He told them, "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables. (MK 4;11, NIV, or pick your version here.)
What, then, should happen? ²When God said, “Let there be light,” there was light. ³Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance? ⁴Healing is not mysterious. ⁵Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. (ACIM, T-9.V.6:1-5)
A Course in Miracles encourages us to recognize that we are in trouble with our approach to our life, and the conflicts we allow ourselves. It helps us and encourages us to see with clear eyes what is going on but to realize also that sorting it out is never really going to work. This is not to say don’t try to make things better, but let go of the silly notion of saving the world. The world cannot be saved, you can. In the Bible, Jesus is quoted as saying: Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and give to God what is God’s. The laws of the ego are “laws” of chaos, for the ego IS the house divided against itself, and the purpose of the world it made is to keep us busy and confirm us in the belief we are not as God created us, and we are busy in the world fixing our self-made problems, to maintain our self-made identity.
God’s laws will keep your mind at peace because peace is His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it. ²His are the laws of freedom, but yours are the laws of bondage. ³Since freedom and bondage are irreconcilable, their laws cannot be understood together. ⁴The laws of God work only for your good, and there are no other laws beside His. ⁵Everything else is merely lawless and therefore chaotic. ⁶Yet God Himself has protected everything He created by His laws. ⁷Everything that is not under them does not exist. ⁸“Laws of chaos” is a meaningless term. ⁹Creation is perfectly lawful, and the chaotic is without meaning (ACIM, T-10.IV.4:1-9)
The main theme of the Course is that by recognizing what we don’t want, we can make the other choice. Salvation is not something we need to do, it is what is left over after we are done cleaning the garbage. And the tool is forgiveness, which is really a letting go of our judgement of situations in deference to the Holy Spirit’s judgement. In the process we learn that we do not get rid of the ego so easily, that it is very stubborn. The reality is that we have identified ourselves completely with the ego, with the idea of being a separate and independent individual, and we are afraid that by letting it go, we are losing our life, while the truth is that we would wake up in the stream of life, for the ego is the choice for death. Everything of the world “lives on borrowed time,” and perishes eventually.
If we appreciate that ego-belief, that we think that the Holy Spirit is a threat to us, our reactions start making sense, but once we see it, we can smile at them, for we realize that it makes no sense. The way the Course tells us about the origin of the ego, as a “tiny, mad idea,” that triggers and illusory state, in which we see ourselves as individuals separated from God, also makes it understandable how fanatic the ego is in defending its identity against challenge, exactly because it is not real. It really keeps making the same bad choice over and over again. Seeing outside enemies is a marvelous way of validating itself. The whole Covid episode was an epidemic of fear.
A brother separated from yourself, an ancient enemy, a murderer who stalks you in the night and plots your death, yet plans that it be lingering and slow; of this you dream. ²Yet underneath this dream is yet another, in which you become the murderer, the secret enemy, the scavenger and the destroyer of your brother and the world alike. ³Here is the cause of suffering, the space between your little dreams and your reality. ⁴The little gap you do not even see, the birthplace of illusions and of fear, the time of terror and of ancient hate, the instant of disaster, all are here. ⁵Here is the cause of unreality. ⁶And it is here that it will be undone. (ACIM, T-27.VII.12:1-6)
So the virus is an extremely attractive concept. You cannot even see it, and it’s a threat to your life, this is purely a way to make our self-image real, as being under attack by a hostile world outside. Most of us who lived through this craziness, have noticed how it was all driven by fear, and people lost their common sense about trading off risk and benefit. An old Dutch saying says that man suffers most from the suffering he fears. And just like people overbuy insurance, if they let their fears take over, in this case, people bought an overpriced ( in terms of consequences) solution out of fear. First of all the risk was negligible, and secondly, the cure made it worse, for the side effects were (predictably!) horrendous. People plunged right in, without any further thought and without any evidence that it would work, except the “safe and effective” mantra on the news. And those of us who paid attention have observed all the many ways that power games played into all of this. Yet a few, about 30% of the population smelled a rat.
We are now at the stage where the illusory nature of the pandemic is totally clear. First, there is the direct confrontational approach by Dr. Mark Bailey and others of the “no-virus” school. Second, there is the indirect way of Prof. Denis Rancourt, who simply demonstrates that the pattern of the spread contradicts that there was a respiratory virus, and lastly, there is someone like Dr. Mark Yeadon, a consummate professional, who ends up putting it all together.
We are now entering the aftermath. And what stands out is how everyone is passing the buck, for the ego is nothing but a giant game of blackjack, we always want to pass the guilt to someone else, but in the process, we forget that this is a way of making the guilt real, and keeping it alive. John Beaudoin Sr. Is one of the main actors in terms of statistical analysis to put it all together, publishing under the name of Coquin de Chien (dog doo in french, but spelled CdC, aka the Real CdC) And I should mention Edward Dowd, who puts it together from a financial perspective, with his company, Phinance Technologies, but also with statistics, mostly financial, but also population and health statistics.
In short, all the facts are now coming together, and becoming actionable, as can be seen in the current charges against Pfizer in the state of Kansas. The carefully constructed legal shield may be about to crack, and the government role in protecting big pharma from the consumers instead of the other way around may be coming to an end. Dr. David Martin documents here, based on the recent 9th Circuit Court’s decision, how the mandates can now be legally challenged and also the liability shield of the manufacturers is now moot.
Blackjack
Let’s count the ways:
We deny that we chose to separate from God, and preferred an individual identity, that was our attack on the oneness of Heaven, and we project it out, seeing other people, places and things, including viruses, attacking us. What could be more perfect than an invisible enemy - truly the ideal paranoid schizophrenic psychotic ideation.
We blame our neighbors for the infection - passing the non-existent virus to us. Contagion is mostly hypothetical, for it appears to work some of the time, but it is not perfectly repeatable, so it does not work some of the time. This is where Jane Robert’s insights on mass events are potentially so helpful.
We fight the illusory virus with drugs and we blame the doctors and pharma for the side effects, and we blame the politicians for directing the program.
The variations are endless, but the bottom line is, the ego wants its cake and eat it too, i.e. be an independent, separate individual, but not be blamed for it, so it loudly blames everything and everyone else.
It really pays to see the pattern demonstrated so clearly, the ego’s operation is denial, and projection, repeated endlessly: In the Oneness of Heaven, which is our true home, where we are as God created us, spirit, and whole, we entertain the tiny, mad idea, and from the moment we entertain that thought seriously, we think of ourselves as little, and separate, and definitely NOT as God created us. The rest is the endless soap opera of this world and completely and forever hopeless other than to learn that it is hopeless. All of the choices in the world are one or the other. The choice for the Holy Spirit is all inclusive, and reconciles all differences forever, for we return home to spirit, which is what we are in truth. It is the only way out of the endless game of Black Jack, the blame game, and the endless seesaw of right and wrong.
There is a choice that you have power to make when you have seen the real alternatives. ²Until that point is reached you have no choice, and you can but decide how you would choose the better to deceive yourself again. ³This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and the same mistake. ⁴All choices in the world depend on this; you choose between your brother and yourself, and you will gain as much as he will lose, and what you lose is what is given him. ⁵How utterly opposed to truth is this, when all the lesson’s purpose is to teach that what your brother loses you have lost, and what he gains is what is given you. (ACIM, T-31.IV.8:1-5)
On the recording of Ken Wapnick’s workshop on Sickness and Healing, someone relates the story of a person in the Nazi concentration camps in World War II who was being beaten ferociously by one of the guards, and who in a vision saw the face of Christ in the very guard who was beating her, and cried out “I love you.” Her wounds healed instantly and the beating stopped. This is the most extreme example I have ever heard, but there are others. You could just think of Victor Frankl, or the ten Boom sisters, and see how they survived the camps because they were convinced that you can have my body, but you can’t have my soul. The ten Boom sisters prayed for their enemies in their prayer circles in the camps, and later established a home in Holland for victims from the camps who had no place to live, but they equally took in German soldiers, who were homeless and at a complete loss. Rebirth comes from the worthless wreckage of the old. Phoenix does rise from the ashes.
The alternative
By applying the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of the reactions of others more and more consistently, you will gain an increasing awareness that His criteria are equally applicable to you. ²For to recognize fear is not enough to escape from it, although the recognition is necessary to demonstrate the need for escape. ³The Holy Spirit must still translate the fear into truth. ⁴If you were left with the fear, once you had recognized it, you would have taken a step away from reality, not towards it. ⁵Yet we have repeatedly emphasized the need to recognize fear and face it without disguise as a crucial step in the undoing of the ego. ⁶Consider how well the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of the motives of others will serve you then. ⁷Having taught you to accept only loving thoughts in others and to regard everything else as an appeal for help, He has taught you that fear itself is an appeal for help. ⁸This is what recognizing fear really means. ⁹If you do not protect it, He will reinterpret it. ¹⁰That is the ultimate value in learning to perceive attack as a call for love. ¹¹We have already learned that fear and attack are inevitably associated. ¹²If only attack produces fear, and if you see attack as the call for help that it is, the unreality of fear must dawn on you. ¹³For fear is a call for love, in unconscious recognition of what has been denied. (ACIM, T-12.I.8:1-13)
This is how the Course creates clarity: it is not about alternative A or B, but it is about choosing Love. Everything is either Love or a call for Love, and the answer is always Love.
In honesty, is it not harder for you to say “I love” than “I hate”? ²You associate love with weakness and hatred with strength, and your own real power seems to you as your real weakness. ³For you could not control your joyous response to the call of love if you heard it, and the whole world you thought you made would vanish. ⁴The Holy Spirit, then, seems to be attacking your fortress, for you would shut out God, and He does not will to be excluded. (ACIM, T-13.III.3:1-4)
Thus, while in the world, no doubt we are better off if the truth comes out, the thought always being that we do not want to repeat the same thoughts forever, we need to be realistic also. The “never again,” after world war II was soon forgotten, as anyone who has been through the Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates would know. Vera Sharav is reminding us of this constantly, as a camp survivor. Eventually, we need to learn that either A or B, is a confirmation of duality, and no lynching has ever solved anything. Always again, it is an argumentum ad lapidem, a tautological confirmation of the system by itself, and every dichotomy is a of necessity false. Truth is non-dual in nature. Truth is true, and everything else is a lie.
In the world, Desmond Tutu’s idea of a truth and reconciliation commission would be more helpful than having a lynching party, which could easily happen. The reality is that with all the evidence that has come out, it is now clear that the whole of vaccination has been a story of the cure being worse than the disease. It is now and established fact (if not yet widely accepted), that unvaccinated children are healthier by a mile (Paul Thomas, Andrew Wakefield). The allopathic medicine approach is losing its credibility, because its focus on symptom suppression only serves to let the disease fester, and every time we suppress the problem, it comes back worse. That is the story of the ego. That is the important thing to recognize: our first instinct is always deny and repress: “I did not do it,” and the world is just a giant TV screen where this plays out on a world-level, but the problem is always the same and it does not change until we change our mind.
The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love. (ACIM, T-26.IX.6:1)