Thoughts on “What is the Real World?” in the ACIM Workbook
(Full text of “What is the Real World” in the workbook)
The real world reflects the qualities that emanate from Source. Source and Its qualities are highly abstract. Creation, the pure extension of Source, is highly symbolic; each and every extension symbolizes Source and its qualities. Expressions in the Real World are still temporary. They reflect the quality that gave rise to its appearance. The extension causes Source to expand. The dissolution of a given form means that all the information that the appearance in form was able to give, has been received. The creative quality, the essence that was reflected in the expression, will continue to extend and expand. That is why identification with form hurts so much. You are the essence that continues to expand, you are not the form that temporary arises and dissolves.
Anything you look on with Love is a harbinger of the Real World. It is Creation in Its purity, symbol of a spiritual principle emanating from Source.. As long as you do look on everything with less than Love, the Real World remains veiled or even obscured by the images the mind projects on top of it, in order to alert you to the wayward focus of your attention. As soon as you turn around your focus (repent) the mind is liberated from having to project misunderstandings and can continue building with the building blocks provided by the creative flow that emanates from Source. Looking with the eyes of Love ultimately results in the perception of the Real World.
You are part of Source’s extension and expansion. You are not form; you are the essence that reflects in form and that continues to extend and expand when form dissolves.
The Real World is Source and Creation appearing before eyes that look with Love.