 What do you think the philosophers were pondering? You know, the nature of things. They're not pondering, you know, the outcomes of the world. They're pondering, you know, what makes something exist? I mean, that's Plato. You go back and you read some of the ancient Greeks, you know. One thing, I think it was Plato pondered. He said, if there was no such thing as a color, like the color red, could you have a red object if there was no color red? This is the kind of question that they would sit around in the pools. And actually, I always encourage that. I mean, people nowadays, they think, they say, be practical, David, you know, can you give us any practical advice? This is all really deep stuff. And I said, well, relax, enjoy, and allow time to be used by the Holy Spirit in your day to ponder the deeper things. The Greeks did it. I mean, they just had these pools and they were just these nice warm pools that they would sit around in all day long. And people, what about a lazy bunch of guys? They were like, no, actually, if you... Bad tubs. Bad tubs. When you read the ancient Greeks, there's a lot of deep, deep wisdom there. Where did it come from? They must have allowed themselves... To loaf. To loaf, right, like in Razor's Edge, you know. They must have allowed themselves loaf time. They must have not taken everything so seriously and relaxed enough to be able to spend that many hours in the pool, you know. What wonderful thing. And I tell people today, if people would start pooling together with their resources, it's so funny to me with everybody's going to have separate houses, separate TV, separate cars, separate silverware, separate everything. If they would just start pooling together some of their resources, they could live much simpler. And they would have time to ponder the depths, the mysteries of the world and actually discover them together, discover the answer. But it's this crazy idea that you have to own everything. I'm not big on ownership. I mean, I tell people in a practical way, I think the ones that say share, you know, this is always, here we are, we've come together to share these villas and share this time and this experience together. And I think that's wonderful. It's a beautiful experiment in kind of having an encounter group like the 60s. And Jason was saying to me, you know, several weeks ago, he was saying, how are you going to organize Mallorca? And I just laughed and I said, I don't have that question. I do not plan on organizing it. I said, there's certainly some practicalities and Jenny would be using this for mind training and we want to save time and make it as enjoyable experience as possible. But he said, well, aren't you going to do anything to organize the experience? And I said, no, it's like a month-long encounter group and I'm just going to really enjoy it to the fullest. And besides, that's all I'm doing everywhere else in the world so why should this be any special or different? I'm going to do the same thing in Paris, the same thing in Belgium, the same thing in Las Vegas or wherever, Australia, you know. And because it's all a dream, why make something special or some time frame any different than the rest, you know? I don't want to do that. And I do enjoy it. I mean, at one point we did end up finally getting, we had no tub at the Peace House for a year so we ended up getting a hot tub. Oh my gosh, if we had a video recorder in that hot tub, you wouldn't believe the stuff. It was just, but it was fun. You know, when you're in a relaxing, warm bath and you can just meditate and share whatever's coming up and just sink into the bliss, you know? It's for the whole universe. It's not like you're trying to escape anything. You're actually, you know, healing your mind and healing the whole universe and doing that. The black wits. So then they realize that there's two in the background. Oh, we can do this. That's good. That's good, yeah. Yeah, yeah, forgetting you. The ego would have us forget God and then you turn the tables on the ego and you go, no, I'm going to forget you and your world. And you know, and that's the beauty of it. You actually can use forgetting in a helpful way. And that's what it says in lesson 189, forget this world, forget this course and come with open arms unto your God. Yeah, that's what I call, that's the kind of forgetting I can get into it. If I had amnesia about God, I'm going to turn the tables on the ego. I'll forget you ego and your whole world and I'll remember God. Wow, is that simple turning it around? You know, just flipping it all around and yeah, and have fun with it. I think spirituality should be fun. I really do have fun. There were times when the ego was reacting and resisting, it didn't feel very fun at all but then I saw that that was just like a clinging, a holding on, like afraid of letting go of something. But then once I started to get more comfortable and trusting to let go, I thought, oh now this is fun. And this is the way, I always tell people spirituality should be really fun. And if you're not having fun, you should just change your spirituality. Just chuck it. It doesn't matter, you've worked on it for 25 years, you're still not having fun, then chuck it. You know. Just in so much time, I kind of turn now. I think some of the best advice we can get is really to go and live life. You just go and live. And not study, just meet whatever is coming. Meet and take the blue books, put it in a box, store it in the garage and come back whenever you feel like to come back. Yeah. Yeah, I love that. When I was in Columbia one time, I went to a coffee farm in rural Columbia and this lady had a Course in Miracles group there and they were all sitting around all these students pondering and then she started talking about this worker on her farm who was probably like in his 30s, but he had never been off the coffee farm. He had never been to a city. He just lived and worked. He grew up on the coffee farm, he lived and worked on this coffee farm his whole life. He really never left the coffee farm and she went on to say how happy he was. He was the happiest man that she had ever met in her whole life. So everyone was like listening, following, following and then she said, now my question is, does this man need a Course in Miracles? And I didn't have to say anything. Her whole course group in unison went, no! Keep the book away from him. Because everybody had the recognition that happiness is the end and that as Helen Shuckman said, she said finally a path for intellectuals and I've said it all along, but the majority of the people in this world of the six billion are not intellectuals. Actually, the intellectuals are a tiny minority and so they have a pathway too now. So they can be grateful for it, but to not presume that there's anything special about a blue book with a budget with 1200 some pages of words, don't spiritualize it and start to make it into something some teachers say, don't let it touch the ground and all this stuff, it's like, oh please, let's not get into doing the same things with a book that had been done for centuries with different symbols.