Re: Re: How Inquiry works (psychological process)/ltwkobk

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Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I feel I know you a little

better now (my story, of course).

It¹s a while since I¹ve been particularly concerned about thoughts ­ I

remember reading a book very many years ago by Carlson, who said

something like thoughts are only thoughts, and thoughts can be changed.

When years later I encountered the Work, that phrase came back to me. I

haven¹t considered the origin of thoughts that much lately ­ after a longish

period of believing that my thoughts created my reality (well, actually they

modify my experience of my reality) - but I would tend to think thoughts

arise from the collective unconscious.

The Matrix is a very powerful film. I enjoyed the first one particularly.

One of my favourite moments was when Neo attempted the leap between

buildings and fell, and one of the characters, Morpheus I think, noted that

everybody fails the first time. For some reason I find that profoundly

reassuring!

Peacefully

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>> > The clarity that I can gain from inquiry is all about where I am

>> > now. And for me, that¹s in a physical universe. I can

>> > intellectually grasp the illusion idea, but for me it isn¹t helpful

>> > and certainly doesn¹t match up with reality as I know it. I love

>> > dealing with what is, rather than what might or might not be. I

>> > love KB¹s comment about not pretending yourself beyond your current

>> > evolution ­ I did for a couple of years. I saw something recently

>> > which suggested that the mind can be looked at as a computer, with

>> > our thinking processes as the software. And the contention

>> > is that the software has not been fully de-bugged. Finding out how

>> > the mind works is my particular interest, so that I can use it to

>> > optimum functioning.

>> >

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> Hi ,

>

> I truly do resonate with what you have written here, I could have

> written a very similar post awhile back. The Work was working for me,

> and it semed like there was nothing more to understand. Any talk of

> God or the world being an illusion seemed like just another

> interesting intellectual concept.

>

> However, little things about the Work always troubled me. For

> example, where did those judgemental thoughts come from? said

> that no one knows where the stressful thoughts come from, but somehow

> I never really believed that was true. The Work also seemed to place

> God as a willing participant in the dream. This was also disturbing

> to me because how could God be love and let 6 million Jews rot in

> prison camps and eventually be killed in gas chambers? It may be a

> dream, but I doubt that any of the 6 million Jews knew that. Some

> would say, but what if that was their only path to God? Well that

> would seem to make God even more cruel, if the only path to love was

> a path of such pain and suffering. A piece of the puzzle was missing

> and it seemed like these difficulties would always remain unresolved.

>

> Then one day I was home alone and feeling bored so I thought I would

> watch a DVD. I have hundreds of DVD's and I can never make up my mind

> what to watch, but for some reason on this day my hand found it's way

> to the set of three Matrix movies. Old stuff, a lot of violence and

> killing, not a very spiritual set of movies, but for some reason I

> felt compelled to watch the first movie of the trilogy even though it

> had the lowest budget and the least special effects. Well as I

> watched the movie something strange happened. Like Neo in the movie

> says " I know Kung Fu " , I found I could now say " I know ACIM " . In

> knowing ACIM I also now knew the Work. Like most people I used to

> struggle even read a page of ACIM, now I could consume whole chapters

> at a time. The non-dualistic metaphysics made perfect sense to me,

> and being a figure in the dream made sense to. It became crystal

> clear to me that I had no idea what love was at all. Love was a non-

> dual state which was simply outside the experience of someone

> identified with a dream of duality. Forgiveness was the only thing in

> the dream that reflected the true nature of love, because it was

> inclusive rather than making anyone special.

>

> I really have no idea what happened to me, but something has changed

> inside. The dream holds less appeal now and it seems that being

> outside the dream in a state of true love and peace may not be such a

> bad idea. So there you have my story, and hopefully it will explain

> my deviation from being the purist I once was.

>

> " When your body and your ego and your dreams are gone, you will know

> that you will last forever. Perhaps you think this is accomplished

> through death, but nothing is accomplished through death, because

> death is nothing " (T.6.V.A.1:1,2).