From lesson 261...
"The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts. It is within this fence he thinks he lives, to die as it decays and crumbles....
If there’s a video projector sitting on the table, projecting an image of a person dancing, does the person exist?
How about as the image moves around, the projector makes it seem like the person is, what, alive? Animated? That it’s...
Since the world does not contain any real causes, and absolutely everything is an affect of the mind on a higher level, this shines some light on what happens when you are attacked or hurt.
If it seems that someone comes...
"Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return."
Recognize...
When the mind dreams, it is capable of projecting any kind of image at will. It does not require time in order for anything to "evolve" within the mind's projected images.
The mind doesn't have to wait for time to pass,...
"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use if for sin or for attack, which is the same as sin, and you will see it as sinful. Because it...
I was thinking about why we seem to have a body at all.
It occurred to me that all ego illusions are put in place as a form of level confusion. When the dream (effect) seems to have a causal ability,...
"At no single instant does the body exist at all. It is always remembered or anticipated, but never experienced just now. Only its past and future make it seem real. Time controls it entirely, for sin is never present." -...
The body is the idea of sin. It is an extension of the idea of being separate. The body cannot become sinless in and of itself, although it can be used for a holy purpose.
"The body is the ego's idol;...
(...and why a sick body means the mind has NOT been healed)
"The central lesson is always this; that what you use the body for it will become to you. Use if for sin or for attack, which is the same...
Before the physical universe came into being, there was only the Son of God and no "other".
The mind of the Son of God contained a state of guilt, which arose from the belief in the separation happening (sin).
The Son...
We have first clung to the body in an attempt to create a division between inner and outer.
The purpose of the body wasn't so much to identify yourself with the body, but to hide behind and inside of it.
Yet the...
Your whole mind is supposed to be everywhere.
The mind inside your body seems to be your conscious mind. The mind outside your body seems to be your unconscious mind.
While what is within your body seems to be different and separate...
There are two levels on which you basically can operate, and this also relates to how you perform miracles.
The first level - "level 1" - is physical - this physical universe, which includes the physical body. On this level, the...
There was a man I posted a video about recently who killed several people. This man was hallucinating that the people were trying to kill him. In his self-defense, and terror, he thought he was completely sane in ending their...
"A broken body shows the mind has not been healed. A miracle of healing proves that separation is without effect. What you would prove to him you will believe."
If you are not in the Atonement and have not FULLY FORGIVEN,...
"The body cannot create, and the belief that it can, a fundamental error, produces all physical symptoms. Physical illness represents a belief in magic. The whole distortion that made magic rests on the belief that there is a creative ability...
The purpose of sickness is to make you and the body seem to be "one".
The ultimate goal of sickness, which is "death", is the attempt to fully unite who you really are with the body, so that when the body...
"The body neither lives nor dies, because it cannot contain you who are life."
"God did not make the body, because it is destructible, and therefore not of the Kingdom."
"The body is the symbol of what you think you are. It...
Perhaps one of the greatest miracles of all performed by Jesus was simply that He made his body permanently disappear. He did not die because He was not his body at all. His body didn't lay in the tomb rotting....