[quiet time]

Tonight, I have a specific purpose.  And that is to remind each of you of how important you are, you holy Sons of God, you holy Daughters of God.

I don’t mean important in an egotistical way, I mean important in terms of real value.  You’re not orphans, you’re not just human beings, you are holy Sons and Daughters of God and your Being has Meaning.

Your existence means something to everything and every one.

Sometimes you forget this.  Sometimes you think you’re just a little piss-ant mortal—a nothing, a nobody.  But it’s just a belief!  It’s not the truth!  It’s what you may have convinced yourselves of but you have convinced yourselves of an illusion.

Now, we’ve talked before about the fact that there are no private thoughts.  There is no private anything.  God is infinite.  God is omnipresent.  Therefore, Mind—the infinite Mind that God is—is omnipresent, infinite . . . that’s why there’s nothing private.  And everything in the Mind of God, which is Creation, which is ever-unfolding, is related to everything else, you might say, in the infinite Mind of God, in the omnipresence, the all oneness of Mind—infinite variety, but all one . . . infinite variety, but all equally related and involved and meaningful to every other part. 

There simply is no privacy.  Nothing separated off.

Hey, we have been talking for a number of years as we’ve been going through the Course about the fact that everybody thinks they’ve gotten a divorce from their Father and that they are independent agents, but it just aint so.  And coming out of that belief is what Waking up is about . . . it’s what the Course is about . . . it’s what your purpose is at the present time.

Now, why am I saying this?   Because on the world-scene right now in the last two days, there is a situation or a circumstance or a set of circumstances that are going on and evolving and developing and growing and becoming more confused and on and on.

And you know what?   If any of you are sitting watching the television hour after hour or for any length of time, and watching the disaster as it’s called, the tragedy as it’s called . . . the whatever words are being used to describe it, you will find your belief in the allness of God to be challenged.  You will find your confidence that God is all and that God is omnipotent, you will find that challenged.  And you will find yourself depressed.  And you know what?  There are no private thoughts . . . important point.

Watch what you’re letting your mind be used for.  And watch what meanings it’s giving everything.  Because it isn’t just your puny little private thought in the privacy of your living room or your kitchen or wherever you might have a TV to watch or the radio to listen to.

Now, another thing that we’ve learned as we’ve gone through the Course is, that you cannot witness for yourself.  You must witness for your Brother and your Brother must witness for you.  Another very important point.

Now, those in Japan who are experiencing the brunt of the earthquake and the tsunami, are by virtue of the total disruption of their daily lives, finding their confidence challenged.  They find themselves called upon to have faith and hope when everything says it’s hopeless and they’re not able to witness well for themselves—I do not mean that in any demeaning way.  I am acknowledging that there is a call for healing, that there is a call for love that is being felt by everyone there.

There is a call for every single one of you who studies the Course to bear witness—witness for your Brother and Sister.  It’s your job to remember what it’s hard for them to remember under the circumstances.

What?  “Our home is gone.  My grandparents . . . we don’t know if they’re still alive.  One of my children I think is alright but I don’t know for sure.  My husband is out looking for them and he’s been gone for the last day.  I don’t know what might have happened to him.  There is no water, there is no food, there is no warmth . . . I’m alone.  I’m alone in the emptiness of no routine, of no regularity, of no ability to turn on the faucet and have water come out and some of them don’t even have a faucet to turn on anymore.  Nothing dependable is occurring.  Everything is up in the air.”

It’s a lonely place to be.  It’s a lonely experience to have. 

But you see, here’s what I’m conveying tonight:  Because there are no private thoughts, because there is no such thing as privacy in the middle of omnipresence, they are not alone.  And you, knowing that your thoughts are not private, can use your mind in a way that witnesses for your Brothers and Sisters who find it difficult to witness for themselves on their best behalf.

“Oh-h . . . but I’m so far away . . . you know.”

Well, let’s make you feel a little bit closer, perhaps.  We receive letters from people in Japan.  We receive support from people in Japan who enjoy the meetings we have and enjoy the website.  And so we have what are usually exceptionally beautifully packaged envelopes, communications from people there, which gives us a feeling of connection that we might not otherwise have.

Now, you know, that I have held in my hands—and this is Paul speaking—that I have held in my hands things that people in Japan who love Raj, have sent.  And so I know I have a connection and it’s not as distant and remote as it otherwise would have been.  And you now know that there are those who enjoy the work that is being done and support it and communicate with us.

And so, you are joined.  You all are joined in a real connection with people in Japan—and this is Raj—they are not remote from you.  They are not different from you and they need the right use of your Mind to be practiced by you to witness for them so that they—because there are no private thoughts—might   feel the presence of love that will inspire them, which will provide a feeling of connection for them when they seem to be in lonely isolation.

Now, it’s a shame that students of the Course are not more familiar with the practice of healing and the expectation of healing and how to be a participant, let’s say, an effective agent for change with respect to healing. 

And you know, the greatest thing you can do relative to the healing of a situation is to have arrived at a place in you where you have been enlightened, you have been in-filled with an awareness that healing is possible.  It’s not irrelevant to Awakening.  And that it is the Will of the Father for perfection—the perfection of His Creation—to be the only thing experienced by all of His Creation and therefore, that you can hold a position of facilitation in healing.

Now the simple fact is that the misunderstanding—the false belief that is embodied in the dynamics in Japan right now—the false belief is that there is something called, “matter.” 

Now we’ve talked before about the fact—I’ve gone to some length to illuminate the idea—that what you call matter is a misperception of Spirit, a God element, you might say.  Spirit is the substance of God’s Creation.  All of Creation is made up of ideas of God’s.  God has an idea and that idea includes everything within Itself to be manifest and function perfectly.

That doesn’t seem to be the way matter works.  Matter seems to work in an organic way.  And one thing is dependent upon another thing, is dependent upon another thing and on and on and on.  And so if something goes wrong here it detrimentally affects something there. 

All of you are familiar with that in regard to your body because you can seem to have a blockage in one place and it seems to cause a distress in another place which causes deterioration somewhere else and it complexifies and complicates itself until you eventually die because of it.  When the simple fact is, that the substance of your body is Spirit—God’s stuff—and it is incapable of embodying anything not intended by the Father.

Now, that conflicts with the general consensus about the world by science.  But the fact is that healings occur.  Healings occur daily around the globe.  And when they occur, the seeming connection and detrimental responses of various aspects of the body suddenly stop having detrimental responses—the connection, the detrimental connection stops—and for no apparent reason, the situation resolves itself.  And it isn’t, and I’ve said this before, it isn’t because matter has somehow been changed—forced to be different.  It’s because it never was matter, it always was Spirit and in the willingness to see a miracle, in the willingness to see everything stop functioning as though it were matter, the bondage that Spirit has been held to by ignorance, is released and healing occurs.

Now you, through the proper use of your Mind, can witness for your Brothers and Sisters in Japan or anywhere on behalf of radical healing.

Everyone says, “Well, there was an earthquake and then there was a tsunami.  And the tsunami impacted the power-plants and the cooling of the power-plants was damaged and so now . . .” 

See how one thing is impacting another and it’s building and getting more complicated and more detrimental?   “. . . and now there could be a melt-down which will make the problems even worse.”

Now are you going to sit and watch the TV and the radio and hear all of these things and not challenge these ideas in your mind?  If you are, then you’re in no position to be an agent for change because you’re not in a position to bring clarity to your Brother and Sister in Japan who lacks the clarity because of the shock of the events.  And so you can’t witness for your Brother or Sister outside of the problem.  And you become part of the problem and confirm it,  because once again, there are no private thoughts.

Now I promise you, that whether you’ve been following what has happened and what is continuing to happen in Japan, you have felt the disturbance.  You have felt the negativity, you have felt the fear and so on.  Whether it was overwhelming or whether it was just a mild undercurrent of uneasiness.  And that’s because there are no private thoughts.  And you are not at a distance where you’re untouched and unscathed by events that occur.

Now are you going to watch what is happening and become as upset as those who are in the middle of it and lose your capacity to witness for them on their behalf from outside the box—from outside the barrel, from the holy instant where, as we’ve been talking about, God’s laws prevail?  They’re not usurped, they’re not torn asunder.