If we do not succeed in keeping alive a vision of mature life, then indeed we are confronted with the probability that our whole cultural tradition will breakdown. The God who is within us has already created this marvelous mechanism which we call our human body. The intelligence which designed and projected this body must have a perfect knowledge of all its parts, has a perfect understanding of all its needs, and it is able to rebuild those parts and supply their needs. The creative agency within us knows how to re-create, but this healing presence, being the very essence of our own nature, must flow out into action through our consciousness of who and what we are. Hence, we must recognize God as the greater healer, and the divine emancipator from physical bondage and pain, as our true spirit. I remember, as a child, the stories about the generosity of the American people as they were told by my grandfather over a slice of cheese cake and milk. With a strong and powerful voice, he explained how our people were saved from the starvation at the end of the World War I. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

As a teenager, reflecting on the sacrifices of the American people, as I walked through the historic cemetery, I looked at all the thousands of graves of the people who gave their lives so that we could live in freedom. If the coming generations will not see these traits of endurance, sacrifice, love, and strength, a five-thousand-year-old culture will crease to exist. The achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside World have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see people and things as they are, accurately and to be able to separate this comprehensive picture from a conception which is formed by one’s desires and fears. All forms of psychosis show the inability to be objective, to an extreme degree. For the insane person the only reality that exists is that within one, that of one’s qualms and wishes. They see the World outside as symbols of their inner World, as their creation. All of us do the same when we dream. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

In our dreams, we often stage drama, which are the expressions of our wishes and fears (although sometime also of insights and judgment), and while we are asleep we are convinced that the product of our dreams is as real as the reality which we perceive in our waking state. The insane person or the dreamer fails completely in having an objective view of the World outside. The homestead of the libido is the ego; in the child the whole libido is centered in the ego, and we designate it as ego libido. The child may be said to be purely egoistic at first; but as one grows older and reaches the narcissistic stage of development, we speak of narcissistic libido, because the former ego libido has now become erotically tinged. Still later, when the child has successfully passed through the early phases of development and can transfer their libido to objects outside oneself, that is, when one is genitally pubescent, we speak of object libido. Libido thus can be directed to outside objects or can be withdrawn back to the ego. A great many normal and pathological states depend on the resulting interchanges between these two forces. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

The transference of neuroses, hysteria and compulsion neuroses, are determined by some disturbance in the give-and-take of object libido, and hence are curable by psychoanalytic therapy, whereas the narcissistic neuroses, or the psychoses which are mainly controlled by narcissistic libido, can be studied and helped, but cannot as yet be cured by analysis. The psychotic is, as a rule, inaccessible to this treatment because one is unable to transfer sufficient libido to the analyst. The psychotic is either too suspicious or too interested in one’s own inner World to pay any attention to the physician. The term for sex can be broadened by calling it love or libido. Also, it should be noted that a child can be transformed into a schizophrenic by approving of their behavior, but because you are in a bad mood, you later disapprove of that same behavior, and if you continue to do it continuously. Today is already the past for many, and tomorrow wears a mask of fear. Today can still change tomorrow, but what kind of society are we building? What kind of a country will we have if we, as one people, do not defend ourselves against the assaults of evil? The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

From one day to another, other nations are made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one’s own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard—every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the perceived enemy is considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the World, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals which they serve. Indeed, if one examines the relationship between nations, as well as between individuals, one comes to the conclusion that objectivity is the exception, and a greater or lesser degree of narcissistic decision is the rule. We must believe in the healing presence within us and encompassed in all people, and then we must speak our word in such a way that this healing presence may, as it flows through that word, perform the miracle of life which is the giving form to the invisible. Our word must be definite, conscious, and concrete. It is imperative to know that the God within us as a healing presence is now the law of perfect life in our physical body and mind. “And they did pray unto the Lord their God continually, insomuch that the Lord did bless them, according to his word, so that they did wax strong and prosper in the land (Alma 62.51).” #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

The only way that the healing presence of God can create for us is through the images of our thought, through the beliefs which we entertain, whether these beliefs be hope, fear, doubt, faith, failure, or happiness, love, success, joy, and greatness. Therefore, we must correct all beliefs which deny this healing presence. If we succeed in healing our thought, then the healing power of God will heal our body, mind, and life as it flows through the new thought patter. For every denial of physical wholeness, we must supply an affirmation of our faith and confidence that the spirit within us, being perfect, acts as a law of wholeness to our being. What are the feelings that will determine this daily choice? Love, passion, fear, courage, pride, laziness, or will? Are these feelings in accordance with our faith and testimony? The healing power of God within our bodies focuses on right ideas and makes every organ perfect, every function, every action and reaction. We can have harmony in our physical beings. It removes doubt and fear from our consciousness, and with this disappearance of doubt and fear there will be a corresponding disappearance of their manifestation. God is peace. This peace which is God belongs to us and is part of our spiritual nature. #RandolphHarris 6 of 6