A Holographic picture

In lesson 331 of the workbook I read and see the picture in my mind, an instant of wholeness:

"That conflict is sleep, and peace awakening" which reminds me in that recognition: "How simple is salvation"

I am willing to be responsible for the idea of conflict instantly when a memory rises to the surface...AGH there you are welcome home! I am no longer arresting this experience and wake up to an instant of self-awareness, a  holographic picture,

All discomfort I could experience is because the picture of myself is linear in bits and pieces ....and not holographic and expanding

In Lesson 332 it gives me : "Truth never makes attack. It merely is." When I stand in the peace of God.
 I am corrected immediatly, cause and effect are simultaneously, from the idea that something needs adjusting.

A Course in Miracles is a key to remember how my mind seem to function in space and time, a third dimension that gives pictures in linear sequences ever going no-where, walking to a land that does not exist.

(chapter 28) Nothing at all has happened but that you have put yourself to sleep, and dreamed a dream in which you were an alien to yourself, and but a part of someone else's dream.

The miracle does not awaken you, but merely shows you who the dreamer is. It teaches you there is a choice of dreams while you are still asleep, depending on the purpose of your dreaming.

Do you wish for dreams of healing, or for dreams of death? A dream is like a memory in that it pictures what you wanted shown to you.



An empty storehouse, with an open door, holds all your shreds of memories and dreams.
 
Yet if you are the dreamer, you perceive this much at least: That you have caused the dream, and can accept another dream as well.
 
But for this change in content of the dream, it must be realized that it is you who dreamed the dreaming that you do not like. It is but an effect that you have caused, and you would not be cause of this effect.

What remains as unreceived has not been given, but what has been given must have been received.

The world will end when its thought system has been completely reversed.

The reversal of thinking as presented in A Course in Miracles is a most astonishing and simple gift to myself when I am willing to place my thoughts under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is not a separate symbol outside of me, but as I Am in that action of willingness to share with my brother the Miracle of Light-of the Atonement principle-

The Atonement is a total commitment .

This Course is God's design to reverse all ideas held in bondage: " My thoughts are images that I have made" as in Lesson 15, gives me the power of decision to accept myself as God created me. All images that cause a discomfort are recognized as another gift to remember who I Am. Each instant a renewing.


(chapter 28) Without a cause there can be no effects, and yet without effects there is no cause.

The cause a cause is made by its effects; the Father is a Father by His Son. Effects do not create their cause, but they establish its causation.

Thus, the Son gives Fatherhood to his Creator, and receives the gift that he has given Him.

It is because he is God's Son that he must also be a father, who creates as God created him. The circle of creation has no end. Its starting and its ending are the same.

But in itself it holds the universe of all creation, without beginning and without an end.



Fatherhood is creation. Love must be extended. Purity is not confined. It is the nature of the innocent to be forever uncontained, without a barrier or limitation.

This strange world

When I find myself moving around in all the spaces of this strange world I am rather amused by its vistas, its games it plays, I am no longer in discomfort, but see its nature.

In chapter 2 to of A Course in Miracles it says: "Discomfort is aroused only to bring the need for correction into awareness."

Once I see how this large organism functions how it is connected as a gigantic energy field to each and every form I am amazed and delighted how it still gives me memories of a tremendous dimension beyond it all.

Freedom to me is to be in the forgiven world.

As I am witnessing the tip of an iceberg in the spectrum of consciousness,  as mankind, now it simply demonstrates the tremendous power of love that moves it all. All that occurs is to the advantage of everyone to awaken.

Discomfort occurs only if I think that the tip is all there is, that narrow idea brings immediatly an awareness of such limitation that it is not surprising it is fearful.

Space and time is what fear is and as teachers of God we witness only to its unreality by raising our mind to a larger frame-God Is.

Heaven remains your one alternative to this strange world you made and all its ways; its shifting patterns and uncertain goals, its painful pleasures and its tragic joys.

God made no contradictions. What denies its own existence and attacks itself is not of Him.

He did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one, and earth the other's sorry outcome which is Heaven's opposite in every way.



God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two. How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven?
 
Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon
 
God's single purpose. He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time. (lesson 131)

Dreamer and dream

In Cape Town its diversity of dreams and dreamers is its strenght, and is a alluring experience to have been part of for a lenght of time.

Its nature in myriad of forms ever surprises with its beauty and touch of the Divine splendor.

As if woken from the from the colonial times in Africa there is a relaxed attitude each one accept the role they where alloted and does what it is asked to do.

Its people, Black's, Colored's, the Muslims, the Zulu's, the Indians and the Whites, all are a wide spectrum constantly mingling and surprisingly in harmony how they go about in their movements.



The variety of sounds in language makes it ever so alive, one need not understand the words to hear the vibration and see the pictures that are given away. Each seems to know everyone in a constant greeting or shaking hands like one large family.

Women dressed in the brightest colors, long skirts, their babys swinging on the back of mama, while they sell all kinds of wares or carry stuff on their head, tasks that make me faint in the heat of the day.

This world is but the dream that you can be alone, and think without affecting those apart from you. To be alone must mean you are apart, and if you are, you cannot but be sick.

This seems to prove that you must be apart. Yet all it means is that you tried to keep a promise to be true to faithlessness. Yet faithlessness is sickness. It is like the house set upon straw.

It seems to be quite solid and substantial in itself. Yet its stability cannot be judged apart from its foundation. If it rests on straw, there is no need to bar the door and lock the windows and make fast the bolts.

The wind will topple it, and rain will come and carry it into oblivion.

For there is but one Self.

The constant reminder in every aspect of space and time is that I am oneself, is that joy I cannot loose, it is possible to forget but even that idea is part and parcel of self-awareness in all the dream-sequences.

Awakening is a constant Neti, Neti an action of pure happiness, no longer caught in that web of analyzing those concepts I seem to live in...more like dreaming a strange and weird dream

 Blessed is the Son of God whose radiance is of his Father, and whose glory he wills to share as his Father shares it with him.

There is no condemnation in the Son, for there is no condemnation in the Father.

Sharing the perfect Love of the Father the Son must share what belongs to Him, for otherwise he will not know the Father or the Son. Peace be unto you who rest in God, and in whom the whole Sonship rests.

Blessings

"Rest in peace" is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining.

Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego's distorted notions about what joining is.

Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him.

In any instant I can remember I am blessed, this morning sitting by the river with my bowl of paw-paw, I see the water families with their off-spring these tiny ducks and other water fowls that so wonderfully demonstrating the blessings all around me.

These tiny creature staying close to their parents bobbing on the flow of the water, are a sight to behold, at the slightest idea of intrussion they move as a closed unit, away to another shore.

Next to the waters edge is a large willow tree who bows ever gracefully in the wind, to speak of the love of God, and overhead in the sky all that flies dives and rises on that flow of blessings that invites again and again the source of all that is.

I was created as the thing I seek.

I am the goal the world is searching for. I am God's Son, His one eternal Love. I am salvation's means and end as well. (lesson 318)

This idea in itself is a tremendous power. There is nowhere to go but to be exactly where I find myself, physically, emmotionally, intelectually. The action of acceptance, a portal of departure.

Each Teacher of God I meet is my brother and tells a story. awakening is a story twice told, the first in judgment-now in the joy of self-recognition..

Where I turn in this fabric of dreaming I see myself and am no longer confussed by the forms of dreaming.

Time and Space are what conflict is, so there is no need to be afraid of fear as it is in the acceptance of the observation of my interpretation a dream that I know what it is NOT...Thats all!  Netti, Netti...

(chapter 4) Your own state of mind is a good example of how the ego was made. When you threw knowledge away it is as if you never had it.

This is so apparent that one need only recognize it to see that it does happen. If this occurs in the present, why is it surprising that it occurred in the past?

Surprise is a reasonable response to the unfamiliar, though hardly to something that occurs with such persistence.

But do not forget that the mind need not work that way, even though it does work that way now.