Lesson 20, I am determined to see.
In this lesson, Jesus tells us “Your decision to see is all that is required” to see. We know that a decision is a thought in the mind that we have determined is worth giving our attention to. Regina calls this casting attention. So with today’s workbook lesson, we are taking beginning steps towards casting our attention differently. Today we practice every half an hour casting our attention on the thought, “I am determined to see.”
Jesus goes on to tell us in this lesson “What you desire to see you will. Such is the real law of cause and effect as it operates in the world.” If you read Jacquelyn’s tip from yesterday it said, “The truth is that the entirety of what IS conspires to give us the experience we would have. It could not be otherwise.”
Regina makes the same point with idea of casting attention, “We always receive what we cast attention upon. Casting attention is wanting and we always get what we want because getting what we want is the nature of what we are.”
Jesus tells us it is a decision and what you desire you will see, but one may ask, “Why should I be determined to see? Why is it important? And what is it that I am I determined to see?” NTI Ephansians tells us that seeing is true desire. “Know your happiness by realizing your truth and operating in it according to true desire.” The whole is awakening to the true desire of the mind and that desire is to know Thyself.
So being determined to see means becoming consciously aware of the desire to know ourselves and awaken. Alan Watts tells us that “We are here to discover that current awakeness that each of us has, but we are not aware of because we live on the surface.” (The Spiritual Journey as the Self). So let’s dive deep; let’s be determined to see and know ourselves.
