 You might say that the Spirit just has one purpose and that is to extract you from the you that you believe you are in this world back into the light that is all that there is. So daily, whether we're aware of it or not, there's an extraction process going on. We're being extracted back to heaven, whether we're conscious of it or not. And it's a good, nice thought, you know, it's a good thought to wake up with or fall asleep with. I'm being extracted back into the allness of everything that is. It seems like in the last 20, 25 years, the last quarter of a century, I've just had so many encounters with so many beloved brothers and sisters all around the world and our joining together is a quickening in this extraction process. It's not a real extraction because you can't really leave who you are in reality. So it's just an imaginary extraction process and it's sometimes a little uncomfortable for the ego. But then again, the ego is not real either. So there's nothing really to mourn or regret or lament with this ongoing cleansing of our mind and washing of everything that we have in consciousness. We actually want this. We want a good, thorough rinse. Wash away all that is not of you, God. Wash away every thought that would be a block to your pure love and light. And I remember meeting Eric and we became instant friends and then the more we joined our minds, the same extraction process that I went through, he went through. He was going after chasing the American dream. He had a career. He was a hypnotherapist. He had a house. He had a mortgage. He had credit card debt and he was going for the dream. And then it seems like when we came together, he started to see that that really wasn't the dream he wanted to go for deep in his heart. He really wanted to experience the deep love that we all share and that is our natural state. And so he went through a pretty quick extraction that was pretty intense, including an arranged marriage by the spirit to a woman that he had never met in 13 days. Just a look on his face when she told of the guidance to get married in 13 days and he'd never met her. It was a priceless look. It was a bit staggered and stunned. But the spirit moves quick. If you really are about being unwound from this world and you really have a sincere call in your heart to drop the world and to move into this awareness, then the events that will seem to follow may seem strange from the world's perspective. But actually I've had that same experience over the years that the spirit moves very very swiftly when you're hardest and sear and there's no delay in the spirit. When his mind came through this extraction process, then his guitar and his voice could then be used in a beautiful way to just herald eternity, to sing about the things that we all care about the most and a lot of stuff is poured through him from that point. But he had to let go of some things that were distracting him so that he could really tune in to the spirit, be a channel for the spirit in his way mostly through singing but also in many other ways in teaching as well. And that's just all symbolic. It's not that there's any specific form that any of us have to go through because it's highly individualized but we could say, we could summarize it, it seems to be from the ego perspective it's a letting go, letting go of the familiar, letting go of what seems comfortable in the world. Another way you can think of it is like beam me up Scotty, you know, at some point we get to a point where we really want to go up in the tractor beam of love and it's one of those beam me up experiences, it's a bit, the ego can react quite strongly to those kind of things because it seems to be a dissolving away of something that the ego had or something that the ego possessed or even knew and when you get into this love it's more of a dissolving away of everything that you think you know about everything in this world and it's sometimes tempting to interpret this emptying out as something that, something real is being taken away but that's actually not what's happening at all. It's more that your mind is coming into wholeness and integration and it had forgotten the wholeness and integration so it's actually just coming back to what it already knew, it already had, it was already natural, it was already there, it was always there but this is more of a kind of a rising up in consciousness and awareness to come into that.