Miracle Voices - A Course In Miracles Podcast (ACIM) · Judy Skutch Whitson, Tam Morgan, and Matthew McCabe

Ep 156 - Releasing The Fear of Death - Adam Rizvi

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Matthew McCabe and Tam Morgan open warmly. They greet Adam Rizzi with the ease of people who have spent years in this conversation, and the tone stays intimate from the first exchange. The focus settles quickly. Adam returns to the hospital setting that anchors much of his story, and he uses it to talk about how fear of death meets ACIM practice in ordinary work. A code blue follows. He describes a young woman named Claire, the staff around her, and the hard effort to bring her back while he wrestled with what the body seemed to mean. He keeps the language plain. Rather than turning the scene into drama, he stays with the confusion of wanting to rescue the body while slowly seeing that the self he loved was never confined there. The turning point comes softly. When he remembers that Claire is not the body, he says the moment lands almost physically, as tears and a new sense of identity arrive together. The story widens from there. He connects the hospital scene to a larger realization that Claire is part of a vast ocean of light, and that death touches the body, not the self that is truly there. Her mother matters too. Adam recounts the phone call afterward and the grace he heard from the family, which deepens the episode’s sense that love was present even in the hardest part. He writes it down. In his death journal, he records the experience and then reflects on the hallway moment that followed, where he briefly saw a shimmering presence at the edge of vision. The hosts stay gentle. Matthew and Tam ask just enough to keep the story moving, letting the guest’s long, searching sentences carry the teaching without pushing for a tidy conclusion. The conversation closes in light. The book Love Does Not Know Death comes through as a wider home for the same question, and the familiar ACIM blessing about seeing only love gives the whole exchange a quiet landing that lingers.

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A hospital story that treats death as a question of identity, not an ending.

Adam Rizzi's conversation keeps circling one blunt question: what actually dies, and what does not. A hospital story gives the discussion its pressure, bringing fear, grief, and the body's limits into the same room.

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