Emptiness is the Pathway to Abundance

Emotional emptiness is described as a feeling of disconnectedness from those around us, from our environment, and from ourselves. After engaging in an addiction for weeks or months, the effect of temporarily filling the emptiness fades. We discover that we still feel disconnected. The emptiness is back. Yet we still have the pill’s side effects plus withdrawal symptoms.

Psychologists say it stems from a non-supportive childhood home and sell psychotherapy sessions. Psychiatrists say it is caused by a chemical imbalance and sell psychiatric drugs. Others offer us distractions: Social media companies sell us cute kitty videos. Food companies sell us twinkies, soft drinks, and alcohol. TV news, caffeine, and cocaine make our nervous system so busy that we are distracted from feeling our emptiness.

My brother Tom says “YES!” … In the world of addiction, most people hardly even notice emptiness because they have buried it, having chosen addiction instead. So if you actually feel emptiness, especially have a painful awareness of it, then you’re ahead because that means you can stay conscious during the pain and work your way through it.” From this perspective, feeling the emptiness became a possible opportunity rather than a problem. An optimal approach might be to focus on the physical experience of emptiness.

Is it related to our adopted identity?  We so often identify with being small, inadequate, unlovable, shameful, or powerless. This seems like the “separateness” described in…

A Course In Miracles

T-2.I.1. To extend is a fundamental aspect of God which He gave to His Son. 2 In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. 3 You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. 4 There is no emptiness in you. 5 Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. 6 No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. 7 The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth.

T-2.I.2. These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation, or the “detour into fear.” 2 None of this existed before the separation, nor does it actually exist now.

T-2.I.5. Whatever lies you may believe are of no concern to the miracle, which can heal any of them with equal ease. 2 It makes no distinctions among misperceptions. 3 Its sole concern is to distinguish between truth on the one hand, and error on the other.

The answer seems self-evident. While the Constitution claims we are sovereign men and women, in charge of our government, the post-modern ideology claims that we are basically powerless beyond our membership in groups. The Climate Change agenda tells us that everything we do is destroying Earth. Essentially, we are taught that we are a useless blight on earth. If we accept this, we are projecting it into ourselves. We are creating our own shame, inadequacy or fear. We are unlovable. On and on. Through our repeating the mantras of the “experts” who we follow, we are carving this emptiness within ourselves. We are denying our own sovereignty. A Course In Miracles claims that we are made full and complete, and that only by believing that we are, in some way, empty can we create it. It sounds like we fill our identity with lies. We have essentially created an Artificial Intelligence within us.

We are told that the CHI Sun dissolves the programming, the Artificial Intelligence within us. If this is true, then using the CHI Sun will dissolve the emptiness. This becomes an intriguing hypothesis!