Is Healing Certain?

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Healing is always certain. It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates illusions have no value. The teacher of God has seen the correction of his errors in the mind of the patient, recognizing it for what it is. Having accepted the Atonement (At one-ment) for himself, he has also accepted it for the patient.

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The Function of the Teacher of God

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If the patient must change his mind in order to be healed, what does the teacher of God do? Can he change the patient’s mind for him? Certainly not. For those already willing to change their minds he has no function except to rejoice with them, for they have become teachers of God with him. 

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The Shift in Perception

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Jesus talks about Healing, and to me healing means the recognition of the truth of what you are. Jesus says  Healing must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness of sickness is recognized. And I see sickness as the belief in separation and sin. So Healing  must occur in exact proportion to which the valuelessness of separation is recognized. One need but say, “There is no gain at all to me in this” and he is healed. But to say this, one first must recognize certain facts. First, it is obvious that decisions are of the mind, not of the body.  If the belief in separation/sickness is but a faulty problem-solving approach, it is a decision. And if it is a decision, it is the mind and not the body that makes it. The resistance to recognizing this is enormous, we resist it, because the existence of the world as you perceive it depends on the body being the decision maker.

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How Is Healing Accomplished? The Perceived Purpose of Sickness

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Healing involves an understanding of what the illusion of sickness is for. Healing is impossible without this. And just to make it simpler for myself I’m going to replace the words “sickness” and “pain” with the word “separation”.  Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in separation. Who would choose separation unless he thought it brought him something, and something of value to him? He must think it is a small price to pay for something of greater worth. For separation is an election; a decision. Believing I am not what I am is an election; a decision. It is the choice of weakness, in the mistaken conviction that it is strength. When this occurs, real strength is seen as threat and unity as danger.

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Open-Mindedness

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“The centrality of open-mindedness, perhaps the last of the attributes the teacher of God acquires, is easily understood when its relation to forgiveness is recognized. Open-mindedness comes with lack of judgment. As judgment shuts the mind against God’s Teacher, so open-mindedness invites Him to come in. As condemnation judges the Son of God as evil, so open-mindedness permits him to be judged by the Voice for God on His behalf. As the projection of guilt upon him would send him to hell, so open-mindedness lets Christ’s image be extended to him. Only the open-minded can be at peace, for they alone see reason for it. Only the open minded can be at peace for they alone see reason for it. They alone see the reason for lack of judging.”

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Faithfulness

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”The extent of the teacher of God’s faithfulness is the measure of his advancement in the curriculum. ²Does he still select some aspects of his life to bring to his learning, while keeping others apart? ³If so, his advancement is limited, and his trust not yet firmly established. ⁴Faithfulness is the teacher of God’s trust in the Word of God to set all things right; not just some things, but all things.”

Excerpt from the contemplation:

“I like the reminder in this section to simply look and see as I go through the day to see if there is any aspect of life which is kept apart from faithfulness in Oneness, and if there is some found, to not be judgmental of it , but to just look at it with curiosity as to the why? What is it that is valued more?  And through looking I can become clear on what it is I truly want. So part of this faithfulness is the looking for beliefs. Faithfulness is the teachers of God’s trust in the word of God that we are not separate but One Being-ness. Trusting either from devotion or from our own experience or from a combination of the two.  And I like the reminder that Jesus has been telling us all throughout this book which is to set all things right consistently, not some, but all.”

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Patience

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Jesus says that Trust is the bedrock of characteristics. Trusting that you are what you are is critical. The spending of time with seeing what you are from your own experience is very important to this step of Patience.  When we fall into impatience it’s because we have forgotten who we are, we have become confused about the I Am that we think we are. If you are confused about what you are, you have no trust in what you are, then you won’t be able to be consistent about the outcome.  If you are interested in diving deeply into Self-Inquiry as per Sri Ramana Maharshi I can point you to some resources. Reach out in the forum and we can investigate that together.

An excerpt from the Reading:

“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God. All he sees is certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt. The time will be as right as is the answer. And this is true for everything that happens now or in the future. The past as well held no mistakes; nothing that did not serve to benefit the world, as well as him to whom it seemed to happen. Perhaps it was not understood at the time. Even so, the teacher of God is willing to reconsider all his past decisions, if they are causing pain to anyone. Patience is natural to those who trust. Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear.”

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Generosity

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This section is very thought provoking. Jesus explains the term generosity has special meaning to the teacher of God. It is not the usual meaning of the word; in fact, it is a meaning that must be learned and learned very carefully. Like all the other attributes of God’s teachers this one rests ultimately on trust, for without trust no one can be generous in the true sense. To the world, generosity means “giving away” in the sense of “giving up.” To the teachers of God, it means giving away in order to keep. This has been emphasized throughout the text and the workbook, but it is perhaps more alien to the thinking of the world than many other ideas in our curriculum. Its greater strangeness lies merely in the obviousness of its reversal of the world’s thinking. In the clearest way possible, and at the simplest of levels, the word means the exact opposite to the teachers of God and to the world.

One of the things I came to see from contemplating this section was shared like this: “Forgiveness is the generosity of seeing the truth of what everything is.  And so forgiving another, seeing the truth of what they are, and forgiving yourself is seeing the truth of what you are, that we are.  All this is generosity.”

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Defenselessness

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Jesus says, “God’s teachers have learned how to be simple. They have no dreams that need defense against the truth. They do not try to make themselves.” I ask for an example of what he means by “they have no dreams.” I’m seeing that the word “dreams” can be replaced with “false beliefs.” God’s teachers have no false beliefs that need defense against the truth.  The number one false belief being, you know, for example the belief,  “I am Karen, a separate identity” and that belief does need a lot of defense against the truth that there is no separate identity.  They [God’s teachers] do not try to make themselves. God’s teachers don’t try to make themselves…build a separate identity.

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Joy

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“Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. Gentleness means that fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy? The open hands of gentleness are always filled. The gentle have no [mental] pain. They cannot suffer. Why would they not be joyous? They are sure they are beloved and must be safe. Joy goes with gentleness as surely as grief attends attack. God’s teachers trust in Him. And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them.”

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