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Finding the REAL Present: The Emergence of A New Earth in
The Power of Now
Through the Portal of A Course in Miracles
So what exactly is the REAL present anyway? You have heard
it said time and again, especially lately from spiritual
teacher Eckhart Tolle, “Be here now”…and experience
“Presence.” The awakening mind discovers, to his surprise,
that the real now is not found in space and time,
but in eternity. “Now” is not a point in space and time, but
rather a state of eternally creating mind that we share with
God. Listen, now, and see if this rings true. A moment of
honesty will be of immeasurable value to open yourself to an
experience of full release from the hellacious loop of
sequential time where you seem to be needlessly trapped –
with all of it's accompanying disappointment, depression,
despair, sickness, inconstancy, chaos, pain, death, and
every form of utter futility that you have undoubtedly
experienced in one way or another. This is especially for
you. The clarion call of this Voice from beyond your causal
loop of space and time…leading you home to where you
really live - before time was and after it is over, in
the eternally present Presence of God's Creation. This is
the experience of the real “power of now”. This may well be
the first thing that has ever really made sense or been
truly reasonable to you in the cyclical maze of this chaotic
world…be glad the Light has come! This is your quantum
evolutionary leap out of time…
Jesus so beautifully shows
us the way in A Course in Miracles,
“Each
day, and every minute of each day, and every instant that
each minute holds, you but relive the single instant when
the time of terror took the place of Love. And so you die
each day to live again, until you cross the gap between the
past and the present, which is not a gap at all. Such is
each life; a seeming interval from birth to death and on to
life again, a repetition of an instant gone by long ago that
cannot be relived. And all of time is but the mad belief
that what is over is still here and now.” And yet, “Time
can release as well as imprison, depending on whose
interpretation of it you use. Past, present and future are
not continuous, unless you force continuity on them. You can
perceive them as continuous, and make them so for you. But
do not be deceived, and then believe that this is how it is.
For to believe reality is what you would have it be
according to your use for it is delusional. You would
destroy time's continuity by breaking it into past, present
and future for your own purposes. You would anticipate the
future on the basis of your past experience, and plan for it
accordingly. Yet, by doing so you are aligning past and
future, and not allowing the
miracle
, which could intervene between them, to free
you to be born again.”
So how does
this miracle occur, you may ask? It occurs naturally through
the presence of the Holy Spirit, who is flowing into the
‘situation' in your mind right now, giving you the
correction for your mistaken thoughts and perceptions and
realigning your whole perspective of yourself with your true
Reality. Simply offer Him your little willingness to…
“Forgive
the past and let it go, for it is gone” and it is
indeed accomplished! You will literally be shown that
“You stand no longer on the ground that
lies between the worlds. You have gone on, and reached the
world that lies at Heaven's gate. There is no hindrance to
the Will of God, nor any need that you repeat again a
journey that was over long ago.”
–A Course in
Miracles
So,
NOW, in THIS present moment you can “Look gently on your
brother, and behold the world in which perception of your
hate has been transformed into a world of love.” You
will begin to experience the fact that
“The present is before time was, and will be
when time is no more. In it are all things that are eternal,
and they are one. Their continuity is timeless and their
communication is unbroken, for they are not separated by the
past. Only the past can separate, and it is nowhere.”
–A Course in
Miracles
Through this
realization, you are given a whole new experience of
yourself that is true, whole, free and eternally present, a
quantum instant of before time was and after it is over…you
are remembering the REAL you, perfectly created by God.
Thus is the “new earth” born in YOU, that is described by
Eckhart Tolle in his latest book, “A New Earth – Awakening
to Your Life’s Purpose.” This experience of re-birth is
your natural inheritance.
“There is a place in you where this whole world has been
forgotten; where no memory of sin and of illusion lingers
still. There is a place in you which time has left, and
echoes of eternity are heard. There is a resting place so
still no sound except a hymn to Heaven rises up to gladden
God the Father and the Son. Where Both abide are They
remembered, Both. And where They are, is Heaven and is
Peace.”
–A Course in Miracles
Welcome Home
to the Real Here and Now!
-By Kristen
Kloostra
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