Channeling from Raj

Random quote: RIGHT NOW YOU'RE CONFRONTED WITH REALITY. NO MATTER HOW YOU ARE PERCEIVING IT, YOU ARE CONFRONTED WITH REALITY, YOU'RE CONFRONTED WITH THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. THERE IS NOTHING ELSE FOR YOU TO BE EXPERIENCING.~~Raj - (Added by: amena) Brain is not Mind. (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health) June 15, 2008 ©NWFFACIM PAUL. Okay. I want to thank everyone for being patient while Chris worked out some technical problems so that We could successfully broadcast tonight. And so, before we have our quiet time, let’s go ahead and get on the same page. If you're in the Sparkly Book, it’s page 332, a new section entitled: Perception Without Deceit. If you're in Second Edition, it’s page 287, the new section is entitled: Sharing Perception With The Holy Spirit. If you're in the First Edition, it’s page 266. Again, the new section: Sharing Perception With The Holy Spirit. If You’re reading from the JCIM, it’s page 139, the new section: Perception Without Deceit. And, if You are in the CIMS edition, it’s page 279, Perception Without Deceit. Okay. Let’s take a few moments to be quiet together. Quiet Time RAJ. Okay. Good evening. … … And welcome to every One who’s joining Us on the Internet. … A new section: … Perception Without Deceit. … … Let’s … let’s remember what a miracle is. … A miracle is … a sudden shift … of perception. … We could say … it’s a shift of perception from … perception with deceit to … perception without deceit. … And to flesh it out a little bit more, it’s a shift from the orphan mentality – second gear – to That Which is nothing more than Your Right Mind – which is the Holy Spirit – which is first gear – which is You experiencing Realty through God’s eyes, as God is Experiencing It. … Now, … has it ever occurred to You that every single moment is … the perfect opportunity for … a miracle. … Every single moment is a perfect opportunity to wake up. … Oh, but You say: ‘Oh, I’m in a state of emergency. There was just a car accident. This is not (small laugh) an opportune time to Wake Up. There are things to be taken care of. Uh, … uh … This is a- I can’t give My attention to a sudden shift of perception! Come on! … You see? This is not … the perfect moment for a sudden shift of perception.’ … And what You’re saying is: ‘My mindset will not allow for Me to see this … as a perfect moment for a miracle – a perfect moment for a sudden shift of perception.’ And yet, what mor- what better time for a miracle, than when a miracle is needed. … What better time … than when there is … a call for healing? Oh, You see, You’re not – for lack of better words – conditioned in Your mind to respond to needs with a- a clear call for clarity in Your mind. … You’re conditioned to react. … You’re conditioned to be alarmed, … and feel the alarm, and use the alarm to motivate You to … get busy and fix things up! … … Not … not one of the times when You would naturally think to ask the Holy Spirit: ‘What’s going on here? What is really going on here? What is God’s Truth right here? … … You’re not inclined … to have something come to Your attention – let’s say as You’re driving along and You see a dead animal in the road – You’re not- You’re not conditioned or primed to (finger snap) instantaneously say: ‘That’s a lie! … That is not God’s Truth. I don’t accept it.’ No, You say: ‘Oh boy, these damn drivers! They can’t- They can’t stop for a minute to … to let a simple little critter get across the street. They just … gotta go, go, go, and kill, kill, kill. I have the right to sit here in this car and react and be mad because it’s unfair!’ Well, hell! If it’s so unfair, heal it … by using Your mind, … in its healing capacity. Use Your mind to immediately reach to the Holy Spirit: ‘What is the healing Truth … that needs to be known here? … Help Me see this critter … not exhibiting … something that God could not have created, … and a condition that God could not possibly be manifesting, right there where I see it.’ … … Again, … what better time … for a miracle … than when a miracle is needed. … Any moment … is a perfect time for a sudden shift of perception. Yeah, I know, You’re eating dinner. The whole family’s there. It’s been a … hard day for both You and Your wife at work. The kids are tired and cranky. It was a … busy day at school, and They had baseball and piano lessons and everybody’s at each other’s throats. And it’s not a pleasant time. You know, this is not the best time. This is not the perfect time for Me to have a sudden shift of perception, … because I’m upset, along with everybody else. And We all have a right to be upset. … Let Us get it out of Our system. We have a right to do that.’ Yeah. … Well, … yeah. You can do that. But You have missed what … nevertheless is a perfect opportunity for a sudden shift of perception. … … You know, … … You’re never faced with … complicated circumstances. You’re always faced with one of two things: the Experience of Truth … or the experience of illusion. … … No matter how it’s fleshed out, … You’re either faced with the Experience of Truth, or the experience of illusion. And the experience of illusion is simple the distorted perception of Truth, because You have nothing else available to You, to be experience but Truth – see clearly, or seen through a glass darkly. … … … What I want to convey tonight is … how simple it is – how uncomplicated it is … that … that a sudden shift of perception is not one of an infilling of grand and complicated and … … … drawn out … improvement of Your mind. … It’s simply a shift … from a distorted perception … to a real perception; like … holding Your camera up, and adjusting the focus. You’re either seeing Reality out of focus, or You’re seeing It in focus. … It doesn’t matter … … what the scenario is. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a war. It doesn’t matter if there’s gunfighting going on. It doesn’t matter if people are beating each other up. It … it doesn’t matter! … Because You’re either seeing Reality … out of focus or in focus. And the call is not for improving … the circumstances, but … by improving the focus. …That’s why any moment … is a perfect moment for a sudden shift of perception. Any moment is a perfect moment for bringing things into focus. … 11:20:5 Another way of putting it is that any moment is a perfect moment to abandon second gear. … To abandon autonomous, private authority … and yield to … Your desire … to feel … Your Sonship or Your Daughtership with Your Father … and Your Brotherhood with Your Brothers and Sisters; … and choose to see Every Thing consciously – consciously choose to see Every Thing … as Your Father sees It – as Your Father is Be-ing It. … … Mind You, when You’re looking through the camera, and Every Thing is out of focus, it doesn’t mean that what You’re seeing is false. It doesn’t mean that what You’re seeing is an illusion, even though You can’t make sense out of it. It’s just Reality – Truth You might say – out of focus. Turn the lens. Bring it into focus. Now Every Thing makes sense. … A shift of perception … has occurred. Not a shift of Reality, and … and not actually an undoing of unreality, because unreality was never going on. It was already- It was always Reality, misperceived. It was always … perception … with deceit. Now, … why suddenly bring in such a word as deceit? Because it- it implies dishonesty, but it- it- We- We’re using the word because … it is important to be honest, (small laugh) and uncover when You are being dishonest, so that You’re not fooled. … There is deceit when You’re looking at Every Thing and saying: ‘But Father, I’d rather see it My way.’ In other words, ‘I’d … I’d rather change the setting on the lens, so that what’s perfectly c- clear becomes … unclear, … and susceptible to misinterpretation, so that I can apply an interpretation, which is actually a misinterpretation, to it, and join with My Brothers and Sisters in a mutual misunderstanding of it, that We’re gonna call- that We’re going to call … … an explanation of the reality of everything. And it will be called science. … … And We will live according to the precepts of science. … … … We will live according to the definition that has been given to … a distorted image of What’s Real. And what It Really Is will forever escape Us because of Our commitment to the definition We’re giving It. And so We’re going to say It’s this, when It isn’t, and that … is where the deceit comes in. You see? We are going to pretend … that It’s not the Presence of God, that It’s something else. It’s the presence of matter. The presence of matter than came from a big bang that had nothing to do with God, and on and on and on. … So, … … when You shift from the authority You love to think You have – as an orphan – as an independent agent – when You shift from that … to an attitude of saying: ‘Father, what- what are You really Be-ing here? Father, what … what is … what does- what is … Show Me what this Thing Really is.’ … … … When You make that shift, You abandon Your desire … to practice deceit. … … And, … You have what’s called a sudden shift of perception – a miracle. Healing, injuries from an accident gone. Someone dying in a hospital bed, revived fully, instantaneously; immediately free of the need of life-support systems. … … Every One of You needs to … begin to think – I’m going to say that – cautiously. Every One of You needs to begin to think in a new way. … Every One of You needs to … begin to condition Yourself … to respond to emergencies – not with reaction first, … but with an immediate call to the Father; … an immediate call to Your innate Divine Wisdom; an immediate call to the Holy Spirit – Which is nothing more than Your Right Mind – to reveal to You what’s really going on, with an expectation of seeing the illusion … out-of-focus fuzziness – shifting into perfect clarity, where there’s no question whatsoever about What … It Is. And no room for Any One to come to a misperception or a misunderstanding of What It Is. An Experience of It which – because It’s the True Experience of It – is so compelling to You … that You would not choose to see It any other way, any longer. … And when that happens, there will be instantaneous healing. … There may even be gradual healing. We’re not going to quibble. The evidence will be healing. But it can be instantaneous. And You can learn to instantaneously respond to a call for Love with a desire to know what Love is, and what Love … needs to be expressed as by You – in that moment, instead of … reacting … and being governed by fear, which is the opposite of Love. … … So, going into the book: “What do you want? Light or darkness, … Knowledge … or ignorance are yours, … but not both.” Again: “What do You want? Light or darkness, Knowledge or ignorance are yours, but not both. Opposites must be brought together, and not kept apart.” … We could say: What do You want? First gear or second gear? Sonship or orphanhood. … They’re Yours, but not both. You either have one or the other. You have One or the other, right now, already! … They’re aren’t any other choices. So You have One or the other right now. But the question is: “”What do You want? … Light or darkness, Knowledge or ignor- ignorance are Yours,” – and I’m adding: first gear or second gear is Yours; Sonship or … orphanhood is Yours, but not both. “Opposites must be brought together, and not kept apart. For their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by Union as You are.” – Now what in the heck does that mean? They’re “reconciled by Union, as You are.” Well, Waking Up is shifting from … a sense of Your having Your own mind; something that You say is in Your skull, and a hunk of meat, called a brain. … … … … Unknown to You because things that are kept apart cannot be had at the same time – cannot be experienced at the same time – unbeknownst to You – as You’re making this claim of a … mind that’s in a skull, in a brain … – You – the Divine One That You Are – that You’ve been unconscious of … and Your Mind – Your Right Mind – which is the only Real Mind there is – Which is Yours – isn’t being experienced by You. … But It’s there. And as You know now, It’s called the Holy Spirit. It’s Your Identity. It’s Your Be-ing, held in trust while You imaginatively play with the ego – dally with the ego – pretend to be an ego – have fun being scared to death by the experience of being an ego. And so on and so on. Okay. Now, … Someone has come along. The Course has come along. I’ve come along, … and You’ve been told that – contrary to Your beliefs that Your mind is in Your brain, and that it’s a physical thing – there was a Real You – One that isn’t imagined. One that can’t be described the way You’re describing Yourself. … And, … the Experience of It can be achieved – or taken hold of – the Experience can be had, by desiring to … connect with God; by embracing with What to You in the beginning is an idea … of God. But in Your willingness to … reach for the Experience of God … what are You doing? You’re abandoning the autonomy of second gear. You’re abandoning the commitment … to being an independent agent. You are bringing the illusion to Truth. … You are uniting what seemed to be separate by bringing them together. The puny little orphan that You thought You were … has begun to change its goal … … and brings itself – by virtue of desire to an Experience of Joining, … with Something You didn’t even know was there. You didn’t know what Truth was. … And You didn’t know how to bring Yourself to It. But now You are beginning to understand, and beginning to have a feel for engaging in this … well, what had been an unknown practice, … even an unknowable practice, … because Your orphanhood was so exclusive that it didn’t … allow such a thing. So, … “Opposites must be brought together, and not kept apart.” What You think You are … must be brought to … What You actually Are! … … “Opposites must be brought together, and not kept apart, for their separation is only in your mind, and they are reconciled by union as You are.” … You are reconciled by the uniting of who You thought You were with Who You Really Are. “In union, everything that is not real must disappear, for Truth is Union.” In other words, Truth is Union. Union is the Truth of Be-ing, and therefore, … disintegration – the opposite of Union – has to disappear, … because it’s not Truth. And in the Experience of Truth it becomes obvious. Untruth becomes obvious. ‘Gee whiz. I always thought two times two was five. … And now You come along and … You show Me two apples and two apples. Two times two is what? One, two, three, four. My God. … It isn’t five!’ … Ignorance has been replaced by the comprehension of Truth. … And never again, … will You think that two times two is five. … 28:38:5 “As darkness disappears in Light, so ignorance fades away when knowledge dawns. Perception is the medium by which ignorance is brought to knowledge. Yet the perception must be without deceit, for otherwise … it becomes the messenger of ignorance rather than a helper … in the search for Truth.” … Okay. Eventually, You’re not going to perceive anything at all, any longer. … Perception and misperception will vanish. … They’ll vanish in the Experience of Knowing. They will vanish in the Experience of Understanding Truth – experientially. … The Experience of What a Thing really is will be a direct Experience – not a perception of It. A perception of It is like a snapshot of It – or a- an idea of It. … But the Truth of What a Thing is will be Experienced by You, directly. But in the meantime, since You’re operating in the realm of perception … because that’s how You come up with … illusions, We’re going to use perceptions. … How do You have a new perception? how do You have a perception without deceit? You have a perception without deceit by abandoning the self that used thought-processes to define Reality different from What the Father created it as. … … That’s perception without deceit. It requires You to go within and ask of the Father: ‘What is the Reality here? What are You Be-ing in that organ? What are You Be-ing in that table? What are You Be-ing … in My fingernail? … What is True here?’ Because – as I said earlier – every moment is a perfect poment for a sudden shift of perception to occur, and … since … there aren’t two Realities. There’s either Reality Experienced in focus, or there’s a Reality experienced out of focus. Then whatever You’re calling a fingernail … … in the out-of-focus view – is Something that’s really there to be seen in focus. All You have to do is … turns the lens … to bring it into focus. … … When You ask: ‘What is really going on here? What are You Be-ing here God? What is- What is It that’s really here in front of Me, no matter how I’m perceiving It at the moment?’ 32:28:8 That desire, genuinely felt, genuinely extended to the Father – or to the Holy Spirit – or to Me – will elicit a response in answer. … Not a misdirection. Not a distraction, but the answer will be forthcoming. The … turning of the lens will happen. You’ll say: ‘My God! Two plus two is four!’ (in an overjoyed Voice) You see? … ... So, Waking Up is a matter of abandoning perception with deceit, which means it’s a matter of abandoning … the orphan mentality, in which You made up the definitions of Every Thing; … made up definitions about Every Thing Real that defined Them incorrectly. Divined- defined What was Real falsely. And that’s how deceit came into play. And You let go of the deceit by desiring once again to know what the Truth is. What’s the Truth of the fingernail? What’s the Truth of the glass? What’s the Truth of the book? What’s the Truth of the paper? … What … what is going on here that I’m currently seeing in a blurred fashion, … which I … know I will be able to see … if the- if the focus … is returned to the picture. What is it? … … … “Perception is the medium by which ignorance is brought … to Knowledge.” – to the Experience of Knowing. “Yet the perception must be without deceit, … for otherwise it becomes the messenger of ignorance rather than a helper in the search for Truth.” … If You’re not asking … to know what a Thing truly is, … so that You might perceive It without … … misperception being introduced, then … misperception will be maintained. Misperception will continue to be … established. … And You will continue to be ignorant. So, perception either leads You into temptation … and illusion, or perception leads You into the Experience of Truth, depending on … what voice You’re using, in order to be told what Truth is. … … If You’re going to continue to use Your puny little voice – and Your puny little mind – and Your puny little head – … You’re gonna stay with illusion. … … But You’re not bound to that any more, because You know better. … And tonight it’s clearer than ever, because I’ve said it so clearly to You, … that there’s only one thing going on, and it’s Reality, which You’re either seeing clearly … or out of focus. … So there’s nothing complicated. You don’t have to get rid of a material world. And You don’t have to rise above a material world. You just have to stop … keeping that lens in a position where Reality is out of focus. That’s all! Put It into focus, and the Reality that was present all along – that You were misinterpreting and misunderstanding – will be clearly seen for What It Is, in such a compelling way that You will recognize that It’s Heaven! … … Now: … “The search for Truth is but the honest searching out of everything that interferes with Truth.” … You have to be careful with this. … The best way to search out … that which interferes with the experience of Truth is to desire to know what the Truth is about Any Thing and Every Thing, because the moment You do that, You will find out what conditionings are present in You that You … use … to keep Yourself ignorant of the Truth. If You … begin to desire to know the Truth about so-and-so, … You will find Yourself automatically being caught up short … if You don’t like so-and-so, … and never have. … Or if so-and-so hurt You – or abused You – … Your desire … to know the Truth – God’s Truth about Them – will be blocked by Your reluctance … to know the Truth about Them, … because You don’t want to abandon … Your self-righteous, negative appraisal of Them. And You will say: ‘This … this is not a perfect moment … for a sudden shift of perception.’ … … And You will have a direct experience of what interferes with Truth – with the experience of Truth, … without having gone on an internal witch hunt. … I promise You something: if You do an honest search – what You might call an honest searching out of an- of everything that interferes with Truth, … Your ego can lead You on a merry little … self-righteous chase. ‘Oh. … You wouldn’t believe what I learned about Myself as I’ve begun to (small laugh) honestly search out everything that interferes with Truth. My God. … I found that I’ve been doing this, and I found that I’ve been doing that, and … Wow! What an eye-opener! You can’t believe … the shift it’s caused in My mind.’ … (laughing) And (laughing) and no shift has occurred at all. You just … You’ve just developed new, wonderful things –uh – to praise Yourself about. And you know what? You will never have found out … that You … were … resistant to … acknowledging the Truth about … so-and-so. … Which You would have found out if You had decided You wanted to know what the Truth was about so-and-so. So keep Yourself grounded in this … searching out of everything that interferes with Truth. Don’t look for errors in You. Look for the Truth … in Every Thing! … Look for the Truth in Every Thing. … Desire for there to be this … sudden shift of perception … called a miracle. The movement from blurred … to in focus. … Desire that, … and that will automatically … bring up to You the … the … the means You are employing for staying ignorant, and being unconscious of the Truth. And then, … that which uncovered It – because of Your desire to know the Truth – will help You set it aside, … by showing You the Truth … that undoes Your conviction – and Your commitment … to the misperception … You had created, … by virtue of wanting to live in a world of blur. … … “Truth is.” It just is. … “It can be neither lost, nor sought, nor found. … It is there, wherever you are, … being within you. … Yet … It can be recognized or unrecognized. Real or false to You.” Even though It’s … wherever You are – and within You – “It can be recognized or unrecognized, Real of false” depending upon … whether You’re functioning in first gear or second gear; whether You are … creating … a split mind – you know – Your Right Mind and Your orphan mentality. … … “If you hide it,” … – Truth – “It becomes unreal to you because you hid It and surrounded It with fear.” … So, That Which is nothing but Your Right Mind – which is the Holy Spirit – which You have a hard time believing – … You have a hard time believing because … You hid Your Right Mind from Yourself when You said: ‘But Father, … I’d rather see It My way. I would rather use My mind in a way You did not design it, for a purpose You did not make it. … That purpose being to call Every Thing that You had made – You’ve made – some Thing different from what You made. … ‘I will put My stamp of approval upon Creation, … in a slightly distorted way.’ You see? There’s where the deceit came in. … And so, when You decided to function as a mentality … that wasn’t the Father’s Mind – that wasn’t the Holy Spirit – the Holy Spirit became … unknowable to You; something … You can think about, something that a= … that a word could be applied to and everybody could talk about. ‘Oh, the Holy Trinity. The Father – the Son – and the Holy Spirit. Wow!’ – Never for a moment realizing that the third part of the Trinity – the Holy Spirit – was nothing more than Your Right Mind! You – ... as You experience Yourself when You stop trying to be the personal, private author … of the definitions and meanings of Creation. … … So, You hid It, and It became unreal to You. … In fact, unknown to You as Be-ing You. … … … “Under … each cornerstone of fear” – because, of course, fear accompanies everything You do from second gear; second gear is always accompanied by fear – “Under each cornerstone of fear, on which you have erected your insane system of belief, … the Truth lies hidden.” … … Behind every … fuzzy perception … lies Reality … Perfect. … Reality lies hidden behind out-of-focusness. ... … “Yet you cannot know this, … for by hiding Truth in fear you see no reason to believe the more you look at fear the less you see it, and the clearer what it conceals becomes.” … … Now, again, We must be clear here, because it’s very impractical just to look at fear, … and to look at it consistently. … … You must look at fear with One Who is Awake … … – the Holy Spirit – … That Which is nothing more than Your Right Mind, Whose task – if You will – is to reconcile You with It! … so that You might experience Your … Sanity once again. … And, … the more You look at fear with Your Guide – and the Holy Spirit – or with Me, the less You see it, … and the clearer What it conceals becomes; the clearer Reality behind the blur becomes … as the blur … shifts into focus. … … “It is not possible to convince the unknowing that They know.” … … It’s impossible for Me to convince You that Your Right Mind is the Holy Spirit; … but I can tell You over and over and over again, in so many different ways that You might begin to experience curiosity, and begin to do the essential thing – which is to reach for It – to dare to embrace It as thought It’s actually there. … … But I can’t convince You – the unknowing – That Which doesn’t know of Its Divinity – that You know. I can’t convince the orphan that You think You are – that You are the Holy Spirit! … “From Their point of view,” – from Your point of view – “it is not true. … Yet it is true because God Knows it.” … This is important: God Knows it. And You Know it, … if You were in Your Right Mind. “These are clearly opposite viewpoints of what the "unknowing" are.” … … “These are clearly opposite viewpoints” – viewpoints are like vantage points. Viewpoints are perceptions! Aren’t They? ‘Well, My perception of the accident was this. Someone else’s perception of the accident was that. My perception of the meaning of the movie was this, and Your perception of the meaning of the movie was something else.’ 51:00:5 … Viewpoints are different from Knowing! … … Viewpoints … are different from Knowing. “To God, unknowing is impossible. It is, therefore, not a point of view at all, but merely a belief … in something that does not exist. … … It is only this belief that the unknowing” – the ignorant – “have, and by it they are wrong about themselves. “They have defined themselves” – You have defined Yourselves – “as They were not created.” – as You were not created. “Their creation” – Your Creation – “was not a point of view, ... but rather a certainty. ... Uncertainty … brought to certainty ... does not retain any conviction of Reality.” Uncertainty which is characteristic of the orphan mentality and of … gear number 2, … brought to first gear – with the desire to know the Truth here – “does not retain any conviction of Reality” – because the Truth is so compelling … that there is no way to hold on to … the illusion any longer, with any belief. Now, … there’s a saying: You believe what You see and You see what You believe. … … The implication of that statement is: If You want to see something different, believe something different. … And it’s as though that is the answer. That’s the solution. That’s the way You correct things. But I’m here to tell You that … something had to happen … before You had a belief … to believe. You had to abandon the experience of Knowing. … … You had to say: ‘But Father, I’d rather not Know It. I would rather create an experience of it … that I have made up, that I have created, through the use of My mind. … … ‘And so, … I’m going to call this such-and-such a thing. And I’m going to say it has such-and-such a purpose. … And that will be … My belief. … And I will believe what I see, and I will see what I believe.’ If You understand this, then You will also understand that the solution to a better experience is not to have a better belief, but to abandon belief, and yield to Your capacity to Know, which You abandoned in favor of having beliefs … and governing Yourself according to beliefs; and being governed by Your beliefs. So the answer is – and the freedom from belief comes from – … asking: ‘Father. Father, what is the Truth here? 55:36:0 What is really going on there? What is really going on where it looks like there was an accident at the intersection? What is really going on?’ Because, again, no matter how gory it looks – in other words, no matter how fuzzy it gets – it’s still a fuzzy, unfocused experience of Something that’s utterly clear, utterly flawless, utterly perfect! … And so, in spite of what You’re seeing, all that is needed is a sudden shift of perception. … Because the fuzzy picture – the distorted picture – the gory picture that You’re seeing is nothing more than an altered perception of Something That Is Utterly Perfect. Ah, but I’m telling You something You don’t know. I’m telling You some I cannot convince You of. I understand that! I must tell You what You cannot believe, so that You might open Your mind up and let Your belief be replaced by a new experience that eradicates the value of beliefs, and allows actual sudden shift of perception to occur, that will be called miraculous. 57:28:1 … … :You must have noticed that the emphasis has been on bringing what is undesirable to the desirable: what You do not want to what You do.” Here again, let’s be careful. What You do want- what You do truly want is what the Father or the Holy Spirit reveals to You. If You just go after what You want – as You perceive Yourself to be at the moment – a handy-dandy little orphan – then … … wanting what You do want is just going to keep You in the orphanage. So: “You must have noticed that the emphasis has been on bringing what is undesirable to the desirable: what you do not want to what you do. … You will realize that salvation must come to You this way if you consider what dissociation is. Dissociation is a distorted process of thinking, whereby two systems of belief, which cannot co-exist, are both maintained.” Hmm. Two systems of belief. Oh! First gear. Second gear Son or Daughter of God. Orphan! … … Those are two systems of belief. Why am I calling Be-ing a Son or Daughter of God a belief? Because, right now You don’t believe it. (laughing) And so to You, that is a belief. Fine. Once You have the Experience of It though, You won’t call It a belief any longer. Nevertheless: “Dissociation is a distorted” – fuzzy, out-of-focus … process of thinking, whereby two systems of belief, which cannot co-exist, are both maintained.” They sure are, aren’t they? You don’t experience Your Divinity while You’re being an orphan. And when You experience Your Divinity, You won’t experience being and orphan. But, You are demonstrating right now the fact the You believe You’re an orphan … is keeping You absolutely blinded to Your Be-ing the Holy Spirit – to Your Right Mind Be-ing nothing more than the Holy Spirit. So, the two are being maintained – even though they can’t actually exist in Your mind – at the same time! “It has been recognized that, if they were brought together, their joint acceptance would become impossible.” In other words, You couldn’t believe both of them! … … You get that? You couldn’t believe both of them. … Belief would not make sense. The practice of believing would not make sense, … because the Truth would be so obvious. … “But, if one is kept in darkness from other,” – if second gear is kept in the darkness from first gear, and first gear is kept in the darkness from second, … … “their separation … seems to keep them both alive. .. and equal in their reality.” … Mind You, this is all nonsense, but this is the way dissociation works. “Their joining … thus becomes the source of fear, for if they meet, acceptance must be withdrawn from one of them.” … … And, … You all know (small laugh) that acceptance will have to be withdrawn from … the belief of orphanhood. … And You don’t want to do that yet. … … ‘Oh! But I do, but I do!’ … No. If You wanted to, … You would have done it. … You’d be saying: ‘I’ve done it!’ You would not be saying: ‘Oh, I want to! I want to!’ … … Okay. “You cannot have them both, for each denies the other. Apart, this fact is lost from sight,” … – that “each denies the other” – “for each, in a separate place, can be endowed with firm belief.” You see, You can even read the Course, and You can listen to what I’m saying, and You can think about … the Holy Spirit being nothing more than Your Right Mind, and accepting that as a fact – and being and orphan, and accepting that as a fact. And they can both sit there side by side. Why? … Because You’re … not making commitment … to both of them. You’re making commitment to one. You’re making commitment to being the orphan. … … The necessity, here, is for You to dare to make … commitment to That Which is nothing more than Your Right Mind, and stop thinking – and stop reasoning – and stop coming to Your own conclusions. And in every instance where You would have come to Your own conclusions, You lean into the Holy Spirit … demanding … a response, from That Which is nothing more than Your Right Mind, because You want to know the Truth! 1:04:06:7 … … “Bring them together,” – as that would amount to – “and the fact of their complete incompatibility is instantly apparent. One will go … because the other is seen in the same place. Light cannot enter darkness when a mind believes in darkness, and will not let it go.” … … – Simple. – “Truth does not struggle against ignorance, … and Love does not attack fear. What needs no protection does not defend itself. … … Defense is of Your making. God knows it not. “The Holy Spirit uses defenses on behalf of Truth only because You … made them against It.” … … “The Holy Spirit uses defenses on behalf of Truth only because You … made Them” – defenses – “against It.” – the Truth. … … So, how have I described tonight … the practice of defending Truth? I’ve described it by saying that if You see a- a dead animal on the road, You immediately (finger snap) say: ‘That’s a lie!’ … Or instead of reacting to an accident or an injury or illness, You say: ‘Father, what is the Truth here?’ … … That’s how You defend the Truth. … You defend the lie … by becoming upset, by justifying anger, … by justifying thinking … that comes to conclusions that are false, and … believing the conclusions, and acting on the basis of Them! … … So, again, since You’re used to- to … practicing defense, the Holy Spirit – when You listen to the Holy Spirit – will Guide You to use defense on behalf of Truth. … … Now, You notice … that I didn’t describe … setting up shields against everything that would attack Truth. … The way You defend Truth is by … wanting to Know … the Truth, … and not expressing – or practicing – any other desire! You defend Truth by … letting Your intent be fully on … having the Experience of What Truth Is. You defend … the Experience of Truth by not allowing Yourself to be distracted by anything but Truth. … ... That’s the way – through the Holy Spirit’s Help – that You defend Truth and make the shift more easily … from second gear to first gear; and have a sudden shift of perception, in which deceit … is absent. … … … … Now We’re going to stop here for this evening, … because I want You to remember – during this … coming week – to defend the Truth. … And to remember that the way You defend the Truth is to wish to Know what the Truth Is, … and by not allowing Yourself to be distracted from … hearing the answer. … Especially … not being distracted from hearing the answer by spontaneously indulging in the habit … of thinking. You will Know by desiring to Know, not by figuring out an answer. … … … Remember, … every moment … is a perfect moment … to have … a sudden shift of perception. … … Every experience of a call for Love … is a perfect moment … to find the way … to let Love through You. … Every call for a miracle does not constitute a moment which is not perfect for a miracle, … because it’s too upsetting! … It is a perfect moment for a miracle, because that’s when the miracle is needed! And, if miracles are not for the moments in which they're really needed, they are useless! … … … .. … I Love You. … I Love You All. … And I look forward to Be-ing with You next week. ----- How could anyone ever tell Us we were anything less than beautiful? How could anyone ever tell Us we were less than Soul? How could anyone fail to notice that Our Loving is a miracle -- how deeply We're connected to the Whole.