Mark 2:4 Meaning When They Could Not Come Near

When the ordinary way to love is blocked, a determined mind will break through whatever stands over it rather than turn back. The crowd is the press of competing thoughts that keeps a mind from drawing near, and the covering overhead is the barrier of its own defenses. To open the roof is to tear away what had sealed the mind off from help.

And the helpless part is lowered in by those who carry it. A mind too paralyzed to move toward healing on its own is brought there by its own willingness, let down through the opening it has just made. The affliction does not have to walk; it has only to be carried into the presence of love by a mind that refuses to be kept away.

The press: the crowd of competing thoughts that keeps a mind from drawing near to love, the noise that seems to bar the way Roof: the covering of defenses sealing the mind off from help, the barrier that willingness breaks open Bed: the state of helplessness the afflicted mind is carried in, the condition of being unable to move toward healing alone The palsied man: the paralyzed part of the mind that cannot come to love by itself and must be brought there by its own willingness

The house is the body and the roof is the crown of the head, the highest point of a person, and to break through it is to open the top of the skull so the paralyzed lower nature can be let down into the presence of the healing self. The press is the crowd of surface thoughts blocking the ordinary way in, so the approach comes from above, not through the door of the senses. The palsy is the mind gone slack and powerless, unable to move toward its own cure.

Healing comes when the helpless self is brought down through the crown to the center where the Christ sits, above the noise, where the higher current enters.

House: the body of a person, the dwelling in which the healing self sits Roof: the crown at the top of the head, the highest point opened for the higher current Press: the crowd of surface thoughts blocking the ordinary approach to the center Bed: the fixed lower state that carries the powerless self down to be healed

The how never shows up until the outcome stops being optional, and that is why most people never find one.

Raise a standard to a must and the mind stops grading obstacles and starts taking inventory. A should would have counted the crowd, called the timing wrong, and carried the man home with a story about having tried.

Certainty that Jesus would heal set the state, the state made tearing up another man's roof feel reasonable, and the digging was the only action left once retreat had been priced out. The cost of keeping it a should is a life spent at the edge of a crowd, holding a reason instead of a result.