 It gets back to the level confusion once again if You can't be miracle minded and in the right mind and perceive sickness in the world And I can still perceive Certain behaviors of the body as it were or certain so-called symptoms of the body But the healed mind just what knows and holds that what the eyes are Communicating to it or revealing to it is not so but it's impossible Regardless of what the eyes and the ears are are taking in the information Yes, the body's eyes can report Differences and different symptoms. This is from the teacher's manual that it can report Changes in appearance for instance, but the healed mind puts them into one category They are unreal and that should be a hint right there into one category in the sense of The to the split mind it has it has judged and fragmented and ordered the world into Different categories and the senses just bring forth witnesses and to fill the categories in other words So that when the mind let's go to the split When the mind ceases to judge and ceases to order and ceases to make categories for the world then there They kind of get put into the one category of unreal That they are equally seen to be unreal that the illusion of Sickness and health in the sense of the world's eyes are Are both put into the category as being unreal Now the body will when the mind is healed and and the mind is listening to the Holy Spirit's voice and is operating in the right mind It is consistently choosing the right mind The body then is is invulnerable The Course tells us as long as it's be it's listening to the Holy Spirit and Following the voice for God for as long as it's needed and then it's gently laid aside It all starts with the perception that this is a course in correcting perception in in relinquishing judgment so the miracle-mindedness is Seeing whatever the body's eyes sees But not interpreting them in a certain way not passing any judgment or on them or ranking them or giving them any reality Yes Yes, and this we must also say that we are still speaking in a metaphor in a stepping stone because we have already spoken of In revelation and in the holy instant There are no bodies. So in that sense literally in revelation perception Disappears you get to as Jesus says in the Course is a glimpse of the end You get to see the end, which is the pure light But there are no bodies in that now revelation As the Course tells us is not on maintained if the state of revelation was maintained The body would not be maintained for very long Because of course there is no need the mind Is is in such a state of remembrance of the kingdom that there is no need for Body anymore and literally the body in the world Disappear in in that instant in the in the great rays in the light of that instant Disappear into the nothingness from which they came. Yes So maybe this is a good time to talk about true perception the real world All of that which is like as I see it is just that last little step before It all disappears Yes This is the in a sense Knowledge or love is beyond the curriculum of the Course The Course is the Course in removing the blocks to the awareness of love so True perception the real world our metaphors of of a mind that has let go of of Judgment is a highly trained mind. So all those barriers have been removed In the state of true perception for the real world for the borderland these these are all metaphors for Highly trained mind where the mind has has has learned The holy relationship for example It has unlearned the ways of the world the laws of the world has learned that is not governed by By those laws. It's only the mind is only governed by the laws of God and In a sense, it's a metaphor or stepping off point for the mind that literally Once it reaches this stage that it's come so close to love. It's as high as learning can go But once again knowledge is not Learned knowledge is and in a sense the real world true perception the borderland our metaphors The only instant is described in in many ways For instance, you will still attempt to bring the past with you into the holy instant. It's still talked about in ways of that it's purely Eternal it's the gateway kind of so to speak to the eternal and While the mind still has attention on the world still sees some Value some shred of value even in the world is being real in any way Then it's still attempting to bring the past into the holy instant whereas when one truly Focuses the mind or let's go of everything else Let's go into the holy instant and in a sense. That's the gateway to Eternity just like we could talk about the Holy Spirit as seeming to work in form or seeming to Work with the lower mind and so forth that there is an eternal Aspect of the Holy Spirit that the Course says will remain with you always In heaven and so you know you could Say make that analogy with the Holy Spirit and the Holy instant the miracle is described more as You know, there's a there can be a perceptual component Perceptual component and the holy instant Yeah, when you go into the holy instant there there are no bodies in the holy instant This can be in that's more analogous to revelation to the great race And these are just terms. I mean here we are we're using terms again and and The holy instant is an experience a miracle is Is an experience to be in the to be in the right minds and experience that these are just words that are Tools with the mind to use to meet it where it believes it's at to as a springboard, you know to this experience These the holy instant Cannot be prepared for I mean that can be a mind-blowing concept just like why am I Working with the course of miracles. Why am I putting all these hours into studying it and carrying these lessons through the day? And in one sense, you know seeming to prepare my mind for it When in other passages we read that it can't be prepared for Obviously to prepare for something is to place it in the future and the holy instant is now it is This instance is the present So there's the trap of becoming the trap of You know Preparing for and all that that has to be laid aside as well And all that's required for the holy instant is that desire to experience it and the willingness to experience it Very wholehearted desire a desire for nothing else Very single-minded. I think there's some passages in the course that Can relate to what we're talking about and it is the section I know you've been reading recently the I need do nothing section and it's followed by the little garden section on page 362 and 364 and the old the first edition text But I'll read a few paragraphs here and it maybe we can use that In a sense once again as a summary of some of the things we've been talking about Because it's very clearly laid out. I need do nothing You still have too much faith in the body as a source of strength What plans do you make that do not involve its comfort or protection or enjoyment in some way? This makes the body an end and not a means in your interpretation and this always means you still find sin attractive No one accepts atonement for himself who still accepts sin as his goal You have thus not met your one responsibility Atonement is not welcomed by those who prefer pain and destruction There is one thing that you have never done you have not utterly forgotten the body It has perhaps faded at times from your sight, but it has not yet completely disappeared You are not asked to let this happen for more than an instant Yet it is in this instant that the miracle of atonement happens Afterwards you will see the body again, but never quite the same and Every instant that you spend without awareness of it gives you a different view of it when you return At no single instant does the body exist at all It is always remembered or anticipated, but never experienced just now Only its past and future make it seem real Time controls it entirely for sin is never holy in the present in any single Instance the attraction of guilt would be experienced as pain and nothing else and Would be avoided It has no attraction now Its whole attraction is imaginary and therefore must be thought of in the past or in the future It is impossible to accept the holy instant without reservation unless Just for an instant you are willing to see no past or future You cannot prepare for it without placing it in the future This is the the point and Jesus is making it here in the course that if we place The salvation or the holy instant the atonement in the future It is still a concept. It is still feared There is still a gap Release is given you the instant you desire it and that was your point That desire Is the key thing that that it as I said it needs to be wholly desired Wholeheartedly desired above all else. Yes above all else Many have spent a lifetime in preparation and have indeed achieved their instance of success So here we have talked about preparation again It seems like wait a minute. You just can't you can't prepare for it. And once again, he's speaking in the level of the world Speaking on the level of the course where you know, you have stages in the development of trust This definitely seems to be preparation if the mind goes through stages It seems to be that judgment is relinquished Step by step that it seems that forgiveness involves steps That time involves intervals that in reality do not exist The miracle is like a time collapse collapse of the time interval Which is still within the framework of the dream But in the ultimate sense of it time itself It was a gentle correction gentle plan of awakening to the to the belief in separation That that involves intervals that in reality do not exist So we're still talking about in this sense of preparation within the world's framework Many have spent a lifetime in preparation and have indeed achieved their instance of success Let's skip down on 363 and interesting several sentences to do anything involves the body And if you recognize you need do nothing you have withdrawn the body's value from your mind Here is the quick and open door through which you stood past centuries of effort and escape from time This is the way in which sin loses all