ACIM Bringing Illusions to Truth vs. the Ego’s Bullshit Spiritual Bypass

Are you faking being happy, loving, peaceful, kind, and forgiving because you think you’re failing Enlightenment 101 if you don’t? Do you believe you’re not supposed to look at all of the ways in which people attack each other in the world? Or that to get an A in A Course in Miracles means turning a blind eye to the horrors of war, abuse, murder, torture, criticism, judgment, condemnation, and all other forms of fear because if you see it you’re buying into the illusion?

There is a belief among many students of the Course that they must ignore the terrible things that transpire here – particularly the way in which humans treat one another – or they’ll be making the dream real. I hear people expressing their angry or resentful feelings and then saying,

“But the Course says I’m not supposed to think that so I don’t.”

Really?

In wtf Universe do we magically not think something just because we pretend we’re not thinking it?

In this world that’s called by a few different names: denial, lying, and bullshitting come immediately to mind. But that idea would make perfect sense coming from the upside down illogic of the ego.

It’s also known as spiritual bypassing – whereby we say it’s all good and everything is beautiful, Man, and we’re all up in our Zen, sitting on a lotus blossom farting patchouli rainbows… and not being truthful about the judgment and condemnation that’s actually in our minds.

This magic bus is never going to get us home doing that, my Beloveds.

Our path of least resistance is listening to the voice of the ego, looking at the darkness in our bros but seeing it as truth: them as guilty, and ourselves as innocent victims.

But then we remember that as students of A Course in Miracles there’s something about Oneness, and seeing your bro as yourself, and forgiveness… and love peace and joy blah blah blah… so somehow we gotta camo the whole thing in sparkly pink so we don’t get busted by Spirit.

Why? Because we’re terrified of actually witnessing the darkness in our minds – we don’t wanna be that guy. We don’t want to look at it because we think we’re guilty and that the story is real and somehow we have to cover it up or we will be found out and punished by God. So we try and trick ourselves and each other by denying our belief there’s any guilt within us. (There isn’t, but we think there is and saying we don’t doesn’t make it true for us.)

If the meaning we make of everything is from a place of guilt, projected fear, and self-hatred, rather than pretending we’re not doing that, how about we just be honest and forgive ourselves for believing the illusion and ask Spirit to heal our perceptions and help us see it differently?

As Jesus hilariously asks:

“Is it possible that the way to achieve a goal is not to attain it?”
T-12.V.7

(OMG you gotta love That Guy.)

Our Inner Teacher aka Jesus in A Course in Miracles is asking us not to avert our eyes from the darkness. He’s inviting us instead to bring to Him our illusions of attack and victimhood, and our thoughts about our crappy bros, and how we got shafted and mistreated, and how it wasn’t fair, and how it shouldn’t have happened, and someone’s gotta pay. To look with Him and acknowledge it all for what it is – our own self-hatred projected onto others and the world, our imagined guilt for the crime of separating from God that we never committed.

Then we can consciously make a choice to see the light of Truth beyond the darkness. But that’s the point – you have to be willing to look at the darkness in order to see through it to the light.

As long as we continue that pattern of spiritual bypassing we will stay stuck in the endless loop of the illusion of the world and never actually reach the light that is our Self, our Home, the Truth of our being. The ego would love that – using our own spiritual beliefs against us to keep us from actually waking up.

By surrendering our illusions, admitting our thoughts and asking that they be transformed, by not faking that we’re there when we’re not – we demonstrate our willingness to have our perceptions shifted, and we open to experiencing miracles.

ACIM Bringing Illusions to Truth vs. the Ego’s Bullshit Spiritual Bypass

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