 Okay. Hi, everybody. Welcome. Good to see you all. Thanks so much for joining us. Yeah, welcome to our Tabla Rasa online retreat. And yeah, we've got a wonderful theme this holy instant. So I'm looking forward to a very deep weekend. And I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host this weekend. And yeah, we have some great sessions coming up this evening. We'll have some of the Living Miracles community members and music. Tomorrow we've got a movie workshop. So that's going to be great. And today we're joined by David Hofmeister over in Cincinnati. And we have Francis Sue here. So I'm going to pass it straight over to them now. So grateful. So grateful to be with you and to share this very deep, profound experience that we're all entitled to miracles and we're entitled to this holy instant. So Francis, how are you doing? I see you down there in Mexico. Hi, David. Hi, everyone. Yeah, I'm so excited about this this weekend just any really any opportunity to be able to join our minds with the Holy Spirit and listen to his message. And that's really what the holy instant is for. And that is what our retreats are for. Just for the answer. You know, that's where it lies in this holy instant. The answer lies. And we have become accustomed in this world to linear time and to past, present, future, which, you know, Jesus has told us that's an invention of the ego. So if you're adjusted to linear time, you're adjusted to a lie because God didn't create it. So that's why sometimes people say, I feel like my whole life in this world is somehow something kind of like a lie. And Jesus is saying, Yeah, very good. You're trying to pretend that you're a time space creature, a creature of flesh instead of an eternal spirit. Yeah, that's a that's a pretty significant lie that you've told yourself. But Jesus said, Don't worry, I got it. Holy Spirit's got this, you know, no worries, you will inevitably reach the holy instant. And in that moment, you'll just have a big smile on your face, and a smile for the whole cosmos and the whole human race. So that's what we're really going into today. And Francis and I had a little chat this morning, as usual, we were just having a good laugh at how different this spiritual journey is from what we thought it would be. And as we people oftentimes said, Well, you know, it's going to be a lot of hard work, and it's going to be a lot of intensity and struggle and to the ego, that is definitely its interpretation of the spiritual journey. But I find this holy instant is so playful and light and joyful. That's how I burst into singing. Even when I don't know I'm going to sing, it just comes through me, because there's a lot of happiness. So that's what we really want to convey is the happiness of the present moment. It's not dull. It's not boring. It's not difficult. It's not filled with effort and struggle. It's actually like going down a water slide on a hot summer day and having a big splash in the water, the refreshing sparkling water that's below. So what a what an invitation, Francis. What a what a great topic. We're just we're just going to savor, savor this whole thing. Yeah, I mean, the thing that I know that on this spiritual journey that feels so counter programming, we were talking about this morning, the counter programming, because we were programmed to think a certain way, what success means, what peace, happiness, where it lies. And we spent the whole time pursuing it. Then once we said yes to this spiritual journey, what where we find happiness is not according to the program of the ego. You know, today's workbook lesson lesson 154, I'm among the minister of God is so dear to me. You know, many, many years ago, before I really joined the community to kind of give my whole life to to God, this is the lesson I was reading. And there was this sentence where you would you accept or would you receive God's message? That's just one question in the middle of the text. And when I read that I really pause it for a long time. And I I hear myself say out loud, yes. And then the next sentence is that would make you God's messenger. You are appointed now. And the next paragraph, God's messenger receive his message now. It's like, so from that point, I can, I can say that that is truly the decision that is made. And there is no real form decision. Once we accept that decision. And that's why this journey can be so relaxing and playful and easy, because we make the decision that is truly needing to be made, is made in mind, is made for God, and everything else in terms of what our function is in terms of action are decided are already decided. So even, you know, looking at the holy instant that Jesus talk about it so much in the holy instant chapters is saying you do not need to prepare your mind, accept the recognition that you wanted more than anything else, except that you desire this above all else. That's the only preparation you need to have. That's the only preparation. Everything else is his function is his preparation. He will prepare you. You don't need to be holy to come to the holy instant. That's holy instance function. To make you holy is his function. And, and it was so comforting and to live this way, not only to read it, but to actually live this way, to know that it's not me that needs to achieve awakening. He is the one. And my little desire, my little willingness is going to be paired up with massive, massive strength of the Holy Spirit. What a comfort, because it's like all of us have been programmed to, to strive, to put an effort in. You know, we're raised with words like work. I think probably when we're children, we get, we were having so much fun playing that when the word work is introduced, it's like a shock to our system. Like what work? But along with work comes strive, achieve, accumulate, learn. And just when you've gone through your preschool, kindergarten, and you make it through grade school, then you have to go to junior high. Then you make it through junior high. And then you have to go to high school, at least in the United States, that's the system. And then when you make it through high school, you have to pick out your college or university. And then when you go through your college or university, you can either work or you can continue and get your master's degree, your doctorate degree. And then even if you get your doctorate degree, some people I know get more than one, it's a lot of work. Then they, they start practicing and working in the world. And then they have to go back for continuing education. Oh my God, it never ends. You, you get a PhD and you've got to go for continuing education. And Jesus is saying this and this is programming. There's no learning in heaven. God created you perfect as spirit and spirit doesn't learn. In fact, when we're thinking about the holy instant, the holy instant is not learned. So basically, this is going to be going into a whole different realm than the human being has known because all the human has known is the past repeating day after day. Wake up, get out of bed, brush your teeth, take a shower, get your clothes on, get ready, go do your work or your task of the day. You go grow tired, you come home, you have your meals, you relax a little, and then you go to sleep and you do the same thing again day after day after day after day. And Jesus is just saying, well, actually this is programming. This is the ego set this up. And you may even believe you have free will and choice in this world. But but that's all a projection of the unconscious mind. The body, the personality is like a robot that's been programmed by the ego in the unconscious mind. So it thinks it's choosing what to eat, what clothes to wear, who to, who to date, who to marry, who to divorce, you know, it thinks it has choices of where to live and what to do. But again, Jesus says, well, it's actually part of a prearranged plan. And the ego has is running the show from the unconscious mind. So if you feel sometime like you're, you feel like a robot, like you're just doing the same things over and over. It's because the ego programmed it invented time and space. It invented its own programming. It invented the body as a self, which God did not create. The God creates in spirit, spirit creates spirit. But the ego projected the body. And then Jesus says that no single instant does the body exist at all. It's always remembered or anticipated. So that means if you believe in the past, you're just remembering an image, and you're identifying your identity with it. And if you're concerned about worried about the future, how's the body going to survive? What's the body going to do? The future is a projection of the past. It's the same programming projected into an imaginary future to keep you bound in asleep and unaware of the kingdom of heaven. So what we're looking at today is we're starting to realize, wow, I just got good at my survival skills. I just got good at learning, reading, writing, arithmetic. Maybe I learned multiplication skills, trigonometry, calculus, whatever I learned mathematics. Maybe I learned how to walk and how to function, how to drive a car, how to brush my teeth, how to comb my hair. Oops, there's none left. Take that one off my list. I don't have to get the comb out anymore. But what you see is things start to fall away, and then when they start to fall away, the ego says, uh-oh, now you're in trouble. How are you going to survive if you forget all of these skills that you learned, survival skills? So I think what Francis and I want to talk about is, because some of the questions are saying, if I really follow the Holy Spirit and Jesus, is this going to work out good? Do you have a happy, fulfilling life, even though you don't believe in what you see on the news, even though you don't wake up in the morning with a to-do list that's 10 feet long, even though you don't have investments, you're not really investing at all in the future. If they looked at my life, they would say, David, you have the worst investments in the future in the history of the universe. You have no portfolio. You don't even have hopes and dreams for a future. And I say, well, actually, I'm very content. I'm clueless and carefree and very cared for by the Holy Spirit. But the reason I feel peace is because I'm not really worried about the future. And also, I've quit playing the game of trying to diagnose. And I think for many years, I played the game of react and respond to the images of the world. Then suddenly, in a moment of joy, I realized I just had to listen to the Holy Spirit and to follow the Holy Spirit. I learned, pray, listen, follow instead of judge, react, respond. You see? The reason we learn is because it's a curriculum in judgment. If you go to school, you're learning a curriculum in judgment. Or even before you go to school with your parents and your siblings when you're little, when you're a little body, that's a judgment curriculum too. Do this. Don't do this. Treat people this way. Don't do this. It's very much full of judgments. And then you reach a point where I would rather pray, listen, and follow than judge, react, respond. You see the difference between those two modalities in the mind. That's what we're going for today. Yeah. And even we received some of your questions, which we probably would dive more into on Sunday, but we received some questions. And one of them is like, I don't feel, I just graduated from university. I don't want to work. What am I going to do if Jesus really going to instruct me, if I give my life to Jesus? And that is the underlying question. If I really turn my calling and my priorities to God, is this really going to work out? Is this really going to be okay? And I think really David Nye and our community are here as a demonstration that it works out for us, for every single one of us, even in its own individualized way. It works out. We really just, at the beginning of this, said yes to this calling without thinking how it's going to go. And what we are doing right now is we're not really idle, waiting for the day to pass. We're not counting the hours. We're not being lazy. We're not being just going through the motions. Actually, once we decide to say yes to God, it becomes a moment to moment instruction that would be handed down to us, moment to moment instruction that is established in heaven, that is handed down to us. And all that we're doing is to say yes, to say yes, and experience the effect of the joy and the liveness, the vibrancy, the collaboration and the intimacy that we feel with each other and with the Holy Spirit. So that is what we can say for a fact that works out. And it's not going to be according to the laws of the ego. It's not if we work hard, it's going to work out. If we study hard, it's going to work out. No, it's actually the total opposite. Make the decision, make the decision first and trust.