 our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter and I'm going to be the host today. And today we're also joined by our friends at the online retreat this weekend, Vision of the New World. So yeah, we're going to have a wonderful day together. And if you're new, I can just tell you about the flow today. So we're going to start with David and the movie. And then afterwards we'll take a 10-minute break. And that's followed by our breakout rooms where you can share any experiences you had with the movie and what came up for you. Then we'll have a 45-minute break. And then we'll have a closing session with me at the end. So I'm going to pass it over to you now, David. Okay, thank you Peter. Hi everyone. Great to see you. We've got a beautiful session today. We have a beautiful movie. I think this will be very impactful for everyone involved. We, as Peter said, we have a global audience. So we have our Saturday movie workshop audience from around the world joining our online retreat audience. We have our mystery school and participants. We have our center, our monastery up in Utah. All of us are together here in the Zoom room for healing today. And the theme for this weekend has been really opening to Vision, the vision for a new world. And as I was sharing yesterday, this vision is a vision that comes from within us. We're not looking for a vision that involves the five senses, a vision that involves the body, but actually coming into spiritual vision. When A Course in Miracles was first dictated, before Jesus started using the word Holy Spirit consistently in A Course in Miracles, he referred to the spiritual eye. Isn't that fascinating? The spiritual eye, not plural, spiritual eye, singular. And some of you might remember that from the Bible 2000 years ago where Jesus had let thine eye be single. He was talking about spiritual vision. He wasn't talking about perception. He was saying there's a way to see with the spiritual eye, with the Holy Spirit. And it's such a glorious, joyful, happy way to look that he would call it true seeing. He would say trying to see what the body's eyes is not true seeing. He talks about this in the workbook. He says, the body's eyes do not see. And Jesus says, the body's ears do not hear. The five senses and the body are part of the deception. That's why it's a world of separation. The five senses and the body are part of a false identity. It's not the Christ identity. It's actually a very tiny personality identity. It's like trying to wear a tiny little mask and cover over the light that you were created by God, which is the Christ, which is perfect love and light forever living in the mind of God, forever joyful, eternally grateful. That's reality. The world is not reality. The world is false perception, Jesus tells us in the workbook. So I started talking a lot yesterday about spiritual vision. And for those of you that are part of the Saturday movies, last week, there was one point when I was doing the movie last Saturday, and I said, let's cut the chase. Let's make it real simple here. Are you into simplicity? And everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Jesus is going to tell us the what and the how. The what? What's up? What's happening? What's up, brother? What's up is salvation. That everything is about salvation. And some of you might say, oh, I don't know if I really like that word. Well, all it means is to be saved is not to profess your personal belief in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. But actually, it means that your mind is freed of illusions. If you believe something that's not true, if you believe a lie, it needs help. Because who we are is the truth, right? So if we believe a lie, then we need help. And that help is we need to be healed. We need to accept our true identity as Christ. We need to be happy and joyful and free and loving because that's natural. And so salvation is not a bad word. I know some of you still have some memories of Christianity and, oh, salvation and everything. And, you know, not necessarily a great word when you're growing up, you know, like, oh, Lord, if I hear another word about salvation, I'm going to throw up. Actually, salvation is good. It means your mind is saved from dreaming. Your mind is saved from sleep. Your mind is saved from guilt and fear. Isn't that a good thing? Saved from guilt and fear? I mean, maybe I wouldn't have said it when I was 15 or 22, but now I am really fired up about salvation because it means saved from error. I'm happy to be saved from error. Oh, yes, I will agree wholeheartedly to be saved from error because I want the truth. I want to extend the love that I am. And I just want to be happy and joyful and free. I think you all feel that way as well. So that was the what. And then the how, Jesus, because we did bring up that topic yesterday, how? And that's a good question, how? The question was raised, how do I do it? I still believe the world is real. I'm still struggling on a daily basis. I still have a lot of challenges. How am I accepting that I'm saved from illusions? And Jesus said it's always through peace. Peace is the means. Peace of mind. Every time you have peace of mind, you are right smack in the how. You are living the how. You don't have to worry about what am I going to read? What seminar am I going to go to? What am I going to do today? Jesus is like, relax. Peace, my brother. Peace. Peace, be still. Peace, be still. That's how your mind is saved. It's through peace of mind, not world peace. Peace of mind. Peace of mind. You know, be still and know that I am God. What a beautiful line from the Bible. Be still and know that I am God. It's so soft, so like a big pillow welcoming us. Peace, peace, be still. So that is the what, salvation and the how is peace. And then the question was raised, you know, well, can you give me something a little more concrete? I think I would love to be peaceful all the time, but I don't seem to experience that. So can you give me a little bit more? And I certainly can. I told you I would. Jesus gave us a movie today and he's giving us a session. He's giving us the nuts and bolts of the how, of the peace of mind. And it's this. It's called listen and follow. Everyone who comes to planet earth, everyone who comes to time and space believes that they can have an autonomous personal will apart from God's. What does that mean? It means that it can have an experience other than perfect supreme happiness, other than total bliss, other than eternal life and eternal peace to believe that you can have a will apart from God, which is for perfect happiness. So that's, that's good to know, right? I used to be afraid when I was a teenager about God's will. I'm like, oh, that sounds, oh, what is that? And Jesus says, yeah, it's perfect happiness. Calm down. Calm down. Don't get all bent out of shape about God's will. It's not about which country should or which invade which country and who's right and who's wrong. No, no, no, no. In fact, free will doesn't have anything to do with choice even. Free will is just a perfect eternal state of mind, one with God. That's what free will is, perfect happiness. And in this world, the closest approximation to free will will say is choice. But Jesus says, you got to be really careful with, with this thing of choice, because he says in the chorus in the text, you may believe you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. He says, but you are responsible for what you think. Okay, now we're cooking. Now we're starting to get, get into the good stuff. I am responsible for what I think. Okay, then that means I have to really admit I need mind training. I need a lot of mind training if I'm responsible for what I think. And he tells us what you do comes from what you think, but you really have to, that's why he said, blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. He's not asking us to correct our behavior. He's asking us to correct our thinking, which produces our behavior. You see, so we have a split mind where there's ego and Holy Spirit, and both of them want to hold the cross, the crossbar, and both of them want to move the puppet. And when we let the ego move the puppet, we feel terrible. And let the Holy Spirit move the puppet, we're so happy. We're happy for no reason, except we're just lined up with, with God. That's, that's the reason. So this is really simple, but not, it's nothing we were raised with. We were not programmed to understand this stuff. We were programmed by the ego to survive, to struggle, to strive, to work hard, to have difficult relationships, and then grow old and get sick and die. Sorry, that programming is, is the ego's programming. I think maybe you agree with me. It's not very satisfying. Is that all there is? Oh my gosh, if that is, who would want to participate in such a morbid programming? You know, not me. I'm not into that. So the way it works is I ask everybody to, to vote on some themes. And I'll first read you the themes that you voted on. Because when I pray to Jesus to give me a movie or to give me something that will be a teaching device to help everyone, including myself, I'm praying for something that's practical and relevant that fits with the themes that you all voted on. So every week you get to just vote on the themes that you are, are facing in your life. What's, what's most important to you? And then we pool all that together and then we pray for Jesus to give us a movie to help, help get an experience in our heart of, of the peace. So this week, the number one theme, according to what you voted on, by far the number one theme receiving 74 votes was present trust versus hypothetical problem thinking. Present trust must mean that we are willing to trust the guidance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That's what we're trusting. We're not putting our trust in the images of the world. We're putting our trust in the guidance and instructions and directions of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We're going to put all our eggs into that basket instead of hypothetical problem thinking. That's like when you try to solve the problem of linear time with the things of linear time. You try to employ things of the world to solve the problem of perception of, of faulty perception. And Jesus is saying that's magical, but nothing you've ever done in history has ever solved the problem of separation, the belief in separation. You've been, you've been successful in your own eyes at many things, skills, abilities, achievements, accomplishments. They don't mean anything. I'm, I'm very accomplished at illusions. I have achieved a great advancement in deception. You know, you see how silly that sounds, you know. I have a master's degree in disillusionment. I have a doctorate in sadness. Oh my God. No, not, we would think that's a joke. A doctorate in sadness. Too bad. Why, you wasted your time. You took a lot of classes and a lot of exams to get your doctor of sadness. Sorry that Jesus is laughing. You know, he's like, come on now. Let's, let's get back into salvation here. Let's, let's get back into joy and happiness. So present trust versus hypothetical problem thinking. And for some of you, you know, you, you may have read in lesson 135, lesson 135 in the, in the workbook is the longest workbook lesson in the whole book. And in that lesson, he says that, that self-initiated plans are not usually seen as a defense. Most of us were trained to be planners. You know, if you're a mother and a homemaker, you, you plan meals and you, you plan ways to keep the house clean. If you're, if you're a provider, you have to plan, usually part of your work, your career, you have to plan career planning, right? That's a, that's a whole, whole field career planning. Jesus is saying a healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan. He's telling us that we can rely on our intuitions on his guidance instead of planning. So we can be spontaneously happy and simply follow the guidance and directions moment by moment. That's all he's saying. I have to say, I just gave away the whole secret to salvation right there. You know, just listen and follow intuitively. Now, while I'm on this first one, and I'm starting to talk about guidance, because that's what this whole movie and this whole day will be about. Guidance is kind of an interesting thing. There are actually course and miracles teachers that teach that, that there really is no such thing as guidance. What, what book are you reading? What book are you reading? The, the course itself comes right out and it basically is saying, it's saying that guidance is, is the pathway. Principle number four, you know, there's 50 principles at the beginning of a course in miracles. Principle number four says all miracles mean life and God is the giver of life. Is the giver of life. His voice will direct you very specifically. You will be told all that you need to know. That sounds pretty straightforward. I think we better question if people tell you there is no such thing as guidance. Well, wait a minute. That's just principle number four at the beginning of the book. You will be told all you need to know. His voice will direct you very specifically. Okay. That's pretty direct. Jesus also says you have a role in the Atonement which I will dictate to you. Ask me which miracles you should perform. This spares you needless effort because you will be acting under direct communication. Wow. That's pretty important. That's not something to dismiss as impossible. That's, that's like the core of the course. He says you have a, he's going to dictate the role and how can you dictate something if, if the one that is to receive the dictation doesn't believe in the dictation? How are you, how are you going to receive the dictation of what to say and what to do and where to go and how to fulfill your, your function if you don't even believe that you can receive it? That's a, that's a tough one. If that's, if all your whole part depends on receiving and listening and following and you don't even believe it's possible to listen and follow, then that's a problem. Jesus says a guide does not control but he does direct, leaving it up to you to follow. Lead us not into temptation means recognize your errors and choose to abandon them by following my guidance. Is this clear? Is this coming clear? How important this is? This is all from chapter one. This is only chapter one, the beginning of chapter one out of 31 chapters. You think that he might put a few important things there in chapter one to lay things out, you know. He says my control can take over everything that does not matter while my guidance can direct everything that does if you so choose. People have asked me over the years, what does he mean by that? My control can take over everything that does not matter. He means all of time and space. He can control all of time and space for us. He can, he can orchestrate time and space. It's not like time and space are concrete. Jesus can orchestrate time and space for the, for the miracle worker. He basically says if you'll join with me and be a miracle worker for me, I will orchestrate time and space for you. Sorry, my mom and dad never told me that and I never learned that in Sunday school. Imagine in Sunday school at a Christian church, the minister saying, oh, by the way, if you're a miracle worker for Jesus, you'll be able to orchestrate time and space. Sorry, it didn't happen. That was emitted from my Sunday school class, but it's not emitted from a course in miracles. This is, this is the advanced teachings now where now we're, we're going to lay aside our childhood toys. We're going to get in alignment with the master Jesus and the Holy Spirit and we're going home. We're not messing around now with the ego belief. And again, it's what I said earlier, you may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think. You cannot separate yourself from truth by quote, giving autonomy to behavior. This meaning behavior is controlled by me automatically as soon as you place what you think under my guidance. Whenever you are afraid, it's a sure sign that you have allowed your mind to miscreate and to have not allowed me to guide it. So basically what he's telling us is you mostly need help at the, at the level of, of thinking because that's the mind is the level of causation. Why would you tinker around with the projected effects, the images of the world when you're, it's your mind that's projecting it. It's your mind that needs correction, not your body. In fact, Jesus goes on to tell us that only the mind can make mistakes. Isn't that good to know that your body has never made a mistake? I don't know about you, but I kind of like this. I like the thought that my body has never made a mistake and that my body has never done anything right or wrong, but my mind has thought, thoughts that are lined up with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. And it's also attempted to think with the ego, which we call attack thoughts. And we know what comes from attack thoughts, fear, guilt, pain, suffering. Yeah, we know we've had enough experience with that. And we can't keep blaming the world. We can't blame our parents, blame the environment, blame the culture, blame the time and era that we were born. You know, we've tried all that, you know. Oh, my life would have been so much better if my mom and dad had treated me, treated me right. Like Pat Benatar's song, treat me right. You know, we've all played that violin song. You know, I would have been happy if they had treated me right. Wait a minute, Jesus is saying it's your thoughts alone that bring you pain. Not the bodies. Don't blame your body. Don't blame your parents' bodies. Don't blame your neighbor's bodies. Don't blame your partner's bodies. It's your thoughts alone that we must work with because everything that's been difficult in your life is coming from ego thoughts, not from the Holy Spirit's thoughts. Why would we follow the Holy Spirit if we could, if we would feel pain when we follow the Holy Spirit? No way. So anyway, number one is present trust versus hypothetical problem thinking. The second one is importance of joining before making decisions. And when we talk about joining, we're talking again about going into prayer and that inner chamber. And prayer is the medium of miracles. So before you do anything, it's important to really be in touch with the prayer of your heart. Jesus and the Holy Spirit aren't demanding sacrifice. If you are feeling you have to do something out of obligation, out of duty, that's sacrifice. Where's the fun of that? Who likes doing anything when they have to do it? And Jesus is saying, yeah, right, now come pray with me and be inspired in your heart and then let all your actions and all your thoughts come from inspiration. Why not let the Holy Spirit inspire you? Would you rather live a joyful, inspired life or would you rather walk around with your head down, grumbling, oh, I got another day. I got to do things I don't want to do. And why do we do things that we don't want to do except we believe we have to, right? We believe there's no choice. People tell me if I had a choice, I wouldn't go to work today. And I say, well, what does that mean to you? Well, if I don't go to work, then I don't get my paycheck and then I don't pay my bills and then I can't eat and then I grow sick and die. Now, that's how the world thinks. But if Jesus is saying, if you follow inspiration, if you stay intuitive, all that stuff will get handled. You're not going to have to worry about what you eat or whether there's a roof over your head. It all gets handled through the guidance. And I think we're all willing to trust that we can be guided. Even if people tell us that we can't be guided, we still can be guided. And even if you haven't had a lot of good experiences with guidance, 35 years ago, I picked up a Course in Miracles. And when I picked up the book, I had a tsunami of love going over me and I felt like my whole life was changed and I felt like my whole life direction was changed. But in 1986, when I first picked up the Course, could I hear Jesus' voice in my mind? No, I could not. I could feel nudges and prompts in my heart. I felt feelings. That's what drew me to the Course, I think, was I was so ready for something significant in my life that would bring me a true, lasting sense of happiness. So I was ready. I was willing. Could I hear Jesus' voice? No. I wasn't David Shepman. I was David Hoffman. And happily, Helen and Bill had done the work. They did tune in to Jesus' voice and they did edit and publish the Course in Miracles. So when I picked up the published Course in Miracles, my opening to inner guidance took a big step because I could just pray. And when I needed guidance, I could pray and open the book up like an oracle and I would get guidance that way. Did I hear the voice? No. I prayed and I opened the book and I got a lot of helpful instruction that way. And then I was very willing to be led. And even though I couldn't hear the voice at the beginning, it's like it didn't hold me back. I could still realize that Jesus and the Holy Spirit are not limited when we can't hear the voice for God. That doesn't limit them at all. They'll use everything. Bumper stickers, little signs and symbols everywhere. Somebody, your mother telling you something. You can see it everywhere. You can receive the symbols, the instruction from the Holy Spirit and the guidance through the symbols of the world. Carl Jung, the famous psychologist, he called them like archetypes. When we dream, we dream in symbols and there's different archetypes and different symbols that communicate to us. So even if we don't hear the voice for God directly, we certainly can receive some very helpful messages from those feelings, those inner prompts and those symbols. So that's what we're going to see today as we go into this movie that the main characters are going to receive a lot of direct symbols, an enormous amount of direct symbols. And they will be hearing a voice which seems like an external female voice, but actually it is another symbol that is just being used by the Holy Spirit to make contact. Okay, third theme, releasing fantasies from the self-concept. What are fantasies? Well, we really, as human beings, we kind of think we know what fantasies mean. We have a category called reality and we have a category called fantasies. Jesus is telling us, you can't make that distinction. Why? Because he says everything you perceive is part of a fantasy world. You think you live in fantasy land and you're trying to tell me which ones are real and which ones are fantasies. You say, well, wait a minute. Walt Disney, he clearly made up cartoons. Mickey Mouse is not real. Minnie Mouse is not real. But my husband, my wife, now that's reality. I have to face that reality every day. And Jesus says, no, all your time is spent in dreaming and you're in fantasy land when you're dreaming. And then he defines fantasy and of course the miracles. He said, fantasy is the attempt to make false associations and obtain pleasure from them. Okay, that's a pretty good definition. Fantasy is the attempt to make false association and obtain pleasure from them. So that's right. When you eat a piece of that apple pie, all the mode and you go, mmm, good. That's a fantasy of apple pie. The apple pie is not what makes you happy. The taste of the apple pie is not what makes you happy. It's a projection of the ego and always it's fantasy. The ego always uses fantasies because it has to try to come up with a substitute for eternal love. And that's what the ego uses is fantasy. So our theme is releasing fantasies from the self concept. The next theme is being willing to fail or to make mistakes. Well, I already said that the body doesn't make mistakes. But whenever you think with the ego, which means you believe it's real and you think attempt to think with it, that's a mistake. It's a mistake in the mind. It's not a mistake in form. It's a mistake in the mind. Because in reality, there is no external form. We think there's an external, but it's not really an external world. It's really, we're just watching our mind all the time. You find something in this world you don't like, a politician or something. That's the grievance in the mind. That's what's disturbing. It's not the actions of the person. It's the grievance in the mind, which is the ego. So every time you feel a grievance or you feel upset, it's because of the ego belief system and the ego's thoughts. It has nothing to do with the behavior. Even when you say, oh, so and so made a big mistake. No, they didn't. They didn't make a mistake at all. Take to perceive them as separate from yourself. Yeah, that's a mistake. But don't put it on their behavior. No, no, no, that's not the mistake. Bodies don't make mistakes. The mind can misperceive, but don't put that on the body. Don't hang that one on the body and blame the body. So we have to stop blaming behaviors. The ego tries to use the body as a witness of guilt. Nobody's perfect. Everybody makes mistakes. No, Jesus is even undoing the belief that everybody makes mistakes. No, he's saying it's in the mind. It's in the mind. Come here, join with me. You'll see. You'll see when it's corrected, you'll laugh at what you once believed. You'll just absolutely laugh that you could be so foolish to be tricked into thinking these things were real problems. And finally, the last one is facing the fear of rejection. Of course, that has been a big one in terms of deep, dark feelings of abandonment, rejection. Somebody turned away from us. Somebody didn't fulfill the promise that they made to us. Somebody told us no. We were so used to hearing the yes word, and then suddenly one day, the same person says, no, thank you. No. I thought you were always going to say yes to me. No. Even the Bible says, let your yes be yes. Let your no be no. Let the Holy Spirit and Jesus direct your yeses and your nos. Yes is no better than no if given to the Holy Spirit. So there's times when we are guided to say no, and there's times when we're guided to say yes, but it should always be under the direction of the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Now, since today's movie is about listen and follow, I think this is kind of one of the most extreme movies I've ever seen for listen and follow. This is so direct. It starts off kind of calm, and then before you know it, you may feel like you're on an LSD trip because it's intense. But Jesus has got this movie for us because he wants us to really get this. He wants to use this as a teaching device. And sometimes we need extreme examples like the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus. That was an extreme teaching device to say the least. A body that's crucified and then rises from the dead, that is not your typical example. I never saw that in preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, or college. I never saw a crucifixion and resurrection used as a teaching example by the professor. So Jesus knows that sometimes we need a pretty extreme example to really get the point, to really have the experience of what he's trying to show us. So what he's working with us today on is the importance, as I read to you, of listen and follow. Why do human beings have so much trouble with listen and follow? Well, the basis of believing that you're a human being is believing you have autonomy apart from God. Believing you're an autonomous person with a mind of your own, private mind of your own, private thoughts and secrets of your own, and a personality all your own. And the fun part that you would say of having a personality is then you've got a whole lifetime of personal choices. And you can have your personal preferences and your personal opinions and your personal perspective. And Jesus knows that none of that is real. None of it, not a tiny bit of it is real. And that's why Course in Miracle students have tremendous resistance to guidance. It's because the fear it will undo the world as they know it. Now Jesus addresses this directly in the manual for teachers where they ask Jesus, how is healing accomplished? And basically Jesus tells us that healing is accomplished the instant you no longer see a need for sickness. Wow, that is deep. The instant that I no longer see a need for sickness, healing is accomplished. So what does that mean, Jesus? And he says, this happens when you realize it's the mind is the decision maker and not the body. That's it. All I have to do to be healed and happy is one distinction. That's it, just one, not 10, not 25, not 50, just one. The mind is the decision maker and not the body. What he's telling us is that people don't make decisions. People are puppets. The mind is so powerful it's using the body as a puppet. And then it projects decision making on to the body. And that's where it goes sick. As I read to you yesterday when it was actually Francis was reading a workbook lesson 158. She said, you're reading lesson 158, you are mind, holy mind, and purely mind. And basically Jesus is saying who we are is an idea in the mind of God. That's our reality. We're forever the idea of Christ in the mind of God. That's the fact. Somebody says, give me the facts, David. I want it straight. Just the facts, please. Yeah, Christ is an idea in the mind of God. And that's a fact. That is an absolute eternal fact. There's no facts in perception, but that's a fact. That Christ is an idea in the mind of God. And Christ has never left the mind of God. That's why Jesus said, I and the Father are one. Yeah, he was stating a fact. He wasn't trying to stir things up in Galilee. He was just stating a simple fact, an eternal fact. Now, the important thing is, when you believe that you're a human being, that means you believe in autonomy. And we do use words like personal autonomy. When people get into a relationship, oftentimes they'll say, I started a new relationship. And what they mean is, I now am part of a couple. I was a single person before, now I'm a coupled person. And that coupled person is seen as a relationship. And what Jesus is saying is, when you believe you're a single person, that's false autonomy. When you believe you're coupled with another person, that's false autonomy, except it feels like you're less autonomous when you're in the couple illusion than when you're in the single illusion. What do I mean? I'll try to explain this. One time there was a researcher and her name was Cher Height, and she surveyed a bunch of single people and she surveyed a bunch of married people. And she said to them, what's the greatest thing about being single? And what's the greatest thing about being married? And what's the worst thing about being single? What's the worst thing about being married? The single people said the greatest thing about being single was freedom. And the worst thing about being single was loneliness. So then she's she surveyed them and she said, what about marriage and the ones who were married said the greatest thing about being married is is intimacy and connection. And the worst thing about being married is loss of freedom. That's fascinating. That's fascinating. You mean our marital status determines whether we're free? Do you mean our marital status determines whether we're connected or happy? And we feel feelings of intimacy? You see how this is the ego at work that it's showing that there's such a dependence on the form for our concepts and definitions of happiness and freedom and connection. So obviously we need help. We need mind training. We need Jesus to come in and save the day. We need a little truth is what we need. We don't need surveys, research surveys. We need some truth. We need some oneness. We need some true oneness to come in into our awareness. So as I was praying on what movies Jesus was saying, well, the movie, we're going to show everybody we're going to all watch today. It's pretty intense. It's quite intense. So he said, I want you to start off with a warm up like I do sometimes. I have like I did a warm up for the movie Don't Look Up. I used George Carlin as a stand-up comedian and did a little George Carlin clip as a warm up for the movie. And today I'm going to do the same. I'm going to give you a warm up clip and it's from The Matrix. We're going to go back to the original Matrix for just a little clip to warm us up to the idea of listen and follow. That's right. We're going back to the old bread and butter, Neo and Morpheus. That's right. Let's get into this big topic with some Neo-Morpheus action. I can guide you. Morpheus says I can guide you but you must do exactly as I say. And Neo is not so sure about that. I think all of us, if somebody came up and appeared to us and said I can guide you on the telephone, they called us up, we answered the phone and they say I can guide you but you must do exactly as I say. That's going to bring up some anxiety. Who are you? Who's calling? Who is this? You see? But we need to ease into this. This is a deep movie today so we're going to have to ease in with some good old basic Matrix to show us. That movie, The Matrix, is all about listen and follow. Neo is going nowhere unless he's willing to listen and follow because it's so radical. He believes he's caught. He believes he's Thomas Anderson and he's a computer hacker working at a job that he doesn't like. And then Morpheus calls him and thus begins the journey of listen, follow. And then we're going to move into the main event. And in this main event we're going to have two characters at our main characters. And just like Helen Shuckman and Bill Thetford who were brought together as strangers in 1958 and then in 1965 had to collaborate to bring us A Course in Miracles. In the movie we're going to watch the main characters are Jerry and Rachel. Jerry and Rachel. Jerry and Rachel don't know each other. They don't know each other at all. They've never met. That's the best way to learn, listen, follow. You see Jesus puts you with somebody that you've never met. So you have no familiarity with them. You don't already think you know them. You're just faced with one opportunity after the next after the next. So Jerry and Rachel are going to come together. Like Helen and Bill came together in 1958. And they don't know it, but they're in for a ride, an adventure, like nothing that they've ever experienced before. Rachel is a single mother. She has a cute little son that she adores. She has an ex partner that she doesn't adore. She feels he's not been responsible. She really doesn't like him. She has an ex partner that she really doesn't enjoy seeing him at all. And she's a single mother though. So she has the stresses and pressures of trying to be a single mother, of being a loving mother as just one person to a child. And Jerry has a brother that he hasn't talked to in three years. Jerry has a father who always wants him to go back to college and he doesn't want to. Jerry has a very strained relationship with his father. And he basically, he moves around, does some world travels kind of experiments and explores. But basically his job, he works in a copy, a print shop. He does, he's a print shop operator. Okay, single mother, print shop operator. And they're going to become brought together in a way that is going to crack them open like nothing that they've ever seen. In the most dramatic way I can imagine. When I first saw this movie, I thought, wow, this is really an intense movie. Who is the executive producer of this movie? Oh, it was Steven Spielberg. Oh, okay. Shindler's List. Oh, yeah. It takes a master, Steven Spielberg, you know, DreamWorks. Oh, yeah. He can come in with as intense you want to give him. He'll give you a movie. And the movie basically is involving a topic of guidance. Now, some of you know, some of you who live in the United States know that a couple of days ago, there was an anniversary on the 6th of January when one year prior, there was a riot that took place at the Capitol of the United States. Protesters stormed the Capitol. The Capitol Police were overwhelmed. Four of the Capitol Police were killed. Four more, four others committed suicide afterwards. It was like an assault, like nothing that had ever been seen, not even during the Civil War with Abraham Lincoln. Did they have an assault on the Capitol? This was a scene that was striking for people all over the world. Like, whoa, what's going on there? Well, basically, the rebellion was stopped and things got back to the democracy. And some might say the stalemate of modern government got back to the stalemate, you know, back to business as usual. But it was stopped. Now, I want for a moment to put this in a larger context. When the mind believed that it could separate from God, in that instance, the Holy Spirit answered the world. So it only took the Holy Spirit less than a second to handle the belief in separation. That shows you how good the Holy Spirit is. Separation from God belief, simultaneously, simultaneously handled that. No problem. No problem at all. Devil, no, sorry, God is. The devil's like, but sorry, no problem. It's all over. It ended the instant it seemed to start because the power of the Holy Spirit is, whoa, I was talking yesterday how hot it is. That's hot. One instant, simultaneously taken care of the belief in separation. But for those that believe in the separation, the separation seems to go on for millions of years. Okay. Inside that loaf of bread I was talking about. Brian Green, you know, is loaf of bread. I said, you're not in it. You're really not in it. You can believe you're in it, but you're not there. You're with God, really. You're always with God. You're at home in heaven dreaming of exile. You're dreaming of a big loaf of bread. But the good news is you're not in it. You just believe you are. So what I'm saying is in that loaf of bread, the playing out of the correction seems to take a long, long, long time. Okay. At one point Jesus is asked about this in the Course. They said, how long will it take to completely be healed? And Jesus answers the question with another question like he always does. He says, how long is an instant? That's his answer to how long is it going to take for me to wake up. Jesus has another question. How long is an instant? Really, he's saying, how much do you want it? He's saying, I wanted it. So I experienced it. Now I'm working with you. So you'll want it too. Because it's there. The correction is already there. We don't have to figure this out. It's already solved. We just have to accept the correction. That's the key. That's why we're watching the movie today because listen and follow is how it's the fastest way to accept the correction. And I can tell you, because I've been at the Course for 35 years and this is the whole point of everything is following guidance. Once you make contact with your internal teacher, the ego is shaking in its boots. Suddenly you're not the slave anymore. Suddenly it's on its heels. Suddenly it is disturbed. Suddenly it is terrified of your freedom of mind because that is remembering the Christ. That's freedom. That's not freedom of the body. That's the ultimate freedom is remembering you're the living Christ. So this movie that we're going to watch after our little Matrix Flip is the movie we're going to watch is Rachel and Jerry. Rachel and Jerry, they're coming together and the context is that the country that they live in, which is the United States of America, some of you know United States has a military. Some of you know United States has a CIA, a Central Intelligence Agency. I would not use the word intelligence. I sometimes, somebody said, David, you'd have to learn more about the military industrial complex. And I'm like that, I don't want to know. I don't want to know what that is. Please don't tell me. So they say, well, that's how we enact our military intelligence. I said, I don't think those words go together. That's an oxymoron, military intelligence. Divine intelligence, that's something Christian Murty might talk about, you know, true intelligence, I say is loving. True intelligence is wisdom. True intelligence is higher intelligence. It's of God. And that's what the Holy Spirit and Jesus are. They're higher intelligence. Now in this movie, opening scene, you'll just, I'm just going to give you a little bit of a context for this movie, because without it, you might just be shaking your head. You need a little context here in this amazing Spielberg movie. I want to give you a little bit of context. This movie will start off with a scene basically of a, in the Middle East. And in the Middle East, they, the, we'll say, the CIA and the military, the Pentagon has been tracking what they believe to be a terrorist who's been hiding in the Middle East. Sounds a little bit like a, some have been loud and kind of thing. You know, there's a terrorist that's been tracking and they, he's always in hiding. So when they think that he's come out of hiding, they're going to try to kill him. And for whatever reasons, you know, to protect Americans and, you know, the, you know, the Spiel, even though the Bible, what does anybody know the 10 commandments? What's one of the 10 commandments? Thou shalt not kill. You know, Jesus was all about peace. He wasn't here to give a message of war and killing. He was all about peace, peace of mind. So anyway, they, they discover that there's, they believe they have the terrorists that they want to kill. They're using drones and surveillance instruments and all the technologies available for this kind of thing. And they believe that they may have the terrorist and they, they want to kill him. And yet the more they don't, there's a 35% probability, maybe this is the one, maybe 51%, they're not sure. You know, my advice is even if you were going to try to kill somebody, and you had a 35% probability that this was the enemy, I would first go back to they'll shout, not kill, but second of all, come on now. That's, that's, don't be reckless. Don't be just going off to kill somebody. You're not even sure who they are. That's, that's fear. That's that's fear. That's paranoia there. That's, that's not, that's not very loving, but actually they get to a point where they're using their drones and focusing in, trying to do voice match and face match. And maybe they maybe come to like 51%. That's still, to me, is not a very big number. First of all, killing, I'm not for killing at all. And second of all, don't go after somebody, you 51% chance that they're a terrorist, you know, that the terrorist, of course, is within. It's the ego. That's the one we're going after. We're going to expose the unconscious mind and the ego. But what happens is they use their intel basically to realize that, that they're not sure. And then they get the president of the United States on the line, who's up in Air Force One, who's flying up in his plane. And they basically say we, yeah, the probability that this is the terrorist, you know, the one we've been wanting to kill, the probability is like 51%. And we're being advised from our intel, our information to abort the mission, you know, don't do it. But the president is like, do it. And apparently the Pentagon and the government at this point in history, they also have a supercomputer with a female voice. And she knows everything. She is privy to everything. She's got monitors. She's, she's like a super, super computer that now she's aware of everything. She's aware of everything and everyone. And apparently when the president decides to kill this guy and they find out that this so-called potential target, it's in the middle of a funeral. It's in the middle of a funeral. There's a group of people burying someone and they're sad and it's in the middle of a group funeral. Now that, come on now. That is not the time to be pulling the trigger on a potential in the middle of a funeral where everyone in the funeral will be killed too. And anyway, this super computer with this lovely female voice, she's watching everything. She can, she's like, wow, there's going to be riots, there's going to be backlash. This is going to be an international incident, kind of like what's happening with Novak Djokovic and the tennis player in, down in Australia right now. Internet, it's going to be a major international incident if they blow all these people up in the middle of a funeral. So anyway, the whole movie, that's the setup for the movie that Jerry and Rachel are going to be brought together to receive instructions from this female voice. And all I can say is, is that the Holy Spirit is this presence of loveliness that has already solved everything. So the Holy Spirit is the guidance that we want to follow because no matter what we perceive through the five senses, the Holy Spirit has already solved everything. But the only way that we will be able to remember that solution, that correction, is to listen and follow the Holy Spirit. The ego does not want to listen and follow the Holy Spirit. Why? Because the ego is the belief in separation and the Holy Spirit is the remembrance of union. So you might say that this computer that's in this movie, a supercomputer, that she was built on the principles of the United States Constitution. That's what she's based on, okay? I just want to read to you a little bit too. Anybody know the United States Constitution? We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, and then it goes on about all kinds of things, including insure domestic tranquility. Oh my gosh, it's in the Constitution of the United States that the people want tranquility. Isn't that beautiful? I like that, a Constitution of a country that talks about tranquility. Tranquility is peace. That's pretty good. Anyway, she's based on the United States Constitution. She's based on that. That's what her motive is. Her motive is to fulfill the Constitution of the United States. Admittedly, that's not all the way back to remembering God, but it's a step. It's a step toward equality. It's a step toward tranquility, toward acceptance. It's a step towards life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a step in that direction. It's just a stepping stone, but that's what she's based on. Now, she is going to try to reach Rachel and Jerry. Rachel and Jerry are just two people. He's dealing with his own issues, his own life. Rachel's dealing with her own issues in life. They're just two ordinary people. This supercomputer, her name is Ariah. Ariah is going to begin to instruct them in ways that she feels would be helpful. They don't know about Ariah. They don't know about what's going on. All they know is they're going to receive a lot of directions and instructions, and they're going to have to decide whether to follow her or not. Even when the signs and symbols are all around you, Jesus says in the Course, no amount of evidence will convince you of what you do not want. You see, that's why we have to have faith. We have to really want peace of mind, because the ego is going to try to guide us too. The ego's purpose is death. It's a death wish. That's right. The ego is a death wish. When we listen to the ego, it's coming from our wish for death. When we listen to the Holy Spirit and Jesus, it's our wish for eternal life. It's our wish to wake up, but it comes down to us. It's all on our own heart. What do I want is really the key thing. If I really want the peace of God, then I will experience it. There's nothing that can stop me, but if I don't want the peace of God, then that leads to nightmares and that leads to illusions and challenges. We all know we're very well aware of this. We don't need anybody to convince us of this. By this point, of course, we're onto it now. We know our mind is a central figure. It's the power, and we can give our power to the ego and illusions and death or our power to the Holy Spirit. Sit back, enjoy it. First, you can get your classic Matrix clip just to get all fired up with Neo and Morpheus, and then get ready for Aria, the Miss Supercomputer, and our two unknowing participants who somewhere in their mind must have agreed to this because she's going to take them on a journey of listen and follow, and you'll be able to relate to them too because all of us know that we have resistances inside. There's a part of us that wants to be in charge of the universe. There's a song by Tears for Fears. Some of you may have noted, everybody wants to rule the world. There's a part of us that wants to rule the world. That's not our purpose in life. Our purpose is to forgive and be happy. We're not really meant to rule the world. We're here to forgive and be happy, to have dominion over the world by our peace and our meekness, but not try to control the world. There's something too that Aria, the Supercomputer, will be basically saying. Basically, she's going to start off with Rachel, and she's going to start off with Jerry, and she's basically going to tell them, you have been activated. Isn't that lovely? I think that's what Morpheus was telling Neo. You have been activated. You have been activated. Your compliance is necessary. That fits with everything I read to you from A Course in Miracles. You have been activated, and your compliance is necessary. Why? If you don't give your consent, if you don't give your yes, if you don't say, I am willing to follow you, Holy Spirit, it ain't going to happen. It's just going to seem like a struggle. Oh, I got to go pay the bills, and oh my God, what have I gotten? Oh, cancer, or heart disease, or what is it now? Oh, my dog put the crap on my living room carpet. That's what happens. You're not going to feel good if you don't aren't in compliance with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It's just the way it is. I'm not saying that they're punishing you. I'm just saying, if you choose the ego, you draw forth darkness. You draw forth fear and guilt and all those emotions. She's basically going to tell Rachel and Jerry, basically, you've been activated. Your compliance is necessary. We know who you are. I like that one. We know who you are. I hope so. We are everywhere. Oh, that's a good one too. We are everywhere. It's pointing. It's giving us symbols of the Holy Spirit there, and basically, it's going to come down to the key question is how willing am I to follow, and how willing am I to start to be honest about the consequences of following and the consequences of not following? That really takes a lot of self honesty. We know that this is a course of miracle student. How honest will I be with myself, with my own mind? How honest am I willing to be? That's really the core issue. That's going to take you into the kingdom of heaven. If you're honest with yourself and your mind and your feelings and your emotions, you're there. Jesus has got you and you're in the tractor beam and you are on the highway to heaven, and you are the heaven. You are more than the highway. You are the heaven if you are willing to really do that. So enjoy the movie. Enjoy the matrix clip to lead it off, and then enjoy this movie. I will pop in at different times to join you with some commentary. Okay. Beautiful.