 And we're coming into this quantum experience where we're just starting to see, wow, the world is just an experience of my mind, not apart from my mind at all. And then when we see things and we think, wow, this is magnificent. We're really saying that about ourself, you know, and that's an amazing thing to start to feel that way, how magnificent you truly are. And it's always been there. It's the most natural thing. It seems like we've tried to distract ourselves away with a bunch of stuff, but now ultimately that bunch of stuff doesn't feel so attractive anymore. It doesn't draw us. It doesn't hold our attention like it once did. And we feel like, ah, we're letting go now. We're finally, you know, let go and let go. This is what that was all about. Oh, this is how it feels. It's almost like the caterpillar coming to butterfly. You start to get your spiritual wings and then it's so amazing, you know, it's sounding, you can't imagine what it was like to crawl around on the earth. They're looking back, you know, for crawling a tree branch or something, you think. History is insignificant. Yeah, history is insignificant. That's a whole different state of mind than the old teaching about, you know, studying history, so you won't repeat the mistakes. And yet that's all this world has been, is repeating the original error. That's all the learning, all the advancements in technology, all the bigger, better, faster, more, has just been attempting to repeat the error. And now how beautiful do you share? History is insignificant. And it's been an attempt to fix the mistakes. Yeah, what an effort. I think Shakespeare called it much to do about nothing. We have these great poets, writers that have been telling us, spirits been cluing us in. We pay attention like, oh, yeah. It's such a joy to meet you all this way, to come together. It's our daily experience, just this happiness and this joy and this sense of welcoming. It's kind of funny, even with the symbols of form, I was just talking to a group right before I came in here and this beautiful canyon, this beautiful area we call our monastery, we actually were guided by Jesus a while back to put properties up for sale. And that's not unusual for us because anything that you have an attachment to in this world will hold you back. And so when the guidance comes, put them all up for sale, then the ego is like, oh, I like this one. I don't sell that one, but don't sell that one. I'm not going to sell this one. So that's why Jesus does anything. It's not for anything in form. It's not a good outcome or bad outcome in form. You know, it's like, that's how perception is. There could be an opinion of something good or bad, but that's just egoic judgment. And so I think the way it goes, this property in particular was put on the market 18 months ago. And today, when all of you have showed up, somebody is coming to look at the property. After 18 months, I think Jesus is doing a showing today. So if you happen to see some guy walking around here, he is part of the plan and we're all part of the showing. I don't know about you, but I kind of like that when I'm used as part of a showing. Jesus says in the Course, He will arrange time and space for us. If we'll be a miracle worker, He will arrange time and space. And if you have a property on the market for 18 months, and this particular day, and about 20 minutes from now, it's going to happen. Yeah, we know there's no sacred spot on the earth, no sacred river or sacred canyon or sacred spot, because Course teaches us the holiest spot on earth is where ancient hatred has become a present love. It's in our mind. There are no portals. You can't go to find the secret cave or the holy grail. We've already done that through Indiana Jones, and we've already gone through that with our movies and we've already ventured out on that, but we're not looking for the holy grail or the holy person or the holy saint or the holy river or the holy water anymore. It's just a state of mind, pure and simple. You mentioned Indiana Jones in that movie. He does all of that adventuring, all of those percolating efforts, and he gets foiled at every turn. So nothing he did accomplished anything from that kind of metaphor for our experience here. That's beautiful. That's a beautiful reminder that we don't have to put our effort with any kind of a motive of thinking that we are actually accomplishing something. Isn't that amazing? With all the conditioning that we've been raised to strive, to achieve, to accomplish. And as I said, Shakespeare calls the world much to do about nothing, but nobody ever used that quote in the context of our career development. They weren't quoting that quote. They didn't give you this serious talk about how to work and how to market and network and do all these things right in the hope, but just laugh because it's nothing anyway. You can't mess it up. That just wasn't part of the business model. That wasn't a part of our training, our conditioning. It would have had a lot of humor and levity if they put that on the very end of it, but you can't mess it up and the professor had a big belly laugh and said, just have fun. No matter how many times you get fired. No matter how many times you get fired and how many times you lose your company, you lose your fortune or whatever, just have fun. That would have been a nice thing. But we're coming into that state of mind now where like Indiana Jones, he saw that there was nothing that he could have really done. It's God's grace that reveals to us. And that's the thing I think was a course in miracles. It can be tempting to think of it as a book, a self-study book. You study for years and you practice and everything, but that's all within the personal realm. In the end, the Holy Spirit takes Jesus Christ to reveal the meaning of forgiveness, to reveal the meaning of the real world, the happy dream. Really, that's what it's all about, is making your mind ready to receive the revelation. And that revelation doesn't come from humans to spirit. That revelation comes from spirit to spirit, which is our identity. Not from spirit to ego. How's the ego going to receive the spirit? Ego is the belief that there is no spirit. So the ego can't make itself ready. And ultimately that's why, even though we have terms like time collapse and celestial speed up and everything, you can't really speed up what is already over and gone. You can't really collapse what's already over and gone. Everything's aiming at an experience that the past is gone. And it can't touch me not. That's what it's all pointing at. It's just one experience. The past is over, it can't touch me not. That's of course the step towards it never happened. Prepare you now for the undoing of what never was. You know, beautiful line. Just telling us, take it easy. Take it easy now. Be gentle. Be light. Learn to laugh. I need happy learners. The more you're laughing at everything, you're getting the experience that I want you to receive. The world will end in laughter. There's lightness. There's joy. There's a sense of, oh, I can't mess it up. I can't do it wrong. And so we have called this weekend like a quantum celebration. And so a lot of us have studied the course, but now this quantum physics stuff seems to be coming in more and more. So the next book that I'll have coming out will be quantum forgiveness. I'll take a very scientific word and put it right with a very seemingly religious word. Even though we learn from the course, it's not really religious. It's very practical. It's the most practical. It's more like a correction. So quantum correction. And we need the quantum part because we have to have a whole different way of perceiving the world to accept that correction. We can't hang on to old linear Newtonian perceptions in physics and accept that correction of seeing the world as simultaneous. How are we going to accept the correction if we still keep seeing everything as linear? We need to be ready. So some of you know that quantum physics is not a new topic because I think we're going on maybe what is it now? It's probably seven or eight decades now. I think Schrodinger's cat experiment was back around 1935 or something like the mid-30s. Just his imaginary cat. Is the cat dead? Is the cat alive? Sounds a lot like George Clooney's Solaris movie at the end. Where his Rhea, his wife, who seemed to commit suicide, appears to him and his eyes are open with wonder. And he says to her, am I dead? Or am I alive? Like Schrodinger's cat experiment. She said, we don't have to think like that anymore. There's no answer to that question. Human beings are like a construct that's based on the assumption that life is informed. That life has a beginning, it's called birth. And life has an ending, it's called death. And then you have a little bit of currency called time to spend. And pain. And pain, and pain, and pain for everything. There's a cost in that whole scenario. What if birth is not a beginning and death, as we call it in this room, is not an end? And what if everything is just a symphony of continuity? And it's just been a trick of the ego to try to, as Joel Goldsmith says, try to put a parenthesis around eternity. A parenthesis in eternity. Two imaginary little containers over something that can't ever be contained. Something that's infinite, eternal. You can't put a parenthesis around eternity. It's ridiculous. That's when we start to laugh. That's when we start to see how practical these teachings are. Because we're meant to be happy. How the will for us is perfect happiness. But we can't fully know that happiness if we stay bound into these beliefs and concepts of time. That are identity concepts that try to define the infinite. If we're an infinite being and we're constantly trying to define conceptually that infinite being, we have to start to see that's ridiculous. That's absurd for me to try to define the infinite. So, you know, that's what's helpful about quantum physics is, you know, they try to really get down and scientifically define particles. But when they got down to this particles and subatomic particles, they realized that the particles would just appear where the experimenter wanted them to appear. Oh, doomsday for the scientific method. Yeah, quantum is like the course. It's a step to start to realize that you can't understand what is not meant to be understood. You can never define or understand anything. And yet, it starts out as a course in miracles and a course in miracles. It seems like funny to put those words together. The miraculous, you know, a lot of people think of, you know, they think of departing the Red Sea and turning water into wine and all those things. And then they go, of course, in that, like, are you kidding me? Like, leave education out of it. Just call it supernatural and accept it. But quantum physics is like just a stepping stone. In fact, talking to Nikita, when we had the name for this book, Quantum Forgiveness, and I said, maybe there should be a colon and a little a subheading. What would be a subheading, though, for quantum forgiveness? And I finally came to me, it was physics, meet Jesus. Physics, meet Jesus. Science, meet Jesus. Culture, meet Jesus. Theology, meet Jesus. Because what? The physics will disappear. The science will disappear. The culture will disappear. You could say questions, meet Jesus. The questions will stop. Christ has no question. God has no question. What would God ask a question? If God is perfect certainty of love. If Christ is perfect certainty of love, why would there be a question? The first seeming question was, what am I? That was the ego. And therefore, as curiosity can be helpful on the spiritual pathway, we all know that, having a curious mind, an open and curious mind like a child can be very, very helpful. That only takes you so far, and then you have to let the questions drop. Let the questioner that never was you in the first place. Let that drop away. Then you can really sit around and watch the grass grow and really behold things. Out here, we've been here for about six years, and bunny rabbits will come up to us sometimes. Chipmunks will come up, start crawling on our sandals, up our legs. We had a picture one time of Sue Daniel was here, and there's the chipmunk right on her head. I love seeing that photo, because it was like, you have to have a sense of restfulness, of peace, of gentleness for the animals to start crawling on your body and head. That's just a nice symbol of how still. St. Francis. Yeah, very much like St. Francis. It's not new. We shouldn't say, ooh, it's something new. It's just, no, this is common for a still mind. We should expect symbols of gentleness like that. That's why we're here is really giving ourselves permission to just let go into that. This is the big dance. This is the happy quantum dance, and we're showing up at the dance to relax into it, to participate in it. There's just like a western square dance, where you have lots of changing, often partners. That's pretty symbolic, too, with this journey. We're going to keep meeting each other every day this weekend, and coming together, and going apart, and coming together. It's like a dance, and yet there's love underneath every single encounter. There's a deep sense of connection, intimacy. We can enjoy the dance. We can give our monitor to relax and say, okay, all right, Scotty, shields down. No, we're putting the shields down. Why can we put the shields down? Why are we putting the shields down this weekend? Because it's safe, because there's no need for shields up. That's what was always holding us back from the love, because we had our defenses up. There were books written about that. I think it was a man named Edward Hall who wrote about personal space, about human beings like to have their personal space, their private space. He wrote a whole book describing how the ego plays out, as if there's some amount of protection that's needed. And, of course, we've heard that in our relationships over the years. Like, I need space. Give me space. Give me more spettys. That's from the 60s, I think. Free love, free love. Give me my space. You know, you can see how the ego thinks it knows what it wants, and, whoa, that's close enough. That's free enough, please. Stop right there. You know, that's what we're starting to see. We can let go, we can let the defenses down. Do we have another mic? I wanted to just kind of pass it around and hear from all of you, because some of you have come from great distances and hear what it is that you have come for, what is on your heart just to connect. I know some of you follow along with us on the Internet, and it's amazing now with technology. You can sort of right there in the living room with us, right there in the kitchen with us, right there in your kitchen, while we're in our kitchen. It's amazing, the intimacy and the connection you can feel. And some have come from distances. Antonio came all the way from Portugal, so that's across the big waters. So we have people who have traveled some distances, and then of course, even when you're in the vicinity, that's quite a journey to get down here. Okay, yeah, if anybody wants to share anything from your heart. Spirit does not vibrate, because it takes time and space to vibrate. Spirit is constant base. Yeah, I think every time we talk about vibrations, or even when we talk about energy, because there seems to be different frequencies and different strengths of energies, but spirit is not a matter of degree. And also there's a lot of spiritualities, and I used to be able to listen to them, but I can't anymore. I just kind of sit in the silence. I used to be able to listen to levels and categories and realms and all this stuff, and it's been described as kind of like a pathway, but in the end you have to give up the pathway. Spirit isn't a pathway, and it's all about recognition. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. So I find that I'm not drawn to listen to a lot of words about different levels and so on and so forth. I really enjoyed that about the course, because having studied a lot of different spiritualities and philosophies, it seemed so complicated. You know, big thick books on God, there's something wrong about that. Maybe they serve in some way for some people, but there's something strange about complexity in God being together. Jesus says in the Course, we say God is, and then we cease to speak. He put that in his workbook. That's a clue right there. I feel truth is simple, truth is immediate, truth is recognizable. In fact, it's the only recognizable. There's nothing else that is recognizable. We're used to recognizing people and places, but that's just the past. That's not anything to do with pure spirit. So I totally agree that there aren't degrees or gradations in one thing. We can't say that this vibrates faster than that. It's kind of interesting too, even when I hear someone say, have you met so-and-so? They're spiritual. What does it mean to be a spiritual person? When the person is the mask and the spirit is the presence that is beyond the person, so why should we start describing spiritual to certain people and saying they're spiritual as if there are some that are not? When a mask is a mask, it's like that's another contradiction in terms. The Course really isn't advocating us to become spiritual people. It's saying, you're the living Christ, you are pure spirit, and you will be content with nothing less than knowing your true identity. And the Course, I've used it for years and I've done a lot of teachings on it, but the thing I like the best about the Course is it was written as if there are two parts to the mind, not 10 or 20 or 100. The Course was written as if there's two parts, and that's one part that is reality or the reflection of reality and one part that is error and fear. And the whole Course is aimed at teaching us discernment between the correction and the error so that we can realize that the error holds no attraction to us and accept the correction. That's real basic and simple, and I would say a lot of what seems to go as spirituality in this world involves a lot of complexity. You have to memorize things, and I certainly studied a lot of that. I don't know about you, but when I studied a lot of Eastern philosophies and they said there's seven chakras, oh, that's pretty complicated. Seven. I'm willing to go for two and then one, but seven, you know, or the different realms and body, ethereal bodies and everything, and angels and archangels. Angels and archangels, like there's hierarchies of angels, and then on and on about this idea that there's kind of a doorway to enlightenment and there's semi-enlightenment, and it's like, wee, woo, woo, woo. That seems too complicated for me. But the beauty of it is is that that's where the simplicity comes in. Where the feeling in your heart is, let it go, let it all go. And there's something wonderful about that feeling, just let it go, let it all go. We don't have to figure out, it's that ego thing, an impossibility of trying to figure something out that was the problem. When we surrender, when we let go, we see now I'm not going to try to figure out the world. At one point Jesus says that the world is an impossible situation. So why would you try to use your mind to figure out an impossible situation? It will seem to go against all the conditioning, but remember all the conditioning was the ego. So of course it's going to go the opposite or beyond the ego. When I first found the Course, I had a lot of belief systems going. I believed in crystals and astrology and just a ton. And it was so enlightening just to let that all go. Though in the beginning it was frightening because I believed in angels and I let them go too. And so I at first went into a tailspin of losing all of that identity and beliefs. And now it's just, like I said earlier, it's just letting the load off and becoming lighter. Yeah, it's beautiful. The thing I liked about the way my journey seemed to go is that I studied the Course, put me on for like eight hours a day and then decided I really had to jump in and practice it. And I loved that the Spirit seemed to call me on a journey of just traveling and meeting people, meeting houses. I think I went many, many, many years. I think I went, it was over a decade before I ever stayed in a hotel or a motel. That's kind of just a testimony of how the Spirit says I will go before you making straight your path. Living rooms, backyards, picnics, yard sales, garage sales, you know, barbecues, just very fun, very joyful, always taken in, taken in, taken in. Never thinking about where am I going to sleep or thinking about a motel room or hotel room. To me that shows when Jesus says, Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all else will be added. He's saying even on your seeming journey I'll take care of you. You don't have to think about the things that humans end up thought into, like practicalities. Like where am I going to stay? How am I going to find my food? And what I liked too was moving around and I was going around and I got all these invitations one time I saw this flyer and said, Course in Miracles Hippotist. I said, ooh, and a friend of mine she said, I think that's for me, I want to go to that. Course in Miracles group at Anuda's colony my friend's like, I definitely need to go to that. But she was in the convent from page 14 to 22 trying to become the bride of Christ and then she finally said, I can't do this so she had a lot of sexual issues a lot of repression and denial going on and so Jesus took her to Anuda's colony with a Course group in Anuda's colony. See how gracious the spirit is. The spirit doesn't judge anything. There's not a good or a wrong or a bad or whatever in this world. It's all just symbols to be used for undoing guilt and shame and coming up into joy and happiness. And what I liked was when I started traveling to groups, the spirit would just speak through me freely where I was invited but I really liked it. I spoke at I believe one time a country traditional Baptist church another time I was invited to an Italian man was a restaurant owner and he had his Course in Miracles group at his Italian restaurant it was the pizza and the pasta and the guini and everything and he introduced himself in his whole group he said I'm a Course in Miracles Numerologist whatever you want to call yourself I'm just happy to meet you and then in his group it was a very different group definitely different than the Baptist church the Course in Miracles Numerologist he had people in the crystals and all different kinds of energy healing many many a range of things it was like coming into a you might say almost like a very new age Course in Miracles group a course group with a big flavor on the new age and it was fun because as we went around the room it doesn't matter what people present themselves as that's like their calling card everybody's the Christ and it's our job to just see the Christ in everyone and it's really fun to go and to just extend that love and see the Christ in everyone regardless of what it is and to me it was fun because miracles are involuntary I just would marvel at because the spirit comes out very differently in a Baptist church it does from like an Italian Course in Miracles Numerology new age group the same love is there the same joy is there the same inspiration is there the same twinkly eyes the same sparkly faces and yet the form looks so different and that's really what practicing authentic spirituality is about it's about having the content of love shining through your heart and a total disregard for the form and yet the spirit will use the form to make sure that the content can be clear so the Holy Spirit's task is to change the form to keep the meaning the same the meaning is love you need an interpreter like the Holy Spirit that's why the whole Course is about guidance and connecting with guidance your inner guide because only the Holy Spirit can orchestrate things in a way where the love stays constant and the form shifts so much and the ego is all on the form it just cares about the form it doesn't even know what content is it has no clue that's why it's a poor teacher when we try to use the ego as our teacher we're following a very poor teacher that will never help us experience our true identity the thing about guidance with helping others if you're not using guidance you're using guilt you're not helping anybody if you're feeling guilty about it I think that's why a lot of social service workers and healthcare workers and whatever they burn out they have a it's like a good intention to try to heal and help but as long as you still have unconscious guilt that motive will filter through and then the helping turns to burnout and then you end up having to read a lot of self-help books like you can't love others until you love yourself you try to love yourself your personality self and you can't really love your personality self because God didn't create your personality self you can't love what is real so you see how self-help tries to say bounce it out a little bit here don't be such a a rescuer and enabler look out for number one but if the personality self is the number one you're going to fall in the pit with that one too but we seem to finally get it's all about something higher than whatever we thought it was and we just stay open that's all just a reflection of still not knowing really the direction to search in other words everyone who comes here will search because that's part of what the world was made for to seek and do not find that's what invented this world to seek and do not find and yet Jesus told us 2000 years ago seek and you shall find not and the door shall be open he was talking about the comforter the Holy Spirit he was talking about the answer that's truly available to us and we are now tuning into oh that's what it means to go inside see go for the king of heaven within not within the body not within the personality we're not going to find anything within it it's just a construct it's an empty construct but truly to be still to go into the silence that's be still and know that I'm God it says very clearly our only responsibility is to accept the Atonement for ourself I know for a long time I like many other people were caught up in this spiritual seeking I'll choose some of this path some of this path but I'm not a seeker I'm one who is found that's pointing to contentment really pointing away from seeking and searching to contentment and I think contentment or atonement we could say that Jesus has the sole responsibility is to accept the Atonement it's not a beautiful word to put before the Atonement accept acceptance that gets away from this idea that you're trying to get away from the ego or trying to transcend the ego or the beliefs that you have to fight the ego but accept the correction so as I've traveled I noticed that that was one of the paths that people would sometimes fall into with this idea that they would say you're responsible for the world but that would turn very negative you're responsible for cancer you're responsible for the starving children you're responsible for the wars and the plagues and the disease and everything like this and I popped up in the course and Jesus says you are not responsible for the error you are responsible for accepting the correction for the error that's what forgiveness is accepting the correction sick I wonder how do I help I'll just repeat that line I just said and I'm going to add one more other line which will help us I was saying you are not responsible for the error you are responsible for accepting the correction there's a resonance with that you can almost see that salvation lies in that statement Jesus also says speaking of the error he says do not project the error to time that's also absolutely essential in fact we need both of those statements we're not responsible for the error we're responsible for accepting the correction and do not project the error of the time so if you perceive a person if you perceive a brother or a sister or anybody acting the error to time you see that's how the ego protects itself how it stays hidden in the mind how it stays unconscious because it's seeing the problem where the problem isn't it would be like I've used this example a number of times it was years ago Jack Nicholson with Deborah Winger Shirley McClain were in a movie Terms of Endearment where Deborah Winger plays Shirley McClain's daughter and then she seems to be diagnosed with cancer and it's a rollercoaster ride of emotions that come up because it's about life and death and love and all the things that we deal with and it would be as if somebody went to see that movie and took it as literal they literally went there and they watched the movie and they came home and they were very sad and they turned to their husband and they said Deborah Winger died I saw it with my own eyes just cancer and just sad and everything she's dead and husband's saying well that's the movie you just watched the movie well, Deborah Winger was in it I know Deborah Winger simply died and you see where the discussion would go is if you take the symbols if you took the actors, the actresses to be the reality then you could make a conclusion that Deborah Winger died but if you came from the perspective that it was just to pretend it was just an act that would be a whole different perspective that it was just an act and you were just watching your emotions acting out of all the symbols and images and seeing what you thought and felt and believed some people cry, they laugh they get angry during that movie there's a lot of emotions that come up so when Jesus says don't project the error to time he's giving us a good clue of how we accept the atonement because the atonement has to be in our mind not in a personal individual moment because that's part of the ego construct of projection but it must be there's something deeper within and he said you made the ego by believing in it and you can dispel the ego by withdrawing your belief from it withdrawing your belief from it those are the opportunities when you perceive someone is sick you see how different that is from saying well I must be guilty because I'm seeing sickness that's the conclusion Jesus is never asking us to conclude that we're guilty that would be like taking some metaphysics and saying well I'm going to conclude from the metaphysics I'm reading that if I'm perceiving this that I'm guilty and Jesus would say that you may use that as your starting point but you don't want to stay there you can't know who you are your reality feeling guilty so it's very much watching the mind and Jesus says an untrained mind can accomplish nothing and he does say you are much too tolerant of mind wandering he's not trying to put us down he's just trying to say it's important to start to acknowledge mind wandering and then begin to train your mind to be a miracle worker and as you become more and more focused on your purpose you'll notice that that part that was distracted that was tempted that seemed to feel guilty and starts to fade away as you open to the purpose and so you don't want to conclude anything from a symptom from a feeling of uncertainty or a feeling of discomfort stop and conclude anything that's the most important thing now we're getting down to the real core of everything because we have to start to talk a little bit about causality and the ego is quite clever but the separation seemed to believe splitting cause and effect apart and then turning them around so ego is quite clever it's not only made up the idea that cause and effect can be apart which gives rise to linear time because in linear time what the cause always comes first and the effect comes second cause always comes before the effect and yet clearly what Jesus taught when Jesus said I and the Father are one he was actually lining us up with true cause and effect meaning God is the cause and Christ our very being is the effect and they are one in spirit cause I and the Father are one was Jesus actually we use scientific terms saying cause and effect are one in fact they've never been apart and absolutely nothing health is real so that's why we're getting to this thing about do not project the error to time because the ego invented time what do you think it invented it for except as a distractive device except as something that would try to take your attention away from who you are away from the king of heaven before I came out to the monastery Sarah had given me a book which was quantum physics and Buddhism a big thick book and right before I walked over here today I popped it open for 20 minutes and I was just laughing because popping open to different phrases in it one of them was T-O-T capital T small O capital T T-O-T which is kind of our acronym for our website teacher of teachers it's actually an acronym for the Holy Spirit the teacher of teachers and so we always when we talk about teacher of teachers we just call it T-O-T and here I'm looking at T-O-T in there and I thought I'm going to go in the book and go in the glossary and find out well T-O-T for this writer who actually we were selling a car on the big island of Hawaii and the man was sitting in a cafe and basically saying I want to buy a Honda Accord and Sarah raised her hand and said we've got a Honda Accord for sale and so and then he gave her this book and then she just gave me the book so that's how it got into my hands through this you see Jesus is running real estate games and he's now he's running car sales and he's really symbolically he's used in all time and space for happiness and joy but what I noticed in there was what you see the T-O-T was T-O-E with theory of everything which you might remember the Stephen Hawking movie theory of everything this author was saying now no no T-O-T has replaced T-O-E that's something that transcends the theory of everything Stephen Hawking was in he wrote the brief history of time that is our first we talked about history it's significant so there has to be something wrong with a brief history of time why don't we even care? it's sold a lot of copies though people were interested in the theory of everything but now this author was saying no no the T-O-T transcends the toe the toe is out of there the T-O-T is the theory of totality so I went okay this is getting closer to my T-O-T the teacher of teachers the theory of totality I like that the words you know theory of everything, theory of totality anyway I went into it and basically I had to cut hundreds of pages of what cut the chase, what's the gist of it here it was basically that it's all an incident where the whole book was just basically saying what the theory of totality is is that everything is simultaneous so we can't possibly understand the Big Bang if it's a historical thing except Jesus would say in the course that he calls it the holy instant and the unholy instant you know which one the Big Bang is it's the unholy instant and then there's the holy instant he says this world was over long ago that it was healed the instant it seemed to happen it was corrected it was healed well that's pretty simple you know that's what I call simultaneous it wasn't that's what happiness is is simultaneously joy you see when we soon start to think about as soon as we start to give our mind to time and we're into this thinking about the past or thinking about the future you can see where the happiness goes even if we're trying to think about the Big Bang or figure out something about where does it fit in or anything like that you see how in the end that's going to be a distraction to our happiness because we're again as to accept the correction we're not responsible for the error we're not responsible for the Big Bang we are responsible for accepting the correction but I do want to know how your experience in India was you know you were just recently there like you know I have like a nephew that goes to India and like I saw a little clip of you talking about taking the teachings of the west to the teachings of the east and you can't tell me a little about that well first of all the comment on your first part I think that's great that that's what I love about you is you aren't trying to like figure out the impossible you're just a devoted Course in Miracles reader you just are hanging in there with it and you're trusting and hanging in there and hanging in there and your focus and your attention on accepting the correction on following the teacher and accepting the correction and that's wonderful I mean that you can't ask for more than that and to just devote yourself to that to desire that and to devote yourself to that is the best use of time and this part India actually I was over in Spain at the island of New York and came in for me to go to India and one of the women were there the devotional was kind of sitting out by the pool and she came up and she said why are you going to India and and she's looked at me because she said she had been to India but she says that she said what do you hope to get from India and I just looked at her like what I mean because I I don't think like that I never think about getting anything actually from anyone anywhere anything in the cosmos I'm really thoroughly not interested in getting anything sometimes when people say even do you get it I think that means do you understand it do you connect with that meaning for you but not going to get I mean that just has no meaning at all so I just said I'm not going to India to get anything for me it's all about giving and I was just sharing that when we gathered on the porch the other day that to me true community is in the attitude of giving of extending of sharing it's not a place it's not a location I don't think in terms of time and space going to countries because I long ago I listened to John Lennon and imagined there's no country I wonder if you can I said all right I'll take you upon that I like that Jay Kristimerdi said the same thing nationalism is a plague it's a disease to believe in countries and pride nationalism and all this and that it's all cultural so I told her I'm just going to give I'm just going to extend and I that's my same purpose or motive or goal always is just to go to give and extend and to me that's what lights the world up the purpose has to come first I don't like look at the world as going to places and trying to derive something or receive something so yeah a lot of the symbols the spirit has used the symbols even of east and west many times in the parable of David just to show that we're all the same to show the perfect love the perfect oneness that love is not possessed neither is it east or west or these traditions you know it's it transcends the traditions it transcends the pathways and so for me it's all kind of a unified feel that they talk about in quantum physics it's all a unified feel and years ago I went to Australia and a friend of mine said that there was an eastern mystic it was from the Buddhist tradition it was an enlightened master and she wanted to bring us together and they finally did bring us together and I had some time I went over to Ashram or whatever and we basically just eye gazed and left she was known as the Laughing Saint she had one time left for an entire week without stopping and so we just had so much fun and we had quite intricate Ashram so she was just taking you by the hand and up there saying oh I bet you've never seen any place like this yeah that's quite interesting and so when we were together at the end of our joyful time together I said listen I'm doing an Easter retreat at a Buddhist retreat center in the Blue Mountains why don't you come on Easter and we'll just have a good experience together shining the one love of God with I Knew Full Well the spirit coming through with the male the female the masculine the feminine an Easter retreat at a Buddhist retreat center you know it was like Jesus playing with all the symbols very playfully and teaching through the use of the symbols that were all the same and actually somebody showed up I think Glenn Glenn he showed up with this amazing recording equipment and recorded the whole thing and that's I think I've got it's called ACIM Online MP3 something about that it's online and it's very well recorded and if you stay on with it long enough you'll hear didgeridoo coming in at the beginning beautiful didgeridoo meditations and you'll hear Asira was their name asira showing up at the end with me and what was beautiful about it is I just don't interpret the symbols that's the key to non-judgment as you see that not that you shouldn't be judging but you can't you can't judge anything our mind wasn't created to be a judge we were not created to interpret we were created to be doesn't mean anything it doesn't mean anything interpretations don't mean anything so they're pointless and so at that particular one Asira showed up and she had it was like an entourage of devotees that came and dressed she was all dressed in white and they were all back down and they kind of came in to the room where we were going to do it and they came a little ahead of time to check the place out and they had a a white furry rug for her she likes to teach those samples with bare feet a nice soft furry white rug to put down under her feet and so when we finally got up there and sat down she said hey I'll share my rug with you she scooted it over so we both could stick our bare feet on seeing the spirit is so playful everything was playful and then during that gathering she was not speaking in Course in Miracles vernacular at all and most of them all were Course in Miracles students so they would have issues in the restroom and what she's talking about and this and this and this again we're going beyond theories just a joyful presence a playfulness and there was even one time when she started laughing everybody started laughing and one of the women at the retreat just said stop holding my cheeks and she just shook her head like no this false causation she didn't say that laughter is not hurting anybody's cheeks there's some kind of egoic interpretation if you got pain with laughter so to me that's what India was for me I went to New Delhi I did a satsang there a woman who had I had been given her cell phone by another friend of mine Joshua from the south part of India and I called her up all she could do was say David David I can't believe you called me I can't believe you called me we didn't even know each other she said I can't believe you called me I've been listening for the last month and watching all of your YouTubes just watching your YouTubes for the last month and you're on the phone you're calling me she ended up putting together the satsang writing all of her friends to come and then when I went to Rishikesh it was again an experience of just just kind of a mergey like just experiencing the connectedness of everything and walking through the streets and doing eye gazing with the people with the animals lots of animals everywhere on the streets just all kind of blended together so it was just a wonderful experience but I would say it's because my heart is a heart of giving not looking to get anything and all of us know that when we look to get something from a person a place a situation there are expectations that are there even if they're unconscious and that's where the upset occurs is when you expect the world to be different than it is then that's the only it's just a forgiveness opportunity yeah somebody again friend Lila sent me a clip of Jim Carrey delivering the commencement address at Maharishi University some of you might have seen it absolutely hilarious and transparent and deep and loving and just like people used to say they would they would feel such joy and excitement and love in their heart when they would watch clips of Mother Teresa it's the same I think with Jim Carrey especially in that atmosphere of Maharishi one this university delivering the commencement address and talking about following your heart and the oneness of everything and the connection of all and getting ovations and applause from the students you could say they had the ears to hear these were graduating students Maharishi University and you put one of the greatest comedians together with that atmosphere it was just a call to extend the love and the joy and happiness and yeah I could watch that little our commencement address over and over and still laugh and again and again as if laughing for the first time because it's just that bubbling laughter that wells up inside of us hey everybody my name's Scott there's a lot of literal interpretation of the course it's kind of like attempted to analyze or interpret the meaning of the material and what I'm sensing and what I'm observing is is that that kind of analysis and interpretation of what everything means is kind of the way the fundamentalists took control over the Bible they said it must mean this and so they act upon what they believe that it means not necessarily upon like the bigger picture of what it means for me I have found that the Holy Spirit is mostly it's mostly common sense and I can intuitively decide what to do in any situation and I'm the guy from Tucson that wrote you about those revelation experiences and I wrote everybody and there were three people that responded you, John Mundy and Luke Sanchez and this is my way of acknowledging and thanking you for doing that is to be here yeah I think things can be very simple and direct when you're talking about I remember you writing to me and sharing your revelations and and that's just a symbol of the mind is willing to open up and share and connect we were talking about extend, we're here to extend that you extending your experiences was a beautiful thing and I find that in all so called walks of life even people who had had like out of body experiences or near death experiences when they feel a strong desire to connect with someone and share that as guided they find it's a wonderful thing they draw forth beautiful reflections sometimes the person will say I had one too and they'll go oh thank you my god this feels wonderful I don't feel so out of my field I don't feel so alone and I think that's really what the spirit is calling us to do is part of sharing and extending and connecting it is calling forth witnesses like I think it's as simple as that so it's not so much the numbers of who responded or who didn't but it's beautiful you felt the connection with the reflections of those that responded to you and I always tell people you can't really talk about something that you haven't experienced for yourself that was one of the things Antonio sitting next to you and he was listening to some of my talks down in Brazil and I think I must have said something like just don't go all around the world telling people that it's all an illusion unless you've experienced that for yourself you're going to get all kinds of reflections back if you're trying to teach them something that you haven't experienced for yourself you just have to speak from experience and when you do speak from revelation or whatever then that's from your heart and it was a very powerful experience for you life changing experience and I responded because I've had those experiences too it was like oh this is great a kindred experience who's having these same kind of experiences it's very simple and I do feel like that's how our whole life can go we don't have to try to speak of something beyond that which we've experienced who are we teaching and when we're trying to teach somebody that the world is an illusion it's been beautiful we were in the ride over here saying oh yes it's great I'm not trying that anymore at course groups you see him smiling now about one little piece of insight and now it's like oh yeah this is great because then you start just speaking from your experiences and then people start showing up and reflecting and reflecting that back and it unfolds very naturally very organically trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes it's beautiful because on the spiritual journey I have been I've lived in many different communities I've been all around the world I've met all these people and everything and sometimes I hear these cliches in spirituality and I just don't resonate with them and one of them was I kept hearing it over and over and over everywhere I went around the world and I just fake it till you make it fake it till I make it what is that it's called practice why would I want to practice faking even in terms of practice faking is pretending and why don't we use this moment in every moment to be authentic to not fake and not pretend to be transparent I always liked the humanistic and transpersonal psychologists who talked about transparency being open, being direct that's open communication to me that accelerates our awakening transparency accelerates the awakening and I agree with you Scott I think it's important to be very intuitive but very simple it's not about people or what people think and so on and so forth it's not about course groups I went at the beginning after I was guided by Jesus I started going from 0 course groups a week to 5 they had these cars that go from 0 to 50 in 20 seconds Jesus zipped me up I was going to 5 course groups but then I came through a phase where Jesus guided me out of the course groups and there was nothing wrong or right about that I also used to hear this interesting thing in course groups where people would say you know there are many different interpretations of the course and I would think what? that doesn't that sounds right in fact that sounds a little bit like the first law of chaos from the course that the truth is different for everyone whoa see Jesus speaking inside taking something that seems like a common phrase you might hear there are many different interpretations of the course and saying no the Holy Spirit interpretation is one of perfect non-judgment perfect total love, perfect acceptance and that's the only one that's going to be helpful for you and to believe that there are different interpretations of the course is just trying to mix truth and illusions so I would hear these different things one at a time one at a time and I would just think wait a minute that doesn't resonate I'm not going to give my life over to that recently I just have watched over these years all these seeming controversies arise around the course and the copyright of the course and who owns the course and who owns the words is this big controversy arising now of whether the course is a self-study book or a religion and it's ridiculous it's absolutely ridiculous because it all comes down to non-judgment and coming to giving everything over to the Holy Spirit and saying show me this differently because it can't be that we even start to split hairs over a book now and what a book is or isn't some are saying of course it's definitely a religion others say it's definitely not a religion it's a self-study book but then if you go deeper who is the self that's studying it is it Christ that's studying the book or is it an egoic self and you see if it's along that range the egoic level you're going to get into nothing but controversy because that was the whole point of projecting out different bodies and different books and different words and different cultures and different languages the ego was behind all of it to keep a sense of disconnection going a sense of separation going so it's beautiful that you're bringing this up Scott because I would say Jesus said in the Bible you have to follow the straight and the narrow path and that's to me the path of practicing perfect non-judgment again not because we shouldn't be judging but because we're totally incapable of it you know we have no business judging anything really we have all the father's business for us to accept the atonement and be happy and peaceful to be in conflict over the course I mean it's just so ironic to see a lot of people being in conflict over the beliefs of what the Course is saying it's almost self-defeating and at the same time it's bizarre to me that nobody wants to really hear about these experiences that I've had because they answer a lot of those questions yeah I think experiences are always for us they're very convincing but I like that the Course says that revelation is not transferable in an interpersonal way so it's good to hear straight from Jesus like enjoy this experience it's all for you in your awakening and don't be concerned about communicating that okay well we're set up for some music now I see person Ricky have got all set up this song is all about it's about I am so you can just relax close your eyes if you'd like to and the song is it was a prayer and the answer to a prayer of dropping into just being one with the Spirit and relaxing into it and the chorus is straight from Jesus I was in prayer with him one day and and he just said I love you and he wouldn't stop saying it I love you I love you do you know how much I love you this is what it was for this is all it was for it was just for you to know that I love you so this is for you from Jesus you can know you can feel the songs that are coming too it's really an invitation into presence because I was mentioning earlier about religion versus self-study it's a state of mind it's a presence to me I had to just let go of all my associations with religion all of them because it was all the past anyway and the theologies and just saying no to me I can read religion Jesus says this is peace of mind that's why the reinterpret let go of the definitions and it being analogous and just easing into the songs and feeling experience just drawing you more and more that's the beauty of all this the words are part of the world and it's just for this just this anything that gets projected to try when it gets projected off to time then it's just a subtle delay maneuver it can turn into a big egoic delay or the Course does tell us that that initially when your mind is addicted to judgment and it's addicted to wrong-mindedness then it will take an effort to turn the tide away and he would say things like be vigilant for God and His kingdom and vigilant kind of applies to effort it implies that there's some effort involved only because the mind is addicted to wrong-mindedness addicted to judgment now it's going to have to put an effort in and he tells us this is a Course in mind training so we don't skip over that we say I'm just going to desire that I'm going to see the value of that and if that's going to be the purpose of my life to train my mind isn't that what all the spiritual disciplines all the great way showers and saints and avatars have said to train your mind and there will come a point where you reach the crescendo you reach the peak and the effort stops and the beingness is all that there is but we're not here about trying to skip over steps we're here about being very honest with yourself and very practical Hi, I just wanted to share a song this is called Into the Kingdom and I live in this peace house in Cincinnati just watching the leaves fall from one of the upstairs windows and I just had a real real metaphysical moment and when I saw that pain wasn't real and that all the steps I had taken in these past years were just every time in the beginning that one would come out just be like I can't believe this is what's given from spirit and I would take it and I would be like oh this is the best thing ever four years later I was just like having that experience saying oh my god this is just a masterful plan like I could have never imagined it or would have never chosen it or couldn't have even thought it up in my own mind and that's why I see now why we don't we're not in charge of our unawakening because our beliefs are so limited we would never even be able to imagine the things that are actually given for our joy so that's how this song came