As you know if you’ve been reading my posts, I’ve been spending a lot of time reading Helen’s original dictation. Yesterday I made what was for me an important discovery. It was about the real meaning of level confusion, a topic that confuses almost all of us. Up until now, my understanding of level confusion was based on mentions of it in Chapter 2. Yet now that I am reading the original dictation, I realize it was an important topic in Chapter 1, and the references to it there have given me a whole new understanding of it.
What I have been discovering is that there is a whole series of miracle principles, all overtly linked to each other (one would follow on from a previous, another would be a restatement of a previous, another would overtly refer back to a previous) that are really about rearranging our perspective of the levels and getting them organized correctly in our minds. Along with that, I saw that the levels talked about in these places were only two–the physical and the spiritual.
Finally, I came upon the first use of the term “level confusion.” I did a search for previous mentions of “confusion” and based on what I found realized the obvious: The series of principle I mentioned above were really about straightening out level confusion. I saw that level confusion had already been a major topic without me realizing it.
So I gathered these various passages together and the meaning became very clear. Level confusion means confusing the levels of spirit and the body (or the spiritual and the physical). How do we confuse them? We assign to the physical level the attributes that really belong to the spiritual level. We assign our identity to our physical body, but our identity really belongs to our spirit. We see the physical as “the altar of truth,” but the spiritual is really the altar of truth. We see love and closeness as being a matter of physical closeness, but those attributes, too, belong to the level of spirit. In short, we confuse “bread and communion.” We think communion lies in things physical, when it really belongs to the level of spirit.
As you can probably see, level confusion is an absolutely massive issue. It is all the ways in which we give the physical level the importance, the emphasis, that really belongs to the spiritual, all the ways in which we see our identity and happiness residing in the physical instead of where those things really reside. Suddenly, level confusion moved from being a peripheral concept to being absolutely central.
So all those miracle principles were really saying that miracles straighten out level confusion. They put our heads on right, so that we finally realize that all the energy and emphasis we have poured into the physical really belong to the spiritual. We’ve just been confused. The miracle straightens out our confusion. It clears our head, allowing us to get our priorities straight at last.
So that’s what I’ve been practicing today. I’ve been saying “I will not confuse the levels.” When I say it, I get an immediate sense of how much importance I’ve plowed into the physical level, and how that just represents a confusion about where that importance really resides. I feel my mind momentarily pulled toward that spiritual level, where truth, identity, and happiness really reside, and where everything is perfectly OK. I’m looking forward to the rest of my day with this idea.
