Love and Healing
Love your neighbor as your self because your neighbor is you
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How we heal ourselves and each other
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Transcript: Love your neighbor as your self because your neighbor is you
“Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Judge not, lest you be judged. Love your enemies.”
What is Jesus talking about here? We all are made of God and carry the image of God inside of us. We are all divinely connected to God, regardless of what we’re doing in the outside world—no matter how heinous we may judge it to be. So, when we judge another, we are judging ourselves. When we have an enemy, we are making an enemy of ourselves. When we harm another, we harm ourselves. When we do unto another, we do unto ourselves.
There is a seat of consciousness that is having the experience you’re having right now that is universal. It’s the same in me as it is in you. If I’m sitting here comfortable and you’re over there suffering, that same seat of consciousness is experiencing that suffering. And suffering anywhere is suffering everywhere. It’s all happening to the seed of God. It’s all happening to the divine consciousness that animates us all.
That’s what Jesus is saying. He’s saying that we have to understand that we are all completely connected, and that when we judge another, we’re judging God. When we do something to another, we’re doing that to God.
And I want to be careful with the sort of shaming language of that. It’s not about guilt—it’s us. What’s happening in this existence is that we’re harming ourselves. The community of beings that God has created on this planet—we’re harming it. And that is what Jesus is saying.
Transcript: How we heal ourselves and each other
Jesus didn't hold himself apart from others. Everything that Jesus taught, and the example that he gave, was meant for us. We're meant to live it. We're meant to be it. And that includes healing.
The way Jesus healed, the way we heal ourselves, and the way we heal each other is by tuning into the God-image within us. Then we connect to either the wounded part of ourselves or the wounded other who's in front of us, and we simply channel that divine energy toward them. We allow it to fill us and spill over into the environment as we are there with them—or with ourselves.
This God-essence is healing to psychological wounds. Many of the so-called demon possession stories were likely people having split personalities or psychotic breaks. And it is also healing to the body, because the body, mind, and spirit are a unified system. What affects one affects the other. They’re all connected. That’s why Jesus also healed physical ailments through this technique.
Jesus never meant for that to be exclusive. In fact, he told his disciples, “Greater things than I have done, you will do.” He never separated himself, never said, “Oh, this is something only I do because I’m a special god-person.” No—everything he did, he expected to be an example to all of us.
You have a divine seed of God right inside of you that you can connect to right now. If you attune to it and let it fill you, then you can attend to a part of yourself that is filled with shame, anger, despair, worthlessness, or the demand to become or achieve something. And if you meet another individual who is obviously stuck—either physically or mentally—you can see them without trying to fix them, without reasoning out what needs to happen. Instead, you listen openly.
Really sit with what’s being shared and connect. If you say something, it will be divinely inspired—but you don’t actually have to say anything. The work happens spiritually. It’s beyond here. That is what healing is. That is how healing happens. And that is how we all begin to heal each other.
As we tune into our divine essence, we begin to tune into the needs of everyone. We spontaneously show up for each other. People can then earnestly talk about what’s really happening in their lives, because they are being seen by someone who is not judging them, shaming them, or putting them down, but instead attending to them with compassion, connection, and listening.
This is the way forward in terms of healing, and in terms of all of us becoming a unified community of humans and beings on this planet. A community that lives connected, where no one goes without, and everything is taken care of. Because when we live from our authentic selves, we spontaneously take care of the needs around us—without even having to work at it.