 Alright, so the Course says that we are saviors of the world and that's our only function. And so in order to be saviors of the world, we have to have peace. And once we have that peace, we, by example, the world will be saved. Is that how that works or is there things that we need to do and form that we need to consider? Or is it just, is that the ultimate goal? Is it just peace or is there something beyond peace? That is the ultimate goal, peace of mind. And the world is saved by peace and peace of mind. It's not saved by world peace thinking that the bodies will look a certain way. The guns will all drop and the bombs will all stop and having some kind of form in mind. But peace of mind is the goal. And you could say that that is salvation. So when we say that our function is to be the saviors of the world, it's not talking about that there's a personal savior. Just like sometimes Christians will like to talk about Jesus Christ. Is Jesus Christ your Lord and personal savior? Somehow that if you profess in words Jesus Christ is my Lord and savior and everything, then you're saved. Unlike the rest of the other ones who don't profess that and they're damned. You're saved because you said the words. They're damned because they didn't say the words. Now it goes a lot deeper than that. It's how it's being in accord with the Holy Spirit. Really having your mind completely lined up. Are there any things to do? Well, Jesus says what you do comes from what you think. So as long as you have a split mind, we'll say, where you're listening to two voices and you're listening to two thought systems, you know you're going to have a conflicted mind and it will seem that you will have erratic behavior by most accounts as well because what you do comes from what you think. And if you're not sure, if you're trying to follow two masters in mind, right mind and wrong mind, you know, it's Holy Spirit and ego, until you resolve the conflict in the mind, what shall I do is really a very much of a form question and as long as you believe you're a body, the Holy Spirit will reach your mind where you believe you are. You can get some very specific instructions as far as like that thing in the workbook. What would you have me do? What would you have me say? Where would you have me go? It's very, very specific. The prayer is really, you know, instruct me. I believe I'm a body, so instruct me. The deeper you go with the mind training, you start to realize that the course is really getting you clear about your motivation. It's getting you clear about your intentions. And most of all, it's showing you that you have to be super clear in your mind on your purpose because the ego has one purpose for the world and the Holy Spirit has another purpose for the world and never the twain shall meet. You know, perfect love casts out fear, but it doesn't say you'll put fear and love in a blender and you're going to make a fear love milkshake and, you know, just take a drink and mix them together. It's like oil and water. You can put oil and water in a blender. You can grab that thing as much as you want, but the oil and the water are going to separate. They just don't have any meaning point. And love and fear are the same way. So practically speaking, as you go through the mind training, you're really asking what is this for? What is this for? You start to get glimmers that it's not so important what the body is doing, but it is super important what the motive is, what the intention, what the purpose is. All right, well, I got the impression that until the whole world is saved, we will always see ourselves as bodies and we'll get sick and we'll age and we'll die. And that is our function to awaken the whole, so that eventually everyone awakened and then we can all become spirits. So is that how it works? Yeah, as long as you serve two masters, as long as the mind is split, then it perceives a distorted world. It perceives a fragmented world. It will perceive birth and death. It will perceive sickness and health. It will perceive all the dualities of the world because the split in the mind is pushed out of awareness. It's dissociated from awareness. But that split in the mind will always exist until the whole world is saved. So like, for example, in your case, even at your advanced stage, that split in the mind will always be there. So you can never get rid, it'll never go away. Well, no, it's inevitable that the split will go away because the miracle is the correction and you might say the atonement, which is really the goal of the Teacher of God, the sole responsibility of the Teacher of God, the sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the atonement for himself. So in accepting this correction in the mind, you see the world differently. And so this inevitability of a split world is not an inevitability at all. It's actually, it has to go away. It just seems to be a matter of time how long it takes to accept that correction. But oh, the ego's days are numbered because the correction's already occurred. The Holy Spirit already offered that correction and all it's really a matter of now is accepting that correction. And when the mind has accepted that correction, it doesn't see the same world. It doesn't see the same world that it seemed to see before. It's the perception has been corrected. Now, that takes a lot of mind training, but it doesn't have anything to do with the age of the body. It doesn't matter whether the body seems to be still here or not. You might say that the mind training is coming about so that you can perceive the world as whole, see the world as completely unified, and then the world will disappear. There is one part in the Manual for Teachers where Jesus says, there are those that have laid the body aside in order to increase their helpfulness. And to the ego, that's like, why would you lay the body aside to increase the helpfulness? How could that even be? How could that be more helpful to lay it aside? Don't you think ego thinks it could be... I think of a lot of ways a body could be more helpful while it's still animated and active. But that's just pointing that this whole world is backwards and upside down, and then your task is really to sink into a deep stillness, join with the Holy Spirit and just watch the world and see the world with the Holy Spirit. That's the whole value of everything that you do. In fact, the Course is actually saying that's the only thing you need to put effort into. But how is that saving the world? How does that make you a savior of the world? You're just focused on yourself. The mind that's asleep and dreaming is perceiving a split world, a world of duality is sick. It needs saving or healing. When we say that your function is to be the savior of the world does not mean that personally that you'll ever be the savior of the world because personally is the problem. Seeing the world in terms of personalities is the problem. The ego peopled the world. It's made up its whole world. So actually how is it saved? It's like it's saved through a saved perception of the world, a healed perception of the world, a corrected perception. And like I was saying, every bit of seeming effort, every bit of attention, as soon as you can have the slightest inkling that the only problem there is is a perceptual problem, seeing a fragmented world, then you will suddenly, if you really see that, you will put all your effort into healing the mind and having a healed perception of the world. You wouldn't put any effort into trying to solve the problems of the world. You know, hunger, nuclear proliferation, the ozone layer, all the, you know, abortion, whatever you want, you know, you could pick all those things. You start to see that those aren't really the problem so you're not going to invest any time in trying to... Well, I was thinking the savior of the world is being like letting other people see that they need to be healed, their mind, that they need to come to peace. Like so you're like a vehicle for sharing that, that light with everybody else. If you get deep enough, you start to realize that the problem was seeing that there was people. This people, that people, other people, that's the problem. So then why do you go to different places to speak to people? It's only what's given. It's only what's given. Like, I have no control over that. I mean, it's like it's called a special function, but it's totally given. So, you know, I mean, it can be inferred. Like, well, why would you even travel to different countries if there's no people? What's the point of traveling? That's kind of a waste of time. If there's not people, why would you even travel? Well, it's the way miracles work. It's like when you give your mind over to the spirit, you give it all over. You don't have a life anymore. You don't have a say, you don't have a choice. You can't say, you can't sit down and have a dialogue with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It's like, you're going to Argentina. I don't want to go to Argentina, but you're going to Argentina. You know, there's not that kind of interplay of like a you that's saying, I don't want to. You know, like typically children do with parents. I don't want to eat those lima beans. Eat the lima beans. It's more just, it's totally given, but it's not for helping people. It's all for purification of the mind. It's all for teaching, extending, teaching what you would learn. It's a conversion of the mind, nothing to do with time and space. It's not a reason for it. Actually, if you would have interviewed David back in those days and you would have said, you know, would you like to travel the world and go to all these countries and go through all these body searches and hundreds of luggage racks and all the different things, David had no interest in that. David has a purpose of guiding you in that way. Yeah, just to heal the mind. That's all it's about. It's not really trying to reach people, reach the lost souls or convert the ones that are misled or, you know, save the lost or whatever. If you believe there's anyone who's lost, you have to bring it back and start to realize that the mind that thinks it's here in this world, the mind that's identified with personality and individuality, that mind is lost and that mind needs a conversion to be... So when you say the mind, that's your mind or is that the whole world's mind? The mind. The mind is... Not your mind or my mind. The universal mind. Healing the universal mind. So it's a great... I can't tell you how wonderful it is to give your life over to accepting the correction or to letting yourself be the savior of the world. Not in a personal sense. Not that, you know, I do have friends I have a friend in St. Louis who prayed, worked with the Course for years, prayed, okay, I'm going to give everything I'm over. I'm going to give my house, my life and everything over. He was terrified that he would have to put on a robe and go stand out on the street corner preaching. But he never was called to go stand on the street corner and preach but he was terrified that if I give it all over oh my God, what's going to happen? But I just see that it's all about following the guidance, the prompts and you experience the peace. You experience the happiness and joy. That's the reward. You know that it actually is working by how you feel and that's your, that's like your barometer, that's your gauge. It's pretty radical when you think to just let yourself be used for the healing of all perception and that you shall know that you are experiencing it by how you feel. It's pretty radical.