It is an attack thought it asserts that I am a victim of the world. On rare occasions, I have caught the thought of actually wanting to be sick. I acknowledge the presence of this thought in myself. It is this quick forgetting of the part you play in making your ‘reality’ that makes defenses seem to be beyond your own control… Your not remembering is but the sign that this decision still remains in force… Defenses must make facts unrecognisable. Forgetting renders our decisions beyond correction. But we have forgotten that we have done all this to ourselves. We may even believe we deserve to be sick because we are bad and are due punishment. We think that we are the victims of what the body does to us. You suffer pain because the body does, and in this pain are you made one with it…and the strange, haunting thought that you might be something beyond this little pile of dust silenced and stilled. proves the body is not separate from you, and so you must be separate from the truth. The preoccupation with symptoms and our attempts to be healed keep our attention fixed on the body and away from our minds – where we could make a different choice. The ego uses the sickness that it has deliberately, but unconsciously, made to keep away the truth that threatens it. It is a choice you make, a plan you lay, when for an instant truth arises in your own deluded mind… Now are you sick, that truth may go away and threaten your establishments no more. It is not a thing that happens to you, quite unsought, which makes you weak and brings you suffering. This attack is the symptom of a sick mind, and sick minds produce sick bodies. This belief is an attack on the truth: that we remain as we were created by God, pure spirit and pure love, like Him.
We could say that we are attempting to do with the body what cannot be done: using it to be our identity. The Course says: ‘ Sickness is a defense against the truth.’ (W 257) Illness stems from body identification. Bodies, therefore, do not do anything independently of mind, which is the only creative force. The body is merely a concept or idea in the mind. A Course in Miracles, however, says that everything, including the body, exists in the mind. Where is your mind? And where is your body? We think our bodies exist in the world and that our minds are located somewhere inside our bodies, specifically in our brains.
Holliday Four Essays on A Course in Miracles ~ Ian Patrick
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