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Study of Text, C 13: X. Release from Guilt, P 7. 12-23-16

X. Release from Guilt, P 7

Journal
I often visualize the Holy Spirit as a bridge, with one side in the world and the other side in Reality. He sees what I believe but he knows the truth, and it is his function to teach me, to heal me, to undo the wrong minded beliefs in my mind, and lead me to the truth. He will do this through me, too, so that I can help my brothers as well.

Jesus says that what the Holy Spirit saves me from is gone. I have seen this happen many times. I will be struggling with an ego belief, suffering terribly, seemingly unable to let it go. When finally I have reached my limit and turn to Him with a sincere desire to be at peace, He heals me instantly. Often when this happens it as if the thought had never been in my mind.
Sometimes I can’t even remember the thought. If I do remember it, the
thought has so little charge that I laugh at myself for ever taking it seriously.

“Give no reality to guilt, and see no reason for it.”

This is a sentence I should have tattooed on me so I can refer to it all day, every day. Learning to believe this has been my focus for over a year now. Guilt is what keeps the illusion going, and is the cause of all suffering. It is the reason we are not having a happy dream. It is the reason the body gets sick. It is the cause of our unhappiness. When I started my practice of letting go of guilt, I did it one guilt thought at a time. Then over the last year or so, I have noticed guilt thoughts and simply asked that I be healed of the belief in guilt itself.

When I am thinking with my right mind I can’t imagine ever going back to the belief in guilt. Then something happens and I see the need for guilt and I pick it back up. The need for guilt stems from the fear of God. Just yesterday I had the thought that something a relative said was unkind and selfish. This was an expression of my belief in his guilt. When I looked at the thought he was guilty, I realized that it was covering up the belief that I was guilty of the same thing.

Until that moment, I had hidden that from myself. The real reason for the guilt placed on another or on myself is the often, unacknowledged belief that God holds my evil deeds against me. So either I fear my thoughts and bury them deeply in my mind, or I project them onto someone else in the hopes that God will condemn the other and not notice my own culpability.

What I have actually done is reinforced a belief that is not true for a reason that could never be true. God’s only judgment of me is that I am still as He created me. God did not create guilt so guilt cannot exist in me or anyone else. I have nothing to fear from God and so no reason to cling to guilt. As I became open to healing, I let the Holy Spirit do His job. I let go of the idea that this relative was guilty, and asked again to be relieved of the belief in guilt. That constricted and destructive feeling of guilt melted away.

I saw that both my relative and myself were simply confused and afraid, and the unkind thoughts were believed because we thought we needed to defend from an imagined danger. We were both looking at false images projected from minds that believed in guilt. This insane loop of guilt felt in the mind and projected outward as stories in our lives can and will be broken. Yesterday, I got the chance to weaken that chain.

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