 Today he brought along a friend up in New York who's a former minister and still a manager. This is excellent. As far as introductory books, that's a very helpful book. Is that about divorce? Yes. And it's real introductory. I mean, he actually will give stories and then the quote from the course. And he doesn't quite get too deep. I mean, it's real helpful. But it will be the place to start. It is. Yes. And we have 70 some tapes available, some of which are at an introductory level. And some we call beyond the basics and some that are going much deeper. And with tapes, you can play them in the car. And some of them you have to play over and over because these ideas are so fundamental. And yet when the mind is resistant to them, it takes repetition just like any kind of course you would take. And most of us have found tapes very helpful. I'm not listening to what I know or anything worn out because of this. In the workbook, Jesus makes this statement that everything you believe is rooted in time. So again, when I see a tape like that, here I am questioning beliefs and root. You know, root seems to be real, the bottom and basic. If everything that I believe or everything that's part of the ego belief system is rooted in time, then that's what it only comes down to this questioning, this linear view of time. That's what I'm coming to see. In some places, they talk about time as being simultaneous instead of linear. Well, initially I can be like, well, that sounds interesting. What's simultaneous? Yeah, what happened? But here's a little description that is from Absence of Felicity, where Jesus gives this graphic kind of description of time. And sometimes if you're kind of visual oriented, it's helpful to have a graphic. See, there's not a whole lot of graphics you can think of when you think of time. He says in the course of the sentence, when correction is completed, time is eternal. But here's the description. Time is like a downward spiral that seems to travel down from a long, unbroken line along another plane, but which in no way breaks the line and appears with its smooth continuousness. Along the spiral, it seems as if the line must have been broken. But at the line, its wholeness is apparent. You can kind of think of a spiral and a thinking from maybe a position inside the spiral of looking and seeing all these steps like the spiral staircase and seeing all these separate things. When you look up or down. Right at the line, if you were like on the line, just blowing on the line would seem very smooth and continuous without any sequencing of events. Everything seen from the spiral is misperceived. But as you approach the line, you realize that it was not affected by the drop into another plane at all. But from this plane, the line seems discontinuous. This is by an error in perception which can easily be corrected in the mind although the body's eyes will see no change. So that's the stuff we were talking about the other night about. The correction of misperception would be a quick judging to let go of all the boxes and just take forgiveness as your only box. The body's eyes would still see a world. But if there was no judging and category surprising going on in the mind then it's kind of like being right there with the Holy Spirit at the line and just watching the events. There wouldn't be any separate events, just watching the images go by. The eyes see many things, the mind corrects and you respond not to the eyes illusions but to the mind's corrections. You see the line is broken and as you shift different aspects of the spiral the line looks different. Yet in your mind is one who knows it is unbroken and forever chases. To me that's been real helpful to think of it in the graphic kind of sense. Come back to the line. Where's the line? Are you talking about the line of the spiral itself? That would be analogous to the Holy Spirit. Some of you might have read some of it when they talked about out of body experiences or so on and so forth. Here in some literature the silver cord. Everyone seems to have a silver cord that goes back. Attaches them? Yeah. They feel like they can use their mind to go beyond, beyond, beyond. But they're always attached to the silver cord. Like the silver cord is their connection to... Like a safety line. Yeah. And there's just a lot of different things. I've used the analogy too of just thinking of... Instead of having all these separate situations and events. Like I wake up in the morning. I go out at breakfast. I brush my teeth. I make my bed. I go to work. I go to lunch. All these separate situations and events you can imagine a cord like for a necklace or a bracelet that would just connect them all together. That would be like a golden cord that would be in the middle. Pretty much analogous, I think, to this line that he's talking about. It's a perspective. It's a way that if you were right there on the cord then you wouldn't be... It feels like a blow instead of all these broken-up isolated... Like I start, you know, driving to work by getting in my car. I drive for a while. And then I stop driving by getting out of my... You know, it's like there's a beginning and ending to each separate event. And it breaks up. And they're separate events. And when I'm in that place everything seems like a struggle. That's your concept. And I really wait to get to the next thing that I'm... You know, it's like the next, you know, increment of time that I'm moving forward. Constantly readjusting which causes stress. And the key thing we could look at too is like when Ram is saying about that person out there on the screen, that's the person that seems to be part of these sequence events. In other words, when you think about even your own personal history, there seems to be all these events that this person went through. And there all seems to be these events that looks like this person is going to go through, just coming up. And the way to transcend that would again be to come above the battleground, so to speak, or to really start to be identified as mine. Instead of being the person on the screen to be the mind that's watching the screen, or the dreamer of the dream, the court calls it. And that's where the flow comes back to mind versus body senses. Then, in essence, you seem to be on the screen, but it's not your perception. And it's, you know, I mean, people are maybe seeing, in fact, they talk about that in the courts, that you may seem just like everybody else on the screen, but you're focused on your minds, but you're not, that's not your goal. It's your piece, you're at peace. So you're flowing on the screen like Ram is saying, it's a flow. There's no separate frame. There's no readjustment to every box. No stress. Tell them here in time how you surround stress. When you're told part of that, how does that work? Yeah. See, that's the thing about... I know. See, that's the thing. Well, we're going to go into it. Every time I've attempted to be peaceful and in linear time, in other words, I say, well, I'm dealing with people like this and this and this, so I have to meet them where they're at, or I have to... You see, you get out on the screen again. It really has to be questioned, because it's that whole thing of the old Bible quote about being in the world but not of it. I mean, how do you do that? Well, in the end, you have to get to such a detachment. It's no identify with mine that you don't perceive yourself as in it, even though it seems, Jesus certainly seemed to be walking around in it, but it was a real detachment like he was... But he wasn't going. Well, guys, I have an appointment at 12 o'clock with this other gathering over on Mount Olive. So, you know, we have to kind of cut it. He stayed as long as they were willing to listen, and then went to the next mount, but that's how his life was afloat. And that's where that thing that we've seen, you know, pulling the mind back, that sheer that we gave the thing, you know, pulling the mind way back. It's like, when I'm getting caught up in what's going on in here, the thing to remember is, oh... Because when I'm caught up out here, I'm one of the fears of the dream. I'm no longer the dreamer right in there. So then you adjust by trying to fit in and distract yourself from this with the stuff out on the screen. And it's not wanting that distraction anymore. And when that happens, the screen's a distraction, and you pull back, this is all you want. You don't want to be in linear time. Linear time doesn't work real effectively. There's a trick. What's the trick? Well, I think, Sid, you're asking a good question because when you start to really follow this in, the world, as you know it, starts to seem to crumble or not make sense. And many people, there was a woman that married me. Yes. There's a woman that married me who, you know, she was asking around and talking about jobs and the woman came to you and she said, this isn't making sense anymore. And she started going to the courts deeper and deeper and she started listening to, I guess, which is a real high level of, you know, not trying to reconcile truth and illusion and trying to make it work. And she just said, I'm going to step out because it's not making sense anymore. She was stepping out of her job. That's what she can particularly what she was referring to, right? Working this job doesn't make sense anymore. And I have found that. I have just graduated with a master's degree in health education. And I'm trying to figure out, well, what job would fit into this goal of peace of mind? What job isn't going to be a distraction? I'm a nurse. If my goal is taking care of people and giving medicine and all that kind of stuff, then I really must believe in sickness. If I take it away and don't believe in sickness and it's just healing, then can I just work with every patient at their level to help to heal their mind and work with my mind, you know, because it's ultimately my lesson. At the pace that's necessary, am I going to be on a doctor's pace, a hospital's pace, a nursing registry's pace? How can I have peace of mind working at a pace the world wants me to work in? Well, you know, that doesn't seem to work. You know, so for me, there's been something coming in my meditation for many years now. And it says there is a job out there for you, but you're not prepared for it yet. And I've kept that in mind. So I got the degree for some reason because that opened up of how that's going to look. I had no idea. And there isn't a job that I can go that I can find in the paper that's going to give me peace of mind and hold on to this purpose that I desire. It's so strong. And are you getting an inkling of what this other job might be? Oh, I'm getting an inkling. Yeah. Yeah, I am. It'll never show up in the paper. No, I won't. I won't. Oh, I'm getting an inkling. I think it's good too. Lynette brought up the point of finding it again today. And I would say, again, you have to start where you perceive you are. You know, this is a direction. I think we're starting to unveil a lot of things and talk about it because as you sit around and talk, I mean, even when Rhonda would come and we would go into things and you had a job in a formal sense and it seems to be a process of elucining where you just take the next step that becomes apparent. You know, you feel it real strong. And a lot of times, when you even feel a strong idea of what the next step is to be, you go, we'll kick right in with all this screeching and everything. But, but, but. Right. And when you hang with it though, it just, this persistent guidance is called to awaken. It just doesn't go away. And you hang with it where you are in linear time. You don't bolt out of it because now you came to, of course, a miracle screw and it seems like that's what you do. The part of the listing too is when the mind's in its decease state, it perceives itself as splinter between many levels. You know, like physical, emotional, mental and so on and so forth. And it seems to have a lot of needs. And you can see if the mind's deceiving it believes it has all these levels and all these needs that to yank out of a job situation. Well, what's, what's good is that going to do? I still perceive I have needs. Now how am I going to get the income to meet such needs? So to me that's why it's very important like Mary said, to question the beliefs. And for me it's been a process more and more of like unifying the needs. It's kind of gotten simpler and simpler to the point where I've seen that healing is my one healing of my mind. Initially it certainly didn't seem that way. I had student loans to pay off and, you know, very specific things that is like, well you can say healing, but the government doesn't particularly see it that way. You've signed a note for, you know, to pay back a student loan. So again, it was just listening again, having that desire and then I would get specific and guys like, you know, you've got to get a job, go and pay off the loans. Then it was even the choice of job. It was really interacting with the people I could do.