A meaningless world engenders fear.
The following is taken from the lesson...
Today's idea is really another form of the preceding one, except that it is more specific as to the emotion aroused. Actually, a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it.
Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego "challenge" each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone it is correct.
It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless, and accept it without fear. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess, and crowd it with images that do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices, as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego.
The exercises for today, which should be done about three or four times for not more than a minute or so at most each time, are to be practiced in a somewhat different way from the preceding ones. With eyes closed, repeat today's idea to yourself. Then open your eyes, and look about you slowly, saying:
I am looking at a meaningless world.
Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about. Then close your eyes, and conclude with:
A meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God.
You may find it difficult to avoid resistance, in one form or another, to this concluding statement. Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the "vengeance" of the "enemy." You are not expected to believe the statement at this point, and will probably dismiss it as preposterous. Note carefully, however, any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse.
This is our first attempt at stating an explicit cause and effect relationship of a kind which you are very inexperienced in recognizing. Do not dwell on the concluding statement, and try not even to think of it except during the practice periods. That will suffice at present.
My comments... How does one learn to recognize the meaningless, and accept it without fear? At the conclusion of these exercises, will I reach a place where this is so? It seems that most of the lessons are "preparing us" for something yet to be within reach or comprehension. I've said this before, but I can only proceed on faith... and hope.
Why does all this spiritual stuff have to be so mystical? Regardless of the religion or teaching, we're always instructed along a particular way or path - belief without proof. As a parent, I know the futility of saying to my kids... "because I said so" or "you'll understand some day". Are we not little children when it comes to such teachings and exercises? Yet we are supposed to believe that someday we'll understand.
How come a person like Gary Renard, author of Disappearance of the Universe, gets to meet an ascended master and receives personal coaching? The rest of us are forced to read books and practice these exercises, but Gary gets a first-class ticket? Isn't that just more of the "someday we'll understand" standard answer? I have trouble with this, but I am not surrendering or losing "faith"... just wondering out loud and trying to make sense of this. If you have anything to say that can help me with this....
2 comments:
I read this book a while back and wondered "why him" also? He seemed like such a schlump. As the book progresses you see him evolve with the messages and he really turns into someone quite different. I think plenty of us are called and we just ignore those little whispers. I don't see him as necessarily "picked," but more that he agreed to listen and be open to the assignement.
Funny thung, for me, if I accept our scientific view of the world, it is really easy to see the world as being meaningless.
Just think it through as scientist:
Eventually you will die. Since the scientist can not prove god (hey, they can't even 'prove' life, or explain it), you are gone. So whatever you have done until you died is meaningless to you when you are dead.
Eventually our sun will burn out. Or a meteor will hit us. Or maybe we'll kill ourself first. Whatever.
Anyway, in this view everything happening before is meaningless.
It is absolutely meaningless to save the trees if a meteor smashes them a few years or millenia later, isnt it? :)
But spiritually, if it is really meaningless, it would not be as it is. Just think of a child building a house with blocks and destroying it afterwards. Is this building meaningless since it will be destroyed? Or is not the house, but the building process what is important?
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