Hi Dontaskme
First let me begin by admitting that I don’t know who Byron Katies is. Oh well, one can’t know everything.
Okay.. lets start with this bit first....the way I interpret the above Nick is thus...as consciousness we can consciously know God, not imagine God... God is consciously KNOWN...which in my opinion is what being conscious is ALL ABOUT...so by being it, aka consciousness, we can simply know God by just being God, and that anything else other than that beingness is just a thought..aka an imagined idea about what beingness is, not what it ACTUALLY IS....and no one can escape their beingness, it's what we are, we can't escape what we are, we can't enter what we are and we can't leave what we are...is this what you are pointing out? .I'm not quite sure how the above quote from ACIM is seen as demonic though...this is only because we have different ideas about what concepts actually mean...
My conception of God is ineffable pure consciousness outside the limitations of time and space as Plotinus describes the ONE. It is the source of the universe existing within God as levels of reality, one existing within the other or a hierarchy of intentions. From this point of view creatures Man on earth does not “know” the Source. We see and feel its effects by what Plotinus calls dunamis. Creatures cannot be God but we can escape what we are. All of these speculations would be unnecessary if it weren’t for the question of life after the physical death. Is the potential for Man’s conscious evolution a reality? Man’s being evolved on earth to its physical potential. Is conscious evolution possible? Can Man’s physical evolution continue into conscious evolution? Without self knowledge, conscious evolution is impossible since we don’t know what we are and the world doesn’t want it.
So where you are concerned with “beingness,” Relative qualities of being as described in the Great Chain of Being are essential for me to make sense of universal purpose
When we deny our universal purpose to consciously experience reality and instead assert that we are God, it is demonic. Satan did the same claiming he was God.
Where the ONE Is, the cyclical process of existence takes place. The process of existence taking place within the ONE, within NOW is both real and necessary.
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams." ~ Simone Weil
-- Gravity and Grace
People like Simone are seekers of truth willing to sacrifice dreams to experience this pearl of great price. I am still unwilling to carry my cross. This is why I admire Simone. She was more of a Man in the real sense of the word than I am.
As I interpret the above quote is this...Nothing real can be threatened meaning...beingness cannot die because beingness was never born....and anything that does appear to have been born or can die is not of that real realm...therefore, it's unreal...and in that lies the peace of God...RIP....that's the only way I can interpret that Nick..so how is that you see it this way....''As I understand it ACIM is the peace of escapism into imagination''
The one universal constant is change. The universe is experiencing constant change. So what is real? It is the process which sustains the universe. We are conditioned to define reality by results. But actually reality is experienced consciously as a process. That is why this question of infanticide is misunderstood. We accept or oppose results (a newborn) while being completely oblivious of honoring the process of existence.
ACIM wants to create its own reality – its own “I Am” by imagination and denial. It leads to the destruction of the being potential for a given quality of relative consciousness acquired through self knowledge.
Gotta run. Will be back later.
says Queen Fantasist.