A Course in Miracles: Based on the Original Handwritten Notes of Helen Schucman—Complete & Annotated Edition

by Helen Schucman

4According to the newer forms of the plan, the therapist interprets the ego’s symbols in the nightmare, and uses them to prove the nightmare is real. 5Having made it real, he then attempts to dispel its effects by depreciating the importance of the dreamer. 5 This would be a healing approach if the dreamer were properly identified as unreal. 2But if the dreamer is equated with the mind, the mind’s corrective power through the Holy Spirit is denied.21 3It is noteworthy that this is a contradiction even in the ego’s own terms, and one which it usually does note, even in its confusion. 4If the way to counteract fear is to reduce the importance of the fearer, how can this build up ego strength?22 5These perfectly self-evident inconsistencies account for why, except for certain stylized verbal accounts, nobody can explain what happens in psychotherapy. 6Nothing real does.