It is still true that the body has no function of itself, because it is not an end. The ego, however, establishes it as an end because, as such, its true function is obscured. This is the purpose of everything the ego does. Its sole aim is to lose sight of the function of everything. A sick body does not make any sense. It could not make sense because sickness is not what the body is for. Sickness is meaningful only if the two basic premises on which the ego’s interpretation of the body rests are true; that the body is for attack, and that you are a body. Without these premises sickness is inconceivable. T-8.VIII.5:1-8
A Course in Miracles (pp. 303-304). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition.
From a sociological viewpoint there is a distinction between illness and sickness. Illness is a scientific fact of physical dysfunction while sickness is a social role that people enact. In other words, sickness as a social role, once we become aware of this, is a choice. The ego encourages us to be sick because of the social rewards that can be obtained. However, when one considers that we are spirit in a body and not a body with a spirit, sickness makes no sense.
In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. How can this inherent worth and dignity ever be sick?
Today it is suggested that we consider whether we identify with Spirit or with our body and the implications of this choice?
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