Mind the mechanism of decision.

To structure this essay I chose a couple of
definitions from Webster's dictionary that will best illustrate the workings of the mind as referred to in A Course in Miracles.

Mind is the mechanism of decision and with this knowledge Jesus is training our mind to make all the right decisions and lead us to a rebirth and a whole new place within our mind.

We are given very specific instructions and revealed to us is a mind-training procedure, structured as a sequence of 365 sets of exercises, one for each day of the year.
This workbook is an impeccable program towards the mind's release from its self-inflicted imprisonment. As a direct consequence the world is freed from the unrelenting pressure and distorting effect of the fear and guilt that was projected upon it.

The workbook provides us with all the tools to regain the power of mind as it is given to us in heaven and on earth. Only by applying these workbook-lessons and their exercises do we truly become Jesus’ disciples.

The first decision.

The success of the workbook lessons depends entirely on the mind's ability to make decisions. The first decision to be made is the resolve to accept the training exactly as it is structured and designed for the human conceptual mind. The mind needs to be undone from all its futile attempts to assert its separate identity as a self-willed individual.

Our human separate thought-system has been found wanting. The way you perceived the world through eyes of judgment didn't deliver the joy and freedom that deep down in your heart is the thing you desire and deserve. Our human experience of severe and never ceasing conflict, our dependence on sickness and death while existing on this futile plane of human endeavor has led us to the conclusion that within this frame of mind no satisfactory solution is possible.

We are not asked to put new wine in old bottles. First the old wine is poured out of the old bottle which is subsequently tossed, then we are  given  a new bottle to be filled with new wine.
The workbook is structured in this selfsame way. The first part of the workbook rids us from our old way of thinking and we are emptied of all the misperceptions that were a result of a faulty conceptual framework. The second part of this workbook is geared toward acquiring real vision and solidifying our true identity and function within the universe that God created for, with and as us.