Forgiveness is Letting Go
Introduction
All our earthly religions tell us to forgive. Yet few people even seriously try to forgive. All of us pretend to forgive, to various degrees. But what is forgiveness? What exactly do we have to say or do to forgive? What magic “ritual” needs to be observed? Is it as simple as saying, or even thinking, “I forgive you?”
The answer can be felt in our heart. We all know how dissonant and unsatisfying it is to lie and tell people that we forgive them. After someone “wrongs” us, do we ever feel one iota better for merely saying that we forgive him? Clearly, such words don’t dissipate our anger and resentment. So, what are we doing wrong? And how can we possibly forgive someone who has something really awful?
The answer is to learn to shrug at everything we see…except love.
Someday, when we see the foolishness of blame for what it is, we will change our point of view, and forgiveness will at last dawn in our minds. But if we could do that now, we wouldn’t even be here, since there would be nothing left to learn. Down here on Earth, we need simpler, less threatening steps. If we have been “wronged” by another person, and yet can still recognize that she is a fellow Child of love, we can start to develop our internal forgiveness narrative, intentionally overlooking the erroneous sensory data that our ego insists that we perceive.
When that shift happens, we will have started to “begin to begin” to unlearn what we have mis-taught ourselves over the years—time we mis-spent looking intently yet ignorantly through a backwards telescope at a majestic galaxy called love and thinking, how small it is…
A New Vocabulary of Forgiveness
From now on, we should try harder to see all earthly misdeeds, from mundane coffee spills to what the world calls global calamities, as if they were the errors of children. When an infant spills his milk accidentally, you simply clean it up. You don’t blame the child, because he is not capable of understanding spilled milk. You overlook it.
But isn’t that letting the bad guys off easy? Of course not, because there are no bad guys out there! The error that just inconvenienced us passed in a nanosecond—yet our soul lives forever. Often, people on Earth get so confused and paranoid that they do things that are fearful or hateful or angry or ugly (by the standards of this world). As the Course admits, “frightened people can be vicious.” But when that happens, why not try to simply let it pass, as we would with an infant? You will outlive this “event” by more than a trillion billion years—infinitely more!
This is not a “physical” activity where we wave a magic wand at a real problem and hope it disappears. It is a mental reassessment of our own mistaken judgments. It is letting go of our rage and anger from that bad pizza we just suffered through. However, forgiveness doesn’t require that anyone else be present. We are surrounded by forgiveness opportunities everywhere, even if we are alone on a deserted island. We do not need to be physically “with” other people in order to forgive them and receive the benefits of this forgiveness. Even a brief loving thought directed at someone is enough.
We vastly underestimate our soul siblings’ value by ignoring the phenomenal opportunities they provide us for growth—as we perceive them doing annoying things, we can then receive the vast karmic benefits of overlooking these perceived misdeeds. This is the saintly gift of every difficult, abusive, insincere, antagonistic, angry, dishonest, vicious person on Earth. The tougher, as they say, the better, because it’s only a lesson in school. Don’t “rise to the bait” as you encounter difficult people, but look up and adjust your eyes to Heaven’s magnanimous vision, and feel the peace flow in, demolishing your obsolete castle walls.
Trust in the invisible matrix of love to catch you, as you step forward confidently and luminously, with open hands, gentle eyes and a beatific smile that holds all things within its lovingness—go ahead and forgive the entire world, and you will receive the entire peace of Heaven in return.
A Constellation of Living love
The next time we note an imperfection in one of our fellow earthlings, rather than judging it, we should try to simply overlook it. This small echo of Vision can then be expanded to the entire Universe—where each of us is only a tiny pinprick within an infinite golden Constellation of pure starlight. We will remember that the Light of the Whole is indeed found in every minute part. With each crystalline lightning-flash of divine recollection, we revisit in perfect clarity this glittering celestial body, which is our true home. There, each component speck of dazzling brilliance only serves to enhance the Whole—and is never apart from it. And whenever, wherever, we forgive, we are again gifted with the sacred whispered knowledge that we are all limitless, and that Infinity never needs to forgive. How should a star forgive a star?
No analogy does our shared Soul justice, because no frame of reference in our Universe could reflect our “super-connectivity” with all life. Yet we are too busy looking sullenly at our feet to dare to cast our gaze up, as I said once under trance. We should embrace Heaven’s starlight, and not shrink from earthly shadows, as we accept the miracle of sameness into our hearts. We should see Everyone whenever we look at anyone—in fact, we should see only One.
Just as we gently brush away distracting thoughts in meditation, so should we gently wave away all judgmental ideas about other people. We should softly let these negative thoughts go, not with a petulant swipe of our plastic conductor’s baton, but with a hopeful smile, and an acknowledgment that we are all part of a supreme Galaxy of love, in a dimension we cannot as yet know. This world was made to help us learn forgiveness, as a pathway to love, and when the world’s sole purpose becomes forgiveness, it will become a beautiful world indeed.
As the Course says, “How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s son!”
How to Forgive
At this point, it might be helpful to examine exactly what we can do when confronted by a difficult situation requiring forgiveness. How do we let it go when we have been wronged? The following three-step process is my “take” on the Course’s approach.
Step One: Admit That You Love the Blame Game
To start, we need to admit that “it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good,” and that we get a lot of emotional mileage when bad things happen to us. As Ken Wapnick would say, we need to admit how much we love our problems—they define who we are. Our martyrdom scoreboard eagerly “lights up” whenever someone is out there doing bad things to us: abusing us, ridiculing us, hurting us, cheating us. Whenever this happens, we delight in aiming our crosshairs of rage on the other person, just like a vindictive child who has been elbowed out of his prime sandbox position in the playground.
The key to reassessing all our judgments correctly is to identify that “blaming impulse” as coming from our ego and nowhere else. We are trying to show God that we are innocent… and the other person is clearly guilty. But, fundamentally, each “sandbox drama” we experience is just our ego’s latest ploy to misdirect our perception by manipulating our feelings—enhancing the illusion of separation from our fellow humans.
Thus, the first step of forgiveness is to examine the blaming mechanism we hold within ourselves, in order to see that the ego is behind this—not only in our wanting to judge this person, but also in our seeing the offense in the first place. We see sin because we want to see sin—simply put, it gets us off the hook! It should not surprise us that the ego is up to its old tricks—what else is new?
Step Two: Admit That You Don’t Have All the Information
What if I am missing something? Given the information at my disposal, am I qualified and able to judge? Given our track record of bad judgment, we can see that we are not naturally gifted at judging. Therefore, if we want to be really sure we have this right, we need all the information. In order to avoid the mortification of accusing someone falsely, we should stop and rewind, and question what we know about this offense that has occurred. We should wonder what this person has been going through recently, and imagine his hopes and fears. What if he has a medical condition or family problem that is causing him to act in an irrational way? What if there is some aspect of this that is completely unknown to us? Are we letting other people—our friends, for example—egg us on to take retribution? Do we secretly want this offending person to let us down?
It’s a helpful start for us even to accept some doubt about our initial judgments—the next step is to acknowledge that we probably goofed on all of it. This is because the person we’re judging is secretly a perfect soul who is only trying to learn his lessons in life, just like the rest of us. We don’t have the full picture. We don’t have the full “background check” required to judge someone—that comes much, much later.
Even if we just look to Earth for the answers, we must accept that we would have to consider an impossibly large list of potential explanations for someone’s behavior before we could definitively state that we weren’t being premature in our judgments. We would have to be telepathic to be 100% certain we had the story straight. Why not play it safe and just let the issue go?
Going back to a higher “Super-Soul” level, we could equally ask, “What if this person is incapable of any error at all? What if we were both made by a common Source who loves us equally?” Are we falling into a trap by getting upset over this “set play?” Whether or not this annoying person is in my soul group, I surely love him—that is, I love his hidden soul essence. This person is just an actor in my movie. What if the whole point here is to get a rise out of me?
The second step is thus to agree that you have insufficient information, and you don’t have the time to research all the possible explanations for what happened. In fact, you don’t have the energy to figure it out either, and you should start to consider how happy you might be if you stopped trying. Try to remember the last time you felt angry about something and got no sleep thinking about it—and then woke up to learn that the situation was actually much less catastrophic than you had feared the night before. You can now consider the Course’s wise words: “You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment.”
Step Three: Give the Decision to a Higher Authority to Judge it for You
Think of whatever symbol of perfect judgment you can imagine. Christians might use Jesus or the Virgin Mary, for example. If you don’t feel comfortable choosing a religious figure, then choose Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, or someone else. You could pick Moses. Pick someone with perfect judgment—someone whom you believe never gets it wrong. Imagine this wise person in your mind, ready to hear about this serious problem. He is your new judge and jury and he is going to be doing your judging for you going forward. Henceforth, you are giving him “power of attorney” to handle all judgment on your behalf.
Let’s say you pick the Buddha. As you bring forward the “accused” (the person who cut you off at the fast food drive-through) to your wise Buddha-judge, consider the flaws in your argument. Admit that you might be perceiving this wrongly, since both you and the “sinner” in front of you are immortal children of the same Source. Understand that this person is fearful and paranoid.
Now ask your chosen judge to help you see the situation differently—by taking it off your hands completely. Admit that you have no idea how this all gets tallied up in Heaven, and that you’re best off just handing this one over to Buddha and asking him to deal with it, because right now your ego is running wild with it. Recognize that you just want this situation to go away. Admit that you can’t handle this and don’t want to. Then see yourself handing the problem symbolically away to your Buddha. Visualize placing a full garbage bag, or a dead fish, or rotten apple, or any other symbol of something you do not want, on a silver platter and sliding it over. Ask Buddha to make it go away, because it has gotten out of your control. Then give thanks and step back. Phew! Your job is done.
See your immaculate Buddha-judge looking at your “offering,” and watch it disappear under his loving gaze. In the sunshine of that saintly regard, all illusions dissipate like steam, and all errors melt away like dry ice on a hot sidewalk. love’s X-ray vision has seen through the imaginary problem you have been grappling with, and revealed it to be something that does not exist and cannot hurt you. Your master judge gently promises you—his ancient wisdom curated by centuries of pious lifetimes—that you will indeed feel better as you let go.
That’s it. As you get in the habit of “handing over” your judgmental moments more often, your sense of freedom should grow. Hallelujah, you are no longer responsible for judging anyone! As Ken Wapnick would say, you need only bring the problem (your mistaken judgments) to the solution (your spiritual mentor or judge) and then stop. That is all we need to do—and then bask in the warm glow of unconditional release from all worry and anxiety.
As the Course says at the end of Chapter 5:
• I know I have chosen wrongly;
• I know my choice has not made me happy;
• I choose to be happy, by letting the Holy Spirit choose for me.
Thus, the third step is easy. We find a good judge and hand the problem to him or her to solve for us. This is an unapologetic abdication of our role as judge and jury, precisely the “cop-out” our ego is screaming at us not to take—and that’s why it works.
We will bring in a pro to handle this one.
Then we will forget about it.
Because we have just forgiven it.*
*Note: This post is an excerpt from my latest book, Be Love, currently available on Amazon. All rights reserved.
(https://www.amazon.com/Be-Love-Betwee...)
All our earthly religions tell us to forgive. Yet few people even seriously try to forgive. All of us pretend to forgive, to various degrees. But what is forgiveness? What exactly do we have to say or do to forgive? What magic “ritual” needs to be observed? Is it as simple as saying, or even thinking, “I forgive you?”
The answer can be felt in our heart. We all know how dissonant and unsatisfying it is to lie and tell people that we forgive them. After someone “wrongs” us, do we ever feel one iota better for merely saying that we forgive him? Clearly, such words don’t dissipate our anger and resentment. So, what are we doing wrong? And how can we possibly forgive someone who has something really awful?
The answer is to learn to shrug at everything we see…except love.
Someday, when we see the foolishness of blame for what it is, we will change our point of view, and forgiveness will at last dawn in our minds. But if we could do that now, we wouldn’t even be here, since there would be nothing left to learn. Down here on Earth, we need simpler, less threatening steps. If we have been “wronged” by another person, and yet can still recognize that she is a fellow Child of love, we can start to develop our internal forgiveness narrative, intentionally overlooking the erroneous sensory data that our ego insists that we perceive.
When that shift happens, we will have started to “begin to begin” to unlearn what we have mis-taught ourselves over the years—time we mis-spent looking intently yet ignorantly through a backwards telescope at a majestic galaxy called love and thinking, how small it is…
A New Vocabulary of Forgiveness
From now on, we should try harder to see all earthly misdeeds, from mundane coffee spills to what the world calls global calamities, as if they were the errors of children. When an infant spills his milk accidentally, you simply clean it up. You don’t blame the child, because he is not capable of understanding spilled milk. You overlook it.
But isn’t that letting the bad guys off easy? Of course not, because there are no bad guys out there! The error that just inconvenienced us passed in a nanosecond—yet our soul lives forever. Often, people on Earth get so confused and paranoid that they do things that are fearful or hateful or angry or ugly (by the standards of this world). As the Course admits, “frightened people can be vicious.” But when that happens, why not try to simply let it pass, as we would with an infant? You will outlive this “event” by more than a trillion billion years—infinitely more!
This is not a “physical” activity where we wave a magic wand at a real problem and hope it disappears. It is a mental reassessment of our own mistaken judgments. It is letting go of our rage and anger from that bad pizza we just suffered through. However, forgiveness doesn’t require that anyone else be present. We are surrounded by forgiveness opportunities everywhere, even if we are alone on a deserted island. We do not need to be physically “with” other people in order to forgive them and receive the benefits of this forgiveness. Even a brief loving thought directed at someone is enough.
We vastly underestimate our soul siblings’ value by ignoring the phenomenal opportunities they provide us for growth—as we perceive them doing annoying things, we can then receive the vast karmic benefits of overlooking these perceived misdeeds. This is the saintly gift of every difficult, abusive, insincere, antagonistic, angry, dishonest, vicious person on Earth. The tougher, as they say, the better, because it’s only a lesson in school. Don’t “rise to the bait” as you encounter difficult people, but look up and adjust your eyes to Heaven’s magnanimous vision, and feel the peace flow in, demolishing your obsolete castle walls.
Trust in the invisible matrix of love to catch you, as you step forward confidently and luminously, with open hands, gentle eyes and a beatific smile that holds all things within its lovingness—go ahead and forgive the entire world, and you will receive the entire peace of Heaven in return.
A Constellation of Living love
The next time we note an imperfection in one of our fellow earthlings, rather than judging it, we should try to simply overlook it. This small echo of Vision can then be expanded to the entire Universe—where each of us is only a tiny pinprick within an infinite golden Constellation of pure starlight. We will remember that the Light of the Whole is indeed found in every minute part. With each crystalline lightning-flash of divine recollection, we revisit in perfect clarity this glittering celestial body, which is our true home. There, each component speck of dazzling brilliance only serves to enhance the Whole—and is never apart from it. And whenever, wherever, we forgive, we are again gifted with the sacred whispered knowledge that we are all limitless, and that Infinity never needs to forgive. How should a star forgive a star?
No analogy does our shared Soul justice, because no frame of reference in our Universe could reflect our “super-connectivity” with all life. Yet we are too busy looking sullenly at our feet to dare to cast our gaze up, as I said once under trance. We should embrace Heaven’s starlight, and not shrink from earthly shadows, as we accept the miracle of sameness into our hearts. We should see Everyone whenever we look at anyone—in fact, we should see only One.
Just as we gently brush away distracting thoughts in meditation, so should we gently wave away all judgmental ideas about other people. We should softly let these negative thoughts go, not with a petulant swipe of our plastic conductor’s baton, but with a hopeful smile, and an acknowledgment that we are all part of a supreme Galaxy of love, in a dimension we cannot as yet know. This world was made to help us learn forgiveness, as a pathway to love, and when the world’s sole purpose becomes forgiveness, it will become a beautiful world indeed.
As the Course says, “How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s son!”
How to Forgive
At this point, it might be helpful to examine exactly what we can do when confronted by a difficult situation requiring forgiveness. How do we let it go when we have been wronged? The following three-step process is my “take” on the Course’s approach.
Step One: Admit That You Love the Blame Game
To start, we need to admit that “it’s an ill wind that blows nobody good,” and that we get a lot of emotional mileage when bad things happen to us. As Ken Wapnick would say, we need to admit how much we love our problems—they define who we are. Our martyrdom scoreboard eagerly “lights up” whenever someone is out there doing bad things to us: abusing us, ridiculing us, hurting us, cheating us. Whenever this happens, we delight in aiming our crosshairs of rage on the other person, just like a vindictive child who has been elbowed out of his prime sandbox position in the playground.
The key to reassessing all our judgments correctly is to identify that “blaming impulse” as coming from our ego and nowhere else. We are trying to show God that we are innocent… and the other person is clearly guilty. But, fundamentally, each “sandbox drama” we experience is just our ego’s latest ploy to misdirect our perception by manipulating our feelings—enhancing the illusion of separation from our fellow humans.
Thus, the first step of forgiveness is to examine the blaming mechanism we hold within ourselves, in order to see that the ego is behind this—not only in our wanting to judge this person, but also in our seeing the offense in the first place. We see sin because we want to see sin—simply put, it gets us off the hook! It should not surprise us that the ego is up to its old tricks—what else is new?
Step Two: Admit That You Don’t Have All the Information
What if I am missing something? Given the information at my disposal, am I qualified and able to judge? Given our track record of bad judgment, we can see that we are not naturally gifted at judging. Therefore, if we want to be really sure we have this right, we need all the information. In order to avoid the mortification of accusing someone falsely, we should stop and rewind, and question what we know about this offense that has occurred. We should wonder what this person has been going through recently, and imagine his hopes and fears. What if he has a medical condition or family problem that is causing him to act in an irrational way? What if there is some aspect of this that is completely unknown to us? Are we letting other people—our friends, for example—egg us on to take retribution? Do we secretly want this offending person to let us down?
It’s a helpful start for us even to accept some doubt about our initial judgments—the next step is to acknowledge that we probably goofed on all of it. This is because the person we’re judging is secretly a perfect soul who is only trying to learn his lessons in life, just like the rest of us. We don’t have the full picture. We don’t have the full “background check” required to judge someone—that comes much, much later.
Even if we just look to Earth for the answers, we must accept that we would have to consider an impossibly large list of potential explanations for someone’s behavior before we could definitively state that we weren’t being premature in our judgments. We would have to be telepathic to be 100% certain we had the story straight. Why not play it safe and just let the issue go?
Going back to a higher “Super-Soul” level, we could equally ask, “What if this person is incapable of any error at all? What if we were both made by a common Source who loves us equally?” Are we falling into a trap by getting upset over this “set play?” Whether or not this annoying person is in my soul group, I surely love him—that is, I love his hidden soul essence. This person is just an actor in my movie. What if the whole point here is to get a rise out of me?
The second step is thus to agree that you have insufficient information, and you don’t have the time to research all the possible explanations for what happened. In fact, you don’t have the energy to figure it out either, and you should start to consider how happy you might be if you stopped trying. Try to remember the last time you felt angry about something and got no sleep thinking about it—and then woke up to learn that the situation was actually much less catastrophic than you had feared the night before. You can now consider the Course’s wise words: “You have no idea of the tremendous release and deep peace that comes from meeting yourself and your brothers totally without judgment.”
Step Three: Give the Decision to a Higher Authority to Judge it for You
Think of whatever symbol of perfect judgment you can imagine. Christians might use Jesus or the Virgin Mary, for example. If you don’t feel comfortable choosing a religious figure, then choose Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, or someone else. You could pick Moses. Pick someone with perfect judgment—someone whom you believe never gets it wrong. Imagine this wise person in your mind, ready to hear about this serious problem. He is your new judge and jury and he is going to be doing your judging for you going forward. Henceforth, you are giving him “power of attorney” to handle all judgment on your behalf.
Let’s say you pick the Buddha. As you bring forward the “accused” (the person who cut you off at the fast food drive-through) to your wise Buddha-judge, consider the flaws in your argument. Admit that you might be perceiving this wrongly, since both you and the “sinner” in front of you are immortal children of the same Source. Understand that this person is fearful and paranoid.
Now ask your chosen judge to help you see the situation differently—by taking it off your hands completely. Admit that you have no idea how this all gets tallied up in Heaven, and that you’re best off just handing this one over to Buddha and asking him to deal with it, because right now your ego is running wild with it. Recognize that you just want this situation to go away. Admit that you can’t handle this and don’t want to. Then see yourself handing the problem symbolically away to your Buddha. Visualize placing a full garbage bag, or a dead fish, or rotten apple, or any other symbol of something you do not want, on a silver platter and sliding it over. Ask Buddha to make it go away, because it has gotten out of your control. Then give thanks and step back. Phew! Your job is done.
See your immaculate Buddha-judge looking at your “offering,” and watch it disappear under his loving gaze. In the sunshine of that saintly regard, all illusions dissipate like steam, and all errors melt away like dry ice on a hot sidewalk. love’s X-ray vision has seen through the imaginary problem you have been grappling with, and revealed it to be something that does not exist and cannot hurt you. Your master judge gently promises you—his ancient wisdom curated by centuries of pious lifetimes—that you will indeed feel better as you let go.
That’s it. As you get in the habit of “handing over” your judgmental moments more often, your sense of freedom should grow. Hallelujah, you are no longer responsible for judging anyone! As Ken Wapnick would say, you need only bring the problem (your mistaken judgments) to the solution (your spiritual mentor or judge) and then stop. That is all we need to do—and then bask in the warm glow of unconditional release from all worry and anxiety.
As the Course says at the end of Chapter 5:
• I know I have chosen wrongly;
• I know my choice has not made me happy;
• I choose to be happy, by letting the Holy Spirit choose for me.
Thus, the third step is easy. We find a good judge and hand the problem to him or her to solve for us. This is an unapologetic abdication of our role as judge and jury, precisely the “cop-out” our ego is screaming at us not to take—and that’s why it works.
We will bring in a pro to handle this one.
Then we will forget about it.
Because we have just forgiven it.*
*Note: This post is an excerpt from my latest book, Be Love, currently available on Amazon. All rights reserved.
(https://www.amazon.com/Be-Love-Betwee...)
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Congratulations on an excellent and timely article. I will make it a priority to access and read your book mentioned earlier.
I am chuckling but I asked HS** to guide me with regard to a problem question that grows in my mind. Dr Google helped and this afternoon I was drawn to your review of Gary Renard's D/U.
** Holy Spirit
I should explain that I am a student of ACIM, and I also have an interesting continuing work with the Qabalah, and in particular what Paul Foster Case refers to as 'Hermetic Christianity'. In fact I have been well trained in the 'Western Mystery School' tradition.
Also I have been guided to the wonderful work of Tina Louise Spalding in Canada. She has been well trained as a 'trance channel' and has published in 2017 a remarkable book, guided by Master J being 'My Autobiography- the life of Jesus'.
She is familiar with ACIM and clearly has much to offer. Through her YT channel I access daily the ACIM workbook lessons, and today am studying #119. The special 'added value' quality of her reading (2019) of the workshop lessons is that she provides a live commentary from J regarding each lesson. This is always within a 6-15 minute timeframe so is ideal to reach a big audience.
I have taken so far about 200 days for the 119 lessons as some I love to dwell upon before moving on.
Parallel with this work I have read and have on Audible the Gary Renard books #3 and #4. I seem to be working backwards with him but have long planned to study D/U.
I do have an ongoing 'wrestle' with the brilliance of the Qabalistic model of the Tree of Livingness ( the physical world as the 'Kingdom') and the ego driven created world as emphasised in ACIM and the true teachings of J unedited and as given 2000 years earlier.
I am seeking to reconcile and blend (if possible) these beautifully written insights from the Masters who guide us on the Road to Love.
My specific 'problem' question relates to the two ascended Masters Arten and Pursah that Gary Renard refers to in his books. When I compare the words of them to the words of J in his autobiography, I encounter contrary information about the life of J and especially so, Mary Magdalene.
Now, one may say, well it does not matter, as these are details from 2000 years ago and our emphasis is now and where we are heading.
Or, one may say, well these Masters are making very wide ranging statements of wisdom ( as noted by Gary we trust accurately), and if several details are incorrect, then maybe other details also.
I do not want to fall into a nit picking trap. However in balance, I would like to see accuracy and truth, as we are dealing with high level values here.
As an example Pursah makes quite a sweeping statement in book #4, and I note they both refer to this same information in book #3, that J and Mary were together, but emphasise that Mary did not want children ( with a side commentary that advanced souls often chose not to have children). Also that after the crucifixion she lived on locally for a couple of years then 'mind traveled' to France.
By contrast, in his autobiography J emphasises again and again that he and Mary were equals, and that he loved and adored his family of 2 children ( and a third was lost during pregnancy). He goes into great detail at his awakening after the baptism by John, and always emphasises his eventual return to his home. Sometimes he would keep clear of his home to prevent any danger to his wife and children, but fundamentally his home meant much to him for he adored his wife and they worked together as equals.
In the autobiography J plays down for privacy reasons the children and Mary's later life. His prime purpose is to demolish the untruths that orthodoxy had put in his name and he desires to make clear just what is his truth. He does describe however that Mary and the two children, with two most trusted disciples, and he, traveled by boat to France.
We know that is a beautiful story in its own right.
However for some reason Arten and Pursah on several occasions just do not convey the accurate truth, for they would have us believe J and M were constantly on the move with the core group of 3-5 others.
Gary Renard states at the beginning of each book that the Masters spoke truth and that if there were errors they were of his making.
Has anyone else noted these inconsistencies? Has this been addressed before? Is it of importance?
I wrote to Gary and being so busy - no reply.
I am a member of an excellent FB Group on ACIM and Gary sometimes attends 2-3 sessions per year. I asked the Host to raise these questions with Gary but I was advised they 'ran out of time'.
I wrote to a third party who is a sometimes expert visitor to the Group - and again no reply.
I was thinking that failing all else I would, at some expense, book an hour's consulting time with Cindy, Gary's wife, and ask her ! If necessary yes. But I am NZ based and so cannot attend any live workshop in US at this time.
In book #3 there is great vivid detail of Thomas and Thadeus appearing to Gary - and as always the same viewpoint seems to be emphasised. We get the picture of the rather neat switching of lifetimes and the holographic nature of experience, but we also hear of the 'jealousy' of some disciples toward Mary and I do wonder if this comes through which seems most inappropriate for ascended Masters.
Your knowledge of the earlier books will mean you have a bigger overview than I, and I have been an ACIM student for less than a year, so I would appreciate very much your guidance and interpretation in this matter. I would like to access your ongoing work and hence my gratitude to you for reading this.
I have deliberately avoided making an issue of my questions with the FB Group as of course they are primarily an ACIM study group.
Gary possibly treads a difficult path where sometimes over publicity arouses energies which can be divisive, and polarising. There are many traps to avoid when reaching so many. Nevertheless I do very much highly refard his calling and his writing.
All I want and seek is truth.
My Mystery School training has always wisely emphasised total privacy, or else the troubles of Victorian England with Golden Dawn and Alister Crowley set back progress there by 100 years. Yet these times have enabled the 'veil' to be very close now and amazing channels and writers abound.
My studies involve colleagues in US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
By the way we have just been through an 'ego-special' ( Gary's term) forgiveness opportunity with the sentencing of the gunman in my home city of Christchurch.
I am happy to provide a contact email address.
Best Wishes,
Richard
palladioxxvv@gmail.com