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Happy Halloween! I’ve had visions of masks, skulls, ghosts and jack o’ lanterns dancing in my head all week.
I love Halloween – the costumes, pumpkins, skeletons, bats, the trick or treating, and the amazing parade where I live that includes the dance from “Thriller”!
It’s one of my favorite days of the year.
So I’ve been thinking about the symbolism of some of the traditions surrounding Halloween and how they apply to the thought system of A Course in Miracles.
Halloween has its origin as All Hallows Eve – the day preceding the cultural and religious holidays of Day of the Dead and All Saints/ All Souls Day. It’s said to be a time when the veil between the physical and non-physical world is thinnest, and we’re able to gather, communicate and celebrate with those who have made their transition from the world.
I love this idea, as it is about joining rather than feeling separated from our loved ones.
But if we remember that we are not bodies, we are spirit – then there is no death, not in reality. Death is only about the body – the mask that the ego made. It’s the costume we’re supposed to believe we are.
It’s like the world is one gigantic masquerade ball. We, the One Son of God, have costumed ourselves as bodies. We’ve bought into the ego’s idea that we are guilty and need to wear a mask and hide in a crazy illusion, pretending we’re something we’re not. And in this dream, our lives end with the death of the body.
Instead of being out and loud and proud that we’re the One holy Son of God, the Light of the world, perfect as an extension of the Perfect – we think our identity is the mask of the body, separate from other bodies, and separated further still by our insistence on being unique and different and special in our costumes.
What are all of the ways that you are masked and costumed?
When you say “I am a”… what are the labels you attach to form your identity? What are all your worldly personas?
Who are you without those labels, those personas?
There are also a myriad of other ways the ego pretends it is you – judgment, criticism, self-abasement, grief, depression, anxiety, needing to be right, envy, jealousy, shame, guilt, not-good-enough…
Put those ego tricks in Spirit’s bag to be transformed. Fully place your trust in Him and drop the mask. Be the uncostumed, undisguised gorgeous reflection of the Love of God that you are.
The ego is also constantly disguising itself so that we won’t recognize it for what it truly is. It masquerades as a bazillion things which will supposedly make us happy, bring us peace, fix us, heal us, love us, complete us, take away our pain and transform us into somebody better.
Yet, its dominant intention is to distract us from anything that would actually lead to us recognizing and experiencing our joy, our wholeness, our perfection, our Oneness with one another and with God.
Its game is for us to continuously “seek and do not find” – to look for contentment and fulfillment in the world – if we can just nail the right relationships, have enough money, the right healthy/beautiful/youthful body, a career we love, know our purpose, and change the world (or at least other people.)
You always have a choice as to how you allow your mind to either trick, or treat you. You have a choice each day and each moment as to whether you focus your attention on Spirit’s love or the ego’s fear.
When we present ourselves at Spirit’s door, we don’t need a mask or costume (He doesn’t see it anyway.) There are no tricks, only the treats we receive as we extend love to our bros.
The gift of true forgiveness as taught by Jesus in A Course in Miracles is the sweetest treat we ‘ve ever been given. It is the process by which we can release the masks that the ego has made for us by helping our brothers unmask themselves.
So at this Halloween time we can celebrate and revel, party and have fun, and see who our bros are behind their masks and costumes.
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On the Day of the Dead and All Saints / All Souls Day we can honor our loved ones as we acknowledge the spirits of everyone, not just those who have appeared to have left the Earth. We are all spirits – some in a body, some no longer in a body. Either way, it’s still all part of the illusion. We can be joyful as we bring ourselves back to remembering our one mind, and the real celebration of our oneness as the Son of God, forever united in the home we never left.
I see the light blazing inside that jack ‘o lantern you’re wearing.in Thanks for being at my Halloween party!
I love you.
Kelly
Kelly Russell, The Rock Your Joy Coach
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