we continue today with chapter 8 healing
as corrected perception i said before
that the Holy Spirit is the answer he is
the answer to everything because he
knows what's the answer to everything is
ego does not know what a real question
is
although and ask an endless number that
you can learn this as you learn to
question the value of the ego and thus
establish your ability to evaluate its
questions when the ego tempts you to
sickness do not ask the Holy Spirit to
heal the body for this would be it
merrily be to accept the egos believe
that the body is the proper aim of
healing ask rather that's the Holy
Spirit teach you the right perception of
the body for perception alone can be
distorted homely perception can be sick
because only perception can be wrong
wrong perception is the wish that things
be as they are not the reality of
everything is totally harmless because
total harmlessness is the condition of
its reality it is also the condition of
your awareness of its reality you do not
have to seek reality it will see you and
find you when you meet its conditions
its conditions are part of what it is
and this part only is up to you
the rest is of itself
you need to so little because your
little part is so powerful that it will
bring the whole to you except then your
little part and let the whole be yours
homeless heels because it is of the mind
all forms of sickness even unto death
are physical expressions of the fear of
awakening
there are attempts to reinforce leaping
out of fear of waking this is a pathetic
way of trying not to see by rendering
the faculties foreseeing ineffectual
rest in peace is a blessing for the
living not the dead because rest comes
from waking not from sleeping sleep is
withdrawing waking is joining dreams are
illusions of joining because they
reflect the egos distorted notions about
what joining is that the holy spirit to
has used for sleep and can use dreams on
behalf of waking if you let him how you
wake is the sign of how you have used
sleep
to whom did you give it to know which
teacher did you place it whenever you
wake spiritedly it was not given to the
Holy Spirit only when you awaken
joyously have you utilize sleep
according to his purpose you can indeed
be quote drugged by sleep if you have
misused it on behalf of sickness sleep
is no more of form of death and death is
a form of unconsciousness complete
unconsciousness is impossible
you can rest in peace only because you
are awake healing is released from the
fear of waking and the substitution of
the decision to wait the decision to
wake is the realization of the will to
love since all healing involves
replacing fear with love the holy spirit
cannot distinguish among degrees of
error or if he top that one form of
sickness is more serious than another he
would be teaching that one error can be
more real than another
its function is to distinguish only
between the false and the true replacing
the false with the true the ego which
always wants to weaken the mine
tries to separate from the body in an
attempt to destroy it
get the ego actually believes that is
protecting it
this is because the ego believes that
mind is dangerous and that to make
mindless is to heal but to make mindless
is impossible since it would mean to
make nothing out of what God created the
ego despises weakness even though it
makes every effort to induce it go once
only one hates to the ego this is
perfectly sensible believing in the
power of attack the ego once attack the
Bible and joins you to be perfect to
heal all errors to take no thought of
the body as separate and to accomplish
all things in my name
this is not my name alone for ours is a
shared identification the name of God
son is one and you are enjoying to do
the works of love because we share this
oneness our minds our whole because they
are one if you are sick you are
withdrawing from me that you cannot
withdraw from me alone you can only
withdraw from yourself and me you have
surely begun to realize that this is a
very practical course and one that means
exactly what it says I would not ask you
to do things you cannot do and it is
impossible that I could do things you
cannot do given this and given this
quite literally nothing can prevent you
from doing exactly what I asked and
everything argues for you're doing it i
give you no limits because God lays not
upon you and you limit yourself
we are not of one mind and that is
sickness yet sickness is not of the body
of the mind all forms of sickness or
size that the mind is split and does not
accept a unified purpose
the unification of purpose then is the
Holy Spirit only way of healing
this is because is the only level at
which healing means anything
the reestablishment of meaning in a
chaotic thought system is the way to
heal it
your task is only to meet the conditions
for meaning since meaning itself is of
God if your return to meaning is
essential to his because your meaning is
part of his your healing then is part of
his health since it is part of his
wholeness he cannot lose this but you
cannot know it yet is still his will for
you and his will must stand forever and in all things.
And from the workbook
let me not forget my function
less than 60 for today's idea is merely
another way of saying let me not wander
into temptation
the purpose of the world you see is too
obscure your function of forgiveness and
provide you with justification for
forgetting it
it is the temptation to abandoned god
and his son by taking on a physical
appearance it is this the bodies eyes
look upon nothing the bodies eyes seemed
to see can be anything but a form of
temptation since this was the purpose of
the body itself that we have learned
that the Holy Spirit has another use for
all the illusions you have made and
therefore he sees another purpose in
them to the Holy Spirit the world is a
place where you learn to forgive
yourself what you think of as your sins
in this perception the physical
appearance of temptation becomes the
spiritual recognition of salvation to
review our last few lessons your
function here is to be the light of the
world a function given you by God it is
only arrogance of the ego that leads you
to question this and only the fear of
the ego that induces you to regard
yourself as unworthy of the task
assigned to you by God himself the
world's salvation awaits your
forgiveness because through it does the
Son of God escape from all illusions and
thus from all temptation the son of god
is you only by fulfilling the function
given you by God will you be happy that
is because your function is to be happy
by using the means by which happiness
becomes inevitable
there is no other way therefore every
time you choose whether or not to
fulfill your function
you are really choosing whether or not
to be happy let's remember this today
let's remind ourselves of it in the
morning and again at night and all
through the day as well
prepare yourself in advance for all the
decisions you will make today by
remembering they're all really very
simple
each one will lead to happiness or
unhappiness in such a simple decision
really be difficult to make but not the
form of the decision to seaview
complexity of form does not apply
complexity of content it is impossible
that any decision on earth can have a
Content different from just this one
simple choice that is the only choice
the Holy Spirit sees therefore it is the
only choice there is today then let us
practice with these thoughts let me not
forget my function let me not try to
substitute mine for God's let me forgive
and be happy at least once to vote 10 or
15 minutes today to reflecting on this
with closed eyes related thoughts will
come to help you if you remember crucial
importance of your function to you and
to the world in the frequent
applications of today's idea throughout
the day devote several minutes to
reviewing these thoughts and then
thinking about them and about nothing
else this will be difficult at first
particularly since you are not
proficient in the mind discipline that
it requires you may need to repeat let
me not forget my function quite often to
help you concentrate
two forms of shorter practice periods
are required at times do the exercises
with your eyes closed trying to
concentrate on the thoughts you are
using at other times keep your eyes open
after reviewing the thoughts and then
look slowly and then selectively around
you telling yourself this is the world
it is my function to save
let me not forget my function
So today,
from the text we are reminded
that our healing is corrected perception,
unified awareness.
We are reminded that healing is not of the body
that only perception can be healed.
The body is not the proper aim of healing,
the mind is the proper aim of healing.
And so we ask the Holy Spirit, teach us the right perception of the body
We are willing to release all distorted perception
and to experience, healed or whole perception.
To live from a holistic perspective
of the world.
To release linear time
and open to healed perception
and onward to eternity,
reality.
Today we would meet
the conditions of healing.
That is our small part.
Jesus tells us this part is only up to you,
the rest is of itself.
You need to do so little
because your little part is so powerful
that it will bring the whole to you.
Accept then your little part let the whole be yours.
We would let our dreams be used for healing and wholeness.
Today we will remember our function.
We will use the idea for today as frequently as necessary,
many, many, many times throughout the day.
Letting go of everything the bodies eyes seem to see
Letting go of all forms of temptation.
Opening to the new purpose that the Holy Spirit offers
Our purpose of forgiveness.
We say the idea for today, as often as necessary.
"Let me not forget my function"
Amen