A letter from Jon Marc Hammer which I believe merits wide sharing
Val Scott
To whom it might interest:
I just received a most interesting and comprehensive response to three of
my recent posts from Jon Marc Hammer, who channels Jeshua (the Course
Jesus), a sample of which may be seen in the first two editions of The
Jeshua Herald over the following web site: http://www.jeshuaherald.org
Here is his full response, postmarked July 9th, 1997 from Honolulu, Hawaii,
which I would like to share with you for its inherent value - without
editorial comment:
Dear Val:
Thanks for your latest communiqué, covering some thoughts on “How can ACIM
accomplish its Purpose?” and sex and “True Intimacy.”
Without having read Robert Perry’s paper, one thing keeps coming to my mind
regarding your question on the Course. It is simply this:
A COURSE IN MIRACLES accomplished its purpose by completing its
manifestation in our world of illusions as one thread in a tapestry woven
by Love with the purpose of offering a context in which any individual can
awaken from illusion. The key here is “OFFERING”; the Course itself has no
power to accomplish anything in or for anyone. In many, many private
conversations with Jeshua, he has returned me to the simple fact that no
form of the universal curriculum, nor any form of ritual, meditation,
religion, etc. has the power to effect transformation in another. All such
expressions are contexts which extend an invitation to a person to step, as
it were, from their “Ordinary World” to the “Extraordinary World” beyond
the contracted self. If the Course could accomplish a purpose beyond
offering a doorway to the “Extraordinary World” (which, of course,
paradoxically becomes the only World that is sane), and effect
transformation in an unwilling mind, it would mean that there is a power
greater than the Self, and the Course would be in contradiction of its own
postulates.
I would question whether any Course “teacher” could objectively indicate
that other selves are not “doing” the Course the way Jesus wants. Why?
Awakening involves revelation, which is always intensely personal. ANY
student of the Course first willingly opens to some depth of relationship
with the vibrational essence offered by Jeshua through the Course. As he
takes our hand, that relationship is intensely unique and personal. After
all, the journey of Awakening is ultimately a journey of the alone to the
Alone. In Jeshua’s words:
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO KNOW WHAT YOUR BROTHER NEEDS. IT IS,
HOWEVER, BOTH POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY THAT YOU CONTINUALLY OFFER YOUR
ILLUSION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR HEALING IN ORDER THAT YOU MAY EXTEND BOTH
FORGIVENESS AND LOVE TO YOUR BROTHER. THEN, THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL GUIDE YOU
PERFECTLY IN EACH MOMENT.
In short, all a teacher of God can offer is his/her continual commitment to
dying into God in each moment. Frankly, the thought of a “Course
Community” to me speaks only of the ego’s continued view of its
specialness, as though there is a COURSE community apart from “other”
communities. I think the “purpose” of any form of the Universal Curriculum
is accomplished or realized in the student when the student no longer needs
the particular FORM of the Curriculum. I wonder how many Course students
(and, especially, Course TEACHERS) would be willing to throw their copies
out the window, and simply assume responsibility for being what the Course
can only talk ABOUT. (Any text is a collection of words, and words are
merely symbols of ideas, themselves symbols for a Reality which is
ineffable, yet immediately Knowable, here and now.)
Ahhh, sex, sex, sex. The elusive ultimate absolute orgasm. I would go
further and say there is absolutely no distinction between God and sexual
energy, just as there isn’t between God and tears, or any other duality the
mind can make up.
I agree that without entering a state of true forgiveness, intimacy is
impossible. And what is forgiveness but a state of awakening from the self
to the Self, beholding all in innocence, wanting and needing nothing, yet
not obstructing or denying anything?
My own work, which I call Sacred Intimacy (I mean by “my own,” that it is a
context set up through this bodymind, but informed and guided only by That
One Who is the breath of my breath) is all about going to the core of what
is unhealed. The Course begins with the mind, which most Course students
take as being other than the body (which assumes they know what “body” is).
Yet I have discovered simply that the Real World is a felt, visceral
thing, not a concept or belief. When we are in Holy relationship, or truly
abiding in forgiveness, the body itself is experienced very, very
differently. It feels, well, orgasmic. That is, unobstructed, and the
nervous system is able to handle much higher “voltage” of passion,
sensuality, compassion, enthusiasm (en theos=to be filled with God). I
have yet to witness anyone experience “breakthrough” who does not also
experience profound and often dramatic visceral and energetic changes.
Intimacy of the highest kind is a felt, immediate experience, not a
concept. To “look lovingly” on another isn’t a contrived mental state or
duty. Anyone who has ever “fallen in love” (a great phrase depicting how
the ego sees things when its fortress of separation dissovles, don’t you
think?) knows the whole body is awakened in a way unlike anything else, and
the soul instantly knows, “This is it! Love!”
I am not in favor of all the sexual technique stuff for prolonging
sexuality. Been there (a lot), done that, and found it lacking. Again,
the Cosmic orgasm we truly seek just isn’t about penises and vaginas,
except in that it transcends aversion to or special attachment to,
sexuality. Orgasm is popular for one reason: it is the body’s way to call
us to copulation in order to replicate itself (i.e. to keep the Dream
going). It is addictively pleasurable! But this LOCALIZED orgasm merely
reinforces separation in the long run. Why? Because we end up wanting to
“join” to get the orgasm again. This means we are using the body to get,
not to extend. So, this is what I have discovered experientially about
sex:
1. SEX: Sex occurs between bodies in the ego’s attempt to use the body to
seek for the joining the soul wants. Like a drug, it offers a respite, not
a solution, which doesn’t last. It ends up reinforcing separation.
2. MAKING LOVE: (Remember, the Course draws a line between “making” and
“extending.”) This occurs between more evolved personalities (i.e., egos)
and involves romantic love, joining and forsaking all others, and even the
ultimate ego trip of spiritualizing sex in order to convince ourselves and
others that we are doing something very different that (1). Unfortunately,
we aren’t. It’s a deception.
3. CELEBRATING THE PRESENCE OF LOVE: This occurs between two (or more) who
join in surrendering their entire ego realm of needing, feeling lack, or
giving in order to get. It requires that they have accepted the Atonement.
When I asked God what the highest and best sex could be is, the answer
was: WHEN ONE LOOKS LOVINGLY UPON ANOTHER AND SAYS, “I BEHOLD YOUR PERFECT
INNOCENCE, AND THAT YOU BELONG ONLY TO GOD, AND WOULD CELEBRATE ONLY THIS
THROUGH THE DEVOTION OF JOINING WITH YOU WHOLE BODILY.” In short, the body
is given over to being a device only for extending Love.
This level can bring deep transformation and healing, but it cannot be
sought or focused on. It arises spontaneously in the midst of any
relationship devoted to discovering what holiness is. No specialness is
attached to the act at all; it is a sacrament, honored in the hearts of
those two (or more) for all eternity. Why? Because “wherever two have
joined in Love, separation is no longer possible, for Love has overcome the
Dream.” (Jeshua) And guess what, such joining doesn’t require the moving
of a single muscle! Also, True Orgasm is a whole-body experience, and this
can be cultivated to be present virtually under all conditions. But that
requires cultivating the feeling body, and stepping out of the safe haven
of concepts and ideas into a living, breathing, unobstructed, unbroken wave
of Union beyond all Duality. The realm of ideas is the last safe haven the
ego has to hide within. When the BodyMind of Christ is awakened, there is
only Love, seen as the fabric of all things, and what is temporal is seen
as the eternal, loss is accepted just as is gain, and death becomes a
laughable and useless fear. Only God is ....
I have discovered a continual orgasm as a way of life, but this is not in
opposition to any very human experience. Deep sadness is just another
opportunity to embrace the Divine and be devoured by Love. I have also
discovered how transformational sex can be for myself and my partner when I
am in (3) above. But then, in such a state, taking out the garbage is
orgasmic and mystical.
Blessings be!
Jon Marc
enfielde...@gmail.com
SEE you soon
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