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9 Your questions have no answer, being made to still God’s Voice, Which asks of everyone one question only: “Are you ready yet to help Me save the world”? Ask this instead of what the ego is, and you will see a sudden brightness cover up the world the ego made. No miracle is now withheld from anyone. The world is saved from what you thought it was. And what it is, is wholly uncondemned and wholly pure.
A Course in Miracles has helped me to understand that I have two voices, two choices. One of those is the ego, and the Course helps me to understand how the ego works and how to recognize it. The Course also helps me to see that I don’t want to listen to the ego voice. It tells me that I can look with the Holy Spirit at the effects of believing what the ego tells me, and I can allow the Holy Spirit to correct each wrong-minded belief. All of this is for the purpose of undoing what I have made, which is my part in the salvation of the world.
But it is also telling me that I don’t need a definition for the ego. I don’t need to know what it is or where it came from. I don’t need to know why it was ever made. All of these questions assume the reality of the ego and provide more distractions from my real work, which is to learn to listen to the other Voice.
The Holy Spirit wants our help in saving the world. The way we do this is to undo the ego beliefs through watching our mind for thoughts that express that belief and allowing Him to correct those thoughts. We do this until the truth begins to dawn upon our mind. Then it seems we continue to do it, only now we understand the purpose and we do it with much more ease and conviction because we are no longer confused. We are no longer conflicted about what we really want.
Another change that occurs at this point is that we now understand that none of this is personal. It is not about waking up the individual, though in time, that is what appears to be happening. Thoughts are not unique to the one who seems to be forming them, and in fact, that one is not forming the thoughts. That feeling is just a conceit of the ego.
In actuality we are just becoming aware of thoughts. All thoughts are recycled thoughts. These thoughts occur in the mind, and when we think we “thought” about something, we actually just noticed a thought. Understanding that the thoughts are impersonal helps us to realize we have no reason to feel guilty for them. What a relief that is!
When we ask that our minds be healed, that a certain thought be corrected, we are actually asking this on behalf of the Sonship, and the healing occurs in the Sonship. So while from the point of view of the individual it appears as a personal journey of enlightenment, it is actually the mind accepting healing for itself through this mechanism.
Perhaps you are good at multi-tasking, or have at least multi-tasked upon occasion. Well what we are doing now is multi-tasking on a scale that is inconceivable to us at this time. Imagine a mind so vast and so powerful that it thinks of billions of stories all at the same time. It watches these stories to see what happens when a certain set of beliefs are accepted as truth. It immerses itself in each story all at once. Now that is multi-tasking on steroids!
My explanation is just a story designed to help me understand and accept that nothing is as it seems, but it is a helpful story. Though I must deal with what is in front of me and let all the rest simply be, understanding that this is not really about healing Myron but about healing the Sonship, helps me detach from the story and become the observer of the story. This is much less painful than believing the story is real and that I am truly guilty and suffering for my sins.
Knowing I am not guilty for my thoughts allows me to go more deeply into mind- healing because I am no longer afraid of what I will find. Instead of believing that what I find in the mind defines me and so condemns me, I now understand that what I find is simply another belief that I am ready to bring to the Holy Spirit for healing. This understanding ends resistance to the process.
What am I saving the world from? I am saving it from my definition of what it is. I am saving it from the meaning I gave it. I am grateful to Jesus for providing, through A Course in Miracles, the understanding that this needs to be done, and that this is my function. I am grateful to the Course for teaching me how to do this.
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