Consciousness is a Symbolic Depiction of Ideas

           God is All, and being All, God must consider Its Own opposite. But being All, God cannot have an opposite. So, God’s opposite, or not-God, can only ever be an idea. It is an idea that does not extend God, so it does not represent Reality. In fact, the idea of not-God is simultaneously undone as soon as it arises because it represents an impossible idea. There can be no absence of the All in the All.

But the idea of God’s opposite, or not-God, is not an intellectual concept. It is not undone through intellectual reasoning. As God is Reality, the idea of not-God believes it, too, is a reality, one that is opposed to God. It seems to have come into existence, in a situation called consciousness, and is full of experiences in a material universe. So, existence, consciousness, experiences, and the material universe are all not-God. They are all illusions. But as God’s Allness simultaneously undoes the impossible idea of God’s opposite, the Idea of God, or God’s Spirit, also seems to come into existence, into consciousness, with the impossible idea. The experience of Spirit represents the idea of not-God’s undoing. While Spirit, too, is only an Idea, It is an idea that extends God, It is an idea that represents Reality, so Spirit bridges Reality and illusion.

So, consciousness—what is unfolding in the world, as seeming existence, as the personal experience—is only a symbolic depiction of the idea of not-God arising and simultaneously being undone. The idea in consciousness of time, which is the opposite of God’s Timelessness, splits the impossible idea from its simultaneous undoing so, in time, it seems like the idea of not-God arose long ago and will be undone in some indefinite future. But the outcome is inevitable because the undoing (the Atonement) unfolding in time depicts what occurred in an instant.

Ego is the experience of not-God in a seemingly individual consciousness. Ego asserts the reality of consciousness in an individual consciousness through its identification with a person (body, personality). When ego is the center of a seemingly individual consciousness, the material universe, and all of the stories egos have, shared and for themselves alone, seem like reality. Ego is not undone through examination of ego or through intellectual ideas or reasoning, but through the experience of Spirit rising to conscious awareness. When and where this happens in consciousness is the unfolding Atonement.

None of this symbolic depiction resembles God at all. Even Spirit is a distortion of Formless God into form—an idea, an existence, a consciousness, an experience. Spirit can only represent God as all of consciousness is only a representation of ideas.

 

What is written above unfolded in this awareness over more than a decade, through insights and experiences. But enough of theory.

I have written articles lately sharing how ego and Spirit have come to feel like two distinct beings in this consciousness called Liz. Where I used to feel there was one being here having a split experience of ego and Spirit, I am now aware that consciousness has no agency of its own. It merely registers ego experiencing ego and Spirit experiencing Spirit. These two “occupants” and their “worlds” never intersect. They represent diametrically opposed ideas.

Ego used to be the center of this consciousness. It so dominated this space that it and its interpretation of consciousness as reality were, for all intents and purposes, the reality here. It seemed like it could never be any other way. My early mystical experiences showed me that there was a whole other experience of consciousness (Spirit), but ego remained the center, the seeming reality, of this consciousness, until a few years ago, when Spirit took center and ego began to fall away. I did nothing to make this happen. It was the unfolding Atonement. It was not personal. It was not for or about Liz. In fact, Liz has always belonged to the manifestation of the Atonement.

No matter how real ego and its world seemed to be, they were only ideas. This I see now. They seemed so powerful—after all, they were reality here. But only from within the idea of ego does the idea of ego seem to be powerful. To Spirit, ego was a false, and now fading, experience that once occupied this space. 

Ego’s undoing has been uncomfortable only for ego. Spirit is here beside ego, watching its discomfort, watching its falling away play out. And as ego and its world subside, Spirit and the beautiful real world that represents God’s Reality emerge. How wonderful that the loving Truth is true and the fearful false was never real! How wonderful that this is depicted in consciousness and is not just an intellectual idea.

If ego is still the center of consciousness for you, be there. It is what is being depicted in that space in consciousness for now. If that is to change, it will. But know that, in any case, it is only symbolic. God—Reality—is wholly untouched by anything happening in consciousness. 

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