More About the Illusion of Power
L ast week the article here was about discovering that power is an illusion. Some have asked what is meant by power . Power refers to the force, the energy behind an experience, or how strong it seems to be. Specifically, the article was about the power of ego and personal experiences in ego, in fact, the whole world ego seems to make. If you’ve ever experienced pure consciousness (truth), then when ego returns it can feel quite powerful—powerful enough to override the experience of pure consciousness, which had been revealed to be truth. The power of ego seems to imply that the experience of truth, which you knew to be true when you experienced it, is not real—even though you know it is. You cannot do anything about this, ego is too strong, it just returns to take over your conscious awareness. For ego, this proves it is real. To ego, power = truth. (Yes, it’s a bully.) A common example with newer students of A Course in Miracles is ho...