Emu's, and Airplanes, and Squirrels...Oh My! ~ Satsang After Hours w/ Dear One ~ 5.18.22
**These are joining's of a motley, yet like-minded, crew spontaneously exploring and unwinding from the seeming blocks to Love's ever-present Peace.

This was a sweet little Satsang with Dear One. 🥰🙏🏽 Due to, presumably, the time of this joining it was lightly attended and as such a very spontaneous conversation arose. So much so I forgot to press record so all that's preserved is the second half of this very engaging and profitable conversation with Dear One.

Lesson 17 spawned a deep teaching and beautiful interaction.

*ACIM WB Lesson 17 *I see no neutral things.
This idea is another step in the direction of identifying cause and effect as it really operates in the world. ²You see no neutral things because you have no neutral thoughts. ³It is always the thought that comes first, despite the temptation to believe that it is the other way around. ⁴This is not the way the world thinks, but you must learn that it is the way you think. ⁵If it were not so, perception would have no cause, and would itself be the cause of reality. ⁶In view of its highly variable nature, this is hardly likely. 2. In applying today’s idea, say to yourself, with eyes open: ²I see no neutral things because I have no neutral thoughts. ³Then look about you, resting your glance on each thing you note long enough to say: ⁴I do not see a neutral _____, because my thoughts about _________ are not neutral. ⁵For example, you might say: ⁶I do not see a neutral wall, because my thoughts about walls are not neutral. ⁷I do not see a neutral body, because my thoughts about bodies are not neutral. 3. As usual, it is essential to make no distinctions between what you believe to be animate or inanimate; pleasant or unpleasant. ²Regardless of what you may believe, you do not see anything that is really alive or really joyous. ³That is because you are unaware as yet of any thought that is really true, and therefore really happy. 4. Three or four specific practice periods are recommended, and no less than three are required for maximum benefit, even if you experience resistance. ²However, if you do, the length of the practice period may be reduced to less than the minute or so that is otherwise recommended.
(https://acim.org/acim/en/s/419#1:1-4:2 | W-17.1:1–4:2)

*ACIM T-9.IV.5:1-6 * The Holy Spirits Plan for Forgiveness

5. Forgiveness that is learned of me does not use fear to undo fear. ²Nor does it make real the unreal and then destroy it. ³Forgiveness through the Holy Spirit lies simply in looking beyond error from the beginning, and thus keeping it unreal for you. ⁴Do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind, or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. ⁵What has no effect does not exist, and to the Holy Spirit the effects of error are nonexistent. ⁶By steadily and consistently cancelling out all its effects, everywhere and in all respects, He teaches that the ego does not exist and proves it.
(https://acim.org/acim/en/s/132#5:1-6 | T-9.IV.5:1-6)

*ACIM T-22.I.3:5-11 *The Message of the Holy Relationship

⁵Denying what you are, and firm in faith that you are something else, this “something else” that you have made to be yourself becomes your sight. ⁶Yet it must be the “something else” that sees, and as _not_ you, explains its sight _to_ you. ⁷Your vision would, of course, render this quite unnecessary. ⁸Yet if your eyes are closed and you have called upon this thing to lead you, asking it to explain to you the world it sees, you have no reason not to listen, nor to suspect that what it tells you is not true. ⁹Reason would tell you it cannot be true _because_ you do not understand it. ¹⁰God has no secrets. ¹¹He does not lead you through a world of misery, waiting to tell you, at the journey’s end, why He did this to you.
(https://acim.org/acim/en/s/262#3:5-11 | T-22.I.3:5-11)

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