Lesson 1
Nothing I see means anything.
When we are beginning to learn the eternal language, it is essential that we learn we are free to choose a language that has a different set of values. In eternity, to see is to understand, so I must first "see or understand" that the meaning I have given to what I physically see does not have the same meaning that Heaven has given to it. This new way of approaching what I see begins to change the value of what is beheld.
If I just believe I am seeing a chair, then the meaning has been lost to me. I must be able to see the purpose for the chair. This is so because everything in Heaven has a purpose that does not conform to the physical interpretation of what things are for. The purpose of everything is to make us happy and is to be used for our benefit. Being able to see the purpose of anything opens our spiritual eyes to appreciation. When we understand what the true purpose or benefit is of what we see with our physical eyes, our mind begins to align with Laws that extend from Eternity into time. We are attempting to change the purpose of everything in time. We want everything in time to reflect the Laws of Heaven. This can only happen if we behold what we are seeing in a different light. It is our own understandiing that has the ability to change everything. We bring meaning to the chair, the chair does not give meaning to us. Therefore, if I can change the value or meaning I have given to a chair, then I can change the meaning of everything I have given to in time. This does not happen by ourselves. We must have Help so our value shifts and the light of Heaven can touch we what we see, or understand. What is touched with the Law of Life then becomes real, because then we can find God in the chair. Until we choose to change our mind and look away from our past learning, the chair is just a chair.
Meaning and purpose does not come from the mind/body experience. It comes directly from Heaven and is extended to time, but it must be recognized by us. This recognition is an internal shift that shifts our awareness out of what we have learned in time towards something else. After all, there are only two choices to make. One is with the ego and the other is with God.
This week, make an effort to withdraw all meaning that you have given to one physical object. Choose it, and then ask to see, or understand, the meaning of the object. Within the object is all of Heaven, if it can be viewed correctly. Remember that you cannot show yourself this. All that is needed to see this is your willingness.
Lesson 2
I have given everything I see in this room (on this street,
from this window, in this place) all the meaning that
it has for me.
Meaning is of God. If I look out, and I do not "see" or understand that God is giving everything I see meaning, then I have excluded Heaven from my vision. Therefore I am seeing this thing as being separate from God, and it is this separate seeing that is separating me from God's Love. To see truly is to see with God. This is how true meaning is restored to us.
We are not able to "see" meaning by interpretating it ourselves. It must be shown to us because we what we have learned is showing us our own belief. Beliefs arise from what we have been taught while liviing in time. In order to see anything, we have to hold a mental picture of it in our mind in one way or another. This happened when we became self aware. Self awareness is individual awareness that began when a thought about a physical experience deposited itself in the body. This deposit became a mind/body interpretation of life that violates the Laws of Heaven. This instant of individual learning shifted our mind away from Eternity and placed our awareness on time. This shift of awareness taught us that we were not innocent, and this is sin. Our awareness must shift back to our Eternal Awareness so our mind can reflect the Laws of God.
In order to make the shift back, a miracle must occur. To invoke a miracle the Eternal Guide that has been provided for us must be involved because problems cannot be solved at the same level at which they are occurring. We have a choice to continue believing our individual experience, or we can choose to see something else. We cannot show ourself this choice, so we learn how to communicate from another level of mind that is not concerned with our belief and holds value in our own interpretation. This is not Heaven, but when our perception is changed, it is close enough to Heaven so God can reveal Himself to us. This is revelation.
We journey back to the Eternal meaning one step at a time. We know that we are not alone, and progress comes to us through our decision to choose something else. This week try to make the decision to see something different. Make it something simple. Ask for a reinterpretation and then wait for an answer. See what happens.
Lesson 3
I do not understand anything I see in this room
(on this street, from this window, in this place).
Understanding is not a physical ability, it is a spiritual one that is brought into time when we enter time. When we label what we see as being a part of our past physical learning experieence, we leave out a large part of what it is possible for us to see or understand, because Heaven is also there. Physical interpretation or "seeing" separates what we see from the whole of eternity because it has been given a purely physical interpretation. By limiting the explanation, our internal vision is time dependent. It is therefore based on illusion. After a while we begin to totally rely on physical vision for understanding. Our internal pictures become totally based on our physical perception for meaning and this distorts our spiritual vision. Eventually most of us become physically farsighted as we enter our mature years of life and dependent of glasses so we can see. We have taken what seems to be outside of ourselves and made it a part of our internal vision. It no longer carries meaning or value because there is nothing outside of the realm of Eternity, or our own mind that has value. Doing this has lessened the strength and ability of our internal vision. Our mind has the ability to fully encompass what we see and bring make it a part of our awareness and give it true meaning, but of course before this is done, we have to change our mind about what we see. When we see meaning outside of ourselves, we weaken the our own meaning. Everything that exists, first existed within our own mind and it is a part of us. Without this understanding, we believe that what we see gives meaning to us.
The first thing we do is be willing to change the meaning of what we see. This will begin to change its purpose. Purpose is of God, so we are asking to see the true purpose for what we see by inviting in a new meaning. We do this by admitting that we do not understand what we see. This step, once taken can begin to move us into corrected vision. This step is likely to bring confusion into the mind. The mind likes to understand what it sees, and it wants to give everything meaning, that is its purpose. Shifting the mind from the mind/body awareness to the meaning that is beyond our physical scope of understanding is likely to bring fear into the mind. When this happens, take a deep breath and be willing to place your fear aside. Focus your attention just outside of the body. Heaven does not reside in the body, it is higher, so the memory we are attempting to reach is beyond the body's awareness. Remove the attachment that you have given to the object. In fact remove all thought, as much as it is possible, and focus on peace. God is in the breath, so breath deeply and focus on the breath. Stay there as long as you can. If you can make contact for just an instant, that is what you are looking for. You will know you have reached this state by the feelings of peace that are experienced. If you feel peace, you have experienced God.
If you cannot calm down, then wait for another time. Sometimes when everything is just perfect, you slip into this state. The more you join with reality, the more you "see" truly.
Good Luck
Lesson 4
These thoughts don't mean anything. They are like the
things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).
In order to find meaning, we must let go of all of the meaning we have given to everything we see. The mind will not just give up it's meaning, so we will look for ways to find our way around the meaning that our mind has attributed to the objects we see so we can see another meaning. False seeing has blinded us to the possibility that there is something else there. False seeing has given us the impression that reality lies outside of our own awareness, and therefore we are at times at the mercy of our false seeing.
False seeing begins when an internal picture of the outer world is taken without love being present. This is the beginning of self awareness and the self concept that separates our seeing from the whole of God. This picture becomes planted on the mind/body awareness and remains a future reference and it is this picture that reminds us of our physical reality, faults and all, instead of our spiritual one. We may add to thos false reference as time goes on, but once the mind has learned to look away from truth and towards what is false, it continues to do so until we make a conscious effort to lead it back to what has been forgotten.
Communication from the other side or Eternity is based on how we determine what our internal pictures mean. If the spiritual interpretation of our pictures have been removed, when the Holy Spirit is attempting communication with us, we generally give the physical interpretation to the symbol and miss the message He is trying to convey. He must therefore continue to look at the symbol correctly until we also see it they way He is pointing out to us, or the correct interpretation. This is why the early lessons are teaching us that what we see means nothing and that the value of what we see has been lost in a physical explanation. Our cooperation is needed in order to "see" the truth behind what is seen physically so communication at a higher level of mind can be reestablished.
Physical understanding means we have judged what something is for. In order to see truly, our judgment must be removed. Our mind is very powerful and will not just step aside. Once a judgment has been made, we have valued something as real. Reality does not come from the physical realm, it comes from God, Who does not dwell in time. So we are attempting to change our mind by changing the place where information is received.
It is not the thing that must change, it is our judgment on the thing. We do not know how to do this, so we begin to seek for a new method of learning. This is the curriculum of the Holy Spirit. His job is great indeed.
Is it possible to look at something and not add judgment to it and establish its meaning? This may bring up fear into the mind, for thoughts that have established a purpose of an object want us to believe that if we relinquish our belief we will not know how to use the thing in question. Purpose is of God, which means that a chair may still be used for sitting on, but unless we see God in the chair we have excluded it from the wholeness of God, and therefore believe there is something outside of our own awareness. We are being asked to include God in everything to return wholeness to the world. But first it must be returned into our own mind.
This week, we will ask that an object become one with us. We will ask the Holy Spirit to help us include this object so it is a part of our awareness and not apart from us. Do not concentrate on the object. Instead allow your mind to be lifted into a higher state of awareness that is higher than the body. It is already known what you are attempting to do, so you do not have to explain. Allow a holy instant to meet you and allow your mind to embrace the object without doing anything. This may take some time, as the mind is not accustomed to doing this. When you have a quiet moment, attempt this, but if you are not successful, wait and try it again later. You are looking for a feeling of peace. Once the feeling of peace has been experienced, you have been successful, even if you still do not view the object different from a physical standpoint. Something has occurred even if you are not sure what.
Lesson 5
I am never upset for the reason I think.
When we are upset, we believe it is because of an experience that is happening in the physical realm. Something is occurring in the world that is being perpetrated by another that we have no control over, so we are at the mercy of circumstances that seem to be beyond our control. But we are never upset for the reason we think.
When we are born, we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. The spiritual being part of us and the physical experience we are having are like water and oil. They do not mix, and when they become intertwined they produce hybrid offspring in our thought system that must be corrected, otherwise we forget our being and begin to believe, because of the hybrid thought, that we are our physical experience. The mixing leads to internal anxiety, stress, and in many cases pain and disease.
We were not born understanding time. Time is an element that is introduced into our thought system as we mature into adulthood. Therefore, children are not under the same laws that adults are. They do not follow a clock as a reference. Instead they follow their intuition. At some point a shift begins to occur. This shift leads the child out of whole awareness and the intuitive state into self awareness and dependent on a clock and outside circumstances for self explanation. When what we have learned is in opposition to the truth of our being or spirit, correction must occur or we will continue to try to correct what is going on in time, or outside of ourselves. The problem is always within our own thought system. When a violation occurs, for instance a trust violation, we try to get what is outside of our own mind awareness to reestablish trust. But trust is a spiritual ability, not a physical one, so when we try to establish trust in the physical realm we have mixed our spiritual being with a physical experience. We cannot get anything in time to establish trust, so we must look elsewhere for resolution. Just like we shifted away from our whole awareness to time awareness, we must now shift back from time awareness to whole awareness. This is why we are never upset for the reason we think we are. Trust is not a violation of time, it is a violation of our being. Fixing the outside circumstance will not restore our sense of wholeness. It must come from within, so first we must recognize that a violation has occurred.
This week, when something occurs that upsets you in anyway, say to yourself that the reason you are upset is not because of what is happening. See if you can get your mind to reveal the hybrid thought it is holding that needs correction, instead of what is perceived in the world. There is a part of you that will not want to examine the possibility that there is something within your own thinking that is really upsetting you. If you do not turn the examination inward, you will not find the truth, and you will keep the problem. This also does not seem like it will work, because it does not seem logical from a physical standpoint, but it is the only thing that will work. It is like flying a plane by the instruments alone. If you cannot see because of the weather, and trust your physical instincts instead of the instruments, you may crash. Trust that there is something Higher that knows the source of the problem and is waiting for you to acknowledge that there is another way. Without your help, the group of Advisors that has been assigned to you can do nothing.
This is a lesson in learning how to work with your own internal process. The first thing to do is understand that you are not upset for the reason you think you are. This is the first step in correction.
Lesson 6
I am upset because I see something that is not there.
Usually we do not believe something unless we can see it with our own eyes. But what if our eyes deceive us. When Adam and Eve took the symbolic bite of the apple, they were deceived by their desire to see something that was not there. They wanted to "see" what God had withheld from them and believed that by looking at something different than what God taught them their eyes would be open and they would see something else......well they did see something else. What they saw was a world that had been made with fear as their master instead of Love. In truth, God had withheld nothing from them. Everything had been created for their benefit, but now with a new master, fear began to become deposited in their learning experience. The new ability of using fear to interpret a physical reality left God out, and the world became a place where shadows of darkness lurked, and the inhabitants of earth became a victim of their own fearful interpretation of what was being entertained in their own mind.
The reason we are upset at nothing is because it is impossible to "see" without the Presence of God. When we see something that is upsetting it is because we have given the experience an interpretation without God being present. This interpretation is the shadow that is cast in time. The shadow is symbolic of the lack of light. When light is present, the shadow disappears. In order to establish realty back in our own mind, we must first begin to recognize that the ability we have given a physical experience is not greater than the interpretation than God has given to us about our being. This means our interpretation of everything in time must be exchanged for another interpretation, otherwise we are trying to make real our experience without God, and this is impossible. Reality does not come from our private interpretation, it comes from God. Also, God brings purpose and meaning to everything. Without Him, what we see has no purpose, except for the false purpose we have learned through our experience.
This week, we can begin to look at the upsets we see and begin to realize that God does not make upsets, so our interpretation of what is happening needs correction. Before we can move on, we must recognize that we believe we have an ability that we do not have, which is interpretation without God.
The mind does not like to change it's beliefs. When you feel resistance rising, do not try to force your mind to believe what it does not understand. If you resist your mind, you will lose. Remember you are dealing with the most creative force in the universe, so don't resist. Keep yourself quiet and calmly remind yourself when upsets arise, that they aren't real. Being quiet is the true condition of the mind, so by quieting the mind, you bring in higher aspects that were not available while resisting.
Good luck.
Lesson 7
I see only the past.
The mind is an excellent record keeper. The mind (not the brain..the brain is used by the mind to explain a physical reality to itself, or to reinterpret the spirit into physical terms) keeps these records so that it knows how to deal with circumstances that arise in our physical life. The problem arises when a time based idea becomes entangled with our spiritual truth. Thus, a new thought form begins that does not rely on spiritual direction, but instead seeks for truth in time or it looks at a past mistake and relives the mistake over and over again. The mind, being abstract, will allow this thought to dwell within itself and will allow the thought to continue to look in time for a resolution. The mind also recognizes the differences between a spiritual thought and one that is time born in that the time born thought becomes deposited in the physical vehicle that the mind has made. The time born thought then becomes a part of the chemical makeup of the physical body. Because this thought is not spiritually based and is time restricted, eventually the vehicle becomes becomes old because the mind believes the vehicle, or the body, is a part of time. If we examine all of the false beliefs that we have accumulated over the span of our lives, what we come up with is a body that begins to become the false beliefs of the body, which eventually grows old and dies.
When we are under the control of one of these false assumptions, or beliefs, we literally become the belief. The strong contention comes from an error learned in the past. Because these thoughts, which eventually become beliefs, live within our mind, we are responsible for them in the physical realm. In other words, when they "act out" or we succumb to behavior that is insane, we have agreed, if only temporarily, with a thought that has established a false reality. It does this by surrounding itself with other experiences that have been manifested in time to prove that it is right. We then get in trouble for our behavior, or we chastise ourselves for how we have acted. This leads directly to guilt, and so it is guilt that upholds the laws of time. Without behavior that needs correction, there would be no need for time. These beliefs are in denial of the true spiritual nature of our being. The constant strain of looking away from our true spiritual reality that is placed on the mind by our false beliefs that began in error is sin. It is this that needs correction, nothing else.
It is up to us to recognize this false internal communication that is going on and not agree. This is the first step in healing, or leading our mind out of the false assumption that has been made.
There are many mistakes that have been made. We are just beginning to travel down the path that will lead us to true communication and away from the false communication that is leading us away from truth. Recognizing a false belief is the first step.
Lesson 8
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
If our mind is preoccupied with past thoughts, then it would follow that what we are experiencing in our physical reality is only the past. This is because of the creative ability of the mind. The population in general does not recognize the mind as a source of creativity, but when we consider how we create anything we first look to our thoughts because this is where a new idea originates. The idea that it was possible to create a light filament that could light up a room changed the way the world saw in the dark. Such is the power of thought. The thought is the very beginning of the creative process, so it is within our thought system that we must look to find our own reality.
Once the mind makes a decision, it continues to act on that decision as if it were the truth, even if it is not. When we are children, we lack the ability of reason. Many ideas are formed before the ability to reason begins. A decision made before the power of reason thus becomes the way the mind deals with problems it encounters even after the ability to reason is put in place, thus we are always dealing with the past when problems arise.
Imagine asking a 2 year old to resolve a situation. A 2 year old does not have the ability to solve anything at a physical level. That is why a 2 year old has parents. But the child enters the physical realm with a fully functioning mind and also the inability to understand what it is seeing, so it begins to store pictures about what it is beholding so it has a pemanent record. If these pictures do not violate the Laws of Mind, then there is no problem. If there is a violation, which is when the Law of Heaven that the child understands gets entangled in a physical experience, the mind records this as truth and continues to act on this false information as being the truth until the individual's body dies. This is the sin that we hear so much about. Because the mind is so powerful, special provisions had to be made to help the mind move beyond the unreality it made.
Time moves forward, while the universe moves counter clockwise. Every time the mind tries to move forward, it is shifted backwards into the past by the backwards movement of space. We do not believe that we are this powerful or do we believe that we are tied to this force, but consider this; the mind is the most creative force in the universe. It attaches to what it believes is real. Once it enters the time/space continuum it begins to disassociate from Eternity and begins to attach to what the parents believe is real, in every case the parents believe that time and space are real. The disassociation from what is real, or Eternity, and the attachment to the false reality of time and space becomes real in the mind as the child matures until the adult becomes a fully functioning physical entity that makes all of his/her associations based on what they have learned in the past from a physical experience that has nothing to do with Eternal truth. What the mind has attached to, it looks to for its reality. This is why we believe the body is real. The reality of the body is that it is physical. The spiritual nature has all but since been forgotten as the mind begins to only listen to the thoughts that have been stored in the body. These thoughts are based on the past through the mind's record keeping. These thoughts are conflicted because they do not come out of the wholeness of Heaven. When there is a problem, we listen to them instead of finding our wholeness that comes out of Heaven to listen to. Thus we are trapped in a seeming web of deception.
This concept may be difficult and almost preposterous for us to grasp, but as the lessons continue, and you begin to make your own associations to another reality, ask yourself if this is possible. Remember also that the thoughts that have found value in the physical realm do not want you to explore the idea that there is something else. The resistance to what is being heard is resistance from false learning. A child would not resist this teaching, so if there is resistance, where did the thoughts come from that have the ability to do this? Self understanding is the greatest tool we have for transformation. Move beyond this seeming resistance and ask yourself if this is possible. Thoughts only have the ability that we have given them. What we give, we also have the ability to take away. First, however, we are being asked to begin to understand our own power, which lies in our thinking ability.
Lesson 9
I see nothing as it is now.
Now is not a physical concept. If it were, time and space would not be involved. Therefore now is a spiritual concept that is not connected with time and space in any way. Now is associated with our spiritual awareness. Time and space are associated with our physical experience that is a part of the mind/body awareness.
Time and space are at our disposal, but only when we understand the concept of now. Until then, we are usually clock watchers. This means that much of our lives centers around where we are supposed to be at what time. Because our being is spiritual, time interferes with being in the now. We are learning how to collapse time. This opens the way to communciation with the rest of creation that lives in the now. It is up to us to begin to learn the process of slipping out of time and into now. We do this by making a decision. Once we make this decision, we begin a process of detaching from time, and re-attaching to now. Since we do not know how to live in the now, or even where it is, we begin to learn how to access another process of understanding, which was given to us so we could find our way back to now or reality. This process directs us, not only to our own salvation, but that of the world also.
We begin to introduce this by beginning to look at what we think we understand from a physical level (which is backed by time) and tell ourselves that we do not understand the meaning of what we are seeing. This may bring up some unsettling feelings. The mind always wants to understand, because it was created to understand. This feeling of being unbalanced begins a process of the mind having to reach outside of its own understanding to a new level of understanding that is not contained in time. What also may come up is resistance. This resistance is coming from a false belief that is holding time as its reality instead of now. For now, the only thing we are doing is becoming aware of how our mind operates, so begin to pay attention to the different aspects that come from your mind. Resistance can only be felt in the body because reality, or now, resists nothing.
The journey to find now can become intense. The mind does not like change. We are learning how to access a process that has the ability to lead us beyond what we think we know to another realm that can only be found within. This is the other 90% that Einstein spoke of that we do not access. Be assured that as you begin this process, there is another Realm that is watching and also helping you find your Plan that will lead to your happiness.
If you are diligent, you should begin to experience some kind of assurance that you are moving in the right direction. Pay attention to the symbols, coincidences and your dreams. This is a determiner. The more you pay attention, the greater the messages and their ability to help you become.
Lesson 10
My thoughts do not mean anything.
Our thoughts are the most valuable property that we own. Without our thoughts, we would be in a vegetative state, and our life would not be worth living. Next to our thoughts, our physical property has no value because it can be destroyed or will eventually succumb to the weight of time. The only property that we have that is not in subjection to time is our thoughts. This being the case, if we believe we are in subjection to the laws of time, we must carry thoughts that believe that they are in subjection to time and space. These are the thoughts that do not mean anything.
Value comes from God. If we have thoughts that do not mean anything, then we have learned how to think without God. These are the thoughts that proclaim to our mind that time and space and what I behold here are real, and Heaven is not. In order to understand what is real, we must move beyond the false beliefs that have taught us something that is alien to our spiritual nature. It is only when viewed from a different perpective, we can see that much of what we hold to be true is in actuality false, and therefore doesn't mean anything.
False thinking is how we believe we can live beyond our own awareness. This can only be done in a realm of non-existence, or in a place that God does not inhabit. We may find this to be difficult to believe, because we know that God is everywhere. He is, but he can still only be found within the context that was created by Him, which is within our own awareness. Time and space are not within our awareness. If they were, we would not try to move beyond awareness and try to explain ourselves when we are not understood to another. Understanding is within and when we do not understand, we have placed something beyond our own understanding and are in error. We question why someone is doing something, and then explain it to ourselves. This is a thought that does not mean anything. To know is to know truly. It is not to guess.
As we deliberate as to what is true and what is not, we can turn our questioning internally and begin to question ourselves as to whether what we are thinking is real. If this is not a real thought, then our mind will continue to question. With this questioning there will be conflict. The conflict comes from another thought that does not mean anything. A real thought does not require questioning. A false thought will not hold up under scrutiny. Right now we are merely observing our own thinking process. The sorting out comes later.
To become aware of how your own thought process works is amazing. What is really amazing is that we seldom question our own beliefs as much as we question the beliefs of others. Begin to ask questions as to why you hold specific beliefs. This is a step in undoing unreality. We are not used to working with our thoughts, we are used to manipulating our physical reality. Thoughts cannot be manipulated, so we must learn how to play by other rules. The rules will become evident as the lessons go on.
Lesson 11
My meaningless thoughts are showing me a
meaningless world.
This lesson is beginning to take us out of the world of form and into the thinking world. The thinking world is where our power lies, for anything to become form, it must first be a thought. Thoughts originate in the mind, (not the brain. The brain is where the mind stores our memories about the physical experience.) We are in the process of learning how to differenciate between meaningless thoughts, or thoughts that we think without God, and meaningful thoughts. Meaningful thoughts are the ones we think with God.
If we had the physical ability to see our thoughts before they became form, this would be called vision. This is the psychic world that some can tune into and we wonder at their ability. Vision can include both what is false and what is true, so before we can enter this realm, we must be prepared. Otherwise the fear becomes intense and we may find ourselves moving away from what we know naturally and towards form, which we understand.
Before we can enter the land of vision, we must first recognize that it is our thoughts that are creating the world as we see it. This is a slow process because of the fear involved. In other words, to actually "see" what we have made in this physical world may bring us intense feelings of the reverse of what we are to learn. So we begin slowly and take baby steps and allow the process to unfold. We begin to learn by understanding that we do have thoughts that we have made that are in defiance of God's Laws. It is this recognition that allows us to make the next step.
This process is not for sissy's, and God did not leave us without a Helper. This Helper is the Holy Spirit and it is He that has the ability to lead us beyond the fear that we have made to what is real.
At night we have many dreams. Within these dreams reality will unfold and help teach us what is real and what is not. Babies in dreams are symbolic of our own innocent thoughts. Become aware when you dream of babies. They help you recognize your real thoughts. These dream babies have the ability to create with God or they can be snatched away by a fearful physical experience and make a fearful physical experience over and over again. This is the physical experience that appears in many forms, and our day dream is then filled with what we do not want.
Babies are not guilty, and we are here to help lead the innocence that has been lost in time back to its reality, or God. That is why we are not guilty. Our mission is to tune into something greater than this physical experience and bring justice back to our innocent thoughts through recognition of what is happening. The rest is done for us.
Who else would God send to rescue the innocence of Heaven except His Own Son? We are the saviors of the world, it is time to step up to our spiritual agreement by agreeing that we do have something more important to do here than have a physical experience.
Lesson 12
I am upset because I see a meaningless world.
When we become upset, is it not because something has happened that offends our sense of what is right? We then judge what we see because our being has been assailed. But isn't it also true that someone else can view the exact same thing that we judge as being offensive, and this person will not be bothered at all? The contrast lies in our interpretation.
Learning is an ability of the mind, not the brain. The brain is merely a place where re-interpretation occurs. The brain cannot think, so it cannot be turned to when we are experiencing a meaningless world or events that are upsetting to us. The meaningless world arises from our incorrect interpretation of what we see that is based on a past learning experience that violates our sense of being.
Mind is pure energy. Thoughts are an extenstion of the mind, so it follows that thoughts are energy also. The brain, where information is converted to a physical interpretation, is in constant attention by the mind. The mind, once it has attached to the interpretaion in the brain, begins to believes the interpretation in the brain is correct, so if something happens to the brain it believes it will have to accept the damage done and in extreme cases the death of the brain. If it believes it no longer has the correct interpretation to life, it will react to this information. Remember, the brain is where physical interpretation occurs. The mind can be taught to reach outside of the brain and access information that can heal anything.
Thoughts are stored all over the body. We hear these thoughts when they move up into the brain for re-interpretation. We then believe we are thinking with the brain, when in truth what we are hearing is the interpretation of thoughts into the phyiscal experience we are having. Many of these thoughts are harmless. The ones that merely remind us of where we live, who certain people are, etc. are not the ones that cause us problems. The ones that cause an emotional charge in the body, such as when we feel like our heart is breaking because someone has hurt our feelings are the ones that we are learning to deal with. The mind does not know how to interpret a broken heart in physical terms, so it asks the brain what this means physically. After many times of having the heart broken, the end result is a heart attack. The thought can also remain silent for many years, and then without warning it asks for a re-interpretation, and walla...a heart attack insues. Thoughts do not die, and eventally hit their target. This is what we are learning, how we have mis-interpreted our spiritual being into a physical experience. and how to correct this.
Only the mind can think. Meaningless thoughts come out of an incorrectly learned physical interpretation. We make these thoughts, and incorrectly, when we try to make sense out of something that makes no sense. These thoughts attach to the idea of time and space, while our real thoughts are still attached to God. After a while we are only looking at thoughts that we have made, and the sense of offense that we feel when we engage one of these meaningless thoughts. These meaningless thoughts that have attached to our innocence are forcing us to negotiate truth for a lie. This is what we are being asked to heal. Nothing else is being asked of us. We do not have to change the world, or offer our support to anything. We only need join with Who We Are and it is this that will change the world.
Notice this week, your thoughts. Become aware when you are angry or upset in any way. Then realize that you have re-interpreted something and are holding that interpretation in your brain. What has been interpreted incorrectly can be re-interpreted correctly. But for now, we will just become aware of our own thinking process. See what happens.
Lesson 13
A meaningless world engenders fear.
Because the mind always looks for purpose, once the mind has found fear it has found a purpose. If our mind has found fear as a purpose it is because we have found meaning where there is none. For there are only two emotions. One is fear and the other is Love. The meaningless world we have found and have given credence to is not a part of reality when we accept fear as our ally. Not understanding how to cope in a situation where God or Love seems to be absent places us in the position of finding out why we have learned something that is impossible for us to learn. Something that is meaningless carries no possibilities, so we must learn how to place our mind in a space where possibilities can occur. This is beyond what we know at a physical level and can only be experienced from a new view or understanding. In other words, in order to see the world correctly, it must be reinterpreted for us so we can see something else. This is the internal shift that helps us to recognize that it is possible to experience meaning in this world without fear. In order to see this, we must be willing to let go of our interpretation of a meaningless world so meaning can be shown to us. This is our part. To be willing to let go of what we don't want to see so we can see something else.
This week, as events happen in your life, tell yourself that these events are a part of a meaningless world. Now choose to see this situation another way by asking your Internal Guide to show you something else. Remember that in order to see meaning, you must give up all of your physical attachments to the event. Until all of the attachments to the problem are relinquished, there is still value in the valueless in your mind and the problem will be withheld from the healing Light of Love. You might wonder how you can give up all physical attachments to an issue, but as these lessons continue, you will see that by focusing on the physical, the whole Spirit of God is left out.
Lesson 14
God did not create a meaningless world.
Because God is the Creator and Ruler of everything, unless it is under His Authority, or Authorship, it has no meaning. In order to understand meaning, we must understand content. Love, or God, is content and not form.
Love, goodness, happiness, joy, peace, gratitude, abundance, and etc. are not physical attributes, or they do not "come from" anything we have learned in our physical experience. They are qualities that are extended from Heaven into the physical realm, When we pass from the spiritual realm into the physical realm, they are extended into the physical realm by the innocent mind that holds them in the purest sense of the word. When they are uncorrupted by the physical experience, they are still a part of Heaven. Therefore these Heavenly qualities that are being extended into the physical realm via an innocent child have meaning because they are still attached to God.
As the child learns how to chain spiritual innocence to the physical experience, the true content of love becomes corrupted, or sinful. The innocence that truly belongs to Heaven no longer looks to Heaven for its reality. Instead it looks at the physical experience, or form as real. The true Love that envelops innocence can not be seen due to the misinformation that the innocent child has learned. Now it looks to physical form as being real, instead of Love. This is the mistake that must be corrected.
We are told that it takes children to about the age of 7 or 8 to be fully indoctrinated into the physical body. It takes the child this long to "learn" about form reality. In truth, there is no reality in form because form is neutral. What is neutral is not good or bad because it does not have the ability to make a decision, or think, on its own and God did not create a mindless creation. The importance that the mind has placed on the neutral form or body is actually the information that has been stored in the body that tells the mind how to be physical, or have a physical experience. Eventually, the mind looks totally to the information in the body. Because the body is subject to time, and not the Laws of Eternity, the body gets old and dies. When the mind believes it is a body, instead of the Spirit that God created, it believes it is possible to do the impossible, or die. Life is a Spiritual Law, and death is an experience that is not known in Eternity. If we understood this, the body would remain neutral and would not be subject to the laws of time. Instead it would be subject to the laws of mind that was in turn subject to the Laws of Eternity.
This week, as you think, begin to ask for a real thought. Real thoughts are the ones that we usually just allow to move into and then out of our conscious awareness. Real thoughts are unselected memory. As these thoughts arise in your mind, grab hold of them. Informaton is being shared with you from Eternity, and it is up to you to recognize these ancient memories. These memories can lead you back to now, or where your reality is. Be glad and rejoice. You are being shown another way to find your way Home.
Lesson 15
My thoughts are images I have made.
In this lesson we are learning that our thoughts are arising from our own internal images. These images are based on our past experiences learned in time. An image is what is seen as if viewing in a mirror. The images that we see each day are the ones that are being broadcasted off of the mirror of our mind and then projected out on the screen of time. The mind works much the same as a projector does in that whatever is in the projector is what is seen on the screen. When our thoughts have become images, they are not real because we do not share these thoughts with God. They are a false witness that tell us our reality is outside of ourselves and we will have to force or manipulate circumstances in order to get what we want. This is insane because it is impossible to force or manipulate an image. It may seem that we temporarily succeed, but in the end the image remains to reappear in the form of another. The false image, that has become a thought, is what we make that becomes our physical experience. This is the false witnesses that scream at us internally and are the conflicts that we have learned in time. These false thoughts are aware of the the Laws of Spirit and are fearful that God is like them and their fear will be returned from God. Fear does return to the mind of the thinker, but not by the Hand of God, but instead by the mind who holds fearful thoughts. As we begin to learn about our true reality, we are forced to look at what we have made that is out of harmony with eternity. That is why we are in time, because in eternity images of the past are not allowed. Only thoughts that are shared with God are known. These thoughts are our real creations. When we confuse our Spiritual Being with our physical experience, what comes out of this confusion are the false images that are experienced on the walls of time.
God is an expression. He is constantly expressing Himself through us. When we hold an image, we block God from expressing Himself through us. Whereas images, which are associated with experience, are made in the past and kept alive by our associations with them. When we agree with one of these false witnesses, we agree that they are real and God is not. This is what we are being asked to realize and make corrections that will change our mind.
This week become aware of an image that has become a thought. This would be a vizualization or a picture that your mind is holding about a person or a situation. See if you already have a plan as to how tthe ourcome will occur. Do you know how someone else will react or how a situation will be played out? This is the false witness that does not want you to seek somewhere else for your reality. God does not express Himself by showing you an outcome that is not based on reality. Do not try to resist this image, just become aware of this thought. See what you learn about your own thinking process.
Lesson 16
I have no nuetral thoughts.
In the last lesson we learned that the images we have in our physical experience become thoughts that are attached to form. Images that have become thoughts begin to make our reality in the physical realm seem real. These image based thoughts are not attached to our spiritual being because they believe form is real. Thus, our reality becomes projected outwards and we become obsessed with form because we believe the image based thoughts, or idols that they have become, are a part of our reality. These image based thoughts are not without "sin" because we have tried to imprison God's Expression in our will that is now trapped in the mind/body experience, or in form. We are literally using God's Expression as a way to "see" and make real a physical experience. In truth, there is nothing wrong with a physical experience. The problem comes when we believe that the experience is real and God is a part of the experience. God is not an experience. To limit God to an experience is to limit ourselves to the experience instead of His wholeness.
All of our thoughts either believe that the experience is real, or it remains a part of God's Expression and is therefore our Being. We have become so confused, we do not know which is real. That we have no nuetral thoughts is evident. Either we are trying to "do" something with an experience we are having or we are "Being" the truth of who we are. These are the only options that we have. The problem arises from our inability to recognize what is real and what is not. To us, it all feels real because the mind believes it is.
Because none of our thoughts are nuetral, each have the ability to create. The ones that are based on our experiences, create destructively. The ones that we share with God are constructive. It is obvious which ones are beneficial and which ones are not.
This week, pay attention to your thoughts. The ones that are obviously based on past experience bring about stress, turmoil or conflict. For now, just become aware of your own thinking process so the beginning of the separating of the "sheep from the goats" can begin to occur. Sometimes all that is needed is our recognition that a mistake is being made to set us on the road to reality.
Lesson 16
I see no neutral thoughts.
Time and space are neutral. This world is neutral. The universe is neutral. What changes the neutrality of time, space, the world, and the universe are our thoughts. So in order to change what we behold, it is necessary to examine our thoughts.
When I "see" something that I do not like in my outer world, this is my thought that is not neutral. My mind, which is creative in nature, is using my thought to create destructively that which I am beholding. Because I do not like the way this thought "feels" I think I have the ability to move it outside of myself and project it onto what I believe is outside of me. This is called projection. It arises from something that has contaminated my spiritual nature and has imprisoned my will. In order to keep me from looking at the imprisonment of my will, I look outside of myself to "see" something that is not there. That way I do not have to be responsible for my own thinking, and I can blame someone else for how I feel. All the while, my will remains trapped in the nightmare of my own choosing.
Our will is as free as God's Will. When it becomes imprisoned, it is under the direction of the ego. The ego does not want us to "look" at what has been done, so it surrounds our imprisoned will with fear. This fear insures that our will remains captive and under the influence of the ego. Being under the captive influence of the ego means that the Light that we share with God is serving an illusion. We are here to release God's Light. This release comes when we decide to unchain our own imprisoned will and heal the past. This is the Plan for the salvation of the world. As light is released, it is shared with the world. Time collapses because the guilt factor no longer has a bearing on the Light, or our will. Because there is no where that peace does not exist, peace comes at last to those who were sharing the nightmare. The realization that it is impossible to establish a place where the peace of God is not is learned and time ceases to be in the mind that believes in projection. With this realization, time then becomes a part of eternity. Freedom to the world has come.
This week notice your thoughts without judgment. Notice your thoughts about what you think someone else may be thinking. Then tell yourself that this thought is not neutral. Ask your Internal Guide to show you how this thought is being used against you. Pay attention to your dreams. There are many opportunities that present themselves when you are working with the Holy Spirit and he will continue to show you until your question is answered, so be aware and wait for His answer. His answer always comes to the quiet mind. This is how we "hear" His answer to us. He must live under Laws that God created, and peace is the nature of eternity.
Lesson 18
I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing.
It has been established that what is seen in mind are images that have been formed through an experience that has been learned while having a physical experience. In other words, images that have been formed in our mind while having an experience become our reality and are then played over and over again in our mind and seem to be real when the the image is played back to us by individuals that we see in our life. To take this to another level, we can examine our outer world and see what we are looking at collectively or as a whole of what mankind sees. What we may see collectively is war, poverty, evironmental catastrophe, and etc. In order to see this in another way, we must withhold our agreement or our judgment about this collective seeing. This does not mean that we resist what we think we see, we just understand that these things are impossible because God would not make a reality such as this that includes anything in anyway that would add to our demise or the world's demise.
There is another way of seeing the world that is not usually recognized. This seeing is internal and involves how we think rather than accepting the image that is being projected off of our mind as being real. Our choice then becomes to change our mind about the image that we believe we see and bring the image into our mind where the image can be healed. Our mind was created to look for what is the same. It does this by establishing, at a deep level, our interpretation of others. This image that we hold is projected off of our mind and then into time to show us our physical reality. This image produces feelings that tell us how we should feel about particular individuals. I noticed this myself when I realized that I could find traits in one individual that I connected to another. Eventually I realized that all of the people I knew were recycled because my mind looked for the same characteristics that then showed me my reality through my own recognition or projection. We all do this, but seldom do we realize to what extent. For instance we all know one person that reminds us of another person. What differentiates these people are the individual personality characteristics that are particular to the individuals experiences, but what initially draws us to specific people is what our mind already knows from the image that has been formed. This is a Law of Mind and is called looking for what is the same. But in eternity what is the same are the feelings of love, joy, peace, etc. Here, in the physical realm, what is the same is based on the image that is held in mind. The Law has been distorted because an image should not invoke any feelings. The image is a picture that does not hold reality. Reality is defined by God, not the personal images we hold. Feelings come from Heaven, not from our physical experience.
Seeing is also a way of understanding another. When we see a person as being mean, hateful, manipulitive, etc, we are seeing him/her through an image that is held in our mind. We are being asked to withhold our judgment, which involves our feelings. This helps heal our mind and also the other person who's picture has been distorted by an image that is held in our mind and is out of step with reality. The image we hold is the one that is shared until correction is made. We seek for conformation of what we see by looking for those who agree with us about our incorrect image.
When we remove our judgment of the image, what we see is not harmful in any way. If we see something that is harmful it is because we are seeing something that is not there. These are our own images or filters and they are in violation of Spiritual Law and need correction. It is up to us to begin the correction process by recognizing that an error has been made.
This week, be an observer. See if you can tell if what you are seeing is real. If what you are seeing is not kind, and you are agreeing with the unkindness seen, then you are seeing through an image. Reality does not agree with an image projected onto time, it agrees with truth. Be patient and be willing to begin to see this differently and see what happens.
Lesson 19
"I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts."
The last lesson taught us that we were not alone in experiencing the effects of our seeing. Now we are learning that we are not alone in experiencing the effects of our thoughts. Up until now, learning this information, we have not paid too much attention to our thinking. We have believed our thoughts were private and not up for discernment by anyone. Now we are learning that our thoughts are experienced by others. So we are being asked to examine our thoughts and pay attention to what we are thinking. How are we thinking about someone else? Do we think about a disease that perhaps a loved one has, or perhaps it is just a friend. It is just possible that associating a disease with another increases the effects of the disease? We can be sure that our thinking is in one way or another sharing grief if our thoughts are not being shared in happiness.
How about our children? Do we wish they would get their life in order, or do we think about how we are going to "tell" them that what they are doing with their life is not to our liking and that we want them to straighten up? How well does this work? If our plan to tell another does not work it is because we are trying to interfere with a Plan that was made for them in this life by a Higher Authority. Do we really think we know better than the Authority of how things are supposed to work? Telling someone else how to live their life is a projection of guilt. Perhaps we need to have our thoughts reinterpreted so that our mind is at peace. Peace does not come to us by thinking how we control someone else. It comes from us and extends to those we love and into the world as we learn how to ask our Internal Guide the right questions.
It may happen also that when we withdraw our projection of guilt onto another, we make ourselves guilty. This is also a violation of Spiritual Law. Instead of projection onto another or guilt turned inward, we are told to give all guilt to the Holy Spirit and let Him deal with the it. This removes us from being personally responsible for what we cannot handle and think we should and also guilt that we believe we or another deserves. It takes time to learn how to do this, but this is what time is for.
This week become aware of your thinking process. What are you thinking when you think about another. What are you thinking when you are thinking about yourself? Whatever it is, you can be assured that you are sharing these thoughts at a level that is above the hearing level of the body. Is what is being thought about really something that you want to share? If not, then ask for it to be reinterpreted so it can be seen in another light.
Lesson 20
I am determined to see.
Within our mind lies memories. These memories either lead us to our past or they lead us to our relationship with God or now. Past memories are stored on the walls of the body, or they are contained within the cells. If the memory of a past experience that lies in a cell was learned in error, it may infect the cells surrounding it or it may cause us physical pain. The pain or disease stems from a psychological pain that the mind does not know how to deal with, so it is stored in the body. This is one of the ways the mind re-interprets a spiritual truth into a physical experience. This is done through the brain. The brain re-interprets our psychological pain into physical pain into whatever form it can. Be it outside of us, or inside the body. When it is outside the body, it seems as though someone else is causing our pain. When it is inside the body, it is self evident. We see the conflict as being something that is out of our control, so we believe we have to do something to make things right. Doing is not in the realm of Being so we have learned, incorrectly, that we can be aware of something that has the ability to take our power away from us. These are false memories made from the image of time that the mind has stored in the body. Time cannot help us find our way back to our spirit where we can regain control by "being" something other than the problem.
When we are determined to see, we make a determination to move beyond the false image memories that we are being shown through the pictures that are held in our mind/body illusion. These pictures do not show us our reality because they are pictures of our past experiences, so we want to learn to move into higher awareness that has the ability to show us something else or lead us to now.
Just like we used the brain as an interpreter to show us our physical awareness, we now need another Interpreter to show us that there is another reality that has nothing to do with time. This is what we want to see, and this is what we are determined to see. This Interpreter is our Guide and is known as the Holy Spirit. He was created by God specifically to Help us find our way back to our Being while having a physical experience. He lives in our mind, as does the ego, but the ego does not have access to our Guide, we do. The ego can only interpret from form. So when we "see" a form that seems to be causing us pain, be assured it is the ego. When we choose to transform the form, something else is revealed. It is this that we are determined to see.
This week, if you become upset, see if you can identify the form. Try not to become involved in the raging of the ego. We are told that we only need be willing to see things another way, and it is this little willingness that has the ability to lead us to seeing something else that was not evident before.
Lesson 21
I am determined to see things differently.
Being determined to see begins to open a place that we have closed off. When we are born into the physical realm, we have a connection in our brain that is our communication link to the spirit realm. As we become more indoctrinated into the realm of the physical, this connection begins to close, not literally, but because we are focused on what we see externally, our internal seeing becomes stagnant. Eventually we stop giving any credence to this seeing. Around the age of forty, the shift becomes concrete, and our seeing is totally physical. This is why most have a shift in their vision around that age and need some kind of assistance with their vision as in wearing glasses. We are attempting to open the channel that has been closed by becoming determined to see. As with everything when we are learning to look towards our spiritual nature, we must ask for eveything and agree to the gifts that are awaiting us. This is why our agreement is necessary.
Learning how to see spiritually is a different way of understanding. Many of our dreams are filled with this kind of seeing, and this is the communication of Heaven. We do not understand these symbols because we understand the symbols of time. As we shift our awareness to something greater, our communication abiltity becomes stronger because our awareness of higher realms begins to occur as we study the symbols that we are receiving. Studying the symbols shows that we are interested in seeing another way. As we take these symbols in and digest them, we suddenly find we understand what they mean. The higher communication process has opened and we are on our way to expanding our awareness beyond the physical realm into the spirit realm where our true state of Being lies. It is the Being level that we are seeking to understand so our thoughts are not out of alignment with Heaven. We already know how to do, our physical experience has taught us this.
This week, by making a committment to seeing things in a different way, begin to notice symbols or thoughts that may drift into your awareness. As these new thoughts float into awareness in the way of pictures or feelings or perhaps auditory, see if the symbolic seeing somehow relates to a problem in your life that has eluded a solution. This may or may not happen. We are learning how to readapt our thinking, so be patient.
In the spirit realm, to see is to understand. In this realm, we do not necessarily understand what we see. This is why we have been getting the previous lessons, because we do not understand what we are seeing because the interpretation we have given it is without any reference to our Creator, who is not absent anywhere or in anything. The only place in creation that it is possible to "see" without God is in time, so we are attempting to bring God into our seeing by adjusting time to our new awareness. Thus God enters time through us and time is then healed through our awareness of seeing Him. Without reestablishing a connection to Heaven, it is impossible to "see" or understand what the true value of anything is. This is the reason we are determined to see, for if we see without the Presence of God, we do not see anything.
Lesson 22
What I see is a form of vengence.
"Vengence is mine sayeth the Lord." This was obviously written by someone who did not fully understand the attributes of God. Vengence is a form of projection, and if we get the idea that God acts vengefully, then it must be alright for us to do the same. After all, we were created in His Image.
The Spiritual Law of Cause and Effect governs vengence, just as it governs Love. The difference is that the Law of Cause and Effect, when used for the purpose of vengence, is violated or the Law is broken. Just as it is in this world, when we break law, we will pay the price. Breaking Spiritual Law must be recognized otherwise the mistake continues and we will get what we do not want. Spiritual Law governs the mind, where all thoughts originate, so instead of looking at behavior, or the effects of our thinking, we are being led to the source of our thinking where everything originates from. Once we recognize the error in our thoughts, we can change our mind and our mind will move in another direction.
The mind does not understand behavior, it understands thoughts. When we judge, our judgment of another's behavior joins with our thoughts, which is also the creative process and thus the contamination process begins. The mind then looks at our contaminated thoughts and makes a determination of how to best create with the thoughts that are in it. If our thoughts are of judgment and vengence, these are the thoughts our mind creates with. This makes sure we receive more of what we do not want. This is the Spiritual Law of Giving and Receiving, but of course it is violated.
(This is a note from my own experiences: It is very difficult to get your mind to chase another thought through creative visualization when it has already established its reality from a thought in the past. This is why, many time visualization does not work, or works very slowly. We are being taught how to let go of a memory that has roots in the past and retrieve our present memories that we hold with God. To do this, we must be willing to try another way of healing that is not commonly known and can only be introduced into an individual mind with the Help of a Guide that knows that particular persons mind set, or the way they think.)
When all we see is a form of vengence, a correction has to occur, or we will continue paying the penalty for the vengence that is originating within our own mind. This is why we are determined to see and understand. If we can see and understand our own mind process, we can begin to make corrections. I am never upset for the reason I think, when seen as our own vengence returning to us, we can see it is not an outside influence that is causing our problem, in fact it is coming from within our own mind.
This week, when perceived vengence stares you in the face, begin to question yourself as to how this vengence originated within your own mind. This will throw the ego off balance because it is used to you agreeing with the projection. Tuning into your own internal process is a way for you to bring Help from the Higher Realms, that can help you find what the source of the real problem is. If you want Help from the Higher Realm, always be sure to ask. If we do not ask, we do not receive. It is considered extremely rude on the other side to get involved with a thought process until Help is asked for.
Lesson 23
I can escape the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.
There is another world that we have the ability to see, but in order to see this world, we must give something in exchange. What we give in exchange is our attack thoughts. These are the thoughts that produce the guilt that are the cause of this world the way we see it now. In order to see the other world, we go within, for this kind of seeing is not given to the world except from our own mind.
There is no point in trying to change the world. There is no point in lamenting the unfairness of it. It doesn't mean anything, except for the meaning we have given it. If we see it as unfair, then we will receive what we give. This is Spiritual Law violated and used against our free will. It is only here, in time, that it is possible to use our free will against ourselves.
At our Being level we are psychological. At our physical level we have physiology. Psychology is of the mind. Physiology is of the body and therefore the brain. When psychology takes a back seat to physiology, then problems emerge. The information we have stored in the brain about our physical experiences confuses our mind and as we begin to believe the physical experience is true, we begin to look outside of our own mind, or psychology for truth. But truth does not eminate from time, it eminates from God and is shared through our mind. This makes God the Cause of all and we are His Effects. When we believe that there is something outside of our own mind that has some kind of ability, these are attack thoughts. The false witness is the belief, or what we made, to explain our false creations to ourselves. Because the mind does what we want it to, it places a false authority under physiology or material matter and we believe we have to "do" something to compensate for the mistake or make a correction. All of this is being projected into the world, but we have the ability to withdraw our false beliefs and place our mind under Spiritual Law or where the psychology of the mind is in a sane environment. But we need help doing this.
Special provisions have been made to help us move our mind to a place of protection. This is what the miracle is for. This is also the job of the Holy Spirit, Who God placed in our mind to help lead us back to the fundamental psychology of the mind.
There are ideas that are higher then the physical ones we are used to thinking with. These are ideas of peace, joy, happiness, love, etc. Up until now we have been accustomed to believing that these ideas eminated from the body. If they do then they are under the influence of physiology and are being falsly played out in time. We have the ability to move beyond the body by relaxing the body and putting to sleep the false beliefs that are in the mind/body awareness. While they are asleep, we can move into a higher awareness and become peaceful. Peace is the state where Love abides and seeks to share Itself. Practice this and see what happens.
Lesson 24
I do not perceive my own best interests.
When our own best interests are not perceived it is because we have learned something incorrectly, therefore we will pursue that which will seem to harm us.
The mind was created to find purpose, even if the purpose is not in our own best interest, it will pursue that. The purpose of what we do not want is precisely this, we do not want it. What we do not want began as a judgment of what we didn't want, and it was this judgment that made it real in our mind. Once it was real, guilt was projected onto another for what they "did". This guilt was then stored in our mind for further explanation for future circumstances that arose that were similar in nature. This is why we, at a level that we are barely conscious of, are insane. It is this insanity that drives us to keep creating from a destructive past that was learned in error.
We are under the assumption that we pursue that which we desire, but when what we desire at a purely psychological level what is harmful, our best interest is lost because our perception has been distorted by guilt. The Course tells us that our guilt looks attractive to us and we pursue it with a vengence, and then we attack it once it is in our grasp. The unrecognition of this pattern, because the symbol that is represented from our past changes keeps us repeating the same mistake over and over again, until we finally recognize that we do have a problem and it must be resolved. It is here, when the pain becomes unbearable, that we finally seek help. It is here that we can direct our mind to sanity.
Consciousness is directive, it is not creative. Our creative ability lies in the awareness of our mind. There is a mind/body awareness and a mind/spirit awareness. One comes from our doing nature and the other comes from our Being nature. Doing is physical, Being is spiritual. There is nothing wrong with doing, but there is a correction that has to be made in the order. Being is greater than doing and when Being is placed under the direction of doing, fear is the directive and guilt is the outcome. Guilt is sin and sin is breaking Spiritual Law by believing we are an experience and so we do out of fear of having an experience that we do not want, and get anyway because of our fear.
We are not asked to be aware of all of the Laws that have been broken by us all at once, we are being asked to join our will with the Will of God so our Being can be released into the world so it can be healed. The means to do this will be given as we journey through time. The more individuals that make this decision, the easier it is for others to heal and see results as the world makes a shift from physical law to Spiritual Law. As we heal, the world that we perceive that is full of terror shifts, and we begin to behold something else. The terror that we believe is in the world cannot reside beside Love, and so it vanishes. Love and fear cannot co-exist. To accept one, we must let go of the other.
This week, when you notice something that you really desire, ask yourself if there is fear involved that revolves around something you have to do or you will experience something you do not want. In other words you will have to do what you don't want to get what you do want. Just notice the conflict and how difficult it is to move beyond the doing level of awareness. Right now, just notice.
Lesson 25
I do not know what anything is for.
We are learning how to establish communication with the eternal realm. The way we do this is by learning how to establish goals that are in line with our Guide or the Holy Spirit's
Curriculum. If we try to set a goal and the conditions that we learned in the past obstruct our goal, then we must have our goal reinterpreted for us so we understand what it is we are really asking for. Otherwise we only get the past. Goals that were set before we had a correct understanding of how the physical realm operated keep us in hell, so these goals must be reinterpreted so we are not bound to unhappy experiences that continue all of our life until we decide to make a correction.
Our mind is a perfect record keeper. The record keeping occurs within the awareness of our mind. The decision process is how we access this awareness. We can learn how to set goals that will help us change decision's made incorrectly from the past that will change the record that the mind has kept. To do this we must first recognize that we do not know what our goal is for. For instance, if I want to set a goal to make money, higher realms of mind do not understand the concept of money, so our mind must learn a reinterpretation of money so that it takes on a spiritual flavor. Learning the true interpretation of money in the mind shifts our mind to a spiritual understanding that may have nothing to do with money as we perceive it as something we must have to live in the physical realm. Understanding money from a spiritual context causes our mind to "see" or understand that it is not the money that has value, it is us that brings value to the money. The value of money may change to reflect that money is not the goal, it is a tool to reach the goal. For instance, if I wanted to build a house, my goal would be to build a house. If money is a tool, we can use money to represent a hammer. If I am so busy trying to find a hammer, my goal of building a house gets lost in my upside down thinking and I never accomplish my goal. Our goals must be whole and complete and placed in the proper perspective. Until this happens, we do not know what the goal is for.
As we learn how to understand the language of Heaven, we learn how to look for telltale signs that lead us to the accomplishment of our goals. In eternity there is perfect rhyme and reason. Now we are being asked to find that rhythm and become a part of it so we are not trying to play our own music that is out of accord with Heaven's Song.
Our mind does not want to give up what it already thinks it knows unless we lead it to a place where there is another interpretation that makes more sense. The mind was created to be reasonable. As we learn how to set goals with our Internal Guide, we learn that our goal setting process was just a little distorted.
This week take a simple goal, it could be as simple as going to the store, and tell yourself that you do not know what the goal is for. This does not mean that you will not make a list, it means that you will withdraw all expectations when you go. Our expectations about what will occur obscures the goal and distorts our joy of going to the store. The reason we do now know what going to the store is for is because we do not know what Spiritual Law is for. We are setting goals to find our happiness. See what happens.
Lesson 26
My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
It is obvious that we do not always recognize when we are attacking. Attacking to protect will not protect us because protection is a stand for what is right. What is right and real is not a physical understanding, it is a spiritual one. When we attack to defend, this is the ego's solution for protection. Attacking to defend is how we attack our invulnerability.
In the spiritual realm, everything is quite specific. In time, we have incorrectly used Spiritual Law to defend why we attack, and we do a pretty good job of explaining why we believe it is right and proper to attack. However, when we attack we are in violation of a Spiritual Law and are actually attacking the Laws we claim we are defending and we will pay the price. Not because we are being punished, but because the violation places us at odds with the Laws of God. God's Laws are perfectly able to protect that which is His.
Nothing here is real except the Love that has moved through our mind and has been given to the world that is still a part of God. Everything else is in such stark contrast, dissary and distorted, and what has arisen is terror and is being played out on the walls of time; the only realm it is possible to view terror as being real. Attacking terror attacks our beng of invulnerability because it makes it real in our own mind. If we learn how to remove our judgment, and thus our attack we will find something else. What we will find are the Laws of God and it is here that we will find real protection. God's Laws cannot protect us from a terror we believe is real until we learn how to change our mind. Our defense of what we believe we see keeps us from experiencing His Love that has the ability to extend through our mind and change what we see to truth. This is accomplished through a re-interpretation by the Holy Spirit. His goal is to change our attack thoughts and make them a part of the atonement. The atonement has the ability to see through the terror and show us the real reason for our attack, thus uniting the attacker and the attacked and taking the emotional charge out of the situation. We do not know how to do this for ourselves, and so we learn how to rely on our Internal Guide that has the ability to lead us to another Reality that has nothing to do with the world the way we understand or see it now.
What we choose to see is up to us, but as we begin to choose, be aware that the Atonement has the ability to see through any problem we may find ourselves in. As long as we place our mind under the protection of the Atonement while healing, the gift of the Atonement has the ability to reach beyond our mind to sooth and offer stability to our own conflicts and thus the world terror. This includes the insane weather patterns and all world conditions that are out of control. This is one of the special provisions that have been afforded us during this time. We are responsible for our fear, and as we learn how to move beyond the insanity of fear, we find ourselves under the Laws of God. These Laws are higher than the laws of man and have the ability to over ride them.
Pay attention to your thoughts this week. Attack is subtle, and is considered any form of projection, because nothing exists outside of our own mind. We want to learn how to use our mind to extend God's Love to heal the world instead of project the ego, and thus projected guilt out into time. What we receive is the clue as to what we have extended or projected. If there is more fear, then we have attacked. If there is peace, we have extended an attribute that is real. It will take all of us to change the pattern that is going on now, but our dependence on the interpretation of the Holy Spirit is crucial. Good luck.
Lesson 27
Above all else I want to see.
Before we could see physically, we could see spiritually. Our spiritual vision represents our true understanding. When we exchanged spiritual understanding with our eyes and began to believe what our eyes told us, our spiritual understanding was lost in a physical experience. The strain of judging our physical experience with our physical vision and taking pictures of the unreality we perceive in time becomes a burden to the body's eyes, and eventually the strain gives way to an artificial need for corrective vision, or glasses.
When we make the decision to see above all else, we invite the Holy Spirit to help interrupt the process of physical seeing and introduce spiritual understanding. Because spiritual understanding is wholeness, nothing is left out and if there is no fear in healing, our physical vision is also included in this process.
When we accept seeing from a spiritual context, we can learn from what we see because we are choosing to let go of the interpretation we have given to our physical world. With our old interpretation out of the way, a new understanding slips past the old and the new is introduced. Because the mind seeks for meaning in eveything, this new understanding becomes the focus of the mind. What is now seen is reflected off of the mirror of the mind into time and this is the extension of God's Will into into the world.
What we now have, is the old world being reflected off of the mind of the one who believes experience is real and is under physical law and the New World being reflected off of the mind that is now operating under Spiritual Law, and this Law is being reflected into the world to heal it. Because physical law does not uphold or reflect the Laws of God, it must give way to what is real. Thus, reality is found and the world now has meaning. This is all done through our desire to see truly.
This week, if you see something that you would like another understanding for, because what you see is causing you anx or stress, ask your Internal Guide to help you see this another way. We have been given assurity that He will never fail in offering us a new explanation if we ask. This is a new way of internalizing information, so be patient and learn the process. There is a distinct difference between how the ego operates and how our Internal Guide helps us. The more quiet we are, the more we are able to hear our truth. This is a lesson in giving faith to truth.
Lesson 28
Above all else I want to see things differently.
Last week our lesson dealt learning how to use vision. We learned that above all else we wanted to see. Now the lesson is more specific as it points us to "we want to see things differently." So what are the things we want to see differently?
We all have problems, whether they have to do with a physical ailment, money, work, children, and etc. These problems are specific to us, so the Course asks us to look at our specific problems and tells us that there is another way of seeing the problem that is different then what our experience of the problem is.
At our true level, we are psychological beings. Because of our experience in the physical realm, we believe our physiology needs correction when a problem arises. This amounts to the form that a particular problem seems to be taking. So the problem is merely a symbol, or a physical representation of what is really wrong. The truth is that the problem is not physical, but instead psychological and as we try to correct the problem physically, we leave out the power of the mind. The mind needs correction because the problem has been projected to the body or outside of our own awareness where there is no reality. This also means that we have left out God, or our Source to help us in our correction because God cannot help us "out there," so a process was developed to convert our physical interpretation of the problem back into a psychological process so we can "see" the problem is not real. This seeing from a psychological point of view instead of a physical point of view places us back under the Laws of God, or Spiritual Law, and we understand that we are not physical beings at all, but Spiritual Beings that have a direct connection to God. This heals the mind by showing us that what we have believed is false and the problem dissapears. This is the miracle.
Salvation asks nothing of us except that we are willing to see a problem differently. We are not asked to sacrifice or compromise, but merely to see things another way. This week, look at a problem that is reoccuring in your life and ask to see it differently. You will set into motion a whole set of circumstances that wil lead you to a place where another interpretation can help you see the truth, or the psychological truth. As you choose this alternative, there are special provisions that are set in place, and as long as there is no fear, you are protected from the ravages of time. This is one of the special provisions that have been afforded us at this time. Use it.
Lesson 29
God is in everything I see.
If God is not evident in everything we see it is because we have given it an interpretation that does not have an explanation of omnipotence. Therefore we have established a condition that is impossible within our own awareness. Correction is necessary, otherwise the purpose for what is seen is attached to guilt. The reason being is; what we leave out of wholeness is projected into time and is evidence that God is not real and the ego is. This leaves us with a feeling of being responsible for our guilt. We will now try to make a correction, but because of our belief that reality exists outside of our own awareness, we will try to correct the world where our guilt lies. Our responsibility for guilt lies in the recognition that we have it, because until we do we will try to make another guilty so we can "get rid" of the uncomfortable feelings arising from the guilt.
One of the things we can recognize is if there is a guilt feeling present anger will appear. Anger is a our reaction when we try to make another guilty for their actions. In our spiritual state, we only act. In our physical state, it is possible to act and react, but as we learn of our spiritual nature we learn that reaction at an emotional level must be examined. Otherwise we confuse the feelings in the mind/body awareness with Who We Are or our true state of awareness. These false feelings that produce guilt are what we have made to explain a physical experience so we can relate to our experience. But the experience is not real, we are, and anger projected onto an outside experience makes form real and the content, which is of our spirit, is not recognized when it is hidden behind anything that is not Love.
This lesson is an effort to teach us that God is in everything we see. If we could see Him, we would not attack Him because we would recognize Him as our own Love Source, and therefore unworthy of attack. We are asked; how can you make unreal what you have established as being real? We are now in a dilemma because once our own mind is confident of its belief, even it is it wrong, we have to find a way around the belief so something new can be introduced. In other words, a new interpretation must be introduced into our mind so we can see that the guilt belief we hold is in error. The new interpretation is the one that we ask for from our Internal Guide, or the Holy Spirit. Our Guide sees our guiltlessness, or innocence, and is able to look beyond our feelings of guilt (which is forgiveness) and lead us to a safe haven. Even if we are not ready to look at the guilt we are projecting, when we recognize that we are carrying a false belief, we can ask our Guide to remove the consequences of our mistake. Without our asking, nothing happens and we will experience the consequences of guilt based thinking.
Have you been trying any of the suggestions? Are they working? We are in the midst of changes that have never occurred in the world. These changes are making way for a New World that is an extension of God's Love, but it is up to us to see it before it can be extended. Seeing it is the vision that precludes the actual changing of the world. Vision does not see with physical eyes, it is internal and leads to the New World. As we learn to use vision, we see God in everything and the meaning now becomes real, because only His Love is real.
