Psych. 2. VII. 1 – 5. Jesus: “God does not know of separation. What He knows is only that He has one Son! This knowledge is reflected in the ideal patient-therapist relationship.
God comes to the one who calls, and in Him, that one recognizes his true Self. Think carefully, then, teacher and therapist, for whom you pray, and who it is that is in need of healing! For therapy, in this context, is prayer, and true healing is its aim and its result. What is prayer, then, except the joining of minds in a relationship which Christ can enter into? This joining is His home, into which psychotherapy invites Him, that His presence may be realized.
By comparison, what is mere ‘symptom cure,’ when another symptom is always there to choose? But once the awareness of Christ enters in, what choice is there except to have Him stay? There is no need for more than this, for it is everything to you. Healing is here, and happiness and peace. These are the ‘symptoms’ of the ideal patient-therapist relationship, replacing those with which the patient came to ask for help.
The process that takes place in this relationship is actually one in which ‘the therapist,’ in his heart and soul, tells the patient that all his sins have been forgiven him, along with the therapist’s own. What could be the difference, then, between healing and forgiveness?
Only the Christ in you forgives, knowing His (and your) sinlessness. Christ’s vision heals all perception, and in it sickness disappears. Nor will it return again, once its cause has been removed.
This, however, needs the help of a very advanced therapist, capable of joining with the patient in a holy relationship, in which all sense of separation finally is overcome. For this, one thing and one thing only is required: The therapist in no way confuses himself with God, nor sees his own abilities as doing the healing! In one form or another, all ‘unhealed healers’ have engaged in this fundamental confusion, because they still regard themselves as separate and ‘self-created’ rather than God-created.
The confusion is rarely if ever in conscious awareness, or the unhealed healer would instantly give it up and become a teacher of God, devoting his life to the function of true healing. Before he would have reached this point, however, he would have thought he was the one in charge of the therapeutic process and was therefore solely responsible for its outcome. His patient’s errors thus came to be seen as his own failures, and guilt, once again became the cover, dark and strong, for what should have been experienced as the Holiness of Christ. Guilt is inevitable in those who use their own judgment in making their decisions!
Guilt is impossible in those through whom the Holy Spirit is allowed to speak! Leaving all guilt behind is the true aim of therapy, just as it is obviously the aim of true forgiveness. In this, the oneness of patient and therapist, as well as pupil and teacher, can be clearly seen.”