A Course in Miracles Deep Dive | Chapter 2, Section XII, Paragraph 4-7 | October 15, 2025

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From Compromise to Wholeness — The Gift of Time

What if the split you feel isn’t between two real forces, but between reality and a clever nothing?

In this talk, we dive into A Course in Miracles to show how “nothing and everything” cannot coexist—and why choosing love over fear is less a ritual than a present-moment decision that collapses delay.

Instead of fixing yourself, we explore how to transfer faith from ego stories to the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretation, letting error be seen without judgment and corrected on the spot. We walk through the right use of denial—feeling what arises while refusing to grant it reality—and how pseudo-solutions like analysis, control, and specialness keep the loop alive.

From there, we reframe time as a compassionate device for ending compromise with illusion, unpacking a fresh reading of John 3:16: not sacrifice, but a gift—this world given as a classroom where mercy replaces guilt. The result is a grounded practice for accepting Atonement without delay: pause, notice the sensation, offer the thought, and allow correction to flow.

We also open the lens on the Sonship—the one shared Self beyond multiplicity. Inclusion heals perception; exclusion fractures it. Each encounter becomes communion when we remember there’s only one of us to forgive and to love.

If you’re ready to stop negotiating with fear, to let time serve awakening, and to feel the quiet strength of choosing everything, this conversation offers clear steps and a lived sense of peace.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
Aloha, and welcome to a course in miracles deep
dive with Hope Johnson.
Today we'll be starting withchapter two, section twelve,
paragraph four.
Yay, I'm excited about this.

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Ah.
Let's start with dropping in anda nice prayer.
Ah.
Thank you for showing us thattime is only for undoing time

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again and again and again.
Thank you for pointing in allthese different ways we can
understand.
Using words as a symbol ofsymbols.
What fun is that?
Thank you to all of our brothersand sisters joining us.

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Thank you to all of our brothersand sisters everywhere simply
for being always an expressionof God's love.
Yay.
Thank you for our open heartsand willing minds today.

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All right.
Let's go deep.
I'm excited.
I'm really excited.
All right.
So we left off with at paragraphthree.
We were talking about howcorrection has to be applied

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within the level that erroroccurs.
And that the miracle must beillogical because its purpose is
to correct the illogical andrestore order.
Basically, the world we made isillogical, and the miracle

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restores order to our mind.
Yay! Welcome, I love you.
Thank you.
So on to paragraph four,sentence one.
Two concepts which cannotcoexist are nothing and

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everything.
Yay! So there's the absolutenon-duality of a Course in
Miracles right there.
Nothing is a symbol of theentire thought system of the
ego, the system of separation,the body, the world, time,

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death.
Everything is God's reality,changeless and whole.
Okay, truth doesn't have anopposite.
They cannot overlap.
Here's the text again.
Two concepts which cannotcoexist are nothing and

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everything.
So any seeming blend betweenthese two is confusion in the
perception.
It's the ego trying to hold onto both God and itself and its
own power.

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So to believe in nothing is tolose sight of everything, even
though everything is stilluntouched.
You only lose sight of it.
So awakening is best isbasically the recognition
there's no opposite to God.

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These two concepts cannotcoexist in your mind.
So when you feel upset, divided,confused, fearful thoughts,
notice the feeling.
That feeling is reflectingbelief in nothing.

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So you can just be remindedright there that only love is
everything.
There's nothing else but love.
So then you're shifting yourattention in that way from
analyzing appearances to justrecognizing your source.

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So every time you chooseeverything, you're undoing the
need for more time.
The only reason there's a needfor more time is so that it can
give you apparent intervals forapparent learning.
What you're learning though isto choose everything again and

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again and again, which you canjust do at any time.
Once you're aware of what it is,just do it anytime you want.
You don't have to have any kindof spiritual status to do it.
Choose everything, that's whatI'm talking about.

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Case you're wondering what Imean by do it.
When presented with the optionbetween everything and nothing,
everything being the peace ofGod, you could say, awareness of
union, another way of puttingit, or the uh opposite of that

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is a fearful thought.
See, we're gonna get into this.
You're gonna probably see how todo this here.
It's really fun.
All right.
If you don't see already, I knowsome of my friends, you guys are
just here for front for fun.
You're just like, hey, someone'stalking about this shit.

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Already doing it.
Good job.
Thank you.
Thank you for your service.
All right, paragraph four,sentence two.
Here's the text.
To whatever extent one isbelieved in, the other has been
abolished.

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That is talking about nothingand everything.
Okay, to whatever extent one,nothing or everything is
believed in, the other has beenabolished.
So you could say belief is thecause of perceiving.

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So whatever the mind believes,it experiences.
When your faith is placed in theego's perception, the ego's way
of perceiving, the truth hasbeen abolished.
When your faith is placed inGod, illusions reveal themselves

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as meaningless.
They fade.
Every thought is either used tostrengthen love or illusion in
your mind.
This is why Jesus talks about atransfer of faith.

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I was checking this out earlier.
I was interested in this.
Transfer of faith.
Hmm, interesting.
What is what kind of concept isthis?
I love it.
So the transfer of faith.
So it's shifting belief from theego stories, the allusion to the

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truth is what Jesus is calling atransfer of faith.
So it's a it's a redirection oftrust.
Changing that trust fromsystems, concepts to the Holy

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Spirit.
Belief in worldly, you could sayworldly cures, the transfer of
faith.
Whatever the Holy Spirit'sthought system uh is showing
you, it's like he would transferthe faith from this being real

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to the Holy Spirit's thoughtsystem being true.
Like let's say you're perceivingsomeone has a particular
sickness.
Maybe it's yourself, maybe it'ssomeone else, someone else.
If you look at, you know, theHoly Spirit's thoughts, say
sickness is just a defenseagainst the truth.
That means it's a call for love,it's a call for true vision,
right?
Truly seeing what's here.

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And and the way that occurs isyou notice any uncomfort arising
within yourself and feel thecompassion for your having this
uh perception that sickness istrue.
So there's a defense thereagainst the truth that can be
transferred, the faith in thatdefensiveness.

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Oh, that sucks.
Everyone gets cancer orsomething like that.
Maybe they shouldn't have smokedso many cigarettes and then they
wouldn't have got the cancer,let's say.
You transfer the faith tosickness is simply a defense
against the against the truth.
So it's a faith in the HolySpirit's system.
So it depends where it's placed.

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So elsewhere in the text inchapter six, it says faith must
be the channel for the transferof trust.
And then he clarifies in chapter17 the transfer of your trust
from the ego to the Holy Spiritis the transfer of your faith.
So it goes to your trans yourtrust transfers over to the Holy

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Spirit.
Any trust in illusions, egos,beliefs, you're guilty.
That's another one.
You're guilty.
What did you do?
How could you do that?
Um, you transfer the trust fromwhat the ego is saying there
about how could you do that andstuff like that, to the Holy

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Spirit's assurance that you canonly express like God.
You can't express another way.
You were dreaming if you thoughtyou did anything.
And we'll get into more of thattoo.
It's so fun.
It's just transferring yourfaith over to the Holy Spirit's
thought system that enablesmiracles to work through you.

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Uh illusions don't get abolishedby destroying them.
It's basically seeing them asnot being the truth.
God didn't create it, God didn'tcreate sickness, for instance.
Therefore, it doesn't exist.
It's simple like that.

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So notice what you're givingbelief to fearful outcomes,
bodily states, judgments, divinecertainty.
Uh, you know, it's like there'sthere's one there's there's
really one choice that makes anysense that even means anything.

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And that is your awareness ofour union, our union together,
and our union with God.
And then also your totalallowance.
It's like this recognition thatthe that the self, the manifest
self that you seem to be isabsolutely perfect.

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Actually, absolutely perfect forexpressing God's love.
It's it's it doesn't need tohave have any kinds of
improvements.
So you can always withdraw fromfear by choosing the truth.
You can even say, I choose thetruth instead of this.

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So it's one or the other.
Here's the text once again.
Paragraph four, sentence twofrom A Course in Miracles.
To whatever extent one isbelieved in, that's nothing or
everything, the other has beenabolished.
What fun.
Then we went off on transferringyour uh your faith, right?

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Transferring it from ego to holyspirit thoughts.
That was fun.
Thank you for going there withme.
I appreciate you.
So, paragraph four, sentencethree.
In the conflict, fear is reallynothing, and love is really

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everything.
Okay, apparently the conflict isbetween nothing and everything.
That's what the conflict isbetween nothing and everything.
That is the conflict.
That's redefining conflict forus.
If it seems like fear and loveare struggling for dominance,

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recognizing that fear doesn'teven have any substance, it's
actually nothing, it's just theabsence of love's awareness.
Once the awareness of lovereturns to your mind, there's no
trace of fear.
Only love has a real cause.

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You're the cause of love, oryou're the effect of love.
Love causes you, you're thecause of the world.
So if you recognize your cause,that's how you're extending love
into the world.
Your cause is love.

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You are the effect of love.
Nothing else that you see meansanything.
Only love is real.
Let's say nothing you see meansanything because it's just
perceiving.
So what we call conflict is justthe mind, it's oscillating

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between reality and unreality.
It's if it shows up betweenpeople, that's just an
expression of it.
But really, its source is in thepsyche.

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So the seeming power of fear isan idea, it's a belief that fear
can be an opposite to love.
Fear doesn't have a cause, itdoesn't have a real cause.
It's just the unawareness oflove.

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That's the cause of it.
So once it's saying that that'swhat it is, it loses all its
grip.
It's like love doesn't have todefeat it or something.
Oh, if there's fear, that'sunawareness of love.
So we don't have to fight it.

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Just notice it's nothing tryingto be something.
And it's your it's a habit foryou to let it be something,
giving it meaning.
Remembering that love iseverything and fear is nothing.
Feel into that.
That's what these words are for.

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Notice the sensation.
Love is everything, and fear isnothing.
In the Bible, it says, lovecasts out all fear.
You want to restore theawareness that love is your
cause in your mind.

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That'll keep you anchored inreality.
In the conflict, here's the textagain.
In the conflict, fear is reallynothing, and love is really
everything.
This is the conflict betweennothing and everything.
Fear is nothing, love iseverything.
You guys got that?

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Thank you for joining.
I love you.
Thank you.
Paragraph four, sentence four.
The unwillingness to let one'sdarkness be seen or to submit
error to light is a way ofdenying that the separation ever

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occurred.
So when I first read this, Iwent, hmm, because Thomas and I
have been bringing to light inour awareness that the
separation, in fact, neveroccurred.
So then I looked at the splitnote for this.

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Yeah, I'll read that sentenceagain.
The unwillingness to let one'sdarkness be seen or to submit
error to light is a way ofdenying that the separation ever
occurred.

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Right.
So what this is talking about,what Jesus is talking about here
is that the ego hides in thissecrecy.
You know, in the background,it's whispering to you
underneath the surface andsecret that guilt or anger, your
guilt or anger, they must stayprivate.

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If they were exposed, you wouldbe punished.
See, it conceals these thingsfrom you.
Like I've talked to people aboutthe murderous thought, and they
go, I don't have any thoughtlike that.
And it's like, okay, you havenot been witnessing the
unconscious mind because that iswhat is at the uh core of the

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thing.
It's a murderous thought.
So uh, and you know, that's notthe that's not really the base
of it, let's say.
That's a that's a that's thecore of the illusion of it,
because underneath that, thebase of it is the miracle
impulse.
But it takes seeing past that torecognize and um conscious

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consciously allow that miracleimpulse through, let's say, so
concealment, concealing thosethoughts that are in the
unconscious mind.
Jesus talked about earlier in aprevious section about unwatched

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thoughts.
So we're going back to that.
Concealing these unwatchedthoughts, maintain it actually
maintains the illusion thatseparation is real.
But when you let the darkness beseen by the Holy Spirit,

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basically you're bringing yourthoughts that you thought with
the ego to the Holy Spirit, thisis how it disappears.
This is how this illusion ofseparation actually disappears.
See, the error has to besubmitted to light, to light,
not just denied as an ego woulddeny.

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Errors submitted to light is amatter of watching what Jesus
earlier called the unwatchedmind, and let those errors be
seen for what they are.
Meaningless errors, powerfulthough, if they're allowed to
proliferate.

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Letting it be seen, though, iswhat undoes it.
So when you're hiding darkness,it's like this I can manage
illusions myself.
You know, revealing it says, youknow, you could actually accept
that nothing happened when yousee what the dark thoughts are.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_01 (22:18):
So in the concept of separation, punishment is real,
but without the concept ofseparation never happened,
there's no punishment.
You can't do anything wrong.
And you mustn't just be willingto look at the shadow.

SPEAKER_00 (22:31):
Yes, and it needs to be looked at because obviously,
even though you're not capableof making a real separate world,
you made a separate world thatlooks real to you.
So those illusions that bring ona separate world, those are what

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needs to be brought to truth.
They need to be seen in thelight of truth.
The error needs to be submittedit, submitted to the light.
So it's just being open itselfto seeing what's in the
unconscious mind that brings theerror to light.

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Just that.
Just that's a demonstration thatthe error isn't real.
You know, sometimes people willtell me, Oh, you talk about such
personal stuff, Pope.
How do you talk about suchpersonal stuff like that?
That seems embarrassing.
And it's like, man, there'snothing to be embarrassed about
because I'm not the illusion.
And the self that I made, that Imade up, that I seem to be

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expressing, expressing through,I have complete confidence in it
that it's perfect for what'sgoing on here.
It can't get it wrong.
There's just no punishment forit.
All right.
Glenn's chiming in here.

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He's saying there is no fear inlove, but perfect love casts out
fear.
I love that.
For fear has to do withpunishment.
And whoever fears has not beenperfected in love.
Basically, that means theyhaven't accepted that they are
love.
There's nothing, it's alwaysthis idea that there's this self

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that needs to get better, right?
Before you're worthy of love,that's going to somehow make you
world worthy of love.
And finally, you're going to getwhat you want when this self has
become something.
Like, man, just acceptingnothing happened.
Even the idea of self is justlike it's nothing.
So just being open, letting itbe whatever it is.

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That's what demonstrates to yourmind that the separation never
occurred.
So, you know, this includesanything like shame or jealousy
or resentment, anything.
Uh, instead of judging any ofthese things about yourself,
offer it up.
You know, one thing I like tosay is uh is I love that.

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I love that about myself.
That's perfect.
That's exactly what is beingused for undoing the thought of
separation.
That is exactly perfect for itsits purpose.
When you recognize that thebody's purpose, the body's real
purpose, and the purpose youwould have for it is to be a

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means of communicating, right?
It's communicating love,communicating the truth, could
say, then all of those thingsare helpful.
Shame, jealousy, resentment islike, oh, great, that's perfect
for me.
This is how I help undo it.

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You could say, like, uh, inHawaiian terms, it's uh kuleana,
it's my kuleana.
If I have if I'm the one whoseems to have an issue with
jealousy, oh perfect.
That's what I'm gonna use topurify my mind.
If I'm the one that that seemsto have an issue with uh anxious
attachment, that's one been thatone's been coming up in my field

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lately.
Uh, if I if I seem to want bethe one with anxious attachment,
perfect.
That's perfect for me.
It can't go wrong, what I'msaying.
Um, you know what that's whatwe're being we're being shown
here.
Okay.
So how can you give it to theHoly Spirit?
Holy Spirit, here's the thoughtI made.

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Show me that it means nothing,and then feel the relief.
Let yourself feel the relief ofno longer guarding this secret.
Woo.
Transparency to the Holy Spirit,to God, to Jesus.
That's safety.

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Hiding it is suffering.
You don't have to hide anything.
Doesn't mean you have to go outand tell everyone.
You just let that be guided bythe Holy Spirit.
I'm guided by the Holy Spirit totalk about a lot of it just
because it's uh it gives youguys an example that you can
apply in your own experiencethat might look similar.

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Also, not to give you some ideathat none of this shit comes up
for me, it does come up, it justlooks like fun.
All right, paragraph four,sentence five from chapter two,
section twelve.
Like all pseudo-solutions, thiskind of distorted thinking is

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very creative but false.
So he's talking aboutpseudo-solutions and this kind
of distorted thinking, thisunwillingness to see the
darkness, unwillingness tosubmit error to light.
He's saying this kind ofdistorted thinking is creative
but false.

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So the ego uses the mind'sdivine creativity with your
consent, of course, to makesubstitutes for peace, control,
analysis, attack,self-improvement, specialness.

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He's saying they're creativebecause they use the
imagination.
He's also saying they are false,and that's because they don't
solve anything, theyre-in-enforce the illusion that
the problem is real.
There's no real problem.
All of your problems havealready been solved.

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That's one of the lessons in aCourse in Miracles.
Let me see, my problems havealready been solved.
So here's the text again.
Like all pseudo-solutions, thiskind of distorted thinking is
very creative, but false.
So this kind of he's saying thisunwillingness to let the

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darkness in the unwatched,unconscious mind be seen.
All pseudo-solutions are goingto begin with a belief that
separation can be managed.
Basically, fear can be managed.
We talked about that.
Earlier on, we were talkingabout there's no mastery of

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fear, there's only mastery oflove.
Separation is fear.
So true correction starts withrecognizing there's no problem.
There's no problem.
Let's read that sentence again.
Like all pseudo solutions, thiskind of distorted thinking is

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very creative, but false.
So it's like you have to belooking on the apparent problem
to recognize there's no problemthough.
When you're running away fromit, the power, same power that
makes illusions, creative powermaking illusions, also covers

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them up.
By trying to fix yourself,justify, defend yourself.
When you see that kind of stuff,just smile.
Say this is the ego'screativity.
Very imaginative.

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But it's false.
The reason you're trying to fixyourself, the reason you're
trying to justify or defendyourself is because you get the
idea that you're super, superguilty because the thoughts are
dark in your mind.
Instead of trying to fix ordefend or justify yourself, look
at those.
Let them be undone, let them bebrought to light.

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That's why we ask the HolySpirit, what would you have me
do?
Let stillness replace egostrategy.
Wait in the stillness for anupliftment of energy,
surrendering to the moment,letting your mind's creativity
be restored to miracles.
Instead of trying to manufacturesomething for the ego's uh

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entertainment, the ego's life,even.
All right.
I hope you guys all lovedparagraph four.
That is over now.
We are going on to paragraphfive.
Sentence one.
And this one has a footnote.

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Five, sentence one.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, this one definitelyneeded a footnote.
Paragraph five, sentence one.
I had it wrong in my notes.

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Right.
The separation has occurred, itsays.
And then there's a footnotethere.
Because it's kind of like peoplewho have read all the way
through are like, what in theworld?
He told us the separation didn'toccur.
We forgot he was saying it hasoccurred before.

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So in the footnote, it says thecourse will later say the full
awareness of atonement, then, isthe recognition that the
separation never occurred.
And that starts in chapter six.
So these two statements, this isstill the footnote, these two
statements need not be seen asin conflict.

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The Course is clear throughoutthat something did happen, which
resulted in the universe of timeand space.
So we should not deny thatsomething happened.
What we should deny is thereality of what happened.
So this is the footnote isdefinitely attempting to

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reconcile two layers of a coursein miracles on one level within
the dream.
Even though, you know, later onit even talks about you're not
capable of believing apart fromGod.
Okay, well, it really has nobasis then.

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This is so it's like this is themoment the mind appeared to
split when there is a belief inseparation and project a
universe of time and form.
But actually, in truth, nothingactually happened.
The Son of God is as God createdhim, that never changed.

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So we're still not asked to denythe appearance of the world.
Yes, it appears that thathappened, but to deny it any
reality, to deny it any realityis also to deny it any effects.
So you're perfectly unaffectedby lack of love.

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Whether you perceive it ascoming from yourself to another
person, from yourself toyourself, another person to you,
another person to anotherperson, you are perfectly
unaffected by lack of lovebecause it has no reality.
God didn't create it, thereforeit doesn't exist.
So when Jesus is talking aboutrefusing to expose one's

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darkness, that's he's sayingthat's denying that the
separation ever occurred.
He's talking about on the levelof perception.
So this is the ego's form ofdenial.
Refusing to look at guilt is thesame as pretending there's no
need for healing.

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Okay.
And even, you know, there's noneed for healing because the
healing already occurred.
Still, you still have to look atit to apply it.
Okay.
Uh, the separation is definitelystill being defended by the ego
in the imagination, and that'swhy we are perceiving a world of

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separate bodies.
All right.
So the footnote is clarifyingthat this denial is not the same
as the atonement recognitionthat the separation never
occurred.
So later on down the road, itgets to okay, the separation
never occurred, but we developto that level through learning.

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Okay, apparently learning.
If you can get that right now,great.
That's awesome.
So the difference is in whatwhich teacher interprets the
denial because we're denyingthat the separation ever
occurred, right?
It's like but it's both denyingthat the separation ever
occurred.
But if you're doing it with theego, the ego does it to hide

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guilt.
That's the difference.
The ego says, no, the separationnever occurred to hide guilt, to
not look at guilty thoughts thatare in the unconscious mind.
The Holy Spirit denies, uh,denies that the separation ever
occurred to expose and heal theseparation, the thoughts that
hold it together like glue.

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Okay.
I love you.
Thank you for joining.
I see you joining.
Thank you.
I love you.
Let's read the sentence again.
The separation has occurred.
That's what sentence we'retalking about right now.

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Okay.
So the mind being afraid ofexposure is the mechanic, the
mechanism that sustains thedream.
When we bring that mechanism tolight, as in the thoughts, the
underlying thoughts that arereally guilty thoughts.

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We we withdraw belief in theillusion and the ongoing
separation.
So it's like it cuts it short,it cuts it off.
It's another way of saying it iscollapsing time.
So what we're undoing, we'reundoing separation.
It's not a real event, it's abelief that it was real.

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And the belief that we're stilltrapped in that belief.
We believe ourselves to betrapped in the belief, and
that's why we appear to betrapped in the belief, even
though we're being told over andover again, you are not there,
you are not inside of thatworld, you are not even trapped.
Isn't that so fun?

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I love it.
So in the ego's world, theseparation seems to have
happened and must be healed.
To the separation, to the ego,the separation really did happen

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and it needs to be healed.
In truth, the separation neveroccurred.
So nothing actually needshealing.
Letting that let you free to seethe thoughts that are bringing
on this separation.
That's why Jesus is saying here,the separation has occurred.

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So holding both of theseunderstandings simultaneously, I
know if you guys are juststarting out on a course in
miracles, this might go overyour head, and it's okay.
It'll come back around again andagain.
Uh, if you're part of advancedmind training, this is holding,
and anyone can really do this.

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It's willingness, holding thesetwo understandings together
simultaneously.
We operate within the dream forpracticing forgiveness, not in
our lives.
That's a story.
Our operation in the dream ispracticing forgiveness, exposing
fear, choosing the right mind,choosing everything over

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nothing.
Until the mind fully awakens,that means no one is left
behind, no brother is still infear, and we see that there was
no dreamer at all.

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It never happened, and we needto operate in the dream as long
as we see to be in the dream,uh, participate in our own
salvation, you can say.

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When painful emotions arise,there's going to be a temptation
to minif minimize, justify, orspiritualize them.
No need to do that.
That's just ego denyingsomething.
Turn toward the feeling.
Here's something I wrote down uhas an offering whenever any

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painful feelings arise.
Holy Spirit, I will honor thisfeeling, I will not hide this
thought.
Let me see that it never hadreality.
Here's how we're honoring bothdimensions at the same time.
It's acknowledging somethingseems to have arisen.

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There's a projection here.
While also affirming that it'snot real, it's not real in
truth.
Let me see that it never hadreality.
So you're not denying yourexperience, you're denying that
you're denying that it has anyreality behind it.

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It's the reality is not caught,is not the cause of this
experience.
You're experiencing unreality.
So every time you let somethingbe reinterpreted like that,
you're basically participatingin what Jesus calls the
atonement.
You're remembering with us thatthe separation never truly

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happened.
So this lifts the veil untilthere's only peace.
Again, that sentence was theseparation has occurred.
If you have any questions or youwant to add anything, raise your
hand or make a comment.

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I love you.
I'm checking on you.
All right.
Paragraph five, sentence two.
To deny this is merely to misusedenial.
So to deny this, this being theseparation has occurred.

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So he's saying to deny this ismerely to misuse denial.
So he's continuing to refine,uh, refine this function that we
made up, denial.
We made up this function calleddenial.
It's not an evil function, it'sneutral, it's a power we gave to

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ourselves.
It could be used correctly, itcould deny errors reality.
But when used for the ego, itdenies truth.
Here where he's saying to denythis refers to denying the fact
that the mind can make thebelief in separation real and

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fearful.
See what we're perceiving as anillusion of separation is an
effect of our belief inseparation.
That's what's going on.
So the ego says you can escapethe fear you made by pretending
it's not there, by concealingit.

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So the mind that says this fearhas no power while also
remaining to remaining in truth,open to see the thought fully,
that's using denial rightly.
But the mind that says, I'm notafraid, while secretly trembling

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in fear, see, that's not beingaware of your feelings.
You're saying I'm not afraid,but you're secretly trembling in
fear, that's misusing denial.
You see that correct use ofdenial faces the illusion
without giving it any truth.
Incorrect use of denial deniesit's even there.

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Denies that you're secretlybelieving it.
It's not only is it, and that'swhat really gives it any uh
presence as in being there, youcould say it's there because
you're secretly believing it,you're giving it power without
knowing it, probably.

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So practically, when somethingfearful arises, again, any upset
feeling, recognize I made thisup, but I no longer want to
believe it.
I made this up, I don't evenwant to believe it.
That is the right use of denial.

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You know, just giving it over tothe Holy Spirit.
Let me, this is denial too.
Just Holy Spirit reinterpretthis for me.
I don't I don't support thisthought anymore.
I don't want to support thisthought anymore.
Show me a differentinterpretation.
Correct use of denial feels calmand present and gentle and

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loving.
It doesn't give fear reality,but it allows it to be felt and
allows awareness to just shineon it.
Awareness is basically awarenessof your union with all of us,
with all of your brothers andsisters, and with God.

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And then that could shine on anyexperience that you're having.
You can't really be afraid ofunion either unless you allow
the form to be what it is.
Look on it as it is.
So that sentence to deny this,to deny that the separation has
occurred is merely to misusedenial.

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So, paragraph five, sentencethree.
However, to concentrate on erroris merely a further misuse of
legitimate psychic mechanisms.
Whoo, legitimate psychicmechanisms.

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So that's basically focus,attention, projection.
How are these being used?
Focus, attention, projection.
Psychic mechanisms, right?
Concentrating on error, he'ssaying, is a further misuse of

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legitimate psychic mechanisms.
So obsessing over fearfulthoughts in contrast to just
dismissing them as if they'renot there, you're believing them

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as if you're not believing them,let's say.
So we want them to be brought tothe light of truth.
We don't want them to be studiedendlessly by the ego.
That's a different thing, right?
Concentrating on errorreinforces our belief that

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there's something that needsfixing.
It makes separation seem aliveand well, active, active
separation.
So legitimate psychicmechanisms.
Again, that's your focus,attention, and projections.

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When you miss when you misusethem, they keep your mind
looping in the same content, thesame false content over and over
again.
So the miracle would redirectthese mechanisms.
Focus, attention, projectionbeing on love rather than error.

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All right.
Some of my friends were bringingup um apparent things that are
going in the on in the world.
Some things were just horrific.
I won't even repeat what theybrought up.
And it just occurred to me, wow,that's just the misuse of
psychic energy right there.
You know, it's like no, nojudgment, no need to change

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anything, just noticing, ohyeah, there it is.
Misuse of psychic energy.
It's like using your focus forprojecting something, noticing
how you feel.
That for me, it's just a matterof noticing.
What does that feel like in thebody's energy field?
I love to feel uplifted andrelaxed and calm.

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And that's why I let thoughtsthat don't feel like that just
pass by.
And if someone else is talkingabout it, I don't mind at all.
I don't even mind.
I don't feel like it joining inon it, but I make a good
audience.
I'm interested, but I'm not onone side or the other, and I

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don't have any opinions aboutit.
So whenever you notice anyrepeated self-analysis, that's a
good one.
Trying to figure out why youfeel bad.
You're concentrating on error.
If you, even if you don't seethe thought, just notice you

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have an upset feeling right now.
If you don't even see what thethought is, you could just
silently say to yourself, HolySpirit, I give this thought to
you, whatever it is.
No correction is coming fromself-analysis, it's only coming
from willingness to seedifferently.

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You got to get out of thatself-analysis thing.
There's nothing there toanalyze, it's all in perfect
order.
You got to be confident that theself that is projecting right
now is perfect for what needs tobe done.
Perfect.

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Thank you.
Paragraph five, sentence four.
The true corrective procedure,which has already been described
as the proper use of thespiritual eye or true vision, is

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to accept the error temporarily,but only as an indication that
immediate correction ismandatory.
Ooh, I like how he says it rightthere.
He's not fucking around rightthere.
Immediate correction ismandatory.

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So this is between thatinappropriate use of denial and
obsession obsessing over theerror.
This is a balance between that,the spiritual eye, the true
vision.
This is the mind's capacity toobserve without judgment.
It sees error.

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I just gave you an example ofthat.
Oh, there's misuse of psychicpowers right there.
Look without judgment.
It sees error, but it doesn'tcondemn it or amplify it.
It just looks at it.
Oh, something false has arisenhas arisen.

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Correction is now needed.
So it's the same principle.
He's explaining the Holy Spirituses error only to guide us back
to truth.
He reinterprets every mistakenthought.

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Reinterprets it to a call forlove.
The ego attacks errors and theHoly Spirit uses them.
This is why we accept the errortemporarily.
That's what it says in thissentence.
Accept the error temporarily.
I'll read it again in a sec.

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Only to recognize the message.
Correction is needed.
Not punishment, not analysis.
Correction is needed.
Here's the text again.
Paragraph five, sentence four.
The true corrective procedure,which has already been described
as the proper use of thespiritual eye or true vision, is

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to accept the error temporarily,but only as an indication that
immediate correction ismandatory.
So to accept an errortemporarily is not validating

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the error.
It's acknowledging that it'sappearing within the perception
just so it could be healed.
Refusing to look at it keeps ithidden.
Indulging in it deepens yourbelief.
This is like you could say themiddle way.
Seeing it clearly withoutjudgment, that's what restores

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sanity.
Looking at everything throughthe eyes of Christ who sees the
illusion and the correction toillusion simultaneously.
Correction is always love.
It's seeing it's truly, it'sseeing it as a call for love.
Oh, it's a call for love.

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Great.
Okay.
Uh footnote.
We got a footnote here.
Let me see.
Immediate correction ismandatory.
Footnote comes, it says, see uha couple different sections,

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chapter two, six, and eight.
So we're gonna just go overthere.
Those I made a couple notesabout it.
So the footnotes are remindingus that the process reflects how
the Holy Spirit transformsperception.
In section six, Jesus says themiracle doesn't create, it

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corrects, it reordersperception.
Creation is already complete, itreorders perception.
So we're misperceiving wheneverwe perceive any errors, even
even thoughts, even thoughtsthat are call for love.
It's a reordering perception.

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Perceiving error rightly, thisis from uh part eight.
Perceiving error rightly isessential to miracle-mindedness
because error seen through loveceases to produce fear.
See that?
So it doesn't produce fearanymore.
It's like, oh, it's just a callfor love.
There's nothing that has noeffects, it takes the effects

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away.
If anyone has any question, letme know.
I love you.
Thank you for joining.
Sweet peeps.
So when you notice a mistake inthought, that means
self-criticism, judgment,anxiety.

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Just acknowledge that withoutguilt.
It's an error in perception.
Let your mind be corrected againand again.
Basically, I'm saying the samekind of thing.
You're looking at it, you'rejust seeing it again and again
with these different pointersuntil it just becomes really
natural for you.

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Let that just be uh a habit foryou.
Not analyzing, not suppressing,just recognizing there's an
error.
It's a signal that correction ismandatory, it's needed
immediately.
That's how you keep yourattention in true vision.
So the feeling itself becomeskind of like a bell that brings

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you back to awareness of truth,awareness of love.
Sentence five of paragraph five.
Here's the text.

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This establishes a state of mindin which the atonement can be
accepted without delay.
Yay, for that.
So this establishes what isthis?
The true corrective procedure,proper use of the spiritual eye,
true vision to accept the errortemporarily, but only as an

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indication that immediatecorrection is mandatory.
So then the next sentence thisestablishes a state of mind in
which the atonement can beaccepted without delay.
That's what we want.
We want to just establish thatstate of mind, let that be the
ground of everything that weperceive in the world.

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So the atonement can be acceptedwithout delay.
So when we approach error inthis way, we're not denying it,
we're not fixing fixating on it.
We're in a receptive state ofmind.
That's why the atonement can beaccepted without delay.

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We're in a receptive state ofmind.
See, the the atonement can beaccepted instantly where there's
openness and humility andnon-judgment.
Atonement is awareness that theseparation never occurred.
Not like the ego's way, like wewere talking about a few

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sentences back.
It isn't something you earn orperform or understand.
It's just it's accepted.
One day you just accept it thatthe separation never occurred.
The only barriers to acceptingthat is resistance.
It's resistance in differentforms, you could say, but it's

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all just resistance.
Arrogance, guilt, fear.
Those act as barriers toaccepting it.
They're hiding it.
You don't have to defend thoseerrors or inflate them by
dwelling on them.
This is how your mind reaches astage.
State of calm and beingavailable for the truth to

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reveal itself.
It's a lovely place to be, andyou could just allow yourself to
be in that grace all day long,every day.
What a gift.

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So here Jesus is showing us aglimpse of how correction
happens without any effort,without any struggle or effort.
That's the mind just stopsprotecting or attacking or
attacking itself.
Those are both really the samething.
Then the Holy Spirit'sreinterpretation just

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automatically flows through allof the perceptions.
This readiness is whatestablishes a state of mind.
It's a state of mind that'scapable of immediate healing.
This establishes a state of mindin which the atonement can be
accepted without delay.

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Ah, thank goodness.
So letting tension, judgment,whatever be a call to immediate
openness.
I do not need to delaycorrection.
I can see this different now.
And then pause long enough tofeel what that's like to enter
the light.

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That pause where you pause andfeel, you could say that is the
condition for the atonement.
Because you're not listening tothe ego right there.
You're allowing stillness toshow you something.
You might even visualizeyourself as setting something
heavy down that you didn'trealize you were even carrying

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around.
As soon as you release it,you're going to feel at peace.
You practice being at peaceagain and again like this.
You'll see that the delaybetween these disturbances will
be longer.

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And eventually your recognitionyour recognition of the
atonement process and your yourability to access it immediately
just becomes instantaneous inall of your situations.
So we have completed sentence oroh we completed a whole chapter.

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No, we completed a wholeparagraph.
These chapters are pretty long.
We've completed a paragraph,paragraph five.
And now we're on to paragraphsix.

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And that text is it is worthrepeating that ultimately there
is no compromise betweeneverything and nothing.
Didn't we just go over this?
It's like deja vu, right?
We did.
We just went over this.
Um, but he's saying it's worthrepeating.
So we're gonna go over it again.

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Okay.
In in uh paragraph four, hesaid, two concepts, two concepts
which cannot coexist are nothingand everything.
And here he's saying it is worthrepeating two paragraphs later,
that ultimately there is nocompromise possible between

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everything and nothing.
So this is reaffirming theuncompromising nature of
reality, truth, which iseverything, and illusion, with
is not which is nothing, cannotcoexist.

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The ego's entire strategy restson convincing you that they can
coexist, that you can servespirit and the world, that you
can serve love and fear, thatyou can serve holiness and

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guilt.
Jesus is repeating this teachingtwo paragraphs later to
emphasize to us that healingbegins only when we stop trying
to reconcile what cannot bereconciled.

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Again, that's the same asconfusing the levels.
The desire for compromise arisesout of fear of total loss.
So the ego thinks it can keepeverything and nothing.
It's fear that if we give upillusion, something real is

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going to be taken away from us.
But the opposite is true, andthis is the thing people come to
recognize is that giving upillusion restores everything to
our mind.
Everything we thought we welacked, we realized we already
had.
So you could say everything isrepresenting the unbroken

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wholeness, the peace of God, theunbroken union between
ourselves, with ourselves andwith God.
Well, nothing is just aprojection of separation.
There's nothing here for us.
So the mind can't be splitbetween these two and be sane.

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See the core of salvation isbasically we're relinquishing
this divided will.
Jesus is saying again, here'sthe text this time.
It is worth repeating thatultimately there is no
compromise possible betweeneverything and nothing.

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No compromise possible.
So when the ego offerscompromise, you can keep both
truth and illusion, and youaccept that, that's basically,
you know, indecision.
Okay, if you want an example ofthat, one friend was telling me

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today about an example aboutwhether he should go to a
particular event or not, right?
And it's like that's not wherethe decision needs to be made.
That's just something that isbeing played out, right?
And and it's like we get ourmind involved in the in this in

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the indecision as if that'sreality.
That right there, pursuingindecision about whether you
should go or what is makingillusions true.
That's why it's not a bad thing,it's not a guilty thing, it's
just recognizing, oh, that'swhat that is.
I don't need to do that anymore.
What a blessing.

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There's no compromise in love.
You choose everything byreleasing everything that's
nothing, it's nothing at all.
The ego promises safety throughcircling around in a thought
with what about whether or notyou should go to an event.
What will it mean?
When should I RSVP?
Fuck, you could just becompletely free of all those

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thoughts.
Those are worldly thoughts,they're not necessary.
The Holy Spirit is taking careof everything.
That's how you claim it isreally simply like that.
Just recognizing these thoughtsare not meaningful thoughts.
They're acting like I makedecisions in a make-believe
world that I don't even careabout.

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What is the purpose of my mindright now?
Get back to uh having my mindopen for this.
What do we just read over here?
This atonement.
The atonement can be acceptedwithout delay.
I want to establish a state ofmind in which the atonement can
be accepted without delay.

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So we don't need to push thesekinds of thoughts away.
Just recognize, notice how Ifeel.
Oh, well, that's a patternthought.
That's a habit.
It's a nervous system reactionthat I'm giving myself.
How cute.
You don't have to get mad at itor anything, it's just gonna go
away when you see that it's justnot doing anything.
But uh giving you the illusionthat you're aging, actually.

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It's hitting your nervous systemand your cells in a way that
programs them to bring it on.
So wholeness of God, everythingor nothing.

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I think we covered that sentencepretty well.
It is worth repeating thatultimately there is no
compromise possible betweeneverything and nothing.
All right, paragraph six.
Sentence two.
Aloha beauties.
I love you.

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Yeah, I say wow too, Caitlin.
Sentence two, paragraph six.
The purpose of time isessentially to serve as a device
by which all compromise in thisrespect can be abolished.
What do you say aboutcompromise?

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There is no compromise possiblebetween everything and nothing.
And now he's saying the purposeof time is essentially to serve
as a device by which allcompromise in this respect can
be abolished.
So basically, we're abolishingthis compromise between
everything and nothing, whichhe's saying no compromise is
even possible.

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So it's an illusion that we cancompromise.
He's saying there's nocompromise.
So the purpose of time isessentially to serve as a device
by which all compromise in thisrespect can be abolished.
So it's belief in compromisethat's not really possible.
So, and Jesus here is revealingtime's holy purpose.

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This is the holy purpose givento time and made by the ego as a
tool of delay, reinterpreted bythe Holy Spirit as a means of
awakening.
That's what time is for.
That's why we're so stoked abouttime.
Time exists because of belief inintervals.

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It gives us this gap.
This is a cool way of looking atit.
There, there's an apparent gapbetween God and his son, right?
So, what did we do?
We made this time to fill a gapand make imaginary intervals
that we get across this gap, theseparation between God and the
Son of God.

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Us being the son of God, ofcourse.
So as we learn forgiveness andemploy forgiveness in our lives,
these intervals close.
That's what collapsing time is.
Time's purpose is not punishmentand it's not progress either.

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The only purpose of time,remember, is undoing the belief
in separation.
That's why I'm not interested ina stupid ass thought that tells
me I need to make a decisionwhether I'm gonna go to an event
or not.
I'm not even interested.
I'll find out as the storyunfolds.

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I'll be just as surprised aseveryone.
See, we want to undo the beliefin separation.
That's all.
There's nothing else to do here,there's nothing else to think
about.
So when you get the sense thatyou've wasted time, like you

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might hear me talking about thisright now and go, holy shit,
I've been wasting my time.
I've been thinking about thestupidest shit all day when I
could have been using my mindfor healing the illusion of
separation.
You don't need to feel guiltyabout this one bit.
Time is only serving you now.

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Only now.
And it's effects are dramatic.
They may not be dramatic on thesurface of things, but they're
dramatic in the sense that theyare they go to everyone.

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Any instant you let the HolySpirit repurpose it.
Let this moment be in service.
Let whatever thought is arising,whatever it is to abolish any
compromise in the mind.

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I'm gonna observe what it isthat's playing in the mind, and
I'm not gonna compromise.
I'm gonna watch it, I'm gonnabring it everything that's not
love to the truth forcorrection.
Nothing is lost when time isused for love's correction.
There's just no past, no future.
It's a trippy thing.
It's only now.

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So it doesn't matter if you havebeen before, if you have been,
let's say, a dumbass before,wasting time.
Because that's only in yourimagination.
There's only now.
Time is false intervals.
It's false intervals.
So, sentence three of paragraphsix.

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It seems to be abolished, itbeing time, seems to be
abolished by degrees, preciselybecause time itself involves a
concept of intervals which doesnot really exist.
Okay.
Seems to be abolished.

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Comprise.
He's talking about compromise.
Okay, so the last sentence saysthe purpose of time is
essentially to serve as a deviceby which all compromise in this
respect can be abolished.
Remember, that's falsecompromise.
So it compromise, falsecompromise, seems to be
abolished by degrees, preciselybecause time itself involves a

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concept of intervals which doesnot truly exist.
A concept of intervals.
So here he's explainingexplaining why our awakening to
the truth appears gradual.
The mind perceives in intervals,past, present, future.

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So it interprets correction asoccurring by degrees.
But from God's standpoint,there's no degrees.
The atonement is complete.
We're basically catching up inour acceptance of what's always
true, eternal truth.

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We're catching up in ouracceptance of what's true.
Aren't we cute?
I love it.
So the illusion of intervals isalso the illusion of delay.
There's in in now, there's nosecret of event, there's no

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sequence of events.
So you don't have to wait forfor your next lifetime.
It's now.
There's no becoming, there's noprogression, because it's
already done.
It's only because the mindbelieves in times, in time, it
set that in that gap that itmade.

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So we're kind of like uhdissolving intervals of
separation and collapsing timeuntil perceiving itself just
disappears.
It disappears into timelessawake awareness, and that is a
blessing.
That's a moment of rejoicing.

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So we're bringing awarenessconstantly closer to the
timeless instant, the instantwhere healing is complete as we
know it.
As we know it.
Sentence four.
The faulty use of creation hasmade this necessary as a

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corrective device.
So in the last sentence, hesaid, time is a corrective
device, right?
Established by degrees, timeitself involves a concept of
intervals.
Before that, the purpose of timeis essentially to serve as a

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device, okay?
To abolish compromise.
And now in sentence four, he'ssaying the faulty use of
creation has made this necessaryas a corrective device, this
being time here.
So this is the origin of timehe's talking about the faulty

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use of creation that refers tothe mind attempt to be without
love, to create independentlyfrom God.
That projects a world offragmentation.
This is the uh the origin oftime.
That's where time becamenecessary as a learning

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mechanism.
See, creation truly, creation iseternal extension.
There's no gaps, it's just loveextending with no gaps, no
intervals, no opposites,nothing.

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The ego's attempt to imitatecreation resulting resulted in
making this false form.
Time, space, separateidentities.
So because the Son of God usedcreative power wrongly in the

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beginning, basically.
He's saying the false faulty useof creation has made this,
meaning time, necessary as acorrective device.
So it's the faulty use ofcreation that made time
necessary in the first place.
That's why other other places inA Course in Miracles, it says
this whole world is based onerror.

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But when time's reinterpreted bythe Holy Spirit, it becomes the
means of correction.
So using time like this, younotice there's pressure,
limitation of time, anythinglike that.
Reframe it.
Time is my friend, time is givento me for release, time is not

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my confinement.
Use these appearances,schedules, delays, aging, use
them as invitations toforgiveness, a chance to
remember timelessness.
These are appearances.
It's based on forgettingtimelessness.

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So that so when you are facedwith these appearances and
you're these appearances likedelays, scheduled aging, stuff
like that, when you're facedwith these appearances and
you're willing to feel theeffects that you're projecting,
and you're willing to see Goddid not create this, it does not

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exist.
Show me how to see thisdifferently.
You want to see thisdifferently.
This is not a reality.
This is an effect, theseschedules, this pressure of
time, all that stuff, that's aneffect of believing in lack, of
believing in mortality.

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Now, are you gonna let theevidence make you believe it
more?
Or use the evidence to inspireand motivate you to deny any
meaning to it, recognizing thatit's only a projection of a
misbelief that makes it amisperception.
It's right for being correctedin the atonement.

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So praise the Lord for that.
Sentence five of paragraph six.
Quote, and God so loved theworld that he gave his only
begotten son, so that whosoeverbelieveth on him shall not

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perish, but have eternal life,and quote, needs one slight
correction to be entirelymeaningful in this context.
So this Jesus is bringing inJohn 3.16 from the Bible.
So, and John 3.

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It's one of the most beloved andoften used verses in
Christianity.
Um, it's interpreted to meanthat God sacrificed his son to
redeem a guilty world.
But what Jesus is doing here ishe's correcting this.
He's saying God's love does notrequire suffering.

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Love does not punish and itdoesn't demand any payment.
The giving spoken here, it saysgiving.
It talks about uh that he gave,he gave his only begotten son.
It's not a transaction of death,like here he is to be crucified.

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It's actually an extension ofmercy when you see it correctly.
So Jesus is is redoing thisverse to show that God's gift is
not crucifixion.
The gift is this transformation.

unknown (01:23:53):
Right?

SPEAKER_00 (01:23:53):
It's a classroom, he gave the gift to the to his son
is a classroom fortransformation, a means of
awakening.
What God gave, quote, gave, likeit says here, is time repurposed
by the Holy Spirit as a gentlelearning device where we can

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remember the truth.
This is taking what the ego madeto delay and turning it into a
bridge that ends the delay,really.
So whenever you read anypassages or hear any passages
from the Bible or anything thatimply sacrifice or wrath of God

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or pause, ask for a Holy Spiritreinterpretation, okay?
Uh, not everything in there is adirect, uh, perfect translation.
When the ego gets a hold ofthings, the ego uh does some
shit to it.

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Just changing that word makes itlook like God sacrificed his
son.
Uh, he must be insane if he'ssincere, he's sacrificing his
son.
Holy shit! Love does not ask forloss.
Love offers this world, youcould say, as a means to
remember that nothing can everbe lost.

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So every scripture that remindsyou of guilt, let it now remind
you of mercy, now that you'veheard this.
Right?
Let it remind you of mercy.
And the next sentence, Jesussays it should read, quote, and

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God so loved the world that hegave it to his only begotten
son, end quote.
So, with this correction, theentire theology, all religion,
it's undone.
So, you know, someone like mymom, she won't accept the

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correction yet.
She won't accept thatcorrection.
And and not that I need anyoneto do it either.
I don't even mind.
I have a great time with my mom,right?
Um to her, and I guess what shelearned maybe somewhere else in
the Bible, I'm not sure, butthere's this very dogmatic
belief that says you can'tchange words of the Bible.

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That's against the Bible, right?
And there's no openness tohearing, you know, this was
translated and it was writtenand it was agreed upon by
committee and all this kind ofstuff like that.
It's like, oh, okay, when Irecognize that wall go up, I
just go, Oh, okay, no, noworries.
The Holy Spirit takes care ofthis for everyone.
And, you know, I only mentionthat because I know a lot of

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people have family members andfriends who are religious in
that traditional sense, andthere seems to be conflict, and
this is how you can see throughthe conflict, and also it opened
their minds, it opens theirminds when they feel protected,
they feel calm and protected.
So it's like, you know, notbattling up against someone's

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way of being dogmatic oranything like that, just being
yourself, continuing to beyourself and see the way you do.
So uh God didn't send his son tothe world to die.
That's what Jesus is reallysaying here.
He gave the world to his son toheal.
Now it comes a whole differentexpression.

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Here's the text.
It should read, quote, and Godso loved the world that he gave
it to his only begotten son.
So this is how it becomes theson's learning environment.
Now it's the place whereillusions can be reinterpreted

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as a call for love instead ofjust a place where illusions can
perpetuate forever and ever andever.
And that one had a footnote,footnote 161.
It explains that this passage ishere applied to mean that God
gave us his son the gift oftime, so that we could slowly,

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by degrees, give up allcompromise between everything
and nothing, and thus return tohim.
I love that footnote.
That puts it very succinctly,the last sentences throughout
this whole chapter or throughoutthis whole paragraph, paragraph
six.
Uh, so time itself that becomesan expression of divine

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compassion.
When you feel that, you're like,oh, thank God for this time.
Because of what it's for.
So instead of condemning God'sson to perish in time, it's like
God gave time to the son so thatthe belief in perishing, the

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belief in separation, could begradually undone by degrees, the
way the son made it.
Made it so he had to do it bydegrees until timelessness gets
remembered.
So the ego wanted the world tobe proof that we're exiled from
God, but God changed it to kindof like an arena or a classroom

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where we return to God.

SPEAKER_01 (01:29:35):
That's the resurrection energy.

SPEAKER_00 (01:29:37):
Resurrection energy, Thomas says.
Seeing each day as evidence thatGod's patient and loving.
Using every moment of time,every relationship, every pause,
all the thoughts, everything,serving the Holy Spirit's
perfect purpose.
No matter what.
You don't have to do anythingdifferent in your Life, you

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don't have to do one thingdifferent in your life.
In fact, it's best if you don'teven try to think about doing
anything different in your life.
Just give it to God right now.
God loved me that He gave methis world, this gift of time,
so I might let go of everycompromise between everything
and nothing and remember Him.

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What a blessing.
How about using that for yourdaily rhythm?
Every instant becoming a stephome.
See that?
Wow, God gave me this gift.

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Anyone have any questions?
I got any hands raised.
No, I don't.
Everyone's doing awesome.
I love you.
Yay.
Thank you for being.
Okay, so we're gonna continue onto paragraph seven.
It looks like we might finishall the way through paragraph
seven today.
That's fun.
So this is a continuation.

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We're still reinterpreting John3:16.
It's an important verse inChristianity, like I talked
about earlier.
And it's showing that God gavethe world to his son.
So now Jesus is Jesus is goingto expand the idea of the
sonship.
He's going to clarify for us howthere's only one son, not a lot

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of separate sons.
That's why he calls it thesonship.
And our apparent individualitycan be healed back to oneness.
And that's what we want.
So unless there's any questionsor anything, I will go on.

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Sentence one, paragraph seven.
It should be noted that God hasbegotten only one son.
That's the sentence.
It should be noted that God hasbegotten only one son.
So this is affirming for us theindivisible nature of creation.

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There's not a collection ofindividuals.
There's just one shared mind.
It's Christ.
It's Christ mind.
When the ego hears sons of God,it imagines separate beings,
individual souls.
People can go right or wrong.
Jesus shows that the concept isfalse.

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There's only one son, one self,one creation.
So it should be noted that Godhas begotten only one son.
So the act of begetting here,begotten, begetting, is eternal.
It means to extend.

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So the Son of God is perfect,this perfect extension of God's
being, unbroken continuum oflove.
Whatever he perceives to bebroken, that is an illusion.
And whatever he perceives to bebroken, that's God's strength,
also.
That's another part of it.
So perceiving something to bebroken, you're like, oh yeah,

(01:33:15):
cool.
There's no hierarchy, there's nodivision, there's no
individuality within this one,within this oneness.
All this apparent multiplicitythat we seem to see, it only
arose from separation.
So look how often this happens.
And notice when you think ofyourself as among many, there's

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only one of us, there's only oneson of God, and you're not
separate.
This is how we undo comparison,competition, and loneliness.
Believing in multiplicity.
These are the effects ofbelieving in multiplicity.
Comparison, competition,loneliness.

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Others too.
Obviously, we don't need thesethings except that we believe in
multiplicity.
Sentence two.

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One source, one nature, eachmust be part of the sonship.
Separation is only apparent, itis not actual.
So inclusion heals perception.
This is we're talking aboutinclusion here.
Recognizing each brother as anintegral part of the sonship.

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This is how we rememberourselves.
Judgment and exclusion of anyoneis going to fragment your own
awareness.
And inclusion restores yourawareness of truth.
It's holographic.
This sonship is holographic.
Every part is reflecting thewhole for you.

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Looking at each piece, eachpiece, looking at each person as
a piece of your own wholenesshelps you whenever you're
tempted to judge.
They're an integral part of thesonship.
That's where you are.
That's where you're meetingyourself.

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We're one mind, one son, onelove.
This is how you turn allencounters into communion.
This is communion right here.
You're recognizing or you'rewilling to recognize we're one
mind.
There's only one of us.

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Cannot be separate ever.
You could say we're joined,we're married, we're divinely
married, we're within oneanother.
Sentence three.
You do not find the concept thatthe whole is greater than its
parts difficult to understand.

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So Jesus is using intellectualspeak here.
Whatever this concept, the wholeis greater than its parts.
I don't know.
I've never really understoodthat very well.
But I get what he's saying,though, right now.
You do not find the concept thatthe whole is greater than its

(01:37:22):
parts difficult to understand.
So uh he's using this uhintellectual idea, the synergy
of a system.
Okay, he's helping us graspspiritual unity.
He's saying we easily acceptthat a forest is more than the
individual trees, basically, orthat an orchestra transcends

(01:37:46):
separate instruments.
Similarly, he's saying thesonship is more than the sum of
its perceived parts.
So, in case you're like me, youdon't automatically know what
that means.
That's what it is.
It's like you're accepting theforest, something like the
forest is more than the trees,the orchestra is more than each

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separate instrument.
Similarly, the sonship is morethan the sum of its perceived
parts.
So the whole is greater than thesum of its parts.
There's a deeper truth in God.
Parts don't even exist.
What appears to be multiplicityis a projection of one mind.
When you take it together withthe other sentence, is the

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sentence again, you do not findthe concept that the whole is
greater than its parts difficultto understand.
The whole, Christ, that'sChrist, is complete and not
divisible.
So no individuals forever inGod.
So when you feel like you needto isolate emotionally,

(01:38:50):
spiritually, intellectually,isolation means you know you're
uh you're you're shutting outGod.
You want to be in the darkness.
You remember you're choosing toshut out God whenever you're
doing that.
Just being aware of that helpsyou do it less for sure.
Because shutting out God doesn'tfeel nearly as good as letting
God in.
And I'm telling you, you want tofeel good.

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You all want to feel good.
Resting in the wholeness thattranscends all these parts.
You're way more than youperceive yourself to be.
Let the perception of yourselfbe.
Sentence four.

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You should therefore not havetoo great of a difficulty with
this.
He's saying you shouldtherefore, because of that, uh
uh because you don't find theconcept that the whole is
greater than the parts difficultto understand, you should
therefore have not have toogreat difficulty with this.
So he's inviting us to reasonwith him here.

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If we can accept that the wholesurpasses these individuals in
everyday logic, we can extendthat understanding.
This isn't about accepting anabstract theology.
This is remembering what'snaturally, naturally known to

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the mind.
That the whole surpasses theseindividual components.
Resistance to this truth isn'tcoming from logic, it's coming
from fear, the ego's fear oflosing its identity.
The self has to be let go of,this special self has to be let

(01:40:38):
go of to understand what onenessis.
Jesus is saying this principleisn't hard.
What's resisting it is thebelief that we could actually
exist apart from God.
That's that's what makes itbelieve that us believe that the
whole is just the sum of itsparts.

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It's not more than that.
See that.
So when you feel resistance tounity, when you resist feel
resistance to knowingness, bewilling to understand it easily.

(01:41:21):
Jesus says you can understandeverything easily, and that's
really how you speed up theunderstanding, let it be
effortless, offer willingness,not effort, willingness to see
in the moment that the sonshipis just one, one beautiful,

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beautiful sonship.
Sentence five.
So you guys get this, it doesn'tjust combine the parts, it

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actually transcends them invalue, you can say.
Um, it's not Christ isn't theresult of adding anything to the
sonship.
Christ is the reality of thesonship, which all parts are
derived from.

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What's created as one cannot bedivided except in the mind
that's trying to make divisiontrue.
Still, the forever, the theoneness forever it exceeds
everything.
All illusion of multiplicity.

SPEAKER_01 (01:42:51):
Yes, my love.
There's an axiom coming up thatsays, United we stand, divided
we fall.

SPEAKER_00 (01:42:57):
United we stand, divided we fall.
What fun!

SPEAKER_01 (01:43:00):
The union is is in the wholeness, right?

SPEAKER_00 (01:43:03):
The union is in the wholeness, right?
United we stand.
That's really good.
I like it.
So this is a key metaphysicalstatement in A Course in
Miracles, that the sonship inits oneness does transcend the

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sum of its parts.
So this is where transcendingtranscendence means the truth of
the sonship is beyond theperceptual sum of the many
minds, the truth of the sonship.
It's beyond that.

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It's a single shared being thatincludes all of creation.
We're basically awakening to thefact that we never left it.
So it's like whenever you thinkof in terms of groups or
communities or relationships orparties, remember we're joining

(01:44:11):
together to remember our sharedidentity.
We're not doing it for anythingelse.
Even when we go to the grocerystore, we seem to be buying
something at the grocery store.
We're not really doing anything.
We're intersecting for thepurpose of remembering our
shared identity.
This shift in the way you seethings changes all strivings.

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Like, well, I don't have to tryto do anything.
I'm actually watching a show ofmyself walking around, doing
work, whatever, so that I canremember shared identity.
This is awesome.
And then we end up joining eachother in total celebration.
I'm usually just laughing withpeople, like I'll just be
walking down the road, and nextthing you know, I'm laughing
with a lady who's also walkingdown the road.

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What is it over?
Nothing.
Nothing.
It just starts erupting.
There's nothing serious that wehave to do.
Sentence six.
However, it loses this specialstate as long as any of its
parts are missing.

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What is he talking about?
It loses it, this special state.
The sonship in its in itsoneness.
That must be the special state.
The sonship in its oneness doestranscend the sum of its parts.
It loses this special state aslong as any of its parts are
missing.
What?

(01:45:36):
So it's eternally intact intruth.
But within our perception, itappears fragmented.
That's why it loses that specialstate.
We cannot be aware of thistranscendence of the sonship as
long as any of its parts aremissing.

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Healing, true healing, requiresthat every mind be remembered as
part of the whole.
Until the last one returns, thesonship seems incomplete.
That's what's going on.
Even though it inner it existsonly in the perception.
This is why forgiveness isuniversal.

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You don't awaken alone.
You cannot awaken alone becauseit includes all minds.
I like to say you're alreadyawake.
You're actually awake.
Awakening in this context isseeing past the illusions that
are in the unwatched mind thatare automatically making things

(01:46:40):
and making a uh like a sense, asense like you're scared.
Right?
You wake up from that.
Salvation happens in a single,you can say a single mind.
The mind thinks it's separate,that's why it's a single mind.

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It thinks it's separate, butit's collective in the
reflection.
See, it happens in a single mindbecause it needs to happen.
It said earlier on that it needsto happen at that level.
The level is this belief in thisseparate mind.
So it's it's at the level ofbelieving in a separate mind

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that the atonement restoresawareness of the whole to that
separate mind.
So every part is seen asinnocent in an instant.
Don't write anyone off.
Don't think they're going tohell.
Don't think they're evil.
Don't believe those thoughts.
That's not good for you.
It makes you secretly believethat about yourself and have to

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act it out and not, if not thislifetime in another one.
Don't do that to yourself.
You don't want to go there.
All right, last sentence of thisone.
Thank you.
Let me know if you have anyquestions.
Uh, you want to talk to me forany reason?
Sentence seven.
This is why the conflict cannotultimately be resolved until all

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of the individual parts of thesonship have returned.
Wow.
So conflict endures.
It can't be resolved.
It endures while separationseems real.
To anyone, the return of everypart that's symbolizing the

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undoing of every grievance,every unhealed perception.
It's not complete until everymind has accepted its innocence.
Because the sonship, the joy ofthe sonship is one joy shared by
all.

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That's total undoing ofseparation, the complete
recognition that there are noseparate parts to return.
It's a completely recognized.
Oh, it's not the last sentence.
I got one more sentence afterthis.
We're gonna go for it.
Goes to eight in this one.
So each time you forgive anyone,you don't really forgive them.

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That's one way of saying it.
Um, and the reason you don't Ihave to pause when I hear it
that way because it sounds likesomeone actually did something.
You're forgiving the illusion,the illusion that they actually
did anything.
That doesn't mean you have tokeep hanging out with them.
It's not like becoming adoormat.

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Everything's directional.
Notice how you feel.
You don't feel safe or calm orhappy with that brother shit.
Notice that.
You don't have a choice inwhether you're with him anyways,
but you're noticing it will helpthe steps go that uh the steps
be taken in your perception thatlead to more joy for you.

(01:50:24):
Let them always return to yourheart, though.
Always returning to your heart,feeling sacred about them,
loving toward them, gratitudetoward them for all of the
experience they brought and theopportunities to extend
forgiveness.

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All right, sentence eight, onelast sentence.
Only then can the meaning ofwholeness in the true sense be
understood.
Only then, okay, it must beexperienced.
Is that what he's saying?
This is why the conflict cannotultimately be resolved, be
resolved until all of theindividual parts of the sonship

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have returned.
So only after, because it saysonly then, only when, let's say,
the individual parts of thesonship, the fake individual
parts, because there's only oneof us, have returned, can the
meaning of wholeness in the truesense be understood?
So it's not going to beintellectually grasped, it's got
to be experienced.

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It's the state of perfectinclusion.
Nothing outside, nothingmissing, perception fully
purified.
The mind does not see any parts,the mind only sees whole.
It's recognition, it's arecognition through vision.

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This is the nature of our being.
This wholeness is the nature ofour being, it's unity and it's
extension at the same time.
Understanding it means extendingyourself as that wholeness, not
one among many, but one withinwhich all are included,

(01:52:17):
everyone's included, one withina love that includes everyone.
How about that?
Let's understand whole wholenessas God created it with nothing
missing, nothing apart.
Love extending forever.
That's all it is.
Let's rest in that feeling.
That's a nice way to end, huh?

(01:52:39):
Rest in the lovely feeling.
Let me understand.
Wholeness is as God created it,as you created it, God.
Nothing missing, nothing apart,only love extending forever.
Feel into that, relax into that.
Let's just take a moment for it.

(01:53:13):
Ah, notice how you feel.
That's what I love.
I just like notice that feeling.
It's amazing when you just alloweverything to be interpreted to
the truth.
All right, this ACIM deep diveis complete.

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We had a great time, didn't we?
So it's basically we went fromcompromise to wholeness.
We're learning about the gift oftime, that time is a gift.
What a way to go throughout theday.
That's how I look at it.
I know uh all these feelings ofoverwhelm, of time being short,
of not having enough time, allthis kind of stuff.
It's just not even a thing in myenergy field anymore.

(01:53:57):
I'm telling you guys, thisworks.
This works.
You take the feeling of thisoverwhelm, whatever it is.
This time is a gift where Iactually use it to be released
from the this prison that Imade, this prison of time, where
I apparently go to die.

(01:54:18):
We went over thereinterpretation of John 3.16,
major Christian verse, showinghow it's actually a gift that's
not a crucifixion.
It's giving us a classroom, nota crucifixion, basically.
Talked about transfer of faithfrom illusions to truth instead

(01:54:39):
of putting a truth faith inillusions, putting it in love.
That's some of the stuff that wewent over.
That was so fun.
Thank you guys.
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This is his last ACIM deep divewith me in person, anyways.
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(01:55:21):
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