[MightyMasd]

this concept is an excellent topic to contemplate and meditate on, but needs to be taken with a grain of salt in your day-to-day interactions with others.

say for instance i need to haul some stuff, so i go get a pickup truck from another part of the "only one of us here". imagine me having to explain this concept to a different part of the "only one of us here", that is masquerading as the nice police officer who just pulled me over and is taking me to jail for stealing a truck. i mean, come on, officer! there's "only one of us here" so obviously all this is my stuff!

i'm very familiar with the concepts in acim, but the only way i can make sense of it is to understand that it's not speaking in a literal sense. this becomes increasingly clear, the more you get into it, and after studying it for 20 years, this is the only way to make sense of (at least parts of) it. for example acim says many times, that if you do this [action], you get that [result]. so when i do this [action], and i don't get that [result], it's very disheartening and i even considered that this is proof that it's filled with lies! but after i calm down i realize the only way i can make sense of it is to realize it was a metaphorical statement and not a literal one.