 so you are saving the world we are asked to be saviors of the world but in the mind level we're not there are no personal saviors Buddha wasn't a personal savior Jesus isn't a personal savior it's it's part of a misperception to believe that there's personal saviors now you know if you if you hold Jesus in the light of like being the symbol of a way show or of a way out of this world I think that's that's very appropriate in fact you know it's it's probably one of the most appropriate kind of symbols you could use but ultimately the teachings of Jesus are accept the atonement for yourself you know you can only get so far pointing at a slab of flesh and going savior savior savior at some point you have to accept yourself as the Christ you know you can't point to a man or woman and just stop there and going well 2,000 years ago he's not here now but it's a little whisper time there a little window of time for 30 some years and there was this man walking then for those last three years oh whoa wow he'll the sick raised the dead whoa you know before Abraham was I am whoa this guy is is but you still if he could come to you inside your mind he would say now accept yourself as the same you're the same as me we're the same one we're the same spirit you're not different from me in time while you're going through your undoing you seem to be different not in reality but just in time in unlearning in time you seem to be a little different but actually his message is really you are the same we are the same we are the same spirit that's who we are that's that's our identity that's our reality so that is the state of mind sometimes I'll use the same example that chemoopnics uses where we both say the resurrection occurred before the crucifixion and people go what you've got your history mixed up no the resurrection comes after the crucifixion but we both use this as kind of a parable that that that you have to come to a place of healing in your mind first before you can demonstrate anything so Jesus seemingly had to come to a place of oh I'm I'm the Christ he had to first come to the recognition I'm the Christ remember the he was baptized by John the Baptist and the dove came down and this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased that came before the public mission that was that was kind of symbolic of the resurrection this is my beloved son whom I'm well pleased you know Jesus had this experience with the dove and with knowing who he was and then he started calling apostles after the experience the resurrection was not after the crucifixion the resurrection of the mind occurred seemingly not it doesn't really happen in time but within the parable it happened before his public ministry he he accepted he was the savior of the world in perception in his mind we'll say and then after that it was just a demonstration he was peaceful he was calm at the end they couldn't it couldn't even kill him they had another little resurrection skit at the end of the three years you know to kind of put a little emphasis on it you know come out of a tomb and who you know that's all kind of good stuff too it was like ooh baby look at this he's like he's he was dead it's him nailed to a cross and he bled to death and now look he's walking around and talk showing Thomas's his hand you know and with hole in and everything you know it we're just starting to realize it's from the course that it's all resurrection of the mind that's what it means to be a savior of the world not that you're somehow some kind of a personal savior it's just that's too tiny so if you follow this you start to realize that that if this becomes now your goal piece of mind or salvation in a resurrected mind then probably the trajectory of how your life was going you know will it will change just because you're thinking about what's possible has changed your goal becomes more focused you start to put your effort towards mind training and not towards achieving and accomplishing things in the world you know you can see it it gives yourself in a practical way you get a whole new direction but the course talks about like speeding up the healing of the salvation by you know each you know by doing what we're doing we're speeding it up and the ultimate there is an ultimate goal of where everyone is healed is that you see that happening like is it something that you think about like maybe it'll happen in your lifetime or it's like there's all these metaphors in the course and there are those metaphors you know you you can't really know what healing is as long as one slave continues to walk the world stuff like that really beautiful metaphors then when you get into the workbook there's a couple different places in the workbook and the manual for teachers where you can start to see there's their different rungs of the ladder like one of them is you know can can the teacher can the teacher change the student's mind you know can the the healer change the patient's mind you know that kind of metaphor and it says certainly not oh okay all right certainly not then if you go back to that's in the manual if you go back to the to the workbook and you're looking there's one point where he says when you accept salvation for yourself when you accept the atonement when you change your mind all minds are changed all minds are changed I changed my mind and all minds are changed and he says when you accept the gift of healing he says legions upon legions will arise and accept the gift with you who those kind of quotes are kind of starting to give a hint that this is all one mind and when you give up the misperception they're all going with you and that's the true meaning of not one will be left to slave when you accept the wholeness of your mind when you accept the resurrection of your mind then every mind every person everything goes with you in that healed perception in fact even even his Jesus hints at that where he says when I awoke you were with me he's like saying it's all unified so it's not like Jesus awoke two thousand years ago and now everyone's got a everyone's still hacking away at this forgiveness game it's just going to go on for centuries and centuries and centuries and centuries people are waiting when's the second coming when you coming back when you're going to come back he never came in the first place how is he going to come back if the Christ never came to this world in the first place the Christ is still in the mind of God you see the whole course is a metaphor for you to just accept the healing of the mind and wake up to your eternal reality it's all these kind of hundredth monkey metaphors or you know when we reach a certain thing you know those things can't really be true you know it's not like God is up there like that old song God is watching us from a distance and he was watching oh it's very slow awakening I wonder God is painted as it being an old man with a long beard very long beard okay let's go through a few more Millennium's I am one say it's repeated I am one you're not a body the beard's growing longer you know these heal heal you know and and from a distance you know that's that's not very optimistic it's it's more like you know when Ken Wapnick will say God doesn't even know about this world how could divine love know about a world of fragmented perception come on you really think that that God would know about something that has no reality if God is reality why would reality be concerned with something that's unreal and what makes you think that that there could you could even bring the two together you know it's more about a call for us to give up idols give up judgments give up illusions and open our consciousness open our minds up to the experience of absolute oneness that's what it's all about it's not when we start to get caught up into those metaphors and we you know until as long as one slave walks the world you know you start to think wow it's could be a long time everyone's got to be free when really it's just saying in your perception you just have to give up every scrap of illusion that actually there are separate people other than you or separate ones out there that are still suffering and sick and dying you know that's the misperception that I mean the whole things is set up to keep the mind asleep and dreaming and guilty and you have to let go of every scrap of the illusion of the world in order to experience that wholeness I say in that wonderful I when I was going through the course I'm like okay so that was just a metaphor yes okay what that was just a minute that's just a metaphor oh good lesson why you nine simply do this be still lay aside all thoughts you are you know hold on to nothing do not bring with you one thought the past is toddler one thing you ever learned before any from anything forget this world forget this course and come with open arms unto your God wow you know even the curriculum of the course even the metaphors of the course it's all helpful but it's all meant to be outgrown just like a child is always meant to outgrow toys you know no toys are designed you know to be with us are our whole lifespan they're they're ultimately outgrown even computers a lot of us have fun with computers but they're kind they'll come a point where there'll be some experience it's greater than working with computers and you can go hallelujah you know you know you can look at that with a lot of other things in this world too for some people it's they love to ski or play basketball or have sex at some point it's it's you outgrow the toys you outgrow those things and you you don't miss them you know they're not there's not still a grasping for them trying to hold on to them and maintain them