 to reinforce to it that it's guilty. And as soon as the mind is able to transcend or to see the, let go of these false beliefs that really are inducing the guilt, then witnesses automatically will be into the world that will show that guilt is... Yeah. But it starts in the mind. Right. I don't have time to think this out here. I'm just saying, if I notice that this out here is not fixed, and I also know this in here is not fixed. Happy, we're over. Happy dreams is what you're talking about. When the mind is so healed and corrected, it will be a happy dream. Okay. Okay, the mind is very expansive, and the mind is very powerful, and the mind is not contained, you know, anything. There's one point where Jesus says, you know, you are in the mind of God, and God is in your mind. So the mind doesn't follow the laws of this world. You know, we kind of think the same in terms of scale. What contains what? You know, is my mind in God's mind, or is God's mind in my mind? Jesus says it's both ways. In one mind. Yeah, it's literally in one mind. We're talking about big M, and as opposed to little M. That's the split mind, the small M. But the split mind still is assigned to the body? Cos and effect are simultaneous. In other words, the split mind is an optical illusion that ideas can lead to source, and it seems to see a world that is less to source. When Jesus says within, he's talking about abstractness. In other words, another way of thinking about it would be like, there's a screen out here, and that place, you know how you're saying, well, where is the mind? That place is a concept that's in the mind. The mind can believe in the concept of time and space and place. And so that kind of turns it around in the sense that place is just a concept that's in the mind. Jesus is teaching you here that the brain doesn't think, and the brain doesn't have thoughts. The brain is a thought. It's a projection of a thought. My thoughts or images I have made, the body, the world, and the brain would all be just a projection of a thought. So that kind of takes it out of the context of, once again, all the neurology and the medical model, a lot of times we'll look for different disorders at the brain. There's certain lobes that you can activate and everything, and it's still, once again, in a subtle way looking for the cause of things in the brain. And basically what the Course does is it takes it metaphysically back to the mind where the thoughts are. So that's why it's important, other than that, you could fall into traps about, well, somebody is in a coma or unconscious, it seems like at times that shuts off all communication. And we're just so used to communication being through the senses. And here comes the Course and it's saying communication is at a thought level or a mind level. So we're using our brain, though, to get in touch with the mind. And otherwise, how are we getting in touch with the Holy Spirit or how are we using the body as communication? Well, once again, the brain is just neutral to the Holy Spirit, but a lot of times you hear things in a lot of the New Age literature about right brain and left brain. Sometimes right brain is more intuitive, left brain is more analytical. What the Course literally does is it takes it right brain, left brain, it lists it out in the context of talking about brains and Jesus talked about right mind and wrong mind. But literally, that's where we really can come to the release because the wrong mind is all backwards. That's what we were talking about earlier, that it believes that the screen is the cause and that the state of mind is the effect. And the right mind sees that everything's just a decision in mind. So in that sense, it's just important to really get clear on the right mind and the wrong mind, and then you can let go of the wrong mind because once you can see it for what it is, you might go there. Remember our beginning of our discussion, we were talking about decision, where decision is. Now remember the discussion about the blue shirt or the green shirt or whatever? No, it seems as if, it certainly does seem as if that we're persons and we're making decisions every day, not between just shirts, but between lots of things. So are you saying that's all in the script? Yeah, and basically you were saying, well what do I really have a choice on? Remember we addressed that as well that ultimately if you really follow the course in and you really train your mind it will come back, beneath all the beliefs comes back to, I'm a mind and I'm making a choice between the Holy Spirit or the ego. I'm making that choice every second but it doesn't seem that way. Sometimes it seems like our emotions all of a sudden gets stirred up and we don't even know what happened. We can't even think of a trigger event in an album collie. There's all these beliefs in the mind that have to be looked at because the decision is being made at a very deep level at the basement and then it's coming filtering out through the, we were using one example of, here it is, make it a choice for the Holy Spirit or the ego it comes up, time, space, bodies, oh I'm the man, I'm the Cincinnati and but I'm over in the Indianapolis now and I'm speaking at a door to me and it kind of comes out on the surface like that but basically the decision is being made at a very deep level. Doesn't the Course also say you can make the decision in a split second or even less and then immediately your mind forgets that it made it and so therefore you see it as not having been happened to you, that you had no power in the decision, it happened to me. I said 136, that's, in sickness this is defense literally you wait, it's like trying waves the wand and then it quickly dissociates and forgets what it did. But my thing is Ken Watnick says this, why would anyone want to be here, so if we're all going to get sick unless some of them progress to a state where we can just leave the world without getting sick, 99.99999% of us get sick and leave this world, right? Well it still assumes that we're in, that we come into it but it's kind of like there's lessons that are really high in the workbook where it says when I'm healed I'm not healed alone or there's still a pervaded belief kind of in the mind that somehow thinks, alright I'm taking the course, there's all these other people that are out there doing the best that they can but I'm working on this path and eventually if I really continue with this and follow it all the way and accept the Atonement then I'll leave the world but there'll still be this world going on back there that's still twisted and everything but I'll be out of it and what the course is saying is the world is the hallucination when you accept the Atonement for yourself then the hallucination will get real bright in the sense that your perception will be healed true perception of the real world and then the world will fade and disappear you see how different that is from a sense of like coming into the world as a soul or a person that is my hallucination hey that makes it simple when I accept the correction and the healing then the hallucination will be over the thing that is so difficult is that the deceiving mind believes that there really is an objective world a real objective world that I came into and now I'm going to go out of and then it's like it's going to continue on but Jesus is saying there is no world apart from your own money see my husband says to me okay so there's no world and it's all a big dream so what does it matter what you do anyway then and it always leaves me stumped and I think things like well it's because you have some lessons to learn and he says no no no he says you say this is a dream I don't have to worry about what I do this is all a big dream and no matter what I do when that body goes I go I'm at home anyway so you know and I never know that real clearly you're going to love God you want to serve him or if you don't you still get back and the thing about doing remember how we talked about the two levels it's so common to say what should I do or what shouldn't I do but you know how we see that still at the behavior level where Jesus says the whole point of course is to think like God to start to think like God which will be the Holy Spirit's thought system where he says think like me use me as your model for learning but it takes it away from why do we do anything from the do question to well all I know is that I'm trying to align my mind with my father's will or I'm trying to think only the thoughts that I think with God there's a lot of metaphysical systems in fact new age systems that we've seen on magazines create your own reality now in the one sense Jesus does talk that we were talking about at the beginning because there's the law in the kingdom is what you extend you are and he says what happens is when it comes through the ego lens and gets twisted in this realm it's what you project you will believe so in other words if you have an attack thought in your mind you can't stand to keep that in your mind it's too intolerable so I'll project it out on the screen now the big difference between the course and a lot of things and this is where you get into level confusion again and this is very subtle I create my own reality if you mean by reality in terms of the script or whatever there is level confusion because the course says that all creation is entirely spirit in other words we talked about the father creates the son creates the creation the danger comes in is when I say I create my own reality then the guilt comes in because that's where the new age thoughts will come in is like I've created my own sickness lesson number two of course I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has there is no objective world kind of out there which it sure seems like it in which events cause us to feel certain ways but that it's all our beliefs and our expectations and their meanings that we read into them as soon as you can just start to grasp that principle just in the slightest then you start to see this is my way to empowerment if all my upset comes from a misperception and Jesus can help me get clear and heal this perception and get in touch with these false ideas and beliefs that I have then that's my point of power I can actually reach a place where there's nothing I won't be upset by anything or anything to do with that there's a part of the course where Jesus talks about questions and he says there are these things called double questions that the ego really it's a statement because it asks and answers it's got the answer already built into questions you're always asking one of two questions one of them might be worth it do I want to know God's will for me which is a real open ended question to receive the Spirit's guidance and the other one is which of these illusions will fill my lack and whenever we start striving for things in this world that's where all the outcomes come in that's where the expectations come in really the deeper question in the mind is already the presumption is lack and then on top of that one is which of these illusions which of these idols will fill my lack and whenever we go through a day and we get all in an upset mode it's like that's the question in somewhere in our mind that we're asking if I'm working on a project let's say and I get all the way halfway through it and I don't have the tools that I need so I get upset instead of what is God's will for me in this the question is somewhere in the mind I've already decided that I need to finish my project for a happy day and therefore that's part of the illusions that I'm going to need to be happy to get the project finished and therefore I'm going to perceive not having the right tool as an obstruction to my happiness it all comes back to the question that I'm asking in my mind that it slowly we let go of the cravings and desires for things in this world believing that they will bring us happiness then we're free of expectations therefore you know you can more likely appreciate all things work together for good but if I've got a big investment and things have to go this way why? because I'm driving along and I'm trying to get to a business meeting and a train comes along and the train comes along it just is but if I perceive myself as losing my job because I'll be late for work because of this darn train you can see where the thoughts you can get into it from that misperception to a good upset when I start doing that when I have all these outcomes and goals and self-concept things then I can't see the divine order in that train you know because that train is an obstacle it's perceived as an obstacle to something that I want more than the peace of God that's pretty heavy duty but it's like when you start to do that with everything pretty soon it's kind of like setting things up to be the keep of your peace and then you're also going to blame that thing you see for not having peace and the truth is peace is at hand a lot of times people get into this when they think about wait a minute it's a world's an illusion and I like bird stripping and I like sunsets with all these hasels and colors and everything you know sometimes people have a little bit of a difficulty with you know I want God to be in that sunset and what the course is saying is is you really have to bring it back to a question of purpose because if we literally said that God's in nature and God's in sunsets and God's in quiet rivers and blowing trees or whatever and then we said well maybe he's not quite so apparent in concentration camps and ghettos and in man-made concrete structures like downtown buildings we would be caught again because we would be limiting our peace of mind to those nice scenic so-called scenic areas