 Yeah, some of you might have seen that. I have this movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment and There's one of the movies that's in it called chances are and that movie was Johnny Mathis of course made that song very famous, but there's a song the theme song from that movie is with Peter Sotera and share and There's a great line in that song every memory repeats every step I take retreats Every journey always brings me back to you and it's it's really a song about coming back to God about letting go and coming inward and coming inward and In a course in miracles Jesus teaches us that time doesn't go forward That actually as we progress on the spiritual journey, it's like we're retracing our steps And we're like going back to the beginning, you know We're in the beginning in the I amness that's prior to time is where all our joy and innocence are and we've We've so to speak Projected out or went out into time and now we come back and back and back and back and we retrace our steps So in one sense, it's it's about time collapsing Instead of time extending it's about Miracles saving us time through time collapse instead of having to continually play out these same mistakes and errors over and over like a broken record so You know, that's why you're here. That's why we're all here is to to be inspired into that to really know that that is Is our way and that we're on this together So, yeah, it works out, you know, you just you come and you start to feel more and more inspired That you can relax and the things will will work out. I always felt Especially when I was in high school and in my 20s that I would just have these Deep shareings with with a friend or with some friends like heart-to-heart talks It was my most enjoyable experience was having heart-to-heart talks And I always thought would be nice to just Have a make do that for a living I Guess Oprah did so You know, it's and you see how how helpful, you know That that is something that we wouldn't even consider and I do remember saying that to spear one time saying I would love to Make a living at that and this person Okay, you you will you will you will have your living in that and so Just to start to open the mind to those kind of things is is quite a step Because it's a step from the traditional patterns one of the the major teachings of a course in miracles is that all illness is mental illness and You know when you start working with the course and you start giving yourself over to it that's one of those things that seems to be a big big stretch and and The only way that that we can actually come into an experiential understanding and awareness that all illness is mental illness is Coming into a full-blown experience that that everything is mind Everything is mind or you could say everything is consciousness if you want to talk about it that way and with a course of miracles basically the way into that experience is It's through a shift of mind and literally through a progression of We'll say experiences that have to do with our identity So a lot of us, you know, we're born raised We have all these ambitions of what we're gonna be when we grow up whether it's a dancer or an architect or You know a writer or all these different professions and You know chances are when we were pondering all the potential professions, you know Being a miracle worker was not one of them and yet When we read a course of miracles, it's like oh that it's like the spirits saying oh, that's your chosen profession you're gonna be a miracle worker regardless of whether you were a Have a mother or you were a part of a dance company or part of a construction company or part of a family or whatever whatever the Script seems to be whatever the story seems to be that's our starting point but our end point is is being a miracle worker and I know for me, you know, it was like there was being raised in Christianity There was even that miracle worker is just a couple words, but it conjures up things one of my sister, you know part the Red Sea and you know, you know raised the sick and Raised the sick raise the sick raise the dead even, you know, it's like it's more than That it just goes on and on and there was all these associations there and then the more I got into the practice I started to have a lot of Phenomenal things that were very out-of-pattern things happening around mystical experiences I was having and people around me and so forth and it did start to seem more like a Like a fail it just had less of a of a concrete reality to it And you know, I would find myself going nobody's gonna believe this I can hardly believe it and then it just but here it's happening and it's happening again so it's a convincing job the spirit has to convince us and I know for myself going through what seemed to be physical ailments and then just Practicing the lessons and practicing the principles that I would have shifts, you know removal of symptoms and Things that were just shifting and changing and even we could say being reflected back to me very directly from From the world of form and it really got my attention, you know, I have even said I I was doing the workbook lessons And I was doing this lesson where the it was like a rolodex in my mind one day There is no death. The Son of God is free. I Might have as well have had James Earl Jones voice, you know like from Field of Dreams, you know that deep voice There is no death the Son of God is free and I literally was guided to take some food plate of food Salad to my grandmother and I was guided to this restaurant or this actually supermarket that I Never hardly ever went to and I had already raising the dead experience I watched a woman who had who was laying in the aisle and had stopped breathing the paramedics had given up on her And it was just like laying there just like stone cold no diaphragm movement, and I had all this I'm working with the course, you know, you just give yourself so fully over to it There is no death the Son of God is free talk about working on your lesson of the day. That was pretty it was very strong It was almost like it was thundering in my mind, and then I watched this woman seemingly come back to life And and I just witnessed it But it seemed very very natural like it was like the form and the script was just matching to this Magnitude that I was experiencing all this energy like in my mind my right where my third eye would be and right around my heart area and it just kept happening those kind of things over and over and over and What that does is it takes you into an experience? that that all sicknesses is Sickness of the mind. It's all mental sickness and really the only way to really fully get into being a miracle worker is to really start to have the experience That it has been a perceptual problem You know perceiving the fragmented world is what the problem is the problem the problems really aren't specific The ego has tricked us into believing the problems are specific and when you're going through something like like a broken back or all those Seeming experiences in the pain, you know, they seem to be very strong witnesses to the reality of the body and the reality of the physical but The more we go deeper and deeper inside and we give ourselves over to the course and these teachings it's just You you do get happier and happier because you do realize that there's no problem apart from the mind and there's no problem apart from what you think and You you really do focus in on watching your your mind like never before you become very super attentive to your thoughts Before you know, you were distracted in all the forms, but after a while. It's like no I'm gonna pay close attention to these thoughts as I move through the day and That's what the course workbook lessons were for me. It was just, you know, super attentive. I was highly sensitized And and used to be before I could slip into some annoyance or irritation or what I called mild upset, but then that became more excruciating, you know Even even the mildest disturbances were were really powerful They really got my attention and I was able to just bring it back again and release the thoughts and so I Think that's the thing. That's what you're going through with your friend You know is it's kind of like in your face in the sense that it's still a predominant part of your awareness and Then the workbook lessons just give you it's like a gentle reorientation of the mind Every day and they're during different aspects of the day to keep coming back Keep coming back keep coming back to the point, you know, when you practice it more and more and more There's it does seem quite surreal the world starts to be very very surreal and and then you're you're more Just in the state of watching the body may still seem to be active, you know But it's the mind is is at rest and is at stillness so I Always found that that I just saw everything as my own lesson And so it wasn't so much what was happening in my world that I was proceeding, but it was more Paying closer and closer attention to my reactions Even at nighttime during my nighttime dreams instead of doing like, you know dreams Analysis it was more Paying close attention to what I was feeling, you know during the dreams and and also whatever those reactions were And even pondering in the morning when I would wake up and remember remember a dream like huh? What was I feeling, you know, really zooming into that and then working with that as a way to release? so, you know, it's you find yourself more and more I Mean, I just I remember an early Course in Miracles video that I watched where all these people were at all different stages of working in different aspects of society and different different aspects of Professions and living in the world and so forth, but they were all Talking about their mental practice of working with the course Some of them were like a speechwriter for the president of the United States, you know saying I realized that That countries would keep fighting and we would still have conflicts going on in the world until I Could bring my own self to peace of mind. I could have a shift in my own mind you hear it from Many many different people who are working with the course and it starts to dawn like okay, that's that's where my Major work is that's going to be my contribution You keep practicing and practicing and then Through the practice comes more and more the experience of feeling detached Deep down, too, that's what people want to feel they want to feel that love and that connection they just want to know that they're loved and that experience of extending that love says more than Anything else that we could do, you know, just that sense of being really fully present with someone so feels like that's part of what your lesson is right now is is to Just go and join with your friend and be the presence of love be there as as a listener be there in in total acceptance and Through that demonstration You're showing That there is another way and it's very powerful. That's no small thing at all