Tuesday, August 28, 2007

3. What is the World?


Lesson 241:

This holy instant is salvation come…

The Course tells us that the world is a false perception; made by the thought of separation and held in place by our cherishing that thought. It also reminds us that when the thought of separation is changed to one of true forgiveness, we perceive an entirely different, world. Now haven’t you noticed that this dynamic is so, even in your very own life? Regardless of where we might be on our so-called ‘spiritual journey’; we’ve all experienced this, yes?

The holy instant, where salvation comes, is ours to day, for it is always, already ours. This lesson invites into this holy instant together, today. Please join me on a walk through here…

Let’s just turn ourselves around in mind and go inward; simply relaxing the mind and body and with deepest respect and faith, we move just deeper than the mind and peer into the Mind we share… With awareness as our sensor, we feel into the Love-light glow penetrating our former state…filling and expanding mind as we’ve known it, and including all within its light. With each breath we go a little deeper… and deeper still… Unmistakably, we begin to feel a warm, all-empowering Presence of Benevolence, which we recognize as the Holy Spirit, and we are aware that we are one with all that is; magnificently vast, and yet pinpointing in the zero point of Self ~And, now, in going still deeper, as we have risen to the level of our true Self~ the level where you and I are one, here we gladly receive the vision that is our birthright…

The world we return to is, as the Course refers to it, the forgiven world. Our so-called lives, themselves begin to take on the texture of a dream. The seeming specifics of person, things and situations are sort of back-grounded by a luminous shine of oneness or Christ Light. Our mood addressing life at large is no longer the somber, reparation of ‘hard-work for happiness’ gig we were up to before, but rather more one of lightness and rejoicing. Its kind of like Star Trek, with the beaming things into materializing and back out again… yes? The so-called world at large, feels more and more transparent; for our focus is on the Real, so attention is fixed in the light. Time itself has the sense of merely the passing of a dream as it takes a back seat in mind. Our attention is rightly placed on our Self as the Dreamer of the dream… What is the world, now; from this vantage point? Certainly not our Self, for we are the dreamer of it… We are the incredible Light of Being… Now, just another instant, deep within the stillness, and this universe expires into the Light of infinite changeless, formless, timeless, emptiness. And aren’t we still being; as pure awareness itself? Truth rests in us and from us and is our being, which could never ‘not be'...

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