Sean this is truly a strange post,yet not one bit strange in many ways it’s a fantasy but a true one if fantasy could ever be true. Well the course tells us this life we think we live is a fantasy. I don’t sleep well either nor haven’t for many years and tears and terrors because I believed I was doomed bad unwanted ejected forever. I truly believed that. I do believe your friend did come to you yet at the same time knowing he didn’t but that vision was real a vision needed for you and many more people. Todays lesson 22 speaks of this it has taken me twenty years to learn I wasn’t learning Jesus course but my own course. I just didn’t know blinded by ego but at last I’m been visited by truth and all that it entails. It has taught me that a foundation has to be laid and that foundation is in the first ten lessons which I ignored as just words. Thanks again sean
Thank you, Sean. It was a very intense - but ultimately very helpful - projection. I'm grateful.
I appreciate the emphasis on learning Jesus' course rather than our own. It is so easy to substitute our judgment and preference for the truth, even as the truth is what will truly bring us rest. I'm glad you're laying a foundation. As we both know, we don't lay them alone and we don't lay them only for ourselves. I'm glad you're here, Sean. Thank you for reading and sharing.
Such a powerful post Sean. My heart broke wide open ! I have been holding a grievance toward a friend and it is now seen as my own fears projected on to her. I still feel the strong desire to hang on to the resentment, but there is now a stronger prayer here " to open to love". As always, thank you !
You're welcome, Glenda. I'm glad it was helpful. Yes! The grievances against others are always our own guilt and fear. It's easy to say that but hard to actually see it through to undoing. Thankfully, we don't have to do it alone. Thank you for reading and sharing and being here, Glenda.
My Charlie’s name was Harry, beyond being a dear friend he was a Teacher who provided me a map to the Light. Over the years my own fearful projections led to my isolating, creating a sense of abandoning Harry in a time when I may have been helpful to him. He reached out, I didn’t often respond, I learned of he’s passing weeks after the event. I harbored guilt until one night (why the night) in tears I asked for his forgiveness, I felt him smile and explain, “nothing happened”. I still have regrets but have come to understand the guilt. Thank you to your Charlie and the reminder you provided. We are all Safe. Blessings. nick j
Thank you, Nick. I appreciate this very much. We are not alone! And so much healing and salvation lies in that simple fact. To know that we are forgiven is such a gift, and to reach the end of projection is a gift we give to others, in turn forgiving them. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am very grateful 🙏🙏
Sean, Thank you so, so much. Your account was absolutely on beam and straight down the line. I value it as one of the most succinct utterances on what the business of ACIM is that has come my way. I also value it for being where a truth-speaking and a heart-speaking become one.
Thank you, Sean. I cried reading that. I have had a similar experience. But it doesn't matter whether Charlie was 'real,' or a hallucination. What matters is that the "Aha" experience you got from it spoke to me, and it took something unusual for you to come to the realization that you did.
You're welcome, Farrell. Thank you for reading and sharing. Yes, you are correct - it is not the external event but the interior healing that was brought forth. Absolutely. Thank for being here 🙏🙏
I don't find your story strange. Rather, I find it believable and so very deeply beautiful. I had many an "aha" as I began to have thoughts about my own projections in life. Your story is like a door that has opened for me. I printed it off, with the intention to revisit and revisit and....
Amongst my many "oh wow", I had situations and relationships bubble up in my mind-not out of guilt or anything, just a greater awareness, a greater understanding. I felt lighter.
This story is a miracle healing story; that is the way I feel about it. I am so grateful to you! God bless you! Fran
Thank you Fran! I'm glad it was helpful. The journey of seeing projection and understanding it is a defense to be laid aside in all situation without exception has been quite a challenge to me, but I so so grateful. I know exactly wht you mean by feeling "lighter," that sense of awareness and understandstanding gently expanding and enveloping us all. It is a beautiful thing to forgive and be forgiven.
Of course you had this beautiful miracle of healing, Sean! Thankyou for extending it🥰, a holy instant of the One Mind. I am unfolding my understanding of my projections (just revisited T.23, IV the battleground) and knew the Monday Holy Day of your post would be a gift.
I'm glad it was helpful - and thank you for sharing, Deborah. There is so much healing in letting go of the defense of projection, just laying it down and moving on. Hard to do but worth it! Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
Thank you Sean for this lovely story of healing. The Holy Spirit reaches us in many ways, He waits for when we are ready to see the Truth and then he shows it to us in a way that will awaken us to the truth of the situation. Everyone is unique, everyone has an individual way of seeing things and journey to make. His death opened the portway for you to see the Truth of your relationship and an opportunity to heal you mind. He walks with us with every step and when we show a little willingness, it is then He takes our hand and helps us through.
I have been doing a 28 day forgiveness challenge throughout January and it has been the most amazing journey. It has helped me to deepen my understanding and my own work with it. I woke up from a dream the other night, where in the dream I forgave someone and I had been holding a judgement against. None of this situation was real for me in this world, but as happens in dreams, it felt very, very real in the dream. I awoke from the dream experiencing huge forgiveness for whoever it was and an absolute indescribable joy that I have never felt before. It was a feeling of freedom a complete lifting of the belief that there is anything to forgive. I simply knew that there was nothing to forgive, that it is all a dream and when we awaken we will be totally free of guilt and condemnation.
As always in dreams though it past very quickly upon waking and being back in this insane world of form. Thankfully I have the gift of being left of knowing the Truth deep inside. Although I still will have situations that sadden me, where I feel attacked or disappointed by something or other, I now understand at a very deep level within my mind that there is a world where forgiveness reigns and only Love is real.
Thank you Suzy for this and for the prior comment. That is a very helpful section of the Workbook. I think a lot of us are still grappling with the idea that forgiveness "judges not," as that concept is alien to the body an the mind conditioned to believe it IS a body. I am grateful for you and others who help me learn - thank you always for sharing this path with me 🙏🙏
Hi Sean, thanks for sharing. I am deeply interested in learning more about my projected thoughts at displacing guilt onto others. This is because my body is ill and is receiving treatment to survive.
So could you help me with something that happened tonight that I am having trouble with moving into extension with? I felt unseen by a friend in a ACIM prayer room. They didn't acknowledge me. It wouldn't have been purposeful, but I felt my anger rising to be ignored like that because today I had to shave my head and this was something I wanted acknowledgment of in my story.
I left the room before prayer. I sat with my annoyance and felt a deep sadness underneath that it was little me without witness. I was aware that I wanted to make my friend wrong because she also took an idea of mine (reviewing a miracle principle each night) and was reading something from the internet about it. None of this would have been purposely hurtful. But my ego didn't like not being seen, and didn't like running with MY idea of running through the miracle principles.
I am learning to watch the story that kg (that's me) is making about herself. My mind tries to find the projection. It uses the Byron Katie Judge Your Neighbour Worksheet. It still struggles to find the projection. While I recognise that my ego is involved in these hurts, it can't find the projection. 'My friend is guilty of not seeing me?' What is the turnaround then? 'I am guilty of not seeing me?' 'I am guilty of not seeing my friend?' Would you help me find it please?
I tried to replace my thoughts with 'Together we go, you and I'. To extend love, keep her onside, and remember that we are all walking each other home, to not allow this grievance to fester. She did reach out after I left the room (because I was cross) to say she hadn't seen me because she was reading, but I was still thinking 'perhaps you should set up your computer so you don't miss people like that'. It wasn't an angry thought, it could even be a helpful thought, but it wasn't a loving thought.
This stuff feels hard when I want to keep my grievance to be right rather than love. But I can't afford that anymore. I can't go on in life like that or it's very possible I won't go on in life anymore. So I want to ask for Holy Spirit to change my mind. I am willing. To totally drop the grievance and together we go, she and I. Any advice around this appreciated. Thank you. kg
Thank you for sharing, Kellie. I appreciate your honesty and openness.
The projection appears as the feeling that the other is responsible for our pain. Even if we know it's illogical or unfair - even if we understand perfectly the structure and function of projection - this is still so.
When we "look" for the projection, we just need to see (notice, feel, experience, not reject or try to fix) the feeling.
The projection is always a defense. It is always a defense against the realization that WE are the source of suffering, because if we see that WE are doing it, then we can investigate it and make another choice. We can ask: what beliefs do I hold that make me take this emotional response seriously? And, Bill Thetford-like, is there another way?
Almost always the belief is simply that we believe we are bodies and that there IS a world. We are separate from one another, we are vulnerable, our interests diverge, it's OUR job to heal et cetera . . .
This is not necessarily a difficult concept to grasp intellectually, and grasping it intellectually IS important. It's like the map that guides us into the interior and allows us to explore the hidden beliefs and secret judgments and tricky ghosts there.
But in the same way that a map of the jungle is not a defense against the tigers and snakes and spiders we encounter there, intellectual understanding of "the secret to salvation is I am doing this to myself" (T-27.VIII.10:1) is NOT curative.
That is, when we are emotionally thrown - when we are in the maelstrom - it doesn't help to just repeat "I am doing this to myself! I am doing this to myself!"
When I catch myself in the projection, and the mess projection makes - when I am hurt, angry, anxious, jealous, ashamed, lonely et cetera - I ask the Holy Spirit to to help me see the belief system that underlies the projection.
That is because belief systems are also defenses - they are defenses against fear.
I am scared. You are scared. We are ALL scared. That is what in the end we don't want to look at - our fear of death and our fear of God which, in the end, is our fear of life and love.
So the process is:
1. NOtice the projection, which is the feeling;
2. Go past the feeling to the belief system making the feeing appear reasonable; and then
3. Go past the belief system to the fear.
This is a practice! It is NOT - for most of us anyway - a "one-and-done." But if we do practice it, then eventually we become a bit more skillful at not taking the feelings so seriously or literally. They become more like signposts. "Oh right! I'm projecting again!"
And then we go into the belief system - usually "I am a body - what happens to this body happens to ME" and/or "I am a body IN the world and the world is a cause, not an effect."
In my experience, it takes time to work through the belief systems. They are (as you point out in your comment on an earlier post) dense thickets of cultural and familial training and conditioning. They are evasive; they depend on NOT being examined to live. We have to be creative and open-minded and persistent.
Always we are asking - in a deep and nonlinear and sustained way - is this belief system a fair and accurate model of reality? Am I in truth a body? Is there in truth a world?
It's okay to say yes, I really think the belief system is real!
It's also okay to say, I'm not sure.
The important thing is that we are honest. If we believe that we are bodies - and most people reading (and writing!) this do, at some level, believe that - then what's the argument? What is the evidence that "I" am a body?
Again, what I am saying here is really about the practice of just continually going into it - ever deeper - until we reach the fear.
In my experience, at that juncture, we need a brother or sister - a holy relationship - in which we can look at the fear and, together, see past it to Love, in which all erroneous belief systems are undone, and our hurt and anger and shame and anxiety are all gently undone, leaving only a calm and generative stillness.
I am making a big assumption here!
The work I am describing really only works if one has already done the important work of discerning between the Voice of the Holy Spirit and the voice of ego. Knowing the difference between them is what allows us to go into the interior in a healing rather than a self-destructive way.
Being able to say no to ego, matters. Not fight it or argue with it or attack it or whatever. Just . . . no thanks. Not interested.
And, at the same time, knowing when we are hearing the Holy Spirit is what allows us to enter into intentional dialogue with the Holy Spirit. When we know its voice it teaches us its presence, and then we can turn to Him, ask questions, raise issues, et cetera.
So I think that work is really important, even more than the whole undoing projection thing. In my experience, undoing projection is only possible when I have clarity about the distinction between ego and the Holy Spirit.
Finally, Kelli, thank you for being honest and open here. I am grateful. Your experience of illness is nontrivial, and your willingness to persist in your study and practice is a model of courage and devotion that everybody reading this needed. You are not alone.
Please feel free to keep in touch. Thank you again for being here.
This was soo beautiful, and I also listen to your reflections on WB lessons, they are soooo helpful 🙏🙏🙏♥️ I am so blessed to have found you online, helping me BigTime towards healing and awakening 🙏♥️💫💫💫
Sean this taught me a huge lesson, l have walked away from good friends also as l was afraid of confrontation and it is so darn crazy, thank you for this. ❤️
Sean this is truly a strange post,yet not one bit strange in many ways it’s a fantasy but a true one if fantasy could ever be true. Well the course tells us this life we think we live is a fantasy. I don’t sleep well either nor haven’t for many years and tears and terrors because I believed I was doomed bad unwanted ejected forever. I truly believed that. I do believe your friend did come to you yet at the same time knowing he didn’t but that vision was real a vision needed for you and many more people. Todays lesson 22 speaks of this it has taken me twenty years to learn I wasn’t learning Jesus course but my own course. I just didn’t know blinded by ego but at last I’m been visited by truth and all that it entails. It has taught me that a foundation has to be laid and that foundation is in the first ten lessons which I ignored as just words. Thanks again sean
Thank you, Sean. It was a very intense - but ultimately very helpful - projection. I'm grateful.
I appreciate the emphasis on learning Jesus' course rather than our own. It is so easy to substitute our judgment and preference for the truth, even as the truth is what will truly bring us rest. I'm glad you're laying a foundation. As we both know, we don't lay them alone and we don't lay them only for ourselves. I'm glad you're here, Sean. Thank you for reading and sharing.
~ Sean
Such a powerful post Sean. My heart broke wide open ! I have been holding a grievance toward a friend and it is now seen as my own fears projected on to her. I still feel the strong desire to hang on to the resentment, but there is now a stronger prayer here " to open to love". As always, thank you !
You're welcome, Glenda. I'm glad it was helpful. Yes! The grievances against others are always our own guilt and fear. It's easy to say that but hard to actually see it through to undoing. Thankfully, we don't have to do it alone. Thank you for reading and sharing and being here, Glenda.
~ Sean
My Charlie’s name was Harry, beyond being a dear friend he was a Teacher who provided me a map to the Light. Over the years my own fearful projections led to my isolating, creating a sense of abandoning Harry in a time when I may have been helpful to him. He reached out, I didn’t often respond, I learned of he’s passing weeks after the event. I harbored guilt until one night (why the night) in tears I asked for his forgiveness, I felt him smile and explain, “nothing happened”. I still have regrets but have come to understand the guilt. Thank you to your Charlie and the reminder you provided. We are all Safe. Blessings. nick j
Thank you, Nick. I appreciate this very much. We are not alone! And so much healing and salvation lies in that simple fact. To know that we are forgiven is such a gift, and to reach the end of projection is a gift we give to others, in turn forgiving them. Thank you for sharing this with us. I am very grateful 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Sean, Thank you so, so much. Your account was absolutely on beam and straight down the line. I value it as one of the most succinct utterances on what the business of ACIM is that has come my way. I also value it for being where a truth-speaking and a heart-speaking become one.
Julian
Thank you for the kind words, Julian. I'm glad it was helpful. And thank you for being here and sharing. I'm very grateful 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thank you, Sean. I cried reading that. I have had a similar experience. But it doesn't matter whether Charlie was 'real,' or a hallucination. What matters is that the "Aha" experience you got from it spoke to me, and it took something unusual for you to come to the realization that you did.
You're welcome, Farrell. Thank you for reading and sharing. Yes, you are correct - it is not the external event but the interior healing that was brought forth. Absolutely. Thank for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Dear Sean,
I don't find your story strange. Rather, I find it believable and so very deeply beautiful. I had many an "aha" as I began to have thoughts about my own projections in life. Your story is like a door that has opened for me. I printed it off, with the intention to revisit and revisit and....
Amongst my many "oh wow", I had situations and relationships bubble up in my mind-not out of guilt or anything, just a greater awareness, a greater understanding. I felt lighter.
This story is a miracle healing story; that is the way I feel about it. I am so grateful to you! God bless you! Fran
Thank you Fran! I'm glad it was helpful. The journey of seeing projection and understanding it is a defense to be laid aside in all situation without exception has been quite a challenge to me, but I so so grateful. I know exactly wht you mean by feeling "lighter," that sense of awareness and understandstanding gently expanding and enveloping us all. It is a beautiful thing to forgive and be forgiven.
~ Sean
Love this post Sean and thank u for sharing!!
You're welcome, Debby! Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Of course you had this beautiful miracle of healing, Sean! Thankyou for extending it🥰, a holy instant of the One Mind. I am unfolding my understanding of my projections (just revisited T.23, IV the battleground) and knew the Monday Holy Day of your post would be a gift.
I'm glad it was helpful - and thank you for sharing, Deborah. There is so much healing in letting go of the defense of projection, just laying it down and moving on. Hard to do but worth it! Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thank you. Love is the only thing we share on both sides of the veil. ♥️
Yes indeed - thank for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thank you Sean for this lovely story of healing. The Holy Spirit reaches us in many ways, He waits for when we are ready to see the Truth and then he shows it to us in a way that will awaken us to the truth of the situation. Everyone is unique, everyone has an individual way of seeing things and journey to make. His death opened the portway for you to see the Truth of your relationship and an opportunity to heal you mind. He walks with us with every step and when we show a little willingness, it is then He takes our hand and helps us through.
I have been doing a 28 day forgiveness challenge throughout January and it has been the most amazing journey. It has helped me to deepen my understanding and my own work with it. I woke up from a dream the other night, where in the dream I forgave someone and I had been holding a judgement against. None of this situation was real for me in this world, but as happens in dreams, it felt very, very real in the dream. I awoke from the dream experiencing huge forgiveness for whoever it was and an absolute indescribable joy that I have never felt before. It was a feeling of freedom a complete lifting of the belief that there is anything to forgive. I simply knew that there was nothing to forgive, that it is all a dream and when we awaken we will be totally free of guilt and condemnation.
As always in dreams though it past very quickly upon waking and being back in this insane world of form. Thankfully I have the gift of being left of knowing the Truth deep inside. Although I still will have situations that sadden me, where I feel attacked or disappointed by something or other, I now understand at a very deep level within my mind that there is a world where forgiveness reigns and only Love is real.
Love and Many Blessings, Suzy xxx
A Course in Miracles
What Is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not
occurred. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no
sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false
idea about God's Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets
it go. What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise
to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be
released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that
distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to
doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed
projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its
goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen
path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish
it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern
for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends
no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely
looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for
he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself
must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him
http://acim.home.att.net/workbook220b-intro.html (1 of 2)2/1/2007 02:56:20
A Course in Miracles -Workbook for Students - Part II - What Is Forgiveness?
Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain
of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His
function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive
whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
"Introduction to Workbook Part II"
What is forgiveness? it is peace and freedom, what a beautiful gift we give ourselves through forgiveness. Blessings, Suzy xxx
Thank you Suzy for this and for the prior comment. That is a very helpful section of the Workbook. I think a lot of us are still grappling with the idea that forgiveness "judges not," as that concept is alien to the body an the mind conditioned to believe it IS a body. I am grateful for you and others who help me learn - thank you always for sharing this path with me 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Hi Sean, thanks for sharing. I am deeply interested in learning more about my projected thoughts at displacing guilt onto others. This is because my body is ill and is receiving treatment to survive.
So could you help me with something that happened tonight that I am having trouble with moving into extension with? I felt unseen by a friend in a ACIM prayer room. They didn't acknowledge me. It wouldn't have been purposeful, but I felt my anger rising to be ignored like that because today I had to shave my head and this was something I wanted acknowledgment of in my story.
I left the room before prayer. I sat with my annoyance and felt a deep sadness underneath that it was little me without witness. I was aware that I wanted to make my friend wrong because she also took an idea of mine (reviewing a miracle principle each night) and was reading something from the internet about it. None of this would have been purposely hurtful. But my ego didn't like not being seen, and didn't like running with MY idea of running through the miracle principles.
I am learning to watch the story that kg (that's me) is making about herself. My mind tries to find the projection. It uses the Byron Katie Judge Your Neighbour Worksheet. It still struggles to find the projection. While I recognise that my ego is involved in these hurts, it can't find the projection. 'My friend is guilty of not seeing me?' What is the turnaround then? 'I am guilty of not seeing me?' 'I am guilty of not seeing my friend?' Would you help me find it please?
I tried to replace my thoughts with 'Together we go, you and I'. To extend love, keep her onside, and remember that we are all walking each other home, to not allow this grievance to fester. She did reach out after I left the room (because I was cross) to say she hadn't seen me because she was reading, but I was still thinking 'perhaps you should set up your computer so you don't miss people like that'. It wasn't an angry thought, it could even be a helpful thought, but it wasn't a loving thought.
This stuff feels hard when I want to keep my grievance to be right rather than love. But I can't afford that anymore. I can't go on in life like that or it's very possible I won't go on in life anymore. So I want to ask for Holy Spirit to change my mind. I am willing. To totally drop the grievance and together we go, she and I. Any advice around this appreciated. Thank you. kg
Thank you for sharing, Kellie. I appreciate your honesty and openness.
The projection appears as the feeling that the other is responsible for our pain. Even if we know it's illogical or unfair - even if we understand perfectly the structure and function of projection - this is still so.
When we "look" for the projection, we just need to see (notice, feel, experience, not reject or try to fix) the feeling.
The projection is always a defense. It is always a defense against the realization that WE are the source of suffering, because if we see that WE are doing it, then we can investigate it and make another choice. We can ask: what beliefs do I hold that make me take this emotional response seriously? And, Bill Thetford-like, is there another way?
Almost always the belief is simply that we believe we are bodies and that there IS a world. We are separate from one another, we are vulnerable, our interests diverge, it's OUR job to heal et cetera . . .
This is not necessarily a difficult concept to grasp intellectually, and grasping it intellectually IS important. It's like the map that guides us into the interior and allows us to explore the hidden beliefs and secret judgments and tricky ghosts there.
But in the same way that a map of the jungle is not a defense against the tigers and snakes and spiders we encounter there, intellectual understanding of "the secret to salvation is I am doing this to myself" (T-27.VIII.10:1) is NOT curative.
That is, when we are emotionally thrown - when we are in the maelstrom - it doesn't help to just repeat "I am doing this to myself! I am doing this to myself!"
When I catch myself in the projection, and the mess projection makes - when I am hurt, angry, anxious, jealous, ashamed, lonely et cetera - I ask the Holy Spirit to to help me see the belief system that underlies the projection.
That is because belief systems are also defenses - they are defenses against fear.
I am scared. You are scared. We are ALL scared. That is what in the end we don't want to look at - our fear of death and our fear of God which, in the end, is our fear of life and love.
So the process is:
1. NOtice the projection, which is the feeling;
2. Go past the feeling to the belief system making the feeing appear reasonable; and then
3. Go past the belief system to the fear.
This is a practice! It is NOT - for most of us anyway - a "one-and-done." But if we do practice it, then eventually we become a bit more skillful at not taking the feelings so seriously or literally. They become more like signposts. "Oh right! I'm projecting again!"
And then we go into the belief system - usually "I am a body - what happens to this body happens to ME" and/or "I am a body IN the world and the world is a cause, not an effect."
In my experience, it takes time to work through the belief systems. They are (as you point out in your comment on an earlier post) dense thickets of cultural and familial training and conditioning. They are evasive; they depend on NOT being examined to live. We have to be creative and open-minded and persistent.
Always we are asking - in a deep and nonlinear and sustained way - is this belief system a fair and accurate model of reality? Am I in truth a body? Is there in truth a world?
It's okay to say yes, I really think the belief system is real!
It's also okay to say, I'm not sure.
The important thing is that we are honest. If we believe that we are bodies - and most people reading (and writing!) this do, at some level, believe that - then what's the argument? What is the evidence that "I" am a body?
Again, what I am saying here is really about the practice of just continually going into it - ever deeper - until we reach the fear.
In my experience, at that juncture, we need a brother or sister - a holy relationship - in which we can look at the fear and, together, see past it to Love, in which all erroneous belief systems are undone, and our hurt and anger and shame and anxiety are all gently undone, leaving only a calm and generative stillness.
I am making a big assumption here!
The work I am describing really only works if one has already done the important work of discerning between the Voice of the Holy Spirit and the voice of ego. Knowing the difference between them is what allows us to go into the interior in a healing rather than a self-destructive way.
Being able to say no to ego, matters. Not fight it or argue with it or attack it or whatever. Just . . . no thanks. Not interested.
And, at the same time, knowing when we are hearing the Holy Spirit is what allows us to enter into intentional dialogue with the Holy Spirit. When we know its voice it teaches us its presence, and then we can turn to Him, ask questions, raise issues, et cetera.
So I think that work is really important, even more than the whole undoing projection thing. In my experience, undoing projection is only possible when I have clarity about the distinction between ego and the Holy Spirit.
Finally, Kelli, thank you for being honest and open here. I am grateful. Your experience of illness is nontrivial, and your willingness to persist in your study and practice is a model of courage and devotion that everybody reading this needed. You are not alone.
Please feel free to keep in touch. Thank you again for being here.
~ Sean
This was soo beautiful, and I also listen to your reflections on WB lessons, they are soooo helpful 🙏🙏🙏♥️ I am so blessed to have found you online, helping me BigTime towards healing and awakening 🙏♥️💫💫💫
I'm glad it's helpful, Gordana. Thank you for being here and for sharing. We are not alone 🙏🙏
~ Sean
Thank you for this timely message, Sean. I so appreciate your posts. 🙏
Sean this taught me a huge lesson, l have walked away from good friends also as l was afraid of confrontation and it is so darn crazy, thank you for this. ❤️
You're welcome, Jennifer. Thank you for being here 🙏🙏
~ Sean
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Thank you. Xx
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