In the war on drugs, we have been told to just say "no." Can we say no to drugs, but not to what they represent? I believe you can say no to drugs if you can say yes to what they symbolize. Drugs point to the Infinite in finite form. Drugs represent our ability for relaxation, highness, transcendent reality. Their major problem is that they are temporary shortcuts to heaven. The transcendent state which they represent is permanent and reliable. The transient state of the drug high is just a tease, a bait, an invitation to know who we really are. The drug removes our clouded thinking temporarily, and exposes us to the god within. No wonder we get hooked on the finite means and not on the infinite source! We think the drug made us high. Every high experience you ever had was a high from your Self, your unknown Christhood, your transcendent reality. The people thought the early disciples were drunk, but they were just high on the Spirit.(Acts 2: 15)

Against the backdrop of the Infinite Yes, we can understand the real meaning of no.

"There is No Lack" (Acts 4: 34)

"There is No Separation"  (Rom 8:35)

"There is No Fear"   (Rom 3: 18)

"In Christ there is No Difference in male or female, Jew or

          Gentile, bond or free." (Gal 3:29)

"Take No Thought for what you shall say." (Matt 10:19)

"Do thyself No Harm" (Acts 16:28)

"No More hunger" (Rev 7:16)

"No More death" (Rev 21: 4)

"There is No Power but of God" (Rom 13:1)

"Love worketh No Ill toward his neighbor" (Rom 13:10)

"Love thinketh No Evil" (I Cor 13: 5)

"There is No lack" (2 Cor 8:15)

"I have No Confidence in the flesh" (Phil 3:3)

"He with whom there is No Variableness" (James 1:17)

"God is No Respecter of persons" (Rom 2:11)

"Love holds No Grievances" (A Course in Miracles)

"They prayed

They were of one heart and soul

The place was shaken

They were filled with the Holy Spirit

They spoke with boldness

Abundant grace was upon them all

There was No Lack, not a needy person among them"  (Acts 4)

The human No is the forerunner of the Divine Yes. No is the mirror of the Reality of Yes. The power of No is powerless without the power of Yes. We can only say No effectively when we can really envision the Infinite Yes.

"Yes!  Everyone has heard the glad tidings. How beautiful are the feet of those who being glad tidings of good things! Faith comes of hearing and hearing by the word of Christ." (Rom 10: 15-18)

"Is God the god of the Jews only? Is he not the god of the gentiles also? Indeed, Yes, God is One." (Rom 3: 29-30)

Spiritual Psychotherapy is a Divine Yes envisioned and uttered in the hearing of the fearful no. Resist Not Evil. There is nothing to fear! Every storyteller you listen to will eventually tell you what they fear, why they say no to life, and why they can't trust the Infinite Yes.

The Spiritual Psychotherapist is an Infinite Yes Man. He brings radical glad tidings and absolute Good News about symptoms and suffering. After my first session with a suffering soul, she wrote me an email asking if she could tape future sessions. She said "I just couldn't contain it all! I need to listen again and refresh my mind."

You are a bringer of Good News. In reality, there is no lack, no separateness, no victimization, no failure, no rejection, no meaningless experiences, no waste, no need for regret, no loss, no basis for grief, no cause for fear or resentment, no pressure to perform, no guilt to be punished for, no death, no hunger, no loneliness, no injury, no hurt, no pain, no worry, except in our contrived human story. In truth there is oneness, beauty, peace, joy, forgiveness, grace, unconditional love, purpose in all experiences, abundance, paradise and perfection on earth. Who dares to see it? Who dares to say it? Who dares to trust it? Who dares to utter the Infinite Yes?

The Spiritual Psychotherapist is a Witness to Reality. The Witness sees reality emerging out of the shadows of the suffering story. The storyteller does not see reality. The patient is anxiety-ridden and feels hopeless. The patient sees illness and witnesses to the belief in inadequacy, rejection, failure, illness and death. What if he could even begin to realize that failure does not exist, only the opportunity for more learning. What if he could realize that rejection does not exist, only that someone is afraid to say yes. What if he could realize that illness and death do not exist, only the belief that he is a body. What if he could realize that inadequacy does not exist, only the belief that he is a limited finite ego.

The patient sees many conflicting and opposing factors in life. He does see The One. He does not see the seamless robe of Jesus. He does not see the Christ being formed in himself. He does not the see the infinite perfection in others, he does not see the hidden Christ in the enemy, and therefore neither does he see the Christ in himself. What you see in others, you have already seen in yourself.

The Good News is very dim in the sufferer's mind. The storyteller is blinded by the symptoms and shadows of the human story. He has wandered off the path. He is coming up short. He knows less than 1% of himself. He is missing the target. He is trapped in his story of negativity. He is lost from his divinity. He doesn't know where his Lost Treasure is. He strikes out blindly at whoever seems to be taking what he has away from him. He does not know that his treasure is eternal and within, and that it cannot be bestowed or taken away by anyone.

He believes he is a victim, a beggar, a thief, a slave, a lawbreaker, a manipulator, and deserving of punishment, although he argues for his innocence, fights for his rights, and justifies his misbehavior. He wants to hear the Good News. But when he hears it, he cannot believe it. If anything is too good to be true, it usually is, in his story.

I used to spend my therapeutic hours trying to convince people of some flaw or lack. Now I spend my therapeutic hours looking for the God within my patient. He wants to believe the Good News of his inheritance but he cannot. He will resist you to the very end to maintain his story of the necessity for fight or flight. It seems to be a terrible risk to trust love again. He wonders if love is ultimate and trustworthy. He fears that such radical Good News is not reliable. Am I really an Infinite Being with a flawed story? Does such a God of the Good exist? Does real spiritual power exist? Or is "Pityful Me" about the best that I can expect in such an "Ain't It Awful" world?

Faith means Yes! Trust means Yes! Every no that we can think of is but a doorway to the Divine Yes. All of the "Thou Shalt Not's" are just a doorway to the Radical Yeshood of this universe. If you don't see the Yes, your no will be insipid. You cannot resist the Infinite Yes forever, because the human no is just a fear-based script. Our daily life is full of yes and no, but behind it all is the Divine Yes. The yes and the no in our human story are not ultimate. Every human yes or no has both illusion and truth in it, but the Divine Yes is Reality. Yes is Infinite; no is finite. The power of "no" is just a moment of darkness in the Infinite Sun. Jesus Christ is the Yes of God in form, just as you are. Let your Sun (Sonship) shine.