"Cletus"
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> "gig"
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> news:NYidnVELEaPznAjanZ2dnUVZ_v2pnZ2d@comcast.com...>>> Would you want others to achieve the knowledge you now have since you
>>> began your study of ACIM?
>>
>> You don't have to "achieve" anything. The knowledge is already there,
>> waiting for all of us, like an infinite database, just waiting to be
>> accessed. We access it by removing the blocks to accessing it and it's
>> there for us, whatever part of it we need, whenever we need it. This
>> database, or knowledge, is nothing less than pure love... and yes, I
>> would want others to have it. But ultimately it's not up to me, it's up
>> to them.
>
> Right on Gig.
>
> The last sentence does not reflect the experience here. Ultimately
> volition is just another part of the illusion.
Hmm, up until recently I might have agree with you, Cletus, but after a
rather extraordinary experience just the other day, I am inclined to now
disagree. While will can be an illusion if exercised by the ego, I believe
will as enacted with the Holy Spirit is no illusion at all. Wouldn't the ego
love for us to think that all will is just part of the illusion and in no
way can help us get out of the illusion? I know this is the dreaded
hypothetcical question coming up here but, if you saw someone about to
commit suicide because they believed they had no choice, wouldn't you yell,
"God gives us the power of choice!" Without will aren't we just asking for
trouble? Set adrift by the winds of whatever ideas pop into out pretty
little heads? "Hmm, yes, that knife looks like it would fit nicely in my
annoying neighbor! In fact, I have no will to stop myself from going over
there and burying it six inches deep into his chest. Yes, I must kill him, I
have no choice, since all will is nothing but an illusion."
Now all this is not to say, once we are back into our natural selves, fully
in heaven so to speak, that "will" is nothing more than whatever we are
doing at the time, since in a heavenly stae of being, it wouldn't matter so
much what we choose, it being ALL GOOD, but I am not so much inclined as I
once was to dismiss will as mere illusion from where I stand now. I look at
it this way, the Holy Spirit's will is life, the ego's will is death. Whose
am I following? Your thoughts?
