“WHAT IS DEATH?”

It has been claimed that one can never look directly at the sun nor at one’s own death. And yet, throughout your history of mankind, both have been the enduring themes of myth and religion, science and magic, curiosity and fear. At this point in time we find that as the sun is understood as being the source of life in the natural order of your world, so death is becoming recognized as the central dynamism underlying the life, vitality, and structure of the social order in which you find yourself.

Death is the muse of your religions, philosophies, political ideologies, arts and medical technologies. It sells newspapers and insurance policies, invigorates the plots of  television programs, and — judging from your dependency on fossil fuels — even powers your industries. It is the barometer by which society measures the adequacy of social life, such as when you compare cross-cultural death and life expectancy rates to gauge social progress, compare national homicide rates to infer the stability of social structures, or compare death rates of different social groups to ascertain social inequalities. 

In fact, perhaps the very first evidence of sapien’s humanity is based on funerary evidence: the discovery of the remains of a middle-aged Neanderthal, whose deformity and yet relative longevity indicate that he had probably been supported by others, and who was buried in a fetal position and covered with flowers. Long live death...

Who is it that tells you that all you can look forward to in your struggle to survive is to get old, decrepit and eventually to die. Then to be laid in the ground to become worm fodder, or fed into a giant oven and reduced to ash to be scattered to the winds. And underlying this inevitable fate is the fear of what becomes of your "soul". Will it go to Heaven as you understand it or sent to a hell of your own making. Or maybe you get to repeat this same cycle of birth, ageing and death over and over and over....

Into this insane belief comes a voice giving you direct instruction to the method by which you can escape your own march to death. This voice has been there all along, whispering your name, calling you to listen and hear a different song. A song with words to heal and make happy. A song to an ultimate alternative to the one you have mapped out for yourself.

This voice, is the voice of Jesus given to you through his message contained within A Course In Miracles. A message of direct communication with your source, the Creator of all Being. 

Following is a transcript from a talk given by a Master Teacher of A Course in Miracles. It is taken from a video titled “The Great Reversal  Shining Through — Everything you wanted to know About Death But were too afraid to ask.” This is Episode VIII in the Mission Possible Series.

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