Gary R. Renard - Love Has Forgotten No One: The Answer to Life

Praise for Love Has Forgotten No One

No, I wont give away any details here and spoil your reading fun. As with the earlier books, its not even those little personal details that make it an exciting read. They are just glitter. So, if not for the news items, why are we eager for more? The truth, for his growing body of steady readers, is that Gary has agreed to share his life with us, warts and all, and enables us to learn A Course in Miracles with him, in a fun and intense way, always going deeper and deeper into its experiential implications. The comedy of his life invites us to increasingly realize what the Course is actually saying.

Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen, author of Closing the Circle: Pursahs Gospel of Thomas and A Course in Miracles

Love Has Forgotten No One is not really a bookrather, its a portal, a transport system, a rearranging of the mind. When youve finished reading it, I believe youll be closer to knowing your True Nature. All that, and Garys funny, too!

H. Ronald Hulnick, Ph.D., President, University of Santa Monica; co-author with Mary R. Hulnick, Ph.D., of Loyalty to Your Soul: The Heart of Spiritual Psychology

ALSO BY GARY R. RENARD

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE UNIVERSE:
Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness

YOUR IMMORTAL REALITY:
How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death

ENLIGHTENMENT CARDS:
Thoughts from The Disappearance of the Universe (a 72-card deck)

All of the above are available at your local bookstore, or may be ordered by visiting:

Hay House USA: www.hayhouse.com

Hay House Australia: www.hayhouse.com.au

Hay House UK: www.hayhouse.co.uk

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Copyright 2013 by Gary R. Renard

Published in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover design: Amy Rose Grigoriou Interior design: Riann Bender

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Renard, Gary R.
Love has forgotten no one : the answer to life / Gary R. Renard. -- 1st edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-4019-1723-4 (alk. paper)
1. Course in Miracles. 2. Spiritual life. 3. Spirituality. I. Title.
BP605.C68R475 2013
299.93--dc23

2013010969

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-1723-4
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4019-2369-3

For Karen L. Renard
Thank you for helping me through life.

T his is a book about spirituality, real spirituality, not what has been passing for spirituality in the pop media over the last two decades. Spirituality has become totally confused with the self-help movement. By the time you finish this book, youll not only know the difference between the two, but youll also know why only one of them will ever make you happy.

Theres a difference between a spirituality that will save you a lot of time and spiritualities that wont. Those that save you time will introduce you to the idea of undoing the ego and show you how to do it. The ego is something that great teachings, such as Buddhism and the spiritual masterpiece A Course in Miracles, define in detail and also describe in strikingly similar ways. In fact, youll find that there are more similarities between Buddhism and A Course in Miracles than there are between Christianity and A Course in Miracles, even though the Course uses Christian terminology to speak to a Western audience.

Without going into the distinctions and applications that are necessary to undo the ego, which will come later, lets say for now that the ego is the idea and experience that somehow we have separated ourselves from our Source; that theres this thing that has taken on a personal existence, an identity of its own, that is not one with its source, and we believe it is real. The focus of accelerated spiritual discipline is to undo this ego, which is based on the idea of separation.

If you undid the false you, which is the ego, then the real you would be all thats left. You dont have to struggle to be the real you. You do not have to evolve. The real you is already perfect. What needs to be done is to remove the barriers to the experience and the expression of that perfection. Incidentally, that perfection has nothing to do with anything in this world, but something that is not of this world.

There are people, including obviously brilliant and revered scientists, who will teach you that you should make friends with your ego. Thats cute. The only problem is that your ego is not interested in being your friend. Your ego wants to kill you. As A Course in Miracleswhich was dictated by Jesus (who is referred to in this book as J) to research psychologist Helen Schucmanputs it: The ego is, therefore, particularly likely to attack you when you react lovingly, because it has evaluated you as unloving and you are going against its judgment. The ego will attack your motives as soon as they become clearly out of accord with its perception of you. This is when it will shift abruptly from suspiciousness to viciousness, since its uncertainty is increased.

This is not a book about trying to make spiritual what cannot be made spiritual. Its a book about going home to spirit. Its about reality. That reality is love, but certainly not love in the way in which the world traditionally thinks of it. This is a love that cannot be explained, only experienced. Its the goal that the great mystics throughout history have wisely pointed us toward, but knew it could not be described. Still, its possible to experience this reality even while we appear to be here as bodies. We are not bodies, but it does look and feel like we are. Its not my purpose to deny people their experience that they are bodies. Its simply my purpose to demonstrate that this is a