 I'm feeling more of a call into what you could say called a spiritual community in the sense that I feel like for me it's been over the years really feeling like everyone I meet is my community and the whole world is my community so the two borders are boundaries in my awareness but just in terms of practicing the Course in Miracles I think for those of you that have done as a self-study book and that you've done in terms of groups you see the value of those groups even if you just meet once a week or a couple times a week you know you can feel the synergy of coming together and sharing that purpose from Columbia she's ready to start a Spanish Course in Miracles here in Sydney maybe in this very building so it's just this desire to come together with like-minded people and it just is like giving your mind permission to share and extend these ideas and in terms of community actually living together or in close proximity that seems to have a great benefit and value as well and so that's what I feel like this year is going to be pretty much a focus on that for me in the United States and it feels like there's some some little rumblings of the community down here in Australia and maybe Costa Rica, Spain and Canada so it'll be fun for me to visit the little communities and watch the little seeds nurture and grow and it's just a way of pretty intense mirroring when you're working with these ideas with a small group of people you know to be a real speed-up as far as a practical application whether it's a course group or whether it's a small community so the basic teachings of the Course and the teachings I've been sharing is that you are responsible for your state of mind 100% responsible for your state of mind and this pathway is a pathway to take you into your mind and allow the unconscious beliefs and thoughts and emotions to come up into awareness where you can release them you can't really release something that you're not even aware of and so the unconscious mind is basically being raised up into awareness and your responsibility really is just to allow this to occur give yourself permission for it to occur and as best you can try not to hide and protect emotions and thoughts and beliefs when they're coming to the surface and so that's quite a quite a process really because you can get very intensely emotional and there could be the temptation to just kind of get back into denial and repression or to just project out these intense emotions onto the world and just by projecting them or denying them doesn't release them so this is really a like a precious opportunity for us to come together and go into the mind that way so if we start discussing some of these topics and themes and you you don't understand or you need another example just let me know because we use a lot of metaphors and we use a lot of examples practical examples because that's where we're used to we're used to the symbols of time and space we're used to the personal perspective and even though the Holy Spirit is taking us to a much higher perspective that we need to be very practical as we loosen from these old perceptions and come into this higher and higher state of mind and we just have to go step by step so we're all joined in that for me too it's beautiful in the sense that I live with a fairly small community and though we have a lot of interactions with people all over the world that of course is really saying you know you have to allow the Holy Spirit to use the relationships that are in your life because those are the mirrors and it's just a speed up from the old way of going off into caves and you know having large amounts of meditation you know when you have interactions with people you have a lot of opportunity to really see what's down there in the unconscious mind because whatever you're proceeding in your brother and sister is what you still have in your mind and you just see it as if it's outside and that's where the anger has generated the frustration and the fear and the more we practice this the more we start to realize that we really aren't the mercy of people or relationships and we really start to realize we're not at the mercy of the world either that we have we can take full responsibility for our state of mind and become empowered by this mind training that we're doing so I just can't emphasize enough how important the mind training is and giving yourself permission to put that as the top priority in your life will have enormous benefits in your spiritual journey and that was the thing I had to do is just you have to be practical you have to handle things that the ego has set up you know you can't just ignore them you have to still handle them but the more you clear away the filter of your mind the more you are in tune with the Holy Spirit and the more that the Holy Spirit can handle these things for you so that judgment through you rather than by you occurs the Holy Spirit's judgment where to go what to say and what to do you know all the great practicalities that are so essential can become clearer and clearer in your mind and then life will seem to get easier and easier your experience of life as you learn to flow with the Spirit and let the vision be made with the Holy Spirit instead of by the ego or with the ego it just gets easier and easier