A dialogue between teacher and student reframes what it means to correct something—not to fix it, but to undo it at its source—until it no longer needs to appear. Simulating is oriented the same way: not toward improving the story your mind is telling or the world it is projecting, but toward a direct encounter with the mind itself, generating it all.
“GARY: Are you trying to tell me that my life is all in my head?
ARTEN: It’s all in your mind. To correct something usually means you fix it up and keep it. When the false universe is finished being corrected by the Holy Spirit, it will no longer appear to exist.
GARY: My head is in my mind?
ARTEN: Your head, your brain, your body, your world, your entire universe, any parallel universes, and anything else that can be perceived are projections of the mind. They are all symbolic of just one thought. We will tell you what that thought is later. An even better way of thinking about this is to consider your universe to be a dream.
GARY: It feels pretty solid for a dream, pal.
ARTEN: We’ll tell you later why it feels solid, but you need more background first. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. What Pursah was trying to impress on you is that nobody is asking you to give up a lot in exchange for nothing. It’s really the opposite. You will eventually come to realize that you are giving up nothing in exchange for everything—a state so awesome and joyous that to describe it in words is impossible. To attain this state of Being, however, you must be willing to undergo a difficult process of correction by the Holy Spirit.
GARY: This correction you speak of, does it have anything to do with political correctness?
PURSAH: No. Political correctness, no matter how well intentioned, is still an attack on freedom of speech. You will find we are very free with our speech indeed. The word correction is not used by us in the usual way, because to correct something usually means you fix it up and keep it. When the false universe is finished being corrected by the Holy Spirit, it will no longer appear to exist. I say it will no longer appear to exist because it does not exist in reality. The true Universe is God’s Universe, or Heaven—and Heaven has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the false universe. However, there is a way of looking at your universe that will help you return to your true home with God.
GARY: You’re talking about the universe like it’s some kind of a mistake. But the Bible says that God created the world, and most everybody believes He did, not to mention all the world’s religions. My friends and I think that God produced the world so He could know Himself experientially, which I guess is a pretty common New Age belief. Didn’t God create polarity, duality, and all of the opposites in this world of subject and object?
PURSAH: In a word, no. God did not create duality and He did not create the world. If He did, He would be the author of “a tale told by an idiot,” to borrow Shakespeare’s description of life. But God is not an idiot. We’ll prove it to you. He can only be one of two things. He is either perfect Love, as the Bible says when it momentarily stumbles upon the truth, or He’s an idiot. You can’t have it both ways. Jesus was no idiot either, because he wasn’t taken in by the false universe.”