“I have invented the world I see…”
Today’s lesson points my mind to the memory of doing science fair projects with the children. With these ‘projects, the premise is based on what’s called the “Scientific Method”; which is the premise for scientific study. ~ I Think~ invent ~ think science ~ think scientific method ~ think Chapter Two in the text of A course in Miracles, called ‘The Separation And The Atonement’~
In today’s world, something called the scientific method is generally accepted as a way to decipherer cause and effect and discern truth from lies and delusion. The simple version looks something like this:
1. Observe some aspect of the universe. (check out effects)
2. Invent a tentative description, called a hypothesis that is consistent with what you have observed.
3. Use the hypothesis to make predictions.
4. Test those predictions by experiments or further observations and modify the hypothesis in the light of your results.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until there are no discrepancies between theory and experiment and/or observation.
When consistency is obtained the hypothesis becomes a theory and provides a coherent set of propositions, which explain a class of phenomena. A theory is then a framework or premise within which observations are explained and predictions are made.
So goes the physical world…. The very fabric of the program rests on the premise from which it is based…. What if the premise is a lie? Wouldn’t everything directed from that premise, although, substantiating that premise, be incorrect?
Fidelity to premise is the law of mind…
What if the very premise is incorrect? (I.e. the world is flat) … ~ Check the premise…
The fundamental premise of this world boils down to fear. But the premise of God’s creation is Love…
Here’s what Chapter 2 the section called “The Origins of Separation”, says:
“To extend is a fundamental aspect of God which He gave to His Son. In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. There is no emptiness in you. Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth. This process involves the following steps:
First, you believe that what God created can be changed by your own mind.
Second, you believe that what is perfect can be rendered imperfect or lacking.
Third, you believe that you can distort the creations of God, including yourself.
Fourth, you believe that you can create yourself, and that the direction of your own creation is up to you.
These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation, or the "detour into fear." None of this existed before the separation, nor does it actually exist now. Everything God created is like Him. Extension, as undertaken by God, is similar to the inner radiance that the children of the Father inherit from Him. Its real source is internal. This is as true of the Son as of the Father. In this sense the creation includes both the creation of the Son by God, and the Son's creations when his mind is healed. This requires God's endowment of the Son with free will, because all loving creation is freely given in one continuous line, in which all aspects are of the same order.” (T-2.I.1-2)
*What if we stepped outside of this “flat world of separation” for just a second and observed it from another perspective? Here is the one it suggests in workbook lesson 69~
"Think of your mind as a vast circle, surrounded by a layer of heavy, dark clouds. You can see only the clouds because you seem to be standing outside the circle and quite apart from it. From where you stand, you can see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the clouds. The clouds seem to be the only reality. They
seem to be all there is to see. Therefore, you do not attempt to go through them and past them, which is the only way in which you would be really convinced of their lack of substance." (W-69.4.2)
Everything I think I think and think I see, IS the layer of heavy, dark clouds. The people, the places, the things, and the situations and circumstances of the world are the dark clouds of false belief and distorted perception. What if I am not truly IN these clouds, but only believe I have a "life" and "existence" in them. What if there is a Way of looking upon them from a whole new premise ~ from within the circle ~ with the Holy Spirit's light Perspective. This is the perspective of the miracle…
his “what if” is the possibility each of us comes to when, faced with the world we invented… And disenchanted with its state, we say, “There has got to be another way”... That is when we begin to become willing to take the necessary steps of ‘open-mindedness’ which leads us through the clouds to this new Perspective within.
In chapter two, same section, further down, speaks to us of the Atonement, God’s answer. It begins thus:
“The Atonement was built into the space-time belief to set a limit on the need for the belief itself, and ultimately to make learning complete. The Atonement is the final lesson… (T-2.II.5-7).
I encourage you to read the rest of this reference as an addendum to and in conjunction with the lesson for today.
The bottom-line is that the only choice we have in this world is to view what we have invented in the transformative light of love…
~ From the premise of fear or separation (the basis of this experience), it is impossible to be in the clouds but not of them. The world cannot get any "better" or "worse," because unreal effects (images) from and unreal cause (ego) are unreal. There are no such "conditions" as "good unreality" or "bad unreality" or "better unreality" or "worse unreality."
Time-space-matter is unreal.
Spirit is real.
The Holy Spirit is the Answer that discerns for us until there is no further need of discernment. It turns out, that peace and happiness are as simple as the release from the belief in compromise.
We simply cannot be Light and also be IN darkness. Truth and illusion, love and fear, light and darkness have no meeting point and cannot be reconciled.
I am the light of the world.
As I have accepted this simple fact, and placed my faith in LOVE, faith in my brother/my Self/the Holy Spirit/God, have become a natural result and the arising frustrations and doubts easily dissipate into the ether from which they came.
“Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.” (T-1.2)
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