 Okay, well, tonight's movie is The Hurricane with Denzel Washington. How many in here have seen The Hurricane? Okay, it's just JP. You're all in for a major treat tonight. And what stirred me to show The Hurricane tonight is it's such a good miracle movie. Before I took off with Diana to go to Dallas, actually just as I was getting ready to go with Diana to Dallas, I got an email from a man named Robbie Grayson, who's a publisher. And he wrote to me and he said, Dear Mr. Hofmeister, I'm publisher for the book The Bully Within, A Journey of Consciousness by Dale Crow. Dale wanted me to contact you about how your work is his, quote, new favorite. I've attached a review below that surveys Dale's book, a story about a former athlete who found enlightenment in prison and is obsessed with teaching others the message of love. With gratefulness for the work you do, Robbie Grayson. And here's the cover of The Bully Within. Kind of got the splattered blood. And there's your boxer. That's him. And that's the back of him, the shadow with the kind of the splattered blood. And the bully is in red within A Journey of Consciousness, Dale Crow, with David Garcia. So apparently he's in prison and his publisher sent me his book with a beautiful little note attached saying he's getting into our stuff in prison, which really relates to the movie tonight, because Denzel and this whole movie, this is based on a true story. The movie tonight is based on a true story and it's quite inspiring. So he went on, goes on to talk about A Journey of Consciousness. And it's kind of interesting how it starts off, A Journey of Consciousness. Imagine this is the promo for The Bully Within. Imagine answering someone who inquired the whereabouts of Dale Crow with, there never was a Dale Crow. Now imagine him responding that way if you were Dale Crow. To most years that sentence would sound like a nonsense statement or an evasive maneuver for Dale Crow it is neither. Dale means, quote, valley in Hebrew. That's fitting because I felt squeezed between two mountains for most of my life. After going to war with that duality for almost 40 years, I've learned that there never really was a Dale Crow. I'm saying that there's no real Dale Crow. It sounds like a riddle, but it's actually a truth that means a lot to me. And then it's an autobiographical, biographical play by play transformation of former, up and coming cruiser weight boxer, Dale Crow, the transformation from bully into enlightened man. The bully within is a book about spirituality, not boxing. In it Dale seeks to answer his own riddle. From the first page of the prologue he paints a detailed brush, strokes the deceptively benign beginnings of his volatile past. He talks about being born in Ohio. That's interesting. Everybody at David was born, trying to impress his father getting into boxing and then having some losses that opened up a chasm of loneliness, which was what spurred him on to seek larger doses of ego, driven attention from an early age. And then he obviously was driven into his inward journey. But it's cute because it's got Mom and Dad and Little Dale. This is from the publisher's promo that they sent to me. And then if we go down a little bit, those are actually maternal grandparents. And then you go down, you get to see, there's four of them there and he's the second one. This is him growing up with his four buddies. I'm just zooming in so you can see him as a teenager. And then here he is on an ESPN fight with Michael Moore. He's on the right and Michael Moore is on the left. So here's his professional boxing career on ESPN. You'll see how this relates to the movie tonight too. The Hurricane is a nickname for Hurricane Carter. Some of you know that wind in the Bible, the wind is often representing the Holy Spirit. And the hurricane is a huge gale force of wind, which he needs in this movie because he's going to be unfairly accused, seemingly as the world would judge it. And he's got to have all the wind in his heart carrying through. And then here's one of him a little bit later on. Here's our buddy Dale. I'll give you a little rundown here. And here's Dale today. You can see his smiling face, his tattoo. He's got his watch on, hand in the pocket. But I think as far as I know, I think he's still in prison. And he got a couple of my books. Unwind Your Mind Back to God and Quantum Forgiveness. Wait, what's his name? Dale. Oh, I think I sent him those books or something. What camera? Wait, where's the camera? Yeah, you guys. His wife, Holly. So you sent him the book. And I think he read them in prison because that was how he got in touch with what we're doing. So anyway, I sent a reply and basically I wrote, Dear Robbie, thanks so much for sharing this heartwarming book and story. I've shared it with some of my very dear friends. Please give my love and congratulations to Dale. I would love hearing from him. And if you feel to give him my email address and then when I typed that, the Holy Spirit said, you have to give him your postal address because he's still in prison and he can't give email. Or put postal mailing address and I put P.O. Box 789, Camus, Utah. 84036. So we're recording this. Any of you around the world will send me your stories. I've taken a little PR moment here. And that's P.O. Box 789, Camus, Utah. 84036. And you hear Tamara and you hear, these are the ones that send you. Nicholas sends you the stuff. So anyway, Robbie writes back to me right before I'm going to the airport. I'm in the vehicle and I'm like, what's this? David Hofmeister, thank you for your prompt reply, Exclamation. I forwarded your email to Dale's wife, Holly, who received it right before Dale called. He was elated. Exclamation. Holly told me that she had just ordered him the following books. Purpose is the only choice. Going deeper. The mystical teachings of Jesus. The peace of God is my one goal, the Barley's book. He has read the following. Choosing inner peace, unwind your mind back to God, quantum forgiveness. I just got off the phone with him and he wanted me to let you know that he loved quantum forgiveness, Exclamation. I'm sure that you will hear from him via snail mail. Thank you for all that you do, Exclamation. So the parallels are quite amazing because Dale was a boxer and Hurricane Carter was a boxer and I think Dale's still a prisonant. Some of you might have seen we just had some great classic prison movies like Shawshank Redemption was another one which was quite amazing. And this one, Hurricane Carter is accused and sentenced to prison for something he did not do. So I don't know the circumstances around why Dale's in there, but both Hurricane and Dale use their prison time very wisely. I've always thought it's almost like you're a captive audience with the Holy Spirit because you have all that time on your hands and I've heard amazing stories of prison ministries down in Mexico City for many, many years where the course and miracles got into the prison system down there. There was a woman who took it in and this man who was a professor named Guzman who translated the entire course into Spanish. It wasn't the official translation. That was Rosa Maria Nguyen over in Spain. But he spent his whole life, this man, Professor Guzman, translating this and then gave it to this woman who took it into the Mexican prison system down in one of the largest cities in the world, Mexico City. And there were people getting out on parole. There were so many miracles that happened from the course being there in Spanish in the prison system. And I think I had some communications with maybe initially with Guzman who sent his Spanish book all the way up to my little peace house and it arrived in a big box. And it was kind of funny because at that time I was in there and I was just praying what would be helpful. And we watched the story of the Gutenberg Bible and how a German monk had translated the Bible which was only in Latin at that time into German so that common people could read the Bible. And the very night we were watching the movie we heard a knock on the door and there's a late delivery in that Guzman version. So Jesus was making it very clear like this is how I work. I want this into the common people's hands and Guzman had done that. He devoted his whole life to translating the course and done it. And in this movie it's really a good movie because he has to have enormous faith and determination to go beyond the grievances and go beyond actually the belief in mistreatment. I think that's something that most people on this planet deal with on a daily basis. The victim mentality is so rooted and so deep. It can be minor things. Maybe it's not somebody accusing you of a crime or throwing you in prison. But every day the ego will rise up with this victim mentality trying to say that you've been mistreated by someone or something or it could be even a mosquito bite. It could be anything that's a version of it. And I think what I liked about the crucifixion was Jesus was using in the Holy Spirit they were using an extreme teaching example which seemingly this movie is also an extreme teaching example that it's impossible to be unfairly treated and Jesus says that in the Course beware of the temptation to perceive yourself because you're looking for a justice that's not there. It's a justice in which someone is innocent at the expense of somebody else. And he has a whole section in the Course called The Justice of Heaven saying there is no justice in this world. Don't go trying to find justice. Don't go trying to find fairness on the linear timeline because the timeline was made that you would never know the justice of heaven which is very much as you so show you reap and everything that you give you give to yourself and it's impossible for a divine mind to be unfairly treated because there is nothing outside of that divine mind to mistreat it so it's actually impossible to be unfairly treated but these kind of movies, the crucifixion those are great extreme teaching devices and apparently even with Dale I think that's whatever it was all the seeming perceptions of trying to get attention from the world, trying to succeed in the world, trying to get attention from his from his father and then I think those were his grandparents that were in that one photo that I showed you and then using boxing as a way to try to gain self-esteem and that's a common thing when you feel like you've been bullied or you feel unworthy then there's a huge attempt by the ego to overcompensate for that unworthiness and it can be a huge drive to succeed or a huge drive to overcome failure and a huge drive at revenge a lot of times people feel like they've been done wrong by something or someone and they are out to make up for it and it can involve whole races of people and whole cultural groups because we have always things going on in this world where there's always seemingly the bodies that were on some land first are called natives and then the ones that come are the invaders and of course as I've had traveled around some countries I get to people eventually tell me their stories of who was first who took what whether it's in New Zealand with the Maori or when I went to South America I went to Columbia and I was having a good time and then huge protests broke out in the streets and there's people protesting all over the place thousands, tens of thousands of people and I said what's going on and whether they're processing the Spanish I thought well this is the Spanish country right they speak Spanish down here in Columbia and you know the natives before the Spanish invaded and came and they were protesting the Spanish gosh that sounds like America we get protests going on over everything who's done what to whom, who was there first and everywhere I go it's the they've got a Canada they've got native Indians up there you've got native Canadians you go around and everywhere you go it's the same it's the same old story everywhere I go I get slandered libeled I hear words I never heard in the Bible and I'm so tired I'm oh oh oh oh tired and I'm trying to keep the customer satisfied oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh that's good that's Simon and Garfunkel you were channeling but that's channeling Simon and Garfunkel that just was the perfect song Jesus always has so much fun with these things because there's always the perfect song for the moment so but that's as good about this movie so you know it's good it's the kind of mind watcher which is good you watch one of these things and if you have any kind of inkling of starting to you know it starts to bring up that feeling of being mistreated or overlooked or treated in any way shape or form unfairly then that's good it serves its purpose and then it's yeah it's heartwarming you'll get to hear the very very very famous movie line in here you'll know what it is when it comes out it's extremely famous you'll always remember this until you ascend then you'll forget it you'll always remember this until you ascend then you'll go what was that but it's really good you'll know when it comes on there I think it's Denzel gets to deliver it so okay that's it we'll just let it play straight through to the end and yeah it's beautiful it'll be a great two and a half hour meditation it's two and a half hour time I think it is yeah so I'm just telling you if anyone starts snoring we'll just have a Nicholas come and carry them out for or we'll just let them snore you have to practice with the snoring they lose it some can't make it two and a half hours you're gonna be truly hopeful Nicholas Kelly set up for Chinots told her to text me she'll text so maybe we could even pause the movie and just welcome her and cause she's coming maybe around she told me cause I just texted her before this she thought she'd arrive like at eight eight okay right at eight that's good it's not that far very good okay wow the fame slime hate put me in the prison love's gonna bust me out you know you see how that applies to the whole human condition that's the answer to everything it seemed like it was a movie about a boxer but it's not it's not really a movie about a boxer at all yeah I just had the thought that it's like every story is a potential for a love story everything was just waiting yeah to love to bust bust it loose bust it loose from all the stories and it's something to consider you know we have a group worldwide community call but you know we always talk a lot about dedication and devotion and you could see he had to keep the faith he had to keep trusting in the face of all the doubts he was even going through that the bible you know when he was in the hole yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt it was kept coming at him and wanting to kill somebody and he said there's only one fellow in here you know he could see that that was it but it's something to recall when you think about the dedication and the purpose of your life you know it's all just for that moment of love busting you out that's what everything is for every single seeming action every single seeming second every single seeming thought has to all be aimed at that one thing that I might be single it's only a unified purpose that brings the freedom so it's quite amazing to think that that's what everything is really about nothing is what it seems on the surface of things but everything's about keeping that faith and then that's what you even said love doesn't bust you out it's still the temptation to think there's going to be some personal busting going on but there isn't any personal busting that's going to save the day it just has to be like a surrender of letting go of everything absolutely everything and just answering the call I think that was a beautiful turning point he says I can't do the time anymore reached out that was it and that's really when you look at the human condition that's got to be the key that opens everything that unlocks the door and the mind is I can't do the time anymore we're like that Carly Simon song haven't got time for the pain and it was beautiful because he was totally authentic he just cracked open they responded with the love which was really beautiful too and you really go beyond the words but we're here for you and we're not leaving without you you know we all go together which is really what the workbook of A Course in Miracles is saying that when you accept the gift of healing, legions upon legions will arise with you as you accept the gift of healing Diana and I were just in Dallas, Texas and when we were there that church and we waited until the last day and it was coming down to the last session on the last day and then one of our hosts she came up during the break and she said I have questions here she had very serious her major questions about the Course what does it mean what's it talking about which is good because that's what we want we want somebody to come with all their doubts and ask all their questions and it was beautiful she was able to do that because she just she could accept certain things but certain things just didn't didn't fit for her but it was beautiful it was such a call for love and I think it just we had a bursting final session there because the call was sincere that's what it always comes down to God here's the prayer of the heart and the answers you come to that but her question was the number one question how could this happen getting down so we explored it all very carefully very deeply how could this happen in the first place and then another one asked the question about what happens when you die oh great bring it on in big D let's go deeper than the questions and go into an experience and it's beautiful can't die can't be in prison and it's great when you get to that point in your mind when you say like he did like hurricane city I can't do the time oh glory hallelujah can't do the time anymore it took that took that but I told you at the end there's no words no words for that I'm just so overjoyed to be here thank you so much we knew you were coming we were so glad I was bursting over here thank you thank you that's beautiful yeah we had a feeling you would burst so that's how we we would wave the green light and wave down and bring her on in you'll never refuse a burst powerful for me it was that I took it as an all or nothing scene where they were saying like he refuses it's like it's all gone you've lost like everything there's no chance that you can now it was like I can't stay here anymore I was like I can't be at plan B yeah that's been coming to my mind like that fact like you have a plan B that I don't know like you can't have a plan A because you can't commit fully if there's any plan B it divides your mind you can't have the full experience of it that scene was so powerful it's like you know in some sense it's like risking everything yeah a total surrender yeah it was pretty obvious you know because from the legal perspective it's like it's like this big risky thing but going back to the state of New Jersey I mean is that really an option he said he couldn't do the time yeah he couldn't do the time in the state of New Jersey in this sense New Jersey is the best there's no doubt from the movie you could just see it clearly acted out everything about was the past so yeah do you choose to move forward yes we choose and beautiful to have a lawyer representing you that was the last doubt thought he was doubting from the beginning and his partner his collaborator wouldn't agree with him and that was his last doubt thought and I could see the thoughts getting reflected like at one point when they come to visit him and they're all fired up we're not leaving without you and they're all fired up and he said that's going to stir up it's going to bring enemies that you've never met it's going to and then you know when the warden called him in and literally laid out like the threat that was just a reflection the warden was just reflecting his own concern for their well well-being you could still hear it when they were so excited he could feel it coming up and he said I can't protect you in here it was still that protectionism coming up which is still doubt whenever you feel somebody has to be protected then it's really just a fear of the truth the fear of the love but yeah what a fantastic movie and it's all there that's why it's in our movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment it's just a classic a classic of having to persevere and break out from the prison of the mind very much like Shawshank Redemption it was funny the other day I happened to click on a movie site Motion Pictures had rated the top 100 movies of all time the top of the list was Shawshank Redemption that's the Academy of Motion Pictures that's all the people that vote every year for the best pictures and you know it's funny because that's another reason why this one came to mind not only our friend with his book of Dale but then on the airplane I think when Francis and I were flying in from Australia when we were making that last flight I didn't watch it was like 13 and a half hours I didn't watch a single movie she said you had your earbuds in the entire 13 and a half hours she said doesn't that hurt your ears no it's no interest in watching a movie but I did peer I was a coach and I did peer in the first class to see what's going on up there in the first class and it was Shawshank Redemption so I didn't see off in the distance and I thought hmm okay we'll pay attention yeah we'll pay attention to that so yeah it started that when Dale wrote in and his Robbie his publisher that started to stir spirits like pointing us at something here what is it? it's like oh it's the hurricane Nicholas is like oh he's loving it he's joining new movies another new movie I remember putting it on my desktop it's not telling me and it's been like over two years now or something it doesn't feel like it's done but it's amazing because when Suzanne and I were at the monastery the other day we just kind of took a pause and she asked me to just open up the book and see what spirit had for us and actually the part I open up to is called the fear of redemption it was like really I only read I think it was the first paragraph but it was so like I found it in meditation it's a very powerful word got me about this fear yeah it's all orchestrated tonight was the hurricane tomorrow we've got our community call but and Kelly coming I feel that the ingredients are just right the ingredients are right the ingredients are coming Ricky comes tonight and a little pinch of this and a pinch of that we keep stirring Kelly comes and Eric might do I'm not starting tomorrow Eric that's so cool and what is it it's the 6th of December this is St. Nicholas Day yeah we're coming in this is St. Nicholas Day we're coming into the holidays spirits just put a little pinch of this and stir it's good get your spoons out taste before it's baked take a little taste of it that was always the best part I was always waiting for my cookie dough back before we had chocolate cookie dough ice cream we would have chocolate cookie dough just to eat it right don't need for baking no somehow mom knew that too it was too important to whisk it all and throw it in the oven let the spoons enter I have a allowance I have a trust let the spoons enter it is it's right you want to lick the spoon yes but we didn't more than lick the spoon we got the spoons in the batter we did not hold back yeah it was more like don't resist if there's something to bake fine and if there's not that's good too just let it go let go of the script my Australian partner Michael Michael Michael good night love you it was powerful because even when those death thoughts came up I felt like it just blew right through even the guy confronting them like get the hell out of here just kept going whatever and then the wheel fell it's like nothing stopped them it's like the matter of the reflection it was so powerful there was no hesitation I felt with them it was so key oh yeah they all witnessed the faith none of them turned back yeah so beautiful so it's a walk of trust to do whatever it takes and not succumb to the death thoughts the naysayers the I remember we had a satsang in this room the the night before tripod passed it was so deep the love was so deep so thick my mouth could just it wouldn't move anymore the love was so strong afterwards people were saying oh I never heard you so quiet but it was just so much love and that's all that there is and then Monty shows up under Sarah's trailer and the beat goes on tripod Monty female male four legs, three legs what does it matter it's all the same love so beautiful so much love so we'll stay open to prayer probably more movies coming our way yeah get the popcorn ready haha yeah and we'll see what happens next with Dale oh yeah the story is unfolding