“The Initiate” is a program with the sub title “Steps on the Pathless Path”. The origin of the subtitle was given. It is an expression with a high Zen or Tao frequency. In A Course in Miracles it is shared in chapter 8 as:
The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever. It is a journey without distance, to a goal that has never changed. Truth can only be EXPERIENCED. It cannot be described and it cannot be explained.
Chapter 8F Urtext A Course in Miracles
Starting Point
If it is a journey without distance to a goal that has never changed, why then be in a transformative procedure? One can ask. The only answer to that is that you as you are experiencing yourself living in a pseudo-consciousness where sickness and death are real and change is all about you. Now your being asked to make some admissions that will directly put you into a mode of ‘resistance’, until you discover something else…
Consider this carefully
The expressions below are from a talk called “Changing your mind about TIME” by the Master Teacher of A Course In Miracles see below the original talk.
- Eternity is no time
- You are nothing but a grievance
- Practicing forgiveness is absurd
- A denial of Eternity
- You practice forgiveness to hold on to the grievance
- The dream figures that you have put out there, you let them attack you
- Until you are willing to admit that, nothing transformational is happening
- The only time the transformation can occur is Now
- In your spiritual process you like to come to a definitive conclusion of what God is
- To come to a complete surrender of your ideas is not something you look for.
- How do you solve the problem of death? Die now
- Is there a choice to stay out of the human way of sickness, pain, greed, jealousy, disharmony and finally dying? Yes there is a choice to not participate in it at all. There has to be something else than my human relationships and perceptual falsity. And of course there is…
- What I need to do to let that come into my experience is to let go of my concepts
- Is that forgiveness? Yes naturally, resist not evil, turning the other cheek, serve your brother, walk the extra mile
- Why this way? You are only forgiving yourself, you are only serving yourself
- Does it take a certain temerity on your part, to test your spirit to the determination of the pseudo consciousnesses to stay here and die? Yes of course.
- This is the part you don’t like to do
- Remember they are only your previous judgments in association with yourself, they have no reality

