RE: I Am the Word: A Study in Manifesting the Divine - Part 1
It's funny, they actually mention ACIM in the books, I haven't read ACIM but I will definitely check out your posts. I guess when I say change the world, the only thing that changes is appearances and our ability to choose as a collective. They talk about being in co-resonance with what we see and that the Christ frequency will pull whatever is in resonance with it to us, so that when we recognize the divine within ourselves, the Christ frequency, the world will follow suit, we will begin to see the divine in everything, the truth. It's not about residing in a dream world where we manifest all our desires, it's about freedom and reality. Perhaps I haven't made that clear yet, I have only read through the Prologue of this first book and wanted to go chapter by chapter so the second in this series will be the prologue, this was just a brief overview.
Looking forward to reading your new series to compare the two works! Thanks for the great comment
Even if the book would talk about making the dream a better dream, it would be in good company with many others 😀Often this is very subtle - especially with esoteric literature. For example: The Christ, being a symbol of our Oneness with God can't be brought to us ("the world"), because in Oneness there is no duality and therefore "we" don't exist for it. In ACIM Jesus says several times, that God doesn't even know, that "we" exist, because for God/Oneness an existence outside of "it" is impossible. 😀
It's also said, that we therefore can't bring Christ to the world, since there is no world.
The only thing that can be done - every instant - is to bring the seeming world to the Christ. So it's the opposite. That's also why praying to Jesus/God to fix things in the world won't work out, because they don't know what we are talking about 😀
Actually ACIM is very funny. Jesus is too by the way...
When he appears to me as a symbol for Christ, I see him always with a big box of popcorn. He just smiles at me, eats his popcorn any enjoys the movie... 😀
What about existence within and made up of God? Couldn't God know this illusion as the creator that is dreaming the dream? As you've said everything is mind or God, why wouldn't God know itself? That appears to be what the Selig books are all about, God recognizing itself in manifestation. Otherwise I'm not sure what the point of existence would be, what do you think? I feel like we are all here to learn and grow, and realize what we are.
I guess the illusion part is what confuses me, the "unreal"-ness of the world. I always figured that we were in an illusion of our minds and that reality is actually right here in front of us if we had the eyes to see.
If there is no world, where are the miracles taking place, what are we bringing to Christ?
I kind of glanced at the amazon reviews and may pick this book up at some point, one thing in the reviews that caught my eye was:
A MIRACLE IS A SHIFT IN PERCEPTION
which is similar to what the Selig books talk about.
Honestly I bet we are more on the same page than we think, sometimes putting words to this is challenging and we each may have different meanings to the words used. I will be following your series and will eventually give ACIM a try, but I have my hands full right now and figure I might as well find the truth in these books, that way we are both promoting work we feel is important. My goal is to become more clear in what I say! Thanks for the response
loving the 'Jesus on popcorn' image :) beautiful.