Lesson 137: When I am healed I am not healed alone
Today’s lesson is trying to remind us of who we truly are – one within the Mind of God. We are not these bodies. We are not our ego. We are not the mind that sees only other bodies and creates categories to separate and divide the world around us.
Healing is simply remembering that we are all one – and in that oneness we are whole – no healing is required. If we are not “healed” alone, then we are never alone in the first place, no matter how our senses tell us that I am over here and you are over there. Our minds are joined in oneness as they always have been.
When we are driven by our ego, however, our minds become sick. We are convinced that the world we can experience with our bodily senses is the real world and the spiritual world we can only sense with our true, Divine Self is an illusion. Healing puts us in our right mind – back in the oneness that we share with one another whether we are consciously aware of it or not.
Our ego, though, likes to keep our oneness shrouded in mystery – making it seem like an ethereal, woo-woo idea. The ego demands that we engage in separation. The current pandemic is a macrocosm of how the ego works – a sick world forces us physically apart. A sick mind forces us apart spiritually.
The physical pandemic has proven to us how important it is that we take care of one another – how important social safety nets are, how imperative it is that everyone have access to healthcare, a basic income, housing and food. The physical separation we have suffered through during this crisis has shown us, clearly, how much we need each other – how interdependent we are – how we are truly one.
The same is true of our mind and spirits. We can never exist alone on any level, therefore, we are never healed alone. We are one in everything – spirit, mind and body.
“Healing is freedom,” this lesson reminds us, and it is strength, as well. “For by its gentle hand is weakness overcome, and minds that were walled off within a body free to join with other minds, to be forever strong.”
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