["Let me remember that my ego is nothing
and that my Christ Self is all"]
We are all part of
that diseased, sick, insane mind that believed we would be happier outside
Heaven than in Heaven. (What Hopkins called
the race mind)
The entire world is an
illusion, which means nothing here is real. That means the whole perception of
differences in this world is made up. What unifies everything in this world is
that it comes from one source -- guilt. And guilt comes from one source -- it
is a defense against God's Love. Everything here is an expression either of the
ego's guilt or of the Holy Spirit's Love. We are all one, we are not different;
we only have the illusion of being different. Sickness, suffering, and pain are
wonderful devices the ego uses to keep us separate. You are suffering, I am not
suffering. So we are separate, we are different, and in this is an inherent
judgment made -- a judgment that is an attack.
The brain is what the ego tells us we really are. The brain
is within the body, very much a part of the physical world. The functioning of
the brain is what most people today refer to as the mind. All this has
absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the mind itself. A good analogy is a
puppeteer and the puppets, with the puppeteer above the stage. Let's say that the
puppets are marionettes, which means that they have strings, and the puppeteer
is on top of the stage -- he's not visible. He pulls the strings of these
lifeless pieces of wood that have been painted and dressed up to be puppets.
The puppets have no life to them -- they cannot see; they cannot hear; they
cannot taste; they cannot feel; they cannot live; they cannot die. But if the
puppet show is a good one and the puppeteer is skillful, he can fool people,
especially young people -- little children. But the puppeteer is not in the
puppet; the puppet is totally separate from the mind.
We actually believe that our eyes see, that our ears hear,
that our taste buds taste, that our hands feel, that our brains think, etc. In
reality, the body does absolutely nothing but carry out the dictates of the
mind.
We don't have to solve problems in the world because there
are no problems in the world, because there is no world. We solve the seeming
problems in the world by bringing those problems back to the mind and solving
the problem there. And the only problem is that we separated from the Love of
God, and so the solution is that we join with it.
The Atonement then is simply the correction for our mistake
-- turning away from the Holy Spirit and turning to the ego. So the Atonement,
or the correction, is simply to turn back to the Holy Spirit.
The miracle is the undoing of illusion. It brings our
attention back from the world and the problems of our bodies to the mind, where
the problem is.
If you find yourself
or those in your circle saying, "I am not sick, you are not sick, we are
all one, and I do not see your body I just see a white light," you are
either in denial or you are on the verge of a psychosis if that is what you
see. We are not asked to deny what we see.
We are not asked to
deny what our eyes see. We are not asked to deny that, on the level of form, in
the world of symbols and names, we all have different names and we are all
different.
We are simply asked to
put everything into one of two categories -- either an expression of love or a
call for love.
I am asked simply to
have the little willingness to be told that I am wrong, and that the dream in
front of me is simply a dream, and that the reality is the dreamer, not the
dream itself.
Excerpts from True
Empathy
[FACIM] by Kenneth
Wapnick
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