Guidance is the way to say, Spirit is saying, “I know you are terrified but if you can just
follow me step by step I will unwind you very very carefully and I will build your confidence
in the Spirit. I will build your confidence in the guidance. I will build your confidence
in how Spirit is taking you way beyond the beliefs that you are a person in a world
but that you are truly a divine mind, that you are an idea in the mind of God.” That’s who you really
are but it’s gonna take a lot of unwinding to get there. So, the real question, and I think Nicolas
brought this up at the beginning, Nicolas brought the little book out “Purpose is the Only Choice”.
That really in any situation whether it’s a presidential election that seems to be
happening in Mexico, “Which candidate do I vote for?”, whether it’s “do I get this surgery done?”,
or “is there an alternative method or is there something you want me to see,
is there some kind of fear that’s so deep, the belief that I am holding onto that I
could release? If there is something you want to show me Holy Spirit then, please, show it to me!
I really want to see it.” That’s the prayer of the heart. And it’s not really about the election or
the world cup’s going on. Here we have a giant cup behind us. They put it as the prop. But basically
any symbol in the world that helps you feel like “I am progressing”, “I am opening towards God”,
“I am healing”, “I am moving in the direction of healing”, that’s helpful.
In anything where you place so much faith in something that is external that is what they call
an idol. That was brought up in the earlier shows. That’s the idol made to take the place of God.
So when we pursue things, whether it's solving problems in the world, whether it’s trying to find
the perfect house, the perfect career, the perfect partner, the perfect pet,
the perfect amount of money in the bank account, or whatever, all those are just idols. Because you
are literally putting faith in “I will be happy when I get that thing”- that is clearly an idol.
And when you go for healing, it’s a loosening from the belief in idols and you are just saying “okay,
I am afraid but just use the symbols to reach me. Somehow reach me in a way that can be helpful,
in a way that I feel like I am coming back home, I am coming back to you God.” I have had,
I remember many many years ago, probably over 20 years ago, I went to A Course in Miracles group
and I was sitting in the group. It was a large group. And the facilitator was like, saying, “oh,
David, I am so glad you are here. We love to hear from you. I really wanna turn the group over to
you” and everything and I am in this Course group and I kept hearing from the Holy Spirit, “Wait.”
And I am like, okay, because they all are in the room, the facilitator saying, “take it away”,
and the Holy Spirit kept saying, “wait”, and I am saying “thank you everybody. I am glad
to be here. I want to talk to you about a few things but the Holy Spirit is like “wait, wait,
wait” and I didn’t know what the waiting was for. I am ready to go but it’s like “wait, wait”. And
then the door opens and the woman comes in and she’s got tears in her eyes. And this Course
study group was all about what was gonna happen next with the woman who came in. I was like “wait,
wait.” And she had just come from the doctor and she’s just been diagnosed with a terminal illness.
She is coming to the Course group, she’s got tears in her eyes, she walks in the door and I can feel
the whole energy shift and Jesus is like “this is what it’s for, this is what this whole meeting
is for.” That’s what the “wait, wait,wait” was for. And then she spoke up and she said,
“I am a Course Student. I have been reading the book and it’s telling me that all my
problems are in my mind and all my problems are my thoughts and beliefs and I just come
from the doctor. He told me that I’ve got so long to live and I’ve got a terminal illness.
I can’t go home. I have been preaching to my kids,
my husband that there is no such thing as external sickness, it’s all in the mind and I’ve just been
diagnosed with a terminal illness. I can’t even go home. I feel too ashamed to walk
into my family’s house because I feel like I am such a terrible A Course in Miracles student.”
And she said here is what the doctor said, “I will have to go through the treatments,
I will have to go into the hospital and I need to schedule a time in the hospital for some surgery…”
Everybody just sat in silence as this woman came in this course group and poured it all out.
“Here is what’s going on for me”, she said. And then, after she for ten, fifteen minutes poured
it all out and everybody was completely quiet. She looked over at me and she said,
“aren’t I just giving into the ego to go in for this surgery that this doctor told
me about? It goes against all the teachings and I’ve been talking about this for years
and I feel like a fool and I feel embarrassed to even face my husband and my children.” And I said,
“yes, you are to go for that hospital appointment but you can’t think of it
as going in for treatment or surgery for an external illness because there is no
external illness. “Mind was sick,” Jesus says, “that thought that the body could be sick.
That’s his line in the Course,”Mind was sick that thought the body could be sick. It’s all mental.”
But I said, “but when you go in there, you are a lightworker, you are the Holy Spirit’s agent. You
are to go into that hospital and you are to bless all the doctors, all the nurses. Jesus is just
using this situation of what you believe is, just to go in there and shine the light.” And I said,
“You can’t think of it as you going in there as a victim, as somebody who’s done something wrong,
as somebody who doesn’t get it because how are you going to be the joy of the world? How are
you going to be the light of the world if you believe that? So, you go into that hospital
and you keep that appointment and you shine your light and you don’t forget
the reason that you are there. Don’t forget the purpose that you are there because Spirit
is counting on you to be used, to allow your body to be used to be spoken through,
to be smiled through. Your holy encounter with the receptionist, with everybody at that hospital
is part of the script and you are gonna use it for that purpose. You can’t hold onto this idea that
you’ve done something wrong. Spirit never looks at us as if we’ve done something wrong. Spirit never
says, “oh, that you’ve done wrong.” Spirit is like that GPS that even when you make turns and you
are way off, it just says, “make the next legal U-turn.” It doesn’t go, “you dummy, I just told
you to turn left and you missed it.” GPS never condemns, never criticises. It always just goes,
“make the next turn. Turn right.” It will always bring you back on track to get to
your destination. And the Holy Spirit always brings us back. Never criticises, never judges.
So, this is the great topic that you are bringing up because there is nothing wrong with magic. The
only reason the mind would continue to believe in magic is because of the belief that it works.
Why did Gandhi use herbs for healing for decades? Because it seemed to work. Why do people go to
doctors and have surgeries for things like broken legs or heart surgeries or whatever? It’s because,
what? It seems to work. They seem to come away from the doctor or from the nutrition center or
maybe they had some body energy balancing or something, it’s all magical but it seems to work.
And then there will come a point in everybody’s journey back to God when the things that
seemed to work in linear time, they start to not work anymore. That’s when people really start to
pay attention to their thoughts even closer. That’s when they look at their mind even
deeper and closer when the same things that worked over and over and over magically,
they don’t seem to be working. And that just means that Spirit is saying, “okay,
we are ready for the next step to go to a higher level of consciousness in awareness.
So, even when those things fall apart you are not failing. It’s just that you are ready to start to
tune into a higher level of consciousness, higher frequency. So, you see, it’s all positive. There
is nothing ever going wrong. It’s all just “how ready am I to go and take complete responsibility
for my state of mind.” Like Nada was sharing that example of that past life when you went back and
you could feel the shame of that girl and thinking that she had done something wrong; she was
responsible for that scenario, that abuse or that rape or whatever. And again the Course is teaching
“you aren’t responsible for the error, you are only responsible for accepting the correction,”
but also it teaches, “you can’t accept the correction until you bring it all the way back
into your mind.” That’s the Holy Spirit saying, “come back. Bring it to me. Hand it over to me.
I will take it away.” There is tremendous resistance that is almost like saying, “no,
I feel too shameful. I have done something terribly wrong and it was my fault.”
But it’s never our fault, you know. There is no sin. Sin is the mistake to be corrected. It’s
just an opportunity to choose again. It’s not some kind of black mark on your soul.
But the ego believes in punishment, the ego believes in personal responsibility, the ego
believes something terribly wrong was done and that it can’t be corrected. And the Holy Spirit
doesn’t even see sin, all he sees is opportunities for accepting the correction. It’s that positive.