 would pick up lots of books and I could pretty much flip through the book and just to start to discern where the author was coming from. What were some of the underlying assumptions and beliefs of the author of a book? Not with the course. When I picked up the course, I lost my breath. I lost my breath entirely and I just could barely utter, you know, three or four words. Who wrote this course? And it was like a stunning feeling. And then before I could even even think of an answer, a feeling washed over me. It was like the author is not in this world. There is no author of this book in this world. It was like a transcendent author and that was a powerful experience. That's the first book I'd picked up where I went through the whole book and I felt like the author was not in time and space. So I thought, well, this is going to be interesting. If I really go for this, who knows what will become of me? Who knows what will become of my career aspirations or my worldly life aspirations? I don't know. I'm just going to dive in, but I have no idea what will become of me. It's more important that we're just open-minded and willing than that we know a lot about spirituality. In fact, really the less we know about spirituality is actually the better because I know many people who have been raised Catholic and they had a heck of a time with the Course in Miracles because the definitions that Jesus was bringing forth in the Course were so different. Atonement had a whole different meaning and sin had a whole different meaning and the Holy Spirit had a whole different meaning. It's like they were like, oh, now I've got to unlearn my entire associations with all these words and learn new meanings. Like he's using these words to point me in a new direction. And so to the extent that you've got a lot of past learning and even past associations around spirituality, those will be the inhibitors because he wants to unwind the mind from what you have learned before in the past and take you into what Buddha called emptying the mind. Jesus is doing the same thing. Some of you might remember Lesson 189. Simply do this. Be still. Lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is. It sounds very Buddhist. Jesus and Buddha are both on the same wavelength. They're saying the same thing. Come inside. Let go. Let go. Release. Keep coming. Build your faith. As part of your joining with spirit, you're helping people unwind and unravel from the ego. That's what true therapy is. It's like spiritual psychotherapy. That's kind of a neat phrase if somebody says, what is this Course in Miracles anyway? You can say it's, oh, it's just spiritual psychotherapy. If they say, what the heck is that? It's just unwinding from the ego. And then they have to see it more demonstrated in you because the words will fail. I still don't know what you're talking about. And I read that book that you told me to read and I still don't know what you're talking about. So it's more your attitude will have to be that love and lightness and joy and non-judgment. That will be a draw. That will bring up some curiosity. Why are you so happy? Why are you so consistently happy? That will be the way that you'll be teaching the Course through your presence and your attitude.