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Monday, December 10, 2007
True Vision!
In A Course in Miracles, the reasoning behind all illusion in that it is symbolic, the symbolic nature of the illusion clearly has rules. The most central rule is that the illusion is neutral and I can see this truth, or, I can impose my meanings.
There are but two meanings I can impose, I can see lovingly or fearfully and according to my vision meaning is attributed. It is really that simple, ACIM is all about reversing the origin of meaning, or seeing it where it really is. I think I see a fearful world is insane if I am the giver of ALL meanings.
All my thoughts are meaningless because they place a cover over what is, they impose their meanings on what already is. The only thought I can have that doesn't do this is the thought, "God is in everything I see" this is the nearest thing in perception to an abstract thought. I am seeing 'it' in its original form with this thought, I am seeing without judgement, and although what I see is still within the illusion, I have opened the way to true vision.
What is true vision, it is AWARENESS, true vision is not consciousness which implies judgement and is of ego. The bridge to awareness is the conscious desire to withhold my meanings or judgements, thus releasing everything to be what it is, with it's original meaning, God-Self in tact.
I love this Course, it is entirely methodical and works when you work it, it opens the mind and allows the symbology to meld back into abstraction, which is our natural inheritance...
We call it Lucid Dreaming!
Robin...nonexistence, by its very essence cannot exist....what does this mean? It is very profound, and it resonates deeply with me......and I don't get how anything in the world can be threatened either. It is what it is...the perfect expression of that which it is...and nothing can alter that perfection...can it?
-Rob
Hi Rob,
your night-time dreams do not exist, they are but dreams, they are fantastic delusions in a sleeping mind separate from other minds. I am assuming we agree here, so, what makes you believe you ever woke up from dreams?
You can feel awake even in your night dreams, we call it lucid dreaming, there are motor cars, aeroplanes, other people and experiences in your night dreams, and while you are there, you believe it is the only reality. Then you wake up into the real world and you say, "OH yeah, right, that was just a dream"
You say you are awake but is it not possible that you awakened into just another dream? The day-time dream seems to have a more consistent ongoing script than those you have at night but the one thing they mostly have in common is that you never question the reality of either when you are in them.
They are both not real, they cannot be nonexistent because they never happened, when you finally Awaken you will have no memory of either Jesus says, how could you remember that which you never did in truth?
Nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists, only in dreams do we see through the narrow vision of a bodies eyes and that which they gaze upon isn't there at all.
Heres how it is described in the Course Rob:
"You who have spent your life in bringing truth to illusion, reality to fantasy, have walked the way of dreams. For you have gone from waking to sleeping, and on and on to a yet deeper sleep. Each dream has led to other dreams, and every fantasy that seemed to bring a light into the darkness but made the darkness deeper. Your goal was darkness, in which no ray of light could enter. And you sought a blackness so complete that you could hide from truth forever, in complete insanity. What you forgot was simply that God cannot destroy himself. The light is in you. Darkness can cover it, but cannot put it out."
A Course in Miracles
Text. Chapter 18 - The Passing of the Dream
3. Light in the Dream
Sunday, December 2, 2007
"NOTHING I SEE MEANS ANYTHING"
Peace is the goal here, but peace still implies duality, because for there to be a notion of peace, there needs to be two things coming together as one.
Those two things are the unification of the idea of ego in the Minds that has been cast out, back into the Eternal Mind, as meaningless, so that the One Mind is set free.
All thought manifests at some level, this just means that instead of arbitrary, meaningless, ego thoughts popping up everywhere, the abstract meaningful thoughts I think with God are remembered. Who's to say what this is supposed to look like and how it will manifest, perhaps it is you, Holy One?
Doesn't Jesus say somewhere that, where you once saw your brothers body now you see Light, you see God! I'm sure the ego just loves all the discussion about itself, while ever we try to get rid of ego, we make the meaningless, meaningful and it rains supreme. I am a person trying to get rid of ego, or, I am the Holy Son of God Himself... Can't be both, can't be happy and a little bit sad...
"Nothing I see means anything" this is our first lesson and its our last as well because everything I need to know about the world, myself and ego is implied here in this single lesson. It is ALL meaningless, am I going to believe this profound truth and more importantly apply it to all my meaningless thoughts, or am I going to pass it by and continue my frantic struggle for an easier way, a better diversion, a more spiritual method?
If you are still struggling with ego, you are still not seeing it's meaninglessness, you haven't really done lesson one!
"NOTHING I SEE MEANS ANYTHING"
Friday, November 30, 2007
Apocalypto by Mal Gibson...
I see only the past, and my thoughts have injured me, because all thoughts manifest at some level. In the past which is all I see, my brother is a body from which I feel the urge to defend myself. When I relinquish my thoughts and allow them to be replaced by the thoughts I think with God, I see God in the place where I once saw my brothers body...
Ain't that so cool... It's my whole way out of dreaming. I see a homeless person or a millionaire, instead of defending myself or coveting the apparent others wealth, I see that I AM he. I am the homeless one and I am the millionaire.
There is no point of Christ, no holy one or place, there are only my thoughts made holy through my willingness to see no differences and not to be fooled any longer by dreaming.
I was watching telly last night, Apocalypto by Mal Gibson, it is a very brutal movie but quite believable, it depicted scenes in the jungles of Mexico that could have come straight out of Nazi Germany. As I watched, the words of Gary Renard came into my mind, remember in "Disappearance of the Universe" where Gary talks about his experience of going to the movies?
He describes the event as, suspending his belief that the movie isnt really happening on the screen, he talks about the projection booth behind him etc. I like to do that when I'm walking in the street, I like to bring to me awareness the projection that is coming from my past thoughts and see the flatness of everything I see.
Its so disconcerting to look at the world/dream exactly as it is that my mind scrambles for the new thoughts I think with God. I guess thats what Jesus means by the real world...
This Need Not Be...
How do I look at the world with wars and disasters, happy times and sad. It's all the same, it's all a movie playing in my mind that I'm projecting out to trick myself into believing the lies of ego. I fantasize varying emotions of love and hate and the many shades of gray between, but all is illusion, there is no world and my eyes cannot see.
Every reaction is a sign I still believe the lie, I still need to defend against dream figures that seem to harm me, in my insanity, I still crave love from figments and I still have physical needs. But I am dreaming a dream that is not real in any sense of the word Reality, I am aware of none other, but this will not do..
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