 To have a new meaning for the world would be to question all of the purposes and meanings and goals that one has had for the world and gets back to our uses of the body and so on and so forth, to ask the Holy Spirit to help sort out in the mind the true from the false and then to lay aside the false. And this is where the resurrection comes in, a final decision, a final letting go of all other strivings and purposes and desires and just having a desire only for the Father. So the resurrection of Jesus preceded what we think of as His physical resurrection. Is that right? Well if you take it back to a time sense, yes, that He says that resurrection is the acceptance of the Atonement for oneself. So this is a decision that's made in the mind. And as we've just read, the body functions perfectly after that decision. In other words, once the decision is made, then the body is simply a vehicle or a manifestation to be used by the Holy Spirit to let the light shine into the world, so to speak, or let the Spirit be demonstrated, be manifested to the world. And so in that sense, you know, the Atonement is a decision and it appears to be a decision Jesus made before the crucifixion. That the crucifixion and drama and the resurrection drama were all part of a, like a playing out or a teaching example that was to be left for the world to see. Now of course, you know, we're still speaking in metaphors because whenever you ask a question about the past, you know, about when Jesus accepted the Atonement or so on and so forth, we're still obviously in metaphors because what the Course is telling us is that this is a decision that I must make, this is a decision that the student of the Course must make, the teacher of God must make. And as we go deeper into the Course, we find that there is only one time that Atonement can be accepted, and that's now. So it takes us out of the context of a linear sense of trying to say, now when did Jesus, you know, the ego will go on with questions of what point in his life did Jesus accept it? And all kinds of fascinating ingenious questions, you know, but they're all at subtle levels, still distractions away from the central point Jesus makes is that the teacher of God, the student of the Course, has to accept that decision for the Atonement for himself. That's the sole responsibility of the miracle worker and the teacher of God. The next question oftentimes, you know, is like, okay, having heard that, then, you know, how do I do that? Or what do I do? It's a very common question. And once again, you know, we have a Course in Miracles, we have a tool for awakening, a curriculum, if you will, to follow. It has a text, it has a workbook or a lab, and it has a teacher's manual. This is something that is to be applied, not just read or talked about when he gives instructions in the workbook to do certain things, to try to remember this thought so many times a day, or to apply this thought to particular things in the room or out the window or so on and so forth. This is a training program for the mind. This is a very practical training program that's been given to the deceived mind to be used to wake up, to make that final decision for the Atonement. And the resistance, as anyone who's attempted to work with the Course, the resistance is experienced because the mind is still split between the Ego and the Holy Spirit, and the Ego is very, very resistant to learning this Course, to applying this Course, because literally this Course when applied is the undoing of the Ego. That's where the mind watching comes in that you talk about. Do you want to go into that a little bit? Yeah. After one's worked with the Course for a while and particularly gets into the workbook, there are a number of passages in the workbook that talk about searching the mind. Watching the thoughts go by as dispassionately as possible. One point is if you were watching a parade going by or different metaphors for watching the thoughts, being able to step back a bit and watch them dispassionately. And if we look at even the Bible, there are a number of parables, for instance the ten virgins. Five with oil for their lamps and five the foolish ones that didn't bring oil in the parable that missed the bridegroom because they weren't prepared. The preparation in that particular parable as well as some of the other ones in the Bible and the emphasis on watch, keep watch, kind of translates in the Course to watch your mind. You must always keep watch of your mind. Be vigilant only for God and His kingdom. The sense of at one point Jesus saying you're much too tolerant of mind wandering, that the mind has to be trained to be attentive to the thoughts. And once again what we see is that there are two thought systems in the mind, in the sense the Holy Spirit's thought system which is referred to as, he calls them your real thoughts. And then the ego thought system which is a fear based thought system which is referred to, the thoughts are referred to as unreal. At other points they're referred to as attack thoughts. So basically the mind has to sort out, has to discern between these two thought systems, relinquish the fear based thought system and then what's left are the real thoughts in the mind. The light that's in the mind has been covered over by the cloud banks of attack thoughts. And the untrained mind basically is just full of unreal thoughts. Yes. The mind is blank as one of the lessons says. Yes. When the mind is invested in these thoughts and believes that they are real thoughts, though they are unreal attack thoughts and did not come from God, then literally the mind thinks that it's thinking real thoughts. It thinks it's in a real world because these thoughts are projected and show up so to speak on the screen as a world. And there seems to be an inner world and an outer world. For instance, one can say, I'm glad I didn't say what I was thinking there, but as if there's saying or behavior or what's on the world is one thing and thinking is another. And the workbook is a sense of training the mind to see that the thoughts that you think you think are not real. And in the Alderman sense, you think you're thinking, but your mind is literally blank when it's preoccupied with these attack thoughts, which include thoughts of the past and thoughts of the future. So any thinking that has a component of form is not thinking at all. Is that right? I think it might be a better distinction to use our time distinction that any thought constructed about the past or the future is not thinking. The real thoughts are I feel are a metaphor for the miracle or true perception. And once again, true perception still involves form. But all meaning of past tense and future tense has been removed from it. So in other words, it's like a blank slate. But there isn't meaning being read into the form except for the Holy Spirit's one purpose, which then frees the mind. And that's the real world. So again, we're getting into subtle points, but we can say that the attack thoughts represent distorted perception. That once these thoughts have been questioned, that once the mind has been able to disidentify or dispassionately watch these thoughts and see them as merely false without investing in them and believing in them, then we get down to the real thoughts, which are representative of the real world or true perception or healed mind. And do the unreal thoughts diminish as that occurs? Well, in a sense, diminish still brings it more to a quantifiable thing, where I think the best way of coming at it is what Jesus says they will fade. It's like they fade. They become more distant. They become more and more peripheral and less noticed as attention is withdrawn from them, as in getting away with a sense of diminishing or diminishing or less quantifiable. They just fade and fade and fade. So that the attention of the mind is given to the real thoughts instead? Yes. Which is automatic once the mind keeps focused on the Atonement and literally protects the mind with the Atonement. It literally, the Atonement, one cannot have attention on the Atonement and on those thoughts as well. It's one of those decisions and either or decision. So when the mind becomes very good at consistently choosing the miracle, keeping its attention on the Atonement, then the thoughts, the other thoughts begin to fade because the attention and investment has been withdrawn from the attack thoughts. And in the ultimate sense, we can speak of thought with a capital T as being Christ. In other words, that Jesus describes Christ as a thought or an idea in the mind of God. And you notice how about its capital T and its singular? Singular is very important here because even real thoughts still has plural sense and still gives us a sense of, there's still a bit of perception involved in that, even though it's healed, even though it's the impurities or the wheat and the chaff have been separated outside of speak and we just have the grain, the fruit of the grain, the real thoughts, that the thought of God, Christ, is literally beyond perception. The Christ and Father are part of the Kingdom of Heaven and part of what the state of knowledge with the capital K, which again is, just is. It does not involve form in any way. So go back to the mind watching a little bit in terms of, I guess, how to do that, practical application. Just bring it down into the everyday a little bit more if you can. Okay. At the beginning, the early lessons really work at first helping the mind, attempting the mind to see that there really is no difference between the inner and the outer to the very fundamental principle and the fundamental idea and the course in the undoing of the false. And even if we look at the early lessons in terms of the way they're arranged in form, the first lesson starts out, nothing I see means anything. Nothing I see. We're right away, it's a lesson talking about perception and objects that seem to be in the room and so on and so forth. Followed by a lesson I have given everything I see, all the meaning that it has for me. It brings it back to the sense of the mind. I have given the mind reading it in. And these thoughts in the workbook go back and forth from the inner and the outer focus on, we should say, thinking versus perceiving. Number five, I am never upset for the reason I think. Here we're talking about upset, but we're also talking tied into thoughts. I'm never upset for the reason I think, followed by I am upset because I see something that is not there. Well, here comes the perception back in. So if you look at a lot of the early lessons, he goes back and forth, back and forth, back and forth between thinking and the mind and perceiving, which is seen