Workbook · Part I
Lesson 27
Above all else I want to see.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “Above all else I want to see.” In ordinary English: Put seeing first — really seeing — above being right, busy, or safe in the old way.
Most of us treat seeing as the eyes reporting facts. This lesson says the mind is already writing a story on top of the report — mine, dangerous, ugly, important, “that’s just who they are.” Two people can look at the same face and have two different days. If you can take the story off for a minute, you are not stuck with yesterday’s version of them, or of you.
You do not have to believe it first. You use the words on one real judgment — of someone, of yourself, of a situation — and then you take the next ordinary step.
This is not saying
This is not telling you to go blind, or that the room is fake, or that nothing matters. The table is there. The person is there. What you added — the verdict — is what the lesson is after.
Why this can change a day
If the first look is already a judgment, then every conversation, every meeting, every glance in a glass is already a trial. Taking the story off is how a different hour becomes possible without anyone else changing first.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
The victim story is running — this is happening to me, I have no say, anyone would tell this.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Above all else I want to see.” Same facts. Stop the telling for one hour. What would a non-victim do next — the honest no, the rest, the next useful step. Do that.
Toward yourself
You look at something you called ugly, annoying, or empty of God — and skip it.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Above all else I want to see.” Say the idea to the thing you did not want to include. If you cannot feel it, say it anyway. The exception is the lesson.
At work, at home, or in a situation
The day looks hostile before anything has happened. The painting is already up.
What to do
Say the words as written: “Above all else I want to see.” Your thoughts are painting the world, then showing it to you. Notice the loop. Stop treating the painting as God. Then look away and do the next kind thing.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
First I want to be right, liked, done, special. Seeing can wait.
Jesus’s way
Above all else I want to see. Rank it. If it is not first, the day will train the other want.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #225
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 27
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- After Tina reads Lesson 27, the channeling is living “Above all else I want to see.” He will not let it stay a slogan. Use these words. Do not swap them for a thought you like better.
- Use “Above all else I want to see” on one actual person or situation today. A theory about “people” is a stall. Then do the next decent thing.
How to sit today
Part I · Undoing
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- At least every half hour; every 15 or 20 minutes if you can. Set the interval on waking and try to keep it
- How long
- One short sentence, even in conversation. No long sittings are asked
- If you forget
- You will probably miss several, perhaps many. Do not be disturbed. Resume the schedule from the next interval. One fully sincere repetition is already a great saving of effort.
How
- Repeat “Above all else I want to see” to yourself without disturbing what is going on.
- The real question is how often you will remember, which is the same as how much you want it to be true.
Short / hourly
At least every half hour; every 15–20 minutes if you can. No long sitting today
- Today’s idea is: “Above all else I want to see.”
- Set the interval on waking and try to keep it. One short sentence, even in conversation. Do not disturb what is going on.
- Say, slowly: “Above all else I want to see.”
- If you miss several, do not be disturbed. Resume at the next interval. One fully sincere repetition is already a great saving of effort.
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
“Above all else I want to see.” Seeing here is a mind’s frequency, not better eyeballs. He is retraining perception so love can use it. Practice on what is actually in front of you, including the face you do not like. That is the whole method.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
Love/light is the stuff of the octave. Seeing with God is not metaphor — it is a shift toward that spectrum. Meditation (session 10) is the daily tool.
Open streamRueckert
A wanderer on Earth does not need a different lesson. She needs this one, done with her hands. Carla's whole archive is the proof: contact follows a life, it does not replace it.
Open stream