 in January, going through the Course in Miracles workbook lessons in practical application of mind training. And what a glorious lesson we have today. We are jumping into lesson 30. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. The idea for today is the springboard for vision from this idea will the world open up before you and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. Nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you. Today we are trying to use a new kind of projection. We are not attempting to get rid of what we do not like by seeing it outside. Instead, we are trying to see in the world what is in our minds and what we want to recognize there. Thus, we are trying to join with what we see rather than keeping it apart from us. That is the fundamental difference between vision and the way you see. Today's idea should be applied as often as possible throughout the day. Whenever you have a moment or so, repeat it to yourself slowly looking about you and trying to realize that the idea applies to everything you do see now or could see now if it were within the range of your sight. Real vision is not limited to concepts such as near and far. To help you begin to get used to this idea, try to think of the things beyond your present range as well as those you can actually see as you apply today's idea. Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body's eyes at all. The mind is its only source to aid in helping you to become more custom to this idea as well. Devote several practice periods to applying today's idea with your eyes closed, using whatever subjects come to mind and looking within rather than without. Today's idea applies equally to both. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. So how beautiful today we are just letting go of everything of the past as we seem to look about the world. We are seeing the world seemingly through the five senses, it's just the past. And when you are looking at the past, you're looking at it through a very past idea which is what the ego is. It is literally history. It is gone in the sense that it has been corrected by the Holy Spirit, but to accept the correction, you have to first accept that it is gone. This world was over long ago. It is over and gone. And it's like going to a movie theater and watching a movie. You don't maybe surprise and that may be your interpretation that comes up in some of the scenes. You may be startled, you may have all kinds of emotions, but basically you're just watching something that's already been shot. It's already been filmed, it's already been prerecorded and you're just mentally reviewing what has already been done, has already gone by. So today we're asking to see the world in a new way with the vision of Christ, with the light within and let our light shine and extend and we'll say be reflected, but also it's not looking for the forms where we're letting the inner seeing take over, the true seeing, the clear seeing. I'm thinking of Barbara Streisand's song. On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are. On a clear day, how it will astound you that the glow of your being outshines every star. You'll feel part of every mountain, seeing shore. You can hear from far and near a world you've never heard before. And on a clear day, on that clear day, you can see forever and ever and ever and then more. That inspires me. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. On a clear day, meaning in a clear mind, I can behold forever, I can see forever, as the song says. Just for the fun of it, I thought, well, what have we got in the text to support today's lesson? And I just went into the book and I basically just typed in the search word, allness, because God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. Everything I see is allness. God is in allness because God is in my mind. So I typed in allness just to see what would come up and the word all comes up quite a lot. But I thought I would read a sprinkling of some of the 2,791 results for this, for all. And the introduction, the opposite of love is fear, but what is all encompassing can have no opposite. All expressions of love are maximal. All miracles mean life and God is the giver of life. You will be told all you need to know. Like all expressions of love, which are always miraculous in the true sense, the exchange reverses the physical laws. They depend on cooperation because the sonship is the sum of all that God created. Miracles rearrange perception and place all levels in true perspective. Atonement works all the time and in all the dimensions of time. A miracle is a universal blessing from God through me to all my brothers. I inspire all miracles, which are really intercessions. Only revelation transcends it, having nothing to do with time at all. My part in the Atonement is the cancelling out of all errors that you could not otherwise correct. Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God's creations. Atonement undoes all errors in disrespect and thus uproots the source of fear. The impersonal nature of miracles is because the Atonement itself is one, uniting all creations with their Creator. You can make an empty shell, but you cannot express nothing at all. When the Atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the sons of God. All of his children have his total love and all his gifts are freely given to everyone alike. So that's just a sprinkling of allness. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. And I think when you're going through the mind training and you perceive a fragmented world, then you're just lighting up your heart with a prayer to be shown to see the world differently. And that's really what all the mind training's for. And it's a very humbling journey because as Jesus says, to learn this course requires willingness to question every value that you hold, not one can be kept hidden or it will obscure your learning. So these are the kind of passages that jumped out of me when I first encountered a Course in Miracles in 1986. And I used the book as some of you know is like an oracle, I would just pray and pray and pray, pop open the book and receive beautiful answers to my questions, beautiful clarity to my questioning mind. My, it's like the bomb, healing bomb of love and light, washing away the doubt thoughts and the conflicts. And this is it. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. You know, for me, it was jumping into the practical application of using my intuition, my connection with Jesus, my connection with the Holy Spirit to be guided. And as you go deeper and deeper to the purification of your heart, you start to realize that you were mistaken about everything. You weren't partially mistaken, you were completely mistaken about everything because the ego invented linear time as a distracted device to keep the mind feeling guilty, afraid, lost, wandering in time and space instead of knowing God, the Creator in knowing eternity. So for me, it was seemingly a kind of a slow process of praying every day, praying throughout the day, getting guidance, following that guidance and beginning to enjoy the adventure of unwinding my mind back to God, like the unwinding your mind painting that was sent to me by a friend in South America. And it's experienced as you go through it. It's experienced through the ego's filter as a dismantling. It feels like you're the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz. You know, the flying monkeys come and they take all the straw out of under your clothes so that you're just like a heap of a mess laying on the yellow brick road. But that's just from an ego interpretation. As you go forward and your mind keeps teaching what it would learn and teaching what it would learn and keep following Jesus, teach only love for that is what you are. A friend sent me a song today, Teach Only Love from John Christmas who was of course a miracles teacher and student. And yeah, he's been sharing these beautiful songs for many, many, many years. But the song that my friend sent me today was called Teach Only Love. So it's a purification of everything you think and say and do because it's just a purification of consciousness. Consciousness is Jesus tells us it's the domain of the ego and so it seems to have levels and it seems to require training but ultimately to reach the tippy top of consciousness we'll call it which is forgiveness. Then that opens the way for accepting the Atonement. And the Atonement is the correction for the error of belief in separation from God. So that's in the mind. That's why Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is within. The Atonement is within. It's in the right mind. It's connected with the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is offering the gift of Atonement because the world has already been corrected. So now the instructions and guidance of the Holy Spirit are really just taking steps with the Holy Spirit to unwind from all false beliefs. Empty the mind of false thoughts. Really like the workbook lesson we did not too long ago on the 23rd day of the year. I can escape the world I see by giving up attack thoughts. That's really what we're doing. That's really giving up all the grievances, all judgments, all opinions. It's really letting your heart be purified so that you just sparkle in the divine innocence that you were created as and in. So it's beautiful too because you start to realize when you realize that none of the opinions were accurate, none of the interpretations about the timeline were accurate, none of the conclusions that were drawn were accurate and none of the assumptions that were held onto were accurate. And so as Jesus says, you can't really judge your advances from your retreats and therefore you can't really judge anything in this world. You can't judge success from failure. The world was made by the ego, the linear cosmos and time-space world. And so the ego projected out its concepts, trying to get rid of something. And yet Jesus is telling us this is how we keep it. So that's why we need, as he said today, in the lesson, a new form of projection where we're not trying to get rid of anything. We're just trying to see the love of God and everything and every one without exception. So it's nice to know though that basically everything you believed about yourself as a time-space creature, as a person, as a personality, not that it was real, not the positive or the negative, not the seeming good aspects of the personality or the bad aspects because persona is a mask and the mask is a make-believe construct that the ego made to take the place of eternal love, take the place of the Christ idea, living Christ. So as you go through the mind-training, it's tempting to try to judge positively or negatively. Even the seeming journey, the ego will try to judge the heck out of the journey itself and, but this lesson today follows from yesterday's lesson, God is in everything I see. And today's lesson brings it back to the mind. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. And then you will find as you go deeper into the mind-training that everything's about the mind. The mind, in believing in the ego, made the cosmos, made the body, made all the ailments and all the ills, all of the, you could say, discordant perception, the delusional fragmented perception of this world, it's all made by the ego. It's a projection of error is what it is. And Holy Spirit is the correction of error, ego, projection of error, Holy Spirit, correction of error. And it's really that straightforward and that simple. The mind, when it believes in the ego, much of the ego is pushed out of awareness, just as the light was pushed out of awareness and the darkness also pushed out of awareness. So what we call life on planet Earth is nothing more than a scenario, a motion picture as a backdrop to the unconscious darkness coming up and being allowed to come up so it can be released forever. Perfect love, the love of God, the love of Christ cast out fear and that's the way that this goes. So it doesn't matter what is arising, it's just really the question is, what's the prayer of the heart? What do you want? What do you want? If you want the peace of God, then today's lesson is a big step in that direction. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. And later we will get into some unifying ideas that are pretty much just let it all go and focus your mind like a laser beam on the light, on the love of God, give way to the love of God, give way to the joy of God. That well of workbook lesson that will be repeated many, many times and reviewed many times, which is my mind holds only what I think with God. So if you look at that unwind picture there that looks like a vortex there or going down a tunnel, it's the light in the center. It's the light that comes when we go deep, deep, deep within that that is what shines and sparkles. And as he mentioned in the lesson, this does not involve time and space concepts. There's no near or far in Christ vision. There's no close and distant in Christ vision. There's no here nor there in Christ vision. We're back to singing Barbara Streisand's happy song on a clear day. I think that was actually from the movie Funny Girl. And remember, we're learning how to laugh into eternity where all is one, they're kept a tiny mad idea which the son of God remembered not to laugh. So that's a beautiful theme song. I think it's maybe from Funny Girl. And we want funny mind and funny heart. We want to come to start to see the comedy, instead of being a dark, dismal, black world, it is an unreal world and the divine comedy and the divine laughter, the gentle laughter of Jesus and the gentle laughter of the Holy Spirit is ours for the eski. So we want to glide through the day with gentle laughter in our heart, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling. You know, I think I always like it when I see movies and I can feel the vibe underneath the movie that the movie was made with such joy and such laughter and comedy that you can feel like the actor, the director, the actresses, the producer, the camera people, the light and sound people, everyone had a great time making the movie. And so we can transfer that to our lesson today. God is in everything I see because God is in my mind and that we want to experience the joy and the happiness in this watching, watching of the world. We're beholding the world. We're learning to be a beholder of the dream. We're not going to be tinkering with the pieces and the parts because there aren't pieces and parts in the Holy Spirit's perspective. It's very holistic. It's seeing the world as a whole, not trying to break it into pieces. We tried that and that turned into a said song. So we don't want that anymore. We want a happy song. Sing a happy song, have a happy note in your heart. Make a joyful noise into the Lord as it says in the Bible. Okay, thank you for joining. I'm so glad. Here we are. We're cruising again on workbook lesson number 30 today. Just be happy today. Like the Carpenter's song on top of the world. It's not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eye and I won't be surprised if it's a dream. That's it. Everything I want the world to be is now coming true, especially for me and the reason is clear. Holy Spirit, you are here and God is in everything I see. Because God is in my mind. Okay, thank you. God bless you. Have a beautiful day.