 The truth is true, it always will be. The truth is true, it always will be. Well, the one is Diaz. Yes. Welcome. Good morning. You're taking the drop away. Oh yes, okay. I'm doing the translations. That's as far as I go though. Now we need you. I'm good for the first 15 seconds. Yeah. So here we are immersing in our retreat. It feels very sparkly. Okay, vamos a empezar a ser in el retiro. And so we're here to release the blocks to the awareness of love's presence. Y estamos aquí para remover los bloqueos a la presencia del amor. Yeah, that's all we can truly do. Love is beyond our comprehension. Y eso es lo que en realidad hacemos. El amor está más allá de la comprensión. And so one of our first sessions this morning is releasing those blocks. And the way we like to do things really is guided by the spirit in the moment. And so we don't decide before we come to a session what the session is going to look like. So it's fresh and in the moment. Yeah, thank you, Lee. That sums it up so beautifully that it really is the power is in just exposing, you know, giving it over to spirit. Yeah, there's nothing to fix and nothing to teach really. The reason for the teaching is because we've got this intellectual junk in the way. If you truly use these expressions and really just avail everything up, the love is going to come pouring through. It's like an unstoppable volcano. It's like Hawaii at the moment. The lava is flowing there at the moment. Volcanoes don't hold back. Leave like a volcano. Yeah, wow, there's a lot of things I think left to extend this retreat a couple of weeks. Yeah, I was talking to somebody yesterday about the lava flowing in Hawaii. No, the lava. Yeah, and getting ready to flow over a highway. The only highway on the island. And someone said, well, can't they just build a bridge over the lava? And the lava is very hot. It's 1100 degrees Fahrenheit. So it's not easy to build a bridge over the top of the lava. But it's very symbolic of the light in your mind coming to the surface. And wiping out anything that's in its path. It doesn't matter if it's a house or a tree or a rock. When the lava hits the house, the house goes up in a giant flesh instantly. And the lava flows up. And this is what's happening in the mind. The darkness has no place to hide. And the personality self is starting to shake a bit. It's very symbolic of the lava. And the personality self is starting to shake a bit. And of course in Miracles, Jesus says there are two tiers, two levels to the false self concept. The first one on the top is the personality self. And this he calls the face of innocence. This face says, I'm a decent person. I'm on a spiritual journey. And I'm fairly nice. But sometimes there are injustices in the world that happen to me. So the face of innocence is often wet with tears. At the injustices that the world offers. It could be being offended. Or perceived to be mistreated. This is the surface of the self concept. And underneath is the unconscious mind. It is very, very dark. In fact, Jesus says it is draped with sin. Draped. So the top of the surface was made to not have to look at what lies beneath. But when you open your heart up. And you allow your emotions to come up. Sometimes you will have very dark emotions. And that is really the goal of what we have going on right here. This is not a place necessarily to learn only of metaphysics. This is a place to go through the process of transformation. Where you feel safe enough. You trust enough. To allow any emotions to come into awareness. It could be your irritations or annoyances. Or it can be rage. A vicious sense of anger. You have to be willing to just welcome everything up into awareness. Because it takes too much energy to repress. Because it takes too much energy to repress and deny these emotions. And we really have not been trained to reveal our emotions. The mask of the personality is to keep a structured world together. And it's about a world of accomplishment and productivity. A world of reaching financial goals. And it's even a world of improving the mask. A lot of self-help books and workshops and seminars on improving the mask. But when the volcano or the emotion comes up. It has to find a place to flow. And it can seem to be very destructive to the ego. But we must have allowance for this to occur. So a song is coming to mind, an old song. The nerve doesn't have to sing it. Some of you might remember in olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now heaven knows. Anything goes. We are going into that with emotions. Anything goes with letting these emotions up. So you get to practice here. You get to practice here. That's what the morning sessions are about. Is if you've got nothing to hold you back. No one will be asked to leave for expressing emotions. And you see that's a little different from your families and your careers and jobs. Where you can't express emotions to the boss. And often times you can't express emotions to mom or dad. In those cases you could have your walking papers. But this is very different. So today we will explore some of these themes of this morning. And feel free to explore them from where you are sitting. Or if it's more comfortable for you, you can come up and sit in the chair where Michael is. Sit on Michael's lap. So we will have a chair available if you want to come up. But we are going to explore these themes of what's on your heart right now in your life. We are going to have a chair available if you want to come up but we are going to explore what's on your heart right now in your life. I have a question for you about all that you have told us up to now. That nobody is going to ask us to leave for expressing our emotions. Related to what you said that nobody is going to ask any of us to leave for expressing our emotions. And about this process that we will be having during the retreat. When we leave here, in the real life, with the people who are close to us, who are not in the same frequency. So can you talk about how to apply this when we go home and we have other people that haven't been here. You know our friends or family, how to express. Is it useful there to keep your masks to a certain point, to your personality? Or something close to that process? Yeah, you have to give your mind the permission to do this. And this workshop or this retreat will be a good way of building confidence in the process. But when you go back to your family life and to your cities you will have to use discernment. There will be those that you can speak to but those would be like a very trusted friend or someone who is sharing the journey of awakening and sharing the journey of healing. But you will need to find a way to allow this to continue because you can't really go back to a way of just repressing emotions. About 10 years ago I traveled extensively in South America. And probably about my gatherings were about 95% women. And these women told me my husband was a woman and these women told me my husband, my boyfriend is not into this at all. And so they had to find groups of other people, mostly other women to express their emotions with. And it is very important to the healing process. It's not something that you can compromise with. Some of these women were very brave and courageous. Because they did not have careers or money. They were completely dependent on their husbands and their families for financial support. But still they knew they had to take the next step. Spiritually. And faced their fears of being provided for. And the spirit did provide for them. It just looked very different than they expected it to look like. And it looked very different than they expected it to look like. They had to let go of familiarity and false safety. Because they were wearing a mask and they were staying under conditions. And they were wearing a mask and they were staying under conditions. But these conditions were blocking their healing. So really you are working very closely with the Holy Spirit. And here you will find many people who have taken this journey. And who had to be very flexible to let go of control of the form. And you find that your heart opens up more and more and whatever you seem to need is provided. And whatever you seem to need is provided. You will find people here who have left children, families, careers behind. All for one purpose and that's healing in mind. And experiencing a lasting peace of mind. So I would use this experience to gain confidence. Because you can go through so much healing in just the span of one week. If you give yourself the permission to go through this. You can save many years of suffering and struggle with tremendous self-honesty and being unwilling to just hold on to the mask of the past. Well, we talked last night about lasting peace of mind. And really the only lasting peace of mind is heaven or nirvana. So when we talk about home and going home we really need to talk about heaven. So when we talk about home and going home we really need to talk about heaven. Because this world and this cosmos is like hiding out in the dust and trying to find a better form of dust. So that's what we mean when we say that this community versus going back home those are two different forms of dust. And everyone who comes to this world is searching for that feeling of home. But we can't really seem to bring our eternal home into this world of dust. But we can't really seem to bring our eternal home into this world of dust. So last night and in these morning groups we heard about challenges and difficulties and struggles. To the Holy Spirit those can only be contrast experiences that are chasing you home. Because we are seeing that we can't just make the best of it in this world. We will never be fully satisfied in linear time. Because linear time is a denial of our home and heaven. First we must realize that time and eternity cannot co-exist. One has to be real and one has to be false. But they can't both be true. Because we can't be true and we can't be false. But they can't both be true. Because we know that like creates like. And God is eternal. And God creates the eternal. So anything other than the eternal is a denial of the eternal. That's why we've never been able to be entirely comfortable with any home on this earth. So of course the miracles tells us don't try to bring the truth into the illusion. And the illusions will then disappear. And what remains is your identity in truth. So by definition any struggle or challenge is a denial of the eternal. So by definition any struggle or challenge in this world is simply an attempt to deny your true identity. It's trying to be right about littleness and forget magnitude. Forget the vastness. It's like trying to cling to amnesia and cling to a forgetting of true love. So these opportunities will continue to arise in awareness. And you see that you cannot juggle between truth and illusions. I was talking to my friend Suzanne up in Utah. Some of you know Suzanne. She helped form the Casa down here in Mexico. And she reminded me of what I told her several years ago about the journey to enlightenment. She had asked me years ago, how is it going to go for me? How will this journey go? And I had forgotten what I told her. But she remembered. And she said, what you told me was damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, ah. Damn, damn, damn, ah. Damn, damn, damn, damn, ah. And she said that always has stayed with her. Because just when she would get comfortable in this world and thought her feet were standing on solid ground the floor would fall out. And she would be falling again. And so that happens to all of us. But we should not be discouraged when we are falling. We have to learn to trust in the falling. And know that this is for our good. The ego does not like falling. It wants to stand strong and tall. It wants to be right. And when you are falling you know that you are not right. You say, something is not right. I shouldn't be falling. But it's just a transition into something that's very stable and very strong. So we have a saying in this community. My feet are both firmly planted in mid-air. And we can support each other in that feeling. Because faith and trust are very important. And those are not things that the world can give us. We have to find those in our hearts. We have to find those in our hearts. So really we are like a support group of angels. And whether you seem to be physically living in community or connecting over the internet, you need to feel that support during this transition. It's like our whole world is being turned right side up. And the ego is used to living upside down. So the ego will get stirred up when you start to come into alignment with the light. It's good that this topic is coming up. When I went home from Strawberry, I lived with this woman, I lived in her house, worked on her house, I had to live there, great. And like I wasn't barely even in the door and her voice was just actually grating, grating on me, you know. And like I wasn't barely even in the door and her voice was just actually grating on me, you know. And she called herself a spiritual, went to Peru to learn shamanism and all this other stuff. So I'm thinking this is really interesting, and coming out. I was pointing out that, you know, you're making stories up and assumptions, and then she turned around and got really belligerent, right? And about her and her daughter saying, we like making stories up, this is what we do, we're found out about it now, like that. But inside of me I'm feeling not quite frustrated, but it was like getting the little annoyances, right? I mean I shut up and I just said to myself, what do you want to stay in the dream? So it's like a two prong question, one I'm trying to be helpful, but you have to know when not to be helpful I guess. And the other thing is what is this reflecting, she's reflecting to me, and what is that reflecting back, you know. Yes, well this journey is coming to the end of all compromises. So to take on a human identity and be part of the human condition is a very big compromise. Everyone who comes to this world is trying to get away with a lie. Because when God created us God gave us the power to get away with a lie. Because when God created us God gave us creative abilities and attributes. And this involved extending love. We were created to extend love. And when we tried to add on something more on top of this that's where we get into trouble. Whenever we believe we can make up our own identity we have started compromising. We have taken on an ability that God did not give us. God did not create us for fiction. God did not create us for fantasy. God did not create us to be an inventor. Or to make up many stories. We have taken this beautiful creation that we were given which is very powerful and tried to miscreate using the power of God. And this has involved our relationships on earth. Now we are identified with people. The Bible said God is no respecter of persons. And this world is nothing like our true home in heaven. This world has no resemblance to heaven. So when you answer the call to go home you are saying in your heart I will not compromise with the light. Things will seem to fall away from me in this world. I may seem to lose family members, friends in places to stay that I lived in. Jesus was talking about this in the Bible. When he said the birds of the air have their nest and the foxes have their holes but the son of man has no place to lay his head. He was not attached to anything of this world. And even when he spoke to his apostles he said when you go to a town and abide there if the people take you in then stay and if they don't receive you he said dust off your sandals and go. And these are the kind of decisions we need to make when we're aligning with the truth. You see in your heart that you cannot compromise anymore but that is not going to be a problem. The Holy Spirit will give you everything that you need and will renew it as long as you have need of it. But the Holy Spirit will not have you floating in time. Because Jesus says I am calling you out of the world but really he's calling us into a state of mind where we cannot compromise anymore. So what you are describing is not uncommon at all. I think on a spiritual journey there are many times when you have to follow your heart and be willing to move on. Because you have so many gifts to offer. You are the light of the world and that light cannot be hidden. And I have discovered that everything I need is given me so easily. When I refuse to compromise with the truth it's really almost like a fairy tale. One final happy story in which there is no compromise of any kind. You don't have to hesitate with your answers. You don't have to make a deal or try to stay and work something out. Your happiness and your joy is what is the teacher. So I feel like from your time at Strawberry Festival you started to get a feeling of what is truly possible. Now some people say that God will test you. God never tests anyone. God never tests anyone. It's just that the ego gets very testy when the light starts to shine very strong because the ego is full of conditions and the light is saying let go of these false conditions. So we are called in a very deep way and the irritations that you are feeling was just the ego saying you still need to compromise. Yes, even for a place to stay. It helped me when I had five years of my life. Where I didn't know where I would be staying at all. And I was very surprised how effortlessly I was cared for. Every night I was a little little surprised that I had a place to sleep even though most often I did not know where that would be. So the ego is insecure it likes to know what the form is going to be in the future. But we are all learning to let present trust direct the way. I'm glad you came. Let's be a clear the way. The court did the stairs we postponed by March. Yes, you see that the only problem is clinging to this false identity which is what the guilt is. What is guilt. And when you cling to guilt you look outside of yourself and you say how would I prefer this world to be? It is like saying how would I prefer this illusion to be? Never mind that all of it is false how can I invent and make an exciting invention in the false? You could invent a healthy body or a sick body you could then a person that has lots of energy or one who is very tired There are many variations that seem to be possible but really are not. If we said that this whole world was a game it's a game of false identity as if you could pick and choose your identity and God is not acknowledging any of these false identities The Holy Spirit is God's representative in our hearts and patiently the Holy Spirit just says, come home it's time to come home and so we can begin to welcome emotions up into awareness whatever they are because there has been much that was blocking us from answering this call and it's beautiful to have a community of friends that are willing to just talk to you even when you are near death and it's beautiful that you could listen in on that conversation and hear just what you needed to hear to rise up off of your death bed and be used as the light of the world before we wake up from this dream we have a happy dream but we have to rise up from our death bed in order to open up to that happy dream so that connection is like a lifeline and when we design the MMT program that's why we felt to include a mind training partner someone who could help be the voice of sanity just when you needed it the most and I'm sure Sue that you will be that voice of sanity for a brother or sister who needs it the most that's the purpose to continue on okay so we believe the spirit giving is a prompt that the raving mic is no longer very operational so you need to get at the love seat if you want to have a question some people call it the hot seat that's just the ego what I noticed this morning and maybe it's been there I mean it's been there all along but what I noticed this morning that even though I have this love and so much joy to share and extend with them that there is something there that says I am somehow betraying a brother my brother my biological brother I don't know if even the trail is the right word but there's some darkness there that's even possible yes it's it's reminding me of that parable that I've told many times of my friend Axel who was guided to go towards the twin towers after they had come down and how he was inspired to walk to ground zero in a miraculous state of mind and he got closer and closer this was probably less than two weeks after the event and he came upon a Japanese man wearing a plaid suit and the Japanese man had his head bowed he was shaking his head and just saying so sad so so sad and my friend Axel told me he said for just an instant he had the thought passed through his mind what if my happiness and joy could be an offence to this man it was just a smallest cleaning thought going through his mind but as soon as Axel had this thought he felt the heat the dust going up his nostrils he smelled the smells of decaying bodies suddenly the whole situation that was surrounding him took on a reality just from one thought I wonder if my joy could be an offence to this man so in A Course in Miracles Jesus tells us that one of the most difficult ideas to grasp is true empathy because if defilement would be possible for one person it would mean that there is no God if defilement defile defile defile defile that would mean that it runs that deep. And we could say mistreatment of any degree would mean that there is no God. Because again, God is source and perfect. And everything that is real and true comes from God. And so, anything that we think or believe or perceive that denies the all-powerfulness of God is a temptation. And that's what it was for my friend Actful. It was a temptation. And so, we are given circumstances that allow us to align with the light. And the situation can be involving a family member or a loved one. And we are given circumstances that allow us to align with the light. And the situation can be involving a family member or a loved one. And the situation can be involving a family member or a loved one. Just as a very strong opportunity to choose again. I think also when we talk about the death of a loved one, it reminds me of what Jesus says in A Course in Miracles. He says, you have many strange beliefs. But perhaps the strangest of all your beliefs is that you can lose the ones that you love. It is so different than heaven where loss is impossible. So different from the idea that there are angels surrounding us, encouraging us to remember to laugh at illusions. Because once one illusion is taken as serious, then all the rest must follow. Just like when they say that the devil is legion. Really, it's true. But if we give the power of our Christ's mind to that one tiny thought, we seem to have a legion of illusions that we must face. So it feels like this healing is one of the most important things of your trip to Ecuador. The Holy Spirit is sending you as a miracle worker. And the only hesitation was, what if this is betraying my brother? That my light would be offensive. Because I so don't feel the loss of her. I feel a lot of it. And it feels like a miracle. Don't feel the loss of her. I feel a lot of it. And the joy. And in that opportunity for my mind are so many others, it feels. To join with the Course, to bring your books, your teachings. And I know that there are Course groups there. And I am never so grateful to step into my light. I love you too. And the work that I've done. Certificate, I just want to use your moment of interest. I've done a lot of work on myself. So I've done anger work. Sorry. So I thought I had worked enough on all of it to just do spiritual stuff now. I thought I had worked enough on all of it to just do spiritual stuff now. But I never really encountered the ego until I came to approach the strawberry fields in this. So I still think the presence I have with everyone here and you, feels like saying I'm ready to take the next step. And the fear that I feel is ego. It's pure ego. So I may have to do some fall in the way, but I also think I don't because I already have presence. And yet I want something in the way of help from you. So, help me get home. Can you do something now? You have a power of our prayer of us joining together in this one purpose. It is so strong that the ego cannot prevail. So even if it rears its head from time to time, you will not go on from here alone. Myself and all of your mighty companions are with you. And without all that help it could seem to be like a daunting journey. So the love that you felt when you came to Strawberry for that morning, that was like a strong ray of light that came into your mind. And it has stayed with you. And you will see that reflected in your brothers and sisters. We have some angels here that have been very strongly with us in a very persistent way. And there were things that seem to need to fall away in their life. And it would have been absolutely devastating without that sense of support that's there as well. I think of the movie The Poseidon Adventure. And the whole ship is capsized. And the whole journey seems upside down because they have to go to the doorways that are way up on the top. And go through the darkness to make it through the daylight. And that's how it can seem on this journey too. Some of those people we thought were friends sometimes seem to act like enemies. And just when we think there is no help then helpers show up. And we're always given just what we need to take our next step. So we continue to communicate and to share. Just this morning I got a call from a friend in Sedona. And she said, I don't know what's happening and I don't know what I'm doing. But just us joining on the phone call was a sense of, oh, we are going to know the next step when it comes. And staying in present trust. Just the presence. Pardon me, I'm very emotional right now. I want to thank Patrice for sharing her story. Because it showed me something deep in my own psyche. When I was a child, when I was four, I was ready. And I realized from Patrice's story and her sharing it. That what I've been afraid of all my life is my own light. I felt I was betraying that part of me that was so wounded. And for many years on my fridge I had a quote, I think it was Gerta, that it's not our darkness. We are afraid of, but our light. Our love. I'm just shaking as I sit here, but I see that now. And I pray that I can live that understanding more now. And I come to the invitation, I impose on myself. So much easier from now on. Come on, I'm working back on myself. Yeah, this fear of love and this fear of intimacy is really the fear of the power of our mind. It's this strange belief that we could misuse the love that we were created with. It's somehow that we actually had the power to miscreate. And this is why people are afraid of their thoughts. They are afraid that they could misuse their thoughts. And actually turn away from God's love. This idea that everything we are perceiving is thought is just one step. But when we perceive war and disease and murder and rape that is horrifying to think that our mind could miscreate such a world. And so, before we can return to the glory and Jesus Christ was a wayshower for us we have to be able to distinguish the true from the false. And that is why Jesus said, when I go away I will send a comforter. The comforter is always with us. This soft, gentle voice it says, my beloved child you could never miscreate. Heaven is unchanged by these strange ideas Heaven is unchanged by these strange ideas. You only see distortions in your perception as a separate being apart from heaven. And none of this is true. We have been told nothing real can be threatened. And nothing unreal exists. And this is our peace of mind but we have to experience it for ourselves. All of us are being called as miracle workers and we can't turn away and say, oh that's embarrassing. Or you must have chosen wrongly. We will be content with nothing less than being miracle workers. Yes, we are all saints in training and even though the training can seem pretty rough at times we will succeed because God's plan for salvation must succeed. God's plan for salvation does not require egos but the presence of love is so strong inside of us. That we are assured of success. So we support each other in releasing any dark emotions in laughing together, singing together praying together like we've had examples of today. This is the calling of our heart and we are joined hand in hand. I feel it.