The World of Ideas

"Ideas leave not their source, and their effects but seem to be apart from them. Ideas are of the mind. What is projected out, and seems to be external to the mind, is not outside at all, but an effect of what is in, and has not left its source. Perception's laws must be reversed, because they are reversals of the laws of Truth. The laws of Truth forever will be True, and cannot be reversed; yet can be seen as upside down. And this must be corrected where the illusion of reversal lies. It is impossible that one illusion be less amendable to Truth than are the rest. No illusion has any truth in it." -- A Course in Miracles

"Spiritual man is the image or idea of God, an idea which cannot be lost nor separated from its divine Principle." -- Mary Baker Eddy

"Cause and effect are One, not separate. God wills that you learn what always has been true: that He created you as part of Him, and this must still be true because ideas leave not their source. Such is creation's law; that each idea the mind conceives but adds to its abundance, never takes away." -- A Course in Miracles

I find it truly fascinating that some people think ideas are intellectualizations, and that reality is living life spontaneously, without thinking about it. "You think too much," is something I have heard a lot of over the years. Has it ever occurred to you that eating is an idea that dawns on you as an urge, and that the urge arises because of the idea that people need to eat? And that there are scientifically documented cases of people who lived for years NOT eating? So what is eating or anything else except an idea, a mental construct?

A Course in Miracles reminds us over and over that ideas leave not their source. In other words, a true idea can be traced directly to the One True Source. And every other idea can be traced back to the nothingness that is their source. The reason nothing can be really known and counted on in the world as we know it is that it is based completely on nothingness, on fabrications and obfuscations so grandiose that our eyes glaze over and we just accept it rather than face ourselves. It is a self-created set-up. It is all made up.

Into this grand game of self-hide-and-don't-seek, the miracle shines. ACIM says, "God gave to all illusions that were made another purpose that would justify a miracle, whatever form they took. In every miracle all healing lies, for God gave answer to them all as one. And what is One to Him must be the same." So regardless of what idea you are looking at... no matter what scary situation looks real, no matter what person seems separate and hurtful, no matter what body part is hurting... the miracle of returning the mind to Source reveals the Truth of our Being as eternally One and safe and Whole. Ideas leave not their Source. The Truth is true, and nothing else is true. The world of ideas is our salvation, because if we are willing to reverse ourselves and follow our ideas back to their source, we will always find our way Home. Thank God for our inquiring minds.

"A miracle can make no change at all. But it can make what always has been true be recognized by those who know it not; and by this little gift of Truth but let to be itself, the Son of God allowed to be himself, and all creation freed to call upon the Name of God as One." -- A Course in Miracles