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Author: Normand Bourque

30 A Tailor-Made Universe II: Syntropy

“Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less.” ACIM 21-1

A paradigm, a way of viewing, cannot be the reality but a fragment of reality. Reality is not a way of viewing. It simply is. Duality is the paradigm by which we affirm something through its negation or absence: we affirm health through sickness, power through inability or incapacity, truth through lie, value or worth through naught, etc.

29 A Tailor-Made Universe I

“Nothing beyond yourself can make you fearful or loving, because nothing is beyond you. Time and eternity are both in your mind, and will conflict until you perceive time solely as a means to regain eternity.” ACIM 10-INTR.

Universe and universes
The word universe, formed of uni (one) + versus (turned), means turned in order to constitute a whole. It literally means that 1 (one) is turning around itself to define a whole. What is fascinating in the concept of universe, from the standpoint of oneness, is that “There are not even threads to hold the Universe of Being together.”

28 Does God Ever Stop Thinking?

God said:“Whether thoughts come from you or whether thoughts are like bites from mosquitoes — mostly, you are inundated with them. Your thoughts are rapid-fire thoughts. There seem to be no screens to keep thoughts out.” HL 4537

It has been said that thoughts combined with belief and intention can move mountains. And yet, as humans in the relative world, how many times haven’t we ask God to release us from thinking! The mind is not the problem. Our way of using or perceiving the mind is the problem. The mind never loses its creative force. It never sleeps, it is never in an idle state. Every instant it is creating and producing one form or the other at some level.

27 Coherence, Surrender and Joy

God said:“Your picture of the world is your picture of the world. The objective world does not exist. The subjective world exists for you. All matter is a thought that manifested itself into your supposed reality.” HL 3942

COHERENCE
We are starting to discover that the universe is defined more by information than by matter, energy, time, and space. Ultimately, if the physical universe is reducible to electromagnetic waves that carry information, we could say that the cosmos is a big hologram, an organic whole that constitutes itself the information about itself.

26 Time Is Ego

“Delay does not matter in eternity, but it is tragic in time. You have elected to be in time rather than eternity, and therefore believe you are in time. Yet your election is both free and alterable.” ACIM 5-6

We have acknowledged that it is more and more difficult to draw a clear distinction between mind and matter. That matter itself might be a projection of the mind. But how could it be so?

If time and its correlate, space, are expressions of boundaries, limits, our mind is getting more and more confused if it is perceiving real matter or its own sense of limitation.

25 Atonement and the Unified Field

“God said: I am a memory, a memory re-enlivened, and yet I am an experience, a renewed experience of Oneness.”

We are now well aware of the ego but it seems difficult to replace it with something else because we are more aware of our unshared identity than we are aware of our shared one.
An identity has to be eternal otherwise it is meaningless. And in twoness, no real identity can exist. Identity can only exist in oneness. Hence its sharing is its reality.

24 Existing and Being

God said:“The tide of change has lapped you closer to shore. It may not be the shore you had in mind, and yet it brings you closer to your desires. With or without your consent, room has been made for you. And now you go forward like a fish in the sea weaving through the water”. HL 4142

The growing “knowledge” of the physical universe is cumulative information that is asymptotic to real knowledge or truth. It tends toward the truth but it can never touch it or attain it. Yet it can be “translated” into knowledge or truth.

23 Freedom II: Writing and Playing Life Scripts

“You were cast in a play once. Unawares, you play that same role again and again. You remember the lines so well, and yet you have forgotten that you already have played that scene. You can’t seem to get off the page.”

We could say that, paradoxically, real freedom is not having to choose because the only choice available has already been made for us: WE DID NOT CREATE OURSELF, WE WERE CREATED. But how can we feel free if somebody else is making the choice for us? This statement is at the root of the ambiguity of the concept of freedom. But it is only ambiguous in appearance. The ambiguity resides in the point of view chosen to interpret it.
So the universe did respond to our will to establish by our own means our self-worth. It offered us the possibility of writing and acting and even becoming the scripts of our life(lives) as if what we decided to establish as our self-worth, self-meaning, self-identity was real.

The scripts we write and enact on our earthly existence(s) are necessarily repetitive since they are based on the negation of our true inherited, unchangeable, undividable divine worth which is also our unchangeable script

22 Freedom I: The Mystery of Pleasure

God said:“You have the freedom to embrace all that life gives. Freedom doesn’t pick and choose. That is limited freedom, and freedom limited is not freedom. So long as you think your life has to go a certain way, you have abandoned freedom.” HL 276 ℑ 

God said:“This is the human condition. Involvement. Entrainment. You work at resolving the human condition. Through your being in a physical form, you come to freedom.”HL 4478

Is it not through the physical orgasm, which is a scalar big bang, that we can experience the (conditional) love or pleasure of being the author of ourself, of reproducing binarily the unity of the universe?  Is it not also what gives rise to the will to be in control, to make choices, and to do what we want?

21 The Impossible Compromise

God said:“You tend to think that where you have been is safe. You don’t even know what safe means. With Me is safety. The Unknown is your haven. But, in truth, there is no Unknown. There is just your fear of stepping forward.” HL 4

Can we learn what truth is from illusions? This is equivalent to ask if we can make illusions real and justify our belief in them? Truth refers only to itself. Perception refers to what is not itself. It refers to what is outside of itself. Oneness is its own meaning without any outside elements to add to its meaning. Its meaning can extend from the inside only.