I asked the Holy Spirit and Jesus for a
map of the mind, because I, I like
graphics. Even when I was in school I always
had crayons, was like drawing things. I said,
"Give me a picture, can you, can you give
me a picture? This is getting to be a
little ethereal here, can you give me a
picture?" And so, definitely we have a
picture.
This is our desire, or power of prayer
in the middle. Here's our beliefs, people always
say, "Where are my beliefs?"
Here's our thoughts,
here's our emotions,
here's our perceptions,
and here's little bodies. You got to get inside here, it's like
anybody watch Star Trek? The first
edition of Star Trek had, who was in
charge of the engine room?
Scotty, he was Scottish,
"Captain, we got a breach at the core." That
never sounded good, did it?
Whenever Scotty said that to
Captain James Kirk, "Captain we've got a
breach at the core." It's like uh-oh, a ship
could explode and I like Star Trek,
no, it can't happen, I don't want
the ship to blow. This is
desire, and you know what Jesus has to
say about desire, he says, "Truth will be
returned to your awareness by your
desire, as it was lost by your desire for
something else."
You think if desire is important, truth, he's
talking truth, will be returned to your
awareness by your desire. Not by your
belief, he doesn't say belief, he doesn't
say your thoughts, he doesn't say anything
about your emotions, definitely nothing
about your perceptions. Climbing, climbing
up a big mountain here, nope nothing
about that. Swimming through the ocean to
get salvation,
nope nothing about that. "Truth will be
returned to your awareness by your
desire, as it was lost by your desire for
something else."
Right outside,
what is this desire? Well, in Heaven, desire is
completely unified, so there's no such
thing as desire. You might say Heaven is desire-less-ness.
Doesn't that makes sense?
Heaven is everything, so we don't have
any desires in Heaven. You know
that you're One with God, what would you
possibly desire if you know that you're
everything? You couldn't possibly desire
anything, there's no such thing as
desire in Heaven. But in terms of the
sleeping mind, this is the point of
prayer, this is your prayer point down here, this is desire.
And belief, the first belief that ever
seemed to arise, not in reality, but in
psychosis and schizophrenia, is the ego. And
this ego belief generated lots of
thoughts, a whole thought system based on the
belief in separation. And then these
thoughts generated a lot of emotions;
fear, guilt, shame, pain, anything you can
imagine, what we call the negative
emotions, are all generated from this
belief in separation. Everything that is
a negative emotion is generated and then
an entire world, the mountains, the oceans, the
stars, the planets, that
looks like an A, but we put planets, and
this, we put Saturn up there and you've got
all kinds of planets and everything, the whole
cosmos, this over here, this is a black
hole, even the black hole is a projection.
It's all out here; it's all the projection.
And so the best thing I can say about
the map of the mind is, the arrow goes
this way, the perceptions are brought
about by the emotions.
There's a ring of fear under this world,
love doesn't make this world go around,
like the romantic songs say,
there's a ring of fear underneath this
world, that's what's making this world.
It shouldn't be too surprising with
all the wars and plagues and pestilence
and everything that's going on throughout human history.
So the emotions are producing the
perceptions, the emotions are being
determined by the thoughts. Do you ever meet
those people along the way that go, "Feel
your way to God, just feel it." You go along and
you start to have a conversation and they go,
"David, feel the feelings, feel your way to
God." Well, sometimes they call them the
touchy-feely people, but the emotions are
part of the equation,
no doubt. The feelings, the emotions are part
of it, but you see where they are in the
equation. They come on an outer ring
outside of cognition, outside of thoughts.
You know sometimes when people say, "Get
out of your head and get into your heart,"
has anybody heard that description? The longest journey you'll ever take
is just the 15 inches from your head
to your heart. You're not finished, it
goes the other way around,
you've got to get out of your
fearful emotions, and get back into your
what? Your thoughts. You've got to get
inside there to the cognition because
the thoughts are producing the emotions. Now
is it important to feel the feelings? Of
course, if you're up here and you think
you're a human being and you've
forgotten about all this stuff and
you're just kind of distracted, wandering
through the world. (David singing) "I'm working my job,
collecting my pay, I believe I'm gliding down
the highway, let's give him a car, but in
fact, I'm slip, sliding away. Slip sliding away." If you
think you're out here and you just think
this is all that there is in this world, up
here, then basically you've got to
start to come underneath and go into
your mind. And that's where getting in
touch with the emotions help bring you, it's like an
inroad. Holy Spirit is going to say, "Let's
go like this,
we've got to go back inside, we've got to go
inside your mind, inside your
consciousness, and back towards this core
desire power." This is the only workplace
you're going to be still and know God is
down here
at the core. But everything out here is
produced by what's underneath it and
even when you get in touch with your
thoughts,
you can believe things about your
thoughts that aren't true. You can
actually believe that your thoughts are
ineffectual. Isn't that a pretty common
belief?
How many people do you know that when
you talk about wars in the Middle East,
or Iraq and Iran, they say, "Oh yeah, those
are my attack thoughts, I'm doing it, I'm
completely behind the Middle East
conflict and the Iraq conflict." How many
people are admitting, have you met any?
Let's say, oh it's my attack thoughts, it's not Osama bin Laden,
it's my attack thoughts.
"Well, what about Mussolini?" Well, yeah that was
my attack thoughts too, I'm responsible for
all the ones in history. "But what about
Hitler?"
Yep, they admit it, they say, "That was my
attack thoughts." The Third Reich? "Yeah, that was my attack thoughts."
You see, this is
buried down there, that the attack thoughts are
making up this whole world. In fact, Jesus
says, "History wouldn't even exist if you
didn't keep making the same mistake in
the present."
It's like on a loop of making a
wrong-minded choice and that's what
linear time is, it's just this wrong-minded
decision playing out over, and over, and
over. One instant repeated over, and over,
the unholy instant of time and space, of
the ego, just getting played over, and
over, and over.
Meanwhile, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are calling us
back into
the core so we can come back to Heaven.
So you can believe things about your
thoughts, for most people we could say, they
do not believe that their thoughts are
powerful enough to change the world. Or
to mess the world up, or to help the
world, or to improve. Anything that they
believe about their thoughts, is
usually, it's like there's just these
little things whirling around in mind,
which they associate with the brain. And
most people feel it's a good thing
that people don't know what's going on
in there, because if people knew what was
going on they'd know how crazy I was.
That's usually the extent of that with thoughts. So
there we go down, down, down,
so in the end when we talk about forgiveness,
forgiveness is a belief here. We could
say that if we took a cross-section cut
across here, we'll say that when all of
these rings are completely lined up
through desire, this is where the
willingness comes from, the little willingness, but
we would say that forgiveness is
the belief, and your real thoughts, call them real
thoughts here, the emotion is love and
the perception is, we'll just call it
healed perception. This is a miracle,
when all these are lined up with the
Holy Spirit, and that just shows that all of
these have to come from a willingness to
be healed in here, and then everything
else lines up. So, to me that was really
helpful, when I got in touch with
it was like, I've always considered myself
very graphic and that was like wow, I would
have loved that map early in my life, because that
could have helped clear up a lot of confusion,
when I was out there on the surface trying
to fix things, change things, make the
world a better place;
I got involved, and I was an activist, you
know,
stop nuclear proliferation, end world
hunger, you know,
getting involved in ecology and on
and on and on. It's a lot of effort that I put
into trying to make the world a better
place, and I really have to say
honestly that I didn't have a clue of what
was going on under the surface.
Underneath in my consciousness, but once
I got a hold of the Course, it's like, it made
a real straight shot to God, because it's
so, you can just feel it in the core of
your being. Like wow, there's actually
someone who really knows the way out, and
the gratitude for that wayshower,
you know, for me it was
enormous.
To actually have someone who has
been through it all and knows the way
out. Of course that presence could say, "I
am the way the truth and the life,"
because it was, it is, the way the truth
and the life. And it is beautiful to have
such a clear expression.