1. Simply exemplified by field players that represent members of a team; together, the members make up the playing team's activity. Naturally, each player's individual activity affects the team's activity. If a player projects less than his capacity, it causes imbalance to the team as a whole. Further, as a player leaves the team for any reason, such as to move to another team, or retire, his contribution influences the activity of the team. As a member, he affects the team whether present for moments; for a long-lived career; for 75 home runs in a season; or for his strike out the only time he came to the plate. The presence of his unique activity, however minute, sways the collective expression of the team.

Similarly, each of us represents the members of the collective mind. Individually, we contribute our level of awareness, which affects world experiences. By resisting our individual capacity, it causes imbalance and thus, it forces disruption not only in our personal world, but also in the world, as a whole.  

2. Consider the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center . The question is asked , "Why in this day and age does such experience occur?" There is plausible answer in the Infallible Way.

As long as resisting state of minds project, the pressure builds. The experiences, rooted in conflict, respond proportionately to the intensity of projections. The incidents that play out on the world stage respond to collective mind. Experiences appear as wars, massacres, or uprisings. They represent the conglomeration of physical release of internal conflicts projected by resisting minds.

From a state of mind of Truth, we recognize that the actions carried out on September 11, 2001 respond to resisting state of minds. As brutal as the experiences appeared on the world stage, they are illusions.

Then the comments -- "Illusions? How do you infer that those experiences were unreal? I saw the world towers pulverize before my eyes. A vile act, it crippled world trade not to mention that it brought the city that never sleeps to its knees. It invoked fear and dread. Schools of reporters camped on site recording the actual experiences, and then played them repeatedly to remind us of the catastrophe. To top it off, innocent people lost life, and bodies never recovered. How do you reduce all of this to the standing of a mere illusion? Are you crazy?"

The activity represents illusions, not because incidents were mirages, nor was seeming horrific activity absent from the eyes of the world. The pain and fear were felt by all those affected. However, because resisting minds direct the actions, the experiences are subject to change; they maintain a beginning and an end as are the characteristic of illusions. The nature of incidents shifts with shifts of activity of collective mind.

The next question naturally follows: "How can I be unshaken when thousands lost life? Or for that matter, how is it possible to be unmoved by the activity that corresponded to forceful acts of aggression?"

Unaffected or unmoved does not imply insensitivity, coldness, callousness, or uncaring. To the contrary, unmoved signifies a higher perspective of compassion for those affected by the experience, including those that lost life. Those affected are unconditionally loved to realize "needs". The higher perspective of compassion implies that the experience represents Infallible Support for those affected to repair the breaks that cause such occurrences. The repair supports an overcoming of the need for similar experiences.

The state of mind that projects compassion naturally stimulates peace. You contribute to mass overcoming of conflict, which supports world peace. Yes, individually, you influence world conditions. Shifts of experiences (needs) result that appear on the world stage. Experiences, such as those that occurred on September 11, 2001 cease in proportion to lessened resistance. Accordingly, needs for terror, wars and retaliation (including the role players) decline. 

3. Isaac had the innate sense of more in life. He vigilantly searched to find answers to the age-old questions regarding his true potential. He tried everything that peaked his interest to realize freedom. With imperfect understanding, he continued to look externally for his fulfillment (from the outside in). But, all he continued to find took root in nothingness.

He searched for what seemed might be a dark secret. He developed businesses at which he gained material success. He acquired toys that seemed to enliven his interest. He exerted a great deal of time and energy playing. And, he became a master racer; it gave him the thrill of artificial rush, as the act of the race bore representation of the rapture that he sought.

All the experiences, regardless of the fun they seem for the moment, were manifestations of his resistance to Truth. They represented Infallible Support to identify his break in mind, rooted in seeking fulfillment from the outside in. Because of imperfect understanding, seeking from the outside in became his diversions to realizing life, from the inside out. 

4. To illustrate the impact of separating ourselves from the activity of God, consider the case of a Lorna, who spent her life caring for others. She attended religious services regularly; she recited the rosary several times a day. By her outward actions, she appeared selfless, as well as a pious pillar for the sick and the poor.

She had faith in what she learned to be God. But, her experiences reflected a stream of struggle that included illness, unrest, and lack of financial resources. She prayed zealously to the "external being" for wholeness and financial support.

From the state of mind that projected lack, she unknowingly formed lack. Hence, experiences clothed in lack appeared on her life stage. She failed to realize that to experience abundance, she must project from the state of mind of abundance.

Although the woman's faith in God seemed unwavering, the God she entrusted was too distant in mind. She limited her notion of God, as a "He" located in a far away place, to be feared and yet, revered. In addition, by imperfect understanding, she felt unworthy to consider herself part of that activity.

As such, by resisting her Truth, she caused extrication from the attributes of the activity of God, which naturally include wholeness and abundance. Although her resistance caused the experiences that appeared as conflict and unrest, her true potential remains available and accessible. 

5. Consider the case of Tora, who was passionate about sharing her light with a world lurking in the darkness of resistance. When she walked toward the door to commence her journey, the woman picked up a penny from the counter intending it for a loaf of bread to provide the day's nourishment. With the fleeting thought to plan the fulfillment of her future needs, she resisted her Truth. Picking up the penny resulted due to state of mind that accepted lack. Notwithstanding her true potential for opulent substance, she unwittingly looked upon the penny as her sustenance.

That seemingly minute resistance to Truth limited her true potential. Because of her commitment to Truth, the experience surrounding the penny for a loaf of bread (including her reaction) supported her to identify and repair the break. With the repair, she overcame the notion of lack, including the need for corresponding experiences.

Then, she ventured forth. Instead of the penny for a loaf of bread, she took a renewed state of mind of all-sufficiency. She realized her true potential for abundance. From the state of mind of Truth, she expressed, with absolute knowing, the source of unlimited substance.

 6. Sara developed attachment to Matt. Because of the intensity caused by their mutual resistance, she was convinced that he was the basis for her passion and crucial for her life fulfillment. As such, she projected him, as the center of her individual universe.

Seeking fulfillment from a relationship with another, experiences (needs) formed on her stage of life that pivoted around Matt. Amidst the array of experiences that responded to Sara's state of mind, Matt became distant and inattentive.

Intensely affected, by what she perceived as rejection, she reacted in anger and anxiety. The experiences spurred her to rage. She contemplated killing herself to end the intensity of the resisting activity. Her experiences involving Matt's inattentiveness, as well as other women that appeared on her stage of life, responded to Sara's resisting state of mind.

Sara's experiences were not caused by Matt. Although he played the role to complete her experiences (needs), his actions were not the real source of her unrest or rage. The experiences responded to their source, i.e. her resistant state of mind.

Because Matt also needed individual experiences that responded to his breaks in mind, Matt and Sara served each other, as mutual role players. In the Infallible Way , each fed off the other's breaks, meeting at their respective points of resistance. Just as her needs represented the experiences (needs) to which Matt played a role, Sara's role became part of the experiences that fulfilled Matt's needs. The experiences (needs) supported each of them to identify their respective breaks.

Then, when their interaction ran its course, the mutual role play ceased. They were each infallibly supported to the next phase of their personal processes.

Sara's examination of her reactions caused her recognition that her breaks centered on seeking life fulfillment from a relationship with another. Plus, since her childhood, she expressed the unreal notion that "she was not good enough". She pinpointed the cause of the break to her perception of her parents' actions. She interpreted being left with an elder grandmother while parents sought employment in another state, as abandoned and rejected.

Without nurturing to understand Truth, she was convinced that their actions signified 'unimportant daughter'. In the mind of the uninformed child, she queried "why else would they leave me?" From the young age, unimportant and unworthy took root. By her resisting state of mind, she perceived rejection because of her unimportance and her unworthiness. With nurturing to Truth, she would realize support to move on to realize her unique expression.

7. In the case of quantifying self-worth (despite non-quantifiable nature of true potential), consider the situation involving Marian that projected her worth in terms of quantity, as $30,000 a year. She caps her self-worth. The projected belief (source) shapes substance, as she realizes a job with an earning base of $30,000 for the year. The quantity represents the limitations stemming from her beliefs of self-worth and perceived need.

The belief that projects her self-worth to earn $30,000 has renewal potential. With a knowing of expanded capacity, which generates renewed belief, the insertion of the new film causes a different result. The renewed capacity instantly projects, replacing the old projection. Renewed ideas, thoughts, and experiences form corresponding to the new projection.

To extend the example, Marian renews her state of mind to realize expanded ideas, thoughts, and experiences. Consistent with the renewal, she redefines her self-worth at $300,000. But for a zero, the source (activity of mind) of the respective amounts is identical. No greater substance exists in $300,000 or $3,000,000, for that matter, than exists in $30,000. The quantities take shape in response to the source, the state of mind. The manifestation represents tangible evidence of projected ideas and thoughts.

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