Homeric Laughter...

Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer, who perceives the dream as separate from himself and done to him. Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects. Together, we can laugh them both away, and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time. (ACIM:T-27.VIII.6)

When you take your clothes off without guilt, and you put them under your feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the son of the living one and you will not be afraid.
(Pursah's Gospel of Thomas, Logion 37)

So, a sense of humor is part of the cure, as taking things too seriously is our biggest problem a lot of the time. One dear friend and teacher constantly reminds me of this by calling me 'Harpo,' particularly when I take things too seriously. What Jesus suggests in the passage from the Course which I quoted above, is that the serious consequences and "real effects" of the "tiny, mad idea" can be dissipated by joining with him in laughter, which is the best cure for taking them seriously, for that is what our ego wants us to do. Never mind how hard we try we cannot put eternity out to pasture by pretending otherwise, nor can we fire God, or kill him off, despite all our imaginations to the contrary. That literally is a joke, a cosmic joke, a world that does not exist.