12-07-03

Now, how many of you would dearly love to be a healer, to be a Presence in the world that is healing? Recognizably healing. Well, it’s very simple. In order to be a healer, you have to be sure that you’re responding to the problem from a level other than the problem arose from. And you could say there are only two levels – apparently two levels.

One is the level of you existing independent of God, perhaps created by God, but set in an independent mode by God so that you, separate from God, could begin to utilize and develop your God-given talents and abilities. This separate sense of self is one that you’ve created out of imagination and it is one that you have gotten other brothers and sisters to join you in believing in while you join them in believing in their independence. And this level is called the human condition. It’s also called the ego frame of reference. And it’s made up, as we’ve discussed before, of nothing more than mutually agreed upon definitions of the Kingdom of Heaven that are different from what the Father has created the Kingdom of Heaven to be. That’s one level. That’s the level of problems because that’s the level that’s been built on a fundamental perception of yourself that is untrue. And that fundamental perception of yourself that is untrue is that you exist independent from your Source. Whether your source created you and set you free to be independent, or whether you just chose to believe it, it doesn’t matter. The point is that you have accepted this as your premise.

The other level is the level of what we’ve called the Other Operating System, the Holy Spirit, which is nothing more than your right Mind, and which is devoted to one thing only: the Father, or Its Source, your Source, That Which Is Being You, period.

Now, if you want to be a healer and you know that you can’t heal a problem from the level of the problem, it’s obvious then that the only way to be a healer is to move out of the level of mutually agreed upon definitions, to move out of the ego frame of reference; and to lean into the Holy Spirit in you, which is nothing more than your right Mind, so that you might gather from your right Mind the Father’s Perspective, the True Perspective, because from there that which will resolve the problem, or the sickness, or the disease, or the trauma, or whatever the trouble might be, that the solution to that can only come from looking at it with your Source, looking at it with The Father.

Now, all of this is laying a groundwork for what we’re going to be reading. Something which escapes everyone’s attention is the fact that everything you see is affected by the way you are defining yourself to yourself. Whatever your definition of yourself is causes you to see everything else in the shadow of that definition, if I may put it that way. You look at another, or you look at some thing, and you observe it and you observe the way it behaves, and you come to conclusions about it as though those conclusions relate only to the thing you were observing. And you do not realize that the definition of yourself that you are embracing is affecting the definition you’re giving to everything else.

Put simply, because you are attempting to exist and be conscious of life from an independent vantage point, independent of your source, you feel separate, alone, lost, and insecure or afraid. Now, it’s an uncomfortable feeling, so you develop ways to be that cover it up. You develop a way to be with bravado, or with force, or with assertiveness, so that others will not be aware that you are basically afraid. Then, another comes up and behaves in a way that is threatening to you. Is it because they’re really being threatening? Or is it because the way they’re behaving is causing you to connect with your own deep fear? And there is the fear that they will uncover the front, they will uncover the fear that’s behind the front of assuredness that you’re putting forth. Now, they may just be being enthusiastic. They may just be expressing a freedom that you’re not letting yourself have, and that you will not let yourself have; you cannot conceive of letting yourself have it. And you know that, if you continue to be around this person expressing this freedom that you won’t let yourself have, this confidence that you won’t let yourself feel, that it will become obvious to them, you won’t be able to keep it covered up. And so your “weakness” will become obvious to them, which is the last thing you want, and so you experience their behavior as threatening. You see?