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Jesus does in the course of miracles in
the the manual for teachers who would
look back with longing on a slaughter
house uh in he's saying anytime you look
back on the past and believe the reality
of it you're looking back with longing
on a slaughter house that's pretty
strong
Jesus even uses the word slaughterhouse
I was quite amazed and then it reminded
me of the part of the course where it
says all of the roadways of the world
lead to
death men have died upon seeing this but
if they just taken one more step they
could have been led to Heights of
Happiness that's really getting down to
your dark night for your symbolic dark
night when you just start to realize
that everything that you could possibly
pursue in this world everything that you
could humanly pursue or I'll say
personally pursue all leads to the same
thing because all assume that you have a
separate entity a separate personal
identity that God didn't create and and
the ego is the Death Wish and guess who
made up all these bodies all these seven
billion bodies it wasn't God that
created the Earth it wasn't God like in
Genesis it said God created the heavens
and in the Earth but God didn't create
the Earth didn't create the black holes
the cosmos didn't create linear time the
ego projected the whole thing the ego is
behind the Big Bang the ego is behind
everything of time and space now that's
that's helpful to know as you're
starting to let go of this faulty belief
system because then when the thoughts
start to come up about helping something
you know helping heal the planets saving
the way eem the ecosystem right
climate trying to reduce emissions in
cars carbon emissions you know to for
the hole in the ozone layer and all
kinds of things you start to realize
wow if this is all generated by the
projection of thought and all this
projection of thought which we could
call miscreation is coming from the
belief in separation from God then I
need to learn forgiveness I need to
learn to release that belief that I am
actually separate from God I would want
to put my full energy in one thing you
know how they always warn do put all
your eggs in one basket put all your
eggs in that basket of forgiving the
belief in
separation now I will say from my
perspective in the parable of David that
David was an activist so I was quite
active in all those things that you're
talking about I saw it as
as
altruism I saw it as having
compassion for everything and every one
of us around me you know I saw it as as
wanting to alleviate suffering and so
forth and that was my a baseline
starting point and then the more I gave
myself over to the Holy Spirit and Jesus
and of course it was a convincing job it
was it was saying you've got a good
heart there but you're misplacing a lot
of your energy uh into this belief that
that you can help Solve the Riddle or
solve the puzzle help the puzzle of the
external world when his whole workbook
was teaching me that the thoughts that I
think I think and the world that I think
I see are actually the same my thoughts
are images that I have made my
meaningless thoughts are showing me a
meaningless world he was just making the
connection between these egoic thoughts
and these images that we call the world
it seems to The Human Experience that
the world is out there it's outside of
the body and it's big it's bigger than
big it's a pretty seems like a vast
Cosmos but this whole division between
inner and outer is the problem and and
we're all like ideas of Oneness but but
this is actually a practical way of
coming into that Oneness experience so I
wouldn't dismiss any of those feelings
if you have any feelings come up of if
it's frustration like of inability to
change the world if there's a sense of
helplessness that that arises or if
there's a sense that even though I I
have the power I've got the power and
you are trying to apply it to the world
and it's not fully coming around you
know in your awareness and everything
then then that's what takes you inward
that just draws you
inward but I found for me I kept looking
at what is the grievance what is the
grievance it goes so deep that at one
point Jesus told me you still believe
people are people and I was like oh gosh
you know it's like this just you think
youd get down to the bottom of it
but it's like people are people but what
you start to realize is he he would
follow up with with saying this he said
listen like the Bible said in
Corinthians you're looking through a
darkened glass you you're looking
through a dark filter you don't really
think God would create suffering you
know suffering why would God create
suffering why would something a presence
that's all loving and all knowing and
all powerful just decide one day to
create suffering or even to have a day
there aren't even there's not even a day
to do it but what I started to see was
was the whole thing was the first part
of my work with the course was Jesus
kept saying you know you have to see
this is a perceptual
problem that everything that you're
perceiving in this linear world is part
of a distortion that's like a major
perceptual problem and I've done whole
talks on this like I've done talks to
Psycho psychotherapists and
psychologists and
counselors like for example we have this
thing called psychosis now psychosis is
defined as a break from reality yeah
that's what we've got going on we've got
the whole Cosmos and everyone that's
involved on planet Earth has got
psychosis because they've had a major
break from
reality and they think that there's a
few people locked up with psychosis and
nobody's admitting that it's all
psychosis that everyone's psychosis then
schizophrenia schizophrenia is having a
split mind and hearing
voices what do you think the human
condition is it's having a split mind
and we've got s billion voices aside
from demons and ghosts and
extraterrestrial probably in the
trillions all these voices that we're
hearing that they aren't even real
voices that's that comes from a split
mind that believes in both love and fear
so you know you can go down through all
of these different things and you can
start to realize that it's part of a
perceptual problem
so my solution for the last 20 years
since I've going with all these course
of Miracle groups is I've also stopped
at some 12-step groups and the 12-step
groups hi my name is so and so I'm an
alcoholic or sex addict or whatever I
say course groups really have to start
to get with us and go around and start
to first come to admission hi my name is
so and so and I have a perceptual
problem you are not even going to come
close to accepting the solution until
you admit the problem isn't that what we
know about addict groups if somebody
says if they if they're an alcoholic but
they say I don't have a drinking problem
I don't have a drinking problem but what
if you believe you're a human being and
you don't
admit that you actually have a
perceptual problem then Jesus and the
Holy Spirit have to wait it's like okay
have it have your way try it out if you
want you can play it out for centuries
if you want Millennium but it's not
going to change change anything so at
some point we have to start to say you
know maybe I've been
hallucinating maybe I've been seeing
something that's not there maybe I I
have lost touch with God and I've had
such a deep Amnesia and I'm in so many
layers of dreaming now that I forgot
that I'm dreaming that I'm actually
taking the dream to be very serious like
when we sleep at night you know it seems
they could be very serious ious dreams
they can be night terrors and Nightmares
even from from believing the content of
the dream and and now we have a pathway
that's saying listen I'm going to work
with you but but you're it's much to do
about nothing like Shakespeare said you
really are getting all upset about
nothing and you are persistent in trying
to hold on to being upset about nothing
and that's what this whole journey is
then we will laugh in the end which
we're we're getting a glimpse of that
glimpses of it but that's that's where
this is heading it's also a convincing
job too so we're ready to take our break
now but but I always say put it on the
spirit if you're confused don't think
that you have to personally figure out
how this is going to come around right
you you just put it on the spirit and
say show me reveal to me convince me
that was my only prayer and make it
obvious was my other prayer and and all
I would do is stay with that prayer and
it did
work okay thank you that was a very good
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