 We're cruising on today through the workbook, practicing our daily lessons, and rejoicing every step of the way, that's it. And today we're gonna be going into lesson number 41, workbook lesson number 41. And it's God goes with me wherever I go. I've always said, the mind goes with you wherever you go. So pay attention to your thoughts, because the body may seem to move around, but your mind goes with you wherever you go even more. So the divine mind, the mind of God, you live and move and exist in the mind of God. So no matter where the body or the projection, wherever the puppet seems to be going, your mind is always there with you. God is always there with you. And hence lesson 41, God goes with me wherever I go. Today's idea will eventually overcome completely the sense of loneliness and abandonment, all the separated ones experience. Depression is an inevitable consequence of separation. So our anxiety, worry, a deep sense of helplessness, misery, suffering and intense fear of loss. The separated ones have invented many cures for what they believe to be the ills of the world. But the one thing they do not do is to question the reality of the problem. Yet its effects cannot be cured because the problem is not real. The idea for today has the power to end all this foolishness forever. And foolishness it is, despite the serious and tragic forms it may take. So how beautiful Jesus is reminding us that there aren't any magical solutions in the world because the world is a projection of error. And the error itself, the belief in separation from God, the separation from the Creator is not real. And if the error is not real, then the effects, the seeming effects of the error, which are all the projections of the world, they're not real either. So yeah, God goes with me wherever I go. This is reminding me of our earlier lessons, lessons 29 and 30. God is in everything I see. It's 29 and 30 was, God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. Yeah, you can see we're building today on lesson 41 from those earlier lessons. God goes with me wherever I go. We're training our mind to remember God. That's the whole purpose of everything is to remember God. There is nothing else but to remember God. And when you remember God, you sing a happy tune because there's lots to be grateful for in being a perfect creation of a perfectly loving God. And that's what the Christ spirit is. Yeah, that's what the I am presence is. So we'll go on with paragraph three here in lesson 41. Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real and suffered out of its allegiance to them. You can never be deprived of your perfect holiness because its source goes with you wherever you go. You can never suffer because the source of all joy goes with you wherever you go. You can never be alone because the source of all life goes with you wherever you go. Nothing can destroy your peace of mind because God goes with you wherever you go. We understand that you do not believe all this. How could you when the truth is hidden deep within under a heavy cloud of insane thoughts, dense and obscuring, yet representing all you see. Today we will make our first real attempt to get past this dark and heavy cloud and go through it to the light beyond. There will be only one long practice period today. In the morning, as soon as you get up, if possible, sit quietly for some three to five minutes with your eyes closed. At the beginning of the practice period, repeat today's idea very slowly. Then make no effort to think of anything. Try instead to get a sense of turning inward past all the idle thoughts of the world. Try to enter very deeply into your own mind, keeping it clear of any thoughts that might diverge your attention. From time to time, you may repeat the idea if you find it helpful. But most of all, try to sink down and inward away from the world and all the foolish thoughts of the world. You're trying to reach past all these things. You're trying to leave appearances and approach reality. It is quite possible to reach God. In fact, it is very easy because it is the most natural thing in the world. You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. The way will open if you believe that it is possible. This exercise can bring very startling results, even the first time it is attempted. And sooner or later, it is always successful. We will go into more detail about this kind of practice as we go along, but it will never fail completely and instant success is possible. Throughout the day, use today's idea often, repeating it very slowly, preferably with eyes closed. Think of what you're saying, what the words mean. Concentrate on the holiness that they imply about you, on the unfailing companionship that is yours, on the complete protection that surrounds you. You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts. Remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. Precious, precious. God goes with me wherever I go. And in support of this lovely lesson, I'm going to go to chapter 27 and to section eight, the hero of the dream. And this section is so, so helpful, putting everything into context. Because with our lesson today, God goes with me wherever I go. We are releasing our mind from images that it has believed in, thought forms that is appearances that has been invested in, and we are approaching reality. So this section, chapter 27, section eight is the hero of the dream. It's really showing us that we are more than the body and that we are free when we remember this. We are not a dream figure in the dream of the world. We are the dreamer of the dream. And the body is the hero of the dream. But the hero doesn't have a reality, doesn't have an existence. Yeah, a little bit later here, less than two hours from now, I'm going to show a movie on Tribe of Christ. And yeah, this is the section that really has been coming to me very strong today. For our movie session in Tribe of Christ, a free movie session. So I'm going to go through it here in support of our workbook lesson today. God goes with me wherever I go. The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world. There is no dream without it, nor does it exist without the dream in which it acts as if it were a person to be seen and be believed. It takes the central place in every dream, which tells the story of how it was made by other bodies, born into the world outside the body, lives a little while and dies to be united in the dust with other bodies dying like itself. In the brief time allotted it to live, it seeks for other bodies as its friends and enemies. Its safety is its main concern. Its comfort is its guiding rule. It tries to look for pleasure and avoid the things that would be hurtful. Above all, it tries to teach itself its pains and joys are different and can be told apart. The dreaming of the world takes many forms because the body seeks in many ways to prove it is autonomous and real. It puts things on itself that it has bought with little metal disc or paper strips, the world proclaims as valuable and real. It works to get them doing senseless things and tosses them away for senseless things it does not need and does not even want. It hires other bodies that they may protect it and collect more senseless things that it can call its own. It looks about for special bodies that can share its dream. Sometimes it dreams it is a conqueror of bodies weaker than itself, but in some phases of the dream it is the slave of bodies that would hurt and torture it. The body's serial adventures from the time of birth to dying are the theme of every dream the world has ever had. The hero of this dream will never change nor will its purpose. Though the dream itself takes many forms and seems to show a great variety of places and events wherein its hero finds himself, the dream has but one purpose top in many ways. This single lesson does it try to teach again and still again and yet once more that it is cause and not effect and you are its effect and cannot be its cause. So that is the single lesson that the hero is trying to teach and reinforce that he teaches it and tries to teach it still again yet once more, that it, the world is cause and not effect and that you are its effect and cannot be its cause. So you can see this is an impossible lesson to learn. Any mind that is trying to learn this is going to be conflicted, is going to feel split, it's going to feel unhappy, it's going to feel angry, it's going to feel shame and guilt because the world is the effect and the mind is the cause and when you join with the Holy Spirit and Jesus you open yourself up to the capital C cause, God. And God is in mind and Christ is in mind. Christ is an idea in the mind of God and therefore to look to this world and believe that it causes anything that it means anything, that it shows you something of substance is insanity. Purgatory four, thus are you not the dreamer, but the dream. And so you wander idly in and out of places and events that it contrives, that this is all the body does is true. Where it is but a figure in a dream. But who reacts to figures in a dream unless he sees them as if they were real. The instant that he sees them as they are, they have no more effects on him because he understands he gave them their effects by causing them and making them seem real. How willing are you to escape all effects of all the dreams the world has ever had? Is it your wish to let no dream appear to be the cause of what it is you do? Then let us merely look upon the dream's beginning for the part you see is but the second part whose cause lies in the first. No one asleep in dreaming in the world remembers his attack upon himself. No one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body and could never have conceived this world as real. He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion, too ridiculous for anything but to be laughed away. How serious they now appear to be. And no one can remember when they would have met with laughter and with disbelief. We can remember this if we would look directly at their cause and we will see the grounds for laughter not a cause for fear. Okay, there's a lot in that paragraph. So in other words, to believe that people cause things, that the environment causes things, that the past causes things, to look for causation in form is to see something that's not there. There are no causes and there are no effects in form. That's the big trick. And basically Jesus is saying, then let us merely look upon the dreams beginning for the part you see is but the second part whose cause lies in the first. So the self-concept is like a two-tier concept and what is perceived as the world, the external world, which really is an external, what is perceived as the external world is the dream that you gave away. And basically that is the belief that something external is happening to you, that you are a person, an image, a personality, and you are at the mercy of other images and other persons that seem to surround the person. But this is not the case. This is a total distortion of perception. It's like saying that you're a body or a person and that you're at the mercy of external effects. If that was the case, then victimization, abuse, mistreatment would all be possible. If that was the case, then you could use the images of the world to reinforce the case that you are at the mercy of something that's not you, that there's a will outside of you that's doing something to you that you don't like. But none of this is true. No one asleep and dreaming in the world remembers his attack upon himself. So no one consciously is aware of the belief in separation. That's what the attack upon himself is, the beliefs you can separate from your creator. That's a belief in the mind. The ego is a belief in the mind. And that is pushed out of awareness as is the light that is even still deeper than that belief in attack. It's the light of truth, the light of oneness, the light of God, the light of Christ. And in that light of Christ, you would see that there's only love and there is nothing else. But as he told us, no one believes there really was a time when he knew nothing of a body that could never have conceived this world as real. He would have seen at once that these ideas are one illusion too ridiculous for anything but to be left away. How serious they now appear to be. And no one can remember when they would have met with laughter and with disbelief. We can't remember this if we've looked directly at their cause and we will see the grounds for laughter, not a cause for fear. So here we go. Let us return the dream he gave away unto the dreamer who perceives the dream as separate from himself and done to him. Into eternity where all is one, there crept a tiny mad idea in which the Son of God remembered not to laugh. In his forgetting, did the thought become a serious idea and possible of both accomplishment and real effects. Together we can laugh them both away and understand that time cannot intrude upon eternity. It is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity, which means there is no time. A timelessness in which time is made real, a part of God that can attack itself, a separate brother as an enemy, a mind within a body, all are forms of circularity whose ending starts at its beginning, ending at its cause. The world you see depicts exactly what you thought you did, except now you think that what you did is being done to you. The guilt for what you thought is being placed outside yourself and on a guilty world that dreams your dreams and thinks your thoughts instead of you. It brings its vengeance, not your own. It keeps you narrowly confined within a body, which it punishes because of all the sinful things the body does within its dream. You have no power to make the body stop its evil deeds because you did not make it and cannot control its actions nor its purpose nor its fate. Of course Jesus is being sarcastic here, tongue in cheek because the body is just a symbol and as he's told us in his text, what you do comes from what you think. And when you basically believe you have no power to make the body stop its evil deeds because you did not make it, it's basically just believing that something external to the mind is causative and that you're an effect of this external cause. Jesus is gonna remind us the kingdom of heaven is within and there is nothing outside you. You are love, you are light and you must give up this crazy belief in externals, in images. My thoughts or images I've made, you have to relinquish the ego, the image maker because it's not a creation of God. God is abstract and eternal love is abstract and that's what the IM presence is. The world but demonstrates an ancient truth. You will believe that others do to you exactly what you think you did to them but once deluded into blaming them, you will not see the cause of what they do because you want the guilt to rest on them. How childish is the petulant device to keep your innocence by pushing guilt outside yourself but never letting go. It is not easy to perceive the jest when all around you do your eyes behold its heavy consequences but with their trifling cause. Without the cause do its effects seem serious and sad indeed, yet they but follow and it is their cause that follows nothing and is but a jest. So the ego is the false cause, the ego follows nothing, it wasn't created. It doesn't have an existence but if you believe in it, then you behold the unreal effects of this unreal cause and as Jesus is saying, its effects seem serious and sad indeed but that's just because they're believed to be real. Paragraph nine, in gentle laughter does the Holy Spirit perceive the cause and looks not to effects. Looks not to effects. The Holy Spirit looks not to effects. It's not interested in the outcomes of the world. It's not interested in the images. Just using the images to see that it's all simultaneous, it's all one. It's all singular. That's awakened awareness, that's the happy dream. The happy dream, that's the forgiven world. How else could he correct your error who have overlooked the cause entirely? He bid you bring each terrible effect to him that you may look together on its foolish cause and laugh with him awhile. You judge effects but he has judged their cause. Yes, we know that, he has judged their cause as unreal. And by his judgment are effects removed. Perhaps you come in tears but hear him say, my brother Holy Son of God, behold your idle dream in which this could occur. And you will leave the Holy instant with your laughter and your brothers joined with his. The secret of salvation is but this, that you are doing this unto yourself. No matter what the form of the attack, this is still true. Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker still is this the truth. Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true. For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming. Let them be as hateful and vicious as they may. They could have no effect on you unless you fail to recognize it is your dream. This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering. Whatever form it takes, the Holy Spirit will repeat this one inclusive lesson of deliverance until it has been learned. Regardless of the form of suffering that brings you pain, whatever hurt you bring to him, he will make answer with this very simple truth. For this one answer takes away the cause of every form of sorrow and pain. The form affects his answer not at all, for he would teach you but the single cause of all of them, no matter what their form. And you will understand that miracles reflect the simple statement, I have done this thing and it is this I would undo. Bring then all forms of suffering to him who knows that everyone is like the rest. He sees no differences where none exist and he will teach you how each one is caused. None has a different cause from all the rest and all of them are easily undone but by a single lesson truly learned. Salvation is a secret you have kept but from yourself. The universe proclaims it so, yet to its witnesses you pay no heed at all, for they attest the thing you do not want to know. They seem to keep it secret from you. Yet you need but learn, you chose but not to listen, not to see. How differently will you perceive the world when this is recognized? When you forgive the world your guilt, you will be free of it. Its innocence does not demand your guilt, nor does your guiltlessness rest on its sins. This is the obvious, a secret kept from no one but yourself and it is this that has maintained you separate from the world and kept your brothers separate from you. Now need you but learn that both of you are innocent or guilty. The one thing that is impossible is that you be unlike each other, that they both be true. This is the only secret you have to learn and it will be no secret you are healed. So, we are really, really seeing that that is why God goes with me wherever I go because God is the perception of a forgiving world, a happy dream. Only the loving thoughts are true and this is what forgiveness beholds. Only the loving thoughts are true. Jesus says, dream softly of your sinless brother. Remember his kindness is instead of the hurts that he gave. It's only attack thoughts and the filter in the mind of attack thoughts that is the ego and when you look through the ego or with the ego or through the ego's filter, you behold a world of separation and this is a fearful state but it's not real. It's a hallucination of fear and yet today's lesson takes us inward, inward into that beautiful love and light in our heart. God goes with me wherever I go. That's a happy song. God goes with me wherever I go. That's something to repeat but as Jesus said, it's just be quiet today, close your eyes, sink deep into the stillness. Allow yourself to feel that love, feel completely embraced and surrounded by that love. That is God's love and you cannot fail because God goes with you wherever you go and it's adorable that the light of God is shining in us and as Jesus says, it's waiting to radiate through us and out into the world. Ooh, that should give you happy shivers. Love is ready to radiate through you and out into the world and that is our purpose today to be the bringer of light. So thank you. Thank you so much for joining me. If you get a chance, please come in to Tribe of Christ and join me for the movie. It's probably about an hour and 15 minutes away from start time and if you're not signed up for Tribe of Christ, there's so many brothers and sisters all over the world that want to interact and shine their light and rejoice together and support one another and nurture one another and that is worth going into Tribe of Christ and registering and then every two weeks we just have a movie to dive deeper together into this deep love and into the experience of a forgiven world of a happy dream where we dream softly of our sinless brothers and sisters. Yeah, we need to dream softly. Enough of harsh dreaming. Enough of playing the blame game. Enough of pointing the finger. It's time to dream softly of our sinless brothers and sisters. Okay, thank you everyone. Thank you for joining me. God bless you. See you at the movies.