Some people say 'Well I'm afraid of public speaking so I'm going to go to Toastmasters.'
That's almost like, I'll throw myself out there and I'll learn the techniques
And I'll grit my teeth and I'll go through it.
Or I'll go skydiving if I'm afraid of heights, or those kind of things.
If I'm afraid of burning myself, I'll go walking on hot coals in India, you know, to get over that fear.
It's not the way it really works.
It's more like the Spirit wants to use you in a miraculous way to strengthen your identification with the right mind.
And your alignment with Source.
And there's where the transcendence of fear comes in.
You don't transcend it on a horizontal plane. You have to transcend it vertically in your mind through your function.
So the question, whenever the question comes up about doubt or fear
It's always transcendence through Love, through being used by the Holy Spirit,
That brings about the release of the fear.
Even though the personality self may think it's afraid of specific things
And it needs to overcome a number of specific things,
It's really the fear that's being held onto in the mind, the ego identification is what the fear is.
And the miracle dissolves that away.
It's the same when people talk about a sense of interpersonal relationships and a fear around sexuality
or a fear around physical intimacy,
and the Spirit then translates that, No, you're really afraid of the Light.
You're really afraid of the intimacy of the connection with Spirit, the connection with Love and Light
and then the ego projects it out as if there's an interpersonal conflict.
And that's why people can go to therapy for years and years - decades -
Trying to work out, change the balance, change things in terms of the interpersonal,
When really that's never been the problem. the problem has been a fear of knowing who you are.
A fear of the Christ, of the Light.
This is where the metaphysics of the Course comes in, but it also helps you in a practical way,
where you face what you're fearing and how you perceive it.
And then you bring it in to the Holy Spirit and say 'I need help. Please lift this from my mind.'
And we do that through function.
So I think guidance, mind training and our purpose and our function are very deeply connected.
Yeah and that's very empowering because to follow the guidance is something everybody can do.
Everybody can do it. It's not dependent on external situations or external people.
And I think, for us, the training of it is 24-7.
And you know, looks like we're setting up a retreat or setting up a room, operating tech equipment ...
We're doing all kinds of things, making a meal ...
At the level of form, there isn't anything special that we have to achieve.
But it's in the desire and the purpose of using that.
And use that as a way of training the mind to ask specific guidance
And listen and then dare to follow.
Because sometimes the guidance does come because it comes from a different place,
It does not match what you probably know from past experiences
Or what you think is most safe to protect certain kind of situations.
So the guidance might come in and it's very out of the box.
It's very different.
But then in our daily experiences we really have to use all kinds of activities and communication -
to really focus on that one thing - Ask the Holy Spirit's guidance, and receive and follow.
In terms of specifics that David was just mentioning,
Jason receives, a lot of specific guidance, comes through him to deliver out
We realize the mind does have a tremendous fear of receiving specific guidances.
Specific. What to do.
Sometimes at the beginning I realize it actually feels more easy to say it's all good.
It's all you know, it's my mind. I need to change my mind.
That seems a little easier.
But when it comes down to what really matters ...
When I still believe in certain situations people really matter to me
And to be able to ask for guidance and follow that becomes a real struggle.
And because of that, and the real fear of the love and the light that's gonna open up when you follow,
the mind actually tell itself you can't hear specifics.
There's a real worthiness there too, you know - trusting.
You can operate around time and space based on past experiences and what you think you know,
but don't really trust you actually can just rely on this intuition and inner listening.
So I guess for us it has been like 24-7 non-stop practice of this, of this one thing really.
Just keep asking and keep listening and keep following.
And then there will be a lot of struggles or resistance that comes up
And then in our relationships we actually started to join in those resistance and to look at it.
So that's the hope of it because following guidance is something that is so powerful and so effective.
And it is something we can all do. No one has the power to stop us to do that.