A conversation between student and teachers makes the case that the unconscious mind — not circumstance, not the world — is what determines the shape of a life, and that no amount of positive thinking, affirmation, or surface-level wisdom can make the difference. Simulating goes where words cannot: beneath the conscious mind, directly into the unconscious programming that has been running the show.
ARTEN: “Perhaps the most overlooked error of all religions and philosophies, including the New Age models, is the failure to understand that although doing things like thinking positively, being “in the now,” saying prayers, affirmations, denying negative thoughts, and listening to famous speakers may have a temporarily helpful impact, they cannot release that which is locked in the deep canyons of your unconscious mind.
Your unconscious mind, which you are completely oblivious to or else it wouldn’t be unconscious, is under the domination of a sick thought system that is shared on both a collective and individual level by everyone who comes to the false universe—or else they wouldn’t have come here in the first place.
This will remain the case until your thoughts are examined, correctly forgiven, released to the Holy Spirit, and replaced by His thinking instead.Until then your hidden beliefs will continue to dominate and assert themselves in a predetermined way. The world is merely acting out a symbolic scenario that each one here agreed to participate in before they ever appeared to arrive.
GARY: You don’t have to convince me the world sucks sometimes. But what about the good stuff? We all have our favorite times.
ARTEN: Your good times in this world are good only in comparison to the bad times. The comparison isn’t a valid one, because both the seemingly good times and the bad times are not Heaven. You will eventually learn that it’s all a trick, that your perception—something you value very highly—is simply lying to you.
You wouldn’t listen to your unconscious thought system if it didn’t hide itself and lie to you, because it’s so seemingly despicable, and listening to it is so painful, that you’d run away from it if you could really examine it.
Christ can help you examine it.He can show you a way to make your unconscious mind conscious to a degree that Freud could not have imagined. That will be the purpose of some of our later discussions, but we have other things to talk about first.
GARY: Meanwhile, do you have anything more encouraging to tell me?
PURSAH: Certainly, if you want to go home. Christ is outside the door of the asylum, calling you to come out and join him, and you keep trying to drag him back in. That was the case with the world two thousand years ago and it remains the case today. The person who first said that the more things change the more they stay the same hit the universal nail right on the holographic head. But there is a way out, and that’s what should be encouraging to you.
ARTEN: In helping you, we will not be giving you the so-called wisdom of the ages that your contemporary spiritual wizards are so fond of. You will learn instead that most of what the world thinks of as the wisdom of the ages is actually full of it.
The “divine intelligence of the universe” is a phrase that’s entirely worthy of having the plug pulled on it. You will learn that if you are to return to God in total awareness then you have some work to do—not work in the world, but with your thoughts. During most of this it will appear to you that we are making judgments, a lot of them. There’s a good reason for that.
The only possible way we can teach you is by contrasting the Holy Spirit’s thinking with the thinking of the world. His judgment is sound, and leads to God. Your judgment is poor, and leads you back here, again and again.”