 I'd like to welcome everyone who came here tonight. Is everyone English speaking or is anyone need translations? Anyone need translations in French or whatever volume is offered? The hill just sits next to you and whispering to you here. Well, it's a real blessing to be back here. I was posted here quite a while ago and then this year I was sharing a kitchen and there's been quite a lot of world travels. But I talked to Boreen and Angelina. They've been saying, when are you coming up? And we've tried to set a time and this time it just click, click, click. Everything dropped in. And it's just been a wonderful time, a wonderful year for me and just meeting so many people. It's when you free your mind of judgments and all kinds of associations, really what you see is a different world. You don't see the same world that you saw before. Literally it's like Jesus saying before you get the, you know, the speck out of your brother's eye, get the beam out of your own and when you really do get that beam out then it's really a spectacular view. It's just, love's the muscle, but this is a love everywhere. And where this is all leading, where this transformation is leading is to a point where Jesus says do not see error. We're so used to with the human condition, you know, proceeding judging and proceeding error and then trying to do the inner work to clear away the debris and definitely you do have to start wherever you find yourself and perceive yourself, but where this is all leading is to a point that's such a pit everywhere and because the world's just a mirror that reflects the mind. So it's really beautiful when you really hang in there and do the inner work and it's not like you stop judging. It's just that you get to a point where you realize that you never were really capable of it in the first place and good news is that you're safe. You know, your life doesn't turn to chaos if you don't have judgment. Your life just turns to bliss without judgment because you see everything and everyone as part of your own mind and your own awareness. So it's really, really beautiful. And these gatherings have involved questions and answers over many years, for about 13 years now and everything, but lately I've been doing gatherings where we've had just loss of profound silence and reverence and end up having just looking around and doing some eye gazing. But before you come to that, really, it's good to give your mind permission to ask questions and just let unconscious things come up without keeping a lid on it, without protecting anything anymore. Just gently allow things to come up. And it's like down in Argentina they ask me, you know, how is this different from brainwashing? It's kind of like mindwashing, letting your mind be washed with the light and offering up all the darkness to the light so that it's cleansed and cleared and purified as Jesus had taught, blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God. So that's really all it is. It's just coming to clear your mind. And so these gatherings are very practical gatherings in asking about divine principles, asking about mainly how you put these things into practice. And so we generally talk about the mind and we talk about metaphysics, what's going on with the mind and what seems to be going on with this world, what's underneath it. And we really talk a lot about practical application because that's really where the rubber meets the road and you really have to get to the point where you have your thoughts or your concepts or your theologies, but you have sporadic or inconsistent experiences of peace and joy and you want it to be consistent. You've seen great glimpses of it and the real prayer is, ah, Lord, let me know this as my life. Let me know this as my constant experience. And that's really where we get into not only the principles and the metaphysics but the practical application of applying this with everything in your life and holding no exceptions apart from it. So you let the stuff come up where you notice your judgments, your grievances but you have a way then of going inward and of seeing that nothing's being done to you and you can start to get in touch with what's going on in your mind and then release that, which is extremely empowering because it means that you are responsible for your state of mind and there's nothing in the world that can make you feel anyway. When your mind is trained and when you realize really the full extent of the power of the mind then it's really a glorious experience and until that point it's just lots and lots of opportunities to practice reclaiming the power that you have. And we were off, William and I were off today looking at sites and just talking about the years of practice of A Course in Miracles and all the inner work that it takes not about trying to skip over things or get off into distractions or kind of decoy, allow your mind to be decoy but just basically hanging with the basic teaching and application and just continuing to extend it so that you don't make any exceptions to it because that's really all this is about. That's what waking up means starting to realize that truth is true and you can't make any exceptions to the truth. Love is real, love is really all that there is and it appears as an opposite to love or it appears to contradict love is just an assumption or a belief that needs to be raised up to the light needs to be exposed or questioned. So these are real practical gatherings and they have been for many years I can share whatever you like I'm here to join with you and to be a full service to you in terms of questions how do you put this into application concepts, topics we start from many different angles many different topics and we kind of work it in again to empowerment to seeing that you have a very powerful mind and that the mind we share is one with the mind of Christ and the mind of God and we are not at the mercy of this world we are not at the mercy of images we have the power to have these images retranslated in a very loving, beautiful way in which it's all great it's all wonderful and you can feel that love everywhere so I'm here to join with you and it's the fun part of this whatever questions you want to ask or any kind of topics you want to bring up then away we go we just give it over to the Holy Spirit and watch what happens this world, looking at things, emotions and so on there's another way and the other way is to be guided by someone who's not a personality can you talk a little bit about that? yes I think when people think of guidance a lot of times they think of hearing an inner voice or inner prompts I think one of the first things we can talk about is that the Spirit within you the Holy Spirit, the higher power that guide that knows the way and it would be helpful to transcend all fear and all pain and hurt that guide is wanting to reach you in many many different ways and we'll use everything in this world to the extent that you can release the limitations and the parameters that you have placed on this experience through belief so a lot of times people feel frustrated they meditate for many years or they're practicing a course of miracles or some path yoga or all the many different varieties of paths and they feel frustrated when they're not getting a clear sense of guidance and direction or maybe not hearing a voice speaking to them and it's like what am I going to do? If you call out and make prayers and ask questions and you don't seem to hear that voice that's a good place to start with the whole question of guidance Of course a miracle is one tool that we have shared William and I over the years and in one sense that is a very direct sense of your higher self or the Holy Spirit speaking to you through those words and so even though words are illusions and they're called symbols of symbols twice removed from reality like William was saying today well I need the words those are the things I understand so my experience was of plunging in and really working with the Course very intensively immersing myself in it the first two and a half years reading it for eight hours a day and had done a lot of work prior to that experience as well so that for me it started coming through in terms of the voice speaking to me directing me telling me where to go who to call and what to do like having a little bird on your shoulder just sitting over there just chirping away a little friendly bird that is just very gently guiding but for a lot of people it's not their experience that they have this constant voice speaking to them providing them all this direction where to go, what to do and so forth and yet the Spirit can reach you in so many ways including if you open up take the parameters off like songs and music movies bumper stickers billboards signs on the side of the bus Marlene just experienced you haven't seen nothing yet with the sign that she had before I arrived it's great because once you start to take the parameters off and also your feelings intubitions sometimes you make the hairs stand up on your arm or tingle down the spine things that happen in your body which is kind of a way of pay attention, pay attention this is important when you start to take the parameters off you realize that you can start to relax a bit because if you're not hearing the voice there's many ways the Spirit can still reach you and you want to just be as willing as you can to pay attention to the clues and the signs and the symbols and then I think as you continue on you get more and more devotional in this path then for some it's a feeling or just a certainty or a knowingness that they feel not always times a voice they may just have a few thoughts and then a feeling of certainty or of charity coming in for others they may just cry out and they're really open to hearing the Spirit speak through brothers and sisters so they may have a very sincere prayer meet somebody that they haven't seen for a while or on the streets and then they hear this clear direction coming through seemingly somebody else but it just opens up the parameters to gee I'm going to be guided and led and I just have to be willing to hear to see or to receive the messages a little signpost a long way and it's great to think that you don't have to have necessarily somebody literally in your mind telling you what to do at every instant because that's generally not the case it's actually quite rare and of course Jesus says very few can hear the voice for God directly because there's so many ego there's so many experiences so many layers and layers and layers but if you're just willing to move in the direction of being shown and opening then that's where I think you can start to make those inroads and I think most people have had some experience of that or some degree of of experiencing that really where you go or what you even do or who you see starting to follow that inner guidance and be totally sustained from that inner guidance because that inner guidance, that intuition that higher power knows our greatest interest, knows our awakening knows everything that is helpful and so becoming dependent on that becoming God dependent you might say is really what this is all about so when we both are being independently we were just in total ecstasy because it didn't matter where we were going to be guided to next we were just lit up to be beginning to understand the teaching I am the destination and I will tell you the direction very different from the personality self which is always saying where do I go what do I do and this was about making that contact making that conscious contact in mind and maintaining it in the Bible Jesus was always talking about except he become his little children and a lot of times people wonder exactly what he meant and of course in miracles he makes it very clear that what he was talking about was not about the innocence of little children small children and infants are completely dependent on their parents for survival and you are basically saying likewise you need to become just as dependent on the voice inside your mind on the Holy Spirit to enter the kingdom of heaven this very simple direct reference to guidance to becoming dependent so it's just adorable when you think about it that way that all we're really opening to here is God depends and not the kind of anthropomorphic God that's in a lot of theologies and religions or the kind of God that gets upset and that's the tribe here or there but a very loving, loving God that always just wills perfect happiness for you doesn't will that any country invade any other country or doesn't will that any nation crash or this and that but just wills for perfect happiness and also has placed a guide in the mind that knows the way and all we have to do is surrender and yield into that guidance and that's it that's all she wrote I've got the same kind of guidance happening on the way here tonight we got in the car and Jeffrey and Curie were driving behind me and we got into this intersection we were approaching an intersection and the light was fully green we were in the intersection we were only approaching and the light was fully green and then it's dark and I noticed that there was a car coming from the other direction halfway into the middle of the intersection I'm still approaching the intersection the light is full green and then I noticed the car out of the intersection this is interesting do you see this there's a car backing up out of the intersection okay here we go we might continue along and then again we were on this road up here we were on Chapel and we were coming up and we were coming up Chapel and again there's another car well there are two cars backing up okay this is interesting and now you're following the story about going in one direction and you're getting to come back and you're enlisting and thinking okay well what is this that's being open to the undoing okay very different from kind of like having a linear direction just open to the undoing just direction less and earlier tonight the thought went through about I don't know if it was you David or the movie we watched last night where there was something talking about addiction is the inability to stop something is whatever it is that you're doing whatever you can't stop that's an addiction so here's this car okay and this other car okay and as I was taking a 15 minute nap you know that I think in terms of gravity physics that's the one of my entrance rants into this and I was thinking about so undoing can have six directions come from six directions in order to be fully able to reverse in any position it's in so if what we're doing I don't know you're supposed to be with me if what we're doing is standing then what we're doing is we're in a relationship to gravity in this direction so if we can go in this direction and if we're lying down flat on our back then we're in a relationship to gravity where it's going in this direction so if we can it's going in this direction so if we can go in this direction so I guess that would be my notation then we're not addicted to sleeping and if we're lying in this direction then gravity is going in this so it's just this positional referencing so it's just letting go of positional referencing which can seem very ingrained something you've believed in for a long time where you have some affirmations and some goals that you're holding in mind but you have a lot of unconscious thoughts and beliefs that are really held very dear and then reinforced very deeply and become so convictual that's why this is pretty much raising the darkness to the light and wanting to question a lot of those assumptions and loosen them even in the beginning just loosening your mind from some of those assumptions that's extremely helpful will serve you so well as you go forward leading so there's not a sense of set fifth position from which to reference from which to reference everything that you seem to think and say and do no need for context Jeffrey was talking about being context less yes for example in this world there's a lot of attention placed on nutrition eating right and basically he was describing this movie that after years of so called emotional abuse or holding onto fear thoughts and doubt thoughts and attack thoughts self-debasing thoughts this has the impact of the receptor sites of the molecules of the cells in the body just shutting down or not being able to perceive nutrition and receive things because they shut down from all these peptides and all these things that have been going on for years and at one point the scientists said so it's not so much what you eat because at this point when this has been going on for years these cells are capable of receiving the protein and the nutrition that they want so even scientists now are pointing to the power of the mind and the power of the thought and how when you change your tunes so to speak and you change your attitude this has effects on the whole world you perceive not only the body but the world that seems to surround you the environment will change and this is a whole turnaround from the way that we all were trained thinking that there was this set objective world and we just had to do what we could do to take care of our personal cells in this objective world now we're seeing from quantum physics from the course of miracles that this whole world that's being perceived as a reflection of our thoughts and beliefs and that we need to do the inner work if we're going to experience happiness and joy on a consistent basis. So they came out with camera and the journalist came out and the journalist was just felt so much peace when she came out with this house garden thing and just felt so in love with the family who was hosting me and all the people she traveled out there with that they got her all dressed up for a blouse and everything to go on to the camera and she felt so much peace that she just started asking me all kinds of things and at some point in the middle of the interview she just leaned her head back and just closed her eyes and just was like just like feeling all this bliss and love and everything and so it was we did discuss a lot of things because she asked a lot of questions about how it relates how do you do this in this world and ask a lot of questions that way and we got into a lot of that and then interestingly enough I talked about letting go of the self-concepts letting go of the persona, the mask the personality and at one point during one of the breaks she said how do I let go of the mask of a TV journalist and I thought wow, here she's come out of the interview and she was asking, she was feeling the peace and she was asking a very practical question for herself and I said well, what you're doing right now is a good example of it because the topic we're talking about is enlightenment and awakening and you're here letting your skills and journalism be used for this purpose so go out on the airwaves this is a beautiful thing you're doing it's not like you have to just drop everything we have to give it over to this higher power and let it be used for peace and let it be shared how you come to forgive so a few days later I was getting ready I met a pilot who talked to me for hours he has different types he has a job but he also slides around makes a variable mask he wanted to fly me to the ocean to a little naval base and to go over to the ocean a specific ocean a woman where I was seeing she said it was a journalist again from this interview she wanted to come over and spend some time and I told her you were taking the flight to the ocean I said we'll call back and ask her if she must have gone on a trip to the ocean and she did and she said sure, just pick me up so she got out of her professional clothes and she had her sweatpants on especially in the bikini underneath because we were going to go over and jump in the ocean and go up around go through the mountains I got this from the naders the seeds down there in the jungle flew over flew over there and it was she just didn't speak much English and I didn't speak much Spanish but we were able to along with this pilot very well and landed and it was very similar to Valentine's Day up here at the Love and Friendship Day down there and this pilot I just met brought days of candy along so I got to go to the airport give candy out to all the people at the airport and this journalist and I just met a few days before we were going around passing out candy on Love and Friendship Day landing at the airport and we were going to the naval base where all these guns and uniforms and we're passing out candy to them and they get these big smiles and we're just going everywhere giving all this candy out and just like two little kids it's like a reverse of Halloween a trick or treat we were giving the treats away on Love and Friendship Day even the nades we had to walk through little villages the mothers of the babies giving out the candy and the whole day we're just going to the warm tropical ocean and splashing around and here's a journalist I just met a couple days before and I'm out splashing in the waves and she comes out and brings this sand puts sand and mud all over her and then comes out puts it all over me all over the pilot I thought I was covered with mud too full of shh on my head just like kids playing in a very loving and some way just in the spontaneity of the moment just enjoying this very spontaneous trip to the ocean and that's the kind of example of the kind of life that we all can live the more we learn to trust that higher power we learn to trust to be spontaneous to not have everything so planned and arranged as if our whole life is pretty much set in stone but to trust and just say okay I'm here to shine the light of love what have you got for me today and then let the spirit come through if we could equate it with something to have a free will would be to have a will or an experience in your mind where you're happy where you're constantly happy and even when I would hear people tell me what God's will for you is this and God's will for you is that I always had difficulty with the stuff that God's will for me was all these specific things but when I really got a whole of the idea that God's will was for perfect happiness I thought well I think I'd like to know that whatever it is and however I get there and that's what I would like to know and then this other stuff I would like to say things like not my will but thine be done almost implying that our will and God's will is different and what I started to open to was the idea that my will and God's will were the same if I was created by God if I golly God gave me a free will and then I noticed that the ego system was based on control and manipulation and consequences lots of fear of consequences and there was no I just realized that there couldn't be free will and all this fear of consequences that free will would involve happiness and peace and joy not these things so initially after 10 years of college and lots of searching and lots of questions kind of doing the Renaissance thing and taking a little bit of everything to kind of get a sample of everything the world had to offer I realized that the problem wasn't in the world that I had an alien will in my mind there was an imposter using the power of my mind and that's why I wasn't experiencing freedom because I was giving my mind my faith over to this imposter and at that point I realized that I really didn't have to try to change the world I just had to uncover the imposter you know like the old Poco comic strip we have met the enemy and it is us of Mahadma Gandhi they asked Gandhi if there was a devil if he believed in the devil and Gandhi thought for a minute and said if there is a devil the only devil is running around hearts what a beautiful answer well I decided if the devil was in my heart I better cast him out because I didn't want to get messing with my free will and initially as I started working on the course of miracles it was very shy in high school and blooded most quiet in my senior class I was very like most people had fears of intimacy fears of lowering the mask of just letting the real me shine for fear of the past and what people would think and so forth and I remember going to these course groups and this joy kind of coming through me and the voice for God started to speak through me it was really frightening I was like a feeling I had was I am losing control of my life but that control was the personality control like David running the show David steering the car or steering the boat and the more I just relaxed into this joy and let it kind of come through me it was as if kind of like the Charlie McLean movie out on the limb you know where she is going down that road I think she is with a man named David in the car and David is saying let go of the wheel on the dark road at night the bends like this let go of the wheel but that is how it felt initially when I started to go to these course groups and let the voice for God start speaking through me it felt like whoa something is going on here but it felt like a loss of control but I really had to trust and say well but my whole life has been controlled maybe if I surrender and I learn to let this move through me maybe that will lead to the free will maybe that will show me through freedom because whatever I have done in the past it has not brought me freedom I had tuple degrees I had money to travel I could see that my definition of freedom very much involve freedom of the body it is almost like an arrogant freedom I will do whatever I want to do whenever I want however I want to do it a personal freedom and yet interestingly enough I never really felt free completely free with that personal kind of I will do it my way so I thought what is the harm in this higher power and seeing if I can really experience a sense of freedom I did not really know at that time fully what I was getting into I did not know the full extent of the unconscious mind I did not know the full extent of how deep this root of control and conflict and hatred and pain went it is a very deep root and you do not get the dandelion by just plucking the stem off you got to get down to the core of this thing and I kind of came to the point where I thought I have nothing better to do with my time then get to the bottom of this there is something fishy with this world anyway and I do not know what it is but I am going to get to the bottom of it it is the last thing that I do so I just launched on this journey of inner discovery in search of free will in search of an experience where I had free will and the deeper I got into it the more I tuned into this higher power the more it was apparent that everything that was unfolding was part of a prearranged plan designed for my highest good and for the highest good of everyone it was like God's plan it was a higher plan underneath all this running around and trying to grab all the getting is good and look out for number one and all this kind of defensive posture and the more I yielded into this the more my life just got happier and happier I felt more and more free I had to face thoughts about loneliness and all the typical human feelings I had to face them all through relationships, through travel through hermitage experiences of being out in the woods by myself with no running water with the snakes and the bugs I thought this is an adventure of self discovery like the Greeks talk about know thyself and I'm going to go fully for this because what else do I have to use my time for I really want to know this so that's I would say in the end where I found free will was it was always there and I just had it covered over and I had to peel the onion of consciousness about all these false definitions that I had covered it over with that it was always there waiting saying here I am I'm happiness and I'm your will for you I'm here I'm finally I haven't gone anywhere and it was more of a negation or of removing the blocks like having discovery like like freedom, like I really saw it was dependent on freedom of the body and intimacy I had so wired up with bodies as well and even peace of mind I kept thinking I'm going to move to a peaceful place well you know where in this world is a peaceful place it's a sneaky kind of seductive idea you can sail the oceans blue and you go to a mountain and this and that but you can't hide from your mind and as long as you have these irritating conceptual thoughts going on and these crazy beliefs it doesn't matter where you go you still got to face the same things where we are there you are there you are my heart would be oh I'm here so that helped immensely and what I realized that I was on a search for the Christians call it salvation sometimes in the east or self realization the Greeks call it know thyself you know it goes by different names but it's just a true experience of the real me and the real will that my creator has for me and I'm happy to say that now it's really a constant experience I really just it's like I'm in it almost like a leaf that's finally decided to be carried by the river or the stream instead of fighting fighting the currents and telling the stream which way I should go it's just flowing it's just there but I've kind of yielded into that experience and now my joy is to go around and and talk about whatever this experience seems to be in simple terms when to ask questions and let it express itself because it's not so much the words but it's a state of mind really it's really just a state of mind it's not a like a theology or a conceptual thing it's just a state of mind and it's right here it's right now like Jesus said the kingdom of heaven is at hand it's not necessarily this thing it has to be way way off in the future it's actually experienced in the moment it takes a lot of trust I question so many beliefs about this world that my life started to become more and more like otherworldly or very different like for years my biological father as I was praying and meditating and contemplating and questioning and doing all this inner work my biological father was saying things like dirty, lazy, no good rotten bum, get a job so you see it doesn't always register initially especially with those associations that you seem to have known that kind of know the old you no matter how much work you do sometimes they show up and they go just who do you think you are I know you like when Jesus went to Nazareth and there was no miracles I watched you grow up I know your parents don't try to tell me this before Abraham was I am I'm not going for it you're just a human being I watched you grow up and there were no miracles surprise surprise if you're so anchored in the past how can you be aware of something that's an out of time experience so I had the same thing for me and little by little even the biological parents turned around because they were witnesses to my mind from angry and distant and changing the conversation when I would bring up miracles or whatever to eventually biological father calling me and saying Dave I'm back he had been like a youth minister years ago before he got caught up into the heavy ways of the world and he was like all that stuff you've been talking about for years I understand it now I know what you're talking about and just kind of flipped around at one point it was like I remember sitting with the biological parents and telling a yoga nanda story there was an Indian saint who at the end of his life he was sitting around with all of his disciples and apostles and he basically said this is it I'm leaving you I'm ascending tonight and just left the body the body remained in the state of non decay for weeks and weeks and as some of the disciples gasped as he took his final breath I was telling this story to the biological parents in the past they would have changed the subject talked about the weather talked about the sports walked into the other room something or other they were sitting there smiling as I'm telling this story with these eyes looking you right in the eye and I'm going on and on with the whole story to the very end of it they're smiling almost assuredly like yeah yeah we know we know this thing now and at the end of it Jack who was my biological father who was the most resistant of all very angry for many years he smiled and he said well if you decide to do that just don't do it in our living room because we don't want to have to clean the body up made a joke without breaking eye contact with a big grin on his face and I was like oh my goodness I thought it's really getting to be like the end of the world then a while later Jack was in talking to his minister at this traditional Christian church where I had been raised and confirmed much of a traditional church the last place I'd ever think I'd ever see again in my life and Jack was talking to the minister there who even the minister had had a near death experience had been on Oprah had written a book traveling around to Great Britain and everything I thought in my mind and now the minister of my old church is teaching a class on mysticism in this traditional church I thought this is really strange and so Jack the biological father went up to him one day and they were studying St. John the Cross St. Teresa, St. Francis and you know all of the saints and mystics and he went up to the minister and said my son is one of those and the minister said what? a mystic a saint and the minister went oh and Genesis is the same Jack remember dirty, no good, lazy rock and bum he had a job Jack he said to the minister he said I think you should invite him to the class on mysticism and the minister said okay we'll do that so I go there to this traditional church and there is the biological mother and the biological father and my biological sister and who is crying she's just watching the whole thing unfold just crying it reminded me a little bit of that scene in the Bible where Jesus says to the apostles who do you say that I am and you know John the Baptist and Elisha come again and Peter says you are the living Christ and he says that is not man who spoke and he told here this church I was sitting there and the Jack asked the first question and the question was if you could ask Mother Teresa any question what would it be and I said I had no questions I had to be honest and that kind of launched us into this mystical session at this very traditional church and at one point in the middle of it we went on to lively questions and me teaching all kinds of kind of radical ideas this woman there was a silence and a reverence there and then this woman said who is speaking to us now and I didn't feel any guidance to put a name to it you know in terms of this being or that being because it's just the presence of love it's just the I am presence of a small share that really you can give any name you want to or no name it's still what it is so I just smiled and I looked at the woman and just smiled nothing came and then after about 20 seconds Jack the biological father spoke up and said it's Jesus he whispered it's Jesus is speaking to us now in his congregation in his Christian church so you can imagine your biological father or mother saying something like that as you've been doing this inner work after so many years after so many years of everything but that so I just kind of like now there's my will now there's my free will when I have a witness on that okay I got it you know it's joy it's happiness and love the past is washed away because that was a symbol that the past could touch me not anymore so that's pretty much just the way it is now it's like it's a gentle loving presence there's no one to convince there's no one to convert that's why there's no proselytizing in true religion because true religion is inner peace and once you have an awareness of that what you never want to do is try to convert somebody because you see that everyone is you already you're not going to try to change their mind because you've changed your mind and accepted your free will and then you perceive everyone that you meet there with you so it's not like there's an enlightened being that gets it and then there's these other poor beings that don't it's really that when your perception changes everyone's included in that enlightenment it's not this thing of I've got it and you don't it's I've got it and hallelujah everyone's included of course that's the way it is because it's not there's no exclusion in free will I just want to interject here Mary and William Williamson Williamson I read that book three times one thing in there where she sort of illustrates an idea that um you work for God now and she compared it like during the SS like if somebody in the SS doesn't sitting in a bar doesn't say I work for the SS it's talking to NASA I work for the SS it's like it's an invisible sort of thing I work for God now and you know whether you're working for God now and that's just very profoundly yes it's beautiful because that is the feeling that and you don't have to have a name for it and neither do you have to go around and tell people I work for God now but in your heart you feel connected to your source you know and you can call it God call it by whatever name that you want I have so much fun with it now because I'll go anywhere that I'm guided and invited I'm content to stay home and play with my three-legged cat and her sister and pretty much just watch the grass grow because it's a state of contentment it's a state that nothing has to change it's a state that everything is just perfect as it is right now and then when I get invitations it's just my joy to go wherever that is but I remember I was in Texas not this year but last year and I remember I was at a course group and they were going around introducing themselves and came around to this guy and he was like 76 years old and he said hi my name is Arthur I'm an atheist I believe in God but if there were a God I think his name would be Arthur he was so cute and then he said I feel in my heart that we're all connected and I think we're all part of one mind and I was like hey Arthur it's like to me what people profess to believe in whatever it is it doesn't matter to me now I can see that they're who I am and so I just keep meeting myself wherever I go and fine, they don't call themselves whatever they want and say whatever they want that they believe in because love is an experience that's literally beyond belief and in A Course in Miracles Jesus said that belief is the domain of the ego the domain of the spirit so all these seemingly separate beliefs are just like artificial constructs and when I go to different countries I have a ball with everyone it's small they have translators that follow me around and then when the translators get stuck on a word there's somebody in the audience that knows what it is and it's like a group translating thing going on a friend of mine when I first got my passport she said you're going down to Argentina there's going to be a problem and I said the problem, what's the problem you know they don't speak English and you don't speak Spanish that's not a problem and it wasn't, there was translators all over it was seven, eight, nine, ten different translators while I was down there for a month everywhere they never had an issue they left me in a car one time where they were in Kerry and some friends were in buying train tickets and they left me with the cab driver in the front seat and they knew that I didn't speak any Spanish and that the cab driver didn't speak any English and they were in buying the tickets looking out and they saw us with our hands moving and talking and they were all inside the train station going what is going on up there they don't speak the same language well, when I was younger I had watched a lot of tennis and I remembered Argentina the tennis players Jose Luis Clare Guillermo Vilas so I just started throwing out some names and he got all excited it just so happens that he had grown up with tennis his whole life and he had seen these players and he got so excited and we were just having a great time and they were all like what are they doing? we looked like we were having so much fun and I think we spoke the same language but the Holy Spirit threw in a few words I know a few words but I had Jose Luis Clare Guillermo Vilas and off we went so that's really what it's about it's about the connection of the heart and really just being willing to let that shine and then you start calling forth all these witnesses in your life and it's really beautiful it's really a heart to heart connection that's there another example I got down there in 2003 in March and I'm halfway through my 19 consecutive course in miracles healing gatherings on 19 consecutive days just worked out just so perfect and the United States started dropping bombs on Baghdad right in the middle of my healing tour anti-American protests break out in the streets there's people marching and screaming and hollering there's banners across the street I'm just kind of watching it all very innocently like oh it's all this and there's a big banner across the street and it's in Spanish and I said to one woman who's with me what does that mean? what does that say? take up a living oh I'll speak it's a loving banner take up a living they have translators that follow me around and when the translators get stuck on a word there's somebody in the audience that knows what it is and it's like a group translating thing going on a friend of mine when I first got my passport she said you're going down to Argentina there's going to be a problem she said a language problem you know they don't speak English and you don't speak Spanish that's not a problem and it wasn't there was translators all over there was seven, eight, nine, ten different translators while I was down there for a month everywhere they never had an issue they left me in a car one time where they were carrying train tickets and they left me with the cab driver in the front seat and they knew that I didn't speak any Spanish and that the cab driver didn't speak any English and they were written by the tickets looking out and they saw us with our hands moving and talking and they were all inside the train going what is going on out there they don't speak the same language well when I was younger I had watched a lot of tennis I remember in Argentina the tennis players Jose Luis Clare Guillermo Villas I just started throwing out some names and he got all excited it just so happens that he was growing up with tennis his whole life seeing these players he got so excited and we were just having a great time and they were all like what are they doing so much fun but they didn't think we spoke the same language but the Holy Spirit threw in a few ones I know a few words C, Ola, Adios but I had Jose Luis Clare and Guillermo Villas and off we went so that's really what it's about it's about the connection of the heart and really just being willing to let that shine and then you start calling forth the colors in your life and it's really beautiful it's really a heart to heart connection that's there another example I go down there in 2003 in March and I'm like halfway through my 19 consecutive Course in Miracles union gatherings on 19 consecutive days just worked out just so perfect and the United States started dropping bombs on Baghdad right in the middle of my healing tour anti-American protests break out in the streets there's people marching and screaming and hollering there's banners I'm just kind of watching it all very innocently and there's a big banner across the street and it's in Spanish and I said one woman was with me what does that mean, what does that say and it said take your bush take up knitting oh, how sweet that's a loving banner take up knitting that's the kind of protest that you could really give yourself over to so I go to the gathering and I get there and I get to the gathering and the question is right off the bat the first one was what is your position and I'm in the middle of my healing gathering and I said I am the president and I translated it back to her in Spanish and then came back what do you mean don't you understand the question and I said no it's not really understandable I said we're all children of God we all come from love we can't let these ideas and beliefs of nationality and politics never get in the way we're all love that's what we're here for it's just to share all love and some of the heads started nodding nodding, nodding I said remember it's like the Beatles like John Lennon said and then I broke out into singing imagine imagine there's no heaven I got to that part imagine there's no country if you can nothing to kill or die for a brotherhood of men they all started singing with me in English and on keys and I had chills going up and down my spine I was just like it was like the reflection of my mind I showed up there just totally in love with everybody and not in the least bit thinking of conflict or war or whatever which is just the whole construct that would show separation and then I did quote a passage from A Course in Miracles where Jesus says the war against yourself is almost over now the war against yourself but know thyself is the end of war it's to hold on to this imposter this system this alien will of the ego that that's what the war is and that this whole world has been a projection of an identity confusion of forgetting who we really are and then projecting it out as if there's the evil ones or the scapegoats pointing the finger, blaming buying into the illusion and this ego wants us to keep pointing the finger at each other instead of forgiving and realizing that we really are in love we really do have so much love inside so after I sang the Imagine There's No Country and everyone sang with me we were all just basking in all this love and all the heads were then nodding and the claro, claro like ah, he's got it someone said he's got it and we all laughed together and that was the spirit of all the gatherings it was more like revivals where people were just laughing and talking