Freitag, 29. Dezember 2017

Release From Guilt

Can you expect to use your brothers as a means to "solve" the past, and still to see them as they really are? Salvation is not found by those who use their brothers to resolve problems that are not there.

A Course In Miracles T-13.X.4

Behold the Son of God, and look upon his purity and be still. In quiet look upon his holiness, and offer thanks unto his Father that no guilt has ever touched him.

A Course In Miracles T-13.X.11

Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2017

Self-Illusion and Disillusion

"Perhaps the greatest enemy to authentic awakening is (...) our utterly unfounded belief in our own spotless virtue."
"When I experienced these failures and derelictions in myself, something extraordinary happened. I felt with an intensity I had never felt before the extravagance of the mercy and forgiveness of God, and I knew, with a clarity that made me break down in wonder, that what I was discovering with shame and great distress, the Divine had always known and forgiven."
"When you face your own evil, you are rewarded with the knowledge of just how unconditional God's Love is and just how miraculously this infinite Love will work on the small parts in you that are sincere and devoted, however shaky and compromised they may be, to work its resurrection."
Andrew Harvey, The Hope, p.96f

Indeed, I see how my ego-driven self-righteousness eventually leads to an imagined attack against my own kin of the Divine Family as long as I allow the ego to run my thoughts and beliefs unaware in the darkness of my sub-consciousness.
And I see how the Holy Spirit is rendering these thoughts and beliefs to the Light of Awareness and Knowledge so that they can be corrected by the Divine Truth if I just allow Him to look at them instead of hiding them in the darkness any further.

Samstag, 23. Dezember 2017

Inside and outside the Projection

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

It is getting clearer and clearer to me that this world of forms has just one single purpose: To hide the Truth about ourselves, the Truth about who we really are.

The means is the body, very limited, insecure, always in danger and subjected to decay and death and thereby justifying all the fears in the world and the greed for power. The body is the prison for the consciousness to believe it is powerless in spite of the fact that this very consciousness is the projector and thereby creator of this world of forms.

The whole complex of the projection therefore is an attack against ourselves, an imprisonment, an enslavement by an ignorance out of which greed and fear grow and dominate ourselves and the world of forms.

The way to change anything in this world for the better is always to fight against the evil, it is always attack or counterstrike, which is the continuation of the belief in the existence and relevance of the projection taking it for real and calling for our action and precious attention.

But this attention is the fuel for the projection, attack is its fundament, to believe in its existence and problems builds the fortress of the protection against the Truth. Any business we believe to have in this world just keeps us occupied in order not to see what it this world made of.

Any problem that we might have is just the worldˋs witness to prove the attack that we are stuck here and need to give our full attention to the world. By doing so we confirm our own imprisonment through the projection of the world which could not exist any single moment without our belief in it. Therefore it constantly needs our attention. Deluding ourselves that we give it for the good and better is nothing but the sweetness of seduction.

The moment we start to understand and liberate our consciousness the dynamics of the world cannot bind us any longer.

Only a complete withdrawal of any belief in this world of forms, a complete rejection that we have any business to do with this world can liberate ourselves from the nightmare of being a helpless body within the projection. After all, a projection is a projection. We may also call it illusion or dream. Once we wake up it is gone.

Do you understand me? For it is this understanding that is essential for our collective awakening.

Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2017

Midwinter: The Holy Spirit and the Shadow of who I am

Not believing in who I am, I looked at my Father's gift in my hands, the Holy Spirit, and I allowed the shadow of who I am to decide and to throw Him into the darkness of Life to have the Holy Spirit extinguished forever.
But miraculously, rays of Light returned to me from that darkness, dispelling and enlightening the darkness. Looking at my hands again, the Holy Spirit was still there, smiled at me and said: "I am your Father's gift, I cannot leave you. Like your Father cannot leave you and you cannot leave Him. Therefore there will be always Light wherever you are and wherever you go."
"That sounds awesome, but what about the shadow of who I am?" I found myself asking the Holy Spirit wondering whether this was a proper way to deal with Him. Shouldn't I just bow to Him with devotion?
Yet the Holy Spirit seemed to enjoy the challenge: "Great question! What is the quality of the shadow of who you are?" he asked me back.
Without thinking much I instantly replied "destruction".
"Well, then let's make best use of it, invite the shadow of who you are to destroy all illusions about yourself, life and reality", suggested the Holy Spirit.
"Isn't that kind of crazy to give that power to the shadow of who I am?" I worried.
"It is indeed totally crazy of you to believe your illusions would leave you while you are still attached to them", shared the Holy Spirit. "The shadow of who you are is your best and in fact only weapon to destroy your own illusions. By using the destructive nature of the shadow of who you are to destroy your own illusions of who you are you acknowledge his rightful place in your own creation. Let him leave nothing behind except what is real, the indestructible Truth, that cannot be destroyed. You will see, that after having fulfilled his purpose, the shadow of who you are will be satisfied and at peace. And I will be resting as well, because you will be at home again, waking up and realising that you have been at your Father's side all the time. You just need me to see the difference between reality and illusion. Right now you are so deluded that you wouldn't even know what needs to be destroyed as an illusion. Therefore I am guiding you if you just agree to let me" explained the Holy Spirit to me with such a Love and compassion that I even didn't feel insulted or ashamed having my ignorance exposed so clearly.

Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2017

The Hope, the Mind-Behaviour-Gap und die dunkle Seite der Macht

Ein offenes Bekenntnis, das ich gerade in „The Hope“ von Andrew Harvey gelesen habe.

„In the early 90s I was at a meeting in New York with several of the leading organizers of what was to be the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio. A quiet, handsome, well-dressed man in his 40s took me aside afterward and introduced himself as the head of a major agribusiness corporation. He said, „I have something very important to tell you, and I will pay for the joy of telling it to you by offering you lunch.“
At lunch the next day, he cut to the chase: „Rio will accomplish absolutely nothing because you good-doers are so naive about the real world. Most of you that I have met truly believe that if the CEOs – like me, for instance – really knew what harm their corporation policies were doing, they would rend their Armani suits, fling out their Rolex-wreathed arms, burst into tears, and change. This is madness and shows how little you dare to know about what is really going on. And how can you even begin to be effective until you understand what you are up against?
Let me tell you what you are up against. You are up against people like me. I know exactly what my company is doing and what devastation it is causing to thousands of lives. I should know; I am running it. I know and I do not care. I have decided I wand a grand gold-plated lifestyle and the perks and jets and houses that go with it and I will do anything – bend the law, have people `removed´, bribe local governmental officials, you name it – to get what I want. I know, too, that none of my shareholders care a rat`s ass what I do or how I do it, providing I keep them swimming in cash.
I said that you were up against people like me. That is true in one sense, but not in another. Because the truth is that I am in you too. A part of you is like me, just as ruthless and dedicated to your own selfish agenda. But you can dress up this ruthlessness as your `mission´ and never unmask the lust for power that might be lurking behind your righteous facade.
What limits all so-called seekers and activists that I meet is that they both shy away from the full realization of the power of the dark. The seekers I meet are, frankly, `bliss bunnies´, about as useful in the real world as a rubber ball would be in a war. The activists I know enjoy denouncing others but aren`t at all in the business of unmasking their own destructiveness, or the self-destructiveness of their dreary and banal self-righteousness.
The bliss-bunnyhood of seekers and the offensive self-righteousness of activists make it very easy for people like me to control the world. I know too, by the way, that the dark forces I play with are playing with me. I am under no illusion that I will not someday have to pay the price. Don`t the French say, `The devil has no friends`? I`m willing to pay that price in return for the pleasure of being able to afford this restaurant, in return for being able to ring up the president of the United States in front of house-guests to impress them. Am I getting through to you?“

Andrew Harvey folgert selbst daraus an anderer Stelle: „On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions. When, however, the deepest and most grounded spiritual vision is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing political, economic and social institutions, a holy force – the power of wisdom and love in action – is born.”

Dieser CEO scheint zumindest kein Gap zu haben!

So wie ich die Zusammenhänge zwischen individuellem Bewusstsein und der Wahrnehmung von Wirklichkeit verstehe, kann ich hier sehr viel über mich selbst lernen. Nicht auf meine `bösen´ Mitmenschen, die scheinbar nicht so `gut´ wie ich sind, zu zeigen und sie zu belehren, was sie machen, kaufen und konsumieren sollen und was nicht. Das ist auch eine dunkle Form von Macht und Gewalt über sie, aber keine konstruktive, die meine Mitmenschen annimmt und mitnimmt, sie animiert und inspiriert. Sie ist eine dunkle, durch die ich mich selbst über sie erhebe, ihnen ein schlechtes Gewissen mache, also etwas Dunkles in ihnen anspreche, anstatt mir unsere wechselseitige Verbundenheit in universeller Gleichheit durch Liebe, Güte, Mitgefühl und Vergebung selbst bewusst zu machen und uns dadurch gegenseitig zu ermächtigen.
Das Spiel des Egos ist so verführerisch, dass ich Andrew Harveys Einsicht teile, dass es ohne eine zielgerichtete wirksame spirituelle Praxis, sich davon zu befreien, keine nachhaltige Transformation der Welt gibt.
Die `dunkle Seite der Macht´ in mir ist jedoch nur solange dunkel, wie ich sie als blinden Fleck behandele und in die Dunkelheit verdränge, psychologisch gesprochen ins Unbewusste. Da dieses Unbewusste jedoch weiterhin in meinem Geist verbleibt, beeinflusst es mich – nun wie von mir herbeigeführt – unbewusst und konkurriert mit meinen bewussten Zielen und Absichten. Und voilà, fertig ist mein eigener Mind-Behaviour-Gap!

Diese Erläuterungen befinden sich genau auf dem schmalen Grät zwischen Belehrung des Geistes meiner Mitmenschen und Erleuchtung der Dunkelheit meines Geistes.
Ich hoffe, ich konnte die wechselseitige Verbundenheit, die ich empfinde, liebevoll zum Ausdruck bringen. Dann werden wir die nicht nur einseitige, sondern beidseitige Ermächtigung spüren, die aus dieser Verbundenheit erwächst.