Ask: Can you shed some light on ego making choices?
“Can you shed some light on the magic trick of the ego that feels/thinks that IT is doing everything and anything…surrendering, taking its will back, praying the Course’s prayers, doing the lessons and so on. Is it not the case that “I” am literally doing nothing? That God is simply God being and this little side trip into consciousness is merely unfolding…no agency whatsoever? That the belief in the reality of this dream, by definition, contains this ever present belief that we are making choices?” –MG So, here’s what my experience since The Break has shown me, contrary to what I expected as a student of A Course in Miracles : No part of truth, whatever you want to call it, God or pure consciousness (my preference now), entered a “dream” or “side trip”. Ego, it turns out, was an idea playing itself out. The idea is a false reality where an “I” lives as a person in a body in a world. Some see this “I” as also having ...