Lesson 163; “There is no death. The Son of God is free.”
This lesson says, “Death may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust, concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be other than you are not may come to tempt you.”
Death is something that we have tendency to give focus to. When we believe in the things mentioned here in this sentence and we think they are really present enough in our minds, they bother us.
No one likes these kinds of feelings but at the same time we tend to worship them instead of throwing them out of our minds because they seem so familiar in the ego’s repertoire.
Just remember that death takes all kinds of different forms because the ego loves this kind of drama, and thus, lets this stuff slide right into the center of our hearts.
Even though we tend to assume on one level that we don’t like this stuff that the Course has just associated with death, and yet we carry on in letting it stay there because we love and are addicted to the roller coaster of the ego’s shady path.
These distressful emotional states come easily when we forget about God.
The Course says that we want to just not allow these insane and disturbing thoughts to be in our minds and reverberating in our consciousness. Because this disturbs our peace of mind and lightness is sure out the window then.
The Course reminds us that death is something that we may pay close attention to because the ego is traditionally petrified of death and then either tries to overly focus on it or avoid it all together in reaction to managing our fear about death.