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"My attack thought are attacking my invulnerability."

mstreet #352 开云体育 I had not planned on sending in any more of the Lessons from Ken's tapes, as I think that any one that wants them, can get them for themselves. :-) However, I think this lesson should have been heard or read as whole, to get a clearer understanding of what Ken was meaning. At least that is what came to me, as I continued listening to it. ? So I am hoping others too, well get a clearer understanding from this. ? ~ Martha :-) ? Again ... this is from Ken Wapnick's Commentaries on the Workbook Lessons. Volume I. Tape(4) ? LESSON 26. "My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability." ? Ken: This is another important lesson. Obviously if I have attack thoughts then I must believe I am vulnerable. If I believe I am vulnerable, I cannot be Christ. Because Christ is invulnerable. ? If I am as God created me - if my reality is pure spirit then I am one with everything and everyone. Therefore there is no one out there that could really hurt me. So, as long as I believe there is something out there that could hurt me, within my own body or someone else's body then I am saying that I am vulnerable. And if I am saying I am vulnerable, I am saying once again, I am right and the Holy Spirit is wrong. (W-26.1-4) "It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack." ? Ken: Well the very fact that I am here is proving to me I can really attack. Because - how did I get here? I can only have gotten here because I attacked God first. ? "And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you." ? Ken: Because it is all the same. As we have seen in earlier lessons, the inner and the outer are one and the same. There is no difference. So, if I believe I can attack, then I will also believe I can be attacked. That is why he said in the earlier lesson that we must understand that the thought of attacking and being attacked are one and the same. They all come from the same thought system. And whatever I believe is coming from outside, is inside. ? "It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now." ? Ken: It will ultimately save me, because its saying that everything is an illusion. What seems to be outside of me, seems to be an illusion. What seems to be inside of me, the ego thought system, is an illusion. ? "You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them." ? Ken: Again - so what the ego says, that the law that has effects on me, namely that I can attack others, also works the other way. That as I learn to forgive and let the love of God through me, then that love will come back to me as well. ? So basically the laws of extension and projection are exactly the same. They just have different contents. What I believe is real inside of me as an ego, I project out, automatically. And then will believe it? is going to hurt me in return. That is what projection is. Extension is, I identify with the love of Jesus within me, and that love automatically comes through me and therefore its that love I have perceived all around me. Either expressions of it,? or calls for it. "Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable." ? Ken: That's what proves your right, and Jesus is wrong. ? So, Jesus says, what are you so upset about? All this is a dream. And we say to him "What do you mean all this is a dream? Look at how I have been attacked. Look at how I suffer. Look at the pain I am feeling. Look at the pain other people other people are feeling. We are all vulnerable. Don't tell me this is all a dream." And that is how we prove that we are right and he is wrong. ? And our pain - if we perceive it in others or ourselves - is what the final proof is, to the ego, that God is dead and we exist. ? "Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are." ? Ken: If I perceive attack thoughts in you, and make them real, no matter what you are doing. And I make them real for me, then it is only because I have made them real inside myself. ? "Attack thoughts and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other." ? Ken: That is another way of saying that God and the ego are mutually exclusive thoughts. "The idea for today introduces the thought,? that you always attack yourself first." ? Ken: If I perceive you as attacking me, and I react in that way, as if it were true, it is only because I attacked first in my mind. This has nothing to do with behavior. That is what the line at the end of "The Dynamics of the Ego" in chapter 11 says: "If he speaks not of Christ to you, you spoke not of Christ to him." ? Again, we are not talking about what other people are doing. We are talking about what our perception of what other people are doing. And by this we mean, our interpretation ... that they are attacking us. ? It doesn't mean that you don't see attack thoughts in other people. Jesus is seeing attack thoughts in all of his students. It is when you judge against them, your making them real. ? "If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself." ? Ken: And that proves that we are right, and the Holy Spirit is wrong. That we are sons of the ego, instead of Sons of God. ? "And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself." ? Ken: And here the "self" we are no longer believing in, would be the Christ, that the Holy Spirit is reminding us of. ? "A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are." ? Ken: And the false image again, is the special, unique, individualized self that we believe we are. ? "Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so." ? Ken: So everything, again, is thought. So this is really, the early training that the workbook is giving us. To really realize that everything is thought. And we have already seen the clear implications that these thoughts are not the thoughts of the brain (a physical organ) but these are thoughts that are in the mind. That come from either identifying with Jesus, or the ego. And from these two basic thoughts - these two basic thought systems arises a whole world, and our perception of the world. So if I feel myself attacked, it is because I have chosen my ego as my teacher, and therefore believe I am vulnerable. And again, this has nothing to do with what the behavior is. ? The end.

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