 We are awakening to the calling of the mystic Digging is really symbolic of the uncovering that you have to do in your mind There is a lot of uncovering. We can't we can't really skip over it We can't say that that you know we can just click our heels together or twinkle our noses like can be wished and we'll know The kingdom of heaven it's it seems to be a process of digging and Exposing but but once you start to realize how important the digging is then you can dig it To use a phrase from the 60s, you know, you kind of get into the Attraction to it like oh, yeah, this is a good use of time And that's why you know, we only have two guidelines here at the monastery Surrounding houses, and it's no private thoughts and no people policing because it's that exposure We all see how valuable that is and we all have to have practice in learning not to take it personal Well, these spirits not taking anything personal. It could be anything You know imagine somebody who's in a in a prison cell They've been there for they're serving a life term and they Supposedly they seemingly were a mass murderer, and they they just killed people and they Ducked graves for them and they buried them 20 30 40 It you start to realize that the Holy Spirit has such a pure Vision of who we truly are that there are no lies. It doesn't matter the magnitude of what seems to have been done wrong It's that there are no lies that that light can't dispel and so That's kind of an extreme example, but when you're living in community you have a lot of opportunity to practice Overlooking the error you can't do it personally you have to have the strength of the Holy Spirit to look past The defiled altar Jesus says to the light of the atonement. That's the Holy Spirit's function The Holy Spirit has only one function to look past the defiled altar to the light of the atonement Overlooking the error The Holy Spirit looks not to effects The Holy Spirit looks not to the images of the world, you know, we can't Anthropomorphize the Holy Spirit and make the Holy Spirit into a human figure You're like God is watching us God is watching us Distance, you know, no God is not Watching from a distance and the Holy Spirit is not watching the Holy Spirit doesn't see people and Plants and things and guns and bombs and and politics and all the things those are all inventions of the ego that are just Projected they're just concepts that are projected onto a movie screen and believed real and the more you're identified with the movie The more it's really difficult. It's hard to it's impossible to be at peace when you're identified with The concepts and the images, but the Holy Spirit, you know, it says in the Course Miracles the Holy Spirit looks not to effects The Holy Spirit knows that the cause of all these effects of the world all these shattered images is Not real the ego made the world Bad and greeted the ego made up the world The ego uses the world and the images of the world to keep the mind trapped and guilty and Until you can look with the Holy Spirit And go deep enough inside and see that the the ego is not real So that means all the effects the seeming effects of the ego can't be real either They don't these effects don't have a real source who we are, you know The Son of God the Christ has a source, but these effects have no real source So those are the divine you could say metaphysics of forgiveness is You keep exposing you dig and dig and dig like like they were all digging there all the little cures And then finally you clink you unite and you come together in these beautiful blazing recognitions that Really are our light. They aren't they really aren't Perceptual joinings at all So it's more of going into the light in your mind. It's not a matter of trying to join bodies We've tried that. We've tried to join bodies and it never works We find that out over and over again, but we don't have to stop there We don't have to be depressed or disappointed because the bodies never seem to join We find that through joining is in purpose. It's the light in our mind and So it's like it's like hooray for the uncovering hooray for the exposing hooray for whatever music movies relationships Meditation experiential diet work, you know hooray for everything that helps us Expose the error expose these false concepts and beliefs Because that is absolutely necessary you you don't approach truth directly you approach it through negation You just simply discover everything that the truth is not Until you finally go, ah ha And then the truth downs in your awareness, but you will not approach it You know just by affirming The truth you know affirmations You know heads are placed, but but the course of miracles is saying you have to remove the obstacles To the awareness of love's presence So good and and for a lot of people that doesn't sound like a really good romantic reason To be in a relationship Do you promise to remove all the In your mind so help you God I do and do you Take this partner not to take this partner Not to possess them not to control them not to manipulate them not to try to fix them simply to Allow the Holy Spirit to remove all the obstacles in your mind So help you God I do and you're married. You're married in purpose and And there's can be a more sense of lightness a sense of laughter The sense of yes, you can actually have fun With relationships when you have the right context for the relationship if you're going if you've got the wrong context It's gonna be a mess. It's gonna it's gonna no matter how much ooh la la Disess the ego puts in there, you know, it is going to you're gonna have a fall And like Humpty Dumpty it will be a great fall because the expectations will just build up and build up and What are we really talking about when we're talking about these expectations we're talking about God Substitute expectations. That's what's underneath the expectations. Oh, I'm miserable. I'm unworthy of love I don't like the single model that I am so I'm going for a couple month I'm trading in Trading in the single model for a couple model and even the couple model may give you a little bit of ooh la la for a little Wow, but it's going to be the same fall Because the single model and the couple model are the man And even lest I say the group model You know when people are so frightened about cults and sex Sex it's what it is. It's it's this sense of a group self-concept Take the place of a miserable little individual self-concept or Even The couple concept could get kind of boring after a while. So let's do an orgy concept You see it's always the ego has got something more More pazzazz more stimulation more excitement and it still doesn't get you there. It's still the same Trap it's still the same wheel of time the same karmic wheel. It just spins around and around But we're onto it