 Okay, hi everybody. Hello. Welcome to our Tabula Rasa online retreat weekend. So glad to have you here with us. And yeah, we have a beautiful theme. We have trust with settle every problem now. And I know we've got a wonderful movie coming up this weekend and we've got we have people from the monastery our community from the monastery sharing this evening. And, yeah, to start with today, we'll have David over there at the monastery in Utah, and we have Francis here in Mexico. I'm Peter by the way I'm hosting this weekend. I'll pass it over to David and Francis now. Thank you Pete. Thank you. Hi everyone. Hi Francis. Hi David. Hi everyone. What a great topic. What a wonderful topic we have. This is a topic that'll take us all down the rabbit hole farther than we ever even imagined possible. Isn't it great Francis we we just for talking today with all the things that seem to be happening in the world and they're all just lessons and deepening trust. Yeah, that's the only way you can look at it. Yeah, we woke up this morning with huge storm in Mexico last night and I was thinking, are we in the middle of the night when I woke up I thought, are we in the middle of a term tornado like because it feels like the the roaring of the lightning storm and the rain and the hail. And so this morning I was talking to David just yeah it's so symbolic and yet we're here kicking start our weekend in fixing our attention and focus to this to the Christ to the spirit and trusting doesn't really matter how the perceptual world is changing and shifting. There is something that is steady and is worthy of our attention. Yeah, they were all familiar with those times in our life where we feel intense emotional upset and you might just say it's just the unconscious mind that's being stirred up brought up into awareness. There was the very famous American mystic named peace pilgrim, and they asked her, what, what is a mystic and what is the function of a mystic and she said very matter of factly to stir people out of their apathy. So what a mission, imagine going around, and you're really stirring up an ego hornet's nest, when you really start to pray to God sincerely and say, I want happiness, I want peace I want joy, free my mind, and then Jesus is like, thank you, I was waiting for you to ask. And then he kind of sticks the big stick down into the hornet's nest and starts to do his work and so Francis and I were talking today a lot of you really don't know some of the early parables. I say BC for me BC is before the course. If you knew some of the things that I went through BC, even before I picked up a course in miracles, my intuitive voice was guiding me to step away from things that I should do in this world that I ought to do that that most people do you know in terms of achievements you know career and family and all kinds of things. And I just was following my intuitive inner prompts before the course and, wow, things got really stirred up in my perceptual world just from me being intuitive. And following my intuitive voice then things got stirred up and I know for Francis it was the same for you we both have a lot of things that were quite intense before the course came into our perceptual dreamscape. And then also after the course came there was a bunch too. So that's part of what we can share with you today because it hasn't not been a bed of roses. But then when you really get deep into your trust when you really let the trust in the Holy Spirit and your intuition grow really strong. Then actually it is a bed of roses. And you, you start to forget whatever seemed to come before it starts to fade from your mind where you're just seeing flowers and lilies and roses everywhere you look because that's what's coming from your heart. You're exuding that inner love and then all of a sudden everything starts to light up. And we've certainly have had lots and lots of that as well, including all of you showing up in our lives with such a blessing such a grace for us to experience such beloved ones. And both Francis and I, we receive your messages. So sometimes we're just moved to tears of joy by the messages you send in the heartfelt messages and you have written in a lot of messages today. You know, I've just been looking through them again today, the list grew. Francis, we, we have people from what is it 20 new people today and I was looking at the list of countries like you and isn't that amazing we've got some, some countries from all over Bermuda. Welcome. Mary from Bermuda. I have a lot of new people, even from different parts of the world, Finland, Germany, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain, and there's just new one new people who are joining us for the very first time. Big welcome to you. You know, yesterday I was reading our, we have just published a book called 5050 years of miracles. And yesterday I was reading part of that book. I read this part where Helen Shackman before she the course came. She started to have a lot of mystical experiences and dreams. And so she was asking for some context, like what is this all about. And an inner voice told her people from all over the world are called to partake a pre arranged celestial speed up of awakening. And when I read that I, and I saw all your names from different part of the world I was like, even just a weekend is a reflection of how, you know, we're called to partake this pre arranged pre arranged celestial speed up. The one that's guiding the ship is Jesus Christ. He is guiding the ship and we're just partake our part, like, say yes to our part. That's really all that we're doing. Yeah, yeah, Jesus tells us he was just the first to accept his part fully to accept the Atonement and therefore because he was the first seemingly to wake up now he's in charge. You know how it is when you do something well in this world with your mother or your dad says oh you did real good with that. I'm going to put you in charge of your brothers and sisters that says you succeeded so well. So Jesus is not any different than us he's basically saying I'm your equal we're all the same one I'm who you are, and you're who I am. And the only difference Jesus says between me and you is is the belief in time. Jesus doesn't believe in time anymore. And he's, he's in eternity. That's our eternal Christ self which is not male or female it's just an eternal pure being of love and light that is so holy that that there's nothing of time and space that can even touch that holiness it's so pure so pristine it's the I am that time appeared to be. So, you know, now I understand why I kept opening my heart up to Jesus because he was he was guiding me and, and, and helping me and Francis and I have a lot of stories of, of just being guided and brought through seeming perceptual storms, like, like the one they had in Mexico last night that was a perceptual howling storm. I had one of those recently where it howled like that in Cincinnati Ohio and yeah the power of the electricity for the city went off in many ways and places and last year at the monastery the rain torrents thunderstorms came so much that there was just huge gushes of water streaming onto the property from all angles and we had to. We had to get all kinds of mechanisms in place just to try to handle water management because we were flooded so strongly. It's not the typical things that you deal with, but they are perceptual storms, and that's what we want to remind you of that it's it's our fragmented perception that's the problem. And happily trust is the answer to all perceptual problems trust would settle every problem now. Trust seems to be occurring in your life, trust would handle the problem trust will bring you into present peace. And it's, it's something that we need a lot of development of because, as some of our friends have written in it's all. And Amanda writing in that you know it's not so much whether you have trust or not but it's what do you put your trust in. Are you trusting in your past learning to guide you are you trusting in the Holy Spirit in this moment to guide you that's really the precious thing it's not that you do have trust or you don't have trust it's not a quantifiable thing it's just what am I invested in. And so we'll, we'll share some of our lives today how we, we transferred our trust or powerful mind in our trust to Jesus and the Holy Spirit and away from the ego, and that's where the happiness comes in. Yeah, I mean, this path is actually really just to, to, for us to shift our minds so much that we stay away from habitually ego minded to habitually spirit, miracle minded spirit, my miracle mindedness because, you know, truly we live. You know, in the ego habit habitually ego minded thinking that's where I can identify, you know, before the course that's all that I was aware of. And everything that's going on around me in my perception is really a focus in the interpretation through the ego's lens. And this, this pathway Jesus is guiding us to, to form this habit of miracle mindedness, where the shift is truly in the mind and is, is not so much a problem solving approach. Because I remember Jesus says in the course that nobody understands, no one understands his problems. Because if he does the problem would cease to be so the only nature of the problem is that is not. And so basically, we do not understand anything through the ego. And that's really, you know, we put the context here we can't really rely on our own learning, we cannot really rely on our own thinking to try to find the freedom in our mind. And, and that's where I, you know, I feel that's that what is the foundation of this trust is really to admit. Maybe in order to find the freedom consistent, consistent peace of mind, I need help. I need help I cannot navigate my way out. And I feel like this is the promise of the course this is the promise of Jesus. And this is really where the peace lies to, to, to give our trust over to someone who can guide us through, not to ourselves. And I feel, you know, I feel like this is a very different because this morning, David and I were talking about this journey is not that difficult, but it's very, very, very different. It's very, very different because our focus has to shift completely from the perception to the correction. And the correction comes from within the correction comes from this, this intuition and this correction come from. A decision, desire to to see it differently. So it's very, very different and that is what what brings the experience that can keep us going. There are many, many experience through this kind of trust. And what, what is accepted in this world as, as commonplace as natural is basically just a belief system in specialness. This is a world of special places, special people, special events, special holidays, special gifts, special recognition specialness that takes the form of, of fame, or of wealth, or of skills and abilities. And the entire cosmos of time and space is built on specialness you might say that ego invented time and space the whole cosmos as a smoke screen or a projection screen to keep the mind asleep. You know, the ego invented time and space so to preserve itself, it's a death wish. So it invented all of time and space to hide, basically, so the ego is really got a big hiding going on I see Lucia young you over there and Great Britain you said, My biggest problem is I think I'm hiding from God. Very good. You're right on to the core. You're right on. You've only been with the course for two and a half years but already you got the core messages there's a hiding going on. And what happens is when you try to hide in time and space, in terms of the personality self, or achievements, accomplishments, kudos, awards, achievements, all the different things that is hiding from the light. The ego is made up a world where we think we can find glory and peace and happiness in the dust. But this world is a is a dream of dust basically stardust that we're in stardust dreams here, imagining we've separated from eternal life, and it's not going well. So, what we'd like to talk about today is how, like, with even before the course Francis and I were getting these inner prompts these intuitive prompts that actually led us to the course and led us to not just to study a course of miracles but to apply and practice it in our daily lives in our minds we were practicing mind watching mind training the course calls it. And, and this has been the, the systematic unwinding from specialness. When you look out throughout history, you know what are some of the people that light up for you when you look at all of human history for me. I like the humble souls, I like the simple ones. I like the ones that have those sparkly eyes, and that big smile on their face, and that have a state of contentment and a state of inner peace. Those are the ones sometimes we call the, the, the mystics and the saints. Those are the avatars those are the ones that reflected in time and space that there's another way that there's a peaceful way to live and glory to God for all the saints and mystics I've, I've loved reading the lives of the saints and mystics because it was all for me, all for my mind, you know, what have you got to show me. Is there a dark night of the soul then tell me about it what did you go through what did you base what did you realize. And so