 Lovely to see you all again today and yeah, I can give a little bit of a introduction for those who are new. I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host of your host today through the session. And for starters, we're also testing out a feature today. We have an automatic transcript feature. So if you'd like to see text as I'm speaking or David speaks, you can have a look for the little CC icon. That's just available for English speakers so far until they release it for Spanish as well. But we're just trying out that feature. So we're going to start with David today showing the movie. And then afterwards we'll have a 10 minute break, then followed by breakout rooms where you can share anything that comes up for you during the movie, any emotions. And then we'll have a 45 minute break. And then I'll be holding the closing session today. So enjoy the day. And I'll pass you over to David now. Thank you, Pete. Hi, everyone. Welcome. Welcome to another joyful awakening day on Saturday. How wonderful that we can spend the day together like this with such a devoted purpose to forgiveness and allowing our mind to be healed. I think of Jesus' message in the Course. He says in the Course, Jesus says, you cannot wake yourself, but you can allow yourself to be awakened. Well, that's good to know. That makes it really humble. That means that we can take the pressure off of our personality cells and realize that we as a person don't have to figure out how to wake up from the dream. We just have to allow the Holy Spirit, allow Jesus to awaken us. Just like Jesus and the Holy Spirit are seeking our mind to wake it up, to help it remember the truth and the love and the light. And all we have to do is really stay open and be willing to follow whatever prompts and guidances and signs and symbols come our way. So our part is really pretty simple. We have to stay willing and open to listen and follow. And then we just put it all on the Holy Spirit to run the show, to lead the way. And that's where we feel the happiest when we realize we're not in charge of our own awakening. We're just allowing it to happen. So today we have another classic movie. This is, again, one of our all-time classic movies. And this morning I was pondering, because I always talk about prayer a lot and how prayer is the medium of miracles and everything starts with prayer. And I was pondering, I was thinking back through my 35 years of working with the Course, what are my two favorite prayers? Meaning which prayers have I prayed in my heart the most over the last 35 years? And the first one I think is one you might relate to, it's called Help. It's just plain help. The simpler the better, help, you know? And of course the Holy Spirit hears the prayer of our heart. So the Holy Spirit is very aware of that prayer for help. And the second one I think right behind help for me is Make It Obvious. That's my second favorite prayer. I mean, considering this is an ego world, we're in the fog of sleep, we're in the fog of forgetfulness with this world. You know, Mary Baker-Eddie called this world mesmerism. Some people call it hypnotism. But whatever you call it, it's sleep. And when you're asleep, I can't think of anything that's really more helpful than just crying out for help when you need it or saying Make It Obvious. Because Make It Obvious is really a prayer for guidance. It's like, Make It Obvious is like, even if I can't hear your voice, you still can make it obvious to me. Make it obvious in my nighttime dreams. Make it obvious with signs and symbols. Make it obvious with music on the radio. Make it obvious with the birds, with people. Make it obvious in my dream. Come reach me in the dream. Even if I can't hear your voice, or I would say until I can hear your voice. Because if you keep following the signs and symbols, you know, you hear the voice. And the voice will speak through you very easily when you're open. I mean, you don't have any resistance to hearing the voice and letting it speak through you. So today's movie, as always, has come as a prayer, as an answer to prayer for the prayers that you put out in the themes. And of course, we have a combined poll now. We have English poll, we have a Spanish poll, we have a tribe poll. So when you vote for a theme, it is coming through loud and clear that this is like the prayer of your heart. Take me to the movies, Jesus, and answer my prayer in the movie. Let me have some fun. Let me enjoy this. Let me enjoy this awakening. Let me allow you to wake me up and let me enjoy it and have some fun in the process. So the number one theme that you voted for this week was called asking spirit to make it obvious in matters of decision making. That's fantastic, because we all know that's a key. We're dealing with decision making every moment, every day. There's a part where Jesus says, decisions are continuous, although you don't always know when you're making them. Isn't that fascinating? Decisions are continuous, but you don't always know when you're making them. What does he mean by that? What do you mean? I don't always know when I'm making them. He's talking about the unconscious mind. Maybe we've made some decisions about ourselves and the world based on our unconscious beliefs and maybe what we call decisions that a person is making are just outcomes of our belief system. So if we have a very limited egoic belief system that is sponsoring our decisions, then our decisions, I would say, ultimately aren't free. We can't know free will if we believe in the ego. How could our will be free? If we believe in a death wish, if we believe in limitation, how could we know what's unlimited? If we believe in fear, how could we know what love is? You see how important it is to really pray to be guided because all of the guidance that we receive, it's not really guidance to make us have a better life as a person on Earth. It's more guidance on our mind releasing our false beliefs about our identity, about our identity, about everyone's identity, because that's what's holding us back from love and light. It's just false beliefs. And it's good to know that in any instant, Jesus says, you can just change your mind. He's saying your mind is so powerful that if you decide to join with me in one instant, you can drop every single ego belief that you've ever had in one instant. So whenever you get depressed at thinking how long this is going to take you to forgive, just remember Jesus is saying, how long is an instant? Come with me here. Let's have some fun and let's let this thing go because you don't really need these false beliefs. They're not bringing you joy. They're not bringing you peace and happiness. So the second theme is having faith in times of darkness. God will pull me through. And I get asked the question a lot, like, what do I do in emergencies? What do I do in my darkest hour? What do I do when I just feel so closed off from everyone and everything and closed off from God? And that is the key to faith to faith is the ability to to go deep inside and stay with the curriculum. It's like, stay with the forgiveness. Stay with the whole point of everything that we're doing is for spiritual awakening is to come back to the present moment. So the darkness is like a cloud that's trying to cover us over, block out our purpose. And then when we learn to expand our faith, we just keep coming back. We we may, for a moment, look at some things in the world or some appearances, some behaviors and and go, oh, that's I was just doing a counseling call. I think it was yesterday and and my friend was saying, what what do you do when you look at the world and everything you see is meaningless and you feel terrible? And I as she was saying, maybe I guess maybe I don't believe it's meaningless. I said, if you feel terrible, I think I think you do give some meaning to it because that's lesson number two, I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me. So we're going to take a ride with the main character today in this movie about having faith in times of darkness and just letting God pull us through, you know, in fact, the best thing to do when you feel really dark is make sure you're not in the driver's seat. This is the time really to slide on over to the passenger side and say, oh, I you drive, Holy Spirit, you drive, Jesus, take the wheel. OK, the third one we have is being vigilant against thoughts of competition and comparison, comparison and competition. Yeah, that's those are sticky, sticky, sticky. Whenever we are comparing ourselves to someone else or we're comparing one person to another or comparing really anything of this world, one situation to another, one time to another, one outcome to another. That is that's just purely judgment. And we never feel happy when we're when we're judging and comparing. And we never feel happy competing. God didn't create us to compete. God created us to be love, to be one. And then competition is an invention of the ego to try to keep us locked into a false identity, which is linear time. So the key for the ego to keep the mind stuck on the timeline is competition and comparison. And then forgiveness or non-judgment is the Holy Spirit's key to unlock us from the timeline and drop us in the present moment. When when we don't judge, we're present. We're just present. We're holy and we're present when we're not judging. And when we're judging, then we're stuck in our perception of being on the timeline. OK, the next one is letting time be used to undo the belief in time. That's why we have these Saturday movies. All the movies I show on Saturday are given to me by Jesus. And they're all stories. I mean, that's what a movie is. It's a story. It's a timeline story. But it has so many elements of healing release that it's like a story that's encouraging us to drop the story. It's a movie that's encouraging us to drop the movie. The movie of our lives, you know, what we say when we meet somebody. Where are you from? Tell me about yourself. When were you born? Who is your family? What do you want to do when you grow older? You know, what do you do for a living? All these are stories, lots of stories. And we're into watching movies that help us reach behind the story to a state of mind, to a state of presence. And the last one that you voted on was facing strong feelings of overwhelm in my special function. That as soon as we start to become intuitive and we feel like, oh, I've got my calling now. And then when you start to give your heart and soul to your calling, the ego is not happy because when you give yourself your mind over to your calling, you're basically saying, I want to wake up and I'm here to fulfill my part, my function. And the ego is not happy with that at all. It's going to say, stop, don't fulfill your special function because you'll die, but actually we'll live. Once we fill our special function, then we've done our part. Then God takes the final step, just goes, oh, my sweetheart. Just a big, warm, loving embrace. That's all that's left after our special function is fulfilled. So why not shine your light for however long and with whoever or wherever you're to shine it? That's just part of the special function. And in the movie today, the main character, he has great difficulty accepting his calling, accepting his special function. And it's because of these ego investments in the self-concept. The movie today that we're going to be watching is Bruce Almighty. Bruce Almighty. And, you know, we have a lot of great movies in our collection. And Bruce Almighty is right up there. It's a classic all-time movie with Evan Almighty. And that's another one. I could have just shown Evan Almighty today and taught the same lesson about make it obvious through Evan Almighty. And both these movies have Morgan Freeman playing God. That has to be one of the most obvious answers to make it obvious when God shows up in your life as a man, Morgan Freeman, very uncompromising, but very gentle, very humorous, very warm and sparkly, not taking anything seriously. I think there's a line in this movie where Bruce is so angry at God, he's like, smite me, oh, great smiter. And when and when Morgan Freeman finally gets to meet him, he says, oh, I've I've got a long file on you, a whole lifetime file on you. And some of the most recent entries are a little disturbing. But basically, Morgan Freeman says, well, I'm I'm not really one for blasphemy, but that one really, really makes me laugh. You know, smite me, oh, oh, great smiter. You know, it's, you know, in Christianity, the worst thing you can do when I was growing up, they would tell me, don't do this, don't do this, don't do this. But the worst thing you could do was take the Lord's name in vain. Is they called it blasphemy. They were like, like the Holy Spirit can forgive anything, anything you do, but not blasphemy. It's almost what you mean. You mean if I blaspheme, then I'm guilty. They said, yeah, that's right. The Holy Spirit can handle anything else. But in this movie, God is so lighthearted that he he basically is so playful and relaxed that even smite me without great smiter, whatever he says, it's it's God is just so playful because God, of course, is just pure love. And this really comes through Morgan Freeman's version of God, both in Evan Almighty and in Bruce Almighty. OK, who's the who's the director behind these two spectacular all time classics, Tom Shadyak, a very devout devotee of Jesus, a very devout Christian. And wow, when Jesus wants to use a director in this world, he he just picks Tom Shadyak. If it doesn't matter what he wants to teach, like if he wants to teach no private thoughts, no secrets, no people pleasing. He has Tom Shadyak make a movie called Liar Liar with Jim Carrey. And he takes one of the most difficult topics and he makes the most funny, spectacular movie that leaves you laughing the whole movie as it's so practical and it's so spectacular. And in this movie, he again has Jim Carrey playing the lead, just like in Liar Liar. And and he's Bruce, Bruce Nolan in our movie today. He's a TV personality. You know, he covers special events for his news team. And he has a career in his mind and he wants to expand and grow in his career. Every time we have a thought of a career, an earth career and trying to better ourselves in an earth career, that is the ego. The ego goals are always make a false self-concept and then try to improve it, whether it's a person to try to improve as a person or improve an interpersonal relationship or improve a career, improve your your life circumstances or whatever. Anything that involves improvement of the personality self is actually a defense against the light because the personality self is an illusion. So if you put all your energy into trying to improve an illusion, you you miss the truth, which is that you're a perfect spirit and you always have been. You were created perfect by God. So in this movie, Bruce. He has a girlfriend and his girlfriend. His name is Grace, but a beautiful name, Grace, because that's really going to be a key on the on the pathway to wake up. Her name is Grace and Jennifer Aniston plays his girlfriend, Grace. And of course, Morgan Freeman plays God. And there is Jim Carrey playing Bruce Snowlin. And then there is another person on his news team. And Steve Carell plays Evan. And of course, in the following movie, the follow up movie, Evan will have his own lesson in waking up to God. Equally funny, equally spectacular. I think Evan Almighty is more undoing the family self concept where Bruce Almighty is more undoing the special relationship in terms of a couple and undoing the career concept, which is a pretty strong egoic push in this world, you know, to have a career because career is supposed to provide you safety, security, is help help you survive and all these things. And and career is just another word for vocation. And Jesus tells us that your vocation is healing the mind. Your vocation is not to be a mother and a father. The vocation is not to be aspiring in a good career in this world because because your vocation is healing in mind. It's just to be still and know that I'm God. It's it's it's literally forgiveness and coming to the atonement, which is accepting the correction for the error called ego. That's it. And in the Course in Miracles, Jesus says, you have one responsibility and that is to accept the atonement for yourself. He says it twice in the course in different contexts. Miracle workers, sole responsibility is to accept the atonement. The teacher of God's sole responsibility is to accept the atonement for himself. So that's the simplicity of focusing on where your true responsibility is. But if you aim responsibility to the world towards your personhood, towards your personality, and you try to become a good or a better or a perfect person, not not going to happen. There's a song God didn't create the little green apples. Well, God is no respecter of persons, as the Bible says, you know, personhood is the persona is mask and God is the creator of spirit of I am presence, not a creator of mask. That's another Jim Carrey movie, the mask. Speaking of Jim Carrey, I just want to stop for a moment and say he just several days ago, he had his 60th birthday. So on behalf of all of us here and all of us around the world, we want to just say, happy birthday, Jim, because you're helping us wake up with some love and laughter. I mean, we want to laugh until we cry. And and that is some acting ability, Jim. So happy birthday, Jim. So happy 60th birthday. And also, I'd like to take a moment to honor our dear friend, Tick Not Han today. Tick Not Han just passed away at 90, like 95 years old. What a loving presence. I woke up this morning and I could feel that Tick Not Han, that that soft, graceful, peaceful presence. And I could hear Jesus saying, blessed are the peacemakers. And so Tick Not Han, he's with us right now. I'm sure he's going to have a good laugh. You can't go wrong with Jim Carrey and Tick Not Han in your presence. You've got you've got the best of laughter and the best of stillness and presence. So we honor Jim and his 60th birthday and Tick Not Han for his amazing 95 years of of teaching and learning peace. He's definitely one of the peacemakers. And also, I just I really like to see that how everything that is used in this world is used to go beyond the world. I mean, that's one of our our themes is letting time be used to undo the belief in time. So here we got a filmmaker and I'm Tom Shadyak, who he goes to Hollywood and wow, as he hit the big time Hollywood liar, liar, boom, huge. That was one of his Jim Carrey movies. And then, of course, with he had many he had really great blockbuster movies. But I think with Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty, we got to see the best of how you're a director in this time and space timeline for God. Tom Shadyak hats off to you for letting your skills and abilities, amazing skills and abilities to be able to work with people like Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell, Jennifer Aniston and Jim Carrey and pull off these movies. You know, I mean, in many parts of the world, God is is not a word that's spoken. I see some of you there from Europe. I mean, with all the things that have been seemingly happened in Europe over these last decades in the name of God, whether it's been the Spanish Inquisition or the Crusades killing Muslims in the name of Jesus or a number of things that have happened. I know when I've gone to Europe and I've been over there many times people, they do like a lot of non-dual teachings. But but but the word God is still one of those things. It's like they would rather they would rather thank the universe than God. Thank you, universe. Thank you, allness or oneness or whatever, because the name of God has been so misused by the ego that people just don't like to talk about God. You know, I I have to I've enjoyed teaching him in quantum physics. I teach it in quantum physics when I go to Europe a lot of times. There was a time I went to Ireland, Ireland and Northern Ireland, where I was using a movie called God's Not Dead and Jesus had me edit the movie. Jason Warwick was doing it. And basically he had a different God's Not Dead movie for Ireland and for Northern Ireland, so that the people could hear it in their own way. Jesus said, here I want this one here, this one here. And now we're openly going to share a movie that's God coming seemingly into form as a person. Well, Jesus did it 2000 years ago. So Morgan Freeman is his is our more modern day version. I think George Burns, the great comedian, George Burns with the cigar and Gracie, his wife. Now we've got Jim Carrey and Grace in this movie, and we have have God. This movie is is helpful because when you start to feel like things are going bad in your awareness and your experience, the tendency in this world when things seem to go against you, you perceive that they're going against you is to start to lean towards a victimization mindset or an abuse mindset or I'll call it a mistreated mindset. That is the farthest thing from the truth, because these are ideas that God doesn't even know about. So if you want to know God and you've got these ideas in your mind, then this is where the forgiveness work comes in. But frequently, when people have a misperception of being abused or mistreated or victimized, tendency is sometimes to blame God. And I think this goes all the way back to to the Genesis in the Bible where it said God created the heavens and the earth. And so your mind is going to be really angry about that second part. Like, oh, you are making, giving me another bad day. You you are doing this to me. You are the creator of the universe and you are doing it to me. And I'm mad at you. The only thing is, is God isn't the creator of the cosmos. God is the creator of the heavens, but not the earth ego is the projector of the earth. So that's an important correction in Genesis. But for most of us, this is what we have felt when we were growing up, where we where people have been known to shake their fists and look up like, why are you doing this to me? So today's movie will be an attempt to let's take God off the hook, especially since God didn't create this world. We why would we get angry at one who who's only love? It must be we don't know the one that's only love if we're getting angry at anything because God is just pure love. And if we're going to know God is pure love, we have to learn to forgive what we thought we did or what we believed in forgive our own misperception. You know, the course says, you know, when you forgive, you don't forgive your brother for what he did. You forgive your brother for what he did not do. This actually applies really well to God. Let's not forgive God for what God did. Let's forgive God for what God did not do, which was create error. God of love is not a creator of error. God doesn't know about the ego. God doesn't know, he says in the course, God God is aware that his creative channels are blocked, but he doesn't really know what that is because he he didn't create it. And the Holy Spirit is our bridge to remember God, to remember the love that we are. So this movie is really good. We can see in this movie, too, that that Bruce has is pretty strongly tied into a self concept in terms of a television personality. And that just means that his worth is very tied into advancing and succeeding as a television personality. And that, of course, is where the anger is coming up from, because that's that's an example of the authority problem. And it's also an example of the unhealed healer. When when we hold on to a false personality self concept, whether it's a TV personality, whether it's in an interpersonal relationship or whether it's even a spiritual self concept. You know, you the ones that are really the ones that teach and and extend the peace are the ones that aren't identified with the body. I mean, that's that is the greatest teacher of God. In fact, Jesus says that it only takes one teacher of God to to save the world, but that teacher is not a body or antibody. That's what that's his criteria for being the teacher of God that saves the world, not a body or antibody. And I think of Tick, not Han, who just passed away because he had some great quotes and all of his teachings and writings over the years. But one of them is like, let's walk together. Let's just walk. He says, without any thought of a destination. And that's a beautiful quote from Tick, not Han, because he's saying, stay present. Don't think of your destination as something in the future. Right now is the destination. It's not a future destination. It's right now, right now. And and he was such a teacher of peace. I think, yeah, some years ago, he had a stroke and he couldn't speak anymore. So he just went back to Vietnam to the same monastery where he was ordained when he was 16 years old, 80 years prior to the stroke. And he just was silent for his remaining years. Wow, love it, Tick, not Han. That is spectacular. Another famous teacher, Ram Das, had a stroke and he he did regain his ability to speak before he passed away. But but Tick, not Han, so graceful, ordained as a monk at 16. And then all those years until he had a stroke and then his last several years of just in silence, his stillness with his beloved monastery down in Vietnam. That's just giving you an example of how graceful you can be with this world. That's grace. That's grace. That's just pure grace. And and today, Jim Carrey is going to help us start to laugh at the self concept that we had been so invested in, trying to make something of ourselves in the world, trying to be something important, be somebody important. He's going to help us laugh at that idea. And that's that's no small thing, along with the Morgan Freeman, Steve Carell. You know, these are these are some of the best comedia comedians and actors that you ever find all in the same movie. Oh, it is smoking. We're we're smoking in the humor today. So I think we have we're just in for such a beautiful treat and I will pop in from time to time. But I just want you to to really watch how when when Jim Carrey's character, when Bruce really starts to get really angry and upset, I want you to pay attention to our prayer of our heart, the number one theme of today, which is make it obvious. When he gets angry, just notice how the signs and symbols of humor are there to to hold him in his angriness to carry him along when he's most angry. When people talk to me, they go, oh, I am lost when I'm angry. I am so far from God, I feel like I can't get back. But that's the time when you pray, make it obvious. That's the time when you pray help, when things get really bad, seemingly in your perception. That's when you send out that beautiful prayer for help or to make it obvious. And that's what I like about this movie. This movie doesn't have this isn't a movie about Jim Carrey channeling the Holy Spirit. It's more of him being willing to let his emotions up. And I can't really, frankly, think of a better actor at at being so expressive with emotions. He uses every every mannerism known in the human condition. His face stretches his. I mean, at the end of this movie, Pete, when when you guys are shown this movie, please, at the very end of the movie, let it play through the song. Are you ready for a miracle ready for my love? Let's get the song about miracles in there. And then let's go all the way to the outtake bloopers as the as the credits are rolling. Let's see some. Let's just see how much fun they had doing this for the Holy Spirit and Jesus. When they make these movies, you think they're having fun when you see the movie. You should see the bloopers that come. If you you will see that they are having so much fun making this because this is the Holy Spirit behind this movie. Tom Shadyak directing doesn't get any better. I can't think of a director on the planet that can do what Tom did. Actually, this is Jesus coming through big time. He got a hold of Tom and whoa, we got the benefit of that. And then you've got, you know, Jennifer Aniston and you've got Jim Carrey and Morgan Freeman. And whoa, this is a bundle of joy. So even the outtakes are funny. You may even laugh more at the outtakes than at the movie itself because they're having some kind of fun. This is some kind of miracle we're talking about. This is for us. This is telling us this is the way we're supposed to live every day. We're supposed to have that same fun as they did making this movie. And I have to say to Tom Shadyak's credit, after he made the big movies, he bought he already had a big house in Hollywood. But when he had these movies that came out, he made so much money off of these movies that he bought a big, big, big Hollywood house. I mean, he bought the big giant Hollywood mansion. And then to his credit, he was standing in the hallway as he walked into his new giant mansion for the first time. And he stood there in the empty hallway and he looked around it and he said to himself, what is this for? What's a bigger house even mean? Oh, Tom. Oh, he's going beyond the director. Oh, he's tuned into the to the source. What is the purpose of this big house? And he moved into a trailer. He he actually left that giant. I don't know. I can't. I just don't have never heard of movie stars or directors doing this. He moved out of this giant mansion into a trailer. And people in Hollywood thought he had lost his mind. He found it. He found he found his divine mind after these movies. And I can see why, you know, he he was so surrendered to Jesus in making these movies that he connected with the essence of Jesus, the essence of love, the essence of what it means to be a teacher of God, a teacher of God does not want anything. He cannot give away. What would he wanted for? He could only lose because of it. So he threw liar, liar. He gave his whole heart through Bruce Almighty. He gave his whole heart to Evan Almighty. He gave his whole heart. And then when he had the mansion, he was like, this doesn't mean anything at all. He also went through if you and if you really want to look up his life, you see, he went through extreme conditions. He went through he had a fall when he was out jogging one day and he went through extreme conditions of what seemed to be a mysterious, painful injury that that took him down into deeper into prayer and deeper into faith after his movie making days. And then, of course, even years later, he had he had a beautiful comeback movie that I saw years after all of that. I remember I was flying down to Brazil down to Sao Paulo and my friend Jeffrey Kosker, who he came up and he came up to where I was sitting. And he said I was sleeping at the time. But he said, tell David when he wakes up to watch this movie and it was called Brian Banks. And I was like, I watched it. Oh, tears of all one another great forgiveness movie. And I'm like, who made this movie? Tom Shadyak. Ah, that was his comeback movie after years of of going through all this dismantling. He Hollywood wouldn't give him a job, but he made this movie. And wow, he got me crying on the on the plane because Brian Banks was such an amazing, based on a true story, so to speak, in this world, you know, amazing forgiveness movie. One of the best I've seen. So let's sit back. Let's enjoy this movie, enjoy all the humor. And from time to time, I will join you in it. And as we're watching this movie, you just remember, this is this is the way that that Jesus wants us to handle this world when when we get upset, be transparent about it and and be willing to be shown what to do or what to do next, because that's what happens with Bruce. You know, he's he's just he's he's very angry. He's very upset. He becomes more frustrated and angry. And that's when people start in this world, tip over to the ego. They they go to drugs. They go to addictions. They they got caught in the ego's temptations when things get really bad. But if we're ready to make the turn and really turn it over to the Holy Spirit, that's when we get lifted up when we're tempted to go down and the grace of God swoops in there and Jesus just comes swooping in to save our mind in a miracle, a miracle moment. That's what this movie is about. Lots of miracle moments. So happy Saturday. Happy birthday, Jim. And let's all have a good time enjoying this movie with Jim Carrey's amazing.