 We're told that in the end we're going to make a decision called the Atonement, which is a decision, but it's more of an acceptance than a decision. It's like it's not something new that we invent. The Holy Spirit's got it there, like holding for us and saying, here it is, come and get it. And what's in the way is just some beliefs, some egoic beliefs that stand in the way. So we have to, we kind of march toward that decision, toward the Atonement with the Holy Spirit, because it would be like going up a mountain and not knowing the pathways up the mountain. You know, the Holy Spirit knows the pathways up the mountain and the Atonement's like at the top of the mountain. And we're coming out, we're criss-crossing, hey, you again, hey! Bill and I were high-five. You meet people along the way. Oh, nice to see you again. Well, gotta go on. Spirit's calling me over here. I gotta go and we criss-cross and we criss-cross. And we keep coming up towards that Atonement. And the Atonement, we might say, is when you yield into that decision, you know, he says, when you have learned how to decide with God, every decision becomes as easy and as right as breathing. And it's as if you'll be carried down a quiet path in summer. Well, that's worth going for. Why wouldn't we go up the mountain if it's that easy? It's as easy and as right as breathing. So here's the beliefs. And then he says, an interesting line in the course, he says, a decision is a conclusion based on everything that you believe. So imagine, let's use a computer analogy. You've got a hard drive. And you load your hard drive with beliefs. Lots of beliefs. Egoic beliefs. Time-space beliefs. And you've got the whole hard drive loaded with those. And then you've got your little time operating memory that's helping the software, the current software program run. And of course, the operating system is pulling from the hard drive to run the programs. You could say you've got relationships. Those are the egoic beliefs that are underneath every decision you seem to make. So you decide to come to this retreat. Well, that's just a decision. That's a conclusion based on everything that you believe, everything that's down in the hard drive. How could you come to Fruitland, Utah to a monastery unless you believed in time and space in a state called Utah, in a country called the United States of America, and you being a man or a woman or whatever else you believe you are. And then coming and driving. And so all of these beliefs, you know, there's space and then there's a little story, a little scenario going on that seems to be the motion picture that's playing out of all your beliefs. And eventually, I mean a lot of times people do say, okay, if that's the metaphor, I want to do a wipe disc. You know, some of you know computer terminology, you can do a wipe disc. MS-DOSC wipe disc. And wipe out the hard drive. And the good news is Jesus is saying, yeah, that's actually possible. There is a wipe disc command. And in any instance, you can do that. That's really a very optimistic thing to know that it's actually there. But it's usually not experienced that way. Usually there's a process that's involved in the wipe disc. Usually there's a process of deleting what's going on. It's very rare. I mean even in contemporary modern day mystics like Eckhart Tolle, you know, they'll talk about park bench experiences or kind of rapid wipe disc experiences like illumination experiences. Those are good. It's good to hear about those. It makes you think, well, that could happen to me. Could have a wipe disc. But for most, it's clearing away those beliefs. And it's usually done in a gradual way. And it's usually done where you just kind of, aha, you notice something. I'm still playing out this role or that role. Suzanne was just saying, you know, the good daughter role. You know, okay, I got to be a good, dutiful daughter. And then, ooh, there's a lot of emotion that comes with that. Is it you failed at something? Is it you've done something wrong? And remember, the ego set up all the roles to manufacture and to keep its guilt going. You can't be the Christ and the role. So Jesus says, well, let's try this. I'll give you a role that is a shared role. All of your role are private roles. They're really not shared. They're all private roles. I'll give you a shared role and we'll call it forgiveness. You'll call it the happy dream. We'll call it the real world. We'll call it the borderland. We'll call it a number of different things. But it's shared. And you share it with the Holy Spirit. You know, it's completely shared. And so when you reach that point, it's all your brothers and sisters. In fact, it's the only thing in this world that you can share. You can't share bodies. You can't share a bank account. You can't share a property. You can't share anything. You can't even share opinions. You know, oh, so and so and I. We share the same opinions about this and that. You can't really do it. But you can share a perspective of looking upon the world with the Holy Spirit. And that high perspective has been called many different names in quantum physics. It's the quantum field where everything is totally energy and it's all connected. It just has different names and different traditions. So really, this is a journey where you are uncovering these unconscious beliefs. You're just raising them up and you're bringing them up to the light in awareness and then they disappear. So you don't have to battle them. You don't have to fight them. You don't have to attack them or anything. You just raise them up into awareness and eventually this construct of unconscious and conscious disappears. You know, you might call it fully conscious. You become fully conscious. What a good way to end the unconscious. In fact, Jesus one time defined the unconscious as the unwatched mind. There's parts that are in your basement or we'll say down on the hard drive. You're not even watching. You didn't want to know that they were there. I don't want to know about that. Ooh, that's a dark dirty. Don't care to know about that. Happy, happy, happy. But what you do is you allow those beliefs to come up and you are shown how to look with the Holy Spirit at those beliefs and see their nothingness. And that's what raises them up into the light. And then, of course, the end is that you become fully conscious. Or as they say, like in Buddhism, mindfulness. You have mindfulness. You're whole. You're complete. You're not fooled by any more of those roles or beliefs that you see that those aren't who you are. And it never happened. You never were those things. They were memory implants. Like we hear on the clip. Memory implants. So that whole process you're talking about is really the forgiveness process. That's the forgiveness process. And we can say that the atonement is the completion. In fact, the atonement, we'll say it's at the top of the mountain because Jesus describes the atonement as the first miracle and the last miracle and all the miracles in between. It's got a sense of finality to it. So I am whole and I am spirit. Yes. In the end, the Holy Spirit ceases to be a messenger or a bridge. It's who I am. It's the memory that was pushed out of awareness. The memory of God in the mind. No longer an agent. No longer an entity. And in wholeness, we can say that's where the trinity collapses. They always talk about three and one. Well, there's not really three. Those were just little metaphors along the way. And there was an aspect of the Holy Spirit that seemed to see a world or seemed to understand that there was an error that needed to be corrected and take the form of a voice, but that disappears too. That's another one of the hallucinations that the Holy Spirit is a voice. Well, a voice as long as you seem to need one. But if you're it, what do you need a voice for? If you're a pure being, you don't even need a voice. So you see how it's all just metaphors and constructs to gently guide the mind to a place where you can let it go.