Adam and the Snake

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The snake whispers to Adam all though the day. Adam is pure mind of love. The snake is an illusory entity made of concepts. The whole realm of concepts is, in fact, the domin of the snake. There is a ladder laid down from Heaven by Spirit to get Adam out of the domain of the snake, and of course the ladder had to descend into the realm of the snake to reach Adam, as He is now wholly living in the donain of the snake — the domain of form and concepts, specifics and pain.  
 

Now, the Spirit, and God, both of whom live in the realm of love and silence, are calling the Son of God back Home, which is reached, in the end, merely by the choice for Silence instead of thought. The simplicity is incredible. It’s very dangerous to the snake. The snake whispers to Adam that this can not be so — it has to be more complicated, come, learn more concepctssss~~~ slithers the snake to Adam. 
 

But Adam, bravely, decides to test whether in Silence there is God.  
 

And he had found. So simply, by merely believing no longer in the lies of the serpent, sliping by every seductive thought he sends, right back into the formless, eternal arms of God. 
 

And now is he safe. And now is the world no more. And he is safe, forever, and ever, and ever..

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When Adam listens to thoughts, he leaves the realm of his Father and feels deprived, and to fill that endeless emptiness, he journeys throught all the twisted mazes the snake has set up, either inside or outside, finding merely shadows of the love he once had. 
 

But when he turns Silent, he is back home, and he needs nothing in form. He is full and complete, constantly submerged in the depths of His Fathers Love. 

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The seductive tongue of the snake whispers to Adam all thoughout the day. The snake’s voice has everything in it - all worries, all fantasies, all meaningless and seemingly meaningfull thoughts. Metaphysics are also in the snake’s arsenal. Yet the whole realm of concepts is meaningless, and is the chain the binds Adam to the domain of form, the land of pain and need.

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If you want to be happy, living the most beautiful life, fully dedicated to God or Jesus, then your only daily goal should be to spend it in total inner silence. This is the way home.

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Fantasies are bad because they stir up the whole domain of the ego. They are like alkochol - might feel good at first, but will have a serious hangover. You might think only about the good, but the good is in the domain of the ego, so carries with it all the traumas and all the evil of the past, and that will come up if you are playing in the domain of concepts.

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I have a continous physical pain. When I am still,  the pain dissapears. The sensation itself is transformed into neutral and even a little pleasant sensation. So all pain is mental pain, even if it seems physical. One problem - living in concepts - one solution - living in stillness.

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So I did this maybe a hundread times quickly - enter stillness, feel fulfilled, peaceful, in the arms of God - perfectly happy. Quickly switch to the mind - to the realm of concepts - leaving God - and I immediately become either tired, or I need to fill the emptiness left by leaving God with food, or entertainment, or whatever else. Now I switch to Stillness again - perfectly happy again. Seduced by thoughts again - getting sleepy, getting needy - for food, wanting to do something, escape this emptiness. Switch to Silence - beautifully loved and peaceful. Trully fulfilled. Seduced by the mind again - “maybe I should go to clubs and do drugs and pickup girls” - I remind myself this is ego, this type of a game hurts me and I feel a need to do this because I left God. Come back to God in Stillness - have no needs at all - have everything I ever wanted, nothing in the world compares. Mesmarized by the mind again - feeling restless, need to watch anime. Nono. I got cought again. Go back to Stillness. Ahh yess, perfect freedom. This 20x more times.

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To summarize: being in the mind = leaving God = feeling lack and deprivation = will keep chasing things in the world to fill the lack = will never work and will hurt alot, the world always hurts you = the only solution is to come back to God by leaving the mind and returning to Stillness. 

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When you listen to the ego; when you believe in thoughts, you become them, your identity shifts from the Son of God to something so small and lacking, so illusory and empty, and thus you will project, attack, need, seek, etc. just to escape this lack you feel of being identified with nothing.

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My defences against Love:

 

• Video games
• Hunger
• Wanting to look good
• Buying stuff/looking to buy stuff
• Anime
• Doomscrolling instagram
• Getting tired/going to sleep
• Hoping to meet a soulmate at some point
• Fantasizing about my ex/hoping we get back together
• Sexual stuff 
   

Edited yesterday at 11:17 AM by CoolDreamThanks

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Is it a good idea to hold such a principle in the mind: I'll never have another romantic relationship, God is the only relationship that gives me eternal joy, safety, and even Life itself. He will never leave me and will love me eternally. That isn't necessarily the case in human relationships, so I will never chase them and I don't want them. 
 

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Are dreams inter-connected? Is there only one dream shared by all fragments?  Or is each fragment dreaming a self-contained dream? Are all of them human-like? there are no rock-dreams or tree-dreams? Because what would be the purpose of those and how would they wake up even? Sorry no more questions about metaphysics!.. for a moment.. 



 

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Q #41: The events, activities, and relationships of our “waking dream” comprise our classroom
and are the vehicles for learning our lesson of forgiveness. Is there any particular significance or
value of our “sleeping dreams” in the process of learning forgiveness and should our response to
these images be any different from our response to our “waking dream” classroom?

A: It is the same mind that is dreaming both our waking and sleeping dreams. And it is one of the
ego’s many tricks to try to convince us that there is a real difference between the two so that we
believe we are awake when we are really still asleep, just having a different form of the same
dream of separation. One of the more important insights our sleeping dreams offer us upon our
shifting to a seeming waking state is the realization that our mind has the power to make up a
world in dreams that seems very real while we are experiencing it, a world made up solely to
meet our own personal needs. Jesus elaborates on this aspect of our sleeping dreams in a very
clear passage:

“Does not a world that seems quite real arise in dreams? … And while you see it you do not
doubt that it is real. Yet here is a world, clearly within your mind, that seems to be outside. You
do not respond to it as though you made it, nor do you realize that the emotions the dream
produces must come from you … You seem to waken, and the dream is gone. Yet what you fail
to recognize is that what caused the dream has not gone with it. Your wish to make another
world that is not real remains with you. And what you seem to waken to is but another form of
this same world you see in dreams. All your time is spent in dreaming. Your sleeping and your
waking dreams have different forms, and that is all. Their content is the same. They are your
protest against reality, and your fixed and insane idea that you can change it” (T-18.II.1:1; 5:2-
4,8-15).

In our sleeping dreams, we have the same choice of teachers that we have when we are “awake”
and we may find over time that we can choose forgiveness while we sleep, recognizing that our
judgments within the dream are not justified. We may even become a lucid dreamer, becoming
aware, even as we are dreaming, that our sleeping dream is an invention of our own mind,
presaging the awareness that will eventually come to us about our waking dreams. And our
sleeping dreams also afford us the opportunity to understand the real meaning of forgiveness that
Jesus is attempting to lead us towards, when we realize, upon awakening, that the source of any
upset we experience in our sleeping dreams has nothing to do with what anyone else is doing to
us. Our upset reflects nothing more than a decision in our own mind to be upset and then to
attribute that loss of peace to a cause that seems to be outside of ourselves. The awareness that
this is what we are also doing in our waking dreams is the foundation for the process of
forgiveness as Jesus presents it to us in the Course: “I am never upset for the reason I think .” “ I
am upset because I see something that is not there.” (W-pI.5,6). “Forgiveness recognizes what
you thought your brother did to you has not occurred” (W-pII.1.1:1). When we can generalize
this recognition from our sleeping dreams to our waking dreams, we will be well on the way to
awakening from all of our dreams of separation.


 

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Left thinking I’m the only dreamer - flooded aprtment. Came back - dreamt of seeing someone doing bad stuff, aka projecting guilty individuals, and then trying to judge them, show them to police - creating problems for myself and others - a very guilty/difficult life - then since I came back to not beliecing in the dream in daytime, the end of the dream was a dream of forgiveness, lightness, jokingness - sort of - eh why bother, just relax, just a dream, instead of a heavy dream of guilt/ smthng like that. Symbolic if my minds decision for oneness or seperation,?

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So Ken says daytime life and nightime dreams have the same purpose - to show conflict in our minds, they reflect the inner state of conflict. Or, if your perception is unified and you know you are doing all of this - they will reflect unity and the dreams will be gentle. That was reflected in my nighttime dream tonight- was thinking i am seperated for 4-5 days, and then switched back to oneness, and so the dream reflected that. Daytime dream also reflected that - flooded my apartment abit when thought I'm seperated, stuff didnt go smoothly at work. Then switched to oneness and all is well in dreams.