Recently it has been made clear to me (again) that just being yourself is quite threatening to most folks.
IF you are just being yourself, you are not trying to change yourself to fit into the situation. You are present and responding honestly to what is in front of you. Not manipulating, just responding.
I noticed when I started teaching A Course In Miracles that immediately I had thoughts of changing myself and the message so that I could get butts in seats to make me feel I was succeeding.
I love this message that is offered in the Course, and I know it is not for the faint of heart, but I wanted to please and cajole.
Ha!
If you reduce the message to be attractive to the masses, you are only offering a DISservice…to yourself and anyone who happens to stumble upon your fear based version of the Course. I had to take myself to task on this issue.
But the interesting thing about the “Spiritual Community” as such, is that no one really questions anyone who puts themselves out as a teacher. It is just weird. Different folks will claim they are enlightened based upon wildly conflicting ideas, and no one brings them to bear on these things.
It’s not spiritually correct.
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The ones that really get me are the ones that are happy all the time and have no variation in tone. Like, you can’t allow your humanity to be displayed, because it will damage your spirituality.
Rubbish. The two worlds do not meet. The reason the so-called “spiritually correct” are loathe to show their corruption, or their honest take on things, is they are afraid of being wrong, or they are afraid of being judged. And they are certainly NOT interested in healing. The spiritually correct want to keep things copa-steady. No conflict, please. Jesus had no confllict in his life. Right.
How can you be wrong about your experience? And as all your projections are called forth to be a mirror of your own mind, who’s judging whom? …..Bingo! You are judging yourself. WTF?
See? It is all pretty self explanatory if you just look at it and are reasonable about it. But we aren’t reasonable about our spiritual lives. We have a ton of ideas about how it should be, and we hate being challanged, even when we have turned our lives and our will over to God. What? Did we enjoy the surrender so much that we took it all back, just so we could turn it all over again! That’s a joke! We do take it back, but because we forget how pathetic our plans really are, and that when we Get Over Ourselves and accept the help that is offered, we are much the better for it.
But it takes Honesty. And Great Courage. And Humor….because you will be laughing at yourself over and over and over again. hopefully.
The amazing thing about the Course is, it lays out in a very reasonable fashion that if you want to be happy, you are going to have to allow, nay, encourage self examination and personal undoing.
This is almost always associated with fear - it tells you that, and yet we rankle at the task.
It also teaches in a very reasonable manner that all things that come at you are coming at your own authorship, and your own request. This means if a friend (and only a friend will risk anything) tells you something you Strongly Reject…..you can bet you are being given a golden opportunity to let yourself be wrong (I know - embarrassing) and to be thankful that your time has come to deal with this particular layer of persona that has kept you from the full realization of your Self in God.
Isn’t that what we are all doing here? At different rates of speed and in all different manners, of course, but we are all of us looking. Searching.
Marketing takes great advantage of this underlying current of desire for satisfaction. And nothing offered on TV brings any lasting value. And yet we keep trying.
If you are still here in the world, and if you are reading this post you definitely are, then you have some clean up work to do. Purification, whatever you want to call it.
And, I can assure you, the sooner you get onto yourself and recognize that pride, indignation, rejection, reaction, namely Any strong emotion that is not love, is a RED FLAG to your next assignment.
That word starts with ass.
Get over yourself. Or Under or Through your self. Whatever it takes. Because what is right behind your “self” is your SELF….and that is where all the fun is. All the juice, the Love, the feeling of Home, contentedness that you have been searching for.
Read the Course, Do the Presence Process for the fundamentals, then go back to the Course, do whatever it takes. But do the work. Or suffer…..heh, heh. Your choice, and you do have free choice, if only in this matter.
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