 So maybe if we go through some of the early lessons, we can talk about them, and if you have any questions, please bring them up, because these are the basics of the whole Sackler-Merkel disease and the time to help the mind come about. A lot of times people, the early lessons don't make a lot of sense to them. They quickly get back in the book to something that they can use for affirmation. Like, I am a guy greater than me, and I have no clue what he's talking about those early lessons. So I like the way this one sounds. But these early ones are kind of like bringing oneself to true humility or to a sense of humbleness that I'm like a little child who's not seen clearly at all. And I need to recognize that before I'm willing to learn to see a different way. If I think I already know that I'm seeing okay as it is, and I'm not going to be opening to have somebody teach me how to see differently. If you look at, okay, I'm conditioned, and I'm conditioned by my past. So like the movie example with Eddie Murphy-Raw, everyone's seeing something based on their past. But a lot of times we've learned the idea that the reason where this kid's condition comes from is that we've been taught. You might have heard the old thing about the baby infant comes in like a blank slate or pure and innocent and everything, and then starts learning from the word go about things. That's something to talk about and how to learn from the experience. Learning from their parents, learning from their siblings, from their peers, school, advertising, so on and so forth. But to see the course goes one step beyond that because once again, that's the case we're back to victimization. We're upon of these external things. It's kind of like, well, you had great parents growing up. Great, and why do you feel so great? Look at me. There's always another excuse then for, your conditioning was better than my conditioning. So therefore I've got a worse problem than you. And it's still that ultimately the underlying content of the idea is that I'm still a victim of my environment. But the course of the thing is that those beliefs, the conditioning actually begins in the mind. And that literally the things seem to happen to us as persons who are in the world are just witnesses that are called forth by the mind from those beliefs. But if I believe I'm guilty, I will call forth witnesses on the screen and say you're guilty. So I knew it. See, that's just free of forces. That proves it. And it's kind of a scam because until you can see that the problem is the mind, the problem has everything to do with my thoughts and my beliefs and nothing to do with the events that I thought happened to me, then there's no escape from it. It just continues to reinforce. And we all have to yield. And including somebody that looks like a baby. They have to because they brought that mind with them when they came in. And so it's like, I know I was always fooled by that, you know, by this little body. Well, just regard the little body. They're a mind, you know, just like my mind. You know, it has to learn, like I say, all the learning that's taken place in the world side, but it still has that mind. It still has that core of guilt that it's projecting out in its world and its calling forth witnesses. It's also, too, the thing about bringing the mind in. You may need to grab a metaphor that you can use because sometimes you can think that if a soul comes in or a mind comes in, then, you know, you get back to those questions, well, where does the soul go? Where does the mind go? You know, come and go. Jesus kind of describes the mind as this powerful thing that just, you know, it just is. It's not contained in anything. And the mind of God and the mind of Christ are infant. So it may be another helpful metaphor to think of this mind as like watching, you know, the old analogy of watching channels, changing channels on TV, but just keeps changing the channel, changing the channel, looking at the channel and trying to find more witnesses to guilt. And the mind will sit there literally and continue to change the channel until finally it gives up the guilt. And there's no need for the TV to screen anymore. You know, there's no need to even change the channel and everything. And that's it. Also, too, you know, we will use a lot of metaphors and Jesus describes it in here as if, you know, there are individual minds. It's like you have a mind and every one of your brothers has a mind. You know, I just want to mention at this point that that's a metaphor as well because, you know, he knows that when the mind is perceived, it believes in bodies. And it's a pretty big stress to even start to talk about this thing called mind and thoughts because who's seen the mind? Who's seen the thoughts? So it's kind of like he gives that as a metaphor. But in the ultimate sense, there's only one mind. And that's where we get back to everything to projection out of mind or mind because if you get back to those passages, or the very end of the teacher's manual where they pose the question to Jesus, how many teachers of God does it take to save the world? You know, 1,000, 2,000, 3 million, you know, one. One teacher. One teacher to save the world. How could that even begin to make any sense? Unless there was just one mind that was messed up. And it's mind. It's mind perceptual problem. And when I accept his answer, then the world will say, you know, that flies against our thinking of, you know, it's going to take millions of years and, you know, hundreds of months. Yeah, it's going to take lots of teachers and it may take millennium and so on and so forth. But basically it brings us back to the idea that there's a hallucination going on there. This is it. And I can step, I can learn another way of perceiving the world and that way bring an end to the hallucination. That's a big leap, though. We're talking a big, I mean, this may be an idea that your mind is already starting to flip-flop on and go, you know, it can't be, but this is kind of what Jesus is leading into. That's the problem of these, that means. So if we go to lesson number one, we'll talk about really trying to start to take the underpinnings out of, out of waiting to take these things out of the way. Thank you. My mind's still running. And to go into lesson one, you know, it's helpful to even if you read or reread this, just the introduction, just to look how we talk because some of these ideas, the work we present, you will find hard to believe. Right. And others may seem quite, to be quite starving. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the idea that you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you and will show you that they are true. Isn't that wonderful? Even some hypothetical course of miracles seem to give us a practical tool. Just like a practical tool in the kitchen. You've got a practical tool to use. You can just carry these ideas wherever you are, whatever you think you do. So the very first one. Nothing I see in this room, on the street, from this window in this place means anything. You know, to the ego, that's a ludicrous idea. That's all I know of meaning in this world. That's what all my education has been about. Both in the home and through society or through books and everything else. I've been taught what things mean. From the ball, chair, table, transportation system, computer lingo, just seems to get more complicated, but basically all that's just meaning. Just take the idea and try to apply it indiscriminately to everything you see. You can see this is one of those undoing kind of things. Thinking that I know what everything means and know what it means. Also, I want you to notice these lessons as we go through. Some of the lessons are directly related to perception. In other words, he'll say, nothing I see. He's talking about literally perceiving the table, the chair, the hand, the foot. And a lot of the ideas that we're going to go through are going to be related to thinking. Because seeing ideas, oh, thinking ideas. Or a couple of seeing ideas and he throws in a thinking idea. And the purpose of this is to try to convey that they're very much connected. That, you know, in the deceased state it seems like there's a world, objective world out there. And I've got a private mind. And what I'm thinking doesn't necessarily have any influence on what's going on in the world. What my friend is thinking, or what Bill Clinton's thinking. Or more than that, not so much what other people are thinking, but there's a connection. But if I think happy thoughts, the world will suddenly get happy place. He's trying to train us that they're intimately connected. Instead of being separate. So the second one is just the basis for what we've been talking about. I have given everything I see so on and so forth in this room, in front of the window, in place. All the meanings that it has for me. And that's that basic perceptual of all that we've just been talking about. That when you see things on the screen and you have an opinion about something or a conclusion or this is what it means to me. I don't know what it means to you. That's still that projecting out and giving meaning to the images. The mind is assigning meaning to the images. It's a cool day. I decide it's a cool day. It seems to me that I find 300 people or more that agree with me as I saw them on the street every day. It's a cool day. It is a cool day. Well, it's like mad hypnosis. It seems like there's an ejected world out there and there's 300 witnesses that will say, you know, it's a cool day. I have given everything I see, all the meaning that it has to be cool is an idea in my mind. There is no intrinsic, or there is no cool in another self. We think we have parameters that can measure and make it more objective, cool and still in my mind. Or it's like to try to avoid Matthew, you know, his perception. One time I was there visiting and we got up. It was like late May or early June. Two weeks after the ice was off the bay. Two weeks after the ice was off the bay for a walk by the bay. He got his shirt off and everything and just popped in and everything and he kept popping up and looking at me. He said, come on David, get in here. I'm looking at him, I'm looking at the water. He said, come on, get in here. You know, I said, how's the water? He said, great. And this went on for like five minutes. But it's like, you know, I have given everything I see all the meaning. You know, kind of if you've heard of when I was in high psychology I said this film of an Eastern yogi that both was from over in India somewhere and they brought him over to study him in the western world. And so that's got this yogi in him and he's on film, you know, and he's got this east string on him and they put him in an ice tank to lower down to like below zero and everything and they leave him in there for hours and he sits in there just miding away as content as possible because it was good with us for this kind of mind over matter thing. You know, cold is not in the mind but then it is. You know, if you can refrain from judging that's that world of duality and hot cold, you know, fast flow and all that stuff in the department. But these are not ideas from God. These are made up, these are just ideas. And as we start to withdraw our mind from them then the witnesses, you know, nothing is a witness for that. So, you know, it's that thing mind over matter again. We see the more way to give them up is to put just kind of like the first one in some way. I do not understand anything I see in this room on this street from this window in this place. But it's another one of those just very humbling things to just for the first time to start to consider that I don't know about everything or to let it loosen.