VII. The Needless Sacrifice, P 11
11 The Holy Spirit cannot teach through fear. And how can He communicate with you, while you believe that to communicate is to make yourself alone? It is clearly insane to believe that by communicating you will be abandoned. And yet many do believe it. For they think their minds must be kept private or they will lose them, but if their bodies are together their minds remain their own. The union of bodies thus becomes the way in which they would keep minds apart. For bodies cannot forgive. They can only do as the mind directs.
Journal
In this paragraph Jesus is continuing to make the point that we are afraid to communicate with the Holy Spirit, afraid that if we share our mind with Him, we will lose it to Him. I remind myself that the Holy Spirit is representative of God and thus I have a fear of losing myself to God. A better way to say this is losing my self to God, and yes, I truly would lose that little self to Him.
Though I long to do just that, to let go of the little self completely and thus to know the uninterrupted bliss of oneness, I also know that I keep parts of the self separate and defended against God. There must still be fear of loss, fear of God, unconscious but there in my mind. Sigh.
Symbolic of this separation from God and part of the separation from God, is the separation from each other. I am much more in touch with the fear of sharing my mind with other aspects of my self, my brothers and sisters in time. I am pretty transparent, but I definitely shy away from the idea of sharing minds. I still feel too much guilt for total transparency.
And yet, if all minds were recognized as one and so were open to each other, there would never be misunderstandings. There would never be judgments or grievances because all would see the innocence beyond the actions and words, the fear that drove the behavior, and the yearning to be understood and accepted and loved.
Soon there would be no negative behavior because everyone would feel the love and connection they so deeply desire. And no one would ever again feel alone and lonely. Can you imagine a world like that? It would be a happy world in which we could enjoy our happy dream for a while before being lifted into God.
This cannot be achieved while we insist that we can “communicate” only through bodies, and really, what kind of communication is that while it is so limited. While our bodies are gathered and inadequate words are being exchanged and misunderstood, I don’t know you at all. I only know what I believe about you. No wonder we feel alone. There is not a single person in the world that knows our heart.
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