• You are not your physical brain or mind.

• You are not your genes.

• You are not your body.

Lost Lesson: You are consciousness—fundamental, irreducible, and eternal energy.

The father of modern physics, Max Planck said this:

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”

Quantum mechanics isn’t just philosophy. It’s physics that’s proven by experimentation pointing to a Universe that is mental, not mechanical.

If you try to wade into the quantum mechanics lingo, it will give you a headache:

“Matter isn’t solid or fixed—it’s probabilistic and doesn’t even “exist” in any definite way until it’s observed. Observation—the act of conscious awareness—collapses probability into the material reality we can see. Particles do not have definite properties until they are observed. That is, reality doesn’t fully exist until a mind participates in it. The underlying field of reality is consciousness itself—and matter is a product of that consciousness.”

Consciousness is fundamental and preeminent

• Consciousness comes first—not atoms, not energy, not space, not time, not Big Bang.

• Matter comes from consciousness, not the other way around.

• Consciousness isn’t in the universe. The universe is consciousness.

• Consciousness isn’t a by-product of matter, it’s the source of it.

• Nobody knows what initiates the 60,000 or so thoughts that pop into the mind each day.

• Nobody knows how thoughts are sequenced and appear one by one rather than all at once driving us crazy.

• Nobody can point to a location in the brain where thoughts come from.

• Nobody can point to a chemical reaction in the brain that creates a thought.

• Nobody can disprove ESP, near-death and out-of-body experiences, psychic communication with the dead, remote viewing, reincarnation, precognition, and other preternatural events pointing to mind outside of matter.

Gods eternal energy is consciousness. This is you! You are a nonmaterial conscious being directing your material brain. You are a knower that your essence is other than the atoms in your body-- if materialistic beliefs don’t get in the way. That knowing doesn’t come from neurons, atoms, or algorithms. It comes from something beyond your physical body, the real immortal you. We were created with free will, reason, intuition, and conscience, the only tools we need to guide our lives. With those tools, we can come to know reality to the extent possible, know right from wrong, distinguish between belief and knowing, and grow into more righteous and loving beings. Unfortunately, most of us do the lazy thing and set reason, free will, conscience, and intuition aside by replacing them with beliefs. It takes a thirst for truth and resurrecting those gifts to replace what we have been told to believe with actual knowing. The most important change, if we can accomplish it by engaging Creator-given conscience and love, is becoming better, more righteous, more loving beings.

That is our purpose in Earth-life. We can choose to come here and try over and over until we have learned our lessons and become the better being we know we should be.

Life is rooted in present experiences, the past in our memory, and the future in our aspirations and imagination. It must be a healthy balance between the three: handling your thoughts and emotions, keeping your imagination and memories from being compulsive, and learning to be a little more in the moment….

To fully understand the power of your conscious & unconscious mind. We first need to understand the difference between our conscious and our unconscious.

Consciousness is our self-aware, free-willed individual. The conscious is not the body, not the brain or the mind. It is energy.

The brain is the physical instrument of the mind, not the mind itself. The brain is the physical instrument humans need to use and process thought, the machinery. The mind is the brain in action or at work. Mind is what the brain does. The brain is simply the retrieval and read-out mechanism (the receiver)of the ultimate storage medium.

The mind and consciousness are two different things.

Mind is an activity of consciousness, like waves on the ocean. Consciousness is the ocean itself. Here are five reasons why this distinction should mean something to every person.

1. The mind wrestles with the fear of death. Consciousness isn’t born and never dies.

2. The mind feels trapped in a physical body. Consciousness unites the two as different modes of experience.

3. Mind feels isolated and apart from other people. Consciousness erases all separation because separation/duality is an illusion.

4. Mind sees the human race as an insignificant speck in the immense void of outer space. Consciousness does not need time or space. As in a dream, they are merely useful constructs in the dual world, having no ultimate reality.

5. The mind is baffled by eternity and yet yearns for it as a haven of peace where suffering ends. Consciousness is already timeless; therefore, the world here and now is a haven of peace where suffering ends with a shift in awareness. Consciousness gives rise to the mind, not the brain. The experience of physical reality is a mode of consciousness; in fact, there is nothing real that isn’t made real by consciousness.

4 stages of conscious evolution …

Consciousness is not a byproduct of matter. Consciousness exists independently of the physical world and always has. No form exists without consciousness. Energy is consciousness, and consciousness is energy. In principle, consciousness and energy are one.

• Reality is entirely experience-based. What we cannot experience doesn’t exist, not insofar as human awareness is concerned.

• Each person creates reality, serving as a conscious agent who experiences, perceives, and interprets the contents of the mind.

• Everything in existence is a mode of consciousness interacting with itself.

• The individual self, or “I,” participates in the cosmic mind

Consciousness is what manipulates the brain to produce the mind. Our Conscience is shaped by the principles we believe to be true that we have been taught. Thinking from an inner level is a conscience that is focused on what is spiritually good; its essence is truth. Thinking and acting from your heart. Consciousness is used to rewire or reprogram your mind….

I) thoughts, desires, free will/choice.

ii) rationality/understanding or perceptions

iii) emotional self–imagination, habits, feelings

iv) observation, self-awareness (seldom used)

Intellect is your thought process, thought is just one dimension of your intelligence. Thought is only happening because of the data you have gathered in your mind. From memory, experience, and your upbringing. You can’t think about anything for which you have no data. If beliefs are just thoughts that we’ve had over and over, then our beliefs control our biology (whether or not these beliefs are true).

Our thoughts produce the chemicals that influence the environment, therefore, our thoughts influence our health and happiness.

Human mind or intelligence is intellect, identity(ego), memory, plus the field/spirit/soul: again, all are entangled.

Mind is also subdivided into unconscious and conscious….

1. Intellect/free will- want it sharp- used as a knife to dissect…used for survival. Dissects everything…it’s designed for self-preservation of the self-ego. Good for some things but bad for others. Our physical world is goal-oriented. We compare and judge everything. The thinking brain…. 5 senses gather the data needed for intellect from the physical outside world. Where we get the data is from our 5 senses, from outside of us or outward bound. The thinking mind processes present experiences. Emotions are processed in this part of the brain. Intellect is always a slave to…..

2. Identity/ego – is what we identify with… values, belief systems. Whatever is within the boundaries of my physical sensations is me. Your body’s raw chemical response or emotions are then interpreted into feelings (done all within.) Emotions create new feelings, reactions, and memories/impressions. If it’s similar to past events, most of us will react subconsciously from an already recorded automatic reaction… A process that relies on our personality, ego-related belief systems, and values. Perception is our mind’s interpretation of all of our life’s or body’s emotions or our final feelings of the emotional experience. These feelings are impressed into our memories. Feelings are what mold our beliefs, opinions, and attitudes. Our main goal is to protect our body, our ego mind, our color or our skin, our culture, our religion, our sex, male or female.

3. Memory consists of our interpretations of experiences and is used with the intellect(the knife) to protect itself. Identity(ego) is the hand that holds the knife…..Memory is the data bank used for intellect. Whatever is within the boundaries of my physical sensations is me. It’s about just the self…. Building a wall, a coccon of safety. This self-protectionism comes from the memory. Protection of the ego…… Body memory and mind memory. Thus, when we aren’t self-aware of the present moment we react from our past ingrained software programs of self preservation or the bodies experiences. Memory resides in the subconscious. We mostly live from these subconscious software programs. We are who we are, from our memory. We are an automated species. Memory has boundaries. Memory is all from the past. It can be from education(knowledge), physical experiences, social experiences, there are many types. Our beliefs, attitudes, etc….The experience is from the physical outside world, but our interpretations and memories are all done within. Our education comes from our parents, schools, and our upbringing. Humans tend to project memories onto the future. So fear is often projected as a possible future from past bad experiences. Experience can become a wound or wisdom. Perceptions are made all from using the outside physical world of comparison. So, to survive, its purpose is good. In reality, all is experienced within. Think about it… It all happens within you. The brain is the record of the past. Things, events, and people are attached to each memory. Each memory has an emotion & feeling attached to it. Feeling is the end product of past experiences. How you think and how you feel create your present. Memory of the mind’s interpretation and resulting perception & feelings is a feedback system based on past emotional experiences that morphs into a protective automated response system. Most of us aren’t aware we are mainly creatures of the past. Human nature is habit…. It’s living by habit, living on automated, outdated software programs… Don’t you want to make sure you have possible and current updates available to download? To live life, to what it really can be. Without memory, the intellect can’t function. Can it be trusted?

How accurate is it?

What have u forgotten?

• your soul... To operate more from the conscious, not the wired, unconscious automated programs. The real goal is to tap into the field. Learn to respond, have wisdom, and when it’s called for, to delink from the memory(and often outdated software). To think from the heart, not from the body/mind, physical emotions, and protective ego. To control our body, our emotional outbursts. Updating outdated software and not reacting, you need knowledge from the field. Learning to connect to the field, to think from your heart…The ultimate aim is to transform our automated, ego-based, and outdated programs into updated love-based programs. Life is joy. When you think thoughts during which you feel passionate or happy or loving or eager, you are choosing thoughts in which the larger part of you is also completely immersed; but instead of causing a separation between you and your Source(the field), you are now creating a partnership or relationship with power and clarity and Well-Being. You could say that, in any moment, you only have access to two emotions: one that feels better and one that feels worse. If you will decide that, from wherever you stand and no matter what you are focusing upon, you will reach for the best-feeling thought you can find from where you are, then you will develop an ongoing relationship with your Inner Being, with Source, and with all that you desire—and your life will become consistently joyous. Until you decide to focus your thoughts into alignment with the Source within you, you will not feel good. A joyful life is not about gaining control of the factors that surround you. A joyful life is about coming into alignment with who you are. Joy is not about controlling other people or circumstances. Joy is about controlling your Vibrational relationship between the physical you and the Non-Physical You. It is alignment with the field that is joy or love or success, or satisfaction.

The Law of Responsibility is this: We are responsible to each other, but not for each other. The Bible teaches it this way: “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you Responsibility tells us we are the ones who must work through our feelings and learn how to feel differently. Our attitudes—not those of our spouse—cause us to feel distressed and powerless. How we behave and react is part of the problem, and we have to change these patterns. We allow ourselves to get pushed beyond certain limits and then become resentful or powerless. We do not turn desires into accomplished goals, nor do we deal with our sick desires. Where we do not take ownership and do what we are supposed to do with our stuff, we will be stuck at a certain level of relationship, and we will not be able to go deeper. In every current situation or in dealing with and learning from a past relationship, the process always begins with taking responsibility for your part in the problem.

As love grows, spouses become freer from the things that enslave: self-centeredness, sinful patterns, past hurts, and other self-imposed limitations. Then, they gain a greater and greater sense of self-control and responsibility. As they act more responsibly, they become more loving. And then the cycle begins all over again. As love grows, so does freedom, leading to more responsibility and more love. Both parties must own their sides of the equation. The one who has the problem isn’t facing the effects of the problem. And things don’t change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

Spouses may help each other out with their problems in the relationship, but ultimately, each person must take care of their responsibilities. When ownership and responsibility are lacking, blame is shifted, and problem-solving breaks down.

What is the way to see the difference between the soul and the mind?

The mind is the process of observation. The soul is the observer. What is the physical reality, including that of the body? It’s the object of observation. You observe through your mind, and you observe the body, and you observe other bodies. But remember that other bodies and everything else that you observe are a translation of bodily processes in your self by your nervous system. So when I observe you out there, I am observing bodily processes in my mind that I interpret as you.

So everything happens in our body, mind, and soul. The observer is the soul, the process is the mind(brain), and the physical body is the object. Your skin is the major receptor of the signals from the outside world through our 5 senses: touch, sight, smell, sound, etc… This sends a signal effector that produces an emotion. Perception is the mind’s interpretation (thought with wisdom) of the body’s emotional reaction to the experience. The mind’s feelings are made from your thought process or perception impress images that form or mold your belief system/attitudes, which produce your behavior. So perception controls behavior.

In contrast to yourself, there is also an impersonal self that is with you for every moment of your existence in this lifetime. This impersonal self is NOT your intellect and body. It is the invisible intelligence that animates all of life. It is responsible for all of your deepest desires. It allows your fingernails to grow, your heart to beat, and it is the Force that supports all of life everywhere. To appreciate the presence of this Force, you must get away from the unconsciousness of your body, which has long held you enslaved.

I’m sure you can recall times when your conscious mind generated ideas and impressed those ideas on your subconscious mind. This is how you learned to drive a car, do yoga exercises, cook a soufflé, and do everything else that requires a multitude of complex maneuvers without the aid of your conscious mind. Your mind receives these ideas and ultimately gives form and expression to them. You have thoughts about trying something and then proceeding to consciously practice, and you may not even realize that you are implanting the know-how in your subconscious mind. Your conscious mind is responsible for only 5 percent of all of your actions, including what you manifest

A good way to imagine consciousness is to think of it as the internet. We all have computers that are separate from one another in physical spaces, just as each of us is our person. But when we connect our computers to the internet, although they are in different locations, they are connected, and all information flows through an information network. Consciousness is a global phenomenon that occurs everywhere in the body, and not simply in our brains. Consciousness, at its most basic, is coherent light. If this is the case with consciousness, consciousness is not confined inside the head, but a fundamental property of reality that spans time and space.

Consciousness is awareness, and awareness is paying attention. Your conscious mind is the awareness you have only in the current moment. It’s aware of our body, environment, and time. This is your awareness of your current surroundings, your current thoughts and emotions, the physical sensations in your body, whether or not you’re hungry, etc…

Behind the dream lies the mind, and behind the mind lies energy. All energy has awareness, perception and memory. We can perceive energy without ears or eyes. All energy is alive. This is consciousness, God's energy.

Your mind changing shape is not the problem – changing direction is the problem. Fix the direction for your life all by yourself. Fix your direction, whatever this direction may be. After that, it should not change every day. The most fantastic aspect of the human mind is that it can change shape at any moment, in any way. That only becomes a problem if you mistake shape for direction. That is what is happening in people’s lives. If you fix your direction, you can let your mind change its shape any number of times without any problem. Once the direction is fixed, changing the shape of the mind will lead to creativity.

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1. Our first brain is in our head(self-awareness, ego), the rational brain, and the emotional brain. Frontal cortex brain (self-awareness & upper brain)… connects to violet light of intelligent energy, unconscious mind

2. Our second brain, the gut and (low brain), Intuition is also part of the gut ….

reptilian brain (gut instinct & low brain) activate the 2nd brain

“gut feelings” are low-brain signals that may over ride feelings and thoughts from our heart and head brains. For Taoists, life is a process, a dialogue between jing (body-sexual essence in our belly) and shen (spirit-self awareness in our head), all mediated by Qi from the heart-ruler (xin).https://www.healthline.com/health/mesentery... awareness brain

3. Our third brain, the heart and (mid brain) is the biggest electrical magnetic field in our body….. limbic brain (heart feelings & mid brain). Control of your mind and brain determines your heart and mind… It all starts and ends with thoughts. Thoughts or your mind control your heart or your emotions. The heart’s Emotions always follow the mind’s thoughts; thus, the heart-mind connection. This is your choice to organize the energy of love or fear into thoughts, which results in the emotions or feelings that follow. These emotions or feelings are what usually control your actions. …

The Tao view is that we also have three concentric and interactive levels of the heart:

1. Physical heart: fleshy, beating, organ that pumps blood to the whole body through the arterial and venous system.

2. Energetic heart (xin, heart-mind): the heart is the ruler that regulates feelings and thoughts via the organ meridians.

3. Spiritual “inner heart” (ling, soul): local heart shen resonates with Original Spirit (Yuan Shen) in our body’s core channel, linking us to the heart of the cosmos, taiyi (Great Oneness).

When our spiritual heart opens fully, we connect directly to the cosmic flow of love and creativity. Many people are only awake in one level of their heart…

– important to understand the heart connection!

Our Inner Sage is composed of three equal parts – yet another alchemical Taoist trinity:

1. Our physical body-mind (ego): (xin, heart-mind)

2. Our soul or personal Energy Body: (ling, inner heart essence)

3. Our impersonal oversoul or collective Spirit Body: (da shen, great spirit)

All three aspects of Self are needed to lovingly embrace and make tangible our relationship with Source/Tao.

Our self-awareness (shen or spirit) … infuses this network of Qi flow with various ancestral and astrological qualities that illuminate and drive our personality and its shadow (unconscious) aspects. These three alchemical treasures – Jing-Qi-Shen – sustain our fluid ability to perceive, feel, and act in the physical world.

Love and discipline go hand in hand

Combing The Tao with the 5 Agreements The Way is the middle, no energy is exerted, or very little…

Let it Go…. Let it pass. Stay balanced.

Use the 5 Agreements to stay in the Way…. understand it is their Ego talking…. Watching your inner thoughts, with little to no action at the time. Become the watcher of your endless thoughts, until you are back in the middle, let all negative emotions pass…

Extremes use too much energy…Choose the center or middle, this is the way, this is the Tao… You will have positive energy, not wasted energy on the extremes…By not participating in the extremes, the energy flows back to the middle, drawing from the positive energy of God’s universe…You stay in the present energy, not the past or the future. Infinite energy of the present is always there to tap into… one gets lost in the extremes…

Keep your heart open. Only take action if action is truly needed, after you are in the Way. If the action is who you truly want to be, or it fits into your owner’s manual…

The human mind is a living being, but it is a different kind of being from a body. The body, made from material energy, is a biological machine. The mind is a biological machine that is made from ethereal energy. Ethereal is another name for the energy we experience, but we cannot prove it exists. The body’s existence can be proved. We know we have a mind, emotions, reason, and intellect because we perceive them. We have named them.

Our mind is made by our emotions. Everything the mind perceives has an emotional component. When light of varying frequencies strikes material objects, it is reflected into our eyes. The brain translates these light images of material energy into matter, and what the mind creates we perceive as reality.

This reality is a dream. We dream twenty-four hours a day, whether our brain is awake or asleep. The brain can change energy in both directions. It can transform material energy into ethereal energy. We create ideas, and ideas are ethereal energy. When the brain converts ideas into words and writing, we make a manifestation in the material world of what is happening in our mind. The mind creates imagination, and the imagination dreams. The way we dream leads us into suffering and emotional pain.

The light we perceive reflected from a material object we then recreate as an image inside our eye, always indirectly. This process of perception involves our emotions. The images we recreate in our mind from reflected light are processed through our emotions and this activity develops our mind. Our mind is made from emotions, just as our body is made from atoms.

Humans are domesticated animals. Before we were born, the dream of the planet already existed, with all of its rules, beliefs and hopes. In the dream they are there waiting for the new humans to grow up and develop their minds in order to continue to control the dream. A pure, normal human being would be one who is still free, as he or she was in childhood before domestication, at the approximate age of one-and-a-half to three years of age. At that age, the child has developed enough mind to understand the abstract and to control language enough to communicate with other humans. However, the process of education has not yet taken place. This little human follows the normal tendency to play, to explore, to laugh and to enjoy life. Almost all the child’s emotions are coming from love unless he is angry or in pain. This little human is free to be and he lives in the present. He does not worry about the past. He is not worried about the future. The adults live constantly in the past and they are so worried in their effort to build their future that they avoid living in the present. For the adult, all the dramas of life are serious, but for the child nothing is really that important. The dream waits to teach the small child how to join the old dream of the planet. Our parents, older brothers and sisters, our teachers, the school, religion, society and the media all contribute to keeping the dream of the planet alive through domestication. Domestication comes through reward and punishment. Mom and Dad domesticated us just the way they were domesticated. They introduced us to the concepts of good and bad, by rewarding the good and punishing the bad.

The thoughts which give rise to what you see are never neutral or unimportant.

I have no neutral thoughts. Every thought has an emotion or feeling attached to it.

The idea for today is a beginning step in dispelling the belief that your thoughts have no effect.

Everything you see is the result of your thoughts. There is no exception to this fact.

Thoughts are not big or little; powerful or weak. They are merely true or false. Those that are true create their own likeness. Those that are false make theirs. There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of “idle thoughts.” What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought you have contributes to truth or to illusion; either it extends the truth or it multiplies illusions. You can indeed multiply nothing, but you will not extend it by doing so. Besides your recognizing that thoughts are never idle, salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. A neutral result is impossible because a neutral thought is impossible. You cannot dismiss fear thoughts as unimportant, trivial and not worth bothering about that it is essential you recognize them all as equally destructive, but equally unreal.

10 Places you should stay silent at all cost:

1. Be silent if you don’t know the full story.

2. Be silent if you feel unable to control your emotions.

3. Be silent in the the heat of anger.

4. Be silent if your words can destroy an amazing friendship or relationship.

5. Be silent if you are unsure about the topic or lack knowledge.

6. Be silent when someone is sharing their struggles and vulnerability.

7. Be silent if you can’t talk without yelling.

8. Be silent if your silence can save your bonds.

9. Be silent if speaking will only serve to boost your ego or seek validation.

10. Be silent if your words can betray someone’s trust.

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Desire & Responsibility

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

• Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.

• Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.

• Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Virtue does not imply moral superiority, it implies authenticity and innate power. Our innate power arises from within our authentic (original) self and expresses itself functionally.

Nothing from the outside can make you happy all the time. Life may not happen the way you want.

What I know I know, what I do not know, I do not know.. Perception is what you have interpreted of your experiences. Everything else is imagining. Your intelligence is not that good, as most of what you think you know is from your memory.

Desire

Desire is our everyday life. Misery is unfulfilled desire! Desire changes continually.

Desire is our thoughts & dreams... one needs desire for basically everything!! Desire is life!

Mind says one thing body may say something else. Think about it! Desire is not for more, we can always strive for more. But Desire is for all, or everything.. to be boundless.

The Energy of life and desire or intentions are the same.

• Desire is the source of life.

• This is the energy of consciousness

and just one aspect of the thought process. Most of us desire for the outside material things. Tending to our basic survival or better. If you want to know life, you need involvement or experiences. Deeply involved or just casually, this is what one learns. Detachment is avoiding life.

The desires of survival or of the outside world does not change who you truly are. Our nature is boundless or unlimited. Identifying with your physical body bounds you. Identification or ego, what is you? Are you your ego/identification or your true self? The 5 senses are only of the physical body. It has boundaries. Your body is yours to use but it is not the real you. So one needs the energy or desire of thought of the real you to be boundless! No one can see the real you, but you.

Thought and emotion is physiological. Most of us is a physiological case! Nonsense or in another way-we go from one thought to another thought. One Emotion to another emotion. One thinks our thoughts and emotions are the most important thing in our life. Compulsive action is unconscious energy. A Compulsive state is the mind that goes from emotion to emotion, thought to thought. Most of us react, most of us are compulsive or unconscious. When one does not react but responds, this is being conscious or aware.

One needs to be aware or more in the moment. This means to act more consciously. To make your desire consciously. The intensity of desire.

So one needs to organize energy, mind, emotions, energy, and body and thus your actions into your desire.

It is all internal. You whole world is your perception of the outside world. Thus your whole life actually happens inside you, from your perceptions. You need a stable base to perceive from love. Because love is boundless. It is not control of your mind, it is about liberating your mind. Is your desire or intent balanced more to the ego selfishness and fear or more to love and goodness of service to others?

Responsibility

Being angry is your responsibility. Is this usually an unconscious reaction? Yes? Isn’t this poisoning yourself? Yes? Any emotion you have is your responsibility. So can’t you also be responsible and dream of who you want to be tomorrow? Yes? Responsibility is the ability to respond. This also means not saying or doing anything in some situations. It’s not about you, but about the situation. It’s not about the other person either.

You must remove barriers in order to respond. Responsibility starts with you and ends with you, only.

Responsibility is a question of willingness.

Action is limited but responsibility is unlimited.

Understand this....

Any unpleasantness in your mind and your mind is working against you. So who is responsible? You are! Yes? Responsibility means sometimes not acting, which is still responsibility!! Being un-responsible is being unwilling. We are all responsible for everything and everyone.

Closing one door shuts off any possibility of involvement, not being responsible which is un-willingness. Doing something un-willingly makes it your hell.

But everyone has the power to be consciously responsible and willing instead of not living life to your fullest.

To live and live totally:

By having limited actions and by being willingly or responsible, which has no boundaries. If you think you are not responsible then you will react with wildness. Being responsible is not actions. A common factor of happiness is it is always in the moment. So if you get what have had a desire for, this makes you happy only in that moment. We all want to be happy all the time. If you want a glass of water, you get a glass of water. Aren’t you happy? Yes?

Whatever is happening right in this moment cannot be any otherway, then what it is right now.

Sweetness of your Heart

Happiness happens because whatever you wanted is there. An fully acceptance of what is there right now. This can become a state of existence by always being fully acceptable of what is happening in the moment!! Because this moment is absolutely unique. Your mind is always in the past or future. Isn’t this so? Yes? Memory is the past the future is imagination. So many miss the happiness of the moment. Aren’t you always living in this moment? Yes? The only experience is this moment. Don’t left life bypass you. The door is open, quit looking the other way. The only way to experience life is by the doorway of this moment. By awareness one can learn to be more present and living. One remembers the present moment which is now a memory. Or one may be dreaming what may happen from your thoughts of the future. This isn’t what is happening in this moment.

This awareness of the fact this moment is inevitable is the foundation of your existence. This is freedom. This freedom is the fulcrum of your existence.

Is unpleasantness suffering? Suffering is in the mind. Suffering is your making. Pain is a natural process in the body. It is a part of your preservation, or survival. The mind is always trying to grasp the moment. To remember it from your ideas or perception of the moment. Your ideas are made up by you? Yes? The mind is very good at magnifying events. Memory thus may not be as good as one thinks.

Nothing ever repeats itself in existence. But your mind always repeats itself, in cycles. You’re stuck in your mind. Same rubbish. You are living in your mind. There is no problem with the rubbish as long as it’s in its place.

If you make the event, experience etc.. and the rules of engagement yours, there is involvement which allows you a grand experience of Life. If you don’t make the rules yours, there is misery. Your voice. Without involvement you are avoiding life....

When you identify yourself with your likes, dislikes, etc... you lose your integrity. Love is the way you are, it has nothing to do with anyone else. When you are involved your are in love, a full time human being. When your heart beats for everything you don’t have to have personal interaction; just that your heart beats for them. Inclusiveness is the key, not being exclusively...

You must shift from identifying with the physical body but more from your inside. Isn’t to be loving, to be more pleasant make you happy, to be blissful? Yes? It had nothing to do with anyone or anything else. If you are compulsive you will get lost in your rubbish. It’s OK to visit these area of pain, of concerns etc.. but your base must be one from the joy of life, which is from your personal quality of intelligence and wisdom that should be based in love.

Is it your eyes that is seeing or you seeing with your eyes?

What you experience and how you perceive the experiences is who you are. Having openness to see it from a different level of perspectives is key. There is so much more in this world then your small world of narrowness and limited biased conclusions.

2. The Principle of Correspondence

   "As above, so below; as below, so above."

   The patterns of creation repeat at every level:

   • Atoms mirror solar systems

   • Microcosm reflects macrocosm

   • Your inner world creates your outer reality

   Once you see these connections, you realize:

   Change yourself, and you change everything around you.

3. The Principle of Vibration

   "Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates."

   Modern science has confirmed what people of ancient times knew:

   Everything is energy in constant motion.

   • Your thoughts emit measurable frequencies

   • Even "solid" objects are energy vibrating

   • Emotions create vibrational states

   Want better results?

   Raise your frequency.

4. The Principle of Polarity

"Everything is dual; everything has poles." What looks like opposites are actually the same thing:

• Wealth & poverty (different degrees of abundance)

• Love & hate (different degrees of the same emotion)

• Success & failure (different points on the learning curve)

The secret? You can transform anything by moving along the spectrum.

5. The Principle of Rhythm

   "Everything flows, out and in; everything has tides."

   Life moves in natural cycles:

   • Growth & rest

   • Success & challenge

   • Expansion & contraction

   The masters don't fight these cycles.

   They learn to work with them.

   When you understand timing, you gain tremendous power.

6. The Principle of Cause & Effect

   "Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause."

   Nothing happens by accident:

   • Your current situation was created by past actions

   • Your future is being created by today's thoughts

   • Every result can be traced to a specific cause

   When you take responsibility as the cause, you control the effects.

7. The Principle of Gender

   "Gender is in everything; everything has masculine and feminine principles."

   Beyond physical gender, this reveals the balance in all creation:

   1) Masculine: action, logic, structure

   2) Feminine: intuition, creativity, receptivity

   True power comes from harmonizing both energies within yourself.

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Gratitude is one of the most ignored natural remedies on Earth.

Used right, it decreases depression symptoms by 35%, decreases stress, and improves sleep.

Most people think gratitude is just being “nice” or “positive.” But here’s the science: Gratitude practice activates neural circuits linked to reward and trust, releasing dopamine and oxytocin. These neurochemical shifts improve mood, reduce stress, and strengthen social bonds.

The mechanism is elegant:

Gratitude practice → activates prefrontal cortex → reduces cortisol (stress hormone) → increases oxytocin release → strengthens emotional regulation circuits. Your brain literally rewires itself for resilience and optimism.

Now, here’s how to do it right: (any method, I think will help)

1) The 3-item rule:

Research shows listing 3 specific things you’re grateful for is the sweet spot. Do this 3-5x per week, not daily. Daily practice can become rote and lose effectiveness. Spacing matters.

2) Be specific, not generic:

Don’t write “I’m grateful for my family.” Write “I’m grateful my sister called to check on me when I was stressed about work.” Specificity activates stronger neural responses and emotional processing.

3) Focus on people, not things:

Gratitude for relationships yields stronger benefits than gratitude for possessions. Why? Social connection activates deeper reward pathways. Think: “I’m grateful for my friend’s support” > “I’m grateful for my new phone.”

4) Write gratitude letters:

Studies show writing (but not necessarily sending) letters of gratitude produces the largest mental health improvements. Spend 15 minutes describing how someone impacted you.

The benefits last for weeks.

5) Mix your methods:

Combining different practices—journaling, letters, verbal expression—yields greater benefit than any single approach. Variety prevents habituation and keeps the neural pathways engaged.

The physical health benefits are remarkable:

Gratitude practice lowers blood pressure, decreases inflammation markers, and strengthens cardiac function. One study found heart failure patients who kept gratitude journals had better heart rate variability.

The results speak for themselves:

• 10-35% reduction in depression symptoms

• 25% Lower cortisol levels

• 25% Improved sleep quality

• Stronger immune function

• Increased life satisfaction and resilience

How to start:

Week 1: List 3 specific things, 2x this week

Week 2-3: Add one gratitude letter (doesn’t have to be sent)

Week 4+: Maintain 3-5x per week, mix journaling with verbal expression

Progress naturally. Make it sustainable.

Changing Perceptions

Mistake interpretation or perception for the truth And you are wrong…..

Perception is Love of the Truth. So what is the truth?

Controlling the Ego and Emotional self control. Always thoughts in love. Implement the Knowledge Thought System of one perception, one truth

Always an Open Heart

This is the Short Answer

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Thinking based on purposes comes from wisdom, thinking based on means comes from intelligence, and thinking based on results comes from being informed.

As for love and wisdom, love is the purpose, wisdom the means, and service the result

Asking the heart is the beginning of Wisdom

The Foundation of the Self

When you have a house with no foundation, the house may fall in the first wind. If the foundation of the house is strong, you may repair the house if that is what is required. If a new house must be built upon the old structure, you will know it, and it will be beneficial. To destroy the old to create the new may be a requirement in some cases. But, as part of the Divine, the True Self, knows itself in love, it brings no harm to what it meets.

The world we have created makes the ego mind dominant until we choose the truth in the light of love. One needs awareness or conscious thinking, not operating with the automatic unconscious ego.

The Light extends by recognizing Himself in every mind, and thus perceives them as one. The Spirit uses your mind to change your egos perception into Gods one perception by using your readiness to change and your reasoning and your will.

Communication with God is life. Nothing without it is at all. The only part of your mind that has reality is the part that links you still with God. Would you have all of it transformed into a radiant message of God’s Love, to share with all the lonely ones who have denied Him? God makes this possible. This is forever changeless.

The Self That God created needs nothing. It is forever complete, safe, loved and loving. It seeks to share rather than to get; to extend rather than project. It has no needs and wants to join with others out of their mutual awareness of abundance.

Since everything is included in God-for God is the only Presence and Power that there is-the person who wants to be the most himself will have to be the one who has discovered more of himself in that which is greater than he is.

Our capacity to think, to live, and to move is nonphysical. There is an invisible Presence hidden within us which has Its source in a higher Power, and which acts through our actions, wills through our minds, and reveals Itself in what we are doing.

At the center of our being there is a Divine Person, a unique incarnation of God. This is the Source of all real inspiration; here, and here alone, at the center of our being, is the real Creative Power.

The question is whether we are living from this center, or whether we are thinking of ourselves as detached, separated, divided, alone, and inadequate.

We all have direct access to the Infinite Presence, the Universal Person.

There could be no more beautiful thought than that the Divine Spirit Itself, infinite as It is, is also within us. And with this acceptance of God there must come an acceptance of the real self, that self which blossoms in our relations with others and finds fruit in its own action.

The truth is that all of our knowledge, 100 percent of it, is nothing more than symbolism or words that we invent for the need to understand and express what we perceive. Every word in our mind and on this page is just a symbol, but every word has the power of our faith because we believe in its meaning without a doubt. Humans construct an entire belief system made up of symbols; we build an entire edifice of knowledge. Then we use everything we know, which is nothing but symbology, to justify what we believe, to try to explain first to ourselves, then to everybody around us, the way we perceive ourselves, the way we perceive the entire universe. All unique to each individual.

PROBLEM #1.

Wanting to change to the Knowledge Thought System. You must have the want, the will and the discipline to change to the Knowledge Thought System

PROBLEM #2.

We can’t delete the standard ego thought system.

We must learn to live with this duality of 2 thought systems. Talk about the ultimate duality. While as humans we see duality. In this spiritual world there is only one. Spirit sees only the good, because It sees and knows nothing but Itself. We need to see thru the spiritual eyes, not the bodies eyes.

So…… The goal is to figure out how to minimize the ego/fear thought system, making it the less dominant system.

Then making the lesser known and used Knowledge Thought System the more dominant thought process in our mind and heart.…. the skills in Transforming energy of fear to energy of love.

Understanding the ego and the polar opposite thought systems.

We must Change our perception of who we are and why and how in order to change our standard ego thoughts to a thought system of Gods energy’s of Love. Becoming a master of Awareness and Love.

You must understand, realize and Know that everyone lives in their self-made ego world of their personal opinions and words. We also must then realize they are unaware, but close relatives. A created tiny eternal speck of energy OF Gods Love.

PROBLEM #3.

We must still live in this world by what we humans are. We use this knowledge as a practical means for fully integrating it into our daily lives. We still have personal likes and dislikes of our true self. We must learn to live and operate with these 2 opposite thought systems in this imperfect human world.

Making the ego system into the weaker thought system. We honor our personal values with self love and respect.

The possession of this Knowledge doesn’t make you better then anyone else. You stay humble and kind. You understand it’s the persons ego, the small selfish personal opinions that is talking. It has nothing to do with you. We show [respect], by having self respect and control. We don’t take it personal, we don’t assume. Clarify, if the situation calls for it. We understand it does no good to argue. Nor do we have a need to judge or attack them. Nor the need to defend our opinions and beliefs.

If we fail we keep trying.

As humans and the current world we have, we must still use perception but realize that it must be based in truth or love, to serve us properly….. “Well, I don’t have to like people,” and you’re correct. But like is a personality structure. It is a simple preference. “I prefer my coffee black.” “I prefer mine with cream.” You have your ideas of one another, and that is how you negotiate a reality. While we realize they are our brothers or sisters and they are acting from their ego.

Still we do not let people run us over, take advantage, etc… We may have to implement measures of self protection according to our Love based principles. If someone is not treating you with love and respect, you may have to walk away from them.

Having the wisdom, and ability into tailoring the response according to the person or event. Wisdom, we will say, moves far beyond the intellect and knowing is encompassed within it. But to be wise requires you to be in choice and usually demands discernment. So while you can know that what is on the counter looks like a toaster, in your wisdom you will know how to operate it. You will know what to with the knowledge that you seek in your wisdom.

Looking at the intent behind the words. If their personal dream of words coincides with your values and love based beliefs you may agree to their words. If not you still listen for the intent, with skepticism and with respect.

But now it will be a Love based response or action of the True self…..

Not a reaction of the fear based Ego system.

We must Learn NOT to use our bodies senses to perceive.

One must be able to See through Gods eyes and with his mind of unconditional love. Thinking from your true heart. Letting God change your perception into his perception. One must WANT to change your way of thinking and merge your conscious thoughts or what we call “mind” to Gods way of thinking.

Every thought, intention, and desire should start and end with Love. Merge your thoughts with Gods. One mind, one love, one true perception, one true love…..

The energy of Intent is what makes the transformation from the energy of fear into Love, possible. It is Life itself; it is unconditional love. It is the force or energy behind your ability to think, your every thought and action. Everything is made with love because everything comes from God or Life. It is the true us, you just have to realize it. Like minds can share and become, one absolute truth, one true perception, one true love…..

Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is. This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom.

Even if Gods thought system is learned as kids, my opinion is that one would still gravitate to the ego self serving thought system.

One needs constant discipline and awareness not to slip back into the egos power and control

Can God’s thought system be taught, learned and adapted into ones life? It may take life experiences for them to learn this principle of the total whole. And that’s fine. As the bigger question of this last goal is probably more based in the deeper subject of “Who Am I”…

Even the kids of the author of the 4 Agreements who were taught and raised with this system, did not adopt it as adults, until life experiences woke them up to its importance.

Knowing and realization are identical in meaning. When you know something in truth, you realize it. If you understand the word realization, it means to realize, to be made known. The key here is to know what is, not what should be, not what you have acquiesced to or agreed to be, but what is and can only be in truth.

Opposite Thought Systems

The words presented here shows a fundamental distinction between the real and the unreal; between Knowledge and perception.

From Knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are polar opposites in every respect.

THERE IS ONE POWER IN THE UNIVERSE, BUT THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF USING IT.

Everyone who follows the world’s ego curriculum, and everyone here does follow it……

Until he changes his mind.

Then teaching himself, to convince himself that he is what he is not. Herein is the purpose of the world.

Your mind and the light can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. Do not settle for anything less than this, and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal.

Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment, and step away from them. Judge how well you have done this by your own feelings, for this is the one right use of judgment.

Changing Perception

Bringing all of your perceptions into the one line the Holy Spirit sees.

This line is the direct line of communication with God, and lets your mind converge with His. There is no conflict anywhere in this perception, because it means that all perception is guided by the Holy Spirit, Whose Mind is fixed on God.

Only the Holy Spirit can resolve conflict, because only the Holy Spirit is conflict-free. He perceives only what is true in your mind, and extends outward only to what is true in other minds. The difference between the ego’s projection and the Holy Spirit’s extension is very simple. The ego projects to exclude, and therefore to deceive. If you cannot hear the Voice for God, it is because you do not choose to listen.

That you do listen to the voice of your ego is demonstrated by your attitudes, your feelings and your behavior. Yet this is what you want. The communication system of the ego is based on its own thought system, as is everything else it dictates.

Its communication is controlled by its need to protect itself, and it will disrupt communication when it experiences threat.

The Holy Spirit extends by recognizing Himself in every mind, and thus perceives them as one.

Nothing conflicts in this perception, because what the Holy Spirit perceives is all the same. Wherever He looks He sees Himself, and because He is united He offers the whole Kingdom always. This is the one message God gave to Him and for which He must speak, because that is what He is.

The peace of God lies in that message, and so the peace of God lies in you. The great peace of the Kingdom shines in your mind forever, but it must shine outward to make you aware of it. The Holy Spirit was given you with perfect impartiality, and only by recognizing Him impartially can you recognize Him at all.

The ego is legion, but the Holy Spirit is One. No darkness abides anywhere in the Kingdom, but your part is only to allow no darkness to abide in your own mind. This alignment with light is unlimited, because it is in alignment with the light of the world.

When you finally know, you are remembering the laws of God and forgetting the laws of the ego. I said before that forgetting is merely a way of remembering better. It is therefore not the opposite of remembering when it is properly perceived. Perceived improperly, it induces a perception of conflict with something else, as all incorrect perception does. Properly perceived, it can be used as a way out of conflict, as all proper perception can.

Perception is a continual process of accepting and rejecting, organizing and reorganizing, shifting and changing. Only perception involves partial awareness. Evaluation is an essential part of perception, because judgments are necessary in order to select.

Judgment, like any other defense, can be used to attack or protect; to hurt or to heal.

The ego should be brought to judgment and found wanting there. Without your own allegiance, protection and love, the ego cannot exist. Your ego is trying to convince you that it is real and I am not, because if I am real, I am no more real than you are.

That Knowledge, and I assure you that it is Knowledge, means that Christ(the light) has come into your mind and healed it. I do not attack your ego. I do work with your higher mind, the home of the Holy Spirit, whether you are asleep or awake, just as your ego does with your lower mind, which is its home. I am your vigilance in this, because you are too confused to recognize your own hope. I am not mistaken.

Your mind will elect to join with mine, and together we are invincible.

The ego speaks in judgment, and the Holy Spirit reverses its decision, much as a higher court has the power to reverse a lower court’s decisions in this world. The ego’s decisions are always wrong, because they are based on the error they were made to uphold. Nothing the ego perceives is interpreted correctly. Not only does the ego cite Scripture for its purpose, but it even interprets Scripture as a witness for itself.

When I said “I am come as a light into the world,” I meant that I came to share the light with you. Remember my reference to the ego’s dark glass, and remember also that I said, “Do not look there.” It is still true that where you look to find yourself is up to you.

What happens to perceptions if there are no judgments and nothing but perfect equality? Perception becomes impossible.

Truth can only be known.

Your patience with your brother is your patience with yourself. Is not a child of God worth patience? I have shown you infinite patience because my will is that of our Father, from Whom I learned of infinite patience.

Why should you listen to the endless insane calls you think are made upon you, when you can know the Voice for God is in you? God commended His Spirit to you, and asks that you commend yours to Him. He wills to keep it in perfect peace, because you are of one mind and spirit with Him.

It reflects both the ego’s need to separate, and your willingness to side with its separateness. This willingness to the ego means that you do not want to know the truth yet.

The body is the ego’s home by its own election. It is the only identification with which the ego feels safe, since the body’s vulnerability is its own best argument that you cannot be of God. This is the belief that the ego sponsors eagerly. Yet the ego hates the body, because it cannot accept it as good enough to be its home. Here is where the mind becomes actually dazed. Being told by the ego that it is really part of the body and that the body is its protector, the mind is also told that the body cannot protect it. Therefore, the mind asks, “Where can I go for protection?” to which the ego replies, “Turn to me.” The mind, and not without cause, reminds the ego that it has itself insisted that it is identified with the body, so there is no point in turning to it for protection.

The ego, always demands reciprocal rights, because it is competitive rather than loving. It is always willing to strike a bargain, but it cannot understand that to be like another means that no bargains are possible.

To gain you must give, not bargain. To bargain is to limit giving, and this is not God’s Will. To will with God is to create like Him. God does not limit His gifts in any way. You are His gifts, and so your gifts must be like His. Your gifts to the Kingdom must be like His gifts to you.

Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance, and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love because you are love.

Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind that made it knew itself.

Minds can communicate, but they cannot hurt. The body in the service of the ego can hurt other bodies, but this cannot occur unless the body has already been confused with the mind.

The ego’s use of projection must be fully understood before the inevitable association between projection and anger can be finally undone. The ego always tries to preserve conflict. It is very ingenious in devising ways that seem to diminish conflict, because it does not want you to find conflict so intolerable that you will insist on giving it up. The ego therefore tries to persuade you that it can free you of conflict, lest you give the ego up and free yourself. Using its own warped version of the laws of God, the ego utilizes the power of the mind only to defeat the mind’s real purpose. It projects conflict from your mind to other minds, in an attempt to persuade you that you have gotten rid of the problem.

Do not be afraid of the ego. It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it. Do not project the responsibility for your belief in it onto anyone else, or you will preserve the belief.

When you are willing to accept sole responsibility for the ego’s existence you will have laid aside all anger and all attack, because they come from an attempt to project responsibility for your own errors.

But having accepted the errors as yours, do not keep them. Give them over quickly to the Holy Spirit to be undone completely, so that all their effects will vanish from your mind and from the Sonship as a whole. The Holy Spirit will teach you to perceive beyond your belief, because truth is beyond belief and His perception is true. The ego can be completely forgotten at any time, because it is a totally incredible belief, and no one can keep a belief he has judged to be unbelievable. The more you learn about the ego, the more you realize that it cannot be believed.

The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision. Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey.

The Light and the ego are the only choices open to you. God created one, and so you cannot eradicate it. Only what God creates is irreversible and unchangeable.

You made the other, and so you can. What you made can always be changed because, when you do not think like God, you are not really thinking at all. Delusional ideas are not real thoughts, although you can believe in them.

But you are wrong.

If only the loving thoughts of God’s Son are the world’s reality, the real world must be in his mind. His insane thoughts, too, must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate. A split mind is endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed thoughts within itself is intolerable.

Everyone who identifies with the ego feels deprived. What he experiences then is depression or anger, because what he did was to exchange Self-love for self-hate, making him afraid of himself. He does not realize this. Even if he is fully aware of anxiety he does not perceive its source as his own ego identification, and he always tries to handle it by making some sort of insane “arrangement” with the world. He always perceives this world as outside himself, for this is crucial to his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes this world, for there is no world outside of him.

Ego’s Anger

Perhaps it will be helpful to remember that no one can be angry at a fact. It is always an interpretation that gives rise to negative emotions, regardless of their seeming justification by what appears as facts. Regardless, too, of the intensity of the anger that is aroused. It may be merely slight irritation, perhaps too mild to be even clearly recognized. Or it may also take the form of intense rage, accompanied by thoughts of violence, fantasied or apparently acted out. It does not matter. All of these reactions are the same. They obscure the truth, and this can never be a matter of degree. Either truth is apparent, or it is not.

Anger in response to perceived magic thoughts is a basic cause of fear. Consider what this reaction means, and its centrality in the world’s thought system becomes apparent. A magic thought, by its mere presence, acknowledges a separation from God. It states, in the clearest form possible, that the mind which believes it has a separate will that can oppose the Will of God, also believes it can succeed.

It can be learned and taught, but it requires patience and abundant willingness. Given that, the lesson’s manifest simplicity stands out like an intense white light against a black horizon, for such it is. If anger comes from an interpretation and not a fact, it is never justified. Once this is even dimly grasped, the way is open. Now it is possible to take the next step. The interpretation can be changed at last. Magic thoughts need not lead to condemnation, for they do not really have the power to give rise to guilt. And so they can be overlooked, and thus forgotten in the truest sense.

Remember, then, that anger recognizes a reality that is not there; yet is the anger certain witness that you do believe in it as fact.

Now is escape impossible, until you see you have responded to your own interpretation, which you have projected on an outside world.

Let this grim sword be taken from you now. There is no death. This sword does not exist. The fear of God is causeless.

But His Love is Cause of everything beyond all fear, and thus forever real and always true.

Judgment

A common purpose is the only means whereby perception can be stabilized, and one interpretation given to the world and all experiences here. In this shared purpose is one judgment shared by everyone and everything you see. You do not have to judge, for you have learned one meaning has been given everything, and you are glad to see it everywhere.

It cannot change because you would perceive it everywhere, unchanged by circumstance. And so you offer it to all events, and let them offer you stability.

Escape from judgment simply lies in this; all things have but one purpose, which you share with all the world. And nothing in the world can be opposed to it, for it belongs to everything, as it belongs to you.

With this one united goal this becomes possible. LOVE

To know reality must involve the willingness to judge unreality for what it is. To overlook nothingness is merely to judge it correctly, and because of your ability to evaluate it truly, to let it go. Knowledge cannot dawn on a mind full of illusions, because truth and illusions are irreconcilable. Truth is whole, and cannot be known by part of a mind. Oneness cannot be divided.

Knowledge Thought System

We have been emphasizing perception, and have said very little about knowledge(wisdom) as yet.

This is because perception must be straightened out before you can know anything.

To know is to be certain. Uncertainty means that you do not know. God's Knowledge or wisdom is power because it is certain, and certainty is strength.

God uses our intelligence or reason to change our perception from the ego thought system to the knowledge thought system on our way to unite with Gods mind.

When fully vested in the faith and truth of who we truly are, perception is not needed. Wisdom doesn’t use interpretation, perception, judgment or have emotions of anger.

Perception is the medium by which ignorance is brought to knowledge. Yet the perception must be without deceit, for otherwise it becomes the messenger of ignorance rather than a helper in the search for truth. It is not possible to convince the unknowing that they know. From their point of view it is not true. Yet it is true because God knows it.

These are clearly opposite viewpoints on what the “unknowing” are. To God, unknowing is impossible. It is therefore not a point of view at all, but merely a belief in something that does not exist. It is only this belief that the unknowing have, and by it they are wrong about themselves. They have defined themselves as they were not created. Their creation was not a point of view, but rather a certainty. Uncertainty brought to certainty does not retain any conviction of reality.

Knowledge or Truth

God's Knowledge(Wisdom)shows that anger is never justified. Attack has no foundation. You see the flesh or recognize the spirit.

Love shares and extends itself

One meaning, one emotion and one purpose

The peace of one true perception

True perception foster love

True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth and beyond all perceptions.

True Knowledge never involves comparisons

That is its main difference from everything else the mind can grasp

Knowledge does not do anything. It can be perceived as an attacker, but it cannot attack. What you perceive as its attack is your own vague recognition that knowledge can always be remembered, never having been destroyed.

Knowing is not open to interpretation

The oneness of God’s wisdom is free of conflict.

If you speak from spirit you have chosen to “Be still and know that I am God.” These words are inspired because they reflect knowledge.

If you speak from the ego you are disclaiming knowledge and are thus disspiriting yourself. Ego believes in separation.

God's Knowledge Thought System

Your perception must be straightened out before you can know anything.

To know is to be certain. Uncertainty means that you do not know. Wisdom is power because it is certain, and certainty is strength.

Perception is temporary. As an attribute of the belief in space and time, it is subject to either fear or love. Misperceptions produce fear and true perceptions foster love, but neither brings certainty because all perception varies. That is why it is not knowledge.

True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth and beyond all perceptions. Knowledge never involves comparisons. That is its main difference from everything else the mind can grasp.

What do you want? Light or darkness, knowledge or ignorance are yours, but not both. Opposites must be brought together, not kept apart. For their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by union, as you are. In union, everything that is not real must disappear, for truth is union. As darkness disappears in light, so ignorance fades away when knowledge dawns.

Abstract thought applies to knowledge because Knowledge is completely impersonal, and examples are irrelevant to its understanding. Knowing is not open to interpretation. You may try to “interpret” meaning, but this is always open to error because it refers to the perception of meaning.

Knowledge transcends the laws governing perception, because partial knowledge is impossible. It is all one and has no separate parts. You who are really one with it need but know yourself and your knowledge is complete. To know God’s miracle is to know Him.

Rational Thought-Seeking Truth

True Knowledge

Realize to Believe; [to understand, to feel it] to experience it….

God's Knowledge or wisdom is that your mind is part of God and one with God. This is the absolute truth. God and everything he makes is eternal. God is Love and thus you are Love. Realizing who you truly are and then changing your thought system to Love. This is knowing, realizing and true Knowledge.

1. To Know – that we are all, a part of God. Made in his image, with his energy of love. It is who we really are. We are all the same. Life is of the mind and in the mind, not the body. The body is only for communication. To understand, to Know, we are all one. Everything God has made is one light energy of love, just at different vibrations. Everything he has made is eternal.
   That there is one truth of Love. One law of Love. One perception of Love. With this there is no judgement, no control, no should have.

2. To Realize, that we must become one mind with God or Love.

a) To overcome the Egos dominance. You can’t destroy ego, but we can control or minimize it. We must become one mind of the spirit. This is done by Love. Every interpretation you would lay upon a brother is senseless. Let the Holy Spirit show him to you, and teach you both his love and his call for love. Neither his mind nor yours holds more than these two orders of thought. This leads to part

b)- All your thoughts, desires, and intentions should start with…… Love

1. To Understand, because of our human perception we must forgive all, for us to be forgiven. To Know – With God – That there is no sin just errors. Errors can be undone. Every loveless thought must be undone, a word the ego cannot even understand.

Your whole world is created within your mind. You and your brother will yet come together in my name, and your sanity and split minds will be restored.

The ego has so many perceptions or truths. The Spirit but one. The world we have created makes the ego mind dominant until we choose the truth in Gods energy of love.

It is through the activation of consciousness in awareness and in congruence with the Divine Self that one manifests from a place of knowing. Truth is not subjective. Opinions are subjective. What is true is always true and will always be true. What is eternal is true. And the idea of factions, each one’s touting a separate truth, must be understood as a masquerade. Knowledge comes from the altar within and is timeless because it is certain. To perceive the truth is not the same as to know it.

God's Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere, but it cannot oppose. Therefore you can obstruct it, although you can never lose it. Perception is not knowledge, but it can be transferred to knowledge, or cross over into it. It might even be more helpful here to use the literal meaning of transferred or “carried over,” since the last step is taken by God.

The Holy Spirit works with your higher mind, the home of the Holy Spirit, whether you are asleep or awake, just as your ego does with your lower mind, which is its home. I am your vigilance in this, because you are too confused to recognize your own hope. I am not mistaken. Your mind will elect to join with mine, and together we are invincible. The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. Mainly for communication. Its abilities can be and frequently are overevaluated. However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world.

Only like minds can really join, and whom God has joined no man can put asunder. It is, however, only at the level of Christ Mind that true union is possible, and has, in fact, never been lost. Ego minds are never like minds.
The Self That God created needs nothing. It is forever complete, safe, loved and loving. It seeks to share rather than to get; to extend rather than project. It has no needs and wants to join with others out of their mutual awareness of abundance.

Nothing real can be increased except by sharing. Sharing is Love. That is why God created you. That is what creation means. The Holy Spirit extends by recognizing Himself in every mind, and thus perceives them as one. He uses your mind to change your egos perception into Gods one perception by using your readiness to change, your reasoning and your free will & willpower. Nothing conflicts in true perception, because what the Holy Spirit perceives is all the same. Love ….

The absolute truth is what God has made, it is eternal and it never ends…. You, me, the planet, animals, trees, all made from the same energy. In humans, it is the force or energy of your intent….

The Energy of LOVE, the real you and me. We are made of the Gods energy of Love. We are only a minuscule speck in Gods creation. How do you truly believe? You just come to realize or Know.

A lot of our activities and attachments are based on fear and anger, guilt and pride.

Forgiveness, Fear and Love

All fear is ultimately reducible to the basic misperception that you have the ability to usurp the power of God. Of course, you neither can nor have been able to do this. Here is the real basis for your escape from fear. The escape is brought about by your acceptance of the Atonement, which enables you to realize that your errors never really occurred. (Forgiveness)

The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free. Whatever lies you may believe are of no concern to the miracle, which can heal any of them with equal ease. It makes no distinctions among misperceptions. Its sole concern is to distinguish between truth on the one hand, and error on the other. Some miracles may seem to be of greater magnitude than others.

But remember the first principle in this course; there is no order of difficulty in miracles (or love). In reality you are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love. These can be from yourself and others, from yourself to others, or from others to you.

Peace is an attribute in you. You cannot find it outside. Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others.

Perceiving the body as a temple, is to realize that a temple is not a structure at all. Its true holiness lies at the inner altar around which the structure is built. The emphasis on beautiful structures is a sign of the fear of Atonement, and an unwillingness to reach the altar itself. The real beauty of the temple cannot be seen with the physical eye. Spiritual sight, on the other hand, cannot see the structure at all because it is perfect vision. It can, however, see the altar with perfect clarity.

The real temple is in finding your spirit. Relearning to merge your heart(feelings) and mind(thoughts) with God's vision or consciousness(mind) of peace and love.

Only the mind is capable of error. The body can act wrongly only when it is responding to misthought. The body cannot create. It is essential to remember that only the mind can create, and that correction belongs at the thought level. To amplify an earlier statement, spirit is already perfect and therefore does not require correction. The body does not exist except as a learning device for the mind. This learning device is not subject to errors of its own, because it cannot create.

It is obvious, then, that inducing the mind to give up its miscreations is the only application of creative ability that is truly meaningful. By denying your mind any destructive potential and reinstating its purely constructive powers, you place yourself in a position to undo the level confusion of others.

Corrective learning always begins with the awakening of spirit, and the turning away from the belief in physical sight.

This often entails fear, because you are afraid of what your spiritual sight will show you. I said before that the Holy Spirit cannot see error. Know first that this is fear. Fear arises from lack of love. The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love. Perfect love is the Atonement. Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them. Thus will you learn that you have been forgiven, for it is you who offered them illusions.

You are not used to love-minded thinking, but you can be trained to think that way.

All warriors need that kind of training. Both love and fear come from thoughts. If you are not free to choose one, you would also not be free to choose the other. By choosing love you have rejected fear, if only temporarily. You have been fearful of everyone and everything. You are afraid of God, of me and of yourself. You have misperceived or miscreated Us, and believe in what you have made. The fundamental conflict in this world, then, is between creation and miscreation. All fear is implicit in the second, and all love in the first. The conflict is therefore one between love and fear.

There cannot be a thought—that does not also contain feeling

Dreams, Illusions and Memory

And truth needs no defense to make it true. Illusions have no witnesses and no effects. Who looks on them is but deceived. Why would you cling to it in memory if you did not desire its effects? Remembering is as selective as perception, being its past tense. It is perception of the past as if it were occurring now, and still were there to see. This world is causeless, as is every dream that anyone has dreamed within the world. No plans are possible, and no design exists that could be found and understood. What else could be expected from a thing that has no cause? Yet if it has no cause, it has no purpose.

You find yourself by not accepting them as causing you, and giving you effects. You stand apart from them, but not apart from him who dreams them. Thus you separate the dreamer from the dream, and join in one, but let the other go. The dream is but illusion in the mind. And with the mind you would unite, but never with the dream. It is the dream you fear, and not the mind. You see them as the same, because you think that you are but a dream. And what is real and what is but illusion in yourself you do not know and cannot tell apart.

Memory

like perception, is a skill made up by you to take the place of what God gave in your creation. And like all the things you made, it can be used to serve another purpose, and to be the means for something else. It can be used to heal and not to hurt, if you so wish it be. Now is the Son of God at last aware of present Cause and Its benign Effects. Now does he understand what he has made is causeless, having no effects at all. He has done nothing. And in seeing this, he understands he never had a need for doing anything, and never did. His Cause is Its Effects. There never was a cause beside It that could generate a different past or future. Its Effects are changelessly eternal, beyond fear..

We do not have to change anything but ourselves. For every man is the cause of his own experience, whether he knows it or not.

We are all carrying the negative experiences of our past into the future merely because we have not disconnected them from our minds.

If we are creating a negative future it is because we have not changed our thought about it. We can uproot all the unhappy thoughts of the past, all the thoughts of failure, all the doubts and fears, all the little petty animosities and disagreements, if we really want to.

And we can create our own future today just by carefully guarding our thoughts.

But how can we do this unless our

• Faith in Life is greater than our fear, unless

• Hope rises triumphant over despair, or until

• Love cancels everything unlovable?

The now is where the Divine lives. The Divine doesn't reside in the past or the future. The same goes for the real you. Let go of the past. Don’t worry about the future. The future is only anticipation. Celebrate life and always show gratitude!!! Have fun

Warrior & Seer

When you’re a seer, humans are extremely predictable. You can see that all humans in the ego dream of the victims are possessed by the main character of their story. This is their point of view — their only point of view. The way they see life is very narrow, and it’s narrow because their beliefs act like a mirror that only shows them what they believe, and it’s obvious that it’s not truth at all. They project what they believe on you, and you perceive what they project on you, but you don’t take it personally because you don’t make the assumption that what they are projecting is true.

You know that what they project is what they believe about themselves, and you know that because you used to do the same thing. Once you become a seer, you see everything that other artists do to themselves, but your point of view is completely impersonal.

The process of un-learning takes you to a place where there’s no longer a judge and a victim in your story. It’s just a story, and you know that it’s your creation, but it’s just as if it’s happening to somebody else. You see all the stories; you see all the symbols; you see how people play with all of that, but it has no effect on you. It doesn’t offend you, because you are completely immune. You see faces, you love the faces, but you are also aware that there’s something that doesn’t belong to your dream. It’s the personal ego dream that other artists are dreaming, and you have complete respect for their ego dream, for their creation.

Respect is a beautiful word, and it’s one of the most important symbols that we can understand. Imagine that you had never heard the word before, and let’s make it up and agree on a meaning, because just like any other symbol, we need to agree with the symbol or it won’t work for us.

Respect, like many of the symbols, begins with ourselves, and then it goes out to everyone and everything around us. If we don’t respect ourselves, how can we respect anyone or anything else? When you respect yourself, this means you accept yourself just the way you are. When you respect other people, this means you accept them just the way they are. When you respect everything in nature — the animals, the oceans, the atmosphere, the earth — this means you accept the entire creation just the way it is. We are also aware that there’s something that doesn’t belong to your dream. It’s the personal “ego”dream that other artists are dreaming, and you have complete respect for their dream, for their creation. Respect makes it possible for all dreamers to live in harmony, to live in peace.

Implementing the 5 Agreements and using them in everyday interactions is the start of changing to Gods Knowledge Thought System

Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing else within. It is the present.

Nothing is accomplished through death, because death is nothing. Everything is accomplished through life, and life is of the mind and in the mind.

The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you, who are life. If we share the same mind, you can overcome death because I did.

Death is an attempt to resolve conflict by not deciding at all. Like any other impossible solution the ego attempts, it will not work.

The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It is clearly a separation device, and therefore does not exist.

The Holy Spirit, as always, takes what you have made and translates it into a learning device. Again as always, He reinterprets what the ego uses as an argument for separation into a demonstration against it.

If the mind can heal the body, but the body cannot heal the mind, then the mind must be stronger than the body. Every miracle demonstrates this.

I have said that the Holy Spirit is the motivation for miracles(love). He always tells you that only the mind is real, because only the mind can be shared. The body is separate, and therefore cannot be part of you. To be of one mind is meaningful, but to be one body is meaningless. By the laws of mind, then, the body is meaningless.

Forgiveness

All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being “good” and “charitable,” but because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us. https://www.thefouragreements.com/the-importance-of-forgiveness/

Spirit need not be taught, but the ego must be.

Nothing can reach spirit from the ego, and nothing can reach the ego from spirit. Spirit can neither strengthen the ego nor reduce the conflict within it.

The ego is a contradiction. Your self and God’s Self are in opposition. They are opposed in source, in direction and in outcome. They are fundamentally irreconcilable, because spirit cannot perceive and the ego cannot know. They are therefore not in communication and can never be in communication. Nevertheless, the ego can learn, even though its maker can be misguided. He cannot, however, make the totally lifeless out of the life-given.

Spirit need not be taught, but the ego must be. Learning is ultimately perceived as frightening because it leads to the relinquishment, not the destruction, of the ego to the light of spirit. This is the change the ego must fear, because it does not share my charity. My lesson was like yours, and because I learned it I can teach it. I will never attack your ego, but I am trying to teach you how its thought system arose. When I remind you of your true creation, your ego cannot but respond with fear.

Egocentricity is the result of a sense of separation between the ego that is objective and subjective, and the Ego that is super-conscious; the Ego that is hid with Christ in God. If, like Job, we refuse the false ego and acquire the true, we shall find that the external ego will no longer be false, but will become an instrument for the Real that is back of it.

The Universe or God is incarnated in each individual in an entirely different and unique manner. This is the hidden Source of Life, the place where Christ in us blends on one side with the Divine, and on the other side with the individual. This is why the Bible tells us there is but one mediator between God and man, which is Christ.(Holy Ghost)

The reference to Christ is not a reference to the man Jesus but to the Divine Incarnation in all people. It is through this Spiritual Ego that we reach back to the Universal Wholeness of which this Ego is a part.

It was not created as our psychological ego or our alter ego or our ego ideal is created. It was not created by experience. It is that which produces experience. We go along with the psychological concept and accept all the discoveries that have been made, but we cannot accept the Ego as something we ourselves created.

This would be contrary to our concept of life, of everything that is, and discovered God.

Egocentricity is the result of a sense of separation between the ego that is objective and subjective, and the Ego that is super-conscious; the Ego that is hid with Christ in God. If, we refuse the false ego and acquire the true, we shall find that the external ego will no longer be false, but will become an instrument for the Real Ego that is back of it.

Anything that separates us from an understanding that we are One with the Whole bars It from coming to Self-Expression through us, and all we have left is the acquired ego, which is not enough to meet the issues of life. It soon flounders and becomes submerged. We must clear the track back to Life Itself, the Power and the Presence and the warm, colorful Reality of the Universal Spirit incarnated in us.

“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and thou hast crowned him with glory and honour” (Psalm 8:4,5.

The mind is a complex system

Everything you do starts as a thought. What is the intent behind the thought? [The energy behind the thoughts.] Fear or Love?

Thoughts are things and are creative. Thought(s) that are agreed on repeatedly becomes a belief, opinions etc. Which then again becomes our actions. We don’t have only one belief. We have multiple beliefs.

Guess how easy it is to make the mind simpler? Fuel all your intentions with the energy of unconditional LOVE.

The fall from grace:

The separation is a system of thought real enough in time, though not in eternity. All beliefs are real to the believer. The fruit of only one tree was “forbidden” in the symbolic garden.

But God could not have forbidden it, or it could not have been eaten. If God knows His children, and I assure you that He does, would He have put them in a position where their own destruction was possible?

The “forbidden tree” was named the “tree of knowledge.” Yet God created knowledge and gave it freely to His creations. The symbolism here has been given many interpretations, but you may be sure that any interpretation that sees either God or His creations as capable of destroying Their Own purpose is in error.

Resurrection

One must die to his concept of the limited self and become resurrected to the consciousness of that Self which is one with all persons, places, and things, one with all ages, one with God.

He must give up his fears and his hurts. After he has learned to look upon all other persons as he looks upon himself, then he will know that the True Self cannot be hurt, nor does it wish to hurt. His soul will have entered that mental atmosphere where hurt is no longer possible. In such degree as all vindictiveness, hate, and animosity disappear, he will find himself merging with the spiritual atmosphere of others. He learns to respect and admire others, and expects that others will respect and admire him. He overcomes his fear of life by understanding life, not by fighting it. He overcomes his fear of people by coming to understand rather than shun them.

This type of understanding is beyond the ordinary concept of tolerance. He does not learn to tolerate people; he learns to understand them. There is a vast difference. He sees through the weakness and frailty and inconsistency of human life, even its fears and morbidities. He no longer cringes. With calm placidity he faces his inevitable exit from this world, knowing that as glorious as this life has been, he is certain to go to a better.

You have to lose your hate if you wish to find Love; you have to let go of everything that is unkind if you wish to discover kindness; you even have to surrender fear if you wish to discover faith.

Everything that denies faith and Love and Life and Truth and Beauty Jesus called a sin, a mistake, missing the mark.

The Knowledge Thought System

Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. Peace is.

This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom. Knowledge can be restored only when you meet its conditions. This is not a bargain made by God, Who makes no bargains. It is merely the result of your misuse of His laws on behalf of an imaginary will that is not His.

Knowledge is His Will.

If you are opposing His Will, how can you have Knowledge? I have told you what knowledge offers you, but perhaps you do not yet regard this as wholly desirable. If you did you would not be so ready to throw it away when the ego asks for your allegiance. The distractions of the ego may seem to interfere with your learning, but the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. The ego’s voice is an hallucination. You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.”

Each of you decides your idea of who and what you are commensurate with your understanding and the values instilled in you by the world you express through. Each of you decides what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be loved and to love. Each of you comprehends in accordance with the systems that you have been regulated by, and by this we mean you understand yourself with a barometer that you have been given for understanding. Each of you says yes to the scales that you express through. Each of you says yes to the comparisons you make, one against the other, this against that. Each of you decides to know yourself with the mirror that has been handed to you to know yourself through.

With the Knowledge Thought System in place. Now, as the Divine or True Self, there is no mirror. There is expression, perception, what you see, and the knowing that you instill in what you see because the one who knows has the awareness of the claim “I am free.” Because she knows she is free, she is not seeking to label, to emblemize, to create a dictate or a mandate of what a thing should be called. She allows what she sees to be revealed to her. And what is revealed will always be known in truth.

What this means is you are no longer deceived by the veils of illusion that would seek to tell you what is meritful and what is not, what is a good thing or bad, what is a pleasant thing or unpleasant thing, because those things are known as values that you have abided by.

The thing is simply known and received, and the consciousness you hold at this level of vibration and attunement receives the information in truth, and, consequently, the thing seen is in fact realized or known in a higher comprehension.

To see things not with your bodies senses but thru Gods mind

God

You have heard the idea that God is love, but even the word love is so tainted by history that its meaning is confused to you. In love, in the vibration of love, what we know of as God, with the name God attached, is an idea of a Source that is a benediction, that is caring, that will do what you wish, as you wish it, if you would pray to it in a certain way.

This is not God. This is not love. All love is is the expression of the Source without the name love attached. If you understand that God or Source, the nameless, exists beyond time, you can begin to imagine that there was a time when even the idea of love was uncreated, unthought.

To move to the infinite in your potential is to actually release the codification of ideology that would now limit you. And we must say that includes your idea of what love is, because even that is now predicated by the inheritance you have claimed as a small self.

If love is God, and God is the nameless, then love is nameless.

If love is nameless, even the idea of love is in union and without names in the manifest Source that you experience yourself as. If you understand where we are taking you in this instruction, it’s to a new idea of infinity without the polarization of love and hate, light and dark, joy and sorrow.

These are all real things as you experience them, but only in that the language you use to describe them is the language you have been taught to use as descriptors.

You can say sorrow and call to you the experience of sorrow that you understand sorrow to be, and the word itself, the emblemization of emotion, codifies the emotion and claims it in a kind of separation from the being that you are. “I feel sorrow” claims sorrow as something other. You can never be sorrow. That can never be your being. But you may feel sorrowful. In that way, you give identity to emotion and establish it in power and it governs your experience.

The nameless, we suggest, the Divine as who and what you are beyond codification and the idea of form, must be created with an intention to know what the Divine is.

When the Divine has no name, and the qualities you would endow it with are no longer operating through language, you begin to experience infinity. “What is infinity?”. What infinity is is the experience of the absolute. Because the absolute does not exist through time—you may know it in time, but it is not through time that it is realized—you may begin to comprehend what is always. And by always we mean what is always present, the thing that informs creation, the thing that is manifest as you, and the amazing thing that you become when you release the bondage that the small self has claimed through its agreement to separation.

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Definition

TRUE PERCEPTION–KNOWLEDGE

The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for what He creates must be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. Some things will last in time a little while longer than others. But the time will come when all things visible will have an end.

The body’s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. And so they do. For everything they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. While everything that God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.

Knowledge is not the remedy for false perception since, being another level, they can never meet. The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. They are the one beginning, with the end to lead to oneness far beyond themselves. True perception is the means by which the world is saved from sin, for sin does not exist. And it is this that true perception sees.

The world stands like a block before Christ’s face. But true perception looks on it as nothing more than just a fragile veil, so easily dispelled that it can last no longer than an instant. It is seen at last for only what it is. And now it cannot fail to disappear, for now there is an empty place made clean and ready. Where destruction was perceived the face of Christ appears, and in that instant is the world forgot, with time forever ended as the world spins into nothingness from where it came.

A world forgiven cannot last. It was the home of bodies. But forgiveness looks past bodies. This is its holiness; this is how it heals. The world of bodies is the world of sin, for only if there were a body is sin possible. From sin comes guilt as surely as forgiveness takes all guilt away. And once all guilt is gone what more remains to keep a separated world in place? For place has gone as well, along with time. Only the body makes the world seem real, for being separate it could not remain where separation is impossible. Forgiveness proves it is impossible because it sees it not. And what you then will overlook will not be understandable to you, just as its presence once had been your certainty.

This is the shift that true perception brings: What was projected out is seen within, and there forgiveness lets it disappear. For there the altar to the Son is set, and there his Father is remembered. Here are all illusions brought to truth and laid upon the altar. What is seen outside must lie beyond forgiveness, for it seems to be forever sinful. Where is hope while sin is seen as outside? What remedy can guilt expect? But seen within your mind, guilt and forgiveness for an instant lie together, side by side, upon one altar. There at last are sickness and its single remedy joined in one healing brightness. God has come to claim His Own. Forgiveness is complete.

And now God’s Knowledge, changeless, certain, pure and wholly understandable, enters its kingdom. Gone is perception, false and true alike. Gone is forgiveness, for its task is done. And gone are bodies in the blazing light upon the altar to the Son of God. God knows it is His Own, as it is his. And here They join, for here the face of Christ has shone away time’s final instant, and now is the last perception of the world without a purpose and without a cause. For where God’s memory has come at last there is no journey, no belief in sin, no walls, no bodies, and the grim appeal of guilt and death is there snuffed out forever.

The final goal of all of true spiritual paths is humility and a willingness to surrender that clay, the pride, the arrogance, the unworthiness and fear, to surrender all these emotions utterly to the power and peace of knowing that you are love.

Wisdom is using knowledge thought system not the ego thought system (one perception, one truth)

[Additional Books/Education]

Relentless

The Four Agreements

The 5th Agreement

The Mastery of Love

The Mastery of Life

The Mastery of Self

(recommend) this for when you want to figure out…..

Recommended Books

LIVING the SCIENCE of MIND

The Road Less Traveled,

A Course in Miracles

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

Letting Go:the pathway of surrender

Relationships

A couple good relationship books…..

The 5 love languages

Love is a Decision

Boundaries in Marriage

Beyond the 4 Agreements….

Everyone learns differently. The form of the course varies greatly. So do the particular teaching aids involved. But the content of the course never changes.

Knowledge is power, and all power is of God

To err is human, to forgive divine.

God, is tone and vibration. So as is Love. So as is your Attitude…. It is conscious, yes. It is all things, yes. And because it is all things, it can be known as all things. All things eternal.

We are all unique in how we come to acquire Truth & Knowledge.

You must have the want, the will and the discipline.

“All are called but few choose to listen.”

It’s a very simple methodical, mechanical set of steps but they’re only available to him who can hear. Also let those who have ears, hear; teach not him who does not want to know…. “You can’t teach a hunter it is wrong to kill.”

An open mind and willingness are needed.

Living from your heart, soul or, “Spirit” can’t be taught…. We are ALL an eternal energy system that is a part of God. The force or energy of Intent or desire is Love. Free will molds this neutral energy into what we wish.

Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing else within.

The short answer

“Forgiveness is the moment you no longer wish the past were any different, you accept that it happened and you let it go.”

Sin belongs to no one; it is merely a mistake operating through someone. It is error in perception. Evil of itself is not person, place, or thing. Evil is our interpretation, our perception.

God, not you, forgives.

When you forgive you turn it over to God.

You must see him as you are. A speck of God. United with God and his mind. He or she is your true brother or sister. Pure energy.

You don’t forget, but you must SEE him as one who doesn’t or didn’t know what or who he Truly is. That their ego actions were not from their true self.

Their dream is being controlled by their ego fog. We all have and most of us are still occasionally controlled by this selfish ego thought system.

In the knowledge thought system, you use discernment, not judgement. It is based on the facts. It becomes a choice. You base it on Love. Common Sense or the Golden Rule.

Do we still want to associate with them or do we have to because of the relationship? You don’t have to like them. etc…

Ultimately we also don’t judge them. That is Gods job. What you give them in forgiveness you receive back. Gods Forgiving Love. Because we all make mistakes and we all need forgiveness

We are trying to deal with one fundamental error; the belief that anger brings him something he really wants, and that by justifying attack he is protecting himself. To whatever extent he comes to realize that this is an error, to that extent is he truly transformed. It is a change of perspective.

No one who learns to forgive can fail to remember God. Forgiveness, is all that need be taught, because it is all that need be learned.

All blocks to the remembrance of God are forms of unforgiveness, and nothing else. Forgivingness is from the standpoint of a spiritual system of thought.

Sin belongs to no one; it is merely a mistake operating through someone not yet using Gods thought system.

Gods light is potential to be used according to the humans perspective. Every thought is a distortion of the original thought. No matter how extreme it is. The entire universe is the product of this one thought. But “distortion” implies no ultimate standard, bias, or judgement from the perspective of the Creator.

Thus, what would be an improper distortion with one person is proper with another.

Forgiveness that is learned of me does not use fear to undo fear. Nor does it make real the unreal and then destroy it. Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you.

The natural state of man is to be in forgiveness and the recognition of the divinity of his brother. That is actually the true state of who you are and how you are intended to negotiate with one another and behave with one another and experience one another. It’s as if the dance was always in place and everybody could step on one another’s foot as part of the dance and not be smacked for it. And somewhere along the road, man began to hold grudges and to covet and to fear and consequently began to hold their brothers outside of the light while claiming that they could be in the light. And isn’t that an impossibility, to stand in the light while you demand your brother stand in the darkness? Now unforgiveness, as we have stated, is the blocking of forgiveness. Many of you have great rage at what you believe God to be, because he has taken things from you, or you believe he has, when in fact, of course, God does not take, God gives. God is the benefactor, and creation has its cycles of life and death and transformation. So blaming God never gets you anywhere except angry. And sometimes anger can support you and create an understanding of your own power and your own worth. But just as often, it blocks you from the flow of your own Divine Self. Your own Divine Self actually works at a higher frequency and doesn’t really get angry about anything.

Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven.

What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

What religion is, the tenets of religion, the laws that religion has claimed, actually obscure the brilliance of the truth that is at the center of all of them. And at the center of all of them is one truth: God is. God simply is. Simply is the key word here. God simply is, as you simply are. “Will we ever know God as ourselves?” you may ask. You may know God as the who that you are that exists beyond the personality, but you will never be God at the exclusion of another. You will never know God if you discount it in another. You may pray to God, but until you forgive your fellows for not being who you want them to be, your prayer may fall to the stone in your own heart, to be released, because that must come to liberate you. “The stone in the heart?” he inquires. The idea of the stone that covers the cave that the Christ would rise in—roll back the stone, the Risen Christ appears. Roll back that which obscures the Christ, that which denies the light, and the resurrected self claims expression in all it knows and all it sees.

If you ask for forgiveness and you refuse to forgive your fellow, you have to go back and forgive him first. If you cannot forgive your fellow, by refusal you have made a choice to maintain the key that keeps you locked, to be in the cave that is covered by stone, but without the light that is the Christ in manifestation. If you cannot forgive your brother because you are frightened of him or her, you may ask for forgiveness of the aspect of self that denies the God in the other, and as the fear is released, you may know the one before you as he truly is, as she can only be. To be liberated in fullness is to become the source of forgiveness. To be realized in fullness is to realize all.

Reluctance to forgive is a consequence not only of unwillingness to let go of the ego juice of perceived injustice but also the illusion that others do not ‘deserve’ it. In reality, it is the forgiver and not the forgiven who benefits the most.

Balance

As one gazes into one’s prejudices and biases, one has the opportunity to attempt to balance them, to acknowledge the paradox, the opposite, and to see that they are two sides of one thing, that all is one, that there is no separation.

Now one may polarize and continue changing in any circumstance or condition.

We suggest that you see the balance and walk the middle road, using your discrimination after you have heard the ideas that are presented to you, not judging ahead or during the experience, but allowing each learning experience its own shape and space and color, allowing it to sink into that portion of the mind which is far more accurate, that portion of the mind which lies below the level of conscious thought.

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In truth there is no right or wrong.

The Law of One blinks neither at the light or the darkness, but is available for service to others and service to self.

Fear

Everyone experiences fear. Yet it would take very little right thinking to realize why fear occurs. Few appreciate the real power of the mind, and no one remains fully aware of it all the time. However, if you hope to spare yourself from fear there are some things you must realize, and realize fully. The mind is very powerful, and never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating. It is hard to recognize that thought and belief combine into a power surge that can literally move mountains. It appears at first glance that to believe such power about yourself is arrogant, but that is not the real reason you do not believe it. You prefer to believe that your thoughts cannot exert real influence because you are actually afraid of them. This may allay awareness of the guilt, but at the cost of perceiving the mind as impotent. If you believe that what you think is ineffectual you may cease to be afraid of it, but you are hardly likely to respect it. There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level.

The fundamental conflict in this world, then, is between creation and miscreation. All fear is implicit in the second, and all love in the first. The conflict is therefore one between love and fear.

It has already been said that you believe you cannot control fear because you yourself made it, and your belief in it seems to render it out of your control. Yet any attempt to resolve the error through attempting the mastery of fear is useless. In fact, it asserts the power of fear by the very assumption that it need be mastered. The true resolution rests entirely on mastery through love. In the interim, however, the sense of conflict is inevitable, since you have placed yourself in a position where you believe in the power of what does not exist.

Nothing and everything cannot coexist. To believe in one is to deny the other. Fear is really nothing and love is everything. Whenever light enters darkness, the darkness is abolished. What you believe is true for you. In this sense the separation has occurred, and to deny it is merely to use denial inappropriately. However, to concentrate on error is only a further error. The initial corrective procedure is to recognize temporarily that there is a problem, but only as an indication that immediate correction is needed. This establishes a state of mind in which the Atonement can be accepted without delay.

The first corrective step in undoing the error is to know first that the conflict is an expression of fear. Say to yourself that you must somehow have chosen not to love, or the fear could not have arisen.

• Know first that this is fear.

• Fear arises from lack of love.

• The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love.

• Perfect love is the Atonement.

The emptiness engendered by fear must be replaced by forgiveness.Love and forgiveness is the Atonement.

Forgiveness

Let us review the meaning of “forgive,” for it is apt to be distorted and to be perceived as something that entails an unfair sacrifice of righteous wrath, a gift unjustified and undeserved, and a complete denial of the truth.

To unforgive is to block forgiveness. The natural state of man is to be in forgiveness and the recognition of the divinity of his brother. That is actually the true state of who you are and how you are intended to negotiate with one another and behave with one another and experience one another.

It’s as if the dance was always in place and everybody could step on one another’s foot as part of the dance and not be smacked for it. And somewhere along the road, man began to hold grudges and to covet and to fear and consequently began to hold their brothers outside of the light while claiming that they could be in the light.

And isn’t that an impossibility, to stand in the light while you demand your brother stand in the darkness?

Now unforgiveness, as we have just stated, is the blocking of forgiveness. First, many of us have great rage at what you believe God to be, because he has taken things from you, or you believe he has, when in fact, of course, God does not take, God gives. God is the benefactor, and creation has its cycles of life and death and transformation. So blaming God never gets you anywhere except angry. And sometimes anger can support you and create an understanding of your own power and your own worth. But just as often, it blocks you from the flow of your own higher Self.

The major difficulty that you find in genuine forgiveness on your part is that you still believe you must forgive the truth, and not illusions. You conceive of pardon as a vain attempt to look past what is there; to overlook the truth, in an unfounded effort to deceive yourself by making an illusion true.

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

No one who learns to forgive can fail to remember God. Forgiveness, then, is all that need be taught, because it is all that need be learned.

Who but the sinful need to be forgiven? And do not ever think you can see sin in anyone except yourself. This is the great deception of the world, and you the great deceiver of yourself.

It always seems to be another who is evil, and in his sin you are the injured one. How could freedom be possible if this were so? You would be slave to everyone, for what he does entails your fate, your feelings, your despair or hope, your misery or joy.

You have no freedom unless he gives it to you. And being evil, he can only give of what he is. You cannot see his sins and not your own. But you can free him and yourself as well.

Forgiveness, truly given, is the way in which your only hope of freedom lies. Others will make mistakes and so will you, as long as this illusion of a world appears to be your home. Yet God Himself has given all His Sons a remedy for all illusions that they think they see.

Christ’s vision does not use your eyes, but you can look through His and learn to see like Him.

Mistakes are tiny shadows, quickly gone, that for an instant only seem to hide the face of Christ, which still remains unchanged behind them all. The past is that the past.

His constancy remains in tranquil silence and in perfect peace. He does not know of shadows. His the eyes that look past error to the Christ in you.

You do it realize it but in the end….

The function of thought comes from God and is in God. As part of His Thought, you cannot think apart from Him.

Irrational thought is disordered thought. God Himself orders your thought because your thought was created by Him. Guilt feelings are always a sign that you do not know this. They also show that you believe you can think apart from God, and want to.

Every disordered thought is attended by guilt at its inception, and maintained by guilt in its continuance. Guilt is inescapable by those who believe they order their own thoughts, and must therefore obey their dictates.

This makes them feel responsible for their errors without recognizing that, by accepting this responsibility, they are reacting irresponsibly.

Man's whole being consists in thinking, and if his thinking is based on knowing, this knowing must be built upon a consciousness of his own existence and of his relationship to the Infinite God.

Consciousness in Its Infinite sense is what we mean when we use the word God. Consciousness in the individual sense is what we mean when we use the word man.

This in no way shuts out any department of knowledge, but includes them all within the realm of consciousness since knowledge could not exist unless someone were conscious of it. since man is and has consciousness, he must live in consciousness.

Consciousness or pure Spirit must be the Cause of everything that is, including the physical universe. Since the Universe exists as a harmonious Whole, the consciousness back of It must be a perfect, indivisible Unit.

Our entire inquiry, then, is an inquiry into the relationship between God and man, and so far as we establish a right relationship we shall have a corresponding power.

Seeing we are all one and leaving forgiveness to God is key. We don’t judge or blame anymore. Understanding the distortion of the light. It doesn’t mean you like or condone what we call evil acts. It just means we understand they act from extremes, from the ego, but yet see that they are still exactly like us. This ties into……

Forgiveness of self and of others is important to keep the heart open.

Evil of itself is not person, place, or thing. When we stop making the mistake, we are automatically forgiven; but, of course, we will be punished by a mistake while we continue in it. However, let no intelligent person say that, because the Spirit knows no sin, there is no mistake made by the human or the individual mind.

The act of enlightenment becomes our part in the Divine Forgivingness. For the Divine Forgivingness cannot be complete until we have received the offering of Its Love, not with fear or morbidity but in joy. And when we have transcended previous mistakes they no longer exist, nor is there any effect of them. This means a complete salvation from the sin which was the mistake, and the punishment which was the consequence. This particular sequence of cause and effect is now transmuted into something else.

The whole thing is summed up in the thought that, in such degree as we embody the spirit of Love, Truth, Givingness, etc., we transcend hate and ugliness. We cannot continue in the mistake without continuing in punishment, but the moment the mistake ceases the punishment stops. Thus, the Apostle tells us that the Law of the Spirit of Love makes us free from the law of sin and death.

Sin is defined as “lack of love”

Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished.

God recognize mistakes(errors)that cannot be corrected. For a mistake that cannot be corrected is meaningless to Him. Mistakes are for correction, and they call for nothing else. What calls for punishment must call for nothing. Every mistake (or distortion)must be a call for love.

Errors(or distortions)are quickly recognized and quickly given to correction, to be healed, not hidden.

You understand they act from their ego illusion. You see past this and SEE they are just like you once were. You SEE they are united with Gods energy just like you, but they still operate under the veil of the dream. They know not what they do!

Reason can see the difference between sin and mistakes, because it wants correction. Therefore, it tells you what you thought was uncorrectable can be corrected, and thus it must have been an error. The introduction of reason into the ego’s thought system is the beginning of its undoing, for reason and the ego are contradictory. Nor is it possible for them to coexist in your awareness. For reason’s goal is to make plain, and therefore obvious. You can see reason.

But I want you to see the reason of truth and love not the ego.

Reality is changeless. It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. Reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. Atonement means correction, or the undoing of errors.

The form of error is no longer seen, and reason, joined with love, looks quietly on all confusion, observing merely, “This was a mistake.” And then the same Atonement you accepted in your relationship corrects the error, and lays a part of Heaven in its place. How blessed are you who let this gift be given! Each part of Heaven that you bring is given you. And every empty place in Heaven that you fill again with the eternal light you bring, shines now on you. The means of sinlessness can know no fear because they carry only love with them. The light that joins you and your brother shines throughout the universe, and because it joins you and him, so it makes you and him one with your Creator. And in Him is all creation joined. Would you regret you cannot fear alone, when your relationship can also teach the power of love is there, which makes all fear impossible?

You have been told not to make error real, and the way to do this is very simple. If you want to believe in error, you would have to make it real because it is not true. But truth is real in its own right, and to believe in truth you do not have to do anything. Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response. That is why analyzing the motives of others is hazardous to you. If you decide that someone is really trying to attack you or desert you or enslave you, you will respond as if he had actually done so, having made his error real to you. To interpret error is to give it power, and having done this you will overlook truth.

Fear itself is an appeal for help. This is what recognizing fear really means. If you do not protect it, He will reinterpret it. That is the ultimate value in learning to perceive attack as a call for love. We have already learned that fear and attack are inevitably associated. If only attack produces fear, and if you see attack as the call for help that it is, the unreality of fear must dawn on you. For fear is a call for love, in unconscious recognition of what has been denied.

Perception

Knowledge is truth, under one law, the law of love or God. Truth is unalterable, eternal and unambiguous. It can be unrecognized, but it cannot be changed. It applies to everything that God created, and only what He created is real. It is beyond learning because it is beyond time and process. It has no opposite; no beginning and no end. It merely is.

The world of perception, on the other hand, is the world of time, of change, of beginnings and endings. It is based on interpretation, not on facts. It is the world of birth and death, founded on the belief in scarcity, loss, separation and death. It is learned rather than given, selective in its perceptual emphases, unstable in its functioning, and inaccurate in its interpretations.

From knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are opposite in every respect. In the realm of knowledge no thoughts exist apart from God, because God and His Creation share one Will. The world of perception, however, is made by the belief in opposites and separate wills, in perpetual conflict with each other and with God.

What perception sees and hears appears to be real because it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the perceiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense precisely because it is not real. When you have been caught in the world of perception you are caught in a dream.

You cannot escape without help, because everything your senses show merely witnesses to the reality of the dream. God has provided the Answer, the only Way out, the true Helper. It is the function of His Voice, His Holy Spirit, to mediate between the two worlds. He can do this because, while on the one hand He knows the truth, on the other He also recognizes our illusions, but without believing in them. It is the Holy Spirit’s goal to help us escape from the dream world by teaching us how to reverse our thinking and unlearn our mistakes. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about. However, the this course has its own definition of what forgiveness really is just as it defines the world in its own way.

The world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference–the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. It is essential it be kept in mind that all perception still is upside down until its purpose has been understood. Perception does not seem to be a means. And it is this that makes it hard to grasp the whole extent to which it must depend on what you see it for. Perception seems to teach you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what you taught. It is the outward picture of a wish; an image that you wanted to be true. It is the means to make your wish come true. It gives the eyes with which you look on it, the hands that feel it, and the ears with which you listen to the sounds it makes. It proves its own reality to you. And thus does his perception serve his wish by giving it appearances of truth. Yet can perception serve another goal. It is not bound to specialness but by your choice. And it is given you to make a different choice, and use perception for a different purpose. And what you see will serve that purpose well, and prove its own reality to you.

Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

Perception is a choice of what you want yourself to be; the world you want to live in, and the state in which you think your mind will be content and satisfied. It chooses where you think your safety lies, at your decision. It reveals yourself to you as you would have you be. And always is it faithful to your purpose, from which it never separates, nor gives the slightest witness unto anything the purpose in your mind upholdeth not. Perception is a part of what it is your purpose to behold, for means and end are never separate. And thus you learn what seems to have a life apart has none. You see what you believe is there, and you believe it there because you want it there. Perception has no other law than this.

Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos. Perception is a choice and not a fact. But on this choice depends far more than you may realize as yet. For on the voice you choose to hear, and on the sights you choose to see, depends entirely your whole belief in what you are. Perception is a witness but to this, and never to reality.

We have been emphasizing perception, and have said very little about knowledge as yet. This is because perception must be straightened out before you can know anything. To know is to be certain. Uncertainty means that you do not know. Knowledge is power because it is certain, and certainty is strength. Perception is temporary. As an attribute of the belief in space and time, it is subject to either fear or love. Misperceptions produce fear and true perceptions foster love, but neither brings certainty because all perception varies. That is why it is not knowledge. True perception is the basis for knowledge, but knowing is the affirmation of truth and beyond all perceptions.

All your difficulties stem from the fact that you do not recognize yourself, your brother or God. To recognize means to “know again,” implying that you knew before. You can see in many ways because perception involves interpretation, and this means that it is not whole or consistent. The miracle, being a way of perceiving, is not knowledge. It is the right answer to a question, but you do not question when you know. Questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them. The miracle, or the right answer, corrects them. Since perceptions change, their dependence on time is obvious. How you perceive at any given time determines what you do, and actions must occur in time. Knowledge is timeless, because certainty is not questionable. You know when you have ceased to ask questions.Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a perceiver rather than a creator. Consciousness is correctly identified as the domain of the ego. The ego is a wrong-minded attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you are. Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all you can be sure of. Everything else is open to question.

The ego is the questioning aspect of the post-separation self, which was made rather than created. It is capable of asking questions but not of perceiving meaningful answers, because these would involve knowledge and cannot be perceived. The mind is therefore confused, because only One-mindedness can be without confusion. A separated or divided mind must be confused. It is necessarily uncertain about what it is. It has to be in conflict because it is out of accord with itself. This makes its aspects strangers to each other, and this is the essence of the fear-prone condition, in which attack is always possible. You have every reason to feel afraid as you perceive yourself. This is why you cannot escape from fear until you realize that you did not and could not create yourself. You can never make your misperceptions true, and your creation is beyond your own error. That is why you must eventually choose to heal the separation.

Right-mindedness is not to be confused with the knowing mind, because it is applicable only to right perception. You can be right-minded or wrong-minded, and even this is subject to degrees, clearly demonstrating that knowledge is not involved. The term “right-mindedness” is properly used as the correction for “wrong-mindedness,” and applies to the state of mind that induces accurate perception. It is miracle-minded because it heals misperception, and this is indeed a miracle in view of how you perceive yourself.

Perception always involves some misuse of mind, because it brings the mind into areas of uncertainty. The mind is very active. When it chooses to be separated it chooses to perceive. Until then it wills only to know. Afterwards it can only choose ambiguously, and the only way out of ambiguity is clear perception. The mind returns to its proper function only when it wills to know. This places it in the service of spirit, whereperception is changed. The mind chooses to divide itself when it chooses to make its own levels. But it could not entirely separate itself from spirit, because it is from spirit that it derives its whole power to make or create. Even in miscreation the mind is affirming its Source, or it would merely cease to be. This is impossible, because the mind belongs to spirit which God created and which is therefore eternal.

The ability to perceive made the body possible, because you must perceive something and with something. That is why perception involves an exchange or translation, which knowledge does not need. The interpretative function of perception, a distorted form of creation, then permits you to interpret the body as yourself in an attempt to escape from the conflict you have induced. Spirit, which knows, could not be reconciled with this loss of power, because it is incapable of darkness. This makes spirit almost inaccessible to the mind and entirely inaccessible to the body. Thereafter, spirit is perceived as a threat, because light abolishes darkness merely by showing you it is not there. Truth will always overcome error in this way. This cannot be an active process of correction because, as I have already emphasized, knowledge does not do anything. It can be perceived as an attacker, but it cannot attack. What you perceive as its attack is your own vague recognition that knowledge can always be remembered, never having been destroyed.

The statement “God created man in his own image and likeness” needs reinterpretation. “Image” can be understood as “thought,” and “likeness” as “of a like quality.” God did create spirit in His Own Thought and of a quality like to His Own. There is nothing else. Perception, on the other hand, is impossible without a belief in “more” and “less.” At every level it involves selectivity. Perception is a continual process of accepting and rejecting, organizing and reorganizing, shifting and changing. Evaluation is an essential part of perception, because judgments are necessary in order to select.

What happens to perceptions if there are no judgments and nothing but perfect equality? Perception becomes impossible. Truth can only be known. All of it is equally true, and knowing any part of it is to know all of it. Only perception involves partial awareness. Knowledge transcends the laws governing perception, because partial knowledge is impossible. It is all one and has no separate parts. You who are really one with it need but know yourself and your knowledge is complete. To know God’s miracle is to know Him.

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. Correct perception of your brother is necessary, because minds have chosen to see themselves as separate. Spirit knows God completely. That is its miraculous power. The fact that each one has this power completely is a condition entirely alien to the world’s thinking. The world believes that if anyone has everything, there is nothing left. But God’s miracles are as total as His Thoughts because they are His Thoughts.

As long as perception lasts prayer has a place. Since perception rests on lack, those who perceive have not totally accepted the Atonement and given themselves over to truth. Perception is based on a separated state, so that anyone who perceives at all needs healing. Communion, not prayer, is the natural state of those who know. God and His miracle are inseparable. How beautiful indeed are the Thoughts of God who live in His light! Your worth is beyond perception because it is beyond doubt. Do not perceive yourself in different lights. Know yourself in the One Light where the miracle that is you is perfectly clear.

If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes–our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take–we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being “good” and “charitable,” but because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us. Sin is defined as “lack of love”. Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished. Our sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the “scarcity principle” that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We “love” another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything.

You have been told not to make error real, and the way to do this is very simple. If you want to believe in error, you would have to make it real because it is not true. But truth is real in its own right, and to believe in truth you do not have to do anything. Understand that you do not respond to anything directly, but to your interpretation of it. Your interpretation thus becomes the justification for the response. That is why analyzing the motives of others is hazardous to you. If you decide that someone is really trying to attack you or desert you or enslave you, you will respond as if he had actually done so, having made his error real to you. To interpret error is to give it power, and having done this you will overlook truth.

Faith, belief and vision are the means by which the goal is reached.

The separation of you and the ego must be made complete. Now must you choose between yourself and an illusion of yourself. Not both, but one. There is no point in trying to avoid this one decision. It must be made. Faith and belief can fall to either side, but reason tells you misery lies only on one side and joy upon the other.

The Holy Spirit sees perception as a means to teach you that the vision of a holy relationship is all you want to see. Then will you give your faith to holiness, desiring and believing in it because of your desire.

Faith and belief become attached to vision, as all the means that once served sin are redirected now toward holiness. For what you think is sin is limitation, and whom you try to limit to the body you hate because you fear.

The symbols of hate against the symbols of love play out a conflict that does not exist. For symbols stand for something else, and the symbol of love is without meaning if love is everything.

Reality is changeless.

It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. Reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them. Thus will you learn that you have been forgiven, for it is you who offered them illusions.

It is impossible to convince the dreamer that this is so, for dreams are what they are because of their illusion of reality. Only in waking is the full release from them, for only then does it become perfectly apparent that they had no effect upon reality at all, and did not change it. Fantasies change reality. That is their purpose. They cannot do so in reality, but they can do so in the mind that would have reality be different.

Errors

Errors are of the ego, and correction of errors lies in the relinquishment of the ego.

It is not up to you to change your brother, but merely to accept him as he is. His errors do not come from the truth that is in him, and only this truth is yours. His errors cannot change this, and can have no effect at all on the truth in you.

To perceive errors in anyone, and to react to them as if they were real, is to make them real to you. You will not escape paying the price for this, not because you are being punished for it, but because you are following the wrong guide and will therefore lose your way.

Your brother’s errors are not of him, any more than yours are of you. Accept his errors as real, and you have attacked yourself. His errors are forgiven with yours. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Perceived errors are simply mistakes. Sin is an emotion-laden word which means only that someone added two and two and got five. There is no more emotion in correcting an error than there is in using an eraser and writing down the appropriate answer. When you have realized that two plus two is four, you are not in a state of error and there is nothing to forgive. In just such ways, in very much more complicated emotional mathematics, shall we say, again and again you perceive yourself to be a failure, unworthy to the task, or in some way at fault. Was there any soul with a 360-degree capability to love and to not love that did not have, in the brightness of light, a shadow to cast? Can you not accept both your light and your shadows? For as your light grows brighter the shadows will be more sharp, and you will seem always to yourself to be one very iniquitous and often in error.

This is primary to your ability to move forward: that you are able to let judgment of yourself go. For only insofar as you love, accept, and refuse to judge yourself can you be compassionate in such wise to others. And only in compassion, as you see the treasure within you and within all, can you truly serve in a love that is without condition and that demands no return.

God recognize mistakes(errors)that cannot be corrected. For a mistake that cannot be corrected is meaningless to Him. Mistakes are for correction, and they call for nothing else. What calls for punishment must call for nothing. Every mistake (or distortion)must be a call for love.

Errors(or distortions)are quickly recognized and quickly given to correction, to be healed, not hidden.

What is a thought:

a distortion of the original thought

The term “distort” to convey the infinite ways in which the Creator, or the undifferentiated intelligent infinity, can be distorted (modified or altered) to create the perception of things as being distinct from intelligent infinity—in other words, distinct from Oneness.

In other words, everything is a distortion of the One, which is a constant reminder that everything is the One. The word distortion references the true nature of all that is.

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In one word it implies a spectrum to all experience..

Not all distortions are equal. Something, or someone, can be less distorted or more distorted relative to a particular quality or understanding. Without distortions there would be no vibrations, no individuation, no entities, no manifestation, no creation—no means by which the Creator can experience itself via manyness.

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Each of these distortions contains, in microcosm, all of the Creator; however, only a portion of this wholeness is evident within any illusion.

To put that another way: each aspect of the Creator’s expression is a distortion in which part of the Creator’s total beingness is obscured to perception (given the distortions of each person) for the sake of becoming unique. ….

A distortion is a thought or what is called the dream, the veil, an illusion. This is a normal human thought is first initiated with our normal ego thought system.

Imagine the way in which pure white light enters a prism and is refracted into a rainbow of colors, each made totally of white light but each appearing distinct to the human eye. It is a limitation of perspective.

As in all distortions, the source is the limit of the viewpoint.

• This neutral intelligent infinity(unformed Love) or potential energy is the unseen energy field. Our thoughts, our intentions, desires, dreams forms or shapes this into our output energy. Our actions/words. Everything should be based in love. Each unique and according to the persons free will.

The nature of the vibratory patterns of your universe is dependent upon the configurations placed upon the original material by the focus using Its intelligent energy to create a certain pattern of illusions or densities in order to satisfy Its own intelligent estimate of a method of knowing Itself.

“Distortion,” like “catalyst,” is notable for its lack of positive and negative connation. It is used as a neutral term to indicate that everything, whether lived or imagined, known or unknown, beautiful or terrible, is a facet of the One Creator. That includes art, beauty, light, love, free will, orgasm, and bliss.

The most enlightened and the basest moment you’ve experienced are both equalized as distortions of the One Infinite Creator.

The word’s neutrality, however, does not negate the hierarchical and holographic structure of the reality, rather, it peels off any imposition of value placed on any experience.

Humans will necessarily, of course, employ systems that assign relative value, rank, and preference (this is “good, better,” that is “bad, worse”). Discerning the personal value of one experience or another is essential to progress.

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“Distortion” implies no ultimate standard, bias, or judgement from the perspective of the Creator.

Thus, what would be an improper distortion with one person is proper with another.

In truth there is no right or wrong. In one word, it removes all value judgment

[I have read this in more then one place. Each article explains it in a different but yet same type concept of the idea behind why God sees no real sin.

IMHO, This particular explanation/concept was the easiest and made sense for me to wrap my head around and understand.]

Forgiveness

through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.

Christ’s vision is the Holy Spirit’s gift, God’s alternative to the illusion of separation and to the belief in the reality of sin, guilt and death. It is the one correction for all errors of perception; the reconciliation of the seeming opposites on which this world is based. Its kindly light shows all things from another point of view, reflecting the thought system that arises from knowledge and making return to God not only possible but inevitable. What was regarded as injustice done to one by someone else now becomes a call for help and for union. Sin, sickness and attack are seen as misperceptions calling for remedy through gentleness and love. Defenses are laid down because where there is no attack there is no need for them. Our brothers’ needs become our own, because they are taking the journey with us as we go to God. Without us they would lose their way. Without them we could never find our own.

Forgiveness is unknown in Heaven, where the need for it would be inconceivable. However, in this world, forgiveness is a necessary correction for all the mistakes that we have made. To offer forgiveness is the only way for us to have it, for it reflects the law of Heaven that giving and receiving are the same. Heaven is the natural state of all the Sons of God as He created them. Such is their reality forever. It has not changed because it has been forgotten. Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him.

Thus when challenging situations occur, one who has the firm foundation of a life in faith will not fear the unforgivable, will not fear the unacceptable, will not need, in fact, to react unless, as an entity of the heart, there are those things which you feel may aid in a spiritual way that one which is unacceptable.

Thus your only responsibility is to love. You do not have a free will responsibility at this point, for free will does not forgive. It is love that forgives. Thus, as you step aside, disciplining your own freedom in order to serve and learn, you experience a love you could never experience within your humanity, a love which is in infinite supply.

And to that difficult or impossible situation or entity you simply send love, and use your mental capacities to reason with yourself as to the cause of unacceptability, gazing at the situation, not with an eye to solving it, but with an eye to understanding the unacceptable entity or condition, and when that is done, to forgive it, to forgive yourself, and be clear and ready to gaze without any fear whatsoever at the situation or entity, for there is love and service in this opportunity.

This is a simple and seemingly rather glib summary. It does not take into account the enormous difficulty of doing these things within your illusion. And so we would speak of an aspect of your illusion that is absolutely necessary to the illusion but is that which baffles almost all entities.

As you offer your free will to the blueprint you have planned for yourself, you become free and enabled in your actions. In this awareness there is nothing unacceptable, nothing unforgivable, but only that which may be seen as this or that distortion of love brought about by untamed free will. Free will holds up the mirror to free will. If you gaze at another and find unacceptability, realize that that is a mirror. Now you may do your inner work, for you have been aided by that entity which has been disparaged and judged. What is there within you that must be forgiven? For if you judge others, you have not forgiven yourself. If you are completely self-forgiven you have absolutely no need to judge, for you have no fear and nothing to defend. You can see through the free will, having seen through your own. You can tame the wind for yourself, and you can be of service to others by mirroring to them as honestly as possible that these are actions that you choose to make, and you choose them because they are of spiritual aid in the service of the Creator to this beloved self, that is you, in other-self form.

You picture yourselves, most naturally, as entities with a head and a backbone, two arms, two legs, the requisite number of organs and digits. You are a kind of entity you cannot understand as you gaze upon your physical vehicle. The difference in your consciousness between seeing yourself as this physical vehicle, and seeing yourself as spirit, is the difference between being blown by the wind and being the good and kindly wind that blows love always that is open and fearless, vulnerable, and unafraid. Once you have found your own essence you shall never fear again. It is the catalyst caused by facing the unacceptable, and by finding ways to offer love and to glean and harvest love in the situation as well, that is the wisdom gained through this shift in identity from chemical plant which moves you about to the essential self which is humble, non- judgmental, completely unafraid, completely free, and completely able and willing to listen, to understand and to love the tormented hearts of those caught in this illusion which you now enjoy, caught painfully, caught unbearably.

If someone is unacceptable to you, that entity is deafened by the wind of his own free will, and has an extraordinarily distorted expression of love to offer. You cannot heal or help the other self. You can only make your own choices. The entity that is unacceptable does not impinge upon you. It is merely catalyst if you still have work of your own to do in forgiving yourself for being all things, including many, many things which you consider unacceptable. You are carving out for yourself the right to ride the wind of spirit. Judgment, which is behind unacceptability, and fear, which is behind judgment, anchor your feet to the ground. You cannot fly; you cannot soar; you can only be injured and injure as you seek through judgment and the putting on of mental and spiritual protection to attempt to make yourself more comfortable in the prison of your bones and sinew.

When you find the love within in its pure state you are not confined; you are not finite. You have found your own eternity. In this eternity the wind of the present moment offers all lessons, whether it is necessary for the illusion, which causes judgment to seem appropriate, to be very hard to penetrate so that you will make your choices to judge or to appreciate, to ask for service or to be an agent of infinite service.

Definition

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is for God and toward God but not of Him. It is impossible to think of anything He created that could need forgiveness. Forgiveness, then, is an illusion, but because of its purpose, which is the Holy Spirit’s, it has one difference. Unlike all other illusions it leads away from error and not towards it.

Forgiveness might be called a kind of happy fiction; a way in which the unknowing can bridge the gap between their perception and the truth. They cannot go directly from perception to knowledge because they do not think it is their will to do so. This makes God appear to be an enemy instead of what He really is. And it is just this insane perception that makes them unwilling merely to rise up and to return to Him in peace.

And so they need an illusion of help because they are helpless; a Thought of peace because they are in conflict. God knows what His Son needs before he asks. He is not at all concerned with form, but having given the content it is His Will that it be understood. And that suffices. The form adapts itself to need; the content is unchanging, as eternal as its Creator.

The face of Christ has to be seen before the memory of God can return. The reason is obvious. Seeing the face of Christ involves perception. No one can look on knowledge. But the face of Christ is the great symbol of forgiveness. It is salvation. It is the symbol of the real world. Whoever looks on this no longer sees the world. He is as near to Heaven as is possible outside the gate. Yet from this gate it is no more than just a step inside. It is the final step. And this we leave to God.

Forgiveness is a symbol, too, but as the symbol of His Will alone it cannot be divided. And so the unity that it reflects becomes His Will. It is the only thing still in the world in part, and yet the bridge to Heaven.

God’s Will is all there is. We can but go from nothingness to everything; from hell to Heaven. Is this a journey? No, not in truth, for truth goes nowhere. But illusions shift from place to place; from time to time. The final step is also but a shift. As a perception it is part unreal. And yet this part will vanish. What remains is peace eternal and the Will of God.

There are no wishes now for wishes change. Even the wished-for can become unwelcome. That must be so because the ego cannot be at peace. But Will is constant, as the gift of God. And what He gives is always like Himself. This is the purpose of the face of Christ. It is the gift of God to save His Son. But look on this and you have been forgiven.

How lovely does the world become in just that single instant when you see the truth about yourself reflected there. Now you are sinless and behold your sinlessness. Now you are holy and perceive it so. And now the mind returns to its Creator; the joining of the Father and the Son, the Unity of unities that stands behind all joining but beyond them all. God is not seen but only understood. His Son is not attacked but recognized.

Spirit is in a state of grace forever. Your reality is only spirit. Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.

Grace

is an aspect of the Love of God which is most like the state prevailing in the unity of truth. It is the world’s most lofty aspiration, for it leads beyond the world entirely. It is past learning, yet the goal of learning, for grace cannot come until the mind prepares itself for true acceptance.

Grace becomes inevitable instantly in those who have prepared a table where it can be gently laid and willingly received; an altar clean and holy for the gift.

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is.

By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Grace is not learned. The final step must go beyond all learning.

Grace is not the goal this material aspires to attain. Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home.

The State of Grace

The Holy Spirit will always guide you truly, because your joy is His. This is His Will for everyone because He speaks for the Kingdom of God, which is joy. Following Him is therefore the easiest thing in the world, and the only thing that is easy, because it is not of the world. It is therefore natural. The world goes against your nature, being out of accord with God’s laws. The world perceives orders of difficulty in everything. This is because the ego perceives nothing as wholly desirable. By demonstrating to yourself there is no order of difficulty in miracles, you will convince yourself that, in your natural state, there is no difficulty at all because it is a state of grace.

Grace is the natural state of every Son of God. When he is not in a state of grace, he is out of his natural environment and does not function well. Everything he does becomes a strain, because he was not created for the environment that he has made. He therefore cannot adapt to it, nor can he adapt it to him. There is no point in trying. A Son of God is happy only when he knows he is with God. That is the only environment in which he will not experience strain, because that is where he belongs. It is also the only environment that is worthy of him, because his own worth is beyond anything he can make.

• Spirit is in a state of grace forever.

• Your reality is only spirit.

• Therefore you are in a state of grace forever.

FORGIVENESS

Introduction

Forgiveness offers wings to prayer, to make its rising easy and its progress swift. Without its strong support it would be vain to try to rise above prayer’s bottom step, or even to attempt to climb at all. Forgiveness is prayer’s ally; sister in the plan for your salvation. Both must come to hold you up and keep your feet secure; your purpose steadfast and unchangeable. Behold the greatest help that God ordained to be with you until you reach to Him. Illusion’s end will come with this. Unlike the timeless nature of its sister, prayer, forgiveness has an end. For it becomes unneeded when the rising up is done. Yet now it has a purpose beyond which you cannot go, nor have you need to go. Accomplish this and you have been redeemed. Accomplish this and you have been transformed. Accomplish this and you will save the world.

I. Forgiveness of Yourself

No gift of Heaven has been more misunderstood than has forgiveness. It has, in fact, become a scourge; a curse where it was meant to bless, a cruel mockery of grace, a parody upon the holy peace of God. Yet those who have not yet chosen to begin the steps of prayer cannot but use it thus. Forgiveness’ kindness is obscure at first, because salvation is not understood, nor truly sought for. What was meant to heal is used to hurt because forgiveness is not wanted. Guilt becomes salvation, and the remedy appears to be a terrible alternative to life.

Forgiveness-to-destroy will therefore suit the purpose of the world far better than its true objective, and the honest means by which this goal is reached. Forgiveness-to-destroy will overlook no sin, no crime, no guilt that it can seek and find and “love.” Dear to its heart is error, and mistakes loom large and grow and swell within its sight. It carefully picks out all evil things, and overlooks the loving as a plague; a hateful thing of danger and of death. Forgiveness-to-destroy is death, and this it sees in all it looks upon and hates. God’s mercy has become a twisted knife that would destroy the holy Son He loves.

Would you forgive yourself for doing this? Then learn that God has given you the means by which you can return to Him in peace. Do not see error. Do not make it real. Select the loving and forgive the sin by choosing in its place the face of Christ. How otherwise can prayer return to God? He loves His Son. Can you remember Him and hate what He created? You will hate his Father if you hate the Son He loves. For as you see the Son you see yourself, and as you see yourself is God to you.

As prayer is always for yourself, so is forgiveness always given you. It is impossible to forgive another, for it is only your sins you see in him. You want to see them there, and not in you. That is why forgiveness of another is an illusion. Yet it is the only happy dream in all the world; the only one that does not lead to death. Only in someone else can you forgive yourself, for you have called him guilty of your sins, and in him must your innocence now be found. Who but the sinful need to be forgiven? And do not ever think you can see sin in anyone except yourself.

This is the great deception of the world, and you the great deceiver of yourself. It always seems to be another who is evil, and in his sin you are the injured one. How could freedom be possible if this were so? You would be slave to everyone, for what he does entails your fate, your feelings, your despair or hope, your misery or joy. You have no freedom unless he gives it to you. And being evil, he can only give of what he is. You cannot see his sins and not your own. But you can free him and yourself as well.

Forgiveness, truly given, is the way in which your only hope of freedom lies. Others will make mistakes and so will you, as long as this illusion of a world appears to be your home. Yet God Himself has given all His Sons a remedy for all illusions that they think they see. Christ’s vision does not use your eyes, but you can look through His and learn to see like Him. Mistakes are tiny shadows, quickly gone, that for an instant only seem to hide the face of Christ, which still remains unchanged behind them all. His constancy remains in tranquil silence and in perfect peace. He does not know of shadows. His the eyes that look past error to the Christ in you.

Ask, then, His help, and ask Him how to learn forgiveness as His vision lets it be. You are in need of what He gives, and your salvation rests on learning this of Him. Prayer cannot be released to Heaven while forgiveness-to-destroy remains with you. God’s mercy would remove this withering and poisoned thinking from your holy mind. Christ has forgiven you, and in His sight the world becomes as holy as Himself. Who sees no evil in it sees like Him. For what He has forgiven has not sinned, and guilt can be no more. Salvation’s plan is made complete, and sanity has come.

Forgiveness is the call to sanity, for who but the insane would look on sin when he could see the face of Christ instead? This is the choice you make; the simplest one, and yet the only one that you can make. God calls on you to save His Son from death by offering Christ’s Love to him. This is your need, and God holds out this gift to you. As He would give, so must you give as well. And thus is prayer restored to formlessness, beyond all limits into timelessness, with nothing of the past to hold it back from reuniting with the ceaseless song that all creation sings unto its God.

But to achieve this end you first must learn, before you reach where learning cannot go. Forgiveness is the key, but who can use a key when he has lost the door for which the key was made, and where alone it fits? Therefore we make distinctions, so that prayer can be released from darkness into light. Forgiveness’ role must be reversed, and cleansed from evil usages and hateful goals. Forgiveness-to-destroy must be unveiled in all its treachery, and then let go forever and forever. There can be no trace of it remaining, if the plan that God established for returning be achieved at last, and learning be complete.

This is the world of opposites. And you must choose between them every instant while this world retains reality for you. Yet you must learn alternatives for choice, or you will not be able to attain your freedom. Let it then be clear to you exactly what forgiveness means to you, and learn what it should be to set you free. The level of your prayer depends on this, for here it waits its freedom to ascend above the world of chaos into peace.

II. Forgiveness-to-Destroy

Forgiveness-to-destroy has many forms, being a weapon of the world of form. Not all of them are obvious, and some are carefully concealed beneath what seems like charity. Yet all the forms that it may seem to take have but this single goal; their purpose is to separate and make what God created equal, different. The difference is clear in several forms where the designed comparison cannot be missed, nor is it really meant to be.

In this group, first, there are the forms in which a “better” person deigns to stoop to save a “baser” one from what he truly is. Forgiveness here rests on an attitude of gracious lordliness so far from love that arrogance could never be dislodged. Who can forgive and yet despise? And who can tell another he is steeped in sin, and yet perceive him as the Son of God? Who makes a slave to teach what freedom is? There is no union here, but only grief. This is not really mercy. This is death.

Another form, still very like the first if it is understood, does not appear in quite such blatant arrogance. The one who would forgive the other does not claim to be the better. Now he says instead that here is one whose sinfulness he shares, since both have been unworthy and deserve the retribution of the wrath of God. This can appear to be a humble thought, and may indeed induce a rivalry in sinfulness and guilt. It is not love for God’s creation and the holiness that is His gift forever. Can His Son condemn himself and still remember Him?

Here the goal is to separate from God the Son He loves, and keep him from his Source. This goal is also sought by those who seek the role of martyr at another’s hand. Here must the aim be clearly seen, for this may pass as meekness and as charity instead of cruelty. Is it not kind to be accepting of another’s spite, and not respond except with silence and a gentle smile? Behold, how good are you who bear with patience and with saintliness the anger and the hurt another gives, and do not show the bitter pain you feel.

Forgiveness-to-destroy will often hide behind a cloak like this. It shows the face of suffering and pain, in silent proof of guilt and of the ravages of sin. Such is the witness that it offers one who could be savior, not an enemy. But having been made enemy, he must accept the guilt and heavy-laid reproach that thus is put upon him. Is this love? Or is it rather treachery to one who needs salvation from the pain of guilt? What could the purpose be, except to keep the witnesses of guilt away from love?

Forgiveness-to-destroy can also take the form of bargaining and compromise. “I will forgive you if you meet my needs, for in your slavery is my release.” Say this to anyone and you are slave. And you will seek to rid yourself of guilt in further bargains which can give no hope, but only greater pain and misery. How fearful has forgiveness now become, and how distorted is the end it seeks. Have mercy on yourself who bargains thus. God gives and does not ask for recompense. There is no giving but to give like Him. All else is mockery. For who would try to strike a bargain with the Son of God, and thank his Father for his holiness?

What would you show your brother? Would you try to reinforce his guilt and thus your own? Forgiveness is the means for your escape. How pitiful it is to make of it the means for further slavery and pain. Within the world of opposites there is a way to use forgiveness for the goal of God, and find the peace He offers you. Take nothing else, or you have sought your death, and prayed for separation from your Self. Christ is for all because He is in all. It is His face forgiveness lets you see. It is His face in which you see your own.

All forms forgiveness takes that do not lead away from anger, condemnation and comparisons of every kind are death. For that is what their purposes have set. Be not deceived by them, but lay them by as worthless in their tragic offerings. You do not want to stay in slavery. You do not want to be afraid of God. You want to see the sunlight and the glow of Heaven shining on the face of earth, redeemed from sin and in the Love of God. From here is prayer released, along with you. Your wings are free, and prayer will lift you up and bring you home where God would have you be.

III. Forgiveness-for-Salvation

Forgiveness-for-Salvation has one form, and only one. It does not ask for proof of innocence, nor pay of any kind. It does not argue, nor evaluate the errors that it wants to overlook. It does not offer gifts in treachery, nor promise freedom while it asks for death. Would God deceive you? He but asks for trust and willingness to learn how to be free. He gives His Teacher to whoever asks, and seeks to understand the Will of God. His readiness to give lies far beyond your understanding and your simple grasp. Yet He has willed you learn the way to Him, and in His willing there is certainty.

You child of God, the gifts of God are yours, not by your plans but by His holy Will. His Voice will teach you what forgiveness is, and how to give it as He wills it be. Do not, then, seek to understand what is beyond you yet, but let it be a way to draw you up to where the eyes of Christ become the sight you choose. Give up all else, for there is nothing else. When someone calls for help in any form, He is the One to answer for you. All that you need do is to step back and not to interfere. Forgiveness-for-Salvation is His task, and it is He Who will respond for you.

Do not establish what the form should be that Christ’s forgiveness takes. He knows the way to make of every call a help to you, as you arise in haste to go at last unto your Father’s house. Now can He make your footsteps sure, your words sincere; not with your own sincerity, but with His Own. Let Him take charge of how you would forgive, and each occasion then will be to you another step to Heaven and to peace.

Are you not weary of imprisonment? God did not choose this sorry path for you. What you have chosen still can be undone, for prayer is merciful and God is just. His is a justice He can understand, but you cannot as yet. Still will He give the means to you to learn of Him, and know at last that condemnation is not real and makes illusions in its evil name. And yet it matters not the form that dreams may seem to take. Illusions are untrue. God’s Will is truth, and you are one with Him in Will and purpose. Here all dreams are done.

“What should I do for him, Your holy Son?” should be the only thing you ever ask when help is needed and forgiveness sought. The form the seeking takes you need not judge. And let it not be you who sets the form in which forgiveness comes to save God’s Son. The light of Christ in him is his release, and it is this that answers to his call. Forgive him as the Christ decides you should, and be His eyes through which you look on him, and speak for Him as well. He knows the need; the question and the answer. He will say exactly what to do, in words that you can understand and you can also use. Do not confuse His function with your own. He is the Answer. You the one who hears.

And what is it He speaks to you about? About salvation and the gift of peace. About the end of sin and guilt and death. About the role forgiveness has in Him. Do you but listen. For He will be heard by anyone who calls upon His Name, and places his forgiveness in His hands. Forgiveness has been given Him to teach, to save it from destruction and to make the means for separation, sin and death become again the holy gift of God. Prayer is His Own right Hand, made free to save as true forgiveness is allowed to come from His eternal vigilance and Love. Listen and learn, and do not judge. It is to God you turn to hear what you should do. His answer will be clear as morning, nor is His forgiveness what you think it is.

Still does He know, and that should be enough. Forgiveness has a Teacher Who will fail in nothing. Rest a while in this; do not attempt to judge forgiveness, nor to set it in an earthly frame. Let it arise to Christ, Who welcomes it as gift to Him. He will not leave you comfortless, nor fail to send His angels down to answer you in His Own Name. He stands beside the door to which forgiveness is the only key. Give it to Him to use instead of you, and you will see the door swing silently open upon the shining face of Christ. Behold your brother there beyond the door; the Son of God as He created him.

Love is more powerful than hatred; truth sets us free; forgiveness liberates both sides; unconditional love heals; courage empowers; and the essence of Divinity/Reality is peace.

The truth of one’s Self can be discovered in everyday life. To live with care and kindness is all that is necessary. The rest reveals itself in due time. The commonplace and God are not distinct.

Read the Untethered Soul

When we became conscious of ourselves as separate entities. We lost that sense of oneness with nature, with the rest of the universe.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

But while consciousness is the whole cause of pain, it is also the cause of our salvation, because salvation is the process of becoming increasingly conscious. Salvation is the process of healing. to make the unconscious conscious; that is, to increase consciousness. Ascribing evil to our refusal to meet our shadow, or that part of our personality that we like to deny, that we like not to think about, not to be conscious of, that we’re continually trying to sweep under the rug of consciousness and keep unconscious.

Willingness identifies the strong will of a person willing to go where he or she is called or led by a higher power.

Read Letting Go~ D. Hawkins

Man thinks he lives by virtue of the forces he can control, but in fact, he is governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which he has no control. Because power is effortless, it goes unseen and unsuspected.

• Force is experienced through the senses.

• Power can be recognized only through inner awareness.

The letting go technique is a pragmatic system of eliminating obstacles and attachments. It can also be called a mechanism of surrender. Simply stated, it sets us free from emotional attachments. It verifies the observation made by every sage, that attachments are the primary cause of suffering.

The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts.

Because most people throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their feelings, the suppressed energy accumulates and seeks expression. The worst cases is through psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesses, and disordered behavior in interpersonal relationships.

The accumulated feelings block spiritual growth and awareness, as well as success in many areas of life. Closing the heart… Essentially, it is replacing “I can’t” with “I can.” That is what this technique of letting go is all about.

The mechanism of surrender is simple and the truth is self-evident.

• It works during daily life.

• There is no dogma or belief system.

• You verify everything for yourself, so you cannot be misled.

• There is no dependence on any teachings.

It follows the dicta of “Know thyself”; “The truth shall set you free”; and “The kingdom of God is within you.”

• It works for the cynic, the pragmatist, the religionist, and the atheist.

• It works for any age or cultural background.

• It works for the spiritual person and the non-spiritual person alike.

• Because the mechanism is your own, nobody can take it away from you. You are safe from disillusionment. You will find out for yourself what is real and what are just the mind’s programs and belief systems.

While all of this is going on, you will become healthier, more successful with less effort, happier, and more capable of real love.

The essential goal of these teachings is to surrender the “small self,” commonly called “ego.” The letting go technique facilitates the goal of dissolving the small self by using a simple inner process of surrender. When the small self is transcended, the true inner Self shines forth.

We must let go of negative thoughts and belief systems and shed the stress of negative emotions that give them energy.

We have to cancel the negative programming that comes from the world, as well as many of our own belief systems.

[Look at the fear the government did to us with Covid!!!]

The more fearful we are, the more quickly we become programmed, and then the body responds accordingly.

We have become afraid of our inner feelings because they hold such a massive amount of negativity that we fear we would be overwhelmed by it if we were to take a deeper look. We have a fear of these feelings because we have no conscious mechanism by which to handle the feelings if we let them come up within ourselves. Because we are afraid to face them, they continue to accumulate and, finally, we secretly begin looking forward to death to bring all of the pain to an end. It is not thoughts or facts that are painful but the feelings that accompany them.

Thoughts in and of themselves are painless, but not the feelings that underlie them! It is the accumulated pressure of feelings that causes thoughts. One feeling, for instance, can create literally thousands of thoughts over a period of time. Think, for instance, of one painful memory from early life, one terrible regret that has been hidden. Look at all the years and years of thoughts associated with that single event. If we could surrender the underlying painful feeling, all of those thoughts would disappear instantly and we would forget the event.

We have three major ways of handling feelings: suppression, expression, and escape.

Suppression is all about consciously pushing one’s feelings and thoughts away as a kind of defense mechanism. This means the person has a conscious awareness that it is an unwanted memory and makes an effort not to think about it.

• Suppressed love can re-emerges as excessive adoration of pets.

• Repression is the action or process of repressing” or “a mental process by which distressing thoughts, memories or impulses that may give rise to anxiety are “excluded from consciousness and left to operate in the unconscious.”

• Frigidity is an example on the behavioral level of “I can’t,” which in the unconscious means “I won’t.” They are both resistances to joy, love, expression, and aliveness. The most common causes are repressed guilt, fear, and anger, emotions that spill out through the autonomic nervous system. Expressions of conflict.

Emotional Energy

Emotions, also, because they are energy, emit vibrations. These emotional vibrations impact the body’s energy fields and reveal effects that can be seen, felt, and measured. The mind has no dimensions or size and is not limited in space; therefore, the mind transmits its basic state via vibrational energy over an unlimited distance. This means that we routinely and unwittingly affect others by our emotional state and thoughts.

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it.

The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgment and to see that it is just a feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and surrender all efforts to modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is resistance that keeps the feeling going.

When you give up resisting or trying to modify the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling and be accompanied by a lighter sensation. A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the energy behind it dissipates. As you begin the process, you will notice that you have fear and guilt over having feelings; there will be resistance to feelings in general. To let feelings come up, it is easier to let go of the reaction to having the feelings in the first place. A fear of fear itself is a prime example of this. Let go of the fear or guilt that you have about the feeling first, and then get into the feeling itself.

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing, and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling that is forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts or external events are only an excuse made up by the mind.

To be surrendered means to have no strong emotion about a thing: “It’s okay if it happens, and it’s okay if it doesn’t.” When we are free, there is a letting go of attachments. We can enjoy a thing, but we don’t need it for our happiness. There is progressive diminishing of dependence on anything or anyone outside of ourselves. These principles are in accord with the basic teaching of the Buddha to avoid attachment to worldly phenomena, as well as the basic teaching of Jesus Christ to “be in the world but not of it.”

By continuously letting go, it is possible to stay in that state of freedom. Feelings come and go, and eventually you realize that you are not your feelings, but that the real “you” is merely witnessing them. You stop identifying with them. The “you” that is observing and is aware of what is happening always stays the same. As you become more and more aware of the changeless witness within, you begin to identify with that level of consciousness. You become progressively primarily the witness rather than the experiencer of phenomena. You get closer and closer to the real Self and begin to see that you had been duped by feelings all along. You thought that you were the victim of your feelings. Now you see that they are not the truth about yourself; they are merely created by the ego.

Letting go is a natural ability. It is not something new or foreign.

It is not an esoteric teaching or somebody else’s idea or a belief system. We are merely utilizing our own inner nature to get freer and happier. When letting go, it’s not helpful to “think” about the technique. It’s better, simply, just to do it. Eventually it will be seen that all thoughts are resistance. They are all images that the mind has made to prevent us from experiencing what actually is.

Although it is true that surrender or letting go is a natural mechanism of the mind, it must be remembered that the mind has multiple conflicting motivations. Whereas one part of your mind would like to be free of the tension from a feeling, another part of your mind is programmed to believe that hanging on to the feeling will somehow magically bring about some desired end. Unless one is conscious and aware and has mastered the technique, the conflicts of the mind will overrule and dominate. Basically, the technique of letting go gives you the power of choice over the tendencies of mind.

Observing

By taking responsibility for the consequences of their own perceptions, observers can transcend the role of victim to an understanding that “nothing out there has power over you.” It is not life’s events, but how one reacts to them and the attitude that one has about them, which determine whether the events have a positive or negative effect on one’s life, whether they are experienced as opportunity or as stress.

✅ Observing Emotions is the Key

Every activity or desire will reveal that the basic goal is to achieve a certain feeling. There are no other goals than to overcome fear and achieve happiness. Emotions are connected with what we believe will ensure our survival, not with what actually will.

Emotions themselves are actually the cause of the basic fear that drives everyone to seek security constantly. By observing feelings rather than thoughts. The thoughts associated with even one feeling may literally run into the thousands.

The understanding of the underlying emotion and its correct handling is, therefore, more rewarding and less time-consuming than dealing with one’s thoughts.

Handling a crisis from the emotional rather than the intellectual level will shorten its duration dramatically. In the case of someone who loses a job, handling it from the intellectual level will produce thousands of thoughts and hypothetical scenarios.

Until the underlying emotion is surrendered, the thoughts will be engendered endlessly.

We all know of people who have had an emotional crisis many years ago and, to this day, have not recovered. It has totally colored their life, and they have paid a big price for their lack of know-how in handling the underlying emotions.

Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them. Once we have mastery over our feelings, our fear of life diminishes.

Outwardly, the behavior may appear the same but, inwardly, the causes for it are now totally different. The end result of the conscious handling of emotions is invulnerability and imperturbability. Our inner nature is now bullet proof. We are able to go through life with balance and grace… [the 4Agreements]

The way out of negativity is, therefore, the willingness to acknowledge and let go of negative feelings and, at the same time, the willingness to let go of resisting their positive opposite.

One of the laws of consciousness is: We are only subject to a negative thought or belief if we consciously say that it applies to us. We are free to choose not to buy into a negative belief system.

The Past

Most are mere victims of painful emotions that they did not handle and which triggered endless intellectualization and elaboration. Some spent their entire lifetime constructing sophisticated intellectual systems to justify what is glaringly obvious as a simple suppressed emotion.

All too often it is followed by bitterness and the impaired capacity to create a new loving relationship. The unwillingness to let go of the blame continues the emotional crippling, which can go on for years, or even a lifetime.

Thoughts and feelings about the events tend to occur and color our perception, and we will note that they have disabled us in certain areas of life. At that point, it is wise to ask ourselves if it is worth paying the continuing cost. The residual feelings can be investigated and let go of so that a healing can take place.

People spend their lives regretting the past and fearing the future; therefore, they are unable to experience joy in the present.

Every life experience, no matter how “tragic,” contains a hidden lesson. When we discover and acknowledge the hidden gift that is there, a healing takes place.

The mind projects on to the future with the expectation that the past will be repeated. When we discover this unconscious dynamic, we can choose to look again at the emotional complex, disassemble it into its component parts, let go of the negative aspects, and let go of our resistance to the positive ones.

As we do this, our perspective of the future changes. We can forgive ourselves that, at the time of the previous emotional overwhelm, we simply didn’t know how to handle it. There were a lot of residuals that left us emotionally disabled at that time. But, because in the unconscious mind there is no such thing as time, we can choose at any time in the present to heal the past event.

As we go through our own emotional healing for our own sake, that past event now begins to take on a different meaning. Our Higher Self begins to create a new context for it. We can see the hidden gift. We can end up acknowledging with gratitude that it gave us a new opportunity to learn, to grow, and to acquire wisdom.

Emotions

Let’s start with discussing the emotions of…

Anger

The rationalizing mind prefers to keep the true causes of emotion out of awareness and utilizes the mechanism of projection to do this. It blames events or other people for “causing” a feeling and views itself as the helpless innocent victim of external causes. “They made me angry.” “He got me upset.” “It scared me.” “World events are the cause of my anxiety.” Actually, it’s the exact opposite.

Anger is binding, not freeing. It connects us to another person and holds them in our life pattern. We are stuck in the negative pattern until we let go of the energy of anger and its little payoffs of righteous indignation, feeling wronged, and the desire for revenge. It may not be exactly the same person who constantly recurs in our life. If not that person, then others will appear who have the same quality that triggers our anger and resentment. This will keep recurring until we finally handle our inner angriness. Then, suddenly, people with that quality disappear from our life. Therefore, anger may force someone to be physically distant from us, but psychically it binds them to us more closely, until we fully relinquish the anger and resentment.

Anger is associated with pride. There is a lot of anger in the form of resentment.

Anger may vary all the way from rage to mild resentment. It includes revenge, outrage, indignation, fury, jealousy, vindictiveness, spite, hatred, contempt, wrath, argumentativeness, hostility, sarcasm, impatience, frustration, negativity, aggression, violence, revulsion, meanness, rebellion, explosive behavior, agitation, abusiveness, abrasiveness, smoldering, sullenness, pouting, and stubbornness. Anger may come up about the technique of surrender itself. Anger that one is expected to let go of feelings that, in the past, have been valued. Anger at the fear of loss. Anger at feelings in general. Anger at a feeling that does not relinquish immediately.

There is a lot of energy in anger; therefore, we may actually feel energized when we are irritated or angry. There are many sources of anger. We have already mentioned that very often a complex of angry feelings is connected with fear, and the anger disappears when we let go of the fear. Another source of anger is that of pride, and especially that aspect of pride called vanity. Frequently, it is our personal pride that feeds and propagates the anger.

We have to constantly let go of our pride in order to undo anger, so that we can be grateful for the continual opportunities of growth with which we are presented in the course of everyday experience. The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as “justifiable anger,” which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how “wrong” the other persons are. We get a passing cheap little satisfaction out of that. The price we pay for chronic anger and resentment is sickness and premature death. Is this worth the small satisfaction of being right?

If you look at anger, you will see that its basis is almost always fear. We get angry because we have been threatened. The threat arouses fear. The fear means we feel that we are unequal to the situation. Anger biologically is like swelling up to intimidate our opponent.

Anger is coming from weakness rather than strength. The person who has surrendered is, therefore, relying on strength rather than weakness. The person who has surrendered does not have to fall back upon anger to handle a situation. Also, anger cannot be counted upon.

In addition, it has many destructive effects; for example, it is running you instead of your running it. A totally surrendered person is free to choose to express anger if they wish, but it is done out of choice, not out of necessity.

Fear

What one holds in mind tends to manifest. What this means is that any thought which we consistently hold in mind and consistently give energy to will tend to come into our life according to the very form in which our mind has held it. Thus, fear engenders fearful thoughts. The more we hold these thoughts in mind, the more likely the feared event will happen in our life, which again reinforces our fear.

Another one of the laws of consciousness:

Fear is healed by love. Letting go of fear and replacing it with love.

Blame

Blame is a whole subject in itself. Looking into it is rewarding. To begin with, there are a lot of payoffs to blame. We get to be innocent; we get to enjoy self-pity; we get to be the martyr and the victim; and we get to be the recipients of sympathy. Perhaps the biggest payoff of blame is that we get to be the innocent victim and the other party is the bad one. Blame is the world’s greatest excuse. It enables us to remain limited and small without feeling guilty. But there is a cost—the loss of our freedom. Also, the role of victim brings with it a self-perception of weakness, vulnerability, and helplessness.

To overcome blame, it is necessary to look at the secret satisfaction and enjoyment we get out of self-pity, resentment, anger, and self-excuses, and to begin to surrender all of these little payoffs. The purpose of this step is to move up from being a victim of our feelings to choosing to have them. If we merely acknowledge and observe them, begin to disassemble them, and surrender the component parts, then we are consciously exercising choice.

Desire

When we are at the effect of desire, we are no longer free. We are controlled by it, run by it, enslaved and led about by the nose by it. Here again, the essential point of freedom is whether we have chosen consciously to fulfill a certain want, or whether we are just being blindly run by unconscious programs and belief systems.

The energy of desire is, in essence, a denial that what we want is ours for the asking.

Let’s compare the arduous lower consciousness way of achieving goals with a higher state of consciousness in which we have acknowledged and let go of the desire, and are in a freer state. In a freer state, that which is chosen manifests in our life effortlessly.

Surrender the emotion of desire and, instead, merely choose the goal, picture it lovingly, and allow it to happen because we see that it is already ours. Why is it already ours?

In a lower state of consciousness, the universe is seen as negative and denying, frustrating, and reluctant. It is like a bad, stingy parent.

• In a higher state of consciousness, our experience of the universe changes. It now becomes like a giving, loving, unconditionally approving parent who wants us to have everything we want, and it is ours for the asking. This is creating a different context. It is giving the universe a different meaning.

Personal goals are written down, followed by a letting go of the desire for them. It sounds paradoxical but that is the process: identify the goals and then let go of wanting them. By being totally surrendered, this means that it was okay if “it” happened, and it was okay if it didn’t. Because of being totally surrendered, the impossible became possible, manifesting itself effortlessly and rapidly.

As we relinquish our smallness and revalidate our own inner innocence, and as we let go of resisting our generosity, openness, trust, lovingness, and faith, then the unconscious will automatically start arranging life circumstances so that abundance begins to flow into our life.

Delete and Re-Program

Most of the consciousness programs boil down to this essential point: become aware of what we are buying into, what we are accepting daily.

Let’s look at what we have already been programmed with and begin to question it, disassemble it, and let it go.

Let’s wake up and free ourselves from being exploited and enslaved by the negative programming of the world.

We will see it for what it is, which is an attempt by others to control us; exploit us; extract our money, our services, our energy, our loyalties; and capture our mind. The mechanisms whereby this comes about were so beautifully exemplified in the movie, Tron, in which the very function of “master control” was to enslave by progressive programming.

When we see the truth of how programming happens, we will see that we are the pure, blank computer. We are the innocent space in which the programming is occurring.

We will enjoy starting to let the feelings come up, seeing them for what they are, clearing out all of the garbage, and letting it all go. The capacity to love ourselves in the form of increased self-esteem returns and with it comes the capacity to love others. Being freed from guilt brings about a renewal of life energy.

End Goal

The purpose of letting go, is the elimination of the ego. The ego is fearful and limited and, when it is surrendered, the inner Self stands forth, and what was always more powerful is revealed.

The purpose of the mechanism of surrender is to transcend the illusions of the world and reach the ultimate truth behind it—which is Self-Realization—and to discover the very basis of the mind itself, the source of all thought and feeling.

The goal of letting go is the elimination of the very source of all suffering and pain. This sounds radical and startling and, in fact, it is! Ultimately, all negative feelings stem from the same source. When enough negative feelings have been relinquished, that source reveals itself.

When the pressure behind an emotion has been let go, that emotion no longer occurs. For instance, if fear is constantly surrendered for a period of time, eventually it runs out. It then becomes difficult or almost impossible to feel further fear. It takes progressively more and more of a stimulus to elicit it. Finally, the person who has surrendered a great deal of fear actually has to search for it diligently. The energy of fear simply isn’t there anymore. Anger also progressively diminishes so that even a major provocation fails to elicit it. A person with little fear or anger feels primarily love all of the time and experiences a loving acceptance of events, people, and the vicissitudes of life.

Relationship Energy

The first feelings we will start with are the most negative: feelings of hate, malice, anger, rage, revenge, and violence. It is obvious that the underlying fantasy here is to eliminate, banish, kill, destroy, injure, hurt, frighten, and intimidate.

The other person’s likely response is to avoid us, to hate us in return, and to bring about a counter-attack. Lesser forms of anger are criticism, criticalness, resentment, sulking, stewing, and negative judgments about others. The emotional purpose is to punish others, make them feel sorry, try to force them to change their feelings or behavior, make them suffer, get even with them, diminish and devalue them. This, of course, also results in the other person’s response of counter-criticism, counter-resentment, and avoidance.

✅ Looking at the feelings on the level of interpersonal relationships, we now discover another law of consciousness:

Our feelings and thoughts always have an effect on other persons and affect our relationships, whether these thoughts or feelings are verbalized, expressed, or not.

We will not, at this point, go into the discussion of the mechanics of exactly how this comes about, but it is currently an area of research of modern advanced quantum physics, especially that area concerned with high energy subatomic particles and their relationship to thoughts and thought forms. We can likely intuit the truth of this law of consciousness from our own experience. We generally know, for example, when someone is angry toward us, even if they say nothing about it. Sensing their repressed angry feeling, we might ask, “Is something wrong?” Even when they reply, “Oh nothing,” we are still aware of the energy of anger and upset. It is somewhat dismaying to discover the truth of this interfacing at the energetic level, but anyone can discover it by inner investigation. The overall attitudes we hold about another person are influencing that other person’s feelings and attitudes about us whether we express them or not.

To help clarify the role of emotions in interpersonal relationships, a very quick way of learning is to presume that the other person is conscious and aware of our inner thoughts and feelings. By doing this, we will not be far from wrong, for they are indeed intuitively aware of our thoughts and feelings, even if they are not consciously aware at a given moment. They will respond to us as if they knew our inner feelings. The overall relationship will behave as though the other person were aware of our inner feelings. If we are still holding the fantasy that other people do not know our thoughts and feelings, just notice that dogs quickly do! Do we really think that the human psyche is inferior to that of a dog? If a dog can quickly read our total inner attitude, we can be sure that the intuition of people around us is picking up the same vibration.

All of the negative feelings are essentially forms of fear: fear of loss of esteem by ourselves or others, or fear of not surviving and a loss of security.

Because most of the negative feelings are accompanied by a negative value judgment, they are suppressed, repressed, or projected. Suppression, repression, and projection are all destructive dynamics and result in a progressive stress on and decline of our relationships.

Before searching ourselves for negative feelings, it is best to remember that these feelings are not our real inner Self. They are learned programs we have inherited from being humans. Nobody is exempt from them; everyone from the highest to the lowest has or has had an ego. Even the few who are enlightened had an ego at one time before it was finally transcended. This is the human condition. To be able to observe our feelings honestly requires a nonjudgmental attitude. We first have to be aware of what is really going on inside of us before we can do anything about it. As we let go of a feeling, it is replaced by a higher one. The only purpose for recognizing and admitting a feeling is so that we can relinquish it. To be surrendered means that we are willing to relinquish a feeling by allowing ourselves just to experience it and not to change it. Resistance is what keeps it there in the first place.

If we have difficulty in relinquishing a feeling, it helps merely to look at the intent of that feeling. What is the purpose of it? What is the supposed purposeful effect on the other person? What is their likely response? Do we really want that? If this were the last day of our life, would that really be what we wanted? Well, this is the last day of our life—our old life with all its conflicts, anxiety, and fear. That is the price we have paid for holding on to the old. As we relinquish the negative suppressed feelings from all the programs we have internalized, they are automatically replaced by the higher ones. We become happier and lighter and so do the people around us.

It is obvious that higher states of consciousness have a profound effect on our relationships, because one of the laws of consciousness is like goes to like. Our inner states are actually radiated to others. We can positively affect others even when we are not physically with them. Feelings are energy and all energy gives off a vibration. We are like sending and receiving stations. The less negativity we are holding, the more aware we can be of what others are really holding about us. The more we love, the more we find ourselves surrounded by love. The replacement of a negative feeling by a higher one accounts for the many miracles one can experience in the course of life.

We block receiving what we want from others by our expectations or resentments of them. It is very effective to surrender our expectations of others before we enter into a particular situation with them. Emotions are really subtle attempts to force others and impose our will on them, which they unconsciously resist. The way to facilitate satisfaction in relationships is lovingly to picture the best possible outcome.

Make sure it is mutually beneficial: a win-win situation. Let go of all the negative feelings and merely hold the picture in mind. We can tell if we are really surrendered when we feel okay either way; it’s okay with us if it happens, and it’s okay with us if it doesn’t. Therefore, to be surrendered does not mean to be passive. It is being active in a positive way. When we are surrendered, there is no longer the pressure of time. Frustration comes from wanting a thing now instead of letting it happen naturally in its own time.

Patience is an automatic side effect of letting go, and we know how easy it is to get along with patient people. Notice that patient people usually get what they want in the end.

Without a map in hand, the treasure cannot be found. This pathway is open to all who choose it. We all have different starting points, yet each of us guides the rudder of our future by our own hands.

The oneness of all creation reveals the energy essence of everything that exists—human and non-human, seen and unseen.

All of life is revealed to be a pulsating symphony of interplaying energies:

“The mutual dependence and interpenetration of all things is observable as one leaves duality. Oneness is central to all of the major religions and spiritual systems as the ultimate reality underlying and within all forms.”

Levels of Consciousness

A graphic representation of the distribution of the respective energy levels among the world’s population would resemble the shape of a pagoda, in that 85 percent of the human race calibrates below the critical level of 200, while the overall average level of human consciousness today is approximately 204.

The scale of consciousness may be seen in one aspect as a scale of ego, with the level of 200 being the fulcrum at which selfishness begins to turn to selflessness.

The power of the relatively few individuals near the top counterbalances the energy of the masses toward the bottom to achieve this overall average.

Only 8.0 percent of the world’s population operates at the consciousness level of the 400s, only 4.0 percent of the world’s population calibrates at an energy field of 500 and over, and a level of consciousness calibrating at 600 and over is reached by only one in many millions.

Pride

Pride, which calibrates at 175, has enough energy to run the United States Marine Corps. It is the level aspired to by the majority of our kind today. People feel positive as they reach this level, in contrast to the lower energy fields. This rise in self-esteem is a balm to all the pain experienced at lower levels of consciousness. Pride looks good and knows it; it struts its stuff in the parade of life. Pride is at a far enough removal from Shame, Guilt, or Fear that to rise, for instance, out of the despair of the ghetto to the pride of being a Marine is an enormous jump. Pride as such generally has a good reputation and is socially encouraged, yet as we see from the chart of the levels of consciousness, it is sufficiently negative to remain below the critical level of 200. This is why Pride feels good only in contrast to the lower levels. The problem, as we all know, is that “Pride goeth before a fall.” Pride is defensive and vulnerable because it is dependent upon external conditions, without which it can suddenly revert to a lower level. The inflated ego is vulnerable to attack. Pride remains weak because it can be knocked off its pedestal back into Shame, which is the threat that fires the fear of loss of Pride. Pride is divisive and gives rise to factionalism; the consequences are costly. Man has habitually died for Pride; armies still regularly slaughter each other for that aspect of Pride called nationalism. Religious wars, political terrorism and zealotry, the ghastly history of the Middle East and Central Europe, are all the price of Pride, which all of society pays.

The downside of Pride, therefore, is arrogance and denial.

These characteristics block growth; in Pride, recovery from addictions is impossible because emotional problems or character defects are denied.

The whole problem of denial is one of Pride. Thus Pride is a very sizable block to the acquisition of real power, which displaces Pride with true stature and prestige.

Many people try to substitute pride for genuine self-esteem; however, genuine self-esteem does not actually arise until pride is relinquished. That which inflates the ego does not result in inner strength. On the contrary, it increases our vulnerability and overall level of fear. When we are in a state of pride, our energy is dissipated by the constant preoccupation with defending our lifestyle, vocation, neighborhood, clothes, year and make of car, ancestry, country, and political and religious belief systems.

When pride and self-inflation have been relinquished, there is an inner security that takes their place.

When we no longer feel called upon to defend our image, criticisms and attacks from others diminish and finally stop. When we let go of our need for validation or to prove ourselves right, then the challenges against us fall away.

This brings us to one of the basic laws of consciousness: Defensiveness invites attack.

An examination of the nature of pride facilitates the letting go of it, as it is no longer valued. It is seen for what it is, in truth: weak.

Because pride is sometimes seen as a motivator of achievement, what would be its higher level substitute? One answer would be joy. What is wrong with joy as the reward for successful achievement, rather than pride? Pride carries with it the desire for recognition from others and, consequently, there is a vulnerability to anger and disappointment if it is not forthcoming at some point. If we achieve a certain goal for the pleasure, enjoyment, love of accomplishment, and the inner joy that it brings to us, we are invulnerable to the reaction of others. We become much less vulnerable if we put our thoughts, ideas, and beliefs, which are all opinions, into a different context. We can view them as ideas that we like or dislike. Some thoughts give us pleasure, and so we like them. Just because we like them today doesn’t mean we have to go to war over them.

We like a concept so long as it serves us and we are getting enjoyment out of it. Of course, we discard it quite readily when it is no longer a source of pleasure. When we look at our opinions, we will see that it is primarily our emotions that are giving them any value in the first place. Instead of feeling pride about our thoughts, what is wrong with just loving them? Why not just love a certain concept because of its beauty, because of its inspirational quality, or because of its serviceability? If we view our thoughts that way, we no longer need the pride of being “right.” If we hold the same view of our likes and dislikes, we are no longer prone to argumentativeness.

When we are open-minded, we are admitting that we are not in possession of all the facts, and we are ready to change our opinions as the situation unfolds. In this way, we do not box ourselves into the pain of defending lost causes.

Courage

This is the critical level that distinguishes the positive and negative influences of life. This is what the minimum is to start the Letting Go process….

At the level of Courage, an attainment of true power occurs; therefore, it is also the level of empowerment. This is the zone of exploration, accomplishment, fortitude, and determination. At the lower levels, the world is seen as hopeless, sad, frightening, or frustrating; but at the level of Courage, life is seen to be exciting, challenging, and stimulating.

Courage implies the willingness to try new things and deal with the vicissitudes of life. At this level of empowerment, one is able to cope with and effectively handle the opportunities of life. At 200, for instance, there is the energy to learn new job skills. Growth and education become attainable goals. There is the capacity to face fears or character defects and to grow despite them; anxiety also does not cripple endeavor as it would at the lower levels of evolution.

Obstacles that defeat people whose consciousness is below 200 act as stimulants to those who have evolved into the first level of true power. People at this level put back into the world as much energy as they take; at lower levels, populations as well as individuals drain energy from society without reciprocating. Because accomplishments result in positive feedback, self-reward and esteem become progressively self-reinforcing. This is where productivity begins.

The collective level of consciousness of mankind remained at 190 for many centuries and, curiously, only jumped to its current level of 204 within the last decade. We all know that it takes courage to face fear. When we are in the state of courage, we sense our own inner power, strength, and self-worth. We know that we have the capacity to make a difference in the world, not just gain something from it for ourselves.

Because of the inner self-confidence, we are much less concerned with security. The emphasis is no longer on what people have, but upon what they do, and have become. With courage, there is the willingness to take chances and to let go of former securities. There is the willingness to grow and benefit from new experiences. This involves the capacity to admit mistakes without indulging in guilt and self-recrimination. Our sense of self-worth is not diminished by looking at areas that need improvement. We are able to admit the presence of problems without being diminished.

As a result, energy, time, and effort are put into self-improvement.

On this level, statements of intention and purpose are much more powerful and envisioned results tend to manifest.

We are much more enterprising and creative, because our energies are not drained by the constant preoccupation with emotional or physical survival.

250: Neutrality Energy

becomes very positive as we get to the level that we have termed Neutral, because it is epitomized by release from the positionality that typifies lower levels. Below 250, consciousness tends to see dichotomies and to take on rigid positions, an impediment in a world that is complex and multi-factorial rather than black and white. Taking such positions creates polarization, and polarization in turn creates opposition and division. As in the martial arts, a rigid position becomes a point of vulnerability; that which does not bend is liable to break.

Rising above barriers or oppositions that dissipate one’s energies, the Neutral condition allows for flexibility and nonjudgmental, realistic appraisal of problems.

To be Neutral means to be relatively unattached to outcomes; not getting one’s way is no longer experienced as defeating, frightening, or frustrating.

At the Neutral level, a person can say, “Well, if I don’t get this job, then I’ll get another.” This is the beginning of inner confidence; sensing one’s power, one is therefore not easily intimidated.

One is not driven to prove anything. The expectation that life, with its ups and downs, will be basically okay if one can roll with the punches is a typical 250-level attitude. People of Neutrality have a sense of well-being; the mark of this level is a confident capability to live in the world. This is, therefore, experientially a level of safety. People at this level are easy to get along with, safe to be around and associate with, because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt. They are comfortable and basically undisturbed emotionally.

This attitude is nonjudgmental and does not lead to any need to control other people’s behaviors.

Correspondingly, because Neutral people value freedom, they are hard to control.

310: Willingness

This very positive level of energy may be seen as the gateway to the higher levels. Whereas for instance, jobs are done adequately at the Neutral level, at the level of Willingness, work is done well and success in all endeavors is common. Growth is rapid; these are people chosen for advancement.

Willingness implies that one has overcome inner resistance to life and is committed to participation.

Below the 200 calibration level, people tend to be close-minded, but by level 310, a great opening occurs. At this level, people become genuinely friendly, and social and economic success seem to follow automatically.

The Willing are not really troubled by unemployment, for they will take any job when they have to, or create a career or self-employment for themselves. They do not feel demeaned by service jobs or by starting at the bottom. They are naturally helpful to others and contribute to the good of society.

They are also willing to face inner issues and do not have major learning blocks. At this level, self-esteem is innately high and is reinforced by positive feedback from society in the forms of recognition, appreciation, and reward. Willingness is sympathetic and responsive to the needs of others. Willing people are builders of, and contributors to, society. With their capacity to bounce back from adversity and learn from experience, they tend to become self-correcting.

Having let go of Pride, they are willing to look at their own defects and learn from others. At the level of Willingness, people become excellent students. They are easily teachable and represent a considerable source of power for society.

We start with courage and after much work we can get to the level of consciousness of….

Acceptance, Energy Level 350:

Negativity which we see in a person or in society is really due to blindness, ignorance, and unconsciousness. This inner innocence, once it is perceived in others, is also perceived in ourselves. All that we did was done because we just didn’t know any better at the time. If we had known a better way at the time, we would have done it that way. “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” we say. We see that same blindness operating in others, and we can look past their character defects and see the innocent child within. Once we see our innocence, there is an identification with others and a loss of feeling alone and stressed. We are able to see innocence even behind the most rash and apparently horrible behaviors. We look inside a person and see the frightened animal that just doesn’t know any better. We are aware that, if cornered, it will surely attack us and bite. It just doesn’t realize that our intentions are peaceful, and so it flails out wildly. In the state of acceptance, it is possible to forgive our own past, as well as that of others, and to heal past resentments.

Another characteristic of the level of acceptance is that we are no longer concerned with moralistic judgment, with “good” and “bad.” It just becomes obvious what works and what doesn’t work. It is easy to see what is destructive and what is optimal, without judging anything as “evil.” There is the elimination of guilt, which accompanies all judgments against others and ourselves. We then see the meaning of the statement, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” In acceptance, we have let go of the inner guilt-monger that found fault with even our most basic human drives.

We accept that others have come to their understanding of life and their ethical views in a way that makes sense to them, even if their beliefs and behaviors are quite different from ours.

When we see the innocence in everyone, we can truly fulfill “loving our neighbor as ourselves,” and, thus, letting go has allowed us to reach a lofty goal without even the conscious attempt to do so.

They realize that it’s their ego, but see they are still one with God also. Just ignorant of the true self yet.

Seeing other people’s dream has nothing to do with their dream. They show all others respect. No defense or judgement. They have immunity from other people words.

Acceptance is not to be confused with passivity, which is a symptom of apathy. This form of Acceptance allows engagement in life on life’s own terms, without trying to make it conform to an agenda. With Acceptance, there is emotional calm and perception is widened as denial is transcended. One now sees things without distortion or misinterpretation; the context of experience is expanded so that one is capable of “seeing the whole picture.” Acceptance has to do essentially with balance, proportion, and appropriateness. The individual at the level of Acceptance is not interested in determining right or wrong, but instead is dedicated to resolving issues and finding out what to do about problems. Tough jobs do not cause discomfort or dismay. Long-term goals take precedence over short-term ones; self-discipline and mastery are prominent.

The level of acceptance is characterized by the attitude of selflessness and service. This results from the surrendering of the negative feelings that create the small self, which removes our identification with it. Instead, inner harmony and peace are experienced as the nature of our greater Self. Because the negative programs have been relinquished, there is the emergence of greater creativity, inspiration, and intuition. There is certainty that our own personal needs will be met; therefore, there is a shift in relationship so that the focus is on the welfare and happiness of others. This is facilitated by the fact that, at this level, there is no longer neediness in the form of dependency on other people, because there is nothing we feel we need to “get” from them. In a relationship of loving acceptance, minor imperfections are no longer given serious importance and are overlooked. In acceptance, we are free to be in the present.

Once we have accepted our own true nature and the ways of the universe as they are reflected in our world, there is no longer regret about the past, nor is there fear of the future.

Fear of the future no longer exists when the past has been healed. This is because in the usual ego-oriented state of consciousness, the ego tends to project the past upon the future, and a past that is viewed negatively becomes fearful when projected upon the imaginary future. Our letting go of the lower energies of guilt, fear, anger, and pride has alleviated the weight of the past and cleared the clouds of the future. We face today with optimism and are grateful to be alive. We see that yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet come, and we have only today.

Energy Level 400: Reason

Intelligence and rationality rise to the forefront when the emotionalism of the lower levels is transcended. Reason is capable of handling large, complex amounts of data; making rapid, correct decisions; understanding the intricacies of relationships, gradations, and fine distinctions; and expert manipulation of symbols as abstract concepts, which becomes increasingly important. This is the level of science, medicine, and of generally increased capability for conceptualization and comprehension. Knowledge and education are sought as capital. Transcending this level is relatively uncommon—by only 4.0 percent of the world’s population.

Love - 500

Love opens the heart. Instead of perception, which perceives, the heart knows. The mind thinks and argues, but the heart knows and continues. So even when people make mistakes, we love them. Thoughts tell us one thing, but the heart tells us something else. The mind can be critical and disagree, but the heart is loving no matter what. The heart does not put any conditions on what’s out there. Only the mind does that. Love makes no demands. A key to making Love unconditional is the willingness to forgive. With forgiveness, events and people are re-contextualized as simply “limited”—not “bad” or “unlovable.”

With humility, we are willing to relinquish our perception of a past event. We pray for a miracle to see the truth about the situation or person, and we surrender all of our opinions about the matter. We look at the payoffs we’re getting from keeping our perception of what occurred, and we let go of each little payoff: the pleasure of self-pity, of “being right,” of being “wronged,” and of our resentments.

When we surrender our perception completely, letting go of all judgment, then the whole situation is transfigured and we see the person as lovable. Since all judgment is really self-judgment, we have liberated ourselves in the process. Only 0.4 percent ever reaches the level of unconditional love at 540.

The majority of people utilize their life experiences to elaborate and express the variations of their native energy field; it is the rare individual who manages to move beyond it, although many people make considerable internal improvements.

The reason for this is more easily understandable when we see that what defines one’s level is motivation. Motivation proceeds from meaning, and meaning, in turn, is an expression of context. Thus, achievement is bounded by context, which, when correspondingly aligned with motivation, determines the individual’s relative power. It is well to re-emphasize that the progression of the calibrated power levels is logarithmic; thus, individual choice can have a mighty effect.

Within the levels of consciousness, the higher frequencies are extremely powerful, and few people routinely experience these as pure states because they are masked by the lower energy fields of anxiety, fear, anger, resentment, and so on. Rarely does the average person get to experience, for instance, love without fear, or pure joy, much less ecstasy.

I. Real power arises from meaning. It has to do with motive, and it has to do with principle.

Power is always associated with that which supports the significance of life itself. It appeals to that in human nature which we call noble, in contrast to force, which appeals to that which we call crass. Power appeals to that which uplifts, dignifies, and ennobles.

II. Force must always be justified, whereas power requires no justification.

Force is associated with the partial, power with the whole. If we analyze the nature of force, it becomes readily apparent why it must always succumb to power; this is in accordance with one of the basic laws of physics. Because force automatically creates counter-force, its effect is limited by definition.

Power, on the other hand, stands still. It is like a standing field that does not move. Gravity itself, for instance, does not move against anything. Its power moves all objects within its field, but the gravity field itself does not move. Force always moves against something, whereas power does not move against anything. Force is intrinsically incomplete and therefore has to constantly be fed energy. Power is total and complete in and of itself and requires nothing from outside of itself. It makes no demands; it has no needs. Because force has an insatiable appetite, it constantly consumes. Power, in contrast, energizes, gives forth, supplies, and supports. Power gives life and energy. Force takes these away. We notice that power is associated with compassion and makes us feel positively about ourselves. Force is associated with judgmentalism and tends to make us feel badly about ourselves.

In looking for the source of power, we have noted that it is associated with meaning and that this meaning has to do with the significance of life itself. Force is concrete, literal, and arguable. It requires proof and support. The sources of power, however, are beyond argument and are not subject to proof. The self-evident is not arguable. That health is more important than disease, that life is more important than death, that honor is preferable to dishonor, that faith and trust are preferable to doubt and cynicism, that the constructive is preferable to the destructive—are all self-evident statements not subject to proof. Ultimately, the only thing we can say about a source of power is that it just “is.”

There is both a visible and an invisible universe.

This idea should not be daunting; many things with which we have a daily familiarity—x-rays, radio and TV waves—are not visible either. An “enfolded” universe runs parallel to the visible, “unfolded” universe, which is itself merely a manifestation of that enfolded, invisible universe. Everything in the universe is connected with everything else.

Power is that which makes you go strong, while force makes you go weak. Love, compassion, and forgiveness, which may be mistakenly seen by some as submissive, are, in fact, profoundly empowering.

Revenge, judgmentalism, and condemnation, on the other hand, inevitably make you go weak. Therefore, regardless of moral righteousness, it is a simple clinical fact that in the long run, the weak cannot prevail against the strong. That which is weak falls of its own accord. Individuals of great power throughout human history have been those who have totally aligned themselves with powerful attractors.

Again and again, they have stated that the power they manifested was not of themselves or of their own making. All attributed the source of the power to something greater than themselves.

Force is pompous; it has all the answers. Power is unassuming. Power unifies, it has no true enemies. Power serves others, whereas force is self-serving. Power is unlimited.

Everything in the universe constantly gives off an energy pattern of a specific frequency that remains for all time and can be read by those who know how. Every word, deed, and intention creates a permanent record. Every thought is known and recorded forever. There are no secrets; nothing is hidden, nor can it be.

While we are not alcoholics. The egos control can be viewed as pretty much the same.

The AA 12 step program when combined with letting go and the 4 agreements and lost lessons can work here. Actually I think it makes sense to incorporate most or all of the 12 steps into the “Owners Manual”… Again whatever works for the individual!!

https://www.aa.org/twelve-steps-twelve-traditions

Healing can be effected through the practice of principles of consciousness.

All this frequently requires the development of specific tools for the task, including an extremely focused intent and unfailing concentration. The difficulty of inner work results from the great effort required to escape from the familiar gravity of lower attractor fields and move to the influence of a higher field.

“A Course in Miracles.” The purpose of this course of spiritual psychology is to prepare the necessary groundwork to precipitate a sudden jump in consciousness through encouraging a total change of perception.

In more traditional fashion, prayer and meditation also provide points of departure to rise from the influence of a lower energy field into a higher.

The average advance in the level of consciousness throughout the global population is on the average little more than five points for a lifetime. Apparently, from untold millions of individual experiences in one’s life, usually only a few lessons are ever really learned.

The attainment of wisdom is apparently slow and painful, and few are willing to relinquish familiar, even if inaccurate, views; resistance to change or growth is considerable. It would seem that most people are willing to die rather than alter those belief systems that confine them to lower levels of consciousness.

If this is true, then what is the prognosis for the human condition? Is a five-point advance per generation all that can be expected? This troubling question deserves our attention.

On our scale of consciousness, there are two critical fulcrums that allow for major advancement. The first is at level 200, the initial level of empowerment.

Persistent willingness is the trigger that activates a new attractor field and allows one to begin to leave the old. Here arises the willingness to stop blaming and accept responsibility for one’s own actions, feelings, and beliefs. So long as cause and responsibility are projected outside of oneself, one must remain in the powerless mode of victimhood.

The second is at the 500 level, reached by accepting love and nonjudgmental forgiveness as a lifestyle, exercising unconditional kindness to all persons, things, and events without exception. (In 12-step recovery groups, it is said that there is no such thing as a justified resentment. Even if somebody “did you wrong,” you are still free to choose your response and let the resentment go.) Once one makes this commitment, they begin to experience a different, more benign world as their perceptions evolve. It is initially very challenging to understand that attitudes can alter the world one experiences and that there are numerous valid ways of experiencing it. But, as in viewing a hologram, what you see depends completely on the position from which you view it. Which position, then, is so-called “reality”? In fact, this is a holographic universe. Each point of view reflects a position defined by the viewer’s unique level of consciousness. If you are on this side of the hologram, your perception will hardly agree with that of the observer on the other side. “He must be crazy!” is a common reaction to such wide discrepancy. And the world is a set of holograms in limitless dimensions, not, as is often said, of mirrors—which are fixed in time and place and offer only a single reflection. Auditory experience also is part of a holographic series of attractor fields of all the sounds that ever were. The physical world is tactile, too. It has texture, color, dimension, and spatial relationships such as position and shape. Each of these is, again, part of an underlying sequence that, with all of the other qualities, goes back in to the “end of time” to the original source of its existence, which is now. A hologram, we might say, is in and of itself a process. There is nothing fixed in a three-dimensional hologram. And what then of a four-dimensional hologram? It would include all possible instances of itself simultaneously. To change seems to be to move through time, but if time itself is transcended, then there is no such thing as sequence. If all is now, there is nothing to follow from here to there. Each hologram is in itself an evolutionary projection from an endless nonlinear matrix of events that are not causally related, but instead synchronous. Then, at the perceptual level of 600 to 700, what was, what is, and what will be are comprehended wordlessly within the complete, simultaneous holographic possibility. The term “ineffable” here begins to take on meaning.

Perception

How, then, does perception work? What are its mechanics? That perception is subjectively unique is evidenced by common observation. We are all familiar with the example of a mock trial in law school, wherein different witnesses relate wildly divergent accounts of the same event. The mechanism of perception is like a movie theater in which the projector is consciousness itself. The forms on the film emulsion are the attractor energy patterns, and the moving pictures on the screen are the world that we perceive and call “reality.”

We could say that the configurations on the film are the ABC attractor fields in the mind, and the moving pictures on the screen are the A→B→C, which is observed as the phenomenal world. This schema provides a model for a better understanding of the nature of causality, which occurs on the level of the film, but not on the level of the screen. Because the world routinely applies its efforts to the screen of life at the level of A→B→C, these endeavors are ineffectual and costly. Causality stems from the attractor patterns of levels of energy, the ABCs of the configurations imprinted on the film of mind, which are then illuminated by the light of consciousness. The nature of the stream of consciousness, its patterns of thought, perception, feeling, and memory, are the consequence of entrainment of the attractor energy field by which it is dominated.

It is well to remember that this domination is volitional. It is not imposed, but is the outcome of one’s own choices, beliefs, and goals.

By consent we synchronize with a field pattern that implies specific styles of processing and influences all our decisions according to its accompanying set of values and meanings. What appears as important and exciting from the perspective of one level might be boring or even repulsive at another level; truth is subjective. That fact can be seen as frightening.

The current elevation of science to the status of infallible oracle is an expression of our insecure compulsion to feel that there is some kind of a measurable, universally predictable, objective world “out there” upon which we can truly rely. But in transcending the emotional distortions of perception, science itself creates yet another conceptual distortion due to the limitation of its parameters. Science must of necessity remove data from context in order to study it, but in the end, it is only the context that gives the data its whole significance, value, or meaning. The eventual discovery arrived at by advanced theoretical physics can be reached from any organized field of human knowledge. The more detailed one’s analysis of the structure of what is supposedly “out there,” the more one discovers that what one is examining is, in fact, the nature of the intricate processes of consciousness which are actually originating from within.

There is actually nothing “out there,” other than consciousness itself. The habitual tendency to believe otherwise is a fundamental illusion, a vanity of the human mind, which tends always to view its transitory subject as “mine.” Objectively, it can be seen that thoughts really belong to the consciousness of the world; the individual mind merely processes them in new combinations and permutations.

What seem to be truly original thoughts appear only through the medium of genius and are invariably felt by their authors to be found or given, not created. It may be the case that we are each unique, as no two snowflakes are alike; however, we are still just snowflakes. We all inherit the human condition of mind in our seemingly unasked-for birth. To transcend the limitations of the mind, it is necessary to dethrone it from its tyranny as sole arbiter of reality. The mind’s vanity confers its imprimatur of authenticity on the movie of life that it happens to view; the mind’s very nature is to convince us that its unique view of experience is the genuine article.

Each individual secretly feels that their experience of the world is the only true and accurate one. In our discussion of the levels of consciousness, we noted that one of the downsides of Pride is denial. Every mind engages in denial in order to protect its supposed “correctness.” This begets the fixity and resistance to change that prevents the average consciousness from advancing much more than five points in a lifetime. Great leaps in level of consciousness are always preceded by surrender of the illusion that “I know.” Frequently, the only way one can reach this willingness to change is when one “hits bottom,” that is, by running out a course of action to its end in the defeat of a futile belief system. Light cannot enter a closed box; the upside of catastrophe can be an opening to a higher level of awareness.

If life is viewed as a teacher, it then becomes just that. Unless the painful lessons of life with which we deal are transformed through humility into gateways of growth and development, they are wasted. We witness, we observe, we record apparent processions of experiences. But even in awareness itself, nothing actually happens. Awareness merely registers what is being experienced; it has no effect on it. Awareness is the all-encompassing attractor field of unlimited power identical with life itself. There is nothing the mind believes that is not fallacious at a higher level of awareness. The mind identifies with its content. It takes credit and blame for what it believes, for it would be humbling to the mind’s vanity to admit that the only thing it is doing is experiencing, and, in fact, it is only experiencing experiencing itself. The mind does not even experience the world, but only sensory reports of it.

Even brilliant thoughts and deepest feelings are only experiences;

We have but one function: to experience experiencing

The major limitation of consciousness is its innocence.

Consciousness is gullible; it believes everything it hears.

Consciousness is like hardware that will play back any software you put into it. We never lose the innate innocence of our own consciousness; it persists, naïve and trusting, like an impressionable child.

Its only guardian is a discerning awareness that scrutinizes the incoming program. Over the ages, it has been noted that merely observing the mind tends to increase one’s level of consciousness.

A mind that is being watched becomes more humble and begins to relinquish its claims to omniscience. A growth in awareness can then take place. With humility comes the capacity to laugh at oneself and increasingly to be less the victim of the mind and more its master, as demonstrated by the famous Zen ox-herding pictures.

From thinking that we “are” our minds, we begin to see that we “have” minds, and that it is the mind that has thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and opinions. Eventually, we may arrive at the insight that all our thoughts are merely borrowed from the great database of consciousness and were never really our own to begin with.

How does one know what is being experienced by the mind? By observation and introspection, one can witness that thoughts have no capacity to experience themselves, but that something both beyond and more basic than thought experiences the sequence of thoughts, and that its sense of identity is unaltered by the content of the thoughts.

It is consciousness itself that is both awareness and the source of experiencing. Both are purely subjective.

Identification solely with the content of consciousness accounts for the experience of self as limited. In contrast, to identify with consciousness itself is to know that one’s actual self is unlimited.

When circumscribed self-identifications have been surmounted so that the sense of self is identified as consciousness itself, the condition is called “enlightened.”

The experience of pure consciousness is a perception of timelessness (or timelessness of perception). Consciousness is experienced as beyond all form and time and seen as everywhere equally present. It is described as “Is-ness” or “Beingness” and, in the spiritual literature, “I-am-ness.”5 Consciousness does not recognize separation, which is the consequence of a limitation of perception. The enlightened state is of a “Oneness” in which there is no division into separate parts. Such division is only apparent from a localized perception; it is really only incidental to a fixed point of view.

Another attribute of pure consciousness is cessation of the ordinary flow of thought or feeling. There is also a condition of the presence of infinite power, infinite compassion, gentleness, and love. In this state, the personal self becomes the Infinite Self. There is an accompanying recognition of the very origin of the capacity to experience self as Self. This awareness of self as Self is the culmination of the process of eliminating limited identifications.

Truth is whatever is subjectively convincing at one’s current level of perception. At the lower levels of consciousness, propositions are accepted as true even when they are illogical, unfounded, and express tenets neither intellectually provable nor practically demonstrable.

Thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs, particularly those ingrained in our subconscious minds, can directly impact our cellular function and, consequently, our overall health and personal growth.

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The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles (2005)

I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. – Bruce Lipton…

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Breaking old Agreements or Beliefs

The law of life is belief. What do you believe about yourself, life, and the universe? It is done unto you, as you think. Belief is a thought in your mind, which causes the power of your subconscious to be distributed into all phases of your life according to your thinking habits. The belief of your mind is simply the thought of your mind.

The real purpose of this world is to correct your unbelief.

You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you made fear, and you believe in what you made.

In attitude, then, though not in content, you resemble your Creator, who has perfect faith in His creations because He created them.

Belief produces the acceptance of existence. That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. It is true for you because it was made by you. All aspects of fear are untrue because they do not exist at the creative level, and therefore do not exist at all. To whatever extent you are willing to submit your beliefs to this test, to that extent are your perceptions corrected.

In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines: Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is no perfect love. But: Only perfect love exists. If there is fear, it produces a state that does not exist. Believe this and you will be free. We emphasize application rather than theory, and experience rather than theology.

• The purpose is to train your mind systematically to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. This should help you generalize the lessons, so that you will understand that each of them is equally applicable to everyone and everything you see.

• Transfer of training in true perception does not proceed as does transfer of the training of the world.

Transition, you see, from one state of consciousness to another state of consciousness has requirements. And the release of the things that would anchor you to the old, bind you to the old, mandate that the old maintains itself, are the things that will now be brought to light.

• It will be the unlearning of old ways/habits that will be the most difficult. All of this will require effort on your part.

• If TRUE perception has been achieved in connection with any person, situation, or event, total transfer to everyone and everything is certain. The very nature of true perception is that it has no limits. It is the opposite of the way you see it now.

• On the other hand, one exception held apart from true perception makes its accomplishments anywhere impossible.

Some of the ideas presented you will find hard to do at first, even actively resisting. You are merely asked to apply the ideas in your daily life. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true. Always try your best, then keep repeating it, till it becomes embedded in your subconscious. Over time, SEEING the results, you will come to realize and know the one true law of Love.

It is a process that changes the view of the self. It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as anything. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your “seeing” was made. This is the function you have given your body’s eyes.

• It is not seeing.

• It is image making.

It takes the place of seeing, replacing vision with illusions.

You must learn to: Think with your heart-mind, SEE with God's vision, which is also your true self's vision. When not in the human body it’s your true energy and who you really are and your true Knowing… The temporary body is just for learning and experiencing the 5 senses…

… to reprogram your mind

Beliefs create physical responses in the body by triggering the release of chemicals that affect cellular behavior. When we hold a belief, whether positive or negative, it generates electromagnetic and chemical signals that influence our cells' growth or protection responses. These signals can activate or inhibit specific genes and affect cellular function.

The power of beliefs is demonstrated through both placebo and nocebo effects, where positive or negative expectations can create corresponding biological responses. This occurs because our beliefs generate real physiological changes at the cellular level through the mind-body connection.

• The Mind-Body Connection: The mind (energy) and body (matter) are entangled and cannot be separated, as traditional Western medicine has often attempted to do. The mind, operating through the central nervous system, can send signals that override local stimuli from the body. Research on cloned endothelial cells as an analogy, shows how adrenaline signals from the central nervous system (representing the mind) can override histamine signals produced locally in the body. Similarly, thoughts, which are energy, can influence the physical brain and control bodily functions, leading to the placebo effect.

• The Primacy of the Environment: Challenge the central dogma of biology, which places DNA as the controlling force in our bodies. Introduce the concept of epigenetics, emphasizing that environmental signals, including our thoughts and beliefs, can select, modify, and regulate gene activity. Therefore, our perceptions of the world, whether accurate or not, directly impact our biology.

• The Power of Belief: Placebos work because of the power of belief. If a patient believes a treatment will work, it can trigger physiological changes that lead to healing. This principle is not limited to placebos; positive thoughts, in general, can have a profound effect on behavior and genes. Conversely, the nocebo effect demonstrates that negative beliefs can be equally powerful, leading to a decline in health. Cite the case of Sam Londe, who died with, but not from, cancer, suggesting that his belief in the inevitable recurrence of his cancer may have contributed to his death.

• Subconscious Programming: Much of our behavior and beliefs are programmed into our subconscious minds, often during childhood. These programs can undermine our conscious efforts to change, even if we try to employ positive thinking. The subconscious mind, being more powerful than the conscious mind, can sabotage our best intentions. Lipton emphasizes the need to address and reprogram these subconscious beliefs to fully harness the power of the mind for healing.

The conscious mind processes about 40 bits of information per second and represents our awareness and voluntary thinking processes. In contrast, the subconscious mind processes approximately 40 million bits per second and controls our automatic behaviors and deeply held beliefs. This vast difference in processing power makes the subconscious mind far more influential in controlling our daily behaviors and responses.

While the conscious mind can actively create new ideas and intentions, the subconscious mind operates like a programmed computer, automatically playing out learned behaviors and beliefs. These subconscious programs, largely installed during early childhood, often override conscious intentions, explaining why conscious efforts at change often fail without addressing subconscious programming.

• Mind-Body Entanglement: The mind and body are not separate entities but are fundamentally entangled. The mind, operating through the central nervous system, can send signals that override the body's normal physiological processes. Just as positive thoughts can trigger healing, negative thoughts can create a stress response in the body, leading to a decline in health.

• The Power of Belief: Beliefs control biology. Our perceptions, whether they are true or false, have a direct impact on our physical well-being. Negative beliefs act like a filter, coloring our perception of the world and shaping our biology. These beliefs, often acquired during childhood and stored in our subconscious mind, can sabotage our health even when we consciously try to employ positive thinking.

• The Subconscious Mind: The immense power of the subconscious mind, is far more powerful than the conscious mind. The subconscious mind operates as a stimulus-response mechanism, playing back previously recorded beliefs and behaviors without question. When these subconscious programs are negative, they can undermine our conscious efforts to improve our health.

The subconscious mind contains deeply embedded beliefs and behavioral programs acquired primarily during early childhood. These programs operate automatically and can either support or undermine conscious intentions for health and personal development. The subconscious processes millions of bits of information per second, far more than the conscious mind, making it the dominant force in controlling behavior and biological responses.

Understanding the role of the subconscious is crucial because attempting to create change through conscious willpower alone often fails when subconscious programming runs counter to conscious desires. This explains why lasting personal transformation requires addressing and reprogramming limiting subconscious beliefs.

During the first six years of life, children's brains predominantly operate at lower frequencies (delta and theta waves), making them highly receptive to programming from their environment. This state allows for rapid downloading of information about their world, similar to a computer being programmed. During this period, children absorb beliefs and behaviors from their surroundings without critical filtering.

This developmental stage serves as a natural learning system that enables children to quickly adapt to their specific environment. However, it also means that limiting beliefs and negative programming can be deeply embedded during this period, potentially affecting behavior and biology throughout life.

• The Importance of Positive Beliefs: The importance of cultivating positive beliefs and hope, even in the face of challenging circumstances. Encourage the patient to focus on stories of spontaneous remissions and miraculous recoveries, reminding them that the body has an incredible ability to heal itself when given the right conditions.

• Reprogramming the Subconscious Mind: Work to reprogram limiting beliefs held in the subconscious mind. These subconscious programs, often acquired during childhood, can sabotage our best efforts to heal, even when we consciously try to think positive thoughts. Suggest techniques like PSYCH-K or other energy-based psychological methods to help rewrite these negative programs and empower the patient to embrace a more positive outlook.

• The Mind-Body Connection: The mind and body are not separate entities but are intimately connected. The mind, operating through the central nervous system, can send signals that influence the body's physiological processes. By harnessing the power of the mind through positive beliefs, visualization, and other techniques, the patient can potentially activate the body's innate healing mechanisms and influence their outcomes.

Love:

Love creates a biochemical environment that promotes cellular growth and repair. When organisms experience love and positive emotions, they shift into growth mode rather than protection mode, allowing optimal function of immune systems, repair mechanisms, and other vital processes. This biological response to love demonstrates why positive relationships are crucial for health.

The absence of love, particularly in early development, can trigger chronic protection responses that inhibit growth and lead to physical and psychological problems. This explains why loving environments are essential for healthy development and why isolation and lack of positive connection can contribute to illness.

Quantum physics reveals that consciousness and matter are interconnected aspects of the same reality. At the quantum level, the observer cannot be separated from the observed, suggesting that consciousness plays a fundamental role in shaping physical reality. This understanding helps explain how thoughts and beliefs can directly influence biological processes.

This quantum perspective provides a scientific framework for understanding phenomena that cannot be explained by classical physics, such as the mind-body connection and the effects of consciousness on healing. It suggests that consciousness is not simply a product of brain activity but a fundamental aspect of reality.

• Energy as the Foundation: Energy, rather than matter, is the primary driving force in the universe. Quantum physics has demonstrated that matter is actually made up of energy, a fact that has profound implications for understanding health and disease.

• Beyond Newtonian Biology: Conventional biomedicine's reliance on a purely Newtonian, matter-based model of the body. This model, is outdated and fails to account for the significant role that energy plays in biological processes.

• Energy Fields and Health: Energy fields, such as electromagnetic frequencies, profoundly impact biological regulation. They influence cellular activities, including DNA and protein synthesis, gene regulation, and even nerve function.

• Efficiency of Energy Signaling: Research shows that energetic signaling mechanisms are much more efficient than physical signals like hormones and neurotransmitters. This superior efficiency highlights the importance of energy in coordinating the trillions of cells in the human body.

• Eastern Medicine's Wisdom: Eastern medical systems, such as Traditional Chinese Medicine, have long recognized the importance of energy in health. Practices like acupuncture, which manipulate energy flow along meridians, as examples of energy medicine that have been effective for centuries.

• Scientific Validation: Lipton argues that while conventional medicine has largely ignored energy medicine, there's growing scientific evidence to support its efficacy. He cites research on:

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS): which uses magnetic fields to treat depression and alter cognition.

  • Electrotherapy: which has a history of use in medicine, though it fell into disrepute due to lack of scientific understanding at the time.

  • Non-invasive scanning technologies: such as CAT scans, MRIs, and PET scans, which demonstrate medicine's acceptance of energy fields in diagnosis.

• The Power of Belief: Lipton's concept of the "belief effect" further underscores the importance of energy in healing. Our beliefs, whether positive or negative, can impact our biology and health outcomes. Energy medicine often works by shifting beliefs and perceptions, thus influencing the body's energy fields.

Examples of Energy Medicine:

several examples, including:

• Acupuncture:

• Chiropractic:

• Energy psychology techniques: such as PSYCH-K

• Sound healing: implied through the discussion of harmonic resonance

• Light therapy: implied through the discussion of vibrational energy fields

Advocate for a more holistic approach to medicine, one that integrates the principles of quantum physics and the understanding of energy fields alongside conventional biomedical knowledge. Energy medicine holds immense potential for safe and effective healing, offering an alternative to the often-limited and side-effect-laden pharmaceutical model.

Quantum physics reveals that matter and energy are interchangeable and that consciousness can influence physical reality at the subatomic level. This understanding provides a scientific framework for how thoughts and beliefs can directly affect biological processes through energy fields that influence cellular behavior.

The quantum perspective shows that cells respond to both physical molecules and invisible energy fields, explaining how mental states can create physical changes in the body. This mechanism operates through the interference patterns of energy waves, which can either enhance or inhibit cellular functions.

Cellular awareness, demonstrated through membrane protein responses to environmental signals, represents a fundamental form of consciousness. This basic awareness evolved into more complex forms of consciousness as organisms developed more sophisticated ways to process environmental information.

Human consciousness represents an advanced form of this cellular awareness, operating through the same basic principles of environmental signal processing but at a more complex level through our nervous system.

Energy signals, including electromagnetic fields, provide faster and more efficient biological communication than chemical signals. Research shows that cells can respond to energy fields at speeds far exceeding chemical diffusion rates.

This energy-based communication explains how thoughts and emotions can create instant biological responses throughout the body, and why energy-based healing methods can be effective in promoting health.

Spiritual awareness represents recognition of the fundamental interconnectedness revealed by cellular biology and quantum physics. At the cellular level, we see that all organisms are comprised of similar components and respond to the same universal energy fields.

This biological understanding provides scientific support for spiritual concepts about unity and interconnectedness, suggesting that spirituality and science are complementary ways of understanding the same reality.

Perception

Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore, to you it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos.

Vibration

Everything in the Universe has an electromagnetic field and an electromagnetic frequency. Including thoughts and feelings.

• Everything you feel, whether good or bad, determines the frequency you vibrate, and you attract people, events and circumstances that vibrate at the same frequency.

• If you change the frequency of your vibration on a given day by changing the way you feel, everything around you will change, because you will be vibrating at a new frequency.

• You can change something bad that has happened in your life. It’s never too late because you can change the way you feel about it.

• Many people put their feelings on autopilot. Their feelings are the reaction to what happens to them. However, they don’t realize that their feelings are the cause of what happens to them.

• To change something, whether it’s about your health, your money, your relationships, or any other aspect of your life, you have to change the way you feel about it.

• Blaming, criticizing, pointing out faults, and complaining are all forms of negativity, and all this brings only conflict into your life.

• Remove words like terrible, horrible, unpleasant, hideous from your vocabulary. Use more words like fantastic, wonderful, fabulous, brilliant and splendid.

• Even if you only have 51% good thoughts and feelings throughout the day, you rebalance your life.

• Every day is an opportunity for a new life. Every day you are facing a turning point in your life. And with just one day, you can change the future by changing the way you feel.

― Buddha

Unlearning is the Hard Part

Beliefs are the Roadmap to Permanent Change or Transformation. Think about your beliefs, they form your thoughts thus your feelings, opinions, or perspectives on every subject, situation, or relationship. If a belief or anything that doesn’t start and end in love or goodness, it needs to be examined to see if you want it as a part of your belief system. At some point you must examine a lot of your beliefs that were instilled as child. Do they represent the you that you want to be. If you believe something, it becomes a part of your subconscious. Look at it and if a belief is needed to change this is the fastest way it will change into a habit. Your subconscious is your automatic responses when you are being in the present.

WHO do you want to be, how do you want to respond, how do you want to live life and love?

To keep on track. The best thing to do is a nightly life review of your day. Look at all your actions, words, and attitudes were they from the real you? Were they from your heart and intentions of love or goodness? Viw to do better next time.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again. ~Wayne W. Dyer

For this is a course on love

To learn this course requires a 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. Everyone has the power to dictate each decision you make. 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. There is no substitute for peace. What God creates has no alternative. The truth arises from what He knows. And your decisions come from your beliefs as certainly as all creation rose in His Mind because of what He knows.

Love is an extension. To withhold the smallest gift is not to know love’s purpose. Love offers everything forever. Hold back but one belief, one offering, and love is gone, because you asked a substitute to take its place. And now must war, the substitute for peace, come with the one alternative that you can choose for love. Your choosing it has given it all the reality it seems to have. The ego is a projection.

The real purpose of this world is to use it to correct your unbelief. You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you made fear, and you believe in what you made. In attitude, then, though not in content, you resemble your Creator, Who has perfect faith in His creations because He created them. Belief produces the acceptance of existence. That is why you can believe what no one else thinks is true. It is true for you because it was made by you.

Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible. But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict are kept unknown and never brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not. And many senseless outcomes have been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs now given power to direct all subsequent decisions.

What is real? You know what is real when you accept what is not real.

The following is from: the 5th Agreement, Read it…

The process of unlearning takes you to a place where there’s no longer a judge and a victim in your story. It’s just a story, and you know it’s your creation, but it’s just as if it’s happening to somebody else. You see all the stories; you see all the symbols; you see how people play with all of that, but it does not affect you. It doesn’t offend you, because you are completely immune. You see faces, you love the faces, but you are also aware that something doesn’t belong in your dream.

It’s the personal dream that other artists are dreaming, and you have complete respect for their dream, for their creation.

Respect is a beautiful word, and it’s one of the most important symbols that we can understand. Imagine that you had never heard the word before, and let’s make it up and agree on a meaning, because just like any other symbol, we need to agree on the symbol or it won’t work for us. Respect, like many of the symbols, begins with ourselves, and then it goes out to everyone and everything around us. If we don’t respect ourselves, how can we respect anyone or anything else?

When you respect yourself, this means you accept yourself just the way you are. When you respect other people, this means you accept them just the way they are. When you respect everything in nature — the animals, the oceans, the atmosphere, the earth — this means you accept the entire creation just the way it is. When we arrived in this world, everything was already created. It wasn’t our choice to see what had to be created or not. It was done, and we respect it. Can we do it better? Maybe, but I don’t think so. Then respect is about the complete acceptance of everything that exists just the way it is, not the way we want it to be. This is more or less one meaning of the word respect.

Knowing is NOT the act of the intellect. The intellect will confuse, and seek to employ every opportunity to figure out or understand so that it can achieve a sense of control over what is not controllable.

Realization is a product of thought and agreement.

When you know something, inherently know something, there is an equivalence to knowing. Realization and Knowing are the same thing.

Do NOT mistake your thinking for knowing…..

An idea is malleable. An idea can be changed. When the idea of a thing is changed, a thing is changed itself,

Mastery of Transformation

The major tool we use to develop Mastery of Transformation besides stalking is the inventory (which is also called the recapitulation).

Inventory

I think of the inventory as an art of dreaming, and the art of the eagle. We use our memory to go into our past and recover it. Therefore, we would say that the inventory is about the past, whereas stalking is about the present.

The inventory review is part of the Mastery of Transformation which challenges our belief system. The inventory is a review of one's belief system (which we have already described as the Book of Hell) where we have stored everything that we know. In making this review, the warrior recapitulates everything he believes. Miguel's students are instructed to make frequent personal inventories.

When one knows who he is, one speaks the truth.

• One does not seek to defend one’s position.

• One honors the other before her and does not dishonor herself.

When you recognize that how you’ve lived your life thus far was exactly as you could with the tools that you had, with the learning that you were given, you can ask yourself, “How could I have done better?”

The purpose of the exercise is to recover one's free will. The inventory is your armament when you challenge your Parasite. The Parasite is a composite made of your beliefs, with the Judge and the Victim (the ego)within your mind. Look at your dream of life. Be honest with yourself. Are you happy or not? Your inventory will be based on the concept of happiness. The closer you are to happiness, the closer you are to the dream of heaven on earth. The inventory is your armament when you challenge your Parasite. The Parasite is a composite made of your belief system(book of hell), the Judge, and the Victim within your mind. Look at your dream of life. Be honest with yourself. Are you happy or not? Your inventory will be based on the concept of happiness. The closer you are to happiness, the closer you are to the dream of heaven on earth. Remember that your beliefs were given to you; you did not choose them. The beliefs that make you happy are worthy of being retained. The beliefs that cause you unhappiness can be reviewed and altered.

Your goal is to reprogram your beliefs to achieve freedom from fear. Free will is our right to make our own decisions. When we behave as warriors, by using our free will, we have a second chance to choose what to believe. The problem we face is that our old belief system penetrates our entire mind. When we make our first review of our belief system, we do not see any space for new beliefs, but we make space for new beliefs each time we transform an existing belief. The inventory is a very old practice from the Toltecs. It is a recapitulation of your whole life, of whatever has happened to you. It allows you to let go of all those beliefs that create your dream of hell. An inventory is not an examination of conscience. There is no Judge nor Victim. It is a review of feelings.

The Ego Thought System

Remember that your beliefs were given to you; you did not choose them. For several years after birth, the child is still free like a wild animal. It is not domesticated yet and therefore it has not accepted the dream that is passed to it by its family, religion, and culture.

As the child is domesticated, the development of its mind comes through emotions caused by punishment and reward. Gradually, the child learns all the rules of the system it inherits. It learns to behave in a certain way. It absorbs the dream of its society, but it does not choose the dream. Domesticated youths usually rebel against the dream imposed on them. They are no longer innocent. In the Westernized culture that dominates the earth, young people see violence everywhere. Violence is fashionable. Humans are domesticated animals.

Before we were born, the dream of the planet already existed, with all of its rules, beliefs, and hopes. In the dream, they are there waiting for the new humans to grow up and develop their minds to continue to control the dream.

A pure, normal human being would still be free, as he or she was in childhood before domestication, at the approximate age of one-and-a-half to three years of age. At that age, the child has developed enough mind to understand the abstract and to control language enough to communicate with other humans. However, the process of education has not yet taken place. This little human follows the normal tendency to play, explore, laugh, and enjoy life. Almost all the child's emotions come from love unless he is angry or in pain. This little human is free to be and he lives in the present. He does not worry about the past. He is not worried about the future.

Adults live constantly in the past and they are so worried in their effort to build their future that they avoid living in the present. For the adult, all the dramas of life are serious, but for the child, nothing is really that important.

The dream waits to teach the small child how to join the old dream of the planet. Our parents, older brothers and sisters, our teachers, the school, religion, society, and the media all contribute to keeping the dream of the planet alive through domestication.

For several years after birth, the child is still free like a wild animal. It is not domesticated yet and therefore it has not accepted the dream that is passed to it by its family, religion, and culture. As the child is domesticated, the development of its mind comes through emotions caused by punishment and reward. Gradually, the child learns all the rules of the system it inherits. It learns to behave in a certain way. It absorbs the dream of its society, but it does not choose the dream.

Domestication comes through reward and punishment. Mom and Dad domesticated us just the way they were domesticated. They introduced us to the concepts of good and bad, by rewarding the good and punishing the bad. It is not that it is wrong it’s just how we are taught and learned. We struggle to be worthy of it in the eyes of our parents, our teachers and friends, and society itself. Many times during the day as we grow up, we are subject to the judgment of others and to the polarities that our society supports, such as right and wrong, beautiful and ugly. Soon, we begin making our judgments.

Domestication has become so strong that we no longer need anyone to domesticate us because we take over the task of our domestication by punishing ourselves and occasionally by rewarding ourselves. Three components in our mind are actively engaged in our self-domestication.

1. The Judge is that part of our mind that judges what we do, and what we do not do, what we feel and do not feel, what we think and what we do not think, and it also judges everything and everyone.

2. The Victim receives the judgment and usually, the Judge finds the Victim guilty. The Victim needs to be punished. The Victim part of our mind feels unworthy and repeats over and over again, "I am not good enough, nor intelligent, nor strong, nor beautiful enough. I am a loser. Why should I try?"

3. The third part of the mind involved in the judgment process is the belief system we have been taught which includes all the rules on how to live our lives. The belief system is a kind of constitution or holy book where everything that we believe without discussion is our truth. I call this belief system the Book of Hell. The inner Judge bases all judgments on the belief system.

Once we recognize this, we see that there is no justice in our minds. If there were justice, we would pay for each of our mistakes once, but our Judge makes us pay a thousand times. We pay when we make a mistake when we remember the mistake, or when anyone reminds us of the mistake. Each time, the Judge finds our Victim guilty and punishes us again. This is the Ego thought system.

• The beliefs that make you happy are worthy of being retained.

• The beliefs that cause you unhappiness can be reviewed and altered.

Our goal is to reprogram our beliefs, our minds, or software, to achieve freedom from fear. To become aware or conscious of our actions in real-time. To change our programming so love becomes our unconscious automatic response, not fear-based, automatic, unconscious reactions. Not to react to the past learned habits. To create new improved habits, based on real love.

• To make every intention based on love, not fear. What is the spirit? I call it Intent. Intent, is love, spirit, life, God ... these are names for the same energy. A property of this energy is that it makes possible any change, any transformation. God is intent. God is spirit. We are a very small part of this energy. What is eternal is our consciousness, which is made of this energy.

• The goal is to minimize the ego to switch to God's Love Throught System

• First to be aware of the ego thought system

• To see it first in others

• Second, to see it in yourself

• Then the want and will to control the ego for your lifetime

• A never-ending fight against it. Taking great willpower.

A Never-Ending War

The inner Judge bases all judgments on the belief system. Once we recognize this, we see that there is no justice in our minds. If there were justice, we would pay for each of our mistakes once, but our Judge makes us pay a thousand times. We pay when we make a mistake when we remember the mistake, or when anyone reminds us of the mistake. Each time, the Judge finds our Victim guilty and punishes us again.

Our belief system comes to us from society during the period of domestication. We absorb it from our family, school, and religion. At no time does the small child have a choice of what to believe. Throughout the domestication process, the small child rebels, but he lacks the power to change anything. We also rebel as teenagers when we are searching for our identity. At this crucial time in our lives, we see how the belief system represses our normal human instincts and how adults manipulate young people. The amount upon how much resistance we meet during our teenage rebellion will affect our future self-esteem. We might find some support and become a success in life, or we might succumb to fear.

The (ego)Judge, the Victim, and the belief system or Book of Hell are together a Parasite in our mind. The Parasite is a living being made from ethereal energy. To survive, the Parasite feeds on emotions that are created by the human brain. These are emotions that come from fear, anger, sadness, depression, jealousy, and victimhood. The Parasite controls the dream. It creates a dream of fear, a nightmare, to control the brain which is the factory of emotions. The Parasite controls the production of those human emotions that are necessary for its survival. At the same time, the brain stops producing the emotions it needs for the growth of the soul, which are the emotions that come from love. The Parasite functions in a similar way to a virus that attacks a cell. The virus controls the reproduction of the cell so that it cannot produce the properties it needs for the cell's growth. Instead, it produces what the virus needs for its growth. The virus lives at the expense of the cell, and it damages the cell little by little until it is destroyed. We see all around us that human beings are engaged in self-destructive behavior. This is the outward sign of the self-destructive mind controlled by the Parasite.

The Toltecs were aware of the Parasite's existence and they knew that humans had only two choices regarding this invasive force.

One choice is to surrender to the (ego)Parasite. But the other choice is similar to that made by the little child and the teenager-rebel, declare war against the Parasite and declare the freedom to be oneself, to have one's dream, to use one's mind, to create the emotions that feed the real person we are. The Toltecs, of course, chose to rebel. That is why they are called warriors. This is the real meaning of a warrior. A warrior is a human who has the awareness of the Parasite in his or her mind and declares war on the Parasite for self-healing. The importance of the war is not to win or to lose, but to try. It becomes the purpose of life to replace chaos with order. This is the Way of the Warrior.

Impeccability is the correct use of any kind of energy. By practicing impeccability, you can store up enough power to break your agreements. Use expands your power.

Everything we do is based on agreements. An agreement is a binding force and it magnetizes energy to itself which adds to its strength and apparent correctness. The dream is based on agreements and so is suffering. Most agreements are limitations on ourselves.

The inventory brings up our awareness of how we react in certain ways. We can then work out a way to break old, limiting agreements.

Our dream and our position in that dream are the results of what we believe we are. This belief is controlled by emotions, not by reason. Reason feels victimized because our experiences are not logical. Everything we experience has an emotional component. We react emotionally, for example, to beauty. The emotional body has only one purpose and that is to feel. The intellect interprets what we feel and attempts to justify our emotional reactions. The intellect tries to repress the emotional body and to cover our wounds with lies to avoid pain. In this way, we develop our denial system. We begin denying our experiences as a little child when we react to what we consider to be injustices. The interaction between the emotional body and the intellect creates a growing conflict and a lack of self-acceptance. Mainly, we don't accept our emotions. Particularly in Western society, we are embarrassed by our emotions and we often deny them. When we are alone, we really believe in the image of what we think we are. This image is not real. It is a part of our dream. It carries the guilt and blame that are remnants of our domestication process. Many of us hate ourselves so much that we cannot enjoy life. To be honest with ourselves and to uncover the lies we have been taught to believe takes courage.

The process of opening our wounds is painful, but this is what the Master of Transformation does when he or she stalks. When we are awake, the art of stalking consists of always being alert to our thoughts, actions, and reactions. The novice begins by focusing inward. We always begin with ourselves. From this self-study, we can understand others who are doing the same thing we are doing based on their own belief system. When we are asleep, the art of stalking gives us control over the dream of life. We can become dream masters.

We become the REAL creator, producer, and director of your movie.

The Ego: acting and thinking from the unconscious

In the ordinary dream of most humans, the ego's belief system controls our original or First Attention. And because our personal power, our will, is weak, anyone can hook our attention and insert an opinion in our mind. The degree the ego holds on to you depends on parents, faith, social factors, personality, etc……

The Warrior: Attention and Awareness

Dream of the 2nd Attention

Having the desire to change, developing the will in action: The will, or intent, is the force that can move what exists, or change the direction of what exists. Willingness! The will is what holds the attention and moves the attention. Once we have enough power that we can use our will, we gain control of the attention. Then we can finally gain control of our beliefs and win the war for control of our dream. Try, try, try…. Practice, practice, practice

The Dream Master

THE Master of love or intent. In the dream of the third attention, we are not putting our attention on life. We are life, we are the force, we are intent, and intent controls the attention. The dream of the third attention is the dream of pure intent. We become aware that we are life — not just as a concept, but as an action, as complete awareness. Now we can see with the eyes of truth or God, and this is a completely different point of view. In the dream of the masters, we are aware that to make a choice is to have power in our hands. We control our whole dream by making choices.

Every choice has consequences, and a dream master is aware of the consequences. Making a choice can open many doors, and close many other doors. Not making a choice is also a choice that we can make. By making choices, we can master the art of dreaming and create the most beautiful life.

Anybody can be a great dream artist, but the mastery comes when we have complete control over our dream, which means we recover control of our own attention. When we master attention, we really master intent, which means we have complete control over our choices. The dream of our life is going to go wherever we want to take it.

The first time you learn how to dream, your belief system creates millions of little barriers to the truth. When the structure of your belief system is no longer there, you take away the barriers, and you no longer see only one point of view. There are many points of view that you can see at the same time. You see yourself not just from the point of view of a human, but from the point of view of a force. You see yourself not just as a force, but as the manifestation of that force. You know that you are light, that you are just an image in the light, and you use your attention to witness the dream from the point of view of light. You no longer see everything outside of you as if it’s separate from you. You feel the totality of yourself in everything. You feel yourself as the only living being that exists, and you don’t just feel it; you know it. As we said before, you understand what you are, but not with words. You don’t need symbols. If you use symbols to understand what you are, you can get lost in the symbols while trying to understand yourself.~5thAgreement

Beliefs make up your unconscious habits. Changing your thoughts and attitude, changes your beliefs which are part of your subconscious habits. Intentions of love, not attacking or defending.

Most of the following is from A Course in Miracles

Salvation is for the mind, and it is attained through peace. This is the only thing that can be saved and the only way to save it. Any response other than love arises from confusion about the “what” and the “how” of salvation, and this is the only answer. Never lose sight of this, and never allow yourself to believe, even for an instant, that there is another answer. For you will surely place yourself among the poor, who do not understand that they dwell in abundance and that salvation has come.

To identify with the ego is to attack yourself and make yourself poor. That is why everyone who identifies with the ego feels deprived. What he experiences then is depression or anger, because what he did was exchange Self-love for self-hate, making him afraid of himself. He does not realize this. Even if he is fully aware of anxiety he does not perceive its source as his ego identification, and he always tries to handle it by making some sort of insane “arrangement” with the world. He always perceives this world as outside himself, for this is crucial to his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes this world, for there is no world outside of him.

If only the loving thoughts of God’s Son are the world’s reality, the real world must be in his mind.

Guilt

You are invulnerable because you are guiltless. You can hold on to the past only through guilt. Guilt establishes that you will be punished for what you have done, and thus depends on one-dimensional time, proceeding from past to future. No one who believes this can understand what “always” means, and therefore guilt must deprive you of the appreciation of eternity.

You are immortal because you are eternal, and “always” must be now. Guilt, then, is a way of holding the past and future in your mind to ensure the ego’s continuity. For if what has been will be punished, the ego’s continuity is guaranteed. Yet the guarantee of your continuity is God’s, not the ego’s. And immortality is the opposite of time, for time passes away, while immortality is constant.

Accepting the Atonement teaches you what immortality is, for by accepting your guiltlessness you learn that the past has never been, and so the future is needless and will not be. The future, in time, is always associated with expiation, and only guilt could induce a sense of the need for expiation. Accepting the guiltlessness of the Son of God as yours is, therefore, God’s way of reminding you of His Son, and what he is in truth. For God has never condemned His Son, and being guiltless he is eternal.

The ego teaches you to attack yourself because you are guilty, and this must increase the guilt, for guilt is the result of attack. In the ego’s teaching, then, there is no escape from guilt. For attack makes guilt real, and if it is real there is no way to overcome it. The Holy Spirit dispels it simply through the calm recognition that it has never been.

The crucifixion is the symbol of the ego. When it was confronted with the real guiltlessness of God’s Son it did attempt to kill him, and the reason it gave was that guiltlessness is blasphemous to God.

To the ego, the ego is God, and guiltlessness must be interpreted as the final guilt that fully justifies murder.

You do not yet understand that any fear you may experience in connection with this course stems ultimately from this interpretation, but if you consider your reactions to it you will become increasingly convinced that this is so.

The crucifixion had no part in the Atonement. Only the resurrection became my part in it. That is the symbol of the release from guilt by guiltlessness. Whom you perceive as guilty you would crucify. Yet you restore guiltlessness to whomever you see as guiltless. Teaching that points to these points straight to Heaven, and the peace of God. There is no pain, no trial, no fear that teaching this can fail to overcome. The power of God Himself supports this teaching and guarantees its limitless results

This course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Yet you are afraid of it. You have been told again and again that it will set you free, yet you sometimes react as if it is trying to imprison you. You often dismiss it more readily than you dismiss the ego’s thought system. To some extent, then, you must believe that by not learning the course you are protecting yourself.

And you do not realize that it is only your guiltlessness that can protect you. Make no mistake about the depth of this fear. For you believe that, in the presence of truth, you might turn on yourself and destroy yourself.

Under the ego’s dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid. For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this place that you have sought to leave. Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love. For still deeper than the ego’s foundation, and much stronger than it will ever be, is your intense and burning love of God, and His for you. This is what you want to hide. In honesty, is it not harder for you to say “I love” than “I hate"? You associate love with weakness and hatred with strength, and your real power seems to you as your real weakness.

Until man learns that he is Mind he will be the slave of the illusions of Mind, instead of which he may be their master and a “creator” of these illusions. Nothing can be, without the desire to be. All things are that desire to be. Desire dominates all thinking. Desire dominates all matter.

All thinking is creative thinking. All thinking is creating that which it is thinking. God’s thinking is man’s thinking. All thinking is the product of Mind, and all Mind is divine Mind. Light is God’s medium of expressing Himself. It is the only medium at His command. Light is man’s medium of expressing himself. It is the only medium at his command.

All effect is caused by thinking and registered in motion. All motion is either an action or a reaction of its cause. Nothing is produced as an effect of thinking that is not either the action or reaction of a force expressed in motion.

Every action has its equal and opposite reaction. Every action and every reaction is a tone in an octave of the universal constant of energy. Equal and opposite actions and reactions, when united, comprise a unit of an octave of the universal constant of energy. An action and its opposite reaction are not two. Their energies, when combined, make one.

Reaction is born of action; and action is born again of reaction. All ideas, and all forms of ideas are the result of the union between equal or unequal opposite actions and reactions of force.

Light is that which makes of the One substance a living substance. Light is the life principle of Mind. Light is the creative force of the universe. Light is all that is. Light is the living God. God is manifested in light. Light is the Holy Spirit, God, father-mother, nature, man, the oak, the rolling hills and mountain chains, the pounding sea and the sands of the sea, the babbling brook, the red apple hanging on the tree; the autumn haze, the storm, the stars in the heavens, the blade of grass and the kindly dew in the opening rose. All created things are dependent upon light to hold them together in the appearance of individually separate things. As light is the substance of all things, and all things are dependent on light, all things are therefore interdependent. All are continuously interchanging by reproduction throughout the universe in continuity. No one created thing has time, nor place, nor position in an idea. The idea of creating things is universal. It is omnipresent.