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Study of Manual for Teachers 6-2-12

6-2-12
26. CAN GOD BE REACHED DIRECTLY?
1 God indeed can be reached directly, for there is no distance between Him and His Son. His awareness is in everyone’s memory, and His Word is written on everyone’s heart. Yet this awareness and this memory can arise across the threshold of recognition only where all barriers to truth have been removed. In how many is this the case? Here, then, is the role of God’s teachers. They, too, have not attained the necessary understanding as yet, but they have joined with others. This is what sets them apart from the world. And it is this that enables others to leave the world with them. Alone they are nothing. But in their joining is the power of God.

I have many concepts about what God is and how I relate to Him and yet I know that none of them are true and so I don’t dwell on them. I am satisfied to know that I cannot be apart from God and it brings me courage and to think this. It makes my heart glad to think that He is in my memory and cannot be erased, and that His Word is written on my heart, even though I don’t know what that means. I am surprised to discover that I no longer care that I don’t understand anything and am content to work where I am until I am someplace else.

How do I come to remember God? This is my work. I have placed many barriers in my mind to block that memory, but now have tired of the game and long to return Home, so must remove the blocks to the awareness of God’s Love. Now when I encounter anything in my mind that is unlike God, I become willing for it to be gone. I become willing to live without it and the Holy Spirit takes it from me.

And so the wall starts coming down, slowly at first, one bit at a time, then more quickly as I begin to realize that there are not many different blocks. I see that each block is a different shape, but while they look different, they are all the same. This understanding helps move the process along, but alas, I am still easily distracted and sometimes forget the blocks are harmless illusions of separation. When I take them seriously, I believe they must be treated seriously and deserve my attention. I give them power to make feelings of guilt and fear and temporarily become uncertain of my desire to reach God.

All of this seems to take time and seems to be sometimes very hard. I feel optimistic though because I feel the Love that is God more often. I feel it moving in me, and tears of joy spring to my eyes. Even though I still get lost in my stories for awhile, I also have these moments of clarity.

Jesus says the reason I am waking up, the reason I am removing those barriers, is that I have joined with others for this purpose. And you, my readers, are the others I have joined with. Together, we will take down the wall of concepts, beliefs, judgments, and guilt that hides the truth from our mind. It was our desire for a separation experience that caused it to go up, and it is our desire for truth that brings it down. Alone we are nothing, but in our joining is the power of God.

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Study of Manual for Teachers 6-1-12

6-1-12
6 Any ability that anyone develops has the potentiality for good. To this there is no exception. And the more unusual and unexpected the power, the greater its potential usefulness. Salvation has need of all abilities, for what the world would destroy the Holy Spirit would restore. “Psychic” abilities have been used to call upon the devil, which merely means to strengthen the ego. Yet here is also a great channel of hope and healing in the Holy Spirit’s service. Those who have developed “psychic” powers have simply let some of the limitations they laid upon their minds be lifted. It can be but further limitations they lay upon themselves if they utilize their increased freedom for greater imprisonment. The Holy Spirit needs these gifts, and those who offer them to Him and Him alone go with Christ’s gratitude upon their hearts, and His holy sight not far behind.

I have always believed in psychic abilities and known there was more to the world than was obvious, but I did not think of these things as serious or important. In fact, I thought of them as being really interesting ego distractions. I wondered why the Course was giving a whole section talking about them. Now I see this differently. Here is what I have learned while studying this section.

Psychic abilities are natural and available to anyone and these powers will become accessible to them as their awareness increases. Psychic abilities are forms of communication that supersede the barriers to communication made to keep the illusion in place. These abilities are useful to the degree that they are under the Holy Spirit’s direction. If not used for the purpose of true communication they will devolve into magic and simply strengthen the ego. I have been dissuaded of any idea I had that psychic abilities are not useful to the Holy Spirit and thus not worthwhile, as I read the last sentence in this section.

The Holy Spirit needs these gifts, and those who offer them to Him and Him alone go with Christ’s gratitude upon their hearts, and His holy sight not far behind.

Studying this section on psychic abilities has changed my thinking about this subject. I have had some truly inspirational messages come through me from the Holy Spirit. I have even had brief instances of genuine automatic writing. I have spoken words that did not come from my thinking mind and were as much of a surprise to me as to the person to whom the words were directed.

I have had many “knowings” that did not come from thinking and this is increasing. I have suddenly noticed that I am speaking to someone in a way that is unlike me, and I don’t know why. It is not what I say that is different, but how I say it, and later realized that I was meeting that person’s needs in a way I couldn’t have done on my own.

These are some of the abilities of amplified communication that are evolving as I become open and willing, but I also block this at times. I say that it is nothing, just coincidence or imagination. A couple of times I have known that Jesus was speaking through me but completely turned my back on that voice because I still saw Jesus as special and felt unworthy.

I am now removing some of the blocks to greater communication because I understand that they are useful and natural, more natural than not having them. I understand that the Holy Spirit has use of these powers. I am not afraid of misusing them because I know my purpose and I will not forget it. I know there is no one special because I know there is only one. Misusing the abilities for the glorification of the ego was certainly a consideration at one time, but that is no longer true. I am not seeking anything in particular, but I open myself to any ability that Holy Spirit would find helpful.

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