Why did I forget Who I am?

If I am truly the Son of God, whole, unlimited, safe, loved, eternal…then how on earth did I end up here, in a body, with a calendar, a to-do list, and a drawer full of reading glasses?

There must be a reason….

If we are willing to look at this without drama, without guilt, without the need for complicated scientific explanations, the answer becomes surprisingly logical.

A Course in Miracles never tells us that we were created small. It never says we are broken, flawed, sinful, or incomplete. On the contrary, it is almost stubborn in repeating that we were created in perfect Love, as Love, and remain exactly as we were created.

Or, as it says so calmly:

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.”

So if nothing real was lost, then something “unreal” must have been believed, and not just a little bit believed….noooo. If possible : completely believed !!!

Now here comes the part where the logic clicks into place :

You cannot experience separation while fully remembering unity.

You simply can’t. It is not difficult, it is impossible.

You cannot feel abandoned while knowing you are forever held.

You cannot feel vulnerable while knowing you are invulnerable.

You cannot fear death while knowing you are eternal.

So if the Son of God wanted to experience being “someone separated”, then He had to forget being “Everything”.

Otherwise the whole experiment would fail.

It’s like going to the cinema. If the lights stay on, the doors remain open, and someone keeps tapping you on the shoulder saying, “don’t forget, it’s just a movie”, you will never really enter the story. You might see it, but you won’t be in it.

The experience requires forgetting.

Or think of a night dream. If you were constantly aware, “this is a dream, this is a dream”, the dream would collapse. You can only experience it by temporarily believing it.

So the forgetting was not a mistake. It was a requirement.

Not a sin, but a function.

Not a failure, but a mechanism.

Again: to be “someone”, you must forget being “Everything”.

And ACIM is very clear here. It does not say we lost our true nature or it was destroyed. It says it was set aside. Like dimming the lights in a theatre so the stage becomes visible. Or like zooming in with a camera so strongly that the background disappears.

The background is still there.

You’re just not looking at it.

And once attention narrows, experience follows.

If I believe I am separate, I will see a world of separate things.

If I believe I am a body, I will see other bodies.

If I believe I am vulnerable, I will see threat.

The world is not the cause. It is the mirror of everything you believe.

ACIM says it very clearly:

“Projection makes perception.”

In other words, the world is not happening to us, it is showing us what we believe we are.

And no, God, the Source, did not design this world.

Did not create fear, loss, sickness, aging, or death.

These are the natural consequences of the belief in separation, of the forgetting Who You are.

Not as punishment, not as lesson, not as judgement. Simply as effect.

Like dreaming of fire and feeling heat.

The experience follows the premise.

And if the world feels intense, dramatic, overwhelming…that is not because it is real. It is because the mind that made it is powerful. The Son of God does not create weak little fantasies. He creates fully. With emotion, detail, relationships, history, identity, meaning. Not a cardboard stage, but a fully immersive experience.

So the world is not proof of your weakness.

It is proof of your creative strength.

Which, by the way, is both impressive and slightly terrifying .

This is also why ACIM does not talk about “evolving into God”. It says something much more radical and much more comforting :

We are not evolving……we are remembering.

We are not becoming divine….we are recognising that we never stopped being so.

Or as the Course says so beautifully: The journey is but a return.

And that also answers another quiet question: why now? Why does this start to interest us at all? Why does the idea of being more than a body suddenly feel… familiar?

Because the mind gets tired. Tired of pretending…of defending…

of worrying…of maintaining a small identity in a big world.

Somewhere inside a thought arises: Is this really all there is?

That thought is not from the ego. The ego prefers certainty, even painful certainty. The thought comes from the part of the mind that never forgot. The part ACIM calls the Holy Spirit. The memory of God. The quiet Voice that does not shout, does not push, does not argue.

It waits.

And then, in its own timing, the remembering begins. Gradually, the grip on the character loosens. And you find a book, with words like:

“You are not a body. You are free.”

First you hear it… you panic… then your heart hears it… and you relax.

And suddenly the whole story looks different.

Less tragic, heavy, dramatic. But more like a child’s game of hide and seek.

Nobody is lost. Nobody is broken. Nobody is damaged.

There was only hiding…and now there is finding.

With love and light,

G.