 It becomes more and more evident and more aware that everything that you perceive is a reflection of your mind. And so, it's just funny things that happened over the years. I remember in the Appalachian Mountains doing a gathering one time near Murphy, North Carolina, and I went to bed and slept through the night, but apparently there was huge lightning and thunderstorms during the night, which I was unaware of in the next morning that everybody was buzzing about how loud the crashes were of thunder and jumping two feet out of the bed in the middle of the night because of this booming, crashing thunder and everything. I was just like, hmm, because I didn't hear a thing. But we had a long row of buildings, and then my friend Resta, who received all this music from the angels, opened the door up and she comes out and she goes, it was me, because you just start to see everything. You don't see the weather as outside of you. You don't see anything. We've had things over the years, issues with computers and internet network systems and cars, and just everything imaginable, but instead of looking for the cause and the form, we go to the mind. And we've had some beautiful reflections, too, of that shift of mind where literally the problem and form disappears. Whatever was broken is fixed without calling a repairman or whatever. It's just... It's a miracle. It's a miracle. There it is. It's there. Because it's a whole new way of thinking. Instead of having something wrong with your car, taking it to a mechanic, going to your inner mechanic, the spirit, it starts to become a habit. And you start to do it with everything. So a person is saying, when there's a feeling that something's stuck or not flowing or whatever, then it's a time to go inward back into that prayer and devotion. And what's happening, too, is you lose the investment in outcomes. Like, for example, with all the traveling and touring we've done, which was a time when Jackie was handling flight, booking of flights and frequent flower miles and so on and so forth. And now from a linear perspective, you would think, OK, the task of booking a flight is you go on, you have to find the flight and fill out all the information, and then finally you get to the button where you push the button and you actually pay for the flight, and then it will give you sometimes a confirmation or you get this and that. And then you get to the point where you go through all that, Jackie pushes the button and nothing happens. Now, typically if you were looking at it in terms of a linear task of booking a flight, you would say, well, it all went good until the final step. And the ego could interpret that there's a technical issue with the website or something like this. No, no, no, no, no. At times Jackie would just step back and go, I don't think that flight is to be booked. You see how different that is from being invested in the outcome to being so tuned in that all things work together for good. And when things don't work, there's a purpose underneath, but it's not that the site's not working. It's being so open to be guided and then another flight will come in. It would be better or it's delayed until a time when a decision can be made. Perhaps it's just a timing issue. There wasn't quite time for that flight to be booked, so the button doesn't work and so forth. So those are, like, nuances and it actually goes reverse of a lot of ways of thinking you can diagnose a problem in the world and then you go about the problem-solving mechanisms that we've all been taught based on past learning to remedy the problem. And we're learning from the courses. There's no problems in the world. The only problem is with your connection with the spirit. And if you have an egoic block, those are getting washed away. That's the problem. It's an internal problem, as Jesus says in the workbook. One problem, one solution, salvation's accomplished. But he's not saying that the problem is outside of yourself. If you're defining the problems as outside, then you'll define the solutions outside. The only problem with that is it just keeps recurring. You've just got daily just a litany of problems which you can try to solve them as best you can. Sometimes you have to move on to the next day and there's carryovers from the previous day's problems and you've got to pile the problems to deal with and that's the human condition. And all of us, of course, have gone through that and dealt with that but this is about inner listening and not trying to force outcomes. Just let the outcome be given. So, you know, that's what we say when Francis is saying, whatever you perceive and form will be a reflection of the mind. Just don't count yourself short. Just don't discount the power of your mind to draw forth the witnesses because we are always drawing forth witnesses and our mind is extremely powerful and if you have this dedication and devotion whatever you need, if it's a book or a pamphlet, a mystical mind-training experience or a mystical mind-training partner or a Skype partner or someone that you can talk to, that's pretty much how our days go. It's quite unconventional too because sometimes we marvel at some of these centers, the way they come up and the people that show up and the things that are provided and things that are given, you know, you could just do a whole movie on this place in Mexico, all the miracles that have come, just how things are handled, how things come in. You know, it's got more of a fairytale quality to how it all happens because it's all so deeply purposeful and nothing's at random and there's so many people involved. For us going down to Mexico it seems to be a different culture than the United States, different language, different customs, you know, meeting carpenters, going out to meet carpenters who come in handcraft from the wood, handcraft the bunk beds, you know, build them right in the house, you know. We don't really have that, you know. In the United States you hire a carpenter to come into your house and, oh, it's going to be a lot of money. No, this was not, you know. Everything just trickles in, even handling finances. We go down there, we go to a couple banks, no, nothing happens to this bank. No, the computer's down. We get funneled directly where we're supposed to go with the finances. Everything, down to the most minute detail, is orchestrated by the spirit just because the spirit is in charge and there's practical guidance that's given so we can flow and be in the joy and not put so much time and effort into how, how, figuring out things in the world. You know, how do you handle the bedding? How do you handle the food? You know, some of you might have heard of, do you have soup kitchens over here? Like for homeless, where they just like give food to the poor? We get that. We actually, people give us food. Lots of it. It's amazing people come from other parts of the country. They're like, what's, you, it's, we're so focused on what we do that, that actually a huge amount of food gets given to us. It's hard to, to believe, but because we don't really look like homeless people. I don't know what they, what they look like. But it's, we're, you know, we shave sometimes. You know, it's coming, it comes in all kinds of ways. And it's very unexpected, you know, because we're not looking for things in certain ways. But the spirit brings it in, brings it in. Sarah, no, she's not on your head. She's in a food bank. Like food bank. Amazing stories. They come back from the pantry. You're not going to believe what we got. You know, I mean, it's just, it comes in all kinds of different ways. This support of just the spirit using the symbols of the world. So you can keep your mind on the peace and the love and the sharing and extending the communicating. And that's what we're doing. And then the other stuff, it's very much like, seek you first the kingdom of heaven and all else will be added unto you. These are practical examples of, of, it actually works. You know, it's not like pie in the sky kind of, you know, wishful thinking. It's just, would you give yourself over fully to this purpose, then things are taken care of. Yeah, I think this question of inner listening, you know, it's, it's most important to come back to that. Just the willingness and the devotion to, to stay open and keep at it. Because again, like Kirsten was describing, there's this, there's been this seeming break of communication during the fall from grace or during the seeming separation. And this is a way of reconnecting. You're like opening a channel, you're opening a channel, but that was shut off by the ego. And so it takes patience, it takes practice, it takes willingness. We join together so much that that's part of an acceleration, I think, you know, because when you have a group of people, you know, when you're practicing for yourself is one thing. When you're doing it in a relationship, you know how that can be. When you're doing it in a group, you can just even imagine, you know, of the fine tuning and nuances that come, come in with that. Because the ego is terrified of the Holy Spirit. You know, the ego does not want there to be this re-establishment of connection, of communication. The ego is part of that break and wanting to maintain that break. And so sometimes it can be a timing thing where you start to get some feelings or some signs or even words or images and then it seems to take a while. It can almost be like a premonition of something that's to come, but it's just not now, not yet. And so you develop patience, infinite patience in that. And then I think the more fine-tuned you get, you also are aware that there are no accidents. So when doorways seem to be closed or things seem to be locked or things seem to be what the world would call blocked, you start to have a whole different perception of that. It would be like imagine you were some water coming down a mountain and then you encountered some rocks and boulders along the way and the water just splashed and rolled around the boulder, you know. It didn't hit the boulder and go, hmm. Was I not listening when I came to this boulder? Was I off in my hearing of the spirit? You know, no, it just flows. It never gets blocked. It flows around. And even if it gets damned up, let's say it comes to a valley and it comes down and it goes, oh, then it just sits there for centuries as a pond. It doesn't go. Was I not hearing right that this pond or this valley, I would hit this valley? No, it just goes in and sits in the pond. See, that's how you have to do. You have to be like a twig in the river. And the river will go here and there and the twig will bounce around and go where it goes. But you have no investment, you know, in the form. You're invested in this peace of mind. You could be a happy twig going babbling down the river, you know. And even if you go over the waterfalls, whee, you know. You know, you might have some fun experiences being a twig, but you don't really have to try to figure it out. You know, the thing you want to pay attention to is how do you feel. That's the most important thing always is how you feel. That's what the lesson really is. It's a lesson in the Beatitudes.