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Pastimes : Metaphysics and Spiritual Practices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crocodile who wrote (21)	10/27/1997 12:00:00 PM
From: Tomato	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 650

I love this fear dialogue, and I'm trying to put it in my A Course in Miracles (ACIM) context. Anyone out there try that as a spiritual discipline? ACIM teaches that there is love and there is fear, and that love is real and fear is not. It also teaches that what is considered the "real world" is in fact not real at all. So, I'm trying to figure out what ACIM would say about getting eaten by a shark... That's a tough one! (Or is that what the shark would think when it ate the guy's head?) I guess ACIM would say that since the body is not real, and since our soul never dies, that the shark didn't actually kill those poor folks. Maybe they're having a better time now than they would be having if they hadn't gotten a free ride to some other arena by the shark? We could think, "Oh, how terrible. The guy or woman with all those loving family members got taken away tragically," but for all we know he or she was ready to contract incurable cancer or die in an auto accident. Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so? Is what we are doing at this moment "real"? When we are in fear, we are worried about our physical body. Is the body real? It's transitory. If I go to a museum and look at a mummy, I often think about how inconsequential these remains are in the great scheme of things. How many people have lived on the planet? Billions, right? And this mummy at the time it was a person was probably some big Kahuna who thought he was hot shit and thought about getting material things that when I look at him or her seem ridiulous to be concerned about. Look at him now! But where is he really? That mummy thing isn't him. Hmmmm. I guess when I try to figure out these conundrums that I get a perverse sense of peace out of the realization that what people accept as reality makes no sense when you really get down and analyze it to death- so there just has to be a bigger reality somewhere (inside one's self, not outside, I think) that makes sense and puts it all together. Am I nuts, or what?