 There's been some sleeping consciousness, some pushed down consciousness that needs to come up. Even when you have a cut, you want to get it out to the air and the sunshine and let it mend. And we have to do the same with our consciousness. We have to let that up and out. This truth is deep down inside of us and it's coming up. I mean, I just went to the volcanoes. They were showing the inside of the Earth, like the molten lava, hot, the core. This molten lava just kept pushing up and pushing up and pushing up. And of course it would hit the water and it would cool and become rock, but it would just build layers and layers over hundreds of thousands of years and then up above the surface. That's kind of like the light in our mind. I was like, look at that, it's even light. It's like this light, light yellow color, like a light and it's just pushing up through the crust. And I thought, pushing up through the crust of consciousness. And I thought, that's the story of my life. There's some kind of light energy in my mind that just wants to erupt. And it just, no, I believe I'm a human being. Take this. No, I'm a man. I'm masculine. No, you're not. I'm feminine. No, you're not that either. It's just blasting up. I am, of course, a miracle seeker. No, you're not. Anything, any concept that we can hold onto, any self-concept, any object that we can identify with, this molten lava, this light of mind is pushing up and it is just erupting. Once you start to realize that that's what's going on, you can just give in to the light. You no longer would try to protect it, hold it in, keep it down, keep it under. It's taken me, this little character's been in 29 countries and I've been going around giving these chatakwas for over 25 years, over a quarter of a century of letting the body be used by the light, for the light. And you know what that will do? That'll get you happy. If you do this for a quarter of a century, it can take an instant. You don't have to go the route that I did. I always tell people, listen, it's not a matter of time. We're here to save time. We're here to collapse time. We're here to bring the Alpha and the Omega together in one beautiful, holy instant and we're going for it. And there's nothing that can stop us. What happens when 2,000 degree lava comes into contact with a mountain or a hill? It just goes through, through the mountain. I'm telling you, this stuff is hot. And this light in our mind is hot too. It can just sizzle anything. You've got a major grievance, a block, whatever it is. I've got HIV or I've got cancer or this and this. Oh yeah, the light's like, oh yeah. You're going to stop me with this cancer? The C word? No. So that's what we're getting into. And also, we're just inviting everybody to join in with us. That's why we're having the chatakwa. And we're going to keep doing chatakwas and having fun for as long as it takes until the world disappears. Let the light just stream through. Well for me, what I started to see was that all my definitions of life were wrong too. Because I think of life and I think of alive and vibrant. But I started to realize I had a lot of associations with life being biological, with life being evolutionary, with life being rowing. All of those were false associations too. I remember one time I was listening to this course teacher teach the course on tapes. Some of you who know the course have become optic. And somebody from the audience said, what does the course teach about life on other planets? And he said, well the course says that there's no life on this planet. I just got the biggest smile on my face. And you know, once you start to go with that a bit, I laughed like everyone and then I started to say, okay, you're going to have to show me that. That's a big stretch. But ultimately, you got to say take me there. You got to say the spirit. I want to know life that's eternal. I want to know life that is never born, never dies. In fact, a couple days ago, it was David's biological birthday. Actually the first email I got was simply these words. You were never born and you will never die. And I said, yeah, now that's a greeting that I can relate to. It's if we're going to celebrate the day that a body seems to come out of a womb. I think we can raise the bar a little bit when we start to forgive. Because when we start to forgive and release all of the heaviness of our concepts, including our biological concepts around life, and life is of the body, life begins at birth, life ends at death, once we forgive all that stuff, then we're really getting into the happiness of eternal life. In A Course in Miracles, Jesus says the world will end in laughter. Laughter, now that's the way to go out. And that's what our life is. Not that we're laughing at anything. It's just a laughter that wells up in your soul. It's the spirit's laughter. So for me, I have to admit it was a big journey. Even when I went into this vegetarian study years ago and they were going to take my blood to test something out or whatever. But it was good practice. When someone's sticking needles and poking around for veins, when I was growing up, they had to bring smelling sauce. Every time they would even try to take blood from the body of David. And so what did I do when I got into the spiritual journey? I went right at my fear, right at it. There's some kind of association in my mind about blood, that I can't handle blood. So what better way than to enroll in a vegetarian study where they pluck your arm and the further the study goes, they whack it again and they go more and more. And if you're queasy about blood, that'll help you get over your blood associations. What's wrong with blood? Is it good? Is it bad? But really, is blood so bad? No, it's just our thoughts and our associations and our concepts around blood. And I've had experiences where I've seen people die. I've had a raising the dead experience like Jesus had. Even that's no big deal. Why? Because there's no life on this planet. Really. I wasn't even blown away by raising the dead experience because I knew there was something more. I knew that was just a symbol. Jesus coming out of the sepulcher. So he did that 2,000 years ago. It was kind of an out-of-pattern experience. We don't have that every day, but people coming out of graves got our attention. But there's no need to build a religion of sacrifice and penance on one simple resurrection scene and teach people that they're sinners. We need to teach innocence. We need to teach original innocence. We don't need to teach sin and punishment. And you see, you start to realize that that was just like a little skit. His message was much bigger than that little skit, too. They make a big drama. They re-enact it every year. You got to go through Good Friday, and the clouds come, and you go, oh, good Friday. Always wonder why it got so dark and cloudy on Good Friday. What's it true? Did it really happen? It's so dark out here today. Easter. Yay! Why can't every day be Easter? Why can't we celebrate the resurrection 365 days a year? Why just have one day in April? Let's do it all year. That's what this is about. So it's really about eternal life. And it's just a different view of life. And it took me a lot of seeming just, okay, I'll give it over. All right, I'm wrong about that, too. Okay, okay, okay. So what you are saying is that everything is illusion, nothing exists. Everything is the correction of the mind. And spirit is real. And when you're connected to your source, then you really... There's nothing to get up about, oh, see? That's it. When you're in alignment, then no problems.