“Who is the ‘you’ who are living in this world?”
Each week we begin class by invoking the prayer for forgiveness from Chapter 3 of A Course in Miracles. “The prayer for forgiveness is nothing more than a request that you may be able to recognize what you already have*.” T-3.V.6:5
If we assume the one recognizing “what you already have” is the human you, the flesh and blood you, the you with a name and personality, a huge mistake is in progress. This is to be expected. It is why we have come to A Course in Miracles in the first place, whether we know it or not. This is the mistake Jesus is correcting from many different angles all throughout the entire 1,200 some odd pages of the Course.
When Jesus asks us, “Who is the ‘you’ who are living in this world?” (T-4.II.11:8) it is an invitation to recognize what we already are. To be told, “You are a Oneness joined as One” is very nice but without experience, it is just words. Self-inquiry and practice reduce fear and resistance and train the mind to be still and Know Itself.
Lesson 169 eloquently states, “Grace is not learned. The final step must go beyond all learning. Grace is not the goal this course aspires to attain. Yet we prepare for grace in that an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home.”
We meet on Wednesdays to prepare for Grace, to open our minds and hearts so we can hear the Call to waken; to challenge the belief in personal identity by practicing forgiveness; to unlearn unconscious ego conditioning and discern between ego interference and the Holy Spirit’s Wordless communication.
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