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PAUL. Good evening, Raj.
RAJ. Good evening.
PAUL. You are going to need to do the talking. Right now I’m only wanting to give voice to the sidekick . . . which seems to be in a “situation” and wants out.
RAJ. I understand, Paul.
[Nothing heard.]
I need help getting past my judgments and anger regarding the apparently negative results of operating on the basis of Gift. It’s obvious that money is leverage, forcing equity (equilibrium, balance) and avoiding the extremes of wealth and poverty. But it now has become paramount—that upon which everything else depends or is threatened to end.
You know that I am absolutely committed to gifting without transaction entering anywhere into the picture . . . and that’s why it makes me angry when my attention has to focus on “generating support” instead of making the Gift.
So, I’m probably the bottleneck here. When I get upset about the situation it becomes difficult to hear you, and I resist all communications, not just the ones inviting everyone to participate in the making of the Gift. Then, in the absence of involvement, support does dwindle.
So, here we are . . . or here I seem to be—stuck in what feels like appropriate, justifiable, righteous frustration.
[Nothing heard.]
Am I stalling? Or are you not saying anything?
[Nothing heard.]
I’m blocking, aren’t I?
RAJ. Yes, you are.
PAUL. What do I think I’m saving myself from?
RAJ. Judgment, conviction and penalty.
PAUL. So, I’m using my “self” as the focus instead of the Answer as the focus?
RAJ. Yes. Saving your ass in everyone’s eyes is not the goal. Needs met IS. How needs are met is up to the Nature and Character and Action of God’s Love, and has nothing to do with you—your personal nature, character or behavior.
So, the focus needs to be on how God is working His Purpose out. Not how you are working out yours! And how does everyone give Him permission—meaning, how does everyone refrain from introducing distractions, resistances, or personal preferences?
You see?
Bringing your personal, private sense of “self” into the equation, and then replacing Him with it, will always create fear, guilt, judgment and the threat of penalty . . . obscuring the Natural, inevitable Movement of fulfillment which the declaration of independence attempts to replace. Why does it obscure it? Because it IS the attempt to replace It!
If you think that it is your responsibility to behave in a way which demonstrates integrity that you don’t otherwise have . . . if you think that you must earn respect in order to be respectable . . . if you think the opinions and assessments others have of you define who you are . . . then you are the puppet of forever shifting “values” which others employ for their own “self”ish purposes, and the blind end up leading the blind.
Of course, you are going to feel overwhelmed, stuck, lost and stupid when you are anchored in the ever-changing tide of others’ fears and panic-stricken grabbing for stability THEY do not have. What else can your experience be?
You see?
Now, you must understand that I have not made the clarifying statement that “you are the puppet of one of two masters” because there ARE two masters, but because some of the Brotherhood are acting out the behavior patterns and mindsets of a “self” which exists in its own right, and they have become trapped in the role, forgetting to come off the “stage” and be divinely Real once again.
This understanding allows you to more easily see why everyone’s Salvation lies in the meaning of the declaration: “Not my will, but thine be done!”
The Truth of the experience of simple conscious human individuality, which is actually divine Conscious Indivisibility ignored, is: “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” (John 5:30)
This is the absolute Truth about every one right now! There is no choice about it! But one can imagine there is! And one can choose to believe his imaginings, ignoring the Truth and blocking It behind his preference to be willfully committed to his so-called unique “authoritative” stand.
If this were not so, there would have been no need for someone to “stand at the door” of human consciousness “and knock” (Revelation 3:20) . . . and no need for the existence of the Holy Spirit, because one’s divinity would not have needed to be “held in trust” while one dallied with the ego.
But my presence 2,000 years ago and since, together with the provision of a Comforter called the Holy Spirit—both of which are the expression of the Father’s Love and the integrity of His Creation—has been AN ACCOMMODATION to that artificial sense of “self” for one reason only! Not to validate it, but to restore the one entertaining it to his divine original state.
And so, I stand at the threshold called the Holy Instant, together with your right Mind—the Holy Spirit—and bring my attention to you. Why? Again . . . to restore your Soul, Mind, Spirit and Love, to Truth—Life “off-stage”—free of the artificial sensations (fear and guilt) which are inseparable from the ever-present potential of the discovery that you are not who you are pretending to be. And also to learn that you cannot truly be what others want you to be in order to satisfy their own narcissistic needs.
PAUL. I understand.
RAJ. Now comes the transfer value of what I am saying.
“As I have loved you,
love one another.”
“As I AM loving you,
love one another!”
This is the miracle of A Course in Miracles: The function and action of the Holy Instant is a sudden shift of perception! One which happens when one looks into his brother’s eyes and remembers God.
The miracle of A Course in Miracles is your true Being . . . the Presence of Which can only be understood as the COMMUNION described by the words, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” (Revelation 3:20)
The miracle of A Course in Miracles is the profound experience of everyone’s ever-present Birthright as a Son or Daughter of God, and it is available simply by means of abandoning the thinking, reasoning, judging and concluding which obscures the infinite peace and absolute harmony of All That Is . . . experienced as one’s Being.
The question is: Are you willing to devote yourself, like me, to the benefit of the Brotherhood . . . loving your Brother as you are being loved? It is the magnificent Answer to this question which is the Meaning of the word “Atonement.” It is not something to be afraid of.
Why?
Because it involves the realization that, “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.”
“As I hear, I judge,” and only as I hear. And only then is my judgment just! Why? Because in the Silence of my Listening, Knowing the Truth is all that is left. Why? Because I am Listening with God instead of thinking for myself as a “self.”
Simple!
Those who hear my voice, those who hear the Voice for Truth, those who for whatever reason have arrived at a point of no longer leaning upon their own understanding . . . even in the awful form of “giving up” in desperation and really letting go of all arrogance . . . find themselves susceptible to the inspiration of Love’s Vision infilling them, demonstrating that willful independence had been getting in the way and proving the wisdom of looking with innocent eyes.
Faithlessness arises frequently or infrequently, undermining one’s resolve . . . but it always stems from a thought embellished by faulty logic and secured by groundless fear. Do not be surprised. Faith is not a habit yet. But every inspiration felt in spite of faithlessness undoes its hold and makes each next step easier.
Today the “laborers in the vineyard” have it easier than those 2,000 years ago when I first shared what I am saying now. And every time you recognize that you are thinking and not Listening and move into the Silence, you make it easier for all the Brotherhood which is still dreaming dreams of independence to let go themselves, and find themselves infilled along with you, inspired and inspiring even more.
There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there is no order of reality to illusions, no matter how frighteningly real one’s fear seems able to make them. And the Silence in which the sudden shift of perception from illusion to Truth occurs is just one thought away . . . the one that you abandon!
Now, what does this have to do with the need with which you began this conversation? Nothing! It has to do with giving voice to the Voice for Truth. It has to do with our Function, which is to persist regardless of the ego’s attacks of faithlessness.
It is Truth that transforms. It is peace which facilitates It. And it is Love, rather than fear, which “inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.” In other words, Love is the Creative Movement Moving! And we are being the evidence or manifestation of that Movement.
This has become clearer to you as we have talked, and you are now able to put the need and the invitation for support into its proper perspective . . . and you can now see that it has nothing to do with your integrity or lack of it, and it does not call for fear, anger, or reaction of any sort.
At the same time, the fact remains that there IS an immediate need for approximately $5,000 to meet current and past-due monthly expenses, including utilities and paychecks for Paul.
And so, as always, everyone’s support is gladly invited because everything we do IS a Gift . . . a gift from everyone here, the early workers in the vineyard (the ones practicing and experimenting with the Holy Instant) who are caring enough to share with those still standing around in the marketplace, not yet knowing where their salvation lies.
And I am thanking everyone in advance for your support.
Rajpur
Kingston, Washington
April 19, 2024
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