 Okay, welcome, welcome, hold on to your hats tonight, because you're going to left your way into heaven for this movie, the world will end in laughter, the world will end in laughter, right, like the rollercoaster ride, hands up for this one. Yeah, well this one is a movie called Holy Man and basically this is a very, this is a very helpful movie in the sense that we have a situation with the main characters where the main character has, he works in a very high stress competitive job, which a lot of us have faced, and he's got feelings of unworthiness and what he's trying to do is he's trying to overcome those feelings of sadness and loneliness and unworthiness with the world's formula for solving those problems, which is success. So he once, he has the story of his father and it's been a difficult issue to face with his father and what happened to his father and therefore he's trying to succeed and he's got pressure to succeed and basically he's looking for the solution to unworthiness in the wrong place because when we look for something in the world to take us out of our misery and take us out of our unworthiness all we do is we get another idol that is just a temporary fix and then that crashes and then if we go for another idol then that crashes and it could get pretty depressing. So he's going to try to use his affirmations, he's trying to pull himself out of it and he's pretty stressed and he's pretty anxious and he's a bit pessimistic and his boss is very competitive and his boss is one of these, they call him Type A, like slave driving, like trying to drive him and his desire for success. It's quite an intense stressful situation so this is a common experience in terms of what happens with the ego in this world and yet out of all that we're going to see how Jesus and the Holy Spirit bring in the perfect antidote, the perfect way for him to release all of that and to come back to what he truly wants in his heart and actually this is a love story, it's an amazing love story. It may take a while before as you watch this where you start to say who is falling in love here you know because it's not so obvious but then as it goes along it's really a spectacular love story and it's also a spectacular use of symbols because the Holy Man is basically going to come in and be the symbol that turns things all around and we all have had people in our lives that are that way, they've just symbolized the Spirit and they remind us of the laughter, they remind us of the joy, they remind us of the glee, they remind us of the childlike sense of wonder and it taps into something that's deep inside of us that goes yes that's it and then we have to turn, we have to make a strong turn in that direction because we can't really do this in a partial way, we really have to make the full turn. So in this movie our main character is going to be called to make a turn and there will be many many temptations to go back, to still go back, go back to the old way, go back and he's going to have to choose and choose and choose again before he lets his heart crack open. This one goes all the way to the burst, this one that's the kind of inspirational movie we need, we need a love story that delivers, we need a love story that's inspired by divinity, a love story that turns things around from the wrong direction to right-mindedness and and to be able to laugh along the way you know I remember so many of the movies that I watched in my life were movies like this where I would just get a strong prompt to go rent the movie from the video store and whatever I was going through I was just popped, popped through. This movie is part of our Movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment, what that is is we have maybe like five, six editions, no do you remember? Fifth one's coming up, four editions in paper, paperback and then the fifth one's coming up and we actually have it as an online website with an emotional index so suppose you're going through sadness or grief or jealousy or envy, you're going through emotional struggles and you can go to this website and basically it's you basically have to sign up and then it has tools that are part of it, instrument for peace and levels of mind and so on and so forth but it actually has an emotional index where you go and you find your emotion of what you're struggling with and it will recommend movies to help you pop through so it's kind of a high-tech way of getting spiritual guidance to use movies to help pop you out of some of your major issues it's fun I mean it's starting to get a gain in popularity you know most people think of meditation and there's all these traditional ways to open up the spirit the movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment is gaining in popularity and growing more and more popular because it's very engaging and that's the movies are very engaging this movie is very engaging you know why it is at the end of this movie I always cry too it's like I've always seen it for the first time and I'm like watching it and I'm waiting and watching the waterworks come it doesn't matter if I've seen it 15 times there it comes again you know it's like it's beautiful because we want the burst right we want the burst we want to see the burst we want to be inspired by the burst that's what it's all about you know that's why when people watch a love story they want they want to see that even in fairy tales people want happy endings but but we want to see it come about when we love it when when we can feel the spirit interjecting and interjecting you know these characters in this movie are are pretty some pretty high-strung pretty competitive their communication skills are not good they you know they're they're humans they're like the rest of all of us and they need help they need a lot of help and then comes holy man coming in like a breath of fresh air like a cool breeze on a hot day just blowing in and it's like whoa it just grabs your attention and it's holy man is unorthodox yeah he's he's he's an out of pattern experience that shows up and we've had people show up like that in our lives that are out of pattern they're like angels he's like an angel that's been sent in a very funny angel and and that's the best kind you know I've always loved stories like way back even in black and white the bishops wife has anybody ever seen the bishops wife Kerry Grant that goes back Kerry Grant plays an angel David Niven is married they have a child they're married he plays a priest a stressed out priest who's all caught up into numbers and trying to raise a building fun and he's lost his ways he's not serving Christ at all he's just mired in ego stresses he might as well be a CEO of of some company that makes widgets or something because he's a priest but he's lost his way and then Kerry Grant comes in and Kerry Grant's an angel and it's big time healing that happens when the angel shows up and it's very funny Kerry Grant this one is Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy is are going to be our holy man he's coming into the rescue with all the spirit behind him and all the laughter and humor and everything that you can handle okay we'll go we may pause it a few times it gets but it's one of those movies it just gets better and better and then boom home run J.C. Central delivers at the end Grand Slam they go flat tire holy spirit at work now we start to see spirit come charging in to this very tight situation pressure stress anger fast pace distractions and now the tire blows and everything is about to get flipped right side up it's upside down so he can't stand him he wants this guy out of there as fast as possible and she's just like wow he's kind and friendly and everything and this is the motives that the spirit has to come in he has to come into the relationship which is right now a working relationship with with animosity there's some competitiveness there's all kinds of things that are typical in relationships on earth and G's coming in and she's just kind of open and he's just wanting bye bye bye bye you know he's doing everything he can to get him out of the picture so then we'll see where it goes from here this is no wasn't that great oh so sweet holy man yeah that's great when you have a movie that really takes you in to the point you know that you realize you can't you can't compromise i mean i think that's what he had to do is he had to he kept he had a goal in mind and he kept being tempted by that goal but then in the end he had to let go of the goal and we have to do that that's the only way beyond this world is we have to let go of the goal and and really what is the goal of the ego we've talked about it in this retreat in different ways we've said the goal a wish that things be different than they are and then we watched the butterfly effect which was such a dramatic movie and dramatic teaching that you really don't want things to be different in the world you want to have a change of heart a change of perspective and i think in this movie we started to see that that the profit motive that drives this world some of you might have seen the truman show is all based on product placement and it was all based on commerce and this movie goes into extremes with the home shopping network good shopping network the the cell cell cell and products and so on and so forth and then that that profit motive and then the motive of the spirit is basically not able to mix with that motive in other words the holy spirit wants to unwind your mind from guilt and wants to teach you that everything that you are and everything that you are created as is given as a free gift by the creator that free gift of our identity is what we're after and all of this world is an attempt to compromise on that gift that gift of grace to say well there's something in this world that i want more than the grace of god than the than my true identity and that's the compromise that this world attempts to make there's a beautiful section in the course of miracles called beyond all idols and Jesus starts off that section by saying what is an idol do you think you know an idol is for more of something it does not matter more of what so this world is the projection of the idea of more more anything because it's denying what you are right now and even the idea of self-improvement is part of the wheel of the ego even the things that seem to be the best things you could shoot for in this world are part of the defense against the realization of who you are right now so i i like this movie because it's it really plays out that contrast and that compromise you know it's like he had his opportunities and and part of him knew that if he sold his soul his cape was saying i won't sell my soul you know when she went in to talk to the boss i won't sell my soul it part of him knew you know he just became sad when he went for the contract when he he gave in to that that more he just became so so so sad and that's what we all discover that's what this whole journey of seeming time and space is about is to see that we don't need to compromise with that anymore practically speaking how will that work it it is going to work with trust you have to trust that the spirit knows the way the spirit will provide for you everything that you need to unwind from this world and that goes against this this mechanism in the mind that is the survival mechanism that is i've got to do it on my own and that is a belief that is highly valued in this world you know to be able to provide for yourself as a person isn't that a highly valued belief to autonomously be able to provide for yourself is revered it's absolutely revered and this is what jesus and the holy spirit are up against most everyone can see that they don't want to be dependent they don't want to be at the mercy of the government that you know and be on you know food stamps or some kind of government program they don't want to be dependent on parents they don't want to be dependent on things of this world but but it's highly self sufficiency here's the here's the book you want to stand up and show that we'll see if we can get that that book is titled self sufficiency the complete book of self sufficiency that's how sneaky this place is this cosmos because we have books like that that that praise you for autonomy and self sufficiency and that's one of the most major lessons that you can learn is that when jesus says in a course of miracles you need to learn to trust the holy spirit he means you need to trust the holy spirit for everything you you still believe he says that you you can run some aspects of your life and let the spirit run some aspects but that's that partial bargaining like oh i can handle this this this and a lot of times that's common in spirituality where you say okay spirit holy spirit you know please handle this and this and this and this and then you have to take an honest look at where you believe that you can do a better job than the spirit that's a critical most important point sometimes i've talked to people who who will say well i'm worried sick about my child or i'm personally responsible for that child and again that's just another example of taking responsibility as if you have more responsibility personally than the holy spirit the flip side of that would be to say i trust i i place this child in the hands of the holy spirit or i give this child over to the holy spirit i've had many instances over the years where i've worked with somebody who the child's you know an adult child's thrown into jail or or diagnosed with something and so forth and they go crazy and in a sense of being disturbed because they feel that they are personally responsible for the well-being of that child even the belief that you are personally responsible for the body that seems to be your own is still arrogant you you only can be responsible for your state of mind you only can be responsible for the accepting the correction you only be can be responsible for choosing divine innocence that's the only thing actually that you can take responsibility for and when you take that responsibility and you aim it at the body or the world or worldly conditions or anything like that you are trying to take responsibility for something that actually number one doesn't exist and number two is over and gone you're trying to take responsibility for something that's actually already gone it's already the past so yes get that microphone here so in my corporate job a job i had to do recently was come up with a plan to the end of june 2017 so i had to choose what i thought we should achieve all along the way to the end of june 2017 and then work back from that and work out you know how much time everything would take blah blah blah so then that leaves no room for the Holy Spirit to come in so what do i do with that do i just like do it with a smile on my face and not worry about it and just go yeah here's your plan um how do i work with that well as i've said all along the Holy Spirit and Jesus are very practical and the Holy Spirit purpose is again to loosen you from the belief in time from the belief in scarcity lack from the belief even in making plans or from the belief in career and vocation these are all concepts that it's like a tangled web almost like a spider web that's been wound and wound and wound and it could be spiders can do quite big intricate webs if you ever see especially down here in australia i've seen some of those spider webs there and the spiders are big down here they travel around other parts of the world i can testify to that and you have to be unwound from that so to give you an example i had a student back in the 1990s and um the more she stayed the course and the more she worked with me directly she started noticing that the goal of the course and the goal of her job and career were at odds so it was the first step she was like okay the goal of a course in miracles and the goal of my job don't match just like in this movie ricky's goals sell sell sell sell sell you know he was you could see him all along he was even with the grass mats when g was encouraging everybody to have a a simple moment out in the grass robert ricky raced tearing through the storage room to find that mat that that guy introduced him to weeks months earlier he had to find that mat to make sale and then when he he said it's we've already sold out he's like already but he had a satisfaction because there was a goal that he was pursuing that was opposite from g's goal and he kept trying to bring g and the goal together and we can try to bring goals of of corporate we'll say corporate australia work or the corporate world and forgiveness and peace of mind which is the goal of of course the miracles and the sooner that we give in and realize that these two goals are not compatible the better because jesus says things like in the workbook he says everything you think say and do teaches all the universe everything everything you think say and do teaches all the universe every second we're either teaching the whole universe that we're the christ or we're trying to teach the universe that we're something other than the christ and they both aren't true you know one's a lie and one is actually the fact of it so with my student from years ago she came to me and she said uh i got a conflict because i'm doing a job and what i'm doing in my job is clearly rooted in fear she said i have to be honest that the job that i'm doing is rooted in fear and i said well tell me more about your job and she said well well i go to high schools and i go to different places around the community where i live and i talk about hiv prevention i talk about um birth control i work for a healthcare provider and basically i'll stand up and i'll give a talk and every bit of my talk is based on fear fear of consequences um a protectionism and i'm there to educate people but but everything that i speak every time i deliver a talk my hour long slot is based on fear and i feel like a course of miracles is telling me you don't have to think like that you don't have to live like that there's another way there's a better way and and i don't know what to do because that's my job so she said what would what would you do and i said well you if you're paid if you're hired by an employer to do a job and you sign a contract and you agree to do a job you're agreeing and signing to fulfill that in g was even willing to do the g spot he said do you is that what you want you know he always was saying what do you want so he wasn't invested in the outcome of the form of anything but he's he was like saying always offering Robert Ricky that opportunity what do you want so with my friend she said well what would you do what how can i handle this and i said well go back and do your job and and go out there and give your talk but i want you when you get to the 50 minute mark of your talk i want you to take a deep breath and pause and i want you to take a moment to pray and i want you to speak completely from your heart for the last 10 minutes of your job when you go out there to talk and give it a try and see what happens so she went out there for 50 minutes to do her job and say what she was hired to say what she was educated to say what she was told by her boss that she needed to say and and then the last 10 minutes she's just completely took a deep breath and spoke from her heart i said well how did it go because she started to do that every week and she said people started coming up to me i said what did they say they said wow i really connected what you were saying at the very end there was some of the most profound things that i've ever heard and i wanted to ask you more about that she spoke for 10 minutes from her heart and people started coming up to her and so this went on week after week where she started getting witnesses she called started immediately calling forth witnesses of the spirit just from those last 10 minutes that she was speaking until she got to a point where down the line she basically was in there in her office and she started talking to her co-workers and she started to talk to her boss and she started to say things like i just can't do this anymore this job isn't resonating with my heart and she was bracing herself for the impact and what she got was her co-workers and then even her boss said we know we could feel it too we know that it's time for you to move on to her next job and it was a another big step the spirit always orchestrates everything in time and space as we are willing to not compromise in our purpose with our family with our co-workers with our employment with everything in our dream world then the spirit takes care of it and that's the same thing that everyone has to go through i mentioned that uh jeff and jeffrey had had told us about this movie um was it uh amongst the white clouds there were these monks that had left their their families their lives their busy lives to go live up in the mountains and live in hermitages but basically the whole documentary is is them talking about what's going on their inner practice the thoughts that they were facing the fears that they were facing the the wants the desires the struggles the challenges you could see their stream of thoughts and also some of them were were like masters that were coming into deeper and deeper states of contentment of bliss of peace through this inner practice of of focusing on their mind and really that's what any authentic spiritual pathway will do it will have you take a much closer look at your consciousness at your awareness from the perspective of i'm worth it i'm worth the peace of mind i'm worth forgiveness that's my whole purpose for this seeming lifetime is to come inside all the things that the world would check as advances and achievements that are so alluring and they're so well reinforced oh you've done so well corporate okay well that's well that's a promotion and and you go it goes on and on and on and there's so many witnesses are reinforcing oh you've done very well and then we have a line from jesus in the course where jesus says you cannot judge your advances from your retreats your mind is so confused you can't judge when you're advancing and when you're retreating there's another part in the course where jesus says your mind is so confused that you cannot tell the difference between pain and joy you cannot tell the difference between pain and joy that's pretty deluded and you may protest and you may say wait a minute jesus i may be deluded but i can tell the difference between pain and joy but if you could tell the difference between pain and joy you would never experience pain ever again if you could tell the difference between pain and joy because there's a confusion there remember everything is a decision and who in their right mind would choose pain no one there must be some kind of trick going on if there's pain there has to be a trick it's not god's will so you can see that's how deceived the mind is of not being able to tell the difference between pain and joy and that's where this movie is is really good for that it's it's clearly showing the temptations of the world even seemingly with an angry boss even with the lures of success of of having money in his bank account and so on and so forth he's faced with a decision and i think his decision too was he had that moment when his boss came on the set where he had to make a choice and when the audience started to boo he said no no don't boo don't boo he needs needs a hug he needs a hug and a kiss holy spirit got a hold of him got a hold of his mind and just turned it in such a powerful way in that instant and that even his boss just had to just kind of fade couldn't couldn't contest what had just happened there was no way no need to contest it so i think that's the thing where we we just have to to have a crack of openness to have that prayer say okay here's where i seem to be in time and space here's my corporate job here's my there's my task and just like Robert Ricky was praying in his closet you know and the ng had clearly heard his prayers that we we need to pray we need to play pray for strength you know to to guide us step by step in a practical way it's not saying you know we have we need to go ahead and try to take charge of the forum we just need to practice with our thoughts and and pray that our thoughts be changed yeah thank you and i might add that it works it works you won't be left out in the cold with this this is yeah holy spirit delivers it's important yes can you talk a bit more about that being self sufficient because the trial step programs also talk about being autonomous you know like being self-sufficient and that's what i thought it was a good thing i can use but that my mind is like flipped right now i'm not a terrorist i was heading the right way being self-sufficient and not codependent and all that yeah i would say that that dependency codependency and autonomy are are actually different forms of the same error the same line so even though autonomy is heavily reinforced as positive and dependency is heavily reinforced as negative they're actually the same and that's how sneaky the ego is when i think of the 12-step program because i know it very intimately and i know many many people over the years who who have come through the 12 steps and come through an immense healing some who come into the course of miracles through the 12 steps it's actually a forerunner for their work with the course that autonomy which you're saying it seems to be reinforced by the program actually the word that comes to mind when i think of the 12-step program is anonymous alcoholics anonymous it's not autonomous that the 12 steps are about it's anonymous they they actually are taking you in to see the power of the higher power to help you when you call out and cry my life my addiction is unmanageable absolutely unmanageable and you cry out for another way and it will take you into healing which is synonymous with being anonymous that rhymes the anonymity is what heals in other words you may seem to have a sponsor and you may seem to follow the steps and you may seem to do the work but at some point there is a healing that occurs and the only way that you stay sane and you stay healed in 12 steps is to give it away you you have to extend the gift that's why people become sponsors when they transcend the addiction they actually are put immediately into a position of leadership and and they become sponsors and they have sponsors and it just keeps going and going and going much like in the course of miracles are students and teachers and you're a student and then you keep practicing and practicing and practicing and as you become calmer and more still and more quiet and more tranquil you you are put into a teaching role which really is to teach us to demonstrate you just demonstrate peace that's really what a teacher of God is it's not so much about the words but it is about your attitude in your mind and if the words line up with the attitude then that's good if the words aren't in line with the attitude then it won't be you'll be the unhealed unhealed healer so it's one of those things that that is so deeply ingrained in us to to be self-sufficient like the the book that we just saw you know on self-sufficiency it's one of those that is a very sneaky trap and I've often said said things like um if the ego's last name was guilt or if the ego's last name was sin or if the ego's last name was fear what's its middle name and I say autonomy that's the ego's middle name but it's hidden it's very very hidden and it's so reinforced as being success now Jesus actually uses the word autonomy and of course the miracles and he's saying you are real autonomy so he puts real in front of it R E A L your real autonomy is creation your spiritual gift from God when God created you God gave you everything God gave you eternal life God gave you true freedom God gave you happiness God's will for you is perfect happiness not just happiness but perfect happiness those are all free gifts that God gave Christ in creation and God gave Christ creative ability so just like God creates in spirit Christ creates his spirit and if you read the course he's got this word creations he's talking about Christ's creations they're small see and that's that's what he says is our real autonomy but you see how different that is from personal autonomy personal autonomy is I can do it on my own personal autonomy is is a tremendous block to spiritual awakening some of you know kirsten she wrote the book I married a mystic and when kirsten was I think she told me this story when she was like three years old Jackie would come to try to help her put her shoes on on little three-year-old kirsten and tie her shoes and kirsten would jerk her feet away from her mother and say me do it was like don't tie those strings me do and then I think by the time she was 13 she was into green peas save the environment save mother or save the whales and everything is a young teenager and then by 15 left school just left school completely and there was a she would say a very strong autonomy that was she noticed from from childhood from young childhood up there was a very strong autonomy and in the years that I knew her that was one of the things that that reared its head up that was one of her strongest blocks to peace of mind was this sense of autonomy I don't need anybody else I can do it all on my own which it leaves God out of the equation and in the end we have to learn to be so trusting with the Holy Spirit with everything every aspect of our life that we include the Holy Spirit in so much so that we follow the prayer in the course Holy Spirit decide for God for me where you literally let go of all attempts to be in control all attempts to run the show all attempts to take charge and be in charge when I was growing up there was always a saying that they told me they said look out for number one and I said who is number one and they said you and I said who they said you look out for number one look out for your personality self always watch your back and always look out for number one and then I was exposed to many things there was a there was a football player an American football player who's very famous called Gail Sears and he wrote a book which got turned into a movie that I saw when I was much younger and the name of the movie in the name of the book was I am third and I was like oh it's fascinating I am third I had to read what is he talking about I am third God is first my family is second and I am third you see how the personality self is subjugated behind God and family in that one so with the Course in Miracles what Jesus is saying is is you have to take your personality self and the world and the construct of the personality self and you have to surrender that back including that tiny mad idea and everything that came from that tiny mad idea you have to give it back to God don't try to hold it apart but but surrender it back to God and it will disappear but if you if you protect it if you value it and protect it that's hell and if you surrender it back and you give it back then that's what salvation is that's what spiritual awakening is of knowing your true self there's even a workbook lesson in the Course in Miracles and it's the great title of the lesson it says I choose the second place to gain the first isn't that a fascinating title among all the great ideas in the Course in Miracles I am as God created me I am not a body I am free I am still as God created me I am spirit I am the Holy Son of God Himself you know there's there is nothing to fear you know there's so many 365 lessons that's one of the lessons that's actually one of Jesus's lessons I choose the second place to gain the first that the ego is the belief that you can play God and what does it even mean to play God but it means that you can be the creator of yourself you can actually create yourself and autonomy is tied into that I can create myself anyway I want to be I can handle everything personally and and it's actually the belief is it's actually good to be that competent that you can handle everything or anything personally and what seems to be the the greatest thing that's valued in this world is actually like a steel bar binding the mind keeping the mind from the truth so that's that's very humbling to realize that but as soon as you start to realize that you will never look at anything of this world the same you'll say I give this career to you Jesus I I give this this pursuit I give this ambition ambition we most of us were raised in ambition was a good thing I was raised in that way I was raised in a Protestant Christian Protestant denomination that valued the Protestant work ethic was what it was called work work work self-sufficiency raise yourself up achieve accumulate possess retire with a nice big nest egg enjoy all the good things of the world with your nest egg as the bible says eat drink and be married for one day we shall die and the the way that you're supposed to do it is yeah but die with a big nest egg because then you can pass it on to the future generations all more more kudos you pass on your inheritance you see it's a system that's designed with every aspect of it to keep you from becoming still be still and know that I'm God to keep you from forgiving to keep you from going into the silence the whole thing it doesn't matter how many people reflect that belief system you have to start to see it's it's the it's the lie that's the lie underneath everything so it's pretty huge when you really look at it it all these conspiracy theorists the ego is the conspiracy it's a death wish and it's an an imposter identity that was made to take the place of the truth of the eternal spirit thanks for bringing that up that's it's plenty of evidence for that one yeah yeah yeah what's fun about my travels around the world is getting to go to over 40 countries and getting to meet all these people and the different cultures and all this and this and I'd have to say that in general the happiest people that I meet on a on a mess on a group scale are the ones that have no interest in material accumulation material possession or in time the happiest people I meet are they have no interest in time that's why one of our centers is down in Mexico when you take something to get it fixed or you take something in to have something served or whatever they'll say mañana mañana and mañana I learned means despite what the dictionary or people will tell me mañana means not now and they have a smile on their face and you know they're laughing on the inside when they go mañana mañana because they could care less they don't get done when it gets done I'm not going to rush there's no pressure there's no stress I'm happy and I'm staying happy and it'll get done whenever it gets done that's what manana manana means and also uh what I love about the this place we have down in Mexico is that when you start to approach it you know you go to it when I first went to it I think I was with my friend Suzanne and Francis we were in the car and Suzanne was going this looks like India I said what do you mean India she said I mean one of the slums in India and I said well we're going to see the house and speaking out the street you know it's it's like in one of the it looks like like the slums and yet you look around at the people and you see happy smiling faces children running and gleefully playing in the streets and materially if you were looking at it it doesn't look like much and yet the dogs seem happy the cats seem happy the people seem happy everybody's wearing a smile on their face and when you take the time to actually be with them and everything you see they have actually no interest in time at all they're not interested in commerce they're not interested in making a better life there's a huge contentment and I would say very much like some of the aborigines down here in Australia they are in a in a much more evolved state of mind than those that are so concerned that's why I always like singing that Barbra Streisand song from Funny Girl you know the best things in life are free and that's the truth our very nature our very God-given life is free it's a free gift it doesn't have a cost it can't be owned it can't be possessed it's not bound by time you know all those qualities it's because it's free it's a free gift spirit is free we even put the words together free spirit that's a compliment for some others will say yeah she's a free spirit because the ego does not like those qualities yeah yes the world was over the minute we made the decision because it was corrected and we are reliving like for the second time sort of thing and they and you know in the gallery and not in his book he talks about meeting his future life or future self or whatever you call it and they they say you will be born like me and we have already become enlightened so you will become enlightened in your next life and in Chicago where we was born in a totally different kind of united states and he's born there and he becomes enlightened there and they say we already got enlightened so you know it kind of ties in with the holographic nature of the of the whole thing you know whole universe and I have this image like you know everyone maybe together like a child in the mother's arm and the mother is the god and then maybe we were awake before but before the sleep in the lap of god and start dreaming like parallel dreams multiple dreams and we have we are kind of a part of this fragmentation dreaming different different dreams and and we can choose which like go to past or future which dream that we want to take in any lifetime because it's also simultaneous and when I saw that Gary was saying that it's kind of a firm in that kind of a holographic thing is happening and Jesus it already happened and you are reliving it can you speak to that correct that whole thing that concept yeah well in the end it's like you just start to look directly at the concepts but the idea of even of life and time that as well known as that is with reincarnation and and so on so forth that's that's a contradiction in terms life and time because there is ultimately no such thing as life and time it's it's seeing the past it's the past is what frees the mind from this idea of lifetimes past lifetimes future lifetimes it's like with the Akashic records you know or psychics a lot of times people marvel that psychics can tell the future or Akashic record readers can can read you in in great detail the future which seems to be a marvel like oh I can I can know the future and great specifics but what is the future but the past what I've done is over the years I've used concepts in teaching this with the students like I would say there's the past past and the future past and it just as if they're different but once that you could say it's it seems holographic but the holographic is still that the whole is in every part and actually what Jesus has told me is the whole is real and the parts are not there there aren't any holes inside the parts it's w-h-o-l-e it's it's the concept of parts is just part of it's again that's the construct that's just the construct so again I think it comes back to the practice for me it was always I kept hearing Jesus saying over and over freely you have received now freely give like get into the joy of giving the joy of extending let me speak through you let me smile through you let me laugh through you let me hug through you get into the joy of that giving vibe and then everything you might say is seen as whole everything feels whole there's no there are no parts but there's really no way to to understand you might think of all that as future lives it's just like stepping stones yeah I was you know it seems like there's no future everything has happened already that's why it's there so we kind of dreaming from future to past to whatever it's it I heard that you can even go to past and and dream a past life in your future so-called future so it's all kind of available at any time it's like we are choosing which one we like it's all still a dream but still our future can be a past as well and I was wondering what he says you are reliving second time it's as though all these possibilities were there we lived it in our dreams and it's all corrected but we don't want to accept it we kind of reliving we're going through some of that stuff again I don't know why he said second time we are reliving what was corrected he is he talking about this present moment like every moment we are getting out of it every time we step out of the present moment we are reliving it so but I was wondering what he meant by second time you're reliving it second time yet it's the way to get past the complexity has come back to the simplicity like the the line from Jesus the past is gone the future is but imagined these concerns are but defenses okay how many of us were raised in psychology and we learned about Freud and defense mechanisms projection denial sublimation there's just all kinds of defense mechanisms but what did Jesus just say the past is gone the future is but imagined these concerns are but defenses whoa never read that in the psychology book the future is a defense the past is a defense you see the leap from these psychological things even words like projection oh she's projecting onto her husband oh he's projecting onto his wife as if bodies can project as if persons can project when what persons are projections persons don't project you hear the modern language and you go to a psychotherapist oh you're just projecting onto your partner onto your spouse oh no the entire cosmos is an attempt to get rid of guilt and see it as if it's external to let to to let it go by seeing it as if it's elsewhere well the past is a defense and so is the future so ultimately you know we talked earlier today about going in and really going for the moment that's that's another way that you go for you start to see that all the thoughts about the future and all the thoughts about the past are defending against holy instant so then that's that's making things simpler we've eliminated future lifetimes and past lifetimes those are distractions and then you get down to okay then how do I experience the holy instant how do I experience the power of now Eckhart talks about and he says it's by desiring it remember that labyrinth it's outside you've got to get out from the outer rings down back to the center it's a beautiful symbol code go to the center go to the core yeah the now of defenseless is is the instant that's it at no single instant does the body exist at all in no single instant is there a problem but if I anticipate the future or pull pull the past forward you know then that's that's it and and then it comes down to the Jesus has to teach new time ideas like he talks about that in the beginning of the workbook he says he says in the workbook at the beginning of the workbook we need to introduce new time ideas isn't that a fascinating to say thing to say we need to introduce new time ideas and part of his new time ideas that should go into it more and more is that he is teaching that that the present moment is not between the past and the future not that that present is an invention of the ego so the ego invented linear time completely the spirit has nothing to do with time Jesus would even show uh show ellen shuckman in her mind he would take her down you know we tend to think from our education in this world it's like the timeline but he said no time he showed hell on a glimpse of time as a spiral not a line it's a it's a special line but it's it spins like a spiral and then he took Helen in his in in the mind and he said now if you come with me and he showed the spiral from different angles and if you come close enough to the spiral it seems to be continuous but if you get back you can start to see different segments of the spiral which is which is seeing it from a different perspective so basically in the end it's we need a new interpretation of time we need to see time differently and that's what happens is we keep working with the course you know how they say time flies when you're having fun or I had so much fun that I lost track of time isn't that amazing that you can have so much fun that you actually lose track of the passage of time we have had those experiences you know this isn't new to us we go oh yeah that happens and so really that's the whole point of what seems to be our mind training what we're doing is is to have a new perception of time a healed perception of time and now we even have movies coming out like Mr. Nobody if if you want to watch a real quantum movie watch something like Mr. Nobody because that's that's that is messing with time that is really messing with time there's movies like Momento there's a number of movies that actually come out that that eternal sunshine of the spotless mind that's messing I had to laugh the first time I went to see eternal sunshine of the spotless mind I went there and I was just oohing and owing in the movie theater but when I got up to leave there was an elderly gentleman maybe 80 years old and I could hear him cursing and muttering something under his breath and I went closer to him and he he was like that's the worst worst movie I have ever seen in my entire lifetime and it just broke the perception his perception of time in that movie you know time you're supposed to progress forward and it's supposed to have segments that follow along and eternal sunshine of the spotless mind with Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey it broke it broke his assumptions and then he he called it the worst movie he'd ever seen in his entire life but I was like in the state of glory because I was like ooh this this is messing with with linear time and that's exactly what Jesus wants us to do is mess mess with the ego's construct and loosen from it and keep loosening from it yeah yeah if you're curious about this I think I can highly recommend coming along on the movie watchers guide to enlightenment and come along on a journey with me and I will I will take you on quite a journey with some of these movies Solaris come come into the mind with Solaris or there's there's just lots of movies that you can go on a journey in this world people tell me that sometimes they have drug experiences or meditation experiences but a lot of people have mystical experiences with me in the movies some people use ayahuasca some people use movies with David and and we will actually go into some movies and it's trippy it gets trippier and trippier just from the commentary in the movies together some people feel like they've taken a hit of something but really it's just it's the mind's willingness to see things differently in the commentary and the parables you know that's what Jesus did back then he just kept using parables and and keep using parables over and over to to like say here I'll peel back the limits of your mind and you'll see a whole new world a new fantastic point of view just by peeling back those assumptions so we probably have one movie night left but it's been great it's been great and thank goodness for comedy that's the kind of holy man we want we want somebody where we're laughing laughing along the way that makes it lighter going back with humor yeah that feels so grateful for the humor okay that's our show for tonight yeah thank you sweet i'm Thank you.