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Study of Text, C 14: VI. The Light of Communication, P 3. 5-3-17

VI. The Light of Communication, P 3

Journal
What strange ideas is Jesus talking about in this paragraph? What is it that we think is keeping us safe, but do nothing? The first things that come to my mind are guilt, fear, and projection. I have mentioned before that I am afraid of heights, and so the ego mind reasons that the solution is to stay away from heights.

As I have started listening to Holy Spirit more than ego, I have decided that the answer is not to change where I allow myself to be, but to change the problem at the source, which is in my mind. But the ego warned me that if I succeeded, then I would wind up on some scary mountain, trying to navigate a switchback.

Just imagining being there triggers the terror I feel at the thought, and I don’t want to stop being afraid of heights. I think my fear protects me from what I fear. The reasoning is convoluted and obscures the truth. The truth is much simpler and hides nothing. If I were willing to accept the simple truth of my invulnerability, all the crazy thinking would be gone.

The idea that I am guilty is another dark thought, and the ego offers me protection through projection. Just get rid of it, the ego says. Throw it out and let it stick to someone else. See that it is the other person’s fault. The ego doesn’t tell me that getting rid of it that way only creates a morass of complex thinking that leaves me with even more guilt.

The fact is that there is nowhere outside the mind and thus hurling it “away” leaves it right where the guilt began, in mind. The decision to project the guilt and make someone else guilty instead,  just makes me feel guiltier. The whole attempt is so devious and deceitful, how could I not feel guilty. It just seems so obscure that I become afraid of myself. The truth is simple; I am innocent, and there is no such thing as guilt. There. Problem solved.

Another guardian of darkness is sickness. Sickness seems to prove that I am this body I seem to inhabit. Since I am the body, I cannot be the Son of God. Apparently, I am not loved by this God; look how weak and vulnerable He created me. Look how He punishes me. I must be very guilty. The ego then suggests remedies that will thwart my thoroughly deserved sickness, and thus the guilt increases. It’s such a messy thought process that I become too afraid to look further.

The simple truth becomes evident when I stop asking ego what everything means and start asking the Holy Spirit. I am not this body. I am the thinker of the body, the mind that made it. It is just a neutral object onto which I project whatever I want. It is like the canvas on which the artist paints.

The canvas doesn’t make its own painting. The body, in kind, does not make its own sickness. I did this to myself, and I can undo it by accepting the truth. While not guilty for my choice for sickness, I am responsible for it, and thank goodness for that. As before, I understand that guilt is not real and thus punishment is not necessary. All I have to do is accept the clear and unambiguous truth. When that happens, fear falls away.

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