Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 28 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Today, we read the last chapter in NTI Acts. NTI Acts taught us to follow guidance. Through NTI Acts, you’ve learned everything you need to know in order to follow guidance through both the purification and service stages.

Today’s reading says:

Everything is up to you.

In the human experience, everything that you experience and how you experience it depends on the script you choose to follow. Both scripts, the ego’s script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness, are generated in the same way. As we, consciousness, cast attention and make decisions, the energy we choose to believe (or trust) is reprocessed in consciousness and additional script develops based on that same energy.

As we cast attention on ego’s script, ego’s script is reprocessed, developed and delivered as thought to the players. As we cast attention on the script that comes from awakened consciousness, that script is reprocessed, developed and delivered as intuition to the players. Each player always has the choice to follow thinking or intuition.

Through the choices we make, scripts continue to be written. Both the ego script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness are responsive  to the choices we make. The scripts shift and adapt as we learn to make different choices. That’s why, “Everything is up to you.”

The famous “law of attraction” as it is usually understood is a distortion of this spiritual truth. When people study the law of attraction, the mind thinks it can decide what it wants and attract that specific thing or circumstance. Sometimes that appears to work. Sometimes it doesn’t. That’s because the law of love is higher than the law of attraction.

The law of attraction and whether it works or doesn’t work is part of the script. The law of love is the author of the script. Both the ego script and the script that comes from awakened consciousness are authored through the law of love.

People who put faith in the law of attraction think they can decide what they want and bring that into manifestation. However, the mind they are deciding with is itself a part of the script  and has no real power since it isn’t real.

The power behind the script is consciousness (also known as love). You are consciousness, but consciousness is not limited to you. Consciousness is the whole.

As consciousness makes choices from the energies available through script, energies are reprocessed, developed and delivered as script through the creative principal. No one individual can manipulate the script. The individual itself is a product of the script.

When this is understood, we see why surrender to the script that comes from awakened consciousness is the highest choice a human can make. By making that choice, the human experience is surrendered to the highest and most benevolent energies available.

The human cannot control the script. The freedom in the human experience lies in the choice to give attention to the highest or lowest energies that are delivered through script. All experience comes from that choice.

Note: I recommend printing this tip for future reference.

Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 27 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Yesterday, we learned the world is like a play. Each actor (or player) receives a script that guides how the actor plays his/her part in the world. This play has two directors, and the scripts are different depending on which director you listen to.

One script comes from the ego. It is received as thinking. This script presupposes that the world is real. It leads its actors to be highly engaged with the world and the current situation.

The other script comes from awakened consciousness. It is received as intuition. This script knows the world is not real. It knows all things are consciousness and all appearances are created by consciousness through the creative principle. It guides the actors who listen to it to let go of false beliefs and awaken to truth.

Today’s reading teaches us how to follow the script that comes from awakened consciousness. I recommend taking notes as you read from NTI today. Taking notes will help you absorb the guidance in today’s reading. You’ll also be able to keep your notes for easy future reference.

Note:  Before reading today’s tip, read Acts 25:1-12 from the Bible or watch all of Acts 25 & 26 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Today’s reading recommends the following perspective of the world:

The world is not real. It is like a play, with actors playing their roles. Only in the play of the world, the script has been forgotten, so that the play seems very real.

Why does the reading say that the world isn’t real?

Something is real when it actually exists and has fixed properties. For the world to qualify as real, it would have to have its own unchanging existence. The world does not meet this criterion. It does not have its own existence, because it is continuously created by consciousness through the third principle of God. The world is dependent on consciousness for its appearance. Also, it is very easy to see that the world isn’t changeless. It is constantly changing. As the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, observed, “Change is the only constant in life.”

Why is it important to remember that the world isn’t real?

When you think the world is real, you subconsciously believe it has fixed properties and will not change. For example, if you believe you are headed for disaster, possibly financial ruin or a failed relationship, you subconsciously believe the situation is fixed and will not change. If you believe you are worthless or guilty, you subconsciously believe worthlessness or guilt is a fixed fact about who you are. If you believe the world is fearful, you accept that as a fact, and you are subconsciously waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.

If you look very carefully at your belief that the world is real, as well as the other beliefs that stem from that belief, you will see that there are certain things you think are fixed and will not change. However, it’s your belief that they are fixed and will not change that causes them to appear real. You are consciousness, and you continually recreate those things through your belief in them.

Therefore, it is very important to accept that the world is not real. The world is like a play. Each actor plays his/her part in the play of the world based on the script that is received as thoughts in the mind. The actors do not know their thoughts are only a script, because they do not understand the code and how the creative principle works.

Today’s reading says:

This play has many endings, like slits cut in the script, where one can choose to step out of the play. But if one believes the play and is focused on playing his role, he will miss his opportunities to step out.

In other words, if we believe our thoughts and react to situations in the world as our thinking leads us to react, we engage with the world as if it is real and miss the opportunity to realize truth.

Today’s reading recommends a detached way of being with the world. When we are detached from the world, we still play a part in the world, but our script comes from a different director. Instead of thought, intuition is our guide, and intuition leads us through the play of the world to the point of awakening.

Note: If desired, watch all of Acts 24 from the Visual Bible movie, Acts.

Yesterday, we saw that cruelty resides in us as a wish. Cruelty is the ultimate divorce from oneness, because it powerfully inflates the sense of separation. We were asked to face the cruelty in the mind so that it can be healed.

There are three ways we can face the cruelty in the mind:

1. 1. We can look at our cruel thoughts, cruel desires and cruel actions. For example, during my purification stage, I noticed that when I put my daughter on timeout, I sent her to her room without her security blanket. As a young child, she loved her security blanket. The reason I sent her to her room without it was because I wanted to make her suffer.
   2. We can be defenseless when others are cruel to us. I don’t mean that we should allow someone to physically hurt us. In every situation, we should follow intuition, and so I will not presuppose what you should do if physically attacked. When I say that we can be defenseless when others are cruel to us, I am referring to mental or emotional cruelty. For example, when NTI was first published, there was a group of people who wrote cruel things about me on the internet. My guidance was to read what they wrote and rest-accept-trust with any feelings I had without responding or defending myself in any way.
   3. We can look at the cruelty in the world. For example, I experienced a huge healing around cruelty by watching a news story. I was shocked by the display of cruelty in that story. I couldn’t believe that one human could be that cruel to another human. My heart broke, and I cried for two hours. Interestingly, the spiritual ego told me that I shouldn’t feel the way I felt. I recognized that as ego and let the feelings rise. After two hours, a decision was made in me. The decision was, “I will only love now.” I haven’t seen a shred of cruelty in me since then. I also find that my love is not blocked by the cruelty demonstrated by others.

Today’s reading says:

When you face that which you fear, there is one thing you must remember.

What you look on is not at all real,
and you face it to deny it.

In that excerpt, “deny” means to declare untrue.

What do we declare untrue?

Declare whatever you are feeling in the moment untrue.

When we face cruelty, we can feel any number of feelings including guilt, unworthiness, defensiveness, anger, hatred, victimization, victimizer, rejection, abandonment, betrayal, self-righteousness, fear, sadness and etcetera. Those feelings are what you declare untrue. Rest-accept-trust with them; realize they are misperceptions; remember that the experience is untrue, and so it will pass; declare the truth by noticing constant, changeless awareness.

That’s purification. That’s how darkness is healed. That’s how you perform your function as a healing/awakening point in consciousness.

Note: I recommend printing this tip for future reference.