Let’s review what we have learned through NTI Romans so far:

• • Consciousness made a wish to experience itself as different. You are consciousness. This wish is in you and can only be healed in you.

• • The creative principle was made through this wish as a tool to create the experience of something different from consciousness. The creative principal creates temporary manifestation through divine declaration, also known as judgment or decision. Each time we judge something, we subconsciously declare it to be real.

• • The way to realize everything as consciousness again is to stop declaring manifestation to be real. This is accomplished by realizing you know nothing and by surrendering unconditionally to intuition.

• • The creative principal and manifestation are not mistakes. Awakened consciousness loves and enjoys manifestation.

• • One obstacle to realizing consciousness as what you are and what everything is, is thinking you are something different. To realize you are consciousness, practice awareness-watching-awareness.

• • Enlightenment, or awake consciousness, exists in you now. You are not aware of it, because of the attention you place on manifestation.

• • Both external symbols and internal spiritual wisdom are provided by your awake consciousness to help turn attention back toward it.

• • Another obstacle to realizing consciousness as what you are and what everything is, is thinking the world is real. When you think the world is real, you keep attention with the world.
  • The purpose of the world during the awakening phase is to reverse the declaration that made it seem real. Instead of declaring manifestation real, you declare it unreal as it happens. You also declare consciousness as its only reality.

Today’s reading teaches how to declare manifestation unreal. It asks us to remember that everything we see and experience is thought. Said another way, it is a product of thought, which was previously declared real, and is now made temporarily manifest.

Again, everything we see and experience is thought. We learned this last year when we studied the Code. As that message said:

The code is ideas, just as all things within illusion are ideas. The code can be seen as specific manifestations in form, can be felt as feelings or can be heard as thoughts. The best way to look at the code is as the potential driver of experience. I say it is the potential driver of experience, because code will only drive your experience if you fully believe the code. Even if you let go of your belief in the code partially, it no longer has full influence over you. The code can only drive your experience to the degree that you believe the code.

Today’s reading shares tips about how not to believe the world is real. I recommend taking notes as you read today’s reading. Taking notes will help you remember what you read so you can practice it. Your notes will also be available for easy future reference.

If you would like to review the message of the Code, click here.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 146

Listen only
for what you are to give.

Listening within,
placing the attention there,
tunes being
with an inner guiding force.

This force,
the inner guiding force,
is in tune with all things.

Focusing out
on the world of wants and needs
places the body
in tune with a driving force.

A driving force creates effort
and more need for driving.

A guiding force creates rest,
and an awareness of attunement.

~From our Holy Spirit

Yesterday’s tip pointed out that the word “lie” is in the center of the word “belief.” Today’s reading seems to echo that point when it says:

“All that you experience and believe to be true is not true.”

When something is true, it is in accordance with fact or reality. Today’s reading points out that everything we experience and believe is not true, because it is not in accordance with reality.

Instead of believing  that statement, let’s use inquiry to find out for ourselves.

For example, I can ask, “Is it true that I am a woman?” It appears that I am a woman, but is that a fact that is in accord with reality? There was a time when I would have said, “Yes,” but after practicing awareness-watching-awareness, I realize woman is not my essential nature. It is an appearance and an experience, but it is not the essence of my reality.

Also, if I look at awareness as what I am, I find that it is not an experience or a belief. I do not experience awareness. Awareness is that which is aware of every experience. Also, I do not hold a belief that I am awareness. Awareness is a direct knowing. In fact, it is the most intimate known about me.

The reason today’s reading points out that everything we experience and believe is not true is to help us return our focus to reality.

The reading says:

“Let’s pass through your dream, see it is not real, and return in glee to all that is real and has not changed.”

As NTI Acts 25 pointed out, we have a choice about how to “play” our role in the world. We can believe our experiences and suffer with them, or we can use each experience for awakening.

Today’s reading gives us another opportunity to consider how we want to play our role. Here are some questions to consider as you contemplate today’s reading:

What is your purpose for this lifetime?

How do you choose to focus your attention as everything happens?

Are you ready to look at thoughts you’ve held dear until now
and realize you don’t want them anymore?

Are you willing to relinquish judgment and self-will?

The reading says that creation/Heaven does not suffer over your experiences in the world. In this context, both “creation” and “Heaven” are symbols for consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t suffer over your experiences in the world, because consciousness knows reality, and when it sees you, all it sees is changeless, unaffected reality.

Note: The next tip will be available tomorrow morning after 3:50am ET at this link.

Thoughts of Awakening # 145

Do not ask.
But listen only
for what you are to give.

When one asks for himself
one is listening to the mind
that thinks it is separate
from other.

When one does not ask,
not even for the smallest
or humblest of needs,
one is knowing
there is no need to ask.
For there is only the Whole,
which always serves its Self.

~From our Holy Spirit