Day 136

Today's Lesson:

Sickness is a defense against the truth.

No one can heal unless he understands what purpose sickness seems to serve. For then he understands as well its purpose has no meaning. Being causeless and without a meaningful intent of any kind, it cannot be at all. When this is seen, healing is automatic.

Sickness is not an accident. Like all defenses, it is an insane device for self-deception. And like all the rest, its purpose is to hide reality, attack it, change it, render it inept, distort it, twist it, or reduce it to a little pile of unassembled parts. The aim of all defenses is to keep the truth from being whole. The parts are seen as if each one were whole within itself.

Defenses are not unintentional, nor are they made without awareness. They are secret, magic wands you wave when truth appears to threaten what you would believe. They seem to be unconscious but because of the rapidity with which you choose to use them. In that second, even less, in which the choice is made, you recognize exactly what you would attempt to do, and then proceed to think that it is done.

Sickness is a decision. It is not a thing that happens to us, quite unsought, which makes us weak and brings us suffering. It is a choice we make, a plan we lay, when for an instant truth arises in our own deluded minds, and all our world appears to totter and prepare to fall. Now are we sick, that truth may go away and threaten our establishments no more.

Sickness proves the body is not separate from us, and so we must be separate from the truth. We suffer pain because the body does, and in this pain are we made one with it. Thus is our "true" identity preserved, and the strange, haunting thought that we might be something beyond this little pile of dust silenced and stilled.

Thus is the body stronger than the truth, which asks us live, but cannot overcome our choice to die. And so the body is more powerful than everlasting life, Heaven more frail than hell, and God's design for the salvation of His Son opposed by a decision stronger than His Will. His Son is dust, the Father incomplete, and chaos sits in triumph on His throne.

God does not know of our plans to change His Will. The universe remains unheeding of the laws by which we thought to govern it. And Heaven has not bowed to hell, nor life to death. We can but choose to think we die, or suffer sickness or distort the truth in any way. What is created is apart from all of this. Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked. What is unalterable cannot change. And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.

Such is the simple truth. It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. It does not command obedience, nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile our attempts to plan defenses that would alter it. Truth merely wants to give us happiness, for such its purpose is. It knows, with perfect certainty, that what God wills for us must be received.

It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. For times lets us think what God has given us is not the truth right now, as it must be. The Thoughts of God are quite apart from time. For time is but another meaningless defense we made against the truth. Yet what He wills is here, and we remain as He created us.

We will give a quarter of an hour twice to ask the truth to come and set us free. And truth will come, for it has never been apart from us. It merely waits for just this invitation which we give today. We introduce it with a healing prayer, to help us rise above defensiveness, and let truth be as it has always been:

Sickness is a defense against the truth. I will accept the truth of what I am, and let my mind be wholly healed today.

Healing will flash across our open minds, as peace and truth arise to take the place of war and vain imaginings. There will be no dark corners sickness can conceal, and keep defended from the light of truth. There will be no dim figures from our dreams nor their obscure and meaningless pursuits with double purposes insanely sought, remaining in our minds. They will be healed of all the sickly wishes that they tried to authorize the body to obey.

Now will we realize the body is healed. The body should not feel at all. If we have been successful, there will be no sense of feeling ill or feeling well, of pain or pleasure. No response at all is in the mind to what the body does. Its usefulness remains and nothing more.

The body's health is fully guaranteed, because it is not limited by time, by weather or fatigue, by food and drink, or any laws we made it serve before. We need do nothing now to make it well, for sickness has become impossible.

Yet this protection needs to be preserved by careful watching. If we let our minds harbor attack thoughts, yield to judgment or make plans against uncertainties to come, we have again misplaced ourselves, and made a bodily identity which will attack the body, for the mind is sick.

Give instant remedy, should this occur, by not allowing your defensiveness to hurt you longer. Do not be confused about what must be healed, but tell yourself:

I have forgotten what I really am, for I mistook my body for myself. sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am not a body. Any my mind cannot attack. So I can not be sick.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I am currently in Chicago at an organizational development summit, where Bock's Office has a booth at the Expo. I have spoken with several people here who have started talking about some of the messages from The Secret, or have been attracted to me because they want to talk about deeper challenges or opportunities at their companies than the surface things. I know there is no accident here. One woman came over to talk to me about her parents having raised her as a Christian Scientist, which she told me means they don't believe in hospitals or medicine. She had a falling out with her family because she believes there are times and places for medicine. I found it almost ironic that she was introduced to The Secret by her father who told her about it to extend an olive branch, and to show her that there is middle ground between their beliefs. I chuckle to myself because it is almost opposite of my relationship with my mother.

But how did these conversations come to that point? I know it is because I attracted them. As I see how this works in a situation where I know no one, but can talk about anything, I see how we really are more alike than we are different. I've spoken with people who have said they realize people are hungry for the kinds of things they are seeing at our booth. I have talked about my book and about Lance Secretan's book ONE, and also Bob Proctor's materials. It's been a blast and I'm looking forward to this morning's second keynote when Warren Bennis will speak.

Miracles are unfolding all around me and I'm blessed and grateful to be here - both in body and in mind.