.26. Miracles represent freedom from fear. 2 "Atoning" means "undoing." 3 The undoing of fear is an essential part of the Atonement value of miracles.
T-1.I.27. A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers. 2 It is the privilege of the forgiven to forgive.
T-1.I.28. Miracles are a way of earning release from fear. 2 Revelation induces a state in which fear has already been abolished. 3 Miracles are thus a means and revelation is an end.
T-1.I.29. Miracles praise God through you. 2 They praise Him by honoring His creations, affirming their perfection. 3 They heal because they deny body-identification and affirm spirit-identification.
T-1.I.30. By recognizing spirit, miracles adjust the levels of perception and show them in proper alignment. 2 This places spirit at the center, where it can communicate directly.
T-1.I.31. Miracles should inspire gratitude, not awe. 2 You should thank God for what you really are. 3 The children of God are holy and the miracle honors their holiness, which can be hidden but never lost.
T-1.I.32. I inspire all miracles, which are really intercessions. 2 They intercede for your holiness and make your perceptions holy. 3 By placing you beyond the physical laws they raise you into the sphere of celestial order. 4 In this order you are perfect.
T-1.I.33. Miracles honor you because you are lovable. 2 They dispel illusions about yourself and perceive the light in you. 3 They thus atone for your errors by freeing you from your nightmares. 4 By releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions, they restore your sanity.
T-1.I.34. Miracles restore the mind to its fullness. 2 By atoning for lack they establish perfect protection. 3 The spirit's strength leaves no room for intrusions.
T-1.I.35. Miracles are expressions of love, but they may not always have observable effects.
T-1.I.36. Miracles are examples of right thinking, aligning your perceptions with truth as God created it.
T-1.I.37. A miracle is a correction introduced into false thinking by me. 2 It acts as a catalyst, breaking up erroneous perception and reorganizing it properly. 3 This places you under the Atonement principle, where perception is healed. 4 Until this has occurred, knowledge of the Divine Order is impossible.
T-1.I.38. The Holy Spirit is the mechanism of miracles. 2 He recognizes both God's creations and your illusions. 3 He separates the true from the false by His ability to perceive totally rather than selectively.
T-1.I.39. The miracle dissolves error because the Holy Spirit identifies error as false or unreal. 2 This is the same as saying that by perceiving light, darkness automatically disappears.
T-1.I.40. The miracle acknowledges everyone as your brother and mine. 2 It is a way of perceiving the universal mark of God.
T-1.I.41. Wholeness is the perceptual content of miracles. 2 They thus correct, or atone for, the faulty perception of lack.
T-1.I.42. A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation, deprivation and lack.
T-1.I.43. Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness.
T-1.I.44. The miracle is an expression of an inner awareness of Christ and the acceptance of His Atonement.
T-1.I.45. A miracle is never lost. 2 It may touch many people you have not even met, and produce undreamed of changes in situations of which you are not even aware.
T-1.I.46. The Holy Spirit is the highest communication medium. 2 Miracles do not involve this type of communication, because they are temporary communication devices. 3 When you return to your original form of communication with God by direct revelation, the need for miracles is over.
T-1.I.47. The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. 2 It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under the usual laws of time. 3 In this sense it is timeless.
T-1.I.48. The miracle is the only device at your immediate disposal for controlling time. 2 Only revelation transcends it, having nothing to do with time at all.
T-1.I.49. The miracle makes no distinction among degrees of misconception. 2 It is a device for perception correction, effective quite apart from either the degree or the direction of the error. 3 This is its true indiscriminate.
T-1.I.50. The miracle compares what you have made with creation, accepting what is in accord with it as true, and rejecting what is out of accord as false.

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Silent Retreats

In silence, the awareness of Perfect Oneness is realized as we share the gift of stillness that leads to the experience of Love. From this stillness, you are invited to immerse into the mystical depth of peace—a profound invitation for those wishing for a deeper opening into the Heart of God. This backdrop of silence and devotion allows the heart and mind to open to the grace of emptiness.

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A Course in Miracles and Faith

A Course in Miracles and Faith

To go deeper into the topic of faith, enjoy this transcript from a talk given by A Course in Miracles expert David Hoffmeister.


A Course in Miracles has a beautiful line that goes, "Love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and a thankful mind." That just kind of rolls out. It is the love that we are all seeking to know that ACIM tells us it is literally beyond what can be taught but we can work at removing the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence. So that is really where our focus is. And then as you clear the mirror of your mind from the attack thoughts and judgments and grievances, then the gratitude is there. It is not like something you need to have more of. It is just like it is already there ready to radiate and shine as you. Who you are is just a grateful presence, a grateful living presence. But it is just covered over by these judgments and grievances and attack thoughts.



A Course in Miracles actually talks quite a bit about removing those grievances and judgments in our mind and how important it is that we do so. So we will talk about that and we will also talk about the trust that it takes to do that because as long as you are trusting in the ego, then you are reinforcing, or we might say perpetuating judgments and grievances. But when you withdraw your faith from the ego and you give it over to the Holy Spirit, then naturally those grievances and judgments start to fade away and they become less and less in your awareness.



So faith is not a question of more or less faith; it is what am I putting my faith in? We are going to be all about exposing the ego and really pulling our faith away from the ego and putting it into the Holy Spirit. And that would have to transfer to all aspects of our mind including things like - sometimes people think of things like finances or relationships, there are various aspects of the human condition that seems to be, Oh well, I could turn to God for certain things, but there are certain things I can run a little bit better than God so I'll run them on my own. We find that does not really work. You cannot really run some aspects of your life. That control of trying to be in charge of certain things is where the problem is. So it progressively takes a lot of faith to transfer the training we have learned from A Course in Miracles.

A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Forgiveness and Looking beneath the Fear of Dying

A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Forgiveness and Looking beneath the Fear of Dying

Enjoy this excerpt from a talk from the awakened mind of David Hoffmeister, where he discusses the path of ACIM and going beneath the fear of dying.

David: Forgiveness is wholeness. If you even leave God out of it for a moment and we go to the correction that takes you back to God. Forgiveness is wholeness and so if you are identified we will say, as a man, as an ACIM student, as an awakening mind or a soul that is undergoing an evolution, a transformation, if you are identified with any of those things, ACIM says, forgiveness is the goal. But forgiveness is wholeness and what we are starting to realise is the reason the mind seems to have these symptoms or even seems to be terrified of the body dying is not really the fear. It is the fear of wholeness.

That symptom that seems to be in the body, as you were saying with the throat closing up and everything like that, and not being able to sleep. That is all a projection of the fear of wholeness so that you will not see that you are afraid of wholeness. When people talk about the Holy Spirit, it says in ACIM basically, that the whole purpose of the workbook is to train the mind to hear the voice for God, to hear the Higher Power, to hear the intuition and really that is the whole purpose of any spirituality. It is to hear that intuitive voice because that has got all the answers.

That voice knows who you truly are and it always is letting us know ... it is never critical once, ever. It is never demanding, it never commands, it never forces us to do anything. It simply offers us this healing reminder about being so loved and even gives us instructions. Where to go, what to do, how to spend the day. It is even practical, it is even more practical than all you need is love.

It gives us practical instructions that help us out in this awakening. But if we are afraid of the Holy Spirit and we are afraid of forgiveness, even if ACIM is telling us that this is the goal then we have to start to realise, wow if I would choose the symptom, and it is a choice, it is not like something out there did it to me. If I would choose a symptom wow I must really be afraid of something else if I am trying to trick myself with a symptom.

Friend: It is a good sign, you are getting close.
David: Yeah it is actually a good sign.
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A Course in Miracles and the Body

Enjoy the following excerpt from a transcribed discussion between A Course in Miracles teacher David Hoffmeister and one of his students.

The whole point of A Course in Miracles is really to tap into our Higher Power. It really has no other purpose. And then when we do experiential tap into it than that is when the book is no longer necessary. We do not need the words; the Spirit can give us all the words we need. If we need any the Spirit will give it to us real
easily. But we do not need to rely on anything anymore. We do not need to rely on religion; we do not need to rely on the book. We just become the living presence of that Spirit, that love. And that is the whole point. That is why we are making great inroads, I am glad we are exploring this together and we are going to broadcast this to all of our brothers and sisters because if we have been afraid of something but we have had a misplaced fear, you know, let's say we bought into the trick and now we are saying I am not going to do that, I do not want to do that anymore, if there is something that I have been avoiding or trying to dodge that has been inside of me, this fear of wholeness, this true fear of intimacy, not fear of sexual intimacy, but a fear of mind intimacy.

People always talk about well if I was naked, if the body was naked I would be embarrassed, well that is a choice, again that is just an interpretation. There was somebody today that was telling me about a woman in Sweden who may have been a student of A Course in Miracles. They were going to just live naked and they were attempting to say the body is not a source of shame, it is natural to be naked, we cover with clothes, it is like Adam and Eve with the fig leaf, it is like we have covered it, cover this, cover that. It is not the body that is the source of shame or guilt, it is the mind that interprets the body and you might say covering the body, like all these people dressing up and covering the body and covering all their private parts. Let’s follow that one a bit too, private parts, what is so bad about private parts and why are they private? Why must they incessantly be covered?
Well let's roll it back to the mind. The ego is a belief in private minds, not one mind, not one unified whole mind, but private minds with private thoughts. What a trick. It has convinced the mind that is asleep that it is a separate mind in a separate body, it has its own little separate thing going yackety yak, going on. We have to see face value that is what is believed in, that is the status quo. And that is what Jesus is saying is crazy, absolutely crazy. We are all one mind, we all share the same Christ mind, we are all the same. So when we start to look at the form, like the bodies and the clothes, and covering the private parts and all this and this and this who set it up that way? As we see in A Course in Miracles, God does not know anything about private parts.

To learn more about the teachings of A Course in Miracles and David Hoffmeister, please visit his website at https://acourseinmiraclesnow.com/