 Jesus does in The Course in Miracles, in the manual for teachers, who would look back with longing on a slaughterhouse? He's saying, anytime you look back on the past and believe the reality of it, you're looking back with longing on a slaughterhouse. That's pretty strong. Jesus even uses the word slaughterhouse. I was quite amazed. And that reminded me of the part of the course where it says, all of the roadways of the world leads to death. Men have died upon seeing this, but as they've just taken one more step, they could have been led to heights of happiness. That's really getting down to your dark night, or your symbolic dark night, when you just start to realize that everything that you could possibly pursue in this world, everything you could humanly pursue, or I'll say personally pursue, all leads to the same thing. Because all assume and you have a separate entity, a separate personal identity that God didn't create. And the ego is the death wish. And guess who made up all these bodies, all these seven billion bodies? It wasn't God that created the earth. It wasn't God, like in Genesis it said, God created the heavens and the earth, but God didn't create the earth, didn't create the black holes, the cosmos, didn't create your time. The ego projected the whole thing. The ego is behind the Big Bang. The ego is behind everything of time and space. Now that's helpful to know as you're starting to let go of this faulty belief system, because then when the thoughts start to come up about helping something, you know, helping heal the planet, saving the way of the ecosystem, right, climate change, trying to reduce emissions in cars, carbon emissions, you know, for the whole of the ozone layer, all kinds of things, you start to realize, well if this is all generated by the projection of thought, and all this projection of thought, which we could call miscreation, is coming from the belief in separation from God, then I need to learn forgiveness. I need to learn to believe that belief that I'm actually separate from God. I would want to put my full energy in one thing. You know how they always warned up, put all your eggs in one basket? Put all your eggs in that basket of forgiving the belief in separation. Now, I will say from my perspective, in the parable of David, that David was an activist, so I was quite active in all those things that you're talking about. I saw it as altruism. I saw it as having compassion for everything and everyone that was around me. I saw it as wanting to alleviate suffering and so forth, and that was my baseline starting point, and then the more I gave myself over to the Holy Spirit and Jesus in the Course, it was a convincing job. It was saying, hmm, you've got a good heart there, but you're misplacing a lot of your energy into this belief that you can help solve the riddle or solve the puzzle, help the puzzle of the external world when his whole work work was teaching me that the thoughts that I think I think and the world that I think I see are actually the same. My thoughts are images that I have made. My meaningless thoughts are showing my meaningless world. It was just making the connection between these ego thoughts and these images that we call the world. It seems to the human experience that the world is out there. It's outside of the body. It's big. It's bigger than big. It seems like a vast cosmos, but this whole division between inner and outer is the problem. We're all like ideas of oneness, but this is actually a practical way of coming into that oneness experience. So I wouldn't dismiss any of those feelings. If you have any feelings come up, if it's frustration, like inability to change the world, if there's a sense of helplessness that arises, or if there's a sense that even though I have the power, I've got the power and you are trying to apply it to the world and it's not fully coming around in your awareness and everything, then that's what takes you inward. That just draws you inward. But I found for me, I kept looking at what is the grievance, what is the grievance. It goes so deep that at one point Jesus told me, you still believe people are people. And I was like, oh, gosh. It's like, just when you think you get down to the bottom of it. It's like people are people. But what you start to realize is he would follow it up with saying this. He said, listen, like the Bible said in Corinthians, you're looking through a dark and glass. You're looking through a dark filter. You don't really think God would create suffering. You know, suffering. Why would God create suffering? Why would something of presence that's all loving and all powerful just decide one day to create suffering? Or even to have a day. There aren't even, there's not even a day to do it. But what I started to see was the whole thing was, the first part of my work with the Course was Jesus kept saying, you know, you have to see this is a perceptual problem. That everything that you're perceiving in this linear world is part of a distortion. That's like a major perceptual problem. I've done whole talks on this. I've done talks to psychotherapists and psychologists and counselors. For example, we have this thing called psychosis. Now psychosis is defined as a break from reality. Yeah, that's what we've got going on. We've got the whole cosmos and everyone that's involved on Planet Earth has got psychosis. Because they've had a major break from reality. And they think that there's a few people locked up with psychosis. And nobody's admitting that it's all psychosis. That everyone's got psychosis. Then schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is having a split mind and hearing voices. What do you think the human condition is? It's having a split mind and we've got 7 billion voices. Aside from demons and ghosts and the rest are probably the trillions, all these voices that we're hearing that they aren't even real voices. That comes from a split mind that believes in both love and fear. So you could go down through all of these different things and you could start to realize that it's part of a perceptual problem. So my solution for the last 20 years, since I've gone with all these course of miracle groups, is I've also stopped at some 12 step groups. And the 12 step groups, is so and so I'm an alcoholic or a sex addict or whatever. I say the course groups really have to start to get with this and go around and start to first come to admission, hi my name is so and so and I have a perceptual problem. You are not even going to come close to accepting the solution until you admit the problem. Isn't that what we know about addict groups? If somebody says, if they're an alcoholic but they say, I don't have a drinking problem, I don't have a drinking problem, but what if you believe you're a human being and you don't admit that you actually have a perceptual problem, then Jesus and the Holy Spirit have to wait. It's like, okay, have your way, try it out if you want. You can play it out for centuries if you want millennium but it's not going to change anything. So at some point we have to start to say, you know, maybe I've been hallucinating maybe I've been seeing something that's not there. Maybe I have lost touch with God and I've had such a deep amnesia and I'm in so many layers of dreaming now that I forgot that I'm dreaming. That I'm actually taking the dream to be very serious, like when we sleep at night. You know, it seems they could be very serious dreams. They could be night terrors and nightmares even from believing the content of the dream. And now we have a pathway that's saying, listen, I'm going to work with you but it's much to do about nothing like Shakespeare said. You really are getting all upset about nothing and you are persistent in trying to hold on to being upset about nothing. And that's what this whole journey is. Then we will laugh in the end which we're getting a glimpse of that but that's where this is heading. It's also a convincing job too so we're ready to take our break now but I always say, put it on the spirit. If you're confused don't think that you have to personally figure out how this is going to come around right. You just put it on the spirit and say, show me, reveal to me, convince me that was my only prayer and make it obvious it was my other prayer and all I would do is stay with that prayer and it did work. Okay, thank you. That was a very good question.