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October - December, 2009

Overcoming Death with a Single Choice for Love

by Nouk Sanchez and Tomas Vieira

The ego thought system is geared to present us with a billion choices throughout our lives. Everyday it dishes out problems that appear to require solving or avoiding. A billion complex decisions all with one intent — to avert our awareness from the fact that at any ‘now’ moment there is always just a single choice calling to us, regardless of perceived complexity. That choice is Spirit… the choice to love and trust. Choosing Spirit first and foremost is the choice that excludes all fear-mongering by the ego.  

It appears to us (the current world consciousness), that life is full of conflict, full of opposing choices. The ego’s agenda is to confuse us by presenting a billion choices that all arise from and end in fear. And in all the ego decisions we seem to make, not one will arise from Love and end in Love, no matter how long and hard we try.

While we still keep faith with the ego we will be attracted to sickness and death. Death, to the ego, appears to grant us relief and respite from the burden of life’s incessant decision making. Death is seen as the great savior sent to rescue us from the overwhelming burden of conflicting choice. In death it seems we are no longer afflicted with the persistent sense of threat engendered by the overwhelming responsibility of making billions of choices. All these decisions, made consciously and unconsciously, entail great effort and sacrifice in either their attainment or the resistance applied to protect ourselves from change or loss.

Death is seen as escape from life’s challenges. Yet life, in truth, holds no challenges other than letting go of our addiction to death in all its forms. We overcome death in every moment with the single choice for Love. Our choice for Love is the only choice to make. In fact it is the Will of God. The pseudo choice for death is one with no real effects other than the continuation of a dream of death. Once we drop our delusional attraction to the ego (death), all that’s left, in fact all that really ever was, is the Will of God, which is unchanging and uninterrupted Love. Once we release our desire for sin, guilt and fear we drop our blocks to the awareness of Love’s Presence and we remember that we are the Will of God. With delusion and insanity gone, we recognize God’s Will and finally see it as our own! In this there is no choice… there is no conflict! All conflict we experienced was born from wishing for guilt and death in the form of an independent will apart from God… so called freedom!

With no desire for the trappings of death anymore, with no separate will running counter to the divine, death holds no lure. And in this is death overcome. Having no purpose, death falls away together with the sin, guilt and fear that appeared to give it cause.

Uncertainty of What we are, and therefore obscurity of our purpose, underlies all our fears and choices. If we are certain of What we are, we are assured too, of our only purpose which is to awaken to Love through forgiveness. The means to achieve this is brought about through the recognition and unequivocal acceptance of our eternal essence, the uninterrupted Love of God. Forgiveness restores in our awareness the Love that the ego previously obscured.

The Body is Not Your Responsibility

In every instant we choose. But if we choose independently without consulting the Holy Spirit, we will be choosing from unconscious guilt and fear — the ego.

Let’s look at the statement that “the body is illusion only.” In fact let us look at the ‘content’ of this statement rather than to allow the ego’s interpretation of it.

The body being yours or another’s, while an illusion, is not understood and accepted as illusion until one has explored the depth of the value he places on and within it. You cannot undo this illusion unless you see all the areas in which mistaken value has been placed upon the body. This means we are called to disclose all the body belief systems that we consciously or unconsciously value and trust. Specifically they include:

•  The body’s five senses. Trusting that what we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste is true.

•  Trusting the body’s desires. Believing that the pursuit of pleasure is the body’s (our) purpose; its body appetites, i.e. food, financial security, emotional security, sex, etc.

•  Trusting the body’s judgment. Believing that attack and defense are justified and that worldly cause and effect can bring about sickness and death ie. germs cause illness.

•  Believing we need to avoid. Get insurance,  protect ourselves from pain and suffering.

•  Believing that suffering is a legitimate experience, including physical and emotional suffering as an extension of this world’s ‘cause and effect’ ideas.

All these areas are illusory because, until they are raised to awareness and handed over to Holy Spirit, they are substantially governed by the ego. Therefore until we undo the ego, our underlying intent is to get our physical and emotional (ego) needs met through the body in the mistaken belief that it is who we are and houses us. The body here in this dream is seen as an end in itself. Nearly every decision we make in every moment is directed by an illusory need. We need approval. We need affection. We need money. We need sex. We need emotional security. We need excitement. We need recognition and validation. But, do we? Do we really need these things? Which self needs these things? Needing any of these things alerts us to what’s really missing here, which is the one cause of all seeming needs the body has. All our needs are met when we learn to prioritize the Peace of God first; when we set aside the ego’s illusory hierarchy of needs that act purely as a mass distraction from the one need that when met, cancels out the perception of all unfulfilled needs.

The degree to which we value the body as an end in itself is the extent that we value illusion over truth. When we switch to prioritizing Truth over illusion, the body reflects the one purpose it was gifted to fulfill; it becomes the means (and not an end in itself) by which the Holy Spirit carry’s forth His plan for awakening. The mind, and therefore the body, purified of the ego’s delusional intent, is ‘guilt-free.’ The body, being the screen upon which the ego projects its unconscious guilt (self-hatred), is free of the ego’s unrelenting attacks. The healed mind then cannot help but imprint its chief communication device (the body) with perfect health, being testimony to prioritizing Truth over illusion. Now the Holy Will of God is free to use the body to express Divine communication.

The body is illusion only. This statement cannot be truly known and experienced until you transcend the body. This comes not with denial, but with integration. You cannot transcend that which you have not yet integrated. The process of integration includes radical self-inquiry and the eventual voluntary abdication of the purpose of the body. Part of the integration process includes the discovery of untruth. Another stage of the process includes recognizing the body’s true purpose which leads to understanding the Divine value of the body; not for what it can give you but for what it can give away or share. Once this has been seen and accepted, there is no more need to deny the body’s value. You deny the body’s Divine value while you remain in resistance of it. Denial of the body’s true value is natural while your vision of the body is clouded by the ego’s guilt and fear. Until you voluntarily offer your body’s purpose along with its appetites to Spirit, you will continue to deny the body’s true value. Denial makes the error real and what you still believe is true, you cannot forgive (undo and correct).

Once the purpose of the body is relinquished to Spirit, there is no more need to deny or defend the body. In this purpose it becomes simply a conduit through which the Holy Spirit’s Will expresses Itself uninterrupted. The body itself is no longer your responsibility. Having the purpose of being a Divine conduit, all concerns about its health are also not your responsibility as these are thankfully offered to the Holy Spirit for His correction.

From the novice’s perspective, the body is indeed something to be mastered or denied. None of these approaches will work. Not until you recognize that the body is no-thing in itself will you see that You are everything. In this will your maturity reveal the nonsensical nature of previous attempts at mastery over or denial of the body. All these arise from the very fear that made the body in the first place. These must be set aside before understanding of the body’s purpose is accepted. Once acceptance has taken place all need to defend or deny fall away. There is no independent will to do either.  

Simple Exercise to Release Fear

Regardless of the degree of fear (or judgment, or need to control) you feel, this practical exercise is valuable in helping you to relinquish it. Look at your issue and ask the following questions:

1. Is this (fear, judgment, conflict, scarcity, disease, or pain) in any way a natural part of God, of absolute Love with no opposite?

2. Does God, Who is all Love, will this (fear, judgment, conflict, scarcity, pain, disease or death) for you?

3. Would Love ask for fear, judgment, conflict, scarcity, pain, disease or death?

4. How can your fear, judgment, conflict, scarcity, pain, disease or death possibly bring about Love and therefore healing?

See then that you do not want it! You must first see that you have made a judgment. Your perception of whatever is confronting you has caused you fear. This is your first step. Then, see that you made a mistake in choosing to listen to fear and it’s illusory consequences. Next, give it to Holy Spirit. Allow Him to take it from you and judge it. He will then reinterpret the situation and use it to teach you the single choice you ever need to make — that you are Love. Your last step is to accept the Atonement for yourself. You can do this by saying with sincerity: “I will accept Atonement for myself.” Read ACIM Lesson 139.

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