 Okay, here we are. Hi everyone. James Twyman, David Hofmeister, sitting and looking at a beautiful canyon. Oh my goodness, this is one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. Not only the physical beauty, but the inner beauty that is radiating from this spot. Extraordinary. So we wanted to invite you to join us. And just a second ago, David and I said, well, what should we do this talk on? And I said, I don't have any idea. And he said, I don't have any idea either. So we said, that's the talk, not having any idea. Yeah, you could hear the wind whispering too. It's joining us behind. This is the wind whipping through the trees. So let's talk about that whole idea of not having an idea. That's funny. But the experience maybe of not having any idea. Isn't that what A Course in Miracles is bringing us to the experience of no idea? Yes, being clueless like Chansey Gardner and being there. Yes, one of my favorite movies. That's right. And for me, this is becoming more and more prevalent. I don't really have any idea of what I'm here to do to say. And that leads us right into one of my favorite parts of the course. He's saying that that's all we need to do is to have no idea and just ask the Holy Spirit to speak through us and as us. So my release of the tension of the idea is what brings me into the experience. Yes. And I think it's delightful because just today has been a perfect example of that. James and I started off at a little town called Camus, and we were in different cars and we drove down to Walmart in Heber City and then it just struck us. Both of us were looking for a place to have a cup of tea or coffee and we both looked at each other and we both were thinking the same thoughts. So we popped in the same car, went off to have our tea and coffee and then had a beautiful drive out here and it's just been orchestrated where we didn't really have an idea that that's the way it's going to go. Well I think that is the key is that when you release the tension of the idea or the thought form that you've been holding, when that's released then everything becomes effortless. Because I have this image of this river and we're holding onto this branch or a tree or a bush at the side of the river and it takes such great effort to resist the current. But the moment you let go, the tension is released and it just takes you. And you don't have to do anything, you just need to follow the current. And a lot of times one of the things in the 12 step program the Serenity Prayer has been so powerful for me. And when people say how does the Course of Miracles relate to the Serenity Prayer and I say well the Course is just an expanded version of the Serenity Prayer of knowing that there are some things you have control on over other things you don't and the wisdom to know the difference is really the Holy Spirit. To me that's why it's so important to not have an idea because if you have said ideas of what your life is to be and how it's to look, it doesn't leave room, it doesn't leave space for the Holy Spirit to guide that we're supposed to be right in the moment spontaneously listening and following and being flowed through, sung through, spoken through, left through, hugged through and we have to leave a space. Well the awakening has to be spontaneous. It's never planned. You don't plan. I'm going to awakening next Tuesday. It just doesn't work that way. It's when you release all of those ideas and when you're truly open and available then the awakening occurs on its own. So it's really just about us giving up, surrendering, turning it over and allowing it to be done already and that's where the miracle is. It's kind of fun too because Jimmy and I both kind of have been talked about in many names and some of them positive and some of them negative but peace troubadours and it's so fun. It's kind of a rare thing when two peace troubadours that goes circling around the globe in many different ways happen to be sitting together and find themselves sitting over a beautiful canyon and the moment has just brought them together because the goal has been peace and then the forms come however they come but it's been quite a ride. It's been quite an adventure I'd have to say. Oh my goodness. The other thing we were just talking about is how the awakening needs to be compelling. The compelling nature of waking up because if it's somber, who would want to go there? I mean but when it's joyous and alive and vibrant and once again that happens by giving up all of my ideas because let's face it, it's never going to match my ideas. It never goes the way we plan and so give up the plan and just let it be spontaneous and then it takes you rather than you having to take it. It figures you out instead of you having to figure it out. Man, this is fun isn't it? It's fun. We were at Camelot today. Some of you have heard that famous song, Camelot. I know it sounds a bit bizarre but in Camelot. Camelot, Camelot. That's how conditions are. We were driving through a canyon today and we both were wandered into Camelot and it was vacant. Actually for sale. Camelot was for sale even but we just had a fun time exploring. Camelot is always for sale. The question is, are you willing to pay the price? And the price is everything. Everything you believe. That's right, everything you've ever thought was true. That's what it cost to be in Camelot. Stranger than fiction. We're really feeling the draw and the call to the real world, to the happy dream compelled into the happy dream is what it's feeling like. Well, when you give up, when you are practiced at giving up the idea of what this is supposed to be it's like the Holy Spirit grabs you with its tractor beam and then there's no escaping. When you have given up all of those thoughts, all of those ideas, then you become claimed so thoroughly by the Holy Spirit that there is no escape. Thank God. There never really was any escape. This is a done deal no matter how you cut it. But we cut time short by just surrendering to that tractor beam being pulled into the enterprise and then we're off. It's fun being with Jimmy too because I was recalling a talk I gave at a Unity Church in Lexington, Kentucky many, many years ago where my friend Mason had invited me and I was talking about Lesson 128 which is something that Jimmy and I talked about a little while ago and when I talked about it the world I see holds nothing that I want. My friend Mason said, oh that's where I shut the book. I actually said to Jesus at that point, no, I'm sorry, that's enough. There's plenty here that I want. Exactly, he said when I read that lesson I just absolutely shut the book and I said, oh wow, 129 is such a great lesson and he said, what's that? Because he never made it to 129 and there is a word that I want. And then Jimmy was just saying that that's like the three lessons that you just had to have those two and then I am as God created me that really gets to the core to the essence of the whole teachings of a Course in Miracles. And one of the other great statements in the workbook is there's nothing in this world that I really want and the word really is the critical word there what do you really, really want more than anything? Now you could say, well I want to have a meal for this evening I want to have a place to lay my head but that's not what you really want and that's what Jesus is talking about. What is the thing that your soul is most longing for? And of course the answer is to know thyself to know who you really are and to live from that place and to build a form is the master illusionist it distracts you here it pulls your attention there all trying to dissuade you away from that simple truth that there's nothing in this world that I really want except to awaken to who I have always been and who I cannot change and so it's okay to look at this beautiful landscape that we're looking at and say this is lovely because every loving thought comes with me but what I really want more than anything is to wake up and to remember who I am. That's the line and of course the peace of God is my one goal the aim of all my living here the end I seek my purpose, my function and my life while I abide where I'm not at home and that's such a focus point of reference for all of us that gets distracted in a lot of tangents we can just say oh yeah that's right it's peace and everything can support that if we are focused on those three lessons there's nothing in this world that I really want beyond this world there is a world that I want and I am as God created me and by the way looking at that one lesson those two critical words I am the sacred name of God I am that what God is as God created me I am as God created me wow I mean that has some pretty deep mystical teachings to it when you realize that you're claiming the presence of God through the name of God which is your name as well the I am presence so it just begins to it's like we were talking before it's a vortex I often say that it's not a book I mean okay it has pages it has words but it's not really a book it's a vortex and if you let that vortex suck you in it just pulls you and everything starts the closer you get to the drain maybe that's what pulls us into the real world the vortex you ultimately get down to the drain and then you pop through and then you look out and everything's different and yet nothing changes wow so that's what we're doing that's it we're just riffing and having great ideas we had some riffing ideas the last day or two of doing a cruise from maybe like San Diego down to Puerto Vallarta and calling it movies and music and miracles we had some ideas of some collaborators we could invite we've even talked about having some kind of nice gathering out here in the canyon but so if you're listening we're all ears too this is a collaborative venture it's a joyful adventure it's a compelling adventure it's a fun adventure jump in, dive in we're so thrilled yeah there's nothing left you get to the point where you realize there's just really nothing left you've done it all you've seen everything you need to see so let's go here the borderland is the course called so I'm glad I'm glad we turned down this little recording so we can share this spontaneous thing that we call awakening letting go of the idea and just entering into the experience that's something else by the way before we leave that we talked about earlier Jesus is bringing us method... methodology? No, what's the word? Jesus is bringing us into a spontaneous experience of awakening not an idea of awakening as long as you're holding on to the idea of what it will be then you're never going to be able to to access the experience of what it is right now because the awakening is happening right now it's happening as you you're already enlightened I mean enlightened just means filled with light now you can walk around with your eyes closed and not see that or know that but it doesn't change it and so the experience is what we're seeking, not an idea of whatever forgiveness, whatever it is in the course that you're reading but if you enter into that vortex with any paragraph any paragraph will take you there then it's the experience that grabs hold suddenly that's it, there's nothing left amen amen thank you all, thanks for joining bless a day, bless you bye bye