This writer met with Mr. Helmerichs for the purposes of completing a Psychosocial Assessment. He was informed that participation in the interview was voluntary. He was further informed of the limits to confidentiality, including that information gathered would be shared with the multidisciplinary team and could be used in the court report. Mr. Helmerichs expressed a desire to have his interview captured in an audio recording however due to the lack of policy around storage and transcription of interviews at this facility Mr. Helmerichs’ request could not be accommodated. Mr. Helmerichs did however agree to participate in this interview through written responses to the questions outlined below in this document.
Psychosocial Assessment Written Responses
Completed: Ground Hog Day 2 Feb 2015
Written: By Rene Helmerichs
Posted: www.renehelmerichs3.blogspot.ca
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A. TABLE OF CONTENTS
From The Waypoint Center For Mental Health Care, Penetanguishene, Ontario
Psychosocial Assessment Written Responses
A. TABLE OF CONTENTS
B. DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
1) Citizenship
Outstanding immigration issues?
2) Place of birth
3) Ethnicity
Specific groups identified with?
4) Religion
5) Language
6) Source of Income
7) Capacity
8) Date of last assessment
9) ___ Property ___Treatment ___Disclosure
10) Substitute Decision Maker, SDM
11) PGT #:
12) Marital status
13) Next of Kin
C. SELF REPORT
14) Please give your account of the index offence.
D. SOCIAL SITUATION
15) Prior to arrest where were you living?
16) Source(s) of income?
17) Relationship status
18) Leisure pursuits
E. CHILDHOOD
Where were you born?
Planned pregnancy? Premature birth? Developmental milestones?
Any complications during pregnancy? Alcohol/drug consumption during pregnancy?
Describe home life. (finances, close knit family?, extended family around)
How were birthdays and holidays celebrated?
Always lived in same location or moved? Lived with parents? Until what age?
Run away from home? Overnight? How often? Why?
Behavioural problems at home? What age?
Who was primary disciplinarian? What type of discipline used? Did he obey discipline?
Parents home to babysit or had a babysitter?
What was relationship with siblings like throughout childhood?
Many friends? Still friends today with friends in childhood? Loner? Bullied?
Any social service agency involved as a child? Doctor? Counselling? ADD diagnosis?
Childhood health i.e. hospitalizations, seizure, accidents, head injuries, diagnosis
Hx. of sexual, physical, emotional abuse?
F. FAMILY
Father’s, mother’s, siblings: name, age, residence, employment status
What was your parents' relationship like, still together, divorced, separated? Step-parent role/involvement?
Argued a lot/argued in front kids? Any separations exceeding one month?
What is your relationship like with parents/siblings. Supportive?
When was the last time talked/visited?
Is there a family history of mental illness (aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers, sisters, parents)
Family history of criminal involvement?
Family history of substance use/misuse?
Culture--morals, values, goals, traditions, customs, and practices
G. EDUCATION
What age did you attend school? If quit, why?
Did you attend College or University?
Did you ever fail any grades? If so, which one? Why?
Grades? Areas done well? Favourite subjects? Extracurricular involvement?
Enjoyed school? Find it boring? IQ?
Discipline /attendance problems up to and including Grade 8? Minor? Major?
Truancy? Detention? Suspension/Expulsion? How often? How old? Grade?
Problems for teachers? Sent to principal’s office? Discipline problem? Calls home?
Learning disability?
Applied yourself/did homework?
Fighting with students? Relationship with other students.
Got along with/liked by teachers? How would they describe you?
H. EMPLOYMENT
Five most recent jobs held. Number of jobs held since leaving school.
How long employed?
Longest job held?
Duties/responsibilities at job?
Fired? Quit (without another job to go to)?
Describe work ethic. i.e. Relationships with co-workers/boss? Dependable/reliable? Performance on the job?
Ever receive Ontario Works (OW)/Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Employment Insurance (EI), Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPP-D)?
Debts (i.e. credit card/family)?
Ever involved in illegal activity to make money? i.e. selling drugs, pimping, prostitute
Do you want to work in the future? Goals for income.
I. RELATIONSHIP HISTORY
Current relationship status: i.e. single, engaged, married, children? Pay child support?
Responsible with children?
Previous relationships? What were relationships like? Domestic abuse (abuser or victim)? Reasons for ending relationship? Longest relationship?
Affairs/cheating in relationships? How many? How long?
Lived with a partner? (6 months or longer)
First sexual experience?
Use of prostitutes?
Homosexual relationship?
Friends? Do you get along with others?
J. ADULT LIFESTYLE
Residential history post family of origin. i.e. Renter/homeowner, roommates or independently, living with family, paying rent on time, ever evicted.
Describe lifestyle (social isolate, transient, “party animal”, criminal association, good worker, family man etc.)
Leisure pursuits. i.e. recreational involvement, team sports, etc.
Extent of involvement in: religion? culture?
Attitude toward social norms?
K. SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTIONS
Do you or have you used substances in the past? If yes,
What age first used alcohol and/or drugs (i.e. marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, acid, mushrooms, meth, crack, percocets, oxycontin, prescription meds)
What is your behaviour when using drugs/alcohol. Describe.
Ever sell substances?
Cigarette use?
Any treatment programming (AA, NA)
Gambling habits?
Have you ever suffered blackouts? Amnesic periods? Withdrawal symptoms? Tolerance level?
Spend a lot of money on drugs/alcohol?
Interfere with relationships/school/employment.
Ever violent using substances?
Drug/alcohol involved in prior and current offence(s)?
L. MEDICAL HISTORY
19) Please give your medical history
Overall general health? Dental?
Any physical trauma? i.e. head injury
Compliance concerns with medication?
Suffer from any serious illness?
Ever hospitalized (general medical)?
M. PREVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC AND/OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT
20) Date of admission & discharge
21) Hospital location (repeat for each)
Treating Physician:
Discharge Diagnosis:
Progress and Treatment:
Discharge medication:
Community agency involvement. i.e. psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, case manager?
Attempted suicide? Why? When?
Was he being seen by a doctor at time of offence?
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B. DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
1) Citizenship
Canadian and World.
Outstanding immigration issues?
None of which Rene is aware, as of Ground Hog Day 2 Feb 2015.
2) Place of birth
A five-year-old son of a Jehovah Witness minister in Taiwan asked Rene in 2007, "Where do you come from?" Rene replied, "From Heaven. Where are You from?" Without intending to sound flippant or facetious, we are not our bodies; ergo, we cannot have a place of birth. A Course In Miracles, in its preface, clarifies:
Forgiveness is unknown in Heaven, where the need for it would be inconceivable. However, in this world, forgiveness is a necessary correction for all the mistakes that we have made. To offer forgiveness is the only way for us to have it, for it reflects the law of Heaven that giving and receiving are the same. Heaven is the natural state of all the Sons of God as He created them. Such is their reality forever. It has not changed because it has been forgotten.
This is directly echoed in the spirit of the law referenced in The Rules For Professional Conduct, aka The Lawyer Rules, of the Upper Canada Law Society, and subsection 52(1) of The Constitution of Canada same-applied:
Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him.
3) Ethnicity
Microsoft Word includes several definitions for Ethnicity included, among them, Society. Rene identifies himself as a member of the universal society not much different than an electron in the relative scale of things.
Specific groups identified with?
i. Jehovah witnesses believe one will stand to unite the churches of the world;
ii. Christians honour The Holy Spirit, able to unite the world with harm to none;
iii. Children Of The Law Of One believe one will surmount all odds with harm to none.
iv. Jews believe a Messiah was and is to come;
v. Muslims respect Islam, which literally translates into the religion of surrender to the one who is able to surmount all odds demonstrably able to unite the world in spirit for same supremacy with harm to none;
vi. Satanists believe that we are not our bodies, thus respect the spirit of The Law Of One;
vii. Coursers, students of A Course In Miracles, are self-sufficient in desire to understand how each is of one kind to be able to do as We before the dawn of time does happily choose to do;
viii. Scientologists believe extra-terrestrials genetically engineered our bodies for placement on Earth, which is fully in-line with statements of The Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) whom the UR version notes of A Course In Miracles state to have spoken mostly with The Voice for A Course In Miracles;
ix. Exception is the answer to every paradox and only way to end an endless list, given there exists an exception to every rule, Rene does not identify with forcing peace, namely, forced medication nor any avocation involving use of potions and pills for mental health; and
x. Every governing authority in the universes for time and space.
4) Religion
Every individual has a degree of faith in its own right and there is only one kind of Faith. Religion is summarized as the not exclusive principle for Talk To Dream, Constitution subsection 52(1) same-applied, for revelation of Dynamic Constancy: everything is possible but not simultaneously experienced unless every intent for self is not exclusive of any other, with All This Is simultaneously available to all establishing conventional equally such that true importance is The Miracle Principle. Talk To Dream is empowerment a not-religion, defined with caselaw of R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd (1985) in the annotations to section 2(a) of The Constitution in the judicial edition of Canada Law Book Martin's Criminal Code 2014, p.1812, to beget the right of religious freedom, therewith categorically a religion for purposes of this psychosocial logical assessment. Talk To Dream is founded squarely on THE MEANING OF MIRACLES opening A Course In Miracles officially available from www.acim.org .
The Choice Amidst The Argument In The Business Of Being Happy: A Course In Miracles ©2015 Rene Helmerichs shared with Foundation For Inner Peace for The Talk To Dream New Goal Day Charity exclusively for One World Peace-free-of-harm-period:
(a) Religion: PURPOSE, PROCESS, and PRACTICE
(b) PURPOSE
(c) PROCESS
(d) The Limits on Psychotherapy
(e) The Place of Religion in Psychotherapy
(f) The Role of the Psychotherapist
(g) The Process of Illness
(h) The Process of Healing
(i) The Definition of Healing
(j) The Ideal Patient-Therapist Relationship
(k) PRACTICE
(l) Is Psychotherapy a Profession?
(m) The Question of Payment
(a) Religion: PURPOSE, PROCESS, and PRACTICE
Psychotherapy is the only form of therapy there is. Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing. This does not appear to be the case, for the manifestations of this world seem real indeed. Psychotherapy is necessary so that an individual can begin to question their reality. Sometimes he is able to start to open his mind without formal help, but even then it is always some change in his perception of interpersonal relationships that enables him to do so. Sometimes he needs a more structured, extended relationship with an "official" therapist. Either way, the task is the same; the patient must be helped to change his mind about the "reality" of illusions.
(b) PURPOSE
Very simply, the purpose of psychotherapy is to remove the blocks to truth. Its aim is to aid the patient in abandoning his fixed delusional system, and to begin to reconsider the spurious cause and effect relationships on which it rests. No one in this world escapes fear, but everyone can reconsider its causes and learn to evaluate them correctly. God has given everyone a Teacher Whose wisdom and help far exceed whatever contributions an earthly therapist can provide. Yet there are times and situations in which an earthly patient-therapist relationship becomes the means through which He offers His greater gifts to both.
What better purpose could any relationship have than to invite the Holy Spirit to enter into it and give it His Own great gift of rejoicing? What higher goal could there be for anyone than to learn to call upon God and hear His Answer? And what more transcendent aim can there be than to recall the way, the truth and the life, and to remember God? To help in this is the proper purpose of psychotherapy. Could anything be holier? For psychotherapy, correctly understood, teaches forgiveness and helps the patient to recognize and accept it. And in his healing is the therapist forgiven with him.
Everyone who needs help, regardless of the form of his distress, is attacking himself, and his peace of mind is suffering in consequence. These tendencies are often described as "self-destructive," and the patient often regards them in that way himself. What he does not realize and needs to learn is that this "self," which can attack and be attacked as well, is a concept he made up. Further, he cherishes it, defends it, and is sometimes even willing to "sacrifice" his "life" on its behalf. For he regards it as himself. This self he sees as being acted on, reacting to external forces as they demand, and helpless midst the power of the world.
Psychotherapy, then, must restore to his awareness the ability to make his own decisions. He must become willing to reverse his thinking, and to understand that what he thought projected its effects on him were made by his projections on the world. The world he sees does therefore not exist. Until this is at least in part accepted, the patient cannot see himself as really capable of making decisions. And he will fight against his freedom because he thinks that it is slavery.
The patient need not think of truth as God in order to make progress in salvation. But he must begin to separate truth from illusion, recognizing that they are not the same, and becoming increasingly willing to see illusions as false and to accept the truth as true. His Teacher will take him on from there, as far as he is ready to go. Psychotherapy can only save him time. The Holy Spirit uses time as He thinks best, and He is never wrong. Psychotherapy under His direction is one of the means He uses to save time, and to prepare additional teachers for His work. There is no end to the help that He begins and He directs. By whatever routes He chooses, all psychotherapy leads to God in the end. But that is up to Him. We are all His psychotherapists, for He would have us all be healed in Him.
(c) PROCESS
Psychotherapy is a process that changes the view of the self. At best this "new" self is a more beneficent self-concept, but psychotherapy can hardly be expected to establish reality. That is not its function. If it can make way for reality, it has achieved its ultimate success. Its whole function, in the end, is to help the patient deal with one fundamental error; the belief that anger brings him something he really wants, and that by justifying attack he is protecting himself. To whatever extent he comes to realize that this is an error, to that extent is he truly saved.
Patients do not enter the therapeutic relationship with this goal in mind. On the contrary, such concepts mean little to them, or they would not need help. Their aim is to be able to retain their self-concept exactly as it is, but without the suffering that it entails. Their whole equilibrium rests on the insane belief that this is possible. And because to the sane mind it is so clearly impossible, what they seek is magic. In illusions the impossible is easily accomplished, but only at the cost of making illusions true. The patient has already paid this price. 8 Now he wants a "better" illusion.
At the beginning, then, the patient's goal and the therapist's are at variance. The therapist as well as the patient may cherish false self-concepts, but their respective perceptions of "improvement" still must differ. The patient hopes to learn how to get the changes he wants without changing his self-concept to any significant extent. He hopes, in fact, to stabilize it sufficiently to include within it the magical powers he seeks in psychotherapy. He wants to make the vulnerable invulnerable and the finite limitless. The self he sees is his god, and he seeks only to serve it better.
Regardless of how sincere the therapist himself may be, he must want to change the patient's self-concept in some way that he believes is real. The task of therapy is one of reconciling these differences. Hopefully, both will learn to give up their original goals, for it is only in relationships that salvation can be found. At the beginning, it is inevitable that patients and therapists alike accept unrealistic goals not completely free of magical overtones. 5 They are finally given up in the minds of both.
(d) The Limits on Psychotherapy
Yet the ideal outcome is rarely achieved. Therapy begins with the realization that healing is of the mind, and in psychotherapy those have come together who already believe this. It may be they will not get much further, for no one learns beyond his own readiness. Yet levels of readiness change, and when therapist or patient has reached the next one, there will be a relationship held out to them that meets the changing need. Perhaps they will come together again and advance in the same relationship, making it holier. Or perhaps each of them will enter into another commitment. Be assured of this; each will progress. Retrogression is temporary. The overall direction is one of progress toward the truth.
Psychotherapy itself cannot be creative. This is one of the errors which the ego fosters; that it is capable of true change, and therefore of true creativity. When we speak of "the saving illusion" or "the final dream," this is not what we mean, but here is the ego's last defense. "Resistance" is its way of looking at things; its interpretation of progress and growth. These interpretations will be wrong of necessity, because they are delusional. The changes the ego seeks to make are not really changes. They are but deeper shadows, or perhaps different cloud patterns. Yet what is made of nothingness cannot be called new or different. Illusions are illusions; truth is truth.
Resistance as defined here can be characteristic of a therapist as well as of a patient. Either way, it sets a limit on psychotherapy because it restricts its aims. Nor can the Holy Spirit fight against the intrusions of the ego on the therapeutic process. But He will wait, and His patience is infinite. His goal is wholey undivided always. Whatever resolutions patient and therapist reach in connection with their own divergent goals, they cannot become completely reconciled as one until they join with His. Only then is all conflict over, for only then can there be certainty.
Ideally, psychotherapy is a series of holy encounters in which brothers meet to bless each other and to receive the peace of God. And this will one day come to pass for every "patient" on the face of this earth, for who except a patient could possibly have come here? The therapist is only a somewhat more specialized teacher of God. He learns through teaching, and the more advanced he is the more he teaches and the more he learns. But whatever stage he is in, there are patients who need him just that way. They cannot take more than he can give for now. Yet both will find sanity at last.
(e) The Place of Religion in Psychotherapy
To be a teacher of God, it is not necessary to be religious or even to believe in God to any recognizable extent. It is necessary, however, to teach forgiveness rather than condemnation. Even in this, complete consistency is not required, for one who had achieved that point could teach salvation completely, within an instant and without a word. Yet he who has learned all things does not need a teacher, and the healed have no need for a therapist. Relationships are still the temple of the Holy Spirit, and they will be made perfect in time and restored to eternity.
Formal religion has no place in psychotherapy, but it also has no real place in religion. In this world, there is an astonishing tendency to join contradictory words into one term without perceiving the contradiction at all. The attempt to formalize religion is so obviously an ego attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable that it hardly requires elaboration here. Religion is experience; psychotherapy is experience. At the highest levels they become one. Neither is truth itself, but both can lead to truth. What can be necessary to find truth, which remains perfectly obvious, but to remove the seeming obstacles to true awareness?
No one who learns to forgive can fail to remember God. Forgiveness, then, is all that need be taught, because it is all that need be learned. All blocks to the remembrance of God are forms of unforgiveness, and nothing else. This is never apparent to the patient, and only rarely so to the therapist. The world has marshalled all its forces against this one awareness, for in it lies the ending of the world and all it stands for.
Yet it is not the awareness of God that constitutes a reasonable goal for psychotherapy. This will come when psychotherapy is complete, for where there is forgiveness truth must come. It would be unfair indeed if belief in God were necessary to psychotherapeutic success. Nor is belief in God a really meaningful concept, for God can be but known. Belief implies that unbelief is possible, but knowledge of God has no true opposite. Not to know God is to have no knowledge, and it is to this that all unforgiveness leads. And without knowledge one can have only belief.
Different teaching aids appeal to different people. Some forms of religion have nothing to do with God, and some forms of psychotherapy have nothing to do with healing. Yet if pupil and teacher join in sharing one goal, God will enter into their relationship because He has been invited to come in. In the same way, a union of purpose between patient and therapist restores the place of God to ascendance, first through Christ's vision and then through the memory of God Himself. The process of psychotherapy is the return to sanity. Teacher and pupil, therapist and patient, are all insane or they would not be here. Together they can find a pathway out, for no one will find sanity alone.
If healing is an invitation to God to enter into His Kingdom, what difference does it make how the invitation is written? Does the paper matter, or the ink, or the pen? Or is it he who writes that gives the invitation? God comes to those who would restore His world, for they have found the way to call to Him. If any two are joined, He must be there. It does not matter what their purpose is, but they must share it wholey to succeed. It is impossible to share a goal not blessed by Christ, for what is unseen through His eyes is too fragmented to be meaningful.
As true religion heals, so must true psychotherapy be religious. But both have many forms, because no good teacher uses one approach to every pupil. On the contrary, he listens patiently to each one, and lets him formulate his own curriculum; not the curriculum's goal, but how he can best reach the aim it sets for him. Perhaps the teacher does not think of God as part of teaching. Perhaps the psychotherapist does not understand that healing comes from God. They can succeed where many who believe they have found God will fail.
What must the teacher do to ensure learning? What must the therapist do to bring healing about? Only one thing; the same requirement salvation asks of everyone. Each one must share one goal with someone else, and in so doing, lose all sense of separate interests. Only by doing this is it possible to transcend the narrow boundaries the ego would impose upon the self. Only by doing this can teacher and pupil, therapist and patient, you and I, accept Atonement and learn to give it as it was received.
Communion is impossible alone. No one who stands apart can receive Christ's vision. It is held out to him, but he cannot hold out his hand to receive it. Let him be still and recognize his brother's need is his own. And let him then meet his brother's need as his and see that they are met as one, for such they are. What is religion but an aid in helping him to see that this is so? And what is psychotherapy except a help in just this same direction? It is the goal that makes these processes the same, for they are one in purpose and must thus be one in means.
(f) The Role of the Psychotherapist
The psychotherapist is a leader in the sense that he walks slightly ahead of the patient, and helps him to avoid a few of the pitfalls along the road by seeing them first. Ideally, he is also a follower, for One should walk ahead of him to give him light to see. Without this One, both will merely stumble blindly on to nowhere. It is, however, impossible that this One be wholey absent if the goal is healing. He may, however, not be recognized. And so the little light that can be then accepted is all there is to light the way to truth.
Healing is limited by the limitations of the psychotherapist, as it is limited by those of the patient. The aim of the process, therefore, is to transcend these limits. Neither can do this alone, but when they join, the potentiality for transcending all limitations has been given them. Now the extent of their success depends on how much of this potentiality they are willing to use. The willingness may come from either one at the beginning, and as the other shares it, it will grow. Progress becomes a matter of decision; it can reach almost to Heaven or go no further than a step or two from hell.
It is quite possible for psychotherapy to seem to fail. It is even possible for the result to look like retrogression. But in the end there must be some success. One asks for help; another hears and tries to answer in the form of help. This is the formula for salvation, and must heal. Divided goals alone can interfere with perfect healing. One wholey egoless therapist could heal the world without a word, merely by being there. No one need see him or talk to him or even know of his existence. His simple Presence is enough to heal.
The ideal therapist is one with Christ. But healing is a process, not a fact. The therapist cannot progress without the patient, and the patient cannot be ready to receive the Christ or he could not be sick. In a sense, the egoless psychotherapist is an abstraction that stands at the end of the process of healing, too advanced to believe in sickness and too near to God to keep his feet on earth. Now he can help through those in need of help, for thus he carries out the plan established for salvation. The psychotherapist becomes his patient, working through other patients to express his thoughts as he receives them from the Mind of Christ.
(g) The Process of Illness
As all therapy is psychotherapy, so all illness is mental illness. It is a judgment on the Son of God, and judgment is a mental activity. Judgment is a decision, made again and again, against creation and its Creator. It is a decision to perceive the universe as you would have created it. It is a decision that truth can lie and must be lies. What, then, can illness be except an expression of sorrow and of guilt? And who could weep but for his innocence?
Once God's Son is seen as guilty, illness becomes inevitable. It has been asked for and will be received. And all who ask for illness have now condemned themselves to seek for remedies that cannot help, because their faith is in the illness and not in salvation. There can be nothing that a change of mind cannot effect, for all external things are only shadows of a decision already made. Change the decision, and how can its shadow be unchanged? Illness can be but guilt's shadow, grotesque and ugly since it mimics deformity. If a deformity is seen as real, what could its shadow be except deformed?
The descent into hell follows step by step in an inevitable course, once the decision that guilt is real has been made. Sickness and death and misery now stalk the earth in unrelenting waves, sometimes together and sometimes in grim succession. Yet all these things, however real they seem, are but illusions. Who could have faith in them once this is realized? And who could not have faith in them until he realizes this? Healing is therapy or correction, and we have said already and will say again, all therapy is psychotherapy. To heal the sick is but to bring this realization to them.
The word "cure" has come into disrepute among the more "respectable" therapists of the world, and justly so. For not one of them can cure, and not one of them understands healing. At worst, they but make the body real in their own minds, and having done so, seek for magic by which to heal the ills with which their minds endow it. How could such a process cure? It is ridiculous from start to finish. Yet having started, it must finish thus. It is as if God were the devil and must be found in evil. How could love be there? And how could sickness cure? 10 Are not these both one question?
At best, and the word is perhaps questionable here, the "healers" of the world may recognize the mind as the source of illness. But their error lies in the belief that it can cure itself. This has some merit in a world where "degrees of error" is a meaningful concept. Yet must their cures remain temporary, or another illness rise instead, for death has not been overcome until the meaning of love is understood. And who can understand this without the Word of God, given by Him to the Holy Spirit as His gift to you?
Illness of any kind may be defined as the result of a view of the self as weak, vulnerable, evil and endangered, and thus in need of constant defense. Yet if such were really the self, defense would be impossible. Therefore, the defenses sought for must be magical. They must overcome all limits perceived in the self, at the same time making a new self-concept into which the old one cannot return. In a word, error is accepted as real and dealt with by illusions. Truth being brought to illusions, reality now becomes a threat and is perceived as evil. Love becomes feared because reality is love. Thus is the circle closed against the "inroads" of salvation.
Illness is therefore a mistake and needs correction. And as we have already emphasized, correction cannot be achieved by first establishing the "rightness" of the mistake and then overlooking it. If illness is real it cannot be overlooked in truth, for to overlook reality is insanity. Yet that is magic's purpose; to make illusions true through false perception. This cannot heal, for it opposes truth. Perhaps an illusion of health is substituted for a little while, but not for long. Fear cannot long be hidden by illusions, for it is part of them. It will escape and take another form, being the source of all illusions.
Sickness is insanity because all sickness is mental illness, and in it there are no degrees. One of the illusions by which sickness is perceived as real is the belief that illness varies in intensity; that the degree of threat differs according to the form it takes. Herein lies the basis of all errors, for all of them are but attempts to compromise by seeing just a little bit of hell. This is a mockery so alien to God that it must be forever inconceivable. But the insane believe it because they are insane.
A madman will defend his own illusions because in them he sees his own salvation. Thus, he will attack the one who tries to save him from them, believing that he is attacking him. This curious circle of attack-defense is one of the most difficult problems with which the psychotherapist must deal. In fact, this is his central task; the core of psychotherapy. The therapist is seen as one who is attacking the patient's most cherished possession; his picture of himself. And since this picture has become the patient's security as he perceives it, the therapist cannot but be seen as a real source of danger, to be attacked and even killed.
The psychotherapist, then, has a tremendous responsibility. He must meet attack without attack, and therefore without defense. It is his task to demonstrate that defenses are not necessary, and that defenselessness is strength. This must be his teaching, if his lesson is to be that sanity is safe. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the insane believe that sanity is threat. This is the corollary of the "original sin"; the belief that guilt is real and fully justified. It is therefore the psychotherapist's function to teach that guilt, being unreal, cannot be justified. But neither is it safe. And thus it must remain unwanted as well as unreal.
Salvation's single doctrine is the goal of all therapy. Relieve the mind of the insane burden of guilt it carries so wearily, and healing is accomplished. The body is not cured. It is merely recognized as what it is. Seen rightly, its purpose can be understood. What is the need for sickness then? Given this single shift, all else will follow. There is no need for complicated change. There is no need for long analyses and wearying discussion and pursuits. The truth is simple, being one for all.
(h) The Process of Healing
While truth is simple, it must still be taught to those who have already lost their way in endless mazes of complexity. This is the great illusion. In its wake comes the inevitable belief that, to be safe, one must control the unknown. This strange belief relies on certain steps which never reach to consciousness. First, it is ushered in by the belief that there are forces to be overcome to be alive at all. And next, it seems as if these forces can be held at bay only by an inflated sense of self that holds in darkness what is truly felt, and seeks to raise illusions to the light.
Let us remember that the ones who come to us for help are bitterly afraid. What they believe will help can only harm; what they believe will harm alone can help. Progress becomes impossible until the patient is persuaded to reverse his twisted way of looking at the world; his twisted way of looking at himself. The truth is simple. Yet it must be taught to those who think it will endanger them. It must be taught to those who will attack because they feel endangered, and to those who need the lesson of defenselessness above all else, to show them what is strength.
If this world were ideal, there could perhaps be ideal therapy. And yet it would be useless in an ideal state. We speak of ideal teaching in a world in which the perfect teacher could not long remain; the perfect psychotherapist is but a glimmer of a thought not yet conceived. But still we speak of what can yet be done in helping the insane within the bounds of the attainable. While they are sick, they can and must be helped. No more than that is asked of psychotherapy; no less than all he has to give is worthy of the therapist. For God Himself holds out his brother as his savior from the world.
Healing is holy. Nothing in the world is holier than helping one who asks for help. And two come very close to God in this attempt, however limited, however lacking in sincerity. Where two have joined for healing, God is there. And He has guaranteed that He will hear and answer them in truth. They can be sure that healing is a process He directs, because it is according to His Will. We have His Word to guide us, as we try to help our brothers. Let us not forget that we are helpless of ourselves, and lean upon a strength beyond our little scope for what to teach as well as what to learn.
A brother seeking aid can bring us gifts beyond the heights perceived in any dream. He offers us salvation, for he comes to us as Christ and Savior. What he asks is asked by God through him. And what we do for him becomes the gift we give to God. The sacred calling of God's holy Son for help in his perceived distress can be but answered by his Father. Yet He needs a voice through which to speak His holy Word; a hand to reach His Son and touch his heart. In such a process, who could not be healed? This holy interaction is the plan of God Himself, by which His Son is saved.
For two have joined. And now God's promises are kept by Him. The limits laid on both the patient and the therapist will count as nothing, for the healing has begun. What they must start their Father will complete. For He has never asked for more than just the smallest willingness, the least advance, the tiniest of whispers of His Name. To ask for help, whatever form it takes, is but to call on Him. And He will send His Answer through the therapist who best can serve His Son in all his present needs. Perhaps the answer does not seem to be a gift from Heaven. It may even seem to be a worsening and not a help. Yet let the outcome not be judged by us.
Somewhere all gifts of God must be received. In time no effort can be made in vain. It is not our perfection that is asked in our attempts to heal. We are deceived already, if we think there is a need of healing. And the truth will come to us only through one who seems to share our dream of sickness. Let us help him to forgive himself for all the trespasses with which he would condemn himself without a cause. His healing is our own. And as we see the sinlessness in him come shining through the veil of guilt that shrouds the Son of God, we will behold in him the face of Christ, and understand that it is but our own.
Let us stand silently before God's Will, and do what it has chosen that we do. There is one way alone by which we come to where all dreams began. And it is there that we will lay them down, to come away in peace forever. Hear a brother call for help and answer him. It will be God to Whom you answer, for you called on Him. There is no other way to hear His Voice. There is no other way to seek His Son. There is no other way to find your Self. Holy is healing, for the Son of God returns to Heaven through its kind embrace. For healing tells him, in the Voice for God, that all his sins have been forgiven him.
(i) The Definition of Healing
The process of psychotherapy, then, can be defined simply as forgiveness, for no healing can be anything else. The unforgiving are sick, believing they are unforgiven. The hanging-on to guilt, its hugging-close and sheltering, its loving protection and alert defense,–all this is but the grim refusal to forgive. "God may not enter here" the sick repeat, over and over, while they mourn their loss and yet rejoice in it. Healing occurs as a patient begins to hear the dirge he sings, and questions its validity. Until he hears it, he cannot understand that it is he who sings it to himself. To hear it is the first step in recovery. To question it must then become his choice.
There is a tendency, and it is very strong, to hear this song of death only an instant, and then dismiss it uncorrected. These fleeting awarenesses represent the many opportunities given us literally "to change our tune." The sound of healing can be heard instead. But first the willingness to question the "truth" of the song of condemnation must arise. The strange distortions woven inextricably into the self-concept, itself but a pseudo-creation, make this ugly sound seem truly beautiful. "The rhythm of the universe," "the herald angel's song," all these and more are heard instead of loud discordant shrieks.
The ear translates; it does not hear. The eye reproduces; it does not see. Their task is to make agreeable whatever is called on, however disagreeable it may be. They answer the decisions of the mind, reproducing its desires and translating them into acceptable and pleasant forms. Sometimes the thought behind the form breaks through, but only very briefly, and the mind grows fearful and begins to doubt its sanity. Yet it will not permit its slaves to change the forms they look upon; the sounds they hear. These are its "remedies"; its "safeguards" from insanity.
These testimonies which the senses bring have but one purpose; to justify attack and thus keep unforgiveness unrecognized for what it is. Seen undisguised it is intolerable. Without protection it could not endure. Here is all sickness cherished, but without the recognition that this is so. For when an unforgiveness is not recognized, the form it takes seems to be something else. And now it is the "something else" that seems to terrify. But it is not the "something else" that can be healed. 8 It is not sick, and needs no remedy. To concentrate your healing efforts here is but futility. 10 Who can cure what cannot be sick and make it well?
Sickness takes many forms, and so does unforgiveness. The forms of one but reproduce the forms of the other, for they are the same illusion. So closely is one translated into the other, that a careful study of the form a sickness takes will point quite clearly to the form of unforgiveness that it represents. Yet seeing this will not effect a cure. That is achieved by only one recognition; that only forgiveness heals an unforgiveness, and only an unforgiveness can possibly give rise to sickness of any kind.
This realization is the final goal of psychotherapy. How is it reached? The therapist sees in the patient all that he has not forgiven in himself, and is thus given another chance to look at it, open it to re-evaluation and forgive it. When this occurs, he sees his sins as gone into a past that is no longer here. Until he does this, he must think of evil as besetting him here and now. The patient is his screen for the projection of his sins, enabling him to let them go. Let him retain one spot of sin in what he looks upon, and his release is partial and will not be sure.
No one is healed alone. This is the joyous song salvation sings to all who hear its Voice. This statement cannot be too often remembered by all who see themselves as therapists. Their patients can but be seen as the bringers of forgiveness, for it is they who come to demonstrate their sinlessness to eyes that still believe that sin is there to look upon. Yet will the proof of sinlessness, seen in the patient and accepted in the therapist, offer the mind of both a covenant in which they meet and join and are as one.
(j) The Ideal Patient-Therapist Relationship
Who, then, is the therapist, and who is the patient? In the end, everyone is both. He who needs healing must heal. Physician, heal thyself. Who else is there to heal? And who else is in need of healing? Each patient who comes to a therapist offers him a chance to heal himself. He is therefore his therapist. And every therapist must learn to heal from each patient who comes to him. He thus becomes his patient. God does not know of separation. What He knows is only that He has one Son. His knowledge is reflected in the ideal patient-therapist relationship. God comes to him who calls, and in Him he recognizes Himself.
Think carefully, teacher and therapist, for whom you pray, and who is in need of healing. For therapy is prayer, and healing is its aim and its result. What is prayer except the joining of minds in a relationship which Christ can enter? This is His home, into which psychotherapy invites Him. What is symptom cure, when another is always there to choose? But once Christ enters in, what choice is there except to have Him stay? There is no need for more than this, for it is everything. Healing is here, and happiness and peace. These are the "symptoms" of the ideal patient-therapist relationship, replacing those with which the patient came to ask for help.
The process that takes place in this relationship is actually one in which the therapist in his heart tells the patient that all his sins have been forgiven him, along with his own. What could be the difference between healing and forgiveness? Only Christ forgives, knowing His sinlessness. His vision heals perception and sickness disappears. Nor will it return again, once its cause has been removed. This, however, needs the help of a very advanced therapist, capable of joining with the patient in a holy relationship in which all sense of separation finally is overcome.
For this, one thing and one thing only is required: The therapist in no way confuses himself with God. All "unhealed healers" make this fundamental confusion in one form or another, because they must regard themselves as self-created rather than God-created. This confusion is rarely if ever in awareness, or the unhealed healer would instantly become a teacher of God, devoting his life to the function of true healing. Before he reached this point, he thought he was in charge of the therapeutic process and was therefore responsible for its outcome. His patient's errors thus became his own failures, and guilt became the cover, dark and strong, for what should be the Holiness of Christ. Guilt is inevitable in those who use their judgment in making their decisions. Guilt is impossible in those through whom the Holy Spirit speaks.
The passing of guilt is the true aim of therapy and the obvious aim of forgiveness. In this their oneness can be clearly seen. Yet who could experience the end of guilt who feels responsible for his brother in the role of guide for him? Such a function presupposes a knowledge that no one here can have; a certainty of past, present and future, and of all the effects that may occur in them. Only from this omniscient point of view would such a role be possible. Yet no perception is omniscient, nor is the tiny self of one alone against the universe able to assume he has such wisdom except in madness. That many therapists are mad is obvious. No unhealed healer can be wholey sane.
Yet it is as insane not to accept a function God has given you as to invent one He has not. The advanced therapist in no way can ever doubt the power that is in him. Nor does he doubt its Source. He understands all power in earth and Heaven belongs to him because of who he is. And he is this because of his Creator, Whose Love is in him and Who cannot fail. Think what this means; he has the gifts of God Himself to give away. His patients are God's saints, who call upon his sanctity to make it theirs. And as he gives it to them, they behold Christ's shining face as it looks back at them.
The insane, thinking they are God, are not afraid to offer weakness to God's Son. But what they see in him because of this they fear indeed. The unhealed healer cannot but be fearful of his patients, and suspect them of the treachery he sees in him. He tries to heal, and thus at times he may. But he will not succeed except to some extent and for a little while. He does not see the Christ in him who calls. What answer can he give to one who seems to be a stranger; alien to the truth and poor in wisdom, without the god who must be given him? Behold your God in him, for what you see will be your Answer.
Think what the joining of two brothers really means. And then forget the world and all its little triumphs and its dreams of death. The same are one, and nothing now can be remembered of the world of guilt. The room becomes a temple, and the street a stream of stars that brushes lightly past all sickly dreams. Healing is done, for what is perfect needs no healing, and what remains to be forgiven where there is no sin?
Be thankful, therapist, that you can see such things as this, if you but understand your proper role. But if you fail in this, you have denied that God created you, and so you will not know you are His Son. Who is your brother now? What saint can come to take you home with him? You lost the way. And can you now expect to see in him an answer that you have refused to give? Heal and be healed. There is no other choice of pathways that can ever lead to peace. O let your patient in, for he has come to you from God. Is not his holiness enough to wake your memory of Him?
(k) PRACTICE
Everyone who is sent to you is a patient of yours. This does not mean that you select him, nor that you choose the kind of treatment that is suitable. But it does mean that no one comes to you by mistake. There are no errors in God's plan. It would be an error, however, to assume that you know what to offer everyone who comes. This is not up to you to decide. There is a tendency to assume that you are being called on constantly to make sacrifices of yourself for those who come. This could hardly be true. To demand sacrifice of yourself is to demand a sacrifice of God, and He knows nothing of sacrifice. Who could ask of Perfection that He be imperfect?
Who, then, decides what each brother needs? Surely not you, who do not yet recognize who he is who asks. There is Something in him that will tell you, if you listen. And that is the answer; listen. Do not demand, do not decide, do not sacrifice. Listen. What you hear is true. Would God send His Son to you and not be sure you recognize his needs? Think what God is telling you; He needs your voice to speak for Him. Could anything be holier? Or a greater gift to you? Would you rather choose who would be god, or hear the Voice of Him Who is God in you?
Your patients need not be physically present for you to serve them in the Name of God. This may be hard to remember, but God will not have His gifts to you limited to the few you actually see. You can see others as well, for seeing is not limited to the body's eyes. Some do not need your physical presence. They need you as much, and perhaps even more, at the instant they are sent. You will recognize them in whatever way can be most helpful to both of you. It does not matter how they come. They will be sent in whatever form is most helpful; a name, a thought, a picture, an idea, or perhaps just a feeling of reaching out to someone somewhere. The joining is in the hands of the Holy Spirit. 10 It cannot fail to be accomplished.
A holy therapist, an advanced teacher of God, never forgets one thing; he did not make the curriculum of salvation, nor did he establish his part in it. 2 He understands that his part is necessary to the whole, and that through it he will recognize the whole when his part is complete. Meanwhile he must learn, and his patients are the means sent to him for his learning. What could he be but grateful for them and to them? They come bearing God. Would he refuse this Gift for a pebble, or would he close the door on the savior of the world to let in a ghost? Let him not betray the Son of God. Who calls on him is far beyond his understanding. Yet would he not rejoice that he can answer, when only thus will he be able to hear the call and understand that it is his?
(l) Is Psychotherapy a Profession?
Strictly speaking the answer is no. How could a separate profession be one in which everyone is engaged? And how could any limits be laid on an interaction in which everyone is both patient and therapist in every relationship in which he enters? Yet practically speaking, it can still be said that there are those who devote themselves primarily to healing of one sort or another as their chief function. And it is to them that a large number of others turn for help. That, in effect, is the practice of therapy. These are therefore "officially" helpers. They are devoted to certain kinds of needs in their professional activities, although they may be far more able teachers outside of them. These people need no special rules, of course, but they may be called upon to use special applications of the general principles of healing.
First, the professional therapist is in an excellent position to demonstrate that there is no order of difficulty in healing. For this, however, he needs special training, because the curriculum by which he became a therapist probably taught him little or nothing about the real principles of healing. In fact, it probably taught him how to make healing impossible. Most of the world's teaching follows a curriculum in judgment, with the aim of making the therapist a judge.
Even this the Holy Spirit can use, and will use, given the slightest invitation. The unhealed healer may be arrogant, selfish, unconcerned, and actually dishonest. He may be uninterested in healing as his major goal. Yet something happened to him, however slight it may have been, when he chose to be a healer, however misguided the direction he may have chosen. That "something" is enough. Sooner or later that something will rise and grow; a patient will touch his heart, and the therapist will silently ask him for help. He has himself found a therapist. He has asked the Holy Spirit to enter the relationship and heal it. He has accepted the Atonement for himself.
God is said to have looked on all He created and pronounced it good. No, He declared it perfect, and so it was. And since His creations do not change and last forever, so it is now. Yet neither a perfect therapist nor a perfect patient can possibly exist. Both must have denied their perfection, for their very need for each other implies a sense of lack. A one-to-one relationship is not one Relationship. Yet it is the means of return; the way God chose for the return of His Son. In that strange dream a strange correction must enter, for only that is the call to awake. And what else should therapy be? Awake and be glad, for all your sins have been forgiven you. This is the only message that any two should ever give each other.
Something good must come from every meeting of patient and therapist. And that good is saved for both, against the day when they can recognize that only that was real in their relationship. At that moment the good is returned to them, blessed by the Holy Spirit as a gift from their Creator as a sign of His Love. For the therapeutic relationship must become like the relationship of the Father and the Son. There is no other, for there is nothing else. The therapists of this world do not expect this outcome, and many of their patients would not be able to accept help from them if they did. Yet no therapist really sets the goal for the relationships of which he is a part. His understanding begins with recognizing this, and then goes on from there.
It is in the instant that the therapist forgets to judge the patient that healing occurs. In some relationships this point is never reached, although both patient and therapist may change their dreams in the process. Yet it will not be the same dream for both of them, and so it is not the dream of forgiveness in which both will someday wake. The good is saved; indeed is cherished. But only little time is saved. The new dreams will lose their temporary appeal and turn to dreams of fear, which is the content of all dreams. Yet no patient can accept more than he is ready to receive, and no therapist can offer more than he believes he has. And so there is a place for all relationships in this world, and they will bring as much good as each can accept and use.
Yet it is when judgment ceases that healing occurs, because only then it can be understood that there is no order of difficulty in healing. This is a necessary understanding for the healed healer. He has learned that it is no harder to wake a brother from one dream than from another. No professional therapist can hold this understanding consistently in his mind, offering it to all who come to him. There are some in this world who have come very close, but they have not accepted the gift entirely in order to stay and let their understanding remain on earth until the closing of time. They could hardly be called professional therapists. They are the Saints of God. They are the Saviors of the world. Their image remains, because they have chosen that it be so. They take the place of other images, and help with kindly dreams.
Once the professional therapist has realized that minds are joined, he can also recognize that order of difficulty in healing is meaningless. Yet well before he reaches this in time he can go towards it. Many holy instants can be his along the way. A goal marks the end of a journey, not the beginning, and as each goal is reached another can be dimly seen ahead. Most professional therapists are still at the very start of the beginning stage of the first journey. Even those who have begun to understand what they must do may still oppose the setting-out. Yet all the laws of healing can be theirs in just an instant. The journey is not long except in dreams.
The professional therapist has one advantage that can save enormous time if it is properly used. He has chosen a road in which there is great temptation to misuse his role. This enables him to pass by many obstacles to peace quite quickly, if he escapes the temptation to assume a function that has not been given him. To understand there is no order of difficulty in healing, he must also recognize the equality of himself and the patient. There is no halfway point in this. Either they are equal or not. The attempts of therapists to compromise in this respect are strange indeed. Some utilize the relationship merely to collect bodies to worship at their shrine, and this they regard as healing. Many patients, too, consider this strange procedure as salvation. Yet at each meeting there is One Who says, "My brother, choose again."
Do not forget that any form of specialness must be defended, and will be. The defenseless therapist has the strength of God with him, but the defensive therapist has lost sight of the Source of his salvation. He does not see and he does not hear. How, then, can he teach? Because it is the Will of God that he take his place in the plan for salvation. Because it is the Will of God that his patient be helped to join with him there. Because his inability to see and hear does not limit the Holy Spirit in any way. Except in time. In time there can be a great lag between the offering and the acceptance of healing. This is the veil across the face of Christ. Yet it can be but an illusion, because time does not exist and the Will of God has always been exactly as it is.
(m) The Question of Payment
No one can pay for therapy, for healing is of God and He asks for nothing. It is, however, part of His plan that everything in this world be used by the Holy Spirit to help in carrying out the plan. Even an advanced therapist has some earthly needs while he is here. Should he need money it will be given him, not in payment, but to help him better serve the plan. Money is not evil. It is nothing. But no one here can live with no illusions, for he must yet strive to have the last illusion be accepted by everyone everywhere. He has a mighty part in this one purpose, for which he came. He stays here but for this. And while he stays he will be given what he needs to stay.
Only an unhealed healer would try to heal for money, and he will not succeed to the extent to which he values it. Nor will he find his healing in the process. There will be those of whom the Holy Spirit asks some payment for His purpose. There will be those from whom He does not ask. It should not be the therapist who makes these decisions. There is a difference between payment and cost. To give money where God's plan allots it has no cost. To withhold it from where it rightfully belongs has enormous cost. The therapist who would do this loses the name of healer, for he could never understand what healing is. He cannot give it, and so he does not have it.
The therapists of this world are indeed useless to the world's salvation. They make demands, and so they cannot give. Patients can pay only for the exchange of illusions. This, indeed, must demand payment, and the cost is great. A "bought" relationship cannot offer the only gift whereby all healing is accomplished. Forgiveness, the Holy Spirit's only dream, must have no cost. For if it does, it merely crucifies God's Son again. Can this be how he is forgiven? Can this be how the dream of sin will end?
The right to live is something no one need fight for. It is promised him, and guaranteed by God. Therefore it is a right the therapist and patient share alike. If their relationship is to be holy, whatever one needs is given by the other; whatever one lacks the other supplies. Herein is the relationship made holy, for herein both are healed. The therapist repays the patient in gratitude, as does the patient repay him. There is no cost to either. But thanks are due to both, for the release from long imprisonment and doubt. Who would not be grateful for such a gift? Yet who could possibly imagine that it could be bought?
It has well been said that to him who hath shall be given. Because he has, he can give. And because he gives, he shall be given. This is the law of God, and not of the world. So it is with God's healers. They give because they have heard His Word and understood it. All that they need will thus be given them. But they will lose this understanding unless they remember that all they have comes only from God. If they believe they need anything from a brother, they will recognize him as a brother no longer. And if they do this, a light goes out even in Heaven. Where God's Son turns against himself, he can look only upon darkness. He has himself denied the light, and cannot see.
One rule should always be observed: No one should be turned away because he cannot pay. No one is sent by accident to anyone. Relationships are always purposeful. Whatever their purpose may have been before the Holy Spirit entered them, they are always His potential temple; the resting place of Christ and home of God Himself. Whoever comes has been sent. Perhaps he was sent to give his brother the money he needed. Both will be blessed thereby. Perhaps he was sent to teach the therapist how much he needs forgiveness, and how valueless is money in comparison. Again will both be blessed. Only in terms of cost could one have more. In sharing, everyone must gain a blessing without cost.
This view of payment may well seem impractical, and in the eyes of the world it would be so. Yet not one worldly thought is really practical. How much is gained by striving for illusions? How much is lost by throwing God away? And is it possible to do so? Surely it is impractical to strive for nothing, and to attempt to do what is impossible. Then stop a while, long enough to think of this: You have perhaps been seeking for salvation without recognizing where to look. Whoever asks your help can show you where. What greater gift than this could you be given? What greater gift is there that you would give?
Physician, healer, therapist, teacher, heal thyself. Many will come to you carrying the gift of healing, if you so elect. The Holy Spirit never refuses an invitation to enter and abide with you. He will give you endless opportunities to open the door to your salvation, for such is His function. He will also tell you exactly what your function is in every circumstance and at all times. Whoever He sends you will reach you, holding out his hand to his Friend. Let the Christ in you bid him welcome, for that same Christ is in him as well. Deny him entrance, and you have denied the Christ in you. Remember the sorrowful story of the world, and the glad tidings of salvation. Remember the plan of God for the restoration of joy and peace. And do not forget how very simple are the ways of God: You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. And then God sent His Son to give it to you:
NOT acceptable is the misadministration of therapy psychiatrists Mr. Liaqat Ali and Ms. Anjana Chawla have professed for law, among other psychiatrists named in paragraph Sch.A.20 of Schedule A to applications in Form 1 under Ontario Provincial Criminal Rule 2.1 available at www.renehelmerichs3.blogspot.ca . Mr. Ali and Ms. Chawla did intentionally and with complete disregard to the law contravene Criminal Code sections 423 intimidation, 266 assault, 264.1 uttering threats, 362 false statements, 366 false documents, 176 arresting a clergyman, 181 spreading false news, 300 defamatory libel publicating, 319 public incitement of hatred, 120 bribery, and 365 pretending to practice witchcraft for purporting to know a single thing about mind without ever taking the time to have an active-listening therapeutic dialog founded squarely upon mutual courtesy, equality of law, The Golden Rule, and (a) Religion: PURPOSE, PROCESS, and PRACTICE
5) Language
The ability to communicate is not restricted to any language nor any body whether considered physical or not. English is preferred, others are understood; understanding itself is not confined to language.
6) Source of Income
Rene Helmerichs began his campaign to market Talk To Dream as The New Goal Day Charity in February of 2012 and fully intends to continue his advertisement campaign unto whatever extent The Government Of Ontario unwittingly facilitates the advertisement campaign to extend. This is continued in the Self Report 16) Source(s) of income?
7) Capacity
Rene is fully capable. Psychiatrist Ms. Anjana Chawla had removed capability from Rene in October 2012 to satisfy her desire that Rene be injected on presumption of guilt for allegations of a criminal offence to Natalie Yewchyn. Rene was denied the Criminal Code section 16 right to challenge opinions of Ms. Chawla before Ms. Chawla did then contravene Criminal Code section 120 to bribe Rene that he stop advertising psychiatric malice in exchange for re-instatement of his capacity. The bribe was accepted on 22 Nov. 2012 for want to end injections of noxious substances for allegations of a criminal offense not having received a fair criminal court hearing, irrespective of false psychiatric belief in the efficacy of forcibly injecting a client for want to change a constitutionally sanctioned belief.
8) Date of last assessment
There was a psychiatric Form 1 in place on 30 June 2014 for the 2 July 2014 assessment at The Waypoint Centre For Mental Health Care in Penetanguishene, Ontario.
9) ___ Property ___Treatment ___Disclosure
10) Substitute Decision Maker, SDM
There is a power of attorney in place with respect to SDM to prevent future forced injections.
11) PGT #:
12) Marital status
Rene is in a common law relationship with Fan-Xiu Hsiao and, for purposes of marketing Talk To Dream, considers himself to have married The Incorporated Province Of Ontario, defined as a gendered contactable person in The Interpretation Act of Canada, for grounds stated in the marriage registration document titled The Inside Scoop publically accepted on the Barrie courthouse record for then case file C-13-1184 (become Superior Court file C-13-205 on 8 Nov 2013) on 17 July 2013 and the internet thereafter at www.luciferchristforworldpeace.blogspot.tw
13) Next of Kin
Rene does not expect to require a next of kin in the near-term and happily lists his best friend and wife in lovingkindness Fan-Xiu Hsiao, with a lion of a heart for Love, above his Mom, Ingrid Helmerichs, without whom there would be no kin, stubborn at times as an ox, until his Sun is returned to him.
C. SELF REPORT
14) Please give your account of the index offence.
There was no criminal offence. A criminal offence constitutes, at a minimum, intent for harm to any part of self, self as inclusive of the greater self-concept for self as member in, for, of, and the society as one whole. Loss of employment cannot be included in the definition of harm for there to remain hope of ever-bettering to society, ever-increase to the ability of self within society, and ever-increase to self as employed individual. Since there was at no point intent for harm and continual offer of partnership extended to all parties before any affected party experienced defame to their special self-concept, The Golden Rule at the core of the spirit of the law established as the supreme law for Canada via Constitution subsection 52(1) same-applied has at all times been continually adhered.
The administration of justice for Ontario is, within the larger context of any alleged index offence against Rene Helmerichs, revealed to have irreparably screwed Up, so to speak, in a way not reparable except with New Goal Day beginning to acknowledge Mr. Helmerichs AS The Bridegroom TO The Province Of Ontario. The right of personal religion ensures each can live in false pretense of whatever special local workplace policy any may momentarily desire without also personally respecting The Golden Rule until transparency ("the wholey ghost") requires accountability for inaction of the intrinsic personal-social responsibility, that is, Self-awakening always without real harm.
D. SOCIAL SITUATION
15) Prior to arrest where were you living?
The first arrest occurred 3 Sept 2012. Rene was residing with his Mum at 6 Downsview Drive in Barrie. All subsequent arrests were instigated with correct faith to correct the first illegal arrest.
16) Source(s) of income?
Rene Helmerichs began his campaign to market Talk To Dream as The New Goal Day Charity in February of 2012 and fully intends to continue his advertisement campaign unto whatever extent The Government Of Ontario unwittingly facilitates the advertisement campaign to extend. Prior to the fourth arrest, The Ontario Ministry Of Social Services for Ontario Works attempted to charge Rene Helmerichs with uttering threats on 5 Nov 2014 for misperception of malice where neither threat nor harm existed.
Rene intentionally instigated the fourth arrest attempting to redress still the first with direct email to Natalie Yewchyn on 6 Dec 2014, the email containing also, directly and specifically, the grounds for legal argument revealing the email to not be a criminal offence. The fourth arrest was necessary simply for lack of means for Rene to pay his rent. Contrary to Ontario Provincial Police statement in the 6 Nov 2014 video statement at the Orillia Peter Street detachment, there was no one who contacted Mr. Helmerichs to reinstate at least the minimum Ontario Works subsidy following further delay of the Employment Insurance yet owed to him from Canada Services. Rene applied to Canada Services following loss of his capacities of teacher and marketing assistant at Georgian College in Barrie in 2012 affected during his detention in Royal Victoria Hospital, RVH, in Barrie on false psychiatric presumption of guilt.
The marketing campaign for talk2dream has taken some time. The campaign was solidified with book publishing contract at Balboa Press in June of 2012. Let it be known that we are all blind in the world, so to speak, and with our blindness learning faith in that not known but directing our thinking for not mutually exclusive not physical being.
The jokebook of life, momentarily titled The Choice Amidst The Argument In The Business Of Being Happy: A Course In Miracles And Ode To My Love Born On Christmas, incorporates a 30 Aug 2012 invoice to The Mormon Community Of Christ to provide Rene a Dodge Viper, justified as marketing expense for the supplied Trust Lesson under One God, and actual need for a car Biblically sanctioned under Deuteronomy 15:8. Effective marketing of a book requires a marketing platform filled with real people having lived real events who shall surely be thrilled to see their names and actions immortalized in print.
Since there is no such thing as bad advertising and a mockery is said to spread at ten times the rate of a compliment, Rene had politely challenged the authority for Christ of the communities for Christ when he instigated the 3 Sept 2012 criminal arrest. On 3 Sept. 2012, Rene had attended a police car to arrive in the cul-de-sac of Johnson Street in Barrie and then asked the random Sergeant Doug Henderson to be honestly arrested. On reflection, Rene realized an honest arrest to be itself a paradox necessary only to exaggerate an open legal argument with The Mormon Community Of Christ at Barrie, whom Rene had requested to partner with him to unite the churches of the world. Kris Judd did indicate understanding of her disbelief, the first step to forming a reality always being the introduction of it as something not to believe, for before the disbelief is the state of not existence which does literally nothing. Thus does science fiction literally write the future or, at least, present alternative visions for experience to be accepted or rejected into the conglomerate social consciousness presented the laborers on their tele-vision screens.
The idea is admittedly grandiose but society does teach hope with means to envision possibility of a world without war. The bizarre outline was provided in allegorical picture-story presented in codified scenes of Super Mario Bros. in the 3 Sept 2012 email, not realized as such until after mental review of the story long after its dissemination. Perhaps the trick is simply not to question how inspiration works but to acknowledge inspiration is always working for benefit of each individually and the collective of all society as one whole, leading back to the principle of not exclusion founding A Course In Miracles and personal Talk To Dream.
The 3 Sept 2012 email is a third generation of two prior documents emailed to news agencies in addition to the community of Christ on 31 Aug 2012 and 24 Aug 2012. On 3 Sept 2012, despite police agreement to arrest Rene for possession of Marijuana, Rene was incarcerated into the mental ward of RVH, accused of delusion for his creative writing despite its legal sanction under section 2(b) of our Constitution, and accused of having claimed to be God in a way not consistent with the Reality that each is equally God. Psychiatrist Ms. Anjana Chawla, seemingly for her own fun, then falsely added Mr. Helmerichs to have stated intent to be king of Barrie. In the audio recording of oral exchange on 26 Oct. 2012, Mr. Helmerichs does request Ms. Chawla to correct the record that the intent is, and was, and is still to become the Governor General for Canada, after winning a federal election as first elected independent Prime Minster.
It should not be hard to understand that Mr. Helmerichs truly can become the first elected independent Prime Minster for Canada given his Twitter posts revealing the current favorite, Justin Trudeau, to have committed a criminal offence in illegally expelling Liberal Party members on grounds of their Marijuana disagreement. The advertising sufficed with introduction of caselaw requiring all mental assessments to be audio-recorded IS newsworthy, and any media coverage of Rene shall be met with maximal intent for the drive to see Anjana Chawla and Liaqat Ali arrested.
Mr. Ali and Ms. Chawla insisted Mr. Helmerichs to be presumed guilty for the criminal allegation of harassing Natalie Yewchyn, former treasurer of the Barrie Community Of Christ congregation. The criminal code definition for criminal harassment, section 264, is actually flawed. Despite the flaw, no criminal harassment can receive criminal court conviction if the intent of the harassment is exclusively to better the moral, mental, emotional, and physical situation of the person allegedly being harassed. Clearly there is misunderstanding.
That Mr. Helmerichs was forcibly injected for grounds including allegations of criminal harassment without having received a criminal trial, and merits for the forced noxious substance originating from email itself not differently than ancient hieroglyphics jumping from a science-fiction holoscreen quite in contradiction of the Constitutional guaranteed freedom of belief, there is little possibility of Mr. Ali and Ms. Chawla not also receiving the very same utterly useless injections before the financial win-fall, and for it, to tie a neat ending into our book for The New Beginning.
The source of income prior to the 3 Sept 2012 arrest included tutoring for The Hugging Tree Inc. Rene enacted The Hugging Tree on 8 June 2008, in memory of his Oma succumb to tele-vision lethargy in her later years, with desire to rebuild the school Jon Peniel described in Children Of The Law Of One: The Lost Teachings Of Atlantis. It is precisely that desire which Talk To Dream seeks to further but in a much more efficient way trading, to quote The Course, his wings of a sparrow for those of an Eagle. Funds awarded following the arrest of psychiatrists Liaqat Ali and Anjana Chawla shall be used to further Talk To Dream for anyone willing to present not exclusive goals with concrete purpose for their funding.
To achieve the arrest of Mr. Ali and Ms. Chawla, and Natalie Yewchyn for her false testimony at the June 2014 trial, further advertisement is yet necessary and, fortunately, Rene has nothing left to lose. Every reader of this document is herewith warned that, should Rene still not receive public assistance to redress the massive injustice committed in The City Of Barrie against countless others, he can use any defamatory recorded statement made against his person directly for his, and directly our, eventual gain.
17) Relationship status
Have you watched the recent DVD released movie Luci(fer)? It is not our brains which think, however the movie explores necessary questions for understanding brains do process thought into physical being not unlike the CPU of a cellphone. Nearest-perfect is to understand: "You are a projection of My unconscious; Rene is a projection of Your unconscious; the unconscious remains not known to you and me and You and Me and fluidly with each because All shares a common ME because God Is."
Rene testifies personally to having beheld the state called Heaven referenced as place of birth, in March of 2006, as The Answer, or simply, Home.
Rene considers himself to be in Holy Matrimony with Self, self as inclusive of everyone other, and testifies the consequence of being in time is to suffer momentary bouts of memory loss at various points for time itself to be sustained. Thus Rene leaves for himself perpetual reminders ever-honouring That Establishing Our Ability To Communicate, i.e. God, above all such that all else not exclusive must, in time under law of That Not Defined, be added unto everyone willing according to A Course IN Miracles.
18) Leisure pursuits
With unlimited mental capacity for solving any problem, what is there one cannot pursue for leisure? What more would one desire except to maintain the ability to solve any and every problem if in solving any problem are respect, friendship, and mutual joy always furthered?
E. CHILDHOOD
Where were you born?
Planned pregnancy? Premature birth? Developmental milestones?
Any complications during pregnancy? Alcohol/drug consumption during pregnancy?
Describe home life. (finances, close knit family?, extended family around)
How were birthdays and holidays celebrated?
Always lived in same location or moved? Lived with parents? Until what age?
Run away from home? Overnight? How often? Why?
Behavioural problems at home? What age?
Who was primary disciplinarian? What type of discipline used? Did he obey discipline?
Parents home to babysit or had a babysitter?
What was relationship with siblings like throughout childhood?
Many friends? Still friends today with friends in childhood? Loner? Bullied?
Any social service agency involved as a child? Doctor? Counselling? ADD diagnosis?
Childhood health i.e. hospitalizations, seizure, accidents, head injuries, diagnosis
Hx. of sexual, physical, emotional abuse?
The body's serial adventures, from the time of birth to dying are the theme of every dream the world has ever had. The "hero" of this dream will never change, nor will its purpose. Though the dream itself takes many forms, and seems to show a great variety of places and events wherein its "hero" finds itself, the dream has but one purpose, taught in many ways. This single lesson does it try to teach again, and still again, and yet once more; that it is cause and not effect. And you are its effect, and cannot be its cause.
Thus are you not the dreamer, but the dream. And so you wander idly in and out of places and events that it contrives. That this is all the body does is true, for it is but a figure in a dream. But who reacts to figures in a dream unless he sees them as if they were real? The instant that he sees them as they are they have no more effects on him, because he understands he gave them their effects by causing them and making them seem real.
How willing are you to escape effects of all the dreams the world has ever had? Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do? Then let us merely look upon the dream's beginning, for the part you see is but the second part, whose cause lies in the first. No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack upon himself. No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body, and could never have conceived this world as real. He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away. How serious they now appear to be! And no one can remember when they would have met with laughter and with disbelief. We can remember this, if we but look directly at their cause. And we will see the grounds for laughter, not a cause for fear.
Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer, who perceives the dream as separate from himself and done to him. Into eternity, where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad idea, at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting did the thought become a serious idea, and possible of both accomplishment and real effects. Together, we can laugh them both away, and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time.
A timelessness in which is time made real; a part of God that can attack itself; a separate brother as an enemy; a mind within a body all are forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its cause. The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did. Except that now you think that what you did is being done to you. The guilt for what you thought is being placed outside yourself, and on a guilty world that dreams your dreams and thinks your thoughts instead of you. It brings its vengeance, not your own. It keeps you narrowly confined within a body, which it punishes because of all the sinful things the body does within its dream. You have no power to make the body stop its evil deeds because you did not make it, and cannot control its actions nor its purpose nor its fate.
The world but demonstrates an ancient truth; you will believe that others do to you exactly what you think you did to them. But once deluded into blaming them you will not see the cause of what they do, because you want the guilt to rest on them. How childish is the petulant device to keep your innocence by pushing guilt outside yourself, but never letting go! It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do your eyes behold its heavy consequences, but without their trifling cause. Without the cause do its effects seem serious and sad indeed. Yet they but follow. And it is their cause that follows nothing and is but a jest.
In gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause, and looks not to effects. How else could He correct your error, who have overlooked the cause entirely? He bids you bring each terrible effect to Him that you may look together on its foolish cause and laugh with Him a while. You judge effects, but He has judged their cause. And by His judgment are effects removed. Perhaps you come in tears. But hear Him say, "My brother, holy Son of God, behold your idle dream, in which this could occur." And you will leave the holy instant with your laughter and your brother's joined with His.
The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true. Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream.
This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering, whatever form it takes. The Holy Spirit will repeat this one inclusive lesson of deliverance until it has been learned, regardless of the form of suffering that brings you pain. Whatever hurt you bring to Him He will make answer with this very simple truth. For this one answer takes away the cause of every form of sorrow and of pain. The form affects His answer not at all, for He would teach you but the single cause of all of them, no matter what their form. And you will understand that miracles reflect the simple statement, "I have done this thing, and it is this I would undo."
Let us reserve childhood particulars for an autobiography already written that may or may not actually be published. The first draft was completed in 2008 and not reviewed since, nor does Rene have any intention to review it. Instead, Rene offers an excerpt from a book he shares, A Course In Miracles, to afford you, the reader, a measure of added personal insight into the ability of self to re-member the future such that everyone is living a childhood each day of life:
Each time today you tell your frantic mind salvation comes from your one Self, you lay another treasure in your growing store. And all of it is given everyone who asks for it, and will accept the gift. Think, then, how much is given unto you to give this day, that it be given you! ©2015 Rene Helmerichs shared with Foundation For Inner Peace for Talk To Dream One World Peace-free-of-harm-period.
F. FAMILY
Father’s, mother’s, siblings: name, age, residence, employment status
What was your parents' relationship like, still together, divorced, separated? Step-parent role/involvement?
Argued a lot/argued in front kids? Any separations exceeding one month?
What is your relationship like with parents/siblings. Supportive?
When was the last time talked/visited?
Is there a family history of mental illness (aunts, uncles, grandparents, brothers, sisters, parents)
Family history of criminal involvement?
Family history of substance use/misuse?
Culture--morals, values, goals, traditions, customs, and practices
You respond to what you perceive, and as you perceive so shall you behave. The Golden Rule asks you to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This means that the perception of both must be accurate. The Golden Rule is the rule for appropriate behavior. You cannot behave appropriately unless you perceive correctly. Since you and your neighbor are equal members of one family, as you perceive both so you will do to both. You should look out from the perception of your own holiness to the holiness of others.
When the Atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the Sons of God. God is not partial. All His children have His total Love, and all His gifts are freely given to everyone alike. "Except ye become as little children" means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father. The specialness of God's Sons does not stem from exclusion but from inclusion. All my brothers are special. If they believe they are deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted. When this occurs the whole family of God, or the Sonship, is impaired in its relationships.
Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. The miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him, even though he may be absent in spirit. "God is not mocked" is not a warning but a reassurance. God would be mocked if any of His creations lacked holiness. The creation is whole, and the mark of wholeness is holiness. Miracles are affirmations of Sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance.
G. EDUCATION
What age did you attend school? If quit, why?
Did you attend College or University?
Did you ever fail any grades? If so, which one? Why?
Grades? Areas done well? Favourite subjects? Extracurricular involvement?
Enjoyed school? Find it boring? IQ?
Discipline /attendance problems up to and including Grade 8? Minor? Major?
Truancy? Detention? Suspension/Expulsion? How often? How old? Grade?
Problems for teachers? Sent to principal’s office? Discipline problem? Calls home?
Learning disability?
Applied yourself/did homework?
Fighting with students? Relationship with other students.
Got along with/liked by teachers? How would they describe you?
The IQ is 11:11, solidly The Golden Rule re-minded twice daily. Mensa tested the IQ of corpus Rene Helmerichs the summer of '011 in the oddest of assessments wherein Rene received both questions AND answers in the same booklet. Thereafter Rene watched the assessor leave the room and wondered: A) whether the test was for an attempt at guessing what, precisely, the idiot designing the quiz had in mind to ask unique individuals to compare micro-sized dots for commonality without confirmed understanding what the squiggles were even supposed to mean; and B) to copy the answers from the included hidden page onto the carbon-coping cover. Rene struggled to score the near-perfect 110 figuring Mensa only added the 0 for want to perpetuate difference, disagreement, and mental discord.
The role of teaching and learning is actually reversed in the thinking of the world. The reversal is characteristic. It seems as if the teacher and the learner are separated, the teacher giving something to the learner rather than to himself. Further, the act of teaching is regarded as a special activity, in which one engages only a relatively small proportion of one's time. The course, on the other hand, emphasizes that to teach is to learn, so that teacher and learner are the same. It also emphasizes that teaching is a constant process; it goes on every moment of the day, and continues into sleeping thoughts as well.
To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.
The curriculum you set up is therefore determined exclusively by what you think you are, and what you believe the relationship of others is to you. In the formal teaching situation, these questions may be totally unrelated to what you think you are teaching. Yet it is impossible not to use the content of any situation on behalf of what you really teach, and therefore really learn. To this the verbal content of your teaching is quite irrelevant. It may coincide with it, or it may not. It is the teaching underlying what you say that teaches you. Teaching but reinforces what you believe about yourself. Its fundamental purpose is to diminish self-doubt. This does not mean that the self you are trying to protect is real. But it does mean that the self you think is real is what you teach.
This is inevitable. There is no escape from it. How could it be otherwise? Everyone who follows the world's curriculum, and everyone here does follow it until he changes his mind, teaches solely to convince himself that he is what he is not. Herein is the purpose of the world. What else, then, would its curriculum be? Into this hopeless and closed learning situation, which teaches nothing but despair and death, God sends His teachers. And as they teach His lessons of joy and hope, their learning finally becomes complete.
H. EMPLOYMENT
Five most recent jobs held. Number of jobs held since leaving school.
How long employed?
Longest job held?
Duties/responsibilities at job?
Fired? Quit (without another job to go to)?
Describe work ethic. i.e. Relationships with co-workers/boss? Dependable/reliable? Performance on the job?
Ever receive Ontario Works (OW)/Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Employment Insurance (EI), Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPP-D)?
Debts (i.e. credit card/family)?
Ever involved in illegal activity to make money? i.e. selling drugs, pimping, prostitute
Do you want to work in the future? Goals for income.
All terms are potentially controversial, and those who seek controversy will find it. Yet those who seek clarification will find it as well. They must, however, be willing to overlook controversy, recognizing that it is a defense against truth in the form of a delaying maneuver. Theological considerations as such are necessarily controversial, since they depend on belief and can therefore be accepted or rejected. A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which The Course is directed. Here alone consistency becomes possible because here alone uncertainty ends.
In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines:
Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. But only perfect love exists. If there is fear, it produces a state that does not exist.
To extend is a fundamental aspect of God which He gave to His Son. In the creation, God extended Himself to His creations and imbued them with the same loving Will to create. You have not only been fully created, but have also been created perfect. There is no emptiness in you. Because of your likeness to your Creator you are creative. No child of God can lose this ability because it is inherent in what he is, but he can use it inappropriately by projecting. The inappropriate use of extension, or projection, occurs when you believe that some emptiness or lack exists in you, and that you can fill it with your own ideas instead of truth. This process involves the following steps:
1) First, you believe that what God created can be changed by your own mind.
2) Second, you believe that what is perfect can be rendered imperfect or lacking.
3) Third, you believe that you can distort the creations of God, including yourself.
4) Fourth, you believe that you can create yourself, and that the direction of your own creation is up to you.
These related distortions represent a picture of what actually occurred in the separation, or the "detour into fear." None of this existed before the separation, nor does it actually exist now. Everything God created is like Him. Extension, as undertaken by God, is similar to the inner radiance that the children of the Father inherit from Him. Its real source is internal. This is as true of the Son as of the Father. In this sense the creation includes both the creation of the Son by God, and the Son's creations when his mind is healed. This requires God's endowment of the Son with free will, because all loving creation is freely given in one continuous line, in which all aspects are of the same order.
The Garden of Eden, or the pre-separation condition, was a state of mind in which nothing was needed. When Adam listened to the "lies of the serpent," all he heard was untruth. You do not have to continue to believe what is not true unless you choose to do so. All that can literally disappear in the twinkling of an eye because it is merely a misperception. What is seen in dreams seems to be very real. Yet the Bible says that a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and nowhere is there reference to his waking up. The world has not yet experienced any comprehensive reawakening or rebirth. Such a rebirth is impossible as long as you continue to project or miscreate. It still remains within you, however, to extend as God extended His Spirit to you. In reality this is your only choice, because your free will was given you for your joy in creating the perfect.
All fear is ultimately reducible to the basic misperception that you have the ability to usurp the power of God. Of course, you neither can nor have been able to do this. Here is the real basis for your escape from fear. The escape is brought about by your acceptance of the Atonement, which enables you to realize that your errors never really occurred. Only after the deep sleep fell upon Adam could he experience nightmares. If a light is suddenly turned on while someone is dreaming a fearful dream, he may initially interpret the light itself as part of his dream and be afraid of it. However, when he awakens, the light is correctly perceived as the release from the dream, which is then no longer accorded reality. This release does not depend on illusions. The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free.
Whatever lies you may believe are of no concern to the miracle, which can heal any of them with equal ease. It makes no distinctions among misperceptions. Its sole concern is to distinguish between truth on the one hand, and error on the other. Some miracles may seem to be of greater magnitude than others. But remember the first principle in this course; there is no order of difficulty in miracles. In reality you are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love. These can be from yourself and others, from yourself to others, or from others to you. Peace is an attribute in you. You cannot find it outside. Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others.
This Course offers a very direct and a very simple learning situation, and provides the Guide Who tells you what to do. If you do it, you will see that it works. Its results are more convincing than its words. They will convince you that the words are true. By following the right Guide, you will learn the simplest of all lessons: "by their fruits ye shall know them, and they shall know themselves."
I. RELATIONSHIP HISTORY
Current relationship status: i.e. single, engaged, married, children? Pay child support?
Responsible with children?
Previous relationships? What were relationships like? Domestic abuse (abuser or victim)? Reasons for ending relationship? Longest relationship?
Affairs/cheating in relationships? How many? How long?
Lived with a partner? (6 months or longer)
First sexual experience?
Use of prostitutes?
Homosexual relationship?
Friends? Do you get along with others?
The special relationships of the world are destructive, selfish and childishly egocentric. Yet, if given to the Holy Spirit, these relationships can become the holiest things on earth–the miracles that point the way to the return to Heaven. The world uses its special relationships as a final weapon of exclusion and a demonstration of separateness. The Holy Spirit transforms them into perfect lessons in forgiveness and in awakening from the dream. Each one is an opportunity to let perceptions be healed and errors corrected. Each one is another chance to forgive oneself by forgiving the other. And each one becomes still another invitation to the Holy Spirit and to the remembrance of God.
Perception is a function of the body, and therefore represents a limit on awareness. Perception sees through the body's eyes and hears through the body's ears. It evokes the limited responses which the body makes. The body appears to be largely self-motivated and independent, yet it actually responds only to the intentions of the mind. If the mind wants to use it for attack in any form, it becomes prey to sickness, age and decay. If the mind accepts the Holy Spirit's purpose for it instead, it becomes a useful way of communicating with others, invulnerable as long as it is needed, and to be gently laid by when its use is over. Of itself it is neutral, as is everything in the world of perception. Whether it is used for the goals of the ego or the Holy Spirit depends entirely on what the mind wants.
The opposite of seeing through the body's eyes is the vision of Christ, which reflects strength rather than weakness, unity rather than separation, and love rather than fear. The opposite of hearing through the body's ears is communication through the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit, which abides in each of us. His Voice seems distant and difficult to hear because the ego, which speaks for the little, separated self, seems to be much louder. This is actually reversed. The Holy Spirit speaks with unmistakable clarity and overwhelming appeal. No one who does not choose to identify with the body could possibly be deaf to His messages of release and hope, nor could he fail to accept joyously the vision of Christ in glad exchange for his miserable picture of himself.
Christ's vision is the Holy Spirit's gift, God's alternative to the illusion of separation and to the belief in the reality of sin, guilt and death. It is the one correction for all errors of perception; the reconciliation of the seeming opposites on which this world is based. Its kindly light shows all things from another point of view, reflecting the thought system that arises from knowledge and making return to God not only possible but inevitable. What was regarded as injustice done to one by someone else now becomes a call for help and for union. Sin, sickness and attack are seen as misperceptions calling for remedy through gentleness and love. Defenses are laid down because where there is no attack there is no need for them. Our brothers' needs become our own, because they are taking the journey with us as we go to God. Without us they would lose their way. Without them we could never find our own.
Forgiveness is unknown in Heaven, where the need for it would be inconceivable. However, in this world, forgiveness is a necessary correction for all the mistakes that we have made. To offer forgiveness is the only way for us to have it, for it reflects the law of Heaven that giving and receiving are the same. Heaven is the natural state of all the Sons of God as He created them. Such is their reality forever. It has not changed because it has been forgotten.
Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him.
J. ADULT LIFESTYLE
Residential history post family of origin. i.e. Renter/homeowner, roommates or independently, living with family, paying rent on time, ever evicted.
Describe lifestyle (social isolate, transient, “party animal”, criminal association, good worker, family man etc.)
Leisure pursuits. i.e. recreational involvement, team sports, etc.
Extent of involvement in: religion? culture?
Attitude toward social norms?
This course is a beginning, not an end. Your Friend goes with you. You are not alone. No one who calls on Him can call in vain. Whatever troubles you, be certain that He has the answer, and will gladly give it to you, if you simply turn to Him and ask it of Him. He will not withhold all answers that you need for anything that seems to trouble you. He knows the way to solve all problems, and resolve all doubts. His certainty is yours. You need but ask it of Him, and it will be given you.
You are as certain of arriving home as is the pathway of the sun laid down before it rises, after it has set, and in the half-lit hours in between. Indeed, your pathway is more certain still. For it can not be possible to change the course of those whom God has called to Him. Therefore obey your will, and follow Him Whom you accepted as your voice, to speak of what you really want and really need. His is the Voice for God and also yours. And thus He speaks of freedom and of truth.
No more specific lessons are assigned, for there is no more need of them. 2 Henceforth, hear but the Voice for God and for your Self when you retire from the world, to seek reality instead. 3 He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word. 4 His is the Word that God has given you. 5 His is the Word you chose to be your own.
And now I place you in His hands, to be His faithful follower, with Him as Guide through every difficulty and all pain that you may think is real. Nor will He give you pleasures that will pass away, for He gives only the eternal and the good. Let Him prepare you further. He has earned your trust by speaking daily to you of your Father and your brother and your Self. He will continue. Now you walk with Him, as certain as is He of where you go; as sure as He of how you should proceed; as confident as He is of the goal, and of your safe arrival in the end.
The end is certain, and the means as well. To this we say "Amen." You will be told exactly what God wills for you each time there is a choice to make. And He will speak for God and for your Self, thus making sure that hell will claim you not, and that each choice you make brings Heaven nearer to your reach. And so we walk with Him from this time on, and turn to Him for guidance and for peace and sure direction. Joy attends our way. For we go homeward to an open door which God has held unclosed to welcome us.
We trust our ways to Him and say "Amen." In peace we will continue in His way, and trust all things to Him. In confidence we wait His answers, as we ask His Will in everything we do. He loves God's Son as we would love him. And He teaches us how to behold him through His eyes, and love him as He does. You do not walk alone. God's angels hover near and all about. His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfortless.
K. SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTIONS
Do you or have you used substances in the past? If yes,
What age first used alcohol and/or drugs (i.e. marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, acid, mushrooms, meth, crack, percocets, oxycontin, prescription meds)
What is your behaviour when using drugs/alcohol. Describe.
Ever sell substances?
Cigarette use?
Any treatment programming (AA, NA)
Gambling habits?
Have you ever suffered blackouts? Amnesic periods? Withdrawal symptoms? Tolerance level?
Spend a lot of money on drugs/alcohol?
Interfere with relationships/school/employment.
Ever violent using substances?
Drug/alcohol involved in prior and current offence(s)?
"I am not the victim of the world I see."
Today's idea is the introduction to your declaration of release. Again, the idea should be applied to both the world you see without and the world you see within. In applying the idea, we will use a form of practice which will be used more and more, with changes as indicated. Generally speaking, the form includes two aspects, one in which you apply the idea on a more sustained basis, and the other consisting of frequent applications of the idea throughout the day.
Two longer periods of practice with the idea for today are needed, one in the morning and one at night. Three to five minutes for each of these are recommended. During that time, look about you slowly while repeating the idea two or three times. Then close your eyes, and apply the same idea to your inner world. You will escape from both together, for the inner is the cause of the outer.
As you survey your inner world, merely let whatever thoughts cross your mind come into your awareness, each to be considered for a moment, and then replaced by the next. Try not to establish any kind of hierarchy among them. Watch them come and go as dispassionately as possible. Do not dwell on any one in particular, but try to let the stream move on evenly and calmly, without any special investment on your part. As you sit and quietly watch your thoughts, repeat today's idea to yourself as often as you care to, but with no sense of hurry.
In addition, repeat the idea for today as often as possible during the day. Remind yourself that you are making a declaration of independence in the name of your own freedom. And in your freedom lies the freedom of the world.
The idea for today is also a particularly useful one to use as a response to any form of temptation that may arise. It is a declaration that you will not yield to it, and put yourself in bondage.
L. MEDICAL HISTORY
19) Please give your medical history
Overall general health? Dental?
Any physical trauma? i.e. head injury
Compliance concerns with medication?
Suffer from any serious illness?
Ever hospitalized (general medical)?
I would benefit from regular dental visits and dentistry could benefit from advice from our Me. The natural mandible, though ultimately not real, is momentarily real and with need of proper Up-keep:
This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. 8 The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: 1) nothing real can be threatened; 2) nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A Course In Miracles is available officially from www.acim.org and, for free download in pdf format from Schedule A to applications under Criminal Rule 2.1 posted at www.renehelmerichs3.blogspot.ca
M. PREVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC AND/OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT
20) Date of admission & discharge
Please contact psychiatrists Liar Liaqat Ali and The Inept Chief Witch-doctor Ms. Anjana Chawla for admission date, discharge, and specific reports verifying their incompetence from 3 Sept 2012 to 28 Nov 2012, the duration of their criminal code section 269.1 defined TORTURE to me, Rene Helmerichs, notwithstanding additional psychiatric contraventions of criminal code sections 423 intimidation, 266 assault, 264.1 uttering threats, 362 false statements, 366 false documents, 176 arresting a clergyman, 181 spreading false news, 300 defamatory libel, 319 public incitement of hatred, 120 bribery, and 365 pretending to practice witchcraft for purporting to know a single thing about mind without ever taking the time to have an active-listening therapeutic dialog founded squarely upon mutual courtesy, equality of law, and The Golden Rule.
21) Hospital location (repeat for each)
Treating Physician:
Discharge Diagnosis:
Progress and Treatment:
Discharge medication:
Community agency involvement. i.e. psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, case manager?
Attempted suicide? Why? When?
Was he being seen by a doctor at time of offence?
"The light has come."
In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize what is already there. Salvation is a decision made already. Attack and grievances are not there to choose. That is why I always choose between truth and illusion; between what is there and what is not. The light has come. I can but choose the light, for it has no alternative. It has replaced the darkness, and the darkness has gone.
These would prove useful forms for specific applications of this idea:
This cannot show me darkness, for the light has come.
The light in you is all that I would see, [name].
I would see in this only what is there.
"I am under no laws but God's."
Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. I am under no laws but God's. I am constantly tempted to make up other laws and give them power over me. I suffer only because of my belief in them. They have no real effect on me at all. I am perfectly free of the effects of all laws save God's. And His are the laws of freedom.
For specific forms in applying this idea, these would be useful:
My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist.
I see only the laws of God at work in this.
Let me allow God's laws to work in this, and not my own.
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From The Waypoint Center For Mental Health Care, Penetanguishene, Ontario
Psychosocial Assessment Written Responses
A. TABLE OF CONTENTS
B. DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
C. SELF REPORT
D. SOCIAL SITUATION
E. CHILDHOOD
F. FAMILY
G. EDUCATION
H. EMPLOYMENT
I. RELATIONSHIP HISTORY
J. ADULT LIFESTYLE
K. SUBSTANCE USE & ADDICTIONS
L. MEDICAL HISTORY
M. PREVIOUS PSYCHIATRIC AND/OR OTHER PROFESSIONAL TREATMENT
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