The Decision Maker

 

The Decision Maker

 

K,

Read you outline, and although it seems that the email kind of scrambled up the formatting, I think I can grasp your primary assertions.

Here are some questions for you:

What is the D.M (Decision Maker)?

What is the Ego?

Now you can reply that this is a question that one should not be asking, or that to ask it implies that I am trapped in ego thinking, etc..., but given that your purpose is to communicate to others some understanding of the ACIM thought system, some definitions are in order, otherwise you will likely leave them confused, and open yourself up to the charge of equivocation (hiding a circular argument behind obfuscating and arbitrary terminology). It looks like the DM is that part of us that has free will (to choose). If this is so, then (by my system), the DM is none other than the Christ in us.

So basically it all boils down to God putting on the clothes of ignorance in order to accomplish something here on the material plane. So this ignorance, which results in us identifying with the "personality" as a separate thing (the little ego, which in reality does not exist, but is an illusion resulting from the personality seeing itself as an independent thing, instead of as merely a vehicle for the Christ which is itself but a vehicle for the ONE).

So all the sin and guilt results from ignorance (the illusion of separation). We, in our ignorance, think that We (separate ego self) did something against God. The truth (in my system) is that We (separate ego self) did nothing, for the separation (in reality) never happened. What did happen was that God took a part of himself and put it into a state of ignorance (apparent separation) in order to grow and evolve that part of himself into more livingness. Now how does ignorance (or apparent separation) bring about growth and more livingness?

This is the great secret of "Limitation" or Restriction, or Concentration. What is concentration? Concentration is a forgetting, ignorance, and limiting, of everything else but the one thing you are concentrating on. So what are we (as particularized expressions of God) concentrating on? Why the Physical Plane of course. So why are we here on Earth? This relates to the involution of Spirit into lower rates of vibration (matter) and of its evolution back to higher rates of vibration (spirit). Basically we are God's Vehicles (eyes, and hands) whose task it is to evolve and Redeem Matter (bring up in Vibratory ate and thus liberation and freedom). It's God's game of taking a part of himself from the ONE to the MANY (involution) and then back again from the MANY to the ONE (evolution).

We are particularized concentrations of the ONE LIFE POWER, which the ONE LIFE POWER is growing as particularized aspects of ITSELF (differentiation and multiplicity). How does the ONE LIFE POWER grow particularized aspects of itself? By placing those aspects of itself into a state of awareness characterized by Limitation and Concentration and Ignorance (apparent separation).

So basically the Non-Dual Godhead plays a game with itself by creating a playground of Duality and differentiation so that it can entertain itself.
But ultimately it's all the ONE taking on the appearance of the MANY for the purpose of its own entertainment. Like playing peek-a-boo with oneself. So all of existence is just God getting his jollies by playing peek-a-boo with himself!

So its the Fool, the Joker in the deck, that helps us to realize that all of creation is just a game of peek-a-boo! Of course from our limited awareness, if it is a game, it sure looks like a damn serious one!

jc