Lesson 333: “What is the ego?” “Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.”
The Course gives us a true and actual way out of our nightmare. It may seem like there is no escape because the ego constructs the world in a way that is undeniably convincing that it is real.
When we think it is real, then, we give it power- and only then.
Our thought energy reinforces its for us, and this is why we must take this truth to heart and accept it for what it is.
Until we make it real, with our awareness of it and our powerful energy focused on it, in defining it, only then is it real.
This is why we just need to take this truth in, and then work on being a better evaluator about what to focus on.
We can focus on the happy dream, and dispel of the nightmare instantly if we just make our intention that.
The Course reminds us that the ego’s world is an illusion of powerful force.
The world may grab us as powerfully manifested, and currently present in the frame that it is, but this is nothing but a dream.
Jesus, in the Course, explains about the dream like state we are in, and that when we live in the world with the ego and bodies, it all may seem real.
But, it is so not real, and that simply when we realize this is true, we remove an incredible amount of energetic force behind the world appearing as it does.
The world is a dream like state we are in, in the current moment, and it can totally shift when we simply realize this, simply in giving our permission for this shift to happen in our minds.
When we do this, then we have power to change the world because it is nothing but our energy projected outwardly. The Course invites us to gain this awareness that the world is nothing other than our dream state, and therefore, all we need to do to change it is change our thinking.
The Course’s proposal that the world is not real and is a dream like state, is actually the way for us to stop our suffering over it any longer.
Since the world is a dream, it is so easy for us to shift it because dreams are a light energy.
Dreams are also something that we wake up from in the course of our regular lives- in the morning when we wake up from our slumber.
Thus, the fact that in the Course’s terminology we also wake up, it helps us to easily relate to and understand our enlightenment process in waking up our consciousness.
