ACIM Talk 25-The Healed And The Unhealed Healer-Part 1 Of 2

This is the Course in Miracles talk number 25.

This is part one of a two-part talk entitled The Healed and the Unhealed Healer.

Much can be learned about the nature of true healing by examining the difference which the Course describes between the healed and the unhealed healer.

Jesus is an example of a healed healer because he only ever listens to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Although very few are at this stage,

Whenever we allow the presence of the Holy Spirit into our mind during a healing session,

Then in that instant we become a healed healer.

What follows is a number of contrasting pairs of statements with explanations from these two perspectives.

I shall use relevant quotations from the Course to clarify the difference further.

1.

The unhealed healer thinks I have special powers that others don't.

The text states,

Magic always sees something special in quotes in the healer which he believes he can offer as a gift to someone who does not have it.

He may believe that the gift comes from God to him but it's quite evident that he does not understand God if he thinks he has something that others lack.

The statement of the unhealed healer is an easy trap to fall into.

A separated state produces a deep sense of inferiority which is often compensated for by acting in a superior manner.

To believe you are specially gifted with the power of healing leads to a sense of ego inflation and the subsequent comparison and judgment of other healers.

Once again we see the ego's desire to be special and different from other people.

The healer may realize that healing is not of him but through him.

He must still be careful however not to fall into the trap that God has specially chosen him or her over others to bestow his gift of healing.

One,

The healed healer thinks I along with everyone else have all of God's qualities.

We were all created equal.

Differences in ability are only temporary.

The text states,

Healing perceives nothing in the healer that everyone else does not share with him or her.

It is inconceivable to the healed healer that God could create differences amongst his children.

God gave all of himself to his creation.

The Course states that we lack only one attribute and that is the ability to create God.

It is impossible for God to hold anything back from his creation.

That differences of ability exist amongst us in the world of the ego is equally clear but this is only temporary.

For one day everyone will wake up to the glory of who they really are.

The manual for teachers describes the characteristics of advanced teachers of God and states their specialness is of course only temporary set in time as a means of leading out of time.

Two,

The unhealed healer thinks I want a fair exchange for the healing I've given you.

The text states the unhealed healer wants gratitude from his brothers but he's not grateful to them.

That's because he thinks he's given something to them and is not receiving something equally desirable in return.

Thinking he possesses a special gift which his client does not it seems only reasonable to receive some kind of payment in exchange for the healing.

The healing given to the client appears to be a one-way process and thus the unhealed healer feels he is owed something in return.

Although money is the usual form of exchange perhaps it will not be asked for but something will be expected in return.

Some healers will quote utilize the relationship merely to collect bodies to worship at their shrine and this they regard as healing.

This quote is from psychotherapy purpose process and practice pamphlet.

This is also channeled from Jesus through Helen Shuckman.

In one chapter it examines the issue of payment.

Jesus states that even the most advanced teacher of God has some earthly needs and that there is nothing wrong with receiving payment for the time expended by the healer.

To this he adds the caution quote one rule should always be observed no one should be turned away because he cannot pay.

Two the healed healer thinks I lose nothing by giving I only gain.

Lesson 187 states never forget you give but to yourself who understands what giving means must laugh at the idea of sacrifice.

The text states you learn first that having rests on giving and not on getting.

The cost of giving is receiving either it is a penalty from which you suffer or the happy purchase of a treasure to hold dear.

The healed healer knows that to give love and peace to another is to recognize that it must be within himself in the first place.

Thus his very giving strengthens his own recognition of what he must already possess.

This is in opposition to the thinking of the world which believes that you must have less of something if you have given some of it away.

The gifts of God can only increase by giving them away.

Though the healer normally charges his client for his time he is also aware that as the psychotherapy pamphlet states quote no one can pay for therapy for healing is of God and he asks for nothing.

The healed healer also recognizes that she draws the clients whom she needs to help heal herself.

The psychotherapy pamphlet states the therapist sees in the patient all that he has not forgiven in himself and is thus given another chance to look at it open it to re-evaluation and forgive it.

There are no accidents in our lives and everything that happens to us has been agreed by us on some level.

Even if we're not aware of this the healer will be learning the same lessons of forgiveness albeit in other forms.

Thus in each healing session the healer is given another opportunity to heal herself.

The psychotherapy pamphlet states who then is the therapist and who is the patient.

In the end everyone is both.

He who needs healing must heal.

Each patient who comes to a therapist offers him a chance to heal himself end of quote.

Knowing this the healer understands that in every healing session she gives the exchange is always equal as each has the same chance to learn from the other.

3.

The unhealed healer thinks I need to heal the body personality or situation of my client.

The psychotherapy pamphlet states at worst they the therapist to make the body real in their own minds and having done so seek for magic by which to heal the ills with which their minds endow it.

How could such a process cure?

It is ridiculous from start to finish.

Believing that the cause of the illness lies outside the mind of the client the unhealed healer seeks to bring about changes on the level of form.

Orthodox or alternative therapies are used on the body and counseling and advice are given to help change the physical circumstances or situation of the client.

Focusing on healing the symptoms rather the cause in the mind is an example of what the course calls magic.

Magic is the attempt to change something on the wrong level that is on the level of effect instead of cause.

The course also states that there is nothing wrong with magic and most of us need magic for the fear in our mind is too great to allow us to change our mind easily.

If our teeth are hurting then it's wise to go to the dentist.

The unhealed healer believes that his special techniques and forms of healing contain a certain power.

There is no denying that certain techniques can relieve or heal a bodily condition and for many people that is all they ask.

However as the psychotherapy pamphlet states,

False healing rests upon the body's cure leaving the cause of illness still unchanged ready to strike again until it brings cruel death in seeming victory.

Three,

The healed healer thinks all sickness and suffering originates in our mind.

There are no exceptions.

Try to heal something other than the mind makes the error real.

The manual states the acceptance of sickness as a decision of the mind for a purpose for which you would use the body is the basis of healing and this is so for healing in all forms.

The patient decides that this is so and he recovers.

If he decides against recovery he will be healed.

If he decides against recovery he will not be healed.

Who is the physician?

Only the mind of the patient himself.

The healed healer understands that his client's self-image is based on sin,

Guilt and fear and the anger and unforgiveness in his mind has been projected onto his body.

It is the healer's task gently to remind the client that there is another way of looking at the world and himself and that only forgiveness can heal an unforgiveness.

Four,

The unhealed healer thinks although I do not feel the love of God I know what to do to heal you.

The text states you do not understand how to overlook errors or you would not make them.

It would be merely further error to believe either that you do not make them or that you can correct them.

If you do not make them or that you can correct them without a guide to correction and if you do not follow this guide your errors will not be corrected.

The way to undo them therefore is not of you but for you.

Until we open to the love of God we have only our ego as a guide.

The focus of the ego is always on the level of form and it's here that it teach us what to do.

It will tell us that we can acquire powerful techniques and practices which will heal others.

These techniques may treat the body successfully but not the unforgiveness in the mind.

The unhealed healer prefers to rely on his own judgment feeling he knows what is best for his client.

In our scientifically orientated age many believe that research into better medicines and the development of high technology will bring a breakthrough in treating the sick.

However as soon as one disease is conquered another rises to take its place.

As long as we value sickness we will continue to create it.

We will not return to the Holy Spirit for his help until we accept that the only things we are good at is creating problems and not the solutions.

4.

The healed healer thinks only the love of God heals.

As I join with you the love and the light of God fills our minds.

The text states a therapist does not heal he lets healing be.

He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself the light is not of him.

Yet being for him it must also be for his patient.

The Holy Spirit is the only therapist.

He makes healing clear in any situation in which he is the guide.

You can only let him fulfill his function he needs no help for this.

He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone he sends to you for help and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere.

The healed healer looks upon himself as a tool of communication for the healing love of God.

His task is to stop listening to his ego so he may be guided by the Holy Spirit in what to say and do.

In every healing situation his only task is to forgive himself in the presence of the client.

This will allow the Holy Spirit to fill the healer's mind with his presence.

Whatever technique or school of thought the healer works with will be utilized by the Holy Spirit as a form to convey his love and acceptance to the client.

It's not the healer's technique which heals but the love of God extended into the mind of the client.

The love and acceptance of the healer gives the client the opportunity to choose again and forgive instead of attack.

The love of God present in the healer shows the client that her perceived sins have no effect upon her and thus the client has not sinned.

If the client accepts this her guilt and the resulting physical and psychological symptoms cease to exist.

If the client is not ready to take this opportunity to forgive herself the healing has still taken place.

The Course explains this by saying the Holy Spirit continues to hold this gift of love until the time when the client is able to receive it.