 I'm not sure exactly how to ask the question, but when I sat down today, I've been here before. Will you address if we're in this continuum and we're in this constant eternity, but yet we're an illusion on the stage, I get these all the time. So can you address that? The feeling that you've been here before? Well, what the Course says about that, whether you want to call it reincarnation or not, because we're never really in bodies, which is why the Course says that reincarnation isn't possible. When it says that, it doesn't mean that we don't keep coming back over and over again. We do. It's just that the Course wanted to emphasize that we're not actually in bodies, the body itself is a projection of the mind, just like everything else is a projection of the mind. But in that same section, the Course says what needs to be recognized is that birth was not the beginning, and death is not the end. So there is that continuum. It does keep going on and on and on. And that phrase from that Choose Once Again section that says trials are but lessons presented once again. The way you made a fault in choice before and how you can make a better one and thus escape all the pain that your previous decision brought to you. Well, that's not just true in this lifetime, that that trial will be presented many times. It's also true from lifetime to lifetime to lifetime. For example, in our final lifetime, you know, I haven't made any secret about the fact that Cindy is art and I'll be person in that final lifetime. Now, you do end up together. But if you look in Disappearance, you notice that it's moving later on in life that we end up together. And they mentioned in the book that they were each married earlier in that lifetime. Well, it turns out that in that next lifetime, you'll see this in the third book. Yeah, I am married earlier. And even though I'm a woman, the man that I'm married to in that lifetime is my wife Karen, my first wife from this lifetime. And Cindy is married. And I'm truly unique. And she's the man this time. And the woman that she's married to is your first husband, Steve, from this lifetime. You know, so trials really are lessons presented once again. And the question is, and I don't feel like I have a lot left to forgive with Karen. And I don't think that Cindy has a lot left to forgive with Steve. We're talking about some really big lifetime lessons because when someone like Jesus or Buddha comes back for the final time, they usually have one big lesson that they want to teach and learn. Obviously with Jesus, it was overcoming death. You know, so it's not like Jesus had a lot to learn when he came back for his final lifetime. He already knew pretty much everything that he had to know in order to be enlightened. When they talked about him teaching in the temples when he was 12 years old, that was true. And the other rabbi is addressed to him as rabbi. He's 12 years old and they're calling him rabbi. And that's about the biggest compliment that a rabbi can give to another rabbi because it means teacher. You know, so it's like he already knew pretty much everything he had to know. You know, he went traveling all over the world and an interesting time, a good time. Much like David and I get to do, we get to travel all over the world and have an interesting time and share ideas with people. And the thing is, we did have that one big lesson. And Art and Person each have a couple of big lessons that they teach in that final lifetime. But for all intents and purposes, we're learning pretty much everything we have to know right now. And it's not like we're going to have to learn it over again. And that should be encouraging to people because everything that you learn in this lifetime will stay with you. It goes right into the unconscious mind and it's always there. You can't lose it. You can't lose the things that you learn in this lifetime. And I'm honest with you, that's why Mozart, you know, he could play the piano when he was 6. He could start to write something as if he was 9 because he had already done that before. And it's not like he was doing it for the first time. And that knowledge and that memory stays in your mind even if you don't remember the specifics of it. So you study a course in miracles in this lifetime. Maybe you come back one more time. Maybe you don't. I'm not saying that you have to. But if you do, maybe you come back one more time and you're 25 years old and you go to this meeting and these people are studying this thing called the course in miracles. They're saying, what the hell is this thing? It's kind of like a strange thing to them. You pick it up and you start reading it and it makes sense to you. And you're able to tell them what it means. Well, that's because you already studied it in this lifetime. So that continuum is there. That continuum is definitely there. And you keep learning and you retain everything that you learn. And because of the nature of this path and the time saving feature of the miracle the only difference is you get through the rest of it amazingly quick. You know, you're talking about undoing thousands and thousands of lifetimes and just one or two lifetimes. And that may seem like a long time to some people. Oh, a whole lifetime. But in the overall scheme of things, it's really nothing. And that continuum can be used to our advantage because it allows us to learn in such a way that we can get through the rest of it really quickly. You said that Buddha had to come back for one more lifetime. Was Jesus Buddha's last lifetime? That's a good question but the answer is no. Jesus was not Buddha's last lifetime. Some people didn't like the fact that Arjun Purse said that Buddha came back one more time after that lifetime. But he did. But most people, they wouldn't recognize him because he wasn't a famous person. And there are a lot of people who become enlightened and people don't know about it. You know, they're not famous. They're not world leaders. They're not the kind of people that go out there and speak a lot to people. You know, I always said that if I was enlightened I wouldn't tell anybody. You saw what they did to Jesus. So, you know, a lot of times there are enlightened people walking around and you may even meet a couple and you might not necessarily know if they're enlightened. That's cool. And Buddha did come back one more time. He was the same person that Jesus did. He overcame death and taught that to people. And that would be in one of the books. You know, there's not a third one, but probably the fourth one. And it was Jesus' Smiling Life. And the Course teaches that Jesus was the first one to complete his part perfectly. And I know some people don't like that idea either. You know, a lot of people believe that the Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of Buddha. I don't think it's true. Some people don't like me for saying that. But the truth is, once you become enlightened, you're out of here. You never come back. Not really. And that's why I mentioned that, you know, that idea of being a Bodhisattva, I don't mean to pronounce it, but coming back to save the world, that's the Holy Spirit's job. It's not your job. The Holy Spirit wants you to go home. The Holy Spirit wants you to get out of here. You already kept coming back to save the world. Don't do whatever you need. The population of humans will start to go down instead of up. It's like, you know, when I saw that community in Starship, our person mentioned, there weren't that many left. And I said, why? So, you know, they become enlightened, they were out of here. So eventually, the population starts going down instead of up. People become enlightened, they never come back again. And if they do appear to come back again, that's okay. But it's not really them. Well, that's my argument. First of all, I had to use that incredible quote from the course right at the beginning of The Distance of the Universe. I had no idea what it meant at the time. You know, it says, there are those who have reached God directly, retaining no trace of worldly limits, and remembering one identity perfectly. These might be called teachers and teachers because although they are no longer visible, their image can yet be called upon. And they will appear when and where it is helpful for them to do so. It's possible for the image of someone to be called upon. And that's what art and person really are. Yes, they show up as bodies, but they're really the Holy Spirit. You know, just like the voice of Jesus in the Course in Miracles, there's really the Holy Spirit showing up as the voice for Jesus. Art and person are really the Holy Spirit showing up as art and person. The Holy Spirit will show up for you in whatever way is best for you to be called upon. And they will appear when and where it is helpful for them to do so.