JCIM, CH8: THE JOURNEY BACK, Healing as Corrected Perception
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“Rest in peace” is a blessing for the living, not
the dead, because rest comes from WAKING, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are ILLUSIONS
of joining, taking on the ego’s distortions about what joining means if you are sleeping under its guidance. Yet the Holy Spirit, too,
has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of WAKING, if you will let Him.
How you wake is the sign of how you have used sleep. To whom did you give it? Under which teacher did you place it?
Whenever you wake dispiritedly, it was NOT of the Holy Spirit. ONLY when you awaken joyously have you utilized sleep
according to the Holy Spirit’s purpose. You can indeed be “drugged by sleep,” but this is always because you have MISUSED
it on behalf of sickness. Sleep is no more a form of death than death is a form of unconsciousness. UNCONSCIOUSNESS IS
IMPOSSIBLE. You can rest in peace only BECAUSE you are awake.
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God is Love, and therefore so am I. What is not of God, has no power to do anything. - ACIM Sparkly Edition.
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