 I think that what the issue is around now, and I don't suppose to have the idea about point in time and some time, but now functionality of relying our separate, it justifies our shortcomings. It's all we can relate to and identify our shortcomings as being, oh, well, it's just because I'm feeling this self-feeding. So there may be the question of the chicken and the egg as much as which came first, you know, the mistake or the belief of making the mistake, and that's kind of a little point in the play of ideas. But I think for me, that's how it tends to function. You know, getting back to how this continues to be supported and how it interacts with our thinking. When things go wrong, when things are less than perfect, we have a rationale, which is, well, what he expects. Those thoughts are like held on in the mind to justify the experience. And after a while, you know, you start to get wise to this. It's kind of like, am I going to continue to use these spear-based thoughts to justify my experience. But there comes a point where it's like enough of this, you know, where there's a willingness to say, I want to look at my thoughts and I want to look closely at them with you, Jesus, I want to really look at my thoughts. And I don't want to continue to use, to justify my thoughts. If I'm feeling angry, the ego is saying, yes, yes, you're feeling angry. Blast it out. Project a blame out there on something or someone else in some situation in the world. It'll make you feel better. You'll get rid of it by giving it away. You'll kick the dog, do this, do that, but just get it out, you know. And basically, what the Course is saying is, the projection doesn't work. That it's like a boomerang. Step it out there and it comes around and gets you in the back and you feel guilty. And so after enough times of throwing the boomerang out and getting, getting walked in the back, it's like the mind starts to say, there's a trick here. There's something that's not going right here when I keep trying to project these things. Now, if you get to the metaphysics of this, basically there's one law in heaven. It doesn't make it nice that it's real simple. The law in heaven is what you extend you are. So when God extended himself, you know, love, then what you extend you are. His son has the same thing as when you extend love, you are love. So Jesus says, when you come down into the dream world, it's just a misapplication or a distortion of this one law that's in heaven. And what it comes down to when it comes through the ego lens, is what you extend you are in heaven comes down the lens. And it's like you're looking through a lens that what you project, you will believe. So if I project a world out there, I try to get rid of this world out of my mind. I try to get rid of this duality and this split in my mind and I project it. As soon as I project it and I believe it, it sure seems believable, doesn't it? Doesn't this body seem real? You know? And the whole point is you have to question the beliefs and the thoughts because you have to start to see that they're attack thoughts, that they're unreal. As soon as you can start to see they're unreal, then you don't do the best in it. They're false. You pull your mind away from them. But as long as you believe they're real, it's like, oh my gosh, this is horrifying. Project it out. Then I continue to see events that seem to be like I'm a victim. Like something's happening to me. There's so many backward thoughts in my work. Like I said, it feels like when I start looking it feels like a lot of them are backwards. So say you get, you know, you're tired of being angry and you just kind of become a hermit. Then you're not seeing any projections around you. You think you're hiding from them. But then you get to the point where you feel alone. What is that? The backward thoughts. In other words, you can remove your body from society. You think you're removing yourself from the things that are bothering you. Because you think that's where the cause is. But where's the cause? The cause is inside. And you don't remove yourself from your body. So then you get back in there and you... What's pulling you back to that? What is it? The action. Well, in a sense, the Holy Spirit, I mean, people will say, what's the difference like with Mother Teresa going around and seeming to reach out to everybody versus, let's say, a monk or one of these mystics that goes off to the mountain? In a sense, Jesus is saying, as long as you're training your mind and you're trying to detach from these thoughts, I mean, the form is irrelevant. We all have very high functions. We're called to be teachers of God. We're training us. All of us. And we all have a lofty function. And the more we really give our minds to that function, the more we really start to live it and practice in everything, there comes such a joy that it makes you forget about the candy bars, the jelly bars, and the whatever, you know. It's like before she was inconceivable to be without the Hadzpah Sunday. You know, it's kind of like, I like my Hadzpah Sunday, Jesus. But what happens is, more and more, when you get into this function and purpose, that it just like, there comes an intrinsic joy. It's like a well that bubbles up from within the mind, from the Holy Spirit. So you don't have that emptiness that you're trying to fill all the time with all these other things that don't really work. Right. Now you can take these things, and instead of trying to wrestle with them, there's like little flakes of dandruff. Here we go. You've got to blow them up, you know. That's the way to let go of things, to blow them away like that, like those little pieces of specks of dust, instead of like their giant leeches. Or, you know, cleaning, clinging on, you know. I suppose the more you validate them or focus on them, the bigger they become.