I had, what some would call, a bad dream. By ACIM, it could be said that all dreams controlled by us, however seemingly pleasant, are "bad." But I can safely say that since studying ACIM, I've not had a bad dream that didn't have some idea injected that brought some relative sanity to the seeming experience.
In the midst of this fearful dream, came the calming idea that the mechanics of miracles is a process akin to what is seen in splitting the atom (ehow.com, step 7): a neutral idea is sent into a "fissile" person.
Rather than waking up totally dispirited, I awoke with this idea, perhaps, as preface to the Answer to the problem I raised in the dream.
I've been admitting my inability to understand anything, as practiced in the first five lessons, and admitting that I'm not aware of what to do for my own peace, as guided in the text.
Both are coming to my aid in how I'm hearing what's being said to me by loved ones. Despair would be too easy without this help in letting go my own judgement.
I believe this is making me more open to truly non-threatening—neutral—ideas, and making me a more fissile person. I want this reaction to start soon.
Aaron
(I have a back-log of notes on lessons three and four...stay tuned.)
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