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Study of Manual for Teachers 7-24-12

7-24-12
2 The body’s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. And so they do. For everything they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. While everything that God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.

As I look around I realize that nothing I see, no matter how beautiful or how horrific, is real. If I can see it with my eyes it does not exist. It is something I made up in mind and the only place it exists is in imagination. A thought so vivid I came to believe it is real, and it is me.

What this implies is that there is something real to be “seen” but it is seem differently, not with the body’s eyes that were made to show me my thoughts rather than reality. I wanted to have thoughts about something unreal, something impossible, and I wanted to experience this, so part of that process was to make separate bodies and equip them with eyes that report to me what I imagine. So what I see is not real but it is, rather, what I want to experience as real.

I wonder what is real. I wonder what stands beyond what the eyes can see.  I wonder what the real world is. I wonder what it is like to see without the eyes. I don’t stay with this idea too long because I have enough to do just learning to accept that I don’t “see” now.  I had one of those moments yesterday.

As I was getting ready for work I noticed I felt unhappy, and anxious. I asked Holy Spirit to look with me at my thoughts. I saw a resistance to ending the weekend and going back to work. I allowed that and asked to see more. I became aware of thoughts of my boss. He has been depressed and this affects his decisions and his reactions. His body has been sick and seems to be getting worse and worse. I thought of all the symptoms and wondered about what they might mean.

I had what seemed to be a random thought. I remembered that I am not what I seem and that to know what I am I must ask God. The body and the world will not show me the truth, but only the ego perception of separation. I thought that I was just remembering the idea from yesterday that I will not know the truth about myself by asking the ego. That means don’t look at my body, my relationships, my financial situation and judge what I am by what I see.

Then in a flash I realized this was not a random thought. This was the Holy Spirit’s answer to my dark thoughts. I was looking at my boss and seeing his body and defining him by what my eyes showed me. I had a very clear thought: Don’t ask the ego what he is. Don’t look to his body to define him. He is not that. I laughed at how perfectly the Holy Spirit led me to that answer simply because I asked. I laughed at myself for expecting the body’s eyes to show me the truth. I laughed in joy that all I saw was not real.

I cannot imagine what the real world looks like, but I can become aware that the world I do see is an illusion. This world will always show me sin and guilt because it was made from the idea of sin and guilt, but because it is not real what it shows me is not real. As I am willing to accept this, I can ask to be guided from the illusion to truth.

What I see will continue to report back to me what I ask for. When I got to work my experience with my boss was entirely different than I feared and that is because I was shown a truer way to see. It is not the real world but it is the illusory world reinterpreted. It is a step closer to reality and so it is a happier illusion because it is closer to what God created, and what God created is without sin and guilt.

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