Lesson 95. I am One Self, united with my Creator.

Today’s lesson is really subtle. It’s an important lesson. It’s also a lesson that the ego can’t understand. Let’s look at it carefully and slowly so it can be understood and digested beyond the ego mind.

“I am one Self, united with my Creator.” If this is true (and it is true), can I do anything apart from my Creator? In order to do something apart from my Creator, we’d have to be two, wouldn’t we?

This means that if I forget the lesson for a few hours, or if I remember but I have too much resistance to give 5 minutes to practice, that I am forgetting or resisting WITH my creator.

Yep. This may not seem right to you, but if it doesn’t seem right it is because you are still thinking of your creator as something other than you.

Remember The Code. The entire world experience, including every thought that comes into your mind and every feeling that comes into your body, comes from our oneness and how we cast attention. Our oneness is the creator. So if we are distracted from remembering the lesson, where do those distractions come from? My creator of which I am a part. And if I have too much resistance to practice, where does that resistance come from? My creator of which I am a part.

When the ego mind thinks it understands this, it thinks, “Then I don’t even need to try because everything is God.” That’s not a right understanding. Again, remember The Code. The code that we create has different vibrational levels in it. When we choose the highest level available to us, we raise higher in vibration.

Look carefully at today’s lesson again. Look at paragraphs 8, 9 & 10. Can you see how those paragraphs are teaching you to make higher choices so you raise yourself in vibration?

~ If you forget, forgive yourself.

~ Overlook your lapses/failures; don’t give them any power.

~ Try again to remember with regularity.

All three of these choices will pull you up in vibration. Their opposites would keep you down.

Paragraph 8 says, “The Holy Spirit is not delayed in His teaching by your mistakes. He can be held back only by your unwillingness to let them go.” Translation: Choosing to believe a lower vibration thought/feeling cannot keep you down; only continuing to believe lower vibration thoughts/feelings can keep you down.

So when you make a mistake, correct it as soon as possible by choosing the highest vibrational thought available to you now. That is, forgive yourself, don’t give power to ideas like failure or guilt, and try again.

Also, look at paragraph 14. We are the creator, which means as you choose to raise yourself in vibration, you also raise the world in vibration, and “each time you do so, someone hears the voice of hope, the stirring of the truth within his mind, the gentle rustling of wings of peace.”

“I am one Self, united with my Creator.” With this knowledge, I choose the highest vibration available to me today.

If you’d like to review The Code, click this link. The Bonus audio is a good one for a review.

Lesson 94. I am as God created me.

Today we continue with looking at the self concept issue that most of us experience.  In yesterday’s tip, Jacquelyn pointed out “Most of us have an unworthiness or ‘I am bad’ belief.  In fact, only those who have transcended the belief are not beleaguered by it, in one form or another.”  When I read the title of today’s lesson my thought was, if this is true–I am as God created me–then I can’t be bad.  That is why as this lesson says this idea brings complete salvation.  I’m not bad because of what I am.  I am God’s Son.  I am the Life Force that moves through everything.  Through Connie.  Through the tree.  I am the animating factor that is.  I am and you are the window that consciousness looks through.

Today’s lesson says, “Darkness cannot obscure the glory of the Son of God.”  How could Darkness obscure the Life force that moves through everything? What is darkness, but unforgiven appearances? Like what? Oh, the I am bad thought.  The bedrock of our unforgiven appearance is our belief that we are the body/mind/personality.  The I am bad concept is just meant to maintain that bedrock belief.  It is meant to keep us involved in the story.  If I continue to believe I am a human being will I “attempt to feel the truth in [me]” as this lesson asks us to do with the first five minutes of each waking hour?  “Now try to reach the Son of God in you.  This is the Self Which never left Its home in God, to walk the world uncertainly.  This is the Self Which knows no fear, nor could conceive of loss or suffering or death.”  This is the Self that knows its truth.

Self inquiry is a tool that helps us see that truth. It is important to recognize that Self Inquiry requires us to actually look!

Many people who study A Course in Miracles study at the level of mind–at the level of thinking–so when they come to Lesson 94, they adopt the idea, “I am as God created me,” including their imagination of what that means to them. It doesn’t penetrate very deep, because it is only at the level of mind.

We are now at the phase of Self-inquiry. Self-inquiry has nothing to do with thinking. Self-inquiry is LOOKING. For people who believe everything is resolved by thinking, it takes practice to drop thinking and practice looking, but it can be done. With looking you have the attitude of, “What am I?” and then you LOOK with inner-looking, intuitive looking, to realize the answer.

Mooji, in the video that follows, asks us, “What is it that simply is?”  Self inquiry looks!  It looks past the concepts.  “I am as God created me.”  Self inquiry looks and sees the truth of that.  We are not a character who is bad or even good, as this lesson tries to convey,  we are the “Self That never sinned, nor made an image to replace reality.”  We are awareness being aware.  Will you inquire to the truth of you and all that is?