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Study of Text, Chapter 9, VIII. Grandeur versus Grandiosity, P 5. 4-13-15

VIII. Grandeur versus Grandiosity, P 5
5 From your grandeur you can only bless, because your grandeur is your abundance. By blessing you hold it in your mind, protecting it from illusions and keeping yourself in the Mind of God. Remember always that you cannot be anywhere except in the Mind of God. When you forget this, you will despair and you will attack.

Journal
I remind myself that I am in the Mind of God. I do this often. Probably the reminder I use nearly every day is that My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy, and there is nothing my holiness cannot do. I bless others when I envelope them in my holiness. I use these reminders often because it is still easy for me to forget that I exist in the Mind of God.

Everything exists in the Mind of God or it doesn’t exist at all. If I see anything as existing outside the Mind of God, and I do this when I see guilt in anyone, I automatically eject myself from my Home. While I cannot actually do this, I can believe I do, and what I believe is real for me, and thus I suffer as if it were true.

The reason an absolute like this is easy for me to forget is because I chose to experience myself as outside the Mind of God, and then chose for the great amnesia to cover the truth. It makes for a very realistic experience, but it also makes it feel hard to recover my memories. I will be doing fine and then I will see something in the illusion that I am still attached to and, whoop! down the rabbit hole I go.

A Course in Miracles is my ladder out of the rabbit hole. When I am in despair, or when I am at war with myself or someone else, anytime I am not happy, I ask the Holy Spirit to correct my thinking, because I know that it is my thinking that attracted me to the rabbit hole to begin with. I will begin to remember what Jesus tells me through the Course, and with each true thought, I climb another rung until I am free of the insanity once more.

Sometimes, I just walk around that rabbit hole. One of these days I will stop peeking in to see if there is anything interesting there, and then I won’t slip in anymore. Soon, I hope. Every time I climb back out, I swear I am never going back in, and when my mind is clear, I can’t imagine choosing the ego again. I do see that I am not as attracted to what might be down that hole as I used to be and so don’t go there as often. I also see that it is easier to find the ladder than it used to be and that I am quicker to lose interest in ego thoughts, and that encourages me.

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