And so I would set the recorder.
I would ignore it.
I’d check the score if they won, “yay.”
If they didn’t win I’d erase it.
[group laughter] And I’d watch the game.
I was calm.
I didn’t get upset.
No matter what happened.
[group laughter] I knew they were going to win.
The other team could be fifty points ahead, no problem.
[group laughter] I don’t know when we were going to do it.
I don’t know how we were going to do it.
I just know it’s going to happen.
Why should I get upset?
It’s a much better way to watch the game.
When they're making a big comeback you're going, “yeah, yeah, here we go.”
Imagine too if you applied that to all your relationships where you knew they are all
destined for holiness.
And so they could get drunk, they could scream at you, they could pass out, they could go
to the emergency room in the hospital with glass cutting their face.
And you’re just like, “yeah, destined for holiness.
Thank God!”
And that’s really the convincing job that the Holy Spirit does with us.
When you work with a tool like A Course in Miracles, or there’s many, many great tools.The
course is just one of the many great tools on the planet.
But when you pick your path or your path reveals itself to you and you go for it, then you
start to gain a real confidence with miracles.
That’s why it's not called a course in revelation because that’s great, all blazing light
and the whole world disappears.
Maybe not quite yet.
Oh, A Course in Miracles.
Oh yes, miracles, I like that.
They prepare the way for these huge mystical experiences that are coming.
And actually that’s exactly.
I love that metaphor.
That’s the first time I’ve heard that DVR metaphor.
But that’s experientially how it feels for me.
With “the script is written,” could you just expand on that because that to me brings
me more comfort than anything else in that blue book.
That it’s done and it’s just how you look at it.
You don't have to figure out what to do, where to go, anything.
You just go and depend on the right teacher to listen to.
Just expand on that, that’s all.
Yes.
Some of you aren't aware that there is a line in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles
where Jesus says “the script is written.”
It’s a sentence.
“The script is written,” period.
And people have all kinds of reactions to that idea because it seems to have a sense
of destiny.
And most of us can all agree, I think on the spiritual journey that we have a destiny to
wake up to heaven or wake up to know our true reality.
That’s like a larger destiny that God created us perfect and innocent and try as we may
in time and space to avoid it we really can’t.
It’s actually inevitable that we’re going to wake up.
So in one sense that's good.
That’s a good kind of destiny feeling.
Now “the script is written,” starts to take that destiny idea and starts to apply
it even to form.
Because I was just giving a talk in Atlanta and I think John has heard that one too.
Where you know, we've heard that God created us with free will.
We tend to take that as God gave us choice.
Actually we have free will in heaven.
And our free will is God’s Will which is for perfect happiness.
So really that’s what free will is.
It’s not really choice, it's perfect happiness.
That we were created with free will because we were created in a state of perfect happiness.
And that's the only way we can know ourselves truly is in that state of perfect happiness.
The other stuff that’s of this world is just temporary, kind of working things out.
Now we don't have free will in this world and we could say that the only reverberation
or the only reflection of free will that’s left in the sleeping dreaming world of fragmentation
and separation is choice.
So the course says that, he even has a workbook, heaven is a choice that I must make.
We need to learn how to choose the Holy Spirit, how to choose the correction, or the atonement.
And even though Heaven is not really a choice, it has to take the form of a choice in this
world.
The choice that we have is really, like John was saying, the choice on how we look upon
the world.
Either with the ego or the Holy Spirit.
It’s a choice of purpose.
It’s like a choice of fear and guilt and shame and pain, or a choice of love and peace
and harmony.
It’s almost like the lens that we look through is really the choice that we need to learn
how to make.
Because while we keep thinking we can make choices in form, and we do have lots to make
on a practical basis everyday, we really need to learn to tune into guidance and have that
prayer be, “Holy Spirit decide for God for me.”
I want to join with the Holy Spirit in decisions and not try to make autonomous ego decisions
which always end in frustration.
So when we say, “the script is written,” and I even asked Jesus about “the script
is written.”
I said, “tell me about this, the script is written.”
The first thing he said was, the emphasis is on the last word written, saying the script
is the past.
So when you are looking at the script of your life you’re looking at the past.
Whenever you feel lonely, hurt, upset, afraid, or whatever.
You're identified with the story and not your Christ reality, you’re identified with the
doer and not the being that you are, and you need to learn to see the falsity of the story.
And except the divinity of your eternal reality which the gateway is through the present moment.
So that I would say, “the script is written is a metaphor, as if there really is a script.”
Now when you go deeper into the course and go deeper into the holy instant you actually
start to have some mystical experiences that show you that time isn’t really linear at
all.
So even “The script is written,” is just a metaphor for the mind that believes in linear
time.
Saying “hmm, don’t get too worked up about the stories in the script because it’s written
and you are really getting all bent out of shape over the past.
And you’re still trying to live as if the past is present.
And it’s over and gone.
But we're going to have to convince you that it’s over and gone because you still believe
that it's still going on, and you don't see that everything's already been answered.”
The Holy Spirit answered the problem of separation, the tiny, mad idea, the instant that it seemed
to arise.
So nothing is a big deal to the Holy Spirit.
It’s corrected.
It’s already solved.
You don't have to try to solve a deep mystery.
Or try to figure out this unfathomable idea of separation, you just have to accept the
correction.
But practically speaking that means we have to tune into guidance while we still believe
in linear time guidance is still meaningful.
Do I go here?
Or do I go there?
Do I do this?
Or do I do that?
Those decisions, as long as you still have this attachment to the past, then those are
very very practical decisions that can’t be glossed over.
So on the one hand we don't want to use, “The script is written,” as some kind of blanket
affirmation.
You know, if somebody tells you your mother has cancer you don't have to say, “well
yes the script is written,” or something like that.
Especially if you have some emotions coming up or you have a sense of loss, or a sense
of grief, or a sense of sadness or whatever.
That has to be dealt with.
That has to be handled and it’s handled through the same process of forgiveness that
we’re learning.
But you’re talking about it in an ultimate sense that you really can't change the world.
Jesus says you have no control over the world you made.
And to me that goes right back to the serenity prayer where anyone who's going through the
twelve steps knows that you have to surrender the belief in your life is manageable.You
have to open up to the higher power.
You’ve got to do your inventories, which is really bring up the darkness we were talking
about earlier.
And you have to make contact with the higher power and let the higher power tell you how
beautiful and innocent you are, and you always have been.
And then the last of the twelve steps is continuing contact with the higher power.
Continue guidance until you reach what I call the thirteenth step which is really what Jesus
did.
He accepted the atonement.
He reached a point where he said, “okay this is over and done now.”
And he found the divine innocence, the I am presence.
He was a wayshower for all of us.
He was just leading the way and saying, “follow me, I found the way, I found the escape from
guilt and now I want you all to join me in this happiness and love and peace and joy.”
That was really the message.