Question: What's Enlightenment?

Thanks for asking the questions that come to the mind, even though they seem "rather peculiar" to you. In Enlightenment all perceived pain has vanished, for what but wrong-mindedness seemed to create the misperception called pain.

Pain was the illusion that Christ could leave a Loving Creator's Mind. "If pain is real there is no God. If God is real there is no pain."(W-190.3) The latter holds true because God has no opposite. Enlightenment entails no pain or displeasure about ANYTHING, for Enlightenment is Pure, Constant Happiness, Peace, Freedom, and Joy. Being Constant,  acim app  Enlightenment knows not of change. The illusion of vulnerability and fluctuating emotions has gone as well. There is no ego to fall "back into." Spirit Abides in gentle Love. All pain is finished Now and nothing remains but an advantage of Stillness.

The Holy Spirit may be the reminder that Life is Eternal. The Present Moment may be the gateway to Eternity. The entire world of images was a full world of illusion. Images are therefore neutral to the Holy Spirit. They were "neutralized" the instant they appeared to arise.

What does this mean in relation to the second question? You can't kill what has never lived, and in the Holy Spirit's Perspective of forgiveness harm is impossible. Bodies were never born and never die because the planet of images may be the past. It is impossible to get beginnings and endings in a script that is already written and over long ago. There is no life in images. This is actually the meaning of "Hold no graven images prior to the Lord Thy God." All images were designed to obscure the Truth from awareness, and they could only be forgiven as you illusion. If illusions could be divided up into living and dead, organic and inorganic, animate and inanimate Enlightenment would be impossible.

For what's Enlightenment but Pure Oneness, far beyond the chance of division of all kinds? The split mind was the illusion. Seek not to project the split mind to forms and call some forms alive and some forms dead. God knows not form. The split mind was the "killer" illusion, yet the Holy Spirit reminds the sleeping mind that what's whole and unified cannot BE split. In Heaven Mind is One Spirit, and even pertaining to this world forgiveness reflects this Oneness. The forgiven world recognizes the unity of the healed mind and sees that there surely is nothing "outside" of the single mind which dreams softly a happy, gentle dream. The target of ACIM is to dream softly of a sinless world. This goal is more than possible, it's inevitable!

As for my seeming diet, "eat what's served" may be the Guidance I was handed from the Holy Spirit many years ago. Join along with your brother and let no concept come between the Love you share. This Guidance hasn't changed. "Dinner" is always a backdrop for sharing the Joy of the Living Moment. What the planet calls "breathing" and "eating" and "drinking" and "sleeping" are actually the same in the Enlightened State. The Healed Perspective sees the sameness of things because they all share the same Purpose: forgiveness. This Perspective is not "personal," for in unified perception nothing is personal. God is no respecter of persons. I literally cannot "take" an animal's "life" because Life is Spirit and can only be extended or Given as God Gives. "Take" has no meaning within my mind and since animals have never "lived" it's impossible that they may "die." The belief expressed in the thought "personally take an animal's life" has many underlying assumptions that are false. In right-mindedness it's obvious that ideas are strengthened as they are given away or shared, and "taking" a "life" or some thing has no meaning.

All that I give is directed at mySelf, and in giving there is no loss, no sacrifice, and nothing is ever taken away from wholeness and unity. The teacher of God does not need whatever can't be given away. Such may be the Joy of miracles! The idea seeds seem to be flung everywhere, yet there is never even a glance back again to see where in fact the seeds land. The seeds are never for an "other," and since giving and receiving are the same your head receives the gifts it gives. That is truly the feast you seek for beneath the ego's questions.

The only question that require be asked is really a question that is certainly not silly at all: Am I ready to understand that God's Will and My Own are the Same? God's Will for Me is for Perfect Happiness. And what but this Will may be the Will of Christ? Happily, nothing can change Eternal Love. Thank You God!