 Okay. Hi everybody. We'll just take a second. I think we're just about to go live. So one moment. Okay. We are live. So hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome to our movie workshop. I'm Peter and I'm going to be your host today. And we have quite the movie for us today I know. So for everybody who's new, I can give a little introduction. So we will be having the movie with David to start with. And then we'll have an opportunity to share what came up for us with breakout rooms. And then later on today, we're going to have a closing session. And so we'll have a couple breaks through the day as well. I will just say if today we also have a Portuguese version of the movie playing. So just for a test. So if you are a Portuguese speaker and you've been given the instructions, how do you to do that? You can pin the Portuguese version of the movie right now. It's called Film Portuguese. So with that, I'll pass it over to David. Great. Thank you Peter. Hi everyone. Welcome. I'm glad you're joining me today. We've got a very powerful experience planned for you today. And occasionally we show a movie that could be sometimes classified as fairly intense. So this definitely I giving you a heads up. This is very intense. Again, I said earlier with one of these movies, you're on a magic carpet ride with me. It's like stay on the carpet with me. Keep your mind aligned with me, because we are going to be going pretty close to the devil today. And I want you to be able to make it through. It's a fairly long movie. And it has some very intense scenes as a world would judge it. So that's why I say be very prayerful. Stay very focused. Come back to if you're doing a course in miracles lessons. The lesson for today is lesson number 79. Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved. And this will be a perfect movie for fully diving into today's course of miracles workbook lesson. Because as with the lead characters in this movie, they will face what seem to be a lot of temptations in form. Temptations to go into fear or into guilt. The ego is very, very clever. The ego has its own sense of intelligence, even though it's not real. It's a belief system that is completely coherent within itself. So the only way that you can transcend the ego is to go literally beyond it to a place of safety and love and light. And then you can see it's unreality. But while you believe in the ego, then the world it generates and the feelings that you feel all seem to be very real. Within the realm of time and space, fear seems to be a real emotion, although perfect love, as the Bible says, cast out fear. So you have to really get down to the bottom of the ego's thought system to be free of it. And if that is your prayer to get to the bottom of the unconscious mind and be free of all ego beliefs, then this movie suits that prayer very well. Now we always pray on a movie and the movie is really a reflection of an opportunity we have with our movie poll results for the previous week. So I'm just going to read the combined and final result of the poll and these are the topics that we will be addressing through today's movie. Coming in at number one was the belief that I can be dominated by the ego. So Jesus tells us that you made the ego by believing in it and you can dispel it by withdrawing your belief from it. And yet for most people when they start to get in touch with the power of the mind and the belief in the unconscious which is pushed out of awareness, it can bring up a lot of fear. And oftentimes people are so afraid of the ego that they may just say, I'm just going to try to distract away and forget that it's there. The ego though is just the mass covering over the light of truth and really the only thing that can ever be known is light, is God, is love. But the ego is very ingenious at covering itself and that's why the entire world of time and space is a projection of the ego belief. And that's also why whenever you experience a temptation to fear, really it's just a wish that's still in the mind that illusions be real. The ego generated a totally fictitious world of time and space, a completely fictitious cosmos, and then the ego is quite angry that God is not pronouncing this projection and giving it reality. It's like a child who's having a temper tantrum in the aisle of the grocery store and it wants some red licorice. And mom is saying, we're not buying any red licorice today. And the child has thrown itself on the floor and it's throwing a huge fit and it's thrashing about knocking cereal boxes down and it's doing a big reaction just to get mom to say, okay, I'll buy the red licorice. The ego wants God to give reality to time and space and God would not be God if God gave reality to time and space because only the eternal comes from an eternal being. Christ is an eternal being and the Holy Spirit actually is an eternal being and you might say even all the angels are just symbols that point to the light, point to the oneness. So they're just like symbols of the Holy Spirit. And then what seems to be the human race sometimes is called the fallen angel or in the Bible Adam was the first man and then we had Eve and in this so-called garden and this tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Bible talks about the duality of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. So second on our poll is struggling with temptations of the world. You're not going to get any better movie than this one. This one's, it's a nice long movie at giving you a complete rundown on the temptations of the world. If ever you were wondering what does that even mean, temptations of the world, you won't be wondering it after this movie that we're going to expose the ego so royally that you're going to go, whoa, that little puff wants me dead. That little devil of a puff of an idea that I've believed in, it really wants me dead. It doesn't want anything good for me. There's nothing good about the ego. Third in the list was letting go of possessiveness. Wow, that's combined total of 39 votes from both the English and the Spanish. That's like a core thing. When you, even when you get into this world and you think I need to have a career or I need to own things for security, I need to possess things for security in your relationships. If you think I've got a partner, finally got a partner, finally, finally, finally got a partner. The ego's like, yes, now possess them. You are mine. That's what the Valentine's Day cards say. Be mine. That's a love card you're going to be mine. That's a horror movie for me. And then I have Jesus inside me going, it's all right, David. That's me. That's me saying, be mine. Oh, okay. But possessiveness, letting go of possessiveness as long as you want to possess anything in this world, then that's the belief in possessiveness. What did David say in the Bible 23rd Psalm, way, way back in the New Testament, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. There goes the possessiveness. I shall not want. Clear it away. I think another thing I always got from spirituality was love does not possess. I was like, great. Well, I'm all I'm all into love. So if I want to know love, then I must come into a state of mind that has no belief in possessiveness. This is a good movie for that. And finally, undoing the belief in privacy. Privacy. Oh my gosh, that's such a big theme in terms of the world. Private space. Just give me my private space. When people go to the restroom, I need my privacy. That's why we have little stalls. If you've ever been in a restroom where there's no stalls, there's just all these commodes. No, not on this planet. Except there was a time when I was over in South Africa and they had holes in the ground and all the holes, but they had men holes and women holes. Why? Privacy. Even the holes in the ground are private. So that's a big one, undoing the belief in privacy. So those four topics are what we're going to work with today. As far as our movie, some of you follow along with our movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment and you know that there's certain actors and actresses that seem to be showing up on a lot of our movies. That's no different today. Today, we will have the same actor that has played Siddhartha and the Buddha in Little Buddha has also played Neo and the one in The Matrix. That's right, Keanu Reeves. Today, I think this may be for a lot of you the most helpful Keanu Reeves movie you've ever seen. If you thought The Matrix was powerful and if you thought Little Buddha was powerful, now we're going to have Keanu Reeves playing a regular guy, a lawyer, a successful lawyer, a lawyer who's competitive, a lawyer who wants to win. He's good at winning his cases and he's good at making the big bucks. He has a beautiful wife, Charlize Theron, is being called in by the Holy Spirit from South Africa to play his wife. That's right, Carrie Ann Moss did a fine job in The Matrix series there, the trilogy. But now Charlize Theron is being called in perhaps the most significant role ever for Charlize. She's being called in big time to join with Keanu at facing the devil. That's right. So today, when you're on your little carpet ride with me, keep your fingers inside the carpet. You can keep your hands like this in a prayerful way. If you start to get afraid, come back to the presence of love. Come back to Jesus. Come back to David. Come back to Holy Spirit. Keep your hands. Do not put your fingers outside of the carpet on today's ride because you might lose one. I don't want anybody to lose any fingers or fingernails. So keep your fingers inside today. Now people will say, well, we always talk about the ego and does Jesus ever mention the devil in A Course in Miracles? Yes, Jesus does mention the devil in some places. And you might say this belief that there's a force opposing God is the belief in the devil. The belief in death is the devil. The belief in sickness is the devil. The belief in jealousy, pride, fame, the devil, the devil, the devil. The belief in anything that is not supremely happy is the belief in the devil. Again, you don't have to be afraid of the devil, but you have to realize that you have an extremely powerful mind because you are a perfect child of God, still a perfect creation of God. And if you take that mind power that God has given and you invest in a puff of nothingness, then you get total insanity. You get fiction. You get a perception of unreality. You get, as they say in the East, maya. You're asking for maya. You believe in the ego, you're going to face a maya. What do you think Siddhartha had to go through to experience the Buddha nature? What do you think Jesus had to go through? What do you think Ramana Maharshi had to go through? St. Francis, all of them, Yogananda, Yama Hansa Yogananda, everyone must face the belief in separation. And you don't face it by distracting away from it. You don't face it by repressing it, denying it, pretending it's not there. Oh, it's very all nice and good to just say the words, there is no devil. And in truth, there is no devil because love and light is all there is. But what we're looking at is what do I believe in? Because if I believe in the ego, the devil is just another word for ego. And there's one point of A Course in Miracles where Jesus says that this is a planet of death worshipers. People don't like that. They like all the love, love, love stuff. But this is a planet, a world of death worshipers. Yipes. So that's why keep your fingers inside today on the carpet. Please do not try to go straying off. And don't go sightseeing. Stay with me today. Do not go sightseeing. If you're on my carpet, you know, we do visit all the places. But we do ask you to keep your hands inside the carpet. Just observe. Just watch. And watch your emotions. Because whatever those emotions are that are rising up, those are inroads to your spiritual awakening. Those are not things to be pushed down and pushed away. Those are actually, those are like barometers that show you where you still believe in the devil. And that's important because we are here to worship God. A lot of times Christians talk about salvation. So I'll simplify that topic in case we have any Christians on board on the carpet ride today. Salvation is not personal, like a personal belief in Jesus. Salvation is for the mind. And it's not for persons. Persons were made by the ego. It's for the mind. And also salvation is only accomplished through peace. There is no other means. I know very, very, very sincere Christians have said you've got to fight the good fight. And it's like you've got to battle the devil every day. And I was on a trip one time, maybe in the late 1990s and a friend of mine, she found a, we were traveling to Florida and we said, find us some good music to listen to in the van on the way down to Florida. And then we got in the van and she said, this album just won a Grammy. And so we said, okay. So she put it on and it was like, I'm a warrior in the army of the Lord. I'm a warrior. I just could not stop from laughing because that's the way it's perceived that we're doing battle with the devil or that we're fighting the devil. And you don't want to fight the devil because if you do what you resist, persist. And if you believe that you can get rid of the devil by fighting the devil, you are mistaken. The devil is a belief in the unconscious mind that has to be exposed and seen for its nothingness. So when people ask me about evil, it's like evil is a belief. It's an error. And you have to see past the error to the light. And that's why we have the Holy Spirit in Jesus guiding us every moment of every day because this is not something that you can look outside of yourself to the world to find a solution for. It's just like if you swallowed a little drop of poison and then you don't feel well, but it's just even if it was a tiny amount, you have to get it out of your system. Well, I'm talking more about the mind that the ego is just a belief in the mind and you have to expose and release this belief. That's what the goal of all the mystics and saints has been the same thing. So we're joined together. We're like modern-day mystics and saints going through the same purification process that all the mystics and saints, Jesus went through his 40 days in the desert facing the temptations of the ego. Some of them are pretty obvious. They're material temptations wanting bigger, better, faster, more, wanting to achieve, to accomplish, to own, to possess. And then when you start to get into the realm of the mind, there's psychic powers. But even psychic powers can be misused by the ego to reinforce a body identity, to reinforce a personal identity. So that's why this movie is good, because it's going to have what seemed to be the typical temptations of the world. And then we will start to get more into the psychic temptations like pride and vanity. This movie really, really, really goes after some of the most hidden ego tricks that there are. Is the ego happy about this exposing? No. It's made the whole world of time and space to cover over the things we're going to talk about today. Svavo was telling me today when I woke up that here we are doing this movie, and what's happening in the world? Is there any, what's breaking out in the world? Any wars happening? It's a volcano erupting today in Iceland, 20 kilometers from Reykjavik. It's just the lava is flowing. It's not like back in 2000 when the ego just blew a lot of smoke and shut down the air traffic in Europe for a whole two weeks or two or three weeks. Now it's actually got lava coming out today because we're showing this movie. And it's letting its anger up in Iceland. But, again, keep your fingers inside the carpet because, you know, that volcano has not erupted for 800 years. And today, the day we're showing this movie hits, the lava's coming out, lots of it. It's the nostrils of the ego is just, has 1600 degree flowing lava coming out of it. But we're nevertheless going to continue and show the movie today. If at any point, just, if it's too much, just turn your screen off and listen to the audio. If the audio is too much, then just glance over and wait till I come on for commentary and get back onto the carpet and stay on the carpet with me. Okay, enjoy the movie. I will pop in throughout the movie and then I'll have a little bit to say at the end. And then of course we'll have our breakout groups. I think we're going to have some good emotions to work through in the breakout groups today. And then I'll be back for the closing. And I think you're going to find today will be a day of healing. So just remember your course workbook lesson. Let me recognize the problem.