Lesson 28, Above all else I want to see things differently
In ACIM’s description of the tiny mad idea, we thought, what would it be like if everything was different than it was. How was it prior to this idea, you might ask. Everything was One. Oneness was (is). There was nothing outside of me (Oneness). There was no subject/object split. There was nothing distinctly separate from me. Everything was Whole. In NTI Luke, the Holy Spirit asked that you no longer accept “that there is a ‘you’ and a ‘them’ who is separate from you. This is the view the ego has of the world.”
So, it is worth repeating, there is nothing distinctly separate from me. But, in lesson 28, Jesus says “you see a lot of separate things about you, which really means you are not seeing at all. You either see or not.”
Jesus uses a table as an example in his lesson and says we are defining the table in past terms and “you will not question what you have already defined.” Isn’t this an example of the perceptual loop? Once I have an idea and I decide the idea has merit, I cast attention on the idea, I experience it the way I thought and…What I think, I see. What I see, I experience. What I experience, I think. Jesus admonishes us to let the table’s purpose be revealed to us, instead of placing our own judgement upon it.
You see, the problem is in the mind, not in the world because there is nothing outside of me. The world was an idea in my mind. As long as we cast attention on individual parts we can’t know the whole picture (Wholeness). NTI Luke 6 tells us:
We are the song as one sound together. Love the entire song. Every aspect is equally important to the whole, every aspect valuable and cherished for its part in it. Share the perspective of the song by seeing yourself as the song and by loving the entire song, just as it is, without judgement or desire that the song should be played differently.
Break the loop. Withdraw your interpretations. “The ego-mind is not aware that it interprets,” but “since the ego-mind is a split or fraction, its perspective or viewpoint is not whole. Since it is not whole, it is not Knowledge, which is why it interprets.” NTI Luke Chapter 6.
There is nothing but your mind that separates you from anything else. Let your desire to want to see things differently show you that everything is connected and shares the same purpose.
