 Movie Workshop. I'm Peter and joining you from a different seat today. I'm going to be your host and I can just let you know the flow of the day. So we're going to start with a movie with David and then afterwards we'll take a 10-minute break. Then we have our breakout rooms where we can share our emotions or anything that came up for us during the movie. Afterwards we'll have a 45 minute break and then followed by a closing session where I'll be hosting the closing session today and we can go a little bit deeper into anything that came up. So to start with I'm going to pass it over to David now. Hi everyone, welcome. Oh so good to see you all. We have a beautiful movie today and we have some beautiful topics to help us with our healing. I'm very excited about today because it's always interesting for me to watch the themes that receive the most votes and then just to pray as the week goes on to see what Jesus is going to give us all and we all are always in for such a treat with the combination of the themes and the movie that is given us. So today we had a combined movie poll that the top theme received so many votes received 94 votes was 19 votes more than all the rest. So this movie is a direct opportunity to really go deeply into our first theme and that is our our lead theme we'll call it staying present when darkness is moving through. I know all of us really appreciate knowing how to stay present when the darkness is moving through because when darkness comes up it can feel so scattered you can feel so much fear or guilt anxiety you can feel overwhelming emotions tears the emotional intenseness of darkness moving through consciousness as it's being brought up into awareness for release is probably one of the most practical topics that we could ever address because as we know with the Course in Miracles Jesus is telling us we have to go through the darkness to the light so we really need to know how to stay present when the darkness is moving through. Coming in second was opening to healing on a deeper level. Most of us have gone up and we have been raised with this idea of healing on a very personal level when we have an ailment that seems to be related to our body when we have a physical symptom healing comes into the forefront of our mind when we are struggling emotionally with depression or anxiety or panic attacks then healing is something that's on the forefront of our mind but we usually don't think about healing too much until we're presented with an extreme form of sickness and then healing pops into our mind and it pops into our prayers we're like please God heal me I'm heal me of this emotional or physical experience that I'm going through and that becomes the forefront of our thoughts so opening to healing on a deeper level is opening to healing about our identity it's not that we're trying to pray to God to heal our personality self or our body because Jesus is telling us in the Course he says don't ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body ask the Holy Spirit to heal your perception of the body because the body is part of the ego's perception of the world and it's just a part a tiny piece of our perception of all of the cosmos of time and space and when we focus on healing the body we don't realize that the body is not sick it's the lens that we're looking through that is perceiving a fragmented world that's what's sick our perception is sick because the ego invented our perception it's what the Course calls wrong-mindedness that's what sickness is sickness actually has nothing to do with the body at all it has really nothing to do with time and space it's a misperception in the mind of perceiving the world in a fragmented way instead of the holistic way of the Holy Spirit and Jesus so when you pray for healing that's what really you're praying for at a much deeper level you're saying Holy Spirit Jesus heal my mind I'm looking at a crazy wacky world it's cracked my perception is cracked I have a cracked perception of the world a split perception a fragmented perception I'm not seeing as the Holy Spirit sees with the ego I'm seeing everything is fragmented everything is broken into pieces almost like if you had a giant mirror a cosmic mirror and you put pressure on that cosmic mirror and it all of a sudden started to splinter and shatter into trillions and trillions of little bits and pieces that would be a description of fragmented perception and that's what's sick our mind that perceives a fragmented world is what the sickness is so when we have a theme called opening to healing on a deeper level we're really praying show me first of all help me remember first of all that I have a perceptual problem because I cannot accept the solution for the problem if I miss define the problem if I think I have a sick body I am mistaken my perception is sick if I think my cat is sick I have a that's a problem too but it's a perceptual problem if I think I might have a flat tire my car is sick it is a flat tire no Jesus is always with us laughing reminding us no it's a perceptual problem and some of you are very familiar with workbook lessons 79 and 80 number 79 is let me recognize the problem so it can be solved and then lesson number 80 in the workbook is let me recognize my problems have been solved already they are solved but Jesus is telling us in the workbook even if you have the answer which you do the Holy Spirit it's not going to help you at all if you missed to find the problem it's like saying okay I I've got the solution and it for instance it looks like a it looks like a we'll say a cylinder and Jesus is like well even if you have a cylinder as a solution if you're if you have a square peg or a triangular hole the cylinder won't fit in the triangular hole you know it won't do you any good if if you needed to hammer a nail into a hard piece of maple or oak wood and somebody gave you a screwdriver you'd say well actually that's not very helpful and I got a feather instead in it no the feathers not going to work either I need a hammer and what he's telling us is the Holy Spirit is the correction but as long as you think you have physical problems as long as you think you have financial problem as long as you think you have interpersonal relationship issues as long as you think you have an issue with the the ecosystem of earth do you think with the pollution or with traffic or with the pandemic Jesus is like no no no no no no no no that's not it it's a perceptual problem the problem is in your mind and that's why you can be healed instantly is just through the recognition that first the admission I have I have a perceptual problem and then quickly accepting the immediate solution of the Holy Spirit which has given you as soon as you admit honestly that you have a perceptual problem so sometimes people say I've heard you say this David hundreds of times over the years thousands of times but I still don't get what you mean by I have a perceptual problem well today's movie will help you grasp the understanding of that because today's movie is going to be about schizophrenia it's going to take a look at a psychotic episode we're going to see the hallucination of imaginary characters that are generated from the mind some of you may have even heard of multiple personality which is technical term is DID dissociative identity disorder and in DID what it is is each of the altars in the the multiple personality perception each altar has seemingly a mind of their own has has it's their own physical characteristics and so forth if you've ever watched the movie Sibyl or what was the one that came out more recently split yeah it was this much more recent trilogy actually the split it was three movies and some of you know Bob Rosenthal too who's the co-president of the foundation for inner peace he's he's written some beautiful pieces on DID as it relates to a course in miracles but the entire projected world is an example of DID all the characters that you perceive in your world including the one you think you are each seem to have a mind of their own thoughts of their own their own personality their own personal history their own ambitions and goals their own emotions and this is what I mean by a perceptual problem it's it's fragmented now you may say David I have not been diagnosed with DID that's right your character is part of the DID your dream character is part of the dissociative identity disorder you forgot that you're the Christ that your spirit and now the character that you seem to be watching every day and believing that you are is part of a mind dissociative identity disorder I'm not saying that you personally are diagnosed like like Sibyl with multiple personalities I'm saying the sleeping mind that has forgotten that it's one with God that has forgotten that it's the Christ is going through a dissociative identity disorder and it has dissociated the Christ and now it has accepted an egoic substitute called the personality self and the fragmented world as its identity so this is a major identity distortion how major you we can't even imagine how far the fall from grace of being one with God and then perceiving yourself as an individual identity we did a little skit recently was COVID what was it concept of vast individual delusions concept of vast individual delusions the next time someone tries to get into an argument with you about COVID COVID and whether you should get vaccinated or not say oh no I'm not working on that question of whether to vaccinate or not I'm working on COVID COV ID the concept of vast individual identity delusions that's COVID that's what you're working on the course is a perfect answer for COVID and I'm not talking about the pandemic here I'm talking about the I the forgetting the amnesia of forgetting that you're one with God and believing you're separate from God that is is much more deep than then the pandemic which is just on the surface of consciousness so don't get distracted about whether to vaccinate or not we're going much deeper now we're going into the identity distortions the third theme in the poll is committing to the Holy Spirit listen and follow and this is why we're always I we're just emphasizing guidance because guidance is your direct link to your higher self and to the Holy Spirit guidance is the most practical tool to help unwind your mind from the ego and release yourself to remember that you're the Christ and that comes in to listen and follow so we're used to listening to many voices we're used to listening to maybe family friends co-workers bosses colleagues children parents neighbors and we listen to what everybody has to say and then we have to decide what we're going to do usually after we've talked to a number of other people this is not really a good problem solving direction listening to the Holy Spirit is is going to get you into the awakened state in a very direct way but if you're just listening to the advice and opinions of people on the news on the radio on the internet or to family and friends that are constantly giving advice you're going to feel very confused and the reason you're confused is because it's schizophrenia you're listening to characters that aren't even there that are just acting out the unconscious thoughts and beliefs in the mind and for many of us this is a shocking discovery again I'm not saying that you personally have gone to a psychologist or psychiatrist and have been diagnosed with schizophrenia I'm saying that the character that you're looking at and all the characters you're looking at are part of a mental schizophrenic state and that the sleeping mind that is the mind that believes in the ego is definitely schizophrenic it is generating people and characters that aren't there you don't have three imaginary friends like in the movie from years ago a beautiful mind with the famous mathematician John Nash which was a beautiful movie because it brought into awareness this condition of schizophrenia which most people are not that familiar with unless you happen to be a psychologist a psychiatrist a counselor or unless you have somebody in your family or you yourself have experienced schizophrenia most people are like freaked out by schizophrenia like that's that is freakish what do you mean they have to deal with imaginary characters in their life that aren't really there listen we're dealing with this every day there are seven billion imaginary characters that have been generated by the ego just on planet earth alone i'm not even talking about other planets i'm not talking about the angels i'm not talking about the aliens et i'm just talking on earth alone we've got seven billion imaginary characters that are just running around in the ego mind and they're all just generations of beliefs and thoughts that the ego made up you may say that that's a little extreme you're saying that the human condition is schizophrenic by nature that's exactly what i'm saying and i'm saying that as the course teaches jesus tells us god did not create the body because the body is temporal and god and spirit are eternal you don't get temporary creatures from an eternal being god did not create the world god did not create time and space god did not create the bodies this is a schizophrenic condition and this movie is going to help us deal with this today because this movie like that movie a beautiful mind will really bring it home of what it's like to deal with dark thoughts to deal with an unconscious mind of darkness to deal with all these characters that aren't really there and to deal with all the emotions that come up when we perceive these characters so this movie is is a pure gem uh the fourth one the fourth theme is discernment between the egos and the spirit's use of words most of us are very accustomed to the human condition and human race and so we think of words as as language and as communication jesus tells us that words are a very crude form of communication that he says in your natural state in the kingdom of heaven there are no words everything is telepathically known all you know is love and you don't even need words because love is everything even the beetles told us love is all you need and they were pointing towards the kingdom of heaven and nirvana but in this world jesus tells us words are symbols of symbols twice removed from reality so in our schizophrenic sleeping state of mind we are using words very crudely because they're representative of the thoughts and beliefs and concepts that we hold in our mind for most people you know we think of words as conversation i had a conversation and jesus would say well the it's not so important that you have a conversation it's actually the purpose for which you have the conversation that's important like he says in the workbook a telephone is for reaching someone who's not in your proximity but then he says the real question you should ask yourself is what do i want to reach him for he's not interested in the words that you speak he's interested in the purpose that's in that's either inspiring the words from the Holy Spirit or the ego is using words just to maintain and reinforce itself so we need to discern between the ego's use of words and the Holy Spirit's use of words in the upcoming movie which we're going to see very shortly there is a there is a priest named father patrick and this is beautiful because he's a pretty open-minded priest and he's a good listener and he's funny and he's got a beautiful heart and and he's going to be the helper character in this movie he's he's like our our holy spirit helper father patrick and father patrick is going to be an example to us of of more of a helpful use of words a lot of the characters it will be the ego the darkness using the words and that's why the human condition is so confusing at times it's because the ego is the one that is using the words and that's why things can seem very dark and heavy very sad at times for us as we go through this journey is because we still haven't freed our mind from identifying with the ego and the ego uses words in a very dark way and finally the last theme is facing the fear of loss and loneliness why is there such a fear of loss and loneliness it's because with this schizophrenic condition in which the ego has peopled the world and put all these characters there every single mind that identifies with the body is going to experience depression jesus tells us that in the course that he says when you equate yourself with the body you must experience depression why is because we're spirit and spirit is our natural state of happiness and joy and love but as we equate ourselves with the body we experience depression and sadness we also experience guilt anxiety shame many other emotions and none of them are happy emotions but they all come from one thing from a body identification now in this movie our main character is his name is adam some of you did see that movie a beautiful mind i see our tabula rasa group there hi tabula rasa mystery school group you saw a beautiful mind i believe this week lisa showed a beautiful mind and in that movie the main character was john nash was was this amazing noble laureate mathematician who was diagnosed with schizophrenia and he had to deal with three imaginary characters and he got married i think some of you remember jennifer connelly played his wife in the movie and he also developed a cooperative theory of dynamics group dynamics and and dynamics so he was a brilliant mind a brilliant mathematician and yet he had to deal with schizophrenia and i think that movie of all movies i've ever seen that brought the awareness of of the diagnosis of schizophrenia what it really is into awareness for many moviegoers all over the world today's movie the main character his name is adam you gotta love it adam when you go to the bible and you go to jenesis the first book in the bible what's the first human being ever mentioned in the bible adam the first one and now jesus is showing us a movie where the main character is adam i have to say i think jesus is saying listen you guys ever since the first human being which was a projection of of a false mind god didn't create adam and eve adam and eve were projections of of a deluded mind because why because oneness is one spirit is spirit love is love and as soon as you get adam and eve and then we get all the begatts you know begat begat begat begat in the bible there's a lot of begats a lot of procreation going on a lot of children can enable and some of us know our biblical literature just goes on and on now we're up to seven billion good lord what a schizophrenic state we're up to seven billion hallucinations and i wonder we can't find the answer of peace of mind in the hallucinations because you don't you don't solve schizophrenia by tinkering with the characters or by tinkering with the planet or the cosmos you have to accept the atonement in your mind and that's what the course of miracles is doing it's saying oh i'm going to make it so simple for you now i'm going to show you how to release the schizophrenia of of the ego all these hallucinations of characters that aren't even there some of you say well wait a minute that's pretty radical remember theme number two is opening to healing on a deeper level what does that mean david on a deeper level well let's just refer to workbook lesson 132 and if you go down inside of that lesson you will see jesus say the phrase with sentence there is no world period he says it in lesson 132 he comes right out he doesn't mince any words he comes out in lesson 132 and says there is no world period now that's a good reference point for deeper healing because if you're just trying to heal persons and you're trying to heal countries and you're trying to heal things like like pollution or the pandemic or racial tensions or sexual tensions listen you're not even close to healing that's so far on the surface that you know we've had the united nations existing for years decades united nations and the united nations help us with our ontological belief in separation no united nations has not solved the ontological belief in separation from god has medical research done it no has philosophers done it no psychologists no education education teaching education is the answer no nada nada nada education hasn't even made a dent in the ontological belief in separation from god you want some education i'll give you some education here we go this is education this is education to release schizophrenia of the mind and while we're at it we've already talked about the id and schizophrenia let's let's go for psychosis too psychosis what is psychosis is a break from reality when a human being is diagnosed as being psychotic they tend to have experiences and visions that don't fit in the norm of the bell curve of the human race and in this movie our our adam our main character he's going to he's going to have a psychotic episode in his his senior class of chemistry he's in his chemistry class he's going to have a psychotic episode where he will lose touch with what the world calls reality but remember what the world calls reality is just your everyday experiences as a human being what jesus calls reality is eternal spirit and when you forget eternal spirit and believe that you're a time space creature that's a psychotic break a much more significant psychotic break than things being out of the norm the normal patterns of human being that's a psychotic break from from reality and i'm talking reality with a capital r you know we we have a bad habit in this world of referring to reality as time and space even new age teachers even teachers who teach the secret or manifesting they will teach you can create your own reality and they're referring to reality as the perceptual world that's not it even when people say well that's a new a new thought thing too you we can create we can create our reality no we can't god is the creator of reality and of course the miracles in this sense is not new age at all it's not the slightest bit new age because the new age teaches that you can use your thoughts to create reality in time and space and jesus is saying quite frankly that's impossible because spirit's already been created it's already perfect and you cannot create spirit in form because spirit is not form form is of the ego if you if you're concerned about whether that's pure course go read the beyond the idle section of of course the miracles where jesus says god knows not form we can put those lines together beyond the idle god knows not form and lesson 132 inside of it where he says there is no world who you can start to realize that what we think of as a human condition is a schizophrenic psychotic d id experience if we use those terms from psychology and psychiatry and it's in the mind we're not saying that the all human beings exhibit these characteristics we're saying the mind that perceives this world of linear and time and space yes is psychotic it's schizophrenic and it's d id and i could go on there's there's some other ones too but i'm just going to stop i don't want you to be too depressed before we start the movie remember this movie's about happiness and joy and healing but i'm just kind of giving you a context so so there's some kind of context for what what we're going to see so in this movie our main character is adam he's 18 years old he's he's in his senior year of high school uh he lives with his mother and we'll see that his father has left left the picture so he's being raised by a single parent by his mother and and she's just doing the best job she can as single mothers do and and she will end up getting a boyfriend in the movie paul who will move into the house and the character that will be used by the holy spirit to help adam our main character with his um his difficulties of navigating and through life in high school is going to be uh his his his girlfriend she'll turn into his girlfriend and i love it adam was the first name of the first human being in the bible and genesis but instead of eve his girlfriend will be maya maya oh jesus is having some fun with these characters anytime you think you have a relationship issue with anyone on planet earth just remember your issue is with maya this is god this is too good too good the main characters named after the first human being ever and his girlfriend is named maya and jesus is he thinks this is a comedy movie but but this is a very deep healing movie i will assure you you know and uh and then of the his mother uh uh her boyfriend paul he's kind of an interesting character too he's kind of like paul in christianity paul in the bible some of this theology wasn't always so good everybody were a little concerned about paul and his uh his theology of sacrifice but actually we have a paul character in here and and this movie is about exposing private thoughts this movie is about exposing secrets this movie is about what do you do when the darkness comes up and you start hearing those dark voices in your mind that that are always putting you down that are always telling you that you're no good uh and and then on top of the darkness coming up into awareness which is a major uh issue that everyone faces on planet earth the he has three imaginary characters and uh one of them is called rebecca and she's very kind of airy fairy she's kind of angelic and new agey and she's always super positive and super uh loving and then he's got another imaginary character in this movie that is like he's like the protector uh he's the bodyguard imagine if you had an imaginary character that you were generating from your mind that was your bodyguard always looking out for you to protect you and this guy carries a baseball bat and he has a cigar in his mouth i mean he's like a thug he's like a real thug always there in your scenes to protect you so he got the airy fairy angelic one character we got the bodyguard the thug and then to throw it in you this is a teenage boy remember he's adam he's got his his sexual fantasies played out in a in a man who's kind of like focused on sexual obsession so what what a combination of imaginary characters that this teenager has generated from his schizophrenic condition the bodyguard the airy fairy angelic rebecca and then this other character who is always into sexual obsession everything is sexual with him those are those are interesting archetypes to have projected as your as your imaginary characters now a lot of us we probably could go back through our life and we could come up with our own bodyguard sexual obsession and angelic characters that we have and so this movie is going to be really helpful for us because if you have to deal with this on pretty much a daily basis um it's enough to deal with the characters that that seem to see each other but if you have imaginary characters like a whole other layer on top of that plus your emotions plus your hormones and i don't know do any of you remember the high school days can any of you remember back to when you were in high school what a trip what a trip i can't even believe i made it through high school what a trip you know you've got your hormones going you've got your the rules and structures of the of the school the principal and you know you've got teachers writing detention slips and and teachers that carry paddles and will smack you they'll actually hit you uh if you do something and then you've got to deal with the emotions of relationships oh my god teenage relationships my god how did we make it how did we make it we it was a miracle that we made we made it out of high school well we're going to revisit those days because this is not john nash uh this isn't a professor in princeton we're going to see schizophrenia through the eyes of an 18 year old boy who is trying to handle all of the pressures and emotions of high school and there's a lot and then you're going to see throw the schizophrenia on top of that and then throw the psychotic episode that he has in his uh his chemistry class whoa he's got a lot on his plate he's going to help us really get in touch with what's going on in our mind maybe we've repressed it but now it's going to come up during this movie because whatever we've been dealing with he's dealing with in the extreme and that's going to help all of us learn to release the ego because sometimes we need extreme examples and this is definitely a very very extreme example so today's one of those movies where you definitely want to keep all of your fingers on the carpet uh because the buttons are going to get pushed today because you're going to be watching a teenager who's very witty he's very sincere I think he's he's actually quite funny you're going to be able to relate to this main character Adam and he's going to show you what's going on inside of the mind he's going to act it out for all of us to help us get in touch with whatever we denied from awareness he's going to show I see Maria there you've got a son Augustine you know you know what uh teens and young children go through and because you you deal with with it with your son well now you're going to get to see this acted out with Adam and his relationship with Maya and his relationship with mom and his relationship with her boyfriend Paul and his his teachers this movie goes after peer pressure you know if we thought it was hard to fit in in high school imagine having schizophrenia and and feeling the pressure of all these eyes looking at you like why are you so strange and why don't you fit in so he's going to act out for all of us all the intensities of the human race just for us to have a healing so sit back enjoy the ride today I will come on for some commentary from time to time and let's let the Holy Spirit unravel the whole human condition today let's let's take a ride for all of us because when one is healed everyone is healed and when we go through and face the unconscious mind in a in a direct way it's intense but I'll tell you you come out on the other side of it all and you're smiling in the happy dream you come soaring with the Holy Spirit into the light and you leave the darkness behind forever and that's what this movie is going to help us with today so enjoy the movie I'll be