Studies by neurologists such as Abigail Marsh, shows that psychopaths have smaller amygdalae than the average person and that they have trouble feeling fear and usually only feel excitement which is why they lack self-control, are self-centered, and struggle to empathize with the fears of other people which is why they see them as toys without real feelings which are good to use for self-interest. To the psychopath, the world is unreal because it is only like an illusion or a game where the body doesn't really matter each person is seen like a piece on a chessboard.
Once I learned The Teaching of Christ from The Gospels from around 2,000 years ago, I realized that some of more New Age teachings in ACIM didn't match up very well with it. Christ taught that the last shall be first in The Kingdom of God (Luke 13:29-30). Christ taught that the least shall be greatest (Luke 9:48). Christ taught that the one who leads should be as the one who serves for even He has come among us as One who serves (Luke 22:26-27). The Teaching of Christ seems to be about Service and Humility (putting others first, like The Hero, The Savior, Christ The Lord), not about saying that the world is an illusion or that the body (and therefore people's pain and suffering and fears) is just an illusion.
I think a helpful way of viewing “the world” in ACIM terms is that the world is the continuity of past grievances, wrongs, etc that you maintain in your head. This is the world that isn’t real (of illusions), and as soon as you let go , you’ll have mountains more peace and serenity. You still treat other people as humans (living the happy dream) and don’t let them hurt you, but when they act out / poorly you try to see the best in them , their inner Christ, doing your best not to project damnation on them.
I don't think you understand the message of ACIM.
ACIM teaches that at any one time we are always choosing between love or fear, and we are told to choose love over fear because that is who we really are. Now how would denying fear by choosing love results in someone being psychopathic?
Well, Hitler was for universal healthcare. Judging an argument by who agree with it seems strange.
One could say I have psychopathic tendencies (i'm schizoid). It doesn't make me want to hurt others, or be a jerk, because I feel less empathy. If I see someone fall down, I might not feel bad at all, but I'll help him up anyway. I'm choosing the person I want to be.
You can see the world as an illusion and still go on to serve others. It's not either/or. The question is, what's holding you back from holding those concepts at the same time?
The "god" of religion is the ego. Sin being real and sin being unreal are mutually exclusive. They cannot both be true, and so from the desire for conflict, comes the desire to hold both religion (sin is real/"god" made the world) and the course (sin is not real/God did not make the world/knows not form/does not perceive).
From Chapter 13: "The world you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at this world, and you will realize that this is so. For this world is the symbol of punishment, and all the laws that seem to govern it are the laws of death. Children are born into it through pain and in pain. Their growth is attended by suffering, and they learn of sorrow and separation and death. Their minds seem to be trapped in their brain, and its powers to decline if their bodies are hurt. They seem to love, yet they desert and are deserted. They appear to lose what they love, perhaps the most insane belief of all. And their bodies wither and gasp and are laid in the ground, and are no more. Not one of them but has thought that God is cruel.
If this were the real world, God would be cruel. For no Father could subject His children to this as the price of salvation and be loving. Love does not kill to save. If it did, attack would be salvation, and this is the ego's interpretation, not God's."
"This world is a picture of the crucifixion of God's Son. And until you realize that God's Son cannot be crucified, this is the world you will see. Yet you will not realize this until you accept the eternal fact that God's Son is not guilty. He deserves only love because he has given only love. He cannot be condemned because he has never condemned. The Atonement is the final lesson he need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation."
It’s about perception, and yes bad things are happening but if you continuously relive them and focus on them in your head you will create more of these things.
ACIM doesn’t advocate not helping others or not being compassionate and kind, it just says you don’t need to suffer.
Having compassion and empathy is not the same as suffering mentally along side someone.
Unhappy mind will never give you a happy life.
