Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
Hope Johnson's Wisdom Dialogues
A Course in Miracles Deep Dive, Chapter 2, Section XI, Paragraphs 16 -18 The Mind's Miracle Impulse: Redirecting Creative Energy | September 24, 2025
What if the root of all psychological suffering isn’t where your energy flows, but what you believe about yourself?
In this profound deep dive into A Course in Miracles Chapter 2, Hope Johnson unpacks Jesus’s radical correction of Freudian psychology, showing how humanity has misunderstood the mind for centuries.
✨ Instead of endlessly managing psychic energy through therapy, sublimation, or control, Jesus offers a stunningly simple solution:
“The only way out is to stop miscreating now and accept the Atonement for miscreations of the past.”
This present-moment approach reveals that what we’ve called problems, failures, or mistakes never actually happened in truth.
Hope weaves Jesus’s teachings on psychic energy with real-life examples—from triggering conversations to food beliefs to personal loss. She shares a powerful story of losing her home to a lava flow and greeting this seeming catastrophe with joy, showing how perception alone transforms experience.
💡 At the heart of this teaching is the recognition that what Freud called “libido” is really the “miracle impulse”—our natural drive to create and extend love. The mind’s true energy is not sexual or instinctual, but purely spiritual. Redirected from fear to love, healing happens naturally.
Join Hope for this transformative exploration that changes how you see your thoughts, your problems, and your relationship with creation itself. The freedom offered here is not about managing illusions more effectively—it’s about realizing they were never real to begin with.
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Aloha and welcome to ACIM A Course in Miracles, deep dive with Hope Johnson coming to you, arizona, and today we're going to dive into chapter two, section 11, paragraph 16, starting with paragraph 16. Yay, oh, okay, let's start with just a little moment of silence and prayer and touch in. Ooh, just sense the body's energy field. Just sense that. Ah, thank you, jesus. Thank you for being with us and guiding us as we see through the blockages to truth in our mind that manifest as blockages in the energy field in the breath. Thank you for deep awareness and understanding that you extend to us by your being.
Speaker 1:Thank you for A Course in Miracles. Thank you for taking the beautiful time to channel A Course in Miracles through Helen Shushman, thank you. Thank you for doing that. It's amazing. We're super grateful and blessed and each time I go into one of these deep dives I feel so thankful that you gave us this roadmap. It's so simple, it's so loving. It's so simple, it's so loving. Thank you for responding to our willingness to see by speaking to us, continually speaking to us, even when we're not listening. Yay.
Speaker 1:Ah, we all extend so much gratitude. The whole sonship is extending so much gratitude to you now, jesus, thank you, thank you for see you. I love you. I know you're with me. Oh, thank you, wayne. I see what you guys write to me. May the truth prevail. Yes, of course it already has, in truth. Isn't that a blessing? All right, let's go. Okay, so I made some notes. Right, let's go. Okay, so I made some notes, of course, just like I always do.
Speaker 1:And the first thing, we're going into paragraph 16. Okay, again, that's page 99 of the complete annotated edition that came out in 2021. All right, so paragraph 16, the text is a redistribution of psychic energy, then, is not the solution. So let's give the buildup to this. That's paragraphs 14 and 15.
Speaker 1:In these last paragraphs, which we covered last week, jesus was unpacking how psychological theorists, especially Freud, was misunderstanding the true problem. Okay, the problem of the mind. What the mind thinks it's for, is basically the problem. Freud believed neurosis came from misdirected or blocked libido, psychic sexual energy. That's the way he looked at it libido, psychic sexual energy. His proposed solution was to redistribute or sublimate that energy into, quote, acceptable outlets. Right, so he's seeing this psychic energy as basically libido. So Jesus is saying that his solution was to redistribute it or to sublimate that energy, what he called acceptable. And really this is the foundation of society as we know it.
Speaker 1:So Jesus is correcting this. He's saying the issue is not where the energy flows. That's not the issue. It's what the mind believes about itself. It's the belief behind it, how the mind regards itself. So this is why redistribution fails, because just shuffling this psychic energy around, whether through repression, creativity, catharsis, sublimation, it's only managing symptoms within the illusion, it's within the illusion. So the real problem isn't distribution of energy, it's not how we're distributing our energy, it's the belief in miscreation itself. It's the belief that we are capable of miscreation itself. The mind's conviction that separation and fear are real, make it believe that it can miscreate and because of that it gets the perception that it has miscreated. Other minds are miscreating and it's going to miscreate again.
Speaker 4:Yes, thomas, and we're the authors of the miscreation, so we're proud of it we're.
Speaker 1:A lot of the times we're very proud of our miscreations. That's right. That's right, these things that we think we know, that's right. So, without addressing the root belief, which is the root, root belief is in miscreation, believing in miscreation. No technique or adjustment will ever bring healing. Okay, back to the sentence. The sentence says a redistribution of psychic energy, then, is not the solution. Okay, saying that's not the solution. Solution. Okay, saying that's not the solution.
Speaker 1:So I love this opening line for our deep dive today. It sets a really bold tone, doesn't it? It says the world is considering solutions, redistribution, management, therapy at the level of symptoms. It's not a true solution. So that's what we're starting with. This is not a true solution. So this is inviting us right away into a deeper dimension.
Speaker 1:Healing is not one bit about managing illusions. Healing is all about remembering what's true. So Jesus is gently but also firmly here, redirecting psychology back toward a spiritual foundation. Psychology back toward a spiritual foundation. Let's say it is the spiritual foundation of everything. This is the reason why these guys went to psychology in the first place. Right, they want this, they want the awareness of what works. Right, they want the awareness of what works. So they kind of paved the way for us to now see through Jesus, showing us this roadmap in this way, how to view ourselves and how to view the world Really. Okay, I'm just checking on you guys. Feel free, zoom and Substack peeps. Feel free to write me any questions or add anything you want. Okay, I check on you between these sentences.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:So we're on to sentence two of paragraph 16. And here's what it says Both the idea that both kinds must exist and the belief that one kind is amenable for use or misuse are real distortions. Okay, so Jesus is naming two distortions here. This is what he's talking about when he says both kinds must exist. Okay, this is from earlier reading that we did. Here it is the idea that both kinds must exist. So the assumption that creation and miscreation are equally inevitable. Okay, this is like two sides of a coin. You can say that people, they make it in their mind like it's two sides of a coin Creation, miscreation, putting them equal right. This is false. Only creation exists. Miscreation is optional and completely unreal. So that's why you can be released from all of its seeming effects, because the source of those effects that cause is not real. You were not ever capable of miscreation, but it's still optional. Do you see that? It's an option, but you can't really do it?
Speaker 4:Okay, yes, Optional because we have free will.
Speaker 1:That's right. It's optional because we have free will, right. As long as we want to wield the belief in separation, we can. And it's like we're making a distortion for ourselves and because we made it, we believe in it automatically. So we have to be consenting to have our beliefs, which is basically our values, overturned, sort of like, by a higher court, right? Okay? So that was the first one the belief that one kind is amenable for use or misuse.
Speaker 1:So the idea that creation itself can be twisted, see, it's the belief that creation can be misused, used or misused. The idea that creation can be twisted, bent or applied wrongly, right. And this is also false. Creation is an extension of love. That's what it is a pure extension of love, and it cannot be altered or misused. Okay. So the one is the assumption that creation and miscreation are equally inevitable, the other one being the idea that creation itself can be twisted, misused, misapplied, anything like that. That's also false, okay. So both are distortions because they're misrepresenting the very nature of creation. Creation is always whole, consistent and changeless. None of the changes you made are real. Miscreation quite simply has no reality. Okay.
Speaker 1:So to imagine creation could be corrupted, or to put them on the same level. To put it on the same level as miscreation is again to confuse the levels. Okay, again, that's the same thing and this is common in spirituality, you know, this is a common saying. They're two sides of the same coin. Right, these two things are not two sides of the same coin. Okay, because it's like on one coin it's saying you know, we're the ones that we perceive as becoming something, and on the other side of the coin it's I am, I am that, I am, I am the truth. Right, it's like one is this incomplete, incompleteness of becoming and one is of timeless being. It's like, if you want them on the same level, then, yeah, you can consider yourself as not waking up, not wanting to, not willing, not willing to. Okay, the becoming side of the coin is constantly echoing this distortion, like creation and miscreation both exist, one actually doesn't exist.
Speaker 1:So I'll give you a for instance. Let's say, last night you had a perception of yourself getting triggered, and when you had a perception of yourself getting triggered, all of a sudden it seemed to trigger someone else and then, all of a sudden, there seems to be this conflict, right? So the solution to that is it didn't happen. Nothing really happened, but love, love only, is the only thing that can be anything that exists. It actually did not occur.
Speaker 1:So in that case, since it didn't occur, any of those thoughts that circulate in my mind and want to ruminate, they're not relevant. That's what's such a blessing it actually sets everyone free who thinks they were in that, let's say, state of delusion with you. No one was there. That was a dream. The mind was blank. So it's like being free of past.
Speaker 1:Miscreation is that's. That's really what it is. There's no, it did not occur. It is, it's an imaginary thing. There's no past. You're projecting it right now. So, right now, that miscreation can be corrected by simply seeing that it could not have happened. God didn't create it. Therefore, it didn't exist. You were dreaming, no one was there with you. It was just you projecting, and right now and right now.
Speaker 1:So you know, for me I'll go straight to gratitude Any player that seems to have been involved with whatever seems to be awakening right now within me. I extend gratitude to them and, kind of in a playful way, thank you for playing. I'm sure that everything I say, do every trigger, everything is 100% helpful, 100% of the time. Everything is 100% helpful, 100% of the time. Okay, because of what it's for and you can say I'm a very religious person, I'm super dedicated, I'm super devoted to the thought system of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit tells me that anything that seems to be that's not of God is not possible, it's not a possibility. Okay, so the I am, that I am side of the coin would reflect truth, pureness, changelessness, changeless creation. See, so the mind putting these two things on the same coin suggests they're coexisting and balancing one another. Like they're balancing one another.
Speaker 1:Look at the yin yang symbol. I mean, I don't know how people take that, but it's like one side's light and one side's dark, like they coexist, like the like. If that was really sitting there, like the light would only just make the dark side light too, you know, like it just can't be there, like, think of, you know, walk into like a dark room and turn on the light. Like what part of it? Unless there's a shadow somewhere. You know, maybe it's signifying there's a wall there and it's making a shadow. Maybe that's the case.
Speaker 1:But there seems to be this confusion. A lot of this confusion is like about balancing the ego and the Holy Spirit. They don't need to be this confusion. A lot of this confusion is like about balancing the ego and the Holy Spirit. They don't need to be balanced and one example of this is, yes, hope, but we still have this life to live and I'm like, well, this is just a different way of receiving it. It's like I have a life to extend love. I have a life, a parent life, in this world, to extend love. It's just a different way of being with it, like there's no burden on me, there's nothing I have to do, there's nothing I have to deal with alone, right? It's always that the Holy Spirit telling me and holding me and being loved in this sweet embrace, that none of this illusory stuff holds any kind of obligation for me.
Speaker 1:To try to balance them out, to hold both of them, if they're true, is exactly what creates this experience of conflict Jesus is talking about here. The mind is trying to honor both, but only one is real, only one of them is real. So the ego wants to keep the illusion of conflict alive. This is important for the ego, the illusion of conflict alive. This is important for the ego, right? So it's thriving on these distortions right here. If both kinds seem to exist, then the mind's always managing tension between the two.
Speaker 1:Okay, because it means you really could destroy or corrupt reality. That's what it means to the ego, like you really could, and it's an idea deep in the unconscious mind, or subconscious mind, you might call it. It's as if you really did corrupt reality and it's if you have to get back to something, corrupt reality. And it's if you have to get back to something. But that's why in A Course in Miracles it says so many times you are as God created you. You cannot be different from that. Nothing that you seem to have done or said changed that.
Speaker 4:Yes, so that's the beginning of fear. Guilt and shame is when we believe in the illusion that we're actually making fear. Guilt and shame that we believe in the illusion that we're actually making fear guilt and shame.
Speaker 2:That's right, we can unmake it.
Speaker 1:That's right. We're undoing it. We're undoing that. Basically, we stop listening to this one that Freud is calling the super ego. That's saying that we need to be managed because we're bad, and it tries to manage us, to keep us safe, but really it sets us up for discontent, dis-ease, dysfunction, okay, okay. So the truth is, the truth is you cannot misuse God's gift, which is creation. It's impossible to misuse God's gift. Yay, welcome, you can, only you can, you can only. This part is important. This part is important.
Speaker 1:You can only misperceive and imagine that you misuse God's gift. Right, that's creation. You're still, as God created you, okay, the energy of creation. You can say creation itself. That's God's gift. You cannot misuse it. This is important to know and notice.
Speaker 1:When you're imagining other people are misusing creation, say they're misusing their energy, they're misdirecting their energy. Just as you cannot misuse creation, neither can anyone else cannot misuse creation, neither can anyone else. And you guys know, you guys who are with me on this in person, on Substack, on Zoom, listening later you guys know, whatever you think of anyone else is not about anyone else. Hello, it's like I cannot misuse creation. So you perceive someone doing it wrong. Let's say this is like a testament from the ego that you could misuse creation.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, all this is when you use it for the Holy Spirit's intent. All this is is reminding me that I can't do it wrong. I can't get it wrong. I cannot misuse creation. It's not possible. I only dream that I do that. Who am I going to forgive for that? A dream character. Someone's got to be wrong. Someone's got to be wrong. Right, the dream character, you guys? Let me tell you about the dream character just a little bit, so you have it really straight. Okay, the dream character is not autonomous. It's a projection of your love or fear. It's like a receptacle for that. Okay, so it doesn't need to be forgiven, it doesn't need to be praised, it doesn't need any of that. It needs your extension of love and acceptance in the form of acceptance that it is 100%, perfect, 100% of the time. Anyone who perceives it in any form is calling it in. That's why I love that song. Uh, it's moana, where the rock sings. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:I did all this and you're welcome right, however that comes out in the expression. Just let the holy spirit guide that. But within yourself you could be totally jovial. You have the right to be as you are, all right. So to believe that another person misused God's gift is simply projecting that error within yourself outward. It's trying to distract yourself, that you're making this up about yourself. It's trying to put you at a higher level, like you can see their miscreation. Okay, here's how you're miscreating. Let me tell you. Let me tell you how I see your miscreation.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what you're perceiving is their misuse is really your interpretation. It's rooted in an ego guilt, system of guilt, guilt. The truth is creation cannot be misused by you or by anyone. So what looks like misuse is misperception. It's always misperception Seeing a form in your dream without recognizing what its content is, without recognizing it's truly only love. No one has harmed or altered God's extension in any way. So to think they're misusing it or you're misusing it, it's the same Misusing creation, misusing God's gift, level confusion, treating illusion as if it operates on the same level as truth, see that. So if the truth is that God created you perfect and whole and holy and innocent and you've never changed, then the perception that God's creation can be misused in any way, treating that as truth, is level confusion. At the ego level, it looks like people distort, betray, misuse right. You can even say misusing alcohol, right, same thing. But spirit knows, nothing real is ever touched. So the only correction ever needed is your recognition that I'm not seeing truly. This is misperception, not misuse. I'm not seeing truly. This is misperception, not misuse.
Speaker 1:A Course in Miracles says that the mind is blank when you're in miscreation, aka misperception. It's really easy. Am I giving reality to miscreation here, or am I bringing miscreation to the truth to reality? Worst thing that could be happening is misperceiving. Now Nothing else is going on, and when that's going on, nothing's happening at all. So spirit corrects perception and when that happens, you just know the truth because it's always there, untouched yes, it's kind of a waste of time then, isn't it?
Speaker 4:Yes, because nothing's really happening. You're actually wasting valuable time.
Speaker 1:You're wasting time, and it doesn't matter when you're misperceiving, you're wasting time. You can see that the consciousness is basically eating away at your body right, because it's a self-attack basically eating away at your body, right, because it's a self-attack. And so it's like you're eating away at the perceived life, and since it's a perceived life, it doesn't matter too. So that's fun. So there's nothing to beat yourself up about anywhere anytime. So notice, when you think something like this this is just how it is A worldly thing. This is just how it is A worldly thing. This is just how it is.
Speaker 1:People are cruel. For instance, I like the one about death and taxes. That's a fun one. That always cracks me up when someone will just say something like that. The only thing certain is death and taxes. Those are forever. So that's an example of. This is just how it is. You can't have it all. You can't have a good relationship and awesome sex, for instance. Right, that's just how it is. This is what I made. Yeah, this is what I made. So, and the other one is both love and fear are real in this world. Both love and fear are real in this world. That's the that's how it is statement. Okay, that's just how it is Okay.
Speaker 1:Or when you think I've ruined something that was good, let's say I've ruined this great relationship. If I didn't act like that, I would ruined something that was good. Let's say I've ruined this great relationship. If I didn't act like that, I would still have this relationship. I took love and I broke it.
Speaker 1:That's another distortion. See, and you know what? Because of believing that that's possible for anyone, anywhere, we manifest it in our experience. That's the only reason. But see, there's only now. This did not happen.
Speaker 1:If you're dealing with something like this, please know it's a distortion and to work with it in a way that's really fruitful. Let that arise, feel what it feels like and then take those thoughts to the truth. It's not really possible. This is misperception, it's miscreation. You could give your mind over to creation. You could always have peace. Instead of that, you can stop right now miscreating, stop giving any reality to the illusions that are projecting. Now the correction is really simple Only creation is real and it's never been harmed or misused. So that's that sentence. Thank you for joining everyone. I love you, woo. Let's just read that sentence one more time. I had must exist and the belief that one kind is amenable for use or misuse are real distortions. So we just went deep into that rich, somewhat complicated sentence. Wasn't that fun? It was fun for me. I hope you guys liked it. Yeah Woo, we just deep dove into that one. All right. Nowhere else I'd rather be.
Speaker 1:She's not walking her dog, she's not thinking about walking her dog today.
Speaker 1:All right, sentence three of paragraph 16. The only way out is to stop miscreating now. Gave you guys a little prelude of that this is a minute ago and accept the atonement for miscreations of the past. Let's read it again. The only way out is to stop miscreating now and accept the atonement for miscreations of the past. So this is a present moment solution, the only place you could have a solution. This is a solution to the deadlock Jesus was talking about earlier.
Speaker 1:Earlier, when he says stop miscreating now, what he's saying is withdraw your belief in illusions right now, right now, don't carry them forward. In the Bible he would say. It would say that he said go now and sin no more after a healing. Stop making your illusions true. Stop adding belief to illusions, don't carry them forward. And he's saying accept the atonement letting the past be undone. Miscreations left no real effects. Remember the example I gave earlier having a memory of having been triggered the night before. Miscreations left no real effects. So nothing needs to be carried as guilt, nothing needs to be fixed, nothing happened Together. This is pointing these two things Stop miscreating now and accept the atonement for past miscreation Together. This points to the timelessness of healing. Correction happens now. So whenever you notice fear, guilt or conflict, ask yourself am I miscreating? Now Not. Oh, let me talk to the little self. Why'd you do that?
Speaker 2:picking up the conversation right.
Speaker 1:why'd you? Why'd you have to do that? My spiritual practice must not be on point, for instance. Okay, then accept the atonement. Basically, it's recognizing the past is undone. I accept the atonement. The past is undone. The past that I'm projecting now, it's undone, whatever meanness.
Speaker 1:There's one part in A Course in Miracles. I freaking love this part. It says any lack of love I'm going to paraphrase it perceived as if it's coming from you to yourself, from you to another person, from another person to you, from another person to another person, doesn't exist. It just doesn't exist. You got it wrong. You misperceived. That's a happy realization. What are people bitching about? Right, it's like this is a very happy, this is very happy. That we're misperceiving this is very happy. You don't have to fix it. That's right. There's nothing to fix. The correction is not about fixing. The correction is correcting your perception. Right now, you're going from misperceiving, thinking as if you're miscreating, let's say back to realizing. Only creation can happen, because only creation is real. See, so am I miscreating now? Whenever there's a sense, concern, let's say anything without gratitude, anything that doesn't feel like gratitude, am I miscreating now? And I accept the atonement. So the path is undone. Woo Woo.
Speaker 1:Right, right, you're so, and and look at the image that you're projecting the little self. It seems to be so fucking free because it's not being hammered on by the ego. See, you can't even really hammer on the little self. This is what's happening. You're getting a sense that the little self needs to be hammered upon, and then you're listening to the ego on how to hammer the little self and you're just fucking dreaming. So when you're listening to the Holy Spirit, you're just totally releasing that little self that you made to seem like it's so free, but all it's doing is reflecting the freedom in your mind, right, it's always reflecting that Either the freedom or the confinement that you're putting on it. So obviously I think everyone in this room felt it that this shifts you back into peace immediately. That's what aligns with truth, that's what aligns with your heart, right? So your free will gives you the right to intentionally decline any thought that hurts. All right, I'm checking on you guys to see if you're talking to me over here. Nope, everyone's doing great. Thank you for joining. I love you. Okay, thank you for staying. I love you so much.
Speaker 1:All right, so we're off to sentence four now, and there's a footnote here. The footnote is really short and there's a footnote here. The footnote is really short, so the sentence is only this can establish true single-mindedness. And the footnote says ie, psychic unity. So that's the this we're talking about here. Only this psychic unity can reestablish true single-mindedness. So the result of stopping miscreation, basically that means accepting the atonement. What's miscreation, misperception? Accepting the atonement is the restoration of single-mindedness. So this is psychic unity, the end of inner conflict, the healing of the split mind. Truly single-mindedness means there's no longer divided allegiance between creation and miscreation, love and fear, god and ego. This is single-mindedness. The sentence again only this psychic unity can reestablish true single-mindedness. This is the condition of peace. It's the mind's natural state. Single-mindedness, the split mind, is the illusion. Unity is the reality. So it's bringing back psychic unity. It's not something we achieve really, it's just what we reveal to ourselves. When we recognize miscreation is just misbelief, recognizing it's misbelief, the misbelief falls away. So this is where miracles flow. And of course, in miracles, miracles are natural for you. So this is where miracles are flowing effortlessly. The mind is und miracles flow. And of course in miracles, as miracles are natural for you. So this is where miracles are flowing effortlessly, the mind is undivided.
Speaker 1:So when you're choosing atonement and it's always a choice right when you're choosing atonement you're tasting this single mindedness again and again and over time this just becomes your steady awareness. If you're living the experience of peace, you just keep on living the experience of of peace. You know, one thing friends like to tell me is yeah, uh, well, it doesn't stay like that for me all all the time and it's like well, as you're seeing, it's like this. This seems to unfold over time. But, as you're seeing, if you will look at it with gratitude, when you seem to be going into delusion, like you don't feel so happy, don't feel so good, things seem to be obscure. You notice, am I misperceiving right now? That's all you need to know. Any of those, look at any of those strategies or anything you have that you want to employ. That's fine. Just know that that's not doing anything. It's actually your choice. They did nothing for 30 years.
Speaker 1:They did nothing for 30 years.
Speaker 1:Yes, they've just been distracting Right of years. Yes, they've just been distracting Right. So you're tasting this single-mindedness when you recognize that all it is is miscreating. Am I miscreating right now? Wow, I could accept the atonement and be completely free right now. And you know, if you're not accepting the atonement, just notice that you're not. Here's the thing for me. That was super, super helpful when I recognize that I'm not accepting the atonement and go oh, that's awesome too, back to, it's all helpful, that makes things go fast, being thankful about it. Oh, I'm so glad I could see that this is a meaningless thing. Aloha, thank you for joining. I love you. So we made it to paragraph 17. We're on sentence one now of paragraph 17. This is on page 99 of the complete annotated edition of A Course in Miracles and we are in Chapter 2, section 11. Here's the text.
Speaker 1:The structure of the psyche follows along the lines of a particular libido concept. The theorist employs Okay, there's a footnote here that helps Footnote 146. Libido is the psychic energy seen by Freud as primarily sexual, but by other theorists as instinctual energy in general that, when misdirected or suppressed, results in mental illness. So the sentence again. That was the footnote. The structure of the psyche follows along the lines of the particular libido concept the theorist employs. So Jesus is saying that the way psychologists describe the psyche depends on how they define libido, the psychic energy. So to Freud libido is primarily sexual, so he interpreted psychic conflict and pathology through sexuality. Other theorists libido has a broader instinctual life energy. So their models lean toward drives, instincts or creativity in general. In both these cases the psyche's structure is presented through the filter of the libido concept, however the theorist assumes it. So that's what Jesus is talking about here when he's going the structure of the psyche follows along the lines of the particular libido concept the theorist employs. So there's a filter that the theorist is assuming about this libido, this psychic energy. Okay, so this is showing. What Jesus is showing here is the limitation of conceptual psychology. The starting definition of libido shapes the whole picture of what we're taking our psychic energy to be. The definition itself is what he's showing.
Speaker 1:Here is already a distortion. Acim reinterprets the whole libido, psychic energy thing as miracle impulse. It's miracle impulse, the mind's true creative drive. It's purely spiritual. So illness, whether it's mental illness or physical illness or conflict, does not come from suppressed sexual or instinctual energy. It comes from misdirection of miracle impulse, turning the mind's creative power toward fear instead of love. That's all it is.
Speaker 1:So when you see it in this light, mental illness is again simply belief in miscreation, is again simply belief in miscreation. It's belief in miscreation. It's the attempt to misuse divine energy. You can only attempt to misuse divine energy. It cannot be misused.
Speaker 1:So when you notice theorists tying your inner life to sex, instinct, repressed drives, remember these are distorted maps and this is what we've been programmed with distorted maps based on distorted assumption. It's the assumption that this energy is somehow bad or good and not simply a miracle impulse. It's all a miracle impulse. Your true energy is not sexual or instinctual. It's creative in God. It's the only real energy you got, isn't that great?
Speaker 1:So it's like the whole society is based on this idea that we have these bad energies that need to be suppressed or redirected. Right, you guys see that? Right, suppress it or redirect it into something good that society would say is good. It's not acknowledging that all of our energy is actually only creative in God. So that's why we're getting these perceptions that there's all this energy running around the outer world that's not creative in God, including ourselves, the self we made up.
Speaker 1:So healing comes not from redistributing the energy or sublimating libido. It's in redirecting the miracle impulse to its true function. What is that true function? Extending love. We see, it's so simple. It's so simple and loving, that's all we are. You're a hundred percent lovable, loved, loving. That's why you're perfectly unaffected by misperceptions. Misperceptions say there's lack of love, lack of funds, lack of health, lack of energy Okay, lack. That's misperception. Aloha, sweeties, I love you. Ah, yay, okay. Sentence 2 of paragraph 17. Freud's psyche was essentially a good and evil picture, with very heavy weight given to the evil. That's what Jesus is saying. That's his sentence. Freud's psyche was essentially a good and evil picture, with very heavy weight given to the evil. Paragraph 17, sentence 2. So here is where Jesus is pointing out that Freud's model of the psyche itself was dualistic. It was a battle between good and evil. That's probably where we got the devil and the angel on the shoulder.
Speaker 2:What's interesting is, I think they're flopped, because Freud was more about the sexual and Jungian was about the wholeness of shadow and light. You know. Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of interesting, you think there.
Speaker 2:Investigation into the Jungian world. Okay, yeah, and that he saw libido as the creative story. Right, you know, yes, freud was more in the complexes of your mother, father, all that sort of thing, and the sexual repression being kind of things. Yes, and they actually had a division themselves because of that.
Speaker 1:They had a division. That's right and we went over that too. It's in some other ACIM deep dives. Jesus was going into these different guys Jung being one of them, yeah, and I think he was the one that Jesus was saying that he thought he had to fight Freud and that's what kept him from going. He's just got a lot of source of information To me.
Speaker 2:I really see him as a great guide of breaking out of the outer world as your reality. He really did a lot of support in your inner world.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, perfect, yeah. So Jesus was talking about earlier on in the same chapter that we're in the same section. He was also going over Jung's theories too and saying here's where he got it right and here's where he missed the mark which didn't let him, jung himself, to come to Jesus, to come to the completion right. So it's so neat that Jesus is making it clear to us so we could see so clearly how to follow the roadmap to the truth, because we're getting the benefit of how these theorists were looking at it and really this is their intention all along of seeing it's to see truly right. So now we've got the benefit of what they learn and Jesus pointing out to us here's what they learn and here's where they were in alignment with peace and what's the truth and here's where they went astray. So we could see that and recognize how not to go astray, how to stay on this with true single mindedness. I love that it's being made so simple for us. It's such a blessing. So here Jesus is specifically talking about Freud in this. He's actually naming him. He's going Freud's psyche was essentially a good and evil picture, with very heavy weight given to the evil. So he's pointing out that Freud's model of the psyche itself was dualistic, a battle between good and evil, apparently, where evil is winning a lot more. Freud emphasizes unconscious drive, sexual, aggressive, destructive, as the dominant forces, forces in our psychology. No wonder everyone feels like we need a system that tries to keep these things under wraps, trying to keep us safe from these things. So Freud's system gave more weight to evil, to instincts, repression, conflict, neurosis, than to the reality of spirit, creativity or love. And I think what Deanna was sharing Deanna, not Deanna Diana was sharing. I got a Deanna friend too. Okay, is that Jung actually got closer and Jesus was pointing out in a way he did, in a way he didn't, because he was saying that it's more creative and gentler about it, not such an evil aspect of ourself. So, from starting from a distorted definition of libido as sexual energy, freud framed his mind, framed the mind primarily driven by fear and guilt rather than by love and miracle impulses. So this is what the ego does. It always exaggerates evil because it needs belief in sin, guilt, fear, to survive. That's how the ego does it. Freud's system is mirroring the ego's emphasis here. From Jesus's perspective, though, this is another form of level confusion, taking what's unreal miscreation, fear, guilt, and giving it more weight than what's real creation, innocence, love. Giving that more weight, giving the fear more weight. So in truth, there's really no struggle between good and evil, and you know that's a common misbelief is that there's a struggle between good and evil and there's really not. It's just a misbelief, it's a misperception that miscreation has power. It doesn't have any power. So for us it's about noticing when our mind interprets situations as if they're struggle between good and evil. Notice how that's just a thing it comes up right and wrong. Is this a struggle between right and wrong? Then this is the ego's framework. This is not the spirit's framework. Spirit doesn't weigh evil as anything heavy at all. It actually overlooks it. It's not heavy because it's not there. It recognizes that evil is nothing.
Speaker 1:Last night, when I was getting a ride home in an Uber, the Uber driver immediately had this big energy about how there's this bad guy on the loose and he keeps on telling him he's going to kill him. And I'm lucky I didn't just run into him on the sidewalk, because he was just at the Uber driver's car threatening to kill him just before I arrived to the Uber. And you know when I get a load of that. And so the first thing the ego always speaks first, right, so I'm like smiling because I know ego thoughts are coming right now, so ego always speaks first. So I'm like smiling because I know ego thoughts are coming right now, so ego always speaks, uh, first, and in my mind it's so comical. It's like, wow, what a shitty uber drive. I get in the uber and he's talking about some negative shit right off the bat. Well, this guy needs to learn how to fucking be an? U Right.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing, though. This is the practical application of what we're talking about, right here. Right, this is it. The ego always speaks first. So I know I'm in for a comedy show. That's what's happening, right, these are not my thoughts. They're not part of me. The ego just speaks first in every situation. That's how it is. You can expect that, so, so, so I look at that. I have a fun laugh about it, right, and? And I just I'm listening to the guy talking about it he's called the cops and this is so bad and all shit like that.
Speaker 1:And by the time we make it out of the parking lot, the conversation is shifted. It just completely shifted, because I just have a look at that, have a laugh at that and notice there's no such thing as evil. This guy is totally made up. Who's out on the sidewalk? I probably did pass him. I remember making some sweet eye contact and a loving glance with someone on the sidewalk. Perhaps that was him right? Same dude. So it's like it's overlooking, instead of getting you distracted. It's all distracted. It's overlooking miscreation. So we can get back to the truth, which is creation, and just saw the dude you know have a good ass time Like is it going from this fear based? Love is always way more powerful and this is not a manipulation. It's command over every six, over every, every situation. Every situation is made of particles, just like our bodies are. These particles are god particles. They respond to love, they respond to truth.
Speaker 5:So healing comes, yes so did you say anything like he was saying that, or you just held love?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, I don't. I don't even remember what I said. Yeah, I just held it in love. Yeah, I just held it in, really, because you know there's a projection coming for me. Well, what a shitty end to my fucking awesome night getting an Uber with a guy who thinks he's about to be murdered by someone. Uber with a guy who thinks he's about to be murdered by someone, right? No, it's just like it's just watching that, smiling at it, and through smiling at it, through not making it as real automatically, what's uncovered is truth. What's uncovered is creation, because you're not giving miscreation any meaning, it's not being given any weight, right? Except for just being a comedy.
Speaker 1:I don't even think I even shared that with you when I came home, because I didn't even freaking remember it. It was just like it just came up right now as an example. You know it's like and that's, and that's the thing when ego thoughts occur. To me, it's never a big deal. It's only useful in sharing. It's only useful in sharing. It's only useful in sharing it and saying look, this is how it looks. It comes up like this and it's an opportunity for remembering the truth together, and we always go together. So it's like my willingness to go with the Uber driver is my willingness to undo the dream for the entire sonship and I feel super, super blessed. I don't even remember it until I just need to remember it to tell a story. It's like, it's funny. It seems like people probably hear something like that Whoa, that would have been a big impact.
Speaker 1:I think I would have been talking about it as soon as I walked in the door to my roommate. So basically, it's a matter of remembering. Only love is real. You know, there might be thoughts that even come. If I'm starting to make that thought true about this is a shitty Uber experience, right. Other thoughts, you know, wow, is there really a guy going around saying he's going to murder people? Like, am I really safe walking around the streets and stuff like that? I walk everywhere. I walk a bunch. I wasn't walking last night because it was quite a bit further. It would have taken an hour and a half Half hour walks are fun for me. Half hour walks are fun for me. I'm not trying to strain. I'm not here for strain.
Speaker 2:Right, okay.
Speaker 1:Thanks you guys. All right, sentence three. Here are Jesus's words Once again. This is because every time I mentioned the atonement to him, which was quite often jesus is talking about freud now which was quite often he responded by defending his theory more and more against it, against it See. So Jesus is giving Helen right now A window, and us A window into his interactions with Freud. He's saying, basically, freud's resistance wasn't casual.
Speaker 1:He was actively defending his theories Against the idea of the atonement. Why was he doing this of the atonement? Why was he doing this? Because the atonement contradicts the foundation of Freud's psychology. That's what Jesus is like building up to, through these sentences, his whole foundation, which was faulty. Which was faulty.
Speaker 1:He saw guilt and conflict as inevitable, rooted in these instinctual drives, this sexual drive. So atonement is declaring guilt as unreal. That makes conflict unnecessary and it means that healing is available right now For Freud. He was invested, right, he was invested in his concepts. This was his life's work. For Freud to accept atonement would have dismantled all of his assumptions, his whole system. So the ego in him was defending the theory in order to keep the good versus evil picture intact.
Speaker 1:So the ego is always going to cling to its thought system. This is the ego's identity. So when truth which is the atonement is introduced, the ego doubles down on defensiveness. So we have to be super humble. Humility and meekness come into play here, because if we want to try to uphold our identity, our identity may be based on a wrong assumption in the first place. So whenever we feel defensive and this is a really good way to tell, this is how I use it I do a gauge in my body sense. Defensiveness feels like pushing to me. It feels like pushing. So whenever I get the sense I'm feeling defensive, that's a sign that the ego's illusions are threatened right now. So I look for what is the atonement? Thought that's being threatened right now, that's threatening something. Of course, that thing that's being threatened and seen upon, seen as if it could be a loss, isn't even real. To accept the atonement means the ego is ended. That's the end of the ego. Yay.
Speaker 1:So practically, to use this sentence to your benefits, let's look at the sentence again. This is because every time I mentioned the atonement to him that's Freud, which was quite often he responded by defending his theory more and more against it. Are you doing that? Are you defending a theory against the atonement. That's the thing. That's what this is given to us for.
Speaker 1:Notice in ourselves when someone offers a correction, as in spirit speaking through them. Let the spirit speak through anyone, right? Do you feel an impulse to defend? Notice, if you feel an impulse to defend, that means the spirit is speaking through someone, and that could be anyone, and that could be just the spirit speaking to you through your mind as well, without coming through another person. Notice any defensiveness. That's the ego reaction, instead your theory.
Speaker 1:Ask if you're resisting the atonement right now. In my defenselessness my safety lies. That's one of the lessons in A Course in Miracles. That's what it reminds me of. This opens the space to you. The Holy Spirit can reinterpret whatever it is. You don't have to cling to the thought system that keeps you in conflict. Yay, thank you, love bugs. So on to sentence four of paragraph 17. 17. This resulted in his increasingly strong attempts to make the illogical sound more and more logical. So this is Freud Increasingly strong attempts to project illogic, something that's not logical. So his resistance, freud's resistance to the atonement played out in his work. He rejected the idea that guilt is unreal and healing is certain. He rejected that idea even though Jesus kept trying to talk to him, he was left trying to patch together a worldview where guilt and conflict were inevitable. So in this way he was forced into intellectual contortions, building elaborate theories just to justify this picture in his mind that we're evil, that our drives are evil and not miracle impulses we're determined.
Speaker 4:I always think of it as um the separation never happened yes so when he's defending, he's defending separation, exactly, trying to explain separation. He's trying to be the author of how to get out of separation and he was really into being seen as an author like yeah my program yeah, but he never.
Speaker 1:This is why it was circular. He never had an end that was out of separation, and he said the best we could do is be a well-adjusted neurotic. I think it was yeah, so you're never out of it. You always are in this fight between the superego and the id. How many psychologists and psychiatrists he taught.
Speaker 1:That's right, it's based on him, right. That's why Jesus is, yes, and taking pills. And this is why Jesus is bringing him up, because modern psychology is based on his work. So that's why he's bringing it up to show and you know, you could just look at the psychology of society and that's showing. You know how this has been followed.
Speaker 5:So yeah, I remember I had this like knowing of, like the dsm-4 book, the that describes all diseases. Okay, like he'd go to therapy. Oh, he's your dad's a narcissist. You're putting that label on and and it's like you're keeping him separate. Yes, it's just. I was like, oh, that whole book is not true yeah, and what's this book?
Speaker 1:You said DSM-IV. Dsmr-iv. Let me get the correct thing.
Speaker 4:It's the diagnosis. How they give diagnosis through the medical book.
Speaker 1:Oh, how they give diagnosis.
Speaker 4:There's something cool about this. They said that they argue for months to try to get a new edition because everyone argues. Everyone comes together to argue about what it should be and what it shouldn't be to get into the book.
Speaker 1:Right, it's just totally made up, yeah, and you see, it's like this illogical, basically foundation and it has to keep on being defended. That's why they get together and argue about what's going to go in the book. Because their job and egos depends on it. Their job and egos right their job and egos depends on their job and egos right depends on it.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 5:Right, because this is I studied 10 years to teach this or to and having an ego discovering something? Yes, yeah, his name. He could not have his name on it it's like you said earlier all serves.
Speaker 4:These guys broke the path toward truth. That's right, by eliminating what's not true.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's not like anything went wrong. Yeah, and you know their intention was all the same, like we have a shared intention here, right To see through. It's just that it's misdirecting the energy, it's misdirecting the creative impulse. Let's say that's what Jesus is saying. It's like it's misdirecting it in a dream, that's all. But you can't really miscreate. It's misdirecting of a creative impulse. We'll get to that part too.
Speaker 1:So by rejecting the idea that guilt is unreal and healing is certain, so by rejecting the idea that guilt is unreal and healing is certain, freud was bummed out. He was not having a good time and he was telling everyone else basically, life sucks, guys. This is probably where they got that saying life is a bitch and then you die. Common saying for me growing up. So yes, all these intellectual contortions, theories to justify the ego's picture, the more he resisted the truth, the more effort he had to invest and did invest in making illogical ideas that guilt and sin are real and conflict is essential seem logical. But what you see is, how can that be logical when the end is suffering? You know the end is suffering. The end isn't even released in his own thing. That's why he was bummed out.
Speaker 1:So this is the ego's universal strategy making nonsense look like intellectual sophistication. This is what you see on the news, basically making nonsense look like intellectual sophistication. Isn't that so fun? So this is why, of course, in Miracle says and this is from chapter 7, the ego's arguments are always circular and always seen this way. If you will look at them, see how Freud's arguments are circular. If you look at them, you see they don't resolve in peace. That's why they're circular.
Speaker 1:Whenever the truth is denied, the mind has to invent complex explanations to defend illusions. The more elaborate the defense, the less sense it makes. But to the ego, complexity looks like strength, right right. So these intellectual contortionists are basically appointed right now by society to be ruling the world. They're even trying to think, they're, yeah, they're even trying to figure out how to uh, modify the, the weather, because that's not the way it's supposed to be. Isn't that fun? And even all the contortionists and all of the attempt to modify the weather, that's also the way it should be. It's because that's the way we're perceiving it. And that's really. It's not. Nothing's happening.
Speaker 2:Have you ever read the Celestine Prophecy? Yes, I actually saw the movie.
Speaker 1:I thought that was a good movie. The celestine prophecy yes, I actually saw the movie. I thought that was a good movie.
Speaker 2:Celestine prophecy yes yeah, but uh, the the point he was making was like we had all this awakening of our energetic selves and then there was a collective uh agreement to have certain people to go look what was beyond what we experienced and we, like, set up civilization, waiting for them to come back with it, right?
Speaker 1:yeah, it's all a trick that we do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's all a trick somebody else go out there and find it and tell us about it Right, Find the truth.
Speaker 1:So, hooray, Okay, so practically, for this sentence. And this sentence is this resulted in his speaking of Freud strong attempts to make the illogical sound more and more logical. So, notice in yourself this is really fun and easy to do. You don't have to make yourself guilty or anything, but this will come up from time to time. Notice in yourself when you feel compelled to prove your fearful thoughts are true. You know. Notice you're trying to convince someone. No, no, this is really a threat. Right, this is really, this is really like this. Or justify some guilt. Okay, this is the same ego maneuver Freud was embodying. Right, it's an ego maneuver to try to convince people that guilt and fear are real Instead of continuing to argue for illusion.
Speaker 1:You can pause and go. Wait a minute. Am I trying to make the illogical sound logical? Right? So you're just your awareness of this. You don't even have to stop. You can still be preaching the illogical. No one's saying you got to stop. Let it keep on running If that feels like the truth for you in the moment, Just notice that this is going on. The more you notice, the more your behavior and the things you say are going to change. It's a simple awareness, letting the Holy Spirit just show you that the truth doesn't need any defense. Only illusions seem to need defense, and they cannot really be defended because they're not true. Yes, Thomas.
Speaker 4:It's like saying am I trying to take what can't be threatened and I'm trying to make it like it can be threatened?
Speaker 1:That's right. Am I trying to take what cannot be threatened and make it as if it can be threatened? Basically, I'm scaring the shit out of myself and this person right now.
Speaker 4:There's a murderer out there. There's a murderer out there.
Speaker 1:There's a murderer out there, right, I go, oh yeah, dang those murderers, they got to get off the street man Going around, you know the guy's like I called the cops, I told the cops I'm going to be like this. He's like really firm. I'm probably saying something like, oh, that's good, right, just totally not believing that this is even possible. Right, I'm just making it up, I'm making the whole uber drive, the story, everything, so I could look at it and overlook it, feel it and overlook it. So here, uh, sentence, wait a minute, where are we? Oh, yeah, sentence 17. Or yeah, paragraph 17, sentence five.
Speaker 1:Here's Jesus's words I was very sorry about this because his was a singularly good mind and it was a shame to waste it. This is what Jesus is saying about Freud here. Okay, so Jesus here is expressing sorrow, not judgment. He's saying I was sorry about this. His regret is that Freud's mind, a brilliant gift, was used to defend illusion instead of to extend truth. So Jesus is actually, you know, he's saying, wow, I was sorry about this, so a singularly good mind. What's he saying? Because? Because he's saying freud's mind was a singularly good mind and it was a shame to waste it. And, interesting, jesus is using shame here. His regret is that freud's mind wasn't used to it to extend truth. It could have been, because it was a singularly good mind. That's a quote.
Speaker 1:This is highlighting that intelligence itself isn't the issue, it's the purpose. The mind is given A mind of great brilliance and aren't they all can be wasted if it's in service to the ego. And you know what he's talking about here. Of great brilliance. Freud was able to be super religious and focused on his theories. He was very focused. So that shows that he could use that focus toward the truth too. Right, but he chose not to. That's why Jesus saying he was sorry about that and it's a shame and a waste.
Speaker 1:So the waste here isn't about time or productivity in worldly terms. It's about misdirected purpose, the miracle impulse being diverted into defense and fear. That's why Jesus kept trying to talk to him his whole life, telling him to accept the atonement. And you can say Jesus is doing that with all of us. So truly, the son of God cannot waste the mind God gave. That's how it fits in with all of the other texts we've been going over.
Speaker 1:But in the dream the mind can be misapplied. Let's say he's showing compassion here. Jesus is showing compassion. Uh, the tragedy is never that anyone failed, but that they temporarily use their brilliance to make the false seem like it's true. So this is giving us a lesson in how the ego misuses even the best tools of the mind. The spirit's just asking us to repurpose this stuff so you can think of your mind, just like this, as a singularly good mind.
Speaker 1:Just like this is the quote from Jesus. It's brilliance isn't in its intellect, it's in its capacity to align with the truth, just always aligning with the truth. That's what makes it a good mind. When you notice yourself using your mind to argue for fear or anything like that, you can ask is this good mind being wasted right now? Right? Do I really want to see Jesus cry? You just get a picture of Jesus crying in your mind, right? Don't make Jesus cry. Come on now, right? You don't have to listen to that. You don't have to listen to any of that fear. You don't have to defend fear, guilt or limitations, right?
Speaker 5:So is that why Jesus came through Helen? Because he couldn't get through Freud.
Speaker 1:Right, he'll just keep on coming through. Yeah, this is another psychologist, but here's the thing Jesus is actually talking to all of us, right? If you watch those near-death experiences on YouTube, there's all these near-death experiences where the first thing they see is Jesus and he's going. Nothing's wrong. Just look at this with me, look at this differently and then go back and share it. Right, here's how to see this properly. Look at it with me. And it's always a real, peaceful place. He's always trying to talk to us and it's always a real, peaceful place. He's always trying to talk to us. So when we're busy defending our illusions, we cannot hear him. That's the thing. So when we're busy making guilt real, we cannot hear him. That's what he's saying to us.
Speaker 1:Aloha, okay, durga, you got a question. Do you think Freud was consciously aware Jesus was communicating with him? No, not at all, not after going over this, because you know what Jesus is saying and also what the history of Freud. This has given me an opportunity to look into Freud a little bit you know he's written some books and to have those books paraphrased, which we're going to go over here later. He talked about religion being an illness, like people believing in fairy tales and wishful thinking. So that's fun. So no, I don't think he actually was going. Thank you, jesus, for talking to me. I think he was just ignoring Jesus for the most part. Yeah, so hooray for that.
Speaker 1:So, yes, offer your mind to the spirit. Just keep on offering your mind to the spirit. Your body is for communications. That way, none of your brilliance is wasted in the moment. You know, make it your goal in the moment to not waste any of your brilliance. Give your mind to God for love and miracles.
Speaker 1:I don't know anything. I love just allowing my projected self-image to be a jolly, joyful, fucking idiot. Right, and that's in a really loving sense, because it's allowed to be as it is. It's just allowed to be as it is. It's not trying to make it high and mighty, it's just allowing it to be. I don't know how it should be. However, it is that's given me for acceptance and for extending love, compassion to it. However much you will extend through and to that receptacle for your thoughts, the imaginary self, the little self, however, you will be with, that is how much you'll extend to the world and extend for the healing of the sonship. So you want to. You want, you want to see jesus smiling like fuck yeah, you're doing it right, rather than a tearful, fucking sorrowful. Can you imagine?
Speaker 1:pictures of jesus all right, he's always looking all serious.
Speaker 1:I've seen mostly he's on the cross. Yeah, there are some. There are some, really, um, smiling pictures I've seen. Yeah, all right, we made it to paragraph 18, so we're actually going to cover it. Looks like we might cover three paragraphs today. So sentence one However, the major purpose of his incarnation, that's Freud, was not neglected.
Speaker 1:That's what we're getting to about. You know, it was awesome. The major purpose of his incarnation was not neglected. So Jesus is shifting here from speaking about Freud's resistance and he's acknowledging a higher purpose being served by Freud's quote incarnation. Even though Freud defended his theories and resisted the atonement, the major purpose of his incarnation was fulfilled. Yay, isn't that fun. So what is this purpose? It's service to the larger plan of correction and awakening. So it fulfilled that purpose. Jesus is reassuring us. Even apparent failures, let's say we apparently fail in our life and make Jesus cry. It does not cancel out the role each one plays in the plan. It's always perfect. You just can't get it wrong. See, take that image of Jesus crying. That's your tears, you're crying, you're making yourself cry. Freud made himself bummed out. That's really what's going on there. Freud's mind was used by the ego, but the spirit still wove that incarnation into our salvation.
Speaker 1:Every incarnation has a major purpose. Yours is not excluded. Always, always, always, we're learning about forgiveness and contributing to the undoing of the separation. This is why there's a perception of bodies dying and having different incarnations because of the rigidity. Rigidity is aging. Look at aging itself. Things fucking got hard, didn't they? They got stiff. Gravity, right, yes, we were blaming on gravity, right? Yeah, things got hard, things got stiff, things got less buoyant. And then you know, it's like there's less innocence, right. So it's like this is just a manifestation. All right, it's just a manifestation. Our bodies are a manifestation of thinking. It's a psyche made manifest. That's all it is. So it's like this apparent death has to occur so that there can be a clean slate. Maybe some more humility can come up. So we're doing awesome.
Speaker 1:The form may look distorted, sometimes even tragic, but the content is never lost. There's a deeper purpose here, and the word he used the words he used was his incarnation was not neglected, and neither is yours. So this reflects A Course in Miracles teaching that the Holy Spirit is reinterpreting everything for good, for awakening. What seems wasted is actually repurposed. So you can see here how, when Jesus is saying he was talking about sorrow, and what else did? He say Sorrow and that it was a shame to waste it. It's like what he's doing is feeling into the pain Freud had to go through because he didn't accept the atonement for himself. But that doesn't mean that he did a bad job in his lifetime. So this was a step in the right direction, because to heal we must first look at what was denied. A Course in Miracles says in chapter 12, you cannot escape from what you do not know. And Freud's work was preparing the way for a course in miracles by legitimizing the idea that there's unseen guilt and hidden motives. That's huge. That's what he did. He totally legitimized that idea for everyone that there's this unseen, unconscious mind. Before that that wasn't something that was widely accepted. Before that that wasn't something that was widely accepted.
Speaker 1:No-transcript. So in our own experience we don't have to minimize these partial steps. They're all good. They're all good. Whether we just take minimal steps or others seem to be taking minimal steps, it's all good, it's all helpful. Even if things seem imperfect, they're being used by the spirit. For example, any kind of therapy, shadow work, psychological insights, reiki, any of this kind of stuff. Block therapy, for instance, may not bring you to final healing. That's okay. They're opening the willingness. That's how they're all helpful, because, remember, it comes down to willingness. They're opening the willingness.
Speaker 1:So they may seem to be preparatory. They're not really preparatory. They seem to be preparatory, we see them that way, but Spirit's using all of them to lead our mind toward the atonement every step of the way. So they're not lost. It's just that they themselves are not going to bring the healing. They're not going to do it. So it's like, when you look at it, oh, this is just opening my willingness. It's not actually doing anything for me except helping me to open up to the truth Because ultimately, it's a choice that I make to stop miscreating now. So instead of dismissing these steps like, oh, I don't need this, I'm already ahead of the game we can see them as preparatory, letting the Spirit use them to bring our mind toward atonement. That's how they're preparatory. So I love this because, noticing fears and stuff surfacing right, people ask me all the time how do you get out of that? Like, how do you see that differently? Recognizing it's a step in the right direction, right, not making it wrong. That immediate recognizing it's right for me. This is good for me. That's allowing spirit to use it for healing. Right there, basically, you're out of it by not trying to get out of it Right.
Speaker 1:Paragraph 18, sentence 3. Freud was one of the most religious men I have recently known. This is Jesus talking. Freud was one of the most religious men I have recently I have known. Recently is the exact word okay. So this statement might seem paradoxical to people who have read Freud, because he's mostly remembered as a critic of organized religion, even calling it an illusion. So Jesus is pointing to a different kind of sense of religious here, obviously not about religious doctrine, institution, but devotion of the mind. He's saying Freud was devoted.
Speaker 1:Freud's life and work were driven by an intense commitment to understanding human nature in the psyche. Just because it was channeled through the ego's framework which Jesus is pointing to again, doesn't mean he didn't have devotion. He had a deep reverence and he was pursuing the truth as he understood it. Jesus is just saying his whole premise was wrong. Yep, exactly that's what's going on. That's why we get back to the premise. The premise is we thought we were separate, guilty, shameful, wrong. And we recognize that that premise is wrong. We stop miscreating now. It makes it really simple Thank you, wrong. When we recognize that that premise is wrong, we stop miscreating. Now it makes it really simple Thank you Freud, thank you Jesus. So Jesus is reframing here Freud's passion.
Speaker 1:Despite appearances it was a religious impulse and of course, in miracles terms, religion is devotion to a belief system. Everyone is religious, you know, some more so than others. Whether you know, there's some people that aren't so devoted to one particular belief system. They're kind of like back and forth. But every belief system serves either ego or God. So our choices are driven by our devotion to belief systems.
Speaker 1:The object of Freud's devotion, which was his theories that, was distorted, but it still testifies to the underlying miracle impulse that's the drive to return to God. So all these things, these sexual impulses, all different impulses, they're all miracle impulse. They're the drive to return to God. That's all. It is a creative impulse, that's all we've got. So this helps us reinterpret people who seem to be opposed to spirit too, doesn't it? Beneath the surface, they just want to return to God. There's this intensity that's yearning for the truth. Even though it might be misdirected, it's yearning for truth. So, apparently, in Jesus' mind, religious doesn't mean pious or traditional. Freud wasn't religious in that sense at all. It's about the mind giving its allegiance to a belief system, and that's what we do. When we want to see truly, we do that with the belief system of the Holy Spirit that the Holy Spirit has for us. That's what makes our religion, in that sense, potent.
Speaker 1:So notice where devotion shows up for you. What do you give your energy to? Where do you place your reverence? This is your religion, basically in practice. Notice where you condemn someone for being anti-spiritual, against spirituality. Right, recognize that devotion. Wow, I really like your devotion. I see your passion about that. That's awesome. Yeah, I mentioned the Bible one time to a woman and she was an older English woman. She goes you know the Bible was written by men, right, and I'm like sure, that's good. You know, like it's like it doesn't, it doesn't matter to me, but it's like oh, yeah, okay, thanks, yeah, that's awesome. And here's what it says. And isn't that awesome? She's like, yeah, it is. It's like, oh, okay, all right, it's written by men, it's good.
Speaker 4:Here's what it says. It seems like she was fishing to see if you could be victim with her about men.
Speaker 1:Right or be defensive, but I was just like really inspired in what I had to share. Whatever that was, I don't remember right now, but whatever that was from the Bible was really inspired and go, isn't that awesome. And she's like, yeah, that is. And it doesn't matter who wrote it, I wrote that fucker. So even skepticism or criticism of God, it's intense devotion. So recognizing that, oh yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:So when you encounter someone hostile, you might just remember this is a religious man or woman. They are really devoted. Their devotion, that's real. It's an underlying miracle impulse. Spirit will redirect it. You don't need to redirect it for them. Let the spirit redirect it. You just notice, wow, ooh, that's strong. And wherever you notice your devotion being misplaced into fear or anything like that specialness, anything, the impulse is holy. That way, you're not condemning yourself. You don't need to get rid of it. You do not need to get rid of it. Look at this. The underlying impulse is holy. I don't need to get rid of it. You do not need to get rid of it. Look at this. The underlying impulse is holy. I don't need to get out of this. I need to see that what I'm defending here is an unholiness and the underlying impulse is holy, Because the impulse is for returning to God and spirit redirects it for you. You don't even have to do anything. Yay, welcome, I love you. Anytime you join is fun. Yay, we're always getting into something deep here.
Speaker 1:So on to sentence four of paragraph 18, and I'm weaving in footnote 147, which I'll read at the end. So here's the text. Unfortunately, he was so afraid. This is Freud, again spoken by Jesus. Unfortunately, he was so afraid of religion that the only way he could deal with it was to regard it religion, not himself, as sick. I love how his words are so pointed. It's so good. He was so afraid. Freud was so afraid of religion that all he could do was regard it as sick. So Jesus here is pointing to Freud's defense mechanism. Instead of acknowledging his fear of God, he displaced it outward by declaring religion itself is pathological.
Speaker 1:So this defense shows up in Freud's book the Future of an Illusion from 1927, where he described religion as a product of wish fulfillment, a projection created to control destructive impulses and to comfort humanity against uncontrollable forces of nature. That's what he wrote in his book Religion Was. I know a lot of people who believe religion is like that. Oh, look at those poor religious people. They must have a lower consciousness. They go to church and they believe in this fictitional figure that's going to save them and all that kind of stuff, right? It's like oh, wish fulfillment, how cute. It's like, oh, wish fulfillment, how cute, right, and you can see how that's what it looks like. It's meant to comfort them against these uncontrollable forces of nature. Forces of nature aren't uncontrollable, it's not true. We're projecting them. Right.
Speaker 1:So he was afraid within himself. So he treated it as a sickness. Out there, in religion, he was afraid of his own religious impulse. So this is the ego's classic move project fear outward right, so the mind doesn't have to face it within. Outward right, so the mind doesn't have to face it within. The ego is trying to convince us that God, love and devotion are a problem, right, while look at this while guilt, control and defense are the solution. And that was Freud's mindset Be afraid of religion, but use guilt, control and defense as the solution. So the sickness was never in the religion, god or devotion. The sickness is the mind's belief in separation. That's what the sickness is. See, you could see how we put guilt, control and defense in charge. You know, I would notice this.
Speaker 1:As a youngster, when I first learned the idea that food could make me fat I think I was about 10 and I went on a fast because I picked up the idea food could make me fat, right. So I put the superego in charge, what Freud calls the superego, which is really the ego, right? And it's like OK, this concept is true. That's the premise that food can make me fat. Now I need to figure out how to not get fat from food and still try to have as good a time as I can doing that without too much punishment, please, right? So I saw how this was employed over and over again. And then it was maybe a couple decades later where I go.
Speaker 1:Whoa, I see where I'm giving power to this illusion Like that food can affect the body. I could see it clearly that it made no sense whatsoever. If the body and the food are both on a screen of consciousness, how is one going to affect the other? That makes no sense. So I could see that the premise was untrue. But here's this trained ego talking you better not eat that. I'm at a party and I'm eating olives and a dude's telling me you know, those have one gram of fat each. Right, that's my mind, right, and I'm like, thank you for letting me know. And I'm eating some more olives, right, and you know, come to see, this idea that some food is going to make you fat is where a lot of us actually do start putting the ego in charge.
Speaker 1:And it seemed to me that that's where I started putting the ego in charge, right, it's like, of course, it's the thought of separation. It's not anywhere in time, but I could see how, you know, looking at it, it's like, oh, maybe the first one was earlier than that. Okay, I really don't like spankings. It seems like these things are handed out like pancakes around here. I'm going to see how I can not get a spanking, how I can avoid the spanking. I'm putting the ego right in charge, right, because to my little mind, it wasn't going. Okay. How can I not get a spanking? Well, spanking is punishment. Let's see where's this thought that says I deserve punishment. I'm just going to look at any thought that says I deserve punishment and bring that to the truth. Really, that's the surest way to protect you from any physical harm. That's the surest way to protect you from any physical harm.
Speaker 1:Noticing, in the moment, you know, I, basically I get a sense of guilt. Guilt demands punishment. Ah, there's spankings for you, perfect, I don't even have to wait, comes right away. So let's see. So, yes, when you feel resistance to stillness, right, I can't be still right now. I can't be still right now. This is too important. I need to go with this intense thought right now. Let's say that's the ego's classic move. I can't't just relax right now. Here's a menu in front of me. I seem to be at a restaurant. Here's a menu in front of me.
Speaker 1:I cannot just relax and let the Holy Spirit show me what to eat. I have to get all these concepts out and see what fits into these concepts. That's what I started to notice. I was like, what kind of enjoyment is that? And the more I was willing to see what was the most joyful for me, the more I could hear the voice of spirit and get the sense that the food that I'm taking in and I say get the sense because nothing's doing anything, but we get a sense of it, getting the sense that the food is nourishing. Getting the sense because it's all sense that the food is nourishing. Getting the sense because it's all sense that the food is nourishing. That's a reflection of getting the sense of the truth, everything you know. It occurred to me at 17,. What if everything that we really felt like we wanted to eat was really good for us? What if? Why wouldn't that be true? That makes no sense. We're projecting an illusion here. Why wouldn't that be the one? Come on now, I was just hearing like food religion.
Speaker 1:I know, oh, that's so good Food and religion. She's saying Notice this. I just came from a place in Mexico where I heard people talking about the kitchen. Why isn't this kitchen vegetarian? That's the most spiritual diet there is, right, things like that.
Speaker 1:So I'm riding with some people and, you know, I seem to just eat anything. It is so funny, like I can just take in. I feel like I could take in any food and transform it, it doesn't even matter. So, uh, so I find myself riding around, uh, to the airport with one of the guys from from the place, uh, from Namaste village, while around Namaste village and this is an ACIM community, okay, so he's going, yeah, if I were to be a judgmental person, I'm like, oh, thank goodness You're not a giant, wow, I'm so glad you're not. Anyway, like, oh, thank goodness you're not a giant, wow, I'm so glad you're not. Anyway, anyways, what were you saying?
Speaker 1:So, yeah, people are addicted to bread and dairy, is what he's saying? People are just addicted to bread and dairy. They eat it every day and I go, man, you realize you're talking about me Like one of my staple foods. Apparently, one of my staple foods is sourdough bread, fried in ghee on both sides and made crispy. That's like one of my staple foods. I like to eat that every day, apparently. And he goes oh yeah, but you're beyond all that stuff, none of that stuff affects you. And I go yeah, apparently I'm so beyond all that stuff. It doesn't affect anyone else either. Right.
Speaker 1:I'm not like going around going, yeah, you know I can do it, but you can't, you're too low level consciousness, right, it's like. It's like. I undo the illusions of the world by seeing that none of these things are true for anyone. There's no way that the food they ate is having any effect on them. It's a, it's a, it's a. Play it, it's a game. It's as if, right, it's as if the food can have an effect on you. So, so one. So in the apparent reality.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people have experiences with food okay.
Speaker 1:So here's how you, here's how you manage with that. Okay, look at you, get an experience. Let's say, yeah, it's a misperception. Let's say you seem to blow up whenever you have gluten. This is a common thing for people, right? They seem to blow up whenever they have gluten. So this is not saying you should try to tempt the ego and go eat a bunch of gluten and say, look, it didn't even affect me, because what's probably going to occur is you're going to blow up and go to the hospital and then you're going to go shit. The truth isn't true. Dang, there it is again. There's proof. Well, the ego and the ego's world is meant to prove that illusions is true. So that's what occurs.
Speaker 1:So you notice that you gave that power to the gluten to blow you up. Right, the gluten to blow you up, right. So whenever the thought occurs to you or you find yourself trying to convince someone else that you're gluten intolerant, notice that you're making up a story. Remember that you're making up a story. Now, inevitably, this is what happens to gluten intolerant people. They mistakenly eat gluten, apparently, and they have that kind of effect. Okay. So if and when that occurs, you deny reality to these effects. Put all power back in your mind. Yes, you're experiencing these effects, and you're experiencing these effects because you made your mind weak, but you are all-powerful mind, so you're putting all of the power back to your mind. Basically, you're recognizing what your mind is and what it's for right now. Okay, you're denying reality to illusions. It's not possible that gluten made you blow up. That makes no logical sense at all and that kind of cause and effect makes no sense at all. The effect that you're perceiving now, you're projecting now, it has no roots in the past, even if the past was five minutes ago. Okay, it just makes no sense. This is how you'll actually undo these illusions. You will undo these illusions. Okay. What happens for people that believe in the illusions? They actually believe that they're gluten intolerant. Guess what happens for these people? They become more and more intolerant, not just the gluten, to people, to experiences. This is a sign of aging. Quote unquote aging. Now, things are too loud for me. Now I'm sensitive to this and now I'm sensitive over here. Yeah, yeah, I'm even sensitive to this kind of energy, and a lot of people take that as being a sign of heightened spirituality, that now you're sensitive. That's not really the right use of sensitive as far as in spiritual terms. Use of sensitive as far as in spiritual terms. Sensitive means you're sensitive to an illusion, passing through and ready to be reminded of the truth. That's the kind of sensitive. That's a spiritual sensitive. It's not sensitive to a bunch of different shit in the world.
Speaker 1:Here's another example I got a spliff, right. A spliff is like half ganja, half tobacco, right. And I'm sitting in this coffee shop where this is totally fucking awesome going on here and there's a guy who has a spiritual persona. I could pick up on those spiritual personas a mile away and just have such a blast with them. It's so fun.
Speaker 1:So I'm like hey, do you want any of this spliff? He goes just a little bit, I'm sensitive. And I'm like, oh, you're sensitive. What do you mean you're sensitive? He goes oh well, you know, if I have too much, and I go, well, what are you saying? Your mind is weak. And he's like what? And I go, well, you're all powerful mind, why wouldn't you be able to just smoke 10 of these spliffs right now and not be affected at all? And he's just kind of like oh well, tell me more, right? And I'm like yeah, look, you don't have to deny that you're perceiving these effects.
Speaker 1:Let's say you take a little hit off of a spliff, right, I'm sitting here with this fatty going. You know, he's like this little pussy. You know pussy hit. Some people say don't say that, pussies are really strong. Okay, I hear you Right, and and you're saying that your mind is weak Basically, it's like it. It does not affect you. Bring it back to. I make these effects. That's not saying, you know, maybe you like, oh, I just like taking this little tiny hit and getting really, really high. Wow, my mind is powerful to make illusions. Wow, my mind is powerful to make effects. Not, I'm sensitive to it. Who is this person that's sensitive to any illusions? Right, it's like making your individuated self vulnerable to other illusions. It's not vulnerable like that. So you see what I mean, diana, about food. It's the same thing like food can make you fat. A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips. Isn't that a fun one?
Speaker 1:that's old school. So what we're eating are are, are the thoughts really, that's what we're consuming. So so if you're having, like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and you're saying, wow, I better not eat too many of these, or something, you're not eating a sandwich, you're eating thoughts. Right, have the sandwich instead, it's much tastier, and enjoy it. Put some bananas in it, I like it, like that. So, yay, everyone. Okay. So let's see when are we. First of all, 4.55. Oh, my goodness. Okay, let's read this footnote. Okay. Well, this footnote is in the future of an illusion.
Speaker 1:The future of an illusion is a 1927 book by Freud. Freud put forth the view that religion is an illusion, a product of wish fulfillment. He claimed it arose to give divine authority to societal controls on the destructive passions of the individual. Does that sound familiar? That's what these look it, he claimed it arose. Religion arose to give divine authority to societal controls on the destructive passions of the individual that's what's going on and to provide a comforting illusion of control over the uncontrollable forces of nature. A comfortable illusion. Well, there must be a good reason for it. Right, that's actually on the right track. There's a good reason for everything. Right, that's actually on the right track. There's a good reason for everything right, it's meaningless, but there's a good reason because it's an opportunity to recognize wholeness again, to recognize oneness, to come back to the truth, and when we perceive everything like that like, for instance, for me in 2018, having the house get run over by lava when there doesn't seem to be any insurance I was like woo, yeah Right, I was dancing and partying and that was one thing that my community saw. They're like whoa, she actually does walk or talk. She's fucking happy she got. You must have had insurance, you're getting a good deal. Talk or talk, she's fucking happy she got. You must've had insurance, you're getting a good deal. Funny thing is, I did seem to get a pretty good deal after all In the moment. I couldn't have known, but I knew it was a really good deal because I knew that whatever was being projected or seen as big or anything like that, it's really a big opportunity to demonstrate truth, right, to see that only the truth is true. And you know it was fun because after that it was like my husband was having PTSD and goes down with staff for a couple of years. So now the house has run over and I'm laughing the whole time. Right, this is 2018, 19. Not only is he like down with staff, but he's totally pissed at me, like I caused all of this stuff. I spent all the money. Now we don't have enough money and a whole story.
Speaker 1:It was so good and just using it. Oh, this is perfect. This is what I was going through at that time. Oh, this is perfect for me. Oh, I even had a couple psychic readings where it came up all swords. Oh, you are fucked. I'm like bring it on, baby. Even these Tarot readers, they were just like shocked because they're coming out all these swords, right, and I'm just like, fuck, yeah. And they're like okay, they're like almost afraid to give me the reading. You know, I'm like, yeah, this is where truly demonstrations occur and seeing how taking on that opportunity like that and using it as an opportunity really propelled me forward in my understanding, in my willingness and even in the lightness that followed, the lightness even in the illusion seeming lighter and lighter and lighter that followed.
Speaker 1:And the joy has always been in extending love and perceiving people who also went through the lava flow. 700 different houses were taken by lava, apparently, and then there were a lot of people who did not have their house taken by lava, but were feeling devastated by all the other devastated people and also just the ash in the air and all this different stuff and being able to show up for people usually I'd be wearing rose-colored glasses or, uh, or a crown on my head and just be able to show up and letting them fall right into me with their grief, and just letting them fall right into me and loving them up, and so many times they did not realize the experience was that my house also went under the lava. I had no idea and we'll just leave it at. Well, I'm like we'll just leave it at that until there's like a need to know for them, right? Because then what happens is people start getting sorry for you. They start going, oh, you're. Oh, I'm so sorry. But if they asked her something, I go, oh, yeah, mine went under the lava too. They're like what? And I go, yeah, they're like what do you? What do you have? Awareness that it's not real, awareness that it's for awakening the mind, right? Awareness that that's what it's for. Awareness that there's no loss. There's truly no loss.
Speaker 1:You know, I'd even get people talking to me like I was dumb for not having insurance and I'd be like thank you for letting me know. I'm actually happy I didn't have insurance. I wouldn't do it any other way. You know it's funny, because insurance it's like what is it insuring against that you're not going to get what's coming to you. It's like you're deserve, you feel like you deserve this punishment, so you're going to try to protect against it with some insurance, right. And it's like, as long as my mind is thinking that I deserve punishment, I'm going to try to protect against it with some insurance, right. And it's like, as long as my mind is thinking that I deserve punishment, I'm going to perceive punishment. It's just that I didn't perceive the lava flow as punishment. I just perceived it as a redirecting of energies for my benefit and for the benefit of everyone. I just didn't perceive it as punishment at all. I thought it was great fun. So yay, thank you, wayne, I love you. Oh, thanks, thanks everyone. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:So my website is hopejohnsonorg. That's where you can get to my calendar. I've been keeping my calendar updated, even with the address where I'm at and how to join on Zoom and on Substack, even with the address where I'm at and how to join on Zoom and on Substack Also. I started blogging these talks so there's a really clear synopsis of what we went over. So you can look at that on my website under the blog. You can join these live through Substack or Zoom. You can find that on my website. You can donate to me there. I'm a ministry. Also, it's tax deductible. I'm a legit ministry, apparently in the world, and what else? Oh, you can book one-on-ones with me. So, yay, thank you too, glenn. I love you. Thank you for joining everyone. Mahalo, aloha and a hooey ho. Thank you.
