IDENTIFYING AS WORD 1

p. 165-172  

Finishing up the chapter on Boulders and beginning Identifying as Word.

Marvelous mediation and imagery at the end of the Boulder’s chapter, encouraging us to see ourselves in perfection.

Here is another place where willingness and intention are so important. You might not be able to “see” yourself in perfection, but you can be willing to do so, and that is a step. I found it helpful to imagine myself looking in a mirror, and seeing this being of light looking back at me. I did not have to define it or even be too specific about the image. OR you could imagine what it would be like to have LOVE looking back at you, or JOY or HOPE—you pick.

Once you have a feel for this, you can create and recreate this image whenever you want. Just taking a break for a few seconds to recall that sense of love or perfection can be life changing.

Luke 11:24-26The Danger of Emptiness

24 “When an evil spirit comes out of someone, it travels through dry places, looking for a place to rest. But it finds no place to rest. So it says, ‘I will go back to the home I left.’ 25 When it comes back, it finds that home all neat and clean. 26 Then the evil spirit goes out and brings back seven other spirits more evil than itself. They all go and live there, and that person has even more trouble than before.”

The above quote is not about fear, it is much more about the action(s) involved after we release a boulder. “Nature abhors a vacuum” and so does Spirit. 

You could look at this next chapter as “filling up” the space vacated by the boulders we are  letting go of, but it is so much more than that.

There is a huge shift in focus here, and you will be able to sense that because there is a distinct change in language in this chapter. The language and concepts become much more metaphysical, and really begin to push us to a deeper awareness  our perfection and power as creator.

A powerful aspect of this shift is that instead of talking about getting rid of or releasing negative energy patterns of thought and action, the focus now is on the essence of who we are as perfected beings. So we are pushed to focus now on Truth rather than what is getting in the way Truth. This is a huge leap in learning—like going from multiplication tables to calculus. 

I found myself becoming resistant here, like Paul, wanting to figure everything out; wanting all the answers right now, so that I could feel safe.

So now I come face to face with my biggest challenge—to love and accept myself as God does. As I have so often reflected, this is not new or revolutionary. Myrtle Fillmore’s declaration is the foundation of Unity prayer and much of the Unity movement, “I am a Divine child of God I do not inherit illness” or I could say, “I see myself in the  perfection in which I am created.” or in the language the book might use, “Word I am Word as a reflection of my Divine Nature and Divine Truth.”

A word of caution(?). We are encouraged to be aware that we do not know how this perfection will be expressed in the physical world. It might be expressed with a complete healing of our imbalance or illness; or we might hold our infirmity differently, more lovingly-i.e. we might realize our illness or physical imperfection is allowing us to be more compassionate of others or that it is opening our heart and insight in some other way; or we might find that we are healed but not cured—we might still have all the symptoms, but we are joyfully unattached to them.

“Now this means you can be healed and you can be changed. It does not mean that we can undo things, in some cases, that have been presented to you karmically or through physical changes that cannot be rebirthed in this body. ” p. 167

Although the book and guides work very hard to explain everything, there are time when we are simply thrown back into mystery, that which we cannot fully comprehend with our thinking mind.

We enter into the PROCESS of realization/acceptance of this Divine self that we are. 

And here is decision one:

Am I entitled to be in my perfect self, in a perfect manifestation of myself that translates into physical form? Am I now allowing myself to have permission to believe that this can be so?

I think any of us who have gotten into this book and not thrown it away yet or moved onto a favorite mystery novel can truthfully say “Yes” to those questions. Doubt only arises in the ego, which we all have, but if we allow ourselves to see through the doubt for a moment, and not argue with it or even think about it too much, we will become aware of that deep truth sense that says “Yes.”  and the “Yes” does not have to be overly emphatic—-we are acknowledging the Possibility that this true.

We ended just opening the door to: 

“Decision two is a different kind of decision. It’s a decision about the willingness to acquire the ability to emerge from this process with new abilities that you will hold in consciousness that will then be translated into your experience in the physical realm.”

Here is the challenge, to get out of our heads which thinks, “Oh, that’s a nice idea,” and move into our soul’s awareness that says, “I am willing to allow my spiritual growth to manifest in all ways to me and through me, physically, mentally emotionally and spiritually. 

As the guides would say—“Thank you and Good Night.

Peace,

Gerry