Sequethia and the Thumb Drive

My friend Sequethia McQueen recently called me in a frantic panic.  In an alarmed, tearful voice, I heard her say she had lost her job, lost her home, lost her car and was devastated.  I was amazed because I had just seen her the previous weekend, and none of this seemed imminent.

As I helped Sequethia to calm down, I discerned that she hadn’t lost her home, her job or her car, but instead she had lost her thumb drive (that little thing that you stick in the computer to save your work).  Her thumb drive contained her Doctoral Dissertation, which was a condition of keeping her job (she had 1 year to complete it, as it was a pre-requisite for her being hired).  In an instant she had a “flash-forward” and could see herself losing her job, her house and her car. She was so panicked that by the time I could understand what she was saying, she was already describing the tow-truck jacking up her car and taking it away, and she described it with such clarity that I actually thought it was happening “real-time”.

In that moment, Sequethia’s lost thumb drive “meant” that she would lose her job, her house and her car. 

Have you ever had a Sequethia McQueen moment?  Have you ever had a moment where you had a series of thoughts (or projections) based on one incident, and projected it forward based on what it “meant”?  My boss is being rough with me, that means I’m going to be fired.  My boyfriend is giving me the silent treatment, and that means he’s having an affair.  Have you ever projected yourself forward into a fantasy world of reality that wasn’t true or real? 

Of course we have all done this, and those thoughts have created the reality that we see all around us because thoughts are “things” that attract to us their reflection.  In order to stop projecting (and thus creating) a savage fantasy world, we must understand our thoughts, reverse the destructive thoughts and align our thoughts with the loving energy that produces loving outcomes.  This is the purpose of A Course In Miracles, and your miracle begins today as you begin to reverse the destructive thoughts that have created a world you don’t want. 

We can begin this process of thought reversal by looking all around us and saying “This doesn’t mean anything” to anything we see all around us. For example:  This chair doesn’t mean anything, this book doesn’t mean anything, this lamp doesn’t mean anything, etc.   Leave nothing in your sight out of this exercise. It will seem insane to do this, but it will make you aware of how often you attach meaning to everything you see, just as Sequethia did.  You will also see how destructive these “meanings” can be, just as Sequethia did.  If you’d like to know what happened with Sequethia, check my next posting.