For the hell of it?

Between Yes and No, Heaven and Earth with Albert Camus on a Spring Morning

Quoted extract//:

What images of death do we live with?
Or, to put it another way, if you believe in life after death, what image of heaven do you entertain? Not what do you think heaven is, but what do you desire it to be? If you object and say you don’t believe in life after death, the question is still valid. For we are, of course , here playing a game of the imagination. You need only make believe, for the hell of it, that there is life after death. Or life before.
What would you like it to be? Imagine. What would you like this life to be? Maybe that’s the real question. //

To turn the phrase above around...

You need only make believe, for the hell of it, that there is death after life. Or non-existence  before.

Reacting AS IF something is true - makes it real for you.

And so believe that you are in possession of a separate, limited, personally autonomous life - defended against inevitable loss and death.

But what if - running off with a false or mistaken identity or 'inherited effect', we are defending an illusion of a life alone and apart from the inevitable Truth of One without a second? Be that unified, unconflicted and whole. Be that timeless, always and already Fact.

The ability of the mind to create is also the ability of the mind to limit in division - as a negative creation - which is of course a contradiction in terms.

A mind predicated upon self-contradiction is a mind serving two masters - of mutually exclusive purpose that effectively cancels out in vacillations of confused reversal.

A Course in Miracles offers a framework of understanding for the willingness and recognition of formless beauty now. This is hidden by the mind of vengeance and the nurture of grievance in destructive sympathies of a worship of pain and death - as if separation is salvation for a life saved from a terrifying or overwhelming love - and so of course seen not as love and freedom but as fear and sacrifice in suffering and death - while fear and sacrifice in suffering and death are held to be love and freedom.

“Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health,  Lawyers destroy justice,  Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom,  Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality".                     Michael Ellner

JOY opens and shares or radiates the quality of wholeness of being - but the attempt to possess and control it, enslaves, kills and substitutes a fake 'reality'. Instead of guilt and sin - bring curiosity and willingness. Be a s a little child - Ask and listen in faith instead of fighting the elements of a fake reality that are of course your own denial.

When we attempt to judge by make believe we CAN and have - and act as if it is true - we reject, override and deny the reality of Wholeness - in specific patterns of association. We may not feel (experience) ourself victimiser - but the denied experiences lack of love and light and acceptance - or a separated sense of disconnect in fear of 'non-existence' - and the eliciting of the NEED for light that meets denial or blanking under unseeing rationalisations or preoccupied and engaged non listening - and so becomes negatively polarised in hate of the 'life' it is given' the giver of such a life and by the fantasy of vengeance or self-vindication over YOU.

You are BOTH! But the mind of judgement of good and evil is a mind of conflict and division and not the Mind of Creation through extension of wholeness to a recognition of truth and beauty.

Truth and deceit are NOT at war  but are both in your mind as voices telling you who you are - and so you are at war with yourself under a deceit - and see a world through the lens or mind of war and deceit - as a means of power and protection (from the truth of a love made fearful by deceit).

Hate is not righteous or loving no matter how cunningly toxic debt is packaged into complex themes of 'self-interest'. But until a true account is owned - your investment is given all the power of your protection.