 Hello, everyone. Welcome again to another session of, of course, America's Lessons Live. We're doing the Workbook Lessons and I'm just popping on spontaneously as the spirit guides me. So today we are going to continue on with Workbook Lesson 33. There is another way of looking at the world. Today's idea is an attempt to recognize that you can shift your perception of the world in both its outer and inner aspects. A full five minutes should be devoted to the morning and evening applications. In those practice periods, the idea should be repeated as often as you find comfortable, though unhurried applications are essential. Alternate between surveying your outer and inner perceptions, but without an abrupt sense of shifting merely glance casually around the world you perceive as outside yourself. Then close your eyes and survey your inner thoughts with equal casualness. Try to remain equally uninvolved in both and to maintain this detachment as you repeat the idea throughout the day. The shorter exercise periods should be as frequent as possible. Specific applications of today's idea should also be made immediately when any situation arises, which tempts you to become disturbed. For these applications, say, there is another way of looking at this. Remember to apply today's idea the instant you are aware of distress. It may be necessary to take a minute or so to sit quietly and repeat the idea to yourself several times. Closing your eyes will probably help in this form of application. There is another way of looking at the world. So we're going to apply this lesson today very generously as we go through the day. Sometimes closing our eyes, taking a moment, and as he said, Jesus is telling us we may need to pause and repeat this several times silently to ourselves as we go through the day. And we will do it very generously. And then if there's any points where there's a distress arising, then we will just use a form of it. There is another way of looking at this. Just repeat that silently to yourself if you start to feel distress. And again, he's helping us realize that the thoughts that we think we think and the world that we think we see are really the same. The outer world, which some might call my mental world, and then the world of time and space, the cosmos that is perceived through the five senses seems to be the outer world as if there's a world outside of the body. But actually, the body and the world and the cosmos are just thoughts in the mind. And the entire workbook is helping us start to realize that that there really ultimately is no inner and outer. These unreal thoughts and their projections are actually the same. And then there's a trick. It makes it seem like there's something where there is nothing. It makes it seem like there is an out there. But there is no out there out there. So that's part of the mind training takes a lot of focus, a lot of transfer training to go through these lessons and really have an experience that there's really just one of us. There's just one mind, and there's not separate minds, private minds, private thoughts, different people, you know, all the things that seem to be a customary for planet Earth really aren't what they seem to be. So, also today, I will take a passage from the text that I think really will help us in our context for applying today's lesson. So I'm going to read some paragraphs from chapter 13. Chapter 13 is titled the guiltless world and then section seven is what I will read from today. And this is titled the attainment of the real world. So I think Jesus is giving us this section here because it's always good to have the incentive for the mind training. Because when you're practicing these workbook lessons and you're trying to make not to make any exceptions and you're trying to apply them as best that you can. As you go through the day, as part of your mind training, it's always good to have a context for what is this all for what is the point of the mind training. It could be summarized very much like our lesson of the day. There is another way of looking at the world. And so, for our mind, which is curious and also needs to be reminded from time to time what is the incentive, what is the reward, what is the goal, what is going to be my state of mind if I succeed at the mind training and transferring the training to everything and everyone that I perceive. And so we're going to dip into that. What is the goal? What is the goal here? The aim of the real world. Sit quietly and look upon the world you see and tell yourself, the real world is not like this. It has no buildings and there are no streets where people walk alone and separate. There are no stores where people buy an endless list of things they do not need. There is not lit with artificial light and night comes not upon it. There is no day that brightens and grows dim. There is no loss. Nothing is there but shines and shines forever. The world you see must be denied. What it is costing you a different kind of vision. You cannot see both worlds where each of them involves a different kind of seeing and depends on what you would cherish. The sight of one is impossible because you have denied the other. Both are not true yet either one will seem as real to you as the amount to which you hold it dear. And yet their power is not the same because their real attraction to you is unequal. Jesus is making some very important points in this last paragraph that you can't see both of these worlds. You have to pick one or the other and the one that you see is the one that you want to see is the one that you value. It's the one that attracts you and he's telling us at the end and yet their power is not the same because their real attraction to you is unequal. The attraction of the fragmented perceptual world is the attraction to guilt and the real world or the happy dream is the guiltless world. So you can see that the ego relies on tricks and schemes and games and it made a world it made a time space cosmos in which guilt would be attractive. And this comes into the making of hierarchy of illusions. Yesterday we were talking about lack, the belief in lack and a hierarchy of needs and all lack and needs are of the ego. And so, when you look at this world and you value any aspect of the world it's like being attracted to lack. It's being attracted to need and it's also being attracted to guilt. It perpetuates fear. It perpetuates illusions because illusions are not seen as illusions. And then you seek for fools gold and you seek for what you could never truly find. In the Bible, Jesus told us seek and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened and the ego is basically seek and do not find. The ego is knock and the door shall not be opened. It's a trick to keep the mind stuck in the belief in time. It's a world that was made in hatred to perpetuate the ego and keep you from knowing the Christ. So this is extremely important. And again, their power is not the same because their real attraction to you is unequal. The real world, the world that is lit up by the Holy Spirit, lit up by Jesus, this has more of a real attraction than guilt. But when the mind is confused and has been fooled and tricked and deceived, then the fools gold appears to be valuable. And we can look at everything related to the body. It's, it's attempts to be beautiful. It's attempts to be fit. It's attempts to grow older. It's attempts to be something valuable. Be a valuable person, be a valuable team member, be a valuable family member, be a valuable citizen to a country. Anything that's given value in this world, including the body and the things of the body and anything that relates to the body. This is an attempt to deny the light of Christ and to seek for love where there is no love, to seek for love and form and images. When, when God is love, Christ is love, and, and we have to go within to find that. So Jesus continues, you do not really want the world you see for it has disappointed you since time began. The homes you built have never sheltered you. The roads you made have led you nowhere. And no city that you built has withstood the crumbling assault of time. Nothing you made but has the mark of death upon it. Hold it not dear for it is old and tired and ready to return to dust even as you made it. This aching world has not the power to touch the living world at all. You could not give it that and so although you turn in sadness from it, you cannot find in it the road that leads away from it into another world. Yet the real world has the power to touch you even here because you love it. And what you call with love will come to you. Love always answers being unable to deny a call for help or not to hear the cries of pain that rise to it from every part of this strange world. You made but do not want all that you need to give this world away in glad exchange for what you did not make is willingness to learn the one you made is false. Well, that says a lot right there. That's it. All that you need for this exchange all that you need to say and mean the workbook lesson for today workbook lesson 33. There is another way of looking at the world. But you have to have the willingness to learn the one that you made the way that you're looking at the world through fragmentation through the filter of the ego that is false. In other words, you really are like just making way for the truth the truth is true. Truth is always true love is love joy is joy happiness is happiness. Eternity actually remains eternal. God is is God. And Christ is Christ this is this is the fact of everything and then the perceptual world is just there to look at it and have a willingness that that this perceptual world be be changed at the way of looking at the world be be changed. There has to be another way of looking at the world. What have been wrong about the world because you have misjudged yourself from such a twisted reference point. What could you see as seeing starts with the perceiver. Who judges what is true and what is false. He judges false he does not see you who would judge reality cannot see it for whenever judgment enters reality has slipped away. The out of mind is out of sight. Because what is denied is there but is not recognized. Christ is still there, although you know him not. His being does not depend upon your recognition. He lives within you in the quiet present and waits for you to leave the past behind and enter into the world he holds out to you in love. So this is why in the Bible and the sermon on the Mount Jesus said, judge not lest you be judged because when you judge something you, you can't see it. And reality is a state of mind that has no judgment, it's simply pure love. So judgment is like it's the filter that in which you deny the truth. So judgment is the way you blot out from awareness, the love that is always there. So in the end, we have to learn to follow the guidance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to unwind from the judgment. In other words, that's what guidance is you receive guidance as a way of the light reaching your mind and giving you something practical to think and say and do something practical to follow. Until the leaping off point when you can look at the world and without judgment at all and say, you say a final to judgment. I have no need of you at all. My creator didn't create me to be a judge. The ego made the judgments and when I relinquish the ego, then I open up to the love that I truly am to the Christ, to the Christ, love to the Christ identity. No one in this distracted world but has seen some glimpses of the world, the other world about him. Yet while he still lays value on his own, he will deny the vision of the other, maintaining that he loves what he loves not and following not the road that love points out. Love leads so gladly. As you follow him, you will rejoice that you have found his company and learned of him the joyful journey home. You wait but for yourself to give this said world over and exchange your errors for the peace of God is but your will. And Christ will always offer you the will of God in recognition that you share it with him. So it's becoming clear that if God's will is for perfect happiness and I want to remember that I share God's will for me in spirit for perfect happiness in heaven in eternity that's the most important thing that's eternity is is heaven. If I want to remember my identity in heaven with God, then I have to release the desire for a world that God did not create. I have to release the desire for the perceptual world. If I'm going to first see a happy dream see a reborn world born of innocence, born of light, reflecting the love of Christ and the Holy Spirit. I'm going to have to have a willingness to to let go of the values that I've given to the fragmented world. And for most people, they will tell me, you know, well, I value survival of the body. I value progress. I value my future goals. There's some aspect of valuing the body and the human condition. And when you go deeper into prayer and your prayer is for a union with God, your prayer is to know yourself as one with God. As Jesus taught I and the Father are one your prayer is to come into that communion experience with God. One thing you have to do is have willingness to exchange the way that you've looked at the world in the past for a new way, a present way of looking at the world. And as you're saying out front, okay, I have valued what is valueless. Now let me value what is real and true and devalue what I had placed value in in the past. Maybe I was wrong about everything. Maybe I was wrong about absolutely everything. Maybe I didn't understand what this world was or what it meant. Maybe I didn't understand the attempt to have an identity in a world apart from God's love. Maybe my identity has always been the Christ. I'm looking away from it, looking for value in form, trying to build more value, build a self concept, build a self image, and then spinning my wheels like a hamster on a wheel. The karmic wheel of guilt, of fatigue, of shame. The wheel of death. Why would I look for love on a wheel of death? You know this is very straightforward for us here. So, it is God's will that nothing touch his son except himself and nothing else comes nigh under him. He is as safe from pain as God himself who watches over him in everything. All about him shines with love because God placed him in himself where pain is not and love surrounds him without end or flaw. Disturbance of his peace can never be. In perfect sanity he looks on love for it is all about him and within him. He must deny the world of pain the instant he perceives the arms of love around him. And from this point of safety he looks quietly about him and recognizes that the world is one with him. Recognizes that there's just one mind and that world is in mind. The happy dream is in mind. The forgiven world is in mind. Yeah, it's there for the choice. It's there for the choosing. The peace of God passes your understanding only in the past. Yet here it is and you can understand it now. God loves his son forever and his son returns his father's love forever. The real world is the way that leads you to the remembrance of the one thing that is wholly true and wholly yours. For all else you have lent yourself in time and it will fade. But this one thing is always yours being the gift of God unto his son. Your one reality was given you and by it God created you as one with him. And now the encouragement for our lesson today. There is another way of looking at the world. That's our encouragement for fully giving ourselves to practice today's lesson workbook lesson number 33. You will first dream of peace, and then awaken to it. Your first exchange of what you made for what you want is the exchange of nightmares for the happy dreams of love. To lie your true perceptions for the Holy Spirit corrects the world of dreams where all perception is knowledge needs no correction. He's just saying heaven needs no correction. Yet the dreams of love lead unto knowledge, lead unto heaven. In them you see nothing fearful. And because of this, they are the welcome that you offer knowledge. Love waits on welcome, not on time. And the real world is but your welcome of what always was. Therefore the call of joy is in it. And your glad response is your awakening to what you have not lost. Okay, we're having the incentive today to answer the call of joy. To see the world differently by answering the call of joy by watching our mind today. And anytime anything arises today at all, it's slightly even slightly distressing. We need to use our workbook lesson today. There's another way of looking at the world. There is another way of looking at this. It can quietly say repeatedly in our mind, whenever anything distresses us. It doesn't matter whether it's thoughts or it's images or it's thought forms, whatever they are, they're the same. And we're entitled to peace today. Like to keep it practical so always enjoy when you write in questions. And we'll attempt to take the lesson of the day and what we've just gone through and apply them to your questions. So, so here we have a question from Sarah, she wrote this in very recently, I believe it was yesterday. Sarah writes, I have heard you talk before about ego. You have become this type of situation challenging in the past, and have been revisiting it in my mind recently. I would love to hear spirits, your thoughts on how to deal with these relationships in a harmonious way. Thank you. We're writing that in well, you know, we have some sayings on planet Earth, you know, we talk about these sometimes as cliche but sometimes you hear to his company threes a crowd. Many relationships are perceived in this world, we would, we would look at relationships that come in many different forms but in terms of intimate romantic relationships, we would say there's a term called monogamy, which is having a relationship of, of exclusivity in, in terms of the sexuality in terms of the, the romance. And basically, that's the way that the Holy Spirit can use relationships as a mind training discipline. So in other words, if, if you enter into a monogamous relationship and it seems to be tempted to, to be threatened will say by, by another person wanting to be in relationship. And so this is where the two's company threes a crowd. So in terms of monogamous relationships, these are mind training opportunities just like yoga practice just like a particular diet practice. You know, there's so many spiritual practices and basically disciplines where the Holy Spirit is just using the mind in this discipline to, to train it to, to stay on purpose. And once we start to look at the context of what's going on in the mind, we can see that the overall goal of the Holy Spirit is to teach us that ultimately the one real relationship that we have is with God. And, and our relationship, our identity as Christ and relationship to God, the creator is inclusive. It's entirely inclusive. The ego invented time and space, the ego invented bodies and what we perceive in terms of relationships in this world is, is exclusivity. You know, people even do that beyond just romantic relationships, we have, we make hierarchy of relationships, you know, acquaintance or a casual friendship or best friends and besties or partner or lifelong partner. So it's a hierarchy of illusions again, and the Holy Spirit is going to always be talking to us to the one mind and just saying come to me. There's another way of looking at the world. Jesus is an example of that, where he had an all inclusive love. It was a gap a love. It was universal love. It was unconditional love. He didn't love one person greater than another person, because love itself is one. It doesn't involve exclusion at all. It doesn't involve comparison at all. That's the Christ. And the Christ is an extension, a creation of God's love, which again, God's love is universal. God has no favorites. That's a line I think from the Old Testament. How beautiful God has no favorites. There, there is no one or no thing more important to God than any other one or thing, because of course God is pure abstract love and light, and, and the world is the ego's world. So what we're doing when we go towards healing, when we even call upon the lesson of the day, there is another way of looking at the world. We're asking for a different way of looking at the world that is entirely inclusive. That includes everything and everyone in perception. It's holistic perception. And the reason that interpersonal relationships are, are challenging is because they're, they're reflections of the belief in separation, separate bodies, private minds, private thoughts. And even when we look at, at the different seeming types of relationships, these are all made up by the ego, you know, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, monogamy, polyamore. I mean, on and on and on and on. You know, these are distinctions that, that the ego made up because, again, Jesus just told us the world you see, where, where people had to walk on streets separately as separate bodies and persons who buy things that they don't even need or want, where there's, there's artificial light, whether we call it the sun or we, whether we call it the street lights and, and, and lamps and oil lights and all the different kind of lights are on this world when really light is one, love is one, God is one, Christ is one. So we can see that if you bring everything back to the mind, and you find a relationship challenging in this case, we'll call it a triangle relationship. It's because of the belief in the ego and the ego is the belief in exclusion. So you use it for mind training. If you're in a monogamous relationship, then that's the mind training, you know, it's, it's to, to practice holding firm on your purpose, and in the, in the face of temptations and distractions. And it's the same if you're doing yoga. It's the same if you have a meditation practice. It's the same if you have a diet practice. People tell me, Oh, I was doing so well. And then on Friday, I went off my diet completely. And you can see too, there's parts in the Bible about being a eunuch for, for God, that once you get into phases of mind training where your focus is very much on the purpose that the unifying purpose. Then you move into, you know, what the world might call celibacy and so forth. And, and celibacy and triangles aren't a problem. It's, it's monogamy and triangles are a problem. But, but if you go deeper and deeper into the mind training, and you start to realize, there's just one one mind, there's just one of us. Then the triangle disappears because, because we're one mind, we share the same mind. We share the same love, because we were created by God as one and unified awareness or the happy dream or the real world. That is where the joy is. The joy is in the oneness. It's literally in the oneness. Joy is total inclusion in the mind of God. And the ego is the belief in exclusion. And you can see where you, you end up giving everything that you believe. You have to give jealousy back to the Holy Spirit. You have to, to give comparison back to the Holy Spirit, because God didn't create jealousy or comparison. If envy is challenging, then you have to give envy back to the Holy Spirit, because envy comes from the belief in separation, you know, you have to have two to be envious, you have to have at least two or more to be jealous. This is a course in coming to our unified awareness, to our wholeness of perception. It's coming to realize that everything is connected, and there's a beauty in that connection. In the quantum physics, you know, it's quantum mechanics, it's called, you know, the unified perception or, you know, it's always there. It's always there. It's called the field, the quantum field. And in the quantum field, everything is completely and utterly connected. And there's no room for jealousy or comparison. There's, there's no room for exclusion if everything is included in the quantum field. So even from a quantum physics perspective, that's our happy dream. That's our unified awareness. So thank you for the question. That that gives us a real incentive. There is another way of looking at the world that that is really our incentive. You know, because we want to see the real world. That's our real attraction is to the happy dream to the forgiven world. And all the attractions of the ego are not our real attraction, because deep down we're not really attracted to a death wish. You know, we're attracted to the light and to the reflection of that light to the whole world. That's, that's for our calling to be the light of the world. Thank you for being with me. Thank you for going through these beautiful workbook lessons and giving it your all and remembering the lesson, practicing it, telling yourself that lesson, whenever anything distressful comes today. God bless you.