A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition

by Helen Schucman

Yet they only seem to be together. 2For relationships to the ego mean only that bodies are together. 3It is always physical closeness that the ego demands, and it does not object where the mind goes or what it thinks, for this seems unimportant. 4For as long as the body is there to receive its sacrifice, it is content. 5To the ego the mind is private, and only the body can be shared. 6Ideas are basically of no concern except as they draw the body of another closer or let it move farther away. 7And it is in these terms that it evaluates ideas as “good” or “bad.” 8What makes another guilty and holds him through guilt is “good.” 9What releases him from guilt is “bad,” because he would no longer believe that bodies communicate, and so he would be “gone.”