Whereas what we would call reincarnation, changing the channel… I am going to try another
channel for a different flavor- that’s what. One time, there was a little boy, who- and he was
like 9 or 10 years old and I was visiting… and his mom was into the metaphysics and the Course and
he was sitting on a couch with me and he was, you know, they are very blunt.. You know- children, I
love how frank and blunt they are. He sat down in the corner and he just looked at me and he said:
My mom believes in re- incarnation- is it so? Very direct. And I took a remote control and I said:
Well, it’s really more like changing channels. As long as we believe we can find something in time
and space, we keep just trying another channel. And I said: Here… And I said and I threw the
remote control over to him and I said: You are an eternal spirit- all is perfect one- ness,
but you feel there might be something more, so you come and try out the dream of the world.
And I said: Turn the TV on. So, he turns it on. Now let’s … you have the capability of
switching channels. And he said: Ok and I said: Your mom would call those life- times. They
really are just like channels. They are really no different. None is- not one is different from
the rest. Let’s try it out. So, he is quite curious- he is flipping through it and I say:
Look, now you are a little girl there and dadadadada and now you are a man, now you are a
woman. You know and he would be- I would just say- he would flip the channels and your mom would say:
You are incarnating and coming into the dream, but really you are just flipping the channel- you
believe you can find something in time and space and eventually he said: Ok- you know kids get, you
know- he said: Ok, how do I get out of this, you know? You know I was like: You know, you just have
to have one last experience, where you see that you are the whole screen- you’re everything on
the screen. You are not a character- you are the entire screen- you are the whole screen,
you are the entire screen. So I said: Ok, give it one more try. And he did and it was a priest,
in a church. And I’m like: Oh, a religious figure (laughs), but remember- you are the stained glass
windows, you are the puse, you are the isle- you are everything. You now are so expansive-
you are everything on the screen. And now you can turn it off. And he turned it off. So,
there is no motive to kind of get out of the body. That would not be a good motive at all,
because as Armelle said the other day: You can’t get out of one unless you believe you are in one.
And that’s part of the mesmerism of the world to think that we have taken our spirit and shrunk
it down into a little slab of flesh and that’s a trick, that’s- how do you get a vast spirit into
a little slab of flesh and that’s a pretty good trick. But there is a sense that- once your mind
becomes so unified and so still- what Arnell was talking about- that even, Jesus would say: Our use
for words is almost over now - he says that in the Workbook. And he has a beautiful line in there,
because a lot of times we think about those, those...those that hung around for a long time,
like Mandela or Gandhi or, you know, the ones that lived to be a rightful age and they were teaching
peace for a lot of decades- and we’d be: oh, that’s really good. There is a line in the Course,
where Jesus said, Jesus says: There are those who have laid the body aside completely. And
it also goes on to say that because that is part of the greater use. There is a greater
helpfulness actually in laying the body and the world aside. And you see how that contradicts
all of the beliefs on earth. You know, it’s more heroic if you hang around and keep teaching love
and peace. But he says, there are those that have laid aside the body to increase their helpfulness.
And you see from a heaven’s perspective, it’s totally- everything is inverted. What? They
have laid aside their body to increase their helpfulness? Wow, they’ve got no lips anymore,
no, no arms to hug with.... How are they gonna? … We think of all those things that’s helpful
on earth, but in the end, we are being called to remember our true identity. And so, you see,
just that line in there gives you a little glimmer that there’s something even more helpful than
having a body. And it’s really remembering your true identity and that’s what we were called to.