 We all want to give up Compromise and We all want to experience Integrity having the integrity of heart and mind having the integrity Deep within us, so we feel completely connected with everyone and everything And it's striking to me how in this world That we're not really aware of the extent of the compromise, you know in our words in our actions in our thoughts in our emotions There's an enormous amount of compromise in the split mind And I think it comes down to what Jesus said in the the Bible. He said no man can serve two masters We know from studying the course. We know what he's talking about. You can't really serve love and fear If if you try to serve love and fear you're going to find your mind is like a contradiction No wonder it seems Psychotic and it's split from reality. No wonder it seems schizophrenic and it's listening to multiple voices Not just inside but on the screen Every day in daily life The wonder it seems to get depressed The wonder it it seems like it's wandering lost in the dark wondering I Don't know how I got here, but this isn't my home This split feeling this divisive feeling doesn't feel natural There's something in us that knows that it's not natural and yet We seem to have lost Sight of the escape hatch we seem to be wandering in a vast place where we don't know Where the escape hatch is or like in the Truman show we've lost track of the exit door It's it's disguised. We can't see it. We can't find it so You know in spiritual circles people are saying hey you want to come along You know I've got a booth and maybe you could share your books and come and come to a festival and I say well What's what's the name of the festival? They say well, it's a mind-body spirit festival. I Said that's ridiculous. I Never heard of such a ridiculous thing Well, you know, we're all about integrating the mind body and spirit, but they can't be integrated. They can't They can't They say oh, it's very holistic doesn't sound holistic to me Jesus says in the Bible Jesus says That which is born of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the spirit is spirit in a course of miracles Jesus says you You perceive the flesh or there's the key word or You recognize the spirit He says in the course. What do you want freedom of the body or freedom of the mind because both you cannot have You can tell where this is going He says at one point in the course If you are a body Your mind is gone from your self-concept and if you are a mind Your body is gone from your self-concept. You get where I'm going with this. It's an either or and Even these mind body Spirit festivals. Well, we know that the body's an illusion because the ego Made it up. God did not create the body. God does not create the perishable God is eternal and God creates Eternally that's what creation is that's what spirit is The body is an invention a fictitious invention of this puff of nothing that's called ego And then as far as mind, what does Jesus actually have to say about mind? Well, he's got a lot of things to say about it in the course, but in the clarification of terms Jesus says Mind is the activating agent of spirit. Oh, is that helpful? That must mean that the only purpose the mind serves Is as a conversion factor to Recognize what that your spirit that your pure spirit that you're eternal the activating agent of spirit That's why Jesus I can talk about a split mind He can talk about divine mind, but when he starts talking about divine mind or the mind of God He's actually speaking of spirit So what I'm pointing at here is the body and the spirit aren't reconciled. They aren't reconcilable at all You can't be both You have to be one or the other and This is the purpose of a course of miracles It's the Holy Spirit working with your mind with the mind to convince it of The reality of spirit isn't doesn't that make intuitive sense to see your I amness your spirit Your eternal nature is the only purpose of it and there's stepping stones about Using your mind to be in your right mind instead of your wrong mind to be miracle-minded instead of judging in grievances and then ultimately to let go of the scaffolding so to speak and Be lifted up into I amness into spirit the spirit that I am