Regina 12-02-06

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It's funny . . . as I was listening to Nicole close out Tainter's Anonymous and looking at what I was about to teach, I thought, "I've got nothing here." I thought it was going to be a rather ho-hum teaching experience. So, I closed my eyes and said a quick little prayer that went something like this:

It seems my prayer was answered. Last night was anything BUT ho-hum. It seems that when we lay our-self aside and let the Holy Spirit come through . . . well, I don't seem to have words to finish this sentence. I only have a feeling of gratitude. I know that those of you who were there understand.

Anyway, I made a few promises last night and I am here to keep them now. I promised to post all three versions of the "tiny, mad idea" story, which HS has shared with me. I mentioned that I learned something different from each of the versions. I also promised to share links to all of the writings that I read last night. I will keep all of these promises in the next three emails.

Exceprt from the Holy Spirit's interpretation of Luke 21:

(tiny mad idea story, version 1)

We have spoken of the mind that must be shared, which you believe you have taken for yourself. This mind, you believe you have stolen from God. You must know this: It is impossible to steal this mind from God, because this mind is God, and God cannot be stolen from Itself.

How is it that you think you have stolen this mind? The mind that is God is what it is, and it cannot be changed. But you, as one with this mind, had a wish that it could be different. Within the freedom granted by being of mind, you began to make your wish fulfilled. There is nothing wrong with this exploration of thought in which you chose to engage, except the error in which you believed that your thought could not live if it was shared. In this error, you developed your first misperception of yourself. For in this error, you created the belief that you could be separate from God. Then, you judged yourself for what you thought you did, and you found yourself guilty of disrupting the existence of the truth that is God.

“Disrupting” is an appropriate word here, because God, as best as it can be described, is sharing the existence of Love. By choosing that God be something different, you had to decide that it must be that it could not be shared, and to not be shared must be a “disruption” of that which is shared.

This seemed to be the creation of a private mind with private thought and its own private abilities. But since you saw this as a disruption that destroyed the essence of what God is, you saw this as a sin and judged yourself as guilty. What could come of such judgment except fear?

Now, take a moment to accept all that I am telling you, even if you cannot understand it. I am telling you this:

The Spirit of God is one. Nothing exists that is not within the Spirit of God. You exist, and so you must be within the Spirit of God. That which is within the Spirit of God is the Spirit of God. Therefore, you cannot be separate from the Spirit of God. But, you have believed that you are separate from the Spirit of God, a separate entity with private thoughts that are not shared. And for these thoughts, of which you believe you are responsible, you have judged yourself as guilty. And yet, there must be something within you that does not believe these thoughts are private, because you also believe you will suffer for having these thoughts, which means you know they are shared. And this seeming conflict is the basis of your fear.

Let’s look at this more slowly and once again, for there is an inconsistency here that you must see and recognize if you are to let go of fear. The inconsistency is this:

You believe, “I have a private mind with private thoughts, which are mine alone, which must mean that I am guilty of disrupting the sharing that is God.”

And you also believe, “This error I have made is seen by God, because I know that thought cannot not be shared. I expect and fear punishment for all I have done.”

And there, within your own thought and belief is the insane idea that maintains your fear, and yet this thought can never be true. For if you were guilty of making a mind that disrupted the flow of the mind of God, that mind would be private and it would not be shared. Therefore, God could not seek to punish you, because God would not be aware.

What is the truth of all your thoughts and beliefs? The truth is that they are based on a premise, a premise of separation, which cannot be true. Since they are based on a premise that cannot be true, your thoughts in themselves cannot be true either. This means there is no guilt, and there can be nothing to fear.

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Excerpt from the Holy Spirit's interpretation of Acts 10:

("tiny mad idea" story, version 2)

Each of your brothers is one with you. Therefore, each of your brothers has one purpose, and that is the purpose given him within the mind.

There seems to be two purposes, when in truth there is only one. There was a purpose, an ancient one, which only lasted an instant. In the instant that purpose was made, another was placed beside it as its correction. In the instant the correction was accepted, correction became the only purpose. Any other purpose that seems to be is a residual of a purpose that was for an instant, and then it passed.

Remember that I have told you there is no past. The past does not exist now. It is only a memory of something that was, but what was isn’t now.

The Holy Spirit is the purpose of now. The purpose of now is the joining of that which seemed to be made separate by the purpose that was, but isn’t anymore.

This is important for you to accept, so let’s look at this so you may see. The purpose that was was the purpose that you could be separate from God in order to be different. This is the purpose I explained to you before. This is the purpose that led you to believe that you had stolen yourself from God.

In the beginning, which has no beginning at all, there was God. And God is all there is today. But the existence of God sought a freedom that was different than the freedom it had known. Of course, what freedom could be different from freedom? When freedom is free, as your freedom is, nothing can be different but the illusion of not being free.

Opposites were made from a state of freedom, that freedom may be expressed, because it is free. This is the expression of you. You are an expression of freedom. The brothers you experience are an expression of freedom too.

Since freedom is all that was given you, freedom is all that you are. But that expression has been used to make something different from that which it is. And so, the expression of freedom made lack of freedom. This is also the expression that you are.

You seem to be the lack of freedom when freedom is what you are, so the lack that you experience is an expression of the freedom that you are. But all of this you have forgotten, for you chose to forget it when you chose an experience different than the experience that you know.

The Holy Spirit is the memory of the experience you know, which is the truth of your freedom and the truth of you now. In your true desire to be only free, this truth has been accepted. So the purpose of freedom, which is the purpose of the Holy Spirit, is the only purpose now.

Within you is true purpose. Within you is the Holy Spirit. But to remember the true purpose that you chose to forget, you must follow your purpose back to where you are. This is the path of joining by letting go of false purposes, founded in the search for falseness, and returning to true purpose, which is the only purpose now. (verses 27 – 29)

This brings us back to the story of your willingness. Since in truth you are the expression of pure freedom, nothing can be given you except you are wholly willing to accept it. For if that were not true, you would not be free.

Continue the nursing of your willingness that you may ask for in your freedom that which you truly desire, which is to remember the reality of the truth that you are free. (verses 30 – 33)

The story of the world is the story of the expression of freedom. Within this story one must also see the willingness that the expression know itself as free. Freedom is available to you, because freedom is all there really is. Accept this truth and join with the Holy Spirit within you. He will guide you back through your willingness to the remembrance of the freedom that is you. (verses 34 – 48)

http://www.forholyspirit.org/romans.htm - Chapters 1 - 3 are "tiny mad idea" story, version 3. I read an excerpt from chapter 2 last night. This is where our reference to "option A" (Holy Spirit, nothing has happened) and "option B" (ego, something real has happened) came from.

http://www.forholyspirit.org/ephesians.htm - I read excerpts from chapters 1, 2, 3 & 4 last night. I was writing the Holy Spirit's interpretation of Ephesians when I had my "Helen Keller moment at the well." In that moment, I realized that we are one, even within the illusion.

http://reginadawnakers.com/?p=462 - As I read this last night, we began to see that Communication is all that is and Communication is shared, because we are one. Pikes Peak is not a mountain, it is Communication. And we smiled as we realized that God is in the wastebasket. (reference to workbook lesson 29)

http://reginadawnakers.com/?p=434 - Through this forgiveness opportunity, we see that listening to the ego and acting on ego thoughts is "innocently believing and acting out" thoughts that are in the one mind, of which we are a part.

http://reginadawnakers.com/?p=436 - Through this analogy of our oneness as a machine, we see clearly that our brother is innocent. We also see that as miracle workers, we can help everyone by answering the call for love through forgiveness.

ACIM Text 5.IV.1.9-11 - Through these sentences within ACIM, we see that our salvation is our oneness. As more and more people choose to become miracle workers, more and more light shines within our mind. This will eventually cause a snowball effect, which will seem to grow in rapidity. Since we are all one, we actually save the world through choosing to accept the atonement "for myself." How perfect is that!

By the way, if anyone has the Scott Kalechstein CD called Putting the Pieces Together, try listening to track 9. I was planning to play it last night, but ran out of time. It is the perfect closing to the learning we did together. The chorus goes like this: