Dealing with Questions about A Course In Miracles

Hi SpiritWhisperer,

Really enjoyed reading this, both your article and the comments. Loved this:

"God is not an idea. If you keep your mind focussed on thinking about your idea of God you are in essence creating God in your mind and only adding to the confusion and the separation from truth.”

I think (and by doing so I already create a concept of course, but hey!) that if we would remember only that quote of yours above that almost nothing else is needed. Thank you.

Wow! What can I add to all this? Excellent hub - you make me think too much! Lol

The link does not work for a reason, obviously. It worked for me when I linked it. All is good because as I said I will be writing several essays relating to the history of my ancestors.

Thank you for stopping by my blog on that Parisian church. I thought it would explain better that "silence" which I kept mentioning.

Toate bune. (All the best.}

Greetings again Mr. Spirit Whisperer. Back I am ... or maybe I never left. Many thanks for the conversation. It is certainly fun (in many ways).

"Firsly, let me say that the picture was carefully chosen" - I would not have thought it otherwise. Now, regarding the comment about "the black raven which symbolises something I asked you to check into before" ... I am afraid I lost track of that - perhaps I will have to retrace my footsteps to figure it out.

If I put the wolf and crow together, I get the Dacian Draco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_Draco). It's a bit of a jump but it is what it is. I will not go into details here because I will be (eventually) posting some essays on my Dacian ancestors.

I just check-out Mr. O'Brian's profile page - interesting, thanks for letting me know.

In respect to your statement that: "I love the way you think and question things but there is also another part of you that has nothing to do with thinking and is perfectly at peace", there are a couple of things to say (or so I think). To begin with, thank you very much for your humbling words ... words do fail me at times.

I am happy that you enjoy my questioning of things. I have been wrestling with "why" for years on end now. Every time I answer a question "why" jumps on top of me to complicate things. It enjoys it, I think. As of not too long ago, I have begun to accept things not only as true but sometimes just simply as necessary.

Regarding the second part of the statement, about how there is a part in me perfectly at peace. That has to do with many things ... knowledge, immortality, experience ... I am Dacian. And yes, there is indeed that part of me, that silence deep within myself which is you say "at peace', I say it is "peace".

Well, I had a phone call interrupt my train of thought ... quite annoying, bloody cell phones lol

To continue with the peace thought if you have the time at some point maybe you can read a little piece I wrote after visiting a church in Paris last summer. This is a fairly short piece: https://hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/My-Though

Have an awesome day Sir!

I will be pondering your words in this hub for a long time, Spirit W. I made sure to write myself a personal note to go to the local bookstore for Mr. Renard's book. I was wondering, have you ever met any of the authors of the wonderful books you recommend to us to read? (I hope I have more time to read.)

Thank you Spirit for putting this on in Hub form. It is most interesting and thought pondering. Also in the Hub format one can return to re-read again for further points and in-sights possibly missed the first time because of tiredness, distractions etc. Well done my friend and you too Mr. Happy.

I often happen to re-read things and I happened to focus on something else you wrote, this time around: "you can function within the illusion without being of it and that is a loftier purpose of our existence than giving so much importance to the meaningless illusions we continuously create with our minds."

Now, we are literally talking Neo playing in the Matrix ... are we not?

And I suppose the above quote would also answer the part in my above comment when I wrote: "The problem which arises here though (in my opinion) is that I am not sure how we can operate in this three-dimensional existence while in that state."

Although it does not say how, it says that it is possible to do so. Fair enough.

Nice.

I will most likely be back. Cheers!

This is very deep, a little over my head, but interesting. I need to read Mr. Renard's book. Thank you.

I want to sincerely thank you for the discussion Mr. Spirit Whisperer. It is quite price-less and words cannot really show my gratitude in full.

In respect to this blog, to begin with I must say that I love the photograph posted. I obviously love wolves but I also love crows in a more personal way. You will see that after I develop my photographs from my last trip in British Columbia.

Now, on the issue of referring to the Great Spirit (or God as your choice of names is) as "him" or "her", I find that to be confusing. I do get tied-in with the issue of linguistics because honestly, that is our main way of understanding one another. So plainly speaking, when we talk about "him", generally we are referring to one who is a male. The term "male", comes with an entire baggage of preconceived notions which I will not go through because I believe that they are very well known.

In university my major was Humanities and I studied metaphysics. I often found (in my opinion) that some philosophers in trying to explain things, sometimes made matters more complicated and/or confusing.

With that in mind, I try (that does not mean that I succeed) to simplify things as much as possible and some things I do not try to explain (Ex: the Great Spirit/The Great Unknown Mystery).

I am thankful for your explanation though. It is what one feels when he/she talks about the Great Spirit that really matters and not whether the word "he" or "she" is being used; it is in the "intention" of the one who wills/thinks. (Again, this is just my plain opinion, biased in its own way.)

Moving on to question number two and your commentary. Again, thank you very much for going through that.

I personally think that many people give a negative connotation to the word "judge" (again I find myself in the world of linguistics).

"To judge is the opposite of forgiveness."

My idea of "judging" is more like "choosing". I chose or I judge are quite the same thing for me. I am not sure how you judged (or chose to think) that "to judge is the opposite of forgiveness".

At this point I must ask if you believe in any sort of balance or the ying and yang or the two wolves or any of those ideas? Do you see what I am thinking?

Onto question number three. Thank you again for your explanation. I have a couple of comments to make on that.

"The idea that you have of Jesus and Mohammed are creations of your own mind." - Of course the idea of Jesus and/or Mohammed are creations of my mind, to a certain degree. I did not write the verses in the Old or New Testament; nor did I write the Suras or the Hadiths. My imagination did not make those up - you see those texts physically as I do, I think ... I may be wrong here. Do you not flip pages and read each letter as it is written? If you did not, you would not understand what I am writing now.

What I am trying to say is that as much as we want to let go of preconceived meanings (or if we are still talking about Jesus for example then, of biographies) we really cannot do so fully because we would no longer have a common base of understanding one another. Perhaps we might be able to do so if we could start communicating telepathically. I am not sure though.

Do I really invent everything around me? Have I invented my parents at birth? I'm a little lost here.

"It is when all judgement is suspended and all ideas be given the same meaningless importance that we transcend thought and the illusion it creates." - I fully agree with this statement. I think that is the silence which one can find within oneself (of which I was talking about earlier).

The problem which arises here though (in my opinion) is that I am not sure how we can operate in this three-dimensional existence while in that state. Haha ... this is gymnastics for the brain ...

There's a heat-wave in Toronto now and I think it's making it difficult to think, especially since I just dropped down from the mountains where the temperature was close to zero Celsius many times.

One last part I want to comment on is where you wrote that:

"By calling on the creator we are in effect saying that we no longer trust the world that we have created and we are now ready to see the world that God has created. We are asking God to guide us free of any ideas we previously held. We call on our inner teacher or guide and that is the only worthwhile idea in our quest for truth."

This in my opinion is beautifully expressed. I bow to that and to you for writing this blog. Wisely put. I cannot thank you enough. All the best!