The Holy Spirit is the spirit of Joy, and joy comes from living the Spirit's purpose of forgiveness. What is the definition of forgiveness? Simply seeing the false as false. To become the witness-self, to see that you are the dreamer of the world of dreams. You come to realize that it is impossible to be impacted or conflicted by something outside yourself because the dreamer of the dream realizes that there must be another purpose for the dream. Forgiveness is this new purpose.

The first phase toward living the Spirit's purpose is a phase of dismantling and undoing: clearing the mind of all of its dark cobwebs and false learnings. What are these false learnings based on? They are based on the ego's belief system of a false personality self and everything that surrounds the personality self. All of that is false ego learning that was made to take the place of Love, God, and Oneness. 

This whole cosmos is false learning, like the layers of an onion placed over its core. As we go through spiritual awakening, we go through the peeling of this onion, letting go of the false beliefs and learnings, to come down to a pristine state of just Beingness. This process of forgiveness is initially one of unlearning and undoing, of dismantling. As the mind is being unwound from these false beliefs, it can feel very disconcerting to the ego, like a destruction of the ego's thought system. 

As we dive deeper into Jesus' teachings, the goal is to open our heart and mind to the miracle. To allow ourselves to be used in miraculous ways, as a miracle worker, and to strengthen what is real and true—that is Spirit! It is not the body, it is not the personality self. This dismantling makes way for our Christ Self and the humble statement of the truth, of "I am as God created me." 

All our specific problems were made to cover over the one single problem which is the belief in separation. When we really see this for what it is, we are also open to the correction that it has been resolved. Everything has been solved! What is left is a sense of peace, happiness, and joy. That is the natural state for a perfect Child of God. 

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