By Gonny 
If you’ve ever read A Course in Miracles and thought, “He’s talking right to me!” …you’re absolutely right, but not in the way you think.
When Jesus says things like “You are afraid of the truth,” He’s not speaking to the you that just went to the toilet or forgot again to buy salt. Instead, Jesus is speaking to all the sleeping fragments of the One Mind, lost in dreams of being someone. Those someones believe they have become a body, a personality, a “me,” in other words: a separate identity.
That’s the You He’s addressing with infinite tenderness.
Most students, and let’s be honest, most humans, assume the “you” must mean this person right here, point to your nose. 
But this personal identity, this body with a name and a story, is merely the effect of a sleeping Mind dreaming about a separate world. It’s the costume the Mind put on in a dream.
When Jesus says “You did not create yourself,” He is lovingly reminding the dreamer that the body wasn’t made by God, and that the personality, with all its hopes and fears, isn’t who you (dreamer) are. In other words: the self you think you made is not the Self God created.
That Self is the Christ Mind…whole, radiant, and untouched by anything that happens in the dream.
When you dream of an accident, or worse, the ‘you’ in your dream get murdered…the dreamer never bleed when the dream character does.
In ACIM Jesus is whispering to that dreamer, to the Mind that still sleeps, gently saying: “Wake up, beloved. There is no real danger. You are safe.”
If we listen carefully, we can feel the warmth behind every “you” in the Course. He never scolds, even when He seems direct. He’s not saying “you’re guilty,” but “you’ve forgotten Who you are.”
Every lesson, every paragraph, every loving nudge carries the same message, “You are not a body. You are free. You are as God created you.”
He’s not talking to the eyes that read the words on the page, but to the Mind that believes it needs those eyes to see.
The same with the Voice of the Holy Spirit.
The Voice isn’t speaking to our dream body, it’s speaking to the part of us that can awaken and remember it’s dreaming.
Now some of us might say, “But I hear the Holy Spirit or Jesus speaking inside my head.”
And yes, that can happen. But what they’re really hearing is the translation of Love into a form their mind can understand.
The Holy Spirit doesn’t use sound or language. He communicates through intuition, through a quiet knowing, through peace that suddenly replaces confusion.
It’s not about hearing words in our ears, it’s about recognizing the Presence that speaks without sound.
When the mind is still, that Presence becomes unmistakable. It doesn’t shout. It simply is… and you know.
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Understanding who Jesus is talking to transforms the entire Course from a self-help manual into a wake-up call. Instead of trying to improve the dream, fix the body, make the world nicer, or become a more spiritual personality, we begin to see that the point is not to decorate the dream, but to wake from it.
That’s when the Course stops being effort and becomes joy. We stop fighting with the world and start smiling at it, realizing it’s all part of the same gentle classroom where the Teacher is endlessly patient.
So next time you open the book and read “you,” take a breath and remember, it’s not the little you being judged or corrected, it’s the sleeping Mind being lovingly called Home. And if you hear Him say, “Wake up,” don’t panic. He’s not asking you to disappear, He’s reminding you that you never left.
With love and light,
G.