 Okay. Hi everyone. Good morning. So good to see you all. Welcome. We've got a beautiful session ahead of us today. I'm Peter for those who are new. I'm the host. And yeah, we've got this movie I'm really excited to hear David's commentary for. So we're going to start with David and the movie commentary. And then afterwards we'll have a 10 minute break and that's the time when you could submit your questions and your prayers. We'll have a little form we send out so you can write in. And then we'll have a closing session with David where he'll answer the questions and prayers that you have. So yeah, I'll pass it straight over to you now, David. Okay. Thank you, Pete. Hi, everyone. Welcome. I'm so excited about the movie today. This is going to literally blow your mind wide open. We are going to we're going to use philosophy today, we're going to use metaphysics, we're going to use science and quantum physics. We're going to use a little bit of psychology. We're going to use everything that's been in the history of human race to realize how to forgive right now, how to let go of distorted perception, how to let go of the belief that you're separate from everyone else and separate from God. And what a movie we have a movie called Einstein and Eddington. And this is a movie based on actual events that occurred in the early 1900s, right before the outbreak of the First World War. And the movie will take place during movie will get into the place where there's a world war going on. So you got to love the pursuit of truth. I don't care what you call it. Call it God, call it truth, call it love, call it oneness, call it reality, call it heaven, call it nirvana. It doesn't matter what words you use. But every single discipline in this world is based on belief. So we have the study of things in this world. We study things. And back in ancient China, they began to have a non dualistic spirituality and philosophy that was there. Then Jesus came along and he was the living experience of oneness, of love, of light, of God's love. And he was the demonstration. He was the demonstration on planet Earth of this absolute oneness, absolute divinity. It was just expressed but this divinity is pure light. Light is not male or female. Light is not masculine or feminine. Those are still dualistic terms that get pasted onto the light. But the light is prior to time. It's prior to the Big Bang. It's prior to the belief in separation. And today I'm going to go with you on a journey where you're going to hear more different angles and things that will explain this crazy world and why you cannot believe in it. The more you understand where this world and this cosmos came from, you will say, I can't believe this and you're right. You're not really capable of believing in something that is false when you are created by spirit to be real, to be true. So let's just before we get into the movie, let's just have some fun with different things like, for example, science. When we go back and look at the history of science, we see that the scientific method has its roots in Sir Isaac Newton. And Sir Isaac Newton, basically, he started to formulate a whole cosmology, a whole philosophy based on the cosmos, on separate objects and separate things on time, on space, on gravity, on motion, on energy. Sir Isaac Newton of England, he basically came up with what we would call the scientific method. Basically, you measure the world and then you deduce or you conclude and you draw conclusions and laws and rules based on those measurements, those observations. So, basically, we're going to call Sir Isaac Newton, you know, he's basically like, he's like the father of science, okay? Everything in the scientific method goes back to Sir Isaac Newton. And if you go back into the Nondual teachings and the great teachings of the Upanishads and the Veda Vedanta, you go back into what Jesus is teaching in A Course in Miracles, what he's teaching us is that what we're perceiving through the five senses and through the body's eyes and ears, what we smell, taste, touch, feel, all that we perceive is what Jesus would call illusion and what the ancients in the Veda Vedanta called maya, which is the same meaning. That everything that is perceived through the five senses is absolute illusion. It has no reality whatsoever because God didn't create it. And everything that's real is God and what comes from God. So Christ, we're not talking about Jesus the man, but Christ is an idea in the mind of God. It's a pure idea. It's a pure creation from God. So the Christ is pure light, pure love, eternal. It's changeless. And the Christ idea is part of reality. And God is part of reality. And Christ has creation. So our natural state of being the Christ has creations, but they're pure spirit. So everything about reality and everything about heaven is pure spirit. Pure spirit is reality. And pure spirit has a cause, which the cause is God and Christ is the effect. And then the creations of Christ are also further effects. But they're all spirit. So when we start to look at the world with Isaac Newton, the thing with Newton is he based his entire philosophy on what could be observed through the five senses. And what Jesus is teaching us in A Course in Miracles is the five senses were made by the ego to keep the mind blind from knowing the truth. So you will never perceive the truth because perception involves the five senses. You will never perceive reality because reality is pure love, light, abstract. And we could say everything about perception is false. Now, you may wonder like, wow, that's an interesting journey to try to know the truth when perception and everything that the ego made, including the entire time, space, cosmos is all part of a projection to keep you blind from knowing who you really are as the as the Christ. And what we're seeing is that that a lot of the ancient texts, the Bhagavad Gita talked about, you know, the lies of the five senses. Jesus talks about the five senses in basically saying the body's eyes were made not to see the body's ears were made not to hear. And on the great perennial wisdom teaches us that you can't really trust what you're perceiving with your five senses, because the ego made them and uses them to keep you from waking up to who you really are. So it's a trick. You might say that the whole cosmos is science fiction. Sometimes people want to ask, did it really happen? Or is it science fiction? Jesus is saying the whole cosmos is science fiction. When we look at the term fantasy, most of us have an idea about what fantasies are. We think of fantasies in our mind. What Jesus is saying is everything you perceive is fantasy without exception. Everything you perceive without exception is fantasy and is maintained by the ego, which generated it. Reality doesn't have anything to do with fantasy. Fantasy involves images and making false association to obtain pleasure. Jesus tells us from these false associations. So this world is a world of fantasy. It's a world of fiction. You know, I'd say it is like Fantasia. Now, if we look at this, we go back a little bit further, we can see that because of Isaac Newton's belief and everything that he believed in was based in this physical world, in this cosmos, that basically Newton and all of science was rooted in false belief. So it's not that only science is rooted in false belief, but a lot of religion and theology is rooted in false belief. Education rooted in false belief. Most of our psychological system is also rooted in false belief. Let's take, for example, someone like Sigmund Freud. Everybody heard of Sigmund Freud? I hope so. Well, what Jesus says is what Freud had right was Freud said that all dreams are wish fulfillment and Jesus is agreeing with Freud on that point. But Jesus is not just talking about our nighttime dreams. He's saying the world that we perceive as a dream world to that he says in the course, all your time is spent in dreaming. So all your time is spent in wish fulfillment, wish fulfillment, looking for better situations for the body, looking for the betterment of the body in terms of health, in terms of things to do, more excitement, more stimulation, more adventures. The ego itself is a death wish and that can be quite boring. So the ego had to invent a world of substitution with lots of pseudo excitement, pseudo adventures, and Jesus is saying it's all fantasy without exception. It's all fantasy. There's nothing real about anything that the five senses show you. Now, there was there was a philosopher in Germany. Some of you, has anybody heard of the manual count? Immanuel Kant was an amazing philosopher because Immanuel Kant asked the question, how do we know what we know? Unfortunately, Sir Isaac Newton, who lived also in Europe and England, he didn't ask that question. How do we know what we know? So basically Kant speculated, he thought, everything that we know is either one of two ways. Either it's a priori, it's either a priori prior to the five senses, meaning there's something there that's prior to the five senses. And that's how we know what we know. Or it's a posteriori. An a posteriori was everything that comes after the five senses. So basically Kant asked the question, how do we know what we know? If everything that we know comes from after the senses, then it's based on the five senses. But if everything that we know is prior to the five senses, oh, Jesus, before Abraham was I am, before the big bang was I am, before the five senses seem to be, Jesus is like, I am, I am one with the Father, I am one with God. Now this was a big thing. There was actually also a 14th, I think in the 1400s was the first time someone who had actually pondered about before the five senses and after the five senses. But Emmanuel Kant, he basically said, no, this is a very important question, because if the purpose of philosophy is to find meaning, and true meaning is prior to the five senses, prior to linear time, then that means it's a priori. That's very important. Newton assumed that meaning could only be found posteriori after the five senses, through the five senses. That was Newton's big problem was that basically he assumed that there were such things in time and space that were absolutes that God created. And Jesus has clarified for that note, God didn't create anything of time and space. God didn't create time. God didn't create space. God didn't create gravity. God didn't create motion, black holes, stars, guesses. God didn't even create what we would call light that travels through time and space at the speed of light. God didn't create that. And the other thing is God didn't create change. Wow. Everything in this cosmos is changing. I've even seen billboards that say the only thing that's constant is changed. No. Christ is changeless. Spirit is changeless. God is changeless. Light, eternal love and light, reality is changeless. So basically, Emmanuel Kant asked, he asked a very important question. And that is actually something that's very important for us who practice and study, of course, in miracles who are interested in truth. Now, do we have anybody in here in the room today that was interested in philosophy? We have any philosophers in the room. Basically, there's a whole branch of philosophy called epistemology. And for those of you who don't know what epistemology is, I'll make it real simple. Epistemology is the study of how do we know what we know? It's okay. So there's Kant's question, and now there's a whole field that studies how do we know what we know? What about metaphysics? Has everybody heard the term metaphysics? I use it a lot. What does metaphysics mean? How is it different from epistemology? Well, metaphysics is basically, it's all about reality. What is reality? It's the basic question underneath all metaphysics, because meta means beyond, and physics is the physical. So basically, metaphysics, when I always talk about Course in Miracles metaphysics, is it's going beyond what meets the eye, going beyond the five senses toward the light, towards the spirit. So the question that drives metaphysics is what is the nature of reality? What is real? Wow, that's pretty deep. The whole field of metaphysics is basically based on the question is what is real? And what is the introduction of Course in Miracles say from Jesus Christ? Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. So Jesus is giving us the ultimate metaphysics. He's giving us the ultimate pointing device. Those words of the introduction are basically saying who you believe you are as a personality self doesn't exist. The world you perceive through your five senses doesn't exist. The stars that you look at at night or the moon and the sun that you look at during the day doesn't exist. People talk about we have a solar system. The solar system doesn't exist. The galaxy that our solar system is in doesn't exist. And all the other galaxies that they're discovering with the great powerful microscopes and telescopes don't exist. Okay, very good. Thank you Jesus for clarifying our metaphysics. We know that Freud said that this world was wish fulfillment so but what Freud didn't really know was what is that wish that this world and this cosmos is the fulfillment of? The wish that made this cosmos is the ego. It is a death wish. That's what Freud called Thanatos, the death urge, the death wish. So the entire cosmos was made, the Big Bang, everything from the Big Bang that extended on, that's going on into entropy and it's going further and further into accelerated states of disorder. Sounds like a horror story. I'm just talking about the cosmos though. It's not talking about God. It sounds like a horror story because it is a horror story in that sense because it's all based on a death wish. All the electrons were invented by the ego, all the protons and the neutrons, all the molecules, all the one cell organisms, the amoeba and all the things that Darwin talked about and the evolution of the species, illusion, illusion, illusion, Maya, Maya, Maya. Now the good news is Jesus actually he got to transcend the ego so he's more of a demonstration than it's possible because Jesus seemed to be a man who walked apart from other human beings and he seemed to walk and teach and he healed the sick and he raised the dead and did some pretty extraordinary things. But remember that's just symbology. To wake up you have to actually forgive Jesus. You have to forgive all men, all women, all children, all babies and every organism and all time and space. What Jesus is telling us to wake up to eternal nature, you've got to forgive it all. You've got to come to a place to say I was mistaken about all of it. I mean all of it. I mean every aspect of the cosmos you have to see was part of the mistake. Now if we start to look at people like in psychology like we mentioned Freud, Carl Jung, he made great contributions. He kept talking about the unconscious mind, the shadow self and Jesus is telling us the same thing in the Course. You have to look at the shadow self because you have to raise it to awareness and you have to see its impossibility before you can be free of the world. Carl Jung's great contributions were basically saying yes, you must look at the shadow self. You cannot deny it. You cannot repress it. You cannot keep it out of awareness and hope to wake up from this world. Abraham Maslow, hierarchy of needs, the great pyramid. What's at the top of that pyramid? Self-actualization. The same thing that the ancient Greeks said, know thyself. That's what the purpose of this world is simply to know thyself. This world has no other purpose except to know who you are. If you try to give it another purpose other than knowing who you really are truly as a creation of God, you will go off into distractions and layers upon layers upon layers upon layers of distractions. You could say that this time-space cosmos is distraction-ville to the max. Now, why is this movie so good for us today is because, well, it's got a couple interesting characters in it. It's early 1900s, and so we have Albert Einstein, a young Albert Einstein, and Einstein is working on his theory of relativity because the thing that keeps Einstein up at night during the beginning of this movie is he's trying to figure out gravity. How's that for a problem? He's not so interested in the interpersonal problems. He's got a wife and kids, but he's not so interested in that. He's not so interested in his position in the world. He's not so interested in what country he's from. He's not so interested in pretty much anything. The one thing that keeps Albert Einstein during these early years up at night is he is troubled by gravity. Isn't that lovely? That's deep. He's not sleeping at night because he's trying to figure out gravity, and he's got some problems there because he can't seem to figure it out. This is right before World War I. In the beginning of the movie, Einstein, young Einstein, he's with a student of his that he married, and he has two children, and he's living in Zurich, Switzerland. He's actually left Germany. He's down there in Zurich, and he's pondering, pondering, pondering. He's pondering gravity. His wife, I think, wants to talk about other things like family and the children, but this guy is pondering gravity. You've got to love that every true scientist wants to find the absolute truth, and for Einstein understanding how gravity works in conjunction with time and space and motion, he wants to know how gravity works. He wants to know how it fits into the scheme of things. Everyone who's a true scientist wants to find something absolute. Scientists are not interested in question marks. Scientists love answers. And guess what? Psychologists love answers. Guess what? Philosophers love answers. People in all forms of education, they love answers. In all the fields of study of this world, everybody is searching for an absolute truth. Jesus basically is telling us that the only absolute is reality, that God is the creator of reality, and the only thing you can really know is who you are as God created you, and you can know God in that way, and you can know your own creations, which are purely spiritual. But he's basically teaching us, this is like the ultimate of epistemology, how do I know what I know? Jesus says, when you wake up and remember who you are, you will know yourself, you'll know God, and you'll know your creations. And there's some divine epistemology that just takes the prize. There is nothing in the field of epistemology that comes close to the living Christ, because Christ is know thyself. The Greeks talked about Christ, the abstract idea of pure light is the purpose of everything. There's nothing else to know. If somebody tells you, did you hear about this thing on the radio, the latest thing that's happening in the world, and you don't have to say I heard it or I know it already, because the definition of being a human being is essentially that you know nothing, but think you know something. That's what it is to be human. You know absolutely nothing, but you think you know something. And that's a good definition of a human being. No, absolutely nothing, think you know something. In terms of meaning, there is no meaning in this cosmos, and that's why the first lesson of the Course in Miracles is nothing I see means anything. That's why workbook lesson 128 is the world I see holds nothing that I want. Some of you might remember Shakespeare. Everybody remember Shakespeare? One of his plays was Much A Do About Nothing. That was his play. That applies very well to this cosmos, Much A Do About Nothing. Now, when Einstein is coming along and he's beginning to look at gravity and formulate his theory of relativity, he's got missing pieces, and he's just, he's still not sure about it at the beginning of this movie. But there is a scientist in England named Arthur Eddington, and whereas we'll say Einstein, he's a physicist, and in England, there's Arthur Eddington, and he is an astrophysicist and an astronomer. So here's how Jesus is going to bring it all together. He's going to take a scientist from Germany, Albert Einstein, and an astrophysicist and an astronomer from England, and they're going to collaborate. Don't you love it how Jesus uses collaborations where you would least expect it? That's like Anna and Ken. There's a collaboration. Guatemala and England. That's just about as radical as Germany and England, because during the beginning of this movie, Germany and England will be on opposite sides of a world war. They are going to be trying to kill each other. And I know Anna and Ken have had a few of those moments too, where they thought they were going to kill each other. But you see how Jesus uses everything of this world to bring us into an experience of oneness, because that's the truth. Oneness is the truth. So this is just beginning to the world war. Einstein is going to be going from Zurich. He's going to get lured up to Berlin for a position with more money. He's going to be lured. Okay, there's legends in this movie. Does anybody ever heard of Max Planck? Does anybody ever heard of Max Planck? Max Planck is the father of quantum theory. So for those of you who like quantum, Max Planck is the father of quantum theory. And Max Planck is going to lure Albert Einstein up to Berlin from Zurich. He's going to have to leave his wife and kids behind to go up. But this is the beginnings of Nazi Germany. Imagine Albert Einstein going up to Berlin, and the Nazis are meeting, plotting to kill people, plotting to use German science to make nitric explosives, poisons to start to poison people. And Albert Einstein is going to, that just goes way against his life's purpose. Albert Einstein is a physicist, and he intuitively, I think he feels all people are brothers and sisters. Everyone's connected, and he wants to discover how everything works together. So ultimately, he can know more about the connection. He's in it for the connections. He's not in it for war. He's not in it for poison gases. He's not in it for using science to kill people. He's in it for the right reasons. He's going for the absolutes. He wants to know what are the deeper truths. And that's what a good pure science major is. A true scientist is one who wants to find out the truth, find out the absolute. Now Arthur Eddington is in England. He's a Quaker. How's that for you? Isn't that an interesting combination? Astronomer, astrophysicist, and he's a Quaker. Does anybody know anything about the Quakers? They're very devoted to God, very simple. And the Quakers are very nonviolent. So you can only imagine when his country is getting into a war that Arthur Eddington wants nothing to do with it. Just like Albert Einstein wants nothing to do with war. They are in it for the truth. They are in it to go deeper. These guys are lit up by finding the deeper meanings that are underneath the surface of things. So actually, we're going to see in the movie how Arthur Eddington and Albert Einstein become pen pals when Eddington's starting to find out more about Einstein. He finds in his library at his observatory where he's got a position. He's going to look into what Albert Einstein is about. So on the surface of things, England and Germany will go to war against each other and part of World War One. And all the suspicions around war don't associate with a German, don't associate with a British person. When countries go to war, you really get to see whether you believe in countries or not. That's really a good test for your mind. How willing are you to go with John Lennon's lyrics? Imagine there's no country. I wonder if you can. Nothing to kill or die for. A brotherhood of man. You see, that's our poet John Lennon. He's the mystic of the Beatles. But this is back many years. This is back maybe 50, some years before the Beatles. This is the early 1900s. And this is the context of the movie. How will this impact us? I will do the commentary during the movie to show you how this is so important for our awakening to the Christ. Also, as we go deeper into this movie, we're going to see that the things that we have considered important conflicts are not really important conflicts at all. Most people would say, oh, I've got interpersonal difficulties. And in the larger scheme of things, there really aren't interpersonal difficulties. They're just projections of the belief in separation. We might, some may say, there's global issues. There's issues between different nations. There's issues between me and my neighbor. There's issues between me and my dog or my cat. There's issues. There's pollution issues. There's environmental issues. There's a whole range of issues. And what this movie is going to help us see with Jesus' help is that all the issues that we have believed in are not the issue. We have got one issue to deal with, and that's the belief in separation from God. And that one issue is generating a perceptual problem that basically has already been solved. And Jesus knows it's already been solved. So he's like telling us, please bear with me and come inside with me. Join with me. Pray with me. Be with me and see that the problems that you believe you have had are not really the problems at all. It's been a perceptual problem. The thing I love about this movie, too, are these are two men that are very unlikely collaborators. They come from very different backgrounds, Germany and England. They come from very different educations. I don't think Einstein would be identified at this point in the early part of his life with any particular religion. But Arthur Eddington is. He's a Quaker. He's very much a devoted follower of Jesus. And he's very much into nonviolence. And he's also open-minded. Both of these characters are very open-minded. And you really have to be if you're going to go for the truth. You can't carry with you biases, prejudices, opinions. Those things will weigh you down, will block you from the light. And these characters, Einstein and Eddington, are very, very open. We will see. They're still going through their awakening process with their relationships. Arthur Eddington will get to see his sister. He's very connected to his sister. He's also attracted to a man in the movie who's going to go off to war, which is very difficult for Arthur because he's so nonviolent in his nature. He's very attracted to this man. This man's going to go off to the front lines, I believe, to France. And so there's a lot of issues that come up and they have to face those issues as they come. So I hope you enjoy the movie as much as I do. The last three days, I've been lit up like a firecracker just knowing that I'm going to show this movie on the last day of 2022. And this is going to rock your mind. This is going to blow your mind wide open because one thing people don't understand is if you apply quantum physics to everyday living, wow, that's radical. If you apply divine metaphysics to everyday living, that's radical. That'll blow your mind. If you apply anything of this world that is non-dual, we'll just call it non-dual philosophy. If you apply that to everyday living, that will blow your mind wide open. You will not be the same as you were before if you follow the teachings that we're going to go through in this movie. So get comfortable, get ready for some of the greatest scientists, Max Planck, the father of quantum theory, Albert Einstein, the discoverer of the theory of relativity, the great astrophysicist that nobody ever heard of or remembers, Arthur Eddington. This guy made a huge contribution to the sunship with his life and nobody knows about him. Nobody's heard of him, but we will now. We're going to get to see him in action. Go Arthur, Arthur Eddington, early 1900s England. He's going to be in the same astronomy institute that Isaac Newton was. He's going to be like in the same position, except there was eight others. He's like in the ninth person to hold the position that Isaac Newton held. And here comes number nine, Arthur Eddington's going to overthrow everything that Newton thought he found. And that's what I like, somebody who's going to willing to question everything and to overthrow all of science as it was taught back in the day. And still is pretty much taught today in textbooks. The planet is pretty slow. It's slowly coming around here. So enjoy the movie. I will pop in and we're going to have a great ride today. You're going to know more philosophy and science than you ever imagined after today's movie. Okay, here we go.