The Healing of the Dream
The ego’s crucifixion picture uses suffering to prove guilt and justify attack, and the Holy Spirit reinterprets it to witness innocence and withdraw sacrifice. Fear of healing dissolves as forgiveness becomes shared witness, and symbols become learning aids when reinterpreted through joining. Quietness, not conflict, receives the answer, and healing is a miracle received in a Holy Instant of love without attack. Projection hides the dreamer until cause and effect is restored: choose the Holy Spirit, let guilt dissolve, and the nightmare becomes a forgiving dream that leads toward waking.
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The ego’s crucifixion picture uses suffering to prove guilt and justify attack; the Holy Spirit reinterprets it to witness innocence, withdraw sacrifice, and join in healing.
Fear of healing dissolves as forgiveness becomes shared witness: the miracle removes the body’s proof of sin, restoring innocence, joining, and peace.
Symbols become learning aids when forgiveness reinterprets them, joining replaces separation now, and the mind relaxes past fear and time into the peace that prepares for Knowledge.
Quietness, not conflict, receives the answer: the Holy Instant reframes form and purpose, exposes judgment’s pseudo-questions, and lets peace be accepted beyond time and sacrifice.
Healing is a miracle received in a Holy Instant of love without attack, then extended through the Holy Spirit as shared learning that undoes fear and judgment.
Pain and pleasure are unmasked as chosen proof of sin, while the miracle becomes the mind’s new witness, guided by the Holy Spirit toward healing and resurrection.
Projection hides the dreamer until cause and effect is restored: choose the Holy Spirit, let guilt dissolve, and the nightmare becomes a forgiving dream that leads toward waking.
The dream’s hero—the body in time—seems to rule as cause, until projection and guilt are returned to mind and reinterpreted as forgiveness through the Holy Spirit.