“God is the light in which I see…”
The first time practiced today’s lesson’s I had what I would describe as my first experience of true meditation. There was an instant of pure surrender and light… It was nothing I did, but rather didn’t do and therefore allowed. A holy instant. It was unlike anything I had ever imagined prior… It was the way. It was my first taste of Peace.
These are the mind-training exercises that really are the experience of the undoing. We begin to feel the essence of giving over to the Mind we share with God. It is so critical to give oneself over completely to them. “You cannot be totally committed, sometimes… Reality cannot be partly appreciated.” (T-7.VII.1.4.7)
We practice the complete turning around of the mind back to its true Source in God. It reverses the ego order of cause and effect and reestablishes the natural order of God~ of our Self ~of creation… it is not merely an intellectual exercise. It’s so important not to stop at the seemingly intellectual understanding of where these exercises (well actually, the entire Course) are taking us.
Intellectual understanding can be a major trap. Because we actually believe think we actually do know… After all it feels good, and right…does it not? This is a trap because this “knowing” closes the mind from the learning experience. I spent years in this simulated-satisfactory place in my mind… thinking I knew … when I didn’t know… not knowing…until I knew…
The intellect is not the mind. It is an ability of the mind. It derives all its power from the direction of the Self ~ deriving its very vitality and creation from its Source. “God is my Source…The Light in which I see…”
The light of understanding comes when we allow our intellect to be at the service of the Holy Spirit, who has a unified purpose for all our abilities.
So it’s not that we need to ‘do’ anything about this intellectual understanding trap ~only to be aware of it and be vigilant to move just a little beyond the comfort of ‘getting-it’~ to allow for the experience to light our mind. “Truth can only be recognized and need only be recognized. Inspiration is of the Holy Spirit, and certainty is of God according to His laws.” (T-7.IV.1)
In the section in chapter 18 of the text called “A little Willingness” (a section very precious to me ~ given my propensity for believing I must make myself worthy for God). It says: “The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. It is the answer. The desire and the willingness to let it come precede its coming. You prepare your mind for it only to the extent of recognizing that you want it above all else. Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what He does not ask, or you will add the ego to Him and confuse the two… Trust not your good intentions. They are not enough. But trust implicitly your willingness, whatever else may enter. Concentrate only on this, and be not disturbed that shadows surround it. That is why you came…”
The Light is the experience we seek~ the ‘universal’ experience of Source extending ~of LOVE~ of Self~ and this is why it is so crucial to drop beneath our ‘understanding’ of our ideas of who and what we are so this recognition can occur…
Lucky for us, we have this groovy mind-training Course and the Coolest Dude ever as our guide (Jesus). We have as built-in template of ‘light dispelling darkness’ (Holy Spirit), already within our mind… Yes, D u d e…everything goes our way…
Rather than refer you to text specific readings today, I share, here, some of introspective statements the Course also says:
“You have surely begun to realize that this is a very practical course, and one that means exactly what it says…This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application…This course is always practical… and it is the practical with which this course is most concerned”
“There is a hush in Heaven, a happy expectancy, a little pause of gladness in acknowledgement of the journey’s end. For Heaven knows you well, as you know Heaven. No illusions stand between you and your brother now. Look not upon the little wall of shadows. The sun has risen over it. How can a shadow keep you from the sun? No more can you be kept by shadows from the light in which illusions end…
…Does it get any better than this?...
God is the light in which I see…
Thank you.
I love you.
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