July 22, 2008 I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

W-204.1. (184) The Name of God is my inheritance.

T-2.III.3.1 The acceptance of the Atonement by everyone is only a matter of time. 2 This may appear to contradict free will because of the inevitability of the final decision, but this is not so. 3 You can temporize and you are capable of enormous procrastination, but you cannot depart entirely from your Creator, Who set the limits on your ability to miscreate. 4 An imprisoned will engenders a situation which, in the extreme, becomes altogether intolerable. p21 5 Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. 6 Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there [must] be a better way. 7 As this recognition becomes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point. 8 This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. 9 The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. 10 But the outcome is as certain as God.

[The sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself.]

T-2.VII.7. I have already briefly spoken about readiness, but some additional points might be helpful here. 2 Readiness is only the prerequisite for accomplishment. 3 The two should not be confused. 4 As soon as a state of readiness occurs, there is usually some degree of desire to accomplish, but it is by no means necessarily undivided. 5 The state does not imply more than a potential for a change of mind. 6 Confidence cannot develop fully until mastery has been accomplished. 7 We have already attempted to correct the fundamental error that fear can be mastered, and have emphasized that the only real mastery is through love. 8 Readiness is only the beginning of confidence. 9 You may think this implies that an enormous amount of time is necessary between readiness and mastery, but let me remind you that time and space are under my control.

Thanks Lisa Natoli!

I’ve been simultaneously practicing the lessons, reading the text and reading Carlos Castaneda. No wonder I’m so screwed up! Actually, I read Castaneda 30 years ago and my experience at the time was that I used my intellect to try to understand his concepts at the level of the world, which was my only available perspective at the time. I thought I had them nailed down. Now I read them from a totally different perspective after 30 years. I still try to use my intellect to understand them from my new perspective. At least I realize that I don’t know anything now! Confusing?

I have something to write about and I believe it is purely intellect and I know I shouldn’t be dwelling there but I will because I feel it has some merit and I am doing this to only broaden my understanding of whatever it is I am trying to understand when I know that I will understand it if I stopped trying to understand it but I am going to do it anyway.

Lisa Natoli, gorgeous for God, has been talking about raising the bar. That is an endearing term from my business days. It is an awesome idea. Instead of reaching to achieve something that you have already achieved the idea is to move that level to the bottom and start from there.

I see it as a ladder. I move from one rung up to the next then I go back down to the rung that I have already been at over and over. I’ve been doing that incessantly. Equate (is that an intellect word, or what?) that to an energy shift, one level to the next. I do that! I watched myself do that all day yesterday. I would realize that I had shifted “down” and I would just simply shift back “up.” It was simple and I did it automatically, over and over. But I will have to maintain that level in order to start to move up to the next.

Carlos Castaneda explained that each time you focus your intent on achieving a shift you are developing cohesion resulting in an increased clarity of perception for that new energy level. Simultaneously you are gaining the cohesion and the energy to maintain that state indefinitely.

How does acceptance fit in? I don’t know but I get the feeling that I will.

Incidentally, that ladder analogy came from “Power vs. Force” by David R. Hawkins.