"SUDDEN DEATH" - rULE 113: The "SURPRISE!" Part of the "October Surprise" is that it Will be in EARLY NOVEMBER!!

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Good morning! Hope everyone is doing well. I guess I'll keep pushing this thread up until it seems I should stop! Why not warn as many people as possible that something may happen on November 3rd?

Today's lesson is Lesson 26: My attack thoughts are attacking my vulnerability.



I'm sensing major amounts of irony incoming... Still, even if this is an illusory world, where only your thoughts of getting attacked (and your thoughts attacking others) are the only things that can hurt you, it's only helpful to learn that, so you can escape pain.

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effecs through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them."

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable. Attack thoughts therefore make you vulnerable in your own mind, which is where the attack thoughts are. Attack thougths and invulnerability cannot be accepted together. They contradict each other."

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"The idea for today introduces the thought that you always attack yourself first. If attack thoughts must entail the belief that you are vulnerable, their effect is to weaken you in your own eyes. Thus they have attacked your perception of yourself. And because you believe in them, you can no longer believe in yourself. A false image of yourself has come to take the place of what you are."

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My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"Practice with today's idea will help you to understand that vulnerability or invulnerability is the result of your own thoughts. Nothing except your thoughts can attack you. Nothing except your thoughts can make you think you are vulnerable. And nothing except your thoughts can prove to you this is not so."

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"Six practice periods are required in applying today's idea. A full two minutes should be attempted for each of them, although the time may be reduced to a minute if the discomfort is too great. Do not reduce it further."

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"The practice period should begin with repeating the idea for today, then closing your eyes and reviewing the unresolved questions whose outcomes are causing you concern. The concern may take the form of depression, worry, anger, a sense of imposition, fear, foreboding, or preoccupation. Any problem as yet unsettled that tends to recur in your thoughts during the day is a suitable subject. You will not be able to use very many for any one practice period, because a longer time than usual should be spent with each one. Today's idea should be applied as follows:

First, name the situation:

I am concerned about _____.

Then go over every possible outcome that has occurred to you in that connection and which has caused you concern, referring to each one quite specifically, saying:

I am afraid _____ will happen.

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"If you are doing the exercises properly, you should have some five or six distressing possibilities available for each situation you use, and quite possibly more. It is much more helpful to cover a few situations thoroughly than to touch on a larger number. As the list of anticipated outcomes for each situation continues, you will probably find some of them, especially those that occur to you toward the end, less acceptable to you. Try, however, to treat them all alike to whatever extent you can."

My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.

"After you have named each outcome of which you are afraid, tell yourself:

That thought is an attack upon myself.

Conclude each practice period by repeating today's idea to yourself once more.

Good afternoon! I hope everyone is doing well. My sleeping patterns are really strange recently, so I end up getting to this late.

Today's lesson is Lesson 27: Above all elese I want to see.

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Above all else I want to see.

"Today's idea expresses something stronger than mere determination. It gives vision priority among your desires. You may feel hesitant about using the idea, on the grounds that you are not sure you really mean it. This does not matter. The purpose of today's exercises is to bring the time when the idea will be wholly true a little nearer."

Above all else I want to see.

"There may be a great temptation to believe that some sort of sacrifice is being asked of you when you say you want to see above all else. If you become uneasy about the lack of reservation involved, add:

Vision has no cost to anyone."

Above all else I want to see.

"If fear of loss still persists, add further:

It can only bless."

Above all else I want to see.

"The idea for today needs many repetitions for maximum benefit. It should be used at least every half hour, and more if possible. You might try for every fifteen or twenty minutes."

Above all else I want to see.

"It is recommended that you set a definite time internal for using the idea when you wake or shortly afterwards, and attempt to to adhere to it throughout the day."

Above all else I want to see.

"It will not be difficult to do this, even if you are engaged in conversation, or otherwise occupied at the time. You can still repreat one short sentence to yourself without disturbing anything."

Above all else I want to see.

"The real question is, how often will you remember? How much do you want today's idea to be true? Answer one of these questions, and you have answered the other."

Make up a song called "Above All Else I Want to See," if you want!

Above all else I want to see.

"You will probably miss several applications, and perhaps quite a number. Do not be disturbed by this, but do try and keep on your schedule from then on."

Above all else I want to see.

"If only once during the day you feel that you were perfectly sincere while you were repeating today's idea, you can be sure that you have saved yourself many years of effort."

Bumpity bump!

And one more for good measure!

Thanks for passing this on, everyone, at least the first two or three videos in the thread. I'm checking out his latest video now, if anyone wants to look at it:

Long weekend! I'm going to pick up where I left off, just in case this is helping anyone. I know it's helping me!

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Lesson 28: Above all else I want to see things differently.

"Today we are really giving specific application to the idea for yesterday. In these practice periods, you will be making a series of definite commitments. The question of whether you will keep them in the future is not our concern here. If you are willing at least to make them now, you have started on the way to keeping them. And we are still at the beginning."

Above all else I want to see things differently.

"You may wonder why it is important to say, for example, 'Above all else I want to see this table differently.' In itself it is not important at all. Yet what is by itself? And what does 'in itself' mean? You see a lot of separate things about you, which really means you are not seeing at all. You either see or not. When you have seen one thing differently, you will see all things differently. The light you will see in any one of them is the same light you wll see in them all."

Above all else I want to see things differently.

"When you say 'Above all else I want to see this table differently,' you are making a commitment to withdraw your preconceived ideas about the taqble, and open your mind to what it is, and what it is for. You are not defining it in past terms. You are asking what it is, rather than telling it what it is. You are not binding its meaning to your tiny experience of tables, nor are you limiting its purpose to your little personal thoughts."

Above all else I want to see things differently.

"You will not question what you have already defined. And the purpose of these exercises is to ask questions and receive the answers. In saying, 'Above all else I want to see this table differently,' you are committing yourself to seeing. It is not an exclusive commitment. It is a commitment that applies to the table just as much as to anything else, neither more nor less."

Above all else I want to see things differently.

"You could, in fact, gain vision from just that table, if you would withdraw all your own ideas from it, and look upon it with a completely open mind. It has something to show you; something beautiful and clean and of inifinite value, full of happiness and hope. Hidden under all your ideas about it is its real purpose, the purpose it shares with all the universe."

Above all else I want to see things differently.

"In using the table as a subject for applying the idea for today, you are therefore really asking to see the purpose of the universe. You will be making this same request of each subject that you use in the practice periods. And you are making a commitment to each of them to let its purpose be revealed to you, instead of placing your own judgement on it."