 We do workbook lesson number 51, which is our first review lesson in this year of doing Encourcin' Miracles in 2024. So let's look at it. Lesson 51. We're really going over those early workbook lessons today with our review. The review for today covers the following ideas. Nothing I see means anything. The reason this is so is that I see nothing and nothing has no meaning. It is necessary that I recognize this that I may learn to see. What I think I see now is taking the place of vision. I must let it go by realizing it has no meaning, so that vision may take its place too. I have given what I see all the meaning it has for me. I have judged everything I look upon and it is this and only this I see. This is not vision. It is merely an illusion of reality because my judgments have been made quite apart from reality. I am willing to recognize the lack of validity in my judgments because I want to see. My judgments have hurt me and I do not want to see according to them. I do not understand anything I see. How could I understand what I see when I have judged it amiss? What I see is the projection of my own errors of thought. I do not understand what I see because it is not understandable. There is no sense in trying to understand it, but there is every reason to let it go and make room for what can be seen and understood and loved. I can exchange what I see now for this merely by being willing to do so. Is not this a better choice than the one I made before? 4. These thoughts do not mean anything. The thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything because I am trying to think without God. What I call my thoughts are not my real thoughts. My real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. I am not aware of them because I have made my thoughts to take their place. I am willing to recognize that my thoughts do not mean anything and to let them go. I choose to have them be replaced by what they were intended to replace. My thoughts are meaningless, but all creation lies in the thoughts I think with God. 5. I am never upset for the reason I think. I am never upset for the reason I think because I am constantly trying to justify my thoughts. I am constantly trying to make them true. I make all things my enemies so that my anger is justified and my attacks are warranted. I have not realized how much I have misused everything I see by assigning this role to it. I have done this to defend a thought system that has hurt me and that I no longer want. I am willing to let it go. Wow, the line that really caught me is the third sentence. I am constantly trying to make them true. In other words, he says, I am never upset for the reason I think because I am constantly trying to justify my thoughts. To justify them by constantly trying to make them true. So, it's just a way to justify anger. It's just a way to justify hostility and vengeance and to justify the belief in attack. But all of these are attempts to justify my thoughts and that's meant to justify a make-believe self-concept image that God didn't create and a make-believe cosmos and world that God didn't create. So, herein lies the intensity. He's trying to believe something that's not true. He's trying to make real that which is not real. And last but not least, trying to justify thoughts that God did not create. Trying to cling to a defense against the light. Defense against the truth. Defense against oneness and eternal life. So, there it is. These are the first five lessons of The Course in Miracles being reviewed and we're here in the workbook part one review today doing lesson 51. So, in praying for some support for today's review lesson, I did a search. And the search I did in The Course in Miracles was for the word undoing because clearly these first lessons, these first five lessons from the workbook are an undoing. And that's putting it straight and giving it to you very bluntly. These are the undoing of everything that I think is real. Every thought I have thought is real about this world of time and space, this linear world of time and space. And it's basically an undoing, a dismantling, basically a letting go. So, I just searched in The Course for the word undoing and that's what we're going to start off with here, supporting us with our workbook review. Okay. From the text, chapter one, section one, he's talking about miracles. They undo the past in the present and thus release the future. Okay. Good insight on, take no thought for tomorrow and good insight on the past is gone, it can touch me not. The only true idea you can think about the past is that it's gone, it's over. So, miracles undo the past in the present and thus release the future. Present moment is our point of power to be free and joyful and happy. We're back to this moment, it always comes back to this moment. Text chapter one, section one, atoning means undoing. The correction is undoing. Chapter one, section one, the undoing of fear is an essential part of the atonement value of miracles. Chapter one, section three, as you share my unwillingness to accept error in yourself and others, you must join the great crusade to correct it. Listen to my voice, learn to undo error and act to correct it. Also, section three, atonement undoes all errors in disrespect and thus uproots the source of fear, uproots the ego. Section three also, the miracle worker can only bless them and thus this undoes their distortions and frees them from prison. Chapter two, section two, it undoes your past errors, thus making it unnecessary for you to keep retracing your steps without advancing into your return, your remembrance of God, your remembrance of the light. Section three from chapter two, for perfect effectiveness, the atonement belongs at the center of the inner altar where it undoes the separation and restores the wholeness of the mind. Section four, a major step in the atonement plan is to undo error at all levels. Section five, by denying your mind any destructive potential and reinstating its purely constructive powers, you place yourself in a position to undo the level confusion of others. Section six, the first corrective step in undoing the error is to know first that the conflict is an expression of fear. Chapter three, section three, questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them. Yeah, we can really see that that's what this workbook lesson of A Course in Miracles is. It's really saying, are you willing to question your perception of linear time? Are you willing to question your perception of the world of time and space and images? Because the ego made it and God didn't create it. So are you willing to question the belief system that is underneath? This entire projected world to start to see that reality is eternal. Reality is love. Reality is oneness. And anything that covers over that reality, the reality, is a distortion. It's an illusion. It's an error in perception. And the error has to be undone. In one sense, you could say, the workbook of A Course in Miracles is to simply let healing be. Healing is, the Holy Spirit has healed the separation belief instantly. So to let healing be, to let, you might say, as Byron Katie says, love what is in order to love what is, you have to let healing be. And that's to stay present, to realize that the past cannot touch you and the future has not happened. It's just a projection of past thoughts and beliefs. When you let go and release or undo the ego, you are releasing thoughts of the future. You are literally placing the future in the hands of God, so to speak, saying, OK, not my concern. And whatever seems to be the future has got to be just an extension of the present moment, because the present moment is all that there is. So, best in the now is what Jesus is saying. And in chapter three, section six, he's talking about God. He is, however, eager to undo it, or the Holy Spirit, not to punish his children, but only because he knows that it makes them unhappy. The Holy Spirit is God's representative in the sleeping mind is basically here to undo error and to make way for atonement or accepting the correction. Chapter four, section one, you cannot undo it by not changing your mind about it. We have to accept the change. We have to accept the changelessness, the vastness, the pristine constancy of our divine mind. And we can't accept that if we are stubbornly holding on to ego, thoughts, and beliefs and not changing our mind about ourself and the mind. We can't be both flesh and spirit. You know, the Bible says that which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the spirit is spirit. It can't be both. Never the twain shall meet. Nothing real can be threatened, spirit. Nothing unreal exists, time, space, cosmos. Herein lies the peace of God, okay? Chapter five, section three, the Holy Spirit has the task of undoing what the ego made. Also, in section three, he then does it at the same level on which the ego operates or the mind would be unable to understand the change. So the correction applies to the sleeping mind, not to heaven where there is no need for correction. Oneness doesn't need correction. God doesn't need correction. God does not forgive for God has never condemned. There must be condemnation first before forgiveness is necessary. So forgiveness is the change of mind and the Holy Spirit undoes it at the same level on which the ego operates where the mind would be unable to understand the change. The correction is in our purpose. It's accepting a new purpose for the world. The world was made in hatred by the ego, then your time was made in hatred, and now by accepting forgiveness or atonement, the world is corrected. It's already been corrected, but it's important to accept the correction, not to deny or delay the correction. Chapter five, section four, you have carried the burden of unshared ideas that are too weak to increase. But having made them, you did not realize how to undo them. Section four, again, the Holy Spirit atones in all of us by undoing, and thus lifts the burden you have placed in your mind. Section five from chapter five, the dilemma cannot be resolved except by accepting the solution of undoing. Section six, give it therefore to the Holy Spirit who will undo it in you because it does not belong in your mind, which is part of God. Section seven, therefore, the first step in the undoing is to recognize that you actively decided wrongly, but can as actively decide otherwise. Again, chapter five is section seven. Be very firm with yourself in this and keep yourself fully aware that the undoing process, which does not come from you, is nevertheless within you because God placed it there. And from section seven, I do not feel guilty because the Holy Spirit will undo all the consequences of my wrong decision if I will let him. Chapter six, introduction, the way to undo an insane conclusion is to consider the actual sanity of the premises on which it rests. So if you have an insane conclusion, which is the belief in separation from God, it's best to consider the sanity of the premises on which it rests. Is the ego the death wish? Is it sane? No. Chapter six, the first step in the reversal or undoing process is the undoing of the getting concept. Yes, Holy Spirit's all about giving, giving and receiving are the same. All that I give is given to myself to have, give all to all. It's just the whole text and workbook is peppered with reminders to give. As you give, you shall receive. It's reminding us of the golden rule in the Bible. You have to give what we would wish to receive, which is the basis of do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If you want to know true giving as God gives, you want to know true generosity of the beatitudes of the state of mind of God and you have to give them away. Let's give all the beatitudes away today during our review lesson today. Chapter six, as you begin to recognize and realize the quiet power of the Holy Spirit's voice and its perfect consistency, it must dawn on your mind that you are trying to undo a decision that was irrevocably made for you. Also from chapter six, the undoing is necessary only in your mind so that you will not project instead of extend. Chapter seven, section three, the answer merely undoes the question by establishing the fact that to question reality is to question meaninglessly. To question eternity is to question meaninglessly. To question oneness is to question meaninglessly. To question true identity to question Christ is to question meaninglessly. So we're really learning to give up the questions and accept the answer, which is a tournament or correction. So again, we're talking about miracle workers. His sole function is to undo the questionable and thus lead to certainty. Healing is the way to undo the belief in differences being the only way of perceiving the sonship as one. That's from the text, section four, chapter seven. Here we go to section five, by changing your mind about his for him. You help him undo the change in his ego, thinks it has made in him. So basically, as you change your mind about your brother, about your sister, you know, that's the undoing. Is my brother flesh or spirit? Is my brother a time creature or eternal? Is my brother a body or a divine spirit, eternal, changeless one with God? That's the decision. I have to undo the belief in the body in the linear time. Chapter seven, section six, the Holy Spirit undoes illusions without attacking them because he cannot perceive them at all. The Holy Spirit looks not to effects. Chapter seven, section 10, that is his will and you cannot undo it. God's will is for perfect happiness and it cannot be undone. Can be pushed out of awareness, it cannot be undone. If you undo the belief in the ego, you are open to accept God's will for perfect happiness eternally. That's the way the thinking goes in this healing, accepting the healing. Chapter eight, section two, this is the undoing of everything the ego tries to teach. So you can get the gist. Chapter nine, atonement is for all because it is the way to undo the belief that anything is for you alone. All that I think and say undo teaches all the universe. So as I let my mind be healed, legions upon legions arise and accept the gift of healing. It's because the world is a projection of a mistaken thought, a mistaken belief called ego and when you release the ego, all brothers and sisters are released from the ego. One correction, one problem, one solution and Jesus is saying, when I awoke you were with me. So this is a mind training for the sleeping mind and to basically open up to hear the guidance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit and accept the correction for the error that has been called ego or Satan or separation, belief in separation. Chapter nine, section nine, do not let any belief in its realness enter your mind or you will also believe that you must undo what you have made in order to be forgiven. So that's basically saying do not project the error of ego to time. See that it has been corrected, it has been dissolved, it has been, as Jesus said in the Bible, be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. But that's what it's all about. It's not about making a change in the world. Seek not to change the world, seek rather to change your mind about the world, seek rather to change your mind about your mind, about your yourself. You're either in eternal creation or there's a mistaken belief that you are something else, a time-space creature. Chapter 11, section five, we will undo this error quietly together and then look beyond it to truth. Chapter 11, section five, clarity undoes confusion by definition and to look upon darkness through light must dispel it. To look upon darkness through light must dispel it, must dispel the darkness. So perfect love casts out fear, we know that from the Bible. And let's, before we conclude the the backup ideas for today's beautiful review of the first five lessons in the workbook, I typed in the word release and wow release came up 305 results. So if the word undo or undoing is troubling you and you have feel a little resistance to the the great undoing, sometimes you can substitute another word. The book that I have it's really three books in one called Unwind Your Mind Back to God. That's what that's about undoing too but unwind. It's almost like the ego through the ego belief there's a winding into tension because it's a winding into Maya and illusions and unwind your mind is letting go of the of the tight wind. Unwind is undo and undo is release, healing release of of the belief in separation, healing relief, release of grievances and attack thoughts and judgments. So let's just have a few lines from the course here that help us with release. The first one we already had under undo is again chapter one section one talking about miracles they undo the past in the present and thus release the future. So that's one thing that gets released is the future. Chapter one section one miracles are a way of earning release from fear. Again section one by releasing your mind from the imprisonment of your illusions they restore your sanity. Miracles do. A major contribution of miracles is their strength in releasing you from your false sense of isolation deprivation and lack. Section three those who are released must join in releasing their brothers for this is the plan of the atonement. Again section three miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God's creations. Chapter one section five he recognizes that every collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time in which son and the father are one. Denial of Christ's self results in illusions while correction of the air brings release from it and these are all from section seven. As long as a single slave remains to walk the earth your release is not complete. Chapter two however when he awakens the light is correctly perceived as the release from the dream which is then no longer a ported reality. Chapter two section one again this release does not depend on illusions. Section three the atonement can only be accepted within you by releasing the inner light. Healing as release from fear that's the title of chapter two section four. All healing is essentially the release from fear. Before miracle workers are ready to undertake their function in this world it is essential that they fully understand the fear of release. Otherwise they may unwittingly foster the belief that release is imprisonment a belief that is already very prevalent. By affirming this you release the mind from over-evaluating its own learning device and restore the mind to its true position as the learner. That's an important one that's our little quina we can end on that. By affirming this you release the mind from over-evaluating its own learning device which is the body. So he's just saying release your mind from over-evaluating its own learning device the body and restore the mind to its true position as the learner. Bodies don't learn. Persons don't learn. Bodies and persons have been learned by the ego but they do not learn. Bodies and persons don't think. They are thoughts. People are thoughts and whatever you perceive in the world as people are just ego thoughts coming up into awareness. For release to the holy instant in which the blazing light of revelation comes pouring down. It's the great rays that the light of spirit is what everything's about. It's about Christ's vision the light of spirit but you have to release your mind the sleeping mind from over-evaluating its own learning device. So you think the body or the personhood has some kind of intrinsic value or or value in any kind of ultimate way that's that's a mistake. As a stepping stone we could say the body is a communication device that can be used by the Holy Spirit to teach the unreality of time and it's solely used as a communication device and that is a lesson that is to be taught and learned in the mind even though you may say words like past is gone future is but imagined basically those words are just echoing the the Holy Spirit's beautiful thought system using time to undo time using personhood to undo the identification with personhood. Using the body to show the nothingness of the body and the unreality of the body because that which is born of the spirit is spirit that which is born of the flesh is flesh and to be born again is to recognize the spirit that's that's how it all works it's the beauty of it. So as we review these amazing review of the first five lessons of the workbook of A Course in Miracles just have a happy joyful day of letting go of release have have a joyful day of of unlearning. I look at some of the gifts that I have that people have given me and this one is Mary and Joseph and Angel the Three Kings and Baby Jesus and if we zoom in on baby Jesus be of good cheer be of good cheer. Don't be concerned with the undoing of illusions don't be concerned if the ego seems to jump in and is gnashing its teeth going yipes because the ego is just a belief it's not a reality and don't identify with it and because you don't want to feel the ego's feelings the ego perceives the undoing as difficult challenging painful hurtful and the Holy Spirit is like we let it go remember the the song from I think it was frozen of course let it go let it go don't hold back anymore let it go let it go the past is in the past here I am here I stay here I stay in the present moment that's it so let's review these lessons with joy because yeah the joy is in letting go the joy is in the undoing the joy is in making way for what is and simply to let healing be let's do that today let's let healing be okay love you