Your Perplexity
each of us is only to seek
the at-one-ment for ourselves...
your perplexity is nothing more
than mine disguised as not mine...
you come to me to help me see
the hidden guilt that has me suffer
and die to prove its yours not mine...
no need to explain your perplexity
or fix you up or
change your way of thinking
i simply allow it all
and bless it all
and in so doing allow it
to pass into the nothingness
from whence it came...
what remains is my love for you
and yours for me
so graciously offered as perplexity
michael
--- On
Tue, 7/28/09, Deborah wrote:
I am frequently told by other Course students that to respond to error in any way is to "make the error real."
"But isn't A Course in Miracles itself a response to error?" I ask. The last time I got into that discussion with someone, I asked him if he understands the difference between stating facts and making judgments only to be informed that "in this world there are no facts." In his mind, it is somehow "good" for him to respond -- judgmentally actually -- to what I write and "bad" for me to factually relate and respond to what other people say or write to me.
I don't quite get that, but then again, I don't quite get most things people try to teach me. In one place, the Course says this about it:
T 9 D 2. We have repeatedly stated that beliefs of the ego CANNOT be shared, and THIS IS WHY THEY ARE NOT REAL. How, then, can UNCOVERING them MAKE them real?
But maybe I'm just "misunderstanding" that, too. These days it seems just about every "advanced teacher of the Course" has pretty much written Deborah off as "a hopeless case." I mentioned to one of them a year or so ago that I "seem to have a knack for irritating people who think of themselves as spiritual teachers."
"Don't sell yourself short," she responded. "Given a few moments you could irritate most anyone."
That's a fact -- and perhaps even "prophetic."
I am continuously amazed at the ingenious ways in which people manage to accept just enough of the Course to help them feel better about themselves and not quite enough to threaten their beliefs in personhood. Many former Course "teachers" tell me they have graduated from the Course and are now ready for "better things."
Bill Thetford is said to have suggested that if a particular page of the Course seems to cause disagreement, just rip it out. I'm thinking I'm about ready to rip out the page that says the Course is "just a beginning." People seem to take to that statement like ducks to water. Just yesterday yet another close companion announced to me that he has graduated from the Course.
~Deb~
