 There's a part near the rules for decision section where for Jesus says that that the Holy Spirit is a decision and That the ego is a decision So that kind of takes us a little bit beyond this kind of entity thing like angels and demons to use the Tom Tom Hanks movie, you know the recent movie or Spirit in the devil It tends to be oftentimes personified a bit when when they're thought of as entities But when you start to realize that they're just decisions and that That one is a decision To not know who you are and one is a decision toward Remembering like it's a step toward remembering who you are that starts to clarify it a bit and when we look at it that way you could say talking with the Big Bang meaning a Tiny man idea or Jesus would call I guess Jesus would call the Big Bang the unholy instant So you've got the unholy instant and the holy instant and this whole world Is an attempt to keep them both active as if they both can coexist Is it good and evil can coexist this world is a is a major attempt to do that so basically It is better to just start to see it as that the mind seems to be Vasillating will say back and forth between these two decisions and He even says that in the rules for decision. He says that that Decisions are continuous Jesus says But it's just that they aren't fully in your awareness so We could use an example with like sickness were or a symptom with the body You know if somebody has a particular symptom, it's usually it's most often not an awareness that they've chosen that symptom Specifically they've chosen that symptom whatever it is But that is pushed so pushed out of awareness That it seems as if from the ego perspective that there's something in form Something in the world that has caused that illness of that symptom You know for example if somebody seems to have painful will say sunburn Ego would say well, it's got a whole story around the sunburn It's the ultraviolet rays Coming through from the sun through the atmosphere and it burned the skin from too much exposure and therefore you have a condition or a symptom and You have a cause-and-effect relationship between the ultraviolet rays and the cells of the body that have been Literally burned by those ultraviolet rays. It all seems very scientific very Cut and dry very of course of course of course, and it has nothing to do With anything it's part of the much to do about nothing that basically sunburn is just a a symptom That is chosen by the wrong mind by the guilt Yeah, this you're getting down to the really the core of the whole mind training which is is Starting to take a look at the whole topic of causation so In this world whether we're talking about catching viruses or ultraviolet rays burning skin cells or whatever, you know temperature, you know getting frostbite from zero Degrees temperatures mean on and on and on Basically, you start to realize when you start to do authentic spirituality is that you're gonna have to go inside consciousness and kind of like root out Do the rotor root or dig go way down there into this belief in causation in form and It's gonna come in many many different forms, you know cold sore Is the prop predominant one? It's like a good. It's actually a good practical one to work with because it's it's right there on the surface Right now. We try to work with things that are right there on the surface instead of just trying to dig down so basically if we look at the course of miracles workbook lessons basically What they're going to do is is look at what you perceive and what you are thinking and what you're feeling and Jesus is going to start to loosen and break that false He calls it spurious cause-effect relationship He says that this world is nothing but spurious cause-effect relationships And they support victim You were the victim of not taking good enough care of the body, you know Tries me when you're growing up, you know wear a hat wear scarf and gloves and Cover your mouth when someone or your face when someone sneezes and this and this and this But it's a to use your example that you brought up this idea of catching viruses You know, it's not like we perceive viruses, you know, you know, there's a virus I see a virus on that bar over there for something like this. They're Tiny, but we've been so convinced when everyone's taught us you read it in books You're all this stuff about viruses and it's it's really a fictitious Mindset and we were talking last night about shared illusions versus individual illusions. That's one of those that seems to be more shared Oh, yeah, be careful. Be careful about those viruses, you know, be careful about those flu bugs and Vaccinations and all this and this Whereas then you come into the course and you can tell his Jesus's mind training program is he's gonna have to work with the mind to loosen All this Jesus does use this word, but it's like it's a bunch of who we It's just a bunch of who you know, it's just there's not no validity or reality to any of it Even though it's like stacked on layer upon layer in that same lesson. I mentioned lessons that he's six He says almost Sarcastically, it's just great when Jesus gets sarcastic, but he says sarcastically you really believe that Fluid pushed through a sharpened needle into your veins would warrant off disease And he's talking about it sarcastically He's describing the most basic thing on earth. It was we call inoculation, you know getting Getting a vaccine and he's making a joke out of it, you know Fluid pushed through a sharpened needle pushed into your veins will ward off disease No, he says you really believe you would starve unless you had stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal disc He's poking fun at money piles of metal disc Green strips of paper Up in Canada your money is much more colorful. He was talking down on a shotgun at the time But did you have something? Okay, that's that's another there's another good practical example like the cold sore and smoking and lung cancer And some people will take it beyond the actions in this world and they they put it off into DNA and genetics You know, I have I have a hernia and and it's a generate It strikes every other generation, you know, I have one of my grandfather and Go back great-great-grandfather and it's you know, and that's the genetic fallacy. That's a bunch of who he too it's really a pretty reinforced system as if things of the past Cause what's going on now? It's part of that belief in linear time that I mentioned that the ego invented So there's always culprits. There's always causes in the past whether it's DNA and It's a genetic fallacy whether it's the cause and effect thing of actions like Smoking for years and getting lung cancer. Well, let's let's flip it into another realm psychologically A lot of times what people would go to like a Freudian Psychoanalyst, you know, it was this whole thing of Tell me about yourself. Oh, I got big problems. I got problems dating problems. I got relationship problems and this and this Tell me about your childhood It's a bunch of hooey. It's got nothing to do with anything our childhood childhood memories. Oh My mother did this and my dad was this way and then 40 years later You're still sitting on the bench talking to a psychoanalysis talking about your you know Your desires with your mother and your father. It's got nothing to do anything. It's much to do about nothing Psychically genetically or action wise The whole fallacy is the idea of time the ego invented Linear time to keep the mind guilty and It uses all of these schemes that I've just mentioned to keep the mind feeling guilty Like it did something wrong like it was less than Like it could have done something different, you know, like that night out when you know when you seem to get the cold sort of is like if he goes like You should have been a good little girl and just stayed in and you know watch the movie You're out having too much fun and now you've got to pay Punishments punishment for sins. You know, it's like this is the this is what the whole linear System is based on is that you know, you're guilty in the past And you have no power to change it And then you're going to be guilty in the future and then you're going to be punished ultimately for all this guilt You know God's not going to just say oh, you're scot-free Come on and come on back, you know, oh, you've lived a life of sin, but who cares? You know, it's like it's all part of a linear system of guilt and then Okay, let's start to take a look at how do we how do we practically escape from this? That's what the mind training of the Course in Miracles is all about When Jesus uses a workbook lesson like I can be hurt by nothing But my thoughts You see how important that idea is I Could be hurt by nothing but my thoughts As soon as you're tempted to think well I've got lung cancer, and I'm suffering and it's because I I smoked. I was a bad girl and I smoked all these years What the grace you know? We're talking about awakening to the grace within the graceful thought would be to come back to that workbook lesson. Ah I think I'm guilty because of all these cigarettes. I smoked and and I'm feeling Heavy cancer because of that, but I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts You see how important that metaphysical distinction is because You know Jesus says it's it is with your thoughts that we must work He never says in the course is with your behaviors that we must work He never says it is with your past memories of childhood that we must work You know, he never says is with your genetic condition of being born to a family with this genetics He always says his thoughts