 It's really true. It's like the Spirit's just saying, try it out. I've got a whole new world for you, a whole, like the song says, a new fantastic point of view, like the Aladdin song, the whole new world. And it's really that way. But we don't experience it when we still think that we have to handle some aspects of our life. It's to the extent that we say, oh, Holy Spirit, I know you're not into finances. And Jesus, you've got too many important things to do with too many people to be... I'll deal with the checkbook. I'll deal with the finances. I'll deal with the jobs. It's like we were just down in Florida, Jacksonville recently, and Helen and I met this man, and Helen went to his house because he had all this Jesus presence with him so strong and the paintings, and she was telling the story about how he was going out walking. God loved to walk his dog, but his dog did do-do. And so he's feeling this presence of Jesus, and he's like, hold on, Lord. Just a minute here. I've got to pick up do. And Jesus said to him, I'll help you. That was a good example. He was like thinking, well, Jesus has got better things to do than watching or picking up dog-do, but Jesus said very clearly in the presence, I'll help you. And that was shocked him a bit because he likes to keep some aspects of his life very personal by picking up dog-do and then let the angels say, ah, with all the other kind of things like Bruce Almighty, you know, something like that. But what we realize is the living demonstration in our life comes when we don't hold back anything from the light. The light is the presence that we are. It does seemingly mundane things, even though there's nothing mundane. Everything is precious. Every moment is precious. There aren't common things and extraordinary things. And we tend to think, even in terms of our decision-making, there's like really important decisions where we need to pray for help on those, and then there's all these other mundane, everyday life decisions which, you know, we don't need any help. We can handle that just right, except it gets into a mess. We get stressed out about those everyday decisions. So Helena's got a song called Decide For Me, which is really calling on the Holy Spirit and saying, Decide For Me. Decide For Me in all things. It's not like you have to be ritualistic about it. Like, help me with this, help me with this, help me with that. Which when you get into the flow and the rhythm of it, Jesus says in the Course, when you have learned to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing, and as if you will be carried down a quiet path in summer. That's how our decision-making can be when we put God first and we let the Spirit just pour through us and kind of go before us, like the lilies in the field. You know, either, you know, was it toil or spin? It would be nice to be able to live a life without toiling and spinning. Who is the one who wasn't raised with the Bible? The one who had no Christian upbringing. Well, yes, toil or spin. That's the way it would work. It pops through. But that's the beauty of it, you know, where you don't have to give conscious effort for it. It's more like opening up, when you clear your mind of the darkness, you can go on, we could say, Holy Spirit autopilot and experience a joyful day. Every day, that's God's will for us, is happiness and joy. Not sometimes, not part of the time, but all the time. So we're here tonight, we've got songs, they've got their guitars, the music's pouring through them, fellas got their songs, and so we're open also to any kind of topics or questions, because we're just an open book, you know, for us this is just the way we live. So sometimes people ask us about what do you do about this and this and this and that, just in living together in relationships and all those kind of experiences, including quantum love, you know, that's an amazing experience, because it's not tied into persons. And so it transcends this kind of personal need I want, you know, trying to get things from people, which is so typical of human relationships, it really does transcend those. So does anybody, do you have any topics? I've just got a question, I'll try to do it justice. But when, you know, I've been through the course of the baby, so I understand the language, but sometimes the language doesn't serve. In this instance, what I'm thinking about is when we, you know, you guys are talking about, like, that perfect day, or that with the Holy Spirit or with God, it still has that essence of something separate. You know, so how do you bridge that gap to where it's actually not anything separate? I mean, honestly, you know, it's presence. So all that's really required is cleaning to presence. Yeah. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's pretty much describes our day. When we go out, we just pray that the attitudes shine through us, and if there's words, so be it. But actually, words are about symbols of symbols twice removed from reality. And I do a lot of talking, and I tell people, you really won't ever reach God through words. But even God knows the prayer of our hearts before we utter a word. And so I think it's like, it's like a surrender, like all of us really are into stillness and presence, that if you ask what's the most important thing is the presence. And it's not like we have, like, practices or rituals anymore. And it started with the Course of Miracles back in 1986, and it served. But it was just the same thing you thought. It was like there was a David and a Holy Spirit, and there was, even in prayer, it was an asking, a back and forth. And then that prayer without ceasing, you know, just started to come in stronger and stronger and stronger where there wasn't a question. So for the questions, that's where it starts to become very consistent in presence. Yeah, I mean, you could say presence with life. You know, presence with not any life outside of your life, but presence in your life. Because even that starts opening up things that you weren't aware of in your own life that needed attention, you know, required love, the same presence with love. Yeah, and that's it. It's really, what words come to you is so beautiful. Because we, among ourselves, it comes out in different ways, and sometimes all good talks, and it's all quantum. So it's all quantum physics. I can do the whole talk without mentioning God or Spirit or Holy Spirit or whatever. Sometimes it's through the music. And it's amazing the music that pours through these three, and people will just burst into tears. I mean, we started the Quantum Love Tour, I guess Helen and I were in San Rafael, California on the other coast, and then they came to Unity Village and a number of different stops, and people were crying, you know, just touched by the music. One Course in Miracles facilitator down in Florida, he said, I don't even know if I want to go to a public gathering on the Course, it's a self-study book. I see why I didn't go. He did come along, and when he came up to me afterwards, his eyes were all sparkly, and he was like, I got two things from this gathering. Movies and music, because we have tools like the Movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment, where we help people who use the movies to train their mind to wake up to the Spirit. The music discourse here has been very helpful for me in meditation and just being around it all. We have a music festival every year where you've got little posters around there for the third annual Strawberry Fields Forever music festival at the Bledman Retreat, and we just come together in a big canyon in Utah and people have all these songs of the Spirit pouring through them. Very wonderful, deep songs. And sometimes they actually sing, like our friend Eric got up there and he wanted to meditate, and everybody, he's got such great songs, they're like, come on Eric, sing! And he's like, yeah, he just got up there and it opened it up for all the other musicians. He was practicing, he'd been quite intellectual, and he didn't want to, and he'd also had a musician's self-concept with pride. He was a very good singer and a good guitar player and he didn't want that anymore. He didn't want to be that on the stage, and so he just decided that he would sit and he would wait until he felt the presence. And when he felt the presence move him, he would allow the music to come through from there, and he would, so he stopped and he... And he asked. No, sorry, because everybody listens to music really well. And it was that devotion. He was like, I won't move until it's moving through me. And yeah, it was such a gift for everyone, because everyone there is there to undo the self-concept. We just want to authentically have the spirit come through us. And so we have expression sessions for the musicians every morning so they can come and share their fears and thoughts about performance. They want to clear all of that out of the way. So when it's their turn, they can get up there and really have the experience for themselves. And after this performance, he said, oh my God, I can't be as bad as that. Everyone left. All the musicians were like pros after that. He can do that. I'm going to be great. And it comes through like with the movies, there's so many great movies. Just this year, the amazing group of God movies is out. There's movies like Transcendence with Johnny Depp, more technological ones with consciousness. There's watching this one called Mr. Nobody, which is really a quantum movie. I remember the first time I saw it, I was just like kind of dazed a little bit. And then when I went home like a couple days later, the downloads started from the spirit just was like informing me, watch this movie again, and you're going to see things you've never seen before. And you know how it is when your mind's primed, you can see more, your perception can take in more of the vastness that's really there when you're primed for it. So we just use all kinds of music and movies and tools, angel bass, experiential things, anything that works to open the heart up to feel that love and presence. She's like quantum love now. I'm like, he's happy. Here we go. Quantum love. A quantum love tour. I'm listening to quantum businesses because they've gotten like little patches of blazing insight into many things. They're getting little grasp of art. But it's almost like kind of like now we're in the age of the internet and right now it's Wi-Fi hotspots. And some of you know that Wi-Fi hotspots, when they overlap, they just form a bigger patch. So if everyone starts having hotspots and they take their locks off of them, it'll just be a Wi-Fi feel that will go that will discover the earth. And it's really, the quantum feels already there. That means you're always connected wherever you go. You don't have to say, do we have Wi-Fi? It's just there, imagine having that kind of symbol of connectivity. We know that from our technological age, but that's really what forgiveness is about. It's just this connectedness. And when you're in that connectedness, it transcends all the specific beliefs of the world. So it used to be in the old days it was what do you believe? Everyone seems to have different belief systems and even within congregations there's individual nuances. And I think we should do more of this and less of this. It's always differences. But when you get into the true spirit of forgiveness, you open to the sameness that transcends the differences. You absolutely get past this idea of specific beliefs. When I sit down, I've been traveling for about 27 years in about 31 countries and so I'm on planes, trains, buses, out walking, airplanes, airports, rest stops. I meet a lot of people and it's really nice where you just have that humming presence within you and you don't have to say anything. People can feel it. We have revivals and Midas muster shops and Kirsten and I one time we came to, I think it was at McDonald's here in North Carolina. We walked into McDonald's and the man behind the counter, when we walked up to order, he went, ooh, I could feel you coming. What do you feel away? He had to feel. I could feel the love. McDonald's in North Carolina it just really radiates, undefined and then the characters come out and the animals will come up. Now we have a lot of animals out of this. We have the first course of America's monastery in the world, but it's out way out and so there's bobcats and deer and cows and rams and all kinds of animal squirrels, chipmunks, cats, everything. And they're just like reflections like chipmunks that well it seems like the first two or three years we had a blind chipmunk Stevie called her Stevie for Stevie Wonder She just got it She got it She knew Stevie, but she didn't know where it came from but he's like coming around just so friendly, come right up to you but he just moved by sound but we had some that would come right up on our legs it was more like St. Francis because the animals when you don't have any fear then they feel the field they feel the merge like oh yeah you're one of us and you just come right up and there's without the fear and those are all just symbols really of what this is all about we want that with everything and everyone we aren't looking to focus on differences at any time That's it and my experience of coming into that there's a lot of reverb and I come in a cave It's been about washing the belief in an external world really washing away that belief that there's someone outside of me that is going to judge me or that I need to do something for I noticed how addicted I was to thinking for others and thinking for an external world like I better do this for them or I better they need to know I love them so it was constantly acting and speaking for the external and what's washed that away is just this devotion to pray, listen, follow just very simple pray, listen, follow and that guidance of the spirit is what's coming from within or it's coming from another source it's coming from a reference point that's not the external world and as I've done that just devoted to listening and following from this reference point it's just turned everything around to this merge where I am that I am that presence I am that source I am that spirit that's coming from God and extending outwards rather than I'm a separate person trying to act and react and get it right in the world so and that's really what it's what it's all about washing away of a separate self washing away of a self-concept that is born of feeling separate and independent and instead just turning our attention our full attention and devotion to that connection and that's where the safety lies and that's where the love lies and that's where the answer to everything lies and with that we let go of needing and expecting anything from the world it's like that being sourced by that spirit and being directed by that spirit means we're just no longer looking to the world to source us and to provide the safety or anything and yeah so for me something like music has been such a natural way of being in that presence and it was only a year and a half, a year ago or a year and a half ago I was with a friend in Australia having a very deep inward time and going through a real step in the way letting go of responsibility in a big way responsibility for leadership being a counsellor being a teacher being in community being anything and to go through some deeper layers of letting go of specialness and then I felt like extending I could feel it something I wanted to extend and be in the love but I didn't feel to be talking to people so the spirit said oh ask your friend for a guitar lesson and he showed me one chord and that was it, I just sat with my guitar happily for hours just with one chord just playing and I've been praying and I had a song already written down from my prayer and so he helped me with a little bit of rhythm to add to it and it became a song and it's all I wanted to hear and so I would play that for hours and hours and hours and days and days and then I prayed again and he showed me another chord and another way of playing and then I did my second song and it's all been about just this connection with God that's the only purpose and yeah eight months later I came back over to the States and it was time for our festival, our strawberry festival and by then I had six songs and about ten chords and I found myself on the stage sharing this music and it was recorded and then I had an album and then I was going on tour and it just made me laugh like every time I would be there playing a song someone would say oh Kristen's a musician I just it's like I'm really not and it's just another way of seeing like you know it's just about that prayer and asking and then the spirit about that relationship like all God wants for us is for us to be in relationship with him and truly all we want is to be in relationship with him so it's just we keep aligning with that prayer what is your will for me what would you have me do and having the worthiness to keep asking and keep inviting and keep expecting to feel it and to hear it