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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: V.Healing and the Changelessness of Mind, Paragraph 1. 3-25-14

V. Healing and the Changelessness of Mind
1 The body is nothing more than a framework for developing abilities, which is quite apart from what they are used for. That is a decision. The effects of the ego’s decision in this matter are so apparent that they need no elaboration, but the Holy Spirit’s decision to use the body only for communication has such a direct connection with healing that it does need clarification. The unhealed healer obviously does not understand his own vocation.

The body and all the body says and does, and all the thinking ego mind chatters on about, can be used to take us deeper into the illusion or it can be used to return us to the Kingdom. We, the “ego we”, make a decision about this. We do this, not once, but in each moment. I see this clearly as do we all once we have come this far in the Course. If ever you have noticed an ego thought such as judgment, and then realized that this thought is not true and you are not interested in it, then you have made a choice to use the ego thinking as a path home instead of a path further into the illusion.

Most of us begin our path by becoming aware of the ego thoughts and behaviors, and understanding that they are not making us happy. Then we learn that there is an option and we spend some time making a decision to allow that option. Typically, we will choose God sometimes, and at other times we will defend our illusions because we are not ready to give them up. We can spend a lot of time going back and forth on this.

What must happen eventually, is that we embrace the Holy Spirit’s use of the body as a true communication device at all times. When we realize that we have one function, that our life has one purpose, and that is to wake up, we begin to make the one choice in every situation. We choose to bring every dark thought to the Light, defending none of them.

Until we fully embrace this choice, we remain an unhealed healer, at times being effective and then falling back into darkness again. My daughter is an English teacher. Imagine how confusing it would be for her students if today, she taught you had to put a period at the end of each statement, and then tomorrow she taught that you could ignore that rule when you wanted to. She would not be a very successful teacher and her students would leave her class confused. Eventually, she would be confused herself because, teaching confusion, she would learn confusion.

In the same way, we will awaken more quickly if we teach a consistent lesson. Our minds will be healed if we unfailingly choose to use the body as a healing opportunity rather than a separation device. It is a choice and the more consistent we are in our choosing; the more effective we will be as both learner and teacher.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 6. 3-24-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth Paragraph 6
6 To think you can oppose the Will of God is a real delusion. The ego believes that it can, and that it can offer you its own “will” as a gift. You do not want it. It is not a gift. It is nothing at all. God has given you a gift that you both have and are. When you do not use it, you forget that you have it. By not remembering it, you do not know what you are. Healing, then, is a way of approaching knowledge by thinking in accordance with the laws of God, and recognizing their universality. Without this recognition, you have made the laws meaningless to you. Yet the laws are not meaningless, since all meaning is contained by them and in them.

It is God’s Will that His children remain as He created them. Therefore they can only be Love, holy, and perfect in every way. His children are the light of the world, and forever innocent. The ego offers us another will, a will of our own. Through this will, we see God’s children as small, vulnerable, fragile, evil, and above all, as guilty. Fortunately, the gift of the ego is not real. It is nothing. A will separate and different from the Will of God cannot exist, and so we can only pretend to be in opposition to God. We can only pretend His children are something He did not create.

Because only God’s Laws are true, none of the ego nonsense applies to me, but if I think it applies to anyone or anything, I will lose the knowledge of who I am and will believe the ego laws are real. In remembering the ego laws, I will forget the truth. In seeing my brother through the filter of ego will, I am choosing to forget the truth about myself as well. My brother is myself and so what I believe about my brother, I believe about myself.

The ego laws say that I can be good while others are bad. In fact, they say that I am good only in comparison to the evil I see in others. Ego says goodness can be splintered into pieces and pieces can go their own way, some remaining good and others becoming evil. Ego will is the right to decide what is good and what is evil.

God’s Law says that what God creates good, remains good, and wholeness can only and always remain whole. God’s Law says there is no will but God’s Will and so we remain safe in spite of our dream of other wills and other laws.

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Study of the Text,IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 7. 3-21-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth Paragraph 7
7 Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven, because that is where the laws of God operate truly, and they can operate only truly because they are the laws of truth. But seek this only, because you can find nothing else. There is nothing else. God is All in all in a very literal sense. All being is in Him Who is all Being. You are therefore in Him since your being is His. Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger the ego has induced in you, by not recognizing its existence in your brother. This strengthens the Holy Spirit in both of you, because it is a refusal to acknowledge fear. Love needs only this invitation. It comes freely to all the Sonship, being what the Sonship is. By your awakening to it, you are merely forgetting what you are not. This enables you to remember what you are.

“God is All in all in a very literal sense.” God is All so I cannot be something separate from God. I am in God, part of Him. This means I am beyond all harm and there is nothing to fear. If there was something to fear it would mean scary stuff is in God, but God is Love and so this cannot be true. This is what I am to remember.

“Healing is a way of forgetting the sense of danger the ego has induced in you, by not recognizing its existence in your brother.” Because I had forgotten who I am and where I am, healing was needed. Before we accepted the idea of separation there was no fear. It is the ego that induces the sense of danger we feel. That makes sense to me, because if there were no bodies and if there was only one in harmony within Itself and in God, where would the danger come from? In God there are no bodies and no disharmony, therefore there is nothing to fear.

I was thinking of my son as I read this. He had surgery recently in the hopes of ending years of pain. The pain is receding only slowly and he is afraid it might not go away at all. It might seem to the ego mind that the loving thing would be for me to commiserate with him, to be afraid for him and with him.

The ego mind says, “I am so afraid for my son. I can’t stand to think of him being in pain forever. I am afraid he will give up if this surgery doesn’t work. I am afraid for him because I love him.” But is this really love? Is love fear? If I believe his fear thoughts and join him in that fear, I only increase the belief in fear in both of us. Do I believe in God, or do I believe in fear? Do I want to teach Love or do I want to teach fear? What I teach is what I learn.

There is fear in my son’s mind, but there is also God. I choose which I support, and I can as easily choose to support the truth in his mind as I can choose to support the fear in his mind. It is up to me. Which do I want to make stronger for both of us? By choosing to acknowledge love rather than fear as real, I am choosing and therefore strengthening the Holy Spirit in my son and in myself.

The sane choice is obvious and the only reason there is any disturbance in my mind is because I have chosen wrongly so often that I have taught myself to believe in something that does not even exist. There is no fear in God, so there is no fear. Now I am teaching myself to forget the false lesson I have learned so well, so that I can remember the truth.

It is simple and easy to do. If I feel fear, I seek first and only the Kingdom of God. God loves me and doesn’t want me to suffer so it is His Will that I return to His Love. Because it is His Will, there is no possibility of failure. I am meant for love not for fear. Because I want both my son and myself to be free of suffering, I continue to forget the lessons of pain and fear that I learned from the ego. I continue to disregard appearances, and I remember for us both that there is only God’s Love.

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Study of the Text, IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 5. 3-20-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 5

5 The ego’s goal is as unified as the Holy Spirit’s, and it is because of this that their goals can never be reconciled in any way or to any extent. The ego always seeks to divide and separate. The Holy Spirit always seeks to unify and heal. As you heal you are healed, because the Holy Spirit sees no order of difficulty in healing. Healing is the way to undo the belief in differences, being the only way of perceiving the Sonship as one. This perception is therefore in accord with the laws of God, even in a state of mind that is out of accord with His. The strength of right perception is so great that it brings the mind into accord with His, because it serves His Voice, Which is in all of you.

Healing is the way to undo the belief in differences, being the only way of perceiving the Sonship as one. This is the sentence that draws my attention. How does this work? I asked for clarity and this is what came to me. I heal others by seeing the truth in them. This applies in all cases regardless of circumstances. If someone is sick, I know this cannot be.

Yes, the body takes on the projection of the dark thoughts in the ego mind and appears sick. But that one is not the ego or the body. That one is the spirit, he is God’s Son and cannot be sick. I heal him by not believing the dark thoughts and not believing in the effects of those thoughts have any validity. These effects, the sickness in the body, are meaningless and will be undone as the mind is healed. My part in the healing of the mind is to know this as completely as I can. I do not allow my mind to be distracted by false appearances.

This is just as true and applicable if the effect of wrong minded thinking takes the form of mental illness, or emotional upset. It is no different if the effect appears as financial hardship or broken relationships, or addictive behaviors. There is only one problem and that is a belief that we are separate from God. The solution is the certainty that this cannot be true. This is healing.

As we heal through our willingness to know only the truth, we are healed. Our willingness grows and with it our certainty. We learn that we are one as our light enlightens another, and we learn that all sickness is the same sickness and all healing occurs as a result of the same true thought. We learn that different appearances are meaningless and that shifting form does not mean shifting reality. As we heal and are healed we learn that there is only one problem and one solution and in so doing, we learn to perceive the Sonship as one.

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Study of the Text, Chapter 7: IV.Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 4. 3-19-14

IV. Healing as the Recognition of Truth, Paragraph 4
4 All abilities should therefore be given over to the Holy Spirit, Who understands how to use them properly. He uses them only for healing, because He knows you only as whole. By healing you learn of wholeness, and by learning of wholeness you learn to remember God. You have forgotten Him, but the Holy Spirit understands that your forgetting must be translated into a way of remembering.

The way to be certain that our abilities are properly used is to give them to the Holy Spirit. He will then guide and direct their use. He will use them for healing and this healing will remind us of our wholeness. As we remember that we are whole and that we are one, we will remember God. What can any experience on earth give us that would be as meaningful as to remember God.

If you ask me who I am, I will tell you that I am God’s Son, His creation and the extension of Himself. I am in God and part of God. I am holy and I am whole. That is who I am. Those are more than words to me now, but they are not all there is to know. What I yearn for is to Know my Self. To remember my Self. I want to know, not who I am, but what I am. I want to remember God so that I can remember what I am.

What does it feel like to be our holy Self, Jesus? That is what I want to know and what I want to be. I want to be awakened to that. I gladly give all my abilities to Spirit and I ask that He guide me to use them in whatever way would be useful to us all. When I become distracted by the worldly attractions and imagine some other purpose for my abilities, I ask that my holy Self, gently shake me back awake.

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