Purify your heart and be open for miracles to come in. You ARE ready. All are chosen, but few choose to listen. Be one that listens, and then follow. Just say yes and miracles will be performed through you. Step back and let Him lead the way.
Guidance
How Do I Let Go of “Me”?
Open your heart to love and start to feel that God is within you. Receive his gifts by listening to and following what is given. Meet those who have given their life over to the Course. Allow yourself to fall apart and come undone. The struggle comes from identifying with the self. Accept the gifts that are in front of you and surrender!
True Healing
The pain of separation has been pushed way down in the mind and out of awareness. We need to invite what was suppressed back into conscious awareness so it can be forgiven and healed. To the ego it seems a painful process, but for true healing to take place, we must move through this darkness in order to remember the light.
Know Thy Self
The Holy Spirit is like your intuitive Inner Voice, the Bridge back to your Higher Self. The Holy Spirit uses symbols of the dream world to guide you deeper inward until you can reach the point of releasing identification with ego entirely. At that point, you experience yourself as the Higher Self and at one with God.
From Doer to Pure Being
The body is part of a self-concept we could call “the doer.” The spiritual journey is a transition from being identified with the “the doer” to the experience of being “done through” by the Spirit in order to experience one’s Self as Pure Being. Trying to meditate your way to this state can be “tedious and very time consuming,” (T-18.VII.4:7-8,11) yet the willingness to be “done through” allows the Stillness to re-enter instantly and effortlessly. Such is the gateway to Joy and Pure Being!
A Course in Miracles Is a Tsunami
“A Course in Miracles” says that the world is backwards and upside down, that you are asleep and dreaming. As you follow the Course, it brings up intense emotions and upheavals in your life. It can seem to be a difficult journey. But when you go deeper, the rewards are immense. In our community, we rely on Guidance. We see that that the skills we formerly used to prop up pride are now humbly used for love.
Right Use of Psychic Abilities
There are many helpful stepping-stone concepts on the way towards Enlightenment, including concepts such as reincarnation and psychic abilities. Though they still imply separate minds and separate bodies, they can help open the mind beyond older, more traditional and limiting human perspectives. It is always important to remember the “A Course in Miracles” teaching that all concepts are neutral and it is only the purpose to which they are put that matters. Psychic abilities that are misused for the purpose of glorifying the personality-self will only hurt the mind and reinforce the ego. But they can also be used to bless and inspire when given over to the Spirit for the purpose of teaching forgiveness.
Linear World: Real World
In “A Course in Miracles,” the “real world” is synonymous with the happy dream, the forgiven world, and true perception. Everything is seen as simultaneous, equal, connected, and unified in the moment. What is deemed as valuable in the linear world (money, education, status, credentials, the body’s health, etc.) is seen as of no value in the real world. Seeing this, the mind can rest. It is clear that nothing valuable can truly be left behind. What you are and what God is alone has value and is eternal.
How to Simplify Your Decision-Making Process
In Heaven, or pure Oneness, there are no decisions to be made, for there is nothing to decide between. But to the sleeping mind which has denied Oneness, decision-making is a constant process made very complex by the ego. The Holy Spirit, however, can simplify our decision-making process by undoing the false belief system that underlies it. We need merely be willing to step back and let Him “decide for God for me” (T-5.VII.6:11) each time a decision is to be made. This prayerful practice is not only practical on the level of form, but will undo the ego layer by layer, leading the mind back to choiceless awareness and ultimately, back into God.
Oneness Is Practical
Spirituality is not about high ideals. You want an actual experience of peace and that is extremely practical. The Spirit meets you where you believe you are. Love waits on welcome, not on time. How welcoming are you to Spirit’s guidance? When you start to clear your mind of all your fears, doubts, and dualistic thinking, and you need an answer, it will come through you like a download from the Spirit. But you have to follow the guidance. You have to allow yourself to be unwound by the Spirit out of the matrix. Can you see how practical that is? You are being taught to start opening to the Spirit’s guidance to unwind your mind back to Oneness.