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.