Today’s reading is about prayer, how we pray, and how prayers are answered.

Prayer is defined as an earnest request or wish. As we have already seen, since consciousness is not aware of many things, from consciousness’ point of view you can only pray for two things: truth or illusion. In order to have genuine clarity, one must be clear on this point.

The law of attraction is not the law of Love. The law of attraction is an ego-distorted version of the law of Love.

According to the law of attraction, there are many things, and you can attract the things you want through intention and faith.

Here are the distortions in the law of attraction:

1. There are many things – This is a distortion that comes from the ego point of view. From enlightened point of view, there are not many things. Enlightened point of view is unity consciousness, and unity consciousness sees clearly that all there is is consciousness. There is one thing, not many. All is the Self.

2.  You can attract – The “you” in the law of attraction is the personality—the false self. It is the personality that wants a new relationship, a new car, lots of money, a big house, world travel, and etcetera. Therefore, the law of attraction reinforces the idea that you are the false self.

3.  You can attract the things you want – The many things (distortion #1) and you (distortion #2) are put together with judgment, so that some things are perceived as good/desired and other things are perceived as bad/undesired. Judgment solidifies the perception of duality, and the ego remains very secure, even if the law of attraction works and you get the intended thing or circumstance.

The law of attraction is a distortion. Even if you “win” by attracting the thing or circumstance you intend to attract, you lose. Why? You still perceive a world of many things; you still perceive yourself as a “you” who has personality-based preferences; judgment rules in your mind, and your perception is duality.

As I already mentioned, today’s reading is about prayer, how we pray, and how prayers are answered. Prayer is defined as an earnest request or wish. One who practices the law of attraction prays for illusion and receives illusion.

Todays reading says:

“I pray for you” is a statement of faith that all you see and sense and experience is not all there is. It is a statement of realization that effect is the result of intent, and intent can be affected by you.

There are only two intentions (motives): truth or illusion. And you can decide which intention you choose as your purpose.

Today’s reading also says:

“Faith is by no means dead. You put faith in whatever you believe. …

Motive without faith is dead.”

In this context, faith is synonymous with believing attention.

When NTI says, “Motive without faith is dead,” it means:

To say you want truth, but to live with believing attention on the world, your thoughts about the world and your emotions, is to live from the motive that wishes for something different than truth.

To receive truth, you must live from the motive of truth. Your believing attention must abide with awareness and spiritual intuition, not the world, thought and emotion.

We do not pray with words or thoughts. We pray with believing attention and with action, since action is an expression of believing attention. If we put faith in illusion—if that is what we believe, think about and react to—we get illusion. If we want truth, we must learn to live from the intention for truth realization.

We experience illusion or truth, whichever we genuinely intend. That is the law of Love.

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Thoughts of Awakening # 202

Stories are ideas.
Look at your stories
and see they are a collection of ideas.
Then ask your mind honestly,
“What is it that these ideas teach?”

To see and recognize truth,
one must relinquish ideas
that are not truth.
One must have willingness to see
beyond false ideas.
One must desire his desire for truth.

~From our Holy Spirit

One who sees herself as a person subject to the world and to her experience in the world reacts to thought, emotion and perception as if it is real, which is  judgment and continues the manifestation of illusory energies.

One who sees herself as the creative process chooses her way of being  (discernment) by remembering that her way of being is  creative spirit.

Today’s reading recommends that we remember we are the creative process by choosing our way of being. It says:

Awakening comes from the Heart, so let the Heart lead in all things. The mind is the great receiver. But with the Heart, sort through that which is received. Let the Heart and mind together give to spirit, so that the deliverer receives, always, through the Heart.

What does the previous excerpt mean when it says, “Let the Heart and mind together give to spirit”?

When NTI Ephesians refers to “mind” and “spirit,” spirit is synonymous with consciousness and mind is synonymous with manifestation, which includes thought, emotion, and perception. When NTI Ephesians refers to Heart, it refers to spiritual intuition. So, when NTI Ephesians asks us to let the “Heart and mind together give to spirit,” it asks us to practice discernment regarding every thought, emotion and perception.

As we learned on Day 36, discernment is determining the difference between:

• personal thought and self-will, which is ego
• thought and will that arise from beyond the personal self

Both options are mind, or manifestations. A Course in Miracles  differentiates between them by calling them “wrong mind” and “right mind.” The Code differentiates between them by calling them “lower vibration” and “higher vibration,” yet they are both code.

Spiritual intuition (Heart) is the part of us that knows the difference between wrong-minded lower vibrations and right-minded higher vibrations. When we look at the thoughts, emotions and perceptions that are received from consciousness with spiritual intuition, we discern the higher vibrational options so we can make those choices. If we do not look at the options received from consciousness with spiritual intuition, we are likely to choose the lower vibrational options because they appeal to the personal self.

Again:

One who sees himself as a person who is subject to the world and his experience reacts  to thought, emotion and perception as if it is real.

One who sees himself as the creative process chooses his way of being  (discernment) by remembering that his way of being is creative spirit.

It’s beneficial to drop the idea that you are a person, adopt the idea that you are the creative process, and then use discernment to live from the right-minded higher vibrations. If you forget, and you react to conditions as if you are a person, simply return to the higher vibrational choices as soon as you remember. Don’t judge yourself for forgetting, because judgment is just another low vibrational choice.

As today’s reading says:

“If you are not joyous because of what you see, ask of God (consciousness) differently by remembering who you are and how you ask.”

You ‘ask’ with your believing attention. In other words, whatever you accept as true  is the experience you ask for from the creative principle, and the creative principle always gives you what you ask for.

Note: When NTI says, “You may decide what you want, ask for what you want, and you will receive in kind,” it means you will receive truth (or an experience that points toward truth) or illusion.

Remember what we learned on Day 170. From consciousness’ point of view, there are only two things you can want: truth or illusion. Therefore, in every moment you are asking for one or the other, and “you will receive in kind.”

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Thoughts of Awakening # 201

When you watch the mind,
watch for stories
and belief in stories.

All stories are judgments
teaching that ‘what is’
is what it is not.

If you watch the stories carefully,
you will see this is true.
You will see a him and a her,
the story of separation.
You will see a right and a wrong,
the story of judgment, sin and guilt.

When you see stories
remember they simply are not true.
Remember that stories
do not speak of what you look upon.

~From our Holy Spirit