 talk about the script like it's a movie. It's already been shot and it's filmed and you're just watching something that's already finished. And really the only substantial change that we could really say is a significant change in any sense of the world regarding perception is a shift of mind. So it's like you're just shifting a perspective on the world. And that shift of mind involves a shift from a linear perspective to a simultaneous perspective. So when the question is asked, you know, can you change the script? Maybe with regard to symptoms, you know, what are described as cancer symptoms or illnesses or whatever. The very presumption is that there's this linear world of form and the question is saying can you make a change into it? And the serenity prayer and the Course in Miracles basically are teaching that, you know, you can just change your mind. The Course says you can change your mind about your mind. The Course says you can change it the way that you look at the world. But the Course never makes a claim that you can actually make a real substantial change in the world. Like from this symptom to that symptom, this appearance to that appearance. In fact, it goes to completely the other direction. It says seek not to change the world. Seek rather to change your mind about the world. So there have been talks about like miracles and symptom removal and so on and so forth. And those seem to be, you know, when Jesus would be out and miracles were being extended and shared and the dead could, would arise, the blind could see, the lame could walk and everything. Those just seem to be changes in form. But they really were all about pointing to the change of mind. In other words, all that was happening around Jesus, or Mary Baker ready, was really pointing at the resurrection. Not the resurrection of the body, because the body is just an image. It can't really be resurrected. It's the resurrection of the mind, the recognition of spirit. And so whenever you believe that it's possible to change form, or even you pray for a change in form, you know, it's still praying for a different configuration of the script. You know, saying, I want a different version. I've called this version a sick version, and now I want a well version. In the song of prayer, Jesus talks about that. He says, whenever you're praying for effects, and when we talk about the body and symptoms and everything, that is effects. Whenever you're praying for effects, you're simply asking for the script, something in form, to be repeated in a way that you believe you like, or in a way that you prefer. Still control. And so really the prayer, the true prayer of healing is one of helping me release everything that I think I think and think I know, and come back to that place of not knowing anything about the world. And that's where the spirit comes shining through, from that place of openness. That's like the prayer of the heart. And even the questions about changing the script or changing the form, you know, that they imply that there is some kind of power or authority or control where there really isn't. There's one part in the Course where Jesus says, you have no control over the world you made. He says, back to the rules for decision. And once you start to open to that, you have no control over the world you made. It's a very healing idea. Think how practical that idea is in terms of your peace of mind. If you have no control over the world you made, then you would quit trying to invest into changing the world, making a better world, making a better body, making a better spiritual community, making a better anything. The peace of mind starts to come from recognizing that you don't have control over the script. But you could say you do have control in one sense over your state of mind. You can actually actively choose to be peaceful. That's where the focus comes in. So if people are to see healers like John of God or just other people that seem to go and have these symptoms and have these miraculous healings, is it more that the fact, not so much John of God, but the fact they've had a change in perception, that they've changed their mind? Yeah, Jesus talks about that in the teacher's manual where he says, he's talking about the one who believes they're sick. He says basically they could merely rise up and say, I have no need for this at all. It's totally a decision in mind. And he even says, even upon, on point of death, you know, many have risen up to teach this, even at the point of death. So it doesn't matter how far along it seems to be, how progressively along it is, that it's always a decision of mind. You could simply rise up and say, I have no need for this at all. Almost like if you were playing a game, like children play with toys and everything, and it starts to get really intense, and the toys are fighting, and there's this big battle going on. Like sometimes when you get a kid, you get G.I. Joe and you buy, okay, I got four tanks, and I got armored cars, and you buy your buddies over, and you get this big battle going. At any point, you can just stop. Mom goes, time to eat, okay. Just go get some Kool-Aid, and some chips, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and the war stops. Just the war has just dropped for the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And really, in one sense, that's kind of how Jesus is saying, you can do that with your mind, too. You can just say goodbye to the war, any instant that you want to. Just one little last piece. Someone like John, John of God, who is this perceived healer, what would his part be in that, then is he holding that like that, I don't see you as ill at all? Like I'm just curious, like what his part would be when all these people go to see this healer that is supposed to have healed thousands upon thousands of people from all kinds of things? Is it because he is so clear, and I don't see you as sick, and then they join minds? Like what's his part in that? Well, first of all, we have to say that that healing the body is an oxymoron. It is an absolute contradiction of terms, and the deeper you go on a spiritual journey, the first recognition you have to have is the absurdity of healing the body. This is very deep, but of course this is where we're going for enlightenment. Healing is of the mind. What does that mean, healing is of the mind? In other words, healing is not of body. You actually have to come to a recognition that a sick body and a well body are actually the same. Why are they the same? Why is a sick body? Because they're both illusions, because God didn't create either one. You know, it's kind of like people when they talk about temptations, they say, well there's good temptations and bad temptations. Wait a minute, did Jesus say that? Is there any point in the Gospels where Jesus says, okay, let me tell you, you've got the good temptations over here and here's the bad temptations. He defines temptation in a Course in Miracles. He says, what is temptation, but the wish to make illusions real? See how firm and crisp it is? There's no good relationships, bad relationships. There's no good sicknesses and bad sicknesses and there's certainly no good illusions and bad illusions. In fact, I had a friend of mine who used to travel with me years ago and years later she was traveling with another partner and they, while they were traveling, they somebody said, what kind of relationship do you have as your relationship a special relationship or a holy relationship? And they said, no it's a spoli relationship. And I just shook my head. The last thing you want to do is start to invent new categories. Jesus will not spend nine chapters, nine chapters out of thirty-one, distinguish the difference between the two. Only they have you come along and invent spoli relationships. I just shook my head Oh man, not the teaching you want to be sharing. And people will share that they shared it at workshop after workshop because it was funny. People laughed and it's like, but this is, we're not trying, this isn't a comedy tour. We're talking about waking up and there's great distinction between special relationship and holy relationship based on the purpose. The ego sponsors special relationships and the Holy Spirit sponsors holy relationship and there's a big difference. Never the twain shall meet between ego and spirit. So in answer to your question, you know that it seems like there could be thousands and millions of spiritual seekers that are like trying to figure out this thing about healing and removing its symptoms and who's a true healer and do I have to go to Brazil or can I, can it be a remote healing, can I do it on a bathtub or can I have to go down to Brazil? You know, this just goes on and on and on and on but the real question has to arise is like who's willing to question this idea of sick bodies?