 okay we're welcome everybody thank you for joining us for our all-day movie workshop and uh today we're joined by our friends from our online retreat weekend uh dependence on god and uh we also have our um our all-day movie workshop people just attending for the all-day movie workshop so welcome to you all um i'm peter i'll be your host today and i'll pass it over to you now david thank you peter hi everyone welcome welcome you're in for a real treat today sometimes i say hold on hold on to your hat because cancass is going bye bye today you're gonna really have to hold on to your hat because the cosmos is going bye bye this this is a very big treat today and as usual it's come about because of the themes that you voted on during the week and uh you voted on five themes that are so deep so penetratingly deep that i think today you will have an experience that you've been praying for for a long time because this movie is so deep and uh the main actor in the movie is is one that we're very familiar with nicolas cage has been in our quantum movie next he's been in the family man undoing the the family self concept which has got to be is one of the stickiest self concepts there is there's a lot of guilt in the family concept and now today he will give us a performance in this movie where he is going to play a scientist a canastrophysicist who who has quite a curiosity about the world and like so many people who walk the planet we what we consider our personality self or the person is is a construct that represents a self concept image that god did not create because god creates in pure spirit so the personality self and as eric mentioned during his concert and the world that surrounds the the personality the cosmos it's all kind of like a cosmic self image that was made to cover over the light to cover over our christ self which is pure spirit in the story of the bible in genesis adam and eve they're dealing with a situation where they find themselves naked and then to cover their private parts they use a fig leaf so i always say that the cosmos of time and space is a cosmic fig leaf to hide from god time and space is wearing a big cosmic fig leaf to to guard against the light so first off i'm going to read the the five themes that we're going to pray for for an experience to end our doubting around these five themes and they are amazing coming in first in the combined pole of of the english and the spanish poles number one was recognizing i've been given everything i need to be happy right now isn't that an experience that you would want but the awareness the recognition that you've been given everything to be happy right now that there's nothing else needed the future is not needed for this decision and the presence of love is right here with us and god loves us so much that jesus says you have no idea how much god loves you he loves you more than you can even imagine it's unfathomable how loved we are and kirsten and frances were talking about this in their opening session and then eric was talking about and singing about this love this huge huge love that's available this moment and it does require the recognition that you have everything that you need to be happy right now now that's a pretty tall order for a movie uh you know it's one thing to watch a movie but to watch a movie that will take you toward the experience that you have everything that you need to be happy right now that is a tall order but as usual jesus delivers this movie definitely delivers it will take you in and it will carry you the spirit within you will carry you into the light if you really just let yourself go with the light this is quite a journey the second theme keeping the faith through the healing process that's that's huge too i mean all of us know when we have gone through upsets whether they seem to be physical difficulties or psychological difficulties jesus reminds us it's it's a psychological difficulty the ego is a psychological difficulty and yet keeping the faith in in the face of of experiences of pain and discomfort of stress of strain of anxiety of fear of through rage and and anger keeping the faith in the healing process is huge too so again that's a very tall order for a movie but i think you'll find as we go through this movie that the light bulbs are going to go off the insights in your mind that will strengthen your faith in an enormous way your faith is going to undergo a huge expansion today why because once you start to understand the big picture of what time and space are really about once you start to get beneath the surface of things once you get down deep enough you can start to see that time and space are a trick to keep you from knowing who you are as the living christ and this movie goes a long way at at unveiling the trick so that's huge third one transcending the temptation to understand anything i mean a lot of times when people pick up a course of miracles they're curious and maybe they pop up in the text and they might go whoa whoa what is this and then when they glance at the our cat is having some fun now ready to do the playful thing here once they glance at the workbook lesson they look at the first workbook lesson that jesus gives nothing i see means anything and right away when you practice that first lesson you know you're on for a ride you know if that's the first lesson of 365 nothing i see means anything you know you are in for the ride of a lifetime with this book and with jesus that's right you're jumping down the rabbit hole and you're not holding on to the branches you are just like alice and alice in wonderland you are dropping down there and all you're saying as you go off the cliff down the rabbit hole with jesus is holy jesus god help me what am i getting myself into because right we're conditioned by time and space we've tried it we tried it on our own we tried to have a separate will apart from god and i guess do i have a hand do i have an amen from the choir that it has not worked you know we we have not found bliss unending happiness joy without end in in time and space we need a rabbit hole to go down with some really strong guidance to help us pierce through the veil of separation and come into the light we want to go running to the light so transcending the temptation to understand anything eric was talking about that last night that's how the journey goes you know he's got a career hypnosis good hypnotherapy career he's got a house mortgage credit card that tick tick tick that's standard for an american life that's an american life down there in what is it texas down in texas i tell you that's what you do you get the house you get the credit cards you get the mortgage debt and then you get your career to try to handle all that debt and it's hypnotherapy so you know that sounds pretty good and and then somehow the wheels start to fall off you know where you go what is the purpose of all this you know i you do the standard thing and the standard thing doesn't work and you say wait a minute that's what they told me to do and then you do it and you don't find bliss you find stress instead of and that's a that's a nasty trick so basically eric was sharing about a life of trust yes kirsten myself eric uh francis we all talk about our life of trust where we we checked it all we checked it all i mean some of us had a lot of education i think francis and i had like eight to years of maybe 10 maybe 11 for her of education we've we've had done it from trying things experimenting on things in the world we tried it on our own but deep inside we've known we'd be back to set things straight we're gonna set things straight today we are going for the light and this is no powder puff movie if you make it through this movie and you're still vibrating happiness then you know you you're really getting closer to the light and the thing is we we try to understand things from the past learning and the past is made by the ego so that's why we can't understand anything based on our past learning we need faith we need trust we need guidance we're we're not leaving time and space without those three we need them in the strongest way number four transcending the fear of communication and future consequences again i think most all of you can relate that was my life in time and space david afraid of future consequences what's going to happen to me what am i going to do with my life where is this going to lead will i just grow old and die like all the previous ones or will i find eternal life like jesus has promised us you know it's worth going for i'll tell you eternal life if jesus says it's possible i would say a chances of eternal life 100 percent if if jesus can do it we can do it we're no different you know we were all created by god so if jesus can wake up why not uh it's inevitable why delay so transcending the fear of communication and future consequences we really have to transcend the fear of communication in our in our relationships because as long as we're going around walking on eggshells always trying to please everybody out rock the boat just trying to squeak by trying to to just get by without disturbing too many people that's not going to work or disturbing the the irs uh or disturbing the government there you go i see the petition you know we're not we're not people pleasing anymore we're not messing around here our mind is too powerful to play little you know we can't keep playing this game of littleness like we're a victim of the world by these corporations or these people outside of us because they're not they're not outside of us they're just thoughts and finally finding joy in serving the whole versus personal inspiration i think a lot of us have tried the personal inspiration thing you know where it's like we've tried hobbies we've tried our interests we've pursued our different philosophies our theologies we've pursued success as the world judges it we tried the possession game with with houses and cars and bank accounts and with people oh that was a disaster worst worst game in the world is try to play the possession game with people my husband my wife my children or country my country patricia you've got two there so you you've got a double my going on you know we have tried to play the possession game and love does not possess we've been so mistaken to think that we could possess anything i we have a cat here you can't possess this cat many have tried but the iso shows the impossibility of being possessed every day by his presence you know he's like he's like no you might as well give up on that game that's not going anywhere at all now serve me my milk uh so basically what we're finding is if you go for the joy of the whole you're going for the joy inside of you that comes from god and that's why it's assured joy is absolutely assured and for those of you that are part of our dependency on god retreat that's the key is is following our intuition following the guidance without exception we're not here about trying to play it safe and and you know follow a little guidance occasionally we need to go for it we need to put the pedal to the metal we need to go really all in both feet in like the old song hokey pokey but you got to put both feet in you can't put one foot in serving god and serving jesus is not a one foot matter yeah you know you put one for then is nothing so so what else did we got here well i would say i i was so excited today when when i woke up that i i took a glance at i thought to myself who made this movie i mean i mean i knew nicolas gauge is in it but what are the companies that made this movie it was a collaboration between two movie companies and here's what their names are summit everybody know what a summit is summit is the top of the mountain it's god god is the summit we're we're learning dependency on god because god is the summit that's right we're not interested in climbing to the top of mount everest we're not interested in finding where the summit is on the planet we know the summit is our source so that was one of the companies that combined and guess the other company was called escape artist so this is a movie that will help you escape from time and space i'm not talking escape from your country escape from your interpersonal relationships i'm talking escape from the cosmos of time and space it's so deep it's so deep it's so wonderful you're just going to love it so who's in what are our characters what's the movie set up well we have nicolas cage is playing john john's a scientist he's an astrophysicist and he has a son named calib and he's a single father in this movie and basically his wife passed away in because she was in a in a hotel and at night time the hotel caught fire and she passed away in her sleep due to smoke inhalation so so john's a single father and john made some conclusions he didn't even feel it like psychically when his wife was passing away he he thought he maybe he should have felt something but he was doing he was doing leave blowing in his yard when his wife passed away and he didn't even feel it talk about detached from your mind and that detached from your emotion so john in this movie he's a single father this is not parma hansa yoga nanda now parma hansa yoga nanda when his mother was passing away oh he knew it he felt it he was so connected that he felt it even when his mother wasn't even close she was living in another she was in another city and he felt it also we have a a single mother in this called diana and and her daughter abby and this single mother and this single father are going to join together in a collaboration of adventure and discovery and that's important because through relationship and through collaborating and joining is how we find the source that's what uh kirsten and frances were talking about that that you literally find the source through your brother through your sister through the willingness to join and collaborate to see no personal interest to see no differences in your purpose those in this world who share the same purpose will find happiness because the purpose is given by god it and the the purpose is through the holy spirit and it is our right mind it is our healing it is our atonement it is our resurrection those who join in the resurrection of the mind shall see the light and shall never know death also we have a character in here called lucinda lucinda is a little girl that lived 50 years prior and she was part of a classroom her teacher was miss taylor and they had an assignment to write down um something for future generations so she's basically kind of like helen shuckman was she's lucinda is like a scribe she's to the world she looks a little strange and quirky but that's the way scribes are you know all scribes you know it's it's it's not an easy thing when you're scribing something that is beyond this realm of time and space and from that higher source and so lucinda uh she's kind of like a more of a modern day nastradamus she she's going to do an assignment for her class for miss taylor and that is to write down something for future generations and she's going to scribe something that's very unique and when you see what she's going to just she's going to scribe it's very much like a it's a prophecy not not a general prophecy a very specific specific prophecy over five decades of every major disaster and cataclysm on the planet uh how many people are killed the location of the the disaster longitude latitude it's it's almost like it's like the akashic records it's like the book of life it's like the uh the script written down into specifics of everything that will occur over over a span of of five decades and then it's buried in a time capsule that's part of the class assignment so john the astrophysicist will find that his son has been given uh lucinda's prophecy and and for an astrophysicist this is a big stretch you know even helen schuchman and bill fedford the course was a big stretch for them believe me they were research psychologist taking down the notes of jesus christ for seven years that's a stretch on your self-concept in a big way for helen it was a major stretch because she was kind of atheistic actually so you know taking down seven years of notes from jesus christ for an atheist is not exactly a walk in the park but lucinda she she delivers her prophecy it's discovered in the time capsule and then john the astrophysicist and his son calib uh calib gets it and then john it's going to change his life forever why does it change john's life well when his wife passed away in the fire basically he he concluded as many scientists have concluded that the world was just a sequence of random acts random situations random events and occurrences that there was no rhyme or reason there was no pattern there it was just a world of disconnected events and oftentimes that's part of the scientific mind that's why scientists use the scientific method that's why the empirical method of researching in the world and testing things in the world to try to find the results and it's basically that's how newtonian physics and newtonian science works most scientists are still in the newtonian mode they are not mystics uh scientists generally are not saints because they aren't even sure if there is god or if there is some kind of force that is underneath the world but the other thing is to many scientists it seems like the world is a random pattern of events his wife passed away in a fire he didn't even feel it at the time it happened and he just was bewildered depressed shocked and he just basically reused that whole event to reinforce that this is a basically a random and chaotic world jesus is showing us that this is not the case at all and and so john will go on an adventure to start to basically unravel his his scientific empirical mind and even though he's into astrophysics even that will be used as part of his surrender to this delight to the spirit john is a scientist and his father is a minister we have john kessler and and reverend kessler that's his father and he doesn't get along kind of like the what the bleep movies and down the rabbit hole science and religion are seem to be at odds with each other they seem to be different completely different perspectives yet of course if you hang around our teachings you'll know that quantum physics and and quantum science transpersonal person psychology and the premial wisdom throughout the ages is not at odds with god or spirit and science and spirit come together in the realm of forgiveness in the realm of the quantum field or the happy dream and so i've had so much fun in the parable of david discovering the connectedness of everything to me science and religion point to the same experience joy happiness peace of mind it's it's good the course in miracles quantum physics just whatever pathway you seem to travel on you always end up at the same experience which is right now and the present moment is an experience and time is simultaneous time is is not linear now john has a co-worker named phil who is a fellow scientist and and he's going to start sharing what he's discovering about prophecy with phil and phil's going to try to dismiss it which scientists do prophecy does not necessarily fit into the newtonian physicists mind you know they don't have room for what prophecy oh that's just some crazy christian or spiritual thing predicting future events what the hell is that you know in a random world to a lot of scientists it's impossible to predict future events so basically uh john has his sister grace his his mother his father reverend costler and basically there's a lot of conflict in the family because the scientists the astrophysicist doesn't get along with the reverend they they have two different perceived world views and there's lots of grievances there so this movie will be healing grievances that seem to be within the family it will be transcending time and space entirely and basically what i like about this movie is it's it deals with all the major themes the akashic records or the the book of life it deals with ancient uh jewish mysticism uh basically the book of ezekiel from the bible that's part of this it it deals with what i talk about a lot is hypotheticals like this whole world is the belief in hypotheticals what does that mean this is a what if world what if what what if separation from god was possible that's a what if and therefore everything that's perceived in this world is through the filter of the ego which is the belief in separation which generates a future which is not there and a past which is not there Jesus tells us in the course the past is gone and the future is but imagined these concerns past and future are but defenses against present change of focus that's going to be the key in this movie is we're going together down the rabbit hole to start to realize that the only problem we have is a is a faulty perception of the world based on time that's it there's no other problem now the solution is that the time is actually simultaneous it's not it's not linear so it's not past present future it's all happening at the same time and actually it's all happened at the same time but it seems to play out in terms of all these separate events and most human beings are scared of catastrophes they're afraid of calamities they're afraid of disasters currently on the planet if you've watched the news we have raging fires happening in california and the pacific northwest united states and canada we have what the world calls a pandemic and the new variant now the delta variant that's that's aggressive and spreading rapidly across the planet we have had many disasters floods buildings falling down a condominium down in florida just all kinds of disasters ranging from airplane accidents to subway accidents to floods um tsunamis uh some of you remember with with thailand and belasia and there's just so many kinds of disasters and and to the linear perception disasters are are something that you know would say to be very sad about because it's the loss of human life now when you pick up a course of miracles and you actually start following what jesus is saying you start to to realize that jesus is not using the term life in terms of biological life he's not using life to mean human life he's not using life to mean organic life or biological in any way uh i always tell the story of the time when i was doing the dishes and i was listening uh to a ken wopnik audio tape while i was doing the dishes and somebody on the tape asked ken what does the course of miracles have to say about life on other planets and ken's reply was well the course says there's no life on this planet did you get it that's that's ken wopnik at his best that is classic there's no life on this planet and yet when we look at the body when we look at the people when we look at the plants and the animals when we even under a microscope look at the little amoebas or the microbes this world seems to be teeming with with what we call biological life and what jesus is teaching us is this is image making you know this this is a doletree because it's making images before the light before the lord thy god it's it's right out of the 10 commandments from the bible hold no graven images before the lord thy god he's not talking about totem poles or golden statues he's talking about the entire cosmos of images all of time and space is an attempt to hold graven images before the lord thy god oh okay i need i need some forgiveness help here and jesus says yeah you're you're familiar with this process of image maker but you don't see yourself or you don't see the ego as the image maker so it's not you it's not the real you you aren't an idolater but but the belief in the ego is a doletree because it's the attempt to believe in separation from god it's the attempt to believe that you're something that you're not it's your flesh instead of spirit so this movie is going after the jugular it's going after everything everything that is believed in the mind that stands between the remembrance of the light and the sleeping mind is going to get exposed in this movie and this movie first came out i was i was in the land down under Australia i think i was maybe i think i was in sydney and i went to a movie theater with three friends of the old time movie theater with the curtains and then the curtains parted and the screen was there and on came this movie but before it came on i felt all this swirl in my heart like jesus was saying pay attention here i'm just going to expose the ego royally i'm going to show you the whole trick of the ego with this movie and i felt so much energy in my heart before even before the curtains opened before the first frame came on i was like feeling all this energy it was almost like an apparition it might have just as well been jesus appearing on the screen and because the movie was so deep that i thought oh yeah no wonder and i could feel somehow that this movie was the total escape from suffering that even buddha had said life is suffering but jesus says no life is eternal and the ego is where the suffering comes in love doesn't suffer love lasts forever love is eternal light and and divine spirit it has nothing to do with suffering and yet the mesmerism of this world the cloud of darkness of the ego is so thick that it took about 2000 years for jesus to get a course in miracles the book into this realm of time and space because the the cloud of forgetfulness is so thick and dark another good synonym for the world of time and space the cosmos is amnesia when you have amnesia you have completely forgotten reality and you now believe in something that has no reality whatsoever talk about hallucination talk about psychosis a break from reality talk about schizophrenia hearing multiple voices on planet earth instead of the one voice of the holy spirit we're dealing with amnesia in fact i will now call i will now pronounce the cosmos as amnesia will so so anybody with me on this journey i mean keep your hands inside the carpet today because we are going beyond amnesia will you know we've had enough time visiting here it's been long enough visiting amnesia will it's time we we go running to the light so this movie gives us all the potentials and the possibilities to actually see that we have everything that we need right now why we have god right now if god is for us who could be against us if god is with us how could the ego prevail over us if god is with us there is no death if god is with us we live forever isn't that good news if god is with us sickness is impossible so this movie gives us a chance to just really go with it and follow the characters and really right before we start this movie it's a time to pray to the holy spirit and say please holy spirit show me what i need to see whatever troubles i've been dealing with are troubles of time and space show me this moment show me my release from the ego and if you follow this the the conclusion of this movie will bring you to a state where you feel the joy that cannot be touched by this world i was telling a friend a couple days ago i said if you could have an experience where you could see the end of the world and be in perfect joy and love and realize who you really are wouldn't you want that wouldn't you want to calmly be able to look upon the end of the world i'm not talking about the end of of the pandemic i'm not talking about the end of war on planet earth i'm not talking about the end of of suffering on the planet i'm saying if you could look upon the end of the world from a state of mind of transcendence wouldn't you want that because the end of the world is basically your worst case scenario you know that that has to be the worst case scenario that has to be we'll say we'll call it global global disaster global cataclysm if you could look upon a global cataclysm with complete tranquility and complete harmony wouldn't you want that state of mind wouldn't you want that wow that's jesus christ saying be of good cheer i have overcome the world that's what he was talking about and that's our that's our inheritance that's our that's our birthright that's our gift is to transcend the world there is nothing greater than the transcendence of of being able to overcome the belief in in the world the belief in time so sit back and enjoy because there's going to be some angel figures in here that you may not recognize at the beginning you may you may not recognize them at the beginning but we have some other worldly beings that are going to come to offer assistance and some of you remember that that movie franchise men in black these are these are men in black angels tall blonde hair handsome men in black but they are here to help they are here to to point the way to offer prophecy and say there is another way there is something beyond this world and even when the angels come if you don't recognize them at first that's okay but when they do come what you're going to get a feeling is is this is this is lesson number 129 from the workbook beyond this world is a world i want you go from 128 the world i see holds nothing that i want to 129 beyond this world is a world i want and since this is an end of the world movie too i thought maybe i would read a little bit from jesus from the from the manual for teachers because the question is asked of jesus in a course in miracles how will the world end that's a fascinating question to put to jesus how will the world end and this is what jesus has to say he answers the question with another question oh such humor and what does he say he says can what has no beginning really end can what has no beginning really end and then i'm just going to go down and read you the the last paragraph of his answer because i think of all of the things there's like five paragraphs here but i'm just going to read you the last paragraph so get ready are you in your chair now are you settled in this is the last paragraph from jesus on how will the world end the world will end in joy because it is a place of sorrow when joy has come the purpose of the world has 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 the world will end in laughter because it is a place of tears where there is laughter who can longer weep and only complete forgiveness brings all this to bless the world in blessing it departs for it will not end as it began to turn hell into heaven is the function of god's teachers for what they are teach what they teach are lessons in which heaven is reflected and now sit down in true humility and realize that all god would have you do you can do do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn his own curriculum his word says otherwise his will be done it cannot be otherwise and be you thankful it is so so we're going on a ride today and it's a ride towards certainty because it's a ride toward the light and the purpose that we pray for is to dislodge the ego from our mind and to come to a realization of what is available to us right here and right now to open our hearts up to the will of god to god's eternal love and just say I would embrace your will because your will is is my will so enjoy the movie and I will pop in from time to time just as a reminder to stay with the faith