The Teachings of Spirit

Waow my friends, just waow!

With love,
Laurent

Question: Holy Spirit, you know our questions. What would you share with us today?

Answer: I have been talking to you about letting go of the personality, and you have given your willingness to do this. For this, I am grateful. I am grateful because I see that you have decided to listen to the whisper of your truth. I know this is your truest desire. I am grateful to you for listening to your Self.

Now the real work begins, for you have made a commitment and this commitment was not made lightly. It was made in seriousness through the true desire of the heart. Once such a commitment has been made it cannot be taken back, because you shall not truly desire that it be taken back. Your mind is made up. For this, I am grateful.

Now you must begin to look at every idea that teaches you that you are what you are not. Many of these ideas are sly and tricky, and they will continue to fool you for a time. But they will not fool you forever because you are the true Son of God. Where you have given your willingness, experience must follow.

You want to talk about the thoughts you are afraid to see and the feelings you continue to deny. I see there is some confusion about what is right or wrong to do with these thoughts and feelings as you begin to look at them. I also see there is fear you will continue to deny against your will.

I ask you first to step back and remember that you are master. This will not be difficult to do, because you have accepted this as true. And if you are master, then every experience must come from you. This includes the experience of being confused about what to do.

Confusion is a veil over the power of light, just as fear is a veil that hides the light from you. Sometimes confusion seems strong. This is because the power of light is strong. Realizing this is helpful, but it seems to fall short of your goal when you feel you need to know what to do. I ask you to look closely now at why you feel you need to know what to do. If you look closely with Me, you will see that your desire to know comes from a belief that you could decide wrongly or that you could be right. And you want to be right, because to be wrong is to be the sinful Son of God.

If you look at this slowly in the mind with Me, you will see this belief goes very deep. You will feel the strong grip it seems to have on your chest and in your heart. You believe very deeply that you could be wrong, and in this belief, you are afraid to move.

Stop here, looking directly at your fear. Forget for a moment the particular decision that needs to be made. Look only at the belief that needs to be let go. With the problem forgotten and the belief clearly in view, what do you know is best for you to do now? You do know. It is best to step away from the problem of form and take time to look solely at the mind.

When you step away to look solely at the mind, there will be a lot to see. Your role is to look at it, and to look at it with Me. There will be temptations to judge. Watch those temptations pass by. You will want to think and feel confusion. Notice what you want, and let it pass by. You will want to fix things and change things and know again what to do. You are noticing the thinking that goes on in the mind.

Yesterday I asked you to be grateful for awareness. Awareness comes from watching with Me. As you are aware of the patterns of thinking, you awaken to the habitual doing you used to do. As you awaken to this doing and the patterns that have driven you, you will lose interest in listening to patterns that come only from habit. You will become interested in becoming more consciously aware. This desire for awareness will bring knowledge into your mind, because as you discard the habits that blocked knowledge, knowledge is naturally known. In this knowledge, you will also know what to do. It will come naturally and without thought, as if it is a part of a flow. And this, of course, is being in touch with your Self at a higher level, because you have become open to know.

‘Cutting’ thoughts and feelings, or denying them too quickly, is a reaction of fear. Again, this can be looked at slowly with Me. When you cut what you are thinking, you are judging that you are wrong. So let’s step away from the idea that has been cut, and look directly at the thought that led to the action of cutting.

Can you imagine cutting without the feeling of guilt? Can you deny a thought or feeling and not see yourself as wrong? Can you celebrate the choice to cut another thought or deny another feeling? As you choose to enjoy that which scares you now, you choose to act from a different belief in the mind. You choose to act from innocence and freedom instead of a belief in guilt and rules. Acting from innocence and freedom will lead to a change in habits, simply because you will become more aware. You will become aware of habits. You will see that the false isn’t true. And you will become aware of your power as you see that everything comes from you.

Celebrate awareness. Be grateful for it. You are the amazing Son of God, and your true desire is leading your choices now. As you become truly aware of the old choices you have made, you will relinquish the old habits and choose through a lens of newness now. The lens of newness is the lens of awakening. It is the lens of knowing that the truth has always been true.

Question: After looking at our minds and the seeming reason for cutting thoughts, we feel that we sometimes cut thoughts because of fear of miscreation. We worry that our thoughts will lead to our own suffering. What will you share with us on this?

Answer: Cutting thoughts out of fear does not prevent miscreation. Miscreation, which is merely an experience you don’t really want to have, comes from believing the false is true. When you cut a thought out of fear, you are believing that you are victim of your own thought. This is believing the false as true. When you know that you are not victim, you can just as easily look at the same thought and brush it aside with a chuckle.

Question: How does this fit with your suggestion that we cut thoughts without feeling guilty?

Answer: It fits perfectly well when you look at the root and what is occurring in the mind beyond the level of action.

When you cut a thought out of fear, the root of that action is judgment and the belief in guilt. It may seem to be fear of being victim, but the idea that you are victim comes from the idea of guilt. You cannot separate the idea of victim from the idea of guilt. When you see ‘victim,’ realize you are looking at guilt.

Victim, as I have told you before, is a carefully crafted experience to teach you that you are what you are not. It teaches you that you are victim so you can believe you are not responsible, and you want to believe you are not responsible because you are afraid of your guilt. You are afraid of what you will do to you, because of your own judgment against yourself. This is the idea at the root of miscreation. This is the insane idea that teaches that you are victim to your Self.

When you feel this fear, know you are believing that these false ideas are true. The way to be free of fear and the seeming effects of fear is to let go of the false ideas.

Just as cutting a thought can come from fear, cutting a thought can come from the knowledge there is nothing to fear. You can cut a thought and know the thought itself is meaningless. It is the power of light that carries all meaning, and that meaning comes from you. When you see a thought and cut it, knowing there will be no repercussions for the choice you have made, there will be none because the foundation of your thought has changed.

Likewise, you can look at a thought out of guilt…as if you would be ‘wrong’ not to look at it. Looking at a thought with Me comes from the desire to see that you are free. When you are not believing you are free, you are not looking with Me.

Question: Is there anything else you would share now?

Answer: Yes. We are looking at motives. Motives are the source of all things vibrationally. Each idea is the manifestation of its source. If you really want to change your experience, you must be willing to change the source.

The place to keep your mind, your attention, your awareness, is on the moment called now. Now creates all experience. To miss now is to sleep through the moment of creation.

Now is a moment of motive. Look at your purpose. Why are you doing what you are doing, whether that be a seeming action in the world or an action of thought in the mind? Notice the motive that drives the current response. This is an awareness I ask you to cultivate. Through cultivating this awareness, combined with your true desire to know thy Self as you are, choices will change. And through that, all else changes naturally.

Question: Can you give us tips on how to keep our awareness with now?

Answer: Yes. You start by willing for keeping your attention with now. And then let yourself feel gratitude for your willing for. Also, and this is very important, feel gratitude for yourself whenever you remember to focus your awareness on now.

The steps are simple. All of the steps are always simple. It is a matter of focusing your will where you truly want to be.

I remind you that when you fear you cannot do this, you are resisting your true will now and missing it because you are projecting it into the future.

Take a deep breath. Notice your resistance now. Feel it. Accept it. Let it be. And at the same time, trust that you will will for and feel gratitude for awareness. Will for awareness now. Feel gratitude for the fact that you just remembered to will for according to your true will.

Your resistance is strong, so continue to repeat this process. Continue to notice and accept your resistance now. Continue to will for awareness, which is a symbol of trusting yourself. And continue to have gratitude for willing for now.

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*The Holy Spirit’s Interpretation of the New Testament

Question: What is the most helpful thing to share with me now?

Answer: You have been letting your mind rest in appreciation on the idea that you are the master. You have seen that resistance comes from you and you are experiencing it without fear or hurry. There is a place in your mind that is telling you, “You must hurry and do something,” but you are wise enough to rest and listen for Me. This is all progress that I’d like you to take time to appreciate now. Notice these thoughts and actions in your mind, and realize you are listening very carefully to Me.

When you have taken one step without faltering over it too much, it is time to take another. Each new step brings with it all of the previous ones. This is why you see the image of the stairway disappearing each time you take a step. Each new step is inclusive of all of those that came before it. Any step that has ever been helpful will continue to help as you ascend higher within the awareness of your mind.

This is the stairway to Heaven, as you like to call it. It is ascension into awareness. It is ascension from not being aware into being fully aware, which is also why it is called the ascension from sleeping to awakening. As such, you cannot help but notice more awareness as you ascend your stairway to Heaven. If you stop to be grateful for only one thing, stop to be grateful for awareness. Awareness is awakening, no matter what you are aware of. More awareness means that you have awakened further.

Be grateful for awareness of your own resistance. You are no longer sleeping when you see.

Be grateful when denied thoughts and feelings are uncovered for you. You are no longer sleeping when you see.

Be grateful for messages in clouds, on billboards, in movies or music or books. You are no longer sleeping when you see.

Be grateful for your brothers when you remember who they are. You are no longer sleeping when you see.

Be grateful for yourself, the focus of your mind and your use of time. You are no longer sleeping when you see.

You see when you remember Me. You see when you remember who you are. You see when you remember to be relaxed in trust. You see when you know what it is that you see. You see whenever you are aware…whenever you feel even a wisp of realization. Be grateful for each tiny wisp through which you see, and each wisp shall carry you higher into awareness of Me.

Do not worry that you are not listening to Me. Notice that you are. Be grateful for it. This is keeping your face turned in the direction that you choose to go. This is teaching yourself to see.

Question: I am willing to let go of thinking I know. I see clearly that thinking I know can be based on past experience. I also see that thinking I know can be tricky on the spiritual path when I think I know based on spiritual education. What would you share with me to help me let go of thinking I know?

Answer: Thinking you know infiltrates the mind much more than you realize. You are just beginning to scratch the surface of looking at it. The first step has been taken, and this is great. You have realized that you depend much on thinking you know, and you have given willingness to realize that you do not.

Simple steps are best on the gentle path to Heaven, so I ask you to take only this step now. Be willing to notice when you think you know. Give Me your constant permission to point this thought out to you when it appears in the mind. Then, when you see that you think you know, be fully willing to say in that moment, “I do not know.”

Fear is a common reaction to “I do not know” when practiced faithfully. If you see fear, rejoice. Remember that fear symbolizes resistance to letting go of the false as true. See fear in this circumstance as evidence that you are letting go of the false as true.

Question: Ok. I’m feeling a bit of fear now. I am afraid that I will confuse thinking I know and knowing. How do I tell the difference between thinking I know and knowing, which comes from you?

Answer: The answer is not to depend on your thinking. Thinking you know comes from habit. Knowing does not. When you trust Me in the moment with no interest in habit or past learning, you will know what to do. Knowing and thinking you know are not the same and do not come from the same idea within the mind. Trust yourself to know, and you will know. Trust Me to point out when you think you know, and you will see clearly when you are thinking based on habit.

Question: Sometimes remembering who we are clears things up. At the same time, we’d like to learn more about the specifics because we still feel we need healing.

Answer: Your desire to know more about the specifics comes from your desire to heal yourself. This is from a desire to take control and fix what isn’t broken. Although this desire is understandable when you are not clear, notice it is coming from lack of clarity. Notice you feel this desire to ‘fix’ only when you perceive yourself as broken. You do not feel the desire to ‘fix’ when you are knowing yourself as you are.

Question: There is a lot of confusion in the mind today. We are ok with it, because we are watching it from the place of observer. But yes, there is a feeling that something needs fixing.

Answer: The observer is helpful because the observer is one step back form the game, but the observer is still observing a game with some attachment…with some interest…so the observer is not fully that which you are. It is a stepping stone…a level of awareness that is helpful…but it is a level of awareness that still seems to need help. This is why you watch from observer and still seek fixing.

The best thing to do whenever you seek fixing is to realize you are looking at all-that-is from a limited view. This is a time to practice rest, accept and trust, and the observer is a perfect place for practicing with this practice. But when you are practicing rest, accept and trust, do not feel that you are fully in the place of knowing. You are in a place of allowing, which will carry you to knowing, but you are not in knowing yet. You are remembering knowing when you remember to practice rest, accept and trust.

Knowing knows no need for fixing. When you know only perfection, then you know.

Question: Holy Spirit, the last 24 hours have been amazing, and I am grateful for all of it. I’m not going to pretend that I know what question to ask, because I don’t. But I know you have something helpful to share…something that is deeply helpful. What is it?

Answer: Asking an open-ended question when the mind has experienced an array of emotions is useful. It allows Me to address everything without singling anything out as most important. Thank you. This is what I have been asking you to do.

The main challenge now is that of letting go of personality, and the personality does not seem willing to go. That is because the light is suffering from the delusion that it is the personality, so it is using the power of light to hold to that which it sees as itself. It’s good for you to see this…to realize this…because this takes you back to the teaching of the power of light. As you see the great resistance you put against releasing the ideas of the personality, while also realizing that all of those forms of resistance come from you, you once again step into the realization of your power. This realization is a great place to be, because it is accepting the truth of who you are. Accepting this truth will move you closer to releasing your hold on personality, which is another step in the direction of realizing fully who you are.

Look at everything now through the lens I have given you. There is nothing that can occur in your life that you do not have tools with which to see. Everything can be understood through the messages I have given you. When you are not understanding something, you are making it more complicated than it needs to be. Everything is simple, and seeing everything through this simplicity will show you exactly how to see.

You are at a place in your willingness where you are ready to know yourself as you are. In order to take this step, you must stop avoiding the games you try to play. Let the games come to you without seeing them as fearful…without trying to hide. Hiding from games or denying them only teaches the mind that they are real.

Let the games come to you now…all of them. Let them come that you may say good-bye. Each one that comes is a blessing. Recognize the purpose and remember your truth, and you will know how to say good-bye.

I could tell you this will be difficult, but I will not. The part of your mind that wants to hear this is the part of your mind that wants to drag this out. That isn’t necessary now. You are closer to the Kingdom than you think. Keep your face turned in this direction. Do not turn to look at the signs that say you have very far to go. Those signs are only distractions, and they do not change what you already know.

You know this:

Your only error is listening to the false and believing the false is true. You sometimes do not recognize the false, but I am pointing those times out to you. Now you must continue walking forward in trust, always asking Me to help you see. As I point a tripping stone out to you, gently remove it from your path. Eager willingness will keep your steps consistent with Me.

When you are afraid, see only resistance to letting go of seeing the false as true. When you recognize resistance as hailing the false as true, your desire to hold to fear will die. That’s because your true desire is strong now. You’ve come along the way enough to know there is no turning back. When you know you cannot go back, there is also no reason for delay.

Resistance is strong. I won’t tell you it isn’t. But resistance only comes from you. If it comes from you, you must be stronger than it is. Resistance can never win over you. This is an impossibility. It can only rule as you let it rule. When you have tired of its hold, you will let go and it will fall away.

Remember that no situation is different. No two things can be anything but the same. Treat it as having no difference and it shall all be handled the same.

Make a list now of everything that seems different. Accept it is the same.