 All healing is healing of the mind and all therapy is psychotherapy Because only the mind can be sick and what happens a lot of time in our sessions is we'll start talking about ideas But if any of you have issues that are going on in your life, you know You're struggling with it is a repetitive pattern. It's been coming up Problems seems to be resurfacing over the years and you kind of beginning stuck on and feel free to bring that up And we'll use that as a practical example to trace it back through some of the metaphysics of the course Because ultimately it has to be a practical course It doesn't do a lot of good. We don't need another religion as far as memorizing more terms You know memorizing another system and making a religion out of it We want to have a living experience of that peace and truth And really the only way to do that is to be able to offer Every thought that you have in your mind every concept every perception that you have over to the Holy Spirit and to let it be washed clean So I want to just kind of open up with that and just say that as we go along if there's any Question that you have or if there's any kind of issue that you're going on It's really related to that feel free to bring that up and we'll we'll use that And Basically the dialogue format too is you know the truth is is within each of us And so I don't like to get into a monologue of talking about talking about you know If I'm talking about something and you don't see how it's very practical or applicable You know ask me how it's applicable in my life You know you can't have you can't come up here and talk and talk and talk about ideas that your life doesn't Demonstrate those things, you know if you haven't had to go through the struggles and issues and it's not a living example then and what is it? And I want this to be all of our night You know there are controversies. Sometimes there are seeming conflicts between level There are things that Jesus will seemingly say one thing and then a few pages later say something else and there'll be a Be kind of like wait a minute You know that there are conflicts here. We want to I want to just throw it out if there's anything in particular tonight you know whether it's healing or relationships or economics finances or you know Anything on your mind that you have that is a burning issue And of course it says that Perhaps they need correction at unique correction at another level level is a good one because I get so confused about it Could you I've listened to what we've got it and I understand it And I know that 99% of the time we're in ego because the only thing it has to learn anything is the ego But the level that's difficult because the course does shift from the higher level the higher self to it's You're the holy son of God and says and brother You're shaking in your boots, too because you do this it skips it talks to us an ego level Then it takes talks to our Christ if I understand that but to apply the levels in our lives now like I need correction at another level What would that imply possibly? Well, you can get from so many different angles, but if we want to come out from levels That's a good way to come because early in the text Jesus says that all conflict arises from confusing the level Gee, that's a big statement all content comes from confusing the level and basically Jesus says all sickness comes from Confusing the levels so if we can get really clear about this I mean really go into this just taking this particular approach tonight. There can be enormous clarity and enormous healing if we can just Explore that using that example and going in basically in the beginning of the text Jesus defines sickness as Not right-mindedness, you know, whenever you're not in your right mind So to speak there's a right mind the wrong whenever you're not in your right mind You're sick and whenever you're not in your right mind. You're confusing the level So first of all, I'll just talk about What I see is three real distinct levels in the course The one we won't spend a whole lot of time on because the course doesn't spend a lot of time on it That's the level complete Union complete abstract knowledge God Christ The kingdom of heaven it's called knowledge It's called the eternity the eternal the infinite The course talks about these terms and comes and talks about it as as what is you know How it says we say God is in the workbook and we cease to speak You know, that's just what is and so the course doesn't spend a lot of time even talking about that level because It says this is a course in miracles. This is a course in changing our perception so that we can prepare our minds to For God to take the final step and for us to return to the kingdom of heaven So I would I wouldn't even call that a level. I call that level less Okay There's no levels involved in heaven Okay, then as soon as we come from that we come into What the course calls the split mind and right away we're into the metaphor We're into a metaphor because it's describing something as if the separation occurred Okay, Jesus says in many points, you know that the separation is not a curve But there's one point in the in the five hundreds and beyond the idle sections where it says God knows not for him You know a little bitty sentence, but some pretty power a pretty powerful idea God knows not for him, you know that he this whole seeming split in this projected world And for that matter this cosmos the black holes the the stars, you know the just Galaxies and everything is all part of the projection in other words It have all of all spheres and gravity and form in all kinds of different shapes and so on so forth but basically that we're once we speak even at the cosmos we're down into the level of the split mind and Basically, there is only one mind But and if you I saw the clarification of term being up until a little before if you go back to the clarification of terms Jesus says that The that there is the concept of an individual mind is Is just made up in other words? It's it seems to be meaningful when we talk about the split so it seems as if there are individual minds Okay, and basically with that concept and he says there seems to be a right mind and a wrong mind a Part of the mind that remembers spirit or the Holy Spirit abides and the other part of the ego abides Okay, now But I say seems to be individual mind basically what happens is that Inperception when the mind perceives separate fragments everything seems to be fragmented including separate bodies the Properties of the body get assigned to the mind. Okay, so the mind is singular the mind is whole but since the eyes perceive separate fragments of separate bodies then it seems as if The way the mind doesn't that everybody has a separate mind and that pretty much for a large part of the course Is the level that the course is written on in other words we'll talk about your brother's mind or Back in the back where he talks about how is healing accomplished? You know and what is the function of God's teachers? He says, you know can the teacher of God heal the patient's mind? Certainly not But but you hear how it's described is this there's a brilliant another person there and it's a patient Okay, and he's he's split it up right away speaking as a metaphor for level as if there's a healer Like a Christian-sized practitioner kind of an idea, you know and a patient someone who's being visited or somebody's being who's being seen Also, we're still in that split level when he speaks about in the teacher's manual Teachers of God and pupils, you know the pupils will be looking for the teacher of God and everything so basically the majority of the course is written at the level of Assuming the mind believes that there are separate fragmented mind When you really look at some of the lines that he gets throughout the book though He says all minds are joined, you know minds are joined bodies or not So he keeps like giving these little pointers saying, you know I'm gonna work with you where you believe you are because you believe that you're separate little fragments But in reality, there's just one mind, you know and the unified son of the Sunship is described another way that he kind of points at this Higher level is you know in the teachers manual. He asked the question. How many teachers of God does it take to save the world? And of course the answer is one, you know and that kind of That that it comes down to she is always my lesson as tempted as I am to Start talking about my friends and what their lessons are in this and what their ego should do and well They're my husband's ego did this and then my ego, you know as much as we're tempted to get into that The course keeps bringing it back and real simply just saying it's always your own lesson I mean, that's over the years that when I have heard the little voice in my mind That's about what it's it said to me over and over Sure lesson as I've tried to leap out and analyze and figured out it's been a little voice I'm saying how do you feel right now? You know Howard which who are you connected with and so it's like as soon as we start to get that That that it's always our lesson then that seems to really accelerate the process Because we quit we don't fall for the ego trick of throwing it out there So we'll get back to the question of level though that basically the right mind is is the mind that sees that the mind is positive and The wrong mind is where everything twisted around backward Because when we're listening to our wrong mind cause and effect have been turned around completely So now instead of it's my decision that I'm upset. It's my decision. I'm upset unhappy It's my decision that my I've got a throbbing headache or my toe or whatever but That's what the course does is it brings it back to the mind and the decision where the ego is always trying to Taunt it off always trying to find a scapegoat You know if the weather had been different if I hadn't been in a traffic jam If my spouse had done this differently if I had more rest If I had a better job if I had a better degree, you know, it just endless It seems like the ego is always coming up with all these things To say that the reason we don't have peace of mind has something to do with the external projected world So cause and effect in that sense it turned around. That's what the wrong mind is all about And it's like once you start to get just a glimmering of this, you know Then you've got an opportunity to watch the 24-hour day literally full-time job to watch your mind To just notice your thoughts It's not about beating yourself up, but it's just about noticing, you know As you're going through the day and you say I'd have been a lot clearer for this presentation if I had more sleep Or, you know, it wasn't so rainy and gloomy I wouldn't have this sore knee that I've always, you know, or I'm just it's just so hot and human sticky today That's why I feel a little cranky, you know, you can see how all those statements say that there's something on the screen That is the cause of my upset doesn't have to do with my perception or my my own decision So so basically when we talk about levels the main thing to remember in fact Jesus I think in the early part of the text he repeats this three times that that the mind is causative That all correction belongs at the thought level and not at the behavior level because the level of behavior is The level of form we're back out on the screen again In fact at one point Jesus says you may believe that you are responsible for what you do But not for what you think He says the truth is you are responsible for what you think Because it's only at the level of thought that worth of true correction can be made Okay, so that's that's like a major peak. Hey, he says let me emphasize it again Step again. He says the same thing in one more time. I'd like to point out much more You know, he comes at it like three times and really repeats it because and this is pretty early on in the text because it's like a major Fundamental idea that's going to keep coming back over and over throughout the whole text throughout the whole workbook Now another way we could come out of to is with in a sense of healing that all Sickness it seems to be at the symptom level whether we're talking about cancer or AIDS or flu or sore back or You know, you know just go on and on and on the symptom level that it basically once again That's at the form level so that it seems as if in this world that people have healings When the symptoms disappear in other words the mind really thinks it knows what help is and it really thinks it knows what sickness is it's pretty convinced and And what Jesus is saying is you know, don't pay attention To the form level again that your problem and where the real sicknesses is not right-minded You have a thinking problem that's going on. It's a metaphysical problem. In other words that the thoughts need to be replaced The attack thoughts need to be given up and so that you can get in touch with your real thoughts And that will heal your mind then at the symptom level automatically that will flow through and be like an automatic byproduct but but the constant reminder from Jesus is is don't Don't get focused on the form level In other words at one point even says, you know, don't ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body No, that's the Holy Spirit for the right perception of the body That would be a proper kind of question to come at So you can see where how fundamental this is with these two levels