 Now let's, some of you live in the United States and there's all this stuff about Supreme Court and you know what I feel about, you know, Lesson 76 in the course, I am under no laws but God, has anybody ever read that lesson? Everybody's so concerned about who, whether this guy's going to get appointed to the Supreme Court and there'll be more conservatives than liberals and we might, women are all going, what if we lose abortion rights? We have a right to abortion, what if the law of the land changes and we can't have a legal abortion? Then there's minorities saying what if they change affirmative action and then there's people saying LGBT, we just got same-sex marriage, we just got rights for gays and this and this and this and now this judge, what if the Supreme Court of the United States rules and turns the clock back and takes away women's right, rights for blacks, rights for women to control their body, rights for affirmative action, all these things, you know, there's this big controversy, maybe you can play the clip, judges, judges, this is all about judges, external judges, external power, some of them, I mean people are getting so caught up in this but you know we're going to talk about I am under no laws but God's, that's what we're going to talk about on this show but let's play the clip here, it's a big controversy, ego controversy. Okay, that's great. So this is a good one to look at for the course of miracle students, you can hear the commentators say these Supreme Court decisions shape life and for many people on the planet they would say you're exactly right, whether a woman has a right to an abortion or not, whether people have right to same-sex marriages or not, whether people have civil rights, civil liberties, all of them are predicated on one belief that affects in the world, that things that happen in the world impact your experiences, impact your life and yet this is where a course of miracles, Jesus is doing one of these, like Byron Katie, let's turn it around, know your mind, your consciousness is making all the decisions, nothing affects you but your thoughts. If you have ego thoughts, you will feel the pain, the hurt, the fear, the shame of holding onto ego thoughts, those are attack thoughts and those are all grievances. When you forgive, you experience love, light, joy, happiness as you would imagine you would because they're in a line with God, they're in line with spirit, they're in line with truth. So the key thing here is that these Supreme Court decisions and political decisions, whether it's who gets elected in Mexico or whether there's more conservatives and liberals and everything, all of those are predicated on the belief that there's causation in the world, not in your mind and that the effects can cause you harm, whether it's past memories or whether it's what seems to be happening to you now, it's all based on false cause and effect. So this is why I say that don't listen to a course of miracles teacher that says, well follow the course but when it comes down to political things, you got to take a side and you've got to be against certain things and for certain things, Jesus never ever says that. He always says, come back to the Holy Spirit and be right-minded and forgive and actually he wants you to see all the images as the same. He doesn't want you to divide the world up as the ego does into the good guys, the bad guys, the heroes, the villains, the dictators and the tyrants and the, oh the blessed ones, you know, he doesn't ever encourage us to make that division. He's always bringing it back to the mind and saying you have a decision in your mind to link with the Holy Spirit and see this differently. Above all else I want to see this differently. I will step back and let him lead the way. You know, all the lessons are about tuning into the Holy Spirit and seeing the world differently before you wake up from the stream and they're never about taking a stance or a side. So you see, there is no politics involved in the Holy Spirit's perception. You may be guided. There's nothing wrong with voting and there's nothing wrong with doing anything in the world, going for surgery, taking an aspirin. There's nothing wrong with any of that but the Holy Spirit is saying, yeah I know you're afraid of the light but please learn to join with me and join in the miracle more habitually, more consistently so that you can perceive the world in a different way and that's where the healing occurs in that way. So this is good. This is just another issue, a very seemingly political issue that most people are really up in arms about now. They're like, now we've got to rally the army together and this must be stopped and it's hypocrisy and all this and this when actually the deception is not in the senators. It's not in the Supreme Court candidate and it's not even in the voters and the people. The deception is in seeing a world that's not even there and then fragmenting that world into pieces and then trying to attack and defend the pieces. That's where the problem is. That's the sickness. It might even be a stepping stone idea but I see that when the people are so afraid of these laws being overturned and that truly they are afraid they won't get what they need and that they rely on the government or the laws but Jesus, he bypasses all of those. If they really need something, even if it's a law or not a law, he finds a way to lay it. Within the world's ego's world, personalities do seem to be influenced by things that are external to them but see that's all part of false cause and effect. The Course teaches that the Holy Spirit looks not to affect, meaning he's not looking into any of the images of the world. He knows that they don't have a real cause, that the ego projected out all the images and the Holy Spirit knows that the ego isn't real. So of course the images aren't real. The Holy Spirit doesn't see the world the way humans do. The Holy Spirit is like leaves blowing in the wind. He's like whoo, like flash dance, happy happy happy. That's all the Holy Spirit sees is a bunch of leaves blowing in the wind and then what's the big deal? Well to the ego everything's a big deal. Oh you could take away my rights. I said this years ago that I said there aren't no such things as human rights. Now this is getting really deep. I upset the Gandhi people and you know you get you get too deep and everyone gets upset but there are no human rights because why? There's no humans. You have a birthright. You are created by God. That's your birthright. You want to write? You were created by God as the Christ. That's your right. That's the only thing that you're entitled to is the remembrance of your natural birthright as the Christ. And do you have any human rights? No. Do you have political rights? No. Do you have any rights as a person? No. No you don't. Let's talk straight here. Come on. Let's get into the course. This course will be believed entirely or not at all. So come on. I want the entirely crowd with me because that's all there is. There isn't. It's not like hang grenades and horseshoes. Well it's close. Horseshoes. Well it's close. Holy Spirit doesn't play horseshoes. There is no close. You accept the atonement or you seem to not which is really no option in my mind. So this is where it gets very uncompromising but you have to start to realize whenever you get squabbling about personal rights and individual rights and that's what a lot of this stuff is. Liberal, conservative. All these are constructs. There's no reality to any of this. You have to go deep enough before you get really truly happy and unless you go deep enough you're just going to still feel all these political thoughts in your mind. You're going to notice judgments and opinions and you're going to be taking a stand for this and against that and that's just back to the world. That's just the ego.