Miracle Principle 43

January 29, 2021

Miracle Principle 43   A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing a person from his misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack. They are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.

This is another degree of understanding how miracles work in our lives that we may not be willing to understand because it hits very close to home. Try to bring your willingness to be open to what Jesus is teaching us so that you can use the miracle to release your misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation and lack, your sense of being outside of belonging, and affirm your place in the completion and abundance of the Sonship.

When we have confused the levels of reality, we believe we are alone, deprived and lacking. Since this is the human condition, we can assume everyone is functioning from a similar understanding. This is our choice of belief. We have chosen to follow a specific authority on our reality.

However, we do have the right to vote on or choose what to believe, who to believe and this choice automatically cancels out the alternative. We cannot choose to believe two authorities on our reality. We can change our mind and choose another master or authority, but we cannot change our spirit or our true nature. “The mind, if it votes to do so, becomes a medium by which the spirit can create along the lines of its own creation.” (3:4) Even if we choose not to accept spirit as the stimulus or motivation for our mind, the attributes of spirit do not change. However, the mind then is under the direction or the stimulus of tyrannous control. When we change our mind, we “place it at the disposal of true authority.” (4:1) This is the authority that tells us of our place in the Sonship, our true state of completion and abundance.

Jesus now demonstrates this in a challenging example. There is so much confusion and fear around our sexual desires that it is a very good place to highlight where they become entangled with our choice for our reality authority and the distortion of miracle impulses.

Jesus begins by saying, “sex and miracles are both ways of relating.” (5:3) This is fundamental to understanding what he is trying to bring to our attention. We have expectations for all of our interactions within our relationships and this understanding can help us to ask ourselves what it is we want this relating to do for us. In the previous principle we wanted to ask ourselves “what is this (behaviour) in response to?” In this example we can ask ourselves “what is the need I am feeling this impulse to meet?”

The need for the feeling of closeness that comes from accepting our reality as whole, the state of completion and abundance is distorted into a sense that we need to feel physically close to someone. Jesus says that self control will help but is not the whole answer to this problem. He says we need to uproot the underlying mechanism by becoming aware of the authority we accept and to change our mind. This opens the way for accurate perception of ourselves, and our relationship partners and reduces the distortion of the miracle impulse from the spirit level to the physical level.

Uprooting our sense of reality can be experienced as very unstable and can make us feel unbalanced and disoriented. Jesus tells us “that nothing is less stable than orientation which is upside down.” (7:4) Even if we keep our mind rigidly aligned with the physical level this rigidity only makes it seem stable and can lead to very dangerous and distressing mistakes.

One of the more devastating examples of upside-down thinking—the use of projection, as in “hurling something you do not want, and regard as dangerous and frightening, to someone else” (35.3:1)—was the Nazi’s Final Solution. In this case all that the Nazis did not want or found frightening within themselves was hurled outside of them and placed within the Jewish people and their culture. It was then “gotten rid of” more finally in the physical act of genocide.

Jesus tells us that this is an example of actions that stem from reversed or upside-down thinking. These actions “are literally the behavioural expressions of those who do not know what they do.” (9:1) In other words, they are the behaviours that result from the wrong stimulus. If our “mind is in valid relationship with God (the true authority), it can’t be upside-down.” (9:4) He uses the Jeane Dixon quote to remind us that we need always to remain clear in our mind about the difference between the spirit level and the physical level; “feet on the ground and fingertips in Heaven.” There is a valid place for both and there is a need for balance.

Jesus brings this idea back to sex and says our sexual fantasies are often based on “hostility, triumph, vengeance, self debasement and all sorts of expressions of the lack of love.” (10:6) We need to practice asking ourselves what stimulus we are responding to. This way we use our mind to choose the author of our reality as spirit. We affirm our place in the Sonship as the “true release of our misplaced sense of isolation, deprivation, and lack.” (43.1:1) We use the miracle impulse to “straighten the basic level confusion which underlies all those who seek happiness with the instruments of the world.” (12:1)

Reflection Exercise:

Try to pay attention to your impulses today. Use self control before acting on them and ask yourself what the stimulus for this impulse might be.

·       Am I reacting to the understanding I am part of the Sonship, in a state of completion and abundance?

·       What are the needs I am experiencing in this situation? Do I need a miracle?

Practice Suggestion:

I give my mind to Spirit today as the medium for creation.