Somebody once wrote me, asking, “There's a lot of teachers and students of A Course in Miracles out there, but there must be something that you have hooked into, or caught onto? Something that triggered a transformation or a major healing. So, what was it?”
“Trust,” I said.
Think about your life as it seems to be in this world in terms of the story. How do we answer the question; “Who do I trust? Where do I think my safety lies? How will I be sustained? Who is my source?” So when we talk about the last filter to the awakening being pure trust, it’s simply about disengaging and withdrawing our faith and trust in all of these made-up concepts, beliefs, and ideas in the world. It’s kind of like making a big house of cards, stacking on one card after the other. Then a good wind comes along and poof, it’s just blown over. It can't even stand a little gust of wind. It’s so frail. It’s so temporary. It’s so transitory; It was this sense of placing trust in the Spirit and withdrawing trust in everything else but the Spirit; all those things that were identified and learned from our accumulated learning, why should we trust in those? Have they ever brought us lasting peace and happiness? Are they really trustworthy?
It really comes down to the essence of who is my brother? Is it Spirit or matter? Is it Spirit or form? And something else; How many of us have tried trusting people? Has anybody tried that one?
So you are asking the question, “if someone dies or seems to be dying of starvation, what does that say about their mind?” Where all of this is heading is to the awareness that everything is mental. What this awakening will show you is that everything is mental and that everything is an idea. This is a world of ideas and what we call manifest reality, is not reality at all. There is no distinction between thought and form. Jesus has to build his whole workbook in A Course In Miracles on making the connection between thought and form. His lessons start off with, “Nothing I see means anything,” (W-1) and, “I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.” (W-2) Then, He works his way up to number four, “These thoughts do not mean anything.” Now, He's talking about thoughts. First He's talking about perception, then about our thoughts, then He comes back with lessons 5,6,7,8,9 ... perception, perception, perception, perception, perception ... and then number 10, “My thoughts do not mean anything.” You can see he's trying to melt everything together and show the last filter, which is trust.
The Holy Spirit uses time to teach you there is no such thing as time, to take you back to that timeless moment that is the gateway to eternity. He uses symbols to teach you that they are all symbols and that they are all equally meaningless. That's exactly the method of operation of Holy Spirit. The Spirit has to work with the mind to loosen the trust from the investment in all kinds of things. What kind of things do you invest in this world?
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from David Hoffmeister A Course in Miracles Blog https://livingmiraclescenter.org/news-blog/blog/116-are-you-willing-trust.html
