Messages of Encouragement 2012

On a regular basis entries from Diary of a Christ Communicant are sent by e-mail to friends on the HTG mailing list,  accompanied by a Message of Encouragement, or ‘MoE’.   Each successive MoE is then posted on this page.  MoEs from previous years are archived on their respective pages.

The intent of these MoEs is to examine and illuminate various aspects of the portentous events unfolding in the spiritual transformation that is taking place in us — each and all the living souls who appear as individual humans — the seemingly fragmented Sonship of God.   

This transformation is the awakening from a dream, an illusion, of separation from God — Papa — and Self, back to the truth of our oneness as His beloved, innocent (sinless) Son, and our restoration to fullness of remembrance of our endless, perfect love, peace and joy in our true and eternal Home in the Heart-Mind of God. 

All these events are integral aspects of the Great Rescue Programme, or GRP, that is taking place right now, with all humanity — though most are as yet not consciously aware of these transforming events — under the leadership of he who incarnated and we all know as Jesus of Nazareth.  He is empowered and authorised by our Heavenly Father, the  Creator Spirit, for leading this great spiritual awakening back to full enlightenment, or Self-realisation because he is the first amongst the fragments to remember the true nature of his Being .

As Jesus reminds us in A Course in Miracles (ACIM), his ‘handbook’ to assist, guide, lead us in this great metamorphosis, raising-up, or resurrection, of our seemingly separate minds, back to their re-unified state, or Christ Mind:

Enlightenment is but a reCognition, not a change at all. . .

The Peace Of God Is Shining IN you/AS you Now

(ACIM, W.188)

Because these MoEs are written on an impromptu basis, as moved by inspiration from Jesus and/or the Holy Spirit, no particular order of subject matter is given, and instead, they are shown according to the date on which originally e-mailed, starting at the top and  proceeding in chronological order thereafter.

You may notice that certain aspects are repeated at various places in one week or another and in one way or another.  Because of the enormity of the subject involved,  repetition can be most serviceable in the assimilation of such important matters back into our comprehension, or reCognition.   Thus are removed the self-imposed blocks to our awareness of the oneness in God that is, in truth, already fully and rightfully ours.

If you have any comments or questions, please e-mail me. 

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

Brian Longhurst

January 4^th 2012

 Dear Friends,

If we believe we are a body it is because at some level — mostly unconscious, but for many of us also at a conscious level — we believe we are guilty.  Vast numbers of the fragmented Sonship of God have, at a conscious level, repudiated the doctrines of institutionalised religion that tell us we are guilty, unworthy, sinners, that ‘there is no health in us’, and yet still are plagued with feelings of guilt, fear, doubt, unworthiness, even self-loathing, self-hatred.  This can only be because the belief in guilt is hidden away in our unconscious mind, just as Jesus tells us in ACIM.  

Since these false teachings have been cornerstones of religious doctrines for many, many centuries, during which most of us have reincarnated numerous times, and during much of which church attendance was mandatory, they have become deeply ingrained in our unconscious mind, thus affirming, reinforcing what we have unconsciously believed since the dawn of time about our guilt for separating ourself from our Source.  So, if we believe we are a body, we believe we deserve to die.   

What we believe is what we make our reality, even though what changes and passes away cannot be reality.  How can what is past and gone be real?  Only what is changeless and eternally now can be real, and that is Love.  Love is Light, is Life, is God, is real, is eternal and unchangeable.  No ifs, ands or buts.  And the Creator created His Son in His own likeness.  So, if we choose to steadfastly, unwaveringly believe this, it is what becomes revealed to us, restored to our remembrance as our reality; the truth of our Being that has always been, can never not be.  

Because we cannot see this, perceive it, discern it with the faculties of our constantly-changing body, all of which are devised to perceive only what is constantly changing — and therefore not real — it requires faith and trust; a willingness to accept that what we cannot see, hear, feel, taste, smell is real, in spite of the lack of perceptible evidence.  That goes totally against the grain of ego, which demands evidence, proof of the existence of everything before showing willingness to believe it; especially when it is contra to everything the ego-devised senses and upside-down, earth-mind logic — that we mistakenly believe are ours — tell us. 

Ego thought systems are in constant conflict.  Here, the word constant does not have the same meaning as changeless, because all that is changeless is of eternity, of God and His perfect Son, and has the qualities of Love, Peace and Joy.  Constant conflict can have none of those qualities, but instead, doubt, fear, judgement, grievance, all of which engender a state of dis-ease; the opposite of Peace.  So, an ego-yoked, constantly conflicted mind seeks for opposites, at the same time.  It wants permanence but experiences only impermanence.  It can only experience impermanence because that has been its choice. It wants life but believes its life is a body, which, from the moment of birth is constantly moving toward death. 

Because its only ‘reality’ is time and place, what it thinks is real is forever moving from its reach.  The Beatles’ song, ‘Yesterday’ states it perfectly: 

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I’m not half the man I used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly...

Why she (a perception of love) had to go I don’t know, she wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

But yesterday is gone and what was perceived as love has gone with it — or at least, changed, ceased to be perceived as it was perceived ‘yesterday’.  It has not lived up to ego-driven demands and expectations of it.  Ego wants love because it is lonely and afraid, but doesn’t know what Love is, so makes up an ersatz, conditional form of ‘special, exclusive love’, believing it can get what it seeks out there in time and place but can never find because Love is not out there.  Then, when ersatz love fails to fulfil its expectations, it turns to grievance.  

Grievance is ego’s distorted, contrary, upside-down way of keeping alive what is dead, and is no more because it never was.  Ego can keep a grievance ‘alive’ indefinitely, but it will block awareness of Love and inner peace.  Yet, of course, ersatz love and grievance were never real, because only Love IS and only Love restores us to the Holy Instant of the eternal, unchanging, ineffably sublime moment of Now.  This is so far from ego’s comprehension that it can never grasp Its reality, and neither can we all the while we stick with our ancient choice to adopt ego’s chaotic script as our thought system.  

Let us remind ourself some of what Jesus says about grievances:

Love holds no grievances.

You who were created by love like itself can hold no grievances and know your Self.  To hold a grievance is to forget who you (really) are.  To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body.  To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body to death.  Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does to your mind.  It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him...   

Shut off from your (true, higher, unlimited) Self, which remains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, while the part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake.  Can all this arise from holding grievances?  Oh, yes!  For he who holds grievances denies he was created by Love, and his Creator has become fearful to him in his dream of hate... 

...It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it is certain that those who forgive will find peace.  It is as sure that those who hold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those who forgive will remember... 

(From ACIM, W 68)

It is made unequivocally clear in this excerpt that true forgiveness is the way — the only way — to shake off that insanity, because forgiveness is the failsafe way to dispel all aspects of a tortured, distracted, conflicted mind.  Any who doubt this will serve themselves well to try it. 

I have heard it said that according to research at some august academic institution, the average person has 60,000 thoughts in a single day.  If this is anywhere near the mark, it is an indicator that the average mind is in turmoil, because so many of those thoughts will have included, or been engendered by, doubt, fear, guilt, uncertainty and will not have been expressing constancy (i.e. changelessness) of spiritual desire, faith, trust, Knowledge, certainty.   

How many thoughts, one might alternatively enquire, would Jesus have likely entertained during a typical day of his adult earthly life?  His was (is) a mind trained, disciplined, focused on reality, and the only reality is Love.  That is but one thought, applied to every circumstance and situation.  We are like Jesus because he is our brother in Christ.  That means we have the capacity for emulating him in every moment, circumstance and situation. ‘Impossible’ says ego.  And if we believe it is impossible, so will it be for us.  For, as Henry Ford rightly said, Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. 

So, if we believe, or even choose a little willingness, or desire, to believe, we can join with Jesus, and in so doing, join with Papa, thus bringing into our reality his words: With men it is impossible, but not (if we join) with God: for (in our joining) with God all things are possible. (Mk. 10:27).  How else could Jesus have done ‘the impossible’, in myriad ways, except by joining with God?  What is possible for one is possible for all.  If we allow another to convince us otherwise we are abdicating our God-given right to Self-empowerment. 

Even the most sceptical of minds would find it hard to believe that doubt, fear, guilt, uncertainty are reality.  Nevertheless, still, insanely, most of the apparently-separated fragments of Papa’s Son hold fast to these drivers of the carousel of birth and death. Yet, if Jesus tells us that forgiveness is the key to our self-imprisoning door, enabling us to escape, back to the freedom of sanity, peace — the reality that only a mind restored to wholeness can bring us — it would take only the most stubbornly ego-entrenched mind to be unwilling to try.  Let us take a quick reminder about what he tells us about true forgiveness:   

What Is Forgiveness?

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 (imagined) sins forgiven.  What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son?  Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go.  What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God. 

(From ACIM Workbook, page 401) 

The Will of God is not something of which to be fearful, something by which we will be measured and found wanting, and therefore deserving of terrible punishment, as ego has led us to believe.  It is Truth.  Truth — that is, eternal Truth, not something we made up as part of a dream of separation and misperceive as truth — is gentle, loving, benign, empowering with all the power that is God’s, which He gave to, shared with, His Son at his creation.  God’s Will has to be Truth, for if it was not, it would be untrue.  Truth works and thus is empowering.  That which is untrue — and therefore, not the Will of God — does not work, and is thus disempowering. 

We, God’s Son, dreaming a dream of separation and fragmentation — one, appearing as many — have disempowered ourself.  Happily, that is only in our perception, not in our reality.  All we have to do to regain awareness of the God-empowerment that is with us now — always — as our creation-right, is change our perception.  This requires us to choose to disengage our mind from ego and re-engage it with the Spirit of Truth, which is in our true, whole, all-knowing mind, where we realise our oneness.  We choose and Holy Spirit performs it for us.  It cannot be otherwise, for our limited self knows not how, but our Whole Self does, and will.  Ego wants division, which is disempowerment; Holy Spirit, acting for us and Papa, wants union.  Union is Truth, which is all-empowerment because it is Papa’s Will. 

God-empowerment is power with, not power over.  All the while we perceive ourself to be a body, in this upside-down three-dimensional realm of littleness and limitation, we are fearful of others having power over us, and this constant conflict has been raging from day one.  Many still today believe — a fear-driven belief — that to prevent others taking power over them, they must wrest that power away from their brothers and exert power over them.  This can be seen in any environment of interaction with our fellows, such as international ‘diplomacy’, places of business, commerce and industry, as well as in domestic situations.     

Power with comes from a recognition of equality of Being that is the brotherhood of man in the Sonship of God.  Outward, superficial differences, such as one having greater skills than a brother in a certain area of capability, and thus placing him in a position of natural leadership, can be benignly applied as sharing, teaching, heart-centred relationship, not bullying, browbeating, belittling, fear-engendering.  

Jesus demonstrated power with his brethren in the Sonship, seeing past their own misperceptions of self to the God-given power that we all truly, equally share because in the sight of God we are all equal.  Thus he is our example to emulate, our template by which to allow him/the Holy Spirit to correct and thus heal our mind, restoring it from its seemingly split-off-from-Truth state to wholeness (holiness). 

A brief quote from Gary Renard’s book Your Immortal Reality – How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death:  

...it’s through your own choice for the Holy Spirit and His thought system instead of the ego’s that your mind is returned to peace.  That has to happen first in order for you to go home... If peace is the condition of the Kingdom, then the mind has to be at peace in order to fit in.  And in order for the mind to be at peace, you have to forgive.  It’s as simple as that. 

Most believe (or at least, hope!) they will find peace when they ‘die and go to Heaven’.  But Heaven isn’t after we ‘die’; it is here, everywhere, NOW, always, uninterruptibly.  Peace — and therefore, our key to Heaven’s Gate — is not something we have to strive for against overwhelming odds.  It is something that is our natural estate, and which can be restored to our awareness by the Holy Spirit simply by desiring, choosing, having a little willingness, to remember this and accept it as our free, God-given gift. 

Love and endless blessings for our restoration to oneness, 

Brian Longhurst 

…only by letting go and attuning with the Creator Spirit can we regain/restore man’s “instinct” to be one with the Father, who truly lives within us but Earth-minded focusing of consciousness has taken our awareness of this reality away.

Essential Diary, 10.7.1988

January 11^th 2012

Dear Friends,

 The world (ego) loves labels.  It wants to pin a label — or myriad labels — on us all.  Some might want to pin a label on me that for them might read ‘Mystic’, but for others might read ‘Fruitcake’.  Some might be labelled ‘Murderer’, or ‘Rapist’, or ‘Child Molester’, or ‘Nymphomaniac’, or ‘Alcoholic’, or...  we all know people on whom we have pinned one ‘dark’ label or another, at one time or another. 

 Who amongst us can say they have been none of those things in one illusory incarnation or another?  And those dark, dream memories lurk deep in our unconscious mind, where they will remain to haunt, plague, trouble us, yet are too fearful for us to countenance, so are kept hidden, in a vain attempt at self-defence against their horrors.  They might occasionally rise to the surface in a déjà vu encounter, or a dream or phantasm, catching us off guard. 

 After all, if there were not unhealed, unresolved, unforgiven issues awaiting our attention, for release and dispelling as the unreality that they actually are, we would have no reason to believe we are limited, in time and place, separated from our Source in the complete, eternal bliss of Heaven.

We call what seem like adversities, but are actually opportunities, into our presence — so we can face them, forgive them, release them — as a reminder of why we seem to be in this make-believe, upside-down state of mind, all the while masquerading to the world under the label we have applied to ourself, such as ‘Lawyer’; ‘Teacher’; ‘Counsellor’... or ‘Model Citizen’.

But in this game of pretend few truly perceive themself as a ‘model citizen’, inwardly believing they are ‘anything but that’.  What might our reaction be to having one of those dark labels pinned on us?  Would we not try to defend ourself, try and diminish the anticipated dreaded, ubiquitous judgement, condemnation and punishment?  Thus are the two modern ‘commandments’ for this counterfeit life: Do unto others before they do unto you and Thou shalt not be found out.  

So, when we do get found out, we might say: 

 “I may have done this thing as stated on the label pinned on me, but it is not the entirety of who I am.  If anyone would be willing to listen to the circumstances that brought me to that event instead of judging (actually, pre-judging) without all the evidence, they could see me in a different light, more completely.  For to understand all is to forgive all.  Underneath this label I am an ordinary person, like everyone else.   

“In my heart and soul I am not a ‘monster’; just lonely and fearful, and in my reaching out for love, help, caring — in an unloving, unhelpful, uncaring, judgemental world — I made a mistake, took a wrong turn, went astray.” 

Does this not apply to us all, to one degree or another?  Imagine a world where there were no labels.  In Northern Ireland, for example, many people labelled ‘Catholic’ have been weaned for generations into hatred of neighbours labelled ‘Protestant’, and vice-versa.  Blind judgements and guilty verdicts have been made because of those labels, and in all too many cases, executions carried out.  Without any indicator of who was on which side of the artificial divide, no-one would have known who to hate and who to embrace.   

This applies in any conflict, where prejudice decides the attitude and the course of action, instead of a willingness to decide based on all the information, and foremost, a willingness to forgive. Prejudice and forgiveness are opposites, and mutually exclusive, because prejudice means judging, deciding on a guilty verdict ahead of having all the pertinent information.  Forgiveness means forgiving ahead of, or without a need for, all the information, Knowing that we are ALL innocent, just as our true Self Knows, and Jesus came to demonstrate and remind us. 

Labels are of the without, ego’s principality, and are devised to keep us focused on the without, the limitation of detail (and we all know the saying ‘the devil is in the detail’, though we are free to commit the detail into the benign care of the Holy Spirit), thus ensuring misperception, judgement and condemnation. Many of us have been applying labels to ourself for indeterminate numbers of incarnations: Guilty; Unworthy; Unloved; Unlovable; Hateful; Ignorant; Stupid... and many of these have been compounded by the doctrines and dogmas of fear-based religions, which attach to us such dark labels as ‘Sinner’, ‘Guilty’, ‘Unworthy’, ‘No health in us’... 

But the Spirit of Truth, Who uses all ego’s devices to undo ego by reinterpreting ego’s meaning — bringing illusions to the truth — can play the label-pinning game too.  He has an array of labels — ‘Light labels’ — that He will gladly pin on us.  Here are a few examples: ‘The Son of God’; ‘The Light of the world’; ‘Eternal’; ‘Indivisible’; ‘Invulnerable’; ‘Loving’; ‘Lovable’; ‘Immortal’; ‘All-Empowered’; ‘All-Knowing’; ‘Worthy’.   

By following ego’s script of littleness, limitation, guilt and fear we apply labels to ourself and our brothers (and everything else) in a blind endeavour to define our perception and establish our perceived worth, but this reduces us to immeasurably less than we are.  How can we define the infinite, which is, of course, indefinable? 

The Truth needs no labels, for It is self-evident, and behind every label, every outward appearance is Papa’s beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased.  What would we label him?  What would we label Jesus?  ‘Teacher’?  But for those who would affirm that, there are those who would dispute it.  Many would label him according to the beliefs they have adopted as their own from an institutionalised belief system.  Yet someone from another religion would say that belief is false, prejudiced, biased, because they have an alternative perception, based on their prejudiced, limited, biased view.  

In chapter 4 of ACIM Jesus says:

I am constantly being perceived (‘labelled’) as a teacher either to be exalted or rejected, but I do not accept either perception for myself. 

He goes on to say:

Your worth is not established by teaching or learning.  Your worth is established by God.  As long as you dispute this everything you do will be fearful, particularly any situation that lends itself to the belief in superiority and inferiority. 

Labels distract us from the whole (holy) reality of our Being, resulting in our limited, incomplete beliefs — from which we derive our perceptions — so that we don’t look within. One could substitute the word prejudices for beliefs, and that would, and does, upset many.  Followers of orthodox Christianity would label Jesus the one and only Son of God, the Saviour, the Christ.  Others might say he is a mystic, a great prophet, an enlightened being, an ascended master.  Most of these labels separate him as someone different, greater, special, higher, apart, separate from the rest of us.  

Let us imagine we are at a conference, a lecture, where the speaker is very learned on his subject and inspires the audience with his knowledge, and the way he (or she) puts it across, shares it with them.  Many might say he is ‘awesome’, an inspired speaker, a great man, and perhaps leave without having the chance to engage in conversation with him on a one-on-one, personal level.  Those who didn’t get to meet him might say to themselves, ‘I would love to have met him, but he’s very busy, very important, and why would he want to meet me?’   

And that is where it’s left.  So he is labelled ‘Unreachable’.  Yet that view is self-labelling as ‘Unworthy’ of being met by him. 

Now, another attendee who did decide to meet him, went up and introduced himself and engaged in conversation, finding the speaker to have a natural humility; an interest in this attendee, and listened carefully to what he said; answered his questions in a meaningful way that could be readily understood; asked him questions that got him thinking in new ways about things that never previously made sense; was fun, uplifting, inspiring, a joy to be with and made the attendee feel they were equals. 

Two separate perspectives, two different labels.  Neither can be accurate because neither is complete.  And what if this great, kindly, friendly, caring speaker was subsequently revealed to be a pædophile?  What label would we pin on him then? 

No ‘label’ we apply to ourself or another is real because they all limit us, diminish us.  That is ego’s objective, to reduce our perception, distort it, render us little, temporal, imperfect.  But, like our Creator, Who created us exactly like Himself, we simply ARE; and whole, complete, eternal, perfect BEING is unconditional Love.  BEING cannot be labelled, is beyond description, beyond definition.  Any label is a judgement, and all judgement is incomplete, and thus, flawed, because it is only a perception; and perception is, by definition, limited.  Perception is deception. 

So, how do we abandon labels in order to see past the limitation we have placed upon ourself, to the ‘unlabellable’ reality of our true Being?  The fact is, we can’t abandon those labels, prejudices, judgements without Help, because without that Help all the information needed to make not a fair judgement but a fair assessment, is not available to us.  That is because we have limited our awareness of all circumstances, thoughts, perceptions of all the other people involved in or affected by the events we observe, to just one tiny, narrow band of belief, and this becomes our own, separate, and therefore incomplete, perception.   

Until our discernment is complete and whole, which it cannot be if there is any ego still operating in our mind, causing it to seem split-off from Truth — which is complete and whole — we are not equipped to make judgements or apply labels; to ourself or anyone.  But by placing all decisions regarding ourself, our brothers and events and circumstances in the care of the Spirit of Truth we can let go of that automatic labelling process.  This is not easy because most of our labelling takes place with barely any conscious awareness of it happening.  

It takes motivation, commitment, desire for release from the carousel of birth and death.  And it is not just birth and death through which this carousel takes us on a ride.  Its intent is that it take us through the Slough (or mire) of Despond, the City of Destruction, Hill Difficulty, Valley of Humiliation, Doubting Castle and numerous other dispiriting places, as described by John Bunyan in his famous allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress.  For those of us steadfastly focused on the illusion, Life is tough and then you die is a sorry aphorism. 

But, with steadfast commitment to, focus upon joining with, the Spirit of Truth we can abandon labelling, or the self-limiting process of judgement, and move, through forgiveness, to peace, all-Knowing and all-Empowerment.  Here is how Jesus expresses it in ACIM:  

If you want peace you must abandon the teacher of attack.  The Teacher of peace will never abandon you. You can desert Him but He will never reciprocate, for His faith in you is His understanding. It is as firm as is His faith in His Creator, and He knows that faith in His Creator must encompass faith in His creation (i.e. us, His Son)...  With your perfection ever in His sight, He gives the gift of peace to everyone who perceives the need for peace, and who would have it.  Make way for peace, and it will come.  For understanding is in you (and Holy Spirit will reveal it in us when we ask Him), and from it peace must come.

The power of God, from which they both (peace and understanding) arise, is yours as surely as it is His.  You think you know Him not, only because, alone, it is impossible to know Him.  Yet see the mighty works that He will do through you, and you must be convinced you did them through Him.  It is impossible to deny the Source of effects so powerful they could not be of you.  Leave room for Him, and you will find yourself so filled with power that nothing will prevail against your peace...

(From T-14.XI.14,15. My emboldening and italic, for emphasis.)

May all who seek uplift, encouragement, strength be exhorted by these radiant words from Jesus that resonate so powerfully with the Truth of our Being as Papa’s beloved Son, 

Brian Longhurst

It is by allowing the Father within to expand His dwelling place by inviting Him to take control of your life and giving up your own leasehold on your life, that He can begin to grow and fulfil your inner being.

Jesus, 31.07.1988

January 18^th 2012

Dear Friends,

We do not see with our bodily eyes, we see with our mind.  If our mind is attuned to, or in a state of at-onement with Christ Mind, then our vision is true, or single, because our mind is attuned to Eternity and only Eternity is real.  If our mind is divided, or split, between time and Eternity, between ego and Christ, then our vision will be — can only be — split, or double, or confused.  Bodily eyes show us what we, in our confused state of mind, believe, not what, in our right mind, we Know.  Bodily eyes cannot show us what we Know, because Knowledge is of God, is eternal and does not change.    

All that our eyes show us is temporal, changes constantly and passes away, thus clearly demonstrating it is an illusion and therefore not real.  Our eyes show us what we believe.  What we believe, we perceive.  Just because we believe something does not make it true, or real.  Nor does perceiving.  We are free to choose what we believe.  When we believe the truth we are in a state of right mindedness, even if this is initially intermittent because in our confused state we fluctuate between right mindedness and wrong (or ego) mindedness.   

As we become more steadfast in our choice, or desire, or motivation for truth, and more and more willing to relinquish our belief in illusion, so does our at-onement with reality increase and become less and less intermittent.  This also, of course, means we are becoming more and more right minded.  Further, we are becoming more and more able to discern the difference between reality and illusion.  That discernment is enabled by our choice for truth, which authorises the Spirit of Truth — our own Higher Self — to shine the Light into our mind. 

That Light literally shines away the shadows of doubt and confusion that cause our misperceptions, restoring to us our power of Spiritual Discernment. This opens our inner, single, clear vision to reality.  Once we have had even a glimpse of reality we will never again be deceived by illusion.  A glimpse of reality causes us to become more focused, motivated, one-pointed in our desire only for reality, eternity, wholeness.  True vision, available from, or to, our right mind, is whole and therefore holy (which has nothing to do with religious conviction or piety) and once we see the truth, we Know it.  

Knowledge is certain, absolute and real because it is of God and eternity, so is not open to restructuring by debating, hypothesising, philosophising, which ego constantly does, to keep the doubt and confusion rolling.  How can the eternal, the unchangeable be restructured?  Knowledge eliminates doubt, so with Knowledge comes Peace.  Peace is impossible in the presence of doubt.  Knowledge is of God, the King of Eternity, not of ego, ‘the prince of time and place’.  An ego-yoked mind searches ceaselessly for knowledge but looks in the wrong place — the temporal, unreal universe — where all it can find is information, which it perceives as knowledge. 

Perception is not sight; it is our choice for littleness — a little, limited view, not a complete, whole discernment, awareness, understanding, Knowing — telling, showing us, ‘confirming’ that what we mistakenly believe is real.  We have made-up what we believe, and in time and place consciousness, forgotten that we made it up, so when we perceive it we believe it is happening outside ourself, as an effect, so it must be real, whereas we are the cause of what we perceive.  How can it be otherwise, since no-one else perceives what we perceive?  And we don’t perceive what they perceive.    

In a dream we appear to see people — others and ourself — doing things, interacting; some pleasant, some fearful, many nonsensical; a reflection of our nonsensical dream of separation.  Within the dream it all seems very real, but when we wake up we realise it was only a dream and that none of it actually happened.  It has passed away, disappeared.  We made up the illusion that we are apart from Papa, that we are separate, little, mortal.    

When we choose to no longer believe it is real we can forgive the illusory world that our split-off mind, inured to thoughts of guilt, fear and death, has made.  Here is how Jesus says it in ACIM:  

You see in death escape from what you made. But this you do not see: that you made death (not just ‘dying’ but the whole idea of separation from our Source, and thus, mortality), and it is but illusion of an end. Death cannot be escape, because it is not life in which the problem lies. Life has no opposite, for it is God. Life and death seem to be opposites because you have decided death ends life. Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real.

(From ACIM, M-20.5.  My italic and emboldening, for emphasis.) 

When we are in conversation with other people, what part, we might ask ourself, of our being is communicating?  It is, of course, our mind.  This is, therefore, mind-to-mind commun(icat)ion.  In our confused state of mind we seem to believe that bodies are needed for this, so, believing it, that is our perception (‘what we believe, we perceive’).  But bodies are made up; like the rest of the without, they are not real.  So bodies are, in reality, dispensable when it comes to commun(icat)ing.   

On the other hand, mind is not made up; it is confused, indecisive, uncertain if we believe illusion is reality.  So if we make up our mind that we can commun(icat)e with a brother who has laid aside his body — i.e. is functioning from spirit, or the etheric counterpart of Earth — then that is entirely possible.  In fact, it is also entirely possible whether that brother with whom we desire to commun(icat)e has laid aside his body or not, since in reality bodies are nothing to do with the process — unless we believe they are; then, for us, they appear so to be.  But that is only a belief, not a fact in reality.  

Conversely, we have to believe we can commune with a brother in spirit in order for that reality to become our reality.  Jesus tells us in ACIM that there is no difference between him and us, other than in our mistaken belief that there is a difference; yet, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do. (Jn. 14:12).  Clearly, it is all about belief.  We are so immersed in false belief and thus, misleading perception, that it takes steadfast commitment and practice to change our mind about what is reality.  

It is easy to commune with Jesus when we recognise him as the loving, caring brother he is.  He longs for us to accept him as the friend he actually is, just as he longs for us recognise that he accepts us as his friend (not some lowly, fearful, unworthy sinner he will come to judge and find guilty).  He is, assuredly, without a body yet it is not hard to believe in the possibility of communing with him.  We transform that possibility into reality by believing it is a reality and can therefore become our reality.  This is equally true for any other loved one with whom we desire to commune. 

As we get better, through practising, retraining our mind, reminding ourself that eternal reality is NOW, always, forever — not something that will (hopefully) be our future, after we ‘die’ — so our faith grows stronger.  There is much confusion between faith and desire.  Ego would have us believe that if we cannot achieve our desire by an act of faith straight away it is because our faith isn’t strong enough.  Yet it is not our faith that must be strong but our desire.  Here is how Jesus explained this to me in May 1997: 

My son, it is to the act of Asking, Seeking, Knocking that your Heavenly Father, Papa, responds freely, lovingly, immediately, with His giving.  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... 

Our salvation — the healing of our fragmented minds back to wholeness, or Christ mindedness — depends on desire for at-onement, restoration to the remembrance of the reality of our Being.  Ego would have us believe we are guilty, sinners, and no longer worthy of God’s good gifts, His empowerment; God has cast us out of Heaven.  So we don’t ask because we believe He will not hear us, or will deny us, so there is no point in even desiring. 

And even if we do desire something, we had better not set our sights too high, such as the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth; we had better desire only something we, in our self-imposed littleness, can attain — maybe — by ourself.  Good old ego; ever reliable to mislead us J.  

Let us not rely on ego but on him who tells us: When I said “I am with you always,” I meant it literally. I am not absent to anyone in any situation.  Because I am always with you, you (also) are the way, the truth and the life. (ACIM, T-7.III.1:7-9).  

There is something immeasurably better than this mistakenly perceived little life of birth, fear, striving, sickness and death, only to be repeated until we forgive the world: From the forgiven world the Son of God is lifted easily into his home. And there he knows that he has always rested there in peace. (ACIM, T-17.II.7:1,2.)  This forgiveness of ourself and our brothers thus easily enables us to accept that God’s one Son — dreaming of separation and fragmentation into myriad isolated, limited parts — never left Heaven.  We are that Son and we have never ceased to Be just as Papa created us:  

You are as God created you. All else but this one thing is folly to believe. In this one thought is everyone set free. In this one truth are all illusions gone. In this one fact is sinlessness proclaimed to be forever part of everything, the central core of its existence and its guarantee of immortality. 

 (ACIM, W-191.4:2-6) 

There is something immeasurably better than this mistakenly perceived little life of birth, fear, striving, sickness and death; a carousel on which we make innumerable circuits until we remember who we are.  Helen Shucman, scribe for Jesus of ACIM, wrote some beautiful poetry, inspired by him and published by the Foundation for Inner Peace under the title The Gifts of God.  This extract reminds us that we are tenderly loved, watched over and cared for: 

In my hands is everything you want and need and hoped

to find among the shabby toys of earth.

I take them all from you and they are gone.

And shining in the place where once they stood

there is a gateway to another world

through which we enter in the Name of God.

Let us not allow ego to cause us a misunderstanding of his words here.  He will not take our shabby toys from us until we are freely willing to give them up.  All the while we fear to release them into his loving hands he will leave them with us.  But as we come to gladly accept the Light of Spiritual Discernment back into our beleaguered minds we see their worthlessness.   

Then will we open our hearts and, rejoicing, let them go into his hands for disposal back to the nothingness from which they came. And he will replace them with the priceless treasure of restoration to the Knowledge of endless Love, Peace, Joy; Oneness in the Heart of God. 

Endless Love, Peace and Joy,

Brian Longhurst

I have asked for and been given this command by Our Heavenly Father, Creator Spirit, to lead man forward to his destiny, his birthright, his inheritance, away beyond the destructive, repetitive ways of the Earth.

Jesus, 15.08.1988

January 25^th 2012

Dear Friends, 

In The Manual for Teachers of ACIM section 24, regarding the subject of reincarnation, Jesus says: 

In the ultimate sense, reincarnation is impossible.  There is no past or future, and the idea of birth into a body has no meaning either once or many times.  Reincarnation cannot, then, be true in any real sense. Our only question should be, “Is the concept helpful?”  And that depends, of course, on what it is used for.  If it is used to strengthen the recognition of the eternal nature of life, it is helpful indeed...   (My italic, for emphasis)

Of course it isn’t real because it is not eternal, but within the dream of separation, the illusion of time and place, it is an experience that, like so many of our nighttime dreams, incarnation and reincarnation seems so real.  And because time appears to be linear, reincarnations (or acts, as I call them) seem to follow in linear progression.  I have had awareness of at least six ‘previous’ acts, in one of which I was beheaded in what is now northwest China, many centuries ago.  Incarnating repeatedly is part of the dream cycle of birth and death that I dub the carousel. 

Many of us ‘believe’ in reincarnation, many of us do not; many, like me, have remembrances of ‘past’ lives.  It seems logical that if we are open to the concept, then within the context of ‘the dream’, we will be more likely to have awarenesses, or remembrances of such experiences, because we have not closed our mind to the idea.  And if we commit the possibility of any and all such awarenesses into the care, guidance and protection of the Spirit of Truth, on the basis that He will bring to our remembrance whatever is serviceable to our Awakening, all will be well, and according to His perfect charge over our lives.  

Because this dream of separation from Love (Papa) is, or seems to be, the opposite of reality — and thus it can meaningfully be called the consciousness of fear — whether or not we remember, there is every probability we have all experienced terrible, fearful things in former acts.  That is enough to make most of us not want to experience awareness, or remembrance of such.  So they are hidden away deep in our unconscious mind.  But, out of sight is not out of mind.  It may be ‘under the carpet’ but that does not mean it is gone, dealt with, dispelled, healed.     

In some acts we may have been the perpetrator of some terrible event(s), and in others we may have been on the receiving end.  This is inevitable where the Son of God has excluded himself from the Light, the Love, the Peace that is Oneness in Heaven, in favour of darkness, guilt and fear. 

It is certain that if placed in Holy Spirit’s care, any unpleasant, fearful, terrible past-act events that are brought to our awareness will be for the purpose of helping to heal broken relationships by showing us how, in so many instances they came to be broken through karmic entanglements established in ‘former’ acts.  How else would we find out?  All such karmic entanglements have to be healed if the fragmented Sonship of God is to be rejoined in the Oneness-in-Love that is Its true nature.  All too often a relationship in ‘this’ act ends up broken for no apparent reason, and this can be very hurtful and bewildering to those experiencing it.  Just how the ego wants it.  

It leaves them asking themselves, ‘How (or why) did that happen?  What did I do to cause that?’  There seems to be no visible, meaningful reason or purpose for it, yet there is usually no denying that something has gone badly wrong.  Without some clue to a greater understanding of cause — which the Holy Spirit is perfectly capable of bringing to us, when we are willing to ask Him — ego holds the trump cards of ignorance, and the parties involved in the broken relationship keep adding fuel to the fire of enmity that keeps that pesky carousel turning, with us firmly strapped to it. 

I have known for decades that we carry what I call the seed memory of all events, in all acts — ‘past’ and ‘future’ — dormant in our unconscious mind.  All these are records (what some refer to as The Akashic Records) are testimony to the brokenness, the fragmentation of the One Son of God.  ‘Just a minute,’ some will say, ‘the Akashic Records don’t just record terrible events but all events, and many are beautiful, inspiring, uplifting, giving hope to the soul of man.’  Of course this is true, and it is self-evident that not every event in history, or the future, is terrible.  That's duality.   

Even the events we might label ‘terrible’ from our Earth-mind perspective are — as with everything that appears to happen in the illusion of time and place — actually opportunities to transform ‘adversity’ into fulfilment.  In this context, fulfilment means healing, through forgiveness and release from the karmic entanglement, so that the fragmented Sonship can be restored to joyful, sublime oneness in Christ.  

Theresa and I experienced the breaching of relationship with some brothers dear to our hearts a few years ago.  Although there were signs of it approaching, like so many who don’t want brokenness, we tried to block out the warning signs that had been brewing for some time.  But it was inevitable that the breach was going to happen.  Even so, when it happened, the ferocity of it was staggering, with all manner of accusations, grievances and judgements flying around.  Where had all this come from?  We were bewildered, confused, dismayed by what, to our conscious minds, was completely unfounded. 

I am confident that such is the experience of vast numbers of the fragments walking the Earth in these crucial times of fulfilment of the GRP.  Theresa and I committed this situation into the care of the Holy Spirit, asking for understanding of the cause of this breach.  Within a few days we started having what we called flash awarenesses of events and circumstances that had taken place during an incarnation in the 1600s.  This happened a bit at a time over a period of several weeks, and we started to get a clearer understanding of what we were being shown.   

There were other players in this emerging picture, that began to get darker in portent as it unfolded.  I wrote to a friend with whom I had been sharing these flash awarenesses, that I had a strong intuition something terrible was going to happen, and I definitely did not want to ‘go there’!  Within a fortnight I had ‘gone there’ in another in the series of flash awarenesses.  This time I, in my 1600s act as a farmer, ‘Paul’, was sitting in my study writing with a quill pen, the wood-panelled room illuminated by candlelight.   

There was a knock at the door and in came a group of six or seven people, all well known to Paul, though most of them estranged to him as a result of a serious disagreement over religious beliefs and doctrines. 

They greeted Paul, indicating their intent of having a friendly chat, to see if bridges could be built and a healing — or at least, an amicable compromise reached — about this derailing of longstanding friendly relationships.  I was watching this event as if viewing a play; unseen by, and unknown to, Paul and his unexpected and unannounced visitors, though from my position as observer, I knew that I was Paul.  I was both observing as an independent, impartial spectator and experiencing the drama from Paul’s perspective, all at the same time.  I could feel Paul’s uncertain, suspicious reaction to this unwanted intrusion.   

There was something about their demeanour that belied their conciliatory words as they moved closer to his desk and chair, gradually surrounding him.  Suddenly they grabbed him, tied him tightly to his chair and crushed his tongue with an animal castrator.  It was a terrible scene and a terrible trauma for Paul.  I, the observer, experienced the physical pain but that was greatly overshadowed by the anguish I felt coming from him. 

There, the spectacle ended, but one of the key features of these flash awarenesses is that, after the visual presentation is over, a growing understanding of what lies behind the events continues to take place.  That is the major intent behind them.  What this unfolded to my understanding was that Paul had been, with the perpetrators of the tongue crushing, committedly, deeply involved in the puritan church.  Doctrinal disagreements, revealed by the earlier flash awarenesses, had caused the breach in the relationship between these people and Paul.   

Theresa had been Paul’s wife, Esther, in this 1600s act, though Esther had passed away before this latest scene took place. There was much, much more detail revealed in these flash awarenesses that needs no expression here, other than that Paul, utterly disillusioned by the false doctrines, unChristlike behaviour and hypocrisy of the church, had begun speaking out strongly against it.  The literal-minded perceptions of adherents to such false doctrines and interpretations of the scriptures had caused these erstwhile friends of Paul to decide they had to silence him. 

To them, a crushed tongue would prevent him from being able to speak.  This literal-mindedness failed completely to account for the fact that it in no way prevented him from writing his views and discernments concerning the nature of what we can now see is a distorting of the life of Jesus and his real purpose in deliberately planning to submit himself to the crucifixion. This is discussed in the MoE dated April 27^th 2011, and in more detail in Vignettes 11 and 12 in Part Two of “Seek ye First the Kingdom...”.  

This endeavour to stop their former church member, friend and colleague from exposing the false teachings of institutionalised religion backfired on the conspirators because it made Paul all the more determined to continue, using the medium of the pen rather than the voice, but more critical for them was that their clumsy endeavour subsequently filled them with guilt. 

It is inevitable that in a realm of duality there is ‘good and evil’, having, as the Eden allegory in Genesis states it, eaten of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  And these same Akashic Records, or dormant seed memories, also contain remembrance, or awareness, of our Being before partaking of that fruit, when we, as Papa’s one Son knew only glorious Oneness in Him.  That awareness is complete and we are Awake to it in our true, whole, Christ Mind, which is inviolate in reality even though we appear to have veiled our sight from it with illusions of guilt, fear and mortality by playing the game of make-believe, and believing the game is real. 

When we have allowed our split-off mind that dreams of experiencing good and evil — duality — to be restored to wholeness, holiness, oneness with our Christ Mind, all that we appear to dream, and to have dreamt, will be gone, just as nighttime dreams are gone upon our waking in the morning.  Then, always and forever, all we will know is the Glory of our oneness in God.  But before we can be restored to awareness of that eternal reality we have to dispel from our mind the false belief in guilt.  

That sense of guilt is so terrible that we try to rid ourself of it by projecting it onto a brother, acted out as judgement and condemnation.  But that does not rid us of it because we are all one, in spite of appearances that we are separate.   Projection simply causes us to see what is actually a reflection of ourself, mirrored in our brother.  If we see the guilt in him it is how we actually perceive ourself.  As Jesus teaches us in ACIM, we dispel the whole, false idea of guilt (how can we be guilty for dreaming a game of make-believe?) by forgiving our brother, and ourself, for what has never actually happened.  

This is why we have to keep reincarnating — to call into our presence opportunities to forgive our brother onto whom we have projected our guilt, so that all may be forgiven, dispelled and we are then released back to wholeness within the healed, reunited oneness that is the Christ, Papa’s beloved, innocent Son.  Under ego’s yoke of smoke and mirrors, hiding this understanding from us, we keep reincarnating — providing ourself with opportunities — but the wrapping paper of adversity hides from our sight the opportunity contained within it.

Esther and Paul had reincarnated as Theresa and me, to provide another encounter with those involved in the tongue-crushing — some, at least, also now reincarnate and ridden by unconscious guilt, manifesting in and projected as judgement — so that forgiveness could be performed between all parties and thus, the multi-act relationship could be restored from brokenness to wholeness. 

The Holy Spirit showed Theresa and me, in response to our asking, these flash-awarenesses of the Akashic record — in this case, of these illusory events of the 1600s — that we store in our unconscious minds, so we would understand where the breach of relationship that took place a few years ago had originated.  To understand all is to forgive all.  We had asked for help in understanding, and been given it.   

Our willingness to receive it enabled us to experience the events from a former act that enabled us to understand the cause, making forgiveness, with love and blessing, possible and immeasurably easier.  The breakdown of the relationship, appearing as adversity, had become an opportunity — a magnificent gift — that, by our surrender to the Holy Spirit’s healing process, provided the mechanism for releasing us from the bondage of karmic entanglement. 

We all can easily be relieved of burdens of judgement, guilt and grievance in broken relationships when we ask for help in understanding their cause, regardless of when the events causing the breach took place.  But it is of even greater benefit to the process by understanding that all such appearances of brokenness are merely symbols of our misperceived breach of relationship to God.  By allowing greater understanding of the causes of brokenness we can be rapidly healed and save an indeterminate number of further circuits on the carousel. 

Love, always,  

Brian Longhurst  

Each soul has appointed to him for an Earth-life journey souls who have close relationships with that soul to guide, protect, help forward the sojourner, each according to his readiness, progress and purpose of incarnating.

The Teacher, 04.09.1988

February 8^th 2012

Dear Friends,

 We are reminded in ACIM of  the importance of repetition in the retraining of our minds from the split-off-from-Truth, upside-down, illusory perception of time and place back to the Awakened state of oneness in God, in the eternity of Heaven.  So, I offer here an overview of what is happening in these extraordinary times of change and transformation, and which for many of us seem so uncertain and fearful.

According to Jesus, a Principle he refers to as the Atonement was established at the creation by God of His one, eternal, innocent, perfect Son.  He is unchangeably innocent and perfect because he is created in the exact likeness of his Father.  An aspect of the nature of the Son, or Christ, is that he is endowed with free will.  Freedom to create in like manner to his Father was essential to his nature because his Father is unlimited, so he too must be unlimited or he would not be exactly like his Creator. 

The Atonement was/is a Principle that ensured the Son could never be separated from his Father, for all eternity.  Such a separation could never actually happen because the Son is a Thought, an Idea, in the Mind of God, and Jesus reminds us that an idea never leaves its Source, though it can be extended, expressed from its Source.  We can have an idea and share it with others, but it forever remains an idea in our mind.  Extending, or sharing it does not separate it from us; it simply enlarges it.   

But Papa knew that freedom, unlimitedness of Mind in its creativity meant anything could be thought, or imagined ― even that which is not real.  Of course imagining the unreal does not make it real, but can make it seem to be real by voluntarily entering into a state of mind in which reality is momentarily forgotten.  For such a possibility as this was the Atonement Principle established.  As previously stated, it is like an architect incorporating a fire escape into the plans for a building. 

As we are now being reminded, such a requirement for the Atonement (fire escape) arose when Papa’s Son had a moment wondering what it would be like to experience being separate from his Father.  To be separate from the Source of eternal, perfect Love, Light, Peace and Joy could only mean the seeming opposite of all these kingdomly qualities.  

Hence, imaginary ― but very real seeming ― fear, (spiritual) darkness, despair and mortality.  Sound familiar?  It is evident that Papa Knew this as a possibility (hardly surprising since we can all readily assume Papa Knows everything J), because he had given His Son all power of creativity and free will.  Although He Knew separation is actually impossible, unreal, He also Knew it could be perceived as real to a part of His Son’s Mind engaging in a momentary fantasy.  

At the very instant the thought of separation occurred ― even though no time was involved in the thought, and it was over in the same moment it occurred (because there is only one moment; the eternal, holy instant) ― the Atonement Principle was implemented.  Because the illusory realm of separation is the ‘opposite’ of reality, so everything the part of the mind of Papa’s Son that seems to be separated from his Father perceives is the opposite of reality.  This includes its perception of the Atonement and its implementation.  Only when the fragments of the Sonship choose to see with their true, spiritual vision will they realise the truth of their Being.   

Meanwhile, since time immemorial, fear-based religions have perceived the Atonement as being a process which demands blood sacrifice as a device to assuage the wrath of a god made angry and vengeful by the sins of fallen mankind.  A new slant was given to this when Jesus’ crucifixion was mistakenly interpreted as the once-and-for-all-time blood sacrifice required by God for the remission of the sins of His children.  This ensured continuance of the interpretation by the split-off-from-Truth part of the Son’s mind ― ego ― of Atonement calling for death as the way to life.  Assuredly, all in their right mind would agree that this is indeed, an upside-down perception.  

We do not, cannot ‘atone’ for illusory sins by sacrifice, or even by stating that we believe God required a once and for all sacrifice for those imagined sins.  This is made unmistakably clear in various parts of the Old and New Testaments, as explained in detail in Vignette 12 of “Seek ye First the Kingdom...” 

The Atonement Principle was implemented by God, so says Jesus in ACIM, at the moment His Son had the thought of ‘going it alone’, by the calling into Being of the Spirit of Truth, or Holy Spirit, Which He placed in the mind of the Son who had gone out to play make believe in ‘a far country’ that we refer to as time and place.  This ensured that the Voice for God was inextricably within us, to accompany us throughout our dream of linear time, quietly Calling us to Awaken with His still, small Voice within our confused mind.  As yet most of the fragments do not hear this Voice because the distracting voice of ego seems to drown It out. 

There have been many throughout history who have stated their belief that what we perceive as reality on this carousel of birth and death is merely a dream, though most had no idea what to do about it, or how to wake up from it.  Until he whom we know as Jesus.  It was always going to be inevitable that there would be a first to Awaken from this dream of fragmentation and remember his true, eternal, invulnerable, unified nature as Papa’s Son.  And further, that which is the true nature of Being of all his brethren of Earth.  And that true nature, being Perfect Love, impelled him to commit himself to the rescue, or salvation, or waking from their slumbers of all his brethren of Earth. 

Jesus spoke the following message to Olga Park in August 1956. I quote it below because it is not just for her, but for the encouragement of all who, of sincere heart and seeking mind, earnestly desire to know, or remember, Spiritual Truth: 

“I have desired often to draw near to you, that you may know me more perfectly, but your eyes are dim as yet. Nevertheless, your ear is open to my call, and your heart is ready and obedient. Do not fear to tread the path I have marked out for you, because of the mistakes of others. You have not known it, yet I have been with you from the beginning.

“Do you think it was only to men of old that I have shown myself? Have I not said that if any man open to me I will come in and sup with him, and he with me? For I seek such and knock upon the doors of their hearts that they may open and receive me and know of a surety that I live. Blessed is he that hears my knocking; thrice blessed is he that opens to me.

“I am the guide of many. Let no man confuse you saying, ‘He is high and lifted up and cannot manifest to the children of men.’ For though I speak through the mouth of an angel, and though I write through the hand of a messenger, it is I; for I also am of your brethren of Earth, and it is the will of the Father that all shall know me, from the least unto the greatest.

“Come unto me, all you Little Ones, and you that labour, and I will refresh you with the joy of Heaven which I had with the Father before the time in which I dwelt with men.

“Do not be discouraged that the revelation is imperfect in the beginning. Greater things shall you do if your faith in me holds fast. These things have I spoken that you may know of a surety that I am the Messenger of the Holy One.

“Peace be with you!”

(My emboldening, for emphasis.) 

The Awakening of that first fragment, ‘the firstfruits of them that slept’ (1 Cor. 15:20), was the breakthrough that signalled the inevitability of the Awakening of all the fragmented Sonship, and the restoration of all to oneness, wholeness.  From then on, within the context of the illusion of linear time, we, Papa’s slumbering Son, had turned the corner and were now on the Home straight; entering the final phase of the Atonement, which Jesus has described to me as the Great Rescue Programme (GRP).  This is one and the same as his parable of the leaven, ‘which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, until the whole was leavened’. (Mt. 13:33.) 

The second, or ‘Jesus’ measure was leavened (raised up) by the espousal to Jesus and his GRP of millions of souls who experienced the glory of his perfect, unconditional, heavenly Love, during his incarnation two millennia ago and during the subsequent epoch; the Piscean Age.  These espousals took place during and between incarnations, whilst in the etheric counterpart of Earth, when greater awareness of and fellowship with Jesus is possible for all who desire it.  The objectives of this second measure have been accomplished, and in recent decades it has been superseded by the ascendant third, or Kingdom, measure; the Aquarian Age. 

The leavening of the third, Kingdom measure is now taking place.  The leaven is the souls who joined their lives (by love-engendered spiritual commitment) to Jesus’ during the second measure.  They are now ― during recent decades and on into the time ahead ― reincarnating in their millions, to share with, extend, express to their brethren the Love and Truth they have remembered as a result of that joining, or espousal.  This is in fulfilment of Jesus’ words to Olga Park in January 1965:  

“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 full text of this exquisitely beautiful, inspiring, uplifting, encouraging message can be found in chapter 7 of “Seek ye First the Kingdom...”)

This sharing is bringing new awareness of reality ― Light ― through forgiveness of darkness.  This forgiveness is easy because once the Light is seen ― even glimpsed ― the certainty of Knowing that darkness is unreal and therefore does not exist, remains forever, unshakeably.

From the perspective of an upside-down mind, time and place is a mix of good and evil ― classic duality ― so at least part of it is good.  God is good, so at least part of it must be created by God; we have just messed-up the other part because we are ‘fallen into sin’.  But in this perception, the point, the truth, is missed.  Duality requires opposites, as the dynamic on which to hang the illusion, the unreality, and give it the appearance of reality.  But duality ― all duality, including good and evil ― invites comparison, judgement, disagreement, doubt.  

Papa is not duality and neither is, or could be, His Creation.  Duality is not an aspect of God or His Creation; He and his Creation, His Son, Christ, Who is one in His Father, is singularity.  Duality results from double, or flawed vision; misperception.  Papa is not flawed, or double; He simply IS.  ISness is Oneness, not twoness.  To say Papa is ‘good’ implies something, or someone ‘better’.  And if we say God is ‘better’ or ‘best’, that would imply there was something or someone else in His creation that is less, or least, good. 

All in Papa’s Creation is, and can only be, perfect, just like Him.  Papa is Allness, Wholeness, Completeness.  This implies there is nothing excluded, so there is nothing that can be beyond, or other than Allness, Wholeness, Completeness.   

To believe otherwise would be to believe that a Perfect God is capable of creating something, or someone less than Himself.  God does not, has not, could not create anything, anyone less or other than in His own perfect likeness.  God and His creation IS and can only be perfect, and anything else can only be illusion; something we have made up. 

It is the Truth of Eternity to which we have been and are being constantly Called to Awaken.  That one Awakened is sufficient to make the Awakening of us all an inescapable certainty.  We can Know this beyond all doubt because the Voice that Calls us is calling from the end of time, Knowing that ALL ― including us ― was, is and can only, forever, be complete. 

Hark! J 

Brian Longhurst 

Prayer is an attunement, not a pleading.  Focus on, attune with the Living Word and It will illumine your path ― your mind.

Jesus, 11.09.1988

February 15^th 2012

Dear Friends, 

These ‘Messages of Encouragement’, or MoEs, began to happen, without this ever being aforethought by me, somewhere over 6 years ago.  No-one was more surprised than I that this was, clearly, the intent by the Spirit of Truth.  But I was a willing volunteer for whatever He had in mind, and that combination was all that was needed.  After about two years I began to be anxious that I was running out of ideas as to what to say.  I said to Him, ‘What do you want me to say?  I hardly know most of the recipients, scattered around the world, so how am I supposed to know what they want to hear?’ 

Immediately He responded, ‘You are not writing for them; you are writing for you.’  Was I surprised at that!  He went on to say, ‘Write about what interests you, and this will open up the channel of inspiration, allowing the Light to shine new understanding into your awareness.  If any of your fellows to whom you send these writings benefit, then that will be a bonus.  Do not concern yourself with what they need to hear; that is My job.’   

Needless to say, once I got over my astonishment, His words were a great relief and release of my anxiety, and I was able to focus on the areas of spiritual reality and the Awakening to clearer understanding of them that were of particular interest to me.  This did, indeed, open the channels, if only the dispelling of (at least much of) my anxiety about saying the ‘right’ things was the factor that made the difference.   And to my delight, so many have responded, week after week, to the effect, ‘You really said exactly what I needed to hear, just at the right time; how on Earth did you know?’ 

Well, of course, persona Brian (pB), with his seemingly separate, closed-off, individual mind, didn’t know, didn’t have a clue.  But, just like all the rest of us, pB’s mind isn’t closed-off, separate, individual.  He only thinks it is; has believed it is.  In reality, the one Son is of one Mind; even in its illusorily fragmented, separated state, the Son of God has One Mind, and It is One in the Father.  To believe/perceive otherwise does not alter the truth.   

So, when we open ourself, our mind, to the truth of this, and accept the reality of it as our reality, then down come those blockades, those fear-erected barriers that have kept us isolated, alone, lonely, bereft of the joy that openness to our true Self and the true Self of our brothers, including Jesus, affords.   These barriers are unlikely to all come down at once, but perhaps a few at a time, so as not to jolt us too severely in one go toward our Awakening.  But they will come down, in response to our willingness for it to happen, and the Light will be able to enter our mind and illuminate it, showing us the truth; that we are all One.   

The blockades or barriers are an essential feature of our game of make-believe.  They hide us from the Truth of Eternity and our oneness within It.  If we had not erected such barriers the Truth would be plain to see and we would immediately realise that we have only been pretending to be separate from our Self — Christ — and from Papa.  Game over.  But we have, in our mind, constructed them, like a wall that divides us, not just from Eternity, but even from our loved ones who have laid aside their illusory bodies and ‘died’; gone away to somewhere we know not.  Is it Heaven, or is it hell, or somewhere in between, or nowhere?  Who can be sure?  It is a mystery.  

This wall that restricts our vision seems so real that many perceive it almost as something sacred. ‘We cannot see behind it; it is protecting us from the unknown, where lurks we know not what.’  The truth is, what lies behind it is whatever we place there.  If our placement is fear, doubt, guilt, unworthiness driven, that is darkness — an absence of the Light by which Truth can be clearly discerned.  So there will, in our mind, be shadows, darkness, from which can spring who knows what terrible — devilish, even — phantasm?  Thank goodness for the Sacred Wall that will keep us from the unknown; so says fear.  

However, if our placement is Love, Peace, Joy, Truth-seeking, faith and trust motivated, assuredly, that faith and trust will enable Love, Peace, Joy and Truth to be revealed to us there.  And then we will realise that wall is not sacred, because it does not exist, and there was never anything to fear behind it; that there is no ‘there’, awaiting us when we ‘die’.  There is only Here, Now.  The Here is Papa and His beloved Son, Who Are everywhere, and the Now is always, eternally; forever.  ‘There’, when we ‘die’ — maybe — is all part of the illusory wall; all part of our game of make-believe. 

I have been blessed with awareness of the reality of what is usually referred to as the spirit world for most of my life.  This has been immeasurably enhanced and increased by my willingness to allow that awareness.  I was not fearful.  This does not mean I was oblivious to the dark, ‘basement flats’ in Papa’s House, the habitation of souls in deep forgetfulness of the Light that they are, and in their fear, guilt, terror, are calling for love in a misperceived way — by attacking all who venture near.  But as Jesus reminds us in ACIM, the only appropriate response to a call for Love is with Love, regardless of whatever way that call manifests itself. 

I was not fearful because my spiritual mentor, Olga Park, inculcated into Theresa and me, back in the 1960s, the vitally important understanding that any who make themselves known to us from spirit must be ‘tested’, by saying words to the effect, ‘If you come in the name and by the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, you are welcome.  If you do not, you are not welcome, and in his name and by his authority I command you to vamoose.’  Further, Olga counselled us to place ourselves always within Jesus’ care, guidance and protection.   

Her wise counsel has served us perfectly, and all who are known to us in spirit and are part of our extended spiritual family are in loving and blessed communion/relationship with us within the greater, wonderful-beyond-words family of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  We all have an extended family that is beyond merely biological relatedness.  Some are with us in our seemingly incarnate state and some are in spirit, yet as close to us, and as loving, as we are willing to allow, or permit.  The only thing preventing our awareness of their loving, caring, guiding, joyful presence is lack of willingness. 

That lack of willingness is engendered and maintained by fear.  Fear of the ‘unknown’.  The ‘sacred wall’ we have constructed in our mind ensures continuance of that unserviceable state for as long as we choose.  It is unserviceable because the rejoining, the healing of the fragmented Sonship back to our true estate of Oneness — through forgiveness of illusory ‘wrongs’ and thus releasing them back to the nothingness from which they arose in our minds — is essential to our awakening from the dream of brokenness back to full remembrance of our eternal oneness.  We are not, cannot be, in charge, or control of this with our limited mind, and to try is, at best, to invite confusion and frustration. 

This is not saying we have to proactively search out and force awareness of our brothers in the spirit realms, for that must always be by free choice.  It is saying that a willingness for our loved ones in spirit to come into our conscious awareness and commune with us, and for us to reach out — in our mind — to them in like manner, is highly serviceable to the healing and rejoining of the Sonship of God.   

Why would we want this?  Do we not have enough trouble with relationships here in the ‘physical’ world, without seeking to extend that, with the added problem of not being able to see who we are endeavouring to commun(icat)e with in spirit?  Further, how will we know it is who they appear to be, or say they are? 

In my experience, over 45 years, if the contact is benign (remember, malign contact is obviated by our voluntary placement within Jesus’ guiding, care and protection), it will be a blessing and a joy.  Further, there will be no doubt about who the visitor is, for they will make themselves known by any of a number of mechanisms, including intuition, which is soul (not intellect) awareness and the inner certainty of Knowing.  Also, such contact will not be for social chitchat, but to (re)establish a Love-bond; to serve the kingdomly purpose of rejoining, without which restoration to oneness cannot happen.  And, once such contact and communion is (re)established, it is there forever and cannot be lost (again). 

This willingness for such awareness brought a blessed experience that helped dispel a great sadness and transform it into joy recently.  We have dear and long-term friends from Vancouver, John and Helen, whom I have known and loved since 1965.  Helen passed away toward the end of January, after a 9-year struggle with cancer.  We knew the end of her sojourn in time was near, but the suddenness of her transition took us all, including John, by surprise.  It was a blessing, releasing her from the prospect of drawn out distress, for her and her family. 

John sent me an overnight email with the news.  There was just one word in the subject box: Helen.  As soon as I saw that I knew she had gone, and as I read his message, suddenly Helen was here with me, a couple of paces to my right.  She was radiant Light, so bright and shining that it would be dazzling to bodily eyes; but it was with my soul sight that I saw her, and with my soul awareness that I knew her state of Being.  This aura of Light radiated out from her at least an arms length in all directions — above, to the sides, front and back.  

There were 3 distinct vibrations radiating from her: peace, gentleness and JOY.  The first two were easily detectable, but the JOY — I simply have to capitalise it — was so powerfully radiating from her, less than 8 hours after her passing, that this was clearly her primary experience, more or less immediately.  And she just had to come and share that with me.  She knew I would be aware of her presence and the message — of joy at her release from her illness-racked body and the Light in which she now was present/immersed, and indeed to which she was contributing. So she was eager to let me know, without delay, that she is alive, wonderfully, JOYfully well and Here, Now, for there is nowhere else to Be, because we are all one, in Love, together, forever. 

I could write much more on the implications of this experience.  Suffice it to say that acceptance, allowing, welcoming communion with our loved ones in spirit is something they very much want, for our sake, our peace of mind, so we will Know of a certainty beyond all doubt, rather than just hope, that they are alive, well, happy, and NOT burning in hell for their ‘sins’.  Such doctrine, which has no truth in it because it is not in the Mind of God — the Source of all Truth — and is only, mistakenly, in our upside-down mind, is a made-up mythology to keep the fragmented Sonship of God stuck in the consciousness of fear.   

Just like the false doctrine that caused the erection of the Berlin wall, and its subsequent dismantling when its falsehood was discerned, the time is now with us for the dismantling of the ‘sacred wall’ — symbol of separation of Papa’s Son from himself by fragmentation and from his Father, Who IS Love.  As mentioned recently, there has to be a destructuring of the old, false, unserviceable constructs before restructuring of our Mind back to wholeness, oneness in the Kingdom can take place.  The sooner we, individually, are willing for that destructuring to take place, the sooner the Holy Spirit can commence His restructuring of our lives. 

Endless Love and blessings, 

Brian Longhurst  

Seek within yourself for the stillness, the peace, the knowing that all is well.  When you have experienced the Life and Joy of the Living Creator Spirit within yourself, you can seek and know that spark within others. 

The Rector, 25.09.1988

February 22^nd 2012

Dear Friends, 

Throughout the Christian Era — the last 2000 years — there has been much talk and speculation about the Second Coming of Christ.  This has created a ‘golden opportunity’ for ego — the consciousness of fear — to say what Jesus himself never said: that the Second Coming of Christ means Jesus is going to return in power and glory ‘to judge the quick and the dead’.  There is that dreaded word ‘judge’ (one of ego’s favourites) — something most of us do scores of times each day, to ourself and our fellows; but when it comes to Jesus judging us, well that is another story altogether.   

He’s going to judge us on behalf of a wrathful, vengeful, bloodthirsty god, using his own perfection as the measuring stick to see if we stack up for Heaven, or fall down for hell.  Well, we all know we don’t measure up to his standard, so we have everything to fear, everything to lose.  Since time and place is the reversal of reality — eternity — we should not be surprised that the time and place perspective comes down on the side of fear instead of eternity’s perspective: Love.  So, a quick reminder of what he who actually Knows has to say about the ‘end times’, or, the Second Coming of Christ, in this extract from the ACIM Workbook, page 449: 

9. 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...

... Christ [is] 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.

(My emboldening and underlining, for emphasis.) 

According to Jesus we are (all) the Light of the world. In ACIM Jesus tells us that he needs us all to be, with him, saviours of the world.  Clearly, this is a collective, inclusive process, in which we are all involved.  How could it be otherwise if we are all One?  There is, and can be, no judgement involved in this process.  So, if we say, ‘That old Bill, or that old Mary, can never make the grade; just look at their life.  They are a lost cause, for sure’, we are excluding ourself from the saving process, which needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet.  It needs your voice.  And most of all it needs your willingness.  

Our willingness to participate.  Most of us may not see ourself as equipped, or ‘worthy’ to participate, or know what to do even if we are willing.  There is one thing every living soul who appears to be with a body can do, regardless of their self-perception, for themselves and every other fragment of the Sonship: PCB.  Jesus counselled me in 1978 to PCB. This means Pray (for), Commit (into his care, or that of Papa and/or the Spirit of Truth) and Bless any and all.  Some we may perceive as our loved ones, some as our enemies, most as unknown strangers.   

In the sight of God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit it makes no difference.  All are loved unconditionally, equally, as one.  The whole essence of Jesus’ teaching in ACIM is that as we perceive those around us, so we see a reflection of how we perceive ourself.  If we see a brother as wrong, or guilty, or deplorable, this is a misperception, and a reflection of our unconscious (ego) self-perception.  ‘Do unto others as we would have them do unto us.’  So says Jesus.  Is there one amongst us who believes he meant that selectively?, when this same Jesus counsels us:  

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. (Mt. 5:44,45.) 

If we are one — as we all are if we believe Jesus knows what he is talking about — and we PCB a brother, or all our brothers, regardless of what appears to be going on, or however hopeless their or our situation appears to be, we are equally PCB’ing ourself.  And at the same time we are joining with those we PCB.  Rejoining, reunifying the fragmented Sonship is what the Second Coming of Christ — Christ restored as one Identity, in which the Sons of God acknowledge that they all are one — is all about.  The second coming of Christ is a within thing, not a without thing; a process, happening within us right now, of our Awakening to the truth of our magnificent, limitless Being.   

Regardless of our self-perception, there cannot be one amongst us who could not PCB if he so desired, so chose, and would choose if he knew that in so doing he makes a giant step toward the Light, his own salvation from fear and death, his own healing, his own remembrance of Who he really IS.  All that stands in the way is guilt-engendered fear and doubt.  By choosing to accept the truth, that we are NOT guilty, the fear can be, will be dispelled. 

Jesus says: 

(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.

(ACIM Workbook, page 401. My parenthesised words, underlining, emboldening and italics.)  

That is telling us that once we can see past the illusion of ‘sin’ (something we made up as part of the game of make believe, but which has no reality in truth, which is eternity), using the mechanism of (true) forgiveness, we see there is no guilt in us.  That means fear is exposed for the illusion it is, leaving no blocks to the awareness of Love’s presence within us. 

Love is Light, Truth, Peace and Joy, all of Which are qualities of God and of our True Self.  Our True Self is all-empowered with the power our Creator shared with His Son at his creation.  This power is without limit, without restriction.  Jesus demonstrated this during his time on Earth, and in truth, we are like him. 

So, having accepted that all false blocks to re-cognition of our true Being are nothing, nothing stands in our way in our PCB’ing activities as saviours, with Jesus, of the world. 

Theresa and I have very dear friends, Michael and Carolyn Roads.  Michael has written many books (and is still writing — very much a work in progress) about his travels in what he describes as his Light body.*  This is ‘out-of-body’ travel, under the guidance, tutelage and protection of what he terms ‘Pan’ — meaning ‘All’ — and what I understand as one and the same as the Spirit of Truth.  Michael writes extensively of his Light body travels in which he irradiates — with what he sees as Light, and is fully aware is the power of unconditional Love — people and places in dark and often despairing conditions. 

There are occasions on which Michael revisits a place where this irradiation has taken place, to see the beneficial — transformational — effects of such blessing endeavour.  This resonates very powerfully for me.  Those who have read my book, “Seek ye First the Kingdom...” (formerly titled “Synchronicity, for Goodness’ Sake”) will understand why, as I have described therein my heart for, and commitment to, what I have dubbed the rescue work.  In broad terms, irradiating people with unconditional Love and Light could be considered equivalent to PCB’ing. 

Early one morning last week, before daybreak, I awoke and lay there PCB’ing friends, loved ones, family, those experiencing illness, loneliness, broken hearts, despair... the list is long; and how sorely in need of PCB’ing is the world at large.  The refugees from the terror of Darfur (and other such horrifically conflicted areas), often in my mind, heart and blessings, came strongly into focus, and suddenly I was there, in my Light body — a first, to my awareness.  The scene was a vast settlement of makeshift tents and other shanty shelters, stretching out of sight in all directions. 

The predominating vibration was one bordering between hopelessness and despair, with the tens of thousands of people inert or engaged, automaton-like, in essential activities such as preparing meals from meagre rations, carrying water in whatever containers were available, attending to sick and dying children.  I was unaware of any actively playing children, so physically, mentally and emotionally exhausted were they — along with the entire community.  

Even though hopelessness was by far the prevailing energy, as I reflect upon the scene now I am aware that the human spirit is, in fact, inextinguishable, and that although it was subdued almost beyond detection, it would not take much to re-ignite it.  Alleluia! 

As I adjusted to this Light-body experience and took stock of where I was and what was happening, I became aware of the people nearby — perhaps within about a dozen paces from me.  The first to attract my attention was a man who looked about my age.  To my slight surprise he saw me almost immediately, and did a little double-take.  I then realised that he was no longer with a body.  He was what the world terms ‘dead’.  My feeling was that he had laid aside his body a few weeks or perhaps months ago, as a result of the conditions he and his people have been experiencing.  Death was very much in attendance in this place. 

This man, I intuited, was what might be termed an Elder amongst his people and had decided to stay with them subsequent to his demise because they were all he knew; he loved them unconditionally and wanted to be with them, vainly hoping in some way that he might be able to help them.  It takes a lot of effort to raise a smile in this state, but I did detect that, once he got over his surprise at seeing me — which only took a moment or two — he realised I was here to help, to PCB, and this discernibly uplifted his spirit. 

Although he was, as far as I was aware, the only discarnate person nearby, and all the others were incarnate — even if, for many, by little more than a thread — there is intercourse at the soul-awareness level, and his uplifted spirit, I could see, began to affect those proximate to him.  This uplift spread until it affected a dozen or more, of varying ages and either gender, but still moving out further into the camp, like a palpable wave of restorative balm.  Some became aware of the discarnate Elder.  It was clear they knew him and had sensed his presence in their midst, even if they had not actually seen him. 

He in turn told them of my presence.  They looked in my direction.  Some gradually became aware of me and the Light and Love I had been so blessed to be able to bring, to share, extend.  Their stooped posture straightened, their demeanour lightened.  This happened irrespective of their personal discernment of me or my new, discarnate friend’s presence.  One boy nearby, perhaps 12 years old, saw me and his face lit up, becoming animated with excitement. 

In December 1995 Jesus said to me: 

“... 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.” 

Like all physical activity, dancing starts in the mind, and when it becomes sufficiently powerful as a motivator, the body simply cannot help but respond, and begin rhythmically moving, or swaying; dancing.  As the power of the PCB’ing increased its uplifting, hope-restoring effect upon these people, so their spirits were raised.  Their auras brightened and they became joyful in the moment.  The Elder and I looked on, and he began to move, to dance, silently inviting me to join with him in this spontaneous demonstration of rejoicing.  Other, embodied souls, including the boy, picked up on the energy and they too began to move, sway, dance. 

This became infectious and more and more joined in, restored to hope, purpose, life.  The Elder and I, brothers now, performed a spontaneous, gently-turning-together minuet.  I thought of Michael and immediately he was with us, beaming in delight at this wondrous, transformational event.  Needless to say, I was profoundly gratified to see him, knowing that his presence would exponentially empower the uplifting of these precious souls in their desperate plight. He immediately joined the Elder and me in our minuet, with the incarnate souls around us each dancing their own dance of freedom. 

The ‘New Song’ is the sharing, extending, expressing, demonstrating — ‘singing’ — of the Truth of our Being as Papa’s innocent, eternal, limitless, all-empowered Son, with our brothers who have forgotten this Truth and perceive themselves as mortal, guilty, fearful, unworthy, bereft...  We are all, without exception equipped, by the Grace of God, with the gift, the voice, the power, to sing the New Song.  The ‘words’ are from our heart, where they have always been, given to Papa’s Son as an integral aspect of his (our) true nature at his creation.  We ‘learn’ the Song as we are willing to ‘sing’ it. 

Let us rejoin our hearts and minds as one, to sing this New Song, blending to form myriad harmonious counterpoints of Love, for the raising up of us all to the Light, our true and only Home, 

Brian Longhurst 

* www.michaelroads.com 

I shall serve the command I have received of my Father, to lead my flock forward unto the Kingdom of His Eternalness.  This service is possible because I am authorised by the Father.  Those I authorise are able to serve also because the authorisation gives power to accomplish.

Jesus, October 9^th 1988

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