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How to Use the Body While You Think It’s You

How to Use the Body While You Think It’s You was originally a workshop which I gave at  the “Who Are You Really?” Course in Miracles conference in Cleveland, Ohio in 2012. Little by little, it has grown into a library of articles, essays, video, a Facebook page and other stuff (as it keeps growing). The topics (see list below) include how to use the body to practice forgiveness, facing fears about death, not having to have perfect body health to spiritually awaken, how falling apart can be the best thing you can do, and more. Here are some tantalizing...

Lesson 270 – I will not use the body’s eyes today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary) If I do not use the body’s eyes today, all that is left is the Everything of Nothing.  A forgiven world is a world washed clean by my Father, and His Vision sees only Love and Light.  The formless beauty of ever-expanding Love is pristine and exquisite, priceless and timeless.  The Word is No Word and words are nowhere to be found at the entrance to Heaven’s Gate. LESSON 270 I will not use the body’s eyes today. Father, Christ’s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to translate all that the...

Lesson 30: God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

Ken Wapnick used to say that this lesson is not about pantheism. According to Google, “Pantheism is the belief that God and the universe are the same things rather than separate things. In other words, ‘God is all, and all is God. ‘ The term pantheism was developed in the eighteenth century from the Greek roots pan, meaning all, and theos, meaning God.” As we join with the Holy Spirit, we rise above the battleground of earth world, and see from an exalted perspective, which A Course in Miracles calls “vision”. Lesson 30 introduces us to a new kind of...

Lesson 12: I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

Speaking for myself, I feel afraid seeing a meaningless world because that means random violence, cruelty and chaos to me. But what Jesus is telling us is that the world only has the meaning we assign to it. The ego set the world up to embody and symbolize separation from God. The world, in and of itself, is a neutral thing. When used by the Holy Spirit, the world symbolizes Union and reflects God’s Love. Lesson 12 gives us a “correction for a major perceptual distortion.” We have believed, unconsciously, what the ego has told us about the world. Jesus...

Most people use the word “love” too freely

A Course in Miracles states in the introduction to the text that it aims “at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance.” Last class, I invited you to experience love, in your body, and energetically. Most people use the word “love” too freely, not connecting with an actual experience. As Course students, it is essential to be honest with ourselves and with Spirit. If you have been saying, “I love you” to people without actually connecting with loving feelings and sensations, how are you going to recognize the Love that is within you?...

Lesson 207 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary) I have the sense of the body being a covering which can be snapped away, like an old-fashioned convertible car top.  The unsnapping is heavy and somewhat unwieldy, but once done, all pain stays with the snapped off part … and I am detached and can observe body sorrow and pain without participating in it, knowing it is not really part of me or anyone else.  God’s blessing of Completion and Peace is what is Real.  What happiness!  Unsnap the top 🙂 LESSON 207 I am not a body. I am free. For I am...

Lesson 206 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary) Falling asleep with God in my mind, sleeping with God in my dreams, awakening with God in my dawn.  Last night I dream I open my eyes and I am on a magic carpet so high in the sky it is just below the doorway to Heaven.  There is a Friend on the carpet who tells me to open my eyes and what I see is the world, the entire world, spread out below me in exquisite beauty. At first I am afraid and feel dizzy, an actual vortex of vertigo.  The Friend understands when...

Lesson 203 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary) My name is not Amy.  God’s Name is not God.  Amy is within God.  The brain cannot contain the Infinite-Eternal because its nature is to split and separate, name and claim.  And “Problems that have no meaning cannot be resolved within the framework they are set.” (W-96)  But dreaming of personhood is not a problem unless believed in and taken seriously.  Now the present memory is restored:  I am not a body, I am free, for I am still as God created me: Spirit-Ineffable-Unlimited … happy, soaring. LESSON 203 I am not a body. I...

Lesson 199 – I am not a body. I am free.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary) I feel the Holy Spirit inflating within me, like a balloon being filled with helium.  As my identification with Spirit increases, an irritable sensation erupts along the periphery of my body.  How easy it is to identify the ego rearing its angry head.  “Don’t forget about me!” it demands.  But now I know, better than ever, that I cannot forget something which does not exist.  The ego is a forgetting device–dissociation and denial are its favorites tools for forgetting what we really are.  Say not “no” to God and All is revealed.  I am not...

Lesson 187 – I bless the world because I bless myself.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary) True perception is experiencing that giving is receiving and living by that truth.  If I accept the idea of salvation for myself, the idea of salvation is strengthened within me, my conviction increases and my ability to share salvation=forgiveness becomes natural.  And is my store increased 🙂 When I bless myself I accept God’s grace and I become incapable of not blessing the world!  In this moment this feels like a gentle mighty Pulse expanding and slightly contracting within me (like an inhale which produces a long generous exhale of Love), and then ebbing and...