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Study of Manual for Teachers 7-4-12

7-4-12

7 In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice; always between two choices or two voices. Will is not involved in perception at any level, and has nothing to do with choice. Consciousness is the receptive mechanism, receiving messages from above or below; from the Holy Spirit or the ego. Consciousness has levels and awareness can shift quite dramatically, but it cannot transcend the perceptual realm. At its highest it becomes aware of the real world, and can be trained to do so increasingly. Yet the very fact that it has levels and can be trained demonstrates that it cannot reach knowledge. 

I’m going to take this slowly just to be sure I fully understand. In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice; always between two choices or two voices. However I perceive what is happening or what I am seeing, I can choose differently. I am free to decide if I will see this with Christ Vision and so become free, or if I will see it with ego and remain in bondage.

If I discovered tomorrow that I have cancer, I might think that I need to be free of cancer, but my freedom lies only in my two options. Option 1 is to listen to the world as it commiserates with me, and tells me how bad this is, and how important that something be done right away to try to save the body.

It tells me about treatments and alternatives, stories of loss, and stories of recovery. The world will tell me that this is about my body and safeguarding it, healing it, losing it. It will tell me that I have reason to feel guilty for not taking good care of it, or that someone else is guilty for creating an environment that encouraged the cancer.

Option 1 is the ego and its goal is to make the body and the world very real, and to discourage any other option. The effects of listening to this voice are confusion, fear, anger, guilt, shame, pain, suffering and death. Listening to this voice will bring me deeper into the illusion.

Option 2 is to listen to the Voice for God. This Voice will tell me the truth about my Self and encourage me to focus on it alone in spite of what seems to be happening. It reminds me that I am not the body that seems to be sick, and that I am still as God created me. It tells me that I have done nothing wrong, am not guilty, and do not deserve sickness.

The Voice for God gently reminds me that I am not this character everyone calls Myron and I think of as myself. It tells me not to worry about her because she is just a figment of imagination, a reflection of thought, and cannot actually be sick and die. The Holy Spirit assures me that if something needs to be done in the story I will be told what it is as I listen to only His Voice.

I am reminded that pain is not possible because there is only God and there is no pain in God. I am asked to remind myself often that what is not God, does not exist. God does not have cancer and I am in God; how could I have cancer?

This Voice talks to me about my true nature, about the love of God, about my perfection and my true purpose. He assures me that dream or nightmare, the one thing both have in common is that they are not real. Nothing is happening. No one is guilty. Freedom is just a thought away.

I look around and see all the illusion has to show me. I focus my attention on self as body and personality and see, feel, exhibit symptoms and think surely this is real, and the Voice for God is the illusion, and I’m back in hell. Or I look around and see God’s Work everywhere. I see the love of family, the support of friends. I see people coming together to pray and be as one in whatever way they understand joining. I see beauty even in the illusion of sickness and death as the choice for God is made and the Light of understanding shines through, dissolving the darkness that is sickness. With a change of thought, I am released from hell and out of the illusion.

Tomorrow I will continue listening to Holy Spirit tell me what He wants me to know about this paragraph.

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