Using the Body for Holy Spirit’s purpose – A Conversation with Jackie Lora Jones

Jackie Lora Jones, host of the excellent “The 24th Hour – Positive News Magazine“, video blog YouTube Channel series of the same name also hosts a radio show “True Forgiveness Teachings” series on BlogTalkRadio on occasional Tuesdays. After a hiatus of several months, we resumed our conversations about A Course In Miracles (ACIM).

Jackie converses with Bruce Rawles in this audio about how we can enlist the Holy Spirit’s help to make our bodies – which ACIM reminds us are neutral – as a means for forgiveness and kindness instead of grievances and sacrifice.

Here are a couple of references from ACIM that we read and discussed:

What is the Body? (W-pII.5)  and 

 

“Only the mind can create because spirit has already been created, and the body is a learning device for the mind. Learning devices are not lessons in themselves. Their purpose is merely to facilitate learning. The worst a faulty use of a learning device can do is to fail to facilitate learning. It has no power in itself to introduce actual learning errors. The body, if properly understood, shares the invulnerability of the Atonement to two-edged application. This is not because the body is a miracle, but because it is not inherently open to misinterpretation. The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world. Its abilities can be and frequently are over-evaluated. However, it is almost impossible to deny its existence in this world. Those who do so are engaging in a particularly unworthy form of denial. The term “unworthy” here implies only that it is not necessary to protect the mind by denying the unmindful. If one denies this unfortunate aspect of the mind’s power, one is also denying the power itself.” T-2.IV.3

Here is the description of the conversation from the related post on Jackie’s BlogTalkRadio website:

“The body is merely part of your experience in the physical world.” It is given a reality it does not have. Let’s release our fear and heal! Let’s undo the false self in 2020, so the real Self (capital S) is all that’s left. Join Jackie and her guest, Bruce Rawles, as they contrast the ego’s use for the body vs. the Holy Spirit’s. The former furthers illusion and keeps us suffering while the latter brings peace to our mind and wakes us up from our dream of separation. Cheers to experiencing more joy in 2020 and beyond!”

This reading provided a springboard to talk about a variety of themes and ideas from the non-dual metaphysics of A Course in Miracles. Jackie has conducted insightful video interviews with Gary Renard, Joe Wolfe, and numerous others. She and her sister, Cindy Lora-Renard, facilitate a class on ACIM in the Los Angeles area in addition to equally highly-regarded workshops on “The Course.”

This audio recording was made Wednesday, January 7, 2020.

Here is a prior video recording of a Jackie Lora Jones interview with Bruce Rawles.

 

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