MAY: Above The Battleground
Living as a Victim
Or
Living in Peace?
“Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.”
– Stanislav Grof, MD, PhD
Hello dear friends,
As we meet again in the silence, may we come together joyfully in the presence of the harmony of love. In the last three months, I’m happy to have had the opportunity to share thoughts with you from my prophetic visions which I’ve come to know as guides to truth, and have written about in my book. To me, the most exciting revelation of my visions (and the message of A Course in Miracles) is that not only are we experiencing a collective dream—but it is already over, and we are just remembering. 😊 Sure, that is not our experience, but it is the truth we are awakening to. A Course in Miracles tells us that “Time is a learning device.”
A symbol that helps me to envision the concept of the unreality of time, and the holographic nature of our dream . . . is a hotel! I imagine that we (everyone in the dream of life) are all in a gigantic hotel called The Ritz Hotel of Time, est., Never. In it are vast hallways of salons, where each door opens to virtual movie theaters showing other eras, generations, centuries, cultures, civilizations etc. As we choose room after room to enter, experience, and then leave, we are waking up—or not—by the extent of our willingness to forgive, and see only love. Since reincarnations are merely episodes in the dream, we move on after the drama of seeming death, to the next room/lifetime, while retaining whatever it is that we have—or have not learned in past lifetimes/movies.
But, here’s the key . . . all the while—we are actually the projector —and we are projecting our made-up dream on to the screen from our mind . . . one insane adventure after the other. Until we tire of mis-adventures and ask Spirit to guide us out the door of time’s crazy illusion, and return to eternal peace and joy. I love what Ken Wapnick said when he gave a similar allegory. . . He said, “Then we can just go out in the lobby and eat popcorn with Jesus.”
So how do we move from our experience of a world of duality (a place of love and insanity) to a non-dualistic world of eternal and only love, all while becoming more peaceful? In general, as I’ve said, it’s a process of letting go of our blocks of guilt and continuous unconditional forgiving, and remembering to laugh! While we think this world is our real experience, healing requires our experience of a new vision of our Real Self.
There are two ways of choosing to live in this dream world. We have a split mind: a wrong mind that holds the illusionary ego thought system in place; and a right mind which is the voice of the Holy Spirit within us that holds a correction for each misthought. The ego’s velvet hammer is guilt. A very insidious, collective subconscious guilt arose when we forgot to laugh at the tiny mad idea that we could be separate from God. The problem is not that we think that are separate—the problem is that we think we are guilty!
Psychology is framed around learning to let go of guilt, either conscious or unconscious. We all carry a subliminal sense of guilt—the silent sleuth . . . I’m not good enough, if others really knew everything about me, they wouldn’t love me, etc. The process of being released from the ego is to (1) notice these thoughts, and (2) to ask Spirit’s help to replace them with love. This shift becomes a change in our perception (projection) and in the Course is called a miracle. Miracles become habits. Miracles guide us out of illusion. They remind the Mind that what it sees is false.
“Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world . . . And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never die, for what has life has immortality.”
– Wk bk., S13, p473
Conscious and unconscious guilt can also come from our imaginary past, our “story.” When we’ve been abused or victimized by parents, friends, co-workers, family . . . we tend to hold it in; to repress it. Although we think we are fine when we can somehow find a way to forget it and move on, the subliminal message of this buried trauma is that there must be something wrong with me or this wouldn’t have happened. This trauma is real, and lurks as guilt in our subconscious. It holds us back from being our fullest expression, and from experiencing our own innocence and joy. To heal it, is to bring it into the light of remembering—and then we can let it go. And, there are no accidents. Healing has its own reward.
“I began to understand that those horrible memories remained lodged in my subconscious until that time in my life when I subconsciously sensed it safe enough to confront them. . . like a caterpillar that needs the confining walls of the chrysalis to push against in order to transform into a butterfly, perhaps my soul required this kind of resistance for my transformation. I’d been forced to find my own strength. I’d been led through so many life-changing challenges that taught me to trust the inner voice of the Holy Spirit within me to see the big picture.”
TGIC p.321 & 346 – LINK TO TGIC
So, our process is a curriculum of daily lessons that can show us how to let go of all guilt, to forgive ourselves and our brother, and to see beyond the illusion by beholding the innocence in everyone, if we choose it. This is true forgiveness as the Course teaches. Forgiveness is only understood when happiness is truly sought. Forgiveness does NOT pardon sins and make them real. Forgiveness recognizes that there was no sin—it never occurred, and is all part of our collective insane dream. We forgive our brothers and sisters and are thus forgiving ourselves at the same time—because we are all One Mind. (More on unconditional forgiveness next newsletter)
Through daily practice, we begin to the experience the real world through the eyes of forgiveness. Seeing through the vision of Christ, which blesses rather than condemns, is to train our mind so the time will come when instead of judging automatically, we will forgive automatically. All things are opportunities to learn forgiveness.
“This looking without judgment, in gentle laughter, is the meaning of forgiveness.”
(W-pI.193) Whenever we forget, the ego loves to make us feel guilty—even over that! Begone! 😊 Think of yourself as an observer—the happy learner—who finds ways to laugh at it all.
“When you hit bottom, a trapdoor opens to the light.”
Shakti Gawain
So, until next time,
When you find yourself staring into the headlights of fear, I hope you can stop . . . allow yourself to laugh at your temporary insanity . . . and say, as I often do, THANK GOD I’M CRAZY! 😊
***** SEE ONLY LOVE FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE *****
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Thank God I’m Crazy includes pictures of places which took place in Grace’s life, as seen in her visions. Grace Avalon, teacher and intuitive counselor, has taught A Course in Miracles for nine years. She gives presentations, seminars and workshops for anyone whose known abuse, thought they were crazy, or wants to live a joyful life.
*** Marianne Williamson, (NY Times bestselling author, teacher, and internationally renowned speaker) , has said, “Grace Avalon inspires all of us to trust the wisdom of our hearts. Here is spirituality in practice.” ***