Death: the ultimate illusion

Let’s stop imagining it.

Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.

Lesson 163

There is no death. The Son of God is free. (ACIM, W-163)

Death is the ultimate illusion and the father of all illusions. When we no longer perceive the breath in someone’s earthly body, we assume the person is gone forever. That’s what it seems in this space seemingly bound by three dimensions in time.

But nobody is ever really gone. God’s children don’t perish and they don’t depart. Where will they go?

When we see their breath is gone and the human body is no longer their communication device, we imagine that they are gone. We don’t have to “imagine” they are still here, we have to imagine that they’ve departed. And having imagined that they’re gone, we don’t perceive their presence.

Death is the product of imagination.

Why don’t we start imagining that we do not have to imagine death?

James Leroy Wilson writes Daily Miracles, The Daily Bible Chapter, JL Cells, and The MVP Chase. Thanks for your subscriptions and support! You may contact him for your writing, editing, and research needs: jamesleroywilson-at-gmail.com.

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