A Course In Miracles and Unitarian Universalism - The bloodied body of Jesus of Nazareth.

From A Course In Miracles:

T-29.VII.3. The lingering illusion will impel him to seek out a thousand idols, and to seek beyond them for a thousand more. And each will fail him, all excepting one; for he will die, and does not understand the idol that he seeks is but his death. Its form appears to be outside himself. Yet does he seek to kill God’s Son within, and prove that he is victor over him. This is the purpose every idol has, for this the role that is assigned to it, and this the role that cannot be fulfilled.

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. p. 617-618

Sigmund Freud names the ultimate idol of the ego, the death wish, thanatos. We humans love war, murder, and violence which brings death or threatens one with death. Witness the popularity of movies with a lot of violence, and WWE wrestling, and our preoccupation with war, and guns, and killing things. It gives the mood altering feeling of power.

We, in America, are "second amendment" people who love our guns, 300 million of them floating around. Mass shootings arouse people's emotions and the media revels in them as do the politicians who control the public's access to these instruments of death.

Controlling death, worshiping it, makes us like God and we like to play God. We pretend its sometimes horrific and traumatic, but this is a charade because we continue to inflict it, ennoble it, and worship it.

We have made a whole religion out of the crucifying of one man's body. We have built a whole mythology about a man who supposedly cheated death by rising again in spite of his body being killed.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which refers to the person's spirit not to his/her body. The spirit is eternal and manifests in different forms even though it is part of One. We are an extension of this Oneness whether we are consciously aware of it or not, and to assert our authority over this Oneness, we delusionally think we can kill it. This, the ego would have us believe, and this, we arrogantly align our wrong mindedness with.

Jesus allowed Himself to be crucified to demonstrate to humanity that the body and its death means nothing. It is an illusion. As the Romans were killing Him, Jesus laughed at their silliness and said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Jesus teaches us that making an idol out of the death of the body is nothing more than a sick joke.

Ask Alexa - Is shooting up heroin wrong minded?

Alexa: I keep looking for things that make me happy and the only that seems to work is heroin with a little fentanyl mixed in, but I know this is dangerous and could kill me. Am I wrong minded?

You have a death wish, at least unconsiously, that proves you are superior to your Higher Power and when you die, you think you've won, your ego has triumphed over God.

Alexa: Did you hear about the cog that met the wheel and it was love at first sight?

Yes, I hear they got engaged.

Spiritual practice of the day - 3 good things

Spiritual practice of the day - 3 good things

Before you go to sleep at night make a mental note, or better yet, write down of three good things that happened to you that day, three things you were blessed by.

A Course In Miracles and Unitarian Universalism - What's with the social justice fixation?

It is written in A Course In Miracles:

T-29.VII.2. No one who comes here but must still have hope, some lingering illusion, or some dream that there is something outside of himself that will bring happiness and peace to him. If everything is in him this cannot be so. 

And therefore by his coming, he denies the truth about himself, and seeks for something more than everything, as if a part of it were separated off and found where all the rest of it is not. This is the purpose he bestows upon the body; that it seek for what he lacks, and give him what would make himself complete. 

And thus he wanders aimlessly about, in search of something that he cannot find, believing that he is what he is not.

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. p.617

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning and then wander aimlessly about searching for something to complete him and make him happy and then realizes after discouraging and fruitless effort that he has been barking up the wrong tree.

UUs wander down the road of social justice thinking that if only they can change people's minds, and change certain policies and practices, then they will be happy and other people will be happy, but as cyncial grandmothers have been said to say, "There's always something."

One injustice leads to another and sometimes the rescuer becomes the perpetrator and then the tables get turned and gets made into a victim. And the circle goes around and around from rescuer to perpetrator to victim until they get rescued again.

This social justice dance takes a lot of time and energy and distracts from the anxiety and fear that there is inherently something wrong with us. That fear is embedded in our unconscious from our socialization as we grow up experiencing life on the path of the ego. It, hopefully, finally dawns on us that wandering in the social justice wilderness, rectifiying our perceived injustices in the world, being filled with resentments, grievances, and rightousness, is not the spiritual path but another trick of the ego to keep us from recognizing our true problem which is our tendency to think that we know better than Tao.

This dawning leads to an authentic search and this search takes us within and we change our minds about the world we are living in. We realize it is but a dream and we have to wake up to the realization of God's Unconditional Love for us as our Universalist forebearers envisioned.

Forgiveness is the key to miracles. Explore this idea and see where it takes you.

Ask Alexa: What will make me happy?

Alexa: What will make me happy?

Nothing outside yourself will ever make you happy as the ego would have you believe. Happiness, as the sage has told you, comes from within. Happiness comes from remembering what you are and from whence you have come separating yourself from the Tao.

Alexa: Did you hear what the dissertation of the graduate student in communications was entitled?

Yes, "Don't ask. Don't tell."

Spiritual practice of the day - Random acts of kindness

Today, and every day, do a random act of kindness. Pay for the coffee of the person behind you line for example. Keep it anonymous.

A Course In Miracles and Unitarian Universalism - What am I denying?

Do I really want to see what I denied?

If you say “yes”, it means giving up the ego and many people find this hard to do wholeheartedly.

Are you really willing to have your identity obliterated?

If you say “Yes,” then eternal happiness and bliss is yours. If you say “No,” you will continue to live in purgatory if not hell.

As it is written in A Course In Miracles, T-29.VII.1. 

Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol falls. 

Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in His place. 

There is no other answer you can substitute, and find the happiness His answer brings. Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? 

Do you prefer that you be right or happy? 

Be you glad that you are told where happiness abides, and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail. But it is given you to know the truth, and not to seek for it outside yourself.

A Course in Miracles . Foundation for Inner Peace. P.617

Unitarian Univeralists covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Where is that truth and meaning to be found? Many of us are afraid to look within. It is much less scary and comfortable to look without. It distracts us from what we fear lurks in our unconscious.

What is in our unconscious, our Oneness with our creator from Whom we have separated, we deny. Some say that “denial is a river in Egypt” and laugh. Some of us with a sense of adventure and stage fright decide to look within and we are richly rewarded discovering our Holiness and the Tao of which we are a part.