To Follow the Herd, or Seek Another Way

Logion 107 has the lovely image of the lost sheep, and it is of course another "prequel," for this saying is clearly quoted in the New Testament, and it seems that it also occurs in the "Q" collection.

God and His creations remain in surety, and therefore know that no miscreation exists. Truth cannot deal with errors that you want. I was a man who remembered spirit and its knowledge. As a man I did not attempt to counteract error with knowledge, but to correct error from the bottom up. I demonstrated both the powerlessness of the body and the power of the mind. By uniting my will with that of my Creator, I naturally remembered spirit and its real purpose. I cannot unite your will with God's for you, but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. Only your misperceptions stand in your way. Without them your choice is certain. Sane perception induces sane choosing. I cannot choose for you, but I can help you make your own right choice. "Many are called but few are chosen" should be, "All are called but few choose to listen." Therefore, they do not choose right. The "chosen ones" are merely those who choose right sooner. Right minds can do this now, and they will find rest unto their souls. God knows you only in peace, and this is your reality. (ACIM:T-3.IV.7)

Thus we choose ourselves, by choosing "another way," in lieu of going along with the herd, and simply choosing against continuing to dream the ego's dream along with the herd. We won't know our bearings when we leave the herd, but Help will come to us, and appreciate that at least we were willing to not choose to follow the herd, to not stay within the ego system. This image is very much in line with what the Course advocates, namely that it is a course in un-doing, in not choosing the ego, in stopping to justify the ego. We must learn to question the ego before we can learn not to choose it, and choosing Jesus or the Holy Spirit instead. The same is implicit in the steps of forgiveness, where we first need to step back from the projection, and begin seeing it for what it is, before we are then ready to look at it with Jesus, decide we don't want it, and ask to see things with the eyes of the Holy Spirit instead, thus we ask for help to change our mind, because the ego by itself is designed to be self-perpetuating, and the Holy Spirit or Jesus represent the part of our mind that is still sane, that has NOT bought into the ego system, and which is thus our only hope for Help as and when we leave the deceptive comforts of the ego system.