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“The running thread of A Course in Miracles is the radical idea that I am freed from past ideas.” ~ Pam Grout, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind
“All matter originates and exits only by virtue of a force … We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.” ~ Max Planck
“We cannot solve our problems with the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
I don’t share this very often but I’ve been studying a revolutionary book titled, A Course in Miracles for a number of years. The actual book is a door stopper. It has a text part explaining that we humans have had an incorrect idea of how the world really works for millennia, which is couched in flowery scripture like language. Then at the back are daily lessons to help the student retrain his or her brain to accept the real reality; that what we think is real, is all an illusion that we humans made up for who knows what reason. The Course says our egos made it up to “protect us”. But that’s a big lie because it’s the illusion that the world is a scary place, that when something good happens it won’t be long before it’s followed up by something bad, that we are not worthy of love in any form, but especially from God, and so on. You probably know the drill better than I can write here, because those negative thoughts are always swirling around in your head like they try to do in mine. They are hard to get rid of. It takes vigilance. That’s why I continue to study the course every day.
In my podcast, Story-Power, I have talked to so many creative people who share how hard it is to get rid of that nasty little inner critic voice that swears we’re not worthy to be creative. And that if we attempt to share what we create with the world no one will like it. It says it’s telling us this to protect us from getting hurt. That’s all bull hockey!
My favorite version of the lessons are in Pam Grout’s book, The Course in Miracles Experiment. She breaks down the day’s message into regular everyday language, often in funny ways that make them more digestible and accessible. For example, the other day I was reading one of the review lessons. There were two parts, but the second one shot straight to my heart. Now remember, I’ve done this lesson before, but for some reason, this day it meant more to me. The lesson is, “Only good can come to me”. Wow! How often do we tell ourselves that? I did as Pam suggested and made it into a mantra that I say to myself whenever those negative ego messages raise their ugly heads.
The whole point of the Course is to get us to understand that we’ve accepted a very narrow view of reality. There are so many more possibilities than we normally allow ourselves to think of. The title of the book is the biggest clue, miracles are all around us but most of the time we close down our thinking and fail to see them.
What we think is a really big part of changing our lives from wary and miserable to joyous and abundant with all the things we dream of experiencing.
If you think what I’m writing is a big crock, go read some articles about what quantum physicists have discovered. Albert Einstein and Max Planck, were two of the first men to state that what we think creates our reality. If you think the world is a scary, dangerous place in which to live, then it will be, for you. On the other hand, if you think it’s a wondrous place full of miracles and happiness, then you’ll attract that into your life.
Their theories have been around for about 100 years, but we still have a hard time accepting that we’re responsible for “our lot in life”. We’d rather blame someone, or something else.
In today’s lesson, the Course reminds us that “I will be still an instant and go home,” it means that we are capable of connecting with the Divine if we are still and listen. But Pam points out that the time between sleeping and waking in the morning and waking and sleeping at night are the times when we allow ourselves to be connected to the Divine because just a few moments we are disconnected from that silly “asshat”, as she calls our ego. It’s the time of inspiration and she gives three examples of people who claimed that’s when they got their best ideas; August Kukule, the founder of organic chemistry who first envisioned the benzene ring in those moments between sleeping and waking. Also on her list are artist, Salvador Dali, and inventor, Thomas Edison. I bet if we did the research, we could find lots more creatives who claim the same thing. I’m not a well known creative but I get some of my best ideas just as I’m waking up in the morning.
There are a couple more concepts from the Course I want to leave you with today. They have helped me on a number of occasions when I’m feeling particularly upset by personal, or even world events. “Only love is real.” When I want to scream at those who are greedy, or power hungry, or want to curtail the rights of others, I remember, only love is real. What they’re doing is a result of them believing that they have to keep all the toys to protect themselves. But I don’t have to believe that’s real and I can experience miracles no matter what those people are doing. And I remember one other thing from the Course, every single one of us is a part of the Divine. Most of us just don’t know that. So if I attack someone else, I’m attacking myself because we’re all one, part of the big fabric we call Divine Creator.
The only way we’re going to make this world a paradise is to remember that, “Only love is real, My brother and I are one, Miracles happen every day.” All I have to do is look for the love and miracles and when I do that ripples go out into the world. Eventually those ripples will affect enough people that we’ll make the shift from a world of chaos, to one of peace.
I know it’s hard to wrap your head around what I’m writing here. I still want to ride the fence and say yes, only love is real, except that I need to set that person straight, or I hope that one gets his or her comeuppance. And then I remember, I have to let go of blame and wanting retribution. That’s why I keep doing the lessons everyday, so I can clear out all the negative thinking I was taught by well meaning people. Since I choose to claim the miracles, I keep practicing the lessons until they are a solid reality for me.
There are lots of great teachers out there with similar messages like Marisa Peer who encourages her clients and students to tell themselves everyday, “I am enough”. That one mantra helps me break the idea that something’s wrong with me. I think lots of people have that feeling. But, that’s another lie. We’re all worthy of love.
I could go on and on with all the things I’ve learned about loving myself and accepting that good things can come to me if I look for them, but you’ve got your own lessons to learn. So take what is valuable from this post and leave the rest.
I send you blessings of pure love and light and pure source energy.
Lucinda Sage-Midgorden © 2023
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