WEBVTT 00:00:05.229 --> 00:00:08.089 We are talking about manifesting, 00:00:08.415 --> 00:00:09.835 you can't! 00:00:11.367 --> 00:00:12.527 God did not create you 00:00:12.527 --> 00:00:13.637 to manifest! 00:00:15.302 --> 00:00:17.492 You have absolutely 00:00:17.492 --> 00:00:19.472 no power of mind to manifest 00:00:19.472 --> 00:00:21.452 and what is manifesting? 00:00:21.452 --> 00:00:22.972 Manifesting but wanting! 00:00:22.972 --> 00:00:24.202 What we just say 00:00:24.202 --> 00:00:25.202 you want to empty 00:00:25.202 --> 00:00:26.752 your mind of wanting, 00:00:26.752 --> 00:00:27.513 you know. 00:00:27.513 --> 00:00:28.923 More of what? 00:00:28.923 --> 00:00:30.563 I want to manifest 00:00:30.563 --> 00:00:31.793 more of this in my life, 00:00:31.793 --> 00:00:33.523 more of that in my life. 00:00:33.523 --> 00:00:35.573 Who's doing the manifesting, 00:00:35.573 --> 00:00:37.023 The spirit of the ego! 00:00:37.023 --> 00:00:38.733 Let's talk straight here! 00:00:39.921 --> 00:00:41.991 Is the Spirit a manifestor. 00:00:43.006 --> 00:00:45.086 Ohhhh no, 00:00:45.086 --> 00:00:45.786 the Spirit, 00:00:45.786 --> 00:00:48.376 is the "I AM PRESENCE OF GOD" 00:00:48.376 --> 00:00:49.366 and the Spirit 00:00:49.366 --> 00:00:50.976 is not a manifestor! 00:00:50.976 --> 00:00:53.206 You don't have the power to manifest. 00:00:54.133 --> 00:00:55.523 Even, in the Course 00:00:55.523 --> 00:00:57.353 he says, the teaching from the Bible 00:00:57.353 --> 00:00:58.643 the word was made flesh, 00:00:58.643 --> 00:01:00.183 Jesus says, 00:01:00.183 --> 00:01:01.653 strictly speaking, 00:01:01.653 --> 00:01:03.643 this is impossible! 00:01:03.643 --> 00:01:05.913 That's Jesus's words, 00:01:05.913 --> 00:01:07.543 impossible. 00:01:07.543 --> 00:01:08.983 You can't manifest! 00:01:08.983 --> 00:01:10.813 You've never been able to manifest 00:01:10.813 --> 00:01:12.227 the damn thing. 00:01:12.227 --> 00:01:13.917 So, why work at it? 00:01:14.557 --> 00:01:16.817 Why try to use the power 00:01:16.817 --> 00:01:18.037 of your mind 00:01:18.037 --> 00:01:20.277 to make something different in form, 00:01:20.553 --> 00:01:22.073 when the form is the past? 00:01:22.073 --> 00:01:24.903 You think you can make a better version of the past? 00:01:24.903 --> 00:01:26.663 Do you think anyone 00:01:26.663 --> 00:01:28.593 has ever succeeded in making 00:01:28.593 --> 00:01:30.503 a better version of the past? 00:01:30.503 --> 00:01:32.993 Do you think you can improve upon illusions? 00:01:33.755 --> 00:01:34.845 When illusions... 00:01:34.845 --> 00:01:36.335 The very meaning of illusions 00:01:36.335 --> 00:01:37.765 is nothing! 00:01:37.765 --> 00:01:39.915 How can you make a better nothing? 00:01:40.225 --> 00:01:41.315 Really?! 00:01:41.806 --> 00:01:44.716 It's so fair for who could that understand that logic! 00:01:44.716 --> 00:01:47.296 Making a better nothing! 00:01:47.296 --> 00:01:48.386 So, we're not 00:01:48.386 --> 00:01:50.176 into the power of manisfesting, 00:01:50.176 --> 00:01:52.156 we're into the power of joy! 00:01:52.156 --> 00:01:54.436 Power of happiness, 00:01:54.436 --> 00:01:55.836 and we really start to see 00:01:55.836 --> 00:01:56.756 that, you know, 00:01:56.756 --> 00:01:58.176 people would say, well you... 00:01:58.176 --> 00:01:59.526 how can you live your life 00:01:59.526 --> 00:02:01.216 if you not trying to improve 00:02:01.216 --> 00:02:02.106 the world? 00:02:03.047 --> 00:02:04.017 You know! 00:02:04.329 --> 00:02:05.179 It's easy! 00:02:06.037 --> 00:02:07.757 It's really easy. 00:02:07.757 --> 00:02:09.137 To live that way, 00:02:09.137 --> 00:02:09.957 it's difficult 00:02:09.957 --> 00:02:11.247 to try to continue 00:02:11.247 --> 00:02:13.327 to mix metaphors 00:02:13.327 --> 00:02:15.927 and spiritualized matter. 00:02:15.927 --> 00:02:17.727 You know, that's what manifesting 00:02:17.727 --> 00:02:19.397 is an attempt to do. 00:02:19.397 --> 00:02:21.767 It's attempt to spiritualized matter 00:02:21.767 --> 00:02:23.777 as we talked about the other day. 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:25.400 It's just... 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:26.530 it's not possible, 00:02:26.530 --> 00:02:28.070 and the joy comes from 00:02:28.070 --> 00:02:31.190 seeing that you need to compromise. 00:02:31.190 --> 00:02:31.830 So...