 Hi everybody. Welcome. Good to see you all. Welcome to our All Day Movie Workshop. I'm Peter for those joining you. David's going to give a commentary today for something I haven't seen, a movie I haven't seen before, so I'm looking forward to that. And so for those who are new, I'll just let you know how the day will flow. We have David who will show the movie to start with and give a commentary. And then afterwards we have a 10 minute break. That's a time where you can submit questions and prayers. And then we have the ending session with David and he can respond to everything that's come in. So I'll pass it straight over to you now David. Thank you Peter. Hi everyone. Good to have you with us today. It's a beautiful deep dive and this is a movie that I've never shown before. It just came to me during this week and yeah, it's just, it just really touched my heart. I actually at some point in the movie I just had tears of joy and love welling up at the depiction of the kindness and the love and the care that comes through us when we truly do have a desire to heal and to extend that healing to all of our brothers and sisters. And it's the most wonderful thing to have your heart activated because inside of you is everything inside is is the love of Christ ready to, as he says radiates through you and out into the world. And that's really what it's all about is is extending the love and the kindness of Christ. And so, a lot of you have been using a course in miracles in your pathway to self realization or to the accepting the atonement and waking up from the dream for giving the dream. If you study a course in miracles you'll notice that Jesus pulls from some schools of thought and and fields of study that have emerged since his original appearance in 2000 years ago. To me when I look at the Bible and the, I always say the red letters is the words of Jesus in the in the Gospels. I really see that everything is there everything is offered and it's just the most glorious message of forgiveness of non judgment and of acceptance of God's love that you can find it so so clear. And then in the 2000 years since we have the Bible and Jesus's appearance on earth, then a few things have happened and a couple of the fields of study that that happened in the last 2000 years was the field of education. And then also the field of psychology and psychiatry. And it's quite interesting to me that when Jesus is addressing us through a course in miracles, he is, he's basically pulling from Christianity, which has been existing for the 2000 years he's pulling from the field of psychology, which is much more recent in human history. And then he's also pulling from the field of education, because most of us have gone through education in our lives and so we do have a terminology that is part of our common language when we talk about curriculum. Most of us understand what curriculum means. When we talk about having a learning goal. Most of us go Oh yeah, learning goal. When, when we talk about these aspects of education, we usually are referring to the knowledge that is imparted to us through our parents and through our teachers or educators throughout our life. And we have have had a little bit of exposure to the field of psychotherapy. Kenneth, Kenneth Clifford there he dabbled in that I've dabbled in that some of us have dabbled into psychology and psychotherapy and and psychiatrists, to some extent, although that gets a lot into medication. So, as the country starts to lean heavily over towards the medical model, but basically Jesus's message of a course in miracles is that God created us, and we exist as an idea in the mind of God. Our true identity is the Christ idea in the mind of God and this idea is completely abstract. So, no matter how many examples you give, and you say, Jesus, can you give me some examples of the Christ idea. I can't, because it's pure light. It. There's nothing on earth that resembles an abstract idea, all of the, the concepts of earth, which, which really make up the world they fill the split mind they fill up consciousness. All of these concepts are are simply to be unlearned released undone, and all of the mystics and saints going back even many years before Jesus was Buddha who was empty. Empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know, and then Jesus and all of the mystics and saints of the last 2000 years have had the same message empty your mind of everything you think you think, think you know, it's really a pretty simple message. There was a sermon on the mount from Jesus back 2000 years ago. That's what he meant when he said judge not lest you be judged that if you hold a concept in your mind about your identity, then you will see the whole world through the filter of that concept. You hold a concept of a body, you believe you're a body you see everybody as bodies. You see people as bodies you see animals as bodies. You don't even say a tree has a tree body, or a cloud has a cloud body. You see it's it doesn't just apply to flesh, the flesh of animals or humans it's, it's everything if you think if you believe in molecules then you have molecule you have electrons if you believe in electrons, then you have electron bodies. You know you see anything that you can think of in time and space is part of the self concept. This means that what Jesus is really teaching us with the course is that is long as you look through the filter of the ego, you will see yourself and everyone else and everything else in a very distorted way as if it's fragmented and separate. And the whole message of a course of miracles is hallelujah there's only one of us. There's always only been one of us. There has never been more than one of us. And that one of us is a Christ ideal not Jesus the man, even the course of miracles says Jesus. The man was an illusion, it says because it seemed to be a separate body walking apart from other bodies and that itself is the definition of fragmentation. And Jesus says twice in a course of miracles, forgive me your illusions. Most people get stumped when they read that they're like, Why do I have to forgive Jesus. God, I've had trouble forgiving my mother my father. Please don't tell me I have to forgive Jesus and Jesus is actually telling us. Yeah, forgive the man. Forgive time and space, forgive everything you've ever learned from history or everything you've ever believed and accept us are oneself as the living Christ. That is what reality is. We are an idea in the mind of God. The idea of Christ was created so perfectly that nothing could ever come to disturb that idea. That idea is is invulnerable. That idea is is eternal. It's infinite. It can't die. A creation of God lives forever and the Christ lives forever in the mind of God. So really, when we talk about self realization or know thyself or self actualization all we're talking about is remembering our true identity. It's really the only purpose that we have, we may think we have earth purposes, but every time we get too stuck on those the angels are just laughing going, Oh my God, it's still silly they. It's still this belief that you have to do something to be who you already are, and that is the biggest joke that you have to do something to be who you are. The reason the ego sponsors the do something is because the ego invented the body and the world and then it put a lot of pressure on that body. Do the right thing, say the right thing, act the right way. You feel like if you feel like you're in a straight jacket on planet Earth is because yeah that's what the ego is it's like a, it's like a trap. It's a prison. It's a prison in the mind. So today's movie will be very psychological today. If you who just know bits and pieces of psychology. Jesus is going to use this movie to put on a workshop. This is Saturday morning mind workshop 101. He's, he's going to give us the full discourse on the mind through this movie. So if you've ever been puzzled by the mind or confused by the mind or you were afraid of the mind, or you thought I am not worthy or any of these ideas. Jesus is going to say well, it's just, it's just my imagination running away with me. It's just the ego imagination running away with your happiness. And now it's time to get your finger out and say come back ego. I actually value my happiness. Please don't take my happiness on an imagination ride. I don't you're taking it to the amusement park, and my happiness does not belong in the amusement park. My happiness belongs with me and God in heaven. That is where our happiness is. So, as usual, we had some themes and the way that this movie came about was through an offering from Jesus as a teaching device to help us experience directly the themes that we have voted on. And I think the important words are experienced directly. It's, it's not about trying to learn something about the world or how the split mine operates. Don't be concerned about learning and memorizing defense mechanisms. We're here to release defense mechanisms. We're not here to explore them. And if you think, oh my gosh, Jesus is going to talk about the mind today. Good. I really wanted to learn all I can about ego dynamics. Let me tell you the ego has no dynamics because dynamics are life. And the ego is a death wish. So anytime someone tries to analyze your ego dynamics, you can tell your psychotherapist. I'm not interested in ego dynamics. I'm interested in knowing who I am, and I'm interested in forgiving the concept of ego dynamics. So, there is one part of a course of miracles where Jesus says the ego enjoys the study of the mind. So when Jesus says that, you know that when he's talking about the mind, he is not encouraging us to study the mind. He's encouraging us to free the mind. Free the mind of everything it thinks it thinks free the mind of everything it thinks it believes. And some of you have heard some of the words that we will use today, you know, I will talk a little bit about paranoid schizophrenia. I will talk about psychosis. I will talk about DID. Some of you don't know what DID is. DID is dissociative identity disorder. It's dissociating from your real true identity and going into what is commonly called multiple personalities. If you look out your window and you see a world that has 7.8 billion different multiple personalities. This is DID this is dissociative identity disorder. Now, in 1976, there's a movie that came out called Sibyl. Did anybody ever hear of the movie Sibyl? That's a pretty common one. It's multiple personality disorder. Sibyl had quite a few personalities and then there's been a trilogy that came out more recently, starting with the movie Split. And there are so many movies. If you get inspired by what I'm showing you today and you think, wow, I would really like to start to see the world in a way that's different from multiple personalities, which is the standard accepted way of seeing the world. And yeah, I could recommend a few for you. There's one called Voices Within, The Lives of Trudy Chase, Sibyl 1976, Frankie and Alice, David and Lisa, Waking as 1962, Waking Madison, Three Faces of Eve, Fight Club, Primal Fear, A Tale of Two Sisters, Identity. You really get fired up today and you go back and listen to the audio recording and you think, oh, I'm going to get this lesson one way or the other. I've been, I've been suffering from dissociative identity disorder and I'm going to somehow I'm going to get past this with Jesus. And I realize how absolutely ridiculous it is to believe in private minds with private thoughts who go their own way and we call these human lives. We call them real human lives. And I ask people, when were you born? Or what year did they die? Or which personality is which with which other personality, you know, that's what the gossip columns about who is with who, which altar, which is that's a psychological term from DID which altar is with another altar. Who, which altar is which with which alter it all of this is is presuming separation and fragmentation. We're not interested in DID. Did is the word did and did is past tense. We're interested what do I do now. We're interested in what I did because did was dissociative identity disorder. So, here are the themes that you voted for this week. And you can see right away the number one theme is going to address that number one going from, I can do it to you do it through me. You see the difference there. We were taught when we were growing up, you know, just believe in yourself, believe in yourself, believe you can do it, you can do it, you can do it. All that math test is very hard, you can do it. Now, we tried it on our own and actually it didn't go very well we, we tried to do it on our own and it was miserable. We were miserable. We were on our own but deep inside we've known we'd be back to set things straight. Yeah, going from I can do it to you do it through me. Number two, realizing that I have nothing to prove to be loved and accepted. Isn't that wonderful. That's 51 votes, realizing I have nothing to prove to be loved and accepted. So all the concepts you have in your life to your husband to your wife to your children to your parents to your neighbors. Apply that to your community. If you're in a spiritual community. I have nothing to prove to be loved and accepted isn't that wonderful. I am perfect as God created me right now and I have nothing to prove to be loved and accepted. And that is pointing towards total worthiness, like total complete worthiness of love absolute worthiness. Number three to have give all to all. That's a big one. The personality self is based on the belief in getting. So, even when we're encouraged to be giving as human beings be be generous as human beings be be charitable as human beings the ego is underneath that false sense of giving because the ego only gives in order to get. If I give what will I get in return. If I give what's in it for personality me what's in it for little me. What's in it for many me. Okay, I can bake a cherry pie, but what's in it for many me. Okay, I can give away money but what's in it for many me is there any recognition or fame or attention you see this to have give all to always the first lesson of the Holy Spirit in the text and he's basically saying in order to wake up to know your Christ identity to be in a give all to all state of mind because God only gives. And so if we want to know ourself as an idea in the mind of God then we would have to know ourselves as as a pure gift. Not something that has a tail attached to it not something that has an and like I am here to give love. And yeah Jesus like chop the and off this to have give all to all nothing else just give all to all. That's the state of mind that that is part of our waking self. Number four, my mind is not governed by the laws of this world. Yeah, that's one of the keys in this movie is because our main character is going to be played by Richard gear. How many of you like Richard gear as an actor. Oh, I like to look into his eyes. I see the Buddha when I look into Richard gear's eyes. And he's going to play a doctor. In this movie is his name is Alan stone and he's going to play a doctor who's who's really a kind doctor who is a doctor who feels like we can always do more for the patients. But we can always be more loving we can always be more kind. You know I think the reason that in this movie that this doctor Alan stone, played by Richard gear the reason he got into his profession was because he wanted to be helpful. What a beautiful reason to go into a profession, because you want to be truly helpful. And then he learned his psychology and, and his, his, you might say his awareness of the mind and, and, and the activities of the mind he learned that in his field of study in psychology and, and basically, he has a kind heart. And the reason and he wants to treat mental patients is because he wants to help them and he feels their loneliness with especially with paranoid schizophrenics he feels that they live very lonely isolated lives and I just feel like he knows that they're crying out for help. He wants to help. So that's beautiful but our, our number four is the mind is not governed by the laws of this world. So, the thing that often happens when you have people that are really wanting to truly be helpful is they're hired by institutions. And in these institutions, there's a lot of history, and a lot of institutionalism there's rules, there's regulations, there's rituals, there's things. The problem with a Christian trying to find Christ in the structure of a church is that Christ is an abstract idea in the mind and Christ cannot be found in structures. Rituals can be used by the Holy Spirit to free the mind of rituals you see it's not like you have to do so many Hail Marys or so many rituals and then you finally get it after you reach the umpteenth million repetition. It's really just starting to practice so thoroughly that you reach a point where you let go of the ritual entirely and you go into the Holy Instant to the present moment. That's the purpose of a ritual to let the Holy Spirit use it to train your mind to release into the present moment. The same with a mantra in the East, it's not meant to be your salvation it's just meant to be a tool that can help you free your mind into the present moment. And that's what Jesus wants us to do with his workbook is just use it until we don't need it anymore until we are totally immersed in the Holy Instant and then of course the useful words is over the use of structure falls away. So, our main character, Alan Stone, Dr Alan Stone is, he's working in a Michigan State Hospital, Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan in the United States, and he's going to begin working there in 1959. And, and the thing about it is he will have to learn that his mind is not governed by the laws of this world because he will have other doctors, he will have superiors, he will have patients. He has a wife he has two daughters he he has the human construct of what it means to be a personality self himself, and he's being used in this seeming world and system of time and space to start to be truly helpful. He's simply answering that prayer at the beginning of the text I'm here only to be truly helpful. He's being at his best shot, and he will run into obstacles that seem to be external obstacles. That's the way it goes for all of us, we seem to believe we have external obstacles. People that are holding us back, people that don't agree with us. People that seem to tell us what to do or they, they try to point the finger at us or accuse us. We, we say I'm just trying to practice my mind training and my forgiveness and yet, as long as we believe in externals, then, then it's our mind. And are the ego that needs to be forgiven, we have to forgive the belief in the ego, in order to be free from it. The last theme is exposing and releasing the fear of true communication. And this is so beautiful because in this world when we've gone through our childhood and our adolescents and our adulthood. We have taken on rules of communication. And these rules involve the belief in others, we have believed that as a person we communicate with other persons. What Jesus will teach us with the course of miracles is, as we open up our hearts, and we learn not to hide our private thoughts and protect any secrets and private thoughts. We suddenly realized that we're all the same one. We suddenly realized no matter how many years we seem to have lived on planet Earth. We have a sudden realization one day one moment. Oh my God, I've been talking to myself all along. There really was no one out there. I was just, I was a monologue. I was doing a monologue and Jesus says, good, good. Yeah, it's a comedy monologue. You've been a really good comedian and you were always talking to yourself but you didn't realize that you were talking to yourself. And you got caught up in this belief in others. Sometimes we even get caught up in the belief in helping others, which can be very heavy. Any of you have been in the helping professions as a psychologist, a nurse, a doctor, psychiatrist, you know, it's, there's stress. How good is good enough, you know, how, how much have we helped have we helped enough. Have we fulfilled our life's quota of help, you know it's very stressful. It's a concept of helping others but if we give it to Jesus, he will say, yeah, let me work with that a while I know you believe there's others so yeah I can use that I can use that concept to help you remember who you really are. So, who is right before I get into talking a little bit about today's movie I want to, I want to pay tribute to a beautiful beautiful course of miracles teacher. He has passed away. His name is Bob Rosenthal. Bob Rosenthal has been, he was a psychologist and in the field of psychology and psychotherapy for many, many years. His wife Emmanuel is a beautiful beautiful woman has his carries on his beautiful legacy. There was one time I was sitting with Judy sketch, the publisher of a course of miracles. I think at this point her her husband William Whitson had passed away, but we were having dinner and Judy sketch was saying, yes, Bob is a, he is a course in miracles psychotherapist, which is kind of fun to hear the publisher of a course in miracles Well, introducing him he's, he was part of their board, the board of directors of foundation for inner peace for many years, actually, decades I think, and he was a course in miracles psychotherapist, and he treated so many patients, and he was practicing a course in miracles through his, his profession as a psychotherapist, and I really enjoyed Bob I had some amazing conversations with Bob Rosenthal and, and when he would write a book he'd say oh David will you endorse my book I gladly Bob gladly, he would, he would bring in. He would raise Jewish so he would teach the course of miracles using characters like Moses, and I thought oh how a course of miracles teacher uses Moses to teach I thought oh that's a nice flavor that's a flavor of ice cream I've never, I've never had before so I enjoyed talking to him and reading But one of the areas of his field that Bob particularly enjoyed the most was dissociative identity disorder out of out of all the possible diagnosis that people have in this world neurosis or psychosis or, you know, DID dissociative identity disorder. I really liked to work with that metaphor. And I think he was so onto it, because I think he might have been the first one that I talked to where he said, you know, really this whole world is multiple personality disorder. Jesus himself talks in the course about dissociating are a true identity and, and that being a defense mechanism of the ego, the belief that we're a personality self instead of the Christ. At one point I had some great discussions with him and I said, I'm out here right now at the Living Miracles monastery in Utah. So I said to Bob, why don't you come out to the monastery and fly from from where you are to the monastery and give a workshop to the people at the monastery. Bob did he he flew here. He also flew another time when we were doing a fundraiser for foundation for inner peace here and and Tamara. Judy sketch his daughter came and Bob came and we had Judy on the big screen with us live. But when Bob came. He did a workshop for the people here at the monastery, and guess what topic he talked about dissociative identity disorder. He did a workshop at the monastery on DID on multiple personality. We still have it recorded. We have still have it in our library. And the thing about Bob was Bob was a course of miracles teacher and author and he had such a big heart, such a loving heart that he believed that he wrote it in his book that basically the way to treat dissociative identity disorder was to bring the two alters, bring the separate personalities together and integrate them in a way so that the mind could see that it made them all up, and that it was all of them. And I thought, that is Jesus. You know, instead of treating them with shock treatment, instead of putting tranquilizers and manage them as if they're animals. Bring them together and integrate the mind. The mind is healed through integration. The mind is healed through wholeness. Now, I think this applies actually to spiritual community, you know, sometimes people will say to me, David, tell me more about what no private thoughts and no people pleasing and I say, oh, it's really just about coming together and allowing the Holy Spirit and Jesus to show you that what you thought was separate and fragmented is actually one thing that literally you and your brother are the same one. You're not your brother's keeper. You are literally, and I mean literally are your brother, not a body, and you're not your brother's body. You may say, wait a minute, male, female, young, old, yeah. Those are just concepts, you're not your brother's body, but you are literally in mind, the same one. So that's why Jesus says in a course of miracles when you meet anyone remember it's a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself as you treat him, you will treat yourself as you think of him, you will think of yourself. And then he says, never forget this, or in him you will find yourself, or you will lose yourself. Wow. That is so spectacular. Now, what I like about this movie is, is our main character played by Richard gear Dr Alan Stone, he's got the same spark of mindset that that Bob Rosenthal had. He's actually believing he's going to go to this ipsilanti state mental hospital in Michigan, and he's been hired, because they, there's a man there a doctor who believes in him who believes in his approach. His approach is integration. His approach is kindness. His approach is don't lock people up and drug them and electric shock them when they behave erratically. Don't pull them apart and diagnose them as delusional. Let them come together like all of us, like we do in our families, like we do in our couples in our marriages, like we do in our relationships with our neighbors and our communities and our politicians. Let's start to bring everything together. I mean, if you want to go beyond bodies. Let's just talk about something like countries. I don't even know how many countries there are on this planet, but there's a lot. I mean probably 300 some I don't know. But, but the countries are all just almost projections and from mind just like the personalities are. You know, we, we give a name to persons we give them a name and their birth date and we have facts about their life and everything is if they exist, but we do the ego we've done the same thing with countries. You know, if I say a word Ethiopia, then in your mind you go oh Ethiopia, then you start to think about Ethiopia if I say Russia, you start to think of Russia or Ukraine. Think of Ukraine. There was a beautiful prophet. A lot of us liked his name was john Lennon. Remember him. Beedle prophet. He helped me out a lot. But one of john's lyrics, when he sang that song imagine. He said imagine there's no country. Oh, I wonder if you can. Nothing to kill or die for a brotherhood of man. Oh, john. John is also in the same mindset. He's saying, don't actually believe in countries that's just another fictitious made up concept of the ego. Jesus is teaching us there are no countries. You say well wait a minute I just saw on the news yesterday that that there's a war going on between Russia and Ukraine. And Jesus is like no no the war is against yourself in the split mind, you have taken your beautiful abstract Christ idea and forgotten it. You had amnesia that you're an idea in the mind of God. And then you started splitting your mind up into all kinds of different concepts. And Russia and Ukraine are two different concepts in your wrong mind. And Jesus is going to teach us there is no war between this construct called Russia and a construct called Ukraine, because you made them both up along with all the other countries. And the war, the struggle that you go through on a daily basis is in your mind. Jesus is going to use this movie today to teach us that the war is over. That's another line john yoke john Lennon and Yoko wrote a song, and the lyrics was war is over. If you want it. Jesus was channeling through john and Yoko war is over now. If you want it, you can bring an end to the concept of external war, when you bring an end to the war of the split mind. So, this movie is going to deal with the concept of paranoid schizophrenia what is paranoid that is fear. schizophrenia is a split mind. Paranoid schizophrenia is a is a medical term, a psychological and psychiatric term for a diagnosis of a fearful state of mind that is split. Of course it's fearful right if if our mind is whole and was created by God, it must be fearful. If we believe in the split. If we believe in split from God that is fearful, because, because we can't. We're believing something that's impossible. And that generates fear, when you believe something that actually is not real, when you believe an illusion of a split that never happened, then that is, that's where the fear is generated. Another psychological term diagnostic term is is psychotic. No one is diagnosis psychotic. It's in the most simple terms, it's a break from reality. Jesus says, your reality is only spirit. And if you believe in anything else, but your reality. If you don't know yourself as spirit, then you, you have a belief in a break from reality because reality is spirit. So, so in one definition we, we have institutions mental institutions where people have been diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic they've been diagnosed as psychotic multiple personality DID neurotic. There's so many diagnosis if you go and read the DSM, you know, the they have all the various different diagnostics of separation. And yet, don't you love Jesus where he's saying no it's it's it's simpler than that you you just believe that you can separate from God. That's the only thing you have to know is your only problem is the belief you can separate from your creator, you have no other problem. And when you accept the correction for that one error, you're home free. You know, in fact, you realize you can never leave. You're even more than home free. You don't even have to worry about returning to God because there is no return, you never left. You know, even return is an ego idea. Oh, because then it's going to make it stressful to return to God, got to return to God and he goes like good good good you bought that idea of return. Now, now the ego is going to make the return idea. Difficult, you know, like something you have to do. You have to return, got to return, you see the stress of return, even return is not a kind idea. Never haven't left. Ah, there we go. Now we're getting into the reality of it. So, here's the context of our movie. The name of the movie, people always say, David please tell this at the beginning. I don't want to have to listen to the whole setup. No. It is called three Christs, three Christs. Isn't that a fun name, three Christ. No, he's not talking about the Trinity. Three Christ is, is the name because our doctor, Dr. Alan Stone is going to go work for this. State hospital. And he's going to discover there at the hospital. There are two people that that believe that they are Jesus Christ. Two of the paranoid schizophrenic patients believe that they are Jesus Christ. So, our Dr. Alan is going to hire a young assistant named Becky and his first task for Becky is says why don't you check in the rest of the Michigan mental system and see if there's anyone else who believes that they are Jesus Christ, and she finds another one. Now, he says good bring him here I want to, I want to know he's got three paranoid schizophrenics who believe that they're Jesus Christ. Don't you love it. This is the kind of movie that we need from Jesus, because how are we going to remember that we're the Christ, except by watching our brothers and sisters go through the healing of believing. The world would say that they're all delusional. In fact, as a doctor Alan has to kind of treat them and say things like well, you know he's told address me as the Lord address me as Jesus Christ and he's like, I think that guy died some years ago. He's, he's still got to play the role of the psychotherapist you know he can't, you can't go okay you are the way the truth in life. If, if it's not authentic, you know, we're about authenticity and transparency. He finds three paranoid schizophrenic my patients who all believe they are Jesus Christ, maybe with slight variations one. He is the Lord Christ and then one is he's Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And then there's another one who is, who is Christ, but not of Nazareth. This slide don't you like it the slide variations. And some of you may laugh about that but actually, I have to tell you that during my lifetime. I watched a course in miracles. There was actually a 1.7 lawsuits going on. Actually, seven lawsuits going on at the same time. And they all were were debating and arguing about who owned the words of a course in miracles. Isn't that a kind of a funny thing you see the ownership is the issue behind the lawsuits who own the words. And one group said in court, they were the words of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. And another group said in court that they were the words of Jesus Christ of Palestine. You see, this is a these were actual lawsuits. Who owns the words of the course. And what Jesus is teaching us is that that there is no sense of ownership God doesn't own. God does not possess love does not possess. So even with words and everything else of this world. You may think you can possess a body and a bank account and you may think you can possess a house. You may think you can possess a course in miracles or a particular the best version of a course in miracles and Jesus and the angels are laughing they're like please. It's the possession idea that's the problem. It's not the words. Nobody owns the course. Yeah, that's the correct answer. You cannot possess anything because you're, you're the Christ and the Christ cannot possess. Christ is a pure idea of, of eternal love and there's no possession in the Christ. So, in this movie we're going to watch Alan, Dr Alan come in there and start to really be truly helpful by by using an approach for healing of bringing the three individuals that all believe that they are Jesus Christ. Bringing them together in the same room. Isn't that wonderful. Isn't it wonderful. Isn't it kind. Isn't that generous to believe that if you bring them together and you have trust and faith that through their interactions, they can learn to love each other. They can learn to be together with each other. They can learn to sing together. They can learn to be together. I think this movie is is like so helpful because it's showing that the approach to healing is starting to recognize that you and your brother you and your sister are together in mind. And to forgive all sense of differences, all sense of demarcations or anything that you believe separates you from your brother from your sister, anything at all to be able to bring that up and let it go. When I talk to people, they, they will tell me and they have told me over these last 37 years, they, they would say, in moments of quiet, they would say, David, I'm, I'm afraid. I'm afraid. In this world, I'm afraid of people. I believe they, they mistreat me. I believe you can't trust them. I will never trust another human being in my life after what I've been through. I will not trust people. Period. They tell me they don't trust the government. They don't trust the internet. They don't trust social media. They are afraid and the condition of fear is paranoia. And, and it is generated through schizophrenia through the belief in a split mind. And the realization you need to come to before you let go of the ego is you have to start liking 12 steps when someone, let's say, has got a problem with alcoholism and they go to 12 step program alcoholics anonymous. One of the first things they have to do is admit that they have a problem before they can go authentically through those 12 steps and to contact with the higher power. They first have to admit that they have a problem. And so, just like in that movie in this movie the first way to begin to escape the ego is to look at the world to look at your, your family friends yourself as a person and all the bodies and all the countries and the planets and so on and so forth. And you start to say, well, if I had a diagnosis. Am I hallucinating and Jesus is saying, yes, you are. That's why his first lesson in the book is nothing I see means anything. He is saying, you first have to admit that you're hallucinating. If I have a split mind Jesus is like, you believe you do, you absolutely believe your mind has two parts, and you're not sure which one's real. Am I psychotic, yes, he's saying you have, you believe from what you believe with the ego you have had a psychotic break, not in reality, but in awareness, you, you are psychotic. Am I delusional. Yes, you are delusional. You wouldn't need a course in miracles if you were saying, if you believe you're saying you will resist a course in miracles, and you will think it's trying to do something to you. No, it's, it's purely offer as a helping device for a mind that believes that it's insane. Do I have DID dissociative identity disorder. Yes, if you believe in the ego, you believe in separate alters separate identities. And, and some people say, does Jesus is Jesus really trying to tell me this, you know, is this actually the message of a course in miracles. I actually went in that I popped into chapter four. And in the second paragraph Jesus said this, everyone makes an ego or a self for himself, which is subject to enormous variation, because of its instability. He also makes an ego for everyone else he perceives, which is equally variable. Their interaction is a process that alters both because they were not made by or with the unalterable capital you spirit. You realize that this alteration can and does occur as readily when the interaction takes place in the mind as when it involves physical interaction. There could be no better example that the ego is only an idea and not a fact. You know, let's say you're in your house, and you're just minding your own business, you know, you're just sitting there on your couch, and you start thinking about someone. Maybe you're thinking about your mother or your father or a friend, or you're thinking about someone. And just sitting and thinking about this person, you are changing the concept of who you believe you are and who you believe they are just by thinking about someone. You don't even have to physically meet them. And they don't even have to be alive. They could be dead. If you're thinking about your dead grandmother. Then you're changing the concept of you as a person and the dead grandmother. You think she's been dead and gone for 4050 years. No, no, you're altering your dead grandmother by thinking about her. Because it doesn't depend on physical interaction. Everyone makes an ego for himself and for everyone else he perceives and thinks of. This is why Jesus is saying, you need to make the correction at the mind level, because the ego is at the mind level. Even though it's tempting to say, oh, Hitler was an ego character. Jesus is like, no, he wasn't the egos in your mind. You made up Hitler, you made up Mussolini, you made up Vladimir Putin, you, you made up all the dictators and tyrants throughout history. You don't like terrorists. You made them up in the unholy instant. You got a beef with terrorists, terrorism. Well, Jesus said, well, you made it up in the unholy instant. And what Jesus is offering us is he's saying, leave the past behind, leave the unholy instant where you believed in fear. Leave the belief and separation behind because it's already been corrected because it has already been corrected by the Holy Spirit. You are home free. You do not need to to hang out with your mind in the unholy instant. So before we start this amazing movie. I'll see if Pete and the crew. There's a friend of mine who who made a song. And she made a song from a course in miracles and she based her song on lesson 300 from a core course of miracles. So first what I'll do is, I think it's a prayer. This lesson 300 is a prayer. The first thing we'll do is I will read the lesson from Jesus as our, our preparation for the movie today. And then I'll ask Pete and Zach and, and the crew if they will play the song for you. So not only do you get to hear the words but then you get to really take in the song in your mind. Like, take the prayer into your heart, really deep, because this is going to be our, our freedom is, is releasing the past releasing the unholy instant and accepting our beautiful crystal clear present moment as our salvation. We're not looking to people for salvation, we're looking to the present moment. So I'll just read it very briefly that I think Pete standing by maybe we have it available from a Lisa more lesson 300 only an instant does this world endure only an instant does this world endure. This is a thought, which can be used to say that death and sorrow are the certain lot of all who come here for their joys are gone before they are possessed, or even grasp. Yet this is also the idea that lets no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene. Is this serenity we seek unclouded obvious and sure today. We seek your holy world today. Maybe your loving sons have lost our way a while. But we have listened to your voice and learned exactly what to do to be restored to heaven and our true identity. And we give thanks today, the world endures, but for an instant. And we would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity. Jesus is reminding us that history would not exist if you didn't keep making the same mistake in the present that history would not even exist if we didn't believe in this little tiny, tiny instant. That is the whole world, you know how they used to say how many angels can you fit on the pinhead. How many centuries, how many millennium, and you squeeze into one tiny, tiny little instant, one tiny mad idea that Jesus is saying it's already corrected. Don't give any faith, don't give any belief to that tiny instant it has already been corrected. Okay, Pete, take it away with our song this is our prayer and then off we go into a great movie with Jesus where we get to watch the three Christ learn to show how to heal.