 free movie workshop that is a part of our illumination event. These movie workshops are really a treasure and they are in three parts. First we will see a movie with David and after that we will go into smaller groups. And then in the end we will have a closing session. If you see this on YouTube or Facebook you will experience that we stop the streaming before the movie starts because of copyright issues. So if you want to see the movie there is a link in the description so you can be part of the Zoom group and see the movie together with us. So without further ado let's go to David. It's all yours David. Thank you Soren. Welcome everyone. I'm so happy that we can have all of you with us today for this movie workshop. These movie workshops are designed to expand your perception. They are designed to allow for you to get in touch with emotions that have been repressed and denied from awareness. They offer an interactive component we call breakout rooms later on where if you have emotions that come up during or after the movie we encourage you to express those emotions and share freely because many people including myself when I was growing up I didn't really feel safe in expressing emotions. I felt like my family biological family system was not really set up to have all the darkness in my mind and so it was much later in my life in my late teens and my 20s where I really allowed myself to cry and face all these really dark emotions and I feel like that is a very big part of healing, spiritual healing and that in cultures that basically avoid emotions or stereotype roles that avoid being in touch with emotions through expressing them and being aware of them that that is a big ego inhibitor for spiritual awakening and nothing is going wrong when you have dark emotions. It's actually Jesus and yourself, your mind in collaboration allowing the emotions up so that you can heal and your mind can come right side up toward the light instead of being upside down and guarded and in denial of the light. So some of you know that the general metaphysics are basically saying that when the separations seem to occur the light was forgotten, total amnesia and the darkness was then pushed out of awareness too and what we experience as the world is actually a dream world, it's a projection of unconscious guilt and hatred of unconscious fear and you're all in for a treat today because I'm going to show a classic movie, I think of all of the movies I've ever seen and I've seen thousands of them, I would call this A Course in Miracles made into a motion picture, I would call this A Course in Miracles Uncut, A Course in Miracles Uncensored and when I first saw this movie when it came out in 1998 I went to a movie theater and it was a spectacular experience for me and yet it was the the mainstream was so unprepared for this movie that I think after like two or three days it left the theater, it was one of the shortest running movies in the mainstream theater I've ever seen because it kind of reflected the famous line from A Few Good Men, You Can't Handle the Truth, this is a movie way ahead of its time for exposing the dynamics underneath this projected world and I was reflecting, I was praying with Jesus and reflecting and I feel so grateful to be able to share this classic movie with you, it's A Course in Miracles classic, not so much a classic of the world like Gone with the Wind but I think if you really fully give yourself over to allowing the spirit to use this movie then you're on your first huge step to saying Gone with the Wind to the ego because the ego doesn't want you to see this stuff, this is for a mind awakening, this is a gem but for the general population this is a nightmare, I'm not such a fan of horror movies and I actually wouldn't consider this from my perception of horror movie, this is like thank God, this is what the mystics and saints have been facing for generations, this is what St. Teresa Vavala was facing, this is what the poets like Rumi was facing, St. Francis all of them, Jesus had to face it, Buddha had to face it, Ramana Maharshi had to face it and now you're going to get a little taste of what the mystics and saints actually had to face in their journey to remember God and so this is kind of a unique event that we have hundreds of people around the world watching a movie that will lay bare the exposure of the ego, the world was made in hatred, it's not love that makes this world go round, it's actually the projection of anger and hatred that produced this projected world, this is the ego's world that you perceive a world of differences, of separation, of pain, of suffering, of wars, of pandemics, of murder, of vengeance and if you look at history from through the ego's lens you can see that the world reflects the ego belief system. I was watching a clip the other day from a very another classic movie that people sometimes say when they watch this movie they get the heebie jeebies but I don't, I like it, but it's called The Devil's Advocate with Al Pacino and towards the end of The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino is ranting and raving and raging, he plays the devil, he plays a good devil, Al Pacino, but he's saying at the end the 20th century was mine, no one can doubt that and well that's kind of an interesting claim with world wars, pandemics, all kinds of corruptions, slaughter, everything, the world, it seems to be the most difficult, challenging things of the world and the devil is claiming the 20th century was his but I find it all quite humorous because once you get clean and clear in your mind of unconscious darkness then you can actually have a gentle laughter with the Holy Spirit and Jesus at this world but it actually takes mind training, you actually have to practice the course, you can't just hold it on your bookshelf as another theology among all the great ones, the Advaita Vedanta and all the great non-dualistic teachings and approaches what Alex Huxley called the perennial wisdom, you know, you can't just put the course off as another theory and expect to be able to have gentle laughter with this world, you actually have to go through what the mystics and saints went through, you have to go through the darkness to the light, you have to give your heart over to Jesus and the Holy Spirit and let them carry you through the darkness to the happy dream, to the real world that he talks about in the course, the healed perception. And if we want to put it in even a bigger context, most of you are familiar with different fields of study in the world. I would say basically psychology is the study of the mind and it has the theories and the study of the mind so psychologists are those that theorize about the mind and we've had a lot of amazing contributions from the field of psychology all the way from Freud through through Young, I mean even way back even the father of psychology was William James, but we'll say from William James through the amazing transpersonal psychologists like Frances Vaughn who passed away was a course student and her husband is still with us, Roger Walsh, it's a field basically of the theory and study of the mind. Jesus actually is the master psychologist. Jesus does not give us postulate theories. This is the way and the truth and the life speaking in a course of miracles. Jesus does not theorize about psychology. Jesus offers the most amazing use of psychology, the actual direct use of psychology to get in touch with the power of your mind which has been denied. We also have a field called philosophy which is I'll say it's the study and theory of trying to come to meaning and understanding through beliefs and and concepts and again the field of psychology has many many great philosophers you know going back to the days of Socrates and Plato the ancient Greeks and many famous European philosophers. We have famous famous tradition of philosophers and again Jesus is the master philosopher. He is not postulating or theorizing. When you read a course in miracles you are getting a direct foundation for the escape from fear and guilt. So this gift of a course in miracles maybe that's why you may seem to have resistance as as we talked about on the first night on Friday because the ego is terrified of the light and it's terrified of this course so any resistance you have to this course you know is coming from huge resistance. There are even people that had devoted their entire life to metaphysics and new age and so forth that sometimes they they're so frightened they flip and they throw the course in the garbage can where they throw it and they flush it down the toilet they they heave it in the river they throw it in the ocean they say enough of that that is that is they sometimes will call it the work of the devil. I'll tell you this course in miracles is is a masterpiece of spiritual awakening and it's it's it's the devil is afraid of this this piece of literature but it's more afraid of the presence behind the light behind the course the field of education you know learning Jesus even named it a course in miracles which is kind of a joke too because it's about unlearning everything that you've ever learned it's not really about accumulating knowledge it's about undoing and unlearning everything everything that you've ever learned and when we talk about religion again i would say religion is like the the study and the theory of the beliefs about God and that's why many people have so many issues with religion it's not the religion isn't the problem it's just another group of symbols that can be used by the Holy Spirit and Jesus to take you home to God. I've met in my travels of 44 countries around the world over these last 25 years I've met amazing bright sparkling-eyed Buddhist Hindus Christians Zoroastrians I mean I have met I have met so many different religious adherents I've been in synagogues in ashrams I've I've been in churches and of course the basements living rooms backyards where people are there I have had beautiful friendships with atheists with agnostics we're all the same we're all the same one we're all the same spirit you know why not be friendly with everybody who cares what they believe in I've got to the point where I don't even care I I sit down having a nice chat with somebody and they say well let me tell you what I believe about God and they say I believe in pink pyramids great perfect we're the same one I don't care if you believe in pink pyramids I I'm going to be as friendly with you whether you believe in God or you don't you know God is not a matter of belief and that's where religion you know kind of gets bogged down into who's right and who's wrong about beliefs and the ego invented all the beliefs so don't try to get into comparing and contrasting beliefs if if you find a belief like forgiveness true forgiveness that takes you back to an experience of your union with God that is amazing that is spectacular that is so wonderful that's the whole point of all of this so I feel we have a movie today it was made in Australia it was put out in 1998 and some of you remember the end of the millennium the Truman show the matrix the 13th floor I mean and dark city is right in there if you like the matrix this movie is side by side with the matrix except it's it even shows you more of the underbelly of the ego than the matrix did that's how good this movie is in spiritual awakening it shows you the complete underbelly of the ego belief system some of you may say I just am interested in love I thought I signed up and registered for a free weekend retreat about the love of God and you're talking about underbellies now yeah I'm talking about underbellies I'm saying that you don't approach approach truth directly you have to approach it through the undoing of what never was you have to expose the ego for exactly what it is in order to experience the truth of who you are you can't just affirm yourself into heaven the ego actually laughs at affirmations it's it's it's just snickers at at affirmations some of you know what I'm talking about you've been doing positive affirmations I could see you there I know I did it too we tried to affirm ourselves back into the kingdom of heaven and the ego is laughing it's going is that the best you can throw throw me a few more positive affirmations of love and light and and I'll see if you can get past me and the reason is because you you can't escape from something that you believe subconsciously to be true and the subconscious mind was made by the ego as it's as a splitting off of the mind a split mind and to keep you unaware what is the best phrases we can give to the unconscious mind this is not something that you talk about often with your parents mom dad how's your unconscious mind doing what are you going to be home for Christmas I don't want to hear about whatever that unconscious mind is you know we don't talk about that in our family we don't talk about the unconscious mind actually it's a very important topic it would be a good topic for anyone to talk about the unconscious mind Jesus calls the unwatched mind it's kind of like it's the dream that you dream in secret it's what you've pushed out of awareness and said don't even want to go there don't even want to see that Jesus in a course of miracles says the unconscious mind the the dream you dream in secret is is draped with sin and of course sin is just error but it's draped with error it's like pushed out of awareness error it's just a mistake but if you're not if you don't even want to be aware of the mistake then how can you be free of the mistake if you push it out of awareness and last night was beautiful we had the the holy relationship panel that was beautiful and that was one of the main topics in the holy relationship panel was the private thoughts the thoughts that you're afraid to share with your partner the thoughts that that you're afraid to even admit that you have it's it's darkness coming into awareness oftentimes is met with that's not spiritual I'm a I'm a good person I'm a good girl I'm a good boy and yeah I just what is that kind of Loch Ness monster where's my little baton my gotta beat it down I'm gonna beat that but beat that monster down get my bataka sticks out and pound that thing down before it comes up again now Jesus is saying actually it needs to come up you need to be able to look calmly upon the ego and see its nothingness and that's what Jesus in the Holy Spirit are for you pray to align with Jesus in the Holy Spirit so that you can look upon the darkest thoughts the darkest beliefs and see their unreality that you can have the gentle laughter of the Holy Spirit when the darkest thoughts appear up in consciousness in awareness and this is going to be the key to allowing the Holy Spirit and Jesus to use relationships your only purpose for relationships is they are mirroring your your unconscious hatred and guilt and fear and the in that sense you need your mirrors don't don't be trying to dismiss your mirrors so quickly with my house is my house or my way or my way and go off if you can't deal with the rules of my house you need to be appreciative of the mirrors of the relationships in your life because they're helping you get in touch with what you believe even if it's out of awareness they will help you get in touch with it so this is a fast track today I this is the first time Jesus has had me show this movie to a large group of people all over the world usually uh I would show it to some friends that would visit me at my little peace house years ago and it would uh it would kind of peel their mind open and it would start to crack their mind open and uh so some of you have heard about psychedelics and ayahuasca and some of the experiences people have had with that we're not using drugs today but I'm going to use a motion picture that can help you open your mind to what you need to see and if at any point in this movie I think it's an amazing movie but if any point of this movie if you have to turn the sound down or you have to step away please be my guest um this movie is is like showing you the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence in a very direct way there's some part of your mind that's actually praying to be shown what is blocking me from God's love the experience and the awareness and the feeling of God's love there's a part in your mind it says let me peer behind the curtain let me take a look behind the curtain and if it's a little too dark in there then just turn the sound off and watch if it's still too dark and you have too much emotions coming up during the movie then uh just take just pause for a bit or or just glance at the movie screen and see when I'm back on I'm your I'm your happy coach taking you down into the unconscious mind today Jesus and I are saying you don't have to be afraid of the ego because you made it by believing in it and you can dispel it by withdrawing your belief from it it's like on my magic carpet ride today I've got a nice carpet here and you can I'll hold your hand and we'll go down into the mind on our magic carpet ride I can show you the world and it's maybe not as going to be as pretty as that song but you will if you hang with me through this carpet ride you will be able to sing with me at the end a whole new world a new fantastic point of view no ego to tell us no no we're going for the light we're going for the light but you have to please keep your arms and your hands inside the carpet ride with me do not try to get out off of the carpet during the travel through the unconscious mind you know you're it's not a nice place to dwell you just want to observe it just go on the ride with me if I had enough time today I probably would do the whole thing but we have so much to do today and there's a beautiful meditation with Kirsten coming tonight and a beautiful music meditation with Zach coming so they only give me so many hours so I'll do the best I can but we're gonna you have a meditation coming tonight and a Zach is an amazing musician music meditation and Kirsten will take you so if you can make it through the day the unconscious mind with me this afternoon and morning then you're going to be all set up for a nice med deep meditation tonight so it's important to realize that the ego cannot hurt you that's the main theme I want to emphasize during this opening to the love of God weekend retreat that's how you move into the celebration of illumination is you have to transcend the darkness in that seems to be in your mind and you soar high high up into the light and and back into union with God it's the ego is nothing to be afraid of only the anticipation of looking will frighten you but when you actually just it's like Jesus is telling us all take my hand and and you can see what I'm going to show you you can see what it is that you have to release I talked about this yesterday when Francis and I were here I was saying very simply what forgiveness is and the way to escape the ego and and the split mind is simply to see the impossibility of attack that's all you have to do is have one experience where you fully see the impossibility of attack and I know you follow this because we talked about this yesterday why would a god of eternal love create attack I mean what would be the purpose of creating attack you see that's all of the ego it's it's false evidence appearing real that's where fear comes from it's a lot of false evidence appearing real but the world of perception the world that you think you see when you watch the television or you look out your window or you look around your room the world that you perceive is an effect of the belief in attack and the ego is the belief in attack God has nothing to do with attack eternal love does not create attack but you must look upon the belief in attack and see its impossibility that's what forgiveness is that's just the Holy Spirit and Jesus have one function for your mind is just to see the false as false and when we go into this movie today we're going to see the ego's false use of memory now I know you you can look back at your life and maybe some of you will tell me I had some really bad memories that I'm still dealing with and I've had some really good memories some very loving memories and I've had some really dark memories they're all false even the good ones are just shadows of the light and the dark ones are dark shadows so what you're dealing with when you're dealing with good memories and bad memories you're dealing with shadows and dark shadows and admittedly Jesus and the Holy Spirit are so good at using the symbols of this world so they'll use the shadows to get you out of shadow land but basically make no mistake that this world of time and space this linear world this linear cosmos is shadow land you're dealing with shadow land God didn't create shadow land the ego projected shadow land to cover up itself to keep it in the web hiding in the mind and keep you unaware of of the ego that's why the world was made was a projection of anger projection of hatred projection of guilt to keep you from knowing who you are as a living Christ a perfect creation of a loving God so we can say that there's a line in the course that really will help you and I guess I'll share with you the line this is the line you might want to even write it down because you'll need this keep this on the carpet with me just one line from the course but please keep this on the carpet with me you might want to write it down because you need something to hold on to and and here's the line this is from Jesus Christ in a course in miracles until you are willing to look upon the full extent of your own self-hatred you will not be willing to let it go I'll say it just one more time so you can keep it huddled to to your heart while we go through this adventure today it's just an adventure until you are willing to look upon the full extent of your own self-hatred you will not be willing to let it go that's why we're watching this movie today that's why we're looking at a pictorial representation of attack thoughts and for many things in this world we're not aware that they are attack thoughts actually the ego is so clever and so ingenious that it has taken aspects of its projected world and it has made guilt attractive so that your mind would still be attracted and addicted to guilt without realizing that it was attracted and addicted to guilt remember the positive memories and the negative memories the happy memories and the dark memories are all shadows they're all projections of guilt in the mind there are some symbols that are very helpful and you've experienced some of those a course in miracles I call this a happy symbol if my mind's going to project something I'm grateful for this book it's just a book but if you if you read it and you practice it you activate the the miracles in your mind and you actually become a miracle worker based on your practice and devotion to the principles of this book isn't it the words aren't anything special they're they're a very good use of words the Holy Spirit and Jesus use these words amazingly it's an amazing masterpiece in that sense but it's also part of the projection so you in the end you do have to let go of the book as well but this is our opportunity to to look calmly upon attack thoughts and to realize that all of them are I'll call them memory implants that some of you may have been watching my movie watchers guide to enlightenment in the movie the island also uses the concept of memory implants here in this movie today we actually see what memory implants are and how they are used in terms of of I'll call them associations to keep the mind afraid that's what the the memory implants are used they're used to keep you feeling guilty to keep you feeling afraid frightened and and yet it's all part of an upside down system of lies in that sense all memories are fake news that's a phrase today everyone's trying to say give me the real news I want the fact just the facts ma'am I can move I can TV show dragnet just the facts ma'am just the facts well God is a fact and Christ is a fact and the memory implants are not factual so that's why we need help where our sleeping mind is surrounded is circumscribed in false memories and false images and that's why it seems to take such a devotion to wake up from this dream is because all of the evidence surrounding the sleeping mind is projected by the ego when you look at this world to use a sports analogy you're on the ego's playing field is it a home game or an away game away you're on the road you've got a hostile crowd and initially you think wow this crowd is not rooting for me to wake up they're trying to kill me nasty away crowd not playing on on the home field in front of the home crowd oh you're playing away now the angels are in your mind Jesus is in your mind all the mystics and saints there's your home team you're like cheering you on go go go you can do it you can wake up but the ego has peppered the world with lots of dictators and tyrants and vicious looking creatures always trying to get you get you get you get your attention don't look there don't look in that darkened glass okay guess it's time for me to get started with the movie my my phone is telling me i need to hurry it up here a little bit it's already 10 39 so so here we go we are going to start the movie i'll take that as a prompt from jesus we're going to start the movie and the movie's name is dark city so if some of you go on google and start checking this out and you go oh hell what am i doing today i'm spending my saturday with david dark city but it's time so we are ready stay on the blue the blue little magic carpet do not do not put your arms outside stay on the carpet with me through this whole movie and remember you know you have to look upon the full extent of your own self-hatred in order to be free of it that's what we're doing this for this is not some bizarre kind of thing that i like to torture people uh on their saturdays when they get off from work you know this is we're going to have some fun and if i could if i had enough time i would show you some john cleese clips uh from the movie man about town you need to have stay with me in the montipython frame of mind today i'm not showing you a horror movie i'm showing you montipython could could could make a good version of this too in fact i'm sure it would be helpful to the human race but stay with me on the carpet okay