 For Some Miracles Live, day by day we're letting Jesus instruct us on forgiveness and awakening to the oneness and love that God created us as the Christ idea and Christ is the reality and God is the reality because Christ is Spirit and God is Spirit. So today we're going to look at a real pivotal workbook lesson that introduces cause and effect in a true nature and we've seen it introduced briefly before but now we're really getting down to the reversal of the ego's thought system and coming into the true awareness of cause and effect, cause being God, Christ being effect in heaven and spirit and then this world everything seems to be reversed by the ego in this projected dream world. So lesson 13 from the workbook of A Course in Miracles, A Meaningless World and Gender's Fear. Today's idea is really another form of the preceding one except that it is more specific as to the emotion aroused. Actually, a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it. Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego challenge each other as to whose meaning is to be written in an empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impetus and unreality. And on this alone it is correct. It is essential therefore that you learn to recognize the meaningless and accept it without fear. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes. It does not possess and crowded with images that do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego. The exercises for today, which should be done about three or four times for not more than a minute or so at most each time, are to be practiced in a somewhat different way from the preceding ones. With eyes closed, repeat today's idea to yourself, then open your eyes and look about you slowly saying, I'm looking at a meaningless world. Repeat this statement to yourself as you look about then close your eyes and conclude with a meaningless world engenders fear because I think I am in competition with God. You may may find it difficult to avoid resistance in one form or another to this concluding statement. Whatever form such resistance may take, remind yourself that you are really afraid of such a thought because of the quote vengeance of the enemy. You are not expected to believe the statement at this point and will probably dismiss it as preposterous. Know however carefully any signs of overt or covert fear which it may arouse. This is our first attempt at stating an explicit cause and effect relationship of a kind which you are very inexperienced in recognizing. Do not dwell on the concluding statement and try not even to think of it except during the practice periods. That will suffice at present. So beautiful. A meaningless world engenders fear and then later in the lesson there Jesus said, meaningless world engenders fear because I think I'm in competition with God. And he says you may think this is ridiculous, preposterous, but actually we are following the text message and the teachings which is basically God is spirit, God creates his spirit, Christ is pure spirit, that's reality, heaven is reality, nirvana is reality, the reality is eternal in nature, it's changeless, it has no beginning and no end, it's pure light, it's abstract light is what heaven is and then this world is a projection of the belief that separation from that light is possible, separation from God. So whatever you want to call this cosmos or time space continuum or we can use Shakespeare's words much ado about nothing, we can say that the belief in this world arises from the belief that you can create yourself different than what God created you as. In other words, God creates in spirit, God does not know form, God knows not form, he tells us in the beyond idol section of A Course in Miracles, a meaningless world engenders fear and basically it's because it's an attempt to have a self, an identity, a perception that is not spirit that God doesn't even know about. If God is pure love and this world is a projection of the belief in the ego, separation from that pure love, they don't go together. So this is the beginning of starting to really question our perceptions because number one, Jesus is really saying, you know, you're psychotic because you're out of touch with reality, you're schizophrenic because you have a split mind and you're hearing multiple voices. You've got multiple personality disorder going on because you believe that you're a personality along with 7.8 other personalities on planet earth. And Jesus is saying, that is the farthest thing from reality, that is that is perceptual hallucination, that is a delusion of identity, that is not real and yet we need to go through this mind training to start to give up the false, surrender our belief in the ego, our belief in linear time and space and say, show me the truth, show me the truth. I want to know the truth. Like that song, I want to know what love is, I want you to show me. Yeah, that's where we're at. We're at that right now. And basically, I think this has to be very practical and experiential. So some of you may have noticed on Facebook, there's a lot of of different signs and symbols going out about I'm doing a movie gathering today at 10am central. So that's 11am Eastern time. And that would be 8am Pacific time. And I'm going to show a movie with set up in commentary that goes right at this lesson. And basically we're going to have an amazing classic movie that takes us on a ride from specialness to holiness, from special relationships, specifically the special love and hate relationships to the opening in the mind, to the surrender, to the light, to the Holy Spirit and Jesus which are showing us that what we have believed to be relationship is far, far from our actual relationship with God in spirit, in heaven. You know, we have an amazing relationship because God is our cause and our identity. The Christ is the effect. And that's a true relationship and a true cause-effect relationship. And then everything of time and space, everything in the projected world of seeming separate bits of consciousness and awareness that are part of each seemingly separate body with private minds and private thoughts, that is so delusional. That is so far, far, far from the truth of the being of love and light, the eternal being of love and light that heaven is. So if you have a chance today, I would like you to join me. We have it in our website, the-christ.net. And then if you go in there and you go on the tab for programs, you will find that we're offering our movies here on Saturdays every other Saturday. So here we are on Saturday the 13th of January. And we've just done lesson number 13 from the workbook of A Course in Miracles, A Meaningless World and Gender's Fear. And then we're told because I think I'm in competition with God. And the purpose of our movie gathering today then would be to, and every movie gathering would be to loosen our mind from these false beliefs about ourselves and about everyone else. You know, God did not create the body. God did not create linear time. And so if we're preceding a world of bodies in linear time and we're identifying with that thing, that's a mind predicament. That's what we call the fall for grace. Fall from grace, fall from grace. And this is the redemption from that seeming fall. This is the salvation from it. This is the enlightenment experience that things are not what they have seemed to be in our past, that the past is actually over and gone and it can't touch us unless we try to bring it along, unless we try to activate it and play with it and organize it and make a future out of it. You know, the past is like a glob of play-doh that is gone, is over and gone. The blob is gone. But why would we continue to try to play with it and try to make things out of it? Improve relationships, improve our career, improve our personality self, improve anything, improve anything. Why would you take it and play with the play-doh when the play-doh Jesus is saying, it's gone. It's been corrected by the Holy Spirit. It was corrected the instant the blob seemed to arise. It was handled. It's gone. And then workbook lesson 158 is basically saying, you know, you're about reliving this ancient moment, this tiny mad idea, this tiny tick of time in which there seemed to be a belief in separation. It was healed. It was answered. And it's gone. So now we're to rejoice in the truth. And I think it's interesting, the beginning part of the lesson today, a meaningless world in gender sphere. Jesus just told us that when there's a sense of meaninglessness, it can be very intense. And the Holy Spirit and the ego have very different words to write into this meaningless space. The Holy Spirit is wanting to write, is meaningless because God didn't create it. So let it go with all your thoughts and beliefs about this nothingness go. And the ego is going to want to make it real and it's going to want to put substitute so we could say that a special love relationship that the ego invented is an alluring substitute. It's a boasted gift and weapon for the ego to try to make a substitute for love, a substitute for divine love. And it didn't work. Love is still love. Christ is still Christ. God is still God. Reality is still reality. So beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I hope you can join me for the movie today. God bless you. I wish you joy and bliss and happiness. And I feel like this is our opportunity to now decide for God or really better yet allow the Holy Spirit to decide for God for our sleeping mind. Say, okay, I've tried it on my own here, but Holy Spirit, I need your help. And I want to choose to align with the kingdom of heaven instead of try to go wandering in the dust and darkness anymore. Okay, God bless.