Hi Jonathan
Hi. Paul. I used the word 'humility' not humanity as you have quoted.
Yes I was in a hurry at the time and perceived it wrongly, sorry about that, saying that humility does not matter where healing is concerned, it is just a self perception, much the same as other perceptions that we choose to classify self as. 🙂
We all generate invisible life force power that is used to create health or sickness within our life experience, we do not need to look further than self, but in order to perceive this we need to move beyond our everyday thinking aspect of consciousness and our memory consciousness and become mindful of the fullness of self.
I do not believe you can teach healing any more than you can teach anyone to be an artist or a poet. The ability to perform these works is born with us and can be brought out during our lifetime. But if not there at the beginning then whatever is produced will be a shadow of the real thing, and unfortunately, may be mistaken for the real thing.
Ah, but an artist can teach someone else to become one, this happens all of the time in art studios and colleges. In order for someone to become a poet, they need to learn literary skills and string the vocabulary together is a certain way. They are not born poets, they learn to become one once they have been given the necessary tools and understanding.
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is the same with art and poetry.
Healing is the same, if someone does not understand healing, then all they can teach is what they do not understand to someone else. They can show them some healing techniques, but there is no understanding behind the techniques. So the person who is learning from them will not gain the necessary insight and conceptual understanding that will empower them to move beyond the techniques and become a mindful healer who can create heal without any techniques.
As for believing in the 'self' I have always found this difficult. How do we define the 'self'? A bundle of emotions and complexes stored in memory and acted upon in life? Does the 'self' even exist except in that form? Perhaps the real Self lies much deeper within our unconscious and is never seen except by those who have knowledge of it and seek it out. This is why the esoteric schools of Christianity and other religions were so secretive about their teachings.
You are whatever you perceive yourself to be in this form. Emotions, which are a physiological response to our thinking, are created in real time by the body to respond to our thoughts, though a lot of people are not aware of the complexity of our consciousness, so do not understand how we can have conflicting emotions, because they do not perceive that we have conflicting thought patterns and beliefs that arise in the different aspects of our consciousness.
It is good to question our understanding, it is also good to assess our beliefs to see if they empower or disempower us and adjust them to suit our current requirements. 😉