| All healing is spiritual and all healing begins with | | | | The following is a startling explanation of healing and |
| understanding the power of the mind. There is | | | | faith quoted from the Course. It is unlike any other |
| miraculous power in certain esoteric metaphysical | | | | spiritual teaching you will hear about mind, body and |
| teachings. Miracles do happen. | | | | healing: |
| I do not advocate avoiding doctors or refusing any | | | | "The body cannot heal, because it cannot make itself |
| specific medical treatments. Yet, more and more | | | | sick. It needs no healing. Its health or sickness |
| doctors are recognizing the spiritual aspects of | | | | depends entirely on how the mind perceives it, and |
| healing. This brief article will help you understand the | | | | the purpose that the mind would use it for. It is |
| role of the mind in the healing process. | | | | obvious that a segment of the mind can see itself as |
| A spiritual document called A Course in Miracles was | | | | separated from the Universal Purpose." (p.398) |
| written by Dr. Helen Schucman and Dr. William | | | | Healing consists of forgiving the segment of the mind |
| Thetford in the 1970's. Dr. Schucman dictated the | | | | that sees itself as separate and joining with the one |
| book based on an inner voice, which she described as | | | | Mind or "Universal Purpose." |
| coming from a divine source, specifically Jesus Christ. | | | | The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard |
| I call it a metaphysical masterpiece. The Course | | | | contains teachings that were given to the author by |
| consists of a text, a manual for teachers and a | | | | two ascended masters. The book and the teachings |
| workbook for students. I am not a teacher. I am | | | | both support and simplify the teachings of A Course |
| speaking as a student sharing my understanding of | | | | in Miracles with regard to metaphysical healing. |
| the teachings. | | | | Consider the case of Louise Hay who began teaching |
| Unlike other explanations of healing and faith, the | | | | techniques for metaphysical healing in the 1970's. |
| Course does not portray God as a judge of our faith | | | | Coincidentally, the same decade when A Course in |
| in Him, i.e. if your faith is strong enough, God will heal | | | | Miracles was published. Louise Hay had an opportunity |
| you. Rather, the teaching describes the miraculous | | | | to put her techniques to the test when she was |
| power that results from "joining" the mind with the | | | | diagnosed with vaginal cancer. She considered |
| Holy Spirit, who is really you. This joining releases the | | | | surgery and drugs before deciding that she would try |
| mind from every demand or judgment. | | | | to heal herself. She began an intensive program of |
| Another word for this release of the mind from | | | | affirmations, creative visualization, nutritional cleansing, |
| earthly concerns is "forgiveness". The Course is a | | | | and psychotherapy. After six months, Louise's |
| non-dualistic teaching which denies the existence of | | | | doctors were amazed to discover she was cancer |
| anything but God. The world we think we see is a | | | | free. |
| dream, much more like a movie than a reality - the | | | | In 2009 the world can benefit from an understanding |
| only reality being God. The mind projects the dream | | | | of metaphysical healing more than ever. We are living |
| of separation. Ultimately, even the mind is an illusion | | | | longer thanks to medical science. Metaphysical |
| that is unknown to God. The Course teaches that | | | | teachings and the lost art of metaphysical healing can |
| we have everything Jesus has, the only difference | | | | help us discover who we really are and where we |
| between us and Him is that He has nothing else. | | | | are really going. |