The following series of posts, begun on May first, are taken
from Ken Wapnick’s, Journey Through the Workbook of a Course in Miracles,
Vol. Seven, pages 69-72. They
represent a radical alternative to our ‘normal’, everyday view of the human
body and our traditional views of spirituality.
This view is both horrifying and exhilarating. See what you think. It’s best not to swallow these ideas whole,
nor reject them out of hand. What’s best
is to chew them over, mull them and reflect upon the rare occasions when the
ideas seem to explain your experience.
The Course itself is believed to be channeled by Jesus as a correction
to what’s been done with his ideas.
The ego strategy, “therefore, culminating in the body, is to
keep itself safe – not from love, but from the decision making power of the
Son’s mind. Thus the ego wants to keep
us mindless, for if we do not know we have a mind, how can we ever change
it? And if we cannot change our minds,
we can never choose God’s Love over the ego’s hate; His Oneness over the ego’s
separation. Therefore, once we choose
the mindless body we become the body.
“This is the ego-body equation of which the early chapters
of the text [the Course is divided into three books: Text, Workbook, and
Teachers’ Manual] speak; for example: ‘the body is the ego’s home by its own
election. It is the only identification
with which the ego feels safe….’ Before
we choose the body, however, our safety is the ego’s thought system, with which
the Son of God first identifies. Thus we
are no longer Christ, not even a decision maker, but the individual selves that
have become the thought system of individuality. Once projected, this thought system becomes
the body, and we are now individual, separated, and physical selves, with no
memory that our bodily existence is a defense. We have forgotten what we split
off from – the mind; and remember only what we have split off to – the body.”
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