EVERY DEATH IS A SUICIDE....A SUCCUMBING TO THE DREAM. QUESTION: Im a nurse in an intensive care unit and I see a great deal of suffering. We had an instance recently where we had a patient with AIDS. He was in the last stage, and he was dying. When this guy arrested, the nurse who was taking care of the patient had blood splashed in her eye, which means that shes at risk of developing AIDS. And Im having a really hard time with that--for a lot of reasons. I just dont understand the whole situation really. I try to be fair to both people; the person whos dying, and the family whos dying, to give them every opportunity for them to get what they need. But on the other hand, fifteen or twenty people, however many people were in that room, were all exposed. And it wasnt--maybe it was their choice--one way or another. So, the amount of suffering that I see at the bedside when people die, I dont understand. ANSWER: It is very simple. Every death is a suicide. You could say, that it is a succumbing to the dream. Each one, in apparently unique ways, arrives at a point of giving up the struggle. However, it is a giving up and going under. In effect, we have been talking about giving up all morning. But not giving up and going under; not yielding to the sadness, the exhaustion, the effort that seems to be called for, in order to survive under a sense of limitation. We have been talking about giving up by yielding beyond, consciously yielding beyond, our current perceptions. You cannot understand death, because it is a misperception, and it is not there to be understood. You could say, it is there to be seen through. Indeed, where you find yourself, puts upon you a great call to be out from the center of your Being. To be the love that finds the one who is giving up, and those around him or her to be guiltless. To realize that this one is indeed--the perfect expression of God, the Christ. And that his or her current perception of himself or herself, has no substance to it. It is an urgent call for love, an urgent call for not believing the illusion. Now, you cannot see anything for anyone else. But I will tell you, that to the degree that you do not join with everyone there, in their sense of limitation which grieves them, you lighten the load. You are the leaven that leavens the whole lump. And you must ask yourself whether it is worth it to you to join with them in the miserableness of the whole thing, and be conflicted yourself, or whether it is more important to you to be the love that you are, and your best centered perspective, because that leaves you unconflicted and able to be appropriate under the circumstances. Appropriate under the circumstances may well mean, having unlimited compassion, and willingness to love and nurture the suffering sense, that they are experiencing. Because words will do no good--and lofty concepts will do no good. It is indeed, a call for being willing to be with them. But be with them from your peace. Be with them from your love. Now, this associate, (and any others who seem to have been exposed) are not bodies. They are the conscious experience of Being, which is another way of describing the Movement of God embodied. They are the Christ. Entrust them to their Divinity to the best of your ability. And do not let your imagination run away with you, with definitions of how the body works, and what the laws of the function of the body are. Because the fact is, that what is there and appearing to be a body, a material body, is the visibility and tangibility of the Movement of God. And there isnt anything material about it at all. Hold that one in the purest awareness of who they are, that you are able to. Thus you do not join with them at the level of their fear, and you do join with them at the level of what they Divinely Are, and that is what becomes strengthened. And that is what makes it easier for them to shift from their fear to their self-conscious awareness of their integrity--their inviolable integrity. You are there to be the light. And you know what? If you were a grocery store clerk, you would be there to be the light. Be the Presence of that which makes it easier for another to change his or her mind. But realize that it is not your responsibility to change it. Im going to put it very simply--you do not have access to the switch--the decision making apparatus in another. So, do not labor under the false idea that you must somehow be able to, and have the obligation to, make someone else change their mind. All you can do is make it easier for them to do it. And that is love. One last point: No matter what the name of the illness is, it is an illegitimate imposition upon a Christ. Remember that. No one, no matter what seems to have happened, deserves to be sick. It is really too easy to say, Well, you created it for yourself. If its an illegitimate imposition upon a Christ, it doesnt matter whether they created it for themselves. They need to know that it is an illegitimate imposition; that they do not have to endure, they do not have to hold to themselves, because theyre guilty of something. They wouldnt have, and none of you would create an uncomfortable situation for yourself, if you knew that you were the Christ, if you knew that you were the Sons and Daughters of God. If you did, you would know how inconsistent such an idea was--that you deserved to be punished and that you are required to act in an unloving way. Every single person who you find yourself dealing with, every single person in a room or in a ward that you might pass by, be aware that what they are experiencing is an illegitimate imposition upon a Christ. What does illegitimate mean? It means something that doesnt have a source. And if something is sourceless, it is substanceless. And if it lacks substance, it doesnt have enough of what it takes to hold it together, except the faith--the energy that one brings to it. And if you knew it was illegitimate, you would stop bringing energy to it. You would stop having faith in its ongoingness. And your changed perception, would be recognizable as healing. If those who are grieving knew better, they wouldnt grieve. But since they dont know better they do grieve, and the Father meets them right where they are. Not with what doesnt meet their need, but with what is appropriate under the circumstance. And so, meet them with love. And although you might wish that you could do much more (because theres so much more that you are aware of that you could share), if they wouldnt understand it, dont feel like a failure, because you couldnt do it. Love is the fulfilling of the law. Love is enough. And you know this, but sometimes you get tired. I mean physically tired. And it seems difficult to be clear. Sometimes the monumentalness of the things that confront you, distract you from your peace. It doesnt mean you are in the wrong place, it means that you need to nurture yourself and get your rest and get your peace. It is inappropriate for you to abandon--not you alone, I am speaking to everyone of you--it is inappropriate for you to abandon the places of stress and strife, because those places seem to be unresponsive to that which would correct it. You must be the Christ, and you must be the love where it seems least worthy of being given--Else there will be no light brought to the darkness. And you will not have the opportunity to find that the light doesnt make the darkness clearer, it proves that it isnt there. ~excerpt from ACIM Study Group with Raj/Jesus Conducted by the Northwest Foundation for ACIM nwffacim.wordpress FaceBook: https://facebook/groups/183859725130360/ Now I am present with and available to every single one of you, everyone at every moment. And so it is my intent in being with groups of people like this to make this fact known and by Pauls presence and demeanor also convey the fact that my being available doesnt require of anyone any special talent, because Paul is about as regular as anyone else on this planet and has no special talent in order to hear me. Does that clarify that for you? For those of you who are students of A Course In Miracles, I will take this opportunity to point out that my time spent with Helen Schucman was also not a special instance. And although there have been some expressions of the fact, or the idea-not the fact-the idea that everyone else cant expect the same sort of relationship with me or with Guidance that she experienced, is untrue. It is an attempt to elevate her, and to elevate the Course into a false position of religious respect, whether it is stated that way or not. All of the activities of the Northwest Foundation for A Course In Miracles are provided without charge or obligation. 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