When I drank I was in a world of
separateness and it was a world of death. When I fall back into my ego
thought-system of the “rightness” of my perceived sense of reality, I fall back
into that same world of death. Now, I want to be happy and peaceful, not right.
Continued from Part 1 .....
A Course in Miracles (ACIM)
states that to communicate these kinds of experiences is simply beyond words.
That’s why I love the introduction to the Course:
This is a course in
miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free
will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that
you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at
teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does
aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which
is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is
all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can
therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies
the peace of God.
ACIM is a course in “undoing”
and removing the ego thought-system of duality. It’s a course in mind training.
Collectively, we are the Son of God, and we can live in a community of love and
acceptance. To live in the womb of an accepting community will transform each
of us. This is what AA has done for me. A place, wherever I find a meeting,
that allows me to be just as I am – honestly. It is a place where I am accepted.
[Being accepted is a more meaningful synonym for love for me.] AA’s Program is not about memorizing the words
or stories of the Big Book. It is to work the Twelve Steps in absolute honesty.
It is to turn my life and will over to the care of God, as I understand God, by
working Steps 4-12 for the rest of my life.
Doing this, I undergo a spiritual transformation. To quote the Big Book
– or to memorize and quote the Bible – is to remain in my ego thought-system of
duality, sin and separateness, both from others and from God.
When I drank I was in that world
of separateness and it was a world of death. When I fall back into my ego
thought-system of the “rightness” of my perceived sense of reality, I fall back
into that same world of death. I want, now, to be happy and peaceful, not
right. Perhaps that’s why so many fundamentalist Christians (or Moslems or
Jews) seem always to be so angry and frustrated.
Thanks for listening. As always, feel free to share this
message with your friends, family, and those with whom you are walking your
spiritual path.
Don
#1
July, 2012
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