ACIM — Lesson 11. I just had a grand idea. Instead of me…
By: An Everyday Light Worker, Amli
Tags: A Course In Miracles, Life Lessons, Philosophy, Jesus, Spirituality

I just had a grand idea. Instead of me writing about A Course in Miracles (which I will anyway), how about I bring you along with me? Sure, come on! It will be fun! It’s early in the year yet, you haven’t missed much. Do these lessons with me. I’m only on Lesson 11. I’ve stumbled upon a channeler on You Tube, who makes really easy! (We don’t even have to read! We can just listen on our phones if we like!)

The channelers name is Tina Louise Spalding…channeling, you guessed it Jesus! I mean who else could be channeled regarding A Course in Miracles, except its author (via another channeler Helen Schucman).

Okay so just listen to today’s lesson:

My Meaningless Thoughts Are Showing Me a Meaningless World

Go ahead, it that play button, and listen to Jesus break it down!

I’ve done this meditation more than once. Now when I first began the course, way back in 2004, I was such a hot mess! I could barely stand to read any of these lessons. It all just sounded like nonsensical gobbilty gook! Like seriously! I hated these lessons! Because this course is so mind-blowing- it advises that you go at your own pace…even though the recommendation is to do one lesson per a day.

When I first started, I could only complete, like one mediation a month, if that.

To say that my ego wasn’t open to the material was an understatement…it was open hostile to it. My ego had such a firm grip on me, it was having none of this ACIM nonsense! My ego would throw the book against the wall sometimes! But my higher self, some how urged me to keep up with it. I was also encouraged by members in my family who told me they saw a difference in me. I was better on the days I studied ACIM, as oppossed to the days I did not. It was a difference that I hadn’t noticed myself, but if my loved ones took note, I thought there had to be something to it.

I started the course in search of inner peace. I had no idea what inner peace was, I just knew I had never had it. A state of constant anger and inner turmoil is how I would describe my inner life, from age 10, until I began the course in my mid thirties.

And so, 15 years later, these lessons no longer seem like nonsense, but very deep spiritual wisdom. Did I find my inner peace? Most certainly. I describe the attainment of inner peace in my short story The 4th Dimension .

While, up to this point, my ACIM studies, have given me glimpses into the 4th Dimension, I’m totally committed, at this point. Last year, I actually had an extended vacation into the 4th dimension; and I’ve decided the 4th dimension — or higher, is not just a place I want to visit, but where I now want to live. I want to take up permanent residence in the 4th dimension or 5th dimension. I’m so ready for the ascension — planetary and otherwise. Where’s Scotty? Let’s go dude!

I think, reaching the 4th dimension (and also the 5th) is not merely a matter of space, but of mind. What’s really critical, is as Jesus says, clarifying the mind.

I feel like I am on the precipice of a clarified mind and a new dimension. If only I could completely resolve the issue of my meaningless thoughts showing me a meaningless world. At this point in my studies, I can say…well of course they are! But how do I stop them? How do I stop all of these horrific thought viruses running though my head?

These thought viruses are like the crappy automatic programming that comes on any PC you purchase on the cheap these days…filled with adware…or malware. This junk will wreck a clean, quickly and properly functioning PC system, by mucking it up and slowing it down.

Your mind, arguably the most powerful tool you have at your disposal, is much like a computer. Your thoughts? Think of them as code. You can build whatever you like with the proper thoughts and emotion. But when you let them run random: when they are meaningless, you build a meaningless world, which you then have to live in.

This meaningless world is not peaceful. So why do we think these meaningless thoughts? I don’t know. Mainly habit. The meaningless thoughts we think, were the meaningless thoughts we were given. Sometimes we give these meaningless thoughts to ourselves.

As for me, when I really perform these exercises..and I find that when I am really diligent, I can’t help but feel peaceful, no matter what is going on in the outer world of my experience.

Take today, for example. I spent the morning studying and contemplating this lesson. Then, I went into my world of meaningless thoughts; and immediately I began to see a meaningless world.

You know the thoughts. I’m sure you’ve had them. (Or some similar.)

Oh, I’ve got to pay this bill, do I have enough money? Why don’t I ever have enough money! (Then follow the meaningless: emotions, pain, anguish, frustration.)

Oh there’s my son’s friend that I don’t like, never have! He’s such a problem. (Then I feel guilty, for feeling that way about him.) Why is he always such a problem?

Oh my God what am I going to do about this weekend visit from this in-law that I don’t like! When will I be free of this person? Haven’t I vibrated out of his frequency? (Then I feel like a spiritual failure, for not having more loving thoughts, so I can vibrate out of the frequency.)

I mean look at these thoughts? Are any of them meaningful…not in the least. And so…yet again, my meaningless thoughts showed me a meaningless world…and a meaningless world is uncomfortable. It’s not peaceful.

I’m ready to give it up. I have to change these thoughts! Recognizing them is the first step!

So I say all of that, to say this, although I’ve done all the ACIM lessons, repeatedly, I know that they haven’t taken hold completely. Also, I know that I don’t get to reside in the 4th dimension permanently, until they do. So I am challenging myself, to like, really GET these lessons this year! I really want to get it! (So I can move into the 4th dimension and beyond.)

And I am challenging YOU, who ever might have an interest, to come along for the ride and take this challenge with me! Come along and GET these lessons! The time is now. Don’t you want to feel peaceful? Don’t you want to visit the 4th Dimension, too? Come on! Let’s do it together! It will be fun!

See ya tomorrow.