A Course In Miracles Deep Dive Chapter 2, Section XII Paragraph 8 to 10. Math, Miracles, And The Myth Of Lack | October 22, 2025 - Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues

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SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
Aloha and welcome to a Course in Miracles deep dive
with Hope Johnson.
Today it looks like we may befinishing off section eleven
from a course in miracles.
Section eleven.

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Paragraph eight, sent sentenceone is where we're gonna start.
And this is in a course inmiracles, the newer version.
This is from 2021.
That's when it was published.
It's called the CompleteAnnotated Edition, and it's a

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I must say, praying feels alittle bit strange to me right
now, just because I get thesense that I'm only praying to
myself, which is the truth.
That is the truth.
So yeah, I'll just see whathappens.
I'll just sink in and see whathappens.

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Let's connect, connect to thebreath, connect to the sense in
the body.
Yes, yay.
Ah, what makes perfect sensehere is gratitude.
Gratitude, gratitude, gratitudeto all of our brothers,
gratitude to God, gratitude toJesus, gratitude to self.

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It's all the same.
Gratitude is natural inrecognizing the sameness.
May we recognize the sameness ineverything and everyone so that
we may appreciate and enjoy anduse the apparent differences for

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healing our mind.
Yay, and thank you, Jesus, forthese words and thank you for
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The mastery of love.
We're actually in section 12.
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It's the mastery of love.
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Paragraph eight, sentence one.

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The concept of minus numbers hasalways been regarded as a
mathematical rather than anactual expedient.
So this is fun.
Jesus is getting into math now.
I love this.
So here he's using the exampleof minus numbers, negative

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numbers.
This is how he's uh drawing uhwould that be like a metaphor?
No, it's not even a metaphorbecause he's saying, you know,
it's mathematic in mathematics,minus numbers uh are not an
actual expedient.

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So this is how the ego inventsconcepts that have no real
existence.
They're accepted like you know,negative numbers is accepted in
our mathematical system asuseful constructs.
Okay, they don't correspond toanything in actual reality.

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Okay, so nothing truly exists ina state of less than being.
Nothing can be in a state ofless than what is.
You can't have a negative life,you can't have uh negative,

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there's not negative love,there's not negative reality.
These are impossible.
Okay, some ways the mind acceptsthe idea of lack, loss, debt,
deficiency, deprivation, as ifthese things are actual

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conditions.
These are really an extension ofthis ego's minus numbers,
negative numbers, which are justintellectual constructs.
They have utility in a systembased in separation, but they

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don't have any uh any place intruth.
So minus numbers, negativenumbers work in mathematics.
They're accepted as a utility,but not as a reality.
Uh well, they're accepted as areality, but they're not a

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reality.
Minus numbers in mathematicswork the same way guilt, fear,
and unworthiness seem to work inthe world.
They help us organize illusions.
This still doesn't make ourillusions real, doesn't make any

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real sense.
Negative numbers like negativereality doesn't make any real
sense.
So the Holy Spirit and the HolySpirit's thought system teaches
us to recognize that any conceptthat moves away from fullness

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and abundance and abundance, youknow, that uh reflects lack in
any way in completeness, it'snot an actual condition, it's
just a device, it's an egodevice.
So it's invented to makeseparation appear meaningful.

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So here's how this can applypractically.
When you believe, like let's sayI'm losing time or I'm short on
time, or I'm in debt, or I don'thave enough, and I'm not enough.
How about I'm aging, I'mdiminishing, I'm diminishing in
strength, or love is being takenaway from me.

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You know, it's like thesethoughts are giving us the
perfect opportunity.
Look at this, it's fun.
I find it really fun.
It's giving us a perfectopportunity to see this.
Whenever you, I'm gonna sayagain, whenever you believe in
something like I'm short ontime, or I'm losing time, or I'm

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in debt, or I'm not enough,aging, diminishing, love being
taken away from me.
That's like believing innegative numbers, using using
some imaginary construct tojustify this interpretation.

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So, this is inviting us towithdraw belief from these
constructs, and it's really fun,you guys, because you get the
feeling effect of believing in aconstruct, but you don't
re-believe in it, so you don'tfeed it anything, and that's how
the truth expands in your mind.
Creation extends, there's justno minus, there's no negative uh

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numbers in God, so you can'tpossibly be in any sort of lack
or deficiency except in your ownimagination.
So look where you're acceptingany minus, a belief that
something's lessening.

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Okay, here's a really goodpractical example for this.
Okay.
Um, I have a friend who's uhseeming to be in his late 60s,
and he uh doesn't have thestrength to do a certain thing
right now, apparently.
So he treats it like he's hecan't do that anymore, like he's
never gonna be able to do thatagain, like he's somehow some

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kind of depletion.
And it's not like that.
This is maybe you're perceivingyourself like this right now,
but your mind is actuallyprojecting your body, even all
biological things that are goingon.
So recognize that that's adevice of the ego to say, like,

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now you're now you can't do thatanymore.
It's a it's it's like amathematical device of the ego.
Look at that, it's not youractual state of being, and your
actual state of being uh justjoins with everything exactly as
it appears to be, not trying tomake it permanent.

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You know, this aging thingsthing, it's like a uh a way the
ego uses permanent, like this ispermanently in place.
This is what always occurs,right?
This is ridiculous.
This decline.
There's no real decline exceptfor, you know, in our minds,
what's going on in our minds iswe continue to accumulate

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misbelief.
And when we accumulatemisbelief, we project aging and
death onto our own bodies, andwe project conflict with others,
those two things we project.
Those things, so uh, so it'slike when you perceive anything

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like that, it's in recognizingthat it is a projection, it's
not a reality, there's no minus,there's no depletion, there's no
real depletion.
Your mind is all powerful toproject any kind of body, let's
say.

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Except it does affect you areyour perceived reality, because
your mind is all powerful tomake illusions.
Yay, I love you.
Thank you for joining everyone.
Okay, paragraph eight, sentencetwo.

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Yet it represents a majorlimitation on mathematics as
presently understood.
This is fun.
Hmm, this negative number thingrepresents a major limitation on
mathematics as presentlyunderstood.

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Interesting.
So here's footnote 162 aboutthis.
As documented by AlbertoMartinez in Negative Math: How
Mathematical Rules Can BePositively Bent.
Apparently, this is a book from2005.

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Negative numbers, now taken forgranted, actually created a deep
philosophical divide inmathematics.
Did you guys ever hear aboutthis when you were in elementary
school?
Learning negative numbers?
Interesting.
Especially in the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries, this is

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when it was going down.
This rift was never trulyresolved.
Opponents gradually died off,and negative numbers slowly
became accepted for theirpractical value in calculations.
Isn't that fun?

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I love this.
So Jesus is stating here thatthe very inclusion of negative
numbers introduced a fundamentallimitation in the way

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mathematics itself, not onlymathematics itself, but also
worldly logic understandsreality.
Isn't that fun?
I was like, oh, how fun we'reall conditioned in negative
number kind of mathematics.

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That makes perfect sense.
So here's why.
Here's why it introduces thislimitation.
Because negative numbersrepresent less than nothing.

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That's a state that has noactual existence.
Less than nothing has no actualexistence.
This negative number inclusionin mathematics was fiercely
debated.
Because it doesn't correspond toanything real in experience.

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It makes no sense.

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So uh we've been persistentlyusing this lack mentality until
it's just taken as a reality,and like we could have debt and
stuff like that now.
It's funny.
Uh so mathematics represents theworld's framework of reason.

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That's what's going on here.
Negative numbers represent theego's introduction of lack,
loss, guilt, deficiency.
It grounds its logic like thisin the possibility of subs of
subtraction from being.

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So this makes our mathematicsystem a closed system that can
never reflect truth becausetruth only extends.
There's no minus in truth,right?
So any system allowing for minusis already denying the eternal

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nature of creation, it's nottrue, it's building unreality.
It's there's this foundation,and it's building unreality on
the foundation and passing itoff at this point as a
principle, like it's true.
And Jesus says, This is a majorlimitation.

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Here's the whole sentence.
Yet this negative number, itbeing the negative numbers,
represents a major limitation onmathematics as presently
understood.

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Sentence two.

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See, this is an idea like as ifthere's a negative to being.
You're thinking negativenumbers, basically.
It's a fictional construct.
You may be experiencingtiredness in the moment, but the
thought that says my energy isdecreasing, it's a negative

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number.
Your energy can't decrease,you're all energy.
You have fleeting experience,experiences, and then you make
those into something when youmake them into uh a negative
number, let's say this is adirect call.

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This sentence is a direct callto stop using ego math when
evaluating yourself or yourlife.
The only evaluation is I am asGod created me.
There's nothing to add orsubtract from that, okay?
Just I am as God created me andstay like that.

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All right, we're moving on.
Paragraph eight, sentence three.

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So in the last sentence, in thelast couple sentences, he was
saying that minus numbers,negative numbers, are a
conceptual error.
So now he's taking it further.
He's saying something cannot bemore or less negative, that's
completely meaningless.

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Negation itself does not exist.
No one can ever lose what isreal, not part of it, not even
part of it.
You cannot subtract from whatGod created.
So to speak of like uh lessworthy, less whatever, less, you

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know, less holy is just to speaknonsense.
There's only wholeness.
Some things don't have lessreality than others.
There's only wholeness, andeverything that you perceive in
the world is based on error, notwholeness.

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Isn't that so fun?
That's because it's not thereand it's made from the thought
of separation being projectedover time.
Isn't that so fun?
All right.
Anyways, what is negation inACIM terms, in a course in

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miracles terms?
That's the idea that truth, whatGod created, can ever be denied,
diminished, or opposed.
Okay, so let's read that.
A sentence again.
Any statement which impliesdegrees of difference in
negation, in negation isessentially meaningless.

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Any statement, so that's anystatement, a concept like sin or
guilt or unworthiness or lack ordecay or death or aging.
These are all forms of negation.
Okay, I'll give you an agingone.
Uh going, I can't, it's prettymuch the same thing as I just

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gave the, I gave the example.
Like, I can't do that anymore.
That's the one I hear a lot.
And I'll just bring that to thetruth.
I don't normally get that sensein my own mind.
I can't do that anymore.
But you know, I've gotten thesense before, like, I can't wear
that anymore.
Like my body's not in goodenough shape to wear that

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anymore.
And that's a lot, that's anegative number right there.
That may be the experience rightnow that that piece of clothing
is not attractive on you rightnow, but it doesn't indicate
decline.
It tries to.
You don't have to let it dothat.
Don't let your mind go intoforms of negation.

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Okay.
Another example is uh wherepeople think they're on fixed
income.
Like uh, like now they can'tafford to do whatever they get
the mind to do, let's say,because they're on fixed income.
You know, you're only justexperiencing, and the illusion

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can change at any time becauseit's reflecting your mindset,
it's all it's doing.
So don't negate what's true,your all-powerful mind
projecting uh this body in thisworld in a dream.
Okay.
Uh so once you accept thatsomething real can be negated at

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all, you're totally in illusionmode.
You're totally like asleep inthe dream.
It's like these degrees ofnegation are really like the
degrees of impossibility.

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So this is uprooting the ego'shierarchy of illusions.
Look, any statement whichimplies degrees of difference in
negation is essentiallymeaningless.
Okay, so uh I made a little kindof like a little chart in my

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notes.
Uh ego thought this sin isworse, worse than that one.
This is meaningless because allnegation is unreal.
So, like one sin is worse thananother sin.
Basically, there's no sin.
Okay, here's another one agingslowly versus aging quickly.

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Meaningless conversation, agingitself is negation itself.
So that's like, oh, you lookgood for your age.
It's as if we're all supposed tobe on the decline.
Or if you get the sense, uh, theego thought, I've lost a little
peace, a little bit of peace.
Peace cannot be divided.

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You're either wholly in peace oryou're in conflict.
That's how that works.
Uh, or someone is more guiltythan you.
It's a meaningless thoughtbecause guilt is unreal
altogether.
So there's no degrees ofillusion, it just has no truth

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at all.
So this it this applies toevaluation, like say how bad
something is, or how much you'velost, maybe how much you lost in
some deal or something.
Pause on that.
Are you trying to you there's noloss?

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Is it better to lose a little orlose a lot?
I mean, there's no loss, that'sthe thing.
So notice when you're trying toassign degrees to something that
have no existence.
Evaluating forms of nothing.
And you know what?
If that's the case, don't judge,just stop.

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You don't need to choose thelesser illusion, you just choose
truth.
The truth says that that isn'treal.
God didn't make it, therefore,it does not exist.
I see you, Karen.
I'll get to your question in amoment.
Yay! Oh, actually, I'll get toit now because I finished on
that one.
All right.

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Uh yes.
First hope, I love you with thehighest of all love that exists.
I remember in school asking howany math could be negative.
I remember asking, how can therebe a negative something?
I have been asleep in the dream.
Oh, you're such a joy.

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Oh, thank you.
Thank you for noticing.
That's so awesome.
That is so awesome.
And you recognize you've beenasleep in the dream.
That is awakening in processright there.
It's beautiful.
Thank you for doing that, andthank you for joining.
Yeah, I love you.
Thank you to everyone who'sjoining right now and everyone
who's joining later in therecording.

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Yay.
All right, we're going on toparagraph eight, sentence four.
Did we really do threesentences?
We did, didn't we?
Okay.
Sentence four.
And this one's got a footnote.
Okay, so there's a little bit ofreading here.

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What can replace this negativeapproach is a recognition of the
fact that as long as one part,which is the same as a million
or ten or eight thousand partsof the sonship is missing, it is
not complete.

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And here's footnote one sixtythree.
This sentence describes Jesus'replacement for the current
approach, or these sentencesdescribe Jesus' replacement for
the current approach.
Negative numbers.
His point is that negationdoesn't really have degrees.

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You cannot really have differentdegrees of nothingness.
Therefore, one son missing fromthe sonship, minus one, is the
same as a million sons missing,minus one million.
In both cases, the sonship isincomplete.

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So Jesus is what Jesus is doinghere is offering a spiritual
correction to the mathematicalidea of negative values.
So instead of thinking in termsof degrees of loss, this is how
we do with negative numbers,he's introducing the reality

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principle.
There's no such thing as lesscompleteness.
Something is either whole orit's not.
So the sonship, this is in caseyou're new to it, the sonship is
all of God's creation.
That's all of us in one unifiedreality.

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So this sonship, all of us, onecreation, can't be partially
whole.
If one part of us appears to bemissing, it's the same as if a
million parts were missing.
We just can't experiencewholeness.
It's not about quantity that inthis, it's the nature of

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reality.
It's absolute and indivisible.
So negation is not measured indegrees.
It's either whole or it's not.
And then wholeness can't reallybe fractioned.
So perceived separation.

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This is what this is telling us.
Perceived separation from evenone brother is where you hold
something, a grievance againstthem, it's a complete denial of
truth and separation from all inyour imagination.

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That's how that works.
See?
So this is why Jesus has saidyour awakening isn't personal.
This is a shared awakening.
You can't awaken alone becauseyou were not created alone.
Your wholeness includes everybrother.

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This is a very important conceptin a Course in Miracles to
realize.
You know, an awakening period.
This has to be seen.
And it will be.

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That perception, though, blocksthe completion awareness.
Your awareness of your owncompletion.
Withholding love in your heartfrom even one brother, could be
anyone, could be the president.

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Withholding love from even onebrother is the belief in minus.
It's a mathematicalimpossibility, but it becomes
your reality.
And your reality proves thatthat's your perceived reality,
proves that that's true over andover again because it's become
your belief.

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Thank you, Caitlin.
I find it super important tohear too.
I'm so glad you're joining me onthis.
I love you.
Okay, moving on to sentencefive, paragraph eight.
In the divine psyche, the fatherand the holy spirit are not
incomplete at all.

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The divine psyche here, that'sreferring to the mind of God.
This is undivided awareness.
It encompasses the father andthe Holy Spirit.
The divine psyche.
There's no conception of lack,separation, or division.

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No minus, no subtraction.
The father here says the fatherand the holy spirit are not
incomplete at all.
That represents the source,that's pure being.
The Holy Spirit, that'srepresenting extension of pure
being.

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The active presence of God'swill.
Those are all thoughts thatalign with the active presence
of God's will.
That's the Holy Spirit.
Those thoughts extend.
The Father is the source, theHoly Spirit is the extension.
Together, they're whollycomplete.
They are not incomplete at all,it says they exist in perfect

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oneness.
They contain all that is, andthere's no awareness of anything
outside of that.
The divine, you'd say God andthe Holy Spirit, the divine

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psyche does not completeperceive incompleteness.
Incompleteness is inconceivableto it.
There's not any awareness of amissing part in God.

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There's a fullness, an eternallyextending fullness of extending
itself.
So this is establishing afoundation here.
It's saying what God is and whatthe Holy Spirit is cannot be

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diminished.
It's not affected by anything,it's never interrupted by any
illusions of separation.
These illusions of separation,they occur in the mind of the
Son, which is still one with Godand the Holy Spirit.

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They occur, but they're notreality.
They occur in a dream in themind of the sun.
It's a dream of exile.
It says that other places in ACourse in Miracles.
But God does not dream in exile.
That's not God's dream.

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I love you guys.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you, Caitlin.
I feel so loved.
Caitlin says, I'm a gift toawakening for us.
Ah, for us all, myself included.
I'm grateful too.
Thank you.
I'm so grateful that you joined.
It's such a blessing.
Okay, let's get on to the nextsentence.

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Paragraph eight, sentence six.
The sonship has the uniquefaculty of believing in error or
incompleteness if it so elects.
The sonship has a uniquefaculty.
That's a fun one.

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Unique faculty.
Okay, let's get into this ofbelieving in error or
incompleteness if it so elects.
So that's the only seemingdistinction between the Son and
the Father and the Holy Spirit.

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That's what he's saying.
It's a unique faculty becausethe Father doesn't, the Father
and the Holy Spirit don't havethat unique faculty of believing
in error.
The father just creates, theHoly Spirit extends and
corrects.
The sonship, which is all of usas one Christ mind, has the

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unique faculty, the uniquecapacity to believe in what is
not true.
This is not a real power, it's acapacity, a unique faculty to
misuse power.
This is how we entertainillusions.

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That's why I say what fun,right?
That's why I say what fun.
It's entertainment.
That's all it is.
And you know, through perceivingthe entertainment and embracing
it, all we're really embracingis our own feelings.

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We embrace our feelings.
We don't have to accept anyexternal conditions.
That's not what acceptance isfor.
That shit is changing so fast.
Accept your feeling reaction toit.
That's how it changes in yourfavor, let's say, because as
you're accepting your feelingreaction to the illusions,

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you're actually undoing thebelief that's causing the
feeling reaction and thethoughts about it, which
manifest as physical form.
So hooray.
What is this faculty that Jesusis talking about?
It's a power of the mind toelect, which means choose what

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it'll be what it will believe.
Can choose that even if thebelief has no reality.
But it does change what'sexperience in consciousness.

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That election to believe in zeroreality, negative reality, let's
say, is experience in yourconsciousness.
So it looks like a real assworld, full of loss, full of
lack, full of doubt.
But it's not real.

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You can't really get a headache.
Oh, I elected the experience ofincompleteness.
That's what this is reflecting.
It's not because I didn't drinkcoffee.
One of my friends was sharingthat on Monday in Wisdom
Dialogues.
It's not caused by anything inthe world, it's caused by my
election to experience a stateof incompleteness.

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I voted for this.
This is revealing the cause ofall suffering.
So let's read it again.
The sonship has the uniquefaculty of believing in error or
incompleteness, if it so elects.

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So this is the cause of allsuffering.
It's saying it's not the world,it's not the bodies, it's not
God, it's the son's choice tobelieve in lack.
So obviously, salvation lies inreversing that choice.
That's why a Course in Miraclesays choose again a shitload of
times, I think, unless it justreally stands out to me when it

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says that.
So what was elected here, whichis chosen, can be de-elected.
What's what was believed in canbe unbelieved in.
You're never a victim of thisincompleteness that you're
projecting onto yourself.

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You're just choosing to believeright now, in this moment, a
concept that has no reality.
You can have relief right now.
This recognizing this is thebeginning of being empowered.
If you elected it, you canunelect it.
Yay, let's unelect it.
I love unelecting things.

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Thank you, Christina.
I love you.
Thank you so much.
I'm so glad you're with me too.
Thank you.
This is such a blessing.
All of you are such a blessing.
I see you guys on Substack too.
Thank you for your comments.
Thank you for being here.
All right.
All right, paragraph eight,sentence seven.

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However, it is quite apparentthat so to elect is to believe
in the existence of nothingness.
Hmm, that's fun.
Thank you, Jesus.
That's a uh very pointed way toput it.
However, it is quite apparentthat so to elect, elect

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nothingness, is to believe inthe existence of nothingness.
So now he's making it explicitwhat he was implying in the last
sentence to elect, to believe inerror or incompleteness, is to
choose to believe in nothing, innon-existence, masquerading as

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existence.
See, people uh believe that thiswhat we perceive, this world
that we perceive, this isexistence.
It's not, it's maskingexistence.
It's meant, it's proving, it'smeant to prove error from the
ego's point of view.
Believe in it.

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Recognize it's your projection.
Nothingness refers to anythingnot created by God: lack, guilt,
sin, death, separation, allnothing.
These are not less real than thetruth, they're actually not real
at all.
They don't exist in any degree,they do not exist.

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To believe in them just becauseyou see them, hey, I see people
dying all over the place.
I hear it on the news, Gaza,whatever the story is.
To believe in it, though, it'sone thing to recognize oh, wow,
I got a feeling reaction fromperceiving that there's dying.
But recognizing there is nodying, that's self-deception.

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Valuing illusions, investingbelief in what has no substance
and no source at all.
Be responsible for your ownfeelings.
Recognize that these feelingsthat are arising right now are
exactly what I need to seethrough this illusion rather
than make it more real.
Such a joy to practice likethat.

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You just dive into deeper,deeper joy.
So to believe in incompletenessis to believe in unreality.
That's the same thing, right?
Let's go back to the sentence.
However, it is quite apparentthat so to elect, that's the
believe in incompleteness, is tobelieve in the existence of

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nothingness.
It places faith in zero andcalls it something.
So this is how the ego looks atit.
It takes nothing, it wraps it upin meaning and it treats it as
if it's everything.
I have this death for, forinstance, it substitutes
illusions for the truth.
So wherever there's fear ofloss, feeling abandoned, lack

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perceived lack in ourselves orothers, people don't have
enough, whatever, energy, time,whatever it seems to be.
We're literally believing innothing.
You know, when someone tells meI have no time or something like
that, I'll just go, you knowwhat?
Uh there's no such thing astime.
You're actually making that upright now, whether I say that

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out my mouth or not, because ifthe conversation is always with
myself, I don't see them asbeing separate from myself.
I see that as being a reflectionof my own mind asking for
correction right now.
That doesn't mean I need tocorrect a person.
I'm just allowing the HolySpirit's interpretation to
correct a thought.

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See, so that's why I don'treally need to say anything.
I just listen and talk if itfeels joyful.
That's how I know the HolySpirit is guiding it.
It feels joyful, it feelsinspired.
So fearing loss, feelingabandoned, perceiving lack, this
is not a reason to be guilty.
It's actually cause for laughterand getting released when you

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recognize that it's not areality.
Oh my gosh, there's this fear ofloss.
Like, what if I lose the house?
Let's say that just popped intomy mind, apparently.
What if I lose the house?
Uh well, there's no such thingas loss.
So if you seem to lose thehouse, that will be an

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opportunity to embrace whateverfeelings arise at the idea that
there's loss.
And really, right now ispresenting an opportunity to
embrace those feelings becauseyou're imagining it right now,
and there's only now.
So you're not really sufferingfrom anything real when you're

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in fear, you're just reacting tonothing.
That's the thing to be seen.
Yay.
Okay, paragraph eight, setsentence eight.
The correction of this error isthe atonement.

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Very short and pointed sentence.
The correction of this error isthe atonement.
Okay, let's break this down.
The error is the sonship'sbelief in incompleteness, which
is also nothingness.
Atonement is the correction ofthat belief.

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The correction of this error,belief in incompleteness, that's
what we've been on, is theatonement.
So atonement isn't changingreality.
The reality is reality, it's notyour believed reality, and it's
never been incomplete.

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So atonement is correcting thebelief that incompleteness is
possible.
That's all it is.
It's not a sacrifice, it's notsome ritual, you don't have to
join any groups, it's not aboutsuffering, it's just recognition
that separation has notoccurred.

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Incompleteness is impossible.
So atonement is restoringright-mindedness, it's
dissolving this belief in lack,this belief in loss or
separation.

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Atonement is remembrance ofwholeness.
It undoes the belief innothingness that uh by revealing
that only wholeness is possible,only wholeness is real.

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So correction, the correction uhoccurs, this atonement
correction, at the level ofperception, not a level of
reality.
It it removes the belief innegation, it remove the removes
the belief in minus or lack orincompleteness by recognizing

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that completion is alwayspresent.
It's always just waiting for ouracceptance.
It's only a belief that needscorrection.
It's not a person, it's never aperson, it's never reality.
You can consider the personsthat you know, uh, the persons
that uh that you perceiveanywhere are reality, just like

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you.
They are the reality, they needno correction.
It's just the thoughts that needto be corrected because you're
believing in them.
See, you're re-believing in themwhenever you fight them, even if
they seem to come out of anotherperson.

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You're re-believing in them.
You don't want to do that.
You want to just perceive it andgently correct it, knowing that
there's no correction for theperson needed, they're already
whole.
When you accept this way ofatonement, you stop trying to
fix the illusion, right?

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You're not resolving degrees oflack anymore.
You're going, wow, nothing ismissing, not in me and not in my
brother.
I'm as God created me.
Wholeness is true.
Nothing ever happened to changethat.
This is the acceptance of theatonement.

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The correction of this error,the belief is in incompleteness.
That's what we've been on.
Negative numbers is theatonement.
Correcting those errors.
Yes.
Thank you for spelling it out tous, Jesus.
We love you.
Thank you, everyone.

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All right.
We made it through a paragraph,apparently, all the way through
paragraph eight.
Started out about negativenumbers and uh that there's no
negative reality.
There's only reality, there's noloss.

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Paragraph nine, sentence onealso has a footnote.
We'll integrate it.
The atonement is the device bywhich you can free yourself from
the past as you perceive it.
And then there's a footnotereferencing some different areas
in the text, which we'll review.

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So this is placing the atonementin relationship with time.
It's talking about the past, theatonement in the past, the
illusion of the past,specifically, that seems to be
imprisoning the mind.
It doesn't even exist inreality.

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The past does not exist inreality.
The mind perceives it andrelives it.
You know how you know how it'srelived through guilt, trauma,
nostalgia, just these repeatingthought patterns, reliving the
past.
Atonement actually undoes beliefin a real past.

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It is so much freedom, you guys.
I mean, I recommend it.
It undoes belief in a pastthat's real.
Like you can still tell storiesand stuff.
It's just that you don't believethat the past is real.
You know you're projecting thepast right now.
This restores the recognition toour mind that nothing has

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occurred to change any of usfrom the way we were created by
God.
So this, what's being calledatonement, it's like a divine
mechanism.
It collapses time.
And when it corrects perception,it collapses time.
Perception creates the need fortime.

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When the correction, when theperception is corrected, it's a
corrected perception, then itworks to collapse time, which is
what we want.
We don't we don't really want tocontinue with time.
We can actually continueexperience without the illusion
of time.
This doesn't mean to try to actthis out or something like that.

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We just want to be correctingthe perception so we're having
less time spent in illusions.
We can live in the correctedperception, which is beautiful.
It doesn't, uh this kind ofatonement doesn't fix anything

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from the past, it doesn't atonefor any sins uh in the
traditional religious way.
It reveals there was no past inwhich separation ever truly
occurred.
The entire illusion of timecollapses in that recognition.

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It's showing you right there,it's giving you a visceral
experience that nothing real canbe threatened and nothing unreal
exists.
This is the peace of God.
So with that footnote, it'spointing us to some other
teachings in a course inmiracles from chapter uh chapter

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one and chapters two, chaptersone and two.
Uh so one of them from miracleprinciple twenty-six, it's
emphasizing that miracles undothe past in the present.
Undo the past in the present.
And from miracle principleforty-six in paragraph one, the

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belief in the separation is theonly quote sin, and that it has
already been corrected.
So the belief in separation hasalready been corrected, and then
there's uh from paragraph two,section seven, it clarifies that
the atonement is alreadycomplete.

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All that remains is ouracceptance.
So miracles undo the past in thepresent.
The only sin is separation, andall that remains is our
acceptance.
So together it's saying the pastyou think you need to escape
never even occurred.

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That's why there's no escapebecause it never even occurred.
There's no need to escapeanything.
So the atonement is just youracceptance of the simple fact.
That it's just never occurred inreality, and that's how you're
freed.

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So the only purpose of theatonement is to free the mind
from a past that never happened,returning the mind to the
present where God is.
That's where God is in thepresent moment.
Welcome.
We're on our last hour.
Well, there's out of two, sowe're halfway through.
Yay.

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Okay, so whatever past thoughtsarise, like guilt, regret,
nostalgia, fear, notice this isthe past as I perceive it.
It has no power at all.
The atonement already correctedthis mistake, accept the truth.
Let's read that sentence again.
The atonement is the device bywhich you can free yourself from

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the past as you perceive it.
You could free yourself from thepast because there is no past.
And so that changes yourperception.
And you're free.
All right, paragraph nine,sentence two.

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But there are some additionalawarenesses which might be
helpful.
So in the last sentence, hesaid, the atonement is the
device by which you can freeyourself from the past as you
perceive it.
And then he's following that upwith, but there are some
additional awarenesses whichmight be helpful.

(01:01:44):
So he's saying that theprinciple of atonement is still
absolute, it's still fullyaccomplished.
It's just that our awareness ofhow to accept it still needs
clarification.
He's saying the truth is alreadycomplete, but it still needs
clarification.
He's going to expand ourunderstanding now and make our

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acceptance of acceptance of thetruth easier, more natural,
right?
Less obstructed by fear.
So before moving us into adeeper practice, now he's

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introducing these additionalawarenesses, like stepping
stones designed to untangle ourconfusion, helpful to dissolve
our subtle resistance andprepare us to receive what's
already been given to us.

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So this is gentle, you know,this is a gentle preparation.
He's setting us up now for agentle preparation.
Okay, we're gonna uh look atthese clarifications.
So what's what's needed, whatyou need is not more truth, it's
clearer awareness of theconditions that are blocking the

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truth.
He's saying atonement is alreadydone.
And your acceptance of theatonement depends on
understanding the state of yourown mind.
So these additional awarenessesare like aids to help us undo
the fear.
He's like, let me show you howyour mind moves.

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I want to help you recognizewhen you're open and when you're
resisting.
See, that's the thing.
We're just learning how torecognize when we're open and
when we're resisting.
Only then can we be effectiveand being a miracle worker.
So instead of striving toachieve atonement somehow, we

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just receive it.
We're guided here to be open toreceive it with humility and
openness to this instructionfrom Jesus about how to see it.
So this is a good before we evenstart going in here.
Let's uh let's, you know, askthe Holy Spirit and ask Jesus to
help us, you know, just in yourown mind, reveal the conditions

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of my mind that block myacceptance of the truth.
This is what this is what Iwant.
This is why I'm listening tothis, or this is why I'm reading
this text.
I do not want to hide these.
I want to see the conditions inmy mind that are blocking my
full accept acceptance of thetruth.
I want to see so I could behealed.

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This is how we meet Jesus inthis intention.
You know, he's giving this tous.
And when you're shown theseadditional awarenesses, what
Jesus is calling additionalawarenesses, don't interpret
them as deficiencies.
These are tools for yourliberation.
This is not making you wrong.

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So right now, you know, you cansit with yourself and ask
yourself, and am I willing tolet my understanding be gently
expanded right now?
This is what we're doing.
This is not talking about what'sknown.
This is presently unknown toyour mind, possibly.

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So that the acceptance of theatonement becomes effortless.
That's what the acceptance is.
It's effortless, it's not aforced thing.
Okay, so here we go.
Let's see what the additionalawarenesses are.

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Readiness is nothing more thanthe prerequisite for
accomplishment.
That's paragraph nine, sentencethree.
Readiness is nothing more thanthe prerequisite for
accomplishment.
So he's making a distinctionhere between readiness and
accomplishment.

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Readiness is a state ofwillingness, it's an open mind
where resistance is softening.
Accomplishment is actualacceptance of the healing.
That's the point where the mindshifted from illusion to truth.
In truth, there's no readinessbecause there's no resistance.
But in time, remember, time isnot true.

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In time, readiness is the firstnecessary step.
Okay, readiness uh doesn't causehealing, but it permits healing
to occur by not blocking it.
So this is correcting a verycommon ego assumption here.

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The sentence says readiness isnothing more than the
prerequisite for accomplishment.
So the ego assumption is thatbeing ready or intellectually
interested in this equals somekind of achievement.
Jesus is reminding us here thatwillingness is the doorway, it's
not the destination.

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You're going to haveopportunities to demonstrate
your readiness throughaccomplishment.
Readiness acknowledges thattruth may be accepted.
Accomplishment is actualacceptance of the truth.
That's where you're faced withan illusion and you actually

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accept the truth.
And you know, you're faced withillusions all day long, so you
get all kinds of opportunitiesfor that.
Readiness is the beginning of aprocess.
You don't need to feel guiltyfor not yet being accomplished.

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You don't need to growcomplacent just because you feel
ready.
Stay ready.
Readiness is like the fertileground.
Stay ready for theaccomplishment to be done
through you.
So for a lot of people, and thisis very common, people convince

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themselves that theirwillingness means they should
already be enlightened, theyshould already be accomplishing
everywhere.
You can relax.
I'm willing, that is beautiful.
I just allow the Holy Spirit nowto accomplish what I cannot do

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for myself.
That's the accomplishment.
You're just not blocking it.
Honor this sense of readiness asit's as if, wow, this is great.
Let's cultivate this.
Follow it with choice.
This is how you cultivate it.
Forgiveness, willingness torelease judgment, surrendering

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control.
When you feel inspired and youfeel open, let the Holy Spirit
know I'm ready.

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I'm letting you lead the way.
This keeps your mind in alearning mode.
So you're not mistaking thiswillingness for arrival.
That's where you getdisappointed.

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What happened there?
Use everything fortransformation.
Let readiness be your foundationfor using everything for
transformation.
Everything for healing.

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Then he goes on to say insentence four, the two should
not be confused.
So he's already established thatreadiness is only the
prerequisite for accomplishment.
Now he's saying, kind of like awarning, there's a should in
there.

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Should not be confused.
And that's because the ego lovesto appropriate spiritual truth
prematurely.
That's the only reason.
The ego is quick to mistake,inspiration for full embodiment,
interest for awakening,readiness for realization.

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And what Jesus is saying is thisconfusion is not harmless.
It actually creates spiritualstagnation.
A mind believing that alreadyachieved what it only glimpsed.
See, don't confuse readinesswith accomplishment.
That's how you becomecomplacent.

(01:11:23):
Watch this.

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Like, I know this already.
We all know this.
Obviously, obviously not if it'sviewed like that.
I got this concept under mybelt.

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And you can follow that up with,and I'm still fucking
frustrated, or whatever it is.
So that the confusion mistakingthe beginning, which is this

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readiness, as theaccomplishment, it actually
prevents accepting theatonement.
And that's why he's giving thiswarning.
He wants you to accept theatonement as soon as possible.
He doesn't want you to getcaught up in believing you have
some kind of accomplishment.
Readiness is like a doorway,it's the rising of willingness.

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Accomplishments is disappearanceof all resistance.
That's, you know, it's just,it's like, man, and you you'll
see when things are uh when youcould say your willingness has
been used for accomplishmentbecause the apparent obstacle to
peace that they presented foryou is not an obstacle anymore.

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It's a trip.
That's the accomplishment.
There's just not the thing,whatever it seemed to be, maybe
it changed form, maybe itdidn't, but it just wasn't an
obstacle to peace anymore.
So Jesus is seeking to preserveour humility here.
It's not self-devaluation if youseem to be uh confusing the two.

(01:13:46):
It's about being open and can tocontinued guidance, just ready
for continued guidance.
That's how I like to live it.
Um just constantly coming toknow the truth, coming into
knowing, not um leaning on someconcepts, right?
The concepts help you to come toknow, but that's really uh it's

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like a revelation, constantbeing in constant revelation,
let's say it's an awareness,it's a knowing that you can't
really put words to, but youconstantly want to be coming
into that knowing, that's what'sthe uh state of unity and this
beautiful celebration of blissin the mind.

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So celebrate that readiness,just don't assume you're done.
Instead, move into being activein the moment, actively uh
noticing when there's blocks toa complete surrender and embrace
of the truth so that you cansurrender again, you can come

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into more surrender.
Right.
I see you, Kalama.
I'll be with you in a fewminutes.
So it's like I am willing, I amhere, I'm available for all that

(01:15:18):
willingness calls forth rightnow.
Notice where you may believe,because I understand it, I've
mastered it.
Right?
Because I desire healing,healing has already fully
occurred.
Forget about I've mastered it.

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The mastery of love is in themoment.
There's no I to master it in thefirst place.
So this is opening a channel.
Jesus is helping here to open achannel in our hearts for deeper
transformation.
Remaining a student of the HolySpirit.

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And whenever you feel likeyou're spiritually advanced, go
to remaining as a student.
That's what I do.
I get the sense I'm spirituallyadvanced all the time.
I actually get the perceptionI've never met a person more
spiritually advanced than me.
Okay, I would love to.
I'm saying I would love to.
Um, but I'm going, this too ispart of my dream.

(01:16:29):
It's part of what I'mprojecting.
And I I notice because you know,I've I've just experimented a
lot, and playing with any kindof spiritual superiority
thoughts uh makes me feel guiltyand afraid and stuff like that.
So watching those thoughts andrecognizing that they don't

(01:16:50):
really mean anything, it's justthe way the dream is presented
to myself.
That's how it's unfolding.
It doesn't really mean anything.
There's no separation between meand any other person.
Maybe I just do really well withspecialness.
That's why I'm giving that kindof perception.

unknown (01:17:12):
I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 (01:17:13):
It's fun.
All right.
I got a question here fromKalama.
I love you.
Aloha.
When the house is not over ourheads, I tend to believe past
thoughts of lack.
Perhaps there are some greatquestions to ask the Holy Spirit
for a guide for my nexttransformations healings.

(01:17:37):
Okay.
Yeah.
Ask the Holy Spirit.
Because you know, you're going,you're taking on this idea of a
roof over your head as if it'ssomething that you have to do.
And you know, truly, you havenever done anything.
You're getting the perception ofa possibility that you might not
have a roof over your head whileyou need a roof over your head.

(01:18:01):
You're projecting that from asense of lack that's a that you
know you're actively holding upright now.
Uh, there's no reason uh to holdit up other than fear.
So you're fearing and you're andyou're resisting against your
own feelings instead of justembracing your feelings.
When you embrace your feeling,you you realize those thoughts

(01:18:24):
don't even have any meaning.
This is only a feeling journey.
There is no house, there is noroof.
It doesn't really make anysense.
None of these things make anysense.
Uh but what you're feeling,that's your experience.
And you know, that needs to makemore sense to you, really,
because what you're experiencingcan be either embraced or

(01:18:45):
feared.
Those are the only two optionsembraced or feared.
So uh so if you're going, okay,I'm getting a sense that I might
not have a roof over my head,I'm getting a thought that I
might not have a roof over myhead.
Whoa, look at that feeling.
Okay, the thought about nothaving the roof over my head,
that makes absolutely no sensebecause I'm only going to

(01:19:07):
perceive what I need.
I'm only going to experiencewhat I need.
This feeling is what's reallythis is true for me right now.
I'm feeling this.
I'm getting the sense that I'mfeeling this feeling.
That's where you make yourchoice.
Love or fear.
Fear resists the feeling bythinking the thoughts that say
where the feeling is coming fromare true.

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Love embraces the feeling justlike it is, and that will uh
change all circumstances, evenin the field, because the field,
uh, or you can say the externalworld is only reflecting your
state of mind.
See how your state of mind ischanging here?
This is where you're taking backthe authority.

(01:19:49):
Yeah, I love you.
Thank you.
Welcome back, Lori.
I love you guys.
Thank you for joining everyone.
Aloha, Sarah.
I can't say aloha to all of you,but man, it's such a joy that
you're joining.
So, all right, on to paragraphnine, sentence five.

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As soon as a state of readinessoccurs, there is always some
will to accomplish.
Okay, let me start over on thatone.
As soon as a state of readinessoccurs, there is always some
will to accomplish.
But this is by no meansundivided.

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So he's talking about the stateof well readiness.
With the state of readiness,there's a will to accomplish,
but this is not undivided.
It's not undivided will.
So here's another one of these.
What did he call theseadditional awarenesses?

(01:21:00):
This is another one of thoseadditional awarenesses.
Sentence five.
So he's revealing this in theearly stages for us, in the
early stages of spiritualwillingness.
Okay, he's saying alwaysincludes a genuine will to
accomplish.
There's an i there's anauthentic desire to know God in

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there, to accept healing, toawaken.
Yet he's immediately adding, butthis is by no means undivided.
This is just an honest diagnosisof the human conditions.
This is saying the mind issplit.
Part of the mind is respondingto the truth, part of it is

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clinging to illusion.
The will at this point has notbecome single.
All right, the ego's purpose andthe Holy Spirit's purpose both
seem to be active in you.
One wants to reinforce identityand form, and the other one is
constantly inviting you beyondform.

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So Jesus is naming this not tocondemn anyone.
This is for comfort.
If you perceive this, right, thewill is divided.
You seem to be going back andforth.
Readiness is open the gate toGod, but you're recognizing
okay, fear is still guardingthis shit.

(01:22:31):
You're you're still accustomedto thinking with the ego.
So you experience resistance,you experience vacillation and
ambivalence.
You're not really certain yet.
This mixture doesn't mean you'refailing or anything.
It's just evidence that thistransformation of your will is
underway.
It's begun.

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And time is within the HolySpirit's uh authority, power,
whatever.
Um you don't need to worry abouthow long it takes or anything.
Readiness is always having bothlove and fear, desire and
resistance coming back andforth, never both at the same
time, of course.

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They don't exist simultaneously,and one of them doesn't exist.
That's the fair side.
So it's indicating a movementtoward truth.
It's just that it's partialbecause your mind still believes
something outside of God hasvalue.
So the ego doesn't geteradicated by your willingness,

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but it does get exposed by itover time.
This explains why there's aprocess to awakening.
Your will is shifting allegianceright now, and that shift is
like tension until it'scomplete.
It's like waking up for peoplecan be really discombobulating.

(01:23:57):
They try to go back to illusionsmany times, but that doesn't
last.
You can't stay in that becauseit's like once you've walked
through a certain door, thedoorway is closed to go back the
other way.
You can only imagine yourself,you know, sinking back into
illusions, but your mind hasalready been transformed.
So it's kind of just a way oflike killing time doing

(01:24:19):
something like that.
It's a movement toward thetruth, it's just partial because
it's believing something outsideof God has value.

(01:24:39):
You know, for me, I just enjoyedthe discomfort.
I know I'm just like, oh, I knowthis discomfort is holy, and
just breathe into it and justkeep on breathing with the
discomfort and embracing thediscomfort.
You know, it's really at onepoint you get this is all just
feeling.
The experience is totallyfeeling, that's all it is.
There's nothing else going onhere.

(01:25:03):
So when you notice yourselfswinging back and forth, like
devotion, doubt, joy,contraction, don't think that
you're backsliding.
Because, you know, really yourmind is so powerful here.
When you recognize thosefluctuations are just a natural
rhythm of a mind learning, thenit becomes that much more

(01:25:24):
effective in your learningbecause you're just this is how
you express your willingness.
This is really how you do it.
You just be willing to seeeverything is a blessing.
Wow, this is such a blessing.
Wow, I see that contraction.
Whoa, I feel see how fearful Ifelt back there.
Wow, I see how I blew up overthere.

(01:25:46):
Part of your mind wants toaccomplish what God wills, the
rest is still fearing it.
There's no need to judge it,just offer that part that still
fear still fears that feelsfearful to the light.
So this helps in not trying tohide it from yourself.
Jesus wants to expose all thesethings so you could see them and

(01:26:06):
bring them to awareness ratherthan just having them lingering,
taking more time.
Um, you know, he's answering thecall, like, you know, our minds
are just kind of like, come on,we want to wake up fast.
And this is really, you know,he's showing us a quicker way to
waking up from the dream.
Not waking up just in the dream.

(01:26:27):
There's that part too, butwaking up from dreaming
entirely, which is our goal.
So every recognition of innerdivision, which within yourself
can be an invitation towholeness if you let it and then
accept the invitation.
Oh, you recognize, oh, it's aninvitation to wholeness.
That's all it is.
Any kind of guilt pops up evenfor something you did five

(01:26:49):
minutes ago, whatever.
Holy Spirit, I see my dividedwill.
I want to want only truth.
I want to want only peace, evenit's like a prayer, and that
unifies you with that force.

(01:27:20):
Notice where you feel a pulltowards love or fear.
Remember, you're only relatingwith your feelings.
And think of what love might dohere.
Notice the feeling and and youknow, focus on what love might
do here and allow that to beseen without judgment.

(01:27:45):
You know, when you trust thatseeing is part of the healing,
then you're just happy withwhatever you seem to be seeing
in the moment.
You're not judging it.
Kalama likes that discomfort isholy, natural method of mind

(01:28:05):
learning.
Great one for me.
Yay, I'm so happy about that.
Yeah.
All right.
Paragraph nine, sentence six.
The state does not imply morethan the potential for a shift
of will.

(01:28:26):
Okay, the state, uh, the stateof readiness does not imply more
than a potential for a shift ofwill.
So we're still on that state ofreadiness, which started in
sentence one.
Uh, maybe it was sentence three.
I don't know.
So he's clarifying readiness isnot the transformation, it's the

(01:28:51):
potential for transformation.
It signifies that the mind'sopen enough to allow for this
possibility of choosingdifferently.
That's what the readiness is.
This is a crucial distinction.
The ego wants you to believethat feeling open is the same as

(01:29:12):
being healed.
Jesus is reminding us here thatspiritual progress isn't
measured by moments ofinspiration alone.
It's measured by an actual shiftof the will, the mind choosing
God instead of with the ego whenit normally chooses with the

(01:29:33):
ego.
This readiness, the way it'sdescribing it, is threshold
energy, a poised state, right?
Like standing ready.
Jesus would say in the Bible uhto stay awake to his disciples.
There was one part where he, inparticular, he was saying, stay

(01:29:55):
awake, and he comes back andthey're all sleeping.
Yeah.
I find that to be like aparable.
He's saying, stay awake, stayawake, don't go to sleep.
This is threshold energy.
Stay in this poised state ofreadiness.
And when you believe you've youbelieve that readiness signifies

(01:30:16):
that you've stepped intocertainty, then you're not
ready.
Readiness is not the miracle.
It's the mind becoming availablefor the miracle.
So he talks about potentialhere.
The state does not imply morethan the potential for a shift,

(01:30:39):
a shift of will.
Potential is like power inreserve.
It's got to be activated througha decision.
Readiness means you're capableof changing direction.
The Holy Spirit has an openingwhen you're ready.
But the will still must be tunedtoward the truth.

(01:31:04):
Your will must be tuned towardthe truth to be choosing the
truth over the illusion that'sbeing presented to you.
So this is emphasizing ouragency.
The atonement's beenaccomplished, but its acceptance
is still waiting for you.

(01:31:25):
It's already been accomplished.
It requires a shift of will.
So don't stop at readiness, butengage it.
Follow it with a choice.
Speak to the Holy Spirit.
Invite reinterpretation.

(01:31:46):
Offer grievance.
I offer this grievance to you.
I don't want to see my brotherlike this.
I see my brother as a as athreat.
I see my brother as if they'resad.
I see my brother as if they'rebroke.
Ask to see it differently.
I'm ready.
Please shift my will.
I accept the atonement now.
Make your readiness practicaland active by allowing yourself

(01:32:10):
to move into that decision.
So this is a point where we'relearning how to choose fully.
And it's gonna come,opportunities are gonna come
just through the particulars ofthe life.

(01:32:33):
Am I willing to let potentialbecome actual by allowing it to
shift my will in the moment?
This is how we're actuallyparticipating.
It's not like, oh, okay, nice toknow, good to learn this shit.
Now I'm just gonna uh go onpretending like I know it all,
that I'm not coming into theknowing.

(01:32:58):
All right, paragraph nine,sentence seven.
Confidence cannot develop fullyuntil mastery has been
accomplished.
Hmm, that's fun.
So here's a divine law of themind.
True confidence is the result ofunified will.

(01:33:21):
It's not a prerequisite for it.
It's the result of unified will,it's not a prerequisite.
So confidence arises when themind has consistently chosen
truth over illusion.
That's just natural.

(01:33:44):
So it stops entertainingconflicting desires because it's
the mind is confident in thetruth because it's chosen so
many times, truth over illusion.
So the ego believes we must feelconfidence first.
This is undoing an ego illusion,a major ego illusion here.
The ego illusion is that we haveto feel confidence first in

(01:34:06):
order to choose the Holy Spirit.
But that's the opposite.
Confidence is not what leads youto mastery, confidence is what
flows from mastery when yourwill is undivided.
So it says confidence cannotdevelop fully until mastery has
been accomplished.

(01:34:28):
As long as your will isconflicted, your confidence will
appear unstable.
That's okay.
You still can choose truth inthe moment.
If the truth isn't unstable,your conflicted will makes you

(01:34:48):
appear unstable.
But because the truth is true,you can still choose it.
And then by choosing it, thatleads to mastery, which leads to
complete confidence.
So mastery in this context isn'tmeaning personal perfection.

(01:35:08):
That's not like that.
It means your mind consistentlychooses to be guided by the Holy
Spirit.
It stopped choosing againstitself.
It just got to the point of thisis that's enough choosing
against myself.
I'm just gonna stay right hereunder the Holy Spirit's
guidance.
No doubt has any foothold on mymind anymore.

(01:35:32):
That's what mastery is.
It's not self-assurance in anykind of egoic sense, like I have
to keep this, which I've earned,kind of thing.
But it's your assurance thatGod's nature is unchangeable and
my identity with him isunshakable.
So confidence isn't a feelingyou have to get to, like you

(01:35:55):
have to try to generate.
It's an actual state that dawnson you.
You're not in conflict aboutwhat's real anymore.
So before mastery, yourconfidence flickers because it's
still being evaluated throughperception.
After mastery, confidence isconstant.
It just rests on knowledge, itrests on the truth, it does not

(01:36:18):
rest on any perception.
In fact, every perception isused to demonstrate what the
what's true is true.
So this is Jesus' reassurance toyou.
If your confidence fluctuates,there is nothing wrong with you.

(01:36:38):
That's not the actual sentencethat he said, but that's what he
wanted me to share with youright now.
The sentence here is confidencecannot develop fully until
mastery has been accomplished.
So instead of waiting to feelstrong or certain or spiritual

(01:37:00):
before true choosing choosingthe truth, you choose the truth
right now, in the midst ofuncertainty.
This is training your mind.
This is mind training.
Every time you choose, your mindis trained to align more with
the Holy Spirit.
And the confidence growsorganically, just like that.
You see, you don't needconfident confidence to choose

(01:37:22):
truth.
Your confidence grows fromchoosing truth.
Trust this process.
Confidence is what you receivewhen your resistance is undone.
So an ego way would be to getyou to wait for greater

(01:37:43):
certainty or clarity orconfidence before you can
actually commit to the truth.
You don't need any of this.
All the paths, all of what's apet the paths taught you.
It taught you to learn aboutnonsense, who you are and what
you are.
Forget about that.
Let confidence come afterchoosing.
Just choose truth now.

(01:38:05):
So hooray.
Paragraph 10.
Am I gonna do paragraph 10?
It is pretty long.
I could do part of it.
We have 20 minutes left.
I don't think I'll get to thewhole thing.
It's a big paragraph.
All right, we'll get startedthough.

(01:38:28):
Paragraph 10, sentence one.
We began this section with anattempt to correct the
fundamental human error thatfear can be mastered.
Hmm.
I love that.
So, according to A Course inMiracles, there's two emotions:

(01:38:50):
love and fear.
Love is what God created, it'sreal, eternal, unchanging, and
cannot be threatened.
Fear is what the ego made.
It's not real, it's a belief inthe absence of love.
Okay, so this is correcting thefundamental human error that
fear can be mastered.
And the section is called themastery of love.

(01:39:13):
So fear isn't anything thatexists on its own.
It's not a force, it's amisperception.
It's for it's uh an effect ofchoosing separation, it's a
veil.
So that's why to attempt tomaster fear is to treat it as if
it has reality.
This is the core error the humanmind makes.

(01:39:36):
Look at this.
Ego says you must fight fear,manage fear, heal fear, control
fear, analyze fear.
But Jesus is saying, fear isnothing.
Only love is real.
You do not master fear, youchoose love.
When you try to master fear,you're really declaring it's
real to your own mind.

(01:39:58):
And when you choose love, yourecognize fear never was.
These are the two choices thatwe have in every moment.
How we're going to meet ourfeelings.
Love is mastered throughaccepting your feelings.
Fear is undone through thisrecognition.

(01:40:19):
You don't heal fear, you juststop choosing fear.
It's nothing, it's not evenanything to heal.
When it arises, it's not aproblem to solve.
Fear is not a problem to solve.
It's just a sign.
Let it be a sign that you'rechoosing against love right now
in this moment and can changeyour mind about that.

(01:40:40):
You're choosing one of twoteachers, let's say the Holy
Spirit, which interpretseverything through love, or the
ego, which interprets everythingthrough fear, which is the
illusion.
Every feeling you have is eitheran extension of love or a call
for love.
Every feeling.

(01:41:01):
This is all that's what it's allabout.
There's nothing else going onhere.
There's no external world.
The external world is like apainting, it's an expression of
an internal world.
It is not real.
Whenever you sense you'reafraid, anxious, threatened.
Don't try to overcome that.
You don't have to overcome it.
You don't have to distractyourself.

(01:41:22):
Recognize it's a choice formisperception.
Notice I've chosen wrongly.
Because I'm not at peace, I knowI've chosen wrongly.
Instead, I choose the truth oflove.
So this shifts your teacher.
It takes you from the teacherbeing the ego to this teacher
being the Holy Spirit.

(01:41:43):
Holy Spirit, I must have chosenwrongly.
I am not at peace.
See?
And fear dissolves not becauseyou've mastered it or conquered
it or anything like that, butbecause you withdrew belief from
it.
You just shifted your teacher.
See?
Am I willing to let this bereplaced by love?

(01:42:05):
Which is the only thing that'seven real?
What makes sense to you?
Next sentence.
Paragraph 10, sentence two.
The correction was that onlylove can be mastered.

(01:42:30):
So this is a total reversal ofthe ego's premise that fear is
real.
The correction was that onlylove can be mastered.
Only love is real.
So only it can be mastered.
Meaning, what does it mean tomaster love?
It's fully accepted, it's fullyembodied and expressed,

(01:42:52):
extended, expressed through you.
It's not about controlling love.
It's aligned, it's being alignedwith love as your only reality
and your only will.
That's the mastery of love.
That means you're not divided inyour loyalty.
You don't choose against love.

(01:43:19):
Love is just your natural stateof awareness.
It's not something you reach orgenerate, it's not an
achievement of the personalself.
It's just remembering right nowyour true identity in God.
Nothing but love exists.
Remembering that right now.
It's the restoration of yourknowing, it's devotion.

(01:43:43):
It's the complete return ofawareness of the fact that
there's only love.
That's what mastery of love is.
Love is reality.
It can be known, trusted,practiced, experienced
consistently.

(01:44:06):
Fear can't be mastered becauseit's not real.
Love can be mastered by youbecause it's what you are.
Basically, to master it is tostop abandoning it in the
moment.
You now let me just let you knowagain how this happens when how
you abandon love in the moment,so you can see.
And and you know, don't judgeyourself.

(01:44:26):
Of course, watch it.
When you when you see it, youlearn totally.
So you get the sense of afearful feeling coming up, and
you you know, you try toabandon, uh, abandon love by
listening to the thoughts.
That's what it is.
It's listening to the thoughtsthat tell you why you feel
whatever feeling you're feeling,frustrated, upset for any

(01:44:48):
reason, sad, whatever.
It's saying why you're feelingwhat you're feeling.
Don't believe that.
Don't believe in those thoughts.
You're not feeling upset forthat reason at all.
That's projected from a belief.
To embrace the feeling and notlisten to the thought is to

(01:45:09):
allow these patterns tocollapse.
You don't have to um fight withthose thoughts at all.
Just turn your attention to thefeeling effect of them.
That's what takes your mind offof ruminating on the thoughts.
Turn your attention to thefeeling effect, become aware
that this feeling is an effectof believing a thought right

(01:45:31):
now.
You can practice this in anysituation, every situation.
Am I choosing love or am Ichoosing fear?
How am I meeting my feeling?
The mind chooses against love.
It feels like compression in thebody's energy field.

(01:45:51):
This is this is the certainsense that's awareness of union.
Becomes compression with that.
Let the uh let the channel beopen by seeing, just by seeing,
noticing the hesitation,noticing the specialness,
noticing the judgment.
That's what allows you toembrace everything, and that's

(01:46:12):
choosing love.
And in an embracing way.

(01:46:52):
Even if you are ready forrevelation, though, that does
not mean that you have in anyway mastered that form of
communication.
That's revelation that he'stalking about.
So he's making anotherdistinction between readiness
and mastery.
Now it's in regard torevelation.

(01:47:14):
So revelation in a course inmiracles means direct
communication with God.
It's beyond perception, words,thought, form.
It's just direct communicationwith God.
I like to stay in revelation allday long.
And the way I do that is that Ijust don't listen to ego

(01:47:35):
thoughts, any thoughts that tellme about my stupid ass life or
the world.
I'm just like, that is not eveninteresting.
I know that, you know, Jesus hasinformed me before.
I want your mind open forrevelation.
You don't need to be thinkingabout your life.
Let your life just be taken careof.

(01:47:56):
Okay.
So revelation is not somethingthat you achieve.
It's something that justautomatically flows when your
mind is free from fear.

(01:48:17):
Being ready for revelation meansthe mind has become open, it's
undefended enough for that kindof direct awareness.
You know, it's it's somethingrevelation.
Let's say it's it's like you'veachieved another awareness.

(01:48:39):
I don't know how to say this.
You've been opened to anotherlevel of awareness, and a
broader way of seeing.
Um, and it's not something thatyou can explain.
But the effects of having gonethrough that revelation, they
get demonstrated through yourexpression.

(01:49:03):
So they have real the revelationhas real effects.
So being ready for revelationmeans your mind's open, you're
undefended, you're not trying tofigure out your life or
anything.
Notice those thoughts that keepon cycling around.

(01:49:29):
Mastery of love, that's uh whererevelation comes in.
It doesn't occur simply becausethe mind is willing.
Um, but the mind that staysready receives the gift of
revelation, not because itaccomplished something, it's

(01:49:50):
just that there's that openingthere, and this is who you are.
It's not like God bestows somereward on you or something, but
this is like this is just whoyou are.
It's just natural.

(01:50:10):
It's also a gift and not anaccomplishment.
It's a gift, not a reward,though.
Like, okay, your mind has beenopen enough.
It's a naturally flowing throughwhere there's the space for it
to flow through, for revelationto flow through.

(01:50:34):
So you may be open right now toa burst of divine awareness, but
maybe not able to sustain thatstate or remain identified with
it.
That's okay.
It'll be sustained, your masterywill be sustained in time.
It's just now, the moment now,this is where you choose love,

(01:50:58):
choose to embrace your feelingand not project it by believing
the thoughts about it.
You can be ready to glimpse thetruth, but still identified with
the ego most of the time.
This is okay.
This is why revelation isdescribed as temporary within

(01:51:19):
the dream.
It comes and then that's why youknow you're constantly coming to
know, constantly want to come toknow this stuff.
Um uh come to know the the truthof who you are, which is unity,
which is still in your heart,which is another way of saying

(01:51:39):
it's in your right mind.
It just comes, the umrevelations come in wherever
fear is absent.
So we're fading away the fear.

(01:52:00):
So Jesus here is correcting anynotion that spiritual openness
means spiritual completion.
Don't confuse moments ofinspirations or holy experiences
with complete awakening.
Ego wants to hurry up and get tothe end, which is actually going
to make you take more time,which is not what you want.

(01:52:21):
That's why Jesus iscompassionately giving this to
us.
So instead of clinging to anyholy experience or any openness
or realization, all that stuffpasses, anyways.
Ask how can I become moreconsistently aligned with love

(01:52:44):
so that revelation can naturallyoccur, so that my mind can be
free and clear.
And this is just right nowcoming to know the stabilization
of love, stabilizing presence oflove.

(01:53:05):
All right.
Looks like we have a question ora comment over here on Zoom.
Wayne, how cute! Thank you.
He says you're such a blessingto this world.
Oh, thank you, but thank you somuch, Wayne.
Ah, oh, thank you.
It's so fun.
I'm a I'm overjoyed to do it.
Thank you so much.

(01:53:26):
Okay, paragraph 10, sentencefour.
Mastery of love necessarilyinvolves a much more complete
confidence in the ability thanyou have as yet attained.
More complete confidence in theability than you've attained so

(01:53:51):
far.
So here Jesus is explaining whyyou have not mastered love.
Your confidence is not yet wholebecause your will is split,
partly aligned with the truth,partly aligned with the with the
illusion.
So your confidence isfluctuating.

(01:54:11):
This doesn't mean you're failingat anything, it just means you
haven't fully accepted what youare in truth.
That's all.
To master love is to know yourtrue identity so completely that
you never waver in yourawareness of it.

(01:54:33):
See, it's to live without anydoubt in the power of love to
sustain you, guide you, protectyou.
It's complete freedom from anyupset feelings.
It's complete confidence.
And you know, it's freedom withupset feelings because, like, an
upset feeling will arise andit'll be like, oh, good.

(01:54:55):
It's not like, ah, get thataway.
What's that doing here?
This is not self-confidence inthe egoic sense, it's God
confidence, it's certainty thatlove is the only reality.
So any feeling can arise andit's welcome.
It doesn't require any effort,but it does require the absence

(01:55:17):
of doubt.
So Jesus isn't rebuking youhere, he's stating a fact.
You're still learning to trustlove without reserve, you're
still learning to rely on loveall by itself.
It doesn't need anything else.
You're still learning that lovecan't fail you.

(01:55:38):
So you can't claim mastery untilthat confidence is complete.
You can, but you know, you'rejust making yourself take more
time.
Not recognizing what mastery is.
Like you don't have any need towaver anymore.
Love is always reliable, butyour confidence in it is not

(01:56:01):
reliable yet.
Mastery isn't uh isn't a statewhere you've increased love,
it's where trust is complete.
So this sentence isacknowledging your readiness
while encouraging you could tocontinue toward this fullness of

(01:56:25):
confidence, this full confidencewhere no fear, no fear remains.
So every moment of doubt, so ifyou you know, when you recognize
confidence, your conference,confidence wavering, that's a

(01:56:45):
moment of doubt.
That's always an opportunity toshift into reliance on love.
So those become your strengths,you know.
One part in the Course inMiracles, it talks about how
your weaknesses are actuallyGod's strengths, and this is
where it plays into it.
There's these moments of doubt.
You're recognizing, oh, this isone of those opportunities.

(01:57:09):
That's doubt.
How can I rely on love moreinstead of judging yourself?
I know.
I've done it a bunch of times.
That's why I could laugh aboutit, right?
I saw pretty quickly though,because I just saw go, man, I
don't have to play into that.
But that's great.
I love getting out of shit likethat.

(01:57:30):
I'm like, huh, I don't have tobelieve that one bit.
That that doubt is really trueabout me.
This is an opportunity to seethat, even that thought as a
blessing.
Holy Spirit, show me where Istill believe love is not
enough.
Help me remember that love isall powerful, all-present, and

(01:57:51):
always certain.
You choose to trade to placeyour trust in the truth over
what's temporary and false, andthat's how your confidence will
grow.
That cultivates the confidence.

(01:58:11):
So notice wherever you'rerelying on control or personal
effort or defense, sometimes youknow, I'll recognize, like, I'll
just see a person walking by andI'll see them defending
themselves to themselves likethey're talking to another
person.
Notice where you're doing thatin your mind.
You have nothing to defend.
Rest in love certainty.
Let love be completelysufficient.

(01:58:33):
There's no one here doinganything to you, adding or
taking away from you.
So that was sentence four.
Okay, I'm gonna make somenotations for myself right here.
I just looked up and realizedit's 5 p.m.
over here, Pacific time.
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