Other voices - Frank Ellis September 5
About Frank Ellis
by: Frank Ellis
As A Course In Miracles student, I meditate, read, study, and write 8 to 12 hours per day, 365 days a year. During the first five years I read only the Course, spending all my time and effort learning the language, reading and meditating and seeking discernment of the true meaning beyond the symbols of symbols, asking all things of His Teacher. I also attended at least two ACIM group meetings a week without missing one for more than five years.
Once this foundation was established, Holy Spirit led and directed me into other writings. As they became absorbed into my understanding, they began to unite as one truth, one teaching with the Course. I find that the same message, once discerned beyond the symbols of symbols, is in all, and probably the Course has been taught in every generation since the beginning of time. Examples include Buddha, Ernest Holmes’ Science of Mind, Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health, Wallace Wattle’s Science of Growing Rich, Neville’s seven books, Joel Goldsmith, the Bible, Shakti Gawain’s Creative Visualization & Living in the Light, and the Abraham teaching through Esther Hicks.
If we accept the Course in its fullest, all of these are merely part of the dream, therefore represent the Memory calling us to awaken from our dream. They all point to the truth of what we are, the dreamer, the creator of worlds, the creator of seeing, the creator of our own reality. All show that we are the creator of our world, that we create by every thought and feeling, and the Law manifests for us our exact thoughts. The Laws, all variations of words on the one truth, are spelled out in the Course. The Bible says we will meditate on His Law day and night, learn its proper use and power. Nothing is outside of mind, for mind is the sum of all of God’s Thoughts, His only creation, and God placed in mind Heaven, the awareness of perfect oneness.
I am already perfectly one with Everything, separated from no thing. Every living thing contains Heaven, perfect oneness with GOD IS, Everything, All, every aspect of creation united with Creator. The belief that something is outside of mind, therefore outside of God Himself, is an idol, an Anti-Christ, a thin veil of tiny, mad idea in our mind, between What IS, and our awareness of What IS.
This we did to ourselves, but we remain the unchanged Christ mind as Father created us by extending Himself within Himself where nothing could touch us except Himself. So all that we seem to do, be it this email, or books current or thousands of years old, is never anything more than an idea still within the mind God created Son. Since I and my Father are One, and all that He has is mine, The Mind Which is God is the Mind I am, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Infinite, and Eternal. Every Thought ever thought, and every tiny, mad idea ever dreamed are still within my mind, to be called forth as I choose. Nothing is lost, for nothing leaves the mind of source, the truth of what I am. Forgiveness reveals all of this to me by setting aside the veil of specialness so that I can recognize oneness with All. This setting aside, emptying the imagined gap bewteen awareness and truth, is the miracle.
The miracle empties the gap of the veil of forgetfulness, allowing remembering. I am the creator of what I see, my awareness, my reality, my world, all merely pictures, images, idols within my mind.
Thus, I can forgive ideas to take them out of awareness. I can train my mind to create deliberately, consciously, willfully, anything I desire, and the Law will picture it in my reality, my dream, and I will believe it real because I created it with my thoughts and feelings. So I train but my mind on what I want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. It is my dream. I can dream anything, any experience I desire, if I am merely willing to forgive the idea that I can’t. The dream is all oneness, forgivable.
The reality of Oneness, God IS, lies just beyond the dream idea that separates my awareness. I create the block to awareness, so I can undo the block and remember oneness. This is the goal of the Course, to recognize oneness, first of the dream, then of God Himself, so I then choose between them. He created me to create, so I train my mind to create like and one with Him instead of creating dreams of separation. I am creator of my world, and I can undo it. The realization that I am the creator (dreamer) allows me to choose what I create, in fact to “do nothing.” do no mis-creating, do no thinking and feeling of what is more than God, outside of God, beyond God, special. Thus the reality of specialness dissolves because I need do nothing to give it life and power of a reality. The veil dissolves and now I remember the truth that God created me to create like and One with Him, Thought by Thought, as One Mind. This is the communion, the daily bread, the communication within Father and Son as One Mind.
I have never been other than mind. Nothing experienced was ever outside of mind. I create all that is in mind. The body, world, universe, time, and space are merely the vain imagining of mind, the idol of specialness, belief that something is outside of mind. With this tiny, mad idea forgiven, I return my whole mind to communication with God, leaving no part of the Mind of God/Father/Son asleep and dreaming.