Hey, I'm Rajagopal. I started out as an engineer at Yahoo and worked with Zynga and later I was working with Minthra as a product manager for shopping experience. And what I'm going to share with you today is a few things that we used to do at Zynga and Minthra. We used to always drive user experience-related decisions with data. I'm just going to share a brief overview of all that you could take back and dive deep into. Okay, so the first thing, why do we have to do data-driven decisions when it comes to user experience? It's always been perceived as an art form. Designers typically, at least the image of a designer in most people's mind would be someone who deals with art form, but that's not what UX is all about. It's about the overall experience that a user gets across various touch points, including the web product that you build. And the reason we, I mean the reason we should be driving most of these decisions using data is if you don't have a standard process in place, you might just not be able to make the right decision most of the times. So the idea is to increase the probability of making the right decision by bringing process around how we make that decision. Sorry. We want to be able to get the UX related decisions that we make right most of the time. There is one. And the second thing is that we should be able to repeat it consistently. If we could get it right once and if we can't get it right the second time, it doesn't make sense. So the moment we have a predictable mechanism over how we make these decisions, it becomes repeatable and has a higher probability of being the right one. And the other thing is that when it comes to user experience, everyone thinks that they are an expert in user experience. Sir, let's turn around and see. See, this angle is correct. Much better, sir. Sir, you are so... Sir, let's turn around and see. You know how frustrating this could become for UX designer or anyone. When sales and marketing folks get their hands on to user experience, they are thinking that they know users better. So everyone thinks that they know what user experience, what the right user experience for a given thing is going to be, but that's not true. Until you launch the product out into the wild and let the users tell you how the experience is, you wouldn't know whether that's the right experience. So we're going to take this mock website as the example. It's a mock of Zoom car. Let's assume we are managing the user experience for this particular product. The product lets you book a self-driving car specifying a pickup time and a return time and selecting the car model. The moment you look for available cars, you get a list from which you could choose one, and you would be able to fill out your details and rent it out. This is the sample website that we are going to use through the talk. So the first rule of thumb is just track almost every piece of data that could be tracked on a website. Like the previous speaker said, a lot of times you would want a piece of data two months back, but you might not have it unless you track it in well in advance, even though you might not need it at the time when you think about tracking. So the rule of thumb is track every click, every hover, every keyboard usage, and success or failure outcomes from any action that the user takes, as well as information about the user. This could mean the user's email address and any user-identifiable information. There are privacy concerns around that, but let's ignore that for a moment. And the second thing would be page-level context, which would include information on what went into the page when the page was displayed to the user. Most of the pages that we deal with are dynamic in nature, and the content could be different for one user versus the other. And you should have tracked context about the page. That is, if the page has, say, ten widgets of which eight would show dynamically for different users, I mean, different set of eight would show dynamically for different users, you need to be sure which set of eight a particular user encountered. And the other one that you need to track is session-level context. And session-level context could include anything that goes across the browsing session, and we should be tracking all actions and events. So in case of this example, let's look at what we'll be tracking for this widget. So if you notice, there's a sign-in register button on the top, and if the user has to rent a car, he has to register a sign-in here as well. So you'd probably want to track from where the user started the sign-in process or register process. There is one thing, the source of the sign-in or register, and you track the sign-in slash register form itself. You track every action that the user takes on the form itself. And if you look at this booker car widget, there's a date picker, and the date picker has a text box as well. So the user could type there, and the user could select a date from there. And the moment the user selects a date or types in a date, you want to make sure that you've recorded that event, and you also want to make sure that you record, whether the type date is valid or not, and things like that, so that you could go back and figure out why something went wrong when the user tried to submit this form. And you'd also track which car model the user searched for, and whether the check availability returned back a success or error response, if at all it returns error response, you'd better track the error code as well. So having the basic level of tracking done for the entire website would let you answer a lot of questions around what is going on in the website. For instance, you could figure out when do users register. Do most users register when they are about to check out? That is when they are about to book the rental car, or do they normally register when they come onto the page? And if you look at it, there are these three links on top. You'd want to be able to quantify the importance of every item on a page. And by tracking all the clicks and navigations that happen on the page, you would be able to figure out whether tariff is an important link or not. For instance, a lot of people might not even read policies, so you'd get a sense of how important tariff is in comparison to policies. If at all you need some space clear, there you would know which one to clear up. And you'd also find which field users struggle to fill out the most because you'd get to know that one particular field is throwing up a lot of errors, which means that that's the field that is difficult to fill the most. So essentially, there are a bunch of questions that you could answer using all the data that's tracked with basic events and session context. And these would be questions that give you a sense of what is happening on the website and what is important and what is not. And the moment you understand your website in and out, you could start making improvements over it and give a better experience to the users. So I'm going to walk you through a bunch of techniques that would enable you to what you call assess what's going wrong on a website and what the users might be wanting to know. I'm just going to walk through the tools and then talk about how we could use these to give a better experience.  So if there is a flow, you divide the flow up into multiple phases and each phase becomes one piece in the funnel. And you start tracking what percentage of users move from one phase to another. And in this case, say 100 people land onto the page, 72 people move to the search page and 54 end up trying to book one, that is select a car and click on the book button, and then 118% end up booking one. And there's one more thing that you could use which is called cohort analysis. When I say that you do a cohort analysis, what I mean by that is you slice and dice users by various criteria you segment users and you could even segment sessions and you try to look at the various metrics that you care about for each of those segments. So this enables you to isolate a problem or isolate user need that is being expressed.  Imagine you wake up one day and you find that this part of the funnel is suddenly shrunk down to, say, 32%. That is 100%, this is 72%, the second phase is 72%, and only, say, 30% of people end up trying to book a car at all. You start wondering what could be going wrong. So one thing that you could do is start trying to figure out if something is radically wrong in the website which you would be able to by looking at the basic symmetry matrix and looking for errors. Let's assume all that didn't give you any clue. So the next thing that you could probably do here is split up users based on various parameters. So you could split them up based on demographic information, what class of cars do they use, or what is the date in which they joined, have they already made a booking or not. So you could start comparing various segments with each other and see if the problem is with one or two of those segments and not with the entire population of audience. So when this drops, it need not necessarily drop across the population. That is the point. So what you could do is you could possibly, yeah, so let's assume we segmented by various dimensions, and we finally ended up segmenting by whether the user rented a car for a long term or for a short term in the past, and you end up with two different final comparisons. So the first thing that you are looking at is all the users who rent cars only for a few hours. And the second set that you're looking at is users who rent cars for a few days. So there could be a set of users who use a car just to go to a movie or to a restaurant and return back. And those users would be looking for a short enough time slot. In the queue, the users would be trying to pick pick up time and return time, which are just a few hours apart. Whereas in the second case, they would be trying to choose pick up and return time, which are few days apart. And you realize that for the users who book on a hardly basis, there's not much difference. Whereas for the users who try to who normally book for longer term, there is a lot of difference and that is where the decline in conversion is happening. So the moment you realize this, you would be able to start looking at what could be going wrong for these users. It could be quite possible that the next few days are fragmented into multiple pieces by all those people who are trying to book just for a few hours. So a person looking to book a car for multiple days is unable to find an available car. So how do we come to realize that? You could follow a few techniques to find that. One would be if you're tracking, if you're doing screen recording, you would be able to see what the users are actually doing on the website. You could segment users by the same criteria using which you segmented in the previous analysis and pick a few users who fall into that bucket of users who book a car for multiple days and you start looking at the screen recording. You get an idea of... For instance, if these users were going back and forth quite a lot, say the user filled up the form, came to the next page and say the user filled up this form with a certain date, came to this next page and then went back again and changed the date and came back again here and so on and so forth. You would get a sense that something is wrong with... I mean, the problem is availability because you see that cars aren't available in that page and you could get to know this even by looking at all the events that you've tracked. You would have tracked page context. So in page context, if you track something like, what is the percentage of items? So in this example, we are displaying, say, five different cars. If at all we track that three out of five are available when this user visited, we would get to know whether there's a correlation between the number of vehicles that were available for a given user and the percentage of users who moved on to the next page. Could make use of these two and figure out whether there is a reason for the problem. And the moment you realize that there is a reason there are multiple ways to fix it, you start hypothesizing around what the user might be looking for. Maybe you just start showing the user which date range he could choose around the date range he specified, which might have availability, or you could suggest your alternate car, I mean, move the available cars on the top or whatever. You come up with multiple solutions. You don't know which one is going to work. You could do a split testing, but before we get to split testing, let me just give you a brief of how you could go about tracking all the data that we saw earlier. So the screen recording and heat map, click map, and all this could be tracked using click tail. And all the events and everything else could be, I mean, all the page context, session context and even context could be tracked with Google Analytics, Mixpan, and Chrismetrics. And the moment you mature beyond this point and get to a point where you have to slice and dice data, randomly, a tableau and click view might come in handy, and then you could graduate up to what you call specialized databases and whatnot. So what does split testing mean?  That is, you think that X might work or Y might work, but you want to figure out which one is actually going to work. When this is the case, and you have an existing website in place. So you use the existing website as the baseline, and you want to roll out something, only if that is going to improve the experience over the baseline. And you could either roll out bigger chunks and test whether the hypothesis is working in a holistic way. For instance, if you wanted to bring in a... So you realize that the users are struggling to find available cars among the cars that are being displayed. One thing that you could do is just put up a filter right there which would let the user look only at the available cars. In the first example that we looked at, this car is rentable only from one location. Imagine the company goes and opens up a few more locations. You would have a location selector, and instead of having a location, which one do you make the user choose mandatorily? Does the user always have to choose a car model and then move and figure out where that car model is available, where the user want to choose a location and then look which car model is available at that time? This is something that would vary between user groups as well. So if you're testing a bigger change on the website, you just define... I mean, you call it holistic testing, and when you do minor optimizations to make a funnel tighter, that is fine too. So let me just walk through how the whole thought process would go on in this case. First thing you need to identify a user need to make a user experience improvement. And where does the user need come from? The user might communicate it directly to you. It could be explicit communication or implicit communication. In the example that we saw, the user was going back and forth between these two pages. That is an implicit communication office need for the ability to find available cars easily. And in case of explicit communication, the user might have sent you a feedback or you might have had a user-focused session which tells you that the user is looking for a particular thing. Or it could be a hypothesis that you start with.  Or it could be a business need from which you try to fit it to the customer's need. So the way the whole thing goes about working is you start analyzing the track data and you look at all this data and figure out what is going wrong with the users. So the moment you realize that people are going back and forth between these two pages, you get to know that there is a need for a better way to find availability. And the other way to find it is talk to users, ask them what they are struggling with. Even if you find a problem with the metrics and you aren't able to isolate the exact problem, you could just call up those users and talk to them and identify user needs. Or you could hypothesis user needs and it's really important to validate whether people actually need it or not. You could again do this by either talking to users or going to analytics tools and trying to figure out whether you have enough data and support of your hypothesis. And the moment you find the user needs, you could address the user need either by making a change to how the website is going to be laid out. That is at the very basic level on what is going to be shown to the user first and what is going to be shown next and what not. That is the way information is presented or it could just be to do with the content that you present there. So for instance, let's say you found that users who were booking a car for the first time weren't feeling as comfortable as users who have already used this service. It could be quite possible that, so we just stop there and try to think what could be the questions going on in the minds of people who booked for the first time and that would have been answered to people who booked it for a subsequent time.  It could be that you just need to tell them, hey, don't worry, you have a good insurance policy so you don't have to worry about it.  So the change could be in content as well. Or it could be in the flow, make the entire checkout flow as what we call squeezed in as possible so that there are lower number of drop-off points if drop-off is the problem that you are facing. And it could be a combination of some of these which results in a feature. You would have seen this widget almost everywhere, almost on every e-commerce site. People who bought this also bought. That's a feature that includes content and what you call flow changes in how the user purchases an item. As soon as you roll out any change, drag data again and feed it back to the whole process. And the key thing is every user experience improvement should start with an objective. If it's a flow optimization, start with an objective on what percentage improvement should come in terms of conversion in that funnel. And if it's a page optimization, a page would ideally have one goal. The page is supposed to lead up the user to... I mean, every page would have an objective for certain pages. It could be that the page has to take the user to another class of page. For instance, in this case, the objective of the search page was to take the user to a booking page. And the objective of the home page was to make the user search for a card. And a page optimization should result in improvement in the objective of that particular page. And similarly for content or a feature or a call to action that you're putting on the page, you need to assign an objective to it and see whether that objective was met. And if it's not met, cut the feature out or improve the feature so that it meets the objective sooner. Any questions? Can you tell us about the list of services in tools again that you used? I'm sorry? The list of services and tools that you used. And which one is useful for what scenarios? Sure. Yeah. I should walk you through that. And ClickTail and Lucky Orange let you do user testing virtually. So it's not to deal with... So the typical analytics tools look at users in an aggregate form. ClickTail and Lucky Orange let you sample users and dive deep into them. They give you the ability to record the screens of a certain percentage of all your users. So you could say record the screens of 2% of all my users. And you could go back and start viewing how the user actually interacted with the website. So when you look at stops or pauses in mouse movement or mouse hovering over a specific area, you get to know that there is an area of confusion. And you could then start thinking what could be wrong there and come up with a whole bunch of hypothesis, go about validating and whatnot. And these two tools also give you the ability to look at heat maps, click maps and whatnot. That is what these specialize in. You wouldn't probably be using it on a day-to-day basis. You would use these tools periodically to get a sense of how users are interacting with the website. And these could be time-consuming. When you start looking at screen recordings, it might just suck up a lot of time, so need to be handled judiciously. And Google Analytics, Mixpan Analytics deal with... I mean, they mostly do event-based analytics. So Google Analytics was doing page-based analytics to begin with while Mixpan Analytics, Mixpan Analytics were doing event-based analytics to begin with. But all three of them have converged to a certain point now. All three of them are good at doing event-based analytics, that is, to know at an aggregate level what percentage of users are doing what actions and how the sequence of these actions looks like. And you could also do cohort analysis, which would let you know how the users... how various sets of users use the website. And the next set of tools, Tableau and Clipview, could connect with any kind of data source. It could be your database, it could be your Excel sheet that you have, it could be anything that you have. And it would let you slice and dice data in a way that none of these other tools would let you do. And the moment you go beyond a certain scale, you would want to track all the... A lot of these tools wouldn't support you well enough, so you'd want to push all the events asynchronously into your DV so that it doesn't block your website and make your experience bad. So you use a non-blocking DV and pull from data to data arrows and do all the upstream analysis. And specialized analytics tools could be, for instance, e-commerce sites have this tool called RGmetrics, which is tailored to e-commerce sites and it gives you tons of things out of the box that there could be specialized analytics tools for various industries. Thank you.


After a phonetic plan has been generated it is converted into a string of pronounceable segments. This string is forwarded to the articulation mechanisms that is to the lungs, to the larynx and to the vocal tract and is controlled by the central nervous system. This is our most complex motor skill. It involves numerous parts of our body and is coordinated by a variety of muscles and nerves. This process can be subdivided into two central aspects. Articulation on the one hand, control on the other. Let us focus on articulation in the following. Well we have three central mechanisms that are responsible for the production of speech. First we have our respiratory system or respiration where the lungs produce the necessary energy in form of a stream of air. The second mechanism is referred to as phonation where the larynx serves as a modifier to the airstream and is responsible for all sorts of sound sources. And finally the resonation mechanism is the component where the vocal tract modifies and modulates the airstream by means of several articulators. Let's look at respiration first. Now before any sound can be produced at all there has to be some form of energy. In speech this energy takes the form of a stream of air normally coming from the lungs. Here are the lungs. And this airstream is referred to as pulmonic air. The whole respiratory system is contained within the chest or thorax. There we have the lungs which I've already pointed out. They provide the reservoir for pulmonic airflow in speech. The lungs are connected to the trachea. So this is the trachea or alternatively you can refer to it as winged pipe. And then we have two bronchial tubes which join at the base of the trachea. So here they are the two tubes. Well at the lower end of the thoracic cavity we find the dome-shaped diaphragm and at the upper end we find the larynx. And the larynx is the main organ that is responsible for phonation. Now the primary biological function of the larynx is to act as a valve by closing off air from the lungs or preventing foreign substances from entering the trachea. The larynx consists of a number of cartilages which are interconnected by complex joints and which move about these joints by means of muscular and ligamental force. Let's point out the most important of these in the following. Here are three views of the larynx. So this view looks at the larynx from the front. This is a view from behind this so-called posterior view. And here we're looking at the larynx from above so it's the top view. Well in looking at the larynx we have a number of important elements. For example we have the hyoid bone which can only be seen from the front. Now this horseshoe-shaped hyoid bone serves as the basis for the tongue. It's a very important bone also for considering the evolution of human language. The epiglottis. So this is hyoid. Let's write down hyoid first of all. Now the epiglottis that's this part here. Epiglottis which can only be seen from behind. Now the epiglottis is attached to the anterior part of the thyroid cartilage. Thyroid cartilage which is basically this one. Thyroid. It is attached to the anterior part of the thyroid cartilage and closes off the larynx during swallowing. In speech it is involved in the production of some consonants. Then quite important are the, well let's mark them in black here because this is blue, the arytenoids or arytenoid cartilages. Now they are connected to the vocal folds which you can see here. These are the vocal folds or also referred to as vocal cords. The movement of the arytenoids, this sort of movement, has a direct influence on the tension of the vocal cords. Now the vocal cords themselves constitute the basic sound sorts of speech and the gap between them, this gap here, is referred to as the glottis. In speech production the larynx modifies the airflow from the lungs in such a way as to produce an acoustic signal. The results are various types of phonation. Let's look at them now. Well as I said the most important effect for speech is the production of an audible vibration, a buzzing sound known as voice or vibration. Each pulse of vibration of the glottis of the vocal folds, each opening and closing movement represents a single sound. The number of cycles per second depends on age and sex. Average male voices like mine which is relatively high at the moment because I'm telling you something, vibrate at around 120 to 180 cycles per second. Women's voices average 220 cycles per second. So 220 times the vocal cords come together on average in women's voices. Now depending on the type of laryngeal action different modes of phonation can be distinguished. I will try to illustrate them in the following. Now if there's no voice then the glottis is open and we can breathe relatively steadily like this. Whenever we produce normal voice like I'm doing at the moment the vocal folds vibrate so the arytenoids control the vocal folds. Now here's our next example, whisper. This is an example of whisper. Now whisper requires a far greater constriction than the voiceless setting of the glottis and is generally achieved by adducting the vocal cords while maintaining an opening between the arytenoids. The next example is breathy voice. Well this is an example of breathy voice where normal vocal cord vibration is accompanied by some continuous turbulent airflow on top of it. Here is another variant, creaky voice. So this is an example of creaky voice, very low creaky voice. This is a phonation mode characterized by a low frequency of vibration of vocal cords with a very low opening quotient and often some irregularity in periodicity. Here's a very interesting one. This is an example of falsetto. Well as you could hear falsetto is a phonation mode where the vocal folds and vocal cords are stretched longitudinally so that they become relatively thin in cross section. Well as already said falsetto is primarily heard as phonatory setting in singing. Do you remember the Bee Gees? Saturday Night Fever Night Fever. Okay now let's continue with resonation the final component. Once the air passes through the trachea and the glottis it enters a long tubular structure known as the vocal tract. So this here is then the passage could also involve the nose, the vocal tract. Here the airstream is affected by the action of several mobile organs, the active articulators which are actively involved in the production of speech sounds. So where are the active articulators? Well of course we have the lips which are mobile, the uvula is mobile, then of course the glottis as we've already seen that is mobile and the tongue. Don't tell me that the teeth are active articulators? Well if you did I would say okay in the case of the third teeth the third set of teeth yes but normally they're not mobile they don't move. The active articulators are supported by a set of passive articulators all the other organs or locations in the vocal tract which are passively involved in the production of speech sounds but do not move. Well as a result of articulation audible speech that is a bundle of resonance frequencies is produced and these bundles serve as input to the human perception mechanism. How they can be analyzed will be discussed in the nature of the input signal part one.


In this video, we will show you how to use NFC Connectivity and SD25DV I2C's Fast Transfer mode to establish a secure transfer channel between an IoT device and an Android phone. The secure transfer channel consists of a mutual authentication and encryption of data exchanged over NFC. Each device has its own ECC key pair, a public key and a private key. The devices exchange their public keys. The devices compute an AES session key. This AES session key will be different each time and cannot be found by someone observing the communication. The SD25DV I2C Discovery Kit authenticates the smartphone. The smartphone authenticates the SD25DV I2C Discovery Kit. The secure transfer channel is ready. All the communication is now encrypted both ways. To execute this demo, you will need the following material, an Android phone with at least Android 6.0, an SD25DV I2C Discovery Kit representing the IoT device. This board is based on a motherboard equipped with STM32L4 and a daughter board featuring an SD25DV04K NFC tag. The Android application, STM32 firmware, user manual and application note are all available on st.com slash SD25DV I2C CryptoDemo. Now let's start the demo. When the SD25DV I2C board is tapped, a secure transfer channel is automatically set up. Then four actions are proposed. Read encrypted data and display them. Read encrypted image and display it. Perform an encrypted firmware upgrade. Eavesdropper demo. We're going to start with the Eavesdropper demonstration. This feature enables the sending of encrypted text and shows both the encrypted and decrypted message. Please note that if the same message is sent several times, the encrypted text is different every time. Now let's see the encrypted sensor data feature. Here the smartphone sends a request to receive encrypted data. This data could be some sensor data for example. Once the data has been received, checked and decrypted, it is displayed as a graph. Now let's see the encrypted firmware upgrade demonstration. Here we take the new firmware stored in the phone's memory. The firmware is encrypted and uploaded. When the firmware has been received by the SD25DV I2C Discovery Kit, if no tampering is detected, the firmware is flashed and the MCU reboots.


Astral projection is actually real and the reason that I'm making this video is because I really wanted to address this Aspects of the community which I think needs talking about and I know this might cause a lot of controversy especially amongst other Lucid youtubers and people that are more scientific logical minded However, I do have a few things to say which I think will it should make sense for most of you So the reason that my main point here is this There are many phenomenon in this world which science cannot explain That doesn't mean these things don't happen It just means science can't explain them and these are there are all sorts of things for example near-death experiences out of body experiences Premonitions deja vu all sorts of things, right? Which science just simply cannot explain at the moment that doesn't mean these things don't happen because they do it just means that there isn't a scientifically validated way of Proving them for whatever reason maybe science hasn't caught up Maybe there's not enough interest or reason to fund such a study. That's a big one, right? You've got to consider who actually funds these scientific studies in the first place often It's pharmaceutical companies or people with a financial motive There is almost no financial motive to prove astral projection and even if there were It doesn't mean that they would do it because it's just not as profitable as for example funding a study on a new drug You know or a new device or a new technology that could potentially be sold for profit So that's my first point the second point is this consider lucid dreaming right and most of you have I Assume if you're watching this channel or if you know if you teach lucid dreaming or if you have read a lot about lucid dreaming You know, it's real because it's been scientifically proven, right? But if you were to And also I assume because at least some of you will have had a lucid dream And so you know the experience is real because you have experienced it, right? Now this is very important if someone were to ask you in the 90 in the 1700s for example To prove lucid dreaming scientifically you wouldn't be able to or at least no one had done it yet The first official proof scientifically of lucid dreaming was in 1975 Anytime before that You paper people were still lucid dreaming thousands of people throughout history have been lucid dreaming, you know Since the dawn of time, but it was only scientifically proven in 1975 now That doesn't mean that lucid dreaming didn't exist before then it did and Probably millions of people had experienced it before it was scientifically proven the same thing is true of astral projection Just because it's not been scientifically proven that doesn't mean it's not real and this is a huge distinction Which I think so many people just misunderstand Just because something isn't scientifically proven that doesn't mean it doesn't exist And this is you know, that's that's probably the biggest example I can give of that you're so sure that lucid dreaming is real because you've either had it yourself you've you've experienced it yourself or You've come across the study proving as real scientifically but you could have experienced it before that study was released and Just because even if there was no study proving lucid dreaming most of you watching this would still believe in lucid dreaming because because you've Experienced it and this leads me to point number three, which is a very important one just because you haven't experienced something Doesn't mean it's not real and it also doesn't mean that other people haven't experienced it And so you've got to look at the evidence You've got to look at the mountains and mountains of anecdotal subjective evidence from millions of people across the world throughout history Who claim to have astral projected? You can't ignore that just in the same way that before lucid dreaming was proven officially There were also millions of people who had stories and experiences And you know knowledge of lucid dreaming before it was officially proven in a lab So for those reasons and for reasons as well like for example, I personally had Experiences which I could not attribute to lucid dreaming. These are vastly different experiences Which can only be described as something in a different realm of reality not lucid dreaming I know what lucid dreaming is like. I've you know, I teach lucid dreaming Astral projection is very different and I know this goes against what I said previously because I made a video before I Wasn't as open-minded. I didn't really consider the points. I'm making in this video I was just purely focused on what scientific studies are out there and what can be proven on paper in a lab I'm not going to repeat myself But yeah, just think about it just because something isn't proven or you've not experienced it Doesn't mean it's not real and especially when I've since the making that video had personal astral production experiences Which cannot be explained by lucid dreaming you know, I have to now make this video and Say that I've changed my mind. I know there will probably be some hate for this video Maybe not I hope there won't be because I feel like the audience and humanity as a whole is Gradually opening their mind and becoming more conscious and aware and open to new ideas But there will also be those of you who are so rigid in your scientific thinking that you have to see proof or evidence But I would encourage you to just consider the points I've made in this video, you know, I might be wrong But it's more likely that I'm right Especially when you consider the millions of people who have also had astral projection experiences And I feel like we're missing the point here It doesn't matter if it's not scientifically proven because if people are experiencing it Why would they lie, you know, why would they and so okay, so I'm gonna end with this point and I think this is a very important one as well and A big argument that I feel like will be made against this video is this the following How do you know that you didn't just have a lucid dream which you thought was an astral projection experience? Very good point and that's the point I made when I made my astral projection is fake video the following reasons Okay, so firstly a Vast number of the people who have astral projected usually share a story which is a significant point or is a Significant story which demonstrates something or an ability that could not happen in a lucid dream If we go by the scientific definition of a lucid dream, it's all in our mind It's contained within our brain and it only happens to us therefore anything and I mean anything in An experience such as an astral projection, which you know, you would argue could be a lucid dream Cannot have any link to the outside world and yet there are many stories of astral projectors being able to influence The outside world being able to communicate with people who later can contact to them and said hey, I felt like I should contact you today Being able to gain information read information And all sorts of things which could not happen in a lucid dream The odds are like something like 10 million to one that anything would be reliable from a lucid dream and yet astral projectors There are many stories just reset just you know Google them the second point and this is where I probably might lose a few of you But you've got to consider the astral projection. You've got to consider the astral projection is traveling through the astral realm It's not you're not operating in 3d in the 3d diet in the third dimension. Okay You're operating the fourth dimension, which is the temporal dimension We have three spatial dimensions and then one temporal dimension, which is the fourth dimension We as humans in the 3d world move through the fourth dimension We that we know is time in a linear fashion meaning we go from point a to point b We can't go backwards. We can't go back in time. We can't go forward in time except at the standard rate of aging What we know is progressing through time or growing older now the idea or the concept behind astral projection is that your astral body can Interact with 4d time and go back and forward in time It can also travel through different dimensions And this is where it gets a bit confusing because you can have astral projectors Astral projecting into a future version of the next room or a different dimension version of the next room and Therefore you can get false positives false negatives, etc. When you're trying to prove astral projection It also doesn't help that most people who have experienced astral projection just haven't bothered to practice it Or aren't that skilled at doing it? And so you get a lot of stories which explain astral projection very well But you also get a lot of stories and this is important which Describe astral projection as something that could have happened in a lucid dream Because the people either weren't skilled astral projecting in the first place Maybe it's their first or second time Or and this is more likely they astral projected in a different dimension or in a different timeline Where things that would have proved astral projection Different because it's a different dimension or a different timeline So in order to prove astral projection and this is what I would encourage any of you who have had this experience to try and do Is you need to practice it and you need to get so good that you can actually decide which timeline and which dimension to project into and Then go into the next room read something off the bookshelf read something off. You know the standard ways that you would say The scientific minded amongst you would say well prove it go into the next room and read the word that I just wrote down on this piece of paper much more easily said than done because when you're astral projecting you're separating your subtle body from your physical body and That takes a lot of practice and skill. It's very difficult to do very difficult far more difficult than lucid dreaming which is why I've only had a handful of astral projection experiences and Thousands of lucid dreams. However, it is possible and it is a learnable. I think I'm going to end the video there I have got much more to say and I will be making more videos about this in the future But I really just want to hear what you guys think and I hope I don't Freak out my audience too much by saying this but I I hope that if you've watched this video and actually listened to everything I've said Some of it should make sense to you, but I would love to hear what you think I do have a slightly weird voice today because I've just had a cold for a few weeks So I do apologize for my weird sounding voice leave a comment. 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Strange institution called marriage. Another couple bites the dust. We work up to the news that the 27-year-old marriage of the founder Microsoft and the fourth richest man in the world was over. Soon to be, ex-Mrs. Gates Melinda had filed for divorce on the premise that the marriage had broken down irretrievably. Despite the high-profile foundation that both established and had been running for the last 20 years, the good work they are involved in could not save their marriage. The question to ask is what exactly was so bad that a 56-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man three decades later in the absence of adultery, gender-based violence, and threat to life could not work out. There is a lot to unpack in this advocacy. In our climate, getting married is perked as the greatest achievement any individual must aspire to. We celebrate marriage with all our hearts. From the time a man goes to ask for the hand of the woman in marriage to the attendant costs that go with the wedding. With time, we have seen the erosion of the true values of what marriage should be. As more emphasis is placed on the wedding rather than on what ingredients are required to build and sustain a marriage. Be patient and be available, prepared to sexually satisfy your husband while provide and tolerate his wife and put everything that she does down to the fact that she's a woman, which often is translated as irrational order and a mystery, are the foremost pieces of advice given to the female and male respectively. Marriage is not a one-size-fits-all. And the back end of what will constitute a good candidate for marriage is worth taking into consideration. What's time spent on guiding the person to find out who he or she truly is is the person, even the marrying type. However, a lot of people are pressured into getting married with most driven by what we see and hear not by what we experience. Has the experience been about the totality of the person without the clouding of lust and manipulations? Marriages have become co-existing spaces with repressed people roaming mindlessly in marriages. Why do people change because they signed a piece of paper? It is not the paper that makes you married. It is the commitment, the balance, the communication, the growing together that makes the marriage. While seasons will come and go, each one will go through a process of change, but the fundamentals of who you are will not have changed unless you have been pretending. Intimacy rather than sex is what couples should work on. There will come a time when both go through the betrayal of their bodies as ordained by nature. The man will not be the stud he wants was, not the woman, the eager, anticipating recipient. So if the parties have not learned how to work on intimacy, when that period comes, there will surely be a disconnect. In closing, marriage is likened to a business, and as with businesses, it is not meant for everyone. So if you happen to be the marrying type, then remember it requires hard work. If you apply hard work to keep your customers happy, improve your customer service, reward customer loyalty, offer discounts, customer recovery process, improve your products, introduce new products, introduce innovations, upgrade facilities in a business to be successful, then we must apply the same amount of sacrifice and hard work to make the marriage successful. Marriage is a beautiful thing, but a divorce is an option. People need to stop playing to the gallery. People play to the gallery and stay too long, shocking everybody when they split 30 years down the line, making marriage look unattractive. People should go through trial separations where they find they are struggling and use that type of a way to see if they really want to give it another shot and stay together or go their separate ways. I think we will get more honesty. Wow. Yes. I'm sorry. You deserve it. I deserve it. You deserve it. I'm sorry. I think my key takeaway there is the marrying type. Are you the marrying type? Yes. A lot of people are actually not the marrying type, but they've been programmed to get married. I have a friend who once said that the kind of marriage you would like is, with his spouse being outside the country, he lives in Nigeria, they get to see maybe every three months or every six months and that was going to work for him. Because of the kind of person he is. Now, I think it's one of those few people that understood who they were and understood that being tied to a person all the time would cause a lot of conflict. So are we, are you the marrying type in the question that anybody who aspires to get married should honestly answer? Yes. Well, for me, taking off from the Begates divorce, of course, the immediate lesson to pick from that is that what keeps the marriage is not in tangibles. They're actually in tangibles. Anybody who has not been able to learn that, at least that particular case has actually taught it that we must go beyond the material things when we, in every human relationship, because I've come to realize that what keeps the bond actually does not lie in material possessions. It comes down to the issue of building that connection which has to be, which must be forged. There must be that constant commitment towards it. We, it's enough lesson for all of us, but we have to do it for those of us who haven't married to actually learn from us. Well, don't let that discourage you. Okay, I have been married 13 years now and a few weeks ago, I still literally wake up at night and I think about this statement. I heard a few weeks ago in the office, I was recently transferred and the lady sitting opposite me in the new office calls herself a prophetess, okay? And she came to the office one day, said they went for an event over the weekend. And one of the women that came to that event to talk to other women about marriage, sex, intimacy and growing as a woman made a statement and that statement can't seem to leave me.   Are you kidding? It's a society. There's no life at all. We shouldn't play to the gallery one and marriage is not a one side fit all. That's what we mistake with me. And I always believe that in marriage, when you're marrying, it marries to me, it's like it's a business. It's like a merger of two companies. And you're saying, so you cannot merge a bank with an insurance company. Neither can you merge a bank with a microfinance. You see that, it take over. There should be compatibility. You get it, there should be compatibility. So I think once you marry and you're not going in the same direction and you're not seeing the same things, I'm not saying your behavior has to be alike, but you're not, your thought pattern doesn't develop each other. You don't see things to benefit from. But you know we actually want change. Exactly. Not the same, that's where the interaction doesn't change. Then the interactions. Because listen, if I know that, I've always told you, for example, I don't like a family where everybody's living apart, then we're going through financial crisis and I get a job that says, okay, I'm sending you to Somalia for two years. Both of us will change. Because we'll know that, hey, we need to finalize this and make some money. So it's all about interaction and the need. And that's where once you don't try to impose what he or she is feeling on the other. That's where you have a lot of challenges. Final note, I'll go to give this quick story. So a young man gets married and decides that he's having issues in his marriage already. So he goes quickly to an older aunt and says, look, before my uncle died, he told me that there are two things and I'm coming to you as a woman to find out if it's true. That there are two things that I need to do to keep my wife, if I want her to be happy. The first one is that I have to golf her well. I've golfed her so well that she will be, when she hears my car coming, she'll be, hey, oh, this man is coming. I'm finished. Keep her satisfied. So that even if another man chases her, she'll tell him, look, look, my friend, I have not finished with the one at home. Is it you? The second one is she asks you for 15 and I make sure you double it. All right. Social media feedback. Esteemed viewer, your contributions are integral to this program. Please keep sharing your thoughts and everything we discuss here. These are some of your comments. On a previous advocacy on the need for an electoral college in Nigeria, underscore DA.MINI underscore says, we don't need electoral college in Nigeria as it partially rules out government by the people. If this democracy is not even the problem. Emu or Wubete says, state of origin is not man made. It is God made. It cannot be taken away. What we need is a constitution that will promote equity and fairness. A nation where everyone in the country will have a sense of belonging. Then where you are from within the country won't matter. Follow us on our social media platforms on Facebook, plus TV Africa, hash the advocate NG or on Twitter and Instagram at plus TV Africa, hash the advocate NG. To catch up with previous broadcasts, go to plus TV Africa dot com forward slash the advocate NG. After the break, Kaede is saying the country is not as bad as we imagine. We hope he remains alive.


Trust it! Hey everybody, Dr. O. This video, the terminology is going to be the key. I'm going to talk about all the different types of growth media that we might use in the lab or are used in labs. I just share a lot of images because they look cool. So I'm going to give some examples of each one so you can kind of see them. All right, so the first two terms, I have nothing to do with this first image. This is actually called chocolate auger. But the first two terms to know when you're dealing with different growth medium is complex media versus chemically defined media. So complex media is what we primarily use, which are the only things I use in the lab, which is you basically, you don't know exactly what's in each batch. So we have basically, we use things like nutrient broth and tryptic soy broth that is a combination of like predigested beef and yeast and these kind of things. You mix in all the other ingredients. So you're just, you're just making food, right? You don't like, if you're making a big stew at home or something, you wouldn't know exactly what was in each bite, but you know when into the batch, right? So that's complex media and that's the type that we use. If you have to know exactly what is in a plate or a batch, you would use what's called chemically defined media. So complex media is what we use, chemically defined media, like if you're doing research and you have to know exactly what is in each sample, that's what it's called, chemically defined media. Now what you're looking at here is an example of an enriched media or an enrichment media. So when you have organisms, so another term, when you have organisms that are fastidious, fastidious, these are organisms that need essential nutrients added or they won't grow, they won't survive. So an enrichment media is designed to add exactly what something would need to survive. So this is an example of a fastidious organism. This would be hemophilic influenza. It only grows and there are lots of organisms actually won't grow in media, but this one only grows in a special media, which is called chocolate auger. And no chocolate, I'm sorry, I definitely don't want to eat this. This is like partially digested, partially broken down blood. Because so in this chocolate auger, the blood's been treated and it's released what hemophilic influenza needs, which is actually some of your factors, right, your blood clotting factors, factor 10 and 5, which is NAD kind of cool. So this is a special enrichment media. This organism will not grow just on any nutrient broth. This is going to be for a special type of media to grow a certain type of organism. So that's what this would be an example of an enriched or an enrichment media. This one's an example, my favorite example of a selective media. So I actually took this picture in the laboratory. This is when we complete the P-glow lab. So a selective media is going to inhibit the growth of the organisms you don't want to grow and then support the growth of the ones that you do. So what makes this kind of cool, so my students made these, these are genetically modified E. coli bacteria that have been given genes that allow them to glow under the presence of UV light. And I won't go to all the details of that now. But the cool thing is these bacteria are growing on plates full of ampicillin. So this makes these plates selective media because if the E. coli that we use, the K-12 strain, if it wasn't genetically modified, the ampicillin will kill it. So here we don't have to worry about spreading these or streaking these or anything because the media, the growth surface is actually what determined what could grow here. It killed off all the competition. So only our genetically modified organisms survived. So that would be an example of a selective media. It got rid of all the organisms we didn't want to see. So we could see the ones that we did. And hopefully you understand there's going to definitely be some overlap between these different types of media. This is another one that would be, to me, it'd be both an enrichment and enriched aniselective media. But this is called Maconkey's auger. And it has actually like bile salts and crystal violet, which keeps almost all gram positives from growing. So this is a selective media plate because it keeps gram positives from growing. But then also it helps gram negatives grow that like to live in your gut, the enteric bacteria. So a lot of the organisms that grow inside of our guts are going to love this Maconkey's auger. So it's going to be a selective media by getting rid of the gram positives. And it's going to be an enrichment media by helping the organisms grow that like to be around things like bile salts. So this would be a good way to look for a lot of the anterior bacteriocies. So like your pseudomonasin E. coli and that group there. So this, the other thing that's on here though, this is also a, so we've already said it's a selective media and enrichment media. This is also a differential media. And what that means is you can actually diagnose or see something visually that tells you something about what's growing. So this also, this has a pH indicator in it as well. So if you look at the top, we're looking at ceratia marquescans. Maybe you can see that kind of faint red look especially on the left hand side. We're looking at ceratia marquescans, which does not ferment lactose. So it's not turning hot pink. On the bottom, this would be E. coli, which is fermenting lactose. And as it does so it causes a pH change and that causes the color change. So not only did this, this is a special plate, right? This plate, it kept the gram positive bacteria out, helped the gram negatives grow. And just by looking at it, we can tell if they are lactose fermenters, like on the bottom or not on the top. So that's a, that's a pretty special plate there. And that's the maconkeys auger. All right. The last one I have here would be a blood auger. So we use blood auger plates a lot when we're looking for the beta, beta hemolytic streps. So as you can see here, beta hemolysis. So that would hemolysis, that would be the, the rupture and digestion of the blood that's in there. There's actually sheet blood mixed in here. So this would be another example of an enrichment media, selective media, and differential media. Because by looking, if you see these clear zones, that tells you whatever microbe is here is lysing is, is destroying those blood cells. So that's going to be what makes it differential. We can just take a look at it. But also it is an enrichment media because a lot of the organisms need the blood to feed off of. And it would be a selective media because other ones wouldn't want to grow there. Okay. So those are some different examples of the different types of growth media that you'll be exposed to in microbiology. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.


We are going through the workbook lessons of the Course in Miracles, taking them in, merging with them, integrating them, digesting them in our mind, taking them in and letting them become who we are. They already are who we are. We are who we are, but it's like really, really, really living it, living it, living it, living it, being it, being it, being it. So that's what our practice is about and it brings us great joy. And today we have a workbook lesson that is number 74. It's interesting out of 365 lessons that that Jesus is actually beginning to describe today's lesson with. The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. The central thought. Okay. Are you ready for this one? We're ready for the central thought toward which all our exercises, all 365 exercises in the workbook are directed at this one central thought. Okay. It feels important. It feels very important. The thought is, lesson 74, there is no will, but God's. The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. God's is the only will. When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is his. The belief that conflict is possible has gone. Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. As an expression of the will of God, you have no goal, but his. God's is the only will. So, and when you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is his. This is beautiful, this first paragraph, because it's reminded me of the manual for teachers in A Course in Miracles where Jesus talks about free will and free will is established by God and it is in heaven. So, basically, Jesus is not using the word free will in terms of anything with linear time and space. I know in philosophy, you know, there's been a debate going on for actually many centuries about free will versus destiny, but it's coming at it from the human perspective. And free will is associated with choice. And then there's a lot of scientists now that are saying it's all predetermined and it's a matrix, it's a hologram. There is no choice inside the matrix. And that's exactly what Jesus is saying in this Course in Miracles, that the script is written, we but view the journey from the ending and looking back, imagining we make it once again. Basically, it's free will is God's will and the will of Christ. The Father's will and the Son's will are the same. So, we're going to have to look at the word will today to free our mind of all associations we have with the word will in time and space. I will do it. Do. No, there's no doing involved with will because will is in heaven. And the body is not part of heaven. The body is an illusion. And it's a strange belief that conflict is possible, the ego is, and then the belief that conflict is possible has gone. Jesus is telling us that free will is natural. Free will is God's gift. Free will is for perfect happiness. God's will for me is perfect happiness. And it has, peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. Yeah, the ego is the one that invented conflicting goals. The ego is the one that invented all conflict, all controversy, all things that seem to be opposing, all should have what it could have, all finger pointing, all blaming, all things should be different than they are. And basically the teachings of the Course are basically saying all things work together for good. There are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment. So, this is a beautiful lesson today in opening to the central idea, the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. Wow. And at the end he's saying as an expression of the will of God, you have no goal but His. In other words, the will of God is our will to create, create as God creates. So God creates in spirit, Christ creates in spirit, and the creations of Christ are spirit as well. It's a line of creation. And that's what will is. It's not I will do or I won't do. It's not, it's not anything in the world, but it is. At one point, I think Jesus in his text, he says, instead of, you know, he is accepting the kingdom of heaven, put the kingdom of heaven first. He actually says at one point, will you, will ye the kingdom of heaven? Will, use your will, use your God given will to remember the Christ, to remember God's love. And so it's replacing all other things. You know, it's just saying, will ye the kingdom of heaven? So that's, that's everything. There is great peace in today's idea. And the exercises for today are directed towards finding it. The idea itself is wholly true. Therefore, it cannot give rise to illusions. Without illusions, conflict is impossible. Let us try to recognize this today and experience the peace this recognition brings.  There is no will, but God's. I cannot be in conflict. Then spend several minutes in adding some related thoughts such as, I am at peace. Nothing can disturb me. My will is God's. My will and God's are one. God wills peace for his son. During this introductory phase, be sure to deal quickly with any conflict thoughts that may cross your mind. Tell yourself immediately, there is no will but God's. These conflict thoughts are meaningless. If there is one conflict area that seems particularly difficult to resolve, single it out for special consideration. Think about it briefly, but very specifically, identify the particular person or persons and the situation or situations involved. And tell yourself, there is no will but God's. I share it with him. My conflicts about anything you can think of in the world, any conflict you can think of, cannot be real. After you have cleared your mind in this way, close your eyes and try to experience the peace to which your reality entitles you. Sink into it and feel it closing around you. There may be some temptation to mistake these attempts for withdrawal, but the difference is easily detected. If you are succeeding, you will feel a deep sense of joy and an increased alertness rather than a feeling of drowsiness and innervation. Joy characterizes peace. By this experience, will you recognize that you have reached it? If you feel yourself slipping off into withdrawal, quickly repeat the idea for today and try again. Do this as often as necessary. There is definite gain in refusing to allow retreat into withdrawal, even if you do not experience the peace you seek. In the shorter periods which should be undertaken at regular and predetermined intervals today, say to yourself, there is no will but God's. I seek his peace today. Then try to find what you are seeking. A minute or two every half an hour with eyes closed if possible would be well spent on this today. We are taking that beautiful phrase from the Bible, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven. We are actually coming to what Jesus says, will ye first the kingdom of heaven? Will the kingdom of heaven? There is no will but God's. We are taking our attention deep, deep, deep inside beyond choices, beyond beliefs, beyond multiple prayers and multiple desires to basically the only goal that there is. You have no goal but his. The will of God is to basically seek the goal that God has in the sense that there is nothing else to pursue. There is no will but God's. It's beautiful because we're used to using that word will in many, many different ways in terms of time and space. We hear about strong willed children or strong willed people or a dictator that has an iron will or in political elections we hear about the will of the people but Jesus is actually saying will is of God and will is of Christ and God and Christ share the same will for perfect love and happiness. That is the kingdom of heaven. That is the acceptance of the kingdom of heaven. There is no will but God's. So today I thought for backup we would just go into the text and listen to some beautiful ideas from Jesus about free will and about God's will in the various different forms that he talks about. In fact, even in the text of A Course in Miracles in the introduction he basically says free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only you can decide what you want to take at a given time. So he goes on later on in the manual for teachers to say basically that even the form of the curriculum is not your choice. He's taking us into a recognition that the script is written and everything is already happened and basically we're watching what's already gone by but we have to basically take our mind away from the images and away from the things of time, this crazy past, present, future construct that the ego made up in order to know God's will and also in knowing God's will I know the will of the Christ as well. The father and son are one and the father and son or the creator and the creations share the same will and it has nothing to do with time and space. Free will has nothing to do with choice. If God is pure love and oneness, eternal oneness, pure infinity, there is no choice in heaven. Love simply is. God's will is and that's what we're opening to today in today's lesson. Chapter 2, section 1. This requires God's endowment of the Son with free will because all loving creation is freely given in one continuous line in which all aspects are of the same order. Endowment of the Son with free will. And he's talking about the Atonement. This is your only choice because your free will was given you for your joy in creating the perfect. So the Atonement is forgiveness, is complete forgiveness and that opens the door for remembrance that free will was given you for your joy in creating the perfect. That's in spirit. It's not in form. God knows not form. That's a beautiful sentence from the Beyond Oh Idol section. Chapter 2, section 2. The service of the right mind. The denial of error frees the mind and reestablishes the freedom of the will. That's very important. The service of the right mind, the denial of error. In other words, Jesus, at one point, he italicizes, do not see error. He's teaching us do not make it real. If you believe in the error, then you believe in the ego. The curriculum, of course, in miracles is not finding mistakes and harboring mistakes and pointing fingers at people and then saying, all is God, all is one, you have to forgive. No, forgiveness sees that what you thought your brother did, he did not do. What you thought your sister did, he did not do. What you thought your brother did or shouldn't have done or your sister did or shouldn't have done, that has not occurred. And this over denying of the error, overlooking the error, frees the mind and reestablishes the freedom of the will, which is heaven. Remember, that's the kingdom of heaven, nirvana, if you want to call it, bliss, pure bliss, reality, call it reality, it's pure spirit, depends on the denial of error. It's like, don't give error any harbor in your mind, don't try to hide an error, don't try to protect it, don't try to analyze it, don't believe in it, you have to deny it, because if God's will is reality and there is no will but God's, then you can see everything else has to be given up, released, because it was never real to begin with. Chapter two, section two, when the will is really free, it cannot miscreate, because it recognizes only truth. So this lesson today, there is no will but God's, is basically saying that in the ultimate sense, which is what we're talking about, this idea for today can be regarded as the central idea, central thought toward which all our exercises are directed, there is no will but God's, is really coming to the fact of the truth that it's impossible to miscreate, you cannot make something apart from God's will, there is no will but God's, and that's important, because if there is no will but God's and God's will and Christ's will are the same, that means that Christ cannot miscreate and all seeming guilt and all seeming illusions and shame and pain and all the conflict and controversies and everything comes from believing that you can have a will apart from God's. The will of God is pure love, so there is no will but God's, that's just saying love is all there is, and then if you believe anything to the contrary, then that's an impossible idea, that's what separation is, it's an impossible idea. And he's talking about the final distinction of the Holy Spirit, not a person but a Holy Spirit just seeing the false is false, until this distinction is made, however, the vacillations between free and imprisoned will cannot but continue. So the sleeping mind is imprisoned will and free will is the will of God and the will of Christ, and so the mind is just vacillating, a split mind just vacillates between right mind, which is the gateway to remembering free will in heaven or in prison will, which is the wrong mind of the ego. And the vacillation just continues back and forth until it becomes apparent atonement, the correction is the escape from the vacillation. In genius thinking, this is from chapter 3, section 5, in genius thinking is not the truth that shall set you free, but you are free of the need to engage in it when you are willing to let it go.  I could see this differently, choose again, choose again. I could see peace instead of this, choose again, choose again. You are willing to let it go. There's that little willingness that Jesus talks about throughout the text. And then, of course, it takes great willingness to see that all events and counters and circumstances are gently planned by one who knows you're good. That's another version of all things work together for good. There are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment. That's the Holy Spirit. Free will must lead to freedom. That's text chapter 3, section 6. Chapter 5, section 2, in the holy state the will is free so that its creative power is unlimited and choice is meaningless. From Jesus in chapter 5, my role is only to unchain your will and set it free. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, chapter 6, section 3. This is how you will learn the truth that will set you free and will keep you free as others learned of you. Chapter 8, section 2, the ego cannot teach you anything as long as your will is free because you will not listen to it. Chapter 8, section 2, it is not your will to be imprisoned because your will is free. Chapter 8, section 2, the ego is the denial of free will. This unnatural lesson, which is the ego, cannot be learned and the attempt to learn it is a violation of your own freedom making you afraid of your will because it is free. Chapter 8, section 4, your will is as free as mine and God himself would not go against it. Same section, by offering freedom, you will be free. And how do we offer freedom? We just simply judge not. That was the whole teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. You can judge not less to be judged, but if you just took those two words, judge not, and those were the only two words you held close to your heart. Not that you shouldn't judge, but that you cannot judge. Just not. You're not capable.  You're not capable of judging anything, anyone, any person, place, situation in all of history because history itself wouldn't exist if you didn't choose the ego in the present moment and cover over the present with the past and project an unreal future. This is coming down to how willing am I to not judge. Jesus does tell us in his course he says, judgment is evaluative and so the Holy Spirit can use what the ego made and that's what guidance is. Whenever you are guided to do something to not do something, to say something or not say something to allow the Holy Spirit Jesus to speak through the body and laugh through the body and hug and shine, that's all just tuning into guidance. Just tuning in. You just tune in to what the Spirit would instruct you to do, what the Holy Spirit would have you say or do, where to go, what to say. To whom are you to meet today? That's all guidance and that's evaluative but remember that's the Holy Spirit's use of what the ego made. The ego made judgment which is in reality not possible but the Holy Spirit has to use what the ego made his instructions and guidance to unwind the mind back to God to free the mind, to come back to free will. Learn this of me the Holy Will of all those who are as blessed as you are. Chapter 11, section 8 Nothing of God will enslave his Son whom he created free and whose freedom is protected by his being. Chapter 13, section 2 You have been told again and again that it will set you free yet you sometimes react as if it is trying to imprison you. Yeah. We know the Holy Spirit is the Comforter we know the Holy Spirit is the Answer we know the Holy Spirit has all the guidance and instruction that we need in any seeming given circumstance and we have been told again and again that it will set you free and yet sometimes you react as if it is trying to imprison you. Yeah. It's a fear of the light. It's a fear of the Holy Spirit. The past is gone. Chapter 14, section 6 Jesus says judgment and condemnation are behind you and unless you bring them with you you will see that you are free of them. Oh. Awakening unto Christ is following the laws of love of your free will and out of quiet recognition of the truth in them. When you have seen your brothers you will be released to knowledge having learned to free yourself through him who knows of freedom. Chapter 13, section 10 a minute even less will be enough to free you from the past and give your mind in peace over to the atonement in terms of trying things in the world trying out the ego's plan of salvation that we learned about a few years ago Jesus says in chapter 15, section 3 you are free to try as many as you wish but all you will be doing is to delay your homecoming and the body ceases to attract you and when you place no value on it as a means of getting anything then there will be no interference in communication and your thoughts will be as free as God's. Chapter 16, when God willed that his son be free his son was free. What God wills is true. There is no will but God's and what God's will is true. That's basically saying the truth is true and only the truth is true. As you begin to recognize and accept the gifts that you have so freely given to your brother you will also accept the effects of the holy instant and use them to correct all your mistakes and free you from their results. Chapter 20, there's a question for us in section 8 would you not willingly be free of misery and learn again of joy? That's a version of today's lesson. There is no will but God's and Jesus is saying would you not willingly be free of misery and learn again of joy? Be willing for an instant to leave your alters free of what you place upon them and what is really there you cannot fail to see. Chapter 24 section 3 the slaves of specialness will yet be free. It is God's will but God's. Say that one again, the slaves of specialness will yet be free. And how great will be your joy when he is free to offer you the gift of sight God gave to him for you. But in the love he shows himself is God made free to let his will be done. This single lesson learned will set you free from suffering whatever form it takes. When you forgive the world your guilt you will be free of it. Unless you do your will you are not free. It's a metaphor of I will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Talking about God chapter 30 he joins with you in willing you be free. This world awaits the freedom you will give when you have recognized that you are free. Nor can you be free apart from him, God whose holy will you share. You are asked to let yourself be free of all the dreams of what you never were and seek no more to substitute the strength of idol wishes for the will of God. And then in terms of the choices of this world seeming choices of the matrix chapter 31 section 2 what you would choose between is not a choice and gives but the illusion it is free for it will have one outcome either way. There's no order of difficulty in miracles, there's no hierarchy of illusions and whatever you seem to choose between in this world it will have one outcome either way and that is sleep. We're here to choose the atonement in the mind and set our mind free because again there is no will but God's. The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. Important. So I also did a search for God's will and some very interesting things that came out. Jesus says I have said that only what God creates or what you create with the same will has any real existence. You are afraid of God's will because you have used your own mind which he created in the likeness of his own to miscreate. We talked about that earlier. I cannot unite your will with God's will but I can erase all misperceptions from your mind if you will bring it under my guidance. If you are willing to renounce the role of guardian of your thought system and open it to me I will correct it very gently and lead you back to God. When teaching is no longer necessary you will merely know God. I will never forsake you any more than God will but I must wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself forget yourself forget your Christ self I will read that one again I will never forsake you any more than God will but I must wait as long as you choose to forsake yourself. God will come to you only as you will give him to your brothers learn first of them and you will be ready to hear God. This communication is the will of God. God created every mind by communicating his mind to it thus establishing it forever as a channel for the reception of his mind and will. Their healthfulness is their praise of God and he will return their praise of him because they are like him and they can rejoice together. The Holy Spirit will remain with the sons of God to bless their creations and keep them in the light of joy. The Holy Spirit promotes healing by looking beyond it the world, the ego to what the children of God were before healing was needed and will be when they have been healed. Your will is still in you because God placed it in your mind and although you can keep it asleep you cannot obliterate it. God himself keeps your will alive by transmitting it from his mind to yours as long as there is time. The Holy Spirit is the way in which God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.  The joint will of the sonship is the only creator that can create like the Father because only the complete can think completely and the thinking of God lacks nothing. Using the word sonship as the one son only the joint will of the sonship is the only creator that can create like the Father and create in spirit I should say because again God knows not form will of God has nothing to do with choice or form the will of God is real and there is no will but God's. God himself gave you the perfect correction for everything you made that is not in accord with his Holy will. There's the Holy Spirit, the Atonement. Chapter 5 that was section 7 Help me to teach it to our brothers in the name of the Kingdom of God but first believe that it is true for you and will teach a miss. The message is always for the first receiver then it can be extended.  To will with God is to create like him. So love, joy, happiness. This is God's will and yours as the Christ and to think that you can oppose the will of God is a real delusion because our lesson of the day the idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. There is no will but God's. It's like there's magnitude with that there is no will but God's it's like God has spoken to us in our mind to our Christ mind and anything of this world that is we're trying to use the images, the bodies, the things the circumstances, the goals of the past or the ambitions of the future against there is no will but God's womb womb the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. There is no will but God's period. Okay. Wow. As they say smoke that in your pipe today. Take it in. Take it in to your heart. There is no will but God's. Sing a happy song. Sing like the birds. The birds are chirping in the morning and they chirp basically all day long because they've got a happy tune and if we could hear the lyrics of those little chirping birds there is no will but God's. Chirp chirp chirp. Okay. God bless you. Stay in the remembrance. There is no will but God's and if any kind of judgment or anything tempts you to judge anything today just remind yourself there is no will but God's. That is the antidote. That is the answer. Because it is the truth it's the actual truth. Jesus told us this idea today is holy too. There is no perception in this idea for today. There is no will but God's is a fact. It's just a divine fact. God is the creator. Christ is the effect of creation. Father, son, creator, creation, cause, effect and that means that the past is not a cause. It doesn't have a cause. It doesn't cause because God is the only cause. The past cannot be and the past or the future past. The future can't be either. If God is now and God is Christ it's the effect of God right now. God is the cause. Christ is the effect now and now. You see how vertical that is lined up then the past and the future no cause. No cause and effect with past and future. It contradicts the whole human perception that the past causes the present and the present causes the future. It's a false linear construct that the ego has made and Jesus is saying there is no will but God's. God is the cause. Christ is the effect except the one God's. God the creator. Except that now I know that your will is one with the creator. That's it. It's divine logic. It's divine metaphysics. It's truth. Today we've got a strong dose of truth. Central idea. Okay. Enjoy.