According to the Course, ‘ultimately’ there is no reincarnation. Reincarnation is a time-bound concept, and time says the Course is a vast illusion. We could say that reincarnation is true in time i.e., within the dream. However, seeing how there is no time, there is no reincarnation. Still, another way to say this is that the separation is a system of thought real enough in time, though not in eternity. (T-3.VIII.3:2) Or, we could say that time and eternity are incompatible. Ultimately, ‘you are not a body’ as all bodies disappear in time. Likewise, ultimately there is no world as the world, too, will disappear in time. Ultimately, only Heaven is real, and Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect Oneness, (T-8.VI.1:5). In the meantime, as long as we are embodied, we must make our way through this world, this dream, this ‘seeming reality,’ until Spirit simply can’t hold on to the body anymore and finally says, “Enough!” A friend recently said to me. “I don’t want to come back here again.” And I agree with her. The level of the illusion in this world is still very high and despite an expansion in consciousness, the ego still dominates within the dream. This “is” an insane world, and do not underestimate the extent of its insanity. T-14.I.2:6 Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return and we are all already home if you can see it. In the meantime, ‘the dreaming of the world’ seems very real, and we must, with some facility, learn how to live within this dream without letting its nightmarish elements overwhelm us. If you have a lucid dream, it means, it is as though you are awake within the dream. Being awake within the dream means we can have some control over the dream without being subject to its frightening dimensions. The good news of the Course is that we do not have to die to know Heaven. All we need to do is to wake up and see that Heaven is already here. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, we never left home. Projection makes perception and there is a positive dimension to projection called creation – which means the extension of love and there is nothing that makes us happier than extending love.