 days, happy days. We're going to dive into the depth of spiritual awakening today because today's the 15th day of the calendar year, January 15, 2024. And we are on workbook lesson number 15. Jesus is shining, shining, shining. He's saying anytime you're sad, afraid, jealous, angry, frustrated, upset in any way. Basically, he's telling us, really, this need not be. You need not be upset. And we've been through those lessons, you know, 5, 6, 7, 8. I'm never upset for the reason I think I'm upset because I see something that's not there. I see only the past. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. So I know as you're doing the lessons and everything, sometimes the ego will bring up the doubt thoughts. Like, well, if I'm seeing something that's, if I'm upset because I'm seeing something that's not there, you know, are you really telling me that I'm hallucinating a cosmos, a linear cosmos, that I'm hallucinating the world? That sounds very psychotic and schizophrenic, you know. And then when I see a bunch of people that I'm interacting with, I believe that are real, then that sounds like mobile personality disorder. And Jesus is saying, yeah, that's, that is insanity, but it is not your will. It's not your father's will for you. Your God's will for you is perfect happiness. So you have every right to ask for happiness because that's your natural state of being. But as long as you perceive any illusions and you're perceiving through the ego's lens, and you're perceiving what's not there, then the hallucination persists. And then you, you are seemingly upset because of an external cause that happens in the world or in the cosmos. And that's not the case. It's only our thoughts that can upset us. Only our ego thoughts. When we believe in ego thoughts, then that is obviously where the upset comes in. So let's jump into lesson number 15 today. My thoughts are images that I have made. It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. You think you think them, and so you think you see them. This is how your quote seeing was made. Mm hmm. Perception. Body's eyes, body's ears, five senses. Mm hmm. That's not real seeing. That's not real hearing. That's not real sensing because the five senses are in cahoots with the ego. This is the function you have given your body's eyes. It is not seeing. It is image making. It takes the place of seeing replacing vision with illusions. Replacing the vision of Christ, the light with illusions. This introductory idea to the process of image making that you call seeing will not have much meaning for you. You will begin to understand it when you have seen little edges of light around the same familiar objects which you see now. That is the beginning of real vision. You can be certain that real vision will come quickly when this has occurred. As we go along, you may have many light episodes. They may take many forms, many different forms, some of them quite unexpected. Do not be afraid of them. They're signs that you are opening your eyes at last. They will not persist because they merely symbolize true perception and they are not related to knowledge. These exercises will not reveal knowledge to you, but they will prepare the way to it. In practicing the idea for today, repeat it first to yourself and then apply it to whatever you see around you using its name and letting your eyes rest on it as you say. This is an image that I have made, whatever you're looking at. That, whatever you're looking at, is an image that I have made. It is not necessary to include a large number of specific subjects for the application of today's idea. It is necessary, however, to look, to continue to look at each subject while you repeat the idea to yourself. The idea should be repeated quite slowly each time, although you will obviously not be able to apply the idea to very many things during the minute or so of practice that is recommended. Try to make this election as random as possible. Less than a minute will do for the practice periods if you begin to feel uneasy. Do not have more than three application periods for today's idea unless you feel completely comfortable with it and do not exceed four. However, the idea can be applied as needed throughout the day. So what a beautiful lesson, basically. He's telling us if you're having doubt thoughts about the world being an illusion, if you're having doubt thoughts about the world being a hallucination, if you actually are holding on to the belief that perception is real, it's because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. Sneaky, sneaky, sneaky, the clever ego has turned its thoughts into images and then it has asked the mind to become accustomed to images and so it's kind of like if you were sailing out in the sea and you could talk to the fish and you were leaning over the boat and talking to the fish and you were saying the water's not real and the fish is looking up at you and let's say the fish was even telepathic but the fish picked up your thoughts. The water's not real as you lean over the boat and the fish looks up at you with these eyes like, what are you talking about? It's because the images, the image of the water appears to be real to the mind of the thinker. So we're just using this as a, I know, so this is stretched as an example but it's like when you look out and you go, well I'm told this cup isn't real, this chair isn't real, this computer isn't real, this light isn't real, this wall isn't real, it really looks real. Jesus, he really looks like the world is a real world of specific objects and images. Jesus is saying it's because you think the thoughts that you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. So he's trying to show us that it's a trick and the thoughts that you're thinking about the past and the future aren't real. The world that you're perceiving from a past and future perspective is not real and the holy instant right now is the gateway to eternity so that's why prayer and meditation is so important. It's a perceptual problem. It's not a financial problem. It's not a relationship problem. It's not a political problem. It's not a global warming problem or ecological problem. It's not a system of the body. It's nothing to do with the medical model or the what's inside of the body. It's a misperception in the mind that comes from an ego belief system and if you're having trouble grokking this or grasping this, maybe you should just go to, I have a website called levelsofmind.com and there you can begin to start to get clear. This is what Jesus did with me. He gave me concentric circles. He taught me about the mind. He taught me what's going on or what seems to be going on in this sleeping mind so that I could let it go. That's the only purpose of looking at these little inner rings, desire in the core, the prayer and then belief and then thoughts and cognition and emotions and then perception. This levelsofmind.com website is just a way to fast track your enlightenment, to fast track your spiritual awakening and we're dealing with that here when we're looking at this idea today. I'll say it again. This is a way he starts off the message. The idea of the day, my thoughts are images that I have made. He says initially, this is just the first sentence. It is because the thoughts you think you think appear as images that you do not recognize them as nothing. Second sentence, you think you think them and so you think you see them. This is how your seeing was made. This is how perception was made. I don't know if you remember but already this year I've been going through this idea that projection makes perception. Projection makes perception. If you're struggling with the lesson of the day, then just think to yourself, projection makes perception. Jesus repeats this. He does repeat this in the course and the great teachers of the course always, always, always come back to this core idea. Projection makes perception. In other words, even when people ask me if God didn't create this world and who made it, projection makes perception. The ego is a faulty formulation of reality. The belief in separation is a death wish and it projects out a world that's based on that death wish. A fragmented world, a world of conflict and war and disease who really think that the world of conflict and war and disease would be created by God. Come on! How could that be? Why would God create that? You know, the book of Genesis it says in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. All right, all right, the Genesis was half right. God did create heaven, not the earth, not the cosmos, not linear time because projection makes perception. Okay, you're saying, okay I'm going to try to remember this. I'm going to put that in my notes, in my iPhone. I'm going to type it in, projection makes perception. And let's have some help from Jesus. I know we've done this before. Let's go back to chapter 13, the guiltless world. Let's drop down to paragraph three and let's jump into sentence five. Projection makes perception and you cannot see beyond it. Again and again have you attacked your brother because you saw in Ham a shadow figure in your private world? And thus it is you must attack yourself first for what you attack is not in others. It's only realities in your own mind and by attacking others you are literally attacking what is not there. Jesus isn't saying that attack is reality but you make it real. It's like Pygmalion. If you believe in attack, if you believe in grievances, if you believe in judgment, then you make a world that's based on that attack, grievances, judgment. Projection makes perception. Jesus goes on to say the delusional can be very destructive for they do not recognize that they have condemned themselves. They do not wish to die yet they will not let condemnation go. And so they separate into their private worlds where everything is disordered and where what is within appears to be without. Yet what is within they do not see for the reality of their brothers they cannot recognize. The light, the light is within but it's covered over by darkness and the world is a projection of that darkness. So we have to go but with what Jesus said 2000 years ago, the kingdom of heaven is within. And again Jesus says you have but two emotions and in your private world you react to each of them as though it were the other. So you split mind, you believe in both love and fear, you believe in the presence of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and you believe in the ego. And that's what makes a perceptual world as seems fragmented because projection makes perception. Let's jump again to chapter 21 called reason and perception. And there in the introduction, what's the first three words? Projection makes perception, period. There it is, get that note out. If you've got, I don't care if it's Android, iOS, whatever you like, doesn't matter. Your tablet, projection makes perception. Let's not forget that because we need, we need to remember that if we're going to grasp these exercises and save thousands of years of learning or unlearning if you want to be more honest and correct. Projection makes perception. The world you see is what you gave it, nothing more than that. But though it is no more than that, it is not less. Therefore to you, it is important. It is the witness to your state of mind, the outside picture of an inward condition. As a man thinketh, so does he perceive. Therefore seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. Perception is a result and not a cause. And that is why order of difficulty in miracles is meaningless. Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy. Nothing perceived without it means anything. And where there is no meaning, there is chaos. Okay, there we go. Projection makes perception. I've said many times that this linear world is like a motion picture of consciousness. And so until you open your mind to forgiveness or in the Eastern lingo, unified awareness or unified consciousness, until you open yourself to what Jesus calls the happy dream or the real world or the forgiven world, basically you're going to perceive a hallucination of attack, competition, conflict. You're going to see different sides. You're going to see multiplicity. You're going to see what Shakespeare called much to do about nothing. You're going to perceive the hallucination as if it's real until you realize that projection makes perception and until you say, I want to extend love instead of to project error. I want to offer kindness and sweetness and I want to offer my adoration to God and to the Christ by letting this shiny, sweet experience that I'm experiencing shine through me. And when you do that, you start to loosen your mind's belief in an external world. You start to realize what we'll get into some lessons a little bit later on. I am the Holy Son of God Himself. I am spirit. You know, the salvation of the world depends on me, not personally, you personally, because you're not the little puppet, you're not the puppet on the strings or the puppet that seems to be like Pinocchio that's off the strings. You're not a body. You're not a person. You're not a personality. You're so much more, so much more. But as long as you forget that projection makes perception, then you perceive yourself as limited in time and space. You perceive yourself as existing somewhere like in some kind of coordinate of time and space and some kind of space or country or community or solar system or galaxy. But you don't know that you're everything and everywhere, so to speak. That's what unified awareness or unified perception shows is, oh my gosh, the whole cosmos is still in my mind because it has never left its source. That's the illusion. If projection makes perception, then you must realize that the big bang that everybody talks about in science, you know, except nobody really knows what it was or how it happened. It's because it's an illusion of projection makes perception. That phrase describes what seemed to be the big bang. And now it still seems to be continuing in time and space. Scientists are still measuring the vectors, the forces, the black holes, the quasars, the meteors, and all the movements of the planets in time and space, still looking at the stars. Still pretty clueless about the big bang because projection makes perception. It's time to go deeper than just studying the error. It's time to start to realize that some of the teachings in quantum physics, like the unified field, why is everything connected? Why is everything energy? Why is everything really the same? Because projection makes perception. And once the perceiver makes the correction with the Holy Spirit's help, then a unified perception eliminates looking for solutions in the specifics and the parts and recognizes the whole. And that's where you need the Holy Spirit. You need the Christ. You need Jesus' help here. You know, science, quantum physics, it's great. It can take you all the way to God if you're really willing to let go of everything you think and believe of the world and cosmos. But here we are. We're talking about it. Some of you, if you don't like the Christian terminology and you don't like the words Holy Spirit and Jesus, then just watch some of my YouTube videos on the quantum field and quantum physics and quantum healing or buy that book, Quantum Forgiveness, Physics Meet Jesus, if you want a nice short read to kind of reorient your mind back. But do go to levelsofmind.com. If you're having trouble with this idea, projection makes perception because that whole website starts to put the mind, the sleeping mind into context. And so you can start to wake up from it. So, wow, beautiful, beautiful. It's so good to be with you here doing lesson 15. Let's have a joyful day today. And if you're tempted to see something that upsets you, you know, you can do the five, six, seven, eight thing. You've got that under your belt. I'm never upset for the reason I think I'm upset because I see something that's not there. I'm seeing images that really are my thoughts, but I think they're external. I see only the past. It's all just the past. The ego is history and the future is projected future too. And my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. Then zoom in to remember projection makes perception and then come into the lesson of the day. My thoughts are images that I have made. And then you can rest really quiet and content with that idea. You know, there's nothing to get hung about. Strawberry feels forever. Kingdom of heaven forever. God's eternal oneness forever. Okay. I hope you enjoy that little song. Amen. God bless. Have a blessed day. Let's stay in the joy.