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Listen to Regina's teaching recorded from ACIM Gather on PalTalk, September 18, 2005 Just click the audio to play below:Part 1: Part 2: (If you don't hear the audio, make sure you have Adobe Flash Player installed.) Follow along as Regina reads from articles posted below. Getting
Clear: Part 1 November 10, 2004 Question for the Holy Spirit: How is it that sacrifice and unfairness are not true? How does a person born into extreme poverty, hunger and disease have the same opportunity to know you and to love you as I do? Answer that came to me: You have to remember that the world was made by the mistaken Son of God to hide from the imagined wrath of God. It was not made as an easy path to God. It is a firm distraction from God, and the mistaken Son of God is a willing participant in it. But also remember that it is an illusion. It isn’t real. Time is not linear. Nothing is as it seems. There is not cause for sadness. Your role is clear. You must accept salvation for yourself. Forgive the illusion. It isn’t real. Forgive the mistake. It isn’t real either. Be happy, and follow your faith. January 16, 2005 Question: Why does the Course say that we only need a little willingness? Answer: You already have a little willingness. You only need to recognize it as yours and give your power to it. Your little willingness is a shining sliver of your remembrance of God. As you give your power to your willingness, it will grow. As it grows, your remembrance of God and who You Are will grow. Focus on your willingness. Nurture your willingness. Love your Willingness. It is You. January 25, 2005 The “I” that I think I am was made by the thought of separation. I am a product of that thought, and therefore, thoughts of separation seem to be my thoughts. Although the thought of separation is my source, it is not my Original Source. For before the thought of separation, there was (and is) One. Just as the thoughts of my source are in my mind, the Thoughts of my Original or True Source are in my mind. When I forgive the thoughts of separation, I am returning to my Original Source, which is the Truth of my Origin and my Being. April 11, 2005 I always follow. I never
lead. Is that the voice I choose to follow? Is that where I place my willingness and my faith? I can choose again and let old habits be replaced. My only choice is to follow. I cannot lead. When I surrender to this thought, my choice is clear. February 13, 2005 The ego is not the devil. It isn’t a force outside of you that finds pleasure in deceiving you. It isn’t anything to struggle against or to fear, although it can feel as if it is. The ego is a mistake that you believe in. The power of belief is undeniable. What you believe is real for you. Since you believe in separateness and attack, the world seems threatening to you. That is what you believe, that is what you experience, and that is what you fear. The experience of a threatening world seems real to you, and I don’t ask you to deny that seeming reality. I don’t ask you to step in front of a moving car and trust that it will not hit you, because it may. It would be dependent on the alertness and reaction of the driver behind the wheel. In this way, the world is real. What I ask you to understand is that the “reality” comes from the belief. The belief is the cause of all that you experience. You make the world you experience. Now you may ask, “If I change my belief about the world, will I see no more sickness, no more war and no more threat?” I’ve answered this for you before in many ways, but I will put the answers together for you now so you may see what seem to be pieces as a whole. You are not an individual. Everyone that you experience in the world is a part of you. You are aspects of one mind. When I say that the world you experience is made by you, I am not referring to you as an individual. That would indicate that separateness is truth. When I say that the world you experience is made by you, I am referring to all aspects of the mind that believe in separateness. As one aspect of the mind lets go of the belief in separateness, more Light is brought into the whole mind. It helps to rouse the Sonship, but as the Sonship continues to sleep, nightmares of separateness continue in the world. When I indicate that what you will see will change, the word “see” and the word “perceive” are synonymous. As long as you see a world, you perceive. I am not saying that a violent crime could occur around you and that others would see it and you would not. The body’s eyes will continue to show you the seeming actions within the world of illusion. When I say you will see differently, I mean that you will perceive differently, or to be even more clear, that you will feel differently about what you see. Your perspective will be different. Your feelings will be different and therefore, your action will be different. Remember the story of Jesus and the adulteress. Jesus saw the men that were preparing to stone this woman and he saw a woman who had seemingly broken the laws of Moses. His eyes did not show him anything different. But, Jesus did feel differently about what he saw. He saw the woman as innocent and he saw the men as innocent. So, he did not condemn the woman and he did not condemn the men. He acted in a way that was consistent with his perception and caused a change in events. Peace Pilgrim also has many stories that demonstrate that her eyes showed seemingly dangerous situations, but her perception showed only a call for Love. Because she consistently reacted with Love, it caused a turn of events based on the introduction of Light into the situation. On what seems to be a micro level, an introduction of Light into a seemingly dark situation can change the events as they were about to occur. This may appear to be a miracle of events, but it is not. It is Light within an aspect of the mind shining away darkness within the same mind, resulting in a change in form. The cause is in the mind. The results seem evidenced in form. The same miracle can occur on what seems to be a macro level. This may look different in the world of form; it may seem that it takes involvement from more individuals in order to introduce lasting peace into the international situation, but if you remember that there are no individuals, you will see that it is the same cause and effect. I’ve told you before that your only responsibility is to accept the atonement for yourself. Now, you must see how important it is that you let the Light come into awareness in your mind. You must also see how you do this on behalf of all of your brothers. Light within the mind is Light within the mind, and the entire mind benefits from the shining of that Light. There can be no exceptions. I see that you are willing to do this for your brothers. I see that you are willing to let your perspective be changed from that of a seeming individual to Oneness, but you are finding it difficult. You are experiencing fear and you do not know what to believe. You aren’t certain what is truth and what is illusion. Even as you sit writing this with me, you wonder if you are making this up or if you are hearing the Voice for God, and you don’t know how to be sure I will tell you how to be sure. I’ve told you this before. Pay attention to how you feel. Let the feelings of Light guide you. Do what you are told to do while you feel those feelings. When the feelings of darkness are upon you, take no action. Spend that time giving the feelings over to me. If you act with the Light and refrain from acting with the darkness, you will be acting in accordance with Truth and Light, and you will be moving steadily along the path to enlightenment. Know also that the end of this path is certain and enlightenment is a reasonable goal since it is the only goal that can truly be obtained. However, don’t crave the goal so much that it becomes an individual desire. That will delay the result, since the cause of enlightenment can never be the desire to attain for the individual. The ego is nothing but a belief in your mind. When the belief is gone, you will see that the ego was nothing. March 7, 2005 Question: I am realizing how much I hold onto the past, especially in some situations, and I want to learn to let it go. I keep seeing the past in the faces that I come into contact with. Will you share some tips to help me get better at letting go of the past? Answer: Letting go of the past seems difficult because you have an earthly memory. Don’t think of letting go of the past as letting go of your memories. That is not realistic for you at this time. Think of letting go of the past as releasing it from your present moment, and therefore from your future. First of all, you feel guilty because you think you live too much in the past. You can easily let go of the guilt if you realize it is impossible for you to live in the past. Now is always now. You can only live now. If you are thinking of the past, you are not living in the past. You are merely reviewing the past now. The power in that is that you can choose a different reaction now than the one you may have selected in the past. You are not stuck with your past reaction, because it is not the past, it is now. Secondly, when you are reviewing the past in the present, think about your memories as a diet. We can call it a soul food diet, if you like. (Said humorously.) The diet that you select determines what you will grow in to. If you decide to feast on a diet of ego memories, you are building a future like your past. This is what the Course urges you to not do. This is what is meant by letting go of the past. However, you can select different memories as your diet and build a different future by reviewing those memories now. Choose to remember the times that you have felt your closeness to me. Choose to remember the times that you were in your right mind. Choose to remember the helpful thoughts I have shared with you. Choose your memories like you choose your music and your reading materials. Choose to feast on uplifting memories. Use your past to build you up and bring you closer to me. April 14, 2005 Look at Spirit within. That is the only true relationship, for that is the relationship with Self. Look only to that relationship. That is the Effect of God that is you. Let all other relationships go. Love Spirit. Look only to Spirit. Listen only to Spirit. There is no exception; Everything else is illusion. May 2, 2005 It seems like you have many relationships, but that is simplified if, first, you can see there are only two. At any given moment, with each thought, you are either having a relationship with the ego or the Holy Sprit. Any other seeming relationship is illusion. It does not exist. There are only two. Once you accept this simplification, there is yet another one. The ego is only an aspect of your imagination. Can it then, be called a true relationship? If that which is imagined isn’t real, what is the only true relationship? Think on this today, and be glad. April 17, 2004 Recently, I realized that there are several special
relationships I need to April 18, 2004 I need do nothing, for to plan to do anything is to play
the game. If I plan May 8, 2005 Let your mind rest today. Remember that it is not your role to struggle. To struggle is to attempt to “go it alone” using your own individual power. To struggle is to let the ego guide you on your spiritual path. To struggle is a mistake and to mistakenly walk the wrong path. The way to God is a peaceful path. It is the way of rest, where all things seem to be done for you, because you have been willing not to struggle. And you are willing not to struggle for one reason – because you have chosen a different purpose, a purpose that knows no struggle. It sees no forces to struggle against and desires no separation to struggle for. It has let the struggle go, because it is the purpose of accepting what Is as it Is. It is the purpose of remembering Truth, and Truth can only be remembered when struggle is let go. Part 2 May 22, 2005 Laws of chaos
Question: What would you have me realize from the first law of chaos? (The truth is different for everyone.) Answer: You are afraid to speak the truth to some because you have judged that they will not value what you have to say and they will think of you as unworthy. Do not judge for yourself to whom to speak of truth and to whom not to. Let me decide that for you and do as I ask. Your faith and joy will be extended through sharing in faith. Be willing to let go of your own values and do not feel guilty for the values you have not yet let go of. Be willing to let go. That is all I ask. I will lead you to let go through your willingness. Question: What would you have me realize from the second law of chaos? (Each one must sin, and therefore deserves attack and death.) Answer: This tells you that the Son of God is not God Himself, that the Son is separate from the Father. If you believe this of your brothers, you will also believe it of yourself. If you believe it of yourself, you will see your separation as permanent and hopeless, and you will not believe in what is true, and so you will not experience it. To experience oneness with God for yourself, be willing to see it in your brothers. Do not struggle to see it there, for if you do, you are asking the ego to show it to you and you will not see it. Simply give me your willingness to see it and rest patiently in peace and faith. If you can wait in faith without abiding to the temptation to struggle, you will see God in your brother and find Him in your Self. Question: What would you have me realize from the third law of chaos? (God must accept His Son’s belief in what he is, and hate him for it.) Answer: This is the law that makes your Self your enemy and makes it impossible to trust your Self. For here, you fear your own power, afraid that you will use it to punish and destroy yourself. And so you believe it is safer to deny your power, which is to deny your Self and make yourself little and without hope. In this, you become a victim of the world outside of you, one who has good days and bad days, but who cannot influence those days himself. Do not doubt what I say: You are the only influence over your experience. There is no other. But you deny this influence because you fear yourself. Question: What would you have me realize from the fourth law of chaos? (You have what you have taken. By this, another’s loss becomes your gain.) Answer: You believe the way to have peace and love is to take it from your brother, for you see yourself as an object and him as an object, and you believe that if one object has peace and love, the other object cannot. Since you are the Son of God, you still have awareness that you are sustained by peace and love, although you are not fully conscious of this awareness. Since you know that it sustains you and you believe that if your brother has it you do not, you find that you must attack your brother to take back that which you need. But you have failed to recognize that your brother is the same as you, and if he feels his peace and love has been taken, he will seek to take it back for himself. And so a battle ensues, and it is a battle that will not cease until the Son of God realizes that he is One and that peace and love are within Him. Question: What would you have me realize from the fifth law of chaos? (There is a substitute for love, born of your enmity to your brother, and it is salvation.) Answer: This is the law that makes your madness complete, for this is the law that teaches you are sustained by separating yourself from your brothers, taking from them what you want and keeping it for yourself. With this law, everyone else is securely locked outside. You may seem to have relationships that are loving and you may seem to do good works, but you are always protective of that which you believe you must keep to yourself. And this, you consider sane and sensible. May 26, 2005 Question to the Holy Spirit: What will you give us today that will help us to accept our brothers as our Self, help us to see our glory and our innocence and to accept nothing false as true? Answer: You will see your brother as your Self when you are willing to accept only your Love as true. For what you accept, you reflect. While you accept other thoughts as true of you, as truly yours, you see those thoughts reflected as your brother. Yet, you accept those thoughts and reject them simultaneously, and so you reject the reflection that is your brother. Forgive the thoughts you do not want, the thoughts that are not Love, which is your true Will. When there is nothing in your mind except that which is truly yours, there will be nothing in your mind you are tempted to reject, so you will not reject the reflection that is your brother. You will accept him as yours, your one true Self, and you will love and be grateful for the Self that is you. June 9, 2005 There was a situation at work that I was feeling guilty about. This is what started the following conversation with the Holy Spirit. Spirit: Do not be concerned. Look at the guilt you are feeling now. Notice that you think it is real. Then, look beyond the guilt to me. Do I seem concerned? Regina: No. You seem fine and at peace. You don’t seem to think anything has occurred here. Spirit: Exactly. So look beyond the guilt to me. You have asked me to be your guide, right? The guilt is not your guide, so look to me. Trust me. Follow me. Put this thing behind you as only significant for what you have learned. Be grateful for what you have learned and put it into practice immediately. Other than that, let it go as nothing. That is what it is. It is nothing of significance at all. Everyone still has all of the same opportunities that they had before this event seemed to occur. Regina: So, what I’ve learned is to see others as a mirror for a check of my progress; As a reflection of my mind. Spirit: Yes, and so are “you.” You are seeing what seems to be “you” changing, and as your mind changes more, it will change more. It is just a reflection of the story you are writing. They are characters reflected from the typewriter of your mind, and you are fashioning the story. If you don’t like the story that you see, make the changes at the level of cause. It will be reflected in the story. Then, keep checking the story to see if you have done enough editing or if more is needed. There will always be editing to do, as long as you seem to be here in this life, but someday the editing will be merely minor tweaks. You will be happy with the story. Knowing that you will seem to experience the story as real, what story do you want now? Regina: Yes, I see. So I look at this morning’s blip on the peace radar and see that I just need to go back to the typewriter in my mind and focus on writing a more loving story. Is that it? Spirit: The story is written. You just need to erase the parts you no longer want there. It is your story. You can edit it as you desire. Let any parts of the story that you don’t like go. You don’t have to keep them if you don’t want to. Regina: So what editing should I do now based on my experience of this morning? What is your recommendation? Spirit: I recommend that you erase the thought that there could be separate people with separate wills, that there could be selfishness, that someone could care more about themselves or their desires than the desires of others. Erase that from your story. See how the story changes when that thought is no longer a part of it. Later . . . Regina: Spirit, I’d really like to talk to you now. I just grasped the idea of cause and effect as simultaneous. That never clicked before now. So, as I look at my frustrations with people at work, family or anything, I realize that it is my current thought that is causing the current lack of peace. I need help. I get the idea of simultaneous cause and effect, but it seems like psychology to me. How does simultaneous cause and effect help to satisfy the seeming worldly needs that Jasmine and I have? Spirit: You are thinking of yourself as a body, and I will not ask you to try and see yourself in any other way right now. I just ask that you be willing to see yourself differently and be open to finding that answer just as you were open to discovering that cause and effect are simultaneous. If you feel that you need food or money or anything else, you will manifest it for yourself. You will always give yourself what you want, but this will not lead to peace. You have been manifesting what you want all along, and peace is not something you have experienced consistently. Understanding simultaneous cause and effect will help you to experience consistent peace. Regina: I feel like I am on the edge of a spiritual breakthrough, and I am really looking forward to what I am about to learn. I know it will be significant. But right now, I don’t have clarity. Is there anything you want to share with me right now? Spirit: You are confused because you do not know who you are. This is what we are here to learn. You will know this, and then all confusion will be forgotten. Relinquish your self will. Stop choosing. Listen to Me. Accept what is given you and ask for nothing more. Keep Me in your mind. This will show you the real world, and through the real world, you will come to see your Self. Regina: I’m not letting go of me, am I? I’m freeing myself from a prison that I didn’t know I was in. Spirit: You are letting go of the false and discovering the truth. There is no prison. It is imagined. Have fun with your seeming journey. There is nothing to escape. Remember - - think of it as a story you are fashioning, but let me help you to write it. Let me help you to decide which lines to erase from the story. The lines that are left will unfold to reveal what you seek to have revealed. Regina: All right. So it’s all about purpose. It is the purpose that will lead me to choose which lines I keep in the story and which lines I edit out. In my conversation at work, I forgot to keep my purpose out front, and I slipped back into the unconscious habit of separation as purpose, and that’s why I feel guilty. If I keep You in my mind consciously, those lines won’t get in the story and I won’t feel guilt. Ok teacher, what do you want to share with me now? Spirit: It is simple if you remember there are only two. This is why everyone still has the same opportunities. There are not lots and lots of choices and options. There are only two. There is the ego purpose of separation, and yes, guilt seems to come with choosing that purpose and when believed, guilt seems to further its purpose. And there is the purpose of Truth, which is oneness. Can you see how your conversation with Beth has not changed anything? Everyone still has the same opportunity to choose Truth over illusion. Form is unimportant. It is meaningless, except as a reflection of the mind. You can check it to monitor your progress and make further adjustments. You can use form to see how well you are doing at keeping your purpose in your mind. But since nothing is ever changed by form, there is nothing to feel guilty about. Just check, observe, make note and focus back on purpose. There is nothing else to do. Regina: It’s all about the goal. It’s all about the lines that seem to be placed on the typewriter in my mind. With my goal in mind, I look at the lines that are coming in. If they are aligned with my goal, I keep them and a story that is aligned with my goal will be reflected in the world. If a line comes into the typewriter that is not aligned with my goal, I erase it and it will not be reflected in form. If I observe things in form that do not seem to be aligned with the story I want to write, it is just because I wasn’t attentive enough at the typewriter and I let a line slip into the story that was not aligned with the goal. Is that right? Spirit: Yes. Stay attentive at the keyboard. You are the author of the story. The purpose of the story is Awakening, and no seeming twist or turn in the story can take that purpose or opportunity out of it. There are no mistakes because the purpose cannot be taken out of the story. So if you are asleep at the keyboard and something slips in that is not aligned with your purpose, it’s ok. Just wake yourself up again and continue on. June 25, 2005 Questioner: What can you share with me regarding why it sometimes seems so difficult to let go of little thoughts of concern? Our Holy Spirit: Because you feel responsible. Because you think you are the one. You, this separated little self. You think that is all you have and that it is responsible for everything. And yet, you see this self as limited and unable to control all that you are responsible for, so you feel guilty. Questioner: This is about metaphysics, isn’t it? That’s something that I don’t have an actual memory of. Since I don’t remember the mistake and its effects seem to come up first in many situations . . . well, I feel like I am in a trap that I can’t get myself out of. How does it all change? How do I get to thinking with You consistently? How do I take back that original mistaken thought when it doesn’t seem like I had that thought? Our Holy Spirit: Believe in your Self. Look for Me. I am you and I am always here, always available to you in every situation. Ask. You don’t always ask. You feel guilty for having a thought with the ego and you try to do something about it yourself without asking Me for help. You cannot get yourself out of this situation of mind. The one who seems to know only separation is again feeling responsible and alone. “I have to do this,” it says, because it thinks all power comes from itself. This is indeed chasing your own tail, and you can see how this effort will take you nowhere. Accepting Me as your Answer is important because I am your Answer. As long as you depend on the separated self to help you out, you will continue to believe in separation and not get out. It’s chasing your own tail, you see? But when you let go and let Me, you are accepting the Answer. I will Answer with miracles, and the little self will be witness to these miracles. It will say, “I don’t know how it happened. I put no effort into it.” And that is the beginning of recognizing that there is a power beyond the seeming separated self, and so that self cannot be all there is, and so it need not be fully responsible. And then you trust more, so you let go more, and you seem to witness more miracles, and you excitedly let go more. Eventually, you joyously release control to the Self your separated self cannot understand, and so it calls it God, because it seems to be some grand thing bigger and more amazing that the small self. But that is still looking at Truth from the perspective of the separated self, and one day that perspective will go too, and all that will remain is All That Is. Don’t try to make this change in perspective happen. Let it. Relax. When a thought of concern seems to cause you distress, focus only on asking Me to help you release the thought. Don’t worry about form. I understand that you are still very attached to form, and I will not make you suffer in form in order to see that it isn’t real. That would never work, because then you would take the control back again. Remember that I will always answer in Love with miracles, and since you seem to be in form, I will also direct you with things to do in form. Questioner: How do we recognize the difference between your direction or guidance and us maintaining control (but calling it guidance)? How do we know we aren’t deceiving ourselves? I don’t want to make that mistake. Our Holy Spirit: Let go of your attachment to outcome. If you have a preference for outcome in form, you will probably provide guidance toward that outcome. You always work towards your goal. If the only outcome you seek is Me (and you can call that effortless peace, joy and Love) without a preference for how you seem to reach that goal, then you will not try to guide and all guidance will easily be received from Me. Questioner: So, I really need to be honest with myself about the outcomes I seek. I need to be honest about the goal. Our Holy Spirit: Yes. And if you seem to have a strong attachment to a goal in form, you don’t need to feel guilty or try to force that desire to go away. That is again taking responsibility into your own hands and chasing your tail. Instead, just hold that desired outcome to the Light and say, “I seem to want this. I think it’s important. I think my salvation depends on it, but I am willing not to. I am willing to see the Truth, and I ask You to show it to me.” There is nothing else that you have to do. Your only function is letting go and letting Me. That is all you need do. Questioner: But that seems difficult. Our Holy Spirit: So hold that thought to the Light and be willing to let Me help you with it. July 7, 2005 Your word is My word, for we are one. There is no difference. There is no difference anywhere in the world. When you seem to see a difference or think a difference, you are but believing in illusions. It is then that you should stop and turn to Me. Say clearly and meaningfully, “Brother, I believe what I see and what I think and what I hear, but I am willing not to. I am willing not to be afraid. I am willing not to be alone. I seek only Truth now, and I leave it to you to show It to me. I give you myself and all that I seem to have made that you may show me the great cosmic joke I have played on myself, and we may laugh in peace together. Truly, my Brother, I give everything to you, for I am nothing apart from you.” And then let Me take care of you. July 8, 2005 Question: What does it mean when A Course in Miracles says: “The world was over long ago. The thoughts that made it are no longer in the mind that thought of them and loved them for a little while.” (Text 28.I.1.6) Answer: The thought of separation was a single thought by a mind that thought it wanted more than it had. But that thought was only loved a little, as a daydream, before the seeming thought of guilt set in, which led to hatred and fear. Those thoughts became the obsession of the mind and the original attraction was gone. But the mind that became obsessed forgot to remember who it was, and so it forgot to let the original thought go. Instead of reversing its own effects, it let itself become a victim of itself, and it tried to hide from its own thoughts and the seeming effects of its thoughts. And in hiding a world was born, but the beginning of that world was lost and forgotten. So the way out of the world seemed to close upon itself, and the world of guilt and fear became like a trap where the Son of God believed he was, and so he tried to adjust. Question: Please tell me clearly the way out of this trap. Answer: The Son of God must forget all that he has imagined for himself by ceasing to imagine further. He must rest his mind and let all thoughts of imagination go, for now his thoughts of imagination are based on imagination and forgetfulness, so he knows not what he imagines or why. He does not even know that he imagines, for he has completely forgotten who he is and he believes himself to be someone else, a victim instead of a creator. A creator who has forgotten he is a creator cannot create. He can only dream. But he can be awakened from his dream if he recognizes he no longer wants the dream and ceases the dreaming for himself. When he stops the activity of dreaming, he is no longer producing the dream. Then, One who is with him and remembers all that has happened can complete the dream for him, but this one complete the dream by bringing it back to its beginning so that the door that seemed to be closed can be found and opened again. Then when the dreamer is presented with the clear choice to stay within the forgotten thought or let it go, he can let it go and it will be gone and the dream will be no more. Question: How was the Holy Spirit created within the mind that forgot who it is? Answer: The Holy Spirit is a memory that is now like a faint calling that calls the mind back to what it was. What it was is what it is, and so it cannot be lost, and that is the Holy Spirit. When the memory of truth is not desired, it seems to be forgotten and only remembered a little every now and then, and then forgotten again. But the truth is always there because it is the truth, and so it can become manifest whenever it is truly called upon. It is the manifestation of truth within a world of dreams that is called the Holy Spirit. And this manifestation may appear differently within an aspect of the mind that seems to have a different desire, but the call for truth is always the same and [the truth] is the same in each of its different appearances. Question: And so it is our own memory that leads us back in a way that works for us? Answer: Yes, you are helping yourself even though you have forgotten your Self. It is the Self that remembers that answers the call of the self that has forgotten. It is all one thought within the mind of God that seems to have divided into separate thoughts. Now, it is gathering itself unto itself that it may know itself as whole again. July 12, 2005 You are filled with My Love, for you can be filled with nothing else. Only Love exists. All else is illusion. This statement is completely true. It cannot be partially true. Either Love is all there is or it is not all there is. Either this statement is true or it is false. There can be no in-between in a statement that is fully inclusive. When you look at yourself, whether that seems to be you or your brother, and you see anything that is not love, you are looking at illusions. Even a call for love is an illusion, for a call for love implies an absence of love and there cannot be an absence of all that is. What can be other than love is only imagination. Imagination can be believed, and within dreams it can seem to be acted on, but it cannot be real. The absence of imagination is reality, which is all that is real, which is Love. This is your role if you are to awaken. Stop imagining. When imaginings seem to fill your mind, remember that you have decided to let your mind mature into truth and let the imaginings go. This cannot be difficult, for you let go of nothing. Rejoice at your choice to mature! Rejoice at your decision to see all that is as it is! Seek only that which you have chosen now, for you have chosen with Me. Together, we will show the world what joy there is in reality, that all games may be put aside as useless. July 26, 2005 I was going through some fear at this time, and I went to the Holy Spirit asking about it. Answer: You ask Me if you can trust Me, really trust Me, and you know that if you are to learn that you can, you must let go. And yet, you are afraid to let go until you know you can trust. Do not fear, my Child. I understand your fears and they do not concern Me. To Me, they are but the fears of a frightened child who has not yet learned the difference between reality and her frightened imagination. And I am like a loving father who would guide you to learn that you need not fear, and I will not attempt to teach you by frightening you. For if I chose that method of teaching, you would not learn and your fears would last longer. Give Me the trust that you can. That is all I ask. If you can take my hand and walk so far but not too far as yet, then let’s walk so far together. You will learn from that little walk that you can trust more, and we will walk further. But I do ask that you walk with me as far as you can and not stop short of your seeming limit, for if you stop well within your defined boundaries of safety, you will never learn that you can trust Me. You must give Me your trust to learn that you can trust Me. Do not withhold it by protecting yourself completely. Questioner: So how far can I go now, and how do I know if I am walking that far with you or stopping within my defined boundaries of safety? Answer: A father will say, “Walk this far with me.” He will point to a place in the dark and say, “Let’s walk this far together and rest there before we go on.” And the child may at first be frightened of walking even that far, but as she looks at that point in the darkness, she comes to realize that she can see that far and it might be ok. So she gives her consent and takes those first steps with her father. And then when she is ready, she gives her consent to walk further to the next point in the darkness. Do not try to decide now how long or short your stay may be at the first point I am taking you to. Be willing to trust Me as quickly as you can and move on. Always continue to give Me your willingness as quickly as you can. For now, step to the point I have asked you to step to, and from there we will go to the next point. August 5, 2005 Questioner: Good morning, Holy Spirit. There is a common point of confusion that I would like to ask for clarity on and that is the body. We are asked not to see ourselves as bodies, since the body is the symbol of separation and our goal is to accept our oneness. Many of us think we are ready to let the identity with the body go, but then we get confused when the body is sick or injured, because that does seem to affect us and limit our abilities. Also, we wonder if diet and exercise matter or is it only our beliefs about diet and exercise that matter? What would you share with us about our experience of the body? Answer: The body is the symbol of separation, and the body is central to your experience because your experience is that of separation. This is based on your belief that you could have thoughts or a will [that is] separate from God’s, and this is an error of thought, not of body. This is why healing is of the mind. The body is a neutral symbol of your beliefs, and it is your beliefs that you see reflected in your body, just as it is your beliefs that you see reflected in your world. Remember, all form is the same. You can use form as a measure of your [seeming] progress, for what you seem to experience in form will change as you let yourself be healed. Does this mean that you should feel guilty if you are sick or if you experience bodily pain? Are these symbols to be taken as proof that you are not a good student of Love? The ego would favor that interpretation, and so those thoughts may enter your mind. I say, let those thoughts go. They are thoughts of confusion that delay your healing. Questioner: What should we do when we experience sickness or physical pain? Answer: See it as a symbol that more healing is needed. Let it tell you that you still believe in the unreal, and so you must trust in Me to lead you safely Home. Give your sickness or pain to Me, and tell Me that you believe in it. Share your fears and your beliefs, and give them over to Me in love and faith. And then be patient with yourself. From within your experience, healing may seem to take time. That is only because you are practicing for the moment of healing, and all practice is important. When your practice becomes a moment-to-moment habit of love, you will be healed. Until that seems to be, be patient with yourself, for patience is a symbol of love in what seems to be a world of time. Questioner: What about taking care of the body through diet and exercise? Answer: What you are really asking is should you feel guilty for believing the body needs care? This is the same as we have discussed already. The ego would have you believe your guilt at every opportunity, because the ego is the choice to believe your guilt over your innocence. Believing your guilt is the mistake you made. For if you had believed the thought of innocence, you would have let go of the thought of a separate will and the separation would not have seemed to occur. Forgiveness is the same in all situations. It does not matter if you seem annoyed with someone, afraid of what seems to be scarcity and lack, proud of an achievement over another, sick or concerned about the foods you choose to eat. It is all the same. Questioner: How is it all the same? Answer: It is all belief in this world you made, and it is all serving the purpose of distracting you from healing. And, it can all be given to Me so that its purpose can be changed and it can be used for healing. Remember that forgiveness is your only function here. In simple terms, that means that whenever you do not feel peace, your job is to turn that thing over to Me and give me your willingness and trust, that I may show you that you are wrong. For, you are wrong. You believe you are separate from God, and you cannot be. That is impossible. That is the one error that needs correction. All of form is nothing more than a manifestation of that error in what seems to be a myriad of forms, but it is all the same. Questioner: I still seem to have the question about diet and exercise. Health of the body seems important to healing of the mind. It seems that trying to work on healing the mind while the body is not well would be a difficult task. Answer: I tell you, it seems that way only because you believe it to be so. The body has no power over the mind, but the power of your beliefs is unquestionable. Give your belief to Me and realize that the belief you are giving Me is the belief that you could be different from or separate from God. That is the error that must be corrected. Questioner: So, when I see the temptation to eat in a certain way or to exercise because I believe I need exercise to be healthy, that is a manifestation of the belief that I am separate and another opportunity to forgive that belief by giving it to you. Answer: Yes. You are practicing for moment-to-moment forgiveness until forgiveness is natural and constant. The world will not seem to change, but you will change your mind about the world, and then you will see differently because you will perceive differently. You will not perceive [the world] as having power over you and you will not perceive it as having a purpose different than the purpose of Love. Questioner: Yes. Now I see how eating is another opportunity for mind watching. Answer: That is all the world is for.
An Evening with Regina Akers
Regina Akers has been our Guest Teacher
About Regina Dawn Akers Since she realized that she had this Gift of Conversation with Spirit in which her questions were answered with Clarity, she has demonstrated a super-willingness to share her Gift with all by posting her daily Conversations in many places including The Peace of God @ Yahoo Groups, which is the Home Site for ACIM Gather. Her Openness to fully disclose the details of her trials and tribulations in every aspect of her life has made her a Perfect Teacher for so many who read her daily postings, listen to the audio files of her teachings and fill the virtual rooms on the web to her her Live!
Here are some of her recent Teachings
Regina Akers works as a Volunteer for Holy Spirit.
or by mailing to: Regina Akers brings a Clear Voice for Holy Spirit that has been and Inspiration for so many. From the time she first emailed me less than 1 year ago, speaking of the Gift she had become Aware of, Regina has done All anyone could ever do to Share it with All. As the Course says, unless an idea is Shared, it has no value whatsoever. So Holy Spirit has chosen his Channels well, for her Teachings have moved so many far down the road from where they were BR, Before Regina. For all who know the story of the Peace Pilgrim,
The American Sage who walked her talk, and let go and Let God, Regina Akers
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