 I'm sharing with us this afternoon a few moments, and a few moments of honesty with us. I've been receiving songs for many, many years, ever since I started studying at Los Angeles, but that has exonerated me really since I met David here. I'm really new to health go, and so I know. As I share songs this afternoon, I share a couple moments of feeling, and David may be inspired to ask, particularly if someone according to what we're discussing this afternoon, I would ask that you send me applause for the very end. This is the result of the assignments to go on at this time. I'd like us to help you go through the day of your life. I would like us to have quotes, and go down for the first time. And I'd like us to use the Holy Spirit as my own guide. I'd like to put it all up, and I'd like to thank you all for showing me the way to go. We can use sign language to show our love. We can use sign language to show our love. We can use sign language to show our love. And it started when I was the first one to lift it up and chill out here. So what we do is have a request to say for a break after one hour and another hour. And so it seems like for three hours a nice breaking point. It is an honor to come together with you. It is such an honor always for a regular country in the world to come together with everyone and experience the present moment. And I don't really get sermoned and I don't get talks. And I just show up and with always been kind of thankful for the thing. And Mike's gone here too since the recording. And I think we can come up and just sit right here. So if anybody has questions, I think we can bring the mic back a little bit too. I think it will go way back and if it only goes so far you might have to lean in from the far edges there but I think it should be able to reach most people. What I want to talk today is about enlightenment and salvation. Just living in the present moment free of any hurts or grievances and pains of the past and also free of worries and concerns about the future. Because those are the things that distract the mind away from the Kingdom of Heaven. And the Kingdom of Heaven is simply living in a state of perfect trust in the present moment. And so seemingly the life of David over the last 12 years has been kind of more like Jesus from the apostles as I've gone around and around and around the country. And I think in Canada this year the rule of travel has begun. I didn't even go to the passport thing. So it came very quickly that I was going to be going to Argentina. That's why I needed one of those pick-and-pick jiggies. Passport David, you've got to have a passport. And you'll need a visa for certain countries. Oh, what's that? So I'm kind of a little man for a visa card. So I kind of live in a state of joy and it's a very simple life of trust and so I have lots of caravans from the life of David and from the people that I meet along the way which are... You don't even have to make them up. I mean, there's just some crack of us that you just tell the stories that they really point to the presence of God. I picked up a bunch of hitchhikers and sometimes people will say what you'd like to go from forced Americans gathering to forced groups to conferences and so forth. And so I missed the whole journey of it that way. Most of the people I meet are on the road in just areas and picnic areas and laundry-mashing grocery stores and restaurants and so forth. And everyone is a Christ. Everyone is pure and whole and perfect. And when you get into the state of mind of living in the present it's really fun because you get to meet yourself over and over and you find that you're adorable. There are all the ways that you find, you know, animals that preach you or people that preach you or just when you're out in nature, you know, just enjoying the love and oneness of everything. And so what I'm really speaking of is a practical experience of how it is to live in the present moment. It's really the most natural experience that there could ever be that's given by God. It seems extraordinary in this world only because it doesn't have any of this world's laws mixed in with it. So initially when I was prompted to the hell to start traveling and shining my light and given my inner calling, basically the instructions were the same ones that Jesus gave the apostles about how to take those odds and what he should wear and eat and seek he first to kingdom of heaven and trust everything else that he had. And so as I have gone on this journey I wasn't allowed to bring anything with me and that's been the fun part because I didn't have the means of starting off I didn't have money in the bank I didn't have organization support I didn't have a network and then anything that the world would say is important if you're going to start traveling and kind of like maybe like a piece of paper when she first started to walk, you know, after a few years everybody's like there she comes, there we get many but I mean when you first start out it's kind of like here we go, we're going to win it because he's got the only of all the contacts or whatever and so that's really the way it's been for me and the simple thing was I was told you know, really good received, now freely give and when he says freely give he means give it away for free that you could charge him money for lots of things in this world but the length and the salvation is not one because it is a free gift from God and so what came along with that instruction was whatever I knew, seemingly counseling or workshops or whatever people would call it, cops and then later on videotapes and pamphlets and journals and on and on and on, give it away kind of like this old Swedenborgian minister Johnny Eppel seed swing the seeds, don't even look to where those seeds land just go out there and swing them swing them in every direction and you'll find that the joy of living is in the swinging it's not looking where they land like the terrible in the Bible about where they landed, the good soil, the purple soil or in the thorns or among the thistles or whatever you know, the joy is in the swinging so my experiences in that sense Jesus dictated a song of prayer and he was saying in the idea whenever you make a demand on anyone whenever you want anything from a brother you'll see that the brother's no longer so you can see where this is going living in the present moment is giving as God gives freely without any expectations no reciprocity no contracts no bargains no exchange in this world it's almost unheard of because this whole world was built on the ideas of duality and reciprocity and exchange and everything from the family system to the corporations to the churches to it cuts across through the fabric of the human experience is this thing of exchange you know, I'll scratch your back you scratch my back all the markers that was redefining that this morning in the car at the van I'll scratch my back you scratch your back and you can scratch my back too if you want we had some marketisms coming forth in the van we were driving around but basically the way the world works is it's set up to be bargains and contracts I mean even marriages even as a marriage contract nowadays with wealthy people they have the prenuptial agreements and on and on that's seen as proven and sane to the sign of the prenuptial agreement about the future what will how will things be divided in the future and the course says that you agree to meet but you always give yourself an out to separate whenever you choose you agree to meet but you can always separate so even in this world where there's this concept of marriage of coming together where two become one there's always the written or the unwritten thing like just remember I kicked you out of the three billion and I've always got an option here I already got a clause a release clause and the Holy Spirit is saying if you'll follow me I will show you how to release the release clause to let go of the beliefs that you can impart to see that you are always joined here again and when God is joined together in creation no man can put himself you cannot divide or fragment what God created as one so most of the course is written at the metaphorical level of you and your brother as if there are two parts of private minds and everyone has private minds with private thoughts but the course is aiming at an actual experience of the present moment in which there are no parts it's just all whole and everything is literally one very, very literally not even holographic which we were talking about today where every part contains the whole that's still the most powerful thinking and enlightenment is just a state of perfect fullness where you see that the present moment is all that there is so it's really fun because when you do anything in this world and you're living in the present moment you don't have any reference points it's like you're meeting everything and everyone for the very first time with no memory of the past and that's why there's no grievances and that's why there's no concerns because it's almost kind of like like dementia or Alzheimer's in the sense that it's functional but dementia or functional Alzheimer's where it's like reverse amnesia where this world was made to forget present moment and when you get into enlightenment you forget the linearity that was the illusion and you're left with the here and now which is the closest approximation to eternity so here I am I just showed up and I have fun at this thing because everyone is so expressive and we have a lot of joy and I invite you to ask any questions or share any experiences that you're having because it's the Holy Spirit orchestrating the whole gathering and there's no real person or personalities that are really involved and it's just a matter of allowing your mind to feel the love that's always bathing us it's just basking your prayers shying on us always and there aren't any smart questions or dumb questions or good ones or bad ones and I see everybody from the state of enlightenment so everybody is speaking it doesn't matter where I go in the world whether I can speak the language or not whether it's plants or animals or people or whatever I don't see anybody who's behind or ahead I don't see evolutionary stuff I don't see the process anymore the process was really the denial of the instant and the instant is just the acceptance of what's always been true so it's great that way it was something that nobody's ahead nobody's behind I don't see this really it's like for changing to the force of miracles I don't identify with the force of miracles I seem to use it in the story of David but it was all about just the desire to love the Lord by God and it really doesn't have anything to do with the book or a tool and so now it's kind of fun because whether the force of miracles they call it or conversations with God or the physical pathways that people take to the present moment that I enjoy just using the language and the lingo of the moment whatever anybody seems to be using that's meaningful and also I always thought it was kind of funny because when people try to return the course it's kind of like groups and conferences and whatever it's kind of like they talk about the Course in America's community but what we're getting back to is the Christians and the non-Christians and the Arabs and the Christians and all this and that and historically recently when I said I was going up to Michigan to do a gathering and I asked about a particular person in church and they said oh don't go there they don't even do the force of miracles anymore there's all the way the force of miracles and that historically because I thought here it goes what it's going to use what it's going to try to say somebody fell off of something or fell off the wagon or broke off or something it's if you can break away from who you are you know if you're always who you are and we're all this was a unity church there was a unity church this morning and now they fall away all the signs and there we are living in the London so I opened it up to everybody it's just a question and answer where if you want to bring something up it's my joy to go into it with you and what we're doing is of course removing the obstacles to what's already here and now so it's really a very reverent, profound kind of thing even though it seems to involve words, usually these gatherings kind of reach a point of stillness where we're all just doing high-gazing if you can there were just like no little stepping steps if you're not welcoming anybody anybody has anything they want to ask you to talk about here we go I'm just wondering if you're grateful to be here I really do know the question I was talking about President Martin I've been regularly in Canada and there are divorces so ever since it's been a very difficult journey the last year getting to that place and it's having me up really from starting my business right from the start I've gotten some tools that I've intended to I just want to put your comments beyond what I really want to talk about every day that our world must all be because I know it's going to be a straight up, more dangerous journey than it is to be I believe relationships are always very purposeful and always the maximal amount of unlearning I call it that can occur in a relationship does occur a lot of times when there's a lot of emotions or emotional baggage that's tied in with it it feels like a sway and distracting you from things that you really want to be on with in the simplest way I can say it is that there's past associations that are still being held on to and it seems in this world that past associations have meaning and you might say that the whole awakening process the awakening is the undoing of ego or the letting go of these associations and learning coming to this experience that you perfectly care for every single instant regardless of how things need to be going in the script it takes a lot of trust in the sense that a lot of times you first start to get in touch with this whole world that was built as like after Western songs looking for love in all of our places it was looking for divine eternal love in form so we can say that all of the relationships that are formed we call with family and peers and teachers and siblings and partners husbands and wives and everything would be what we of course call specialists this world was built on specialists it was an attempt to find love and intimacy in form instead of looking within the kingdom of heaven within into the abstract experience of love and life in it so as you seem to go inward and start to loosen from these things there are things like divorces partings of ways whether it's with parents and children or spouses or family, friends and so on and so forth and there's a line in the course that Jesus says of all your beliefs perhaps the strangest of all your beliefs is the belief that you can lose the ones that you love and it's put in that context because that is a very deep-seated belief when you seem to go through it before there's a sense of sometimes grief and loss and so on and so forth or it sounds like in your case it's just you go more like your energy your mind keeps being pulled back to something that you really like and to just go forward move on to the business things in hand and so forth so I think the most practical thing you can do is be open be open to your guidance of what you feel is the next steps to take and also be very open with your wife as you go through this just expressing the feelings I mean the most honest feeling that we can never really express is the sense of just gratitude and appreciation for everyone in our life in terms of you and my partner they have reflected the unconscious police who are still being held on to that need to be looked at so they seem to act them out and when you see things from that perspective you can feel a sense of gratitude not that the relationship is ending or not for specific memories but just for this mirroring that went on because everything that you perceive in a brother or your partner or your child or your adult any relationship in this world it's just a reflection of what you still believe is in your own mind and how we say if you spotted you got it it's a simple way to remember to come back to that gratitude and really bless them and say thank you for being my life and thank you for acting out what I still believed in that was out of my awareness thank you for helping bring it into my awareness so that I can give it over a little spirit and be free because we all can be free and that just brings a sense of gratitude recently I'll share the story and rest them on me I was a little bit over a year ago 20 months or something she had been married for 30 years and she was a chaplain of unity her unity church and board of directors and then quickly those things just flew away from her mind and following all those things kind of fly away like butterflies taking off but she was like saying she couldn't even remember or bring them back into memory and it seems pretty radical but actually it's very natural when you start to get into the present moment because you become so much into the purpose of joy that everyone you meet is yourself and those affiliations and associations is hip-hop contest associations and seem to define who you were they just start to loosen and loosen and initially you think I'm more than I thought I was I surprised myself I have a little more movement here I have a little more opening you feel more expansive like your consciousness is just expanding and expanding as you get more into divine purpose and so that's something that I would say as this is recurring and you're being guided to the next step this is the time of celebration and you can feel the gratitude for your wife for all the things that you've shared all the joy that you've shared also all the steps that you've got to bear and you can allow yourself the freedom to just say okay always bear what's the next step in this joyful awakening that you're really in good shape