Chapter III
The less people understand about alcoholism, the more stubbornly they misunderstand it.
Those who do not recover are people who cannot or will not completely give themselves to this simple program, usually men and women who are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves. There are such unfortunates. They are not at fault; they seem to have been born that way. They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty. Their chances are less than average."
There is no order of difficulty in miracles.
One is not "harder" or "bigger" than another.
They are all the same.
All expressions of love are maximal.
The addicted EGO or conceptual self contains another dimension to the awakening, does this mean you will not be harvested during the Ascension, and those without addiction will go on?The Addicted EGO
Does this mean that the people who are addicted to food will pass you by in the harvest
Does this the people who are addicted to gambling will pass you by in the harvest
Does this mean the people who are addicted to sex will pass you by in the ascension
No, all will be awaken who are ready, even those with special challenges are no challenge to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit knows you as GOD knows you, GOD knows you as the most perfect creation in all the Universe, did not GOD make you perfect, are you not an extension of himself, did GOD create you with an addiction-no, what does this mean? That your addiction is an illusion, it is not real, if for one second you could but realize this, you would be free from your addiction instantly, this is what the awakening will do for you, you can wait for this or you can participate, what will you do? Listen to these word whether you believe in the ascension or NOT, what follows in this book might be what will help you this time if there have many time in the past and the past keeps repeating itself and that is why your reading this book.
Addiction is a no thing to A Course In Miracles, it is part a of a world GOD did not create, this makes it unreal, this makes it an illusion, it is one of millions of ways the EGO has discover to keep you prisoner and itself from termination, addiction is nothing but a tool in the EGO's tool box, to be used against you, oddly enough it is addiction that drives people to programs like Alcoholics Anonymous that provide a solution that requires the use, power and guidance of the spirit, in this ironic twist the EGO is forcing you to seek help from the very source that will guide you out of addiction and escape the EGO's prison, thus to be renounce by you, this not only shows that EGO knows nothing, but confirms its insanity.
When GOD created you perfect, and you decided against this, when you brought addiction into your being, and other GOD's before your father. To quote "A Course in Miracles-P187 Chapter 10 Part IV - "God is not at war with the god of sickness, you are. He is the symbol of deciding against God, and you are afraid of him because he cannot be reconciled with God's Will. If you refuse to worship him in whatever form he may appear to you, and whatever you think you see him, he will dissappear into the nothingness out of which he was made", this is your choice, you have this power.
If you wish to return to reality, then it will be with an unclouded mind, you will never know reality until you judge unreality for what it is (this one of the few times when it is suggested to judge anything), again here you have a choice and the power to make the choice, in the preceding chapters we will explain ways to support that power. The unreality you have created is nothingness with the power of your belief behind it. You would not have been able to create unreality with nothingness if you did not believe in the god of sickness, you could not believe in a god of sickness if your mind was not split (seperated). So one is the effect of the other, the original cause for addiction is a split mind, between the Holy Spirit and the EGO. Fix the first cause first would be the logical conclusion, but in this case, it is possible to fix both simultaneously, since both are illusions made from nothingness, but a split mind means you have removed a part of your mind from GOD's will, this is not good. This means it is out of control, how could you possibly manage your life when part of your mind is out of control?
Any part of a mind that is out of control is prone to depression and other mind parasites. But how did you get there, what triggered the desire to hand your EGO the tool of addiction, denial of GOD, love. Allegiance to the denial of GOD is said to be the EGO's religion, if you see this in yourself, you probably see this in your brother. It may well be the EGO seeing your unhappiness over your guilt of denial of GOD, and decides to medicate your mind by numbing it with substance abuse, clever and as diabolical as the EGO is it also sees that this will also help keep you prisonor without your even knowing.
The mind was a gift to you from GOD, make no mistake about it, it is the most powerful gift in the Universe, if you think about what has happened since your creation, your creations that you extended, the things you made without love like the EGO can and are very formidable, this is clear undeniable proof of the being that you are, and that you do have the power to undo this mistake, believe in yourself, know thyself, then turn your will over to the Holy Spirit and know his guidance can lead you out of this mess.
The problem we have as human being in this age that seems to be jumping ahead technologially at unprescendented leps and bound and information distribution staturation at a new high, we have been bombarded with so much from without, that for the last 60-70 years we seem to have created certain pychological parasites that in turn have also become emotional parasites that seem to attack us from within, an interesting book that came out in 1967 by Colin Wilson called "The Mind Parasites", I read this back in the early 1970's, it was facinating, I can't help but think of it now with what I have learned from the Course in regards to the EGO and its diabolical and viscious potential. The Mind Parasites was about all the things that seem to keep us from having peace within our minds, things like worry, anger, depression, fear, jealousy, envy, self pity, resentment etc. These "Mind Parasites are constantly attacking our peace of mind relentlessly, as if they had minds of their own, like piranha's swimming within our conscious looking for unsuspecting happy and positive thought to feed on.
The EGO monitors your thoughts 24/7 if your having too much fun, your too positive, things are going good, it regards this as threats, and attacks, it knows there is somewhere in your mind a force, a power, a presence that is much more powerful than itself and fears this. it knows this presence has the ability to obliterate it permenantly, the EGO is a surviver, what it will do in its own defense would make the most fearless men fall to their knee's, don't ever underestimate the EGO, as I said before it knows your deepest secrets, it is best to practice as transparent a life as possible, another good reason for doing 4th and 5th step work from the AA program, for what you don't hide can't be used against you.
A very important subject I will cover is learning not to feed the EGO, EGO's like the company of other EGO's till their ready to take what their hidden agenda secretly wants from any relation with another EGO, EGO's are king when comes to hidden agenda's. One of the most amazing things I learned since I have been an active member of AA, is the ability for the EGO to adapt, in the beginning, when I was new to AA, my EGO would tell me I was not a alcoholic, I was different, I was better, I would be the one who would make history by becoming a reformed alcoholic into a normal drinker, something unheard of in the rooms of AA, this would happen because it has never been done before or at least no one in AA has said it has happened before, I would be the first to accomplish this because nothing is impossible and so it has to be done bt somebody sometime. Whoa, talk of insanity, but there is more, my grandfather a well storied raging alcoholic with drunk-a-logs that could supass even mine, was somebody who tapered off late in life to the point that he would only drink a beer maybe two during a baseball game, he live till he was 86, died from colon cancer, talk about a mind fuck! The point I am making here is the EGO is an adversary to be respected, and to be very careful of, but NOT feared!
A good question. Those spirits not affected by addiction who seem to live exemplary lives, how is it that they live unscathed by their EGO's? When I hear this question, I immediately ask who is doing the asking and from what point of reference, I know people who seem calm, peaceful and serene from my view point, but I don't know these people very well, who knows what goes on in there lives, unless your a relative or close friend. And this can be certain nobody escapes the human drama completely, there are those who have chose recluse from society, there are those too who are advanced in mind and spirit, but these are the exception and not the rule. There is a EGO in everyone of us, and you can be certain its damage is present, there are those too who have advanced to the next level, but we would never know it unless they declared it publicly, inwhich I would doubt very much. If you find yourself with this curiousity know that is your EGO trying to make comparisons, which is a favorite past time with addicted people.
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