Day 140: Only salvation can be said to cure.

The explanation for today's meditation in A Course in Miracles begins with this:

"Cure" is a word that cannot be applied to any remedy the world accepts as beneficial.  What the world perceives as therapeutic is but what will make the body "better."  When it tries to heal the mind, it sees no separation from the body, where it thinks the mind exists.  Its forms of healing thus must substitute illusion for illusion.  One belief in sickness takes another form, and so the patient now perceives himself as well.

He is not healed.  He merely had a dream that he was sick, and in the dream he found a magic formula to make him well.  Yet he has not awakened from the dream, and so his mind remains exactly as it was before.  He has not seen the light that would awaken him and end the dream.  What difference does the content of a dream make in reality?  One either sleeps or wakens.  There is nothing in between.

My understanding from this passage is that the multitude of so-called "remedies" for the various forms of sickness in this world are just as illusive as the illnesses themselves.  To "awake" to the Real world is the only True cure for disease.  So how do we do this?

We must first re-program our consciousness by reversing the world's brainwashing we have undergone.  The central idea to this false belief system is that we are separate from one another.  In Truth, We are All One.  This is the central idea of the world beyond, the world we Really inhabit, together with God.  This is the root of Love, the root of Joy and the root of Peace.  We are All One.  Once we replace our current foundation with this, we have taken the first step of our Atonement, our Salvation, our Awakening from the dream in which we have been living.

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, once we have taken the first step, God will guide us the rest of the way, if we let Him.  In today's meditation lesson, we pray for this Divine Guidance:

Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.

As we meditate upon the words above, clearing our minds of all empty thoughts which do not serve our well-being, let us envision the healing light of Salvation burning brightly within our souls.  Focus your mind upon that pearl of light as it wells up within you.  Let it shine away any discomfort you may feel within your body.  Let the light radiate outward and join with the light of those around you.  That One Light of our souls combined shall extend even further, filling the inner-vision of your mind as you remember the fundamental Truth that We are All One.  All there is is Light.  From within the midst of that Light, listen closely for the faintest echo of a voice.  This is the Voice of God.  Tune your inner-ear and let His Voice cascade into the core of your being.  Let it instruct you how to proceed in this topsy-turvy world so that you may reach, along with all your Brothers and Sisters, your Salvation.  Here is where your Healing awaits.  Here is where the Gifts of Heaven are held in trust for you.  Here is where your True Home lies, with all those who ever loved you and who will love you forevermore.

If you ever fall prey to illness, gently remind yourself, "I am only dreaming I am sick.  Let me awake to the Light of Truth that I can not be harmed."

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman