When Love Calls, Go!
Undoing Egoic Thought Patterns – The Mystical Heart of ACIM – Episode #3—When Love Calls, Go!
The first main topic discussed in great detail in this talk is the special love relationship. This is the ego’s most ostentatious gift and its main weapon to keep you from knowing who you are.
The second topic deeply explored is the idea of being above the battlefield. Jesus tells us that there is no safety on the battlefield, linear time. If you identify with anything in linear time, the battlefield, there will always be pain and suffering. The miracle takes you to the heavenly realm, where everything is in harmony and aligned with God.
Gold Nugget:
“You can always tell the relationship by how you feel. If the love can turn into hatred or into sadness or into hurt and suffering, Jesus says it was never love. What can turn to darkness so quickly cannot be the truth. It must not have anything to do with God, because God is constant Love. Heaven is an experience of continuity. That’s why we call it everlasting Love. That’s why we call it infinite Love. Because it never changes. God’s Love is constant.
But the ego’s substitute is like raindrops on a sunny day. The rain may come. The ground may get wet, but when the sunshine comes, the wetness evaporates. It evaporates. It dries up. It looks like it was never there. The ground gets very parched and dry, and there’s no moisture. And it’s the same with relationships. So, Jesus says the ego is interested in bodies together and minds apart. The Holy Spirit is interested in minds together and bodies apart. It’s the exact opposite. He’s saying, if you realize that you are one Mind, then the location and position of the mind is irrelevant. But to the ego, when bodies are together, the relationship begins. When bodies go apart, the relationship ends. The entire relationship is based on the structure of the form.”
Recorded at The Heart of Mysticism Online Event on May 11, 2021 (with Spanish translation)
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