We weren't really designed for this world as I said we were created in grace,
and Jesus says you will never be able to adapt or adjust to this world. You will never be able
to adapt and adjust to time and space. Why? God didn't create it. Why? you're a perfect
holy innocent child of God and you’re only happy in your natural environment. And that is Spirit,
that is eternity. You want to find eternal happiness. You really want to find happiness that
lasts. You have to go to the environment where the happiness is. The kingdom of heaven is within.
The Christ is our identity in the kingdom of heaven. Christ has not left the kingdom of heaven.
A Course in Miracles is a pathway of bringing illusions to the truth.
It doesn't want you to, there's nothing in the course that says manifest. There's nothing in
the course that says that you should try to find the truth in the illusion. There's nothing in the
course that says bring God into this world and go around preaching God, and talking about God,
and bringing God into your daily life. No, Jesus is saying what you perceive as your daily life
is an illusion that is made up of beliefs and thoughts in your mind and you need to bring
those beliefs and thoughts to the light within, and they will disappear. But don't
try to bring the light into the projection. This is a world of projection and the attempt
Jesus tells us projection is the attempt to get rid of something that you do not want.
Well the only way that you can actually get rid of something that you do not want, if you finally
get to the point where you say, I do not want the ego, don't project the ego, because that's
not how you're going to let it go. You have to forgive it. You have to reel in the projections.
Yes of course you'll be tempted to get upset with people, you'll be tempted to get upset with
temperatures, with noises, with sounds, with animals, with pets. You'll be tempted
many many times to get upset with something on the screen of the world, tempted to be upset with the
images, something's not right with this picture as the ego is always saying, something's not
right with the picture. But it's always pointing to the picture and Jesus is saying no, I'm giving
you a workbook that if you practice my workbook it will train your mind to withdraw the projection.
And when you start to realize I'm never upset for the reason I think and then when you
start to realize I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts, you will start to bring your attention
back to your mind and that's exactly where the attention needs to be. Not on the people,
not on the situations, not on the things, not on the political dramas, Brexit,
and saving the environment and going green, and doing all these things that are very either
popular or unpopular depending on your beliefs. But Jesus is saying no, you need to withdraw the
projections and bring it back. Why do I have to do that because he's saying,
to forgive you first have to realize that these are all thoughts and beliefs in your
mind. You're not going to be able to let it go as long as you're seeing it as outside of you.
As long as you're seeing yourself as a person, and all these things going wrong in this body,
and outside of this body, you're at the mercy of the ego.You have bought the ego's belief system
hook, line, and sinker and you're sinking. You're a captive to the ego if you believe
in the projection. But to the extent that you can withdraw the projection and just pay attention to
your thoughts, and just pay attention to your feelings, and just pay attention to
your beliefs, you are withdrawing the projection and you're bringing it back to
your mind. Why is it so helpful? Why is that so absolutely helpful? Well the ego made up
this time space cosmos to keep you mindless. It doesn't want to know that you even have a mind.
You know even in many scientists they won't talk about the mind, they talk about the brain.But
the brain is part of the body. The brain is a projection.
You know those little neurotransmitters, that's not thinking, that's the projection of
thought. Those little neurotransmitters. That gray matter in there, that doesn't do any thinking.
That gray matter is just gray matter. It's a projection, a projection of the mind.
So remember when you look at this world that this world was made by the ego to keep you mindless,
to keep you mindless. Have any of you when you were growing up you know you go to these
classes and you go to science classes, you go to biology class, you learn
all these things, a bunch of hogwash. I'll tell you I can tell
you after ten years of university I now see that it was brainwashing. It was mind washing.
I was I was off on ego pursuits trying to learn the much to do about nothing, until I
finally saw it was much to do about nothing. But people will say well
a mother's instincts or an animal's instincts, the body
doesn't have instincts, the body's a projection, everything, instincts are
ego concepts projected onto the body. The reflex instinct, no, your body doesn't even have a reflex
instinct, that's just another concept. The whole ego belief system is concepts projected
onto a screen for one reason, to make you mindless, to forget about your mind. Why is it so
important that the ego is telling you to forget about your mind because it wants you to forget
about your thoughts. And why would you want to forget about your thoughts except that
somewhere deep down inside you believe that you've separated from God and you've tried to
rip your thoughts apart away from the creator and that you've had the power to miscreate
and you've had the power to make a whole new kingdom other than the real kingdom you see.The
ego's got a big story going on in there like you need to make sure you stand clear of God
because it's saying God will kill you, will strike you blind. God will destroy you if you ever come
back. That's the whole ego teaching. He’s, ego’s saying, don't think you can just go back and get
off scot-free. And the Holy Spirit is teaching, you never did what you thought you did. You could
believe it but you couldn't make it so. God isn't angry, God loves you.
Jesus told the parable of the prodigal son over and over when he was on earth.
That the even the son that seemed to squander his inheritance
and was out feeding the pigs was welcome back, back home, come home. I love you so.
That's the truth of it. We're being called home and welcomed home and the ego's got
this big fearful puff of nothingness that's trying to convince us that we're
guilty, that we've sinned, that God will kill us if we return. So these are the two
thought systems that you're dealing with. One that is all pure love and the other one which is
fear, guilt, sin, pain, suffering and basically telling you don't ever go close to God again
because you're going to suffer. So why is all the attention on the world and outcomes of the world
because if you keep focusing on outcomes of the world, even basic things like I got the job or
I got the partner, I got the child, I got the family, I got the house that I always wanted, I
got a big screen TV in the house that I always wanted. You know these are just outcomes
and the reason that the ego focuses on the outcomes because it doesn't want you to come
in and discover that it's all happening in the mind. There in lesson 132 Jesus says there is
no world apart from what you think.That ideas leave not their source and everything that you're
experiencing is an experience in mind, without exception. The quantum physicists who have been
studying for decades, seven going on eight decades, of quantum physics, have been saying
the same thing, there is no external world, there is no world apart from consciousness.
Now Jesus of course says consciousness is the domain of the ego which is different then a lot
of spiritualities, but still he's focusing on the correction. He's still focusing on
the forgiveness, on the unified field, on the unified awareness. Jesus even says you're not
responsible for the error, you are responsible for accepting the correction of the error.
How loving can you be? How loving can you be? Even when you get it back to your mind he's
going to keep saying you're not responsible for the error, you're not responsible for the error
at all. Here's the atonement. Our purpose is to accept the atonement. Your purpose is to do
exactly what Jesus did and accept the atonement, accept the correction, and it's in your thoughts.