 This is really getting at this idea of how do we face things in the most loving way without compromising and You were saying like detach. How do we truly or if it's a detachment or if it's something where we come into alignment with God how does that occur and I would say that in a course of miracles Jesus has the topic of true empathy and false empathy And he says this probably this distinction between true empathy and false empathy is will be one of the most difficult Distinctions to really come clear on because it's so mixed up in this world You know all of us have come from a sense of wanting to be helpful Wanted to be altruistic wanting to help people and then finding ourselves in very much conflict From trying to be helpful. Whether it's with a relationship or we're trying to be helpful and we go Where did I step off here and get into this much conflict? I just was trying to be a nice person and be helpful and then I stepped off into the darkest of pits and I didn't even see it coming and True empathy would be staying with what's real and true staying with the Holy Spirit staying with the Christ in your mind false empathy would be Biding off into the error Trying to get out there and be a good fixer Be a good rescuer be a good saver, you know or like some of you have seen the Matrix trilogy The second in the second movie of the trilogy Neo actually finds himself with the architect and the architect says, you know The door on your right leads to the source And the door on your left leads back to Trinity and the Matrix And he doesn't even pause to pray He doesn't take a moment to reflect on what's offered him. He immediately goes for Trinity and the Matrix he doesn't even Give the source or not Or even a possibility if you ever find yourself in your mind and the architect gives you a choice between the source and the Matrix Don't hesitate go for the source I'll tell you that will that will end the conflict completely, but he ends up he goes back to rescue Trinity and then he finds himself unconscious the sentinels knock him. It's very interesting to find out what happens when he makes that choice That's what we call false empathy Recently I was down in Mexico and I was doing a gathering in Guadalajara and I got to know all the people by name And there were two Jesuses I never get one Jesus And they're both from one was from Monterey, I forget where the other one was from but the one Jesus was in it was in a very tortured state of mind and he I could just feel He was pouring out to me Please help me with this question with this conflict that I've got going on. I'm begging you. Please Help me and it was one of these false empathy versus true empathy thing some of you know like in the Spanish culture of the family how strong the Family concept is you know and do anything for your children your parents, you know To the you know, even if you feel like it's total hell Do it anyway Because because you have to you know blood is thicker than water and it's kinship and it's all that well This is kind of what Jesus was in distress and his wife was there to Jesus and his wife And what it was was they had they had they had a married son who was back living at home and Basically was doing whatever he wanted to do in their home he's a grown married son in the home and Just doing anything if he wanted to drink if he wanted to do drugs it was whatever he wanted to do So on the one hand, this is a married couple that's gone. It's their whole lives are being thrown up like tall salad because it's right in their home and they come back to that and it's very It's very very difficult and tense for them. And on the other part is there But He's my son, you know, but what can you do in your case? You know, you have a home you open your home for this boy But then when the mother wanted to to come in, you know, you were like No, that's that's not my guidance It doesn't really feel helpful for me and the son and you even the whole and then you followed it And then you had to face whatever Attack thoughts seem to come up into awareness. You had to really face them. That's really what true empathy does I told Jesus and his wife. I Said it's okay for you to tell him to go and the Holy Spirit just poured through with such Love and graciousness and gratitude Explaining very carefully that that this is all about mind training and it's it's not about trying to make the form a certain way It's about coming in your mind. Let the darkness up and And let it face it in that way But don't feel like you you have to control the world or be the one that smooths things over Fix this things for people makes it right and so on and so forth, you know, I the whole teaching it was maybe like a 20-minute Teaching in true empathy versus false empathy and telling him you have the Christ in you You have the strength of God you can do this and everything and and all the while Jesus was was just crying And then both of them were just like grass is grass is really could feel it could connect with the energy with the love And everything there and we're so grateful and that's really what we're doing as we take this journey The course is really teaching us spirit is teaching us that we have to bring the illusions to the truth. We can't bring God Jesus the Holy Spirit into this world, you know, like say I got a crazy life. Would you please fix it? You know more like the spirits like saying bring everything you believe about your life in this world and and time and space actually To back to me and it will disappear bring bring all of your crazy beliefs To the light and you'll see it was just it was just your imagination. It was just this dark Dragon this this crazy tiny mad idea that you had buried and kept hidden and then you kept trying to fix it in form You know trying to smooth it over make it work out. Oh, it's gonna get better. I'll just give him one more try Just give him one more try one more just end up one more try and and okay one more try and you know after 25 years of one more try and you're all stressed out and anxious You know, it's just been false empathy false empathy false empathy and the Holy Spirit is patiently saying come come to me Let's do this with true empathy. Let's bring the darkness to the light so I really feel that that you know both what played out before and in the dream that the Bible had taught us to let your yay be yay and let your nay be nay and for some of us we have associated yes with God and No is a bad word But actually not so to the Holy Spirit if you authentically go in this journey You're gonna end up having the Holy Spirit say no To a lot of things. I've had to say no a lot in this parable And and I could feel the joy of the presence of the Spirit behind the nose It wasn't a no in a sense of dismissal. There was no sense of Rejection there was no sense of putting down a wrongdoing. I Remember the first time I started to practice with this was years ago when I would be praying meditating I'd be getting into these deep mystical states and my my mother would come would invite me to all kinds of different things and The way the Spirit would come out Would be thank you so much for asking me or thank you so much for including me Thank you so much for inviting me the graciousness of the Spirit was always there with the thank you and No, I don't think I'm going to be coming or or sometimes it would even be say I'll just have to be in the moment as I was living more in the moment instead of doing so much planning Even though that was the old way everything is planned out days and weeks and months in advance I was becoming allowing myself to be more spontaneous and just let the Spirit guide me moment by moment Which seemed to be reflected back as come on just Give me a yes or no sometimes. I would have to say I I'll have to see and leave it at that and stay at a strength of that and Sometimes when the time came I would go and or not go, you know I really started to become a hundred percent intuitive a hundred percent in alignment with spirits So that took away all of the the conflict But I did go through that what you're describing where I followed what was what truly felt was in my heart And then I would see the role of the accuser rear up. I would see fear doubt guilt, you know all these Accusations, you know come we're all gonna have to walk through it We just have to be able to see all that like you did with those characters that looked like the KKK You could just kind of walk right through them and when we really get into the strength of choosing with the spirit There's nothing that can can threaten us at all the fear leaves, you know now. I live. It's a completely Fearless life. There's just no fear whatsoever But it's just been allowing all the darkness to come up and say yeah, I'm not gonna hide and protect it No, it's not worth not going to use any kind of defense mechanism. I'm not gonna stuff it down anymore I'm just gonna let it fully come up and and really come and go Go to the back