 There are a lot of great metaphors in the Course, and they seem to address the mind at different levels of awakening. Sometimes it seems like the Spirit is speaking to you as if you're a separate person. Sometimes it's almost like it's addressing the collective, the collective you, kind of you, and at other times it seems like it's addressing the purely spiritual you. You are the Holy Son of God Himself. That's not any kind of collective or person or individual. And I would say that the errors are corrected from the bottom up. So a top-down approach would be God is love, all is one, all is love, and that's accurate. But it's just that it just flies over the head of everyone on the planet. If Jesus had just come here 2,000 years ago, and he just had two words to share, God is, and then he kind of did a little treatment show bow, that good afternoon, good evening, and good night, and poof! He just vanished. He probably would have been forgotten pretty quickly. I saw some kind of mirage, and there was a few of us who saw it, but it was the strangest thing. This guy showed up with his long hair, and he said God is, and then he vanished, and quickly forgotten. No, he came, and he was teaching with all these parables, whether it was with the apostles in the upper room, or in public standing in a boat or on the mount, the sermon on the mount, and so on and so forth. And it really was a bottom-up approach where a lot of the chorus is spoken as if the separation has occurred, as if there's two parts of the mind, one part that has denied spirit, and one part that remembers spirit. And it's all very practical. It's written as if. And when we talk about healing, people talk about sometimes healing the planet, or healing through groups, or all different kind of aspects of it. But the more you go into it, you start to realize that really there's only one ego, and there's only one mind that seems to be sleeping, and it's your own. And it's sneaky because you see all these people, the ego peopled the world, and it seems like they've all got minds of their own, and they're all sleepwalking too. And it's like, then you've got, instead of one problem, you've got like seven billion problems walking around. Seven billion problems interacting with themselves every day, which is kind of a mess, really. When you think of it, it's like, talk about a traffic jam. Seven billion egos trying to make it on planet Earth without blowing the place up with nuclear weapons or something. And sometimes it seems to get pretty close to that, you know. But actually, the deeper you go, you start to realize that every lesson is always for your own consciousness, for your own awareness. And at first, it just doesn't make any sense that there's only one of us here. It just doesn't seem, there's so much evidence that it's more complicated than that. But through miracle working and through giving yourself over to spirit, as you let yourself, you let your body and let everything in your mind, everything, your resources, skills, abilities, all be used, you know, you talk about these deja vu feelings. I actually had experiences when I was traveling around the United States and Canada and the world, where I'd be speaking in groups. And I was like hearing what was coming through for the very first time. And it's still that way, you know. I will be talking and a song will come through or a parable will come through. And sometimes it's, I'm like, oh, this is a new one. You know, it's like watching and observing, watching like this is brand new. I'm listening too. And I found that that's what was happening, that everything was being spoken was really for my own mind. And it was a mechanism for me to hear the spirit and hear what I needed to hear. Just by trying to be truly helpful for seemingly others, that was my mechanism to hear what I needed to most hear. And that's a great way to move quickly through the spiritual process is hearing what you need to hear. Getting it, getting those lessons. So in the early years, when I was just working with the Course at the beginning and then, and I just kind of memorized the Course and I was so devoted into it, then the travel years came after that. And when I was traveling in a different place every day, meeting new people every day, nothing was stable in the world of form. I was like on the move. I was going around 49 of the 50 states, not Alaska. I mean the other 49 states, I was generally on the move and then up into Canada too. I kept getting this one lesson in my mind which was, it's your own lessons, it's your lesson. It just would come in like a broken record. It's your lesson, your lesson, your lesson, your lesson, your lesson. Everywhere I would go, it didn't matter who I met, who I was talking to. There was no their lessons. The voice never went, that's their lesson. It was always your lesson, your lesson, your lesson. And that was good because that, for me, that's the way out of projection. That's the way out of blaming. That's the way out of thinking there's a cause outside your mind. Always pay attention to your emotions. How do you feel? How do you feel? Your lesson. How do you feel? How do you feel? Be authentic. Be honest. How do you feel? That really sped up the process for me. Because I wasn't trying to figure the world out. I'd already spent ten years in university trying to figure the world out. Failed miserably. I gave up after those ten years. I finally got into psychology and got into the mind and then I really knew I didn't know what anything meant. Listening to all these experts who've written books and turned their learning, so-called, worldly learning into careers. I would say constantly to the spirit, these professors really don't know what they're talking about. And the spirit was like, and you do? No, okay, I don't. They're just reflecting my own doubts, alright? I don't get it. I can't figure the world out. So the first, maybe the first two key aspects of really accelerating on the spiritual journey is to start to realize that you cannot figure the world out. You can't figure anything out about it. It's just a trick when you seem to believe you know something. That's why the first lessons of the course, nothing I see means anything. I've given everything I see, all the meaning it has for me. I do not understand what anything is for. He's not bluffing. He's just saying, if you can get this, you're going to be really happy in a hurry because you're going to go into that blank slate, the tabula rasa really quick. And so that's the first thing I had to really be convinced of, is that I didn't know anything about anything. And I didn't have to apologize about that. And neither did I have to judge myself as being dumb or stupid. I could just say I was being more humble and admitting that I really couldn't figure it out. My friend Jennifer, who's been on these last two shattaks with me, she would oftentimes frequently find herself in some room in her house or where she lives and then she just would have no idea how she got there or what she was doing. And instead of judging yourself like you idiot, you forgot why you came down into this room, it would be she would start hearing this in a foreign accent, some voice like Deepak or some German voice or something poking fun. And I had that happen a lot to me too, where I just had these moments where I just couldn't remember what happened before or how or why I even got there. And yet there was a calmness with it. There was a calmness like, this is good, not like you're losing your mind or you've lost it now or whatever. I would really get into that. And there were moments of openness. And then I could really see that that was part of my lesson of just presence, being presence and not judging anything. That's perfectly taken care of. There was never any harm, no harm ever came to me from those Chansey Gardner moments or those Mr. Magoo moments. I was actually feeling much better, more Mago-ish every year and perfectly taken care of as well. And so that's how I knew that I was on the right track. And then you go with it and then you find that things are all taken care of. When I first started traveling I thought, well this is going to be complex. How can you just simply travel? There's just so many logistics that have to be taken care of and the traveling. That's why a lot of people just choose to remain somewhat stationary because it's airports and searches and tickets and reroutings and delays and blah blah blah and all these things. Who would subject themselves to that? Yes, I could just forget about it. Forget about it all. Just stay present and let me do it through you. Let me do it through you, even including other people handling aspects of things. Big, huge gatherings and I just show up and have fun and think, well that was fun and I didn't have to know about all the details what went on behind the scenes. I manifested the spirit, had it. And so I did become better and better at just giving it over to spirit and just remembering all I had to do was show up. I love giving talks because I didn't know what I was going to talk about. I don't know what I'm talking about today. I didn't come here with an idea of what I would talk about or whether I would talk. I never have an expectation that I would actually talk. Which is kind of good to have too because those things happen too. One's to do eye gazing. Okay, let's do eye gazing. We had a lot of one-on-ones like that where people book a half an hour with me and then they just sit in this chair across me and then they get all comfortable and they go, and they don't say a word for the whole half an hour. The previous one talked, tried to tuck my arm out. The next one, not a word, just eye gazing for the half an hour. You know, it's all just given. There's not any expectations of how it's supposed to go. So that's really what the spiritual journey is. I think the process is letting go of the expectations. Even the most basic ones, the most basic assumptions, you let go, you let go more and more and more. It works out so well that it's almost surprising a little bit that it could be so easy when before you thought, oh no, it's never going to be that easy. It's going to be a lot of work. I have not found, as I've got into the surrender mode, I have not found it to be work at all. It's like having just fun all the time. It's very childlike, but there's not even any preparation for it. People say, do you like meditate before you talk? Oh no. If you mean like meditate as an activity of sitting and closing eyes and everything like that. No, it's all turned into a meditation. It's just one big meditation. I don't do anything before anything because I don't believe in preparation anymore. I'm kind of enjoying the way things are turning out. I'm always happy if somebody calls me on the phone, sends me an email. I'm always willing to be truly helpful around the clock, really. But really, there's no shoulds and ought tos and have tos. There's no pressure. There's no got to do this, got to do that, got to get this done. It's like a lot of times, human beings have to-do lists. But if you're being done through, the spirits is doing the sequencing. The spirits are just giving you one moment at a time, one thing at a time. There's no pressure because it's not your list. It's its list. And you're being done through and you feel glorious at being done through. It doesn't really even feel like a list. When we make things into a linear list, we put expectations on trying to get them accomplished in the morning or one day or one week, then the pressure comes in. But this is more of just what's given and then what's given and then what's given. And things can be stopped or interrupted. I don't even know what an interruption is. I don't believe I can be interrupted because it's such a continual flow that everything is part of that flow and there's nothing outside of that flow, so it's actually impossible to get even interrupted. So you've obviously, you know, that's beautiful too because there's no offense taken in anything. Just acceptance. Just pure acceptance.