Commentary on ACIM Lesson 77
©Rev. David Seacord
I am entitled to miracles.
"and since you are not relying on yourself".... This is the phrase from todays lesson that 'lit up' as my eyes read it. So that is where I start today, while at the same time 'continuing the conversation'.
The laws of God that we are under--- these laws are the Laws of Love, and nothing else. Even though for God 'nothing is impossible', there is no way for God to make a law that is other than true to His Nature. The would be God 'being untrue'. All the 'fear of God' is an invention, and no matter how deeply the root of this error seems to go, it does not 'come from God', but mind.
The way that 'fear of God' was invented was simply 'to rely upon (our separated) ourselves'. The 'Adam and Eve' story in the Bible tells us that 'In the Garden' our original relationship with God was fearless and intimate. We were completely comfortable with our (metaphorical) nakedness and we knew no such thing as shame. Then we relied upon ourselves (which violated the fundamental God-to-Son-of-God agreement because we had to somehow 'not be one with God' in order to do that), and were 'tossed out'. But it wasn't God that really tossed us out. It was our own shame. We could accept ourselves as we were no longer, the loss was too great, the price too high, and we didn't want to be 'responsible'. In our egoic pride's commitment to 'being right', we have been blaming God for our shame ever since. How tragic a drama this creates. We all know it, because we have all lived it.
The instant we 'lose God', we are left completely self-identified as a body, and God is now an idea of something outside us, not the One Unchanging Presence Always Remaining Within Us that we most identity with. We create the ego to replace the lost Presence of God. We create our arrogance, our self-centeredness to cover up that we created the ego. Then we create other unconscious attributes to cover up that we created our arrogance. On and on it goes, our self-deception thickening. We seem to think this will help us in life, yet, in the 'egoic self-reliant' condition, our drop in conscious awareness is beyond 'huge'.... and life is quickly a survival experience which has very little to do with Love. Except as a survival tool, that is. But of course, that's not love, and that entitles us to nothing but suffering.
What entitles us to miracles is remembering ourselves--- that we are 'as God created us'. Remembering we are still that, that we cannot not be that (and still Be). Remembering it is all 'a dream'. It is a matter of correcting spiritual amnesia. As with any healing process, when we revisit the moment (say, therapeutically) that we chose to experience 'wrongly' (with a greater awareness than in the original drama), then we can choose newly, rightly, and if we do (which means letting go of who we think we are) healing is instantaneous. This principality is what all the miracles being done by 'Body Electronics' practitioners (and all other healers too, of course) is based on. The essence of the work of becoming conscious is being willing to Re-member our Being (bring back to wholeness all the parts of ourselves we has disassociated). And then to remember (re-install, reboot), we are that wholeness.
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A clarification about yesterdays comment that 'of itself' the body is not important. This is not to disparage what the body does have to offer. And one thing it offers is amazing and direct information (if one wishes to see).
What kind? Many kinds. Information about our untrue thinking, our non-loving emotions, our past traumas, our resistances, for instance. This is all stored in the body for us to 'identify with' as 'us'. Basically, we store in the body (and become) everything we believe to be 'the truth' (this is what we usually think 'our stories' are...) that the universe knows is Not 'the Truth'. (Body Electronics calls these "negative thought patterns"). And those 'tight guts', 'nervous twitches', habitual pain places.... those are the body's ways of talking, of delivering the message that "Hey, there something not totally true about what you're believing right now". It's saying '"Hey, look deeper...". Neelam teaches "listen when the body talks...it will help you find where the healing is needed".
Anyway, I do not desire to be misunderstood (or misquoted) as saying 'ignore the physical' by my comment about the body yesterday. The body is not important 'of itself' because it is a temporary phenomena (even if it were to last a thousand years...that's still temporary, by God's standards). But so is a sunset, or the song of a bird. In fact, everything physical is. Not so though, for our eternal nature, which is One with our Creator, who is Love.....
The whole point is to use the physical experience to consciously awaken to Love. It is, as the introduction of the Course says, "our natural inheritance".
Namaste,
David
©Rev. David Seacord
I am entitled to miracles.
"and since you are not relying on yourself".... This is the phrase from todays lesson that 'lit up' as my eyes read it. So that is where I start today, while at the same time 'continuing the conversation'.
The laws of God that we are under--- these laws are the Laws of Love, and nothing else. Even though for God 'nothing is impossible', there is no way for God to make a law that is other than true to His Nature. The would be God 'being untrue'. All the 'fear of God' is an invention, and no matter how deeply the root of this error seems to go, it does not 'come from God', but mind.
The way that 'fear of God' was invented was simply 'to rely upon (our separated) ourselves'. The 'Adam and Eve' story in the Bible tells us that 'In the Garden' our original relationship with God was fearless and intimate. We were completely comfortable with our (metaphorical) nakedness and we knew no such thing as shame. Then we relied upon ourselves (which violated the fundamental God-to-Son-of-God agreement because we had to somehow 'not be one with God' in order to do that), and were 'tossed out'. But it wasn't God that really tossed us out. It was our own shame. We could accept ourselves as we were no longer, the loss was too great, the price too high, and we didn't want to be 'responsible'. In our egoic pride's commitment to 'being right', we have been blaming God for our shame ever since. How tragic a drama this creates. We all know it, because we have all lived it.
The instant we 'lose God', we are left completely self-identified as a body, and God is now an idea of something outside us, not the One Unchanging Presence Always Remaining Within Us that we most identity with. We create the ego to replace the lost Presence of God. We create our arrogance, our self-centeredness to cover up that we created the ego. Then we create other unconscious attributes to cover up that we created our arrogance. On and on it goes, our self-deception thickening. We seem to think this will help us in life, yet, in the 'egoic self-reliant' condition, our drop in conscious awareness is beyond 'huge'.... and life is quickly a survival experience which has very little to do with Love. Except as a survival tool, that is. But of course, that's not love, and that entitles us to nothing but suffering.
What entitles us to miracles is remembering ourselves--- that we are 'as God created us'. Remembering we are still that, that we cannot not be that (and still Be). Remembering it is all 'a dream'. It is a matter of correcting spiritual amnesia. As with any healing process, when we revisit the moment (say, therapeutically) that we chose to experience 'wrongly' (with a greater awareness than in the original drama), then we can choose newly, rightly, and if we do (which means letting go of who we think we are) healing is instantaneous. This principality is what all the miracles being done by 'Body Electronics' practitioners (and all other healers too, of course) is based on. The essence of the work of becoming conscious is being willing to Re-member our Being (bring back to wholeness all the parts of ourselves we has disassociated). And then to remember (re-install, reboot), we are that wholeness.
***********************************
A clarification about yesterdays comment that 'of itself' the body is not important. This is not to disparage what the body does have to offer. And one thing it offers is amazing and direct information (if one wishes to see).
What kind? Many kinds. Information about our untrue thinking, our non-loving emotions, our past traumas, our resistances, for instance. This is all stored in the body for us to 'identify with' as 'us'. Basically, we store in the body (and become) everything we believe to be 'the truth' (this is what we usually think 'our stories' are...) that the universe knows is Not 'the Truth'. (Body Electronics calls these "negative thought patterns"). And those 'tight guts', 'nervous twitches', habitual pain places.... those are the body's ways of talking, of delivering the message that "Hey, there something not totally true about what you're believing right now". It's saying '"Hey, look deeper...". Neelam teaches "listen when the body talks...it will help you find where the healing is needed".
Anyway, I do not desire to be misunderstood (or misquoted) as saying 'ignore the physical' by my comment about the body yesterday. The body is not important 'of itself' because it is a temporary phenomena (even if it were to last a thousand years...that's still temporary, by God's standards). But so is a sunset, or the song of a bird. In fact, everything physical is. Not so though, for our eternal nature, which is One with our Creator, who is Love.....
The whole point is to use the physical experience to consciously awaken to Love. It is, as the introduction of the Course says, "our natural inheritance".
Namaste,
David
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