 Glad to see you live again. We're here looking with Jesus on the world, following the instructions of Jesus as he helps us heal our mind, purify our heart, come to be the light of the world and let Jesus shine through us and share through us and bring comfort and healing. And what a profound calling this is. So we're on day six today and so grateful to have this opportunity. We have done these early lessons. I hope you're enjoying the new app, acmnow.app, and enjoying reading and listening or maybe simultaneously reading and listening to the lessons that I have recorded. So we're going to go into lesson six today from a Course in Miracles workbook. Lesson six is I am upset because I see something that is not there. The exercises with this idea are very similar to the preceding ones. Again, it is necessary to name both the form of upset, anger, fear, worry, depression and so on, and a perceived source, very specifically for any application of the idea. For example, I am angry at because I see something that is not there. I am worried about because I see something that is not there. Today's idea is useful for the application to anything that seems to upset you and can profitably be used throughout the day for that purpose. However, the three or four practice periods which are required should be preceded by a minute or so of mind searching, as before, and the application of the idea to each upsetting thought uncovered in the search. Again, if you resist applying the idea to some upsetting thoughts more than to others, remind yourself of the two cautions stated in the previous lesson. There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind. And I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. For the purposes of these exercises, then I will regard them all as the same. So I am upset because I see something that is not there. At first, that can be like what is being said here. But if we just stop for a minute and we think that God is eternal love and God is changeless and God is just pure innocence, that God is infinite, then we could say that what I perceive in terms of fragmented perception of the world, it is finite, it's broken into pieces, it's all a fabric of linear time past, present, future. We could say that it's a world of images and some of you might remember in the Bible, we were told, hold out graven images before the Lord thy God. Well, this eternal love, eternal God, creates in spirit. So love comes from love. And what is perceived in the world is an error. And the main reason that it's an error, that perception is an error, is that it's not there. In other words, you can hallucinate and you can imagine and you can make believe and you can make up the fictitious, you can make fiction, you can invent. But none of that really has anything to do with spirit, because spirit simply is. The presence of God's love is just what is. Like Byron Cady talked about loving what is, love is what is. So there really is nothing else. So our lesson for today, lesson six, I am upset because I see something that is not there. It can't be that I'm seeing something real through the five senses, through the body's eyes, through the body's ears, the body's nose and fingertips and taste buds. It can't be that any of the evidence that I'm being presented with in perception is real because it wasn't created by eternity. It's all time bound. It's all temporary. It's here one day, gone the next, ever changing. If you notice that about form, it's just ever changing. Until you forgive, until you take on a new purpose, a purpose with the Holy Spirit, then it looks pretty surreal actually. It's not anything you have any worry or concern about. But here we are, lesson six, we're really diving into the mind training and starting to realize that if I'm upset, it's because I'm seeing something that's not there. If I'm upset, it means that I'm trying to see something without my source. It's trying to perceive something that God didn't create. It's trying to see something that God doesn't even know about. So you can see that is upsetting, but it's it need not be because God is real and love is real and spirit is real and eternity is actually reality. Perception is not reality. There is no reality in perception. So this is what forgiveness is. It's really training the mind to release false thoughts and false ideas. A central idea from Jesus's ideas lead not their source. So the Christ idea, the living Christ, the spirit of the living Christ has never left the mind of God. Hallelujah, that what God creates is eternal and that Christ could never leave God's mind, God's heart. That's just basically saying that separation is not real. The ego is a hallucination and you want to use Christian terms. Satan is made up and what has certainly been made up can be let go of. Why would you hold on to something that's made up instead of what's real and what's true, which is love? The Beatles said all you need is love and that's like a you might translate that to all you need is God, all you need is source. And so the Christ idea cannot leave the mind of God and therefore what a relief to begin to realize that what I'm looking on is just an illusion. I'm perceiving an illusion of a self. I'm perceiving an illusion of a world. I'm perceiving an illusion of an identity. And isn't it great to start to look at your body here and just start to realize this is an illusion of an identity that don't have to worry about self-improvement, of improving your personality because your personality wasn't created by God. It's a projection of the ego. So to support our lesson today, again our lesson number six, I'm upset because I see something that is not there. Let's turn instead to the text now for some support. And some of us have been told and we've really been instructed by Jesus that true seeing is Christ's vision. And this Christ's vision is perfect. It's perfectly loving and innocent. It's just pure light, the vision of Christ. And so we're turning to section eight of chapter 20 and it's called the vision of sinlessness. And so this is a perfect corollary to our lesson today because this is really what we want. We can't just stop at seeing that the world isn't real. We have to go for what's real and that's the light. So here we go in the vision of sinlessness. The vision will come to you at first in glimpses but they will be enough to show you what is given you who see your brother sinless. Truth is restored to you through your desire as it was lost to you through your desire for something else. Open the holy place that you closed off by valuing the something else and what was never lost will quietly return. It has been saved for you. Vision would not be necessary had judgment not been made. Desire now it's wholly undoing. It's whole undoing and it is done for you. Do you not want to know your own identity? Would you not happily exchange your doubts for certainty? Would you not willingly be free of misery and learn again a joy? Your holy relationship offers all this to you as it was given you so will be its effects. And as its holy purpose was not made by you the means by which its happy end is yours is also not of you. Rejoice in what is yours but for the asking and think not that you need make either means or end. All this is given you who would but see your brother sinless. All this is given waiting on your desire but to receive it. Vision is freely given to those who ask to see. There it is. Through those who ask to those who pray pray to see the light, pray to be the light, pray to bask in light. Your brother sinlessness is given you in shining light to look on with the Holy Spirit's vision and to rejoice along with him. For peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose shared with the Holy Spirit and have won with him on what salvation is. Be willing then to see your brother sinless that Christ may rise before your vision and give you joy. And place no value on your brother's body which holds him to illusions of what he is. It is his desire to see his sinlessness as it is yours. And bless the Son of God in your relationship nor seeing him what you have made of him. The Holy Spirit guarantees that what God willed and gave you shall be yours. This is your purpose now and the vision that makes it yours is ready to be given. You have the vision that enables you to see the body not. And as you look upon your brother you will see an altar to your father, holy as heaven, glowing with radiant purity and sparkling with the shining olies you laid upon it. What can you value more than this? Why do you think the body is a better home, a safer shelter for God's Son? Why would you rather look on it than on the truth? How can the engine of destruction be preferred and chosen to replace the Holy Home the Holy Spirit offers where he will dwell with you? The body is a sign of weakness, vulnerability and loss of power. Can such a savior help you? Would you turn in your distress and need for help unto the helpless? Is the pitifully little the perfect choice to call upon for strength? Judgment will seem to make your savior weak, yet it is you who need his strength. There is no problem, no event or situation, no perplexity that vision will not solve. All is redeemed when looked upon with vision, for this is not your sight and brings with it the law's beloved of him whose sight it is. Everything looked upon with vision falls gently into place according to the laws brought to it by his calm and certain sight. The end for everything he looks upon is always sure, for it will meet his purpose seen in an unadjusted form and suited perfectly to meet it. Destructiveness becomes benign and sin is turned to blessing under his gentle gaze. What can the body's eyes perceive with power to correct? Its eyes adjust to sin, unable to overlook it in any form and seeing it everywhere and in everything. Look through its eyes and everything will stand condemned before you. All that could save you, you will never see. Your holy relationship, the source of your salvation, will be deprived of meaning and its most holy purpose bereft of means for its accomplishment. So, we're starting to get the feel here that it's the vision that we're going for. That's why we're practicing these Course and Miracles lessons. That's why we're doing the mind training. We're here on a mission to forgive the world and open up to the vision of Christ. It's really that simple. And as I was saying earlier, when we look at the lesson, I'm upset because I see something that is not there. Yeah, I have used the word hallucination. And so, here we go. Jesus is going to start using the same word here in the text. Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination. But vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven's laws. What if you recognize this world is a hallucination? And what if you really understood you made it up? What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? Could you have faith in what you see if you accepted this? And would you see it? Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. This is the healing and the remedy. Believe them not and they are gone. That's a good corollary to, I'm upset because I see something that is not there. Oh, what's the solution? Believe them not and they are gone. Believe the hallucinations not and they are gone. And all you need to do this is recognize that you did this. Once you accept this simple fact and take unto yourself the power you gave them, you are released from them. One thing is sure. Hallucinations serve a purpose and when that purpose is no longer held, they disappear. Therefore, the question never is whether you want them, but always do you want the purpose that they serve? This world seems to hold out many purposes, each different and with different values, yet they are all the same. Again, there is no order, only a seeming hierarchy of values. So let's just say the ego or Satan, that's a hallucination. Why? God didn't create the ego and God didn't create Satan. So God is spirit, God is love and anything that's not of God doesn't exist. Nothing real can be threatened, spirit. Nothing unreal exists, perception, the world, time, space. Herein lies the peace of God. And we really are seeing it's the purpose. One thing is sure, hallucinations serve a purpose. So as long as you believe in the ego, which is the death wish, then what would you expect except to misperceive everything? To see a world that's not there as if by magic a projection of using the power of your mind and projecting a fragmented, splintered world of competition and hierarchies and better and worse and all the dualities and multiplicities. What? A projection. All the projection was made to deny God's love. And that's why when people think they're afraid of things in the perception, it's not that really. It's just the fear of letting it all go. It's the fear of coming to an admission. I was wrong about it all. I was wrong about it all because the ego projected the world and the ego set it up to be a veil covering over the light of Christ. The world was made to cover over the vision of Christ. So now if there's anything at all that you want and that's what Jesus is teaching us in the Course of Miracles, forget wanting things, forget wanting outcomes, forget wanting things to be a certain way. It's a prearranged script. It's like watching a movie. It's over and done. Jesus is telling us. It's like we're looking back on the world of imagining we're still making the journey, but the world was over long ago. The Holy Spirit answered the crazy, tiny, mad idea of separation instantly, and everything was instantly corrected. So we need to now, as the Kim Walker song says, freedom, dance like the weight has been lifted. Grace is waiting for you because the grace of God is basically saying the reality is love is real and the perception of time, space, the linear perception of fragmentation is not. How would you live your day if you knew that the world was a hallucination and you had no reason to believe in it at all? Well, you probably would be just in joy and bliss and singing songs like la, la, la, la, la, la, live for today, hey, live for this moment, la, la, la, la, la, live for this moment, and there would be no cares or worries. There really are no problems right now. We have to be honest. We have to really be honest. We can't play the game of intellectualism here and make up hypothetical schemes to try to make it seem as if there's a real problem, but right here, right now, right now in this moment, there are no problems, and that's a fact. So rejoice, rejoice with me today in the present moment. Enjoy your mind training. I hope you're enjoying your workbook lesson practice. And yes, just remember the lesson for today. I am upset because I see something that is not there. Yes, hallucinations can be upsetting if you believe they're true. Okay. Love you.