November 15, 2011

We lack nothing. There is no lack in us. God asks nothing of us and we have no need to ask anything of God. The promise of God’s creation of us is that we (God and us) are One. We always have been, we are now, and we always will be. This is the Will of God. This is the reality of who we really are. Even when we see ourselves as separate and mistakenly think that we can act apart from the One, we are One with each other. The mistaken thought only makes it seem that we are apart. The mistaken thought only makes it seem that we are lonely, attacked, sinful, or have anything to fear. Yet, even though we seem to be in danger, we are safe, cradled in the arms of Oneness.

The relationships we share with each other are truly holy, for we are a part of each other and part of God. We are One and therefore holy. Any idea that denies the truth of our wholeness and our health, our Source of help, and our Call to healing and the Call to heal must certainly be a sick idea. As we deny our true identity, our savior waits, as does the world, for our healing of that one sick thought. And we are not apart from the waiting savior and world, for we are One, but do not see our Oneness. And so we see ourselves as either One or separate, for we cannot see or believe both at once.

Under the mistaken idea that we are not One, we see the world upside down, from a perspective it cannot possibly be rationally understood. So we grasp at any little explanation we can think up. Our world seems to spin out of our control so we make up any explanation that seems to give us a place to get a footing. We then identify our body as our identity. We give it meaning and power it does not have. And so we identify ourselves as separate; our body seems to be our home. We use the body to witness to the dream of separation.

But, the body can be seen differently. We can see the body as our aid to reawaken to the awareness of our true home, the holy home of Oneness we never left. Our true home is built on the awareness of our holy relationships with each other. As we begin to shift our trust and belief to the Source of our being, we find safety in the promise we made with God in creation. The world can rail around us and we rest in the ark of safety in which that promise shelters us. And so the body, our idea we once identified as “me”, becomes a means to liberate us from the mistaken ideas and thoughts we had once thought were true. It then adopts the purpose, just for a little while, of salvation and the return to the awareness of who we really are where we realize we lack nothing.

November 8, 2011

Our bodies do not make us appear separate. Our bodies have no power and no meaning of themselves. Our bodies are just there and do nothing on their own. They are learning tools. And can be used for any purpose we decide to use them for. They carry out the desires and directions of our mind. They do the bidding of our thoughts and beliefs. But they are incapable of doing anything solely on their own. We make the mistake of projecting the responsibility of our thoughts onto the body and thus make it something separate and self determining in our minds.

This mistaken idea is a secret agreement we have made with each other. In fact, it is so secret we have made it secret from our consciousness. Thus we think our bodies, or the world, are totally out of our control and we are its victims, subject to the pain and suffering, the limitations of the body. How else could we forget our divinity, our unity, our limitlessness, except through this mistaken idea we believe is true? We have taken secret vows of separation! In our divine creation we have looked away and secretly vowed to see each other as unconnected, as separate, as completely independent of each other. In this way we shirk responsibility for our thoughts without ever acknowledging they were our thoughts in the first place.

The joy of this agreement is that once one decides not to agree any more, there is no longer an agreement. Once one of us refuses to abide by our mistaken thoughts and ideas we agreed to share, there is no support for the other’s agreed upon or shared thoughts and ideas. There is power in sharing. There is power in agreement. If we agree or share separation, or unreality, we give it the power to appear real in our mind. But when we take that power away by ceasing to agree the mistaken idea, we immediately make that mistaken idea powerless.

Shifting our thoughts and ideas to those aligned with Spirit, with divinity, we have made a new agreement for ourselves and each other. The power of our shared thoughts is shifted to Truth. It is shifted to the awareness of who we really are, the awareness of our unity, our divinity, our limitlessness. We realize the Oneness of our Creation, that which can never be compromised except in our thoughts and the little gap in our mind we have made seem real for ourselves. Let go of those secret vows. Realize that, in the first place, we made them with each other. And relax into the awareness of who we really are. It is our choice to let go of those secret agreements, no one else’s. The real world follows in the wake of our awakening.

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.

October 25, 2011

The Truth about us is that we are all One. We are as God created us. There is no separation. We are whole, innocent, limitless, and free, and cannot be otherwise; just as God created us. Yet we insist on seeing ourselves as separate. We identify as the bodies we made and built a life around and reinforce that idea over and over again until we just can’t see any other way to identify ourselves. We also reinforce each other’s mistaken idea that they are separate. We repeatedly reinforce each other’s dream of separation with each passing thought in our minds.

But we need not perpetuate the dream. It is in our power to make the choice to change our mind and change our belief that we are at the mercy of the dream of separation we dream. Once we accept the idea that we have chosen what we believe, we know that the dream can be changed. It can be changed because the dream is nothing more than our thoughts and judgments about the events and experiences in our lives. Spirit is poised in our minds, ready with a new gentler and happier dream to replace the dreams we have believed real, but now realize are merely thought. Step by step Spirit places the miracle of healing in our mind through a new dream, bringing our thoughts and dreams closer and closer to spiritual awakening.

The gift we give each other is our own awakening, for when we let go of our own dreams, we release another from the bonds and mistaken ideas of our own dreams. We set them free. In doing so, we no longer support their dreams and mistaken ideas of separation they have believed in so strongly. They can’t help but move into healing for there is nothing else to move in to. The gap that seems to appear between our bodies is now vacant. We have stopped filling the gap wit all our mistaken ideas about ourselves and each other. Spirit steps in to bridge that apparent gap, bringing the experience of our Oneness to us, bringing to our minds the awareness of who we really are.

The healing of our minds is the transformation of our awareness. This awareness transcends the appearance of separation in the bodies we have identified as. And we continue in this world and in this life we have made, experiencing the peace, love, and joy of the Oneness of our minds while extending that peace, love, and joy to each other in this world. Ad we extend the experience of awareness to each other in our daily lives, we bring the miracle of healing, the call to awaken, to each and every One we encounter. It is simple. Just Be who you really are.

October 18, 2011

We have been talking about the concept that our so called life as we understand it is like a dream which occurs while we are spiritually asleep. It is a dream, because it is not real. It consists only of our ideas and thoughts and judgments about everything we have ever experienced in this world. It is founded in the idea that we are each separate, and each acting independently and autonomously, and not in control of what happens to us. Our goal is to spiritually waken from the dream, to understand that all our ideas founded in the idea we are each separate are mistaken because we are not understanding who we really are. The awakening begins when we accept the idea that we are in a dream, and there is a better way to think.

Once we begin to accept the idea that we are not what we think we see in our dreams, that we are whole and as God created us, we cannot give support to another’s dream of separation. This means we do not share another’s wish to separate nor turn their illusions on themselves or us. And so we are free of another’s illusion because we let them be, knowing they are not the dream they are caught up in. We always have the choice whether or not to become involved in another’s dream of separation. If we join them in their dream, we are adding our own dream of separation to theirs, and sinking into our own dream.

We are given a way to find certainty in a world seemingly filled with dreams. Spirit has provided us this gift, this way of being in the world we live in right now. We simply refuse to be a part of any fearful dream another dreams. Take a step apart from the dream while remaining with the one who is dreaming. In taking this step, we separate the dreamer from the dream; joining with the mind of the one and letting go of the dream. In doing this we join with another’s true self and let go of all the illusions they have dreamt and are dreaming. In this way we share their holy mind which is one with our holy mind and realize our Oneness. This is possible and certain even when another remains in their dreams of separation and refuses to awaken. The dreaming is no more than illusion and so cannot be real, and is easily overlooked. And let go by one who seeks the truth of who we really are.

The greater joining of the minds who thought they were separate is a miracle that possible from each of us, no matter what the thoughts of anyone else. No one else must think differently for each of us to change our mind, our way of thinking. Once we accept that we think with the Mind of God, we need no change in the world, no change in any other one’s way of thinking to be in the joining of minds. We can now think of another as a mind in which illusions still persist, yet who is already joined with ours. The little gap that seems to be there to another has already vanished in the minds that have joined together. Be certain that if we each do our part the other will join us there where we stand joined. Remain standing in the joining, for we cannot do another’s part, but we can be a passive figure in another’s dream as they begin to awaken.