 Let me recognize my problems have been solved This this gets at the idea that we were talking about about that This concept struck the self-concept is past 10 that That to see it as it really is is is to see it is as past as over and done If you are willing to recognize your problems you will recognize that you have no problems Your one central problem has been answered and you have no other Therefore you must be at peace obviously if I don't feel at peace Then once again, I it's a mistaken Identity of myself mistaken perception and identified with the construct. That's the problem Change my mind Always the problem is always it's always been identity confusion. Yes It's always an identity fusion and it's always remedied with a decision with a with a remembrance With a with a seeing that it. Oh, oops. That's that's the problem and it is a change of mind The atonement is is a Is a permanent change of mind In a sense miracle it seems to be something that you can choose you can choose to forgive you can choose a miracle and then it seems like There are times when the mind doesn't choose the miracle or it doesn't choose to the forgiveness and it seems to be in a state of unrest or upset, but that is is a Part of the construct in itself a fluctuating self that it can times be whole and complete or Remember its wholeness and then other times not that it ultimately the atonement is the fact that Of it is all or nothing. It is a permanent Awareness the fluctuation ends You will learn this course entirely or not at all those statements Suddenly jump into bearing Suddenly you can see the meaning of that Salvation thus depends on recognizing this one problem and understanding that it has been solved One problem one solution Salvation is accomplished Freedom from conflict has been given you Accept that fact and you are ready to take your rightful place in God's plan for salvation Your only problem has been solved Repeat this over and over to yourself today with gratitude and conviction You have recognized your only problem Opening the way for the Holy Spirit to give you God's answer You have laid deception aside and seen the light of truth You have accepted salvation for yourself by bringing the problem to the answer and You can recognize the answer because the problem has been identified what a Phenomenal release Yeah, that's the word came to my mind to what I release Is this practical? Is peace of mind practical? It better be or who wants it What what's the point if it's not? But that's the question that the mind must answer. This is just a very end-of-the-practical course It's it's aimed at revealing the simplicity of of salvation the simplicity of peace of mind It's it's a tool for helping the mind cut through Its own deceptions its own beliefs about its itself its circumscribe Yet the limited that keep keep it bound In in awareness not in reality Awareness, and this is the good news. This is the gospel Jesus came to teach to set men free This is the hurrah Arlenia identity crisis takes on you a New look for a new meaning in these terms It's not something that occurs when you're 40 it's something that occurs in the mind and It's perpetuated in the mind until atonement until the mind wakes up to Who and what it is? So that's that's a description of it and then if you bring it back to I You know It's like that's that could be a metaphor for for describing the process and then it comes back to me and Mine in that sense the mind in my decision this moment That's the focus That's where the attention needs to To be focused If the attention must be splintered when the mind is Has its attention riveted on past thoughts and future thoughts? it's in that sense the mind is riveted on the construct on Concept it sees itself is within That that construct a concept there is no escape For it there is no relief for it For a mind that is identified with the concept If you take this line of thinking and you run it out into any realm of life, I mean, you know you can You can start to see the implications for for perceived problems in relationships for perceived problems in finances Economics and scarcity and so forth You want to run it out in one of those for both of those Do you have a particular? Avenue Well, I think everyone at some point or other Has that show up in relationship, so why don't we run it out in relationship? Okay, why don't we start with the metaphysics and give the whole setting of relationships of the basis or metaphysical underpinnings so that we can We can come back to that if we run it back to That there's one problem and it's a miss identity, you know we can In biblical terms, we can even call it the fall of man or the fall from grace or however you do it to to misidentify yourself to to forsake one's identity is God created oneself in spirit is Is the fall and To invest one's mind or to believe a little puff of madness such a thing Is possible is where the the split or the big bang or the fracturing Seem to occur and When we speak of relationship in this world we speak of Relationship involving persons again and bodies There we go subject object back into subject object and whether we define the relationship as You know mother daughter mother son or father daughter father son As a relationship between lovers Marriage Couple close friends best friends acquaintances neighbors Just on and on peers Brothers sisters sisters just on and on and on and on we these are different constructs Love is one There aren't different kinds of love. There's just one experience of love and And to fragment it out and to think that there are different kinds of love is is once again to make construct of something for the experience of the true experience of the oneness So the projected world was made as a defense Against love that as soon as the split seemed to occur as soon as the tiny man idea the ego was was Was bought so to speak the lie was bought or the was taken seriously that have laughed at then A defense was needed in the sense the mind believing that it was guilty that it had usurped the power of God Projected out the ego projected out of world to hide in and in the sense Told the mind, you know, you can go in here. This can be your home now God won't come into form. I won't come into the farm. I'll never find you here You know, God is spirit and eternal and changeless and form is finite and fragmented the limited specific particular That he can't come in here. You can hide and therefore That's where the the identity and that's where the investment in relationships is there perceived in this world comes in Because Once again subject object now if I'm in a deceived state, I believe I'm a person And believing I'm a person Already, I've got a deep sense of loneliness and Upset and lost guilt and fear in my mind from this from making up something That was false and denying my wholeness my true self as Christ So that's why they're such a searching for love such a crazing of seeking out. Mr. Wright seeking out the right friends Looking for someone to trust to reverse these feelings of isolation. Yes to solve my loneliness problem Which I it's not seen as I've got a problem that I believe I'm a person I've created the construct of a person in the world, but it's seen as I'm a I'm a person just like there's lots of persons and I've got a lonely or I'm empty. I've got a seek For something outside myself to fulfill me. It's only natural. It's only normal I mean, that's what that's what the teaching or training the learning has been Yeah, is that and this is just the way it is, you know and people come together You know people find each other and common interests common interest on common values Common purposes common goals You know, it's quite sneaky in the sense of if I've got a construct of myself and I'm a person and I Like America and I like the city and I like fine dining or I like sports or I like Cuddling up and watching movies or pizza or whatever and and I find another person so-called that who In who likes the same things I like Wow There's a match made in heaven now. I've made up a construct of a world and a self That's little but the littleness doesn't seem so bad because I've found another Self that agrees with me Complimentary littleness that reinforces my construct as being true Sneaky sneaky mean in a sense. It's a match made in heaven. It's it's heaven on earth for the ego because Now the form Has been raised as a substitute for for the abstract spirit and the deception has been bought and It doesn't seem horrifying and traumatic I've run away from from that and now I've seemed to have made up the state where I've actually found happiness by getting something outside myself and what's going on is There's a substitution taking place the mind is substituting that for heaven. Yes Substituting that for God. Yes Taking all of my Emotional happiness eggs and I'm putting them in a basket of of this other love partner special friend And it can even be objectified into My car my boat my house My rifles my you know pick your choice of the sports team. I root for yes Doesn't matter what the constellation of Concepts is these are thought form associations, and I'm suddenly the mind is very Identified with the substitute because it seems to Give it everything it needs everything it wants Yeah And I don't have to remember about that light back in the mind that that keeps her calling and reminding me of my Abstract reality I can dissociate that