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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way."
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A Course in Miracles says that we are both teachers and students to each other, and it is in that spirit that we share our learning process here. It is the authors' hope that others will benefit from our efforts to explore the inner and outer spaces of that which we share together our unique individuality and experiences, as well as our mutual interconnectedness. |
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In the following chapter, I describe some of the experiences I've had as a practicing spiritual healer during the past twenty years. These healing interactions have convinced me that my focused attention, infused with an attitude of willingness to be used as an instrument of healing, is actually effective in assisting the self-healing of others. I have learned that healing, like remote viewing, occurs in a stress-free environment of trust, where both healer and client maintain an attitude of openness and expectancy. I have come to approach each healing interaction as an experiment, and I ask my clients to regard healing sessions as experiments among friends. This allows for what feels like a merging of our consciousnesses, which can only set the stage for the "unreasonable" nonlocal healing to occur. |
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When I participate in a healing interaction, I offer my imperfect faith, my ignorance, my willingness to help, and a talent for merging minds with others. My perceptions of illness and disease are from the point of view of a spiritual healer, and remind me of the poem Anthem, by Leonard Cohen: |
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Ring the bells that still can ring!
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything:
That's how the light gets in. |
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Our pain and suffering can push us to the brink of our sensory and analytical awareness, and force us to open ourselves to the possibility of help from a greater nonlocal spiritual realm. That was the gift my suffering gave to me. |
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