IX. The Holy Instant and the Attraction of God, P 7
7 When the body ceases to attract you, and when you place no value on it as a means of getting anything, then there will be no interference in communication and your thoughts will be as free as God’s. As you let the Holy Spirit teach you how to use the body only for purposes of communication, and renounce its use for separation and attack which the ego sees in it, you will learn you have no need of a body at all. In the holy instant there are no bodies, and you experience only the attraction of God. Accepting it as undivided you join Him wholly, in an instant, for you would place no limits on your union with Him. The reality of this relationship becomes the only truth that you could ever want. All truth is here.
Journal
How do I get to the point where my thoughts are as free as God’s? The answer is to stop caring about the body at all, evidently. I would have to stop using it to get what I want and stop using it to attack. I would have to use it only to communicate. When I stop using it for separation I will learn I have no need of a body at all. So the first thing for me to do is to be certain I understand how I am misusing the body now.
For a while, I was using the body to disrupt communication. I was trying to be a good Course student when it came to politics but the best I could do was to keep my mouth shut and pretend nothing was happening. The issue with the immigrant children being taken from their parents forced me to look at my true thoughts and feelings.
I saw the outrage in my mind. I used the body to speak against, not just the policy, but the policymakers. This is using the body for separation and attack. It cost me my peace. So, I had to change my mind. I know that the only true communication is love and that was what I decided on. I still cannot agree with the policy, but I have spent several days praying for the policymakers.
I do this by knowing the truth about them, knowing that they, too, are love just as I am. I envision them being at peace and extending love as is our function. I realized that I must love and support them in every way possible, not the decisions they make in the world, but them, these very holy creations of God, my dear brothers and sisters. I support them on their inward journey to awakening.
At first, it was something I very much wanted to do because it was the right thing to do. Now I find that the love just flows out of me naturally and I bask in it as it does. It is purely a miracle. The love has nothing to do with their behaviors or words. It is like the sun, shining on them without regard to any of that. And I receive this love regardless of my current behavior.
He tells us that in the holy instant there are no bodies, and we experience only the attraction of God. Can I be without my body while still here? I think I can. As I learn to disregard the body as having any personal value to me, I believe I can have that experience. Perhaps it will be during meditation at first, a deep meditation where I lose all interest in the body, and who knows, maybe it will begin to happen at will. I wonder. Or maybe we get a reflection of this union with God while we are here. Even that would be wondrous.
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