Healing through the Christ-consciousness
Principled
Dear friends,
On the "old" HP forums I started a forum which I called "A moment of spiritual consciousness" where I posted many awesome healings and experiences of protection. Other HP members shared theirs too. Now I feel its time to do this again and share inspiration and understanding as I go along.
I hope to focus on instantaneous healings, protection from danger and other undeniable proofs of Gods power and presence, (or the Christ, which Jesus so fully embodied and expressed) as they show most clearly the one-ness of God and man, divine Mind and its idea, perfect and whole NOW and HERE, not just something we hope to attain in some place and time after the change called death or by laborious moving up to higher dimensions, but through surrendering our human thinking up to the divine, the Christ, Truth.
The revelation of the Christ-consciousness comes to exactly where we are in our thinking. It is never from without, but from within (which is where Jesus said we would find the Kingdom of Heaven). When God is yielded to as the ALL and ONLY, reality is revealed - it is the coming to consciousness of that which is and then what has been our earth will be transformed into the divine reality it has always been, which is our heaven.
Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness. (Science & Health 332)
Some of the healings I will post will be my own experiences, but there is such a wealth of wonderful healings, protection from danger etc that I want to share from the vast number of articles from the Christian Science Publishing Society too. With others healings, unless they are on the Internet, I cannot post the whole article because of copyright, but if any of you would like to read the article or testimony, please e-mail me your address and Ill be happy to photo-copy it for you to read in its entirety.
Most of you know that I am a student of Christian Science, which was discovered in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, the most prolific healer since the time of Jesus and the early Christians. She wrote down her discovery, which came through "reason, revelation, and demonstration" in her primary work Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures. This Science is not mind-over-matter, positive thinking, not even faith-healing. It is, at its highest, (divine) Mind-healing, which is built on self-surrender and the renunciation of ALL that is unlike God, good.
It happens when we let go of the material view of ourselves and yield to pure reality, our true identity as Gods spiritual idea, HisHer image and likeness (see Genesis 1:27); when we "leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind.." (Science & Health 424). That one divine Mind, or God was what St Paul referred to when he said " Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" (Philippians 2:5)
Well, here is the first one of someone who was facing certain death in a few minutes time from a rattlesnake bite (I thought Id grab your attention at the beginning!) Ive chosen it to begin with, as it is such a clear example of what I mean by the Christ consciousness that frees us from all human beliefs and fears.
The author started off telling us how she and two youngsters had seen a crack on the top rail of a garden wall, which had fooled them, by looking just like a snake. She had used this to explain to the children about the illusory nature of matter and how we can reverse and destroy these illusions with the Truth about them. Little did she know that the lesson from this simple incident would help save her life the next day.
When she felt a sharp pain as the fangs of the rattlesnake sunk into her ankle, she immediately protested with a huge "NO" at the suggestions of death.
..At once came the affirmation "God IS!" with the mental assertion of His allness and oneness with Him as His reflection. Then more truths came almost simultaneously: "God is my Life. I will not die. I will not consent to death."
As faintness came over me, I had to stop beside the garden wall. Through mists of pain I again saw the snakelike crack on the rail in front of me. The lesson learned from this illusion immediately dispelled the feeling that I was blacking out.
She lay down on the couch inside, continuing to pray, holding onto powerful truths of the all-ness of God, Life, and of mans inseverable one-ness with this immortal Life. However, it was becoming more and more difficult to think or speak and she was battling against the urge to fall asleep. Unexpectedly, her nine-year old niece returned saying that she had suddenly wanted to come home to be with her aunt, because she wanted to go bicycling with her!!!
Well, the author of this article Im quoting from felt that this was an angel message to rouse her so she did something that humanly was sheer madness she got up and slowly lifting each foot with her hands, managed to get onto her bicycle and followed the little girl.
As we reached a woodsy area I fell, unable to go on. The child, seeing me, returned, crying out, "Whats wrong? What is the matter with the way you look?"
She then remembered that her early childhood had been lived in an area in the US where rattlesnakes are numerous and at school was always being told to be careful.
All at once, I vividly remembered the long-forgotten description of a neighbours appearance just before his death from a rattlers bite. In a surge of strong revolt against this latent picture brought back by the childs outcry, I once more struggled to my feet, rebelling mentally as well as physically against this senseless threat.
I could no longer see. Then, clearly as if it had been spoken, a familiar statement from Science and Health came to thought: "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive." (S&H 463) At this moment these words were illumined in their absolute, radiantly scientific meaning. I was suddenly no longer aware of my body.
Within a sense of immense and ineffable stillness, I saw that Truth "removes properly" the belief (and that is all evil is) there could be anything in the realm of all-inclusive Love to harm or be harmed, to poison or be poisoned, to fear or be feared, to kill or be killed, for all is infinite Love and Loves manifestation! I felt Gods all-presence as never before. The world was luminous with divine Love. The universe itself could not contain such perfect Love!"
Her vision cleared, the icy coldness drained from her body and it resumed its normal size. She mounted her bicycle and rode back, rejoicing and in awe of the power and presence of Love, Truth and Life!
She writes:
My heart finds no words to express adequate gratitude for such a healing. Yet the purpose of this article is not to testify to the healing of snakebite per se. This experience illustrates the basic fact that when human life is as stake, spiritual awakening alone brings healing.
Wasnt this proved in those desperate moments I experienced? In that radiant instant when the long-familiar passage from Science and Health came to thought and was felt in its absolute, primordial Christ-power rather than in its formerly accepted human soothingness a "new birth" of spiritual illumination took place. From that second, body, snake, time, circumstance, struggle, and death vanished from thought. Infinite Mind and Minds infinite idea were literally felt as All-in-all. Without process or time to formulate conscious thought, the Christ revealed in luminous clarity that since God is the only cause, effect has to be Godlike. No longer did I feel a "me" separate from God. I realized I was Gods expression, the very evidence of God. And this brought about the healing.
(from The snake on the garden wall. by E. G. Heiss Christian Science Journal April 1981)
Love and peace,
Judy
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wonderful reading judy, i still have your book by the way and will read it soon and send back to you
with love
tammyx:D
RE: Healing through the Christ-consciousness
Hello Tammy,
Good of you to pop in hope youre enjoying that biography of Mary Baker Eddy theres no hurry to get it back, especially with this postal strike!
Well, it was hard to decide which of my dozens of healings and other experiences to share today, but heres one of my many instances of protection while flying:
Once, when we were flying over the Caribbean, the Captain came over the PA, almost shouting: "Cabin crew take your seats IMMEDIATELY!". There was a lot of fear in his voice.
I strapped in and just turned unreservedly to God, putting all of us in His/Her care, just like a little child instinctively turns to its parents for safety and reassurance. There were no words, just a deep, deep KNOWING that Loves presence and power were all that was going on. I felt a warm glow, almost as if there were a dozen electric fires in a circle all around me and a deep sense of peace, Love and harmony settled over me and I knew that all was well. It was the sense of peace that the writer above described and which the Bible says is the "peace of God, which passeth all understanding".
It was bumpy for a while, but nothing to be alarmed about and then the fasten seats belt signs went off and we resumed our work.
Later on, as we were walking through the airport terminal, the Captain came up to me (even though there were 15 of us and I hadnt been in contact with him) and said "You just dont know how lucky we were back there." I asked him what he meant and he said that we were flying into a storm front which was 60,000 feet high and 150 miles wide so we could neither go over it or around it and he said the three pilots who had over 70 years flying experience between them had never seen anything like it. He said that they had been absolutely terrified.
"So what happened?" I asked. He looked intently at me: "A miracle. We found a tiny little hole and flew right through the middle of it."
Whither shall I go from thy spirit?
or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there:
if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me,
and thy right hand shall hold me.
(Psalm 139)
Unfathomable Mind is expressed. The depth, breadth, height, might, majesty, and glory of infinite Love fill all space. That is enough!
(Science and Health 520)
Love and peace,
Judy
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A mother decribes how she was in the kitchen of their remote farmhouse when their two-and-a-half year old came running in, crying, saying he had drunk some juice that was burning his mouth. She went out and found an open bottle of fly control phosphate poison that her husband had been using.
She picked the child up and could smell the poison on his breath. She yelled to her husband in the barn but he didnt hear her. She regained control of herself and reached out to God with all her heart in prayer. Looking at the bottle, it said that a physician should be called immediately. She writes:
"I immediately thought of God as our only physician. A familiar description of God, given by Mary Baker Eddy in Science and Health, then illuminated my consciousness like a light; it is found in the Glossary of the book: "GOD: The great I AM; the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal; Principle; Mind; Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all substance; intelligence." (p. 587)
"I became very still and conscious only of Gods allness and presence. I was then at peace and knew that all was well.
A Bible verse from Mark came to me "and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not touch them:" (16:18) I realised no child of God had ever been touched by poison, nor had ever been separated from Gods perfection; our son remained as perfect as God had made him."
She felt freer and noticed that her son had stopped crying so she put him down and he began playing. This all took place within 10 minutes. Her husband arrived and felt the child should be taken to hospital where his stomach was pumped out. It took them two hours from when the poison was drunk to arriving at the hospital. Mrs Davis heard the doctor say that the poison takes less than an hour to have an effect and that the boy would soon go into convulsions and die. This didnt happen.
A few days later, the boys father (who was not a Christian Scientist) said that he didnt believe that the child could have swallowed the poison, so he returned to the hospital and asked if any poison had been found. He was told that poison had been found in the contents of his stomach and throughout his entire system. The doctor then said that he believed the child would be dead had it not been for the mothers faith.
She ends her account with these words:
"I can hardly express my gratitude for this healing, for it brought me such a conviction and understanding of divine Truth. Gods omnipotence was so evident in this healing that reformation took place in our family. My husband began to study Christian Science, and we all experienced a greater sense of Gods goodness and love. I gained more patience as a mother in rearing all our children.
Christian Science has taught me to love and understand the Bible. Through healings in our family, we have seen Christ Jesus teachings made practical." (R. S. Davis Sept 5th 1995 Christian Science Sentinel)
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This healing has always been special to me.I was 17 and was on a ship sailing from Singapore to live in England for the very first time.
I can’t remember how I did it, but I dislocated one of my toes. I tried to manually push it back but it was too painful. My mother asked whether I wanted to go to the medical centre but I was so used to relying on God for healing and finding HimHer the most effective physician that I declined. Mum and I prayed together all that afternoon, acknowledging my innate perfection and wholeness as the image and likeness of God and knowing that accidents were unknown to God, as HeShe only knows harmony and wholeness, like the sun could only know light, not darkness. Because God is the only power, I could not suffer the effects of any other so-called power – in this case called accident.
The next morning there was no improvement and Mum said she felt we ought to go to the medical centre as it wasn’t right for the condition to continue. However, I still somehow knew I’d get this healing. We got right up to the door of the place but I still didn’t want to go in. There were some deckchairs outside on the deck and I asked Mum if we couldn’t just sit down and pray a little more. She gave me an article called "Treat yourself daily" – treat meaning give yourself a Christian Science treatment, rather than give yourself a Mars bar!
Well, I sat there. It was a beautiful day. The sun was streaming down on me and shimmering on the waves and the wind was playing with my hair. I opened this little article and read these words:
"God has endowed each of us with the ability to express His divine power in our daily life. But in order to do this, one must maintain a sense of man’s conscious union with God, eternal Mind. When one realizes God’s everpresence – that He is closer than the atmosphere or the sunlight – he begins to demonstrate his spiritual unity with the Father."
W.C.Coffman
I closed my eyes and leant back in the deckchair, pondering what I had just read. God is closer than the atmosphere or the sunlight. I had the wind blowing all around me and the sun beating down on me. God was closer than that – it just dawned on me that I was ONE with God. This realisation was so profound, so beautiful, so enormous. It was one of those glimpses of reality that I have been so blessed to have occasionally had. It was a moment when I left my mortal thinking and had a moment of the Christ consciousness.
Mary Baker Eddy wrote in her wonderful book Science & Health p. 361 "As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being. The Scripture reads: "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
I had read these words many times, but somehow now I understood them.
Also in Science & Health, in the chapter on Prayer, page 14 is this: "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,--neither in nor of matter,--and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well."
That’s what happened to me – there was a click in my foot and in a split second all was normal. The toe moved back into place on its own and all swelling and discoloration instantly vanished. I jumped up and ran up to join my friends on the pool deck, much to their amazement.
As my thinking became aligned with reality (the Christ-Truth) as I really understood that I am one with God, the very expression of Her being, His image and likeness, so my foot became aligned in its normal position.
Love and peace,
Judy