 Lots of people saying, I don't know if I have enough faith for this journey, and I like how in A Course in Miracles Jesus talks about faith and faithlessness, but it's he doesn't ever really Talk about faith as kind of a more or less thing. He never puts faith on a on a continuum of Small faith or medium faith or great faith. He says faith is really the power of your mind. He said, oh There's no doubt you have faith It's really it's kind of like the old thing Be careful what you pray for because you may get it. Well prayers are answered in the sense that everything in the world reflects your mind and And your mind is where the prayer is and you could say that your faith is the power of the mind So it's more a helpful question is what have I put my faith in and then when you get into the course workbook He gets very specific about you know less than 50, you know I am sustained by the love of God. He takes the time to put the contrast and he says in this world You believe you're sustained by everything, but the love of God pills money protective clothing being liked knowing the right people and List of things that you really have put your faith in you you believe in all these things and then in a few 20 26 Lessons later in lesson 76. He goes on you know you and Endowed the world with all these These abilities and skills and he you know he talks about You really believe you would starve unless you had stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal disc You really believe that that fluid push through your veins will ward off disease. He talks about the laws of economics He talks about the laws of friendship I mean he gets really specific and he basically is saying oh you've got faith Faith is not your problem We share the same mind so you've got faith no problem with that You've got a very very very powerful mind and you've invested it in a lot of ego beliefs And he's very specific about those beliefs in fact when I was doing lesson 50 and lesson 76 That was a bit you know he got so specific that I had to spend like a whole week Just going off and going. Oh, yeah I'm oh my best. Oh, yeah, I'm invested I could see I had misinvested in a very Major way. I had taken my faith and I had to completely misinvested I Feel like I read a thing on the stock market today, too, and it was just saying how They were saying that most investors in the stock market now most people who work with the stock market on a daily basis Now believes it's there. It's a prevailing opinion that it's rigged The majority of people who work with the stock market believe it's rigged and some of us You know rigged is kind of an interesting word, you know the game is rigged the The contest is rigged, you know when they talked about Miss America contest being rigged, you know It's fixed and they all already know that that there's so many transactions that are occurring the technology has got so great But they can do all these trades and transactions in milliseconds and Basically, they've got a lot of robots a lot of robots now They're working with and there are some people behind the robots But but basically the prevailing belief they said is that the stock market is rigged and with that belief that it's rigged Then people go I don't want to invest so they were talking about like with certain sector There's three hundred billion dollars less investments because people are getting They're getting fed up With everything now even fed up you believe it fed up with the stock market the biggest gambling Joint in town and how much ego loves to gamble and it's starting to get fed up with the stock market even It's getting dissatisfied So basically when you start to hear stories like that you start to realize that that it's not the faith is not the problem It's like what have I invested in so the first thing I would say to anyone who wants to make the spiritual turn Give your life over to God, you know, like people feel a calling like Mother Teresa did on her train in She was taking a train through India. That's when she got her calling Everybody, you know, it doesn't they don't have to be called to be a nun or a convent in the convent or a priest or a monk But but we we can we can feel that calling and I think it's a calling to divest in ego beliefs an Invest in the guidance of the Holy Spirit. That's to me what the turn is Divest of all beliefs and that any of the egos beliefs and laws have ever served me You know money possessions, you know achievements accomplishments intelligence Education, I mean everything take all the ones that you know, even the people go. Oh, please Baseball hot dog apple pie and Chevrolet. You have to start to realize all those things have been part of a mesmerism to To have your faith be invested in something in which you will not benefit at all It's part of a death wish and you and when you make the turn all you're doing is you're saying how have I poorly invested? And how can I change my tune my change my direction and and turn to the spirit and to me? That's that's really what the turn is now practically speaking That starts to mean that you're going to have to seemingly be given guidance to take steps to unwind From the world and it's it is divest. It's not you know in the alderman sense Where we're everything but in but it not in awareness if we still have beliefs that we are sustained by all these beliefs in the world then we do need to Go through a divestment period and to me that's important in the turn And Jesus even calls it relinquishments, you know, you'll go through a period of relinquishment He says in the stages of the development of trust Yes Some things Well, I you probably haven't heard all my talks for these last 20 years on but I talk a lot about exercise actually I really do I talk a lot because because When this body was seems to be much younger in time. Yeah, I I Was into a lot of exercise. I mean not just sports baseball and tennis and basketball and golf and and Yeah, I joined the gym and and you know a lot of cardio vascular fitness and Yeah, you don't want well just this is just a start though because I Got into it and then when I started into the mind training Actually when I started with the course of the mind training I belong to a club a fitness club and I Started to ask what is it for with everything and when I was doing the course it was like focusing all my attention on my mind training and Really, there was no attention on my body training at all. And so when I was started to ask what is it for? Jesus would tell me he said love I'm gonna use What you believe in and so instead of spending so many hours on weights and cardio vascular training I would still occasionally get guided to go to the fitness center But I was having all these holy encounters and all this stuff was pouring out of my mouth And it felt really wonderful But I wasn't getting a lot of exercise then and then as I continued on I would have sometimes thoughts like well You know without exercise the muscles will atrophy and you know, I'll just kind of shrivel shrivel up and you know what that's a joke, too because I Went through this so many years ago. This was probably yeah 20 some years ago and I Haven't had a thought of exercise actually for a couple decades. I'm I I don't even think of it It's like a cause-effect thing it's like we start to think I can't breathe breathe well without the exercise and But the Holy Spirit is so practical that as we start to give our mind over we more start to ascend in those thoughts That we're being given, you know from the spirit. It's it's more like things to start to Gently just kind of fall away and drop away Like I've had this talk about exercise for many years and in gatherings people would say don't you exercise? I said I don't even think of it I don't even give a thought to it and and there has been no Consequences, you know like they used to tell us about you know when we're eating nutrition and the food groups and all this and this My god, I you know all the stuff that we are part of our belief system, you know It I found that that it was the mind training that really brought me to health Because he says health is inner peace. He doesn't describe health in any terms in the course in terms of the body In fact, he probably would say that healthy body is is an oxymoron Because he does even say at one point in the course don't ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body Ask the Holy Spirit to heal your perception of the body See the assumption is that the body needs to be healthy or could be sick and both of those are judgments that are kind of projected onto it So I think it's really practical if if you know, you were having difficulty breathing and and you found a certain amount of exercise Helped you breathe easier or something we would say that's magical but but still it would just be more of a Backdrop towards while you're doing the mind training to do what feels intuitive. I always tell people eat intuitively and If you believe in exercise exercise intuitively not don't kind of push yourself and force yourself really Do it in an intuitive way and I did have a friend one time who? He had a series of heart attacks and he he would come to me I can heart medicine He was exercising and he was had a certain diet and everything and I forget how he he said I I just quit doing two of them, and I had a heart attack and and After the heart attack so what did you he said I went back to the Holy Spirit and Holy Spirit said I didn't tell you to Drop two of those told you to just drop the diet one and then you know it he kept going back for you another heart attack it was like You know really starting to tune in he had like three heart attacks But it was he still used it for his mind training, you know, he was always going back to the spirit like what what I do wrong oh Okay, all right, okay, you know it was back and forth not trying to jump the gun and just drop everything at once because even though The we made the ego and the ego made the world and we've kind of wound ourselves into the world The Holy Spirit is the one who has to unwind us from the world So I know I talk about a lot of things in my life, but they occurred over a lot of years I was just doing the mind training and getting the guidance and I would little by little you know put less attention on things and I didn't immediately drop all my beliefs around nutrition. I didn't immediately drop all my beliefs around exercise You know or diet and things but but progressively many things fell away as I gave my mind over to miracles