 Okay welcome everybody. Welcome, yeah welcome to our second, this is the second session for our online retreat but it's also our movie workshop day. So we have a mix of people in here today, we have some just here for the movie workshop and others for our online retreat weekend so a full house. Yeah we had a beautiful session last night with our community here, for anybody who saw that it was very sparkly and today we're going to, yeah we're going to have a movie commentary with David and yeah so that's going to, we're going to start with that and then we'll have a 10-minute break afterwards. That's the time when you can submit questions and prayers with the form that we have and then we're going to have a session with David, a Q&A where David will answer the questions at the end. So I'm going to pass it right over to you now David. Thank you Pete. Hi everyone, welcome. Glad to have you with me today. It's in the parable of David it's the biological birthday so I can't think of any better way to spend my birthday than with all of you and celebrating God's love for us and in our eternal nature. So for some of you who attend the weekly movie workshops we do this every week we put out a poll of themes that you vote on and then you write in and you say what's most important of all the themes and then we pray and we receive a movie from Jesus that will help us have the experience of those themes, the themes that you voted for and for those of you that are part of this online monthly retreat the theme of the retreat is purpose is everything. Let's let that sink into our hearts. Purpose is everything and to help us experience the depth and the profound nature of that purpose. Jesus is going to give us another comedy, two comedies in a row. Jesus is on a roll. He really wants us to laugh at this tiny mad idea of separation because he knows that that's that's how it disappears from our mind because it was never there so if we laugh at it we recognize the truth of God's love. So I have the themes that you voted on and this will help us navigate ourselves today. The first theme is trust that all situations offer the perfect forgiveness lesson. Yeah and the key word in that is all trust that all situations offer the perfect forgiveness lesson. That's inclusive. That means that there must be a way of looking at the world when we can look on everything that we seem to go through and we can smile and we can laugh and we can go wow that was a good teaching opportunity there. Whatever it seemed to be without judging anything positively or negatively. The second one is how to let go of pressure on the spiritual journey. I can see why that's a very important one because it seems like when we start to feel like we're consciously on the spiritual journey the ego really ratchets it up in our minds. Sometimes it gets very harsh. Sometimes it gets very critical. Sometimes it seems very dark and menacing and we need to learn how to let go of pressure because whenever we feel stress in our experience it means we're somehow we're stressing ourselves out in some way we believe that's necessary. Jesus is trying to teach us that stress is not necessary. Stress is not essential in your awakening. Stress is optional and Jesus is telling us don't choose that option. Why don't you just give that option to me and take forgiveness in the miracle instead. The third one is wait let the spirit go before me. So many times we're tempted to take the reins you know and think we have to personally do something for God and God is spirit and God creates us as spirit so God is is not aware of the doer. The doer is an invention that we call the human being the personality the person and then we get so caught up into doing. Did I do enough? Did I accomplish enough today? You know I think when we come to time and space and earth somehow we forget that we've we've elected to participate in distraction bill and then we go from we forget it's a distraction and then we get all caught up in the doer and we have to do more and more and more and prove our worth and try to be accepted and try to be loved and try to be approved of what a stressful trip that is. That is very very stressful and Jesus wants us to remember that we are a being of light and have always been a being of light because God created us as a being of pure love and light and it's actually arrogant to try to be something else. We're starting to figure out that all the stuff we had pride about we thought we were so great in time and space and our achievements and accomplishments and it's actually pretty arrogant to try to have an authority problem and say no the way I made myself to be the way I invented myself is more right than the way you actually created me. That's a that's a an arrogant statement. So even when we try to be a good person or a great person or God help us a spectacular person the angels are laughing going oh give it up give it up. You are as God created you that's good enough you're perfect from the get go you're perfect in eternity. The next one loosen from past references see every moment as fresh. I think this is why I like movies so much because I always see them as fresh. I wait I receive the movie from Jesus and I'm like oh goody goody goody what a birthday present Jesus and he reminds me yes you've never seen this movie before through my eyes. So let's watch it right now in joy through my eyes my vision and then you'll really have some fun and that's what I like about the movies I like to have some fun I like to have some comedy and some laughter and the last one is letting go of looking for external validation. Wow is that a a biggie when we look to the form and we think people are criticizing us or judging against us or maybe we just say that's not supportive or can you be more supportive. No the people can't be more supportive or less supportive it's just our mind has to be riveted on the purpose of forgiveness that's that's where the support comes in the support comes in from the Holy Spirit and the angels when we rivet our mind on our purpose and if we're holding on to the ego's purpose we can just remember that the ego's purpose is hatred death sickness shame pain yeah I don't know about you but I don't find that attractive I'm not attracted to death I I maybe I came here and I was a bit of a death worshiper because everyone who comes here by definition is a death worshiper but that was the past we don't need to worship death anymore we have to stop worshiping death let's get it off the altar you get your altar let's clear that one away I'll have one big scoop and helping of forgiveness and just shove the pile of death off the altar I'm not interested in focusing on it so those are our themes and I remember I mean in the parable of David I was raised in Christianity and you know I went to church I got baptized as a little baby they sprinkled um they sprinkled water on this head I had a little less hair than I have now and there was little sprinkles of droplets that went on and David was baptized and given over to the Holy Spirit when I was still in diapers and still probably crying quite a bit back then and uh so I think when we start off today as I get forward to sharing the movie with you I prayed this morning and Jesus reminded me that that everything I ever needed to know was was in the Bible it was already there before of course the miracles came along but but I just yeah maybe I missed it so I was like which party where exactly in the Bible are you talking about and and he took me to you know Jesus in the courts and miracles he quotes the King James Bible many many many times hundreds of times so if you've been raised by a Course in Miracles teacher who tells you the Course doesn't have anything to do with the Bible no actually Jesus quotes the Bible he quotes the King James version of the Bible many many many times so you can let that one go uh if they tell you that the Jesus of the Course is different than the Jesus of the Bible no Jesus is just Jesus and it's a symbol of our Christ self and a demonstration and he's just as much of a demonstration now as he was 2000 years ago except now he's not quite as visible to the perceptual eye but we can feel him giving us instructions every day he's very much alive and well and in our minds and and very helpful as an instructor I would highly recommend tuning into that channel in your mind and your little dial tune into the JC station that's going to make your life a lot easier I'll tell you from my own experiences so in 2nd Corinthians verse 4 18 this is what the Bible tells us while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal wow just one verse from the Bible sends us looking for Christ's vision we can't keep using these bodies eyes and the five senses to think we're going to get accurate information on remembering God or the kingdom of heaven and in the Course of Miracles Jesus goes one step further than Corinthians he says the body's eyes were made not to see and the body's ears were made not to hear the five senses were made by the ego and they're in cahoots with the ego so if you get if you look at this world you watch the news for a couple days in a row and you start to feel depressed or anxious worrisome stop it stop stop following the five senses turn to your intuition turn to your guidance you've got God inside you you've got the Holy Spirit inside you to nurture you to bless you to give you instructions every day whoo what a and even this movie today what a birthday celebration I'm having uh in in the in time because still I perceive time so I'm going to really enjoy the moment I'm going to enjoy the present moment now the next thing I'm going to read is from a Course in Miracles and this lesson 300 and I have a friend of mine named Elisa Amour and she made a whole album of songs that were derived from Course in Miracles workbook lessons and I say I love all of her songs you know without forgiveness I will still be blind and oh just there's so many songs but I think this this song today is what Jesus had in mind for the movie that we're going to watch today so here is the perfect lesson from a Course in Miracles workbook to sit with the movie and and if you watch this movie and you feel a glow afterwards then maybe you can just go back to lesson 300 and wow maybe you just go past the glow and disappear in God's love this this lesson can take you all the way to the remembrance of God in heaven it's pretty strong actually I remember when I heard her song I was like this is not a regular song this one's not going to make it on the radio this one is hot this is hot this is sizzling hot okay yesterday I told you when I had Dan we Francis quoted from the movie Waking Life and the pinball machine with what Lady Gregory was teaching in that movie and I basically said that just like with computers everything is really part of the binary system while you believe in duality so just like computer coding and languages zeros and ones what we're finding now is that the world isn't really that complicated that if we believe in in death and time linear time we're saying no to God and if we say yes to God we accept the holy instant as being perfectly innocent so it's a simple yes or no this is this this world is a simple true or false and the answer correct answer for cosmos false correct answer for eternity true love is true and the rest is not so here's what Jesus says in less than 300 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 who that's pretty direct as a first sentence 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 grass 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 and it is this serenity we seek unclouded obvious and sure today we seek your holy world today for we your loving sons have lost our way well 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 we would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity wow that is a spectacular prayer and an amazing amazing teaching and what i'm going to be sharing today through this movie is that what we perceive as problems and issues in the world the the scarcity the lack the survival the the illness and the sickness the disease the death the the emotional traumas the the wars the the conflicts everything that we perceive is difficult Jesus is teaching us only an instant does this world endure so if you can imagine everything that you think is extremely bad or wrong like terrorism that everything could fit on the head of a pin you know how they say how many angels are on the head of a pin everything is boils down to one instant and in A Course in Miracles Jesus calls this one instant the the unholy instant and of course you can guess what the correction is the holy instant so what Jesus is telling us is really our issue is just a time issue and what the movie today is going to show us is that whenever we try to get something from this projected world esteem recognition pleasure comfort convenience if we look for intimacy we say we give me that world give me intimacy if we look to the world for success if we look to the world for anything that the world judges positive or good or helpful we're still looking into the unholy instant to try to find our happiness because god is a god of spirit and god created us eternal and if we look at the the Corinthians if we go after and see and go after the things that are perceived with the five senses in the body's eyes we are just saying we still value are attracted to and want the unholy instant and now we have a Course in Miracles and I always say Course in Miracles is like an expanded version of the serenity prayer from 12 steps you know that that which I can control that which I can't control on the wisdom to know the difference and what Jesus is telling us is the holy instant the present moment offers us absolutely everything and everything else all the aspects of time and space and all the dimensions and all the different parts and pieces they absolutely are valueless because they won't last forever this is lesson number 133 from the workbook I I will not value what is valueless and he's teaching us in that lesson that if it won't last forever it has no value whatsoever whoa very deep very uncompromising but you know imagine since this is the birthday of the baby David imagine that little baby David comes along in 1958 in February 4th and then if I could have asked for anything I would want like a little download into the the little brain of David and I want Corinthians and I want less than 300 I just want the basic of this into my little baby brain because I don't want to be messing around too much with anything else I want to be told if that's all I get is from Corinthians that that which is temporal will pass away and that which is eternal will last forever and that which is temporal is is seen by the body's eyes and that which is eternal is not seen this is what I think Jesus meant when he resurrected he came back and the apostles were there and from the other side of the room comes Thomas you know he's the called doubting Thomas he's he's a little bit what is happening here he did not expect to see Jesus walking around again in the flesh so he comes close and then Jesus holds out his arms and he says here put your hand in my my arm here and put your hand in my side and then Jesus says you know blessed are those who have seen and believed far greater blessed are those who have not seen and believed far greater are those that have faith the faith of God in their heart they aren't looking for evidence from this world the ego made the world why would you look for evidence of God in the world if you do you probably would end up an atheist that would be a natural conclusion right you know most scientists are are atheists because they've studied empirically studied the world and they think how could love have anything to do with what we perceive through our five senses and and that's a good question and Jesus has a good answer he's like well the Holy Spirit is in your mind and he has another way of looking at the world and that's how love could have a connection with what you perceive if you don't judge what you perceive you'll behold it as lovely if you judge what you perceive you're going to it's going to be a mess it's going to be a mess because fragmentation is not our natural inheritance so the movie that Jesus has helped us to learn Corinthians and lesson 300 is again all-time classic comedy doesn't get any better than all-time classic comedy 1993 roll back the clocks Bill Murray Groundhog Day oh my gosh when I first saw this movie I was like I better stay in the theater here a little while gotta process this so Groundhog Day was one of our classic first loop movies time loop movies but since that if you spend much time in our mwege.org a movie watchers guide to enlightenment you're going to find a lot of time loop movies because what they do is they really show the attraction to the unholy instant they really expose the getting mechanism of the ego they expose the desire to be right about the world they expose the frustration of of trying to hold on to the ego's purpose for the world and therefore block the light from awareness so this is a beautiful time loop movie and it's going to take place up in the United States in Pennsylvania what a wonderful movie it's going to take place on a day in the United States that is called Groundhog Day I think it was what's it just a couple days ago it was just the beginning of February is Groundhog Day it's celebrated and and in this movie there's going to be a weatherman from Pittsburgh which is played by Bill Murray and his name is Phil and he has the same name as the Groundhog in rural Pennsylvania Punksatani, Pennsylvania so Phil is the name of the weatherman and Phil is the name of the little rodent so Jesus is using a great comedian and a rodent to teach us that we need to let go of time and you have to admit Jesus is pretty playful to to use these kind of symbols but it's the joy it's the comedy of it all it's playful this is this is what I wish all the fairy tales were undoing the belief in linear time humorous playful funny this is the this is really the best way to free your mind from time and as we go into the movie we'll see that also it's going to show us how to undo the special relationship because in this world the mind feels so incomplete and unloved and inadequate that it seeks for special people and special partners especially when it starts to feel disillusioned and starts to feel sad and lonely what the mind will try to do it will try to go for an external solution meaning it will try to go for something in form that will provide the love that is missing and then Jesus spends nine chapters from chapter 15 to 24 telling us hey better take a close look at this because the special relationships special hate relationships and special love relationships are all part of the unholy instant they're part of the attraction to the past they're part of seeking for salvation in the form they're part of looking outside yourself and trying to find salvation in the form and we know that the ego is pretty ingenious you know it's it's not only a little blip called the unholy instant where the entire cosmos is in this tiny little blip smaller than the size of a pinhead the whole cosmos is in there but it's not so much that that's the problem it's the attraction to it if you are attracted to this world you are attracted to the past and the one teaching of Jesus is the past is over and gone it can touch you not you are born again in christ you are born again in holiness you live in the holy instant and and the holy instant lasts forever the holy instant is is eternal in nature it just is a little snapshot of eternity so if you imagine get your get your little phone out like okay jesus i really want to remember this he's like good take take a snapshot of of eternity and and i'm calling it the holy instant and devote your life to teaching it living it practicing it go right for the holy instant the present moment and do not be distracted by the past and future because the past and future are mesmerism their hypnotism they're they're a law of suggestion that you're separate and there's a whole set of laws and rules that come with the past and the future gravity finances are part of the past and the future not the holy instant and all of the struggles and human relationships are part of the unholy instant and if we want to be free of conflict and struggles we have to let it go we have to completely let it go there is no compromise in this this is this is the wisdom that is underneath the bible this is the wisdom that's underneath the course of miracles and there are many beautiful reflections of this wisdom but even the reflections are only just like treasure maps and our mind is the treasure there's one part in in a course of miracles where jesus says each day and every minute in each day and every instant that each minute holds you but relive the single instant when the time of terror took the place of love and so you die each day to live again until you cross the gap between the past and present which is not a gap at all such is each life a seeming interval from birth to death and on to life again a repetition of an instant gone by long go that cannot be relived and all the all of time is but the mad belief that what is over is still here and now forgive the past and let it go for it is gone thank you that's a birthday present if i've ever had one jesus is just teaching that that birth and death are an attempt to hang on to guilt the cycle of birth and death is not natural at all in fact there's he says there's no gap between the past and the present the present offers everything the present is our yes to god and the past is our no to god and the future is our no to god past and future our defenses against the holy instant that's why some of you remember rom das wasn't he a sweetie rom das's book be here now whoo there's a nice title if we ever think we lose our way be here now thank you rom das for giving us that reminder okay so here we go we're gonna go on a ride today this is a fun ride so the reason we laugh at this movie is because we've all attempted the same things that phil is attempting that's that's why we laugh we laugh at phil because we're a little uneasy about what's going on in our mind so we laugh at phil oh look at phil look at phil look at phil oh he still won something from the world burnt again uh oh phil phil's caught in a time loop uh phil's caught in a time loop okay uh phil's trying to get out phil's trying to kill himself to get out of the time loop oh that's funny uh phil's trying to kill himself repeatedly to get out of the time loop looks like it's not working looks like phil needs another purpose and this is what we laugh at because this is what we're praying for we're praying for a purpose that frees our mind from from the unholy instant and also i'm going to point out with some quotes from the course whenever phil starts to really struggle we're going to look at the metaphysics and what's going on in the mind underneath the struggle because on the surface of things it's bizarre you know some of us have tried to figure it out you know we've tried to be scientists we tried to be therapists some of us tried to be theologians we have not done very well and Jesus is saying yeah you can't figure this world out but you can forgive it because you can forgive the unholy instant and then you are set free so happy birthday everyone let's have a good time and let's enjoy uh let's be reborn again in christ how that let's all go into the birthday celebration to be born again in christ born again in joy in happiness that lasts forever and forever and forever so enjoy the movie i'll pop in from time to time