A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-21.V The Function of Reason

October 16, 2018

We are created inseparable from the One and our true nature. We are whole and complete, divine and limitless. Yet, we have chosen to see ourselves differently. We have chosen to forgo all reason and believe we are separate from the One and each other – that we are separate from our own divine nature and identity. Does this sound insane? Yes it does, but we believe it anyway. There is no reason in this way of thinking, for who would abandon and deny their own wholeness. Yet, we choose to align our thinking with the insane idea of separateness our egoic thought system presents us. There is no reason in this. It is completely mistaken ad leads us only to loneliness and frustration. Our holiness is within us. Our sanity is within us. Reason is within us. If only we will turn our thoughts to the higher holy Self within us and allow it to show us who we really are. The answer we are seeking is waiting for us. Are you willing to ask the question you need to ask?

Where would the answer be but in the Source? And where are you but there, where this same answer is? Your Identity, as much a true Effect of this same Source as is the answer, must therefore be together and the same. O yes, you know this, and more than this alone. Yet any part of knowledge threatens dissociation as much as all of it. And all of it will come with any part. Here is the part you can accept. What reason points to you can see, because the witnesses on its behalf are clear. Only the totally insane can disregard them, and you have gone past this. Reason is a means that serves the Holy Spirit’s purpose in its own right. It is not reinterpreted and redirected from the goal of sin, as are the others. For reason is beyond the ego’s range of means.   T-21.V.7:1-12

We need not suffer this insanity. There is a place in our mind that remains untouched, unchanged and holy. This place in our mind is dedicated to hold our sanity and the remembrance of our true nature. This part of our mind is joined in its own and its Source’s Will to the undoing of insanity. In this mind is Spirit’s purpose accepted and accomplished, both at once. Reason resides here, too. It is untouched by the insane thoughts our egoic thought system bombards us with. This reason serves to open doors we closed against it in our mistaken faith and belief in separation.

You have come very close to this. Faith and belief have shifted, and you have asked the question the ego will never ask. Does not your reason tell you now the question must have come from something that you do not know, but must belong to you? Faith and belief, upheld by reason, cannot fail to lead to changed perception. And in this change is room made way for vision. Vision extends beyond itself, as does the purpose that it serves, and all the means for its accomplishment.   T-21.V.10:1-6

Our belief in the separation idea presented us by our egoic thought system occupies only a part of our mind. It is impossible to make all of our mind insane – although sometimes it feels like we have done just that. We could only accomplish making a split mind, choosing to block the portion of our mind that is whole and retains reason and the remembrance of who we really are. Is this insanity working for us? Is it bringing us the peace, love and joy we desire? The plan of salvation from this insane thought system willed together by our higher Self and Source is in that part of our mind dedicated to the undoing of the insanity we chose by aligning our split mind with the egoic thought system. We are free to choose again. We are free to allow the Higher Spirit Self within us to guide us in this plan of salvation that frees us from the limitations of the egoic thought system. What will you choose? Will you choose the wrongmindedness of the split mind or the rightmindedness of the One Mind? There’s nothing to lose except misery and everything to gain through the awareness of peace within you.

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