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Right Use of Will

Lecture Notes

A few weeks ago I asked the Holy Spirit for more Guidance about feelings.  The very next day I received a call from an ACIM student in Australia named Cole who told me about Right Use of Will.  As we talked, it became vividly clear to me that Right Use of Will, and Cole whose experience with the book is extremely extensive and very deep, was the way the Holy Spirit was providing the answer to my request.  It has now become clear that this material is of tremendous importance, and I’m immensely grateful for having been led to it.  

The material is channeled by Ceanne DeRohan.  She is channeling God.  God is telling us that there is currently a catastrophic imbalance between Spirit and Will in mankind and is telling us what must be done to correct the situation.  The title of the book is Right Use of Will and you can get it for ten dollars from www.rightuseofwill.com  The Holy Spirit has asked me to give these talks so you could begin to experience the material firsthand.

Using spiritual vision, valid though that vision may be in itself, to conquer “unspiritual” feelings has induced an epidemic of spiritual dysfunction throughout the world.  To justify the denial of "bad" feelings on the basis of spiritual principles seems so “right” that it makes the malady very difficult to acknowledge, recognize or correct.  That denial of feelings is a problem is itself strongly denied.  As a result, the problem has become the greatest and most difficult obstacle sabotaging the awakening of mankind. 

We have to stop undermining feelings that don’t fit concepts about love.  To deny and suppress any feeling is a form of self-mutilation.  Accepting all your feelings will allow them to evoke deep wisdom and insights that only they can provide.  The wisdom of the heart accepts all feelings; and accepting all feelings opens the wisdom of the heart; and together they give rise to an openness of being that is the very foundation of love.

The tiny mad idea was a form of denial.  Error is the denial of Truth.  To deny some feelings because some of them can be bad is the great cosmic blunder.  The appearance of badness or evil is the exclusive result of denial, and then appearing to require more of the very same denial that caused the very problem it’s now believed necessary to solve.  Denial of Truth results in an illusion of evil that seems to require denial to be corrected.  It’s as insane as trying to extinguish a fire with a flame-thrower. 

The more we deny the feelings that only appear bad because we’ve denied them, the worse they seem to be, and the more they seem to need to be denied, entangling the illusion of evil in a feedback loop of self amplification absurdly driven by an intent to correct something whose occurrence could never have occurred in the first place.  The Spiritual Vision that should have known that only Truth is true, falters into thinking it must protect Truth from an error it awards an appearance of reality by the very denial that’s supposed to conquer it, thus resulting in it itself having committed an error that now seems so actual that error, actually nothing, has surrealistically proven itself something to be defended against; all because of a tiny, impossible mad idea that there was something somewhere that needed to be denied. 

The only escape from this madness is to drop the one and only singular madness that caused it – denial.  Recognizing the nothingness of absurdity, denial is easily released; once denial is released acceptance is easy; and when all there is accepts all there is, everyone wakes up in heaven where this time even the tiniest mad ideas will be strictly forbidden.

Healing happens when an emotion, feeling or 'part' of ourselves receives our complete acceptance, just as it is, without having to change or be different in any way.  Our primary task is to unconditionally accept everything about ourselves, just as we are now. This includes our bodies and all of our emotions. It includes every part of our being, regardless of how 'bad' it has felt, or how bad we may have judged it to be, or how much we may as a result have denied it in the past.

The key to healing is in the distinction between the two modes of awareness, Spirit and Will, mind and feeling.

Conscious awareness, or Spirit, relates to thoughts, visions, and spiritual realities.   It is the outward moving, yang, electric, penetrating, more masculine kind of awareness.  It’s metaphor is the Father.  God the Father.   Our Father who art in Heaven.  I and the Father are one.  God the Mother was so completely denied, you almost never hear the phrase God the Mother.   

Feeling, or Will, is the in-drawing, yin, magnetic, yielding, more feminine mode of awareness that relates to emotions, feelings, sensations, and intuition. It’s metaphor is the Mother. 

We have been conditioned to favor Spirit, vision or mind, over Will or feelings because mind has judged many feelings as 'bad.'

So we’ve made a habit of ignoring or denying perceptions that come to us through feeling or will whenever they have been judged against by Spirit or mind.

While wholeness has been the stated objective of many spiritual disciplines, most advocate reclaiming only the lost parts of the self that can align with the aims of the mind.  This bias has naturally left many parts of our will or feeling nature abandoned or mutilated.

Right Use of Will reverses the age-old tendency of spirit or mind to judge and dominate feeling or will.  It is only our feelings themselves that can know what is needed for the healing of our long-denied feelings. 

The role of Spirit has been to lord over the feelings. It has been conditioned to either ignore them or subjugate them.  But in Right Use of Will, the role of Spirit now is to help healing by providing loving acceptance for even the most desperate feeling parts and everything they experience, including their pain. 

Instead of will enslaved to Spirit, the master key now is Spirit in the service of Will.  Instead of Spirit in overbearing domination of will, Spirit and will are to come into harmonious balance.  Instead of deity being exclusively Father with Mother so totally denied so as not even to be mentioned, the natural balance of Mother and Father is to be restored.   Instead of reality being mutilated by denial, through acceptance, wholeness is to be restored.

Denial is the opposite of acceptance. The energy of acceptance moves to include, denial energy moves to exclude. Since wholeness includes everything, it cannot manifest in the presence of denial energy. This is simply because denying anything excludes it from unconditional acceptance, from love. Whatever form it takes, denial energy will consume any acceptance that attempts to include it.  Fortunately, Denial can simply be released, and when it is, acceptance is easy.

T-8.II.2. 7 Learning is joyful if it leads you along your natural path, and facilitates the development of what you have. 8 When you are taught against your nature, however, you will lose by your learning because your learning will imprison you. 9 Your will is <in> your nature, and therefore cannot go against it.

T-8.II.3. The ego cannot teach you anything as long as your will is free, because you will not listen to it. 2 It is not your will to be imprisoned because your will is free. 3 That is why the ego is the denial of free will. 4 It is never God Who coerces you, because He shares His Will with you.  6 The lesson is that your will and God's cannot be out of accord because they are one. 7 This is the undoing of everything the ego tries to teach.

T-8.II.4. The ego tries to teach that you want to oppose God's Will. 2 This unnatural lesson cannot be learned, and the attempt to learn it is a violation of your own freedom, making you afraid of your will <because> it is free. 3 The Holy Spirit opposes any imprisoning of the will of a Son of God, knowing that the Will of the Son is the Father's. 4 The Holy Spirit leads you steadily along the path of freedom, teaching you how to disregard or look beyond everything that would hold you back.

T-4.III.6. No force except your own will is strong enough or worthy enough to guide you.  2 In this you are as free as God, and must remain so forever.

T.3.VI.4 You are very fearful of everything you have perceived but have refused to accept. You believe that, because you have refused to accept it, you have lost control over it. This is why you see it in nightmares, or in pleasant disguises in what seem to be your happier dreams. Nothing that you have refused to accept can be brought into awareness. It is not dangerous in itself, but you have made it seem dangerous to you.

A small portion of the above is a modification and adaptation of certain ideas from www.healingtowholeness.com in order to fit the concepts and terminology of the book “Right Use of Will.”

The rest of the seminar consists of reading and group discussion of pages 1 – 37 of the book “Right Use of Will – Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body,” a channeled work by Ceanne DeRohan, available from www.rightuseofwill.com