{"podcast":{"title":"A Course in Miracles Experience","slug":"a-course-in-miracles-experience-7359020","podcast_index_feed_id":7359020,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6604718/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/a-course-in-miracles-experience--6604718","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6e3641172e51064996921ef5616fa77c.jpg","author":"Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne","episode_count":143,"summary":"ॐ \"A Course In Miracles\" is a personal spiritual jouney. ∞ These are readings of each lesson. When they are applied, your mind is trained to induce first-hand spiritual experiences. We are here to support you on this jouney. The \"Intensive Course\" meantioned is a discussion course amoung many others, provided by ∞ Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne Read ☞ https://IamACIM.com/ Follow ☞ https://Patreon.com/UECreed More ☞ https://OpenandClear.com/ Statutes ☞ https://UECreed.org/ \"A Course In Miracles\" is a text in public domain. ॐ","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T16:17:22.021707+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-course-in-miracles-experience-7359020"},"episode":{"title":"LESSON 134, Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.","slug":"lesson-134-let-me-perceive-forgiveness-as-it-is","published_at":"2026-05-20T18:50:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-course-in-miracles-experience-7359020/lesson-134-let-me-perceive-forgiveness-as-it-is","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-course-in-miracles-experience-7359020","url":"https://iamacim.com/134.html","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70549654/acime_5_open_and_clear_reality_rev_devan_jesse_byrne_20210127_200637_mp3.mp3","summary":"LESSON 134 Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Let us review the meaning of “forgive,” for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something that entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth. In such a view, forgiveness must be seen as mere eccentric folly, and this course appear to rest salvation on a whim. This twisted view of what forgiveness means is easily cor­rected, when you can accept the fact that pardon is not asked for what is true. It must be limited to what is false. It is irrelevant to everything except illusions. Truth is God’s creation, and to pardon that is meaningless. All truth belongs to Him, reflects His laws and radiates His Love. Does this need pardon? How can you forgive the sinless and eternally benign? The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions. You conceive of pardon as a vain attempt to look past what is there; to overlook the truth, in an unfounded effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true. This twisted viewpoint but reflects the hold that the idea of sin retains as yet upon your mind, as you regard yourself. Because you think your sins are real, you look on pardon as deception. For it is impossible to think of sin as true and not believe forgiveness is a lie. Thus is forgiveness really but a sin, like all the rest. It says the truth is false, and smiles on the cor­rupt as if they were as blameless as the grass; as white as snow. It is delusional in what it thinks it can accomplish. It would see as right the plainly wrong; the loathsome as the good. Pardon is no escape in such a view. It merely is a further sign that sin is unforgivable, at best to…","meta_description":"LESSON 134 Let me perceive forgiveness as it is. Let us review the meaning of “forgive,” for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":740,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-course-in-miracles-experience-7359020/episodes/lesson-134-let-me-perceive-forgiveness-as-it-is/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-course-in-miracles-experience-7359020/lesson-134-let-me-perceive-forgiveness-as-it-is.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}