In NTI Romans 2, we learned that a curiosity arose:<\/p>\n
What if nothing was as it is?
\nWhat if I could make something completely different?<\/p>\n
When this original idea was infused with believing-attention, two options arose. The first option was a reminder of truth\u2014the reminder that reality is reality, and it cannot change. The second option was the belief that something different had been made.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if nothing was as it is?\u201d is the first sense of \u2018I.\u2019 It was the sense of an \u2018I\u2019 that can cause an effect. Out of that idea, two thoughts arose. One was a correction to the original thought; it pointed directly to truth. The other option was more thought, which led into a dream.<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s reading opens by saying:<\/p>\n
The truth is that all thought rises out of the sense of \u201cI\u201d or because of the sense of \u201cI,\u201d as a correction to this thought.<\/p>\n
Without the original error of an \u2018I\u2019 presence that can cause an effect, thought would not be. That includes right-minded thought, because right-minded thought is a correction to error-thought.<\/p>\n
If we consider that our sense of self, our sense of others, our values, our ethics and our world are all thought, we may realize that we do not know who we are or what anything is without thought. Thought is our form of understanding; it is our form of knowing. And yet, if thought blocks reality, our form of knowing is entirely wrong. It is ignorance masquerading as knowing.<\/p>\n
Thought is story. It is an ongoing storyline that creates fantasy. When the story comes into our mind as thought, and we believe it, we believe a story, a falsehood. Some things may be true in the storyline, but “true” in a made-up fantasy is not truth. When we search the story for what\u2019s true in the story, we are simply engaging untruth more.<\/p>\n
The story is in motion, and the storyline does come into your mind as thought. However, you are not the story character. You are life-awareness. You can<\/em>\u00a0 abide as life-awareness and see the entire story as nothing but story. You have the ability to be the detached observer, regardless of what occurs in the story.<\/p>\n Detached observation leads to freedom from the story.<\/p>\n