 We are going through the workbook of a Course in Miracles and we are practicing his lessons. We're in a review, lesson 54, we're reviewing the earlier lessons 16 through 20 today. So it's very exciting as we change our mind about our mind. We are retraining our mind to think with God, to perceive with the Holy Spirit and to see the light of our real thoughts reflected in the world, to literally see the world completely differently and open our hearts and our minds to the vision of Christ and to the remembrance of our true identity as the living Christ, one with God. Jesus taught I and the Father are one. Christ is a perfect creation of a perfect God. This perfect state of creation has been called the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God. And it's very deep to go inward in your mind to sink deep, deep, deep past all the riotous, darkest sounds of the ego, sounds of the ego, sights of the ego, thoughts of the ego, belief system of the ego, feelings of the ego, guilt, shame, pain, fear, and to go all the way down through all that to the light within, to the Kingdom of Heaven within. So that's what we're doing here. It's kind of exciting too, because this afternoon I'm going to be going with some friends to see the first two episodes of Season 4 of The Chosen and a beautiful job that Jonathan Rumi does playing Jesus and Dallas Jenkins amazing him and his wife and the whole cast and team. So here we go with Season 4. It is quite a beautiful reminder of the teachings of Jesus kind of brought to life, we'll say, acted out, demonstrated so marvelously here in 2024. Here we are in Season 4 of The Chosen. So that's very exciting. We're going to take the trip to Guadalajara today, to Galerias, to the mall to go to the theater to watch Jesus. And so Jesus is a topic I will talk a little bit more after our review lesson today. Also I'm excited because I'd like to show movies and dive deep into the mind. And this week has been kind of a swirl here towards the middle of the week. I started to get a swirl of four characters in the dream that most of you are aware of. I'm talking about Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, it was called the Mahatma, the Great Soul. I'm talking about Einstein, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists in history. I would say he's a quantum scientist. He dove so deep into his theory of relativity. The same as for his equation, E equals MC squared, which ultimately showed the potential for a great deal of energy being released, which later was turned into, with Oppenheimer and company, the Manhattan Project was turned into the atomic bomb, hydrogen bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sigmund Freud. There's another one, sometimes called the father of psychology. There are many that followed after Freud. His daughter Anna and a lot of neo-Freudians that you're aware of, Carl Jung, is one that's very famous. C.S. Lewis was a very well-read articulate writer who basically, you know, you know some of his book tales of Narnia and different books that C.S. Lewis wrote, but basically he was a devout atheist who was well-read in all the classic writers and poets. And then with some roommates, he started to open up his mind a bit and actually came to be a very strong believer in Jesus and had experiences of joy and the light and wrote about those experiences. So when we look at Gandhi, Einstein, Freud and C.S. Lewis, what do they have in common? Well, they all experienced a period of human history called World War I and World War II. They all spent time in England. Gandhi went there in the 1800s and then basically to get trained in early, I think 1900s as a longer solicitor and had a lot of his formal training, university training there. And then, of course, we know Gandhi was very famous for everything that unfolded in India and with the British, interesting connection with England there and also in South Africa. But all four of those, Gandhi, Einstein, Freud and C.S. Lewis went through World War I and II. C.S. Lewis actually was a soldier in World War I in France. And so there's a connection because they all had a great desire to discover the truth. In their own ways, Gandhi grew up in India with all of the great mystics and saints. Some of you, of course, know of Ramana Maharshi and basically there's just on and on and on. Saints and saints and mystics and mystics. It was a great tradition, and I would say he had a deep passion for discovering the truth and it came out through the principles of nonviolence. And Einstein considered himself an extreme pacifist. He was very devoted to peace, even at one point called himself a militant pacifist. Freud was very interested in the mind and he came up with terms like we now call defense mechanisms and exploring the mind and diving into the human condition in the mind. And a lot of those terms that Freud was using in his writings are used by Jesus in a very transcendent way to transcend the ego and you might call it transpersonal psychology. Jesus is really about transcending the personal, transcending the little self. And C.S. Lewis also, he was very impacted by his discovery of Jesus in an actual direct way. And so he wrote many, many books that have been very, very helpful for many, many people. So I'm going to, on Saturday, where is all this leading? And tomorrow, on Saturday morning, 10 a.m., I'm going to show, use movies and movie clips to dive into the things that we can learn from the lives of Gandhi, Einstein, Freud, and C.S. Lewis. And of course, from Jesus, because that's what the commentary is going to be, taking everything that was shown and taking it further and further inward toward the light of heaven. So the mystical Christ go there and just go to programs, tab, and then down to events. If you want to register for that, we'll call it an event. It's going to be movies and movie clips. And we're going to have a great adventure using clips from the lives of Gandhi, Einstein, Freud, and C.S. Lewis with commentary from the teachings of Jesus. Very exciting. So let's look at our lesson for today. Review lesson 54. These are the review ideas for today. I have no neutral thoughts. Neutral thoughts are impossible because all thoughts have power. They will either make a false world or lead me to the real one. But thoughts cannot be without effects. As the world I see arises from my thinking errors, so will the real world rise before my eyes as I let my errors be corrected. My thoughts cannot be neither true or false or false. They must be one or the other. What I see shows me which they are. Whatever I'm perceiving, if I'm perceiving a fragmented world, then my thoughts are ego thoughts. If I'm perceiving a unified world, a happy dream, a happy dance, then you can know for sure that I'm thinking with God. I'm in alignment with the Holy Spirit. I'm in alignment with Jesus. If I'm seeing the unified happy dance, the happy dream, instead of the fragmented, linear, broken world of the ego, which filter am I looking through? That's the thing. I have no neutral thoughts. They're either true or they're false. So I have to take that in. I see no neutral things. What I see witnesses to what I think. If I did not think, I would not exist because life is thought. Let me look on the world I see as a representation of my own state of mind. I know that my state of mind can change. And so I also know the world I see can change as well. Change the filter, change the perception. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing. If I have no private thoughts, I cannot see a private world. Even the mad idea of separation had to be shared before it could form the basis of the world I see. Yet that sharing was a sharing of nothing. I can also call upon my real thoughts, which share everything with everyone. As my thoughts of separation call to the separation thoughts of others, so my real thoughts awaken the real thoughts in them. In the world, my real thoughts show me will dawn on their sight as well as mine. Yes, it's one mind. So when Jesus awoke, he says in the Course, when I awoke, you were with me. It's just one mind and that mind is either asleep, believing in private thoughts and private minds, and trying to perceive a private world, or it's awake. And Jesus is saying, if I have no private thoughts, I cannot see a private world. So unified perception, the happy dream, the happy dance, where everything is in perfect synchronicity in this moment, it's everything is simultaneously happy, is basically a choice to basically line up with the Holy Spirit in Jesus and think with the Spirit. I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts. I am alone in nothing. Everything I think or say or do teaches all the universe. A son of God cannot think or speak or act in vain. He cannot be alone in anything. It is therefore in my power to change every mind along with mine, for mine is the power of God. When my mind is changed, all minds are changed because there's one mind. So if I line up with God, that ends the perception of separate minds, separate bodies, separate people, separate minds, separate thoughts, private minds and private thoughts, just a distortion. I am determined to see, recognizing the shared nature of my thoughts, I am determined to see. I would look upon all the witnesses that show me the thinking of the world has been changed. I would behold the proof that what has been done through me has enabled love to replace fear, laughter to replace tears, and abundance to replace loss. I would look upon the real world and let it teach me that my will and the will of God are one. Wow, okay, there it is. What a review. We can tell where these thoughts are pointing. These are reminders pointing to our true self, our Christ self, our Christ nature, our sparkly innocence, our sparkly joy and happiness. So today, for some support, I thought since I'm going to see the first two episodes of season four of The Chosen, Jesus kept coming to mind and I think I'll just share a little bit from Jesus, from His course of miracles, and really pointing to Jesus and the Christ mind. This is from chapter five, section one, The Invitation to the Holy Spirit. We'll slip down there into paragraph three. The Bible says, May the mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus and uses this as a blessing. It is the blessing of miracle-mindedness. It asks that you may think, as I thought, joining with me in Christ thinking. Then we'll slip down into paragraph four. Sentence six, As a man and also one of God's creations, my right thinking, which came from the Holy Spirit or the universal inspiration, taught me first and foremost that this inspiration is for all. I could not have it myself without knowing this. The word know is proper in this context because the Holy Spirit is so close to knowledge that He calls it forth, where better allows it to come. I have spoken before of the higher or true perception, which is so near to truth that God Himself can flow across the little gap. Knowledge is always ready to flow everywhere, but it cannot oppose. Therefore, you can obstruct it, although you can never lose it. Okay, then let's jump to the manual for teachers clarification of terms. Number five, Jesus Christ. There is no need for help to enter heaven for you have never left, but there is a need for help beyond yourself as you are circumscribed by false beliefs of your identity, which God alone established in reality. Helpers are given you in many forms, although upon the altar they are one. Beyond each one there is a thought of God and this will never change, but they have names which differ for a time, for time needs symbols being itself unreal. Their names are legion, but we will not go beyond the names the Course itself employs. God does not help because He knows no need, but He creates all helpers of His Son while He believes His fantasies are true. Thank God for them, for they will lead you home. The name of Jesus is the name of one who was a man but saw the face of Christ in all his brothers and remembered God. So he became identified with Christ, a man no longer, but at one with God. The man was an illusion, for he seemed to be a separate being walking by himself within a body that appeared to hold his small self from his Christ self, as all illusions do. Yet who can save unless he sees illusions and then identifies them as what they are? Jesus remains a savior because he saw the false without accepting it as true, and Christ needed his form that he might appear to men and save them from their own illusions. In his complete identification with the Christ, the perfect Son of God, his one creation and his happiness, forever like himself and one with him, Jesus became what all of you must be. He led the way for you to follow him. He leads you back to God because he saw the road before him and he followed it. He made a clear distinction still obscure to you between the false and true. He offered you a final demonstration that it is impossible to kill God's Son, nor can his life in any way be changed by sin and evil, malice, fear or death. And therefore all your sins have been forgiven because they carried no effects at all. And so they were but dreams. Arise with him who showed you this, because you owe him this, who shared your dreams that they might be dispelled and shares them still to be at one with you. Is he the Christ? Oh yes, along with you. His little life on earth was not enough to teach the mighty lesson that he learned for all of you. He will remain with you to lead you from hell, the hell you made to God. And when you join your will with his, your sight will be his vision, for the eyes of Christ are shared. Walking with him is just as natural as walking with the brother whom you knew since you were born. For such indeed he is. Some bitter idols have been made of him who would be only brother to the world. Forgive him your illusions and behold how dear a brother he would be to you. For he will set your mind at rest and at last and carry you, carry it with you unto your God. Is he God's only helper? No indeed, for Christ takes many forms with different names until their oneness can be recognized. But Jesus is for you the bearer of Christ's single message of the love of God. You need no other. It is possible to read his words and benefit from them without accepting him into your life. Yet he would help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him and leave them both to find the peace of God. Yet still it is his lesson. Most of all he would have you learn and it is this. There is no death because the Son of God is like his Father. Nothing you can do can change eternal love. Forget your dreams of sin and guilt and come with me instead to share the resurrection of God's Son and bring with you all those whom he has sent to you to care for as I care for you. We're opening our hearts to the living Christ. We are being used by the Holy Spirit as living miracles that light the way to the blazing light of revelation of the great rays of love and light of God. The true source, the true Creator, the Spirit, the I Am that is prior to time and space, prior to any big banks of illusions of separation. And finally today we will go to the manual for teachers and we'll drop down from five down to 23. And this is called Does Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing? God's gift can rarely be received directly. Even the most advanced of God's teachers will give way to temptation in this world. Would it be fair if their pupils were denied healing because of this? The Bible says, ask in the name of Jesus Christ. Is this merely an appeal to magic? A name does not heal, nor does an invocation call forth any special power. What does it mean to call on Jesus Christ? What does calling on his name confer? Why is the appeal to him part of healing? We have repeatedly said that one who has perfectly accepted the Atonement for himself can heal the world. Indeed, he has already done so. Temptation may reoccur to others, but never to this one. He has become the risen Son of God. He has overcome death because he has accepted life. He has recognized himself as God created him. And in so doing, he has recognized all living things as part of him. There is now no limit on his power because it is the power of God. So has his name become the name of God, for he no longer sees himself as separate from him. What does this mean for you? It means that in remembering Jesus, you are remembering God. The whole relationship of the Son to the Father lies in him. His part in the Sonship is also yours, and his completed learning guarantees your own success. Is he still available for help? What did he say about this? Remember his promises and ask yourself honestly whether it is likely that he will fail to keep them. Can God fail his Son? And can one who is one with God be unlike him? Who transcends the body has transcended limitation. Would the greatest teacher be unavailable to those who follow him? The name of Jesus Christ is such as but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. It becomes the shining symbol for the word of God so close to what it stands for that the little space between the two is lost. The moment that the name is called to mind. Remembering the name of Jesus Christ is to give thanks for all the gifts of God that God has given you. And gratitude to God becomes the way in which he is remembered for love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and a thankful mind. God enters easily for these are the true conditions for your homecoming. Jesus has led the way. Why would you not be grateful to him? He has asked for love but only that he might give it to you. You do not love yourself but in his eyes your loveliness is so complete and flawless that he sees in it an image of his father. You become the symbol of his father here on earth. To you he looks for hope because in you he sees no limit and no stain to mar your beautiful perfection. In his eyes Christ's vision shines in perfect constancy. He has remained with you. Would you not learn the lesson of salvation through his learning? Why would you choose to start again when he has made the journey for you? No one on earth can grasp what heaven is or what its one creator really means. Yet we have witnesses. It is to them that wisdom should appeal. There have been those whose learning far exceeds what we can learn nor would we teach the limitations we have laid on us. No one who has become a true and dedicated teacher of God forgets his brothers. Yet what can he offer them is limited by what he learns himself. Then turn to one who laid all limits by and went beyond the farthest reach of learning. He will take you with him for he did not go alone. And you were with him then as you are now. This course has come from him because his words have reached you in a language you can love and understand. Are other teachers possible to lead the way to those who speak in different tongues and appeal to different symbols? Certainly there are. Would God leave anyone without a very present help in time of trouble? The Savior who can symbolize himself. Yet we do need a many faceted curriculum, not because of content differences, but because symbols must shift and change to suit the need. Jesus has come to answer yours. In him you find God's answer. Do you then teach with him? For he is with you. He is always here. Wow, there's a nice way to go forth in the day. He is always here. The presence of Jesus, the presence of the Holy Spirit, the presence of God's love is always here, here and now. And these review lessons are taking us through those major, major undoing lessons of the early part of the workbook of the Course in Miracles. And now we've just gone through four review lessons, covering lessons one through 20. And wow, that is letting go of everything you think you think and think you know. This is taking us, unwinding us quickly, quickly down into the I know nothing about this world. It's the way we are carefree and we are completely clueless about the world and we are carried by the Spirit every single moment of every day. And we don't have to take concern or worry for anything of this world because we are carried in mind to the divinity that is the mind of God. That is the light of truth. That is the light of heaven. So beautiful. Go forth, enjoy, enjoy your day. Yeah, I'm going to go see the chosen season four. Let's look at those two episodes and I'll tell you what goes on, what experience I have and my friends we have. And also again, if you haven't signed up, go to the Mystical Christ and then just go to the tab that says programs and then drop down to events and there you go. You can register. If you're part of Tribe of Christ, you can just register and show up for a beautiful movie. We will share set up and lots of commentary and again, I think most of you are familiar with some of these. It's just been maybe 19 and a half centuries after Jesus was on earth, but Gandhi, Einstein, Freud and C.S. Lewis with commentary from the teachings of Jesus. We're going to have some fun on Saturday. Just check it out and register. Okay. Lots of love. Go forth. Have a beautiful day. Bye-bye.