Hello world. The following was written 5/13/2018.
My brothers have been sharing some of the material from ACIM and other religious or spiritual doctrines, asking for clarity of understanding the meaning of what is being shared through these scriptures and books. They were also asking me questions as to why I do or say the things I do.
A brother shares, “I found myself somewhat despondent about ACIM tonight. I’m going to bring it up to some of the groups to see if some people’s answers can bring me to peace about it. I might just be Misperceiving. I’m really going to take it to HS to try to get peace there. Usually when I ask HS a question I get answered pretty soon. So hopefully I won’t feel troubled over an extended period of time.
Here’s what I was wondering. My understanding of ACIM is that the Atonement has actually taken place , and that we are assured that everyone will successfully have their Spirit accomplish what it needs to on this physical World to bring about the Atonement . It’s like the groups are rallied to believe that it will Happen. That all feels so encouraging and uplifting and success oriented.
I also think that bringing on the Atonement requires that all humans need to reach a level of NEVER judging or projecting or having ANY ego aspect for that to happen. Is that a correct understanding of ACIM?
That really seems like it is a true set up for failure. I don’t believe that could ever be possible, not with what makes up for judging or projecting. I know it says it will happen for sure, but I don’t believe that can be true. That requirement is completely discouraging.
Buddhism was like that, too. In order to be a true Buddha or Bodisapha (sp) You had to be a renunciation with NO thoughts of attachments or aversions. Even more, you had to only be in a NO THOUGHT bliss state ALL the time — FOREVER in no thought. They all live lives striving to live life here on Earth in as much of a totally no thought meditative State to qualify to get off the Karmic wheel. That entails completely being unaware of anything about the World.
Again that is too discouraging of a way to live; the prospect is disheartening and seems like an impossibility. Not only that, it feels like it likely misses the entire purpose of our life.
In some ways it makes Christianity look totally comforting, as people do not have to be sinless , perfect in every thought , in order to be assured of being connected with God for eternal heavenly life. It is actually completely easy and doable.
Then there is LAW of Attraction that sees you as totally connected to Source , that the Universal energy has your back, and you are not expected to reach perfection as part of the deal at all. You basically are seen as being loving in your true nature. You can have a great and happy life by just having the more than 50% of your thoughts being positive and attracting that into your life. It also sees you as being a co creator with the Divine, and being on the leading edge of creating. It sees you as having a Divine purpose in being here on Earth. It sees you as being almost all Spirit — maybe all Spirit. That feels so positive, doable, supportive and hopeful. It is energizing.
Even if it was not the way it is, it feels like the happiest way to hold thoughts that bring a feeling of love, joy, and peace. So that’s the question that I am bringing to HS, because I don’t see myself as being even in a state of peace when the entire human race needs to have achieved total perfection of thought.”
My Response, “Hello my brother. ACIM does imply the Atonement has already happened so it is assured. What is negated though is the fact one must still WILLINGLY do the inner work needed to accept the Atonement for themselves. They are not going to be able to spiritually bypass doing the inner work needed to heal themselves. Each Individual Being will have to willingly turn within to Holy Spirit to seek all their guidance and understandings, just as you are doing now. It is when each of us have made the choice to use our Free Will to be Sovereign Beings who are Self Governing so Self Reliant, meaning we take responsibility for ourselves and every choice and decision we make to believe so Be as we are choosing. We no longer point fingers and place blame on another. We reach a point of self awareness so no one may manipulate, coerce, control or subvert our Sovereignty of Being again. We no longer see ourselves as a victim in this world we perceive to be.
As for the whole judgments and opinions aspect. Part of this journey is coming to recognize and understand you were never required to believe in or accept the judgments, labels and opinions taught to you and handed to you. You have always had a choice in what you were going to believe for yourself. It is also coming to understand no one gets a say in what you are choosing for you and you do not get a say in what another is choosing for them.
In many ways what our brothers studying the laws of attraction have completely missed is this one singular tidbit of fact. It is the aspect of, what you put out is what you get back. It is a mirror effect it is speaking of. When we judge another we judge ourselves so are judged. When we attack another we attack ourselves so are attacked. When we try to control another we are controlled. When we manipulate another we become the manipulated. Do you see the pattern here?
What this thought process would lead one to is understanding if you want Unconditional Love and Acceptance as you are, you must Love yourself Unconditionally and Accept yourself Unconditionally as you are if you want another to love and accept you. If you cannot love yourself how can another love you? This is the message you send out.
By the way, the only way for an ego to be dislodged from its comfort zone is to ruffle it’s feathers. It is not until the feathers are ruffled it begins to look at what is causing it the discomfort. It is once it sees the cause it is able to heal it and grow Spiritually. Nothing has gone wrong and all is always for our benefit. Even these things causing us these moments of pain and suffering.
As for religious beliefs and doctrines, each hold a measure of Truth within them for they all have come from the same source. The differences witnessed are creations made by man for man to control and manipulate what it is one will think, believe, say and do. Each were tools being used to guide and or control the people who were choosing to follow it and it’s doctrines. All of the religious and or Spiritual materials you read have had some twisting of the meanings. For many of those who were channeling the information still had the filters taught to them from birth in place skewing the messages they were receiving.
Such as the Buddha belief system and this belief they must empty their minds of all thoughts. What they are to be doing is LOOKING at their thoughts to understand where they came from and why it is they are thinking those thoughts. Once the thought is seen they are to question them, not ignore them. Once a thought is seen, they are to recognize the emotions attached to it. Then recognize how those emotions and thoughts make their body react. It is about achieving oneness with the self through self evaluations and awareness of being. Meditation is about bringing the thoughts into focus. It is not about blocking them, denying them or washing them out of existence.
All of the items you mention hold aspects and keys which uphold the other belief systems out there and the Truths within them. What they also do is help one weed out the egoistic thoughts and beliefs submerged into these belief systems by the very ones who are teaching them. ACIM, Christianity, Buddhism and the other world religions are tools to be used on ones journey to learning who they are and healing those things they had chosen to believe in as being true. None of them are THE WAY. Each of them are A WAY of getting to a place of being where we can then switch direction and begin the next stages of our journeys.
In all honesty when I started to turn within to Holy Spirit I began to stop turning to my brothers and the materials of the world to guide me any longer. When I realized Holy Spirit was answering me and giving me clear concise examples of what it was He was explaining to me complete with visions, I completely stopped listening to the Peanut Gallery and only went for the REAL PEANUT BUTTER. It is amazing what the release of ones pain and suffering can do. Especially when they had no idea they were under such a burden in the first place. It had become so normal to carry it was no longer seen as being there. It had been buried beneath the layers I had piled upon me of other peoples judgmental beliefs of what I should or should not be doing.”
A brother shares, “Part of what I want to do as I review part 2 of the Workbook is look at how Jesus talks about time……………I enjoy that Lesson 230 is my birthday lesson………….
Lesson 230. “Now will I seek and find the peace of God.”
W 230 L 1. In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me when it is forever so?
W 230 L 2. “Father, I seek the peace you gave as mine in my creation. What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son.”
- — Urtext Manuscript Page — — W(473)
October 1, 1970
W 230 W2 (2) What is Salvation?
W 230 W2 1. Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot not be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. God’s Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.”
My response, “What it speaks of brother is the letting go of those things experienced in the past and recognizing there is no future tomorrow promised you. All that is and has been promised you is in this exact moment of your Being. What all of it is pointing one to is a letting go of the value placed upon an experience or their circumstances. It is a recognition your circumstances do not matter here. Only your state of mental Being matters. How you are choosing to perceive and believe yourself to Be is what matters through all of it. Your internal state of Being will depict how you are viewing the world and reacting to it. Time ceases to be anything other than this moment you are in, in existence.”
A brother shares, “from the ACIM Manual ~ “Should healing be repeated?”
“The mistake is always some form of concern with the self to the exclusion of the patient. It is a failure to recognize him as part of the Self, and thus represents a confusion in identity. Conflict about what you are has entered your mind, and you have become deceived about yourself. And you are deceived about yourself because you have denied the Source of your creation. If you are offering only healing, you cannot doubt. If you really want the problem solved, you cannot doubt. If you are certain what the problem is, you cannot doubt. Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes. Be sure of what you want, and doubt becomes impossible.””
My response, “Hello brother. What it is stating is once one gains CONVICTION in what it is they have CHOSEN to believe all doubt and disease will leave and not come back. It is the CONVICTION one holds this IS TRUTH which will sustain them in even the most trying of times. I have been healed all cancers and other diseases I had been diagnosed with back in 2004, since 2011. All cancers are gone with no medications or surgeries. In choosing to look at my experiences with Holy Spirit I am healed of all illness and disease. It is why I am able to speak with KNOWING, my experiences and those lessons I have learned from them. In healing my body I was shown the Truth of all Holy Spirit was showing me and THIS IS what has given me the convictions I do, what it is I am sharing is Truth and what Holy Spirit has me share IS TRUTH! When Holy Spirit healed me it gave me the foundation of proof I needed to believe all He would choose to show me and teach me. I still ask questions for clarity and understanding of Him. Yet, I still hold Conviction within me what He is showing me is the absolute Truth. My faith and trust in Holy Spirit is complete. Where once I held no belief, I am now a true believer.”
A brother asks, “I’m curious why you call me brother and not sister? It’s okay, but I’m just curious. Thanks.”
My response, “I have learned to refer to all as my brother just as Holy Spirit and my Guides refer to me as their brother. When I asked them the same question you have asked me.
Their response was as follows, “How you see yourself is not how we see you. We recognize the shell is not who you are, nor what you were meant to be. We use the simplest of terms to keep the confusion at a minimum. Eventually even this term will fall away as you recognize the Truth’s we share with you. It is the experiencing you create these forms for. Not the other way around. Your experiences do not define you. It is how you perceive them to be which will. This is why the forms you choose do not matter here. They are as labels attached and or removed as the whim may take you.”
As I contemplated this explanation given I came to understand and see the patterns being held in place beneath the surface we all skate over. These patterns are the foundations we have created to believe in which causes us the pain and suffering we go through. Labels such as male, female, brother, sister and this list goes on and on. Each of these labels have been created as a tool to manipulate how it is we perceive ourselves to be. We are to judge all against these labels we believe in. We find ourselves asking of our brothers the question as to why they would refer to us as a label which holds a particular meaning to us as if this label DEFINES us. We are then faced with looking at our own choices to believe that which we are in those moments.”
Blessings on your journeys my brothers. Hugs and love. You are loved. I love you.