Step out of your story and into healing [23 mins ENG]
March 03, 2012
"Step out of your story and into healing" with Jon Benson. This is the fifth talk of a mini-lecture series held at the Angelika Film Center in Dallas, TX on March 3rd, 2012. Jon has recently expanded this mini-lecture to a 60-minute lecture. To watch more of the mini-lectures, click here.


Molly Larson
- 4/16/2012This is a powerful lesson; one I'll return to again and again. Thank you for providing these wonderful events for a world crying out for healing.
Devon
- 4/16/2012Brilliant, timely, something we all need to work with and demonstrate. I thank you.
Hermosa Beach Lynne
- 4/16/2012Thank you What a GIFT. Im a story lover, a reader, even a writer and I have a whole new
take on those with this 23 min daily LIFT. Amazing, healing lecture.
Thank you Jon, Thank you daily lift people, Thank you dear Father Mother God, Thank you Mary Baker Eddy and thank you Christ Jesus who I love so much. And all who loved me as I truly am. WOW
Priceless. You got this one,
Jan
- 4/16/2012My sincere gratitude to you, Jon, and to everyone involved in bringing us your lecture, and especially to our Father-Mother God for the truth about all of us. I am so touched by all this love!
Elizabeth
- 4/16/2012Wow, this mini-lecture is packed with helpful guidance! I was glued to my computer screen. Best of all, II was able to drop several chapters of the mortal story as I listened. This talk was so comforting, healing! Thank you Jon, so much, for being willing to share the freeing, Bible revealed truth of our real identity.
Laura C.
- 4/16/2012Fabulous. This should be shared widely -- very inspiring!
Pat, Virginia Beach
- 4/16/2012Bravo! Perhaps one of the most powerful, succint talks I have ever heard! Thank you!
I woke up this morning feeling fearful and despondent anticipating the next chapter of my story being fruitless. Then I happened upon this lecture and am now replacing my story with fortitude, hope, and anticipated joy! I can't wait to apply the truths told to others waiting for a cup of cold water and to help bless the earth. What a breath of fresh, wonderful thinking will be pouring forth into the atmosphere, breathed by those who hear and share and implement Jon's ideas.
Ruth from Idaho
- 4/16/2012What wonderful ideas and delivered in such a dynamic and healing way. God does supply our needs when we most need them. Thank you so much.
Dagmar Schlüter
- 4/16/2012Thank you so much!
Vicki Knickerbocker
- 4/16/2012This was an outstanding lecture and one which will be of much benefit to me. Thank you so much, Vicki Knickerbocker
robert rothbard
- 4/16/2012wow!
Barbara
- 4/16/2012Thank you so much. Very inspiring Truths for me to incorporate and take with me as I approach a business situation that seems to have way too many such "stories". Happy also to know that I can drop all my own "stories". With love and appreciation to you for all you do..and to the Daily Lift group for their expanded lifts.
Lolly Murray
- 4/16/2012Thank you, Jon, for these dynamic, powerful ideas! It's a new take on "thinking outside the box", where the box (our human story) dissolves as we recognize its illusive nature and vigorously claim the man of God's knowing. What a freeing feeling to drop the story, that burden of human history! I feel supported by the Christ to do just that, today.
jacqueline
- 4/16/2012SO haling! Thank you Jon and all who make these so available to a very needy world!
Sara
- 4/16/2012Such a powerful message! Wonderful.
nela
- 4/16/2012Wow! I just listened to/watched your "Step out of your story and into healing" mini-lecture. Yes!!! Thank you sooooooo much.
Pedro
- 4/16/2012It has moved me! Touched my heart! More than inspiring!
Thank you.
Janet Jones
- 4/16/2012I love and appreciate this multi-leveled, richly told parable, simple to grasp, but with untold applications, which will continue to unfold. Many thanks.
Bev, Sandpoint, ID
- 4/16/2012WHOOOHOOOO!!!! Was that Dynamic or What? I feel like a little part of me is just waking up and rubbing her eyes and saying, "Helloooooo! Where have I been all my Life?" I heard your testimony, Jon, on a Sentinel Radio Tape (before CD's) and you spoke then as if the Graduate Student with the eye problem was You! Now, I can See that it wasn't YOU! It was just a part of your "story"! Now, I get it! Another funny thing is that just before I watched this Lecture, my ex-husband had emailed me some pictures of us when we were in our 30's and happily married and had just come back from a backpack trip around the world. He said it had really shook him up emotionally to see us looking so young and happy. He's a big fan of "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, so I reminded him of the NOW! Then I had to be careful and watch my own thought to not get dragged back into the past of our story and to feel regret, etc. Luckily, I was able to stay present and then watched this Lecture which just confirmed for me that I am soooooo much more than my story! Heartfelt thanks, Jon! This was a Zinger and a wake-up call to the World! Here we Go!!!!!!
Kelly, Sydney Australia
- 4/16/2012Strong Message - Thank you so much for your prayerful thoughts.
Linda
- 4/16/2012Thank you so much Jon! You have done an exceptional job communicating the Truth about awakening from fictional stories and into the reality of our true being. Marvellous!
doro,
- 4/16/2012WOW a powerful truth beautifully presented
thank you soooo much!
Worth hearing again & again.
Jonnie V. Southworth
- 4/17/201211 Robert, that is an understatement! I can, however, think of no better way to express it, myself! Jon, thank you, thank you! I'm so grateful my PC's sound managed to work today, after days off. This must be shared with many I thought of, and will be listened to again many times over, by me. You captured Genesis creation, Jesus' work and words, and Mrs. Eddy's presentation of what she named Christian Science. You captured, for rescue, us, as we seemed to be, and pulled us outside of the stories claiming to be ours. In college, a daughter had a prof she, and the class could not stand, and prayed to see something good in her. Well, all she could find was the prof was alive, so she reflected Life, God. Holding to this, she soon was stopped on campus by the prof, warmly complimenting on personal qualities she saw in my daughter. Harmony followed! I've got some untrue story deleting to do, right away.
Pam
- 4/17/2012Thank you! This is just what I needed to hear this morning!
Ann Hughey Stokes, DE
- 4/17/2012What a wonderful, powerful, clear presentation! So inspiring! Thank you, Jon, for these ideas! Like #22 my thought is uplifted, and I will do a lot of story deleting right away! What a joyous task!
Carla
- 4/17/2012I don't think I can express enough gratitude in the words "Thank You" for this wonderful lecture! You've made the picture so clear of how we can unite with Christ only by leaving behind the false material picture. And this we can do as shown and authorized by Christ Jesus. I will be carrying these ideas with me and am eternally grateful for the spiritual growth they are already leading me towards. Thank you for your presentation also which added power to the words. We felt the meaning as you delivered the words!
Joan
- 4/18/2012What a wonderful and fresh way to think about getting rid of all the ills that want to attach themselve to us. It's really time for me to drop both the old stories and the new. Very grateful.
Christy
- 4/18/2012WOW! How just divine! This is a powerful talk........a powerful meaning.........I want to listen to this over and over and over. Thank you Jon! I needed this.
Brad from Houston
- 4/18/2012Thanks Jon, I really loved this lecture and perspective!! Very helpful for me today.
Ann from Wales
- 4/19/2012This healing lecture brought me hope confidence , strength: thanks so much
Betty
- 4/19/2012Betty 19 -4 -2012 just fantastic thankyou and so clear and practical and helpful beyond belief. Will listen and put into practice time and again and will encourage someone very near to me to listen to this Lecture and just step out of the story he is believing at the moment and which just isn't true. My very grateful thanks.
Laura
- 4/19/2012I agree with everyone's comments that began with the word "Wow"! This is so helpful, so fundamental, and I am so grateful.
name
- 4/19/2012This was wonderful! Thank you
Nancy
- 4/19/2012Jon, You truly touched me with your inspiring lecture.I have been strugging so long with 'My Story". I see that there is hope for me. I am SO grateful for these online resources.
Harry...Sydney Australia
- 4/20/2012Hey Jon...I only see you maybe once a year in Sydney...but not in Lecture mode...so to see you like this was..well...Wow...AND WHAT A STORY...Thank you...
It's stuff like this that is helping me DROP my (unreal) story...and find the true me...the only me...complete...perfect...one with my Father Mother...AWESOME!!!
Simon from UK
- 4/20/2012Jon,
Wow wow and wow. What a powerful lecture. The lessons in here are a big blessing and the delivery is out of this world (!). Will share this widely and will come back to it again and again. It is the gift that keeps giving ...
Thank you
Sandi
- 4/20/2012Jon, you have spoken eloquently from the heart, and from the heart of your experience. How simple your definitions of true worship - yielding of the human heart to the divine purpose - and that healing follows true worship every time. I want to make this more consistently my own approach. Everything else is "stuff" and unimportant.
Nancy T in Anchorage
- 4/21/2012I am working in the CS Reading Room and just prayed with a man who was distraught about his own story. Then I found this WONDERFUL healing lecture. I can hardly wait to share it with him. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to Jon and everyone else who brought us this fabulous message.
name
- 4/22/2012Most helpful lecture I've ever heard! Thank you.
Don Southerton
- 4/22/2012Wonderful way to begin my Sunday.
katherine
- 4/22/2012I really like this new form of a mini lecture. I have listened to this lecture twice and I will listen again. This is a powerful, love-filled message of true identity. Thank you so much.
Hamid from Encinitas
- 4/25/2012Wonderful and Awesome. Gave me an insight to work with going through my healing with my family.
Steph
- 4/26/2012Thank you Jon. This lecture is very inspiring and helpful. I've listened to it three times.
Amy
- 4/28/2012Thank you so much, Jon. The blessing that this lecture is..is beyond measure. Thinking about how it is so right for us all to feel the peace of truly being outside of any mortal story. (Also, thank you, Sandi, for pointing me to this lecture).
Kathleen, Mexico
- 4/28/2012Jon, thank you! Each time I listen to this, I gain new views and understanding.
another Betty
- 4/30/2012Church keeps proving that God is one Mind. I have been chewing on similar ideas to this lecture recently. Feeling the absolute necessity to see God as my literal Father and only source. Yesterday I read the account of Jesus healing the man with the withered hand and Mrs. Eddy's explanation of it including the line: "The palsied hand moved, despite the boastful sense of physical law and order. Jesus stooped not to human consciousness, nor to the evidence of the senses. He heeded not the taunt, "That withered hand looks very real and feels very real;" but he cut off this vain boasting and destroyed human pride by taking away the material evidence." I felt like--I need to call a pract to help me understand that I am not a human history and I do not aquire understanding of my own. Then I thought, ask, seek, knock this is Jesus instruction. Next came: Blessed are the pure in heart. I looked up Heart in the glossery of Science and Health. and thought about every thing it lists and how a pure expression of each can help me express God. Affections- do I want to have others see the good I do as special? In infinity of good, God's selfhood, perfection is normal and unremarkable because it is the only and all. Jesus parable about the servant not being praised by his master for doing the work assigned to him fit in here (Luke 17: 7-10). Sorrows- 1 Cor. discussion of "Godly sorrow" Thank you so much for this lecture taking me forward in this line of thought. A friend emailed it to me. Thanks for all the sharing.
Malissa
- 5/1/2012I don't know how many times I have listened to this but I get more and more out of it each time:-) thank you for this clear message of Truth. In God, where we live, move and have our being, harmony is the only thing happening. No more running with the wolves!!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Diane
- 5/2/2012I am so grateful for this message and for the clarity it brings. Thank you so much.
Merri
- 5/2/2012How wonderful this was delivered and created for us !!!!! I am going back right now and listen again. And yes, thank you to everyone who makes these wonderful lectures possible for us!!
Pam
- 5/3/2012Just listened to this for the third time. It unfolds more and more with such loving, practical. Truth.
Thank you Jon so very much.
See you in october.
Bev, Sandpoint, ID
- 5/5/2012Hi Jon, and All! I have just listened to this mini lecture again and am blown away! I am so touched by all of the comments and commenters here! Each one of us is expressing the desire to see more of our true selves, created and maintained by God! And this Desire is our Prayer, which will be molded and exalted, as we trust God with this Desire! I am so happy to be a part of this group of seekers and desire(ers), as we will truly bring the world with us into the healing of it's stories, as Jon says! Dare! Dare! Dare! I am hereby committing to DARE!
Bud from New Jersey
- 5/6/2012Great lecture! When he quoted the Bible to call no man on earth your father, but to recognize God as our only father, I was for a split second taken aback because I am currently seeing to the needs of my parents. Then in a flash of inspiration, the thought came to me to apply the same idea to them. They are the beloved children of an all loving, spiritual creator. I can joyfully step out of the material story, knowing that the needs of all are met by God, good.
Chris Shaw, Tallahassee, Fl.
- 5/6/2012Thank you for such an awesome TRUE and REAL STORY about our TRUE ORIGIN!!! You are Wonderful and I so appreciate your message.
Gary Staples Red Oak, IA
- 5/6/2012Thanks so much Jon. I would like to share with everyone that might not know of your recent lecture in California a recommendation to explore that lecture for sooooo much more of the same inspiration to step outside the story. The blog is prayerthatheals.org for the three counties in California.
Ann from Three Lakes, WI
- 5/7/2012Wow...what an amazing invitation to step outside of our story. The Christ is there with a helping hand. Wonderful lecture. Thank you Jon.
Veenie
- 5/9/2012Hope this works.
Maiseyg in Ontario
- 5/10/2012I just loved this, i am so grateful i ws led to it. Just full of radianc.e
carolyn
- 5/12/2012Wow! such an awakening message about what our real story is all about... thank you.
Alicia in VA
- 5/16/2012What a highly inspired understanding of Truth and what a highly inspired (thus healing) delivery! I had had glimpses of this aspect of Truth, thinking of "material lives" as "roles" played by actors who'd forgotten their real identity; yet, this delivery really got through!!! So powerful and healing. Thank you to God, and His expression (specifically here, Jon and all responsible to bring about lectures on the Science of Being).
Deb, Canberra
- 5/21/2012Thank you, Jon. This just what I needed to hear today. Your message will stay with me.
Maiseyg in Ontario
- 5/23/2012My teacher once said to me "you don't know you!" now I think I understand where he was coming from. I'm not a wolf afterall, no animal nature.
Virginia
- 6/2/2012Jon, Thank you for sharing your clear spiritual inspiration. It's simple, yet profound. I will return and listen to this again, and again..
Diane D. from New Hampshire
- 6/7/2012BRAVO . . . .THIS "STORY " IS BEAUTIFUL AND THE STORY TELLER IS TELLING THE TRUTH . . . ONE OF REAL HEALING.THANK YOU
Robert, Brunswick, Maine U.S. of A.
- 6/7/2012Your lecture reminded me of something at the stable. I was walking along the outside of the indoor riding area, and it was a bright afternoon, and my shadow out in front of me passed into the opening of the doors been the indoors and the paddock, just when a gal was riding her horse out of the stable. You probably know what I am leading to... The horse startled at the sudden appearance of shadow, almost threw her rider. I am happy to say that the rider was able to immediately reflect her God-given dominion and eliminate her steed's fear of nothing, appearing as shadow, not substance. No harm was done to rider,horse, nor me. Thank you for what was never in the story.
Marilyn from Idaho
- 6/7/2012So wonderful, inspiring and I will listen again and again. Yes, I dare to step out of my story and follow Jesus Christ. We are so blessed to be able to hear these lectures and the Lift. Love to all
Barbara
- 6/25/2012Thank you Jon for this revealing that the only story is the one God knows. After listening to it many times, it brought to mind the idea how important as the Holy Scriptures says, to"be absent fro the body(false story), and to be present with God," the one Ego, the true I or us. Thank you so much for this spiritual insight
Marie
- 7/7/2012I've listened to this mini-lecture at least 30 times It really speaks to my heart. Thank you.
DeborahPS
- 7/16/2012Thank you so much for this inspiration and redirection - perfect ideas for handling since of loss when a dear one passes on - the best way to continue to support them, you, their children ( even adult children!) is to step out of all the stories even humanly positive stories- such "peace and joy and power"
Andre
- 7/16/2012Great Truth. This reminded me the times that I used to say in a kidding way to my friends about my woes at work: "I have to use the f words everyday....Forgive.. an Forget!"
Nancy
- 7/22/2012Bless you! What a wonderful awakening thought. So simple.
Tom S./ MI.
- 7/22/2012Iam so grateful for this message. Identity is certainly the reflection of Spirit.
Thank you very much indeed.
Tom S.
Marilyn from Maine
- 8/7/2012Thanks. I have been thinking along these lines, and the lecture brought me further along the lines of no human history to act like a weight around our necks. Very helpful. I'm starting my morning with these good ideas and know they will expand during the day.
Jean in Texas
- 8/7/2012Jon, thank you for the wake up today. I have been working with My Story for a long time and today found a link from Cedars to your lecture. Your lecture gave me a clearer idea on how to proceed. Thank you so much for the lift up and the inspiration.
Marylyn
- 8/10/2012Thanks for a powerful lecture! I appreciate the multiple Bible references as it will be easier for my non Christian Science friends to hear.
Marylyn
- 8/10/2012Thank you! I appreciate the multiple Bible references and building on Jesus' words.
Anne Cooling
- 8/10/2012Such a clear way of sharing these spiritual ideas. Thank you for the beautiful way of presenting this healing Truth.
Di ~ Vanc.
- 8/11/2012I'm listening to this for umteenth time and valuing it more and more. The significance of this lecture...of Jesus' stand for the healing power of His Christ....my Christ too!!
Sally
- 8/12/2012This is the key to all healing! Thanks for the engaging delivery as well! I will be taking this to heart.
GJ from Maryland
- 8/12/2012Wonderful! I have listened to this multiple times, it is very powerful stuff... It brought to my mind Plato's Allegory of the Cave, but in more inspirational and more useful terms! Thank you Jon!
Beryl
- 8/21/2012I liked your emphasis on power.
Susan from Northern California
- 9/2/2012Many thanks Jon!! Just listened a second time. Your lecture makes clear the path to Freedom!
name
- 9/7/2012Thank you so very much - will hope to share this with my family members. Your talk was wonderful and so truthful - gave encouragement and direction.
Dil
- 9/13/2012Very powerful! I'll be coming back to it. Thank you!
Wendy
- 9/18/2012Wonderful. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Karen J, Santa Fe, NM
- 9/18/2012You are a great story teller, Jon Benson. As in: "I love to tell the story, of Jesus and his love."
Roberta
- 9/29/2012I am tingling all over. Christ has healed me.
Christine
- 10/25/2012Magnificent! Thank you, Jon, for these healing truths! Will re-listen often, ponder, pray, put into practice! Abiding gratitude for all the blessings of Church!
Leanne from Sydney
- 10/27/2012I attended Jon's lecture in Sydney "When the impossible happens, whats next?"The next day I watched this lecture and was very impressed. I have shared this lecture with three friends already . I am a writer and have begun to rethink the stories I write, talk about and want to publish to share with others. These stories only perpetuate the "sad, emotional " stories I have believed make me the person I am today. I realise these stories are not the real me and so I should step out of them in order to start fresh as the person God has always known me as - pure and perfect and always eternal. Thank you Jon.
name
- 11/7/2012Great lecture. I am at a place where I have been struggling to see man as God's beautiful idea, this lecture is very timely. It is time for me to step outside of my story and everyone else's and have a healing. I will be listening to this one again.
Scott
- 11/14/2012This lecture is deep, profound and beautifully delivered. What a great gift to be able to hear this. Thank you.
claire shillito
- 11/18/2012This is a particularly beautiful lecture. Thank you, I shall treasure it. very grateful.
D
- 11/28/2012This is fabulous and sure timely for me.
mindy
- 12/7/2012Terrific talk ~ Much food for thought. Thank you so much.
Pam
- 12/18/2012Jon, thank you so much. I love your lectures. They make you grow!!!
Carolyn B
- 12/26/2012Fun. It was fun to listen to this. Fun to watch you having such a good time teaching us to let go of our story. I love that concept. Joy is bubbling through me. Freedom. Liberation. Healing. Healing of false concepts (stories) . . . just a great subject beautifully told. Thank you.
Jairo
- 1/14/2013These lectures are like a GPS showing me the way back to spirituality, or. Out of my story. Thank you.
mina
- 1/16/2013absolutey fantastic! these lectures are such a resource for spiritual growth and inspiration helping mankind find solace from whatever ailes them in their journey through life. Bless you all and please give us more of this bread and keep adding more lectures for us.
Penni L.
- 1/29/2013I cannot begin to tell you how valuable this view has been to me and my mission of protecting the planet. Thank you so much. I will endeavor to step out of my story and into my immortal selfhood. Thank you so much!!!!
Sue in Maine
- 2/2/2013Delightful! And, yes #95 fun to listen to. Love a good teacher. One of the best I have heard. Thank you very much!!
Ann
- 2/14/2013Thyis took two listenings to get the poweful foubndqtion of this lecture. One of the most self-kess speakers Deliverede with such liveleness.
Thank you, thank you, dear Jon.
Strona
- 3/13/2013Thank you so much dear Jon. It was so inspiring and lifted me up on high. I loved the way it was delivered it came over in a beautiful convincing way.
name
- 3/15/2013My mother loved the "just-so" stories of Rudyard Kipling........perhaps The Jungle Book with the story Jon mentions was one of those..........now I think to myself..........wow, my stories and anyone's stories of sin, disease, etc. are the "just NOT-so" stories! Thanks, Jon. Wonderful.
joan
- 5/10/2013Joan - New Zealand
Thank you for such a wonderful message with an ongoing blessing that I can share