 I'm thinking I know a private world full of private thoughts A ruthless critique I'll shoot. It feels like my lesson plan for the last few weeks has been about understanding the difference between true and false empathy. But I think even beyond the last couple of weeks it's just been a lifelong pattern of false empathy. And then seeing how it really is a defense against the truth and really being shown how it's an attack actually. But it seems like it's wrapped in a very nice neat package. So yeah, it's very, it's really hard to see it sometimes. So I've just been watching my mind around that and just really when I'm noticing that I'm falling into false empathy sort of maybe going way on the other end into not wanting to do something out of feeling sorry for somebody. But yeah, it's just been a number of lessons that have come up from me around that and just like you helping radiance up the stairs sometimes. I'm to the point like I don't know if I should help that person because there's all the old patterns start coming in. And where I have been really listening to the spirit and the messages that I'm giving when it seems like somebody is in pain or something is going on. I have been communicating that and sharing that. And then the reflection I get back is just this chaotic anger. And it's just like, wow, it wasn't, I don't know what I was expecting, but obviously this reflection of upset is seemingly coming back at me. And I think maybe I'm wondering too if I've used false empathy as a way of keeping the rage and anger away from my awareness by using it in some magical way, like arranging the deck chairs. I've used empathy in that way so that I didn't have to really look at the deeper rage and anger that I might have. So it's just like I'm getting glimpses of that, but I'm just wanting your thoughts around true versus false empathy. Well, again, the world was set up to seek and not find. The world was set up to give care and attention to that which was made as a distracted device away from putting true care and attention on the spirit. So most people reflect this sense of caretaking. In 12 steps they call them caretakers and alcoholics anonymous and codependency and so on and so forth. The codependency is set up in such a massive scale that a lot of what is false empathy goes as being good and caring and nice. And that's how sneaky it is. It's actually death. It's part of a death wish, but it's been sugar-coated so much that it seems to be good and well and nice. So some of you are aware of the first edition of the course. It's on page 24, the second edition and beyond. It's on page 28. I think it's the prayer, I'm here to be truly helpful. When Jesus puts the word truly in front of helpful, you know there's something underneath that. It's a prayer that you're supposed to pray over and over. I'm here to be truly helpful. He doesn't say I'm here to be helpful. He says I'm here to be truly helpful because as you go through this awakening process, that perception of helpfulness is going to change dramatically. That's what it means to give yourself over to the Holy Spirit for guidance because a lot of what the Holy Spirit will use in the transformation of consciousness is you will use the body. You will use the words. You will use the behaviors. And the ego also wants to use the body in the words, the behaviors for its purpose as a death wish. So as you go deeper and deeper with a discernment, you move more and more towards this deep state of stillness which you're getting higher and higher up that truly helpful ladder so to speak coming to a teacher of God could heal the world without a sound. Wow. That could heal the world without a sound. Silence could heal the world. That's where this is heading. And yet as you go through it practically speaking, there will be behaviors being done through, being spoken through and for just helping it get up and out what needs to be cleared as well. And it's very, very subtle as you go through this practice. So you start to pay more and more attention to your feelings. Jesus says that's the one right use of judgment. How do you feel? And then that becomes your like barometer for your mind training. And that's very important because a lot of suppression and repression has been part of that pattern and then taking on roles, helping profession roles, advocate roles, advocacy roles. The whole identity, the whole false identity can be teetered and built up on this false empathy belief that there's a world out there, that there's people that are disadvantaged, that there's people that need to be saved and the whole identity, egoic identity can be hugely invested in saving the world, in saving people, saving children. You know, looking for cures for diseases, you know, it could be huge branches of science and medicine that go on involving tens of thousands of people that are part of those and that's all part of an intricate deception of what we could call false empathy. Where true empathy is simply aligning with what is real and true. Like Jesus or like Mary Baker Eddie for an example, you know, and starting to bring everything back to mind. So with helping people there's all these things you can do to be helpful and when you start to understand these divine metaphysics, you see my mind is so worthy of attention. My mind, watching my feelings, watching my emotions is my full-time job, so to speak and there will be mistakes that will come. We're not trying to keep score, the Holy Spirit's not keeping score but it's not so much how people react to you but just paying close attention to your emotions. You know, people have watched me in situations where people were raging or pounding tables and when I was in China there was a whole mob of angry people one time at the airport but I was like a foot taller than them so just for the fun of it I went and decided to stand in the middle of an angry mob. That would be kind of a fun experience and they were all just screaming. It was so Mandarin I couldn't understand but they were screaming and shouting and red faces and fists but it just shows again it's not what seems to be happening. It's not that there won't seem to be angry screaming shouting people but when you're above it you're just above it. Literally I was above it in a couple different ways. But it was just a joyful experience. I was just kind of peering down and watching. That's the kind of things the Holy Spirit does when you're in your right mind. Just for the fun of it. Go stand in the middle of an angry mob and enjoy it. Enjoy the experience because you're not interpreting anything. You're not taking anything on. You're not doing that and that's what true empathy really is. That's also what I really enjoy about RML. She's so much true empathy that if I say how's the festival going for you? She's not interested. I love that. I like everyone to just tell it like it is. To me that's adorable. I'm a big fan of true empathy. But that's the beauty of it. She can have a good laugh at it too. The more you get into it the more you see the value of true empathy because you're just dealing with the truth when you get into your mind and you start to feel the joy and the happiness of being happy for no earthly reason. Isn't that wonderful when you're happy for no earthly reason? You know the feeling I'm talking about where you just don't even know why but you're indescribably happy and you can't even think of a damn thing to be happy about. It doesn't have a cause in the world. It doesn't have a tether. It doesn't have a reason. It's just indescribably happy. And to me that is a movement towards this true empathy. And I encourage that. I appreciate that. I remember that movie Meg Ryan did with Tom Hanks called Joe vs. the Volcano. And I remember there's one point where Joe's talking to her and it's one of Meg Ryan's characters in that movie but he says something to her and she says, I have absolutely no response to that. And I thought, that is cool. But in that moment she had absolutely no response and if you have to be free in your mind and connected in your mind so that anything can come including I have no response to that or just including feeling that joy and happiness that's within you and not trying to think that you have to do something or fix something or maintain something to keep it even that it's just the most natural bubbling experience exploding. Sometimes I know it feels like exploding joy and it doesn't really matter what the world is doing or how the world seems to react. I notice that a lot with Armelle. She's, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. It doesn't matter what the form or the reaction is. She's not really interested in that. And that's good. It's a good thing. It's the end of codependency when you can feel that. We're undoing codependence relationships. So I just want to support you in that and I want to support you in being free to share what's on your mind because that's where we expose whatever the private thoughts are and that's how these false sets of empathy, this false empathy is undone by doing that and you will grow much more confident in the truth as you go along.