Manual For Teachers Part 17

Healing

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A Course in Miracles

Manual For Teachers

 

HOW IS HEALING ACCOMPLISHED?

Healing involves an understanding of what the illusion of sickness is for. Healing is impossible without this.

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1. The Perceived Purpose of Sickness

Healing is accomplished the instant the sufferer no longer sees any value in pain.

Who would choose suffering 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 sickness 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
  • health as danger.

Sickness is a method, conceived in madness, for placing God's Son on his Father's throne.

God is seen as

  • outside,
  • fierce and powerful,
  • eager to keep all power for Himself.

Only by his death can He be conquered by His Son.

 

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And what, in this insane conviction, does healing stand for?

It symbolizes the defeat of God's Son and the triumph of his Father over him.

It represents the ultimate defiance in a direct form which the Son of God is forced to recognize.

It stands for all that he would hide from himself to protect his life.

If he is healed, he is responsible for his thoughts.

And if he is responsible for his thoughts, he will be killed, to prove to him how weak and pitiful he is.

But if he chooses death himself, his weakness is his strength.

Now has he given himself what God would give to him, and thus entirely usurped the throne of his Creator.

 

  

What are we healing?

We are undoing false ego definitions of what we are.

 

What Are You?

God's Thought System teaches you are an eternal holy spiritual being at one with God.

Ego's Thought System teaches you are a body vulnerable to loss, fear and death because you are guilty and thus separate from God.

 

I am as God Created me. Lessons 94, 110 & 162

All forms of sickness, even unto death, are physical expressions of the fear of awakening. They are attempts to reinforce un-consciousness out of fear of consciousness. \Chap 8 Healing as Corrected Perception

All sickness comes from separation. When the separation is denied, it goes. For it is gone as soon as the idea which brought it has been healed, and been replaced by sanity.Chap 26 Review of Principles

Sickness is a way of demonstrating that you can be hurt. It is a witness to your frailty, your vulnerability, and your extreme need to depend on eternal (ego) guidance. The ego uses this as its best argument for your need for its guidance. Chap 8 Body as Means or End

We said before that illness is a form of magic. It might be better to say that it is a form of magical solution. The ego believes that by punishing itself it will mitigate the punishment of God. Yet even in this it is arrogant. It ttributes to God a punishing intent, and then takes over this intent as its own prerogative. It tries to usurp all the functions of God as it perceives... Chap 5 The Two Decisions

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