There's just one ego, and that there's really just one projection so
in your mind when you believe in the ego you have a lot of
categories, compartments, judgments including
You know with bodies, tall, short, fat, skinny, fast, slow
Beautiful, ugly
And all of the nuances that we talk about
male, female, masculine, feminine you know in even to
Spiritual, spiritualities and religions the ying and the yang you know how they have the ying and the yang sign
coming together as one, but there is no duality that's reality
everything that involves duality is part of the projection. It is projecting the split mind and it is
projecting it into a world a
Cosmos where there seems to be trillions and trillions of fragments that don't have any existence in and of themselves
and
Really have no relation to one another either. It's just a it's a big
projection of images
That were made to veil the face of Christ so to speak and to veil love and God and all this stuff about meaning
relationships
morality
And all the guilt associated with you know the do's and the don'ts and the should's and the shouldnt's and everything is all part of
this projection
and
That's why the first lesson of the Course in Miracles says
Nothing, I see means
Anything you know I've had people say he's just warming us up right? He's gonna tell us what it all means
No, he's not he's never going to tell you that it means anything. He never changes his
Teaching he starts off lesson one
With nothing I see means anything, and he doesn't put a 1a or 1b in there
Except you know a beautiful man, or a beautiful woman or except a daisy, or a tulip
there's no
Qualifications nothing I see means anything so we have a perceptual
Hallucination, that's going on
And all of this guilt comes around from making false associations as if they're real
believing in them and then buying all these nuances and categories and then and
Hanging on to that as if these are good, these are bad
These are the should's and these are the shouldnt's. If you do these things you'll get back to heaven
but if you do these things you're gonna burn in hell. You know the ego has invented this whole system to perpetuate guilt and to
to God there are there really are no good behaviors and bad behaviors
Why? Because God didn't create the cosmos. God doesn't even know about the cosmos.
It's the Holy Spirit
That's working with the split mind to help it release the cosmos and come back to the Nirvana or Heaven
But why would God
punish people for
behavior that he doesn't even know about? You know this is where we're getting
much much deeper into things. Quantum physics is saying that it looks solid.
You know the walls look solid, the floor looks solid, that the bodies look solid, but really it's just like a projection of
energy that's moving at a slower rate of dense energy, and it's part of a mirage. It's Maya
It's illusion it doesn't have any meaning whatsoever, but it just looks like it like it's there, but it's not.
And so once you start to take this thing about the balls the ball and the
The floor or the concrete never touching you can start to realize that
Nobody touches nobody and he says to her in there
It never touched you and she goes right that hurt
She just interpreted the hurt as if a ball was hitting her stomach, but that was just a wrong minded perception again
Nothing's really happening in form. All of the discomforts and the hurts are coming from the minds
concepts and ideas. All the pains, there's no such thing really as physical pain. It's just a
mental projection as if the body feels.
We were talking about that this morning, like you know when I don't follow a prompt or something I feel
a hurt in my body or
When I don't follow a prompt I have sexual feelings and but that's also those feelings are part of the projection
too. So everything is happening in the mind, and that's the only place that it's going to get resolved.
So this has enormous implications.
So if you're watching a scene any scene and you start to have jealousy feelings come up.
Where are those jealousy feelings?
They have to be in the mind of the perceiver.
Or if you have a thought like oh
I'd like to take and hold so and so's hand, but I I don't know
so-and-so's in the room over there and so-and-so
and I don't know what they'll think. They may think poorly of me. They may think I'm
a slut or I'm loose if I start holding people's hands or something that aren't a partner of mine.
But being concerned about what other people think. Where are those other people?
With those thoughts you know there's still in the mind of the perceiver
Everything that you perceive that you feel
guilty about, hesitant about, that you feel like I better be careful about that those are all
just thoughts in the mind. We'll call it the mind, because there aren't really even private minds. That's just part of the trick.
So, if
jealousy comes up you know
psychotherapists,
counselors or whatever may try to address the problem on the level of form.
As if there's actually people.
Like oh, I feel. I felt really jealous when I when I found so-and-so doing this with so-and-so and
truly advanced psychotherapists the spiritual psychotherapists would just say oh good,
you've got some jealousy issues to work on there.
Somebody who's not into metaphysics and doesn't understand how this whole thing is working could say
yeah, let's get them in here and let's tell them how you feel and
maybe you might even say, well you have a good reason to be jealous because look what they did.
You know as if something outside of you actually happened
and as if jealousy is an appropriate response to
what was perceived happening. You see the difference between seeing is just an
emotion that's coming up in your mind for healing and release and it's not about
what anybody did. It is what your meaning or interpretation was,
of what they did. And that
interpretation is
always wrong because it's always wrong minded.
God is not a jealous God, and I'll tell you one thing Jesus is not jealous either.
He doesn't have any jealousy, the Christ isn't jealous and
jealousy is clearly an emotion that comes from a
comparison that's going on.
You know the comparison is hey, I'm getting the short end of a stick. I want
what they are getting or I want to have that over there, and I don't have it and clearly it's just a misperception.
So, you can see
how different your life will be as you begin to understand these deep metaphysics.
Instead of trying to make all these rules. We'll call them external rules,
moralistic rules to try to live by that regulate behavior.
You'll start to realize well the problems mental.
The problem is not behavioral at all.
It's never behavioral, and as long as you're perceiving something and you have a reaction coming up.
That reaction is something to be forgiven. You know you've got to get at the thoughts and the beliefs underneath that
anger, that
jealousy, that
envy
You know all those emotions
that seem to be just regular normal human emotions. They're all ego
emotions, there's no envy in God.
There's no jealousy in God.
There's no anger in God. So,
that's what we're looking at. And that little snippet from quantum physics kind of gives you an idea that it's just a perceptual world.
And then when you
try to
justify an upsetting emotion by saying well, here's the fact.
What I saw and what
actually happened was, so-and-so did such-and-such with so-and-so and I saw it with my own two
eyes.
So don't even
think of trying to get off this hook because I saw it, I witnessed it with my own eyes. In fact,
I had my video camera running in my pen and so I captured it. In case you think you can say I didn't do it.
I will play you the recording from this secret pen that I got. No,
what you perceive through the five senses is not a fact.
There are no facts
perceived with the five senses. Nothing is a fact in perception.
Why? Because God didn't create it.
God is a fact.
Christ,
Spirit is a fact. And that's why Jesus says in the course no one can be angry at a fact.
When I was working with the students in the 1990s, they hated that. What is he talking about? No one can be angry at a fact?
Give us an example of a fact. I said, God is a fact.
Christ is a fact. And no one could be angry at God or Christ.
Because if you knew God or Christ, you would realize it's just pure love and there's no anger there.
Anger always arises from a misperception.
Without fail,
anger comes from a misperception.
Without fail, jealousy comes from misperception.
Envy comes from misperception. There's never a time
when
The Holy Spirit would say, yeah, you should feel envious here. Yeah, I have to agree with you.
I wish I had one of those too. Or the jealousy you know like,
yeah I saw that too.
Report back to God.
God won't punish them. We'll just we'll make it really nasty for them
for what they did to you you know. It just doesn't work that way. The Holy Spirit doesn't
perceive
moralistically.
You know, the Holy Spirit is not a moral entity.
Holy Spirit doesn't perceive good behaviors and bad behaviors.
Which also means, we're talking about rituals and spirituality doing all these kind of
rituals and
specific prayers to try to get specific things.
You know, it starts to become much to do about nothing when you start to realize how this really works.
You know to keep praying and praying and praying for an outcome, you
know to be wealthy, or to have a beautiful spouse, or
to have children, or whatever. You know those prayers for specifics at some point of your spiritual evolution,
start to be like what is that even about?
You know you can start to go up the ladder and start to pray for states of mind. You know help me
experience integrity, help me experience honesty, help me
experience patience and tolerance.
You know, those are still on the ladder because there's no patience in heaven.
You don't have to be patient in eternity because
there's no impatience. There's no
time. And patience has no meaning in heaven, but you can actually pray for certain qualities and
that's really your prayer is help me be more right minded. When you're right minded, you're very patient when you're in alignment.