 That's joy is different from pleasure. You know, we all have experienced in the human condition fleeting pleasures They're here and they're gone. They're here and they're gone like pain. Here. It's gone here It's gone, but this inner joy that comes from the spirit is Literally beyond the fleeting pleasures of the world the Bible one of the things of the Bible was eat drink and be merry for one day we shall die and That's more of a very limited view On the way things are we're a joy. Yeah, that's it. We're talking more Follow the spirit be inspired and then live an eternal life as you lift it up, you know into that realm of celestial order Yeah, it actually runs much much deeper than that For example, there's a line in A Course in Miracles that says the mind was sick That thought the body could be sick The mind was sick Notice the past tense the mind was sick that thought the body could be sick. So the Holy Spirit Doesn't have sickness in mind. In fact, that's why Jesus could seem to heal the sick and raise the dead Because he was listening only to one voice the voice of the Holy Spirit and it really wasn't on Jesus's radar screen He didn't have it in his mind And that's why those that even seemed to be around Jesus the dead rose up Lazarus came right out from the the grave the dead arose the sick were healed And it wasn't because he was personally healing anybody. He was simply in that Christ idea In which there is no sickness, you know, God created Christ perfect God didn't say I I give you all my I give you eternal nature and love and joy and peace and happiness and sickness No, it's sickness wasn't extended from God. So when people ask me, how do you heal? I say you have to actually go so deeply within and joining with the spirit that you actually see The impossibility of sickness and how do you do that? First of all, you have to get it off the screen like if this world's a projection like a movie theater You have to start to realize that the problem is not in your set. The problem is not on the screen Cancer or a heart attack or whatever would be on the screen and of course, you know George Harrison, Bramona Maharshi, you know fill in the blanks. There's a lot of them that seem to have cancer tumors So on so forth But when you take it back into the mind first of all, you have to see that that the sickness Isn't really specific whenever we believe the problems are specific We we have misperceived the problem So cancer would be a specific form of sickness, but again sickness isn't specific sickness is mental Again, we come back to the teachings from Jesus all illness. He says is mental illness Isn't that amazing? All you mean cancer is mental illness. Wait a minute Mental retardation, you know, you can start to name all the things that we have classified as mental schizophrenia Psychosis that are the that's what our psychiatrists and psychologists have said is mental illness and then we've got things like cancer Or spina bifida, you know, go you could go down the whole thing and those are all physical Elmets. I don't know Jesus says there's your problem right there. You believe there's physical Illness and mental illness and it's all mental and the only way that you heal it is to see that it's all mental Because then you're ready to take the next step called atonement called salvation called resurrection So the Holy Spirit Doesn't really know of the cancer There's even a great line in the course that said the Holy Spirit that says looks not to effects Because he has judged their causes unreal so the cause of this world and everything of this world is the ego You don't think that an eternal God would actually create an ephemeral temporal world. We don't get apples from orange trees We don't get pears from apple trees Spirit comes from spirit and matter comes from nowhere if Some of you heard of Mary Baker Eddie. This is religion science, you know science of mind Christian science. There's no life Truth substance intelligence and matter. There's no mind and matter. It's what Mary Baker Eddie was teaching Good stuff Teaching the same thing the Course of Miracles is teaching that the error is not in the form The error is in the fragmented perception So if you're perceiving a fragmented world of specifics, that's the problem. That's the sickness That's the mental illness that needs to be healed and how is it healed through Holistic perception Unified perception the quantum field if you like quantum physics Got it right there and quantum physics the quantum field is the healing and you can see That's so good to get clear on because other than that, you know, it would be like the Holy Spirit using cancer Is implying that the Holy Spirit? Believes in cancer, but the Holy Spirit is thank God is the the healed perception in which there is no cancer So it's it's really deep, but it's it's how it heals so if you Don't have health insurance then you can use science of mind technique Yeah That's your health insurance, then that's your health insurance piece of mind The rock I will build my church on the rock not prudential piece of mind No offense Are we to believe that Jesus really did raise the dead are those stories real are they just Well in the ultimate sense everything in this world's fiction, so it's it's all fiction But but actually those things in terms of linear time they they happen. I had one of them myself, so In this day and age so I know There was a bunch of them 2000 years ago Which all it's all parables because it's all fiction and the spirit using the symbols to point towards the abstract Oneness, but I had one of those myself So I wouldn't doubt at all that there was a number of them 2000 years ago it's a pair of the terrible day story where I was I was going to take Stop at a salad bar for my grandmother who's probably was in her 70s or 80s at the time And I always used to go to the same grocery store to go back to get the salad bar And I was guided to go to another grocery store a different one that I don't usually go to and I think okay, and I was doing my coursework book lessons and the roll of decks was kind of like in my mind was was There is no death the son of God is free there is no death the son of God is free see how it works You know you're working on a coursework book lesson, and then the form kind of comes to Really bring it home, you know really show it to you in in living color three-dimensional, so I went to sell the store a salad bar, and I was heading back towards the the Salad bar section and I was over by the frozen foods, and then I looked and I saw there was a woman that was Layed out on the top floor of the grocery store, and I just observed and she Just laid there very still no movement in her diaphragm Just lay there like a corpse and actually they had paramedics they're trying to You know to do some type of a revival with her pounding on her chest and and doing those kind of things So I just stopped and watched while the roll of decks was going There is no death the son of God is free there is no death the son of God is free from the course and then The paramedics kind of stepped back and went off to another part of the store and interestingly enough there was just The body the corpse just laying there, and then I kept again There is no death the son of God is free over and over and over, and then I felt all this energy Up here the forehead area and all this energy in My chest area so I was kind of leaning back against the frozen food section Then I watched the the diaphragm Start moving again. It's like the breath You know just came back into the body so to speak and everything it was the most natural thing with that going on It wasn't like or it wasn't like oh my god You know it wasn't it wasn't a surprising or even a shocking Experience it seemed like the most natural Experience just a reflection of where my mind was that with what was going on in my course lesson that day So yeah that and then I went back and just got my grandmother's Salad bar and one for me and went and paid and it was just you know Yeah, yeah, it was just it was all for me Yeah But but it was beautiful. So that's why those kind of raising the debt You know parables of Jesus. I'm sure there was a number of them and I think Lazarus the story of Lazarus is is again an example of there's no order of difficulty in miracles because You know Lazarus had been you know in the tomb For some time. I think it was like three days and there was a there was kind of a of Standard back then that a belief among the Jews that when the body Was in the tomb or buried for three days the soul Was gone So would leave the body By at least three days. So it was almost like that was a very distinct Popping of even that Jewish belief Yeah, the literally resurrection and him coming out with the graves grave clothes and the smelly body I'm sure there was a bit of rigor mortis a bit of decay after Three days and then coming out Which was quite a dramatic raising of the dead but then of course when you get into the course and it tells you everything is mind and Remember sickness. We just talked about sickness is mental illness It's perception That's where the mental illness is it's not Forms it's not like bodies actually die or are born They're just symbols dream symbols and the mind that has a fragmented Perception is the mind that is in need of healing and then holistic healing or our mouth was talking about dreamer of the dream That's that's really like a lucid dream when you have a lucid dream and you're aware that you're dreaming It's very empowering You could even have a monster a fire-breathing dragon in your lucid dream and be Look at those flames. Wow, you know because you're not identified as the character that's getting scorched You know, you're the dreamer of the dream and that's really what the course is aiming at It's aiming at really training our minds to To see that we're a dreamer of the dream, which which is coming back to true identification in mind away from the character So it's a nice Raising the dead parable, but it was all serving my mind training I remember when I was studying psychology and years ago where you know, everyone's heard of like multiple personality Sort of isn't that fascinating that the different characters in the multiple personality disorder, you know one could be diabetic and Then one could have cancer and one could have Arne I'm in this and then as they flip it shows It's all mental. I know because they go into another personality and the cancer is gone Now it's diabetes or something else It's just almost like Tweaking and shifting different projections and then you start to think wow What if all not only the the conditions of the body are just projections, but what if the bodies themselves are Just projection and they're not real either like the ego people the world Jesus uses people as a verb He says it's not amazing instead of a noun people People people who need people are the luckiest people, you know, he's using He's actually using people as a verb the ego people the world And so if you're going to take a unified mind and fragment it into little bits of awareness Each with their own little separate private mind with their own little ambitions and futures and pasts You see it's it's the matrix It's the matrix and the only way out is to get back to the real world