Let’s dive a little below the surface here with the Course. My translation of this is that when I accept forgiveness for myself I am simultaneously offering forgiveness to all people who are willing to accept it for themselves as well. How can this be? It rests upon a major principle of ACIM that all minds are joined. What we perceive as being other people is real for us on the experiential level. Yet, in Truth we are all One Conscious and there is ultimately only One Awareness.

This represents a major understanding in the Course. It says that what we experience as “real” or “reality” is a extreme reduction of what is the Truth. It may be our experience, it may be real to us, but it is not Truth.