 unwinding our mind back to God, awakening through the beautiful Scripture that Jesus has given us, A Course in Miracles, text, workbook, manual for teachers, and supplements. And so today we are practicing our lesson 43 from the workbook. God is my source. I cannot see apart from Him. It's it's beginning to dawn with these lessons that we are letting go our perception of the world. We're letting go of the thoughts, our stream of thoughts of consciousness that we think we think, even though our mind is actually blank when we're thinking about the past and the future. We think we think them and then we think we perceive them. My thoughts are images I have made and and we're letting go of it. We're actually letting go of the perceptual world, the fragmented perceptual world of competition and and division of differences. It has never satisfied us. It will never satisfy us. So yeah, this is a mystics alert. Welcome to mysticism. This is our modern-day scripture for mysticism. You don't have to be off in the woods or in a cave. You can actually practice your mysticism right where you seem to be, where you think you think you are, and where you think you perceive you are. The environment you perceive does not matter in the mind training. How beautiful. So God is my source I cannot see apart from him. Perception is not an attribute of God. His is the realm of knowledge, yet he has created the Holy Spirit as the mediator between perception and knowledge. Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. Therefore that is its function in truth. In God you cannot see. Perception has no function in God and does not exist. Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. Perception has no meaning. Yet does the Holy Spirit give it meaning very close to God's? Heal perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother and thus forgives himself. You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. Whatever you do, you do in him because whatever you think, you think with his mind. If vision is real and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit's purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. Three five minute practice periods are required today, one as early and one as late as possible in the day. The third may be undertaken at the most convenient and suitable time that circumstances and readiness permit. At the beginning of these practice periods, repeat the idea for today to yourself with eyes closed open, then glance around you for a short time, applying the idea specifically to what you see. Four or five subjects for this phase of the practice period are sufficient. You might say, for example, God is my source. I cannot see this desk apart from him. God is my source. I cannot see that picture apart from him. Although this part of the exercise period should be relatively short, be sure that you select the subjects for this phase of practice indiscriminately without self-directed inclusion or exclusion. For the second and longer phase, close your eyes, repeat today's idea again, and then let whatever relevant thoughts occur to you to add to the idea in your own personal way. Thoughts such as I see through the eyes of forgiveness. I see the world as blessed. The world can show me myself. I see my own thoughts which are like God's. Any thought related more or less directly to today's idea is suitable. The thoughts need not bear any obvious relationship to the idea, but they should not be in opposition to it. If you find your mind wandering, if you begin to be aware of thoughts which are clearly out of accord with today's idea, or if you seem to be unable to think of anything, open your eyes, repeat the first phrase of the exercise period, and then attempt the second phase again. Do not allow any protected period to occur in which you become preoccupied with irrelevant thoughts. Return to the first phase of the exercises as often as necessary to prevent this. In applying today's idea in the shorter practice periods, the form may vary according to the circumstances and situations in which you find yourself during the day. And you are with someone else, for example, try to remember to tell him silently, God is my source. I cannot see you apart from him. This form is equally applicable to strangers as it is to those you think are closer to you. In fact, try not to make distinctions of this kind at all. Today's ideas should also be applied throughout the day to various situations and events that may occur, particularly to those which seem to distress you in any way. For this purpose, apply the idea in this form. God is my source. I cannot see this apart from him. If no particular subject presents itself to your awareness at the time, merely repeat the idea in its original form. Try today not to allow any long periods of time to slip by without remembering today's idea and thus remembering your function. God is my source. I cannot see apart from him. Beautiful. It's another call to go into unified awareness. And of course, the vision of Christ is, as we've been learning from our workbook lessons, is everything that I want, everything that I need, but I cannot perceive apart from him because perception is unknown by God. So Christ's vision is what seeing is and perception is what blindness is. Blindness in the mind, not blindness in the body, but blindness in the mind, blind to the light of truth attached to the veil of forgetfulness, the veil of idle images, that's the blockage. So prayed on a supportive part from the text and right away it jumped out at me. This is from chapter 13 and section seven. It's called attainment of the real world. He's talking about the happy dream, true perception, the forgiven world, attainment of the real world. This is the, this is the, the Holy Spirit's corrected perception. It's simultaneous and it's, it's in mind. It's unified. And it's, you might say it's a unified picture or unified tapestry. There's no emphasis on the parts. There's no emphasis on any differences. It's seen completely holistically. That's what attainment of the real world is. Sit quietly and look upon the world you see and tell yourself the real world is not like this. It has no buildings and there are no secret streets or secrets where people walk alone and separate. There are no stores where people buy an endless list of things they do not need. It is not lit with artificial light and night comes not upon it. There is no day that brightens and grows dim. There is no loss. Nothing is there but shines and shines forever. The world you see must be denied for sight of it is costing you a different kind of vision. You cannot see both worlds for each of them involves a different kind of seeing and depends on what you cherish. The sight of one is impossible because you have denied the other. Both are not true yet either one will seem as real to you as the amount to which you hold it dear. And yet their power is not the same because their real attraction to you is unequal. You do not really want the world you see for it has disappointed you since time began. The homes you built have never sheltered you. The roads you have made have led you nowhere and no city that you built has withstood the crumbling assault of time. Nothing you made but has the mark of death upon it. Hold it not dear for it is old and tired and ready to return to dust even as you made it. This aching world has not the power to touch the living world at all. You could not give it that. And so although you turn in sadness from it you cannot find in it the road that leads away from it into another world. Yet the real world has the power to touch you even here because you love it. And what you call with love will come to you. Love always answers being unable to deny a call for help or not to hear the cries of pain that rise to it from every part of this strange world you made but do not want. All that you need to give this world away and glad exchange for what you did not make is willingness to learn the one you made is false. You have been wrong about the world because you have misjudged yourself from such a twisted reference point. What could you see? All seeing starts with the perceiver who judges what is true and what is false. And what he judges false he does not see. You who would judge reality cannot see it. For whenever judgment enters reality has slipped away. The out of mind is out of sight because what is denied is there but it's not recognized. Christ is still there although you know him not. His being does not depend upon your recognition. He lives within you in the quiet present and waits for you to leave the past behind and enter into the world he holds out to you in love. No one in this distracted world but has seen some glimpses of the other world about him. And while he still lays value on his own he will deny the vision of the other maintaining that he loves what he loves not and following not the road that love points out. Love leads so gladly as you follow him you will rejoice that you have found his company and learned of him the joyful journey home. You wait but for yourself to give this sad world over and exchange your errors for the peace of God is but your will and Christ will always offer you the will of God in recognition that you share it with him. It is God's will that nothing touch his son except himself and nothing else comes nigh unto him. He is as safe from pain as God himself who watches over him in everything. The world about him shines with love because God placed him in himself where pain is not and loves to round him without end or flaw. Disturbance of his peace can never be. In perfect sanity he looks on love for it is all about him and within him. He must deny the world of pain the instant he perceives the arms of love around him and from this point of safety he looks quietly about him and recognizes that the world is one with him. The peace of God passes your understanding only in the past yet here it is and you can understand it now. God loves his son forever and his son returns his father's love forever. The real world is the way that leads you to remembrance of the one thing that is holy true and holy yours. For all else you have lent yourself in time and it will fade but this one thing is always yours being the gift of God unto his son. Your one reality was given you and by it God created you as one with him. You will first dream of peace and then awaken to it. Your first exchange of what you made for what you want is the exchange of nightmares for happy dreams of love. In these lie your true perceptions for the Holy Spirit corrects the world of dreams where all perception is. Knowledge needs no correction yet the dreams of love lead unto knowledge and then you see nothing fearful and because of this they are welcome they are the welcome that you offer knowledge. Love waits on welcome not on time and the real world is but you're welcome of what always was therefore the call of joy is in it and your glad response is your awakening to what you have not lost. Pray then the father for the perfect sanity of his most holy son. Your father knoweth that you have need of nothing. In heaven this is so for what could you need in eternity. In your world you do need things. It is a world of scarcity in which you find yourself because you are lacking yet can you find yourself in such a world. Without the Holy Spirit the answer would be no yet because of him the answer is a joyous yes as mediator between the two worlds he knows what you have need of and what will not hurt you. Ownership is a dangerous concept if it is left to you. The ego wants to have things for salvation for possession is its law. Possession for its own sake is the ego's fundamental creed the basic cornerstone in the churches it builds to itself and at its altar it demands you lay all of the things it bids you get leaving you no joy in them. Everything the ego tells you that you need will hurt you for although the ego urges you again and again to get it leaves you nothing for what you get it will demand of you and even from the very hands that grasped it it will be wrenched and hurled into the dust for where the ego sees salvation it sees separation and so you lose whatever you have gotten in its name therefore ask not of yourself what you need for you do not know and your advice to yourself will hurt you for what you think you need will merely serve to tighten up your world against the light and render you unwilling to question the value that this world can really hold for you. Only the Holy Spirit knows what you need for He will give you all things that do not block the way to light and what else could you need in time He gives you all the things that you need have and will renew them as long as you have needed them. He will take nothing from you as long as you have any need of it and yet He knows that everything you need is temporary and will but last until you step aside from all your needs and realize that all of them have been fulfilled therefore He has no investment in the things that He supplies except to make certain that you will not use them on behalf of lingering in time. He knows that you are not at home there and He wills no delay to wait upon your joy as home coming. Leave then your needs to Him. He will supply them with no emphasis at all upon them. What comes to you of Him comes safely for He will ensure it never can become a dark spot hidden in your mind and kept to hurt you. Under His guidance you will travel light and journey lightly for His sight is ever on the journey's end which is His goal. God's Son is not a traveler throughout a world however holy His perception may become no world outside Himself holds His inheritance. Within Himself He has no needs for light needs nothing but to shine in peace and from itself to let the rays extend in quiet to infinity. Whenever you are tempted to undertake a useless journey that would lead away from light remember what you really want and say the Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ and where else would I go? What need have I but to awake in Him? Then follow Him in joy with faith that He will lead you safely through all dangers to your peace of mind this world may set before you. Kneel not before the altars to sacrifice and seek not what you will surely lose content yourself with what you will surely keep and be not restless for you undertake a quiet journey to the peace of God where He would have you be in quietness. In me you have already overcome every temptation that would hold you back. We walk together on the way to quietness that is the gift of God. Hold me dear for what except your brothers can you need. We will restore to you the peace of mind that we must find together. The Holy Spirit will teach you to awaken unto us and to yourself. This is the only real need to be fulfilled in time. Salvation from the world lies only here. My peace I give you take it of me in glad exchange for all the world has offered but to take away and we will spread it like a veil of light across the world's sad face in which we hide our brothers from the world and it from them. We cannot sing redemption's hymn alone. My task is not completed until I have lifted every voice with mine and yet it is not mine for as it is my gift to you so was it the father's gift to me given me through his spirit. The sound of it will banish sorrow from the mind of God's most holy Son where it cannot abide. Healing in time is needed for joy cannot establish its eternal reign where you where sorrow dwells. You dwell not here but in eternity. You travel but in dreams while safe at home. Give thanks to every part of you that you have taught how to remember you. Thus does the Son of God give thanks unto his Father for his purity. Beautiful gift thanks to every part of you that you have taught how to remember you and how you give thanks again is holistic perception you know it's that's what the real world is that's what the attainment of the real world is it's to see the world in a holistic way where nothing is separate and apart everything is unified awareness the purpose that you hold the filter in your mind sees a whole world it's a happy dance it's like the quantum field of energy complete connectedness that's the that's the happy dance some of you might have seen that movie the penguin movie happy feet this is happy dance in the mind that's the attainment of the real world so wow we are really really letting go letting go of our fragmented perception realizing that God did not create perception and fragmented linear perception can be used by the Holy Spirit to bring it to transform it to unified awareness unified consciousness unified perception that's what the real world of the happy dream is everything is part of the dance everyone is dancing in the mind that that serves the Holy Spirit that is aligned with the Holy Spirit it's it's definitely a happy dance so I like that song my country song I hope you dance I hope you dance I hope you go with the Holy Spirit and Jesus into the happy dance we that's our purpose today you know God is my source I cannot see apart from him I can only see in the vision of Christ and I cannot perceive because God didn't create perception so I can let go of valuing the perceptual world since God didn't create it and value my creator more than the world of images and illusions value the source value eternal life more than the temporary images of passing passing glimmers you know it's it's just images it's nice that we can't be content with images when when God is our source and we I cannot see apart from him that's a great reminder to go through the day start off eyes open like he said look around let your eyes move indiscriminately around God is my source I cannot see apart from him as your eyes drift from object an image to object an image and then close your eyes and silently say God is my source I cannot see apart from him and when you meet a brother or sister today in your mind silently remind your mind God is my source I cannot see apart from him okay ah beautiful all right go forth enjoy love you