Day 143
4 It cannot be too strongly emphasized that this course aims at a complete reversal of thought. When this is finally accomplished, issues such as the validity of reincarnation become meaningless. Until then, they are likely to be merely controversial. The teacher of God is, therefore, wise to step away from all such questions, for he has much to teach and learn apart from them. He should both learn and teach that theoretical issues but waste time, draining it away from its appointed purpose. If there are aspects to any concept or belief that will be helpful, he will be told about it. He will also be told how to use it. What more need he know?
Just as I suspected, there is much for me to know but I will not know it through picking apart concepts designed by the thinking mind. As Jesus says, this is just a waste of time, time I can instead use to prepare my mind to be used as a conduit for knowledge. This knowledge does not come from me, but through me. I choose to spend my time letting go of ideas that block the flow of this knowledge.
If there are concepts that can be temporarily useful in part or in whole, I will be told and will be directed in how to use them. Other than that, there is no value in them. It’s a trick that took me awhile to master, this allowing theoretical issues to just be, neither rejecting nor accepting them. Well, maybe not master, but I did become more comfortable with it. My mind wanted answers and wanted concrete answers.
I see now that this is ego. Ego wants to name things and thus make them discreet and different from the other thing. God is evidently abstract. I say evidently because I don’t remember God, but this is the idea I get from ACIM. Ego wants the opposite of truth in all things, because this is what ego is. It is idea of being the opposite of God.
So ego wants reincarnation and other concepts to be or not be, and is uncomfortable with the idea that I should let it be neither or both according to its usefulness. I think this is because ego recognizes that this is just another way of saying concepts are meaningless and so can be used or not used, and meaninglessness is frightening to the ego.
Meaninglessness may be frightening to the ego, but it is key to my return Home. As I recognize more and more ideas and beliefs as not good or bad but simply meaningless, I more easily let them go. The more I let go, the more effortlessly I receive and accept what the Holy Spirit would have me know. I become an empty shell, a clear and perfect conduit through which God would live me. It is so odd to think that I am pushing against God, trying to keep Him out.
But that is what’s happening, really, when I say I am, and the I am is less than God. I am pretty. I am ugly. I am guilty. I am afraid. I am smart. I go on and on filling myself with I ams in an attempt to keep God out. Why do I do this? Why am I afraid of God? This is like asking why am I afraid of my Self. It is not a frightening or foolish or mysterious question. It is a meaningless question.
I was talking to Nouk Sanchez one day and she said that she received a message from Spirit that she should set aside everything she thought she knew. She felt resistance to that idea. After all, she had spent years getting to the place she was, how could she just set it all aside? Holy Spirit asked her if she wanted to know about God, or did she want to know God? I want to know God. Holy Spirit, I want to set aside all that I believe defines me. I want to set aside all concepts I have attached to. Please help me to do this.
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