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My Current Understanding

Every so often I write down what I think about God and who I am and how it all works. It is interesting to see how it changes as I grow. It has also taught me that I don’t know anything. There used to be many times when I thought I had it all figured out. I just knew I was right. I laugh at that now. I’m sharing a version of like as Myron sees it and would love to hear about life as you see it.

God created His only Son who created His Son who created His Son, and on and on because extension of Its Self is what God does. He creates by extending Himself forever and so what He creates is exactly like Him. That is what extension is. It pushes Itself out in Love because It is Love and nothing else, and the Love returns to It and It is loved.

God is Love and nothing else. God is whole and complete. God is all that there is. So Love is all there is. Because there is only One and more of One, and nothing else, there is perfect undisturbed peace.

So everything is just rocking along when God’s Son had a creative thought. (Because the nature of God is creative and He creates through His thoughts, then all His thoughts are creative.) This thought was something like, “I wonder what it would be like to not be whole, to be something else.” This thought was discarded as impossible and everything went on in perfect peace as always.

However, the creative power of the mind of God’s Son, even in that small blip of time, made and considered a world of separation. In that bit of time, small as it was, the incredible mind of the Son figured out a way to make all of what we know as life, figured out judgment which had not existed before and how it could be used as a foundation on which to build this illusory world, worked out separation and time to separate events and to make separation seem real. It then had to decide… laugh this off or play in it awhile.

The Son forgot to laugh at it and played instead. He chose to consider this mad idea and realized that to make it work, he would have to forget that he made it up. Otherwise he would not get the full effect. To experience it, he needed to believe in it. So he did. His loving Father who would not conceive of limiting His Son, and so simply placed in the Mind a thought of Himself, a Correction of the Mind, so that when His Son was through with the game He could always find His way back.

And so we are. We had fun with separation and all its effects. We experienced lots of dramas, comedies, adventures, and tragedies. So what is all the guilt about? Well in the forgetting we set it up, we thought that we had destroyed God. God is whole and complete and here we have these entire worlds and billions of separate entities and so we made God what He is not. We destroyed Him. This is the horrible guilt that underlies everything we do. It is the source of every fear we have.

Now that we have chosen to wake up, God’s Correction is reminding us that God is love and that we cannot change that no matter how many dreams we have. We are allowing the message of the Holy Spirit to come to awareness in our holy mind through our dream characters. We are indeed waking up. The characters of this little group are among the first to do so on such a large scale I think, and it is very encouraging. Each character in the dream will wake up when the Mind is ready for it to do so.

In the meantime, back at the ranch, everything continues as it has been and always will be. Eternity is not disturbed by our little foray into time. God is not mad at our dream, and only honors whatever His Son chooses to create. Our dreams of guilt and fear are meaningless to God Who knows only love and perfection. We dream God is angry with us and God continues whole perfect and only pure Love. How could anger, disappointment, and punishment arise from pure Love. It is laughable.

As the Holy Spirit uses what we made in the ego to undo the ego, we begin to awaken and as we do so, we remember to laugh at this tiny mad idea. We remember not to take it seriously; not to be upset when we judge, not to berate ourselves when we lose our temper, and not to blame our brothers for these things. We release the need to project. We once again become aware that we are the observer rather than a victim of our own story.

When we accept the full truth of who we are, we live awhile in our lovely creation without the guilt of thinking we sinned. We will be able to enjoy and revel in our creative powers because without guilt there will be no projections of anger, fear, frustration, hatred and the like. Once all of the aspects of the Mind have awoken to this lovely truth, the Mind will be purified and God will reach down to His Son and pull him up, as is so poetically expressed in the Course.

There was never anything wrong with the Son expressing His creativity by making up this story. It was not a sin and God is not angry. The error was in taking it seriously and believing we had destroyed our Creator by changing His creation which is in itself impossible. And even if that is what we intended, it is hardly a sin, but only a mistake. It is easily undone as we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide rather than continuing to listen to the ego.

This is my present vision of who we are and how we got here. It changes a bit as I go along and I am sure it will change again. I do not know anything. Knowledge is of the Kingdom and my awareness is not on the Kingdom while I see myself as a body hurtling through space-neither of which exists! What an absurd but interesting story I have written. But the truth is in my mind and I am learning to want it. In not knowing, I empty my mind and make a place for the truth to come into my awareness.

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