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Study of Manual for Teachers 7-6-12

7-6-12
2. THE EGO - THE MIRACLE
1 Illusions will not last. Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world. It is the ego’s world because of this. What is the ego? But a dream of what you really are. A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not. It is a thing of madness, not reality at all. A name for namelessness is all it is. A symbol of impossibility; a choice for options that do not exist. We name it but to help us understand that it is nothing but an ancient thought that what is made has immortality. But what could come of this except a dream which, like all dreams, can only end in death?

Sometimes I think I will never wake up. I notice that my mind is a jumble of wrong minded thoughts. I notice that I am reacting to something said to me. I notice that I am afraid, I feel guilty, I am ashamed, I am sad. And I think that I will never be anything else except these thoughts and feelings that are so unlike God.

Lately when I have these fears the Holy Spirit has reminded me that I am not the one who feels this way. The body/personality that is Myron and that I so often identify with, is an illusion and part of the illusion of the world I see around me. Illusions will not last. I was created by God as an extension of God and so am like God. I cannot die, or end in any way. I am eternal, therefore I cannot be this body. I cannot be this shifting and changing personality.

Therefore, when I feel lost and think I will never wake up, who is having this thought? Who is fearful? It cannot be me, so I have nothing to fear. I was reading a quote from Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani. It ended with this sentence which I changed to first person to make it more meaningful to me:

  I am already enlightened. I just have to realize it to allow it into my experience.

I, the true I, is already enlightened. In the present ego story of separation that I am engaged in, Myron is trying to remember the truth while living in an illusional environment. Its not easy, you know. If she were a real person and this were actually happening, I would feel bad for her. But she is just an imaginary person living out impossible dreams, but through her dream story she is helping me realize I am already enlightened.

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