 Gambler Jake Green is out of jail after seven years in solitary confinement, having taken the fall for his boss. During this time, the time has taken him inward. He has been shown the game and how to win it. He has one final lesson when he turns up in Vegas looking to exact revenge on his perceived enemy, the corrupt casino boss, Maka. Mr. Green still believes that cash is king and that having money and power is winning. The spirit must reach us wherever we believe we are. This is the story of redemption through the exaggerated filter of gangster respect and fear. Here, at a gross level, can the game of human life truly be seen? Everything we do is motivated to maintain a facade, a self-concept. That is why we stay in terrible jobs or bad relationships. We desire to be right about who we believe we are. We stay for that slap on the back that says you are a good guy, a good gangster, a good father. The greatest con that the ego ever pulled was making you believe that he is you. That his thoughts and feelings are yours. So it's like a hijack of identity and the greatest con is making believe that he is you. We do not always recognize our mighty companions when they show up. Avi and Zack teach Jake that he is still in prison and that it is his mind that needs to be freed from the game. He's got out of prison and he thinks he's free man now. He's got his money back, his old gangster ways and he's going to go get revenge on the boss that put him sending away to jail. Show him who's really boss. In the truly practical application of the principles he has learned, they lead him through a series of assignments designed to flush the ego who in this movie is called Mr. Gold. Mr. Gold sees everything in the world. He goes world and the transcend Mr. Gold fully into awareness. Mr. Green must give all to have all. It's a lesson from the course to have give all to all. And then he's going back to kill, to kill the guy that he thinks has put him in prison. And these two Holy Spirit characters show up and say oh no, that's not what the assignment is. You're going to give him exactly what he wants and it goes against all of his instincts for revenge. So the Spirit is going to take his mind and flip it around and show him through almost like casinos with Las Vegas symbols about the way to go back to God through to the thing you'd never imagined. Who's Mr. Gold? Mr. Gold is the symbol for the ego. He's the old boss, right? Makas the boss. Mr. Gold is someone, everyone refers to Mr. Gold in the movie but nobody knows. So it's almost like oh Mr. Gold, fear, fear. You have to fear it but it's different. Fear, power, money, all the things that the world offers. Fame is Mr. Gold. And Maka, who's the guy in the place? Ray Leata. Ray Leata plays him. Ray Maka. Oh he plays a vicious gangster. And oh the end scenes. I think of all the movies clips we show. People, their mouths drop and they rave and they tell all their friends they run out. I've never seen this one scene, my God, I've never seen a scene like this in a movie ever because it shows pulling the mind away from the ego in a showdown in an elevator scene because Jake is afraid of tiny spaces. So the Holy Spirit takes him into the tiny space of an elevator and stops it. Everyone's afraid if they're in the elevator that it will stop. They take him into his greatest fear so that he can face the imposter. And it's a very intense scene. I mean it's amazing they even made a motion picture out of this. But you'll remember, you'll go home tonight. If you remember one scene you'll remember the elevator scene. Because that's like a showdown of the spirit overcoming the ego and transcending that fear forever. And once he does you should see his face. This is the main character, he's just so serene and so clear. And then he has to face one more giant temptation by the ego after he reaches the calm, almost like, and now demonstrated. Show it. Show, prove it. Show that you really have reached that clarity and serenity. And in a truly magnificent elevator scene he recognizes that the voice of fear is not his real identity. Now truly released in a state of forgiveness, nothing can touch him. So he goes into a state of perfect invulnerability. And it's only 45 minutes. This is the Holy Spirit's pick for us tonight. Oh, we asked the questions. It's very direct. It's almost like the Spirit wants to take us as directly and rapidly as possible back into our remembrance of our true self. And the ego is heavily defended. And so, you know, the pride, you'll see as we move on, the pride is his greatest block. Yes, he still has anger and he still wants revenge. He still believes cash is king and power. He's got all these egoic beliefs. The Holy Spirit is like coming in with a very strong intervention. And we're going to see some pretty direct scenes where the Spirit's just going to give him a whole context about this world and Mr. Gold. And this is a game you can't win because everybody's challenged to be successful in this world, to win the game, to play, meet the world on the world's terms and do well. And they're basically going to say, you know, it's actually, it's a game you can't win. And you're still in prison, you know, they're going to point out to him, it's still in his mind. But he's still pretty resistant even though he's, he got the thing about his disease and dying and everything. You know, he's got quite a lot of resistance and he will have. He's, he's identified as being a gangster. So it would be like going from gangster to enlightened, from gangster to Ramana Maharshi. You know, it's just in one, one swing. So it's, but it's such a good teaching device because, you know, you can see for yourself like, ah, this is where it's actually his pride that is where the resistance, the sacrifice idea comes in. Everything that he's resisting is coming from pride. Yeah, it's kind of like even with healing, like if someone will say had received an instantaneous healing, they may be so threatened by that healing that they may try to kill themselves because it's too much and it's too radical. In other words, like when we think of sickness even in the body and symptoms, the ego of mind selects those symptoms. It actually selects the symptoms and then sometimes you have to have a mixture of magic and miracle. There has to seem to be doctors or agents or operations or something because the mind is too terrified of healing. It's like too shocking of losing control of its own personal identity that it actually would kill itself. And it's a similar thing here with giving up of judgment that if the judgment was given up too rapidly and the ego had too sharp of a reaction, you know, it may be like a point of despair or hopelessness for the ego. It's like a suicidal tendency. So it really has to be slow because its ego just is apt to be perceived as personally insulting. And when there's that much resistance, then it's like the healing has to hold off. The mind has to come to this healing willingly and voluntarily. Otherwise it feels like God is coercing a healing or something. It's kind of like in the Course where Jesus says if you have a baby that takes a hold of some scissors, the scissors are sharp. But if you try to just rip the scissors out of the baby's hands, the baby will cry. And it's hand on the scissors, even though it can harm it. It likes the scissors in those hands. Like when babies grab a hold of something, you try to pull it away from them. Even if it would harm them, they scream. Because they don't know. Because they don't know. And it's the thing like judgment is really damaging in awareness to the mind. But if it would come off too quick, it would be like a huge reaction. Almost like a temper tantrum, like a scream. So they're working with him and you're working to get to hear all of his thoughts. He's been doubting their motives all along. And we'll see how that intensifies. Because it's pride. Those thoughts are all pride. And the Spirit is trying to say, you know, let's get those thoughts away. Let's give up those thoughts. And the pride is like trying to hold on. But because this is like a mini movie, we're going to see it all kind of in a very focused way. It's almost like taking many, many years of awakening and it's compressing it down to like a 45-minute mini movie of what the whole process is with the key points along the way. Like you have to follow the instructions. The Spirit knows the way that ego doesn't. The ego will throw up all kinds of defenses and resistances to it. As if it's being conned by the Holy Spirit. Because he's so suspicious, he's just used to being conned. And that's the way it goes in, oftentimes in relationships. We were talking, you were going to get married and all of a sudden there's this rapid turn away, almost strange and everything. But you know, in this movie, if it's too threatened, you know, then that would shut down the whole process. There has to be a sense of steps, otherwise it just gets too much, too fast and the mind just wants to shut down. The money was his king, so it was very hard for him. So they had him landing money to all the ones who can't pay him back. And his rule, one of the rules was they have to pay something back. Like you've got to give something. Like I've got to get something. Someone's got to pay for it. And so they had him give away, give away, give away money to all the ones who don't have like nothing to pay back. And it was like, yeah, so that was kind of like a stepping stone. Like the chorus, to have, give, all to all. The Holy Spirit is starting to reverse all the ego beliefs. But you have to actually step into it to see that you're healing. When you've always been take, take, take, then the first lesson in the Holy Spirit is the three lessons is to have, give, all to all. Yeah, and the thing is, even like in the movie, he came to that, like because it was painful for him to give away, but he came to that himself too. That's also like Holy Spirit's curriculum. He's like, no, like, I can't take anything back. So that was like, that was over. So now that was like, pushed him into this. That was like a stepping stone into whatever is going to happen, like here, right now. And it's really the teaching of the course that the workbook lessons are set up where Jesus says, he's even going to give you 365 lessons, but he says, here's the two rules. You have two guidelines, you know, and transfer the training. Don't do more than one lesson a day. And then he says that if you can achieve, if you could forgive one person, basically it will transfer to everyone in the whole universe. It's not cumulative. That's why even with relationships, if you have a partner and you make a commitment to hold no grievances, then you can go just from with one person and seeing one person with no past brings you back into eternity. It's not cumulative. It's just all you have to do it for one instance with one person. He says it can save you thousands of years, lifetimes. And he says, even he talks about meditation, as Jesus calls meditation, it will actually get you where you're going, but Jesus calls meditation tedious and time-consuming. So now you're dealing with the Master. Anyone who calls meditation tedious and time-consuming has a better way. He says your way will be a holy relationship, which is basically see just one person without a past. Just one, for one instance. And you're back in eternity that quick. So now what they're going to do with Jake is his whole motive was revenge against Maka. So basically they're saying one more lesson here, one more assignment. You're going to have to go up and don't say it here, you know, give him whatever he asks. And that's the last thing he wants to do. He wants to go up and kill him. And they're telling him go give him whatever he asks. It's like a total reverse of the ego. Just in one swift move to free him of all his pain, of all his suffering, of all his human life and everything, just one thing. So this is like the major setup. And this is going to set up him to go upstairs into Maka's room in the middle of the night and face him. And then you get to see the ego roaring because the ego wants to kill him. And the spirit is like, now remember what the lesson is here. And then eventually it takes us right into the elevator scene, which is probably one of the most magnificent scenes ever recorded at showing how to transcend the ego. So here we go. It goes pretty quick, but this is like all packed into a little short space. And it's just all there. Oh my goodness. This is actually how we started going around the country. What we did was we took clips from all these great movies. We probably went and let us look for tonight. We confused the nines. That he's just making the whole thing up. So he believes he has a wife and a daughter. And he's a family man. And he's really tied into that. He loves his wife, loves his daughter. And then there's this blonde woman, his long blonde hair, and she's kind of inserted in to rescue him from his dream. Oh my God. And she's going to make the rescue. She's going to start talking about it. You forgot you made this whole thing up. You're still trying to re-arrange the pine cones. Like you're playing, you're tinkling with all the things in the game, but you don't realize it. You just made it up. And this isn't you. You don't have a wife. You don't have a daughter. Let me tell you a secret. She whispers blonde hair in his ear, you're not a man. Never been a man. She just comes zooming in to the thing with the spirit to help him come out of it. And then he's got to make a decision because he thinks, he's so into the game of the characters of the being the father and the husband and everything. And he likes that. And she's got to help him pull out of it because it's keeping him from recognizing his whole identity. Then he's got to make the decision. He's been avoiding the light and avoiding the love by addiction to people. Addiction to people. He's got a people addiction. And she's coming in and he says, is this a murder? And she said, no, it's not a murder. It's an intervention. Are you trying to kill me? No, it's not a murder. It's an intervention. So she loves him so much that she's kind of like an insertion into his dream to save him misery and pain and suffering. But that's, most people don't, they think of substance abuse, but they don't, I think people who have been through really intense relationships can see that there's some kind of addiction going on. We call it codependency and dependency that's going on. This is giving it from a much higher perspective. People on this planet are your drug of choice. Like we had Avi and Zach were there to give very specific directions in context for healing and forgiving. They're coming in in the sense that he has totally, he has so much amnesia about the love and the light, the warm love and light place that he came from, which they'll remind him of. And they'll ask him, do you remember it? And he can remember vaguely about it, but it's been so pushed out of awareness. And also he's forgotten that he's made up all the characters, all of the characters. And that's what the ego made up all the characters. So in the minds identified with the ego, it projects out all these characters and they're just acting out the fear, the doubt, the attack thoughts. And that's why we have to give up the attack thoughts in the mind. And then we do draw different characters sometimes. I mean, if you think overall in the history of the planet, the Jesus, the Buddhas, the Gandhis, the avatars that have come, everything, those are like reflections of our divinity that we're seeing snippets. But it's even beyond the characters. The ego made all the characters and the spirit is just using the characters. It's like puppets to say, oh no, no, it's completely beyond anything in this world. And so this is so good because it shows all the human emotions, his attachments to being the role that he's playing, to want to somehow make it work, find a way to make it work, all the things that have been tried but are unsuccessful. This is giving a much deeper context to why our struggles have gone on for so long with no success is because we're still tinkering around. It's like moving the chess pieces. Like they were doing Avi and Jake were moving chess pieces all the time. And Avi was even letting him win and then going, oh, you're good at this, you're good, but then here comes the teachings like you still have to forgive, you know. And so that's what's happening here. So now you'll just hear every word that comes out of her mouth. She's a spirit, instead of a life coach, she's a spiritual life coach just giving him the full context of you really do need to wake up because you're never going to be satisfied just playing some characters, playing a game that really doesn't have anything to do with reality. The characters can sometimes freak out when there's this intense, I remember how I said today, you never forget how frightened your brothers are. That's what the unwinding is. So they're getting in the vehicle here to go back. Now you'll hear it's a beautiful scene. It's a beautiful kind of familiar scene in the world. Husband, wife, daughter in the country drive going home. And picturesque and going home, the hearth, the home, where they'll get into the blankets and they'll have their getting pajamas and all the things we associate with good warm snuggly feelings. Meanwhile, we listen to the song that's playing in the background. I can't run far, I can't run far. I will always be found, I will always be found. In other words, the spirit's going to find us. We think we're searchers and seekers in this world for the truth. Really, the truth and the light is coming at us. The light is like, oh, I didn't forget you. I'm coming for you. Because you belong in eternity, you belong forever in love. So the song, even you have this beautiful, I love this scene, all these beautiful familiar sights and sounds of a family. The song is, I won't run far, I won't run far. I can always be found, I can always be found. That's like the spirit answering, I can always find you. I will always be found. No matter how far away, time and space I run, I'll always be found. I'll always be called back. Oh, and this is what this movie is. It's really like, this little snippet of the movie is so strong because it's like such a strong call. But now this is the easy. And this will take us into another scene where he's going to go and he's just going to lay at night, but he's going to have his eyes open because he can't sleep. He can't just fall asleep business as usual. He's had a calling. He's been activated by spirits to come with us, come home, come back. That's beautiful. I have met so many people in all my travels around the world. Some of them have out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, experiences of being abducted and UFOs. One friend, he was like a businessman. He was like a really, really a solid identity as a businessman. And he was walking with me one time and he said, I said, how did you get into all this stuff? And he said, well, I was walking along those streets and then something took over my body and walked me into a New Age metaphysical bookstore. And I said, well, how did you feel? And he said, well, I walked in and I was judging what was happening. And then when I walked into this bookstore, I thought I was one of those stupid, he's like corporate, you know, stupid New Age bookstores and he's going, being walked around in this bookstore and judging the books, just thinking this is a bunch of bunk and stuff because he's so identified as corporate. And then he gets walked to the back of the book and it's the owner is sitting there smiling, going, hey, I'm glad you came in. He's like, oh, I don't even know what I'm doing with this and this. And then the owner looked at him and smiled and he went, I recognize you. And my friend was like, what? You recognize me? I recognize you. You're like an admiral, aren't you? And my friend, his hobby was sailing and so he loved to sail ships like an admiral or captain and everything. And then the guy said, you know, you were, we were together, you were an admiral on the Palladian ship. What? And then he thought to himself, I don't know what that Palladian stuff is, but it started to, it resonated and he was like shocked that it resonated and then people tell me after that all these things unfolded where he left his business behind. He got into the book, the metaphysical bookstore. He became, he sold books. He became publishing a metaphysical magazine called Way of the Heart about waking up. It all started with, it all started with, it hit a total of 180. And I meet so many people to hear their like everyday stories of how they were, everything starts to turn. And then he met Suzanne, this is not the one we know but over in Australia. And he told, and they tell you all their adventures and this was the guy that brought me to Australia and took me on tours. And the more he traveled with me, he would like, he would have trouble functioning. Like he, you know that emptiness feeling you were feeling, he started to feel like so giddy and happy when we would like travel along the coast of Australia and then he would get up in front of a group and he'd say, you know what it's like to travel with this guy? He said, you get so like lightheaded and you lose track of things and you don't feel like, he said, I can't, I feel like, I feel like at times I can't function, I can't function anymore. And so I was out with him walking and I said, well what did you mean by you can't function? And he said, I don't feel grounded. I feel like I'm just getting up there and soaring and it's almost like, yeah, it's just getting more ethereal. So I just said to him like the thing with the car going, it's familiar. I said, well what would it take, Raj, for you to feel grounded? And he said, what would it take? If you came out to dinner with me and we both split a bottle of red wine and had a big steak. A big? Wow. That was, in his mind, that was the most grounded thing he could come up with. It's a big bottle of wine and a big steak. And I said, okay, let's go. So we did, because he was having trouble, we couldn't count the donations. He started to get so slap happy and giddy that he couldn't do the thing. He set up a tour, but he couldn't even do the functions of the tour. But there's so many of these stories of just people that are like, they finally just say yes to spirit, like okay, I'm going for it. I don't know where this is going to end, but he's had a very, very happy life. But nothing that he ever planned. It's always something like, beyond what you can imagine. Like the spirit just has, using whatever you believe in to take you step by step. So it's like meeting you, met him where he was at, and then again and again and again and again. Oh wow. Yeah. It's amazing. Just those stories just go on and on. Boat loads full of people that I met, walking up to me and just going, I need to talk to you. I had this out-of-body experience and it's freaky. And I'll say, well, what was it like? And they'll describe it. And I'll say, yeah. And suddenly I was up in the corner of the room and I was viewing my body on the couch. It was the freakiest thing. I tried to swim back into my body, but I couldn't. And I said, what was it like? I said, well, I could see. I could see. I could smell. I could hear. I had all my five senses. And I said, but you were in the corner of the room. That's right. But I could see. I still could see and hear. And I said, but you didn't have any eyeballs. That's right. And you didn't have any ears. That's right. What does that tell you? That your five senses are not part of the body. They're part of consciousness. You don't even need eyeballs to see or ears to hear. So I was like, oh my God, it's true. I was in the corner of the room. I could see and hear everything, but I didn't have any eyeballs or ears. And I said, yes. The eyes don't see. They're just projections. The ego is tricking us to think that we're actually seeing out of eyeballs and hearing through ears. It's so sneaky. It's made up a fake world. And then it convinces the mind that it sees through the body and hears through the body when it actually isn't. And that experience, that one out-of-body experience, I said, see that showed you that the five senses are part of consciousness. They're not part of the body. And I said, that's just another advancement in waking up. So every little thing that happens to anybody has like huge significance in terms of a much bigger picture of freeing the mind from the identification with the body because it's a trick. It's like a grand trick. But the mind is so accustomed to it like he was in there, this last Jake. He was very identified as the husband and the father. I like this world, he said. So we say trick and grand trick. Is it an intentional? It's an intentional trick. The ego is wanting to perpetuate guilt and keep the mind off. It convinced you that it's you. Remember the first movie there? It wants you to believe that it is you. And then once it does complete that, then it doesn't want you to ever see that it's not you. Because if you saw that you're not the ego, then you would be something else. And the ego doesn't want you to see what you really are. Because of the shame. If you saw who you really are, then there's no ego. It's like game over. So it gives a whole context to this whole waking out in a very deep way. And then suddenly when you percolate these ideas and you start to give it over, then you start to say, wow, then what would you have me do? Where would you have me go? How can I open up to my joy in the fastest way possible to be of service to the whole universe, the whole one mind? The one mind is behind the veil of all the sleeping minds in the sleeping bodies and whatever. It's all there. That last movie made me feel really scared. The one we just saw? Yeah, because it felt so like it's not exactly what happened with me. I mean it's like, I don't know what happened with Alan. I don't know if he had some experience like this blonde woman coming to him or whatever. But it just, I don't know. I just have this feeling right here and I feel like all of a sudden that's like, oh my god, nothing's real. Who are all these people? I all of a sudden start to feel really alone and really scared. Yeah, that happens too. Because it's like the associations that were familiar that we were thinking was the love. It starts to loosen so we're like, love is still real but if it's not there then the mind starts fishing a bit like, well then where is it? And that's why we need so much love and so much convincing to help us be confident in the new way because otherwise the ego will interpret that something real is being taken away. Yeah. And when that happens then the mind can start to close down and, you know, or it can even feel coerced. Almost like the spirit's coercing but the spirit never coerces. It's just the ego perceives that something valuable is being sacrificed or lost. So, like I say, that's why I got into the course like 25 years ago and it's been, that was just when I began traveling exactly 30 years ago but it was more just that attitude of like, okay, I'm going to take it easy and just show me, gently, convince me, show the way, show the way. Because, yeah, probably the fear was coming up just like you were saying that Alan went to a spiritual teacher and then so abruptly just left almost like what did that... What did she say? What did she say? What did the spiritual teachers say? And you wouldn't tell them that you asked them? Yeah. But I feel like if it was coming from a loving, like, spirit place then you wouldn't be so abrupt. I could be wrong. I'm curious. I would also throw you in. What's that? He would also tell you what was, if it was something that was... Heart-opening. Heart-opening and helpful. Yeah. He would want to share and extend that. Yeah. But because he didn't, there was probably a ego thing or I'm just like so confused. Well, remember what I was saying how it all really works together for the good. In other words, no accident that he seemed to exit that you seemed to come here and you seemed to go through this weekend of like light bulbs going on, insights and insights. Oh, very good. Because it's all for the good. In other words, it's the prayer of our heart, spirit. You know, anything that could hold me back from coming home to you, please take this from me and anything that would help me open up, please bring it to me. And that's like our prayer of our heart. So then these beautiful witnesses just start coming all the people and the puppy dogs and the baby and the music and, you know. And so it's actually working for the good and it does get doubtful whenever we look at one of the characters and we say, what really was your motive? And Jesus at one point in the course he says it's dangerous to analyze the motives of others. Because you always use your ego when you analyze the motives of others. If they'd only told us that, you know, in the owner's manual it's dangerous to analyze the motives of others. That would have kept us out of professions. We would never become lawyers. Oh, my God. We would never have gone. We would never have been steered in those ways. I'm not getting into that. That's just total analyzing the motives of others and trying to manipulate things for an outcome. So, yeah, it's quite amazing because in the end it doesn't really matter in the sense that if you have that deeper trust like I'm going home to God and God is sending me the perfect things and at the time something happens like I was sharing with you when it's abrupt it's just shocking. It's just an initial shock with it. And then in retrospect we've even got a movie that's called Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow. We were talking about that. Yeah, where she gets fired from her job and in one scenario she catches the train back and she catches her boyfriend in bed with another woman and it shocks her initially but it's actually helpful because she starts to see by why he's not the one that she's supposed to be with and she meets this amazing man after she's shocked and then in the other scenario she doesn't catch the train the little girl blocks her and she gets mugged and she gets home too late and her lying boyfriend the woman is gone and he's just lying to her and lying and lying and lying and she feels intuitively something's off but she doesn't have the evidence where the one scenario she got the evidence shows she had the evidence she said no no and she went into this amazing relationship that she really could open her heart up and so those are like amazing movies too to show that it's really working together for our good but the ego wants to judge that something terrible has gone wrong and that we messed up or something could have been different and it tries to send us down a real dark interpretation Yeah, I feel that like what's wrong with me what did I do wrong? That's why you're here to be loved and nurtured, yeah I think there's a part inside that it yearns so deeply for love and what that equates to is that in heaven love is perfect continuity there's no breaks there's no loss there's no ending it just goes on like a clear day song forever and ever and ever and ever and it's such a fond memory it's an ancient memory like it's still there that's been so covered over and so what I feel is what we've got here and this is what I tell people when I go around the world and everything is that these relationships that these configurations are going into now they're lifelong relationships we are in a lifelong relationship you know, we and I see these people as like crisscross around the world but we do crisscross we invite like I was invited here then we say come you come where we are come over here they are lifelong relationships because they are awakening relationships it's the purpose brought us together the hope of course is to find like a partner like a fiancé or you have somebody you're married you talk about having a family and children that's continuity that's where the love seems to be even in a family configuration there's a steadiness I'll stay with you we'll stay through the good through the bad through the difficult we'll be there together we'll grow together there's a continuity that the mind is seeking and this very vibration that brought us together kind of in this quantum way is I just say we are lifelong relationships you know we're in it for the ascension the ascension has brought us together for that purpose