a lot of times I think if we're honest
we start to realize that we have had
intimacy associated with communication
anybody who's been through relationships
friendships family and everything you
know where they're feels like there's
open sharing and open communication hey
how you do on greater than that you know
this there's this sense of communication
we feel connected when there's
communication going on and when there's
no communication when there's like a
sense of dead space or we could say has
anybody had the experience with somebody
you're really close to just disappears
from your life either through death or
they move away it's not so much as they
move away and you're doing skype chats
and you're talking on your email and a
business you're texting each other
they're over on the other side of the
planet you're still getting text
messages and everything it seems like
the intimacy continues even when the
bodies are apart as long as there's
communication but when there's no
communication hey house ours are doing I
haven't heard from him well when was the
last time you heard from two years ago
they haven't they haven't written or
spoken to me for two years he always
says if there's a break in the intimacy
a break in the connection and you know
what that is is that in the egoic mind
the communication is seen again between
people in the horizontal realm and that
can be broken pretty easily through
death moving away or you name it
somebody gets his hard feelings feels
offended insulted or something and up
well that's it I'm not going to talk to
them some of us have heard those words
again I'm never going to speak to you
again how's it feel when a loved one
says to you I'm never going to speak to
you again you know that's like the death
of the connection the death of the
intimacy but it's only because we've
associated egoic Lee communication with
words and with the horizontal plane and
what I find with the course of miracles
is it saying well yeah that's a problem
but it's not a real problem
because God is with you wherever you go
you know the voice for God speaks to you
guiding you comforting you telling you
how wonderful and perfect and beautiful
you are just as you are right now
without even having to to be different
than you are it's just so gracious and
loving and the way that we get in touch
with that voice which is the voice that
ultimately we want to hear is we have to
let that voice speak to us and speak
through us we have to teach what we
would learn we have to give it away to
keep it we have to let the Holy Spirit
inspired communication come in US and
through us how does it feel when you
write a love letter from the heart whoa
your heart is exploding with love and
joy just pouring it out in an email
where you're communicating with somebody
you're doing a skype chat you're sharing
on the phone you feel the love just
pouring through you and you feel
completely filled up and just engulfed
in love and intimacy and when there's a
sense of a block a sense of hesitation a
sense of doubts a sense of fear sense of
holding back withholding it feels closed
down it feels contracted it's almost
like your heart is turned in the way
where it starts to feel contracted
instead of expansive and open so that's
why the one of the workbook lessons is
my happiness and my function are one
when you're in your function when you're
in your Holy Spirit given function you
are guaranteed to be happy and when you
seek for happiness through external
means I'll be happy when my life looks
this way when I have the right partner
the right this to write that whenever I
get all the right pictures and the right
conditions in the future sometime I'll
be happy and then it's almost like a
dream you chase that never works out
even I was just in Hollywood and
thing i love about Hollywood is the
lessons are so apparent in Hollywood the
rest of the world you know the rest of
the seven billions trying to survive and
in Hollywood survival's you know not on
the mind that much there's a lot of
money there's the cars as big mansions
there same popularity you know as the
world would say you know the Marilyn
Monroe factor you know famous has been
money being sought ass very sexually
attracted all the things that the world
would say just do these things and
you'll be super happy because you have
all the right things you're hit all the
right buttons and then depression and
suicide Wow does that drive home the
point why is it the people that have the
most of the things that the rest of the
world is looking for are not happy that
brings home the lesson that this you're
not going to find it in the things of
this world we just watched them the
great gatsby Jay Gatsby that's a great
movie we actually stayed in the
apartment where what's his name just got
to share we were in an f scott
Fitzgerald's apartment and we were doing
a gathering they said this is the
mantelpiece where he died he had a heart
attack we was on the spot with us we had
just watched the Great Gatsby and Gatsby
had at all you know in terms of the
world massive parties massive wealth you
know you talk about if you could find
happiness through party making in social
things he was having these huge parties
you know and yet as you go on you see
there's a deep sadness in a sense of an
emptiness and he it's so strong in him
but he is actually using all the parties
and the mansion across the bay from
Daisy his fantasy and as long as he
believes he can have his fantasy he
pours his whole energy almost like in a
huge way to draw her attention and when
it doesn't work out with these
you know it's absolutely devastating and
he ends up you know getting shot and so
it's really great to start to see it
played out on the big screen or out in
Hollywood because the faster you get the
lessons like people a lot of people i
know they don't like less than 128 of
course they like a lot of the lessons of
the course but they do not like lesson
128 in fact i did a gathering years ago
I went to Lexington Kentucky and a
friend of mine was in the symphony of
the violinist and I opened up to
questions and he said he raised his hand
and he said well I have to say I'm not
doing the workbook lessons of course of
miracles anymore I said oh you're not
what happened he said well I got to less
than 128 and I said well what happened
he said I read the lesson I said okay
what happened that he said something
inside of me went no no I do not agree I
object this is not where my mind is
going this is not my where my life is
going I closed the book that's the last
lesson I did I said oh 129 is so such a
beautiful he said what's what's 129 and
I said beyond this world is a world I
want and lesson 128 is the world I see
holds nothing that I want he shut the
book on 128 he never did make it to 129
me on this world is the world I what
jesus never leaves his hanging he never
takes us to a point of desperation to
you know it's not going to work out it's
always like he's he's going down right
to the root of the ego and st. here let
me help you I'll get the root of the
weed out of your mind the alien and
here's the soft place where this is all
heading he always gives us lots of pep
talks sometimes he shakes the ego right
to the roots you feel like you're just
totally devastated when you
doing the book doing the workbook
lessons and then he comes in with the
soft message to lift you up say you
deserve so much you don't your problem
is you don't ask for for too much you
ask for far too little you don't believe
you're worthy of divine love and you
keep praying and asking for a little
just a little bit of this and I'll be
happy just amazing just a little bit of
that I'll be happy so it's you know you
can see where this is going we have to
really open our minds up beyond the past
beyond the familiar into a new way of
being a new way of looking at the world