A Message within the Madness of a Global Pandemic

Based on the teachings of
A Course in Miracles – Original Edition
published by COURSE IN MIRACLES SOCIETY
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Thoughts are incredibly powerful. By our thoughts, we have made this entire world we seem to live in and think is real. We made this world and then act as if we were at its mercy, as if it were something outside of us, trying to hurt us or even kill us.

What if it were true that we made it up! What if this were just a Global Thought Form, designed and perpetrated by the One Mind of the All that IS. [For there is but ONE Power, whether it is used for misperception or for Right Vision — and truly “Vision sets all things right…”] In this time of pandemic and panic, it feels as though we are beginning to awaken within the dream that we made up!

For a while now we have been trying to navigate our situation by making decisions based on our own best judgment: Wear a mask! | Don’t wear a mask! Take this seriously! | Don’t give energy to this VIRUS HOAX! and the result has been chaos.

Yet the way out has been shown to us within A Course In Miracles-Original Edition [ACIM OE]:

“Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination. But vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven’s laws.

What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really understood you made it up? What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? Could you have faith in what you see if you accepted this? And would you see it?” ACIM OE Text 20.73

If we come to realize that we made up this world of separation, would we continue to “see it” or would our doubting eyes begin to offer us the opportunity to open our Mind(s) upon a different vista, one in which all things work together for good! Would we begin to see the light in the seeming darkness—the way out of our self-made nightmare? Would we see the Message within the Madness!

As our eyes begin to open upon the Real World, we begin to feel the courage within to ask for this Message. Is there a lesson for us, right there in the very heart of a Global pandemic of the Coronavirus? Can we begin to see this virus as the out-picturing and clear manifestation of the ego as defined in ACIM: A thought system thriving on fear yet needing a host to keep it alive. And are we beginning to realize that we have collectively manifested a situation, where all peoples must stay apart to rid a virus of its host, as our Divine wake-up call—A call to remember Who we truly Are!

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Yet how could this have happened? A Course in Miracles-Original Edition has taught me that this ‘world’ with all its trials and tribulations came about when, in my fear, I sought to project onto the outside world all of the fearful thoughts within me. Sin, death, isolation, pain, and sorrow—all that I saw within—was projected outward as hallucinations and…

“Hallucinations serve to meet the goal of madness. They are the means by which the outside world, projected from within, adjusts to sin and seems to witness to its reality. It still is true that nothing is without. Yet upon nothing are all projections made. For it is the projection which gives the “nothing” all the meaning that it holds. What has no meaning cannot be perceived. And meaning always looks within to find itself and then looks out.” ACIM OE Text 20.75, 76

Meaning always looks within to find itself, and there’s the key. To find the meaning (the message) in everything I experience, I will look within to the Holy Spirit which is the Love that created me and then look out to see it reflected everywhere. This is my salvation from what I thought was there.

“⁵⁴ If you send forth only the messengers the Holy Spirit gives you, wanting no messages but theirs, you will see fear no more. The world will be transformed before your sight, cleansed of all guilt and softly brushed with beauty. The world contains no fear which you laid not upon it. And none you cannot ask love’s messengers to remove from it and see it still.

The Holy Spirit has given you His messengers to send to each other and return to each with what love sees. They have been given to replace the hungry dogs of fear you sent instead. And they go forth to signify the end of fear.” ACIM OE Text 19.54

When I am troubled it is only because I have looked upon something without the Love in my heart which would show me its eternal loveliness.

I am the dreamer of the dream and I have the power, given to me in my creation, to align my will with the Will of the All that Is and then to look out upon a world redeemed.

Elder Brother, through the scribe Helen Schucman in ACIM OE, so lovingly and gently guides us to the deliverance from this horror that we ‘think’ is all about us, when He tells us:

“Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. This is the healing and the remedy. Believe them not, and they are gone. And all you need to do is recognize you did this.” ACIM OE Text 20.74

I did this, and thus, I have been suffering from what I thought was real and could not be changed? I suffered from a world that I made up and now I can choose again!

When I withdraw my belief in sin and death and look instead upon the sinlessness and eternal life of my most beautiful Soul and project that outward, I am shown a world washed in innocence. I no longer judge, but let Him Who is my Guide, lead the way.

“Let Him be judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering, and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them.” ACIM OE Lesson 151.10

All the guidance I need is within those pages:

“When anything seems to you to be a source of fear, when any situation strikes you with terror and makes your body tremble and the cold sweat of fear comes over it…Remember the holy Presence of the One given to you to be the Source of judgment. Give it to Him to judge for you, and say:

Take this from me and look upon it, judging it for me. Let me not see it as a sign of sin and death nor use it for destruction. Teach me how not to make of it an obstacle to peace, but let You use it for me to facilitate its coming.” ACIM OE Text 19.88,89

When I withdraw my belief in sin and death and look instead upon the sinlessness and eternal life of my most beautiful Soul and project that outward, I am shown a world washed in innocence. I no longer judge, but let Him Who is my Guide, lead the way.

“Let Him be judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth. He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering, and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them.” ACIM OE Lesson 151.10

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*Reverend Reja Joy Green is one of the founding members of the Course in Miracles Society [CIMS] publishers of A Course in Miracles – Original Edition; She is the CIMS webmaster, produces & distributes the Daily Lesson & Text mailing, and has facilitated the Course in Miracles study group in Omaha, NE for many years. Rev Reja Joy was ordained by Community Miracles Center and was a presenter, with her husband Chris, at the 2018 Annual ACIM International Conference in San Francisco. As a registered Yoga Instructor, Rev. Reja Joy has taught Yoga from the perspective of A Course in Miracles. She also initiated a Daily Conference Call Study Group and hosts several social media groups for those who wish to share this journey.

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