 We should just start at the top and we've been talking about atonement or miracle and This just seeing that my mind is completely positive There's absolutely positive thing nothing in time matter space. It's kind of it at all I mean and you can tell that like Rhonda was saying the other day that about everything that seems to come out of the mouth You just are just watching for content You know I was noticing recently when you were just saying about Misha if I lock Misha up You know she'll feel deprived and then when I let her out You know she'll be more excited cause Misha's body being put behind their effects open the gate You know it's just it's just about anything you can think of has So based on causation in the world and so to accept the atonement and just hold to the fact that my mind Is positive and there's absolutely nothing on the screen at all in the entire cosmos that has any kind of causation whatsoever That's healing and that's what this this kind of lesson is about. How are healing and atonement related? Healing and atonement are not related. They are identical There is no order of difficulty in miracles because there are no degrees of atonement It is the one complete concept possible in this world Because it is the source of a wholly unified perception Partial atonement is a meaningless idea just as special areas of hell in heaven are inconceivable Accept atonement and you are healed Atonement is the word of God Accept his word and what remains to make sickness possible Accept his word every miracle has been accomplished He's forgive is to heal The teacher of God has taken accepting the atonement for himself as his only function Where is there then? He can't heal What miracle can be withheld from him the next one here we go into self-concept or transfer of training What will I hold back from the atonement? The progress of the teacher of God may be slow or rapid depending on whether he recognizes the atonement is the atonement's inclusiveness or For a time exclude some problem areas from it in some cases There is a sudden and complete awareness of the perfect applicability of the lesson of the atonement to all situations But this is comparatively rare The teacher of God may have accepted the function God has given him long before he has learned all that his acceptance Holds out to him He said if I don't know what was coming at the time when I was young I would have stepped into this It is only the end that is certain Anywhere along the way the necessary realization of inclusiveness may reach him If the way seems long let him be content He has decided on the direction. He wants to take What more was asked of him and having done what was required with God to withhold the rest I think of that is the way seems long let him be content. I mean, it's like there's the ladder and You can get a sense how it's sense how quickly you You want to climb you can't really go to the next wrong until you really get a good push off I mean run before and it's really the desire and the willingness is the only thing that determines whether Yeah, it's gonna be a long ladder But that that feels reassuring to me It's like be content where you are. Yeah, don't worry about if it seems like it's taking longer Don't get into judging based on increments the world or comparisons That forgiveness is healing needs to be understood if the teacher of God is to make progress The forgiveness being the reversal of the thoughts in the mind all the backward ones having been turned around The idea that a body can be sick is a central concept in the ego That's like the underlying assumption I mean even when things are brought up, you know, even when we start the tow Or the flu or the whatever, you know The underlying assumption in the presenting problem Is that okay now? I obviously have The sick body I feel it. I Where I had experienced it, you know, I have been through this and The idea that a body can be thick is a central concept in the ego's health system, you know, it's As we'll see as we go on this paragraph it's very important For the ego to hold on to the idea that the body can be sick. I mean it's It's that's one of its strongest witnesses But the separation that's one of the eight aces in the hole It's like Joey was describing. You know, she's in so much pain She finally said why give in, you know, it's like where you get to a point where you just say oh forget it not good It's like you try to keep your mind on the truth But after a while Can't do it. I can't stop thinking about my door Focusing on This thought gives the body autonomy Separate it from the mind and keeps the idea of attack and violent Like the body has power over my mind just keep me distracted from the truth And underneath it is I can't change my mind. I mean, that's what I hear when I'm in pain. Yeah, and I I tried I Asked the Holy Spirit to see things differently. I want To not be in pain, but I can't do it It's got power over me. You know, there's something It's frustrating. It's feeling of helplessness Listen that I mean, that's what the mind has chosen it and then forgotten exactly what it shows you know in order that it seems that The body has power and you know and we get into the deeper You know, it's the whole thing of the mind wants to hold on to the concept of itself as it precedes itself It wants to hold on so dearly to the separation to the small self So invested in holding on to that is so terrified of letting that go and just going into that life that that seems like Sickness is great. It's a great device serves value, you know clearly provides a witness Yeah Draws my attention off them off my mind again back out there on to the body in the screen And then the next time of course when you get into more of the metaphysics is like Louisa's thing about I want to understand this thing. I made myself sick. I mean, you know, then The mind has taken responsibility for the attack thoughts and for what it perceives is as sickness So I mean that's That's where the guilt is coming in any way the guilt is coming in from lining up with the wrong mind You know from raising body thoughts that was one of the quotes that she had that she passed to me That she wanted, you know raising body parts to the level of mind in other words saying I am responsible for Behavior I am responsible for you know Things that the body seems to do and has done and so on and so forth and If that's true, you know then Sins are only in bodies, but the mind is associated itself with the body and that's where the guilt comes in Bringing body thoughts to the level of mind It's a level confusion. That's an example. Yeah, yeah, it's about level confusion. And really it's the thing of Since their body thoughts are of the ego and body thoughts are not of the right mind But it's it's saying that really that body thoughts are causative It's really what it means by to raise body costs to a level of mind It's simply to say that That the body or something in matter is causative or creative And you can see that's where the level confusion occurs the belief that that bodies actually act I mean I started to get into that a bit in the sense that It seems in this world as if there are autonomous persons that that act Autonomously that it seems like you know in the deceased state like Rhonda and David and Beverly and Dorky have different minds But what he's got a mind of her own she can decide to come or just stay on with the honor, you know or Beverly has a mind of her own she can decide to do this or do that and Rhonda and David and everything It really seems that way. I mean that's that's pretty accepted thing that we're all persons and part of being a person is to have a mind of your own and It's still at the metaphor level because You know the mind has The mind the seed mind has a sign To the mind the properties of the body while the properties of the body or do we have four separate bodies? You know the seed mind sitting on the couch and that Each of these minds is also separate When really there's just one mind and all the characters on the screen all of the characters on the screen are all part of playing out a Script it's already been played out and Are all it's all been played out so in other words when I say that you know the mind wrote the script it hired the characters it gave out the parts It's everything that said Is it's own invention this one sleeping mind has invented and projected out all these other bodies and that it says that there's all these other minds and has given out all these parts and It's done the whole thing. There is absolutely nothing to be upset about when somebody Says or does something when Misha another dream figure seems to do or do something and you feel upset is That's that's part of the script. I mean If it's apart from my mind if I'm a Rhonda and that's Misha just a dog Children that's just a dog, you know, then you see you know, I'm upset at Misha's behavior or whatever And I simply denied that that's just a thought or an image in my own mind What's it? It's just an image another image. What's the big deal? But you see with them when the meaning gets read and this is I'm a person. This is my house This is we have guests coming over This is just a dog. The dog should not inhibit our social life. The dog should not, you know Be craving, you know, you can see where all that stuff gets read on as meaning and then by golly before you know it I'm upset at something That the dog is done So you can see that that from this perspective, you know The bodies are not autonomous. They don't act apart from what my mind I mean, they're just like thoughts that are that are in a concreteized form that are acting out So I'm not responsible for the The roles that I assigned in the sense that I'm not responsible for what it said Or what is done by the characters that I'm responsible for how I perceive that Yes That's all that's all it is Yes, everything is how you feel It's like when I walk I watch all this stuff And like as I'm going along I kind of think well, I'll see somebody to talk to And I know that I'm gonna still be Hello, good morning. Where do you live? What did you say? Oh, I don't live here. I'm just visiting. You've got a nice crowd. Oh, yes, we've had our house Really much happen