 Hi everybody. Hi. Thanks for joining us again. Great to see everyone. Yeah, we've got a beautiful day ahead of us. So I'm Peter for those who are joining you, and I'll be the host. And yeah, so we've got a movie commentary with David today. He's coming in from the monastery in Utah. And so we'll start with David in the movie. We'll then have a 10 minute break afterwards, which will be a time when you can submit questions. And then we'll have a Q&A session with David afterwards. So I'll pass it over to you now, David. Thank you, Peter. Hi everyone. Welcome. We're going to have a great awakening time today for sure. This is going to be something that will warm your heart. I'm broadcasting to you from the Living Miracles Monastery here in Utah, where we have a minus two degrees Fahrenheit day going on here. So we're going to keep our hearts warm, though, in feeding your heart with the truth and inspiring ideas that will lift you higher and higher and higher in awareness to happiness, to joy. So well, it's interesting. Today we're going to have a movie that is basically over 99% animated until the very end. And I always say that after we have a series of pretty intense, serious movies, I like to come back to some animation. And I like to always come back to humor. Jesus tells us in the Course in Miracles, the world will end in laughter because it was a place of sorrow. How's that for the end of the world? Laughter. The world will end in laughter. And this movie has a lot of humor in it, a lot of wit. It's deep. It's profound. And yet it's also very fast-paced and fast-moving. So I don't think there's one single lull in the movie. This is a fast-paced animated movie that will take you on a ride. But it's the kind of ride that all of us want to go on because we want to be happy. So as usual, you voted for your themes and the top theme that you voted for this week, which is what our movie will take us into, is coming into true honesty, being aligned with the source in all I think and say and do. And the second theme was accepting I am perfect just the way I am. Those two themes will guide us today as we move through this movie because we want to live an honest life and we want to feel we're lined up with our source because our source is love. And our source is happiness and joy and peace. And that's really in our hearts, that's what we're praying for. We really want to have a very happy, joyful life. And in order to stay aligned with the source, we do have to accept ourselves as we were created by God. The ego made the body. The ego made the personality. The ego made the perceptual world of time and space. It made the stars and the planets and the mountains and the trees. The ego projected a world that was meant to be a hiding place, as Jesus says in the Course, a place where God could enter not. The world was made as a veil to cover over our true identity as pure love. The world was made as a distractive device to distract us from going within and finding the love within our hearts. And the world was made as a place of hatred and sorrow. And many of us have gone through a lot of experiences that were pretty difficult, pretty dark experiences. But Jesus is saying, not to worry, you just had a misperception and I will help you correct your perception. And then you'll see things truly and you'll know that you were just mistaken about the world. The third theme that was voted on is don't be fooled by the tricks of the ego. The fourth theme is facing the belief in loss. And finally, the last one is seeing that giving and receiving are the same. So this movie is, we're going to see today is called the Lego Movie. Is anybody familiar with with the children's toy called Legos? These are little building block toys, yes, where you can build things and build all kinds of things. And that's kind of pretty symbolic of this world. This is a world where there's a lot of building. Jesus tells us in the Course, he tells us that you learned this world and you kept building on and adding on complexity on top of complexity on top of complexity. You learned a world of images that has no reality whatsoever. And you never really paused to ask, why am I doing all this building? And Jesus is saying, well, you forgot that you were created perfect. And so instead of accepting your perfection, you decided to become a builder. And some of us have put so much energy and effort into building that we've tried to become master builders. You see, that's what you try to do when you're off in a world of illusions and you're trying to overcome deep feelings of unworthiness and lack, sadness, sorrow, hatred, all kinds of dark emotions. Legos says, well, why don't you compensate to make it a little more fascinating and interesting. You can become a builder. And if you really work hard, you can become a master builder. And people try to build wealth. They try to build fame, popularity. They try to build success in all kinds of crazy ways. And yet I think I believe it's William Shakespeare that said it's best. The world is much ado about nothing. In this world, we become masters of nothing. We don't know who we are if we identify with this world and the images of this world. And so we think that we can become good at something, but really, we're just slip sliding away like the Simon and Garfunkel song. Believe we're nearing our destination, but in fact, we're really just slip sliding away. So this world is a trap when I mentioned one of the themes was don't be fooled by the tricks of the ego. Every image that seems to be a separate image in time and space is a trick of the ego. Tricks are not here and there. The whole perceptual world is a trick. Jesus tells us in the Course, he says, a son of God can only be happy in the environment in which the son of God was created. Well, that is heaven. God created us as spirit and we can only be purely happy in heaven and nowhere else because there is nowhere else. Heaven is reality. Spirit is reality and the images of the cosmos are fictitious. They have no reality whatsoever. In a couple of weeks, I'm going to show an amazing movie called Einstein and Eddington where it'll take quantum physics all the way into a whole different perception of this world. And using Einstein's theory of relativity show that everything in the cosmos is relative. Gravity is relative. Space is relative. Time is relative. Everything you can think of, knowledge in this world is relative. The human body is relative. Countries are relative. And even physics as we're called Newtonian physics are all relative and there's only one absolute and that absolute is God. God is the only thing that can be known and who you are as a creation of God is tied in to that. So this movie is called the Lego Movie and some of you might remember the theme song from the Lego Movie. Everything is awesome. Everything is cool when you're part of a team. Everything is awesome when you're living the dream. And today Jesus was saying, well, I can give you a reinterpretation of that. Everything is awesome. Everything is awesome when you're part of a team. I asked Jesus, what team am I a part of? And he said, you're a part of the Holy Trinity. And that's the only team that counts. There is no other team that counts. There is no other team except the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, the Holy Ghost. They're all spirit. And every other team in terms of earth is just a fictition. It's a projection of the idea of team because there are no teams in this world that you can identify with. You should have no loyalties for anything of this world. You should have no attachments to anything of this world. You should remember you're a creation of an eternal God who created you perfect in eternity. And that team of the Holy Spirit will call it is the part of the team where everything is awesome. And that's the only way the awesome word applies into spirit, to eternity. And then he said, and everything is cool when you're dreaming the dream. Don't try to live out your dreams in this world. You were not created for time and space. You were not created to build an environment or an identity in time and space. There is nothing of this world that means anything. That's less than number one. Nothing I see means anything. And you are only going to be happy when you realize who you are in spirit. Partial happiness is not happiness. And you can have glimmers and bits and pieces of happiness, but you will only be happy in spirit. So now some of you remember about 1999. Let's roll back the clock. Does anybody remember what movie came out in 1999 and kind of got our attention? The Matrix. The Matrix. Why was everyone so fascinated with the Matrix? Because it was a parable of awakening. It was a parable of you are the one. It was a parable that you can transcend duality, transcend multiplicity, transcend every form of fear and guilt and pain and shame, and have dominion over the world as the one, as the one who has forgiven the world. So we all remember Neo and remember Morpheus and Trinity. Well, about 15 years later was 2014. And I remember I was just marveling at the movies were coming out in 2014. I said, wait a minute, this is 15 years after the Matrix. Interstellar 2014. God's not dead 2014. The theory of everything. 2014. Divergent. Lucy. The maze runner. The giver. And on and on and on. I'm like, oh my God, the floodgates are breaking here. We started off with the Matrix and now the Holy Spirit is streaming through, streaming through to reach us in a point where we're ready to wake up from the stream. And this movie, this movie we're going to watch today, the Lego movies was also there in 2014. I remember I went into a movie theater with some friends of mine and we walked, it was like a discount movie theater. And I could not believe how many awakening movies were in the theater. I walked through that theater and I was like, oh my God, there's like 10 awakening movies in the theater in 2014. And we just kind of went between one theater to the next. And I was out in the hallway and a mother and father had brought their little boy. I think he was about eight years old. And the father said, well, I'm going to see the Lego movie. And the little boy said, I think I want to see that dad. And his dad said, okay, come with me. And the mom said, I don't think the Lego movie is for you. Well, I just was watching the scene because I thought here this little boy has a choice whether to follow his dad into one of these profound awakening movies or not at eight years old. And it was just a beautiful scene to watch because when our mind is ready, we start calling forth witnesses to spiritual awakening. And that's what activates our awakening is our desire to experience the truth, to let go of the lies, to let go of all the things that distracted us from knowing God. And now it's time to wake up. This is our big wake up call. So we're going to watch the Lego movie. This is a matrix only it's made into an animated movie. So even kids can follow the Lego movie. That's right. And also the matrix, I have to say, the matrix was not really a comedy. There were not really very many comedy scenes in the matrix, not so with this movie. This is made for the children. We're all children wanting to wake up to know our creator. And this movie is packed full of humor. It's just I mean, every scene is loaded with humor. This is so great to have a wake up movie with animated characters, Lego characters, and it's got superheroes in it. It's a parody on this whole world. I have never seen a movie that pokes fun at this world so much as this movie. It pokes fun at business with Mr. Business being the main character. It pokes fun at time where Mr. Business is all about profits, about making more. And basically Mr. Business wants to freeze the world, freeze the world in the past. It doesn't, Mr. Business doesn't like innovation, doesn't like change. Mr. Business just likes pain and suffering and guilt and wants to freeze the whole world with the fraggle. And basically the fraggle is basically, it's basically super glue. It's basically super glue where some of the letters have been taken out. So the ego is always trying to freeze our mind into the past. Anytime anyone accuses you of something, they're trying to freeze your mind into the past instead of witnessing the presence of the holy instant. Anytime somebody is pointing out grievances to you, something that went wrong in the past, something that you're locked into based on the past, that's the ego. And in this movie we're going to see that that is what Mr. Business is trying to do. He's trying to end the world by freezing it. So if the ego could just take a snapshot of this world, it would just say you are the past, you are the separation, you are the guilt, and there's nothing you can do to escape. But the Holy Spirit is the voice of happiness, of sanity, of collaboration, of let's join together. Let's remember the truth of who we really are. Let's remember that God didn't create us for this world, that this world was made up by the ego to cover over who we really are. And that we should invest in nothing of this world. That's how you escape from fear, that's how you escape from pain. Now we're not saying that the world is bad or the world is good. To the Holy Spirit, the world is neutral and it's just a group of symbols that can be used to reinterpret the world into the forgiven world or the happy dream. So there's nothing good or bad in this world, but the ego tries to judge aspects of this world as good and bad because it keeps the separation, it keeps the perceptual problem going in awareness. And once you realize the world is not what it seems and never has been what it seems, then you're ready to escape the world and see the world differently. So when we look at this world and I know everybody is wanting to to lift this heaviness from their heart, this heaviness of being identified as a human being. And the two main ways that the ego tries to reinforce a bodily identity is either to accentuate individuality, to accentuate the autonomy of the personality self, to accentuate the belief that you as a person can be a hero. And what Jesus is telling us is the hero of the dream is the body. Heroes don't escape. Heroes are distractions. Superheroes, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, all the superheroes, Mighty Mouse, there's a lot of superheroes. One thing we know about superheroes is they're always into saving bodies. The Superman is always trying to save bodies. Batman, Batgirl, all of them are trying to save bodies and Jesus is telling us, no, no, no, the body is not in need of saving. It's your mind. Your mind is sleeping and dreaming and it's perceiving a hallucination of a world and that world is not real. It's your mind that needs the help. It's your mind that needs salvation. Your body does not need salvation. You don't need superheroes. Superheroes are an invention by the ego to put yourself to distract on something else, to cheer for someone and root for the superhero to defeat the evil, the evil ones. Jesus is telling us there aren't any good guys and bad guys. There are no heroes and evil people in the world. It's all a projection of the ego to keep you from going inside and forgiving the entire world because God didn't create anything of this world. The whole perceptual world is a perceptual temper tantrum. It's a perceptual nightmare. There's no way to escape it through heroes and that's why Jesus has the hero of the dream section in his text because he's saying the serial adventures of the body is what the hero of the dream is about. In this movie what we're going to see is it's a world of conformity. It's a world of people pleasing. The Lego movie is called Bricksburg. That's what the name of the place is, Bricksburg. It's the Lego world and this world is entirely built just like this world that we perceive with our five senses is entirely built. It's also a world of conformity of rules where you're supposed to fit in and the way that you're supposed to be happy is by following the rules and fitting in. Has anybody here tried to follow the rules of this world? Okay, Don, there we go. Don's got his hand. Do we have any rebels? Do I have? Do I see any rebels? Ricky, get that hand up there. We've got rebels and we got conformists here and the ego doesn't care which way you go because if you rebel against the world you still believe it's real and if you conform to the world you still believe it's real so the ego doesn't care whether you rebel or conform because its world is made on false rules and if you fight against the rules or you obey the rules that God didn't create the world's rules. God didn't create gravity. God didn't create time. God didn't create space. God didn't create the laws of physics, you know, for every action there's a reaction. Guess what? God didn't create economics. God didn't create the laws of medicine. God didn't create the laws of nutrition. God didn't create the laws of interpersonal relationships. That's right. If you believe in the laws of this world you're in for a stressful ride. It's going to be fraught with guilt because the rules and the laws of this world were made up by the ego and the ego is guilt. The ego itself is guilt. It's a death wish. If we follow the laws of this world we're following a death wish. Why would we be surprised if we're upset? If we if we follow the rules of the death wish, you know, why would we be surprised? So Emmett, he's our main character. Emmett is he's our little yellow Mr. Lego and he he just follows the rules. He tries to follow all the rules to be a good person. He tries to exercise. He tries to eat right. He tries to obey all the rules of the world and we'll notice that he's he doesn't really have friends. He's so busy people pleasing with the world that basically Emmett is just trying to fit in. He believes to be happy is to fit in to this world and this is what we would call people pleasing to the max. Okay, he's trying to conform to the world and to be happy by conforming to the world. Well, he's going to have some things happen to him where he is actually going to be part of a prophecy of waking up and transcending the world. And the prophecy will be that he is the he's going to be called the special. Okay, our main character in the movie Emmett is is going to be the special. And some of you are saying, well, how does that fit with the Course in Miracles? Jesus says, isn't he telling us that specialness is the problem? No, Jesus says in the Course, all my brothers are special. You see, it's saying everyone is precious because everyone is equally the same and underneath the forms is the Holy Child of God. So Jesus actually says in the Course, all my brothers are special. And in this movie, the prophecy is that Emmett is the special because he's going to discover what's called the piece of resistance, P I E C E, a little part of resistance. And it's buried deep down in the earth. Now, how does this relate to what we're talking about? For us with a mind asleep, we all have a part in our mind that's buried very deep in our mind. And that part is a piece of resistance. And the resistance is to the light, the resistance is to who we really are. So everyone who comes to time and space has a resistance to remember that they're really perfect, that they're really pure love. And the human being is an outpicturing of this piece of resistance. This is the part of your mind that would rather sleep than to be awake. This is this is the part of the mind that would rather judge than be at peace. This is the part of the mind that would rather have imprisonment instead of true freedom. It's a little piece of resistance. And it's so pushed out of awareness that this little piece of resistance is unconscious now. It's it's out of awareness. So when you wake up in the morning and you brush your teeth and you, you know, you have a shower and you get dressed and you go about your day, this resistant part of the mind is so afraid of the light that it would prefer to hide in the darkness than to then to be given over to to the light. Jesus says in the Course that this little part of resistance, this little belief in separation, he says it doesn't belong to you, give it back. In other words, Jesus is encouraging us to give our peace of resistance back to the Holy Spirit. Imagine if you had it in your hands and Jesus said you don't want that. You don't want that resistance. You need to give that to the Holy Spirit because you'll be really happy when you give the resistance over. But while you hold on to the resistance, you you are choosing to be miserable. You are choosing to be less than holy happy. So in the movie, Emmett, there's a prophecy that Emmett will find the peace of resistance. And when Emmett does, the piece of resistance is going to stick to his back. What does that mean? The piece of resistance is sticking to his back. It means that he's in for a wild ride because when you make a decision not to dissociate or forget the resistance and rather to face it, rather to call on the Holy Spirit to face the resistance in the mind, you are actually on your way to heaven. You are you are going to remember heaven because you're not trying to hide the resistance. Every day when you wake up, you're saying to the Holy Spirit, bring it on. Let me face my resistance to love. And wow, I can tell you it's a rocky ride. If we thought we had a pretty nice life, wow, hold on to your hat when you start to face your resistances because that's how you break free from the resistances. As Ricky would say, that's a ride of a lifetime. That's a ride of a lifetime when you face the resistance. When you're not going to try to pretend that it's not there, but you're going to say bring it on. Bring it on. I want to face it. Now, basically Emmett starts off with a very, very structured life. His everything in his apartment is completely structured. He goes to work every day as a construction worker. He basically doesn't have any close friends, but he tries to cheer himself up with popular songs. He goes to the Legoland version of Starbucks and has his $37 coffee every day. And when the woman at the coffee shop says that'll be $37, he just goes, awesome. You see, he accepts crazy things because his world has now become the acceptable world. Don't laugh. Someday we may be paying $37 for a Starbucks coffee. It's not that far away. But the choice is whether you just take it and spend the $37 and go, awesome. Or whether you start to question your need for a $37 coffee. You see, we always have a choice. We always have a choice of the world we see, what we think we need, what we think we want. So when we go into this movie, we're going to see that Emmett will discover the peace of resistance. He doesn't know what it's about. But in this movie, Morgan Freeman plays the voice of Vitruvius. You know, like Morpheus was there in the Matrix to help guide Neo. Vitruvius, Morgan Freeman always ends up playing God or the Holy Spirit. It doesn't matter if it's an animated movie. He's always the voice of wisdom. But this is the funny Morgan Freeman. This is the comical one where they're going to poke fun at gurus. They're going to poke fun at everything. It's a parody on this whole world. They're going to poke fun at the spiritual journey. They're actually going to poke fun and make a a joke out of the spiritual journey. But that's why you got to love this movie, because it's starting to teach you remember to laugh. Don't take anything serious. Don't take anything serious in this world. That's what this movie is really showing us. Yes, there's superheroes, Batman's in it. Superman's in it. The Green Lantern's in it. A lot of the superheroes are in it. Shaquille O'Neal. Shaquille O'Neal was in this movie. The Shaq is in the movie because it's going to blend all the different characters of time and space. And it's going to say that even if you have had seemingly success in this world, maybe you've developed your skills and maybe you have some very highly developed skills. In Lego world, you would be called a master builder. Some of us have learned how to develop skills in time and space and we've learned how to use the skills with the power of our mind to make what we believe is good in this world. Although the Holy Spirit knows nothing is good or bad. It's all just neutral. So in this world, the manifestors, I'm going to use the word manifestors, okay, we'll use a new age term. In this movie, the manifestors are the master builders. They can use the power of their mind to build things in many different ways and shapes. But it still doesn't make them happy. All the master builders are still not happy because remember, this is a world of illusions. So what does it mean to build something in a world of illusions? It means nothing. It means like you've just demonstrated to yourself you can use your skills to make nothing. You can try to convince yourself it's something, but really it's still nothing. But when you bring all of these characters together, all the superheroes, all the characters and they start to actually collaborate for a greater good that's beyond each and every one of them, then you start to get in towards the forgiven world. And that's why even though each of us have different skills and abilities, it's not until we give them to the Holy Spirit to use that they really start to bring happiness in our life. Because the Holy Spirit is like the symphony conductor that can use all the skills of the ego to point toward the light. And that's what this movie is really about. It's not about trying to defeat an enemy, which much of our movies, you know, they're always about the good ones facing the bad ones and do the good ones defeat the evil ones. This movie is not about that. This movie is about collaboration. Because the one thing about superheroes is they usually operate very autonomously and they're always trying to save people. But this movie is about learning to collaborate so that you can let your mind be saved by the Holy Spirit. And that's what the first two themes are really about. Coming into true honesty, being aligned with the source in all, I think, say and do, and accepting I am perfect just the way I am. When we say accepting I'm perfect just the way I am, that's talking about our spirit. That's not talking about our personality selves. That's talking about our spirit. That's what's perfect. The body and all of its serial adventures are just opportunities for us to let go of identification with the body and to really serve happiness or to serve God's will. So I think you're in for a beautiful ride today. I remember when I first saw this movie in the theater, I was just, I just had a big smile on my face because I went, what a trip. This is a modern day animated spiritual awakening movie that emphasizes collaboration over competition, that emphasizes joining over pride, that emphasizes spiritual awakening over success in terms of the world. This is a movie that emphasizes humor over seriousness. And we need a lot of movies like that. We've had some pretty intense movies recently. So Jesus won't only let me show three or four real intense movies when he's got to come back to the comedy. Jesus is a comedian. He's always telling us don't take anything of this world serious because nothing here is serious. Everything is light and lighthearted if you can see it with the Holy Spirit. You will laugh when you see it with the Holy Spirit. So enjoy the ride today with Emmett and I'll pop in from time to time and I think we're going to have a good laugh. The parodies and the jokes are just throughout the whole movie. You can just see how Jesus is poking fun at this world and he's telling us don't forget to laugh. Okay, so I'll see you soon.