Realizing God's Will Is Oneness

Holy Spirit - The Healer of All Illusion

Recently I had quite a case of the flu in my little dream world.  As I lay in my bed, I wondered which part of my mind made this story and for what reason, but I let go of this wondering as it didn’t seem important somehow.  The dream of sickness just was and I surrendered to it.  Even during some of the more violent symptoms, I kept telling myself that they weren’t real even though in the illusion they seemed to be.  The illusion is always with us as long as we are in a body.  There is no escape from it, nor need we think of escape because there is nothing to escape from.  As the days stretched on into over a week of illness, I found myself looking at the illusion of the world in quite a different way than I had before.

I recognized I had been feeling conflicted and lacking in time and energy before Christmas.  I actually didn’t mind laying in bed, although the pain was not welcome.  Certainly I made the sickness of body, but I felt no blame or guilt.  I accepted the sickness as just part of the illusion and gave it to Holy Spirit to sort out.  I felt there was nothing to fix and no need to ask for physical healing of any sort because the sickness wasn’t real.  I didn’t struggle with it at all, but rather believed it was happening for my benefit because the Holy Spirit could use it for my greater healing.

Over the course of time I came to some powerful realizations about walking through the illusion with greater ease no matter whether there is pain in the body, illness, or any other part of life that could be described as unpleasant.  I really learned that these moments are no different than others in which the body feels comfort or pleasure.  The illusion is the illusion.  There is only of God in my mind in truth.  There is always the place of peace in my mind.  This is all that is real.  Everything in body life is illusion and unreal.  There is nothing in body life to fix.

As I apply this to my whole life, I feel a great burden has been lifted.  I feel more relaxed about life.  There is nothing to fix in my life, nor in anyone elses.  The illusion will always be there, but I can walk through it without giving it a lot of attention or feeling that I ought to do something to make it better or change its appearance because of guilt.  That is a foolish waste of my time, along with feeling any guilt or blame for how the dream appears.  The dream appears from the subconscious mind as well as the conscious mind.  Some of the dream seems mysterious in nature, but all is used for great purpose by Holy Spirit.  Even then, it is not real.  Holy Spirit does not make the illusion real even though He uses it to good purpose for my healing.  I can walk through what my mind has made and presented to me as real without blame or guilt because that is not the appropriate response to what I see.  The appropriate response is just to see illusion as illusion.

As I let go of feeling any need to fix whatever I see, I can ask Holy Spfirit if there is anything I can do to be helpful.  If there is nothing truly helpful, I continue to walk on recognizing the unreality but not trying to change it.  When there is something truly helpful, Holy Spirit will stop me and show me what that is.  He is only too happy to do so.  What an incredible burden is lifted from me I proceed in life this way.  No need to fret over disasters, medical conditions, attitudes, habits, lifestyles, or any seeming problem in the dream, in myself or anyone else.  How can I fix what isn’t real?  Why should I try?  Why even bother paying much attention to all of it unless I am guided to something truly helpful?  Rather than thinking this is unfeeling or uncaring, I am finding this quite freeing.  I can truly trust Holy Spirit to provide the really helpful.

In every moment I have a choice to focus on the unreality of body life or the reality that there is only of God and nothing else.  And just because I choose for a moment to focus on body life doesn’t change the reality that everything is of God and that is all that’s real and it needs no fixing.  As I look at every person, circumstance or event, that is my response - there is nothing in front of me that needs fixing.  The Son of God does not require fixing.  The helpful thing is always to affirm for my brother that he is capable of listening to Holy Spirit and that he does already (although we could all listen more) and encourage him to continue.  There is nothing else I can do unless Holy Spirit tells me what that might be.  Ego attitudes do not need to change or be worked on for that is like trying to understand conflict that Jesus advises us not to do because conflict is not understandable.  The ego is not understandable, the dream is not understandable, because its not real.

It is unworthy of the Son of God to label him as a broken ego or body that requires fixing.  My brother is not this and neither am I.  The body stories make no difference, no difference at all, big ones or little ones are all the same, meaningless in reality.  This insight brings me such peace and release and healing from the dis-ease of perfectionism or trying to make body life conform to certain standards or ideals of circumstance of behavior defined as sufficiently good.  There is no ease in living according to ego or body expectations.  All such expectations are false, but there is no need to condemn ourselves for falling prey to them.  There is no need to fix them.  There is only the letting go of them, of giving them any importance.

As I withdraw from the importance of ego ideas and body life, that doesn’t mean it disappears - at least not right away!  There it still is.  I learned this while I had the flu.  The body symptoms remained for a time, but is was okay somehow.  I merely accepted them as part of the dream I walked through and returned again to the importance of the truth.  I don’t have to make the body life disappear to reflect on truth.  It is not necessary to have a pain-free or problem-free life to reflect on truth. 

One can reflect on truth no matter what the circumstances or events.  Holy Spirit can work through them all quite effectively.  If seeming physical sickness or problems do not immeditately disappear, this does not mean we are doing something wrong, thinking incorrectly, or not getting the program.  It simply means the illusion is the illusion.  The illusion does not have to change in order to see truth.  One looks through the illusion to see truth, the appearance of the illusion makes no difference.  Body sickness or wellness makes no difference.  It is the mind that is well when it rests in Holy Spirit’s awareness of the peace of God.  This is all that is important.  The illusion doesn’t need fixing.  I just let it be what it is without struggle because it’s unimportant and then let Holy Spirit guide my actions.

Right now, I feel grateful that I had this illness episode because what I learned is so valuable to me.  We truly cannot know what is valuable and valueless without Holy Spirit’s help.  He is truly the Teacher as we walk in the world of illusion.  He is the Navigator Who helps us as we stumble along seeking the way.  He shows us the pathway to truth as we invite Him to do so.  He sorts it all out and lights the way to wellness in the mind.  This is true healing - the only kind worth having.  He is the Healer of all illusion, not the changer of illusion.  His healing work is truly helpful, let ours be as well.

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