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Truth and Reality Class II:
Projection and Perception
first part:
no title
then:
All the World's a Movie Set
Perception
Lesson Two Discussion
It
is so true about people's perceptions being so different
Dear
Mr. God, Who am I?
If
denial gives strength to what we think of as bad, will love and
acceptance weaken it?
pp22
"There is always another level to reality
and what we discussed in the first lesson
is only a part of the whole understanding needed here.
This lesson begins with another story of
my origins.
"In the very beginning of my evolution as I was first awakening,
I became aware of myself as being aware.
I immediately had questions like,
"Who am I?" and "Where am I?"
I wanted to know more about myself.
"Almost at the same time I discovered
there was something that seemed to be outside of me.
I had a thought
that I might be able to use this other 'something'
to look back upon myself
and have it show me what I looked liked.
I thought this would help me learn more.
"Later I came to realize
that the 'something' I saw outside of myself
was actually the Great Mother
who was reflecting my own self-curiosity back to me.
However, I didn't know this at the time.
What I had
thought to be outside of myself
was actually not outside,
it was my own inner wish to learn more
being reflected back to me.
I even got the idea
that this 'something' was here
to help me find out more about myself.
I had experienced the first projection.
"The nonexistence of the outside world
that we discussed in Lesson One
can now be explained more fully.
The fact is there is something out there,
it's just not what it seems to be.
pp22
and pp39
"The Mother
is what is 'outside', she
is the magnetic field that surrounds all
Light
and holds it in existence.
When there is communication
between the Light and the Mother,
the two elements blend in communion.
Love manifests and form emerges.
pp22
"When there
is relating without communion,
light bounces back like the images reflected
from a movie screen.
This phenomenon is very aptly called 'projection'.
Of course this trait is not reserved only for Deity.
It is a part
of the experience
of every differentiated consciousness in Creation.
"In fact, most of what is called
'perception' is actually projection,
and there are many layers to it.
I will use the metaphor of the movie projector and screen
to make this subject easier to explain and understand.
"You have the sense of looking out into the world
through the 'lens' of your perception
and it seems information comes in to you through this lens.
This is only partly true.
"At a deeper, unconscious level
you have been
first projecting information
in the form of attitudes,
beliefs
and expectations
through the lens out onto
the Mother
who reflects it back as 'perception'.
"Just as
the projector sends light
through the filter of the film to the screen,
the very act of looking out there for something
sends the light of your attitudes,
beliefs
and expectations
to the Mother
who then reflects it all back to you.
" Whatever images,
sounds,
feelings,
tastes or smells
are implied in the unconscious 'film' in your projector
at the time of 'perception' get projected out,
and are of course what you get back.
With the projection mechanism out of awareness,
it seems very much like your perception
is of something external and objective."
All the World's a Movie Set
"Now let's deepen the metaphor.
pp-
preface left frame and Appendices>grandmotherhood>Yael_2
Imagine that in your venue
there is a film company producing a movie.
This is the movie of your life.
Over there talking with each other
are the producer, the director and the writer.
They're all you, with slightly different functions.
Also there are the actors and actresses,
and of course you are the star,
you're in every scene.
pp22
and pp42
Although it's not part of ordinary awareness,
you're the producer,
director,
writer
and star of the movie of your life.
"At a deep unconscious level,
pp22
and pp41 and pp42
you've hired' the people in your life
to play various roles in your drama,
pp22
and pp42
and you've done so
based on how convincing you thought
they'd be as the characters in the roles you've cast them.
When they're off the set of your movie,
all of these people have lives of their own.
pp22
"When they come to work here, however,
they leave behind who they are
when they are alone
and each becomes the character in the role
they have agreed to play for you.
pp22
and pp42
"Each person in your life is reflecting
a part of yourself.
[italics in the original]
"As long as they are guests in your venue,
whatever they do or say, they are doing so
from the 'script' you've written at a deep unconscious level.
pp22
"Of course they have hired you
[italics in the original]
to perform in each of their movies as well.
Each of them projects something different on you,
so you act a little differently when you're with each.
Depending on the strength of their projection
and the difference in the roles,
you can find yourself
feeling,
thinking
and acting
very differently with different people.
With some you may feel very good about yourself and what you do,
with others, quite the opposite.
It's not that you are a different actor,
it's that you are playing different characters or roles
for different people
who have different kinds of parts projected onto you.
pp22
and pp41 and pp42
"There is, of
course another level to all of this,
and it's not true that a woman who is raped, for instance
has 'brought it on herself'
pp22
and pp42
as many in the new age believe.
The other level I'm referring to is
where the Mother and I had our
first encounter,
and where my nearly unconscious need for power
caused great harm to the Mother.
These early events in the history of the universe
are being played out now in your venue,
and there is more to stopping them
than simply deciding to do it.
pp22
Please join me in the healing
class
for more information about what is at stake here."
Perception
"As we've
noted, there are two sides to everything.
The other side of projection is perception,
and they form a continuum.
It's easy to know where any experience
fits in the range between the two poles.
The secret is in the way
the experience
feels.
[italics
in the original]
pp22 and pp45
Feeling into a person, group or event
can bring you into direct communion
with them.
Seeing [italics
in the original]
these as merely 'outside'
objects
forces them into the role of a screen for your projections.
pp22
"When the Mother receives light,
there is communion
to the extent
she accepts the light and takes it in to herself.
However, any unconscious information sent ahead
with the intention of 'perceiving'
that does not resonate with the Mother
is reflected back.
"Any 'perception' like this is actually 'projection'
and the feeling about what is perceived
will have a value judgment
in it.
The judgment may be positive, neutral
or negative,
but the sense of the 'perception' will be
that it feels like part of the ordinary world.
"When the Mother resonates with the light
sent from the perceiver and accepts it,
there is communion
and a feeling of love and wonder
for whatever is perceived.
"True
perception happens
when there is complete
merging and union with the perceived,
and this can happen only by feeling into it.
pp22
and pp45
"You get the feeling
that you're experiencing another world,
and truly you are.
There are no judgments
about what's perceived,
the value of something truly perceived is at another
level of reality,
beyond the normal range of 'good' and 'bad' and 'right' and 'wrong'.
"The
quality of the perception itself
is also quite different from ordinary experience.
There is extraordinary beauty in true perception.
Visual perceptions have a quality of luminosity and delicate clarity,
auditory perceptions have a sweetness and 'rightness' to them.
True perception also has a sense of synchronicity;
what is perceived seems to fit
into the world and the perceiver's life
in beautiful ways that feel right and make good sense.
"As
you awaken more to Who You Truly Are,
true perception begins to replace projection.
"There is still much to learn in the world of duality and projection,
however,
and you will find yourself moving back and forth
along this continuum as you experience yourself awakening.
"A very quick way to become more awake
is to withdraw your projections,
and a good place to begin this practice is
with the projections on those with whom you relate.
"We'll discuss a practice for doing
this in a later lesson.
In the meantime, if you haven't already,
please read the page about releasing judgments.
Also, recommended reading for this class is
The Nature of Personal Reality: a Seth Book by Jane Roberts."
[one
website about this book quotes the preface of it.
The words there seem to be taken from this Godchannel page or vice
versa.
On 2009_06_23 that website does not exist any longer, but there
is
other info now.
As to "Seth"
on Godchannel as well as on Healingkiss see the results of "search"]
Discussion is immediately below.
Truth & Reality Class, Lesson Three
Truth & Reality Class, Lesson One
Lesson Two Discussion
It is so true about
people's perceptions being so different.
I have an example of seeing a friend
from childhood at a class reunion.
We were talking about our relationship when she was younger
and she said she remembers us fighting a lot.
But, I told her I remember us being close and having fun.
Isn't it funny what people see.
It made me realize the dynamics of why she dumped me as a friend
in high school.
In fact I finally realized this even more
and I wrote her a letter thanking her for dumping me.
I finally realized after 25 years
it was for my own good that she dumped me
that you (God) was trying to tell me to be my own person.
Not to be a shadow of somebody else.
If only I realized it back then that was the lesson.
I perceived it as poor me, nobody likes me
but now I realize it was you (God) saying
wake up and be your own person.
So thanks for the lesson. Sorry it took so long.
"I'll be sorry it took so long,
if you'll be happy you got it so soon."
Dear
Mr. God, Who am I?
You should know, right?
That "truth and reality" thing
sounds like a bunch of that new age self-hypnosis
that denies what I sense, or feel.
pp18
How can I be responsible for what has gone
before me?
How did I invite
into existence my own mother,
who created me in her own womb?
How come in the last 10 or 15 years
I have never had any sense at all
that I am as powerful as some of those lessons claim?
What is my responsibility vis-a-vis healing the Nazis
and the lost
Mother fragments?
Am I going to live?
Please, fill me with Light - Often.Thanks.
pp33b
"The person you think you are
and the person who you truly are,
they are like the difference between you and me.
I know who you truly are,
and you know who you think you are.
"When you
remember who you truly are,
you will remember that, like me,
you are indeed responsible for what has gone before,
whether you were aware of it or not.
When you remember who you truly are,
you will remember inviting your birth mother into existence.
The reason you haven't had a sense
of being as powerful as the lessons suggest is
"you've forgotten
who you truly are,
and unfortunately in your forgetting
you have denied your greatness.
pp18
"Your responsibility vis-a-vis healing the Nazis
will be discharged
when you remember how they came to be,
and then do what is necessary
to redeem
them within yourself.
Your responsibility in healing the lost fragments
of magnetic essence
is to find them and help them come back to you.
Or if invited,
by going to them with my Loving Light
and your acceptance.
I will support you in this,
and the page on 'True Sacrifice' may
be helpful here.
"Yes you will live,
long enough to make the difference
you came here to make.
And you are most welcome, my Light is your light."
If denial gives strength to what
we think of as bad,
will love and acceptance weaken it?
pp18
Many times we dislike or disapprove of things
happening around us.
There are many ways for us to deal with or perceive them.
What seems awful to one person may not seem so bad to another.
I have noticed that when I have a negative thought
and I shut it out telling myself that it is bad,
I don't feel strengthened, I only feel a bit heavier.
Lately, I have been trying to accept myself
and those around me
as their complete selves,
in doing so,
those around me all seem to be nicer
and I find it much easier to share my love with them
as I find more love throughout myself.
Is it okay to accept the bad?
And does this acceptance take power or strength from it?
"You touched the center of the issue
when you said,
'what we think of as bad'.
'Bad' is of course, a judgment,
and therefore a decision.
Decisions cut off other possibilities for understanding,
as explained on the page Judgment Release.
"And as you've
noticed,
things that you decide are against you
become strengthened in their 'negative' effects
by that judgment.
And you are also noticing that your response
to people, circumstances and events is
what determines their effects on you.
"Your work in accepting yourself
and others is excellent,
and a vitally important part of the healing journey to wholeness.
There is more specific advice on this
on the page Four Steps to Wholeness.
Yes, it's okay to accept the 'bad' things
that come your way,
and trust that they will eventually fit
into a larger understanding of 'goodness'
than you'd previously judged possible.
"The power
or strength of the badness
is not changed,
but rather transformed into the power and strength
of the newly discovered goodness
that had been previously hidden by the old judgment.
"This part of the healing journey,
while often one of the most difficult to accept,
can be among the most rewarding in quick progress toward wholeness."
Next:
Truth & Reality Class, Lesson Three: Manifestation
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