That's an interesting topic, but not an easy one to nail down. I
think the reason for that is best stated by Pursah
in "Disappearance." "You should keep in mind that each of the four
major attitudes of learning are long roads in themselves, and you
will sometimes bounce around like a ping pong ball in between them.
The Holy Spirit will correct you along the way and set you back in
the right direction." (P.37) The Holy Spirit works with all people.
They don't have to be studying the Course, but one of the main goals
of the Course is to enable us to hear the Voice for God within us
more clearly.
I personally spent a lot of years in the second attitude of
learning, semi-dualism. That's where I was when Arten and Pursah
first appeared to me. I was a pretty gentle, New Age type Christian
at the time. I knew God was love and Jesus must have practiced
unconditional love and forgiveness, but I didn't see a lot of other
people really emulating him. And of course I've bounced around like
everyone else. Today, I'd say most of the time I'm in the third
attitude of learning, non-dualism. I'm very clear that none of this
is
real, but sometimes it still takes me a while to remember, so I may
temporarily act like I think it's real. Then sometimes I
remember fast. But like everyone else, when it hits the fan it takes
me a
while. I think that's a universal experience. Then there are
times when I've had glimpses of the absolute truth and experiences of
pure non-dualism. They haven't lasted long, but they've been
beatific. Some of them have been so great that I couldn't do anything
else that day except sit there in a stupor of awe. The cool thing is
I know that someday my natural inheritance will be all that I
experience, so it encourages me to apply the Holy Spirit's major
learning tool of forgiveness as often as possible. Peace, Gary.
Gary