ABOUT BODY

The image that has been called this flesh and blood body is nothing of itself. This is not to say it is nothing, but to think as though this mere speck in the universe is "my" body is the most limited and limiting view I could have. The unlimited view of body is the view which admits that Godhead is being body. The body-I-am is UNIVERSE, not speck.

Should you shoot this particular body-form and grind it up in a meat grinder, you have not altered the Isness Identity being UNIVERSE-BODY. Awareness is not limited to the purview of the speck-body. If you think it is, close your eyes and see the ocean, the distant mountains, the stars - see for yourself if Awareness is contained, imprisoned or limited!

What appears as the physical dissolution of this or that form does not alter the Godhead, Absolute Reality, which includes the universe as that-which-the-Godhead-knows-itself-to-be; and it includes the knowing, the "aware

So, you can beat "me" to death if you like; all that will appear to suffer is a personal view of an ego-I-am-not; all that will appear to writhe in pain will be the most limited aspect of ego-identification which includes killer as well as killed. Awareness itself will be totally unaffected, unaltered, and still aware of an ever newer view of Isness.

THE BODY IN THE MIRROR

Without question, the one "thing" which man gives the greatest value, out of all proportion, is the "thing" he sees when he looks in the mirror.


The body in the mirror is not our Identity, any more than Macbeth is the identity of the actor playing that role. The one and only Identity is That which is being the consciousness that perceives the body in the mirror. Awareness is the action-activity of That which is being the body in the mirror, the mirror itself, the door frame, the house, the world and the entire universe, every bit included in (as) the Awareness that looks in the mirror.

Identity, then, is infinitely more than a single outline in the consciousness of images and things. As a matter of fact. Identity has no more to do with a particular body-outline than the picture hanging on the wall. The Identity-being-I is being every object of perception.

It is well we say again that the images in the mirror (and all other objects of perception) are neither real nor unreal; they are nothing in themselves. The "value," the "something," is That which is being images! The "That" is Reality, Supernal Isness, God.


WHERE? HERE!
An image of perception is what Isness knows Isness to be. The perception of images is God's awareness of being, not the personal action of another identity called Bill or Mary.

All that appears to die is an "image of perception" which "was" that which God knew Himself to be. However, God still is what He knew Himself to be - and still knows it; therefore, the "departed" is not a "was," but an "IS." John IS; Mary IS; husband IS; mother IS; son IS: right NOW, this instant!

People are perceived in one "place": Awareness, the action of God knowing God. Therefore, the place where the departed are is where they have always been - where the Awareness of Being is being aware. Awareness is HERE forevermore! Isn't it? John is HERE; Mary is HERE; husband is HERE; mother, son and daughter are here. NOW!

"But they are not tangibly here," someone says. "I cannot see them or hear them."

Let the pendulum stop swinging between life and death, past and future, value and non-value, let opinion and judgment end; then, in the still Center of Being, we find everything anew.


Tangibility is a "here and now" experience. To the personality-possessor of Life, "here" and "now" are the most limiting aspects of Infinity and Eternity. Both are included within the consciousness of being called Awareness. Awareness is our Identity, inclusive of all that is called "here" and "now." We include all there is to tangibility itself.

As we cease to think from the standpoint of our own identity as the possessor of Deity's Self-awareness (Life), and begin simply to be Deity's Self-awareness itself, we find the here- and-now experience of tangibility "expanding." It expands to RE-veal aspects of Infinity and Eternity that the limiting liar, the possessor, excluded via a process appearing to him as birth and death, beginning and end, tangible and intangible, animate and inanimate, male and female.

Not only are images that which Deity knows Deity to be, but they are the eternal KNOWING. Obviously, this knowing is going on here and now as awareness. Because we are it, there is no personal responsibility for it, nor dictatorial control over it.

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