June 3, 2006 ©NWFFACIM

PAUL.  …  If you’re in the Sparkly Book, it’s page 278, a new section entitled Guiltlessness and Invulnerability.  If you’re in the Second Edition, it’s page 236, the beginning of Chapter 13.  And the subject is The Guiltless World.  If you’re in the First Edition, it’s page 220, again, the beginning of Chapter 13, and the section- …  The chapter is entitled The Guiltless World.  If you’re reading from the JCIM, it’s page 117, the top of the page; and the section heading is Guiltlessness and Invulnerability. 

Okay. … Let’s take a few moments to be quiet together. 

(Quiet Time)

ANSWER.  Okay.  Good Evening.

AUDIENCE.  (Responses)

ANSWER.  And welcome to everyone who’s joining us on the Internet.  …  … Well I’m going to start off the night tonight with something for a new … yellow post it – or sticky note to put on your refrigerator.  It is this:  Thinking … is not the normal activity … of your mind.  …  Thinking is not the normal activity of your mind. …  … The normal … – the Divinely Normal ... activity of your mind is … attention.  …  …  It’s what I’ve referred to in the past to the willingness to be present with … a thing – to be present with someone else – to simply be present with –  without pre-conceptions.  The normal activity of mind is … attention.  …

Attention is attentiveness, … isn’t it?  Which means … that attention … is an expectation … – an expectation of having something to pay attention to.  An expectation … of experiencing something.  … You could say that attention is an invitation to experience.  …   …   …  

It is a … it is a state of innocence, if … you don’t bring into it preconceptions … – if you don’t bring into play memory … – if you … don’t bring into play all of your typical … knee-jerk mental responses … – which means your habits of thinking.  Attention … is quiet.  It is not an assertion … of anything.  It is a … receptivity – a willingness to receive – an expectation of standing in receipt. … 

Because it is not divided up or structured … by thoughts … or theories … or concepts, … it stands … un-resistant against … All of Creation.  It is a capacity … to have Infinite Experience.  …   …  

All of you … have the capacity to set aside thoughts.  And the most typical practice for doing that is called meditation. … As we’ve said before: thinking is not synonymous with being conscious.  When you allow … your mind to simply be in the-  to simple be not in the state of attention, but to be, itself,  the state of attention … holiness – holiness of Be-ing … – holiness of perception … is available to you.

In the silence of Be-ing the state of attention, revelation can occur: the direct Experience of God Be-ing You – of God’s Infinite Mind Be-ing your Mind … becomes available to you.  Now, mind you, … … what we’re talking about becoming available to you, is something … you originally had.  It’s something that you still have, but you cover over by … the busyness of your mind – by the busyness of your thinking – by your habits of …  assessing situations, and coming to conclusions – and then basing decisions on those conclusions. And you busy yourself with this all day long.  …

But thinking is not the normal … use of mind.   It’s one of the reasons I talk so much about … listening.  Because, even if you’re with a friend … and there is a conversation going on, if you want to hear what the friend is talking about – if you have interest in the subject being discussed, you will shut up so that you can hear.  You will become still enough to pay attention … to what your friend is saying. So you know how … to still your mind and be quiet long enough to hear.  All of you do.   It’s a capacity you all already have.  It’s just that you don’t realize … its value – it’s … life-changing … significance … and importance.

… Ultimately all of you are afraid that if you stopped thinking you would lose your Identity. …  But it’s not true.  You think … that if you stopped thinking, … you would become unable to function in the world.  And this is not so.  Paul is not thinking right now, but he’s functioning in the world.

Intelligence is being expressed.  But more than anything, Love is being extended.  He is letting Love move through him; Love that is finding expression in words that allow transformation to occur in those who are listening.  Why?  Because what is being shared stands specifically as a useful means … … for … … sudden release from your old ways of thinking, so that an aha! (finger snap) can happen.  An insight can occur …  that leaves you in a new place so that you can never leave.  You can never really go back to where you were before the insight happened. … 

You know what?  When you let yourself be in the silence …  – when you value … the absence of thinking enough to allow the silence to occur … … – and you let yourself be in it without goals … – you just … let yourself deserve the experience of Peace, and rest in It, … sudden shifts of perception do occur.  Insights occur.  A new experience of something … around you reveals itself to you.  And what happens?  You say-  Your …   Your mouth opens and: ‘Ohh.  Oh!  Wow!’ – comes out.  You see?

You’re not incapable of speaking.  You’re not inva- incapable of communicating that something has happened.  But th-  But … what comes out of your mouth becomes an expression of some sort of awe: a-w-e. …  Some sort of recognition of … the Actuality of Divinity – of Holiness.  …

What comes out of your mouth … in Biblical terms – in Biblical terms … can be called … praising God … because it’s an exclamation of recognition of something meaningful.

Even now, what is coming out of Paul’s mouth expresses a recognition of something meaningful that he is having.

How much better it would be if – as you went through your days – … what came out of your mouth … was some form of an expression of awe – some form of praising God.  Something which – when heard by others – … would inspire them – would put them at ease – would make them feel comfortable, where before they were filled with fear.  15:33:1

Now, I am talking the way I’m talking because it’s in the context of A Course In Miracles.  But in a different setting, under different circumstances, I may not say anything about God.  I may not say anything about Brotherhood.  I may not say anything about … guiltlessness.  You see?  …   And neither will you.  You will always be appropriate … in the setting.  And so you will not stand out like a sore thumb, as I’ve said before. …  …

Now, what makes thinking so damned valuable to you that you invest every moment of your … waking day employing it? … … Well, you think … it gives you your identity.  You think that the thoughts you think define you. …

You’re a doctor.  Your language – the thoughts you think – the way you reason …  gives you … medical identity and … – respect, let’s say … – within the … medical community.  If you are a social worker, your language is expressed in a completely different context; and again, … we will say: wins you happy patients, as well as – let us say – respect among the community of social workers. …

You’re a mother. …  And everything your mother taught you about motherhood that was of value, and perhaps even what wasn’t of value, but you find valuable, you embody.  And, of course, your grandmother is in there somewhere.  And your … great grandmother is in there somewhere as well; and all of the means you have to elicit the best from your children … comes out in the language you use.  And it identifies you as a mother – distinctly different from … a telephone operator … or a backhoe operator.  You see?

And so you fill your mind with the thoughts that give you identity.  And the clearer you are about who you are, the better off you are.  You say: ‘The clearer I am, the more clearly everyone else can see me.  The more confused I am, the more confused everyone else will be about me. … You see? …  …

Well, how did you pick your rôle?  How did you pick your- what identity you were going to employ, so that you would learn the appropriate language? …  … Well, I’m going to p- rephrase the question:  Why did you pick a role … – and then pick a language for expressing that rôle in order to give yourself identity? …

You did it because you forgot … that in the silence of your Be-ing – in the State of Be-ing .. Pure Mind – Be-ing Pure Attention – you … are that.  And the capacity you have … in the silence … of your mind allows your mind to be filled with the Movement of God, that causes you to speak … in praise of God.

It allows you to speak in praise of the Good that is obvious to you – profound Good that is obvious to you, where … – when you were … active in your thinking mind – what you saw seemed to be relatively good.  Certainly not awesome. …  Certainly not smacking of … holiness. …  …

You think … because you’ve forgotten … Who You Are.  Now that phrase, you’re not unfamiliar with: you have forgotten Who You Are.   And the Holy Spirit helps you remember Who You Are. … And it’s … almost inevitable that you all … imagine – spontaneously imagine … – that Who You Really Are will be … a new definition – a new rôle. 

You’ll just know … that you’re a holy man –… or a holy woman.  You’ll know that you are mm – let’s say – the Presence of God in the world, whatever that might mean.  But … you have the idea that it will be a new definition, which will be accompanied with new language of expression, that will identify you like the old rôle did.  … 

But I want you to listen carefully here. …. … What you are … is not a new set of thoughts. … What you are … is the absence of thoughts.  What you are is the silence of mind that is attention – undivided … attention – whole attention – simple, pure attention. …  …

Well, that sort of throws you out into the deep blue, doesn’t it?  Because if you take what I’ve just said to be the Truth, … you have no way of anticipating … what it’s going to mean, do you?  You have no way to peg ahead of time what it’s going to be.  And you have no capacity to assume that any of the skills you’ve currently been employing will be employable, because, after all, they require thinking, don’t they?

And if you’re not going to be thinking, … then … what is going to be happening?  You see? …  …

…  … The Course says that teaching what Love is is beyond the scope of the Course.  Well it’s beyond the scope of … anything because Love … is What you find yourself filled with when you’re willing to stop thinking and go into the Silence … and say: ‘Father, Thy Will be done.  …  Father, … let me be filled … with all that You Are Be-ing – right here where I see me.  Father, I wish to yield … to the Reality … of Me … that has to be going on right here where I thought I had been … alone, isolated, … and … constantly in danger. …  I will listen … for Your Voice.  I will stop … listening for my voice … – meaning my thinking … – my best practices of reason.  …  I will shut up long enough to hear.  …  Fill me today with all Thou art.’ …

Now that … that sounds perhaps a little stilted … and formal.   I’ve said it many times in a much more simple way – in a much simpler way.  I’ve said: Bring curiosity into play.  So that when you look at a thing, or you look in a mirror at yourself, you say: ‘What is the More that is here than what I’m currently seeing?  You see? What I’m seeing does not look like the Kingdom of Heaven, but Raj continues to tell me that the only thing that is ever in my face is the Kingdom of Heaven, so there’s more here than what I’m seeing. … And I would like to see It.  And I would like to feel It.  I would like to experience It.’ …

How do you do that?  You shut up … your mind … as though … a communication was occurring … so interesting … and so full of the unexpected that you don’t want to miss it! … … Because … no matter where you are at this moment, and no mo- matter what is within your line of sight, It’s the Kingdom of Heaven.  It is Ultimate Reality, even though that is not what you’re experiencing of It at this moment. …

Your use of your mind is exactly what blocks you from experiencing Reality As It Is. … … And the use … you put your mind to is not its normal use.  You put it to the use of thinking. …  29:58:6

And basically you put it … to the use of thinking poorly … about yourselves, and poorly about your brothers and sisters, and poorly about the world.  And on and on and on. …  … 

Now, … we talked last week … about … the great value there is to you in your having a brother that has eyes that you can look into … and that your Function is to look into your brother’s eyes and what?  Remember God.  To have an insight – an aha! – a shift of perception.  It’s your Function to look into your brother’s eyes and remember God.  30:50:0

… Well, now let’s think about it for a moment.  Things are not really complicated here, although “thinking makes it so.” (Shakespeare)  If your Function is to look into your brother’s eyes and remember God – and thus be blessed yourself, as well as your brother being blessed yourself, what is your brother’s Function, whose eyes you’re looking into?  His Real Function – just as yours – is to look into your eyes and remember God! … The Function the two of you have is to bless each other with recognizing … God … in your sight.

Now, … if you are busy …thinking poorly about yourself, and you’re busy thinking poorly about your brother …  – let’s say: downright awfully about your brother, … what if your brother is standing there, looking at you and actually remembering God?  And you’re sitting there or standing there looking – not remembering God – but thinking awfully … about him – or her!  Are you not … standing in a position of condemnation toward your brother?  Judgment?

And if you … are intent upon … validating your perception of him, are you-  are you going to be anywhere near … willing … to value the ‘Oh!  Wow!’ – that comes out of his mouth, because he’s seeing God where you are?  Are you going to be able to … accept … the wonderful exclamations of the Truth about you that he or she is seeing, as you’re sitting there with your … awful thoughts … about him, which you feel fully justified in having?  Is it anywhere within your capacity – at that moment to- to see the slightest glimmer of a possibility that this … awfully … considered one might have … of the Truth about you, and that … you could be standing – at that moment – in receipt of a blessing that would  … turn your head around and change your life.

Is- is there even the slightest … capacity to see the … smallest glimmer of Love that might be coming from there?  Or is your … awful thought about him one that says: ‘Impossible! … And even if she did have a kind thought about me, I wouldn’t have any truck with it. … She is so this, or so that!  Or he is so this – so obstinate, so stubborn, so mean, so thoughtless! … And I can give you example after example after example after example.  In fact, I can show you their whole life history and show you that it’s a pattern that’s been going on forever. 35:28:2

What?  Me … think for a moment (small laugh) that this bitch or this bastard … might be … (small laugh) able to give me a gift that would change my life … … because of What They Truly Are?  No.

Now, just for practicality, it may be that – humanly speaking – that person does have this history, and the … the long list that you could spell off … might very well … identify behaviors and attitudes that this one has expressed. …

Oh, miss perfect so-and-so, (said in a cautioning voice) (and then gently) you who can provide the list, … are you really so perfect?  Are you not standing there with … self-righteous, arrogant, … awful judgmental thoughts about that person?  Is- …  Does that … does that embody good character? …  Does your behavior … reflect a worthiness … that … that comes from anywhere other than … a great … smallness of mind? … Do you not need … someone to look at you – no matter who it might be – and see … God there, … and be able to reflect back to you … your Holiness … so that you might … let go of your … awful thoughts about yourself? … …

And do they not – even in the midst of their bad behavior – need someone to recognize that their bad behavior doesn’t identify them, and that their … bad thoughts or unintelligent thoughts or incoherent thoughts don’t identify What They Really Are?  Do they not deserve someone who’s willing to look beyond them, because – in order for there to be any awful definition there – there has to be Something Real there, … that’s been covered up by their own awful thoughts, and the awful thoughts of others just like you. …

You believe…  that you are your thoughts, and you believe that others are their thoughts.  And you think that that idea – that thought – is- has substance to it.  You think that it is absolutely dependable.  And so you hold on to it as though it were an anchor.  You anchor yourself in the thought, … when you need to be anchoring yourself in the mind, in which the thought was occurring.  You need to anchor yourself in the mind … in which that thought is occurring, so you can set the thought down.  So that you can be silent and move back into the state of attention that is the normal activity of mind. 

Now …  …  … Let’s go into the book.

Guiltlessness and Invulnerability.  … 

“If you did not feel guilty, you could not attack, for condemnation is the root of attack.  It is the judgment of one mind – by another – as unworthy of Love and deserving of punishment.”  Now, that is the accepted definition of guilt.  It is a different meaning than I was using for the word ‘guilt’ last week.  And I just want to make that distinction.

“If you did not feel guilty, you could not attack,” … – See, if you didn’t feel like you were out of your skin – if you- if you didn’t feel as though you were in … an unnatural state – in other words, if you were in your Peace, … and you therefore, felt whole, you would never attack.  But you do feel like you are out of your skin. … You do feel like a stranger in a strange land.  You do feel … out of place, and at odds with everything, and out of sorts with everything – and not being able to make sense of what everything is – and not being able to fit in with it because it’s not like you.

And so you feel at a loss, constantly at a loss – in one way or another – to one degree or another. … I wonder why?  Well, … do you suppose it might be because – at some point – you said: ‘Father, I’d rather see it my way.  Father, I would rather do it my way.  Father, I want a divorce.  I want to cut off communication with You for a while and explore … my capacities– on my own.’  ... …   

As we’ve said over and over again, when you did that … – which you’re capable of imagining you can do – … you put yourself in a position of forgetting your Source, because you pushed the Awareness of your Source – your Father – out … out somewhere in the back forty of your mind.  And you said: ‘I’m just going to pay attention to the part of the Infinity of my mind that’s not behind me – that’s not where I shoved all the things I don’t want to look at.’  And this caused you to feel alone and isolated.  43:59:7

… Now, … as I also said last week, … when you … deny part of yourself, you can’t … it is not something you cannot fully accomplish.  …  You can ignore Part of yourself, but you can’t actually get rid of It. – in that state of self-denial – and denying your Father is part of your denying yourself … – you will … feel the fact that you are trying to do something that is impossible – and that therefore, your attempt is going to be a futile attempt, which means that it’s unintelligent or we’ll put it another way: stupid.

… Ah, here’s where you’re faced with having to make a choice:  Are you going to take responsibility for and acknowledge that … you are doing something … that won’t work … – that you’re doing something … that is fundamentally wrong, … and in the honesty of that acknowledgement, stay in your Sanity?

Or are you going to deny … that you’re misusing your mind … and fight for the right to stay in this state of ignorance, without having to acknowledge that it’s a state of ignorance?  Are you going to do something that is wrong – meaning that which can’t possibly be done – and that which won’t work?  Are you going to deny that you’re wrong and … persist with a confidence that what you’re doing is not only possible: God gave you the right to do it because He gave you free will – and you are going to persist … at the expense of your Peace?  …

If you choose for that, you’re choosing for insanity.  And … because you will not be able to get rid of the discomfort – the dissonance of being at odds with … that which you can’t successful be at odds with – you will have to account for the discomfort … in some other way than owning it – which means you’re going to have to account for it by disowning it.  And you’re going to have to blame something or someone else.  …  …  You see? …

You will feel guilty … for doing something that can’t be done. … And knowing that it can’t be done, you’re going to persist anyway! …

Now, if you’re going to disown it, and place it out there, it means that every time you look into your brother’s eyes … you are not … going to remember God.  It isn’t that you will forget to.  It is that you have decided – actually – ahead of time – that you’re not going to let your brother … look at you and remember God, and let that have any effect on you!  Why?  Because if you did that, you would have to … come back into your Right Mind and acknowledge: ‘Yes, I have chosen to do something that is impossible.  And I know it’s impossible.  But I’m insisting on doing it anyway.  I am doing something unintelligent.  I am being stupid.’ … You see?  That’s what would have to happen … if you would let your brother look at you and remember God, and … bathe you … in his clear awareness of you. …

“If you did not feel guilty, you could not attack, for condemnation is the root of attack. … It is the judgment of one mind by another as unworthy of Love, and deserving of punishment.  But herein lies the split.  For the mind that judges perceives itself as separate from the mind being judged.”

‘Oh that so-and-so over there – that bitch, that bastard.  (small laugh)  They’re not like me.  We’ve got no connection.  They’re their own independent soul just like I am.  That’s … about the only thing we have in common.’  You see?   50:20:4

“For the mind that judges sees itself as separate from the mind being judged, … believing that by punishing another, it will escape punishment.”  So you blame the other one so that you don’t have to look at what you’re really doing.  And you think that by blaming the other one, you’ll escape the punishment – the penalty – that you will escape having to pay attention to the ever-present dissonance that you are actually experiencing because you’re trying to do the impossible, and deny some part of yourself, which is Forever Whole, and Forever Unchangeable – Forever Unalterable. 

And therefore, as long as you persist in trying to deny … Part or All of What You Divinely Are, you will feel … the insanity of the attempt!

And so, no matter how much you project it out and blame everyone else, and everything else, … the discomfort – the dissonance – will not disappear.  Why?  Because you haven’t abandoned any of the thinking and let yourself … sink back into … the normal use of your mind – the normal function of your mind, which is not thinking at all but is pure, unadulterated attentiveness … attention.

“All this is but the delusional attempt of the mind to” – what? – “deny itself … and escape the penalty of denial.”  Now, what needs to be clear here is that you usually think of penalty as something that is assigned some time after … the offense has occurred.  Somebody commits an offense.  Oh, he’s arrested.  He’s put in jail.  A court date is set.  Attorneys are hired.  They present their cases.  Guilt is decided, and then … a penalty is set.

But you see, the only penalty there is here is the instantaneous … experience of the fact that you can’t become insane.  And what I mean by that is that when you attempt to deny What You Are, which is an attempt to do the impossible, … the energy you bring … to bear upon ignoring some Part of your Self is … inseparably accompanied by … a dissonance – the discomfort that comes from using your mind wrongly.  It is simultaneous with the attempt.  And it is as strong as the attempt.  So if you … push against … an immovable object, you could say it presses back with equal force, because the attempt is an attempt to change something that can’t change.  So the penalty is simultaneous, and equal to the amount of energy you bring to the attempt (small laugh) to be out of your mind.

And what’s pressing back against your attempt to be out of your mind is your innate Sanity, that cannot ever be lost!

And so it’s always an immediate and equal standoff. …

You push again Truth … and you experience the impossibility of accompl- of having there be– of there being any effect of your pushing against Truth.  And it’s equal to the attempt. …  And the attempt is thwarted.  And, as long as you persist in the attempt, … it will be on- it will be an ongoing standoff.  Until what?

Until finally you arrive at a point where you say: ‘Whew.  It’s not worth the effort. … I’m not getting where I thought I would be going. This is too hard. … I’m wearing myself out.’  And you arrive at a point of giving up pushing against the Truth – or denying Something that can’t be gotten rid of.

And inevitably you stop … intellectually or mentally insisting upon … doing what can’t be done.  And your mind becomes still, and you have … a holy moment – a moment of holiness … because – in the absence of the noise of your thinking, the sounds of Heaven that have always been going on – in … your attention … can register.  56:52:0

So: “All this is but the delusional attempt of the mind to deny itself and escape the penalty of denial.  It is not an attempt to relinquish denial, but to hold on to it.  For it is guilt that has obscured the Father to you, and it is guilt that has driven you insane. …  The acceptance of guilt into the mind of God’s Son was the beginning of the separation, as the acceptance of the Atonement is its end.” …

If you only Knew … What You Were.  If you only knew Who You Really Are. … … And Knowing Who and What You Are is what lies in store for you – awaiting your willingness to let It in.  Because It’s Awesome.  Right now It is Awesome, as you … sit there, … as you listen. … … And the only thing that keeps you from experiencing It is that you think you have your identity pegged- pegged. …  … You think you’ve got it down.  Why?  Because you can explain it. …  And e- then, using other thoughts, you can justify your explanation.  And on and on and on. … …

Really … really begin … to devalue whatever – whatever definition of yourself you might be employing, whether it’s one that’s excellent or whether it’s one that’s awful.  It doesn’t matter … … it doesn’t matter what the explanation or the definition or the justification is – it doesn’t matter whether it’s a good one or a bad one.  Either way it’s a structure of thought, … and either way they blind you from the experience of the Awesomeness of What You Are As Mind – that is available to you when you abandon the thoughts and the definitions – and the concepts. … …

(small laugh) We’re sort of narrowing down the situation into its … fundamental simplicity.  Because – as I said – you all know you … have available to you right now the means … to be thought-less. 

You have the means.  Even if it’s only been momentary for you at times, you’ve had the experience of silence. … Of Be-ing without thought – beyond thought – however you might want to put it. …

What you didn’t know was that that silence is the threshold … of you coming back into your Right Mind … – and that therefore, it is in- it is of Infinitely greater value than any thought you might fill your mind with!

Continuing: “The world you see is the delusional system of those made ba- mad by guilt.  Look carefully at this world and you will realize that this is so.”  Just … just … oh!  Look in your own household or turn on the tv and look at the … insanity going on in your world.  And notice how the insanity that is being carried out … has its basis in mindsets – whether it’s national mindsets – whether it’s racial mindsets – whether it’s military mindsets – whether it’s political mindsets – what is being carried out is occurring because people are not being able to let go of the definitions and the rules that they have thought up, that they further think … constitutes their salvation. …

Notice this when you watch the news. … And then, take advantage of its transfer value, because sometimes it’s easier to see about someone else – what you can’t see about yourself, but which is absolutely true about yourself.  Recognizing that it’s true about yourself is the beginning of Sanity, because it’s the beginning of being able to take responsibility for what you’re doing. 

And once you take responsibility for it – once you own the fact that: ‘Hey. Yes, I am doing that too.’ – you’re in a position where you can change your mind.  …  Or, I’m going to say: change the use to which you’re putting your mind. … And practice letting go of thinking.  And practice quote ‘the silence’ unquote.

“Look carefully at this world, and you will realize that this is so.  For this world is the symbol of punishment.  And all the laws which seem to govern it are the laws of death.  Children are born into it through pain … and in pain.  Their growth is attended by suffering And they learn of sorrow and separation and death.   Their minds are trapped in their brain” – or at least that’s what they’re led to believe – “Their minds … are trapped in their brain, and its powers decline if their bodies are hurt.  They seem to love, yet they desert and are deserted.  They appear to lose what they love, perhaps the most insane belief of all.  And their bodies wither and gasp, and are laid in the ground and seem to be no more.  Not one of them but has thought that God is cruel. …  If this were the Real World, God would be cruel, for no Father could subject His Children to this as the price of salvation and be loving.  Love does not kill to save.  LOVE DOES NOT KILL TO SAVE.  If it did, attack would be salvation, And this is the ego’s interpretation.  Not God’s.”  …   …

So, here it is: “Only the world of guilt could demand this, for only the guilty could conceive of it.” …  … Got to be careful here. … because it makes it sound as though there is someone who could really be guilty.

The whole experience of guilt is a result … of a poor use – an improper use – of the mind. … Not the normal use of the mind.

And as long as the improper – or … not normal use of the mind is occurring – the description we just read of your experience of the world will persist … not because it’s actual, … but because … you’ve made a commitment … to making up definitions about what you’re seeing, – and you’ve chosen to … commit to those definitions; and ignore the fact that you’re making them up – ignore the fact that in committing to them you are choosing to refuse to see What Everything Really Is. …

And you’re doing it by means of the thoughts you’re thinking. …

And the answer … to the dilemma is simple!  Abandon the thinking and start listening.  Because when you listen for the Truth, what are you going to hear the Truth about?  You’re going to hear the Truth about everything that you’ve … been believing a lie about – and committing yourself to.

And so by listening, you won’t be transported out of … this cruel world.  You’ll be transported out of … the … context of thinking about Reality, in which everything is screwed up, into the Awareness of Reality As It Is.  And thereby, everything you have been seeing in a distorted fashion, you will now see clearly.  It will not constitute a loss of anything meaningful, but the regaining of the Actual, Divine, Holy, Awesome capital M Meaning of everything you had applied an awful, little, tiny, demeaning definition to, in at-  in an attempt to secure an identity … that you could never have privately … all alone. … …

Now, … the subject tonight is not … serious.  Nor is it something for you to become depressed about or worried about. … I have expressed the ideas with excellent logic, which your thinking mind can appreciate.     But the logic and the clarity with which I’ve shared it … gives you a trigger … for moving beyond your logic, and consider … a new way … of Be-ing.  And, perhaps, … even a curiosity to try to employ listening … rather than thinking! …   …

… What we’ve been discussing tonight is essential to … what we’re going to be discussing as we move further on.  And so, I encourage you all to review it, … … because of the benefit it holds for you … between now and next week.

Mm.  I have extended to you an Excellent Gift: a Gift of Excellence – the Function of Which is to uncover your Excellence, so that you might consider It a possibility, rather than an impossibility. …  … I Love You All. … … And I look forward to Be-ing with You next week. …   …   …

Don’t be afraid of the Truth.  …   “Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall set you free.”   And let Me just say that doesn’t mean: Ye shall know the Truth that you already know, and the Truth shall set you free.  It means: Ye shall Know the Truth – What It Really Is.  And in the aha! and the insight and the revelation that follows, you will be set free.

Let your desire be … to know the Truth … that’s greater than any of your present concepts of Truth. … Okay.

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PAUL.  Next week, for one week only, we will be having the Gathering - the study group on Sunday at 8 p.m.  Next Sunday at 8 p.m., and then we will move back to Saturday nights at 8.

Okay.  Before we have our quiet time, let’s all get on the same page.  If you’re in the Sparkly Book, it’s page 279, the fourth line.  It begins: “Adam’s sin …”  279, fourth line.   If you’re in the Second Edition, it’s page 236, paragraph 3, line 6.  If you’re in the First Edition, it’s page 220, third paragraph, sixth line.  And if you’re reading from the JCIM, it’s page 117, third paragraph, the end of the third line.

I’ll go through that one more time:  Sparkly Book, page 279, fourth line.  It begins: “Adam’s sin …”  Second Edition, page 236, paragraph 3, line 6.  First Edition, page 220, third paragraph, sixth line.  And the JCIM, page 117, third paragraph, end of third line. 

Okay.  And one more reminder: next week’s study group will be on Sunday night at 8 p.m.

Okay.  … Let’s take a few moments to be quiet together.

Quiet Time

ANSWER.  Okay.  Good evening.

AUDIENCE.  Responses.

ANSWER.  And welcome to everyone who’s joining us on the Internet. …

… Well how many of you … had an interesting time this week … observing this thinking?  Let’s say: How many of you … didn’t succeed at getting through the week without noticing how you use your thoughts to one degree or another? …

How many of you found out that … your thoughts … are always from the past? … If you – I’m not going to say think about it – if you pay attention, you’ll realize that your thoughts are always a rehearsal of something already known.  Not one of you has ever had an original, brand-new thought.  …  

That which is new … is described by the word ‘insight’ or as an aha! – or as revelation.  That’s when something new is experienced.  And once the something new has happened, you can then think about it. … 

That should be a big eye opener.  Whenever you are thinking, you are rehearsing something from the past. …  If you live in your thinking, you’re living in the past.  You’re not even living in the present.  You are thinking … about whatever is confronting you. You observe it – not with your mind – but with your thinking.  ‘Oh, that’s a bald-headed eagle.’  ‘Oh, that’s a swallow.’  ‘Oh, that’s a fir tree.’   ‘Oh, it looks like rain.’  …

You’re always looking with your thinking.  You’re always looking with what you already think you know.

Again, that means that your general method of being – or of operating – is one of living in the past.  That – in itself – should impel you to … question the way you be, presently; because you don’t want to be trapped in the past.  You don’t want your very existence to be … an ever-occurring rehearsal … of that which is old. 

… … I mean, after all, when you have fem- family members who are … getting into their senior years, and all they do is begin to talk about what happened in 1945 or when they me Joe and what they did on their first date.  And every time you get together, you hear some … tidbit about the past, you say: ‘Oh, they’re beginning to suffer from senility.  And you don’t feel good about it … so why feel good about yourselves, when you – even when you think you are functioning in the present – are … simply rehearsing the past.  …  …

… Now we’ve talked, … and talked, and talked about … looking at everything with fresh eyes, looking at everything with innocent eyes – meaning absent the influence of past experience, past concepts, past convictions … and being curious to see the More of what God is Be-ing right there … than what you’re presently seeing.  … …   It’s wise counsel.  …  …

Now, … change of subject. … Who are rules for?  You all know that rules exist, but who are rules for?  You all know that rules exist, but who are rules for?  Rules are for those who have forgotten how to Love. … Rules are an artificial means of establishing and maintaining order and harmony, when order and harmony … do not naturally occur.  …  What don’t they naturally occur?  Because you’ve forgotten how to Love.  How did you forget how to Love?  By getting a divorce from your Father.  ‘I’d rather … see it my way.  I’d rather do it my way. … I want to be the determiner … of what everything is.  I want to be the determiner- determiner of what happens.  I want to … try my hand at being the authority in my life.’  And so, in effect, you pulled the plug, disconnected yourself from your Source.  Forgot Who You were.  Lost … the experience of … the Movement of Love … through you that the Father is Be-ing by Presence-ing Himself right there where you are.  And you found yourself … without Natural Harmony.

But you had just had the experience of harmony … so quickly you decided what you needed to do to re-establish what had disappeared, by your own hand – by your own authority.  And the only way you could do it was by establishing a mutual agreement with someone else, as to … what good behavior was constituted of – and that … everyone had better abide by this so there’s a certain degree of peace and security for everyone.  … So structures – ideas – were brought together in structures or patterns … to be abided by.  They were called … manners. … They were called codes of behavior. … They were called protocols, by which to live.  And to date, mmm … a certain amount of harmony has been established.  It fluctuates.  But a certain amount of harmony has been established.  But … but you know what?  It’s a harmony that depends entirely upon mutual agreements.  And if the mutual agreements are abandoned, harmony ceases.

So, even when there’s a certain modicum of harmony, it’s not really real.  It’s simply the current evidence of quote ‘good behavior’.  That’s not … security.  That’s not stability.  And it wouldn’t do Me a bit of good to point this out to you … because the Truth of what I’m saying is unsettling.  I’m saying It in this context:  that there is a natural Harmony.  There is a natural Order, because there is Love.  And there is Love because there is a God.  There is Something beyond whatever tiny authority each of you has … created out of whole cloth – out of imagination – and convinced yourself that you have.

And it’s your Birthright to be experiencing this Love.  It is natural for you for this Love to flow through you because you’re undefended against It, because you are willing to be without limits or boundaries. 

…  …  And it’s time for you to re-access It.  It’s time for you to stop … suffering in ignorance of What You Are and what your Function is.  It’s time for you to become free of rules.  Oh boy, the ego can have a heyday with that.

… A lot of new age thinking does revolve around the idea that rules are … opinions – rules aren’t real. … And that one must … learn to let go and move freely, and just be whatever you feel like being.

But see, that still doesn’t embrace the fact that there’s a God.  In other words, there is some Universal Absolute – some Universal, Consistent … Movement of Be-ing, that is so Pure that It is without conflict – without opposites.  And for this reason, It is Eternal.  And for this reason there is Something going on for you to have a misperception of! 

And you will forever have Something to have a misperception of because Reality is Permanent.  Reality is Eternal. …  You have to arrive at a point where you stop valuing your perception … of Reality – of This that is forever changeless, but forever new!  …  

… Now, when I’m talking to you, I’m not talking to who you think you are. … And I’m not talking to the … patterns of thoughts … that you have adopted, in order to define yourself and define your world.

I’m talking to the You That You Are.  I’m talking to the You that is … the Place where the Movement of God is happening!  I’m talking … to God right there, where each of you is. …

You don’t think That’s what’s there, … but I persist in talking to the You that is there, and telling you that It is there. …  And I will continue to encourage you … to stop denying It, and to open the door just a crack … through the use of curiosity. …

Now, what does this mean?  This means that I am standing as an Advocate for you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and you, and … everyone watching.  I am standing as an Advocate for … the Real You. … I am standing in a Place of … confirming and reconfirming to you a Self that you are inclined to deny the Existence of; a Self that you don’t believe you can really Be.  Why?  Because … you’re so damned … attached to the definition you’ve made up about yourself – to your thoughts. …  …

…  And what am I doing?  I’m setting an example.  What I am doing is showing you what you need to be doing.  You … need to be standing as an advocate for your brother and sister. …  …  Being willing … to not be deterred by your brother’s or sister’s insistence that they are nothing but their accumulated thoughts … and their insistence upon operating on the basis of the past … themselves!  … 

How many of you – during this past week – wanted to not think but to look into your brother’s eyes – with innocence – and listen for – be open to the Revelation – or the Experience of the Truth about your brother – and had your brother … figuratively speaking – spit in your face – or treat you really badly?  And how many of you found that, when a brother or a sister was behaving in a toally gross way, that you immediately reverted to thinking – immediately reverted to your … pre-existing definitions … of them?

‘Well, of course.  What could I- what could I have expected?  Of course they’re behaving this way.  That is the way they are.  And they have a history of behaving this way.’ …

Well that- what was that?  What just happened? … You obviously weren’t being still, were you?  There wasn’t some silence, was there?  There wasn’t a willingness to stand there in the face of the flak coming toward you … there wasn’t in you in the face of the flak coming toward you … … a state of dis-belief – a willingness to not validate … the flak; … and not validate it with a history to back it up, and convict your brother or sister further – and solidify the picture. …

When a brother or sister behaves in a way that seems to threaten your peace, … you will automatically shift into thinking. … You will automatically shift into the past and join them. …  They in their past, you in your past, thinking that you’re present with each other in the present instead of totally embroiled in your own private pictures – and your own private thoughts and definitions!

What’s a definition?  It’s a thought that’s been rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed until it’s dug a groove, so to speak. … And then it sits there, even if you’re not thinking … it. …

… … You have rules and definitions already in place about everybody and everything – even things you don’t know about.

I mean, you wouldn’t say that that was possible, but the minute anybody presents something new to you that you haven’t heard about before, watch and see … (small laugh) what fraction of a second it takes for you to have an opinion about it.  Just a fraction of a second. 

… (laughing) You know what?  If you’re sued for one reason or another, and you have to go into court, … you seek an attorney.  What does that mean?  You seek an advocate to stand with you in order to bring out the truth, so that you’re not convicted falsely. …  And that one has to be willing to stand as an advocate for you, no matter how much argument regarding your guilt is brought forth – no matter how convincingly it is put …  …  no matter whether the arguments against you are dishonest and evil in intent, or whether they are not really that bad but are demeaning about you.  You need someone who is not going to be swayed by false arguments stated … beautifully – stated well – stated intelligently – stated logically. …  …

You are not orphans!  …  You ate not what you think you are.  You are not bodies, getting old, deteriorating – subject to deterioration.  You are not something that started with a sperm and an egg.  You are not a physical development in process.  You are – again – Mind.  You are … the Conscious Awareness in which all experience is going on, including the experience of body.

Now, I’m repeating myself, but you need to hear the repetition, because it’s so easy for you to slip back into … your thinking.

Now, if a th- if thinking is a rehearsal of the past, then it means that thinking is always a form of habit. …  …  You’re not inclined to change your habits.  You’re not inclined to abandon your habits.  You need help.  You need encouragement.  And that’s what I’m here for.  And that’s what the Holy Spirit is here for. … That’s why- that’s what that which is nothing more than your Right Mind is here for.

That Which You Divinely Are is present and active, right now – on behalf of … unrutting you from your thinking! …  …

How many of you – during this past week – found your thinking … getting you into trouble over and over and over and over again?  Something would happen, and instead of staying in that Place where you held your Vision innocently, you slipped into … a stream of thoughts – a rehearsal of the past – that always put someone else at a disadvantage.  And then, remembering what we had talked about last week, you realized: ‘Oh boy.  I did it again.  I abandoned my Peace.  I abandoned my valuing the Silence in Which Love – the Vision of Christ – the Father’s Perfect Vision of Everything – could occur.  And so, I’ve made myself miserable, and I’m going to stop now and get back into my Peace.’  And you got back into your Peace, and perspective returned.  The situation that had caused you to lose your mind … hasn’t changed, but you’re able to look at it …  …  without getting into your knee-jerk, habitual responses. 

And in the process of being willing to stay with the situation from your Peace, something else happened … that caused you to feel vulnerable again (finger snap) and just like that, you’re back thinking!  You’re back being angry.  You’re back justifying … your being angry … and convicting the one who … caught you off-guard, of guilt. …

How many of you had this happen multiple times – enough times that you’re now able to look back, without judgment on yourself, but with the clarity that allows you to see how it happens.  The mechanics of it, so that you can look at it a little bit more objectively … and thereby, more easily avoid it, … when the next … trigger comes.

For many it’s been a week of a great deal of growth – strenuous as it might have been.  But, of course, what made it strenuous was the ease with which you slipped back into the habit of thinking … and valuing and validating the thinking.

Now, … it should have become obvious to you that – in the process of validating your thinking, and valuing it – you … became an absolute block to healing.  You became an absolute block to redemption.  You become that which reinforced the problem.  And that’s not what this is all about.  And it isn’t what you want. …

That … awareness has value – because it helps you see how unproductive your habit of thinking is.  Not only did your habit of thinking confirm the problem, it caused you to feel misery. …  It caused you to feel as though you were in the middle of an absolutely untenable situation which you had no choice about – no authority to do anything about.  It caused you to be … trapped. …  …  It didn’t serve you well. 

And you need to be willing to look at it.  You need to be able to see it so you can say – with genuineness: ‘I don’t want this experience.  I don’t value this experience.  I am not going to do again what I’ve just done, that made me miserable.’ 

Now, the likelihood is that you will do it again, but when the resolve is there from a place of genuineness in you, your next response – your next foray into … the habit of thinking won’t catch you as significantly.  And you won’t stay in it as long!  And you will step out of it.  And you will begin to … establish a new kind of experience where … using thinking occurs less and less – and each time, for a shorter and shorter duration.    …

… You know what?  Mind Itself is a Movement.  Mind is a very – for lack of better words – fluid thing.  It’s not made out of matter.  It doesn’t move in accordance with laws of physics.  It moves with utter grace and fluidity.  And it always moves … as the manifestation or Visibility of the Movement of God, Which is … ineffably and awesomely beautiful. …

You are Mind.  …  That’s not what you think, but That Is What You Are. 

And there needs to be – as I’ve said before – a shift from body identification to mind identification.  You need to start identifying with Mind – your mind. …

Now you’ll find that your thinking – contrary to what I’ve just said – defines everything as an object, including your brother and sister.  …  And so you treat them as though they are not a Movement of Fluidity.  And so, when you take rules – rules of behavior – rules of … etiquette – protocols – and you apply them to this object that you have made – in your mind – of something that is an utterly fluid … uninhibited Movement of Harmony and Order, you’re bringing what I’m going to call two different orders of reality into play that don’t blend, because One of the orders of reality that you’re bringing into play is Reality Itself – with a capital R.  And the other order of reality that you’re bringing into play is unreality – is nothing more than your (amused voice) bad habits – your ignorance that you are committed to – and believe in – and maintain with all your heart, and all your might.

And so you bring these two things that … don’t have any means of interfacing with each other, and you try to apply one to the other! …  And there can’t be any resolution that way.  The only way there’s going to be a resolution is when you stop addressing – when you look into your brother’s eyes – the object you have conceived him to be! …  And instead, … you insist upon holding yourself to the … goal, I’m going to say; the intent to see nothing less than What Is Really There, so that you don’t bind them or convict them to … a point that they couldn’t possibly exist at, and then try to enforce it.  Because that isn’t standing as an advocate for them.  And that will not … constitute a connection with What They Really Are that can trigger a sudden shift of perception, in which they abandon] their commitment to their ignorant thoughts about themselves. …

… You think that you look out there and the world is full of what?  People.  People.  Objects. People.  Did you ever think that maybe you’re looking out and seeing … and I don’t want you to hold onto these words, but I’m going to put it this way: that you are seeing works in process – works in progress – movements that are truly unfettered by … … things that don’t really exist?  If you can’t look out at your brother and sister and see a movement in process, and all you see is an object that you have defined in your mind.  And then you apply rules of behavior that objects are supposed to operate according to, you will not be a presence that is an agent for change – … because … you’re caught in the unreality of your own definitions of- you’re caught in the unreality of your thinking.  You’re caught in a freeze-dried frame – one frame out of a total movement – a forever unending movement.  And you’re saying: ‘This is what I see.  This is what is there.’  And all the time, the movement has continued to identify God.

Now, you do this to your brother.  Why?  Because you’re doing it to yourself.  And you don’t want to look at the fact that you’re doing it to yourself. …  …  You are holding yourselves to your own made-up definitions.  You … think a certain way about yourself.  And I promise you that whether you think of yourself as good and positive and full of self-appreciation or whether you think of yourself in a self-depreciating way, in a- in a constant state of self-attack, either way is not valid because you’re thinking about yourself.  You’re caught in thoughts!  Thoughts … are pictures … not the Real Thing. 

And the moment you can begin to see this and then remember: ‘Wait a minute.  I am mind – not body, not an object, not a thing to think about.  I am mind – that which is in forever, constant movement that is … unfettered, and always reflecting the forever Newness of the Movement of God, because God is … Mind – with a capital M.  …

…  You’ve got to be willing … to consciously choose for … letting go of … your thoughts … about yourself.  …   How many of you have sat down with a … photo album and as you go you se- through it, you say: ‘Oh!  There is was when I was sixteen.’  You’re showing your kids.  ‘And there I was when I met your dad.  Oh and there I am … mm … swimming in Lake Tahoe.  I’ll never forget that summer.  Wow!  It was really something.’  As though you were that object – in that picture – in that place. …  

… When you were the Conscious Awareness in which the experience was going off – when the picture was taken.  And right now, as you look at the pictures, you are that Conscious Awareness which is not caught in any of those freeze-dried frames, … still unfettered. 

What does it say in the Course?  It says: I am not a body.  I am still free … to Be as God created me.  God created me … to Be … Be-ing – Movement – unfettered.  Movement of Grace and Harmony and Awesome Beauty and All of the Universe – All That Is is embraced in this Movement of me.  You see?

You … are in a process … of … freeing fr- yourself from … your addiction to freeze-dried frames to-  You are freeing yourself from the past that you hold in place by means of thoughts … that can reflect nothing but the past.  And you think that those thoughts identify you, when that which identifies you is the Conscious Awareness in which All of this is going on –now. 

You are the Ultimate. …

‘Oh.  Oh yeah. (small laugh)  Lookin’ through the … photo album.  And there – there I am, … mm … mm … you know, waiting for bail to be set, uh, you know.  …  And … and there I am with my bails bondman, as we came out of the jailhouse.  And … and, you know, Harriet was waiting for me in the car, and … we had to get back, you know, with … with the other guys, you know, because we were trying to divide up the loot, before we were caught.  And … oh yeah, and … and there I am … uh, after I got out of the penitentiary –

AUDIENCE. (laughing)

ANSWER.  – You see?  Um.  I doesn’t matter whether the pictures are about bad things or … swimming in Lake Tahoe – having a good time and a wonderful summer! 

AUDIENCE.  (more laughing)

ANSWER.  You’re not the picture!  You’re not any of the pictures.  And neither are … your brothers and sisters.  …   You know what?  You gotta through the … photo album away.  And you gotta say: ‘Hey lookit me. (audience laughter)  What you see is what you get.  (audience laughter)  I’m not anything else in another time. (single laugh)

And you know what?  I know that what you’re seeing isn’t even what you think it is.  I know that this is the Visibility and Tangibility.  It is what identifies … – a Divine Movement.  49:33:6

I know that this I call a body is nothing but an idea.  I didn’t say a thought.  It’s nothing but an idea in the Mind of God, which is perfectly intangible, but experience-able.  And it is not bound by laws of physics … – just as your body … is the same not bound by physics – not waiting for a disease to advance and take its toll.  Not even waiting for healing to occur.  In other words, it isn’t a thing waiting for bad things to happen – or for good things to happen.  It’s not any definition that you coul apply to it.  It is – right now – the Visibility and Tangibility of the Moving … of intangible Order and Harmony, which – although It is intangible – is perfectly experience-able.

… And It is what you’re experiencing right now, but you’re experiencing It through some definitions.  You’re experiencing It through some … thought patterns that stand in the way of your experiencing What It Truly Is.

Now, I am your Advocate, telling you How It Is, even though It’s very different from what you have believed It is.  And you need someone to be able to tell you that, else you don’t have … a chance of spontaneously … getting out of your habit.

And, your brother has need of you to stand as his advocate.  Your sister – … everything has need of you to stand as its adequate- advocate, … illuminating what the Truth is, even if it’s met with disbelief – even if it’s met with argument … even if it’s met with … unpleasant responses. …

So all of this is very important.  …

Now, let’s go to the book.

I’m backing up a couple of lines: “Love does not kill to save.  If it did, attack would be salvation, and this is the ego’s interpretation, not God’s.  Only the world of guilt could demand this, for only the guilty could conceive of it.”  …

… This spirit of the law saves.  The letter of the law kills. … The letter of the law does not embody Love – compassion.  It’s hard-nosed.  It’s factual, it says.  And it’s absolute.  But without Love to temper the letter of the law, law does not fulfill its function. …

Well, the argument could be put, if we do not abide by the letter of the law, we will be lost.  And the law says: “An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.”  So pluck out that eye! … That one took a life, … take his.  That’s the letter of the law.  And because the letter of the law is abided by because it is believed that that is one’s salvation – or society’s salvation – it expresses the idea that … salvation … … – expressed as the letter of the law being carried out – is – at the bottom line – really love.  It’s love because it saves society. … You see?

“Love does not kill to save.  If it did, attack would be salvation, and this is the ego’s interpretation, not God’s! Only the world of guilt could demand this, for only the guilty could conceive of it. 

“Adam’s sin could have touched none of you had you not believed that it was the Father Who drove him out of paradise.”

Okay everybody, let’s back up.  How many of you believe that?  You … know about Adam and Eve, right?  And you think – if you are a believer – that there was a beginning to creation.  And there was Adam and Eve, and they were in the Garden of Eden.  And certain events occurred and with-… and … what happened?  One of two individuals said: ‘You know, our Father said not to do this, you know what?  Let’s try it our way.’  You see?  That’s the beginning of getting a divorce from the Father. 

‘I’d rather do it my way.’  But … but you know what?  It takes two to join together … in order to validate it.  There has to be the one that says: ‘I’d rather see it my way.  I’d rather do what I think … I ought to do.’

Well, that’s just a spurious thought.  That’s just a thought that hangs … in the ethers.  But if there’s someone else to entice into joining in that intent, now … there are two believers with a single intent – a joined intent.   And the thought can seem to become valid. …

Well, it’s interesting, isn’t it, that it was Eve who tempted Adam.  I mean we all know that men tempt women, don’t we?  We all know that men can lead women down the merry path to oblivion.

But it’s interesting that it was a woman who was … the temptress, right?  Well, when that story got written down, (laughing) who was it written by?  It was written by a man, and – or men.  And, these men already believed that they were orphans, right?  So they’re going to see their world in the- in terms of conflict and temptation, and … the need for mutual agreements, and so on.

But wait a minute. … That there were objects in time, somewhere in the distant – or the far-reaches of the past – that did certain things, is … not true.  It’s a thought.  It’s a thought, that’s been fleshed out with details.  The fact is that the Adam and Eve story is like the story I’ve been sharing with you about orphans. … And I’ve also made it clear that none of you are orphans even though you believe you are!

Well, likewise there never was a temptress and there never was a tempted. … because no-one, not even Adam and Eve, ever stopped Be-ing What God was Be-ing right there, even though they believed differently.

So, they believed differently about themselves and they said: ‘Okay!  We’re going to make a new rule.  It’s okay to eat … the fruit from this tree, and we’re going to do it.’  And they did it.

(Sound that sounds like ‘plunk’)  They unplugged themselves.  Right.  They said: ‘I’d rather do it my way.  Father, … You’re not governing things any more.’ (Sound)  They pulled the plug out.  No more juice.  No more connection with the Father. … 

And they experienced – suddenly – what it meant to be orphans.  ‘Oh!  God kicked me out of the Kingdom of Heaven.’  See?  Total irresponsibility there.  They didn’t say: ‘Oop, we pulled the plug, and all we need to do is plug the plug back in.’ … You see? 

Or: ‘All we have to do is remember that at any time we want, we can plug the plug back in.’ … But no. … They blocked out the fact that they pu- they pulled the plug, and disassociated themselves from the Conscious Experience  of Reality As It Is.

They blocked it out, and then they said: ‘The Father … kicked us out of the Kingdom of Heaven.’  Well, that’s just … an allegorical way of saying what I’ve been saying allegorically by describing you as … well I’m going to call it naturalized orphans.

You know you have naturalized citizens.  Those are citizens who weren’t really citizens before, but through certain processes of the law, they can become citizens of a country.  And so they’re called naturalized citizens.  And you’ve all become naturalized orphans.  You’ve been- no you haven’t been granted, but you’ve granted yourselves … the right to have an experience that isn’t possible for you to have!

And you believe the gift you gave yourself so completely that you are unwilling to consider any other possibility.  ‘Oh, no,’ you say, ‘I’m not totally against it.’  But when I sit here and say that right here, right now, as you sit here, you are the full-blown Christ, you can’t believe it.

You say: ‘I can’t wrap my mind around it.  Whatever!’  There’s an unwillingness –there’s a reluctance – you say an inability.

Bullshit!  I’m telling you it’s bullshit.  You have the capacity because you are the capacity. 

So … “Ad- Adam’s sin could have touched none of you had you not bel- had you not believed that it was the Father Who drove him out of paradise.  For in that belief, the knowledge of the Father was lost”.  When the plug was pulled out, “the knowledge of the Father was lost, since only those who do not understand Him” – the Father – “could believe it.”

So … so let’s be very clear:  That there was an Adam and an Eve, who had an original idea. ‘Let’s do it our way.  Let’s eat of this tree … even though we told- we were told not to.  Even though you have that story, and even though it’s believed that it’s happened over a- many, many thousands of years ago – at the beginning when creation occurred, and centuries and centuries and centuries have passed, and everybody has been wandering in the wilderness, having been cast out. 

No!  Those are just ideas floating around that you’ve taken hold of and validated … and behaved as though they were true, … when Adam and Eve were then – and are now – the full-blown Christ – just as you are – Mind – in which the experience of Universe is going on, and in which time is not going on. 

And so you could say that all the st- although the story says they were caught in an i- in a thought  And everyone else, down through the centuries, has remained caught in the thought.  And you’re caught in the thought. It’s not true! … Because they couldn’t ever (small laugh) pull the plug!  You know why?  Because you’re hard-wired to God!  You are inseparable.  And what you think you’ve done, you haven’t accomplished.

But you see how it is- do you see how it is … that it could be believed that God drove them out of the Garden … just the same way you believe that you are in the quote ‘the human condition’ unquote – and nothing Divine is truly True about you … even though you wish it could be. …

The Father has not kicked you out.  You have never become disconnected from the Father.  You are your Father are still One.  And you are not bodies, objects, freeze-dried pictures … material forms.  You are still free … to Be – Be Be-ing – Movement  – ineffable, … unrestricted, unfettered Movement of Love.  To Be as God Created You – as God Is Be-ing you right now.

‘Well I don’t have the evidence of It.  You keep talking about this, and I keep not seeing the evidence of It!’

Okay.  I agree with you.  You’re still not seeing It, but It’s there to be seen.  And It’s your Birthright to be … seeing and experiencing It.  And you’ve got to keep inviting It, because … all that your not seeing It means is that you’re still caught in the thought!  You’re still caught in thinking about … the Truth of You.

And the answer is to take the time – frequently – to become still, so that you might become what seems to you to be a giant emptiness – because I promise you something: Emptiness is an invitation to  filling.  Emptiness is an invitation … it’s an invitation to be filled.  It’s a request to be filled.  And when you are not introducing thinking … or definitions or concepts or protocols, or rules, … what will fill you is really the only Thing that’s really there to fill you, which is– well I’m going to say the Holy Spirit – that which is nothing more than your Right Mind – and … the Conscious Experience of God. …  …

…  Some of you, I know, wonder why I spend so much time talking about you.  This is supposed to be … an ACIM study group.  We’re … we’re supposed to be here learning about … da dum … A Course In Miracles!  Well, friends, (small laugh) this book is about you.  And if you don’t realize it’s about you, put it down, … or realize it. …

It’s not … a subject.  It’s not an object, …  called a subject to learn about – a subject to … memorize – a subject to … incorporate the knowledge of … within you.

Man, this is about … your mind.  This is about you … shifting … from ignorance into the concrete experience of Knowing the Truth – experiencing the Truth – and becoming free … of sin, sickness and death.

And, I’ll say it again: Your brother and sister are the means of your escape from your bondage!  …  Not … the brother or sister you think your brother or sister is, … but the brother and sister who are – and never stopped Be-ing the Presence of God.  And their being in your life – giving you the opportunity … to abandon your definitions and your thoughts … and your habitual way of embracing them … around the neck … They are your-  they are your opportunity to learn to let go of them – to let go of them by abandoning the thoughts that you are holding them to in your mind! … …

…  And the only way … that you’re going to be able to do that is … if you’re willing … to consider that they are not guilty of being something less than the Son or Daughter of God – and  … inseparably … if that is the Truth about you.  And you must release yourself from the definitions you are binding yourself with – the thoughts.   …  …

I’m not going to give you something new to put on your refrigerator this week.  Keep that note up there: Thinking is not the normal use of your mind.

And then, … why don’t you say – like they do in the South: ‘What the hey! … I’m gonna try not thinking.’

I Love You – every single One of You. …  …  And I … I look forward this week to rejoicing when I see light bulbs go on in your mind … that are the evidence of insight occurring – not thinking; insight … that takes you out of thinking, even if it’s only momentary.  Because even if the experience does not last, you cannot return to the place you were before it happened.

I’m full of It tonight.  But I must stop.  I want you to know that I’m full of It all week.  And I’m full of It standing with you.  And you can invite Me … to spill over onto you – directly!  …   There’s a reason you have an Advocate.  And the reason is that you are the Son of God – believing that you’re not!  And this is … a humungous – a universally humungous impossibility. …   …   And the impossibility of it provides you with everything you need, in order to escape its bondage. … 

Good night.  …   …

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