Written by Dr. Ernest Holmes — March 8, 1955
First of all, it would be impossible in our field to be a good leader without being a good Practitioner…There is no such thing in our field as a teacher teaching people how to practice unless he knows how to practice himself and unless he constantly practices. He can only know that he knows by the results that he gets.
Leadership is spiritual leadership. The organizational leadership you can learn about in an organization. Get a good group of intelligent people and let them run it. Your leadership is spiritual leadership…a leadership that can only come automatically as a result of your having had spiritual inward experience….
The audience comes to you. . .and they are hungry to know that there is some intimate relationship you have with the Universe. They are hungry to know that as a result of that, something definite will happen out here. Make everything you do the result of your consciousness. Spend much time treating the audience until you know they are healed.
No one should be in this work unless they love people. I mean a love of people no matter what they do, what they say, or how they act, because we are all children. We are all ‘hell bent for heaven’ just the same. . .The whole world is looking for something that it will feel safe in, something that at last will not let them down.
I think that the ministry in our field is the most profoundly deep, intellectually, philosophically, and psychologically. It has a very deep element of mysticism, which it must impart. Just cold facts will not satisfy them and just teaching people how to get things will never satisfy them—that’s a by-product. It’s another kind of wholeness that people are after.
We have to speak as Jesus spoke and as Abraham Lincoln spoke and as every great and wise person that ever lived speaks. Every leader in our field has to be healing himself all the time at our present state of evolution…until that which he does is real and until the mouth automatically accents what is in the heart.
I was a protege’ of Rev. James Crawford—Battle Creek MI, Ormand Beach FL; He was a fine teacher and practitioner, I benefited being associated with this fine man. I would love to hear from anyone who remembers him; I am currently in TN, and need to find some contacts here with people.
Thank you Dr Toni for adding this; the task is clear, an inner experience, an awareness of love.