Hello, I am Chong Weiqiang from the website of Road of Miracles Network. The content of this part is practical methods to triumph over illness and death. Before the illustration, I will firstly clarify what the world in front you is:
The world in front of you is really lifelike for you. It has well-proportioned objects, strange voices, bitter and sweet tastes, various smells, and you who live in it also have delicate physical feelings. Besides, everyone in the world also has different ideas and pursuits, so sometimes you have to admit that the world is real. And you might say, “I took a bite of ice cream and I felt so cool. Is ice cream fake? So how could the world be a dream?”
I’m sorry. The perception of the world as true is just a result of being taken in. To put it plainly in the case of eating ice cream: the cool feeling you get doesn’t come from ice cream, or from your body, but from your sub-conscious projection. The principle of this projection is as follows: your sub-consciousness firstly projects three illusions: your body, ice cream, and the cool feeling. Then, your sub-consciousness gives meaning to each of these three illusions, and its form is as follows: when your body is touching ice cream, your sub-consciousness will project cool feeling for your self-consciousness to perceive. At that time, your self-consciousness will be certain that all three illusions are true, and your self-consciousness will also recognize itself as a body. This is the result of the sub-consciousness being integrated into and manipulating the self-consciousness. So, the intangible sub-consciousness not only projects things and body, but also designs and projects all the feelings of interaction between things and body. This is the fundamental means by which the sub-consciousness deceives the self-consciousness. So, however real and orderly this dreamland is, it is an illusion, and that is an unchangeable truth. Your belief that the world is true cannot compete with that truth, nor can your thoughts and actions change that truth.
Along the way of your pursuit of truth, the moment when you get affected with a disease, is when you are most likely to be deceived, or you are most likely to identify yourself as a physical body, because you will have to admit that you are a body living in the world because of the discomfort and pain of the body. Therefore, I will expound the root cause of the formation of illness and the basic methods of curing illness, so that you can clear up a relatively big obstacle for your course of spiritual practice.
Firstly, the root cause of forming illness is explained:
Illness is a form of self-punishment that is manifested by a sin in the sub-consciousness. (The sin is the result of your previous conviction of someone else or of yourself in the sub-consciousness. The forms of conviction include attack and counter-attack, sacrifice and punishment, hatred and revenge, and abandonment and concealment, etc.) Because your sub-consciousness is already integrated into your self-consciousness and has already affirmed that you are a body, the self-punishment of sins and guilt sometimes revolves around the body. At that time, you get sick. But sometimes that kind of self-punishment will revolve around the self-consciousness, and you will experience life’s adversities. So, all the illness of the body and all the adversities of life are forms of punishment manifested by some sins in the sub-consciousness. Certainly, this illustration is only about physical illness, because the adversities of life have already been illustrated in the previous parts.
Here are two common illnesses for illustration:
1. I ate some dirty food during the day and had a stomachache at night.
2. I didn’t pay attention when I went down the stairs just now. I sprained my foot, but there was no fracture. However, my ankle was swollen and painful.
These two types of illness are very common in the world. The first type corresponds to most illnesses in the world, and its connotation is “Because of what, I got what disease”. The second type corresponds to physical ailments caused by external forces. So, what are the causes of these two illnesses?
1. I ate some dirty food during the day and had a stomachache at night. The cause of this illness is: because of some previous sin, your sub-consciousness first projects some dirty food and manipulates you to eat the food, and then your sub-consciousness projects a painful feeling for you and combines that feeling with your stomach; finally, your sub-consciousness also manipulates your mind to think: “eating dirty food into your body causes gastrointestinal inflammation, and causes the pain, so later I will pay more attention to health”. Your sub-consciousness uses the illness to punish itself, but your self-consciousness doesn’t know all that.
2. I didn’t pay attention when I went down the stairs just now. I sprained my foot, but there was no fracture. However, my ankle was swollen and painful. The cause of this illness is also a previous guilt. Your sub-consciousness first controls your thinking and ignores the safety issue of going down the stairs, then you fell down because of carelessness. Then your sub-consciousness projects a change in your physical characteristics, namely, your ankle starts to get red and swollen. At the same time, your sub-consciousness projects a pain and combines the pain with the swollen part of your foot. In the end, your sub-consciousness will control your mind to think like this: “what a bad luck! I was careless, but the pain is killing me. Next time I go down the stairs, I must be careful”.
The illustration of the above two illnesses represents all the connotations of the physical illness: the sub-consciousness will first project the cause of a certain illness because of some previous guilt (for example, eating dirty things or falling), then the sub-consciousness will project a result of being sick; finally the sub-consciouness will control your mind to connect cause and effect reasonably. And in this process, the sub-consciousness will ceaselessly project the change of some body function (such as the change of immunity, metabolism and the uncoordinated operation of various organs of the body, etc.) or projects the change of various external body characteristics (such as bleeding, inflammation, swelling and so on). At the same time, the sub-consciousness will ceaselessly project some pain to be combined with these“changes”, then you will think you have got a rare illness.
As you can see from the above explanation, the root cause of illness is just some previous guilt in the sub-consciousness. Therefore, I will follow this root cause to illustrate the fundamental method and practical methods of healing illness.
I ate some dirty food during the day and had a stomachache at night. When you feel stomachache at night, you can practice the following thoughts over and over again:
1. I just ate some dirty food in my dream and felt the pain in my stomach in my dream. The world is just a dream. (Note: this practice is exactly true forgiveness. It can make the illness and the sub-consciousness meaningless first, and then you can move on to the second step.)
2. You should find a reference beside you, preferably a person, and then you can give him the idea of innocence, and then you continue to extend innocence to the whole world and all people. Certainly, if you are alone at home, you can directly think about the innocence of your neighbors or people on the street, and then extend that innocence to the whole world and to all people. (Note: this practice will make you a peaceful miracle mind first, and then your thoughts and beliefs will jump out of the perception that you are a body, and you will be able to separate yourself from the sub-consciousness, world, body, self-consciousness and illness.)
3. At the same time that you keeping the second practice, you should think like this: “my current pain and the process of being sick is the result presented by some sin and guilt in the sub-consciousness, but the sub-consciousness and sin is illusory, so the process of getting ill that sin and guilt presents (the event of eating dirty food) and the result of illness is illusory. And at this moment, that is true for all the sick people in the world, so no one really gets sick”. (Note: this practice focuses on binding sin to illness, and to the process of getting ill, and then applying true forgiveness to all of them. It also focuses on true forgiveness of all other people’s illness and suffering. If you understand that the illness and pain of others are illusion, then your illness and pain will be illusion. Then your mind and cognition will be more firmly integrated in miracle mind.
4. You can practice entrustment of fear and tell yourself, “even if the pain in my stomach doesn’t get better for a long time, I accept it. I accept it. Because however long the pain and discomfort will last, it is just a fantasized situation for me, so I will accept it.” (Note: the patients fears that his illness will not recover quickly, and the patient does not want to live in pain and discomfort for a long time. So, you need to accept all the situations you are afraid of and don’t want to go through right now. Such practices will make you a fearless miracle mind, and then your cognition will get fully beyond the control of the sub-consciousness.
5. You need to think hard in the state of maintaining miracle mind. Who are you hating now? Who else do you want to attack (change)? To whom else have you sacrificed? Who else do you want to punish? And then you should think what fears do you have? Are you afraid of those situations, or those relationships? Then you should think whether you need to do some concealed things. Finally, you should think about what kind of person you want to be. What other illusory objects do you want to bind for a sense of self-existence and self-worth? Think about them! Once you have thought about them, you can practice true forgiveness and other miracle thoughts. (Note: if you can be alert and practice all the important miracle thoughts in the moment of illness, a large proportion of the guilt in your sub-consciousness will be melted away. This practice will be of great help to the recovery of illness. And this practice also shows that your daily practice in life is the fundamental method to preclude illness. So, the major method to triumph over illness is to practice these miracle thoughts in your life for a long time.
The above five practices are the fundamental methods to heal illness. The purpose is to dissolve the sub-consciousness and the guilt in sub-consciousness, because:
1. The sub-consciousness and sins emerge in an organic whole intially.
2. Sins are stored in the sub-consciousness.
3. The sub-consciousness has become the dreamt world and your life experiences in front of you.
4. The guilt and sins in the sub-consciousness can manifest physical illnesses for you to suffer.
So, if you want to cure illness fundamentally, you have to bind the illness to the whole world first, and then you have to forgive them in a batch, because either illness and the world become illusions together, or become genuine together; there is no room for compromise.
You can see from the above explanation that illness is just the result of guilt, so in real life, even if you practice these five thoughts when you are sick, you will not recover immediately. Because the guilt in the sub-consciousness cannot be dissolved by you at once. According to the example, to be frank, stomachache is a result of guilt, and the swollen foot is also a result. These results are just a kind of punishment that has been manifested, so you can only practice these thoughts while enduring pain, then you might ease a bit of pain, or may reduce a lot of pain, or do not reduce any pain at all. Under these circumstances, you can practice the sixth approach: you can cure illness in a secular way.
6. If you get enterogastritis, you can take some medicine to cure it or go to the hospital for treatment. If you have sprained a foot, you can apply medication for relieving pain and swelling.
The sixth approach is the most common method of curing illness in the world. So, what does that mean? I am going to talk about this unequivocally.
Starting with sub-consciousness, your sub-consciousness gave meanings and attributes to everything after it had projected the world and body. At the same time, the sub-consciousness designed all the rules and feelings for the interaction between everything in the world and your body. For example, water could quench thirst, food could satisfy hunger, temperature change could affect the bodily feeling, eating, drinking, excretion and sleeping could guarantee the body’s operations and metabolism, and so on. The rules included a mechanism: a certain kind of drug or medical treatment would cure a certain illness. According to this mechanism, the sub-conscious projection was ceaseless. On the one hand, the sub-consciousness would constantly project more and more new illnesses because of sins. On the other hand, the sub-consciousness would also constantly project drugs or medical treatments that could cure these illnesses, and these drugs and medical treatments are produced in the form of being discovered or invented by people. (This is the so-called medical progress) So, the interaction between illnesses and medicine was a trick made by the sub-consciousness. The connotation of this trick is that the sub-consciousness would not only project the illness that was harmful to the body. If it would only project pains, the self-consciousness would doubt this world, so it also projected many things beneficial to the body while projecting pains, so as to ensure that the self-consciousness would not doubt the world and would be full of hopes about the illusory world.
When you have understood this trick of the sub-consciousness, you certainly can use it to get benefits, which means that you can use drugs and medical treatment to cure the illness when you are sick. Because in the world, illness often gives you a state of insanity, and in this state, it is difficult for you to practice the first five thoughts. Therefore, you can use medical treatment to reduce your pain in the course of illness, and then you will get a saner state of mind. At that time, you can better practice the fundamental methods of healing illness. (Note: medical treatment is only an expedient for the cure of illness, because it neither dissolves sins in the sub-conscious, nor prevents the guilt from manifesting more illnesses, but it does cure your illness and restore your sanity. So, you need to use it, and such methods are given to you by your sub-consciousness, so you naturally take it.)
These are the actual ways of healing illnesses, and then I am going to talk about death. The illustration of healing illness is completed, so there is no need talking about death in detail. If you are able to practice all the miracle thinking in life (the thought system narrated in “A Course in Miracles”), sins within your sub-consciousness will melt away because of years of practices, so at the end of your life, the advent of death will surely be without great physical pains. That is to say, you are most likely to die without illness, or you will only feel pain that you are able to bear. That’s all. Moreover, if you can practice all kinds of miracle mind for a long time, you will not only face death calmly, but also be able to wake up to your truth before death. Then, you will no longer need to listen to others to narrate what death is, because you will be fully aware of the fact that death does not exist.
In the end, some reminders will be made:
1. When you have been practicing miracle minds for a long time while you are ill, you are very likely to go through the situation that your illness will be completely cured by some good doctors or medicines. It is also an external reflection of the guilt being dissolved.
2. If you suffer from the so-called terminal illness in the world, you can also practice according to the explanation in this part, but the final result may be a miracle, or may not be, because it varies from person to person.
3. The thought system narrated in “A Course in Miracles” can directly heal all the mental diseases and hysteria in the world, but it requires you to learn and practice this thought system by yourself.
4. The third book “Love Has Forgotten No One” of the series “The Disappearance of the Universe” elaborates on many ways to keep your body healthy and heal illnesses. You can read it on your own.
5. Many of the chapters in the series “The Disappearance of the Universe” narrate the connotations and knowledge of death in detail, and if you want to know more about it, you can read them by yourself.
At the end of this part, I summarize the required readings: the required readings I narrate are basic “prescriptions” to heal “all troubles”, and all the “prescriptions” come from “A Course in Miracles”, thus, I suggest you to learn “A Course in Miracles”, with “The Disappearance of the Universe” series and my narrations as assistance.
I have explained the core content of “A Course in Miracles” in simple language, and I hope these narrations can lead you to the right path of self-practice. That is my task, and I have two others: 1. simple annotations of “A Course in Miracles”, you can find them in the website’s special column; 2. Completion of the role of miracle spiritual healer, because this role can help people quickly resolve specific troubles in their lives. In the next part, I will talk about the spiritual journeys of the healers and the role of the healer for all people. This is the end of this part.
Chong Weiqiang
January 2018