 Now there are stepping stones along the way Once you have a hint that your mind is powerful that your Consciousness is is very powerful then you can have experiences of what you could call manifesting where You start to see your thoughts Manifest before your eyes and that's a very helpful step because that's showing you the power of your mind Anything that shows you the power of your mind and the power of thought is a helpful step on the journey and so I've had a lot of those kind of experiences myself and Very many mystical experiences very strong very convincing But also they always came with with this feeling like I'm showing you this I'm I'm using this to show you something and that something was the power of the mind and Then it seemed to reach a point in consciousness and awareness where it was like But Even if you could manifest anything that you think you want Would you rather have an experience of eternal happiness? Wouldn't you trade all that manifesting for a consistent state of peace? Wouldn't you go that extra step to know your source to know your Creator to know yourself your true identity? That's literally beyond even the manifesting Beyond the stage of manifesting and for me. It was a big. Yes. It was like a huge. Yes, like yes I want to be Consistently happy joyful. I want peace of mind I want to have a state that transcends all judgments all comparisons all illness Every doubt I want to live in a state of certainty that is more important to me than even Manifesting what I believe I want Because I had to come to the realization that I didn't really know what I wanted You know and and that that I that was trying to manifest was still spinning its wheels and Having a lot of fun actually spinning his wheels, but there was something beyond that there was something more and To me, that's what spiritual awakening is all about Where you get to that point where you say yes, I'm willing to know who I am I'm willing to Wake up from this dream, and I'm willing to accept the happy dream of non-judgment Now what is a happy dream of non-judgment? What's simply a state of mind where you do not have an opinion about anything? Absolutely anything it doesn't matter when people it's political it can be about nature It can be about music Movies it's coming to a place where you don't have an opinion you don't take a side Now why is it important not to take a side? It's because The ego made up the dualistic system of sides The ego invented all this variety and multiplicity and sides and when we take a side We've reinforced the ego in our awareness and not love Jesus tells us in the Course in Miracles That love makes no comparison. He says comparison must be an ego device for love makes them That love is a state of perfect acceptance It's the state of what is it's the state that goes beyond the dualistic Good and bad right and wrong ethics morality All of those still would fit in the category of judgments and in order to forgive We have to begin to see that we can transcend even morality even those stepping stones that helped us along the way