 Miracles law letting Jesus take us higher and higher and higher in our state of awareness of what is real what is true We're going up up up the seeming ladder of consciousness to the unified consciousness or the unified awareness of The happy dream or the real world or true perception. Those are different terms Jesus uses in his course in miracles and so today is the 11th day of 2024 there's a one one In there and basically jesus is saying Yeah, you are the one you are the one christ the holy christ But you're sleeping dreaming and you're perceiving a fragmented world of time and space that has lots of cracks and crevices and differences and Seemingly bits and pieces that are all over the place and you've accepted this as reality But actually reality is the kingdom of heaven The i am presence before abraham was i am it's the i am presence of of god of heaven of love Of oneness. There's our true oneness is spirit Eternal spirit eternal life is is the oneness of god and then the projected world God didn't create it god doesn't even know about it. It's just a delusional world of private minds and private thoughts and separate bits and pieces of awareness as if they could exist separately And all the great spiritual traditions have pointed to the unity the union the oneness of god's love Regardless of the projected forms So today we're gonna look a little bit at projection You know that that if you've read the text, you know, there's some beautiful chapters on I think chapter 13 chapter 21 Talk about projection makes perception and some of us know the word projection from from our dabblings that we had in psychology or psychotherapy psychiatry projection kind of putting the The blame or the cause on something or someone else and jesus is going to be working with us today to show us that the entire projected world the entire projected cosmos of the time space is the result of The ego thinking it's it's the result of a crazy ridiculous belief system. That's not true and That basically the ego is the cause of this projected world. It's a fragmenting thought It's a belief in separation from god and the belief in division conflict competition And of course the world that is out pictured or projected from this Tiny mad idea. We'll call it that jesus calls it is basically It's not the truth but the ego is the seeming cause of the projection and Once you start to unveil and expose and release the ego Then you see that it isn't a real cause So its effect the projected world can't be real either But you have to expose it The ego from the unconscious mind to really see is nothingness and that's when you can laugh at it and say, whoa It's how can that even be believed and jesus is saying yeah, it can't it can't Union oneness love is our reality not the ego and its projections But when the ego projection Is taken seriously then it seems like the world causes us It causes our identity. It seems like mom and dad Get together and there's a baby born and and the mom and dad are the cause of the baby Now it's a projection of the mind It seems like there's diseases and plagues and Pandemics and cove it and so forth that are the Causes of sickness germs viruses things that spread around No, those are projections of the ego god Is pure love And the forgiven world of the holy spirit in jesus is the happy dream In which sickness and suffering and death Are impossible So, uh, that's a big difference. So today we're gonna we're gonna see a The first major lesson of a course in miracles that deals with the thought reversal that's necessary to Have a happy heart to have a a joyful Heart a beating heart in the in the love of god That's important and we're going to have to let jesus reverse our our belief system and our thought system in order to To see clearly we have to proceed clearly before we can wake up from this dream of Linear time and fragmentation and and death. So let's start off here today with lesson number 11 Today's lesson my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world This is the first idea we have had that is related to a major phase of the correction process The reversal of the thinking of the world It seems as if the world determines what you perceive Today's idea introduces the concept that your thoughts determine the world you see Be glad indeed to practice the idea in its initial form Where in this idea is your release made sure The key to forgiveness lies in it The practice periods for today's idea are To be undertaken somewhat differently from the previous ones Begin with your eyes closed and repeat the idea slowly to yourself Then open your eyes and look about near and far up and down anywhere During the minute or so to be spent in using the idea merely repeated to yourself Being sure to do so without haste with no sense of urgency or effort I'm meaning this thoughts are showing me a meaningless world To do these exercises for maximum benefit The eyes should move from one thing to another fairly rapidly Since they should not linger on anything in particular The words however should be used in an unhurried even leisurely fashion The introduction to this idea in particular should be practiced as casually as possible It contains the foundation for the peace relaxation And freedom from worry that we are trying to achieve On concluding the exercises Close your eyes and repeat the idea once more slowly to yourself Hmm My meaningless thoughts Are showing me a meaningless world My meaningless thoughts Are showing me a meaningless world My meaningless thoughts Are showing me a meaningless world Three practice periods today will probably be sufficient However, if there is little or no uneasiness and an inclination to do more As many as five may be undertaken More than this is not recommended My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world Wow freedom the heralds of freedom Coming from jesus And again, he's telling us Yeah This is A major phase of the correction process the reversal of the thinking of the world So before you start communing with god and And just soaring to the heights of heaven within Where you start to realize my mind holds only what I think with god This is the first phase of the major correction Of the reversal of the thinking of the world So when we really go at this we are starting to see that That we need foundation for this thought to be Believed fully and so we're practicing it Here we are in day 11 of 2024 and we're practicing Lesson number 11, but we're we're starting To turn things around in our mind And why is this important in forgiveness? Well, you have to see that that your mind is not a victim of the world that you perceive You have to see that Abuse the belief that something happens to you unwanted and with nothing to do with with you or your mind Uh, you have to see that that's ridiculous Why would god create a being of pure light and love that could be abused and victimized, you know, really Why would a god of love do that love comes from love spirit comes from spirit? And the ego which we call the belief in separation the tiny man idea It it has projected the You might say the entire belief system is is projected into a motion picture on linear time and In the motion picture through the ego's filter you perceive Abuse neglect you perceive blame you perceive victimization You perceive that you're at the mercy of an external world and that's just not true It's not true because projection makes perception That jesus tells us projection is the attempt to get rid of something you don't want Okay, you believe for a moment in in the belief in separation from god And then oops, you see you feel terrible with that belief Using the power of your mind to give it over to such as a crazy strange weird Unreal thing separation from the creator. That's pretty strange Then the projection of the error instead of releasing the error to the holy spirit who who handled it instantly And everything was was saved and redeemed in an instant. Don't think the holy spirit needs centuries or millennium for this But in an instant it was it was healing And basically now that the sleeping mind is just opening opening following guidance and instructions to accept that healing It's it's already there Healing is is the natural state of the mind What that has believed in separation because it's healed It's done. It's a done deal It's been accomplished not Just demonstrated by jesus's earth life 2000 years ago where he seemed to go through a crucifixion and resurrection, but in the mind The belief in separation from god is the crucifixion and the holy spirit's atonement or answer is the correction And the belief has been corrected hallelujah praise god all glory to god. It's been corrected You need to dance like the wake of separation has been lifted Because the grace of god is that it is over and done The fear is unnecessary because the correction has been offered and accepted and jesus of course demonstrated that He was the first you know on the timeline of earth the first symbol that just showed up and said we have good cheer I have overcome the world That's good news. That's the best news anyone could ever hear And now we have to just accept it for ourselves. So today To help us with our lesson My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meanest world lesson number 11 I'm going to read a little bit from a couple sections in a course in miracles chapter 13 and In chapter 21 because uh, this is going to give us support He's going to give us the rationale the the the reasoning the the logic the The foundation for today's lesson. That's what you want You want to just jump into today's lesson and accept it fully a hundred percent And here is a little bit of background support. This is from jesus and the angels This is from the holy spirit Chapter 13 The guild is world. We're going to jump to section five And that section is the two emotions I have said you have the two emotions love and fear One is changeless, but continually exchanged being offered by the eternal to the eternal In this exchange it is extended for it increases as it is given The other has many forms for the content of individual illusions differs greatly Yet they have one thing in common. They are all insane They are made of sights that are not seen and sounds that are not heard They make up a private world that cannot be shared For they are meaningful only to their maker and so they have no meaning at all In this world their maker moves alone for only he perceives them Each one peoples his world with figures from his individual past And it is because of this that private worlds do differ Yet the figures that he sees were never real For they are made up only of his reactions to his brothers and do not include their reactions to him Therefore he does not see he made them and that they are not whole For these figures have no witnesses being perceived in one separate mind only If you want to watch a movie that shows you this in the movie watch The movie called Solaris With with George Clooney Yeah, that's a good one. That's that that's probably the best movie on the planet For showing you what I just read in those first two paragraphs. Yeah, you want an experience of it Check that one out Yeah, then he continues with this third paragraph It is through these strange and shadowy figures that the insane relate to their insane world For they see only those who remind them of these images And it is to them that they relate Thus do they communicate with those who are not there? And it is they who answer them And no one hears their answer save him who called upon them And he alone believes they answered him projection makes perception And you cannot see beyond it Again and again you have attacked your brother because you saw in him a shadow figure in your private world And thus it is you must attack yourself first for what you attack is not in others Its only reality is in your own mind and by attacking others you are literally attacking what is not there Projection makes perception. Hmm. This is the depth of it The delusional can be very destructive for they do not recognize they have condemned themselves They do not wish to die yet. They will not let condemnation go And so they separate into their private worlds where everything is disordered and where what is within appears to be without Yet what is within they do not see for the reality of their brothers. They cannot recognize You have but two emotions yet in your private world you react to each of them as though they were the other What love cannot abide in a world apart where when it comes it is not recognized If you see your own hatred as your brother You are not seeing him Everyone draws nigh unto what he loves and recoils from what he fears And you react with fear to love and draw away from it Yet fear attracts you And believing it is love you call it to yourself Your private world is filled with figures of fear You have invited into it and all the love your brothers offer you you do not see As you look with open eyes upon your world, it must occur to you that you have withdrawn into insanity You see what is not there and you hear what makes no sound Your manifestations of emotions are the opposite of what the emotions are You communicate with no one And you are as isolated from reality as if you are alone in all the universe In your madness you overlook reality completely and you see only your own split mind everywhere you look God calls you And you do not hear for you are preoccupied with your own voice And the vision of christ is not in your sight for you look upon yourself alone Little child would you offer this to your father? Or if you offer it to yourself you are offering it to him And he will not return it for it is unworthy of you because it is unworthy of him Yet he would release you from it and set you free His sane answer The holy spirit Jesus tells you what you have offered yourself is not true But his offering to you has never changed You who know not what you do Can learn what insanity is and look upon it It has given you to learn how to deny insanity And come forth from your private world in peace You will see that all That you denied in your brothers because you denied it in yourself For you will love them and by drawing nigh unto them You will draw them to yourself Proceeding them as witnesses to the reality you share with God I am with them as I am with you And we will draw them from their private worlds for as we are united So we unite with them The father welcomes all of us in gladness and gladness is what we should offer him For every son of God is given you to whom God gave himself And it is God whom you must offer them to recognize his gift to you Vision depends on light You cannot see in darkness Yet in darkness in the private world of sleep you see in dreams Although your eyes are closed and it is here That what you see you made But let the darkness go and all you made you will no longer see For sight of it depends upon denying vision Yet from denying vision it does not follow you cannot see But this is what denial does for by it you accept insanity Believing you can make a private world and rule your own perception Yet for this light must be excluded Dreams disappear when light has come and you can see Do not seek vision through your eyes for you made your way of seeing that you might see in darkness And in this you are deceived Beyond this darkness and yet still within you is the vision of christ Who looks on all in light Your vision ego vision comes from fear as his gods from from love And he sees for you as your witness to the real world. That's the holy spirit. Thank you He is the holy spirits manifestation looking always on the real world And calling forth its witnesses and drawing them to you He loves what he sees within you and he would extend it And he won't return into the father until he has extended your perception even unto him And their perception is no more For he has returned you to the father with him You have but two emotions and one you made and one was given you Each is a way of seeing and different worlds arise from their different sites See through the vision that is given you for through christ vision. He beholds himself And seeing what he is. He knows his father Beyond your darkest dreams. He sees god's guiltlessness son within you Shining in perfect radiance that is undemned by your dreams And this you will see as you look with him for his vision is his gift of love to you given him by of the father for you The holy spirit is the light in which christ stands revealed And all who would behold him can see him for they have asked for light Nor will they see him alone for he is no more alone than they are Because they saw the sun They have risen in him to the father And all this will they understand because they looked with him and saw beyond the darkness the christ in them and recognized him In the sanity of his vision, they looked upon themselves with love Seeing themselves as the holy spirit sees them And with this vision of truth in them came all the beauty of the world to shine upon them Ha ha okay projection makes perception. Thank you chapter 13 And we've got a little time here. Let's jump for a little bit into chapter 21 reason and perception introduction for three words projection makes perception Remember that Never forget that As you're going through this awakening Keep in mind always every moment every day projection makes perception The ego projected this world and it made a false fragmented perception That's upsetting but That's not saying that something in the world upsets us You know relationship breakups getting fired from your job having to go to the hospital To have an operation Anything at all believing that people harmed you abused you mistreated you. Oh, no, no, no Jesus is saying remember one thing just one thing hold it in mind every all day projection makes perception You did this to yourself believing in the ego you believed in mistreatment and In abuse and neglect all kinds of things jealousy and be comparison The ego Projected the world projection makes perception The world didn't do it to you you told the world to act out The the crazy mad idea and wow did it seem to do that for a moment until you Forgive it Projection makes perception the world you see is what you gave it Nothing more than that But though it is no more than that it is not less Therefore to you it is important It is the witness to your state of mind the outside picture of an inward condition As a man thinketh so does he perceive Therefore seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world Accept the holy spirit's purpose of forgiveness choose to change your mind about the world Give up the self-hatred give up the the hatred and the anger of the ego and See the world differently Perception is a result and not a cause And that is why order of difficulty and miracles is meaningless Everything looked upon with vision is healed and holy Nothing perceived without it means anything And where there is no meaning there is chaos So damnation is your judgment on yourself and this you will project upon the world See it as damned and all you see is what you did to hurt the son of god If you behold disaster and catastrophe you tried to crucify him If you see holiness and hope you join the will of god to set him free There is no choice that lies between these two decision And you will see the witness to the choice you made and learn from this to recognize which one you chose The world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you and to accept as yours And if this is its meaning Then the power to give it joy must lie within you And let's say that sentence again That first part of the sentence the world you see but shows you how much joy you have allowed yourself to see in you How much joy you can see within your mind? You will see in the world Let's go for unlimited today Let's go for unlimited joy in our heart and unlimited joy Reflected in the world Bursting bursting bursting with joy and happiness How's that for a goal today? So We're back to our lesson. We're practicing lesson 11 today My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world And the only way I can open up to that joy and really feel it And express it and witness to it see it is the reversal of the thinking of the world Again, what does that mean? Well, it means that the ego is the seeming cause of this world It's it's the one that uses the power of the mind to project of giant cosmos that seems very vast of time and space But think of it this way You have a choice to make today Am I a product of mom and dad? Or am I An effect of god. Am I a creation of god? I'm either the christ and i've been created by god or i'm a product of mom and dad is a body The choice is is there Do you want to hold on to that sentimental Hop wash of the past that tells you that you are a body and you were you were made By mom and dad Or do you want to accept yourself as an eternal creation the christ as created by god You can't be to it identities even in The bible jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit That's what st francis emphasized that which is born of the flesh is flesh That which is born of the spirit is spirit you either are A body which is a projection of the belief in separation or you are the christ which is a creation Of god you are either an effect of god and god is your cause or You believe in an external world is not even there it's a hallucination and you think that That you were made by that Next time think about this when you think about a birthday Am i born eternally in christ? Or am i born in time and space as just a limited Uh personality that goes through moments days years of Of toil I'm either an eternal creation or I'm limited Very limited A body not the vastness of the living christ So let's be the living miracle today of joy. Let's be the living miracle of glee of happiness Let's let our light shine It's it's actually be the light of the world today by just seeing That the world of dreams and the people That were people to buy the ego these are characters They can't take my peace away because I Claim my inheritance as a creation of god What what can the world do with that? It's it's it's an unreal world It's just a projection of nothingness Ego is nothing and the world is a projection of that nothing this projection makes perception That's why the perception doesn't mean anything either Lesson one nothing. I see means anything and then you have The teachings that the thoughts don't mean anything that was our lesson yesterday my meaningless thoughts Oh, that's today my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world Yeah, yesterday we were just Claiming and realizing that all the thoughts that we think we think about the past and the future Are meaningless now. We're making the connection with the perception of the world so enjoy and joy and joy and be in joy And amen to that Love you