We are on review lessons from the workbook of A Course in Miracles.
Today is Lesson 174:
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(157) Into His presence would I enter now.
(158) Today I learn to give as I receive.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
This morning I woke up (here in Maine, in my mom’s camper) from a chaotic intense dream. I’ve dreamed twice (three nights ago, and this morning) that my black cat Sam has returned. In the first dream, I was in my old place making my bed and Sam came in through the window and jumped on the bed and I went crazy with excitement like, “Oh my God! Sam! You’re home! You made it! You’re such a good cat! I know it! I missed you too!”
Etc.
Then Enzo walked through the window and jumped on the bed, and the two of them went bananas to see each other again.
In this morning’s dream, I was back in the Dells and I decided to go to my old place to find Sam. There was a huge party going on there, like 200 people. The whole academy was there. I was walking outside by myself, calling Sam and he came running to me. I went crazy again with excitement. Then I was trying to borrow someone’s car to bring him home.
In the dream, there were so many people. There were many more details but I won’t bore you with them.
What I will tell you is that I woke up this morning in a fog, completely disoriented and feeling an intensity (density?) of time and space. I was still thinking about the dream. I woke up thinking about my life. What will happen next? What happens now?
And in that instant, I remembered to get out of that frequency of energy. It’s a low frequency when you are thinking of things in time and space. In actuality, you are a prisoner, trapped in physicality, thinking it is real.
When you are thinking about things in the world, your mind is actually blank and you are thinking about nothing.
Once you have recognized the thought (that you are thinking of your problems, of your life, of what you want, of what you are doing), you are free to change your mind. The RECOGNITION OF THE THOUGHT is the turning point. Here is your whole way out.
So I am lying in bed, and I caught myself worrying, thinking, planning, plotting and I simply became aware that I was worrying, thinking, planning, plotting …. and I made a decision TO SNAP OUT OF IT.
Just like that.
How simple.
I changed my mind. I said “that’s enough of that, Lisa” and I started thinking about God.
And instantly, in that moment, I felt great and alive. I came to life. The fog lifted and I was back to myself again. There was clarity again. There was certainty. And there was joy.
And that’s today’s lesson: “Into His Presence would I enter now.”
You begin to enter into God’s presence.
It’s the holiest place on the earth … the place on which you stand right now … where “an ancient hatred becomes a present love.”
That’s this moment, now.
The place where you are trapped in dreams, where there is hate, rage, sickness, loneliness, doubt and confusion gets transformed to love … with one little twist of your mind.
You have the ability to flip any thought, any time.
You have the power to raise yourself out of a low frequency of energy into a high frequency where there is only love.
You have all power, given to you by God Himself.
It’s not difficult. Just change your mind. Be willing to see things differently.
Let go of your tight grasp on reality.
Be reasonable: what does thinking about dreams accomplish?? Nothing. I had a dream, and now I am thinking about it??? Something happened in my life and now I am thinking about it??? That doesn’t make any sense.
Of course, you will think about things (I have perfect memory recall to the point that it is scary, and I can remember events in specific details that happened years ago – I can remember the kind of soda someone was drinking 5 years ago at a ballgame) but what is the content that you are retaining?? Are you remembering events to worry or feel guilty? Or are you remembering and becoming happy?
What is it for?
It is important to remember that ALL OF IT is meaningless.
I have finished recording Chapter 8 and it will be played today on paltalk.com in the ACIM GATHER room at 2:00pm EST. I will post the audio here on this website later today. One thing I said, that thrilled me when it came out of my mouth, was that Atonement is a total commitment. You can’t just do this “a little” and expect consistency. While you fluctuate back and forth between the ego and Spirit, your life will be in fluctuation.
And what I said was that as you begin to practice being in a relationship with God – as you make a commitment to the eternal – you will still fluctuate, but the gap will start to get bigger. In the beginning you will be 50% ego and 50% Spirit. Then as you learn to be present in the now, to make new choices, to change your mind, to remember God, to remember your love for your brother, it will be 60% Spirit and 40% ego.
then it will be 70% Spirit and 30% ego.
then 80% Spirit and 20% ego.
And you start to realize that you are associating less and less with the ego, and more and more with the Spirit.
Then it will be 90% Spirit and 10% ego.
Then 95% Spirit and 5% ego.
Then 96%% Spirit and 4% ego.
Then it will be 97% Spirit and 3% ego.
Then it will be 98% Spirit and 2% ego.
And what I want you to be aware of is 2% ego is more painful than 50% ego.
As you get closer and closer to 100% commitment, the smaller percentages will kill you. They will be far more painful now than when you were oblivious and didn’t realize what you were doing.
And many people stay in 5% ego for a very very long time. They are highly spiritual loving people, who give and love, and are kind … but there is still that little 5% that worries, feels guilty, and still hangs on to the humanness.
And finally, you have to give it up if you want to experience your full inheritance.
Atonement is a total commitment.
“You cannot be totally committed sometimes.”
Either you are in entirely in God 100 percent … or you are nowhere.
Being 97% Spirit and 3% ego is what hell is.
Until you are 100%, you will fluctuate between love and fear, between joy and depression, between wellness and sickness.
While you still retain 1%, you will still feel the totality of hell.
But you can make a better decision now: Into His Presence would I enter now.
When you enter into the presence of God – 100% – you will have no problems. All sickness disappears.
This is the transformation of yourself back to Self: to the Self that God created as perfect. The illusion disappears, and all false ideas about yourself are undone.
Here … you know your perfection as light.
You are God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love.
I want you to experience this. It requires your active participation to let go of your agenda, and to be in a space where your body is a means of communication for the Light of God. Don’t worry about how it is accomplished. Just have a little willingness to know the Will of God.
So, that’s Chapter 8 of A Course in Miracles and today’s Lesson 174.
Into His Presence would I enter now.
Today I learn to give as I receive.
Chapter 8 will be playing on paltalk.com in ACIM GATHER at 2:00pm EST. (if you have a macintosh, you can go to http://www.paltalkexpress.com and search ACIM Gather and that will bring you to the room)
I will post the audio here on Gorgeous for God later today.
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how do you give it up that ego is always lingering any suggestions
Stand with God. It’s easy. Know you are all light, and the ego disappears. There is no darkness, so it’s only a recognition of the truth which occurs in this moment. There is no transformation since what is changeless cannot be changed … so all that occurs is only awareness of what has always been true. You are the light of the world. Where is the ego now? It is nowhere and never existed except as a false idea.
in moment by moment, you will be either 100% in God or 100% in ego, but these percentages I am writing about today (80% Spirit, 20% ego) are are based more on a daily basis or a weekly basis .. an overall basis of your whole life as you live it.
But when you stand in God, there is no ego and that is 100%. The difficulty most people have is that they immediately slide back into fear or guilt (ego) and in that moment, you are 100% in ego.
So the mind training of A Course in Miracles is to be aware of your thought system and to change your mind to think with God.
Remember God in everything. Remember God when life is easy and remember God when life is hard. Remember God in everything. That is 100%.
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