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PAUL.   Good evening, Raj. 

 

RAJ.   Good evening, Paul.

  

PAUL.   This has been a very strange day. There seems to be no direction, no purpose in motion—in other words, no movement. Just quiet. Just a lot of sleeping and resting. It could be called “peace,” but it seems that something more is needed . . . like answers, resolution, or something leading thereto!

 

But nothing!

 

Right now, it is almost impossible to bring enough focus into play in order to listen for you.

 

So, let’s start from scratch. Are you here?

 

RAJ.   Yes, Paul. I am.

 

PAUL.   All right. And I really just heard you say that?

 

RAJ.   Yes, Paul, you did.

 

PAUL.   So, today’s lesson is, “There is nothing to fear.”  I obviously don’t feel that. There IS something I am afraid of relative to the resolution of the lien situation . . . that there is no answer that is humane.

 

RAJ.   I understand.

 

PAUL.   That is no help. Why is there even a problem here? If we have been led to take the steps we have taken, why didn’t everything naturally happen to satisfy the lien? We certainly didn’t need a bumpy road to negotiate. What on earth could that have to do with giving voice to the Voice for Truth?

 

I would like to be able to look at everything we are  doing . . . and will be  doing . . . and feel the beauty and exquisiteness of the way everything is fitting together in the integrated movement of Love . . . and for both Susan and I to be feeling teamwork—unity—in the process.

 

Okay. Once again, I’m trying to open up dialogue with you and then doing a monologue.

 

RAJ.   It’s a beginning, though, Paul . . . the beginning of dialogue.

 

PAUL.   So, can we go directly to completing the closure of the business arrangement with the Foundation’s benefactor? Is there a way to simply have the funds to pay off the lien without going through a fund-raising process where $$$$ is both the problem and the solution?

 

[—Nothing heard—]

 

Or, is that the wrong question?

 

[—Nothing heard—]

 

RAJ.   It’s not the wrong question. It’s that in asking it, you are looking for it in the wrong place. Don’t feel into some vast emptiness or stillness in YOUR sense of YOUR mind, as though that’s Listening for me. I am not going to be revealing some “knowledge” replete in your “sense” of your “self.” Of course, you can’t feel that there is an answer when you are looking there.

 

The Conscious experience of Being is not within your mind—at least, not the mind with which you are approaching me. Let me put it this way: Your attention is not your mind. You may be giving direction to your attention when you turn to me, but it’s  not your mind you are turning toward me. 

 

Here’s another way of putting it: You may turn your eyes toward something, but it is not your sight which has been turned anywhere. Sight simply IS. Mind simply IS. That’s why It’s called the “presence of Mind” or the “presence of Sight.” It’s YOU, not “yours.”

 

This means that when you are bringing your attention to me, you are moving out of the realm of stored knowledge—of “facts” or memory structures which seem to define you as a “knower.”  

 

What it means, instead, is that you are moving your attention into the forever fluid arena of Knowing . . . into the living palpable experience of perpetual recognition . . . of “A-ha’s”. . . which never stop long  enough to become “identified” and then called “an identity.”

 

You see?

 

PAUL.   I do see, yes.  So,  am I wrong to expect that healing  is the answer, rather than settling for accommodation to limitation and “making the best with less”? And when I say “healing,” I mean restoration, redemption!

 

RAJ.   Indeed, that expectation is essential. It is the primitive, ultimate, and only factor involved in the correction of illusion.

 

PAUL.   Okay. I’m willing to embrace the unexpected, knowing that I have no way of anticipating how that will take place. But first, just to be clear, I am asking whether we are to expect to be able to remain in this house, maintain it, and live here without threat of loss? Are you saying that we’re in our right place . . . and seeing that manifest is what the “correction” will amount to . . . no matter how unexpectedly it will come about?

 

RAJ.   That is what I am saying, yes. You see, it’s not up to you to figure out “how to make that happen.”  That’s the Function of Creation!  Your watching and Listening for that,  is what your attention is for!

 

PAUL.   Fearlessly!  (In light of today’s lesson.)

 

RAJ.   Indeed! One cannot become still in order to Listen, and simultaneously insert fear into the equation. In that frame of mind, receptivity and expression are opposites.

 

But, when one does  step aside and truly Listen, Expression does spontaneously and involuntarily occur!  Not as the independent assertive authority of a “knower” of “Knowledge,” but as the unselfconscious expression of awe which is inseparable from Revelation. Here it is a singularity, a Oneness . . . and it’s called co-creation—the Father being the Son confirming the Father!

 

How it works is perfectly expressed, from A Course in Miracles:

 

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“The Holy Spirit cannot speak to an unwelcoming host because He will NOT BE HEARD. The Eternal Guest remains, but His Voice grows faint in alien company. He needs your protection, but only because your care is a sign that you WANT Him. Think like Him ever so slightly, and the little spark becomes a blazing light that fills your mind so that He becomes your ONLY Guest. Whenever you ask the ego to enter, you lessen His welcome. He will remain, but YOU have allied yourself AGAINST Him. Whatever journey you choose to take, He will go with you, waiting. You can safely test His patience, for He cannot leave a part of God. Yet you need far more than patience.”

 

“You will never rest until you know your function AND FULFILL IT, for only in this can your will and your Father’s be wholly joined. To HAVE Him is to be LIKE Him, and He has given Himself to you. You who have God MUST be as God, for HIS function became YOURS with His gift. Invite this knowledge back into your minds, and let nothing that will obscure it enter. The Guest Whom God sent you will teach you how to do this, if you but recognize the little spark and are willing to LET IT GROW. YOUR willingness need not be perfect because His IS. If you will merely offer Him a little place, He will lighten it so much that you will gladly extend it. And by THIS extending, you will begin to remember creation.”

 

“Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God? You will accept only whom YOU invite. You are free to determine who shall be your guest, and how long he shall remain with you. Yet this is not REAL freedom, for it still depends on how you see it. The Holy Spirit is THERE although He cannot help you without your invitation, and the ego is nothing whether you invite it in or not. Real freedom depends on welcoming REALITY, and of your guests only He is real. Know, then, Who abides with you merely by recognizing what is there ALREADY, and do not be satisfied with imaginary comforters, for the Comforter of God is in you.”

 

https://www.christmind.info/t/acim/text/10/chap1002/

 

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Don’t be afraid to be steadfast in providing undivided  (fearless) attention to what the ego calls impossible. Innocent of willfulness and nurtured by willingness Revelation illumines, designates, and leads the way, in complete cooperation with Creation, instead of the manipulation of It.

 

It makes all the difference in the world, demonstrating that “as in heaven, so on earth, God is omnipotent, supreme.” Radical idealism becomes practical realism. And it’s called Atonement!

 

Rajpur

Kingston, Washington

February 17, 2024