NTI Ephesians 2 said:

In truth, you ask of your brother through your mind, and your brother answers you exactly as you have asked.

Today’s reading goes further into that idea.

It says:

When you think you are thinking alone, you are not. Your thoughts, which are heard by your brothers, are answered through them.

In that statement, “brothers” is a symbol. It would be more accurate to say that consciousness knows the energy of every image, thought or emotion that we give believing attention to, and it creates more images, thoughts and emotions from that same energy. Through our believing attention—which is declaration—we show interest in a particular energy, so consciousness delivers more of that energy. In that way, it gives us exactly what we show interest in.

This is why all things are Love. Only Love exists. Every experience that is given you is unequivocally the gift of Love given in answer to your request for Love.

Or, as inner spiritual wisdom one shared with me:

Love is giving through spirit to spirit that which spirit requests.

The question becomes:

What energy am I asking for through my believing attention?

Followed by:

What do I truly want to experience?

I used to perceive attack in the world, whether it was physical attack, verbal attack or emotional attack. One day, when I was seeing attack everywhere, I asked inner spiritual wisdom for guidance. I was taught that what I perceived as attack was actually love.

You can read the message I received from inner wisdom that day and listen to a 30-minute teaching about that message. It may help you contemplate today’s reading more deeply.

Message and Audio

Note: “Conscious” and “consciousness” as it is referred to in this message and audio refers to human conscious awareness; that is, being aware of me and others. It is the realm of duality. “Spirit” is used to refer to Consciousness as oneness.

On Day 187 and Day 188, I shared how, as the scribe of NTI, I became afraid when inner wisdom tried to take me beyond mind through Self-inquiry. Since I was not ready to see myself as That which is beyond mind, inner wisdom shifted and took a different approach with me.

The Self-inquiry in NTI 2 Corinthians 12 went well up until this point:

What is my mind?

The answer to that is God. For only God can be Mind, which is the origin of thoughts, with thoughts being the maker or definer of you.

I would not go beyond this point, because I was identified with the body-mind-personality as me. Since I would not go beyond this point, this is where inner wisdom recalculated (like a GPS) and began leading me toward the same destination in a different way.

NTI Ephesians 2 says:

Your mind is of God. This we have already established.

That was something I was willing to accept during the Self-inquiry process—that my thoughts came from my mind, and my mind came from God. So, since I accepted this idea, inner wisdom recalculated and began leading from here. It continues by saying:

Being of God, [your mind] is the same as God.

I was not willing to accept that I am beyond mind, because to me, ‘beyond mind’ meant ‘God’, and it felt blasphemous to say, “I am God.” However, I was willing to accept that if my mind comes from God, it must be the same as God. So, inner wisdom began with what I would accept, and began leading me to see that I am the Third Principle of God.

To see one’s self as the body-mind-personality and to see one’s self as the creative process itself is a completely different perspective.

One who sees herself as the body-mind-personality lives in ignorance. She believes the world, her thoughts and her emotions. She is a puppet to the ego script while believing she is an independent person.

One who sees herself as the creative process  is no longer tethered to the world, thought and emotion. She is free of the world, instead of subject to the world. She is liberated. Instead of being a puppet, she can choose her way of being, knowing that her way of being is creative spirit.

Since I was attached to concepts, inner wisdom decided to attach a concept that was higher than ‘person,’ but less than ‘God,’ to the creative process. It called the creative principle, “Christ.” That’s because, although I wasn’t willing to accept that I am God, I was willing to accept that I am Christ, so by using that term along with my willingness to see that I am the same as God, inner spiritual wisdom began moving me away from the belief that I am a body-mind-personality by showing me that I am Christ—an ongoing creative process.

NTI Ephesians 2 says:

All that you are, you are through creation.
All that you be, you be through creation also.

That means that every body, every thought and every emotion is created through the creative principle. If you believe that you are a body, that the thoughts are your thoughts and that emotions are real, you are a puppet. You are not liberated. You are the ignorant slave of a script.

It also says:

In truth, you ask of your brother through your mind, and your brother answers you exactly as you have asked.

That means you aren’t what you appear to be. You are the creative process, and your brothers, whether they know it or not, are connected to you through the creative process, because they are the creative process too.

Regardless of whether one is liberated or a puppet to the script, one is the creative process, and creation is happening through him as it happens through all.

When we acknowledge that we are the Third Principle of God, we’ve taken a step in the direction of realizing we are the First Principle of God.

Willingness is the state of wanting to awaken to truth and being mentally, emotionally, and spiritually ready to do it. It is a call from awake consciousness and a direct link to awake consciousness. When we focus on our willingness, we are in direct communion with awake consciousness. By communing with awake consciousness, we merge with awake consciousness. Focusing on our willingness is the simple way to awaken.

When we focus on willingness, we are consumed with one purpose. When we focus on the mind, our attention is scattered among many purposes. These many purposes are called distractions, because they all have one thing in common: they distract our attention away from our call to awaken.

When we focus on the mind and become distracted by its thoughts, we get lost in points of experience. We experience emotions that are different from truth. Forgiveness is the process of removing attention from points of experience and returning our focus to truth.

Today’s reading teaches a process for forgiveness. It is a simple process that can be used over and over. It can be used each time we find ourselves lost or stuck in an experience that is different from truth. Here’s how the process works:

1. 1. Recognize you are experiencing an emotion that is different from truth and this is an opportunity for forgiveness.
   2. Put the story aside temporarily in order to quiet the mind. I do this by writing the main points about the story in a journal. Writing the main points on paper helps me empty the mind—to get the story outside of me—so I can relax into a quiet mind.
   3. Once the mind is quiet, or relatively quieter than before, turn your attention to your willingness or to your spiritual aspiration. I do this by asking myself, “What do I truly want?”
   4. Focus on your willingness. Let attention linger there. Notice what your willingness feels like. Relax into it. Let yourself go deeper into it by being with it—by communing with it.
   5. When you feel deeply in touch with willingness, describe the obstacle that you are ready to transcend. For example:
       
      “I am experiencing worry and fear. I am worried that I will have to fight in order to get this project completed on time, and I don’t want to fight. I am worried that I will offend people as I do what I have to do. I am worried we will not complete the project on time. I am worried that if we do complete the project on time, they will put me in charge of the process permanently and that will just create new things to worry about.”At this step, it’s important to stay in touch with your willingness. Emotions may arise in the body as you recount the obstacle. Allow whatever arises to be there. Do not judge yourself or the emotional experience; do not attempt to manipulate it or change it. You are in a healing space now, and whatever arises is coming up for healing. Let it be, and stay with your willingness.
   6. Once you are in the healing space, any number of experiences may occur. I cannot tell you exactly how healing will happen. Trust whatever happens. Don’t think it is supposed to look a certain way or be different than it is. If you find yourself seeing the obstacle more clearly, look at it. Your clarity regarding the obstacle is a part of the healing process. If you begin to see the situation differently, accept the new point-of-view. If your feelings begin to morph into other feelings, allow them to shift and change. If you begin to realize guidance, trust the guidance. If you feel to grab a pen and journal, do that. If there is a prompt to practice inquiry, follow that prompt.
   7. Do not try to force forgiveness, and do not try to rush through the forgiveness process. Be willing to stay with the process until you feel intuitively that it is complete for now.
   8. Optional: I like to conclude a forgiveness process with, “Thank you.” 

1.  I recommend printing this tip for future reference.