Lesson 3
The Mirror Principle
As we continue, we will discover why
all problems and pain come from the limited use of mind and the inability to
discover a truly meaningful answer.
All pain comes from the initial
erroneous belief in our sense of
separation from Divinity. Our idea of separation from Totality, or God, and its
resultant experience of limitation is an erroneous belief but one which seems
vividly portrayed in the world around us - we feel misunderstood, victimized
and attacked. This world seems to
be based on isolation from an all
powerful, protective and giving
God. He may have all these aspects, but
He seems not to be giving them to us.
This concept of estrangement from God
and Life did not start outside of
ourseslves. It was not thrust upon us by
the world or by God. On the contrary,
the world merely reflects the beliefs we have chosen and now want to
experience.
Let’s look at how this works:
1.
Mind chooses a belief.
Your beliefs are not thrust upon
you! You choose what you believe is
true. The mirror principle has five
distinct steps. Once you take this first
step the others will follow irrevocably.
2. Belief
is projected outward.
Mind can't jealously contain
anything! Its very nature means its
thoughts are extended outward as an inter-dimensional, electromagnetic
field. As has been stated before, "Thoughts
are things and they have wings."
3. Projection
makes perception.
Once your mind chooses a belief, it
projects this onto your life experiences.
People, places, and events pass before you and your projected belief is
reflected upon them. Your projections
are now directing your perceptual experiences.
4. Perception is a mirror, not a fact.
Half a dozen witnesses to any accident
will give half a dozen different perspectives when testifying. You see what you want to see based on your
background, your training, and most importantly the beliefs you have
chosen. You never experience the world -
only your interpretation of it!
5. What
you see seems real.
You use your senses to verify
evidence. Yet your interpretation of
your senses is based on a faulty system of perception. What you see only seems real, since it
mirrors your original choice of belief.
This is a closed system that is self-fulfilling.
What Price Limitation?
Following this basic
formula, you chose to think of the possibility of separation from God and the
limitation of life. You projected out your thought and saw it mirrored around you in the world. Now your world seems to be filled with
symbols of estrangement from God and limitations on life. The ultimate limitation is symbolized as
death. You feel alone, vulnerable and
victimized by outside forces. Every
experience you have reinforces your basic belief "proving" that it is
"true".
Is the concept of separation from God
true? No! Is the concept of limitation of life possible? No! Totality and your
shared Divinity cannot be changed or fragmented in any way. What you think and
believe, however, can be erroneous. Each
step in the mirror principle will irrevocably follow the one before, no matter
what belief you start with. What you
believe and think will be projected onto a neutral world coloring it with your
ideas.
Changing your beliefs is never easy
because of your investment in them. You
feel personally attacked if someone does not agree with your ideas. You will even attack yourself if you begin to
question your own judgments! You believe
that if you give up your beliefs you will give up the very essence of
yourself. Your past experience has shown
this to be accurate, for when you gave up the belief in your Divinity, you did
lose touch with the essence of yourself.
Now you must courageously let go of your beliefs once more - this time
giving up limitation and separation. You
will lose the essence of what you believe you are - limited, filled with pain,
unworthy of any real happiness. How
wonderful! And then you will be left
with all that you forgot - Divinity, Life and Peace. The completeness of God's Love will be
returned to your mind
Thoughts
to contemplate
and
discuss
1.
Observe the many times each day you form
opinions, judgments, and have prejudices for or against. For now, just
acknowledge with each one that a pre-exiting belief was in place before you
formed your viewpoints.
2.
If you are ready to take the next step,
you may want to create a list of the fundamental beliefs you have been taught throughout
your life about relationships, the world and handling conflicts. Then look back
at your insights in question 2 and see if you can find correlations.
3.
Since giving up beliefs is very hard, let’s
start a real change by taking time to affirm throughout each day, “I may be
very wrong about what I believe is going on.” You may feel real resistance to
this, but just repeating this is a huge step.
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