Interpreting “The World Is Meaningless” (A Course in Miracles)
Transcript Excerpts of Jane’s Teachings during the
“Shifting into Your New Consciousness” group experience 4/23/09
(Participants’ names have been changed to protect their privacy.)
(Janet said she has difficulty accepting what “A Course in Miracles” says about the world being meaningless.)
(To Janet) “It’s not that there isn’t any meaning. It’s that the meaning we generally give things has nothing to do with what they actually are. The way I interpret what the Course is talking about is basically when you’re in everyday life, for instance walking down the street and looking at another person — what people mostly do is make an assumption about what they are seeing before they actually see it. They decide what truth is before they experience it. And you can’t really know anything that way. You have to enter into a situation with your awareness open, allowing space to take in something new. In this case, you are opening a space for that person’s being to tell you who or what she/he is. And that’s what those exercises in the Course are about. I found them to be very transformational.
I think this is particularly difficult for you, because you are uncomfortable about not knowing in the first place, because it makes you feel perhaps stupid, or not respected, or not an authority, or not worthy, or whatever it is. There’s a very significant limiting decision in there that is causing you to not allow things to be what they are. And I think it’s also blocking you from a big gift you have. You have a quality of innocence. You come into a situation not knowing, which is exactly what the Course is asking you to do. You have the potential to understand things in a very new and unique way. That means you have something to offer from your beingness. But you don’t value that. Rather than allowing yourself to be in the position of not knowing, you try to get rid of that experience as if there is something wrong with it. This then causes you not to know, because you’re blocking the potential for knowing the depth of what’s really there that aligns with something larger than your limited egoic human self.
You could say each person has the potential to be a channel for specific vibrations, or knowledge, or possibilities in the universe, because of just the nature of who they are, or maybe because of what’s really important to them on a soul level. If you come into the situation with your channels open, you can receive information that other people can’t receive, because of who you are. But if you are trying to fill in the space right and left by giving opinions and asking questions and doing all of these things which you tend to do that controls things — if you impose something on what is external to you, without allowing it to speak to you, to tell you what is there — then you’re blocking yourself from receiving your connection with the divine, or your connection with the universe, or your connection with a larger source of knowing that can come just through you.”
