Is There Healing in the Verbal "Dwadles" of the Scriptures?
I stumbled upon Burt Goldman teaching healing using what he calls his "dwadle" technique (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRGTnmoXNo). He named the technique "dwadle" because it uses a drawing that is different from a doodle. In it you draw a roundish stick figure of loops and swiggle the location of the pain (or whatever) in it with a long flourish that takes it away, and then mechanically follow the perimeter of the figure with your eyes for about half a minute. Supposedly, for some people their pain or problem leaves them with no more than that.
What caught my attention (in that or the next video on the subject) was that Mr. Goldman called the picture an icon. That made me wonder what was the purpose of religious icons. Icons are very rich in symbology. They are venerated as literal connections with that which they symbolize. I do not sniff at that (as though the thought were below me), for we are the image or "icon" of the Father--whom we really are.
Why would Burt Goldman's dwadle or medieval icons cause healing? Only because it is imagining, and "when it (imagining) works, you have found Him," said Neville Goddard. And thus I saw why T. L. Osborn's mass healing crusades worked to heal hundreds of people at a time: the scriptures he preached were, and are, verbal dwadles. The technique and the results are the same and for the same purpose--that we might find God.
With only mental imagery, the scripture creates icons: "By His stripes, ye were healed"; "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give ye rest"; &c. IT STRUCK ME THAT THESE MENTAL IMAGE ICONS, THE HEALING PERICOPES OF THE SCRIPTURES, ARE TRAINING TOOLS: they focus desire and faith . . . and the Manifestation of God, whom they are, does the healing by making the imagery real: "You are healed." And this for, "When it works, you have found Him . . . to be your own wonderful, human imagination."
God wants to be found. He wants the process to work. He wants the iconic images to be formed in our imaginations, and for our desires related to those icons to be set before him in hope and faith for him to act upon by imagining them had. When we believe we are healed, and he believes we are healed, it is a done deal.
Which leaves us with just one other little problem: what are we going to do when we know that he is real?
What caught my attention (in that or the next video on the subject) was that Mr. Goldman called the picture an icon. That made me wonder what was the purpose of religious icons. Icons are very rich in symbology. They are venerated as literal connections with that which they symbolize. I do not sniff at that (as though the thought were below me), for we are the image or "icon" of the Father--whom we really are.
Why would Burt Goldman's dwadle or medieval icons cause healing? Only because it is imagining, and "when it (imagining) works, you have found Him," said Neville Goddard. And thus I saw why T. L. Osborn's mass healing crusades worked to heal hundreds of people at a time: the scriptures he preached were, and are, verbal dwadles. The technique and the results are the same and for the same purpose--that we might find God.
With only mental imagery, the scripture creates icons: "By His stripes, ye were healed"; "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give ye rest"; &c. IT STRUCK ME THAT THESE MENTAL IMAGE ICONS, THE HEALING PERICOPES OF THE SCRIPTURES, ARE TRAINING TOOLS: they focus desire and faith . . . and the Manifestation of God, whom they are, does the healing by making the imagery real: "You are healed." And this for, "When it works, you have found Him . . . to be your own wonderful, human imagination."
God wants to be found. He wants the process to work. He wants the iconic images to be formed in our imaginations, and for our desires related to those icons to be set before him in hope and faith for him to act upon by imagining them had. When we believe we are healed, and he believes we are healed, it is a done deal.
Which leaves us with just one other little problem: what are we going to do when we know that he is real?
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