 Well, good morning, everyone. Did you sleep well? Yeah? Now, as we move along, sometimes we get mixed answers to that. Let's get stirred up a little bit. I mean, the sessions or the movies we watch. Movie clips and stuff like that. Eiko gets chased out of this hiding space and has to find another dark corner or another dark rock to hide under sometimes. Sometimes I've envisioned it like one of those steep wells, those old stone wells where you think there's like a little spider down at the bottom of the well and you shine the flashlight down and it will move away from the light. The beam goes down in one part and it will just move over to the other move the beam and it moves over to the darkness because Eiko has to stay in darkness to seem to have an existence or perpetuate its seeming existence and its light, the exposure that dispels it. So eventually when you're willingness and readiness grow very strong it's like turning on one of those big spotlight things, aiming down the well. And Eiko is just like nowhere to go filled with light. That's a fun way to, that's the way to end Eiko's seeming existence. It's just bringing the light, bringing the darkness to the light over and over and over until you just don't choose to have any areas or aspects of the mind that are concealed and held in darkness. And then everything then is openly revealed but it's very abstract when you get into that. So it's quite disorienting at times on the spiritual journey because you have these moments of abstraction and Gary was telling me yesterday during the first talk he said the figure of David was like a little glitchy, patchy. And I think that happened a lot of gatherings where people will say I could still barely hear your voice but the image just started to fade away and the perceptions started to teeter in the toes a little bit and it's good. It's very disorienting to the Eiko because Eiko thinks that everything is solid and when you start to go deeper into your mind things seem a little more surreal. Like a surreal painting or something. At first it's a bit disorienting but then after a while you start to say that feels kind of cool. You kind of like this surreal feeling. I can go with this. I think I'll go in that direction a bit more. It does seem also in terms of the spiritual journey that you can go through some phases where you're pulling your mind away from the Eiko so rapidly that you don't really seem to get the external the seeming external confirmations and those are just phases which are really asking you to go more on your inner experience and to trust that small still voice and that guidance and to remove this desire to see external what this is improved because they're really external they're really just reflections of mind but I think there's a famous part of the Bible where Thomas comes up to Jesus and after the crucifixion and resurrection he's checking the hands or the arms of Jesus for the holes and everything and Jesus kind of says in essence blessed are those who have seen and believed but far more blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed who have this inner faith this inner desire for God and to tune in to that small still voice and I thought it was kind of interesting in the story with Jesus how Mary Maggala was the first one that Jesus saw and I think that was just like a symbolic reflection because she really had the eyes to see and the ears to hear in other words she was more prepared to really understand the essence of what Jesus was teaching and symbolically he saw her first and that's the way that this works it all starts within your own mind within your own consciousness and then the more you become clear of your desire to really experience God and the deeper you go into that desire and the more it becomes single and focused the more unified your perception becomes I say the word more because that's kind of a time concept and it does seem when you're going through the awakening that it is a progressive thing people have asked me is awakening a process or an instant and that could be applied to forgiveness is forgiveness a process or an instant and it actually is an instant but it seems to be a process that you go through until you can fully open your mind and grasp that instant at that point it ceases to be a process it would almost sound funny somebody would come up to you and say describe the process of forgiveness and you'd be like wow I don't even know what that means but the spirit of course can come through and give you those and the symbols a lot of the spiritual journey is learning to not judge what comes out of your mouth because it's very much based on the moment what you're guided to say and letting the spirit speak it through you so you shouldn't be trying to have the sensor going all the time the Holy Spirit wouldn't say that the Holy Spirit would definitely not say that in this situation the ego's sensor that can be in the back there is kind of like filtering the Holy Spirit and what you really need to do is really develop the trust of just letting it come through pop through