160 pages paperback

"Health is inner peace...
Healing invokes an understanding of what the illusion of sickness is for.
Healing is impossible without this."

From A Course in Miracles

Identification with our body as our home is the origin of all our physical and psychological suffering. Whilst we desire to remain separate from our true spiritual identity, we create sickness to reinforce our belief in the reality of the body. To re-experience God's love, joy and peace, we need to begin the process of forgiving ourselves and others. This will allow the presence of spirit to enter into our mind and heal it.

The cause of all disease lies in the mind and not the body. Disease is a shadow on the body of guilt in our mind. As we practise forgiveness, the truth of who we really are will dawn upon our mind and we will discover our true home which we never left.

Michael Dawson's inspiration for writing this book comes from his study and teaching of A Course in Miracles. Healing the Cause can also be read as an introduction to A Course in Miracles, especially with regard to its teachings on sickness, healing, forgiveness and prayer.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. One Problem, One Solution
3. The Ego's World of Denial and Projection
4. Causes of Disease
5. Healing Ourselves
6. Asking for Help
7. Healing Others

Appendices

-A Summary of A Course in Miracles
-Chart of Key Concepts in A Course in Miracles
-Recommended books and tapes on A Course in Miracles
-Mail Order distributors of A Course in Miracles and related materials

Excerpt

If we direct our prayers towards the Holy Spirit, we shall receive his gifts of peace, joy and forgiveness. True prayer is not concerned with the word of form (effect) but with attaining peace in our mind (cause). If you find yourself at the end of a long queue waiting to buy a ticket for a bus you know will be leaving shortly, you have a choice of to whom to pray. You may ask the Holy Spirit to delay the bus or make the queue move faster, or you could ask the Holy Spirit to show you how to be at peace in this situation. The first prayer is to the ego, for you are asking for change at the level of form. In the case of the second prayer, it is genuinely meant, the Holy Spirit has been invited into your mind and will bring His gift of peace, which will not depend on whether you eventually catch the bus or not. It may not be for your highest good to catch that bus; you cannot know this but the Holy Spirit does.