November 1, 2011
Sickness, in Course terms, is the separating off of the self from good and keeping what is not good, or fear, in. The sense of sickness is a sense of limitation, a splitting off and a separating from. Sickness is the thought of limitation, splitting off, and separating from. These thoughts are the dreams of fear, the dreams we have mistaken for reality. We have used these dreams we made up and believed them. Then we have reinforced the mistaken dreams with more dreams based on our belief in the first dreams we made up. Thus have we made up this little gap, this idea that we are not connected to one another, that we are separate. And this has developed into the idea that we are independent, and control our individual destiny.
But, God is the alternative to this mindset. God’s Creation is One and inseparable, indivisible. So the healing of the sickness of the mistaken thought is the return to the idea that we are One, united, and joined in Spirit, our true Self. So how do we move from dreams of separation to the awareness of Oneness and who we really are?
The key is in what we believe and what we share. We know that we give power to whatever we believe, for if we believe something, some thought, it seems real and true to us. Our belief that it is real and true makes it so for us because we cannot believe two opposing thoughts at the same time. We cannot believe we are separate while believing we are One with all Creation. Once we begin to right our belief and our thoughts, there is another undoing to do. What do we share? Do we share one another’s dreams and thus support them in their dream? Sharing their dream makes their dream our dream. We reinforce their dreams of fear and limitation. Thus we have again moved ourselves to belief in separation and limitation. It is impossible to see and experience wholeness when we are supporting un-wholeness.
There is a simple solution. There is a saving grace. Spirit asks us to simply withdraw from the support of another’s dream. No dramatics, no confrontation, no convincing, just withdraw from another’s dreams of separation and limitation. We simply refrain from sharing each other’s dreams. The real world is not made up of a little piece from you, and a little piece from me, and a little piece from another. The real world is all of us sharing what we already know, the undisputable truth of our wholeness, love, and holiness that takes us from the illusion of separation to the awareness of who we really are. Turn from the dreams of fear and begin the alternative, the dream of God. Before you know it the dream morphs into the awareness of reality.
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