 Welcome to our Tableau Rousseau online retreat weekend. I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host this weekend. And yeah, we've got a wonderful weekend ahead of us with our Abundance in Miracles theme. And we'll have some people just checking out the preview now on YouTube. You can always join us in the Zoom room. We'll have a link there. And today we're going to be joined by David in the States and Francis here in Mexico. And so I'm going to pass it over to those guys right now. Hi. Hi everyone. What a joy. What a joy to come together this way. Precious precious precious. Yeah, Francis and I were talking, we have a beautiful topic abundance in miracles. What a beautiful, wide open topic to dive into the joy together. Yeah. Thank you for joining us. I was thinking what a, what a perfect topic to realign our mind to remember, you know what, what this is all about. It's about working miracles as guided by the spirit. That's really our path towards this healing journey. Miracle guided life. Yeah. Yeah, I think when I've traveled around the world, one of the things that people asked me at a lot of the gatherings is, you know, well, I'm starting to have some insights and I'm making a few strides and I feel like I'm, I'm moving in the right direction. But they said, but I don't really have joy in my life. They say, I, where, when does the joy start, when does the joy start. And I said, well, that's like, that's when you like dive in. I mean, you know, when you, when you go to a swimming pool and you just, you know, take your sandals your thongs off and you put your toe in and swish around. That's how it starts for many and then, then you get in there and eventually you get in the waiting pool and swish around a little then you go into the big pool, and then eventually you find yourself going off the diving board under the deep end. You know, happens then afterwards you, you just start like, it's like jumping into the Amazon River during the rainy season. The Amazon River just takes you, you know, you're not thinking of swimming in the Amazon River. It's like going over Niagara Falls or Iguazu Falls down in South America. You know, that you're not asking where is the joy when, when the river has got you. You're just going over the falls and down the rushing river. So, but we're trying to make it very practical because every day we, we experienced miracles and, and we talk and like Francis you were saying, even in recent days, it's just been so many miracles and tears of joy, almost uncontainable gratitude and joy that comes from the miracles. And those are everyday experiences. These are not like once, once in a blue moon. These are like, this is a daily life. Yeah, if we're thinking about this journey, you know, like, originally when, when I pick up the book, A Cross in Miracles, I would think that's a course to study, study and accumulate knowledge, apply, apply. But it's so far off from what I had envisioned this journey would be actually under the Spiritist control. The Spirit is saying this journey is, is a journey of miracles and every day should be devoted to miracles. Absolutely every day and miracles are natural. That means that means that is our purpose. That is our goal. You know, every single day and truly that is what I realized, David and I were talking this morning. How different is this life once we give our purpose over to the Spirit to guide and to lead. And what a joyful and abundant journey. It's not so much the miracles at the level of form, thinking all things really lined up, which they do as well. But there was the love that's behind all the miracles that we can tap into over and over again. And that's, that's really what this is all about every single day. This is what it is all about. We're supposed to tap into that. That love behind the miracles. Every single moment. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't matter how you, how you get taken into it. It doesn't matter the form doesn't matter. I know our friend Lisa years ago, many years ago when she first was reading the course, she was becoming very excited by what she was reading and really diving into it but she came upon this word in a Course in Miracles and it just she had to stop because it was so strong for her abundance. She had to keep repeating it when she came to that word in the course. Abundance, abundance, abundance. We all have our connotations whatever our past learning has taught us about that but there was something fresh and new in that word, like it was presenting itself in the course in a new way, saying come and get to know me. Know me as, as fulfillment, know me as contentment, know me as joy, know me as glee, know me as, as rest. I have to say abundance is a rest. Some people may say rest. Where'd you throw that one? Why'd you throw that one in? But actually, when you're abundant you have an awareness that you have everything and you are everything. And therefore there's not a chance that an ego thought of scarcity or lack or comparison can get in. How can comparison enter when your mind is in glee? You know, how can lack enter when your mind goes into joy? How can conflict enter when your mind is in abundance? And that's the true meaning of abundance. It's not about succeeding in the world. It's not about failing in the world. It's just about releasing all your definitions of what you thought success was and all your definitions of what you thought failure was. And what you're left with is the present moment, which is extremely abundant and that's that's our life. I mean, we just experience everyday miracles and they're so natural. They just kind of roll on like a big strong momentum because they're so natural because they come from our source and because we're not blocking them anymore. We're not trying to block the miracle. Why would we block the miracle when it's all around us? It's us. It's in us and all around us. It's just so precious. Well, we know that you have shown up here really to dive in to this pool with us into this state of mind and we have people in our mystery school, about 22 people with everyone there and there's our mystery school. I see them all. And I see we have so many friends from around the world, some friends that I haven't seen for a while, some friends that are joining us again, some friends that are like on here on a regular basis. And you've written in your questions, you really poured your hearts out in your prayers and your questions. And also I know some of you are have maybe in the past week or so been stirred up a little bit about the world events. What is perceived as happening in Ukraine. And we always try to keep it practical. So we're going to bring Ukraine and abundance and miracles together so that your mind can can feel the abundance of what is real and what is is true. And some of you I think Darren, Darren read Darren you wrote in saying that you, you really been making your strides and following along and really enjoying movie watchers guide to enlightenment will have a very, very good movie tomorrow to tomorrow morning as part of the retreat be very lively I promise you and very healing and very much filled with laughter. And, and you were saying that you were going through the movie the nines, and there came a moment when you were watching the movie nines, where you suddenly looked around and you saw that the people in your house, and the walls, and the body and everything were all just a projection from your mind. And it's best that maybe for about an hour where I could see the big smile on your face that there's some abundance. When you, when you have an experience where you look around yourself, and you realize that it's all in your mind that there's nothing outside of you, that is a glimmer or glimpse of the glorious abundance of, of God's love because God created us in love and light in in abundance and happiness and joy and the ego has made a very different perspective. And most of us know it as the personal perspective, which is quite draining, quite stressful, quite anxious, quite fearful. And it thinks it knows something it thinks it knows, sometimes it thinks it knows everything about it. And it doesn't even like the idea that it knows nothing about nothing. But, but that's what this is really about is, is about giving your mind the willingness to move in that direction to just have that experience that you had because that glimpse that glimmer will grow. It will grow, and it will expand, and it will expand. And as it expands, it will be able to encompass everything in time and space, including Ukraine. I mean, even when people are saying, Oh, what about the situation in Ukraine? Well, it's, it's part of imagination. And it can seem to be very intense, especially if you're watching the news and you're watching what's coming through or watching some videos and interpreting it in any way, it can be extremely the emotions can be extremely intense. But Ukraine, we've all had our own Ukraine. I mean, if somebody asked me about the intensity of Ukraine, I could say, Well, I've had that experience personally. Psychically, I've had my Ukraine's I feel like the bombs have gone off psychically at many different times in my life and the parable of David, where, you know, my something the ego was doing a shelling in my mind. And it was it was devastating. And it felt like parts of my mind were trying to flee. They were like refugees trying to flee for safety somewhere. I've had Ukraine come up interpersonally to interpersonal relationships. I'm going to put it on gallery. I can see has anybody ever felt a Ukraine experience in your interpersonal relationships with loved ones with partners with children with parents with neighbors. Where you felt like you're all stirred up and you were defensive and it feels like you were right in the middle of the shelling and your interpersonal relationship was going down. You felt like it's going down. It may not last. And then if we think about groups, it happens with with interpersonal relationships, it happens with groups, it happens with countries, and even with the pandemic, it can even happen seemingly with the whole globe. Those are just different scales of what I'm going to call conflict. So let's be honest, conflict is just conflict and conflict is the ego. And there's not any bigger ego or smaller ego or worse ego or better ego, because, because the ego itself is an illusion. So how can it be bigger or, or, or worse, if it's just an illusion that's like a bigger nothing or a smaller nothing, a better nothing or a worse nothing, you know, it, we have to start to realize it's a perceptual problem. So I really think that that's something that that is going to be a key as we go into our experience of abundance and miracles is start to really be honest with ourself and say, wow, maybe I had it all wrong. Maybe I really misperceived this world in a big drastic way. That was nothing in a line with God, nothing in the line with truth. And maybe I it's time for me to consider letting it go. And that's what we do every day, right? Every day, same thing. Yeah.