ACIM Lesson 160 - I am at home. Fear is the stranger here. -- Self-enquiry at its core.

 Lesson 160- I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.

Commentary.

This lesson is really at the core of all the great nondual traditions. It is a pure lesson in self-inquiry, self-investigation, and finding out the truth of one's nature and reality. It goes under many names, such as self-remembering, self-inquiry, self-investigation, and others.

Some keys for this lesson:

• Fear is synonymous with the ego or false self. This lesson points to the idea that fear and the ego came from 'outside' and have ousted one's identification with Self, in place of the false self
• Fear, planning, scheming, survival mechanisms and conditioning all keep this 'stranger' locked in place and in control of one's actions
• Through a process of self-investigation, one can remember one's true Identity, and sort the false out from the true
• Welcoming the Divine, and communing regularly with the Holy Spirit, or one's own Self hastens this process of self-remembering and dropping the false self (which never actually existed in its own right)
• God's plan for salvation involves assisting others to remember their true Identity, and thus reinforcing the knowledge of our own

"I am at home." -- points to the process of self-abidance and resting in and as one's own living, present, peaceful Self.

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Lesson 151 - All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

 

Just a quick note here regarding Lesson 151 and the applicability of the Course to our worldly life and daily experience.

This lesson directly shows that there is a relationship between the work we're doing with the Course each day, and our 'worldly' experience. All things that happen, including things themselves, others, our likes and dislikes etc.-- can become echoes and reminders of the Voice for God. All things can point back to what we really are. This is how the plan for salvation has to work. We have to start right where we are.

There's a tempation for many students, even advanced ones, to focus only on transcendental topics and ideas, which althought important, aren't the entirety of the Course. Ideas and points such as not being a body, being beyond the world, not in the world, that there is not world, that we're not in time and space, that there are no others etc. etc.

- All these ideas are very useful, and TRUE! However, when they're taken on as beliefs, they become a double edged sword. They can be used a form of denial of our actual experience right here and now. If we're lost in the dream, then denying that we're dreaming, or imagining that we're really awake, doesn't help the situation. In fact, it makes waking up all that much harder.

The happy news is that the Holy Spirit meets us right where we are. We learn that all things, even our projections, our grievances, and apparent others, can and are in fact, echoes of the Voice for God. If we allow the Holy Spirit to do his work, and just offer up what's happening for us in the moment (to the Holy Spirit), then his work of purifying the situation can happen and we can come to know the love that we REALLY are and that which is all there really is.

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