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Be Glad, be Healed

I do not know my Self. I think I know myself, but I do not know my Self.

My Self seems to know me. A Course In Miracles says, "I do not know the thing that I am." I think I inhabit a body; I think I have a life separate from my wife and my neighbors and everything I think I see. But Life isn't like that. "What is the same cannot be different. What is one cannot have separate parts." --ACIM.

The world we believe we see is a reaction. We thought we lost God; we thought God abandoned us; we felt guilty; we tried to kill God. When that failed, we made a whole universe in which to hide from "Him". We split into untold pieces, made other bodies (selves) onto which we could deflect our terrible sense of guilt.

The question: "How did this terrible thing happen!" It didn't happen. We only dreamed it so. All our screams in the night, our strange beliefs in separation, our burrowing ourselves into bodies "...They will not prevail against the peace God wills for you..."

We are as created. Nothing happened to change our perfect State of Being. It cannot be changed. I never understood why it should seem strange that we are one perfect Self, formless and eternally safe; unlimited, creating wonders in utter joy and in the vitality of Life. It is the physical that I find strange. A skull containing a wrinkled mass of 60% fat that writes sonnets, plots ways to kill, thinks it thinks real thoughts...that to me is strange indeed.

Part of us, a mad thought of separation we call ego,called to us to abandon our perfect Home, form a world, fill it with "others" so we could deflect our guilt onto them. Ego bid us leave mind, forget mind, and focus solely on body. That is why mind seems strange to the world...frightening. "Don't go there!" We think we are safe from an angry God bent on our destruction. But ego's plan of course is doomed to fail, since no matter how we try to hang on, eventually, the body dies. The world demands we keep hold of body for as long as possible. But our Self knows What we really are, and Where we really are. Our Self knows nothing untoward could ever happen. It is not our will, because it is not God's will. There is no place where God ends, and we begin. There are no divisions, no levels, no gradations or interruptions; there is but infinite creativity, unbound joy and peace.

We are constantly telling one another these things. There is a constant telepathic communication between all things. The world we see is a reflection of our state of mind. I prove this to myself every day. There is no world outside our mind. We made it up. More succinctly, we make it up.

Only this exists. Only this lives, thus we need not fear, but be glad. Look at the guilt we have long held, deflected away. Look at it, see it for what it is, and be healed. That is the true and only purpose of a mad world: the healing of God's Son. Only this.

It Might Be True

It might be true. We might be one perfect, unlimited Self. Something in me keeps wanting to express. The power of wanting is so great that there is no end to its expressions. A Course In Miracles says only perfect love exists. I allow my mind to consider that what ACIM says, every word, is true. Join with me in this thought, just for a second. We are not really separate beings, but one Self.

If this is true, none of the terrible things that we thought happened, ever happened. But it is as if we keep hitting the REPLAY button. So much has been written, so many books and blog entries...from The Seth Material, to The Disappearance of the Universe, to The Urantia Book...Esther Hicks and Abraham, The Holy Bible and all the many interpretations of that...what does it all mean? Obviously, someone is trying to tell us something, and evidently, it is quite important.

I don't want to theorize anymore. I want to really find out what it is. I want to awaken. Now, it must be made clear that I do not mean I want to die. There is no death. I want to awaken. I want to see. What we think is seeing, is not seeing, but image-making. Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change. The two key words in that statement are, "you see".

We go inside, and it causes ripples. As a result, we just happen to find books or teachers. We have "chance" encounters with a stranger that changes our path. What if it is true?

We might actually be in perfect peace, creating wonders; worlds that are eternally kept by our Creator. What we think is the world might really be a replay of a tiny instant of fear that was healed instantly, because not only was it not our Creator's Will--it was not our will, either.

We need not fear. Some part of us knows fear is unreal. I believe this part is what dictated A Course In Miracles.
I believe every word of ACIM is true.

Only This

I am still. I do not know the thing that I am, yet I am still, and I know love. The thing that I am is not really a thing, but we must use words, and words distort.

Let us speak of love, then. Let us accept love as we know it, and go deeper, to find love as it really is. Here in the stillness, where we no longer hide from one another, but recognize our unity, here we seek and find. The love we seek has no opposite. This might be hard to grasp, since the world we see is built on opposites. We think this is balance. But A Course In Miracles teaches we are too confused to recognize our own hope. We do not know true balance when we see it, and we are constantly looking right at it. There is One Who goes with us, and he does know. The world we see is strange to him, because he knows it is not so. I did not say he "believes" it is not so, I said he knows it is not so.

Since the world we see is unreal, and nothing unreal exists, then our only purpose must be to wake up and escape the world. Forgive the world, overlook the world, release the world! Three words that for our purposes, basically mean the same thing. Let us try to go beyond words. No, it is not hard to do. How hard is it to walk through a bank of fog?

I walk during the day, and as I walk, I practice and experiment with different statements, then watch their effect on those around me (there is no one around me, but that will be for another essay.) From ACIM: "God wills [that I] be in Heaven, and nothing can keep [me] from it." Then I remember that I invented the world I see. An invention comes about when we perceive lack. The light bulb was invented because people could no longer stand trying to read by candle light. The world we see was invented to fill a perceived gap (lack) when we thought we had lost our Creator. We made bodies because we needed something with which to perceive the world. But there is no world.

Listen: There is not God plus Pearl Harbor; there is not God plus 9/11; There is not God plus my wife's brain injury; there is not God plus whatever happened to take my serenity away as a small child. God did not create any of that, and so, none of that ever happened. This is love as love is; love that cannot be pulled, as a rug, from under our feet; love whose giving is its receiving. Love as love is knows we are not really here. There is no here here. We say "God is in everything I see." Ego responds, "God is in a headache, a tornado, a plane crash?" If God (love) is all there is, and we say God is in everything we see, then everything we see must be illusion. If God is all, then no matter the appearance, we are constantly looking right at God. God is All That Is. Only this.

We are Home.

Come, Be Still...it is morning

Only the love is real. "Loving thoughts are the world's only reality." --A Course In Miracles.

Only this. But it is not enough to read, to study, then to repeat words in affirmation: "I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me." --ACIM. Go inside the closet of mind, close the door. There, find what you seek. What you seek has always been yours. You always had it with you. It is everything that you are. It has no opposite, though you have thrown opposites in its path, hoping to slow it down from its inevitable rising in the night of your mind, to reveal a dawn that you had forgotten.

Words are not magic, though we give magic properties to them. Magic is our substitute for our real power, which we gave up in favor of this dream we call, the world. But of course, we did not really give it up. God saved it for us in our creation. We remain just as we were created: Innocent, holy, pure, eternal and eternally part of Him.

I do not know what "God" is anymore than you do. I only know what I sense deeply, when I go beyond the ego. I know when I practice the principles of A Course In Miracles, I prove to myself they work. The Course is one part of a greater curriculum, not the whole. There is one teaching, and all teachings teach it.

"We" are fragments of our whole personality. There is one Self. Do not allow ego to tell you this means individuality is lost. It just means, when we awaken, we at last understand (remember) what individuality really is. Go inside. Find the one love that lives and never leaves. Be transformed. There is a new morning coming to the world, in our terms of time. Yes, there is upheaval, there always is when consciousness rises. But beyond that, there is a new world. We are entering peace on earth. We are changing. The old ways no longer work. They are dying out. A more thoughtful, spiritual, compassionate, peaceful, way of being is at hand. It is a process, again in our terms.

Whatever God is, God is perfect Love.


Change the way you see the world, and the world you see will change.

Our Deepest Heart (who we really are)

People believe what they believe. We, as we understand ourselves to be, are all on our own path. My desire is never to argue with anyone, or accept their attempts to sway me to their position. Ours is to shed light (love).

To shed light is to be as we were created; to just be, and by being, to demonstrate that we are not egos. As much as I can, I want to write without referring too much to "me". In this way, I can move aside to let my Self look through the body's eyes, and see the world as it really is. After all, I do not know who or what I am. I do not know how I got here, or even if "here" exists. So how can I decide what is right? How can a being without knowledge see clearly? It seems obvious that I need a guide.

I bless my brother on his way, as part of me.

I no longer want to question or analyze everything. I want to awaken and recognize that I never left Home. But the physical universe seems so real. It distracts. It hides our true existence from us. The guide we need, we have. Go beneath belief if you feel led. If not, you probably are not reading this anyway. It matters not at all. We awoke long ago, in our terms. It is not God's Will, thus not ours, that we remain asleep. Our awakening happened in the same instant that our sleep seemed to happen. When we "wake up" in the morning, we do not really wake up. We just enter a different phase of the dream. It is over. That is why everything has an ending. Because everything is over and done. It never was. A Course In Miracles says, "God is not fear, but love."

It is so much easier when we let go (forgive/overlook) what never took place. Let the conviction of our deepest heart match the words we use when we pray, or repeat our affirmations. Let us not argue, for in that, we use our brother to imprison ourselves. The one we think we see, across the street, or in line at the store, that one is another version of us. It seems hard to keep remembering that, but we just need discipline.
"You are too confused to recognize your own hope." --ACIM.

It only seems hard to do. Everything in the world we see can hurt us, but nothing in God can hurt us. There is no hurt in God. Hurt is unreal, and nothing unreal exists. The thoughts we have of attack are attacking our invulnerability. In truth, we cannot be attacked, but we believe we are not in truth. We think we are separated selves, scrambling around a great rock in some cold dark space. We are so confused that we bury truth under the images of murder, terror, death. Truth is right here. We are looking right at it. Constantly. We cannot not see it.

But these words written here do not matter. It is when we go inside our deepest heart, and ask for help. Ask sincerely, with a true desire to know--then we realize truth was always with us. Until then, we just keep reading words that may or may not be true. "Why am I unaware of what is so?" --ACIM.

Is that not what we really want? Enough philosophizing. We desire to know. I have done this. I have proven to myself that these teachings are real.

There is one teaching, and all teachings teach it.

Everything we think we see is in our mind. But God is in our mind. God is real. Thus, what we think we see (which we are forming into shapes, projecting "outward") is unreal because God is in everything we see. When ego demands, "God is in a headache?" Recognize that "God is in everything I see" means the headache is unreal. There is not God plus a headache; not God plus a broken leg...there is God. There is that reality of which we are eternally a part. It is real. There really is what we call "God". It only sounds crazy because we have dreamed that we turned away from it, threw truth away. But that is not God's Will. Thus, it is not our will. We are part of God. God is love without opposite; joy without opposite; peace, without opposite. Let us come inside our deepest heart, and ask. Keep it in our mind. When the world we see distracts, remember to remember Who and What we really are.

The Wonder Behind All There Is

What is this "Something" of which I seem to be unaware, yet Whose presence I feel behind and circling my shoulders as I begin to write? Why do I think I am separate from It? Why am I unaware of what is true?
There seems to be a division here, but how could that be?

"What...is the wonder that lies back of a nut, an egg, or a grain of sand, a healed wound, the demonstration of success, and the glory of an uplifted faith...it would appear that a botanist could make a much finer [nut] than nature provides. But he cannot! He can stir up the chemicals that compose it, and mould them into the shape of a nut--but he cannot make it grow. There is something in the nut which he cannot imitate...back of which he cannot go with his analysis. We call it the life-principle."
--Being and Becoming, by Fenwicke L. Holmes. 1920.

Something in us knows how to breathe when we are otherwise engaged. It grows our nails, assimilates what we eat, cleans our blood. We ignore it, yet we are it. More precisely, it is everything that we are. It sees our illusions, but the difference: It knows they are illusions. We want to make the illusions real, and keep them so. It "...will restore your sanity because insanity is not the Will of God." --A Course In Miracles.

We are dreaming. In simple terms, this Something sits beside us as we sleep, telling us all about Who and What we really are. Imagine someone beloved to you is in a coma. You sit and talk. You explain that the world continues as your beloved sleeps...analogy can only go so far...but we can see the parallel. Our Self speaks to us, tells us we do not actually live encased in flesh, "living" in a world outside us, with other selves, other bodies. We only dream it so. It is important to understand that we are not being dreamed. It is we who dream.

I look around and tell myself everything I see is in my mind. There is nothing outside me. Everything is energy. A Course In Miracles teaches that "God is in everything I see." One always immediately goes to: "God is in a headache?...a murderer?...a rapist...!" No. It means none of those exist. Because if God is all there is, and God is in everything we see, then what we think we are seeing is not there. We are using the power of God (the only power there is) to project images. We project the images, forget we projected them, then react to them as if they are outside us...thus outside our control.

We are doing this. We dreamed we threw truth away, so we had to make our own truth. Truth cannot be thrown away. Look, then, to the simplicity of your inner nature. Not because I say so. These things are not so because I say them. I say them because they are so. Whatever "God" is, "He" is not apart from "us". Our Self teaches us that only perfect love exists. Only God exists. Thus, God must be perfect love. Perfect love is our only reality. Only this.