ForgiveNest Podcast for A Course in Miracles

In this episode of the ForgiveNest Podcast, Alison Anton discusses approaching 'A Course in Miracles' as a long-term study rather than a spiritual self-help book. She emphasizes the need for dedicated reading and understanding the Text in its sequential order to avoid ego diversion tactics. Alison explains how the Workbook also builds on the foundational concepts laid out in the Text, and encourages listeners to stay committed to the Course's comprehensive plan to achieve spiritual growth and healing. Scroll for ACIM prayers and quotes cited in this episode.
Episode Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to the ForgiveNest Podcast
01:27 Understanding the Course's Purpose
03:06 Challenges in Studying the Course
03:46 Approaching the Course as a Serious Study
06:09 The Importance of Sequential Study
10:09 Timing and Versions of the Course
11:54 Personal Connection and Overcoming Ego Diversions
13:53 Concluding Prayer and Final Thoughts
Read the full transcript here: https://AlisonAnton.substack.com
Podcast Category: Spirituality and Religion
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, CircleofA.org
It would be very intelligent of you to set yourself the goal of really studying for this course. There can be no doubt of the wisdom of this decision, for any student who wants to pass it. [ACIM CE T-4.VII.10:1-2] 
Meaningful seeking is consciously undertaken, consciously organized, and consciously directed. The goal must be formulated clearly and kept in mind. [ACIM CE T-4.VII.8:2-3]
I have made every effort to use words which are almost impossible to distort, but human beings are very inventive when it comes to twisting symbols around. [ACIM CE T-3.III.6:3]
Steady our feet, our Father; let our doubts be quiet and our holy minds be still, and speak to us. We have no words to give to You. We would but listen to Your Word and make it ours. Lead our practicing as does a father lead a little child along a way he does not understand. Yet does he follow, sure that he is safe because his father leads the way for him. 
So do we bring our practicing to You. And if we stumble, You will raise us up. If we forget the way, we count upon Your sure remembering. We wander off, but You will not forget to call us back. Quicken our footsteps now, that we may walk more certainly and quickly unto You. And we accept the Word You offer us to unify our practicing, as we review the thoughts that You have given us.[ACIM CE W-Re.5.In.1-3] 


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Alison Anton of the ForgiveNest Podcast presents a guided ACIM-based meditation to work with emotion, pain and reactions by bringing awareness into the body while remembering the body is not the self but an instrument for healing. The practice helps listeners consciously activate grief/sadness, anger/frustration, and finally a chosen area of physical pain, using a “mental story” to evoke the feeling and then dropping the narrative to focus on raw bodily sensation (location, texture, temperature, feeling). Participants are invited to notice underlying fear and guilt, take Jesus’ hand, and use Course-based statements, with options to pause if overwhelmed.
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome and Setup
00:37 Body Awareness Basics
03:02 Opening Statement Practice
05:01 Grief and Sadness Exercise
12:08 Meet Fear with Jesus
15:43 Transition to Anger
17:29 Anger and Frustration Exercise
22:49 Choose Peace Instead
26:29 Physical Pain Exercise
34:31 Fear Behind the Pain
41:19 Closing and Encouragement
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
Part 3: Fear is a Many Splintered Thing - https://alisonanton.substack.com/p/acim-the-root-of-emotion-pt-3-fear
Part 4: Facing Fear Without Disguise - 
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. 
Be not afraid of this journey into fear, for it is not your destination. And we will walk through it in safety, for peace is not far and you will be led in its light. [ACIM CE T-12.III.4:5-6]



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https://AlisonAnton.substack.com - Alison Anton of the ForgiveNest Podcast outlines a guided meditation for working with emotions as a deeper application of ACIM lessons. She explains the “correction of fear” steps from A Course in Miracles to identify any afflicted emotion as fear. She then explains how separating the emotion from the thought that goes with it breaks an underlying cycle that keeps us in a reactionary state. The same process can be used for physical pain, and she notes a future deeper-dive program on these practices and Course-based forgiveness.
Episode Timestamps:
00:00 Facing Fear Intro
00:30 Series Context Setup
01:00 Emotions As Workbook Practice
01:56 Who This Practice Is For
02:53 Step One Name Fear
04:12 Resistance And Projection
05:15 Trigger Emotion Then Drop Story
09:25 Raw Sensation Inquiry
10:03 Glimpses Of Peace
12:58 Replace Story With Lesson
14:00 Timing Safety Touch And Go
15:25 Apply To Physical Pain
17:00 Meditation Link Closing
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
Part 3: Fear is a Many Splintered Thing - https://alisonanton.substack.com/p/acim-the-root-of-emotion-pt-3-fear
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. 
… we have repeatedly emphasized the need to recognize fear and face it without disguise as a crucial step in the undoing of the ego. [ACIM CE T-12.II.1:5] 
Be not afraid of this journey into fear, for it is not your destination. And we will walk through it in safety, for peace is not far and you will be led in its light. [ACIM CE T-12.III.4:5-6]


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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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Alison Anton of the ForgiveNest Podcast continues her ACIM-based series “The Root of All Emotion,” focusing on attack thoughts as projection. Alison states that projection requires guilt and an “other”, first projected onto God, then displaced onto people and situations to hide deep intrapersonal guilt that sustains fear, time, and a cycle of punishment. She describes emotions as mind-generated thoughts, translated through the subtle and gross body as feeling and emotion as we know it. Alison previews the next episodes on how emotions present themselves in the body, and what to do with them.
Episode TImestamps:
00:00 Opening Quote and Intro
00:35 One Emotion Fear
01:24 Separation and Samsara
02:03 Why It Happened
03:34 Part One Recap
06:14 Denial Takes Energy
07:17 Attack Thoughts Explained
08:21 Projection Needs Other
09:32 Guilt and Punishment Loop
11:20 World as Attack Picture
15:10 Emotions in the Body
16:08 Next Episode and Wrap
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. 
You do not realize the enormous waste of energy which you expend in denying truth. [ACIM CE T-9.I.12:3]
The world I see… is a picture of attack on everything and by everything. … It is my own attack thoughts which give rise to this picture. [ACIM CE W-55.2:2-5]
How can I know who I am when I see myself as under constant attack? Pain, illness, loss, age, and death seem to threaten me. All my hopes and wishes and plans seem to be at the mercy of a world I cannot control. [ACIM CE W-56.1:2-4]
Guilt feelings are the preservers of time. They induce fears of future retaliation or abandonment, and thus ensure that the future will remain like the present. [ACIM CE T-5.VI.17:1-2]
Know first this is fear. [ACIM CE T-2.IX.12:3]


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