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.
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