 The cause produces the effects, which then bear witness to the cause and not themselves. Look then beyond effects. It is not here the cause of suffering and sin must lie. And dwell not on the suffering and sin for they are but reflections of their Christ. So that's that statement is a restatement of what Rhonda just had Look then beyond effects because all of the Upsets are about effects. The metaphor always comes in handy is to think of it watching the TV screen and something being sitting upsetting and just going up there with your fingers Like they watched a movie 21 or 2001 where they all these apes and then all later on all these men in spaces We're going up to this like a big bar Big like a big domino. They're going and touching it But it would be like going to the TV screen and just hinkering with your fingers and your fingernails and trying to You know had be as ridiculous as trying to change things by doing that as it is Yeah, by going around on the text that came to my mind yesterday I don't remember specifically what it was, but I was saying something to kids or what could I just start? What are we doing this for? I'm saying something to try to change something in the movie it's like You know how when you're watching a movie and you think you say something that Somebody in the movie will hear you talking to the screen I'm talking to the characters in the movie and I really think they're gonna hear me and do something And it just seems kind of funny to me You play in salvaging the world from condemnation is your own escape Forget not that the witness to the world of evil cannot speak except for what has seen a need For evil in the world belief in the mind the reason separation is What has seen a need for evil in the world? That's what has to be questioned and This is where your guilt was first to be held which is in the mind in Separation from your brother was the first attack upon yourself begun and it is this the world bears witness to Seek not another cause nor look among the mighty legions of his witnesses or it's undoing We had a discussion this morning about how it seems as if everyone's looking for models or for people that Are enlightened in the world one of the things that came up was That there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of models You can look in many many directions Go in many different places read in many different books, but that's a good Sentencing not another cause nor look among the mighty legions of his witnesses for it's undoing Don't be looking Out in the world even to other people You know to find a witness for it's undoing You have to look at the cause the false cause in your mind is produced the world And then by looking at that cause then you can see that it's not really a cause at all Unreal cause and once you see that as we go on we'll see then you can see that you're the dreamer of the dream and then You know when you give a new purpose to the world Everything and everyone is seen as a witness to that Stepping some to that seems to be that there seems to be some things that are more symbolic than other things of Love seems more symbolic than a strangling smile seems more symbolic than The day you're in the back We're symbolic of love And Even as we were talking this morning session You know having sessions is going into things can seem more symbolic than Changing the oil in the car or Taking a walk or this or that but the point we're trying to come to in the sessions and also it's like The sessions are a simple symbol of it, but it's like watching your mind and just coming tracing in to see that That that cause that seem to produce the whole world that the body's eyes behold It's a false cause and seeing that everything is unreal in the world the stepping stone towards it is you know, you may seem to See the words hear the ideas hear them in songs see things in movies that are symbolic of everything that's like it that's a stepping stone to coming to Really see that there's nothing in the world is meaningful It's kind of like with movies. You can watch movies and you can say Example with being there it sounds the gardener to me is a symbol of innocence And so once again, it's assumed that here's this movie and here's this character in this movie and the character in this movie Is a symbol of innocence? childlike innocence And That that's still pulling it apart because we're other times people will watch a movie and they'll say I could really identify with that character in the movie and That's characters representing something to oneself And then there's another way of watching a movie and stepping back a little further and just Watching your feelings and your thoughts and your reactions So you're not looking you're not saying that That don't wear a character or that chancee gardener character or whatever is But just noticing in your mind the thoughts and the the the reactions the feelings and everything and Looking at the police system So that's like one step back from trying to find something symbolic on the screen Just look in your mind Try to find something in there And you have to start somewhere. I mean that's the feeling is that feeling of like oh my gosh, it's like a tidal wave You know, it's like you're there with a bucket or something or something trying to hold back a tidal wave It just seems can feel useless at times, but That's what you can only start was where you proceed yourself to be and even if you if you Have a number of thoughts just seem to seem to keep coming back and the mind just seems to be just calling them Then it might be good just to pick one Particular theme or one particular thought that keeps coming back and Start to just work with it to trace it in a little bit a lot of times. They're all related You know, I mean they might be future thoughts. There could be a million different things in the future, but It could be oh You know projecting into the future, you know, I mean sometimes they kind of all go into a category And then it doesn't seem so overwhelming if I could say oh I'm just thinking about the future only Never mind that All these different variations on that theme Then it seems more That I didn't get a handle on it Or do something with it because otherwise when it just seems scattered all over everywhere That is that is going to take me forever to do this and That is of course, that's the egos use of time if it it thoroughly approves of that. Yes And Again the Holy Spirit emphasizes the only aspect of time that is meaningful and that is now and we've heard it said so many times about live in the moment and It's like when the mind is in that mode of thinking about the past and future. It just Talk about the present or pay attention right now just can seem a time superficial or Right like one woman Louise when we had our intensive on the Bay. She said she said by the way, I perceive time is this is Just went like this. She said that's the past She said that's Microscope or a magnifying glass to even find it because it's so Squeezed in and so in between these two bad things and And yet that's the that is the point That is the whole point of the course so to speak is the holy instant Mine just seems so convinced in the reality of linear time That it really does even to have a hope of enlightenment. It seems to be there But it just the mind projects it out into the future and it's like Seems like it's going to take forever to do it and Once you know there are those who work with the court that will Emphasize that Aspect even that will say You know the analogy that the Freudian analogy was that like the egos like an iceberg Tip above the surface This is that Thing underneath that hit that's like the unconscious that has to be exposed and There are lines in the course like when you get to the Second to the last stages stage of this stages of development of trust Jesus uses the words, you know this May take a long long time. He uses words like long long time There are those that will emphasize that But if you have it keeps coming back to desire if we really just keep looking closely right at the ego and not falling into those maneuvers that Rhonda was talking about at the beginning which You know if you get caught on all the little snags, and you get caught on all the specifics Then it can seem to take a very very long time And that's where you know to me it's like You know, I have to reach my hand Say help pull me out of this because it can feel like quicksand it can feel like you're getting swallowed up You know when it feels like the thoughts are so overwhelming or the feelings are so overwhelming It's like I don't see any way out of this you know, I feel like I'm going down fast and The more I seem to struggle and fight faster. I think You know, and so that doesn't work, you know It's like and then everything I try doesn't seem to help and and for me a lot of times It's just that symbol of it in whatever way I can to reach out my hand and say I need help You know to pray to literally ask for help To do whatever it takes, but that's again the willingness to say, you know I don't want to go down to quicksand. I want to and you know I I can remember going to a lecture years ago When somebody did the diagram of the iceberg and they had only you know, very tip of it And then you know, it was like oh every time I uncover a hidden belief. It's like this little teeny-tiny chip out of a huge iceberg Pointless Well, it's not it's not really accurate. It's not helpful. It's not helpful. We're seeing it because it just it looks like I'm here. I am with a little You know hammer and pick and This boulders big as this house You know, and it's you know, my hammers this thing And trying to chip it away piece by piece and it just seems like For the beaches analogy it's like going along the long be picking up every single Another You got to be done. You got your turn to do it