The Ego’s Theater
Cause, effect and time
Posted by aplecompte on January 8th, 2010
God is. God is Cause and His Effect is His Son. Both create with their thoughts. Cause and effect are simultaneous. All is One.
In a single instant, a thought believed separation from God could be possible, fell into a dream, made the world of form and time, and forgot doing so.
The belief in separation then seemed to separate into separate minds, each in a body with which it identified. The wrong mind made the world like a movie theatre to keep the mind deceived while attempting to manage its guilt and its fear of being punished by God for the sin of separation.
To make the movie convincing, the wrong mind split cause and effect apart and turned them around. The wrong mind’s special effects process worked like this: The wrong mind, (false) cause would project its guilt as a thought-image (effect) onto the screen of the world. Then, in a gap in linear time immediately after each projection, it would forget having projected it. The mind would then perceive the image as a real independent agent attacking its innocence. Thus the thought-image that started as effect reappeared as a causal agent, and a guilty one at that. The mind would then plan and execute its defense against it. This process presented itself as a constant steam of (false) perception, making it appear as though illusions from the past determined the present. The mind was doing this to itself with no awareness that the wrong mind was making it all up.
“What you believe is true for you. In this sense the separation has occurred.” T-2.VII.5.
We pretend to live in this nightmare past. The mind is addicted to fear, to the wrong mind. It attempts to resolve its fears and problems by the magic of changing or rearranging images in the world. This may appear to work for a time, but it never really works because the fear is not in the world; it has just been set up to appear there. The fear is in the mind.
But we are saved. In the instant of the separation illusion, God placed the Holy Spirit in the mind. Each moment the mind has a choice between the right mind of Love and the wrong mind of fear.
Mastery through Love is the only way for us to resolve our problems. Forgiveness, seeing the false as false and allowing correction by the Holy Spirit, is a reflection of love. To choose the right mind is to choose miracle-minded thinking. A miracle is a present decision to forgive that ends wrong-minded thought, thus collapsing time and returning the mind to love. Fear guilt and anger are no more; in place of the reeking movie theater, the Holy Spirit gives us the smiling and peaceful real world.
