Radio Show Archive – January 2021

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Dr Tim covered the Introduction and the first 3 lessons of ACIM

Lesson 1 Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) means anything.

Lesson 2 I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning that it has for me.

Lesson 3 I do not understand anything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place).

January 1, 2021 1st hour hosted by Dr. Tim Hayes opened the new year by grounding listeners in the tools available at whyagain.org, particularly Dr. Michael Ryce’s Reality Management Worksheet. He emphasized that this tool helps dismantle distorted perceptions created by unresolved trauma and negative emotions. By consistently applying it, individuals can shift from error-based thought to clarity, gaining a more accurate perception of themselves and the world.

Dr. Hayes then introduced the year’s commitment to work through A Course in Miracles lessons daily. He explained that although the text has a Christian tone, its central teaching of forgiveness aligns with Eastern wisdom traditions. Forgiveness, as defined here, is not pardoning sin but recognizing that what seemed to harm us never truly occurred—it is a correction of faulty perception. The early lessons of the Course are designed to undo ingrained thought patterns, beginning with “Nothing I see means anything” and “I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me.” These practices encourage participants to notice how meaning is projected by the mind, not inherent in objects or events.

Dr. Hayes integrated Pam Grout’s A Course in Miracles Experiment to illustrate how these lessons rewire perception, likening them to the quantum physics challenge to Newtonian certainty. He reminded listeners that emotional states are the best guides: calm, centered feelings suggest alignment, while anger, fear, or sadness indicate distorted perception. This supports Dr. Ryce’s teaching that emotions act as alarms pointing to false beliefs ready to be dismantled through forgiveness tools.

The show included a heartfelt dialogue with callers. Susan Bingham shared her challenges with the more demanding lessons of A Course in Miracles, which require practice several times daily. Dr. Hayes reassured her that not completing the exercises does not diminish her value or holiness; the Course is not about measuring up but about retraining perception. He suggested that resistance itself is part of the learning, and that the MindShifter tool and worksheets can address negative self-judgments. Joan, another caller, reflected on Deepak Chopra’s advice to “give up being right,” linking it to both A Course in Miracles and Dr. Ryce’s worksheet process, which encourages letting go of the compulsion to be right as a path to freedom.

The hour closed with Dr. Hayes reminding listeners that the true purpose of this work is to open perception to Love. Our essence does not need fixing; it is already whole. The task is to dismantle the false beliefs that block awareness of that wholeness. The transition into Jeanie Ryce’s second-hour hosting affirmed the continuation of this journey into Love and forgiveness for the year ahead.

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“Welcome to Flight 2021! We are prepared to take off into the New Year. Please make sure your attitude and blessings are secure and locked in an upright position. Your positive energy will be our fuel on this flight. All self-destructive devices should be turned off at this time. All negativity, hurt and discouragement should be packed away. Should we lose attitude under pressure during the flight, reach up and pull down a prayer. Prayers will automatically activated by Faith. Once your fiath is activated you can assist other passengers. There will be NO BAGGAGE allowed on this flight. Our destination is Greatness and Love.”  Happy New Year!

michael is going to read a chapter each day from “Why Is This Happening To Me … AGAIN?!” can read online or download https://whyagain.org/why-is-this-happening-to-me-again-in-english/  (the book is also in Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Thai – not all are complete translations). Introduction of the book was written by James Redfield.

January 1, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by dr michael ryce, opened with a lighthearted New Year’s greeting, encouraging listeners to let go of negativity and embrace love and faith as the “fuel” for the year ahead. Dr. Tim Hayes described his commitment to guide listeners through daily lessons from A Course in Miracles over the course of 2021. Inspired by this, Michael Ryce announced that he would read daily from his own book, Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, a work originally introduced by James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy. Redfield’s introduction highlighted Ryce’s ability to synthesize Aramaic scripture, modern physics, and psychology into a coherent system of healing and transformation.

Ryce explained that his goal has always been to create a “box top” for life’s immense puzzle, helping people place every experience into an energy system that makes sense. He emphasized that humans are designed as beings of love, yet generational patterns of hostility and fear often distort this design. He drew an analogy with electrical transformers to illustrate how aligning with spiritual principles allows life’s higher energy to flow into human expression, bringing healing and order. He warned that clinging to vile thoughts and language perpetuates disease and suffering, while forgiveness, as understood in the ancient Aramaic, removes what does not belong in the mind.

Callers from around the world, including Bob from Australia and Celinda, added their reflections. They compared life’s healing process to puzzle pieces, holograms, and even being individual “lenses in the eye of God,” each contributing clarity to the whole when aligned with source. Ryce affirmed these metaphors, connecting them to the teachings of Yeshua, who emphasized life and abundance rather than dogma. The conversation also honored Patrick Quinn, a beloved member of the Heartland community, with stories about his contributions such as building the lighthouse and rose garden, and recognition of his continued presence beyond physical form.

The show closed with Jeanie announcing upcoming intensives, particularly the “Codependence to Interdependence Communication Practicum.” Together, the hour offered a vision of the new year grounded in forgiveness, alignment with Love, and conscious participation in healing generational patterns while celebrating the contributions of those who embody the work.

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Hayes then read Lesson 4 from A Course in Miracles: “These thoughts do not mean anything.” He unpacked its core teaching — that the mind’s chatter, whether positive or negative, has no real meaning because it is not born of our true Self. Quoting Pam Grout’s Course in Miracles Experiment and Jim Carrey’s remark that “most of what goes on in your mind doesn’t deserve your attention,” Hayes explained how liberating it is to realize that mental noise — the constant judging, labeling, and analyzing — is not who we are. The purpose of this exercise, he said, is to train the mind to discern between what is meaningful (inner truth) and meaningless (egoic thought), beginning the process of separating illusion from reality.

A listener, Susan Bingham, called in to discuss her difficulty reconciling honesty about her negative thoughts with the desire to embody Love. She referenced the Personal Code Evaluation test, expressing frustration over scoring low on “honoring truth.” Hayes encouraged her to drop concern over scores and instead focus on healing. He reminded her that A Course in Miracles and Dr. Ryce’s teachings align in saying that all negativity is learned — a distortion of perception arising from separation. Quoting Einstein as Ryce often does, he said, “If you think you’re separate from anyone or anything, you’re living in an optical delusion.” The practice, Hayes explained, is not to deny these thoughts but to meet them with honesty and compassion. Only by acknowledging our illusions can they be released.

The conversation turned to the Course’s distinction between projection and extension. Hayes described projection as the mind’s habit of casting inner pain onto others — creating false images of separation. Extension, by contrast, means recognizing divine qualities within ourselves and extending them outward to embrace all of creation. Projection divides; extension unifies. When we extend Love, we dissolve competition and fear, freeing ourselves from the “special affection” that Einstein said becomes a prison. Hayes noted that this teaching echoes Ryce’s Aramaic understanding of Rakhma (a filter of active love) through which perception becomes aligned with God’s reality.

As the hour continued, Susan explored her discomfort with others knowing her “raw scores,” fearing judgment or loss of approval. Hayes guided her to see this fear as another projection — the ego’s belief in separation and punishment. By laughing at the absurdity of those fears, Susan experienced a moment of release. Other callers, Audrey and Ellen, joined in, discussing practices like “thought monitoring” and even laughter as meditation. Hayes affirmed these as valid so long as they are approached lightly, emphasizing that transformation arises from gentleness, not self-condemnation. He concluded that healing does not come from striving for perfection but from meeting each thought, emotion, and moment with awareness and forgiveness.

The show ended with Hayes reaffirming the MindShifters affirmation: “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love, and everything else is false.” His closing reminded listeners that awakening is not about becoming something new but about remembering who we already are — the living expression of Love itself.

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January 4, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce explored the profound difference between happiness and joy, clarifying that happiness is a fleeting endorphin-based response to achieving goals, while joy is the enduring awareness of one’s true essence — Love itself. Ryce explained that people often mistake happiness for fulfillment because the body’s chemistry rewards goal achievement, even when those goals are destructive, such as vengeance. He emphasized that happiness based on such goals creates addiction to external outcomes, while joy arises only from awareness of Being, which is Love.

Drawing on his book Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?!, Ryce discussed how resonance governs emotional exchange. Just as two tuning forks vibrate when tuned to the same frequency, unresolved hostility or fear in the human energy field attracts experiences that resonate with those energies. Forgiveness, in the Aramaic sense of shbag — meaning “to remove” — dissolves these destructive resonances. By removing fear and hostility, one restores joy and the natural experience of Love. He likened this to deactivating “negative goals” so they no longer drive behavior.

Ryce then described the human journey as one of freeing ourselves from the energetic residues of generational fear and hostility. He explained that forgiveness is not about pardoning another’s actions but about cleansing the frequencies within oneself that resonate with pain. He illustrated this through his concept of “fear-free being,” a person who, regardless of external chaos, remains grounded in joy because no inner hostility exists to be triggered.

The conversation deepened with an example from Judge Asa D. Kelly, a compassionate Georgia Superior Court judge who inspired Ryce’s Laws of Living program. Kelly refused to punish anyone; instead, he held offenders accountable while offering a path to redemption through personal transformation. Ryce recounted how their collaboration reduced recidivism by over 90% before political pressure shut it down. This story highlighted the show’s central theme — that healing and justice arise not from punishment, but from Love and personal responsibility.

A caller, Celinda, asked Ryce to clarify the difference between joy and happiness and whether joy has a biochemical basis. Ryce cited Teilhard de Chardin’s phrase “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God,” modifying it to “the awareness of the presence of God,” equating God with Love. He explained that when fear or hostility dominate, the “still small voice” of joy is drowned out, but forgiveness weakens those patterns, restoring awareness of Love.

The dialogue then moved into Aramaic neurophysiology, where Ryce unpacked the concepts of Rakhma and Khooba — filters in the brain governing intention and perception. Rakhma, in the frontal lobes, filters intentions through Love, allowing divine energy to flow into human thought. When hostility or fear are active, Rakhma closes. Khooba governs perception in the hindbrain; when Rakhma is active, perception aligns with Love, but when hostility or fear dominate, perception becomes distorted and defensive. Ryce stressed that only one of these filters can be active at a time, meaning that one cannot perceive through Love and hostility simultaneously.

Celinda and Ryce connected this to the Reality Management Worksheet process, which teaches users to “cancel the goal” behind pain and reactivate Rakhma. Ryce explained that intentions formed through Rakhma are creative, thriving desires, while intentions formed through fear or hostility are based in lack and survival. The goal of this work, he said, is to continually weaken fear-based filters through forgiveness until Love becomes the only operating state of consciousness.

Later, Ryce and Jeanie discussed the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness App, the only app designed to guide users through this ancient first-century process. They invited listeners to practice forgiveness daily and to join their upcoming CoDependence to InterDependence Communication intensive, which integrates personal code evaluations with group processing. The show concluded with Ryce guiding a meditative breathing exercise — inviting listeners to release body tensions, forgive emotional restrictions, and remember their true nature as Love. He closed with the affirmation: “You were designed to function as the presence of Love — live from that, 24/7, 365. It is your birthright.”

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Hayes described how people habitually project their emotional discomfort onto external situations — relationships, finances, politics, weather — believing that these are the sources of distress. Yet, ACIM teaches that the real cause of suffering lies in the thought system that interprets events through separation and fear. Quoting Pam Grout’s Course in Miracles Experiment, Hayes shared her rephrasing of the lesson through humor: “Don’t get even, get odd.” Grout likens the Creator — or “the Dude” — to a loving mother who, no matter what nonsense runs through our heads, keeps repeating, “I love you, I love you, I love you.” The world, she writes, merely mirrors our beliefs; to heal, we must change the inner cause, not the outer appearance.

Expanding on this, Hayes drew parallels to teachings from Abraham-Hicks and physicist David Bohm, both of whom recognized that human thought creates incoherence by projecting internal error outward. He referenced Ryce’s integration of Bohm’s term “sustained incoherence” into the Reality Management Worksheet process, a structured tool for identifying and canceling false goals that perpetuate suffering. Hayes explained that this “loop” of misperception — believing the problem lies outside oneself — keeps humanity trapped in cycles of blame and emotional reactivity. The true practice of forgiveness, both in ACIM and in Ryce’s Aramaic model, is the act of withdrawing projections and reclaiming ownership of one’s inner state.

Hayes invited callers to share their experiences applying the lesson. Audrey called in first, recounting how she had become upset with her mechanic that morning, convinced he had done faulty work. Recognizing her reactivity, she used conscious breathing to calm herself and remembered the day’s lesson: her upset was self-generated. Once she shifted her perception, the interaction transformed, revealing there was no problem after all. Hayes affirmed that this simple practice — catching oneself in projection and breathing — demonstrates the power of awareness to dissolve false perception.

Later, Ellen joined to explore the deeper emotional roots of shame from childhood. Through dialogue with Hayes, she realized that the shame she carried about being “too emotional” as a child was self-created — not caused by her parents’ reactions. This realization mirrored Alan Cohen’s story from A Course in Miracles Made Easy, in which two people experience the same event but attach entirely different meanings. Hayes guided Ellen through a gentle breathing process, helping her see that sadness and shame dissolve when one changes the meaning given to past events. He emphasized that healing does not require changing the past, only recognizing and releasing the false interpretation that still governs present perception.

Throughout the episode, Hayes underscored a core truth of both ACIM and Ryce’s work: negative emotions always indicate error in thought. When one feels fear, anger, or sadness, three things are certain — the thought is based on a lie, it arises from old memory rather than the present moment, and acting from it will worsen one’s experience. The key, he said, is to recognize that life itself is never painful; only our interpretations create pain. By forgiving the false perception, one realigns with Love, which is the mind’s natural state.

The program closed with Hayes reminding listeners that true spirituality is profoundly practical. Echoing Guy Finley’s statement, “There is nothing more practical than true spirituality,” he explained that these lessons — when practiced — dismantle the mental structures that cause suffering. He encouraged everyone to use the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness App, engage the Reality Management Worksheet, and attend the weekly MindShifters support groups. Hayes ended with the affirmation: “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love, and everything else is false.”

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January 5, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce continued exploring the ancient Aramaic principles of healing and forgiveness from Ryce’s foundational book Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?!. Dr. Ryce began by reminding listeners that the key to transformation lies in accepting full ownership of every experience. He explained that the mind’s tendency to blame others for pain is the central block to healing, since whatever one experiences must originate from within. “If you’re experiencing it,” he said, “then it’s yours.” Denial, therefore, is not truth-protection but self-deception — it externalizes what needs to be healed internally.

Ryce read from the introduction of his book, outlining its purpose as a practical manual for building new “brain cells,” or pathways of understanding, capable of holding higher levels of awareness. The book, he said, helps unravel old mental patterns and teaches readers to think and live differently, offering tools to dissolve conflict, addiction, and victimhood. Quoting Marcel Proust’s line that “the challenge of life consists not in exploring new landscapes but in developing new eyes,” Ryce explained that true healing involves seeing the same life through a renewed perception — one grounded in Love rather than fear.

After the reading, a caller from Montreal named Michelle, joined by his friend Sarah, shared his struggle with anxiety and depression following two heart surgeries. Doctors had told him the problem was “in his head,” leaving him feeling hopeless and confused. Dr. Ryce gently reframed this, explaining that while the cause originates in the mind, the effects manifest physically through biochemistry. He cited modern cell biology and the Aramaic translation of John’s Gospel, explaining that “in the beginning was the mind energy, and the mind energy became flesh.” Every thought, Ryce said, produces neuropeptides — biochemical messengers that shape the body’s chemistry. Negative thought patterns generate disintegrative energies that become “disease” when stored in tissue, while forgiveness removes these destructive energies from the system.

Ryce then guided Michelle to a powerful turning point. When Michelle spoke of holding his newborn son and feeling the “light” of Love, his voice and energy shifted dramatically. Ryce used this as an entry point for healing, encouraging him to spend time twice a day reliving that experience of light and Love for fifteen minutes, allowing those feelings to rewire his physiology. He instructed Michelle to record his own voice describing that moment and play it repeatedly as a meditation, to strengthen his awareness of Love while simultaneously using the Aramaic Forgiveness Worksheet to release the pain linked to his ex-wife’s anger and rejection during the same event. These two practices — renewing connection to Love and removing pain through forgiveness — would, he said, begin transforming his entire system at the cellular and energetic levels.

Later in the program, Magda, another longtime participant, called in to express her deep resonance with Michelle’s story and to affirm that the process works. She shared how working with Dr. Ryce’s tools and intensive training helped her clear layers of fear and grief, creating measurable physical and emotional shifts. Her story echoed Ryce’s assurance that healing is not instant gratification but deep restoration — a process of removing generational patterns of hostility and fear from one’s cellular memory.

The show concluded with Ryce and Jeanie extending love and blessings to callers and listeners, emphasizing that every individual carries the same essence of Love as the newborn child. The work of forgiveness, Ryce said, is not about fixing oneself but about uncovering the light that has always been there. Healing, he reminded the audience, is “not Dr. Feel Good — it is the courage to face and release every disintegrative energy until only Love remains.”

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Dr. Hayes connected this insight to the Reality Management Worksheet, one of Dr. Michael Ryce’s foundational Aramaic tools available at whyagain.org. He described how filling out the worksheet reveals the underlying goal or false belief driving emotional upset, and how canceling that goal restores calm and clarity. He reminded listeners that every negative emotion signals three truths: it’s based on a lie, it comes from old memory rather than the present moment, and acting on it will worsen one’s experience. The lesson, he said, is not about self-condemnation but about returning to accurate perception — what Ryce calls “seeing as the Creator sees.”

Drawing from Pam Grout’s Course in Miracles Experiment, Hayes likened this practice to “retraining the mind to see differently.” Grout humorously reframes the lesson using the metaphor of Wonder Woman, explaining that true change doesn’t come from fighting “bad guys” but from realizing they don’t exist — they are mental projections. Hayes noted that this aligns perfectly with Ryce’s Aramaic Forgiveness teachings, where forgiveness means removing what is false rather than pardoning wrongdoing.

He then connected A Course in Miracles’ “special relationships” to Ryce’s definition of codependence, describing both as the belief that someone or something outside of us is responsible for our emotions. Whether it’s a partner, a car, or a job, basing happiness on external circumstances leads to fear and suffering. Healing comes when one reclaims full responsibility for inner experience and recognizes that safety and peace are internal states, not conditional on outer events.

Hayes wove in ideas from Michael Singer’s Living from a Place of Surrender and Anthony de Mello’s Awareness, emphasizing self-observation as the path to truth. Through the process of asking, “Who am I?” and watching thoughts, sensations, and emotions come and go, one eventually perceives the unchanging awareness beneath — the essence of Love itself. This awareness, he explained, is what A Course in Miracles calls the Christ Mind and what Ryce identifies as the natural state of Being.

During a call-in discussion, a listener named Susan referenced de Mello’s idea that “we are all asses,” suggesting that humility and self-honesty are essential to growth. Hayes agreed, explaining that acknowledging error — or “being wrong” — creates the space for correction and learning. He reiterated Ryce’s teaching that negative emotion is not punishment but a guidance system, a built-in Holy Spirit that reveals when perception is off course and calls us back to Love.

The hour concluded with Hayes summarizing the day’s core realization: “Nothing that I experience is caused by anything outside of me. I experience only the effects of my own choices.” He invited listeners to use every upset as an opportunity for self-inquiry and forgiveness, to cancel the need to be right, and to return to the calm awareness that is the presence of Love. The session ended with his familiar affirmation: “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love — and everything else is false.”

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2nd hour was pre-recorded show of Dr Lynn August from 2011

January 6, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce engaged in a profound on-air process session illustrating the core principles of Aramaic Forgiveness. The episode opened with Dr. Ryce explaining that forgiveness, in its original Aramaic meaning, has nothing to do with “letting someone off the hook.” Instead, it is a practical internal technology for removing the energetic content of hostility and fear from one’s own mind and body. The outer world, he emphasized, is never the source of suffering; it merely resonates what already lives within the individual. Healing begins the moment one stops projecting blame and chooses to take full responsibility for every perception.

A returning caller, Lynn, shared her experience of working with the Reality Management Worksheet to address old patterns involving alcohol, blame, and frustration. She described feeling fewer emotional reactions and a growing ability to stop and observe when a reaction begins. That morning she had received upsetting news about her late father’s estate and immediately caught herself before blaming the executor. Dr. Ryce used this real-time example to walk her through the deeper process: recognizing projection, identifying the goal driving the upset (“she didn’t do it right”), and understanding how unhealed childhood patterns replay through adult experiences. The key, he explained, is learning to “be the thinker apart from the thought and the feeler apart from the feeling,” without getting personally involved in the mind’s stories.

As Lynn processed her anger toward the executor, Ryce guided her through identifying deeper ancestral dynamics, tracing them back to her “power person”—the authority figure whose patterns of rage, punishment, and control had imprinted early in life. He showed how these stored memories in the “carbon-based memory system” automatically replicate painful experiences across generations until they are consciously released. When Lynn’s breathing softened mid-conversation, Ryce noted that her “veil of the temple” had opened — an ancient metaphor for the dissociative barrier between the conscious and unconscious mind. In Aramaic terms, he explained, “the heart” referred not to sentimentality but to the unconscious mind itself, the hidden storehouse of pain. Healing, therefore, comes from “removing from your heart the wrongs of your brother,” meaning dissolving the internalized pain that one projects outward.

The dialogue deepened when Lynn connected her current stress with a 20-year-old trauma involving the Oregon Medical Board, which had revoked her medical license for practicing nutritional therapy. Ryce helped her see the parallel: just as the executor “took away her inheritance,” the medical board “took away her livelihood.” Both mirrored her father’s earlier withdrawal of financial support during medical school. Recognizing this pattern brought a breakthrough — the realization that each new injustice was a replay of an old wound seeking resolution. Ryce called this the essence of his book Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?! and guided her step by step through a Reality Management Worksheet focused on that theme.

Through the worksheet, Lynn discovered her underlying goals: she wanted others — her father, the board, the executor — to see her integrity, appreciate her, and acknowledge her worth. By canceling these goals, she dissolved the projections that kept her trapped in cycles of pain. Ryce explained that each goal activates the same dissociated content from the unconscious, building a “false image” of others and of oneself. Canceling the goal collapses that illusion, opening the mind to Love. He reminded listeners that this process is not intellectual but physiological — the stored neuropeptides of trauma literally change chemistry and cell function until forgiveness removes them. As Lynn released the goal, her breath opened again and she reported feeling “lighter” and “relieved,” a hallmark of true forgiveness.

Dr. Ryce then introduced the Aramaic term Rukha d’Koodsha, the “feminine elemental force” of healing within. This force, he said, acts as the super-processor that can reach into genetic memory to undo the effects of error across generations. He invited Lynn to invoke that Presence — whether she called it the Holy Spirit, Mother Mary, or divine Love — to dissolve the dissociated content at its root. As she did so, her energy shifted audibly, laughter and calm replacing tension. Ryce explained that this is how one becomes “the space for healing,” transforming inherited trauma not just for oneself but for all humanity.

By the end of the show, both host and caller were in a state of peaceful awareness. Lynn recognized that the medical board and executor had simply acted according to their programming — and she was finally free of rage. Ryce concluded by reiterating that Love is the only reality, and that forgiveness, rightly understood, is not a moral gesture but a precise act of restoration: the return of conscious Being to its original state of wholeness. “Hold a newborn,” he said, “and you will know what human life is — most people are not living humans until they remember that.”

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Dr. Hayes read directly from A Course in Miracles, highlighting that all perception is based on memory and time. Even something as simple as seeing a cup is filtered through layers of past experience — how it feels, how it looks, whether it breaks, and what it means to us. Therefore, what we call “seeing” is really reviewing the past. The purpose of the lesson, he explained, is to train the mind to let go of the compulsion to define and label, and to begin to see anew, through direct experience rather than recycled memory.

Drawing from Pam Grout’s companion text, A Course in Miracles Experiment, Hayes shared her reminder that the lesson is not about denying tragedy or pretending suffering does not exist, but about opening to the astounding love and grace of the present moment. When one lives in the past, he said, one misses the miracle of now — the freshness that is never repeated. To illustrate, he told the story of two monks crossing a river: one carried a woman over and set her down, but the other carried her mentally for hours afterward. The metaphor showed how clinging to the past is what creates the burden, not the event itself.

Caller Nene Ortega joined the discussion, sharing her gratitude for the year’s challenges and her plan to lead Aramaic-based meditations in both Spanish and English inspired by Dr. Ryce’s teachings. She expressed appreciation for the reminder that forgiveness is a repeated process — one does many worksheets, not just one, to clear layers of pain. Nene also opened up about feelings of sadness and isolation from family over the holidays. Hayes offered her a MindShifter statement: “It is safe and healing for me to be completely isolated from my friends and family, even on the holidays.” He explained that the goal is not to repress emotion but to uncover the hidden belief that happiness depends on external relationships. True peace, he said, arises when we realize that we are whole and complete as we are — nothing of value can be added to or taken from us.

Later callers — Susan Bingham, Ann, and Mary — joined to process emotional reactions to the political turmoil occurring that week in the U.S. Capitol. Hayes gently redirected each caller to focus on what they could actually control: their own breath, awareness, and response. He emphasized that watching distressing news without the ability to act generates a sense of powerlessness, because “the more energy we focus on what we can’t control, the more out of control we feel.” He encouraged listeners to shift attention inward through forgiveness work, breathing, or journaling rather than feeding fear and outrage. Hayes also reminded callers that “at any given moment there are far more people doing loving, creative things in the world than there are doing harm.”

The show concluded with Hayes’ signature affirmation — “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love — and everything else is false” — before handing the second hour over to Jeanie Ryce and Dr. Michael Ryce. The hour as a whole reaffirmed that forgiveness, in both the Aramaic and Course in Miracles sense, is not about ignoring the world but about perceiving it through Love rather than memory, thereby transforming both inner vision and outward experience.

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January 7, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce opened with community updates and a heartfelt invitation to deepen one’s practice through their upcoming Codependence to Interdependence Intensive. Ryce shared enthusiasm about the evolution of HeartLand’s work into an online format that allows continual growth, expanded accessibility, and permanent access to workshop materials for participants. The new “rolling intensive” model would let graduates rejoin future sessions at no charge, ensuring ongoing support and deepening of the forgiveness tools. Jeanie noted that the program includes 14 weeks of teaching, raw food guidance, live Zoom sessions, and personal code evaluations — all designed to nurture practical healing and relationship transformation.

Ryce discussed HeartLand’s long history of community-based learning, explaining that the tools he teaches are meant not only to heal individual pain but to dissolve the unconscious generational patterns driving conflict and suffering. He reminded listeners that “whatever is inside of us that we refuse to face will eventually drive our lives.” The purpose of the intensives, he said, is to bring these buried energies into conscious awareness through forgiveness, breathing, and relational practice. He described this process as “coming into conscious relationship with what has been hidden for a thousand generations,” which allows one to walk through life without being ruled by old pain.

Ryce then read from his book Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?!, emphasizing that it is not a text to be studied intellectually but a living workbook meant to be written in, argued with, and interacted with. He described the main character, Richard, as a composite of countless real-life conversations — an everyman figure who mirrors the reader’s unconscious mind. The book, he said, was created as a “manual for healing any energy in you that undermines aliveness.” He encouraged readers to use it to face discomfort rather than escape it, reminding them that true healing is not always peaceful at first; it often brings suppressed energy to the surface so it can finally be released.

Throughout the program, listeners called in with reflections and questions about forgiveness, addiction, and word-linking. One caller, Susan, shared her experience using word links — short, emotional reprogramming phrases — to counter addictive or codependent patterns. Ryce and Jeanie explained that such tools work best when tied to the underlying goals identified through the Reality Management Worksheet. For example, rather than “giving up hope,” Ryce suggested canceling the specific goal that drives the emotional attachment, which allows the mind to dissolve the false dependency at its root. They discussed how these practices apply directly to relationships and to healing the addictive pull toward external validation.

Callers including Magda, Audrey, and Ann shared updates on their personal healing and intensive experiences. Magda reported that a recent MindShifter — “It is safe and healing, and I love and enjoy it when I think of going to sleep and never waking up” — helped her move from fear of death into peace and gratitude for life. She described newfound calm and trust during a recent medical evaluation, crediting the tools for transforming anxiety into acceptance. Another caller, Audrey, reflected on the chaos unfolding in Washington, D.C., affirming that the best response is to “teach by example” and “live peace.” Ryce agreed, saying, “It’s time to stop the insanity of hostility and fear — to function from who we truly are rather than from the pain of our ancestors”.

The show concluded with Jeanie and Ryce expressing deep gratitude for community support and donations that make the ongoing work possible. Ryce shared updates on new technologies being integrated into HeartLand’s outreach, including app development and digital broadcasting, which he viewed as divinely-timed tools for spreading the teachings of Love. As the hour closed, he invited all listeners to hold the space of compassion for the world and for themselves: “It’s time to remember who we all are.”

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Drawing from both A Course in Miracles and Pam Grout’s companion text, A Course in Miracles Experiment, Hayes elaborated that the past can be useful for practical things — like remembering a shoe size or a stoplight color — but when it dominates our thinking, it becomes a prison that blocks the infinite potential of the present moment. Grout’s reflection, titled “The Wrecking Ball,” encouraged surrendering control, dropping the compulsion to figure everything out, and falling back into the “loving arms of the universe.” Hayes connected this to Dr. Michael Ryce’s teaching that most people don’t think — they simply re-experience stored energy from old trauma, which fills the mind and distorts perception. Forgiveness, therefore, is not about condoning but about dissolving those distortions to uncover direct awareness of Love.

During the call-in segment, Ellen shared her insights from the lesson, saying she realized the mind cannot “grasp the present” because the present moment is fluid — like trying to hold water or air. Hayes expanded on this with references to David Bohm’s concept of “sustained incoherence,” explaining that when we attempt to understand reality using the same analytical mind that stores memory and language, we actually move further away from true experience. He quoted Dr. Ryce’s analogy that in every instant, the brain processes thousands of bits of information but we consciously perceive only a few — yet we assume that narrow slice is the full reality. Ellen described her own healing moments when she stopped suppressing emotion and allowed it to move, revealing deep intuitive memories and regressions that brought understanding. Hayes affirmed this as an example of how being present to emotion, without resistance, allows the body’s innate intelligence to reveal truth beyond intellect.

The discussion turned to how fear is learned and conditioned. Hayes told one of Ryce’s favorite examples: a person raised in a jungle might see police lights as beautiful, while a Western driver instantly reacts with fear because of cultural programming. Fear, he explained, is “false evidence appearing real” — a learned association that can be unlearned through awareness and forgiveness. When we face our fears consciously, we dissolve the unconscious programming that keeps us trapped in reactive cycles. He noted that living from Love means undoing fear, not by fighting it but by observing and releasing the false ideas that give it power.

In the final segment, Susan Bingham called with a question about Anthony DeMello’s teaching on honesty in relationships. She was disturbed by DeMello’s suggestion that one could tell someone directly that they preferred another person’s company. Hayes reframed this through the lens of spiritual integrity — explaining that DeMello was not advocating cruelty, but transparency. When we hide truth out of fear of others’ reactions, we reinforce codependence and dishonesty. Mary, another caller, added that truth should always be spoken with compassion, echoing Ramakrishna’s teaching: “Tell the truth, but not a harsh truth.” Hayes concluded that spiritual growth requires radical self-honesty before all else — recognizing that emotional resistance itself is the teacher, showing where we still live from fear rather than Love.

The episode closed with Hayes reminding listeners that these lessons are not intellectual exercises but invitations to experience reality anew. The mind, he said, can never understand the present because it is too vast and immediate for words. Only by stopping — by “canceling the need to be right” and releasing judgment — can one open to the direct awareness of Being. He ended with his familiar affirmation: “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love — and everything else is false.”

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January 8, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce and Jeanie Ryce hosted a deeply personal and transformative discussion centered on how to access and heal the hidden recesses of the mind through first-century Aramaic forgiveness. Ryce began by reminding listeners that Yeshua’s original teachings were not religious dogma but a living technology for restoring “human life”—a return to the direct experience of Love as our natural state. He emphasized that modern culture, immersed in fear and hostility, has forgotten this truth. The process of forgiveness as Yeshua taught it is not about pardoning others but about removing from the mind the internal pain and trauma that generate projection. When we stop saying “you made me angry” and recognize that upset arises from within, we reclaim the capacity to heal rather than blame.

Ryce explained how the Reality Management Worksheet, available freely at whyagain.org, functions as a precise tool for reversing the mind’s denial process. He described how most people are trapped in a backward system of perception—believing external events cause their inner pain—when in truth, denial locks the very parts of the mind that need healing. The forgiveness worksheet is the method for unlocking those patterns and dissolving the emotional energies that separate us from Love. He also encouraged listeners to download the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness app, which includes digital versions of the worksheet and even a children’s tool, the Drag-On Cling-On Game, to introduce emotional responsibility at any age.

A significant portion of the broadcast centered on a heartfelt exchange with a caller, Scott, who described frustration over chronic digestive issues and feelings of overwhelm after consulting a naturopath. Ryce compassionately guided him to see how rage and frustration were functioning as emotional drugs—temporary anesthetics covering deeper layers of fear and pain. Ryce shared his own history of near-fatal lung issues as a child, illustrating how long-term healing requires sustained forgiveness work and persistence rather than seeking instant cures. He likened anger and self-pity to “a fifth of scotch,” distractions that must be relinquished to face the underlying thought disorders that sustain suffering.

Through dialogue, Ryce helped Scott trace his patterns of overwhelm back to childhood power-person dynamics—specifically a father figure whose perfectionistic demands left him feeling powerless. This dynamic, Ryce explained, replays in adult relationships until consciously healed. He guided Scott to see his boss at work as a mirror for the unhealed energy of that early relationship, emphasizing that “fear of destruction” from an authority figure is an internal projection, not reality. As Ryce put it, “Has he threatened you with a gun or a knife? Then you know it’s not real—it’s the mind recycling its past.” By choosing Love and releasing fear in each new moment, Scott could dissolve the generational pattern itself.

The dialogue evolved into a profound lesson on defenselessness. Quoting A Course in Miracles, Ryce echoed, “In my defenselessness my safety lies,” adding his expansion: “In my defenselessness my power and safety lie.” He explained that defensiveness is always a symptom of denial—placing power outside oneself—and that true strength comes from remaining connected to Love even amid attack. As Scott recognized that boundary-setting in this case would only perpetuate his father’s control dynamic, he consciously chose not to act from fear but to “let Rukha guide” his response. Ryce affirmed this as a major breakthrough: shifting from the mind of hostility to the mind of Love.

The conversation expanded into collective consciousness as Ryce drew parallels between Scott’s personal healing and the national turmoil unfolding in Washington, D.C., that week. He suggested that individual forgiveness contributes to global transformation: “When you are healed, you are never healed alone.” He illustrated how individual mind energy can influence the larger human field, likening it to simultaneous scientific discoveries appearing across the globe—a metaphor for how a single healed mind helps uplift the collective.

In the final minutes, another caller, Linda, reflected on her struggle with emotional attachment to material possessions while moving homes. Ryce recognized her insight as a “sweet place of transition” — shifting from clinging to things as identity to experiencing sufficiency in Love. He invited her to “enjoy the letting-go process,” use the forgiveness worksheets, and apply the codependence tools to uncover where she learned to hold on, reminding her that this too was a power-person dynamic ready to dissolve.

The show closed with Jeanie and Ryce offering blessings to the audience and the reminder that every challenge is an opportunity to reclaim our true nature as Love. Ryce’s final words encapsulated the hour: healing begins when we stop assigning cause outside ourselves and choose instead to remove the blocks within.

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Lesson 9, “I see nothing as it is now,” encourages participants to question every assumption about the objects and events around them, loosening attachment to familiar perceptions. Lesson 10, “My thoughts do not mean anything,” challenges the belief that our internal narratives hold truth, pointing out that most thoughts are conditioned noise rather than insight. And Lesson 11, “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world,” introduces what Hayes called “the first major phase of correction” — the reversal of worldly thinking. He emphasized that these teachings are not nihilistic but liberating, helping practitioners see how thought and perception co-create one’s experience.

Drawing from Pam Grout’s companion text, A Course in Miracles Experiment, Hayes read humorous and practical reflections that bring the ancient lessons into modern terms. Grout compares the mind to “a jukebox in a smoky bar,” endlessly replaying old stories until we stop feeding it with belief. She links the Course’s ideas to quantum theory, describing how consciousness literally shapes physical reality — reinforcing the Aramaic view shared by Dr. Michael Ryce that “mind energy creates form.” Hayes used her reflections to show that forgiveness is not a moral act but a perceptual one — a choice to stop investing in false thought systems that generate fear and guilt.

A caller named Audrey shared that she was practicing Lesson 11 to move from fear-based thinking to peace-based awareness. Hayes encouraged her to “take one step at a time,” reminding her that awakening is a gradual dismantling of conditioned thought — a marathon of gentle undoing rather than a single leap. Another caller, Magda, described receiving intuitive guidance through dreams and ancestral connection, which Hayes affirmed as a natural extension of the mind’s openness once fear dissolves. He related her experience to his own childhood memories of contact with his grandfather’s spirit, suggesting that awareness is multidimensional when we stop denying its reality.

In the final segment, Hayes revisited themes from Untamed by Glennon Doyle and We Are the Luckiest by Laura McKowen, noting that true healing demands radical honesty. Pretending that what is true is not true, he said, is what creates pain — echoing Dr. Ryce’s maxim that “any truth we realize but fail to act on slays a power in us.” Hayes invited listeners to face their truth with compassion, to stop fearing honesty as harmful, and to recognize that “the key to forgiveness lies in understanding that our thoughts — not the world — determine what we perceive.” He closed with his familiar affirmation: “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love — and everything else is false.”

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January 11, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce hosted an illuminating and compassionate discussion that wove together the principles of first-century Aramaic forgiveness, emotional healing, and the reeducation of perception. The episode opened with Michelle sharing insights from her time with her daughter, Alyssa. Their interactions revealed how family dynamics act as mirrors for unconscious material, giving each the opportunity to self-correct and return to Love. Ryce celebrated this as the essence of the work—recognizing that when we agree to hold one another accountable in Love, we accelerate healing rather than perpetuate blame.

Ryce emphasized that children reflect their parents’ unhealed energies, calling them “our unconscious minds in living color.” With his granddaughter, Arya Reign, now 28 months “circling the earth,” he described the sacred responsibility of seeing her only through the eyes of Love. He rejected the idea of “terrible twos,” reframing it as “the wonderful twos,” a period of discovery rather than rebellion. No child, he said, ever deserves criticism or a raised voice—only truth and love. When something less than loving arises in a caregiver, it signals their own healing work. His role as a grandfather, he shared, is to stay clean in consciousness so that he sees only Love and responds as Love, using forgiveness immediately whenever anything else arises.

A caller from Hawaii, returning after a year of absence, brought up feelings of grief and fear following the violence at the U.S. Capitol that week. Ryce gently but firmly challenged her statement that the event caused her grief. He explained that the grief was already within her; the event merely brought it to awareness. As long as one attributes emotional pain to external events, denial remains in place and healing cannot occur. True forgiveness, he reminded listeners, means canceling the goal driving the false perception that something outside of us can determine our inner state. Only by owning the internal origin of emotion can the heart dissolve the stored energies of fear, grief, and rage.

The conversation turned into an impromptu healing session. The caller initially resisted Ryce’s suggestion that her feelings of unsafety and control were lifelong patterns. Through his questioning, she uncovered layers of terror, rage, and self-righteousness beneath her conscious reactions. Ryce guided her to see that attempts to control others—justified as “protecting oneself”—are forms of internal anarchy, mirroring the same mentality that leads to violence in the outer world. He invited her to release these energies through forgiveness and reclaim peace. As she processed, she realized that her lifelong habit of placating others was a form of self-abandonment, and she felt profound relief in choosing to retire that pattern.

Ryce concluded the exchange by explaining that abandonment is ultimately the human condition of having vacated our own Being—forgetting that we are Love. The work, he said, is to return to that awareness through constant forgiveness and self-responsibility. He closed the call with reflections on Aloha as the Hawaiian counterpart to the Aramaic word Rakhma, the “gateway of Love” in the brain. Both represent the same state of consciousness through which true human life enters. “We join you in our Aloha spirit,” Ryce said, “the attitude that keeps a space for Love to enter the human form.”

In the final segment, Ryce shared insights from A Course in Miracles, quoting Chapter 11: “You have made many ideas that you place between yourself and your Creator… Truth is not absent here, but it is obscure.” He explained that the perceptual mind overlays reality with a dense cover formed by goals and past experiences, creating a false world of hostility and fear. Forgiveness removes that cover, revealing the Creator’s world beneath. He invited listeners to join the upcoming 14-week Codependence to Interdependence Intensive, designed to deepen practical mastery of these tools through community, self-evaluation, and daily practice.

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Hayes read directly from the lesson text, which teaches that the world itself is neutral and that we project meaning onto it based on our conditioning, traumas, and past experiences. He noted that recognizing the world as meaningless is not meant to produce despair but liberation, as it opens space for divine meaning to arise. The exercise, he said, asks us to give every object equal attention, pleasant or unpleasant, revealing that what upsets us is never the world itself but our own interpretations. Beneath those interpretations lies the Creator’s word—the unchanging truth of Love—which becomes visible only as we release the meanings we’ve imposed.

Drawing from Pam Grout’s A Course in Miracles Experiment, Hayes shared her paraphrase of the day’s lesson titled “Rewire the Inner Life.” Grout emphasizes that by giving up meaningless thoughts—those born of fear, distress, or judgment—we make room for “indescribable happiness” to flow in. Hayes read an example from Grout about journalist Anand Giridharadas, who transformed a potentially tense racial interaction into a moment of connection simply by releasing his defensive assumptions. The story illustrated how giving up meaning we project onto people or events allows Love and understanding to enter naturally, confirming the Course’s principle that perception healed by forgiveness reveals beauty where judgment once reigned.

Hayes then shared an excerpt from Glennon Doyle’s Untamed, in which a woman awkwardly asks why “everyone seems gay all of a sudden.” Doyle’s humorous but profound response—that sexuality and faith are fluid energies humans have tried to confine into rigid “glasses” of identity—became the foundation for Hayes’ reflection on social forgiveness. He emphasized that genuine compassion means letting people “be who they are,” free from labels or judgment. Just as A Course in Miracles invites us to erase the false meanings projected onto the world, Doyle’s message calls us to release societal constructs that confine human love and expression. “Freedom,” Hayes said, “is contagious because Love is contagious”.

Later in the program, callers Susan and Ellen joined to discuss their experiences with the lessons. Ellen reflected on her resistance to labeling cherished things as “meaningless,” realizing that even her positive attachments limited her ability to perceive the Creator’s meaning. Hayes affirmed her insight, explaining that all human judgments—good or bad—are distortions created by limited perception. The lesson, he said, is an invitation to humility: to recognize that “our senses and minds register only a fraction of reality,” and that true knowing arises from surrender rather than certainty.

Ellen then shared a personal breakthrough regarding her childhood belief that her mother did not love her. Through years of introspection and forgiveness work, she saw that this belief was a misperception based on her mother’s limited emotional expression. Hayes helped her frame this realization within the Course’s teaching—that every painful emotion is a sign of an error in thought. He encouraged her to use the Reality Management Worksheet (available at whyagain.org) whenever negative emotions arise, not to suppress them, but to trace them back to the internal goal or belief that generates pain. “When you cancel that goal,” he said, “you access a part of your mind that your conscious logic can’t reach—a space where healing happens”.

Their dialogue evolved into a practical discussion on resistance and procrastination. Ellen confessed her aversion to cleaning and frustration with feeling “forced” to do it. Hayes guided her to see the internalized voice of her mother as the true source of that tension. He suggested two worksheets: one addressing the guilt or disappointment when she procrastinates, and another for the resentment when she feels obligated to act. By identifying and canceling the goals behind these emotions, she could dismantle the unconscious conflict between rebellion and compliance. Hayes concluded by recommending the MindShifter Journal tool from whyagain.org, particularly the statement, “I am always in the right place at the right time, successfully engaged in the right activity,” to help her reframe her relationship with time and productivity.

In closing, Hayes reminded listeners that the journey through A Course in Miracles is not about adopting new beliefs but releasing all beliefs that obscure truth. Reality, he said, is not something we create or define—it is what remains when false meanings are undone. He ended the program, as always, with “We come from Love. We are made of Love. We are Love. Everything else is false.”

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January 12, 2021 2^nd hour hosted by Dr. Michael Ryce led a deeply practical and spiritually rich discussion centered on healing the unconscious mind through forgiveness, the MindShifter process, and the conscious use of Love as the foundation of perception. The episode opened with a prayer for healing in the midst of global fear and upheaval, as Ryce shared that his family members—including Jeanie’s son Ryan and his wife—were battling COVID. He reminded listeners that a sane mind is not one that thinks correctly according to any person’s standard, but one aligned with Love. Only through that alignment, he said, can the trauma, rage, and division of the world begin to dissolve.

Joined by Susan Darnell and Ellen, Ryce introduced the concept of MindShifters—affirmations designed to access the unconscious mind and bring hidden beliefs to the surface. He announced that he was working on a new book, MindShifters: Keys to the Unconscious, compiling years of these tools used in his private practice. Ryce explained that the MindShifter process is guided intuitively rather than intellectually: participants choose two random numbers corresponding to a list on whyagain.org, trusting that Spirit directs them to the right one. The goal, he said, is to bypass the logical mind and reach the heart—the Aramaic term for the unconscious—so that disintegrative thought patterns can be revealed and released.

Ellen described her own powerful experience with a MindShifter exercise and how perfectly it matched her current healing work. Ryce explained that once a person writes out their responses—what he calls a “mind dump”—the next step is to look back over what was written to recognize unconscious material. He emphasized that bringing what is hidden into awareness weakens its control over behavior. Using examples from his workshops, he illustrated how unconscious beliefs about money, relationships, or unworthiness often trace back to early family experiences. These beliefs, when left unexamined, distort perception and cause repetitive suffering—what he calls “the Hydra effect,” where each head of pain leads to another until forgiveness cuts through the root.

Ryce linked this process to Yeshua’s Aramaic teaching, “The eye is the lamp of the soul.” In its original language, he said, this means perception is meant to be guided by Love. When hostility or fear (Aramaic: “darkness”) enters perception, the mind’s “light” becomes distorted, leading people to self-destructive choices. The goal of forgiveness is to remove that darkness so the original light—Love—can again illuminate thought and action. He reminded listeners that what remains hidden in the unconscious inevitably attacks from within, because it is trying to come forward to be healed. The tools of forgiveness, he said, are the pathway to conscious creativity rather than unconscious repetition.

The discussion turned personal when Susan asked about physical symptoms in her knee and bones following emotional work around her mother. Ryce explained that what she was experiencing was a healing crisis, where energy moving through the body releases stored emotional content. Her story of faking a knee injury as a child to get her teacher’s attention revealed the deeper emotional roots behind her current pain. Ryce taught that every cell carries an energetic image—an original divine pattern of perfection—that can be overlaid or distorted by unhealed emotional energies. When forgiveness removes those distortions, the body’s natural intelligence restores perfect function. He urged Susan to practice “body breathing,” focusing breath and awareness through the injured area to restore energy flow and allow calcium and vitality to return to the bones.

From this, Ryce expanded into a larger reflection on how cultural beliefs program disease through thought and imagery. He condemned the manipulation in pharmaceutical advertising that pairs destructive ideas with comforting images and music, calling it “criminal hypnosis.” Drawing from Marcel Vogel’s Delaware camera experiments, Ryce described how thought emits measurable energy waves that directly affect cellular structure, just as an acorn carries the full image of an oak tree. “When we distort that image,” he said, “the structure that follows becomes distorted. Forgiveness is the act of removing that distortion so that the perfect image of creation can reassert itself.” He linked this principle to the Aramaic concept of sin—not moral failure, but any energetic interference that blocks alignment with Love.

Later, Susan shared profound insights from reading her late mother’s letters, realizing that much of her lifelong pain came from misperceiving her mother’s love. Through the forgiveness process, she recognized that she had never truly let her mother into her heart, and that her physical pain mirrored emotional rigidity. Ryce celebrated this as generational healing, saying that thousands of ancestors and descendants would benefit from such breakthroughs. He connected this to the universal principle that healing one relationship heals the entire field of humanity.

Ryce concluded by reading from the Author’s Notes of his book Why Is This Happening to Me… AGAIN?! He reminded listeners that the work was born out of his own need to heal and is offered with humility. “I invite you to disbelieve everything I say,” he read, “and test it for yourself. Verification will come through experience.” True healing, he said, occurs when we “get out of the perceptual mind” and allow the Creator’s energy to reorganize us from within. As caller John joined at the end to discuss forgiveness toward his father, Ryce assured him that ancestral patterns take time to clear and encouraged persistence in the work.

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Tim then shifted into the 2021 practice of reading and discussing the daily A Course in Miracles workbook lesson. Lesson 13 states, “A meaningless world engenders fear.” Tim read the commentary explaining that while nothing without meaning truly exists, humans are capable of creating perceptions that have no meaning. Recognizing meaningless images generates anxiety because the ego rushes in to impose its own interpretations, fearing the void will expose its unreality. Tim highlighted that the lesson instructs students to look calmly at perceived meaninglessness without fear and without filling the void with false images. He emphasized that negative emotion is an indicator of false perception, not a signal that something external is wrong.

He continued with the exercise instructions: look around and repeat, “I am looking at a meaningless world,” then close the eyes and repeat the lesson. Tim explained that resistance is natural because the mind fears giving up its interpretations. He reassured listeners that they are not expected to believe the statements yet, only to practice noticing discomfort and the hidden fear of a competing will between the ego and the Creator.

Tim then read from Pam Grout’s A Course in Miracles Experiment, where she uses the metaphor of cardboard cutouts to explain how we see only frozen images of the past rather than the living reality unfolding in the present. Grout’s insight helped him illustrate that fear and hostility show us when we are looking at an inaccurate picture—“corrupt data,” as the worksheet says. He emphasized that the task is to question all conditioning, all inherited beliefs, and all automatic perceptions, using negative feelings as a gentle alarm to look within rather than project outward.

Tim described the previous night’s support group session on Michael Singer’s teaching about the mind as an energy field filled with impressions, thoughts, and emotions. Singer teaches that awareness—not resistance—allows clarity to arise. Tim explained that this mirrors the worksheet process, which invites people to pause and watch the mental constructs surrounding events rather than assume their immediate interpretation is accurate. He noted that Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed echoes the same principle—using anger as an internal alert rather than a weapon against others. Doyle’s story of reacting to her wife resting on the couch demonstrated how old conditioning around productivity created inner tension that dissolved only when she recognized the childhood programming beneath it.

Tim connected this to the worksheet’s power to reveal memories and beliefs underlying present reactions. He emphasized that by questioning internal interpretations, people move out of fear and hostility and into presence, gratitude, and Love. He said the goal of all these tools—worksheets, journaling, mind shifters, and the radio show itself—is to cultivate a high-functioning life based on appreciation rather than reactivity.

In the final portion of the hour, a listener named Susan raised questions about Lesson 13 and the idea of “meaninglessness.” She shared that thinking of the world as meaningless made her feel unsettled and disconnected from the concept of God. Tim reassured her that any experience of fear means the perception is false. He encouraged her to replace “meaningless” with “neutral,” echoing teachings from The Way of Mastery that “all events are neutral.” He emphasized that fear comes not from truth but from interpreting the lesson through past conditioning. Tim gently guided her to see that beliefs about separation from God arise from programming and not from reality. He emphasized that the core of all true spiritual teaching is joy, connection, purpose, and Love, and that fear signals a distortion rather than truth.

Tim closed the hour by reminding listeners that negative emotions are invitations to re-examine perception and return to the awareness that life is an expression of Love. He encouraged callers to press one if they had questions before transitioning to the next segment.

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January 13, 2021 2^nd hour opened with Jeanie explaining the unexpected challenges she faced the previous morning, including taking her father for dental work and learning that her son tested positive for COVID. She thanked listeners for holding the space and thanked Dr. Tim Hayes for helping Michael Ryce manage the switchboard. She then brought callers into the conversation, beginning with Celinda, who offered insights meant to support Susan from the first hour. Celinda shared how Neal Douglas-Klotz’s work on the Aramaic Gospels, especially his translation of Alaha as “the One containing the all,” helped her understand Yeshua’s non-dual message. She also discussed the distinction between Abba and Abwoon as names for the Creator. This led Susan into a reflection about the problem of naming God, explaining that names externalize the Divine as something separate, which she feels may reinforce idolatry or a sense of “God out there.” She compared it to distinctions in Hinduism between Brahman and Atman, noting that any label becomes an idea rather than a living experience.

Michael Ryce stepped in to challenge the attempt to “figure it out,” emphasizing that words can never express truth. He reminded the group that words are symbols of symbols—twice removed from actuality—and that real understanding comes only through experience generated by using the forgiveness tools. He said that trying to reach truth through intellectual analysis becomes “mental masturbation.” Instead, the invitation is to use the tools and allow direct experience of the energy in which we live, move, and have our being. He stressed that once the experience occurs, people naturally try to describe it, but words can only point; they can never convey the reality itself. Susan agreed and said she had been wrestling with the meaning of understanding versus knowledge, concluding that real understanding is sensory experience. Michael affirmed this, saying the goal is to live in relationship with Love itself.

Michael told a story about a fundamentalist preacher who had a breakdown later in life and, upon returning to Scripture, suddenly saw only love where he had previously preached fear. The shift came not through doctrine but through inner experience. This reinforced Michael’s point that each person must have their own encounter with Love before they can meaningfully share it with others. The group discussed how every experience is unique but always linked to the quality of energy one is aligned with—either Love or non-being—and that forgiveness allows people to release the energetic patterns blocking that alignment.

The next caller, Nene Ortega, shared her recent meditation work inspired by Michael’s Personal Power and Primary Purpose DVD. She described offering a meditation in Spanish and the strong reactions participants had, including feelings of leaving the body, emotional release, and new insights about goals and perception. Michael and Jeanie encouraged her to send both English and Spanish versions so they could post them on the website’s Spanish section to support the broader community. Nene expressed that it had been ten years since she first met the Ryces and credited their work with transforming her life.

Nene also asked about the upcoming intensive. Michael described the structure: participants would receive four hours per week of recorded teaching from the previous 14-week intensive and join a live two-hour Zoom session each Wednesday. He emphasized the importance of completing the personal code evaluation early so Jeanie could assign individualized tools.

Later, Susan returned with updates about her physical healing, saying her knee pain had vanished and she was turning her attention to a long-standing shoulder injury from a fall. Michael guided her through the principle behind energetic repair, explaining that the perfect energetic pattern of the shoulder always exists, even if injury has overlaid it. He described positional release work—replicating the exact posture of the injury and breathing through it—as a way to open the gateway for release of stored trauma. He also shared the story of a 78-year-old woman with post-polio syndrome whose “bone-on-bone” shoulder pain dropped from a level 10 to zero within 12 weeks of using the Avacyn device. He explained that the Avacyn works like a physical form of forgiveness by pushing energy through tissue and helping the body release old patterns.

Near the end of the hour, Jeanie spoke about an anonymous donor offering a $100-per-month matching challenge and expressed gratitude for the community’s ongoing support. Michael closed with a powerful reflection on holding the space of Love amid cultural turmoil, COVID, and political division. He emphasized that hurt people hurt people, and that punishment never heals hurt; only Love dissolves the patterns that create suffering. He invited listeners to breathe together as a global community and consciously serve as spaces where Love can incarnate, heal trauma, and spread through every mind, heart, and being on the planet.

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Tim read A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 14: “God did not create a meaningless world.” He explained that this lesson challenges the mind’s belief in the reality of what it sees. According to the Course, anything God did not create—including war, illness, disaster, and fear—is not real in actuality but exists only within the perceptual framework of the ego. Tim emphasized that this lesson is not meant to deny experience but to help students recognize that the images they fear are self-created through conditioned thought. The exercise involves closing the eyes, bringing to mind horrors or fears, naming them specifically, and then denying their reality by declaring that God did not create them. Tim highlighted the Course’s reassurance that although these practices may bring up fear, the direction of the work is toward perfect peace and safety.

To make the lesson more accessible, Tim read Pam Grout’s modern commentary from The Course in Miracles Experiment, where she encourages students to make the Course fun rather than heavy or philosophical. Grout reframes the lesson as permission to release one’s “personal house of horrors.” She emphasizes joy, creativity, and playfulness rather than fear or religious argument. Tim appreciated her reminder that lessons only become sustainable when they are enjoyable and personally meaningful. He echoed her teaching that transforming perception is not about debating metaphysics but noticing how one’s internal lens distorts the present moment with old pain.

A caller, Ellen, asked about the idea of denying illusions and whether acknowledging an injury contradicts the Course’s teaching. She wondered how to reconcile taking practical action—such as treating a wound—with denying its reality. Tim explained that denial of illusions does not mean pretending physical symptoms are not there. Instead, it means addressing the mind’s interpretation first, recognizing that emotional turmoil around the injury is often more damaging than the injury itself. He shared personal stories to illustrate the impact of applying these tools. When he broke his ankle years earlier, his initial healing was slow because he was overwhelmed with guilt, anger, and fear. Later, when he suffered another injury after learning EFT tapping and the worksheet process, he recovered much more quickly. He attributed this to releasing negative emotional energy rather than resisting pain.

Tim shared additional experience-based evidence, describing how his chronic back problems—verified by MRIs showing degenerative discs and a cracked vertebra—improved dramatically after he learned mind-body tools. For decades he relied on deep tissue massage, stretching, and chiropractic care. After reading Dr. John Sarno’s work on tension myoneural syndrome and applying emotional-release tools, he stopped all stretching and chiropractic adjustments and now rarely experiences pain. He said this transformation came from shifting his understanding of the cause of pain from physical structure to emotional tension and oxygen restriction in muscle tissue.

Ellen described chronic upper-back issues stemming from a parasailing accident in her twenties and recognized that repeated falls throughout her life pointed to deeper emotional patterns. Tim explained how stored trauma becomes energetically embedded in the body until addressed at the emotional level. He shared dramatic examples from clients whose severe pain resolved when they addressed the emotional circumstances surrounding earlier injuries. He described a woman whose back pain was so severe she was considering spinal fusion until emotional work brought her pain to zero. Another caller, Susan, shared her own recent healing of knee pain connected to childhood longing for maternal attention. The pain vanished after she remembered the origin of the emotional pattern, confirming Tim’s point that awareness facilitates release.

Tim ended the hour encouraging listeners to keep working with the Course lessons, the worksheets, and supportive inquiry rather than treat spiritual teachings as rigid dogma. He closed with the reminder that “we come from Love, we are made of the stuff we call Love, and everything else is false.”

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January 14, 2021 2^nd hour opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners and encouraging them to use the tools on whyagain.org, reminding everyone that real change happens from the inside out. She spoke about staying connected to one’s source in the midst of turmoil, using the story of the rose and the butterfly to illustrate how people lose themselves when they place anything above their inner connection. When Michael Ryce joined the show, he immediately addressed the emotional climate surrounding politics and COVID, saying life is structured to bring up anything within us that is unlike Love so it can be released through forgiveness. He emphasized that hostility and fear are internally generated energies, not caused by outside events, and that they become embedded through the childhood Power Person dynamic. When a child experiences a power figure acting from fear or hostility, especially in a situation perceived as survival, the child’s energy field opens and absorbs the surrounding emotional patterns. Those absorbed energies later replay through resonance whenever similar frequencies appear in the environment.

Michael used the tuning fork analogy to explain resonance: when two energies match, one activates the other, but in humans the activation moves both within and toward others. He stressed that life does not punish—it brings into our experience exactly what is needed so we can see and release what we are holding. Forgiveness, he said, is not about letting others “off the hook” but about removing internal energies of hostility and fear. He read from his book, discussing Thoreau’s idea that most people live in quiet desperation because they try to control externals instead of addressing their internal state. Thoreau’s invitation to advance confidently toward one’s dreams mirrors the forgiveness path: building a foundation beneath one’s “castles in the air” by doing the inner work.

The conversation shifted to online intensives, with Michael expressing excitement about how Zoom creates deeper connection than in-person workshops, since everyone can see each other’s faces and emotional responses. He described the upcoming Codependence to Interdependence Communication Practicum and how recordings from previous intensives will be included so each group supports the next. He and Jeanie invited anyone interested to email Jeanie for registration.

The show then moved into calls, beginning with a listener who felt deeply vulnerable after sleeplessness and intense fear triggered by recent political events. Michael supported her with breathing and helped her feel the fear directly rather than link it to external causes. He explained that fear filtered through interpretation becomes frozen and unhealed, whereas owning and experiencing it internally allows movement and release. He offered a mind shifter—“I will be deeply healed and enjoy it when we lose freedom and everything our culture stands for”—to resonate deeper layers of fear. The caller immediately accessed grief, memories, and strong opinions about militarization and cultural instability. Michael affirmed her process and explained how the mind shifter works by surfacing hidden material for healing.

The discussion touched on cultural violence, the roots of militarization, and how collective fear perpetuates systems of destruction. Michael agreed with the caller’s reflections, emphasizing that true healing requires confronting beliefs about safety, power, and atrocity. Another caller contributed by noting the energetic effect of traumatic events and the need to process fear directly. Michael encouraged her to write down the insights triggered by the mind shifter so they could be worked through using worksheets.

Michael then spoke about the Hawaiian concept of “aloha,” comparing it to the Aramaic word Rakhma, the frontal-lobe filter that brings Love into conscious expression. He contrasted traditional Hawaiian greeting—forehead-to-forehead, breath-to-breath—with the Western handshake, which originated as a weapon check. He also discussed ho‘oponopono and how Western interpretations distort its original intent by focusing on pardoning others rather than removing internal energetic patterns. He clarified how apology can be used responsibly by acknowledging error, taking responsibility, and stating how one will correct the behavior, without reinforcing negativity.

Jeanie rejoined to help take more callers. Joan asked how to “set Rakhma as the filter,” and Michael explained that smiling inwardly, allowing the energy of the smile to rise into the frontal lobes, naturally activates that filter. Another caller, Magda, shared that fear originally disguised itself as anger after the events in Washington, and through worksheets she realized her deeper belief that she could be harmed. The worksheet shifted her into the awareness that she is an eternal being and cannot be harmed at the level of essence. Michael affirmed her process and noted that creating an internal energy field of safety is what allows true healing, both individually and collectively, and he closed by encouraging everyone to keep using the tools to uncover deeper layers of fear and restore awareness of Love.

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Tim read the ACIM commentary describing image-making as the mind’s replacement for true vision and encouraged listeners not to fear “light episodes” or perceptual shifts that may arise during practice. He reinforced that the lesson is about recognizing the mind’s role in generating the world we think we see, not about forcing belief. Pam Grout’s Course in Miracles Experiment reframed the lesson through the theme of being suspicious of the inner critic, noting that the nagging, reactive voice in the mind is not the true self and does not represent love or guidance. Her writing helped Tim illustrate that most emotional suffering comes from believing the inner commentator.

Callers joined the conversation despite BlogTalk Radio technical issues. Lisa reported trouble accessing the live broadcast but expressed gratitude that she and her yoga companion were enjoying Tim’s guidance through the lessons. Tim reassured listeners that glitches on BlogTalk were causing delays. He encouraged participation through calls and emails and invited listeners to suggest authors, teachers, and speakers for interviews on MindShifters Radio and the Journey’s Dream podcast, announcing upcoming conversations with authors and mental health advocates.

Susan called with reflections on earlier lessons about a “meaningless world” and noted that Michael Ryce would likely reframe the statement into more coherent regulatory speech such as “God created a meaningful world.” Tim agreed, explaining that many ACIM lessons are intentionally phrased to disrupt conditioned thinking. He emphasized that if a phrase causes resistance, students can adjust the wording as long as they preserve the intended experiential shift. Tim reinforced that hostility and fear distort perception and are reliable signals that one’s interpretation is inaccurate. When negative emotion arises, the most productive response is not to double down on the story but to question the perception generating it.

Another point of discussion was how collective agreement on physical objects, like calling a chair a chair, creates a shared illusion of sameness even though each person’s internal associations differ widely. Tim explained that ACIM aims to help practitioners observe directly rather than rely on conditioning, comparing the process to Eastern teachings like neti neti, which acknowledge that language cannot capture the essence of divine experience. He encouraged listeners to remain curious, question what they think they “know,” and use discomfort as an invitation to expand perception.

Tim closed the hour by reviewing Lessons 16 and 17 for the weekend—“I have no neutral thoughts” and “I see no neutral things”—reminding everyone that every thought contributes either to illusion or truth. He emphasized that the Course is structured as experiential training rather than dogma and should be approached gently, without strain. As additional callers joined, Tim continued answering questions with clarity and encouragement, setting the tone for continued exploration of perception, meaning, and the healing tools developed by Michael and Jeanie Ryce.

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January 15, 2021 2^nd hour opened with Jeanie welcoming listeners while noting technical difficulties on BlogTalk Radio, which Michael Ryce described as “disturbances in the energy field” that appear whenever deep internal processing is underway. He emphasized that processing means allowing anything less than Love to surface in the presence of Love, and he expressed gratitude for having the community and the tools to support that unfolding. Michael then began reading from the “Life With and Without Tools” section of his book, contrasting how every area of life—information, relationships, abundance, health, commitment, and power—changes depending on whether one uses the tools of forgiveness, responsibility, and awareness. With tools, life becomes service, safety, blessing, natural healing, education, accomplishment, and peace; without tools, life devolves into fear, chaos, dictatorship, loss, corruption, and war. He stressed that the purpose of the radio show is to make these tools accessible to every mind and to support listeners in using them daily.

A caller, Scott from Oregon, shared that committing to the upcoming intensive immediately triggered both internal shakeups and external shifts. He described unexpected openings that made it possible for him to attend despite a demanding work schedule. After an interview for a teaching position, he was offered the chance to work as a substitute teacher five days a week, which solved his scheduling problem and would give him the flexibility to participate fully. Michael affirmed the principle that when someone commits to healing, life reorganizes to support the commitment. Scott connected his experience to A Course in Miracles, especially the “development of trust,” noting how the ego reacts to stress by attempting to control everything. Michael reminded him that the ego has no volition—it only carries out old training—and can be retrained through forgiveness.

Scott spoke about reading ACIM’s sections on the split mind and realizing that the healed part of the mind has always been whole; his recent awakening experiences made room for that holiness to emerge. Michael reinforced this, explaining that the Aramaic line in the Lord’s Prayer, “carve out a space in me for your wholeness,” reflects this very process. Scott described how his Power Person patterns still play out in interactions with others and how the Codependence to Interdependence intensive is arriving at the perfect moment for him to heal those dynamics. He shared that anger had been his primary worksheet focus for months, but the Personal Code Evaluation revealed that fear—not hurt—was the deeper underlying issue. He now saw clearly how fear from childhood continued to shape his adult reactions, particularly around authority. Michael affirmed that discovering the fear is the turning point in healing and that the body and mind will reorganize around any willingness to face fear consciously.

Scott also described resonance patterns from childhood, noting that nearly every person he reacted to carried an echo of his father. He highlighted how past counseling approaches had fallen into blame, but the Aramaic forgiveness process is about dismantling internal patterns rather than assigning fault. Michael agreed, emphasizing that forgiveness has “nothing to do with the other person” and everything to do with removing the unconscious energies of hostility and fear that were absorbed in childhood.

Another theme emerged as Scott considered his new role teaching fourth and fifth graders. He expressed excitement about bringing Love and presence into a classroom full of children who have been destabilized by months of pandemic disruption. Michael encouraged him to introduce breathing and quiet time as a daily practice and told stories of Julie Haverstick’s work teaching young children using the Children’s Commitment. Jeanie read the children’s versions aloud—affirmations of worth, responsibility, cooperation, truthfulness, and internal connection to Love—which deeply moved Scott. He said these commitments would guide how he enters classrooms, centering relationship and healing as the true purpose of education.

The hour closed with gratitude among Michael, Jeanie, Scott, and a second caller, Julie, who expressed excitement about joining the intensive and helping spread the work. Michael invited everyone to continue breathing consciously, using the tools, and remembering that each healing step taken by one person strengthens healing for the whole human family.

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January 18, 2021 1st hour Tim Hayes guided listeners through A Course in Miracles Lessons 17 and 18, grounding the teachings in the practical tools from Dr. Michael Ryce’s work. He began by reminding listeners that the Reality Management Worksheet and all support materials are free on whyagain.org and in the HeartLand Aramaic Forgiveness App. Tim explained that the worksheet is designed to dismantle negative emotions by revealing the underlying misperceptions that generate distress. He noted that perception is built largely from past experiences, not from what is actually happening, and that each worksheet strengthens clarity and decision-making. The aim, he said, is not perfection but increased accuracy in how one interprets experience.

He reviewed Lesson 17, “I see no neutral things,” emphasizing that thought always precedes perception, even though the world teaches the opposite. Since there are no neutral thoughts, there can be no neutral perceptions. He read the Course commentary instructing students to look around and recognize that every object—walls, bodies, objects—carries the meanings the mind gives them. Pam Grout’s commentary reframed the lesson through the metaphor of a reality TV contestant who was edited into a particular character. Tim connected this to how the mind edits life to fit its preferred storyline, reinforcing what it already believes while ignoring everything that contradicts it.

Tim then moved to Lesson 18, “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my seeing,” which he acknowledged would challenge many listeners. He explained that the lesson emphasizes the joining of minds and the influence our perception exerts within the human energy field. Pam Grout’s reflections highlighted the idea that thoughts are not private and that people are constantly exchanging energy, consciously or not. Tim pointed out that this aligns with quantum concepts like entanglement and with Ryce’s teaching that every molecule in the universe is connected to every other. He described how loving thoughts create resonance that can uplift, while fear-based perceptions distort and create suffering.

A caller, Susan, shared how these lessons left her feeling both challenged and overwhelmed, especially when family dynamics stirred anxiety. She described her son’s physical symptoms triggered by work stress and her daughter’s irritation when she repeated advice about the Power Person dynamic. Tim helped her see that the distress came not from the situations themselves but from her mind’s attempts to fix them. He explained that the key is to observe the tension, breathe, and refrain from acting from the old pattern of trying to manage or repair others’ lives. He stressed that trying to “fix” someone is an act of the conscious logical mind, which relies on inaccurate perception shaped by history and conditioning. When she worried about being influenced by others’ emotions, Tim guided her back to the Course’s central idea: perception is self-created, and any emotional response is an internal construction, not something transmitted into her.

Tim shared personal examples of catching himself attempting to step into a role—therapist, parent, authority—and recognizing that this only activates unconscious patterns and distorts communication. He described how true guidance comes only when he watches the internal impulse to fix, cancels it, breathes, and asks to be shown what to say. He emphasized that relationships operate from longstanding patterns, and unless one becomes conscious of these patterns, interaction repeats old dynamics unconsciously.

To frame the lessons more broadly, Tim brought in parallels from The Tao Made Easy, emphasizing the shared teachings across traditions: allow life to unfold, reduce internal strain, and remain in the flow. The Tao, like ACIM, encourages acting from ease rather than tension, and viewing life as the perfect classroom for healing. Tim encouraged listeners to meet difficult moments with curiosity—asking how each event might become a blessing—rather than resistance.

The hour closed with Tim’s reminder that the lessons, the worksheet, and the simple act of conscious breathing all serve the same purpose: restoring awareness that we come from Love, are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is a perceptual error ready for healing.

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January 18, 2021 2^nd hour began with Jeanie updating listeners about the rapidly growing online intensive, which now included participants from Thailand, Canada, Hawaii, the West Coast, and many returning students. She encouraged anyone interested to email her and browse the free tools on whyagain.org, including worksheets, MP3s, videos, and the online edition of Why Is This Happening to Me Again?. Michael Ryce entered the show emphasizing that the purpose of the work is to restore the human perceptual system to truth by removing the hostility and fear that distort awareness. He explained that people go to war over beliefs because most perception is generated internally, not taken from the outside world, and that the mind produces constructs based on its content rather than on actuality. When perception is fueled by Love, it aligns with truth, but when it is built on hostility and fear, it becomes inaccurate and leads to conflict and illness. Michael referenced CIA research which concluded that “the mind does not record reality, it generates reality,” confirming what the Aramaic teachings have offered for centuries.

He emphasized that the eye does not “see” the outside world; it receives frequencies that the mind interprets into an inner construct. Because of this, inaccurate beliefs create entire false worlds that people then assume are external fact. The work, he said, is to forgive—meaning remove—anything that does not belong in the energy system so perception can realign with actuality. He asked listeners to remember two central questions from his workshops: first, have you ever held a newborn and recognized its essence as pure Love; and second, have you ever done something you regret, and what were you feeling at the time? Regret always occurs in states of hostility or fear, proving that behaviors we condemn arise from painful internal energies, not from Love. He stressed that Love is not something given or received from others, but the essential nature of human life.

Caller Scott then joined the conversation with an update on his physical condition. After months of digestive issues, he woke up with a sudden surge of vitality, which he attributed directly to the forgiveness work. Although symptoms remained, they no longer dominated his experience. He shared that he has become aware of a long-standing pattern: guilt-based thoughts trigger instantaneous stabbing pains in different parts of his body. These “guilt-stab-pain” episodes have occurred for thirty years, but he only recently became conscious of the underlying thoughts, each tied to “you should” statements and fear of failing childhood standards of perfection. Michael told him that this awareness marks a significant step because hostility had previously acted as an anesthetic that covered the deeper levels of fear and guilt.

Scott asked how guilt fits into the worksheet process, and Michael reminded him that guilt belongs in the emotional identification step, where the worker acknowledges precisely what they feel. He referenced A Course in Miracles, explaining that hatred and fear always sit on a foundation that must be uncovered. By identifying and forgiving the deeper thoughts behind guilt, the entire “iceberg” of perception collapses. Scott realized that his father’s perfection demands created a belief that he was broken, and Michael confirmed this as a classic Power Person message. He suggested using the new power-person worksheet from the intensive to address this layer.

The conversation deepened as Scott described facing simultaneous waves of anger, fear, guilt, and physical symptoms, calling the experience a “healing crisis.” Michael agreed, explaining that this is exactly what happens when a person stops numbing themselves and begins allowing unconscious material to surface. They discussed how trauma can move through generations until someone becomes willing to do the work. Michael compared Scott’s process to the biblical image of wandering in the desert—forty years representing the time it takes for the old “generation” of beliefs, or genare (causes), to die so one can enter the promised land of conscious co-creation.

Scott reflected on moments of true Being he has experienced in the past when symptoms disappeared entirely, and he expressed his longing to return to that state. Michael affirmed that Being never leaves; only awareness of Being is lost when identification shifts into the fear-based self. They explored how fear of limitless Being emerges from the same denial patterns formed in childhood. Michael guided Scott to recognize his denial, shifting from “it frightens me” to “fear comes up in me,” allowing access to the fear for forgiveness. Scott reaffirmed his willingness to face whatever arises and to use the intensive to clear the deep patterns behind his illness.

The hour closed with Michael encouraging him to continue opening gently, to bring everything unlike Love into the presence of Love, and to recognize that healing involves not only personal liberation but assisting in the transformation of generational patterns for all humanity.

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Tim introduced A Course in Miracles Lesson 19: “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of my thoughts.” He read the Course commentary explaining that cause and effect in the mind are simultaneous, not separate, and that minds are joined. The idea that “there are no private thoughts” often triggers resistance, yet the Course teaches that healing is only possible if minds are connected. The lesson instructs students to sit quietly, observe the thoughts running through the mind, and apply the phrase “I am not alone in experiencing the effects of this thought about…” to each one. Tim stressed that thoughts should not be filtered, and any sense of tension or constriction during practice is a cue to shorten the session and keep it effortless.

He then read Pam Grout’s Course in Miracles Experiment commentary, which reframes the lesson through modern neuroscience and humor. She describes the brain as a “reality forger” that constructs experience from beliefs, pruning neural pathways and dumping chemicals that match one’s assumptions. Because the brain makes up what fits its expectations, Lesson 19 invites students to question everything and ask for outdated “code” to be cleared so perception can shift toward truth. Tim said this commentary highlights how the mind distorts reality to maintain familiar patterns, and ACIM’s lessons undo these distortions.

A listener in the chat room raised the familiar statement, “What you think of me is none of my business,” asking how that fits with the Course’s teaching that minds are joined. Tim clarified that spiritual teachings operate on different scales. At the physical level, we appear separate; at the level of mind and energy, separation is impossible. He emphasized that while minds are joined, individuals still choose how to experience energy. Another person’s thought may resonate, but any emotional impact results from one’s own interpretation.

Caller Audrey then shared an intense 3 a.m. healing experience triggered while listening to Michael Ryce’s Laws of Living. She described feeling strong resistance, a headache, and emotional contractions, but chose to use EFT tapping, conscious breathing, and then asked the “spirit realm” for support. She described entering a state of peace, hearing inner harmony, and recognizing how important it is to use the tools rather than avoid discomfort. She revealed that the triggered upset tied back to decades of unforgiveness toward her husband and mother, whom she blamed for not helping her visit her son while he was in the service. Tim praised her willingness to work with the tools and asked how the Laws of Living material activated the memory. Audrey said it struck something she “did not want to hear,” proving the work was touching a long-held wound.

Tim explained that her experience illustrates the essence of the work: feelings arise from within, and healing comes from choosing to look directly at the energy that surfaces. He spoke about the universal theme found across ACIM, Guy Finley, the Tao, and the Aramaic teachings—each emphasizes removing inner blockages to restore access to wisdom. He revisited the Aramaic term Rukha d’Koodsha, describing it as the elemental force that guides humans to peace when asked. He said most institutions teach dependence on authorities, but true teachings emphasize that each person has direct access to inner guidance once blocks are removed through forgiveness and responsibility.

Tim ended by reminding listeners that spiritual work is not about personality but about restoring connection to inner wisdom. He encouraged everyone to use the worksheet, join support groups, explore ACIM, and approach life with the recognition that we construct our experience through interpretation. He closed with the show’s core affirmation echoed by Michael and Jeanie Ryce: “We come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love—everything else is false.”

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January 19, 2021 2^nd hour, Michael Ryce opened by honoring Yeshua as the true originator of the first-century Aramaic teachings and tools that reveal how human life and the energetic system function. He described speaking earlier that day with someone whose unresolved power-person dynamic with an abusive father was still shaping her relationship perceptions decades later. He emphasized that many people try to forgive without ever learning the true meaning of forgiveness, because the world has been misled by distorted language. Ryce quoted Lenin’s statement that if you want to destroy a culture, change the meaning of its words, explaining that in the human realm culture is passed on through language. Modern definitions of forgiveness—“letting someone off the hook”—make true healing impossible because they conceal the root of pain inside the individual.

Ryce described sitting in bookstores reading every available book on forgiveness while writing Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, and he noted that virtually all psychological and religious models assume that external events “make” people feel. The greatest lie, he said, is that anything outside a person can make them feel what is not already inside them. He then explained goal-driven perception by recounting the woman who unconsciously held the same unfulfilled goal with her fiancé that she once held with her power person. When goals resonate, old perception reassembles itself automatically, creating the repeated “why is this happening to me again?” pattern. He encouraged listeners to download his book for free at whyagain.org, and to watch the YouTube video beginning with “PowerPoint,” which explains how projected perception collapses through forgiveness.

Ryce described the biblical metaphor of wandering in the desert as a symbol for living unconsciously. People appear to be lost in life not because of circumstances, but because they continuously hide from themselves by placing their own denied content into the image of others. When a person insists, “You made me mad,” it shows that anger already lives inside them. Whatever they refuse to own becomes projected, and they then believe the projection to be reality. Forgiveness, in the Aramaic sense, removes what is inside the individual, collapsing the false perceptual construct that has been placed on others.

He explained that the upcoming 14-week intensive would guide participants through the entire body of work, including Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, first-century Aramaic forgiveness, Healing Through Relationships, Codependence to Interdependence Communication, MindShifters, and StillPoint Breathing. Participants would permanently receive approximately 88 hours of video and continuing access to future communication workshops. He contrasted projection communication (“You made me angry”) with responsibility communication (“What you just said brought rage up in me”), which invites the mind to reveal the root of the internal energy so it can be healed.

The discussion then moved into reading Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, beginning with the story of Richard, a composite character based on real people Ryce has worked with. Richard’s failed relationships, anger, fear, and hopelessness mirror the unconscious patterns many people replay while believing circumstances are to blame. Ryce emphasized to Richard that responsibility is not about blame but about reclaiming personal power. Blame gives power away; responsibility restores it. People believe they want life to change, yet often refuse to look at their own unconscious dynamics, which keeps them repeating the same painful cycles. Ryce highlighted the key idea that the common denominator in every painful experience is the individual’s own presence, meaning inner work is required for change.

Two callers later joined the show. Julie spoke about tension, fear, and resistance while preparing for the upcoming intensive. Ryce encouraged her to use the tools she already knows and suggested reviewing her code evaluation feedback and watching It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as an illustration of how trauma loosens when one is willing to look. He reminded her that fear amplifies the creative process, referencing Job’s insight, “That which I feared most has come upon me,” and offered her a mind shifter to hold her fears in the presence of Love.

Another caller, Bob from Australia, shared insights about personal responsibility gained from his work as a ship’s captain and described becoming “master and commander” of his own life. He discussed triggers as signals of internal work and expressed hope about humanity’s shift from power to integrity. Ryce affirmed that global crises reflect unconsciousness rising to the surface, and that a critical mass of people choosing active Love can transform the planet. He concluded by urging listeners to remove hostility, fear, and grief through forgiveness so the world can move toward living as Love rather than recreating cycles of hate.

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The show centered on A Course in Miracles Lesson 20: “I am determined to see.” Tim read the full commentary, explaining that this is the first lesson introducing structure and discipline. The Course stresses that no one can be forced into perception; one must choose to see accurately. He noted that the lesson calls for the simple practice of repeating the idea twice an hour. “I am determined to see” acknowledges that the student does not yet truly see—that perception has been formed from past images, fears, and judgments instead of vision. Tim emphasized that the Course asks for gentle willingness, not strain or coercion, and that choosing to see is choosing to reverse the world’s belief that the external determines the internal.

Tim then read Pam Grout’s interpretation from The Course in Miracles Experiment. She reframed the lesson by urging students to commit to a radically inclusive vision rather than an oppositional one. Her retelling of the Bangladeshi shopkeeper who forgave the white supremacist who shot him illustrated how “determined to see” means seeing the human story behind the act rather than the surface form. She reminded listeners that every person sits at the same table of humanity, and hostility collapses when deeper understanding emerges. Tim added Ralph Waldo Emerson’s line that if we saw the silent misery of our enemies, every hostility would dissolve.

Tim reflected on how listening groups, including their weekly study of Michael Singer’s Living From a Place of Surrender, help people question the conditioning that blinds them. Living with the question—rather than clinging to rigid answers—opens the mind to accurate vision. He pointed out that the Western mind is trained to create answers through the conscious logical mind, but true seeing requires surrendering that demand and requesting guidance from deeper intelligence. He connected this with the Tao’s invitation to move with the flow of life rather than cling to old forms, relationships, or beliefs.

Listeners called in to share personal reflections. Ellen read from the ACIM text about how the body’s eyes were made not to see truth but to perceive form, separation, and error. She observed that understanding is the real meaning of “seeing” and shared that she feels wholly aligned with Lesson 20’s intention. Tim affirmed her insight, expanding on the neuroscience behind image-making. He cited Anil Seth’s research showing that 80% of perceptual data comes from memory, trauma, and beliefs, not from the eyes. This, Tim said, is why negative emotions reveal distorted vision. Every time one experiences fear, anger, or pain, the guidance system indicates that perception is inaccurate and the mind is constructing illusions.

He reminded listeners that true perception emerges only when one steps back from the mental image-making process, releases goals, cancels demands, breathes, and asks to be shown. The commitment “I am determined to see” becomes a continual resetting of perception, inviting a shift beyond conditioned images into the actuality beneath them. Tim encouraged listeners to meet discomfort with curiosity, to catch resistance, and to stay willing to be shown truth beyond the limited nine-bit conscious mind.

As the hour closed, Tim reiterated that the mind’s interpretations—not external events—create emotional states. He encouraged everyone to keep practicing ACIM, to explore supportive resources like Corinne Zupko’s From Anxiety to Love, and to continue applying the Ryce worksheet tools. He signed off with the core reminder echoed throughout MindShifters Radio: “We come from Love, we are made of the stuff we call Love, we are Love—and everything else is false.”

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Tim emphasized that the lesson teaches students to stop assuming they know what causes their upset. Even mild annoyance is a veil covering deeper attack thoughts, and these thoughts reveal distorted perception rather than anything “out there.” He read the Course’s instruction to apply the idea to specific situations, recognizing that the mind falsely believes some grievances are justified. He then shared Pam Grout’s humorous retelling from The Course in Miracles Experiment, including the anecdote of someone mishearing a Kenny Rogers lyric as “400 children crapping in the field,” illustrating how misperception—not events—creates emotional suffering. Pam’s story helped highlight how easily the mind distorts meaning and how the lesson calls for releasing any “sky-is-falling” thoughts and seeing every situation differently.

Tim connected the lesson to the emotional intensity surrounding national politics at the time. He expressed compassion for people on all sides who were experiencing fear, grief, or disillusionment and pointed out how much suffering arises when people look outside themselves for stability or solutions. Drawing from Alan Cohen’s The Tao Made Easy and Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi, Tim shared that all genuine spiritual teachings direct people inward toward their own source of wisdom rather than to external authorities. He observed that true peace emerges when individuals stop seeking rescue and instead learn to quiet the conditioned mind and listen to inner guidance.

A caller, Susan, reflected on family tensions, political differences, and patterns of wanting to correct others. She described noticing resistance when her grandson needed rides and when her daughter assumed she was angry. Tim affirmed her insight, reminding her that comparing oneself to others or trying to be “right” always leads to distress. He encouraged her to apply Lesson 21 directly to the internal discomfort rather than to the other person’s perceptions. Another caller, Ellen, shared her own experience applying the lesson when discovering a leaking faucet. Instead of reacting with frustration, she paused, repeated “I am determined to see this differently,” and noticed how her cat’s arrival symbolized her inner child seeking attention. This shift allowed her to reinterpret the recurring water leaks as an inner call to slow down, nurture herself, and reconnect with childhood joy. Tim praised her insight, noting that spiritual teachings consistently encourage slowing down and listening internally.

Conversation continued with book recommendations related to healing, presence, and spiritual awakening, including Leonard Jacobson’s Journey Into Now. Tim welcomed suggestions for authors to interview on the MindShifters Radio show or the Journey’s Dream—On Your Mind podcast, which aims to reframe mental health as a realm of possibility rather than pathology. He closed with the reminder at the heart of both ACIM and the Ryce teachings: emotional upset always signals inaccurate perception, and the willingness to see differently opens the way back to clarity, compassion, and the awareness that “we come from Love, we are made of Love, we are Love—and everything unlike Love is false.”

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January 21, 2021 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners and addressing the prior day’s technical problems before inviting callers into the conversation. She reminds the audience that the essence of the work is to go inside and remove the energies triggered by others rather than blaming the outside world for pain. She stresses that when someone feels disturbed, the real issue is always something already active within the self. Once Michael Ryce joins the broadcast, he expands on the theme of creatorship, pointing out that people love the idea of being creators when things are going well, but when life becomes difficult they usually look for a culprit. Ryce reads from Why Is This Happening to Me… AGAIN?!, focusing on Richard’s struggle to understand that pain is internally generated. Ryce explains that the mind confuses triggers with causes, and that healing begins when one steps back from the internal dialogue long enough to interrupt longstanding patterns. He emphasizes that responsibility is not about guilt or blame but about reclaiming personal power by recognizing the internal mechanisms that generate painful feelings and recycled experiences.

A caller describes the emotional and energetic upheaval emerging in anticipation of the upcoming intensive, and Ryce confirms that this is normal. Increased vitality naturally stirs up deeper layers of unresolved content. The caller reports experiencing peace through willingness and intention, particularly during a stressful workday, and notes how quickly the ego pushes back after such breakthroughs. Ryce affirms that this is part of the authority conflict: the internal battle between the false self and the true self. As the caller recounts slipping into anger and fear while multitasking on his phone, Ryce repeatedly directs him back to the necessity of canceling goals. When a goal is not met—large or small—the mind produces stress, and stress activates power-person dynamics. Anger, Ryce explains, is not an emotion but a drug that anesthetizes underlying pain. Healing requires refusing to use that drug, canceling the goals driving the tension, and then applying forgiveness to remove the deeper layers of content beneath them.

The caller asks Ryce to clarify the idea of “self-forgiveness,” and Ryce corrects the common misunderstanding. True forgiveness is never about letting oneself off the hook—that is pardoning. Actual Aramaic forgiveness removes the underlying energetic patterns that generate pain. Letting oneself off the hook without releasing the energetic content only ensures future recurrence. The caller continues exploring issues around survival fear, old power-person conditioning, hidden guilt, and using illness as an unconscious protection. Ryce highlights that the world we see remains only as long as the thought that produced it is cherished. Once there is no value in holding onto pain, trauma, or old identities, they can disappear.

Jeanie contributes a reminder that even the loving goal set in Step 7 of the worksheet is still a goal and must be canceled at day’s end if it has not been accomplished. Ryce builds on this, explaining the direct link between goal-setting, stress, and the power-person dynamic. Stress accumulates when goals remain active, and when enough stress builds, people unconsciously shift into behaviors learned from their power person—first cooperative behaviors, then resistance patterns, and finally the very behaviors they hated most. Canceling goals restores sanity, reduces stress, and interrupts the cycle. Ryce encourages listeners to use the website and forgiveness app to access worksheets, tools, and teachings, all designed to help dismantle these unconscious patterns. The show closes with Ryce reaffirming the value of becoming the thinker apart from the thought and the actor apart from the action so one can witness and interrupt the unconscious mechanisms that produce repeated conflict.

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Tim read Pam Grout’s interpretation from The Course in Miracles Experiment, including the story of Anita Moorjani, whose near-death experience revealed how her lifelong self-judgment had shaped a fear-based life. Pam reframed the lesson by noting that most people speak to themselves in ways they would never speak to another person, demonstrating how deeply self-attack runs. The lesson invites students to pause, soften, and see that thoughts of fear and criticism are not real, and that there is an escape from the mental world constructed by attack thoughts. Tim then introduced Lesson 23 for the weekend: “I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts.” He emphasized that the Course teaches guaranteed success because perception changes automatically when the mind stops feeding attack thinking. He read the commentary explaining that the world cannot change because it is an effect; only thoughts—the cause—can be changed. As students identify and release thoughts of attacking or being attacked, they open to the replacement vision the Course calls “loveliness,” which already exists behind the projections.

He followed this with Pam Grout’s reflections on Lesson 23. She highlights the observer effect in quantum physics and compares the mind to a movie scriptwriter, endlessly recycling fearful storylines. Pam’s message is that releasing attack thoughts allows the “stunt double”—the Holy Spirit or inner guidance—to take over, transforming perception effortlessly. Tim then introduced Lesson 24: “I do not perceive my own best interests,” emphasizing that this lesson requires honesty. Students are invited to examine unresolved situations and list all the conflicting goals they hold, realizing that no unified outcome is possible when perception is based on fear. Tim read Pam Grout’s humorous comparison of the brain to a bureaucrat recycling old data, reinforcing that only inner guidance—not conditioned thinking—knows what truly serves one’s well-being.

Listeners then joined the discussion. Ellen shared her resistance to Lesson 22, initially unable to accept the idea that a picture of Mother Mary could be “a form of vengeance.” As she continued practicing, she realized the lesson points to form’s impermanence and the suffering created when one invests identity in physical form. Objects, bodies, and even flowers deteriorate, she noted, and the more one clings to form, the more disappointment arises. She connected this insight to death, aging, and the relief that comes from recognizing that spirit—not form—is real. Tim affirmed her understanding while emphasizing that the upset does not come from the object but from the attack thought the mind creates about it. He quoted Freud, Michael Singer, and others on the brutality of negative self-talk, reminding listeners that most attack thoughts target the self.

Another caller, Ann, asked about intrusive thoughts that “just pop up,” wondering whether repeated worksheets would eventually stop them from arising. Tim explained that while some thoughts may continue to appear, the difference is that they no longer hook into emotional pain once the underlying belief has been released. He used Jeanie Ryce’s story of no longer feeling disrespected when someone interrupted her—a reaction that used to trigger her deeply but now passes without meaning. Tim stressed that the point is not to stop thoughts but to stop believing them. He pointed out that neuroscience confirms perception is largely constructed from past experience rather than actual sensory input, which is why thoughts and images appear so convincingly real. As the hour closed, he encouraged listeners to keep canceling goals, dismantling attack thoughts, and asking to be shown a more accurate perception. He ended with the reminder that we come from Love, are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is false.

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January 22, 2021 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners and updating them on family news, thanking everyone for holding their son and his family in the space of Love during their COVID quarantine. She describes the joy of seeing grandchild Ari Reign over FaceTime and highlights how profoundly she has changed in only a few weeks, setting the stage for deeper reflections when Michael Ryce joins the show. Ryce uses Ari’s rapid growth as a teaching point, explaining that the human form is not a solid physical object but a plastic, energy-based system governed by an internal blueprint. He stresses that deterioration is not natural design but the predictable outcome of inserting disintegrative energies—fear, rage, guilt, grief, self-condemnation—into the system. When those energies dominate, the body follows their “instructions” toward breakdown. He connects this to the ancient Aramaic understanding of “sin” as an archery term meaning “off the mark,” not a moral failure but a physics-based description of what damages the system.

Ryce emphasizes that people unknowingly inherit generational blueprints loaded with unprocessed trauma, often carrying patterns from three or four generations. Without tools, these energies remain active and shape physiology, perception, and behavior. He contrasts this with the original teachings of Yeshua, which were about removing those energetic patterns—what Aramaic forgiveness actually meant. Ryce describes how Greek and later church interpretations replaced this practical healing process with the idea of pardoning, which has nothing to do with energetic removal. He stresses that no external deity “forgives” people; rather, individuals must access the Creator within to remove what never belonged. Ryce explains that this work is challenging because it requires facing ancestral pain and confronting the internalized messages received from power-person dynamics rather than projecting them outward.

Callers then join the conversation. Audrey shares her struggle with the worksheets, explaining that as a predominantly right-brain processor, she finds the structured steps awkward. Ryce reassures her that this is normal for new learners—like writing with the non-dominant hand—and that as she continues, the tool will integrate with her intuitive processing, eventually becoming graceful and natural. He encourages her willingness and affirms that she will gain skill rapidly. Scott calls in next, describing how life circumstances are shifting to support his upcoming intensive: roommates moving out, increased solitude, improved job prospects, and internal layers surfacing. Ryce notes that when someone commits to inner work, the external world often reorganizes to support healing. Scott explains that after working through layers of anger and fear, guilt and hurt have surfaced, tied to long-standing power-person dynamics. Ryce guides him to treat hurt like any other thought disorder: identify the goal generating the perception, cancel it, breathe, and invite Rukha d’Koodsha to remove the underlying energy.

Jeanie opens the lines, and another caller, Ann, speaks near the end of the hour. She shares that a functional medicine evaluation revealed she had lost thirteen years physiologically in only one year, reflecting emotional overload after her husband’s death and strain in family relationships. She affirms that she has not done the internal work required. Ryce explains that the last year simply resonated what was already present in her structure; now she has a clear inventory of what to forgive. With consistent work, those thirteen years can be reversed—and likely more—because removing the accumulated energetic load restores the system toward its original blueprint. He reminds her that denial must end, that loneliness thoughts arise from internal dialogue, and that healing requires identifying and releasing the inner generational patterns that were activated. He emphasizes that her rapid physiological decline also shows how rapidly healing can occur once forgiveness is applied.

Ryce closes by reading from Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, illustrating with the drop-bridge analogy how people confuse triggers with causes. Events never cause inner pain; they only activate internal mechanisms already present. He urges listeners to examine their self-talk, challenge inherited beliefs about aging and deterioration, and dismantle the generational energies that run their automatic decision system. True Aramaic forgiveness, he concludes, is the skill of removing everything unlike Love from the blueprint, restoring alignment with the original design demonstrated by the innocent presence of a newborn.

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Tim introduces A Course in Miracles Lesson 25: “I do not know what anything is for.” He reads the lesson’s commentary, emphasizing that humans misinterpret everything through ego-defined goals, which have nothing to do with our true best interests. Because the ego is not who we are, every goal we assign is inherently distorted, and the meaning we give objects and events is based on a false identification with personal interests. At the conscious level, we assume we understand the purpose of things, but the deeper meaning—why we reach for someone, why an event occurs, what a relationship is for—remains inaccessible as long as we rely on the surface mind. The lesson challenges us to suspend interpretations and recognize that everything serves our awakening, even when we cannot grasp how.

He reads Pam Grout’s companion chapter, “The Home Depot of Spiritual Practices,” which reframes Lesson 25 through a humorous reference to Sergeant Schultz in Hogan’s Heroes. By repeating “I know nothing,” Pam opens the way to receive the blessings that flow when the ego stops pretending to control life. Tim reflects on how this attitude mirrors Aramaic teaching: surrendering personal conclusions opens us to Guidance, and language itself cannot capture the vastness of Reality.

A caller, Ellen, shares a breakthrough during her practice session. As she repeated “I do not know what this is for,” every object around her responded inwardly with “It’s for you,” creating a sense of support, connection, and gratitude. She then describes an incident at a four-way stop in which another driver rushed ahead of her. Her anger flared, but she immediately remembered the lesson and recognized the event as a resonance of an old belief—formed in infancy—that she “does not matter.” She asks Tim why she still feels emotional charge if she no longer consciously believes that thought.

Tim explains that any negative emotional reaction is proof that unresolved energy still lives in the unconscious. Conscious disbelief does not cancel trauma. The upset shows that her interpretation—however subtle—comes from old data. The worksheet process is designed specifically to bypass the ego’s claim that it has already solved the issue. The unconscious is not a mysterious place; it is simply the stored material we have not yet been willing or able to look at directly. Each present-moment trigger provides the perfect doorway to dismantle another layer of what no longer serves us.

He clarifies that worksheets should begin with the current triggering event because daily life is the most accurate spiritual classroom. While the mind may assume an issue relates to a specific memory, the deeper layer revealed in a worksheet almost always differs from what the conscious mind predicts. Tim describes his own example of believing an issue was tied to his grandmother; worksheets led everywhere except there—until one day, during an unrelated emotional trigger, the process revealed a dimension of that relationship he had never consciously accessed.

Ellen and Tim explore the importance of reading every line of the worksheet each time, because the ego quickly insists it “already knows this.” Tim emphasizes that the worksheet’s wording is deliberately structured to undo conditioning, cancel old meanings, and open awareness to guidance beyond the intellect. He ends by reminding listeners that life is always for us, never against us, and that upset is a signal—not of external events—but of internal beliefs ready to be released, echoing Dr. Ryce’s teaching that fear- and hostility-based realities are never true.

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January 25, 2021 2^nd hour begins with Jeanie sharing the Rose and Butterfly story, illustrating how people lose themselves when they make anything—fear, anger, approval, or another person—more important than staying rooted in the Love that is their source. Michael Ryce expands on this theme by reading from Why Is This Happening to Me Again?, focusing on the difference between a trigger and a cause. He explains to listeners that external events never create internal pain; they only resonate what is already stored in the unconscious. This is why removing a person or situation does not resolve suffering—because the real cause is the unhealed content within. He highlights how thoughts act as requests to the universe, and thinking about what one does not want is as powerful as thinking about what one desires. Changing output requires changing internal input, and that begins by replacing self-talk, shifting focus, and taking responsibility for one’s own reality instead of trying to control others.

Ryce reminds listeners that no one else needs to change for healing to occur. When someone insists that others “make them mad,” they give away their power. He repeats two foundational principles: if I am in pain, my thinking is in error, and anyone in pain has work to do. Avoidance only strengthens the mind’s attachment to the very issue one is trying to escape. By changing internal dynamics rather than blaming outside events, people can interrupt old loops of fear, helplessness, and frustration. Jeanie then brings in callers, beginning with Nene, who shares a deep breakthrough from doing mind shifters in preparation for the upcoming intensive. She describes powerful emotional release and physical sensations that surfaced when she opened layers of self-judgment related to her mother’s lifelong illness. Ryce affirms this as significant inner work and explains how community energy in an intensive amplifies openings for everyone.

Another anonymous participant asks how to uncover self-punishment patterns beyond the familiar ones. Jeanie explains that withdrawal and withholding are among the harshest forms of self-punishment because they mimic solitary confinement, cutting one off from source. Ryce offers a mind-shifter—“It is safe and healing for me to be fully present in every situation in my life, especially where I project pain”—and explains how the mind shifter process exposes hidden links in the unconscious through resonance. He describes the “file folder effect,” where memories, emotions, and energetic patterns become linked, often in ways the conscious mind does not understand. Mind shifters help surface these links so they can be forgiven and released.

The discussion moves to the structure of the 14-week Codependence to Interdependence intensive and the accompanying personal code evaluation. Ryce outlines how the evaluation identifies stress patterns, fear triggers, issues around will, honoring truth and self, and other deep dynamics, giving participants targeted assignments and video teachings to accelerate healing. Patrick then calls with a powerful testimony of transformation, recounting decades of relationship trauma—from childhood abuse to marriage crises—and how the tools helped him break the belief that people who love him become attackers. He describes the internal shift as breaking a “language barrier,” now recognizing that when people lash out, they are expressing pain rather than hatred. Ryce clarifies the difference between apologizing and reinforcing the past, encouraging language that joins minds in healing rather than repeating pain-based patterns.

Further callers share challenges with fear, worksheets, boundaries, and triggers. Ryce offers practical guidance, such as using “fear equals forgiveness” as a word link, and reminds listeners that triggers are gifts allowing hidden content to surface. Jeanie affirms the power of communal support and ongoing study, while Ryce closes by reinforcing that healing is always an inside job: life events resonate what is already within, and the tools allow anyone willing to face their pain to dissolve generations of unconscious patterns and return to the active presence of Love.

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Tim returns briefly to A Course in Miracles Lesson 25, emphasizing that the ego fabricates all meaning and therefore does not truly understand anything. He cites Rumi’s ancient acknowledgment that humans do not know what they ask for and often mistake nourishment for poison. This parallel across traditions underscores that surrender to guidance—whether named Holy Spirit, Love, or the Tao—is essential because the conscious mind perceives only fragments.

He then introduces Lesson 26: “My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.” To make the lesson clearer, he reframes invulnerability as “my perfect safety.” Attack thoughts, whether directed at self or others, undermine awareness of that safety and create the illusion of vulnerability. Tim reads the commentary describing how believing in attack leads the mind to anticipate danger, weakening self-trust and replacing one’s true identity with a false self-image. The lesson’s practice requires six two-minute periods in which students name a troubling situation and list all feared outcomes, labeling each thought with, “This thought is an attack upon myself.” Each exercise ends with the reminder that perfect safety is the truth of one’s being.

Tim reads Pam Grout’s Course in Miracles Experiment chapter, using the Bob Newhart “Stop It” skit to highlight how many fears have no basis except the mind’s habit of frightening itself. Pam explains that most attack thoughts are self-generated stories. The lesson trains students to recognize these patterns and gently hand them to inner guidance—what she calls “Holy S”—which dissolves fear by showing that none of these thoughts are true.

A caller, Magda, asks how to apply the lesson to her long-standing “white coat syndrome,” where her blood pressure spikes at medical appointments. Tim reminds her of prior work in which her fear was traced not to medical danger but to self-judgment and concerns about how others might perceive her. He notes that the lesson is not about physical outcomes but about recognizing that one’s essence as consciousness cannot be harmed. By consistently practicing the lesson, she will either see fearful thoughts fade or notice them without assigning meaning, allowing them to pass without power. As she deepens into the awareness of her inherent safety, fear-based outcomes lose their emotional charge.

Together they explore how the worksheet, targeted journaling, Three Early Memories of Conflict, EFT, or breathing can reveal the deeper goal driving any upset. Both agree that the challenge is often emotional willingness rather than complexity. Tim reiterates that the worksheet is deceptively simple but profoundly powerful: whenever upset arises, a goal is active, and canceling that goal invites a completely new perception. They discuss the importance of feeling emotions rather than mentally analyzing them and how recreating emotional memory can intensify worksheet effectiveness. The hour concludes with Tim acknowledging that the essence of each person is unbreakable and that every negative thought is an attempt to assign meaning where none exists. He encourages listeners to keep practicing, remember their perfect safety, and use each upset as an invitation to release old patterns and return to Love.

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January 26, 2021 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners, updating them on family health, and celebrating the return of little Arya after quarantine. She and Dr. Michael Ryce discuss the upcoming 14-week online intensive, noting the large group of new and returning participants and the supportive energy building around the work. Ryce continues reading from Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?!, focusing on Richard’s confusion about his emotional triggers and the principle that pain signals inner work. Ryce explains how relationships function as mirrors rather than causes, describing Vogel’s research on mind energy and how people attract those who resonate with their internal realities. He emphasizes that triggers do not create feelings but reveal what already exists within. Ryce explores how the mind distorts perception, especially when fueled by hostility, fear, or prior belief, and he uses examples ranging from personal relationships to political delusion to illustrate how the mind hallucinates realities that match its desires. He explains hypnosis, digital-to-analog conversion, and the ancient instruction to “guard the portals of the mind,” underscoring that dominant thought patterns become the pictures we see and even the chemistry of our bodies. True perception requires alignment with active love, and loss of that experience indicates resonance with stored hostility or fear. Ryce recounts the story of a woman who hallucinated a rat that was only a towel, using it to show how unresolved fear shapes perception.

Jeanie brings in comments and questions, including how mass hallucination occurs when millions accept the same distorted “mind energy.” Ryce uses the FCC’s digital-conversion example to illustrate how the mind converts thought into internal images. He stresses that forgiveness weakens these false constructs and restores awareness of oneself as love. Callers then join. Scott from Oregon thanks Ryce for the teaching and asks about the “distorting power of the way you want it to be.” Ryce clarifies this and then explains the apology tool: never saying “I’m sorry,” which reinforces the undesired event, but instead acknowledging responsibility and declaring the new choice. Scott shares his challenges, dreams, and insights as he prepares for the intensive, and Ryce affirms the value of asking Rukha to guide inner work during sleep. Another caller, Audrey, describes how rereading Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?! and receiving diagram-based help from a retired teacher is giving her breakthroughs. Ryce celebrates the support she attracts and invites her to share the diagrams. She reports that friends are noticing her changes and joining the community. Julie calls in to reflect on guarding the portals of the mind and the hypnotic effects of news cycles. She asks Ryce to expand on using movies as forgiveness tools, and he explains how any resonated emotion can become material for healing. He shares a personal example of a childhood memory that surfaced during bodywork that morning, reinforcing the power of this inner process. The show closes with gratitude, reminders about accessing the book, and excitement for the intensive starting the next day.

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Tim reads Pam Grout’s companion chapter, “Writing a Different Caption,” describing how each person interprets life through their own internal “caption” just like contestants in the New Yorker cartoon challenge. The same situation can be experienced in entirely different ways depending on the perceiver’s inner filters. Pam reminds readers that seeing truth requires releasing the personally written captions that cover over the beauty and presence of Love in everything. Tuning into this deeper vision allows people to send blessings into the world simply by looking without blinders.

Tim shares that the day’s theme coincides with Holocaust Remembrance Day, and listening to the stories stirred strong waves of discomfort and emotion in him. Instead of shutting down, he recognized the feelings as an invitation to apply the tools—tapping, breathing, worksheets, or the “Three Early Memories of Conflict” exercise. He explains how that tool helps uncover childhood interpretations and trauma-based conclusions that still run adult interactions. Through client examples, he describes how early strategies for survival—such as shutting down, withdrawing, overwhelming, or people-pleasing—get triggered in current relationships, especially when someone’s communication style feels intense or threatening. The worksheet brings greater clarity, exposing how many present-day reactions arise from younger, frightened parts of the self rather than the resourced adult.

A caller, Susan, speaks about ongoing pain in her arm following a fall and describes a memory that surfaced during her worksheet practice: a woman in her Pilates class who had lost use of her arm, became deeply depressed, and later took her own life. Susan expresses sadness and guilt, wondering whether she could have done more. Tim gently guides her to identify the guilt-producing thoughts and use them as worksheet material, pointing out that unresolved emotional energy can contribute to physical holding patterns. He suggests exploring whether some part of her feels undeserving of healing or weighed down by old responsibilities she believes she failed to fulfill. This leads to a deeper discussion of guilt, self-blame, and the “Hydra” effect—how one worksheet often reveals many more connected layers of belief, memory, and trauma. Tim emphasizes willingness as the “cosmic grease” that allows healing to unfold, while resistance halts it.

Other callers join to offer reflections. One notes that Susan’s pattern resembles feeling responsible for saving others, which hides a deeper belief in unworthiness. Another observes that when childhood terror gets resonated, even older adults react from pre-verbal or early developmental places with the same intensity they felt then. Tim affirms that such overwhelming energies are simply invitations to bring compassion and tools to the parts of ourselves that were hurt long ago. The show closes with gratitude, a reminder of the transition to the second hour with Michael and Jeanie Ryce, and Tim’s signature closing: we come from Love, are made of Love, and everything that isn’t Love is false.

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January 27, 2021 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners and celebrating how the evening intensive is drawing participants from around the world. Dr. Michael Ryce picks up the reading from Why Is This Happening to Me… Again?!, using the metaphor of a two-dimensional creature encountering a basketball to illustrate how limited perception creates experiences that never truly happened. He explains that just as the flat-world creature misinterprets the ball as a series of changing shapes, humans misinterpret life through the narrow channels of the five senses and learned cultural constructs. Words cannot capture reality because they arise from limited experience, and we are conditioned into these distortions. Ryce emphasizes that what we call “the world” is not directly experienced but is a perceptual construct, a self-generated hallucination shaped by unresolved hostility, fear, and past experience. In first-century Aramaic, forgiveness means to “cancel,” and forgiveness dismantles these false constructs so we can taste actual reality rather than recycled memory.

Ryce describes how healing requires the collapse of old perceptual structures and the discipline to keep one’s focus on what is being born rather than what is dying. He stresses that the healing crisis brings physical, mental, and emotional symptoms that mimic disease, and people often recreate their suffering by focusing on the symptoms instead of staying grounded in active, present Love. He shares a fresh personal example: after decades of chronic back pain resolved through orthobionomy and energy work, a recent layer surfaced—an early belief formed through agreement with his father that “it’s okay to hurt me.” Touching that memory caused temporary pain, but Ryce recognizes it as a healing opening. He explains that focusing on the new energy, not the old symptoms, allows the body to reorganize and rebuild according to truth.

The show deepens as Ryce explains the fall from our original state of Love into identification with a “non-being self” formed by generational thought disorders—messages like “you’re no good” or “you should have been a boy.” When these distortions coagulate into a self-image, people shift from being physiologically fueled by Love to being fueled by pain. This collapse produces the immense rage described in ancient texts as the cherubim and seraphim guarding the gates of heaven. That rage is not evil but simply the barrier between trauma-based identity and our original being. Forgiveness weakens these structures layer by layer.

A caller, Ellen, shares fear about releasing long-suppressed rage that feels volcanic. Ryce affirms that this fear is common and reflects a deep layer of the power-person dynamic. He explains that the energy will not destroy her but must be faced gradually, with support if possible. He describes how the cancellation of goals collapses perceptual constructs and brings buried traumatic content into awareness to be held in Love. He outlines the Aramaic and ACIM definitions of forgiveness—canceling goals, creating an open space, and allowing Love to dissolve the underlying energy. Ryce encourages Ellen to continue her inner-child work, join community support, and recognize the process as long but entirely doable. As one strengthens vitality, deeper layers become accessible. He closes by reminding listeners that humans live, move, and have their being in Love and that each step of forgiveness restores access to that truth.

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Tim then reads Pam Grout’s companion chapter, which illustrates how committing to new vision causes blessings to surface—phones ringing with opportunities, spontaneous invitations, joyful encounters. She describes that these aren’t new events but newly noticed ones because vision has shifted. Tim highlights that the Course promises such “perfect days” whenever we stop binding our lives to the past. He then shares a crowdsourced NPR poem titled This Is Our Dream, a long collective vision of healing, justice, peace, and community. Tim reads it in full, pointing out that its images connect beautifully with Lesson 28’s invitation to open the mind and see the world with fresh eyes rather than through suffering or separation.

When callers join, Susan reflects on the lesson and shares a breakthrough: that if she truly sees something differently, it dissolves her old definitions and becomes itself. This allows her to feel connected to everything, realizing that separation is an illusion. Tim affirms this as the essence of “true perception,” a faculty Michael Ryce often contrasts with the ego’s counterfeit perception constructed from past prejudices and sensory distortion. Susan asks about Pam Grout’s use of the word “posse,” and Tim chats with her about language shifts and how new meaning sometimes feels foreign until we adjust. She then updates Tim on her arm pain, sharing that after worksheets she has greater mobility but still battles thoughts of incurability. Tim responds with examples of belief-shifting—from a student solving an “unsolvable” math problem to a hypnotist unintentionally curing an “incurable” disease—to show that healing is limited more by belief than by physiology. He reminds her that negative thoughts about limitation are lies from the past, not present-moment truth, and encourages her to use a mind-shifter affirming her infinite capacity for health.

Susan then discusses Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed, especially the chapters on friendship, boundaries, expectations, and honest living. Tim helps her locate passages, explores the deeper themes of relational honesty, and reassures her that the book’s romantic idealism evolves in later chapters. They speak about Glennon Doyle’s courage in living truth, mirroring the same deep honesty the Course requires. Ellen joins to comment on one detail from Lesson 28: the word “subject.” She notes how ACIM refers to objects as “subjects,” highlighting the idea that everything we see is not separate from us but part of the shared field of mind. Tim affirms this interpretation and relates it to how perception is constructed. Susan then shares about her son’s emotional burnout and medical leave, and Tim invites her to see the situation through the lens of ACIM: that nothing is inherently difficult, but old thought patterns have momentum. If she notices the thoughts without feeding them, she can support him without collapsing into fear.

Tim closes the hour with gratitude for the callers, a reminder that perception is self-created, and his signature teaching: we come from Love, we are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is false.

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January 28, 2021 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie welcoming listeners and Michael Ryce continuing the deep discussion of first-century Aramaic forgiveness and the profound understanding of the human energy system demonstrated by Yeshua. Ryce uses the metaphor of Jonathan Livingston Seagull to highlight the difference between living for power, approval, or “fish heads on the beach,” and stepping into true human life—life rooted in awakened being. He quotes ancient texts questioning what it profits a person to gain the whole world yet lose the experience of their own being. Ryce explains that trauma, grief, fear, and what Hippocrates called “madness and terrors” are generated in the mind and that forgiveness is the tool that removes the mind-content causing suffering. He reflects on how most people remain trapped in unconscious patterns because unresolved energies—sometimes spanning generations—have “gone silent” and now shape perception, decisions, and behavior without awareness.

Ryce describes how ancient Aramaic directly encoded the functioning of the unconscious. The biblical instruction to “take care of the heart” meant to tend the unconscious, because whatever has gone silent within us influences everything we perceive. The Aramaic suffix -ootta identified any unconscious influence affecting perception, behavior, or choice. Ryce explains that these hidden influences are the “old generations” described in the desert-wandering metaphor: not literal people but the old energetic causes that must “die off” before a person can enter a new life. The whole point of forgiveness is to access what has gone silent and remove it so life is no longer driven by ancient data. He clarifies that until unconscious content is brought to awareness, people remain locked in repeating loops of “Why is this happening to me again?” because unconscious data recreates the same situations repeatedly.

Ryce discusses the film It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood as a perfect illustration of this process. The protagonist’s resistance to facing his own frozen trauma mirrors how people avoid looking at what hurts, yet true healing comes only when the silent material is allowed into awareness. Ryce stresses that the forgiveness Yeshua taught was never about pardoning others but about dismantling the internal structures that distort perception. This inner work influences every domain—relationships, health, finances, creativity—because dissolving unconscious hostility and fear restores one’s ability to function as a conscious creator.

A caller, Ellen, asks whether the unconscious could also be described as the inner child. Ryce agrees, explaining that the child’s voice often goes silent because the pain was too overwhelming to process at the time. Ellen describes noticing her inner child calling for attention and feeling a sudden relief after talking to someone who mirrored her emotional movement. Ryce affirms that when love is present, trauma begins dissolving on its own and encourages her to rewatch It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood to see the process more clearly. He emphasizes that such relational exchanges are powerful ways we help one another access and release what has gone silent.

Another caller, Susan, describes chronic arm pain and her effort to resolve it through worksheets, breath, and the Avacen device. Ryce suggests that much of the tension may be referred from other parts of her body and encourages her to explore what the whole structure is holding rather than focusing only on the arm. This leads him into discussing his own current healing process involving back pain triggered by an old, unconscious agreement he had made as a child—an internal “permission” to be hurt by his father. He explains how this awareness rose almost visually from deep within his tissue, reflecting a new level of intuitive opening. Though the emotional content had mostly been processed in earlier work, the energetic residue was now ready to clear through his physiology, showing how healing unfolds in layers.

The conversation ends with Susan asking about the meaning of “perfect love.” Ryce explains from Aramaic that perfect love is the state created when the brain’s filters—Rakhma in the front and Khooba in the back—are active, allowing only love-based brain cells to fire. In that condition, the mind becomes incapable of generating fear-based perception. He tells her that the glimpses she experiences while creating music reflect this state of true being, and the task now is to bring carbon-based memory into alignment with that truth. The show closes with encouragement to keep doing the inner work, the reminder that awakening requires conscious engagement, and Ryce’s signature blessing for listeners to create the best year of their eternal lives.

YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/UiHjBEeNKeQ

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Tim reads Pam Grout’s companion chapter, “Question Authority,” which highlights how unreliable the ego-mind is as a narrator. Pam describes replacing the word “God” with “Love” and explains that when fear arises, it is always the “chatty” ego voice constructing its own distorted version of reality. Practicing the lesson trains the mind to notice that anything frightening is coming from an inner storyteller—not from truth. Tim continues into the weekend lessons, including “God is in everything I see because God is in my mind,” emphasizing that real vision comes from the mind and is not limited by physical sight. He uses classic psychology optical illusions as an analogy: once true vision emerges, the old perception becomes nearly impossible to recall, just as a viewer can no longer unsee the hidden image once it has been recognized.

Tim reads Lesson 31, “I am not the victim of the world I see,” and explains that the world perceived outside is the reflection of the world within. The practice invites a declaration of independence: refusing to be bound by the mind’s interpretations and recognizing that inner thoughts generate outer experience. Pam Grout describes the “divine buzz”—a state of joy independent of circumstances—and contrasts it with the ego’s constant storytelling. She quotes that a miracle begins when one cancels the need to be right and releases the old thought system that keeps fear and limitation alive.

Tim transitions into live discussion, inviting callers to explore the ACIM lessons and the worksheet process. Joan calls with concerns about medical care and insurance coverage for integrative physicians. Tim discusses the importance of advocating for oneself in the medical system and shares examples of functional medicine practitioners who look at root causes, not just symptoms. He explains how systemic approaches can reveal problems such as nutrient deficiencies or inflammation that mimic psychiatric conditions. He references interviews with integrative psychiatrists who moved beyond medication-only treatment after witnessing the harm caused by misdiagnosis and drug side effects.

The final caller, Susan, asks whether Lesson 31 can be rephrased more positively. Tim suggests staying with the original wording because it has structural precision, though he offers mind shifter alternatives such as “The sole purpose of the universe is to nurture and support me.” Susan then shares personal challenges with her son’s emotional struggle and his recent leave from work. Tim gently reminds her that his willingness to heal will govern the process and that the worksheet can help him see his situation from a more truthful perspective. He encourages her to stay grounded, trust the tool, and let the process reveal what needs to be seen rather than trying to direct it. The hour ends with gratitude for the callers and Tim’s closing affirmation that we come from Love, we are made of Love, and everything unlike Love is false.

YouTube 1st hour https://youtu.be/v9uVps5bNRs

January 29, 2021 2^nd hour opens with Jeanie noting that the show is entering its eleventh year and announcing that the apology tool has been added to the website. Dr. Michael Ryce reflects on the growth of the work, emphasizing that developing “brain cells for truth” is essential to moving out of the hypnotic state of perceptual mind. He explains that perception only reflects whatever is firing in brain cells, just as a stage subject under hypnosis believes they are on a ship. Until the content of the mind shifts, perception will always mirror the distortions held inside. Ryce describes how hostility and fear obliterate truth, and how forgiveness weakens the energetic patterns generating those distortions, allowing space for truth to enter and form corrected perception. When carbon-based memory collapses, the mind becomes available for “enlightened perception,” where meaning arises directly from actuality rather than past conditioning.

Ryce continues reading from Why Again, exploring the metaphor of the two-dimensional creature who experiences a basketball as a sequence of flat planes. Because she lacks the dimension to perceive a whole object, her “truth” is only a series of events separated by time. Explaining a basketball to her is impossible because her vocabulary reflects her limits, just as human language often fails when describing spiritual experience. He asks whether we are willing to give up everything the world has taught us and open to a direct experience of Love. He compares this to attempting to explain cosmic consciousness to someone who has never tasted it; only experience builds the brain cells needed to form a new language. Cultural training steeped in hostility, fear, judgment, and separation makes it difficult for people to recognize themselves as beings of Love. Forgiveness removes those patterns so the actuality of Love can be experienced.

A caller, Joan, struggles with understanding the idea of a two-dimensional world. Ryce and Jeanie explain using examples from children’s early development, noting that babies initially cannot perceive depth and literally do not “see” edges. As the conversation continues, Ryce describes how humans, who are four-dimensional beings limited to three-dimensional perception, also misinterpret reality and create the illusion of time and separation. Until we release the structures of carbon-based memory, we remain unable to “play basketball,” meaning unable to live in conscious connectedness.

Ryce shares a personal story about visiting a group home for handicapped adults in Atlanta decades earlier. Initially filled with resistance, he eventually experienced a profound opening as the presence of Love expressed through the residents dissolved his fear. That moment became one of his early experiences of cosmic consciousness, showing how the dimension missing from human perception is the direct experience of Love itself. When it opens, everything changes, just as the two-dimensional creature would be transformed by perceiving a full basketball.

Joan connects this to her Twilight Brigade training, suggesting that such work opens people to another dimension. Ryce agrees and encourages her to explore hosting or adapting the training. Another caller, Scott, shares how eight forgiveness opportunities showed up during a single day at his gas station job. He describes consciously welcoming each challenge as an opportunity, though Ryce points out subtle denial in his joking comment that Yeshua “dumped it on him.” Ryce clarifies that denial is anytime someone imagines an external trigger is the cause of an internal experience. Scott describes hours of worksheet writing and the recognition that perfectionism, inherited from his power person, drives much of his reactivity. Ryce offers a mind shifter about being embraced even when goals are not fulfilled. Scott describes how A Course in Miracles lessons, especially those involving letting go of attack thoughts, dovetail with Ryce’s work and recently produced a profound inner shift for him—an immediate release into peace. He discusses the value of linking ACIM’s language of goals and invulnerability to the Aramaic forgiveness process. Ryce affirms that integrating multiple “forms of the Course”—psychological, physiological, spiritual—accelerates healing. The show closes with Ryce affirming that stripping away denial reveals what must be healed and inviting listeners into the best year of their eternal lives.

YouTube 2nd hour https://youtu.be/1C-vM2OPo_Y

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January 31, 2011 we began MindShifter’s Radio.  Today is day 1 of our 11th year. Then, March 4, 2019 we began the 2 hour show, Dr Tim hosting the first hour and michael the second hour.