Psych. 2. II. 7 – 9. Jesus: “As true religion must surely heal, so must true psychotherapy be religious! But both have many forms because, for example, no good teacher uses the same approach for every pupil. On the contrary, the teacher listens patiently to each one and helps him formulate a curriculum tailored to his own particular needs.
It is not the goal of our curriculum that needs to be formulated, for that is of the Holy Spirit. But what remains to be determined is how the pupil can best achieve the aim it sets for him. Perhaps the teacher does not think of God as part of teaching. Perhaps the psychotherapist does not understand that all real healing comes from God. They can still succeed where many who believe they have already ‘found God’ will fail!
What must the teacher do to ensure learning? What must the therapist do to bring healing about? Only one thing; the same requirement salvation asks of everyone! Each one must share one goal with someone else and in so doing, lose all sense of separate interests.
Only by doing this is it possible to transcend the narrow boundaries the ego would impose upon the self. Only by doing this can teacher and pupil, therapist and patient, you and I, accept Atonement and learn to give it as it has been received. Communion is impossible alone!
No one who holds himself apart can receive Christ’s vision. It is held out to him, but by himself alone he cannot hold out his hand to receive it. Let him be still and recognize his brother’s need for healing is as his own. And let him then meet his brother’s need as his and see that they are met as one, for such they are.
What is ‘religion’ then, but an aid in helping him to see that this is so? And what is psychotherapy except a help in just this same direction? It is the common goal that joins these processes as one, for they are one in purpose and must thus be one in means.”