David's commentary: Â "Today's workbook lesson is giving us the chance to unpin, to unwind from the belief in being trapped in appearances, when our very identity of love, of the living Christ - the perfect Idea in the Mind of God - has been forgotten, has been completely pushed out of awareness, and now appearances seem to have come to take the place of love and light. Â This condition could be called hallucination, just like a dry and thirsty traveler walking through a desert, feeling scorched and hot and parched and dry, may hallucinate an oasis of shade and water. Â The sleeping Son of God has believed himself to be bereft of his Holy Father, his Holy Creator, and now finds himself lost and wandering in a desert of images, a desert of perception that God did not create, a fantasy world, a fictitious linear stream of images that have nothing to do with reality, nothing to do with eternity, divine love and happiness. Â And so, the first step in healing from this apparent condition of separation is to realize that all upsets, all upsets experienced, are coming because there's a perception and that perception is not there. Â And the ego may ask, 'But why is it there?' Â But remember the ego is the denial of God, the denial of Love, the denial of eternity. Â The ego is a death wish. Â And if you give your mind to a death wish, if you give your ATTENTION to a death wish, your focus, what else could you expect but hallucination? Â Death and hallucination go together. Â Life - eternal life - and happiness, go together. Â In this world we get apples from apple trees, oranges from orange trees, and grapes from grape vines. Â Why would it be possible to get perception - temporary, fleeting images - from an eternal Creator? Â God has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the perceptual world; and God IS Reality. Â And so hallucinations CANNOT exist, CANNOT have reality. Â You don't get images from something that's abstract and eternal. Â You don't get a linear stream of symbols on a timeline from That which has no beginning and no end, That which is infinite. Â Now earlier in the text, we were talking about distorted miracle impulses, misdirected miracle impulses. Â What is a miracle impulse but a call to remember God, to forgive the world and accept the Truth of abstract Reality, to forget the images, to release the image-maker, and accept Reality exactly as it is?