 Yeah, and during the break I had a question that was really asking about hearing the difference between hearing the Holy Spirit and hearing the Ego. How tricky that can be, how we could say that the Ego is ingenious so it will masquerade as if it's the Holy Spirit and then you follow what you hear and then you have a very dark fearful experience and you've sowed and reaped fear, but you thought you weren't. You thought you were listening to authentic guidance. So this topic is really a topic of discernment and it's an enormous topic. You could do lots of retreats. People know me, I do retreats. The longest retreat I've done is six weeks. Imagine coming to a six week retreat with me. I showed a lot of movies. We had a lot of deep experiences on an island off the coast of Spain, Mallorca. And there was a four week and a six week, but it's discernment is a very deep topic. On the most basic level how do you feel is the answer to which one you're listening to but also the Ego has invented a whole feel good repertoire of different emotions that feel good in its system and really are part of the death wish. So that's what the Course calls attraction to guilt. You know the Ego has to be pretty clever if it's attracting you to guilt to keep you stuck in guilt and using things of the world as part of alluring ways to stay stuck in that guilt. That's why it takes a lot of discernment. So then the follow up question, another question was raised too was what if, I mean I'm tuning into the spirit and I'm hearing things, but what if I hear it and I go, that's ridiculous. Because you remember the world is a world of guilt and pain and shame and fear and the unwinding from it, the Holy Spirit and Jesus will ask you to do things that oftentimes the Spirit just judges as plain ridiculous. Part of the ridiculousness in this whole thing is the sense that the Ego has made up a hierarchy of illusions. It's turned the whole cosmic image and all the images into a hierarchy. So part of that hierarchy of illusions are major decisions and minor decisions. A minor decision might be what kind of, what color of shirt or blouse or pair of pants you're going to wear or what kind of food you're going to have for breakfast or lunch. A major decision would be a life partner, picking a life partner or, and we'll talk a little bit about that too. For leaving jobs, leaving, switching careers or decisions that you have to make around a terminal illness to diagnose with cancer or something like that, those are more considered the major decisions. The more you go down into the miracle, which shows you that there's no order of difficulty in miracles and no hierarchy of illusion, you start to really get a sense that there really aren't major decisions and minor decisions. You may be guided in terms of a life partner like Armel, who was with me and this other man, Eric, who had worked with me. She'd come over from Belgium, Canada and down to Cincinnati and I was out at the monastery in Utah and Armel got clear guidance to marry a man that she had not met in 15 days. Now that would probably go into the category of ridiculous. In fact, that's after Armel called and talked to me and said that she was kind of trembling at the time like, I'm hearing that I'm supposed to marry Eric, this man Eric that she'd never met. She'd seen a picture on the internet but had never met him in 15 days. So she joined with me and I felt a confirmation from the Holy Spirit and you should have seen the look on Eric's face. I did get to see the look on Eric's face when I said go get Eric and when he came in and the phone went to his ear and I just got to watch his face. You know, you've heard of arranged marriages like in India where the families get together. This is Holy Spirit matchmaking and there's a real important purpose behind it because it's undoing the ego. It's a major purpose because relationships involve mirroring and the spirit knows. Some of you read Absence from Felicity that Ken wrote that Bill Thetford and Helen Shuckman had what Jesus called complimentary ego dynamics. Isn't that a fascinating phrase from Jesus? Complimentary ego dynamics. In other words, put these two together and there's going to be like a really swift undoing because, you know, it's the Holy Spirit uses contrast. When you're so addicted to misery, you're going to have to have some contrast experiences that are going to pop you out of it. So that's an example. I mean being guided to marry a man that you haven't met in 15 days. And the thing was Eric had been part of a devotional with us where he went through a lot of deep undoings over a period of weeks and the very end of the devotional we tune into the Holy Spirit and we just listen and pray for next steps. One of Eric's next steps at the end of this so many week devotional was to break up with his girlfriend. But he didn't follow it. So it was an interesting proposal to get a marriage proposal and have a girlfriend. And the marriage proposal did not come from the girlfriend. It came from our mouth. I said, how do you see what I mean? You've got to follow the spirit because it's conflicting if you don't follow the instructions. It would be like trying to bake a cherry pie and leaving the cherries out of the cherry pie. You can't really bake a cherry pie without the cherries. So that's one example and there I could give you lots and lots of examples. I'll give an example from the parable of David. A friend of mine many years ago was of course a miracle student and my girlfriend from Michigan, Janie. And we took some guided tours with the Holy Spirit here and there this and that. We came back around to Cincinnati and we were praying in Cincinnati. We were just tuning in and listening to the Holy Spirit and Jesus and we started feeling like we were going to be taking a trip out west. We were coming in really strong. So it's coming in stronger, stronger. Yeah, we're going west. We're going out, you know, I-70 across. It was coming in stronger, stronger, go west, go out, I-70. But before we left we were in Cincinnati and the Holy Spirit said, I am the destination and I will tell you the direction. And at that point I had been on a lot of guided trips. Go here, go there, do this, do that, go here. I mean I had already done many, many, many, many guided trips, many miracles too. I was really on my major carpet ride just flying with the Holy Spirit. And then we're praying and it's like I am the destination and I will tell you the direction. And I told Jane, I said, this is going to be real interesting. I've never gone on a trip with those kind of instructions. I am the destination. I will tell you the direction. So off we go. We're going through Indiana, Illinois, we're going out through Missouri. We're heading out west, you know, driving across the United States, up great plains. And we're talking about Colorado and California and we're talking about these future hypothetical thoughts. But really the lesson is I am the destination I will tell you the direction. So we get out to Kansas. Has anybody driven through Kansas? It's like, it's flat and it's like, there's nothing there. You know, it's just wheat fields and cornfields and fields and fields. Drive, drive, drive, drive, drive. So we're driving there. And we got to the point where it started to get a little bit later in the day. Jesus is like pull over, get him a hotel room, we do that. The next morning we get up and I go, I'm just having my meditation and I'm meditating. And then I hear Jesus say, go east. And I'm like, what? You can't possibly have driven up to the middle of Kansas thinking about Colorado and California, all the fun ocean beaches. And you got in the middle of Kansas and now, and then the other thing was it was like, how am I going to tell her that this is going to be the end of the relationship. You get some wacko guy that's driving out the middle of Kansas. And then you get, go east. So it was like, share the guidance of it. And I was just like, no, I cannot. I'm not going to share that. And so she's up and getting ready. We all get together and get in the car. We come, we drive, start driving towards the interstate highway. We're getting closer and closer. So get closer and closer. We stop in a red light and we're just about to the interstate. And I've got Jesus telling me to go east and she's sitting in the passenger side and I'm just looking at her. And she just got, her face just totally lit up. In total joy, like a little five-year-old girl. And she looked over at me from the passenger side. She said, are you hearing what I'm hearing? Saved by the grace I've got. And I said, I think so. What are you hearing? She's like, still holding back. She said, I'm hearing, go east. I'm like, go east. I pulled off onto the ramp and we started heading east. And it was like we were in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I thought the car was going to like go off. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. We got the car, you remember. The van dyke up into the sky. That's how it felt. Because it was one of those moments where it was all about guidance. It was really about being true to the guidance. Let go of all your preconceptions. And I used that example because again that would be in the ridiculous category. To drive all the way from Cincinnati to Kansas. And then stay in a motel and turn around and drive back east. Like this is the crazy wisdom. The crazy wisdom teachers. But this is what we're dealing with. When you start to unwind from the thinking of the world, you really have to tune in and you really have to be open. What's the tenth characteristic of a teacher of God? It starts off with trust. Number ten is open-mindedness. Perhaps he says the less one to come in. You see? You have to let go of all judgment of what you think everything means. And be totally willing to look like a fool to the ego. Believe me, this guidance has been this way over the years. I've had to look like a fool. People laugh at me all the time. They burst out laughing for 15, 20 minutes and a half an hour. Because they think he's just clueless. But he's foolish. But he's going to, just like putting on a hat, like I'm determining my Holy Spirit cap. Come on, let's go. We're going back to heaven here. Let's get the hat on and go for it. You got your hat on. You asked me the question about the ridiculousness. We're going for it. So really, you start to realize in so many ways that we work with people on a daily basis that are being, receiving guidance. And it sometimes involves leading jobs, leading partners, leading children. It can involve relocating. It can involve, you know, what people would call major, major life changes. And we join in prayer and really tune in and hear it. Because again, the ridiculous temptation can come in there with some of these prompts from the Holy Spirit. It's unwinding you from a crazy thought system.