08.20.23 "No Law in the Arena"

Borrowing this title from a famous essay from Camille Paglia, I will simple explain that this "lawlessness" is actually a good thing. Trying to push the physical universe into rational, scientific laws has been a problem for millennia. While our culture tends to praise "scientific understanding" (and no one does this more than the scientists themselves) I am forced to wonder what has been lost since the time when mankind believed the physical world was shaped by unseen spiritual and metaphysical energies. "Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well." (FIP.Cl.Ep.2:5) Perhaps the stars do have something to teach us after all. Perhaps this is ACIM's nod to astrology.

ACIM is clear that the laws that seem to govern physical reality are not laws at all. These laws are merely ideas, habits of thought and behavior, that produce world effects predictively consistent with the habits. To be a miracle worker means to not be governed by these so-called "laws." "What [Holy Spirit] enables you to do is clearly not of this world, for miracles violate every law of reality as this world judges it." (OrEd.Tx.11.63) We will never rise to the level of the miraculous unless we challenge these ideas, these physical laws. Many students are attempting to have one foot in physical reality and another in Heaven at the same time. It doesn't work. "I am under no laws but God's. – We have observed before how many senseless things have seemed to you to be salvation. Each has imprisoned you with laws as senseless as itself. You are not bound by them." (OrEd.WkBk.76.1)

The "arena" is physical reality. In truth it has no laws. As we realize this we can allow the laws of God to predominate and manifest their reflection. This is how true miracle healing happens. Join with me Sunday for an inspired romp through the fun experience of Spirit guided "lawlessness."

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