By Gonny 
In the Workbook, A Course in Miracles says:
“The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth.”
At first glance, this can sound as if the Holy Spirit is a separate being, standing somewhere between us and God, deciding when we are ready to return.
But that is not what the Course means.
The Holy Spirit is not a person, an object, or an external force.
He is a function within the Mind.
To “mediate” simply means:
to allow communication between two levels that only seem opposed.
In our experience, there appear to be two thought systems:
– the thought of separation, fear, and identity in form,
– the remembrance of Truth, wholeness, and unity.
The Holy Spirit is the connection between these two.
It is the movement within the Mind that translates confusion into clarity.
Nothing stands outside the Divine Source, what we might call “All That Is”.
If something were truly outside of it, the Source would not be all-inclusive.
Even the idea of separation arises within it, only as an idea, not as a reality.
The Holy Spirit bridges the gap between dreams and Reality.
That gap is not real, but it feels real to the dreaming mind.
A bridge is therefore needed, because the idea of separation could never arise without the certainty of reunion already being present.
Perception is not made true, it is led beyond itself.
Fearful images are not attacked, they are reinterpreted.
Dreams are not punished, they are simply allowed to end.
. . . . .
The Holy Spirit functions as the principle of correction within the Mind.
Correction does not begin with Him. It begins with our choice.
The moment we notice:
“Oh… I am seeing this from the thought of separation,”
something important has already happened.
We are no longer fully identified with our judgment.
We stop insisting that our interpretation is absolutely correct
(which, of course, it always is 
).
To ask the Holy Spirit is not to ask for help in the world.
It is to withdraw belief from our own judgment.
What we are really saying is: “I do not want to see this through fear anymore…..or..I am willing to see this differently.”
That willingness is the invitation.
The Holy Spirit does not change situations, He changes meaning.
He does not add anything new. He removes what does not belong:
judgment, guilt, attack, and the belief that separation is real.
This is why the Course speaks of correction, not healing.
Nothing is broken. Nothing went wrong. Only perception was mistaken.
. . . . .
An example, just to be cristac clear:
You think: This person is completely wrong, and I am obviously right.”
The ego nods approvingly and starts preparing a closing argument.
Then something small happens : a pause. A tiny crack of honesty.
“Maybe… just maybe… I don’t want to be right about this.”
That is a new choice !
And when that choice is made, correction begins.
No angels descend. No thunder. No spiritual ringtone.
Just a soft, quiet inner shift: “This is not worth defending.”
The situation may still be there.
The person may still be the same.
But you are no longer at war.
That shift is the beginning of a miracle.
. . . . .
A Metaphor:
Imagine you are a radio.
The music is always there…in the sky, the broadcast. The signal never disappears.
When the radio is full of static, the music seems broken.
But nothing is wrong with the broadcast. The radio is not tuned correctly (in your head).
The Holy Spirit is the tuning function. When you turn the button…it restores the sound.
Then the noise falls away, and we recognize the music has always been there.
So The Holy Spirit is not something added to us. He is the movement, the act of correction, the result when we choose love instead of fear, the bridge always there in the Mind to remember Who we are.
The miracle is the Mind remembering itself.
With love and light,
G.