V. The “Dynamics” of the Ego, P 3
3 Let us begin this lesson in “ego dynamics” by understanding that the term itself does not mean anything. It contains the very contradiction in terms that makes it meaningless. “Dynamics” implies the power to do something, and the whole separation fallacy lies in the belief that the ego has the power to do anything. The ego is fearful to you because you believe this. Yet the truth is very simple:
All power is of God.
What is not of Him has no power to do anything.
Journal
It is very easy to fall into old habits and project the cause of our behavior on the ego, and instead of believing the devil made us do it; we believe the ego makes us behave so badly. But as Jesus tells us, the ego has no power to make anything, to do anything, much less to control the Son of God. The ego is nothing to fear. It is a straw tiger, an image of power, but really nothing at all.
The belief that through the ego we have made something real and bad is the source of our guilt and fear, and the reason we hesitate to return Home. But if the ego is the source of the world we made, and the ego has no power and cannot do anything, then nothing has happened. We simply have thoughts that take form in our mind and play out an idea for us to consider. That we “feel” while we have this experience is pretty cool, but doesn’t make it real. The ego does not have the power to do anything so nothing has happened, and therefore, there is no cause for guilt and fear.
When the Course tells us that forgiveness is our function here, what it means is that we are to forgive the idea that anything has happened to forgive. All power is of God. The ego has no power to do anything. Nothing has happened in spite of all the dramas we have imagined. There is literally, nothing to forgive.
I forgive the world for what I thought I made of it. I forgive the characters in my dream for what I thought I directed them to do. I forgive the imagined attacks on myself and others. I forgive myself for believing in any of this. I forgive myself for imagining it. How could imagination be a sin? Imagination is not reality so nothing has been done to forgive.
In a way, forgiveness is a joke. We played a joke on ourselves in order to have an experience that we could not have. God provided us with a joke that would help us undo it. The joke is that there is a world and that we are separate bodies living in this world. It’s a joke because it is not real. God’s joke, designed to walk us out of the joke we made up, is that we forgive it. It’s a joke because there is nothing to forgive, being only an imagined experience anyway. When we get Home we will have a big laugh together with our Father.
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