Miracles News

July-September, 2014

Heaven or Hell, What’s Your Choice?

by Rev. Linda Wisniewski, O.M.C.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski The body is nothing but a mistaken thought. A Course in Miracles says that it was a tiny mad idea that put us in hell, a dream world of separation from God, from Love. The problem is that when that thought came into our consciousness, we forgot to laugh at how insane this idea really was. In fact, we were tempted by this voice (thought) to make up a whole world, where the body was made to hide from God, who we believed would punish us for separating from Him. And so, fear of God replaced the memory of a loving Father who created us in innocence and perfection.

Is this scenario hard to wrap our minds around? Well, Linda wants to share an experience of how this came to be.

Back in the 1990’s when the mind body holistic movement seemed to gain notice in the dream, Linda attended a workshop where one of the experiential processes had her imagine what things were like in the womb before her seeming birth. Here is what came up. While she was floating in the warm, peaceful waters of the womb and felt safe and so at peace, she thought she heard a voice say to her: “If you choose to be born into a body, your life will be hell.”

This voice(idea) that came into her consciousness was loud and powerful. She had no idea what a body was or what hell meant. However, she was tempted and curious to listen to that voice and follow it. At this point, Linda’s mind had a choice; She could be born into a body or stay in Heaven, floating in the calm peaceful waters forever. In an instant tempted by this unfamiliar voice, the mind made a decision to see what it was like to be born into a body and what that experience would be like. And so Linda was birthed into a body.

However, during this imaginary experience in the womb, Linda suddenly experienced a new feeling called fear and wasn’t sure she made the right decision. However, she went ahead with it fearfully and quickly forgot she imagined the whole thing, just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz forgot she imagined her dream world of Oz. She also forgot she made the decision to embody and that it was her choice.

Linda, in her decision, was willing to sacrifice the peace and Love of her Creator, her Holy Father, for hell just because she chose to embody and a world for that body to inhabit arose out of that decision. The voice in the womb told her that to embody would mean hell and she received what she believed from following that voice, that tiny mad idea. All this did happen in an instant in her imagination.

So, Linda embodied and like Dorothy, fell into a dream world called hell just like the voice (idea) said she would. A world filled with fear, a world filled with pain, a world filled with conflict, a world where the body ruled like a tyrant and its reward was death. Linda was so totally lost in the dream that she forgot it was a dream and she was the dreamer of the dream. Her belief that she was guilty for choosing to embody and separate from Her Creator brought her an experience of hell, a dream world of hell. She forgot it all started with a voice, an idea that arose in her powerful consciousness (mind) that said, your life will be hell if you embody.

But her loving Creator never separated from her and placed the Holy Spirit into her Mind so she would remember her way back to Him out of the hellish dream she made out of guilt.

Linda’s hell became terrifying with tremendous pain and one day in great despair she cried out, “Help me.” That was the prayer her Holy Spirit of Love was waiting to hear, the invitation to enter the dream and help Linda awaken and return to her Father’s Home in Heaven, where she was floating in peace and Love before she heard that voice.

As soon as Linda asked for help, she received it and Linda, as she learns to trust that Voice and not give into temptation of the voice that wants to keep her in this dream of hell, is gradually awakening and remembering her Home in Heaven, a state of innocence and peace. Linda is remembering as she goes into quiet and stillness what it felt like to float in the warm waters of peace and Love, what it feels like not to be limited by a body, what it feels like to float in that unlimited space of Love. It is so freeing. Now Linda consistently chooses to listen to that Voice of Love, Who is gently carrying her to her true Home. And the other voice is losing its power over her.

Thank you Holy Spirit of Love, for never abandoning me and returning me to Heaven, to the Oneness of true Creation.

Rev. Linda Wisniewski is a Pathways of Light minister living in Plymouth, Wisconsin.
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