I Am Feeling Skeptical
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TODAY’S READING:
53.5-55.4
I am in a doubting place today. This is the reason I keep my mind and practice on reminding myself of the principle I have come to believe in. Do you ever find yourself in a place of skepticism? I mean, what if it really is all wrong?
That’s when I begin to look at it all from what I consider a logical perspective… but my logic starts in the esoteric.
Existence exists? Right? I have to assume it does, because as far as I know I exist. That’s what philosopher, René Descartes proposed when he wrote, “Cogito ergo sum.” While it is traditionally translated as “I think, therefore I am,” but can also be translated as, “I am aware, therefore I exist.”
What is it I have awareness of? Well, I have awareness of myself, I have awareness of form which is beyond my perception of myself, and I feel a sense of something formless beyond that. If I am aware of all of this, I must be part of all of this. That just feels logical to me. Maybe it doesn’t to you, but you get to decide! After all I am not here to tell you what to think; all I can do is tell you what I have found works for me and has made my life better.
So what does this have to do with today’s reading? Well, today starts with, “We should be able to look a discordant fact in the face and deny its reality… we should be able to look at a wrong condition with the knowledge that we can change it.” The only way we can do this is to first approach the proposition from a logical and intellectual point of view. There comes a time, however, when the intellectual mind must give way to the feeling heart. If feeling were not an important part of our expression as life, I can’t imagine we would have knowledge of or experiences in feeling. So let’s find the balance.
Last night I was present for a second year practitioner training class at Global Truth Center (where I was taught ministry). It is a class I have been sitting in on and supporting in teaching. Last night’s class was all about healing and physical health. The big question came up, one that many do find hard to move through. The question is this, can we heal the physical through the use of only the mind? The entire Science of Mind philosophy hangs on the idea that, yes, this is possible.
So a person with cancer can be healed through the use of mind only?
In Science of Mind the answer is, yes.
So why does it not seem to work for some (and I do say “for some” because there are definite examples of healing through mind: Louise Hay, Anita Moorjani, and more)? Why do we need chemotherapy and radiation and various other forms of medical treatment?
Well, in a word, we need those things because we are convinced we need those things. It’s all a question of faith. Where does our faith lie? It is in faith that we experience healing, so we can have the all encompassing faith of our Divinity and heal that way, or we can have faith in medicine and heal that way. I expect many of us have a combination, a little faith here and a little faith there. What will it take to move to a place of deep conviction?
The proposal for the practitioner students was this, a person comes to you with a medical diagnosis and has been told by multiple doctors that surgery is the only answer for healing. This person wants to be healed of the condition through mental work only and not have surgery. The question for the practitioner students was to assess their own level of conviction in this proposition. How do we speak to the person about this? What came to the surface was some doubt (and if you ever experience a practitioner with doubt, find another practitioner).
It is our work to be free of doubt about the power of our mind. Our conviction must be 100% in the place of our knowledge and feeling of Divinity as us.
That is healing. That is how we use it.
I am not feeling at all skeptical any longer.
I know who I am.
And I know who you are.
We are one!
We are pure Spirit.