False Evidence Appearing Real

A little green tomato fell off one of my plants and I put in on my window ledge to ripen. Days later, I noticed it wasn’t there. I didn’t move it, Del didn’t move it, where was it?

I took my rings off and put them on the sink. When I went to look for them later, I couldn’t find them. Where were they?

One very early morning I joined Del on our porch to drink our morning brew and the pine trees just on the other side of the rail were just a big haze to me. I couldn’t see a single thing.

I was filling the teakettle with cold water. The kettle was hot so it produced steam when the water entered it. Touching the faucet, I quickly pulled back because it felt as if I had burned my hand, even though there was only cold water coming through it.

What do these four incidents have in common? The answer is…. a mist-perception, a misperception, false evidence appearing real.

Looking for the little green tomato I accepted the possibility that something “weird” had happened to it, or even that Del was teasing me and had hidden it. When I stopped both those thoughts and stated instead “nothing in Mind is ever lost”, the next time I went to the sink to get something I saw that tomato lying beside the faucet.

Looking for the rings, I had the memory of putting them on the sink. It was a false memory, because when I saw them weeks later – note the weeks later – they were exactly where I had left them. They were neatly placed over the straight handle of the faucet. Then I remembered I had put them there to keep them from rolling away.

Fuzzy images beyond the porch gave me a touch of fright. What if something was wrong with my eyes? Stopping that ridiculous thought I simply waited until my eyes adjusted to the dark and the trees slowly emerged.

As for the teakettle, I laughed as I realized that my senses had pictured back to me what I was thinking, as they always do. The steam gave the illusion of heat, and that is what my sense of touch registered back to me, to make sure that what I experienced was congruent with what I believed.

There is no difference between these stories and the seemingly more important, or frightening ones, of not enough money, unhappy relationships, missed purpose, or ill health.

Looking at numbers that say there isn’t enough money in our checking account and accepting it as real, is the same thing as wondering where my little green tomato went. We can think of lots of reasons why it may be true there is not enough, but that will only continue to blind us to the fact that supply, in whatever form it is needed, is present now. “Mind never loses anything!”

Emotions ranging from sadness to anger about relationships because of false memories of what has happened, or is happening, is no different than a false memory of where my rings were placed. All relationships are always between Love and Love. Getting our perceptions in line with that Truth, loving relationships are visible and experienced now.

Not seeing a purpose in our life exists because of the false idea that something is wrong only continues the illusion of fuzziness. Resting safely in the knowledge that everything we do is the purpose of God being Itself, and that we are aware of that purpose (even when we can’t see it), then every step we need to take emerges clearly. In fact, instead of just a row of pine trees, there are infinite possibilities always present, and always available, and the perfect possibilities for each moment are always present.

Being careful to continually monitor and be watchful and vigilant about what point of view we accept – and choosing the highest awareness of good, God, that we have in each moment – we will not be taken in by false evidence appearing real.

The faucet was cold, not hot. All that is ever going on is the presence of God. That’s it. Any other evidence reported back to us by our senses is a result of our inward agreements to what is real, including the false evidence of ill health.

Unless every thought stems from the awareness of the infinite divine Mind, Love, then we will continue to get false evidence appearing real, which of course produces fear in its many forms.

However, all we have to do is shift our point of view back to One, and keep our state of mind in harmony with Love.

It’s important to remember that it is our emotions and reactions to what appears real, that gives it the only power it has. To dissolve the illusion of a problem we must remove the emotion, stop the reactions, and shift our point of view to Truth.

Then what we experience in life will be closer in line with Realty: Love loving, Mind knowing, Principle governing, Spirit grounding, Soul enjoying, Truth revealing, Life living. Shift perception to this, hold to it, protect it, and watch the “world” shift to match that perception.

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