Let the Thoughts up into Awareness
Day 1: Quantum Love Tour—Let the Thoughts up into Awareness
David and friends sink deeply exploring these topics: living in community, trusting guidance, sharing miracles, divine providence, being treated unfairly, and asking the veil to be lifted with forgiveness. They also discuss how the Mystical Mind Training program, music listening, and the Movie Watcher’s Guide to Enlightenment are helpful tools to make Awakening more fun.
Gold Nugget:
“You might say that it’s the Holy Spirit’s convincing job to convince the mind that the world that you perceive is not separate from your mind. So if we go back to all the great spiritual teachings, they say that it seems to be a subject and an object, or perceiver and a perceived. And if you look at A Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons, they’re really helping you get in touch with your thoughts—which not everyone is in touch with all their thoughts—and start to make the association that all the thoughts that I think I think and all the images that I think I see are actually the same. There really is no external world, but projection makes it seem as if there is something external to the mind. And so thoughts are not seen as images; they’re seen as separate. Think of thoughts as kind of these invisible things that are whirling around inside of an individual mind, and the external world is completely different from those thoughts. And the Course through the Workbook training is teaching you that they’re the same and that the only way you have peace of mind is to let them go completely, you know, without any exception. And like something that would speed up someone’s death, there could be a lot of opinions on that and a lot of discussion and judgments that can go on around that. And as you practice with this, more and more, you just start to see these judgments and these thoughts are in mind to be released, which is Lesson number 23, ‘I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.’ W-23“
Recorded at the Quantum Love Tour on March 28, 2014 in San Rafael, California
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