Living In The Light

I’d like to talk about something I don’t hear much about when healing is discussed and that is relative vs absolute healing. First I need to discuss some metaphysics and philosophy to create a foundation for this discussion.

I’m a student of A Course In Miracles (ACIM) but I’ve also studied some Buddhism and some Hinduism. For those who aren’t familiar with ACIM, this is a book actually 3 books in one with a total of about 1300 pages. The 3 books were channeled to a woman in NY over 7 years beginning in 1965. The channeling came from an individual identifying himself as Jesus. The teachings are elegant and brilliant and do use some terminology from the bible but they’re quite different from the usual Christian teachings. It incorporates a great deal of modern psychology with Spiritual teachings. ACIM is basically a self study manual for Enlightenment.

All three of these teachings, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jesus in ACIM have a common premise: That premise is that this world and every thing in it, is an illusion or a dream. If we are to end suffering including disease, we must wake from the dream. In Hinduism and Buddhism this awakening is called Nirvana. Hindus describe this as Union with the Supreme Being. That’s also the meaning of Yoga. In ACIM it is the same, the illusion of this world is revealed and in its revelation (like waking from our sleeping dreams) it disappears to the unreality from which it came. When the illusion is removed we then realize we are a part of the Supreme being, God whatever you call it. We never left that state of being, we were just dreaming we had left. In that state of Union we are whole, perfect Love, perfect Joy, perfect as the creations and creators that we are. Furthermore, we have always been that and will always be that. This return to our wholeness and holiness is what I’m referring to when I say Absolute Healing. At that point you are the Buddha, you are the Christ, you are God and that is what you are and what you’ve always been.

Relative healing is everything else. It includes energy work like Reiki, Reconnective and Reintegrative healing, qi gung and anything else that can facilitate some kind of healing for the individual. Often relative healing can be an aid or path to Absolute healing. In my work, Reconnective and Reintegrative healing, it’s the Higher Self (the part of us now connected with Divinity) that we are reconnecting or Reintegrating with. So relative healing is important while we are in the illusion but it’s temporal and temporary. We are all moving toward that state of Absolute healing regardless of weather we have some particular practice or not. Ultimately we will all arrive, in reality we already have because time is part of the illusion.

Another premise common to these teachings is that there is just One of us appearing as many. That is why Buddhist tell us that complete Enlightenment can’t come for anyone until it’s accomplished by all.

Thank you for sharing this information, and thank you for sharing this journey back Home with me at this time.

I believe that one of the features of this time around 2012 is that more people than ever will wake from the dream, and that’s a very good thing!

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