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Question:
I've been searching for something more in my life, but I didn’t know what - until you introduced me to "A Course in Miracles." I virtually have to let go of every belief I've been taught and do a complete turn around if this is the way home. This is just like “The Matrix” film - awesome. Can you tell me how to get out of here?
Answer:
The experience of Awakening is truly profound. To know One Self is to be alive as Spirit. The experiences perceived through the five senses may seem real during the undoing or release of false belief, yet the experience of the Present Moment is inevitable. Just as Neo seemed to be carried along step by step in "The Matrix,” the Awakening may seem like a process. There comes a Moment in which the world is seen to be past -- and this Moment is the Moment of freedom. In the Present there is no "process." It seems to require "leaps of faith" only because faith has been placed in illusion and must be withdrawn from error. The perceived world of opposites was the attempt to deny the Oneness of Reality, and as the desire for peace calls the experience of peace into awareness it is obvious that peace is without an opposite.
Here is the key: Listen within ...the steps are obvious to a willing mind. First it must become apparent that duality is not the home of our Self, the Christ. It is therefore impossible to be content and peaceful and happy while experiencing duality. All restlessness is simply the fear of Waking. The dreamer of a dream must be aware of dreaming to awaken from the dream. The awareness that leads to Waking is the forgiveness of illusion. To forgive is simply to see the false as false, and there are no exceptions to this state of mind. It is impossible to achieve "partial" forgiveness. Forgiveness must be experienced completely to be experienced at all. Christ says "I am Calling you out of the world" and as the meaning of this statement is first glimpsed, it is apparent that there is literally no way to participate in the thinking of the world and simultaneously to "Know ThySelf." Truth and illusion have no meeting point. Perfect Love casts out fear and Light abolishes darkness. The Guide within first leads inward toward an experience, an adventure, a discovery of the awareness of dreaming. In this state of mind it is always apparent that nothing real is happening in the world. The forms seem to shift and change, the dream figures seem to come and go, yet the substance-less nature of appearances, which are the fabric of the dream, can no longer deceive the dreamer. The matrix of the illusion of maintaining control has no attraction or allure from the Perspective that arises from a Mind that is thinking with God. Dream softly of a sinless world, devoid of judgment. God does not judge, for there is literally nothing to judge between. Forgiveness might be called the acceptance of a “wholeness that knows no parts.”
Often spiritual awakening is associated with having to give up something. This false association springs from the belief in lack, which was the impossible attempt to deny wholeness. What God creates is forever whole and knows not of lack. There is no need to give up something that never existed -- the illusory, temporal nature of dreams is obvious when the wish to separate from God has been released. It is instantaneously evident that wholeness never "went" anywhere, for it is ever so. Willingness to Awaken also includes the release of the desire to "get out of here,” as you put it, for in the discovery of wholeness there is no "here" nor "there." It is impossible to pursue or fight to escape something without seeming to reinforce the belief that something other than wholeness exists, which is not the case. Wholeness transcends all apparent "seeming."
If Christ is real, then the world is not. Spirit comes not into time-space. Awakening is the recognition that Spirit is real and Identity in God is changeless. There is a phrase that is part of the thinking of the world called "Mind/Body/Spirit." The body has no meaning because Mind is One and Spirit is One and there is no gap in what is forever One. Withdraw faith from (or release) the illusion of meaning projected onto time/space/body/world, and the awareness of Present Meaning is apparent as All. I am Spirit. Rejoice in this Fact! Thank You God for creating All as One in Spirit!!!
Following the line of thinking of the Holy Spirit is easy, since there is no desire for anything else. Awakening is natural, and only seems difficult if appearances are given value. Value no appearance and truth instantly leaps into awareness. How simple and obvious is the truth.
I Love You forever and ever Holy One,
David