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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