Now with movies like What the Bleep, you know, where they're starting to show that,
it's thoughts and consciousness, but then there's chemicals and peptides you know,
that influence the way that the body seems to feel, it all originates in consciousness.
And then they'll even say that we even draw forth characters and situations
that reflect what's going on inside of us.
It's really showing, it's making all the connections, but instead of it being an external world
that's completely apart from us.
It's seen more as a reflection of consciousness, which is very empowering because if the world was apart from you,
then it'd be easier to stay with the belief that you're just a victim.
It's like a cruel, angry, hostile world out there
and you got to just make the best of an external world with external conditions.
When we look at it this way we say; 'oh my gosh, I can purify my awareness.'
'I can have all my beliefs transformed.'
'I can release attack thoughts and the whole world I perceive will change because it's all coming from,
through the projector and through consciousness and consciousness can be changed.'
So that's why Jesus says "Seek not to change the world, seek rather to change your mind about the world."
The projected world is like the effect,
and the causation in the ultimate sense, is in coming to thoughts, which can be changed and ultimately released.
You can give up all ego thoughts and you're left with just beautiful, Spirit inspired thoughts; your real thoughts, Jesus calls them.
And then you see the real world or the forgiven world.
That's so different from trying to change the world.
It would be almost like going to a movie theater and
watching the movie and having emotions come up during the movie.
And then going down and start pounding on the screen
as if you don't like... like "Stop that!"
I always use the example of Gone with the Wind. Rhett Butler, you know to Scarlett,
"Frankly my darling I don't give a damn" and going down and saying "Stop that, Rhett."
The big screen, Clark Gable... "stop it!" "Don't talk to her like that! Stop it!"
Which, which is ridiculous because you're thinking, it's the movie
it's the projection and, it's coming from the... it's in the can in this film, and why would you hit a screen
if you were upset at something, thinking that the screen should stop showing that projection.
You have to get all the way back into the projector and
clear away the the film to let that light stream out there.
You see, it's the same thing with the mind.
We can't keep trying to react and respond to people
and circumstances and situations even the weather, you know it may seem like the weather is just the weather.
How is it? It's cold, or how is it? It's hot.
Where is cold and hot coming from and don't you know those Yogi's that
they've done, that they put into the freeze chambers with the little g-string on and they stay in there, and they don't freeze.
The skin doesn't freeze, they emanate, they actually generate heat,
because it's consciousness, so think about that with the most basic things like,
it's cold or it's hot, you see how the mesmerism would have you say,
it's a cold day or it's a hot day.
I had a friend one time that travelled with me, we were in Florida.
It was you know like, one of those seemingly humid hot days in Florida, we're driving along, and she's sitting in the front seat with me,
and I'm just so in joy of the Course
I'm just going to gatherings and sharing and shining, and she's in the front seat and the sweat is just
zipping down her face and the air-conditioning in the car
just broke and it's a Sunday, and there's nothing open and she's just like, ugh!
I'm dying, it's so hot and I was driving, I said, oh you're having hot thoughts.
She gave me a look. What did you say? I said you're having hot thoughts.
It never had dawned on her mind, that what she was experiencing
was just coming from thoughts and nothing more.
Not the environment, humidity is a thought, everything,
It's one of Armelle's favorite things, everything is a thought. She was saying the other day, "I have to remember that."
I love it when I hit that awareness, it's all thought, because see how empowering that is.
You can work with your mind you can work with thoughts you can work with that,
but as long as you are a separate human being, apart from an external world
with all of these external conditions, you see how
from that perception you could be at the mercy of the world.
You could be at the mercy of many things that are seen to be outside of you.
As long as you see it as outside and the whole course workbook, you know, is going back and forth.
Did you ever notice the rhythm of those early lessons he starts off with a perceptual lesson,
"Nothing I see means anything," he comes in with another perceptual lesson.
"I have given everything I see, all the meaning it has for me."
But then, suddenly in lesson number four,
he turns into thoughts, "These thoughts do not mean anything."
See at first he's talking about perception, then he's talking about thoughts then he goes back to perception
and emotions, "I'm never upset for the reason I think,"
he still got a little bit of thoughts and then, "My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world."
When he makes the connection between meaningless thoughts and a meaningless world he's begun his integration.
Where he's going to show you that the thoughts that you think you think with the ego,
and the world that you think you perceive through the egos lens, are not different.
That those ego thoughts and that fragmented world of images are actually the same.
And that you are literally perceiving an egoic world because you're thinking egoic thoughts.
And if you let go of those egoic thoughts, that's when the merge occurs.
That's when holistic healing occurs, where you start to realize,
there is nothing outside of me, not personally, but mind.
There's nothing outside of the mind, everything is mind.
There is no material and mental.
We've been taught that there's a physical and the mental realm, that they're two different realms, but that's just in fragmented perception.
And the course is taking you more and more into that merge.
And what happens when you when you experience the merge?
Victimization becomes impossible.
Abuse becomes impossible.
Mistreatment becomes impossible.
Because if everything is mind, and there's, everything is unified then there is no two, to conflict,
So there's no competition.
There's no conflict.
There's no war.
There's no mistreatment of any kind, because all is unified awareness.
That's how it works.
That's why when you practice A Course in Miracles, that's the state of mind it takes you in.
In the state of unified awareness, if there's no inner and outer then nobody's doing anything to anybody.
And there's another thing that's fascinating about that,
as Jesus says in the workbook, you know,
when you go into this state, the body will not feel at all.
There will be no feeling of feeling well or ill.
Because again when the mind is healed and there's no projection onto the body.
Now for most of us in the human condition we would say the body feels, you know.
And when we say I have a headache, its meaning the body has a headache or I have a migraine and so forth,
but as you go deeper into unified awareness you start to realize, that the mind tells the body what to feel.
When the mind's conflicted about itself and has forgotten the Christ,
then it projects pain onto the body as if the body is feeling, it's a pretty convincing trick.
It's a pretty, to the ego, and the mind believes in the ego, It's very convincing.
It seems like bodies feel, it feels like characters are not just characters in a dream, like they're they're real.
Just like in dreams at nighttime they all seem very real while you're dreaming them
and that's what makes it so convincing.
That's why it's a course in mind training, an untrained mind can accomplish nothing.
The Mystics, the Saints, the Yogi's are really training into this unified awareness.