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Twoapenny:
Write the book! It definitely needs to be done. A good way of clearing things out of your mind, in my opinion :)
I use frankincense and dragon's blood for cleansing. I'm guessing you can buy the same sort of stuff there that we can here. I buy the little resin lumps/fragments and charcoal discs to burn them on. I've got a large shell I burn it in, also bought from a shamanic shop and I do it with all the doors and windows open, usually when my son's out because it can get quite smokey and smelly (I like it but he doesn't). I play music while I do it (there's loads on YouTube) and I work round the room clockwise from the open door or window so that I end up back where I started and with everything outside (in theory). The shell gets hot so I keep an old towel underneath it and then I leave it outside to cool down, somewhere away from nosy cats :) The last place we were in I swear had something in it; one room felt so unpleasant I stopped using it and twice I thought I saw someone and assumed it was my son, but when I called him he was in a different room. We had another place years ago where I felt like something awful had happened in the bathroom, it just felt horrible in there and I'd often start crying when I was in the shower for no real reason. I did multiple smokings in there but it still always felt unpleasant. This place feels nice but I am going to do a cleanse anyway, I'm just waiting for a day when son isn't here :)
lighter:
Thanks for the encouragement, ((Tupp)).
The challenge, one of them, will be to just get the story OUT of my head without falling down rabbit holes requiring specificity and perfectly recalled and backed up 3 way dates and exact words......
like I'm back in the Courtroom.
I think: )
I'm glad your'e away from the scary bathroom. Glad the energy in your new world feels OK to good.... and hopefully better/joyful more and more often.
When I'm finished with whatever I write, the intention is to invite my Amazon family to a very satisfying bonfire of the boxes.....
so
many
boxes of documents and evidence and having it down somewhere, for good, means I can release and let go.
I have bundles of sage I've never burned....... maybe the bonfire will begin with a good smoke cleansing: )
Heck, this project deserves a good smokey cleansing.
Thanks for the suggestions...... I'll know what to do when it's time: )
Lighter
lighter:
OK, Hopsy.....
about the Course in Miracles.....
my T said reading the book is entirely unecessary if one reads the preface, particularly this one thing:
What It Says
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of love/God/connectedness.
In a nutshell..... this book makes a fundamental distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception. Knowledge is truth, under one law, the law of love (or God.) You choose, I guess. Truth is unalterable, eternal an unambiguous. It can be unrecognized, but it cannot be changed, It applies to everything created, and only what's created is real. It's beynd learning and no end.... it merely is.
The world of preception, on the other hand, is the world of time, of change, of beginnings and endings. It is based on interpretation, not facts. It is the world of birth and death. founded on the belief of scarcity, loss, separation and death. It is learned rather than given, selective in its perceptual empahses unstable in it's functioning, and inaccurate in it's interpretations.
From knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are opposite in every respect. In the realm of knowledge no thoughts exist apart from love/God/connectedness (LGC) bc LGC and their creations share one Will. The world of perception,however, is made by the belief in opposites and separate wills, in perpetual conflict with each other and with LGC. What perception eses and hears appears to be real bc it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the perveiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense bc it is not real.
When you are caught in the world of perception yu're caught in a dream. You can't escape without help, bc everything your senses show merely witnesses to the reality of the dream.
Recognizing our illusion, without believing in them, The world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference.... the dominant ideas,wishes and emotions in our minds. "Projection makes perception." We make the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations ofwhat it is we are seeing. If we use our perception to justify our mistakes, .... our anger, impuleses to attack, our lack of loe in wahtever form it may take.... we will see a world of evil, destructiom, malice, envy and despair. Aoo nty9s we must learn to forgive, not nc we're being "good" or "charitable" but bc what we're seeing isn't true. Our twisted defenses distort the world,, and therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or to forgive. At the same time we're forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self we were born to be.
Sin is defined as "lack of love" and since love is all there is, sin in the sight of love is to be corrected...not a mistake to be punished.
In a nutshell, fear is the opposite of love and love turned on fear is like shining a light on a shadow..... the shadow dissapears when truth/love/connectedness is brought forward and shined onto the fear.
The relationships of the world are egocentric.
There's a lot of God speak in this book, but it's to be interpreted in our own way, as I understand it.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of love/God/connectedness.
And that's all I want out of A COUrse IN Miracles, the book.
Lighter
Hopalong:
I'm glad you're liking it, Lighter.
My ex once was a devotee. I tried it once. After he abandoned the Urantia Book...
ACIM is very philosophical and has a lot of abstract truths to chew on.
It's honestly not for me because I don't get comfortable with anything so declarative in spiritual language, either Christian or "channeled", and do trust my own perceptions more than anonymous book purporting to be a sacred text, but I come by my paranoia honestly, LOL. (Religious baggage.) I don't like the pose of mystical and deist sources that somebody who wrote the book claimed access to. I'm allergic to special sauces.
And, never known anybody into studies like that who wasn't sincere, open, and earnestly questing after truth. If you find inspiration in it then it's good for you.
Enjoy.
hugs
Hops
lighter:
Therapist and I are taking a break, bc I'm angst free. At least for now.
That's amazing and our chat ended in a very interesting way...... it felt like I popped out of a tunnel, into open space....and choices.
The Pug and I took a 6am walk in the forest. I hummed, just in case there were bears. It seems like there's more bears than usual and it's not unusual to see 3 cubs to a mama....sometimes 4! I see pics and video of bear families posted on the neighborhood message board, but the people who own the forest send out e mails too.
And so..... going to speak to accupuncturist about the grant writing and how our missions might have some crossover.
Lighter
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