Course-Based Spiritual Healing
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The Course promises us that we can work miracles. It promises that "the power of one mind can shine into another" (T-10.IV.7:5) and heal it. The Course seems to assume that masses of its students will one day be striding out into the world and healing people left and right. But is this happening? It doesn't seem to be, at least not yet. Either the promise is false, or we have not yet laid hold of the promise.
At the Circle, we believe it is imperative that a genuine discipline of Course-based healing be established. It would be one in which mature students of this path have learned how to get in touch with that power within them that can shine into the minds of others, and have dedicated themselves to using it for the benefit of all. We at the Circle are committed to helping establish this discipline, by offering Course-based healing, as well as training for future healers. For the present, though, all we are able to offer is our writings on this subject, which we hope you will find inspiring and instructive.
Articles on Course-Based Healing
- A Simple Healing Prayer by Nicola Perry. We all feel drawn to praying for others at one time or another. Yet how can we do so in a way that is in keeping with the Course? Nicola offers step-by-step instructions in how to pray for another as an expression of Course principles.
- Jesus, Healing and Miracles: The Promise of Course-Based Healing by Nicola Perry. The Course promises that we can do miracles like Jesus did, yet how can we reconcile that with the Course’s teaching that the body is an illusion? Is there a way to see the healing of the body as a tool for the awakening of the mind?
- A Healing Experience by Nicola Perry. A fascinating account of a transformative session of Course-based healing.
- Miracles as the Power of Reality by Robert Perry. It may seem that seeing a miracle as an amazing happening within the world is incompatible with the Course’s teaching that the world is an illusion. In this piece, Robert defines "miracle" to show that amazing happenings in the world are the natural consequence of the world’s unreality.
- The Role of the Healer in ACIM by Robert Perry. What the "Manual for Teachers" says about healers.
- Will taking medicine reinforce the ego? by Greg Mackie. I have an illness, and am concerned about taking physical medicine. I know the Course does not forbid this, but since physical medicine is magic, won't taking it reinforce my ego?
- Magic: What Is the Place of Medicine? If we are supposed to turn to the miracle for healing, what exactly is the place of medicine?
Articles on Course-Based Psychotherapy
- Watching Your Mind for Thoughts that Block Healing by Robert Perry. Robert provides a series of 26 questions to help one identify common thoughts during a therapy session that get in the way of real healing.
- How to Be Truly Helpful: Doing Course-Based Psychotherapy? by Robert Perry. Robert summarizes the role of the therapist as helping the patient from the little self, through the inflated self, through the guilty self, to the true Self. Based on a close study of Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice.
- How Do You Know if You Are Doing Course-Based Psychotherapy? by Robert Perry. Robert provides a series of statements that describe Course-based therapy, allowing one to see how much one fits the model.
- A Basic Outline of Course-based Psychotherapy by Robert Perry. What exactly is Course-based psychotherapy? What does a Course-based therapist do to bring about healing? What elements of the therapist's work are the elements that actually accomplish the healing? In this article, Robert presents an overview of the psychotherapeutic process as described in the Course supplement Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process, and Practice.
- The Therapist and the Theologian T-9.V, The Unhealed Healer: by Robert Perry. In "The Unhealed Healer," the Course paints a portrait of a traditional theologian and a Freudian psychotherapist. Despite their differences, both have fallen into the ego's plan for forgiveness in their attempts to heal those who come to them.
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