To confuse a learning device with a curriculum goal is a fundamental confusion that blocks the understanding of both. Learning must lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in it. This can be accomplished only if the mind extends to other minds, and does not arrest itself in its extension. This arrest is the cause of all illness, because only extension is the mind’s function. T-8.VII.12:5-8
A Course in Miracles (p. 300). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
The “learning device” mentioned in the above passage is the body. The curriculum goal is the Atonement which is the healing of the separation from the non dual Oneness that some people call “God.” The Atonement is accomplished when a mind extends itself to other minds and does not stop itself in extending which facilitates the Atonement. One for all and all for one. When the mind is stopped in extending itself to others, illness occurs because the mind is stopped from doing what it was created to do.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to accept one another and encourage spiritual growth.
Today it is suggested that we look for the Divine Spark in every person and focus on that, extending ourselves to the Divine Spark in others in peace and joy.
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