The Three 'Rules' of Spiritual Healing

The Three 'Rules' of Spiritual Healing as described in Chapter 10 of DU:

#1 Its' not about the patient.
All healing is a result of some kind of forgiveness, and all forgiveness leads to self-healing. So even when it comes to healing the sick it's really about forgiving your own dream, and forgiving yourself for dreaming it. As it states in the Psychotherapy pamphlet in the Course, '...The process that takes place in this relationship is actually one in which the therapist in his heart tells the patient that all his sins have been forgiven him, along with his own. What could be the difference between healing and forgiveness?' And as DU goes on to say, 'So who is being healed - the patient or the healer? The forgiver or the forgivee? The answer is both, for they are one.'

To word it any other way, there is no patient! Not really. There's nobody else out there, so its your own seemingly separated mind you are healing when you perceive somebody else's sickness and forgive it, as it is really your own sickness you are forgiving, that sickness being your own guilt that's buried deep in your subconscious mind over the seeming separation from God.

#2 Pain is not a physical process. It's a mental process.
Healing requires a shift in perception, and as the Course asks and answers for you, 'What is the single requisite for this shift in perception? It is simply this; the recognition that sickness is of the mind, and has nothing to do with the body. What does this recognition 'cost'? It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. As the Course also states, 'the guiltless mind cannot suffer.'

Another thing to keep in mind here too is that we are not in bodies, although it sure as hell feels like it most of the time, so that's our experience. However, the body you appear to be in is just like every other body you see out there; it's a projection of your own mind. So you're not in a body, your body is in your mind.

#3 Ultimately, the universe itself is a symptom that will disappear.
When you really wake up, what appeared to be real before is now recognized as the idle dream that it is. Then it is forgotten, or at least rendered meaningless. Your present lifetime and all of the others will disappear, and when everyone reaches the same state of enlightenment, the universe will disappear - leaving only God's universe of Heaven. (DU p263)

The universe will disappear because there will be no need for it any longer. Once there is no need to perpetuate unconscious guilt, there will be no need for a universe of time and space. The universe of time and space exists in its unreality as a hiding spot from our unconscious guilt; it's a symptom of separation from God and the projection of unconscious guilt. We created this universe - God certainly did not - where our guilt can be seen as being outside of ourselves, rather than within, and we go on to judge and condemn others. But when we judge and condemn others, what we are really doing is judging and condemning ourselves, as the 'others' we perceive as being out there are really just symbols of what's in our own unconscious minds. But once we stop reacting with condemnation, and start forgiving and seeing everyone as totally innocent, which in reality we all are - then all of the guilt will eventually be removed, and we will then simply return our awareness to our natural and original condition of being one with God.

So with all that said, that means we'll be having one big Heaven on Earth, Happy Dream party, giddy up!!!

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