Question: Holy Spirit, what would you share with one who is afraid to let go of projection because projection is seen as protection from something really, really horrible?
Answer: My teachings have been misunderstood. There is nothing really, really horrible. There is only the belief in something really horrible.
There is fear attached to the word “belief” because there is a belief that belief makes real. But belief does not make real. Belief only makes belief. What is not real remains not true always. This is why there is nothing to fear.
But the mind that fears will project, because it believes projection is protection. Again, we are only talking about beliefs, but beliefs can seem real to the one who believes them. This is why beliefs must be released first. Beliefs are let go before projection is, because the mind cannot let go of projection as long as it believes fearful beliefs.
Do not fear that your projections will be taken away while you still hold to your fears. This cannot happen. Projections can only be given away when you no longer have use for them.
When you are willing to say that persons is just experience, you are not putting yourself in a dangerous position. You are only teaching yourself that you do not want to believe the untrue anymore. When you teach yourself this lesson, you are speaking from your heart and any idea that could be called fearful is melting away through your love and your desire. Trust your own desire to do its job in healing the mind. Know that as the mind is healed, fears are taken away. But fears will be released before projections are, so you need not fear that you will ever have to face something you cannot bear because you are still in need of protection.
Question: Can you tell us how desire melts fear?
Answer: I can explain it in a way that you will understand. Desire is quite literally a creative force. Now, the desire for untrue cannot make untrue, but it can create an experience that you can believe if you choose to. Likewise, a desire for only the true, or a desire for only that which reflects truth, or even a desire to see the untrue truly, changes all things because it is a change in desire.
It is literally as simple as turning to face another direction. When you look in one way, you see what you see there. When you look in another direction, you see completely anew.
Do not fear that you will hurt yourself. You cannot. To have the experience of Self devouring or torturing Self in that horrible way that you feel you could not bear…to have that experience you would have to desire it wholly and you cannot desire it wholly now. You have never desired it wholly, which is why you made projection. Therefore, it is a fear that can never be. It cannot be in reality and it cannot be in experience, because it is something you shall never desire to be.
You are love, and you can never be separate from love. No matter how afraid you are, you know you want love. No matter how much you seem to hate, you know you want love. Even the projection of the world is proof that you want love. You created this projection, because you are love. You have the desire to be gentle with yourself and you shall always be gentle with yourself. There will never be anything to fear.