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| "Buffalo Blues" painting by Carol Dickie |
ACIM Workbook Lesson #129
"Beyond this world there is a world I want."
The uninitiated in this way of thought may surmise the above sentence refers to a world which appears at the change we call death. The "beyond" spoken of here is made manifest through the death of old beliefs and a rebirth in new thought. As we struggle to lose habitual, erroneous thought, it is inspiring to notice the ease with which trees, plants, animals, insects perform their function. Looking beyond the limited world we have made for ourselves, we see reality. We discover long-buried instincts, which have been hidden behind learned behaviors and age-old beliefs. By this listening, we are led to do whatever needs to be done, without angst or excessive planning. I recall being taught in grade school that humans were the only living beings that did not have instincts. The teacher said that we only have learned behaviors. What appears when we peal back the façade of materiality? Truth.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“How true it is that whatever is learned through material sense must be lost because such so-called knowledge is reversed by the spiritual facts of being in Science. That which material sense calls intangible, is found to be substance. What to material sense seems substance, becomes nothingness, as the sense-dream vanishes and reality appears."
Science & Health Page 312:1-6
