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Manual for Teachers: 12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 6. 6-26-18

12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 6
6 Oneness and sickness cannot coexist. God’s teachers choose to look on dreams a while. It is a conscious choice. For they have learned that all choices are made consciously, with full awareness of their consequences. The dream says otherwise, but who would put his faith in dreams once they are recognized for what they are? Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers. They watch the dream figures come and go, shift and change, suffer and die. Yet they are not deceived by what they see. They recognize that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs.

Journal

I have often said that a thought or decision was not conscious. Jesus says that all our decisions are made consciously, that we know exactly what we are doing and aware of the consequences of that choice. I use the word unconscious to mean that my ego mind is in denial and so as I am using the ego mind to think, it feels like an unconscious decision.

The point Jesus is making here is important, though, and perhaps it would be of benefit to me to recognize my intention when I choose to dream. This would help me to become more aware of when I am indulging the dream and by so doing, giving myself another opportunity to further awaken from the dream.

Sometimes I do watch the dream figures come and go and I am not deceived. I know it is a dream. Other times, I am as lost in the dream as anyone, just another dream figure coming and going. When we are lost in the dream and believe we are the dream figures, our mind is sick and needs to be healed. The Holy Spirit will do this for us if we ask with a true willingness to be healed.

Then Jesus says something else interesting. He says that to behold a dream figure as sick and separate is no more real than to regard it as healthy and beautiful. Our goal is to recognize the dream figure as unreal.  I had not thought of it like that, but I see that it is true. I do ask for healing so that I never become confused about what is real and what is not. As I give up the belief that bodies are real, the remembrance of oneness takes their place.

From reading something that Regina Dawn Akers wrote, I am reminded that our efforts are two-fold. We notice our thinking errors and let them be healed. Then we shift our focus to what is true. This is my process for releasing the untrue thoughts and embracing the truth of oneness, and it works well for me. If I notice that I feel disheartened, I look within for the thoughts I have chosen to believe that caused this feeling. Then I ask for correction, for another way to see. Once that is done, I choose different thoughts, thoughts that come to me as a result of that request for healing. I give them my attention and my belief.

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Study of Text, C 15: IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P5. 6-22-18

IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P 5
5 If you would but let the Holy Spirit tell you of the Love of God for you, and the need your creations have to be with you forever, you would experience the attraction of the eternal. No one can hear Him speak of this and long remain willing to linger here. For it is your will to be in Heaven, where you are complete and quiet, in such sure and loving relationships that any limit is impossible. Would you not exchange your little relationships for this? For the body is little and limited, and only those whom you would see without the limits the ego would impose on them can offer you the gift of freedom.

Journal
It is a persistent delusion that I am a body or in a body, even temporarily. As Jesus says, at no single instant does the body exist at all. I am pure, formless awareness. I am a Thought in the Mind of God, an Idea in His Mind, and have never left that state. But my mind is divided on this while I dream of being something else, somewhere else. Dreaming does not disrupt the state of my Being nor does it in any way affect the Love of God for me.

While I linger in this limited experience, I try to imitate reality. I have children in response to my innate desire to create. I have relationships with them and others because deeply hidden in my mind is the sublime memory of the relationship I have with God and my creations, and I long for that again. I seem to think that I can find a substitute for these things, to be something else somewhere else and still have what I left behind. I can’t.

This desire to recreate the beauty and glory of my Self while not being my Self is what keeps me here. I seem to think that if I try one more time, I will finally succeed. Then I will be my own God and happy. It isn’t working. I was created to be part of All That Is, to be One with God, to be eternal and to be Divine. The acceptance of what I am is the only path to joy. Holy Spirit, speak to me of God, of my creations, of Love. I am listening.

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Manual for Teachers: 12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 5. 6-19-18

12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 5
5 The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use it for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it is sinful it is weak, and being weak, it suffers and it dies. Use it to bring the Word of God to those who have it not, and the body becomes holy. Because it is holy it cannot be sick, nor can it die. When its usefulness is done it is laid by, and that is all. The mind makes this decision, as it makes all decisions that are responsible for the body’s condition. Yet the teacher of God does not make this decision alone. To do that would be to give the body another purpose from the one that keeps it holy. God’s Voice will tell him when he has fulfilled his role, just as It tells him what his function is. He does not suffer either in going or remaining. Sickness is now impossible to him.

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As Jesus has told us before, the body is neutral. It is not good or bad, sick or healthy. How we use the body determines what it is to us. If we use the body in service of the ego, it will be weak. This is because when used for attack, it will be weak to us. If we use it in service to the Holy Spirit, it becomes holy.

I didn’t always understand that the body could become holy. Because for a long time, I associated the body with the ego, and because I misused the body, I projected my guilt onto it. The body for me represented my sinfulness in choosing separation. Slowly, as I released more and more ego beliefs, I have become less identified with the ego and so less identified with the body as my self.

Since I don’t feel as sinful anymore, I have begun to make new decisions for the body. This is still a work in progress, but I am willing to see that the body can be holy if it is used only for holy purposes. I see that if I surrender the use of the body to the Holy Spirit, it will be useful for all that needs to be done. The Holy Spirit will give me my purpose and when it is done, the body will be laid aside. And, Jesus says, I will not suffer in either going or remaining.

Now Jesus says something that is not universally accepted, I think. He says that if we give the body over to our function as decided by the Holy Spirit, and we don’t use it for the ego’s purposes, sickness will be impossible to us because the body will have become holy. I have not experienced that yet, but then, I have not been fully surrendered yet.

I very much want to release all of the ego beliefs in my mind and, equally, I want to be the channel for God’s Word and only that. My desire along with my unwavering commitment will help me to accomplish this. In the meantime, I do the best I can in every moment.

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Study of Text, C 15: IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P4. 6-15-18

IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P 4
4 It is impossible to divide your strength between Heaven and hell, God and the ego, and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was given you. Love would always give increase. Limits are demanded by the ego, and represent its demands to make little and ineffectual. Limit your sight of a brother to his body, which you will do as long as you would not release him from it, and you have denied his gift to you. His body cannot give it. And seek it not through yours. Yet your minds are already continuous, and their union need only be accepted and the loneliness in Heaven is gone.

Journal
I am being told that I need to give my full allegiance to God rather than continuing to divide it between God and ego. I understand this doesn’t work, doesn’t make me happy and now I am told that it prevents me from using my power to create. I have all the reason in the world to remember my function and my one goal.

As Jesus does throughout the Course, he is reminding us that we are all in this together. We help each other to wake up. This is the only way it will work. Letting go of grievances is another way to think of this. I separate myself from my brother if I hold a grievance against him. If I separate us, I keep myself in hell. So the gift that my brother offers me is the opportunity to forgive him and thus to accept the Atonement.

Jesus talks about releasing my brother from his body by not limiting my sight of him to his body. If I am holding a grievance, I am limiting my brother to his body. It is only what we do and say that is judged and that is done within the body. I know a woman who I try to avoid. I see her in and as her body with no regard for her as she truly is.

She talks endlessly about her problems with no apparent desire to solve them. I would like to give her something but it would mean spending time with her and I dread the long monologue about how mistreated she is. This is an example of keeping her in her body. I see her as her body/personality and I react to that. Now, an interesting thing is happening. While there is still that ego reaction to her, I am also beginning to see her light.

It is not something I see with my eyes, but something that happens in the heart, vision rather than sight. It shows up as a sincere interest in her, and as a softening when I am around her. Sometimes I can listen to the whole conversation without casting about for someplace else to put my attention. I feel different about her in a way that is hard to explain. While my ego still reacts to her ego, there is something in me that loves her. I think I am releasing her from her body and, so, me from mine. I am beginning to accept our union.

 

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Manual for Teachers: 12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 4. 6-12-18

12. HOW MANY TEACHERS OF GOD ARE NEEDED TO SAVE THE WORLD? P 4
4 Yet what makes God’s teachers is their recognition of the proper purpose of the body. As they advance in their profession, they become more and more certain that the body’s function is but to let God’s Voice speak through it to human ears. And these ears will carry to the mind of the hearer messages that are not of this world, and the mind will understand because of their Source. From this understanding will come the recognition, in this new teacher of God, of what the body’s purpose really is; the only use there really is for it. This lesson is enough to let the thought of unity come in, and what is one is recognized as one. The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances.

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As I let go of all the uses I had for the body, I naturally embrace that the only use I would have for it is to let the Voice for God through speak through this body to my brothers and sisters. Right now, I am still in the process of allowing this shift. I still overeat or eat for purposes other than fueling the body such as for emotional comfort. I still worry about how the body looks to other bodies in an attempt to bolster a sense of self-worth. I still sometimes use bodies as a repository for my guilt and for self-punishment as with sickness.

However, I also use it for its true purpose. I give my eyes, my ears, my feet and hands, and my voice to God to use for His purposes. As I do this more and more, the contrast in the way I feel using the body for this purpose as opposed to the old way of using the body motivates me to be more consistent in my choice for God. I am also losing my attachment to self as I continue focusing on the holy purpose for the body. And this is why I am drawn to the last sentence in this paragraph.

“The teachers of God appear to share the illusion of separation, but because of what they use the body for, they do not believe in the illusion despite appearances.”

Ok, maybe not yet there, but getting closer and closer.

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