Unity and A Course in Miracles Understanding Their Common Path to Spiritual Awakening Paul Hasselbe
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Finally!!! A way to understand and align the teaching of Unity and A Course in Miracles. Explore some of the similarities, distinctions as well as their synergy with Rev. Paul Hasselbeck, a leading authority on Unity Metaphysics. Whether you are a student of Unity, A Course in Miracles or both, you are sure to learn something for your own spiritual awakening.
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[Music] my shoulder makes me happy
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my eyes candy crush
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on the water look so lovely
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[Music]
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also away get me if I
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hey I could give you [Music]
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you [Music] you day just like today
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hey song that I could stay for you
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I'd say the song make you feel this way
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my daughter's make me happy
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[Music]
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in my other and make each [Music]
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on the water the snow stopped me away
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get me my egg
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a tale and I can tell you
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I tell the tale you're to make you
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[Music] wish I could wish for you
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waiting for someone and all
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[Music] God
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[Music] make me happy
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in my eyes and make me cry
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on the water look
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[Music] Oh get me
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almost all the time give me
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[Music] Oh [Music]
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thank you a dream of peace being spread
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over the land amen and a dream of more sunshine Thank You Dina for all the
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sunshine they're giving us today thank you so much that I heard someone say at
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the village when you put aside your job and go into retirement then your
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ministry really begins so as I introduced today with pleasure Reverend
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dr. Paul hasselbeck I can definitely say that he fits into that category Paul was
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the Dean of SCE education at unity village for over a decade and he had no
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small part of me deciding on the ministry path my first torture fault
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basically but my first class huh you're
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my first class at the village was metaphysics with Paul bat way back in
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the day 2010 and there's a couple common
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themes they hear throughout the unity movement about Paul hasselbeck is they
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say my favorite teacher in SCE was possible back and I'm like one of that
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and the common kind of answer is what he really stretches you and I think you'll
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be stretched today but certainly in your way of teaching classes inviting people
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even in super encouraging people to have dialogue in the class even what some
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might call a debate that happens in your classes so it's it's very exciting to be
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in this classes so without further ado it is my honor to introduce Reverend dr.
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Reverend Paul hasselbeck to the same
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how are we going today yeah so uh yeah I used to be sort of a representative
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going around the country for unity and I would give you greetings from the mother ship but I can still do that but I don't
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call myself retired I say I'm job free now yeah and I'm sort of so this is
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using your beloved ministers words for me I'm a hired gun that was that was a
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great email sorry I hear you're a hired gun now okay I'll take that on so I do a
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internet radio program every week called metaphysical romp to I co-host it with a couple friends of mine and we always
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begin with this affirmation it's another beautiful day in my consciousness where you join me in knowing that let's say it
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together it's another beautiful day in my consciousness let's add a little more
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energy together it's another beautiful day in my consciousness yeah I can I can
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see that can you see it your friends look around it is a beautiful day right yeah so I'm going to share today about
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unity Course in Miracles short story I really started on my new thought pass with a course in miracles and because of
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that i found a unity in san juan puerto rico and so let's get going so my
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background was with Course in Miracles i love the teachings and when i got to
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unity village to study become a unity minister i thought sure i find something
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in the archives or in the library where someone actually invest at the time to
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compare the two teachings but i couldn't find it and I kept wondering why that hasn't happened someone surely would sit
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down and compare these where is it i wanted i want to find it why hasn't somebody done this and then after a
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period of time a student came to study his name is bill Heller said co-author my book and
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he came into my office one day to talk to me because I knew he knew I had this course in miracles background and we
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were sharing and he said the same thing and I saw I've been I've been wondering that for years and he said well why
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don't we do it together oh what a great idea because what I know and I want you
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to know this for yourself is a basic thing that when you keep getting an idea
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it's not for somebody else to do I know something you don't want to hear that
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because we get these ideas and we want to go not me but remember Moses did that we did pretty well eventually so so if
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you're having something that you're wanting someone else to do is probably yours to do so just step up for you
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because they didn't gonna let's go so so we start this journey think it would
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take us a year it took us eight eight years put those little puppy together so that's sort of the background the
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overview we're going to go into you these five basic principles that's a good place to start so you're going to
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get a review of that and a little different perspective and the same from courts and miracles it's important we
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look at the distinctions between the two because they're not exactly the same and then some of the distinctions create a
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synergy which is really important and we're going to wrap it up with just one
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thing just one thing you do this one thing your life will be better are you
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ready to rock because this is a rough okay here we go all right so I always like to begin with this because the most
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interesting thing I discovered when I first walked in the doors of uni church besides feeling at home anybody feel
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that feeling at home okay is that I realized that while I was sitting there
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the minister wasn't expecting to force-feed me a belief system that that
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she was telling me some ideas and she didn't want me to check my brain cell at
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the door or my intellect outside she wanted to bring it in so we can learn something okay and so this is a quote i
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found from Charles Fillmore and some of the unpublished works we have to develop in ourselves the capacity to know
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ourselves right self-awareness self-knowing is key spiritual growth another can suggest
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things which I'm going to be doing today and in my classes but we have to take the suggestion and apply it to our own
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understanding so do you have your brain cell engaged today all right all right
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we're going to rock so when we look at the course of miracles and you is a big picture they both use Christian
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terminology if you look at our historic writings they the wonderful texts of Myrtle and Charles Fillmore and other
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writers it we're very Christian in nature and we've got to really own that the other thing is is that both the
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course and you to use male-centric language well what does that mean that means that references to God are usually
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male but that doesn't mean that our founders or the course in miracles are
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speaking about a male deity or a male God myrtle Fillmore famously said in
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their book how to let God help you God is not a being with parts like a man I
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think she winked their God is principal
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neither male nor female so God in the
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big picture is this this principle that we use to manifest our love life the
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language in both sounds dualistic but they're really talking about a non-dualistic system that's why we say
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there's only one power one presence so that that that means there's not an opposing devil or something against God
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or against us but it also says that if there is only one power one presence tag
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you must be it too right you got to be it because if you think you have a power
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that arises and cept and separate from God then you're in a dualistic system you're with me yeah so when you read
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that every Sunday claimed it and then the really cool thing is both use
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affirmations and denials which is a major tool most of you probably know about affirmations and denials but in
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case your new a denial is a statement where we renounce the power a
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belief has over us or we're innate rear announced a power that we've actually
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given to a belief or thought we no longer want so this is how we remove our ability of thinking so we can use an
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affirmation to claim the thoughts and ideas we want to replace it this is how
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we raise consciousness we raise consciousness by increasing the overall overall quality of our thoughts moment
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by moment it so let's get going one power one presence I just talked about that in unity God is absolute good
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everywhere present I didn't have room to put that long one and of course the miracles we read God is all in all in a
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very literal sense all being is in Him who is all being so you can see it's
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saying the same thing God is everywhere totally prison principle to in the
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original form yours is difference actually like yours better but this is how it was originally written human
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beings have a spark of divinity within them the Christ spirit within their very
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essences of God and therefore they are inherently good I think Course in Miracles says the same thing that says
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it's better deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your
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acknowledgement as you did you know that that there is this Christ's presence
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within you and it can force anything on you so you have to acknowledge it and
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and what I don't like about the original unity statement folks it isn't a drop it
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isn't a speck it isn't a wave it isn't a spark if God is everywhere totally
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present then that divinity is totally present and available in consciousness
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at the point of you it seems like a spark because that's all we're using
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you guys are with it yeah okay third
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principle human beings create their experience by the activity others of your thinking have you noticed that yeah
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everything in the manifest realm has its beginning and thought everything in the
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manifest realm has its beginning in thought corsa miracle says it this way
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whatever thoughts you accept into your mind has reality for you it is your acceptance of that that makes it real
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all thinking produces form at some level have you noticed that because that's really really important to get that our
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stinking thinking gets us one result and our enlightened higher thinking gets us
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another thought to me it's a no brainer which we really want to choose so let's
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talk about prayer Judy says prayer is creative thinking that heightens the connection with God mind for me I
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wouldn't call it a connection it heightens my awareness of God my prayer
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heightens my awareness of you can never be disconnected from that which you are
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let's say that again you can never be disconnected from that which you are you
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can make it up that way you can act like you are you can think you're a spark but that doesn't nullify the truth and
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therefore brings forth wisdom healing prosperity and everything good ah
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there's that word prosperity you want to learn more about that there's a class
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coming up okay very important okay it's so so it's from that awareness of our
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divinity we can heal we can be more prosperous of course the miracle says it
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this way to prayer must avoid the pitfall of asking to entreat ask rather
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to receive what is already given to accept what is already there to accept
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what is already there are you getting the theme going here it's already there you don't have to ask for you not to beg
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for it you don't be a heavy don't have to be good to get it you're not going to use it lose it if you're bad it's there
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that's what you are okay and the community we do not intrigued we're not
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asking God we're moving to the awareness of God we're moving to the awareness of
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our Nate divinity and claiming what is already true and then the last principle
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knowing and understand that the laws of life also called truth are not enough have you noticed that I have a friend
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who did talk it's entitled take my advice i'm not using it
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right apparently some of you are
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familiar with that right so so so I can
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know lots of things but if I don't use it it's just babble a person must also
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live the truth that he or she knows and folks you're here to know the truth and
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use it right yeah and I'm getting a real sense of that in this congregation you're doing it in the ways in which
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you're reaching out and helping each other of course in miracles a
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theoretical foundation such as the texts provide is necessary yet it is doing the
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exercises that will make the goal of the course possible so the course of miracles you have 365 lessons which are
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designed to shift your consciousness which is the process of using the truth
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you're learning about in the course of miracles and wait till you see why that
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is so important so it's important we talk about the distinctions and one of
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them is around the ego there is in in our common cultural knowledge today that
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the ego is something bad and much of the writing of the courts in Miracles
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actually supports that fact that says the ego is idolatry the sign this should
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be sought the sign of a limited and separate self born in a body doomed to
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suffer and to end its life is death pathetic isn't it to me wow wow and the
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course emphasizes this because it's important we know about the downside however unity hat does have a teaching
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that's that way it's called the adverse ego and this is how Fillmore talked about it when the ego attaches itself to
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sense consciousness that means when we have an outer orientation instead of an
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inner and have an outside instead of an inside-out way of living this is known
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as the adverts ego it is the adverse Eagle that causes all the trouble in the world not only in the world folks but in
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you in your consciousness you see we're always afraid about what we're going to
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put out because we're going to get it back you're too late what you put out is
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already in I mean isn't it what you put out is already in and every time you put
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it out you're reinforcing it in your consciousness by the law of Mind action he stopped however unity has another way
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to look at the Eco I called the supportive ego and so more said this the
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eye the ego is man you guys humankind and by reason of his divinity Craig
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you've got it now that your Divine Right by reason of his divinity he makes and
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remakes as he will you notice you do that you can remake and remake your life
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until you get it the way you want it and this lie has greatest strength and its greatest wilk weakness the ego of itself
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is possessed of nothing it is a mere ignorant child of innocence floating in
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the mind of being see the ego isn't something separate out there it's just a
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belief system in your consciousness and your consciousness is in the oneness of the mind but through the door of it
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through the door of the egos consciousness or that part of you that thinks it's an ego must pass all the
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treasures of God what does that say without your ego you'd be like a boneless chicken
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just flopped over that fence now who
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here wants to be a boneless chicken all right you need you need your ego I can't
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get up here you can't do your beautiful singing we need our egos we just need to
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get rid of that adverse part and this is an important one around the body God did
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not make so this is from a course of miracles God did not make the body because of the body it is destructible
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and therefore it is not of the kingdom the body is the symbol of what you think you are it is clearly a separation
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device and therefore does not exist that's almost a bigger downer as the ego of course in here comes right what this
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doesn't exist oh okay but the important thing is there is that God doesn't make
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the body and in traditional religions God made the body there's something
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similar though in unity the body is the outer expression of consciousness the
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precipitation of the thinking part of man not the precipitation of the
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thinking part of God God created the idea of the body of man is a
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self-perpetuating self-renewing organism which man reconstruction to his personal
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body God creates the body idea i would say god is the body idea or divine idea
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and man by thinking makes it manifest see consciously or unconsciously we are
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manifesting our physical body God is the idea we're using to do that so when you
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need God is involved of course the miracles not at all so there's the quite
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important distinction there and then let's talk about the synergy so in unity
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the most focus is on developing Christ consciousness and the tool we use that
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is called the 12 powers which I'm going to be teaching next week how we use
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these 12 innate abilities to raise our consciousness to raise the overall
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quality of our thoughts ideas and beliefs and images we hold in mind the course of miracles is focus on on
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undoing the eCos belief system so I would say the undo the adverse ego now
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unity talked about the adverse ego but emphasis on is on Christ consciousness
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courts of miracles talks about getting rid of the adverse ego but there is
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plenty of teaching about raising consciousness so you can see within each having a different emphasis working
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together might be a helpful thing and then we get to nothing else matters if
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you do just this one thing astrology
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doesn't matter karma doesn't matter even
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your beliefs don't matter past life's don't matter whatever if you believe in
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in making these arrangements with others before you come in none of that matters if you do this one thing and this is the
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thing I love the most about both because it will make your life simple are you
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ready for simple unity says it first
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this way be the best you can be the best Christ you can be of course the miracle
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says everything is either love or a call for love everything is either love or a
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coffle love what does that mean that means that no matter how anybody is interacting with you they're either
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expressing love to you or in an indirect unskillful way asking you to love them
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so if someone is showing up in a way you don't like underneath that they're
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really saying please love me now that is simple because if everything is either
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an expression of love or a call for love then what are we called to do
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oh okay our ego wants to say well with James I have to be this way with Deena I
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have to be this way with you I have to be that way and with you oh my god only want to be with you you know what I'm
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saying right right simple I love this so
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let's let me type of connection better so in unity we'd be looking at scripture and we know from Matthew in two places
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you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind and you know now what
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you're loving is your capital s self your divinity this is the greatest and
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first commandment and a second one is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself you should love your neighbor
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and your ego also you know killing off the ego is not a good thing and then the
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other scripture is love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you persecute you so if we're to love the
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Lord your God love your neighbors love yourself love your enemies whose left
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right we're just called to love that's
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what this wonderful little bracelet is about okay I am love I am love so before
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I go to this last slide I want to propose to you that that in unity we have this thing called chemical ization
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where if we are really being the love we are we will chemical eyes the opposite will bring up enter to our own awareness
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anything that gets in the way of us doing that and it comes up not because we're doing something wrong it because
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up because we're doing something right and it's evidence that we're doing our work then our job is to then clear
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whatever that negativity is and since since the human race is made of a lot of
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individuals there must be something called a cultural or worldwide chemical
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ization and I propose to you that what's happening today in the world around us whether it's our local politics or
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all the violence we see or war and all that what if we saw it as a chemical
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ization because what a lot of people do when this stuff happens is they turned
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their love down they turn look they withdraw and really it's all a call for
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love everything's love or a call for us and at that very moment we would we want
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to go stop as the very moment we want to turn within and turn up our love become
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more aware of our love so whenever you seeing any of that stuff going on
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doesn't mean that there aren't things we have to do in the outer world but it definitely means you have to start with
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doing something in your inner consciousness called turning up your
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awareness of love and love friends it's not something you have it's something
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you are this isn't say I have loved you don't have love your Divine you are
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loved so the reminder we have to know
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for ourselves and we have to apply it to our understanding so you have a little knowing now that you are this love it's
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not something you have not something you own it's not something you lose your habit in the sense that you are it so
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let us take that into meditation
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and we take a deep breath we close our
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eyes letting go of sense consciousness
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so it has a very important role we pivot
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our awareness from the outer to the inner to that inner place where you know
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that we know there is only one power and one present
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there is only one power in one crime and tagged nor yet
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so i invite you to grow your awareness of it now with simply adding a sense of gratitude and appreciation
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in a very fundamental way you are what you seek
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you are the truth you've been looking for [Music]
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yes you are divine the very core of your
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being
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so i invite you now to say to yourself I have loved measuring tape make sure
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you feel
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you feel and know you are loved you know
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that you know that you know you are
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I so let's rest now
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for a little while in the silence that noise
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and now let's say it together I am maybe
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like to put your hand over your heart love is not something you have love is
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something you are but say to you I and
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love now we're going to add a little
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more energy to it using the power of life together I am love a little more I
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am love now let's say it with Dominion
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with authority together ah and love and now let's blow the roof off by adding
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zeal together I am love and so you are
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and so I am and so it is amen now we're
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going to think about how spirit manifests itself is music in all of us
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ain't got no troubles by no pull the
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stream to make me cry I'm never
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[Music]
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when something hip in my way I go rounded hole tonight hit me now gonna
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take it the way that I found it I got
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music at me yeah I have a music in me I
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haven't I haven't ya they say that life
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is affected the way that I found it go
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to move in a straight I keep in my beat me on the ground I heat up I cool
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down I got hurt in my head so I say to move it back get me there to hold of my
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blues and I am I got the music in me I'm
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happy to get me i'm having you text me yeah i got the music in me my god
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I got the music man I feel funky pickle
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wanna tell ya my manhood wanna fly like
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a bird on a wing although through your head honey ding ding ding ding I'll heat
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up a cool down when something gets in my way hoggle rowdy full tonight get me now
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solder take it away that about it I got
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the music in me I got to do forgive me I got the music me yeah I got the music in
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me I got the music in me I got the music in me oh I got the music in me my god
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the music in me I got the music in me yes I do I got the music in me I got the
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music in me I got the music in me ain't got no trouble in my life no bull
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dream to make me right I'm never frightened I'm never worried I know I
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know oh my i got the music in me I got
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the music in me I got the music in me yes I do I got the music in me I got the
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music in me I got the music in me you
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got the music you got the music we got the music and done yes we do I got the
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music in me I got the music in me I got the music random music I got the music
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in me [Music]
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[Applause] [Music] Thanks thank you
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