Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.
- A Course in Miracles

There are certain advantages in being a Psychologist. A major one is the understanding of projection, and the extent of its results. Possession is very closely related to projection. “Lucifer” could be literally translated “Light Bearer.” He literally projected himself from Heaven. Projection still has this “hurling” connotation because it involves hurling something you do not want, and regard as dangerous and frightening, to someone else. This is the opposite of the Golden Rule, and having placed this rule upside down, the reverse of miracles, or projection, follows automatically.
The correction lies in accepting what is true in yourself, by bringing All that you are into light.
- A Course in Miracles

We now turn to the fundamental distinction between miracles and projection. The stimulus must precede the response and must also influence the kind of response that is evoked. The relationships of stimulus and response are extremely intimate.
The behavioristic terminology is because this part deals with behavior.
Behavior is response, so that the question, “response to what?” becomes crucial.
Stimuli of all kinds are identified through perception. You perceive the stimulus and behave accordingly. It follows, then, that:
As ye perceive, So will ye behave.
 
Helen: Biblical language is hardly behavioristic terminology.
Jesus: No, but they needn’t be out of accord with each other either.
 
Consider the Golden Rule again. You are asked to behave towards others as you would have them behave toward you. This means that the perception of both must be accurate, since the Golden Rule is the order for appropriate behavior. You can’t behave appropriately unless you perceive accurately because appropriate behavior depends on lack of level confusion. The presence of level confusion always results in variable reality testing and hence variability is behavioral appropriateness.
All forms of self image debasement are fundamental perceptual distortions. They inevitably produce either self contempt or projection, and usually both.
Since you and your neighbor are equal members of the same family, as you perceive both, so will you behave toward both. The way to perceive for the Golden Rule behavior is to look out from the perception of your own holiness and perceive the holiness of others.
- A Course in Miracles

All shallow roots have to be uprooted because they are not deep enough to sustain you. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened, and thus be made to hold, is one of the corollaries on which the reversal of the Golden Rule, referred to twice before, is balanced. As these false underpinnings are uprooted, or given up, equilibrium is experienced as unstable. But the fact is that nothing is less stable than an orientation which is upside down. Anything that holds it this way is hardly conducive to greater stability.
The whole danger of defenses lies in their propensity to hold misperceptions rigidly in place. This is why rigidity is regarded as stability by those who are off the mark.
- A Course in Miracles

Denial should be directed only to error, and projection should be limited to truth. You should truly give as you have truly received. The Golden Rule can work effectively only on this basis.
- A Course in Miracles

I said, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
All actions which stem from reverse thinking are literally the behavioral expressions of those who know not what they do.1
- A Course in Miracles

Miraculous forgiveness is only correction. It has no element of judgment at all. “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do,”2 in no way evaluates what they do. It is strictly limited to an appeal to God to heal their minds. There is no reference to the outcome of their mis-thought. This does not matter.3

1. 1. This note was also given at this point: Jean Dixon was right in her emphasis on, “Feet on the ground, fingertips in the Heaven,” though she was a bit too literal for your kind of understanding. Many people knew exactly what she meant, so her statement was the right miracle for them.
2. 2. This is a reference to the Gospel of Luke: 23:34 "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots."
3. 3. This is from the "Special Principles for Miracle Workers" Principle 6, Miraculous Forgiveness is only correction
   - A Course in Miracles