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Self Hatred

Rev. Lee Catalano

We all have Self hatred and by the Glory of Jesus there is a cure.

How do we know that we have self hatred? By our judgements. If I am judging someone as a stuck up conceited so and so, guess who holds that belief about herself? Moi!

So you want to say, “I love myself, what you talking about?!” Well if you are judging others, according to Jesus, it is strictly a hidden belief you hold in your mind about your Self.

The very moment that we recognize we are lobbing an attack of judgment on someone, it is the time to tune in for some help.

Judgment or projection, according to spiritual psychology, is an automatic function of mind. We are either perceiving the Kingdom and all of its beauty in our Brother or we are projecting, through our judgments, our own belief in our darkness, unworthiness, wretchedness.

Want to be happy? Ask for help. “Lord, I am seeing my neighbor as aloof and unfriendly. I know this must be a hidden belief I hold and hate myself for. Please help. Thank you, Lord, thank you for your gentle eternal care of my heart and mind. Amen.”

Self hatred is about believing we can choose against Heaven and believing we have rejected God. It’s all unconscious and to call upon God is to bring our will back in alignment with the desire to be cared for, loved, and accepted by God. Don’t define forgiveness, allow it to be shown to you.

“Forgiveness is your only function.” ACIM

Rev. Lee Catalano is a Pathways of Light minister living in Belmont, Massachusetts. Web site: heavensongministrypages.com

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Peace Is All We Seek

by Rev. Lee Catalano

Whatever anyone practiced or practices to bring them closer to God is needed. In the past, religion played a very important role. It’s about community, fellowship and devotion.
 
We are called to have a personal relationship with the unseen. The mind is extremely active and instead of driving ourselves bonkers with all kinds of thoughts about the world, we can go inward.

Spirituality is becoming something very practical and useful for this moment. There is no other moment, only this present eternal moment.

As I sit here on this computer, the phone rings many times. People come and go, looking for attention. Prior to responding to anyone or anything, I pause. I always do better when I pause first. Things are easier.
 
A Course in Miracles tells us that the ego always speaks first. So the frantic part of the mind that knows nothing about anything is in charge if I forget to take pause.

When I am not responding to someone, I am able to focus my attention on appreciation. This is like going to the gym. At first it takes efforting and then becomes a habit. This is what going within is. It’s that simple.

So religion and ritual of past generations had it’s place. Now we are refining our spiritual life and beginning to LIVE it. Why? Because we want peace.

Peace is all anyone is ever seeking, no matter what they are doing. We are hopeful that some sort of peace and satisfaction will come of every encounter. Well, holding our minds heaven-bound is how we achieve it. Now it’s time to scrape up the willingness to REMEMBER.

Rev. Lee Catalano is a Pathways of Light minister living in Belmont, Massachusetts. Web site: heavensongministrypages.com

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The Great Impostor

by William Boden

In his ground-breaking book on depression The Noonday Demon, Andrew Solomon used the analogy of the kudzu vine wrapping itself around an oak to choke out its life as a way of describing the debilitating life-draining ability of depression.

With minimal cold weather, kudzu has become a force here in the South, blending beautifully as a blanket of green on top of the landscape it wants to kill. And so, being blessed the other weekend morning with a delicious cold front, my fiancé and I took to our Florida backyard with pruning shears and lopers, wearing jackets and some lip-balm to enjoy the first cold afternoon of the season.

She went to work on the hedges by the house, and I set off in search of the kudzu.
 
In ACIM, one of the shiny facets of the diamond of the Holy Spirit’s thought system that it presents to us is the process of the removal of the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence. I must look at these blocks in order to ask the Holy Spirit’s help in removing them. I can’t remove them on my own. But I must look and must ask to have them exposed to the light, so the Holy Spirit can shine them away.

Jesus tells us in the section “The Two Pictures,” “As each senseless stone that seems to shine from the frame in darkness is exposed to light, it becomes dull and lifeless, and ceases to distract you from the picture.” (T-17.IV.13:5)

There I was, on my knees in the backyard, looking clearly at the two plants — the landscape hedges planted along the fence and the kudzu, the latter replete with camouflaging flowers and fruit-type pods along its thin, malevolent vines, twisting around branches of the hedges, hurrying at its slow pace to choke them off.

Rather tall plants were posing in the hedgerow as if they, too, belonged, and I followed them down to find trunks in the soil right next to the hedges’ trunks. I got my spade.

Lesson 153 tells us that “you will never cease to think of Him,” (W-pI.155) and I realized, as I crossed my lawn comparing these soon-to-be-purged ‘impostors’ with the ego part of my mind, that I had begun thinking regularly in Course terms.

Watching movies with Course eyes and hearing songs with Course ears has morphed into Course gardening. I coined a parallel in a group years ago about the ego pulling off the greatest ‘identity theft’ of all.

I began clearing the Floridian soil from around the root system that looked so much like that of the wanted hedge, separating ego from spirit, snipping the roots as far away as I could, plunging the spade through the thickest parts, to finally raise the egoic trunk in triumph. The second one came out a bit easier. My fiancé laughed as I danced around like an ape in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the bones of the ego held high.

The introduction to Jesus’ Workbook promises “If true perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain.” (W-in.5:2) The promises of the Course. What a soothing phrase.

I understand how the Holy Spirit can use everything here to help me remove the blocks. The Holy Spirit will not always use spades and pruning shears to help me transfer His training, but Christ’s vision allows me to see the impostor trunks, the kudzu, the ego thoughts, and see them all without fear, for only then will I see that they are nothing. Nothing.

“Vision is the means by which the Holy Spirit translates your nightmares into happy dreams; your wild hallucinations that show you all the fearful outcomes of imagined sin into the calm and reassuring sights with which He would replace them.” (T-20.VIII.10:4)

William Boden holds a BA from Eckerd College and is a student/teacher of ACIM on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

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Time or Eternity

Revs. Robert & Mary Stoelting

The past few weeks have been quite an adventure for us. As we are moving into 2009, a quickening is occurring. The lesson that is here for us now involves allowing for a greater willingness to pay attention in the present moment to Inner Guidance. This lesson involves a willingness to let go of the past and let go of the future. This lesson seems quite challenging at times. But it only seems challenging because it is forcing us to let go of mental habits that in the past have seemed “normal” to us. Each day we are being very gently asked to let go of the world as we have known it in the past. We are being asked to return to our Source and come from a state of mind that sees past the world to the real world, the world of Oneness, the world of one, united Love.

Part of this quickening has been to observe just how often we jump out of peace and join again with the thought system of struggle or trying to figure it out on our own. It sometimes seems amazing how resistant we have been to just stay with the Holy Spirit’s constant gift of peace.

Most of you already know about the powerful new book that has just come out — The Book ON… and Jesus answers. When we read it together we felt a strong pull to do everything we can to help this book get into as many hands as possible.

We asked Jesus how to do this and we were guided to send a short message of our experience with this book to those who have requested to receive emails from us. We sent the email to 4,000 the evening of January 4th and by the next morning we were flooded with responses from people requesting the book. (Read about our experience with this book on page 3.) The job of filling all the orders has required us to stop and reconnect with our inner peace. We took time to step back and this is the process that came to help us to reconnect with God’s peace:

Process of Rejoining with Your Source

Go into the Center of your mind… Go to the Source of Light that is right there in your mind… You willingly go there… It may feel or seem like you are traveling. This is just a symbol of your willingness to return to your real Mind that is eternal…

You remember you have an inner Light in your mind and you are willing to go there… You feel more peace as you come closer… everything softens… you feel patience… a sense of well being…

This is where your inner joy resides… It is formless Joy… You sense this Joy is eternal… It is always in your mind, waiting for your return…

You sense that nothing can change this eternal Joy… You see that It is changeless…

You are willing to come to joy and be in joy… You allow yourself to be filled with the joy that you now recognize is surrounding you… You feel a quiet inner happiness… You sense that this happiness is the real beingness that is innately yours… You remember that you are this beingness of happiness… You let yourself feel it… There are no worries that really matter here in this sacred place in your mind… You let your mind be renewed and recharged with Love… You receive Love and extend Love… You have returned Home where you belong… In this state of mind you are being truly helpful.

This is our job now — to be truly helpful by consistently joining with the Truth. We can only be truly helpful if we are open to the truth that is right there in our minds, waiting to be remembered.

Thank you Holy Spirit for being patient with our constant forgetting. Thank you for returning us to the truth.

Mary & Robert Stoelting are co-founers of Pathways of Light. They currently live at the Pathways of Light Center in St. Cloud, Florida.

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