1- IV The Escape from Darkness

Chapter One: The Meaning of Miracles. IV: The escape from darkness

The escape from darkness involves two parts:
1. Darkness cannot hide (fear)
2. there is nothing you would want to hide even if you could (escape from hear)

Although we are children of God and out divine spirit is light our experience is human therefore one that contains glimpses of darkness. We all have fear, grief, regret and other conditions that would be considered dark. By hiding this and judging it we are limiting our dance with the light.

When we become willing to understand that this darkness exists but cannot co-exist with the light then we will understand inner peace and joy. Our true state of being is not one that should be clouded by this darkness.

Holiness cannot be hidden by darkness. Our true divine light will shine through. It is easy to fall victim of believing that we can be defined by our periodic and episodic states of darkness yet out true self cannot be hidden by these states. restoring our focus to the true state of love will serve the spirit rather than what the ego perceives as reality.

Darkness is a lack of light as sin is the lack of Love.


Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no need of any kind. the purpose of the atonement is to restore everything to you, or rather, to restore it to your awareness. You were given everything when you were created, just as everyone was.

Those who witness for me are expressing through their miracles, that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation in favour of the abundance they have learned belongs to them.




Lesson Four

These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).

Amazing exercise. I am admittedly overly analytical. My thoughts in essence heavily direct my perception of situations, people and who I am. I have a tendency to analyze things to the point that I shift my reality because of my thoughts. I identify with my thoughts and my thoughts shape my reality. So.....the above exercise was difficult yet it resonated with me. My thoughts are not me and they should not influence my reality if their meaning is void. My thoughts like everything else have no meaning except for the meaning that I give them. Previous exercises were easier to integrate because I already did not identify with objects and didn't believe that my worth could be defined by the objects around me. This was far more difficult to incorporate because of the weight that my thoughts have on how I view the world. I am not my thoughts...

In fact my view on this whole exercise does not mean anything. lol. I love this. This can be used for all thoughts regardless of the label that we place on them "good or bad" because the thoughts and the labels are meaningless. It is interesting how if you closely identify self with something.....as I did to my thoughts my ego has a really difficult time letting go of this identification......how can my thoughts have no meaning. It is one thing to say that external things are meaningless and that the internal is what possesses meaning.....but my thoughts hardly seem external at first.