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Lesson 163: ”There is no death. The Son of God is free.”

Reframe:  Life is continuous; freedom is inherent.

Suggested Practice:
We’re to look past death, and see the life beyond. Spend some time with this prayer:

“Our Father*, bless our eyes today. ²We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything. ³We live and move in You alone. ⁴We are not separate from Your eternal life. ⁵There is no death, for death is not Your Will. ⁶And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever. ⁷We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. ⁸Amen”. (ACIM, W-163.9:1-8)

*Father/God: an impersonal, formless, and infinite principle of pure Love. Substitute whatever term that resonates best and allows you to receive the message. The Will of God is our happiness.

Message

Today’s lesson states that we are not our bodies by exploring the idea from the perspective that there is no death. We are consciousness temporarily residing in these physical forms—sometimes for decades, sometimes for moments.

Because we are as God created us, our True Selves are infinite, and therefore cannot die. For many of us, this is a challenging concept, especially if we’ve lost people close to us.

Two exercises may help us experience the idea that we are not our bodies.

Exercise 1:  This came to me while resting one day. Sit or lie down. Place both arms across your stomach, separated but both resting on it. Close your eyes and focus on the sensation of your arms resting there. Notice your stomach moving as you breathe. Imagine your stomach is not yours—that your arms are actually resting on another person or even an animal as they breathe. Stay with this for a few minutes, allowing your arms to sense the separation.

Exercise 2: From Karla McLaren’s book Your Aura and Your Chakras. Imagine a room inside your head, with your eyes as windows that light the room. From these windows you also see the world outside. Picture a miniature version of yourself living in this room, which you can decorate as you please. From this room, you control the body you’re in. Throughout the day, try to see everything as if from behind your eyes, rather than from the eyes themselves.

For example, when you reach your arm up to grab something from a high shelf, sense your arm as outside of yourself rather than part of you. I like to think of it as being in the crown section of the Statue of Liberty—from the right-side windows, you can see the right arm reaching up.

One way to tell you’re seeing from behind your eyes: you’ll notice your nose and eyelashes are visible along with whatever is in front of you.

For me, this is a cool exercise. I feel like my miniature self—my True Self—is operating a giant robot-body. I can see the arms and legs move as I walk around. I can see the food on the fork in my right hand as my arm comes up to my mouth. It’s trippy from this perspective.

If we embrace the idea that we are not a body, then embracing the idea that there is no death becomes more of a step than a leap.

The lesson focuses largely on the illusion of death to tell us we are not our bodies, which is fine and worth reading to understand the perspective. But since the point is that we are free and not our bodies, I thought it would be more fun to play with these out-of-body exercises.

“Lesson 163…says the idea of death is so preposterous that even the insane have trouble believing it. A body…has a shelf life, but…I am not a body. I am free.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

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