 Yeah, it doesn't follow that that's the case of necessity once again any instant Life is available as a choice. And so the mind can make a choice for life even At an instant of seeming death of the body the mind still at that instant could make the choice for life But the death of the body as such does not automatically imply That there's going to be eternal life Yes, awakening heaven, etc. Yes, it's still an interpretation or some attempt a construct to attempt to explain things in other words It's believed of course again that that birth is real that life is in the world and constitutes You know growing and aging and having experiences and there is like a linear Life that one can look back on and even look forward to and then the death of the body is is the end of that span of life and Still the mind tries to make Make up something in a sense of to reassure itself that You know this was not the most wonderful experience here on earth or whatever that that God is waiting in as soon as I die Then I'll you know go to heaven immediately and Some will say everyone goes to heaven others will say you know Everyone is judged and someone some go to hell and some go to heaven. There's all kinds of explanations reincarnation and Other you know keep evolving until you make it back to the source and so on and so forth and lifetimes There still seem to be lifetimes of the body But ultimately it's still in a sense of justification for a mind that it doesn't have a clue of what's going on and Would like to believe you know that that it just that's how the dilemma of Conflict gets resolved you simply die the body dies and then the conflict of result But when you really follow that line of thinking out It's like if if that were something that had a resonance and a truth to it then in a sense You know why why live in this world? I mean why continue on why not put put the body to death as soon as possible if heaven Waits with the death of the body you see it's kind of a circular reasoning that that if you really start to look at it it doesn't make a lot of sense and It's you know, it's part of that just an attempt to explain things just as Mythologies throughout the ages in all cultures have attempted to explain the world have attempted to to break make some meaning out of the world and we have mess of of gods and goddesses and Greek mythology and we have mess of of multiple gods and you know in Hinduism and Even in the Bible the Adam and Eve story, you know is an attempt to explain what happened that You know Eve took a bite out of the tree of good and evil and then Adam and Eve supposedly were thrown out of the garden for participating God and That was described as the fall of man and so on and so forth and all of these myths and systems have been attempts to explain get some meaning to this world When the metaphysics we're talking about is looking into the mind and looking at the the beliefs that made up the illusion of the world without trying to find a Source or a meaning in the world Scientists looking for with their Telescopes now electronic telescopes that have super Distance range looking for the Big Bang looking for evidence of the Big Bang Still even from the scientific mythology so to speak still looking out in the world for the beginning And there is no beginning Yes, yes, and it's obviously there's a belief in the reality of it That's what that's why the search for attempting to explain it One it appears to be real the world appears to be real because of the five senses witness To the reality of it to a mind that that wishes it to be Real that wishes it to have a reality in a life of its own so the fear that we heard expressed recently by a friend that He thought perhaps he would You know His body would would be dying Soon before he had a chance to really follow this path of the course of miracles out and really awakened This doesn't hold any water Because the awakening has no relationship no bearing on The life or death of the body as it's defined that way At some level even at an unconscious level there, you know, that's where fear comes in there is a belief in the body and Then of course believing the body is is Me or is where I'm abiding or in some way is associated with who I am then Death of the body which seems to be an ending or termination, you know Is a is a very fearful idea because it in a sense it's like oh, this is the termination of me Even the the more sophisticated Metaphysical systems that that believe that there's something that survives death of the body for instance a soul That goes on when you really start to take a look at those ideas very closely, you know It's still in a sense comes back to well, what is the source of this thing that dies, you know and why Does part stay and it's part split off and go on to something else? I mean, there's still that the sense of splitting or sense of duality and In a sense from even from a deeper reincarnational perspective It's like well, it can be a stepping stone to think that that everyone Continues to go through quote lifetimes unquote or Opportunities to learn lessons and that in the end everyone returns to the source and that can be a very comforting kind of thought But the deeper one goes it in a sense. It's kind of like well these lifetimes do have a lot of them aggravation and suffering and turmoil in them and The question would come up then what what kind of God, you know holds out the prize at the end of this long perhaps journey of many lifetimes to Kind of hold out the prize of the carrot at the end and and say, you know, you've got to go through This pain and suffering, you know before you come and reach me and in a sense You saying you've got to go through a lot of painful learning before you wake up When it still connects God with the the perceptual world it's still You still have a God who who in some way is connected to this in some way then is connected to the the pain or suffering If he even in a sense knows about it, you know in a sense And is deciding, you know to stay aloof or to stay apart Until this and that then we you know get back to you know that all powerful all-knowing all-loving God, you know Who is is not tinkering and tampering with the suffering of his children No, I mean the all-loving kinds of goes out and then Yes, omnipotence kind of disappears as an attribute at that point So with the course we do have a metaphor of Of the Holy Spirit who sees the illusions in the mind, but knows they're not real but even the Holy Spirit is simply metaphorically God's Representative or the remembrance of God that God knows not form so in that sense It's not like God knows about suffering God knows what he created and only what he created and that is spirit love as a closing of our discussion of death There's a couple sentences from page 64 again in the teachers manual that are really helpful and We'll start up with the second to last paragraph And the last to be overcome will be death Of course without the idea of death. There is no world All dreams will end with this one This is salvation's final goal the end of all illusions and then From the bottom of the last paragraph and what is the end of death? Nothing but this The realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever Nothing but this But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this Well, that brings us right up to the resurrection, which is actually the next thing here in the teachers manual Let's let's start by addressing the resurrection of Jesus Usually comes to mind when the word resurrection Okay, as as we began our discussion with death saying that the common usage of the the word death involved the death of the body The resurrection of Jesus or the resurrection of Lazarus is another famous one where we're it's still talking about In a sense of body coming back to life and we've just kind of gone through that the body isn't doesn't Have birth isn't born doesn't die doesn't get sick doesn't get well Appearances to the contrary, you know to the mind that believes in this these are things all seem Like they are possible and that they do happen. They seem more than just a screen But with the resurrection of Jesus this once again was a tremendous teaching example That taken in the context of his life his teachings of you know in the third day I'll build a temple again, you know, it'll be torn down and build up again Just telling his his apostles and telling some of his followers that exactly what would happen and Then going through crucifixion being defenseless Completely in that demonstrating everything that he taught in his life But Jesus really had no belief in death and death of the body Yes, he knew that he was Spirit he knew he was at the mind level and knew that he was Spirit and that death of the body was literally nothing it was it was completely insignificant and basically our story of crucifixion and resurrection is a great teaching example of the insignificance of the body and The power of the mind in a sense a mind that has it's well aligned with the father is knows life, you know and is the manifestation of life and really the power of that example of That Jesus left through his bodily death and resurrection Has the power that it does because He did not have any belief in death Yes, it was just a demonstration to the world Obviously the world and the deceived mind believe very strongly in in the world as as being life I mean is described As my birth is described as life or the regeneration of life or whatever And it's not seen as just the projection that that there is no life on in the world or of the world It's only the mind Which is choosing with the Holy Spirit or the mind that's lined up in the right mind that experiences life so What we do is we can shift it back to the the mind level again as we did with death and the first paragraph on page 65 in the teacher's manual on The topic what is the resurrection? goes as follows Very simply The resurrection is the overcoming or surmounting of death It is a reawakening or a rebirth a change of mind about the meaning of the world It is the acceptance of the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the world's purpose the acceptance of the atonement for oneself It is the end of dreams of misery and the glad awareness of the Holy Spirit's final dream It is the rest recognition of the gifts of God It is the dream in which the body functions perfectly having no function except communication It is the lesson in which learning ends for it is