From A Course In Miracles:
V. The Unhealed Healer
T-9.V.1. The ego's plan for forgiveness is far more widely used than God's. 2 This is because it is undertaken by unhealed healers, and is therefore of the ego. 3 Let us consider the unhealed healer more carefully now. 4 By definition, he is trying to give what he has not received. … 6 If he is a psychotherapist, he is more likely to start with the … incredible belief that attack is real for both himself and the patient, but that it does not matter for either of them.
T-9.V.2. I have repeatedly said that beliefs of the ego cannot be shared, and this is why they are unreal. 2 How, then, can "uncovering" them make them real? 3 Every healer who searches fantasies for truth must be unhealed, because he does not know where to look for truth, and therefore does not have the answer to the problem of healing.
T-9.V.3. There is an advantage to bringing nightmares into awareness, but only to teach that they are not real, and that anything they contain is meaningless. 2 The unhealed healer cannot do this because he does not believe it. 3 All unhealed healers follow the ego's plan for forgiveness in one form or another. …
T-9.V.4. Some newer forms of the ego's plan are as unhelpful as the older ones, because form does not matter and the content has not changed. 2 In one of the newer forms, for example, a psychotherapist may interpret the ego's symbols in a nightmare, and then use them to prove that the nightmare is real. 3 Having made it real, he then attempts to dispel its effects by depreciating the importance of the dreamer. 4 This would be a healing approach if the dreamer were also identified as unreal. 5 Yet if the dreamer is equated with the mind, the mind's corrective power through the Holy Spirit is denied. 6 This is a contradiction even in the ego's terms, and one which it usually notes even in its confusion. …
T-9.V.6. What, then, should happen? 2 When God said, "Let there be light," there was light. 3 Can you find light by analyzing darkness, as the psychotherapist does, or like the theologian, by acknowledging darkness in yourself and looking for a distant light to remove it, while emphasizing the distance? 4 Healing is not mysterious. 5 Nothing will change unless it is understood, since light is understanding. …
- When I am hallucinating
- You denying that I am hallucinating does not help
- It is important for you to recognise I am hallucinating
- But if you validate my hallucination, you’re trapping me in it
- If you deny I see ghosts under the bed, you cannot help
- If you see the ghosts I see under the bed, you cannot help, either
- Do not deny that I see ghosts
- But do not validate them either
- Help me see that my mind is creating the ghosts
- And like dock leaves growing near nettles
- The solution lies where the problem lies
- The problem is not the ghosts
- They have no content
- The problem is the mind that projects its denied attack
- And sees external attack coming at it, hot and heavy
- They are artefacts of my belief in separation
- What if I am spirit?
- What if I were never separated from God?
- What if I have dreamed this?
- What if I dreamed this because I valued specialness?
- What if this were a mistake?
- What if specialness offers nothing?
- What if I can quietly wake up?
- What if I can let go, rise up, and find the sun above the clouds?
- What if there is nothing out there but other spirits?
- If you have not answered these questions correctly
- You cannot help me answer them, either
- If you believe the world is real
- You cannot help me
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