A New Way to See

Incentive of Hope

Dear Everyone,

Recently I have been reading “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. In this book she records her experience of an unusual type of stroke at the age of 37. Seeing how her recovery spanned 4-8 years, I was able to put my spinal cord experience in perspective.
I had been feeling defeated by the absence of fast recovery from the 2nd transverse myelitis episode. I compared it to the rapid recovery I had had the first time.
I had been thinking that I would never get my abilities back.

But reading of Jill’s experience, of her work and desire to be fully functioning again, that her recovery took several years, means that my recovery is not impossible. It means that I must be patient with my body, with my mind. I need only keep practicing the exercises to strengthen the weak muscles. For the last 10 months my focus has been on the body and its functions. With the 2nd episode of T.M.,  I felt frustrated. I denied that I had made up this repeated dream. I felt betrayed, and did not trust my Inner Voice. And I felt guilt as I knew I had not been consistent in my listening or spending time with Holy Spirit, to give up the thoughts that plagued me. In my unwillingness, I was stuck. The dream of separation seemed very real to me.

In the back of my mind, there remained the idea that this situation was not God’s Will for me. I could change my mind and stop wallowing in the puddle of self pity
(I’m a victim role). To help me remember the truth about us, I joined with another minister in a Miracles Studies program. Together we remember that minds are joined,
all are in Care of God. That bodies are only symbols of the insane wish to be alone, or independent. To be reminded that this dream of forgetting was over long ago,
and eventually I will fully remember that I (we) have never left our Creator, and He never left us.

With the incentive of hope, I’ve rekindled the spark of love. I have trust returning to my mind. I have willingness to practice not deciding anything on my own. I have willingness to
ask Holy Spirit for insight about my thoughts and then acceptance of His knowing. The transformation that I really want is not for the body….. the transformation of my mind
is my true desire.
I never can do this alone. I need only ask and He will answer. I practice in letting go of the drama, the upsets, the comparing, the slight irritations, the frustration.
I return to peace within my mind. In peace I rest, and am restored. The peace of God is in me now …… it was never gone. Just obscured by images I have thought were real, were important.
I thank Holy Spirit for His insights and His constant love. I thank my brothers for every opportunity to see the Light in them.

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Values

Dear Everyone,  these thoughts came to me in relation to denying illness of the body.

   
Spirit: You can deny illusions with Holy Spirit’s help. If you try to deny illusions on your own, you will not succeed, because you will not see the illusion as false.
If you are unwilling to change your mind, the error cannot be released. You will not “heal” the illusion while your believe you are a body. Saying that the body is an illusion does not undo the thought that maintains the body is real. If you surround yourself with things for comfort, you have forgotten to ask, “What is this for?” Does it help you to let go of false ideas? Or does it symbolize a step closer to truth/ Real Self?

Anything you value in your dream cannot lead away from the dream. Remember the questions of the purpose of any valued thing or idea. Does this thing last forever? (Time can never take away a value that is real.) Have you taken something away from someone else? This holds the belief that he can not have everything, which means that you have not recognized that everything is yours. What you deny to your brother you deny yourself.
Then ask yourself: “What loss can there be for me in choosing not to value nothingness?” (This world holds nothing you really want.)
All the things that the insane idea would have you keep, is but another link in the chain that binds your mind. Each piece prevents the light from entering.
Return to peace, let your mind rest in the stillness of Love. You remain as Love created you, and no dream of separation can change you or alter the truth.
Rest in Love, and know that everything is given you as is the Love/Will that created you one with It.

Holy Child, you cannot suffer loss for all has been given you. When you chose to value what is nothing, you deny that all was given you. The ego traps you in illusion with pieces that glitter and thoughts of specialness to conceal the guilt. You choose fear or love, war or peace. Ask H.S. for correct perception. Admit that you are mistaken and no longer want the false to replace the true. 
As you realize that every piece holds you in prison, you will not accept the gifts of nothing that the ego offers. In all the saving or valuing of worldly things,
do you yet feel safe or loved or worthy? Punish yourself no more, free your mind from prison and pain.  (I will not value what is valueless.)

[Later morning} When you do not feel safe (which is only the ego perception of losing it’s position). When you do not feel safe you have mistaken the body for yourself. This mistaken choice can be healed. When you heal, it means that you have let go of some false idea, wrong perception, or guilt. To let go of guilt is to love your self.  When you love your self, you know that you are safe.

When you love your self, there is no difficultly in letting go of illusions. With love you easily recognize the false and feel no threat or loss in releasing illusions. In loving your self you forgive the dream. You recognize the nothingness of egoic thoughts and lay them down. Take my hand when you feel uncertain, for I am with you in all things, in every dream. You are deprived of nothing.
All that has value is the eternal. All that is not eternal has no meaning or value.

When you feel a stab of guilt it is sure that you have tried to make some dream form real or valuable to you.   
You feel unworthy of the eternal and you attempt to forget the unworthiness by getting and keeping things in dream form.   
You have forgotten that it is your dream and things in the dream are manipulated by you. People, objects, desires, come and go at your demand.
What you value you will see in the dream. And what the egoic mind values will weigh you down.       
This is why you must ask, “What is this for?” Does it remind you of the eternal? Or does it reinforce the error of separation thought?

When you choose to spend any moment with me, I will remind you of the eternal, and of the truth which dwells in you and the strength that upholds you.
Your choice in the dream simply reflects what you want to be real. If you are fearful, it is because you think your choice has condemned you.
You think that God will retaliate for your choice to be independent.
If you are joyful, you have released the dream images, allowing understanding and truth to return in your mind (awareness).
Forgive the dreamer and you are free.

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To Be Whole

Dear Friends in Spirit, I recently was given the following thoughts…..

Spirit: To be holy means you are holy. You are whole. Complete.
When you feel loss or that you lack something within, you are deluded. You’ve mistaken some lack thought as real.

You are whole because you are where God created you. You are whole because you abide in the Mind that thought of you. You are, right now, all that you seek for… … but will not find in illusions. You must seek only where you will find, and that is in your mind. That is where Holy Spirit waits in faith and understanding, ready to give all to you.
You may deceive your self, but this will never change the truth. You may choose to wander on strange or attractive paths, but this never changes your destination nor your Home. You simply give yourself lessons about what is valuable and what is fallible.
The ego dictates that when you change things in your world, that this will bring happiness. Change the outer to bring value and merit to you. It never instructs you to change your thought or your mind about anything, for it is certain that it is right. Yet, it leads only away from truth.

Me: In my insanity, I believe there is a world of form. I “see” what I want to be real. Why would I choose separation to be real? There is no special love here, no power of my own, no treasure great.  There is no angry, punishing God that I need to hide from, nor bargain with.    I play with imaginary figures, in a dream scenes, that I change at the slightest whim. None of it has any meaning. My mind is sick. Only in my willingness to “see, hear, & speak” differently will this mind be healed.
As I learn to heal, will I be healed.

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A Dream of Dying?

Dear Everyone,
I share a sleeping dream I recently experienced. I loved the lesson that I received at the conclusion.
(Names have been changed to keep the innocent, innocent!) 
   
At the beginning of this, I was returning a check that mom had written, and I had noticed something “wrong” with it; some how it had been tampered with, so that it would not have payed the bill that it was intended for. I explained to her, that she needed to be more attentive when she wrote out her checks.
I then intended to get ready and go to work (a large magazine printing company). The dream then slipped between two scenarios; one in which I was the wife, calling the work place that my husband was late for, and that due to his absence, the “job” had gone to someone else. The other was that I was the husband.

My (the form of Mary) not being at the work place, and subsequent “demotion” led me to think that I no longer was employed by the company.
I left, feeling that I was free to follow another path.
I ran into Junie, and she suggested that I go with her on a trip she had planned. I agreed. We then went to see Sally and Bill, as Sally had spent time in Thailand and knew the customs and other details that would be helpful. Then it seemed that she would join our expedition. Junie then said she would meet us in Hawaii (in-route).

I shortly discovered that my ‘ex’ husband (Sam) was looking for me…. I had been a philandering wife, and now he chose to take revenge for my infidelity. Bill and Sally were with me, as I went through clothes to pack. (Bill was mostly sitting back, watching us). I noticed a movement outside, and realized that Sam was there. I told Bill and Sally to leave the apt. and heard Bill say: “easy there, easy Sam,” as he went up the stairs.  (This place had two floors, with bed rooms on the lower level.)
I placed my back against the wall near the entrance, feeling fears. I slid to a sitting position on the wall to wait. Sam would not instantly see me when he entered, letting his eyes get adjusted to the light. I knew that he had flipped out—insane—and I had no inclination to try to talk with him, to have him change his mind.  I just assumed that this was my end.
I wanted to “go to” God.
I began silently repeating: “let me remember You.” When he turned and saw me, he vented his anger and justifications for his grievances. He pointed the gun to my head and said, “die, bitch.”

I had shut my eyes to stay focused on my “mantra.”  Part of my mind (ego?) wanted to wake from the dream, the other part wanted to know the “end.”  (end of dreaming)
So I waited, heard the word “bang” in my mind. Nothing else seemed to change or come to awareness.

I then asked what was I to learn in this lesson?  Spirit: See the innocence in everything.
See the innocence in everything and you will see innocence in your self.  Then: <u>God’s Son is guiltless.</u>
I repeated “God’s Son is guiltless over and over” (or heard it over and over).

Whether I play the antagonist or the victim, God’s Son is guiltless. It does not matter what role I play out—
I am guiltless, my brother is guiltless. God’s Son is guiltless.
There is no reason, no cause for guilt. God’s Son has never left his Father.
God’s Son abides in perfect peace knowing Who he is and where he is. There is no fear in him.
He knows His Father and no other thought, idea, or image has replaced the Son’s knowing of All That Is.

How healed I would be if I would integrate completely, the “lesson,” God’s Son is guiltless, that Spirit gave me.
It has given me a profound sense of peace, well-being, and gratitude. Now, to assimilate that idea is my one goal.

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