September 23, 2014
What is it about correcting errors? We love to point out and correct errors. Or more correctly, our egoic thought system loves to point out and correct errors. And because the egoic thought system is an erroneous thought, it really doesn’t understand error at all. But the egoic thought system does focus on its idea of error to keep our mind distracted from truth and reality. There is no real error. Error is misperception. When we see error we are misperceiving. Error is impossible in the Realm of God, Reality, for there is no error. It just doesn’t exist!
How confusing is that? When we “see” another has erred, we have seen them as something they are not. And thus we have seen ourselves in error also. We are asked to see another as they truly are, a whole, perfect, loving Holy Child of God who is One with God, us and all Creation. We are One with each other, so how we see them is how we see ourselves. The only way to correct error is to relinquish the egoic thought system and the concept of error altogether. We are as God created us. We haven’t a blemish or a fault. When we correct another, we are telling them that they are wrong. This One may be making no sense at the time, for they may be speaking from the egoic thought system. But our task is to tell them they are right. We don’t tell them this verbally, for the error is not at the verbal level. They need correction at a different level, the level where the misperception occurs. They are right simply because they are the One Child of God as we are. When we react at all to errors, we are not listening to the Holy Spirit speaking to us through another. And so we separate our mind from the Mind of God and adopt the egoic thought system.
From the Course: T-9.III.5 & 6. When another behaves insanely, we can heal them only by perceiving the sanity in them. If we perceive their errors and accept them, we are accepting our errors. If we want to give our errors over to the Holy Spirit, we must do this with their errors. Unless this becomes the one way in which we handle all errors, we cannot understand how all errors are undone. This is no different from the lesson that what we teach we learn. Our brothers and sisters are as right as we are, and if we think they are wrong we are condemning ourselves.
We cannot correct ourselves. Yet we can see another truly, because it is possible for us to see ourselves truly. It’s not up to us to change another, but merely to accept them as they are. Their errors do not come from the truth that is in them, and only this truth is ours. Their errors cannot change this, and can have no effect at all on the truth in us. 7 To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to us.
Let go of the egoic tendency to judge and point out another’s errors. There is no error that is of us. The only result is that we remove ourselves from the awareness of who we really are and judge ourselves separate. See only truth in the One we walk beside. Listen for the Voice for God in that One as we journey in this world. Spirit is walking in that One as Spirit is walking in us. Allow Spirit to teach you how to see yourself without condemnation by learning to look on everything and everyone without condemnation. Condemnation will then not be real and we are all forgiven – healed. Thus we return to the awareness of who we really are.
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