Although it may seem as if there are many seeming blocks that interfere with our peace of mind the only real one is forgiveness. Forgetting the fact that it's all an illusion, the reality of it makes us feel as if we are being done wrong as opposed to accepting the fact that nothing is being done to us but that it's all a projection coming from us onto the screen we call the physical realm. If everything we see is a projection coming from us, then what we think is being done by someone else to us is really being done to us by us.

A Course In Miracles says; "The secret to salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself." 

So when we see an illusion that seems to be treating us in ways where we feel like a victim, first we must understand that we are the one creating the illusion. From that point, instead of us trying to interpret the situation, we simply remember to forgive ourselves for what we have created and - whatever discomfort we feel - we offer it to the Holy Spirit to interpret for us; for only then can true healing and peace of mind occur. A Course In Miracles says; "Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven."

I would like you to pay attention to this line from the passage; "It does not pardon sins and make them real." Since nothing is real, there is nothing to pardon. By pardoning something is to make something real, according to A Course In Miracles since we are projecting our guilt and fears, that which we see in the seeming outside world is nothing but a projection of our own consciousness. That's just a creation of the ego so that blame can then be justified.

You must remember that what you see out there is simply reflecting back to you what you believe to be true for you, and/or about you. So if you see something you don't like, forgive yourself for creating it because the only way you'll never have to see it again is not by pardoning others for what they did not do but by removing their imagined sins from your own unconscious mind altogether.  Jesus the Christ understood very clearly this concept of being one with God. The reason why he did not judge anyone or anything is because he knew that if what he was seeing was a projection of his unconscious mind outward, in other words himself disguised as something or someone else, the things he believed to be true about others were nothing but reflections of the things he believed to be true about himself. So he would see everyone as perfect whole and complete, being one with God without sin.

A Course In Miracles says; "For you can teach him only that he is as you would have him, and what you choose he be is but your choice for you."

So if you see others as guilty, what that really means is that you are the guilty one projecting your guilt unto what appears to be another. If you see others as innocent, then the same is true for you. And by the way that's why Jesus was able to forgive for he knew that in forgiving others all he was doing was forgiving himself.

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