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Overcoming Death by Gary Arnold
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Overcoming Death by Gary Arnold
 ACIM has a few great things to say about death and dying. As I worked on my dad's eulogy up here in New Hampshire, I thought I'd do a quick blog to share this spiritual perspective with you.
Bill Thetford said, "A difficult concept to deal with in the Course is that when we recognize illusions for what they are we can laugh at them. Well certainly emotional crises are very real and not funny to most folks, such as death, grief, pain, starvation, and so on. How should you deal with this? The Course suggests that we forgot to laugh at the moment we first began to believe illusions were real. Perhaps one way we can find our way back to our true nature is to begin to laugh at the foolishness of many of our beliefs."
"Norman Cousins has already demonstrated the importance of laughter in the healing process. For example, in order to help anyone, whether in psychotherapy or in everyday life, I don't think we can identify with the problem. What we need to do is to identify with the Answer. Since any problem is always some form of fear, guilt or separation, our responsibility is to identify with the only Answer that works. In offering God's Love in whatever form is appropriate, we are offering the only answer that is possible withing this world."
"The Course states very clearly that "There is no death. The Son of God is free." In a sense, since we were created eternal, we literally were never born, hence we can never die. That is, within the framework of eternity, we have always existed as an extension of God's Love. I think the notion of freshly minted souls coming into this material world for a few years, and then going into the great beyond is not the lesson that the Course would teach. The Course repeatedly states that we remain as God created us; we remain as eternal aspects of spirit and have never been limited by form."
"When the body is no longer alive and animated, it simply means we no longer have a use for it. Our body has nothing to do with our being alive or dead because our body is not our true identity."
Way back in 1976, Judith Schuth talked about ACIM's view of death this way, "We are told to stop concentrating on the suffering, stop concentrating on the sacrifice, stop concentrating on the death, on the pain, on the poor, on the disease, on illness. That is not what we are. That is a mistake. But it’s a mistake that can be corrected so easily just by changing your mind. Just by agreeing that there is no death, that there is no illness, that there is no disease. We can make it happen. Now does mean that disease does not exist today, that there aren’t people who feel ill, that there isn’t famine, that there isn’t suffering? Of course, we see it as that. But it does mean, that through healing ourselves of the misperception that we are in, we can extend that healing to others and others and others and others, and it will spread, and because we are all joined by mind, there isn’t in the end one mind that can’t be affected by someone’s individual choice to change his or her perception. "
"Remember only this, you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter at all or decrease their efficacy. Don’t allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas, however, no matter what your reactions may be. Use them. Nothing more than that is required.” This is extremely important statement that is saying, this may be hard for you to grasp, at first, because we all think we’re bodies, and we act as if we are. And we’re afraid of pain and suffering and death."
"We have a glimmer, of course, and all of you in this room share with me the knowledge that we are more than body. But there are still some very powerful ideas in this book and it’s saying it very straight. So, that when the very first lesson says, what you are to do is to look around the room, for about a minute, no longer and say, “Nothing I see in this room means anything,” either way there’s resistance. What do you mean, “nothing means anything?” What it’s trying to do is to erase your past concepts of what you think something means, to prepare you for some new concepts of what you really are, so that you can use them."
"The focus should be, “There is no death, because I am alive. I live as spirit."
The Son of God is free.
Peace and Love,
Gary
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