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Study of Text, Chapter 12: VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 6. 5-2-16

VIII. The Attraction of Love for Love, P 6
6 Son of God, be not content with nothing! What is not real cannot be seen and has no value. God could not offer His Son what has no value, nor could His Son receive it. You were redeemed the instant you thought you had deserted Him. Everything you made has never been, and is invisible because the Holy Spirit does not see it. Yet what He does see is yours to behold, and through His vision your perception is healed. You have made invisible the only truth that this world holds. Valuing nothing, you have sought nothing. By making nothing real to you, you have seen it. But it is not there. And Christ is invisible to you because of what you have made visible to yourself.

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From the Daily Mail

The world you see around you is nothing but an illusion.
That’s according to cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman who claims we’re being tricked into believing our own reality.
He believes that what we are seeing around us is simply a façade that guides our way around a far more complex and hidden matrix.

Galileo once wrote: ‘I think that tastes, odors, colours, and so on reside in consciousness.

‘Hence if the living creature were removed, all these qualities would be annihilated.’

And Hoffman says, in some ways, he agrees with this statement.

‘Neuroscientists tell us that they are creating, in real time, all the shapes, objects, colours, and motions that we see,’ he said in a Ted Talk.

‘It feels like we’re just taking a snapshot of this room the way it is, but in fact, we’re constructing everything that we see.

‘We don’t construct the whole world at once. We construct what we need in the moment.’

This is exactly what we are doing. And what we see is actually in our minds. Through projection we give it the illusion of being “out there” but it goes nowhere because there is nowhere to go. We decide to see the impossible (separation) and so we do. But it seems we cannot believe in what we made, and at the same time see what is real.

Through the study and practice of A Course in Miracles, we are learning that this is what is happening, that we are through with the world we made up, and that we are ready to see what is real.

Jesus is telling us something very simple. He is saying that we see it because we value it. So in order to see reality, we only need to decide that the illusion of separation is not valuable to us, and we can let it go. Then what has always been there, but invisible to us because we wanted to see something else instead, will be made visible again.

Jesus has used the idea of a veil to help us understand. He said there is a thin veil between what we see and what is actually there. Have you ever peeked behind the veil? I have. I just haven’t made a permanent decision to recognize the veil is an illusion, too. I’m working on it though. I stay aware of the illusions I am most attached to and give my willingness to see through them to what is actually true.

I have done this one little idea at a time, but I think I am ready to let go some big chunks of the illusion. It feels hard sometimes because I become afraid. I’m not sure what it is I am afraid of; sometimes I think it is the fear itself. But I never stop giving it my attention and all the willingness I can.

I never make an exception. I might take awhile in letting go of an illusion, but I never refuse to try. There is no grievance, no false idea that I will refuse to confront. I will succeed, of course, because as Jesus says, I was redeemed the instant I thought I had deserted God.

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