"Be still, and know that I am God" ~ IV

Heaven is order, harmony; but the power tending to produce it within us may be interfered with, and if there is selfishness or uncleanness at the centre there will be a corresponding outward expression. If the spiritual life sickens, if there is spiritual death, negation or strife, then the outward organism will manifest the conflict that is going on within. If a man is living a life of intemperance of any sort, there is both the effect produced on the body through drinking, smoking, excessive eating, inordinate physical desires and passions; and also the mode of life within man's selfhood which permits and fosters this intemperance, leading as it does from one excess to another. In contrast with all this excess, rational balance between tendencies and desires is health. If envy rules at the centre, if there is hate at the helm, revenge, anger, jealousy, bitterness, anxiety, worry; fear of the loss of money, reputation, or fear of punishment and death--in each case the person's life is affected according to the prevalence or persistence of the disordered state. Whatever evil desire, lust, or other selfish emotion arises to throw man's inner life into discord also causes the bodily organism to suffer. If man is in doubt, in inner strife or temptation, his mental and physical life respond accordingly. All these disordered states are traceable to the prevailing desire or love, since what man wants he pursues, and by putting forth his activity in the chosen direction he draws himself toward the conditions which fulfil his desire. We all know how the changes begin which cause our misery, if we are in the habit of noticing the immediate results in our feeling. To have an impulse to do a good act, to be charitable, forgiving, generous; and then to cut off this prompting to be generous by being mean, small, hateful, spiteful, is to find our inner life immediately narrowed, cramped, impeded. You begin to be healed from the moment you see the sources of trouble in yourself, your attitude and the mode of conduct springing from it; for you then cease to blame your neighbors and your God, and begin with yourself. Your restoration will continue in so far as you transfer your allegiance to the ever-present, inflowing life which never seeks anything within you short of your freedom, your health, your larger social service. HEALING in the spiritual sense of the word begins with the discovery of our inner powers as children of God, made in His image and likeness. For through such discovery we learn that the spirit is potentially a master and can overcome interior and far-reaching causes of human misery. From this time forth it is never a mere question of illnesses and external obstacles to be surmounted, but of the attitudes, beliefs, habits, which underlie external conditions and give them their power over us. Spiritual healing, therefore, like the original Christianity, ministers to the whole individual, as a physical or natural being, as mental and social, moral and spiritual. Thus it takes all the facts and conditions of disease and suffering into account, ignoring nothing. It frankly faces the facts of heredity and environment, the given social atmosphere, noting man's multiform nature, conscious and subconscious. But whatever the character and force of the external circumstances in a given case, the centre of activity is found in the inner life. Hence the method employed implies the use of those superior agencies accessible to the human spirit which touch the heart. If, for example, "perfect love casteth out fear," we are concerned not with the fears to be cast out but with the conditions that enlist the aid of "perfect love." If there is an inner peace which "passeth all understanding," we must endeavor to rise above our ordinary mental processes to realize this peace through actual inner experience. How then shall I demonstrate? The spiritual law is that I should act from God's power "as if" that power were my own. Unless I make the effort, unless I put forth the energy to conquer something that is before me, such as a tendency to drive forward with restless energy, I do not put myself in line with the Life that is here to win the victory. My part is to show that I am ready to take the practical initiative, and follow up my prayers with deeds done. What I must do, therefore, in order to demonstrate is to put out of the way whatever thought, attitude of will, emotion, habit, deed or mode of conduct there may be that interferes with the coming of what the Father has provided. Then when my thinking, my willing and my conduct follow the spiritual order, I may indeed make use of my imaging power, my affirmations and all the rest of my psychological equipment, to foster the things of the Spirit. The hard part for most of us is to attain the spiritual order. We want things to come in our way and when we want them. We would like to sail serenely down the stream of time with everything that could gratify human desire floating to us out of the air, while we smilingly discourse on the success of our demonstrations. But that is not the order of things in the spiritual life. The new teaching of our time shows how to begin more immediately where beginnings are effective, that is, with ourselves. No one who sincerely wishes to live by the spiritual law will find himself without guidance. There is always something at hand to begin upon. There is always some word of wisdom we can begin to apply. To demonstrate is to begin. To begin is to find the little becoming more. "God helps those who help themselves." And this deeper self-helpfulness means in the language of the new philosophy of healing a growing recognition on our part of "the Science of the Christ." The direct reading of the Gospels themselves are guides to practical life and spiritual healing, as this the distinction between Jesus and the Christ proves helpful. Each reader will then be free in other connections to reinterpret as he chooses. Excerpted from: SPIRITUAL HEALTH AND HEALING by HORATIO W. DRESSER. Ph.D. 1922 I used to do healing modality that said all dis-ease started in the Etheric field. I've since learned it starts in the mind. Intuitively energy workers may recognize the internal problem, but NOT the reason (the thought or belief) that caused it. Meridians or grids are other externalizations. So then, things like theAxiotonalAlignment or theReconnection then become meaningless except as beliefs in a power outside of you. Hartmann espoused the concept of a central mind, in which all individual minds have their root. Through it they

can get into communication with each other as over the telephone

— a simile he has no hesitation in using — and from it they can draw, not only the particulars of the present world-state in distant places, but also the particulars of future events. "THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FUTURE" BY EMILE BOIRAC-1918 shows these pics: Mind affecting mind? The Power of Suggestion? Suggestibility? Gullibility? The 1st picture purports to shows the operator influencing someone doing automatic writing. Professor Flournoy's experiments with mediums like this resulted in his talking of silliness, childish joy in self -invented comedies, and relapse to a lower stage of development than that occupied by the sensitives in their waking condition. He looked at latent childhood sexual emotions, and came to the conclusion that the communications came from within the subject and reflected their own dispositions, whether consciously or not. Flesch–Kincaid: 10.8

Alice M. Reed Dresser and Horatio W. Dresser (1935)