ACIM Mentor

            This is an attempt to explain something that perhaps can’t be explained. It is in response to those who are disappointed in teachers they expect to be enlightened and discover them to be just people, moreover, people who sometimes do the crappy things that people do. Expecting an enlightened teacher indicates the person with the expectation does not understand what enlightenment is. It means they would be surprised to find out for themselves what it is if it happened to them. In fact, it often does and they miss it! Often in these pages it is stated that “When truth (peace, love, oneness, etc.) comes to conscious awareness it does not come to the person or ego.” Also, “There is no such thing as an enlightened person.” This is saying the same thing. This is what is hard to describe: When truth (pure consciousness) comes to conscious awareness it comes to, well, conscious awareness, not to the person or ego. The person and ego are only appeara...

           Once upon a time it was mistakenly thought here that the longing one has for fulfillment or love or perpetual happiness or to find oneself is truth longing for truth. But, this cannot be so because truth is whole and it is never not truth, meaning, it is always whole. All lack (need or want) is a false idea, ego, appearing. Ego is a condition of perpetual lack and fear. It is never fulfilled. It is meant to be this because it is the idea of not-truth, or not-wholeness. Some clients and readers will say, “I have this peace with me, I feel I will always be okay, that all is always good, but…I still sometimes doubt, I still get angry, I still get afraid, I sometimes feel lack, etc.” These are two different things in conscious awareness, not one thing slipping from wholeness to lack. The wholeness is real. It is what consciousness is. The doubt and fear and lack are ego; they are the illusion. Wholeness and lack never join, so ego’s sense of lack ...

             For over seven years now, since The Break when the ontological aspect of ego, the experience of ego as a being, the “I”, which was conflated with the person, fell away in a moment, the psychological ego, the ego thought system, has been falling away in a process. This started off as very dark and uncomfortable, disorienting, and unclear. It eventually became obvious that what was occurring was the ego thought system was rising fully to conscious awareness before falling away. It was as though ego was a tree which had been slowly chopped down since the enlightened mind (pure consciousness) came to stay in conscious awareness seven years before The Break, and since The Break what has been occurring is the stump and roots have been pulled out, bringing it all to the surface to be disposed of. In time, the intensity of the darkness and discomfort eased off a bit and later in larger chunks. During that time, there was a curious experience tha...