Projection is Attachment
When I first had Oneness experiences, I would be looking at, say, a pencil, and feel, “I’m one with the pencil.” But as time went on and these experiences were less shocking, I was able to be present to them longer and I realized I did not feel one with the pencil. I felt Oneness and the pencil happened to be there.
It is the same with people.
In my first holy relationship experience, I felt I saw my Self reflected in
another. This was clearly not seeing with the body’s eyes but perceiving with
my mind, as the Self I saw was not this person, and I had the experience even
when the other was not present and I was only thinking about her. But in my
current holy relationship, I simply see my Self instead of the other. There
is no distance as I experience extension of my Self rather than a reflection of
my Self.
I never feel I love everyone,
as others who have shifted consciousness have described. Instead, I simply feel
Love everywhere, no matter who or what is appearing. If I have a powerful
Oneness experience, whatever or whomever is before me at the time is incidental
to the experience, as Oneness is revealed to be all that is truly here. The
timing of the experience is an expression of the Atonement (what appearances
are), which the experience of Oneness reveals is nothing more than an idea
(appearance).
A Course in Miracles tells us we always look
inward before looking outward at the material world. In Spirit, this is
obvious. The Oneness experience within extends from me, as described above,
seeming to envelope whatever is appearing in the material world, exposing it as
only an appearance.
But in ego, extension is
denied, leading to projection (projection = extension + denial), so meaning
seems to come from the material world. One of my first experiences as Spirit as
I was shifting consciousness was what I described as feeling like “a ghost in
the world.” I still perceived the
material world, but I was detached from it because I was no longer projecting
meaning onto it, so I no longer felt part of it. I felt I was “Elsewhere.” And
I was! I always have been. It turns out projection and attachment are the same
thing, making the material world seem to be more than an appearance of a
passing idea.
So, true detachment from the world
is not distancing oneself from what is appearing. True detachment occurs naturally
when one is not coming from ego and projecting meaning onto meaningless appearances.
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the world receded... could all this forgiveness work i have been doing ... words fail.
(and now I have a deeper understanding about what was occurring with that rock a few years ago... experiencing not oneness with the rock, but oneness and the rock just happened to be there, a momentary Darshan...)
in unending gratitude, n
The Holy Spirit extending through you to your brothers (the sons of God), and the blessings return to you. The Law of God that you have to give to receive.
Lesson 37
"My Holiness blesses the world.
This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world or why you are here. Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. Thus are you and the world blessed together."
If you don't mind sharing I would like to know how you practice forgiveness.
The course is loaded with these things. Typically, the catch begins with the word “YET”. For example: “You have but to ask for this memory (of God) and you will remember. YET the memory of God cannot shine in a mind that has obliterated it and wants to keep it so.” Then will come ‘You must decide…’ Usually this seems an impossible decision to make. I have been using the egos definition of deciding. When you go shopping you decide and buy something. An event.
In looking at the catches, the YET’s, they all seem to be pointing to the same thing. Jesus is telling us “Decision” is a process. Most of the time the process refers to the Holy Spirits Atonement as written in ACIM. The process of ACIM.
When practicing presence or the ‘Now’, the ego will immediately insert itself into what I am doing. Right away it becomes about quieting the ego. Conflict with the ego. Not good. That is just practicing that the ego is real and powerful.
I have been seeing myself as re-booting the mind. I’m not practicing something holy, I am only mind training Re-booting the mind. With a computer you just put the cursor over re-boot, click and your part is done.
Thinking of this in terms of mind training kind of takes the ego out of the picture.