 It's the second movie we've seen this year with the Roman Centurion playing a key role. I don't know if you saw it, but I show a lot of movies and the man that played the Roman Centurion, he also played in the island. He was Dr. Merrick. It was the ego character in this movie I used for teaching awakening. But in this movie, in that movie he played the ego straight on and basically it was the main character who had to rise up in the end. They were always at odds. The main character, he used a reference to an American president who freed all the slaves, Lincoln. He rose up at the end. My name is Lincoln. You might remember the first Matrix movie. My name is Neo. Mr. Anderson with the agent and Neo rises up. My name is Neo in that subway scene. But in this movie, the first one we saw recently was a very powerful movie but the Roman Centurion actually had a conversion experience. And in this one it was a little more like if you were talking at the lunch table with Diana. It was almost like the little Jesus was just looking at him head on and twice. He said, you were there before. How do you know that? You saved me. And at this point he was like noticed in this movie there was a lot of those scenes where like when they said what is your name and the man next to him just said he doesn't speak. There's a lot of those kind of scenes where it's good to know that as you wake up to who you truly are the time and space will be arranged. You don't even have to defend yourself or figure it out. It's a little more like Lucy where everything is orchestrated. Just the way is made clear when you are sure of your destiny and sure of your purpose. Which is just really, that's how the movie ended, to be a child of God. Mary says, you know, and he says we're all children of God. But she said, but you're really here to live it. Not conceptually or not, you know, more like the cliche we're all, but actual and actual experience. That was very good, I thought too, the way it ended. That was a really powerful scene at the end of just his face and that whole point of living it, which is what Sarah was talking about this morning at the service too. Just living it, really living it, really feeling it. There comes a point where you, whatever concepts that have been helpful, there comes a point to toss them. Because you're really tossing aside all intellectual concepts and just saying, okay, it's time for an experience. And you don't know how the form of that experience will come to pass. But you do know that it's just a destiny. There's nothing to stop it from coming because it's the truth. And all you have to do is just stay so authentic with your feelings and so authentic with what you know deep in the core of your being. It seems crazy in this world that you can actually take no thought for what you shall wear or what you shall eat, take no thought for the morrow, take no thought for anything in form. Because it goes against all of our conditioning where we're supposed to take lots of thought, plan it, figure it out, analyze it, ensure it, you know, make it happen, work at it. It's almost like a craftsman, you know, work, work, work. And then it's like, in the end, even practice has to go because practice still involves time. The last to go will be the practice. What's your spiritual practice? No, I don't. What's your spiritual pathway? The pathway has to disappear. The practice has to disappear. Everything has to disappear. We were talking last night and Stephen was just saying how he, when he first felt he was to, you know, start recording and doing these videos, but there was no way that you couldn't do it. It just happened. There wasn't anything in the mind that was debating. Shouldn't, you know, all of that. There was some compelling. Compelling, yeah. I just started talking. It's the same word I use when I first started to travel. People will say, why? Why would you just leave everything and go out? And I say, I was compelled. I use the exact word, but that's, you could really see it in this movie. He's a seven-year-old and yet he was compelled, even though the whole context of being a seven-year-old child and that day and age and everything, even going on to Jerusalem, and his older brother finally, James finally said he has to go because he's got to get answers. That's why he's gone because they were like, I couldn't imagine that he would have left that cave or walked away from them. And they couldn't imagine that somebody actually found them and took him. It was almost like neither of those make any sense until James spoke up and said, oh, he has to find answers. That's why, and they all were like, they knew it. They knew that he was speaking the truth. That was great. What a blessing that movie. And then what was the one we wrote? Rizm. Oh my gosh, Rizm and the young Messiah, because I'd seen the trailers for both of them and I was like, something's up this year. We're starting to have Jesus movies that are really hitting home now. It's like his very presence gives everyone he meets the opportunity. Are you going to go for Christ? Well, the ego now, like what's your call? Isn't it? In each one of us encounters with the Romans or everyone around him, just because he's so clear in that they hit the ear cold to make. Yeah. We had a pretty good picture of the younger Jesus through, some of you know the Eurantia book. Joseph in here, the father, played a big role. But then according to the Eurantia book that he died, it's this book that... Yeah, I've got a friend who studies it. Yeah, according to the letter... The first time I've heard anyone mentioning it. Yeah, I've met people in groups around the country and all over the world that have studied it. And actually the president of the Eurantia Foundation came to Judy Scotch, the publisher of the course, and said, how have you got the course all over the world? And what's your business plan? We don't have one. We pray every step of the way we have no business plan. So they were interested. But in the Eurantia book, Jesus' father dies when he's 15. So this was when he was seven. So he went on... He had a lot of things that he had to face as a teenager during those years because for most children, male children at the time, 15, 16, 17, 18, he literally had to face all kinds of things that most people don't face until much later in their life. You can imagine a parent dying at that age and with all that we just saw here. So it's interesting with this movie and the Eurantia book and everything, it's starting to piece the puzzle together that he had a destiny. He was always aware there was some kind of huge destiny but he had absolutely no clue of what that destiny was, nor could he. Now we're starting to see it and certainly with the Course in Miracles we've got a whole bigger context on that this is a dream world and that it's not our destiny. Our destiny doesn't involve ending up anywhere in time and space. Our destiny is to wake up from the dream but in order to do that we have to play our part which is given to us moment by moment by the Holy Spirit. Only the Holy Spirit and Jesus know that where we're supposed to go, who we're supposed to meet, what we're supposed to do and it's been great because what Steve has been sharing is just coming here with Vicki. You can feel things getting activated like there's a whole plan that's really all prearranged. It's already written but we haven't walked through it yet and then we meet and we feel this energy and we feel this activation and we feel it's huge. It's way beyond the human understanding. No human could possibly comprehend the context of that but we feel it for sure and Jesus definitely felt it and felt it and then had some temptations when he was in his late teens and then in the Bible it talks about him being tempted by the devil 40 days and 40 nights and it was kind of interesting that they had the devil seen in this just like they had the devil character in Mel Gibson's movie. You remember Mary and the devil kind of when Jesus is walking carrying the cross the devil and Mary are on each side of Jesus and they're both looking at each other and that's kind of an interesting parallel and then with this one I really feel it's like all these movies are coming in we're just getting more of a bigger context to how important our lives are not so much in form but in a much broader context in terms of the whole cosmos like Jesus is such a symbol it's such an amazing rare symbol and the Orantia book basically says that what we would call Orantia or Earth is on a range of evolution of waking up to God it's a very crude planet so you have something like a Christ which is everything manifesting on one of the crudest planets in the cosmos and that's why we have these huge ripples that have been going on for the last 2,000 years because that light is completely transcending time and space it's like you were talking about the one beyond the fifth stage or whatever it was like manifesting that beyond whatever that is and yet seemingly in flesh and in scripts and scenarios of this world which is like a golf that we can't even imagine how far that golf seems to be but we're facing it dealing with it and we were talking at lunch those signs and symbols are just they start flooding into our awareness more and more of those little little synchronicities those little nudges those little reminders of the purpose behind everything that we do even if you're talking about the Arranche book the guy I'm going to see from here in California is a devotee of the Arranche book he's the one who, when I stayed there last time about a time before that he told me all about Arranche he came out of Vietnam, we had messed up he went around to friends and that book was on the table he said, what's this? they said, I don't know, someone left it here you can have it if you want he opened it, read it he's been devoted to it ever since and I was saying to Vicky I was telling Vicky about it I don't know anyone who's ever heard of it apart from him and the story of Jesus is in it and then you start speaking about it this is the second man I've ever known he mentioned it this is 2016 and I had very very devoted students in the early 1990s and I came across the Arranche book when I was in 1991 when I was on my first travels around the United States and Canada I was at a creek bed in Sedona with one of those little pop-up camper trailers and this man and woman who were studying the course and the Arranche book and all of these kind of real esoteric books 20 some 25 years ago they were like very deep into it and they introduced me to it and then about four years after that I had all these people showing up telling me you are my teacher you know we are your students and I was like okay it was quite startling but the biggest like I mentioned about that book in the office the mystical teachings of Jesus most of them were all raised in Christianity but they couldn't comprehend what the course was saying it just was too far beyond what they could comprehend so I made that book The Bible Course Companion but I also made this book that people talk about where I took passages from the Arranche book The Last Section The Life and Teachings of Jesus and the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi and Absence from Felicity Ken Wapnick wrote where Jesus describes the crucifixion and the resurrection in great detail and I took huge amounts of chunks from the course and I made this big book that had all these kind of amazing teachings in and I put a pink cover on the front and a pink cover on the back and I put a fish sign on it and it was called the Fish Book and so people have heard me for the last 20 years talking about the Fish Book there was a composite book that the Holy Spirit built for my students that had all those teachings together in one place because the Arranche book is full of parables too also Jesus did a lot of praying not just the Lord's Prayer but he had these big long beautiful prayers they're all in the Arranche book and so that was to be the bridge for the early students who couldn't quite grasp the course they needed something they said what did they do for a bank account and how did they handle lodging and how did Jesus interact with each one of the apostles because they were just human beings struggling and so I described through reading that last section that whole section of the Arranche book I could see how patient Jesus was working with everyone how he would work with Thomas who was always doubting and doubting everything how he would work with Peter who was very articulate but he was so impulsive he was very impulsive and so how do you work with impulsivity in this realm that's what I found that's why I put that in that book for all the students because they said watch how he does it learn from not just his words and his prayers but look at his actions how patient he is how friendly how loving how he just regardless of what they're going through he's still connected he never holds it against them so yeah it's good it's synchronistic that you're going out to visit that man and read the Jesus I've looked through it it's a big book I've seen him Jesus yeah the last section the life and teachings I'll read his book good thanks for telling me that I'll do it with the goats me to read it unless you've just pointed that out you know I've suffered it it'll work once again it's all in place it all just clicks in and it all drops in our lap all we have to do is desire it and then everything else comes like a magnet comes rushing in the people were supposed to meet the books were supposed to read the movies were supposed to watch the lives were supposed to lead the lives were supposed to lead it's all scripted and given to us yeah it all happened at once anyway didn't it because it happened in a time this environment in an instant the books we trapped inside the dream there's no time outside of it so Jesus being outside of it you can see it from A to B you can see it from beginning to end in a way we can't comprehend but he can see what obstacles in our path we let him as he shows the way around them we don't let him we'll bang into them it's as simple as that I was just speaking at a course gathering over in in Colorado and I was saying you know it's like when it says Jesus is in charge of the plan of atonement because Gary kept recognizing that Jesus he kept emphasizing in his talk that Jesus wasn't a leader he was a follower and he just had to follow follow follow Holy Spirit and then when I got up to my talk I said yes that's exactly what he went through in his process of awakening but let's not forget he now is the leader of the plan he has completed his part perfectly and so I flipped it around and did my whole talk on he's the leader meaning if he's the leader and he says I can perform miracles through you I will arrange time and space for you if you will perform miracles but that means that everything that seems to be happening in all time and space even down to the tiniest nuances at the electronic at electron level or the subatomic particle level all of that is is audibly being arranged by by Jesus just for the atonement experience and what's even better is there never is a mistake that that the Christ because the Christ has completed his part perfectly is a is arranging time and space which is just really a past script that's over and done but he's literally using the symbols to bring the mind into that perfect alignment as the Christ and therefore that means all things do work together for good for those that love the Lord and the Bible and the Course it says there are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment and everything is in perfect divine order and it's only the ego that tries to add something to the script or take something away or say wonderful wonderful but it wants to throw a button in there things would be better if something was different and it's not the case things would never be better if they were different things are perfect exactly as they are always have been and always will be it's the divine order so that's but that's the state of mind that's in the mind you can't have that state of mind and keep judging the script all this it would have been a perfect meal except you know when you go to a restaurant no it is a perfect meal they didn't have my favorite oh no no no that don't be judging favorite things you know all the things that would make it less than perfect are the illusions it's always perfect it's amazing some of you remember Sam who was with me but she's down in Mexico where I just left and she had a quiet day yesterday and then she was stirred up and she went to the balcony and she watched from the balcony as this man group of men and this man as they put this they captured this puppy and they drug this puppy along and they began torturing this puppy and the more she just watched from the balcony and as they tortured it and tortured it she could just she was watching the whole scene before her and then they tied the puppy to a tree and that's when she just started screaming screaming but this was across the street in this Mexico they couldn't hear it was if she was just watching that whole scene for a purpose and she screamed and screamed and stop it stop it and then they took the pistol out and shot the puppy and she called me then she ran down to find looked for Lisa and she couldn't find anybody at the center and but it just it was one of those things that brought up so much intensity and then she just sent me a big long, long, long Facebook message like what is the purpose of this you know she loves animals and this whole thing of victims and powerlessness and helplessness and torture and cruelty it just brought everything was gushing up like a geyser from the unconscious because of that scene and so that's she's still dealing with it it was just one scene she just finds her mind so drawn to interpreting that what we were just talking about there has to be beyond the veil of these images of these past images there is that light that's still shining there and that's really that light is all there is to see the body's ears were made not to hear some of you have heard that acronym for fear false evidence appearing real it's a big trick to keep the mind stuck trapped in guilt and pain and fear and so what's the purpose of that scene that scene has only one purpose is the spirit using it in this timing to bring up the unconscious darkness so it can be handed over and seen to be impossible it has no other purpose that scene if you try to interpret that scene from a linear way it's shocking she kept saying to me I'm shocked my knees were quivering I was just quivering while I was watching it and then she started thinking you were just here and nothing ever happened like that my face was just here and then you all went off to your next places and why did I have to see this scene now and I said well it's just coming up into awareness because it's time the mind is giving permission saying okay it's time for me to face this belief in victimization this belief in powerlessness this belief in helplessness this belief in cruelty and it was doing it all of her projections onto men for her whole life her father any man she's ever known was all there brought to the surface just in watching that one scene and also the screaming and screaming and not being heard that was a pattern in her life of not speaking up and disconnecting and fear of speaking up and feeling like that none of the men in my life have ever listened to me they've never listened to me ever you know this was like screaming and it was like they just continued on with the whole scene without even hearing one word that was screamed and then boom with the pistol at the end that was like you know at the end the intensity around that but when you start to think of it that's whatever comes up into your awareness it's just that your mind is ready to forgive it you're reaching a point where it's been pushed out of awareness it's been buried and that's what the unconscious mind is it's just a bunch of assumptions and beliefs but the mind is so terrified of it doesn't even want to raise them to the light it doesn't ever want to see those thoughts or memories again but they have to be you might say overlooked with the light of the Holy Spirit and they have to be allowed up because they aren't going to get healed if they're pushed down and if they're pushed away from awareness they won't be healed that way so it's just whether we go through physical symptoms whether we seem to witness a scene like that people are watching nowadays I think Sylvester Stallone was just over and niece vacationing with his with his wife and his three children and just after he took a little self photo was when the whole the truck over there and the shootings and 80's some people killed and scores injured and everything and it was kind of on an idyllic southern Mediterranean French day fireworks going off celebrating the fireworks a summer day one of the most idyllic kind of settings this truck you know big truck going down the street knocking people over rolling over children people bodies flying like bowling pins and gun shooting gun and all this stuff these kind of things we were talking last night where it used to be it happened every once in a while but it seems like every day every week it's somewhere on the planet every day and it's just coming it's just this unconscious coming now coming into awareness and people have forecast earth changes for a long time well there's plenty of earth changes but there's a lot more going on than earth changes with suicide bombings and twin towers coming down and planes taking off from the Netherlands getting shot down just disappearing with missiles all kinds of things happening and you might say that's really part of our wake up call right now there's a soft voice inside saying my beloved child choose again it's just asking us to see the world differently and asking us to forgive the attack thoughts because if attack is real then pain is real then guilt is real then fear is real if attack is real and the whole belief that the mind could separate that we could pull our mind away from God and take on a whole perception that has nothing to do with God is the belief that God believes that separation is real and it's being acted out really in graphic terms now for us we even did a I don't know if Stephen and Vicki got a chance to see it but we did remember that video with with all those we put together a video of a lot of the seeming horrendous tragic scenes that have been going on and then we inter-spliced it with teachings from me speaking on the course and used it in combination with the graphic seeming violence to try to bring a bigger context like this is a wake-up call it's the only meaningful way to interpret our experiences now is a wake-up call the racial things that are going on in the United States you know I used to when I would travel to all these 40-some countries occasionally the State Department would issue warnings for travel in other countries for American citizens now when I was in Mexico for the first time there were countries in the world that were issuing warnings for travel to the United States because of the racial things police killings, riots you know protests that was targeted for that there really isn't racial situations in Dallas up to the point that that happened yeah the ego was like a place where the police worked together so much with the community Black Lives Matter and then the ego was like yeah well we'll just make that as an extreme point but that's what was happening here you can see this ego character in the movie like with the boy it rolls the apple it's eating the apple it rolls the apple out the boy falls over dies and then he goes it whispers he did it you see it's a total setup and then it's projected back on to Jesus right and that's what the ego does even in Dallas since that happened they wanted to cause separation but it didn't work they're all it was a great sign they'll start to hug each other I saw that video the police going out obviously what they wanted to happen happened and it's just so good it's a real start of a turn around the miracle that's why we're here we're here to demonstrate those miracles yeah that's a pretty intense video but we did another one on addiction all addiction is the desire for connection because addiction is so widespread with all the around the planet so we showed in graphic terms the addictions acted out all kinds of addictions and then brought into teachings because more and more we're getting people that are collaborating with graphic skills and things like let's put together teaching devices that show the intensity of the ego acted out and then offer the relief and offer the solution side by side let's put them side by side so those are that's part of our calling too is to make it if we have to learn through contrast then let's learn through contrast if it takes even extreme contrast then there's something going on in the mind saying bring it on we need to heal we need to face whatever whatever's been pushed away we have to face it this one movie reminded me of the line in The Matrix from Morpheus when he says to Neo, Wayne you know you're the one you won't have to dodge bullets like the whole thing was a demonstration of complete defensiveness it just made it so attractive to be constant like devotion to this firmness like you will not touch me I'm going to put back this thing that was a conductor not having to dodge a bullet so I can stop her in front of him yeah that's the one that's the one I sent to Sam so she can see it because there's a powerlessness, helplessness victim and it ends in that state of mind do not touch me where you have dominion over the world that's a workbook lesson from the course my capital self is ruler of the universe even in this world it is I that rule my destiny what happens is what I desire and what does not occur is what I do not want to happen that's very clear in the course we have dominion over the world we also have dominion in heaven because that's our natural state of oneness but even in this world he makes it very clear you're never the victim of anything you can choose to perceive yourself as the victim but that's not the truth not the reality it's a decision really isn't it decided to be that decided to be decided to take offense decided to be upset decided it wasn't you've always got a choice here because in oneness there isn't no choice there's just oneness what can you choose between oneness it's just oneness there's no judgement in oneness there's nothing to judge anything against it's just one thing like God has no name because when you're the only thing that exists why do you need a name we're in this opposite existence where everything is split and everything because it's opposite there's conflict in oneness there's no conflict there's no oneness there's no conflict so it's perfect please yeah there's one part in the course with all the talk of forgiveness where he says awareness of dreaming is the function of God's teachers so you can't be the dreamer and a dream figure you can't be the Holy Son of God and a human being you can't be both it's one or the other and it's that causation thing you mentioned that if you are the dreamer of the world of dreams no other cause does it have or ever will so it's like the dreamer has to come back to the dreaming position and that's where from that position it's that say to mind don't touch me because we know that with nighttime dreams it doesn't matter if it's a fire breathing dragon if we're in a lucid dream ha ha ha I'm not this I'm not this character oh yeah you can throw all the flames you want because these bodies, your body is not real none of the bodies are real so that's that's it and to do that again is to have no investment in anything in the world that's why we're called like Buddha said too also to empty the mind of attachments because as soon as you think you attach to something and if you identify with something then you will defend it and if you want to be defenseless then you have to be detached from appearances there can't be any appearances I know for Sam that that was a big step I mean that's almost like her worst nightmare is what she saw they just saw her worst nightmare just acted out in graphic colors you know just from a balcony watching yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's it she's watched this she's been on that balcony before but this was like the scene in The Godfather or something where it's like here we go the horse head in the bed you know whatever the worst nightmare just got completely acted out and it can only be for forgiveness it can only be for this deep purge of all these thoughts it's the only purpose anything could have and that's that as extreme as that seems I still always quote that part in the course where Jesus says the dreams that you think can hold you back just as much as those in which the fear is entered so when you start to think of all the happy memories maybe with family and friends and whatever that shows you how sneaky the ego that thing that she watched is now a horrific memory that she's facing in her mind it's like a bright honor but the dreams you think you like can hold you back as much as those in which the fear is entered because dreams are dreams there aren't good dreams bad dreams we've got the Star Trek episode that I show over and over that we labeled it's called the emissary but we call it time's end because it's you know everybody knows the Star Trek the Klingons, the Borg, the Romulans you know all the different ones they pierce they go through a wormhole and they pierce all the time and space and move into a complete abstract light they come encounter with the light cannot understand opposites it cannot it's always you know it's he's protesting he even tries to talk about baseball how how exciting baseball is and and basically the light's response to as he describes how the pitcher pitches the ball and the hitter swings and the ball could go anywhere inside these lines and he's talking about how he values not knowing what's coming next and the light says you value your ignorance of what is to come that's the reply from the light to all of his enthusiasm about baseball and it goes on with his relationship with his child everything that's valuable seemingly to the ego in this world this little episode that I show is 35 minutes and then my commentary coming in even down to romance where he's thinking of the memory of how he he's watching a memory of him kissing his wife on a picnic on a little picnic and then and he's got this face like oh he's missing so missing that and the light's right there going like this because the light doesn't know what lips are and the light doesn't know what a kiss is it's deep because most of the time you're always facing different species but this takes you actually to abstraction of just pure light beyond duality beyond opposites completely and that's why I keep showing that little 35 minute clip over and over and over because it's a spectacular teaching device as far as for Course in Miracle students it's top of the line it's a spectacular Was that an episode or part of the film? It was part it was an episode from Deep Space Nine and it was called The Emissary and I put it in my Quantum Forgiveness Book too for people to watch as one of their exercises when they're going through forgiveness but you know most movies don't ever have the light as the contrast it's always just images battling and thriving, fighting, trying to win you know all the even Star Wars the light and the dark force and everything and there's some big battle this was just pure abstraction beyond all of the images so yeah that's a good one if you get a chance to see that one that's really good it's amazing I get really animated when I teach using really deep teaching tools too I get like a child and get really excited and that's what our movie watchers guide to enlightenment about we put a lot of movies really good teaching movies but with lots of spliced in commentary to kind of penetrate even deeper through what the movie is teaching you know I think Jesus is having fun with the movies right now he's like these he's my latest or wait till that one comes out with you and McGregor and be like ha ha ha it's all over and done for the ego the war is over it never began it never began