RAJ: It is really very dangerous to your Sanity to believe that your body is an illusion. It is also dangerous to your Sanity to believe that your body is
real, but it has nothing to do with God.
What is unreal about your body is all of the conclusions you have come to about it that have not held it in the context of the Allness of God-all the fears you have about it, all of the distrust you have about it, coupled with the ego's ongoing insistence that you don't deserve unreasonable good, and that you do, for one reason or another, deserve what you're experiencing. These things are, as it says on the pack of cigarettes, dangerous to your health.
You're here at this very moment with a divine ally, rather than a hunk of flesh that really has no inclination whatsoever to cooperate with the divine Individuality you are, because it's really a physical, evolutionary process that has nothing to do with God. Your false beliefs are the illusory aspect of your experience of your body.
If you truly want to experience your health, I encourage you to walk out of here at the end of the gathering rejoicing that you are experiencing the presence of God, whose Will it is to be expressed perfectly, flawlessly, without conflict and that your body means something divine.
The Course says that all it takes is a little willingness, not a strong conviction, just a little willingness to be open to he possibility that everything exists in the context of God. And that anything about the world you are seeing, or the body you are seeing that seems not to reflect the perfection of God, is necessarily a distorted perception caused by thinking, reasoning, and coming to onclusions, all of which is based upon the belief that none of this has anything to do with God.
When you are denying God where God is, you will experience dissonance. It's that simple. But you know what? Because God is omnipotent, any denial you engage in of God means that God will win and you will win. You are bound to get well. You are bound to experience your perfection here or hereafter, because what is Real is the only thing that can endure, and because one way or the other you are going to win with God. You might as well begin to win today by not denying God right where God is, and becoming curious to see God where you didn't think God was.
If your body isn't real, how can you really expect healing? Why would you heal or make better something that doesn't exist anyway? It becomes confusing. If the man with the withered arm... Let me put it this way, if his withered arm was an illusion, why would I make it look like the other one? Why not make both of them disappear? So there was no suggestion of an illusion there. Why not make him disappear? Indeed, this line of thinking becomes very much like Connie's question, where the ego eventually proves you don't exist.
If you want to know what the truth is, and if you want to experience your health, and you want to experience harmony, and if you have any shred of hope whatsoever for experiencing peace on earth, all of you had better begin to acknowledge that the earth is God expressed, not that it and the universe are just some chance result of some physical interactions, and that somehow speckled throughout the universe are these Souls; little, bright, divine lights, sort of embedded in bits and pieces of the material world. It may not look like God, it might look like earthquakes, and it might look like horrendous fires, and it might look like floods, and on, and on, and on.
~excerpt from early conversations
What is unreal about your body is all of the conclusions you have come to about it that have not held it in the context of the Allness of God-all the fears you have about it, all of the distrust you have about it, coupled with the ego's ongoing insistence that you don't deserve unreasonable good, and that you do, for one reason or another, deserve what you're experiencing. These things are, as it says on the pack of cigarettes, dangerous to your health.
You're here at this very moment with a divine ally, rather than a hunk of flesh that really has no inclination whatsoever to cooperate with the divine Individuality you are, because it's really a physical, evolutionary process that has nothing to do with God. Your false beliefs are the illusory aspect of your experience of your body.
If you truly want to experience your health, I encourage you to walk out of here at the end of the gathering rejoicing that you are experiencing the presence of God, whose Will it is to be expressed perfectly, flawlessly, without conflict and that your body means something divine.
The Course says that all it takes is a little willingness, not a strong conviction, just a little willingness to be open to he possibility that everything exists in the context of God. And that anything about the world you are seeing, or the body you are seeing that seems not to reflect the perfection of God, is necessarily a distorted perception caused by thinking, reasoning, and coming to onclusions, all of which is based upon the belief that none of this has anything to do with God.
When you are denying God where God is, you will experience dissonance. It's that simple. But you know what? Because God is omnipotent, any denial you engage in of God means that God will win and you will win. You are bound to get well. You are bound to experience your perfection here or hereafter, because what is Real is the only thing that can endure, and because one way or the other you are going to win with God. You might as well begin to win today by not denying God right where God is, and becoming curious to see God where you didn't think God was.
If your body isn't real, how can you really expect healing? Why would you heal or make better something that doesn't exist anyway? It becomes confusing. If the man with the withered arm... Let me put it this way, if his withered arm was an illusion, why would I make it look like the other one? Why not make both of them disappear? So there was no suggestion of an illusion there. Why not make him disappear? Indeed, this line of thinking becomes very much like Connie's question, where the ego eventually proves you don't exist.
If you want to know what the truth is, and if you want to experience your health, and you want to experience harmony, and if you have any shred of hope whatsoever for experiencing peace on earth, all of you had better begin to acknowledge that the earth is God expressed, not that it and the universe are just some chance result of some physical interactions, and that somehow speckled throughout the universe are these Souls; little, bright, divine lights, sort of embedded in bits and pieces of the material world. It may not look like God, it might look like earthquakes, and it might look like horrendous fires, and it might look like floods, and on, and on, and on.
~excerpt from early conversations
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