Forum 2010

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The result is that we get bogged-down in ever-increasing amounts of detail, and this clouds our vision of the Way Markers for Life, what the Master Jesus calls the Principles of Life of the Father (PLFs). The Kingdom of Heaven is not about religion or piety but about Life and the living of it in at-onement with eternal truth. If a person is confused about the direction to travel to find inner peace — the Kingdom — and this Forum can help them to find the Way again, by pointing out the PLFs that can help them in given circumstances or details, then this is well within the objectives of the Forum.

As you will see, there are incoming messages and incoming messages with a response where apposite.

May you be helped by them and, where motivated, contribute for the help of others, from your own revelatory experiences or messages.

The following email came yesterday from our sister, Susan, requesting prayer for healing.

I am posting it, along with my reply to Susan, that all who feel moved to raise her up to the Light and Love of Heaven for restoration to Wholeness may be granted such an opportunity to participate in transforming adversity into fulfilment.

This truly is a wonderful opportunity, rather than (as ego misperceives it) a chore, because all who feel moved, motivated, to offer their gift of Wholeness to another also, in like manner, freely receive. This is, according to Jesus in ACIM, because in the only reality — Eternity — giving and receiving are one and the same thing, and we are all Citizens of Eternity.

While travelling in Turkey in June of this year, I noticed that the balls of my feet and toes were constantly numb and tingling. On our return home, I saw our doctor who referred me to a neurologist. Our medical system here is deteriorating, so it took me until mid-Sept. to get in to see him. He wouldn’t say much on examining me, but ordered some nerve conduction tests which won’t happen until mid-November. Then I have to wait again for who knows how long to get the results.

Meanwhile, the numbness and tingling has intensified and moved up to my knees. I also get muscle cramping, twitching, nerve pain, and other symptoms indicative of some kind of neuropathy. Other things like pinched nerves, vitamin deficiencies, thyroid, diabetes, toxins etc. have been ruled out through blood tests. My contemplation practice has kept me mostly in a state of trust and I am continuing all my regular activities. Fortunately, there are no signs of loss of coordination, balance or muscle strength. Yet the situation is still unsettling because my father contracted ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s) at my age and I have many relatives who have had neurological diseases—MS etc.

So for my request for healing prayer, please put down that Susan is struggling with an undiagnosed form of neuropathy and the symptoms are numbness, tingling, and nerve pain beginning in the feet and moving up the legs. She desires with all her being freedom from fear as well as complete healing.

I am so glad you have written. You have been so much in our minds since we heard about the situation with you. I have been intending to write, and although I have been very busy the last couple of weeks, in truth, that is but an excuse, because I have not known quite how to approach the matter with you. Now you have been so completely open about what you are experiencing, I feel a door has been opened for me through which to respond wholeheartedly — which is really the only way Love can respond.

And, please be assured that Theresa and I are responding wholeheartedly with love, as well as with blessings for inner peace and restoration to wholeness. I have been prompted several times recently to write about us — the seemingly fragmented Sonship — having two minds; one our ‘head-mind’, the other, our Heart-mind. You may have read some of those writings, but in any event, this week’s MoE seems entirely apposite to quote a couple of bits from it here, so here goes*. I also feel prompted to say that this week’s message was even more not as I had anticipated than usual, so in a sense this is And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. (Isa. 65:24).

*In a sense, we have two ‘minds’; one is in our head and the other is in our heart. Thoughts originating in our head are ego, and distract us because they are fear-based, ‘what-if?’, doubting, questioning, dividing, judging, reckoning thoughts, grievance thoughts, obscuring, obliterating, blocking our awareness of love’s presence, of compassion, unity, Truth, inner peace.

Holy Spirit, Self, dwells within our ‘heart mind’, which is awareness, remembrance, knowing, understanding, caring, loving, accepting, allowing, forgiving. When the clamour of the outer world — ‘head’ thoughts, or ego thoughts — threatens to overwhelm us and obliterate our awareness of love’s presence, then, entering into our ‘closet’ — our heart-mind, where all is love, stillness, acceptance, letting-go, surrender, peace — enables us to be aware of, and thus, receive and accept the Help that is always, unceasingly, freely, lovingly, immediately available to us here.

Of course you know all this, but often an affirmation can help bring it to another level of meaningfulness in the heart, where it becomes more of a reality for us than if it is just the head. Then the previous week’s MoE had the Diary entry from Nov. 21st, 2008, in which I had spoken of my fear (about financial insecurity), and to which Jesus replied, as shown below. I have emboldened and underlined the parts that perhaps might be helpful for you:

My Beloved, the details are not critical in a situation like you are experiencing; only the principles. You will always do well to focus on the principles, and not on the details. Details distract, divert, destroy concentration, (‘as well as' or, perhaps, 'that is to say') focus — on principles — thus engendering doubt and fear.

... My moment of doubt and fear (Gethsemane) was dispelled by re-focusing on Papa’s love, peace, truth. The certainty that the world is a dream restored my peace, and I became aware once more that this world is nothing and nowhere.

I choose for Big Me (Holy Spirit, Self) to be in charge, the centre, the focus of life, to be the decision-maker; not to allow the blind panic to take over. Then the peace, the calm settles on me again.

Focusing on the Principles of Life of the Father (PLFs) will see you through every dark moment. We don’t need to rehearse them here. This is for ‘Big Me (Holy Spirit, Self) thinking’, for you to engage Big Me (Holy Spirit, Self) in moving through the process.

As I communed with the Holy Spirit first thing this morning, regarding you, asking for His inspiration for words that might uplift and restore inner peace, immediately into my mind came the idea ‘One day at a time’. Head, or ego thinking takes events from our past (such as your Dad), a fear-based thought, and projects them into our future, so we spend our time fearing for the future, instead of remaining focused on the eternal moment of Now.

We have two choices: Holy Spirit, Heart-Mind attunement (at-one-ment), which brings us inner peace and love, or allowing ego-controlled head-mind to take control of our thoughts. Ego is 'the prince of this world, which hath nothing in Jesus' (Jn. 14:30) and this world, time and place, is the consciousness of fear. And in your ‘apparent’ situation it does not take much for fear to run out of control, unless we are steadfastly, one-pointedly focused, committed to our true Being.

So, if we allow our head (ego) mind to gain the ‘centre-stage’ of our life, all the fear of ‘what might be in the future’ based on the ‘past’ comes crowding in, filling us with fear, and we make it our reality by giving it reality. This is not who we really are, and Jesus came to demonstrate, be an example of, a template for, our true reality, so we can choose remembrance of the Truth of Self.

The Truth of Self is that we are Whole (Holy), and all perceptions to the contrary are not the Truth of Self (Who we really Are). If we are willing to give Holy Spirit just a little faith (so says Jesus in ACIM) He will give us back what we have thrown away: the Wholeness that is our inheritance, our free gift, from Papa, our Heavenly Father, Who created His beloved Son (us) in His Own likeness. The healing, which restores us to Wholeness, is of the Mind, and is healing from (apparent) separation, fragmentation, the consciousness of fear, back to inner peace, perfect love, joy, stillness. That releases us from fear, just as it did Jesus in Gethsemane, when he ‘came to his Self’ and re-focused on the PLFs, repudiating the details that momentarily distracted him — just as they so easily distract most of us — from the Truth of the eternal reality of Papa’s beloved Son.

All the stuff about Lou Gehrig’s on the internet is ‘information’; it is not Truth, because Truth is Wholeness, and is eternal. Information is of time and place, an illusion, an unreality (which Jesus knew 2k years ago). When we remember the Truth about our Self, then we do not have information; we have Knowledge. Information is subject to doubt, uncertainty, fear, and Jesus demonstrated that he was able to overcome all that (These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. Jn. 16:33). Jesus was able to heal because he knew the Truth, which renders ‘information’ of none effect. Now is the time, the moment, in which we are becoming like him (Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 Jn. 3:2)

In Truth, we are already like him. All that is asked of us is that we open our eyes (our True Vision, not, of course, our bodily eyes, which are a device to keep us focused upon, believing in, illusion) and we will see that this is our Truth, right now (the only moment there is in reality).

Wholeness is ours, right now, and has always been. All that is asked of us, with a little faith, is that we ask — believing; that is what faith is all about; a willingness to believe — that it be restored to us, and that we are willing to receive it and accept it (wholeness) unto ourself. This — Wholeness/Holiness — is all in the Mind. The Heart-Mind.

I have accepted unto myself Wholeness, so I have that Wholeness; therefore it is mine. I do not, yet, with my time and place consciousness, have full awareness of that reality (though it is growing in me every day), but that is irrelevant, because in my heart mind I accept, and know of a certainty beyond all doubt, that it is the Truth, and because I have accepted it unto myself, I know it is my Truth also.

Jesus reminds us in ACIM that we can only give what we have, and know that we have. It is because we doubt that we have wholeness that we do not believe Wholeness/Holiness is ours. But since Papa gave it to us, and He never takes away what He has freely given, it must be ours, eternally. Only our misperception causes us to doubt it is ours, so it appears to us, in our fragmented state of belief, in which we have thrown away knowledge, that we do not have it.

So, because I have the free gift of Wholeness, it is mine to freely give to you, Susan, my dear, beloved sibling in the Sonship. So, with all my heart and all my love, I, along with Jesus, Theresa and all who are so moved, give you the wonderful, free gift of Wholeness, which is freedom, release from the consciousness of fear, and awareness of Perfect Love, peace and joy.

Theresa, along with me, sends love, peace, joy, to bless you for the awareness of Wholeness. As a parting note, actively focus upon, envision, giving the fear to Jesus, from your head mind, and receiving from him, in exchange, right into your heart mind, his free gifts of love, peace, joy, wholeness. Heart mind is love, head mind is fear. For wholeness of Being, espouse heart, eschew head.

PS: If you feel any parts, or all, of this resonate powerfully, helpfully, beneficially for you, you may wish to print it out and read it again, as often as you feel prompted from within so to do, to help keep you heart-mind focused. Love.

I resonate with M from your recent MoE page (See Message of Encouragement dated Sept. 29^th 2010). To her I would say that in the early days of Unfolding Awareness, I too had doubts about contact from the Life Beyond. Some experiences were so real as to be beyond any shadow of a doubt and some others almost fleeting. I was counselled at the time by someone far wiser than I not to doubt any awareness however fleeting or “imaginary”. Doubting, repeatedly, ends up gradually closing the door, lessening the degree or strength of contact. Acknowledge the truth of the contact, and if you wish, put it on the ‘back burner’ for a later time, when in your gradual going forward you can look back on it and know the Truth. Just don't say “No!” Your Loved Ones in the Spirit World surround you with more Love than you know!

Anyway, Brian, I hope these few words will be useful, and encouraging to M and to any others who may read them.

This refers to an email regarding the intent of a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran, and copied from part of a Forum posting date September 10^th 2010.

Hi Brian, Thank you for this email. This extract from the Forum was very welcome and helpful Thank you for being so characteristically responsive and positive,.. I always have a look on the Forum anyway, to see if there are any new postings, but I hadn't yet looked when this message came in and a very urgent and important message it is at this time. I must say, I always find the M.o.E’s very helpful and they are an important part of my week in getting the mind re-focussed when things of this illusory life seem to gain the upper hand Who is sending whom Messages of Encouragement!!? ;-) Thank you so much for your sincere affirmations.

If I have only been able to read through them quickly when they arrive, I then read them again on the website when I have more time to think and inwardly digest. This is as good news as I could hope for. I know a great many either do not read them at all (or hardly ever), or only skim through them, because that is the way of an ego-dominated world. The explanation offered is, they are so long, and we are so busy.

I told the Holy Spirit this — as if He didn't know!! — and said they ought to be cut to about half the length. I even tried to do that, but it simply didn’t happen. He told me that those who are drawn to read them will read them, and that is all that matters; that nothing is lost, even for those who are not yet ready to surrender to Him. The old brain isn’t what it was, so I need to home in deeply with what I am reading, this being difficult now if there are other things going on around me. The real point here is, getting Home is not something we can do half-heartedly, with only minimal, or partial, commitment. If we are serious about getting Home, it takes serious, total commitment.

Jesus and Holy Spirit know we have distractions/commitments at the Earth-life level. They are not upset about that. We can commune with Them while we are peeling the spuds. Those who are not yet ready for total commitment will become ready in due course, however many more acts it takes; time is irrelevant, as are all illusions. Those who choose distraction are free to so choose; that’s what free will is all about. We will only give up ‘fool's gold’ when we realise it is not real treasure.

Last week the following request for Prayers for Healing was received. We immediately lifted Joe up to the Light and Love of Heaven, for re-connection with wholeness, and asked the Holy Spirit for guidance in how to respond to Kelly in a way that would be most comforting, reassuring and helpful for her in coping with the situation. The prayer request and my reply were emailed to all on the HTG mailing list. I received many responses expressing resonance and compassion. Posted below is one, from Dorothy, along with my response to her, and one from Evelyn. It is clear that prayer for healing is a subject close to the heart of many of the fragments of the Sonship.

Please pray for my husband, Joe that God will completely heal him and restore him physically mentally and spiritually from the H1N1 virus that has kept him on life support for one month.

Thank you for your request for healing prayer for Joe. We have lifted him up into the presence of the Holy Spirit, for his re-connection with the Wholeness that is already, freely, lovingly and immediately, his. I say this because God, our beloved Papa, withholds nothing from us; ever. Any apparent lack of wholeness is only in our perception.

I ask that you visualize Joe re-connected to the Light that he is, that we all are, within us, wherein we have our connection to, our Being in, God. It may also be helpful for you to envision Jesus being with you and Joe, just as he hastened to heal those in the long ago who sincerely sought his restorative gift of wholeness. He said to those he healed, ‘Your faith has made you whole’. I know you also have that faith, on behalf of Joe. The Truth is, Jesus IS with him, so focus on that reality, and, in your mind's eye, bring to the fore the inner awareness of that reality.

Focus all your attention, on wholeness; do not let fear drag you down into focussing on the sickness. This gives it reality. It is wholeness to which you earnestly desire to give reality. Be steadfast in this, reminding yourself that you are NOT alone. Papa, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, angels and loved ones in Spirit ARE with you in all your desire for restoration to wholeness for Joe, and for all Papa's children.

However hard it may be to accept, in the immediacy of this situation, there is ALWAYS blessing to be found in all circumstances. Therefore, in holding that truth, give thanks for the blessing. All things work for Good when we surrender them into the Loving care of the Trinity.

Remember, you need ask for healing only once. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not deaf or forgetful;-) They always hear and immediately respond to ALL heartfelt requests for help. However, express your gratitude, your thanks, as often as you feel so moved, and similarly with blessings for Joe. Blessings are very powerful, and provide healing power for those to whom they are directed.

Thanks so much for your lovely, encouraging and affirming message. I know you and Bill have been involved in healing for decades. This would not be the case if you were not motivated, heart and soul for this labour of love. I believe we are on the same page in this.

To me, healing and what I have referred to in SFGS as ‘rescue work’ are two sides of the same coin, in that, whether people are experiencing some bodily or mental ailment, or are lost or stuck in some dark and fearful place, it amounts to the same thing: dis-ease. Ease (peace) and dis-ease are of the mind, and restoration to remembrance of Who we really Are is the purpose of Jesus and the Great Rescue Programme.

It is to him and his purpose that I have espoused my life. It is evident from the way you have responded to the request for healing prayers for Joe, that, even if you may not have thought of it in such terms, you and Bill have similarly espoused your lives. This, assuredly, affirms that we are indeed kindred spirits. What a fine piece of synchronicity it was that brought us into contact. No surprises there, then;-)

Dear Brian, This was a stroke of genius. I will take this as a compliment;-) A marvellous way to contact those seekers on the path whose hearts will respond to a request for healing. It is certain that, as the GRP unfolds during the coming years and generations, more and more will open their hearts to such requests. And in this manner, the healers also will become healed, until all the fragments of the Sonship are fully restored to Oneness. Is this thought/realisation/remembrance not worthy of a loud Alleluia!!?

Bill and I have been involved with healing for many years now, and it is part of our lives. Some we do at home, and some we go down to the White Eagle Temple to sit in a group, so it is not a new area in our lives and I have no outward reason to be excited. Clearly, something deep within you was touched, and resonated powerfully with the idea. But there was such a feeling evoked when I read what this email was about and I knew without doubt, that this simple thing - a request for healing sent personally to those who would be likely to respond - forms a very important step on the stairway back to Oneness. Another Alleluia;-) This is because it was also given that this will take us into something much deeper and wider and more glorious. And another; I find resonance between two (or more) travellers on the Path Home, such as happens between you and me at a moment like this, is deeply moving, inspiring, uplifting, encouraging, rejoiceful.

Don't know why but I just know this is the way. You and I are of one mind in this, Dorothy. That, in itself, is a true cause for celebration, for it means we are a nucleus, a cluster, an example, for other fragments to be drawn back together, mind to mind, in oneness of purpose, intent, commitment. Powerful and empowering. Thank you Brian and the Holy Spirit. A loving sentiment, with which I concur totally; so, in response, Thank you Dorothy and the Holy Spirit also. Love from Dorothy Gratefully received and returned, Lasered, Brian

I absolutely loved your response to Kelly. I could not have said it better. You only have to speak it once and it's done. We tend to focus on the illness and not on health (or healing) (my emboldening, for emphasis). God bless you!

This message was a general request for joining in open-forum discussion on a social-networking website

Please add me to your friends list, if you wish. It would be really nice to hear from you all.

This exchange is with ‘M’ (not of James Bond fame), who was involved in a terrible car accident some years ago, resulting in very badly broken legs and many other serious injuries. She ‘died’ on the operating table, and was revived. She has been on prescribed pain killers ever since. Here is an extract from an exchange with her in July this year:

In the past few months, I haven’t liked the way the pills made me feel when I was late taking them. Is this a message for you to come off them? With Jesus' help we don't need pain killers because he will love away our pain, if we ask him and let him.

Seems like a pretty clear message to me :) While it covers my pain most of the time, with "withdraw" effects, are quite miserable. I'd feel like wanting to crawl right out of my skin, or feel restless throughout my whole body, unable to settle down to sleep unless I took some vicadin.

I love how you phrase that..."love away our pain". So simple. I did this afternoon, right after reading that...and the pain IS less when I awoke from my nap to come into work all night tonight. Thank you for your encouragement and belief in me that I can give this pain up to Him.

As the high dose has been leaving my system, I have sudden new aches popping up everywhere in my joints. I guess this is arthritis?

If you don't want it, give it to him and leave it with him, telling him you are holding fast in faith and trust in him. He is able and willing to enable our restoration to wholeness, and miracles can be very much a part of this. From the place of illusion that we all appear/believe ourselves to be in, faith is essential, and I know you are a person of very great faith. However, not all of us realise we can extend our faith into 'new' areas of our being, including the faith to receive healing.

I believed healing can happen by faith but did not know *I* had this ability. No, I did know --- just forgot.

Then today, this exchange, following a recent surgical procedure to install a ‘lap-band’

I’m doing splendidly. You are, in recent weeks, a totally transformed Being; truly, a miracle, with all the fear about outer circumstances evaporated, enabling the real ‘You-Self’ to emerge, radiantly.

I'm managing on less pain medication as I continue to "Just say No" (LOL) to the pain in my knees and hip. Healed nicely from the surgery and clothes are fitting looser already, boosting my sense of happiness even higher. It is evident to me that you are now almost completely in resonance with Self, the Spirit of Truth within you. I can think of nothing that could give me greater cause for rejoicing than to see this transformation from darkness to Light, in anyone, including, of course, YOU ☺.

I'm writing to ask you about something else...if you are familiar with the Florida pastor who wants to burn the Koran. This man has made international notoriety. We can see this as bad news (adversity) – the ego-view - or as opportunity, the Holy Spirit-view. It, along with other such controversial/adversarial postures, is being seen as a wake-up call by many, who will think about this and decide for themselves (with some prompting from Self within) that this man, and those in that ‘outer darkness’ state of mind is definitely not on the Christ-path to peace and brotherhood.

That will enable those with that insight to be strengthened and affirmed in adopting a more positive and active, Christ-like attitude. In this view, the Florida pastor is serving a truly Kingdomly purpose, even though the Light of that Truth may be obscured from his vision. His misguided, anger/hatred-inflaming, short-term objectives will be – are being – used by the Spirit of Truth for fulfilling His objectives, as is always the case, regardless of the intent of ego-dominated, separated, split-off-from-Truth minds.

Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven

except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother

I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven:

Loving our ‘enemies’, forgiving those who ‘trespass’ against us, ‘turning the other cheek’, going the extra mile - all are fundamental to the so-called Christian faith. But if these are only ‘book-learning’, and not from within our heart, they who profess them only as such will soon be distracted from the Path, back into outer darkness. Nevertheless, in our commitment to PCB (Pray, Commit, Bless) them for their release from misperception, and forgive them, for in Truth, there is no ‘sin’, and at the same time forgive ourself for misperceiving them, we help collapse time and hasten the restoration of ‘them’ and ourself to Oneness in the Sonship.

(He's also written a book, don’t you know) I would really like to know your thoughts, if any, about it. My husband (‘H’) says the pastor has a right to free speech. This is true. It is our choice – all the rest of us apparent fragments – whether we follow such as he, or Jesus. It is not hard to see who will get us where we really all desire to be. Perhaps this man is karmically linked in some way to Old Testament fire and brimstone misperceptions of the God of Love. Our heartfelt, loving blessings and forgiveness will help release him - and ourself - from karmic imprisonment.

While I agree, I still hope he doesn’t go through with it. H says the Afghanis can't hate us any worse and they burn US flags EVERY week. To me burning a flag is different from burning a holy book. It is not different within; only in form, in outer perception. If the intent is to inflame anger and hatred, either will work with those who are slumbering deeply. Neither distracts Holy Spirit from His work of restoring Papa’s Son to wakefulness.

Just wondering. The state our economy and political climate is very tumultuous. I feel like if I learn more about what is going on, instead of following like sheep like so many in this country, I might actually have some effect. Just attuning with Perfect Love – only to be found within – and radiating, extending, sharing that Love and Light through heartfelt blessing, and forgiving the world, has immeasurably more real effect than those attuned only to the outer have any awareness. Only that is real; not the apparently solid outer illusion. We can all, each one of us, make a real difference by adopting this understanding and awareness and making it our reality, in place of illusions

....and create what I DO want. As well as for the generations to come who will bear the burden of all this now. You and I, and all who will, can and are contributing to alleviating, and ultimately, removing, that burden, simply by remembering Who we really Are and Being It, right now.

The Right wing/Christian wing here breaks the 9th commandment EVERY day in Washington D.C..but that’s the mentality - to win at any cost - to be the permanent ruling party no matter how many verifiably untrue claims they spread. I am very interested to see this, M. This has been my perception since Watergate, but you are the first American I have heard express this view. Yet I do not doubt there are many who do feel this to be the case. Nevertheless, to be distracted from the straight and narrow Path by this can serve only ego. We can observe such things, but the best thing we can then do with them is give such observations to Holy Spirit/Self, and then PCB (Pray, Commit, Bless).

Hmm. Guess I had quite a few thoughts on this. Thanks for listening, and for any insight you can help me with, from your perspective across the pond. :)

P.S. This week's MoE (MoE dated September 8th 2010) really spoke directly to my heart. I'm "getting it" more and more. I am so grateful to receive such clarifying messages and feel my resistance slipping more and more away as I embody these truths and act from KNOWING instead of THINKING/worrying/wondering.

I am grateful for you and your wonderful connection to Jesus. I feel your joy and love for Him shine through your messages and my heart bursts with joy to be able to know Him better through you..

M, dear One, your words, straight from the heart – I know because I feel them right in my heart, where they touch me deeply – are greater reward to me than anything this world can offer. This is especially more the case because I have seen the transformation in you during these last few months from despair to SOARING. If ever there was a case for a 24 carat gold ALLELUIA, this is it ☺. Truly, I rejoice in and for you.

Hi Brian. Thank you for your recent email, (MoE dated June 16^th 2010) it is very interesting. I am wondering if you have the prayer for getting insects etc. out of the house. I have some ants coming into my house. I did print it out what you said, but I have misplaced it. Thank You. Pearl.

Spiders will leave if you ask them nicely. I have experienced this. One needs to get in tune with the creatures in question, tell them this is not their home and would they please go away.

I am not clear whether this works with insects that operate within the group, or colony consciousness. You might try communing with the queen of the colony.

Hi Brian. I have been doing the meditation for the ants and I have only seen 4 since. So I hope that it is working. Would the same thing work for animals? We have some foxes running around and fighting in the woods behind us where we live. They prey on cats, and we have some cats and so do our neighbours. We have a fence, but one of my cats gets out and he was nearly caught by a fox. One of my neighbours and her son saw the fox and chased it away. The crazy cat still goes over the fence!!! And also is there anything that we can do to help the oil spill in the Gulf? Answer when you can as I know that you are busy. Regards. Pearl.

I am very pleased to hear about the improvement in the ant situation. Faith has a lot to do with such matters. Also, some of us have more propensity in certain areas than others; so you may be empowered beyond your conscious awareness for such thought-processes.

We can all do something good for every situation, including foxes, Gulf oil spills and the apparent condition of the world in general: PCB. Pray, commit, bless. Give all judgements and grievances to the Holy Spirit and ask Him to dispel them and replace them with our loving, forgiving and blessing on the foxes, those who are perceived as responsible for the accident in the Gulf, and not forgetting ourself; and every other illusion of time and place that seem so real.

We are all one; brothers in the Sonship. If we judge a brother we judge ourself. If we love, forgive, bless a brother instead of judging him, we love, forgive and bless ourself. This is the road to the Kingdom. This is a PLF and is therefore inescapable. Not seeing or even believing it does not render it untrue. But taking and acting on it in faith will show us how true it is.

Loving, blessing, forgiving are the most powerful prayer(s) there are, and enable miracles to happen. Judgement, accusations, hatred, blame, grievances are very powerfully destructive, and because there is only one of us, they always come back on the projector of such destructive energy. I am saddened by the hatred emanating from those affected by this event in the Gulf. I fully understand how they feel, but this is a commitment to further circuits of the carousel of birth and death. Let us PCB them, equally our brothers, also.

Hi Brian I have only seen two ants lately. I am trying to do the same thing for the foxes. Some cats have gone missing, especially in the country. Sometimes I talk to Jesus. I know he must have loved animals even though there was nothing he said about them. Namaste to you and Theresa. Pearl.

Glad to hear the ant situation is improving. This is immeasurably better than poisoning whatever we perceive as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is worth our while remembering that we call all events into our own presence. Who else would do it? God? Jesus? The Holy Spirit? That would be a breach of the cosmic, immutable law of free will. Therefore, They can be eliminated from the usual suspects! That leaves only ourself, even if we are not aware of it being so, because that great prestidigitator — ego — is pulling the wool over our eyes with interminable distractions.

There is no reason why any of us could/should not speak/commune with Jesus every day☺. Multiple times every day even, if we are so moved. After all, there is no better friend any of us could ever have or hope for; totally trustworthy; perfectly loving; without judgement, ever.

He longs for such fellowship with each of us, one on one. Why would he not, since he loves us totally, unconditionally, perfectly? This is the Way forward, in loving, joyful fellowship with him, our fully qualified and empowered guide to Eternity (Heaven), our only true and rightful Home. I can tell you from 43 years of personal experience that there is no greater joy on Earth than being in loving fellowship/communion with him. I thoroughly, unreservedly commend such to all who seek something beyond the tawdry distractions of time and place.

This week’s MoE (May 19^th) is speaking to me with staggering personal meaning and helpfulness. How do you do that? Week after week it is the same, though this week was so powerful I just had to write and tell you how much I appreciate your ‘Kingdomly endeavours’, as you might say, for your brothers in the Sonship.

I love the way you select extracts from ACIM as part of what you write, and particularly the comments you intersperse in the extracts. They help me to get them more clearly and to a greater depth of understanding.

Then there are your communings with the Holy Spirit. Wow!! They blow me away, especially this week’s. Where He says:

Questioning is doubting. Doubting is unbelieving; an affirmation of commitment to littleness. Asking is desiring to know; a request for help in remembering what is already known, but temporarily forgotten. Asking is seeking, enquiring, opening, allowing, trusting, believing. Questioning is doubting, dismantling, destructive, negative.

that was incredibly enlightening. Like you, I had no idea they were two distinct and opposite things. I find myself questioning just about everything. I now see, thanks to this help from your communing, that this is my ego, trying to justify its perceptions. Or should I say, misperceptions! From now on, I am going to really focus on surrendering every time I find myself questioning. Questioning is, I now see, a denial of Truth; a denial of Who I am and of who all my brothers are, and trying to establish illusions in place of reality. Questioning is defiance; asking is humility.

Another thing I have noticed is how the Diary entries are always so in harmony with the MoEs. How do you do that? It’s almost as if you write the Diary entries to suit the MoE, yet they were recorded years ago. Amazing!

A while ago I said to Holy Spirit, ‘How am I supposed to know what to say in the MoEs? Everyone is coming from a different place, and I don’t know what to say that will resonate for all, or even any.’ He immediately replied,

‘It does not matter where any are coming from; that is of the past, of judgement and is unreality. It is where all are going to that unites. Write what resonates for you, for that is where inspiration touches you; it is where persona Brian meets with Self, and is your link with the Source of all, including all your brethren. I take what you are inspired to write and with it touch the hearts and minds of those who are ready to receive it as the gift you extend, that they may receive it, along with you; for all are one, and as the gift is received, so is it truly given. Rejoice and be exceeding glad at this opportunity for rejoining within the Sonship.’

As for the Diary entries harmonising with the MoEs; I am as amazed as you ☺. I never try to co-ordinate them. It just works that way. This is synchronicity, and demonstrates to me, week after week, that it is Holy Spirit Who is ‘running this show’.

BTW, I love what you say about questioning being defiance; asking, humility. That, assuredly, was inspired.

I appreciate your feedback, Jed. It is a great affirmation that this endeavour really is a 'Kingdomly endeavour'.

Good morning dear Brian and Theresa, Thank you SO very much for your wonderful MoE (dated May 12^th 2010) and Diary entry (dated November 30^th 1997), and how very much I love the statement: ‘Judgements deny us peace.’ It is in the relinquishment of judgment that restores our mind back to Love's remembrance of who and what we are.

I would like to share with you these inspired words of Love that came in this morning:

Love is the key to your freedom, it opens the door to your heart. It endures all things, it never lingers in doubt, nor shies away from love's call. It is gentle, kind & helpful. It shelters & draws you in. It bids you a warm welcome from the cold; it nourishes & strengthens, as its Healing Rays shine through. It blesses each & every one & loves to smile through its joy.

Do not stand outside the light of love that beckons to you. Embrace its warm welcome, feel its heavenly glow. You are the Love that holds all things lovingly together as One.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the goose-bump-inducing words of Love. Beautiful.

Theresa and I look forward to joining with you and Andrew again soon. Love and blessings to you all, from us both,

Thank you SO much for your beautiful words of upliftment (MoE dated April 28^th 2010)...I particularly needed to hear the message (pasted below) on restoring our function in transforming an unhealed relationship into a healed, loving relationship. And it IS THIS that I shall adhere to! Let my faith surpass all judgment and lead me on to green pastures:)

Thank you Brian for your loving prayers of healing. I asked our brother Jesus to speak to me on forgiveness and this is what he asked me to write down. I would like to share this with you my lovely, so here goes:-

“Forgiveness is the function that only needs completion within this world of dreams; It is a means to an end; A solution that helps through the call for healing. Enter into this realm of light, where peace extends to all; It is in the entering of Peace that restores the mind back to its completion. Be not alone in this thought process, remembering that your saviour walks with you; here is forgiveness felt as you extend a hand towards your brother's cry for help.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you is an important and necessary step to healing. Forgiveness undoes the notion that the condition of pain and suffering is not real; it is a made concept which creates fear through guilt that caused it. Be not afraid of these illusions for they are meaningless, and in the light of overlooking, through forgiveness will the mind heal in peace.

Bide in me, in this light; it shines within; it needs no helping hand; it is without restraint. Be not coloured in this world with all its vast trappings, it is not for you. Deal only in the light, away from the illusory imaginings that conjures up a belief system that is totally obscure and meaningless. Come to this light; it is who you are; Behold the light and let it shine above all things. Do not be distracted, nor upheld in the belief that you are less than the holy light of which you are.”

Thank You, Papa for Perfect Love, and for transforming unholy relationships into holy relationships, that we may be healed of brokenness, and restored to oneness in You.

Wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing this communing with Jesus. It is beyond question that you have a precious, blessed link with him.

I wanted to share this with you this morning that Jesus shared with me and asked to share with all others. I hope you like it.

Love is who you are; you are love itself.
You have merely lost the way, but the way is You.
There is no other way, nor thing, apart from it.
It flows magnificently in every part, touching
and embracing all creation.

Go into your Love, enter into it in Joy.
Hold it into your heart with each breath;
breathe it into all living things, animate
and inanimate.

Let not one thing set it apart from any other
thing. Leave no-one, nor thing behind.
Love purifies and heals; Love extends,
is Joyful, gentle and kind.

Love is all things that exist within it.
It is your only purpose; your only goal,
it is your destiny.

Be loving, gentle and kind.
Be the love that you are, and in that
love is the Joy and the Peace that
is your inheritance.

To say words like 'this is beautiful' seems rather hollow, and entirely inadequate to describe the beauty of this sharing from Jesus. We are simply allowing the aura of tranquillity, peace, knowing, FEELING, EXPERIENCING the certainty of Perfect Love that they engender to enfold and encompass us, leaving us absolutely still within. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Your communing with him and the priceless treasures it brings forth are wondrous blessings for inspiration and upliftment, for sharing with all; it is joy to me to be able to extend them via the HTG Forum page.

Thank you, from our hearts, and with blessings for inner peace remaining with you always,

I just wanted you to know that reading this Diary entry (December 29th 1996 posted April 7th 2010) was like being caressed and held by Jesus Himself.

Derek is a lovely man, always ready to communicate with others and to cheer everyone up with his lovely stories of life. He has now been diagnosed with motor neurone disease and is having difficulty speaking. Would it be possible for you to send healing. With deepest gratitude and thanks. Pat.

Bless you for writing about Derek. As soon as I received your message I gave thanks for the wholeness that is rightfully ours, the free gift of Papa to us all; and, acknowledging it is mine to give and share, I extended that wholeness to Derek. The Holy Spirit has taken that wholeness that I freely received and have freely given for Derek, and has placed it within Derek. Now, it is for Derek to believe that wholeness is his, also freely given to him, and to receive it and accept it unto himself.

As you know, Jesus told people he healed 'Your faith has made you whole'. Their faith, not his. His faith was absolute, beyond question. The rest of us can receive the wholeness that is rightfully and freely ours only by faith. Not faith in an institution but faith in ourself, that we are who Jesus tells us we are: the Light of the world; Papa's beloved, eternal, radiant Son.

Of course, it is important to remember also that wholeness is of the mind, and that bodies are not who we are. I do not know how much of this understanding Derek is ready/able to receive. I hope you are ready/able and can give it to the Holy Spirit in safekeeping for Derek, and allow Him to handle its placing in Derek's mind. That does not require Derek to be consciously aware of it. Having given all into the able care of the Holy Spirit, it is essential that we leave it there and stop worrying, fretting, doubting, being anxious. Those energies are dismantling energies and will not help Derek, who is now within the Holy Spirit's care, because we have placed him there.

If Derek does not receive a bodily healing, that does not mean the Holy Spirit has not heard our prayer for Derek, or has decided not to respond. He always responds, according to His knowledge of all the factors involved, including the possibility that Derek may have decided 'afore time' (before he incarnated) that now was the time for his laying aside his body, having accomplished what he came to do. To interfere with such a possible decision - which is the freewill choice of us all - by desperately, fearfully trying to go counter to it, is not in harmony with the Principles of Life of the Father, and serves no useful purpose.

I hope you will find this helpful and will set your mind at ease about Papa's beloved Son, appearing in the form of Derek.

Thank you very much for your very in-depth email, what a lovely man you appear to be. I can but take this as a compliment J. I have spoken to Derek about "faith". I can only hope that my strong faith and belief will inspire him but I think faith is something so deep and personal Most of us find it hard to speak of such an intimate matter even with our Self, let alone ‘another’, indicating how ‘stitched-up’ by ego we allow ourselves to become that he has to now find that in himself at a much deeper level, Coming face to face with our perceived ‘mortality’ does have this effect upon us. Yet we are free to move beyond that to the realisation that it is not something to face with fear and trepidation, but with joy and peace (the awareness of which obviates fear), because Papa, Heaven and our true Being are so tender, loving, enfolding in Perfect Love.

I know that I have to trust too that he is in the Holy Spirit's care now. This is Derek’s gift to you: the opportunity to grow your trust; a real blessing. Derek recently went abroad and saw a Holy Man who brought in the Holy Spirit to him. His symptoms did improve for a while and it has been my worry that things / progress will not be maintained now that he is back home. Do you believe Jesus and the Holy Spirit want us to ‘worry’? Ego does. Whose script will we follow?

Thank you for your re-assurance that Derek is now in the Holy Spirit's care and that all is well. That’s better J! Please be reassured, comforted and at peace. Most of us want reassurance, comfort and peace, yet continue to worry instead (we cannot do both), thus preventing the reassurance, comfort and peace being our reality. Such is not Christ Mind thinking; but that is Who we are, and we will serve ourself well to keep on re-minding ourself that this is our Truth. I quite agree with you that if it's Derek's pre-birth contract to go at this time so be it. I am happy to hear this.

Most of us want to cling to a person whose time is drawing to a close, out of fear of loss, death, guilt etc; all ego-engendered. We will serve ourself well to ask the Holy Spirit to help us look past the time and place perspective, which is a false perspective, to the eternal perspective, which is real, and will bring us acceptance and inner peace.

I have a strong belief that we are all going Home. It is a certainty, and therefore, beyond belief, to actuality. The only question is, how long do we choose to delay that return to Home, by clinging unnecessarily to the carousel of birth and death? From a Spiritual point of view I know this There, you have said it!! but from the ego perspective How easily we are persuaded to continue in duality thinking I need to let go of my attachment because I would like him to be around for much longer. Of course; but by focussing on the eternal, choosing to see past the temporal illusion, we can be reminded of eternal oneness with all our loved ones, and in bliss beyond description.

Confusing times when life throw up tragedy but I also believe strongly in post traumatic "growth". What a serviceable belief. It is what I have described as OTAF – Opportunity to Transform Adversity into Fulfilment. After being devastated by the diagnosis initially, Derek, despite his physical deterioration, is starting to find a deeper connection, Alleluia! that which we are all seeking. He, and you, have been instrumental in bringing me back to spiritual matters, so I give gratitude and blessings for the gifts both you and Derek have given me.

Thank you so much. Every situation provides opportunity for blessedness to rise from it. Derek is an inspiration to everyone who touches his path, heartfelt thanks once again to you for touching our lives through the Holy Spirit and for your care and understanding.

Blessings and warmest wishes on your path too. Received with loving thanks and returned with interest, Brian

Many thanks Brian, your email has brought up floods of tears in me but a realisation of the work I need to do on myself. Tears indicate a release of what we have been hiding from ourself. What a wonderful opportunity for going forward.

When I said "I know that I have to trust too that he is in the Holy Spirit's care now" and you replied "This is Derek's gift to you, the opportunity to grow your trust, a real Blessing", I became overwhelmed with emotion. I feel joy at this, for you; a connection between you and me as siblings in the Sonship. I have had many, many trials and traumatic experiences which precipitated a real "dark night of the Soul" experience in the past.

Aeons of karma spiral ever downward into darkness, away from Truth, until we commit to relinquishing judgement in favour of true forgiveness. Then, miraculously, all the horrendous tangle created by ego’s script is removed, enabling the restoration of Papa’s fragmented Son to oneness. How far beyond wonderful is that!? I am through a lot of the rage now Alleluia! There is so much rage in this world. I get increasing numbers of emails from people in despair about the rage they are feeling, and don’t know what to do about it, even though many are students of ACIM. and those awful feelings of aloneness and being deserted by God.

Arten and Pursah, in Disappearance of the Universe, speak of this extensively, and of course, it is explained comprehensively by Jesus in ACIM, as being caused by our one mistake: believing we have separated ourself from Papa. I know I have grown through the experience and feel that I am coming back home to God The main thing is you are now on the return journey slowly speed is not the essence, for the Holy Spirit leads us at the pace He knows is right for us but your words hit on a very sore nerve and the awful realisation that I have lost trust in God.

‘Realisation’ is the key word here; a catharsis, and is a key part of the awakening, restoration process Derek in all his suffering and in turn making contact with you has indeed been a blessing twofold, shining a torch of light for the future (God works in mysterious ways !!! As we wake we begin to see that His ways are not actually mysterious, but clear, plain, logical, uncomplicated; that it was only ego that caused us to believe His ways are mysterious J). Thank you so much for highlighting my next steps As Jesus tells us in ACIM, the gift is not given until it is received. I thank you for your receptiveness to my suggestions; it is an indicator of our connection within the Sonship, and that is what we are all here for, and nothing else, so this is cause for joyous celebration and the work I still have to do to bring me home to God.

Dear Pat, all that is asked of you is your ‘little willingness’ to allow the Holy Spirit to accomplish this for you. How hard it seems to be to relinquish the ego-inculcated myth that ‘little, persona we’ have to do this ourself. Constant self-reminding of the reality that we cannot do it because we don’t know how, but He does, and will do, if we are willing to let Him, because that is what Perfect Love does, helps retrain our mind to right thinking. My loving, compassionate heart reaches out to Derek and to you in gratitude. I can tell from your writing, and the vibes emanating from it, that you are a deeply compassionate Being. Alleluia!

As my original email was all about Derek's healing, I feel bad for talking about me, No need at all for ‘feeling bad’ about turning round and moving toward the light J but I have nobody I can share this with and needed to put it into words. I am grateful that you have shared all this with me, for together, ‘hand in hand’ we return to Papa, and only together is this possible. Thank you for the time you have taken to reply to my last email and for the insights gained therein. Sharing is the name of the awakening game.

You are right on target about there having to be a New Earth, with a different basic set-up. I have no doubt this will be the case, and that it is all comfortably within the GRP. The present arrangement, with all life-forms being dependent on the death of other life forms for sustaining their bodies, can only be an ego devised arrangement, since it is entirely contra to Perfect Love and eternal Life.

I have no 'handle' on the mechanics of how such a radical transformation will eventuate — and not knowing does not matter, or affect that unfolding of events, because Jesus knows — but I have been assured many times over the decades that the GRP has 'all the resources of Heaven at its disposal', and that, of course, it is 'infallible and unstoppable'.

To me, that is unbeatable odds!! ☺ so I am in no doubt that the reversal of the present arrangement will take place within the third measure of meal, which is, of course, the fulfilment phase of the GRP, in which 'the whole is leavened.' Since we are 'only' at the beginning of that phase, I personally am astonished — not to speak of overjoyed — at the broad spread of fulfilment events/aspects/properties that are already manifesting at the 'Earth-physical' level.

I have a very keen awareness of Jesus' excitement (in a calm sort of way, resulting from his certainty at the outcome) at the events unfolding. I believe the Aquarian Age, or 3rd measure of meal, began in 1965, because that was the year Helen Schucman began scribing ACIM (and also the year I met Olga Park and began getting 'hooked up' with Jesus☺).

My second son, Christopher (in spirit) told me about 15 years ago that Jesus 'cannot permit a single opportunity to be missed'. This means he is eager, and is out of the starting blocks the instant the starting order is given. For me, ACIM is the definitive event/document, or 'handbook' for the awakening, and as such, is very much 'of the 3rd measure awareness'.

3rd measure awareness could not begin until the 3rd measure began, so 1965 would have been the earliest moment for 3rd measure events to begin unfolding, and ACIM is the 'flag ship', or, one might say, the opening salvo of the event, straight into the headquarters of ego's camp.

Of course, there is no confirmation of a 'date' for the beginning of the fulfilment measure, but that is of no consequence at all, and the fact that so many 3rd measure things are unfolding before us (including the revelations about the Pope and the Catholic Church — And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. Rv. 18:4 —'Nothing is hidden that shall not be revealed' — that are coming to light at the present time) is as much of an indicator as any might need. How exciting it all is!

Hi Brian, Hi Dorothy, I wondered if I wrote you this letter how would you reply. 'Cos I wondered if I have I been missing out on something that others picked up on, and subsequently been travelling on a wrong track and also many people finding your site for the first time will know what you are all about by your reply... I feel prompted to reply to this that what appears in this ‘dream’, or fantasy, of separation as ‘we’, the apparently divided fragments of the one Son of God, have seemingly been asleep in the illusion of time and place (t&p) for a very long ‘time’. Since the Big Bang that astronomers believe was the beginning of the ‘physical universe’, multi-billions of years ago in linear time, in ‘fact’.

I must say I am inclined to believe that this was the beginning of the illusion called time, and was the moment of the apparent separation (especially as Arten and Pursah say it this way). At the instant (or very shortly after) the Son had the ‘mad, momentary thought’ of going off on his own, away from Papa, a hidey-hole, or bolt-hole was needed for the now-apparently-separated Son to get away from the Father he mistakenly thought (in his dream state) he had angered and would therefore be ‘gunning for him’ to punish him for his ‘grievous sin’ (see the parable of the Prodigal Son, Lk. 15:11 ff).

Since Papa is of Eternity, t&p – Its opposite - does not exist for Him, so, illusorily speaking (because t&p does not exist in the only true context of eternal reality), ‘escaping’ to the entirely ‘made-up’ t&p had a certain logic about it, albeit the perceived need for such an escape was entirely mistaken, because Papa was never angry with His beloved Son (Papa doesn’t ‘do’ anger; only perfect, unconditional love).

So.....If we were already living in Paradise why did we choose to come here to live a life of searching to try to find our way back again. This area of consideration is very well - exhaustively - covered in Gary Renard’s book ‘The Disappearance of the Universe’ (‘DU’). I earnestly commend it to any and all seekers after eternal truth. I also earnestly recommend that it be not just ‘read’ like one reads a novel, but carefully studied. Reading it multiple times (I have read it 6 times) is exponentially more beneficial than reading it just once because a) we, the fragmented Sonship, are so deep in forgetfulness of who we really are (eternal, invulnerable, immortal, all-knowing, all loving; the Christ, along with, and one with, our brother Jesus, who came to remind us of this truth of unchangeable Being) and because we are so deep in forgetfulness, b) there is so much to remember about first, how we got into this mess called t&p, and second, how to get out of it, Home to Eternity in Papa.

All I can, will and have time for here is a very brief précis in answer to your question: We didn’t actually, knowingly choose to come here. This is very carefully explained in DU, but suffice it here to say, it was a mistake, and by the ‘time’ ‘we’ (the momentarily dreaming Son) realised it was a mistake, it was ‘too late’. The choice to go off on our own, away from Papa meant we had entered – in the by-now split off part of our mind - into a state of forgetfulness of who we are, even though the true, all-knowing Mind of our real Self, Christ, was unaffected by this in Eternity.

All-knowingness is an aspect our true, whole Being, and wholeness is only possible in our wakeful state of mind, awareness of our oneness in the heart of Papa. And we had inadvertently ‘pressed the down button on the lift’, without realising that we could not reverse the process until we reached where the down button was destined to take us, all, illusorily speaking, because we cannot be separate from Papa in reality; only in fantasy. But the Great Rescue Programme, or the Atonement (pronounced at-one-ment, to differentiate it from what the church describes as atonement – pronounced á-tonement - are two totally different things) as Jesus calls it in ACIM, was immediately implemented, and the Holy Spirit was created to dwell with us and be our reminder of who we are during this dream of littleness, death, separation in t&p.

His job is to speak the truth of our Being to us; His Voice is described by Jesus in ACIM as ‘the Voice for God’. The Holy Spirit, or Spirit of Truth, or Holy Breath, dwells in our right mind, and is our real Self. Because Papa created His Son in His own likeness, free will is irreversibly ours, so we can choose to listen to Him, Who speaks to us the truth of Eternity and tells us Who we really are all the time, but we are also at free will to listen to the other voice – ‘ego’ – that is the imaginary, illusory thought system that functions (or more accurately, dysfunctions) in the separated, upside-down, split-off part of our mind that believes it is ever fragmenting into greater numbers of separated, individual bodies (when I was born there were 2 billion humans on Earth; now there are nearly 7 billion and rising rapidly).

In all the reading I have done I never remember seeing this question addressed properly, or if it was it didn't take hold in my consciousness. I think I shall peruse the New Testament again to see if Jesus gave any clues about this. If you are asking my advice, here is my recommendation: First, read DU, which will get you very much into place of readiness to enable a better understanding of ACIM; then read – study – ACIM. This is the real Jesus, unencumbered by the distortions of his message by ego-driven parties 2k years ago, and is the handbook for the awakening of the Sonship back into one-mindedness and back to our true Home in Heaven. It debunks the falsities of religious doctrine and dogma and sets the truth back on the throne of our being. Or, as Jesus says in ACIM, ‘brings illusion to the truth’.

He told us the parable of the prodigal son coming back home, but what was the reason he left in the first place? I believe this is covered above, but let me know if you would like further clarification. The Church teaches about sin, Adam and Eve and fallen angels, but somehow that just seems to be like a simple understanding (however intellectual the scribes) of something much more profound and at the same time too simple - a paradox - for the intellectual mind drowned in its absolute belief in the world, to grasp. In many ways, these Old Testament mythologies/allegories are actually very close to the illusory/dream events, but religion (an ego-construct) has given a slanted interpretation on them, making ‘sin’ real, and therefore requiring ‘sacrifices as á-tonement’, and presenting God as angry, wrathful, vengeful etc. DU and ACIM set the record of all these allegories straight, explaining that the so-called ‘fall’ is only a dream. Here is what Jesus says about this in chapter 2 of ACIM:

The Garden of Eden, or the pre-separation condition, was a state of mind in which nothing was needed. When Adam listened to the “lies of the serpent,” all he heard was untruth. You do not have to continue to believe what is not true unless you choose to do so. All that can literally disappear in the twinkling of an eye because it is merely a misperception. What is seen in dreams seems to be very real. Yet the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up. The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth (but the GRP is seeing to all that). Such a rebirth is impossible as long as you continue to project or miscreate. It still remains within you, however, to extend as God extended His Spirit to you. In reality this is your only choice, because your free will was given you for your joy in creating the perfect.

I have been pondering this myself but the only answer I can come up with, which I think I have understood is your teaching too, is that it is all a dream from which we will eventually awaken, and when the greater consciousness we live in starts to stir again we begin to know that we are dreaming. Spot on, Dorothy!

Is it right to believe, that while in this dual consciousness, (of the dream and the waking reality) we will be able to manipulate our dream world and do the seeming miracles that Jesus did. I would say it this way: The split-off, dreaming/fantasising, upside-down, misperceiving part of our mind has no awareness of our higher Mind, which is our true Self, and is of one Mind with Jesus in the complete, undivided Sonship. But as/when we are willing to accept Holy Spirit (our higher, fully awake Mind) into our thinking and decision-making processes, He will begin the gentle awakening activity. In due course, as this proceeds, our remembrance of Who we really are begins to return as He undoes, or dispels, our ego-controlled, separation-consciousness thinking. Jesus really did perform miracles, as described in the Gospel accounts, and was able because he was fully awake and knew he was unlimited, with all the empowerment of the Father that is the creation-right of the Son.

As we awaken, so will we each be restored to miracle-mindedness and miracle-readiness. This is an aspect of the GRP that we will begin to see more and more of, right in these ‘present times’. They are happening right now, but the ego-controlled institutions of church, state and the medical world are working hard to keep them covered up, isolated, out of the public awareness. Soon, as miracles increase in numbers and frequency, that will no longer be possible and they will have to start acknowledging their reality. There are, even now, some signs in the medical world of that old-order thinking beginning to change. After all He did tell us that where He was, we should also be, and that we would be able to do greater things than He did. Precisely; and that is to what we are waking up.

When we have fully awakened and remembered that we are all one – that is to say, of one Mind, because bodies are only of time and place and have no place in the Kingdom of Heaven/Eternity – the ego-mind contrivance of an illusorily-physical world/universe will disappear. This will happen because it was only ever in our mind – the split-off, upside-down part – and we will have simply ‘changed our mind’ about reality.

Some of the saints who had transcended the consciousness of this world were reputedly able to perform miracles of healing etc. And why not? Many miracles happened after Pentecost (see Acts 2: 1-4 and 3: 1-10). As Jesus says at the beginning of ACIM “Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first”. This does not mean purification by some terrifying God-inflicted punishment, but simply allowing the Holy Spirit to dispel from our mind the misperceptions of ego’s script. It is a highly desirable, joyful, awakening process to which we would all flock instantly for release if we only knew the magnitude of its blessing.

There are also plenty of merchants out there in the business of selling us the idea that we if we buy their knowledge we will actually be able to manipulate the physical world to produce rich gains on a personal level. (Brings to mind the prince of this world trying to tempt our Lord in the wilderness with the temporary and empty pleasures and treasures of this world) Quite so. But there was no prospect of that happening with Jesus because he was fully awake.

So, to re- present the preceding, have we just fallen asleep in part of a yet greater reality the eternal, infinite reality of Heaven which we are starting to become aware of again, and are we struggling to rejoin this reality to get free from the dreams and nightmares we have created and believe are real? That’s about the size of it, but we only struggle because we still think we have to do it by and for ourself, without help (because we don’t believe there is any help for us – a big misperception). If we are willing to turn it all over to Self, there is no struggle because He knows what He is doing (whereas, our persona-self hasn’t the foggiest, which one look at the mess this t&p realm is in will immediately affirm) and He will do it for us.

Of course that is the last thing ego wants because it spells the end of t&p, and thus, of ego with it. So, under ego influence we will resist this surrender to Self very strongly. But it will be to no avail because the GRP is infallible and unstoppable, and in linear time terms will be over by the end of the Aquarian Age, or third measure of meal.

That feels like the answer for me, but is it right, and does anyone else truly resonate with that? Well, Jesus and the Holy Spirit resonate with it, as affirmed in DU and ACIM; I resonate with it, and a vast and very rapidly expanding global community of followers of ACIM, which is now millions-strong and growing at a logarithmic pace, resonate with it. So, be reassured that you are not alone, dear friend.

How can this world ever be the paradise some people think it can become. This will be the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (KOHOE), or ‘real world’ as Jesus describes it in ACIM. Here is what he says about this in chapter 17, section II of ACIM. I have underlined some key bits, but to get the comprehensive picture of it, it is well worth reading/studying the whole 8 paragraphs:

Can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you? In no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely. Nothing you see here, sleeping or waking, comes near to such loveliness. And nothing will you value like unto this, nor hold so dear. Nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. For you will see the Son of God. You will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon, and which He thanks the Father for. He was created to see this for you, until you learned to see it for yourself. And all His teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with Him.

This loveliness is not a fantasy. It is the real world, bright and clean and new, with everything sparkling under the open sun. Nothing is hidden here, for everything has been forgiven and there are no fantasies to hide the truth. The bridge between that world and this is so little and so easy to cross, that you could not believe it is the meeting place of worlds so different. Yet this little bridge is the strongest thing that touches on this world at all. This little step, so small it has (thus far) escaped your notice, is a stride through time into eternity, beyond all ugliness into beauty that will enchant you, and will never cease to cause you wonderment at its perfection.

This step, the smallest ever taken, is still the greatest accomplishment of all in God’s plan of Atonement. All else is learned, but this is given, complete and wholly perfect. No one but Him Who planned salvation could complete it thus. The real world, in its loveliness, you learn to reach. Fantasies are all undone, and no one and nothing remain still bound by them, and by your own forgiveness you are free to see. Yet what you see is only what you made, with the blessing of your forgiveness on it. And with this final blessing of God’s Son upon himself, the real perception, born of the new perspective he has learned, has served its purpose.

The stars will disappear in light, and the sun that opened up the world to beauty will vanish. Perception will be meaningless when it has been perfected, for everything that has been used for learning will have no function. Nothing will ever change; no shifts nor shadings, no differences, no variations that made perception possible will still occur. The perception of the real world will be so short that you will barely have time to thank God for it. For God will take the last step swiftly, when you have reached the real world and have been made ready for Him.

The real world (KOHOE) is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old, the world you see without forgiveness. The great Transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world, and uncover to you the seeming reasons for your making it. In the light of the real reason that He brings, as you follow Him, He will show you that there is no reason here at all. Each spot His reason touches grows alive with beauty, and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness. Not even what the Son of God made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release.

All this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes. For forgiveness literally transforms vision, and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across chaos, removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past. The smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder, and a blade of grass a sign of God’s perfection.

From the forgiven world the Son of God is lifted easily into his home. And there he knows that he has always rested there in peace. Even salvation will become a dream, and vanish from his mind. For salvation is the end of dreams, and with the closing of the dream will have no meaning. Who, awake in Heaven, could dream that there could ever be need of salvation? (Who indeed?)

How much do you want salvation? It will give you the real world, trembling with readiness to be given you. The eagerness of the Holy Spirit to give you this is so intense He would not wait, although He waits in patience. Meet His patience with your impatience at delay in meeting Him. Go out in gladness to meet with your Redeemer, and walk with Him in trust out of this world, and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness.

It is all worthy of emphasising really, but the point is, we have to bring truth to illusion, or in other words, bring the Kingdom of Heaven to the illusory realm of t&p, in order to receive the purification, as stated above, or awakened to reality. Once that has happened and we have thus been made ready for Heaven/Eternity there will be no reason to hang around in t&p when all Eternity awaits our return to it, so Papa will swiftly lift us up to It because He cannot wait for the reunion (see the prodigal son parable for how eager He is for our return).

Even if we all changed into altruistic angels, believing we were not harming anything, these bodies we think are us, would die, because everything has to kill to live. Even plants contain life. Immune systems and medical drugs kill countless numbers of microscopic lives to keep us alive.

The world of placid Nature looks beautiful to us. But its outward appearance changes imperceptibly every second as all life everywhere, even beautiful nature, keeps going on the rolling wheels of birth, growth, decay, death, with each life form’s demise causing suffering and grief, while something else is nourished and sustained by it. And what about the violent side of nature bringing terror, suffering and grief to all defenceless life-forms in its vicinity? As the 3^rd measure of meal leavens, all this will change, one step at a time, and the lion will lie down with the lamb. There are already multitudinous examples of the transformation of the relationship between man and ‘wild, dangerous animals’. I will forward a couple of examples that you might enjoy, and find inspiring and uplifting.

Some tell us stories that animals don't feel pain and fear as we do when they are killed because they live with Nature and are not aware of good and evil as we are. That used to salve people's consciences in the cruel old days and make those who were beginning to wake up feel better and keep them in the world's illusions. But research has been finding this not to be true I have no doubt that this is correct and we know through the filming of wild life programmes that even elephants mourn their dead family members and who doesn't know that pets bring their love with them.

However if the world seems to have no lasting reality in a personal form, why are we here and who made it? I hope this is answered above! In the concept of time-reality, somebody’s son becomes somebody’s dad, somebody’s granddad, somebody’s great granddad ad infinitum. They are each a ray of a sort of reality but there is another ray branching out from that - the reality of the parent, their sons son, the grandson of him, the great grandson etc. What we call reality in this world seems to be all separate personal memories. Anything and everything to do with bodies has no part in the reality of Eternity, and is an ego-myth to keep us trapped on the illusory carousel of birth and death/time and place. This is where a change of perception is required to help us see past the linear time perspective to the eternal perspective. We cannot do this without the help of the Great Transformer.

Most of us think that the world of nature is beautiful (ignoring the violence) and it is said that only humans make it otherwise, and one day, we are told, the lion will lay down with the lamb. Is the very beauty of nature, coupled with a belief that the world can be made perfect, designed to keep us from noticing the real suffering for every living thing that is built into the very fabric of our existence? Suffering and death seem so totally real all the while we are focussed in the illusion of t&p, but as Jesus says, above, all this will be transformed by our change of focus and our awakening to the only true reality of Perfect Love, Heaven, and that we are inextricably, eternally part of that reality. We can do this by loving, blessing and forgiving ourselves, our brothers in the Sonship and all the illusions that are in one place only and nowhere else: our upside-down, split-off, misperceiving mind.

The Bible tells us the Kingdom of Heaven is within and this tells us that this world is a place of separateness where we have to journey within, through the lonely, seeking to expand /merge into the ALONE. (All One) Love from Dorothy

I hope this helps, Dorothy. Many, many thanks for writing, and giving such incisive thought to these all-important matters; also for providing the opportunity for further understanding to be added. Many blessings of love, as always,

Hello Brian and Theresa,

You may be surprised to hear from me, but after returning home last year, I put your book, Synchronicity, for Goodness’ Sake, to one side to read, and it somehow got misplaced. After searching for a while I gave up. I figured that if a book is lost in a house, it is bound to turn up sooner or later. Well, it turned up about a week ago . . . so I read it.

You have had, and still lead, a remarkable life. Your relationship with Jesus is definitely remarkable. I have to confess, your familiarity with the scriptures is a bit disconcerting for me, and our paths, although with similarities, are also very different. Not that it matters, at all. We both fundamentally see life in the same way . . .

I say both . . . but I mean that you and Theresa and Carolyn and I all see life in a way that is based in the continuity of the soul, and in unconditional Love. In many ways both Brian and I would be considered modern mystics in a less cynical world, but that is okay. So, more than anything this is just a line to say we did not forget you after meeting you, but that I felt just a bit guilty for mislaying your book.

In Love and Light,

Dear Michael and Carolyn,

Well! What a wonderful and joyous surprise to hear from you, and especially that not only have you found my book (and taken the time to read it), but have been so pleasantly resonant with much of it.

I find your comment that my familiarity with the scriptures is a bit disconcerting for you, quite interesting, so let me explain. First, many people have been put off the scriptures, and especially Jesus, by the church, with its literal-minded interpretations, hypocrisy, un-Christ-like behaviours over most of the time since Jesus walked the Earth.

You will have read of my experience with the church in my book (SFGS), so I need not rehearse it here. Suffice it to say that I was sincere in my seeking after eternal truth and did not find it — or anything resembling an approach to it — in the church, so quit, little knowing at the time that this was all part of the pre-arranged and agreed plan. But I was deeply blessed by synchronistically being brought into contact with Olga Park at the same time, and she clearly was in real contact with the real Jesus (not the church’s version of him). Meeting her was, of course, also part of the plan. I now have been made aware, in the last few years, that I was the younger brother of the man referred to in SFGS as ‘the Rector’ in an incarnation in the 1500s, and Olga was his wife then; so she and I were siblings-in-law! So does the loving affiliation continue...

Jesus also has made me aware in recent time that he and I have been together in many incarnations, and this tells me he is speaking of pre-Abraham times. I feel intuitively that this was Atlantian times, because Jesus has not needed to incarnate again during at least the last 2 millennia because he is directing his Great Rescue Programme from spirit.

In an incarnation in the 1600s, as a farmer in England (I was Paul and Theresa was my wife, Esther), I was a devout Christian, but I saw through the sham of the Puritan church and started to speak out against it. This was a very dangerous thing to do in Puritan-church England and eventually led to me having my tongue crushed, to shut me up, by my seventeen-years senior, puritan-Christian sister with some of Paul’s erstwhile friends from the church that Paul had by now abandoned. Of course that did not achieve its objective because I then began writing journals of my awakening realisations/experiences about God, Jesus and Eternity.

The tongue-crushing, by church-indoctrinated ‘friends’ was the final straw and Paul determined that when he finally came to the end of his sojourn in time, he was going to have a long discussion with Jesus about how he (Paul) could do whatever he possibly could to set the record straight — about Jesus and his mission to bring the truth of Eternity to Earth-life humanity. But definitely not through the sham of institutionalised religion, which would not recognise the truth if it hit them between the eyes, and has been steadfast in its determination not to recognise it for at least 18 centuries, just as the religious authorities refused to recognise it when Jesus presented it at that time. In fact they were determined to do away with the messenger; hence the crucifixion.

Jesus has told me numerous times during the last 40 years that all the experiences I have had (some, as described in SFGS, though there is much, much more that is not included therein) are simply preparation for what he and I planned/agreed ‘aforetime’ (i.e., before I incarnated as persona Brian) in order to fulfil my burning desire to set the record straight. All that has occurred has been by design, not accident (as you know only too well, Michael), including my brief spell with the church, so that I could see, at first hand, its unserviceableness to Jesus’ mission, other than simply keeping his name in the public mind for 2k years, even if by so comprehensively misrepresenting him!

That was, of course, inevitable because the church institution is an ego-construct, and Jesus knew before the time of Abraham that this would be the case. Nevertheless, he also knew it would still be able to serve his overall objectives within the GRP. Now, at the changeover between the Piscean and Aquarian ages, the church’s job is done and they are fading away. It is best described by Jesus as the church of Laodicea in Revelation 3: 14-17.

My first desire and commitment is to help those, who have been bamboozled/blinded by the church, to wake up to the real Jesus. So I had to be able to demonstrate to them that I did have a modicum of working knowledge and understanding of the scriptures (and with which I have received immeasurable inspired help) they revere, though by which they are confused, because the church has tampered with those scriptures and misinterpreted them to meet their own agendas — which are far from Jesus’ agenda. By presenting snippets of those scriptures here and there in my writing, to offer a meaningful interpretation for them in appropriate places, it could help them see past all the false doctrines and dogmas of the church, fabricated as a result of misinterpretation of the scriptures.

This was part of the pre-agreed plan with Jesus for the persona Brian incarnation. It is working, in however limited a way, because I have had many messages from people around the world who have attested to how my writing (including postings on the Honest2goodness website) has helped them see through the confusion of the church, break free from the hold it (Catholic, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness and others) has had on them, and see the truth about Jesus, unconditional love and Eternity.

Of course, there are many who have already seen through the church and abandoned it, and many who never even got involved with the church (at least, not in this incarnation!) and it is my committed desire to help them to understand who Jesus really is and how he can help them awaken to spiritual reality if they listen to him speaking to them direct, without the church flimflam.

At least in these times burning at the stake (and tongue crushing!) are no longer countenanced, but there are many enemies to made of the likes of you and me and our messages to the world, from the ranks of those labouring under the burdensome and uncomfortable yoke of institutionalised religion.

Well, Michael and Carolyn, it is wonderful to hear from you, and I thank you for writing.

The following exchange was posted on February 24th 2010

Dear Brian:

I receive a daily quote from the Abraham-Hicks newsgroup. This quote really spoke to me yesterday as it made me realize how much control I really do have over my own life.

"Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction -- but it does not affect you unless you push against them. "

I have been pushing back so hard. For the past 4 or 5 days though, I have surrendered and it really has been peaceful. I have reached this point from time to time over the past 6 months but it hasn’t been sustained for I was so easily knocked down when pushed & I push back. I have decided to quit pushing back and just let God express through me, without fretting/defending/explaining....and just BE. I also realized that I’ve spent all this time trying to explain/excuse an action where there simply just isn’t a “good enough” reason.

Just wanted to share this update with you. I thank you so much for keeping me in your prayers. So far, so good. :) 5 days of peace is a record!

Much love

My Dear Jo,

This news is lifting me to the Heavens for joy and thanksgiving for you. Thanks be to Papa that it is the Light within us that determines who we really are. And you are, truly, a great light. It is a wonderful blessing for me to know you — the real you —- and that you feel able to share with me these precious experiences you are having. You already know that I am pushing for you, not against you J.

May that be a great comfort and reassurance for you, strengthening your commitment to continue as you are. Regardless of who or what appears to be pushing against you, what you have experienced in the last 5 days makes it nothing when we stop pushing back. Alleluia!

I take this opportunity to attach this week's MoE.

Love and endless blessings,

Brian

Dear Brian,

Thank you so much. Its very uplifting to hear someone say I am a light. Eventually I will believe it deeper than I do now. Yes, you will; we all will. It is inevitable because it is the truth, and nothing (true) that is hidden shall not be revealed. How reassuring and belief-strengthening is that!?

Thanks for attaching the MoE. It was very timely for me. I loved the part about Susie. (See Diary 1997, posted February 17th 2010 for details.) What a blessing she must be. She has been the most wonderful gift, bringing joy into our lives for 12 years, but she came to the end of her sojourn with us in time and place in July 2007, aged nearly 20. Blessedly, we have awareness of her, and all our other beloved 4-footed friends, on frequent occasions.

The wonderful news is, none of our loved ones, human or otherwise, is ever lost to us, and we are all restored to oneness, forever. That, truly, warrants another ALLELUIA!!! I could also picture the face of the Spirit of Truth.

That leads me to ask if you still hear the voice of Papa or Jesus from time to time? This is a very interesting and important question; how perspicacious of you! In John 14:23, Jesus says: If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we (Papa and Jesus) will come unto him, and make our abode with him. This is true for us all, so of course is true for me. And Mind-to-Mind communing with Them — Papa, Jesus, the Holy Breath, all our loved ones in spirit — is our 'creation-right', until we are all restored fully to the Oneness with Jesus and all the fragments of the Sonship, in the Heart of Papa.

Then, of course, the communing will be (actually, always was, is and will be) total, absolute; beyond our ability to comprehend at present, but assuredly, will be also magnificent beyond description. Jesus tells us in ACIM (and in Mt. 28:20: I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world; and, of course, he is always good to his word.

However, his objective in the fulfilment of the GRP is to restore us to fullness of remembrance of Who we really are, with the inestimable Help of the Spirit of Truth — Self — just as he remembered, by the same Agent of Help — Whom Jesus calls 'the Voice for God' in ACIM — and became fully Self-realised; whole. Now, he is with us as our loving big brother, and will remain with us to reassure, encourage, help, protect, love us until we are all fully restored to wholeness/oneness with him in the Sonship.

But it is essential that we move along from the second-measure of meal perception that Jesus is 'up there', exalted beyond our reach; and we are 'down here', lowly, unworthy 'sinners'. He is raising us up (leavening, resurrecting us) to where he is — right where we belong — so we have to see ourself as we really are, like him. So, in the third measure of meal, he is drawing our attention, our focus, to our real, higher Self, within us; indivisible. It is a weaning process.

That does not mean he is unwilling to commune with us; you, me, all of us, and will gladly do so without exception, with all who are at that place of need for the fellowship with him. As he says in Rev. 3:20: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. ‘Sup’ means fellowship, as in breaking bread together; loving, blessed communion.

He has made it clear to me that although he is always there for me, closer than hands and feet, he is gently, lovingly, pointing me (and all of us fragments) toward the next phase of the awakening process: to become, like him, awake to Self. Self is the 'One-Self' of Jesus and of us all. None of us is 'persona Jo', 'persona Brian', 'persona Theresa'. We are all 'One-Self'. This is not intended to lessen the value and importance of our one-on-one relationship, fellowship, communing with, and guidance and protection from, Jesus, but our destiny is restoration to the same all-empowered grandeur as he demonstrated, and that is within us all.

So, we have to grow in, awaken to, Self-awareness; and Jesus is lovingly, gently, tenderly, one-step-at-a-time leading us toward that Self-enlightenment, Self-Realisation. Of course, we are all at a different place on that path, but that is the ultimate goal for us all. So, to answer your question, Yes, I do still commune with Jesus, every day, and with Papa.

The difference now from a year and more ago is that now I am completely relaxed about communing, joining, fellowshipping with him, knowing of a certainty beyond all doubt that he is there with me always. The same applies, of course, in respect of communing with Papa. Jesus told me (recorded in communing in the last year or two, to be posted on the Diary pages in due course) that I am now ready to move on to the next phase of progress, the objectives of the third measure of meal, in which we will ALL know who we are, from our own Self-enlightening/Holy Spirit Being within.

It is my heart's desire to help all who will to understand, be aware that communing with Papa, and Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, is a joyful, not a fearful experience.

We have to remember Who we are, and commune with Papa from our true Being as Self, not as persona B, or J, or T. The only way that is possible is to metamorphose from persona, little self, into soaring, perfect, innocent wholeness (holiness): Self. In, or from, that place of Being, our Oneness in Papa is complete, absolute, eternal, and time and place will cease to have any reality for us because we will have remembered that Eternity, Heaven, is our only Home. A thousand Alleluias!

I feel so grateful and blessed to be able to correspond with you. This relationship is, I assure you, mutually beneficial: as we teach, so do we learn; as we learn, so do we teach. There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that all your experiences are real and true. Glory be to Papa! J This is sharing in its truest, purest form. Thank you, Jo. In the knowing they are true, that makes it real for me, This is just as the GRP intends it, and so must it become for us all even if I don't hear His voice with my ears. Ears are less important than hearts for hearing and knowing the truth that is setting us all free. In that, dear Jo, you are well attuned, I do assure you.

Until next time, love and blessings, truly,

Brian

Much love and thanks

Thank you for your latest Message of Encouragement. It is so soul-satisfying just to be blessed with the Holy Spirit inspiration to write these messages; but when others, such as you, write to thank me for them, that is reward beyond measure. So, thank you for appreciating them. We struggle on, sometimes feeling we have made progress and taken a step forward when everything goes smoothly, then seemingly taking two steps back when the world overwhelms us yet again. So then a gentle reminder appears, like a signpost, in the form of the MoEs, and the path comes into view once more. It means a very great deal to know that this sharing is valued by and beneficial to others.

As I think there must be many people who feel like this, and could you perhaps write something more about the oscillation in consciousness that swings us between a growing awareness of a limitless higher aspect of our being and a consciousness level which traps us into living as a prisoner in our own custom-made prison of the little self in which we appear to be the victim of ‘the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’.

I have pondered this request long and hard. I have not felt any particular inspiration on this, other than that I rather thought, in broad terms, the MoEs have been doing this. Of course, as Jesus says, in ACIM, this oscillation in our thoughts, moods, feelings, is because part of our mind is 'split-off' from our real, higher, Christ Mind, which sees and knows eternal truth/reality. The split-off part is entirely illusory; a dream that actually ended instantaneously, but which resulted in an imagined state we refer to as time and place, and which is confusing, bewildering and fearful to us because it is the opposite of reality, which is all we actually know (i.e. know, as distinct from perceive with our bodily senses).

I suppose it could be likened to the experience of starting to wake, then slipping back into dreamland, or using your analogy of the caterpillar, when it is not yet out of its chrysalis and still in caterpillar mode, but is becoming aware of having wings to try out in the vastness of space.

A fair analogy. The great, magnificent thing is that we can be certain beyond question that however many doubting thoughts or setbacks of any kind, the soaring, limitless outcome is infallible and unstoppable because a) our time and place perception is not real; merely a momentary, upside-down, mad dream of littleness, guilt, fear and death, b) Jesus, the leader of the Great Rescue Programme, or Atonement (pronounced at-one-ment) process, as it is called in ACIM, is given all power in Heaven and Earth, and c) it is, in the only true reality —- Eternity — already over and the certain, inescapable outcome already known in Heaven, our true and only Home. How reassuring is that!!!? All for now Brian, Love from Dorothy I hope you are well and in good spirits. Love and blessings, Brian

Dear Brian, thank you for your reply. Your MOE of 20th January with the same date as my email to you, answered the request in my email perfectly, a case of “before you ask I will answer”, so that is probably why you felt no inspiration I am sure this is right. The Holy Breath does not waste His breath! One might say the answer was in the silence. because it was already answered, so thank you for that. I hope everything is well with you and yours and 2010 brings great strides on the Path Christ has mapped out for us. Amen to that. Love from Dorothy Received with thanks, and returned with interest, Brian

First, I have noticed that there are far fewer postings on the Forum in the last year or so, than prior to that. Why is that?

Your message dated 30/12/09 is tremendously inspiring, and I love it, but however much I respond positively to it and earnestly wish my reality – the reality of us all – to be as your message states (or should I say, ‘exhorts’?) the world about us is still the duality world of ‘good and evil’, with evil still holding more than enough of its sway. How do you put together such messages and make them so inspiring, and engender such a desire in my heart and mind for it to be as you say; and how can I make it real for me, so I can give it to everyone else? I must also say that what you write seems to me to be at the cutting edge of the understanding of most of humanity, and will therefore, sadly, go over the heads of most of us.

All my life, since I began, in childhood, to see the injustice and awfulness of this ‘fallen’ world, I have had an aching desire for spiritual truth, righteousness and justice (which, of course, truth will bring). This has been not only an all-consuming ache and passion, but one which I knew could become reality, and in fact, at a level beyond my comprehension until recently, is the only reality.

When I met Olga Park in 1965 and got hooked up with Jesus, I came to know that my passion — the true, loving brotherhood of man; the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth — as I had been inwardly certain, from childhood, was real. I now had the unshakeable foundation of knowing beyond all doubt that this was — is — the true reality, and that Jesus was the agent by which it would become reality for all mankind.

That was over 40 years ago. The duality world has not ‘gone away’ for Theresa and me during that time, but I have remained steadfast in the certainty of knowing the Kingdom is the only true reality and the other is unreal because it is temporal, and therefore, passes away. The difference now is that we have emerged from the second measure of meal into the third, final, fulfilment measure (for full details see SFGS ch. 11, from paragraph 34) and that which has always been reality in Eternity is being brought into manifestation in time and place.

This is happening from the within of each of us, as we awaken to the truth of our Being, into the without, under the guidance and leadership of he who was first amongst us to awaken, in unison with our higher, true Being or Self: the Holy Spirit. This will take the rest of the Aquarian age to be completed, but the pace of progress is logarithmic, not arithmetic, so we will be seeing an exponential increase in numbers of miracles and of enlightened souls in the Earth life, ‘until the whole is leavened’.

The reason I am able to write such inspiring and uplifting messages is two fold:

1) what I am writing — ‘expressing’ — is what I have always known at some deep level inside was true and which Jesus and others from the Realms of Light under Christ Authority have been telling me for the last 40 years, and

2) because of the earnestness of my desire for and commitment to this reality — the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (KOHOE) — the Holy Spirit (our true Self) is able to inspire me with what to say. I assure you, Terry, that the things I write are so far beyond the capability of persona Brian that I know of a total certainty beyond all doubt that this is from the Holy Spirit, Who Jesus told us 2000 years ago would give us the things to say at the moment they are needed. That is what happens with my writing each week.

There is a lot of repetition but each week some new awarenesses emerge to gradually, one step at a time, add greater depth of meaning and understanding to the whole. I have tried to reduce the length of the MoEs, which are almost always around 2000 words, because I know people have busy lives and it takes time to read and try to assimilate what is being said. But the Holy Spirit is clearly committed to keeping them at that length, so who am I to fight against that? I have no doubt it is because He knows that those who are earnest in their commitment to waking from the dream and resonate with the MoEs will take the time and make the effort to read them and derive benefit from them.

In fact, many people write to express their gratitude for the help the MoEs provide. It is inevitable, though, that at this early stage in the awakening/leavening/resurrection process, the majority are, as you suggest, not yet ready for the ‘hardcore metaphysics’ of these writings — as they are not yet ready for ACIM — but that is no concern to Jesus and Self, because a) They are infinitely patient and b) the dream is only a dream and has not altered eternal reality one iota.

For a while I was concerned that not all would read or benefit from the weekly endeavours, but we learn from ACIM that in order to learn, we must teach; that learning and teaching are one and the same, just as giving and receiving are. That leads to the inevitable conclusion that there is but one for whom the MoEs are intended. That one is persona Brian, who is learning from them, and it is his joy also to share them with others also, as many as are willing to receive them. So it is combining teaching/learning and giving/receiving in one exercise. Truly a win/win situation.

Meanwhile, do not despair that this dream world seems so much the real world for you much of the time, at present. Your desire is strong and will, assuredly, keep you taking those one-step-at-a-time forward movements into the light of the New Day. It actually does not matter one jot that time and place still seems real, for at a deep level you have already accepted that it is not the true reality, and that awareness will, gradually supplant the illusory realm as the one grows in you and the other fades into obscurity.

As for fewer Forum exchanges in the last year or so, the web stats show that far more people visit the Forum page for 2006-2007 than visit the 2008-2009 page each month. At first I found that puzzling, but I now realise that there is a wealth of information that remains just as valid and, hopefully, helpful as the day they were posted for both pages. The earlier postings were perhaps more helpful for those nascent to the path of awakening, so if many are still finding the earlier postings interesting/helpful, that is certainly good cause for rejoicing.

Meanwhile, be assured that you are not alone. Help beyond imagining is with you; within you, in fact. Call upon that Help; be open and receptive to It; give thanks daily for It. It will not let you down, nor will It ever forsake you or leave you; even when you experience phases of leaving It, to walkabout in the wilderness for a spell. It will be waiting for you when you come back into Its tender care.