Alison Anton of the ForgiveNest Podcast continues her Course-based series “The Root of All Emotion” by focusing on fear as rooted in the original “attack thought” that seeks autonomy and separation from oneness. She explains projection as a fragmented perception that generates fear and guilt, which fragments further outward and multiplies into many afflicted emotions (e.g., rage, grief, jealousy, depression), reinforcing the illusion of attack… unless someone chooses to stop. Using a visual of projection as an empty shell, Alison notes that external reality reflects attack thoughts placed in the mind’s screen. She then outlines training methods: meditating by conjuring emotions via recall, and responding to temptation as emotions arise, using meditation to recognize and change the underlying thought so emotions lose their seeming substance. From there, peace becomes accessible, with Jesus’ guidance.
Previous in this Series:
Part 1: The Authority Problem - https://alisonanton.substack.com/p/acim-the-root-of-all-emotion-part
Part 2: Attack on the "Other" - https://alisonanton.substack.com/p/acim-the-root-of-emotion-pt-2-attack
Episode Timestamps:
00:00 Fear And Fragmentation
01:23 Series Setup And Recap
02:45 Projection Creates The Other
04:08 Fear Fragments Into Many Forms
06:52 Stopping The Attack Cycle
07:57 Projection Sphere Visual
11:23 Rewriting The Inner Script
12:45 Meditation To Meet Emotions
15:10 Response To Temptation
16:44 Transmute Thoughts Beneath Emotion
18:13 Peace Underneath Fear
19:40 Closing And Next Episode
Read the full transcript here: https://AlisonAnton.substack.com
Podcast Category: Faith and Spirituality
ACIM Quotes and Prayers:
Note: Alison Anton uses the Complete and Annotated Edition (CE) of A Course in Miracles. This edition is based on the original handwritten notes of Helen Schucman, scribe of A Course in Miracles. Publisher: Circle of Atonement.
Fear is both a fragmented and fragmenting emotion. It seems to take many forms, and each seems to require a different form of acting out for satisfaction. [ACIM CE T-18.I.3:3-4]
You are the Kingdom of Heaven… [ACIM CE T-5.II.13:1]
…you can make an empty shell, but cannot make nothing at all. This emptiness provides the screen for the misuse of projection. [ACIM CE T-2.II.3:3-4]
Each of your perceptions of “external reality” is a pictorial representation of your own attack thoughts. [ACIM CE W-23.3:2]
You will become increasingly aware that a slight twinge of annoyance is nothing but a veil drawn over intense fury. [ACIM CE W-21.2:5]
I could see peace instead of this [ACIM CE W-34:1]
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