A Course in Miracles Lesson #128
"The world I see holds nothing that I want."
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| "Bryce Canyon Shadows" photo by Aaron Springston |
[Marsha's thoughts]
Today is one of those lessons which could send the fence-sitter running! Let's not be frightened when facing new ideas. If we've been taught to think that new thought is subversive and dangerous, let's wonder why we were taught that. Time-honored concepts are engrained in our thought, and this lesson is asking us to realize that these concepts are not valid in the development of spiritual sense. In asking ourselves to set aside these accepted ways we see the world, we are breaking through the same barriers of thought which were once held in regard to the earth being flat. In this time of shifting views of reality and a deepening sense of our capabilities, many long-held beliefs are being challenged. I recently watched a movie which illustrates our human desire to keep things as they've always been: Moneyball. It's a baseball movie, centered around a general manager and his realization that the process by which players are chosen for professional teams is flawed. He is ridiculed and disagreed with at every juncture, and barrels ahead with his new thought despite the impediments to their enactment. To me this illustrated the opposition we face within ourselves to our own acceptance of this new-old thought. When I question if this is what I should be doing, I'll remember the obstacles Jesus faced when he brought us these ideas over 2000 years ago. And I thank Mary Baker Eddy who planted the seeds of quantum thought more than 150 years ago. By reiterating the "primitive Christianity" which was taught by Jesus, she has ushered in a new age, which has been ripening steadily and is now ready to be joyfully demonstrated. As the Beatles lyrically told us: "Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about."
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"In the material world, thought has brought to light with great rapidity many useful wonders. With like activity have thought's swift pinions been rising towards the realm of the real, to the spiritual cause of those lower things which give impulse to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to Mind as the cause of every effect." Science & Health Page 268:1-9
