A Course in Miracles Deep Dive, Chapter 2, Section XI, Paragraphs 16 -18 The Mind's Miracle Impulse: Redirecting Creative Energy | September 24, 2025 - Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Aloha and welcome to ACIM A Course in Miracles, deep
dive with Hope Johnson coming toyou, arizona, and today we're
going to dive into chapter two,section 11, paragraph 16,

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starting with paragraph 16.
Yay, oh, okay, let's start withjust a little moment of silence
and prayer and touch in.
Ooh, just sense the body'senergy field.
Just sense that.
Ah, thank you, jesus.

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Thank you for being with us andguiding us as we see through
the blockages to truth in ourmind that manifest as blockages
in the energy field in thebreath.

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Thank you for deep awarenessand understanding that you
extend to us by your being.
Thank you for A Course inMiracles.
Thank you for taking thebeautiful time to channel A

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Course in Miracles through HelenShushman, thank you.
Thank you for doing that.
It's amazing.
We're super grateful andblessed and each time I go into
one of these deep dives I feelso thankful that you gave us
this roadmap.
It's so simple, it's so loving.

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It's so simple, it's so loving.
Thank you for responding to ourwillingness to see by speaking
to us, continually speaking tous, even when we're not
listening.
Yay.

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Ah, we all extend so muchgratitude.
The whole sonship is extendingso much gratitude to you now,
jesus, thank you, thank you forsee you.
I love you.
I know you're with me.
Oh, thank you, wayne.
I see what you guys write to me.
May the truth prevail.
Yes, of course it already has,in truth.

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Isn't that a blessing?
All right, let's go.
Okay, so I made some notes.
Right, let's go.
Okay, so I made some notes, ofcourse, just like I always do.
And the first thing, we're goinginto paragraph 16.
Okay, again, that's page 99 ofthe complete annotated edition
that came out in 2021.

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All right, so paragraph 16, thetext is a redistribution of
psychic energy, then, is not thesolution.
So let's give the buildup tothis.
That's paragraphs 14 and 15.
In these last paragraphs, whichwe covered last week, jesus was

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unpacking how psychologicaltheorists, especially Freud, was
misunderstanding the trueproblem.
Okay, the problem of the mind.
What the mind thinks it's for,is basically the problem.
Freud believed neurosis camefrom misdirected or blocked

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libido, psychic sexual energy.
That's the way he looked at itlibido, psychic sexual energy.
His proposed solution was toredistribute or sublimate that

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energy into, quote, acceptableoutlets.
Right, so he's seeing thispsychic energy as basically
libido.
So Jesus is saying that hissolution was to redistribute it
or to sublimate that energy,what he called acceptable.
And really this is thefoundation of society as we know
it.

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So Jesus is correcting this.
He's saying the issue is notwhere the energy flows.
That's not the issue.
It's what the mind believesabout itself.
It's the belief behind it, howthe mind regards itself.
So this is why redistributionfails, because just shuffling

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this psychic energy around,whether through repression,
creativity, catharsis,sublimation, it's only managing
symptoms within the illusion,it's within the illusion.
So the real problem isn'tdistribution of energy, it's not
how we're distributing ourenergy, it's the belief in

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miscreation itself.
It's the belief that we arecapable of miscreation itself.
The mind's conviction thatseparation and fear are real,
make it believe that it canmiscreate and because of that it
gets the perception that it hasmiscreated.

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Other minds are miscreating andit's going to miscreate again.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yes, thomas, and we're the authors of the
miscreation, so we're proud ofit we're.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
A lot of the times we're very proud of our
miscreations.
That's right.
That's right, these things thatwe think we know, that's right.
So, without addressing the rootbelief, which is the root, root
belief is in miscreation,believing in miscreation.
No technique or adjustment willever bring healing.

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Okay, back to the sentence.
The sentence says aredistribution of psychic energy
, then, is not the solution.
Okay, saying that's not thesolution.
Solution.
Okay, saying that's not thesolution.

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So I love this opening line forour deep dive today.
It sets a really bold tone,doesn't it?
It says the world isconsidering solutions,
redistribution, management,therapy at the level of symptoms
.
It's not a true solution.
So that's what we're startingwith.
This is not a true solution.
So this is inviting us rightaway into a deeper dimension.

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Healing is not one bit aboutmanaging illusions.
Healing is all aboutremembering what's true.
So Jesus is gently but alsofirmly here, redirecting

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psychology back toward aspiritual foundation.
Psychology back toward aspiritual foundation.
Let's say it is the spiritualfoundation of everything.
This is the reason why theseguys went to psychology in the
first place.
Right, they want this, theywant the awareness of what works
.
Right, they want the awarenessof what works.

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So they kind of paved the wayfor us to now see through Jesus,
showing us this roadmap in thisway, how to view ourselves and
how to view the world Really.
Okay, I'm just checking on youguys.
Feel free, zoom and Substackpeeps.

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Feel free to write me anyquestions or add anything you
want.
Okay, I check on you betweenthese sentences.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
All right.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
So we're on to sentence two of paragraph 16.
And here's what it says Boththe idea that both kinds must
exist and the belief that onekind is amenable for use or
misuse are real distortions.

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Okay, so Jesus is naming twodistortions here.
This is what he's talking aboutwhen he says both kinds must
exist.
Okay, this is from earlierreading that we did.
Here it is the idea that bothkinds must exist.
So the assumption that creationand miscreation are equally

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inevitable.
Okay, this is like two sides ofa coin.
You can say that people, theymake it in their mind like it's
two sides of a coin Creation,miscreation, putting them equal
right.
This is false.
Only creation exists.
Miscreation is optional andcompletely unreal.

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So that's why you can bereleased from all of its seeming
effects, because the source ofthose effects that cause is not
real.
You were not ever capable ofmiscreation, but it's still
optional.
Do you see that?
It's an option, but you can'treally do it?

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Okay, yes, Optional because we have free will.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
That's right.
It's optional because we havefree will, right.
As long as we want to wield thebelief in separation, we can.
And it's like we're making adistortion for ourselves and
because we made it, we believein it automatically.
So we have to be consenting tohave our beliefs, which is
basically our values, overturned, sort of like, by a higher

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court, right?
Okay?
So that was the first one thebelief that one kind is amenable
for use or misuse.
So the idea that creation itselfcan be twisted, see, it's the
belief that creation can bemisused, used or misused.
The idea that creation can betwisted, bent or applied wrongly

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, right.
And this is also false.
Creation is an extension oflove.
That's what it is a pureextension of love, and it cannot
be altered or misused.
Okay.
So the one is the assumptionthat creation and miscreation
are equally inevitable, theother one being the idea that

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creation itself can be twisted,misused, misapplied, anything
like that.
That's also false, okay.
So both are distortions becausethey're misrepresenting the
very nature of creation.
Creation is always whole,consistent and changeless.

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None of the changes you madeare real.
Miscreation quite simply has noreality.
Okay.
So to imagine creation could becorrupted, or to put them on the
same level.
To put it on the same level asmiscreation is again to confuse
the levels.
Okay, again, that's the samething and this is common in

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spirituality, you know, this isa common saying.
They're two sides of the samecoin.
Right, these two things are nottwo sides of the same coin.
Okay, because it's like on onecoin it's saying you know, we're
the ones that we perceive asbecoming something, and on the

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other side of the coin it's I am, I am that, I am, I am the
truth.
Right, it's like one is thisincomplete, incompleteness of
becoming and one is of timelessbeing.
It's like, if you want them onthe same level, then, yeah, you
can consider yourself as notwaking up, not wanting to, not

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willing, not willing to.
Okay, the becoming side of thecoin is constantly echoing this
distortion, like creation andmiscreation both exist, one
actually doesn't exist.
So I'll give you a for instance.
Let's say, last night you had aperception of yourself getting

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triggered, and when you had aperception of yourself getting
triggered, all of a sudden itseemed to trigger someone else
and then, all of a sudden, thereseems to be this conflict,
right?
So the solution to that is itdidn't happen.
Nothing really happened, butlove, love only, is the only
thing that can be anything thatexists.
It actually did not occur.

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So in that case, since it didn'toccur, any of those thoughts
that circulate in my mind andwant to ruminate, they're not
relevant.
That's what's such a blessingit actually sets everyone free
who thinks they were in that,let's say, state of delusion

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with you.
No one was there.
That was a dream.
The mind was blank.
So it's like being free of past.
Miscreation is that's.
That's really what it is.
There's no, it did not occur.
It is, it's an imaginary thing.
There's no past.

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You're projecting it right now.
So, right now, that miscreationcan be corrected by simply
seeing that it could not havehappened.
God didn't create it.
Therefore, it didn't exist.
You were dreaming, no one wasthere with you.
It was just you projecting, andright now and right now.

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So you know, for me I'll gostraight to gratitude Any player
that seems to have beeninvolved with whatever seems to
be awakening right now within me.
I extend gratitude to them and,kind of in a playful way, thank
you for playing.
I'm sure that everything I say,do every trigger, everything is
100% helpful, 100% of the time.
Everything is 100% helpful,100% of the time.

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Okay, because of what it's forand you can say I'm a very
religious person, I'm superdedicated, I'm super devoted to
the thought system of the HolySpirit, and the Holy Spirit
tells me that anything thatseems to be that's not of God is
not possible, it's not apossibility.

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Okay, so the I am, that I amside of the coin would reflect
truth, pureness, changelessness,changeless creation.
See, so the mind putting thesetwo things on the same coin
suggests they're coexisting andbalancing one another.
Like they're balancing oneanother.

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Look at the yin yang symbol.
I mean, I don't know how peopletake that, but it's like one
side's light and one side's dark, like they coexist, like the
like.
If that was really sittingthere, like the light would only
just make the dark side lighttoo, you know, like it just
can't be there, like, think of,you know, walk into like a dark
room and turn on the light.

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Like what part of it?
Unless there's a shadowsomewhere.
You know, maybe it's signifyingthere's a wall there and it's
making a shadow.
Maybe that's the case.
But there seems to be thisconfusion.
A lot of this confusion is likeabout balancing the ego and the
Holy Spirit.
They don't need to be thisconfusion.
A lot of this confusion is likeabout balancing the ego and the

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Holy Spirit.
They don't need to be balancedand one example of this is, yes,
hope, but we still have thislife to live and I'm like, well,
this is just a different way ofreceiving it.
It's like I have a life toextend love.
I have a life, a parent life,in this world, to extend love.
It's just a different way ofbeing with it, like there's no

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burden on me, there's nothing Ihave to do, there's nothing I
have to deal with alone, right?
It's always that the HolySpirit telling me and holding me
and being loved in this sweetembrace, that none of this
illusory stuff holds any kind ofobligation for me.
To try to balance them out, tohold both of them, if they're

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true, is exactly what createsthis experience of conflict
Jesus is talking about here.
The mind is trying to honorboth, but only one is real, only
one of them is real.
So the ego wants to keep theillusion of conflict alive.

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This is important for the ego,the illusion of conflict alive.
This is important for the ego,right?
So it's thriving on thesedistortions right here.
If both kinds seem to exist,then the mind's always managing
tension between the two.
Okay, because it means youreally could destroy or corrupt
reality.

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That's what it means to the ego, like you really could, and
it's an idea deep in theunconscious mind, or
subconscious mind, you mightcall it.
It's as if you really didcorrupt reality and it's if you

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have to get back to something,corrupt reality.
And it's if you have to getback to something.
But that's why in A Course inMiracles it says so many times
you are as God created you.
You cannot be different fromthat.
Nothing that you seem to havedone or said changed that.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yes, so that's the beginning of fear.
Guilt and shame is when webelieve in the illusion that
we're actually making fear.
Guilt and shame that we believein the illusion that we're
actually making fear guilt andshame.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
That's right, we can unmake it.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
That's right.
We're undoing it.
We're undoing that.
Basically, we stop listening tothis one that Freud is calling
the super ego.
That's saying that we need tobe managed because we're bad,
and it tries to manage us, tokeep us safe, but really it sets

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us up for discontent, dis-ease,dysfunction, okay, okay.
So the truth is, the truth isyou cannot misuse God's gift,
which is creation.
It's impossible to misuse God'sgift.

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Yay, welcome, you can, only youcan, you can only.
This part is important.
This part is important.
You can only misperceive andimagine that you misuse God's
gift.
Right, that's creation.
You're still, as God createdyou, okay, the energy of

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creation.
You can say creation itself.
That's God's gift.
You cannot misuse it.
This is important to know andnotice.
When you're imagining otherpeople are misusing creation,
say they're misusing theirenergy, they're misdirecting
their energy.

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Just as you cannot misusecreation, neither can anyone
else cannot misuse creation,neither can anyone else.
And you guys know, you guys whoare with me on this in person,
on Substack, on Zoom, listeninglater you guys know, whatever
you think of anyone else is notabout anyone else.

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Hello, it's like I cannotmisuse creation.
So you perceive someone doingit wrong.
Let's say this is like atestament from the ego that you
could misuse creation.
I was like, oh, all this is whenyou use it for the Holy

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Spirit's intent.
All this is is reminding methat I can't do it wrong.
I can't get it wrong.
I cannot misuse creation.
It's not possible.
I only dream that I do that.
Who am I going to forgive forthat?
A dream character.
Someone's got to be wrong.

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Someone's got to be wrong.
Right, the dream character, youguys?
Let me tell you about the dreamcharacter just a little bit, so
you have it really straight.
Okay, the dream character isnot autonomous.
It's a projection of your loveor fear.
It's like a receptacle for that.
Okay, so it doesn't need to beforgiven, it doesn't need to be

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praised, it doesn't need any ofthat.
It needs your extension of loveand acceptance in the form of
acceptance that it is 100%,perfect, 100% of the time.
Anyone who perceives it in anyform is calling it in.
That's why I love that song.

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Uh, it's moana, where the rocksings.
You're welcome.
I did all this and you'rewelcome right, however that

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comes out in the expression.
Just let the holy spirit guidethat.
But within yourself you couldbe totally jovial.
You have the right to be as youare, all right.
So to believe that anotherperson misused God's gift is
simply projecting that errorwithin yourself outward.

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It's trying to distractyourself, that you're making
this up about yourself.
It's trying to put you at ahigher level, like you can see
their miscreation.
Okay, here's how you'remiscreating.
Let me tell you.
Let me tell you how I see yourmiscreation.

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Okay, so what you're perceivingis their misuse is really your
interpretation.
It's rooted in an ego guilt,system of guilt, guilt.
The truth is creation cannot bemisused by you or by anyone.
So what looks like misuse ismisperception.

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It's always misperceptionSeeing a form in your dream
without recognizing what itscontent is, without recognizing
it's truly only love.
No one has harmed or alteredGod's extension in any way.
So to think they're misusing itor you're misusing it, it's the

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same Misusing creation,misusing God's gift, level
confusion, treating illusion asif it operates on the same level
as truth, see that.
So if the truth is that Godcreated you perfect and whole
and holy and innocent and you'venever changed, then the

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perception that God's creationcan be misused in any way,
treating that as truth, is levelconfusion.
At the ego level, it looks likepeople distort, betray, misuse
right.
You can even say misusingalcohol, right, same thing.
But spirit knows, nothing realis ever touched.

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So the only correction everneeded is your recognition that
I'm not seeing truly.
This is misperception, notmisuse.
I'm not seeing truly.
This is misperception, notmisuse.

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A Course in Miracles says thatthe mind is blank when you're in
miscreation, aka misperception.
It's really easy.
Am I giving reality tomiscreation here, or am I
bringing miscreation to thetruth to reality?
Worst thing that could behappening is misperceiving.

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Now Nothing else is going on,and when that's going on,
nothing's happening at all.
So spirit corrects perceptionand when that happens, you just

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know the truth because it'salways there, untouched yes,
it's kind of a waste of timethen, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Yes, because nothing's really happening.
You're actually wastingvaluable time.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
You're wasting time, and it doesn't matter when
you're misperceiving, you'rewasting time.
You can see that theconsciousness is basically
eating away at your body right,because it's a self-attack

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basically eating away at yourbody, right, because it's a
self-attack.
And so it's like you're eatingaway at the perceived life, and
since it's a perceived life, itdoesn't matter too.
So that's fun.
So there's nothing to beatyourself up about anywhere
anytime.
So notice, when you thinksomething like this this is just
how it is A worldly thing.
This is just how it is Aworldly thing.

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This is just how it is.
People are cruel.
For instance, I like the oneabout death and taxes.
That's a fun one.
That always cracks me up whensomeone will just say something
like that.
The only thing certain is deathand taxes.
Those are forever.
So that's an example of.
This is just how it is.
You can't have it all.

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You can't have a goodrelationship and awesome sex,
for instance.
Right, that's just how it is.
This is what I made.
Yeah, this is what I made.
So, and the other one is bothlove and fear are real in this
world.
Both love and fear are real inthis world.

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That's the that's how it isstatement.
Okay, that's just how it isOkay.
Or when you think I've ruinedsomething that was good, let's
say I've ruined this greatrelationship.
If I didn't act like that, Iwould ruined something that was
good.
Let's say I've ruined thisgreat relationship.
If I didn't act like that, Iwould still have this
relationship.
I took love and I broke it.

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That's another distortion.
See, and you know what?
Because of believing thatthat's possible for anyone,
anywhere, we manifest it in ourexperience.
That's the only reason.
But see, there's only now.
This did not happen.
If you're dealing with somethinglike this, please know it's a
distortion and to work with itin a way that's really fruitful.

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Let that arise, feel what itfeels like and then take those
thoughts to the truth.
It's not really possible.
This is misperception, it'smiscreation.
You could give your mind overto creation.
You could always have peace.
Instead of that, you can stopright now miscreating, stop

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giving any reality to theillusions that are projecting.
Now the correction is reallysimple Only creation is real and
it's never been harmed ormisused.
So that's that sentence.
Thank you for joining everyone.
I love you, woo.

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Let's just read that sentenceone more time.
I had must exist and the beliefthat one kind is amenable for
use or misuse are realdistortions.
So we just went deep into thatrich, somewhat complicated

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sentence.
Wasn't that fun?
It was fun for me.
I hope you guys liked it.
Yeah Woo, we just deep doveinto that one.
All right.
Nowhere else I'd rather be.

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She's not walking her dog, she'snot thinking about walking her
dog today.
All right, sentence three ofparagraph 16.
The only way out is to stopmiscreating now.
Gave you guys a little preludeof that this is a minute ago and

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accept the atonement formiscreations of the past.
Let's read it again.
The only way out is to stopmiscreating now and accept the
atonement for miscreations ofthe past.
So this is a present momentsolution, the only place you

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could have a solution.
This is a solution to thedeadlock Jesus was talking about
earlier.
Earlier, when he says stopmiscreating now, what he's
saying is withdraw your beliefin illusions right now, right
now, don't carry them forward.
In the Bible he would say.

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It would say that he said gonow and sin no more after a
healing.
Stop making your illusions true.
Stop adding belief to illusions, don't carry them forward.

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And he's saying accept theatonement letting the past be
undone.
Miscreations left no realeffects.
Remember the example I gaveearlier having a memory of

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having been triggered the nightbefore.
Miscreations left no realeffects.
So nothing needs to be carriedas guilt, nothing needs to be
fixed, nothing happened Together.
This is pointing these twothings Stop miscreating now and
accept the atonement for pastmiscreation Together.

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This points to the timelessnessof healing.
Correction happens now.
So whenever you notice fear,guilt or conflict, ask yourself
am I miscreating?
Now Not.

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Oh, let me talk to the littleself.
Why'd you do that?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
picking up the conversation right.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
why'd you?
Why'd you have to do that?
My spiritual practice must notbe on point, for instance.
Okay, then accept the atonement.
Basically, it's recognizing thepast is undone.

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I accept the atonement.
The past is undone.
The past that I'm projectingnow, it's undone, whatever
meanness.
There's one part in A Course inMiracles.
I freaking love this part.
It says any lack of love I'mgoing to paraphrase it perceived
as if it's coming from you toyourself, from you to another

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person, from another person toyou, from another person to
another person, doesn't exist.
It just doesn't exist.
You got it wrong.
You misperceived.
That's a happy realization.
What are people bitching about?
Right, it's like this is a veryhappy, this is very happy.

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That we're misperceiving thisis very happy.
You don't have to fix it.
That's right.
There's nothing to fix.
The correction is not aboutfixing.
The correction is correctingyour perception.
Right now, you're going frommisperceiving, thinking as if

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you're miscreating, let's sayback to realizing.
Only creation can happen,because only creation is real.
See, so am I miscreating now?
Whenever there's a sense,concern, let's say anything
without gratitude, anything thatdoesn't feel like gratitude, am

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I miscreating now?
And I accept the atonement.
So the path is undone.
Woo Woo.

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Right, right, you're so, and andlook at the image that you're
projecting the little self.
It seems to be so fucking freebecause it's not being hammered
on by the ego.
See, you can't even reallyhammer on the little self.
This is what's happening.
You're getting a sense that thelittle self needs to be
hammered upon, and then you'relistening to the ego on how to
hammer the little self andyou're just fucking dreaming.
So when you're listening to theHoly Spirit, you're just

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totally releasing that littleself that you made to seem like
it's so free, but all it's doingis reflecting the freedom in
your mind, right, it's alwaysreflecting that Either the
freedom or the confinement thatyou're putting on it.
So obviously I think everyonein this room felt it that this

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shifts you back into peaceimmediately.
That's what aligns with truth,that's what aligns with your
heart, right?
So your free will gives you theright to intentionally decline
any thought that hurts.
All right, I'm checking on youguys to see if you're talking to

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me over here.
Nope, everyone's doing great.
Thank you for joining.
I love you.
Okay, thank you for staying.
I love you so much.
All right, so we're off tosentence four now, and there's a
footnote here.
The footnote is really shortand there's a footnote here.
The footnote is really short,so the sentence is only this can

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establish truesingle-mindedness.
And the footnote says ie,psychic unity.
So that's the this we'retalking about here.
Only this psychic unity canreestablish true
single-mindedness.
So the result of stoppingmiscreation, basically that

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means accepting the atonement.
What's miscreation,misperception?
Accepting the atonement is therestoration of single-mindedness
.
So this is psychic unity, theend of inner conflict, the
healing of the split mind.

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Truly single-mindedness meansthere's no longer divided
allegiance between creation andmiscreation, love and fear, god
and ego.
This is single-mindedness.
The sentence again only thispsychic unity can reestablish

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true single-mindedness.
This is the condition of peace.
It's the mind's natural state.
Single-mindedness, the splitmind, is the illusion.
Unity is the reality.
So it's bringing back psychicunity.

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It's not something we achievereally, it's just what we reveal
to ourselves.
When we recognize miscreationis just misbelief, recognizing
it's misbelief, the misbelieffalls away.
So this is where miracles flow.

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And of course, in miracles,miracles are natural for you.
So this is where miracles areflowing effortlessly.
The mind is und miracles flow.
And of course in miracles, asmiracles are natural for you.
So this is where miracles areflowing effortlessly, the mind
is undivided.
So when you're choosingatonement and it's always a
choice right when you'rechoosing atonement you're
tasting this single mindednessagain and again and over time

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this just becomes your steadyawareness.
If you're living the experienceof peace, you just keep on
living the experience of ofpeace.
You know, one thing friendslike to tell me is yeah, uh,
well, it doesn't stay like thatfor me all all the time and it's

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like well, as you're seeing,it's like this.
This seems to unfold over time.
But, as you're seeing, if youwill look at it with gratitude,
when you seem to be going intodelusion, like you don't feel so
happy, don't feel so good,things seem to be obscure.
You notice, am I misperceivingright now?

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That's all you need to know.
Any of those, look at any ofthose strategies or anything you
have that you want to employ.
That's fine.
Just know that that's not doinganything.
It's actually your choice.
They did nothing for 30 years.

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They did nothing for 30 years.
Yes, they've just beendistracting Right of years.
Yes, they've just beendistracting Right.
So you're tasting thissingle-mindedness when you
recognize that all it is ismiscreating.
Am I miscreating right now?
Wow, I could accept theatonement and be completely free
right now.
And you know, if you're notaccepting the atonement, just

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notice that you're not.
Here's the thing for me.
That was super, super helpfulwhen I recognize that I'm not
accepting the atonement and gooh, that's awesome too, back to,
it's all helpful, that makesthings go fast, being thankful
about it.
Oh, I'm so glad I could seethat this is a meaningless thing

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.
Aloha, thank you for joining.
I love you.
So we made it to paragraph 17.
We're on sentence one now ofparagraph 17.
This is on page 99 of thecomplete annotated edition of A

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Course in Miracles and we are inChapter 2, section 11.
Here's the text.
The structure of the psychefollows along the lines of a
particular libido concept.
The theorist employs Okay,there's a footnote here that

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helps Footnote 146.
Libido is the psychic energyseen by Freud as primarily
sexual, but by other theoristsas instinctual energy in general
that, when misdirected orsuppressed, results in mental

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illness.
So the sentence again.
That was the footnote.
The structure of the psychefollows along the lines of the
particular libido concept thetheorist employs.
So Jesus is saying that the waypsychologists describe the
psyche depends on how theydefine libido, the psychic

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energy.
So to Freud libido is primarilysexual, so he interpreted
psychic conflict and pathologythrough sexuality.
Other theorists libido has abroader instinctual life energy.
So their models lean towarddrives, instincts or creativity

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in general.
In both these cases thepsyche's structure is presented
through the filter of the libidoconcept, however the theorist
assumes it.
So that's what Jesus is talkingabout here when he's going the
structure of the psyche followsalong the lines of the
particular libido concept thetheorist employs.

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So there's a filter that thetheorist is assuming about this
libido, this psychic energy.
Okay, so this is showing.
What Jesus is showing here isthe limitation of conceptual
psychology.
The starting definition oflibido shapes the whole picture

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of what we're taking our psychicenergy to be.
The definition itself is whathe's showing.
Here is already a distortion.
Acim reinterprets the wholelibido, psychic energy thing as
miracle impulse.
It's miracle impulse, themind's true creative drive.

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It's purely spiritual.
So illness, whether it's mentalillness or physical illness or
conflict, does not come fromsuppressed sexual or instinctual
energy.
It comes from misdirection ofmiracle impulse, turning the

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mind's creative power towardfear instead of love.
That's all it is.
So when you see it in this light, mental illness is again simply
belief in miscreation, is againsimply belief in miscreation.
It's belief in miscreation.
It's the attempt to misusedivine energy.
You can only attempt to misusedivine energy.

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It cannot be misused.
So when you notice theoriststying your inner life to sex,
instinct, repressed drives,remember these are distorted
maps and this is what we've beenprogrammed with distorted maps
based on distorted assumption.
It's the assumption that thisenergy is somehow bad or good

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and not simply a miracle impulse.
It's all a miracle impulse.
Your true energy is not sexualor instinctual.
It's creative in God.
It's the only real energy yougot, isn't that great?
So it's like the whole societyis based on this idea that we

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have these bad energies thatneed to be suppressed or
redirected.
Right, you guys see that?
Right, suppress it or redirectit into something good that
society would say is good.
It's not acknowledging that allof our energy is actually only
creative in God.
So that's why we're gettingthese perceptions that there's

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all this energy running aroundthe outer world that's not
creative in God, includingourselves, the self we made up.
So healing comes not fromredistributing the energy or
sublimating libido.
It's in redirecting the miracleimpulse to its true function.

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What is that true function?
Extending love.
We see, it's so simple.
It's so simple and loving,that's all we are.
You're a hundred percentlovable, loved, loving.
That's why you're perfectlyunaffected by misperceptions.

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Misperceptions say there's lackof love, lack of funds, lack of
health, lack of energy Okay,lack.
That's misperception.
Aloha, sweeties, I love you.

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Ah, yay, okay.
Sentence 2 of paragraph 17.
Freud's psyche was essentiallya good and evil picture, with
very heavy weight given to theevil.
That's what Jesus is saying.
That's his sentence.
Freud's psyche was essentiallya good and evil picture, with
very heavy weight given to theevil.

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Paragraph 17, sentence 2.
So here is where Jesus ispointing out that Freud's model
of the psyche itself wasdualistic.
It was a battle between goodand evil.
That's probably where we gotthe devil and the angel on the

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shoulder.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
What's interesting is , I think they're flopped,
because Freud was more about thesexual and Jungian was about
the wholeness of shadow andlight.
You know.
Uh-huh.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
So that's kind of interesting, you think there.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Investigation into the Jungian world.
Okay, yeah, and that he sawlibido as the creative story.
Right, you know, yes, freud wasmore in the complexes of your
mother, father, all that sort ofthing, and the sexual
repression being kind of things.

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Yes, and they actually had adivision themselves because of
that.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
They had a division.
That's right and we went overthat too.
It's in some other ACIM deepdives.
Jesus was going into thesedifferent guys Jung being one of
them, yeah, and I think he wasthe one that Jesus was saying
that he thought he had to fightFreud and that's what kept him

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from going.
He's just got a lot of sourceof information To me.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
I really see him as a great guide of breaking out of
the outer world as your reality.
He really did a lot of supportin your inner world.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yeah, yes, perfect, yeah.
So Jesus was talking aboutearlier on in the same chapter
that we're in the same section.
He was also going over Jung'stheories too and saying here's
where he got it right and here'swhere he missed the mark which
didn't let him, jung himself, tocome to Jesus, to come to the

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completion right.
So it's so neat that Jesus ismaking it clear to us so we
could see so clearly how tofollow the roadmap to the truth,
because we're getting thebenefit of how these theorists
were looking at it and reallythis is their intention all
along of seeing it's to seetruly right.
So now we've got the benefit ofwhat they learn and Jesus

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pointing out to us here's whatthey learn and here's where they
were in alignment with peaceand what's the truth and here's
where they went astray.
So we could see that andrecognize how not to go astray,
how to stay on this with truesingle mindedness.
I love that it's being made sosimple for us.
It's such a blessing.

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So here Jesus is specificallytalking about Freud in this.
He's actually naming him.
He's going Freud's psyche wasessentially a good and evil
picture, with very heavy weightgiven to the evil.
So he's pointing out thatFreud's model of the psyche
itself was dualistic, a battlebetween good and evil,

(50:20):
apparently, where evil iswinning a lot more.
Freud emphasizes unconsciousdrive, sexual, aggressive,
destructive, as the dominantforces, forces in our psychology
.
No wonder everyone feels likewe need a system that tries to
keep these things under wraps,trying to keep us safe from

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these things.
So Freud's system gave moreweight to evil, to instincts,
repression, conflict, neurosis,than to the reality of spirit,
creativity or love.
And I think what Deanna wassharing Deanna, not Deanna Diana
was sharing.
I got a Deanna friend too.

(51:05):
Okay, is that Jung actually gotcloser and Jesus was pointing
out in a way he did, in a way hedidn't, because he was saying
that it's more creative andgentler about it, not such an

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evil aspect of ourself.
So, from starting from adistorted definition of libido
as sexual energy, freud framedhis mind, framed the mind
primarily driven by fear andguilt rather than by love and
miracle impulses.
So this is what the ego does.

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It always exaggerates evilbecause it needs belief in sin,
guilt, fear, to survive.
That's how the ego does it.
Freud's system is mirroring theego's emphasis here.
From Jesus's perspective,though, this is another form of
level confusion, taking what'sunreal miscreation, fear, guilt,

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and giving it more weight thanwhat's real creation, innocence,
love.
Giving that more weight, givingthe fear more weight.
So in truth, there's really nostruggle between good and evil,
and you know that's a commonmisbelief is that there's a
struggle between good and eviland there's really not.

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It's just a misbelief, it's amisperception that miscreation
has power.
It doesn't have any power.
So for us it's about noticingwhen our mind interprets
situations as if they'restruggle between good and evil.
Notice how that's just a thingit comes up right and wrong.

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Is this a struggle betweenright and wrong?
Then this is the ego'sframework.
This is not the spirit'sframework.
Spirit doesn't weigh evil asanything heavy at all.
It actually overlooks it.
It's not heavy because it's notthere.
It recognizes that evil isnothing.

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Last night, when I was getting aride home in an Uber, the Uber
driver immediately had this bigenergy about how there's this
bad guy on the loose and hekeeps on telling him he's going
to kill him.
And I'm lucky I didn't just runinto him on the sidewalk,
because he was just at the Uberdriver's car threatening to kill

(53:45):
him just before I arrived tothe Uber.
And you know when I get a loadof that.
And so the first thing the egoalways speaks first, right, so
I'm like smiling because I knowego thoughts are coming right
now, so ego always speaks first.
So I'm like smiling because Iknow ego thoughts are coming
right now, so ego always speaks,uh, first, and in my mind it's
so comical.
It's like, wow, what a shittyuber drive.
I get in the uber and he'stalking about some negative shit
right off the bat.
Well, this guy needs to learnhow to fucking be an?

(54:08):
U Right.
Here's the thing, though.
This is the practicalapplication of what we're
talking about, right here.
Right, this is it.
The ego always speaks first.
So I know I'm in for a comedyshow.

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That's what's happening, right,these are not my thoughts.
They're not part of me.
The ego just speaks first inevery situation.
That's how it is.
You can expect that, so, so, soI look at that.
I have a fun laugh about it,right, and?
And I just I'm listening to theguy talking about it he's
called the cops and this is sobad and all shit like that.

(54:49):
And by the time we make it outof the parking lot, the
conversation is shifted.
It just completely shifted,because I just have a look at
that, have a laugh at that andnotice there's no such thing as
evil.
This guy is totally made up.
Who's out on the sidewalk?
I probably did pass him.
I remember making some sweeteye contact and a loving glance
with someone on the sidewalk.

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Perhaps that was him right?
Same dude.
So it's like it's overlooking,instead of getting you
distracted.
It's all distracted.
It's overlooking miscreation.
So we can get back to the truth, which is creation, and just
saw the dude you know have agood ass time Like is it going
from this fear based?

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Love is always way morepowerful and this is not a
manipulation.
It's command over every six,over every, every situation.
Every situation is made ofparticles, just like our bodies
are.
These particles are godparticles.
They respond to love, theyrespond to truth.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
So healing comes, yes so did you say anything like he
was saying that, or you justheld love?

Speaker 1 (55:56):
Oh, yeah, I don't.
I don't even remember what Isaid.
Yeah, I just held it in love.
Yeah, I just held it in, really, because you know there's a
projection coming for me.
Well, what a shitty end to myfucking awesome night getting an
Uber with a guy who thinks he'sabout to be murdered by someone
.
Uber with a guy who thinks he'sabout to be murdered by someone
, right?
No, it's just like it's justwatching that, smiling at it,

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and through smiling at it,through not making it as real
automatically, what's uncoveredis truth.
What's uncovered is creation,because you're not giving
miscreation any meaning, it'snot being given any weight,
right?
Except for just being a comedy.
I don't even think I even sharedthat with you when I came home,

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because I didn't even freakingremember it.
It was just like it just cameup right now as an example.
You know it's like and that's,and that's the thing when ego
thoughts occur.
To me, it's never a big deal.
It's only useful in sharing.
It's only useful in sharing.
It's only useful in sharing itand saying look, this is how it

(57:00):
looks.
It comes up like this and it'san opportunity for remembering
the truth together, and wealways go together.
So it's like my willingness togo with the Uber driver is my
willingness to undo the dreamfor the entire sonship and I
feel super, super blessed.
I don't even remember it untilI just need to remember it to

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tell a story.
It's like, it's funny.
It seems like people probablyhear something like that Whoa,
that would have been a bigimpact.
I think I would have beentalking about it as soon as I
walked in the door to myroommate.
So basically, it's a matter ofremembering.
Only love is real.

(57:42):
You know, there might bethoughts that even come.
If I'm starting to make thatthought true about this is a
shitty Uber experience, right.
Other thoughts, you know, wow,is there really a guy going
around saying he's going tomurder people?
Like, am I really safe walkingaround the streets and stuff
like that?
I walk everywhere.

(58:03):
I walk a bunch.
I wasn't walking last nightbecause it was quite a bit
further.
It would have taken an hour anda half Half hour walks are fun
for me.
Half hour walks are fun for me.
I'm not trying to strain.
I'm not here for strain.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Right, okay.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Thanks you guys.
All right, sentence three.
Here are Jesus's words Onceagain.
This is because every time Imentioned the atonement to him,
which was quite often jesus istalking about freud now which
was quite often he responded bydefending his theory more and

(58:49):
more against it, against it See.
So Jesus is giving Helen rightnow A window, and us A window
into his interactions with Freud.
He's saying, basically, freud'sresistance wasn't casual.

(59:09):
He was actively defending histheories Against the idea of the
atonement.
Why was he doing this of theatonement?
Why was he doing this?
Because the atonementcontradicts the foundation of
Freud's psychology.
That's what Jesus is likebuilding up to, through these
sentences, his whole foundation,which was faulty.

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Which was faulty.
He saw guilt and conflict asinevitable, rooted in these
instinctual drives, this sexualdrive.
So atonement is declaring guiltas unreal.
That makes conflict unnecessaryand it means that healing is

(59:58):
available right now For Freud.
He was invested, right, he wasinvested in his concepts.
This was his life's work.
For Freud to accept atonementwould have dismantled all of his
assumptions, his whole system.
So the ego in him was defendingthe theory in order to keep the

(01:00:21):
good versus evil picture intact.
So the ego is always going tocling to its thought system.
This is the ego's identity.
So when truth which is theatonement is introduced, the ego
doubles down on defensiveness.
So we have to be super humble.
Humility and meekness come intoplay here, because if we want

(01:00:44):
to try to uphold our identity,our identity may be based on a
wrong assumption in the firstplace.
So whenever we feel defensiveand this is a really good way to
tell, this is how I use it I doa gauge in my body sense.
Defensiveness feels likepushing to me.

(01:01:06):
It feels like pushing.
So whenever I get the sense I'mfeeling defensive, that's a
sign that the ego's illusionsare threatened right now.
So I look for what is theatonement?
Thought that's being threatenedright now, that's threatening

(01:01:27):
something.
Of course, that thing that'sbeing threatened and seen upon,
seen as if it could be a loss,isn't even real.
To accept the atonement meansthe ego is ended.
That's the end of the ego.
Yay.

(01:01:50):
So practically, to use thissentence to your benefits, let's
look at the sentence again.
This is because every time Imentioned the atonement to him
that's Freud, which was quiteoften he responded by defending
his theory more and more againstit.
Are you doing that?
Are you defending a theoryagainst the atonement.

(01:02:12):
That's the thing.
That's what this is given to usfor.
Notice in ourselves when someoneoffers a correction, as in
spirit speaking through them.
Let the spirit speak throughanyone, right?
Do you feel an impulse todefend?
Notice, if you feel an impulseto defend, that means the spirit
is speaking through someone,and that could be anyone, and

(01:02:37):
that could be just the spiritspeaking to you through your
mind as well, without comingthrough another person.
Notice any defensiveness.
That's the ego reaction,instead your theory.
Ask if you're resisting theatonement right now.
In my defenselessness my safetylies.

(01:03:02):
That's one of the lessons in ACourse in Miracles.
That's what it reminds me of.
This opens the space to you.
The Holy Spirit can reinterpretwhatever it is.
You don't have to cling to thethought system that keeps you in
conflict.
Yay, thank you, love bugs.

(01:03:24):
So on to sentence four ofparagraph 17.
17.
This resulted in hisincreasingly strong attempts to
make the illogical sound moreand more logical.
So this is Freud Increasinglystrong attempts to project

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illogic, something that's notlogical.
So his resistance, freud'sresistance to the atonement
played out in his work.
He rejected the idea that guiltis unreal and healing is
certain.
He rejected that idea eventhough Jesus kept trying to talk
to him, he was left trying topatch together a worldview where

(01:04:13):
guilt and conflict wereinevitable.
So in this way he was forcedinto intellectual contortions,
building elaborate theories justto justify this picture in his
mind that we're evil, that ourdrives are evil and not miracle

(01:04:36):
impulses we're determined.

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
I always think of it as um the separation never
happened yes so when he'sdefending, he's defending
separation, exactly, trying toexplain separation.
He's trying to be the author ofhow to get out of separation
and he was really into beingseen as an author like yeah my
program yeah, but he never.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
This is why it was circular.
He never had an end that wasout of separation, and he said
the best we could do is be awell-adjusted neurotic.
I think it was yeah, so you'renever out of it.
You always are in this fightbetween the superego and the id.
How many psychologists andpsychiatrists he taught.

(01:05:20):
That's right, it's based on him,right.
That's why Jesus is, yes, andtaking pills.
And this is why Jesus isbringing him up, because modern
psychology is based on his work.
So that's why he's bringing itup to show and you know, you
could just look at thepsychology of society and that's

(01:05:44):
showing.
You know how this has beenfollowed.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
So yeah, I remember I had this like knowing of, like
the dsm-4 book, the thatdescribes all diseases.
Okay, like he'd go to therapy.
Oh, he's your dad's anarcissist.
You're putting that label onand and it's like you're keeping
him separate.
Yes, it's just.
I was like, oh, that whole bookis not true yeah, and what's

(01:06:12):
this book?

Speaker 1 (01:06:13):
You said DSM-IV.
Dsmr-iv.
Let me get the correct thing.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
It's the diagnosis.
How they give diagnosis throughthe medical book.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Oh, how they give diagnosis.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
There's something cool about this.
They said that they argue formonths to try to get a new
edition because everyone argues.
Everyone comes together toargue about what it should be
and what it shouldn't be to getinto the book.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Right, it's just totally made up, yeah, and you
see, it's like this illogical,basically foundation and it has
to keep on being defended.
That's why they get togetherand argue about what's going to
go in the book.
Because their job and egosdepends on it.
Their job and egos right theirjob and egos depends on their

(01:07:03):
job and egos right depends on it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:07:05):
Right, because this is I studied 10 years to teach
this or to and having an egodiscovering something?
Yes, yeah, his name.
He could not have his name onit it's like you said earlier
all serves.

Speaker 4 (01:07:13):
These guys broke the path toward truth.
That's right, by eliminatingwhat's not true.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Yes, it's not like anything went wrong.
Yeah, and you know theirintention was all the same, like
we have a shared intention here, right To see through.
It's just that it'smisdirecting the energy, it's
misdirecting the creativeimpulse.
Let's say that's what Jesus issaying.
It's like it's misdirecting itin a dream, that's all.

(01:07:42):
But you can't really miscreate.
It's misdirecting of a creativeimpulse.
We'll get to that part too.
So by rejecting the idea thatguilt is unreal and healing is
certain, so by rejecting theidea that guilt is unreal and
healing is certain, freud wasbummed out.
He was not having a good timeand he was telling everyone else
basically, life sucks, guys.

(01:08:03):
This is probably where they gotthat saying life is a bitch and
then you die.
Common saying for me growing up.
So yes, all these intellectualcontortions, theories to justify
the ego's picture, the more heresisted the truth, the more

(01:08:24):
effort he had to invest and didinvest in making illogical ideas
that guilt and sin are real andconflict is essential seem
logical.
But what you see is, how canthat be logical when the end is
suffering?
You know the end is suffering.

(01:08:45):
The end isn't even released inhis own thing.
That's why he was bummed out.
So this is the ego's universalstrategy making nonsense look
like intellectual sophistication.
This is what you see on thenews, basically making nonsense
look like intellectualsophistication.
Isn't that so fun?

(01:09:07):
So this is why, of course, inMiracle says and this is from
chapter 7, the ego's argumentsare always circular and always
seen this way.
If you will look at them, seehow Freud's arguments are
circular.
If you look at them, you seethey don't resolve in peace.

(01:09:29):
That's why they're circular.
Whenever the truth is denied,the mind has to invent complex
explanations to defend illusions.
The more elaborate the defense,the less sense it makes.
But to the ego, complexitylooks like strength, right right

(01:09:51):
.
So these intellectualcontortionists are basically
appointed right now by societyto be ruling the world.
They're even trying to think,they're, yeah, they're even
trying to figure out how to uh,modify the, the weather, because
that's not the way it'ssupposed to be.
Isn't that fun?

(01:10:16):
And even all the contortionistsand all of the attempt to
modify the weather, that's alsothe way it should be.
It's because that's the waywe're perceiving it.
And that's really.
It's not.
Nothing's happening.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Have you ever read the Celestine Prophecy?
Yes, I actually saw the movie.

Speaker 1 (01:10:33):
I thought that was a good movie.
The celestine prophecy yes, Iactually saw the movie.
I thought that was a good movie.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Celestine prophecy yes yeah, but uh, the the point
he was making was like we hadall this awakening of our
energetic selves and then therewas a collective uh agreement to
have certain people to go lookwhat was beyond what we
experienced and we, like, set upcivilization, waiting for them

(01:11:00):
to come back with it, right?

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
yeah, it's all a trick that we do.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Yeah, that's all a trick somebody else go out there
and find it and tell us aboutit Right, Find the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
So, hooray, Okay, so practically, for this sentence.
And this sentence is thisresulted in his speaking of
Freud strong attempts to makethe illogical sound more and
more logical.
So, notice in yourself this isreally fun and easy to do.
You don't have to make yourselfguilty or anything, but this
will come up from time to time.
Notice in yourself when youfeel compelled to prove your

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fearful thoughts are true.
You know.
Notice you're trying toconvince someone.
No, no, this is really a threat.
Right, this is really, this isreally like this.
Or justify some guilt.
Okay, this is the same egomaneuver Freud was embodying.
Right, it's an ego maneuver totry to convince people that

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guilt and fear are real Insteadof continuing to argue for
illusion.
You can pause and go.
Wait a minute.
Am I trying to make theillogical sound logical?
Right?
So you're just your awarenessof this.
You don't even have to stop.
You can still be preaching theillogical.
No one's saying you got to stop.

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Let it keep on running If thatfeels like the truth for you in
the moment, Just notice thatthis is going on.
The more you notice, the moreyour behavior and the things you
say are going to change.
It's a simple awareness,letting the Holy Spirit just
show you that the truth doesn'tneed any defense.

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Only illusions seem to needdefense, and they cannot really
be defended because they're nottrue.
Yes, Thomas.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
It's like saying am I trying to take what can't be
threatened and I'm trying tomake it like it can be
threatened?

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
That's right.
Am I trying to take what cannotbe threatened and make it as if
it can be threatened?
Basically, I'm scaring the shitout of myself and this person
right now.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
There's a murderer out there.
There's a murderer out there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
There's a murderer out there, right, I go, oh yeah,
dang those murderers, they gotto get off the street man Going
around, you know the guy's likeI called the cops, I told the
cops I'm going to be like this.
He's like really firm.
I'm probably saying somethinglike, oh, that's good, right,

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just totally not believing thatthis is even possible.
Right, I'm just making it up,I'm making the whole uber drive,
the story, everything, so Icould look at it and overlook it
, feel it and overlook it.
So here, uh, sentence, wait aminute, where are we?
Oh, yeah, sentence 17.
Or yeah, paragraph 17, sentencefive.

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Here's Jesus's words I was verysorry about this because his was
a singularly good mind and itwas a shame to waste it.
This is what Jesus is sayingabout Freud here.
Okay, so Jesus here isexpressing sorrow, not judgment.
He's saying I was sorry aboutthis.
His regret is that Freud's mind, a brilliant gift, was used to

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defend illusion instead of toextend truth.
So Jesus is actually, you know,he's saying, wow, I was sorry
about this, so a singularly goodmind.
What's he saying?
Because?
Because he's saying freud'smind was a singularly good mind
and it was a shame to waste it.
And, interesting, jesus isusing shame here.

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His regret is that freud's mindwasn't used to it to extend
truth.
It could have been, because itwas a singularly good mind.
That's a quote.
This is highlighting thatintelligence itself isn't the
issue, it's the purpose.
The mind is given A mind ofgreat brilliance and aren't they

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all can be wasted if it's inservice to the ego.
And you know what he's talkingabout here.
Of great brilliance.
Freud was able to be superreligious and focused on his
theories.
He was very focused.
So that shows that he could usethat focus toward the truth too
.
Right, but he chose not to.

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That's why Jesus saying he wassorry about that and it's a
shame and a waste.
So the waste here isn't abouttime or productivity in worldly
terms.
It's about misdirected purpose,the miracle impulse being
diverted into defense and fear.
That's why Jesus kept trying totalk to him his whole life,

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telling him to accept theatonement.
And you can say Jesus is doingthat with all of us.
So truly, the son of God cannotwaste the mind God gave.
That's how it fits in with allof the other texts we've been
going over.
But in the dream the mind can bemisapplied.
Let's say he's showingcompassion here.

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Jesus is showing compassion.
Uh, the tragedy is never thatanyone failed, but that they
temporarily use their brillianceto make the false seem like
it's true.
So this is giving us a lessonin how the ego misuses even the
best tools of the mind.
The spirit's just asking us torepurpose this stuff so you can

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think of your mind, just likethis, as a singularly good mind.
Just like this is the quote fromJesus.
It's brilliance isn't in itsintellect, it's in its capacity
to align with the truth, justalways aligning with the truth.
That's what makes it a goodmind.
When you notice yourself usingyour mind to argue for fear or

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anything like that, you can askis this good mind being wasted
right now?
Right?
Do I really want to see Jesuscry?
You just get a picture of Jesuscrying in your mind, right?
Don't make Jesus cry.

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Come on now, right?
You don't have to listen tothat.
You don't have to listen to anyof that fear.
You don't have to defend fear,guilt or limitations, right?

Speaker 5 (01:17:33):
So is that why Jesus came through Helen?
Because he couldn't get throughFreud.

Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
Right, he'll just keep on coming through.
Yeah, this is anotherpsychologist, but here's the
thing Jesus is actually talkingto all of us, right?
If you watch those near-deathexperiences on YouTube, there's
all these near-death experienceswhere the first thing they see
is Jesus and he's going.
Nothing's wrong.

(01:17:58):
Just look at this with me, lookat this differently and then go
back and share it.
Right, here's how to see thisproperly.
Look at it with me.
And it's always a real,peaceful place.
He's always trying to talk tous and it's always a real,
peaceful place.
He's always trying to talk tous.
So when we're busy defendingour illusions, we cannot hear
him.
That's the thing.

(01:18:19):
So when we're busy making guiltreal, we cannot hear him.
That's what he's saying to us.
Aloha, okay, durga, you got aquestion.
Do you think Freud wasconsciously aware Jesus was

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communicating with him?
No, not at all, not after goingover this, because you know
what Jesus is saying and alsowhat the history of Freud.
This has given me anopportunity to look into Freud a
little bit you know he'swritten some books and to have
those books paraphrased, whichwe're going to go over here
later.
He talked about religion beingan illness, like people

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believing in fairy tales andwishful thinking.
So that's fun.
So no, I don't think heactually was going.
Thank you, jesus, for talkingto me.
I think he was just ignoringJesus for the most part.
Yeah, so hooray for that.

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So, yes, offer your mind to thespirit.
Just keep on offering your mindto the spirit.
Your body is for communications.
That way, none of yourbrilliance is wasted in the
moment.
You know, make it your goal inthe moment to not waste any of
your brilliance.
Give your mind to God for loveand miracles.

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I don't know anything.
I love just allowing myprojected self-image to be a
jolly, joyful, fucking idiot.
Right, and that's in a reallyloving sense, because it's
allowed to be as it is.
It's just allowed to be as itis.
It's not trying to make it highand mighty, it's just allowing

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it to be.
I don't know how it should be.
However, it is that's given mefor acceptance and for extending
love, compassion to it.
However much you will extendthrough and to that receptacle
for your thoughts, the imaginaryself, the little self, however,

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you will be with, that is howmuch you'll extend to the world
and extend for the healing ofthe sonship.
So you want to.
You want, you want to see jesussmiling like fuck yeah, you're
doing it right, rather than atearful, fucking sorrowful.
Can you imagine?

(01:20:51):
pictures of jesus all right,he's always looking all serious.
I've seen mostly he's on thecross.
Yeah, there are some.
There are some, really, um,smiling pictures I've seen.
Yeah, all right, we made it toparagraph 18, so we're actually
going to cover it.
Looks like we might cover threeparagraphs today.

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So sentence one However, themajor purpose of his incarnation
, that's Freud, was notneglected.
That's what we're getting toabout.
You know, it was awesome.
The major purpose of hisincarnation was not neglected.
So Jesus is shifting here fromspeaking about Freud's

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resistance and he'sacknowledging a higher purpose
being served by Freud's quoteincarnation.
Even though Freud defended histheories and resisted the
atonement, the major purpose ofhis incarnation was fulfilled.
Yay, isn't that fun.

(01:21:57):
So what is this purpose?
It's service to the larger planof correction and awakening.
So it fulfilled that purpose.
Jesus is reassuring us.
Even apparent failures, let'ssay we apparently fail in our
life and make Jesus cry.

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It does not cancel out the roleeach one plays in the plan.
It's always perfect.
You just can't get it wrong.
See, take that image of Jesuscrying.
That's your tears, you'recrying, you're making yourself
cry.
Freud made himself bummed out.

(01:22:39):
That's really what's going onthere.
Freud's mind was used by theego, but the spirit still wove
that incarnation into oursalvation.
Every incarnation has a majorpurpose.
Yours is not excluded.

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Always, always, always, we'relearning about forgiveness and
contributing to the undoing ofthe separation.
This is why there's aperception of bodies dying and
having different incarnationsbecause of the rigidity.
Rigidity is aging.
Look at aging itself.

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Things fucking got hard, didn'tthey?
They got stiff.
Gravity, right, yes, we wereblaming on gravity, right?
Yeah, things got hard, thingsgot stiff, things got less
buoyant.
And then you know, it's likethere's less innocence, right.
So it's like this is just amanifestation.

(01:23:44):
All right, it's just amanifestation.
Our bodies are a manifestationof thinking.
It's a psyche made manifest.
That's all it is.
So it's like this apparentdeath has to occur so that there
can be a clean slate.

(01:24:05):
Maybe some more humility cancome up.
So we're doing awesome.
The form may look distorted,sometimes even tragic, but the
content is never lost.
There's a deeper purpose here,and the word he used the words

(01:24:26):
he used was his incarnation wasnot neglected, and neither is
yours.
So this reflects A Course inMiracles teaching that the Holy
Spirit is reinterpretingeverything for good, for
awakening.
What seems wasted is actuallyrepurposed.
So you can see here how, whenJesus is saying he was talking

(01:24:49):
about sorrow, and what else did?
He say Sorrow and that it was ashame to waste it.
It's like what he's doing isfeeling into the pain Freud had
to go through because he didn'taccept the atonement for himself
.
But that doesn't mean that hedid a bad job in his lifetime.

(01:25:11):
So this was a step in the rightdirection, because to heal we
must first look at what wasdenied.
A Course in Miracles says inchapter 12, you cannot escape
from what you do not know.
And Freud's work was preparingthe way for a course in miracles

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by legitimizing the idea thatthere's unseen guilt and hidden
motives.
That's huge.
That's what he did.
He totally legitimized thatidea for everyone that there's
this unseen, unconscious mind.
Before that that wasn'tsomething that was widely
accepted.
Before that that wasn'tsomething that was widely

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accepted.
No-transcript.
So in our own experience wedon't have to minimize these
partial steps.
They're all good.
They're all good.

(01:26:19):
Whether we just take minimalsteps or others seem to be
taking minimal steps, it's allgood, it's all helpful.
Even if things seem imperfect,they're being used by the spirit
.
For example, any kind oftherapy, shadow work,
psychological insights, reiki,any of this kind of stuff.
Block therapy, for instance,may not bring you to final

(01:26:43):
healing.
That's okay.
They're opening the willingness.
That's how they're all helpful,because, remember, it comes
down to willingness.
They're opening the willingness.
So they may seem to bepreparatory.
They're not really preparatory.
They seem to be preparatory, wesee them that way, but Spirit's

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using all of them to lead ourmind toward the atonement every
step of the way.
So they're not lost.
It's just that they themselvesare not going to bring the
healing.
They're not going to do it.
So it's like, when you look atit, oh, this is just opening my
willingness.
It's not actually doinganything for me except helping

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me to open up to the truthBecause ultimately, it's a
choice that I make to stopmiscreating now.
So instead of dismissing thesesteps like, oh, I don't need
this, I'm already ahead of thegame we can see them as
preparatory, letting the Spirituse them to bring our mind

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toward atonement.
That's how they're preparatory.
So I love this because,noticing fears and stuff
surfacing right, people ask meall the time how do you get out
of that?
Like, how do you see thatdifferently?
Recognizing it's a step in theright direction, right, not

(01:28:19):
making it wrong.
That immediate recognizing it'sright for me.
This is good for me.
That's allowing spirit to useit for healing.
Right there, basically, you'reout of it by not trying to get
out of it Right.

(01:28:39):
Paragraph 18, sentence 3.
Freud was one of the mostreligious men I have recently
known.
This is Jesus talking.
Freud was one of the mostreligious men I have recently I
have known.
Recently is the exact word okay.
So this statement might seemparadoxical to people who have

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read Freud, because he's mostlyremembered as a critic of
organized religion, even callingit an illusion.
So Jesus is pointing to adifferent kind of sense of
religious here, obviously notabout religious doctrine,
institution, but devotion of themind.

(01:29:26):
He's saying Freud was devoted.
Freud's life and work weredriven by an intense commitment
to understanding human nature inthe psyche.
Just because it was channeledthrough the ego's framework
which Jesus is pointing to again, doesn't mean he didn't have

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devotion.
He had a deep reverence and hewas pursuing the truth as he
understood it.
Jesus is just saying his wholepremise was wrong.
Yep, exactly that's what'sgoing on.
That's why we get back to thepremise.
The premise is we thought wewere separate, guilty, shameful,

(01:30:09):
wrong.
And we recognize that thatpremise is wrong.
We stop miscreating now.
It makes it really simple Thankyou, wrong.
When we recognize that thatpremise is wrong, we stop
miscreating.
Now it makes it really simpleThank you Freud, thank you Jesus
.
So Jesus is reframing hereFreud's passion.
Despite appearances it was areligious impulse and of course,

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in miracles terms, religion isdevotion to a belief system.
Everyone is religious, you know, some more so than others.
Whether you know, there's somepeople that aren't so devoted to
one particular belief system.
They're kind of like back andforth.
But every belief system serveseither ego or God.

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So our choices are driven byour devotion to belief systems.
The object of Freud's devotion,which was his theories that, was
distorted, but it stilltestifies to the underlying

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miracle impulse that's the driveto return to God.
So all these things, thesesexual impulses, all different
impulses, they're all miracleimpulse.
They're the drive to return toGod.
That's all.
It is a creative impulse,that's all we've got.
So this helps us reinterpretpeople who seem to be opposed to

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spirit too, doesn't it?
Beneath the surface, they justwant to return to God.
There's this intensity that'syearning for the truth.
Even though it might bemisdirected, it's yearning for
truth.
So, apparently, in Jesus' mind,religious doesn't mean pious or

(01:32:07):
traditional.
Freud wasn't religious in thatsense at all.
It's about the mind giving itsallegiance to a belief system,
and that's what we do.
When we want to see truly, wedo that with the belief system
of the Holy Spirit that the HolySpirit has for us.

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That's what makes our religion,in that sense, potent.
So notice where devotion showsup for you.
What do you give your energy to?
Where do you place yourreverence?
This is your religion,basically in practice.
Notice where you condemnsomeone for being anti-spiritual

(01:32:51):
, against spirituality.
Right, recognize that devotion.
Wow, I really like yourdevotion.
I see your passion about that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, I mentioned the Bible onetime to a woman and she was an

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older English woman.
She goes you know the Bible waswritten by men, right, and I'm
like sure, that's good.
You know, like it's like itdoesn't, it doesn't matter to me
, but it's like oh, yeah, okay,thanks, yeah, that's awesome.
And here's what it says.

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And isn't that awesome?
She's like, yeah, it is.
It's like, oh, okay, all right,it's written by men, it's good.

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
Here's what it says.
It seems like she was fishingto see if you could be victim
with her about men.

Speaker 1 (01:33:51):
Right or be defensive , but I was just like really
inspired in what I had to share.
Whatever that was, I don'tremember right now, but whatever
that was from the Bible wasreally inspired and go, isn't
that awesome.
And she's like, yeah, that is.
And it doesn't matter who wroteit, I wrote that fucker.
So even skepticism or criticismof God, it's intense devotion.

(01:34:26):
So recognizing that, oh yeah,that's awesome.
So when you encounter someonehostile, you might just remember
this is a religious man orwoman.
They are really devoted.
Their devotion, that's real.
It's an underlying miracleimpulse.
Spirit will redirect it.

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You don't need to redirect itfor them.
Let the spirit redirect it.
You just notice, wow, ooh,that's strong.
And wherever you notice yourdevotion being misplaced into
fear or anything like thatspecialness, anything, the
impulse is holy.
That way, you're not condemningyourself.

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You don't need to get rid of it.
You do not need to get rid ofit.
Look at this.
The underlying impulse is holy.
I don't need to get rid of it.
You do not need to get rid ofit.
Look at this.
The underlying impulse is holy.
I don't need to get out of this.
I need to see that what I'mdefending here is an unholiness
and the underlying impulse isholy, Because the impulse is for

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returning to God and spiritredirects it for you.
You don't even have to doanything.
Yay, welcome, I love you.
Anytime you join is fun.
Yay, we're always getting intosomething deep here.
So on to sentence four ofparagraph 18, and I'm weaving in

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footnote 147, which I'll readat the end.
So here's the text.
Unfortunately, he was so afraid.
This is Freud, again spoken byJesus.
Unfortunately, he was so afraidof religion that the only way
he could deal with it was toregard it religion, not himself,

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as sick.
I love how his words are sopointed.
It's so good.
He was so afraid.
Freud was so afraid of religionthat all he could do was regard
it as sick.
So Jesus here is pointing toFreud's defense mechanism.

(01:36:37):
Instead of acknowledging hisfear of God, he displaced it
outward by declaring religionitself is pathological.
So this defense shows up inFreud's book the Future of an
Illusion from 1927, where hedescribed religion as a product

(01:36:59):
of wish fulfillment, aprojection created to control
destructive impulses and tocomfort humanity against
uncontrollable forces of nature.
That's what he wrote in hisbook Religion Was.
I know a lot of people whobelieve religion is like that.
Oh, look at those poorreligious people.

(01:37:19):
They must have a lowerconsciousness.
They go to church and theybelieve in this fictitional
figure that's going to save themand all that kind of stuff,
right?
It's like oh, wish fulfillment,how cute.
It's like, oh, wish fulfillment, how cute, right, and you can

(01:37:39):
see how that's what it lookslike.
It's meant to comfort themagainst these uncontrollable
forces of nature.
Forces of nature aren'tuncontrollable, it's not true.
We're projecting them.
Right.
So he was afraid within himself.
So he treated it as a sickness.
Out there, in religion, he wasafraid of his own religious

(01:38:02):
impulse.
So this is the ego's classicmove project fear outward right,
so the mind doesn't have toface it within.
Outward right, so the minddoesn't have to face it within.
The ego is trying to convinceus that God, love and devotion

(01:38:22):
are a problem, right, while lookat this while guilt, control
and defense are the solution.
And that was Freud's mindset Beafraid of religion, but use
guilt, control and defense asthe solution.
So the sickness was never inthe religion, god or devotion.

(01:38:50):
The sickness is the mind'sbelief in separation.
That's what the sickness is.
See, you could see how we putguilt, control and defense in
charge.
You know, I would notice this.
As a youngster, when I firstlearned the idea that food could

(01:39:14):
make me fat I think I was about10 and I went on a fast because
I picked up the idea food couldmake me fat, right.
So I put the superego in charge, what Freud calls the superego,
which is really the ego, right?
And it's like OK, this conceptis true.
That's the premise that foodcan make me fat.

(01:39:36):
Now I need to figure out how tonot get fat from food and still
try to have as good a time as Ican doing that without too much
punishment, please, right?
So I saw how this was employedover and over again.
And then it was maybe a coupledecades later where I go.

(01:39:57):
Whoa, I see where I'm givingpower to this illusion Like that
food can affect the body.
I could see it clearly that itmade no sense whatsoever.
If the body and the food areboth on a screen of
consciousness, how is one goingto affect the other?

(01:40:18):
That makes no sense.
So I could see that the premisewas untrue.
But here's this trained egotalking you better not eat that.
I'm at a party and I'm eatingolives and a dude's telling me
you know, those have one gram offat each.
Right, that's my mind, right,and I'm like, thank you for
letting me know.

(01:40:38):
And I'm eating some more olives, right, and you know, come to
see, this idea that some food isgoing to make you fat is where
a lot of us actually do startputting the ego in charge.
And it seemed to me that that'swhere I started putting the ego

(01:40:59):
in charge, right, it's like, ofcourse, it's the thought of
separation.
It's not anywhere in time, butI could see how, you know,
looking at it, it's like, oh,maybe the first one was earlier
than that.
Okay, I really don't likespankings.
It seems like these things arehanded out like pancakes around
here.
I'm going to see how I can notget a spanking, how I can avoid

(01:41:24):
the spanking.
I'm putting the ego right incharge, right, because to my
little mind, it wasn't going.
Okay.
How can I not get a spanking?
Well, spanking is punishment.
Let's see where's this thoughtthat says I deserve punishment.
I'm just going to look at anythought that says I deserve

(01:41:45):
punishment and bring that to thetruth.
Really, that's the surest wayto protect you from any physical
harm.
That's the surest way toprotect you from any physical
harm.
Noticing, in the moment, youknow, I, basically I get a sense
of guilt.
Guilt demands punishment.
Ah, there's spankings for you,perfect, I don't even have to
wait, comes right away.

(01:42:10):
So let's see.
So, yes, when you feelresistance to stillness, right,
I can't be still right now.
I can't be still right now.
This is too important.
I need to go with this intensethought right now.
Let's say that's the ego'sclassic move.

(01:42:31):
I can't't just relax right now.
Here's a menu in front of me.
I seem to be at a restaurant.
Here's a menu in front of me.
I cannot just relax and let theHoly Spirit show me what to eat.
I have to get all theseconcepts out and see what fits
into these concepts.
That's what I started to notice.
I was like, what kind ofenjoyment is that?
And the more I was willing tosee what was the most joyful for

(01:42:56):
me, the more I could hear thevoice of spirit and get the
sense that the food that I'mtaking in and I say get the
sense because nothing's doinganything, but we get a sense of
it, getting the sense that thefood is nourishing.
Getting the sense because it'sall sense that the food is
nourishing.
Getting the sense because it'sall sense that the food is
nourishing.
That's a reflection of gettingthe sense of the truth,

(01:43:21):
everything you know.
It occurred to me at 17,.
What if everything that wereally felt like we wanted to
eat was really good for us?
What if?
Why wouldn't that be true?
That makes no sense.
We're projecting an illusionhere.
Why wouldn't that be the one?
Come on now, I was just hearinglike food religion.

(01:43:42):
I know, oh, that's so good Foodand religion.
She's saying Notice this.
I just came from a place inMexico where I heard people
talking about the kitchen.
Why isn't this kitchenvegetarian?
That's the most spiritual dietthere is, right, things like
that.
So I'm riding with some peopleand, you know, I seem to just

(01:44:03):
eat anything.
It is so funny, like I can justtake in.
I feel like I could take in anyfood and transform it, it
doesn't even matter.
So, uh, so I find myself ridingaround, uh, to the airport with
one of the guys from from theplace, uh, from Namaste village,
while around Namaste villageand this is an ACIM community,

(01:44:24):
okay, so he's going, yeah, if Iwere to be a judgmental person,
I'm like, oh, thank goodnessYou're not a giant, wow, I'm so
glad you're not.
Anyway, like, oh, thankgoodness you're not a giant, wow
, I'm so glad you're not.
Anyway, anyways, what were yousaying?
So, yeah, people are addicted tobread and dairy, is what he's

(01:44:44):
saying?
People are just addicted tobread and dairy.
They eat it every day and I go,man, you realize you're talking
about me Like one of my staplefoods.
Apparently, one of my staplefoods is sourdough bread, fried
in ghee on both sides and madecrispy.
That's like one of my staplefoods.
I like to eat that every day,apparently.

(01:45:04):
And he goes oh yeah, but you'rebeyond all that stuff, none of
that stuff affects you.
And I go yeah, apparently I'mso beyond all that stuff.
It doesn't affect anyone elseeither.
Right.

(01:45:25):
I'm not like going around going,yeah, you know I can do it, but
you can't, you're too low levelconsciousness, right, it's like
.
It's like.
I undo the illusions of theworld by seeing that none of
these things are true for anyone.
There's no way that the foodthey ate is having any effect on

(01:45:48):
them.
It's a, it's a, it's a.
Play it, it's a game.
It's as if, right, it's as ifthe food can have an effect on
you.
So, so one.
So in the apparent reality.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
Yeah, people have experiences with food okay.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
So here's how you, here's how you manage with that.
Okay, look at you, get anexperience.
Let's say, yeah, it's amisperception.
Let's say you seem to blow upwhenever you have gluten.
This is a common thing forpeople, right?
They seem to blow up wheneverthey have gluten.
So this is not saying youshould try to tempt the ego and

(01:46:25):
go eat a bunch of gluten and say, look, it didn't even affect me
, because what's probably goingto occur is you're going to blow
up and go to the hospital andthen you're going to go shit.
The truth isn't true.
Dang, there it is again.
There's proof.
Well, the ego and the ego'sworld is meant to prove that
illusions is true.
So that's what occurs.
So you notice that you gave thatpower to the gluten to blow you

(01:46:50):
up.
Right, the gluten to blow youup, right.
So whenever the thought occursto you or you find yourself
trying to convince someone elsethat you're gluten intolerant,
notice that you're making up astory.
Remember that you're making upa story.
Now, inevitably, this is whathappens to gluten intolerant
people.
They mistakenly eat gluten,apparently, and they have that

(01:47:12):
kind of effect.
Okay.
So if and when that occurs, youdeny reality to these effects.
Put all power back in your mind.
Yes, you're experiencing theseeffects, and you're experiencing
these effects because you madeyour mind weak, but you are
all-powerful mind, so you'reputting all of the power back to

(01:47:35):
your mind.
Basically, you're recognizingwhat your mind is and what it's
for right now.
Okay, you're denying reality toillusions.
It's not possible that glutenmade you blow up.
That makes no logical sense atall and that kind of cause and
effect makes no sense at all.
The effect that you'reperceiving now, you're

(01:47:56):
projecting now, it has no rootsin the past, even if the past
was five minutes ago.
Okay, it just makes no sense.
This is how you'll actuallyundo these illusions.
You will undo these illusions.
Okay.
What happens for people thatbelieve in the illusions?
They actually believe thatthey're gluten intolerant.

(01:48:16):
Guess what happens for thesepeople?
They become more and moreintolerant, not just the gluten,
to people, to experiences.
This is a sign of aging.
Quote unquote aging.
Now, things are too loud for me.
Now I'm sensitive to this andnow I'm sensitive over here.
Yeah, yeah, I'm even sensitiveto this kind of energy, and a

(01:48:40):
lot of people take that as beinga sign of heightened
spirituality, that now you'resensitive.
That's not really the right useof sensitive as far as in
spiritual terms.
Use of sensitive as far as inspiritual terms.
Sensitive means you'resensitive to an illusion,
passing through and ready to bereminded of the truth.

(01:49:01):
That's the kind of sensitive.
That's a spiritual sensitive.
It's not sensitive to a bunchof different shit in the world.
Here's another example I got aspliff, right.
A spliff is like half ganja,half tobacco, right.
And I'm sitting in this coffeeshop where this is totally
fucking awesome going on hereand there's a guy who has a
spiritual persona.

(01:49:21):
I could pick up on thosespiritual personas a mile away
and just have such a blast withthem.
It's so fun.
So I'm like hey, do you want anyof this spliff?
He goes just a little bit, I'msensitive.
And I'm like, oh, you'resensitive.
What do you mean you'resensitive?
He goes oh well, you know, if Ihave too much, and I go, well,
what are you saying?
Your mind is weak.
And he's like what?
And I go, well, you're allpowerful mind, why wouldn't you

(01:49:44):
be able to just smoke 10 ofthese spliffs right now and not
be affected at all?
And he's just kind of like ohwell, tell me more, right?
And I'm like yeah, look, youdon't have to deny that you're
perceiving these effects.
Let's say you take a little hitoff of a spliff, right, I'm

(01:50:10):
sitting here with this fattygoing.
You know, he's like this littlepussy.
You know pussy hit.
Some people say don't say that,pussies are really strong.
Okay, I hear you Right, and andyou're saying that your mind is
weak Basically, it's like it.
It does not affect you.

(01:50:30):
Bring it back to.
I make these effects.
That's not saying, you know,maybe you like, oh, I just like
taking this little tiny hit andgetting really, really high.
Wow, my mind is powerful tomake illusions.
Wow, my mind is powerful tomake effects.
Not, I'm sensitive to it.
Who is this person that'ssensitive to any illusions?
Right, it's like making yourindividuated self vulnerable to

(01:50:54):
other illusions.
It's not vulnerable like that.
So you see what I mean, diana,about food.
It's the same thing like foodcan make you fat.
A moment on the lips, alifetime on the hips.
Isn't that a fun one?

(01:51:19):
that's old school.
So what we're eating are are,are the thoughts really, that's
what we're consuming.
So so if you're having, like apeanut butter and jelly sandwich
and you're saying, wow, Ibetter not eat too many of these
, or something, you're noteating a sandwich, you're eating
thoughts.
Right, have the sandwichinstead, it's much tastier, and

(01:51:40):
enjoy it.
Put some bananas in it, I likeit, like that.
So, yay, everyone.
Okay.
So let's see when are we.
First of all, 4.55.
Oh, my goodness.
Okay, let's read this footnote.
Okay.
Well, this footnote is in thefuture of an illusion.
The future of an illusion is a1927 book by Freud.

(01:52:03):
Freud put forth the view thatreligion is an illusion, a
product of wish fulfillment.
He claimed it arose to givedivine authority to societal
controls on the destructivepassions of the individual.
Does that sound familiar?
That's what these look it, heclaimed it arose.

(01:52:27):
Religion arose to give divineauthority to societal controls
on the destructive passions ofthe individual that's what's
going on and to provide acomforting illusion of control
over the uncontrollable forcesof nature.
A comfortable illusion.
Well, there must be a goodreason for it.

(01:52:49):
Right, that's actually on theright track.
There's a good reason foreverything.
Right, that's actually on theright track.
There's a good reason foreverything right, it's
meaningless, but there's a goodreason because it's an
opportunity to recognizewholeness again, to recognize
oneness, to come back to thetruth, and when we perceive
everything like that like, forinstance, for me in 2018, having

(01:53:13):
the house get run over by lavawhen there doesn't seem to be
any insurance I was like woo,yeah Right, I was dancing and
partying and that was one thingthat my community saw.
They're like whoa, she actuallydoes walk or talk.
She's fucking happy she got.
You must have had insurance,you're getting a good deal.

(01:53:33):
Talk or talk, she's fuckinghappy she got.
You must've had insurance,you're getting a good deal.
Funny thing is, I did seem toget a pretty good deal after all
In the moment.
I couldn't have known, but Iknew it was a really good deal
because I knew that whatever wasbeing projected or seen as big
or anything like that, it'sreally a big opportunity to
demonstrate truth, right, to seethat only the truth is true.

(01:53:55):
And you know it was fun becauseafter that it was like my
husband was having PTSD and goesdown with staff for a couple of
years.
So now the house has run overand I'm laughing the whole time.
Right, this is 2018, 19.
Not only is he like down withstaff, but he's totally pissed
at me, like I caused all of thisstuff.
I spent all the money.

(01:54:17):
Now we don't have enough moneyand a whole story.
It was so good and just using it.
Oh, this is perfect.
This is what I was goingthrough at that time.
Oh, this is perfect for me.
Oh, I even had a couple psychicreadings where it came up all
swords.
Oh, you are fucked.
I'm like bring it on, baby.
Even these Tarot readers, theywere just like shocked because

(01:54:44):
they're coming out all theseswords, right, and I'm just like
, fuck, yeah.
And they're like okay, they'relike almost afraid to give me
the reading.
You know, I'm like, yeah, thisis where truly demonstrations
occur and seeing how taking onthat opportunity like that and

(01:55:04):
using it as an opportunityreally propelled me forward in
my understanding, in mywillingness and even in the
lightness that followed, thelightness even in the illusion
seeming lighter and lighter andlighter that followed.
And the joy has always been inextending love and perceiving

(01:55:26):
people who also went through thelava flow.
700 different houses were takenby lava, apparently, and then
there were a lot of people whodid not have their house taken
by lava, but were feelingdevastated by all the other
devastated people and also justthe ash in the air and all this
different stuff and being ableto show up for people usually

(01:55:49):
I'd be wearing rose-coloredglasses or, uh, or a crown on my
head and just be able to showup and letting them fall right
into me with their grief, andjust letting them fall right
into me and loving them up, andso many times they did not
realize the experience was thatmy house also went under the
lava.
I had no idea and we'll justleave it at.

(01:56:09):
Well, I'm like we'll just leaveit at that until there's like a
need to know for them, right?
Because then what happens ispeople start getting sorry for
you.
They start going, oh, you're.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
But if they asked her something, I go, oh, yeah, mine went
under the lava too.
They're like what?
And I go, yeah, they're likewhat do you?

(01:56:31):
What do you have?
Awareness that it's not real,awareness that it's for
awakening the mind, right?
Awareness that that's what it'sfor.
Awareness that there's no loss.
There's truly no loss.
You know, I'd even get peopletalking to me like I was dumb
for not having insurance and I'dbe like thank you for letting

(01:56:51):
me know.
I'm actually happy I didn'thave insurance.
I wouldn't do it any other way.
You know it's funny, becauseinsurance it's like what is it
insuring against that you're notgoing to get what's coming to
you.
It's like you're deserve, youfeel like you deserve this
punishment, so you're going totry to protect against it with
some insurance, right.

(01:57:12):
And it's like, as long as mymind is thinking that I deserve
punishment, I'm going to try toprotect against it with some
insurance, right.
And it's like, as long as mymind is thinking that I deserve
punishment, I'm going toperceive punishment.
It's just that I didn'tperceive the lava flow as
punishment.
I just perceived it as aredirecting of energies for my
benefit and for the benefit ofeveryone.
I just didn't perceive it aspunishment at all.
I thought it was great fun.

(01:57:33):
So yay, thank you, wayne, Ilove you.
Oh, thanks, thanks everyone.
I appreciate you.
So my website is hopejohnsonorg.
That's where you can get to mycalendar.
I've been keeping my calendarupdated, even with the address
where I'm at and how to join onZoom and on Substack, even with

(01:57:56):
the address where I'm at and howto join on Zoom and on Substack
Also.
I started blogging these talksso there's a really clear
synopsis of what we went over.
So you can look at that on mywebsite under the blog.
You can join these live throughSubstack or Zoom.
You can find that on my website.
You can donate to me there.
I'm a ministry.
Also, it's tax deductible.

(01:58:17):
I'm a legit ministry,apparently in the world, and
what else?
Oh, you can book one-on-oneswith me.
So, yay, thank you too, glenn.
I love you.
Thank you for joining everyone.
Mahalo, aloha and a hooey ho.
Thank you.

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