Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Meeting at Namaste Village | Lesson 234 From A Course in Miracles
Hope Johnson guides us through a profound exploration of ACIM Lesson 234 – "Father, today I am your son again" – inviting us to remember our true identity beyond the illusions of this world. This seemingly simple declaration opens a gateway to understanding our unbroken connection with the Divine.
The conversation unfolds around a radical perspective: nothing we perceive in this world can disturb our peace unless we allow it to. When feelings of regret or unworthiness arise, Hope suggests an immediate pivot toward gratitude rather than dwelling in sorrow. This shift isn't spiritual bypassing but rather a recognition that beneath every experience lies an opportunity to remember who we truly are – perfect extensions of God's love.
One of the most liberating insights shared is about releasing our need for others' approval. Many of us unconsciously structure our relationships around validation-seeking, creating cycles of dependency and disappointment. Hope offers a refreshing alternative: "Don't try to get other people to see you differently. You want to see them differently." When we stop making others responsible for our sense of worthiness, our relationships transform from possession to freedom.
The discussion takes a fascinating turn when participants share mystical experiences of light and oneness, glimpses beyond the veil of separation. These experiences point to what the Course describes as "the holy peace we never left" – the reality that exists beneath our dream of exile. As one participant realizes, even her concern for leaving loved ones behind dissolves in the recognition that "all the children of God, all the sons of God, we will be there, connected in that light of happiness."
This episode doesn't shy away from addressing how we can extend forgiveness to seemingly "unforgivable" acts in the world. Hope challenges us to recognize that maintaining any exceptions to forgiveness keeps us bound to the very separation we seek to transcend. The pathway out of suffering isn't through fixing the world but through changing how we see it – recognizing everything as either love or a call for love.
Join us for this transformative conversation that illuminates the journey from the dream world of separation to the real world of unity consciousness, and ultimately to eternity beyond all form. Your peace is waiting to be reclaimed, right now.
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Aloha, this is an ACIM meeting at Namaste Village and we are doing Lesson 234. This is Hope Johnson. Father, today, I am your son again. This is a fun one, all right, all right, we've talked about Father a lot. We love that because that's holding the truth, holding the truth for us, and we're an extension of the truth, right and today. So it's like every moment is new. Every moment we're reaffirming this anew. It's like this is the truth. I am your son. That means I am the perfect extension of you. You're perfect, you're holy. You hold the creation intact for me, no matter what I seem to do or think or make of myself. And I'm claiming this now, today, that I'm your son again. I'm the perfect, holy extension of you.
Speaker 1:Now, right, nothing's gone wrong. There's been no severance here, okay, so today, in this moment, we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, right. So, look, you know, right before we started this, flow, flow just said I'm sorry, right, and, and we go, we go, hey, flow, you know you're, everything you do is always perfect, and you know, and, and you know it's like you can. You can actually pivot that sense that anything has gone wrong to gratitude right now. Thank you, right, because it's like. It's like whenever, whenever there's a sense of sorrow or a sense of I'm sorry, there's a sense of something has gone wrong, and what is that indicating? It's an absence of gratitude. Right, that's an absence of gratitude. So it's like it's just pivoting right back to the Holy Spirit. You know, when it comes down to wow, anything that I seem to do, anything that I seem to say, is useful, if I would let it be useful, and for that I could be totally grateful. So this is how I mean, this is how I do it, this is how I anticipate the time when dreams are ended there's no more sorrow, right, I'm grateful for everything that arises.
Speaker 1:I pivot my mind quickly toward gratitude, and that includes any kind of slight that anyone else seems to have done to me or anything like that. I pivot it toward gratitude, and it's not like the ego's gratitude. The ego's gratitude is more like hey, thank you for showing me how I don't want to be. No, because the ego's gratitude is all about trying to make a better self-image in the world. You know, don't worry about this self-image. It's going to be taken all kinds of different ways.
Speaker 1:This is not what we're trying to save. We're not. That's the ego's game is to try to save the self-image, save face, right. But really what's being saved here is our sanity, right. That's what's truly being saved. And the reason we're grateful to anyone for helping us to see is they're helping us to see how to shift our own mind back to sanity. And the reason we're grateful when it seems like we should be sorry for anything is we're grateful for our brothers for holding this space with us. We're never doing anything when we seem to be doing stuff and we're in an interaction. We're never doing it alone. We're projecting together. So it's gratitude for the joining, it's gratitude for the unity. Beneath anything like even if someone seems to think that they're annoyed with you or something like that beneath that, their spirit knows they're only joining with you. So being grateful to their spirit for being present, that brings you back to the truth.
Speaker 2:See it's funny. It's almost like we can annoy each other into a holy relationship. That's it. It could start by being like ooh, what's going on here? And then, if we join together, there can be healing for both of us, which is great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and here's a great thing too, kind of like a little trick of the trade, you might say. Trick of the trade, you might say Whenever someone seems to be annoyed by you, don't try to interact with them. You don't have to try. That's the ego's way too. The ego's like well, maybe I'll get them to see me a different way. Don't try to get other people to see you differently. You want to see them differently. You want to see them differently. You want to see everything differently. Don't try to change their perspective. Like that's always a cue for me. Like if I get the perception that anyone is annoyed with me or trying to uh, or trying to convince me that I need their approval or anything like that, that's my cue to back off. Right, that's a backing off in trying any kind of relating. The ego is all about trying to get other people to change their perspective.
Speaker 2:So we don't have to fix anything externally. Everything here is me Right Projection. So if that happens, that I'm feeling something's happening, it's oh. I'm not realizing who I am, I've forgotten. I think I have flaws and imperfections. I think somebody out there should feel something about me and I'm not recognizing. I'm feeling about myself.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, it's a sense that and that's the talking too thing. You know it's like I want to be recognized. You know I want to be recognized by other people. See, so when you see that, that's where you like back off and come into your center, because what wants to be recognized is a self-image. You're already completely recognized by God and all of your brothers already completely recognized by God and all of your brothers.
Speaker 2:Sometimes, if I ask you questions because I'm not sure I'm having so many new epiphanies, Just what I asked you right now is like is this the way I'm seeing it? It's a new way for me to view it and your confirmation is like I am seeing clearly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Thank you and you know you are seen clearly, completely in your holiness by God all the time, and actually by all of your brothers too. It's just that you've superimposed this world where you're not seeing them clearly, so it only seems like they may not be accepting you, they may not be seeing you, they may not be approving of you. Okay, so it's recognizing. What the ego would have you do is pursue their approval, pursue their recognition. You don't need that. That's where you stand down. And the interesting thing, the paradoxical thing, is, when you'll allow that, people will start to seem like they see you on the field. Still, don't get attached to that, right, like, from my perspective, some people do and some people don't, and I don't get attached. The ones that do, the ones that, the ones that look at me with loving eyes, those are the ones I pay more attention to. That's all the ego would have you. Try to capture the ones who are not. Wait a minute, why aren't they? I want them to see me, right? Try to capture someone's attention, right? It's also a sure sign to me in any relationship.
Speaker 1:I like to keep my relationships really light and playful and joyful and not go deep with people, because the deep with people thing. That's an ego way, right, you go deep with people and people become possessive in different ways, right, they might think that you need their approval. Right. Once I see that, I know, oh, I can back off of that. There's no need for that, there's no need to continue pursuing, you know, keeping it light, keeping it joyful and happy and free. Right, we don't need that. That's the ego's way. You can even have that same thing, even if you seem to be in a marriage. You know, that's what mighty companionship is like. It's like we never start to make each other into an object without being aware of it at least. Right, it's like, oh, my goodness, I'm making you into an object. I think you need my approval. Oh, okay, well, let's back off of that one, right, because relationships can just be held with an open hand like this. They don't need to go on and on for any length of time.
Speaker 1:All right, yeah, that's the ego. So today we will anticipate and the way we anticipate it. It's like we kind of like we role play that you know. Yeah, we're expecting that. You know it's not only coming, but it's here. We can actually start treating each other right now, like we are already released from all of this confusion about who we are. Okay, welcome, alex. Nice to see you.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Yay, yay, so we're going over lesson 234 from A Course in Miracles. Yay, so we're going over lesson 234 from A Course in Miracles. And I'm just taking it sentence by sentence, really simply Yep, yep, okay. So we're anticipating the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, right, you see that? So this idea that I'm sorry for something turns to gratitude, that's how we're anticipating that the time for sin and guilt are gone. Also, the idea that we need anyone's approval this is also anticipating that this is gone. This is not true. It's actually a loving and kind thing to stop interacting with someone who thinks that you need their approval Right, because the hook is that you need to keep interacting with them to show them that you in fact do deserve their approval right, but instead you're kind of like oh no, thank you, I love you right, all right, so, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. So here's the sentence again Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone and we have reached the holy peace we never left.
Speaker 1:So if you're in the holy peace that never left, why would you be trying to get anyone's approval right? And someone who thinks that people need their approval. They will find people to play with them like that. It does not need to be you, right? You're not the one who needs to play those kinds of games. See that? So, merely a tiny instant, merely a tiny instant. This is. This whole world is a tiny instant. It has a lapse between eternity and timelessness. Right, our mind is stretching it out like it's a long life, like it's on this long timeline, right, but really it's an instant like a wisp. When we wake up from this dream, we're not going to care about it. We're not going to care about who we were, what kind of relationships we seem to have, or anything like that. We know our one holy relationship with one another. That's eternal. Okay, this is really just like a wisp and there's no time. The time is, it's circular and it's only wrapping around forever and forever, for as long as we would keep it. So you see, this is one example I'm giving today, because this is on the tip of my mind. The Holy Spirit gave it to me this morning.
Speaker 1:This is one example I'm using today. This is one way we extend time, by using our relationships to try to get acknowledgement, right, to try to get love, to try to get their approval. This is how we extend time. We're actually refusing to see. That's right. That's right. We're lengthening it out so we can get more time to see what we want we think we want to see in the world, but really what we want to see is this world is meaningless and it's only like a training ground for seeing who we really are again. So that's why it says at the beginning Father, today I am your son again. It's not like we were ever not his son. It's just that we forgot and we were looking for sonship from people. Right, we were looking for them to be the father, because we think the connection to our source is severed. So that's why we're looking for people to give us that right. And it never works out, as we know. It only leads to conflict.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I had a large epiphany this morning and I realized, you know, I felt the connection that I have with God the beloved, and it's so beautiful when I'm there. And then I thought to myself, why do I still seek something out here? Everybody here is flawed as a human, so I want to have a. I'm thinking, I want to have a relationship with someone and we work it out together. But I'm realizing the relationship is that's right, this is the relationship, that's right.
Speaker 1:That is the one, and that is a major hook of the ego Major, to want a relationship where it's working out for you in the relationship. See, this is such a blessing, though, because it's showing you, this is showing you and this is where you connect with the Holy Spirit and have the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:Look on this thought with you, because it's showing you that this world holds nothing that you want at all Except just to love and to see the truth to see, except just to love and to see the truth, to see who I am and see it in my sister and brother. Right, that's it.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you don't need anything here. So that's what? So look it when you get the relationship right, you see that it's not fulfilling. That's how the ego works. It's like always wanting more, more, more, more, more. So when you recognize the world holds nothing that I want, because anything that I seek, anything that I strive for here, leads to one end, and it's death. So what we want to do is we want to transcend that whole thing. We want to transcend the whole world that leads to death and be back in eternal life.
Speaker 2:Right Now I'm thinking, you know, right. And now I'm thinking, you know, if we transcend that? You know, they talk about reincarnation I don't want to be on some kind of wheel. That goes right, that's the wheel. So can't I then be in every dimension? Or once my mind, my consciousness, will still be?
Speaker 1:just eternity. That's the only dimension you need. Just eternity, okay, eternity, that's it, your real creation, which you cannot comprehend from here because everything is eternal. You're used to perceiving things that pass away, so that's why this takes faith to see beyond what we made, the world of the dying, so that we can see what we. This is our true heart's desire. Our true heart's desire is the creation that God created for us to live in eternally. Okay.
Speaker 3:I really love what you said about the Son of God, because I always don't. I don't understand what it means to be the Son of God, and when I read that, when the verse says that the being that you made is not the Son of God, that's right. And then who am I? Right? I think I don't know. That's right, I don't know, you don't know. But I tried to fix everything that I am and I made that. But I think I need to listen and God teach me who I am more and more, and the only thing I need to do is hear is listen, listen and guide. That is the only thing, because he knows. I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, you're right, we don't know from here. So we need to see beyond the world, we see with Christ's vision, to know our true creation. Now, one way of course in miracles points to it is that God created us self-aware. Okay, god created us self-aware. So we're and we're a distinct abstraction. So each of us, it's like, by our love, we know one another. That's our distinction, that's how we know one another. We think we know one another by the way we look, by the way we sound, by our personality, but really, the way God created us, as a distinct abstraction, we each have a distinct way of loving, so, it's like, and that makes up the whole creation. So that's what we're learning to see ourselves beyond these forms. That's what this world is teaching us. We only propped it up because we thought we separated ourselves. So it's a sign of separation, it's a symbol of separation and it's also the means to returning to eternity. Okay, so next sentence, sentence two Merely a tiny instant has a lapse between eternity and timelessness.
Speaker 1:This is what we're perceiving right now. So brief the interval. There was no lapse in continuity. There's no lapse nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. So see the thoughts that are unified as one. These are the thoughts that make creation. There's no break in these thoughts. Okay, the thoughts of God, which we can also tune into through the Holy Spirit. Right, there's been no break in that. So your creation has not been severed, there hasn't been a pause in it or anything like that. It's just one love eternally. And this, what we're perceiving here, is nothing. It's not even like a blip in eternity. It's absolutely nothing. It's a total, meaningless world.
Speaker 2:I remember, and I think it was lesson 48 or something in that range God's voice speaks to me all through the day and I don't hear it. And then I heard Esther Hicks. Everybody knows Abraham. She channels Abraham. For months and a long time she wasn't hearing anything. She was begging God, let me hear you. And all of a sudden she starts moving her nose in a weird way and her husband says I think you're spelling something with your nose and it was. I am Abraham. And she said why did you do that? Why didn't you just come to me? I was trying for two years to communicate with you, but you would listen and then you wouldn't. You're just. It's like we. I speak for myself. I will hear sometimes and not hear. Now I'm hearing it. I'm hearing it more. So it could be that we're just not hearing it. It's any moment. God is. We're never alone. We know that.
Speaker 1:Right. It's just that we feel alone because we're listening to the ego's thoughts, which are only about this world. It's constantly talking, and it's louder than the still small voice of God that's beneath that. So it's always talking about where we're going to go, what we're going to do, what we're going to get, all these different things, okay. So when we pause, it's basically a matter of looking at those thoughts without following them. There's a pause in them. You can pay attention to the breath. Let there be that pause so you could hear God's voice speaking to you. It's actually leading you out of dreaming.
Speaker 1:At one point in one of these lifetimes, these circular lifetimes, there's just going to be pure vision. You're not going to have to go through another death, even Okay. So it's like. It's like putting ourselves in this kind of in this, in this realm. It's like it is as if it guarantees that you're going to die. Right, Everyone thinks that that's the thing you're going to eventually everyone's going to die. Well, that's not the case. In one of these lifetimes, because of listening truly and tuning our vision in with the Holy Spirit, we're just going to see the veil lift. There doesn't have to necessarily be a death occurring. Also, it's nothing to be afraid of either, because it's nothing.
Speaker 2:It's actually nothing, so we will consciously leave our body and I've had some out-of-body experiences but completely leave it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a little bit different than that, because it just dissolves. It's not a matter of leaving it and looking down on a world. The world is superimposed over reality, so it just fades.
Speaker 2:When I heal, everyone heals. That's my plan.
Speaker 1:So if I realize it, it will all just and it only takes one. It only takes one. It only takes you, because what you're perceiving about everyone and everything here is actually not true. It's superimposed by your thoughts. You're propping the whole thing up by thinking. It's only thinking. So you're by thinking thoughts. Then basically you're not even thinking. You're listening. You're listening to ego thoughts.
Speaker 1:So that's why A Course in Miracles says your mind is blank. Whenever you're listening to the ego, nothing's happening. You're just making illusions that seem really real to you, right? It's got all these things. It's got cars, it's got dogs, it's got bodies, it's got all these circumstances, jobs, all this different stuff. It's all made by your own thinking. So we're calming that down and thinking with the Holy Spirit so we could see things truly right. So no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts. That's where we're created, through God's thought. So the real thoughts, who we are? It's still thoughts, but it's thoughts of God, and that's what makes creation. That's why it's superimposed with meaningless thoughts. That's what this world is.
Speaker 1:So nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God, the Father and His Son. You ever feel disturbed? You're fucking making it up, all right, because nothing has happened to disturb the peace of God. Look at that, when you just notice a whirlwind of ego thoughts. You know, maybe someone said something to you that made you question yourself. Right? How common is that? If someone says, that made you question, uh-oh, am I okay? Did I do it right? Did I disturb someone else? You know, it's such a simple pivot. You're right back into the peace of God when you're recognizing nothing has happened to disturb the peace of God and His Son, and which are one. Can God be disturbed? If God can't be disturbed, neither can you, because you're the son, which you know. This is, symbolically speaking, there's different ways of saying it too. God is the source. You're an extension of the source, right? The source can't be disturbed. The source can't be disturbed by anything that happens here. A branch on the tree of God, right, a branch on the tree Good way to put it.
Speaker 3:Yes, One day I had one experience that was the closer that I seemed to be close to God Many, many years ago. I think I was not in the course or starting and then I felt I don't know if it was real or not real but I was in a total light, in a big, big, big light and a sense of love, happiness that I never could imagine that could exist. And then in that moment I feel that I want to live all the eternity there. There are no words to explain the feeling of love and happiness and completeness in that light. And then that one thought comes to my mind and say oh, to live all day turning to hear something what about my children? And you thought, what about my children?
Speaker 3:And then, like a voice or something, I hear something that say you are one race and your children are another race. One ray and your children are another race. And I felt that all the creation are the rays that are one with God. And I really lose the fear of death because I really know that sometimes, that I will live, that my kids say, oh, mom, we've never have that experience. And I, after I feel that, say that is true, that I will be there and all the children of God, all the sons of God. We will be there, connected with them, in that light of happiness. But now I live here, separate, because I have a volume Apparently, Apparently.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:But that is the thing that I see. But I'm going to give you one lesson. First that Jesus said, or in the text, jesus said I am in charge of your body and your ego and everything, and he's in charge of my nimiedades, or all the triple things. He's in charge of that.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:And I need to live only with a connection. Yes, that for me is the answer. Living with the connection. Yes, that for me is the answer. Living with the connection. And if I make mistakes, there are no effects. And and now I am. This is an amazing book. It's Jesus, really living Jesus, and how Him is real. Yeah, he's real and the Holy Spirit was with Him. Exactly that he's with me. It's the same Spirit. That's right and this is incredible. All the miracles, all the things that are happening in my life will be with this guided, in this book. It is amazing and you are an amazing teacher. I can't believe that you came to my life.
Speaker 1:Thank you for making me like that. Thank you very much I never had.
Speaker 3:I knew some. There are no teachers or students. I think the Holy Spirit is a teacher. Yes, I think the Holy Spirit is a teacher. But there are persons that tell you their experience with everything. But I think your experience is so clear to me.
Speaker 1:All right, good, no wonder we're brought together. Very, very Thank you. Thank you too. Yeah, so you actually never left eternity.
Speaker 1:So what you're seeing, you know what you're, what you're seeing in that, in the, in that vision let's call it vision. True vision is the place you never left, actually. And see, you know, you're thinking of your kids, but you're thinking of your kids the way you made them, right they're, they're actually. They're actually still like beams of light. And one way A Course in Miracles puts it too, they're actually still like beams of light. And one way A Course in Miracles puts it too we're all beams of light and we've superimposed all of this, this matter, basically a decaying body, right, and we've superimposed this over a beam of light. It's actually what it is. So we're not perceiving it truly.
Speaker 1:And to the ego, the ego saying oh no, you want to stay in this because it's boring to be in creation. But we know, when we have a true vision, it's not boring at all, it's the ultimate and it's our true heart's desire, right? This is where we go through certain trials and sufferings and loss and stuff like that to see that, to know that all we want is eternity Right now. The reason why the only reason that we seem to be in a body, in a world is because we are projecting that we want it Right. So by going through it, we're learning that we don't want it to the ego. That's death.
Speaker 1:Sometimes, when I express something, I expressed how, how I don't want to. I don't want anything in the world, nothing here could satisfy me, and immediately I start getting calls from my family because they think I'm going to commit suicide. I'm like no, nothing's further from the truth. I'm not trying to hurt anything here. It's actually different. It's actually me being able to enjoy everything much more from you know, from a different perspective, that I don't want anything here. There's nothing here that could satisfy me, so I can enjoy every interaction instead of trying to control everything.
Speaker 2:Can I share one thing? A few years back, I suddenly, in this hour with you, have clarity on a vision that came at the year 2000,. A book I channeled a book and it was called I didn't even want to use the name at that time the Rapture, a Vision of the Second Coming. That was the title. Nice, and I realized the second coming is the realization of Christ within me. Yes, but I had a vision before I wrote it. The vision was really weird. I kind of wanted to keep it out of my mind because I could see the earth as if I were above it or something, and it was like an explosion, not a noise, just, and it was bright light and then it was gone like it didn't exist, and that I thought was like oh my God. A lot of what that I channel was about the changes in the earth, the climate. I thought does this mean the whole planet will who knows a bomb? I didn't know what to think, but now I know.
Speaker 1:You see what it is. It's actually beautiful Now.
Speaker 2:I suddenly saw the vision again and I knew it's all in my mind, right, it's all in your mind. It looked like the Candy Crush commercial that I saw as an ad on my phone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're releasing every. What you're doing is you're releasing everyone back to the perfection that they were created in, and it's perfect light, right, and so that's why it only takes you. It doesn't take anyone else, you know, and no one else's approval, no one needs to even join you in this. It only takes you recognizing that you want creation and you don't want to keep this world anymore. Okay, and then that's where. So everything that you go through, like for me, you know if I, if I feel heartache or anything like that, there's deep joy beneath that, because I know that that's showing me more that I don't want anything in the world. It's showing me that right, yeah, so you bless, you can bless everything, even this longing. You know the sense that you've been sharing with me, and other people here at Namaste have been sharing with me this longing for a partner. You can view that as a way of showing you that you don't want to keep this world anymore. There's nothing here that you would have.
Speaker 2:I feel like my first impulse is call everybody I love and say goodbye.
Speaker 1:You know my daughter, my sister, you don't need to do that. No, because everyone's home with you already.
Speaker 2:This is just an image here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, you'll see when this is dissolved. Everyone's already here in their perfection.
Speaker 3:And I see that all the, for example with the children. I think I will not have grandchildren but I love all the grandchildren are my grandchildren. All the kids, all the grandchildren are my grandchildren. All the kids, all the young, are my sons. All the men are my husband. You know, I see the connection I see with the love of that. I see with the love of that because I thought before, when my partner passed, I thought that I could, I feel empty. But then with these teachings I am more and more complete myself and I feel much more the love to others. And the most beautiful thing is that I see much more the love of others to me, Much more Because it's reflecting. I feel much more love with this new teaching, Not wanting Not wanting Right.
Speaker 3:This is beautiful, this form of love.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is. Yes, Thank you for joining in. I love that. Thank you, okay. So let's see, nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God, the Father and the Son. This we accept as wholly true today. So this is how we're walking today with this lesson that, whatever it is that seems to be disturbing, we're recognizing that nothing has occurred to disturb our peace. Our peace is held completely intact all the time. Nothing can happen to disturb our peace.
Speaker 1:Look at one fun way to look at it. Look at the stock market. Okay, some people invest into the stock market or crypto or stuff like that. You know you could play with this. When it goes up, notice how there's an attachment to it's going up. When it goes down, it's like, oh no, I mean, unless you're playing it the other way, you're playing shorts. But either way, you know you're sometimes going, yes, I'm winning, oh, no, I'm losing. And then you know it's not saying don't do that. It's saying it's really saying look at it. Notice that your peace is completely undisturbed.
Speaker 1:There are people jumping out of windows during the depression, right, because they thought their peace was totally disturbed by how things were going financially. Right, this is the setup of the world. It's like as if that's why look at mothers get scared. I know my mother was like this. I was not like this with my kids. This is the setup of the world. It's like as if that's why I look at mothers get scared. I know my mother was like this. I was not like this with my kids. My mom was like, oh, she still is. Just the other day, she's like you. What are you doing to me? Because she wasn't able to find me on Google Maps, right, what are you doing? You did a post like that about there not being anything that can satisfy you. You did a post like that about there not being anything that can satisfy you. And then you're off Google maps and I'm thinking you're killing yourself. I'm like this is all. This is all the setup.
Speaker 1:There's something like this is this is a setup, especially like parents, kids, stock market things like that all kinds of examples but it makes it seem like something can disturb your peace when you really look at it, truly look at it right. At one point, my son told me you know what, mom? I almost committed suicide. I actually had the rope hanging in my room and I was going to commit suicide and then I said, ah yeah, nevermind. And you know, I just kind of like felt that and realized that can't disturb my peace. No one can really just commit suicide, right? No, no one, it's not really true. No one ever really dies.
Speaker 1:So it's recognizing because the ego will hold on to something. Oh, if that happened, then my peace is definitely gonna. No, if that happens, I'm gonna be like not at peace, right? So it's like, looking at every circumstance, like when my son told me that it was just immediately a moment to go within and confirm that I'm still at peace, even if my son does that in my dream, in a period of time that's just no longer than an instant and never even interrupts creation. That's the thing, that's the ego's stronghold.
Speaker 1:Of course there's going to be apparent things, even memories of things that you seem to have done. What if you've been a child molester? What if you've, like, diddled the kid before? Right, you got to come to peace with that. You know, one of my son's friends just told him the other day this kid was molested by his father the whole time, apparently, right. Well, now the kid's an adult and he's like. You know what line of work I want to go into. I want to help child molesters find peace.
Speaker 1:And I was like, wow, my mind really is opening up and expanding because, see, that's a huge thing too. Look at, look at, take it. If you were, if you have the sense that you did something like that, let's say to your son. And it would be like I can't be at peace, I'm too terrible, I'm too sinful. This is exactly what Jesus and the and the Holy Spirit and God are asking you to look past all illusions, and certainly projections for other people, right past all illusions, and certainly projections for other people, right, certainly. But the way I look at it, it's easier, it could be easier. There's, no, there's no level of difficulty in miracles like this, but we know it's taken as if it's easier if it's someone else than if it's yourself, right, that's why we project it outward. Thank goodness, I'm not like them, right? So that's what this is saying.
Speaker 1:This day, we accept this as wholly true, that nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God and His Son. Okay, nothing has happened. So when we accept this and look it, I'm watching my world open up. This kid was a kid who came and hung out with my son when they were kids, right, and I was practicing A Course in Miracles back then too, right, and I'm seeing this kid have. This is a totally different point of view that I've ever seen anyone have, a point of view like this about a child molester, someone who's molested, and he's sharing this with my son, my son's even going, my son, my son's going, my son's even going. What in the world he's like? And then I go well, that's the healing, that's what needs to be done, because we're all innocent children.
Speaker 1:It doesn't matter what you think people have done, and you know, over the years I've always brought up that example for people heroin doing heroin, because you, because people think that's really bad, and child molestation and murder and war and stuff like that, because we tend to look at certain things as being unforgivable. As long as anything's unforgivable in your mind, you are experiencing as if you're not forgiven, which is not true. You're always forgiven because nothing you seem to have done was ever done right. But you have to extend forgiveness to know this. You have to extend forgiveness for every single thing, small and large, seemingly small and large. Remember, no levels of difficulty in these miracles at all, but we make these levels, don't we? It seems to be.
Speaker 1:It might be easier to forgive someone who's a little bit annoying than someone who molested your kid, for instance, right, but it's all really neutral, okay, everything that seems to occur here, 100% neutral. Your thoughts about them, not neutral. They're either on one side unforgiveness, or they're on the other side extension of love, right which comes through forgiveness. Your thoughts are the only things not neutral. Everything that's arising here, neutral, right. So we decide whether or not we're going to prop this up.
Speaker 1:So this kid is really smart to try to help with a child molester. Getting peace, coming to peace. There's no real child molester, you know, that's just a way of identifying, but there's no really. That's not true. We're all the child molester. That's what I'll tell people too. They'll talk about a child molester and I'm like I am the child molester. It comes from my mind. You're just telling me about it right now. It's coming from me. I am a murderer, I am all these things, right. So we need forgiveness, right? So that's that's. This is what this is saying right here, right? Don't take this lightly. So many people practice A Course in Miracles in a very light way. This is where we need to go deep, not into meaningless relating with people, where we're trying to get their approval and attention.
Speaker 2:And not trying in any way politically to change anybody's mind, to make a decision on which side is right, which side is wrong. All of that that's right, come on. The world doesn't need fixing. I need to look within myself. There's some part of me that wants genocide in the Middle East.
Speaker 1:Well, it's not you. It's not you. Okay, that's not you. You're unchanging as the Holy Son of God. All that's been happening is you've been listening to a voice that wants to kill you. Okay, because you have been convinced that you separated yourself from God and you made this voice Right. So all you're doing is listening to this voice. These are not your real thoughts. That's why they have no effect in reality, but they have effects in a dream that seem very real to you. That's why you are training yourself now to stop listening to this voice. Okay, it's not you. You're completely holy and whole, as I stopped listening and I'm shifting.
Speaker 2:Yes, this what will happen here? Will things have to shift? Well, here's my energy, my vibration changes.
Speaker 1:Look it, look it. A Course in Miracles talks about this very clearly. Okay, it's going toward one the happy dream. Right, the happy dream is where you see past all of the illusions. You see them as all expressions of love, right, no matter what it seems to be. And you know, I see that arising in my circumstance all the time. You know, I'll take little things like my landlord telling me I can't have people ringing the doorbell, right, and then I'll get the sense that I'm imprisoned here, right, I shared that with you before. I'll take little things like that and ask the Holy Spirit to look on it with me differently so I could see it all as an expression of love. That's the happy dream. No matter what it seems to be, you're able to see it with Christ's vision, recognize that it's an expression of love, even through the little minute things all throughout your life. That's the happy dream.
Speaker 1:The happy dream gives way to the real world. The real world is where everything's shining and bright and everyone is beautiful and young and disease-free and there's no death. That doesn't last either, because it gives way to eternity, where there's no physical bodies at all. There's no difference except for this distinct we know each other by a tone. It's like we're singing a song in unison to God, right, and we know one another by a tone and it's forever expanding joy, ecstasy, okay and total, totally equal. There's no separation between anyone and there's no wants or needs for anything. So that's what's going on here.
Speaker 1:That's why we don't need to fix the world and, at the same time, if you find yourself in activism to fix the world which I have before not too long ago, right, you know, what I was shown through that is to demonstrate to everyone that I come into contact with that this doesn't matter. The world is not a reality and we're all going to the same place. There's no right or wrong side to be on, even if I'm playing a side right. So there's no right or wrong on what you seem to do here. Everything is good for you to learn. Be grateful for everything, every role that you seem to play, every word that you seem to say, every action that you seem to do, every word that you seem to say, every action that you seem to do, and the same thing with everyone else, whatever everyone else seems to be saying, doing, acting, whatever, because allowing it all to be helpful will make it go easier, smoother, faster than you can imagine. Okay, it's the resistance that slows it down and tears you back, ages you and leads you toward death.
Speaker 3:I had a problem before in me that I always want to help others my brothers. They needed help. I was more lucid, I was more reasonable than many of them. All were more younger than me and I wanted to help them and I really helped them, my siblings. But then I continued and I wanted to help people and I recognized that it's wrong. I gave you have no many books of a Christian mother's life. I gave it to people. That was a stage of my life. But then I thought that I was mistaken.
Speaker 1:You're like oh well, yeah.
Speaker 3:Many people, some when they keep it. They were very excited when they hear to me about how the results, but then they keep it. They were very excited when they hear to me about the results, but then they keep it. Many different reactions but I thought that I was like losing time myself in me wanting to because I wanted to help for this and this and this and this, all the problems, and I always that was something in me that if someone needed to help, I'd give money, give my attention, give time.
Speaker 3:I was a giver person and suddenly with these teachings you know that I read with my kids and they said Mom, you need to change. They don't talk to no one about the Course, they only leave it and they receive all the guidance there. I told you they are very fine in life, but I need to know when Jesus said that I will send you the people, the right people, but how can I know really who they are really clear, because I can help many people that are in my life and I help and help and help, but many of them, many people, they didn't recognize the help. I don't need to be like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you don't need to try. So you listen to the Holy Spirit. It's Holy Spirit. What would you have me do? Where would you have me go, who would you have me see and what would you have me say? It's kind of like you're in that frame of mind all the time, and Holy Spirit always leads through joy of mind all the time. And the Holy Spirit always leads through joy. It's not through other people needing you at all. People will just show up and you'll know right away the Holy Spirit. Just allow the Holy Spirit to speak through you and then stop speaking, because the ego likes to take over the speaking too. The Holy Spirit will show you when to start and also when to stop you, when to start and also when to stop. Yeah, so you can just be in a relaxed state.
Speaker 1:One of the main impediments for people is trying so hard. You don't need to try so hard. Think of yourself as floating down a nice calm stream and you're just being led to anyone wherever they need to be, and they'll show up wherever they are. You're enjoying yourself. You're not looking for students. You'll all end up in the sea. Yeah, you'll all end up in the sea. You're not looking for students. See, let them just pop up, the Holy Spirit will bring them to you. It talks about that, like you just said in the Course in Miracles, that they'll be brought to you, right? So you don't need to be looking. You would be in a relaxed state and you know, really, your teaching may be silence for the rest of this lifetime too, and let that be okay. Right, let that be okay, and you'll see where the opportunities come from. It all comes from stillness. It all comes from stillness. It all comes from silence.
Speaker 1:Okay, we got a little bit more. We have a prayer here. We thank you, father, that we cannot lose the memory of you and of your love. See, we only get this idea that we've lost it, but we're never losing it. It's always. We're remembering something. We're not learning something new. We're remembering what we used to know before we tricked ourselves and made us into something else. We recognize our safety and give thanks for all the gifts you have bestowed on us. See, this is gratitude again. See that flow. It's like we're coming back to gratitude again and again, recognizing we're safe. We're always safe, there's nothing that's making us unsafe, and we're grateful for all the gifts, for all the loving help. We have received Everything that anyone has ever said or done. That's what I mean about being grateful. It can only be 100% helpful. We're grateful for all the loving help we have received. Everyone's been helping us, even if they seem to come up in a mean or annoying or stupid way, right, it's always helpful to us.
Speaker 1:Okay, for your eternal patience. Look at how patient too, your eternal patience and the word which you have given us that we are saved. So we already are standing at the end of the timeline. It's this circular timeline, right. It's like Jesus has his arm around us and we're looking at this timeline together and when we invite him to look at what's going on with us, he shows us how all of it is so useful for us to be on a vertical ascension. Right In our mind. It's like. It's like we're, we're, we're coming through all of this haze to see that we just made all of this up and we've always been saved and we've never really been here. That's why it's only a moment and the whole timeline all of time, it's only just an instant and it passes away. It's passing away, right, we're already saved. So that's the end of the lesson. Thanks, you guys. Thank you so much for joining. I love you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's just one lesson in A Course in Miracles. That's lesson 234. So if you're just tuning into this here in person or I have this recorded for a podcast if you're just tuning into this, this is lesson 234. This is from going all the way up there one day. A minimum of one day per lesson, starting with lesson one. A minimum of one day per lesson. You can expand it out until you feel like you really got that lesson. You don't have to be in a hurry. The whole Course in Miracles is one year, 365 days, and it goes deep. This is getting close to like three quarters through it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and this part is based on what is forgiveness. That's the foundation of this series of 10 lessons we're on right now. What is forgiveness? So today, right, oh, is what a salvation? Oh, okay, what is salvation? Okay, all right, that must've been, that must've been last week. Yeah, yeah, what is what is salvation? So today, it's remembering. I am your son again and you have given us the word, which you have given us, that we are saved. So, hooray, everyone, yay, thank you, I love you. Got two more at Namaste.
