 We're going to sing a song about the ego. We've talked so much about God and the Spirit. We're going to sing about the ego tonight. We're going to do a duet about the ego. This is a friend of mine, Donna Marie Carey's song. And I think we tried to do spontaneous version in Finland last year. Of course we loved it. Now we've got to live it. So, we're singing this song tonight because a lot of times when you have fear coming out and you can be so afraid of your own mind and afraid of the ego, you want to turn it around and with this song be a little less afraid of the ego. Because it really has no power over you unless you give it power. You don't want to do that. So, try to get you in the morning. Brighten your eyes to open one eye. So this song will be for you and for everyone who's had a struggle with the ego. We're going to try to put it in a new perspective. No one here is coming. Let's transcend it. Okay, here we go. Little ego, so alone. Little ego, far from home. Separated, fighting for survival. Scared of your own shadow. Little ego, so alone. Only agree. Little ego, little ego. You are not. Right in the corner. That's the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. You can be Toto. Pull the curtain. Okay, well tonight we will be using a Star Trek episode to uncover the ego and wake up. This is a wake up movie. Wake up from the ego. And this Star Trek episode is so well made. You could even show this to your family, to your children, to your grandparents, and to uncles. They would go, hmm, wow, wow. Because it's not using Course in Miracles terminology. But the whole story is right there. And it's very well made. In fact, I was doing a Course in Miracles together. And I believe I was in Detroit, Michigan. And someone came up to me and they were all excited. And they were jumping up and down. And they said, I found a Star Trek episode that is entirely a Course in Miracles. And I said, I have to take a look at it. And then I have to say this is like a masterpiece of putting the whole Course into one maybe 50 minute episode without the commercials. Excuse me, it's an hour episode on television with commercials. But 50 minutes to put the whole Course in Miracles into one episode, that's pretty good. The Holy Spirit was really behind this one. So we're going to see the crew going towards this planet. And in this episode, I'll give you just a little bit of a setup for it. The planet has undergone a planetary disaster. Some of you know that planets do the atmosphere or there can be atmospheric disruptions. And it's been a condition where it's just completely ruined the planet's atmosphere. And so the entire civilization that was left of it had to go underground to survive. But it's one of those planetary disasters that take a long time to play out. And the way that they're going to cope with that, the remaining survivors, is they're going to put themselves to sleep. Weighted out by sleeping. So they're dealing with a disaster by sleeping. Sound familiar? Yeah. But they have a wake-up mechanism that they program themselves to wake themselves up. Now when our crew from Star Trek comes in to encounter the planet and discover them, it takes a while to find them because they're underground. But also they discover that they are still sleeping. So the disaster is already long gone and over. They are still stuck sleeping, even though it's over. And then they do their scans to check to see if the wake-up mechanism is still working. It's still functional, but they're not using it. For some strange reason, they have stayed asleep and are not using the wake-up mechanism. Hmm. What's wrong? Now Captain Janeway, the strong female captain, has got to figure out what's going on and how to deal with this sleeping group of people. And that's where it gets really interesting because she's going to have to deal with the ego. And the reason that these people are not waking themselves up is because of fear. And so how does she deal with fear? How does anyone deal with fear? That is a very interesting question for the whole human race. So what I like about this episode is it really gives us a metaphor that relates very, very much to what we're dealing with on a daily basis. And even though it's a fairly short episode, maybe 50 minutes, I think I will pause the episode as we go through it because it's got so many key points in terms of facing the ego and dealing with the ego. The ego has its tricks. It uses fear. It uses death. It uses fear of consequences. It uses guilt. And also it tries to cover over the situation by false attempts at happiness based on its own attempts. More of a cover. When somebody tells a joke when they're nervous or makes fun of something, makes life something when they have fear underneath, that's the ego as well. And so Kapajengwe has to find a way of dealing with the ego so that these people can wake up and escape their sleep. So that's going to be my setup. We'll probably spend more time with this shorter episode going through it. It's pausing, stopping, and then at the end, that's where it gets good when we have our discussion of practical application. How does this apply in our own lives? What gems can we take from tonight that will help us effectively deal with fear when fear starts rising? Because that's one of the questions I get most of the time when I go around the world. People say, what do you do when the fear is up? And what do you do if you get into a spiral and you notice that the fear can be extremely difficult? In fact, Jesus does give us a hint in the back of the text in the rules for decision where he says it's easier to have a happy day if you can stay with his first two rules of decision and not drift off into fear and guilt. If you spiral off to fear and guilt, it's going to be much harder to get back. But for those of you who are familiar or unfamiliar with the rules for decision, it's what kind of day do I want? Decide the kind of day that you want. And then number two, say to yourself, if I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given to me. So that's showing that we have the power to put the kind of day we want, loving, peaceful, calm, happy, joyful, whatever we want. And then if we're in alignment and surrender mode and gliding and flowing with the Holy Spirit all day, then that is the day that will be given us. If we try to make decisions on our own, which is what the ego is, he believes it's on his own, then we slip off. We slip off the beam and we lose track of our joy and our happiness. And then Jesus says here's some restorative steps to help bring us back. But he also says it's much harder to get back once you've gone off. What's the first day? First one is decide the kind of day that you want. Decide the kind of day that you want. And the second is if I make no decisions by myself, this is the day that will be given to me. So tonight we're going to see where this race has put themselves underground, put themselves asleep, and they've got entrenched in fear. And now Captain Janeway is coming like a Holy Spirit figure, a character to try to help rescue them and free them. So we can learn a lot by her blessings as we go through this too. Okay? Yes. Very good. Hey, is everyone ready? Yeah. And Janeway just reminded me for your reference that the rules for this decision that I mentioned are in Chapter 30, Part 1 of the book, of A Course in Miracles. And in case you happen to want to get this episode from the internet or possibly even on the internet. I've done talks on this over the years. The official name of this episode of Star Trek is called The Thaw. Thaw. I came over here with ice and ice on it. And it melts. Thaw. Thaw. Thaw. Thaw. Thaw. It's an official name from someone who knows. The Thaw. It's a joy. It's a joy. It's a heart melting. Ice melting, yeah. That's what it means. It's the one that I mentioned. It's a joy. Okay, there's a desperate statement around it. If we let it echo around. It's a thaw. Oh, it's a heart. It's a thaw. Okay, everyone ready? Everyone stand with two pairs. No, we don't. It's a thaw. It's a thaw. They're excited about the title. Okay. It's a thaw. It's a thaw. It's a thaw. Okay. Are we ready? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Maybe they'd like it in there. Maybe they'd generate an artificial environment and put themselves to sleep. But they are, for some reason, not using the wake-up apparatus. They are not waking themselves up. Maybe they'd like it. This guy is a prophet. This is Abraham. The prophet. Telling us years ago, we've become too much liking our artificial images and illusions. So that is important. Now, you'll see when he suggests, it's just like when the prophets of old spoke in great wisdom. They're usually ignored or killed. So this guy is going to be royally ignored. So they're sending two from their ship inside the artificial environment to help. Of course, in this artificial environment, we had Buddha, Krishna, Jesus. We had a bunch of rescuers sent in to help. But the wake-up mechanism, I would say, is described in A Course in Miracles, is forgiveness. And basically, when the mind is in fear, it doesn't really want to find the wake-up mechanism. It wants to get distracted. So I would say for thousands of years, the human race has been... We've always known forgiveness was important, but we just really didn't understand forgiveness. We thought that you had to forgive people for what they did to you, or forgive them for what they didn't do that they should have done. But we never had a clue that we should forgive them because it never happened in the first place. We've believed we have to forgive what is real in order to heal. But we have to be shown a much deeper way. That's what we're learning from the Course. So in this analogy now, they're sending two of their crew to go in. And that's where it gets quite interesting what they discover when they get inside there. Okay. See, she's not really adapted yet to the environment. She's still quite aware of her mission. None of this is real. And that works, except you have to have that idea firmly in your mind or have agreement. And you look at her colleague there to the left. See his eyes closing? He's bought the story. One of them will die. Sacrifice. That's the ego's trick. That somebody will die for the awakening. Some price. Some price has to be paid. And you can see it in his face. So this is like a key point right here where she has not forgot her mission. And he has listened to some evidence from the dream world. And what do we call fear? False evidence appearing real. As soon as you accept it as real in your mind, it becomes real in your awareness. Not in reality, but in your belief system. It takes on reality. They go from dream figures to being real living people. And so this is also teaching a very key idea in the course that you cannot even be sick unless there is this false sense of agreement and sickness. It only took Jesus coming and demonstrating that sickness and death were impossible because in his mind he didn't believe in them. He didn't really go around healing the sick and raising the dead. It was more in his mind he remembered who we all are as the Christ. And that presence of love and light was so strong that he drew witnesses for that love and light. That death and sickness were impossible. That's why sickness seemed to go away. But if you have two minds that don't agree, then that's where all of hell enters in. All of doubt, fear. And if you become so clear in your own mind of the impossibility of judgment, sickness, death, then you set all the captives in the whole world, the whole universe free. That's why Jesus, when Jesus awoke, he says, when I awoke you are with me. Sometimes people say, how come Jesus woke up and why is his stream still going on? If he already woke up. But it takes the power of mind being so unified. So this is a key point right here. The ego has only one demand to exist. And it needs the power of the mind to seem to exist. So you can see that's why forgiveness involves exposing the ego and pulling your mind's energy, your mind's investment away from the ego. As Jesus says in the Course, you made the ego by believing in it. And you can dispel it by withdrawing your belief from it. That's going to be the key to being able to laugh at the ego. To sing that song that we sang tonight. You probably want to listen in the speaker and memorize that song. But the key is you have to pull your investment away from the ego. Otherwise it will take your mind's energy and will use your mind and will continue to exist as a parasite. Taking your mind's energy. So that is its only demand is to exist. It will do anything that it has in its clever bag of tricks to maintain its illusory existence. Like if you have a parasite in an animal or a parasite in a human being, you have to really get deep inside to get that parasite dislodged and discharged, dispel it. Keep going. He's onto it, but the prophets don't get any, everyone gives him the look. I make him laugh. That's actually another good suggestion. The ego doesn't like any thought of escape. That's where it goes from suspicious to vicious. It will try to use the past and past memories, past traumas, past horrors as soon as you begin to be optimistic. So Harry's quite optimistic that there's a plan underway to rescue them and right away now the ego is stirred up just by any thoughts of escape. And you'll notice that is your work with the Course in Miracles. As soon as you start to work with this kind of thought system to free your mind, the ego will get stirred up and it will even use characters around you to kind of sabotage your work with the Course in Miracles. And sometimes it's called the naysayers. You have a lot of naysayers, people that are negative, dark, suspicious. What are you doing? What is that strange thought system you're working with? Sounds like a cult. What are you wasting your time once you get back to the real world and all this? But that's the fear in your own mind, the ego getting stirred up and trying to convince you to just put your Course in Miracles book away and don't continue with the mind training. It will try to sabotage your work with lessons. You get so far and it wants to shut down even the work with lessons because it doesn't want you to escape. And it's very stirred up when you make a move towards love and light. When you start to have really happy, loving experiences like you're having here, sometimes you'll have what we call ego backlash, or ego whiplash that when you get home, it says, okay, you've had your fun five days. Now let's get back to some guilt. We will try to insert the guilt in there because it's afraid. It's afraid of escape. It's afraid the mind will escape its clutches. And so now our little ego character is going to try to terrify Harry based on past memories. Absolutely torture and terrify him. Okay, he's starting to rise up. And he's starting to tell the ego this is not reality, it's illusion. But now the ego, has anybody here tried affirmations? The ego is not impressed with affirmations. So Harry is rising up to say, but this is not real. He's rising up to say it verbally. But as long as you've got an unconscious darkness underneath and the words and the affirmations don't scare the ego at all. It will make fun of how we have the Wizard of Oz clicking our heels like Dorothy. There's no place like home. The ego makes fun of affirmations as Harry will try his best with his affirmations here. What? Oh, good stop there, Dave. You can see that knife so clearly that I stopped it. I just took that hook on the internet. So basically, but remember who he's dealing with here. Captain Janeway, that's right. Captain Janeway, who's going to find a way. She, remember she said we have to find a safer way to communicate with the clown. Now, some of you remember, was the Star Trek the next generation data? What about data? What do we know about data? He doesn't have emotions. He doesn't have emotions, why? He's artificial, he's an android. He's not human. Captain Janeway knows that the doctor she's got is also an android. So remember she said we have to find a safer way to communicate with the clown. She knows that the answer is through communication. She's got to use a safe way of communication because if she sends in humans, they're on the system and it's using their energy, their minds, and basically they're just caught up in the program. So now, Janeway strikes. Here we go. Just when Harry needs it the most, Harry's kind of getting a high fear level. Okay, so we learned from that that she sent in the doctor, the android, to try to compromise, to try to bargain with fear. So we are learning something from this. It's not going to work for us to bargain with the ego. Because the ego is a death wish. So it really has nothing. We can't look for a middle ground with the death wish. And occasionally you even come across spiritualities in different pathways that will say make friends with your ego. Simply love your ego. But what I'm saying is you have to expose it because as long as your mind's energy is being used by it, and it's an unconscious belief, you can say all the affirmations you want, you can send it loving, light waves and energies and everything. It's a death wish. It needs to be exposed. You need to withdraw your investment in it in order for it to be dispelled. So even an attempt to try to love the ego, it still presumes that it has some kind of reality. I remember one time I went to Canada, and I was just beginning giving a talk at a, I think it was a religious science center, a very open minded spiritual center. They had like a 12 day course I think going on studying the Buddha in a church. This is an open minded group studying the Buddha in a church. And yet when I began talking, I started talking and I probably talked for just 5 or 10 minutes and there was a woman in the front row but she put her hand up and she go, would you stop saying those things about the ego? Don't you have anything good to say about the ego? Is there nothing good about the ego? So I just stopped, I took a drink of water and I looked at her and I said, the ego wants you dead. And then I continued on. The ego is a belief system that we've given our minds to and we have to see that we can't, we can't really continue to believe in it and feed it. Just like if you had a parasite or a virus, the strategy is not to feed the parasite and hope that the parasite goes away or feed the virus. It's to transcend it. So we've seen one important thing here, we've seen already that Jane Way has tried the communication device and didn't work. He basically resisted the compromise approach. Basically said, no, go away was his final answer to her compromise approach. So we know that when we work with the ego, we have to go all the way to the core to forgive it. Okay, what did we learn from that next episode? Yeah, you can't really bargain with or compromise with the ego, but when you try to distract the ego, the ego is the one that generate all these distractions in the first place. When you try to distract the ego, and you know, in order to defeat it, you're playing in its game. It's the master of distractions. It's invented this whole cosmos to distract away from love and light. It's invented thousands, millions, billions of distractions. So the attempt to distract away and kind of have the ego distracted while the environment was disassembled piece by piece. Well, the one thing about that is that the ego, you can't escape the ego piece by piece. If you try to do it part by part and piece by piece, it's too clever. It re-adapts. It just kind of grows back in another way. It morphs, it keeps coming back. So you can't do it piece by piece. That's why the Course is aimed at accepting the Atonement. In fact, Jesus says your sole responsibility is to accept the Atonement for yourself. It's only the correction of the Holy Spirit that will show that the ego is nothing, is over and gone. And so any attempt to try to break it up, it's still part of a cover-wise approach. It would be like trying to distract a part of yourself that has invented it. And in terms of modifying the environment, haven't we had many attempts throughout history to make the world a better place? Like the Michael Jackson song says, you'll make the world a better place. Haven't we tried that for years? We've tried for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years to make the world a better place. We've used education. We've used technology. We've used farming, our agricultural methods. We've tried to use treaties. We have panels and government panels. We have the Hague. Does the Hague save the world? No. The Hague was saying China was in error in the South Sea. Some of you read politics, China's like, we don't care what the Hague said. We're not going to go back by that. The Hague? You see, we're not going to have a political solution. And even in terms of disarmament, one time I was giving a talk one night in the Holy Spirit and Jesus got so humorous from me, they kept saying, make the world, let's have world peace. What is world peace? We have marches for world peace and demonstrations for world peace. What exactly is world peace? And how would we measure it? Imagine if we wiped out all the bombs, all the bombs, all the atomic bombs, all the, every kind of bomb. We took out every bomb, every missile. We took out all the bombs in the world when we have world peace. Well, look at this, take the guns out. All the bombs and all the guns. Nice, okay. You've got the knives. All swords, knives, hands, swords, spoons. Let's get them out of there. Anything. What about jujitsu and karate? These hands and legs can be, get the hands out of there. Get the legs, you know. At least we'll have them under wraps so that you can't do anything with them. Maybe we'll just bind you like a, you know, bind you up. Now we could do that. Supposing we were able to get all that out of the way and we still had people screaming and shouting and cursing and cussing. Would we have world peace? We had all that gone and we had, we were just cursing. Just cursing at each other. Would that be, would that qualify for world peace now? Okay, no cursing allowed. No screaming, no biting, no chewing. Out of the way. Let's get that world peace. No other. Supposing we got it down to frowning. There was no shouting, kicking, biting, screaming. Only frowning. Like the eyebrows. The eyebrows go down. Supposed we got the whole world and some people were just like If they were a little upset then frowning and giving the evil a stink eye. We say, no, no, you're not even allowed. You're not allowed to use any physical or facial gestures. Keep your eyebrows up. Keep a smile on your face. A smile on your face. And then all the people in the world said a million all happy and smiley. But they're thinking, you son of gun. If I could move, if I could move my eyebrows, I'd give you none of that. If I could, if I was allowed facial gestures, I'd really give it to you. If I could use my eyes in that way. People were still thinking judgments and wicked thoughts. You see, world peace is a funny thing because how would you ever major world peace? Unless you have peace of mind then you see a peaceful perception of the world. So this is why it's so important that we're doing the course because we can't get caught up in politics and save the whales and save the dolphins and do this and this. When you get caught up in all these causes everything's got to go organic and we've got to do this and do this and this. As long as you have judgmental thoughts you don't have peace, right? So now it becomes very important for us to go for it. Now, Jamie tried to do a little bit of another compromise approach but now she's going to have to go much more directly at the ego because that didn't work. So here we go. We're going for the home stretch now. Jamie We now are here here to provide pleasure. Now we start to see when we get into the course that Jesus starts to make these connections between the miracle and peace of mind and joy and raising ourselves in the higher and higher levels of awareness as we go toward the light but there's something attractive to the sleeping mind about fear. In fact, Jesus has three subsections in his Course in Miracles in the text where one of them is called the Attraction to Pain the Attraction to Sickness Sickness is an Attraction to Death and so all those are starting to get the mechanism in the mind that the ego keeps the fear going by seeking for pleasure and avoiding pain and he does tell us in the Course that when you go into these egoic mechanisms you still are trying to reinforce a bodily identity. That's why it's such a deep course in miracles because he's calling us to be miracle workers and really to let him perform miracles through us to be truly helpful like the prayer says at the beginning of the book just to stay in that truly helpful space and Janeway is just coming to that point where she's seeing that these other approaches have worked and the doctor has just hit on another key point here. On the system but not in stasis stasis sleep on the system but not asleep. This reminds you a little bit of Jesus he's seen to be here right we thought he was here it looked like he was here looks like she's there but not in stasis not asleep that's the thing that makes all the difference the Holy Spirit can use the symbol of Jesus to convey the message of how to wake up but Jesus wasn't asleep when those three final years of public ministry he was wide awake and the ego had no control over him so he left us lots of words and invested the symbols that we had carried on through the Bible and now the same thing's happening with the Course we're getting a wide awake mind that's using time and space and words because they're helpful but he's not trapped inside the system so Janeway he said you could have fooled me and she said so now we have similar with Jesus not plugged into the ego we know what Jesus did in transcend let's see what Janeway what beautiful spiritual words she has for the ego for words to address the ego she's finally found her groove here two cents for a break when was this episode and what she did oh my I'm not so good with all this you remember all this hey we know it's called the thaw that's all we know it's called the thaw but I'm not sure what year it is like too bad I've lost trapped so and over in Holland you're asking me to explain to the Dutch Christian we don't even know if there's a word in Danish that's the title the thaw and this is the last word the last word is thaw I think it sounds like something maybe in Batman the Batman series you know with the criminal or the Riddler or Joker maybe one of those I remember seeing tracks before when the criminal loses a word it's like it's I surrender resigning darn darn damn how do I get myself into this situation I have to okay well what did you think what did you think of that movie that's really acting it out the thaw the thaw I'm gonna watch this what did you think last round the cheeseburgers the cheeseburgers the cheeseburgers they cast it on cheeseburgers the cheeseburgers you know I would have bought you a hero you know you know you know you know you know okay well you know those three just thankful you guys are getting happier and happier I'm control happy don't make your shoes up it seems everybody's just laughing Dutch it's breaking into that it wasn't so easy without the subtitles yeah I don't think we had subtitles for this one did we yeah yeah that's why I was giving you a set up so you can head on a little context for what's happening yeah yeah there we go then all those characters likely that clown it stops it's your thoughts generated from fear they called him a manifestation of their fear thoughts yes it's experiencing sickness also like one of these tricks the clowns playing yeah fear based sickness is always fear based so it's not based on anything physical like in the body or in the environment or in the DNA in the cells it goes back to consciousness and in heaven there isn't even any consciousness in heaven it's pure spirit but consciousness we are told in the course was the first split so consciousness seems to have levels and it could be trained but basically we're told consciousness is the domain of the ego so when we're told raise your consciousness or go to higher levels of consciousness that's all helpful it's still part of taking steps toward the light but it's still going to take a total transformation of consciousness to go beyond consciousness to being pure being so we have human being and eventually it's just being isn't that nice that sounds everyone's like what do you do for a living being what are your future goals and ambitions being or you could sort it out with ozone layer and pollution being well sickness is what Jesus calls wrong mindedness so even though there's really just one mind because the mind is split emphasizing all these splits that seem to be in the world and many split personalities and different emotions and on and on and on he says to make it simple there's a right mind and a wrong mind and he's teaching us to be in our right mind and sickness is impossible in the right mind sickness is always a wrong minded decision so once we get induced to the idea that sickness isn't from the world it's a decision the next step most people ask me when I travel around the world they go wait a minute that's crazy who in their right mind would choose to be sick and I say you got it no one in their right mind would choose to be sick it's always a wrong minded decision so that's why the course has 365 lessons to train your mind to bring causation back to your mind and not be tempted to think oh I caught a virus or I got radiation from the sun or I got food poisoning all the things that biology and science have taught us that there are causes of sickness in the world and that we are at the mercy of the effect of the world really the world is a projection of mind and once we bring back our power to our mind and see how powerful our mind is and once we release our judgments remember how Jesus said judge not when we release our judgments and attack thoughts all we have left with is the right mind it's very clean and beautiful and and Jesus was pointing to the right mind when he said be of good cheer I have overcome the world he was simply saying I see the world now with the Holy Spirit from the right mind and so he was not at the mercy of anything or anyone and that's what the whole point of mind training is that's why we practice keep practicing and practicing even if you attempted to think that there's something in the world as you feel at ease or feeling the effects of illness it's not true so so is it finished? this was another question can you I don't get it quite Jesus Sambar says that we are not responsible for the mistake but we are responsible for how do you say correct exactly correct so for example if I say what person in my family or Sambar oh sorry or Sambar it is sick has cancer so I can see there was something wrong with my mind since I see cancer in a person so in realizing that it's a kind of forgiveness but still and then I say how do I handle it over to the whole spirit this song or how is it working well to perceive have you ever looked into like a kaleidoscope and you see all the different pieces and all the different colors you can turn it and everything like this you might think of it as the sickness is a fragmented perception of the world so the world with the Holy Spirit is all unified it's like all the pieces are brought together in the big picture and it's all just one unified picture but the ego sees everything in broken pieces I use this example I was down in I was down in Australia earlier this year and some metaphors that come to me in a very direct way and I was steering me on the right hand side like in England and so I was on the passenger side and I was going down the road and there was a man who was cutting the grass and he was using one of those whatever whippersnapper kind of things and just as the car was going I had the window rolled up and the string or whatever the blade was using it sent a rock hurling at a very high speed right at the car window and I was sitting in the passenger side so all of a sudden I was in the car and all of a sudden boom there was just a big loud boom like a bullet like I was a John F. Kennedy or something right in the window and then it started to splinter into millions and millions of pieces I could hear it going and I was just looking at it I was actually talking and telling a pair of walls at the time and I was sitting down with a pair of walls but while I was continuing out with a pair of walls it was it was just cracking and cracking into millions and millions and millions of pieces and so we pulled over and then even while we pulled over it was still cracking here it was just splintering I don't know what kind of glass it was but it was splintering I started using that as a metaphor look at that it's perfect for the separation isn't it? because it just keeps shattering and shattering like we have in this world multiplying the images just you know multiplying but it's still the same this is such a strong metaphor now that's a fragmented perception is the sickness and holistic perception is the correction when we start looking into the splinters like let's say you said like a person in your family has cancer you're saying that that particle that part the person is like a part a part of the universe that the part has cancer that part but the problem is seeing the parts you see? the fragmented perception that's why Course in Miracles is aimed basically at first coming to the place where you have to come to admit that you're seeing a distorted world you know some of you remember some of the lessons like 79 and 80 let me recognize the problem so it can be solved lesson number 79 in the workbook and number 80 is let me recognize my problems have been solved but in those two lessons he says even if you already have the solution which you do he tells us you've already got the solution he won't do you any good as long as you keep misdefining the problem you see the solution will only work when you define the problem correctly or when you bring the problem and the solution together then the problem disappears but if you project the problem of the ego out in the world like my sister has cancer or I just had a car wreck and my car is mashed up or my country his society you know it can be projected in any way then it's like saying oh no the problem isn't the ego and perception the problem is this thing or that thing and that's what humans deal with they seem to deal with a whole set of problems every day then some of them get solved and you get a whole other set and that's why it's so depressing when you have to face a whole just new sets of problems you just keep arising so that's also applies to sickness that you might say that if your mind is ill at ease in any way and even in science now they're proving that the mind-body connection if you have your mind is ill at ease you have issues in your consciousness then they can be projected or reflected in the body but they aren't caused by the body so when I think like that I see okay it's not that it's sick but actually I'm sick somewhere and project something out and give it a put on this as a person isn't that a kind of correction of a kind well Jesus does say in the Course he says don't ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body ask the Holy Spirit to heal your perception of the body it's the perception I'm aware of it's not the sickness it's not the problem the problem is I'm projecting something I don't know what it is on tool another person of going to a doctor and getting a diagnosis it's not like people see cancer you go look at somebody oh you've got cancer I can see it right now the way you look it's like somebody could be going along and then they go for a diagnosis from a doctor and the doctor says you had cancer and if they believe the doctor you see there's that belief again it's just witnesses but if you believe it then it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy so we're just coming more and more to that point of starting to realize I have to work with my thoughts Jesus says that in the Course it is with your thoughts alone that we must work he's never working on the effects he's never working on the projections like I shared earlier if you were going to see a movie and something seemed to miss with the movie and you went down to the front row and started pounding on the screen people would say that's ridiculous there's a glitch in the film or there's a problem with the projector or maybe you just don't like the film but don't go hit on the screen come on let us all watch the film with banging on the screen that's what we have to learn to do with everything including sickness start to say where are my LEDs I worked at hospice for a time I was training to go to work for hospice there was a man who was a minister who was going through the training with me and he told me at lunch one day when we were having a hamburger he said I had been diagnosed with cancer in the lymph nodes and he told me the whole thing and I just stayed with them and ate lunch with them and then I just looked over and I said it's ridiculous to you that you're not talking to you're not even on speaking terms now and he was like how did you know that that's my sister we used to be very close but I'm not speaking to her now I said well there's your cancer it's a communication block the love is still there but you haven't even spoken so I said here's your homework and connect with all the love that you have in your heart for her and he did and then I saw him a couple weeks later the whole the doctors couldn't find any trace of the cancer it was gone and that's the power of joining it took him joining with me in that instead of just going as per postures or whatever he really took it to heart he took action actually so it's only an agreement that hides forgiveness whenever we have some kind of grievance it's still going on in our consciousness that's where the illness is that's what the illness is is the grievance and how's it possible because we share a wrong mind and when I see illness outside my mind it's in my mind I have a religion for not to know and there was a psychiatrist and he healed a whole hospital with 200 people I don't know exactly because he only had a picture of those men before him and he started, I love you I'm so sorry please forgive me thank you so the people have nothing to do unless they're all healed and I take how did Jesus do because it is all me the sea but it's not clean anymore or the clouds, it's all in me and when I heal it in myself or I see the person before me and I heal the picture of the person and I know it's me because we are one and this is still healed but if you say the person the splinter I see have the all responsible to heal themselves but it is all mine in my mind if I want to heal the world then the world can disappear it's all in my mind and when I see everything what is not right the family that is healed I only have to heal the part in me so the person is already healed is that awesome yeah it's all mine it's not so much that there's ever a personal healing and there isn't even a personal responsibility for healing because the correction is way back in the mind there's a great lesson and of course when I am healed I am not healed alone in fact he goes on to say and legions upon legions will arise when I accept the gift of healing so he's describing what we call a quantum world like a holographic world where it just seems like there's all these people and countries and locations and beyond that and galaxies and stars and black holes but it's all a projection and when the mind comes healed from that fragmented linear projection then the whole world is healed that's why when Jesus said when I awoke you were with me you know it's not like Jesus did something personal 2000 years ago something special and personal no it was for the whole universe he's like Captain Janeway he seems to be with his course of miracles he still seems to be on the system because we can read the words through our eyes we can seem to read the book but he's not his stasis you read that book and you know this is not a sleeping mind that wrote this book this is a mind that is awake it's calling us to wake up and when I see the universe we pull my eyes everyday I forgive the universe for existence and I say I love you please forgive me I'm sorry please forgive me thank you it's possible because it's in my mind that the whole universe disappears that's definitely why you're happy you're waking up and you're doing the whole on universe every morning your eyes open up you whole stars the stars the stars that's going to keep you happy I mean really those ideas work very well seriously actually I can see it works I know I know I can see it works I just recently gave people an update because it was Dr. Yu-Lin who who took care of that around the world and taught it and I recently a while back was talking to a friend and I said where is he now I don't see him doing his workshops around and I said no I think he's living in his he's in his house in Sino-California I think he said and he's gone into such a deep state of silence now he's whole opponent he's doing all seven 7 billion of this he's he's whole opponent it's a way so yeah I see the laughter breaking out it's working too we've got a lot of laughter going there in halloween so if you can hear us Dr. Yu-Lin it's working you just keep working on the clouds and yeah the universe that's great I love that the first thing you do when you wake up is you hold the phone before you brush your teeth before you feed the cat and you realize too that everything is all here to show us a healed mind I had a three legged cat for years and she's just reincarnated now so now she's back as a four legged male she's the same she's the same she's back and now she's got four legs and she's up at the trees and she's all over the place she's really athletic it's he now but anyway when I was at that song that we were singing about letter for god Pam one time Pam came over to my peace house and Pam was like into animal rescue and saved the animals and opened a shelter for animals she was really into animals and so tripod was going to help her tripod that's the name of the cat tripod yeah she's a great teacher so Pam comes over one day to visit and tripod knows that she's got this thing she's got this thing for animals she's got to save the animals and help the animals it's an addiction but tripod's going to help her what better form to use than a cute little three legged cat form to heal so basically she comes over and tripod's eye it's just oh it's discolored it's turned this kind of pussy yellow ring or whatever she's got this one eye and Pam comes Pam is shocked looks at tripod's little face with this eye it's discolored and pussy and Pam's like oh dang it I know you don't believe it it's a medicine in the world it's got to help the cat and tripod's just giving her because I knew that there was no sickness there and tripod knew too it was like a halloween this guy he put on his best pussy eye look for Pam, just for Pam so Pam was like oh please let me go take tripod to a vet when tripod was adopted as a little kitten we had a telepathic that I said I will never subject you to the medical model and take you into veterinary so we agreed on that and then I take the only time that they tried to put some of this flea medicine on there one time like put flea medicine on there and she screamed like she was being raped and we're really it was almost like a violation of your cat like she was, I came home and she was screaming screaming what is going on this so we put medicine on tripod said no the agreement was no medicine and so here she is with Pam and Pam's trying to go desperately to go and buy medicine to fix her eye so I said no, no I said we have a pact you have to just trust we have to pray so she went away and then Pam came back a couple weeks later and tripod showed her cute face with no eye like it was a shift of mind she had to trust it was all just for a lesson and that's what everything we proceed is for is for a lesson for us to go inside and pray and find the healing within that's what it's all for it serves only one purpose just to do that and some of you were like Ramana Maharshi in Arunachala toward the end of his life you could see in one of those photographs of Ramana in his final days and the body was very, very thin and they would say that he had a tumor and everything but oh my gosh the eyes were just glowing have you ever seen that photograph those absolute glowing eyes and then this sweet voice why are you sad he's saying to all the followers where could I go where could I go he was just emanating and radiating this divine presence it really has nothing to do with the body so when we say oh we have a healthy body or a sick body those are both judgments to the Holy Spirit the body is neutral it's just a symbol it's just an image like a leaf it's no different all by the ego is having life and a life span and all these other meanings that get read onto it those are all part of of this make-believe world yes but is there now a strong cause-effect relationship that when the mind is healed the body has to be healed or can the body just stay sick and you don't give a you know when the mind is healed in some cases there could be symptom removal we could call it but basically you can't really interpret anything from the form in other words people have said to me wow Jesus for the enlightened being he sure had a bloody mess at the end there blood squirting out all over the place and what happened with him he must have had a lapse there and his enlightenment there on the cross enlightenment has nothing to do with the body you know that was just part of the skit like a little skit at the end you can't kill the Christ you can't kill spirit it's just not like a little skit into the tomb lesson 136 say when the mind is healed the body is healed or something there are some references where if you use the mind solely use the mind and the body with the Holy Spirit then it does say the body will remain healthy as long as it's necessary in other words as long as it's needed used in the plan but when you start to try to read what a healthy body is you know that's already starts to be like what does that even mean healthy body because he says health is inner peace oh yeah oh I can understand that how do you tell who's to judge whether the body is healthy or not Jesus Jesus didn't look too healthy at the end there with some spikes in his arms and legs how's that the body will be healed bloody it's just a skit it was kind of unusual demonstration but remember Jesus said it was a skit a movie Jesus does say that the crucifixion was the last useless journey oh is that wonderful yeah none of us have to be crucified we just have to resurrect in our mind forgive good news really don't believe in the existence of this yeah it's like to come back to the dreamer of the dream that's really our function there's one part in the course where he says that's the function of God's teachers awareness of dreaming is the function of God's teachers just like if you have a lucid dream at night how wonderful that is this is empowering because you're not at the mercy of any of the symbols or the images so awareness of dreaming so that's why I think as you go along it just takes a lot of trust just to hang in there with the Holy Spirit it's that simple it's so simple it's just listen and follow it's not you don't have to do some heroic thing or do something that the world judges big or grand or something it's just just listen and follow and go with the joy just go with the joy happiness the laughter be taken into the happy dream I hear you I really hear you for me it's like strange for me it's always felt very strange I'm not kind it may seem like the switching levels that's just part of the mind training and I have a nice pair of I remember the Twin Towers when the Twin Towers came down on 9-11 I had a friend who was a long-term Course of Miracles teacher and he was living in New York City when the Towers came down and then not too long after the Towers came down when it was still smoking and smoldering and dusty and he and a group of other friends decided to walk as far as they could into ground towards ground zero so they started just walking walking this was I think days after it happened so it was still pretty much a mess is what the world was called anyway he was walking walking walking towards ground zero and he came he was very happy and he was very joyful he was in a miraculous state of mind he was walking with Jesus in his mind you know right towards ground zero and then as he got closer and closer he saw this man coming and the man was wearing a plaid he was a Japanese man who had a plaid sport coat on and the man was walking in front of him and the man had his head down and his head was going like this and he was just going so so sad so so so sad you just had his head down so my friend when he saw this he was very happy with Jesus but he had a flicker out of the thought that flickered through his mind I wonder if my happiness could be an insult to this man and as soon as he bought that little flicker of a thought I wonder if my happiness could be an insult to this man he felt the dust going up his nostrils he felt the heat of the fire on his skin he almost knocked him over as he had been walking with Christ all along kind of above the battleground in his mind in a beautiful miraculous transcendence but that one temptation I wonder if my happiness could be a front to this man he almost choked as he had all this dust and Jesus was and so right away I said what did you do? and he said I called out for Jesus help he called for Jesus to connect back in with Jesus and then he was able to reconnect pretty quickly with Jesus and as soon as he reconnected with Jesus then the Japanese man with the plaid coat on turned, lifted his head up looked at my friend right in the eyes and said kind of in a wrapped kind of rhythm I could see by the way that you feel that you know that none of this is real the symbol shifted that quick when he reconnected with Jesus which shows us that's the power of our mind to reconnect they aren't really external characters thoughts had a line and then it got reflected by us and Helen Shuckman had that happen to describe of the course where she one time she had a common thing for human beings one of her eyelashes had got caught in her, was caught in her eye and so she couldn't get it out she couldn't get it out and finally she went into I think they were walking long she went into like a Catholic church and she went into the pews she knelt down and she just in the church she joined and connected back with Jesus the mind of Jesus and then when she did the eyelash was on her cheek without any kind of attempting to get it out it was a symbol so everything in our world is symbolic and we need a lot of practice to start to experience things as symbolic just like if you look at dreams you know they have a lot of studies on dream interpretation and so forth and not that Jesus actually wants us to try to interpret our dreams but he does want us to forgive them and to see them with the Holy Spirit so with practice when we keep working with the course and doing the mind training that's what happens so when something seems to happen in form you just start to go what is that trying to tell me what is the Holy Spirit trying to tell me is to be independent towards that circumstance instead of this happening to me it's very different this is a very good example what you give now about this Franciero scene because when your friend didn't have this small thought about man that made a certain impression on him he was seeing it so he should have he could have denied it already knowing that this man is part of him, part of divine mind, nothing is happening. Because he was tempted to make judgment, then he fall down out of this alignment with Jesus. And after you return to that, then the man was a witness to his returning to his divine mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is a good example. Experient powering, yeah. David, can you help us out to teach us how we can completely connect to Jesus? Can you give us some advice? How to do this? Well, what you mean every day, I mean, this desire. Yeah, but obviously we are all not completely connected to Jesus or here. Well, I think it's your prayer to the hardest to want to connect. Remember, everything starts with the prayer of the heart and with the desire. If that is your desire, then, again, Jesus will arrange time and space. The people you need to meet, the books you need to read, the movies you need to watch, just a kind word. A Facebook poke. At the right time, timed just right can make all the difference. You know how that works. Somebody sends you a chat or a message. You're having one of those days and then you get a voice mail and you go, oh, thank God. Or you hear a song on the radio. I recognize that, but then I still don't feel completely connected to Jesus. I think maybe that's a mistake. Well, that's what we talked about earlier. It's like if there's a fear of light or a fear of the Holy Spirit and Jesus, then there's going to be some distortions that go on in terms of listening. I can give you an example of Helen Shuckman. Helen Shuckman, in terms of what seems to be past lives, she had an amazing scribal ability to connect in with the universal mind and put it down in terms of she also knew shorthand. She could write very fast shorthand. So she was really excellent at taking down this rapid inner dictation that Jesus gave her. But we've learned also that at previous lifetimes, somewhere in the past that she had misused the scribal ability. Like the ego had really got a hold. So psychic abilities don't mean anything in and of themselves. It's what's the purpose that they serve. So somewhere back there she seemed to misuse it as a priestess or something. Jesus would work with her on different things. She and Bill had then come together in many lifetimes, including this one in New York City where we got the chorus. But I think she had even killed in one of the lifetimes. Imagine that. You know, you had some hostility in your relationship with Jesus as well. Actually, he didn't kill. Kill. Okay, misuse. So obviously that's what time's all about. There's going to be some misuse. But because she had misused her scribal ability, she had a lot of persistence. So that's why it took seven years. She didn't have so much guilt. And she had such a great ability. She could have probably done it in a year, a year and a half, the whole thing. But she had so much fear and resistance from guilt of having misused her scribal abilities that Jesus would give her a line. She would take it down. Jesus would look and go, What I said was this. What you wrote was that. And so he had to keep going back. And go back. And back again. And that's why it took so long. But you see, we're just grateful it happened. You know, we got it through. He was very patient with her. Very loving, very patient. Occasionally she would be defiant. She just would absolutely refuse to write for days. Sometimes just no, no, no, no, no. And then she'd be all kind of anxious and everything. And she kind of, you know, like that's what the ego does. It acts out, it resists. And then Jesus would be very patient, very patient. Then it would say something like a good scribe should be under Christ's control. Which is true. Or sometimes, you know, she would kind of start, she would start getting on him like a mother. You know, she would start mothering him. Mothering and mothering him. And then he would be very patient. And then he would say, I don't need a mother. You see, it's just very patient, working, working, working. And that's what he's doing with all of us. So that's why you shouldn't be so hard on yourself when you're working the lessons and you missed some of the repetitions or you have periods of resistance, of course. I had a period, I had one time where I started to feel like a resistance was a course. But I was using the course like an oracle. I was just praying. And I would open it up and get my answers. So I was feeling resistant one day. And then I prayed. I opened it up and said, they said, when you find resistance high and dedication weak, you are not ready. Do not fight yourself. That's amazing, a book that tells you to put it down. I've never found a book. See, I was using it like an oracle. And that was amazing to me. The presence was so strong. It was using the book for me to close the book. And then I came back to it later on when I was less resistant. Now which for this very nice example that you just gave, when is the ego speaking or when is the Holy Spirit speaking? I mean, there's this example and you read that and you can always interpret it, of course. Yeah. Okay, this is my reason. I'll be great to say. Forget about it. Well, for me, at the very beginning I was like everyone. I was discerning. And so I would have to use my emotions as like my barometer. For example, I could pray my prayer over the book and I was very excited. I would start reading and I would feel like I felt like a tickle in my heart. It was like I could feel it in my heart chamber. Like somebody had a little feather in there and you were tickling away. This even happened before the course. I started to pick up any book. Sometimes I get the tickle. Maybe I'm reading an Abraham Maslow book or Victor Frankl and search for meaning or picking up a book and tickle, tickle, tickle. Like Victor Frankl, we're always responsible for our state of mind even in a concentration camp. Tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle. You know, it got me. And so first I followed the tickle and then the tickle led me to the course and then when I would read certain things in the course I would feel the tickle. Now, if I kept reading sometimes my eyelids would get very heavy. You know, and I would say, oh, getting tired. And I would just take a nap or go have some fruit or just follow intuitively what felt easy. Like not pushing it. Don't force it. So I learned follow the tickle and don't force it. Be easy. If you get tired taking that, put the book down. Don't try to force your way through anything. And that's the process I use to get more in tune just by using my feelings and using the tickle. And then at some point after a few years, I think, then I hit like hell I had. It was like a stream of thoughts that was so friendly and happy and playful. It felt wise. This stream felt wise. It felt different from David's channel. It felt wise. And it was always gentle. And in that I started to go with that. This is helpful. So then the stream of thoughts would say call some and so and we need to take a trip and turn right. And, you know, it became very specific. Which also was very helpful too because I think in time and space it's like a maze. It's such a maze. We need some instruction to navigate where to go, who to see, you know. And then in meeting people sometimes I'd meet them and tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle. Ooh. Pay attention. Ooh, that's good. It was very experiential that way. Because I had been very intellectual so I needed something more than that. It was too tricky with the intellect. Tickle. Tickle, tickle, tickle, tickle. Tickle, tickle, tickle. Or a song. Or a song. Even better. Tickle, tickle. For you guys I also have a Broadway musical going there. Follow the tickle. Follow the tickle. The kids would love it. If they wouldn't take a song Broadway they'd at least sell children's books. Follow the tickle. Tell a little story about my neighbor. I was a friend and passed away. He told me that one morning he was he lived like apparently alone. He was an artist but he was like a monastery in his own room. He told me one morning he had a dream but he was awake and in front of him Jesus was appearing so he was half asleep half awake but Jesus was in his long hair when I accept you please put some on the top this stupid old fashioned robe in your long hair and he disappeared in his fancy jacket and nice loose game and then he was so cute. That's it. Jesus morphed. Jesus morphed. Really dressed more than I was done. That's good. I have to say Jesus shares you know it's a good sign. Any home. He may do anything. I think that's the you get more aware how playful the spirit is. Jesus is so playful that it's the playfulness over time that really belts the ego. You just have to laugh and then this is hilarious and then you just it's like a running joke. Then you've got these running jokes going on and it just keeps coming more and more and that's the one thing we forgot to do. We forgot to laugh at the separation. We took it seriously except for one instance that seemed to spread out over to millions of years but when we do remember to laugh that's it and I think then your sense of humor starts to grow and grow where it starts to expand even to things that you go to watch a movie in the movie theater and it's a real deep metaphysical movie and you're laughing at the theater and maybe the only one is laughing I mean this started to happen to me you know I went to see this movie Dark City I don't know if you've ever seen Dark City but I was like my friend and I, I was laughing and I was doing high fives and the other people in the theater were just turning around and this believed that they were seeing a horror movie and we were seeing A Course in Miracles Comedy High Fives but you're going to get engaged with those kind of things, you have to be ready to just say that it's okay I get my money to work, I like the work May I ask something about the Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope Yeah because once I saw I was in the middle of a Kaleidoscope and it was beautiful actually but is it then all split or is it then both? Yeah I think it's all on how you look on it like if you kind of step back and you just enjoy all the colors and the movements it's when you start to rub it in on part or focus in on something Yeah then if I ask a mist or something in the rain Yeah then it's like the blinders come over and you focus I saw a hand I have a question about the microphone Microphone Yeah Marion has this function Yeah I have a question about this what you said during the film you can't dispel the eagles if I did it's either fair or it isn't and I noticed that when you were talking for example by illness you were in the state of mind of the Holy Spirit or you are in the state of mind of the ego so it's either or but there's also this state of the happy dream so could you say something about that because there's the good ego there's the bad ego but how do you how do you explain that it's either or how do you get there because you say you have to pass the happy dream to get where we want to be yeah yeah the defining characteristic of the happy dream of the right mind is there is no judgment it's not that you've stopped judging it's that you have this experience that you are never ever capable of judging in the first place you don't even have to stop it because it still assumes that it's been there before so that's how the spirit takes your mind higher and higher where you just end up laughing because you end up thinking my gosh it was never a factor it never entered into anything and nothing to do with God at all but you see how when human beings grow up and they practice their religions and everything and what's for God what's against God and what's in God's favor and what's not and this idea that God is watching over you and keeping score and you know if you get to a certain point in life you go oh man what a scorecard I've got going on well I blew it for this lifetime well we'll throw this one out but see there's still the assumption that God is judging but one this doesn't judge one this just is being this just is so the whole idea of judgment is all the ego it's generated this whole thing of sin and guilt and fear that's the unholy trinity it's made up it's unholy instead of the father's unholy ghost it's the sin worth fear and then it just tries to do trying to perpetuate so your question is how do you go from a state of judgment to a state of pristine non-judgment the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit will actually take on the function of judging almost like how do you get out of the maze well you need a helper it's a complicated maze you need a helper can help you with every seeming term the Holy Spirit is judgmental for the mind that believes in judgment because it doesn't relate to abstraction anymore we've had this solved long ago all you need is love from the Beatles we could just have practiced that what do you need anything else for it's right there let it be it's all right there when I was just in England I kept talking about the prophets from Liverpool and everything like this that Holy Spirit Jesus always does the tailors of the web the prophets from Liverpool but you know that's where guidance comes in so when I was growing up working with the court I would even read certain teachers that would tell me oh you can't you can't ever hear the guidance of the Holy Spirit I'd say I can't no no you can keep reading the book practice you can't you can't actually hear guidance well that contradicts what I've been going through an experience of following guidance for years in fact I couldn't imagine waking up the day like you wake up the day you hold on to the whole universe I can't wake up without guidance my gosh life with that being you know wake up blank and just so to me that's an important aspect of what we're being taught that we can hear guidance and we it's good to follow that guidance and I want to do anything in my life that I can to hear even clearer even more crystal clear there's everyone around me to tune into that guidance whether it's through feelings or some people have the air stand up in the back of their back or they get chills up and down their spine or they get good at just snapping on the radio in their car and they get their answers that way or they use tuning forks or what do they call this edelums I want to encourage everybody to hear guidance in any way that they can and I'm going to hear guidance in any way that I can because to me that's a central to the teaching now Jesus does come out in the course and says he says it's rare to hear the voice for God directly so he's trying to paint a picture like oh it may take some practice and patience but still he's just painting a picture for it but he's not saying don't hear guidance so I to me it's been very important and to me that's why I like to talk about all these fun adventures I've had in parables because that's the joy of it all being guided where to go who to contact inviting people, being invited that's all been part of years of very specific guidance what to do, what not to do so for myself and also the people generally that I live with we're big on guidance we feel it's important we pray together we don't just assume and if even there's a disagreement in a group or whatever we'll say let's just pray on that instead of trying to do some kind of democratic thing let's take a vote take a vote why take a vote when we can pray and listen and all feel a harmonious answer where we're all nodding our heads because people say well consensus never happens well if you're praying and you're really tuned in and you're really devoted then yeah consensus is a great way you just really have to stay open to what that is many issues question that's how are you praying I'm not used to praying yeah well I think a lot of this you know I do it so much yeah we sometimes we pray with words but you know the Bible says God knows the prayer of the heart before you speak of a single word so it's not like there's a formula with it there was one point actually Helen had scribed the whole course and she was talking about how she was using Jesus for her shopping and so Ken Watnick just basically said there's got to be more the prayer than the higher shopping service and the green panos and organic coats and everything and then Jesus came through with the psalm of prayer some of you are probably very familiar with a very beautiful book in which he says your prayer is your desire so then you start to again look at the altar of your mind what is it that I desire what's important and I think our movies especially the first two movies really showed how important communication was those were great movies I've done that too you know you can use Jesus or whatever you want your inner guidance what you want to call it or really things like shopping you know I mean the shopper I can't really decide but I could feel guilty or stupid about it but I interpreted it just building trust and believing you can start practicing things and slowly yeah I think even getting prepared for like this retreat there's so many opportunities to pause and just tune in and say what do I really feel about this because there's just so many decision points and then yeah it's good it's testimony to how well everything's flowing here that you've been very careful with it and it is I think building our confidence it does build our trust especially the synchronicities are very helpful you know those are very strong symbols that it's all working together I just love synchronicities where sometimes we have seen numbers you know I went through phases where I'd see 1111 or 1111 you know we look for these numbers start coming and it's like how like little nods from the spirit like good good you're on my track so it's very subtle sometimes but it's still very important it's also really funny sometimes when you're walking on the streets and you hear a lot of people talking and you hear these short phrases and sometimes it applies exactly to what you are busy with in that moment just someone saying yeah but sometimes there's something else behind it you know and then they walk on yeah and then you're going to think it's really also sometimes I think you could write a book about just those phrases or billboard yeah yeah there's a movie we have in our movie watch it's called X-Men Days of Future Past and there's a a scene where what's the girls name with the blue storm where she's walking through it's the Jeff Lawrence character and then the main the professor starts speaking through all these different people that she's meeting in the airport coming from one then another one comes then another one comes it's that kind of feel, it's a great scene when you see it because we've had those experiences when you're on something and then you hear the little pieces and you go mm-hmm thank you for that answer because it comes in different ways yes I heard a story from a friend from a Greek story and I told a little few people because they really touched me and it's about like we need a master and there are even false masters who can bring it to awakening but even this idea of the saturation never happened and still I postpone it I think why awakening whatever I postpone it all the time but the story was I want to make try to make it quick like it was this master and he had a group of followers but it was wrong and committed so the master saw the rest it was like very jealous of him and he wasn't very rid of him and so he tried the plan and the first plan was he came to the room and he said the masters that go into that burning house you have to say little girl and he walked into the house and he came out and he had nothing but also no girl because there was no kid in the house so it didn't work the master said you have to jump out of the cliff and he just immediately went to the cliff and he jumped and he had nothing and then he was really frustrated and then they found out the master said you should walk on water and he went to the lake and he walked on water and then he saw his master in a little boat and the master said to him what are you doing water then the master said then I can do that too and he went out of the boat and he jumped he went into the water so it would be like this that's how it is that's how it is that's so crazy I always encourage people to work on your inner discernment we do have stories crazy wisdom stories there's a lot of stories but it's like not coming to the sense of blind faith I like what Jesus had to say which was you shall know them by their fruits in other words it's the attitudes that really start to build the trust it's the same with children when they feel that their parents are very consistently loving then the trust just grows so strong and so fast and I think that that's what everyone's working on is building that trust because trust is the first characteristic of a teacher of God and he said all the rest depend on the first one including the last one which is open-mindedness but that shows me that you still in my mind cannot believe that you're still in this one do you know what I mean? because you are not there but you are there I see you I mean do you know what I mean? it's like how long will I postpone my working up forever forever you can't understand paradoxes it just comes down to the experience of the moment what you experience is this moment it keeps it real simple it's like a book a song of prayer I don't know that one who's going to give her this song of prayer it came out as a pamphlet it came out as a pamphlet it was readily available it was part of them it was part of them it was part of them it was part of them I hope okay well wow we're really nice to have you here but we're ready we're ready for showtime tomorrow whatever happens do you have something to share? yeah I was feeling to share about our website and where people can find okay okay Jenny has a few head off tonight Jenny has a few things to share and then we'll be ready alright because some people ask how would you come for a devotional stay like a longer retreat in our center in Spain I thought maybe we can forget the website because it's a very easy website it's livingmiracles.eu it's the website so a few things if this starts