So if you want release your fears, stop attacking yourself because the only thing you are afraid of is your own attack thoughts.
FEAR is short for False Evidence Appearing Real.
The false evidence appearing real is the seeming evidence of being separate from everything.
The mind acts upon the body via the nervous system. The physical body is nothing more than a learning device of the mind. You can’t raise your arm without first sending the thought “raise arm” through your nervous system. So the body is a learning device of the mind. And the mind acts upon the body via the nervous system which, as we all know, is connected to our five organs of perception.
This trapped and imprisoned part of our mind here thinks it is a body, and so it keeps sending the thought “I am the body, I am the body” through the nervous system, and so we end up seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling and experiencing ourselves to be the physical body. Our five organs of perception, being fed the thought that we are just a body – and again nerve impulses are really just thought impulses, because the mind acts upon the body via the nervous system – so our five organs of perception give us all the evidence in the world that we are separate from the universe, from our loves ones, from everyone and everything around us.
That’s why it seems so real. Our eyes, our ears, our five organs of perception seem to give us every evidence in the world that we are separate from everyone and everything. But it is a false evidence. Why? Because we are not our bodies.
Everything that this part of our mind here, the negative ego mind, thinks is false because what we have got here is a part of God’s mind or a part of “universal mind”, if you prefer, thinking that it is a body when it is not. So the evidence which the five organs of perception built into our body give us is false, but we use this false evidence to prove that our belief in separation is real and that selfishness is justified.
So really, the problem we have is that a part of our God-given universal mind thinks that it managed to do the impossible: namely to split itself off from Source and that it is all by itself now. And since this part of our mind here is in truth a part of this universal mind, it is actually brilliant – apart from having imprisoned itself.
But because of its divine nature, it wanted to be creative and extend itself which is what universal mind does. But as I said before, an imprisoned mind can no longer extend itself because of its self-imposed limits, and so while universal mind creates through extension, the negative ego mind makes through projection.
And so the negative ego mind made a whole thought system based on projecting separation. In the I AM University we call this the negative ego/ fear-based/ separtive … thought system. This is the thought system which we all practice in this world. And this thought system here is responsible for every single problem in the world today.
Now let me give you some examples of what that looks like in action and what kind of reality our imprisoned mind here has created for us, ok? Because it helps us to understand our social problems.
