 So you come to a book like Corsi Miracles and he goes okay The world's an illusion But you're dividing the world up into the good illusions and the bad illusions The painful illusions and the pleasurable illusions thereby denying that it's an illusion You know you if illusion means not real or unreality. You can't have good unreality and bad unreality You can't have pleasurable unreality and painful unreality If you follow the ego's trap all you're doing is you're saying no The world of duality is reality. I mean if you follow the ego That's the only conclusion you can come to and then what do you get if you get that then war is real then Pestilence and disease you have to get though you get the whole package If you deny the truth and you accept illusions, then you end up with a package of Illusions that seem real and they do seem very real when you are believing in them. It's like a self-sustaining prophecy. So What I tell people is This the spirit inside you is very gentle and only wants a little bit of willingness to work with So if you read the course, you know, he's saying I'm going to train you to be a miracle worker Regardless of what you thought you were gonna do with your life This is what you're gonna be. You're gonna be a miracle worker and it gets a real specific training program There are many other pathways to it too. The course is not special It's not there's nothing special about it. It's just one path on the universal curriculum But if you just have that little desire You start meeting people you start having synchronicities. You start having things happen in your life That is showing you that this is not A world of randomness, this is not just a Place where there's some that are lucky and some that are unlucky Some that get dealt a good hand and some that get dealt a bad hand you start to realize that it's all happening For the awakening that everything that's occurring is purposeful Because of the purpose behind it and the most important thing about the course is is it It takes you past the idea that you're a victim There's a line in the course that says I am responsible for what I see I Choose the feelings that I experience and I decide upon the goal that I would achieve and Everything that happens to me. I ask for and receive as I have asked Now that is a pretty tight picture There is no way that you could follow that teaching and proceed yourself as a victim of the world If if you're totally in charge of your state of mind and you're totally in charge of your feelings and your thoughts and your perceptions, then there is no one and no thing that can ever burden you in fact There's a an early workbook lesson where Jesus says I can be hurt by nothing except my thoughts Except my my thoughts I can be hurt by nothing except my thoughts in other words if you're suffering There is only one cause of that suffering and that's the thoughts that you're thinking the thoughts that you're holding on to Jesus calls them attack box attack Attack attack off attack thoughts Attack thoughts thoughts Attack thoughts to attack song. Yes So that's why we go into these ideas so carefully because you have to expose all the unconscious attack thoughts in your mind and then release them And in fact, he starts out lesson one Nothing I see means anything Lesson number two. I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me And he continues on going back and forth between number four is These thoughts do not mean anything So he's going back and forth between the perceptual world That you think you see and The thoughts in your mind that you think you think and he's saying That world is not your real world that we're out there with seemingly out there with all this pain and suffering and Pleasures and all this craziness going on. That's not your real world and Those thoughts that you're thinking in your mind is a little whirling through your consciousness. Those aren't your real thoughts and He actually goes so far as to say that the world that we see is a hallucination It's kind of like being in the desert someday. You know when you're really hot and tired Yeah, it's just like a hallucination very much like with drug experiences when you feel like you're hallucinating He's saying well your everyday world Is the same this is pretty humbling stuff. I mean it's like oh my god, could I have been duped? that much To believe in a world and he says yep, he said You built this world you learned it You just kept adding layers and layers and layers of illusions on top of each other The opposite of peeling and you you built the onion or for people who like the sports metaphors like the inside of a golf ball You ever seen the inside of a golf ball you got the core and then it's wrapped With all these layers of rubber like rubber bands strong really tight He said you never stopped to pause in your building of this world. You never stopped to pause to say what am I doing this for? You just kept building and building and building illusions upon illusions upon illusions making it more and more complicated and Never stopping once to ask yourself. What am I doing this for? What's the purpose of all these illusions? So now he goes the other way and he says now we're gonna start peeling We're gonna start going through the the illusions. We're going back to the core and that's really what This course of miracles is all about It takes it just takes growing this you don't have to be rich. You don't have to be famous. You don't have to be intelligent You don't have to have special skills and abilities. I certainly look at my life and I was shy and reserved and I Was I was unsure and uncertain and doubtful in so many ways in my life and Now I feel like I'm Confident I'm certain. I'm sure I mean vulnerable. I can go to countries now Where there are gunmen armed gunmen Around me a regular base today. I've waved to him I kind of go by I get the big guns and I kind of smile away that He believed me when you're in purpose and you're serving God I think one time that there's maybe in the Bible with if God is with us who can be against us is Kind of the way that it says in other words if you're tuned in with your purpose Your purpose you are safe. You are safe. You are you are more safe and secure than any amount of weapons Yeah, or anything could ever do that's where you get your invulnerability the same applies to the chicken What do you see there are the bird through? It's one how hysteria and then the the matter. They go with their mask and everything and This is packed everything and kill everything that could be looking like a So this is important to know because what this is doing now Imagine now the spirit in you is going to work with your belief system and It's not like the aesthetic paths. You don't have to go out and and live on the mountain and not have any ice cream and I never have a piece of candy again. And we're not talking about that What we're talking about is that the spirit will actually use your belief system When you start to open to it and you made up with horse racing horses Ice cream It's not to say to you guys because the world is me. All right, Jesus. I'll be a miracle worker What am I gonna give up? No, no, it goes the other way. It's like the spirit uses your preference pattern and you get like these whims For horse, maybe for things that you don't even want Playing and asking God I need my husband and I need something to join on to come together And then you end up with horse races Something that you never in a million years in a million years you could have never foreseen that But it's just the way that the spirit works. It's it's humorous. It's cosmic humor. It's funny You have a ball to anybody who thinks this is a journey of sacrifice. No way I feel like I just got in I'm having more fun now Flowing around in the spirit than ever and it's not, you know Ceremonious churches and I've got to give them mass and an afternoon mass or worse. I'm kind of be having a roving anything I probably did that in the past That's my for Sunday, but but now it's like it's spontaneously flow with the joy