An Intensive Encounter With Reality! "As this energy comes into you more and more, everything that you do will become a parable and finally will reach a higher and higher state. You will discover that you have indeed been dreaming. And, as you let go of fear and begin to love, your service in love, will become more evident. One of the great teachings of all traditions is, to awaken the energy. To do this you must serve. Jesus teaches it as forgiveness—that you must give yourself away to be free, to detach, to go through this fear threshold. Through this surrender and abandonment, your mind will expand to the reality of you."
Master Teacher, How Simple the Solution This is a teaching of initiation, or the determination of an individual mind to come to its own whole universal self. It is the transitional passage from time to eternity, -- from this apparent nightmare of separation to the remembrance that you are perfect as God created you. It is accomplished through a bright re-association of your individual perceptual self-identity.
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Endeavor Academy is an apparent location for this dislodgement of your perceptual self-justification. The Academy is an idea of a sanctuary of Light for the undoing of the hologram of fear that has contained you. This Light (or Universal Force Field known as the Holy Spirit) is what you truly are and It is the transformative factor for your remembering. As you begin to re-identify with the Light itself in unlimited transformative revisions, you will find yourself released from the bondage of space and time in a recognition of your divine inheritance.
Remember, this is your transformation, individually. You are the savior of the world. Without you there is no Heaven and no salvation. And we mean you. We are speaking directly now to you in this regard.
Endeavor Academy becomes a laboratory where you can safely practice the art of forgiveness as prescribed by the Course. It is a forum for your personal conversion of the world as you have constructed it,--from the perception of an idea of something outside yourself to the realization that there is and always has been only you. It is a Conversion that as an action of mind is dedicated not to “making a better world” but to the healing of the mind that made the world:
*Through an admission that you are responsible for what you experience. *Through a declaration of a desire to see differently above all else.
*Through a standing still and listening for the “Holy Instant”.
*Through the miracle of the inversion of your perception.
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The miracle is not a change of form, but a change of mind. Forgiveness is the action of mind that remembers the At-Onement-- the action of Singularity, the action of All-encompassing Love giving and extending to Itself. In living the Course, in joining in a Singular purpose, in seeing someone else’s interest as ones own, the student at the Academy becomes a Teacher, a demonstration of the transformation brought about by Love.
The Necessity for This Transformation
to be Physical
The merger of energy (Light) and form into a single field of vision within human consciousness is the most revolutionary event in the evolution of the species. The conversion of matter to light involves the full participation of the apparent body organization. Known as the resurrection, the metamorphosis transfigures the body and merges it with the Single Field of Consciousness we recognize as the Source of Creation. It is the single most important act in the evolution of man in that it transitions consciousness past its own self-imposed limitation of time and space.
Making the connection between this quantum leap, this stepping from objective time to eternal reality, the movement from the dark particle form to the certainty of the wave of creative light energy, is only an acknowledgement of a unified force field or a Holy Spirit—a totality of the continuing unity re-association of time and eternity. There are lots of different ways to express this in personal or historic or philosophical descriptions, or, of course, through quantum physics. Finally, we each must experience this resurrecting reformulation personally through the inevitable necessity of the transformation of our own individual self-awareness.
All around you is energy, manifest in duality, broken up again and again and again. You look for reason in it. You look for it in the limited state of your own consciousness—to escape the chaos that you have created. Wow! ~ To remember you are the cause and not the effect. Wow! To realize that you are only Adam dreaming and will awaken at this moment to the truth of you.
"Healing is the result of using the body solely for communication. Since this is natural it heals by making whole, which is also natural. All mind is whole, and the belief that part of it is physical, or not mind, is a fragmented or sick interpretation. Mind cannot be made physical, but it can be made manifest through the physical if it uses the body to go beyond itself. By reaching out, the mind extends itself. It does not stop at the body, for if it does it is blocked in its purpose. A mind that has been blocked has allowed itself to be vulnerable to attack, because it has turned against itself. "
A Course In Miracles, chapter 8/VII/10 "Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking. This is a pathetic way of trying not to see by rendering the faculties for seeing ineffectual. "Rest in peace" is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego's distorted notions about what joining is. Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him. How you wake is the sign of how you have used sleep. To whom did you give it? Under which teacher did you place it? Whenever you wake dispiritedly, it was not given to the Holy Spirit. Only when you awaken joyously have you utilized sleep according to His purpose. You can indeed be "drugged" by sleep, if you have misused it on behalf of sickness. Sleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. Complete unconsciousness is impossible. You can rest in peace only because you are awake.
Healing is release from the fear of waking and the substitution of the decision to wake. The decision to wake is the reflection of the will to love, since all healing involves replacing fear with love. The Holy Spirit cannot distinguish among degrees of error, for if He taught that one form of sickness is more serious than another, He would be teaching that one error can be more real than another. His function is to distinguish only between the false and the true, replacing the false with the true."
A Course In Miracles Text, Chapter 8This is a most difficult thing, that this transfiguration, that this enlightenment, this transformative occurrence involves all of you. It is not limited to your body-brain, for goodness sake! It involves your ductless glands, if you will, but not in separation from the rest of you. It is totally involved. It would have to be. You cannot bring about a spiritual transformation without a bodily change. It can’t be done. Of course not. The whole basis of the Apocalyzse or the Revelation is the movement of the passion within your body! Is that too esoteric!
From Satprem/Mother Aurobindo:
"What if death, illness, physical “impossibilities,” “laws”—everything—were but the crystallization of a false memory, that of false matter, that of a certain sealed bowl? A habit of going around in circles?
The body is learning the “lesson of illness,” of the illusion of illness. It’s very, very funny to perceive the difference between what is really there, the reality of the disorder, whatever it is, and the old habit of feeling it and receiving it, the ordinary habit—what we call an illness—“I’m sick.” It’s very funny. In every case, if one keeps truly quiet (it’s very easy at the vital and mental levels but a little difficult in the cells of the body: it requires some practice), if one succeeds in remaining truly calm, there always comes a little light, a warm little light, very bright and extraordinarily quiet, in the background, which seems to say, “you only have to will it.” Then the cells panic: “What do you mean, ‘will it’? How can we will anything! An illness is upon us—we’re overwhelmed, it’s an ILLNESS!” The whole comedy. Then something says, “Calm down, calm down, don’t cling to your illness!” And then they accept. On THATPOINT, they accept; the next minute, the illness is over. Not even one minute; in just a few seconds, it’s over!"
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