The following article is very interesting, and I thought you might enjoy it. It is the most profound and detailed description of Spiritual Healing I have ever come across. Enjoy. Cynthia Becklund Probart
Healers 101
We are each a student, a teacher, a
master,
we are all of these all at once.
Messages:
Healing Ministry
Religious Beliefs
What are we seeking?
Hawaiian healing process called ho
'oponopono
Developing a Healing
Consciousness
The following article is very interesting,
and I thought you might enjoy it. It is the most profound and
detailed description of Spiritual Healing I have ever come across.
Enjoy. Cynthia Becklund Probart
Developing a Healing Consciousness
By Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of
Spiritual Healing, In part: page 73. Chapter VI
Treatment is a technique employed to lift consciousness to
such an elevation that a contact with God is established which
permits spiritual power to flow into human activity.
It is a recognition of spiritual truth, the purpose of which is
to reveal
an already existing state of divine harmony.
This realization on the part of the person giving the treatment
reveals the spiritual identity of the one who has asked for healing
so that he can be seen as he spiritually is in God's image and
likeness.
As has been pointed out, anyone who practices spiritual
healing must rise above the level of appearances -- above the
discords of corporeal sense, of personal sense -- to a higher
plane of consciousness where there is no person to be healed and
where there is room only for the Spirit of God.
Treatment is necessary only because a belief of human-hood
has become ingrained in individual consciousness. This human hood,
or personal sense, cannot be overcome by trying to think good
thoughts, because any such attempt would merely be a shift from
bad human hood to good human hood. Such a shift is, of course,
desirable humanly, and naturally nearly everybody in the human
picture comes eventually to see that human good is better than
human evil and desires to be good rather than evil. That, however
is not spiritual demonstration, but only a step forward in human
evolution.
Real spiritual progress begins when a person is no longer
preoccupied with either human good or evil, health or disease,
wealth or poverty, but is able to penetrate beyond these to the
Christ hood which is his spiritual identity. Through such spiritual
vision, that which has heretofore been identified as error, or
evil, normally and naturally disappears because it is no part
of spiritual consciousness.
Jesus demonstrated this spiritual consciousness again and again.
Although he spoke to his followers in terms of their experience
-- "Martha, thou art...troubled..." -- he demonstrated
spiritual consciousness which sees beyond the apparent to the
real. After all, he was the Christ, one with the Father.
When we achieve this Christ-consciousness, then we too
achieve the single -eyed vision. That may be hard to grasp, especially
when we are engulfed by the vicissitudes of life. But consider
for a moment the reason human beings are beset by so many problems.
For generations, we have been prodigals, living on our
own substance out in the world, not drawing on the father, but
living off one another to such a degree that we have lost the
awareness of our true identity.
Within us, this Christ, this child or emanation of God,
lies dormant, covered over with layers and layers of human beliefs
built up throughout the centuries. Human beings have been away
from the Father's house so long that they have forgotten that
their parentage is of God. In this age, man's true Self is again
being revealed, and the time has come when he must awaken to the
nature and character of his being that Christ hood which is his
spiritual destiny. In this awakening process, he dies to his human
hood that he may be reborn of the spirit.
A treatment is a rising in consciousness above that which
can be seen, heard, tasted, touched, or smelled in order to perceive
that which is real. Just as the motorist on a desert highway does
not look around to find buckets with which to remove the water
from the road, but recognizes that he is only facing a mirage
and in that knowledge proceeds on his way, so to the Christ-consciousness
there are no impediments. When that state of Christ-consciousness
is attained, a person can look at the water on the road,... and
still know in his heart: These states of limitation do not exist.
They are merely images of the mind -- appearances -- but the truth
is that the kingdom of God, the realm of eternal life and harmony,
is within me. It is not to be achieved; it is already within me.
Because of this, I can always turn within and come into the full
realization of the Kingdom, now. My only function is to become
aware of its is-ness, to realize that it already is, and therefore
I have nothing to seek.
Knowing the truth, declaring and thinking about the truth are
mental processes; they are steps that lead to spiritual
discernment. But such mental processes do not heal anything, nor
do they bring harmony into individual experience. The purpose
of treatment is to lift consciousness to that point where spiritual
discernment or realization takes place.
There is a procedure in treatment which may prove helpful.
First of all, when a person asks for help, assure him that
he will be given help; then drop the name or identity of the person
and recognize the nature of the claim as of the carnal mind. Do
not think of the patient, the body, or the condition again; but
turn immediately to God. Keep your mind stayed on God. Your meditation
may take some such form as this:
"In the beginning God." God made all that was
made, and all that God made was good. Anything that God did not
make was not made. Therefore, since we have a body, God made that
body, and it must be made of the substance of God -- perfect,
spiritual, harmonious. In the body of God's creating, there cannot
be a cause for disease of pain, nor can there be an effect such
as disease, pain, discord, or inharmony.
God is life eternal. If God is life eternal, there certainly
cannot be a presence of a power anywhere in heaven or on earth
to lessen that eternality, to change it, to alter it, or to interfere
with it. Therefore, in the allness of God, no cause for pain can
be found, no cause of disease, and no effect such as pain or disease.
God is the substance of all being for God is the substance of
which the universe is made.
God is law, the only law. If God is the only law, there
cannot be a law of inharmony, such as a law of disease, a law
of separation, infection, or contagion. They are not reality and
they are not cause. God alone is the law, and God is the law of
harmony unto His creation, maintaining and sustaining it.
God is love and since God is infinite, Love is the all-power
and the all-presence. Love is that which cares for Its own. If
God, divine Love is caring for Its own, must it not be clear that
the law and the love of God are sufficient to maintain God's creation
harmoniously, joyously, and perfectly?
Notice that the treatment is always a recognition of the
nothingness of the condition and deals only with God and the qualities
of God -- God as infinite Good, the infinite All, the infinite
Presence, the infinite Effect. Finally, the realization is achieved
that God really is all-in all, and besides God there is nothing
else, and by that time, you will have come to see that there cannot
be such a thing as a patient because there could not be a person,
personality, or individuality apart from God, nor could there
be a condition or circumstance apart from God.
Know every bit of truth you can know; take every synonym
for God you can possibly find and see it in its relationship to
individual being. Every truth you know about God is the truth
about individual man, since the principle is that God and man
are one.
To know the truth about God, but to think of that truth
as something separate and apart from man, or to think of man as
being sick or sinning and in need of God is to lose the effect
of the treatment. The treatment must embody the realization of
the great truth that "he that seeth me seeth him that sent
me." Whether that "he" is Bill , Mary, or anybody
else. God and His manifestation are one; God and His individualization
are one.
There are thousands of forms of treatment. One morning
in answer to a call, God gave me the strangest treatment that
has ever come to me in all my years of work. The words I heard
were, "God, the Father; God, the son; God, the Holy Ghost."
That was all. I did not understand it. So I sat there with, "God,
the Father; God, the son; God, the Holy Ghost." I must have
repeated those words a dozen time very slowly, trying to see if
I could get a meaning out of it, and then like a burst of light
it came: "Why yes, you know that God is the Father. Certainly,
God is the Father, but God is also the Son. Are we not all sons
of the one Father? Well, then no son of God can be in any trouble
of difficulty as long as he realizes his sonship. And the Holy
Ghost? That is our awareness or understanding of this oneness
of God and man." The treatment was as simple as that God
is the only being, the only identity, eternally about the Father's
business of glorifying the Father.
A treatment can last all day or all night, or it can be
of a minute's duration. Whatever its length, it is a good treatment
if it leads back to the realization of God as individual being.
Every treatment should be spontaneous because a ready-made treatment
is of less value than no treatment at all.
Certainly no two treatments should or will be alike. Therefore,
do not try to use he same treatment tomorrow that you used today.
You might give the most powerful treatment in the world today,
one which lifts you to a place in consciousness where somebody
is raised from the dead, and yet find that tomorrow it might not
even heal a headache. If you are called upon to give a hundred
treatments in a day, they must be a hundred different treatments.
The use of words-- formulas or statements of truth in the
sense of treatment -- is as useless as trying to get today's news
out of yesterday's newspaper or trying to pick yesterday's manna.
Manna falls fresh everyday, and in the same way, inspiration flows
fresh with every demand made upon it; therefore, do not try to
use the inspiration of today for a treatment tomorrow. Inspiration
will come at any moment that there is a need, because your heavenly
Father knoweth that you have need of these things.
There is no one treatment or form of treatment that meets every
need. This is because all human beings live at different levels.
Furthermore, not only is each person at a different state or stage
of consciousness, but any one person is at a different stage of
consciousness on different days. Inasmuch as on one is always
on the same level of consciousness, a treatment must meet the
needs of the particular state of consciousness of the particular
person on the particular day.
Every call for help always involves a person or persons -- a condition
of the body, a condition of business, or a condition of the mind.
Nevertheless, whatever the nature of the problem, the treatment
is a realization of the problem as but the carnal mind, and the
treatment always remains on the level of God. If for example,
a call for help should come in connection with marital difficulties,
you would remember that, as a practitioner, you have no advice
to offer, and, therefore, you have nothing to do with the human
aspects of the case because the human picture has no relationship
whatsoever to the divine. Never come down to the level of trying
to patch up quarrels; never come down to the level of trying to
hold couples together or of trying to bring about a separation.
Spiritual work is not a patching up of the human scene; It
is an understanding that what is appearing to us as a problem
is a suggestion of a self hood apart from God, having no more
substance than the water on the desert. With this awareness then
comes the realization of God as the only being, complete and whole.
That realization would bring an assurance and with it would come
a sense of peace. If the assurance did not come, then I would
sit down again and establish the peace and quiet within myself
until the feeling came that all was well. Another call may come
from a person who is ill. When a claim involves something dealing
with activity, such as the activity of the heart or the lungs,
instantly would come the recognition that this is a mental image,
and I would realize God as omni-action, God as the only activity
of life, of being, and of body; and thereby establish that sense
of God-action and God-being.
You must have noticed by now that the entire treatment is a
recognition of the non power of the condition; it deals only
with God and is always on the level of God, not on the level of
mortal man. furthermore, the treatment is given almost before
the telephone receiver is put back on the hook; or, if the request
for help has come by way of a letter, it is accomplished before
I have reached the bottom of the page. However, if I did not immediately
sense that all was well, I would sit back for a moment, meditate,
find my inner peace, realize my oneness with God -- and this is
treatment. If, an hour or two later, a case should come back to
my thought with a feeling of urgency, I would give another treatment
because the very fact that it has come back to my mind indicates
that it is undoubtedly unfinished business. Again, the realization
is that this problem is but an appearance and that God is the
only life - indivisible, inseparable, and perfect.
At the moment of realization, our treatment is complete. This
may be the very moment when your patient is healed. However, the
healing is not always immediately apparent. There are many reasons
for a delayed response. One thing, though, to be borne in mind
is that the healing of a specific dis-ease -- physical, mental
or whatever -- is not the aim of spiritual healing.
The demonstration is the realization of God. Therefore,
if you begin any treatment by asking, "father, what is the
nature of this demonstration/" very quickly the answer may
come in some such form as this: Demonstrate Me. Demonstrate that
I am a living, moving being in your life. Demonstrate that I am
present in you. Demonstrate that I am as vital in you as I was
in my son, Jesus Christ.
Unless you go to God for but one purpose -- for God and
God alone -- you are acknowledging two powers, good and evil,
and you are expecting God, the big good Power, to do something
to the nasty little evil power. Rest will never come, nor will
peace, as long as you are waiting for a great big God to do something
to an error. Peace will come only when you can sit quietly in
the realization:
Thank You Father, all I expect of your word is that it
will burst the bubble, pierce the veil, because harmony already
is. I would not be here waiting to hear Your voice if I believed
there were inharmony and discord. You should want God only for
the purpose of God-realization. What God does to you or to your
affairs is an entirely different matter. The minute you try to
direct God to bring you companionship or a home, an occupation
or a talent, God then becomes the means to an end. That is shocking
when you stop to think about it; it is almost blasphemous -- this
idea of using God -- and yet the commonly accepted thing for you,
or that by your words God can be influenced in the right direction.
That is not prayer, and that is why most prayer is not effective.
The only effective prayer is the attainment of God-realization.
Usually the second half of the treatment is much shorter
than the first half, and even though it is the more important
part, it is one which many metaphysicians disregard entirely.
They think that the treatment they have given is the healing agency,
and that is the reason so many treatments are not successful.
Once again, I must repeat, you do not give the treatment that
heals: You are but the vehicle through which it comes. Your
treatment is merely to prepare your consciousness for the receptivity
of the real treatment, the work of God which comes to you from
God within. Into the state of receptivity which has been developed
through knowing the truth, the word of God pours itself forth:
God gives the treatment which does the actual healing work.
The ultimate of treatment is reached when no works, no
statements of truth, no affirmations, and no denials are used.
That is the ultimate state, but not only cannot everyone attain
that state, but no one I have ever known has been able to maintain
it continuously, therefore, from time to time, there is a reverting
to a form of treatment that has in it some words and some thoughts.
However, it must be understood that no treatment is complete until
some measure of inner assurance has been achieved. It does not
make too much difference what form of treatment you use to raise
yourself up to that point where you receive that inner release
which assures you that the treatment is complete, but it does
make a difference that you do not consider the treatment complete
until you have had this feeling of peace within your self.
Treatment clears our thought of superstitions, ignorance,
and false theories and makes of it a transparency for "My
thoughts." You will never be a healer: You may be a practitioner,
but you will never be a healer. The sense of peace that come to
you -- the peace that passes understanding -- is the healer. When
you attain that, healing takes place. It is the awareness of God
that does the healing.
Developing a Healing Consciousness
By Joel S. Goldsmith, The Art of
Spiritual Healing, In part: page 73. Chapter VI
