 Some examples of forward-backward thoughts that I think that's really helpful. Yeah, or if you have something about the back-up, we kind of keep an eye on it. Something that we've been alerting each other too lightly is forward-backward thoughts. And what I'm finding is so many thoughts that just, I mean, they seem so commonplace. And so, familiar are really back-ward thoughts. So it's helpful to notice that, because then you can start recognizing, you know, that the cause is really in my mind, the cause is not out there. I mean, it's nothing as simple as I can remember saying on a hot day that I went and took a swim in the lake to cool off. That's not unusual thought, or it's things to say, right? But it's backwards. It's backwards because my being hot, or my being cool, has nothing to do with the 95-degree temperature. It has nothing to do with jumping in a cool lake. It has everything to do with the thoughts in my mind. If I think the cause for my being hot is the sun and the temperature, see how that's placing the cause outside of myself. If I think that the cause for me cooling down is jumping in cool lake water, then the cause is outside of my mind, it's in the temperature of the lake water. It sure seems that way. It seems that way. To the deceased mind. You know, I must be deceased then. I couldn't look at it any other way. Well, I guess a strong witness to me that that couldn't be the case is when you take temperature, for instance, and I texture something that I, you know, have felt sensitive. You know, it's like not wanting to feel cold, and thinking that, you know, if the room temperature was warm enough, or if I had enough clothes on or whatever, then I would be warm, and I wouldn't be cold. And then you look at the yogis, you know, who are able to sit in, you know, chambers that are zero-degree, double G-stress. They're comfortable. They're at ease. Yes. Right. So obviously it has nothing to do with the temperature in this space. It has everything to do... Well, it has everything to do with my thinking. The cause is in my mind. And when the mind is trained, then it's apparent that every cause is in my mind of what seems to be happening. And that's, you know, that's the depth of mind training that's necessary in order to have that thought reversal. You see that everything that seems to be out here is not out here in my mind. That's why you call it backward thought. The backward thought. Because even as it comes, it's that thought that it's a projection that something else is doing. It's relieving the temperature of your mind. It's relieving the cause. It's not in my mind, but the cause is out here in the world. It's the same as on air conditioning. Now, I would say, too, that's pretty subtle, too. Because it's like when you're first starting out in this stuff, you know, you don't start there at all. In fact, it may be that you're loritated of your husband or your wife or something like that, you know, and you're feeling out of peace. And once again, you feel that same dynamic. There has to be backward thought involved. Or maybe it's something like... You're irritated with them because they said something to you that hurt your feelings or something. The cause isn't what they said. The cause isn't what I'm thinking about. Interpretation. And so it's... Or maybe something like maybe it is. I know people have said that around here that it's been a lot of rain this summer. You know, that there hasn't been many sunny days. And you can see how it was something like that, you know, where you could go with, oh, gosh, it's been a wet, dark summer. It's ruined my summer, dah, dah, dah. It's the same kind of a thing that here we go with the sun and how many days the sun in my state of mind, you know. You can see how... This is a practical example you could use that when you hitch yourself thinking like that, oh, gosh, another gloomy day. Kind of feeling gloomy and down because it's another great day. You can stop and say, wait a minute, Holy Spirit, help me. I recognize that it's a backward thought here. And I want another way to look at this, you know. I want to be happy. I want to be peaceful. I don't want to feel gloomy. And I don't particularly care if I turn on the news and everybody on the newscast goes, oh, another man says, oh, another gloomy day. And the anchor person says, oh, I thought you told us we were going to have some sun. It is a terrible day. And then the sportsman comes on and says, six more inches of rain. Yeah. I don't know how many witnesses seem to be called or that cloud and dark weather is gloomy, you know. But that's just a kind of a concrete example of how deep this ego thought system goes into our mind. And then as we start to generalize this principle, we start to bring power back to our mind. That's where the release is. You know, it's like if there's nothing outside my mind, if there really is nothing outside my mind, then, I mean, it's like, it's bliss all the time, right? It's bliss and joy. If I choose bliss and joy, because, you know, I'm the one that chooses has nothing to do with anything here. You know, it's like, wow. You know, I'm really in charge here of how I feel right now. Yeah. I can choose at any moment, in any situation, under any circumstances, to be a total piece of joy. All right. I gave an example, too, of something like, it would seem like somebody who may come to a course group and say, well, wait a minute, I've got some examples. Now, for example, we'll say a young child could be a person, however, touches a hot stove, ganks the hand back. You know, we've learned so-called in this world that that's why you don't touch hot stoves, because hot stoves will burn your fingers if you touch burners or whatever. Never mind the fire workers who walk across the hot coals or thousands. No, it's like the basic learning of the world is that the way it works is if you put your hand to a burner, that the heat from the burner will touch right upon the nerve endings in your fingers, in physiology. They teach us that as an impulses will be sent up to the brain and usually they'll be in a very quick reflex action, part of the hand to get away and the pain is experienced to be caused by the burner, right? Doesn't that seem pretty logical and reasonable? So then we get into, of course, the miracles and Jesus is saying that the mind makes all the decisions and the body doesn't feel at all. In other words, it seems pretty radical to be told by Jesus that the body doesn't feel. What do you mean Jesus doesn't feel? I feel hot, I feel cold, I feel pain, I feel tired. You know, my body... I feel pleasure, I feel lots of things in my body and Jesus is kind of saying your mind's making all these decisions and then it's telling the body how to feel and where to feel it too. So that in this instance, when the hand touches the stove or the burner or whatever, in a sense there's a message is sent to the body to feel the pain, for instance on the fingers where things being touched and the pain that's being felt is coming about because of the painful belief that I separated from God. Wow! That's quite a tracing back. Now let me just, Jesus, let me get this straight now. I'm feeling pain in my hand because of my belief in separation. Yeah, the belief, the mind believes that it's separated from God and it feels guilty. It can't stand that guilt. Remember how he said it's intolerable. So it projects the guilt out onto the screen and in this particular instance the guilt is being projected onto the fingers. So it seems as if the hand touching the burner is where the pain is coming from. But actually, in other words, as Jesus did, when you transcend the ego, when you find that the guilt was silly and there's no guilt in the mind, then pain is impossible. In other words, the only reason pain comes about is it's a reinforcer. But it's not causative. It's just a projection of a decision being made in the mind. So the guilty feeling is that we're separated from God. Why is the guilt there? The type of guilt we're talking about in the mind now is a very, very deep ontological guilt that basically is that the mind believes that it really has done something terribly wrong. And that's because it believes it has separated from God. Because we have the body? No, that's just the cover for the belief. But the belief took place at a mind level. Kind of like, I guess we talked about last night, into eternity where all is one, there crept a tiny, mad belief, which the Son of God remembered not to last. In other words, taking such a ridiculous idea seriously and actually believing, turning the mind and investing seemingly in this belief is where this ontological guilt starts.