Illusion

It is not I doing anything, but I am fixed in the Moment, fixed in the Now, watching my form as on a movie screen as it goes and comes and I direct the whole thing from my extreme vantage point. There is a peace and harmony that comes as part and parcel of the joining. This harmony will come in all things and bring everything together into Oneness. This is trusting God! This total and complete surrender is a forgetting in regard to separation, because in Truth, there is none! The glove now takes the form of the Hand, and cannot ever be separated from It. It was always this way, but in the dark it was ‘thought’ to be a separate entity. GOD in a Box

The Truth

There is only God. There is only the power of God. There is only the presence of God. There is no opposing power. Sin, disease and death are not real and there is nothing to fear. Pain and suffering are never required. In the presence of God, there is only good. In the light of Truth, there is no darkness. In the awareness of joy, happiness, wholeness and abundance, there is no pain, sadness, illness or deprivation. Only the Truth is true. I dedicate this blog to the Truth and peace is inevitable. Thy will be done. Amen

Excerpted from www.FreePrayerBook.com

Feel free to substitute “this situation” (or whatever you have the need for) where I used “blog”

It's okay child, it's only a dream.

It's okay child, it's only a dream. An idea from “Disappearance of the Universe. (DU).

Helping Others

It is never wise to try to force Truth upon anyone. Place your brother "lovingly in the hands of the Father," and know that his own indwelling Lord will take care of him until he is open and receptive to ideas of Truth.
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Now while it is a virtue to be always ready to help others, we must be sure that we are truly helping them, and not hindering them by allowing them to continue in the unwise habits that have brought them to lack.
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The greatest help is to be able to show others how they may help themselves and become self-supporting and resourceful.
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Don't feel that you must open your hands and pass out everything that you have. Conservation is one of the rules of success. You must expect others to do their part. And everyone, no matter how many failures he has had, can do his part.
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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance is very rare
and can be easily be tested
by blindfolding the subject
and giving him a book to read.

If he can read without seeing -
that is conclusive evidence
that he has independent sight.

How to Know When You Have Truth

That's easy. If you have been healed, whether of physical afflictions or mental disturbance or domestic in harmony or business perplexities, or worry, doubt, fear or anything, all is well.

One person gets his healing from a Christian Scientist. Another gets his healing from a Psychologist and someone else gets his healing from another mental practitioner, but if you are healed, there can be nothing but truth in that particular mental science which you have taken hold of--for you!

 
How To Put The Subconscious Mind To Work
By David V(an) Bush (1924)

Works by David Van Bush (1882–1959)

The Book of Life

Phineas P. Quimby, the father of New Thought, taught the "Science of Health and Happiness" . There was something bigger that we were all a part of. And we project the world we see.
History recalls how great the fall can be
His ideas have been carried by the likes of Mary Baker Eddy, the Dressers, Emma Curtis Hopkins, the Fillmores, Malinda Cramer, Nona Brooks, Rev. Joseph Murphy and the like each adding their own distinct flair to the ideas expressed. Others like S. S. Grimke, " Personified Unthinkables, 1884", contributed merely by grasping the idea of mental pictures and their influence. One hundred years after Quimby, Freud would express similar ideas and develop the EGO. A terms Quimby was the first to describe in his own terms.
Were the ideas expressed by New Thought entirely different than those of other parts of the world. No, but unqiue to the time and places they developed and based on the teachings of the New Testament.
Still he's calling us out of our sleep
My friends, we're not alone
He waits in silence to lead us all home
Many books from that period are now once again available. One such author that grasped the ideas of the movement was Robert Collier. Cured by an illness through Christian Science he was an early advocate of Health products and developed an interest in New Thought and the power of the Mind. He penned: "Wisdom of the Ages"[originally titled "The Book of Life"], "The God in You", "The Magic Wand", "The Secret of Power" and "The Law of the Higher Potential Power".
As he wrote in "Wisdom of the Ages", 1924: "Psycholgists and Metaphysicians the world over are agreed on this ~ that Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be. You need not be sick. You need not be unhappy. You need not be poor. You need not be unsuccessful. ...
You body is for all practical purposes merely a machine which the mind uses."
So you tell me that you find it hard to grow
Well I know, I know, I know
And you tell me that you've many seeds to sow
Well I know, I know, I know
　
Collier correctly noted in "Wisdom of the Ages" 1924: "For the law of attraction is service. We receive in proportion as we give out". "...you are but the effect. Your thoughts are the causes.".
He also noted: "The most important province of your conscious mind is to center your thoughts on the thing you want. Believe that you receive, and then shut the door on every suggestion of fear or worry or failure.".
As Thomas Troward, in his "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science" of 1909, wrote: "To get good results we must properly understand our relation to the great impersonal power we are using. It is intelligent and we are intelligent, and the two intelligencies must co-operate. We must not fly in the face of the Law by expecting it to do for us what it can only do through us; and we must therefore use our intelligence with the knowledge that it is acting as the instrument of a greater intelligence; and because we have this knowledge we may, and should, cease from all anxiety as to the final result. In actual practice we must first form the ideal conception of our object with the definite intention of impressing it upon the universal mind -- it is this intention which takes such thought out of the region of mere casual fancies -- and then affirm that our knowledge of the Law is sufficient reason for a calm expectation of a corresponding result, and that therefore all necessary conditions will come to us in due order. We can then turn to the affairs of our daily life with the calm assurance that the initial conditions are either there already or will soon come into view. If we do not at once see them, let us rest content with the knowledge that the spiritual prototype is already in existence and wait till some circumstance pointing in the desired direction begins to show itself."
As Collier eloquently wrote:
"There are three steps necessary.
First to realize you have the power.
Second to know what you want.
Third to single your thought upon it with singleness of purpose."
Can you hear what I'm saying
Can you see the parts that I'm playing
Holy Man, Rocker Man, Come on Queenie,
Joker Man, Spider Man, Blue Eyed Meanie
"The initial step, then, consists in determining to picture the Universal Mind as the ideal of all we could wish it to be both to ourselves and to others, together with the endeavour to reproduce this ideal, however imperfectly, in our own life; and this step having been taken, we can then cheerfully look upon it as our ever-present Friend, providing all good, guarding from all danger, and guiding us with all counsel". Judge Thomas Troward "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science" 1909
So you found your solution
What will be your last contribution?
Live it up, rip it up, why so lazy?
Give it out, dish it out, let's go crazy, Yeah!

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

It occurred to me yesterday that Quimby was essentially a Medical Intuitive and then some.

Most of the material I've read was pre-ACIM so it's presented those terms. From an ACIM perspective Quimby separated "J" the body and the "Christ Mind" ("J" as the human and Christ as the wisdom). He saw man as being made up of TRUTH and BELIEF. Where BELIEF lies below the level of Thought. He also recognized the importance of being in harmony with the self.

He was ahead of his time in discovering that minds were joined. During his experiments with hypnosis he progressed to the stage where all his commands were given mentally. He saw the mind as a spiritual matter always changing in a continuous state of flux, affected by other minds.

He realized he had, and learned to utilize, his spiritual senses of sight, smell, taste and touch. They say he learned to identify different ailments by their smell.

In a broad sense of the term you could say he was a NLP practitioner, using the language of his time (biblical) to relate to his patients. He recognized the rapport necessary between operator(Doctor, Dentist) and patient.

One interesting aspect of his method of treatment was that in the end he would explain to the patient what was wrong, where they had pain or discomfort, and the underlying thought patterns that had invoked it. If he was wrong in his diagnosis the session abruptly ended and charged nothing as he felt he had failed to connect.

I liked that idea. The ramifications of a psychic or medical intuitive reading are astounding.

 

Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true but it is necessary to seek for what is false. Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion into another must fail. If you seek love outside yourself you can be certain that you perceive hatred within, and are afraid of it. Yet peace will never come from the illusion of love, but only from its reality. - A Course in Miracles.( CH16,IV,6)

If you experience peace, it is because the truth HAS come to you. And you will see the outcome truly, for deception cannot prevail against you. And you will recognize the outcome, because you are at peace. A Course in Miracles.(CH17,VI,5.6-5.7)