PPS Year 2 Term 2 Study Questions

Question 1

PPS 2-2-11 Consciousness that Heals

1. From what does the belief that we do not have the power to heal arise?

Answer 1

“The belief that we do not have the ability to heal arises out of the mistaken idea that our power does the healing, or that the intellect does the healing…. There is but One Healer. This is the Spirit of Truth.” Living Science of Mind, 246.1

Question 2

PPS 2-2-11 Consciousness that Heals

2. What is The Consciousness that Heals?

Answer 2

It is the prayer of faith. “When we analyze what the prayer of faith means we discover that it is a statement of belief in some power which is able, ready, and willing to do the healing.” Living Science of Mind, 247.1 “… let us again inquire into the consciousness that heals. It is recognition of the Principle, faith in the Principle, conviction that It will always respond, plus the knowledge that It can respond only by corresponding to our mental attitudes. This is the secret of the consciousness that heals.” Living Science of Mind, 250.5 See also the Student Resource Material. Ultimately, The Consciousness that Heals is the consciousness of a complete and abiding Faith in the Oneness and the Goodness and the Givingness of Life.

Question 3

PPS 2-2-11 Consciousness that Heals

3. On what does the possibility of spiritual mind healing rest?

Answer 3

“The possibility of spiritual mind healing, changing environment, controlling conditions, etc., through the power of right thinking, rests entirely upon the theory that we are surrounded by a Universal Mind, which reacts to our thought—and always according to Law.” The Science of Mind, 177.1

Question 4

PPS 2-2-11 Consciousness that Heals

4. What is the personal responsibility of the practitioner in healing?

Answer 4

“There is no personal responsibility in healing. We should not feel that we put the power into the word. The practitioner directs the Power and lets It work. One does not hold thought in mental healing; he looses thought. A practitioner does not try to suggest, hypnotize, or mentally influence; he simply seeks to know that man is now a spiritual being, and he holds to that belief no matter what the appearance may be.” The Science of Mind, 179.2
“The practitioner seeks to realize man as perfect, not needing to be healed of anything.” The Science of Mind, 202.4

Question 5

PPS 2-2-11 Consciousness that Heals

5. What is the distinction between the process in healing and the process of healing?

Answer 5

“Healing is not creating a perfect idea or a perfect body; it is revealing an idea which is already perfect. Healing is not a process, it is a revelation, through the thought of the practitioner to the thought of the patient. There may be a process in healing, but not a process of healing. The process in healing is the mental work and the time it takes the practitioner to convince himself of the perfectness of his patient; and the length of time it takes the patient to realize this perfectness.” The Science of Mind, 212.4

Question 6

PPS 2-2-11 Creative Self-Expression

1. What does Ernest Holmes mean when he says, “Our word has the exact amount of power that we put into it?”

Answer 6

“Our word has the exact amount of power that we put into it. This does not mean power through effort or strain but power through absolute conviction, or faith.” Creative Mind and Success, “The Power of Words”

Question 7

PPS 2-2-11 Creative Self-Expression

2. How do we develop the capacity to consciously use the Law?

Answer 7

Practice. Creative Mind and Success, “Why So Many Fail”

Question 8

PPS 2-2-11 Creative Self-Expression

3. Why is it not necessary to struggle with conditions?

Answer 8

Because we use Principles which create conditions. Creative Mind and Success, “Demonstrating Success in Business”

Question 9

PPS 2-2-11 Creative Self-Expression
4. According to Deepak Chopra, what is the ideal relationship between movement and stillness? How does Ernest Holmes express this same concept?

Answer 9

“Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions—wherever the power of your attention takes you.” The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, “Action” “God can do for us only as we will allow Him to do through us. Intelligence
gives us ideas and in our turn we work on them…. We must comply with the Law of Activity. We must be willing to take the way of outer activity.” Creative
Mind and Success, p. 40.2,3

Question 10

PPS 2-2-13 Healing Concerns about Relationships – Part II
1. Choose five of these spiritual principles that can apply when doing spiritual guidance and treatment with clients with relationship challenges, and write one sentence explaining its relevance.

Answer 10

All of life is the out picturing of consciousness.
We are totally responsible for our own experience of life.
It is done unto us as we believe.
Choice is our eternal birthright.
We can only change our own consciousness.
As we give love we attract love.
A Law manifests the mental equivalent we hold in mind.
Opposing thoughts cancel each other in the Law.
God is my Source.
All that God is I am.

Question 11

PPS 2-2-13 Healing Concerns about Relationships – Part II
2. Explain these two statements:
All life is the out-picturing of consciousness.
All life is relationship.
Are these statements related?

Answer 11

Consciousness is cause in everyone’s life. Life can only be the out-picturing of each individual’s inner consciousness. Life on this earth plane is a shared
experience, yet all is One; all experiences are the result of the One seeking to know Itself therefore we attract others into our life to experience more of the One. Consciousness is the motivating element; these observations are definitely related.

Question 12

PPS 2-2-13 Healing Concerns about Relationships – Part II
3. Why can we not treat “the other person” when one partner reports conflict
within a relationship?

Answer 12

We can never influence another person’s consciousness unless they are open to accept the change. And, everyone is responsible for their own experience of life, therefore, the one who needs treatment is the one who came with the problem. [Colette’s note: remember that we are treating to change our own consciousness, not to “influence another’s consciousness,” whether the client or the client’s partner. Try to find answers that don’t go down this path.]

Question 13

PPS 2-2-13 Healing Concerns about Relationships – Part II
4. Relationships prove a rich “spiritual practice arena.” Choose three things from the list below that we can practice through relationships, and write one sentence expanding on the idea.

Answer 13

Relationships are an amazing “spiritual practice arena.” They give us the opportunity to practice:
• ACCEPTING the past, and FORGIVING ourselves and others
• LIVING authentically, in integrity
• CREATING our reality in the most amazing way we can
• LOVING ourselves, even when we make mistakes!
• REMEMBERING that WE are expressions of the Divine, and so are those we love.
• BEING love, kindness, and compassion
• TRUSTING enough to give and receive love and support

Question 14

PPS 2-2-14 Healing Concerns about Career and Life Work

1. What is the solution when we find ourselves confronted by the problem of not knowing what to do?

Answer 14

Prayer. “… then of all times we must be quiet and listen; then of all times we must trust that the same power that started all things will also start us in the right road, for without some superior power we shall surely fail.” Creative Mind and Success, “How to Know Just What to Do”

Question 15

PPS 2-2-14 Healing Concerns about Career and Life Work

2. What does Butterworth say will be the consequence of “earning our wings at work every day?”

Answer 15

“Your consciousness will bring about a change in the job, making it right for you and you for the company; or, another job will open up for you where a transfer will be effected in a way that is beneficial to all concerned.” Spiritual Economics, “Work and the Success Syndrome”

Question 16

PPS 2-2-14 Healing Concerns about Career and Life Work
3. What does Holmes mean when he says, “Words and affirmations … are not creative?” Give an example from your own experience.

Answer 16

“Words and affirmations simply give shape to thought; they are not creative. Feeling is creative and the more feeling that is put into the word the greater power it will have over conditions.” Creative Mind and Success, “The Single Stream of Thought”

This is one of the (relatively few) places in his writing where Holmes points to the emptiness of words that are not deeply felt and believed. See also Science of Mind, p. 86.4, 283.2, 398.4 and How to Use the Science of Mind, p. 34.3

Question 17

PPS 2-2-14 Healing Concerns about Career and Life Work
4. Holmes seems to present a dead end when he says, “We really affirm only that which we know to be true; we know that to be true which we have experienced within ourselves.” What is the solution? How can we have a more expanded experience of life if Holmes’ statement is true?

Answer 17

“It is herein that we see the necessity of providing within a greater concept of life; a bigger idea of ourselves and a more expanded concept of the Universe in which we live, move and have our being. This is a matter of inner growth together with the enlarging of all lines of thought and activity.” Creative Mind and Success, “Mental Likeness”

Question 18

PPS 2-2-14 Healing Concerns about Career and Life Work
5. Define “Race Thought” in your own words. Give 25 examples of how you regularly (if not daily) encounter “Race Thought” in your life.

Answer 18

This will be an individual answer. Some examples: conversations with friends, co-workers, TV, radio, newspapers, one’s own thoughts, laws, rules, in the very way we have collectively structured life, systems of payment for work done, the legal system, our system of imprisonment and punishment, immigration laws, etc.

Question 19

PPS 2-2-15 Healing Concerns about Money – Part I
1. What is the literal meaning of “affluence” according to Butterworth. Write a paragraph on what impact this meaning would have on your life if you were to fully accept it.

Answer 19

“Its literal meaning is “an abundant flow,” and not things at all. When we are consciously centered in the universal flow, we experience inner direction
and the unfoldment of creative activity. Things come too, but prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things.” Spiritual
Economics, “Introduction”

Question 20

PPS 2-2-15 Healing Concerns about Money – Part I

2. What does Butterworth mean when he says, “The Universe owes you a living!”

Answer 20

“The Universe owes you a living! Yes, we are saying owes you a living.
Note, we are not saying that the world owes you a living. Actually, the world owes you nothing. You are a creative expression of the Universe, with the responsibility to let your light shine. Thus, you owe the world a life. But in all the many ways in which you apply yourself in the world, the Universe owes you complete support.” Spiritual Economics, “The Truth About Substance”

Question 21

PPS 2-2-15 Healing Concerns about Money – Part I
3. List ten thoughts or beliefs you have that limit your experience of the Abundant Flow of the Universe in your life. For each, write a belief that would attune you to the Flow of Abundance.

Answer 21

This will be a personal response.

Question 22

PPS 2-2-15 Healing Concerns about Money – Part I
4. Butterworth gives several definitions of Faith. From these and other study you have done, write your personal definition of Faith.

Answer 22

This will be a personal response.

Question 23

PPS 2-2-15 Healing Concerns about Money – Part I

5. What is the relationship between gratitude and the experience of abundance in one’s life?

Answer 23

This will be a personal response.

Question 24

PPS 2-2-15 Healing Concerns about Money – Part I

6. Write a ONE-sentence summary of each of the first five chapters of The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity.

Answer 24

1. Part One: The First Law: Tithing, Chapter 1 – Mastering Money
   a. Money is like love: the more you give away, the more you have.
2. Part One: The First Law: Tithing, Chapter 2 – What is Tithing?
   a. To acknowledge God as your Source, return 10 percent of all you receive to a person, place, or institution from which you have received spiritual Food
3. Part One: The First Law: Tithing, Chapter 3 – Tithing in Your Own Life
   a. Pay ongoing attention in the moment to who and what feeds you spiritually and include these in your tithing.
4. Part Two: The Second Law: Goal-Setting, Chapter 4 – Why You Must Learn to Set Goals
   a. Setting concrete and practical goals creates a vessel with which you can catch the new wealth and good fortune that tithing brings you.
5. Part Two: The Second Law: Goal-Setting, Chapter 5 – Moving Outside your Comfort Zones
   a. Know your unbreakable limitations and break them however you can, one-by-one.

Question 25

PPS 2-2-16 Healing Concerns about Money – Part II
1. Which of the ten Statements of Principle in John Randolph Price’s 40-day Prosperity Plan speaks the most powerfully to you? How do you plan to integrate it into your daily life?

Answer 25

“The Divine Consciousness that I am is forever expressing its true nature of Abundance. This is its responsibility, not mine. My only responsibility is to be aware of this Truth. Therefore, I am totally confident in letting go and letting God appear as the abundant all-sufficiency in my life and affairs.”

Question 26

PPS 2-2-16 Healing Concerns about Money – Part II

2. Where does Butterworth say we need to begin if we wish to reverse financial adversity?

Answer 26

“You begin by taking responsibility for your own life…. Admit to yourself that your present experience, even the condition of your bank account, reflects your present level of awareness. You are not the victim of circumstances. Consciousness creates circumstances, or at least sets the climate in which they happen.” Spiritual Economics, Chapter 7, “How to Reverse Financial Adversity”

Question 27

PPS 2-2-16 Healing Concerns about Money – Part II

3. How, according to Butterworth, do we acquire the “rich mentality?”

Answer 27

“But remember the “rich mentality” will not come because of your financial involvements. It must come first out of your steady effort to know God as your supply.” Spiritual Economics, Chapter 8, “Security in a Changing World”

Question 28

PPS 2-2-16 Healing Concerns about Money – Part II

4. What is the “money enigma” to which Butterworth refers?

Answer 28

It is “…the confused dualism about money in the religions of the Western world.” It is somehow seeing money as being evil when it pervades every aspect of our lives. We live in a world of money and where money is necessary, most often nothing else will serve. “How can money be evil when no one, not even men of God, can do without it?” Spiritual Economics, Chapter 9, “The Money Enigma”

Question 29

PPS 2-2-16 Healing Concerns about Money – Part II
5. What is the relationship between forgiveness and prosperity, according to
Edwene Gaines?

Answer 29

“It lets us make room for the good we desire. It also lets us go as far as we can on this Spiritual Journey and receive all the universe has to offer.” The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity, Chapter 6, “The Mysterious Power of Forgiveness”

Question 30

PPS 2-2-17 Healing Concerns about Health – Part I

1. Does God heal? If yes, how? If no, why not?

Answer 30

Yes, God heals by Its presence, not by intentional action. No, God does not heal because God doesn’t know anything other than perfect health.

Question 31

PPS 2-2-17 Healing Concerns about Health – Part I

2. Explain the positive side of pain.

Answer 31

Pain gets our attention. Pain is the physical expression of a mental disturbance, false belief, or suppressed emotion. When we recognize it as such, it points our attention inward to seek what needs to be healed at the mental level. Pain is a tool for healing.

Question 32

PPS 2-2-17 Healing Concerns about Health – Part I
3. What does Ernest Holmes mean when he writes: “In treating, go beyond the disease and supply a spiritual consciousness?”

Answer 32

We do not treat the disease; we do not give any energy to the disease; we see beyond the disease and treat for a greater expression of God, which does supply a spiritual consciousness.

Question 33

PPS 2-2-17 Healing Concerns about Health – Part I

4. What is the role of illness in the life of humanity?

Answer 33

Illness is the outer expression of inner imbalance, turmoil, or disharmony. Illness is a signal that an inner belief needs to be changed. Illness is sometimes a protection against a greater turmoil. Illness slows us down so that we have more time to devote to spiritual advancement. Illness is not of God, but the experience can draw us closer to God.

Question 34

PPS 2-2-17 Healing Concerns about Health – Part I

5. What is the Practitioner’s role in healing?

Answer 34

The Practitioner is responsible for knowing the Truth and seeing beyond the illness to the innate perfection, but is not responsible for a healing.

Question 35

PPS 2-2-18 Healing Concerns about Health – Part II

1. How do emotions affect our growth and evolution?

Answer 35

“Positive” emotions motivate us to reach great heights in our spiritual awareness and fulfillment in life. “Negative” emotions direct us to distorted beliefs; when we are willing, they motivate us to change such beliefs to those that are more life enhancing. Suppressed emotions, “positive” or “negative” can create illness, which is a gift, if we understand the illness as a message that our thinking is out of harmony with God, rather than a thing in and of itself.

Question 36

PPS 2-2-18 Healing Concerns about Health – Part II

2. Are “positive” and “negative” emotions good and bad?

Answer 36

No. All emotions are good. The so called “negative” ones can be guides to aligning our belief system with principles of Truth.

Question 37

PPS 2-2-18 Healing Concerns about Health – Part II
3. Why is it that to change a pattern of anger, or other limiting emotion, we cannot accomplish it by simply treating to eliminate the pattern?

Answer 37

Anger is an effect. To change it, we must treat to change the cause, or the belief underlying the emotion.

Question 38

PPS 2-2-18 Healing Concerns about Health – Part II

4. What spiritual principle would you use when counseling a client who is substance addicted?

Answer 38

God is our Source, and sufficient unto any need. All that we need is within us.

Question 39

PPS 2-2-19 Healing Concerns about Death, Dying, Loss and Grief
1. Is it the Practitioner’s job to take away the pain of grief? Explain your answer.

Answer 39

No, it is not the Practitioner’s job to take away the pain of grief, even if that were possible. It is our job to provide a safe place for clients as they move through the process – listening, supporting, companioning, and providing tools and resources. It is our job to remember our client’s wholeness and perfection AS they move through their process.

Question 40

PPS 2-2-19 Healing Concerns about Death, Dying, Loss and Grief
2. Explain what Alan Wolfe meant by companioning. Why is it important?

Answer 40

“Companioning the bereaved is not about assessing, analyzing, fixing or resolving another’s grief. Instead, it is about being totally present to the mourner, even being a temporary guardian of her soul.” See “Companioning Philosophy” in Student Workbook.

Question 41

PPS 2-2-19 Healing Concerns about Death, Dying, Loss and Grief
3. What are some of the gifts of grief and mourning?

Answer 41

• Compassion
• Call to action
• Deeper appreciation of life
• Recognition of strength and creativity
• Openness to the power of Spiritual Principles

Question 42

PPS 2-2-19 Healing Concerns about Death, Dying, Loss and Grief
4. “The patient was healed; the patient died.” Is this an incongruous statement?
NOTE: you MUST be able to produce a cogent answer to this question for an exam or interview

Answer 42

No. Healing takes place first in consciousness, and then is out-pictured in the body, provided the body is not past restoration. The patient can be healed in consciousness and continue to advance in consciousness in the next life, from that healed place.

Question 43

PPS 2-2-19 Healing Concerns about Death, Dying, Loss and Grief
5. What does it mean to be non-resistant to life? The benefits?

Answer 43

Non-resistance comes out of the awareness of Oneness and Wholeness of all life. It is a state of being that accepts life as it unfolds, in a knowingness that all is good, that all has a reason for being for the highest good for all, that there are no errors, that any discord brought about is an opportunity for learning. The great benefit is that we are open to receive our full measure of Divine Goodness.

Question 44

PPS 2-2-20 Healing Concerns about Suicide

1. What are some of the warning signs that someone may be at risk of suicide?

Answer 44

Talking about hurting or killing oneself
Talking about feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, guilt, sadness, or having no reason to live
Saying things like, “everyone will be better off without me” or “all of my problems will end soon”
Giving away possessions: “I won’t be needing these things anymore”
Seeking information or the means to kill or harm oneself
Unusual lack of interest in appearance
Extreme mood swings, recklessness, impulsivity
Increased use of drugs and/or alcohol
Withdrawal from family, friends, school, life

Question 45

PPS 2-2-20 Healing Concerns about Suicide

2. What might you talk about or ask to determine whether a client is thinking about killing himself or herself?

Answer 45

“Are you thinking of ending your life?,” “Are you considering killing yourself?,” or “Are you thinking about suicide?”
“Sometimes when people are depressed and avoiding their friends (or whatever warning signs they are exhibiting) they are thinking about suicide. Are you thinking about suicide?”
“This is important—I don’t want to lose you. Help is available to get you through this.”

Question 46

PPS 2-2-20 Healing Concerns about Suicide

3. What resources are available for use with a client at risk of suicide?

Answer 46

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1–800–273-TALK (8255). Calls to the Lifeline are routed 24 hours a day to the crisis center closest to the caller where staff are trained to work with people who are suicidal.
Encourage students to locate local resources

Question 47

PPS 2-2-20 Healing Concerns about Suicide
4. Are there any ways that suicide survivor grief may be different from grief after other deaths? If so, what might they be?

Answer 47

Support of others may not be available because of taboos
Survivors may feel more blame, shame, and guilt than after other kinds of deaths
It may be more difficult to make meaning of suicide than of some other kinds of deaths

Question 48

5. What Spiritual Principles relate to suicide issues?

Answer 48

Here are a few. You will know others, of course.
Eternality, immortality, and continuity of the individual soul
Life is forever seeking greater expression (on this plane and beyond)
There is no place where God is not