by Ben Gilberti, H.W.,M.
 
Chapter 15 ~  Self-Confrontation
 
Who chooses to be something other than God? To whatever extent you experience yourself as something other than God, you do. And who are you who makes such a choice? Is it not a sense of self that feels like it is less than God? Does that sense of self have any power or reality to it? You already know it can't because God is all there is. And if God is all there is, then what is this appearance of something other than God? You already know it is hypnotism from the belief in duality.
 
The hypnotism that comes out of the belief in duality manifests itself, in this case, in your being hypnotized to experience a sense of self that will "prove" that the belief in duality is true by creating the hallucination of experiencing yourself as something apart, or dual, in its relationship with God. That false sense of self appears just as vividly as the swarm of snakes you'd see in place of a Christmas tree were you hypnotized to believe that the tree was a swarm of snakes. Nothing the snakes do has any power or reality. There are no snakes there at all. Neither is there your limited sense of self. It simply isn't there. All you're experiencing is a hypnotic hallucination.
 
Dehypnotize yourself from the belief in duality and the hallucination disappears. The hallucination in this case is your own limited sense of self. You dehypnotize yourself by confronting this limited sense of self and calling its bluff.
 
Say to the appearance, "You are showing to me another way in which I believe in duality and hypnotize myself into experiencing a universe at war with itself. By showing this to me you are contributing to my awakening and the Great Awakening of all Humanity. You are part of my unfoldment. This appearance that you are, this limited sense of self I feel myself to be, is simply another way in which I am believing in duality. It is my belief in duality as it pertains to my own self. Because I believed in duality, my own self had to be experienced as dual, in conflict with itself, limiting and opposing itself, at war with itself, at war with the world, and at war with God. All of it was nothing but the hallucination of the kind of self I'd be IF the belief in duality were true. But I know now that the belief in duality is not true. Nothing else can be but that which is. God is. There can be no other than God being. And hence there is no other with which to be in conflict or at war. God is. I am. I am what God is. God is what I am. There can be no other. There is only one being, God, I, consciousness.
 
Continue to address the appearance until its bluff is completely exposed:
"I know there is only God, and hence there is nothing to fear. I know there is only God, and hence there is nothing with which, or about which, to be in conflict. I know there is only God, and hence there is no lack, there is no evil, there is no resistance, there is no injury, no disease, no limitation. You, my dear appearance, are nothing but Satan's face. Satan's heart is the belief in duality, and you, merely an appearance of that belief, Satan's face. And so I have only one thing to say to you, appearance, and that is, 'Get Thee Behind Me, Satan.' I do not accept what you are suggesting. There is nothing other than God. I know that is the Truth. And you, appearance, Face of Satan, are suggesting otherwise. You are a liar and I do not believe you. I don't care how bold-faced you are about lying, I don't care what a vivid appearance you make, you are lying just the same. So Get Thee Behind Me. Your suggestion that there can be something other than God is simply not True. There is nothing other than God. And hence all that I can be is God."
 
Say all that to the appearance. Explain to the appearance how and why it is a lie, not true, not so, nothing. As you do so, your reactivity to the appearance will disappear, because it was only because you believed the appearance was true that you were reacting to it in the first place. It's much like the reactivity you might have in response to a mirage of water in the desert if you didn't know it was a mirage. You might react by getting upset about how a lake of water was now blocking your path and may get all worked up trying to figure out ways to drive around the lake. But once you realize that the lake of water is only a mirage, you drive right into it without the slightest concern, having no reaction to it whatsoever, and sure enough it gradually disappears. So you will be at peace even while the appearance continues to appear because you are not reactive to the appearance anymore. It may still be there for a little while, but you now know that it is only a hallucination, a suggestion to believe something that is not True. You now know it is nothing. And so even while the appearance lingers a little while, it has no effect on you. You are no longer reacting to it in any way.
 
It was your reactivity, you see, that was getting you all riled up. It was your reactivity that was disturbing your peace. And now that the reactivity is gone, you are at peace again. At peace again in the realization that all the appearances in the world are nothing and God is all.
 
And then, it is in that peace, and in the silence and stillness of that peace, that you "Hear the Still Small Voice," or "Hear the Word of God," or are "Filled with the Holy Spirit," or attain "Realization," or experience "Enlightenment," or receive "Inspiration." You simply Be in Peace. Nothing else. The busy part of nothingizing the appearance is over now. Now you simply Be in Peace.
 
Don't look for what you think the Word of God or the Still Small Voice might be. Any concept you have of it will just disturb the peace only within which it can be revealed.
 
Joel Goldsmith's best description of it is: "The Thunder of Silence." If you can't shake off all concepts altogether, then Be in Peace and listen for the thunder of silence. There is nothing explosive about realizing that God is all there is. And yet it IS a thunderous realization: "All is Well far beyond my wildest dreams, for God is always all there is." You just rest in the fact that God is all there is. There is no thought any more about the appearance you originally sat down to nothingize. Now you are simply being at peace in the realization that God is all.

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