 got a wonderful movie coming up and like always I'll just let anyone you know the flow for the day so we are going to start with a movie from David and then afterwards we'll have a 10 minute break and that's followed by our breakout rooms where you can share your experiences with the movie and whatever came up for you and then we'll have a longer 45 minute break and then we'll have a closing session which I'll be holding so I'll pass it right over to you now David okay thank you thank you Peter hi everyone welcome we're gonna have a great time today I can tell you that we're starting off what seems to be a new year and for those of you who practice a course in miracles you all know what lesson number one is nothing I see means anything you also know that Jesus says that that the learning of the workbook is not cumulative he basically says if you can just get one lesson you got them all if you can get one lesson completely you've just graduated from the course and and found peace of mind the happy dream you've accepted the atonement so really even though we're dealing with lesson number one nothing I see means anything this is an opportunity today to really go for the direct shot to God and some of you know that's in a course in miracles the question is asked of Jesus can God be reached directly and his answer is yes so when Jesus says yes to God can be reached directly that means you know what we're in for we're going for it we're we're not going for a substitute we're not going for a delay we're not going for a bypass we're not going for as the Beatles said the long and winding road we we like that word direct so we're going for a direct experience and wow we have some great themes today to approach this direct experience we also have an amazing movie it's a mystery movie but I'll tell you more very quickly here you're in for a treat we don't often do mystery movies but this is a good time to do it the first day of the year and also a bit of context you know even though this is the first day of the year and there's all these well wishes for happy new year and so on so forth that's these are part of the rituals on planet earth you know we like to we like to wish everyone happy new year we really are saying I love you but but we do it in time terms like happy new year we wish for you a very happy new year a happy 2022 but what Jesus tells us in his course is that time actually goes backwards so you can imagine we've been celebrating this ritual for many centuries and Jesus and the angels are laughing because time goes backwards he says it doesn't go the way we believe it goes you know we're we're wishing everybody well for the future year and he's like well actually that's why I have you practicing the lessons because time goes backwards not forwards that's a pretty strong that kind of undercuts the the beliefs of everything we believe in in this world but Jesus tells us time goes backwards to an instant that's so ancient that it's beyond the hope of remembering so what Jesus is telling us that whether you want to call it the big bang or whatever you'll never remember the big bang because it's too far back it's it's out of range it's it's so ancient that it's beyond the hope he says of remembering however he does tell us that before this time of terror before the belief in separation before the big bang there is an I am presence there is a light there is a spirit there is God prior to the instant of seeming separation and he says oh yeah you will remember that in fact that's the most natural thing to remember God is the most natural thing in the world he says so anytime you feel like you blew it or your life's been a waste or you made too many mistakes just remember Jesus's happy smiling face telling you that the only natural thing in the world is to remember God and that in the end it's inevitable you can't mess it up and you can't blow it because it's God's will to be known and to be remembered happiness perfect happiness perfect love so time goes backwards and that's good for us to keep in mind even though we're accustomed to thinking of the first day of the new year as a new beginning Jesus has a different idea for us for a new beginning he wants us to have an experience of love and light that truly opens this up in a new way that lifts us beyond the dream he wants us to open up to the light that is beyond the dream so here's the themes that you all voted for this week and I'll put them in order of which themes got the most votes the first theme we're going to use the movie for today is the only change I can bring is the change of my own mind so he's telling us a change of mind is all that is asked by the Holy Spirit that's all Jesus is asking for he's just asking for us to change our mind and what he means by that is he said change the purpose by which you interact with the world there is a purpose in your mind called forgiveness and that's the one you want to embrace and then there's another purpose called ego or fear or hatred anger you know this this purpose is of division it's of separation it's a faulty formulation of reality it's an imposter self that really has no reality or existence so he's asking us to see that the only change I can bring is the change of my own mind and he's not really talking about a personal mind when I say own mind we're talking about the mind we're not talking about a personality's mind because persons don't really have minds of their own only the ego assigns the property of the body which is separation to the mind and therefore you have a phrase as if my own mind my own beliefs my own perspective my own version of the world Jesus is saying no no you don't have a private mind with private thoughts so when we're taking change of my own mind we're meaning change of the mind that believes in the world that believes in separation that's the mind that needs to change okay second one is not being delayed or distracted by the ego well the ego is quite ingenious at inventing distractions some of you may have noticed you know there's there's pride there's fame there's personal power there's money there's a prestige there's being liked there's knowing the right people there's a lot of distractions that are part of the sleeping mind to keep you from being still and remembering God and so I've sometimes referred to this world of linear time as distractionville welcome to distractionville this is day one of undoing the belief in distractionville this is day one of learning to hear only the Holy Spirit and nothing else this is day one of forgetting the linear world and remembering the eternal God who created Christ and created us perfect okay third one make this year different by making it all the same okay sometimes people say what what is he talking about now he's telling me my 2022 is supposed to be boring monotonous repetitious no no no that's not what jesus means not at all not another make this year different by making it all the same he's saying hold the same purpose in your mind for everything this year regardless of the circumstances regardless of the situation regardless of the people whether they come or they go whether they stay or they go uh regardless of what your bank account statement says regardless of the weather regardless of the climate regardless of the politics regardless of absolutely everything he's saying make this year different by making it all the same he's really saying use forgiveness to see the sameness of all your brothers and sisters that we all really share the same spirit in the same mind even though the egos tried to trick us into believing we're separate and we're different there's a saying in the world that says variety is the spice of life and that doesn't really go with make this year different by making it all the same yeah let's hear a cheer for sameness let's hear a cheer for equality let's hear a cheer for oneness let's hear a cheer for love which knows no differences agape love universal love let's hear a cheer for that that's the kind of spice i need in my life i need some sameness i'm happy to welcome sameness because i can tell you people have told me for for the last 35 years i don't know david that that sounds kind of uh boring and i'd say listen i can tell you right now this is not boring this is this is the farthest thing from boring this is joy this is full on joy and this is not boring at all because it doesn't have any repetitive nature to it it's it's actually so still and content in the moment that you see everything is brand new every movie that i watch i i really am in joy because i i'm i'm going through an experience of joy of the present moment while i'm watching the movie so that's why they're all joyful movies it's not because the movie itself is an external to my mind and the movie is a joyful movie it's that that the one who's watching is joyful that's it we have to stay with the one who's watching and that is the holy spirit the holy spirit looks not to effects he's simply watching the world and he's he's the state of true true love true beingness okay next one no private thoughts and no people pleasing well we always talk about that but but why is it so important to have no private thoughts and no people pleasing well the alternative is not so good agendas are not good judgments not helpful opinions not helpful uh pursuits and goals for the future not helpful not helpful in present peace so basically if if you don't live a life of transparency where you say what you mean and mean what you say where you wear your emotions on your sleeve where you are really genuine if you don't live that kind of life then it's going to be very difficult because the other option is is a realm of secrets and secrets are are never helpful there's nothing about god that wants us to have secrets some of you know i talk about revelation that god only wants to be completely revealed and known as pure love and god hides nothing so there's nothing hidden to god but to the ego everything is hidden and it wants to keep everything hidden it wants to keep everything hidden because the light of truth would shine away the ego and all of its secrets and then the last one for today is holding the purpose of forgiveness out front it's it's really setting the goal and it's saying i want to have peace as my goal i'm going to hold it out front as a torch as i want truth as my goal i want happiness as my goal i want love as my goal and oneness and that means putting it ahead of everything else putting it in the forefront now the movie that jesus has selected for us for this new year is so much fun i just left i i thought that's a perfect way for a new year's day movie is a new year's day movie that helps us face the belief in death that's good that's that's the central illusion is the belief in death so if we if we face death and we see it's nothingness and it's impossibility well that's it game over for the ego when we think of death i guess facing death most people think of death though as as organic death as death of a body and jesus is telling us in the course now it's all the mind and death is simply a belief in something other than what is real and true and so death is not in form you can believe it's there but you're believing it's where it's not and therefore you have difficulty transcending it or forgiving it if you believe it's external to you if you believe it's in the world then you're going to have a tough time forgiving it because there's really nothing out there it's just a projection the projection of the belief in death so jesus is giving us a movie where we're going to face the the belief in death and if if that can be seen for what it is the nothingness that it is that there is nothing that god creates that involves death whatsoever then once we come to this awareness then we are free of of the belief now in order to do this the movie will actually bring about at what the world would call a a crisis and actually that's what we seem to face when we believe in planet earth and time and space we seem to face a series of crisis and the ego puts these crises in in a hierarchy it's a hierarchy of crisis so if you're hungry that could be a crisis of a certain level to the ego if you're sick that could be a higher crisis to the ego if you're deathly sick that is a higher crisis to the ego and if you're dying that's the worst crisis to the ego actually to jesus they're all the same anything that is not love is unreal and so there can't be a hierarchy of unreal it's just unreal unreal is unreal so the movie we're going to look at is it's actually a comedy and when you have a movie that looks at the concept and the belief in death and is a comedy that's the best because remember the whole world of time and space came about from the mind forgetting to laugh at the ego into eternity where all is one they're crept a tiny mad idea at which the Son of God remembered not to laugh now what is the most extreme kind of crisis that we could use in a movie to help us see the impossibility of the ego it has to be about the end of the world i see i see ian helen we were down in we were down in australia i think and sitting in a movie theater i believe and it was we were going to see the movie knowing and that was a nickless cage end of the world movie i could feel a swirl of joy before the curtains the old-fashioned curtains opened before the movie came on it was it was the jesus kind of saying hold on to your hat now we're gonna have some fun and we were sitting there ready to watch an end of the world movie and jesus was all swirly and tickly in joy like come take a ride with me uh this is no horror movie this is this is a movie of reaching joy so actually um when i thought about the movie when the movie came to me also some beautiful passages came and i thought well this is great we're going to show an end of the world movie on the first day of the year that's fantastic jesus um and right away i thought of the the manual for teachers how how will the world end you know when i first picked up the course in 1986 i had questions and i think that's kind of a question that a lot of us you know maybe we used to think about some but how will the world end i remember popping open the manual for teachers and there it was how will the world end and and jesus is so nonchalant and he's so light and humorous that has to be to human beings one of the one of the most profound and intense questions uh that is ever asked how will the world end in the bible attempts to answer it and all religions attempt to answer it some philosophies make an attempt to answer it and jesus answers the question of how will the world end with another question you gotta love it you you know he's having some fun when he answers a question like that with another question and here's the question he asked when you ask jesus how will the world end he says ken what has no beginning really end you know he's got a smile on his face you know he's he's got something to share because he's not even interested in uh beliefs around crucifixion he's he says the crucifixion was the last useless journey so he's not really scared by this death belief at all because he knows it's not real he does tell us the world will end in an illusion as it began yet will its ending be an illusion of mercy the illusion of forgiveness complete excluding no one limit this limitless in gentleness and well it will cover it it will cover the world so when you talks about mercy love forgiveness limitless gentleness he's saying that there's a state of mind that will be the end of the world as it as it seemed to be he also goes on to say the world will end in joy because it is a place of sorrow when joy has come the purpose of the world is gone the world will end in peace because it is a place of war when peace has come what is the purpose of the world and the world will end in laughter because it is the place of tears where there is laughter who can longer weep so that's the kind of experience that i think we're in for today if you can watch this movie and actually in feel in your heart the the comedy of this play if you can feel the the humor and the lightness then that is a giant leap toward heaven in awareness because because laughter is how we enter into heaven we do not enter into it through Armageddon we do not enter into heaven through destruction no nada nada to the destruction we don't enter into heaven through fear you know that was something misinterpreted by some very sincere Christians you know where they said fear god and keep his commandments they just meant whole god in all god is is truly awesome there's there's an appropriate appropriate one for awesome god is awesome and we should hold god but not fear as the world sees fear we don't need to be trembling uh in the presence of the creator of love that makes no sense whatsoever so i'm going to set the movie up in a moment here but i i thought i thought i would really go for the simplicity today because i was thinking that's really what i think everybody's just praying for is is just simplicity that's all that we really want is the simple truth we want simplicity we're not interested in complexity we want the obvious we're not interested in the hidden we want what is apparent now not what is hypothetical and so i was praying with Jesus and i was saying you know is there any kind of a passage in the course that we can use is kind of like a springboard for all of these themes that we're going to go for today and he did guide me to a passage he took me to chapter 12 and a beautiful little paragraph in chapter 12 which i find is like the it's the it's the most delicious teaching of simplicity that you'll ever ever hear with these ears and this is what he says it's it's he's going to start off with the word salvation that's that's nice when he starts this the sentence off with salvation and a lot of us have been raised with christianity and we have different meanings of salvation some of them maybe they weren't the most positive ones when we grew up we were not exactly thrilled oh tell me more about salvation during the dinner time discussion it wasn't exactly something we were excited about but it is an important thing because what is being saved or what is being salvaged is is our peace of mind you know that that's important if saved means being peaceful i'm ready to be saved if saved is peaceful i'm all in for saved not that it's a personal thing but it's it's very important so here's what jesus says salvation is for the mind and it is attained through peace wow that's a good start salvation is for the mind and it is attained through peace this is the only thing that can be saved and the only way to save it oh that's getting really good so salvation for the mind is the only thing that can be saved the mind and the only way to save it is through the attainment of peace any response other than love arises from a confusion about the what and the how of salvation and this is the only answer i like it when he's so uncompromising this is the only answer okay then the what must be salvation and the how must be peace and isn't it important for human beings to be very very clear about the what and the how because if if you open your eyes in the morning and your mind is filled with all kinds of what ideas what am i going to wear what am i going to eat where am i going to go what am i going to do what what what what what jesus is saying no the what is salvation that's the purpose of your day is salvation and you have no other so salvation's everything and everything else is nothing so the what is salvation that means when somebody greets you and they give greet you by your name and they go hey what's up what's up salvation is up that's that's what's up salvation or is they say hey bro hey bro what up what up what up what up what up is salvation what up is salvation okay that's it another way people say it is what's happening what's happening salvation that's it that's the answer what's going on salvation what are you going to do today salvation do you have any plans for the future salvation salvation because salvation is the what this is no small thing when jesus tells you the what and then he goes beyond telling you the what he tells you the how he tells you the what and he tells you the how the what is salvation and the how is peace the what is the goal and the how is the means the what is right now and the how is right now too it's it's real this is getting really simple you mean to tell me all the education i had and all of my parents taught me and all of my government taught me all that my culture taught me was mistaken because the what is saving my sleeping mind yeah that's right and how through peace what's up what up man what up yeah dreaming dreaming up dreaming's the problem and what salvation is the solution so that's why salvation is the what because because what dreaming is not natural dreaming is not natural maybe to human beings it seems natural but god didn't create a dreamer god doesn't create dreaming sometimes people say maybe god is asleep at the wheel with all the havoc and the the terror and the strange wacky world we have going on no no the dreaming of the world is the problem the what therefore is the waking up from the dream which is salvation that's how mind is saved it's it's a wake-up call what is a wake-up call and the how is peace whoa that second one is important too because the how is not money the how is not education the how is not upward mobility the how is not having a great house or a great car or a great family or a great career oh the how the how is peace peace of mind is the how so when he says he's going to tell us the what and the how and he it's very important because he says anytime there's confusion you've simply forgotten the what and the how so here we are in the first day of the year it's like all jesus is saying is just remember what up and and how what up salvation how peace of mind that's it end of story there's nothing more important then he says never lose sight of this and never allow yourself to believe even for an instant that there is another answer he's giving us the most direct shot into the kingdom of heaven and he's saying don't let yourself believe even for an instant that there's another answer because the ego can generate a lot of questions like uh what about my bank account what about my personal health and my body symptoms and aches and pains uh what about the politics of this world what about my country what about my my grass in my yard is too long oh my god what about what about the cat you didn't feed the cat you know if whenever we're tempted to believe that there's something that needs to be solved in the world we're forgetting that salvation in the mind is what is calling for salvation it's it's the mind itself that's asleep and dreaming that's in need of of salvation so we're not talking about a personal salvation it's not about going out and trying to be an evangelist and trying to save people it's not even about saving the whales it's not even about saving the ozone layer it's not about saving mother nature if you really look at what jesus is saying he's saying that most of what is believed in to be believed in need of saving is is not saving at all because the mind is the only thing that needs to be saved what about my savings account my bank account no jesus says you don't need to save money well what about the future uh shouldn't i save for a rainy day save for the future no it's just the mind the mind needs salvation right now but don't you think i should live in harmony with all the plants and animals in the world what about ecological harmony what about harmony with the earth can't i be in harmony with mother nature and mother earth and jesus says yes if you're if you accept salvation in your mind you are in harmony with everything you're you're in harmony with what do you call mother earth father time you're in harmony with everything when you're in harmony with yourself when your mind rests in peace you are suddenly in harmony with everything and everyone you don't have to take a stand for something or against something in the world because that's duality your peace is the answer you are the goal the world is is searching for meaning your christ self is the goal that the world is searching for and it is searching for no other goal because only other goals were made by the ego and that was to distract you from the one goal of salvation of the mind so when i was shown this movie that i'm going to show today i just was like oh my gosh this is so good i i mean i had such a good laugh at this and jesus pulled in all the he's pulled in big name actors and actresses for this this is this is he's got this the great cast to to act out the skit of of the end of the world he's he's brought in so much humor and so much joy and so much laughter and that is for the mind's benefit now also when i saw this movie i closed my eyes and i when i finally got to the end of the movie i just had the biggest smile on my face and and then jesus said to me george carlin and i'm like george carlin well what's what's george carlin got to do and he said a lot he said i want you to show a little clip on i want you to show a little youtube clip as the warm-up act for the movie you know sometimes we used to go to concerts and there was a warm-up band and then the warm-up band would play and then they'd bring on the the main event or the main attraction so we've got a warm-up event today that's right george carlin is the warm-up and i had to laugh because i was sitting there with a smile on my face and i got george carlin and then george carlin what i mean this this is a comedian of many years and much humor and jesus said george carlin saving the planet so immediately after i watched the movie i'm going to show you today i had to tune into george carlin saving the planet and i can see why jesus wants this is the warm-up act today he's he wants us so loose for this movie he wants us so so receptive for what is in our hearts that he's actually uh going to let george carlin be the comedic warm-up for the movie so i'm just going to say that for some of you who are watching on streaming on live on youtube or facebook you're going to have to look that up yourself and watch watch george carlin saving the planet it's an animation too so you're going to enjoy some great animation as well as great humor from george carlin now the actual movie that will come after which we're all here gathered around the world to watch together the movie is called don't look up and the movie is don't look up and so that's our mystery movie for today and some of you have been really with me here over the christmas season i have shown a i showed a movie before a week before christmas i showed a movie about the loop of time and escaping the loop of time and seeing everybody with love and gratitude and appreciation and that movie was called um the 12 dates of christmas and in that movie the main characters were named kate and her ex was was jack but uh i the on christmas eve i showed another movie which is called family man and that was a movie that that was so beautiful and the main characters again were kate and jack and now on the third consecutive saturday we're showing a movie called don't look up and kate i have to say kate is our name this is the third consecutive week that jesus has shown a kate movie and kate has been the main character of getting out of the loop of time kate was the girlfriend who helped jack and nicholas cage get out of time in uh my christmas movie and now on new year's kate again except this time it's kate and randall are our main two kate played by jennifer lorenz and randall uh it's just this this is an amazing movie randall is placed her professor leonardo de capria is randall and he plays professor mendy and kate is a michigan state university graduate student working on her doctorate and she's going to discover something during her graduate work which will be uh the main theme of uh of the movie also i have to say this is a cast of there are so many oscar nominations and oscar winners in this movie this is a a cast jesus is pulling out all the stops he's pulling out kate blanche and he's pulling out maryl street he's pulling out jonas hill he's he's loaded this thing up with the best actors he could find to help us escape uh our belief in death you know he's he really love he wants us to not believe in death so he's bringing out all the big names uh to do it uh so we have kate and randall the the graduate assistant uh working on her doctorate that's kate and randall is professor mendy they're going to be our main characters in the movie then we we have uh janey our president's name is janey and her chief of staff is her son uh jason you gotta love that what a president with with family ties right there oh looks looks interesting i think jesus is is going to poke fun at whatever's going on on planet earth and then we have a a um a talk show called rip let it rip and the reason i like this talk show is rip most of you know that's an acronym for rest in peace that's usually what they put on people's tombstones in the cemetery and yet this is this is a talk show called rip so we have talk show hosts bri and and jack and uh bri is yeah that's just it's just so good they're just really good we also have a billionaire in here played uh this billionaire is is also a donor to the president to janey and he's called sir petal sir peter isherwell and his big company is called bash so on christmas the name of the angel that helps nicholas cage was cash this week it's bash bash is is the name of the big company of the the tech billionaire he's he's kind of like uh elon musk and all of the the great inventors and wealthy men and women of the world rolled into one character he's into technology and his company is is called bash anyway that is is a little taste of what we're in for today it's going to be a fairly long movie with lots of commentary it's going to have about eight minutes of george carlin coming to warm you up and warm your heart up at the beginning and then uh so i think we're in for a pretty pretty long ride for some of you in europe you know just get the candles lit and get ready to ride this one out with jesus because we've got a great one so that's our opening setup here we will move into the the george carlin set up first and then we'll move directly into don't look up the movie it was just released recently so it's a very new release and i will join you during the movie for commentary and this movie is kind of a parody poking fun at the egos world uh it pokes fun at at politics it pokes fun at wealth it pokes fun at technology and worldly intelligence it pokes fun at special relationships it comes at that one from many different angles and i have a feeling uh we may see some some academy awards coming for this one because it is very unusual but we have a very important topic when we're facing the belief in death we're facing something that's a root it's a root belief it's the belief that made all of time and space so we need to go for the root and we're doing that today so enjoy the movie and enjoy george thank you george thank you for lighting it up i have to say at the end of this movie i just had the biggest smile on my face and nothing could make me smile even brighter than to watch a george carlin animation which is perfect for lesson number one nothing i see means anything if you're struggling with lesson one today you put your faith here and relax and let george take you by the hand and george will ease you into nothing i see means anything in the most humorous way possible so see you soon enjoy the movie