 Well, originally when the Course of Heracles was first received by Helen Shuckman and taken down with shorthand notes and it was then Helen read the shorthand notes and basically her boss who was her collaborator, Bill Thudford, wrote it down in the first document that appeared was called the Urtext. And in the Urtext Jesus had a lot to say about sexuality. In fact, the published version that most people read when they go and buy it at the bookstore is an edited version of the Urtext. One time I heard one student say, oh yeah, I've got the published version, it's the nuns version. They took out all the sexuality out of it, it's just for nuns to read. Actually it was Jesus's head, it was more for the general public. And you might say that your question relates to a question we talked about last night which is distorted miracle impulses. The sexuality is definitely in the realm of distorted miracle impulses because the call is always to return to God. That's why the miracle impulses, it's a call to forgive the world, release the ego, remember your true identity as a creation of God. But through the ego's lens of lack, then those distorted miracle impulses come out on the surface of consciousness way out there in the perceptual world and the body as cravings. And sexuality, you know typically when people talk about sexuality, they talk about sex drive, libido and so forth. And then on top of that just we'll call it the plain sex drive. Then in terms of other overlays we have these things where there's distinctions around heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, you know it's quite finely refined. And there's lots of morality around that. What's good, what's bad, what's evil, you know God will strike you blind for this, but no this is fine. God doesn't mind if you make a lot of babies, just do it with one partner and put lots of care and attention in raising those babies. But oh certain groups and certain philosophies, theologies say oh homosexual, oh bisexual, transgender, oh. But here we're pretty close to San Francisco, so it's good to talk about these things, you know, oh don't you know there. So you know it's a lot, but basically if you start to cut through all that and you get back down to, you know, the sexual drive, like I talked about last night, as well as hunger and thirst, some of you remember Abraham Maslow, you know he he had a beautiful hierarchy of needs and he'd do this little pyramid and actually right down there there were the base needs, you know, for food and water and sexuality was right in there, it's a human need and then you work your way up to more towards a sense of love and then as you get to the top of the pyramid it's the meta needs or the being needs, the bee values, you know these were things that when you go into self-actualization, of know-thyself, you know, things change from your consciousness when you're down at the base to when you come up to the higher self-actualization and it's an interesting side note that Bill Letford, who was the collaborator with Helen Shuckman to bring the course, you know, into being for it all, in his past he had been a graduate assistant of Carl Rogers and Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow are kind of thought of as the core, some of the core founders of humanistic psychology, which was a forerunner to transpersonal psychology and California is filled with transpersonal psychologists, it's wonderful transpersonal, transcending the personal, coming to the actual, to the real, so the sex drive is a distorted miracle impulse and in the urtex Jesus will make some like distinctions in there and will address a little bit around homosexuality and heterosexuality and he even quotes Virginia Woolf in the urtex and there's some really interesting things in there but I would have to say if you really want to cut to the chase and get to the core of things you have to bring it down to see that as long as you have a belief system in lack that's the filter or the prism in which these distorted miracle impulses flow through into consciousness and you have to clear the mind away as Buddha said empty the mind of these these unconscious beliefs in order to get this beautiful straight miracle impulse without any kind of distortions so when you take it down to the core you start to realize that that it's not like Jesus condemns anything there's not a condemnation involving sexuality or homosexuality or heterosexuality or bisexuality it's more like he's he's so interested in bringing it back into the mind and getting to the root of the distortion it's he's not really moral I know a lot of people go what are you saying Jesus isn't moral he's not really so much into morality and ethics as he is into purity and and a lot of morality and ethics involves beliefs and theologies and there's much contradictions I mean if you go around to different cultures you'll find a huge rainbow of beliefs around sexuality what one culture says is moral another culture says is immoral what one culture says is ethical another one says it's unethical and this is the same with with even around violence or killing it seems to be there's more it's more common commonly accepted in the theologies that thou shalt not kill but then you know we always have exceptions to that even so that's the most important thing and really the solution is is that's what the Course in Miracles is about it's about getting in touch with the higher with and the higher self the Holy Spirit whatever name you want to use and and being guided into clear away the false debris clear away the darkness so that the light can shine through you know unhindered and without distortion and that's why we would say that instead of giving straight answers like a lot of the spirituality is trying to give hard and fast answers on sexuality it's really opened very much to individual guidance that when the mind is asleep and dreaming the Holy Spirit will reach the mind right where it believes it is so for example if somebody seemed to be will say what the world would call very promiscuous with sexuality very loose and promiscuous free sex free love there's chances are when the Holy Spirit starts to work with that mind there will be some definite instructions on on bringing them back more to what we'd say towards center and coming in deeper and deeper so it's not unusual that somebody who is extremely promiscuous may get guidance to to go through a period of celibacy just to take a look at thoughts that are underneath and likewise if somebody would be will say very will say sexually inhibited and very very reserved in that area the chances are that the guidance would would again be guided might be to go skinny dipping or you know you know to have sex as guidance so forth as a way of loosening if the mind gets so locked you know into certain patterns the spirit has to use ways to to un-unstuck them you know unstick them from their their patterns and you see that that that goes way beyond these discussions of of morality and ethics it's really what will serve to loosen the mind from the grips of guilt is really what what's about so let's say somebody is is extremely inhibited it wouldn't be surprising that Holy Spirit might guide them to a sex therapist who may work with them on their emotions and thoughts and have them start to loosen up around it and likewise you know that's why when we talk about this topic it is really highly individualized we aren't trying to just give hard-fast answers you know when people say well homosexuals are gonna pay for pay for this or they're gonna burn in hell or this and this you know God it's not a punishing God it's it's like the the movie what the bleep do we know where Brahms is like speaking to Jay-Z Knighton is basically saying you know you're it's a progressive evolution of consciousness and it's just you're drawing higher and higher in consciousness towards perfection towards divinity and it's not so much that there's a right or wrong or there's not this punishment concept there's no hellfire punishment concept that has anything to do with the source or with God but it's more of what will serve to take me higher what will serve to awaken me what will take me into forgiveness is always the question and that relates to every sexuality food finances across the board and so you can see this is a course in changing your mind about your mind and it's so different from the theologies and the religions of the world which basically have pronouncements you know don't wear a hat in church it's in the Bible oh goodness better get that little baseball cap with it doorly off your head you know you're gonna pay for that one you know this isn't some kind of anthropomorphic God who's like watching human beings going I told you not to wear that hat in church and I told you over and over and so the elders of the church told you it's right there and this is in the creed you know and so get that hat off there don't go into that you know it's just spirituality true authentic spirituality is just like that