Psych. 2 – IV. 3 – 6. Jesus: “Healing is the outcome of therapy, which is correction of mistaken thought. And we have said already and will say again, all therapy is psychotherapy! To ‘heal the sick’ is but to bring this realization to them.
Even among the more ‘respectable’ therapists of the world, the word ‘cure’ has come into disrepute, and justly so. For not one of them can really cure anyone, and not one of them really understands what healing is. At worst, they make the patient’s 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. Given what we have learned about illness already, how could such a process cure?
This process is ridiculous from start to finish. Yet having started, it seems that this faulty therapy must finish as it was begun. It is like saying ‘God is the devil and can only be found in evil.’ Yet how could love be found there? And how could what is just additional sickness, actually cure anything? Are not both these questions but the same?
At best, and the word is perhaps questionable here, the ‘healers’ of the world may have begun to recognize the mind as the source of illness. But their error lies in the belief that the ego-dominated mind, which has chosen sickness, can find a way to cure itself. This might have some merit in a world where ‘degrees of error’ is a meaningful concept. Yet must their ‘cures’ remain temporary, or some other illness rise instead.
For ‘death’ in any sense, has not been overcome until the meaning of love is understood. And who can understand the meaning of love without experiencing the Word of God, given by your Creator to the Holy Spirit, as His gift to you?
Correctly seen, illness of any kind results from a view of the self as weak, vulnerable, evil and endangered, and thus in need of constant defense. Yet if such were really the self, defense would be impossible! Therefore, the defenses sought for must also be imagined and magical. They must overcome all limits attributed to the self, at the same time making a new self-concept into which the old one cannot return.
In short, error is accepted as real and then dealt with by illusions. With truth having been brought to illusions, making them seem somehow real, one’s reality now becomes a threat to the self-concept and is perceived as evil. Love becomes feared because reality is love. Thus is the vicious circle closed against the ‘inroads of salvation.’“
>>> Elsewhere it is said that to be truly helpful to any brother is to bring that one to the Holy Spirit with you, that the power vested in the Holy Spirit may accomplish a real healing.