Sometimes the unconscious guides us to a certain familiar pathway as a warning. If I find myself gazing vacantly out a window and fantasizing about the future, the future that I see is best avoided. But remember not to try too hard to predict the future; probabilities change.
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Reality offers what I really want–the prayer of the heart. (A Course in Miracles, M-21.1:3-4)
“Here is a simple exercise. Take just a moment and within your consciousness, drop this simple pebble:
“I am not what I have perceived myself to be. I am unlimited, pure Spirit and nothing is unavailable to me. Therefore, in this moment, I choose to open access to other dimensions of experience so that I might call this moment to me in a different way.” (“The Way of Transformation,” WOM, Chapter 13, Page 155)
We seem to be more psychic than we know: This is what Jesus is saying in this quotation for today. If “nothing is unavailable to me,” then we can know those things that have been shrouded in mystery—just by asking to see with the eyes of our Spirit.
On the other hand, if we think we can’t discern new things, we will be caught by our past. Jesus would not have it so for us.
In The Way of Mastery, Jesus often speaks of dropping pebbles of thought into our consciousness. These pebbles then circle outward, and the thoughts are thereby expanded. The image is a comforting one.
Let us “open access to other dimensions of experience.” We can’t know exactly what will come up from our subconscious when we do open up. But what comes will heal us, be healing to us. And if we are to have transformation, glimpses of enlightenment that lengthen to the real thing, then we are encouraged to heal all layers of our mind.
This is our way home to God.
“In its characteristic upside-down way, the ego has taken the impulses from the superconscious and perceived them as if they arise in the unconscious. The ego judges what is to be accepted, and the impulses from the superconscious are essentially unacceptable to it, because they clearly point to the nonexistence of the ego itself. When this occurs, the ego experiences threat, and not only censors but also reinterprets the data. However, as Freud very correctly pointed out, what you do not perceive you still know, and it can retain a very active life beyond your awareness.” (ACIM, COA ed., T-4.V.3:1-4)
The quotation for today alludes to the concept of the mind to which Jesus subscribes. The superconscious is “above” us, devoid of the ego, and is actually a bridge to God, the Holy Spirit, the Christ-Self. Freud, misunderstanding, called this part of the mind, the “superego.” As this quotation points out, the ego actually has nothing to do with it.
The conscious is our normal waking awareness.
The unconscious sinks below thought, but is still (unlike what Jung thought in his “collective unconscious”) unique to us. Jung thought that underneath, we all think the same, and in some sense this is akin to an awareness of our Creator, God Himself—a Source found, according to Jesus, in the superconscious.
We don’t have to fully grasp these differences in consciousness to make use of them. Helen and Bill, co-scribes of A Course in Miracles and psychologists, would have been very attuned to this portion of ACIM. Jesus would be talking right up their alley.
We do still know what is in our mind, even when we are not conscious of it, and then it causes a subtle (or not so subtle) uneasiness. It can affect our actions, something that we all know. When we are driven by schemas that draw upon childhood conditioning, we are very lost in the mind.
The solution, according to A Course of Love (what many believe to be a continuation of ACIM), is to draw upon the heart. The heart by-passes the confusion of the mind, because the heart doesn’t demand proof of what it knows.
The heart just knows.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 