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20 Mind, Body, and Ego

Published by Normand Bourque on 27/03/2013

ℑ “You made neither yourself nor your function. You made only the decision to be unworthy of both. Yet you cannot make yourself unworthy because you are the treasure of God, and what He values is valuable… Your function is to add to God’s treasure by creating yours.” ACIM VIII-149 ℑ

ℑ God said:“You have been scammed. You have been led to believe that you can’t live without your body. You appear in the world as a body. Your body is like a bottle that holds the perfume. The bottle is not the perfume. It is the container of it. It is only a bottle. Ah, but what the body encloses, the essence of you is far, far more than a body.” HL 3748 ℑ

19 The Laws of Illusions III: The Power of Negation

19 The Laws of Illusions III: The Power of Negation

Published by Normand Bourque on 20/03/2013

ℑ “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.” Sir James Jeans ℑ

“God said:
ℑ God said:“In Reality, beloveds, there is no distance, not in time or in space. There is Infinity and Eternity which, on Earth, you experience in a time-frame bolstered by science on Earth. All this is scientific and beautiful, yet scientific only so far as it goes on Earth.
You perceive that you are in a dense world, yet density is the illusion you live in. Density and gravity hold you up on Earth at the same time as they hold you down. Remember, you look from various directions.” HL 4491 ℑ
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18 The Laws of Illusions II: The Memory of the Present

18 The Laws of Illusions II: The Memory of the Present

Published by Normand Bourque on 12/03/2013

ℑ God said:“Let’s have it out. You are an incredible Being Who hides under a mask of his own making. You transfer roles. You transferred your Heritage to Me. I am a projection of you – or, are you a projection of Me? It does get confusing, talking about Our Oneness in terms of two.” HL ℑ

“Why is the word I capitalized? There is One I, and yet a fringe of the One I babbles on the periphery.”

ℑ “Yet truth can never be forgotten by itself, and you have not forgotten what you are. Only a strange illusion of yourself, a wish to triumph over what you are, remembers not.” ACIM 21-1

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17 The Laws of Illusions I: “Consciousness is not a science nor is it an art.”

17 The Laws of Illusions I: “Consciousness is not a science nor is it an art.”
Published by Normand Bourque on 07/03/2013

ℑ God said:“What is it that has been named by the word consciousness?
Cannot consciousness describe itself? And if it cannot, why not? How can it be known or unknown and not be identified?” HL 3242 ℑ

Consciousness has the power to become unconscious of itself. This means that it can virtually forget or lose its identity but without really losing it. We could almost say that the necessity for consciousness to be perfectly One, self-conscious, indivisible contains the possibility of virtually becoming a random phenomenon, a self unconscious of itself in a seeming random world.

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16 Why God seems to leave us helpless?

16 Why God seems to leave us helpless?
Published by Normand Bourque on 28/02/2013

ℑ God said:“And, yet, I, God, do not fulfill everything you ask, no matter how deeply you desire it. I do not customarily raise the dead. I do not grant all your wishes. I may not grant half of them. Nor, when you believe you need Me the most, am I always there or, sometimes, it may feel to some, that I am never there.” HL 4403 ℑ

How can we understand our sense of helplessness? It was a choice, a detour in experiencing what it is to forget love, to live fear and darkness then seek to remember love and light again. What was an answer without question in heaven became a question without an answer on earth. The answer can still be found in the silence.

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15 Object Versus Symbol II: About Symmetry

15 Object Versus Symbol II: About Symmetry
Published by Normand Bourque on 19/02/2013

ℑ God said:“And so in life. Life does not have to be symmetrical to be wonderful, nor does an asymmetry have to be off-balance. Is someone who doesn’t know you supposed to set standards for your life? Do you consider that authors know more than you about your life and where your happiness lies?” HL 4567 ℑ

The principle of duality: one is produced by two, it takes two to make one, but the premise is “two halves to start with”. But what is a ½ (half) by itself? Is ½ composed itself of 2 halves? Then the ultimate constituent of matter would be ½ -> ¼ -> 1/8 -> 1/16 -> … -> 1/∞ which, in mathematics, is equal to 0 (zero). One would then ask if there are such things as opposites or halves? We could go even further and ask if two ultimate halves will yield 0+0=1.

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14 Object Versus Symbol I: Which is real?

14 Object Versus Symbol I: Which is real?
Published by Normand Bourque on 16/02/2013

ℑ God said:“What is not a symbol? All the concrete things in the world that exist are symbols. We can say that they are tokens. Love is not token, but love is seen in its expressions”.
HL 1684 ℑ

We can say that objects or facts are relations as well as separate entities. Language is a perfect illustration of this reality. Words have shape, physical properties as acoustic objects or graphic objects. Each word has a meaning as its property but the meaning of one word is just half of what it is.

Because the meaning of a word needs to be linked to the meaning of another word if it is to be understood, that is to be meaningful or full of meaning. Note that in any dictionary a word is always defined by other words.

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13 Beyond the Realm of Causality

13 Beyond the Realm of Causality
Published by Normand Bourque on 12/02/2013

ℑ God said:” It is not understandable to you that there is no cause. There are reasons why and even proof given for everything, and yet I maintain that there is no cause. There is no cause.

Remembering that there is no cause will prevent you from seeking a cause. It will prevent you from demanding justice. …” HL 3231 ℑ

We absolutely live in the present but, in our relative existence, we live in the past. It is like we are spending our life in a cinema, thinking that it is the real-life going on on the screen, ignoring that the “real life” is waiting for us when the movie is over.

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12 Securing, Directing and Supporting Oneself

12 Securing, Directing and Supporting Oneself
Published by Normand Bourque on 08/02/2013

ℑ “”Do not be afraid of the ego. It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it.
…The more you learn about the ego, the more you realize that it cannot be believed. The incredible cannot be understood because it is unbelievable.” ACIM 7-8 ℑ

Even if the ego is not real, only virtual, it can simulate and impose its reality, its make-believe reality by making our mind believe that this mind of ours is non-existent. If we then believe in the ego, if we support it, it will ensure its continuance.
The boomerang of giving: giving something is how we keep it.

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11 The World as a Metaphor. Understanding totally by understanding totality.

11 The World as a Metaphor. Understanding totally by understanding totality.
Published by Normand Bourque on 04/02/2013

ℑ God said:“…Is it a metaphor that the sun is your heart, or that your heart is the sun?… Are metaphors perhaps more true than that the grass is green and the sky is blue?” HL 3211 ℑ

ℑ “There is only one way out of the world’s thinking, just as there was only one way into it. Understanding totally by understanding totality” ACIM 7-7 ℑ

There is nothing in life that is not connected to another. Loneliness is a fantasy, it is totally meaningless. We don’t see the thread. Metaphor is the thread. It takes all lives and all aspects of all lives in all universes and weaves a never-ending and ever-growing tapestry. This tapestry is Awareness of Oneness.

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