The month of May is truly a perfect time of the year for a month-long celebration of motherhood. May your heart burst open with unquenchable love infinitely outshining even the hearts of mothers seeing their first newborn. May overwhelming love so out of this world you can't speak be your experience during May... and whenever else you want the experience.
There is nothing like being Home, is there?
When we ask to go all the way Home spiritually, what are we really asking for?
Are we asking for an intellectualized avoidance and denial such as: "Oh, we're already Home... A Course in Miracles tells us so every few pages."
Or are we asking for a full-bodied beyond-the-body feeling experience which is so far beyond anything we've ever experienced in this earthly life that even Jesus would have a hard time putting it into words?
The intellectualizers of ACIM have a valid argument when they say, "We already are Home and have never left Home." But what good does such a nice little tidbit of intellectual information do if you have no idea how to explode into the infinitely-beyond-this-world feeling experience?
A Course In Miracles is a preparation device... but only a preparation device. No amount of intellectual study of ACIM can give the experience. This is made clear in passages that were edited out of the edited version but are contained in the unedited version: "Jesus' Course in Miracles."
But what are you being prepared for?
Are you being prepared for something you just finished reading... an intellectual conception that you never left Home?
Or are you being prepared for an experience so far beyond intellectual concepts that when you finally experience it you'll have to pull yourself back into earth in order to laugh at yourself for ever having tried to figure anything out intellectually?
John the Baptist is considered in metaphysical lore to symbolize the spiritualized intellect. But even he says the spiritualized intellect cannot hold a candle to the Christ experience. John the Baptist says, "One mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am unworthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." (Luke 3:16) "He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30)
So it is with students of A Course in Miracles. The intellectual finally gives up intellectualizing and... "Open Sesame!"... the experience begins to happen.
And so it is with the initial trail-blazing teachers of ACIM who in the beginning analyzed the Course intellectually because they didn't know any other approach. They are decreasing while enlightened teachers who are living in the glory experience are increasing.
Not that there will not be John the Baptists in the Course in Miracles movement for perhaps some time to come. But rising to stand side by side with the John the Baptist faction is a powerful new faction of ACIM students and teachers who are infinitely more desirous of the Christ experience than some intellectualized understanding of the Course.
More importantly, this new faction of ACIM students and teachers knows that the experience everyone wants cannot be reached by intellectualizing and that intellectualizing blocks the experience.
This new faction of students and teachers of ACIM have a quality shared with gurus of old... hang around them long enough and you begin to open spiritually as you couldn't have imagined, not from intellectualizing but from their bright light energy having its effects on you.
The old faction at first fears the new faction because giving up intellectualizing and expanding into pure light at first seems like it ought to be fearful.
The new faction is infinitely patient and loving, but nevertheless sometimes receives divine guidance to say things like, "For God's sake, get off your intellectualizing! Intellectualizing is nothing but ego-arrogance! It gives you nothing of what you really want!"
When the old faction sets fear aside in its spiritually clearest moments it says of the new faction as John the Baptist would say, "They must increase; we must decrease."
Not that these factions are anything more than illusory aspects of our own mind. How many minds are there, anyway?
Does anybody really believe that the Holy Spirit saying "For God's sake, get off your intellectualizing!" is anything more than one mind waking itself up?
Does anyone really believe that the Master Teacher in Wisconsin holding up a mirror for Ken Wapnick to see his reflection is anything more than one mind not letting itself fall asleep anymore?
For a moment there might be the illusion of factions playing against each other. But how long can illusions last when Jesus and his angels are in charge of the atonement? (Angels were eliminated in the edited version of ACIM, but the unedited version, "Jesus' Course in Miracles," speaks lovingly of them.)
So we laugh at the appearing factions and enjoy the play. As in Mother Goose, the ego (egg) is Humpty Dumpty and the kings men and horses are intellectual percepts and concepts, unable to put Humpty Dumpty together again once it has taken the fall.
The ego finally taking the fall opens up the mother of all experiences... being Home and KNOWING Home as an overwhelmingly powerful, overwhelmingly beautiful, overwhelmingly wonderful, "Wow!" upon "Wow!" upon "Wow!" experience, during which absolutely nothing is known intellectually.
What a perfect month to ask for the experience you've always wanted, the experience of being Home!
"Mother, MAY I?"
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