The Teachings of Spirit

Holy Spirit: Believing you are the personality is the same as believing you are wrong, because believing you are the personality is believing you are not what you are, and that is the belief you have judged as wrong. As long as you believe you are the personality, you also believe you are not the one who has made this choice. If you do not see yourself as the one who has made the choice, you also do not see that you are the one who has judged the choice. If you do not see that you have judged the choice, you do not see that you can reverse your judgment, so the judgment continues inherent within the choice not to see.

Everything is linked. It is all a part of one idea. I cannot lead you to let go of one part and allow you to keep another, because not to let go of one part is to keep the whole. You cannot keep the idea of personality as your identity and let go of the idea of wrong. You cannot let go of the idea of personality and hold to belief in the world. It is all a part of the same idea, which teaches you that you are wrong. And it is the idea that you are wrong that leads you to suffer and be unhappy.

Unhappiness is suffering. This is because you were not made to be unhappy, so unhappiness is the opposite of your nature. It is the experience that is different than the experience of Heaven, but the key point in all of this is that it is an experience. The entire world, the idea of personality, the suffering and the fear is all nothing but an experience you deemed to have. And if you can deem to have it, you can deem not to have it anymore.

I have asked you to will for awareness. I’ve asked you to will for awareness of the motive of your thoughts. I’ve asked you to will for being aware of clarity. Now I ask you to will for being aware of not being in control.

The belief that you are in control comes from the belief that you are a separate personality. But as you become increasingly aware that you are not in control…that there is an automatic doing that moves through you…you loosen your hold on the idea that you could be independent.

Don’t do anything to try to let go of this idea. Don’t do anything to try to see that your actions are automatic. If you do anything you will not learn, because you will think it came from your doing. Let go of your doing…which is really only your thinking about that which you do…and will for awareness of your living. As you become aware from the seat of an observer that isn’t doing, you see that the doing happens without your control. In this, your eyes are opened to that which is doing the doing, and you see you are not a personality, but you are a part of that glorious Whole.

Question: In order to feel my feelings (e.g., guilt) instead of cutting them, I cannot fear them. The problem is that I fear them because I still think they define me. I think they are true about who I am. How can I let go of this perception?

Answer: Letting go of this perception comes from the mind, since the belief that holds to the perception is in the mind. This is why I have been teaching you that cause is not in the world or in anything that you experience. Cause is only belief in the mind, and belief in nothing is nothing but belief.

To change your perception, look at this belief of wrongness and say, “This is only belief.” Call it by its name:

Not true, only belief

Be consistent and repetitive in this. That which isn’t true is coming into your mind now to be seen. This is a good thing…a great thing. Look right at it in full confidence of who you are…full trust and knowing. Don’t trust your eyes or your thinking mind. Trust only your Heart, which knows. With knowing, look at your beliefs and say, “Not true, only belief.”

Holy Spirit: Coming to Me can be a form of escape. Yes, you have known this for some time. Let’s talk about it now. Let’s look directly at it and discuss it. You will find that you are very happy that we have.

Coming to Me can be a form of escape…a desire to feel better by escaping your feelings of now. You’ve known this for some time. I will never leave you alone and I will never leave you comfortless, but if you come to Me only for comfort and then go back to your ego as you, you will find the effects of coming to Me to be temporary. If you do this repeatedly, the effect of coming to Me can seem to be lessened because you do not carry Me with you into your day.

Do not run to Me with your bad feelings expecting I will take them away. I do not take them away. I only speak to you of Reason, and through listening you let your feelings go. This Reason is always with you, and you can hear it without coming to this manifestation of Me. You do not need this comfort, which can only be temporary. You need the lasting realization of what is true, and that can only come to you without the illusion of ‘something else’.

Lay this illusion of Me aside whenever you feel the need for comfort. See the need for comfort as an illusion of lack, and do not buy into this illusion. Practice everything I have taught. It is all within you now. Learn who you are by being that, and you will not need to seek comfort any longer from Me.

Holy Spirit: Let’s talk about the personality now. Some of you are getting the idea that it is wrong to see yourself as the personality. It isn’t wrong in that you are guilty if you see yourself this way. It is just an error in that it isn’t true.

Try seeing the personality as a game you play. Try looking at your personality quirks and habits, mannerisms and desires, fears and wants in this way: What game is the personality trying to play now? Look at it from this perspective and you’ll find that you can enjoy the playing of the game. And yet you will not be fully identified with the personality, just as you can enjoy a game of Monopoly without seeing yourself as the game piece that moves around the board.

Judgment is the opposite of enjoyment. Even if judgment seems to bring enjoyment because you are judging something as good and worthy of enjoyment, all judgment includes the seeds of unhappiness or lack of enjoyment because judgment is the building block of duality. Judgment is the mechanism of choose between.

To enjoy is to accept without judgment, and in this acceptance there is admiration or appreciation for what lies behind. When you enjoy the world, it is because you know what the world represents. It represents the creative power of the Son of God. When you truly love something, it’s because you love it for what it is, not for what it seems to be.

Appreciation does not come from thinking, because thinking is the mechanism of choose between. Thinking weighs options, makes judgments and chooses. This is all that thinking is. Choosing is not appreciation because choosing is choosing between. Choosing is taking this one and discarding that, which is separating the whole in order to choose between. That is not appreciation.

Appreciation is loving what is as it is…as a whole and wondrous thing. In appreciation, choices will seem to be made, but they come from a natural flow and following, not from judging and discarding. Within appreciation there is love for the whole.

Step back and appreciate today. Love. Enjoy. Notice the game and allow it to be played, while feeling the Whole that plays. This will require resting your thinking, but when you watch with a desire for appreciation, thinking rests naturally through your desire for what you want.

Question: Holy Spirit, I am so happy and excited because I have seen more than one witness to the mind of the Son of God, and all of the witnesses are saying the same thing. They are seeing glimmers of clarity and they know what they are ready to do, yet they are also somewhat afraid. Dear Holy Spirit, what would you share with our mind today in its current state of readiness?

Answer: I am happy with the willingness to step into the seat of the master. Of course, this is a seat you have never left, but to be willing to accept this now is very important. It is important, because you are ready for it. If you were not ready, it truly would not matter at all.

The fear in the mind is a wonderful place to start, since fear can seem like a very real obstacle. However, I said “seem like” because fear is nothing real at all. But it may not seem like this to you, as you see fear as a very real wall. So let’s begin with fear.

You have been told that you can walk through walls. That, of course, is because walls do not truly exist. The walls that you experience only seem to be there because of your belief in them, and also because of your belief that beyond the wall is something you fear more. You respect the wall and the seeming solidity of the wall because you believe the wall protects you. But all the wall does is hide the light from you, and you do not truly fear the light. The idea that you fear the light is only an idea, and it is this idea that seems to create a wall.

Everything that I just shared with you is sheer imagination. It is sheer imagination because none of it exists right now. Right now you are safe in the arms of Heaven being that which you have always been. When you have glimmers of this knowledge you know that you don’t fear it, because when you have glimmers of this knowledge you know that you relax.

If the wall is a lie, and you know fully that it is, then the fear that seems like the wall must be a lie also. And you will learn this by choosing to walk through the wall. By choosing to experience fear and by discovering that it is nothing but an experience, you learn there is nothing to fear. But to choose to be afraid of your fear is to continue to believe in the wall.

You want to know how to do this…how to experience fear without being afraid. Notice, first of all, the motive within the question. Notice that the question itself comes from the belief there is something to fear. Then start here by choosing not to ask the question. Choose, instead, to trust yourself. Choose to trust that you do know how to walk through a wall. Find that place in you that knows this fact, anchor yourself in this knowledge, and then walk forward directly toward the wall.

Do not worry that you will fail. Do not worry that the wall cannot be found. You are ready and the wall will find you. Just remember that the wall is only an experience. Have willingness to have the experience of walking through the wall.

Holy Spirit: The experience of guilt comes from your judgment of yourself. The continuing experience of guilt comes from your continued judgment. This is why I ask you to become more aware. As you become aware of the motive beneath each thought…beneath each action or reaction within the mind…you will begin to notice judgment. What drives your mind in much of the thinking it seems to do is judgment or habitual fear of judgment, which comes from past “knowledge” that judgment is deserved and probably well on the way. In itself, fear of judgment is also a judgment.

There are many things to look at here. We can look at thinking and knowing and notice the difference between the two. We can look at efforting and listening and see the purpose beneath each of them. We can look at learning, which comes from the past, and see how learning is not knowledge. We can also argue words and get lost in their meaning or lack of meaning. And much of this would be useful, but it is all totally unnecessary. It is unnecessary because you know everything that I teach.

This is why I simply ask you to will for awareness. You do not need to learn that which you already know. You only need to see clearly that it is true. This is because the part of your mind that wants to deny the truth is very powerful, but that part of the mind is not separate from you. The part of the mind that wants to deny the truth is not separate from the truth, so when the light of awareness shines within the dark, the darkness that was caused by denial is no more. Where there was darkness, there is light. Where what is was not seen, it is seen now. And when it is seen it cannot be denied, because that which sees it is knowledge. And knowledge does know what to do when it sees, because knowledge knows what it is, what it truly desires, and how those desires are made manifest.

Knowledge is natural, because knowledge is knowledge. This is why knowledge is likened to light. When the light is turned on through willing awareness, the light does all that light can do. It shines the darkness away.