 know to really, we're here being very transparent to say we're joined with the Holy Spirit in calling forth an experience of glee and joy and happiness that you are entitled to, that you deserve, that we all deserve, and to do it in the most practical way possible. So I thought what we would do is open the floor up for everything and then around four o'clock if somebody has a watch and they're looking at it. You can let us know. We'll take a little break with the refreshments and then we'll come back for more time. The important question that I've been looking at is if it's sold that the truth is that we are one in God right now is very second and that we never let the God hit and that perhaps there was a wrinkle in time or a split second where we consider separation to feel what it would be feeling like to be separate from all beingness and we did that adventure. I'm wondering who made that decision and if it really ever happened or if there is no wrinkle in time and that we are right now sitting in the unified field of being our total divinity and why are we having this ridiculous movie reel playing where we're happy some of the time and we're sad some of the time and we're enjoying and we're caught up in depth of loved ones and we're on a journey that's sometimes easy and sometimes difficult. What is this odd movie reel that's going on? If the truth is we are connected to being God at all moments. You've asked and my travels for the last 18 years I get many many questions and I call that the number one question. I've heard that asked in many different languages and many different countries. I've been in 22 countries and I would say that's like the basic I call that the number one question and variations of it is when you say who was that being that made that decision that's one version of it how could this even happen in the first place if everything is one and everything is perfect how could this dream or any concept of separateness or like you said happy day sad day the duality of joy and love and happiness and peace and freedom and guilt pain shame envy and anxiety how could that ever occur and actually as a course of miracles was being scribed taken down from Jesus that was the first question that the scribes asked the scribe and the scribe's partner who was they were taking it down built that furt and Helen Shuckman after so many chapters they were kind of like Jesus before we go on with your book we just have one question how does happen in the first place I mean they've done enough chapters of some of the ideas I'm sharing and they just ask that question and Jesus said well it's a good question and this is the way that he addressed it this is the way Jesus Christ addressed your question to them which is really to everyone to all of us he said he said you can tell by your daily emotions almost roller coaster ride of emotions that you believe that the separation happened you believe it in reality it did not it's like the Christ speaking from the oneness and he's saying I am giving you this book I am giving you this course these exercises I'm giving you this practice as a means of realizing the state of mind that I am in and all his first answer was you can tell by your emotional roller coaster ride that you believe in very much like in this world we talk about pig mail you we talk about self-fulfilling prophecies you know how how powerful the mind is that somebody can believe their their limited wheat frail and so forth and it does seem to be a self-fulfilling prophecy in their awareness not in reality but just in awareness it seems that way so then there's a part in the course too where it's it's called the clarification of terms initially when it came through it was at the very beginning but it got put at the end when you have the published version you have to go to the back of the book of course I went right to the clarification terms at the beginning what's this clarification of terms I'm not reading this book I find out what the terms mean but anyway I went back there and he said he said an experience will come that will end your doubting and he said an experience in other words he was saying at the end he said it's not going to be a theology that will come that will end your doubting and we certainly have a lot of theology in this world and he wasn't saying that there's a conceptual belief system that will come that will end your doubting he's saying there's an actual experience and it kind of reminds me of like when I was in psychology I would read all about Freud and B.F. Skinner and all the different theories you know the neo-Froideans and on and on and I remember reading Abraham Maslow's stuff where he had hierarchy of needs and it reminded me a little bit of when Darlene was talking today when she was talking about survival survival is down at the bottom of the hierarchy of needs you know you need you know you need to feed the body you need to clothing shelter survival mechanisms is there and then when you work your way up you work your way up to higher quarters of needs including his pinnacle at the very top of his triangle was self actualization being needs he called him just just to know what you were saying to know that you you are it's simply you you exist as a pure being and so I thought well that's a pretty good system when I was in psychology I thought that sounds somewhat reasonable but we have to work our way through levels of needs and that's really what what Jesus is saying with this course he's saying in reality you're at home in heaven dreaming of exile just like when we go to sleep at night and you have a dream the dream can seem very real it's like you know you're it's like you can have a lot of emotional reactions if there's a monster chasing you if you fall off a cliff and are plummeting down into the valley or falling from an airplane or whatever you know those emotions can seem very real even with children when they have them they're being chased by a monster it could be like you know the heart the heart is pounding because it seems very real and now we have a branch in psychology we could say a transpersonal psychology we have a branch called lucid dreaming where it's basically teaching that you can be aware of your dreams you could be actually aware that's your dreaming and it's a very empowered state of mind imagine that you're aware that you're dreaming and a monster comes up it's a it's a big difference from being aware that you're dreaming the monster and then it's just a dream and feeling like you're a figure in the dream that's now facing a dragon or a monster it could be quite terrifying in that position that you're just a figure you're a person and there's a monster in front of you so so basically the answer to your question is in reality it is a fact that our essence and our being is one with God and has never left and that there is no such thing as a separation or a fall from grace that that is impossible and what this is called in the course of miracles in the path that I used in my own awakening to the lucid dream or to the happy dream this is called atonement and sounds like a very christian word you know there's a lot of things associated with atonement like you have to pay something like Jesus was here to atone for the sins of men and you know like a sacrifice or whatever but actually what atonement means is it means correction that that this silly tiny man idea was just an error and that it has been corrected and that our one responsibility is to accept the correction