“The acknowledgement of where true consciousness lies”

Great assignment!  I actually had a bit of a revelation from it already. 

As you suggested I studied “The Great Revelation” in Retrospection and Introspection.  I was struck by the sharp distinctions she makes between Truth and error, Mind and mortal mind, fear and Love.   As I prayed about this I recalled a very small experience I had the night before and got a new perspective on it.  I was in bed worrying about a major problem I had to deal with.  It involved the business and I was a little hazy about the details but I had the feeling I had been worrying about it the night before too, as if time had passed without resolution of the problem. 

I recall the gut feeling of real anxiety.  Slowly I began to realize I was asleep and as I woke up the details of the problem began to get even hazier.  I actually fought to remember because I was afraid if I forgot about it I wouldn’t take care of it and suffer the consequences.  Eventually I woke up and any memory of the details, and any fear, just faded away.  Once I was awake I knew that not one detail of the problem that had so consumed my thought was real or had any effect on my life.  I just released it and got on with my day. 

The next night, as I prayed after reading the assignment, I realized that the experience of the waking dream was just the same, and the “transition” from the sleeping dream to the waking dream was the same as the waking dream to spiritual consciousness—a recognition that there was no reality, no substance, no effect, never happened. 

The acknowledgment of where true consciousness lies wakes us up to the fact that the human experiences that seemed so important and active in shaping who we are just melt away into oblivion in the presence of the light of Truth.  Thanks for the push.  I am feeling very close to God.