[Miracles Course Journal] The first law of chaos

[Tom Fox]

"The first chaotic law is that the truth is different for everyone."

ACIM Text, Chapter 23

The first law of chaos states that the truth is different for everyone. This is the foundation upon which chaos is established and maintained. To be in a state of chaos is to be in a state of rebellion against God.

The state of God is well ordered and harmonious. The state of God is not chaos.

The first law of chaos is based upon limited selective perception, and it is best illustrated by the story of the three blind men and the elephant. Each of the three had only a limited experience of a much larger creature, and mistook his separate limited perceptions as being exclusively representative of the whole creature.

Each of the three were both partially right and wholly wrong.

The fable accurately describes the problem, but it also contains within it the seed of a solution. As the story ends being a provocation, the three blind men are arguing, insisting that each alone is right and all the others wrong and misguided.

The obvious solution presents itself to combine the three sets of separate perceptions into a greater and more expansive view, and thereby reach a more harmonious understanding of the whole. It would be a closer approximation of the truth.

It would also have the virtue of reducing strife.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky 

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Posted By Tom Fox to Miracles Course Journal at 10/14/2010 09:57:00 AM

[Tom]

A dear sister has suggested this, for your consideration, in response
to:

"The obvious solution presents itself to combine the three sets of
separate perceptions into a greater and more expansive view, and
thereby reach a more harmonious understanding of the whole. It would
be a closer approximation of the truth. It would also have the virtue
of reducing strife."

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1) Of myself I can do nothing.

2) I need the Holy Spirit to heal my mind.

3) What the ego thinks of as strife is denial of the truth, that the
world is one of conflict and pain

4) Only by accepting things as they are can I find peace with my
environment and myself, with the acknowledgment that in a body I have
limits, and it depends on my readiness to have my mind changed to see
only love.

5) This is true also for all my brothers.

6) Then a sense of compassion enters my mind, where everyone, myself
not excluded, are in the position that we do not know what we are
doing.

7) Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.

And then in this surrender of the world, the Holy Spirit has a
foothold on our false beliefs, and can change our minds to wider
perception and the wonder of experiencing miracles J.

And only then is change possible, in whatever form this is appropriate
for each individual.