 I would describe it in different terms over the years. At the very beginning, it was more intuitions and feelings. And at the very beginning, for me, it was almost like a little tickle in the heart. When I would pick up a particular book or be drawn to a particular personal place, I would feel like a tickle. It was like an inner confirmation, like, ah, this is the right direction. So it was a very basic, almost like a little primal at the beginning. And then after I worked with the course for like two and a half years and studied about eight hours a day, it was like a telepathic stream of thoughts that was starting to become very distinguishable, not like an audible voice. Some of you have seen that movie where the voice is speaking, Stranger than fiction, where it's the voice of Emma Thompson in his mind, very clearly. That's like an audible kind of voice. This is not an audible voice. And Helen Shuckman described the course never really heard an audible voice. But it was more like a telepathic stream of thoughts that were very distinct. And so it wasn't like a stream of thoughts that was mixed in with a lot of other thoughts. Because that could be quite hard to discern. But it was, there was like a, with the mind training of the course for me, it came like turning the static down, turning the chatter down, the mind getting progressively more quiet so that this stream of thoughts was very, very distinct. And by following the stream of thoughts, which was really a lot of instructions, very, very practical, it just seemed to, the mind had quieter and quieter. And the trust in that stream of thought grew stronger and stronger. And I really felt like Jesus had always been my teacher, but it was more teaching through parables and through the Bible and as well through the Course. But this was like an actual presence offering me moment by moment instructions. And it was, it was very helpful. Even when I would travel around the country and go to, you know, meet with Robert Perry or Ken Waddling, Beverly Hutchinson, some of the people that have spent their lives dedicated to the Course in the United States, I would hear these distinct instructions, even when I was listening to teachers, it would be commenting, pointing out good points, saying, look at this discernment. It was, it was like having an internal teacher to interact with. And so that's how it was. And then as I began traveling around the United States and Canada back in 1991, it was just guiding me on an adventure, where to go, speaking through me. It just became like a very internal relationship that was very, very helpful. Because it just, my heart just opened more and more. I felt more and more joyful. I felt it was highly practical. And for most people, I say that it's really a process because there aren't a lot of people that hear that stream in such a clear way. Usually it is, you have to rely on the feelings, the intuitions, and the synchronicities. And opening the mind to see it, you know, hear it when someone else is speaking to you. When you see a bumper or a sticker or a billboard, or someone's walking by with a boombox, and the particular part of the song, the lyrics come and they hit you, you start to open your mind more and more to be reached by the Holy Spirit in any possible way. And then I just think for most people, the signs and the symbols start to become more and more pronounced, where they really feel like they're being guided in many different ways. But it's the same presence that's behind that guidance. And as you progressively move along with it, you know, you can get to points where you may be doing journaling and receive guidance in that way, or you can't even hear it in terms of thoughts coming through. But it's highly individualized. So it's important not to put too much pressure on yourself more so just open up and be willing to be in contact. Because I just come out of ten years of university as a full-time student and when I came to the course it was like a deep, strong feeling like my life would never be the same and something huge is going to happen. So I had a lot of anticipation. And I noticed that for all those years of university and all those projects and all the books I read that I really wasn't tempted to read it from the first page all the way through to the last page. I started using it more like an high chain at the beginning that my state of mind was really receptive and open at that point. And when I saw it, it was such a deep sense of recognition. Like, aha, look at this, isn't this great? But still I would use it mostly of waiting and silence until I had a question. An internal question would come to the surface of awareness and then I would open the book and there was the answer every time. And I thought, this is really cool. This is like having a teacher just sitting across from you and you could just ask all the questions and it would do that. And I was very interested in the answers so much so that instead of just reading the answer in like several sentences or a paragraph I would be excited. I would feel just like a child who really wants to learn something. Must be like a sponge and soak it up. I would read on and on and on until I was guided either to set the book down or sometimes I would read on so much that it would go on for hours and then the ego resistance would start to grow and my eyelids would grow really heavy and the eyelids would come down and I would just close the book and take a nap or go for a walk or go for a swim or have a snack or something light. It was never a guide to push, like to force my way, keep my eyes open, just be gentle. And I would follow the feelings of what I should do in a very relaxing way and then when I would really be really refreshed usually then I would come back and just in the place of stillness have the book, ask the internal question and the same process be answered. So it wasn't a chronological practice for me. When I say study it was more like, ah, you will give me the answers and I will allow the questions to come and I will not push myself at all. Then there came a point where obviously with the workbook this simple instructions are don't do more than one lesson a day and as best as you can try not to make exceptions. So at that point there was a discipline of taking a lesson on and basically staying with that lesson sometimes for a day, two days, rarely, maybe three days and really practicing putting the lesson into practice with all my interactions and whatever I would do had that lesson in mind and so that was more of a discipline than the kind of the eye-chimp pumping it open. So that's basically how those early years went.