 Well, welcome. Thank you for coming all the way today and we have a wonderful way to do it. My name is David Hoffmeister and this is Hellenuck. And Hellenuck has come all the way from southern Sweden, by Copenhagen, in the southern places like Bandai, Thailand, and through Australia. And then we came up from Australia. We just did a tour down there starting about March 3rd. So we were down there about a month just going to places where we were invited up along the coast. And we really call these kind of like enlightenment gatherings because Self-realization was really a very deep end of journey. And I used the path of Course in Miracles. It's the K-5 or Course in Miracles book. I used that path starting back in 1986. And I guess I was just really, really ready for my awakening. Because I think a lot of it has to do with willingness, but a lot of it has to do with readiness. Over what seemed to be lifetimes, we prepare ourselves to let go of the ego of our system and really wake up to our perfect divine oneness. And so, just to give everyone a little background, I came across, I think my conscious spiritual journey started probably back around 1984 where I just started reading lots of esoteric books and books on psychology, philosophy, religion, realizing that my Christian background had just given me like the tiniest of starts in this deep journey to awakening. And I was very grateful for it. But I also knew that I had to go much deeper with the journey. And so I was in university from 1976 to 1986. And around 1984, I started to be more conscious of my spiritual journey. It was back in 1982, my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. And so I watched him go from like a walking skeleton. He was very robust and happy, almost like Santa Claus or somebody who was very full and alive. And then when he was diagnosed with cancer, he really shook me up to start to wonder, what's going on here? What's underneath my perception of this? Why do I have so much grief and distress around the loss of my grandfather? So basically, now we've got the little angels that come to join us. It's beautiful. Yes? This is Sandy. Sandy has sport. Sport is that. Sport is Sandy. It comes to licking tongues out. Beautiful. So for me, it was that that had to pull me into this feeling that around cancer and so forth, I think a lot of us were raised with the ideas that God was omnipotent, all-powerful and all-knowing and all-loving. And yet there were experiences in our lives. On Earth, it didn't seem to fit with that all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful presence. And it really came to me initially that around 1982, when I was very distraught over my grandfather's cancer and his passing, that I thought, there's something fishy about this world and I don't know what it is. There's something's off and I don't quite know what it is. And I've had a lot of frustration and anger and basically I was told internally that the problem was in my perception of the world. Just like in the Bible when you talk about looking through a distorted lens. And so I saw that my perception was the problem. The problem was the people or the governments or all the things that I thought was the problem. And then I think I got more aware of that so that by the time the course came into my life I actually could read it for about eight hours a day. It was almost like getting trauma and life-threatening. Kind of drowning and wondering where I was going to find meaning. And then this was like a pathway that was saying, here's your way. Just grab hold and pull or hang on and we'll go forward. I didn't mean it consecutively eight hours a day. I had too much ego resistance to it. So my eyelids would get very, very heavy. My head would start to squibble like that and I would just... At that point I had enough presence to just be very gentle with myself. You know, feel a problem to go take a walk or have a snack or go for a swim or something relaxing just to be very gentle with myself. And then I would come back and I would use the book more like a vertical where I would have a question and instead of reading it in a chronological way I just popped open the book and there was the answer. Amazingly, no matter what my question was, I would always just hold the book open gently and the answer was given. So that process went on for quite a while. As I said, about eight hours a day for about two and a half years. And then I started to hear the voice of Jesus speaking to me very directly in conversational tones in my mind and that made my life extremely easy. He would simply tell me where to go, what to do, who to see, who to call. If I forgot something, like I was leaving the house and I forgot my keys or something. It was very practical too, with very practical things as well as very equal to something. Come on in, we're just starting. Great, certainly. No problem. We could shift our chairs around any way that you want. We have plenty of pillows if you like to stretch out anything. Make yourself at home. So it was about, I would say, around 19, right around there, maybe in the late 1980s, I started hearing Jesus speak to me in very conversational tones. And so I think that's when it was really on. That's when I knew I could go really deep with my spiritual awakening because I had a guide giving me very specific instructions. And so up until that point it was listening to music and having conversations with people and doing lots of reading. I was so touched by so many of the spiritual master's and different readings I had had. But to actually have a voice in my mind telling me exactly what to do and where to go is such gentleness. I think that was a big speed up for me. And so that started, we'll say, it was like the late 1980s. So by 1991 it didn't take Jesus very long where he was like, okay, I'm calling you out of the world. You are now under my direction completely. You've worked the last job that you will work in the worldly sense. You're working for me now in the Holy Spirit. And I can't give you a plan of how it's going to look because I was always saying, can you give me like a five-year plan? You know, a two-year plan? No. I'll tell you moment by moment how this will unfold. So it was very much like the movie Star Wars where Luis Skywalker was being instructed by Obi-Wan Tanobi to use the force. It was very much like, oh, we're going to wing it. And I can't give you a lot of instruction about the future because I'm going to help you undo your belief in it so that you can learn to be present, just fully present. And so that began a very good working relationship with Jesus. And by 1991, I was asked to let go of everything that I had held in this world. My sense of jobs, careers. I basically had paid off my student loans and all my debts by 1991 under Jesus' direction. And I would do that. And basically had no ties, you could call worldly ties. I was just free to be of service and go wherever I was supposed to go, do whatever I was supposed to do and just listen and follow. And so that began a process in 1991 of travel and just living on the hard providence that has been the same for me, for the last 18 years now.