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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