 that this world is backwards and upside down. So we have things like, I would say, we call industrialized nations, what the world calls civilized nations, and then we have cultures like the Aborigines over there in Australia. In many cases, it's very telepathic. What the world would judge as very primitive. But again, since everything is backwards and upside down, or this book, and the series of life, I mean you had in Europe a group of beings that would sit still in the silence and heal the world through their nurturing stillness. Now, my journey has taken me to all these different countries, and the sneaky thing about the ego is that the ego invents a lot of rules and regulations and rituals in this world that are designed to minimize fear. Why do we have traffic signals? Why do we have prisons? Why do we have regulations and judges and so forth? It's to hold down fear. In other words, people, the belief is if we didn't have all these rules, the world would really be chaos. You think it's chaos now without some rules and structures. But what I've noticed is I've traveled around the world, is I've actually gone into some cultures in South America where they don't have such rules and regulations. For example, in Buenos Aires, it's a city of over 15 million people. 15 million, more than that, and they don't have stop signs. No stop signs. No stop signs in Buenos Aires. Now, I imagine practically speaking, if you were living in a city of 15 million people, with how many intersections? Millions of intersections and no stop signs. Now, what does this do? Well, what you would have to do is you would soon have to be what? Very telepathic. If you were a cab driver. And imagine down there, because the economy has collapsed, they didn't hold their currency contingent with the dollar and with other currencies, so their whole economy completely collapsed. And doctors and lawyers and teachers and professionals had to take up jobs like cab drivers. But it actually was an advance in their career to go from doctor to cab driver. Because you have to be telepathic in that place and you have to tune into the intuition. You see how backwards it is? And the cab driver, I had one cab driver who was so happy and peaceful that I was doing the Course in Miracles gathering. His name was Juan. I said to Juan, would you come in and speak at the Course in Miracles gathering? I asked the cab driver to come in and speak. And he said, yes, I would be glad. And he went in and he was very calm. He called it palatable of detachment the cab driver did. Now, what I'm saying is when we talk about civilizations and rules and regulations, it's kind of like the same topic of insurance, that you have to start to become more and more intuitive and get in touch with divine laws in your mind. And to do that, you will have to release these other ones. We've all been raised with the laws of nutrition, the laws of medicine, the laws of economics. Some of them, we know these laws like the back of our hands. We can tell you all about the body and nutrition and this and that. You know what? It's not going to get you into the kingdom of heaven. Because guess who made all these laws up? The ego. The ego made them all up. What's going to get you out of it is your intuition. Because 2,000 years ago Jesus said it's not what you put in your mouth that defiles. He was beginning to undo the laws of nutrition 2,000 years ago. It's your thoughts. If you're thinking without grievances and judgments, that's where your health starts with mental health. And you know what he says in the Course? He says all illness is mental illness. So if you follow him what he's saying is your health starts and ends with your thinking. It starts and ends. So all I've done in my life is I've been very honest. And I started to question all those laws of nutrition, of economics, of medicine. Exercise. I was trained in the laws of exercise. What happens if you don't exercise? What happens to muscles? If you don't exercise? We're told they waste away. We're told. But I find I had been a professional tennis instructor. I went to the gym. I did cardiovascular fitness and this and this. I'll tell you right now what's for me to turn around is to shift in my thinking. You know I had to learn even when I was going to the gymnasium to have holy encounters and to stand to perceive my brother as myself. Instead of focusing on their body, I had to learn a different way. Solid. Solid. Solid. Yes. What if your body is completely broken? Take my free cross. Take my free cross. Take my brother. Where your body has completely a problem that seemingly can't be fixed. What do you do with that? If you want to be able to get up and walk again or whatever. Is that still up here? That's where you stick in. You would start and you would end with mind training. In other words, it doesn't matter whether you seem to be in a wheelchair or not in a wheelchair, your mind goes with you wherever you go. What you could say is your mind training is something, when we talk about releasing your mind from judgments, I could tell you so many stories. I'll tell you one story of meeting a man in Argentina who was a paraplegic. I was meeting with a psychiatrist in Argentina and he finally, we were having lunch and he said, David would you like to meet my teacher? I said yes, take me to your teacher. We went down by this big river and there was a man who was about 26 years old sitting in a wheelchair and the psychiatrist who was probably about 55, 60, a very famous psychiatrist down there introduced the man in the wheelchair and said, here is my teacher. He has taught me more about life and love and forgiveness than anyone that I've ever met. Then I sat down and the man who was in the wheelchair and I sat there and we gazed at each other and I said to him, tell me your story. Tell me your story, you seem very happy. He said that he had been able to walk and he was able to walk and move around but when he was about 2001 he was diagnosed with a tumor on his spine and he was told that he would have to go in for an operation that was very risky and that he may not walk after the operation so he went under anesthesia on September 11th of 2001 and he went under anesthesia which would have been in the early morning hours of the United States and he went under anesthesia and while he was under anesthesia they operated on the tumor and when he woke up he had no use of his legs and he was in such a state of ecstasy and such a state of oneness and happiness that the doctors and nurses tried to tell him while you were under anesthesia terrible, terrible tragedy has occurred in the United States terrible tragedy and he could not comprehend what they were trying to tell him he told me from his wheelchair that he went through that experience when he was under anesthesia where it seemed like his ego was operated on instead of the tumor he said, I don't know what happened whether I was in a deep state of prayer or whatever but he woke up and he said his personality self his pride, his jealousy, his envy and everything had been lifted and he woke up in a state of ecstasy and his legs didn't work so this is quite an interesting terrible because he ended up becoming a teacher to many people in Buenos Aires it would come to him for spiritual training and counseling and yet his spiritual career didn't actually begin until he seemed to lose his life now, again, if everything is backwards and upside down in this world people ask me all the time about teaching and I say we really don't teach with our words we're used to thinking about that we teach with our attitude it's our attitude that is the teacher this young man, you know, people would say well, at least he could walk before he had this experience I say, what do you mean? At least he could walk his attitude is what's doing the teaching