C 13: V. The Two Emotions P8
8 Vision depends on light. You cannot see in darkness. Yet in darkness, in the private world of sleep, you see in dreams although your eyes are closed. And it is here that what you see you made. But let the darkness go and all you made you will no longer see, for sight of it depends upon denying vision. Yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see. But this is what denial does, for by it you accept insanity, believing you can make a private world and rule your own perception. Yet for this, light must be excluded. Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see.
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We have given ourselves a body with eyes that show us our projections. These eyes also show us light, but it is not real light, it is like the rest of what we see, an illusion. Light is not seen with the body’s eyes, nothing real is seen with the body’s eyes. This is such a hard thing for the ego mind to understand because everything it knows is seen with those eyes, and yet eyes do not see, they only report what the mind hallucinates.
Real seeing is done in real light. It is done not with a body but within the mind that it is. This is the reason that when people awaken in the dream they can see what the eyes show them, but they also see what is real. They are still here and still using a body so they are aware of the illusion, what we make up. But now they also see the light and love that makes up everything, and this is not done with the eyes but in their awareness. So I am told. ~smile~ This is what Jesus is talking about here, true perception.
If there is a real world, and there is real light and as Jesus says, we can actually see it, then why don’t we? We have closed our minds to the light and denied it is there. Instead we are mesmerized by the stories we made up, and have forgotten they are not real. We have made a place in the mind with a stage on which we can act out our fantasies. We have gotten so involved in our fantasies, have denied reality for so long, that we have lost our minds.
All the world’s a stage and that is all it is. We gave ourselves form and walked upon the darkened stage, and made a private world just for ourselves. And then we gave our forms eyes and said let there be light and let our eyes reveal our stories. Now, eons later, we are still watching the play that was over almost before it began. We watch and in our watching we deny the vision that would allow us to see what is really happening.
But Jesus tells us this: Yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see. We can see, but to see we must let go of the darkness, let go of our dream of a separate little world we rule with our insane laws. We cannot know light while we long for darkness. A Course in Miracles, the practice of A Course in Miracles, is bringing us to the brink of sanity.
We are beginning to understand what is going on, and beginning to glimpse the truth we have been hiding from ourselves. Now we need only desire reality more than illusions and we will leave the insanity behind. Once we understand and decide for God, there is nothing we need do. We stand at the brink and when our desire is whole, we fall into God.
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