18.01.10
The Sense of Person
Posted in Musings at 10:30 am by Linda 
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The Course teaches that only what is true is true and everything else is false. There is no hierarchy amongst illusions. They are all equally false.
The belief in the reality of the sense of person and personhood is the sleight of hand, the blind spot, that keeps the feeling of the reality of dreams fixed. It keeps the sense of subject and object alive in awareness. With that comes the potential for the feeling of being a victim and victimizer. Subject can be acted upon by object; object can act on subject. Everything is apparently fixed or kept in place by this illusion.
The great question of who am I or who is the me needs to be answered. All perception is false and part of the illusion. No exception. The great liberating truth inherent in this is that all passing moods, sensations, thoughts and ideas that you may associate with the one you call me or I are as unreal as the passing clouds in the sky, the car passing by or the wind and the rain. All illusions are unreal and one. It is a single tapestry. They are outside of what I am as God created me. Literally!
In this awareness, one is immediately in the awareness of witnessing or of being above the battleground. There is nothing personal. All illusions are one; they are outside me.
This is such an important realization because it is impossible to overlook or transcend something that has been made real in awareness. How can I release or overlook what is me? And as long as I believe that “me” is somehow stuck in the field of perception and has a reality that is somehow different from what appears to be different from what I identify as me, I will in some sense suffer. Not that any of the suffering or false identification is real. I always am as God created me. There will just be continual suffering because the very mechanisms that keep the potential for suffering fixed have not themselves been exposed to the Light sufficiently. And there will be the continual restlessness of knowing that something is not quite right.
The something that is not right is that I am not in the implicit awareness that I am as God created me and nothing else.
Witness, witness, witness. This year make everything different by making it all the same! Whatever the passing mood or perception, be it lofty or be it mundane, they are all passing clouds and they are forever beyond what I am. In this instant there truly is nothing personal.