NTI Romans 2 is the story of a wish, “What if nothing is as it was?” It tells the story of how the wish was focused on to the point that truth was forgotten. It says:

Struck with [the idea that your wish came true], you became engrossed by it. And you tossed [the truth] aside. Faced with reality and the option of fantasy, you chose to step into fantasy.

Does that mean we rejected truth?

Today’s reading says we did not reject truth. When we “tossed [the truth] aside,” we merely repressed it, and what we repress we keep. That means the truth is always with us, whether it is acknowledged or not.

When our eyes are open to truth, the idea that we could reject truth is laughable. It is seen clearly that rejecting truth is impossible. It is the one thing that can never be done. However, before our eyes have opened, we can be-lie-ve we have rejected truth. We can even be-lie-ve that we continue to do so. This untrue idea can be the source of guilt and self-condemnation. Therefore, it is important to see that it isn’t true.

Today’s reading teaches that you have never rejected truth. It has always been with you. After reading today’s reading, consider spending some time in awareness-watching-awareness. Find out for yourself if you’ve rejected truth, or if you ever could.

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Today’s reading reemphasizes what we learned on Day 135. There are two scripts to choose from, one provided by ego and one provided by awake consciousness. It also points out that as we awaken, we tend to waiver between these two scripts. In one moment, we follow the script provided through intuition. In the next moment, we revert to believing thought again. However, the reading points out that this is progress. After all, wasn’t there a time when we listened almost exclusively to ego’s script?

We have made progress, and we will continue to make progress, especially as we trust intuition over thought more and more (and trust intuition over the world, which is also thought).

As we learned on Day 121, one of the things we can expect when we start following intuitive guidance instead of thought is resistance. Today’s reading reminds us how to be with resistance in order to heal it. It says:

When you find resistance in your heart and your mind, put not your trust there. When you find resistance, remember what you truly want. Rest, so that resistance will pass over you.

In other words, when you experience resistance, remember your spiritual aspiration and practice rest-accept-trust until you feel reconnected to your willingness.

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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.

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