The Healer is any person on earth, or any conscious being at any level of existence, who consciously takes up the role of being a healer. We are ultimately, at the highest levels of truth, one single nexus of perfectly aligned beings existing in True Love for each other, forming a single group mind. Some identities in True Love in turn manifest lower-level identities and involves those identities in the fulfillment of their desires with the ultimate purpose of their own inner growth. This splintering can happen on many different levels, not just one.
As a separated person gradually reintegrates their identity toward True Love, they are asked to give up their separateness and emerge into oneness with others. However, this merging is done in such a way that identity remains, although certain aspects of separateness and ego are replaced with love. This love is unconditional and all encompassing. It is the same, regardless of what person it is focused on. However, it is completely a personal kind of love, not impersonal and detached.
In a sense, false identity is the illness and the cure is �Spirituality.� Identity has many levels of materialism that need to be worked through. Ego is our current level of false identity that we are dealing with. Ego struggles to set in roots and never change. It becomes entrenched in its own habitual behaviors. Ego is grounded in false ideas of separateness from others and God. Spirituality seeks evolution and reevaluation of the self to return the person to a happier state of being with less suffering. Ego hangs on for dear life to its illusions.
There is a definite ripple effect to our lives that is mostly invisible to us. However, it is very real in its impact on others. Our state of mind involves everyone around us. We do not harm others or help them per se. We each receive what we need to ultimately successfully return to True Love. This involves desire fulfillment and the understanding that separateness is suffering and devoid of value to us. When we actively, consciously help others heal their separateness we becomes vehicles for this activity as directed by our True Self. At the level of highest truth, our only function regardless of what we identify with is to heal others of their materialism. Our involvement in �hurting� others is merely a level of illusion where we show others the emptiness and pointlessness of being separate from True Love, others and Highest Truth.
So, as our True Self we explore desire and evolve as seemingly separate identities. These identities only exist to serve our desires. Our will for ourselves is purely altruistic. The will of other True Selves for us is also purely altruistic. We wish to both fulfill desires, our own and others, and to return to our True Self when finished. There is time for both wishes to be fulfilled. The return to one�s True Self is catalyzed by the Healer.
The Healer is the person who takes on the function of helping others return to their True Self and shed ego. The function comes from our True Self, which means that there is no need to consciously figure out how to be the Healer. Rather, the person simply learns to remember at all times that they are the Healer, and in doing so they begin to grow in their understanding of what that means, which in turn allows the True Self to increasingly use them to heal others.
Healing can include physical healing, but it has to be coupled with a Spiritual breakthrough understanding. Otherwise the body is healed but the mind that makes the body is not. Healing of emotional problems likewise must serve the higher purpose. The Healer does not concern themselves with how to heal nor do they focus on healing their own problems. Instead, they understand that, as each person is a lost aspect of their True Self, as they heal others, they in turn will be healed by others. Each person is seen not as they literally are but as a servant of their True Self. So, each person comes to the Healer bearing a gift. The Healer in turn bears a gift for everyone they encounter.
Perhaps �catalyst� would be a better word than healer. However, the point is that the Healer does not worry about their own healing process. Like a person standing next to a vast canyon, they are aware of the deep hole. However, the Healer turns away from the canyon and faces their own function as the Healer. Then, they understand that each person universally serves the purpose of healing others of separateness. Knowing that they have rediscovered their true purpose they begin to feel a sense of purpose and to embrace it.
In any given situation there can be many levels of moral and ethical dilemmas. You may choose to lie to a person in order to not hurt their feelings. You may to tell them the truth in order to bring them into alignment with reality. You may try to counsel them in order to heal their state of mind. But the healing we are talking about can encompass many different levels of healing. You might take physical action to support the person or just pass them on the street. Ultimately, regardless of the form, it serves to free the person from their materialism.
Imagine that you are in a dream and that you are standing in a room surrounded by a group of people. The dream represents itself as an actual physical experience to the dreamer. The dreamer is not the same person they are when awake. They may lack certain skills they have in real life or have a very different idea of who they are. They might think that they are a spy or that they handicapped in some way. The other characters in the dream evoke different emotional responses in the dreamer.
The dream characters are fractured elements of the dreamer�s psyche. When the dreamer wakes up he or she would consider those elements to be his or her own emotions. The emotions crave integration with the self. To the degree that they are disowned they tend to be in pain and to struggle against the self. To the degree that they are loved and accepted they tend to augment the self. Dreams allow a kind of training in emotional reintegration.
Spiritually, we ourselves are dream characters seeking reintegration. We appear to be separate but we crave love and the experience of coming together with those we love. We fear integration with those we hate. But, in fact, our ultimate integration must come through the reintegration of every single person, living and deceased. Their healing is our healing and their journey is in a sense our journey. This is true altruism, the pursuit of ultimate self-integration.
Love is the means by which integration occurs. But, when we are in opposition to integration with anyone or anything we experience fear, pain and conflict. These experiences heal us by stripping away aspects of ego, exposing its false nature and thus in turn causing us to rise to a higher level of self-awareness. As we become more self-aware we automatically evoke higher self-awareness in those around us, and even the public at large. Like a drop of antitoxin in a poisoned reservoir, we gradually heal the public condition.
This stripping away of ego is a removal of false ideas about selfhood. We identify with our abilities, but they vary according to our upbringing and genetics. False selfhood is based on a self that is unchallenged by awareness. You encapsulate certain qualities in yourself, real or unreal, and give them a group name and face. These groupings become �you� as a collection of these perceived qualities. Often, we selectively juggle seeing those times we exhibit those qualities and the other times when we choose to ignore the fact that we exhibit the exact opposite qualities.
The illusions we spin about ourselves, combined with our perceived skills, are put together to glorify our own personal egos. We choose to ignore the ways in which wealth, opportunity, genetics, circumstances and just blind luck come together to give us those skills and qualities. We are a web that has been woven. We ourselves do not weave it.
One of the hardest illusions to overcome is effort. Individuals, through intense hard work and effort, build up an impregnable fortress of ego around themselves. It has to be ultimately dismantled by looking more closely at the hidden dynamics. The individual who works so hard is driven by desire. They want x and feel that they will get it through hard work. Being driven simply means that you tend to want certain things so intensely that you drive yourself to the point of intense personal sacrifice to get them. This intensity and sacrifice masquerades as a form of identity.
When an individual enters a fraternity, for example, they are not given automatic membership. There is usually some degree of hazing involved. With intense fear, pain or humiliation, as well as all the effort involved in pleasing the brothers at the expense of large amounts of personal time, if the individual is accepted they feel a sense of relief and gratitude that they make the fraternity. After this, they are filled with a feeling of entitlement. They worked hard for this experience and are now entitled to the benefits. With each passing year in the fraternity their degree of feeling entitled grows.
No one and nothing can talk a person out of their sense of entitlement. However, through a process of self-examination the person can see that they simply wanted something and pursued it. The �entitlement� is merely an internal fiction built up through self-sacrifice. Entitlement can be used to create a sense of ownership over others, as well as a distancing from love. Class conditions can create an artificial sense of entitlement as well. Positions of power and authority can create a false sense of entitlement over the less powerful. Personal entitlement inherently reduces one�s sense of other people deserving anything unless they have made equal sacrifices. So, it becomes a way of stripping people of their human rights.
The mirror image of entitlement is indebtedness. This creates an artificial state of servitude. People go to great lengths to avoid examining this game and how it enslaves people. Ultimately, this system is meant to replace love with a kind of artificial balance between work and reward. If a person refuses to work for a person who feels entitled, then they feel intense anger towards them and want to hurt them. Hatred is always the means by which entitlement/servitude is enforced.
Self-righteousness arises as people feel out of balance in this system. Inevitably there are haves and have-nots in this kind of system. Have-nots become increasingly self-righteous in their self-sacrifice and the haves become more self-righteous about their entitlement. Love disappears as people are increasingly reduced to things with a certain applied worth and value. Some are �worthless� while others are valuable. �Worthless� people, regardless of their hard work, never rise out of debt or shame and a sense of indebtedness. Simultaneously they become filled with rage as they see their trapped and hopeless situation and the unfairness of it. So, they also have a building sense of entitlement.
The whole system is a kind of exchange of like for like. But individual experience is fluid and personal. To put a �value� on a person is absurd. Their being and mind are the means by which all other beings and minds exist collectively. Regardless of their perceived involvement in a system of exchanges, they are not �things� that could be plucked from existence arbitrarily but making no difference. Physical experience is a network of interconnected experiences that are entirely internal. There is no physical world, only a collective physical dream.
The fiction that we live in a world of physical objects is a big part of the problem. Objects in facts are more like fields of consciousness that are shared by all beings in physical experience. No object exists in a vacuum. Everything exists in context with all other people and things. Nothing can be arbitrarily added or removed. It is a closed system which evolves and flows but cannot be altered.
People see object and abstract them from their environments, imagining that they imagine that they can be plucked from existence. However, they cannot. For an object to disappear, it must change into something else or be involved in some sort of process. Nothing happens without everything else being involved and affected in some way. Like sticking your finger in gelatin and moving it around, the entire blob of gelatin moves.
Ultimately, we experience this fractured world because we are internally involved with an idea that puts us here. We chose to be here out of some desire or another. That desire could encompass a number of lifetimes and in-between experiences. We have to come back again and again to the same question, if what we are experiencing has some value in comparison with True Love. We can�t answer that question until we experience True Love for ourselves. The following exercise will bring us closer to this experience.
Exercise: True Love
To begin, imagine yourself alone in a white space with no walls or features. Before you is a globe of light that you can hold in your hands. While holding this ball you feel that it is a feeling of love. Imagine before you a person you know who you love in a personal way. It can even be a person you once loved but have lost touch with. Feel the personal love you have or had for that person emitting from the golden globe.
Now, imagine that this love is expanding, not physically, but in terms of becoming more all-encompassing and universal. This love includes the personal love you had before but also becomes another level of love that includes everyone. This is an unconditional love that is not based on individual features, attractiveness, a person�s willingness to help you, their friendliness, sympathy for their suffering, mutual understanding or any other personalized reason. This is merely love given freely with no need for a reason. Feel this kind of love for this person. Now, let your personal form of love for this person go. Let it be replaced with this all-encompassing love.
You may feel that as you love this person in this manner you are loving everyone else at the same time. Love as you conceptualized it before may have always been based on need. It could have been a romantic attraction and a need to be loved. It could have been a love based on mutual common interests and values. It could have been love based on the perceived neediness and hurt of the person being loved. But, in all these cases your own needs and their needs were the real object. Love was not given free reign to simply exist as it was meant to, unfettered by restrictions and �reasons.� It is like trying to hold the ocean in an eye dropper to define certain people as being deserving of love while others are denied. Our biggest denial of love is simply not knowing other people well enough to be able to judge them and find them deserving or undeserving of our love.
At a later date, when the opportunity arises, choose a random person you don�t know and make them the target of your unconditional love. Get in the habit of feeling this toward people toward which you simply have no feelings. You will find a lost vocabulary of love where numbness once ruled.