Q: Please comment on Mary and the messages that are being published recently as coming from her.

A: Indeed, beloved friend, do you have volumes for me to fill? Do you have hours to listen to me speak? For in Truth, I could utilize the whole of time to speak with Love of the one that was known as my mother, who remains always an intimate part of myself. For we remain, of course, in perfect communication. This one, as a soul, chose to allow, to agree to enter into, the drama of my own incarnation into the world. This one was therefore put into a position to bring up within her everything unlike Love, to look at the very habits of being a mother and to transcend those habits, in order to serve a bigger picture. That incarnation was the one in which she perfected her own awakening, her own commitment to what is far beyond each individual's consciousness. That one lives even as I live. And that one has never ceased to follow The Way of the Heart - that Way which is perfected when the consciousness knows, I live, yet not I, but That which is the Creation of my Father: The Christed consciousness, alone, lives through me.

She is extremely active in what you call your current time frame. She is speaking unto many. The appearances that have been recorded by what you call the grand authority of the Church, these appearances are not anyone's imagination. And they will, indeed, increase. The messages she is giving, we should say those to whom she is seeking to communicate, require that her message be given in such a way that is somewhat different than the way in which I'm formulating the message that I'm giving to you through this channel. And why? Because the wise teacher learns the language of the student, the temperament, the space of consciousness in which they are, and then speaks in terms that can be understood.

And so, she speaks of Earth changes. She speaks of the Love of God. She speaks a language to many that you may not prefer, but others do. And yet, there is an art and a skill and a purpose. And her entire purpose is the same as mine: to cultivate within anyone who will listen the realigning of their perceptions so that they can heal their sense of separation from God and return to the truth of Love, and worthiness, and power, and grace. To awaken, in other words.

There are many who claim to channel her who do not. And if you pay attention to the vibration you feel, in the books you might read or the tapes you may listen to or what have you, you'll always know her presence because there will be a softness, there will be a gentleness, there will be a quality of perfect mothering, if you will, in which you feel like you just want to lay your head upon her breast and dissolve away into the bliss of Love.

Those that are not communicating her, but would love you to believe they are, you’ll always detect some kind of constriction, some sense of egoic energy, some sense of fear over the future: You better do this. This is going to happen. There’s no way to get around it. Those kinds of statements do not come from her at all.

And, indeed, as I did then, This one I love deeply, and look upon as a radiant example of what consciousness can be.

Q: How can I integrate the breath work and techniques that I am learning this week with your lessons in the Course in Miracles?

A: Beloved friend, the question comes from a quality of mind that would perceive a separation between the two. For only what is perceived as separate must be integrated. Know well, then, that A Course in Miracles is a teaching device aimed at a specific goal or conclusion. That conclusion or goal is the re-establishment of peace. Peace begins to be re-established in the mind when the mind is convinced that there is a way of perceiving, a way of orienting itself to its experience, that brings a greater reward than what has been known before.

A Course in Miracles was given initially to two people who had asked from the depth of their being (although they were not aware of it at the time) to be shown a way to perceive differently. A wise teacher first learns the language of the student. And the two that asked the question carried an orientation in which their primary mechanism for experience was through the level of the mind, or the intellect. Therefore, the teaching tool needed to be conveyed in a way that could be acceptable to them as the student.

Secondarily, of course, as you well know, the essential message that I sought to bring forth through that teaching device is equally applicable to anyone who may be attracted to pursuing the study of it. And yet, the Course does not seek to answer every question that a teacher of God will, indeed, come to ask. It is designed only to re-establish the mind at peace, and to cultivate within that mind the willingness to ask of what I've called the Comforter, or the Holy Spirit, for guidance, rather than remaining attached to its own devices for decision making. This opens the way for the mind to be guided ever more deeply to what is required to become fully re-established as the embodiment of Love.

What you have called here "breath work" is merely a next stepping stone. Those who would hold that the Course in Miracles is a complete teaching device within itself are accurate, if they understand that it was given to those who are deeply imbedded within the intellectual processes, and that it has a specific goal that is self-contained. Those that would assert that viewing the Course in Miracles as a complete teaching tool in itself, if they take this to mean that there is nothing further to explore, nothing further to deepen and become, are inaccurate. View it then, as a teaching device with a specific goal, given in a way that is acceptable to those who have learned to abide primarily in the level of mind that is engaged in conceptualization.

I answer your question this way because the body, itself, is not outside of the Mind. It arises from within the Mind. And you can, therefore, look upon it and what arises within it, to witness the effects of the thoughts that are actually occurring within the Mind, or have occurred in the past, and have not been corrected or changed. Mind is far reaching. Mind is everything, as the term is used within that teaching device. It should always be spelled with a capital M. Mind also encompasses feeling. Mind encompasses the body itself. For without the Mind's first having chosen the thought, the imagination, there could not even be a physical realm in the first place.

When you choose, therefore, to allow yourself to breathe, recognize that it is from the power to decide, that is, the power of the Mind to choose that you are creating the effect of allowing the aspect of the Mind, known as the body, to also receive illumination. To integrate A Course in Miracles with what you are calling "breath work," and what I have addressed earlier in this hour as the way of feeling, and what, indeed, we have called for the whole of this year The Way of the Heart, requires only the continued little willingness to surrender any and all limited perceptions of what Life is, and what awakening is, and what Love is, and what healing is, so that the Holy Spirit can guide you into the Truth of all things.

For, indeed, beloved friend, understand well that what was shared earlier deeply pertains to you. Namely this: When, from the depth of your being, you have fully committed to awakening from every last trace of separation from God, when you are truly committed to not seeking for Love, but you are willing to seek for all of the obstacles that have been created within you that block the awareness of Love's presence, then, indeed, what you find yourself attracted to, what you find yourself deciding for, in terms of the experiences that you would call to yourself, these things are the answer to your prayer. For just as my Course in Miracles came to your life, as you well know, as the result of your own longing to deepen your relationship with God, so, too, have you found yourself journeying to a tiny speck of dust in the middle of a large body of water - to breathe!

It is an extension and comes from the guidance of the Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the integration is simple. Decide not for yourself, but turn decisions over to the Holy Spirit.


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