Born Again in Christ (Consciousness)


I am back in the United States after a year in Australia where I followed a Holy Relationship, which continues into a new phase. Everyone wants to know how I find it here now, back in the city (Las Vegas, Nevada) I left a year ago after dismantling the life I had been living. So I thought I would just tell you all in one fell swoop!
            Las Vegas is familiar, but not natural to me. It feels like a foreign land I once visited. I live with a sister across the city from where I lived before, but I have been to my old neighborhood and I even drove past my former home. It is hard for me to believe only a year has passed since I went through that huge dismantling. In fact, it is hard to believe I ever lived that life. Not only can I not find the self that lived that life, I cannot find the self that left it. And as my time in Australia wound down I could feel who I had been there falling away, too.
            When I experienced what I call The Break, which was when I rose in consciousness, I told my then-wife, Courtney, that I could not reconcile my old life with my new life. I was not talking about her and Hannah, with whom I had discovered a Holy Relationship; I was not talking about my old life in the world and a new life in the world. I was talking about a consciousness. I (this mind) could not continue on as it was. The life I had lived had served its purpose. It was over and I am grateful to it for getting me (this mind) to this higher consciousness. But I (this mind) had to change and had to embark on a deep shedding and reshaping, which continues, gratefully past the most difficult part.
            I am Spirit. This knowledge is what The Break was about. I am learning what this means. The past year was hardly enough to show me, as it was more about what had passed than What had come. But I have grown more into What I am and this continues in this next phase.
            In my last days in Albany, Western Australia, the thought would sometimes come to me: “I died here and I was born here.” A shift in consciousness is not an intellectual acceptance of an idea, but the actual transformation of a mind. It is a whole new life.

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There are many stages as you prepare to shift consciousness. If you want support and guidance from someone who has been there email me at Liz@acimmentor.com to set up an appointment for mentoring. Learn more at www.acimmentor.com.

Comments

Francis said…
Is this what is referred to as dying before you die? Dying to this world while still amongst it. I feel this is a necessary step for everyone ultimately.
3:17 AM
ACIM Mentor said…
Yes, Francis, I suspect it is.
11:03 AM
Christine said…
Welcome back! Question: if you were in prison, couldn't travel to another country, you could have this same Break, right? Where one's body is ( "the 'it' sitting in a chair", as a former Course teacher described us all)...doesn't matter...it's consciousness.
2:07 PM
ACIM Mentor said…
Right, Christine. It will be unique to each person who reaches that point.
2:25 PM
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