By Gonny 
Let’s start with the word itself, because metaphysics often sounds like:
“Careful now, this is going to get complicated.”
In reality, it’s much simpler than it sounds.
The word comes from Greek: meta means beyond or behind, physis means nature or the physical world.
So metaphysics literally means: that which goes beyond or behind the visible world, or behind the forms.
So instead of asking: How does the world work? we ask: What is the world, really? Or: Who am I beyond what appears?
That is exactly where A Course in Miracles lives.
Imagine you are watching a movie. You see drama, love, conflict, heroes and villains. Metaphysics asks just one quiet question:
Is this real… or is this a projection?
The Course does not say the world is bad, or ask us to deny what we see.
It says something far more subtle: the world is the result of a thought in the Mind.
That is metaphysics, not abstract or mystical, just radically honest.
And the metaphysics of ACIM says: “Everything you experience comes from the Mind and nowhere else.”
That doesn’t mean we should reject the world, it means we can finally look in the right place.
Do not ask: Who did this to me? Ask: What am I believing right now?
This is why the Course does not begin with love, but with undoing meaning.
Lesson 1: “Nothing I see means anything.”
(Not to confuse you, but to create space for truth.)
In ACIM, what is often called “the ego” is not a thing or a dark force you have to fight. It is simply a thought in the Mind.
More precisely: a thought of separation, in which a small “you” appears.
A thought about an “I “ who thinks : I am on my own…I am inside a body…I must defend myself…I can lose…I am vulnerable…I feel fear.
That’s it. No monster. No villain. Just a misunderstanding.
And misunderstandings don’t need punishment. They need clarity.
ACIM sentences that are pure metaphysics:
You can feel them immediately, even though they look simple:
– ‘I am not a body. I am free.’ Metaphysics says: you are not form, but awareness.
– ‘I see only the past.’ What you see is filtered through old thoughts, never truly new.
– ‘The world I see holds nothing that I want.’ Not because the world is wrong, but because it cannot give what you truly are.
– ‘I have invented the world I see.’ A slightly uncomfortable sentence 
, but a key metaphysical statement.
These are not affirmations. They are dismantlings.
Why this metaphysics is so relieving?
The Course is not asking us to fix the world.
It is not asking us to improve ourselves.
It is not asking us to become special or spiritual.
It asks only this: Notice where you are mistaken.
And a mistake is not a sin, it is simply an error in thinking.
Or, said gently: The mind dreamed of separation, and then forgot it was dreaming.
The metaphysics of ACIM is not a theory to master, but a way of seeing.(seeing beyond the forms)
And maybe that is what everyone is really looking for.
With love and light,
G.