In certain terms, "we" do not exist. We are as characters in a dream, and we in turn dream. A wise teacher said, "There is no end to the 'within' of things." Mind never stops creating. But herein lies a clue. "I" sit here and tap on these little black plastic keys, which in certain terms also do not exist; I think I am a person, a man, separate and special. I write about mind as if it is "over there" somewhere, apart from me--as if I am not mind. We became confused, and now we think everything is outside, and coming toward us, and attacking us from all sides. We call it "the world".
We are mind, trying to learn what mind is. Just as scientists use their brains to study how the brain works, do you see? We have forgotten that we are mind. We have forgotten that we are one unlimited Self, holy, innocent, perfect, and at perfect peace; changeless in this eternal now. And we hear faint echoes of our own Voice, and we are so confused, we think it is from something unknown, apart from us. "You are too confused to recognize your own hope." --A Course In Miracles.
We are not really separate beings. We are not lost. We are not confined. We are free! It is not that we have been made individual, with individual lives, then suddenly be faced with this infinite Self that swallows us up, and forces us to be absorbed into Its all-ness, and "we" are no more.
What if a small piece of my personality broke off, became self-aware? It has no idea where it is, or what it is, just that it is suddenly aware that it lives. It looks and sees me, and becomes afraid, not realizing that it IS ME. It does not know how powerful it is, having forgotten that it is one with me, thus possessing all my power of mind. It did not create itself, but now it believes itself apart from me. This creates guilt, because this tiny aspect of me thinks I created it apart from me, when it is actually part of me. It thinks it offended me, and this drives it into such agony that it cannot bear to keep the pain. So the tiny "self" makes other selves, onto whom it can deflect its guilt at having angered its "God". So now everything is based on that one tiny instant of fear. The aspect personality now sleeps and dreams of a world in which it hides from me (itself).
We think that if we can make up our own world, we can hide from God. We do not understand that there is no need to hide from God. God is perfect love. But this is even more frightening than the prospect of "His" wrath. We are terrified of the idea of perfect love...it cannot possibly be true after all...just look at the world...no, we are obviously being pursued by a raging monster-god, bent on our complete destruction.
We think that if we can create ourselves, be our own god, we will be safe here in this world we made then forgot we made.
But God only knows us as God created us. We are as created. Nothing changed, nor could it change. The world is a dream, a tiny mad idea that we are separate from perfect love. Not only separate, but that we tried to kill perfect love, and make up our own love, and send out our terrible guilt, pin it on "others". Then we will not have to see it in ourselves, for it is far too ugly to hold within our own hearts.
We never left Home, nor could we. We are part of God. We have but to decide what we want to see; the world we made, or the truth of what we really are. This One Voice we think we cannot hear...it is our own Voice...it is wholly certain that all is well. "All you need to do is accept what I am telling you." --ACIM.
Not looking at our guilt keeps us "here".
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Only This, pg 23
Truth comes through this filter of mind, thus may appear to contradict itself. Earlier, I spoke of Self as multi-layered, but there are no layers. This is a simple distortion, and the reader should be able to tell the difference. In this writing, this book of essays, I am a man, writing of his true Self, using the small self to do so. I have many issues, resentments...in short, I am a person. But this person has learned to move aside as much as he can in order to receive the message...the person I seem to be is not my true Self, it is the self I put on to hide from God.
That is the basic reason we are "here". We desire to hide from our Creator. So powerful is mind, that this desire formed the world in the blink of an eye.
The individual can rise above the shouting of the small self, because there is nothing there. This shouting makes no sound, thus cannot be heard. Simple images cannot harm us...nothing can harm us. There exists nothing that can harm. There is whatever God is, and everything "He" created. The more we can understand this, the more we can move through the filter that is not there, and see more clearly, and by seeing more clearly, comprehend what "All is well" means. "Yes, but the suffering...the cruelty..." We have hypnotized ourselves into thinking it is kind to express in such a way, but in truth we are keeping our eye on the very thing we wish to end. We are demanding its "reality" because by the virtue of suffering, we have a "reason" to keep hiding. A Course In Miracles teaches that everything in the world can hurt us.
This is the dichotomy. This is what we must understand as completely as possible, if we wish to stop hiding. Everything in the world has the potential for pain. There is this two-edged-sword attribute to everything. The electrical power that allows me to write here can also burn this house down. The gas we use to cook can kill us if we breathe it. I invite the reader to go slowly, and sense the reaction to these words. Listen for that still voice. Often the simplest idea is the one we bypass.
Our true state of being is abstract, non-specific, yet we are obviously capable of focus. Our true state has no gradations, no mood swings...oddly, perhaps, this quality is why we are able to perceive gradations, but only as gradations, levels, opposing attributes (illusions).
Each individual knows these things. Each knows the power of mind. Herein lies our freedom. I do not speak of freedom to turn away from (ignore) suffering because we know it is not real, but to heal it through our love. But by clucking the tongue, and declaring, "How sad", we are healing nothing. Again, we are upholding the very thing we claim to want ended.
It seems too big, too complicated, but it is the simplest thing. If what I say is true, what ACIM teaches is true, added to all our other yearnings for understanding, then we know as well that we need do nothing. This is where our understanding must come to its highest. "Do nothing" does not mean what our small self tells us it means. It means turn from the condition, or more clearly, turn to truth. Knowing truth does not preclude caring, but clears away the debris of old attitudes, to allow our sight its vital clarity. Knowing the truth is as it is, we need do nothing, because the truth is the truth (ACIM: "Only the truth is true, and nothing else is true.")
Our promised heritage cannot be but true. If I lend someone a hand, I am helping, not holding an image of "Poor thing." I am knowing the glorious truth of that person, and thus we are helping one another. This one temporarily has less, and I temporarily have more. This means that in our collective terms, our joined consciousness, there is always need, and this goes back to our idea of that double-edged-sword. I once gave a pair of winter gloves to a sleeping man; I wanted to know (after I had gone) that he awoke, and wondered, "Where did these come from?" I wanted that image in my mind, because herein lies our connectedness. All of us. I did not think, "Oh, poor thing." Can you sense the superior attitude there, in those words? This is why we must learn to help and at once know the truth that lies beneath appearances. Herein thrives our strength.
Giving and receiving are the same. Helping and knowing the truth are the same. It is not so that we cannot see these things.
That is the basic reason we are "here". We desire to hide from our Creator. So powerful is mind, that this desire formed the world in the blink of an eye.
The individual can rise above the shouting of the small self, because there is nothing there. This shouting makes no sound, thus cannot be heard. Simple images cannot harm us...nothing can harm us. There exists nothing that can harm. There is whatever God is, and everything "He" created. The more we can understand this, the more we can move through the filter that is not there, and see more clearly, and by seeing more clearly, comprehend what "All is well" means. "Yes, but the suffering...the cruelty..." We have hypnotized ourselves into thinking it is kind to express in such a way, but in truth we are keeping our eye on the very thing we wish to end. We are demanding its "reality" because by the virtue of suffering, we have a "reason" to keep hiding. A Course In Miracles teaches that everything in the world can hurt us.
This is the dichotomy. This is what we must understand as completely as possible, if we wish to stop hiding. Everything in the world has the potential for pain. There is this two-edged-sword attribute to everything. The electrical power that allows me to write here can also burn this house down. The gas we use to cook can kill us if we breathe it. I invite the reader to go slowly, and sense the reaction to these words. Listen for that still voice. Often the simplest idea is the one we bypass.
Our true state of being is abstract, non-specific, yet we are obviously capable of focus. Our true state has no gradations, no mood swings...oddly, perhaps, this quality is why we are able to perceive gradations, but only as gradations, levels, opposing attributes (illusions).
Each individual knows these things. Each knows the power of mind. Herein lies our freedom. I do not speak of freedom to turn away from (ignore) suffering because we know it is not real, but to heal it through our love. But by clucking the tongue, and declaring, "How sad", we are healing nothing. Again, we are upholding the very thing we claim to want ended.
It seems too big, too complicated, but it is the simplest thing. If what I say is true, what ACIM teaches is true, added to all our other yearnings for understanding, then we know as well that we need do nothing. This is where our understanding must come to its highest. "Do nothing" does not mean what our small self tells us it means. It means turn from the condition, or more clearly, turn to truth. Knowing truth does not preclude caring, but clears away the debris of old attitudes, to allow our sight its vital clarity. Knowing the truth is as it is, we need do nothing, because the truth is the truth (ACIM: "Only the truth is true, and nothing else is true.")
Our promised heritage cannot be but true. If I lend someone a hand, I am helping, not holding an image of "Poor thing." I am knowing the glorious truth of that person, and thus we are helping one another. This one temporarily has less, and I temporarily have more. This means that in our collective terms, our joined consciousness, there is always need, and this goes back to our idea of that double-edged-sword. I once gave a pair of winter gloves to a sleeping man; I wanted to know (after I had gone) that he awoke, and wondered, "Where did these come from?" I wanted that image in my mind, because herein lies our connectedness. All of us. I did not think, "Oh, poor thing." Can you sense the superior attitude there, in those words? This is why we must learn to help and at once know the truth that lies beneath appearances. Herein thrives our strength.
Giving and receiving are the same. Helping and knowing the truth are the same. It is not so that we cannot see these things.
Only This, pg 24
We keep going back and forth between spirituality and physicality. We see the physical as the real world, as we consider spirituality to be a subject, an interest, unable to hold up when "life" gets in the way.
They must be brought together, as must all opposites. Opposites are the main way we keep our focus away from God, our Home. All is one, all is well. Our mind is so powerful, that we can and do, pretend we are not who we actually are.
The world we see is a demand. Truth is a blessing. Which do we want?
We choose constantly. We decide every second between spirit and "life", shadows or light. To bring these together is to bring illusions to truth, as A Course In Miracles teaches. There are no divisions. We were created by perfect Love in one Holy moment that has no past or future...how then can we become unholy, except in nightmares of being separated from our Holiness?
We remain as created; not static, but free, ever expanding and creating and living...but here is this tiny part of us that we projected, "living" its tiny days in this weird bulk, demanding autonomy even though it knows nothing except what it discovers along its demanding way.
Bring opposed points together, see which is real, and which disappears into the nothing from which it seemed to come. Lay these burdens down, show them to the Holy Spirit, God's perfect Thought that saved us from our belief in separation in the twinkling of an eye. Hide nothing from this Teacher, for He cannot compel us to come to Him. Such is our freedom. But in truth we came to Him in the same instant we were created...there is no past.
We already are saved from all dreams of tragedy: dark/light, up/down, the mind-numbing march of days into weeks into months...these hypnotize us, convince us we are bound to move slowly, plodding through atmosphere, taking so long just to get from one point in space to another, when in truth, we have but to think it, and we are there.
We are great, demanding to be little. Naturally, "great" does not cover it, but we must use words. It has been said that we are gods in chemical clothes. But we must go within, demonstrate to ourselves that it is so. We come as individuals, but also as one whole Son of God. Go within and find truth there. For seeking is finding, as giving is receiving.
Bring opposites together, see the oneness there, where only the truth is true...and nothing else can ever be true.
They must be brought together, as must all opposites. Opposites are the main way we keep our focus away from God, our Home. All is one, all is well. Our mind is so powerful, that we can and do, pretend we are not who we actually are.
The world we see is a demand. Truth is a blessing. Which do we want?
We choose constantly. We decide every second between spirit and "life", shadows or light. To bring these together is to bring illusions to truth, as A Course In Miracles teaches. There are no divisions. We were created by perfect Love in one Holy moment that has no past or future...how then can we become unholy, except in nightmares of being separated from our Holiness?
We remain as created; not static, but free, ever expanding and creating and living...but here is this tiny part of us that we projected, "living" its tiny days in this weird bulk, demanding autonomy even though it knows nothing except what it discovers along its demanding way.
Bring opposed points together, see which is real, and which disappears into the nothing from which it seemed to come. Lay these burdens down, show them to the Holy Spirit, God's perfect Thought that saved us from our belief in separation in the twinkling of an eye. Hide nothing from this Teacher, for He cannot compel us to come to Him. Such is our freedom. But in truth we came to Him in the same instant we were created...there is no past.
We already are saved from all dreams of tragedy: dark/light, up/down, the mind-numbing march of days into weeks into months...these hypnotize us, convince us we are bound to move slowly, plodding through atmosphere, taking so long just to get from one point in space to another, when in truth, we have but to think it, and we are there.
We are great, demanding to be little. Naturally, "great" does not cover it, but we must use words. It has been said that we are gods in chemical clothes. But we must go within, demonstrate to ourselves that it is so. We come as individuals, but also as one whole Son of God. Go within and find truth there. For seeking is finding, as giving is receiving.
Bring opposites together, see the oneness there, where only the truth is true...and nothing else can ever be true.
Only This, pg 25
Close your eyes and find yourself. Yourself is myself because we are one Self, dreaming "he" is many. This is from our perspective, but from the perspective of the Christ within us, the dream was over in the same instant it appeared. I think I am sitting here typing words, but I do not know what "I" means. The fingers touching the keys do not in truth exist. A Course In Miracles teaches that the body is nothing.
An argument that ego always makes is this: "If I shoot you, the gun and the bullet ripping through your body, and your death, all that is very real. Tell me that's illusion." But if I go to sleep, dream of being shot, the gun and the bullet ripping through my dream body is illusion. The principle is the same. There is no division between dreaming while asleep, and when we "awaken" and begin moving around, getting dressed...when we wake up, we are just in another phase of the dream.
The point is that we do not consider what this means. Ego demands that it means everything we cherish, our children, our country, our politics, our money, are all for nothing, just a sham. This is ego further keeping us from our Father. If nothing physical actually exists, and God is perfect Love, and He created His Son (us) as Himself, then we remain as God created us. Nothing has changed, nor could it. Close your eyes and find yourself as you always have been in this perfect eternal instant of creation.
Consider. The Christ (our Self) tells us God essentially says: "Awaken and return to me." Since God says this it means we did return. It is not God's Will that His Son dig in the earth with physical hands, to grow bulk for consumption in order to keep another bulk (the body) going in a meaningless cycle within a meaningless world. Consider that the world, everything in it, is made to support the body. Without the body, the world is unnecessary.
We have but to think, and we are "wherever" we want to be. We need not take steps with these heavy feet, and in fact every night, each of us "leaves" the body, and the ego covers the memory of that, in order to keep us in the dark. We are free.
We are creators. We did not create ourselves, but God created us as Himself, so we in turn create. We are not actually separated selves. There actually is no world. Only images we make up, then conveniently forget the making. We actually remain right here with our perfect Creator. There is no sin, no death, no punishment, no divine rage. All this is true. It is not true because I say so...I say so because it is true.
"I" do not know what God is, yet I do know. The first "I" at the beginning of that sentence is ego. The second "I" is the Christ. A Course In Miracles was presented by the Christ, and the Christ is God's Son as God created Him, as taught in the Text. If this is so, it means the Christ is our true Self. Thus, essentially, we presented A Course In Miracles to ourselves!
Close your eyes and come home, where you never left, nor could you ever leave. I have been long allowing ego to take the reins of "my" life. It is so easy to slip into ego. It seems so warm here in the body, even safe. I "forget" Who I really am. But there is no "in". There is no "out". There is God, and all God created and creates. Only this.
The more we go within, (come home), the more we understand we are aliens here in this world we made up. Our true home is with God. And God is right "where" we are! The dream was over in the same instant it appeared. (Teaching is repetition, until it is clear that learning is unnecessary.) We do not belong in time, we belong in eternity. We do not belong in bodies, isolated from everyone and everything. This isolation "proves" to us that we are not one with anybody, or anything. Isolation causes fear, and fear is a lack of love. The screen I look at right now, does not exist in deeper terms. Yet I see the words. More clearly, I think I see the words, just as I think I see a world. When I change the way I see the world, the world I see changes.
It is no longer sufficient to write of these things, or go to study groups and discuss them. So many words, "new" ideas, books written...the truth is here for us to see, but we remain in this projection, insisting upon its validity.
Part of the dream includes peace on earth, and I believe, sense deeply, that we are close to taking the first steps toward that peace. It will be the "Thousand Years of Peace" as long-held in the hearts of many spiritual teachers. But it begins with the individual.
I learn to turn from ego to truth every day, until I am one day so convinced of truth's reality, that I will never return to ego. (That day "happened" long before "I" was born.) What "I" do, we all do. We are one Self, remember. This back and forth "between" ego and Spirit must cease. It did cease. The World is done. What we call "Life" is a replaying of a single slide into fear that was healed instantly, because it is not God's Will that His Son suffer even the slightest discomfort.
Please look within, and find You.
An argument that ego always makes is this: "If I shoot you, the gun and the bullet ripping through your body, and your death, all that is very real. Tell me that's illusion." But if I go to sleep, dream of being shot, the gun and the bullet ripping through my dream body is illusion. The principle is the same. There is no division between dreaming while asleep, and when we "awaken" and begin moving around, getting dressed...when we wake up, we are just in another phase of the dream.
The point is that we do not consider what this means. Ego demands that it means everything we cherish, our children, our country, our politics, our money, are all for nothing, just a sham. This is ego further keeping us from our Father. If nothing physical actually exists, and God is perfect Love, and He created His Son (us) as Himself, then we remain as God created us. Nothing has changed, nor could it. Close your eyes and find yourself as you always have been in this perfect eternal instant of creation.
Consider. The Christ (our Self) tells us God essentially says: "Awaken and return to me." Since God says this it means we did return. It is not God's Will that His Son dig in the earth with physical hands, to grow bulk for consumption in order to keep another bulk (the body) going in a meaningless cycle within a meaningless world. Consider that the world, everything in it, is made to support the body. Without the body, the world is unnecessary.
We have but to think, and we are "wherever" we want to be. We need not take steps with these heavy feet, and in fact every night, each of us "leaves" the body, and the ego covers the memory of that, in order to keep us in the dark. We are free.
We are creators. We did not create ourselves, but God created us as Himself, so we in turn create. We are not actually separated selves. There actually is no world. Only images we make up, then conveniently forget the making. We actually remain right here with our perfect Creator. There is no sin, no death, no punishment, no divine rage. All this is true. It is not true because I say so...I say so because it is true.
"I" do not know what God is, yet I do know. The first "I" at the beginning of that sentence is ego. The second "I" is the Christ. A Course In Miracles was presented by the Christ, and the Christ is God's Son as God created Him, as taught in the Text. If this is so, it means the Christ is our true Self. Thus, essentially, we presented A Course In Miracles to ourselves!
Close your eyes and come home, where you never left, nor could you ever leave. I have been long allowing ego to take the reins of "my" life. It is so easy to slip into ego. It seems so warm here in the body, even safe. I "forget" Who I really am. But there is no "in". There is no "out". There is God, and all God created and creates. Only this.
The more we go within, (come home), the more we understand we are aliens here in this world we made up. Our true home is with God. And God is right "where" we are! The dream was over in the same instant it appeared. (Teaching is repetition, until it is clear that learning is unnecessary.) We do not belong in time, we belong in eternity. We do not belong in bodies, isolated from everyone and everything. This isolation "proves" to us that we are not one with anybody, or anything. Isolation causes fear, and fear is a lack of love. The screen I look at right now, does not exist in deeper terms. Yet I see the words. More clearly, I think I see the words, just as I think I see a world. When I change the way I see the world, the world I see changes.
It is no longer sufficient to write of these things, or go to study groups and discuss them. So many words, "new" ideas, books written...the truth is here for us to see, but we remain in this projection, insisting upon its validity.
Part of the dream includes peace on earth, and I believe, sense deeply, that we are close to taking the first steps toward that peace. It will be the "Thousand Years of Peace" as long-held in the hearts of many spiritual teachers. But it begins with the individual.
I learn to turn from ego to truth every day, until I am one day so convinced of truth's reality, that I will never return to ego. (That day "happened" long before "I" was born.) What "I" do, we all do. We are one Self, remember. This back and forth "between" ego and Spirit must cease. It did cease. The World is done. What we call "Life" is a replaying of a single slide into fear that was healed instantly, because it is not God's Will that His Son suffer even the slightest discomfort.
Please look within, and find You.
Only This, pg 26
Why do I write these things? What point is there to this? I feel a pull, a sort of psychic drive. It compels me to put words to a subject that is impossible to describe. But why? The teaching does not belong to me, or to any one individual. It is universal. If it is universal, it must be inside all of us. We all know these things. The world is a form of mass hypnosis. We project thought onto a screen of mind, and we form images there. We each form our own version of "reality". If three people sit in a room, each one is forming his or her own room. They all agree on the basic look of the room and its many objects: the chairs, the table, the vase of flowers on the table. (Read the Seth books, by Jane Roberts).
The room I see would not be exactly the same as what you see. But it is close enough. We hypnotize ourselves to believe that what we think we see is real. It is not real. A Course In Miracles tells us we are not seeing, but simply making images. Ego demands that this is crazy. It is not crazy. What is crazy is our demand that this world is a real, solid, actual place.
We make the world and simultaneously forget we made it, thus maintaining a vicious cycle. ACIM also teaches that this need not be. Physicality is simply not necessary. We are unlimited beings, of One infinite Self.
We are formless. Ego tells us this is bad. We are unable to conceive of anything without form, for what is formless must be unreal. Our thinking is backward. Form comes from formlessness. Form is nothing but projected images. But we can awaken from this. The Source of A Course In Miracles is our Self, teaching us that we are fragments of "him", and even as fragments, we are beloved of God.
Nothing but God exists. There is not God over here, and physicality over there. There is no line there. There are no divisions to Self. And Self is all. But it is not enough to read these words, even if you think you agree, or understand. It is not enough to repeat truth. We are free, dreaming of imprisonment. The doors of our prison are open. We can walk out any time we choose.
We are not bodies. We are not in bodies. We are not of bodies. That is partly why no one has ever been harmed. Because Who and What we actually are is perfect Love. Something breathes for us when we are not conscious of breathing; something knows how to clean our blood, maintain our cells...it knows these things intimately, not because it studied them in a book. This is original knowledge.
In our terms of time, these words were written eons before any of us were born. The words of A Course In Miracles, and every other word, were long ago written. All this, which is nothing and nowhere, never happened. Except the love. Ego, that which we believe holds us captive, and prevents us, cannot prevent us, because we made ego! It is not so that we cannot see these things. We are held captive by nothing.
This drive I feel? I trust it without question. "I" am not separate from "you". But I still slide into ego, which tells me I am in a body, isolated from you. Our Self knows we are safe. That means in truth, we know we are safe. Go in peace, then, all of us, as one.
The room I see would not be exactly the same as what you see. But it is close enough. We hypnotize ourselves to believe that what we think we see is real. It is not real. A Course In Miracles tells us we are not seeing, but simply making images. Ego demands that this is crazy. It is not crazy. What is crazy is our demand that this world is a real, solid, actual place.
We make the world and simultaneously forget we made it, thus maintaining a vicious cycle. ACIM also teaches that this need not be. Physicality is simply not necessary. We are unlimited beings, of One infinite Self.
We are formless. Ego tells us this is bad. We are unable to conceive of anything without form, for what is formless must be unreal. Our thinking is backward. Form comes from formlessness. Form is nothing but projected images. But we can awaken from this. The Source of A Course In Miracles is our Self, teaching us that we are fragments of "him", and even as fragments, we are beloved of God.
Nothing but God exists. There is not God over here, and physicality over there. There is no line there. There are no divisions to Self. And Self is all. But it is not enough to read these words, even if you think you agree, or understand. It is not enough to repeat truth. We are free, dreaming of imprisonment. The doors of our prison are open. We can walk out any time we choose.
We are not bodies. We are not in bodies. We are not of bodies. That is partly why no one has ever been harmed. Because Who and What we actually are is perfect Love. Something breathes for us when we are not conscious of breathing; something knows how to clean our blood, maintain our cells...it knows these things intimately, not because it studied them in a book. This is original knowledge.
In our terms of time, these words were written eons before any of us were born. The words of A Course In Miracles, and every other word, were long ago written. All this, which is nothing and nowhere, never happened. Except the love. Ego, that which we believe holds us captive, and prevents us, cannot prevent us, because we made ego! It is not so that we cannot see these things. We are held captive by nothing.
This drive I feel? I trust it without question. "I" am not separate from "you". But I still slide into ego, which tells me I am in a body, isolated from you. Our Self knows we are safe. That means in truth, we know we are safe. Go in peace, then, all of us, as one.
Only This, pg 27
Entry for June 02, 2008 Only This pg 27
"I would not have this in place of Heaven, and the peace of God."
--A Course In Miracles.
The world is an "Instead of". I want this instead of God, instead of perfect peace, perfect love. I want to "live" a tiny life placed inside a weak, slowly decaying body, to die.
What the world calls "good" is simply waiting for the other shoe to drop. That is not good, it is chaos. True good has no opposite, no degree, no variation. Ego will demand this means Heaven is boring, static. Further chaos.
We are one Self. We are unlimited, formless, whole and perfect as our Creator wills. God's will is our will. Ego demands this is blasphemy. Remember, we made ego.
As I sit waiting for more words, I look around, and I see all these objects. Pieces of paper, an old coffee mug full of pens...I form these images. They are in my mind. The world is in my (our) mind. We chose this instead of the God we feared we offended. This is why we fear love. We thought God was mad at us, and we instantly made our own love...to hide from His love, which we believed could no longer be seen. We fear what we cannot see.
But it is not so that we cannot see these things.
I continue to look around, and I repeat: "I would not have this in place of Heaven, and the peace of God." The peace of God. Those words might sound simplistic, but we speak of reality that is mind-boggling. But it is only mind-boggling because we chose to turn from it, to throw it away in favor of dreams.
This turning, this throwing away, all happened in our creation. Not in any past, for there is no past, but in this present instant, this tiny mad idea that we lost Him, thus ourself. I see a line and I call it the Great Dichotomy, but it is just a split. We constantly go back and forth between "reality" and whatever our idea of God is. We believe in the world more strongly than God (or anything we think we cannot see with the body's eyes.) The split confuses us because we think we can see it, and feel it, even though we have no clue as to how many hairs grow from our head, or how to breathe, or clean our own blood, or grow our own nails. We can read about these in books, and be awarded diplomas, but all we have done is study the words of another based on what they have read...we know nothing, yet we demand that we have knowledge. We only make discoveries of what already exists around us, having forgotten that we are doing all of this, forming a planet, projecting images.
The world is an "instead of". We have no limits. ACIM calls us "God the Son." I do not want the world in place of Heaven and God's peace, which clearly is my (our) own. This is why the world is unreal. I (we) do not really want the world. The world, with its "good days" and its "bad days", was over in the same tiny mad instant that it seemed to occur. It never happened. The great irony is that there is no body here, typing these words, yet the truth behind this illusion is eternally real.
So I change the way I see the world, and the world I see changes...
"I would not have this in place of Heaven, and the peace of God."
--A Course In Miracles.
The world is an "Instead of". I want this instead of God, instead of perfect peace, perfect love. I want to "live" a tiny life placed inside a weak, slowly decaying body, to die.
What the world calls "good" is simply waiting for the other shoe to drop. That is not good, it is chaos. True good has no opposite, no degree, no variation. Ego will demand this means Heaven is boring, static. Further chaos.
We are one Self. We are unlimited, formless, whole and perfect as our Creator wills. God's will is our will. Ego demands this is blasphemy. Remember, we made ego.
As I sit waiting for more words, I look around, and I see all these objects. Pieces of paper, an old coffee mug full of pens...I form these images. They are in my mind. The world is in my (our) mind. We chose this instead of the God we feared we offended. This is why we fear love. We thought God was mad at us, and we instantly made our own love...to hide from His love, which we believed could no longer be seen. We fear what we cannot see.
But it is not so that we cannot see these things.
I continue to look around, and I repeat: "I would not have this in place of Heaven, and the peace of God." The peace of God. Those words might sound simplistic, but we speak of reality that is mind-boggling. But it is only mind-boggling because we chose to turn from it, to throw it away in favor of dreams.
This turning, this throwing away, all happened in our creation. Not in any past, for there is no past, but in this present instant, this tiny mad idea that we lost Him, thus ourself. I see a line and I call it the Great Dichotomy, but it is just a split. We constantly go back and forth between "reality" and whatever our idea of God is. We believe in the world more strongly than God (or anything we think we cannot see with the body's eyes.) The split confuses us because we think we can see it, and feel it, even though we have no clue as to how many hairs grow from our head, or how to breathe, or clean our own blood, or grow our own nails. We can read about these in books, and be awarded diplomas, but all we have done is study the words of another based on what they have read...we know nothing, yet we demand that we have knowledge. We only make discoveries of what already exists around us, having forgotten that we are doing all of this, forming a planet, projecting images.
The world is an "instead of". We have no limits. ACIM calls us "God the Son." I do not want the world in place of Heaven and God's peace, which clearly is my (our) own. This is why the world is unreal. I (we) do not really want the world. The world, with its "good days" and its "bad days", was over in the same tiny mad instant that it seemed to occur. It never happened. The great irony is that there is no body here, typing these words, yet the truth behind this illusion is eternally real.
So I change the way I see the world, and the world I see changes...
The Son Speaks
There is a reality. It is complete unto itself, and as far as it knows, there is no other reality like it.
There is no outside to this reality: it is All That Is.
But it wills to share, so it creates another from itself (remember, itself being All That Is); the other, being part of All That Is, knows it is one with its Creator. The Son begins to explore, and as it explores, suddenly has a thought that it is apart from All That Is, thus, the Son believes that "he" is apart, separated from his Creator.
This fear is a flash, then the flash is gone, because it is not the Creator's Will that His Son be anything other than His Beloved, (knowing His Son remains as created.) This means that nothing unreal exists. In the flash of the Son's mad thought, he sleeps, and has a dream in which he is indeed separate from his "Father"; in this dream, which also is gone in the flash, there is struggle, for the Son has taken on thickness, no longer being invisible...a bulk (as he continues to form what he calls "language"); and he must now move about, and dig in his earth and plant things that he must put in his bulk in order to "exist".
Ego is made to direct the pinpoint focus, so that the dream-matter can be formed and observed at the same "time"...yes, time...there must be a sense of continuation, for the Son finds that his focus can be sustained for only so long before it begins to "get old" and "die".
A world has formed in a flash, one Son has "become" a multitude...legends begin of a spirit, something "outside", but is actually within, in that it forms the molecules, the atoms, the cells...the stars. It is the body which gives this illusion of "outside". A single word comes to the mind of the sleeping Son: "God".
(Notice how we have gone from simplicity to a sense of the complicated. What was perfect is now seen as a dream, a fairy tale, and the "physical" is seen as real...LIFE. Everything is backward; what the Son knew as life is now seen as death...what was seen as unreal, is now called life; for the Son has forgotten that he can produce images, and know they are unreal, even though he uses the only power there is to make the images and project them: the Mind of his Father. This is how his Father can be within the cells of his body, but still know His Beloved's dream is but a dream).
Ego, the directing, "looking out" part of the Son's dream, becomes too strong, and is now its own self. It has control of the many bodies, each body moving about, animated, as characters in a story, a play or a movie, or a novel; and God has long since been given many names, and many moods, chief among them: anger/jealousy/rage, and "love" that is contingent upon certain requirements before it is given.
Ego places blocks everywhere, so that each time one or more of the body/selves senses that they are not bodies, there is someone in authority to tell them they are not to question, for "It is written..." So effective are ego's blocks, that as God "sends" His Beloved to gently awaken his projections (the characters in his dream: us, you and I); to demonstrate that they are one with the Son, he is seen as a special case, a god, also as a radical who uses magic to twist the established teaching into "evil"; thus, his teachings are misread, twisted, and simply misunderstood, for when he says that through him is the only way to "heaven", it is taken to mean that any other way is "bad", and there will be dire consequences. It is not understood that he just means that God is All That Is, and he, the Christ, is us.
Thus, the Son speaks, whispering to us to simply ask to be awakened, and see the simplicity of infinite, perfect Love.
There is no outside to this reality: it is All That Is.
But it wills to share, so it creates another from itself (remember, itself being All That Is); the other, being part of All That Is, knows it is one with its Creator. The Son begins to explore, and as it explores, suddenly has a thought that it is apart from All That Is, thus, the Son believes that "he" is apart, separated from his Creator.
This fear is a flash, then the flash is gone, because it is not the Creator's Will that His Son be anything other than His Beloved, (knowing His Son remains as created.) This means that nothing unreal exists. In the flash of the Son's mad thought, he sleeps, and has a dream in which he is indeed separate from his "Father"; in this dream, which also is gone in the flash, there is struggle, for the Son has taken on thickness, no longer being invisible...a bulk (as he continues to form what he calls "language"); and he must now move about, and dig in his earth and plant things that he must put in his bulk in order to "exist".
Ego is made to direct the pinpoint focus, so that the dream-matter can be formed and observed at the same "time"...yes, time...there must be a sense of continuation, for the Son finds that his focus can be sustained for only so long before it begins to "get old" and "die".
A world has formed in a flash, one Son has "become" a multitude...legends begin of a spirit, something "outside", but is actually within, in that it forms the molecules, the atoms, the cells...the stars. It is the body which gives this illusion of "outside". A single word comes to the mind of the sleeping Son: "God".
(Notice how we have gone from simplicity to a sense of the complicated. What was perfect is now seen as a dream, a fairy tale, and the "physical" is seen as real...LIFE. Everything is backward; what the Son knew as life is now seen as death...what was seen as unreal, is now called life; for the Son has forgotten that he can produce images, and know they are unreal, even though he uses the only power there is to make the images and project them: the Mind of his Father. This is how his Father can be within the cells of his body, but still know His Beloved's dream is but a dream).
Ego, the directing, "looking out" part of the Son's dream, becomes too strong, and is now its own self. It has control of the many bodies, each body moving about, animated, as characters in a story, a play or a movie, or a novel; and God has long since been given many names, and many moods, chief among them: anger/jealousy/rage, and "love" that is contingent upon certain requirements before it is given.
Ego places blocks everywhere, so that each time one or more of the body/selves senses that they are not bodies, there is someone in authority to tell them they are not to question, for "It is written..." So effective are ego's blocks, that as God "sends" His Beloved to gently awaken his projections (the characters in his dream: us, you and I); to demonstrate that they are one with the Son, he is seen as a special case, a god, also as a radical who uses magic to twist the established teaching into "evil"; thus, his teachings are misread, twisted, and simply misunderstood, for when he says that through him is the only way to "heaven", it is taken to mean that any other way is "bad", and there will be dire consequences. It is not understood that he just means that God is All That Is, and he, the Christ, is us.
Thus, the Son speaks, whispering to us to simply ask to be awakened, and see the simplicity of infinite, perfect Love.
Friday, July 3, 2009
I Am Free
Everything I see...is me.
If "I" can look "out" at the world I see, and know that "I" am one Self, then how can I attack or be attacked? If I can see that the world is a hiding place...a place we made up because we thought we offended God, maybe even killed Him, and shattered our Self into separated selves, and formed separated things (Carved out of eternity: A Course In Miracles).
If I can do that, and I have found that I can, then I choose the Holy Spirit over the ego. I remember that one is the truth, and one is unreal (nothing unreal exists: ACIM.) It is as simple as that. This is our choice, and nothing else. There is nothing else. But we must look at the guilt associated with our throwing truth away.
What tremendous guilt it must be. One has but to look at the news. One has but to recognize that the negative is embraced first, over the positive. Most people do not trust positivity. This has been my experience. I believe this is one way the ego keeps us "here". Why am I not with God? I ask myself that question calmly, and simply. Why am I hiding? The first question I will answer by stating I am with God. But then here is the world. It seems so real, though we never stop to ask, "What is real? What does real mean, and how did we get a concept of real?
"I do not know the thing that I am."--ACIM. We think that if we "go back" to our true Self, that our little self is lost, and that fear of being lost, by being absorbed into one gigantic gestalt, we lose our individuality. But we do not know the thing we are, so how could we possibly know what individuality means? We have but to remember that the separation never really happened. That is why nothing, including our individuality, can be lost. How does something that never was become lost?
The second question, "Why am I hiding?"I answer by becoming still. I look calmly into my mind, and perceive another Self. That other Self is us! Someone has asked, regarding the fall into separation, "How could the impossible happen?" The answer is, it didn't.
It did not happen. This is a dream. There is no world. We really are one perfect unlimited Self. We only perceive ourselves as being apart from it. We are it! There isn't God plus you and me and the fence post. There isn't God plus Pearl Harbor, or the Alamo, or 9/11. There is God. All attack is self-attack. Attack is a cry for help. We cry for help because we do not know the thing we are. Do you see?
I look at the world, realize I am doing this. The world I see is a direct reflection of my thought. I have proven this to myself over and over. I need not defend myself against myself. I am free.
"I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."--A Course In Miracles.
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If "I" can look "out" at the world I see, and know that "I" am one Self, then how can I attack or be attacked? If I can see that the world is a hiding place...a place we made up because we thought we offended God, maybe even killed Him, and shattered our Self into separated selves, and formed separated things (Carved out of eternity: A Course In Miracles).
If I can do that, and I have found that I can, then I choose the Holy Spirit over the ego. I remember that one is the truth, and one is unreal (nothing unreal exists: ACIM.) It is as simple as that. This is our choice, and nothing else. There is nothing else. But we must look at the guilt associated with our throwing truth away.
What tremendous guilt it must be. One has but to look at the news. One has but to recognize that the negative is embraced first, over the positive. Most people do not trust positivity. This has been my experience. I believe this is one way the ego keeps us "here". Why am I not with God? I ask myself that question calmly, and simply. Why am I hiding? The first question I will answer by stating I am with God. But then here is the world. It seems so real, though we never stop to ask, "What is real? What does real mean, and how did we get a concept of real?
"I do not know the thing that I am."--ACIM. We think that if we "go back" to our true Self, that our little self is lost, and that fear of being lost, by being absorbed into one gigantic gestalt, we lose our individuality. But we do not know the thing we are, so how could we possibly know what individuality means? We have but to remember that the separation never really happened. That is why nothing, including our individuality, can be lost. How does something that never was become lost?
The second question, "Why am I hiding?"I answer by becoming still. I look calmly into my mind, and perceive another Self. That other Self is us! Someone has asked, regarding the fall into separation, "How could the impossible happen?" The answer is, it didn't.
It did not happen. This is a dream. There is no world. We really are one perfect unlimited Self. We only perceive ourselves as being apart from it. We are it! There isn't God plus you and me and the fence post. There isn't God plus Pearl Harbor, or the Alamo, or 9/11. There is God. All attack is self-attack. Attack is a cry for help. We cry for help because we do not know the thing we are. Do you see?
I look at the world, realize I am doing this. The world I see is a direct reflection of my thought. I have proven this to myself over and over. I need not defend myself against myself. I am free.
"I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me."--A Course In Miracles.
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