Escape the drugged world of sleep and align ourselves with God’s will.

How you wake is the sign of how you have used sleep. To whom did you give it? Under which teacher did you place it? Whenever you wake dispiritedly, it was not given to the Holy Spirit. Only when you awaken joyously have you utilized sleep according to His purpose. You can indeed be “drugged” by sleep, if you have misused it on behalf of sickness. Sleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. Complete unconsciousness is impossible. You can rest in peace only because you are awake. T-8.IX.4:1-9

A Course in Miracles (pp. 306-307). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

So much of Jesus’ teachings in A Course Of Miracles are counter-intuitive. They don’t make sense from the thought system of the world of the ego. They do make sense from the thought system of Spirit. In this passage Jesus teaches us that sleep is withdrawal as if we are drugged and when the drug wears off our consciousness is shifted but this does not mean that we are spiritually awakened. To be spiritually awakened is to join with the Holy Spirit in the healing of the separation or what the Course calls Atonement where we experience the peace and bliss of the non dual Oneness.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which is the pursuit of awakening. This awakening involves aligning our will with God’s will for us and the many become one.

Today it is suggested that we escape the drugged world of sleep which is the denial of the non dual Oneness and align ourselves with God’s will.

What would Love have me do?

Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking. This is a pathetic way of trying not to see by rendering the faculties for seeing ineffectual. “Rest in peace” is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego’s distorted notions about what joining is. Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him. T-8.IX.3:1-8

A Course in Miracles (p. 306). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

Sleep is a way of leaving the world of the ego by withdrawing from it. It is a hiatus from hell. When we return from sleep into our conscious mind most of us are not awake in the spiritual sense. To be awakened, enlightened, is to become cosmically conscious joining the non dual Oneness with our Transcendent Source by leaving the hell of the ego, rising above it, for peace and bliss.

In Unitarian Universalism, some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which takes us beyond the world of the ego to the world of Spirit, from the world of conditional love to the world of unconditional love.

Today it is suggested that we choose to awaken to the world of Spirit and leave the world the ego behind. When we leave sleep we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us be a conduit of God’s unconditional love in the world by asking continually throughout the day, “What would love have me do?”

Which choice will I make today: conditional love or unconditional love, reality or delusion?

Wrong perception is the wish that things be as they are not. The reality of everything is totally harmless, because total harmlessness is the condition of its reality. It is also the condition of your awareness of its reality. You do not have to seek reality. It will seek you and find you when you meet its conditions. Its conditions are part of what it is. And this part only is up to you. The rest is of itself. You need do so little because your little part is so powerful that it will bring the whole to you. Accept, then, your little part, and let the whole be yours. T-8.IX.2:1-10

A Course in Miracles (p. 306). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The bumper sticker is “Reality cares nothing about your beliefs.” The Buddhists say, “It is what it is.” However, the ego wants something different from reality and tempts us to act, believing its lies, thinking that what the ego holds out can be achieved much to our eventual dismay.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. UUs, more than other believers, tend to believe in reality even though we are no better than others at finding it.

Today it is suggested that we consider that reality, unconditional love, is different from unreality, conditional love. We have a choice in which world we want to live. Which choice will I make today?

Are you a body with a soul or a soul with a body?

I said before that the Holy Spirit is the Answer. He is the Answer to everything, because He knows what the answer to everything is. The ego does not know what a real question is, although it asks an endless number. Yet you can learn this as you learn to question the value of the ego, and thus establish your ability to evaluate its questions. When the ego tempts you to sickness do not ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body, for this would merely be to accept the ego’s belief that the body is the proper aim of healing. Ask, rather, that the Holy Spirit teach you the right perception of the body, for perception alone can be distorted. Only perception can be sick, because only perception can be wrong. T-8.IX.1:1-7

A Course in Miracles (pp. 305-306). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

“Only perception can be sick, because only perception can be wrong.” Are you a soul in a body or a body with a soul? The ego answers one way and the Holy Spirit another. Which do you believe?

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This inherent worth and dignity does not come from the body but from the soul.

Today it is suggested that we reflect on the question of whether you are a body with a soul or a soul with a body. With which do you primarily identify?

Focus on health and not sickness, on holiness and not separateness, on openness and not defensiveness.

Everything used in accordance with its function as the Holy Spirit sees it cannot be sick. Everything used otherwise is. Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. Do not let it be an image of your own perception of littleness. Do not let it reflect your decision to attack. Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit, Who perceives no attack on anything. Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly. Health is the beginning of the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher Who knows what life is, being the Voice for Life Itself. T-8.VIII.9:3-10

A Course in Miracles (p. 305). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The Holy Spirit does not accept sickness. The Holy Spirit always supports health. Health is wholeness while sickness is separation, division, and defensiveness.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth. In other words UUs, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, promote healing and health.

What is truth?

 

The fourth principle of Unitarian Universalism is to join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Pilate wasn't interested. He would not have been a good UU.

Loving without judgment.

The Holy Spirit teaches you to use your body only to reach your brothers, so He can teach His message through you. This will heal them and therefore heal you. T-8.VIII.9:1-2

A Course in Miracles (p. 305). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

The body is a conduit of God’s unconditional love into the world. When we love everybody unconditionally all the time salvation of the separation has occurred on earth as it is in heaven.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to accept one another and encourage spiritual growth. This is the function of the Holy Spirit manifested in human intentions and interactions.

Today it is suggested that we love unconditionally without judgment whoever crosses our path.