Vision without eyes

Lesson 42 of A Course in Miracles

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.

God is my strength. Vision is His gift. (ACIM, W-42)

At this point in the workbook, I’m also reading Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. In the first chapter Jaynes argues that consciousness isn’t located anywhere, or at least we can’t prove where it’s located. He mentioned that a friend once regained consciousness from the ceiling of his hospital room where he saw his body covered in bandages.

That is, Jaynes’s friend could see, but not because of his eyes, and not even from the perspective of his own body.

Similar stories, often called “near-death experiences” might be familiar to you.

Perhaps this consciousness, which includes the ability to see apart from our bodies, is God.

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