 the course called Beyond the Body. Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes so far in special relationships. It is a sense of an actual escape from limitations. If you will consider what this quote transportation really entails, you will realize that it is a sudden unawareness of the body and the joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you as you unite with it and both become full as neither is perceived as separate. What really happens is that you have given up the illusion of unlimited awareness and lost your fear of union. The love that instantly replaces it extends to what has freed you and unites with it. And while this lasts you are not uncertain of your identity and would not limit it. You have escaped from fear to peace asking no questions of reality but merely accepting it. You have accepted this instead of the body and you let yourself be one with something beyond it simply by not letting your mind be limited by it. And then people will even when they talk about near-death experiences this paragraph always comes to mind about out-of-body experiences and so on and so forth. This can occur regardless of the physical distances seems to be between you and what you join of your respective positions in space and of your difference in size and seeming quality. Time is not relevant. It can occur with something past, present or anticipated. The something can be anything in anywhere a sound, sight, a thought, a memory and even a general idea without specific reference. Yet in every case you join it without reservation because you love it and would be with it. And so you rush to meet it letting your limits know the way suspending all the quobos your body obeys and gently sitting in the sun. Regardless of the sense and if you are not really listed out of it it cannot contain you because of the great sense because it even gets away from the sense of being like lifted out of the body. There is no out-of-body experience. There is no in-the-body experience. When you take anybody with you you know and it's actually everybody who's already there. Jesus asked the question for us all tonight which do you want freedom of the mind or freedom of the body? For both you cannot have. And it's kind of like we went through three paragraphs where he's kind of saying you'll use one as means and one as ends. So whichever you pick is the answer to this question you will use the other one as means and that's what we've all done in our so-called lies in this world is we've picked the body as the end and we've used our minds as means to serve the body and now it's like it's a voice bearer saying okay now we'll turn it around. You want to have a free mind and you let me use your body to you know express your miracles. And this beginning of this section that we just read is one of the clearest statements in the course about mind's bodies. You know it's got that famous kind of line minds are joined bodies or not. It's also got the idea we were talking about tonight too that's just so basic to the whole course and that's and he repeats it over and over in the text I mean the workbook too but it says mind cannot attack. He says it twice in there. If minds could really attack then guilt would be real and justified. The ego to deceive mind is so convinced that minds can attack that it's so convinced that it's guilty that it goes on in this section to talk about what it tries to do to displace or to get rid of this guilt that it's positively sure is real. It's absolutely positively sure that it's guilty. It's convinced. It's like locked in split the fighting itself and to me this is one of the best kind of sections in the course really getting at those two levels that minds are joined bodies or not and the paragraph on page 359 that begins what could God give but knowledge of himself into this is what the deceived mind is trying to do to hold on to the guilt. It kind of goes he could start with that sense of beliefs that you could give and get something else other than the knowledge of God. Something outside yourself has cost you the awareness of heaven and of your identity. Now he starts to get into this is the main thing that is going on with the deception and you have done a stranger thing and you get realized you have displaced your guilt to your body from your mind. See the mind is like so convinced that it's guilty it will not it's not going to try to mince words with God on this you know it's it's so convinced that it's guilty that it's going to it's convinced that it has to displace this guilt onto the body yet a body cannot be guilty for it can do nothing of itself. You who think you hate your body deceive yourself you hate your mind but this is getting to the heart of them that you know people a lot of times you hear people talk about oh i'm too fat i'm too thin my body's breaking down i turn 40 i turn 50 i turn 70 you know i'm getting old i'm getting wrinkly i you know the sense of i hate i hate my body i hate my body you know and and really what the course is saying is you know that's all just trying to dump it you hate your mind but as soon as we can start to see how deep this hatred is in our mind then we can start to change our mind because then we know where the problem is the body's got nothing to do with it you hate your mind for guilt has entered into it and it would remain separate from your brothers which it cannot do minds are joined bodies are not only by assigning to the mind the properties of the body the separation seemed to be possible this is where the whole idea of of separate minds your mind the mind mind kind of like every person here in the room has their own private mind there you go and i was leaving and here comes the course and it's like and it is mind that seems to be fragmented and private and alone it's guilt which keeps it separate is projected to the body which suffers and dies because it is attacked to hold the separation in the mind and let it not know it's identity this is where sickness comes bodies can be sick i mean this that seems like a ludicrous idea in the world and bodies can't be sick well we got a lot of evidence it seems with the body's eyes that bodies can't be but the mind is sick the body yeah the body is is just like this neutral thing that is going to witness to the mind whatever it wants but as long as we we keep seeing the body is sick then you can get into level confusion and calling forth miracles to heal the body and it's like still saying sickness is real sickness is in the body sickness is in the body this real and holy spirit please you got to do something you know to heal me right it's just to admit that the body can be sick if the body can be sick really sick what does that say about god we don't know where where does this come from this is what i told this last night but this is interesting for the sunday night i was watching cable and you know flipping through and there's this channel six and license and they have run religious tames and stuff but uh this one lady uh listens to their product and uh i like her like the things that she says and i was kind of watching listen to her and she said that uh abortion was abortion was not letting a spirit come into this plane okay to experience what this plane was about and to have uh abortion was hence because of that i sinned against the holy spirit and i thought about that for a second and i turned it off and just took my book and just put it up and i said well what what's really going on here what's trying to say i just let it fall open and read and it said uh to say that god sees sin in any form okay is to say that he is insane see that he is insane right so that's good enough for me but uh i like the idea and i went to bed that night and uh actually i woke up and it just seemed like all kinds of barriers had fallen away and it was just like a beam you know with god you don't know i can't hardly describe it but you know he's there's there's nothing he's not trying to stop anything on the other side you know all this jump that he had put in in in front of us and here we have it's all every difference that we could take and everything that he wants to do it was be one man anytime you talk about individual spirits it's like there you go again you know little separations between everything you know it might as well put a body around it it's quite a leap of mindset though i know when we were in iowa recently we were talking about these ideas and i was kind of using that idea of like little bodies here and i had to kind of the way i saw those spirits come in and then they go out and then they go i was going like this and i was describing this and what i was describing that day it's kind of like well think about it for you have this immortal infinite soul that's totally expansive there they kind of going down into this kind of little squeezing into this called the body you know and and it's like when you start to take a look at that it does seem kind of silly then you know we kind of used a lot of metaphors of the ones that just sitting there watching a screen and things keep you know you keep seeing images until you realize you don't want to judge anymore and you don't need for idols anymore and then the screen is clearly disappears but kind of getting other metaphors like that