Gentle Healing 2 ~ Day 115: NTI Acts 8

Note:  Before reading today’s tip, read Acts 8:9-25  from the Bible or watch all of Acts 8 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

On Day 113, we learned how to be with an ego attack. Today’s reading reemphasizes the technique of not giving energy to an ego attack when it arises. There may be a temptation to see ego resistance as a battle—possibly a battle between you and the ego or a battle between you and Spirit. It is not helpful to see resistance as a battle, because then you are tempted to fight the battle or fear the battle. If you fight or fear the ego attack, you feed it with energy. Today’s reading encourages us to see it as a storm, and realize that the storm is passing.

Today’s reading also reinterprets a story about Peter and a man called Simon the Sorcerer. In the Bible story, Peter sees Simon as wicked, bitter and captive to sin. NTI points out that this way of seeing is not how the Holy Spirit sees. Peter’s way of seeing comes from the wrong-mind, not the right-mind. NTI says:

When the Holy Spirit looks at the world, it does not see holy men and men of darkness. It does not see men at all. It does not see men who are right in what they do and men who are wrong. It does not see men at all.

“Holy Spirit” is a symbolic term for spiritual wisdom. Spiritual wisdom is an aspect of the Second Principle of God, consciousness. Consciousness does not see separate people, some good and some bad, some righteous and some ignorant. Consciousness sees consciousness. Consciousness is aware of an awakening within consciousness—NTI calls it “the spreading of Light within an awakening mind”—but consciousness is not aware of separate parts.

To illustrate, imagine a bowl of white cake batter. Now, imagine that we want the cake to be blue, so we add blue food coloring to the batter. As we begin to stir in the food coloring, some of the cake batter is white and some is blue. As we continue to stir, more of the batter becomes blue. We see swirls of blue batter within the white batter. We do not see separate batter—it is all one batter—but we do see the spreading of blue within the batter. That is how consciousness sees awakening.

Just like the white batter will become completely blue, all aspects of consciousness will awaken to itself.

We allow ourselves to be awakened by the light that is spreading through consciousness by surrendering and willingly following intuition. That is how we are stirred. That is how the merging occurs.