The ego dream of death is Busted!

Dear Lisa

What a deep outpouring of anguish. I am so sorry to hear this tale of bloody death and the assasination of innocence. The only thing that I can tell you is that today I went to a Course in Miracles group led by two teachers from Wisconsin, and they talked about orginal innocence. The woman told me she had attempted suicide six times, and the sixth time was apparently successful, but there she was in the hospital with the doctors looking at her as if she was dead, flatlined, and she kept saying, but I'm still here!!! And then she realized that her "solution" which is the ego's solution to the question of God, was death, and she was not dead! She went to her father who is a teacher of the Course, and he explained to her that we are reincarnated as ourselves. In other words, we do not come back as someone else. We come back as the essence of who we are, and it is always us! "We live one long life lasting tens of thousands of years,"  says the Course. We are vibrational energy, and we each have a fibrational signature that persists. We do not die! So that is the answer to your question abou those children. Read The Lovely Bones. We do not DIE! Where they are is the same place that all those innocent children in the Tsunami went. It was instant. No pain. Gone. Disappeared. Actually, the Course teaches us that everything has already happened, that the Universe is a memory of a dream, and when we wake up, it will disappear, and we will be where we were just before the Universe was created out of the tiny mad idea of separation. So, there we are. In Heaven all along, and we never even left!

All the apparent insanity and pain and suffering is the egos valiant attempt to usurp the throne of God, and tell us we don't need God. When we realize that, we come to a place where we say,

But I had such a terrible time, and everything was horrible. You wouldn't believe how horrible it was!

And God looks at us and says, basically, "I don't knwo wha tyou are talking about!" You have been having a bad dream, but don't worry, it is over. You are safe now. That is how you must be with this apparent nightmare that seems to be the world. It is a projection of fear. Jesus in the Course tells us that the ego has a range from suspicious to vicious. The closer Love gets, the more suspicious we get, and when it gets really close, we get vicious! The courage not to defend against attack dissolves it. This is the true meaning of turning the other cheek. If we want peace we can do it only by accepting the Atonement (at one ment) for ourselves, and since we are AT ONE with the Universe, that means when we accept it for ourselves it is extended to all. The great range of radiation of light that is available to us illuminates the world. The only thing you can do with the black hole of darkness is pop out the other end of the wormhole, into the light! The pressure of the dark, the mass that is a black hole is dense matter, so dense that it is purre gravity. It is the only thing that keeps us from flying off into space. When the pressure becomes unbearable, as it seems to be for you at this time, then you have to let yourself surrender to the vortex of the black hole, and POP OUT THE OTHER SIDE into the LIGHT! This transformation is exquisite in its simplicity. Anyone who is carrying pain from the past cannot be simple. Simplicity is humility in the face of the complicated machinations of the ego, the willingness to look beyond it to the Light. The power of the image of God parting the Red Sea would have far less majesty if there were not an army of warriors hell bent on the destruction of the Israelites, in hot pursuit of them. The image of the Ocean swallowing them up means more in the face of the terror that drove the Israelites foward throught the opening to the other side. Those children are innocent children of God, just like you. Your innocence is your birthright. It is indestructible. Remember the powerful words of the Course: "Nothing REAL can be threatened. Nothing UNREAL EXISTS!! Herein lies the peace of God."

I think at times when we get seduced into believing that the nightmare is real, we need to remember those words. The REAL truth of Loves infinite power to heal is eternal and indestructible, no matter WHAT it looks like in the dream. We wake up a small child that is having a nightmare, not by shaking her awake and telling her it is just a dream, but by telling her that she is safe now. Where those babies are they are safe now. They are in the arms of the angels. They are enfolded gently, being carried down a path in summer.  Remember, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. He layeth me down in green pastures. He restoreth my soul. He restoreth my soul, Lisa. Pour out your love and forgiveness and blessing to those dear children's parents, to the Amish community, that built itself on guilt and sexual repression. I think that is what has touched you so deeply. The innocence that is your birthright means you deeply understand that you are eternally pure and whole and clean and there is NOTHING that can hurt you. There is no punishment. The body, even thought it is used lovelessly, serves the purpose it was given for, to communicate love. ONLY LOVE IS REAL: That is what we must focus on in times when the ego is having a field day with our dream of Death. Dancing with death is like a skeleton wearing lipstick, says the Course. Everything is all right!! Everything is all right., I'm ok!!! But really down deep is the terror that it is a lie. Under that mask of innocence is the mask of hate, and under that mask true innocence. Does this make any sense to you? Let yourself watch the face of death until you realize it is a dream, and you allow yourself to wake from the dream of fear into the happy dream which tells us that we cannot die. Those who fear change do not want to hear that we do not die. The ego sure doesn't want to hear that! How would it keep its power over you if you lost your fear of death??? You would be impossible to control. OOPS!

Gotcha!

Love you,

Shelora

 

On 05/10/06, Lisa Underhill wrote:

http://shelora.blogspot.com/

Shelora,you wrote...
"The miracles in my life now appear like pearls on a string, each one perfect, each one formed from a
 the crucifixion as you have always told me that many Christians are too much focused on Jesus's death. However the image and gleen of the pearls created a bright calling and compelled me on a journey inward ..how lovely that the golden thread goes to the Course. A thread being bot delicate and tenacious all at once.... sounds like you in a way!

"This is the structure I want for my book. That, and the journey to the center of the labyrinth, holding the golden thread. Because we each have to confront our own form of the Minotaur, the demon of our own chaos and confusion and pain, caused by our own misperception and fear of the Will of God. The fear of the Will of God is one of the strangest beliefs ever made by human kind. "

my gosh my heart has  been tormented and in anguish over the cold blooded murders 2 days ago in an Amish community in Pennsylvania who are now grieving the death of 5 of their young, innocent girls found covered in  bloody one room school house.

The murderer now dead, I believe would have benefitted from the Teachings of the Course. The whole notion of our innocence and inherent goodness, our likeness to God. It seems that rural pockets around Canada and the US suffer from the oppression of religion and beliefs about God that only serve to increase suffering and separation...blah blah... but really, I just finished reading Rhinestone Button by Gail Anderson-Dargatz, she lives on Vancouver Island.  One of the key characters comes to peace with his demons and gifts of synaesthesia (sorta like seeing sound in colors) through an ultimate rejection of a traditional, fundamentalist Baptist religious community. I can't help wondering how rural life enables one to hide out and keep one's demons at bay?? Yet the tormented killer who attacked innocent students at Dawson College found his way to hide out on the internet. Cities are not immune from delusional crazy hateful minds and souls...

I need to pray for healing Shelora. For this man's family who has left his family of 3 children, fatherless, and more emphatically for the 5 young girls who left this world with a bullet in their heads. The world is now shocked at the acceptance and surrender of the Amish community amidst their private grief yet I am touched at their ability to surrender and have faith and hope in this bloody incident.

Who am I to know what is faith and when is the best time for hope and forgiveness? I do know that whatever is afflicting these school killers in the US and Canada, the Course could help them. It's the only spiritual teaching I know of that teaches us our innocence which creates the basis for our own forgiveness and ultimately God's forgiveness.

Take your mission of peace to the heart and souls of these fucked up men with guns in their hands and hate in their souls for God, innocence and desire for dominance. Let us all rejoice in our own innocence, love, and be the mirror of God's love coming through our own and other's eyes.

These killers' lost their own reflection of God's love and light and admiration for each of us. Their mirror's turned to stone as each of their soul's hardened. God had no way of penetrating their shells of "normalacy" or hate. When are we going to look beneath the gun laws as a way to protect further innocent victims? It's not enough, we need to reach these people, at the level of their inner hardening, and hatred. The gun is the final violence, outward, of their inner self violence. Not to simplify it all but our politicians/and media react too quickly to blame the guns when the souls are sick too. We are all responsible in a way to heal this separation of ourselves and others from "god"/spirit/goddess/creator.

Amazing how we are all affected by our world around us. Where do I need to feel my own innocence and surrender? How is my mirror getting fogged up and blocking my own light to shine through? How can I heal myself and help heal this violence? I can weave my own story like the pearls and the golden thread you spoke about at the beginning. Somewhere my golden thread of connection to the divine needs to be strengthened through all of this violence. Your blog helps me to have a forum for my own reconnection to my spirit and divine light. Thank you.

Thank you Shelora for the opportunity to write and nourish my soul and spirit through my own reflections and living vicariously through your journey of discovery,love, openness, and wonder!

Love Lisa
Ps: you are coming home on my birthday!! hee hee's

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May peace prevail.
Shelora