Today’s reading says:
Step into the Light fully without fear of death, and see how clearly your path is lit.
What is the “fear of death” that today’s reading speaks of?
It isn’t fear of bodily death. It is the fear of losing one’s self—one’s sense of self.
Yesterday’s tip was about the mind-made laws we live by. Again, these mind-made laws vary by individual, and they make up the filter of the individual mind. Since they make up the filter of the individual mind, that means we see and understand the world and ourselves the way we do because of these mind-made laws.
The mind likes to understand. It feels comfortable understanding. That means our individual mind-made laws are like a security blanket for the mind. That’s true, even if we suffer because of the laws we believe in.
Since the mind gets its sense of comfort from the laws, it identifies with the laws, just as a small child identifies with its security blanket or security toy.
Have you ever seen how upset a child gets if you take its security item away?
It is as if you are removing the child’s orientation to the world.
That’s how it is with the ego too. The mind feels threatened to the point of death when you start removing the laws it is oriented to.
As you get serious about letting go of mind-made laws, the ego may rebel, just like a small child rebels when you take away its security item. If you want to “step into the light fully,” you must learn to relax through ego rebellion. To step into the light fully, you need to let go of living and seeing through individual mind-made laws, even though that makes the ego extremely uncomfortable.
Unrelated note: A friend sent me a link to The Visual Bible’s Acts movie on Youtube. If you like, you can use this link to watch the movie when we get to NTI Acts.
