While you believe you have specific needs in this world, the Holy Spirit, Jesus, will meet those specific needs.
Not that the needs are real. Remember, the human being is a construct. The human being is made up.
There aren't any real needs in Heaven. And God doesn't even know about needs.
But the Holy Spirit is the bridge to help the mind wake up and remember God, remember Heaven.
And so the Holy Spirit seems to meet needs.
Not that the Holy Spirit is like an active participant in the world
but we could say the Holy Spirit uses the symbols of the world that the ego made
to unwind the mind from the belief in those symbols, or from the belief in linear time.
Not only did Helen Schucman, in the middle of the scribing process, want a used Borgana coat -
a used winter coat - in New York City, which is not the smallest of the cities and villages on the earth -
It was New York City and it was a winter coat. And she did want green pantyhose -
And so those were specific requests.
And you can see that Jesus answered her by guiding her, telling her where to go to buy that,
not only used, but she had another parameter - she would only pay a certain amount of money.
So Jesus had to find, in New York City, a used Borgana coat that was only a certain amount of money.
She would not pay more than a certain amount.
And why is that even important? It's because it's for saving time.
Helen had such an enormous resistance to the light.
She had a great scribal ability but, because of all of the fear in the mind and all of the resistance,
it took 7 years from 1965 to 1972 to take down, in shorthand, A Course in Miracles.
So that shows that the Holy Spirit's and Jesus' guidance to you, as part of divine providence, can be very specific.
But you must also note that when you are opening to hear guidance and this form of divine providence -
There is enormous fear to hearing specifics.
Why would there be enormous fear of hearing specifics except that the ego fears loss of autonomy
And the ego basically does not want anyone telling it what to do.
So you see what the threat is if you start hearing specifics from the Holy Spirit
The ego is just going to be going ''Not good at all.'
Because those specifics are part of instructions that are designed to undo the ego
And the ego doesn't want to be undone.
So that is why there is a fear of hearing specifics.
I know a lot of you have asked - What is divine providence?
Can you give examples? What is the basis for divine providence?
We've talked about trust and that all human needs are met in this trust.
And then we could say even that state-of-mind need
Really the mind's only need is to know its natural state of peace and joy and happiness.
And really there is only one need. The only need the mind has is to recognize itself
And recognize that natural state of love and joy and grace. That's the divine providence
There is only one need and that need has already been met.
And when we open up to the experience of who we are
Then, through forgiveness, we actually realize that we don't have any needs at all
But this is a very practical course, so ...
While you believe in linear time and while you believe you have needs,
The Holy Spirit will meet those needs as a way of taking you in -
Back to that point of that I Am Presence that is prior to the belief in needs.
Because it's prior to the belief in lack
So the whole point is to unwind from these beliefs in need and scarcity and lack and guilt -
Unwind to the point where you can go back far enough
to come to this this pristine state of I Am-ness that is prior to time
And as Jesus taught in the bible, 'Before Abraham was I Am'
That's the whole point is coming to know thyself. That is really what all of this is about.