 Okay. Hi, everybody. Hi. Nice to see you. Well, yeah, welcome. I'm, I'm Peter for those who are joining you. And yeah, we've got another wonderful movie workshop day. This terrific series, really mind opening series. So, yeah, I'll just let you know how the day is going to flow. We start with David and this episode for today. And afterwards, we're going to have a 10 minute break, and we have breakout rooms where you can share any emotions or anything that came up during the episode. And then we'll have a 45 minute break, and then a Q&A session with me. So I see David there. I'll pass it over to you now. Thank you, Pete. Hi everyone, welcome. Welcome to our beautiful movie session workshop all day workshop today. And wow, these episodes that we're seeing from Netflix on psychedelic drugs and spiritual awakening and healing just generally the category of healing are all so very, very helpful. It really kind of puts everything in a, in a perspective because in this world of projected opposites there's all these conflicts and, and it's conflict between self concepts is really what it is. Some people who have been very open to drug use have been told their whole life that it's an opposition to spiritual practice. And then those that have other spiritual practices can sometimes point the finger but all conflict in this world is just, it's a conflict of self concepts that the ego made up. Christ has no conflict. Heaven has no conflict. Nirvana has no conflict. But when the mind is wanting to hold on to a belief system of the fear, which is the ego, then that projects out a world that reflects conflict and we're really praying for harmony, we're praying for unity oneness. We're praying for happiness and joy and peace and love. So, sometimes, if you've followed along with me over the years, you know that I say basically that the sleeping mind or the human condition is, is both psychotic and schizophrenic psychotic in the sense that the sleeping mind involves a break from reality because heaven is reality. Nirvana is reality, love and light, eternity is reality. So, by definition, perception is a, a break from reality. So, even though you may not have been diagnosed. Jesus is giving us a diagnosis. And he's saying yes, psychotic break from reality. He's not necessarily saying that, that it's real because reality is real. Truth is real. Eternal love is real. Light is real. But to believe in time and space and bodies, that is a psychotic episode. Well, it can be a brief episode or a long one depending on what you want. If you want it to be over, then it's over. If you don't want it to be over, then it seems to drag out a bit. And also schizophrenic. I mean, most people think of schizophrenia as, as a condition of a split mind in which you hear multiple voices. Again, the human condition sits very well into that definition. The mind that believes in the ego belief system is has a split. Because the right mind where the Holy Spirit resides is, is there always to be remembered but as long as the mind is holding on to the belief in the ego then there's a split mind. And that split is so intolerable because of thought system of love and a thought system of fear. They really don't have meeting place. They don't meet. There's been a lot of philosophies over the years, including the yin and the yang and many kind of philosophies that say you have to come to a reconciliation in the mind. Jesus is saying, it's all done. It's your state of mind, your right mind is the is a perfect reconciliation because the right mind is a reflection of truth and the wrong mind doesn't exist. So, the reflection of truth is, is really the only same choice. And that's what this mind training is all about is coming to that. You voted for different themes this week, and I'm going to run down some of the themes because it's always interesting to see which themes are are on top. What you're really calling for we try to keep these sessions as relevant as possible. And the first one is giving lifelong dedication to the calling to the calling of your heart to remember God to the calling of your heart to remember home, heaven. And lifelong dedication means that that basically you have to give time over to the Holy Spirit to use for the purpose of awakening to the extent that you don't give time over to the Holy Spirit for awakening, you give it to the ego. The ego is an ingenious master at wasting time. It's a it's a master of delay, it's a master of disguise, it's a master of deception, and to the extent that you're not giving everything of time and space to be used by the Holy Spirit. You're giving it to the ego, to the extent that it's not given over as a, as just to use as a, as a use of symbols to let go of all the symbols, then that is what we would call delay. And anybody who goes into spirituality or religion starts to realize that what Jesus is teaching us is he's saying this course will be believed entirely or not at all. This is not a video game where you can keep trying to score higher and higher and try to, to get a higher score higher scores and lower scores don't matter to the Holy Spirit. This course will be believed entirely or not at all very uncompromising salvation is not partial. You can't, you can't have a partial salvation, you can't have a partial healing, you can't have a partial awakening, you cannot believe in the ego, even in the least bit and, and feel a sustained consistent happiness because the belief in the ego is saying I choose to remain with a split mind. I choose to remain afraid of God's love, and, and even the slightest, slightest lean towards the ego, the slightest bit of protection you give to it the slightest bit of investment that you have for the ego will simply maintain the sense of a split mind. And of course that's intolerable. It's like the story of the princess and the P you know even though princess was sleeping on all the mattresses. You could still feel the P at the bottom. And that's kind of the way it is in the mind you know if you got a little P, a tiny P of an idea of individuality of, of who la la, I like this world. I like something of this world that little P will will, you know, you if you're sleeping on the mattress you'll be aware of it you maybe even have a little facial tech. I like this something is not right. So, the very first theme that you all voted on on the English polls, the Spanish polls and tribe movie polls combined was giving lifelong dedication to the calling. And if you look at it just in terms of things of the world, anything in this world that you just give partial attention to partial effort to partial devotion. It's going to be kind of sloppy. If you're not attentive with your driving skills. Notice that it gets kind of sloppy. If you're not attentive cleaning your house. Notice that the house gets kind of dirty and and disorganized. You're trying to learn something from a school, and you don't give full effort to studying or to really trying to learn it, then the chances are, when you get to test time, you're not going to do. You're not going to ace the test, unless you give your whole heart to succeeding at the test with spiritual awakening is quite simple. You have to be attentive to the Holy Spirit, in order to transcend the ego, you can't hope that you can give a 30% effort and transcend the ego because the ego will be laughing at that 10% that it gets and going, Oh, I can make this 10% into madness. Thank you for the 10% I'm a death wish the ego says so I'll just make, I'll just wreak havoc with that 10% of your mind that you're going to give me. Of course, Jesus saying there's it's not a matter of percentage, you know, you believe this course entirely or not at all. The second theme is accept the means that are given me for my awakening. A lot of times people think of means as things in form. They think of well if I had the means that would make my spiritual journey a lot easier, the means being things like money or clothing or possessions or houses or cars. If I had some of the goodies of this world that would make my spiritual journey a lot easier. If I had those as a means that would really help me in my accelerate my spiritual journey. Actually, it's not the case at all the means for awakening that Jesus is offering is the miracle and the miracle comes in your mind. The miracle comes from prayer. Prayer is the medium of miracles so if you pray sincerely and honestly to the Holy Spirit into Jesus, and you say, bring on the means show me the means. You can say, I want to be lit up and aligned in the means, and that is the prayer of your heart, then then you've done your job, everything else that you perceive in the world there are no means in the world. Because we're accustomed to seeing a world where money is a means and you can do things with it or physical strength is a means you can do things with it or intelligence is a means you can do things with it. Even in time is a means, and you can do things with the time that you have actually Jesus is saying no miracles are the means and miracles collapse time. And eventually miracles collapse time it miracles clap money miracles clap the body miracles collapse interpersonal relationships miracles collapse a linear perspective that is a total distortion it's a total projection of the ego. So, it's important that we accept the means that are given me from my awakening and, and in our case we'll call that miracles. Even with the use of will say psychedelic drugs, it would only be helpful if you prayed for the miracle. First, the miracle is brings you back to the mind and it shows you how powerful the mind is and it shows you that nothing of this world has any power at all because the world and the symbols of the world are just unreal effects from an unreal cause and the unreal causes the ego belief system. Third, open mindedness love what is. Ah, how sweet to be in the present moment and simply love what is Jesus says in the workbook of a course and miracles he says God, we say God is and then we cease to speak. Imagine that those are the last two words ever uttered. God is love. What is God is and, and this world was made as an attack on God a place where God could enter not. But more importantly than that, you start to realize that that the world is not outside of your mind. The only recognition necessary for healing is a recognition that the world is not outside your mind that the world has not left the mind that thought it. Therefore, all attempts to blame all attempts to project all attempts to look for external positive value or external negative value are the same that there is no external world. As Jesus says in the course there is nothing outside you that is what you must ultimately learn. There's really only one of us. And that one is the Christ. And even if we take that toward the split mind we can see that that says there's only one mind. There must be only one right mind and one wrong mind there. And the good news with that is there's only one ego. So whatever is perceived to be an external source of conflict, an external source of difficulty, an external challenge is simply the ego projecting itself out into a world of form and generating a hologram of conflict. Again, the spiritual journey is about ending the attention given to the hologram and giving full attention to your right mind, full attention to the Holy Spirit, and just merging back into the light and letting go of all attempts to make something of the world. It's only the attempt to make something positive or negative about this world that makes the world seem external. But if you realize it's not there, God didn't create it. If my goal is God, then I don't have to keep trying to change and fix the world. I just have to go inside and listen be very internal with my inner listening. Go into the silence within. Next one, realizing it's a perceptual problem, exclamation point. Wow, they put an exclamation point at the end of that that's, that's again, just realizing that the problem is always in the mind the solution is always in the mind and when you bring the problem and the solution together the problem disappears. If you bring darkness and light together, the darkness disappears. If you bring the error to the solution. The error disappears. Or as it says in the Bible, perfect love, cast out fear. So basically, the main thing to remember the one thing to admit is that it's a perceptual problem. And finally, extend the blessing I have received. You feel these miraculous experiences happening in your life and we're going to see lots of examples of that and lots of demonstrations today in the episode we're going to watch. But when you feel it, you want to extend the blessing. That's what I love about these. I call them psychedelic therapist or psychedelic researchers. They're just people that will say back in the various years but a lot of times back and we'll say in the 1950s 1960s that they started to have some really amazing, expansive experiences with these psychedelic drugs, and then they became very happy and they wanted to share the happiness. Just like St. Francis said I wish this piece on everyone. These psychedelic researchers and therapist had such amazing miraculous experiences that there's something in their heart was just so loving it says I wish this for everyone. I wish everyone could be happy. I wish everyone had the same freeing expansive experience that I just had. I wish everyone is free from suffering free from struggle and challenge and free from nightmares. A lot of people who have gone through experiences will calm spiritual awakening experiences. They start to feel that they're being freed up from slavery, they're being freed from the captor, and they don't even know what the captor was. Some, maybe some religions call it the devil. Some psychologists call it the ego. Some people just call it the air. But even if you just call it the air wouldn't you want to be free from the air. Especially if the air is bringing you heaviness if it's bringing you fear and doubt. So what I love about what we're going to watch today is we get to see the extension. As soon as people find something that works for them. They want to share it. They don't want to bottle it up and keep it to themselves. They don't want to make money off of it. They want everyone to have the same experience. They want peace and happiness and joy for everyone. And you can see it on their faces. These are not closet psychotherapists or closet psychedelic researchers. These are ones that are opening up and being transparent. And if you if you didn't want to be transparent, then you would try to hide it. But this is a, this is a beautiful episode that we're watching today called how to heal the mind and it's on Netflix. If you want to hide yourself, don't put yourself on Netflix. If you go on Netflix, you are suddenly out in the open. The Beatles was all, hey, you've got to hide your love away. No, this is like the opposite. Hey, you've got to give your love away. And these people have opened the cameras, open the, their, their lives up to to be filmed so that everybody can can see the joy of this. Now, before we start to go into the actual episode, and, and I might just say that that what we're going to do today is after I give this setup will will have a beautiful musical interlude. Don't you like it when we have musical interlude, we're going to have a musical interlude of a song called miracle of the mind. I've shown this, I've shared that before so I think you all might remember that. So we'll have a song miracle of the mind, then we'll have a little two minute. It's like a two minute trailer, because some of you that are joining in today may have missed the last presentation I did last Saturday and I want you to have a little synopsis. So pretend you're watching a series on Netflix with David and you want to have a little recap. So I'm going to give you a little musical interlude, and then a little to recap, and then we'll launch in to this episode that I'm going to show today, which is episode number three. The, the psychedelic we're going to use today. And one of you wrote to me, it feels like we were all on on psychosis, so it was so fun. We were on magic mushrooms last week and we were on LSD together, as we were going through this, this event. Because I talked to some friends and my friend, Lisa I talked to her on the phone today. I think it was the day after and she said it was like I was stoned. When you feel stoned from a session that is on a zoom room, then you know something's gone on. But I got a lot of reflections and people felt so transported by the session last week so so this week we'll ease our way into it with a beautiful song miracle of the mind and then we'll have a two minute trailer as a recap then we'll dive right in. And this week, we are are going to look at MDMA we're going to look at ecstasy. The, that's extra street ecstasy is the street name MDMA. But before we do, I thought we would all come into a beautiful focus on on the purpose for our lives on the purpose for our mind training and the purpose on everything. And I'm just going to dip into chapter 12 from a course in miracles. So here's what the master Jesus has to say to identify with the ego is to attack yourself and make yourself poor. That is why everyone who identifies with the ego feels deprived. What he experiences then is depression or anger, because what he did was to exchange capital self love for small self hate, making him afraid of himself. He does not realize this, even if he is fully aware of anxiety, he does not perceive it source as his own ego identification, and he always tries to handle it by making some sort of insane arrangement with the world. He always perceives this world as outside himself, or this is crucial to his adjustment. He does not realize that he makes this world, or there is no world outside of him. If only the loving thoughts of God's son or the world's reality. The real world must be in his mind. His insane thoughts to must be in his mind, but an internal conflict of this magnitude he cannot tolerate a split mind is endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses. A split mind must be endangered, and the recognition that it encompasses completely opposed thoughts within itself is intolerable. Therefore the mind projects the split, not the reality. Everything you perceive as outs as the outside world is merely your attempt to maintain your ego identification. So that's a great starting point for us because oftentimes when, when people take a mind expanding drug, they're called or psychedelic drug, the experience that they have is so expansive that they're having an expanded experience of consciousness that doesn't sit with their previous self concept. It's kind of got like getting a glimpse of the forgiven world or the happy dream getting an expansive glimpse of this. And in this state, they feel the freedom, the peace, the bliss of, of no ego identification. And from what we've just read from Jesus, the entire world, we can see the projected world was made to keep the mind from knowing itself as a divine mind. The entire world was made to be a distraction by placing the cause of upset as as external as in the world. The entire projected world is a trick to keep the mind from accepting the correction in the mind. And Jesus tells us God placed the answer where the problem was. So the answer was placed right next to the problem. The Holy Spirit was placed right next to the ego and the ego was solved forever. In fact, it was, it just was showing that it didn't have any reality, any existence. But the projected world is always the attempt to see the conflict where it's not. And then the ego will counsel now you have to solve the conflict where it's not meaning solve it in the puzzle of of time and space in the situations of the world. So, in the end, we're here to give a lifelong devotion to inner guidance, which is really just calling us to come back with the Holy Spirit and to watch and see the world. As an external reality but as as just a simultaneous group of thoughts that really have no validity, no reality. The ego thought system doesn't have any seriousness because it wasn't created by God. It doesn't have any eternal nature to it. It's just a, it's a temporary fling into madness and the Holy Spirit and Jesus are saying, let go of that fling and come in here, come inside, watch it from the perspective of the light and you'll see that you are free of it and it never had you. So, the episode we will watch today is episode three of the series how to change your mind. Our guide through this episode is Michael Poland, who's an author researcher, and he's just a sweet guy he's he's like our guide through the whole thing where he's, he's interviewing researchers he's doing his own research, he's basically an author who's curious about psychedelics. We'll also find out today that in terms of, of psychedelics. The MDMA is, is a little bit seems a little bit different than our first two of LSD and the magic mushrooms, psilocybin. Basically, it just seems to, in terms of the world and the brain it seems to release the floods of serotonin so there's a lot of these gushy loving feelings in this whole report. They want to be in love puddles, they want to feel that expansive connection they want to just just give themselves over to this love. And of course scientists try to put it down into the brain, you know, as, as the serotonin flood but actually, we have to remember that that the brain and the body and the psychedelic drugs and the world are all connections. And as I just read from Jesus, there is no external world. That's right. psilocybin is in your mind right now. That's right. LSD is in your mind right now. Maybe don't tell your parents, but where did you get it. It's been it's in my mind it's been in my mind all along. LSD the psilocybin and now the MDMA the ecstasy, because, of course, this is the main teaching there is nothing external to your mind that everything without an exception is a thought in the mind. And the thoughts of God differ from the thoughts of the ego in the sense that the thoughts of the ego are temporary. And the thoughts of God, they last forever. That's just one little distinction. So, when you realize, and you don't identify with these thoughts of time anymore, what's left in your mind was what's always been there which there's your, your eternal thoughts. I am as God created me as an eternal thought I am spirit is an eternal thought. And yet, while you believe these temporary thoughts, it's not only that you believe them but you forget that you believe them, and then you experience them as if they are an external world. So let's use like the war in Ukraine as an example, you know, many people would say, I have nothing whatsoever to do with that war. But some people would even say I have no opinion about that war. I have no opinion whatsoever about the war. But if you perceive that there is an actual war in an external world. That is an example of believing something that God didn't create. God doesn't know of war. God only knows of love. And so, if there's a belief that they're not just an external war going on in Ukraine but if you believe there is a Ukraine. And that's part of the separation you see just the belief in countries, just the belief in in continents, just the belief in stars and planets and the belief in time and space that the belief that that is external to the mind is what the separation is. See, it's not about which side should I take in an illusory world is more like, am I wanting to hold on to the thoughts that made this world and make it seem to be external. And I think with these psychedelic drugs you just start to see that you can see the shifts and changes you can see the smiles coming over the face you can see the, the eyes getting softer you can see the laughter. You can see people that go from huge traumas PTSD from nightmares from experiencing huge levels of pain every single day of their life, and then suddenly they have an experience as you'll hear the witness today of something that's so radically different from the painful perception that they were having that they know there has to be a God, there's going to be a man on here that that's going to be a soldier who goes to Iraq. He comes back with PTSD, the neighbors fire off the fireworks on the fourth of July and he feels like he's going crazy. Basically, he will take. He will take three, three different doses of MMM, MDMA and of ecstasy and he will have such a different perspective on the whole world that after eight years of suicidal thoughts, he will have a day where he doesn't have any suicidal thoughts. It's a pretty radical shift. When you go from eight years of suicidal thoughts, every single day of eight years, and then suddenly you wake up one day and you go through the whole day and you don't have a suicidal thought. This is an amazing miracle and it has to be that the prayer of the heart is being answered that it's not, it's not the ecstasy. Otherwise, we could just, we would just turn the world into an ecstasy factory. What's your gross national product of your, what's your industry of your nation. Well of course it's ecstasy. Do you have any other industries know, nobody grows food or builds buildings anymore. Oh no we just we manufacture ecstasy. If it was in the if it was in the drug you know people would have done a lot more just to find the drug or to maintain it but but the, the world is just a reflection of what's going on in the mind. And we're going to indeed see witnesses to the miracle of the mind today. And I think, as we move along, you're going to find out this. This is our last Saturday, we're looking at psychedelics, but what's kind of exciting is there's, there's a man in here today and and basically he is so devoted to making these psychedelic therapies available to people who need them the most there's a lot of people that are involved in it. But he spent his, he went to Harvard, he got his doctorate. He's now involved in politics, and now he's got to the point where this past summer in July, July 26 that there were two senators in the United States. Dr, a Democrat, and Rand Paul, a Republican who's also a doctor Dr Rand Paul, they sponsored a bill this past summer that allows people with like cancer and a lot of terminal illnesses to try experimental drugs that have been shown a positive result in the test in the early test. Up until their bill, they were still preventing people, even with like cancer and terminal illnesses from even trying some of these drugs. And this shows you what we've been dealing with starting back and we'll say the 70s the war on drugs, and all the war on the counterculture and and trying to eliminate these psychedelics from being used even calling him schedule one elicit illegal drugs. And so this episode we're watching today is going to give a full context, so much so that they will come to the conclusion that they're hoping in 2022, which is this year that they will get approval from the Food and Drug Administration. And it hasn't gone quite, quite that fast for them but what they are finding is the Biden administration has said that they are going for FDA approval within two years. Wow, even reflected in our politics. Now, the Biden administration is on on board to get bring back these. These two of them at least I think MDMA and psilocybin I think is what what they're hoping to bring back out of the. I think LSD has such a name, such a negative connotation in the in the collective or the overall mind that that they're not they're not going for LSD they're going to go for the other two. Everybody remembers Timothy Larry and and and from DOS and all the different things they went through and this is just where we're at right now. So, sit back and joy. First of all, the beautiful song and then the recap trailer and then we'll jump right into this amazing episode together. Thank you.