BRAIN
KEYS – T28f/33=TEXT pages 28&29 in 1st edition – page 33 in 2nd edition. W=Workbook. M=Teachers Manual. SOP=A Song of Prayer. PPP=Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice.
The world
you see is the delusional system of those made mad by guilt. Look carefully at
this world, and you will realize that this is so. For this world is the symbol
of punishment, and all the laws that seem to govern it are the laws of death.
Children are born into it through pain and in pain. Their growth is attended by
suffering, and they learn of sorrow and separation and death. Their minds seem
to be trapped in their brain, and its powers to decline if their bodies are
hurt. They seem to love, yet they desert and are deserted. They appear to lose
what they love, perhaps the most insane belief of all. And their bodies wither
and gasp and are laid in the ground, and are no more. Not one of them but has
thought that God is cruel. T220/236
Reason would tell you that the world you see through eyes that are not yours must make no sense to you. To whom would seeing such as this send back its messages? Surely not you, whose sight is wholly independent of the eyes that look upon the world. If this is not your vision, what can it show to you? The brain cannot interpret what your vision sees. This you would understand. The brain interprets to the body, of which it is a part. But what it says you cannot understand. Yet you have listened to it. And long and hard you tried to understand its messages. T436/468
You do not
think of light in terms of strength, and darkness in terms of weakness. That is
because your idea of what seeing means is tied up with the body and its eyes and
brain. Thus you believe that you can change what you see by putting little bits
of glass before your eyes. This is among the many magical beliefs that come from
the conviction you are a body, and the body's eyes can see.
You also believe the body's brain can think. If you but understood the nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insane idea. It is as if you thought you held the match that lights the sun and gives it all its warmth; or that you held the world within your hand, securely bound until you let it go. Yet this is no more foolish than to believe the body's eyes can see; the brain can think. W157/159