 Last night we started to see how the world, the linear world, is a hoax. And we put so much faith in the future and spend so much energy preparing for future outcomes. We really are taking our lines and our energy away from the present moment. We're just getting distracted. I know we're thinking about the past for a minute, for the future. Whether we're feeling regret. And replaying, rehashing memories that we've learned since they could have been different. Or whether we're concerned, worried about possible outcomes in the future that we don't like. It's really a distraction away from the stillness and the freedom of the present moment. And so I'd like to talk about something that most, of course, American teachers don't talk about. I don't know if you're anybody talking about it, but it's called hypothetical thinking. That's the problem. It's not so much just the linearity. But when we're thinking about the future and imagining possible future outcomes, sometimes many possible future outcomes, those are hypotheticals. Whenever you're having a conversation with somebody and you're pondering a number of possibilities that could occur in the future, it's common to be saying, well, hypothetically speaking. Just say so and so did this or I did that, but this happened. Or hypothetically speaking if there was a tsunami or a hurricane or a tornado. Or hypothetically speaking, if we go into a recession or a depression, so much energy is placed on these hypotheticals. And think of it in terms of like imagining pondering relationships that you've had. Where are the relationships heading? Will we last? Won't we last? All these energies put into hypotheticals in terms of relationships. Or it could be a spiritual community that just hypothetically speaking. And the thing that you have to have in order to have hypotheticals is when you're trying, you have to have cause and effect apart. As if there are these real scenarios and real memories that occurred in the past and these real possibilities that could occur in the future. It's really a system of lies. It's like a cobweb that the ego has set up. And there comes a point on the spiritual journey where instead of like, we've been talking about practical speaking, we're going to join people this week about next steps, what's coming next. That can be practical, but what's even more practical than next steps is starting to explore the whole idea of hypotheticals. Can they really be hypotheticals? Or perhaps is, some of you have heard of like, sense material or physical teachings on parallel universes. Sometimes they'll say, well you've got this going on in this universe. But in a parallel universe, you have to be the exact opposite going on simultaneously. It's a real reminder. Simultaneously, I'm getting divorced in this life and I'm getting married in the parallel universe. I was like just a flipside or an opposite. And parallel or simultaneous is an interesting kind of thing. And what you find is that's what the teachings of the Course in Miracles are, is that cause and effect are together and not apart. In order to have hypotheticals, in fact in order to have past and future, you have to have cause and effect apart. And if cause and effect are together, then what does that mean in terms of time? It means that time is simultaneous and not linear. It means that all time is, we'll say, so to speak, happening at the same time. Talk about a mind-bender. If you're kind of addicted to thinking time is linear and then you're like, what is simultaneous? That's quite an interesting idea. Now, if time is simultaneous, then you really don't have any problems. You've just solved the whole given condition and the whole conundrum. Because problems are always remembered or anticipated. You never have a problem just right now. There is no problems right now. They're always remembered or anticipated. And so, if you could realize the impossibility of hypothetical thinking, how quiet and still your mind would be, because you wouldn't waste any more time trying to figure out the future or lamenting the past, trying to plan a better future, or trying to say, I wish I could forget when this happened to me, or that happened to me, or when so-and-so attacked me, or so-and-so grievances. What would happen to grievances if time was simultaneous? If it was no longer a sense of the past having a reality, grievances would be gone too. So this is kind of an important topic to start to see at the time of simultaneous. Now, some of you have learned a little bit about quantum physics. Of course, years ago, they thought the world was flat, and then they thought that all the stars revolved around the Earth. And then Isaac Newton comes along and says, there's a sun, and Earth is just one among the planets that revolve around the sun. Everything's turned completely around from what everyone believed. And then we had Newtonian physics, which was basically measuring and kind of ensuring the physical laws from what was observable and empirical evidence. And then once we got into quantum physics, then we started to realize that everything that we thought we knew from Newtonian physics, which is basically everything we were taught in our science books and in our history books and everything, was not true. You know, it's kind of disheartening when you've, especially if you've put a lot of time into learning things to just find out that you should be right, just got pulled out. And quantum is completely different than Newtonian. And it's more, instead of timing linear, it's more like out of the entire cosmos, we'll say possibilities, that based on your belief system, your mind draws down and selects just so much, just like a tiny little sliver out of the potentiality of everything in time and space. And that's what it seems to be absorbing through the human senses, this tiny little sliver of perception. And in the Course in Miracles, Jesus says, perception is selective. It's so selective that you're only perceiving what you want to see. And what you don't want to see is not there. That's how powerful the mind is. You just perceive what you want to see. You don't want to see, you don't see, you don't perceive. You just feel the emotions that you want to feel. And the emotions that you don't want to feel, you don't feel. It's like a filter based on the ego, based on the belief system of the ego, which just selects perception. Some of you probably had the experience when, you know, when you go out, let's say, to buy a new car, and if you've ever had that experience where you go out and you're out of all the possible vehicles you could get, you select a car, you select a make, a model, and a color. And isn't it fascinating when you get on the highway with that car and you start looking around and you go, damn, I can't believe it. Because it's really, it's like, it's got to be more than coincidental that you start seeing that make, and that model, and that color, driving by it, and you're driving by it. And it's like, what's going on here? Is this my mind or what? You know, we sometimes laugh because we'll be in the main house over there, we'll be in there, and you know how the main house is, big windows, giant windows with the kitchen and everything. We'll be in there just talking, you know, all the colors and everything, and as we're mentioning names here, you always want to come across the screen. What we have to do is mention your name, and there you go. We'll talk about what they're going to be mentioning in the video. There you go. It's like a treatment show, they're on a loop. What we have to do is think of them and mention your name. There you go. Every time. Interesting. Fascinating. I mean, if it happened once or twice, you could say it's a quiz, but when you sit there all day, and it happens over and over and over, it's like, Fascinating. Just thinking about it, there they go. You're right here, that's me. And so, we're going to get into a bit of quantum intellect, because it's like the way we've been thinking in linear terms, it's just full of guilt. It's like the past, the karmic, and the past seems to repeat, and we seem to be making some of the same mistakes again, and we can even recognize it. We scratch our head like, this looks vaguely familiar, this relationship thing I'm dealing with, didn't I? Chest, and then the tongue before, and then the tongue before. It's like, here it is. It's kind of like that Carly Simon song, and if you're willing to play the game, it will be coming around again, it just loops like in the Truman Show. They're all on a loop, just keeps coming around and around and around. It looks to say scientifically, not at random at all. It's like the same patterns over and over and over. And so, the movie tonight is a quantum movie, but it's not like what The Bleak was. A lot of theory, a lot of pondering from a lot of scientists and physicists. No, this is a drama. This is a relationship movie, and also this movie is really great for teaching by hypotheticals. It's one of the best movies you can ever pick.