A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is spiritual guidance using clear psychotherapy and metaphysical principles. When they are understood, and applied, they give methods to absolutely every situation in your life. One of the key areas of the metaphysical principles is that the mind is split and fragmented by the numerous judgments of the ego. In ACIM, correction of the mind is forgiveness; and relinquishing judgments corrects these fragments and returns the mind to peace.

In this informative article, let's discuss how ACIM explains the split mind with the numerous judgments and fragments all pointing to one key judgment as a starting point. The others is merely icing on the layered cake. The ego is never as hard to overcome whilst the ego could have you believe. It just doesn't want you to know how it works because if you did, you may and would, choose against it. That's death to the ego.

The Metaphysics of How a Mind Split:

From ACIM, we know that the "tiny mad idea" entered the mind which split the mind between: (1) a part which remains with Knowledge; and, (2) a part that banished itself from Knowledge. To simplify things, let's take it right from the start to introduce this notion of the key judgment.

Imagine a plan by having an oval and lines dividing the degrees of the mind as we're discussing them. First, in the bottom of the oval, you've the non-conscious mind which is Knowledge, Heaven and Oneness, or all that is. Everything here's one and there is nothing to choose between. Now put a point just above this and we'll move to the next section.

Next may be the super unconscious mind and in this part of the diagram, you'd write in: God, Christ. Notice we didn't say God "and/or" Christ as they are not two different things, nor are they separate. They're the non-conscious mind (Knowledge, Heaven and Oneness) having the ability of itself.

Here's why from the Law of Creation in ACIM:

You can't create anything unlike yourself.
You love your entire creations as yourself because the are like you.
All your creations remain an integral part of you.
Ideas do not leave their source (you).
The same rules connect with God.

Therefore, in these first two degrees of the mind, everything: (1) is the exact same; (2) creates more of the exact same; (3) experiences the exact same; and, (4) all sameness stays with the same.

Now draw another line and this time, we'll introduce the split in the mind. In the midst with this Oneness experience, a key thought (judgment) entered the mind that goes something like, "Hey, if I can easily see you, I must be separate." This could not be true since it violates the Law of Creation a course in miracles. The problem is that judgment was paid attention to and believed and thus the ego's judgment, or the "tiny mad idea" takes root in the mind.

This line may be the split in the mind or the original separation; however, in ACIM, it simply means "banished itself from knowledge," as judgment violates the Law of Creation. Judgment is thinking what's not the case about you, is not an integral part of you, nothing like you and can only make more judgments to cover up itself.

If this weren't true about judgment, then God couldn't exist and neither would you. If God were judgment, and He could only create like Himself, then He would create more judgment in order that He may have the ability of judging Himself. That judgment of self remaining an integral part of Him would self-destruct Him as judgment is situated in fear and guilt and desires to remove those feelings and kills to complete so. You'd also be long dead because you'd also be exactly like that.

So you know why the mind could be returned to God while living proof of the Truth that judgment is not real. Your brain never left God. It paid attention to judgment and can stop this at anytime. It's knowing what not to pay attention to, i.e., what's a judgment?

The ego arises with a number of things through the next three (3) degrees of the mind, each with a point between them on our diagram. These are merely projections (judgments) after they key judgment of things the ego wants believed to keep alive. Here's a number of them: