May 29, 2018
What does it mean when the Course says, “sin is an adjustment?” Start with the fact that truth, reality, needs no adjustment. Truth just is. In order to believe anything else is real, truth must be adjusted to fit our belief of what is true. I know, it sounds twisted, and it is twisted. There is no way to believe we are sinful unless we twist or adjust the truth that we are sinless. This sounds crazy, even insane to us. Yes, it’s insane. We have spent a lifetime adjusting the truth about ourselves to fit the perception of ourselves and each other we mistakenly believe is true and real. We are asked by the Course to question this perception and set it aside, with the recognition that we are truly holy.
We learn how to do this in our relationships with each other. All relationships are truly holy, yet we perceive them as anything but holy. We perhaps perceive them as challenging or a necessary evil. Adjustments of any kind are of the egoic thought system. For it is the egoic thought system’s fixed belief that all relationships depend upon adjustments, to make of them what it would have them be. Direct – holy – relationships, in which there are no interferences, are always seen as dangerous. The egoic thought system is the self-appointed mediator of all relationships, making whatever adjustments it deems necessary and interposing them between those who would meet, to keep them separate and prevent the remembrance of their Oneness. It is this studied interference that makes it difficult for us to recognize our holy relationships for what they truly are. The Course teaches us to re-perceive our “special” relationships as holy relationships. This process is the healing of our relationships and the healing of our minds.
The holy do not interfere with truth. They are not afraid of it, for it is within the truth they recognize their holiness and rejoice at what they see. They look on it directly, without attempting to adjust themselves to it, or it to them. And so they see that it was in them, not deciding first where they would have it be. Their looking merely asks a question, and it is what they see that answers them. You make the world and then adjust to it, and it to you. Nor is there any difference between yourself and it in your perception, which made them both. T-20.III.3:1-7
There is a question we must ask ourselves. Do we like the world we have made? Yes, we’ve made it. We have twisted the real world and adjusted it so much that it is a world that reflects nothing of its reality. The world we see is not pleasant. We probably see it worse than that, full of attack and judgement, frightening and unbearable. It appears to be a world through which we thread our timid way through constant dangers, alone and frightened, hoping at most that death will wait a little longer before it overtakes us, and we disappear. We made this up. It is a picture of what we think we are; of how we see ourselves.
Have you ever wondered what the world is really like; how it would look through happy eyes? The world you think you see is nothing but a judgment on yourself. It is not there at all. Would you rather see a happy world – a world full of peace, joy and love? The world you think you see is outside of you and therefore unreal. The real world is and remains within you, unseen but waiting to be recognized.
Who in a holy relationship can long remain unholy? The world the holy see is one with them, just as the world the ego looks upon is like itself. The world the holy see is beautiful because they see their innocence in it. They did not tell it what it was; they did not make adjustments to fit their orders. They gently questioned it and whispered, “What are you?” And the One Who watches over all perception answered. Take not the judgment of the world as answer to the question, “What am I?” The world believes in sin, but the belief that made it as you see it is not outside you. T-20.III.6:1-8
Release all the adjustments you have made to yourself, your relationships and the world you see. Let the light of holiness shine away all those adjustments and reveal all that is real and true in you, your relationships and the world. You will find nothing short of Heaven, for Heaven is Reality. Let the healing begin.
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