01-06-2010, 03:29 PM
*fights the crowd to offer his shoulder*
I must admit that the only thing I know about a course in miracles is that my mother has it in her bookcase. So another will have to speak cleverly about that book. I personally do not qualify.
In my humble opinion you're looking at the dark night of the soul. A period in human development where they make the transition from a universe where they are guests to a universe where they are the essential component. Everyone who is evolved enough to be able to grasp it's particular difficulty will at some time experience it. I did too. Unless you allow it to distract you from you it's not a big thing.
Basically, in the first the universe is solid. In the second it is like water in its responsiveness and transparency. (Don't overestimate my words it sounds bigger than it really is the effect in reality is only subtle) The first thing you begin to realize is that the solidity of the universe is illusory. If you change your perspective it actually changes shape. Our immediate interpretation is that it isn't real, it's just a figment of your imagination. It's however more accurate (in the tradition of clever word tricks) to call it the *I* *Magi* *Nation*
However, illusion and real are not opposites. An optical illusion for example really exists, it generates real experience and can really be understood and manipulated. It's just not what you thought it to be at first. The same with the world. You exist, therefore everything you experience exists. It's not what you thought it was. And a universe that seemed cast in stone at first turns out to be swirling clouds and dynamic and continously reconfiguring itself. This is freedom, I suppose this is why ACIM is so full of it, because you need to live in a dynamic world for miracles to be able to occur.
Allow me to stress that everything you love hate or otherwise experience is real and will never stop being real in the definition where real is simply "that which is". It is in fact more real, you used to see the object and imagine the soul within. You are moving towards where you see the soul and experience the objects around it. This might seem like a small difference. But the soul can express itself in infinite forms. While every form has just one soul it could convert to... Do you understand when I say "becoming more real"? And somewhere along the way is that dark abbyss we have to leap across while not being able to see the other side.
If you want to find a sweet spot in the experience where it is joyous to you, I think you're going to have to accept that it's you that makes things real... Why is a job important? Because we make it so. Why is a love affair real? Because we choose to follow it's experience, it's illusory because we could choose an infinite amount of paths to experience. Yet we choose this one.. It's going to be harder and harder to find meaning without making choices. Yet choices aren't hard if you choose the right ones. And the right ones are always those made from your compassion and love. If you choose to chase your compassion and love every next choice will become a reflection of it.
What things do you absolutely want to be real? Define them as such while realizing that you're at some level likely misunderstanding the true nature of these things. However your irrational reasons to be enthusiastic about them are beyond misunderstanding. So you can rely on them. You may discover a love for a person was driven from a desire to have a certain experience. But acquiring that experience is then at least as satisfying as the thing we once thought to be the reason. Like a compass we always know the direction even if we don't know the territory.
ACIM to you has become a symbol of this hurt. But combined with your compass it's actually a landmark for you to get to know your surroundings. Beyond any illusion lies a cause, if you are attracted to an illusion you're actually attracted to the underlying cause. So it's okay to be attracted. You might figure out it was all an illusion at some point, but that's usually when you start to grasp the bigger picture. The bigger picture might help you in deciding that some illusions are clearly related and work on them in unison. Fix a little thing here and you might have a result there or more likely everywhere.
You don't have to fear moving forward. It usually improves life a great deal.
You'll find we do exist. In fact we're the totality of existence. It's just the current circumstances that are subject to change, we are illusions in the way that we're seeing our true self yet experiencing it in a different way. It isn't real in the sense that we can choose from many alternatives. But it is real in the sense that when the choice is made that's all there will be. Adapt your frequency to move towards areas you enjoy being in, these are great places for spiritual growth and are healthy for you. If you don't enjoy a situation change it by changing your frequency, the way you deal with it. The higher self isn't an abstract external entity. Its the true honest to God you that experiences life exactly as you do now. It is however unhindered by your fears and limitations. It can be approximated by total emptiness but it is also an explosion of all events at the same time. As such it is you, no less, unexternalizable and completely intimately one with you. It's the infinite perspective on you, to it all things are illusory, and it creates from the illusions the total experience that we call life.
Which life is your call. You get to guide it by expressing in your actions the world you wish to live in. It's a process with ups and downs. But on the whole has great benefits.
Namaste
I must admit that the only thing I know about a course in miracles is that my mother has it in her bookcase. So another will have to speak cleverly about that book. I personally do not qualify.
In my humble opinion you're looking at the dark night of the soul. A period in human development where they make the transition from a universe where they are guests to a universe where they are the essential component. Everyone who is evolved enough to be able to grasp it's particular difficulty will at some time experience it. I did too. Unless you allow it to distract you from you it's not a big thing.
Basically, in the first the universe is solid. In the second it is like water in its responsiveness and transparency. (Don't overestimate my words it sounds bigger than it really is the effect in reality is only subtle) The first thing you begin to realize is that the solidity of the universe is illusory. If you change your perspective it actually changes shape. Our immediate interpretation is that it isn't real, it's just a figment of your imagination. It's however more accurate (in the tradition of clever word tricks) to call it the *I* *Magi* *Nation*
However, illusion and real are not opposites. An optical illusion for example really exists, it generates real experience and can really be understood and manipulated. It's just not what you thought it to be at first. The same with the world. You exist, therefore everything you experience exists. It's not what you thought it was. And a universe that seemed cast in stone at first turns out to be swirling clouds and dynamic and continously reconfiguring itself. This is freedom, I suppose this is why ACIM is so full of it, because you need to live in a dynamic world for miracles to be able to occur.
Allow me to stress that everything you love hate or otherwise experience is real and will never stop being real in the definition where real is simply "that which is". It is in fact more real, you used to see the object and imagine the soul within. You are moving towards where you see the soul and experience the objects around it. This might seem like a small difference. But the soul can express itself in infinite forms. While every form has just one soul it could convert to... Do you understand when I say "becoming more real"? And somewhere along the way is that dark abbyss we have to leap across while not being able to see the other side.
If you want to find a sweet spot in the experience where it is joyous to you, I think you're going to have to accept that it's you that makes things real... Why is a job important? Because we make it so. Why is a love affair real? Because we choose to follow it's experience, it's illusory because we could choose an infinite amount of paths to experience. Yet we choose this one.. It's going to be harder and harder to find meaning without making choices. Yet choices aren't hard if you choose the right ones. And the right ones are always those made from your compassion and love. If you choose to chase your compassion and love every next choice will become a reflection of it.
What things do you absolutely want to be real? Define them as such while realizing that you're at some level likely misunderstanding the true nature of these things. However your irrational reasons to be enthusiastic about them are beyond misunderstanding. So you can rely on them. You may discover a love for a person was driven from a desire to have a certain experience. But acquiring that experience is then at least as satisfying as the thing we once thought to be the reason. Like a compass we always know the direction even if we don't know the territory.
ACIM to you has become a symbol of this hurt. But combined with your compass it's actually a landmark for you to get to know your surroundings. Beyond any illusion lies a cause, if you are attracted to an illusion you're actually attracted to the underlying cause. So it's okay to be attracted. You might figure out it was all an illusion at some point, but that's usually when you start to grasp the bigger picture. The bigger picture might help you in deciding that some illusions are clearly related and work on them in unison. Fix a little thing here and you might have a result there or more likely everywhere.
You don't have to fear moving forward. It usually improves life a great deal.
You'll find we do exist. In fact we're the totality of existence. It's just the current circumstances that are subject to change, we are illusions in the way that we're seeing our true self yet experiencing it in a different way. It isn't real in the sense that we can choose from many alternatives. But it is real in the sense that when the choice is made that's all there will be. Adapt your frequency to move towards areas you enjoy being in, these are great places for spiritual growth and are healthy for you. If you don't enjoy a situation change it by changing your frequency, the way you deal with it. The higher self isn't an abstract external entity. Its the true honest to God you that experiences life exactly as you do now. It is however unhindered by your fears and limitations. It can be approximated by total emptiness but it is also an explosion of all events at the same time. As such it is you, no less, unexternalizable and completely intimately one with you. It's the infinite perspective on you, to it all things are illusory, and it creates from the illusions the total experience that we call life.
Which life is your call. You get to guide it by expressing in your actions the world you wish to live in. It's a process with ups and downs. But on the whole has great benefits.
Namaste