 There's a thing called the whole and then there's parts and as long as we believe in the parts We're afraid of the whole It's the hole is spooky You know how they say the hole is greater than the sum of the parts Well, the hole is real and the parts are not that's why it's so spooky And that's why we have fears being identified with a human being being identified with the flesh The course is taking us in another direction It's saying one of the lessons is I am not a body. I am free I am still as God created me taking us into that divine presence that divine order that was created by God Where all of our thoughts are thoughts that we think with God And all of the ego is just nothing more than the attempt to think apart from God or think against God So that's why we're opening to learn forgiveness. We're not here to forgive the truth The truth is just what is it's it's forgiving What the ego made it's forgiving this puff of nothingness. It's forgiving this this Resistance this reaction to God this death wish we have to learn to forgive it in our minds and As long as we are invested in the world of form As long as we are invested in the parts and the particles and all of that fragmented Perception then forgiveness escapes us You might say that you have to see the world in a unified way before It disappears from your awareness and you realize that you are only love and light That unified perception is what forgiveness is So when we talk about forgiving people even which is what human beings often do for giving people and the Bible says you have to forgive 70 times 7 and some of us have tried that that's 490 times and it doesn't work It's it's we say what's going on if I done something wrong. I followed the instructions I followed the formula there and it's still there. It means that we have to be So immersed in purpose so guided by spirit that our entire perception of the world fuses together So we're coming back to a fusion of perception Now perception is just a witness It's not a fact and I had students back in the 1990s that used to It would read the course and then they would they would have a sentence and they would say stop everything Jesus is saying in the course. No one can be angry at a fact Now tell me what a fact is before we go any further and I would say God is a fact Christ is a fact and no one can be angry at a fact, but there's nothing perceptual That is a fact It's very ephemeral. It's very temporary. It's always shifting and changing Moving moving moving. There's nothing stable about perception Until we have a unified purpose that stabilizes all the events that brings our mind to a sense of detachment from form outcomes detachment from expectations Even detachment from goals and ambitions that used to be important It doesn't matter when you seem to come to this unified perception. It could be on your deathbed You may simply be having an experience of dying or as they say in unity making your transition But you have an instant where you realize Everything is unified and you simply rise up in that perception Welcoming the truth welcoming that oneness Doesn't matter what the form is. There's no particular time except for now that can be realized