ACIM Chapter 2. V. A. Special Principles of Miracle Workers P 15, 16. The level-adjustment power of the miracle induces the right perception for healing.
ACIM Chapter 2. V. A. Special Principles of Miracle Workers P 15, 16
A. Special Principles of Miracle Workers P 15
15 (5) The level-adjustment power of the miracle induces the right perception for healing. Until this has occurred healing cannot be understood. Forgiveness is an empty gesture unless it entails correction. Without this it is essentially judgmental, rather than healing.
I wrote this many years ago, but it is a good example of how it felt as I learned to allow the level-adjustment power of the miracle to induce the right perception for healing. I no longer waver now as I did then. Forgiveness practiced over and over has strengthened my faith and trust. But it took practice to get here.
Fear for My Son
My son injured his back and has been in constant, unrelenting pain for the last several years. It is very depressing for him, and sometimes when he talks to me about it, I lose focus. I start living from the lower levels. I believe in his pain, and I become very afraid for him. How long can someone suffer that kind of pain without giving up? What if he gives in and gets the surgery which he has been told could be very dangerous? The pain drives him to greater and greater amounts of medication. What if he overdoses himself?
When I am experiencing this situation from a pure ego perspective, seeing it as if the world and its stories are real, I lose sight of the truth. When this happens, I join the world in its stories of pain, suffering, and death. The good news is that I never completely lose sight of the truth anymore. No matter how sad, angry, or fearful I am, I can still sense the truth. It is there right beneath the fear.
Here is the way I experience this. Last night I felt so much pain for my son that I just sat and cried. I asked Jesus to sit with me and give me comfort while I felt this. Eventually, I remembered the truth of it. I envision he and I sitting quite apart from this story and watching it. He is not in pain, and I am not sad for him because we know it is just a story, and we are both perfectly safe. Then I pray with all my heart that I have that right. And then I cry for myself that I waver between love and fear, and I ask for the strength to see clearly.
Returning My Mind to Peace
I am so grateful that, while my attention may be pulled away, I never completely lose sight of the truth and am always drawn back to it. After I cry and after I am comforted, I forgive this situation. I ask the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of the belief in pain, suffering, and death. Then I remember that awakening is my purpose and my only purpose, and despite what ego says about that, remembering my purpose does not mean I am abandoning my son in his pain. Quite the opposite.
As my mind returns to peace, I realize that, once again, I have experienced a miracle. Nothing in the world changed, and yet everything changed. Through the miracle of a changed mind, I now see this on a higher level, one outside of form. What do I care about how it seems to the body’s eyes? Nothing can stand against the power of Truth. The miracle is available to us all in every circumstance. “Holy Spirit, be with me today, and when I begin to sink into the murky and dense level of form, lift me up. Thank you, God. I love You, God.”
A. Special Principles of Miracle Workers P 16
16 (6) Miracle-minded forgiveness is only correction. It has no element of judgment at all. The statement “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” in no way evaluates what they do. It is an appeal to God to heal their minds. There is no reference to the outcome of the error. That does not matter.
I don’t watch the news or read the paper very much. However, I have an app on my phone that gives the headlines and a brief article. One morning I noticed another person being arrested for yet another sex crime against a child. Looking at his picture, I noticed how judgmental I felt about him. I asked the Holy Spirit to heal my mind of judgment, but I also noticed that I was resistant to the healing. I was disturbed to realize that I wanted to be healed, but I believed this man was guilty and deserved my condemnation. Then I remembered a dream I had last night.
In this dream, I was at a party, and all sorts of party things were happening. I heard someone talking about an infant being healed. I started listening, and the person said that the baby had tumors in its brain and that Jesus healed the child. I was riveted and wanted to know how this one done. Then Jesus sat across from me and told me how he did it.
Jesus Tells Me How He Heals
I don’t remember all he said or his exact words (I wish I did), but he basically told me that he looked at only what was real about the baby. He didn’t see the tumors. I began to cry as I started to understand the importance of what he was saying. A lovely young woman was sitting on the other side of me, and every time I would begin to cry again, she would reach up with a gentle finger and touch my face. I woke up very happy and excited about the dream knowing something important had happened.
As I remembered the dream, I thought about the man in the news item and understood that this person’s sick attraction to children was no different than the baby’s brain tumor. Both were just reflections of a mind that needs to be healed. And the way to heal is to know only the truth about them. I would never judge the sick child because he was born with a tumor, and I don’t want to judge the man with the sick mind, either.
Asking for Healing
I asked the Holy Spirit to heal my mind so that I could be a miracle worker like Jesus. I asked him to help me to see sickness as the nothing that it is, the way Jesus explained it in my dream. Help me to disregard the outcome because it does not matter and to know only the unchanging truth matters.
“Father forgive us for our stories, all of them, whatever form they might take. We don’t know what we do, and we have forgotten that they are just stories from a sick mind, have no reality at all, and are meaningless. Teach us that they are all the same error and that they are all healed as we are willing to give them to You. Heal our minds and bring us back to reality.”
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