Complete Dependence on God

"Yours is the independence of creation, not of autonomy. Your whole creative function lies in your complete dependence on God, Whose function He shares with you." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 6:1-2

"The belief in ego autonomy is costing you the knowledge of your dependence on God, in which your freedoms lies. The ego sees all dependency as threatening, ad has twisted even your longing for God into a means of establishing itself. But do not be deceived by its interpretation of your conflict." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 6:7-9

Complete dependence on God is a thought so alien to the foundations of our world that we can't even conceive of it. We have been taught to be dependent on so many people and things within the world, while pretending that we're not. We're not dependent on the grocery stores or gas stations. We're not dependent on our next paycheck. We're an independent, self-sufficient people. Right.

The name of this game is that it's O.K. to be dependent on anything or anyone outside of you, because then you are still playing the game of the ego. The name of the game is to be an effect of the world while striving for and never finding autonomy. All of this is a reversal, a negation of the Truth... that we are forever the Effects of God, never apart from Him, and that as a part of the Mind of God we are simultaneously without limits and completely dependent on God. Completely ONE with God, Who is Our Self.

I love the passage I quoted at the beginning of this blog: "The ego sees all dependency as threatening, and has twisted even your longing for God into a means of establishing itself. But do not be deceived by its interpretation of your conflict." In other words, in order to preserve its imagined independence, the ego uses even our spiritual yearning, our budding awakening to establish itself. It takes the longing for Truth and dissects it, in the name of trying to 'understand.' ACIM puts it this way: "The ego analyzes; the Holy Spirit accepts. The appreciation of wholeness comes only through acceptance, for to analyze means to break down or to separate out. The attempt to understand totality by breaking it down is clearly the characteristically contradictory approach of the ego to everything." (A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 13:1-3)

For those of you that have read my book (http://www.thelittlebookoforganicabundance.com), you will remember the three rules. Rule Number Two is that we don't need to understand. As a matter of fact, what could ego-understanding have to do with what is forever True and forever Whole? "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding." (The Bible; Proverbs 3:5) The ego will find lots of ways to pretend it's doing this while making itself look good (and therefore knowledgeable). "I finally get it," we say. Or we automatically say "I know that," when knowing is as far from what the ego does as night is from day.

We are not separate from God, nor could we ever be. We dream a dream of fear and separation, covered by a thing veneer of illusory pleasures and fulfillments. Isn't this the definition of hell? "Your recognition that whatever seems to separate you from God is only fear, regardless of the form it takes and quite apart from how the ego wants you to experience it, is therefore the basic ego threat. Its dream of autonomy is shaken to its foundation by this awareness." (A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 10:1-2)

So the game is exposed. The fear of loss of autonomy that underlies all desires and activities in the world is seen. The dream is shaken. Now what? How do we reverse ourselves, when we can't trust anything in our own mind? We have dreamed a world to justify and project our delusion. So we have to stop looking at the projection as evidence of anything, either. "Do not underestimate the appeal of the ego's demonstrations to those who would listen. Selective perception chooses its witnesses carefully, and its witnesses are consistent. The case for insanity is strong to the insane." (A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 16:1-3)

The answer lies in the Truth, of course. And in forgiving. When we see the world as our own dream, our own projection, and forgive it and ourselves, we open to the Truth of Our Being. We're like little children, so intent on our games of make believe that we have not seen our Mother Who is always here, loving us. God is Mother and Father, the Source of All. And we have not left Our Source, nor been abandoned by It.

In The Bible , we are told to "Honor thy Father and thy Mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." (Exodus 20:12) It's not talking about our earthly parents, nor about the dream. Remembering Who We really are, and Where We really come from, is our only function here. Forgiveness is the function that tears away the heavy veils of delusion, and returns us to complete dependence on God.

"All Power is of God. What is not of Him has no power to do anything." -- A Course in Miracles; Chapter 11, Section V, 3:6-7