“When you do not share a thought system, you are weakening it. Those who believe in it therefore perceive this as an attack on them. This is because everyone identifies himself with his thought system, and every thought system centers on what you believe you are. If the center of the thought system is true, only truth extends from it. But if a lie is at its center, only deception proceeds from it. “ (ACIM)
This spiritual truth is also in our uncorrected perceptions there is much fear and there are distortions extending from it. The lie, the belief in the 1861 germ hypothesis, extends out to thoughts and fear of “Germs”…. separation, masks, isolation, social distancing. Correct the perception and then there is no fear and so no fearful thoughts are rippling out.
Primary, and its nice to read those that understand this, is the truth of your being… who you are. We don’t need to worry about the dream( nightmare) and all that proceeds from fearful ignorant thinking( that who we are is little body at the mercy of fearful distortions like “germs” ). All inner change corrects the outer manifestations because that is what the outer is, a projection of the ( split) mind. “What is seen in dreams seems to be very real.”
The mind is the terrain.
Health is inner peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others.””
Lies can be poisonous to the body.
Nocebo effect:
https://youtu.be/sC13_y36Tls
Love how you have presented this, "if the center of the thought system is true, only truth extends from it. But if a lie is at its center, only deception proceeds from it." We constantly mistake the map for the territory, ie the map, the self we have created from our thoughts is an illusion and as you say if everything emanates from this, only deception will proceed.