 We're here spontaneously in the moment and just enjoying that, just feeling the prompt in the moment and loving to just come on and share as we all share together Jesus's amazing, glorious, wonderful awakening exercises to clear the mind of all those ego cobwebs and judgments to sparkle in the light of God and we're here to be sparklers of joy. Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy and the Holy Spirit's curriculum is the curriculum of joy and consistent joy comes from consistent prayer, the prayer of the heart. So when we pray and listen if we're praying for being an extension of love and light then we feel the joy of that love and joy extending through us. So today we're here at the 18th day of January and we have a beautiful lesson today. It's lesson number 18. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. The idea for today is another step in learning that the thoughts which give rise to what you see are never neutral or unimportant. It also emphasizes the idea that minds are joined, which will be given increasing stress later on. Today's idea does not refer to what you see as much as how you see it. Wow. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing and he's telling us right there. Today's idea does not refer to what you see as much as to how you see it. Ha ha. Fragmented or unified? There's no neutral seeing, there's no neutral thoughts fragmented or unified. I'll read that one more time. That sentence is so good. Today's idea does not refer to what you see as much as to how you see it. Therefore the exercises for today emphasize this aspect of your perception. The three or four practice periods which are recommended should be done as follows. Look about you selecting subjects for the application of the idea for today as randomly as possible and keeping your eyes on each one long enough to say. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of how I see whatever it is. Conclude each practice period by repeating the more general statement. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. A minute or so or even less will be sufficient for each practice period. It's just a step. We were going through the day before yesterday and we were going through the idea that I have no neutral thoughts and then we went yesterday, I see no neutral things and basically now we are here. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. Basically Jesus is taking us into the actual experience that there's actually only one mind. There are not 7.8 different private minds walking around on planet earth with private thoughts, private emotions, private scenarios, private personality scenarios. What we take as the natural way of looking at things which is fragmented perception, different people placed as things, objects, on and on and on, different moments in time, past and future. This is not seeing. This is delusion. This is fragmented perception. This is schizophrenia. This is psychosis and we are seeing it's not just assigned to those that are in psychiatry or psychology or locked up in institutions. This is the perception of the world, the fragmented perception of the world. This is the ego's world. This fragmented linear cosmos is not created by God. So when he says I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing, he's basically saying that there's only one of us, there's only one mind and this one mind, when it's sleeping and looking through the ego's filter, it perceives everything as separate. People are separate, places are separate, things are separate. Everything, the past is separate from the future. You see, it's all a projection of the belief and separation. But when I forgive and I take back all the projections and I give them over to the Holy Spirit and to Jesus, then what I see is a unified world, that what I see is one thing, one cosmos, one dream. And from this perspective, the dreamer of the dream is a very unifying experience. And the dreamer, there's just one dreamer of this one dream. And that's the good news because I'm not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing is basically saying I am the dreamer of the dream and I see the dream and I can observe the dream as simultaneous and simultaneously gone because it's the only the past. So we start to take some of these lessons, you start to really, really, really have a breakthrough, huge, huge miracle breakthrough to a state of mind where you're seeing with unified perception. In unified perception, then you see there's only one dream and one dreamer. So this is a beautiful stride today at coming to the idea, as Jesus says in the second sentence, it also emphasized the idea that minds are joined. And minds are joined means there's one mind, there's only one of us. There always has only been one of us. And we can really choose to be the sleeping Christ and see the dream for what it is, unreal, what projection of the ego and just watch the nothingness of the simultaneous swirling images. Or we can even let go of that and let God take the final step and and embrace the Christ's mind as the mind that's a perfect idea in the mind of God and unified with God's love. And that is awakening. That's awakening from the dream. So here we are. We are awakening through a course of miracles. Jesus gave me a book named that. It's very sweet. So today, in order to just celebrate this one way of looking at the world, instead of looking at what we see, let's look at the way we're seeing it. Let's open, open, open our hearts to a unified perception. And that's opening to being the dreamer of the dream. That's what forgiveness is. That's the function of God's teachings is to, you could say, awareness of dreaming, Jesus tells us, is the function of God's teachers. And when you look at even the word alone, a lot of times when people hear the word alone, they think of all by myself or they do sometimes think of lonely, because if you see yourself as a personality self, you cannot help but have feelings of aloneness or loneliness that come individuality is a state of aloneness. And as many have experienced, we'll say, in the distorted perception of the world, this single personality sometimes seems to be a bit of a loner. It seems to be perceiving a world that seems to be external to itself, to the personality self. And then it feels like it's alone in all the world alone, apart from all the places and the situations and the other bodies. But really, that's just fragmented perception. So I always, when I would look at the word alone, sometimes if I would feel like I'm all alone, I would open up to Jesus and Jesus, he would reinterpret alone. He would split it into al and then o and e all one. And that was Jesus's light humorous way of saying, no, you're never alone. You're a creation of God. God is always with you. I am always with you in your mind and in your heart and in your reality, you are all one. And you are always one. And you shall forever be one in God, because God is a God of oneness. And God's creation is a creation of oneness. So today I thought to reinforce the idea, I would first we'll jump to chapter 21. And this is such a beautiful section. It's chapter 21 reason and perception, but we'll jump down to the second section in the chapter. It's called the responsibility for sight. We have repeated how little is asked of you to learn this course. It is the same small willingness you need to have your whole relationship transformed to joy, the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit for which he gives you everything, the very little on which salvation rest, the tiny change of mind by which the crucifixion is changed to resurrection. And being true, it is so simple that it cannot fail to be completely understood, rejected, yes, but not ambiguous. And if you choose against it now, it will not be because it is obscure, but rather that this little cost seemed in your judgment to be too much to pay for peace. This is the only thing that you need to do for vision, happiness, release from pain, and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations for here the power of salvation lies. I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience and I decide upon the goal I would achieve and everything that seems to happen to me, I ask for and receive as I have asked. Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken and all effects of your mistakes will disappear. It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him. It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice. His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it outside of which is nothing. Suffer and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy and you gave the power of decision to him who must decide for God for you. This is the little gift you offer to the Holy Spirit and even this he gives to you to give yourself for by this gift is giving you the power to release your Savior that he may give salvation unto you. So yeah Jesus is really just saying you're responsible for your state of mind and your Savior is the mind that is willing to release the past. That's it so any person plays object thing any scenario will work anything you know you can take anything you can receive salvation from a stapler. If you remove all your past ideas from stapler which relates to paper and maybe a body and you see it relates to a bunch of past associations that God didn't create and that aren't real. So this is really an opportunity to take full responsibility for your state of mind and that's why I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts because my thoughts are generating what I'm perceiving and we're really determined today to see that there's no neutral way of seeing and no neutral way of thinking either I'm lined up with God in the Holy Spirit and I experienced the connection and the joy of that unified perception or the fragmented perception of the ego the wrong mindedness that Jesus talks about if I'm not seeing the perception of right mindedness then that's just error that's just sin that's just fragmentation that's just separation and that is not God's will God's will is for happiness joy love oneness and fragmentation fragmented perception is not God's will so let's really sink down and now let's jump to chapter 31 the final vision because this is what we're praying for today we start off by saying I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing and then as we sink down sink down into our mind into the stillness deeper deeper still deeper deeper deeper still we just wait in the silence for Jesus to talk to us in his soft and gentle voice and quietly peacefully remind us of the truth this is from the simplicity of salvation paragraph 12 let us be still an instant and forget all things we ever learned all thoughts we had and every pre pre-conception that we hold of what things mean and what their purpose is let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for we do not know let every image held of everyone be loosened from our minds and swept away be innocent of judgment unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone now do you know him not but you are free to learn of him and learn of him anew now is he born again to you and you are born again to him without the past that sentenced him to die and you with him now is he free to live as you are free because an ancient learning passed away and left a place for truth to be reborn oh my amen to that amen blessings blessings you know let's just sink into that today and be carried just be carried by by the christ sink into the presence that's true service in the light in the lord god bless you have a wonderful day