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May this find you well and happy. ********************************* This is Part 1 of your 12 segment weekly email course which you requested on "MIRACLES OF LOVE AND WISDOM based on a Course in Miracles" We are presenting you an number of chapters of this book. If you like the material you are receiving, you will want to get the whole book by Robert Elias Najemy which can be found as a pdf ebook at http://HolisticHarmony.com/ebooks/index.asp May you enjoy and benefit from it. ********************************** WE SEE ONLY THE PAST Why is it that when a group of people all see the same object or event, they perceive it and experience it in different ways? Why is it that they feel differently about what they see? The answer lies in the fact that we do not see and react to the present, but rather to the past. Although we are confronted with some rather objective realities, we interpret them differently, depending on our different pasts. You must have had the experience of going to a movie with someone and discovering that they interpreted what they saw completely differently. Or, you must have had the experience of not being able to believe that someone else was perceiving something so differently from you, when it seemed so clear that you were seeing something very objectively. The reason is that each one has different past experiences which make him choose specific facts, details and experiences out of a situation according to his past particular needs, desires, fears, attachments, aversions, beliefs, expectations and past experiences. It is important in our search for harmony and self-knowledge to understand this mechanism, so that we can get free from the hold that the past has over us. It is essential for these basic reasons: 1. We are not seeing the objective truth. We are seeing a distortion of reality based on our past experiences and beliefs. 2. We thus do not see ourselves objectively and so have a distorted view of ourselves. This is a serious obstacle towards self-knowledge. 3. This subjective way of perceiving, understanding and relating to the world around us, creates many conflicts with others, and is thus an obstacle to obtaining peace and harmony with others. 4.This distorted perception leads us to wrong beliefs, which then lead to faulty decisions, and thus to actions which are not in our real interests. It causes us to make many mistakes in our lives and create illness, conflict and unhappiness where we could easily create the opposite if we could perceive our reality more clearly. HOW THE PAST DISTORTS OUR PERCEPTION Let us examine how the past experiences distort what we see in the present. Imagine that we now perceive a particular object or person. The factors from the past that will distort our perception are: 1. Our experiences with that particular object or person. If in the past they have created some pain or suffering for us, we will see the object, or person, in the present through that past experience of pain and will have a negative feeling. We may feel fear or anger towards that person because of those past experiences. We are unable in such cases to see the person or object in the present. If, on the other hand, that object was the source of pleasure or joy in the past, then we feel differently as we perceive it. Thus, our perception of the present is heavily distorted by our past experiences with a particular object, person or place. We cannot be in the present and perceive it as it is now. 2. In addition to our past experiences with a particular object or person, we have a whole series of experiences with the species or type of object or person with which we identify this particular one. For example, our previous experiences with dogs, cats, gas stoves, oil heaters, Americans, Russians, Hindus, Moslems, Blacks, priests, lawyers, doctors, women, men, people with long hair, rich people, poor people, policemen etc. etc. strongly distort our perception of any object or being which, according to our perception, falls into one or more of those categories. Thus our previous experience with Turks, or Russians, does not let us perceive clearly any particular Turk, or Russian, who may be completely different from those with whom we have previously interacted. The dog that we encounter today may be completely different from the dogs with which we had contact when we were little children. We make many generalizations about the objects and people around us. We wear colored glasses that distort our perceptions of what we see. Our past distorts our present. This is true of many situations that we encounter. Obstacles that we could not overcome in the past are seen as insurmountable now in the present, but our energies and abilities are growing: we are in a process of evolution. When we believe that we cannot overcome a certain obstacle because we have failed in the past, we are distorting the truth of our present increased ability because of our memory of past weakness and failure. This is a great obstacle to our evolution. 3. The messages that we receive from others around us, both consciously and subconsciously, affect greatly our perception of the present. We receive messages about particular objects and beings, about general species and types, which we mentioned earlier, and about the nature of life itself and our relationship with it. These messages are a great obstacle to our clear perception of the moment. We have recorded in our subconscious mind all the fears, anxieties, programmings, beliefs, expectations, guilt and various emotions of our parents, teachers and society as a whole. Thus we learned to feel insecure and to experience a world full of dangers, a world in which we are weak and helpless, wherein we must protect ourselves, at any cost, with all our clevernessı, even if it means ignoring the needs of others. We perceive the world around us through the colored glasses that were fitted on us by society. We do not see the present, but societyıs brainwashing of what reality is. We live in fear, separateness, hurt, bitterness, doubt and anxiety, believing that we are always in danger, and that we must continually struggle for our survival and happiness. This is a serious misconception, placed on us by a society which lives in ignorance of the spiritual truths, which have been handed down by all religions and enlightened beings, that we are immortal divine souls, which have come to earth to continue expanding our ability to express our beauty, love and inner peace in this physical world. When we are conditioned by the fearful beliefs of a society that does not believe these spiritual truths, but rather believes that we are simply a group of separate and unrelated bodies, struggling for existence in a dangerous and aggressive world, we become blinded and function out of fear rather than clarity, logic and love. We thus make mistakes, which create problems and unhappiness in our lives. The results of these mistakes make us believe even more deeply that this world is dangerous, and that we must protect ourselves from others so that we may survive. We find ourselves in a vicious circle of negative beliefs, creating negative realities, which then reaffirm our negative beliefs. In this way, beliefs and perceptions bind themselves into a widening circle in which they build and strengthen each other in a positive or negative way. We can build a positive loving belief system, which will lead towards the perception of love and goodness wherever we look. Seeing only the good will lead us to the actions that will attract the love and goodness from the people around us. This may take time, as it will be a while before the beliefs and programmings in our subconscious mind are uprooted and changed. Otherwise we will remain victims of the past and of the perceptions based on the ignorance of those who have created the various social beliefs about various objects, beings, situations and life itself. 4. Our experiences with life in general affect our perception of everything in the present. If we have had various difficulties in our life, we may tend to start seeing everything as difficult or negative. We will create an inner worldview that is negative and in which all things are suspect and potentially dangerous to us. Thus our failures and sufferings will be projected on each new moment, which we distort with past experiences of life. In general our perception of life is two-fold, consisting of how we see life and how we see ourselves. If we see life as threatening and ourselves as weak, then everything and everyone becomes a threat. If we see ourselves as strong and capable, then we can confront each situation with clarity and peace of mind. This helps us to perceive each situation clearly and to act effectively. 5. We are also affected by our experiences concerning particular objects, beings and experiences in general in previous lives. Our previous life experiences in other bodies on earth affect our perception of people and situations in the present. One who has died by drowning in a past life cannot see the sea objectively. He perceives it through his previous unpleasant experience of dying in that way. The same would be said of someone who has died by fire, or has been suffocated in an earthquake, or suffered any other type of trauma. That previous experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, will be distorting our present experience without our knowing why. Thus we can understand why children, although born into the same family, receiving many of the same messages and experiences in their childhood years, have different ways of perceiving and relating to the same objective reality around them. The answer lies in the many previous lives in which they already accumulated a wide variety of different experiences, which are distorting their present perception of reality through the subconscious mind. Thus, when we see a person, we are not seeing him as he is, but rather in light of our previous experiences with that particular person, with people of that type, or with life itself, and our previous lifetime experiences with people, in addition to the messages concerning people, and types of, which we have received from others in the past. It is important that we get free from this distortion of reality so that we can eventually perceive the divinity in all, and experience the harmony which that vision brings. This breaks down the experience of separateness and brings the realization that all is God: that all is a reflection of the One Divine Light, as mentioned in the previous chapter. Otherwise, the result is that we will live in a world of fear, anxiety, mistrust, and conflicts with ourselves and others, which have no real basis. We will argue and fight over various nonsensical points simply because we have different pasts which distort our perceptions. Our first work is to begin to negate the way we are perceiving the world around us, by remembering constantly that we are perceiving the past and not the present in each object and being. We can remind ourselves a number of times a day that we are not seeing our surroundings as they are, but rather as we have been conditioned to see them by our past experiences. We can begin to analyze how we see the various people in our lives, and when we discover that we tend to use the same words like unfriendly, not trustworthy, or selfish to describe the various people in our lives, then we might want to check to see whether we are not creating our own images, which we are then placing on these persons. If we are expecting mistrust, or selfishness from people, then we will obviously attract them from the people around us. If we believe that people want to manipulate us, then they will. If we believe that they love us without conditions, then this too will happen. When we have various re-occurring problems or emotions in our lives, it will do well to look inward to see whether we may be creating them, with our various beliefs based on previous experiences and messages, which have been programmed into us as children and young adults. At one time, people believed that the world was flat; they also believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Now we realize differently, though perceptively it still seems that the earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the earth, our knowledge tells us that our senses are fooling us. You believe that you are sitting still reading this text, but in reality you are moving in an easterly direction about 1,000 miles per hour. At the same time, you are moving around the Sun at a velocity of about 66,600 miles per hour, and around the center of the galaxy at about 500,000 miles per hour, yet your senses tell you that you are sitting still. In the same way, our senses tell us that we are living in a separate world full of potential dangers. Our senses tell us that we are these vulnerable bodies, that we are limited and impotent in this world of great powers. But the truth, according to those enlightened ones who know the truth, is that our senses are deceiving us, just as they did concerning the flatness of the earth and the movement of the sun. They tell us that we are immortal, invulnerable souls in the process of evolution, who have come temporarily to earth, so as to continue the unfoldment of our true divinity. They tell us that we are all expressions of the one universal spirit, that we are one family, and we must live in harmony with each other. They tell us that we have the power, within us, to move mountains, if we have faith in ourselves and in the power of the creator, of whom we are a part. They say that our real protection and safety is in loving and giving and watching over the needs of others. We are told that if we do that, all our needs will be cared for and we will live in harmony and happiness. We are told that gradually we will become liberated from the veil of the past and awaken to the light of the present, to realize that all is God and that all is happening according to a divine plan, that we are safe and secure in every situation, that we are love, that we are God, that we are beauty, and that life is a process of expressing more and more effectively our divine inner potential. But it is not only the spiritual teachers who understand and espouse these truths of unity. Marvel at Albert Einsteinıs way of expressing it. "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the Universeı, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to our affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The striving for such an achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." Eventually we too will see in this way, but for the time being we need to start doubting what our senses are telling us and awaken to what we are told by those who have transcended their senses. and have come into contact with the absolute truth, which is beyond the distortion of the senses and our temporary beliefs, as well as to the scientists who are discovering a new united reality behind the apparently separate and antagonistic phenomenal world. To be continued ******************************** From the book "MIRACLES OF LOVE AND WISDOM" by Robert Elias Najemy which can be downloaded as an ebook pdf file or ordered from http://HolisticHarmony.com/ebooks/index.asp ******************************** B> ********* Membership is free and you can access 600 articles, chapters and ebooks for free.Become a Member********* Our Free ezine Claritygreater health, happiness and harmonious relationships. Click to subscribe/unsubscribe to Clarity E-zine May you be well on all levels of your being.
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