Messages of Encouragement 2011

This is the archive of MoE postings during 2011.  To see current/recent postings please click here.

Please note that the earliest posting starts at the top, proceeding in chronological order to the end of the calendar year. 

May you be uplifted, inspired and encouraged by what you find here,

Brian Longhurst

January 5^th 2011

Dear Friends,

There is a lot of discussion about the upcoming, rapidly approaching winter solstice for 2012, its possible implications for mankind, and life as perceived and experienced in time and place.  Because the material universe is not solid, not real, but appearing to its observers according to the state of perception of those observers, the effects of the galactic, stellar and planetary alignments that are calculated, by the compilers of the ancient, Mayan calendar and other, present-day astronomers, are likely to vary as those diverse states of belief, perception, consciousness, awareness vary.

That may seem like a rather controversial suggestion to any who read it from a time and place centred perspective.  Such a viewpoint might say, ‘Well, if there are going to be alignments and those alignments are going to have an influence on this planet and its inhabitants, that is what will be experienced by its inhabitants, full stop.’

But that is far from the complete picture.  Those who choose to see with right-minded vision see positive outcome from whatever ‘turns up’.  That right-minded vision comes from right-minded thinking, which is positive, constructive energy, radiating out into the world around them — and beyond — from their point of origin in the mind of the thinker, and affect the world around them, and beyond.  The classic example of this is Jesus, who saw only wholeness in his fellows, and extended that wholeness to those who perceived themselves as crippled, diseased, blind, possessed. 

Such vision is freely available to us, but for the asking.  We all know the effects such positive — actually, right-minded, and ultimately, as in his case, Christ-Minded — thinking, understanding, knowing, seeing had on what everyone else around him perceived as imperfection.  He went further calming a tempest, and telling his friends:

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.  Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Mk. 11:23, 24)

I have not one shred of doubt that, if enough people had enough faith, and prayed, believing, the hurricanes, tornadoes, ‘twisters’ that regularly strike various parts of the world, wreaking destruction and heartache, would be disarmed in a moment.  Now is the time on the cosmic clock for the emergence of faith to take hold in the mind of the fragmented Sonship, as he begins to remember his true Identity.  Assuredly many, many people do pray, earnestly, when a hurricane is heading their way.  But how much are their prayers fear-, desperation-, negative-thought driven? 

Yet, we all can intuit that Jesus’ words to the storm that threatened to sink the boat he was in with his disciples on the Sea of Galilee were not driven thusly, but from the certainty of knowing beyond all doubt that his words — an expression of the state of faith of his mind and inner being — would achieve their intended effect.  Further, after he walked on the stormy water toward the disciples’ boat, and calmed the storm, the record says: and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went (Jn. 6:21), even though they were still hours of rowing from the shore a moment before.

‘Oh, fine,’ says a voice from the back, ‘so, we just think positive thoughts and miracles will happen, then everything will be hunky-dory.’  Yet right-minded thinking can immediately discern that such is but a continuance of negative, ego thinking holding sway.  Put another way, that a choice has been made to follow — or continue following — the wrong script.  When we are in a pit of misperceiving, we perceive only with our flawed, body’s senses, rather than discern with our true, right-minded, spiritual vision. 

ACIM reminds us that we see what we choose to see, and if we have chosen — at some deep, unconscious level — to follow ego’s script, our vision will be, or remain, ‘double’, or flawed in favour of the illusion instead of seeing past that illusion to the Truth of Eternity that is with us at every instant.  Time can be used either to continue that misperceiving, or to choose anew and begin the upward Path toward the Light that will, if we so desire, illumine our mind and restore our true vision.

Such a change of mind does take time to become installed and fully operational in our way of seeing ourself, our life and the events unfolding in it and around us.  It is likely to be forestalled myriad times in a day because we have been so inured in upside-down, separation thinking for so long.  This is why we need Help from One Who is truly able to help because He has been empowered by God to provide us with this Help. 

We could say to Self, the Spirit of Truth, when we catch ourself allowing ego’s script to dictate our thinking, perceiving, believing, ‘Thank You, Holy Spirit, for healing my mind’.  Or, any mantra, such as ‘I Am that I Am’, or reminder that we find helpful in getting us back on track towards true vision.  But being aware that that Help is with us, always, and all we have to do is ask, is immeasurably beneficial to our inner peace.  Saying ‘Thank You, Holy Spirit...’ may not seem the same as asking, but Thank You is acknowledging the Help Self gives before we ask.  He knows our willingness to receive the Help that He provides, because He sees into our heart, and whether or not that willingness is there that enables us to receive it.

Every moment, miracles are happening in our life, of which most of us are not consciously aware.  Those miracles are enabled by every loving, blessing, caring, giving, compassionate thought we have.  Every negative, ego-scripted thought we allow is a block to our awareness of, and benefitting from, those miracles, and of the awareness of Love’s presence.  If we but choose to see with the True Vision of Self, that enables Self to perform these miracles exponentially more, producing one of the most exciting miracles of all: the collapsing of time, so that less time is needed — fewer incarnations — to restore us to wholeness.

Whatever appears to happen outwardly need not affect our inner focus.  Jesus tells us in ACIM:

 When you react at all to errors (or ‘mistakes’, or misperceptions), you are not listening to the Holy Spirit.  He has merely disregarded them, and if you attend to them you are not hearing Him.  If you do not hear Him, you are listening to your ego and making as little sense as the brother whose errors you perceive. (T-9.III.4)

When we surrender our life, thinking, believing, seeing, experiencing into the care of the Holy Spirit, our True Self — as distinct from, or instead of, our little, upside-down thinking/believing/perceiving, limited, illusory, false identity, persona, mortal, ego self — He can begin the process of restoring our thinking, believing, experiencing, true vision, empowerment.  Although time is a device of ego, Holy Spirit can, and does, use it to lead us, one comfortable step at a time, toward the Light.  Ego may demand ‘instant fixes’ to our problems, but the speed of the Holy Spirit’s ‘fix’ of our misperceptions depends upon our readiness to receive and accept unto ourself His Answer. 

His Answer is our release from ego misperceptions, which are the cause of our fear, guilt, shame, self-hate, separation, mortality...  Although we may perceive ourself as being ready for an instant, total, Holy Spirit fix, complete release from all gloom into the Light, only He knows all our accreted karmic entanglements, brokenness, unforgiveness, grievances, guilt, fear, from untold other incarnations.  The fact they are hidden from our conscious awareness is indicator enough of their magnitude, and our state of unreadiness to have them brought to the surface of our awareness for release. 

And, in case we choose to deny the existence of such accretions, it is worth contemplating why we are not aware of being in the perfect peace, joy, love of Heaven if we truly have no such burdens.  They are hidden from our awareness because we are loved and protected from the awfulness that we have dreamt up by what, believing we are separate from God, we have placed upon ourself.

When we are ready for each forward step, He, the Voice for God, the Spirit of Truth, our holy Self will effect the progress, the release that each step led by Him can bring.  But always, we must be willing to receive that release, that gift, that gradual increase in the Light that such release allows, and its commensurate dispelling of the darkness.  This requires faith, trust, willingness to be obedient to His Will — which is one with God’s Will — and steadfast commitment.  Partial commitment will afford partial results, partial, compromised release, and in effect, that is no release at all, for only complete release is true release; all else is illusion, self-deception.

If we believe the universe, with its galaxies, stars, planets, and perceived alignments are all ‘out there’, when, in truth they are in the separated, split-off-from-Eternity part of our mind, all part of the ruse — the game of pretend that we are not Who, What or Where we really are — then we will believe they can affect us in some way beyond our control.  Most of us will not have gained sufficient trust in Self to allow ourselves to be released from the self-deception of time and place by 21/12/12, so will believe such alignments can, and probably will, affect us, in some way that remains unknown to us until the crucial moment arrives.

It is that seeming unknown that causes ego-script-following minds to be fearful.  Trust in a trust-worthy Guide releases us from fear of the unknown, because that trust allows us to receive the Light of awareness of our invulnerability regardless of whatever appears to be happening in the illusory ‘out there’.    It also allows Him to remind us that He is empowered to use all ego devices (including celestial alignments) to our benefit and that of our brothers, rather than our apparent detriment. 

Jesus knew this of a certainty beyond all doubt, and it was this that enabled him to accept the cross.  He knew a) that he was not a body, and therefore innocent, sinless, invulnerable; not susceptible to the pain that the false burden of unconscious guilt causes us to experience, and b) that his resurrection would get the attention of his brethren, win their trust to follow him throughout the Jesus measure of meal, and therefore be prepared (willing) to watch and wait for his return to their awareness.  For some, that return would be during the second measure of meal, or second watch, and for others, during the third:

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.  And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch (or, measure of meal), and find them so, blessed are those servants. (Lk. 12: 37-38) 

Blessed indeed are those ‘servants’ (those who espouse themselves to Jesus and the GRP), because ‘sitting down to meat’ means ‘supping’ or having spiritual fellowship, communing, at a level of mind far above and beyond time and place consciousness, because such communing is in the Kingdom awareness, and the Kingdom is eternal.  It is our Home, and such supping is preparing us for our return Home.

No-one knows (unless it has been revealed to them by divine revelation) what will transpire at, or result from, the winter solstice 2012.  But if we choose to follow Holy Spirit’s script, and eschew ego’s script, we have the advantage of not being dragged down into a pit of fear, doubt, uncertainty, speculation (only ego speculates), and instead, having the confidence that — whatever may appear to happen outwardly, in the consensus reality of ego-mind — Holy Spirit works for our highest good in everything. 

The more fragments who choose Holy Spirit’s script, the more can be included in, and contribute to, the highest good of all, because they include themselves, rather than the only alternative, which is self-exclusion.  God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit never exclude us.

Love and blessings for fulfilment of our highest aspirations in 2011,

Brian Longhurst

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting ourself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts. ~ Mother Theresa

January 12^th 2011

Dear Friends,

We are bombarded from every direction by false messages from ego, hell-bent on persuading us that lies are the truth.

I had an email on Monday this week, with a link to a website with an article headed:

Forgive and forget?  Not if you know what's good for your marriage

Holding a grudge can actually help keep bad behavior in check, study suggests

This article goes on to suggest that if a spouse forgives a marital misdemeanour by their partner, this can fuel the transgressing spouse into further lapses from seemly behaviour, and those who stayed unforgiving will curb their partner’s unserviceable conduct.

What this shallow perspective is missing is that this unforgiveness interaction is motivated by fear on both sides, and fear is the cause of all decay — a precursor of ‘death’ — including of relationships.  Research of this type — which, when seen in the light of true, eternal, spiritual discernment is, immediately, intuitively recognised as spurious — is usually undertaken by ‘experts’; academics from august institutions of higher learning.  In fact, research into almost everything to do with time and place is undertaken by such bodies.  It appears ego has all exits barred.  

And until the eternal perspective is given its rightful place in such research, findings will continue to promulgate the misperception that time and place, and all the upside-down-ness of it, is reality.  Happily, the writing is on the wall for that ego-led expedition into the wilderness, because quantum-physicists are now aware that time and space is an illusion.  They may not know what to do about that yet, because it means pretty well all text books will need rewriting.  An onerous task, to be sure, but it will contribute mightily to leading the fragmented Sonship back out of the wilderness.

Meanwhile, back to the original topic... Many relationships in time are between people of disparate awareness of truth and falsehood.  One partner may be some steps ahead on the Path to spiritual wakefulness — let us call them party A, and the other deeply unconscious of anything to do with eternal truth, living by ego’s script of expediency motive, according to whatever is happening at the moment — let us call them party B.  Deciding on behaviour according to such a script can only lead to uncertainty and dysfunction within the relationship, because ego-led decision-making and behaviour is de-structive.

This puts great strain on the relationship from the perspective of party A, who sees instinctively how things should be if the relationship is to remain healthy, happy and fulfilling.  Many such imbalanced relationships break down because the strain is too great.  Yet, such imbalanced relationships are, when seen from the perspective of Holy Spirit, great and priceless opportunities for both, and have been agreed to be entered into ‘afore time’ (i.e. before the parties involved incarnate), at least by party A.  This is because A already knows, in their pre-incarnation state, that to help another is to help oneself, because giving and receiving are the same in eternal reality.

The chances are that A will already know B, the party A has chosen/decided/agreed to help, from association in former incarnations.  A will also be aware that there are some issues to be resolved between them, so that healing can be accomplished.  Because love is who and what we truly are, and A knows that giving is an indivisible aspect of loving, A cannot resist the commitment to help B, even though A knows it will be very, very difficult to achieve this in the state of forgetfulness that comes with the territory of time and place. 

In many cases the attempts bear little fruit, at least in the initial stages after the commitment has been made.  This is most likely to happen when A is distracted from the memory that Help is always available from Self.  That Help is only accessible when we go within, because that is the dwelling place of Self.  Without that Help success in healing the issues involved in the brokenness is much less likely.

‘M’, who emailed me the article, could be considered ‘A’, and her husband, ‘B’.  When we first came in contact 5 or 6 years ago, M was a seeker after spiritual truth but her husband, ‘H’, was, and still is, deeply engaged within the illusion.  She found this very hard to cope with and unburdened herself to me by email, seeking some more focused guidance.  As a result of my decades-long journey toward the Light with Jesus, and my now active study of Gary Renard’s book, The Disappearance of the Universe and ACIM, I was able to offer this, always asking for inspiration from Jesus and/or the Spirit of Truth as I responded to her cries de coeur.

At first, little progress seemed to be achieved, so great was the disparity between the couple, and H’s belittling of M’s spiritual seeking, and his disparaging, fear-driven reaction to her attempts at staying on the path to the Light she was so eager to follow, that she was often close to despair, even though she is a very strong, positive spirit.  I seriously wondered if I could really be of any help for quite a while, but was reminded that Jesus had been infinitely patient with me for decades; had never given up on me. 

My motivation is to become 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), and so I thought, ‘If Jesus can be infinitely patient with me, who am I to abandon another who is calling for my help?’  I then realised that as long as I call on his and the Holy Spirit’s Help, I could and would continue for as long as M needed my support and encouragement.  Jesus’ help for me has never wavered, and so I resolved, with this Help, to emulate him as best I could.

The exchanges of email have continued during the intervening years, and a trusting, caring, loving rapport has developed.  In that time I have come to realise that this has definitely not been a one-way relationship.  Every time M wrote asking for input on whatever was the issue of the moment, I asked for guidance in responding, and found myself writing things that brought sharply into focus the Principles of Life of the Father (PLFs) and things of which, until the moment they emerged through my keyboard, I had had no conscious awareness.

Jesus reminds us that we learn by teaching, and this enabled me to attest absolutely to this truth.  At first I was inclined to see M’s cries for help as a chore, but remembering how Jesus has been infinitely patient with me helped me to ‘keep on keeping on’ with M, and instead of remaining a chore they became a joy, because I knew the Help was with me and I would be learning, growing in understanding, patience; loosening my mind from hard-held preconceptions; remembering to surrender and allow in the Light.  Seeing M grow in self-love, self-acceptance, confidence, wisdom, patience in handling the relationship with H has been a joy and a reward to me beyond description.

With the article M sent, she wrote: 

Some days I just shake my head with disbelief.  He actually thinks this is a great article.  I was slightly annoyed by the end of the article but more annoyed when he stood by what it said... telling me he doesn’t really understand why I NEED his forgiveness anyway since I have already forgiven myself so easily. 

 It’s just one of those out of the blue ego-running-scared attacks.   Tiresome.

I did not pick up any angst in her message, more, that it was simply observational; sharing the view about the insanity of worldly perceptions and confusion about what is real.  A real transformation from a few years previously.  Extracts from my reply are pasted here: 

I know you actually know the right-minded response to this matter, but it will be good for us both (and, ultimately, H) to go through this together.  So, here goes.

This article is, as you rightly say, ego-sponsored, and is operational purely at the time and place (t&p) consciousness level; an ego attempt at a) keeping the slumberers confused and b) keeping them focused at the superficial, t&p level, and thus, preventing them becoming aware of the within, where their true Self abides.

This article is speaking only of ‘false forgiveness’.  True forgiveness (see below) sees there is no time and place, that nothing that appears to be happening when observed/experienced with our bodily senses is real, because it is not eternal, and only Eternity is real.

H is not ready for Reality yet, and to try and force a sleeper into wakefulness before he is ready, finished with believing in dreams as reality, serves neither them nor those who try to wake them.  This message was given to Olga Park in 1948:

‘…Guard thy tongue: especially to strangers to this way of life and the knowledge and wisdom of the spirit.  Give place to the views of others, even though you know them to be in error.  Send forth a prayer for such, that they may come to the fuller knowledge and the clearer sight.’

Their move toward waking will be helped by those around them who are more nearly awake, or waking, simply recognising what is happening and lovingly allowing it, knowing it is an illusion, and therefore does not matter.  Meanwhile, they can remember that the Holy Spirit, Who abides in the mind of us all, and is the 'Matrix of Oneness' between all the apparent fragments, is the true communication link, as indicated here:

Remember that the Holy Spirit interprets the body only as a means of communication.  Being the Communication Link between God and His separated Sons, the Holy Spirit interprets everything you have made in the light of what He is. (ACIM T-8.VII.2)

So, that means you can communicate with the real, right-thinking part of H’s mind through, or via, the Holy Spirit.  This is silent, and does not require the bodily presence of H.  In fact, it is better for him not to be bodily present, because it is likely to be a distraction, while you are communing with the real H, which is one and the same as your true, eternal Self. 

Here is another quote from ACIM for this situation:

The Communication Link that God Himself placed within you, joining your mind with His, cannot be broken.  You (H, in his ego-dominated mind, along with most of the rest of humanity at present) may believe you want It broken, and this belief does interfere with the deep peace in which the sweet and constant communication God would share with you is known.  Yet His channels of reaching out cannot be wholly closed and separated from Him.  Peace will be yours because His peace still flows to you from Him Whose Will is peace.  You have it now.  The Holy Spirit will teach you how to use it, and by extending it, to learn that it is in you.  God willed you Heaven, and will always will you nothing else.  The Holy Spirit knows only of His Will.  There is no chance that Heaven will not be yours, for God is sure, and what He wills is as sure as He is. (T-13.XI.9)

So, if you commune with H via Holy Spirit, on behalf of H, without involving him at his Earth-mind conscious/bodily level, HS will use your gifts of love, blessing, true forgiveness to help H's awakening and remembrance of Who he really is, when the time is right. 

If this does not produce an instant fix/transformation of H's Self-awareness, that is not important.  What is important is that all your loving offerings will benefit him, some of which benefits you will experience, sooner or later, in this circuit of the carousel, and others which will help him immeasurably in the longer term, reducing the number of further sojourns in time he would otherwise need to take.  Of equal importance is the fact that all your loving, blessing, forgiveness gifts to H (via HS) will definitely, unavoidably, immeasurably benefit you, releasing you both from the karmic entanglement. 

The key is to leave all to/with HS, and not look for results, and then get discouraged if none is outwardly discernible.  Transforming effects/results are in process immediately, because time does not exist for HS, and it is of no consequence to reality if we are unaware of them with our bodily senses. 

There; you knew all that, didn't you? J  But it is an interesting, beneficial exercise for you and for me to go through it again, as a reminder and to concretise the reality in our mind. 

Since this was prompted by an article about forgiveness, here is a reminder of what ACIM teaches us about it:

False forgiveness is when the ‘sin’ is acknowledged and then forgiven.  However, the flaw in this misperception is that by acknowledging the ‘sin’, we give it reality.  This is a ploy of ego mind, which wants us to be, and remain, bogged-down in a false world of sin.

True forgiveness...  here, the words of Jesus from the Course are the most serviceable to our forming a clear and uncluttered understanding:

(True) Forgiveness recognises that what you thought your brother did to you has not (actually) occurred.  It does not pardon sins and (therefore) make them real.  It sees (instead, that) there was no sin.  And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin except a false idea about God’s Son? (True) Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and then lets it go.  What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God. (My parenthesised words, underlining, emboldening and italics.) (ACIM Workbook, page 401.)

The restoration of the Sonship to Its true estate of oneness is only possible through universal forgiveness.  Then will all grievances, judgement, fear, guilt, anger, hurt and death be seen for the misperceptions that they are, and forgotten in an instant.  We are at the beginning of the fulfilment of this restoration, right now.

I give you: True Forgiveness J

Brian Longhurst

Disappointment can come only to those who make appointments with the future.

January 19^th 2011

Dear Friends,

In chapter 2 of SFGS I wrote: 

...I had had a terrible, breath-taking, heart-stopping fear of death during much of my teen years.  The word ‘death’, it seemed to me, indicated the complete end of life and consciousness, bringing only darkness, silence, emptiness, nothingness.  Forever.  This frightened me so badly I had palpitations, my palms sweated, my vision blurred every time I thought about it... 

Fear of ‘death’ — darkness, emptiness, nothingness — is fear of a symbol of what seemed to happen at the moment of separation, 14 billion years ago, according to cosmologists.  This is when, in linear time terms, the Son of God — created in the likeness of his Father Creator, and therefore perfect, sinless, all-knowing, all-empowered-by-Perfect Love — dreamt for an instant that he had left Home.  In this tiny instant it appeared he had left the Source of all Light, of Life, of Perfect Love; Papa God.

It appeared he had journeyed to a ‘far country’.  The country was ‘far’ because it was away from Home — the Light of Life — and was, therefore, darkness, emptiness, nothingness; the absence of Light (and therefore, life and love).  ‘Hold on,’ says ego, ‘time and place, Earth, the solar system, billions of galaxies, are not darkness, emptiness, nothingness.  What about the trillions of stars lighting the universe, the brilliant array of magnificent life forms, our sun providing light and life; the fantastic achievements of man?’

This is an upside-down, egocentric perception, like saying ‘The sun has gone behind a cloud’.  The so-called physical universe is not out there at all.  There is no ‘out there’ because ‘out there’ is outside, away from, God.  Or it would be if it were possible to be outside, away from, God, which, of course, it is not. The physical universe, all of it, is in the part of the mind of the Son that perceives itself as separated, sojourning in that far country. 

We have to get away from the misperception that our mind and our brain are one and the same thing.  Brains are in skulls, and decay with bodies; mind is everywhere, unlimited, eternal.  A miniscule part of upside-down, split-off-from-truth mind uses brains to operate the puppets we call bodies.  Unless, until, we turn over the puppeteering to our true, eternal Self.  Then everything changes for the better; not just for the individual, but for the whole Sonship... then a body becomes a communication mechanism for healing the broken Sonship and returning Home to Papa. 

Time and space are figments of the imagination of that split-off mind, and are part of the dream.  Dreams are not real and so the universe is not real.  When we wake from a dream we realise this, however real it appeared to be while we were experiencing it.

Solar bodies do not produce the Light that is indivisible from, synonymous with, Life and Perfect Love; that Light is brighter than all the innumerable stars in billions of galaxies, is eternal, living and loving, and the life-forms of Earth are not the Life that they signify.  The forms come and go in the blink of an eye, but the Life, of which all are indivisible parts, is eternal, and returns, is restored to Eternity, to our Source.  That Light is us, Papa’s eternal Son, in his oneness in his Father Creator, from Whom it is impossible to be separate, though it is possible to imagine it being so. 

Fear of death is inevitable all the while we believe, and thus, perceive ourselves as separate, because death is a symbol of that separation.  Before the separation God’s Son knew (and still does in his right-minded state of Being; his true, Christ Self) his eternal reality.  Jesus was, is, the template of that state of being, but it was not his bodily form that is that template.  It was/is his awakened, all-knowing, all-loving mind that is our exemplar from God. 

His body, just like all the rest of us, the fragmented Sonship, was simply a communication mechanism for delivering his message of the truth that will set us free — once we decide to accept his message as our truth.  We can safely do that because the truth he came to bring, to live, to demonstrate, is Eternal Truth; the Truth of God, the Creator Spirit.  It is Love

It is not just Jesus who is a messenger.  We are all messengers.  Just like Jesus, the message we each deliver is the message we believe.  What we believe, we perceive; so says Jesus in ACIM.  If we believe in death, then that is the message we deliver, and so the message is promulgated from generation to generation.  And has been from the start of the separation, because to accept the separation is to accept death as our reality. 

Now, however, Jesus reminds us — at the start of the fulfilment/completion measure of meal, through his handbook for the awakening he entitled A Course in Miracles — that we have available to us the Voice for God — the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Breath; our True, Eternal Self — to Whom we can listen as an alternative to the voice we have mostly been listening to since the separation; the false, counterfeit, upside-down opposite of our true Self.

This Voice has always been with us, but because we have been listening to the voice that believes the separation is real — the voice of judgement and unforgiveness — this has misled and confused us, and drowned-out from our awareness the still, small Voice for God within.  Jesus heard, listened to and followed this Voice, and he came at the start of the second measure of meal to manifest and anchor that Voice in time and place so that we could hear It also, if we are willing to listen 

The first record we have of this is in Jn. 20:22, when he appeared to the disciples in the upper room during the evening of the day of his resurrection: ...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.  The next record is from Acts, chapter 1, also shortly after the resurrection, when the disciples were still in Jerusalem and he appeared to them again:

And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.  For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence ... ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you...  

This coming upon them took place at the event called Pentecost, 50 days after the resurrection, as described in Acts chapter 2.  The disciples were greatly empowered by this wondrous experience, performed many miracles and spoke with the authority of the Spirit of Truth.  In due course all this was lost to the awareness of subsequent generations of most of the followers of Jesus because an institution grew up following from those early days and years, and became engulfed in distracting detail at the time and place level of consciousness; taken over by ego, instead of remaining focused on the eternal Principles of Life of the Father.  Truly spoken are the words ‘The devil is in the detail.’

But it is impossible for the Son of God to not be the Son of God, regardless of his dream of separation from his Father and himself, broken into fragments of self-disempowered littleness; one, appearing as many in the valley of death.  And the leavening, the uplifting, the healing of the split-off mind of the Son is taking place.  The ‘dead’ inhabitants of that valley are being resurrected, restored to Life. 

If God is another term for, and the Source of, all Light/Life/Perfect Love, then dreaming of separation from Him is dreaming of separation from Life, or said another way, of death.  We perceive our existence in time and place as life, but Jesus knew this was not true when he said: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God. (Lk. 9:60)

In chapter 11 of SFGS I have written of experiencing four ‘tapestry of fragments’ events, all of which were synchronistic, though I did not realise this until some time later.  The third event is described in these extracts:

. . . In the third tapestry fragment, I had got into bed and was settling down for sleep.  As I lay there with the light extinguished I suddenly became aware that there was the figure of a man standing at the foot of the bed.  This startled and somewhat unnerved me because the figure was in silhouette form and was totally black.  There was absolutely no light at all, of any kind, emanating from this form.  It was like a black hole in a way, utterly bereft of any indication of the light of life.  In my experience, this signalled a presence from the realms of darkness, and I was not eager for an encounter of that ilk.  This form was very tall; I would say at least 6 feet 6 inches (2 metres).  As I took in this apparition, a voice which I knew to be Papa spoke from what I assumed at the immediate moment was where the mouth of the apparition would be, but realised, as I considered this later, was actually above and behind the head of the form. 

The words spoken were, ‘Man, the Temple of God.’  Nothing else . . .

. . . As I lay there considering this, suddenly Papa spoke again, this time from beside the bed, to my left, about at my waist level but at the height of a standing person.  This time He said, ‘The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple.’  (Mal. 3:1: Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.) . . .

(Then) ...He spoke for the third time, ‘I will come unto him and will make My abode with him.’  (Jn. 14:23: Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.) . . .

. . . my conclusion about it from the advantage of minute examination over time is that the black form was a representation of the temple without the presence of Him with Whose occupancy it would ultimately be filled.  It was a symbolic representation of the temple vacated by its rightful occupant, the Son of God, who believes he has separated himself from his Father Creator — an upside-down perception if ever there was one!  Without the life, the light of the Creator, there would be, there can only be, emptiness, nothingness, darkness, an absence of anything, including, and especially light, because light and life are synonymous.  If one can envision any part of God’s Creation from which the Creator Spirit is (or could be) absent, assuredly this form was it.

 Nothingness.  Only a ‘black hole’ in the form of man but utterly devoid of beingness.  A form, one might say, awaiting re-occupation by the Source of All, the very spirit, or essence, of Life Itself; all-knowingness; perfect love; creativity in all its boundlessness.  Here was a demonstration of the truth revealed in ACIM that the world, the physical universe, our bodies, and indeed, all that is of time and place — and is therefore destined to ‘pass away’ — are not created by God, the Creator Spirit; that all that is of time and place is a dream of separation from Him, and that Jesus is, by his Great Rescue Programme, leading us back to Papa; that when we have been ‘made ready’, or prepared — by the retraining and correcting of our misperceptions of our true reality, so long held by the apparently split-off-from-Truth, separated part of our mind, or ego, and restored to our true, Christ-Minded, thinking and knowledge — we will be re-unified to oneness of the Sonship in the Father Creator.

Now is the moment for us to re-attune with the Voice for God within, and be restored to remembrance that eternal Life, Light and Perfect Love is who and what we are, right here, right now, uninterruptibly.

Love, Life, Light,

Brian Longhurst

 When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.

                                                                    Zig Ziglar

January 26^th 2011

Dear Friends,

We can retrain our mind away from ego-driven belief/perception (linear time) back to Holy Spirit-guided remembrance of truth/knowledge — the holy instant of Now/Eternity — and that will gradually be restored into dominance in our thinking, awareness, understanding, experiencing.

‘Right,’ says ego, ‘but that is 1) brainwashing, 2) handing over our freedom of thought to the control of another.  Further, 3) it will require us to give up plenty; all that we have fought/worked so hard to achieve, obtain, accomplish in this world — all for something that lies ahead, maybe.  4) Better to stick with what we know, right here, right now.’

Wrong, on all counts.  Let us look at each of these suggestions from ego’s script: 1) We have been brainwashed already, into believing a single lie.  That lie is that we are separated from God.  Believing that one lie has led to all the other lies, misperceptions, misery, fear, guilt, scarcity, grievance...  Continuing to believe that one lie is a guarantee of continuing misperceptions, all as listed above, plus myriad, endless others, including death. 

2) Handing over our freedom of thought to ‘another’ — the Spirit of Truth — is actually restoring freedom of thought to our True Self, away from utterly alien, upside-down thinking that is not, ever was nor could be our own thinking.  This is because we are God’s Son, created in His perfect likeness of Mind as well as Spirit.  This True Self is our Son of God Self, or Christ, with Whom we are linked while appearing to function from ‘outside Heaven’ by the Voice for God, or the Holy Spirit.

Spirit is Holy (whole) because it is of God, Who is whole, or complete. We can rightly refer to Spirit as Holy, or whole, because that is It’s permanent, unchangeable state.  Our state.  Hence, our True Self, or Self with an initial capital, as distinct from our illusory, temporal (non-eternal), persona, ego-puppeteered, little self, with a lower-case initial.

3) We gave up plenty — everything, in fact, when we decided to journey into a far country — including Life, Love, Light, Peace and Joy, all of which deserve an initial capital because all are true and real, and can only be experienced as eternal, unceasing, unchangeable, because that is what they are.  Everyone knows that is impossible in the dream of time and place, by definition.  Everything we think we have here is a poor substitute for what is really, rightfully, freely ours; forever. 

And nothing we think we have here is actually ours.  Ask anyone who has just laid aside his body J.  Those who are attached to the glitter and glamour of time and place will, assuredly, be drawn to come back to try to experience it again.  And again.  And again.  Until they realise that all such are ego-devised traps to keep us on the not-so-merry-go-round.  It will, inevitably, pall, because it is not true; not our true reality, and requires sacrifice — sacrifice of everything that is truly, rightfully ours: Life, Love, Light, Peace and Joy.  These things, which are really but one thing, bring us completeness, wholeness, holiness, oneness.

Restoration to oneness, wholeness, completeness, calls for no sacrifice.  As Jesus asks in ACIM, ‘Is it sacrifice for an adult to give up children’s toys?’  Jesus told the rich, young ruler who asked what he must do to inherit eternal life, Sell your possessions and give to the poor, and come and follow me.  The record states that the young man went away sorrowing, for he was very rich.  What the record does not say is that he thought very carefully about what Jesus had said to him, did come back and did follow Jesus. 

And Jesus’ admonition to sell everything is not necessarily to be taken literally, but rather, to make the things, the treasures, the idols of this world meaningless; to see them for what they are, rather than be taken in by them.  Where our treasure is, there will our heart be also.  If our treasure is of Earth we have to defend it (against moth, rust and bankers thieves) and that becomes so all-consuming we have little time for what calls for absolute commitment if we are to succeed: seeking first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness (Mt.6:33).  His counsel doesn’t stop there, for he then tells us that if we make that our first commitment, all we have need of shall be added to us. How comforting is that?  Unless we don’t believe Jesus.

Giving up nothing is no sacrifice.  Since treasures of Earth, along with all else of time and place, are but illusion, they are truly nothing.  Worrying about nothing seems, even to an upside-down mind, foolish; a waste of time.  Giving up worrying about nothing is a great relief and release of a self-imposed burden that can weigh us down, ruin our peace of mind, relationships and health. Just as ego would have it.

4) Sticking with what we ‘know’ is actually sticking with what we believe.  And if we believe a misperception, we do not, cannot, know it, because a misperception is not real, and it is impossible to know unreality.  It is possible to know only truth, and only truth is eternal.  To say we know a thing that is only of time and place is to mistake knowledge with belief and perception.

How do we think remembrance of the wholeness, truth and reality of Eternity — and the living, extending and sharing of it with his beloved brethren in the Sonship — came back to Jesus?  Not, assuredly, by magic, nor by studying with the Essenes or any other sect.  What could they have taught him? 

Jesus tells us in ACIM that he came back to awareness of truth by listening to the Voice for God, the Spirit of Truth within, and choosing to believe and follow His leading back to Self (Christ) realisation.  Is there one amongst us who believes he can be restored to oneness by any other method?  Since Self is Who we really are, being restored to Self is hardly likely by choosing to listen to a voice that has convinced us we are who we are not. 

Since Jesus clearly knows something most of us have not yet remembered, it seems sound sense to believe him, since he has more than demonstrated his credentials, his trustworthiness.  He tells us: If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (Jn. 8:31, 32).  If it worked for him, and we are his brothers, and he tells us it will work for us if we are willing to believe him and follow him, then, assuredly it is worth trying.  And sticking at it, since he obviously stuck at it, and it got him Home.

Unforgiveness and judgement are two sides of the same coin. They are burdens we lay upon ourself that weigh us down, imprison us in littleness, limitation and fear, and impact our peace of mind, which then reflects in our bodily wellbeing. When all is forgiven we are released from the yoke of ego’s grievous burden that holds us captive in the perception that time and place are reality, separating us from inner peace, wholeness, Life, Love, Light — God.  It is not God who releases us, because He has never held us captive, but our own unforgiveness binds us, and forgiveness frees us from our own imprisoning:

Can you to whom God says, “Release My Son!” be tempted not to listen, when you learn that it is you for whom He asks release? (T-31.VII.15:5)

The truth is that forgiveness makes us free:

The world is not left by death but by truth, and truth can be known by all those for whom the Kingdom was created, and for whom it waits. (T-3.VII.6:11)

If we think we leave the world by death, clearly this is a misperception, because all we have done is leave behind our Earth body but not our Earth mind.  So, we find ourself in an etheric counterpart of Earth, in a state of perception that simply reflects the state of mind we were in by the time we left behind our ‘little pile of clay’.  That is not Heaven.  It is the other side of the carousel of birth and death.  And, since we have not left the Earth behind, we will find ourself drawn back to it, and take another body; reincarnate.  So will that cycle continue, until we eventually see through the charade and decide it is time to awaken to eternal reality. 

Then, the student will be ready and the teacher will come.  Jesus is our teacher, as also is the Spirit of Truth, acting in concert, as one.  They are already with us, waiting with infinite patience until the student is ready.  Then will They make Their presence known to us; or, more accurately, we will begin to become aware of Their presence within us, and start to listen to Them.  Meanwhile, ego has a cunning plan to stop us from hearing Them: guilt, unworthiness, fear.  Here is some sound, encouraging, inspiring counsel from Jesus:

As you look upon yourself and judge what you do honestly, you may be tempted to wonder how you can be guiltless.  Yet consider this: You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity.  You have “sinned” in the past, but there is no past.  Always has no direction.  Time seems to go in one direction, but when you reach its end it will roll up like a long carpet spread along the past behind you, and will disappear.  As long as you believe the Son of God is guilty you will walk along this carpet, believing that it leads to death.  And the journey will seem long and cruel and senseless, for so it is. (T-13.1.3)

And for our further reassurance:

Salvation does not ask that you behold the spirit and perceive the body not.  It merely asks that this should be your choice.  For you can see the body without help, but do not understand how to behold a world apart from it.  It is your world salvation will undo, and let you see another world your eyes could never find.  (T-31.VI.3:1-4)

And even though our journey home is now underway, alongside the Path ego has set its pitfalls.  A major one that has duped adherents to the so-called Christian belief system is that because Jesus’ resurrection was of his body, therefore it is our bodies also that will resurrect, and with which we will enter the Kingdom.

But all that is of time and place is unreal, including Jesus’ and our bodies.  Since the physical world is not real, communicating reality in an unreal world can only be by symbols.  His bodily resurrection was a symbol he used to communicate with his disciples at a level they could understand at the time.  Therefore, we can now, with his help in ACIM, and by choosing to listen to the Voice for God, see past the symbol to the spiritual reality of which he came to remind us: that we are God’s one, beloved, eternal Son, created in His likeness.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship (attune, or commune, i.e. enter into oneness with) him in spirit and in truth. (Jn.4:24.)

Any who might still feel ego’s thought system drawing us from the Path toward those pitfalls (and don’t we all, to one degree or another? J) may be helped by this:

There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness.  Can a world which comes from this idea be real?  Can it be anywhere?  Deny illusions, but accept the truth.  Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world.  Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released. (W-132.13)

Our friend the Teacher (John of Patmos, ‘the disciple Jesus loved’) said to me in 1994:

...I know I do not need to caution you to be constantly on guard against the wiles of the enemy (ego), or to maintain your armour of defence against the darts of destruction.  You know that the cloak of the Lord's protection — living in Him and always keeping your heart and life open to His presence — is the whole armour and that no further contortions of mind or body are needful for such protection.  The greatest threat of breach to such armour is complacency...* 

Thank you, Papa, for being with us as we sit down to ‘meat’ with Jesus, and rejoice that he comes forth to serve us (see Lk. 12:37-38),

Love, always,

Brian Longhurst

* For the whole message see Diary of a Christ Communicant entry dated November 20^th 1994

February 2^nd 2011

Dear Friends,

Most humans think we need to pray for, or about, something.  That is usually for things to change in the without.  But the without — the ‘physical universe’, including our bodies — is not eternal; all the evidence we need to know that that which appears to be of time and place cannot be real, because only Eternity is real.  So, on the one hand that is asking God to make an illusion real.  Only truth can be real, and God only knows truth.  

To him, illusions do not exist, so such entreaty is asking God to make the untrue truth; a fruitless endeavour.  On the other hand, God has already given His beloved Son everything — at his creation — so asking Him to give us what we already have (but have blinded ourself to) is clearly nonsensical.

Jesus knew this, and that is why he repeatedly gave thanks when he performed a miracle.  His words at the raising of Lazarus from the ‘dead’ tell us much about this:

Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.  And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. (Jn. 11:41, 42.)

It is entirely safe to assume that even when he was not heard to utter words of thanksgiving, the gratitude was always in his heart.  God does not need to hear us spouting words of thanks, for He sees our heart (it is His dwelling-place), and knows our sincerity.  He does not know our insincerity, because for Him it does not exist.  Anything that is not of Heaven does not exist for Him, and if it does not exist for Him, it does not exist.  Full stop. 

But whether or not we are sincere in our gratitude, He knows that we are not lacking in anything, even when we perceive ourself as lacking.  If He knows we are lacking nothing — because He has given us everything — and if we perceive ourselves as lacking, who, pray, is right? He does not need our thanks, but we do need to give it, because it gets us back into the awareness that He has given us everything.  

Without that awareness we will remain in the perception of lack — lack of wholeness, peace of mind, wellbeing, love, joy, His presence in our life (and He is everything)...  So that will be, and remain, our experience, until we awaken to the point of remembrance that we already have everything.  Lack is the wellspring of fear.  When we are awake to the awareness of our oneness in Papa, we awaken to the awareness of everything being ours, so we cannot experience lack, which means we cannot experience fear.  It is a certainty that we all want that.  Only ego — nothing — stands in our way.

Since we already have everything, freely — ‘without money and without price’ (Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Isa. 55:1) — what are we expecting of Papa when we ask Him to give us what He has already given us?  We may say, well, He hasn’t given me abundance, and I am poor. Or, I am afflicted with ill health.  ‘Everything’ means everything.  What can be missing from everything?  

It would not be everything if there was something missing.  And why would Papa withhold anything?  Because we are ‘sinners’?  As quoted last week from ACIM T-13.1.3: You are not guiltless in time, but in eternity.  You have “sinned” in the past, but there is no past.  If there is no time and place — because it is but a figment of our imagination rather than a creation of God — assuredly there can be no past or future.  Why would God want, or need, a past or a future when all is perfect now?  A past would imply imperfection, moving toward perfection; that would mean God is not perfect now, and is working on it.  Hardly a God in which we could have absolute confidence!

Only in our perception is anything withheld from us, but it is not withheld from us by Papa.  We are playing the game called self-disinheritance.  But it is only a game of pretend.  It is not possible to actually disinherit ourself from our Father.  That may seem like a possibility here in the world of make-believe, but in reality, such an idea could not exist because in the Eternity of Heaven, only Love is real, and the Father loves His Son and the Son loves his Father.  No alternative to that is possible other than in fantasy, and Heaven is not fantasy — unless we believe it so, and thus make it so for ourself.  Does that make it so in truth?  Making up what is unreal is mythology, and mythology is about myth.

So, are we saying that prayer is unnecessary, because we already have everything, so there is nothing to pray for?  What we are saying is, when we are awake, there is no waking to be done.  But when we are asleep, and dreaming of lack, we are wasting our time by asking/praying for what we already have but are unaware of.  We will do better to ask for Help in waking to the awareness that we already have everything. 

If a child asks for an apple and the parent has already given him an apple, but the child has his eyes closed, so is unaware that he already has an apple — even though the parent keeps telling him he has an apple — the child may believe he cannot open his eyes to see the apple.  So, rather than keep asking for what he already has (everything) he will do well to ask for Help opening his eyes, so he can become aware of what is already his.   

This way he is acknowledging he perceives a lack, that this is in error, and seeks Help in correcting the error of perception.   Then, rather than doubting that he is in error, or that Help is freely available to him, he can give thanks for the Help that is available to him, thus signifying his willingness to receive that Help and accept it unto himself.  Let us, then, approach prayer from the position of knowing we already have everything, and giving thanks for it.

Recent editions of ACIM have incorporated two pamphlets dictated by Jesus to Helen Schucman after the completion of the rest of the original version.  One of these is entitled The Song of Prayer, with three sections: Prayer, Forgiveness and Healing.  This is a profoundly helpful study document for true seekers after oneness with God.  In the section on Prayer, Jesus says:

Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation.  It was then what it is to become (again, when we are restored to oneness through the At-onement process); the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son.  Endless the harmony, and endless too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other... 

... it is not the form of the question that matters, nor how it is asked. The form of the answer, if given by God (this is not implying that God may or may not decide to answer.  Rather it is reminding us that if we are following ego’s script, rather than the Holy Spirit’s, the answer we receive is unlikely to be from God), will suit your (specific, perceived) need as you see it.  This is merely an echo of the reply of His Voice. The real sound is always a song of thanksgiving and of Love.

You cannot, then, ask for the echo.  It is the song that is the gift. Along with it come the overtones, the harmonics, the echoes, but these are secondary.  In true prayer you hear only the song. All the rest is merely added.  You have sought first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all else has indeed been given you. (see Mt. 6:33).

It is impossible to say that some parts of this exquisite sharing by Jesus are more important than others, because it needs to be taken in its entirety for the fullness of its profound, life changing meaning to be effective; yet, for me the next paragraph is one on which particular consideration is of the utmost worth.

The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need.  To ask for the specific is much the same as to look on sin and then forgive it (i.e. affirming/making ‘real’ our lack).  Also in the same way, in prayer you overlook your specific needs as you see them, and let them go into God’s Hands.  There they become your gifts to Him (thereby we are releasing them from our ill-conceived grasp), for they tell Him that you would have no gods before Him; no Love but His. (For in upside-down land we make gods, or idols, of fear, sickness, scarcity, error, judgement, grievance, envy...  Of course, ego says this is not so; yet do we not spend so much of our life focusing upon, in servitude to, such, instead of upon love, peace, joy, goodwill, blessing, forgiveness...?)  What could His answer be but your remembrance of Him? (And thus, our release from forgetfulness of our true reality in Him)...  God answers only for eternity.  But still all little answers (i.e. answers to our concerns of time and place matters) are contained in this.

Prayer is a stepping aside; a letting go, a quiet time of listening and loving.  It should not be confused with supplication of any kind, because it is a way of remembering your holiness (wholeness).  Why should holiness (i.e. Papa’s perfect Son: us) entreat, being fully entitled to everything Love has to offer?  And it is to Love (i.e. Papa) you go in prayer.  Prayer is an offering; a giving up of yourself to be at one with Love.  There is nothing to ask because there is nothing left to want.  That nothingness becomes the altar of God (on which we lay our specific needs as we see them, and let them go into God’s hands, along with our idols of doubt, fear, judgement...).  It disappears in Him.

This is not a level of prayer that everyone can attain as yet.  Those who have not reached it still need your help in prayer because their asking is not yet based upon acceptance.  Help in prayer does not mean that another mediates between you and God.  But it does mean that another stands beside you and helps to raise you up to Him.  One who has realized the goodness of God prays without fear. And one who prays without fear cannot but reach Him.  He can therefore also reach His Son (our brother), wherever he may be and whatever form he may seem to take (this, Jesus demonstrated by his miraculous healings).

 Praying to Christ in anyone is true prayer because it is a gift of thanks to His Father.  To ask that Christ be but Himself is not an entreaty.  It is a song of thanksgiving for what you are.  Herein lies the power of prayer.  It asks nothing and receives everything.  This prayer can be shared because it receives for everyone.  To pray with one who knows that this is true is to be answered (if this is true [has one amongst us ever known Jesus to lie?] assuredly, it is worthy of pause for careful consideration).  Perhaps the specific form of resolution for a specific problem will occur to either of you; it does not matter which.  Perhaps it will reach both, if you are genuinely attuned to one another.  It will come because you have realized that Christ is in both of you.  That is its only truth.

(My highlighting, emboldening, underlining and italic, for emphasis.)

Communion = common union.  This always leads to the re-cognition that we are one, and this union, we have in common.

Peace be with us all,

Brian Longhurst

While Love is the Master of Truth, fear is the master of illusion

Michael Roads

February 9th 2011

Dear Friends,

Many times have we observed that time and place are illusion; that this cannot but be so because only Eternity can be real; that one is form, always changing, decaying, dying, while the other is unchanging and unchangeable, incorruptible Spirit, which is perfect Love, Life, Light, all of which terms are indivisible because they describe the qualities of the Creator, Who is One.

Jesus teaches that we can choose Eternity or the illusion of time and place; that we cannot choose both, because they are mutually exclusive — although most of the fragmented, upside-down Sonship of God actually believe they can, and try to, have both.  Here is what Jesus says about this:

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. (Mt. 6:24.)

Here, in our make-believe world, we seek answers concerning time and place matters, fondly — yet only half — believing they will bring us the truth of Creation and of our Being, when truly this seeking brings us only ever-distracting information, leading us on a wild goose chase to nowhere; nothing.  Is not wild goose chase an apt term for seeking to make reality out of unreality?  What we claim to be seeking is the truth, but only God is the Truth and He is not to be found in the without, of the time and place universe, which is a fig-leaf for our guilt, fear and shame; a bolt-hole in our attempt to hide from Papa.

For clarity, Jesus also tells us in ACIM that it is not possible to obtain knowledge about unreality because unreality does not exist.  That it appears to exist because we have chosen to believe a phantasm is real does not make it real.  So, we spend our time gathering, not knowledge, but information about unreality, and believe/perceive it to be knowledge. Yet that information — which is really perception — keeps changing, from one generation to the next; quicker and quicker, as time moves inexorably toward its end.   

Only reality is real, and reality is unchangeable and eternal.  When we choose the reality of Eternity as our truth, then we can experience It and know it.  And that knowledge will never change, but it will empower us in ways of which the world knows nothing, just as it did our brother Jesus.

He says, ...Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all things shall be added unto you (Mt 6:33), but this is, for the vast mass of the fragmented Sonship of God, the last thing they seek, and the reason is fear.  Who chooses to seeks what they fear?  An upside-down, misperceiving mind fears God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Truth of Eternity (All Are One and the Same) because it has elected to believe that we will be judged, found wanting and condemned to eternal, unspeakable punishment. 

All, in spite of Jesus telling us:

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom (Lk. 12:32),

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. (Jn. 12: 46, 47). 

He said many other things which bear witness to these statements, including:

I and my Father are one (Jn. 10:30) and

...he that hath seen me hath seen the Father (Jn. 14:9).

If Jesus and his (and our) Father are one, and Jesus came not to judge the world — even if we don’t believe him — but to save it, how can any of us who profess belief in him (and that the scriptures are the infallible word of God) also believe God is to be feared because He is going to judge and condemn us?

There are two Jesuses in the Bible.  One is the real Jesus; a light to the world, the unconditionally loving, truly forgiving, caring, compassionate, understanding brother of us all, who judges us not; the anointed messenger of the unconditionally loving Creator Spirit, Who knows only Truth, which is Perfect Love, Life and Light, and therefore can have no condemnation.  How, why, could, would He condemn His beloved Son for dreaming a dream of unreality, which He knows is unreal, because He knows reality is unchangeable, benign, perfectly loving?

The other Jesus is made up by split-off, divided, confused, separated minds, under ego’s control; devised to confuse his brothers, cause them to doubt him and themselves, and judge and condemn each other, with the intent of keeping all imprisoned in guilt and fear.  These two Jesuses have been jumbled together over time by those who assumed authority over the eternal souls of the children of Earth without having the Light of spiritual discernment, so misinterpreted the real message of Jesus, muddling it with their own ego-judgements of ‘truth’.  If we ask, the Spirit of Truth will shine the Light of Eternal Truth into our mind, enabling us to distinguish the real Jesus from the made-up one.

Here is what Jesus said to me about this in 1995:

…Be not surprised that many souls are lost,* for the light of my spirit was deliberately snuffed out from the Church of Earth by those who sought riches of Earth before riches of eternity. But it is not possible for the Father’s purposes to fail, and the light shall be shone in the dark places until all the shadows of death and fear shall have fled away. Rejoice greatly at this, my beloveds, and sing the New Song, that my little ones may hear, and dance the dance of freedom. That which I have purposed in you shall prosper according to the wisdom of the Father. Be not anxious for any detail; all is well.

*It should be noted here that this is not indicating that such souls are 'lost' for all eternity, but simply that they have lost their way on the Path back Home to Eternity, or Heaven.

This characterises the world of duality, whereas God’s creation is undivided; one, in which is no judgement, no separation, no choice between Light and the absence of light, because Light — which is Love and Life also, inseparably — is real, true, eternal.  Light, Love and Life are also joy beyond measure, or anything imaginable in time and place.  Joy that has no degrees or levels; is only absolute, complete, total.  Misery, an aspect of the duality of time and place, is another word for joylessness.

All the while we continue to believe the falsehood that we are separate from God, that will be our experience, and that falsehood will be what we live, project, teach.  Yet, here is some powerful and empowering straight talk from Jesus about reality and unreality in these extracts from chapter 21 of the Text of ACIM, that can help persuade those who are ready to be persuaded, that they can choose to open their true vision to the truth of Eternity:

Projection makes perception.  The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that.  But though it is no more than that, it is not less...  It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside (projected) picture of an inward condition.  As a man thinketh, so does he perceive.  Therefore, seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.  Perception is a result and not a cause... Everything looked upon with (true, spiritual) vision is healed and holy.  (This is how he looked upon his brethren in the long ago, and healed them.  We can, and will, do the same; he told us so.)  Nothing perceived without it (i.e. with bodily sight) means anything.  And where there is no meaning, there is chaos... (As even our bodily senses tell us!)

Never forget the world the sightless “see” must be imagined, for what it really looks like is unknown to them...

How foolish is it to attempt to judge (ego’s preserve) what could be seen (with our true vision) instead.  It is not necessary to imagine what the (real, Kingdom of Heaven on Earth) world must look like.  It must be seen (with our true vision) before you recognize it for what it is...  Judgment will always give you false directions, but vision shows you where to go.  Why should you guess?

There is no need to learn through pain.  And gentle lessons are acquired joyously, and are remembered gladly.  What gives you happiness you want to learn and not forget...

The blind become accustomed to their world by their adjustments to it.  They think they know their way about in it.  They learned it, not through joyous lessons, but through the stern necessity of limits they believed they could not overcome.  And still believing this, they hold those lessons dear, and cling to them because they (believe they) cannot see.  They do not understand the lessons keep them blind.  This they do not believe.  And so they keep the world (ego’s upside-down world of judgement, fear, scarcity, guilt and death...) they learned to “see” in their imagination, believing that their choice is that or nothing...

Thus they define their life and where they live, adjusting to it as they think they must, afraid to lose the little that they (think they) have.  And so it is with all who see the body as all they have and all their brothers have... And they adjust to loneliness, believing that to keep the body is to save the little that they (think they) have.  Listen, and try to think if you remember what we will speak of now.

...perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten; dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long forgotten, and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered.  Not the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached not to a person or a place or anything particular.  But you remember, from just this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you. (Kleenex, anyone?)

The notes are nothing.  Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves, but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it was to you (can we yet say I remember?).  You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the world you learned since then (can we yet say not any more; thank You, Papa?).  And yet you know that nothing in the world you learned is half so dear as this (Amen!).  Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to cherish since. 

Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see, and yet somehow familiar (because Truth is eternal and cannot be forgotten, because we know It, and knowledge is never lost), is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle.  And all the circle fills with light before your eyes.  The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all.  The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity, forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere.  Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity (including all the seeming fragments of Papa’s beloved Son).  Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not (and we, also, are the Light; Jesus tells us so).

This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well (because this is Who we Are J).  Here is the sight of him who knows his Father.  Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you.  Accept the vision (it is ours) that can show you this, and not the body.  You know the ancient song, and know it well.  Nothing will ever be as dear to you as is this ancient hymn of love the Son of God sings to his Father still.

(My emboldening and some italic, for emphasis)

The ‘ancient hymn’ and the ‘New Song’ are one and the same.  It is ‘ancient’ because it has always been since God created His one Son; yet as it is restored to our memory after being so long forgotten, it seems like a New Song. Here’s to the end of littleness and limitation, and the singing of the ancient hymn/New Song. 

Brian Longhurst

My holy brothers, think of this awhile; the world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want.

(From ACIM W.190)

February 16th 2011

Dear Friends,

According to Jesus forgiveness is the key to the door that opens to freedom from the otherwise endless cycle of birth and death, time and place, and the Way Home to the Heaven of oneness with our brothers in the Sonship of God.

But if we by now are ready and willing to accept that time and place is illusion, and only Eternity is real, why do we need to keep practising forgiveness, since we accept that nothing that appears to happen, or have happened in time is real?  In truth we do not need forgiveness, but in illusion it appears that we do. 

We, the Son of God — one, appearing as many separated fragments — are at varying stages between deep immersion, or slumbering, in the dream that we are apart from God and each other, and wakefulness to full remembrance of Who we really Are.  Jesus is the prime — literally perfect — example of the reality of Being to which we are all, inescapably, unavoidably, unstoppably, returning.  But until we have completed the journey and are, like Jesus, fully awake to that remembrance, we still remain, at least in part, within the illusion. 

The dream is the consciousness of fear, which entails doubt, and wakefulness is the state of all-knowingness, which entails certainty.  And that knowing is that Perfect Love – God – is all there is.  So if we have any fear and doubt, we are not yet fully awake, and therefore are not yet fully free from illusion. 

It is one thing to believe and accept the truth of Eternity, but until we no longer just believe it but know it of a certainty beyond doubt, and are experiencing only that as our reality, there is still some undoing of ego to be done before it is fully dispelled from our unconscious mind. This is the place Jesus was at when he walked the Earth, and being like him is our goal, objective, destiny.

Most would still say, This is impossible, unachievable; and of ourself it would be so.  We cannot escape from time and place under our own steam, but we can do so by asking for and being willing to accept the Help of One Who Knows the truth, and is thus empowered by that knowledge to help us.  Jesus and the Holy Spirit are thusly empowered, and will always, immediately, unfailingly, help us, lead us out of illusion, waken us from the dream, to the truth.  Ego will pooh-pooh this, and there are two reasons for this. 

First, ego — the engine of the dream — being of time and place, and therefore, illusion, knows nothing at all, and can only experience doubt and fear.  Knowing nothing, it doubts everything and fears truth because truth is unknown to it, and in egoland, the unknown is fearful. 

Second, the only existence and power ego can have over us is what we, in our state of forgetfulness, give it. Ego wants us to continue believing that it, masquerading as our little, limited, finite, fearful, doubting, temporal self is who we really are, and that that false self is in control of its destiny.  As soon as we rumble the deception, its game is up.

So ego does not want us to remember the truth because that means the end of ego.  It will always, therefore, use every trick to steer us away, distract us, from truth, or light, and remain stuck in the darkness of ignorance.  Only ego could dream up a saying such as Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise. And only forgetfulness of our true Self could allow us to believe such has one iota of merit.  Knowledge is bliss because it means we have remembered we are Papa’s beloved Son, and are free from ego’s yoke of fear, doubt, guilt, decay and death.

Prayer and forgiveness are, according to Jesus in The Song of Prayer, sisters in our rescue from temporal make-believe back to eternal reality; duality back to oneness. He tells us that forgiveness offers wings to prayer, so that we can rise up from fear-based prayer — pleading, entreating, supplicating — through several stages of understanding about prayer to its ultimate, eternal state:

...the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son.  Endless the harmony, and endless too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other...  

He says also: The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need.  

He tells us that prayer is eternal — because it is a song of love between Creator and created, and that love is eternal — but forgiveness is temporal because it is only in time and place that forgiveness is needed.  When all is forgiven, we are released from ego’s illusory yoke — the only thing keeping us from rising up to our freedom in the truth.

Meanwhile, he tells us that forgiveness has been turned on its head by ego and we thus see what is nothing more than error, within a dream of unreality, as something real: sin, causing the false perception that we are guilty and therefore worthy of punishment.  This fills us with fear, keeping us under ego, or antiChrist, control.  He speaks of the need to forgive ourself; of false forgiveness, which he terms ‘Forgiveness-to-Destroy’; and true forgiveness, which he terms ‘Forgiveness-for-Salvation’. 

Prayer and forgiveness, both, he says

...must come to hold you up and keep your feet secure; your purpose steadfast and unchangeable.  Behold the greatest help that God ordained to be with you until you reach to Him.  Illusion’s end will come with this.  Unlike the timeless nature of its sister, prayer, forgiveness has an end.  For it becomes unneeded when the rising up is done. Yet now it has a purpose beyond which you cannot go, nor have you need to go. Accomplish this and you have been redeemed. Accomplish this and you have been transformed. Accomplish this and you will save the world.

He tells us that no ‘gift of Heaven’ has been misunderstood more than forgiveness, because, as distorted by ego’s script, which portrays illusion as reality, it looks on dreams of errors, mistakes, misperceptions and gives reality to them, burdening us with guilt. Then, ‘Forgiveness-to-Destroy’ ‘graciously’ deigns to forgive the ‘sinner’.  But the sin remains because it has been made ‘forever real’ by, or within, the misperception, so the false forgiveness is of none-effect.

Yet, with the Help of the Spirit of Truth within us, errors-within-the-dream can merely be looked upon with Christ’s true vision, which sees only the reality of Eternity. He urges us to overlook the error so that we don’t make it real, and in that view what we perceive with our bodily senses is then seen, known to have never happened because things temporal are nothing; a game of make-believe.  He says this, Christ’s true vision, is a gift from God that will enable us to return to Him in peace.

Of the need to forgive ourself, he says it is actually impossible to forgive another, because, of course, there is, in truth, no other; that, within the game of make-believe, Papa’s Son has fragmented into myriad ‘others’ so that our imagined sins and guilt can be projected onto them, and thus those sins be seen outside ourself.  Otherwise, the burden of guilt and fear would be beyond our ability to bear.  Nevertheless, he says, forgiving another is...

...the only happy dream in all the world; the only one that does not lead to death. Only in someone else can you forgive yourself, for you have called him guilty of your sins, and in him must your innocence now be found.  Who but the (seemingly) sinful need to be forgiven?  And do not ever think you can see sin in anyone except yourself.

He goes on to say that we but deceive ourself perceiving ‘our’ sins in another, and that if they were actually there, we would forever be the other’s prisoner unless he freed us.  But by seeing that we have projected them onto him, we can forgive, and thus free, ourself and him together...

Forgiveness, truly given, is the way in which your only hope of freedom lies.  Others will (appear to) make mistakes and so will you, as long as this illusion of a world appears to be your home.

Yet God Himself has given all (the fragments of the Sonship) a remedy for all illusions that they think they see.  Christ’s vision does not use your eyes, but you can look through His and learn to see like Him. ... His the eyes that look past error to the Christ in you.

Ask, then, His help, and ask Him how to learn forgiveness as His vision lets it be. You are in need of what He gives, and your salvation rests on learning this of Him...

Jesus gives us a foolproof way of detecting, knowing whether the form of forgiveness we employ is true or false.  He says that if it does not lead away from anger, condemnation and comparisons (judgements), it is false, and will keep us trapped in the karmic entanglements of the carousel of birth and death.

You do not want to stay in slavery. You do not want to be afraid of God. You want to see the sunlight and the glow of Heaven shining on the face of earth, redeemed from (the illusion of) sin and in the Love of God...

Then, he says... 

... Your wings are free, and prayer will lift you up and bring you home where God would have you be.

Of true forgiveness, or ‘Forgiveness-for-Salvation’, Jesus tells us 

It does not ask for proof of innocence, nor pay of any kind. It does not argue, nor evaluate the errors that it wants to overlook...

...Forgiveness has a Teacher Who will fail in nothing.  Rest a while in this; do not attempt to judge forgiveness, nor to set it in an earthly frame.  Let it arise to Christ, Who welcomes it as gift to Him.  He will not leave you comfortless, nor fail to send His angels down to answer you in His Own Name.

...He stands beside the door to which forgiveness is the only key.  Give it to Him to use instead of you, and you will see the door swing silently open upon the shining face of Christ. Behold your brother there beyond the door; the Son of God as He created him.

His Voice will teach you what forgiveness is, and how to give it as He wills it be.  Now can He make your footsteps sure, your words sincere; not with your own sincerity, but with His Own.  Let Him take charge of how you would forgive, and each occasion then will be to you another step to Heaven and to peace.

“What should I do for him, Your holy Son?” should be the only thing you ever ask when help is needed and forgiveness sought.

...When someone calls for help in any form, He is the One to answer for you.  All that you need do is to step back and not to interfere.  Forgiveness-for-salvation is His task, and it is He Who will respond for you.

That response, if truly His — and it will be if we have truly, sincerely desired and asked that it be — will be through our heart.  Then we will know by how we feel — at peace — that it is Him, and not the pedlar of deception that leaves us feeling confused, doubtful and guilty.

However long, however many incarnations it took him whom we know as Jesus to move from the place of ego’s false, upside-down perception to seeing the truth of Eternity is surely a cause for wonderment.  But that he achieved this, by the Help of the Spirit of Truth, the Comforter, and is now here to help us arrive at that goal is cause for not just more wonderment, but gratitude and celebration beyond anything the world of dreams can comprehend.

Here’s to eternal, inner peace, through forgiveness,

Brian Longhurst

When you bless a brother, you bless Me.

~Papa

February 23rd 2011

 Dear Friends,

‘Prayer is an attunement, not a pleading.’  

These words were spoken to me by a Christ Server from the Realms of Light as Theresa and I sat down for, and were about to bless, our evening meal, a few weeks after we were married in 1969. 

Because the Son of God dreamed he has left Home and journeyed to a far country, ‘upside-downland’ in which everything is the opposite of his true Being, he perceives himself as fractured, dividing into ever-increasing numbers of fragments, each perceiving itself as different and separate from the rest and from its Source.  This pantomime, this tragicomedy of errors and misperceptions has him appearing to be in outer (spiritual) darkness, deep wilderness, full of fearful shadows, such that Peter writes, ... your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour (1Pt. 5:8).

I wonder if he was listening to the Spirit of Truth when he wrote those words.  Or if another wrote them over his name!

So the fragments seem to be far from Home, so far from the Light that is not only their Home, but also Who and What they actually Are.  In this world of opposites we are perceived by ourselves and our brothers as little, limited, vulnerable, guilty, mortal; so far seem we from Papa, so hopeless our lot, so remote our prospects of peace that pleading, entreating, supplicating is about all most of us can muster in our vain attempts at communing with our Source.

This is an indicator of how much we are in need of mind-retraining, for none of this is how Jesus sees us.  He sees us as whole; the Light of the world; equal with himself in every respect except our perception of ourself and our brothers.  Is he fantasising or are we?  If he is fantasising, how was he able to accomplish the things that have caused so many to perceive him as exalted; ‘special’; the one and only Son of God?  If he is the Son of God and he tells us we are the Light, should we not believe him?

Indeed, it is — according to Jesus — belief that is the fulcrum of our perceived difficulties.  He tells us we can, and shall, do the works he did and greater works, if only we can believe.  Instead, we believe another script, which tells us we are unworthy, sinners, there is no health in us.  If we believe that, it should come as no surprise that ill-health, dis-ease afflicts us, or seeks to afflict us, at every turn.  The endless array of deadly pathogens, plants, animals... and brothers... are perceived as outside ourself and we must defend ourselves against them; that new and more pernicious diseases and ‘enemies’ are appearing from ‘nowhere’ with increasing frequency.

Yet none of this fearful upside-downland is God’s creation, for how can Perfection create imperfection?  How can Love create fear?  How can Perfect Love send sickness, disease and death to torment us?  It is not God, but our misperceptions that are the source of all around us that we believe is harrying us.  Who can imagine Jesus coming down with the ‘flu?  Or any other malady?  And why is that hard to imagine?  Because, intuitively, we know he was impervious to such.  Why was he?  Religionists say because he was/is the Son of God.  The Bible tells us that we, also, are Sons of God, so we should be, and can be, impervious also.  If only we can believe.

The difference between Jesus and most of his brethren is, he believed it, knew it, and most of the rest of us don’t.  He knew it of himself and he knew it also to be the truth about us.  For Jesus there was, and is, no such thing as sickness or limitation, because sickness and limitation are symbols of belief in separation from the Light.  He was not separate from the Light.  He brought the Light with him from Its Source, into the darkness and shone away the darkness by his presence.  There is no affliction or limitation in Light; only love, peace, joy, wholeness, limitlessness.  All that is ours.  Freely.  Now.  Eternally.

There is no future, just as there is no past.  There is only now.  We imagined the past and gave it reality by believing it.  But if there is no past for God, and His Son is like Him, there can, in truth, be no real past for us either; only a dream.  God does not dream, so dreams cannot be real.  There is no future because all, in God’s perfect creation, is accomplished; all is, already, now, so there can be nothing yet to come. 

There is only completion, perfection, wholeness, oneness, in the Holy Instant of the eternal now.  Completion cannot exclude perfect love, peace and joy, or it would not be complete. If we believe in a future we believe in a dream in which completeness does not exist.

All that is asked of us is that we believe and open our arms, our hearts, to receive the truth about ourself and accept it unto ourself.  The great thing about believing is that we don’t have to, or need to, know or understand first.  That is a ‘lie of satan’.  Believing first requires faith and trust that God, Jesus and the Spirit of Truth are trustworthy, know the truth, have only the best interests of us all at heart and do not make mistakes because They know everything, are perfect and are fully empowered to ‘deliver us from evil’. 

They can do that with ease because in truth — and truth is all They know — there is no evil.  It is for Them, as we Brits say, a doddle. 

It is our insistence on first knowing, understanding, that is blocking us from experiencing, and thus knowing, the truth.  It is our willingness first to believe and trust, that authorises Them to perform our deliverance and then will we come to see, know and understand, because Their deliverance will restore us to the Light, which is Truth, and therefore reveal to our sight the knowledge that has always been with us. 

By our faith in Them They can and will restore us to the Light effortlessly, because, like Them, we are the Light.  The restoration is accomplished by our allowing Them to remove the veil we have placed over our heads, like a sack.  Sacks greatly impede vision.

What stands in the way of our willingness?  Unbelief in reality and belief in dreams of fear.  Jesus knew this and in order to get us to believe what, to our upside-down perception — our sack-distorted sight — is unbelievable, he had to demonstrate his empowerment to heal and restore us to wholeness.  That pesky sack has caused us to believe miracles are impossible; that we need a pill, or a scalpel, or a needle to relieve our dis-ease; that we must labour and toil against adversity, and fight enemies, to obtain, retain and maintain our meagre survival and existence.

In truth it is our mind that needs healing, for that is all that is sick.  It is the split-off-from-truth part of our mind — ego — not God, that has made bodies.  Only what God created is real, so bodies are not real and attempting to heal unreality is a fruitless task.  A symptom may appear to be healed by a pill, potion or scalpel, but like the body itself, such healing is but a momentary illusion and can have no lasting effect if the cause has not been healed. 

And even if such healing lasts for the remainder of that act, unless the cause has been healed, a symptom arising from that unhealed cause will, assuredly, require, and show up in, a subsequent act.  And the cause lies in a sick, or unhealed, mind.  And minds survive bodies, carrying their sickness with them into the next body they make.  For the next body is made for the same reason as the previous one: to provide opportunity for healing that same, sick mind.

But with our limited, bodily senses we cannot see our mind, and if Jesus had travelled around Palestine healing minds, who would have believed him?

So he reached the people at a level they were able to perceive and couldn’t deny (though, of course, many who didn’t witness his miracles couldn’t believe, including Thomas Didymus), by restoring departed souls to bodies, exorcising earth-bound spirits, walking on water, and yes, dispelling the misery of malady-symptoms from distressed bodies.  By these mechanisms he was able to demonstrate and establish his credentials.  This was essential in order to achieve what he had come to do: win the trust, belief, love, devotion of myriad souls, not just there and then, but permanently.

These love-motivated deeds would then enable the accomplishment of his long-term objective, which was, and remains, the healing of the mind of the Son of God, from its seemingly fragmented state, and its restoration, resurrection back to wholeness, oneness.  He knew that, in linear time terms, this was a long-term project — though in eternity it is nothing — and that he could not remain with a body much longer.  Indeed, there was no need for him so to do because he was going to call down the Spirit of Truth to be with us in time and place:

It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you... I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak. (From Jn. ch. 16)

He left, to the bodily perception of his brothers, but has never left us in spirit, and never will:

...lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. (Mt. 28:20)

Indeed, what he still had to say to us, the ego-script-following children of Earth were nowhere near ready to ‘bear’, and most still are not ready to bear.  What was still to be said is now available to us in ACIM.  Most souls in the Earthly life are — in these early stages of the third measure of meal — not yet ready outwardly. But the GRP is moving unstoppably along across the vast front of humanity, not just those in the Earth, or the etheric counterpart of Earth, but, most importantly, from — and directed from — those in the Realms of Light. So, the souls of many, many more are ready than ego-controlled appearances indicate. 

Those appearances manifest in the institutions of Earth, including the Laodicean church (see Rev. ch. 1), big business, high finance, the media, governments, etc.  But none of those institutions has any more power over us than we are willing to assign to them, and the disintegration of that power is progressing at an accelerating rate as people become empowered by the truth.  More and more incarnate souls are already, with increasing earnestness, seeking after truth (the truth of eternity, as brought to us by Jesus, not the ‘truth’ as brought to us by the BBC, Rupert Murdoch, the Vatican or CNN).

And those who, during the last two-thousand years (the second, or ‘Jesus’, measure of meal), over multiple cycles of birth and death, have come to honour Jesus and espouse their lives to him and his GRP, are reincarnating in this and subsequent generations.  The third measure of meal has been prepared for them, with ACIM and thousands of other books, films, websites, harbingers, arising in power and influence to remind such souls, each on their own particular Kingdomly mission, who they really are and why they have come. 

Such souls are the leaven that is being carried forward from the second measure of meal into the third, fulfilment, measure, to leaven it, ‘until the whole is leavened’.

Jesus knew all this before Abraham incarnated to kick off the three measures of meal Great Rescue Programme.  He gave this message to Olga Park on January 17^th 1965, on or about the onset of the third measure:

 In the midst of the Earth ariseth my city

       after the fashion of the Heavenly,

Wherein the multitude of them that love me and keep my words

Minister unceasingly to the sick and fainting spirits of men.

The call goeth out continually, Come, O come ye to the waters

Everyone that thirsteth.  Buy milk and wine without money and without price,

And nourish your souls, and rejoice in health and joy;

For it is my Father’s good pleasure to bestow upon you

       the freedom of the city.

Here is freedom from sickness: whosoever will, let him be free.

Here are riches of wisdom and power: whosoever will, let him be rich.

Here is knowledge: whosoever will, let him know the secrets of God

       and the power and perfection of His laws.

Here is fulfilment: whosoever will, let him enlarge his capacity

       and his influence.

Here is Peace: whosoever will, let him meditate therein.

Grace be with you.

Thank you, Jesus; we gladly receive your grace, and accept it unto ourself.

Brian Longhurst

"Wholeness is a reality revealed by Love. Separation is a concept sustained by ignorance"

- Michael J Roads

March 2nd 2011

Dear Friends,

We — Christ — are the Word of God.  The Spirit of Truth is the Voice for God, That re-minds us Who we Are.  Christ, the Word, is whole because It is the Word of God.  The Word and the Light are one and the same.  We are the Light; Jesus tells us this.  If we welcome the Light back into our being we welcome wholeness and will be healed because the Light will illuminate our mind, which we have veiled from the Light by our belief in separation from the Light, placing us in (spiritual) darkness.   The Light is not the light of the Sun.  The Light is Life, which is Love, which is God; and the Son is like the Father.

The fragmented Sonship reels from the effects of this self-inflicted separation, which, inevitably impacts upon bodies we make and adopt as our limited, temporal, false identity.  Because we believe that false identity is who we are, we then adopt all its frailties, which manifest in sickness and dis-ease.

We then want healing for sick bodies but are, at the same time, fearful of being ‘holy’ all the while we see it as religious piety instead of the wholeness of Being that it actually is. 

In November 2008 Papa said to me:

...Enter in, enter in; attune with Me with rejoicing, waking to the fullness of your glory and your oneness in Me.  You are in Me and I am within you; there is mutuality in our love, which We extend to each other continually.  In that extending is the ecstasy of My creation, which is you.  Only in you is My ecstasy, My joy, My fulfilment, My completion.  When you deny yourself, you deny Me.  This is your only blasphemy.

Wow! Papa.  This is some revelation.  It changes my perception, brings me up short.

I know your desire to return wholly to Me above all things.  To do this you must return wholly unto your Self; ‘Big Me’, as you have rightly observed.  Jesus was wholly in Me because he was wholly Self – I AM.  You are ‘I AM’ also.  All the fragments of My Son also are, indivisibly ‘I AM’.  They say to themselves ‘I am Brian’, or ‘I am Theresa’, or ‘I am John’, or ‘I am Mary’.  Each time they make such pronouncement, there is one word too many.  For ‘I AM’ is Who they are.  The rest is made up, illusion.  Do you wish to be made up?

No, I don’t, Papa; I wish to be real.

Keep on, then, reminding yourself, ‘Big Me’ is good because it focuses on your ‘otherness’, your ‘realness’, your ‘I AM-ness’.  There is no other you than ‘Big Me’. You have no other name, no other being, no other identity.  All else is a distraction, a diversion away from the truth of Who you ARE...

Welcome Home, My beloved.  The banquet awaits.

Healing is about wholeness, and wholeness is rejoining our apparent separation from its ever-greater numbers of fragments.

While we believe we are, and therefore appear to be, limited, we have no awareness of our reality.  The Voice for God is with us; within us, to re-mind us of our true Being, our true Self.  Seeming to be limited causes us to feel we are incomplete.  We look for completion in another; a soul-mate, a group of like-minded people who share a belief-system, a hobby, an interest.  Seeking completion in something or someone ‘out there’ does not make us complete, or whole, because seeking is an affirmation of our belief in our incompleteness.

Neither Jesus nor the Voice for God tells us we are incomplete.  Only ego does that.  If we are listening to that voice we will keep on searching in the without but never find wholeness.  Wholeness is within us already, as it has always been; just as Jesus tells us.  Wholeness is the same as holiness, but ego has persuaded its followers that holiness is a false attitude of piety and is to be avoided at all cost, because our peers will despise our ‘holier than thou’ attitude.  Jesus was holy because he was whole.  This meant he knew that he was one with God, the Source of Completion, Who was within him.  Jesus was holy but not ‘holier than thou’. 

He was humble but Self-assured because he knew Who he was.  Ego, in the form of the religious authorities, mistook this for arrogance.  Humility is peaceful, content and joyful because it is our true nature, in which there is nothing to defend or justify.  It expresses what we really are: full, complete, lacking in nothing, requiring nothing because we already have everything.  This is spontaneously, intuitively convincing, so no big display is needed. 

Arrogance is a vain attempt to establish self-assurance, but leaves us empty, lonely, fearful; seeking recognition and approval, but never finding it. We have no need for this because our true worth is already established in the Mind of our Creator.  Arrogance masquerades as humility, but is immediately seen through as counterfeit.  It is artificial, contrived; doubt pretending to know; not who we really are.  When we remember we are but one, to whom can we boast of counterfeit worth?  Wholeness needs no pretence.  Arrogance is pretence at being what we are not.

Completion, wholeness, is possible not by seeking, but by remembering and accepting that we are already whole; that Papa’s Son, the Christ, has never not been whole.  During the awakening process, experiencing wholeness can, at best, be intermittent, but we can choose to believe and accept the truth that wholeness is ours, even though we are not — yet, uninterruptedly — experiencing it.

This then places us in the position of being able to repudiate ego’s attempts to persuade us that appearances of littleness, limitation and death — separation — are reality.  By choosing to believe the truth that wholeness of Being is both what we have and what we are, it is inevitable that awareness of it becomes increasingly our experience, until it is our complete experience and we know, of a certainty beyond all doubt that this is eternal, unchangeable reality, the Truth of Eternity. When it is both our truth and the Truth of Eternity, we know we are one with God; complete.  Just like our template, Jesus. 

Choosing and accepting wholeness and repudiating separation enable the At-onement process to collapse time for us, so that the experience of it can become our reality immeasurably sooner than could otherwise be possible. 

If we experience sickness/dis-ease and want healing, we can only truly receive it by willingness to accept wholeness.  Wholeness is of the mind, healed, restored from fragmented, split-off-from-truth ego mind to the oneness of Christ Mind.

As mentioned recently, Jesus tells us in The Song of Prayer, true prayer is a continuous at-one-ment between Father Creator and created Son:

...the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son.  Endless the harmony, and endless too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other...  

He says also: The secret of true prayer is to forget the things you think you need...

...and let our prayer, therefore, not be for healing of bodies made sick by unhealed minds, but a joyous harmony, in recognition of the reality of our already perfect, unchangeable, eternal oneness with Papa.  Then, we are in a state of resonance with the wholeness, the completeness that Creator and created simply, as one, ARE.  All ideas to the contrary then simply have no meaning, no reality, no existence.

Further on in this same booklet, part 3, entitled Healing, he says:

Healing the body (in its maker’s state of perceived separateness from his Creator) is impossible, and this is shown by the brief nature of the “cure.” The body yet must die, and so its healing but delays its turning back to dust, where it was born and will return.

However, he goes on to say:

The body can be healed as an effect of true forgiveness.  Only that (true forgiveness) can give remembrance of immortality, which is the gift of holiness (= wholeness, let us not forget) and love. Forgiveness must be given by a mind which understands that it must overlook all shadows on the holy face of Christ, among which sickness should be seen as one (of the shadows). Nothing but that; the sign of judgment made by brother upon brother, and the Son of God upon himself. For he has damned his body as his prison, and forgot that it is he who gave this role to it. 

What he has done now must God’s Son undo. But not alone. For he has thrown away the prison’s key; his holy sinlessness and the remembrance of his Father’s Love. Yet help is given to him in the Voice his Father placed in him. The power to heal is now his Father’s gift, for through His Voice He still can reach His Son, reminding him the body may become his chosen home, but it will never be his home in truth. 

Distinctions therefore must be made between true healing and its faulty counterpart. The world of opposites is healing’s place, for what in Heaven could there be to heal? As prayer within the world can ask amiss and seeming charity forgive to kill, so healing can be false as well as true; a witness to the power of the world or to the everlasting Love of God.

In comic parlance, we must recognise that the knee-bone is connected to the thigh-bone.  In other words, if we seek healing, let us keep in mind that the body has arisen from the sick, incomplete, upside-down, back-to-front part of the mind of the Son of God; the part that perceives itself as fragmented, separated from its Self, Christ, and its Source, God.  A healed knee-bone is useless with a fractured thigh-bone, and will not remain healed for long without that upon which it depends for mobility first being healed. 

The healing of our mind is achieved for us by the Voice for God.  This works by the process of true forgiveness, in which we steadfastly choose His Help to re-cognise and re-mind ourself that all of time and place is an illusion; that nothing outside our Self is real or ever happened, because Papa has but one Son, Christ, and we are Him.  So we can forgive all that appears to have happened or be happening for which we have felt a seemingly justifiable grievance and judgement (but would only be justifiable if it had really happened) against our illusory, little self or another illusory fragment of our one, unified, true Self; Christ, the eternal, perfect Son of the eternal, perfect Father.

Further on in section 3 he says: 

Think what it means to help the Christ to heal!  Can anything be holier than this? ... Do not ask partial healing... You are as dear to Him as is the whole of His creation, for it lies in you as His eternal gift. ... Do not forget the gratitude of God. Do not forget the holy grace of prayer. Do not forget forgiveness of God’s Son.

... You have understood that you forgive and pray but for yourself.  And in this understanding you are healed.  In prayer you have united with your Source, and understood that you have never left...

And then, Papa takes up the Call:

Come unto Me, My children, once again... arise and lay all dreaming down forever... Give all your dreams to Christ and let Him be your Guide to healing...

He comes for Me and speaks My Word to you. ... My arms are open to the Son I love, who does not (yet) understand that he is healed...  Be still an instant... there is a Voice That speaks to you of Me.  Hear This an instant and you will be healed.  Hear This an instant and you have been saved.

Help Me to wake My children from the dream of retribution and a little life beset with fear, that ends so soon it might as well have never been.  Let Me instead remind you of eternity, in which your joy grows greater as your love extends along with Mine beyond infinity... Listen, My Child, your Father calls to you.  Do not refuse to hear the call of Love.  Do not deny to Christ what is His Own.   Heaven is here and Heaven is your home.

... How lovely are you, Child of Holiness!  How like to Me!  How lovingly I hold you in My heart and in My arms...

So now return your holy voice to Me. The song of prayer is silent without you... Do not abandon Love. Remember this; whatever you may think about yourself, whatever you may think about the world, your Father needs you and will call to you until you come to Him in peace at last.

Can there be one amongst us who could doubt the source of such majesty, such grace, such heart-melting call for restoration to wholeness?  Click here for the whole Song of Prayer.

We hear Your Call and are coming Home, beloved Papa,

Brian Longhurst

Where there is wisdom there is

silence and humility.

                                                ~ Jesus

March 9th 2011

Dear Friends,

When we look at the world of illusions we have made, they appear to our sight.  This is because we who have made them are the Son of God, so great ingenuity has been accessible, and engaged, in their fabrication.  But our sight is flawed because the illusions we have conjured — including the bodily senses with which we perceive them — are the opposite of reality.  Reality is Light (because Light, Life, Love, Truth, God are one and the same); the opposite is absence of Light, which we term darkness.  If we are not in the Light, we are in darkness.

Of course reality cannot have opposites, so any such perceived opposite cannot actually be real, cannot be true.  As Paul (Saul of Tarsus) would say, we look through a darkened glass.  In more modern parlance, one might say the illusion — or deception — is accomplished by use of smoke and mirrors.  It is a self-imposed deception, self-imposed darkness, in which shadows seem real.  All the while we choose to believe those shadows are real, so will they be our reality, because what we believe, we see.  Such is the power of the Son of God to deceive himself.

When you made visible what is not true,

what is true became invisible to you.

(ACIM T-12.VIII.3:1)

To God they are not true or real.  He does not see them because they do not exist.  He sees only what is true.  From His perspective what is real, what is true, is eternally, unchangeably so.  What is constantly changing is, then, the opposite of reality, and dies; ends.  Quantum physicists now are aware that the end of the physical universe is inevitable according to a process they call entropy.  Q.E.D.  How can Perfect Love create other than what is of His perfect, eternal nature?

The following communing from February 11^th 2011 says it ‘perfectly’ J :

Papa, thank You for creating Your Son in Your likeness...

...I can create only in My likeness, for all is Holy.  Holy is whole, and wholeness is complete; perfection.  There is nothing yet to do.  All is complete, accomplished, and that which is complete is whole; is one.  My creation is My extension, My offspring, My Son; like his Father in every detail, eternally.

We, Your Son, are no more human than butterflies are caterpillars.  He had a mad moment of believing what he is not — a limited, finite being.  But he is metamorphosing back to his true, soaring, limitless, infinite reality.

I create by extending Myself.  This is the only way creation is possible, because I Am all there Is.  There is nothing else, so there is nothing else with which to create.  There is only My Self with and from Which to create, so I extend My Self.  I extend My Self in you, Beloved, so you are like Me in every respect, aspect, detail.

I Am Perfect Love, and therefore you, My Son, are Perfect Love also.  This is your True Being.  So Be it.

Perfect Love is eternally, unchangeably Who I Am, and so Perfect Love is eternally, unchangeably, Who you are.  There is nothing else for you to be, for that is all there is.  There is nothing else to be, for to be is the eternal present, the everlasting gift that I keep giving; and, because you are like Me in every way, you keep giving.

Like Me, you give by extending your Self, Which is Perfect Love.  Because you are Perfect Love, you cannot change, forever, for if you could change from Perfect Love you would become imperfect, and imperfection cannot be eternal, so would come to an end – would cease to Be.  That would mean that All That Is would cease to Be, because you are like Me and I Am like you.  Then there would be nothing, and nothing cannot have Being.

From whatever angle one looks at it, only that which is eternal can Be; if ‘it’ is not eternal, it cannot Be.  By definition, nothing of time and place can be real.  Only spirit is real and eternal.  That is Who and What we are.

So, how do the fragments of the one Son of God become one again?

Needless to say, it — the At-onement, the restoration to oneness — is all in, and about, the mind.  Spirit is unchangeable and unaffected by the dream of separation, but mind is — demonstrably — able to perceive Self as other than Self; Papa’s one, perfect, all-empowered, eternal Son.  In the dream, or illusory, state It is making believe that It is little, fractured, separated, disempowered, mortal, fearful, confused, guilty... Even in the Bible accounts of Jesus (which have been so distorted by ego-mind tampering) it is highly evident that he was none of those things. 

Even those who seem so tightly held in ego’s thrall are destined to become like him (whether they like the idea or not J) because that is the true Being of every fragment.  All appearances to the contrary are nothing because they are but a dream from which it is inevitable all will wake and remember that they have always been, and could never, in truth, not be like Jesus.  This, because he was/is one in Christ, and we all are one in Christ, ‘having a day off’, so to speak.

Jesus, totally mindful of our need for all the help we can get in understanding what is what in the restoration, so we can the better co-operate with the process, has given us this very precise explanation of the relationship between Mind and Spirit in the section of ACIM entitled ‘Clarification of  Terms’:

The term mind is used to represent the activating agent of spirit, supplying its creative energy. When the term is capitalized it refers to God or Christ (ie, the Mind of God or the Mind of Christ). Spirit is the Thought of God (Christ) which He created like Himself.  The unified spirit is God’s one Son, or Christ.

In this world, because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate.  Nor do their minds seem to be joined.  In this illusory state, the concept of an “individual mind” seems to be meaningful.  It (mind) is therefore described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit (Christ Mind) and ego.

Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this (Christ) part but sees the other (ego) part as well... 

So, it is minds that dream of separation/fragmentation, that are, right now (because now is all there is) in the process of resurrection, rising up, leavening, waking from their slumbers. Bodies have no place in the resurrection because they do not exist in eternity.  Their role is in time and place only, and their only purpose is as a communication device, to deliver the message, the Call, for the reunification of separated minds back to oneness.

To orthodox Christians, especially at this time of Lent, which this year begins today, March 9th, the idea that bodies have no place in the resurrection is an apostasy, particularly since Jesus’ body resurrected from the dead, or ‘sleep’ as Christian tradition has it.  But Jesus’ mind was already resurrected — Before Abraham was, I am. (Jn. 8:58) — and needed no further raising up.  He had come to raise the minds of his beloved brethren with him in the Sonship — us — from our slumbers, and we all know that it is our mind that wakes from a dream. 

Because we were, and mostly still are, in a dream, he had to reach us within our dream.  To do that he needed to communicate with us using the device that we all use and are familiar with in the dream: a body, because we believed, and still most of us do, we are a body.  He planned the crucifixion and the resurrection to get our attention, big time.  It would have accomplished nothing if he had not raised his body on that first Easter Sunday, for with what would he have communicated with his followers? 

He had to convince them of what they had been unable to accept on the numerous occasions he told them beforehand was going to happen. What they (we all) needed to be convinced of is that death is not real, and that we all, along with him — I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:  And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this? (Jn. 11:25, 26) — are indestructible, eternal, the Light, the Life. So he had to demonstrate this with the communication device with, or through, which they were familiar; his body. 

The fact that he, in the form they recognised, was able to appear in the locked room with them (Jn. 20:19) assuredly demonstrated that the form was no longer a physical form or body such as we all use to communicate with each other.  Yet he still had to show himself to them sufficiently in form to convince them who he was, and that he was empowered with all power in Heaven and Earth, so that they, and we — all who will — can trust him in what he says about truth, and therefore be willing to follow him as he leads us Home.

He also said he had many things to tell them that they were not yet ready to ‘bear’.  Some of us, two-thousand years later, are now, more or less, ready to bear what he has to tell us — the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth — but the vast majority are still slumbering too deeply to hear, or bear, the truth.  In ACIM Jesus tells us he needs our help for the completion of the At-onement, for none is to be left out of the Sonship, otherwise It would not be complete, so could not be fulfilled.  Those who are ready and willing to commit to this undertaking cannot do it of themselves, even as Jesus was not able of himself. 

But by our commitment, we will be, we are, empowered by the Spirit of Truth That lives within our mind and is our connection to God while we dream of being separate from Him.  By our willingness to accept this undertaking, the veil we have placed before our vision is lifted, and the Light within us, and is Who/What we are, becomes visible to us again, one step at a time, as we are able to receive it.  Our willingness enables the removal, the shining away, of the blocks to our awareness of the Love, the Life, the Light, the Truth that — just like Papa — we are.

In ego society, where faith and trust — in ourself and our brothers — are scarce commodities, we are cautious about lowering our guard, our defences, in intercourse with our fellow travellers on life’s path.  We feel keeping a safe distance or keeping separate from others is a sound judgement, at least until we can judge that they are safe to associate with.  Yet how many times does that prove to be an error of judgement?  So the separation continues all the while trust is lacking. 

But when we entrust our wellbeing into the care of the Holy Spirit, or Jesus, They bring us into contact with like-minded souls, and we can tell immediately, intuitively, that here is a trustworthy, guileless brother because the Light in our mind, that is our mind, reveals this to us.  We do not need ‘proof’; why would we need proof for what we know to be true?  So, with such kindred spirits we become of one mind, one desire: The Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, right here, right now. 

We can be on another continent and be of one mind, so clearly, bodies are irrelevant other than to communicate what is in the mind while we still seem to be stuck in a body.  And, as the outpouring of the Spirit of God upon all mankind (Joel 2:28) continues and increases, so shall we all become of one mind; Christ Mind, raised up, restored to oneness, to Kingdom awareness, until the whole Sonship is leavened.

All this is inevitable because in truth it has already happened.  How, then, could the Great Rescue Programme be other than infallible and unstoppable?

Alleluia!!

Brian Longhurst

The ego analyzes; the Holy Spirit accepts.

ACIM T-11.V.13:1

March 16th 2011

Dear Friends,

The Great Rescue Programme of Jesus, which is the final — six-thousand-year, three measures of meal — phase of what he describes in ACIM as the Atonement*, is all about healing the fragmented Sonship of God, by restoring seemingly separated minds back to oneness.  All who appear to be here in time and place, and therefore not where we belong — in the eternity of Heaven — are here either to heal broken relationships or to help their brothers to move through the healing process.  

And as we progress through the healing, so do we realise that we can help brothers who still perceive themselves as separate, and are experiencing brokenness within themselves and in their relationships with others.  Brokenness might be defined as holding a grievance, judging, accusing, condemning, unforgiveness for some perceived wrongdoing...  Behind all this is an underlying, pervading sense of guilt, which is mostly unconscious, but spills out into conscious awareness at any opportunity, all of which are contrived because none has any foundation in truth or reality.   

Wholeness is our true, natural estate, which like our Father Creator, is perfect, unconditional Love.  It does not require a PhD to work out that the two states of mind are opposite and mutually exclusive.  In the cycle of birth and death, some of those with whom our relationship of oneness in the fraternity of the Sonship may appear broken will, at any one moment, be incarnate, while others may be discarnate.

Ego and its constructs would have us believe that commun(icat)ion with a brother, once he has left his body behind, is impossible.  And if it were possible, it is forbidden by God; trafficking with the devil, and will result in fearful punishment.  Once the understanding that it is minds that communicate with each other, not bodies — though bodies may be utilised in such communication where they are accessible to each other; but it is clearly evident that it is minds that are the origin of such communicating, and its directing force — the absurdity of such a doctrine becomes apparent.

For whether with a body or no, minds remain; they do not decay with the deceased body.  The mother of a very dear friend — ‘J’ — recently passed away rather suddenly and J, although a long-term student of ACIM, felt devastated by this loss, and asked us to pray for her and her departed mother.  As I attuned to the soul of J’s mother, instantly she was there, and I was blessed to commune with her, receiving words of reassurance from her for passing along to her grieving daughter.

It should come as no surprise that this was of great comfort and uplift to J, and she, herself, has subsequently become powerfully aware of her mother being close by, palpably expressing her loving blessing and presence to J, who, at least partly resulting from the reassurance my communing with her mother and the message conveyed by it, is now experiencing her mother’s contact direct. Her mother recently told her that her passing was a breeze, as easy as falling off a log. J still grieves, but the awareness of, communing with, her mother is massively helping the processing of the grieving through to its ending and her release from it.

The idea that this is in any way in conflict with the reality of Eternity and Jesus’ Great Rescue Programme for us all is clearly from ego-mind, upside-down thinking.  And now, as our hearts go out to the thousands – possibly tens-of-thousands – in Japan, how greatly such awareness could benefit them in their despair, grieving and for many, no doubt, their anger at God for this apparent destruction.

Ego does not want us, Papa’s fractured Son, to know the truth because that is the end of ego.  Its script is in the language of fear, so death is fearful and communication with the ‘departed’ is, by its perceptions, an unknown quantity, and the unknown is fearful.  Ego: 2, its prisoners: nothing.  But all that is now in its death throes, as the truth emerges in the leavening, and thus, the healing, the restoration, the uplifting, the resurrection to oneness of the mind of Papa’s beloved Son. 

This healing is not by doing anything, but by our willingness to allow the Spirit of Truth, our higher Self, to undo, and thus dispel, shine away ego’s lies from our mind; for in truth, we are already whole.  If a fully-sighted person places a veil before his eyes, he will appear to be blind.  But when that veil is removed, lo and behold, suddenly, he is restored to full vision, and it is then realised that he was never actually blind at all.

We all have loved ones in the etheric realms.  The idea that all such are in an unknown, unknowable, unreachable place is a heavy and utterly needless, self-imposed burden.  Self-imposed because we have allowed ourself to believe another’s false doctrine instead of going with our instinct.  Whoever believes God places such burdens upon us may serve himself well to re-examine his belief system.  The usual, doctrine-devised answer to this is, But how can we know, how can we be sure contact from/with the departed — loved ones or other — is not an attempt at entrapment from the realms of darkness?

This can best be answered by Theresa’s and my own experiences over more than four decades.  Olga Park, our totally Christ-committed spiritual mentor — who had had many decades of contact with Jesus and others from the ‘invisible’ realms, all under Christ authority — inculcated into us the crucial, essential importance of placing ourselves under Christ protection in all such communication.  She counselled us to say to any such visitors about whom we might be unsure, If you come in the name and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you are welcome; if not, I command you in his name and by his authority to depart and never to return.

This served us well. Totally well.  It protected us by, and empowered us with, Christ empowerment.  Here, in this quote from chapter 7 of Synchronicity, for Goodness’ Sake (SFGS) is a good example.  At the time of the experience, in 1974, we were renting a flat in a Georgian mansion that had some very negative psychic energies:

When our older daughter was just three she woke up one night screaming in terror.  I raced to her bedside and cradled her in my arms to calm her down.  She was eventually able to tell me, in response to my asking what was the matter, that an ugly, frightening old woman had come and was saying horrible things and threatening her with harm.  I told her that the Lord Jesus was our friend and protector and that he had power over such as this unwelcome visitor. 

Calling on his name and authority, I commanded the old crone to go, and never to return.  This calmed our daughter and she — who could see the old crone, though I could not, although I could certainly pick up the negative vibes — assured me that she had indeed departed.  I told her that at any time unfriendly spirits might come calling, all she had to do was reach out her hand, call out to Jesus to hold it and ask him to guard and protect her, and that he would instantly be there, and she would have nothing to fear.  Within minutes she was asleep again and there were no more such visits from the old hag.

In the more than 5 years since SFGS has been freely available on the HTG website, which has received hundreds of thousands of hits, from far more than a hundred countries, only one person has responded saying he who manifested to me in January 1967 (see SFGS chapter 3) was not Jesus of Nazareth, because I did not ‘test the spirit’ (1 Jn. 4:1).  I assured her that when one is visited by the living Jesus, in his glory, no such testing is required; there is not a shred of doubt as to the identity of such a visitor.

Further, the fact that he spoke to me the same words he spoke to John of Patmos as recorded in Rev. 3:20 (which I had never before read or heard at that time) was, along with the overwhelming, rapturous power of his Love and the radiant glory of his vision, more than adequate demonstration of the identity of this visitor: 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.  For, not only did he speak the words to my ears, he imparted the full and complete understanding of them to my soul at the self-same moment.

Sadly, this decrier of the authenticity of Jesus’ visitation is, as yet, lost in the consciousness of fear resulting at least in part from an encounter with one she described as Satan, and has taken refuge in the very church of Laodicea for whom Jesus spoke those words more than 19 centuries ago.  A better refuge, by far, would, assuredly have been If you come in the name and authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you are welcome; if not, I command you in his name and by his authority to depart and never to return.  Our prayers and blessings are sent out to her every day.

Jesus himself communed not just with Papa but also with departed souls — Moses and Elijah, that we know of, and who is to say there were not others? — from the Realms of Light; he rebuked and cast out possessing souls from the realms of darkness and he called back departed souls to their bodies.  If he had restricted himself to the letter of the Mosaic Law none of these things could have happened.  Yet he did these things not to defy God, but to bring glory to His Name.  He is quoted as saying Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Mt. 5:17)

We construe from his message in ACIM that this would not be by following the exact letter of the laws as set out in the Old Testament, but by re-interpreting them for us.  Clearly they can do with some re-interpreting!  There is reference to this re-interpreting in Regina Dawn Akers’ book The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament, which itself shines the Light of Eternal Truth into many areas that are obscure, and open to misinterpretation, in the New Testament. 

Healing of broken relationships with departed souls is just as important as with those still appearing with a body.  Of course ego does not want any healing from the brokenness of separation, so it plays into its hands to have the fragments believe communing with discarnate souls is against God’s laws.  In that misperception, to do so, or attempt to do so will bring His punishment upon us, so the idea is fearful to us.

Jesus, our template, did it, so we can do it, and we are protected from inadvertently communing with lost, predatory souls from the lower astral realms by placing ourself under Christ protection in all such endeavours.  This can enable us to open not only to the unlimited, blessed fellowship of our loved ones in spirit but also to send our love, blessing, forgiveness to those with whom there has been a rift.  They may now be disembodied but we remain in that rifted state of relationship with them until it is healed.  It is up to us how long, how many more cycles of birth and death, it takes. 

The healing, which, without commun(icat)ion with them would not be possible, is of inestimable benefit to us and them.  There is a comprehensive, detailed, written example of this in SFGS, Part Two, Vignette 16, entitled Ted’s Passing, Rescue and Going Forward.  The relationship between us and Ted, which had been broken for many years, has been blessedly, completely healed by this commun(icat)ing. 

There are those, still labouring under ego-devised doctrines and dogmas, who believe all such commun(icat)ing is either impossible or a fearful sin; a breach of God’s laws that will bring divine retribution.  On the contrary, it is a blessed, joyful, uplifting, Kingdomly thing that can bring healing and peace beyond imagining.

To those who say, Okay, I would like to try this, but how can I? I am not psychic, I say: Theresa and I are not very psychic, but we are very willing for Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit to show us whatever will be helpful to our forward progress on the journey Home to Papa, fully restored — with all the rest of the fragments — to oneness in the Sonship of God.  It is this willingness for healing of broken relationships that will enable it.  And trust.

Love and endless blessings in our one purpose: the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, as it is in Heaven.

Brian Longhurst

*The term Atonement, as used in orthodox Christian religion, and pronounced a-tone-ment, implies sacrifice, which is just what ego wants; but as used by Jesus in ACIM, and pronounced at-one-ment, means ‘making at one’ and definitely does not imply sacrifice.

The ego cannot oppose the laws of God any more than you can, but it can interpret them according to what it wants, just as you can.

Jesus, in ACIM: T-5. V.6:1

March 23rd 2011

Dear Friends,

All the broken fragments of the Sonship of God are one, and the restoration to that oneness — and thus, our completion and happiness — is key to our awakening from the dream of separation and fear.  It is therefore imperative to the earliest possible success of our intent that we co-operate with all opportunities for healing that are presented to us.  As stated last week, ego does not want that healing, so will do all in its power to keep us from any and all opportunities. 

If we desire to co-operate with the Spirit of Truth in healing the brokenness, it will not serve us well if we block awareness of such opportunities that may already be there for us but to which we have blinded ourself.  We have all had untold numbers of dream incarnations in which to fall unwitting prey to ego ensnaring us in karmic entanglements.  Without Holy Spirit’s help we become more tangled and knotted each time (unless and until we stop following ego’s script and start following Holy Spirit’s script).  This means there are very likely to be discarnate souls with whom there are opportunities (i.e. need) for healing to take place.

We can only go one step at a time, following Holy Spirit’s lead (when we deliberately, consciously, steadfastly ask Him to take the helm of our life), so any with whom we have a broken relationship (size definitely does not matter in this instance!) and who have left their body behind, we can ask Holy Spirit — or Jesus, They function in complete unison — to help us restore such relationship(s) to wholeness.

Commun(icat)ing with our discarnate brethren can actually be much easier than with those who are incarnate.  This is because, for those who have passed and are aware that they have left their body, there is no doubt in their minds that at the very least, survival of the earthly life is reality, so there is no protestation that it cannot be so.  First hurdle cleared!  Further, they are aware of the sincerity — or otherwise — of our hearts and our speaking, so pretence, which is so widely practised when incarnate souls communicate with other incarnate souls, is eliminated from the endeavour. 

We may not experience their presence with our bodily senses — which are ego-derived, to blind us to, and distract us from, our true, spiritual vision.  But we can be sure that they are aware, unencumbered, of the intent of our commun(icat)ing with them, because that intent is in our heart-mind, the vibes of which they can receive loud and clear, and which we cannot disguise to them.  So, we can open our heart-mind to them, ask their forgiveness for what in reality never happened, forgive them similarly — and ourself — and say, just as we can to an incarnate brother:

And now we are released into innocence, and join with the Holy Spirit in Peace and joyous Oneness with our beloved brother Jesus, in Papa.

I bless you, bless you, bless you for restoration to fullness of remembrance of who you really are.  You are Christ, pure and innocent.   Papa’s Son is guiltless and sin does not exist.

Now are we (both) forgiven, and free to see only the face of Christ in each other.

Last week’s MoE, about healing relationships with our brothers who have laid aside their bodies and are thus in the etheric counterpart of the Earth ‘physical’ brought enquiries for further information on this subject.  One was from Keith, whose mother ‘died’ in an accident 37 years ago, when he was 6.  His message and my reply are posted on the Forum page, but it contains some information that I hope others not visiting there may also find helpful and informative, so its essence is copied here:

I agree with what you are saying. I have exactly the same opinion as you.

This is a sure sign of the healing of the split mind of the Sonship back to wholeness, or oneness.

I have a couple of questions though...  You mention we are protected from spirits of the lower realms:

This is entirely true, IF/WHEN we place ourself in the protection and guidance of Jesus and/or Holy Spirit.  They are, I hardly need mention, empowered for our protection, but we must ask for it, otherwise They cannot give it because we are at free will.  If we choose/ask for Their protection, it is ours.  Not choosing/asking for it means that is our choice also — i.e. not to have Their protection. 

This is all so perfectly obvious, but ego does not want us to see/understand the obvious, so the vast majority of the fragments remain utterly blind/ignorant of these basic, fundamental realities, or PLFs (Principles of Life of the Father).  Jesus is changing all that, with his Great Rescue Programme.  Several Alleluia Choruses, please Mr. Handel.

I have a potential theory, which may be totally wrong. Please correct me if it is. I wondered if, as we know this existence is illusory, aren’t all of them?

This has to be so because only that created by Papa and His Son are eternal; anything not eternal has not been thusly created, so is not, cannot be, real.  However, the split-off part of the Son’s mind is capable of making illusions, and is free to believe they are real.  Indeed, they do seem very real to their maker, though all such are temporal, which is the proof they are not actually real.

I mean, if people reach the end of this life with no spiritual progress being made, do they, in their confusion at still being in existence, simply create a new existence for their still fragmented part to exist in? 

Yes.  For many, they don’t even know they have laid aside their body, so their etheric surroundings are just as they expect them to be, which is to them a replica of their Earth-physical environment.  It remains that way until they realise what has happened.  Then it changes in accord with their progress in, or degree of, understanding.

That environment may be comfortable enough for many, but for others, such as those who have been tortured and brutally murdered, untold numbers of such terrified souls remain stuck in that moment of terror for an indeterminate period.  I don’t know if you have read my book, Synchronicity, for Goodness’ Sake (SFGS), but a few good examples of this are to be found in chapter 4 paragraph 7ff, chapter 6 paragraph 25ff, chapter 9 paragraph 1ff and paragraph 30ff.  All paragraphs are numbered for ease of finding referred items, and the book is free online.

There are a number of further examples cited, but these 4 should give you an insight into this.  The worst horrors the upside-down, ego-driven Son of God can devise all need healing, and the karmic entanglements they cause need releasing.  Just because, in linear time (which is but an illusion), such events are in the ‘past’ does not mean they are ‘over’ for those still stuck in the terror of the experience, which can continue to be their experience as long as they believe it is real and thus remain stuck in it. 

This is why we serve the Kingdom Programme very well by praying for the release/awakening of souls — or brothers, one and all — stuck in such moments of awfulness.  I have no idea how many there are stuck in such terrifying conditions in the etheric realms, but my feeling is that there are untold millions.  The world at large has no idea about all this, and this is just how ego wants it. 

It is not how Jesus wants it.  All this must come to the surface and be healed before it can be released.  Vignette 2 in SFGS will go some distance to explaining this. We all can help, simply by becoming aware and desiring to help.  Jesus/Holy Spirit will take over from there on in.  All we have to do thenceforward is co-operate with Their lead.  All this is explained in depth in SFGS.  Reading the whole story will be more beneficial, of course, than just a few snippets. 

Or do they gravitate to other levels according to the vibratory rate of their soul at the point of death? — levels which are already in existence due to others of the same vibrational rate already being there.

 Birds of a feather flock together is the answer to this.  One ‘individual’ fabricates his own ‘reality’ but where a number of discarnate souls are of a like (mis)understanding, they will experience a consensus ‘reality’.  Just as we are doing here in the so-called ‘physical’.  Of course, there is no such thing as physical, and we, who believe we are here with a body are no more here than those who perceived themselves to be here in former (linear) times, and are unaware they have laid aside their ‘physical’ bodies, carrying on as they are accustomed.  This is described in Part 2 of SFGS, Vignette 11.

I would assume that ALL of them are illusory until we process ourselves through spiritual development and become one, transcending the body, becoming one in Heaven with God with no need for ANY illusory existences?

This is it, in a nutshell, and shows just how much we have to awaken from.  Jesus makes it plain in ACIM that we need to know what we are ‘up against’ in order to awaken from it.  There is much more to ‘it’ than what appears to be happening in this ‘present’ moment.  We have ALL brought karmic entanglements with us into ‘this’ act (incarnation), from ‘previous’ acts, and carry the seed memory of it deep in our unconscious mind.  Anyone who thinks he can ‘go it alone’ in escaping the maze he has established around himself is whistling Dixie. ‘Dixie’ is ego’s tune.

And does that mean that my mum may think she’s in Heaven because it's beautiful and she never skipped Sunday school?

This is exactly so (illusorily speaking!)  We must keep in mind the definition of ‘Heaven’ as eternal reality; full and uninterrupted wakefulness to the ineffable truth of our Self and our Father.  Anything less is not eternal, so is not Heaven.  It is the etheric counterpart of Earth, which has varying degrees of illumination, from absolute darkness and unspeakable fear (the basement flats, so to speak, of Papa’s House) ‘up’ through gradual increase in light.  See Vignette 24 in SFGS for more on this.  

If it does, How long would she stay there?

Such a place as you describe your mum possibly being in (along with incalculable numbers of others) is referred to as ‘the Summerland’ in Anthony Borgia’s book Life in the World Unseen. We have to keep firmly in mind that time is an illusion.  So, it may seem like a ‘short time’ — weeks, months, a few years, a few decades, or a ‘long time’ — many decades, or centuries, or millennia, from an Earth-mind perspective. 

But in truth — which we must keep on reminding ourself  is the eternity of Heaven — it is ‘no time’ because there is no time; only the Holy Instant of the eternal NOW.  All else is a momentary flash, a phantasm, a mad moment.  Nothing.  Thanks be to God, and to our beloved brother, Jesus, for bringing us to the truth, so we can dispel all illusions.

And would anyone tell her that she hasn't quite, er, made it?  

Yes, but only when she is ready to hear it.  Remember, just as Jesus, and untold others from the ‘Penthouse Suite’ of Papa’s House (i.e. Heaven) who are fully awake, visit us who perceive ourself in a ‘physical’ body, and They are gradually, gently, lovingly waking us across a broad front by a myriad Kingdomly mechanisms, so are They visiting the Summerland and helping all its inhabitants who are ready to move ‘onwards and upwards’. 

Or does she just wait there until one day she’s sucked back into the great delusion; here?   

‘The cycle of birth and death’ is a good term to explain this.  Let us take an example, such as your mum (actual or otherwise) and let us call her ‘Mary’.  When Mary leaves her body behind, she finds herself in a sunny, pleasant place — Summerland; ‘the afterlife’, as many might call it.  Here, she relaxes, gets her bearings, meets up with many old friends and loved ones, and ‘chills out’ for a while (remember, this ‘while’ is actually no time, however long it may seem). 

She may meet with Jesus — if she truly desires so to do — or others from the Penthouse, and come to many new, greater understandings about who she really is, where she really is, how to go forward to the eternity of Heaven (the Penthouse, in our little analogy). 

But it will not be possible for her to move direct from Summerland to the Penthouse without reincarnating.  Why?  Because she is, like most of the rest of us, not yet fully awake.  She has some unresolved ‘issues’, deep in her unconscious, accrued from myriad ‘former’ acts, all needing to be outworked, healed, forgiven.  The only place one can awaken from a dream is from within the dream.

This is where my own mother, Betty, is at on the path of progress.  She told me she is planning her next act, and we even know who she has chosen as her next mother.  That is likely to be in the coming 10 or 15 years of illusory, linear time, but in truth, is no time. She is reincarnating after only, say, ‘30 years’ because she is so eager to complete her awakening, having missed some opportunities last time.

That dream is time and place, and is comprised of the cycle of birth and death, though it might help the understanding if the words and rebirth are added, because we keep going round and round, from one persona to the next.  Each persona is an opportunity to go forward on the path to wakefulness, though as yet, the vast majority of fragments are completely unaware of this, so miss most of the opportunities for progress they call into their presence.  That is why it is called the cycle...  I call it the carousel, or the not-so-merry go round. 

It is here, within the dream of bodies, that we must learn, remember, that we are NOT a body, and forgive ourself and our brothers for perceiving ourself and them as bodies, when in truth, we are Christ, Papa’s one, perfect, innocent, eternal Son, created in the likeness of his Father: Spirit.  Then we will have awakened from the dream, get out of gaol, pass Go, collect £200, and arrive Home; courtesy of Jesus.  Three cheers for Jesus!!!...

My brain’s overheating! I feel I have learned so much, yet I still have so many questions...

Don’t I know just how you feel!  This is what Papa said to me about this in May 1996: 

Beloved Papa, Heavenly Father, Creator Spirit: there is so much I don't understand about You, the nature of Life, Consciousness, Peace and on and on.  (As I began to form these words in my mind I saw Papa, standing, as a ‘Fatherly figure’. He put His hands on His hips, threw back His head and roared with laughter!)

My son, the Keys to the Kingdom lie not in answers but in faith, trust, commitment, obedience to My word.  Because you are My children I love you and you are responding, making yourself available by faith and obedience, to be drawn by My love.

I make the rules — you don't; indeed you cannot because by your own acknowledgement you don't understand.  All I require of you is commitment to Me and I will fulfil your heart's desire for righteousness, justice, goodwill; let not your desire, which I know is an unquenchable flame within you, ensnare you into the belief that you must accomplish it.  I will accomplish it for you because of your desire and your commitment.  And answers shall be the result, not the cause, of your fulfilment, of your desire...

Keith, what you have asked here is of immeasurably greater importance than most of humanity has the foggiest idea.  Thank you from my heart for providing this opportunity to share some of this, the journey on which Jesus has been leading me, and has provided this priceless legacy, the only value of which is in the sharing.  My prayer is that these seeds may find some fructifying soil in which to grow and bear much fruit for the Kingdom purpose.

However daunting the task ahead for us all may seem, only ego wants us to be daunted.  Jesus and the Spirit of Truth (our true Self) are not daunted and know there is no true cause for us to be daunted, because They are empowered to accomplish the disentanglement and healing for us, and will do so without breaking into a sweat, if we will allow Them.  The only question is, with whom shall we attune our mind?

Love and endless blessings,

Brian Longhurst

The Holy Spirit, like the ego, is a decision.  Together they constitute all the alternatives the mind can accept and obey.  The Holy Spirit and the ego are the only choices open to you.  God created one, and so you cannot eradicate it.  You made the other, and so you can.

Jesus, in ACIM. T-5.V.6:6-10

March 30th 2011

Dear Friends,

We are totally safe within Papa.  Who, or what, would assail us There?  That is Where we are.  There is nowhere else.  He loves His Son.  He created him perfect.  We are His Son.  Any idea to the contrary is not an idea of God, so is not perfect, and therefore not worth keeping.  The idea that He would expel His Son from Heaven, when he is perfect, makes no sense, so the idea is made up, and that which is made up is not real, so does not exist.

All this points to one conclusion: we have made up everything that is not of Heaven.  Earth is not Heaven; time and place is not of Eternity. We are pretending what is not real is real, and this is based on the misperception that it must be so because ‘God created Heaven and Earth’.  Yet, if Heaven is perfect, what is not of Heaven cannot be perfect.  Who but those who dream an insane dream could seriously believe God would create imperfection?  An imperfection where everything can only appear to live by the death of other living things? And where every living thing grows old, withers and dies?

Something that is not who we are has persuaded us that it is who we are.  All the while we believe it, our true Self remains quiescent to our awareness, and we perceive ourself as alone, separate, isolated, fearful, different, guilty; and like everything else in this fantasy, mortal.

None of this is true.  Not now; not ever.  Yet we will remain in such a perception all the while we doubt the truth.  Doubt is the opposite of certainty.  Doubt is the great dismantler of faith, which is the only way we can be restored to the certainty of Truth.

...you are not sufficiently vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself (from it).  This need not be.

Jesus, in ACIM, T-4.IV.6:4,5.

Doubt is not easy to dispel when we are inured to it.  It is a certainty that if we are in doubt, we are engaged in the demands of ego, because ego knows nothing and doubts everything.  It can only be thus because ego is a made-up idea of separation from God, so has to be the seeming opposite of God.  If it was not the seeming opposite of God/Heaven/Eternity, it would be like God, so would not be separate from Him.  If it were like God/Heaven/Eternity, that would be our experience; but it is not our experience, so clearly it cannot be other than an illusion, an unreality.

On the other hand, the Spirit of Truth, the Voice for God, knows everything and doubts nothing; another indicator that ego is the opposite of God.  God is Truth, so ego must be a lie.  Holy Spirit, Who speaks to us of our true, eternal Being — Christ, Papa’s Son, created in His perfect likeness — will grow our faith, if we ask Him, and faith will dismantle doubt.  But we have to hold fast to faith, trusting that it will endure, and bring us, restore us, to Sight — true eternal, spiritual vision — if we are willing to be steadfast.  Again, Holy Spirit will Help us, strengthen us in this — if we ask.

I have been prompted to consider two words in this week’s MoE:  Firstfruits and purification.

1 Corinthians 15:20 says: ... now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.  Then, in verse 23 it says: ... Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. 

Words are symbols, and we each apply to them meaning according to our own understanding of those symbols.  There is much orthodox church doctrine and dogma attached to quotes such as these about Jesus, and accepting the interpretation of the words of an institution that has only a narrow, limited or incorrect level of comprehension means we are restricting ourself to that level.

Orthodox religious interpretation of these words is focused on, and limited to, the resurrection of Jesus’ body from the dead, so the inference drawn is that our bodies will be resurrected from the grave at some indeterminate, future, second coming event — if we accept Jesus as the propitiation of our ‘sins’.  But greater understanding of the resurrection is available to us by choosing to listen only to the Voice for God, the Spirit of Truth, our Higher Self.  When we ask, this Inner Voice shines into our mind the Light of Spiritual Truth, thus increasing our discernment of that Truth.  

He reinterprets the limited/limiting perceptions of our Earth-mind understanding that arise from æons of listening to the upside-down voice of separated-from-God mind (ego).  With the aid of His Light we could expand our understanding of these words as follows:

... now is Christ risen from the dead  This actually means Jesus — who was awake to oneness with Christ Mind.  Christ is, like His Father, pure Spirit and has never been born or died, being in eternal oneness in Papa, so could not rise from the dead.  It is, therefore, the mind of he who incarnated as Jesus, that was restored, raised up/resurrected, leavened to oneness with Christ Mind. 

But this resurrection took place long before he incarnated as Jesus.  His bodily resurrection simply symbolises that real resurrection, because symbolic representations of mystical, esoteric reality are all his followers were able to comprehend at that time — and still, mostly, are.  The real resurrection of he whom we know as Jesus took place, in linear time terms, before Abraham, thus enabling him to plan, implement — and ultimately, fulfil — the 6,000-year long Great Rescue Programme that began with Abraham, in full communion with the Spirit of Truth.

...and become the firstfruits of them that slept.  Obviously, ‘them that slept’ does not refer just to those who have laid aside their earthly bodies, but to all of us, throughout the history of the separation.  This must include those of us who believe ourselves to be with a body in 2011, along with all who are yet to incarnate due to the forgetful nature of their Being, and are thus, still, spiritually sleeping.

Then, in verse 23 it says: ... Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. The preceding clause implies that the rest of us (that slept) would follow on from Jesus (not Christ), the firstfruits, but this clause states unequivocally that we will follow Jesus’ lead in the awakening, resurrecting of our minds to full oneness with/in Christ Mind.  Yet its last three words — at his coming — have still been misconstrued as meaning Jesus returning to Earth in a second advent in bodily form.  These extracts, straight from the horse’s mouth — ACIM Workbook, page 449 — bring much needed clarity, certainty of knowing, and dispelling of doubt:

What Is the Second Coming?

Christ’s Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity.  It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true.  It is the invitation to God’s Word to take illusion’s place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve.

It is the all-inclusive nature of Christ’s Second Coming that permits it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent, which encompasses all living things with you.  There is no end to the release the Second Coming brings, as God’s creation must be limitless.  Forgiveness lights the Second Coming’s way, because it shines on everything as one.  And thus is oneness recognized at last...

The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself can not affect.  For every one who ever came to die, or yet will come or who is present now, is equally released from what he made.  In this equality is Christ restored as one Identity, in which the Sons of God acknowledge that they all are one.  And God the Father smiles upon His Son, His one creation and His only joy.

Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with that.  It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet.  It needs your voice.  And most of all it needs your willingness.  Let us rejoice that we can do God’s Will, and join together in its holy light.  Behold, the Son of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father’s Love through Him.

These words clearly indicate that it is of the mind that the term ‘Second Coming’ speaks. Yet these words speak not just of this event, but equally of the resurrection, or raising-up, or restoration to wholeness, to sanity, of Papa’s Son.  This means that the resurrection and the second coming are one and the same event, esoterically, mystically speaking.  They appear, to the slumbering mind, that one is an historical event and the other a ‘future’ event.  But past and future are part of the illusion of time and place in which we have engaged the mind of Papa’s Son.  Neither exists in Eternity, but only the Holy Instant, the eternal present; Now. 

The resurrection of Jesus’ body from the crucifixion was never intended to be more than a symbolic demonstration of an immeasurably greater spiritual truth; and spiritual truth is eternal, outside time, which does not exist.  This symbolic gesture of Jesus, who said to me of the resurrection and its precursor, the crucifixion, ‘I did it to get your attention’, can be seen, with the Light of Discernment shone into our minds by the Voice for God (if we are willing to ask, believing) was an outward demonstration, or prophecy, of a greater, hidden, or esoteric, truth that is now being revealed to us.

The resurrection and the second coming are one and the same event.  Jesus has never left us: lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. (Mt.28:20) The real event, of which we have been  perceiving merely the outward symbol that we celebrate at Easter, is happening NOW, in the minds of us all.  ...there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. (Mt. 10:26)  This in no way diminishes Jesus and what he did in the long ago; rather, it increases, exalts and honours him, demonstrating his true position as the firstfruits, that we all may follow the Light that he came to bring into a dark and fearful dream.

Now, purification.  Jesus tells us: Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first. (ACIM, T-1.I.7).  This purification becomes possible by committing ourself to the dispelling of ego from our mind.  Ego is the impurity that keeps the pure truth from our sight, by distracting us from our true, spiritual vision with bodily, sensory perceptions of an unreal world. It is the Holy Spirit’s job to accomplish this purification, because we don’t know what to do or how to do it.  Our part in the process is to surrender control of our life to Him (our True Self), and adopt — and maintain — a willingness to follow His lead.

Purification is not a fearful process, except to ego.  It is a joyful release from darkness and misperception into the Light of eternal Truth and Life.  It restores us to a state of right mindedness, a precursor to miracle-mindedness.  Jesus says of this: Miracles arise from a miraculous state of mind, or a state of miracle-readiness (ACIM, T-1.I.43) 

Increasing numbers of the fragments of the Sonship are now, at this pre-ordained moment in the leavening process, moving, or waking, into a state of miracle readiness.  Ego keeps us from this, and in a state of spiritual darkness, by judgement and unforgiveness of ourself and our brothers.  Holy Spirit reverses this process by the mechanism of True Forgiveness.  Here is what Jesus tells us about this:

(True) Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. It does not pardon sins and (thus) make them real. It sees there was no sin. And in that view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go (who, in his right mind wants to hang onto what is not real, and therefore has no meaning?). What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God...

(ACIM, W. page 401)

To purification and resurrection J

Brian Longhurst

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

April 6th 2011

Dear Friends,

Miracles are a state of mind

Everything that happens in this dream of time and place is an opportunity for us to remember Who we really are and progress on our journey Home to Papa.  If we are following ego’s script, many — some may even say most — of those opportunities turn up heavily disguised as adversity.  The objective of ego is to confuse us, mislead us, keep us in the consciousness of fear; play tricks on us to keep us convinced that we are a body and live but for a moment in time on a speck of dust called Earth in a vast, unfathomable universe; maintain the perception that we are little, limited and vulnerable.   

Indeed, that sense of vulnerability is carried to its extreme with the perception that we are mortal; that we are going to die, and that this is inevitable.  Not only so, but there is every chance the rocky road to dissolution will be strewn with misfortune, sickness, tragedy, most of this inflicted upon us by another, or chance, or indeed, by God.

Of course none of this is true but appears so only if we are following ego’s script.  Jesus knew none of it was true, including the bit about the ultimate lie of dying.  Sceptics might suggest that Jesus’ resurrection was the ultimate sleight of hand, but in truth it is dying that is the ultimate prestidigitation, because it has almost all of us believing that the impossible is an inescapable reality.  And so will it remain as our perception until we stop believing it to be so — just like Jesus stopped.

The trick is to look past the illusion.  This is not possible unless, or until we are prepared to accept that the illusion might be just that, and that there is another script, another Voice that we can freely choose to be our guiding Light.  Then, we have opened a door in our mind to that other possibility, and our willingness to listen and learn will begin to show us, reveal to us, that all is not as it has so long seemed.  Such a change of perspective brings us nearer to a state of miracle-readiness. 

Our friend, Keith, about whom I wrote two weeks ago, has, in the last year or two, undergone just such a change of perspective and is now becoming attuned to the Spirit of Truth, seeing past the ego’s fabrications. He tells his story of a miraculous healing that came about as a result of his willingness to listen to the Voice for God.  He has kindly allowed me to share it here, for the encouragement of all who are ready to accept that outer appearances are always illusory, and the truth, the Kingdom of Heaven, our only Home, is within us all:

I took hammer drill damage to my right ear in 1998. It left me with tinnitus, an 'incurable' ringing in my ear, plus about a 50% loss of hearing in that ear. I got used to it and accepted it. It even became useful: as a shift worker I could go to bed in a noisy house, at odd times, and know that by lying on my good ear, other noise was subdued and I could get to sleep!

Keith told me that some years ago he began studying quantum physics.  Then, more recently, he began studying ACIM, and found that what he had come to understand from his quantum physics studies was in accord with what Jesus tells us in ACIM.  That really blew him away, and he has been fully committed to studying its teachings and meditating upon them ever since.  Keith takes up the story again:

Meditation and Healing

On this particular afternoon in Feb 2010 I meditated as usual, visualising myself expanding out to be bigger than the universe as I often did (this he had found possible as a result of his resonance with the quantum physics ideas, and what, by this time, he was gleaning from his early studies of ACIM). During this particular session I felt like I had been flooded with energy, as if energy had been rained down on me. It was amazing! I then went to bed that night as normal.

The next thing I knew was when I was woken up in the early hours by an intense, uncomfortable, almost painful pulling, pushing, clunking, clanging and twisting inside my head, but connected to my ears. The inside of my head felt ENORMOUS! It was as if giant cogs were being separated, rotated, and locked back into each other. Suddenly the pain in my ears ended, there was a high pitched ringing, and I must have drifted off back to sleep.

When I woke up I didn't remember the incident for about a minute, until I noticed that I had no ringing in my ear, plus I could hear the TV on downstairs... normally! I think I must have 95% hearing back in my right ear. I didn't ask for the healing. I certainly didn't expect it! I definitely thank God for it though! 

I then started to make myself bigger than the universe more regularly during meditations, reducing it to a mere tiny speck. (Since Jesus reminds us that the ‘physical’ universe is in the split-off-from-truth part of the mind of the Son of God, the part that is making believe he is not what he is, and Keith now understood this, it is not so hard to accept this as entirely possible.)

By seeing ourselves as only bodies we create a state of dis-ease

Quantum Physics teaches that in order to exist at all we have to exist everywhere, as part of everything. The act of observation of the particles causes separation and solidity of what is actually all one entity. By constricting ourselves into these tiny bodies we restrict our spiritual growth, making ourselves un-natural, small, dense, and destined to suffer and die. We create a state of ‘dis-ease’ for ourselves.

By opening up and expanding we enable our atoms to claim their natural and actual state as part of the universe which speeds up the oscillating of the particles, increasing the vibrational rates to ones closer to our natural state as spirit in Heaven. This is what makes room for the miracle of God to enter into our being.

Our Core Essence: The Miracle of God

In fact what happens is that God does not 'enter our being' at all; the meditation and expansion removes the solidity of the human form, which acts as a block to what always has and always will be there as our core essence, the miracle of God. It's like opening the door to our reality (or, one might say, the truth of our oneness in the Universal Reality, or God). The denser a material is, the lower its vibrational frequency will be. Therefore it stands to reason that the higher the frequency we can attain (by attunement of our mind, or at-one-ment, with the Universal Reality — Papa) the less dense we become, transcending matter, to become our natural selves, as spirit (i.e. in the likeness of the Creator Spirit).

If I get stuck in left brain… busy doing something or other, my tinnitus can come back, but only very slightly. As soon as I notice I simply expand myself out in my mind, which generates a physical feeling! As I expand, the tinnitus dissolves. I now use it as a reminder to keep myself conscious at all times. It is proof to me that the more I can keep my atoms and particles consciously expanded as part of all there is, the higher my frequency will be, the closer I will be to God and spirit, and the effect is better health for my body. Brilliant! Praise God!

I keep an email diary to myself, Brian. I know that if anything were to happen to me, at least there would be a record for my kids to read. I added this to it today, regarding my miracle cure from tinnitus. I think it's just all becoming much clearer due to our discussion about time, for which I am most grateful...

I had a revelation at 5 O'clock this morning in bed.

It was that the giant cogs I saw being separated, rotated and locked into new positions in my head during my miracle cure from tinnitus were simply my mind’s interpretation of the restructuring of my genetic makeup. The process of acceptance of my reality didn't give me something I needed; it merely led me backwards to my natural state of health (or, wholeness), as God intended, as I have always been (and as, in truth, we all are).

I saw it like this:  

Imagine you have a never ending wall in front of you, going on forever to your left and right. For thousands of years you've been running into the wall with your eyes shut trying to get ahead, and it hurts! You get injured, sick, and create difficulties, only to keep on running into the wall again.

Then, one day, suddenly, you see a door. At first it seems too incredible to imagine it's always been there, but it has! So you put your faith in it, open it, and move through it to the other side of the wall. Now you've moved ahead.... with no pain or suffering from running into the wall. 'That was easier!' you think.

On the other side, a few steps ahead, is another wall. You run at it and slam into it a few times, still determined to suffer a bit, until you remember the door in the previous one. This time you look for it. You find it because your eyes are now open, so now you know that if you walk through it you reduce (and ultimately, eliminate) your chance of suffering, moving forwards without resistance to what always has been, and always will be, there. You move through to the other side.  

This time there is another wall, but something is different... This time you're already looking for the door!

What I am saying is that life is a series of opportunities to move ahead spiritually. If you resist you create dis-ease. If you go with the flow, open your eyes and your heart and accept your reality as part of God, then your body can do nothing but automatically adjust to the state of peace by reflecting your new mentality as good health.

I now realise more fully that I didn't have a miracle at all. I AM THE MIRACLE!! We all are, & always have been!  Our natural state of perfection is only masked by the mental blocks causing the dis-ease and pain. What happened to me, and thousands of others, is an undoing of damage done by ourselves; an automatic release. It is a progressive undoing towards our natural state with God, as one in spirit.

Quantum physics proves that time runs backwards in the world of sub atomic particles. It seems ironic that in our rush to progress within a physical life we stand still without ever really changing. The only thing that seems to move ahead is time itself. Only once you're on the path do you really start to move forwards, in spirit, which is actually a move backwards, or undoing, towards our perfect reality within God.

Ego’s response to such, predictably, would be, ‘It’s all very well for people like Keith to have such amazing experiences, but nothing like that ever happens to me, so what am I supposed to do about this so-called spiritual awakening malarkey?’ The answer to this is that in the eternal reality, we are one, and that one is the all-empowered Son of God.  The whole ‘separation idea’ is to appear to not be what we are.  So, we appear to be limited (when in truth we are limitless), mortal (when in truth we are immortal) guilty ‘sinners’ (when in truth we are innocent), etc., etc. 

In our seemingly fragmented state we all appear to bring different qualities/gifts/potential to our sojourn in time and place.

Everything is according to our desire. If we desire spiritual awakening earnestly enough, the Holy Spirit, Who knows us better than we know ourself — because He knows the eternal truth about us — will restore to us whatever potential will serve that desire and enable its fulfilment. If we do not have the desire He will honour that, and our potential will, in accord with our self will, like a seed, remain dormant, inactive, but not lost; simply awaiting the moment it is called upon to germinate and grow.

Ultimately, even though we may appear to have accessible to us only certain, limited qualities/gifts/potential that are serviceable to our awakening to the Kingdom of Heaven within us, all that Papa is He gave freely to His One Son at his creation.  And all that is still freely ours, just as it was Jesus’, because we are co-equal with him in the Sonship.

To empowerment in our oneness,

Brian Longhurst

Changing vision from the ego’s perspective to that of Spirit’s is the beholding of a wholly sinless and innocent world. 

Seeing a sinless world, the love God has for us becomes us.

Jon Mundy in Living a Course in Miracles, page 153.

April 13th 2011

Dear Friends,

If we have not wakened fully to the remembrance of our true Self by the time we come to the end of each sojourn in time, we have to reincarnate in order to provide ourself with another opportunity to progress along the Path to our ultimate Destination.  This is not a punishment by God for our sins, though we may, at some unconscious level, see it as a self-punishment for falling short of the mark (sinning).  Then, it may be so hard to bear all the guilt this engenders that we then project the blame onto anyone else. 

When we are teenagers, there is a tendency to blame our parents for having been born, little knowing (or remembering) that it is we who choose our parents, whereas we conveniently perceive it as their fault for bringing us into this world.  And, when that excuse no longer washes, we blame God.  After all, He is a useful scapegoat, who seems incapable of answering back, or defending Himself against such attack.  All characteristic ego stuff, which most of us by now can readily recognise, even if we haven’t quite got the hang of undoing that pesky critter and releasing ourself from its sneaky, yet seemingly vise-like hold on us.

Ego is, or would be, were it to be real, the opposite of God.  God is Life, so ego is death.  God is All-Knowing, All Wise, so ego is all forgetful, all confused.  God is Peace, so ego is conflict. This all means that, until we choose to exclusively follow the script of the Spirit of Truth — just as did our template, Jesus — to get us out of this fine mess we have got ourself into, we remain confused into believing that we are a false, fragmented identity; an ego device to ‘prove’ time and place, and bodies, are real.  This places us in an illusory state of mortality, confusion, conflict and forgetfulness.

Because death is the inevitable, ultimate ‘proof’ of ego’s script being ‘real’, which we have swallowed hook, line and sinker, we have to keep going round and round on the carousel of birth and death. Until, of course, we abandon our chosen path of forgetfulness.  When we play make-believe, we have to forget who, what and where we really are, otherwise we cannot believe what we have made.  If we don’t believe what we have made, the game is over and we cannot play it any longer.

The natural corollary from this is that when we stop believing what we have made, the pretend game is over and we have come to our Self, remembered who, what and where we really are, and woken up to the reality of our eternal Being in Papa.  Therefore, one could say that ‘forgetfulness’ is the name of the game.  This is not just the kind of forgetfulness, or absent-mindedness, experienced by people as they move through middle age toward old age.  This is total forgetfulness; forgetfulness of our true, effulgent, all-empowered, eternal Being; Christ.

This is the forgetfulness that is manifest in a newborn baby, who, outwardly, remembers, knows nothing; how to walk, speak, eat, sit up — everything.  That is, however, only at the outer level, which can meaningfully be described as the without, which is, of course, the opposite of the within.  If we choose not to go within, then the only alternative is to go without.  And that is precisely what Papa’s Son has chosen to do.  However, the newly reincarnated soul has not, in truth, lost contact with his real Self, as is the case with us all, because this is impossible. 

But, like the rest of us, he is pretending, playing the game of make-believe that he is not who he really is.  Convincing, isn’t it? J.  So much so that he has to make everything up, with help from his parents and others around him, all of whom have equally made everything up. But not convincing to the Spirit of Truth, the Voice for God, Who dwells within us, has never forgotten who we are, and is here to constantly remind us, being the Link to our real, Christ Self, all the while we keep up the pretence. 

Meanwhile, the newborn, having entered into forgetfulness, has to start again from absolute zero.  Nevertheless, we can engage in mind-to-mind communion with the mind of a new-born baby, just as we can — if we so desire — with any other fragment of the Sonship, whether in an adult body, or discarnate, or still in the womb.  And why would this not be so?  Each is a soul; none of us is a body.  We can commune with all living things because all living things have awareness, and awareness is of mind, and all mind is one Mind; the Mind of God.  Only our belief in separation and our unbelief in oneness prevent this.  Nothing else.

If we think we are a body we have forgotten who we are and where we are, along with all the other fragments, and we engage in all manner of endeavours that have nothing whatsoever to do with who we are.  As Jon Mundy says in Living a Course in Miracles:

There are no doctors, no captains, no reverends and no governors in Heaven.  There are also no Methodists, no Buddhists, no Hindus, no Muslims and no Jews.  There are no ideologies, no philosophies or belief systems.  That’s all stuff we made up.

We think we need all those outer identities, job titles, appurtenances because we are pretending to be little, vulnerable, lacking, and these props will support us, prop us up, contribute to the false identity we have adopted in this confused state of mind, and thus, strengthen it, make it more real.  But when we add unreality to forgetfulness, we still have forgetfulness.  Only when we add remembrance of eternal truth (the only truth there is) to forgetfulness will we be restored to reality, to who we are.  And the forgetfulness will be forgotten.

Some may think, ‘Well, I have gained some wisdom from the experiences of this incarnation, so I will be further ahead for the next, and if I keep growing in wisdom each time, eventually I will get to the place where I won’t need another circuit on the carousel.’ This is true, but ego is working against our progress, and with ego’s rules stipulating the requirement of returning to total forgetfulness at each point of reincarnation, this will take many more circuits than is necessary.

This means we have to start not from where we left off last time around — a few paces ahead — but from back to zero, requiring a substantial recapitulation each time.  And, if our parents or others around us are not able to help us speed up that recapitulation process — because they are equally in a state of forgetfulness — and ego is working to distract us every moment from the Path Home, this recapitulation may take many decades.  This is likely to mean we barely get back to where we were at the end of the previous circuit.   

That means, from the eternal perspective, we are not progressing at all, even though it may seem from our limited time and place perspective that we are.  This scenario implies that at best we are taking two steps forward and one step back at each circuit.  For many it will be two steps forward and two steps back, or even one step forward and two steps back.  This is going nowhere, fast.  But we can, in a heartbeat, change all that, by choosing to stop following ego’s script and instead choose to listen to our Higher Self, the Voice for God.

Ego will try to persuade us that this is all very well, in theory, but is actually pie in the sky, because we may have tried listening to the voice of Reason but with so much going on in this hectic life, we don’t seem to be able to get tuned in to It.  And even when we do get tuned in from time to time, the signal is so weak and there is so much static, it is a hopeless endeavour.  But none of those ‘glass half empty’ arguments matters one jot to the Holy Spirit.  All that matters to Him in his role of leading us back to Truth is, What is your desire?

Those are the first words Jesus spoke to me, in 1966.  I now know of a certainty that without the desire, we cannot escape the cycle of birth and death, but all that is asked of us is a little desire, a little willingness.  As soon as we ask Self to take the helm of our life, and are, truly, willing to surrender it to Him, He will do so.  It matters not at all that we may be unaware of the handover — and the benefits that will accrue from it — as a palpable experience.  Yet, I feel sure there are those amongst us who will have very real awareness of this handover process, and at least some of its benefits, right away. 

But for those of us who don’t, this absolutely does not mean it has not happened. These words from Jesus tell us how it is from the perspective of Eternity: 

My son, it is to the act of Asking, Seeking, Knocking (ASKing) that your Heavenly Father, Papa, responds freely, lovingly, immediately, with His giving (and no-one will ASK unless he desires).  It is not according to your faith but your desire that He responds.  It is according to your faith that you are able to receive His giving.  Your faith is something that Papa will grow in you as you ask.  The more you ask, believing — having faith — the more you will receive and you will grow in your expectation of receiving that which He is always giving.  You expect the sun to rise every day because it always does.  That is faith.  Easy.  As you ask more and more of Papa, believing He is giving it, so will your faith in receiving grow until it is as your faith that the sun will rise.

It is by/with this faith that I came into the Earth life, believing that Papa would give all that I asked.  These things which I did shall you do — and receive — also, and greater things than these.  Believe and you shall receive.  Ask, believing.  It is Papa’s good pleasure to give to His little ones — all of them, including you.  He will give you wholeness of body, mind and soul.  Only believe.  You know He is giving you the Kingdom.  Can you celebrate with dancing and with singing if you are a crock?  All is well.  Be thou whole.

If you do not receive immediately (or are not aware of having done so) it is more to do with your growth in faith (or the lack of it) than Papa’s giving.  Be at peace and let your certainty be that He is giving so that your faith in receiving may grow. All is well my son.  Rejoice, for the Kingdom is at hand.

(From Diary of a Christ Communicant, May 4^th 1997)

There are those who say Jesus awakened from the dream of separation and forgetfulness to full remembrance of his Christ Self during that incarnation.  This is not supported by the evidence.  He is recorded as saying: Before Abraham was, I am. (Jn 8:58).  This clearly indicates he had awakened to full remembrance of his true Being before Abraham.  Had this not been so, how could he have planned and implemented the six-thousand-year-long Great Rescue Programme that started with Abraham?

Do we really want to continue in forgetfulness, confusion, fear, when all that is asked of us is a little willingness in order to escape from it? No-one said getting Home is easy, but it is doable.  Jesus did it and he is, as already stated, our template.  So choosing to become like him may still seem to take a long time, but it is going to make the journey immeasurably more enjoyable, and when one is having fun, time flies.

See you on the Road J.

Love and blessings, every step of the Way,

Brian Longhurst

The Son of God could never sin, but he can wish for what would hurt him. And he has the power to think he can be hurt. What could this be except a misperception of himself? Is this a sin or a mistake, forgivable or not? Does he need help or condemnation?

                                                                               Jesus, in ACIM T-25.III.9

April 22nd 2011

Dear Friends,

I have been busy the last days getting my book ready and formatted for publication, so it was not possible to prepare my usual Wednesday Message of Encouragement (MoE).  There has been so much synchronicity involved in the events that have led to my writing getting into print that I feel prompted to share some of it with you.

Throughout the decades of my journey with Jesus he has said to me many times, ‘Freely have you received, freely give’, and this has gladly been my approach to sharing the events, inspiration and revelations that this journey has brought to me.  In the 1990s and early noughties (the first decade of the new century) I realised that there had been so many blessings that if I came to the end of my sojourn in time as Brian without at least making the effort to share some of them with my brothers in the Sonship, I would be left with an overriding sense of profound regret at a lost opportunity.

So, in the early noughties I began writing the story, and felt the title Synchronicity, for Goodness’ Sake (SFGS) was apposite, at least unless or until I was guided/inspired otherwise.  However, Jesus had also told me over the years that the devotional Service of Mystical Communion with Christ (SMCC) in which I had been instructed by Olga Park in 1967, and which Theresa and I, and others, had subsequently practised, and the messages of enlightenment and guidance I (and others) received as a result of this practise, was ‘an operation of hiddenness’; that when the time was right it would become ‘an operation of openness’.

This is in accord with the PLF that governs the emergence of new life from a seed.  In February 1992 the Teacher said to me:

The seed has fallen upon fructifying soil.  It has entered into the dark and secret place wherein it has imbibed of the waters of life.  These waters have caused its own life to be stirred into an unfolding of its purpose from deep in its own within.  Thus has the seed germinated and grown in the secret place.  In due time shall the seedling emerge from the secret place into the open and shall put forth branches and leaves and flowers and fruit.  Therefore I counsel you, that your life be in harmony with the Spirit within, that you may be protected from those who would peck at the tender shoots and who would burrow within your structure and weaken and distort your growth. 

Jesus told me that the switch-over from hiddenness to openness would be by circumstances not of my choosing, and that when it happened, I would know of a certainty that it was the time.

In the small hours of June 5^th 2005, my 61^st birthday, I was wakened by the Inner Voice speaking to me what I later entitled ‘The Caterpillars and the Butterfly’ and subsequently subtitled ‘An allegory of human spiritual life’.  This was so clearly and powerfully impressed into my mind that when I got up a few hours later I was able to type it out verbatim.  I emailed it to a few people, including Owen Waters, who administers a website called Infinite Being, without any explanation about how it came to be written, or even who had written it. 

Within a few hours Owen emailed back saying how good it was, and could he please use it as one of his weekly articles that he emails to a sizeable mailing list. I had had no thought that he would respond in this manner, but as soon as I got his reply I ‘knew’ that this was the moment of the switch-over from hiddenness to openness.  I of course said go ahead, and in the exchanges that followed I happened to mention I had written a manuscript of my experiences, and was intending to publish this on a website in due course (this happened about 7 or 8 months later, after I went to night-school to learn how to develop and install a website!).

To my amazement and delight Owen said he would gladly tell recipients of the allegory article that this was written by me and that I had also written a manuscript of the experiences of my journey with Jesus, and anyone who was interested, I would gladly email it to them free.  During the days that followed the emailing of this message to Owen’s mailing list I was inundated with messages saying how enlightening the allegory was, and how it had helped provide a much clearer understanding of who Jesus really is, and our relationship to him; and further, would I please send them the manuscript.

This I gladly did, and received many messages back expressing deep gratitude for it.  Many shared mystical experiences they had had.  Correspondence evolved and I began sending occasional articles I was prompted from within to write, and accompanied by a few entries from the records of the messages from Jesus and others in the Realms of Light, which I dubbed Diary of a Christ Communicant (DCC). 

By the time I finally got the website up and running in early 2006, I was finding that the articles were flowing from within such that this became a weekly feature, even though I had never had such an intention.  By this time, I was realising that if the Spirit of Truth is in charge, it is best to go with the flow.  Indeed, Jesus had warned me on a number of occasions over the years to be ready for anything at a moment’s notice, so if this was the way things were heading, who was I to stand in the way?

The website took shape and I uploaded the manuscript under the title initially selected.  Things continued and progressed for several years and there were correspondence from people around the world.  The web stats indicated that there were thousands of hits on the Honest2goodness (HTG) site each month from well over 100 countries.  Many hits were from countries that were unidentifiable by the stats compilers, so I assumed this would be countries like China, Saudi Arabia etc. 

I have long since decided that monitoring web stats was the Holy Spirit’s job, not mine, so have not checked them for several years now.  Jesus told me my job was to deliver the message and not to concern myself over how it is received; that this was his job, along with the Holy Spirit.  I was entirely relieved at this; it took all responsibility for it and how it might increase out of my hands!

Over the years a number of people asked me if I had ever thought of having SFGS published, and I replied with what Jesus had told me about freely giving as I had freely received.  Then last June we had friends visiting from Vancouver. 

Peter knew all about my writing but when he indicated he didn’t know something that was in the book I was surprised and asked if he had read it. He said he had read snippets here and there, but reading off a website, or a computer monitor was not convenient; he told me people like to hold a book in their hands, pick it up, read some, and later, read more, wherever they might be; that this is not possible online.  His point came across loud and clear.  I printed a copy for him to take back to Vancouver and he told me he read it on the plane, with great enthusiasm, and said I really needed a publisher. 

I had assumed that the Holy Spirit would be firing people up to read it off the website or download it and print it out to read elsewhere.

I had experienced how difficult it is to get a publisher to publish a book by an unknown author when we tried to get Theresa’s book Seeds of Redemption published, but it was becoming clear that the Holy Spirit was moving things along, and it now seemed it was time for SFGS to be brought into print format.  So I said to the Holy Spirit, ‘Over to You.  If You want this to get published, so be it.  I leave it in Your hands.’ 

Then on September 13^th 2010 as I sat at my computer there appeared on the monitor a blog from Julie in San Antonio, Texas.  I had never heard of her and knew nothing about her, but I thought, if this has appeared out of nowhere – the Holy Spirit doing a spot of hacking – it must be because He wants me to read it.

I resonated so powerfully with what Julie had written that I was immediately impelled to email her.  I ‘never’ do that!  But I couldn’t resist the inner impulsion, so emailed her saying I was so resonant with what she wrote that I felt as if I had known her ‘forever’, and included the extract from SFGS where Jesus manifested to me in his glory in 1967, by way of some intro to Julie about where I was ‘coming from’.  Shortly afterwards Julie mailed back expressing the same feeling about a long-term connection between us.  We arranged a Skype meeting and she said to me ‘Have you ever thought about having your book published?’

I told her what I had said to everyone else about freely giving, and that this is what I had been doing, on the HTG website.  She said, ‘I just wondered, because a very dear friend in Boston has recently been guided to start a company to publish just the sort of work that you have written.  We are going to Boston in November to see him. If you don’t have any objection, I would like to speak with him about you and your writing, and will let you know what he says.’ 

I said, ‘If you feel prompted to do that, who am I to stand in the way?’  Clearly, it would not be serviceable to block Spirit prompting, moving things along according to His perfect timing for revealing the Path at my feet, one step at a time. Shortly after that, Julie told me she had spoken to her friend in Boston and he had said he was definitely interested in proceeding with publication.  Theresa and I were invited to Boston for Thanksgiving and to stay with Ted and Vicki Poppe.  Ted had been guided  from Spirit to start the publishing venture and even given the name for the enterprise: Diamond Clear Vision.

When Julie had asked if I had ever thought of having SFGS published and I told her about freely giving, I was suddenly reminded that back in the mid 1970s I had earnt a great deal of money, but circumstances outside my control meant I never received what was rightfully mine.  Then, about twenty years later Jesus said to me, ‘That which is rightfully yours has not been lost to you.  I have received it into my care, and when the time is right I will restore it to you with my interest.’  I realised he was speaking of the earnings from the mid 1970s. Here was an example of how time means nothing in Eternity.

From time to time I had pondered his words about restoring it to me with his interest.  How would he do this?Would we win the lottery?  When would he do it?  Did he literally mean money?  Or was that his license for meaning ‘Heavenly reward’?  Money is not a primary motivation.  It is an ego distraction, to keep us focused in the without. 

Jesus tells us: ...take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? ...for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you (from Mt. 6), and in Mt.16: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Ted told me he ‘knew’ he had to publish this work as soon as he read one single paragraph in the manuscript in which Jesus had said to me on the first occasion of his speaking to me in 1966:

You have come into this world bringing with you potential for accomplishing certain things. My purpose is to assist you and guide you in discovering what your potential is so that it might be developed and fulfilled in your earthly life. Consider this carefully, my son, so that you may become aware of this and grow in your understanding of it, that in the fullness of time you may bear much fruit according to that inward desire and potential.

Since last November there has been much focus on the preparation for print publication.  I have been prompted to add from the DCC records several new Vignettes in Part Two and to generally tidy up the manuscript and provide more details about some of the events recounted.  It is not that the events changed, but one’s understanding of the meaning behind the events grows over time, and so I have been able to share some more of that enhanced, clarified understanding. 

One of the most synchronistic events that took place during this preparation stage is that the title has been changed.  It emerged during discussions that practically everyone felt the title was not ‘powerful enough’ and did not do justice to the message.  No-one had wanted to tell me because they didn’t want to hurt my feelings! J.  Meanwhile, my friend Michael Roads, author of Through the Eyes of Love (books one and two, plus a third on its way), who had read the manuscript, wrote so positively of his feeling about it that I sent what he had written to Ted.

As soon as Ted read what Michael had written, he said that was the only comment needed for the back cover.  Furthermore, Ted felt the ‘chills’ when he came to the part of the comment that read ... Seek ye first the kingdom of God, becomes truly meaningful as you follow Brian and Theresa on a journey taking them ever deeper into that very kingdom.  He said, ‘Brian, I hope you don’t think I am off my trolley, but I think that contains the correct title for your book.  Seek ye First the Kingdom... says it all.’

Well, as soon as he said that, Theresa and I got the chills too!  So did everyone else any of us mentioned this to.  All agreed it is the powerful title it needs.  And when combined with the inspired cover design that goes with it, created by Lana Carolan, who is an inspiration in herself, it all just falls into place.  I very much felt the Spirit of Truth was in charge of all these activities preparing the book for publication.  I certainly asked Him to be, and ultimately it will be the reader who perhaps can best decide for him- or herself.

I am very pleased to say that everything went to the printer yesterday. In discussion with the publisher, Ted Poppe, he has generously offered a very enticing discount to any who may be prompted to order the book prior to its official publication date.  Full details of the offer and how to order will be made available soon.  Meanwhile, I am very happy to attach an illustration of the cover.  Perhaps it might help you to decide about ordering.

I finally wish to say what a joy it has been writing these MoEs over the last few years, and interacting so blessedly with so many of you, whom I truly deem to be Friends.  It is my profound hope that this will continue for some considerable time to come.

Peace and joy be with us all as we travel the ‘journey without distance’ together to the Kingdom of Heaven within us all,

Brian Longhurst 

It is almost Easter, the time of resurrection. Let us give redemption to each other and share in it, that we may rise as one in resurrection, not separate in death.

Jesus, in ACIM. T-19.IV.D.17:4

April 27th 2011

Dear Friends,

Ego has tried continually to derail Jesus’ six-thousand-years long Great Rescue Programme, right from ‘day one’.  Day one began operations at the Earth-life level of experience with Abraham, at the dawn of the Arian Age, four thousand years ago. He was to engender a race of people into which Jesus could incarnate two thousand years later, to inaugurate the second phase of the Programme.  There had to be established a race of people who would be willing, at least to a degree sufficient to enable the progress of the Programme through its first phase. 

That phase had to have a race of people with a structured monotheistic system of prayer and God-seeking activity, as a platform from which phase two — ‘the Jesus measure of meal’ within the context of his parable of the three measures of meal (Mt. 13:33) — could be launched.  Needless to say, phase two was initiated by the incarnation of Jesus, his life, teaching, crucifixion, resurrection, calling down of the Spirit of Truth upon the Earth and establishing of a following that would continue throughout that second, two-thousand years phase.

The initiation of phase one, the Abraham measure of meal, required a soul who was first, able to hear the Voice for God, and second, willing to follow the instructions, guidance, direction given by that Voice.  Abraham, or Abram as he was originally known, was such a soul.  But he and his wife, Sarah, or Sarai as she was originally known, were unable to have children, so the prospect of a line, or race being established by him seemed remote, to say the least.

Yet, as Jesus reminds us in ACIM, there is no order of difficulty with miracles, and although Abraham was by now 100 and Sarah 90 years old and it had long since ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women (Gen.18:11), she nevertheless conceived by Abraham and gave birth to Isaac, just as the Voice had told him.  Next hurdle crossed.  But, good as Abraham’s gift for hearing the Voice for God may have been, that era, and the peoples of the region, and his background, were firmly established in ego’s mindset of sacrifice to appease the wrath of the multifarious gods to which obeisance was deemed advisable, or even mandatory.

Old habits die hard, and much as Abraham revered the God who spoke to him and guided his life, unlike Jesus, ego was not entirely off Abraham’s radar.  And he got it into his head that God wanted to test his faith in Him by ordering him to sacrifice the life of his beloved son Isaac.  The good news was that it did demonstrate Abraham’s faith in what he believed was God’s Voice, even unto a commitment to kill and offer his one, beloved son as a burnt offering to God.  The even better news was, of course, that Abraham’s intent was diverted, by divine intervention, at the last moment. 

Quite a drama. But he who was in charge of the GRP — and would incarnate as Jesus two-thousand years later — empowered with all power in Heaven and Earth, was not about to allow what was, assuredly for him, a trifling attempt by ego to defeat the Plan by bringing to an end the race into which he would incarnate at the start of the Piscean Age to initiate the Second, or Jesus, measure of meal. 

At that time, Abraham had not heard what was to be recorded multiple times throughout later parts of the Old Testament as God making statements such as: For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (Hos. 6:6).  So Abraham, being on a slightly oscillating frequency, inadvertently got tuned in to ego, which never gives up trying to protect its existence, and this, at least to all outward appearances anyway, nearly put the kibosh on the GRP. 

Or so ego thought, knowing and understanding nothing of the infallible and unstoppable Call from God for the restoration of His slumbering, apparently fragmented Son, back to full wakefulness and remembrance of his indivisible oneness in his Father Creator. We can now state with absolute authority that God does not require, and never has required, sacrifices or burnt offerings.  It could not be plainer than this, from Jeremiah:

...your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. (6:20)

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. (7:22, 23)

...and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them (14:12)

They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind (19:5)

As stated on previous occasions, this, and more from Bible scriptures, completely negates the contrived, false, unauthorised-by-God-or-Jesus Christian Church doctrine that Jesus was sent by God (or volunteered) as a once and for all blood sacrifice to God to assuage His wrathful, vengeful frame of mind for the ‘sins of the world’.  This, and everything to do with sacrifice and suffering ‘for the good of the soul’ is not from the Voice for God, but from the voice of the opposite of God — ego.  This is made very comprehensively and unequivocally clear by Jesus (does anyone know this better than he?) in ACIM. 

He chose to demonstrate the illusory nature of make-believe’s trump card — death — in a drama so intense that it would get our attention and hold it, getting us to actually listen to him so that he could tell us the truth and we would have good reason to believe him.  The fact that ego-mindedness caused most of us to misconstrue his demonstration and interpret it as a God-intended sacrifice (just to continue the old, wrong pattern in a new form) was of no consequence to Jesus, who knew perfectly well that this would happen, because he knew that this is the nature of ego. 

All the while the fragmented Sonship was listening to ego’s voice he would be tricked into following its script.  But the empowerment of the Plan and its CEO were always going to be able to thwart ego’s disorganised, haphazard, willy-nilly, opportunistic endeavours.  Jesus had the advantage over ego of a) having all the resources of Eternity at his disposal — an immeasurably greater capability than ego’s puny, time and place shambolic efforts, and b) he knew the end from the beginning.  So he was, and is, completely at peace within himself.

It’s rather like us watching the recording of a rugby match when we already know the result.  The opposing team may look threatening, and appear to have the advantage at various stages of play, but because you know the final score you can watch without anxiety that your team might lose.  From inception of the GRP, before Abraham, he whom we know as Jesus was always standing at the end of time, looking on at the replay, knowing the outcome.  This is why he is completely unflappable.  His Plan, the GRP, is totally organised in every detail, and cohesive; ego’s is reactionary and uncoordinated.  The result is inevitable; no contest.

Jesus is not contesting anything because there is nothing (ego) to contest.  He simply proceeds, one step, one phase at a time, and all is unfolding perfectly.  This is for our benefit, not his, because we have blinded ourself to the Light of Eternal Truth, so we have to journey in blind trust, one faltering step at a time.  This is why it is of such comfort and benefit to hold his hand every step of the Way.  And now, as the third and final, completion, fulfilment phase — the Kingdom measure, which equates with the Aquarian Age — gets into its stride, it becomes possible, even for us who only begin to waken, to see the unfolding process.  And marvel — and rejoice — at its perfection.

It is hard to miss the similarity of the start of the first measure of meal and the second: the sacrifice of the one person without whom the whole GRP would come to nothing.  Ego came, so it must have thought, within a whisker of succeeding — at the early stage of the Abraham measure — in conning Abe into thinking he had to kill Isaac.  Nevertheless, the score was GRP one, ego nothing. 

That didn’t stop ego wreaking murder and mayhem throughout the whole Arian Age.  But the GRP continued unruffled, unflinchingly focused on its objectives, even though hardly any of the fragments had even the foggiest idea that there was a GRP in progress. 

How easily do we still get distracted by ego’s illusory prestidigitations.  And before we know it, if we are not very careful, we are back in deep wilderness again.  This indicates the benefit of steadfast, one-pointed focus on the Path, staying close to the Shepherd so he doesn’t have to keep rescuing us from one pit or another.

Did ego think it had gained a massive victory at the crucifixion?  If ego knows nothing of Eternity, (which it doesn't) and knew nothing of the GRP (which it didn't; I know this because Jesus told me back in the 1970s that this is why the details were kept from the children of Earth, so it could not get leaked out to the ‘enemy’), it seems likely that this would have been so.  Its celebrations could have been only very short-lived.  And it continued its relentless destruction and attacking throughout the Piscean Age.  Outward appearances would be cause for many to doubt the benign nature of God — if He existed at all.

But again, none of those outward appearances detract from, or interfere with the GRP, which proceeds inexorably to its completion.  Were it not so, our escape from the spiritual darkness of time and place back to the Light of Eternity would be impossible.  And for the encouragement and uplift of any who doubt or are fearful, here are words from Jesus to inspire and remind us all who and where we all really are:

Hear, then, the one answer of the Holy Spirit to all the questions the ego raises: You are a child of God, a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him.  Nothing else exists and only this is real.  You have chosen a sleep in which you have had bad dreams, but the sleep is not real and God calls you to awake.  There will be nothing left of your dream when you hear Him, because you will awaken.

Your dreams contain many of the ego’s symbols and they have confused you.  Yet that was only because you were asleep and did not know.  When you wake you will see the truth around you and in you, and you will no longer believe in dreams because they will have no reality for you.  Yet the Kingdom and all that you have created there will have great reality for you, because they are beautiful and true. (ACIM, T-6.IV.6)

We do ourself a great disservice by thinking we are little and the universe is big; that our mind is our brain and we are trapped, limited, in a little pile of clay.  Is there one amongst us who believes this applies to Jesus?  He tells us we are like him; identical in fact, and that the only difference ‘twixt us and him, which is a temporary misperception, and even now in the process of being corrected, is that we do not believe it.  He does not believe it either.  He knows it.  Reality for us is what we believe to be reality.  Such is the power of the mind of God’s Son.   

We chose to believe unreality is reality, and so it became, for us, reality.  But we are — because we are Papa’s Son, imbued with inviolable free will — free, at every moment, to change our mind about what we believe.  We can believe in death and fear and guilt and sickness and misery and powerlessness if we so choose.  Or we can choose to believe the truth.  Jesus came to help us decide for truth, which will, assuredly make us free.

Love and endless blessings,

Brian Longhurst

The crucifixion cannot be shared because it is the symbol of projection, but the resurrection is the symbol of sharing because the reawakening of every Son of God is necessary to enable the Sonship to know its Wholeness.  Only this is knowledge.

Jesus in ACIM, T-6.I.12

May 4th 2011

Dear Friends,

In chapter 27 of Matthew’s Gospel it states that at the moment Jesus’ spirit departed from his body: ... behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

The veil was a thick cloth, woven in blue, red and purple, and divided the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place, or Holy of Holies.  Symbolically this represented the apparent separation between God and mankind, so its rending also was symbolic of the end of that separation.  Sceptics would argue that this event did not actually occur; that it was simply poetic hyperbole by the writers, to ‘prove’ a particular belief. 

The fact is, it doesn’t matter whether it ‘happened’ at the ‘physical’ level of manifestation or not, because everything at the so-called physical level of manifestation is not real, but merely a symbol itself.  A symbol of the self-elected separation of God’s Son from his Father.  This is not a separation of anything but the mind of the Son (or at least, a part of his mind), since he could never actually be separate from his Father.  This is because, as Jesus explains in ACIM, God’s Son is an idea in the Mind of God, and an idea never leaves its source, even though it can be extended from its source.

This is like ripples on a pond, extending outward from its source, or cause — throwing a stone into the water.  Without the original cause (the stone) there could be no effect — the ripples extending outwards from the cause.  God is the Cause; His Son is the effect.

So, the ‘tiny, mad idea’ the Son had, of momentarily thinking, wondering what being ‘away from Home’ might be like could only appear to happen in, or to, a part of his mind, split-off from his whole mind, turned upside-down, back-to-front and insane.  All the while, in reality, it was impossible for him to actually leave his Source because the PLFs simply do not enable this since the PLFs are immutable.  If the effect was separate from the cause, there could be no effect.  If there was never a stone thrown into the pond, there could be no ripples.  Without the Father, there could be no Son.

One of the crucial intentions of Jesus’ incarnation, to initiate the second measure of meal and its leavening, was the calling down into the Earth of the Spirit of Truth.  Or more specifically, into the lives and minds of those who were closest to him. This was like a ‘seeding’ of the leaven, that would, as the GRP proceeded to unfold, result in the leavening, or raising up of the slumbering mind of the fragmented Son back to full wakefulness and remembrance of his Oneness in his Source, Papa.  It is not by chance that he taught the parable that begins Behold, a sower went forth to sow; he was that sower. 

Jesus manifested to me in the 1980s and spoke those very words, with a knowing, puckish, radiant smile filling his countenance, as if to say, ‘One day you will come to remember the import of these words and their symbolic meaning.’  Now, as I write these paragraphs, their full import is being restored to my remembrance.

It is worth noting that the last thing Jesus said before departing from his body on the cross was, It is finished. This meant that he had accomplished all that was intended, all that he came to do.  What he had come to do was prepare the world — his brothers in the fragmented Sonship — to receive the Holy Spirit into their awareness.  The Holy Spirit, the Voice for God, the bridge between the Father and the Son who had entered a state of imaginary forgetfulness about his true Self, or Christ, had never left because Papa created Him to be with His Son from the start of his self-imposed exile.  What had left was our awareness, our remembrance of Self.

Jesus’ Teachings, Life example, miracles, were outward displays, demonstrations by his life, of the inner reality, the Light, the Truth, the Love, the Peace that we all are, in our brotherhood with him as Papa’s eternal Son. In order to prepare the world (originally in the form of his disciples) an initiating, or seeding, event preliminary to Pentecost took place three days after the rending of the veil, when Jesus first appeared to the disciples after his resurrection: And when he had said this (”Peace be unto you...”), he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost (Jn. 20:22)

The confused, bewildered mind of the fragmented Sonship had closed itself off to the Light of the Holy One (symbolised by the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Jerusalem Temple) by the veil he had drawn over his vision, causing him to believe he was separated, unaware of the Light that is his Father and by extension, his Self.  That veil only has as much reality, as much power to blind us, as we accord it.  But to Jesus it had no power at all, and its rending demonstrated this; whether physically or metaphorically makes no difference because all the events and objects were and are outer symbols of an immeasurably greater reality behind them all.

The fact is, the Sonship was blind and deaf to the Spirit of Truth — and mostly still, outwardly, is — so Jesus’ intent was to first call It down upon the Earth (at Pentecost, after he had completed the preparation for that event and was able to say It is finished and then Receive ye the Holy Ghost).  Thereafter, during the leavening GRP process, It could extend until the whole fragmented Sonship is raised up to awareness of It within. 

Then each fragment can be led from within back to true Vision — as symbolised by the rending of the Temple veil, and the dispelling of the illusory separation of the Holy of Holies (Papa) from the Holy Place (the Sonship).  

The Son of God perceives himself separated from, blind to and bereft of God, but is actually as close to Papa as it is possible to be.  This is symbolised in the Jerusalem Temple by the design having the Holy Place (the Son) appended to — an extension of — the Most Holy Place (the Father).  The rending of the veil — a gift provided by the life of Jesus, the ‘firstfruits’ of the At-onement — symbolises the removal of the illusion of separation and enables the restoration of true vision, and thus, awareness of our oneness, to the whole Sonship. 

Of course, ‘veils’ and all other forms of impediment to our true vision are merely shadows and have no reality at all.  On the day Prince William married Catherine Middleton I received an email from our friend Keith, who has a remarkable gift of mystical, enlightening vision of spiritual truth and reality through the study of quantum physics.  What was revealed to him, and he has kindly shared, is so profoundly illuminating that I have obtained his permission to share it.  A few of you will have also received this from Keith, but it is so deserving of a wider readership that it is lovingly offered here: 

Dearly beloved...

We are gathered here today (Keith has a sense of occasion commensurate with the event taking place in London☺) to try to understand the relationship between what is unreal, yet so difficult to dismiss, and what is real, yet seemingly difficult to remember. I have always prayed to understand, and to be able to explain to brothers and sisters who may have doubts, exactly what I have always known. Until 2 days ago I was missing one final piece of the puzzle......

In ACIM Jesus talks a lot about himself, and us all, being the Light; about how we see and move in shadows, and about how we constrict ourselves into tiny, illusory bodies.  We know and accept that we are the Light, which is understandable because in a world without duality (Heaven/Eternity — our true and only Home) there can be only Light. Darkness cannot dispel light, only the other way round.

However, because I feel so driven to make a connection between everything celestial (eternal) & everything physical (temporal), I’ve always tried to understand, yet had a real problem with ‘darkness’ and ‘shadows’. As usual, the problem was that I was looking externally, thinking that maybe the shadows were a metaphor for our miscreation, or that we cast shadows of fear and separation onto the world. . . The problem was that I was trying to work it out with my usual 3D perspective. Once I accepted that what was needed was a change in my point of view, I realised that we are also (or, have made ourself) the Shadows! Quite literally!

When you look into the world of sub-atomic particles the smallest particles known to man are the basic building blocks of what we call life (in the illusory world of time and place). The smallest is nothing more than an empty ball, orbited by even smaller balls which are the very first example of the separation of energy into positive and negative particles; the birth of Duality! We are that energy, so it stands to reason that this is the primary point of miscreation into the world of (apparent) solidity.

The positive and negative (good and evil) particles seem to be the powerhouse for the particle they orbit. The particle they orbit, being made of nothing but shadow, and containing nothing, merely displays 3D spherical images on its surface. Quantum physicists call this the ‘Holographic principle’, because the particles are both hollow and graphic.

The scientists know that the Holographic principle means that in reality we (the fragments) are an illusory existence, which is created and projected onto the shadowy fabric of the ‘physical universe’ from elsewhere. They conclude that all ‘living intelligent information’ (US, the singular Son of God) which ‘can never be destroyed’, exists outside our (apparent) Universe in a realm they call the ‘Event Horizon’ (Heaven) and that the physical Universe is actually ‘a reflection of that intelligence, and therefore within it’, (My Self is ruler of The Universe. Lesson 253, ACIM) and that the ‘information’ is beamed (from our [split-off] mind) onto the particles to (fabricate) this world we (believe we) exist within. These scientific theories are in exact alignment with what we are taught in ACIM.

Anyway, back to my troublesome shadows.... as I said, I had a real problem with these, but if you swing your perspective around, you see that the amassing of billions upon billions of the particles would create shadows from each one onto the next, and onto all others surrounding all of them, & like layering images drawn on tracing paper, the images get more and more dense, hiding more and more internal light, thereby creating the illusion of solidity, & subsequently masking the interconnection in light between us all.

Now we can see that without our deluded projections onto these particles, there would be nothing but Light & Unity. The dividing of our mind(s) into positive and negative, or ‘good and evil’, creates all density, opposites, shadows, & (spiritual) darkness.

So the phrase Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death (from Psalm 23) becomes another classic example of the Truth! If we dissect it slightly you’ll see:

Yea though I walk (seeming to be separate from what we walk toward) through the valley (which is US...the pinch point where the Universal intelligence which we are splits to fabricate form, duality, & the illusion of this existence from a fragmented viewpoint) of the shadow (caused by the amassing of what seem to be particles) of death (the imagined result of our journey into unreality) I shall fear no evil.... (because it really never happened).

Picture your physical self divided into left and right hemispheres: Light and absence of light, good and evil. To your right is the never ending reality of our existence as one in Totality & Eternity. To your left is the physical World & Universe of solidity & separation.

We are the creation of form in the middle through which we come (by the leavening process of the GRP) to understand, or remember, our own creation, to recognise our own Truth of Being & return to our reality. We are in both worlds at the moment: citizens of Eternity, sojourning in time. Let’s celebrate that fact and give thanks that it is illusory, that darkness (shadows) will be abolished, and that Light will shine for us again as we learn to remember.

Amen.

Rather synchronistically, for some years Theresa and I have used the term ‘Shadows of Light’ to describe our appearance in time and place, where we, and everyone and everything in general appear as shadows, causing the appearance of spiritual darkness, when in truth, behind, or masked by those shadows, we are  — all — Beings of Light.

May awareness that we are Love and Light flow and grow in us until we appear no more as shadows, but solely as the Light we truly all ARE,

Brian Longhurst

Jesus is our template and we are destined to become like him.  If we are to become like him we have to begin to think like him.  Presumptuous?  Why?  How can it be presumptuous to think like who we really are?  How do we start thinking like him?  First, by stopping thinking thoughts of littleness, fear, guilt, shame, mortality...

BVL

May 11th 2011

Dear Friends,

At the end of last week’s MoE I was prompted to write:

Jesus is our template and we are destined to become like him.  If we are to become like him we have to begin to think like him.  Presumptuous?  Why?  How can it be presumptuous to think like who we really are?  How do we start thinking like him?  First, by stopping thinking  thoughts of littleness, fear, guilt, shame, mortality...

With our Earth- or ego-mind seeking controversy, the suggestion that we are destined to become like Jesus may appear to invite argument, debate, repudiation, not to speak of doubt and fear.  But this does not refer to us abandoning our present persona in favour of the persona of another.  Jesus incarnated as the embodiment of Christ, Who is our true and only Self; our eternal, unified Being.  This is why Jesus is our template.  He came to re-mind us, and lead us in the restoration to remembrance of our true Self. 

Jesus is recorded as saying, at the end of the Last Supper, before he and the disciples left the upper room to go to Gethsemane, where he knew he was about to be arrested: ...the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (Jn. 14:30).  That prince is, of course, ego.  There is nothing of ego in Jesus, and by the end of the Aquarian Age, when the third measure of meal is fully leavened, there will be no more ego in any of the fragments of the Sonship of God; all will have been re-unified to wholeness, oneness of Being, courtesy of the template.

In the 7^th principle of miracles — as set out in chapter one of ACIM — he says: Miracles are everyone’s right, but purification is necessary first.  Ego mind is fearful of the second clause of this statement because it perceives purification as judgement, punishment, retribution for ‘sins’; payback time.  This is a subterfuge to cover up the real fear, which is ego’s, not ours.  That fear is of its own demise, which will not be mourned.  Rather, it is to be celebrated because it heralds the end of the cycle of birth and death and the resurrection of the Son of God — us — to eternal Life.

Purification is, therefore, not to be feared, because it is simply the removal of the disguise, the role, the persona we have adopted in our game of make-believe, so that we can re-present ourself as who we really are.  Without this purification we are stuck in the masquerade of death.  Purification is not a fearful experience to our Self, but a release, an unburdening.  We come from the Light; we are the Light but have been hiding in the dark, an entirely alien place.  That is what is fearful.  To be led from the darkness, restored to the Light that is our true Being is not fearful but joyful.

Many years ago Jesus said to me, ‘When all around you is chaos and disarray, then rejoice, for the Kingdom is at hand, even at the doors’.  Now is the chaos time.  Any who doubt it need only watch the news to dispel such doubt.  This too shall pass.  There is an old saying that it is always darkest just before the dawn.  Dawn is breaking now on a New Day upon which the sun (Son) will never set.  It is inevitable that all the fragments of the Sonship will experience and be part of that New Day because the truth of our Being is that we are that New Day, together, as one, with Jesus.

The Purpose of God truly moves forward and nothing anybody thinks, says or does can hasten or stop it. However, by truly seeking and earnestly desiring the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the individual can and does move into resonance with the Great Rescue Programme, and in that sense, he can hasten it — for himself — by reducing the number of further incarnations that would otherwise be necessary for his awakening.

Then, as he begins to radiate that newly restored state of Kingdomliness from within himself outwardly — not by acts of proselytising but simply by living his new, emerging, growing remembrance of his true Being — so those around him who are, themselves, ready for spiritual awakening will be affected by the change of vibration and begin, also, to seek. So does the Programme, the Purpose, which is always moving forward, working out, draw us into Itself.  It is as Jesus explained to me in a January 1995 Communion:

...In your mind and heart you may wish to be operating at the highest level of aspiration and spiritual awareness.  This is understandable when Earth is in darkness and you wish to be one, again, with the Light, and when you are passionate in your desire to shine the Light of spiritual reality in the Earth-life affairs of man, to hasten an awakening. 

You also know, for I have assured you many times, this will not hasten the unfoldment of the programme for raising-up the children of Earth.  Your prayers and love and attunement will help you, and will help all for whom you pray, and will add to the transforming Light.  But the season is pre-determined, even as are the seasons of the year.  All that you do in my name and with commitment to me and the Kingdom in your heart will contribute sunshine to the days, even though it will not change the seasons; therefore, keep on with goodwill. 

Have no fear.  Be of good cheer.  Relax and enjoy each and every day.  All is well.  Walk with me.  Talk with me.  Breathe with me.  Live with me.  Let the Kingdom envelop and surround and permeate your being.  I will expand your influence among the children of Earth.  This is possible by your commitment.  It is like a dynamo.  It generates energy and draws the little ones to the light as a magnet.  Joy be with you all.

In Owen Waters’ book The Shift; the Revolution in Human Consciousness, he says:

In physics, chaos is a phase that occurs during transformation.  You can resonate a container of water with sound waves that generate a balanced, symmetrical pattern on the surface of the water.  Then, if you turn up the frequency a little, chaos will ensue.  The neat pattern on the surface of the water will become choppy and discordant.  However, when you turn the frequency up still more, a new pattern emerges, one which is even more complex* and beautiful.

The chaos was a temporary phase between one natural state of harmony and its transformation into a higher form.

It is much the same with the transformation of humanity through The Shift.  The frequency associated with the Old Reality has already been increased.  The old pattern has been disturbed and is beginning to go away.  In its place is a choppy pattern which is searching for its new form.  Discords abound at a personal and social (and international) level as old wounds arise seeking attention and resolution.  As the frequency rises even more, the chaotic outbreaks on the surface of life will settle into a new pattern, one which is even more complex and beautiful.

* In this context, ‘complex’ should be understood as intricate, as distinct from complicated as in confusing, though to the upside-down mind, slumbering in a dream of spiritual darkness, clarifying Light can appear to be confusing, at least until the slumberer begins to come to his Self.

What Owen has written gives tangible meaning to Jesus’ words, ‘When all around you is chaos and disarray, then rejoice, for the Kingdom is at hand, even at the doors’.  It is ego’s intent that our focus be kept upon the chaos and disarray, perceiving that as the reality.  But the chaos appearing at the surface of the container of water is not the water, and does not alter its fundamental nature, which will manifest a new, harmonious resonance as it aligns with the higher frequency.

The higher frequency for humanity, and for all life on Earth, which has a common Source, even now is being outpoured from the Source — and amplified by the activity of the GRP — as prophesied 28 centuries ago by Joel:

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. (Joel 2:28, 29)

That outpouring of spirit from God is, one hardly need mention, at an exponentially higher frequency than the Earth-mind consciousness of Homo sapiens — which is a disguise, a blinker/blinder, donned by Papa’s Son for his game of pretend at being little — is able to receive with the faculties it has adopted for perceiving only three-dimensional illusions, thus shutting itself off from awareness of the Source. But Homo sapiens is not who the Son of God (us) is.

The chaos will, inevitably, come to the end of its cycle as the new frequency resonance establishes its supremacy in the heart, mind and soul, first, of all who are immediately willing to receive it, and then of those less willing, but who will eventually be drawn by its transforming, leavening, upraising, resurrecting power as manifested in their brethren.  Until the whole is leavened, and Homo sapiens is metamorphosed into his true, reunified Being as Christ, Papa’s beloved, eternal Son.

In August 1991 I received this message from the Realms of Light:

Little Ones: In these times the confusion is greatest as the old order crumbles and Earth-mind man reels to and fro.  The energies are concentrated at all levels and intensified as the programme focuses upon the "final assault" on antiChrist.  Fear not, it is not a "full frontal" assault as in warfare of Earth, but an infiltration of energy as cracks appear in the system — and believe me, there are plenty of those.  The energy shall thus gain entry and transform from within.  It is like cancer in reverse.  The system shall not be aware of its defences being "breached" and shall continue as traditionally.  But changes will begin to happen from within, and great surprise and wonderment shall come upon the inhabitants of the citadel*.  

New awareness shall be the order of the day.  This is real, tangible, transforming activity.  Be aware of the new energy — take no notice of the old; it shall be astonishing but let not your equilibrium be disturbed by it.  Focus, we counsel you, upon this for your own benefit and upliftment. 

All is well.  We are closer to you all than you know, and the banner of Christ Jesus is the cloak also by which we are all enfolded and protected.  We go forward to a certain victory.  Praise be to Almighty God and His blessed Son.  Amen.

* This refers to the ‘citadel’ of ego-minded thinking and its recalcitrant ways in the Earth.

If we are heading toward the Light, which is love, peace and endless joy — our true estate — beyond the tawdry, transient pleasures of Earth, it will serve us well to focus upon the Light, and not allow ourselves to be distracted by the chaos.  That does not mean we deny what is taking place, as a result of the transmutational chaos event, in a self-deluding manner.  Being aware of its raging turmoil does not mean we have to listen to it, be taken in by it; rather, we can observe it, yet remain steadfast in the certainty that it is not our reality, but a necessary upheaval that heralds the transformation to the Kingdom wavelength. 

The Chaos time is a sign of the certainty that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, even at the doors, and in that context, rather than allowing it to drag us down in despair, we can rejoice at what it portends.  Not knowing when or how it will end need not be cause for despondency either.  Ego projects into the future by interpolating from the past.  Quantum physicists now know, just like Jesus, that there is no past or future, but only the constant, eternal moment of now — the Holy Instant. 

Basing predictions of doom for what does not exist on what never happened is like building a house on a sandy foundation — it will collapse — rather than a rock.  Staying close to One Who knows the end from the beginning, and Who is reliable and trustworthy, is a safer alternative.

Love and Light,

Brian Longhurst   

If you point out the errors of your brother’s ego, you must be seeing through yours, because the Holy Spirit does not perceive his errors.

Jesus, in ACIM, T-9.III.3:1

May 18th 2011

Dear Friends,

After recently suggesting that we start thinking like Jesus by first stopping thinking thoughts of littleness, it seems logical that the next step is to consider how Jesus actually thinks.  Well, we have a pretty good idea how he thinks if we study ACIM, but when we are facing everyday events here in time and place, we might ask ourself, ‘How would Jesus respond in our circumstances, in today’s world?’ 

If we do this from a perception that Jesus is separate from us we might feel we could only be guessing how he would think regarding any of the daily situations we face.  In 1968 he said to me: ‘I am attuned to all mankind all the time; there is never a moment when I am not with you all.  All that is needed to complete the contact is for you to attune with me and I am there, with you, at any time.’

This seemed to be a principle, along the lines of 2-way radio links.  If party ‘A’ (Jesus) is at one end, listening to a transmission from party ‘B’ (you or me) on a given frequency, he can hear party B without any trouble.  If he wishes to respond and be heard by party B, all he needs to do is open his microphone with transmitter attuned to the same frequency, and speak, and party B will be able to receive from, as well as transmit to, party A.  But Party B must have his receiver attuned to the transmissions from Party A.  This is where most two-way communications between us and Jesus (and/or the Spirit of Truth) break down. 

Jesus is transmitting to/commun(icat)ing with us at every moment.  Why?  Because he loves us totally, perfectly, unconditionally and wants to help us waken from the dream of separation.  Because we have been duped into believing he ‘will come to judge the quick and the dead’ and find us wanting, unworthy sinners, we shut down our receiver; so fearful are we of hearing dire warnings of the terrible retribution that awaits us for falling short of the mark.  

Even though many of us now are waking to the remembrance that this is not true, old habits are just that: habituated.  Many — most, even — of the ACIM students with whom I am in fellowship still exhibit symptoms of this negative self-perception.  Guilt, shame, doubt, fear...  We know those feelings, judgements are entirely contrary to everything Jesus teaches us in ACIM about true perception, but they are deeply embedded in our unconscious mind, ingrained over countless incarnations.  We speak of true forgiveness as the escape route from this, but how often do we exclude ourself from forgiveness?

 What Jesus said to me in 1968 was a profound lesson for me in understanding the ways in which commun(icat)ion between souls can take place: get on the same frequency.  This is, in human soul terms, sharing the same desires.  The stronger the desires, and the greater the commitment of those souls to these desires, the stronger will be the connection between them.  Therefore, the more truly one seeks after God and the more earnestly one desires the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, the stronger will be the soul-to-soul contact with others of like desire and commitment — including Jesus. 

This is not exactly rocket science; if we can accept that everything functions according to principles, or laws, it helps us to accept that not only can we speak/commun(icat)e with Jesus, but he can — and does — speak/commun(icat)e with us.  Why would he not?  He loves us.  It helps if we can accept that, and that he is as true a friend as any could ever hope for.  But it doesn’t end there.  He wants us to be his friend on equal terms, and to the same level we can imagine he is to us.  This is where most two-way communications — actual or potential — between us and Jesus (and/or the Spirit of Truth) falter.

Last weekend, as I walked in the nearby Cotswold hills on a sunny spring morning, with sheep grazing in the fields, spring wildflowers in bloom and birdsong filling the air, my heart light and joy-filled, I turned my thoughts to him in gratitude and enquiry about how he actually thinks about the multitudinous aspects of life in today’s frenetic world.  Instantly he was there with me, in me, all around me, radiating, bursting with joy at our joining in friendship. 

I knew his joy was at my loving him and my gratitude for his friendship, and also that here is a brother with whom he can share his love, wisdom, practical help and guidance.  Love and friendship can only be complete, consummated in reciprocity. 

I almost always carry a small notebook and pen on my hill-walks, for jotting incoming inspiration, and happily I had not forgotten it that day. No words can describe the awareness and experience of his vibration, so uplifting, exalting and joy-inducing is it.  Happily, the feeling it imbues never fades and can be restored to mind and soul completely, in a flash, years later as one recalls the occasion.  Regrettably, the clarity and detail of the thoughts and words of inspiration and guidance cannot — at least, not for me anyway J — so the notebook is an utterly invaluable aide-memoire for them.

Our walk together was so full of elation at simply being (together), of one heart, mind and Life, that there was much jocundity and laughter, even during the moments of quiet between the exchanges that took place between us.  But he, of course, knew what had been occupying my thoughts during recent days, and so, new ideas about it would suddenly fly into my mind.  These were not part of the conscious interaction between us in the conventional, conversational manner, but would suddenly appear in my mind, during or between the jubilant communing. 

I was reminded of what Jesus tells us in the ACIM pamphlet The Song of Prayer.  In this, he counsels us that prayer at its highest level is nothing to do with entreaty of petition, but more a song of Love between us and Papa, in which He expresses His joy in us, and we respond with our joy and gratitude for the fact that He has (already) given His Son everything.  Then, as an echo of that song, we find the answer to any aspect of our life that is troubling us simply appears, either as an inspired new understanding, or by the matter simply ceasing to exist for us, fading to the nothing that we then see it always was.

The ideas would simply, suddenly, be there; new thoughts that our joy of togetherness appeared to be spontaneously engendering in my mind.  Knowing the clarity of understanding they were bringing would slip away if I did not note them down, I would have to keep stopping, say to him, ‘Hold on a minute’ while I extracted notebook and pen from pocket to record them.  They came in the form of little, imaginary, comic scenarios.  For example:

Can we imagine Jesus dashing off to the doctor for his winter ‘flu jab?  The idea is preposterous, is it not?  Yet how many of us do this every autumn, almost as an automatic reflex, without thinking, as the seasons turn.  This begs two questions: 1) Why can we not imagine him doing this? and 2) Why do we do it?  Clearly, the answers, like the questions are polar opposites.  He knew, and knows, of a certainty beyond all doubt, that he was (is) whole; that he is safe, invulnerable, innocent; that dis-ease is part of the game of pretend, a joke at which we forgot to laugh, just like, and part of, all the other illusions of time and place that occupy our attention. 

Jesus is attuned to truth and reality, which is love, peace, joy, wholeness.  Eternally.  Fear, dis-ease and death do not exist for him because they are not true and therefore are not — cannot be — real, and he knows it.  He does not believe it so it is not on his radar.  Just like his Father.  And ours.  He does not believe in illusions so they have no reality for him.  Because most of us have allowed ourselves to be taken in by the illusion of upside-downness, in which everything appears to be the opposite of reality, we believe it and it is that belief which makes it real for us. 

By thinking like Jesus we can begin to see like him and then we will be able to act like him; and then we will become like him.  Meanwhile, we are told — by governments and by the medical establishment and the drug companies, all of which want to keep us in the consciousness of fear — that we must have a ‘flu jab or we might get the next mutation of the ‘flu virus and this could kill us.  And, because we believe it — and ONLY because we believe it — it could happen.  But the flaw in that misperception is that, as Jesus told us in the long ago, death also is an illusion, and if only we can believe him we will never die.  Just like him. J

But what does that really mean?  Everyone knows we are born, grow old and die.  Not true, and never has been.  This is a misperception.  We are Papa’s Son and we are like Him.  That is how He created us.  Why would He, Who is all knowing, all loving, all wise, all caring, create His beloved Son to get old and suffer disease, and wither and die?  The idea is poppycock. He has never been born and assuredly, will never die.  Everyone knows God is eternal; even those who don’t believe in Him know that J. 

We, like Papa, have never been born and will never die.  Like Father, like Son.  Will we believe Jesus or will we continue to believe the false witness of our bodily senses?  False witness?  It seems so real, but if our bodies are made up as our masquerade costume for participating in the game of make believe, then all their attributes must be made up also.  So if they are not true they must deceive us. 

When we have had enough of the game of pretend and awaken from it, we no longer need the masquerade costume, so we leave it behind.  But that can only be when we have fully wakened.  Until that happens we keep trying on different costumes, one after another.  That is not dying.

The other flashes of comic awareness about how would Jesus function in this world were equally fantastical.  We can each ask ourselves, of some of our own habituations, ‘Would Jesus do this?’  And if the idea of him doing it is immediately perceived as absurd, we could serve ourself well to ask if we really need to do it.  For example, would Jesus subscribe to a newspaper? What appears to us ‘out there’ is reported as news.  Yet, what never happened in reality is nothing, and who wants to read about nothing, when it is simply nothing more than part of the game of unreality?  Certainly, we can easily discern from this that Jesus would not. 

The real news is not in the paper or on the TV.  Most of that is ‘bad news’; characteristic of the world of duality. The good news — the only news worth listening to — is within; brought to us not by some ‘mammon of unrighteousness’ commercial sponsor but by the Voice for God.  We can trust that voice and know that what He brings to us will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, for that is all He knows.

The Holy Spirit can only lead us in meaningful progress on the Path Home one step at a time all the while there remains any fear in us, and He knows our fears better than we do, even though He knows they are but imagined.  So, for example, because He knows that if we have a history of health issues and believe an annual ‘flu jab will bring us peace of mind, we can ask ourself, ‘Would the Holy Spirit want us to be filled with more fear, doubt induced, by stopping having the vaccination just because we know Jesus wouldn’t need it, and we are destined to become like him?’

Thus, the process is a one step at a time order of progress.  First, we start to think like Jesus.  This gradually engenders confidence in those thoughts as the Light of Truth they shine into our mind begins to make more sense than our old, upside-down, fear-driven thoughts.  This brings us to the place of growing in belief, faith and trust.  This leads us to the next step of wanting to act like him and this in turn completes the transformation of our becoming like him.

Jesus and the Spirit of Truth, like Papa, want us to be happy.  They know that if we are fearful of the Light, having been pretending we are in the dark for so long, They lead us back to the Light lovingly (is there any other way?), gently, tenderly, caringly; at a pace with which They know we are comfortable.

Endless blessings for joy, peace and love,

Brian Longhurst

Have no fear.  Be of good cheer.  Relax and enjoy each and every day.  All is well.  Walk with me.  Talk with me.  Breathe with me.  Live with me.  Let the Kingdom envelop and surround and permeate your being. 

Jesus

May 25th 2011

Dear Friends,

The three-dimensional consciousness of time and place is not just different and separate from Eternity, but is Its opposite.  This means that our perceptions, thinking, understanding and behaviour are all influenced by what is effectively the reverse of our true reality; an upside-down state of being that is dysfunctional, destructive, deceitful, duplicitous, devious and, of course, non-sustainable.  Its foundations are entirely flawed.

Having entered into a state of forgetfulness of who we really are, most of us are children within the context of eternal reality and how to function here in time and place in harmony — as one — with our true Being, as God created us. No wonder Matthew’s gospel says:

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted (i.e. undergo a change of mind, heart and attitude), and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Mt. 18:1-4)

How easy it is to read a statement like this and say to ourselves, ‘Yes, what a true saying’, and then not take on board the depth of meaning it has for ourself.  The Victorians had a saying that children should be seen and not heard.  Yet children are in so many ways closer to the Kingdom than so many adult attitudes to life.  Because this time and place experience is based on upside-down premises, all contrary to our true Being, we are confused about our identity.  It stands to reason that if we are unsure about who we are, we will be unsure about how to be(have). 

We want to be open, honest, straightforward in our intercourse with our fellows, but fear prevents this, because not only do we not know (have forgotten) who we are, we don’t know who anyone else is either. This causes us to often be defensive, guarded, even devious in our dealings with our fellows.  Is there one amongst us who believes this was how Jesus interacted?  Is there one who would wish him to have done?  Is there one who, himself, truly wants to be devious?  Devious = untrustworthy.  Do we not all want to be perceived as trustworthy?  We believe Jesus to be trustworthy, but how could we entertain such a belief if he behaved as we so often feel driven to behave? 

‘Yes, but it was because we knew — or suspected — the other fellow was trying to take unfair advantage of us that we had to be defensive, guarded, devious in our approach and response to him.’  This is the (upside-down) reasoning.  It pervades this world at every level, from the school playground to international relations, where duplicity rules in the game of treachery called ‘Do unto others before they do unto you’, and its partner, ‘Thou shalt not be found out’.  How far is that from Jesus’ admonition to do unto others as you would be done by?

It all seems an inescapable loop, a vicious cycle, dragging us down further into the slough of despond.  It is no wonder depression, despair, suicide across all age groups, including teenagers, are rising.  But can, or will, our secular or sectarian leaders show us a way out of this downward spiral to oblivion?  How can they when they are part of it, caught up in institutionalised dysinformation?  This may seem harsh, but there is a sound reason for such an observation.

In Heaven, our true, eternal and only Home, where we belong, and where we are one, sharing, giving and co-operation are terms that help us gain a greater understanding of, and resonance with this state of Mind and Being, because they are motivated by Love.  In the upside-down, back-to-front world of time and place, acquisition and competition are the foundation stones of daily life.  These are the opposites of our true Being, and they are motivated by fear.  Secular corporations and sectarian institutions alike function on these dual wavelengths of acquisition and competition.

Fear is the opposite of love, and fear has no place or meaning in our true Home, so it is hardly surprising that we are bewildered here, compounded by unwillingness to seek the Help of One Who knows how to extricate us from this fine mess we have got ourselves into.  We are fearful because we are alone in a far country where everything is alien to us, so we are concerned about security and scarcity.  This is also hardly surprising since we come from a Place of eternal, absolute safety and abundance, to their very opposites.

So we distract ourself with focusing our energies on acquisition.  Acquiring food, money, ‘stuff’.  When just about everyone else is also focused on acquisition, acquiring can get harder and harder, so we have to devote increasing amounts of time and energy to this facile endeavour. 

But it still gets harder, and fear that we may not get our share first engenders, and then promulgates, competition; the rat-race.  But that only makes the game of acquisition harder still, so we then feel we have to employ deviousness to get our share because someone else might get it and then we will starve, because there isn’t enough for us all.

It is not hard to see where this is taking us: downwards, on the slippery slope to oblivion.  And that is exactly where the fragmented Sonship appears to be going, and is very close to its perceived destination.  For those with no awareness or acceptance that the Voice for God — the Holy Spirit — is with us, along with Jesus, who states: All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth (Mt. 28:18), this is a fearful time in the history of humanity.  Yet, as stated recently, Jesus tells us ‘When all around is chaos and disarray, then rejoice, for the Kingdom is at hand, even at the doors’.  Herein lies hope.

People need hope, and are desperately searching for something to give them hope.  Google ‘Jesus’ and it brings up 390 million results in 0.06 seconds!  People definitely want to know about Jesus J.  They ‘know’ there is more to him than they can glean from institutionalised religion and they intuit that he knows something they have forgotten.  Those who have tried the institutionalised religion route and found it took them to a dead end haven’t necessarily given up – especially if they are beginning to hear the still, small Voice for God calling from their own within.

And happily, there are ever-increasing numbers of websites, books (including, of course, ACIM) and other sources of information about the GRP accessible to true and earnest seekers after the truth of their Being.

Jesus called-down the Spirit of Truth upon the world (at Pentecost, at the beginning of the second — ‘Jesus’ — measure of meal), and thus has established, or anchored It/Him here in time and place.  Now, we, his brothers in the Sonship who are aware of the events unfolding at this, the beginning of the third — ‘Kingdom’ — measure can share, spread, extend the Spirit outwards to our brothers in the Sonship.  How can we do this? By simply being Who we really are, and allowing the Spirit of Truth within us to radiate out, this will happen because this is His Nature, just like His Creator.

Fear causes tension and this manifests in many ways in our vehicle of expression, all of them negatively impacting our health and wellbeing.  One of the primary manifestations of fear in our mind is shallow breathing, meaning we starve ourself of oxygen, making straight thinking difficult.  Just at the point of waking one morning last summer I heard Holy Spirit say, multiple times, over and over (He was clearly intent on getting the point across):

Breathe and allow; breathe and allow, breathe and allow...

I got my notebook and pen, and the following communing occurred:

Holy Spirit; I invite You into my life, my heart, my mind; to have control over my thinking, so that it is from and according to Higher, True, Christ Mind will, and not the frenetic, fearful, reactionary, convoluted, oscillatory, random, conflicted, nonsensical thoughts of ego, split-off, upside-down mental activity that seems to run amok in my head.

This can only be possible by allowing it to be so, not by resisting.  This requires surrender, acceptance, stepping back, away from the helm.  Envision yourself doing this bodily (stepping away from the helm of our life), for bodies are symbols of ego, of division, of separation from Papa, from Life Eternal, from certainty of the One Identity that you really are.

This means not trying to stop the random thoughts that come in, but allow them, step back from them, observe them, as I do; impassively.  This is possible because I know they are not real.  How can one engage and wrestle with what is not real; what does not exist?  You, also, know they are not real, because they are from an unreal source; ego.  You made it up.  It is not a creation of Papa, so has no reality, is not who you are, or even a part of who you are.  It seeks reality in your mind only by your acknowledgement of it, and thus, your giving it life and meaning. 

But you are safe, secure, innocent, at Home; certain, immortal, indestructible, peaceful, joyful.  Remind yourself of this as often as you feel a shred of doubt or uncertainty.  If that is multiple times a day, or an hour, or even a minute, so be it.  You know the meaning of and the need for steadfast one-pointedness.  You know where your treasure is, and this is where your heart is also.  Steadfast one-pointedness of commitment to reminding yourself will retrain your mind to be there with your heart.

Then you will be functioning as One.  An invincible, all-empowered Force for Good; for the Kingdom; for dispelling darkness with Light; replacing despair, not just with hope but with Certainty; confusion with Truth; fear with Love; forgetfulness with Remembrance; blindness with Sight; illusion with Reality; ignorance with Knowledge.

Beloved Holy Spirit, I know that, I feel it, I intuit it.  Thank You for reminding me and giving such wonderful, empowering affirmation.  You are a real battery recharger.  I love You and I love our communing, our joining in oneness. 

As you know, Theresa and I have been discussing whether You, as the Breath of God, breathe on us, as the wonderful hymn entreats, or breathe in us, as somehow seems more efficient.

I breathe on you always, unceasingly.  It is your choice to breathe Me in, inhale Me.  This is acceptance.  As with all Papa’s gifts, they are yours, freely.  It is your choice, as always, whether you accept them unto, or, in this instance, into yourself.  As you know, ‘hale’ means whole, well, strong and healthy.  So, to in-hale the Breath of Life is to take in, to receive unto yourself, wholeness, strength, health, well-being.

Breathe Me in until you are completely filled and have become fully Identified with Me, just as Jesus/Yeshua did.  Then we are One.  Envision breathing in the Light.  You are bathed in the Light; you ARE the Light.  You have denied your Self.  It is now time to accept, allow your Self again.  By excluding the Light from your awareness you seem to be in (spiritual) darkness.  This is not actually so.  By breathing in the Holy Breath you breathe in the true and only Life – Eternal Life – and Life and Light are one.  Life and Light are also Perfect Love. 

This you imagine you have also denied yourself, so in the Earth life consciousness you are bereft of Perfect Love, Which always has inner Peace and Joy, stillness, all-knowing as integral aspects of Its unbounded Being.  Hence the benefit of breathing and allowing; for once again you restore to yourself your Self, Who Is all of This.

In a sense, breathing out is not of any great concern because breathing in the Light automatically dispels the darkness you have believed you were in.  But nevertheless you will serve yourself well not to dismiss it as unimportant or irrelevant.  The act of breathing out is, and can be acknowledged as the departure, the relinquishing, the expelling of belief in the old order, time and place order; confused thinking, and allowing its replacement — as you breathe in — with remembrance of True, Whole, One Self. 

Once you have completely breathed out all belief in the old order, and re-filled your being by breathing in the Light, the Truth, the Remembrance of the Oneness, you will do as Jesus did: breathe upon your brethren the Holy Breath of Life, that they may be revivified by remembrance of their Life eternal.

Engaging with the illusion of fear is engaging with the illusion of death and this keeps you trapped in the consciousness of fear because engaging with it makes it real for you.  Observe and allow.  Let it flow over you without responding.  Remain centred in allowing.

To true Being,

Brian Longhurst

No-one can know the Bible, or ACIM, from just one reading; and no-one can remember who he really is from just one prompting.

June 1st 2011

Dear Friends,

There is no Light in the place of perceived separation from God.  How can there be?  The Source of all Light is Papa, and this is extended by Him to His Son, created in His likeness; so the Son is also that same Light.  But when we perceive ourselves as separate from that Source and even from our true Self, this causes us to believe our sight — our true, spiritual vision — is veiled from the Light, rendering us completely blind to eternal reality.

Our body, a shabby substitute (‘a little pile of clay’, Jesus calls it in ACIM) for our true Being, is a symbol of our self-imposed littleness, frailty, vulnerability, mortality, none of which is true or real because it is unlike — opposite in fact — our true, eternal, glorious, radiant Christ-Self.

All of which we have awareness with our bodily senses is not real and this includes the light of the sun.  This light, discernible to our bodily senses as ‘physical’, is comprised of particles dubbed photons.  But photons are not eternally unchangeable, so they cannot be real, and like everything else in time and place, including the source of those photons, disappear.  The light of the sun — which, of course, we see as outside ourself, 'confirming' our littleness, and that there is no Light in us — is a substitute for the Light of Life, which is eternal and unchangeable. 

This Light is us.  Jesus tells us this, so we can know it is true, even if, by following ego’s script for an upside-down, make-believe existence, we have blinded ourself to the truth of our eternal, effulgent Being.

This Living Light — which is not physical (quantum physicists are now aware that nothing is physical, and all that seems to be is only perceived as so being) but pure, everlasting, unchangeable spirit — is Who and What we ARE.  Just like Jesus.  It cannot be otherwise because we are one, with him, in the Sonship of the Light.  I saw this when he manifested to me in his true, radiant glory in January 1967, and again, when I saw him fastening the escape ladder to the floor of ‘bedrock hell’ (see http://www.honest2goodness.org.uk/Part_2_Vignettes.htm#23.____The_Master_in_bedrock_hell_fastening_the_escape_ladder_to_the_floor for details).  This is also described in Revelation 21:23-25.

So, dear friends, you are the Light of the world (just as Jesus tells us in Mt. 5:14).  You are the same as Jesus.  Jesus is the saviour of the world and therefore you also are the saviour of the world.  He states this plainly in ACIM; that the world cannot be saved without our input, our involvement, because we are all, eternally, indivisibly, one.  And so, unless and until we choose to join with him, the Sonship is incomplete, and therefore, not saved, or saveable.  ‘Heaven forfend!’ says ego.  ‘What arrogance, what apostasy, what heresy, claiming equal stature with Jesus.  There will be retribution for this blasphemy.’ 

These are the words, the perception, of littleness; blindness, deafness to our true Self, engendered by fear of the Light that we are.  This Light of Eternal Truth is not doctrines and dogmas of a moribund institution, but living, shimmering, radiant Light. We have been so long in the dark that we are afraid of the Light that will show us the Truth of our Being.  Yet, saving the world, transforming the world — our brothers and ourselves from darkness to Light — is our only purpose for being here.  All else is merely preparation for this purpose. 

It does not matter, and it makes no difference ‘how long’ that preparation seems to take, for time is not real, and is not of the essence.  Only a little willingness is of the essence. 

But, because time is not real, it can be manipulated, just like all illusions.  In fact, this is a sure way of distinguishing between truth/reality and illusion: illusion can be manipulated, and happens all the time in confused minds, whereas truth/reality, which is eternal and unchangeable, cannot be manipulated. So, the time we take preparing for our saving mission can be extended if we choose to delay it, or collapsed if we choose to commence without unnecessary delay. 

Delaying — which can only be motivated by fear, doubt, uncertainty, none of which form any part of our Being, though ego works ceaselessly to convince us they are part of who we are — extends our experience of this ‘vale of tears’, whereas commencing foreshortens it.  Not by us ‘dying’ — which ends nothing, changes nothing, foreshortens nothing, because it is only our mind that can change and needs changing.

If  — when — we change our mind, and choose to commence our true role as saviour of the world, nothing outwardly may appear to change, but that is of no consequence, because there is no without, other than illusorily.  And since illusion is not real, looking to see change in what is not there is somewhat of a distraction, causing us to miss what is actually there and actually changing, which is, of course, our mind.  It is within where the change – of mind – takes place. 

That is radical.  It is 180 degrees.  A complete turnaround, an about-face; what Jesus meant when he said ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand’.  That is what ‘repentance’ means: turning round and being restored to full, loving, eternally-living relationship with Papa. Until we ‘come to ourselves’ and turn around 180 degrees from facing the darkness, and face toward the Light of the Kingdom, which is Papa and our true Self, how can the free gift of Wholeness and Life (which are indivisibly one) that He constantly proffers be ours until we are willing to gladly receive and accept it unto ourself?

It is like a lost and lonely, fearful child sitting in a darkened room watching (and becoming totally absorbed in his mind, into) a DVD — of the unKingdomliness that besets this world — on an endless loop, when by a simple willingness to turn round from watching the projection and open the door, the glorious Light of Day, which has always been there for him, awaits his presence.  Without our willingness to accept the Light of our Creator, in Whose likeness we are created, and which likeness is our true Being, we are in the dark because without the Light we are darkness.  Nothingness.

This was graphically illustrated to, and experienced by, me back in the mid 1990s.  Here are some extracts of what I have written about the event:

...I had got into bed and was settling down for sleep. As I lay there with the light extinguished I suddenly became aware that there was the figure of a man standing at the foot of the bed. This startled and somewhat unnerved me because the figure was in silhouette form and was totally black. There was absolutely no light at all, of any kind, emanating from this form. It was like a black hole in a way, utterly bereft of any indication of the light of life. In my experience, this signalled a presence from the realms of darkness, and I was not eager for an encounter of that ilk... As I took in this apparition... Papa spoke from... above and behind the head of the form:

... Man, the Temple of God. Nothing else... I realised that the apparition was not an actual human but a representation of one, rather like a cardboard cut-out or a mannequin; utterly lifeless. If this form was intended to be a representation of man as the temple of God (1Cor 3:16: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?), it did not seem like the kind of representation I would have anticipated. Where was the light; where was the animation, the life, the livingness? This was devoid of all. ...

As I lay there considering this, suddenly Papa spoke again, this time from beside the bed, to my left, about at my waist level but at the height of a standing person. This time He said, The Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his temple. (Malachi. 3:1: Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.)

This time, there was no sense of darkness and nothing unsettling. On the contrary, this left me feeling completely comfortable and at peace, and at the same time with a sense of excitement because I knew, at the soul-knowing level, that there was going to be a third message, creating a trilogy which would bring meaning to the whole experience...  (After a pause) He spoke for the third time, I will come unto him and will make My abode with him. (Jn. 14:23: Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.)

...(Clearly,) the black form was a representation of the temple without the presence of Him with Whose occupancy it would ultimately be filled. It was a symbolic representation of the temple vacated by its rightful occupant, the Son of God, who believes he has separated himself from his Father Creator — an upside-down perception if ever there was one!

Without the life, the Light of the Creator, there would be, there can only be, emptiness, nothingness, darkness, an absence of everything, including, and especially, light because spiritual Light and eternal, spiritual Life are synonymous. If one can envision any part of God’s Creation from which the Creator Spirit is (or could be) absent, assuredly this form was it. Nothingness. Only a ‘black hole’ in the form of man but utterly devoid of beingness. A form, one might say, awaiting re-occupation by the Source of All, the very Spirit, or Essence, of Life Itself; all-knowingness; perfect love; creativity in all its boundlessness...

This is how it is for us while we continue to believe our game of pretend is reality. But now is the time of the fulfilment of Malachi’s prophecy, written some 400 years before Jesus incarnated.  It is worth noting that He (Papa), says He will come quickly.  Of course that can mean anything when perceived from a linear-time perspective; and for those who are fearful of this prospect, the hope is that it will be later rather than sooner, because they believe (incorrectly) that when He comes, it means trouble, big time. 

But as Jesus reminds us in ACIM, infinite patience brings immediate effects.  This means that if we believe, and await His coming in joyful (not fearful) anticipation, his words from Luke’s Gospel will apply: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching (i.e. waiting): verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants. (Lk. 12:37, 38).

Even the most sceptical soul will be hard-pressed to see this as something to dread.  My own experience of this (which can be read by following this link and commencing at paragraph 3) was joyful to say the least.  The second watch has now ended and we are at the beginning of the third watch (or third measure of meal, using Jesus’ other parable with the number three in it).  Even for those who are unable to bring themselves to watch and wait in eager anticipation, but rather prefer to hide in dread, be assured, there is NOTHING to fear but fear itself (and that is an illusion J). 

No-one will be excluded from the banquet feast to celebrate the marriage (union) of Heaven with Earth, save by themselves, and that will be but a delay, not a shutting out.  And since delay is of time and time is an illusion, even (temporary) unbelievers have something they also can celebrate! 

As Jesus reassures us: fear not, all is well,

Brian Longhurst

When a mind has only light, it knows only light.  Its own radiance shines all around it, and extends out into the darkness of other minds, transforming them into majesty. 

(Jesus, in ACIM-7.XI.5:1,2)

June 8th 2011

Dear Friends,

On December 17^th 1995 I recorded the following Diary of a Christ Communicant entry:

I have been aware of two men from the Jacobean era dressed in Cavalier style, who were startled by sudden awareness of my presence at the contemplation of the Holy Symbols.  They became more and more interested and drawn by the words and spirit Light and structure of the service, and have now been moved to ask the Lord (upon my prompting) to help them go forward.  They have become aware of the IPS and are eager to commit their lives to the Lord’s Great Rescue Programme (GRP), from non-meaningful — though not evil — pastimes.

Lord Jesus, I give thanks for the rescue of our two new friends, now coming into the Light after ‘centuries’ of aimless wandering.

My son, I rejoice with you that two of my flock have been found and brought home from the wilderness.  You observe rightly, that many souls know not how to find the Light, even though they do not belong in darkness.  But who is to show them the path?  It is for this reason — the bringing of the Light to all in darkness — that this ritual service has been brought into being.  Have I not said that you are beacons of my Light, shining in the darkness?  This is no accident and you have been chosen and prepared for this work.  For would not you also be wandering aimlessly had you not been guided in the Way by your beloved godmother, agent of my purpose? 

Be not surprised, therefore, that many souls are lost*, for the light of my spirit was deliberately snuffed out from the Church of Earth by those who sought riches of Earth before riches of Eternity.  But it is not possible for the Father's purposes to fail, and the light shall be shone in the dark places until all the shadows of death and fear shall have fled away.  Rejoice greatly at this, my beloveds, and sing the New Song, that my little ones may hear and dance the dance of freedom.  That which I have purposed in you shall prosper according to the wisdom of the Father.  Be not anxious for any detail, all is well.

*It should be noted here that this is not indicating that such souls are 'lost' for all eternity, but simply that they have lost their way on the Path back Home to Eternity, or Heaven.

The New Song is the Song of Prayer (which was extensively written about in the February 2^nd and March 2^nd 2011 MoEs), which is at-onement with Papa; and at-onement with Papa is Wholeness.  The echo of the Song of Prayer/at-onement can but lead to wholeness.  The old song/dirge is about fear and dis-ease.  The New Song is about Love and Oneness.  When this is our steadfast, committed desire/focus/intent, the old song of fear and dis-ease simply ceases to have any meaning, and ultimately, any reality for us.  This is thinking, believing, seeing, speaking, acting, becoming like Jesus.  It is a progressive, learning process, which, like learning anything, requires practise, commitment. 

Why would we want to become like Jesus?  Another question answers that: Do we want to be free from fear and dis-ease?  How about mortality?... Limitation? We cannot become like Jesus without first desiring, without motivati