The Mind & Body

1. What are the differences between the mind and body?
The mind is the place where we make decisions about who we are and the thoughts that control our consciousness. The body is simply the vehicle through which the mind works. It has no "mind" of its own and is incapable of any function or action apart from the mind which uses it for the mind's own function.

2. How do we gain the awareness they are separate, but do reside together?
The human mind values the body because the body is proof that we are not spirit beings, which is what the human mind wants us to believe. Only the Holy Spirit can awaken us to the fact that mind is all there is in terms of defining ourselves and the life we live. If we choose human mind we believe in ourselves as bodily beings. If we choose the spirit mind, we experience ourselves as spirit independent of any "bodily" requirements as part of our consciousness.

3. Why do we have both, instead of just spirit form (which supposedly is our true form)?
As part of our desiring to be an original creator just like God, we created an existence or imagined "life" form which was different from how God created us and our existence in the spirit world. We have no memory of initially performing that act of fantasy, but the Holy Spirit shows us our true spirit being, to counter the human existence when we are prepared to see the waste of the human fantasy.

4. Why does our human mind oppose our spiritual nature?
If we want to be an original creator, with an original product, of which we have absolute control, then such a product is in opposition to the "real thing", which would show us that we're simply having a fantasy creation on our part which cannot change God's true creation of us and our spirit world.

5. Why does our mind feel overwhelming at times and uncontrollable with negative thoughts?
All human beings suffer from guilt over the creation of the human existence in opposition to our true godly selves. That leads to fear of punishment form a God that we think is offended by what we fantasized and that is the source of negative thoughts of all kinds, until the Holy Spirit reveals to us God's absolute unconditional love and understanding of us in our lost state.

6. Why can't we control it or quiet it?
The human mind has forgotten its origins and without that knowledge has no way by which to correct the errors of its fantasy belief system. We have to be led out of the lostness which is the job of the Holy Spirit that is activated once we realize we are hopelessly lost.

7. Evil thoughts sometimes enter our minds. Does this mean there is an element of evil within us and if so, how do we banish them?
Evil thoughts stem from feelings of fear that in some way we can be annihilated, either physically such as death, or experience a lack of worth which is an "emotional" or identity form of annihilation. To defend against such fears we attack others who we believe can be a threat or our bodily existence, choose to see them as the cause of our fears, rather than ourselves creating this fantasy life and human identity. Fear leads to "evil" acts.

8. Especially during prayer or meditation, interruptions such as thoughts of a grocery list or what still needs to get done in the house will pop into our minds. Why does this happen and how can we stop the interruptions so that we can achieve a deeper prayer life?
The human mind opposes re-contact with God and does everything possible to interrupt such a course of action, including distracting us from prayer. If God is real, than the human creation is not. The human mind fights against such a discovery, in its effort to maintain the fantasy belief that our bodies and its existence are the source of life. We can't stop the interruptions but the Holy Spirit knows how to counter them. It makes us aware that we have been distracted, and gives us the chance through a prayer choice either to continue with the distraction, or ask to return to focusing on God.

9. Are emotions strictly from our human mind or do they also exist in the spiritual realm?
The only "emotions" that I experienced while in the spirit state was a consciousness of peace and belongingness, which is the state of love, as compared with the state of fear which is the basic emotion of the human state.

10. Why did God choose us to exist in a human form with a mind and body?
A loving God reminds us in scripture that we don't belong in the human world, as well as reminding us that there is no "life" in the human state, but only in the spirit state. Thus He presses upon us that this human form has nothing whatsoever to do with God's making of it. In God's dictation to me of "The Footladder of Notes Divine", this outlook too is the essential theme in the thousands of its messages, and that God desires our return to the awakening of our consciousness of the kingdom as our home, and the unconditional love of ourselves and others by God.

11. Are physical illnesses or disabilities a result of a troubled mind or spirit? In other words does the problems of the mind manifest into problems of the body?
Yes. I so believe that.

12. How do you receive healing of the mind and/or body... complete healing?
Healing is received through the direction of the Holy Spirit. We cannot heal ourselves through the human mind which causes such problems in the first place and has no knowledge or desire by which to contradict itself. It is activated by our desire to abandon the human state as our source of identity and life, and permit God to perform such a healing through personal variations of the prayer "Thy will be done".

13. If asked of Him, would God heal all ailments so that no one would be suffering in one way or another?
Yes. But that requires a surrender of our own will and mind as hopelessly conflicted and worthless, and thereby welcoming the return to awareness of the Spirit mind. It is only in this mind where there is no conflict, nor fear, no condemning of ourselves and others, - simply the state of love in which there is no sickness. The Holy Spirit must initiate this process by helping us to lose our fear of God as a punishing, vengeful judgmental God. In its place is the understanding of a God who knows that we got lost in our desires to be an original creator, that it was just a fantasy, and did no harm of any kind to our Creator.

14. How do I get my mind and body to support each other, working in conjunction with one another for a wholesome, spirit-filled life?
There is no way that the human mind and its body parts wish a wholesome, spirit-filled life, which is diametrically opposed to its wish for existence. Jesus pointed out in scripture that you can't have two masters; it's either one or the other. The only point at which we surrender the wish for a bodily identity and existence is when we find ourselves in such a terrible state of fear, despair and unbearable loneliness that we open ourselves to an answer apart from our human minds. As the Holy Spirit enables us to draw away from our human mis-identity and to awaken to our God created self, automatically that is the source of a wholesome love-filled life in which it is our single yearning to do the will of God in our life and to give that love away in support of others recovering that life for themselves. We will then leave this world for the blessed life of the kingdom of God, when our ministry is completed.