 Okay, good morning everyone. Hello, welcome again. So wonderful to see everybody. You've got such a beautiful group here in Zoom. It's really nice to see everyone. Okay, well, okay, so we have a wonderful movie this morning. I really love this one and I haven't seen David show it before. So I'm really looking forward to this. So anyone who's joining you, I'm Peter. I'm going to be hosting today. And I'll let you know how the day is going to go. So we have the movie with David at the start and then we're going to have a 10 minute break and we have breakout rooms after there where you can share any emotions or experiences you had with the movie. And then we'll have a 45 minute break and then we have the Q and A session with me. So I'll pass it over to you now, David. Thank you, Pete. Welcome everyone. So glad to see you all. What a great movie we have today. Wow, we're going to have such a joyful experience and I hope the whole day for you is just filled with bursting love and happiness and joy because that's our natural state of mind, is pure, pure joy. So some of you know what we do is during the week you vote on different themes. You tell me what themes are important to you and then you vote on them and then I pray to Jesus and I just say, okay, what do we got? Give me a movie for these beautiful themes that people have submitted from around the world. And then we watch a great movie together and we have a lot of fun and we feel the spiritual enrichment of the truth coming through us, through our hearts with all our brothers and sisters. So this week the top theme that you all voted for was experience the true meaning of I need do nothing. That is the deepest teaching in the history of the universe. I need do nothing. You are perfect as you are right now and you need do nothing for that perfection. You already are that. You are that this very instant, this moment and you need do nothing. And to me, when I was reading A Course in Miracles I said, wow, that is hands down the deepest teaching. When I came across that subsection in the text I need do nothing. I thought, wow, that is absolutely amazing. And Jesus was saying, well, there are other methods and other methods will everybody will make it back eventually, but he said, I'm gonna give you the fast track, which is I need do nothing. And he said, your way will be different and not in the form sense, but in the purpose sense. He says a holy relationship is given you as a means of saving time. That's just his way of saying in the present moment everything is healed right now if we just fully devote our attention to this present moment. So that is by far the top vote-getter with 49 votes. And when you hear those words, I need do nothing. There may be another voice in your mind that goes, right. What about my children? What about my job? What about my cleaning task? Or what about the many things I have on my to-do list today? Maybe you have a written to-do list. Maybe it's not written, it's just in your mind like lurking there. I have to do this today, I have to do that. And then you have Jesus Christ calling you saying, no, no, actually the truth is I need do nothing. The key word there is need. In heaven with God, there are no needs. In heaven, there are no wants. And so in heaven, there's nothing lacking. And we could say that key word in I need do nothing is need. If you believe you have needs, then this is where the forgiveness work comes in because God didn't create you as a being with needs. God created you as a perfect being of light. And if you believe you have needs then that just means that there's some forgiveness work. Some emptying out of consciousness, some clearing. So that's a beautiful first theme right there. I need do nothing. And the do part may bother you a little bit. You may say, well, that sounds like idealism. I need do nothing. But what if all doings were based on your belief in the body? And what if you really weren't a body at all? What if you were just pure light and the body was just a figment of imagination? And then that you imagined that this body had to do many things. That's the to-do list. But what if you thought of the body as more like a twig, a little branch, a little twig. And instead of focusing on the branch, you just threw the branch, the little twig into the river and you know, wood floats. So you watched this little twig bobbing and weaving as the current of the river took the twig and the twig didn't really do anything. It was just floating. Imagine that you had an awareness that your body was just floating in a giant river and it wasn't doing anything. It never did anything. It just floated and you had convinced yourself that you were doing something when really the twig was just floating down the river. You see? So I want you all to join me today in opening your mind and your heart to being a floater, to being able to watch the body as if it's a floating twig in a river, the current will carry it. You don't even have to worry about where the current's gonna take it cause the current will take it to the ocean where the twig will be swallowed up in the best ocean. I'll give you a hint. It's a big ocean, it's heading for a big ocean but even while it's on the river you don't have to be concerned about that twig. The current will take the twig to the ocean without you doing anything. Hence, I need to do nothing. That's the joy of this present moment. Okay, second one is finding spirit within. Very precious, finding spirit within. Third one, loss of any kind is impossible. And the fourth one, safety in form versus true safety. And the final one is trust that I can't mess it up. You can't mess that twig up. The river has got the twig and there's nothing you can do to mess that twig up. That twig is gone, gone toward the ocean. And all you can do is kiss it goodbye and say, actually I'm tired of thinking of that twig as something I have to maintain. I have to dress it and bathe it. I have to feed it, but even in terms of I need do nothing wouldn't you want to know a state of mind where you're not thinking that the body needs oxygen to survive, that the body needs food to survive, that the body needs water to survive which is very analytical, this survival thing. And instead the twig will float to the ocean. That's a nice statement. That's a little more relaxing than I got to work to survive. You know, you see float is much more relaxing than work to survive. So today we have a movie and I'm so happy to show to you. It's an animated movie. How many of you like cartoons? Does anybody like cartoons? I love cartoons. I could watch Disney every day. Let's fire up Lion King, Pocahontas, you know, everything imaginable is there for us in the cartoon. So today we have a cartoon animated movie and the name of the movie is Pilgrim's Progress. This movie is based on the book. That was written back in, I think 1700s, 1600s. And it was written by John Bunyan. And it was so funny when this movie was announced, my friend Lucy Ricks from England said, oh, I'm living in the place where that book was written. She's out of all the places on earth. She's living there. She said, yeah, this guy, John, I know the very tree where he was arrested as he was a preacher, a pastor who was arrested. That happens sometimes when you keep professing love and oneness and forgiveness. Sometimes in this world you get arrested. He was arrested under a tree. Probably he was just sitting there and praying to the Lord. And that looked offensive and they had some law. So they arrested him. But while he was in prison, he wrote the book that this movie is based on. So isn't that nice? We're watching a movie that was written in prison. I think Gandhi actually did some of his best work in prison too. He did a lot of writing. And Gandhi loved it when they locked his body up because he was really free then. His mind was super free when they locked his body up because he didn't even have to care for the body, they'd feed him and put his body in a cell. He thought, this has got to be the best form of meditation I've ever done. I think he did more writing in prison actually than he did when he had his family. He was more freed up in prison than he was when he was with his family. So in this movie, we're going to see the main character and the main character's name is Christian. So Christian is, he's a family man. He's got a wife and children. And he lives in the city of destruction. And I know a lot of you may be saying, well, I don't really call the city where I live the city of destruction. Does anybody here live in the city of destruction? I think all of us do what we haven't admitted it. We have to go to science to tell us a little bit. In science, there's a term, if any of you know anything about science, there's a term called entropy. Anybody ever heard of entropy? Yeah, everything in time and space moves toward destruction, everything without exception. It's a scientific word, phenomenon, entropy. Everything moves to destruction. If you look at your body, it's very temporary and it's actually withering away. Did you ever think about that? No matter how much cream you put on it, it's just withering. It's withering away, it's subject to entropy. It's going away, it's very temporary. Some of you are enjoying the sunshine. I think some of us have sunshine. Flavia, I think it's still early hours in Hawaii. She's over in Hawaii, so the sun isn't there yet. But even the sunshine that we enjoy, that's just a star that's burning. And what the scientists have told us about the stars, those are gases that will burn out. That's right. The sun will burn out. Every single star is just burning gases and just like a candle, it's only got so much time and then it's going to burn out. And when it burns out, what happens? Blackness, we're going, the cosmos is heading to blackness. The stars are burning out. But not to worry because we are a light that is beyond the stars. We are a light that is beyond the planets, beyond the black holes. We're the light of creation. We're the light of God. So it doesn't matter if the stars burn out. So everything in this world is temporary. And in this movie, our character, Christian, is going to start off with the wife, with children, and he lives in the city of destruction. And this is everyone's story. We all who seem to believe in a body and a world, our city would be aptly named the city of destruction. For example, some of you live in an apartment or a condo or a house. If you went into your beautiful, blissful, I need do nothing, what do you think would happen to your house? It would start to ship and peel. It would start to wither away. If you didn't do things to rejuvenate, to protect that house, that house would just fall apart. The time would just take that house and it would wither it away to rubble. What do you think's gonna happen to the body? You know, no matter how much we try to fool ourselves with fame, fortune, beauty, success, we can project all kinds of things onto the body, but it's just subject to entropy. It's just going away. In fact, as soon as it's born, seemingly as soon as it's born, it's already withering away, even in the embryo. It's already withering. It's on its way out. It's gonna disappear. The sands of time are ticking. The hourglass is going even in the womb. It's gone. It's over and done. And yet, if we try to endow it with things like fame and money and beauty, we try to dress it up as Jesus says, you're trying to dress up a skeleton. You're putting lipstick, Jesus says, on the lips of a skeleton. Thank you, Jesus, for those graphic reminders. Sometimes we need a graphic reminder like that, putting lipstick on a skeleton, Jesus says. Well, that's what we're doing when we're trying to give life to something that is lifeless. It's an image. It's a cartoon. This is trying to endow it with positive things or negative things when it's a twig and it's floating down the river. So let's let the twig float without trying to ascribe too many positive things to it or too many negative things to it. Okay, so as we move into this great movie, I think Jesus can help us out to get a quick start. Now, this is a course in Miracles. In the movie, there's a book that Christian will find and this book will have so much wisdom and so much truth that he will have to read the book nonstop and then he will have to practice the book the rest of his life. Well, it's kind of like we're dealing with a course in Miracles. Now that we have a course in Miracles, none of us have an excuse. None of us have an excuse. We got an owner's manual that's telling us how to wake up from this dream and you can choose to hide it away or you could choose to read it and then just practice it and live it and then toss the book aside. But here's what Jesus has to say for us today. Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true but it is necessary to seek for what is false. Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes and the attempt to escape from one illusion into another must fail. So basically he's describing the linear human condition and he's saying, when you go from day to day and you look for things to be better in time, maybe you're looking for a better relationship, a better job, a better education, a better place to live, a better climate, better friends, Jesus is laughing, all the angels are laughing going, ah, seeking to escape from one illusion into another. You see? He's saying don't even try to escape from illusions in time because time was made that you would not escape. It was made that you would get one image to pursue then another one and then another one and most of us go through our life just pursuing goals of the world. That's what ambition is. Future ambitions seem to be a good thing in this world but the ego made them up so that we would keep seeking for one thing after another without stopping to pause and say, maybe I should just stop seeking for images. Maybe I'm just perfect the way I am in spirit right now and I don't have to try to improve the spiritual reality that I am. So Jesus gives us some pep talks and he's telling us that we're actually entitled to miracles where we have a natural inheritance that's called spirit and our natural inheritance involves love that that's who we are and there's nothing we can do to escape love because God created us as love but it helps to have some pep talks. Here's a little pep talk from Jesus. In you is all of heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you and every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you. Woo, serenade me Jesus. Go ahead, serenade me. Remind me that I am eternal life and that even though the flowers and the birds and the things of this world may fall away, I don't have to worry because I was created as eternal life and there's nothing I can be apart from that eternal life. Here's another one. Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Here is the answer to your search for peace. Here is the key to meaning in a world that seems to make no sense. Here is the way to safety and apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of ever finding quietness and peace. Here are all questions answered. Here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last. Jesus is just serenading us. He's serenading us with tunes of forgiveness. Come to the present moment and be free. Just calling softly like a soft instrument playing. Come to the present moment and be free. And then I think this has got to be one of the things that inspired me the most. I remember I was inspired by the course but when I got to lesson 122, I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face. It was too big. I couldn't wipe my smile away. Forgiveness offers everything I want. What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness? A quiet mind, a certainty of purpose and a sense of worth, so and beauty that transcends the world. Do you want care and safety and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed? A gentleness that never can be hurt and a deep abiding comfort and rest so perfect it can never be upset. All this forgiveness offers you and more. It sparkles on your eyes as you awake and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your forehead while you sleep and rest upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil malice and attack. And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you and more. And it just goes on. I remember the first time I read it, I was like, oh please, I can't take it. He just goes on and on and more and more and more. The present moment offers you everything, everything. So in today's movie, we're going to see that Christian has got to make a decision whether he's going to follow what the book says and go on a seeming journey to find the celestial city. He's being told he can leave the city of destruction and go to the celestial city. Doesn't that sound good? That sounds like a nice alternative to me. City of destruction, celestial city. He's being told he can go to the celestial city but he will have to face what's in the unconscious mind as we all do. Whatever we believe in, if we believe in evil, we will perceive evil. If we believe in obstacles, we will notice obstacles. If we believe in hardships, if we believe in challenges, if we believe in difficulties, we will perceive hardships and challenges and difficulties. It's all our mind. Really, we're perfect, but as long as we believe we're something other than perfect, if really we're everything, but as long as we believe we're less than everything, really we are innocent, but as long as we believe that we are guilty, then we have to watch the scenes that come on our movie, our dreamscape. And every scene that we see is just an opportunity to forgive, forgive ourself for thinking of it. Why do we have to have demons? If God didn't create demons, why would we have to have demons? We don't. We don't need demons. I don't know about you. I don't enjoy demons. I'm not a fan of demons. I'm a fan of love and joy and peace. And yet, whatever is believed in will appear on our dreamscape for us to walk past it, to not give it any power, to not be distracted by it. And what I have found is that instead of being dependent on the body or dependent on the world, that it's better to be dependent on your intuition. We all have a great, great intuition. It's a spectacular intuition. And that's what we should be depending on, not on anything but our intuition. Sometimes when I've traveled around the world, people will say, you know, why do bad things happen to me? And what I say is, well, the world's just a reflection of the state of mind. And I do say, if you want anything from this world, the world will want something from you. So when you are purely in a state of giving, like a flower gives off its perfume and fragrance, you don't want anything from the world. You're just as happy as a singing bird and you're just gonna keep singing your song all day long. In fact, I know some birds that even sing at night, but you're just gonna sing all day long because you have a happy song and that's all you know. But as soon as you pause and you start to think, I want something from this world. It doesn't matter what. I want money from the world. I want success from the world. I want what the Pat Benatar song said, treat me right. If you even wanna be treated right from the world, you want something from the world. You're looking for respect from the images of the world. And if you want something from the world, even respect the world will want something from you because as you sow, so shall you reap. This is the law of karma. This is the law of giving and receiving. If you want something from the world, it means you believe in the ego. I'll use the word get. If you want to get something from this world, you believe in separation. God only gives. God doesn't even know what getting is. It's a one track mind. Give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give. That's all the light knows is to extend and to give. And because we are children of light, then that is our true motive. So this is a beautiful parable today we're gonna watch. This is a beautiful allegory. This is the first time when this movie was introduced to me, they said it's based on the second best selling book in the history of the human race. Wow, second best selling book. What's the first best selling book? The Bible. So this book comes in, slides in at number two behind the Bible. That's a pretty well read book. If it's the number two seller all time, because we know there's a lot of books, but I think the reason this is such a best seller is because it touches on our heart in a very, very deep way. If you were just a child and your parents sat you down and said, we're going to tell you about the meaning of life. This would not be telling you about the birds and bees. They would be telling you, we seem to be sleeping and have forgotten our creator. We seem to be in a perceptual world of time and space where we have major amnesia going on. And they would have told the child, your only purpose is to wake up from this dream. Your purpose is not to succeed in the dream. The parent could have said, I don't care, whatever grades you get, they're perfect. You get an A, a B, an F, it's perfect. You get a job, you lose a job, it's all right. You seem to get sick, you're well, doesn't matter. The only purpose this world holds is that you wake up from it. Imagine if that was your training as a child to wake up from this dream. And this is a dream for sure. So the purpose is to wake up and then Jesus is telling us through the Bible and the Course, he's telling us it's through forgiveness. It's letting go of every dark thought in your mind, every judgment in your mind. And what if you were told, you don't have to worry about the future, that everything will just come to you very naturally. The people you meet, they're all part of a pre-arranged script. You don't even have to figure out who you're supposed to be with or who to meet. You don't have to be worried about being with the right people because there are no right people. They're all dream figures. None of them are right or wrong. They're just dream figures that are there to reflect what you believe in your mind. So you should just be grateful for all these dream figures. But what if you really had that feeling in your heart, you didn't need to do anything. You just needed to watch. Watch the characters that show up. They're all for spiritual awakening. Watch the places that seem to show up in your mind. They're all for spiritual awakening. And what if you were told there are no accidents? There's no chance. Nothing is at random. And that everything that appears to be happening is all for you to wake up. Everything that you perceive is designed with one purpose in mind to wake up from the dream and remember your spiritual reality. So there's no morality. There aren't good things and bad things. We don't need to worry about judging the good things and the bad things because everything's working perfectly for the wake-up call. And you don't have to strain your mind over the good things and the bad things because that body that seems to be experiencing the good things and the bad things is part of the trick. Remember, it's a twig. It's being floated anyway. So if it's being floated, why worry about the twig? If the twig is floating toward the ocean, why not just enjoy it? Why not enjoy every single moment to the fullest? So our main character, Christian, we'll see in the movie begins, he opens up and he has a wife and children but he is going to feel a deep calling into trust, into faith and into an escape from the city of destruction. And to me, that's as simple as it gets. If you're not happy with the world in any way, then what you really are praying for is a hope to escape the perception of destruction, the perception of linear time, the perception of a transitory state of being where everything is always fluctuating but nothing is stable and nothing is certain. Yeah, I think that's something we all really want to escape. We want certainty. We want consistency. We want joy in our hearts and we won't be content for anything less than absolute joy, bursting joy. Remember what Jesus says when you wake up in the morning, it sparkles on your eyes as you awake and gives you joy with which to meet the day. Wow, that's a sentence we could hold in our hearts. Sparkles on our eyes as we awake and gives us joy with which to meet the day. So, sit back and enjoy the ride today. Remember you're watching the movie of the cartoons of the second most popular book in the history of the universe. So you can really enjoy it. And I'll pop in from time to time with some commentary to just add a little bit of context to what our friend Christian is going through. So enjoy, enjoy the ride. I know I will. Thank you.