Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Releasing Ego Mind

Sometimes when I meditate, I hear conversations in other languages or see pictures of unusual sights, like old sailing ships crossing the oceans or far away planets.  Sometimes a series of rapidly passing, but fleeting instants pass through my mind.  Often I can hardly remember these when I am finished, other times they are so vivid they seem “real.”  Years ago I would have been astounded, even impressed.  Today, I see these are just scenes from the one ego mind that I have tapped into.  Just because the visions look exotic or sound interesting doesn’t mean they are any more real than my own study where I work at home.

When I was younger I used to get caught up in psychic phenomenon and endless curiosity about past lives.  I thought these were spiritual pursuits.  That was before I became a serious ACIM student.  Now these pursuits are not terribly helpful to me.  I see them as just other expressions of the ego mind.  And I want to be done with learning more about the ego mind and the serial adventures of the body, as the Course describes our various physical lives.  If they have any importance at all, it is only of self-forgiveness for thinking that they have any importance.

Today, I care not for placing importance on looking at past, present and future and how these measurements can possibly affect me.  What difference?  All of time is of the ego mind.  When I sit in meditation, I sometimes have that period when the ego mind lays itself before me, like a great temptation of its power and importance.  It calls for recognition of its value, to see and hear beyond my own seeming personal space.  Its lure is a belief that knowing future or wider events and circumstances positively affects my life in some way.  I used to believe this was true and engaged in many “what if’s?”  I felt I needed to know outcomes in advance so that I could feel secure.  I needed to feel that I was in control.  What folly!  I turned from my seemingly separate ego mind to the equally unreal one ego mind for answers, no matter whether that answer came from myself or others.  There are no answers there in the one ego mind, just greater numbers of illusions.  I see now that it all means nothing.

Now when I see these “visions,” I let them go by.  I place no importance on them other than opening my mind to other levels of consciousness to release them to Holy Spirit.  These images are not of God.  The experience of God goes beyond them.  Yes, Holy Spirit uses them as He uses all we have made, but in a different way.  Holy Spirit helps us see the unimportance of the world rather than its importance.  Only Holy Spirit can show us the spiritual mind, the One Mind we share with God.  Only Holy Spirit can show us the difference between the ego mind visions and the visions of the Mind of God.  Holy Spirit teaches us discernment as we listen to His Voice for God.  He shows us truth and we recognize it and its importance.  What is of time we give to Him for healing, we do not try to use it for our advantage because there is no advantage in it.  Why trade one illusion for another?  Is another really better?  No, advantage does not come in modifying behavior to gain a seemingly better outcome of another illlusion.  Advantage comes in giving up illusions altogether. 

We cannot live with one foot in each world, unreal and real.  It is not possible.  I have tried and I know it doesn’t work.  We cannot serve two masters.  The Course is uncompromising on this point.  We serve the ego mind or the Mind of God with our choices.  Of course, the ego mind is unreal but our thoughts and actions belie this truth.  We often value the unreal and believe in its separate existence.  We seek answers and comfort for the body and the body life even though we know at another level that none exist.  We can only release the ego mind with the help of Holy Spirit.

Today, I choose to focus on the truth of the One Mind we share with God.  I let Holy Spirit show me its truth because I cannot find it with my ego mind.  I let go of attachments to past, present and future outcomes and let Him guide my way.  Only this brings me true security as I let go of the false security of trying to retain control over circumstances and events of my life.  Only Holy Spirit can take me past the ego mind temptations to recognizing The Thoughts of God where my true existence rests in perfect peace.  Today, I am grateful for the awareness of Holy Spirit at work in my mind for my highest good and for the highest good of all, which is the same.  I trust in Him in all matters and as I let go of the burden of control, I find true peace and true rest in all things important, that of God.

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