Ask: Why are we doing this review (predetermination)?

“Liz, would you explain why we are doing this review (predetermination)?  Is it about the split mind? Is it about waking the sleeping Son of God? Who is watching this review at the end of the dream?” - Anonymous 

God, being All, must contain the idea of Its Own opposite. But, being All, God cannot have an opposite. Not-God is only an idea. And it is over as soon as it arises. It seems to occur because the idea of not-God contains the idea of time, the opposite of Timelessness (Eternity). So, it does not seem to occur to God, but within the idea of not-God, consciousness. 

Consciousness—what we think of as life in the world—is an expression of that moment. It is not a review in the sense of going over details again, but in the sense of depicting an idea that, in time, seemed to have occurred in the past.  And as a depiction of an idea that is over, its outcome, and the means to that outcome, are predetermined. “The script is written”, as it says in A Course in Miracles.

Consciousness is indeed split between the idea of not-God and the Idea of God, represented in individual consciousnesses as ego and Spirit. The depiction that is consciousness is this play of ego (false) and Spirit (True), over and over again.

There is no purpose (no why) for this depiction, which I call the Atonement (from the Course). It just is as God just is. It is not occurring to bring about the Atonement, it is, again, a depiction of that moment of the Atonement—the idea of not-God arising and simultaneously being undone. As the idea of not-God is wholly unlike God, it and its undoing are only symbolic. This is why teachers liken it to a dream, play, or movie. It is not Reality (God), does not resemble Reality, and has no effect on Reality.

I prefer the word illusion to dream because who would be the dreamer? A dreamer is lost in the dream while it occurs, and nothing and no one from beyond the illusion is lost in it only to awaken from it. It is all illusion. It is, for me, more like a movie, watched by Christ (not Jesus, but God’s Extension to consciousness), but not believed.

The image that comes to me is from The Wizard of Oz: Glenda the Good Witch (Christ) watching over the snow globe (consciousness) in which Dorothy and friends go about their adventures (the stories appearing in consciousness).

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