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117. Do you have power over what happens, including death?

Wednesday, Dec 31, 2025 2991 words 13 mins 17 secs

Is there a power OTHER than the mind that can cause things to happen to us? What causes sickness? What makes death happen? Do we actually have any control over this world? Do we have a power, to such...

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116. The proper healing of the body

Tuesday, Dec 30, 2025 617 words 2 mins 44 secs

"Defend the body and you have attacked your mind. For you have seen in it the faults, the weaknesses, the limits and the lacks from which you think the body must be saved. You will not see the mind...

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115. The body can be re-purposed to cause healing in others

Monday, Dec 29, 2025 1819 words 8 mins 5 secs

Think of the physical body as having a purpose. It has a purpose, because it has a USE, because it has a USER. It is being used FOR something, other than the body in and of itself - because...

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114. Who is responsible for causing death to happen?

Friday, Dec 26, 2025 1509 words 6 mins 42 secs1 comments

It's a matter of responsibility. Is death of the body caused solely by your mind and is your mind solely responsible for whether or not it happens? Do you actually have the freedom NOT TO DIE if you so...

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113. How to actually heal another’s mind

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 720 words 3 mins 12 secs

Healing requires that we see the other person as already perfect, completely equal to our perfect self. We must START there and STRENGTHEN their perfection in THEIR mind by seeing it FOR them.

If we start with “you are...

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112. Miracle healing doesn’t tackle sickness, it affirms life

Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 858 words 3 mins 48 secs

I think one of the things that blocks us from healing others, is that we become deceived by their appearances. We look at the body and think that’s the person. We see signs of sickness. We see the person’s...

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111. Everyone's trying to be a victim

Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 1147 words 5 mins 5 secs

If you are not being absolutely immortal, then you are trying to be a victim. Victims are not just those who seem to be overtly attacked by another. Victims are those who believe they can be CHANGED AT ALL...

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110. Ending the fear of death

Monday, Oct 27, 2025 1590 words 7 mins 3 secs

The things of this world change. Change is impermanence. Change is mortality. Change is death.

If you associate your self with being one of these things, you are forced to have to believe that you are something that can...

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109. Your insane mind does not want God

Thursday, Oct 23, 2025 1296 words 5 mins 45 secs

The separation from God, we did a big switcheroo. We swapped everything true for everything false, and vice versa. That makes our mind insane, because it means we no longer recognize what anything actually is.

To our insane mind,...

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108. Your suffering might be helping you wake up

Tuesday, Aug 12, 2025 1413 words 6 mins 16 secs

Sometimes, although we don't want anyone to suffer, and God does not will anyone suffer, ... .sometimes someone going through a "thing", a hardship, a suffering, is actually consentual and beneficial to the person.

There can be a great compulsion...

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107. Trust the Holy Spirit with your life!

Tuesday, Aug 12, 2025 1312 words 5 mins 49 secs

Would you trust life or death decisions to the Holy Spirit? And if not, why not?

We are ego-identified idiots here. We don't know what we're doing, what's right, what's in anyone's best interests, or how to judge anything....

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106. Do not be deceived that body states are true

Saturday, Jul 26, 2025 569 words 2 mins 31 secs

What seems to happen to the body, does not happen to the soul. The son of God is utterly unchanged and unaffected, even by physical death.

If we look to the body and see what the mind has mistakenly...

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105. Multiple personalities change their bodies

Sunday, Mar 23, 2025 507 words 2 mins 15 secs

When considering whether this world is really a fixed objective reality, and whether your mind has any power over anything, it's worth considering the case of people with multiple personality disorders.

97% of people with multiple personalities develop it...

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104. Trials are but lessons

Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025 582 words 2 mins 35 secs

"Trials are but lessons which you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain which what you chose before has brought...

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103. Those who are sick do not want healing

Thursday, Mar 06, 2025 1181 words 5 mins 14 secs

This may sound like a sweeping generalisation but it is true. It applies to EVERYONE. EVERY sick person has REJECTED health, love and God. They do NOT want healing.

"All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of...

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102. All you need is God

Monday, Oct 07, 2024 1582 words 7 mins 1 secs

There really is only one problem in all the universe, and it's the sense of God's absence. The separation from God. Fix this one problem and everything is perfect.

"Separation from God is the only lack he really needs...

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101. There is no difference between life and death in bodies

Wednesday, Jul 31, 2024 2367 words 10 mins 31 secs

The physical world is a world of forms, and forms are blinding and deceptive. All objects appear to be set apart by their differences, and claim they exclude the rest. Exclusion is separation, and all objects are at war.

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100. Dealing with grief and loss

Saturday, Jul 13, 2024 2101 words 9 mins 20 secs

All sense of loss arises from believing that a changing world is real. If it is real, and if something goes away, a part of reality has been lost. If it is real, there has been a real separation. And...

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99. Guilt is projected through anger to make sickness

Sunday, Jul 07, 2024 426 words 1 mins 53 secs

Guilt holds the potential for sickness, but projection of that guilt through anger, as an attack, is what produces the sickness in the body. "Sickness is anger taken out upon the body."

"Sickness ... is but another form of...

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98. Stop fighting against death if you want to undo it

Friday, Jun 28, 2024 2225 words 9 mins 53 secs

"God made not death. Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. This the stand we take today. And it is given us to look past death and see the life beyond."

You can say that death is bad,...

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