 Good morning. Good afternoon. Good night wherever wherever you are in the world and joining in for this broadcast Jesus is taking us step-by-step day by day hour by hour moment by moment Opening our hearts into the kingdom of heaven within the Remembrance of God's love. That's really what it's all about remembering divine love That's our purpose on earth is to forgive the obstacles to release the obstacles that we've held in mind our judgements and our grievances our preconceptions our assumptions our attack thoughts That are blocking the light of God's love from our awareness So that is what we're about in hallelujah. We've come to the 23rd day of January and yes this is a Beautiful beautiful key lesson. It's kind of like the first 22 lessons. He was that was the warm-up band Then now he's he's shifting into gear You know he helped us loosen our minds a little bit of turning the thought system around Reversed the whole thinking that we've believed in a separation of victimization of abuse of mistreatment Cool kinds of dark thoughts and beliefs that have nothing to do with reality and heaven whatsoever but now today on lesson 23 he's going to Use the escape word for the first time for the first time in the workbook lessons We're only on day 23 and and here in January and he's already gonna use the escape word. I don't know about you, but I think when people pray and and They call upon God and they call upon the Holy Spirit and Jesus and in spirit to come Bring of relief, but that sense of relief always comes With a bit of a sense of escape not escapism in terms of the world escaping to a Cave or escaping to another country or escaping to another person or another group or Another neighborhood. It's not a linear time space escape, but it's actually as an escape in the mind That we have been told our mind is as part of God's creation We have a divine mind. We have we are an idea in the mind of God And we have a mind a mind of Christ that is glorious because it's one with God It's as Jesus said the father and I are one and so unified will unified in divine mind unified You might say the the gateway towards this unified sense of mind and pure spirit is forgiveness or You could call it a tonement. You could call it correction and call it anything you want But it's actually going to involve escaping from the past That's the problem. That's what these early lessons have been showing us is that we have been addicted to past thinking and to past learning and all of our learning I mean through Decades of modern learning and all throughout history all learning has really just kept us asleep and dreaming and unaware of the love and unaware of the light So Jesus is telling us in his course that he you came here without a plan You came here without an identity and made one up as you went along and it's a learned identity It's a learned conceptual self-concept identity that has no Basis in reality no basis in spirit in spirit in God our identity is pure spirit and And and everything of this world that Holy Spirit uses all the symbols All of the angels the symbols of legions and legions of angels cheering us on to let go of this dark belief system of the ego because as long as we are Acustom to the darkness as long as we believe we can make do with the darkness as long as we even seem to try to get Comfortable in the darkness then we're not really praying for release But today's lesson is about release Jesus is using the escape word and when Jesus uses the escape word. He's talking about releasing Your mind from false conditioning and false beliefs We've been conditioned to believe by the ego by this the you could call it Satan if you want to from Christian terms Or the devil call it whatever you want error an erroneous belief system That has tried to teach us that we're separate from our creator and try to convince us using a world of time and space and images to try to Hold us away from the joy from the love from the happiness of the kingdom of heaven so hallelujah here we are on Lesson 23 and Jesus is going to now He's going to tell us the key to escape the perceptual world of time and space the key to Awakened to the kingdom of heaven. He's he's he's told us before it's forgiveness But now he's getting more specific. He told us 2,000 years ago the Sermon on the Mount Judge not less to be judged But now two thousand years later He's going to clarify what he meant because it seems like it's been difficult for the last two thousand years to practice Not to speak the words but to practice the words to actually let go and he's talking about letting go of the past Because the future is just a projection of this past of past thoughts and past Associations, it's like a quicksand a quagmire of False belief and false association It's all based on false learning and and that false learning has resulted in the belief in attack And then that sets in motion a crazy attack and defense cycle Which if you look in your own mind or if you look out in the world or you look on the news Or you look on the internet It's not hard to say. Oh my gosh. I must be deluded because I'm all I'm perceiving is attack and defense But you can't just accept attack attack and defense as reality Why would a god of love set up the world of attack and defense? You know sometimes people were like I'm not sure I think God might have had something to do with creating this this linear cosmos of time and space and I'm like No, this cosmos is a veil drawn over the truth and it's all about attack and defense and Jesus taught us 2,000 years ago blessed are the meek, you know and Basically, he's telling us in the chorus blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth through their meekness through their Gentleness through their defenses. He's talking about a state of mind. He's talking about the Beatitudes that he talked about 2,000 years ago. So let's go jumping into lesson 23. I Can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts The idea for today contains the only way out of fear that will ever succeed Nothing else will work Everything else is meaningless But this way cannot fail Every thought you have have makes up some segment of the world you see It is with your thoughts then that we must work if your perception of the world is to be changed If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts You must learn that it is these thoughts which you do not want There is no point in Lamenting the world There is no point in trying to change the world It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world Here you are changing the cause The effect will change automatically The world you see is a vengeful world and everything in it is a symbol of vengeance He's referring to date to yesterday's lesson. What I see is a form of vengeance But I perceive in a linear world Is a form of vengeance? Beautiful, that's a great reminder. Let's read that sentence again from paragraph 3. The world you see is a vengeful world and everything in it is a symbol of vengeance Each of your perceptions of quote external reality is a pictorial representation of your own attack thoughts One can well ask if this can be called seeing Is not fantasy a better word for such a process And hallucination a more appropriate term for the result You see the world that you have made but you do not see yourself as the image maker You cannot be saved from the world, but you can't escape from its cause This is what salvation means for where is the world you see when its cause has gone Vision already holds a replacement for everything you think you see now Loveliness can light your images and so transform them that you will love them even though they were made of hate For you will not be making them alone The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see because its cause can be changed This change requires first That the cause be identified and then let go so that it can be replaced The first two steps in this process require your cooperation The final one does not Your images have already been replaced by taking the first two steps. You will see that this is so Okay So there's two steps that were required for and that's our cooperation and and our active Requirements in forgiveness and that basically Is saying first that the cause be identified and that That is the ego the ego is the the belief in separation is the seeming source of all attack thoughts And the second step is to let them go to not hide them to not protect them That's why we share No people pleasing and no private thoughts is our guidelines for doing this because You can't recognize the cause as being In your mind in the unconscious mind and you can't really let it go If you are hiding it and you're protecting it It being the ego if you're if you have you have ego defense mechanisms and you're blaming you're pointing the finger You're You're projecting you're saying To the world or to the people of the world you've done me wrong And that ain't right if you've got a sad song That you're playing on your violin and you're going to try to project the cause For your sadness and upset Onto the world or maybe you even try to project the savior onto the world Is a person place thing group community situation, you know If you're looking for an external cause Jesus is telling us in this lesson that the world is a is an unreal effect of an unreal cause What's the unreal cause the ego belief in the mind? What's an unreal effect? It's the projected world of time and space the entire cosmos The entire cosmos of time and space the linear fragmented warped twisted distorted cosmos That that we have been believing is real Is not And it's just an effect of our thoughts. So here we go with the mind training. We are zoom zoom Zooming inward with Jesus Faster than the speed of sound. We are zooming zooming zooming in so that we can Really admit that we've had a perceptual problem. We've had a belief problem We've been believing in a separation from god belief system We've had a a thought problem Our thoughts our cognition has been based on attack And that's why we're perceiving a world of attack and defense. So there we go we We and he says the final one the final step Does not require your cooperation Your images have already been replaced by taking the first two steps. I mentioned about here. You will see that this is so Besides using it throughout the day as the need arises five practice periods are required in applying today's idea As you look about you repeat the idea slowly to yourself first And then close your eyes and devote about a minute to searching your mind For as many attack thoughts as occur to you As each one crosses your mind say I can escape from the world. I see by giving up attack thoughts about And whatever is crossing your mind any Person place thing situation anything about the ecology the Civilization anything about your neighbor your partner Your children anything about your parents or your aunts or uncles your biological family anything at all I can escape from the world. I see by giving up attack thoughts about And fill in the name specifically Hold each attack thought in mind as you say this and then dismiss that thought and go on to the next In the practice periods be sure to include both your thoughts of attacking and of being attacked Their effects are exactly the same because they are exactly the same Hmm Thoughts of attacking and of being attacked are the same. They are attack thoughts all the same You do not recognize this is yet And you are asked at this time only to treat them as the same in today's practice periods We are still at the stage of identifying the cause of the world you see When you finally learn that thoughts of attack and of being attacked are not different You will be ready to let go Let the cause go No Sweetness sweetness sweetness There it is. You can't say that jesus wasn't clear. He has laid it out He has laid it out. He's basically told us You know, this is it This is the only way out of fear that will ever succeed He's telling us how to be happy nothing else will work. Everything else is meaningless But this way cannot fail. Wow, that's that those are strong words and he's not talking about form He's talking about releasing attack thoughts in the mind He's talking about what all the mystics and saints have talked about in all the traditions empty your mind of everything You think you think think you know Hold on to nothing Hold on to no thoughts of the past or the future Be still be still be still and come to know the lord thy god In the quietness of your mind in the present moment in the power of now as ecrich calls it so For support today I was praying on this escape idea. This is the first time jesus has mentioned escape really strongly And given the key to escape. He's given us the how He's taken all the mystery away from the how and he's saying, you know, don't hide anything from the holy spirit Expose the ego You know, let it go and and it's already been replaced This world was over long ago as we will learn in lesson 158 And we're just mentally reviewing what has already gone by so so don't Hold on to a scrap not a pebble not a tiny grain Of error of attack of of disagreement Let's go for harmony Let's go for harmony. Don't you like songs of harmony? I do remember the one that uh, steve wonder did with uh, paul mccartney ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard. Oh lord. Why can't we? Oh Harmony Harmony harmony. I have to let go of attack thoughts if I'm gonna truly feel harmony And I can't grab hold of some images and cling to them as a self concept and and point the finger at other people because Everyone who holds on to a belief system of fear. It doesn't matter what they do When they're acting out that fear there's no escape in in the terms of actions It's a transformation of consciousness coming to a higher awareness Seeing the blamelessness seeing the innocence feeling the joy Embracing your brother or your sister as one with you in mind in a new high unified perception of the world a happy dream you can only Dream softly of this sinless world when you forgive when you actually follow Jesus's teachings and just say okay Gotta give it up. Gotta give the ego up. It's not going to be pleasant if I don't Gotta give the past up I will be condemned to a future by my desire to hold on to the ego's past because the ego is this clever trickster at at generating and perpetuating itself, but In forgiveness the ego is seen for the nothingness it is and that's why Jesus told us 2 000 years ago be a good cheer for I have overcome the world So let's go to chapter 1 in the text the meaning of miracles and let's jump to Section 4 the escape from darkness Aha, he's using the escape word in the first chapter of his course in miracles Section 4 the escape from darkness The escape from darkness involves two stages First the recognition that darkness cannot hide This step usually entails fear Second the recognition that there is nothing you want to hide even if you could This step brings escape from fear When you have become willing to hide nothing You will not only be willing to enter into communion, but will also understand peace and joy So sometimes people will say why you have guidelines no private thoughts no people pleasing is because you know if you want to recognize that darkness cannot hide then Hold nothing away from the healing light of the Holy Spirit And if you're too afraid of the Holy Spirit to give off the private thoughts and attack thoughts and grievances over to the Holy Spirit If you're too afraid to pray that prayer you still think there's something of the past in the world that you were holding on to Then then basically that that will generate a fear of the light But the second recognition that comes eventually In the mind is that there is nothing you want to hide even if you could you start to realize it's like that Childhood gain ghost in the graveyard ollie ollie and come free. You want everything to come come up Ollie ollie up come freely up from the unconscious mind I will hide nothing. I will be transparent I will Let it go truly and if you have trouble giving it to the Holy Spirit and prayer then just pray for Symbols that will help you do it Maybe there's a loving friend a loving partner someone who you know In your Awareness that seems to be very non-judgmental and you can just share anything you can just pour your heart out whatever it is even if you're judging Your self or others even if you're self depreciating if you're even if you have thoughts of unworthiness and incompetence Of anxiety feelings of anxiety and fear and guilt bring them up Bring them up ollie ollie up come up free That's the first step and then By that you are saying I would not protect this from the healing light of truth. That's in my mind I will Surrender these thoughts and I hope I've been wrong about these thoughts I hope I've been wrong around these beliefs I no longer want to be right about the way the ego set the world up I want to be free Of these ego beliefs and thoughts and that's where you give them over willingly willingly to the Holy Spirit And as jesus told us in the workbook lesson The third part of that process of forgiveness that these thoughts have already been changed by the Holy Spirit They've already been converted from fear thoughts And to the remembrance of god's love The conversion has already happened. Don't place it in the future Give it over now hide nothing from the Holy Spirit paragraph two Holding this can never be really hidden in darkness, but you can't deceive yourself about it This deception makes you fearful because you realize in your heart It is a deception And you exert enormous efforts to establish its reality The miracle sets reality where it belongs Reality belongs only to spirit and the miracle acknowledges only truth It thus dispels illusions about yourself and puts you in communion with yourself and god The miracle joins in the atonement by placing the mind in the service of the Holy Spirit This establishes the proper function of the mind and corrects its errors, which are merely lacks of love Your mind can be possessed by illusions, but spirit is eternally free If a mind perceives without love it perceives an empty shell and is unaware of the spirit within But the atonement restores spirit to its proper place The mind that serves spirit is invulnerable Darkness is lack of light as sin is lack of love. It has no unique properties of its own It is an example of the quote scarcity belief From which only error can proceed Truth is always abundant Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no needs of any kind The purpose of the atonement is to restore everything to you or rather to restore it to your awareness You were given everything when you were created just as everyone was The emptiness engendered by fear must be replaced by forgiveness That is what the bible means by there is no death and why I could demonstrate that death does not exist I came to fulfill the law by reinterpreting it The law itself if properly understood offers only protection It is those who have not yet changed their minds who brought the hellfire concept into it I assure you that I will witness for anyone who lets me And to whatever extent he permits it Your witnessing demonstrates your belief and thus strengthens it Those who witness for me are expressing through their miracles that they have abandoned the belief in deprivation In favor of the abundance they had learned belongs to them Wow Nothing to fear in letting go of darkness There's nothing to fear in letting go of the past I know there's been a considerable effort that sleeping mind is put into learning the past and everything that's learned about this world is the past And we learned that from the workbook lessons and Lesson number seven is I see only the past lesson number eight. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. It's all past learning. It's all ego And that's why it takes trust. That's why it takes expanding faith to come to remember God remember the kingdom of heaven And as I've said recently too that the correction must occur from the bottom up, you know, you you can't jump into the correction of perception of levels of need in the the mind because In unified awareness, there are no levels of perception Everything is one Because the mind of the perceiver is unified and therefore it's all seen the whole Cosmic picture of images are all seen as holistic perception. It's only spirits interpretation that sets the mind free But as long as the mind believes in the specifics of the past like linear time Past present future. That's ego was invented by the ego as long as it believes that the past causes the present And then the present causes the future That meaning that the past will be projected to the future with only a little blip of a present moment It's not an intervening interval for with any efficacy or any power. That's all of the ego The power of now is the power of the mind's ability to choose the correction And when you choose the miracle you choose the correction when you choose the correction for once and for all With no option of going back to illusions. That's the atonement. That's the final unanswered question You know, there's four unanswered question that jesus talks about in the text and the final one You can't change your mind about you have to go completely dive into it Do I want to see what I denied because it is the truth? You know, do I want to see with the vision of christ because it is the truth? And that's The last unanswered question. That's what stabilizes perception And then opens the way for remembering god or knowledge, the course calls it so How beautiful that we have this opportunity This is a very much of a hallelujah because It's offering the escape. I can escape from the world. I see By giving up attack thoughts. I can escape from this linear perception of the world by giving up attack thoughts The attack thoughts are producing the linear perspective of the world It's producing this personal perspective That a human being has like little blinders Belief in a little human private mind with private thoughts and secrets And then it perceives a world where other people have private minds and private thoughts and secrets What a drama. What a soap opera the ego has generated And hallelujah, jesus is teaching us that none of it is true And I can escape from this linear distorted perception by giving up attack thoughts I can experience the beatitudes by giving up attack thoughts I can experience joy love happiness peace Tranquility serenity Ah, oh That is that is so Wonderful And it's all there right now if i'm willing to give up attack thoughts If i'm willing to hold no grievances Zero zilch no grievances nothing nada Not a single dark thought That seems to fit with the beatitudes where jesus said blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see god Yeah pure pure of heart must be one heart One mind unified Love Let thine eye be single let thy heart Be single if your heart is this is the source of your prayers then just have one prayer Just say actually I admit it. I need god I need love I need divine love and nothing of this world has brought me that and there's not a single image That has brought me divine love The snapshot of a forgiven world will call it a happy dream Uh, there we go now that is a step inward everything else Nada nada nada nada There's nothing there. There's nothing there. Don't go Ghosting and go ghost hunting in the world today Escape from the world by giving up attack thoughts So thank you so much for joining me I see we have almost a hundred people on here with me now And we're just cruising along I hope you've enjoyed this other this another spontaneous joyful expression that Burbled and came through I did I hope you all enjoyed it. I feel I'm I'm feeling called into so quiet and and really stepping back from The devices so yeah, I I'm going to be stepping back from this computer stepping back from this Phone stepping back from this iPad Stepping what else am I stepping back from? I'm stepping back from the calendar The 2024 calendar I'm stepping back Stepping back going inward and uh, but I do have to say that uh, this is coming saturday I am showing another uh movie That is going to be a movie that Is dear to all of our hearts. It's a little call it a classic spiritual awakening movie and it's it's really a good opportunity to Practice that workbook lesson My thoughts or images I have made this is a masterpiece of a movie Showing us through the movie. We actually go into an experience of oh Oh, I see I see my thoughts or images I have made Very important because as long as you believe that there's an external world that has nothing to do with your thoughts that's just out there and That you know, you believe started with a big bang or you believe it has some kind of a external Historical cause no no It's just a it's a projection of thoughts But jesus is teaching us with that lesson my thoughts or images I have made he's teaching us That the pictorial world we see we seem to perceive Through our five senses and the thoughts that we think we think That we think our real thoughts even though they're coming from a false belief system It's mostly unconscious The thoughts I think Are our images my thoughts or images I have made so If you have a chance you can see the mystical christ there's the website go on to The hyphen christ.net and go to the part the tab at the top that says programs and then go down And uh make sure you're you're registered and signed in to tribe of christ and then go And check out things but you can you can register for the movie. It's absolutely free I would love to see you there I'm just going to be commuting And then I feel this movie coming Through a little bit later this week on saturday, so join me Let's have get the popcorn out Let's have some fun as we go inward and let go of these attack thoughts and this faulty perception This faulty linear perception it has never served our joy and our happiness. So You know, we'd want to let it go and that's why we devote all days to mind training. That's why we're here with jesus We wouldn't be joined in this purpose and going vertical in the mind And not looking to the projection anymore Uh, if we realize that that's that's happiness that's that's happiness and joy That's that's the prayer of the heart To be happy to be joyful to be peaceful Oh, oh good good stuff So thank you. I hope you enjoyed my songs today I did they keep just coming through and uh, yeah For now, uh signing off of the devices, but uh, I'll be back As Arnold Schwarzenegger said I'll be back. I'll be back. I think