ACIM Chapter 6. IV. The Only Answer, P 6, 7. You are a child of God, a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him.
ACIM Chapter 6. IV. The Only Answer, P 6, 7
IV. The only Answer, P 6
6 Hear, then, the one answer of the Holy Spirit to all the questions the ego raises: You are a child of God, a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him. Nothing else exists and only this is real. You have chosen a sleep in which you have had bad dreams, but the sleep is not real and God calls you to awake. There will be nothing left of your dream when you hear Him, because you will awaken. Your dreams contain many of the ego’s symbols and they have confused you. Yet that was only because you were asleep and did not know. When you wake you will see the truth around you and you will no longer believe in dreams, because they will have no reality for you. Yet the Kingdom and all that you have created there will have great reality for you, because they are beautiful and true.
Here is what happens each time I bring a grievance to the Holy Spirit.
I sit with Him and tell Him all about it. I show Him why I believe the problem is real and has serious consequences. And I let Him see my rage. Or I let Him see how frightened I am or how hurt. Then I ask Him to heal my mind, and He says, “It’s OK, Honey. It’s just a bad dream. You are sleeping, and in your sleep, you dreamed this happened. It’s time to wake up now.”
I say, “But what about my finances? What if I lose my income and can’t pay my bills?” He says, “You are dreaming. You are safe. Your Father loves you and cares for you.” I say, What about my fear of heights?” He says, “It’s a dream. You are being called to awaken.” “Ok, I see that, but when I think of my precious child having surgery, it feels very real, and the possible consequences feel so scary. I can afford to dismiss my problems, but I am afraid to ignore this one. I don’t know how to ignore it.” He says, “Your child is safe, too. He is just dreaming of pain and suffering. Your child is God’s beloved son, too, and nothing he dreams can change that.”
This is always true.
No matter what I bring to Spirit, no matter how extreme the circumstances seem, no matter how afraid I am, or how different the form the problems seem to take, the answer is always the same. I am dreaming. Am I guilty? Is the other person guilty? No. We are just dreaming of guilt. It makes me think of the movie Inception. They had so many layers of the dream going that they would become confused and would need a totem to let them know when they were still dreaming or when they were awake.
We are told the Holy Spirit always says, “You are a child of God, a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him. Nothing else exists and only this is real.” Do I imagine that God created fear and guilt, pain and suffering? I am a priceless part of His Kingdom, a part of God. I cannot experience what God does not experience.
That is my totem. I look at my thoughts and experiences and ask myself, “Could I be in God right now and still have this experience?” If the answer is no, then I am dreaming. But that I even questioned it must mean that I am being called to awaken. God is calling me to wake up and I hear His Voice.
7 IV. The only Answer, P 7
7 In the Kingdom, where you are and what you are is perfectly certain. There is no doubt, because the first question was never asked. Having finally been wholly answered, it has never been. Being alone lives in the Kingdom, where everything lives in God without question. The time spent on questioning in the dream has given way to creation and to its eternity. You are as certain as God because you are as true as He is, but what was once certain in your mind has become only the ability for certainty.
I long for the certainty that Jesus speaks of here. I am sure that I thought it would be interesting to make an illusory experience where there were questions to be asked and the answers were changeable. This illusion is the answer to the question, “What would it be like?” We asked, and because of who we are as God’s Children, the answer unfolded. It has been answered; now it is time to awaken from that dream of uncertainty.
What is it like to simply be?
No questions, no doubts, nothing to fear. I had to forget that existence as a necessary part of experiencing its opposite. Now, I am done. I am ready to return all of my mind to certainty, to eternity, to God. What does it take to return? I must want it wholly, without exception. This business of watching my thoughts and asking for healing of all that is not truth is my way of reaching the desire for God that is in my mind. I am considering what I chose instead of God and deciding against it.
Once the question is answered and I return my full awareness to God, there will not be even a memory of anything other than God. God is whole, complete, and without doubt or question. Once answered, the question no longer exists. I will return to perfect peace, to creation. Now, interestingly enough, I have already done this. I am in God. Right now. I am creating in eternity, right now. That is why we call this experience an illusion or a dream. It is not actually happening. We are simply watching what happened when the answer to our question unfolded.
Are you tired of the dream?
Are you ready to wake up? I am. The ego, the device I made to have this experience, doesn’t want to awaken and clings to its sad and scary stories as if they mattered and as if they were valuable. But I am not the ego, but the maker of the ego, nor does the ego rule my mind unless I choose that. I, the self that I truly am, have been uncovered to the degree that I am now aware of my desire to return fully to my Home and my Father. I know how to do it, and I am taking those steps. Thank you, God, that my foray into illusion has changed nothing.
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