Dear Friend,

As we write this letter, we wonder how many of you have a healing need. Probably, there are many. If we expanded the question to include how many of us know of someone with a need for healing, all of us would be included. How natural it is that in the last IJ Journal we announced the beginning of Inner Journey’s ministry of wholeness. We have sensed its coming for a long time, but for many years we knew our time had not yet come. Now it is upon us.

There is excitement in beginning such an endeavor, but also the strong realization that we cannot do this alone. First, there is God, or more accurately, a consciousness of God that is required. And there is each of you as a part of a collective consciousness that is willing to put aside the typical approach to healing and embrace the mystical way of life. We propose not a journey to health and healed bodies, although they may come into being, but a journey to wholeness and an expanded awareness of what it means to be made in God’s image and likeness. Let us move from the hope of healing to the promise of the experience of wholeness. Let us move from an attempt to get rid of something which is temporal (pain and disease) to the discovery of what is eternal and always present.

From the Physical to the Mental to the Spiritual

Exciting things are happening in the medical field today. New drugs and procedures are being applied to the body each day, but attention is also being given to lifestyle. It is apparent that what we eat and do must support the various systems of the body if there is to be health. We cannot undergo a medical procedure but continue an unhealthy way of life and expect to experience the vitality and strength of the life force that is our true being. Wholeness is present, but we are not asking for it; we simply want to. return to our previous lifestyle.

Now more than ever before, society is beginning to understand the necessary concert between mind and body. Visualization and positive, life–giving thoughts and words are prescriptions that support the attempts of the doctors and nurses to return the body to health. Just as exercise and proper nutrition support medical attempts to heal, so must our mental faculties encourage the cells of the body to renew. The journey from the physical to the mental continues with what is called prayer. We assume God's will is health, and therefore we affirm our perfect body in the knowing that where there is such a body there can be no illness.

This understanding is part of our rite of passage, but it is not the mystical life which we believe lies before humanity. The healings of Jesus point to another way of life and way of helping people. God bless the doctors, nurses, and medical technicians who are educated for years, so they might serve the greater good. They are a godsend until humanity can make its breakthrough and apply the principles which Jesus used to serve the sick. God bless the metaphysicians who have reformed the bridge so science and religion can meet as partners once again. Now it is time to dedicate ourselves to discovering the seldom trod path which Jesus the Christ set before us. It is the journey to wholeness.

A Journey to Wholeness

In our continuing correspondence with you, we will attempt to mark this path, so you can walk it with us. We ask that you pay great attention to the letters and journal to come. Most people who write to us with a healing need know that the greater need is to know God as life and wholeness. This, in essence, is an expressed desire to discover their true identity in which there is no disease. This is why an Inner Journey prayer request asks you to indicate your desire "to experience and know God as…"

When we sit to pray with you, we do not bring to mind your name or an image of what you look like. In most instances, we have not met you and do not know your earthly form, although it would be our delight to see each of you face to face. In addition, we do not bring to mind your disease or problem. This is where we differ from the metaphysical approach which often tries to heal a disease or fix a problem. In serving others from the mystical viewpoint, we do no maintenance.

When we pray, our attention is given to God, not with a hope for healing, but with a willingness to experience the Presence. How can anyone help another in prayer unless he or she moves beyond human consciousness? Holding people’s names or needs keeps us in human consciousness. In the kingdom or in spiritual awareness, there is no need; there is only God. If there is a name, it must be the name of God—I Am.

Come explore with us the ministry of wholeness that Jesus shared with humankind so many years ago. It is time for it to be made manifest. Within a month, look for the next Inner Journey Letter as together we do a new thing!

In Love We Journey With You,

Jim and Nancy