 Hi everyone. Welcome again to Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons Live and we have reached today Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132. I loose the world from all I thought it was. We're going off the cliff today. We're going deep diving. We're going down in the mines past the abyss to the kingdom of heaven. So hold on to your hat. Time and space is going by-bye with this one. Before I start too, you know how much I love movies. And this lesson when I was looking at this lesson today and reading it, I was thinking of the Ryan Reynolds movie called The Nines with Melissa McCarthy. And in that movie, Ryan Reynolds plays a man who is an inventor of worlds, literally. And he's taken to the point to realize that the world's not real and he pulls a little wristband on his arm to release his mind from the belief in the world. And also some of you have been following along and you know how I say that the Course in Miracles is really just an expanded version of the Serenity Prayer. And a lot of you know the Serenity Prayer by heart. Those of you who have worked the 12-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous and all of those beautiful programs, basically the Serenity Program, the prayer is Lord grant me the Serenity to accept the things that I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. So many work on just accepting, letting all things be exactly as they are. But today we're going into the second part and the third part of the Serenity Prayer. What's coming through today is the wisdom to know the difference and basically the second part is to change my mind about my mind, to change it from believing I'm a dream character or a human being or a person to changing the purpose of my mind to seeing that I'm the dreamer of the dream and that there is no dream apart from my mind. So here we go. We're going into part two of the Serenity Prayer and and of course part three is the wisdom is the Holy Spirit. It's Jesus that's giving us this beautiful healing release. Lesson 132. I lose the world from all I thought it was. What keeps the world in chains, but your beliefs? And what can save the world except your Christ self? Belief is powerful indeed. The thoughts you hold are mighty and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. A madman thinks the world he sees is real and does not doubt it. Nor can he be swayed by questioning his thoughts effects. But it is when their source is raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last. The source is the mind. The corrections in the mind. The corrections not in the form. We've tried it. It didn't work. We tried it. Yet is salvation easily achieved for anyone is free to change his mind and all his thoughts change with it. Now the source of thought has shifted for to change your mind means you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think you free the past from what you thought before. You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find. The present now remains the only time here in the present is the world set free or as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears you find escape and give it to the world. You have enslaved the world with all your fears your doubts and miseries your pain and tears and all your sorrows press on it and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs. Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind. The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning and what you behold upon it are your wishes. Act it out so you can look on them and think them real. Perhaps you think you did not make the world but came unwillingly to what was made already hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came. Sometimes I say it's like having a soul with a backpack and then you pull off the backpack and you generated cosmos. The world wasn't there. You didn't come from somewhere else into a world that was already waiting for you. You pulled out the digital matrix and you hit the generate button and no no you're not a victim of coming into a crazy world. The soul the sleeping soul had the matrix and its backpack and then we went and back back to the source. There is no world apart from what you wish and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see and all the world must change accordingly. It even rhymes. Change but your mind on what you want to see and all the world must change accordingly. Ideas leave out their source. This central theme is often stated in the text and must be born in mind if you would understand the lesson for today. It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see and that it changes as you change your mind. It is not pride. It's the Holy Spirit that tells you that you made the world you see and that it changes as you change your mind. But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself impervious to what you think and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. There is no world. This is the central thought the Course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther or perhaps step back a while and then return again. But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world and can accept the lesson now. Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form in which they can understand and recognize. Some see it suddenly on the point of death and rise to teach it. Others find it an experience that is not of this world which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth and yet it clearly contradicts the world. And some will find it in this Course and in the exercises that we do today. Today's idea is true because the world does not exist and if it is indeed your own imagining then you can lose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these appearances. The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace the thoughts you ever held of death. A lesson earlier repeated once months once must now be stressed again for it contains the firm foundation for today's idea. You are as God created you there is no place where you can suffer and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. How can a world of time and place exist if you remain as God created you? What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Christ self is the salvation of the world? To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source and you maintain the world within your mind and thought yet if you are as God created you you cannot think apart from him nor make what does not share his timelessness and love. Are these inherent in the world you see? Does it create like him? Unless it does it is not real and cannot be at all. If you are real the world you see is false for God's creation is unlike the world in every way and it as it was his thought by which you were created so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free that you may know the thoughts you share with God. Release the world your real creations wait for this release to give you fatherhood not of illusions but as God in truth. God shares his fatherhood with you who are his son for he makes no distinctions in what is himself and what is still himself. What he creates is not apart from him and nowhere does the father end the son begin as something separate from him. There is no world because it is a thought apart from God and made to separate the father and the son and break away a part of God himself and thus destroy his homes. Can a world which comes from this idea be real? Can it be anywhere? Deny illusions but accept the truth deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. Release your mind and you will look upon a world released. Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it and about all living things we see upon it. They cannot be there no more can we for we are in the home our father set for us along with them and we who are as he created us would lose the world this day from every one of our illusions that we may be free begin the 15 minute practice periods in which we practice twice today with this I who remain as God created me would lose the world from all I thought it was for I am real because the world is not and I would know my own reality well for I am real spirit because the world is not material is not real and I would know my own reality is the holy Christ a perfect creation of a perfect spirit eternal God then Mary rest alert but with no strain and let your mind in quietness be changed so that the world is freed along with you you need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the world as well as to the ones you see nearby as you send out these thoughts to bless the world but you will sense your own release although you may not fully understand as yet that you could never be released alone throughout the day increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the world and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple change of mind I lose the world from all I thought it was and choose my own reality instead what can you say what can you say what can you say well there was a a historian a Christian historian at one time said that in the end in the end all Christians become mystics somebody recently asked me that question on the mystical Christ Academy what you know is it do we all have to become mystics and it's like well those are just stepping stone ideas if if I am as God created me then all the world's forms must be just metaphors and stepping stones but but what I think he was getting at was when you follow these teachings all the way then you go into what the world calls mysticism because you are not going to be counting the the hours and the days and the weeks and months anymore you let go of the idea that there are logistics to handle you let go of the idea that there are people to teach you you let go of the idea that there is a tomorrow and you live from the moment in the moment as the moment as the Christ self and and literally let go lose the world from all it was thought to be when you release the past you release the future when you release the past you release all worldly identification with with bodies and people and time and space and and so to be a happy mystic is just another metaphor to pull the strap pull the strap that's a pretty strap there pull the strap of time do like Ryan Ravel's character does in the nines you know finally you pull the strap and go up among the the light go into the light because the light is really all there is and the veil is is not worth attention so we recently did workbook lesson 128 world I see holds nothing that I want and that fits very well and now Jesus in four lessons later is saying that's why the world I see holds nothing that I want is because it's just a world of thought and has not left the mind to thought it so it's the end of pursuit it's the end of blame it's the end of achievement it's the it's the end of of la dee da dee da dee da dee bouncing seeming to bounce along in time and space no it there is no bouncing the world is not apart from the mind that thought it and so when we change the source when we change the source and we come back to our eternal identity then we don't retain any scrap of the attempt to make a self apart from our Christ self no scraps of illusion remain so oh what a celebration today this is a day when you can lose the world from all I thought it was you can let it let it go and it's fun for me to see the the symbols today because um yeah it's even in the time since I've awoke it's just been watching watching watching and uh wow the phone calls are coming in and the joy is strong and the the tears are strong and it's deep because because this is a time of rejoicing we are dancing because the the imaginary weight of the world has been released we are we are dancing in the in the light in this moment we have no other reason to share and shine other than this happy dance this happy dream that we share and and that's the way we let go of the world by perceiving the the happy dream of non-judgment and the way we don't judge the world is to see that we never could we never could the past had no reality the future you know you you're you're going into the bliss of the moment and uh yay for that so thank you after that lesson all I can say is amen and I love you and I bless you and I just share my whole heart with you I I pray for the happiness and joy of of the Christ the Christ mind so thank you thank you thank you thank you