 Well, you know, you you think of salvation is in the future, you know, like like it's coming and that some day If you really keep at it that Salvation will come in the future and he's kind of saying why would God place? Salvation in the future and wouldn't God be cruel To do something like that, you know, I mean wouldn't the time that you have to suffer through in between Between the present and the future Make God cruel again. It's kind of like they don't think about Jesus dying for sins You know, what kind of father would that be that would have a son have to share shed his innocent blood You know, it's the same thing with time. Why would God put salvation in the future and of course he's saying he didn't He put it in the present That all of salvation is offered to you this very instant Which is quite up. I mean it can be a lot of relief and then the ego will jump right in there and go, oh I should be able to get this Please help me get this, you know, I want it now, you know, but but basically what Jesus does in the course I mean he goes into filming. There's 1200 pages saying you're terrified of the Holy Spirit You're terrified of accepting that answer right now That's why You know the past and the future are are the mind's attempts to evade and avoid the presence You know Because it's terrified of the Holy Spirit and terrified of the life now On a conscious level, you know, that can seem like well It seems kind of funny because I feel like God is my friend and the Holy Spirit is my partner in this and we're working Undo and now Jesus is telling me that I'm terrified of the Holy Spirit and it really goes back to that The only way that this makes any sense if it can make any sense is that during that Blip when the tiny mad ideas seem to happen that the mind Believed it actually had usurped Heaven it really had usurped God's place in heaven and basically the ego counseled, you know run you've done it now Run away from that light, you know that light will get you and will destroy you if you ever come back because you really did it You pull off you separate it from your father and your father's angry. So This whole world has been an attempt to kind of to run from the light into the darkness into the fragmentation into the duality of the world to kind of hide from that light so When we talk about it We just read a section in there where it talks about no one wants to ask an honest question because he does not He's afraid to hear the answer. That's what we're trying to get at is that the Holy Spirit is the answer Into this darkened mind now that believes that it's separated from God God's place to spark a spark of light That is the Holy Spirit and that this light will grow and grow until it literally illuminates that whole mind But the mind is very afraid of it and for some of you who are here last time we did use the metaphor I believe of the World Trade Center. Did I talk about that last time or not? Do you remember that vaguely what we talked about? that the ego is a belief in the mind and Then there's this world that was projected out now Jesus says what God has placed the answer Where the problem isn't You know what God have placed the answer in the world if the problem is in your mind And he says no God placed the answer right where the problem was He's the answer is in our mind the Holy Spirit and the problem the belief and separation is in our mind And this world is a smoke screen. That's a just giant distracted device To keep from going down into our mind questioning all these assumptions and beliefs that we have So I kind of use the analogy of the World Trade Center that the basement down there is The Holy Spirit is and where the ego is and then all of this all of the layer for the floors of the World Trade Center I like all these beliefs that the mind is so terrified of this light That is kind of stacked on all these layers of dark floors so it can Forget about that light That's what the word dissociation means in the course that literally the deceived mind is trying to Dissociate and just forget about the light you know and forget about the everything just and dissociate because another reason why that the mind is dissociated is because Light and darkness don't go together. They're kind of like oil and water that when one is present the other is absent and the mind It it couldn't stand the intolerable condition of holding here. We have the ego thought system Here's the Holy Spirit and these are two thought systems. They are not reconcilable So the ego's answer to it is forget about one Relief Relief you see how how that was that's what dissociation is about is I can forget about the light now I just I forget about the Holy Spirit now I just have the ego thought system here and it seems to be a little bit of relief But really it's just buried because the mind is still in pain Because it's not in this natural state of condition In other words in heaven the mind is a state of oneness and completion and wholeness and when this is split in there It's very uncomfortable and tolerable. So what the mind did was it projected the split in The mind that we just talked about out of the world and now all of a sudden the smoke stream became a world of duality Instead of the duality being the two thought systems in the mind now the duality seen in the world You know male female hot cold fat slow Tall short We could go on all night. I mean the whole world seems to be just extremes of duality And that's that's the thing so now now it seems to be out on the screen The mind seems to get some kind of relief because now it believes it's a little teeny figure on the screen It's forgotten that it's that that's powerful mind, and it's this little teeny person and In a sense, it's a little whole person Even though we don't feel very whole sometimes In a sense, that's that's kind of the trick and you can see that this is an identity that's been made up That is not our true identity that our true identity is Christ But this little bitty identity we say well I was born in such and such a place and these were my parents I grew up and I've got this life history and these were my main life events, you know that my fourth grade teacher embarrassed me and I got first girl I guess was when I was 13 and you know It's got all this stuff made up in the dream world and everything and this is like a made-up identity and In a sense, it's kind of like a substitute because the true identity is a magnitude You know just a vast spirit that's just so powerful and in this world when we identify with a teeny little person That we think we are it seems very tiny and very limited and not only that but it seems like there's this gigantic world around this teeny little person Where these people seem to be competing against it all the time competing for jobs competing for love competing for resources There's hurricanes and there's tornadoes and there's things that's got to constantly descend and protect and watch out And really it's just a dream that's going on The problem is that it's identified with this little teeny speck of flesh Instead of the vast vast light, which is its reality So that kind of gives you an idea that that as we go through life and we seem to be confronted with issues All of the issues that seem to be out of the screen and all the problems that we seem to face, you know Financial problems relationship problems health problems. We could go on and on about Problem, but they all seem to be out here on the screen And all the course is saying is you just have one problem. It's down in the basement And you have one solution thank heavens To your one problem and it's down in the basement so to speak of our mind and so What we do when we come together is We start from where we're perceiving the problem up here on the top of the World Trade Center or on the screen of the world You know, I've got a problem with this person. They bug me This is what bugs me about him You know you start from describing the problem as you perceive it and then you start tracing it back into Concepts of beliefs that are in the mind the floors of the World Trade Center that are really the cause of the problem because all those dark floors from from the ego and those are all just false beliefs so that's kind of a an Overview of the metaphysics of the course and everything we go into Ultimately we'll start up there on this on the roof of the World Trade Center with a flag blowing We're not we won't just come here. We won't say okay God is love. I am the Christ That's it. Let's go Because most people don't have that in their experience. I mean they they perceive themselves as being impinged upon by this world Every day and constantly just trying to keep their head about water emotionally financially, you know That's been the whole thing One more thing to I guess basic way of talking about the ego belief system is that that When the mind is now identified with this little speck on the screen it seems as if the world has caused it In other words, what's the origin of a person? You know when you ask that question, you know, where are you from? Okay Where was I born? Oh, we're getting down now. My parents are my origin You see that that the mind that believes it's in a body or it's a body believe that its origin is On the screen as well that it was born from these two parents So, you know, you hear the thing a lot of times teenagers or people that have gone through a lot of problems I didn't ask to come here That's happened a lot of times with teenagers and parents like I didn't ask to be born You know time and that's once again. That's just a mild form of the same thing that that I didn't ask for this, you know, I don't want a life like this I do not like these things happening to me all the time, you know, I want I want it to be different than it is and basically the the cause of everything whether we believe it's the economics or the IRS or husbands and wives or or it's the you know Genetics sometimes it's like how great I inherited a heart condition that's been in the family for four generations You know, I didn't answer this guy Why why is my best friend, you know, they're perfectly healthy good cholesterol level good shape And I've got a heart condition that I inherited you can see how it still something on the screen including genetics including the family tree that seems to be on the screen, you know or Maybe you've got a childhood experience. You know, I I was I would have been great, but I was traumatized I was sexually abused when I was three years old, you know And so you went with therapy and you try to get in touch with all these memories of what happened And it's still the underlying premises. It's something that happened to me some event out here on the screen It's the cause of my life being in shambles a Lot of psychotherapy tries to trace it back and get in touch with these memories, you know And what the course is saying is it's not the memory that are the cause of our trauma But it's the interpretation in this very instant That we're getting in the present that is causing the trauma to our mind. And what is this interpretation coming from? It's the mind is still calling forth these memories from the vault of the past and trying to Jesus says it's over in the holy instant We are killed less than innocent right now and the mind's going on now I'm afraid that keeps calling the past into the present, you know It keeps bringing memories and problems and keeping things complicated because it's too terrified of the holy instant It's too terrified of the holy spirit. So that gives us a real good insight Into starting to look at our life and all the problems that we think we have on the screen and And Jesus saying okay now Now we'll trace it back into the mind and you can have some release David did his traditional psychotherapy have a Have a rational place in the order of things um, Jesus dictated a pamphlet after he dictated the course he dictated a pamphlet called them psychotherapy Purpose process and practice and Jesus actually does touch on Psychologists in the course a little bit, but he really goes into it here And basically he says that most of the training for most psychotherapists in this world is a hindrance Rather than a help in other words when I was studying psychology and undergraduate and graduate school That a lot of the training I learned was very directive And behavior modification for example behavior modification operates from the assumption that if you can Use conditioning and reward and modify your behavior that you can improve your life And of course the thing the problem is in your thinking That your behavior comes automatically from your thinking and that if you change the behavior without Or you know like an alcohol alcoholist anonymous They call them dry drunk sometime where you know you you try to change the behavior, but you don't really start Opening up and processing and going within that that in that sense You don't you aren't really making a change at all. You probably have other symptoms. It'll spring up You're just shifting you're just shifting the form thing about the course is is that it goes very very deep in other words The course goes into the metaphysics of time Which is at the really at the root of all problems And and that's pretty deep And I mean there's been a lot of psychotherapies that have kind of gotten into the beliefs started to get into beliefs Like of the world trade center, but the course kind of goes We have