In this video, I share thoughts about some useful Course-related topics like how ego desperately tries to keep us mindlessly obsessed with the world in order to keep us from looking at unconscious, unfounded guilt and choosing against that insanity. I talk in some detail about GIST* and The Double Shield of Oblivion. In addition to a fun assortment of take-home lessons from modern physics, I use a number of citations from the Course having that references to shields and related words, like armor and defense, plus the tie-in to the 3 R’s of Forgiveness (Reveal, Release and Replace) distilled into one sentence in Lesson 23:
“This change (of mind) requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced.” – W-pI.23.5:2
- We REVEAL that we’ve been playing the blame game, playing the “victim card” and saying – in so many ways – it’s not my fault! We bring the cause back from our misinterpretation that it’s “out there” and take responsibility for how we feel; acknowledging that no one else did anything to us, but we were complicit and now admit that; the guilt is no longer UNCONSCIOUS. The realm of Individuals – including the “dream figure” I think I am – in Space and Time has been revealed as irrelevant to our lack of peace. … We’ve gone beyond ego’s first (outer) line of defense – the outer dream or outer shield of oblivion. Getting past this level confusion – the outer shield of oblivion – then triggers ego’s escalation from mild annoyance to red alert; it now “no longer pretends to be our friend” and moves from suspiciousness to viciousness. No more “Mr. Nice Guy” – not that ego’s fearful fraudulent identity was ever really nice!
- We RELEASE our identify investment with ego; our belief in sin, projections of guilt, and dread of retribution from ego’s made-up schizophrenic “god” seeing (again with the crucial help from HS) that it was based on flawed, chaotic thinking. When we clearly see that ego’s “maladaptive solution to the non-existent problem” (tip of the hat to Ken Wapnick) has never worked and never will, and we just let go of ego’s UNFOUNDED thought system. … We’ve gone beyond ego’s second (inner) line of defense – the inner (secret) dream or inner shield of oblivion. In those moments, we feel genuine peace, because the third step is automatic:
- HS REPLACES (we don’t do anything, and actually HS doesn’t need to do anything either, since our real, eternal, innocent, infinitely inclusive nature doesn’t require us to “do” anything to realize our perfection; we just have to remove the shields (barriers, armor, defenses) to the awareness of Love’s Presence.
Here is the writeup from the related RMMC post:
(* ego’s mind-cloaking shields of Guilt, Individuality, Space and Time)
ACIM references: Workbook Lesson 136 excerpt: “It is this quick forgetting of the part you play in making your “reality” that makes defenses seem to be beyond your own control. But what you have forgot can be remembered, given willingness to reconsider the decision which is doubly shielded by oblivion.” – W-pI.136.5:1-2
W-pI.78.1-2
W-pI.190.3-4
W-pI.138.9-10
W-pI.182.11-12
This video was the first recording using a new online video-conferencing system at Rocky Mountain Miracle Center (RMMC) in Denver, Colorado, made Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, as part of their ongoing ACIM programs.
RMMC has an abundance of excellent local (Denver-area) ACIM teachers, including, but not limited to: Lyn Corona, Tim Wise, Susan Dugan, Whitney Walpole, Barnes Knowles, Lillian Paes, Sue Wiggins, and Charles Lang.
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