Everything is Projection, thoughts never leave their source
A guest blog from the Dutch by Annelies Ekeler at https://illusje.wordpress.com
May 30, 2024
If everything I think and believe I see is a projection, projections whose source is the mind, then that automatically means that every thought is “linked” to or results in a projection:
Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. (ACIM, W-45.2:5)
Even thoughts that “I” choose to think with the mind of the ego do not leave their source.
No thought can ever leave its source, the mind. Not one thought can magically transform into a form separate from its source, the mind.
Even the thought of being a body, a person, of being an “I”, which results in the belief of being a body, a person, an “I,” is a thought that cannot leave its source, in this case the ego mind.
As soon as the (essentially impossible) belief (the ego-thought) of being a body is projected, it seems to be disconnected from its source, (the wish for ego mind, which is the wish for the separation from Oneness), and seems to be manifested. Now there seems to be an autonomous, truly existing body, an “I” person, that has come into existence.
In other words, it now seems that it is possible to separate thought and projection.
This is still impossible, but by wanting to think and believe it, it suddenly seems possible. There now seems to be an “I” body amidst other bodies, things and situations; the dream of belief in separation from One, from God, from Truth, from non-dualism seems to have begun...
Everything that the so-called “I” sees/experiences in its self-conceived and projected flesh-dwelling is without exception the result of projection and thoughts never leave their source, the mind.
Nothing in this projected world including the “I-body” is separate from the mind that projects it.
The fact that this is not experienced as such is because the belief in really being a body in a real world of forms and the belief that it is all one big projection do not go together.
It is a matter of believing either that the body and the world and the universe are “real” or believing that everything the “I” sees and experiences is a projection from the mind.
Both “belief systems” cannot go together, because the belief and the will to separate cannot go together with the belief in non-dualistic Oneness/Truth.
They are mutually exclusive.
Only one belief can ever represent non-dual Truth.
A Course in Miracles is a step-by-step process in which the confused mind that believes it is a body in a world of forms is led back to the source behind every (ego) projection, the mind, and as a result the apparent gap between thought and projection is ultimately, and inevitably bridged, because in reality there never was, is or ever can be a gap (separation).
It is not the “I,” the body in the world that can be healed, only the belief in it. And that belief begins in the mind (not to be confused with the brain, which is also part of the belief in a projected body), the only source where real healing is possible.
Feelings, of and with their associated projected experiences of sin, guilt and fear, during this process of remembering back into non-dual Oneness, are a defense against what needs no defense.
But these ego-defense thoughts will appear to be there and projected as long as the belief in them is maintained. The mind that is healed will not need defensive thoughts any longer.
But as long as those defensive thoughts (the belief in sin, guilt and fear) with their projections attached to them still seem to be there in our experience, ACIM teaches to bring them back to their source (the mind) and to see them only as an opportunity for forgiveness and forgiveness material .
Which means that we may learn that nothing is what it seems (see Lesson 5 in the Workbook: “I am never upset for the reason I think”), and that everything the “I” sees/experiences is a projection from the mind (nothing excepted) and that there is only one real choice and that is the choice for the ever-present Memory of what Really IS, symbolically called the Holy Spirit in ACIM, and that the choice for the ego mind, was an impossible choice for the impossible separation from Oneness.
Thoughts such as “how could separation from Oneness have happened” are also impossible ego thoughts, because it suggests (wants) that the impossible did happen and I now wonder how that is possible…
The impossible, could impossibly have happened, because it is impossible…