I F . W E . C O U L D . J U S T . S T E P . B A C K

If we would step back and take a long look at our little lives – our fashioned selves that fail miserably to obey us when we most need it, whose emotions connect not one iota with our aspirations, we’d want one thing only: to see it destroyed.

“Joel talks about the “straw man.” And that’s us in our humanhood: a straw man that we’ve created, the human sense of “I.” And it’s non-existent: there is no such person.

“There is no such being: there aren’t any human beings.

“We are spiritual being. So this little “I” is non-existent – a straw man that world mind has built and we’ve personalized it!

“This “I” that we have built up, that we’re struggling so hard to maintain, support, heal, has no existence at all. There’s no such thing. But we’re trying to maintain it instead of letting it go, and instead of realizing there’s only One I and It is Self-maintained, Self-sustained.

“All the fears, and emotions, and illnesses, lacks – all the human problems – are the problems of this straw man; they aren’t of spiritual identity. They’re of this creation that we’ve drawn humanly in world mind.

“An imaginary person has no real existence whatever.

“And we spend our whole human life trying to take care of this straw man we’ve made. It’s a selfhood apart from God. And we’ve been wanting all the qualities of God for it, and no problems, no errors, and of course, it cannot be done.
Luella Overeem
1991 Green Bay Easter Class”

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