 Okay. Hello everybody. Welcome. Welcome to our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter for those joining you. It's great to see everybody. Yeah, so I can just let you know how the day will flow. We start with the movie with David and then we're going to have a 10 minute break afterwards. That's a time when you can submit your questions and your prayers via our form and that'll be posted in the chat in Zoom. And then we'll have a closing session with David and he'll respond to all your questions and prayers. So I'm going to pass it straight over to David now. Thank you, Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome. Beautiful, beautiful. We're going to have a wonderful full day of diving deep, deep, deep into our mind to experience the light of Christ. And it's beautiful in the calendar of years. This is really the day before we begin what the Christian calendar calls Holy Week, starting with Palm Sunday tomorrow and then Easter Monday. And then we roll on to the week through the week through Good Friday and then Saturday and then Sunday is Easter. So today you might think of Easter week is like the main event and then today is is the warm-up band. This is the warm-up band for the concert. I think it's kind of a neat tradition actually, you know, because we think of celebrating Christmas to remember the Christ, the beautiful, beloved Christ, the reminder of who we really are, which we need that reminder. And that's a day of celebration. Sometimes we tack on Christmas Eve and we have Easter. But actually it's beautiful to have a whole week to remember the Christ within, remember our true nature, remember that God created us whole and perfect, eternal. And that we're just dreaming of exile. We really couldn't separate from God. We just we're playing a pretend game of time and space. We're playing, we're playing as if we could separate and the angels are always helping us to remember that we can't. That's why they're laughing so much. They're not taking any of this seriously. They're just like, oh my goodness. Come on, wake up. We want you to wake up and remember how glorious everything really is. Don't take anything too serious. So this week, I think it's going to be kind of a deep day for us because if we look at the history and we look at the cosmos, we can see that what seems to be history and the time space cosmos, it's like a deep fog. So the human race is just part of a seemingly deep gigantic fog that seems to stretch over many, many years, centuries, millennium. And then when we come around to Easter, we see this ray of light that somehow pierces through this thick fog and says, relax, you are loved. Your destiny is to know yourself as divine love and there's nothing that can stop you from knowing your destiny. And so we're kind of left in gratitude for this beam of light that we call the Christ light shining through this dark veil of seeming separation and ignorance and forgetfulness. We could just call it maybe let's just call it the fog of stupidity. So we have, we'll just say the human race and all of time and space is the fog of stupidity. It's the first time Jesus is saying this to me. So I kind of like it. Okay, we got the fog of stupidity and then we've got the beam of light piercing through the fog of stupidity. And the beam of light is laughing going seriously, seriously, you believe in separation? Really? God created you one. God created you pure love and seriously you're going to hang on to believing in this stupidity. So it's not that people are stupid, it's just that the whole fog is the fog of stupidity and we need some help here. And so this is the warm-up band. We're going to, we've got J.C. Central is on the whole week doing a J.C. Central week-long festival called Holy Week. And then this week we got Mary Magdala coming out as the warm-up band with her electric guitar to kind of get us revved up for the week. And so that is going to be our movie Mary Magdala. And basically I think the way we kind of evolved into this position we're in right now, which is our Zoom meeting, our happy little Zoom meeting. And movie workshop is, earlier in the week, one of the shows that we broadcast on Living Miracles and also on the Spanish YouTube channel. Basically Kenneth Clifford and Jason Warwick decided to take on the theme of what is the difference between personal inspiration and divine guidance. And that's a very interesting topic because I would say much of what comes under personal inspiration for human beings is, let me just call it ego gratification. It's just like, it's just like following a death wish and calling it, that's my personal inspiration. So when you dress up a death wish and you go, it's my personal inspiration, then you're pretty much trying to put white lace on a death wish and call it, I'm following my heart. But actually, if you really do follow your heart, we have to say, I think they raised that question on their show, what does it even mean to follow your heart? Because nowadays, remember, some of you might remember the 1970s. AC, back me up on this, you know, the 1970s, that was called the Me Decade. And then I think the 1980s were, again, the Me Decade, 1990s are the Me Decade, 2000, the Me Decade. And now, all we do is we have governments that argue and people that play us through their faces and pictures on social media and see how many followers they can get. And the Me Decade is turned into, it's like a me disease. The many me has gone berserk. But I think one of the ways the many me likes to go berserk is it's like, I'm going to follow my heart. And then the personal preferences from the past are your heart. And the angels are like, oh my gosh, where is the Holy Spirit? Jesus, in all this, follow your heart. I'm going to follow my heart. What is your heart telling you to do? The hula hoop dance. Okay, all right, that's good. But how do we forgive? How do we escape from time and space? How do we go out of time and space and back to the light? Now, that's what I would call guidance. And in my life, when I was inspired and I had guidance, what can I say about guidance? It's like a whoosh of joy, a whoosh of inspiration followed by a lot of people telling me I'm crazy, followed by a lot of obstacles coming at me like bullets. Oh, I'm following my guidance. David, you're crazy. David, you've lost your mind. What are you doing? Do you think your mother Teresa or something? What has got into you? It's not popular. I find that following the guidance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit could be the least popular thing you'll ever do in your whole life is following the guidance of the Holy Spirit. So what I would say is the reason this is so is because in our fog of stupidity, we forgot God. Okay, that's the problem. We forgot our Creator. We forgot the divine light. We got all caught up into much ado about nothing, as Shakespeare calls it. And this fog, which is the fog of stupidity, is much ado about nothing. We've now given it meaning and we think it's something. We think the days mean something. We think the hours mean something, the minutes and seconds. We think the people mean something. You know, it's pretty dramatic. We're all caught up in people thoughts now. We forgot divine love and we're caught up in people thoughts and they're part of the fog of stupidity too. And what I like about this movie today is it's going to be a deep dive because many of us have seen, most of us have seen some different Jesus movies. I've seen so many Jesus movies over the years. I was raised Christian, so I saw many movies over the years. But in recent years, I have to say I really like this Mary Magdalene movie we're going to watch today because it actually shows the dismantling and the undoing you have to go through with all of your concepts, family concepts, mother, father concepts, sister, brother concepts. It's basically going to show us Mary Magdalene getting her inner calling to follow Jesus. And it's going to be pretty radical for her because Jesus is this present of light, this beam of light that comes through the fog of stupidity and basically says nothing as it seems. We have a loving creator, the kingdom of heaven is within and it's glorious, it's happy, it's joyful, it's peaceful, it's expansive, it's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. That's what the beam of light is saying. It's called the I am presence. It's even prior to the fog of stupidity. It's prior to time. Before Abraham was I am. And it's very hidden. It's hidden in human awareness. It's almost so blocked out that it's like a veil of ignorance that it's hard to even grasp because of so many layers of false beliefs. But I like this Mary Magdalene movie because basically I feel in one sense that this is the whole experience of Holy Week through, we'll see it through Mary Magdalene's perspective as she gets called by this light. And then all of her doubt thoughts come up and they get reflected in her family. They get reflected in the apostles. They get reflected in the society. And she's got to hang on for dear life to following Jesus because this is not her personal inspiration. This is actually her divine guidance. She's called. She gets called by Jesus and that's really called by God. And she answers the call in the most extraordinary and amazing way, which makes for us a blazing example. Mary Magdalene is a blazing example. I like these Jesus movies where you have a little different angle than the traditional, you know, you know, birth, so-called virgin birth. It wasn't even a virgin birth, but the whole stick, the virgin birth. And then, you know, you're up and then he's calling apostles and then he's teaching and there's miracles. And then he seems to be tried and then the people are angry at him, crucify him, crucify him and then he seems to die suffering on the cross. And then he comes back and resurrects and then he ascends. You know, we've been through that one a while. The only problem with that one is that Jesus didn't suffer. And so this belief in sacrifice in the mind, which is the ego, has tainted even the perceptions of Holy Week. It's put a lot of things there that aren't there because Jesus reached a state of one with God. And it was impossible for him to experience pain in that state of mind because he was one with God. He knew it. I and the Father are one. There's no pain in that statement. I'm sorry for the ego's interpretation of pain and suffering and it may have looked like a bloody mess, but it didn't feel like a bloody mess to the Savior, to the Messiah. And that's why it should be encouraging for all of us that when we follow God, it's going to lead to joy and love and light and happiness. The pain is not part of the equation in the Holy Spirit's curriculum of joy. We're on a curriculum of joy. I also like the movie Risen. And I particularly like that movie Risen because it was basically the same story that we're going to watch today. But this was from the perspective basically of a Roman centurion. And that is fascinating to me. It's one thing to get Mary Magdalene's perspective, but from a Roman centurion who is not initially a follower of Jesus, you know, he's somewhat open-minded. And he becomes a follower of Jesus through the movie because he cannot, he watched Jesus be crucified. And then when he walks in on Jesus in the upper room with Mary Magdalene and the apostles, it's like he goes into an LSD trip. I mean, it just trips him up because it's just too much. That is like trying to perceive the resurrection from an upside down perspective. There's no chance. He just, he leans against the wall when he goes in to the upper room because he's shocked so much. I love that. I like to see perspectives that kind of show how beyond this world, the Christ really is. How you cannot, you cannot turn Jesus into a human because that human part gets transcended, completely transcended. And I do like this about this movie too, because basically we're going to see that a lot of times people do feel, I'm just going to follow Jesus and I'm going to dance my way into heaven. But when you actually start to follow the guidance of Jesus, which is to unwind you from time and space, to unwind you from the familiar, to unwind you from the belief in the past, it is actually shocking to the ego. That is revolting. And many of us have had some of those, a taste of those experiences where when we start to follow Jesus, you know, I remember at one point when I was talking to Jesus, I just said to Jesus, this is not popular. This is, I'm feeling my connection to you, but this is not turning out to be a popular move. And Jesus was like, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Because time and space aren't real and yet if we have believed in time and space, then we have to go through what seems to be a dismantling. We have to let take the wind out of our sails of illusion. We have to start to realize that we had it all wrong, not partially wrong. We were actually 100% mistaken about our identity and about everything in time and space. So this is why the spiritual journey involves so much trust and so much faith. Because your five senses are not presenting you the evidence of the Spirit. It's going to be an inward journey where you become more intuitive and more clear, listening to the Holy Spirit and Jesus. And it's kind of like, it's like you're going like this. You just have to trust and pray and trust with every step. And we're going to see that with Mary Magdalene. She's really going to have to step up her trust and faith to hang in there with this journey. So this movie came out around 2018, I believe. And it's Joaquin Phoenix, who some of us remember more recently playing the Joker. He's not playing the Joker. Now he's playing Jesus. Let's talk about a different role. He's now playing Jesus. And his real life partner, she is playing Mary Magdalene. So it's kind of fun to see a partnership taking on the roles of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Because that is kind of like, let's just call it the partnership to end all partnerships. It's going toward the light. It's going towards divinity. It's going towards God, which is just pure abstract light. And we need to let the Holy Spirit use the symbols of this world because we need to be able to relate to the guidance. We have to be able to relate to the instructions that Jesus is going to give us. So as a lot of you know, we actually put out a movie poll and we put out a set of usually about five themes. And we ask you to vote on the themes for the week. And then when we tally up the votes, we really look at the first two or three themes to cue us into what it is we're most wanting to experience this week. And then I just pray on a movie that will really help us go into that experience in a very, very direct way. So the combined results for English and Spanish for this week coming in number one is trust that everything will get handled through inspiration. Never need to do from a place of fear or false responsibility. That's a pretty huge theme coming, trusting that everything will get handled through inspiration because most of us, if we look at our worldly lives, they are based on lack, on fear, on compromise. They are based on survival. I know people that that have been really sincerely on the spiritual journey for a number of years and then the ego just rears up and says, but you have to survive. And then they click back to the old way of okay survival mode let's click back into let's let's just try to survive here. And, and all of us have just gone through the pandemic and we're watching all kinds of economic disruptions and even for the survival game it seems challenging now. It seems like it's very intense. But what this first theme is saying is trust that everything will get handled through inspiration. Imagine if, if you didn't believe in fear and you didn't believe in lack and every moment of every day, you were just in that place of what really inspires me in this moment. There were no other consensus considerations. Oh, maybe I'll just listen to music today. Oh, that's nice. Maybe I'll take a walk. Maybe I'll, you know, whatever it is, if you had no fear and you could just live an inspired life where you just live moment by moment, based on what felt most inspiring in that moment. That's what Jesus is calling us to he's saying I'm right here. I'm here for you and why don't we do it in a collaborative way, your mind and my mind in in an inspirational way. Why don't we, why don't we go for life's the joy and then you ascend that's going to be our motto. Jesus is saying, here's our motto, life's the joy and then you ascend back to God. And the ego is like, hell, no, life's a bitch and then you die. I thought you got my programming here. This is the fog of stupidity and the theme is life's a bitch and then you die. And we're like, no, no, array of light. No, no, I feel the ray of light. Life's a joy and then I ascend. So our first one is the most important here trust that everything will get handled through inspiration. Imagine if you never had to consider whether to do something based on need or lack. What if you, you could eliminate those words from your mind because you didn't believe in them anymore. You didn't need anything at all. And you were lacking for nothing you had no lack whatsoever in your mind. That would be a very inspired life. And actually, again, that's what Jesus is calling us to remember Jesus is saying our kingdom is not of this world. I am calling you out of the world. I am calling you out of personhood. I'm calling you out of all the roles that you played. I'm calling you out of all the struggles you had. I'm calling you out of all the challenges. I'm calling you to the kingdom of heaven to to the real you the Christ you as God created you. That's what I'm calling you to and he's calling as the Christ from the Christ and with God. That's what Jesus is calling our mind to even if our mind is sleeping and it's caught up in the fog of stupidity. It doesn't matter because the beam of light is penetrated that fog of stupidity. Thank God it has because without that beam of light, it doesn't look good. But wandering around in this fog is not exactly a very happy experience and and all of us can say, yeah, okay, we can agree with that. It's been it's been tough and it's not our father's will for us. Coming in number two, as far as themes is nurture the connection with my heart prayer. Nothing else is worthy of my attention. Just stop for a moment and think Wow, if I want to nurture my connection with my heart prayer, and nothing else is worthy of my attention. I want to learn to focus on God on love on light. I want to actually feel in my heart. This is my purpose. This is my whole devotion in life is not just to handle logistics on a daily basis. Much of our mind is just dealt with handling logistics. You handle a whole set of logistics. You go to bed at night and then Wow, you've got another set waiting for you the next day. No wonder people get depressed. No wonder people feel at times suicidal even because it's it's intense just following the ego's curriculum of trying to survive and meet these details every day. But what if I can nurture the connection with my heart through prayer and I can just let Jesus and the Holy Spirit guide me every day. I can just learn to live 100% intuitive. 0% reliance on my five senses 100% reliance on my intuition. Isn't that lovely. The idea that we could actually be 100% intuitive every day. And this is what Jesus means in the workbook when he says it is possible to listen to the voice for God all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. Isn't that wonderful. What a wonderful idea from the workbook. Listen to the voice for God all through the day without interrupting my regular activities in any way. That's the kind of happiness we want. So we're not really that concerned about the activities we're just concerned we're focused on the happiness we're not concerned at all really about time and space. Number three, experience perfect equality. Let go of competition and hierarchy thoughts. What a relief to focus on perfect equality. That's like just take the appearances and toss them to the side and say well, we're just perfect equals walking arm and arm hand and hand back to the light and that's the truth of it. At least with regard to planet Earth that's that's the best we can come to is we're just perfect equals. No one's ahead. No one's behind. No one's advanced. No one's just beginning. We're all perfect equals walking hand and hand arm and arm singing the same song as we walk into the light. And that is a beautiful idea to just take into your heart because as a theme, you feel joyful when you even think of it. Number four, dropping the spiritual mask, daring to be authentic and transparent. How beautiful. I think during this week, Jason and Manuel talked about that, where just dropping all ideas of trying to place yourself somewhere on some kind of a linear spiritual journey. Isn't it delightful to think just for one second that this present moment is all that there is? Isn't that relaxing? What a relief that this moment is all that there is. What a relief to be told we were mistaken about the rest. Whatever we believed about time was false because God didn't create time. Whatever we believed about it was a big mistake and it's like you can breathe fresh air. It's like you're fresh, you're new, it's clean, it's sparkling, it's glorious this present moment. It's really our joy, our life is to live. It's the gateway to eternity. Jesus says the present moment is the closest approximation of eternity that this world holds. Oh my God, thank you Jesus. That slices right through everything right there. And the last one is divine nurturing. Collaborations. We're in it together that you can actually start to think of your entire life is just one big collaboration opportunity. It's not a competition opportunity. It's a collaboration opportunity. Because miracles are collaborative. Jesus tells us in the course miracles are collaborative. So if I have a little switch in my mind where I can switch from competition and comparison to collaboration and harmony. Jesus is saying flip the switch. Come with me. We're all in this together and we're going to do it together as one. We're not going to try to achieve anything individually. The individual is a mask. It's a perception of the ego. The ego made the bodies. The ego made the personality selves. The ego made the individuals. And sometimes when I've talked to Jesus, I say, wow, that's that's deep. I've always thought in terms of this world in terms of individuals and he said, well, let me give you a different word that you can put in place of individual that is actually more helpful. But it kind of sounds like individual. Okay, I'm ready. Indivisible. Indivisible. Not capable of being divided up spirit. You can't divide spirit up. There's just one God. There's just one of us. We're indivisible. We're spirit. We're spiritual. We're a spiritual being called the Christ and we are indivisible. So when we look at this movie today, Mary Magdalene, we're going on a great adventure because if we just take one glance at history and we see that Jesus is like a soul and he's coming to earth. He's beaming as a beam of light and he's slicing through the fog of stupidity and he's looking at Galilee. He's looking at Bethlehem. And the beam comes and it seems to be a little baby Jesus in a cradle in Bethlehem and that's why the three wise men and there's angels singing. It's like the beam of light has seemed to land. There's a little baby in Bethlehem and hallelujah for that because we're grateful for the beam of light. Actually, we're not so concerned with bodies, but we're really grateful that beam of light has made it through. And then what is Galilee? If you look at Earth 2000 years ago, out of all the different, the cradle of civilization and everything, this beam of light has seemed to beam right into, we'll call it Judaism and the Roman Empire. That's an interesting landing point for the beam of light. It's coming through the whole fog of stupidity and it just lands right there where the Roman Empire is now taken over the region. And the Jewish people that will say that Judaism, what's so interesting about Judaism is this is a culture, this is an ethnicity, this is a religion. This is a group of people who, let's just say they're monotheistic. Why is that so great? Monotheistic. Monotheistic means one God. And on planet Earth at this time, there's a lot of groups and civilizations that don't even have the slightest clue about one God. But here, out of all the places the beam could have hit, the beam selects to come into one God. The Lord God is almighty. We have a group of people here, even though it's the Roman Empire kind of controlling the region, but there's a group of people. The Jewish people basically are, we are serving the Lord God. We are praying to the Lord thy God who is one. The Lord thy God is one. For the planet at that time, that's high stuff. One God. That's not multiple gods, that's one God. And that's where Jesus comes in because Jesus is a reflection of that beam of light that God is one. And the world of multiplicity is stupidity. The world of variety is stupidity. The world of complexity is stupidity. The Lord thy God is one. Thank you, thank you, thank you. There you go. And Jesus seems to be born as a little boy, a little Jewish baby. Now, I'm telling you this little context because we're heading into Holy Week and this week has something to show us. This week is a reminder to our mind that God is one, that the Lord God is one. It is not dualistic. It is not multiplicistic. There is love as one and anything that we believe we know about love that is not one is not love. Jesus tells us in the workbook of A Course in Miracles, he says that there is no love but the love of God. If you think you know what puppy love is, a romantic love. If you think I love my sports team or I love my house or I love my children. I love my parakeet. I love my cat. I love, no, no, no, no, no, no. Lord God is one. We're going for an awakening to the experience of actual love, which has no divisions and it has no distinctions. The love of God is the same for everything and everyone. Don't you see how racism is answered in the love of God? Don't you see how bigotry, sexism is answered in the love of God? Prejudice is answered in the love of God. Competition is answered in the love of God. Everything that's part of the fog of stupidity is shown to be irrelevant in the love of God. And that's why this week, Holy Week is so important. So Mary Magdal is coming out. She's got her electric guitar. She's going to give us some chords to warm us up for Holy Week. You know, this is only Saturday but tomorrow is the beginning of Holy Week and she's a warm-up band. We can learn a lot by watching Mary Magdal up because before she encounters Jesus, she is in turmoil. She is struggling. She feels depressed. She feels disillusioned. You'll see it in the movie. You'll see what she seems to go through even when she contemplates praying to God, the one God, and going for God. The ego backlash is enormous. She's going to get, as soon as she contemplates God, she's going to get hit with a storm, an ego storm that like nothing you've ever seen. You'll see it in the movie. It's very symbolic that Jesus happens to be walking through Magdala with the apostles when Mary's going through her great storm. Because Jesus is going to be there saying, follow me, I'm calling you out of the world. And this is no accident that her great storm is occurring when Jesus is in town in Magdala. And Jesus in this movie sounds a little bit like his cousin. He's going to walk into Magdala and they're going to go see him and he's going to utter that word that, I don't know, some people don't like it. I love it. Repent. Repent. John the Baptist said that a lot. Repent. All that means is turn from your ways. Turn from the fog of stupidity. Don't get bent out of shape about the repent word. It just means turn away from the fog of stupidity and turn to the light. That's what repent means. That's what John the Baptist was talking about. Turn from your ways and turn to God. Put all your faith in God. He will set you free. And then Jesus, his cousin comes along and John goes, this is the one. It's the Messiah. Don't listen to what I'm saying now. I just said to repent thousands of times. Follow this one right here because this is the one. And no doubt this is the one. Great. That's all beautiful for us to remember on Holy Week that we're following our true nature. We're following our true self. Our spiritual reality is what we're following. We're not following a man or a woman. We're following our divinity, our desire to remember the Holy One God who created us holy. So I will pop in from time to time during this beautiful rock concert. Mary Magdalene is going to be cranking it up with her electric guitars. And she's taking this in. So we're going to be super ready for Palm Sunday tomorrow. Tomorrow gets a little bit easier. He's on his donkey and Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna. Glory to the Lord and the highest. He's on a donkey. There's branches. There's people cheering. So we get a soft way. By Friday, it gets a little darker. But we're starting off with a rock concert then Hosanna, Hosanna, tomorrow's Palm Sunday. And we're going to roll through the week and we're going to end up in Easter, which is I think is a great holiday because it's a resurrection. It's a resurrection. It's a celebration. Be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. It's a celebration if I've ever heard it. That's the ray of light going, I am real and the fog of stupidity is not. Isn't that wonderful? Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. That's the celebration to me. So enjoy the movie and I'll pop in from time to time and give a little commentary for what we're doing. But I think you're going to love this one. This is a great perspective. It's beautiful.