ACIM is clear: No error occurred. There was no separation. Because you visually see another body, you assume (judge) that this person is different, and the difference means separation of the ego mind. The illusion of a separate identity thus becomes a reality. Now, there is a specialty that frees the ego to create a God who will "give" you the special love that the other vengeful God denied during the sin of original separation. Exceptionalism also extends to your brothers, who are used by the ego to replace the love of a vengeful God.

What does it mean to see another as your brother? Let's break down the components, but keep in mind that even with these understandings, it will come down to your willingness to stop judging and do the real work of eliminating ego.

Special relationships:

These special relationships replace the love of God. They can be love or hate relationships, but either way they are based on the "wrong" or "right" ego mind. If you do one small thing that the ego judges badly, it will go from love to hate in the blink of an eye. To believe that God would do this is to believe the ego's lie that God is vengeful and attacking. You would attack others just because you believe the same lie about yourself. These are the judgments you must be willing to surrender for correction (forgiveness). Only the ego judges and attacks. You are not your ego.

Absolutely all relationships are special until you decide to sanctify them. You cannot see others as your brother if you are involved in judging and projecting. The darkness blinds you to both its light and yours. Holy relationships are used by the Holy Spirit to correct the mind (forgiveness). This makes the choice to see the other as a brother an experience that becomes real.

The only way any relationship can become a holy relationship is for at least one of you to practice forgiveness. To see someone as a brother is to do so, even if you are the only one in the relationship willing to forego judgment. What you do as a cause will be your effect.

Specialty:

Another popular ego that prevents you from seeing another as your brother is to use your own strangeness as a way to increase separation. As long as you consider yourself better or different, you are considered special. God's special love will shine on you because you stand out because you are unique.

Examples: higher versus lower. College education versus no education. Good looking versus ugly. The rich against the poor. Healthy versus sick.

The list goes on and remember that each side is a trick because they are both still selfish minds. Your illness can make you as unique as your health. Remember that ego judgments are either/or. He doesn't know any other way.

ACIM clearly points out that if you want to return home, you must let go of all the judgments of others and everything in this world. As long as you judge yourself or others as special or even different, you will not see others as brothers. Rarity is, by definition, separation because it makes you unique. a course in miraclesThere is only equality and unity in heaven, and your brothers are all equal. The court hides it from you.

Forgiveness and Guilt:

The course also makes it clear that what you see in the other person is a projection of your own guilt and therefore what you need to forgive in yourself. Condemning your brother prevents you from knowing yourself directly because he distracts you from using your decision-making skills to make peace. A judgmental tirade only shows you what you think you are: a critical ego. Every time you judge, you say you are. You are denying your own truth.

It's really quite simple: watch your judgments, brother. Your light and theirs is hidden in judgment. You don't see what you're hiding in court. Be willing to step away from projection and judgment and turn them over to the Holy Spirit for correction (forgiveness). This means doing the work and using the decision maker to choose the other side of the divided mind.

Give up all judgments until you are rectified (forgiveness) and found to be true. You will see the other as a brother when the judgment on them is gone. There is no separation at this point because they are considered the same. Heaven is equality and unity.