 Good to be with all of you again, and we're going through Course in Miracles workbook lessons day by day and We today are on lesson 36. We're really in the theme of holiness and That's something that I've mentioned that people really have a lot of resistance to especially when they use the word my in front of holiness because there's there's such feelings of lack of worth of Feelings of guilt for things gone past. There's there's feelings of fear of the future and regret of past events and past relationships and past encounters and so It's not surprising that when you get to these Sections of the the workbook, you know 35 and now we're on 36 today. We're we're digging into the holiness theme and It's the application of that to yourself and to everyone else that really is bringing that into awareness in mind Because the mind is the source of causation Everything and every one in this world is in mind and we want to see this idea of holiness spread Holy Spirit spread it throughout the mind like a lighthouse It takes a big sweep in a darkened sky and just lights up the sky as it sweeps around We're asking for a full 360 sweep of our mind. We're asking for a mind overhaul And the Holy Spirit and Jesus are helping us with that. So let's head into our lesson for the day lesson 36 My holiness envelops everything I see Today's idea extends the idea for yesterday from the perceiver to the perceived You are holy because your mind is part of God's And because you are holy your sight must be holy as well Sinless means without sin. You cannot be without sin a little You are sinless or not If your mind is part of God's you must be sinless or a part of his mind would be sinful Your sight is related to his holiness not to your ego and therefore not to your body Four three to five minute practice periods are required for today Try to distribute them them Fairly evenly and make the shorter applications frequently to protect your protection throughout the day The longer practice periods should take this form first Close your eyes and repeat the idea for today several times slowly Then open your eyes and look quite slowly about you applying the idea specifically To whatever you note in your casual survey Say for example My holiness envelops that rug My holiness envelops that wall My holiness envelops these fingers my holiness envelops that chair My holiness envelops that body My holiness envelops this pen Several times during these practice periods close your eyes and repeat the idea to yourself Then open your eyes and continue as before For the shorter Exercise periods close your eyes and repeat the idea Look about you as you repeat it again and Conclude with one more repetition with your eyes closed all applications should of course be made quite slowly as effortlessly and unheardly as possible My holiness envelops everything I see So as Jesus said we're applying today's idea of holiness to the perceived world the perceived cosmos And we're letting it transfer to everything and every one That's what it means to envelop We're going to let our perception be enveloped by the holiness within We're going to let the the light of the world shine through us today and Look upon everything and every one every person plays thing every object every event every situation We're going to let our holiness envelop everything As we practice this lesson my holiness envelops everything I see so I Looked for something was guided to this section in the text chapter 3 section 2 as a support for our extending our holiness today letting it envelope everything we perceive and The section is miracles as true perception I have stated that the basic concepts referred to in this course are not matters of degree Certain fundamental concepts cannot be understood in terms of opposites It isn't possible to conceive of light and darkness or everything and nothing as joint possibilities They are all true or all false It is essential that you realize your thinking will be erratic until a firm commitment to one or the other is made a Firm commitment to darkness or nothing is however is impossible No one has ever lived who has not experienced some light and some thing No one therefore is able to deny truth totally even if he thinks he can Innocence is not a partial attribute. It is not real until it is total The part of the innocent are apt to be quite foolish at times It is not until their innocence becomes a viewpoint with universal application that it becomes wisdom Innocent or true perception means that you never misperceive and always see truly We're simply it means that you never see what does not exist and always see what does So beautiful that second paragraph starts off with innocence is not a partial attribute. It is not real until it is total and It has to have universal application so that means that As we extend our holiness today and we let it Envelop the entire perception of the entire world the entire cosmos then then we're letting that innocence Become a universal viewpoint With the Holy Spirit and Jesus helping us with universal application and that it turns into what Jesus calls it becomes wisdom We're today. We're going to let holiness lead the way to our inner wisdom our intuitive wisdom our innate wisdom The the spark of light that is in us that could not go out Even in a dark in the mind that believes in illusions there's a spark of light and that can Be extended and extended and transferred and transferred and spread and spread till it envelops perception And becomes a universal application Which turns into wisdom? becomes wisdom When you lack confidence in what someone will do you are testing to your belief that he is not in his right mind This is hardly a miracle-minded frame of reference It is all also has the disastrous effect of denying the power of the miracle The miracle perceives everything as it is If nothing but truth exists right-minded seeing cannot see anything but perfection I have said that only what God creates or what you create with the same will has any real existence This then is all the innocent can see They do not suffer from distorted perception So that's why we're doing the mind training this transfer of training in the workbook is so so essential Because there could be no exceptions if any person plays a thing comes to mind then you have to give it to the Holy Spirit with a prayer for innocence For everything and every one and that innocence comes from within within your own heart within your own mind Innocence is light and there's no partial innocence and there aren't some that are innocent and some that are guilty This is the distortion of fragmented perception This is a split mind projecting out a world of opposites and seeing duality The good the bad the right the wrong and it's like a perceptual problem. It's a perceptual distortion But today as we extend our innocence and we let it develop perception We are escaping we are freeing our mind from this distorted perception You are afraid of God's will because you have used your own mind which he created in the likeness of his own to miscreate The mind can miscreate only when it believes it is not free an Imprisoned mind is not free because it is possessed or held back by itself It is therefore limited and and the will is not free to assert itself To be one is to be of one mind or what one will In the will of the sonship and the father are one Their perfect accord is heaven. Oh My let's put that one second. Oh Hmm. Oh Paragraph five Nothing can prevail against the son of God who commends his spirit into the hands of his father By doing this the mind awakens from its sleep and remembers its creator All sense of separation disappears The son of God is part of the holy trinity, but the trinity itself is one There is no confusion within its levels because they are of one mind and one will This single purpose creates perfect integration and establishes the peace of God Yet this vision can be perceived only by the truly innocent Because their hearts are pure the innocent defend true perception Instead of defending themselves against it Understanding the lesson of the Atonement they are without the wish to attack and therefore they see truly This is what the Bible means when it says when he shall appear or be perceived We shall be like him for we shall see him as he is So that's so beautiful Yeah, it's it's really going into integration. It's going into Harmony it's going into Unified awareness. It's unified by a unified purpose forgiveness So Jesus said judge not let's to be judge and Jesus said forgive and you shall be forgiven That's what we're applying to our mind today as we let our holiness envelope our perception of everything and everyone The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true You cannot make untruth true If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive you let it be true for you Truth overcomes all error and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace If you perceive truly you are cancelling out Misperceptions in yourself and in others simultaneously Because you see them as they are you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves This is the healing that the miracle induces Wow, okay, there we go that was chapter 3 there and And now I think we'll jump ahead to Chapter 5 in section 1 the invitation to the Holy Spirit And let's drop down to the fourth paragraph and to the sixth sentence as a man and Also one of God's creations my right thinking which came from the Holy Spirit or the universal inspiration Taught me first and foremost, but this inspiration is for all I Could not have it myself without knowing this the word know is Proper in this context because the Holy Spirit is so close to knowledge That he calls it forth or better allows it to come I Have spoken before of the higher or true perception Which is so near to truth that God himself can flow across the little gap Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere, but it cannot oppose Therefore you can obstruct it although you can never lose it The Holy Spirit is the Christ mind in which is really aware of all the knowledge that lies beyond perception He came into being with the separation as a protection inspiring the Atonement principle at the same time Before that there was no need for healing for no one was comfortless The voice of the Holy Spirit is the call to Atonement or the restoration of the integrity of the mind When the Atonement is complete and the whole sonship is healed there will be no call to return But what God creates is eternal The Holy Spirit will remain with the sons of God to bless their creations and keep them in the light of joy So how joyful is that? That's your eternal Insurance policy so to speak the Holy Spirit will remain with the sons of God to bless their creations and keep them in light of Joy the Holy Spirit is a reminder of the purity of heart blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God the Holy Spirit is the great Comforter and the great integrator and we know that the Atonement the correction is the restoration of the integrity of the mind It just means that you go from believing in a split mind to a whole and complete mind you you go into an experience of divinity of divine mind and As Mary Baker Eddie was was fond of saying there's no life truce Substance or intelligence in matter and she was always talking about the divine mind the Christ mind And that's the purpose of everything is to go deep within and to accept the divinity accept the divine mind accept the Christ mind and Today we practice as we go through our lesson today number 36 My holiness envelops everything I see so go forth and Let that inner light Envelop everything let that holiness shine on and in and through everything and every one that is perceived So much so that that even the idea of situations starts to disappear as you practice this You don't make any distinctions between any situations or any circumstances. You just let it radiate Holiness envelops everything. I see you just want to radiate Radiate and radiate and and and cover It's like a blanket of light a blanket of peace that you put over the whole world in your mind Because that is where perception is it's actually in the mind It's just been a trick to think that perception Involves the five senses because in the in the world The five senses are accepted as as a base or a default but it's actually a function of mind perception distorted perception is Connected it's actually one with all the what's seeming five senses that the information the data that they Report to the mind is all to the ego The ego made this world The ego is the projector of time and space the projector of the cosmos The projector of the body and the projector of the five senses that seem to be associated with the body but Faulty perception is just one error and it has already been corrected by the Holy Spirit So so there aren't five different senses of error. It's just one error that projects itself into duality and dualistic things of multiplicity. That's what five is One is the only number that you'll ever know I'm kind of paraphrasing Three dog night You know It's it's really coming down to our willingness to let our holiness come forth and to let it extend and feel it with them and Let it shine forth to bless everything and everyone So here we are on the second of the holiness lessons my holiness and bellops everything I see God bless you. May you go forth and joy and Shine your light far and wide today As a gift to your mind to our holy mind that is the source of holiness. Thank God Thank God for holiness Bye-bye