FEBRUARY: Is It My Job To Save The World? If Not… Whose Job Is It?
IS IT MY JOB TO SAVE THE WORLD?
IF NOT . . .
WHOSE JOB IS IT?
The world is a dream. The Mundaka Upanishad tells us that both the waking state and dream state of our life are illusory. They are mere creations of our consciousness. The highest level of consciousness is that of Turiya, when we cease to see the world of matter and feel only on consciousness everywhere.
Hello dear friends,
As now as we join in mindful moments of silence, I am inspired to share a revelation that came to me in 1994, as the result of many moments of silence. It was an answer to my burning question which was . . . what is my purpose here—and what is my job?
On Thursday of last week, I was so honored to share my experiences from my book on a podcast with Tamara Morgan and Matt McCabe which is produced by the Foundation For Inner Peace, publishers of A Course in Miracles, and called Miracle Voices. It was truly a full-circle moment for me, because as I’ve said in my book--ACIM was my certificate to sanity! 😊 I’d like to share with you the part of my discussion that addresses my formerly burning question . . . what is my function here (a term I’d read in the Course). If you’d like to listen to the complete interview, please click on this link. I had read quotes such as the following from the Course, yet strange as it might seem—even after all that my prophetic visions had revealed to me I had not yet been able to put it all together.
“You are the dreamer of the world of dreams . . . Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized . . . The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. [He brings forgiving dreams] A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams.”
(ACIM T-27, VII:14)
Because of my prophetic visions, I had accepted that life is a dream, and I knew that other ancient world religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism come from a similar perspective, but the purpose and process of waking from the dream we call life, was shown to me when the last symbol from my kaleidoscopic visions made itself known, and brought me to an awesome awareness of innocence and what the forgiveness process in this dream is all about, and not just forgiveness for this being that I think of as Grace.
I was driving north one afternoon from San Diego—which was a different direction than my daily drive as I worked in Newport Beach, when the last vision appeared—the sphinx-like mountain with the highway below it and a blank sign over the highway. There it was, right in front of me. Sitting right beside the freeway—at my own freeway exit was my visionary mountain. I’d been looking at the opposite side of that same mountain every day as I drove to work. In my vision, I’d seen the backside of my own exit sign, which of course was blank. I realized then that I had actually been living at the foot of that mountain for four years, all while purging my past, and learning about true forgiveness, and unconditional love. But I had just been too close to it to see it!
In 1994, I managed to go up on top of that mountain, and as I looked out over the ocean, it hit me . . . here I was standing in my own vision that I had seen in 1960! Decades earlier this mountain had marked the place where I would live during amazing years of personal transition. It was then that I got it . . . that this dream is already over? I had heard Ken Wapnick quote the Course earlier, saying “We are safe at home with God dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality”—but for some reason at the time—I couldn’t take it all in.
As I stood there on my mountain, an image came to me which showed me how innocent that we all really are . . . it was an image of myself standing on the mountain as the word of God was being spoken from another mountain top far away—but there is a brief delay as the word is carried in the echo until it reaches me. It is in the echo . . . that precise moment between the expression of God’s word and my hearing and understanding it . . . that IS the dream of time! Yet actually it is only a millisecond of eternity while God’s child—me, takes in the reality of my own grand creation. In the echo, time was born so that the word could be heard . . . and digested by the heart and mind of the Son of God. So, where is the guilt in that??
The Course says that I’m seeing the journey looking back from the point at which it has already ended, yet imagining I’m making it once again; just like when we think we are seeing a beautiful star—we know it’s already burned out, and its process is over, yet we can still enjoy it.
Then I got it in a big way! There is no reason to feel any guilt. The dream is an echo! The dream’s only purpose is to provide time for me to remember the love of God that we truly are. I felt so innocent I wanted to dance! I saw myself as a child in a boat, back in my kaleidoscopic light just floating through time, and like in a kaleidoscope I saw myself—and everyone—as though we are all diamonds in the rough. By loving and forgiving in our relationships we are sanding away everything that covers the beautiful rays of light that we truly are. Relationships are our school. They are our way home. Each relationship, no matter how brief, is a Holy Encounter and an opportunity to know our oneness. The Course says in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
After all, this whole dream is just a tiny idea—and a mad one at that! Ken Wapnick said, “The ego is not real—it’s our belief in the ego that makes it seem real.” As long as I’m feeling guilt, I can’t accept what God wants to show me. This was a visceral moment for me which helped me to get in touch with UN conscious guilt. UN conscious guilt is in everyone’s mind because we subconsciously think we have separated from God. Not so! But we have to remember that. This is called awakening.
So, my mountain experience opened a process of forgiving myself for what I saw as faults and imperfections, and helped me to get in touch with my true innocent self at a much higher level on the ladder. This process which is a perpetual extension of love is but a moment called time in which I forgive myself and all others until I have let go of all imaginary guilt. That’s my job. I don’t need to save the world, no one needs to save the world . . . because there is no world.
Our collective dream of time is a learning device that teaches we are not what we thought we were! I’m just here using time/ hearing the echo of my innocence/ as I take in the actual grandeur that I really am as a child of God’s love, and hopefully learning to have a good time while I’m at it. Life is an illusion. All the while, I am safe at home with God, just remembering. Now that can take the clout out of fear! 😊
(If you like, you can read more about this part of my story in chapters 23, 24, & 25 of Thank God I’m Crazy)
So, until next time,
When you find yourself staring into the headlights of fear, I hope you can stop . . . allow yourself to laugh at your temporary insanity . . . and say, as I often do, THANK GOD I’M CRAZY! 😊
***** SEE ONLY LOVE FOR THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE *****
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Thank God I’m Crazy includes pictures of places which took place in Grace’s life, as seen in her visions. Grace Avalon, teacher and intuitive counselor, has taught A Course in Miracles for nine years. She gives presentations, seminars and workshops for anyone whose known abuse, thought they were crazy, or wants to live a joyful life.
*** Gary Renard, (International bestselling author of Disappearance of the Universe, and international speaker) says, “Grace Avalon’s courage to share her secret visions that led her out of deep abuse to heal through forgiveness brings a whole new level of understanding to the principles of love found in A Corse in Miracles.”
*** Marianne Williamson, (NY Times bestselling author, teacher, and internationally renowned speaker) , has said, “Grace Avalon inspires all of us to trust the wisdom of our hearts. Here is spirituality in practice.”