Why Bother? Part 1

If it's all scripted, and the script is already written, why bother to do anything then? This excerpt from The Disappearance of the Universe answers that question. 


Pursah: You may think you have free will here and that you can determine what's going to happen to you, but the truth is it's all happened already. You're just playing the tape, watching and listening - thinking it's all real and a result of your own volition or chance on this level, rather than a set-up from another level.

Gary: Why should I bother to do anything, then?

Pursah: Two reasons. First of all, even though it's a closed system, there are different scenarios open to you in each lifetime. Making a different choice that doesn't involve the Holy Spirit within the dream won't undo your unconscious guilt and get you out of the system, but it can result in a temporarily different experience.

It's like a multiple choice script, where if you make a different decision, then a different scenario will play itself out. If you make one decision, you get the girl and have a good time - but if you make another decision, you blow it and end up with depression. It's even possible to live the same lifetime over again, with a different set of earthly results. Once again, none of that will get you where you really want to be. It will just keep you stuck here, attempting to achieve temporary happiness.

The other, far more important reason why you should be engaged in your decision-making is to return to your right mind and choose the Holy Spirit instead of the ego, which WILL get you where you really want to be. Forgiveness has its fringe benefits in the dream, some of which are not always obvious to you, For instance, let's say a man murders his wife, or a woman murders her husband. One of them is dead, and the other spends the rest of their life in prison or gets executed. But what if they had learned to forgive, and there was no killing? Would that change things on this level?

Gary: It would change everything, and people probably wouldn't even be aware of it.

Pursah: Yes. That's an extreme example, but ere are thousands of scenarios where even on the level of form, forgiveness has results -
and you often don’t realize how much better off you are than you would have been if you didn’t forgive. That’s why you want to develop a trust for the Holy Spirit. He really does know what’s best for you. So don’t think it’s not important for you to take charge of your own mind from this level. Indeed, it’s what the Course is training you to do. Control of your mind even gives you the power to stop pain in your body.

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