A New Way to See

What I Am Learning

What am I learning from this experience? The experience of illness, limitation.
This is not being done to me—I am doing this (dreaming this). My fear thoughts (self-hate) have come forth, they have come up for forgiveness.
I am learning that instead of making this dream more real, I am to let go of the hurtful attack thoughts and be willing to accept H.S.’s judgment in place of my own.

My desire makes it so—even if my desire is wrong (insane, backwards, hurtful). I am learning that my desire for punishment (illness) is what I receive.
Until the belief in my sinfulness is undone, I will still manifest the effects of “punishment.” (The ego sez) If I have taken God’s power from Him, then He cannot have the power to “save” me.
Dear Father, I give welcome to the truth. I clear the alter for It’s presence.
I am still as Love created me. Love is the way I walk in gratitude.  Amen.

Spirit:
Oh my child, if you only knew of the treasure that is yours! If you knew of the Love that abides with you, is in you, that sustains you eternally. You would, at the littlest thought of separation, remember. The little thoughts of fear cannot prevail against Truth. They are meaningless; merely mists in the in the sanctuary of your mind. They are nothing. What is unreal does not exist.

The egoic mind does not want you to remember that: “What is unreal does not exist.” It’s whole being depends on not being exposed as nothing. It seems to have unlimited supply of thoughts to disregard the truth. This is because you are now aware of it’s irrational system of defense. The ego always looks to justify its definition of “you;” it finds imperfection of any kind to keep it’s system intact and to keep you uncertain (of what you are).

Me: I may feel like like I can’t “control” the body (muscle response) but I can “control” the mind. I can certainly choose to give all fearful, all unloving thoughts over for correction. This correction or miracle comes only from the True Self. My choice is to follow Love and listen only to Love’s Voice. (Amen)
What is unloving can hardly be true—-(although I have taught myself the opposite).

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Be Not Tempted

Hello Everyone,

A recent ‘prayer’ came to mind for me:
Dear J.
I want the truth. Help me accept the truth as It is. I want only what was given and belongs to me.
Let me accept Truth now and always. T.Y.V.M.  Amen

(and the accompanying responses from Spirit)

Spirit: Love does not “see” what fear looks upon.
Love cannot recognize what does not exist.
Love sees itself within the Light and fear finds what it seeks in darkness.

Dear Child, when you give loveless thoughts up, when you turn them over to the “higher court,” then you have taken the dark to the Light. In the Light, the false disappears. Accepting forgiveness is what you are here for. By forgiving others, you loosen the grip of insanity. By replacing rejection with love, you release your brothers from the prison of guilt. As you want to see their sinlessness, so will you accept your own sinlessness. Be willing to see not the bodies and minds of separation, but to see God’s Son everywhere. The Christ shines in perfect radiance if you choose to see Him. H. Spirit will show what is perfect and pure in anyone He brings to you, so you are not alone in seeing.

Dear J.
I felt so certain the first time ‘round with this “illness” that everything was for good—- and I was not fearful of the outcome of my diagnosis. I was certain of recovery. Was I just fooling myself? Where is certainty that all works together for good?

Spirit:  The false mind does not want to “give up” its home, its life. It thinks it will survive no matter what becomes of the body; it thinks that attack (in this case, attacking the body) is salvation. It thinks that by making pain (conflict) makes the body “real.” If the body is real, then Spirit can not be real, Love can not be real. Do not support such false thoughts. Give doubts up for correction, and ask peace to remain with you. Doubts are just another delay tactic to keep you from accepting What you are and your purpose of extending love.

The ego always looks to find someone to blame, some outside circumstance or event on which the prevailing condition can be put. The bodies eyes were made to “see” separation in all it’s forms. So you were given a Guide/Teacher who would show you a way to “see” without physical sight, to “hear” without unreal ears.

Now, be tempted not to continue on a path you undertook in a dream. Do not listen to the egoic voice without the ‘aide’ of correction that you did not make. Your feelings of despair stem not from your current situation. Such thoughts were rooted in guilt and there remain.
H. Spirit would teach you only that God’s Son is innocent. There is not now nor ever was separation, no sin is possible. Truth leads past all dreams. When you choose to remember, truth is under your discretion but only that.

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Holy Spirit, Can Do!

Hello Happy Learners,
Here are some more re-minders that I found in Chapter 5, Section 3 ACIM.  To me, this was showing me how to return to a healed mind by listening to the One Voice,
the only real Voice in my confused mind.    (Italics are mine).

T-5.III  
The way to recognize your brother is by recognizing the Holy Spirit in him.
The Holy Spirit is the idea of healing. 2 Being thought, the idea gains as it is shared. 3 Being the Call for God, it is also the idea of God. 4 Since you are part of God it is also the idea of yourself, as well as of all His creations.

The Voice of the Holy Spirit is weak in you. 2 That is why you must share It. 3 It must be increased in strength before you can hear It. 4 It is impossible to hear It in yourself while It is so weak in your mind. 5 It is not weak in Itself, but It is limited by your unwillingness to hear It.

5 The Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego has made. 6 He undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates, or the mind would be unable to understand the change.

The Holy Spirit is the Mediator between the interpretations of the ego and the knowledge of the spirit. 2 His ability to deal with symbols enables Him to work with the ego’s beliefs in its own language. 3 His ability to look beyond symbols into eternity enables Him to understand the laws of God, for which He speaks. 5 Understanding is light, and light leads to knowledge. 6 The Holy Spirit is in light because He is in you who are light, but you yourself do not know this.

The Holy Spirit is the perfect Teacher. 2 He uses only what your mind already understands to teach you that you do not understand it. 3 The Holy Spirit can deal with a reluctant learner without going counter to his mind, because part of it is still for God. 4 Despite the ego’s attempts to conceal this part, it is still much stronger than the ego, although the ego does not recognize it.
7 Nothing that is good can be lost because it comes from the Holy Spirit, the Voice for creation. 8 Nothing that is not good was ever created, and therefore cannot be protected.

What the ego makes it keeps to itself, and so it is without strength. 2 Its existence is unshared. 3 It does not die; it was merely never born.
11 The Atonement must be understood as a pure act of sharing. 12 That is what I meant when I said it is possible even in this world to listen to one Voice. 13 If you are part of God and the Sonship is One, you cannot be limited to the self the ego sees.

7 It is impossible to share opposing thoughts. 8 You can share only the thoughts that are of God and that He keeps for you.
I heard one Voice because I understood that I could not atone for myself alone.    2 Listening to one Voice implies the decision to share It in order to hear It yourself.
The Holy Spirit atones in all of us by undoing, and thus lifts the burden you have placed in your mind. 2 By following Him you are led back to God where you belong, and how can you find the way except by taking your brother with you?

6 You forsake yourself and God if you forsake any of your brothers. 7 You must learn to see them as they are, and understand they belong to God as you do. 8 How could you treat your brother better than by rendering unto God the things that are God’s?
The Atonement gives you the power of a healed mind, but the power to create is of God. 2 Therefore, those who have been forgiven must devote themselves first to healing because, having received the idea of healing, they must give it to hold it.

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MIssing Time Lesson

Dear Everyone,

I recently had this lesson pop up——Thank You Holy Spirit for the insights!
In my waking dream, I have no idea what time it is, unless I have one of those devices that was made to measure time. Earlier in the day, I was trying to reach a tissue from the box that sits next to a travel clock. These are on a shelf next to my bed. In this attempt, I moved the travel clock and the battery in it was dislodged. I discovered this error when I turned in for the night.

The battery was no where in sight. This time, I said to myself: “so, I won’t know what time it is when I wake in the early hours.  Perhaps Spirit wants me to not know.”                                            I did not invite the ego mind to go ‘hay-wire’ (upset). I did not allow it to determine what would make me happy (finding the battery and having the clock functioning).

It seems to me, that I decided “for God.” I did not go into the “doing” mode of trying to find the battery or getting another battery. Or to fix or alter situation. I did not make it into a big deal.
The ego likes to go nuts, because it IS nuts—- crazy, cuckoo, bonkers. It is insane, not sane. It’s devotion to time keeps the whole illusion going.                                                                                                                              Time that seems to pass into minutes, hours, days, does not recognize the present, the Now.                                                                                                                  And I do not need to “go back” to a past event to attempt to correct something, as correction is not my job. That is H. Spirit’s job.

Time does not matter in Reality, it matters not to Spirit. Holy Spirit will teach me this by His use of time. Time does not matter—it has no connection to Love,                                                  it was not made by Love. What does not exist can hardly have meaning. What does not exist can have no effects. (Unless I choose to dream it does.)

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Holy Spirit, Not Just the Right Choice

Hello One Light,
A few days ago, as I was swamped in egoic thoughts, I was led to read Chapter 5 Section 2 in ACIM. The following sentences are what stood out to me. (paragraph numbers are not shown).
It seems that I was receiving the re-minder of What the Holy Spirit IS and does.  I found in this reading, the many ways that I allow (choose) for the ego and not H.Spirit. What am I valuing here?
What do I want to make real? Love or fear? Why keep choosing what is impossible and will not lead me Home?

T-5.II.
4 The Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracle-mindedness; the decision to heal the separation by letting it go.
The Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy. 2 He is the Call to return with which God blessed the minds of His separated Sons. 3 This is the vocation of the mind.

5 The Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to the separation; the means by which the Atonement heals until the whole mind returns to creating.

8 His is the Voice that calls you back to where you were before and will be again. 9 It is possible even in this world to hear only that Voice and no other.

2 The Holy Spirit is the radiance that you must let banish the idea of darkness. 3 His is the glory before which dissociation falls away, and the Kingdom of Heaven breaks through into its own.
2 Guidance is evaluative, because it implies there is a right way and also a wrong way, one to be chosen and the other to be avoided. 3 By choosing one you give up the other. 4 The choice for the Holy Spirit is the choice for God.

The Holy Spirit calls you both to remember and to forget. 2 You have chosen to be in a state of opposition in which opposites are possible. 3 As a result, there are choices you must make. 4 In the holy state the will is free, so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. 5 Freedom to choose is the same power as freedom to create, but its application is different. 6 Choosing depends on a split mind. 7 The Holy Spirit is one way of choosing. 8 God did not leave His children comfortless, even though they chose to leave Him.

The Voice of the Holy Spirit does not command, because It is incapable of arrogance. 2 It does not demand, because It does not seek control. 3 It does not overcome, because It does not attack. 4 It merely reminds. 5 It is compelling only because of what It reminds you of. 6 It brings to your mind the other way, remaining quiet even in the midst of the turmoil you may make. 7 The Voice for God is always quiet, because It speaks of peace. 8 Peace is stronger than war because it heals. 9 War is division, not increase. 10 No one gains from strife. 11 What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? 12 If you listen to the wrong voice you have lost sight of your soul. 13 You cannot lose it, but you can not know it. 14 It is therefore “lost” to you until you choose right.

The Holy Spirit is your Guide in choosing. 2 He is in the part of your mind that always speaks for the right choice, because He speaks for God.
Your divided devotion has given you the two voices, and you must choose at which altar [devotion] you want to serve. 10 The call you answer now is an evaluation because it is a decision. 11 The decision is very simple. 12 It is made on the basis of which call is worth more to you.

I have assured you that the Mind that decided for me is also in you, and that you can let it change you just as it changed me. 2 This Mind is unequivocal, because it hears only one Voice and answers in only one way. 3 You are the light of the world with me. 4 Rest does not come from sleeping but from waking.
When you are tempted by the wrong voice, call on me to remind you how to heal by sharing my decision and making it stronger. “Let us join together, for my message is light.”

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