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"Is justice being served?" is commonly asked when a verdict is reached in a high-profile trial, and, if the defendant is found guilty, at the sentencing. Our concept of justice extends far beyond these specific legal instances, however, to any situation where we raise questions of fairness and unfairness, and whether consequences are in line with actions judged as either right or wrong, good or bad. Different parties involved in the conflict do not share the same purpose, but have their own separate, competing interests about the desired outcome. The Course lifts us above the world's inevitable conflicts, offering a perspective on justice that is based on seeing us as all the same, despite all our seemingly important differences and disagreements. We are all the same as minds, dreaming the same underlying nightmare of attack and defense, sharing the same need to awaken from it. In several programs featured this month, Kenneth explores the concept of justice, from the Course's unique vantage point.

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Justice Returned to Love

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Justice in the ego's hands, divorced from love that encompasses all, is used to justify and maintain our belief in separation. It seeks to characterize others and not ourselves as evil and deserving of punishment. Kenneth discusses the origins of the ego's view of justice and injustice in the projections of our initial accusation against ourselves for wanting at any cost to be a special self, separate from God. The Holy Spirit's justice, joined with love shared equally with all, seems unfair, for it fails to hold the guilty accountable, letting them get away even with murder. Only by rising above the world's view that judges the behavior of figures in the dream, to the level of mind, can we see that, as dreamers, we are all the same, not sinful but simply mistaken in our belief about who we are. We are all dreaming different forms of the same nightmare of attack and guilt for believing we could separate from God's Love. Forgiveness at the level of the dreaming mind, shared with all minds, is an expression of justice returned to love, leading to our gentle awakening from the ego's nightmare.

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The Justice of Heaven

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Kenneth first presents the ego's view of justice, based on its foundational premise that both loss and gain are possible—the essence of separation—and are essential to administering justice. Kenneth contrasts this with the Holy Spirit's position that, if justice is to be truly served, there can be no loss and only gain for everyone. In practical terms, this means we are always choosing between these two incompatible and mutually exclusive perspectives on justice as we attempt to navigate our way through the world, playing the game of life, seeing our relationships in terms of either winners and losers, or only winners. The choice in each moment is always and only ours, regardless of what choice others may make.

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The Quality of Mercy

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D.

Kenneth draws upon the beautiful 'Quality of Mercy" speech from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice to illustrate the Course's unique position that justice not tempered with mercy, or love, cannot be true justice. True justice can only be offered and experienced when we recognize first our common humanity and inhumanity with everyone as children of the ego, and then ultimately our common shared Divinity as God's one Son.

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