 Good day, sun being, what a bright time to be alive. Initially, you know, it can be shocking. That's why people can come to course groups and have such resistence to the ideas because we have been trained to believe that the evil is outside of us and we have been trained to uncover the darkness within. Even though a lot of our religions have talked about, you know, your dirty, lowly center and so on and so forth, and forgiveness is the answer. It's like, how do we go within and uncover that? And if everything in the world is a pictorial representation of my consciousness, my thoughts, then that's pretty intense because when people start thinking of, like you mentioned Osama bin Laden and terrorists and, you know, Mussolini and Hitler and Saddam Hussein and Jeffrey Dahmer and on and on and on and on, it can be shocking. But what we can say is that there is, the ego is the darkness. The ego is the belief that God isn't real, that there is no God. The love isn't real. It's the belief in separation. The ego is a death wish. So if our mind has been given over to a death wish, then, and it projected out a world based on that death wish, then it shouldn't even be that surprising. The pestilence, the disease, the war, the terrorism, bombs blowing up in neighborhoods like Boston, children getting shot and so on and so forth. It's actually horrifying to think that that's just a reflection of thoughts and that that has anything to do with who you are. Not even as your reality, but just even in your transitional phase of not knowing who you are. That's why the darkness is pushed out of awareness. When people go through like sexual abuse, we'll say, or memories of sexual abuse, it's quite common for these men or women to completely blot those memories out of awareness because they're so horrific. Or you see lots of movies that come out where Vietnam vets come back and they're trying to adjust and adapt into society, and then they get these flashes, like that movie that Tom Cruise did years ago, born on the 4th of July where they had the veterans coming by in a parade and then they start to fire the guns. And you can see the veterans start to react because of the gunshot. It's like memories of who knows what all. That's what that whole movie was about, about friendly fire and shooting one of your own and horrific things. And imagine that out of all those horrific memories that there's even a more horrific memory that's underneath all of those and that's the belief that you could separate from your creator. Not just separation from mom and dad, but separation from your divine creator and how horrific that must have been to think that you could actually fall from grace, that you could leave heaven, that you could leave Nirvana. And so that's what the unconscious mind is about, Carl Jung talked about, the shadow, Jesus talks about it as well in the Course. He says you have a two-tier self-concept. You have the face of innocence, which is like your surface personality mask and that is sometimes wet with tears at the injustices of the world and it thinks it can be victimized and it's hit in different angles during its lifetime, but that was made to cover over what's the lowest, which is so dark that Jesus describes the unconscious, the lower level of the self-concept as draped with sin, draped with sin. It's that dark. He says you couldn't bear to even look upon it. That's why you made the top tier, the personality mask, the personality of the world because so you would never have to look at that. Now the Holy Spirit, Jesus is saying come inside. We've got the lantern. We're going to show you that this dark thing that you believe you did separate from God really never happened. You never really had the power to break away from God. It was really a crazy idea to think that you could actually separate from your Creator. But because it's so buried in an unconscious mind, then we see a world that reflects all these different beliefs. Beliefs in atheism. Beliefs in narcissism. Beliefs in health fire. Beliefs in... There's just all these different tangents and of course unity would be among what we call like new thought teachings. There's Mary Baker Eddy. There's the Fillmores. You could go down. There's just so many. Joe Goldsmith and there's a whole tradition, a whole new thought tradition is saying that no, you are a divine being and God created you perfect and you are worthy of remembering that perfection. So what we're seeing is that we have to first start to realize that everything we perceive is a reflection of thoughts and that when we perceive someone like Osama bin Laden we're just seeing a projection of that guilt, a projection of that hatred and anger and it's actually being acted out for us so that we can take a look inside and come to see the full extent of our own self-hatred instead of just pointing the finger at the terrorist. We went to see that movie, was it Zero Dark Thirty and the thing that struck me about that movie was at the end the agent, the female agent, the CIA agent who really was tenaciously pursuing Osama bin Laden at the end when she had the body of Osama bin Laden and she kind of went off by herself it was this look of like, like now what? Like she'd spent her whole career trying to get this one body there's this dead body there and it's like, okay like, you know, it was almost like she was seeing at some level it was just a projection you know, what's the world really safer because there was a dead body under her gaze you know, I think a lot of people who watch that movie that was kind of an interesting point you know, when we keep following the ego's lens the ego's teaching, we keep looking to blame somebody in the world, blame our parents, blame terrorists blame, you know, politicians, blame police officers or blame, you know, the people that pollute or whatever and the chorus is just saying if you have to look upon the full extent of your own self-hatred before you'd be willing to let it go you can't keep some of the hatred tucked down in the unconscious mind and think that you're going to be free and innocent when you're still harboring hatred and guilt and fear so it's a deep journey but we have great tools we have tremendous resources we have, if we have the willingness we will draw forth enormous witnesses to help us go through this ultimate healing that we are ready for now and that's my whole life my life has been dedicated to having that experience for myself and then sharing with all kinds of examples and metaphors and parables and all the stuff like Jesus used now I've got Hollywood to use, you know that's some great parables, huh? what do you think? I go all over the world, everyone loves Hollywood I go to the South America, I get Spanish subtitles Belgium or France, I get French subtitles, you know it's beautiful how we can really, we can really wake up