MY RELUCTANCE TO SEE JESUS’ DEEPER TEACHINGS ON THE UNDOING OF SUFFERING “The following is a real-life account from my own experience as a Course (ACIM) student. My spiritual journey had helped me detach significantly from physical and emotional pain, however after more than twenty years of studying and practicing the Course, I still believed in the body and the ego’s laws. I still believed decay, disease and death would overcome life. I believed I had no power over death. Death and sickness were natural, inevitable and legitimate parts of life. Because this was my free-will belief, I expected disease, decay and death. And from what I expected, God could not save me. I tried to defend myself from these, but did not realize my very defense caused me to unconsciously attract them into my experience. I did not know that my own ego will was as powerful as God’s Will, and that everything I defended myself from, I attracted. As Jesus says, “Truth cannot deal with errors that you want.”(T-3.IV.7:1.) And I could not forgive that which I still believed was real. I did not recognize this: If I defend myself against something, I must still believe in its reality. While I’m defending against a perceived threat without willingly recognizing my own insanity, I won’t surrender my erroneous perception to Spirit. And that means I cannot forgive it. I cannot heal or be healed. For total healing to occur, I didn’t know I needed to offer up my entire perception that the mistaken concept of threat had ever existed. I did not realize, and therefore could not benefit from, a profoundly significant component of the forgiveness process. It begins from the basis that only God’s Love exists. I did not yet accept or believe that nothing the body or world seemed to show me had the power to cause harm. I did not yet live out from the embodied knowing that …” TO READ THE FULL EXCERPT GO TO: undoing-the-ego.org/noukblog/?p=725
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