 And I feel the river inside Full, complete surrender The lessons of trust come so fast And the transfer happens very, very quickly And I would say it can seem pretty rare When people think of like Eckhart Tolle In his Park bench experience, it seems to be very rare When there's such a complete radical transformation Of consciousness to that magnificence You know, all of a sudden you're in a state of grace And you feel everyone in that grace And you just are so grateful you can't even say the words It's such a deep gratitude that's there So for me, it happened to be a point in my life Where I really was cracking wide open spiritually I'd say the first five years before that period of travel Was the five years when I came across the course And was using the book pretty much more like an I Ching I would just have my question and I would open it up And get the answers over and over and over And then I'd be so grateful for the answers That I would just keep reading on So I read the book about eight hours a day on the average And just gave myself over to it And then there came a period after that Where I could hear Jesus talking to me In very friendly, casual, conversational terms Not with the things like, you know, I love you You are loved, you are one with God And those kind of things But it was, you know, you forgot your keys Turn left, I said left You know, those kind of things I would say like a little bird on the shoulder Very, it was very friendly and kind But this little bird knew all the answers I mean, all the answers Down to the tiniest things Call so-and-so Go here, go there, do this, do that Visit so-and-so You know, it was very, very, very specific So I think that came after that real devotional period Of course was this very friendly voice That was guiding me and giving me instructions And that really helped during those five years of travel Because it was no problem I wake up in the morning, okay Meditate for ten minutes, okay Get your keys, go out, we're going here Turn here, turn there, do this Call so-and-so No cell phones, no emails Nothing but my worn-out little Course in Miracles book And my connections with Jesus And talk about not needing gadgets And, you know, iPhones and iPads And contacts and everything It was all flooding at me internally And then when I began to travel People started, you know, taking little strips of paper And before we had emails and little notes Our smart phones, you know, little strip of paper Oh my gosh, you've got to meet my mother In such and such a town And go here, go there And I had a little three-cylinder car And the price of gas was under a dollar And so, I mean, I just had so much fun Just being purely intuitive And the Miracles were amazing Every day I had floods of miracles And it was so joyful that I just thought I'm never going back to the old way Of trying to figure things out And weigh the pros and the cons And evaluate and analyze I had been really good at that, so to speak In academia and all the other things I've done in my life You know, business and jobs and everything And I just was willing to just chuck all of that out And just go totally with becoming 100% intuitive So the magnificence exploded It just hit me really fast Even things that the world would judge As very negative things were just sparkling for me I took my first trip around the United States And up to Canada in 1991 And I was on the road for like five and a half weeks And it just knocked my socks off I mean, even a friend of mine who traveled with me She thought we'd have to stop and do dishes Or work at partial jobs So we didn't really have a lot of money when we took off And it was just so many miracles She quit all her jobs And she let go of her apartment She just got enraptured in the same miracles that I was experiencing Because it was so strong And then the second time I actually came to Florida I came right down along St. Augustine, Daytona Beach And I went all the way down the coast And I was with her And we were driving down towards Miami To meet two people that we had never met before That had invited us And we called their phone, no answers They said, let's go to the beach But right before we went down there She was saying something about We were in her car And she was saying, well, St. Augustine, this is, you know This is my car And I said, well, actually it's the Holy Spirit's car You know, the Holy Spirit can do whatever he wants with it We went down We walked out on the beach And we came back and the car was gone And she just, like, looked at me She said something about my car And I just said, well, it's the Holy Spirit's car The Holy Spirit can do whatever he wants with it But we're so much enraptured in the miracle That I just was like, nothing can go wrong I mean, we're slow in the miracle We're in floods of miracles So when the car was gone You know, we both stood on the painted lines In the park where the car was gone And all of our music Our wallets You know, we went to the beach We didn't take anything with us You know, everything was gone The car was gone And I could, she looked at me like What looked like, oh my God, what now And I said, all things work together for good There are no exceptions And nothing you need will be denied you And the third thought that came And everything that seems to happen to me I asked for and received as I had asked She took a deep breath And we just started walking She was even, she was splashing around in the ocean She was like wet Walking in wet clothes in a park Down somewhere in Miami But we didn't even know the people that were hosting us So like, you know, we even knew them And we got picked up by park rangers And then our friends came over It turned, in terms of how beautifully we were cared for We went to like a, first stop was our host Took us to an AA center And they were collecting clothes for the needy You know, it was a clothing drive At the AA center And literally we only had the clothes on our back Because the whole thing was gone Suitcases, everything was gone The car was gone And right away We started, they said, go back in the back You know, you guys looked like you could use some clothes We went back there, this was Miami We were like, really nice shirts Nice pants, nice sandals, everything My friend looked at me and she said The Holy Spirit dresses you better than you dress And it turned into this homily Where, you know, the world would say that's a tragedy If your car is gone, your clothes is gone Your wallets are gone, everything's gone But that's the way it went The Holy Spirit dresses you better than you do She got a great wardrobe We went, we borrowed a tent before we left We went to a course crew and they took up a collection And the amount of the collection was We went to a used, like a store for sporting goods And so forth And the exact amount that was collected Was the amount that a guy said I would offer you a used tent So we got the tent back Which was the only thing we had borrowed And then, eventually, after several days The car came back But the car had been stripped And everything was taken out of the car Except in Miracle Works They told everything about that And I just left, I said, well see Nothing you need will be denied We need the course We need the course And then So nations came in You know, apparently down in Miami They got a whole industry for fixing stripped cars We don't have that assistant advocate Down in Miami, oh yeah We can repair that steering column for the main thing Things all worked up and they fixed it all up So it just turned into that And then we ended up going up the other coast You know, the Gulf side Sharing all of our miracles On how everything was perfectly provided Even though the world would say That's a negative thing When you have your car taken And all your possessions taken So it just got used as another parable And we left all the way We just left all the way through Had how perfectly synchronized So that's, when you talk about opening To your magnificence Those are the kind of experiences That really helped me see That the spirits like saying I got your back Just have fun And have a lot of fun And really trust me for everything And don't hold back Like when my friend looked at me I just, those are the three ideas From the course that came And when they came That's how the Holy Spirit works We get the ideas And then we get the opportunities To put the ideas into practice To experientially show us That the ideas are true That's why the course has a workbook And not just the text The workbook is the laboratory Just like when we're in science When we're in junior high and high school We have to actually do the experiments In the lab to know That it really works We can't just read it in a textbook We need to actually have the experience So that, I mean, after five years of that That was like in 92 That was the second year of those five years I mentioned It just continued on more and more like that Everywhere I would go There were miracles Everything just opened up for me Something tells me life Can offer only love Endless and free