 question like how how do I get out of the linear to the vertical in the back of the text of the Course in Miracles he's got rules for decision and basically the first two rules you know are you know if I will make if I make no decision there's first the first one decide the kind of day that you want very very practical decide the kind of day that you want and then the second one rules for decision is if I make no decisions by myself this is the day that will be given me if I stay with the Lord if I want a happy day and I stay with the Lord I'll get a happy day guaranteed but if I rebel and want to have autonomous decisions and make all kinds of egoic decisions by myself you're heading for trouble emotionally you're not going to have a happy day it's going in the other direction he's got three four five six seven he's got other ways to come back after you've gone off the beam so to speak he's like saying stay on the beam in fact you know Jesus always emphasized in the Bible the first two commandments you know he was really emphasizing the first two commandments you don't hear him talking a lot about the rest of the ten commandments you know love the Lord I got all your heart soul might love thy neighbor as they self that's why he was focusing on was love and he focuses on his first two rules for decision he even says you know it's easier to have a happy day it's easier to be in the flow if you just can stay with the first two the others three four five six and seven or is your if you're off the beam he says it's much harder to get back you know so he's telling us right away you gotta really be focused and tuned in so you know you really have to desire this if you have a desire for the vertical if you have a desire for that alignment that desire is so powerful in the mind that you'll start to draw people to you relationships books movies music all kinds of things that will help you that will be they'll be like angels coming at you from every angle because you desire it and and one of the most difficult things is just things are so accustomed we're used to just following our past learning we get into ruts of just you know just like that people song of Paul McCartney it's just another day it's just another day you know the whole song is about just the repetitive monotonous kind of daily life that we go through or we're just marching along based on our past conditioning recently we had an experience where we did a retreat in Brussels and then we were on the way to the airport in the morning and they told us you know the traffic as you go towards that south towards that part of town can be very very heavy so we leave hours in advance so we left hours in advance we got on the highway the traffic got we were in the inside lane you know right over what the guardrail and the traffic got slower and slower and slower and then it turned from slow traffic into a parking lot we just sat there and the clock as we were just watching nothing was moving it was just sit there sit there sit there and then we're getting closer and closer to the time the plane supposed to take off and we're just sitting there the traffic is not moving people are getting out of their cars going like this is you know we're just sitting in the people getting out of their cars and then finally I was just sitting there in the front seat just kind of looking around I really had no investment but I get on the plane or not you know it's the moment it's the moment it's always perfect you know it's just this is what the script is I'm just but I'm looking over three lanes of traffic and I'm seeing that people are getting off the highway and driving on the grass leaving the pavement parking lot central lane parking lot and then another one over there and then I'm looking over there and I can see between these giant semi trucks this is huge trucks two people are driving on the grass I said look at that they're they're flying by at high speeds over there on the grass so the woman or Mel who's driving she was sitting next to me I said yeah I said all we have to do is get out on the grass because we're looking at all but she said I'd like to go between those two trucks and this I really would and then within like a few minutes the parking lot creeped ever just ever so slightly the big semi trucks opened up and a gap a crack appeared to and she went and she got us all the way on the outside and it started to move a little bit and off we went on to the exit now we had to continue going this way and then we could see the highway where we had to go to the airport it was all a parking lot it was just all no movement whatsoever so we got there to the ramp and she says this is we go from this ramp this is going the opposite direction of the airport they say yes go for it so we go zipping off with parking lot with highways jammed and everything completely opposite of the direction of the airport it's my glee leading the way go for it just go drive and the French GPS was you know I don't know French but I was telling us quite a lot are you making a wrong turn or you turn around at the next turn you know as polite as it can be it's that the GPS was one really a lot of French coming at us because I'm I'm directing now I'm the GPS I'm the God trans you know system positioning system God positioning system we're now we've gone because you know it's just a mode it's based on the past it's based on the you know on the maps and everything we're driving the exact opposite of the airport at high speeds and then we're looking and I said look there's then it says downtown Brussels said yes she's like yes so she takes us into downtown Brussels all these little narrow streets we're moving we're moving I guess I've been getting a little sightseeing tour of Brussels I had never seen Brussels so we go through all these different angles little teeny streets we're moving moving around here and the GPS was still all around us and we go around and go around and then this starts it the GPS always was trying to draw us back to the major highways you know that's what it does so we go like this we go come across we go back and it's still growing us so finally it starts to bring us back to the major highway and as we were approaching the highway I was saying this is the time I said everybody in the car this is the time to forgive just let go of everything that you think you saw think you know everything this and this so we got up to the highway which is the highway that's going to go over to the airport and the cars are slipping along at high speeds we hopped on the highway whoo we zipped along we zoomed over there we got there just just on time we were there on time because yes we had to go the opposite way and go for a tour through downtown Brussels and then come out and however it's that's what that's quantum the egos one I don't like that story at all it's like the place was a parking lot there was no way out I had you you were trapped you're gonna miss the plane you're supposed to stress out about future thoughts okay we're gonna miss the plane what are we gonna do how are we gonna handle missing the plane and all these different you know always wants to scare us with tragedy in the future based on our memories of tragedy in the past and it's a closed system and yet when we start to follow the spirit that's where we get inspired but it could take the form of going in the other direction of what you logically would think which we did we went flying in the opposite direction of the airport and it worked out perfectly