a.k.a. Holy Spirit and not the ego?”
The Course, however, reminds us several times:
The Holy Spirit is nothing more than your own right mind.
He was also mine. The Bible says, “May the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus,” and uses this as a blessing. It is the blessing of miracle-mindedness. It asks that you may think as I thought, joining with me in Christ-thinking.ACIM CH 5 II 9 https://www.jcim.net/am-i-hearing-the-holy-spirit/
Kirsten Buxton's book "I Married a Mystic" is all about the practice of asking for the Holy Spirit's guidance and being willing to follow it. When we don't hear His guidance, it is only because part of mind is too afraid of what He might ask us to do. Jesus points to this very clearly in the Course when he says, "You believe that to ask for guidance of the Holy Spirit is to ask for deprivation." (T-11.VIII.6.6) When the fear of being deprived is there, Spirit must first wait patiently on your willingness to look with him at your fears, that you may learn of their nothingness.
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This morning's topic will be Lesson 49 in the workbook, "God's Voice speaks to me all through the day." This is one of those lessons which can easily be misunderstood and unfortunately has been misunderstood. While the lesson says, and obviously it's the fact that God's Voice (the Holy Spirit) does speak to me all through the day, it never says that we hear the Voice all through the day, and herein lies the tale. The problem is never what's in our right mind, which is where God's Voice is; the problem is the static that's created or made by the ego by the wrong mind. And so the whole purpose of this course is basically not to help us hear the Holy Spirit as such, as a goal; rather the focus of this course is to have us remove the static that interferes with our hearing God's Voice.
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it's just through practice
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