 for the first time. We've got a trilingual movie workshop today. So enjoy it. I'll pass it over to you now David. Hi everyone. Thank you Peter. Welcome. We're going to have a great time today. I think we will certainly have some emotions flushed up from the unconscious mind. Sometimes I show movies that are very metaphysical. Sometimes they're pretty seemingly extreme and they're also mind watchers, flushers of deep emotions. I wouldn't say today's movie has any overt metaphysical meaning. It's not you'll go away and go, wow, what a spiritual movie David should today. But actually it is very, very helpful for forgiveness, for cleaning the mind. And we had the polls this week coming in and I'll read the topics of our combined poll, both the English poll and the Spanish poll, so you can have an idea of the themes that we're going to be looking at today for our healing. I think this is going to be such an experience today that I feel by the end of the day you're not going to think of yourself in the same way. This is kind of like a roto-ruder. We're just going to expose and vacuum a lot of ego beliefs that are so tightly protected and so buried in the unconscious mind and so kept hidden that you may notice yourself reacting to some of the scenes and to some of the words and things that you see in this movie. This is based on the events of maybe about five years ago. So these are events that took place and the movie is going to be giving us a glimpse at some events that took place five years ago, but I think they're very relevant for us, for our forgiveness and coming to peace of mind. So our combined poll coming in at number one was unwinding from people pleasing. I noticed even last week when I showed the devil's advocate that I stopped the movie in the scene where the Charlize Theron Marianne was putting green paint, rolling green paint on the wall and I stopped it and talked a little bit about people pleasing and I noticed how that struck a chord and that's because people pleasing is accepted as natural and normal in this world. It's actually a defense mechanism that was made up by the ego to keep you from knowing who you are and yet the ego made up the whole world and all the people so that the identity or the self-concept, this false self-concept that God didn't create would be accepted as a replacement for true nature of the Christ, of a pure spirit, of pure love. So this people pleasing is an addiction, it is an obsession, it is the defense against the truth. There's absolutely nothing helpful about it, it's part of it. It comes from a death wish and whenever you're people pleasing, all it's doing is reinforcing your identity as a body. It's a body identification defense mechanism that is so accepted that when you start to look at the extent of it with mom and dad and brothers and sisters and children, with co-workers, with bosses, with everything in this world of time and space, even with pets like the bodies of the pets, those are part of the self-concept. Everything that's perceived is part of the self-concept. Even the stars, the galaxies are part of the self-concept. The trees, the mountains, the oceans, the rivers, everything perceived is part of a denial of the truth. It's, as Jesus says in the workbook, that the world was made as an attack upon God, a place where God can enter not. And we're going to look at the full extent of that misidentity because the core of that is a body identification. And then on top of the body identification, there's a gender identification being identified as a man or a woman, being identified with masculine traits or feminine traits and characteristics. And then it just goes on from there, projecting the world and the environment and everything is tied into this self-concept. But the first in the combined poll is unwinding from people pleasing. And I happen to think this is one of the best movies you will ever see that will help you unwind from people pleasing. I mean, this is like a scale of 1 to 10. This is an 11. This is so good for getting at people pleasing. The second in the poll, second theme was personal strength versus real strength. You know, when we talk about powerful people, most of the time people are talking about their personality or that they have a lot of money or that they have a strong presence, a dominating presence. When you talk about personal strength versus real strength, a lot of times people think of Olympic athletes as having personal strength or people that are famous or very, very, they have high status and so on and so forth. People associate a lot of things with personal strength and that's always egoic. There is no such thing as personal strength because the ego made the personal and strength is of God. The people get into arguments about power. I always just say, well, all power is of God, meaning all power is of spirit or of love. Love is powerful because it's the only law there is. It's the law of heaven and there is no other. There is no opposite to love. So love is all powerful. God is all powerful and everything that goes for power in this world is a distortion and it's just a projection of the ego. So when we talk about real strength, we're talking about the strength of following the Holy Spirit and Jesus because that's where you find your happiness, your joy, your peace and any sense of, if I say the mind is powerful, I'm talking about the divine mind. I'm not talking about the mind that believes in the ego. That's another trick. Actually, that's a way to attempt to weaken the mind by not recognizing the mind's natural state as divine, as created by God. The third one is the authority problem and I would say anything at all that you are upset with or perceive as challenging or difficult in this world, whether it's poverty or it's fame or it's all the versions of guilt, status, anything that you find challenging in this world is because of one belief, the belief that you're something that you're not. The authority problem is basically Jesus' way of saying, God authored you as a spirit and you exist and live as spirit. Your true reality is spirit. You live in a state of grace forever because your reality is only spirit and the authority problem is the belief that you can separate from your source, separate from God and make up an identity that's unlike the real identity, Christ. Believe me, the body identity is a sorry substitute for the glory of God and the glory of Christ. It's not even close. There is nothing valuable about the body per se. We could say that the ego made it so the Holy Spirit can use it as a communication device and in that sense you could say it has temporary value as a communication device but then as you go much deeper you start to realize communication is actually beyond words and it's beyond the body entirely and that that's just, it's like you use a knife and a fork and a spoon to eat but you don't have to identify being a spoon. You guys watch The Matrix, right? There is no spoon. That was the teaching of The Matrix. The little boy when Neo's like what does it mean? There is no spoon. What is truth? There is no spoon. Now you may use the spoon to eat while you identify with the body but the whole point is to forgive the world and wake up and there is no spoon in heaven. You don't need a spoon. There's no need for food. There's no body to feed in heaven. So the body is just a useful device that can be used by the Holy Spirit and the authority problem is the belief that the body is valuable in and of itself. That the body has some kind of seeming intrinsic value. Ken's show I think on Thursday it was above the battleground and basically it was a beautiful quote in there that you know anything that you invest in the body or you believe you can still get through the body is murder. That's what it is. We're not used to thinking of murder in terms of using a body to get anything but actually to Jesus he's saying yeah all your difficulties are coming from a body identification. If you had spirit identification if you were identified with the I am presence that's prior to time you would see that all is love all is glory that there are no problems. So all perceived problems in time and space are generated from the authority problem. One belief the belief that I can make myself any way I want to be in time and space that's the authority problem and the solution to the authority problem is the atonement which is I accept the correction that I am as God created me I can never change that happily I'm as God created me and I would not wish to be something else other than what God created me as because that's where my happiness is my happiness is in heaven my happiness is knowing who my source is my happiness is love my happiness is joy but this is spirit identification. I think in the Bible Jesus said you know that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. There it was 2,000 years ago all we need is one sentence from Jesus and you can ride that carpet all the way back to the kingdom of heaven from one little red red letter a sentence that which is born of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the spirit is spirit. St. Francis used that too in the 1200s and then he followed it up with I now am born again mainly saying I'm going for the spirit I'm going for God I'm not going for the flesh. So the authority problem is the root of everything even you know even some of you who color your hair know that if you color your hair sometimes if you get down there you see the roots are still the color that sometimes the coloring doesn't go all the way to the roots oh I got some roots going on there I don't know anything about coloring hair I just it's enough for me to shave it off but but that the root of every single difficulty is the authority problem make no mistake it's you're never upset at any person place or thing you're never upset at the environment for the reason you believe it's just the belief that you can be something that you're not is very disturbing but it's it's pushed out of awareness you know most people don't wake up in the morning and open their eyes and go oh god there's still a body damn you know it's just so accepted as an identity woke up get out of bed drank comb across my head the Beatles you know it's or it's just another day it's so accepted it's so accepted it's it's the authority problem but it's so ingrained and accepted that if you just begin to question it you are on the road to heaven just through the beginning of questioning the belief in the body your that your identity is a body you are on a fast track to heaven but how many people wake up in the morning and think I am not a body how many wake up and think I am not a man or I'm not a woman how many wake up and think I have zero masculine qualities and traits and zero feminine I'm not even androgynous I can't pull from both because I'm none of them I'm I am a spirit I am spirit you see how radical this is it goes has to go way beyond the body identity and everything associated with the body and and this movie is really good at getting at gender identity it's actually quite a good movie for that because you're going to be watching these events that occurred back starting around we'll say 2016 is basically the time when these these events are occurring and when you watch it just notice your emotions coming up because whatever you're reacting to from this movie it just is giving you an inroads into what you believe about yourself that's what this movie is for it's a good movie for showing you what you believe about yourself next one coming in number four undoing male female roles there it is that's that's our theme and that's that is going to be a huge opportunity today to watch this movie and undo male and female roles and the last one is guilt around sexual thoughts and desires that actually came in fourth I think an English poll and and last in the Spanish poll but but sexual thoughts and desires will say are distorted miracle impulses and so if you're attracted to the body you will also be repulsed by the body if you believe the body can be attractive it's just remember it's a learning device so it's it's actually the Holy Spirit is just a neutral learning device but if you believe it can be attractive or repulsive those are just two sides of the ego's judgments about the body the body the ego actually hates the body because even though it made the body it now considers the body is not a good enough home for it talk about never satisfied I can't get no satisfaction it made the body and now it is it hates the body because it's not good enough for it it thinks it deserves a better home it breaks down seems to grow old get sick and die and he goes like come on I could you know a mobile home's better than this something you know it's it it is not too happy with that and then when the mind sleeping mind says but wait a minute I thought you you made it to help me and to protect me and then the ego just pushes the question out of awareness it can't talk about hypocrisy it has no no answer when the mind says but you said it would protect me and it's not protecting me very well yeah push the question out of awareness into the unconscious mind don't even ask that the ego doesn't want that one to even hear that question again so I thought first of all I thought when I watched this movie I said what what are some of the themes that come up in this movie when I watch this movie what are some of the topics and themes I think these can be really helpful inroads to forgiveness because if I read some of these off I know you're going to say at some point you had an issue with some of these I wrote down I wrote down womanizing sexism greed pride stereotyping hypocrisy cover up lies abuse of power and news as big business and the last one I put down I just couldn't resist it's it's NDA does anybody know what an NDA is a lot of times somebody usually knows but most of the times when people are into spirituality they don't know what an NDA is it's a legal term non-disclosure agreement they're very popular in big organizations you get hired by an organization you have to sign an NDA basically you can't say anything bad about the organization you have to agree that you're muzzled talk about no private thoughts I thought well that's a that's like a representation of of the desire for thoughts to stay private and to perpetuate secrets NDA because in this movie you'll find that these news news journalists that are hired by this news company you know they are facing the same emotions that all humans go through but but when you go on and you sign your contract to get paid it's all about getting paid you have to sign an NDA these are also I think with the last administration that was in the United States they there was NDA agreements all over the place everybody who got hired had to sign an NDA this is kind of a business corporate way of trying to protect itself from all these things I just mentioned it's trying to cover itself to make sure the thoughts don't get out and so that that generates a whole world of secrecy and NDAs are part of that I happened to just that came across my mind today NDA I said yeah I said probably nobody and most people don't even know what it means Eric was like not disclosure agreement can you imagine working in a place where you have a non disclosure agreement actually Jesus wants you to have an FDA a full disclosure agreement and believe me this movie will give you an FDA today that's also Food and Drug Administration but believe that out this is a Jesus Christ full disclosure agreement when you agree to listen to the Holy Spirit you agree to bring all the unconscious hidden beliefs all the hidden emotions all the hidden thoughts to awareness to the light so they will disappear in the light but the ego is all about privacy and secrets and that's why if any of you go to work for somebody and they say oh you have to sign an NDA yeah I would walk out the door I don't I don't particularly like the idea of non disclosure agreements I'm all for complete exposure let's be transparent let's be authentic let's be open how else are we going to heal we don't need to be hiding and protecting things because who are we protecting them from you know are we thinking we're going to hide them from the Holy Spirit and keep ourselves separate from the light that that's not really a good motive for anything secrets or anything like that so a little bit of context I mentioned greed and money the context of this movie is that in this day of corporations owning many things there there are people who who own news outlets imagine you know it's one thing to own a book publishing company where you can print the kind of ideas and words you want on the books it's a way of distributing I think in some of the the countries of the world it's called propaganda if you want to influence people you you either take a plane and you drop little leaflets but now people are pretty much onto it like yeah what are you trying to convince me of now you're dropping leaflets from planes but most people know that using Facebook using social media using news media outlets that's a way of sharing ideas well the ego also likes to share its ideas that's why we have NDAs that's why there are all these laws of privacy and protection there are secrets that different organizations around the world different governments try to hide you know we have in the United States CIA central intelligence agency I think intelligence is not the word I would use for spying on people that I would use another word maybe like stupidity but we'll say CIA you know it's greatly feared and I guess if you go to Russia it's KGB you know there's different every country's got their own little spy agencies they call intelligence but they're basically spying on each other and with news media we have an interesting day where we've had an explosion ever since the industrial revolution and then we've had the information explosion computers now we have devices smartphones tablets computers and you have news agencies that are owned by people that are very very very wealthy so in this movie there's a guy he's originally born in Australia but his name is Rupert Murdoch and he's an Australian born American media muggle they call him Muggle he's he owns this company called News Corp and he's the owner of hundreds of local national and international publishing outlets around the world he has two sons okay it's a dynasty it's a publishing dynasty and they own one of the major uh news media outlets in in the United States Fox so they basically can control the content that they put on their news because the owners of it they can they can put publish anything they want from politics to their perspective on food to anything that you can imagine that's what happens when you have a news media that's basically owned by a conglomerate and they basically can share the ideas that they want it's no different from anything else I mean if you if you have a website you can publish the ideas that you want to publish if you have a news agency you can publish that way you can do it through podcasts we have a couple new podcasts out now you can do it in many many different ways but when you it gets into a lot of money then it's a business and I don't know if you've noticed that but the purpose of a business is to make more money it's not so interested in the well-being and peace of mind of everyone on the planet it's basically to make more money and as they say sex sells drama sells wild sensational stories sell and so if you want to be a successful news media uh corporation you you the ego will use the body and the world and the events of the world to make more some of you have heard me talk about this more idea jesus says in the beyond idle section of a course of miracles what is an idle do you think you know an idle is for more of something it does not matter more of what so when the motive in this world is for more more anything more fill in the blank you know it's coming from the ego because the present moment is all that there is it's the gateway to eternity it's the gateway to to spirit to happiness to love the present moment isn't more of anything the present moment has to be uncovered it has to it has to be exposed as reality is the gateway to eternity and everything of linear time has this more motive and that's why when i read off a few of these things i think you can see how they're related to uh linear time uh womanizing it's in linear time that's a problem in heaven no sexism no problem in heaven in time it's a mess greed heaven there is no greed but linear time there's greed that's where the more comes in more more more personal power more money more sex appeal more skills more abilities stereotyping hypocrisy cover-ups lies abusive power news as big business you can see all of these are basically versions of the authority problem of the belief that you can make yourself into something that you're not really that makes it really simple there's nothing more simple than the authority problem you know really that once that is you accept the correction for that then that's that's heaven you're back you're back in heaven there's nothing blocking you nothing can block you from love if unless you want to be the author of yourself unless you want to make an identity different than the one god created so let's get to some specifics they there are a cast of actors and actresses in this this is an ensemble cast of of amazing actors and actresses charlie sarone nicole kittman margo robbie kate mckinnon that's top of the line and then the there's john lithgow plays the the man who is the the chairman the ceo and chairman of fox news fox television station in 20th century fox and his name is roger ailes so roger ailes is going to be a key person because he has he's a media consultant he shapes perceptions believes he can shape perceptions through influence of of money power and control and so he is the the the head the the chairman of fox news fox television 20th century again robert murdoch is the owner of of many many news outlets and distributions around the world and this is fox so roger ailes is to give you a context he's the one who's the executive the ceo then you have the newscasters in this and they are we could say to the world standards blonde and beautiful megan kelly gretchen carlsson keila and jess it's just the name for charlie sarone nicole kittman margo robbie and kate mckinnon and let's talk a little bit more about roger roger is he's such a good media producer a media consultant that he's he's consulted with richard nixon the press ronald reagan george bush donald trump during this movie prior to uh trump you know running for president there was roger helping him consult on his image he's an image maker he he uses money and seeming power and influence in this world to shape images to to build the image of politicians and those were four presidents uh he also rudy juliani who's who worked for trump he was the mayor of new york city yeah roger shaped his his image too to help him become elected the mayor of new york city so here we have a master image maker an image shaper and you can see all of the components of the ego there the fame the money the greed the whatever makes the corporation money and so we have a situation where roger likes to hire beautiful women that's going to make money because he wants the ratings to be the highest and he wants to make the most money making news that he can and so he hires blonde beautiful women and he not only hires them but he he tells them how they can dress they can't wear pants they have to wear skirts and then one of the these news reporters the men who are co-anchors with her start to joke their sexism jokes their stereotype they call her the skirt imagine being on the air broadcasting to millions of people and having your co-workers say oh she's a skirt talk about objectifying women down to a skirt being called a skirt on television national television so this we're going to look at extreme forms of of sexism he also he starts to he's trying to figure out how to raise the ratings so he gets them to wear short skirts he can't wear pants and then he says let's get glass desk see through desks so that they can film these women broadcasting the news with see clear glass desk and in their skirts and that's just the beginning of it roger that's just a start i mean roger he thinks i'm a media consultant so i can shape the images and and i'm hired to make money so he's going to use sexuality to sell the news to keep the ratings up and and then when they get hired they have dress code just no pants skirts and then they have the glass desk and then they have to sign what non disclosure agreements so he hires them to look pretty and then muzzles them from sharing any of their emotions and that's just the beginning now this is these are actual events that occurred and in a news broadcasting corporation based in in new york city with a high rise and they have entire floors of the high rise you know they talk about the china and the ming dynasty and malatang and and all the russian czars and everything this is a modern day czar kind of system in a high rise in new york city that's broadcasting to millions of people and i'm just giving you the tip of the iceberg when you get inside of this little menagerie it is a secrecy privacy it's people pleasing to the max you know i've been practicing with our community for the last 20 years 20 25 years no private thoughts and no people pleasing well in case some of you who do write in a lot and say i still don't get what you mean by no private thoughts and no people pleasing well we'll give you a contrast if you don't understand what people pleasing is because this is people pleasing laid on so thick that it's like if you were making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich it's just the peanut butter is so thick you can't even see the jelly you don't even know that there's jelly there it's just a hunk of inches of peanut butter and this just shows that this is the egos world all of this is unreal because all of us just generated by the ego but the reason we're watching this movie is because you need to take a close look and see if you believe in any of it because if you believe in the tiniest part of it then you believe in all of it and it doesn't feel good and that's why we watch movies like this as mind watchers these are like our rotor routers for our mind we're just like letting we're just going to stir up and get all these unconscious beliefs that are all based on the authority problem we're going to get them into the surface because most people would say well if you look at society there's some problems and they might say racism and and sexism stereotypical thinking stereotypes you know you can go down through the whole thing violence and on and on and on but what Jesus does in the course of miracles is he simplifies it for us and he says all those things that you feel aren't right in the world in the society in the culture that you perceive you may even see it in the people but it's not in the people or the culture or the society it's in your mind and it's all rooted in the belief that you can create yourself it's all rooted in the authority problem it's all denying that god is your author because an author is the one who who creates who writes uh and and god authors in spirit and god only authors in spirit god doesn't author in any other way spirit creates spirit just like in this world we get apples from apple trees we get oranges from orange trees we get peaches from peach trees and in heaven if you'll take my analogy a little higher you get spirit from spirit spirit doesn't create matter you know god created man in his likeness and image meaning god the essence of mankind or humankind is spirit that's what it means god created man in his own image it doesn't mean god thought i'm going to make a body you know i've got nothing better to do i'm going to make adam and eve and uh i'm going to make a tree three of the knowledge of good and evil and yeah that's a good day's workout but it is and then then and say don't eat from that tree you know this is this is all make believe god authors in spirit god doesn't make adam and eve god doesn't make the world of time and space god doesn't know what male and female mean god doesn't know masculine or feminine these are artificial constructs and concepts that the ego has generated and they're all based on one belief and that's the belief you can create yourself that you can be the author of yourself instead of be authored by god so that's why this movie i think will be so helpful to us because when you watch it typically you do get engaged in what's happening