 Hello, hello. Welcome. Welcome to our all-day movie workshop. Nice to see you all. I'm Peter. I'm going to be your host today and Yeah, I can just let anybody new know the how the day will flow So we're going to start with a movie with David and then we'll have a 10-minute break and Then we're going to have our breakout rooms where you can share anything that comes up for you during the movie or any feelings that you have and Then we'll have a longer 45-minute break after that and then I'll be holding the closing session at the end So enjoy the the session today and I'll pass it over to you now David Thank You Pete. Hi everyone Welcome welcome. Oh Wow, we are going to have such a spectacular Amazing day today amazing healing We are going all the way into the heart of God with this Beautiful movie today and and I feel like this whole movie workshop today will just will be like Cascading miracles just like a fountain trickling So many miracles down and just washing on you just washing on you all you have to do is is lay there and bathe in it receive it So We have a we have a movie opportunity again today and And we have some amazing themes. I mean These are like all-time themes. So you could just take one of them and You could ride it like a horse And Write it right into the wind and get lifted up into heaven with just one of these things but we have we have about five spectacular themes today, which really led me to pray on the movie and When Jesus told me the movie I think I had a little tear in my eye because this movie is I think perhaps the greatest Relationship movie in all of history. He has picked The greatest relationship movie in all of history, you know how I like movies How many times have I watched the Matrix? How many times have I watched Truman show? Pocahontas the Lion King all the great movies. I Think actually honestly, I have watched this movie more times than any other movie And when I say I've watched it more than any other movies because it It always brings tears to my eyes. It always brings The tears rolling down the cheeks because I think oh my god, this is like a masterpiece of Reaching the heart This is the kind of movie that wants to crack your heart wide open that wants to Make you feel the love of God and to feel the love of all your brothers and sisters in a way that your heart is bursting bursting It reminds me of one of the first two course of Miracle students in the world Basically Bill Thedford Was there with Helen. They were the first two course of Miracle students and by the end of Bill's life On the 4th of July His declaration of independence. He went out for a walk on the sidewalk in front of Judy's Gutches Whitson's house and his heart literally exploded It the there was a doctor a cardiologist It was cutting shrubs in the neighborhood in the in the house next to where Bill was and he saw it happened So he saw that Bill instantly died He instantly laid his body aside with no pain in one instant and the doctor said he was he died instantly Even before his body hit the ground he died It was the most quick laying aside of the body as you can imagine he his heart literally exploded they literally did an autopsy and and Bill's heart had exploded and That's kind of how I feel about this movie Emotionally, I feel like this movie if you just show up here and you pray to Jesus and you say show me whatever I need to see Because I'm ready to return to God. I'm ready to Return home to heaven This movie can't take you there. I think that's why I've watched it so many times. It's involuntary. I Cannot not watch it I've seen it more than Pocahontas and you know, I watch Pocahontas every year I've probably seen this movie about I don't know 80 or 90 times Sounds like a like a love song that you love that you play over and over on the on the rec recording that you got You love it so much That's when I say I'm gonna show you one of the all-time great classics. I'm not overstating this at all This is it if if you can't feel the love of this movie then wow, I don't know you you you need a Super miracle charge and this movie will do it for you Even if you're stranded You know, I always say what would you if you had one movie to watch before you pass away Why don't you watch this one? I I would This is a movie that's so great So here's the here's the themes that you came up with and voted on this week coming in number one with 98 votes Far and away the top theme is letting go of trying to control the script So that's what you voted for Well, if that was the only theme you had the rest of your life That would be enough to take you beyond this world. Why? Because even some of you know 12-step programs the serenity prayer, you know to to Control the things that you can to release Those things you cannot control and the wisdom to know the difference The course in miracles is just an expanded version of the serenity prayer It's all there in the serenity prayer and and that's why the first theme letting go of trying to control the script is so important because Jesus is teaching us in the course that the script is written Jesus says at one point Right before the rules for decision. He says you have no control over the world you made and He's telling us seek not to change the world seek rather to change your mind about the world because the whole Problem of separation is the belief that you control your body that you control your environment that you control The temperature in your house That you control people that you can control pets if any of you tried to believe you can control your cat How's that gone for you? If you really really want to wake up just get a cat and See if you don't get like thousand forgiveness lessons every day Because why because the cat is sent by the Holy Spirit to show you you have no control over the world Just when you think you might have Jason's got two two cats. You're on the fast track Jason That's it. You're just on the fast track. What can I say? Reading books like The Course in Miracles the power of now and having two cats. Wow You're on the fast track. There's a relationship for you. That's that'll take you into a holy relationship in a in a hurry in an accelerated celestial speedup so anyway The whole point is to learn to live in presence, I mean Back in the 1960s when the course was just being scribed We had a group of people in the United States that were we they were called the hippies and The hippies were so cool because they were like they just let their hair grow and wear their beads and and War all kinds of clothes and they like to sing and they like to dance and they basically Lived by the motto go with the flow Well, that's pretty good because that's what A Course in Miracles is teaching trust God Trust your intuition. Go with the flow Live in presence live in joyful happy presence that that is the key to everything is Flowing in that presence Flowing with that internal teacher Flowing with that internal guidance. So the hippies had it right Go with the flow and that's been talked about for many many centuries It's just that but the hippies the ego is quite clever and ingenious It just tried to sidetrack them a little bit so they really wouldn't get into the flow with sex drugs greed possession all kinds of extremes, you know, you see the ego is quite quite the Genius one at distracting you from the flow, but they had their main motto was right go with the flow And that's all we're doing here We're on go with the flow Saturday And that's why we're going to be watching. I think it's the greatest relationship movie of all time Jesus is pulling out all the stops, you know, he's given it to us as if there is no tomorrow Because he knows there is no tomorrow So he's given it to us the full the full joy. He's not going to hold anything back today Okay, your second one is Seeing the falsity of sickness and death 75 votes. Well You know sickness and death seem to be if you surveyed Spiritual seekers around the world in all the traditions if you surveyed all the course of miracles teachers and students They would tell you that probably sickness and death are two of the biggies. The only problem is there are no biggies There's no order of difficulty and miracles so to Jesus if you read lessons workbook lessons 163 and 167 Jesus says death is is is The experience of anything that is not supremely happy and he even gives examples he says even a little Psy of weariness is death. That's right. Even when you go I'm I'm beat. I'm worn out. Jesus is like well, that's death The little sigh of weariness is death. That's right forget murder wars mess Suicide mess killings all the things of history. That's right a sigh of weariness is death to Jesus a sigh of weariness is death Any experience you have that is not supreme happiness is death. So it's in the mind and So sickness is in the mind death is in the mind Pain is in the mind pleasure is in the mind Every emotion that you've ever experienced is in the mind So what is the body and the five senses there to the Holy Spirit? They're completely neutral It's like not even a blip on the radar, you know, it reminds me of heal me of cancer heal me of heart disease take the coven away and and Jesus is saying don't ask the Holy Spirit to heal the body Ask the Holy Spirit to heal your perception of the body because it's the mind that believes in sickness It's the mind that believes in death. It's the mind that believes in achievements. It's the mind that believes in failure The mind is having a hallucination of separation from God and it's the mind that will wake up Don't even worry about avatars. Who's an avatar? Who's awake? Who's asleep? No, no That's that's not a question. That's not a real question Who's awake and who's asleep? That's like saying of these illusions which illusions are still sleeping and which ones woke up And Jesus is like, come on. That's that's not a very good question at all You're not even giving me a decent question. I mean, who's an avatar? Who's the saint, you know? So anyway seeing the falsity of sickness and death I can give you a clue that Sickness and death are a decision That's based on a belief and it's always a decision that's Pointed at you right now. There is no such thing as past sickness or death and there is no such thing as future sickness and death you either Choose the atonement in this moment, which is the resurrection in the life. That's what Enlightenment, self-realization, Self-explanation it's right now You either choose it right now or you're choosing death You may not be consciously aware of this, you know, you may think I don't get that at all I don't understand when Jesus says you're afraid of love. I don't get that I don't know what he's talking about and he's saying well, you're afraid of what you believe love is Because you believe love is sacrifice you believe love is going to take something away from you It's going to take your your life in form away from you Yeah in the in the manual for teachers Jesus is asked how is healing accomplished and he basically says All you have to do is recognize that it's the mind and not the body That's the decision-maker in other words. He's telling you it's a choice in your mind What does this recognition cost you? Oh, it just cost you the whole world you see nothing much Just the whole world you see That's what the decision to accept the atonement it cost you the whole world you see Why because you'll never see it as linear anymore You'll see it's all simultaneous. You'll see it's all In one instant everything comes down to the moment this moment And nothing more Now jesus knows that the mind that believes in separation is so freaking scared of light So freaking scared of god that there had to be a plan That would be more of a gentle awakening because he told us i'm not you don't be afraid you'll get hurled into reality Jesus is not a fan of hurling He's not going to hurl anyone into the light You you you gradually embrace the light you you gradually Open to the light as the darkness fades. It's it's a it's a fade to light Just like the end of the movie is sometimes fade to black This is fade to light you fade back into heaven. Isn't that nice? Don't you like it that he's the holy spirit is gentle No, this isn't about terror. This isn't about like destruction. This is about re-translation Everyone's saying oh, how will the world end? The world will end in left or it will be re translated Oh, that's some kind I like that re translated this movie will take you light years Ahead in the re translation If you just relax and give yourself to this movie, it is so funny. I have never seen such a deep funny movie This movie I laugh every time I've probably seen it 80 times and I laugh just as hard every time maybe harder harder than You know how hard it is for a comedian to tell the same jokes and get a laugh Well, Jesus tries this movie on me every time and I laugh harder than than I did the time before I cry more Then I cried the time before the tears of joy like oh, they just flood out flood I don't even need a face cleaner that day. I have tears of joy Washing down my cheeks You know, they've actually done research on tears and they find out that the chemical Makeup of tears of joy are different than tears of sadness that tears aren't even tears Tears are just reflecting our state of mind So tears of joy have a different chemical makeup than tears of sadness That should help you too when you're so concerned about what you're going to eat Jesus said it's not what you put in your mouth that defiles It's what proceeds forth from your heart If your heart is not aligned with God, that's where the the difficulties come in. It's not about This diet will take you to heaven or that diet will take you to heaven This exercise routine this mantra this meditation, you know, no, no, it's it's about forgiveness Okay, number three experiencing the power of prayer Prayer is the the medium of miracles and You know, there's just I think there's only one time in this movie where the main character Leans his head back and he looks up Because he's in a moment of prayer. He's he needs help In this movie. There's only one time where he leans his head back and he kind of looks up as if saying Help me I need help here And I think a lot of us have done that where we kind of lean back and we look up like help help And so the power of prayer is is everything If you want God There is nothing That can stop you from experiencing God's love if you want God if you want something other than love then Welcome to distractionville you're gonna get bombarded Your mind's so powerful that if you want something other than love, oh, you'll seem to experience it all right That's what happens in distractionville You've you've landed right in the middle of distractionville and the ego is Smiling because it thinks it's got the mind in such a trap That it will never escape The ego's the ego's like, oh, wow, did I make a great trap? I I tried to make it good, but it turned into a super trap Instead of super tramp. It's super trap so ego made up Time linear time the ego made up bodies Yes, the ego made up interpersonal relationships all to glorify itself And the Holy Spirit can use everything that the ego made to unwind you from the ego So you don't have to worry about judging things as sacred or not sacred in the world because The Holy Spirit can use everything that the ego made to wake you up So if we don't have to really make any divisions about what's spiritual and what's not Everything can be used Okay, the next one I am entitled to nothing but miracles That's that's like a Twisting our our little Our our workbook lesson. I am entitled to miracles too. I am entitled to Nothing but miracles meaning I'm not entitled to money. I'm not entitled to Circumstances being a certain way. I'm not entitled to anything in the script Being different than it is if you look at the world and you Judge that something should be different in the world anything informed you think should be different Then that is an attempt to say I am entitled to things to be different than they are And Jesus is saying no You're just entitled to miracles. You're entitled to accept things exactly as they are right now and that's it That's our only entitlement. Do I have any rights? Do I have any human rights? No You're entitled to accept things exactly as they are right now in your mind Doesn't my body have any rights? No, do I have any female rights male rights? Human freedoms. No, no, no Don't I have freedom of the body freedom of motion? No, you have he's saying no, you don't You you can either have freedom of the body or freedom of the mind But both you cannot have and really you can only have freedom of the mind right now. That's it This is like we're funneled back into enlightenment because we start to realize Wow, that was my whole frustration. I I thought I was entitled To fair treatment. I thought I was entitled to Equality I thought I was entitled To justice I thought I was entitled to A good job. I thought I was entitled to a bigger paycheck to a bigger bank account No, no, no, no, not a nada. Not a nada Jesus is saying you're entitled to miracles and that's really all that you're entitled to And that's why Jesus was so happy. He he knew who he was and that was enough Christ is Enough for me Christ Is enough for me Yes, that's right. If I'm in that happy song I know I'm entitled to know who I am My identity is what I'm entitled to my christ identity and the miracles take me there So that's a that's an important one. And then the last one is how to reel back all projections well, I can't think of anything faster for For being put in an opportunity to reel back all projections than relationships You know, this of course in miracles is definitely not a traditional Pathway to God. This is not traditional You know Meditation is traditional Long periods of meditation fighting against sin I mean even when we think of things like Uh doing various rituals mantras breathing a certain way postures When we when we look at all the different ways throughout history that people have Attempted to approach God of course in miracles is Is kind of unique in the sense that it's saying The ego made relationships to trap you And the Holy Spirit will use them to set you free So the very thing that in traditional relation traditional spirituality was don't get distracted by relationships Jesus is saying Well, you will get distracted by relationships because you believe in the ego So that's that's your starting point you to believe you come to this world is to believe in the ego This whole world is distraction bill So you will automatically get distracted by relationships because that's That's the baseline. That's the default position of this linear world is distraction by relationships You will seem to lose your peace in relationships because the ego set it up that way It's by design And it's called projection Trying to get rid of something that you don't like in yourself If you have something that bothers you It's your own decision to be separate from God that bothers you If you have emotions that are upsetting It's your own decision to have these emotions If you feel dependent on the world dependent on other people dependent on your government with lockdowns or vaccinations or food supply chains or Anything for safety and security. No, no that that's because you first decided to be insecure yourself And then you projected out a world that acted it out In fact, if once you start to realize that the world is just acting out the wishes of the mind All you can do is say bravo Standing ovation to you politicians Oh, you war generals. Oh, you really played a good vicious you played out murder and death So wonderfully, you know, oh, I've never seen it so well acted out. That's an oscar That's an academy award for acting it out once you see that everything and everyone is just mirroring What's in your consciousness? Then how could you feel anything but gratitude? For at all, you know Because it's all for for your mind to wake up. It's all it all has a good purpose underneath it, which is forgiveness To show you what you denied in awareness to show you that you were doing this to yourself And to help you realize you can stop at any instant Wow, this movie is so good for that now This movie is going to use the concept of reincarnation and Some of you know what jesus has to say about reincarnation It's in the manual for teachers. He you know the the question is posed to jesus is reincarnation so And he says in the ultimate sense You know, it is not true that that you can be born into a body one time or many times He's basically saying The light doesn't come into the darkness ever Even incarnation is just a concept And to believe that life eternal life can squeeze itself into a tiny slab of flesh is pretty ridiculous From the from the spirits point of view. It's it's absolutely unthinkable. It's impossible, but From what we're looking at is jesus saying that basically whatever you believe in can be used by the holy spirit And so he does not Actually insist that you renounce a belief in reincarnation. He basically says give it to me Give it to the holy spirit and me and I will use it to help strengthen your awareness of eternity I will help you go in the right direction with it How can you move in the direction of eternity with the belief in reincarnation? Well, I'll tell you how no one is turned away. No matter how many times You try it on your own. You still Can't have a will apart from god's eternal love No matter how many times you try to Believe that you're something other than divine love. It doesn't matter. You're still divine love You you can't mess it up But the construct of reincarnation is actually something that that is is a belief system that can be used In fact with helen shuckman and bill fedford who were research psychologists at columbia university Jesus used the concept of reincarnation for with them lots Because that was something that they could grasp slightly It wasn't easy at the beginning You know research psychologists are not usually very open to reincarnation But when things get so intense and you have no reason to know why you're so intensely angry Then jesus will use some concepts of time To try to give you a clue to point you in the right direction of forgiveness in the mind so in this movie, we're going to see reincarnation played out and Basically when people ask me about that Everyone that's in your your experience in your perception When you see them you're not really seeing them for the first time You're never meeting any any person for the first time You've been with them for many many many times And you keep looping around and facing the same grievances and issues in the mind and the forms change and the faces change but There are many many instances of The form changing and the and it's the same essence It's the same ones that you've been with so we we may think that we have Every time we seem to have an incarnation. We get a bunch of new people But actually they're not new They're the same old thoughts rehashed regurgitated replayed All we're doing is we're watching a a world of repetition Where everything in our mind is repeating Jesus does say that history would not exist if you didn't keep making the same mistake in the present That's a great line because he's showing us that we need to come more into the present and really get clear of our purpose Because it's not what it seems to be so In order to set this movie up. I I thought I would read a few things from the course because the movie is is just unspeakably good, but we have to Come at it from a perception of and having our hearts open We want to be so open to really glean the lesson That jesus is going to give us So here's what jesus has to say Nothing the world believes is true It is a place whose purpose is to be a home Where those who claim They do not know themselves can come to question What it is they are and they will come again until The time atonement is accepted And they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself And not to be aware of what you are Wow, that should have been in our owner's manual that they should teach that in kindergarten They should have sat us down before the play-doh and and the toys and they should have just Told us in simple terms that we could understand at five years old The world is not our home We're simply coming to question Who we are and finally to stop doubting ourselves and remember who we are that would have been good It would have been good in the owner's manual We should have had an owner's manual when entering time and space and you should be aware of the context of But this is a place and that's why I love children. I love how children are so curious and And their inquisitiveness is such a delight for me I always tell the story how I went to a movie theater one time And it was pretty empty except a mother and her little Young child came and they sat like two rows in front of me And when the movie came on the little boy All through the whole two-hour movie asked His mother maybe like 300 questions What's that white what what why did that happen? What's this over? And Some people said David weren't you annoyed you go and then you pay your money to Watch a two-hour movie and it's nothing but a mother and a questioning son. Oh, no, I was delighted I was sitting there with the biggest smile on my face and I said this is the best movie I've ever seen I saw that that little boy with his questioning mind Was the way we're all intended to be our entire lives We're not supposed to get grow up and start to just assume things are a certain way We're not supposed to just grow up and believe we're adults functioning adults and then then you believe that That Monday precedes tuesday and it's sunday precedes monday Then you believe that night follows day and day follows night Then you believe that when it rains things will things will get wet You we've learned a bunch of lies We actually believe we know something when we know nothing at all We it would be better if we were like that little boy in the theater and we questioned everything In fact, jesus tells us to do that in the course. He says to learn this course requires you to question every Value that you hold not one can be kept hidden or will obscure your learning He's actually telling us to actively question our belief system so Another quote from jesus be not afraid We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun That but seems new but seems new We have begun again upon a road we traveled on before and lost our way a little while and now We try again Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now look up And see his word among the stars Where he has set your name along with his the christ Look up And find your certain destiny the world would hide but god would have you see Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again Yet is the ending sure? No one can fail to do what god appointed him to do When you forget remember that you walk with him And with his word upon your heart so basically This movie is Is showing us The theater of the world It's going to show us In a way that maybe we have never seen so clearly before that the past is just repeating That our closest relationships that we feel we have in this world Provide us the greatest opportunity for releasing the entire world Because our closest relationships often are the ones that that mirror to us our Biggest investments in this world of time and space If we have any expectations They will be acted out by our close friends and family If we have any desires for the world They will be acted out If we're trying to hide anything from the world and be private and secret about it Yes, these dear beloved ones will act that out too They will show us that secrets are impossible All these funny comedies come out because There's a secret and then the movie teases the secret along And everybody laughs the whole movie as the secret comes out And then when the secret comes out everybody has to laugh Or they cry But but one one way or the other that secret is is coming out The the secret is that we're that we're separate the secret is that we believe we're separate And we're not we're the same one But the belief is in private minds and private thoughts So in the end that's what makes this movie so funny is it is so acted out in the extreme Where we have We have love relationships by a very close knit we'll say family And They are so close That when they try to take on the ego roles of the world then tension comes stress comes As soon as you try to play the role And you forget that it's a role Then you fall into the bait of guilt Guilt is what's underneath this world as soon as you free your mind of guilt the world has no point in being there anymore It's like bye. Bye. Sayonara Thank you Thank you for helping me see who I am. That's that's enough now That's enough of that And you you cast it off like taking a shirt or a sweater or a blouse off you just cast it off No longer needing it But the relationships of this world certainly Act out the the the guilt that is believed And actually most of it's unconscious. So that's why these relationships are so essential so valuable If you couldn't see what you were doing to yourself and then the spirits said here, I'll give you a bunch of mirrors The the appropriate response will be thank you Thanks. I needed that The ego does not see it that way the ego Is ba humbug I'm going to go live in a cave by myself rather than face These dark spots of guilt But we know we need to we need to see them come to the surface So in this movie Uh We will start out with the movie and we will see that it's a It's it takes place in virginia very close to washington dc and there Are two people that are deciding to get married louis and karin and um They're going to get married And They also have a very dear friend named philip and uh philip is such a close friend that That karin and louis have just told told him where the key to the house is he basically can come over whenever he wants unannounced this is before the days of cell phones and So this is back in like the mid 60s or 60 63 will say 1963 And basically he just comes he gets the key from the secret hiding place and he comes in So these three have a very close connected relationship And even though louis is getting married to karin There is something going on there because um philip also is In love with karin This would normally be described as a triangle And yet deep down There's a deep genuine love between karin and philip and louis They all love each other very dearly And yet when we bring in the filters of the world with romantic relationships and Partner versus best friend all the all the roles and regulations of the ego That's where the complexity starts Jesus is trying to teach us to Love everyone without exception In fact, I want to read you one quote from the course That basically is telling us that This is from chapter 15. This is this is going to be our key in this movie today In chapter 15. Jesus says it is impossible to use one relationship at the expense of another And not to suffer guilt So if you look at relationships And you believe there's a hierarchy of relationships that some are different from others That some are more important than others That some are more worthy of love and attention and dedication than others That is specialness That is the guilt Agape love unconditional love does not make distinctions between brothers and sisters. It sees everyone equally in from that loving gaze one time bill fedford and Helen were questioning jesus on that because They were like that doesn't seem right. That seems absurd. That seems unrealistic That they said of course Jesus, don't you get it? Of course some relationships are more special than others And jesus's reply was all my brothers are special So he took the very word And he applied it to everyone Everyone is equally loved There is no higher. No lower. No more. No less Love does not look on differences Love doesn't know what it means to compare Love doesn't understand jealousy Love doesn't understand envy these are egoic Meanings of love and that's why jesus says you're afraid of love. You're afraid of the real deal Because you believe in something called death That has covered your awareness From the true eternal love So to come to this world is to believe in death It's to believe that love can be fragmented and love can be special Love can be different So here's what jesus had to say Under the holy spirit's teaching all relationships are seen as total commitments Yet they do not conflict with one another in any way Perfect faith in each one for its ability to satisfy you completely arises only from perfect faith in yourself And this you cannot have while guilt remains So basically I remember the first time I read that line I'll read that one line again because when I first read it in the course in chapter 15. I just Oh, wow This is going to be some kind of adventure To try to grasp this under the holy spirit's teachings all relationships are seen as total commitments Yet they do not conflict with one another in any way I think that's what that's why I love this movie is because jesus is is going to show you It is possible to be in love with everyone You may not believe it You may think that's ridiculous You may think that's absurd But jesus is saying if you stay with me and you follow the holy spirit It's a fact That all relationships are total commitment You mean the the postman who delivers my male Is as much of a commitment as a spouse or a marriage partner Or my mother Or my father you're saying You're saying that little child playing down in the next yard in the neighbor's yard Is is a total commitment You're saying that Everyone I think of and everyone that I've ever been in relationship. It's all Based on a total commitment And it's exactly what it is Yeah, jesus is saying yeah exactly If you want to learn what how god loves you have to learn To love without exception you can't make exceptions to love and no love He even has a section in the manual for teachers where he He the question is what are the levels of teaching and he comes right out and says there are no levels of teaching I love it Now Jesus really is getting to the core of things. What are the levels of teaching? There are no levels of teaching Everything is part of god's plan and there are no exceptions There's no higher levels of teaching and no lower levels of teaching. There's no middle levels of teaching There are no levels of teaching And then After he says that he goes on to describe three levels of teaching You gotta love jesus because it's almost like I know i'm preaching to the choir here The angels are all like Yes, yes, there's no levels of teaching. He's like all right Sit down choir now. I'm talking to the humans Okay, there's no levels of teaching Now here's the three levels of teaching Why he's got to throw something he's got to throw a ladder he's got The angels are like We're all one. It's all one It's all love. It's all god and then he's like good good choir choir come down a little bit here I've got the humans on the line Through hella So there are no levels of teaching and here's three and he says One of them he calls a chance encounters like two people meeting in an elevator or Two people just bumping into one another someone you might see on the street or in the grocery store or You know at the shop or the shopping mall It's like a brief encounter And then he has a second one where he calls it two people come together for a very intense teaching learning situation And then appear to separate so what he's talking about most relationships on earth Are level two most significant relationships like with your parents, you know with your Spouse your boyfriend your girlfriend. These are level two and then the third one is Uh people who are given a lifelong learning partner Um in which the teaching learning balance is exactly perfect And he says these are very rare So, you know, a lot of times people see oh, we're excited. Jesus is talking about soulmates. Hurry get in here Get in here. He's talking about soulmates In the book in the course. He's talking about soulmates But they may be hostile to each other Perhaps for life. Oh Go back. He's not He's not talking about soulmates It can't be if that's soulmates. Oh, man Go don't even come in here. No, I don't even want you to see this What do you mean hostile to each other perhaps For life Oh, you've ruined my he said remember I said there's no levels You guys you forget the most important line, you know You jump into the level so fast. You don't want to hear the first line. There's no levels So what Jesus is saying is that that actually These are just symbols that are the Holy Spirit is using to free your mind of everything you believe about everything I'm now I've been working with the course and teaching the course for over 35 years and I mean, I've been in 44 countries and I go all over the world many times over And one of the biggest things I hear is That a course in miracles breaks up relationships That people will come to me and say There was a perfectly good relationship a perfectly good relationship until One or the other or both started to study the course and then Jesus broke up a perfectly good relationship It was perfectly good and What I would say is I said, well again, these are just symbols. They're just mirrors and Jesus is not so big on the quantity Factor in relationships. He really doesn't care Whether they last for five seconds five years 50 years 75 years He he's into quality He's not into quantity In fact, people would say, well, are we talking? What do you mean by relationship to people? What about three? What about a quad? No, Jesus is not interested into numbers In fact, the only number that he really likes is one That's his favorite number One is the only number that you ever know One is one with God. It's the only number is the number one who you know, it's one It's one. We're one. We're always been one. We're always will be one. There is no other Other idea except oneness because oneness is a reality. It's truth So Some of you were saying, well, David, do you have any practical like realistic examples of what what this could possibly mean? And actually I wrote to my friends today. I wrote to my friends in Hawaii I believe they're both in their 90s They've been married for decades. They are Two of the most devoted Course in Miracles Teachers in the world. They live in Hawaii. I believe they're in their 90s now And I don't even know how many decades they've been married they they are the the walking proof of Dedication and devotion to living in Course in Miracles with a partner In fact, I wrote to them and I invited them to to join us today So if they do start to pop on the screen, I might have to have a little chat with them because they were devotedly practicing the Course in I mean very devotedly practicing the Course in the 1970s and the 1980s and the 1990s and the 2000s and the 2000 teens That's right. And they're still devotedly practicing the Course as a married couple And I don't even know how many years they've been married, but it's way back the years that they've been doing the Course And they are some of the happiest most joyful people on the planet. They're just an example of holy relationships seemingly symbolized over five decades with a Course in Miracles That is amazing And that is natural Jesus is saying Yeah, that's just like that's an example of Of the third level of teaching That's an example of lifelong teaching learning partner That's right. Jack and Yalalia Luckett. They have a teaching learning balance That is actually perfect. They They are so balanced that when every time I've met them over the years they exude joy and happiness and They also have are good examples of freeing their minds I mean, there's a lot of people that make a career out of a Course in Miracles, but actually for them They unlearned their self-concepts. They unlearned their careers they when The early days of the Course when bill fedford first met them, you know Yalalia was working on her phd And jack was retired marine retired military When he was into the Course and married to Yalalia And that was back in the 70s and now here we are in 2000 22 And It goes on that should warm your heart. I think that will help you when you watch this movie because you'll start to see that Death is not something that comes at the end of human life Death is a continuation in terms of time Until you accept the atonement until you accept the perfection that you are Then you just go through a series of Perceptual experiences and they seem to have little demarcation lines between those experiences And some call those demarcation lines birth and death Are they significant? No Do they have any significance none None at all To human beings to the ego. They seem to be very important. Why? Because the ego invented birth And the ego Invented death and it likes to see a lot of emotions around two of its inventions So it can stay hidden in the unconscious mind While the believer in the ego mourns or Or goes through all these different kinds of of emotions In this movie Louie you know, he's he's He's just ready to go through this first year anniversary of his beloved What with his beloved wife and he's going to get hit by a car Is that a significant point of the movie? No, not at all It it looks like He will immediately be taken to a like a holding station in the clouds And uh, I swear the woman that that greets him it looks like maryon williamson. That's what you have to look for When you pass fast from this world maryon williamson greeting you up in the clouds I love this movie because it's just got so many funny things The other thing is the amnesia shot that everyone who seems to go through these seeming lifetimes seems to not Remember the previous lifetimes very well It's called amnesia Amnesia was the problem in the first place amnesia is forgetting god So the ego liked that so much it's decided it would make a giant cosmic trap And it would use amnesia So it would it would sponsor private minds private thoughts even private souls The ego likes the idea of private souls Even though there's only one soul Ego likes the idea of private souls so it can make it can use the amnesia To maintain a separate personality sense of self And then you forget the previous ones So then you really really are stuck between birth and death You see that's what the ego wants you to be is stuck between birth and death. That's why it uses amnesia That's why it uses all these kind of tricks smoke and mirrors To convince you that you're actually living a life in the flesh No Life is eternal and life is this moment You either know life right now or you don't but but it's not a matter of time It's not a matter of of Minutes and seconds and years and and decades Life is not biological Life is not linear Life is now and life is only now and there's nothing else. It's just really really simple But we're going to watch a reincarnation movie to show us the dynamics of healing the dynamics of of forgiveness To show us all the different times that forgiveness opportunities are presented And and a forgiveness opportunity is just an opportunity to remember that that every relationship is a total commitment By the end of this movie you can start to feel it you start to feel that They the love is there the love is real and the commitment to Every relationship the same is is is our salvation. That's our resurrection It's the belief in differences It's the belief in gradations. It's the belief in higher and lower More and less that's the that's the specialness it's just a belief so I've been really enjoying listening to the audiobook of the life of bill fedford and just laughing and crying as I went through it again and it was it's just so beautiful because By the end of bill's life he He was a good example. He was a really good friend of the luckets In fact these luckets that are still going that I told talked about bill loved them so much that in the very end of his life his heart was kind of fluctuating and had palpitations and During the last maybe six or eight months of his life The luckets had to take him into the emergency room or the hospital sometimes But jesus and the holy spirit were so loving that basically at the end of their life that they basically had The luckets and bill move in together So the luckets were more like angels for bill at that point Anytime he would need anything. They were there They were there with their full love. They were there with their uh Basically deep practice of the course with huge swaths of people. They did many many groups and garden parties all over the world They took the course all over the world They're probably the least known People who spread the course all over the world Nobody knows about them They did it so much from their heart They they weren't into trying to draw any kind of tension or publicity And then they they were there with bill to just absolutely shower him with love They they didn't see him as dr bill fedford. They They all saw him as billy. He was billy. He regressed to that sparkly little Happy child that all of us are he was just loved among everyone the same In the in that context by the end of his life That's what accepting the atom is about it's about having Love that just is involuntary That you love everything and everyone I mean bill was he was so he was so academic and he was he was just Eminent psychologist, but by the end of his life the luckets took him to See a showing of the rocky horror picture show And when you go from Being a scribe a channel of a course in miracles to sitting there watching a rocky horror picture show with everybody dressing up and acting out Saying all the lines. Oh bill had cut loose I mean he cut loose from the self concept like the luckets Did and that's what this is all about don't have a concept of yourself Don't think of yourself as a man or a woman don't think of yourself In terms of partnership don't think of yourself in terms of being a course student or a course teacher Don't think of yourself of being A creature on time and space on planet earth breathing air Go beyond Go into the love go into the light go into the expansiveness that that you are You'll never be content for anything less And and it's so great that we have someone like bill and we have the luck is his way showers to really show us how it's done That's right they just Were just in the joy and living it they Went into the depth of it. I'm talking about the depth of the practical application I'm not talking about something in form or achieving something or accumulating something Joy can't be accumulated. It's just now Happiness is not something of time. It's it's right now This moment Is the greatest present? It's the present of the presence That's why they call it the present. It's it's everything everything right now And yet we will use this time movie To feel it And the song in this movie is kind of like the forgotten song in the course of miracles, you know it's the song that's deep in our hearts and When I hear the song by Cher and peter satara I just I tear up. I still tear up. I still tear up when I hear that song Here we are again I guess it must be fate We tried it on our own But deep inside we've known we'd be back to set things straight You're gonna hear it You're gonna hear it teased in the movie and you're gonna hear it at the end and the song is all about the present remembrance of god Together you and me I and the father are one god and christ are one self And god is the prime creator and christ is an idea in the mind of god and that love is everything There is nothing else but that love I remember reading once Where it came through. I think it was a some channeled material, but it said you were created above the angels Try that one on for yourself you Were created above the angels The angels are just symbols that the holy spirit uses to help you remember The the you the real you the the pride and joy of The perfect creation and extension of god So this movie takes us into that experience because it it shows us how connected we all are and that The love within us is capable of overcoming or transcending all petty judgments that arise from the ego Love wins Love is unstoppable Love is has no opposite There's nothing that that nothing but that love And that's what I feel when I watch when I watch this movie So sit back enjoy just savor it I will for the 80s something time And enjoy the love feel the love feel the love that comes through Because this is the love in our hearts and we may not be able to fully grasp it But we know how it feels we know how love feels we do know how love feels Maybe we haven't got the full extent of it, but we know how it feels and I think you're going to feel your hard chords Moving because I've every time I watch this movie the hard chords are really swirling very strong