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

ACIM T-10.II The Decision To Forget

abstract background withe sea sunriseDecember 9, 2014

We are created knowing who we really are. We are created in Oneness, knowing we are One with the One and each other. In knowing who we really are in Oneness we are at peace and filled with joy and love. This is our natural state of being. This is the Truth about us. What happened? Why are our minds not at peace? At some point we made a decision to believe a thought that is in conflict with our true state of being. We chose to believe a dream of separateness. To believe this dream, we must dissociate with the knowledge of who we really are. Dissociating with Truth doesn’t change the truth about who we really are, but it does block our awareness of it since it is in conflict with the truth. So we essentially make the decision to forget.

Even in forgetting, the truth is still true. It cannot be changed as who we really are cannot be changed. We are simply either aware of truth or dreams. The phrase “what I believe I will see” comes to mind. This is perception and this is what makes the world we “see” or perceive. I have often said that no two of us will ever “see” the same event or thing the same way. We will inevitably describe anything differently than another who saw the same thing right next to us. Since we have chosen to dissociate from the truth about us, we can also choose to give up dissociation of reality. If our minds are free to dissociate from reality, our minds are certainly free to give up that same dissociation from reality and re-associate with reality. The reality of who we are has never changed, only our awareness of it through our choices. Again, what I believe I will see.

Essentially we are asked to unforget or remember who we really are. The truth never changes. Only our awareness changes. Remembering restores to our mind what is already there. We aren’t making up something new when we remember. We are merely accepting again what is already in our minds but was previously rejected. The ability to accept truth in the world is the perception partner with creating in the Realm of the One, Heaven. This results in the reestablishing of the exchange of knowledge with perception. This faith in who we really are signifies our will to remember and thus all that is real is restored to our awareness.

We would never make a decision to dissociate with the awareness of who we really are if we realized the complete havoc this makes of our peace of mind. We could only make such a decision if we believed it would give us something we want. It follows that we have wanted something other than peace of mind. We must not have considered the results of the decision to dissociate or we would never have done so. Choosing to allow Spirit to guide our decisions now will help us realize the outcome of our decision on our peace of mind. We have chosen to disregard our peace of mind and block our awareness of this peace of mind as we choose to forget who we really are. Choose now to unforget and remember and restore the awareness of our peace of mind right now in this very moment. It has never gone away. It is ours to choose now.

Comments are closed.

Post Navigation