Episode 123: New You 2.0

New You 2.0: A Soulful Spring Reset

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welcome to another fabulous episode of Five Lemons Laughing we're so glad that you joined

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us today happy Easter happy Easter is this weekend if you celebrate that and

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today we're celebrating Jesus's resurrection and if he can do it we have

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the power to rise too again and again and again like spring wakes up the earth

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we can awaken to a new version of ourselves every time we choose love over

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fear forgiveness over resentment unity over separation we are experiencing our

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own personal resurrection let that sink in for a

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moment today we're going to talk about a soulful

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reboot so let's all rise together

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that's beautiful Amanda and um just as you said the resurrection I know most of

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us think about that as it relates to Easter and Jesus Christ who died and

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resurrected but the resurrection is actually about all of us it's about the

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awakening process not about waiting for a future event to happen but to awaken

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as a way of returning to love we were created from love so the resurrection is

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us walking ourselves back to love so we all will experience the

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resurrection so what comes to mind lemonets when you think about the

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resurrection the first thing that comes to my mind is like all to be in that space of resurrecting of renewal the

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first thing that comes to my mind is what's all the trash that I have to leave behind to be in that vibration

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that's the first thing like um specifically for me I would have to

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leave behind um thinking people are getting life

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wrong thinking like my way is the best and they're wrong that's a big one that

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I have to leave behind is that a form of resistance for you

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it's not that I'm resisting it it's just that it's so entrenched in my mind like

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I have to remember it over and over and over and over again right like so

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um judging somebody for doing their life differently like you know so what if

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someone wants to sleep all day right that's none of my business right that's the path that they're choosing

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so that's it it's more of a mind training to let go of thinking anybody

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is getting life wrong and I think another huge part of that is

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if I don't think anybody else is getting their life wrong that means that I don't think I'm getting my life wrong which is

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huge because then I stop judging myself then I have unconditional love for myself so it feeds off of of each other

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thinking we might need to bridge the gap a little between resurrection and what you just

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said so for the average person maybe

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they're thinking the resurrection has to do with how do we go from maybe death right

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so how do we go from thinking about death and being a spirit to what you

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just said about judgment thoughts wow let's just jump into the deep end

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thank you for the zero warning on that one you can do it Amanda

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you can do it okay I am just pausing here because this

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is a big question and sometimes not sometimes all the time like to

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consciously remind myself to be in my loving heart to go back to no matter

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what I say like I'm not going to get this wrong it reflects where I am now

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just like we're all doing the best we can so repeat the question so how do we

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go from thinking about death and resurrection to judgment thoughts and

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how does it relate yeah so death the physical act of dying

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is different than me tapping into my

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eternal whole self

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so as I let go of judging anything

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judging wrongness judging I am able to tap into that wholeness to tap into my

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unity consciousness and that allows that allows my soul my spirit my

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being to be who I am it's one way to go about to tap into my true with a capital

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T self and releasing judgments is one step to get there for me it would

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follow-up question no that was good that was good

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um because it it helped me to kind of think about how I would say it in

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reference to that as well um yeah so

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the resurrection is that you're in your

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you're back to whole spirit self and so your releasing judgment allows you to go

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back there so resurrection for all of us means that the call on our life is that

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our soul will rise again so to be whole and to be spirit and your way of getting

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there is releasing judgments just just the same as forgiveness or making loving choices right um so the

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Christ story represents Christ being a body and

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letting go of the body to be resurrected in spirit and returning to earth so I think

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Jesus demonstrated um his power over the body and um his

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ability to transcend the body and in a very extreme way because we like really

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dramatic extreme examples as humans who are addicted to drama but it says in a

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course in miracles that the crucifixion was the last useless journey the sunship

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need take and that it represents release from fear to anyone who understands it

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so it's an extreme example that that we don't have to follow in those footsteps like we don't have to be crucified and

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lay the body aside and then rise up into some glorious ceremony up into the heavens like it doesn't have to be so

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dramatic and showy for us and it's just the whole point of what Jesus was

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demonstrating through that experience I think is just that we are not a body and

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that we can transcend the body just like he did and we don't we can do it in

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these ways that Amanda is talking about um of just making these little choices

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to choose love and to remember our truth day by day moment by moment it can be

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these little micro adjustments it doesn't have to be this big grand gesture grand finale type of an event

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like Easter

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represents so what would be um an example

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of taking this resurrection concept into our everyday life

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well I have a great example oh do tell Penny yeah so I was just in I was visiting my family back in North Dakota

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over the weekend and there are sometimes when it's hard to be around some of my family members and I chose love instead

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of judgment and criticism and thinking whatever I think about them and myself

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because I think about it myself too and I really chose to rise above all of that

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noise all of that illusion all of that um judgments fear i really decided to

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choose love for almost all the trip so I think that's a real big um uh step

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forward in my spiritual journey because it wasn't well and you know I was there to celebrate my sister's wedding anniversary so it wasn't about me either

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and I and I didn't make it about me like and I started to I have to tell you I started to but it was just for like a

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minute and I said "No Penny no let's not do that this time let's really truly

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rise above and so I really feel like I did that we had a beautiful time together it was fun we laughed a lot we reminisced we Yeah we made fun of each

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other every now and then but it was good fun it wasn't like negative you know like I'm going to be pissed off at you fun um Yeah so it was just really

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wonderful so I think that's a great example it is a great example so would you say that you you um had a

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resurrection experience with in regard to your family dynamics yeah so a resurrection to me

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and what I've been studying in a course of miracles is just a change in mindset it's letting go of the ego mindset and

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choosing to come from a loving mindset and so I am so letting go of ego is the

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death that I'm doing you know um guillotine that ego right out of there

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please and um and so then the the resurrection is to um to you know choose

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the loving way versus the fear-based judgmental critical not so nice way so yeah I would

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say that was I was rising above and the resurrection is about rising and so I rose i hope I can stay there

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i love that let's try let's try something on precise so it sounds like

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there's probably because it I know if it's in my mind then it's probably in some of our listeners minds that we can

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think of resurrections in in two different ways there is the the one the ultimate resurrection because if we are

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all one and there is no time then we all will resurrect all at the same time right and then what you just explained

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and I think also what Amanda was explaining is the the resurrection of the ego within each individual self in

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terms of what you're doing to rise above as you explained it Penny

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so yeah I think that makes sense that does make sense and like how how do we

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get to that whole like humanity resurrection experience it comes from resurrecting family relationships it

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comes from you know having that rise energy so we have to practice it yes

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yeah it also comes from um letting go of attachment to our

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personality self and I have been realizing more and more and more recently because when I first learned

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about this and like how you know we will just keep reincarnating into different bodies and different personalities until

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we have this awakening resurrection experience but like I used

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to think no way I don't want to i want to be done after this life like get her done get her done and like more and more over the past few weeks I've been

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realizing like I am still very much inshed in and attached to this

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experience it is like I have I have awareness and like a knowing that it is

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just like basically a video game and I'm enjoying being in the game like we don't

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play games because like we play video games because there is challenge involved or we play you know whatever

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game if they didn't have any challenge then we wouldn't play them and so there is some part of me that still enjoys and

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like is having fun in this body in this personality playing this game of life

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and there is some part of me who who has not been willing to let that go yet and

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that attachment is ultimately what binds us and keeps us from experiencing that resurrection and it it took a great deal

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of humility to get to the point where I was willing to acknowledge that is true for me right now yeah attachment and

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resistance right Morgan i mean when I'm attached I'm resistant to something else so I can totally relate to what you're

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saying yeah yeah and how we overcome that I don't

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know but I think maybe the first step is acknowledging that there there is some part of us that wants to be here or we

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wouldn't be here well and I you know you asked how do we get beyond that i think it's everything that we're doing as a

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group and there's many people around the world that are doing the work right along with us and soon there will be

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that tipping point where so many people will be doing this work remembering to do their prayer and

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meditation and connect to their higher power that it it will just benefit us all and

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we'll all become enlightened beings yes

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i love that you said that Penny i was just listening to something talking about that tipping point and everybody

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is um is different it was a different path just like I was saying earlier

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everyone um because my friend Lisa who I ride with like like we kind of sometimes we

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have this conversation because we were talking about like my word for this year is wholeness so it started a

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conversation about that and she doesn't describe it that way but that woman

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lives in the present moment all the time that woman exudes love and compassion

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and right so without her like being on the path that I'm on or that we're on

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you know that the five that are lemonettes and our listeners are walking this particular path she is getting her

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done right so everyone's path is a little bit different but at the end of the day it is about being present it's

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about that cultivating that love experience i love that you said that Amanda yeah

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because the same goes for religion you know there's so many ways that people follow but there's there's it's all

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pointing in the same direction yeah and what is coming to my mind

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around this topic is in one of Byron Katie's books she talks about the she

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talks about bowing to a grain of sand have y'all heard this story before and

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um so someone says "Well why would you bow in reverence to a grain of sand?" And this is her answer i think it's so

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beautiful the grain of sand gives itself entirely and you can honestly like sub

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in Jesus because I feel like this is what he how he lived it you know just by

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my guess anyway for the grain of sand you can sub in Jesus but the grain of sand gives of itself entirely even

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though I may be totally unaware of it it waits for the opportunity to show me itself and how it exists through me it

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is patient solid in its purpose unchanging in its present identity it

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doesn't pretend it doesn't mind if I step on it honor it praise it or belittle it it remains what it is

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without disguise or deceit it is perfectly allowing doesn't resist the name I give it lets itself be whatever I

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call it who of right mind wouldn't bow to such a consciousness i just think that's so beautiful it goes on and it's

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all beautiful but I think that's enough i just think that is like the resurrection energy like that is how

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that's the goal really is that's that defenselessness that a course in miracles talks about that's like seeing

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past people's appearances in their ego body form to their holiness beyond like it's

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all of it thank you for sharing that Morgan

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yeah my ego is going I'm not letting anybody step on me or call you whatever they want to call

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you all right call me whatever they want to call me that doesn't that doesn't bother me as much but um yeah I'm not

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let on me i have a little uh zinger or little different idea what

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if we're already living the resurrection what if we like for me like Course of

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Miracles we're already one we're already um one or living essentially we're

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already these beautiful light beings but we think we are the body we think we're

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on this earth we think we're doing this video game and what if Jesus was really

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showing us that we were we're already in heaven on earth we're already one we're

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already spirit and that he just shed this life this body to show us that

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we're all actually already there and that like these things you're saying like that all everything we're attached

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to on this earth um just keeps us earthly and attached in I mean I just

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said the same words but like it it keeps us locked in this image of who we

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are thinking that we're something that we're not and I think that's why when you don't judge how good that feels like

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and we're cuz we're it's almost like we're oh yeah we're thinking we're realizing that we are actually already

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these beautiful this beautiful one spirit and or we're love and that that's

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already love everywhere and we we we're just a little distracted and that Jesus

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did this whole his whole life and um to show us that this really isn't we really

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aren't these bodies and I'm not talking like one versus the other i just think like we're having this experience

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but um we can decide every day and every decision if we choose love if we realize

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we're actually already the resurrection um or we're going to choose to

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be separate from our neighbor separate from the ones we love separate from this

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one love i I just see it a little differently than like we're out here hammering this

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life away and then we get to like go into some cave and

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and bodies rise up you know what I mean like you're sharing sorry go ahead great

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love great love that I was going to say they they it's I don't think that you're saying anything different i think you're

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right it's if there is no time then it can't be different right it's the same

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because there is no such thing as time and our human capacity that's that's the only thing

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that makes us human is time right that's the only difference so in the format

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that we're discussing this we're having a human discussion with other humans so

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but um in reality you're you're absolutely right that we are already

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resurrected it's already happened and what it makes me think of is the the

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wave and the particle from you know the parallel universes of self book that we're reading um so in quantum physics

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energy appears as a wave sometimes and as a particle sometimes and it is in

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wave form until something is observed and once it is observed it condenses

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into matter and that's when it appears as the particle and all the other possibilities are filtered out from our

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awareness so what you're talking about makes me think like we are filtering out

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from our awareness this resurrection that we already have available to us we

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already are it we already are experiencing it but because our point of focus and what we have chosen to observe

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to the exclusion of all these myriad other possibilities and potentialities we're not aware of it in our present

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reality experience it's so fascinating i'm glad you brought that up

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well and I love this you know I muted Penny i'm sorry Amanda i thought I was going to sneeze

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so I didn't want to stay um go ahead Amanda and I love that we're all saying the

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same thing in different ways because that's who we are you know um I can tell

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that each of us are speaking to different people who are listening to this so you know when Melissa just said

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it I lit up a little bit i'm like "Yes that's it." Exactly when Morgan was

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speaking I got a little bit lost in the sauce but I know that she was saying the same thing that Melissa was saying that

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Penny was saying that's Draasilla so I'm so happy that we are expressing the same thing in so many different ways because

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we're all such individual people and I want to read that book even though it sounds like a little complicated it's

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not the way he the way he speaks it's very digestible i think you will enjoy it what was the name of that book again

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parallel universes of self juicy fascinating

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so I had a question i um so very early on when Drusilla first started introducing this topic she said that the

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resurrection is us walking ourselves back to love and then just now Morgan's sharing and everybody's agreeing we are

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already resurrected so how do we um how do we reconcile that

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i think Sorry go ahead Trist we're still in Now I was just going to say it's

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remembering that we are loved remembering that we're already resurrected remembering that we're

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already we are still whole and perfect so it's just a remembering maybe that

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word is a better scenario instead of saying we are already resurrected we say we are

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remembering that we are already resurrected or what we're whole like the

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resurrection is the in between it's the action right so it's a process of

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something but without time there is no process okay yeah

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I think another part of it is just um open having open-mindedness because

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when we when we have that narrow point of focus and we filter out all the possibilities then that's when you need

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the processes to peel back the layers but if we come with non-judgment then there's nothing to forgive and if we can

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show up with open-mindedness then all potentialities and possibilities are within our view within our awareness and

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so it's peeling back the blocks to love yeah I'm getting itgan time and time again and it comes that quote comes back

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to me when you believe more in what you don't see than what you do see then you will see what you don't see and you won't see what you do see that's the way

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i love that quote Michael Beckwith what if there's two what if it's not an eitheror right what if it's an and so

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