 Yes, I heard you guys talking about sometimes there's a time to let things up Did look at them and now those times is just no not that And So I guess the concept of metaphysical ghosting comes into my mind I don't know if it's just ego wanting to use it as a way to doubt, but the question is like Whether it's saying no not that or whether it's Going for the linchpin and the plug and saying not a body mind can't attack it's like I Still get confused as to when it's just like an avoidance technique when it actually is ghosting to just say that especially if I don't believe it and When it's actually can be helpful To let whatever the thought is coming up instead of just skipping over it and saying no, I'm out of body so Maybe if you could just speak a little bit about that because I feel like That confusion is almost a trap like to keep me like I feel like that's maybe where the ego's coming in It's like instead of just trusting When it feels good to let it come out from when it feels good to say no not that I get stuck in thinking Oh, but am I skipping a step? Am I just glossing over? am I just like Resisting wanting to look at something I really should be looking We kind of coined the phrase metaphysical ghosting Over the years and through our MMT program and so on and so forth and it really actually Refers to to the misuse of words Words are but symbols of symbols twice removed from reality and when you try to say the words like I am one All as well like some of the prayers That you hear in Metaphysical circles or unity and so on and so forth, you know and What the words are given but what there's an emotion underneath that? That does not match. It's not congruent with the words So the words are being used almost like an affirmation would be you know and But the words are not congruent with the state of mind and so what we're saying is you must Get in touch with what you feel You can't use the words, you know as part of a defense to push down Repress and deny the emotions now a course of miracles is is a course in in changing your thoughts and Knowing that the effects of those thoughts, which is what the world is my my thoughts or images I have made the effects will change as well when you change your mind when you change your thinking you Changed the perception of the world that you perceive and that's how you escape from the world That you see escape from a distorted world a fragmented world a World of judgment and you escape from it by a miracle by a change of mind a shift in perception a shift in thinking From wrong-mindedness to right-mindedness so metaphysical ghosting would be the inappropriate use of words as if by changing by saying the words I've heard people say that just say the words and You'll change your mind. Well, that's backwards. The words are effects It's saying say the word use the right effects and your mind will surely follow Doesn't work that way. You have to change your thinking So of course the miracles is a course in Changing your thinking it may it may give you things like a workbook where it gives you It will tell you things to do Sometimes but mostly it's pointing, you know, like when it says sit quietly It's obviously talking to you as if you have a body It's not saying I know your mind. Let's sit quietly. You know, it's it's talking to you where you believe you're at It's it's talking to you as if your body it even takes you on guided meditations as if you're You're sinking down deep in your mind and you're going through the clouds and Jesus says feel them on your cheeks Feel them on your cheeks. The mind doesn't have cheeks No, feel them on your cheeks as you pass through them He's given you a very visual guided meditation as if you're still a body and And he's going to use that to train your mind to see that it's it is purely mind Holy mind purely mind and it has no body at all. He says the body is outside you, but it seems to surround you Shutting you off from others. Wow, that's interesting. The body is outside you. He says See how he's talking about it in a way To put it like almost like an armor the body is outside you, but it seems to surround you Then he turns around at another point. He says there is nothing outside of you Well, which is it is the body outside of me or there's nothing outside of me? The body is nothing. Oh, okay. I'll keep at it. You know, we have to keep following what he's saying You know, he's coming coming coming at this and so metaphysical ghosting would be like Some of you have seen anger management, you know, that's a really good movie at You know Adam Sandler plays a typical guy and Jack Nicholson plays this Kind of crazy therapist with wild tactics to bring up all of the anger that he has pushed down in his mind I've shown that movie so many times around the world I remember when Kirsten first came and she was at the peace house and I showed it She couldn't even sleep. She was so mad. She went up there at night. She was She couldn't even sleep. She washed anger management. That's one of the funniest movies on the planet She was so mad At the way that she perceived Adam Sandler was treated She was just my having visceral reactions when on the plane What what Jack Nicholson was doing and then this and then the stewardess is and then the guy the black tall black man comes up With a stun gun. She's just like, you know, like he's his sweet guy, you know Marissa Tomei beautiful Girlfriend he's a sweet guy and all through the movie you see his face contort more and more and more as His anger just comes up and comes up and comes up. He's got the same Anger that is the egos rage at God That that's in the subconscious mind for everyone, but masterfully that in that movie It comes up and it comes up and it comes up and it's allowed to come up Until by the end of the movie, you know, he's gone through like a major transformation with this repressed anger That's what we're trying to Get to when we say let the emotions up. Don't push them down. Let them come up But ultimately that's only a stepping stone to come to a decision point You know, it is a decision in our mind and we want to come to that when I used to show movies like full-length movies I was teaching four-hour psychology classes many many many years ago And I would have all these students most of them were 18 19 20 some of them up in years coming back for continuing education, but most of them were likely that range and They weren't psychologists. They weren't counselors. They they were art students I was I was teaching the course of miracles to art students without using the words God and Holy Spirit and Jesus and Christ I let the Holy Spirit teach four-hour classes at an art institute and I use full-length movies and I would talk about all these dynamics denial repression projection But I would use the movies to point them out and they would by the end of the semester They were like look at the no projection. You know, they were like they were Spiritual psychiatrists by the end of the semester because I was using the movies to point things out So One of the words that I tend to emphasize And it's I think it's anger management a lot of the movies get out to is this word fine. How you doing fine? Really fine. I'm fine fine You know and I've seen the fine families They talk You know and you see them you can see them in the movies if you watch different movies. They're the fine families There's mama fine papa fine said of the cone heads. This is the fine family Mother fine father fine sister fine brother fine all and they sit there at the table and they eat the food and How's your day fine? How was your day fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine? It's that's Ghosting there's emotions under the surface that are not fine Fine is okay. That's another word the okay family. That's the Nick neighbors How okay, okay, okay, you know, it's all everything is okay But underneath it. There's you have to let those Emotions up in order to be free of Those emotions and those thoughts so metaphysical ghosting is just an allowance Giving yourself an allowance giving your mind a permission to let those come into awareness all the while aware that the emotions are being generated by thoughts and the thoughts are held in place by beliefs and That for me has been the inner journey has been getting in touch with my thoughts So that I could get in touch with my beliefs so that I could surrender my beliefs to the Holy Spirit an inward process and We you know the use of words is something that that the ego can have a field day with High metaphysical ideas You know sometimes people will say well, I've got a Course Miracles teacher He knows the metaphysics inside out. He can Discuss anything of the course and You know and he's always fine Fine fine fine fine fine. He's intellectually fine. He's he's good. He's sharp intellectually But it's like the princess in the pea if there's if you're sitting on Doesn't matter how many layers and mattresses you've got if you're sensitized And there's a pea down there and you're you're feeling the pea And even if you got the right words, it's not going to do you a lot of good You have to get down You have to get down into those emotions and everything. So what we're doing is we're encouraging that and Also, we have a system of guidance in the sense that for those that are highly highly Mind-trained and consistently peaceful and happy and joyful Those are the ones we look to in the community in a sense of trust, you know, you shall know them by their fruits That's the place where for trust is directed. So that even if you can't hear sometimes One way or the other, you know, you trust You trust that because there's almost you can say a sense of it's not really achievement or accomplishment in the world These sense but there's an experiential Presence that's there That you can really feel it's like you can tangibly feel it and then that's what turns into a teacher in your Relationship and then we work with that as we continue to allow those emotions to come up Because they have to be cleared and there's no way that they're going to be cleared if they're just kind of glossed over with pretty words and So I would say the course is a course in mind training that when you are going through those workbook lessons he's offering the lesson of the day as a safe substitute for all ego thinking and attack thoughts That's almost like you're drowning out there in the ocean and somebody's ready to throw you out a life preserver It's the lesson of the day Whatever it is Could be any of those lessons. That's the the life preserver on the rope So as you're thrashing about on the water and the water is going up into your nostrils and and down in your mouth You can grab hold onto something as a safe replacement for all ego thoughts But he's not asking you to go through the day You're at the grocery store. You're paying for your Your items of bananas your peaches your oranges and everything The cashier says how's your day? Lesson 139. I will accept the atonement for myself She doesn't care You don't need to use those words. She's not interested. That'll be for that'll be four dollars and fifty-two cents, buddy Whatever that 139 is an atonement. Good luck with that Give us the cash or no peaches for you You know, it's it's this is not a course in going around and trying to Bunk people over the head. I am a spirit Well, you know, you're getting a traffic ticket. I am spirit I'm giving you the ticket anyway. I am the Holy Son of God himself You know, it's not a course to be spoken. It's not a course to be spoken to be lived