Beyond the world of the ego.

You are in an impossible situation only because you think it is possible to be in one. You would be in an impossible situation if God showed you your perfection, and proved to you that you were wrong. This would demonstrate that the perfect are inadequate to bring themselves to the awareness of their perfection, and thus side with the belief that those who have everything need help and are therefore helpless. This is the kind of “reasoning” in which the ego engages. God, Who knows that His creations are perfect, does not affront them. This would be as impossible as the ego’s notion that it has affronted Him. T-6.IV.10:1-8

A Course in Miracles (p. 230). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The above passage needs some unpacking. The idea presented is that God has created you perfect, the ego has told you otherwise, and so God’s creation has proven the ego wrong. The ego wants you, who are perfect, to believe you are imperfect and need the ego’s help to attain perfection which you already are. God does not challenge the ego’s false teaching but allows you to come to the awareness of your own perfection and the lies of the ego. It is a choice that you have about what to believe: in God’s perfect creation or in the ego’s lie of imperfection. Unfortunately, we are conditioned and socialized to believe in the ego’s lies. It requires consciousness raising to move beyond the conditioning of the ego.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for the truth and meaning of the inherent worth and dignity of every person. UU would have people believe in the perfection of God’s creation which the ego has mucked up.

Today it is suggested that we set the conditioning of the ego aside and abide in the experience of God’s perfect creation which always resides beyond the world of the ego.