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Study of the Text, Chapter 8: IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 3 11-12-14

IX. Healing as Corrected Perception, P 3
3 Wholeness heals because it is of the mind. All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce sleeping out of fear of waking. This is a pathetic way of trying not to see by rendering the faculties for seeing ineffectual. “Rest in peace” is a blessing for the living, not the dead, because rest comes from waking, not from sleeping. Sleep is withdrawing; waking is joining. Dreams are illusions of joining, because they reflect the ego’s distorted notions about what joining is. Yet the Holy Spirit, too, has use for sleep, and can use dreams on behalf of waking if you will let Him.

I still use sickness and pain on occasion to avoid awakening, but I am very aware of what I am doing. If I do get sick or have pain, I never believe I got sick because I caught something, or I am in pain because I hurt myself, or anything like that. I know that I am sick or in pain because I am holding onto an ego belief. I am projecting it onto the body in an attempt to prove I am this body and nothing else, and so prove the illusion is real. Because I know what I am doing and why, I quickly return to sanity and ask that my mind be healed.

Sickness not only serves as proof the body is real, but that it is separate and in need of defense. It seems to prove that there is a whole world of separate and threatening things and people, and I need to be on the alert at all times, ready to fend them off. People spread their germs and make me sick is a common ego strategy to keep us separate and defensive.

This seems very real and unavoidable. The person on the plane seated practically on top of me had a cold and was sniffling and sneezing. If I believe in the ego idea of sickness as an attack from outside me, I would try to turn away from this person and protect myself so I don’t get his cold. Doing this for a couple of hours would probably cause me to become resentful. So in other words, I would believe he was guilty. Now I have reinforced the belief in guilt in my own mind, so I have attacked him and my self.

Here is the way I have learned to understand this situation. I believe in sickness and suffering, in defense and attack, and in separation and guilt, and so I populate my world with separate people who seem to be attacking me.  The projection of my separation thoughts appear as sick people who attack me with their germs. Now I must defend myself against these guilty people. It seems to be happening in the world and I am a victim of the situation and those around me, but it is not like that at all. In truth, I projected the situation, and I did so for a specific purpose, to keep the separation story going.

Understanding that the entire situation came from my mind, I can allow the problem to be healed through accepting the Atonement for the false beliefs that sourced the situation. Instead of trying to correct the effect, I can allow correction of the cause. This is equally true of all the problems in the world. I had all sorts of problems with my flights, and it was very frustrating. I noticed many blaming thoughts in my mind. I really wanted someone else to be guilty of this, but I was also aware that I was the source of the problem.

I could keep the conflict going for as long as I could stand the discomfort, or I could rest in peace during the situation, knowing I created it, but also knowing that I could use it for healing. I projected the situation onto the world through the ego thoughts in my mind, but now that I had done so, the situation was flushing up beliefs that needed to be released. I wrote the situation into my script and now it was up to me what I did with it. Just as I can give my night time sleep to the Holy Spirit to use on my behalf, I can give my day time “sleep” to Him and He will use it to help me awaken from the dream of separation.

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