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Bryan Rice is a Pathways of Light ministerial candidate living in Canandaigua, New York.    Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

As we discussed this paragraph, the following imagery came to my mind. I used to go to a hypnotherapist to deal with anxiety and depression, so I imagined walking into a hypnotherapist’s office and had an appointment with Dr. ego. Dr. ego told me to lie on the couch and put me into a trance state. It told me that when I walked out of the office I would remember everything he told me and that I would believe it as truth and act from that belief. It told me I was unworthy, guilty, that other’s were to blame for my unhappiness. It told me I had a right to fear the world because it was a dangerous place and I would continually have to defend myself if I was to be safe. It told me to trust no one and to continue to seek his guidance. It told me that peace was impossible because this world was a place of conflict and war. It told me that God was to be feared and that God would punish me with sickness, lack and death. In fact, it told me it was god and that God was dead. Dr. ego never awakened me from the trance and I left the office in a trance fully believing everything I heard in the trance state.

However, I did feel some discomfort and I didn’t understand why. I certainly wasn’t in a state of peace. As I was walking out of the building, I passed by another office that said Dr. Holy Spirit, You are welcome to come in and experience peace.

So, something told me to go into that office. Dr. Holy Spirit gently guided me to lie on the couch. He gently told me I was in a trance state. He knew that because he had many other patients who had come from Dr. ego’s office. He told me he would awaken me from the trance state and return me to a peaceful state and to remembering the Truth of my Reality.

As I was lying there, I heard these beautiful words: “You are innocent… Your Holy Father Who created you loves you… You can never be harmed… God created you as an extension of His Love. You are very holy.

“No harm can ever come from you… You are under the laws of Love and are safe… I, your Holy Spirit, was given to you as the Voice for God… God knew that when you fell into a trance state believing you separated from Him, I was put into your Mind to help you awaken from the trance and to remember the Truth that you are Love and guiltless and Perfect Love.

“Please know that in Perfect Love, there is no lack, sickness or death. God’s Will for you is happiness. Know too that you can come to me anytime. There is nothing to fear. Dr. ego has no power; it’s all a hallucination. It’s a dream. And I am here to awaken you out of the trance state.”

After I left Dr. Holy Spirit’s office I felt such peace. I felt like Sleeping Beauty who just awoke from a long dream after being kissed by prince charming. Holy Spirit is my prince charming Who is awakening me from the ego trance and returning me to the Love and Peace of God.

I love the prayer in Workbook Lesson 228: God has condemned me not. No more do I.

“Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the Source from Which I came. I have not left that Source to enter in a body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of You. And my mistakes about myself is dreams. I let them go today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I really am.” (W-pII.228.2:1-6)

So in answer to the question, “Do I have an ego, Am I My ego?” The answer is no, no, no; It is just an hallucinating thought I had while in a trance state and if I give it no power, it has none. All power comes from God who created the Sonship as Perfect Love.

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October-December, 2016

Simply Do This

by Rev. Maura Williams, O.M.C.

At a recent study group a fellow study buddy made the comment that “to go from using the ego thought process to the Holy Spirit’s thought process was much like ending an abusive relationship. It makes you wonder why you stayed so long and put up with the abuse.” I’ve been thinking about this ever since.

The most abusive relationship I ever had is the one I have with myself. It doesn’t matter what happens or has happened. It’s never about the people or circumstances outside of me. It’s all about how I perceive and process the things I experience.

We all have things in our lives we wish we didn’t say or do. In this, I’m no different than anyone else. It’s the story I tell myself about what has happened that determines the way I think, feel and behave. I’m free to choose to see my circumstances as lessons God would have me learn, but I’m also free to deny, repress or otherwise refuse to learn. It is simply a choice.

If I choose not to learn, I have just chosen to abuse myself. I will push myself into doing things I don’t want to do. I’ll react to people instead of responding. The list of broken choices I could make is endless. I’ll be angry, confused and feel great frustration. These are all things the ego does. The Holy Spirit quietly waits for me to remember there is another way.

Lesson 189 says, “Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold on to nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught you, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course and come with wholly empty hands unto your God.”

This is the only way I can hear God’s Voice, because it is His way. Being still and choosing allows the Holy Spirit work in me stops the abusive relationship I have with myself as an ego. This lesson also asks me a very good question. “Is it not He Who knows his way to you?” I don’t need to do anything, know anything or be anything. I very simply need to be still and allow Him to have access to me. That’s all. Be still. “And in our quiet hearts and open mind, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself.” (Lesson 189) Realizing this ends the abusive relationship I have with myself.

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October-December, 2016

Living in the Ocean of Love

by Rev. Andrea Sassa Archuleta, O.M.C.

When I am in nature, especially trail-running with my dog Bella, I often reflectively commune with Inner Wisdom — my God-Source within. During a recent trail-run, I invited Inner Wisdom to help me understand a pattern I was noticing in my mind. A pattern of evaluating and assigning judgments to everything — assessing whether something was a good thing or a bad thing or whether I was making a right decision or a wrong decision. I noticed the energy drain I felt from this and how it kept me from the present moment.

I said to Inner Wisdom, somewhat exasperated, “Here, really, just take this. I am giving this to you.” And then I let go. I didn’t try to figure out what to replace evaluating and judging with, or when to replace it, or any of that. I have learned to simply hand anything over that is not supporting me being at peace. Handing over is the beginning of the miracle for me, A Course in Miracles type miracle.

Over the next few days, whenever the evaluating and judging crept in, I handed it over to Inner Wisdom. Sometimes though, just before handing it over, I observed it. I didn’t judge myself for evaluating and judging, I just said, “That’s a curious thing your mind is doing.” I also didn’t try to assign meaning about why I was evaluating or judging, I simply let myself be curious about it in a very gentle and kind way.

With Inner Wisdom’s guidance, I then received the awareness that I was evaluating and judging to separate myself from others and was preventing Inner Wisdom from showing me what anything (and everything!) is for.

One of the many wonderful courses I studied in the Pathways of Light Ministerial program is a method I now facilitate called Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling. Working with this process, I have learned that peace begins with accepting all of the thoughts in my mind, which is why I let myself be curious about the evaluating and judging thought pattern. By not judging myself, I extended love to my mind. In essence, I hugged myself every time I told my mind, “Hey, it’s okay you’re doing this, but let’s give these thoughts to Inner Wisdom because they don’t feel peaceful.”

In its most substantial part, Accessing Inner Wisdom Counseling is a guided meditation. Quite perfectly, I received a counseling from a student in the Ministerial program during this time. The counseling began, as it always does, with an inquiry into an area of my life where I wanted more peace. I wanted freedom from evaluating and judging my life — its circumstances, my relationships, finances, any of it. I was then guided to look at the evaluating and judging (the counseling process calls this the ‘thought cluster perception’) and was shown how I developed this “skill” long ago, to navigate uncertainties in my childhood home. The counseling continued and I was guided to strengthen my relationship with Inner Wisdom. More insights came about how I was giving up my peace of mind by evaluating and judging.

Next, I was guided to experience myself as one with Inner Wisdom and one with Peace and Love. I was asked to share aloud what I was experiencing. The counselor (student) scribed what I was saying, word-for-word, which is a key part of this amazing process. Here’s what I said…

It feels like falling and exploring, wandering and being curious.

Like being in the ocean, a vastness of possibilities I can expect for myself, any possibility I choose. Being like a jelly fish, floating where I need to be. The ocean will take me there. The sense of seeking is over and I am trusting that whatever comes is perfect.

Evaluating and judging is false information. It stifles my creativity, it stifles my spontaneity, restricts my joy.

I let it go to float like a jelly fish. I do not need false safety. I only need to float in the ocean of Love I am in.

I was amazed. Truly, with my own skillful thinking, I would not have seen how I was stifling joy and foregoing peace. The miracles I experience when I allow Inner Wisdom to lead my way, when I leave the evaluating and judging to that God-Source within, are always more than I would ever create for myself. I am always in awe, ever-grateful, made freer and more peaceful, when I float with Inner Wisdom in the Ocean of Love.

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