 can never be solved out there in the world. The problem about money or scarcity, you know, one way the ego would counsel is if you've got a belief in scarcity, it would be to get a great job and have lots of money. That'll take care of your scarcity. That's kind of an obvious way of dealing with the problem. And here comes the course in its saying, the scarcity is a belief in your mind, and the only way that you'll completely ever heal it is bring the belief of scarcity to the Holy Spirit. And then the belief will be gone, and you won't have the problem anymore. That's all I know about. Now we're good. You haven't said anything I don't know, but I want to know about the belief in scarcity being gone, and then I won't have the problem? Because what, I'll have money? No. The perception will change. That's a low record, I'm sorry. We're not doing one. It's good, we're taking this with, we can take the issue of the money, we can use that, because basically the issue with money or the issue with anything, it's the same thing. I know it's not out there, but I can't figure out how to fix it in here, or how to get it fixed or how, or is it fixed? I mean, I know where I'm going to have enough to live in. I think I know that, don't I? So what we do is, we'll take that, in fact, there's an early section in the course where this gentleman was just bringing up the illusion of needs, and that's one of the very, very, very earliest ones. It's on page 11. And basically what Jesus says is, the idea of order of needs arose because having made this fundamental error, when the fundamental error is belief in lack, the belief I'm lacking or I'm not complete or whole, having made this fundamental error, you had already fragmented yourself into levels with different needs. As you integrate, you become one, and your needs become one accordingly. Unified needs lead to unified action because this produces a lack of conflict. The idea of orders of need, which follows from the original error that one can be separated from God, requires correction at its own level before the error of perceiving levels at all can be corrected. Let's bring it back to the practical. When we think about the world, if we think of ourselves as a person in a world, it seems that we have needs on different levels. In other words, we can talk about the mental level, maybe. We can talk about the emotional level. Does anybody familiar with like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, where he talked about, we have basic levels of needs, food, clothing, warmth, sex, so on and so forth. Maslow also talked about like self-actualization needs, of reaching your full potential. Let's pull it back even more specific. If we went around the room and talked about things that we were really interested in and really believed in, some people may talk about environmental issues, wanting to have a clean earth, or some people may talk about wildlife issues, or save the rainforest. Other people may talk about eradicating AIDS. Other people may say, well, that's fine, but I've got big interpersonal problems with my husband or my daughter right now. Or financial needs. Or maybe it's sickness, a chronic condition or a disease. There's so many different ranges and levels. It seems like save the dolphins in cancer and my interpersonal relationships with my mother are like really different things. And this is what we're talking about, the illusion of levels of need. When Jesus gets like in less than 79 and 80, he says, let me recognize the problem so it can be solved. And then let me recognize that my problems have been solved. If you read that, you know, point blank, you know, less than 80, let me recognize that my problems have been solved. It's like, wait a minute, I don't feel that way. It seems like every day I've got to deal with problems, interpersonal problems and, you know, survival and so on and so forth. And so what this course is offering, what Jesus is saying is that you only have one problem and there is one solution. Isn't that nice to think that it's so simple? Haven't all of us felt that if there is such thing as truth, it would be simple instead of really complex. So he tells us that there's one problem and that there's one solution. Now, what we get into is what we're just talking about too is that if I perceive the problem to be in the world, then it can't be solved because the Holy Spirit is that one answer to that one problem and the Holy Spirit is in the mind. God did not place the answer where the problem wasn't. He didn't place the answer out on the screen. He didn't place the answer in the world. He placed the answer in the mind if it's sleeping sound and that's where the Holy Spirit is. So the course constantly says bringing your illusions to the truth, bringing your false beliefs to the light, to the Holy Spirit in your mind. The false ideas and the false beliefs that are in the mind, everything are all what I would call backwards. They all have the basic essence that there's something out there on the screen that's causative and my mind is the effect. In other words, when you were mentioning when it's like an 80-degree day or a 60-degree day, the mind has beliefs for preference and temperature. Some like it hot, some like it cold, climate and everything. That's not the way it gets perceived because it seems like the sun is what makes it hot. It seems like there's something on the screen that the sun makes me feel hot. If I don't put enough food in this body, then that's what makes me hungry. Not that the hunger has something to do with the belief in my mind, maybe it was separating from God, but that I don't have enough food, so that's why I'm hungry. It's kind of like when we were growing up as little kids, you remember getting in a fight with your brother and sister or with a neighborhood child running home to mom and saying, some so made me so mad. They hurt my feelings. They hurt my feelings. Or my boss made me so mad. My boss told me off today, and I'm just so fuming. I just lost my peace of mind. Basically, you can start to get a sense of that the world's teaching, the ego's teaching, is that there's always something on the screen that's the cause of my upset. Not only that, but there's always something on the screen that's the cause of my happiness, you know? That giant hot-foot Sunday. I'm happy tonight because I got to eat my hot-foot Sunday, or I got the woman I was chasing all my life. She finally fell in love with me, and now I'm happy. We go into the sunset. The ego, no matter what it is, I got the right job, I got the right promotion, I got the right car. I'm living in the right area now. I finally wanted to live in San Diego. I wanted my whole life to live in San Diego, and I'm happy because I'm in San Diego. And the course is basically saying that our happiness and our peace of mind and our upset has nothing at all to do with what's going on on the screen. And everything to do with our perception of what's going on on the screen. When we go into a movie theater, we go into a movie theater, we sit there at the movie theater, and we may see like Termes of Endearment, or some movie, we may be laughing one minute or really rooting for the heroine, you know, and really rooting against the villain. And basically what the course is saying is you're reading all the meaning that all the feeling that you're feeling and everything that you're seeing in that movie is coming from within you. Jesus says you never react to what happens directly. You always react to your interpretation of what's happening. So what we need to work with is you're correcting your interpretation. You're correcting your perception. Or another way of looking at it is out here on the screen is behavior. How many of us have tried to correct things in a behavioral sense? I'm too fat. I go on a diet. You know, I don't have enough money. I go get a better job. You know, I have a certain kind of illness. So I go to a doctor, a specialist who does an operation or gives me a particular kind of medicine. Or in the behavior modification where the mind will say, I want to be a good Christian, like Jesus says, I want to be kind. So I'm going to try to be a kind person. Meanwhile, inside, a lot of times we've had the feeling where we're just argh, argh, argh. We feel like we want to strangle the person, but we're trying to put on a nice mess because we think we want to, you know, do the kind thing. Forget about, forget about your behavior. Behavior will follow automatically from your thoughts and your perceptions. You know, don't try to fix things out there. Don't try to fix your behavior, but really follow me, follow me in as we go through perception and we go through raising false beliefs and you'll really have a transformation of your mind and then your behavior will automatically follow. You know, doesn't that make sense? You know, intuitively, you can kind of see how this is going. I can see how, you know, it all makes sense but I think what's confusing sometimes is where, you know, we're taught that what is out here is a reflection of what's in here and then you think, okay, well let's go to the source here and if we change, or if this has changed to come one with God then this will automatically follow and it's unrealistic to think that, oh wow, you can suddenly become millionaires but if you come to the consciousness and really realize that you aren't lacking or, you know, you're not sick or whatever, wouldn't there be some kind, I mean, I understand that there would be a change of perception, a shift of perception but wouldn't there also be some kind of change in the outward world to reflect the change in the mind? Maybe if that is a reflection of what is in the mind? Yeah, basically the pair that comes in is that the deceived mind really believes that there is this thing called an objective world out there, a real objective world. In other words, it's a part from me and you, you know, that there's a world we can talk about and there are people here and we use these and everything and basically what the course is leading to is that all perception in a sense is completely subjective. Every time any fragment looks through the ego's lens he sees the world in a distorted way. So there never was a lack in the first place. We never really were sick in the first place and we really see that. Yeah. That's the shift. The shift comes to the sense of, Oh, what lack? Yeah, it's a real clarity of coming to see this choice where it is and coming to see that it was just a misperception. But I know sometimes for myself if I am faced with a big bear in the middle of the road of this dream that I'm in then for me what has been helpful is to recognize that my goal for the day is the peace of God. Just for the day. Sometimes that's all I can do. It really simplifies it because it really brings it home what the important thing is to stay with the peace or to be open to the Holy Spirit's guidance. A lot of times when you really get into the metaphysics to the deeper levels as Kim Wapnick and other people have talked about is that the Holy Spirit doesn't work in the world. He's in my mind. And that's very scary. But there are a lot of passages in the song of prayer that basically say that the Holy Spirit will reach to you where you believe you are. So if you believe you're a mother and you believe I've got three kids and I only got $5 left and everything then when we really set aside the chatter and just really focus on peace as a goal then we may receive specific guidance on this is what you got to do next. It's not like you can just sit there and go, okay, God is abstract and God doesn't really know about this world and this is nothing because that's not helpful at all. But to focus on the peace and then be open to who to call maybe what to do next. That makes it real practical that way. I think there are certain times too when there are things that you'll say to yourself like I will do the footwork and leave the outcome or whatever it is that gets you through that moment. But I've also recognized the times in my life that I have simply said a prayer of surrender in that I will let this go and not worry about it. I mean, I've often thought about and I told you this about the story about the two women or the man, a woman in London during the Second World War who had such utter and complete faith that they would be alright. I mean to the bone kind of faith. You know, you can't have any room for a niggling amount of doubt. They honestly believe that everything would just be okay so they would totter along when the air raid drills were going off and they would have the time to forget to pull their minds down. And at the end of the war every house on their block had been razed and theirs stood. But that's the kind of faith that I don't know that probably keeps the steps to get to it. But in those times in my life when I have simply said I don't know what to do I assume something will come along and it will work out. It always will. But you have to be willing to sort of let go of your attachment to results. If I am a really, if I think this through and I work my mind in such a way that it will project out into this war I think the minute you do that you're caught in separating yourself from and you're seeing the world out there again. I don't know. Yeah, it's a really good point because as soon as in the slightest way you're even looking for a little bit of an outcome or you're even kind of going to judge, engage how well you're doing by the outcome. I mean that's the trap that a lot of people will fall into using this course with sickness. I mean in a sense here you're getting to a past that's talking about sickness being a decision and that our response our state of mind is completely our own responsibility. There's nothing outside of us. There's no blaming God or blaming the medical model or blaming the doctors. You know it just brings it home.