Sunday Pep Talk: Should Healing Be Repeated? How Can the Perception of Order of Difficulties Be Avoided?

Class notes 10/25/26

Sunday Pep Talk

Should Healing Be Repeated?

How Can the Perception of Order of Difficulties Be Avoided?

Should Healing Be Repeated?

          Healing can’t be repeated. If the patient is healed there is nothing to heal him from. Healing is certain, so there is nothing to repeat. If you are concerned with the result of healing that limits healing. It is now the healer who needs to be healed. We can not be concerned with how our gifts land. Now you must see yourself as the patient. If you are worried about the results. You made a mistake and so you have to change your mind about it. 

          Trust makes the gift truly given. Without trust, you can’t benefit from the gift. Whenever you have tried to be a channel for healing, you have succeeded. If you are tempted to doubt this, don’t repeat your previous effort. The Holy Spirit accepted it, so it was maximal. So now there is only one course of action. Tell yourself that you have given the problem to the one who can’t fail. Your own uncertainty is not love but hate.  Now your position is intolerable. You are offering hate to the one you offered love. That’s impossible. It was entered into with love and only love is received. 

          Trust is mentioned at least five times in this section and it is the foundation on which everything else rests. So we trust. That is what we mean when we say, The only responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the atonement for themselves. A teacher of God (TOG) is a miracle worker because he gives the gifts he has received. You can’t give something that you don’t have. First you must accept the giftYou can’t do more and you need not do more. Accept healing for yourself. By accepting healing, you can give it. If you doubt this remember who gave you the gift and who received it. So doubt is corrected. The gifts of God can’t be taken away. They are as eternal as He is. It is a mistake to correct if you think so. 

          A difficult temptation to recognize is to doubt a healing because of continuing symptoms. This is a mistake in the form of lack of trust. Since it is a lack of trust, it is an attack. At first it seems to be the opposite. It seems unreasonable to be told that continued concern is attack. It has the appearance of love. But love without trust is impossible. Doubt and trust can’t coexist. Hate is the opposite of love no matter what form it takes. If you don’t doubt the gift, it is impossible to doubt its results. God gives his teachers certainty that they can perform miracles, they have put their trust in Him. 

          The basis of doubt is always self doubt. This implies trust has been placed in the illusionary self, only this can be doubted. This self doubt takes many forms. Perhaps there is a fear of weakness or vulnerability. Perhaps there is fear of failure and shame of self made inadequacy. Maybe there is guilty embarrassment from false humility. The form of the mistake is irrelevant. What is important is the awareness that the mistake is a mistake. 

          The mistake is always a concern about yourself to the exclusion of the patient. It's a failure to see him as a part of yourself and so it’s a confusion about identity.  Conflict about what you are has entered your mind and you are deceived about yourself. You are deceived about yourself because you are deceived about the source of your creation. If you are offering only healing, there is no room for doubt. If you are certain of what the problem is, there is no room for doubt. Doubt is the result of conflicting wishes. If you are sure of what you want, doubt is impossible. 

How Can the Perception of Order of Difficulties Be Avoided

          This is how the world sees things. There is a belief in an order of difficulties. The body's eyes see conflict and competing interests. Don’t look through the physical eyes for peace and understanding. Illusions are always illusions that we are somehow different. An illusion is an attempt to make something real that is seen as really important but is recognized as being untrue. The mind tries to make it true out of an intense desire to have it for itself. Illusions are gross imitations of true creation trying to make lies true. The mind finds the truth unacceptable. So it revolts against it and tries to give the illusions victory. It finds health a burden and retreats into feverish dreams. In these dreams it is separate, different from other minds with different self interests and able to get them at the expense of others. 

          We are ultimately the one son of Christ. So where did all of these differences come from? They seem to come from the outside world. Yet the mind judges what the eyes see. The mind interprets the eyes' messages and gives them meaning. This meaning does not exist in the outside world at all. What is seen as reality is simply what the mind prefers. Its hierarchy of values is projected outward and it sends the body’s eyes to find it. The body’s eyes see only differences. But perception does not rest on the visions of our physical eyes. Only the mind evaluates. Only the mind is responsible for seeing. The mind decides what is real and illusionary, desirable or undesirable, painful or pleasurable. 

          When the mind is sorting out and characterizing things, this is when mistakes in perception occur. So it is here, on the level of the mind where correction needs to happen. The mind classifies what the eyes see according to its preconceived values judging where each thing fits best. It’s a faulty basis and then the mind decides the categories it has created must be true. The judgments of the world are based on this, and it’s nothing more than confused. It can’t be counted on for anything. 

          There is no order of difficulty in healing because all sickness is illusionary. One can’t be smaller or bigger than the other. They are all equally unreal. When you realize they are all equally illusionary in nature, POOF, they disappear. And so it is with healing. The properties the illusions seem to have is irrelevant. All of their properties are as illusionary as they are.

          Our bodies' eyes will always see differences. The mind which has let itself be healed does not acknowledge them.  Some folks seem sicker than others, the body’s eyes will notice, but the mind puts them all into the same category unreal. Only two categories are meaningful in sorting out messages from what appears to be the outside world. You have two categories, real and unreal. Only one is true. Illusions are all equally illusionary. It’s the one answer to sickness. The one answer to all illusions is truth.