Bringing Illusions to Truth

"When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real, and keep illusions by justifying your belief in the illusions. But to give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach that the illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from the illusions." T-17.I.5:4-5

That is a very powerful excerpt from the Course. In the world of form where we seem to live in, we have all sorts of experiences; some could be labeled as good, others bad, and the rest fall somewhere in between. However, these are just judgments we have made about the world that we perceive with our physical senses. According to the Course, the world we see is an outward representation of an inward condition. And what is that inward condition? It is nothing but our idea, or I should say our belief that we are separate from our Source; from Spirit; from God.

So what most of us are taught to do is, we look at the world of form, (illusion), we believe in what we see, and we hope that God somehow make our world look better. So we pray, we do mantras, we try all sorts of techniques to change our experience until we come to the painful realization that most of the time our efforts go unheard. The reason being is, God is not interested in having us continue to perpetuate our illusions, God wants us to remember that we are perfect, whole and complete, lacking nothing, that we are divine extensions of Spirit, God, whatever you want to call it. That is our Truth!

Why in the world God would want to answer a prayer that has nothing to do with who we truly are? If I am in the kingdom, meaning, that is my truth where I have EVERYTHING, and here I am experiencing scarcity and pain, why would God would want to give me what I want in form, when in Truth I have it all? And in the mind of God, which is all that there is anyway, God is asking us to give up our attachments to a world we have made up in order for us to come to that recognition.

So instead of looking at our world of illusion and trying to shine truth to it by telling God our plans and giving him a list of requests, which only perpetuates our belief in illusions, all we need to do is to bring our illusions to Spirit so that It can help us see them for what they are. That's how we bring illusions to truth. And we don't have to work hard at this, all we need to do is have the willingness to say, God, I don't know what anything means, or what this is for. With our willingness to recognize that we know nothing, the Holy Spirit can then transform our experience(s). And regardless of what happens after that, at least, as a result of our transformation we get to experience peace.

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