 The happy dream in the most simplest terms is a dream of non-judgment and what that really entails is at some point you start to realize that human beings seem to organize the world they see and their lives on earth so to speak based on a belief system and forgiveness which is what the happy dream is about it's like it's like a giant all-encompassing belief in fact it's it's such a large belief that it literally like swallows up it's like Jonah and the whale it just swallows up all the other ones and what that means in practical terms is when you have the experience of forgiveness you you have to experience that all specific beliefs are completely untrue and so it puts your mind in a state of openness complete open-mindedness complete all inclusiveness complete acceptance so that means practically speaking that that you absolutely can never get into an argument ever again because you have this experience that that there's no specific beliefs that are more true than other ones they're all equally false and therefore all the labels the things that people seem to be defending of different religions different cultures different beliefs associated with ethnic differences and everything you find that that not only are there zero significant differences but there are zero differences you have an experience of the unified mind unified awareness in which everything is you literally everything is is mine and everything is you're identified with that so so you've completely transcended arguments debates being right being wrong you completely transcend opinions you could possibly hold the slightest opinion about anything because that opinion would be based on specific beliefs and the happy dream laughs at the very idea and so for me as it's very joyful because here we're calling this a oneness festival and that's a beautiful name for it we're not promoting a course of miracles we're not promoting any theology including the course and the course itself says that you know he's got the end of the paragraph in lesson 189 the one that starts off simply do this be still I said all thoughts of what you are what God is and he goes on to say forget this world forget this course and come with open arms unto your God that's the experience of the happy dream so you you literally lose all sense of discrimination in terms of the specifics there's still the spirit can still flow through you with what call guidance but that guidance is for the whole it's for the whole universe it's not really for specific ones it can still involve words but the presence of love is so strong that that there is there the rejection becomes impossible abandonment becomes impossible all the things that seem to be the sticking points around religion all become impossible suddenly religion becomes the experience of peace of mind which is like oh that's a different definition that are you Hindu are you Muslim are you Christian piece oh piece that's it's an experience that literally transcends all the theologies and all the concepts so talk about the idea you know I've never met a stranger you know who would a stranger be if love is welcoming to one and all then there's that feeling of home it's a presence of being home you might say that it's where heaven and earth cease to exist as separate states I always like that part of the course heaven and earth cease to exist as separate states you know it's the teaching heaven is here heaven is now and that's the feel of the happy dream that's what makes it happy it's not a future state it's not something that you hope and wish for someday some way we'll find a new way that's not it either because that sounds very hopeful you know but but hopefulness doesn't really have a place in the happy dream it's not hoping for anything it's it's an actual state and for me that's been kind of a treat for me when I travel around the world and met all these different people and different cultures and languages and traditions and everything it's it's a fiesta it's a party it's like an ongoing party because there's no point to be made you know that's that's the fun of it there is absolutely no point there's not it's not like that thing on Saturday night like point counterpoint there's there's not even there's no counterpoint but there's no point and when people sometimes say to me what's the point of this world I say well really there is no point you can't find anything that's a point but you could say that happiness if God's will for us is perfect happiness if you really had to come up with something like a purpose it would have to be happiness forgiveness is just a name we could say that that can equate with happiness and forgiveness is our function while we perceive a world then Jesus says in the workbook my happiness and my function are one they are the same you imagine you're growing up with your parents and they're going what are you going to be when you grow up and you're like five years old you want to be a fireman you want to be a ballerina happy happy I'm going to be happy you'll be like no you don't understand the question but but actually that is the answer really you know what's the point of your being here to be happy okay that's good and we're not talking about a temporary happiness that's associated with specific outcomes you know all I'm happy because I got the raise or I'm happy because I got I found my soulmate or happy because I won the lottery or I'm happy because I finally got through the workbook lessons of the course until the guidance that now let's do it again you know it's not a temporary happiness you know it's not really aligned at all so really that's the thing and that's what I have enjoyed in just meeting with people when people invite me to their homes or you know stay with me or travel with me or so and so forth it's a very joyful experience because there's no agenda with it you know that's another thing happy dream has absolutely no agenda I kind of use enlightenment as synonymous with the happy dream in a sense that the course even says that that's really the goal the goal is forgiveness and and the abstraction of waking up is you know there's one part in the course where it says God will take the final step like we make the mind ready by simply emptying the mind of everything that's not of God and even though God doesn't really take steps it's more like like once we're just in a sustained state of happiness that that the body and the world can be gently gently laid aside in fact I really like that part in the teacher's manual where it says that there are those who have laid the body down laid the body aside in order to get this word increase their helpfulness isn't that an interesting phrase in the Course in Miracles there are those that have laid the body down in order to increase their helpfulness now from the ego's perspective it's like increase dead is not really a dead inanimate body you know it can't do a lot of speaking it can't do a lot of smiling can't do a lot of hugging you can see where the ego could come right in and say oh you made a you made a transcription error there to increase and that's not to say that Jesus is encouraging suicide because some of us have gone through and thought what's the fastest shot here this body thing I'll get rid of this thing that eternal life is not reached through death it's reached through resurrection of the mind it's reached through forgiveness so when he's saying many there are those that have laid the body aside to increase their helpfulness they're saying there are those who have forgiven the world who have have just gone into the glee and joy of the happy dream and then had seemed to cease in appearance but it's not like anybody goes anywhere I mean for years people have said well you know I gotta go get talks at unity churches and everything and like in unity churches when you go around nobody talks about death or dying it's always making the transition nobody that's the buzzword transition you get there they're given a eulogy you don't come out here and hear the dead word out here in California very often past transitioned you know something but not died nobody dies in California transition they pass but where do they pass to and I used to say where do they transition to and then they would say well to the other side and I say how many sides are there in unity I mean at unity church if you guys are still talking about going to the other side how many sides are there in unity so it's you start to just pop all the assumptions and when you start to realize is it's just it's a perceptual dream it's it's entirely like a quantum way it's entirely just a projection of consciousness of belief and when you let that consciousness be purified and released of judgment that's what the happy dream is and because of it's a quantum world so to speak it's a quantum universe that when you accept the happy dream then that's the only dream that there is there's not concurrently a happy dream running and then below it an unhappy dream the unhappy dream was the nice perception and the happy dream is is what is the closest touch them the closest thing to like heaven and earth being the borderland yeah that's another call yeah it's called the borderline as well and that's where there's this unification that's it's so close to heaven that that it's like your feet no longer touch the ground so to speak you know you're just like carried in