Resources for Enlightenment--from Homo Sapiens to Homo Illumina

You are a teacher. You are teaching in every moment of your existence what it is that you are. You have no choice in this. The only choice is -- what it is that you want to teach, based on what it is that you want to learn? However, it is not up to you to establish the curriculum. Free will means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

You want peace, teach peace. You want freedom, teach freedom.

It is up to you to learn and teach "a better way", and to fulfill thereby your function in this Great Way to Salvation. This is God's plan for the salvation of this world. This is the celestial speed-up of what is inevitable. Failure is impossible because it is already accomplished. However, an untrained mind can accomplish nothing.

Start practicing. Make use of this material, train your mind to a different perception of everyone and everything in the world. Pass it on, join many others in a true and real purpose. Finally an exit portal has been opened for us all to leave the bondage of space/time. But it takes your active participation; your need and determination to see and experience something completely different. Miracles will direct you to persevere, forgive, be truly grateful for and love what you are given in this moment of awakening.

I see only the past. This is a revolutionary new idea for our practicing forgiveness and healing in this present moment. Now. Here. In this instant. As a concept in itself it is meaningless, but the experience of the action of mind based on that direction is truly miraculous.

What could possibly happen to us in this instant? Except maybe that we let it be and find peace of mind within us, because what we project ahead, into a "future" before us, or see behind us in a "past" that is over, is nothing compared to what is in us. What a threat! Yet there truly is nothing to fear in this instant.

"Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more."
(Chapter 14.I, ACIM)

"What you remember never was. It came from causelessness which you confused with cause. It can deserve but laughter, when you learn you have remembered consequences that were causeless and could never be effects."
(Chapter 28.I, ACIM)

What does follow from this? If you are preoccupied with your past thoughts, and everything you see is an outward picture of your thoughts, you obviously do not see anything as it truly is, that is now. That is the need to see anew, the need to see differently.

And here we stand, in this instant, asking for help. Asking for a new way to see. We are determined to see in a different way.

Behold, I show you a mystery... Now there is no death, for now belongs to God. Now is the time of healing, transformation, this instant a "miniature of eternity" (ACIM).

"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, n a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."
(1 Corinthians 15:50-57)

Solving and undoing our dilemma... God, Lord of the Infinite, being all-powerful, created us in His likeness. To say that my apparent existence in a body in space/time is His will, makes Him very little. Therefore, I go with the next idea: "I see nothing as it is now."

"The power of decision is my own." The fact that I made the choice of "seeing" what I see makes it possible to choose again and see differently.

The French philosopher and Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin was strongly opposed by the Catholic Church. The following reprimand from the "Holy Office" from 1962, according to Wikipedia, is still official church policy to this day:

"The above-mentioned works abound in such ambiguities and indeed even serious errors, as to offend Catholic doctrine... For this reason, the most eminent and most revered Fathers of the Holy Office exhort all Ordinaries as well as the superiors of Religious institutes, rectors of seminaries and presidents of universities, effectively to protect the minds, particularly of the youth, against the dangers presented by the works of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin and of his followers."

We need nothing but the truth. Dogma does not serve us in any way. Let those that can hear, hear. You cannot make a blind man see. It takes a miracle to even see when we are off the mark. That is why Jesus said, "forgive them Father, for they do not know what they do."

Whose mind are you using now? Yours? What would be the difference between yours and God's?

Only one instant, this instant, does this world endure. How do you spend it? What is truly valuable?

"I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."
(Matthew 18:3)

Children live in the now. They don't worry, they don't plan. They know no past, and no future. The notion of time is learned, and not a reality.

"Why wait for Heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion it is past or in the future. Yet this cannot be, if it is where God wills His Son to be. How could the Will of God be in the past, or yet to happen? What He wills is now, without a past and wholly futureless. It is as far removed from time as is a tiny candle from a distant star, or what you chose from what you really want.

Heaven remains your one alternative to this strange world you made and all its ways; its shifting patterns and uncertain goals, its painful pleasures and its tragic joys. God made no contradictions. What denies its own existence and attacks itself is not of Him. He did not make two minds, with Heaven as the glad effect of one, and earth the other's sorry outcome which is Heaven's opposite in every way."

(Excerpt from Lesson 131, ACIM)