From what does the belief that we do not have the power to heal arise?

Class 11 

The mistaken idea that our power or the intellect does the healing.

False belief we have the power to heal.

(LSOM 246.1)

What is the consciousness that heals?

Class 11

Consciousness that heals is the recognition of and the faith in the Principle and the conviction that "IT" will always respond. And knowing IT can only respond according to our mental attitudes. 

(LSOM 250.5)

On what does the possibility of spiritual mind healing rest?

Class 11

Spiritual Mind healing rests entirely on the theory we are surrounded by a Universal Mind, which reacts to our thought and always according to Law.

(SOM 177.1)

What is the personal responsibility of the Practitioner in healing?

Class 11

There is no personal responsiblity of the Practitioner in healing. The Practitioner directs the Power and lets it work. 

(SOM 179.1) and (SOM 202.4)

What is the distinction between the process in healing and the process of healing?

Class 11

There is no process of healing.  The process we may go through to arrive at a realization of Truth is the process in healing.  Healing is a revealing of an idea which is already perfect through the thought of the Practitioner to the thought of the client. 

(SOM 212.4)

What does Ernest Holmes mean when he says "our word has the exact amount of power that we put into it?"

Class 12

Our words have the same amount of power through absolute conviction and faith, not power through effort or strain.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 27.1)

How do we develop the capacity to consciously use the law?

Class 12

Practice and by willingness to learn and utilize whatever we know so far as we have gone.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 31.2)

Why is it not necessary to struggle with condition?

Class 12

We do not have to overcome any condition because conditions flow from within, and not from without in. Practitioners deal with causes.

(Creative Mind and Success 34.3)

How does Holmes reconcile these two concepts from the Bible: "what we sow we must also reap" and "if a man repents, his sins are blotted out, and remembered no more forever.

Class 12

Holmes makes it clear that if we have a changed attitude toward the Law; meaning that we must stop thinking and acting in the wrong way, we will not have to suffer.  It is still the same law but we have changed the flow of the law.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 54.2,3)

According to Deepak Chopra, what is the ideal relationship between movement and stillness? How does Ernest Holmes express this same concept?

Class 12

The combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions - wherever the power of your attention takes you.

(The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, p. 21.3)

God can do for us only as we will allow Him to do through us. Intelligence gives us ideas and in our turn we work on them.  We must comply with the Law of Activity. We must be willing to take the way of outer activity.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 40.2,3)

From a spiritual point of view, what three ways do relationships contribute to our lives?

Class 14

Relationships can be a path of awakening, a path of healing, and/or a path of fulfillment.

Name five spiritual principles that can apply when doing spiritual counseling and treatment with clients with relationship challenges.

Class 14

• All of life is the out picturing of consciousness
• We are totally responsible for our own experience of life
• It is done unto us as we believe
• Choice is our eternal birthright
• We can only change our own consciousness
• As we give love we attract love
• A Law manifests the mental equivalent we hold in mind
• Opposing thoughts cancel each other in the Law
• God is my Source
• All that God is I AM

Explain these two statements: All life is the out-picturing of consciousness. All life is relationship.  Are they related?

Class 14

Consciousness is cause in everyone's life. Life can only manifest from the thoughts one holds in his/her consciousness. All experiences are the result of the One seeking greater awareness therefore, we attract others into our life to experience more of the One. Consciousness is the motivating element. And yes, they are related.

Why can we not treat "the other person" when one partner reports conflict within a relationship?

Class 14

We can never influence another person's consciousness unless they are open to accept the change. Everyone is responsible for their own experience of life, therefore, the one who needs treatment is the one who came with the problem.

How can real moments enhance any relationship?

Class 14

Real moments happen in the present, which enhance life wherever we are.

What is the solution when we find ourselves confronted by the problem of not knowing what to do?

Class 15

PRAY!  Be quiet and listen. Trust that the same power that started all things will also start us in the right road.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 65.3)

What does Butterworth say will be the consequence of "earning our wings at work every day?

Class 15

Spiritual well-being; a raise in consciousness.

What does Holmes mean when he says "Words and affirmations are not creative?"

Class 15

Words and affirmations give shape to thought; they are not creative. Feeling is creative and the more feeling that is put into the word the greater power it will have over conditions.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 69.3)

Holmes seems to present a dead end when he says,"We really affirm only that which we know to be true; we know that to be true which we have experienced within ourselves." What is the solution?

Class 15

No matter what big thing happens, we should still be expecting more and more. No matter how large the picture that you hold in mind, make it larger. Never stop growing in mind.  Life is always limitless, and the only thing that limits us is our inability to conceive mentally, and we should draw more and more from that limitless source.

(Creative Mind and Success, p. 74.1 see also p. 81.3)

Define Race Thought in our own words. Give twenty five examples of how you regularly (if not daily) encounter Race Thought in your life.

Class 15

This is an individual answer.

Race thought is a collective of all society's thoughts and beliefs creating the worlds conditions.

(Examples: conversations with friends, co-workers, radio, newspapers, one's own thoughts, laws, rules, etc.)

What is the literal meaning of "affluence" according to Butterworth.

Write a paragraph on what impact this meaning would have on your life if you were to fully accept it.

Class 16

It's literal meaning is "free flow."

(Spiritual Economics, Introduction p. 3.2)

Second part of question is individual!

What does Butterworth mean when he says, "The Universe owes you a living!"

Class 16

Being a creative expresssion of the Universe, you are entitled to the support of God-substance in everything to which you give your mind or hands.

Write a paragraph connecting, in your own thinking, Butterworth's reference to 1) the distinction between demonstration in life vs. deeper sense of life, 2) kismet and luck of the draw, and 3) treasure mapping."

Class 16

The essential message here is that what is important is that we turn our attention to purifying our thinking and our consciousness; that we center ourselves in an unshakable knowing that we are one with God and therefore with the Abundance of the Universe.  Having done so, we achieve a deeper sense of life in which fate and luck play no part, and in which the "magnetic force" of our consciousness will draw to us that which we desire.

List ten thoughts or beliefs that you have that limit your experience of the Abundant Flow of the Universe in your life.  For each, write a belief that would attune you to the Flow of Abundance. 

Class 16

This will be a personal response.

(Some examples: Life is tought; Life isn't fair; I never get back what I give, etc.)

Butterworth gives several definitions of faith. From these and other studies you have done, write your personal definition of faith.

Class 16

This will be a personal response.

What is the relationship between gratitude and the experience of abundance in one's life.

Class 17

The grateful heart will always attract to itself in one way or another, through human hands, or through wonder-working ways, the great things needed to solve the particular situation.  it is an outworking that you can stake your life on.

Where does Butterworth say we need to begin if we wish to reverse financial adversity.

Class 17

Begin by taking responsibility for the condition of our life and realize that by changing our thoughts we can change our lives. Consciousness is the key to all things which happen to us.

How, according to Butterworth, do we acquire the "rich mentality?"

Class 17

It comes by the steady effort to know God as your supply; by working diligently to establish yourself in the consciousness of the divine flow of substance.

What is the "money enigma" to which Butterworth refers?

Class 17

It is the confused dualism and erroneous thinking that money is the root of evil and yet, it pervades every aspect of our lives. It is the love of money and the consciousness in which you use money, that is the cause of much limitation.

Summarize Butterworth's main points about tithing in your own words.

Class 17

This will be a personal response.

Tithing is a disciplined practice of giving back and thus raising our awareness and creating a consciousness of spontaneous giving.

Does God heal? If yes, how? If no, why?

Class 18

Yes and no.

No, in that God doesn't know anything but perfect health.

Yes, in that God heals by Its presence, not by intentional acts.

Explain the positive side of pain.

Class 18

Pain is a messenger, a wake up call to alert us to false beliefs that we are holding in consciousness.  The purpose of pain is to rearrange consciousness so that there is an opening for greater expression of God.

What does Ernest Holmes mean when he writes:"In treating, go beyond the disease and supply a spiritual consciousness?"

Class 18

We do not treat the disease. Look past the disease upon the Spiritual Truth and sense the Divine Presence in and through the client at all times.

(SOM 205.2)

What is the role of illness in the life of humanity?

Class 18

Illness is the outer expression of a inner imbalance, turmoil or disharmony. It is a signal that a inner belief needs to be changed.

To nudge us to take the next step in evolution.

What is the Practitioners role in healing?

Class 18

The Practitioners role is to reveal the Truth. To realize man as perfect, not needing to be healed of anything.

How do emotions affect our growth and evolution?

Class 19

Positive emotions can motivate us to great heights in spiritual awareness and fulfillment in life.

Negative emotions point us to distorted beliefs.  Suppressed emotions (negative or positive) can create illness.

Are positive and negative emotions good and bad?

Class 19

No, all emotions are good and the negative ones can be used to move us in our spiritual awareness and growth.

Why is it that to change a pattern of anger, or other limiting emotions, we cannot accomplish it by simply treating to eliminate the pattern?

Class 19

Anger is an effect which cannot be treated, only the underlying belief or underlying emotion can be uncovered and treated.

What spiritual principle would you use when counseling a client who is substance addicted?

Class 19

God is your source and sufficient unto any need.  All that you need is within you.

Explain in Science of Mind terms Deepak Chopra's statement: "all disease results from disruption of the flow of intelligence".

Class 19

All disease results from a sense of separation from God.

How do you finish business with someone who has made his/her transition?  What was Stephen Levine's answer?

Class 21

By simply opening one's heart in love.  It is an opening into the oneness beyond the need to settle any unfinished business.

Explain what Suzuki Roshi meant by "One should live their life like a very hot fire, so there is no trace left beind.

Class 21

One should live their life so fully and so completely that there is nothing left to do but be.

Is grief a part of our divine expression?

Class 21

Grief can be an opening to divine freedom; an opening to touch and understand the hearts of others.  Levine says: "tragedy often holds the seeds of grace."

"The client was healed, the client died." Is this and incongruous statement?

Class 21

This is not an incongruous statement.  The client can be healed in consciousness and still shed the body in this life.

What does it mean to be non-resistant to life? the benefits?

Class 21

Non-resistance comes out of the awareness of Oneness and Wholeness of all life.  It is a state of being that accepts life as it unfolds, in a knowingness that all is good, that all has a reason for being. 

The great benefit is that we are open to receive our full measure of Divine Goodness.

What is mental cause?

(This question was given by former students for this term. It does not apear on our study guide.)

Belief we hold that creates our reality

Define Law

(This question was given by former students for this term. It does not apear on our study guide.)

Invisable, unchangeable, impersonal.

Cause and effect is law in action.

As we think, we become.