 And the answer is one, which is kind of, from the fragmented perception, it seems like, oh, it seems like it's good stuff. Well, I knew this course with Matt. Now I really know it's that. One, you don't know how bad this world is, Jesus, but the ultimate basis behind that is that there's only one mind. And he's addressing it to the reader. In other words, it's such a big leap to think about it, but there is only one mind. And when the mind fights off the belief in separation, it seems then that the minds are contained within these bodies. In other words, it seems like, Vic, he has the mind to cover on his mind of his own, and so on and so forth. And that's the way it's experienced in this world. And that's the way Jesus addresses it. He knows that the mind is so convinced in separation, that so convinced that there are real, separate people with real, separate minds. And that Nettie not only has a separate mind in David according to this, but she also has a decision-making ability to separate from mind. In other words, she could decide whether to come or whether not to come or whether to do this or that. And that's still all within the dream framework. The ultimate sense is that there's just one mind, and it's my mind, you know, coming from this thing is always addressed to the reader. And literally, it's my lesson all the time. Because whenever we get into the thing like David was joking about, about other people's egos and so on and so forth, that's a convenient, distracted device for looking at what's my lesson, what's my decision here. So when he says only one teacher of God is needed, that just seems to practically lead to the next step, which is that it's already happened. If only one is needed, then it's like, to me it's like it's already there waiting for me as soon as I'm ready to recognize it. And then I know it says in the Course that as soon as I do recognize it, instantaneously I will realize that it's always been that way, that it never was not that way, I was just refusing to see anything as the way it is. To me, that helps to explain something like, if a new baby comes into the world and you pinch it really hard and it starts to scream and cry, then it hasn't learned much here in this world enough to learn about things like that's an expression of guilt and an expression of a desire to die. But then when you start to take it to the idea that there is one mind that has made the decision of the choice to separate, that just tries to make the illusion as absolutely real and believable as possible. So when we come here as babies, so to speak, we're like really helpless against this illusion almost, it seems like. In a sense, if we take it back one more step, remember that the mind is sick and the mind is guilty. So the form of a baby or the form of even thinking we come here still gets into the idea that we're kind of born into bodies. It's helpful to just think about it as the mind is the mind. The mind is where all the beliefs and thoughts are and the screen where the babies are and the seemingly aging takes place and all these things. So that's just the screen and it's just the mind. What I was saying was that a baby doesn't seem to have choice. But that's if you look at it as a separate entity, if you think there's just one mind that made the decision, then that's where the choice lies way back from our conscious mind. There's one mind behind all these seemingly separate conscious minds and it's just like we're different expressions of one decision to fragment. And the thing too, it's like really what happens with a baby too. The reason it may seem as if babies don't have choice, like adults can make informed decisions, is that there's a level confusion going on here is that the brain is being confused with the mind. The brain, obviously the development of a baby's brain, if you trace it from an embryo on, the baby's brain is not fully developed. Neither is in the uterus and so on and so forth. And remember the brain and the body and everything on the world is just images on the screen. And that's where the confusion takes place. If I associate the mind with the brain, I'll say, how can this child choose? This child is just an innocent victim. The brain's not even fully developed but the association that's being made is that the mind is being associated with the brain. And that kind of analogy. As soon as you can start to see that the mind is not in the world. The mind is not confined into the body or into the brain. The mind is this expansive, powerful thing, just watching the script. And all of a sudden then you can get away from these things like what about the baby that's born with spina bifida? And all those questions like how could this happen to such a child? Or what about the one year old that's raped? How could it be that the child wasn't a victim? The child was helpless? That's by taking it from out there on the screen. Whereas if you bring it back to the mind thing, that if the mind's guilty it will call forth witnesses on the screen to prove to it that it's guilty. So really it's guilty. Yeah. It really believes it. You might believe it's guilty. The thing about one line two is that's the oneness in which this course is kind of leaning towards. But the reason that that is not apparent is because part of the duality is the subject-objects play. It really does seem like we're individual persons in this world with personal histories and with futures that are yet to come. And that there are other people that are in the same kind of boat. And you know I can be the subject and then everyone else is the object. In the end you know it's like a collapse of the subject and object are both seem to be just images on the screen. In other words it's all the pieces of the puzzle are all seem to be together instead of experiences as a duality. It's all the same form. The form doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what form it is it's all the same. When you said collapse like that you were reading a part of the course yesterday about it talks about the bridge and the change in perception. And not to be afraid of it because it will actually be a very short time and you won't be confused. But what you're talking about is that when the subject and object become part of the screen. I think a clear analogy too in the course is back in the 500s where it talks about the dream or the dream versus the dream. Where as within the world framework it seems like that I'm a little person and I'm a little dream figure and there are other dream figures moving around. And the good analogy for the mind is if you could pull back and just see that all of the figures or all the bodies are just figures in the dream. And I'm the dreamer of the dream. Those are images that are in my mind. Just like at night when you have a nighttime dream you go to sleep and you have all these things that seem to happen and everything and then you wake up and oh gosh. I don't know if I'm dreaming anymore. The experience right. It's just all in my mind at night you know. But it's like then it's like I'm often as a real girl you know. And what the course is just saying is no no it's still these are still figures that are moving in the dream and you're still dreaming everything. So that idea our first idea at the top is that obviously death takes many forms but it's just it's just unrecognized. A lot of the forms are unrecognized. We don't think of them as death. I think you dropped down to the last paragraph on 302. Somebody want to read that one. It is impossible to worship death in any form. It's still selective you would not cherish and would not and would yet avoid while still believing in death. Where death is told either all things die or else they live and cannot die. No compromise is possible. But here again we see an obvious position which we must accept if we sing. What contradicts one though entirely cannot be true. Its opposite is proof of false. In this idea it kind of gets at the first principle of miracles. That there's no order of difficulty in miracles. In other words we need to train our mind so highly that we aren't fooled by these unrecognized forms of death in any way shape or form they can take. That we become so clear and limited to the Holy Spirit's purpose that we can train our minds that we're never victimized by external circumstances. It can certainly seem like it's a real hot day and I'm getting very hot and it's humid and I'm feeling very uncomfortable. It can certainly seem like it's the temperature and the humidity that's doing this to my body. It's not recognized that this is just another form of death and that this is just a choice that I'm making in my mind. That the discomfort I'm feeling is coming from a decision that I'm making in my mind and not from the 95 degree heat and the 95 degree temperature. But when we generally can start to generalize or the Course calls it transfer of training we get better and better at applying this over and over and over to lots of different situations. Then you start to get, reach the mind training like a good example would be like the Zen Buddhist or the monks who, you know, heard the stories and put them in cold chambers with their little cheese string on or whatever and they're sitting there and it's below freezing or whatever and they're just calmly sitting there meditating. It's the whole great example of mind over matter, literally. That when our minds get so highly trained there will be nothing external that we'll be able to believe is able to take away our peace of mind or influence us. Does that come with studying the Course? Yeah, it's mind training. It's like... What? That's a different matter. Obviously I'm not there. But it's like studying the Course and I would say more than just studying it because that's like the first step but it's applying the Course. You know, Jesus says we don't want to just get, this isn't a Course in theoretical ideas and speculation but it's actually taking the lessons, you know, like one lesson a day and taking the central idea and just trying to carry that lesson through the day. That's where the transfer of training comes in. That's where the mind really starts to shift and starts to feel the power and the magnitude that lies deep within it. It's been covered over by all these false beliefs in weather and temperature, economics, nutrition, you know. He goes at other points of the Course where he gets real specific and he just starts to rattle off, here's the things you believe in. You know, you believe in rules of friendship and reciprocity. You know, he talks about pills and protective clothing and he just starts to rattle off the forms of magic and just believes that it needs to be happy and comfortable. But even with doing all of that, it's still by just applying the lessons. It's just so great to have a tool like this that you can use, it doesn't take much time, you know, to read a lesson in the morning and you can go about your activities and just hold the thought in mind. It's not like going, like the Zen Buddhists would go and meditate for like 12 or 16 hours a day and he says in here that those paths have served others well but this is a path that's been given for you that can really save, because the other method is tedious and time consuming. Meditating for 15 hours a day is time consuming. Let's make some more like elaborate a little on these ideas because I guess there are different ways to go about that and the Course is one of them but the other one is not so much spiritual development because somebody can, I don't know, kind of walk on water or just be in a subzero room, or in a room of subzero temperature, you know, without any clothing and not to have any problem. But this doesn't necessarily mean that he's making the right choice at the level that the Course is talking about. I mean, somebody, you know, can become a great tennis player and likewise can study under a master and I don't know how to move pepsis with, you know, their eyes. But the idea is that the choice is not made at the level, okay, my mind chose to feel cold in subzero temperatures, so therefore my mind now will choose to feel okay in subzero temperatures. It's not that type of choice. The choice is at the level where who am I and who is my brother and what is the world? The choice is at the level of how we view ourselves, other people in the world. Is it as God created them? Is it eternal? Is it spirit? Is it innocent? Is it completely whole? Or is it limited subject to death, to dying, to suffering, to injuries, to accidents, to all kinds of things? And that's why it says all these things are dead, because really any idea of ourselves that is not as God created us is dead, because it is the death of eternal life. So even though the death of eternal life is not real, our minds have believed that it is real. And it has become a little body, you know, with a little life, with subject to all kinds of suffering and finally death. And, you know, if you see, you know, the difference between a body living and a body dying is so infinitesimally small compared to being a body and the glory of the Son of God as God created him. That really doesn't make any difference whether the body is working, whether the body is collapsing, whether the body is suffering.