Go Up The Ladder

'Yet not I, but Christ,' must always be the attitude of the healer or rather,
 the channel or instrument of healing.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

"Love is the key to every situation in life."

 

"To learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold. Not one can be kept hidden and obscure but it will jeopardize your learning. No belief is neutral. Every one (every belief) has the power to dictate each decision you make. For a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. It is the outcome of belief, and follows it as surely as does suffering follow guilt and freedom sinlessness" (T-24.in.2:1-6).
What is this "little willingness"?

 

“Something opens our wings. Something makes the boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.” – Rumi

 

The subconscious mind will only accept the dominant of two ideas, or the dominant mood or feeling.  The way to overcome this for beginners is to affirm what the conscious and subconscious mind will agree on; then there will be no contradiction. Our subconscious mind accepts our beliefs, feelings, convictions, and what we consciously accept as true. A man could engage the cooperation of his subconscious mind by saying:
“I am prospering every day.”
“I am growing in wealth and in wisdom every day.”
“Every day my wealth is multiplying.”
“I am advancing, growing, and moving forward financially.”
These and similar statements would not create any conflict in the mind. ~ Joseph Murphy ~ How to Attract Money 

Now, here is a practical technique: The first thing you do, you must know exactly what you want in this world. When you know exactly what you want, make as life-like a representation as possible of what you would see, and what you would touch, and what you would do were you physically present and physically moving in such a state. Neville Goddard 1955

Here is a very healthy and productive exercise for the imagination, something that you should do daily: Daily relive the day as you wish you had lived it, revising the scenes to make them conform to your ideals. For instance, suppose today's mail brought disappointing news. Revise the letter. Mentally rewrite it and make it conform to the news you wish you had received. Or, suppose you didn't get the letter you wish you had received. Write yourself the letter and imagine that you received such a letter. Neville Goddard 1955

"In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth,
And all you behold, though it appears without,
It is within, in your imagination,
Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow."
William Blake

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances. It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety. It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven.
LESSON 50

There is no need for help to enter Heaven for you have never left.
A Course in Miracles/Manual for Teachers/Jesus - Christ

The purpose of your learning is to enable you to bring the quiet with you, and to heal distress and turmoil. This is not done by avoiding them and seeking a haven of isolation for yourself. You will yet learn that peace is part of you, and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are. And finally you will learn that there is no limit to where you are, so that your peace is everywhere, as you are. REVIEW I Introduction

If you wait, thinking there is going to be some change beyond the grave, I tell you you will wait in vain. There is no transforming power beyond the grave. All transforming power is in man now to interfere with his time track and you interfere with it by simply changing one moment in the course of a day, not accepting it as final no matter how factual the day. You know you did have that experience, don't allow the day to descend upon it and say "Well, I did have it". Go back to that moment in time. rewrite it, replay it in the revised version, and do it over and over in your imagination until that takes on the tones of reality. As it takes on the tones of reality you have changed your future. Take another incident and change it and keep on changing all the little episodes, all the little experiences and make them conform to a more idealistic experience and relive it. Neville Goddard 1954 THE COIN OF HEAVEN

Heaven and hell are inward states. Sink into self and all its gratifications, and you sink into hell; rise above self into that state of consciousness which is the utter denial and forgetfulness of self, and you enter heaven.
So long as you persist in selfishly seeking for your own personal happiness, so long will happiness elude you, and you will be sowing the seeds of wretchedness. in so far as you succeed in losing yourself in the service of others, in that measure will happiness come to you, and you will reap a harvest of bliss. James Allen

 

"Everything that is worth while was produced by this feeling thought. Feeling — Desire — Emotion — Passion — Wanting — Willing — Demanding — these are the things that have creative power. So do not deceive yourself with this 'holding the thought' or any such nonsense of which you have heard so much. It is not simply 'holding the thought,' it is 'holding the desire' and backing it up with the will, that does the work. To create a thing you must want it with a burning, eager want that brooks no denial — backed up by a will that knows no such word as " can't.' "

Théodule Ribot ~ "The Psychology of the Emotions," ~ 1896

What waits in perfect certainty beyond salvation is not our concern. For you have barely started to allow your first, uncertain steps to be directed up the ladder separation led you down. The miracle alone is your concern at present. Here is where we must begin. And having started, will the way be made serene and simple in the rising up to waking and the ending of the dream. When you accept a miracle, you do not add your dream of fear to one that is already being dreamed. Without support, the dream will fade away without effects. For it is your support that strengthens it. Chapter 28: The Undoing of Fear III. The Agreement to Join

This world is full of miracles. They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering, of sin and guilt. They are the dream's alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream. They are the glad effects of taking back the consequence of sickness to its cause. The body is released because the mind acknowledges "this is not done to me, but I am doing this." And thus the mind is free to make another choice instead. Beginning here, salvation will proceed to change the course of every step in the descent to separation, until all the steps have been retraced, the ladder gone, and all the dreaming of the world undone.  Chapter 28: The Undoing of Fear II. Reversing Effect and Cause

Never approach the holy instant after you have tried to remove all fear and hatred from your mind. That is its function. Never attempt to overlook your guilt before you ask the Holy Spirit's help. That is His function. Your part is only to offer Him a little willingness to let Him remove all fear and hatred, and to be forgiven. On your little faith, joined with His understanding, He will build your part in the Atonement and make sure that you fulfill it easily. And with Him, you will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith, and rising even to Heaven. Nor will you use it to ascend to Heaven alone. Chapter 18: The Passing of the Dream V. The Happy Dream

A Course in Miracles sees that a
new beginning...occurs when we recognize that the direction we were heading in was wrong; we desire now to go up the ladder, not remain on its lower rungs. We begin anew when we can say and mean, "There must be another way." This includes letting go of judgment, which enables us to look at the world's idols and acknowledge that they no longer attract us. In such acknowledgment our true safety lies, for forgiveness nullifies fear and God's Son remembers his home in the love that is beyond all dreams. (Excerpted from Journey through the Text of A Course in Miracles)