Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Meeting at Namaste Village | "What is the World" from A Course in Miracles
Have you ever considered that your fears might be completely unjustified—not because the situations aren't challenging, but because fear itself has no foundation in truth? This profound session explores Lesson 240 from A Course in Miracles, which boldly states: "Fear is not justified in any form."
We begin by examining a simple yet powerful litmus test for identifying fear in our lives: does the thought or feeling lack gratitude? This practical approach helps us quickly recognize when we've slipped into fear-based thinking. From feeling rushed and anxious to worrying about loved ones or global events, we discover how all forms of fear stem from seeing ourselves as less than who we truly are.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn as we explore the nature of projection versus creation. Everything we perceive in this world—both seemingly good and bad—is actually a projection of our minds, not eternal creation. When we recognize this fundamental truth, we can redirect our psychic energy from miscreation (fear) to creation (love). This isn't just philosophy; it's a practical approach to transforming our daily experience.
Perhaps most challenging is the distinction between true compassion and false empathy. We explore how feeling sorry for others often reinforces their suffering rather than supporting their healing. True compassion recognizes the divine power in everyone, seeing past appearances to the truth of who they are. This doesn't mean we don't take action to help others physically, but our actions come from a place of recognizing wholeness rather than victimhood.
Through practical examples and personal stories, we learn how to witness our reactive patterns, change limiting beliefs, and recognize the power of our minds to transform our experience. The teaching culminates in the liberating understanding that "not one thing in this world is true"—and far from being nihilistic, this realization sets us free to perceive differently and create anew.
Ready to experience the profound peace that comes from recognizing that fear has no justification? Listen now and discover how to live from this liberating truth.
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Aloha, this is ACIM meeting at Namaste Village and today we are covering lesson 240. Yay, it's like a moment of silence. Yay, we're extending gratitude from all of our hearts for this time together where we get to experience A Course in Miracles, joining our minds as one, receive the deep meaning beneath the words so that we can live it in our everyday life, it in our everyday life, so that whenever any fear or worry or irritation or anything arises in our perception, we can see it and know that it's helpful to see it and we can bring it to the Amen. All right, let's begin our beautiful lesson. All right.
Speaker 1:Fear is not justified in any form. So fear, forms of fear. One really easy way to tell when it's a form of fear is does it lack gratitude? That is a really simple way. Does it lack gratitude? Gratitude is always justified, right Gratitude and anything above gratitude. I would say, you know, joy, acceptance, peace, joy, acceptance, peace, happiness, all of that's justified because of who we are. But fear and any form of fear, any form of ingratitude, you can say those are the forms that are not justified. Right, like when you imagine that something is bad. It would be bad if this happened, for instance, it would be bad if this happened. Nothing can be bad. That happens. That's fear. So that's how you know that is not a justified thought. Notice the feeling in the body's energy field. Also, that person is such and such right, something that feels upsetting. It's not seeing them as wholly perfect as they are right. We were just talking about Flo. When I saw Flo outside, I go man Flo, she looks frazzled. I'm not sure when she's coming here.
Speaker 2:Oh, I want to come.
Speaker 1:Oh, I know you do, that's not a question.
Speaker 2:If it's anything, I went to every class they had this morning and didn't do my sub time to eat, so I had to gobble some food because that's important.
Speaker 3:I don't have to worry about that, I'm fasting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's fasting today.
Speaker 2:I'm not doing that. It felt like it. I don't know how you dealt with that.
Speaker 1:So it's like this it's not about denying whatever it is that you perceive, but recognizing that it's all helpful. That's where it's changed to not being a fearful thought. Whatever it is that you perceive, it's like you know, maybe someone looks angry, someone looks angry Hooray, that's my immediate response. Right, I'll occasionally not too often, but occasionally have someone coming at me with a trigger, with judgment or something like that, and inside myself I'll be like, hooray, I'll be happy about it, right, and it transforms everything, because it's not justifying any thought that says this is bad, right, or a person is unworthy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes.
Speaker 3:That's one way to absorb the course. It's in Spanish, so I'm going to be bilingual by the time this is over.
Speaker 2:Porso de milagro.
Speaker 1:So, when we're recognizing that fear is not justified that's why it's really easy to shift back to creative thoughts. Right, it's like, yay, that's, that's great. You know, like, like, if let's say uh, let's say you uh have the perception that you're in a car accident, if you're, if you're well trained because you've been practicing like this, you're going to be recognizing that it's a blessing. As soon as it happens, you're not going to be going into oh man, oh, this is bad. That's what it means that fear is not justified in any form. It's just really never justified. It doesn't matter what the form of the thing is. Okay, it could be your perception of I don't know what's going on with the news these days, but whatever people's perception is of the news, something happening in the news oh, this is bad. That's what this is pointing to. This is how you live it in your life. You go fear isn't justified in any form.
Speaker 1:Holy Spirit, reinterpret this for me. It must be a blessing, everything must be a blessing. That's how it is right, and when we learn how to see this way, we actually change the world. This is the only way to change the world actually, because our mind is projecting the world. It's really the only way, and eventually more and more people will be thinking like this and the world will change. You'll see it change. These kinds of systems that we put in place won't hold anymore. The reason why they do hold is because people are stubborn as can be about this. They want to believe that what they see is really there and that it's real. Okay, the way to see it is it seems to be there because of thinking in a way that's uncreative, because this is what you're doing when you justify fear, it's because of this. So do I want to add to it? Do I want to add more to it or do I want to change it?
Speaker 2:I've been listening to Lisa Natoli during her 40 days. First she said Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days and he didn't have one miracle until he had left, because he surrendered. But the other thing was she talked about forgiveness and she said we have to completely forgive Before. What was the thing that you just said? I'm trying to remember the word you just used, oh, Before. What was the thing that you just said? I'm trying to remember the word you just used In your previous tiny talk. You said we have to not create, create.
Speaker 1:Creative stuff yes.
Speaker 2:We cannot create. She said. We have to completely forgive and be in a state of complete love, and then we are aligned with the forces of creation and it just comes right. There has to be no judgment, no forgiveness. All of that has to go, not one tiny iota, because if it remains then we're not there.
Speaker 1:Well, look at it like this All right, you're always having a choice between creative thoughts and uncreative thoughts. Justifying fear is being uncreative, even something that says we're all going to die. Let's say that everyone, who's everyone, is going to die, for instance and you know, people defend that because it's it's, it seems like it's going to happen. So they're defending it, but not realizing how powerful our mind is. That seems like it's going to happen, so they're defending it, but not realizing how powerful our mind is. That's why I'm saying fear is not justified. You just recognize that it's not justified and your mind has changed. You can see the creative thought like the Holy Spirit's thoughts. So it's just in this instance where you're accepting, you're consenting to the Holy Spirit, taking away any thought that makes fear justified, right, like I shouldn't be this way, for instance. So it's one thing, okay, flo looks frazzled. It's another thing, flo, shouldn't be that way. See, that's where fear gets justified. There you go.
Speaker 2:I feel so energized and excited. I left the coherence class Before that. I had Scott doing a beautiful tapping and then it was just beautiful, but I just needed to eat, hunger, hunger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, here's what it looks like, here's what. Here's what it looks like when I'm saying someone looks frazzled, okay, it's like an idea that you're behind schedule, right. Kind of like I need to do this really fast and do this really fast, and then being kind of like apologetic about it too sorry, I taste like chicken.
Speaker 1:It's like, that's all right, I like chicken, you know, right, right right, yeah yeah, yeah, and so it's just noticing, just noticing, like, even that sense of, even that sense of being rushed, even that sense of being, uh, any kind of apologetic, anything like that it's. It's just really it's not. It's not that it's bad, you're just recognizing and I recognize it for other people. That's that's one way. I just recognize it for other people, whether I say something or not, uh, it's recognizing that that is not justified, there's no justification right For it, and so and and so, in that.
Speaker 1:That's how you allow yourself the space to see how to, kind of like, have a more calm and smooth experience, which is what you're going for. That's why there's that feeling like, there's a subtle and maybe not so subtle feeling like it shouldn't be this way. And the thing is, it's that it should be that way, just because it's a reflection of the balance of the thoughts that you're choosing to follow Love and fear, that's all. So when you see more and more okay, this is what it is, it's the balance of these thoughts your thoughts start to calm down and the expression calms down and then you can be, you know, like in a slower, calmer way, which everyone wants. I mean, I know everyone, everyone wants that because it just feels peaceful.
Speaker 1:It doesn't feel like the nervous system is so like shot. You know they're just like ah, I got all the time in the world. Yeah, oh yeah, oh, hey, hope, oh yeah, I'm having chicken right now. I'm going to probably cruise into your class, I don't know, maybe about 05 or 10 after or something like. You know what I mean. It's just like it's a chill vibe. It doesn't really matter what time you're arriving, I can see a cool dude saying that, me being like that Maybe one day?
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can. The more you choose creative thoughts, the more your nervous system calms down and it actually expresses like that I wasn't feeling like agitated or frazzled, I was feeling grief.
Speaker 2:And then there was, and I had like seven minutes, you were early and she's like you're going in the wrong direction.
Speaker 1:Yep, I brought it up for you, didn't I?
Speaker 2:I have to Darshan try really hard to stop me and pick a card, but anyway, when I let go and know God is doing it all, I've had times when I'm amazed at how much I get done, because I'm not worried, and then I looked it's earlier than I thought because I wasn't stressful and God's got me. God does. And wow, the gratitude for all that we have here. I don't want to miss it because I'm like this is phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's really how I'm feeling. All right, well, thank you for sharing. I love you.
Speaker 2:I love you too. I love to be here. I was thrilled to come, really.
Speaker 1:So fear is deception? Yeah, fear is deception. That's what it is. It's just saying that there's a reason to be upset, there's a reason to uh think that something's gonna go wrong. It's not a matter of what if this happens, like, let's say, what if it rains on the day I'm having a picnic? It's whether or not that makes it go wrong in your mind, right? So that's the deception. Nothing that occurs in the world is a cause for fear. It's just a habit to keep on making fear real, right? So the ego is putting up something like if this happens, it would be really bad. Or because this happened it's really bad, or because that person did this thing to me before. Now I have this problem, right? That's fear, that's the deception.
Speaker 1:So it meaning fear attests. It attests. That means it's like it's being a witness. It's witnessing to the idea that you've seen yourself as you could never be. So you've seen yourself as small, you've seen your mind as powerless. That's what it's saying Whenever there's any kind of fear, and that includes any kind of rush, any kind of hurry, right? Notice when, in your body's energy field, when you feel rushed, any kind of rush, any kind of hurry, right? Notice when, in your body's energy field when you feel rushed, any kind of rushed, that's it. That is deception. That's saying you've seen yourself as you cannot possibly be okay, wow.
Speaker 2:Caught in the world of time, which isn't real.
Speaker 1:That's right. And see, we're not saying that this is a bad thing. We want to look at it so we can see it and we can bring it to the Holy Spirit. You see what I mean? I mean, I think it's awesome. I'm so super glad whenever it's brought up, whether it comes up in me, which it barely comes up in me anymore. You know why? Because I started looking at it a long time ago. I had that kind of habit where I would feel this sense of I'm rushed, like I'm being pressed on, I have to hurry up or something, and then. And then here's how, here's how it was handled. To give you some examples you know, I come rolling into wherever I'm supposed to be and the idea might be that you know I'm, I'm late or I'm whatever, I'm whatever, and I'm just noticing in my body's energy field, letting myself chill out. Yeah, recognizing I'm always in the right place at the right time, right.
Speaker 3:Right when I was younger, rising, five kids had a full-time job. Blah, blah, blah, but I had a belief. I mean, and blah, blah, but I had a belief. I mean, and it would come up. I never had enough time.
Speaker 3:And it was running all the time and I came home from, I found that if I came home from work and immediately changed clothes, put on my shoes and got out the door and went for a walk, and as I walked I would tell myself I have plenty of time, I have plenty of time. And I changed that belief that was running the show to a new belief, which was I have plenty of time. And everything smoothed out.
Speaker 1:a new belief, which was.
Speaker 3:I had plenty of time and everything smoothed out and as I started to feel that I had plenty of time, I didn't feel that rush. I didn't feel that pressure Because it was a belief, that was an unconscious, unwatched belief. And when I saw it unwatched belief, right.
Speaker 2:And when I saw it, I was able to convert Right. You were young.
Speaker 3:You didn't have all these years. Well, I was never young, honey.
Speaker 1:I've never been young. I've never been young. We're ancient, ageless. We're all ancient and ageless. We're all young with little children.
Speaker 1:Yes, Everywhere is very amazing. Yes, yes, so, yeah. So Carla was just sharing about how she changed from I don't have enough time to I have plenty of time and she would feel it in her body's energy field. You feel it first before you start perceiving it on the surface. That's why, in the example I gave, you know, and I just go okay, whatever time I get there, I'm going to be okay with it. I'm not going to be apologizing, I'm just going to show up and say yes, here I am. You know, and in all kinds of different ways, you know when I used to come from. There was a lot of events, like there's a lot of events here, and people would get used to seeing me at events. So sometimes someone would come up to me and go you weren't at the event last night and the normal thing to do would be to lament that you're not on no-transcript and then that was the end of it. No, I wasn't.
Speaker 1:No excuse Nothing, just no, I wasn't See. So it's like you play with stuff like that, you know. So it's like when you see me and I'm like, hey, flo, flo's going the opposite way there's, you know, and I'm being facetious with Flo, I'm like, hey, flo, you're going the wrong way, you know, you know, and so and so then there's like there's a reaction when that happens. So this is so, this is where you notice it, this is, this is where you cause it'll come around again and probably really soon, and this is where you know it is yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's like you, you you witness, you sit there and you witness a calming in your, in your energy field. You witness that. Okay. So when you're when, when you're taken off guard and that's what a trigger is it's like you're taken off guard, you run into a pattern. So that's what a trigger is. It's like you're taken off guard, you run into a pattern. So that's what happened right there. You just ran into a pattern, right so? So so it's not, it's not a shake your head. No, oh no, oh, poor me. No, it's not like that, it's like awesome.
Speaker 2:I'm glad I see yeah, I felt like you just put me into a parallel reality. I met you and I was so cool. Want a piece of chicken? I should have said, and it would have been cool. Yeah, it'll be done in a few minutes.
Speaker 1:It was totally cool. See, you're seeing these things now and we're talking about it, and the next time it happens, you're going to be more aware and more aware, and more aware, until you're going to notice the shift. And when you notice the shift, like that, that's how you know. Oh, this is my power, this is my power right here. It's like, yeah, I don't have to run into a pattern. See, everyone can take from this and learn from it. That's why it's awesome.
Speaker 2:Thank you for doing that I'm transitioning, I still slip a little bit. That was good. Thank you, oh you're doing awesome.
Speaker 1:So fear attests that you have. See what it's showing you. You've seen yourself as you could never be, something that could be rushed, something that could be late, something that could be a powerless mind, and that's why it's attesting to that. That's why you demonstrate to yourself that it has no justification, no justification at all, and that's what makes you look upon a world which is impossible. It's like the world's demanding something of you, for instance, right, if anyone seems to be demanding, or the world there seems to be conflict or anything like that. You've seen yourself as you cannot be, and that's why you look on a world which is impossible. I'm upset because I see what is not there, or I'm upset because I see a meaningless world.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Right, right, yeah, and, and, and you know. So this is talking about. You see a world that's impossible, because you saw yourself as you could never be. That's right. You didn't. You saw yourself as something less than the son of god. That's the thing. Not one thing in this world is true. I like that line. Not one thing in this world is true. We're totally making it up, right, and yeah, I mean.
Speaker 3:He wronged me, he's guilty.
Speaker 1:Right, we got a whole court system about it who's wrong, who's right and who's wrong, who takes who's wrong? Who's right and who's wrong, who takes the blame? Who's better, who's worse? Right, there's only one of us. There's only one of us.
Speaker 1:So that's why, you know, one of my friends asked me uh, yesterday or the day before she asked me because she was telling she was saying that it's uh, it's not compassionate to not feel angry, like feeling angry is compassionate to her, and I said, oh, okay, well, that's awesome. You know, like I'm not arguing with people, that's not what I do. But she knew that it would go against the things that I say, and so she asked me do you still like me? And I'm like, of course I do. You're just like anyone else that arises in my consciousness. You're. Actually, everything you say is coming from me, of course, right, of course I like you.
Speaker 1:You could say anything to me, right? You could tell me I'm the worst person. It's still the same thing to me, you know, because there's only one of us. So not one thing in this world is true and one way you could look at that too none of these bodies, nothing that they seem to be doing, the way they're representing to you. That is not how they are. They're actually beams of light. All of us are just beams of light. So the way we've made each other good or bad, we tell good stories about people too, and also hurt ourselves with the good stories we tell about them, because then what I miss you, I'm going to miss you, for instance, right. Yeah, that's deception Also right.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So you know, sometimes some of my friends go I'm not, I know I'm not supposed to say this, but I'm going to miss you and I'm like. I'm like, no, it's not that you're not supposed to say it, it's okay. Anything can be used by the Holy Spirit. What you're recognizing. You know I don't say anything like that because it's not true to me. It's just not true to me. When people tell me they miss me, I let them know I love them. I'm like I love you. You know, it's not like you're not supposed to say it, it's just that recognizing when you say you miss me, that has no justification in reality. It actually has no justification in reality.
Speaker 1:You've made yourself into something that's not true and so now you're perceiving these images and it's as if you need to try to keep any image. You can't let the image pass away. Everything is really arising and passing away in your experience. When you recognize that's what is going on. If you feel and you get the sense that you miss someone, it's not bad to say that. Just come back to this. Missing is fear. Fear is not justified in any form. I must have seen myself in a way. That's not true. It's not like you're bad for doing that, but let's just be honest about what's happening here.
Speaker 2:Right, because you think there's loss, but there isn't loss, right.
Speaker 3:Well, it's also wishing things were different than they are. Right, good point, yeah, it's true. Good point it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a really good point.
Speaker 3:I had a gentleman friend who lived in a different town and he was always saying how he missed me and he didn't like it. I didn't say it back but I finally said I am not going to live my here now wishing it was different than it is Because I just want to appreciate the here now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and other people they're allowed to miss. It's not like you're making them guilty or wrong or anything.
Speaker 3:But don't make me wrong, I'm not going to go there with you.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to missing with you. Yes, yes, and, and and you know that's another thing too is is that we learn too? Is we get to enjoy perceiving anyone trying to make us wrong? I get a kick out of it myself, I really do. Whenever anyone I'm like, I'm just like, that's so sweet, it's care To me. I look, I look past the illusion and go that's care, that's so sweet, they care, right. Well, they feel they're looking through a lens, that they're looking at themselves in a way they could never be and they're projecting to me that they want me to be a certain way. Think like they do. I'm like oh, that's so sweet. You know how many times I've heard people tell me that I'm ruining something because I'm not political. It's fucking hilarious. I'm just like oh, that's so sweet, thank you. I say thank you to them. I say thank you, that's so sweet. And sometimes I tell them how do you know I would vote the way you wanted me to if I was voting?
Speaker 3:You might know, maybe we're a little hard on the pet owners. For example, and somebody else said they don't care. And there was another issue with the Miradors. Maybe we're a little hard on so-and-so. They don't care Because they just take it in. They know it's not real, it's just.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Maybe they change, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, and I haven't thought of it that way. But yeah, what you're saying is exactly right.
Speaker 1:For me to feel bad about being criticized is irrelevant, yeah, and you look at it like this it's coming from your own mind, so that you can demonstrate that it has no basis in reality. Basically, just like this lesson says it's not justified, so it not being justified doesn't mean that condemnation is now justified. Like, don't make me wrong, for instance. That is also a form of control, right. So it's trying to control the form. It's not like go ahead, make me wrong, I fucking love it. It's impossible for me to be wrong, right and love it. It's impossible for me to be wrong, right, and that really changes things, because the ego puts out all these fearful things Like what, if? Like for me.
Speaker 1:You know, I've been spiritual teaching over in Hawaii for 11 years. What if your whole community hates you? All of a sudden, you know the ego will actually put a thought out like that and you know what I'll be like. That'll be fucking awesome, because whatever happens is perfect for my awakening. That's what I want. So I want whatever it is, and then that quiets the ego down, basically quiets my nervous system down. I'm facing everything with openness. I don't mind how many people like me, I don't mind whatever it is that occurs.
Speaker 2:I had a big realization the other day, when I realized, of course, everybody here is a piece of me. I'm trying to pull it all back together. This is what unity is, this is what loving is. Bring it all back. So if I see somebody what I would consider judging me, it's me judging me. Some part of me says, oh, flo, you talk too much, or blah, blah. And then somebody appears, seems to appear to say that to me yeah, gratitude, and I'm the part of you that's always on time. That was my father, the watchmaker, the clockmaker, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So so, being thankful gratitude, just extend gratitude for no matter what anyone does, no matter what anyone says, and you'll see, you can't even help it. It turns things around really fast because people are expecting you to be resisting them.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward now to the next opportunity where I feel myself going, you know, and I'm just going to go into it and say, oh, wow, yeah, no, I can choose a different way to respond here. Let me think.
Speaker 1:You always can yeah, and be okay if you don't. If you go into patterning, yeah, but at least you become aware of who I caught that. You might need to see it for a while before you're actually able to do it, so yeah, to stay calm enough.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, thank you. Yeah, all to stay calm enough. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, thank you. Yeah, all right, not one thing in this world is true, hooray, for that, we can make it anything we want.
Speaker 1:It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. That's what we've been talking about. Whatever form it appears in, that's perfect for us. What if this happened? My older son said what if you? What if my other son, what if Bron ends up just staying here doing the same thing, playing video games in his room? And he's 35, and I go, it'll be fucking awesome, just like it is right now.
Speaker 1:Right, whatever it is, it doesn't matter, there's not anything to be scaring, there's not anything fearful. Whatever form it arises does not matter. Whatever form it appears in, it witnesses. It witnesses, but to your own illusions of yourself. Everything, okay. So it's like, not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what the form in which it may appear, it witnesses, but to your own illusions of yourself. So everything in this world is witnessing to your illusions of yourself.
Speaker 1:Right, today I went to the dentist. The dentist was so nice and kind. Right, I apply A Course in Miracles, even to this perception that the dentist is nice and kind, right, he is reflecting an illusion of myself. That's what I need to know. This isn't real. So it's not like oh, thank goodness he was kind and he wasn't a dick, it was just like he's. That's an illusion, every single thing. There's nothing here that's true, good and bad. It's reflecting an illusion of yourself in all of our imaginationsinations, let's say, and in a different way, because we're all having a unique perception, right? So it's so. It's like yes, it exists. As far as your power to make something is projecting it in this, into the field, it's by your power that you're able to perceive it.
Speaker 3:But we all have a shared experience at this room. Yes, we do yes so we're all looking at it from a different angle. You see the table from that way. I see the table from this way, but the table exists.
Speaker 2:Well, there's an idea there.
Speaker 1:Not in reality. So let's say if you take by reality, let's say eternity, it doesn't exist in eternity, right? Everything that's here arises and passes away. That's why it's saying not one of it, is true, not one of it. This is not, doesn't have reality. It's real to us because we believe in what we made. We made this up and we automatically are believing in what we made, right? So we can't go, while we believe in what we made, say that table's not really there and try to walk through it, right, because we're going to bump into it, apparently. And that only attests to it, doesn't attest to the table's real, it attests to our power.
Speaker 1:Our mind is so powerful to make things that seem real, right? That's the difference. That's a different way of looking at it. It doesn't make it real. Point it back to the power of your own mind. See, what the ego would have you do is diminish the power of your mind by making the things you made have a separate reality, apart from your mind, as if you didn't just make it. You can make things appear very real because you never lost the power of creation, and in a dream, that's making things that are temporary.
Speaker 2:So we took that power of eternal creation and we limited it into a three-dimensional context.
Speaker 1:Yes, and we're making something temporary. That's why Jesus is saying here not one thing in this world is true, not one thing is true. So that's just like saying, because it's temporary, because our true creations Is temporarily true, okay, we can go with that Temporarily true, she said is it temporarily true? Yes, but your mind isn't temporary, your mind is eternal. So that's why we want to get back to our true creations, which are also eternal, because that's the only way that we have true happiness. No suffering, no pain.
Speaker 1:We all go through sufferings here, to different degrees, depending on the balance of how much we choose creative thoughts over miscreative thoughts. But we all go through pain and suffering here. We don't want that for ourselves or for anyone else. We want to get back to creating and that's why we're changing the way we're looking at the things that we made. Instead of giving them power of their own, we're bringing the power back to our mind. It's everything in this world that looks like it's here that attests to only the power of our mind. And see, what it's saying here is it's attesting to you thinking, you having seen yourself as what you could never be. That's your mind power, right? So you're recognizing that. It's your mind's power making it, then that's showing you you can actually redirect that energy. It's energy, it's psychic energy. You can actually redirect that energy toward creation. Wow, were you in the class yesterday, carla? No, I fell asleep. Oh, we were doing psychic energy. It's recorded.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, it's recorded. Well, I'm going back, I'm twirling in my mind. Yeah, james did a lesson one day last week where this idea of projection, yeah, and the light of truth and the divine shines through my consciousness to project this world that I see and your conscious, that light is coming through your consciousness to project the world that you see just the same, but you see it a little different because your consciousness, your personality, all of that enters into the projection. But the light is who I really am. Yeah, we're all that, but the light is what I really am, not the consciousness that it's going through, nor the projection that I'm living out here. Yes, that makes sense and that's how our mind is shared that we'm living out here.
Speaker 1:Yes, that makes sense and that's how our mind is shared, that we're all that light. That's where we share. That's where we actually share. We don't share our projections, we can only project our projections. That part of our mind isn't really shared, it's just projected. That's why when we sink back, it's kind of like sinking back or detachment. It's been called back into the light. That's where we share with everyone and that's why it's like.
Speaker 1:You know, I'll be like with the ego thought, I don't mind if people don't like me, right, but what happens is they automatically do. They can't help it, because I share my mind with them, I share the light with them. I don't resist them. It just automatically does that. The only way people can continue to not like me is to stay away from me and be not liking me in their mind over and over and over again, because when they get around me, there's a shared like a brotherhood, it's like automatic. It's like it's a brotherhood because I know the light behind all of their projections. So, whatever they project onto me, I'm happy about that. Thank you, you know, just in a thank you kind of way. Shared mind, so it does not matter what form.
Speaker 1:Okay that, let us not be deceived today. So with this lesson today, we're gonna choose. We're giving consent to not being deceived. We're seeing everything as a blessing and no and no justification for fear. Say someone, someone overcharges you, thank you still. Even if there's hey, I think you charged me too much, there's still gratitude in that. Or I think you charged me too little here. Let me give you some more money. All right, let us not be deceived today. We are the sons of God. There's only one of us. We're all the same. We share the same mind. We are the same light. It's not like we can be less than right.
Speaker 1:We were talking about missing people. That's saying that we're not the sons of God. If we're missing someone, and again, it's not bad. I know this is hard for people because they'll be like I need to miss people, I'm justified in missing people. Okay, you know the lesson. Yeah, the lesson, yes, yeah, it's not going to change my love for you. Don't worry about that, because everything that everyone needs to learn will be learned.
Speaker 1:It's not up to us to correct anyone. The Holy Spirit does all the correcting. Sometimes the Holy Spirit uses our voice, but just knowing in our body, in our body's energy field, in our heart. We don't have to correct anyone. All we do is accept. The Holy Spirit teaches us. The Holy Spirit is lending us His mind to show us to just accept whatever it is anyone's doing or saying.
Speaker 1:That's like the healing balm there is no fear in us. It says there is no fear in us. Okay, so how could that be, it says, for we are each a part of love itself. So when we perceive fear in ourselves, we're misperceiving. There's actually no fear in us. Some people tell me they're afraid to be alone at night. Right, and I've had that too, like when I was a kid oh my gosh, I'd be so scared to be alone in a house or anything like that. But through practicing A Course in Miracles and recognizing we don't actually are not even capable of having any fear, we're actually believing something that's not true and projecting ourselves as if we're fearful. We're actually, in truth, not capable of even being afraid. So you can use that anytime you seem to feel afraid and notice how I said seem to feel afraid because it's not true. It's like it's on a projector Even being afraid of, let's say, having a disease, or afraid someone else is going to die, or afraid because your kid's on drugs or whatever.
Speaker 1:I've shared with people before about my daughter being on cocaine. Apparently, she's off cocaine now because her nose is almost completely collapsed. So she's like all right, that's enough cocaine. But I was talking to people about my daughter being on cocaine. They're like you're just sharing about it, like that. You're just like. You're just like matter of fact about it. You're not even bummed out about it. I'm like there's just nothing to be afraid of, right, and I reflect that back to her too. I'm like there's nothing to be afraid of, like if your nose collapses, then that's not a bad thing of Like. If your nose collapses, then that's not a bad thing. You're still perfect, you're still the Holy Son of God. There's nothing wrong, right. So it's like once she makes the decision apparently made the decision that oh, you know what, I'm going to just really have to stop doing that because I don't want my nose to collapse. Like I'm a pretty girl, I want to keep my nose whatever. The situation is right. But it's a matter of recognizing. There's no fear in us If I, as a mom, feel scared that my daughter's on cocaine.
Speaker 1:I bring it to the truth, I'm not really her mom for one. I mean there's all kinds of Holy Spirit thoughts that come in. She's not really your kid, you're not really her mom, there's no thing in the world that could change anything about people being the son of God, and it really does change your mind. You know, when you're sincere about it it really does change your mind. So then these perceptions can come up and you're not affected. You're not being affected by things in the world. There's no need for that. We're not trying to change the perception. We're not trying to control anyone. We're not trying to control the world. We're letting things roll out the way they do and being happy about it.
Speaker 2:That shift is a big one for me. You know, I know where you're coming from. To see people dying in Gaza. You know, to see I won't go over the list, right, it's really difficult to. It's like what happened. I don't want to lose my sense of compassion for people, but look, there's no. On the other hand, I understand this. Okay, I understand now that actually thinking that way not only does it not solve the problem, it keeps it going, because I'm keeping it active in my imagination to project more of it out there. Right, I'm seeing it now, and I'm seeing now the only way that they'll be healing.
Speaker 2:I heard today just being in the state of love and forgiveness for myself for 10 minutes. Thousands of other people are actually affected by my shifting my energy into this higher vibration. You know that's the way to heal. Yeah, to remember to bring it back, and not only bring it back the healing Truth, bring it up, bring it out. Not to deny fear either, though, my first class this morning was the tapping that I did with Scott. You know Scott Mm-hmm, and he was saying to someone in the room it's good, you're recognizing it. It reminds me of Rumi, the guest house. Bring in all your feelings. I don't want to sidestep it the course of love. The chapter we read was tenderness. That word itself brings me into feeling tender about everything here, myself. It's tenderness toward myself. That's where love comes from. Tenderness, that's right. And you know, I feel a need for cold. Okay, now it's time to stop talking. Thank you.
Speaker 1:That's enough talking, all right. So you mentioned the thing about Gaza and compassion, okay, so I wanted to talk on that for a minute. So when you get the perception of something like that, it's not like trying to push the perception away. You know, your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet are needed here for undoing these illusions. So the compassion is in recognizing that there is a sense. If there's a sense of pain or frustration or anything like that, you'll give it over to creation. You'll use that power. That's saying something's wrong, right? Because that's the remember.
Speaker 1:Fear is not justified. It's not justified. It comes up. It's not justified. Why is it not justified? Number one no one is really suffering. No one's really suffering. This is a Holy Spirit thought. No one's actually suffering. I'm making that up right now. Everyone is getting exactly what they need, no matter what it seems to be. This is actually compassion, but the ego would not look at this as compassion. Everyone is getting what they need to see, what they need to see to undo the world for themselves, right? So the ego would look at this as not being compassionate, that it's right to be angry, that it's right to be fearful, that it's right to say someone's wrong for doing this, but this lesson is pointing to fear is not justified in any form. So this is how we actually help the whole world Everyone in the whole world is by recognizing that they are actually living exactly what they need so they can undo the whole cause of separation. Everyone has their perfect path for this.
Speaker 2:I heard the term false empathy yep, false empathy goes with this it took. I said how could empathy be false to feel for somebody else? But if this isn't true, then that right.
Speaker 1:See, that's. That's what this lesson is pointing to. This is not mincing words. Here, fear is not justified in any form. It's one thing to feel it, only to feel it, so that you can recognize it's not justified and hand it over to the holy spirit. It's not about wallowing in it. Okay, uh, tapping is fun, but it's never going to heal. That's the thing we're getting tripped off on different things that we believe that it makes us feel better. It's okay, it's okay on the body.
Speaker 2:It's the mind that really has to.
Speaker 1:That's right, it's okay. You could be tapping on the body and going okay, help me see that this fear is not justified. Though it's one thing to soothe yourself, nothing's wrong with it but this isn't the same thing as healing self Nothing's wrong with it, but this isn't the same thing as healing. And there's a lot of teachings that are going along with just keeping this fearful feeling because it's justified. It's not justified. Thank you, sal. That's the thing. The fear is never justified, and most therapies, including psychotherapy, is all about really keeping that fear in a form, keeping it going. You don't want to keep it. Don't falsely identify with this Empathy.
Speaker 2:Empathy is saying that what someone else is feeling is justified, so I'm going to feel it with them, like you're having empathy for your friend missing you or something, and then thinking you need to respond oh, I miss you too.
Speaker 1:Right, it's actually recognizing that the person's missing is not justified. So it's not like, oh, I feel bad for them or I feel sorry for them. If you feel sorry for them, it's not bad. This is where you recognize feeling sorry for them is not justified. You use that psychic energy that you're projecting toward feeling sorry. Give it to the Holy Spirit so it can be redirected toward healing. That's what we want. Okay, all right, let's go to the next part.
Speaker 1:How foolish are fears, right? Wow, see See how. But see, see, see how. But see how. That's right. Laughing about the fears Instead of trying to give them some kind of therapy? Right, you don't need all this. You don't need all this stuff.
Speaker 1:It's a matter of giving this fear over to the Holy Spirit. See, the ego wants you running around in fear repeatedly. We can be totally resolved of all this. Would you allow your son to suffer? It's not God's will that you're in fear, right? It's like would you allow that? How foolish are fears? Would you allow your son to suffer? This is a prayer. Give us faith today to recognize your son. So this is the son that cannot be hurt. Look, apply this to the people in Gaza, for instance. Give us the faith today to recognize your son in the people in Gaza, that they're your son. So how is it going to help them? Or me? By feeling bad for them Right? Or by taking see? See, all these, all these therapies are saying that fear is justified in trying to work on the fear Right. So it's trying to work with it External and forget where the causes, right, that we're the cause of everything, right.
Speaker 2:So it's trying to work with it Fix the external and forget where the cause is Right, that we're the cause of everything, right?
Speaker 1:So when you use any kind of therapy, just use it in that way. That includes block therapy, that includes tapping therapy. Anything that you're doing, use it in that way. Now notice, many times the teacher of it is not saying something like that because they don't know. They don't know. You got to know this for yourself. You got to be wholly in this with Jesus, with yourself, because so many times other people are not going to be reflecting that to you, and that includes many, many teachers.
Speaker 2:Okay, turn the black therapy into not just physical therapy, but you're in a meditative, internal state while you're, with whatever the pain is.
Speaker 1:Well, look, nothing in this real world is true. My body isn't true, neither is the block right. It's not true. This fear, pain, what we're able to access with the block, apparently right, pain that we're able to access is actually fear. This fear isn't justified. Yeah, it's not justified, yes, yeah. So what we're doing is we're doing a practice where we're bringing up fear, basically, and breathing with it and recognizing we don't have to keep it. It's not justified. See how all these things seem to be justified. It's like, oh, you're aging, that's why you should be in this much pain. Like, no, it's not justified. Actually, I'm going to take this block and I'm just going to bring it out. I'm going to look at it and recognize and breathe with it, and it's not justified.
Speaker 1:See all therapy, using all therapy, like that, like when you use, when you listen to videos of block therapy. Deanna doesn't know that when she's talking about block therapy, she's all about it being physical, right. So a lot of the times I go to a satsang went to a satsang recently At the satsang, the person doing the satsang is basically saying that death is inevitable. At the satsang she's like giving us a miscreation thought. You know, we have to be holy within ourselves, having faith that the truth is true, so we can overlook these things and actually use them to direct our mind toward creation, rather than being wallowing in miscreation with everyone in the world. We're projecting all these people that are apparently in miscreation. So we have to be, like it's like, singular within ourselves, knowing what's true, because we can't be expecting the world to reflect it. The world's reflecting what we thought was true. Right, this is how we're demonstrating it to ourself. Give us faith to recognize your son and set him free.
Speaker 1:We don't want to keep the people in Gaza imprisoned. We want to set them free. Right, we don't want to soothe ourselves because we're happy with the belief that says we're privileged because we're over here and they're over there. See, that's a, that's a big thing. People guilt themselves for being privileged. No one's better off than anyone. Everyone's dealing with the same thing. Everyone's dealing with their own illusions. No, there's no. There's no haves and have nots. That's not true. No one is better off, no one is worse off. That's a big, a big thing that people bring to suffering.
Speaker 1:So people go and do different therapies uh, psychotherapy, uh, childhood regression, all these different things but keep the idea that they're privileged. Right, there's also the idea. Now, that's the idea that they're privileged. Oh yeah, right. There's also the idea, now that's going around, that you're privileged based on your skin color Right, it's all worldly ego bullshit. If we're saying that we're privileged, we're depreciating the power of our mind and we're depreciating the power of everyone's mind. We're saying that we're stuck based on appearances. We're not stuck on appearances. Our mind is making the appearances. We can change it.
Speaker 2:So I say to myself, why would I want to be in this world where there's constant death? I think Reverend Penny said the other day it's not that it will change, it is change. It came to change. Everything here came to pass. That's right, it all came to pass. So I wonder why I get so caught in it. I'm stepping away and observing it now Good, like above the battleground, that's it. You know, but you got this. How does it still draw me in? It's amazing.
Speaker 1:You're choosing. You're making a choice. Every instant is a holy instance where you're making a choice.
Speaker 2:I think I'm getting pulled back or I have a problem. My seat just got mold. I just have to go and I'm not there. Take that energy away, because the energy will materialize. We sing in unity, our thoughts, our prayers, and we are always praying.
Speaker 1:That's it. Okay, let's keep going. Each mind is creating their own reality.
Speaker 3:She created the loss of her casino. I created blah, blah, blah. We each created.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you could say made it up because this isn't creation. And the reason why we're looking at the words like that is because there's a huge difference between a projected world and creation. So creation is eternal. So each of us made a world up, a whole world that we perceive. Now you could look at it.
Speaker 3:We didn't create it.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, made it up, projected same thing.
Speaker 3:God initially created us. Right, that's a creation.
Speaker 1:That's a creation right.
Speaker 3:All of this is a projection.
Speaker 1:All of this is a projection.
Speaker 3:We each have our own individual projection Right. Can I influence?
Speaker 1:your projection. Sure, I have to let you, though I have to choose, right. It's interesting. Yeah, yeah, I have to choose. And love has very strong influence, way stronger than the fear influence. That's the thing. That's why, when we join together, it's very powerful. We just join with another person's mind, and that's you know. You very easily join with people all the way in Gaza because you recognize the power of their mind. That's true compassion. You're recognizing the power of their mind. It may take you to see these thoughts over and over again. It's like they're making exactly what they need to make. They're perceiving what they need to perceive. All of us. Whatever we're perceiving, it's a blessing. When we see it another way, we keep them in prison, and that's why it says here let us forgive him in your name. This is forgiveness that we may understand his holiness. We want to understand everyone's holiness, right? So forgive your illusions of them, forgive your idea that they are being victimized by anyone. So pity and compassion are false.
Speaker 1:What is it?
Speaker 3:Pity or compassion.
Speaker 1:Well, true, compassion is strong. It's strength, it's recognizing the holiness in someone, right, even though they seem to believe that they shouldn't be in the situation they're in. Let's say, like if someone says I miss you, that's where it is, you see, where the compassion comes in, because they're expressing pain and they're justifying pain. They might not even recognize that that's what's going on.
Speaker 3:So how do we feel about us then when we see something like that happening? What's an inappropriate way of looking at it? That's truthful.
Speaker 1:That they are having exactly the experience they need to bring their mind to the truth. And the Holy Spirit has them as far as their teacher, just like us. So we're all the same. So that's when you see, the compassion comes through. Because the person believes. The other person maybe believes, or maybe in your imagination they believe because you don't know anyone from Gaza, maybe. Maybe in your imagination they believe because you don't know anyone from Gaza. Maybe, and you know, you believe that they are. You get the sense that they're suffering. You bring that thought to the truth. There's no justification for fear. So you bring that thought to the truth. In truth, no one's suffering. Yes, in an illusion people are suffering. That's why compassion is necessary.
Speaker 2:You know we think that dying is some kind of a horrible thing, but it happens here and truthfully, I know now we don't even have to die. Yeah, but I saw something in a flash that was so. St Jude Children's Hospital, this four-year-old girl in the arms of her mother had no hair, she was dying. And you know, know. First the camera's on the mother and you see she's suffering. When the camera turns, the little four-year-old is comforting her mother. She was so totally lit with light and completely okay with everything. Four year, not even three four-year-old, not even three four-year-old. I choose comfort in a mother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the way to really look at it. That's the way to look at it. You know the people. They need comfort. They need comfort and the comfort comes in, knowing that everything's okay. That's truly compassionate.
Speaker 3:Well, sometimes the reason that visitors wear sick people, sick people out is because the sick person is trying to make the visitor feel better, Because they feel so bad. They think they feel so bad for the sick person. But that brings up then this need for the sick person to comfort.
Speaker 2:Oh the healthy. How does that happen?
Speaker 3:Compassion is strange, sorrowful that they don't understand their true condition. So what is compassion?
Speaker 1:It's recognizing that it's all love, it's all truth, it's all light. The Holy Spirit has them, it's all the Holy Spirit's thoughts that the thoughts are giving you. It's compassion to recognize there's no justification for fear. There's actually no justification for fear. That puts a light in the mind. So when I look at God, how do I look at it? Notice that there's no justification for any fear about anything that's going on there, that it's all guided and it's all perfect. Okay, it's reflecting what people thought of themselves. Your perception of it is what you made of yourself. You know, to see it like that changes the mind because it shines a light in the whole mind. It lights up the whole mind, right, and so then you actually connect with those people because you're joined with them and you're aware that they're still all powerful mind.
Speaker 3:Right, so you can be moved to help them physically, sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there could be physical helping, in that that doesn't mean that there wouldn't be physical helping. You could be sending donations, who knows? You go over there whatever the situation is. But the main thing is that you're willing to see that there's no justification for fear in any form, so you're not letting yourself get upset and believing that that upset is caused by what's going on over there, because remember, it still applies You're never upset for the reason you think. You're upset because you see what isn't there. No one is truly suffering. These bodies are not real.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you start from that and then let actions come out of that. Let your actions come from that. All right, so we're almost there. Let us forgive him in your name, that we may understand his holiness and feel the love for him, which is your own as in God's own. We want to feel the love for him which is God's love for him.
Speaker 1:So, people in Gaza, for instance again, we want to feel how God feels about them. We want to feel that love for them. That does not include feeling sorry for them. That's projecting fear. So that's adding to their apparent struggles, because we influence each other right and they may be making a choice for fear.
Speaker 1:It's likely that a lot of them are making a choice for fear and that's why they're having such an intense perception in the first place. So they need help, these kinds of intense perceptions. For most of the people who are having the intense perception, there are certainly more enlightened people in the same area. Know what they're doing and having an intense perception, know why they're there. You know what's going on. But for the majority of people that are having that intense perception, they don't know. They don't understand that the power of their mind is actually making that illusion for them, see, so we want to feel the way God feels about them, so that we can join with their mind and look on the power of their mind, that they could see how powerful they are as well and change their mind, and that'll change everything, it'll ignite something within them, right, our being, the light of the world, that's it Ignites it.
Speaker 2:They recognize it, they don't know how, and something somehow that shifts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everyone is going to shift. Each one of us is like a piece to the puzzle for bringing back reality. So everyone is going to have that shift. It's like I heard one master say before contemplate their return, contemplate their return to sanity, right, instead of lamenting over their struggles, which is, you know, a lot of us are getting all these different kinds of therapies, doing all these therapies to soothe ourselves while we keep the idea that they're victimized. That's not, that's not helping, that's not working. So, hooray everyone, thank you for joining me. Yeah.
