Enlightenment Rather Than Awakening
For a while it has seemed that the concepts of a dream and awakening were great analogues for consciousness and the experiences that reveal the Onlyness of God, and that consciousness is a false reality. But now they seem like concepts shaped by ego. Because what would be the dreamer of the dream that then awakens? Certainly, God is not lost to Itself in a dream! Consciousness represents a false idea (the opposite of God) that was simultaneously undone by God’s All-encompassing nature. So, to God consciousness is an impossible idea. Only the idea of time within that idea makes it seem like the idea of not-God arose long ago and will be undone in some indefinite future.
Consciousness registers
either ego projecting ego or Spirit extending Spirit. It does not have agency. So,
while consciousness here was dominated by ego, even buried under it as ego conflated
itself with it, consciousness did not dream ego and then awaken to
Spirit as though it took a journey from the false to the Real. Ego was its
center until Spirit took center, revealing consciousness to be a neutral
receptive mechanism. All sense of journey was ego.
Perhaps, as a delusional thought system that asserted
an illusion (consciousness) as reality, ego was the dreamer and the dream. But ego
never awakens from itself. It does not become Spirit. It falls
away from consciousness.
As Spirit has come to take
the center of consciousness here, it could be said that “the Light has come.”
So, enlightenment seems a more apt term now than awakening, as what
has been brought to light is that there is nothing here that was lost in a
dream and has awakened to its reality.
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Look at the history of the world.
If you think you are just banging your head against the spiritual wall, that may very well be taking place. Since time began for man, he has been trying to get the Holy Spirit to show up in the dream. ACIM says we have been doing it backwards. This is not an easy practice to change.
You don’t ask Truth to forgive sin in the dream.
You bring ILLUSION to Truth for forgiveness of the dream.
Know that, "What is done in dreams has not really been done. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONVINCE THE DREAMER THIS IS SO..." (T-17.I.5-6)
If you have been using intellectual mind power to experience the dream as a dream that is the pain you feel from banging your head against the spiritual wall.