and isaac newton
built his whole teaching on empiricism
on measuring a linear world and that's
how we get the modern scientific method
he's all coming
sir sir isaac newton versus the
reflection in time and space that said
this is how
the world is and this is how we discover
the world through measuring it through
looking using the five senses to discern
what's actually happening over there
do you realize that isaac newton was
completely
off and that that
about six seven decades ago quantum
physics was discovered by a group of
scientists that were so embarrassed by
their findings so shocked by what they
discovered in their experiments that
they wouldn't they were afraid to
publish their
their findings to their scientific
community
to be like telling your mom and dad
none of us are really here
finish your green beans
or no dessert you know you know that's
how they felt about publishing their
results
that there was no
objective world that there was no world
apart from consciousness
that the entire perceived world of
linear time is entirely subjective
and it's based on the beliefs and
preferences of the mind that's
perceiving it
that there is no objective world
think about that the next time you have
a problem with your partner
there is no objective world
it's lesson number two from a course in
miracles i have given everything i see
all the meaning it has for me if you've
got difficulties with your partner
they're aggravating to you
they're frustrating they're disgusting
in something that they think say or do
their behaviors or whatever
you have to
believe it before you can perceive it
you have to in order to just if you spot
it you got it that's that's the one i
use that's the easiest way to remember
next time you are tempted to get upset
go
if i spot it i got it
if i spot laziness
if i spot a
vulnerability if i spot
anything even the positive aspects you
know if you spot something that's
prideful
you think that somebody's much better
than you at
speaking or doing this or doing this and
this and this you have to actually
believe that before you can perceive it
in the world
it has to it never really leaves your
mind ideas leave not their source
and in heaven christ has never left the
mind of god and and in this world we'll
say the split mind the ideas never leave
the mind of the thinker
so that's why i am responsible for what
i see i choose the feelings i experience
i decide upon the goal i will achieve
and everything that seems to happen to
me i ask for
and receive as i have asked
where is all this heading well
as you
ascend in your mind
you will feel less and less human
progressively it's not really ultimately
a matter of more or less but the way
that it will play out
most are given a gradual
curriculum in time
nobody is hurled into eternity so you
don't have to worry about getting hurled
into eternity but most are given a
progressive awakening experience in
which
you feel less and less and less human
and more and more consistently
joyful
because the joy is is coming from your
purpose from your purpose of forgiving
the world
but you can see that you're not
at the beginning you just have to humbly
say okay
if i can't even tell the difference
between pain and joy
then
i need
a lot of help not a little help
if i can't tell the difference between
pain and joy
so why don't we take a few minutes now
to this look at this
why can't i tell the difference between
pain and joy
it's because my mind isn't
fully riveted and aware of the holy
spirit's purpose if i
was in alignment with the holy spirit i
could definitely tell the difference
between pain and joy
but
where is this confusion coming in well
if you go into the course you find in
the text there's three
three different subheadings
one of them is called attraction to
guilt
and one of them is called attraction to
pain
and one of them is called attraction to
death
those are three subheadings
in one of jesus's chapter just think for
a minute how bizarre that sounds when i
first was reading the course i came
across the first one oh wow that's a
interesting title for a subheading
attraction
to guilt attraction to pain was the next
and then attraction to death
this course jesus is saying you are so
attracted and addicted to these things
guilt pain and death
that you don't
know
the addiction
you
as a human being you would say well
i don't think so
that's a bit strong and a bit extreme to
say i'm addicted to
guilt pain and death
but basically
what those little sections do is they
show you that pleasure
is the same as pain
because pleasure and pain
to the human being they seem extremely
different but pleasure and pain both
are the same because they both have the
same purpose
they both were invented by the ego to
reinforce
awareness of the body as your identity
and so whether it's it's with a
particular food or an orgasm or whether
it's a throbbing
migraine headache
you are really riveted
in the body
in awareness through either one
and yet you see to the ego perception
pain and pleasure are extremely
different
but jesus says in the course if you read
his course he will tell you they
actually are the same
because they serve
the same purpose of reinforcing the body
and awareness
why is this important
well we'll come back to our original
premise if if there's a confusion
between pain and joy
and joy is following the holy spirit
without exception
for consistent joy
and joy is knowing your purpose is
forgiveness that that's your only
purpose in this world is to forgive
that's where the joy will come from
and then the pain will come from the
pursuit of pleasure
or pain i mean certainly we have like
war
bodies killing bodies and
disease and many kind of aspects of pain
are quite overt
but it's not seen
to the sleeping mind that those are the
same as the pleasure
all the conveniences and comforts
of the mind
in this world that are relegated to
images fantasy we'll call it
fantasy is the attempt to make false
associations jesus says and obtain
pleasure from
those are actually the same
so by the time you get to his manual for
teachers
what is the real meaning of sacrifice it
says jesus says
god's teachers can have no regrets on
giving up the pleasures of the world
you can see how deep that goes you know
that's exactly where this course is
heading now
how do you get there you get there
through miracles and you don't get there
through this belief in sacrifice this
isn't about
necessarily joining a convent or a
monastery and trying to pray or meditate
all day
because those are very traditional
attempts to reach god
but
until this underlying mechanism is
discovered in the mind this ego purpose
i just talked about then you will just
find the acting out where people try
to avoid things in the world
and you can almost try to build like a
shield around yourself
to protect your mind from the world and
that won't work either that won't get
you into the kingdom of heaven even
building this shield
so
i think we could say
from our experience in
living together and traveling and
experiencing these miracles that that
these miracles
are so simple and so joyful
that you are drawn and attracted into
the joy you're actually attracted
into the forgiveness
you get all kinds of whims provided
because the holy spirit can even use
your ego's preference system
to
send you symbols in mind and say thank
you
beloved one for coming towards me thank
you for
for coming and opening up your heart
towards me that's been our experience
that that our journey has not been uh
woe
look at all the sacrifice look at all
that i have to give up
in order to serve god which is like a
fear
ours has been that there's really been
no sacrifice at all i have not felt
an ounce of sacrifice in this
awakening
it's really just
more and more profound realization that
the life that lives in compromise
and in forgetfulness of our identity is
the sacrifice that's truly where the
pain no matter how little that that is
in awareness it's still there you know
we can't deny that we don't feel
completely satisfied for reasons we
don't even know why so
so because because of that there is all
this search and all these seekings
that's going on but it's just keep
looping around in this world you know
from maybe material things then
gradually okay we've seen the
the uh
you know
the effort
or the effort of that or the
meaninglessness of that then we start to
do spiritual seekings but it's still in
in the realm of this world in this you
know wrong-mindedness thinking if the
mind is not completely transformed and
lifted above
then there is really
no true transformation
so that's why you know just talk all
this about
our
you know inability to even discern or
even tell the difference between pain
pleasure and everything
is really just to come down to you know
we cannot judge anything honestly we we
really are not able to judge anything
so forgiveness is the only thing that is
of any meaning in his life
everything else in this life
is to reinforce judgment of this world
and forgiveness is the only thing that
can lead us out and what is forgiveness
people actually
ask this question a lot like how to
forgive what is forgiveness forgiving
forgiveness actually takes a lot
practical
applications and one of the applications
that we use a lot is have
holy spirit
judged through us
you know we relinquish our own judgment
because people would say well you still
have to
make certain judgment to be able to
function in this world no we don't we
don't have to keep any judgment
about this world we don't we we let it
all go we allow the holy spirit to tell
us
what to do
and where to go who to talk to how to
function where to live like everything
is completely handed over to the spirit
and because there is no string attached
in our mind like i don't have
a pr
family to go back to i don't have a
private account to think how to use it
so therefore there is nothing in my mind
that blocks the holy spirit's
instruction to me if he says you never
see
your mother for another year that's not
a sacrifice because
he will tell me where my mind needs to
be directed to and how to
through that you know feel the openness
and the connectedness
with with spirit so it's always just
allow him to direct every aspect of our
lives and that's why you know we have a
big group we all live together and a lot
of a lot of the communications around
logistics you know when we travel this
10 countries 11 country tour and two
continents europe and south africa
so all these communications are just
completely used to tune into the spirit
world experience will for us
how to you know how to go there and
where to go and who to go it's just
completely
you know
all the life's purpose is just
forgiveness is just listen to the
spirits and allow him to judge through
us for us
and in that the self the judgment of
from the ego is relinquished
so there is no separate forgiveness i
have to make sure that
you know i
my life this area is all good then how
do i apply forgiveness
to the little grievances that i have
with this person or my neighbor know
everything has to be forgiven the good
part
i have a beautiful
something today that has to be forgiven
because that is a ego judgment as well
good and bad comparison thoughts
competition i did well today i didn't do
so well yesterday all of that has to be
forgiven and allow the spirit to come in
to tell me you know i have no idea
what to say and what to do just he has
to direct me and tell me
so it's just a complete dependence
complete dependence on god and on the
spirit
is