 Okay, hi everyone. Nice to see you all again. Thank you for joining us once more. Lovely. Yeah, well, we have a beautiful day ahead of us. I'm Peter for those who are new. I'm the host and yeah, so we're going to start with some commentary by David. He's here with us in the studio and then yeah, later on we'll have a Q&A session with David. We'll have a little break in between that in 10 minutes. And then yeah, later on today at 4pm MST, we have our worship session and so there's going to be music and sharing there. So we have a beautiful day ahead of us. So I'm going to pass it over to David now. Hi everyone. Welcome. Such a precious time that we share together. We're really in a deep prayer to the spirit to really show us the way. Show us the way moment by moment to loosen from our belief in the the false identity, the image that was made to take the place of our beloved Christ self. And so you might say that time and space seem to be part of a hypnotism or a mesmerism or a fog. Let's just call it a fog. We've been in the fog and now we want to get out of the fog. We want to rise up beyond the fog and experience the precious light and all that warm love that that we were given in our creation. So every week we come to these sessions on Saturday and and through Facebook polls and tribe polls we basically put out a series of five themes and then we ask people to vote or just say what they want most to dive into on Saturday. So we keep it very relevant, very practical and I know when I see the results of what comes in that's what I start in with my prayers. I just am praying to Jesus help us experience in a direct way the theme that is most important for all of us. And of course some of you read through the themes and you vote for all five. That's good too. We don't mind. We understand we want it all. We want to know our true self, our true reality. So that's good too. But generally we take a look and see what themes are there and then we go from there and we pray for a direct experience. So this week the theme that came in first place by far is fully saying yes to the present moment. Wow in what seems to be a world of time and space, a world of many many distractions, a world of so many images and that seems to be just exploding images, more images. The more that we watch time go before us we see more exploding images and it seems to be lots of complexities and competition and conflict and and you might say it's the world is trying to draw our our attention, our mind's attention into the form. And Jesus says that you know, this is what the world of specifics is. It's just idle images that were meant to keep you from going inside and remembering who you are. So because that came in number one that is the strong prayer for this week this Saturday fully saying yes to the present moment. The second theme was discover my calling and follow it with an exclamation point after that. Really follow it. This is not like a aside priority. It's like waking up to our beloved creator is top priority. Discover my calling and follow it. And a lot of people on the spiritual journey, they actually will tell me, they say I had to wait until I felt it. But once I felt my inner calling then that made the decision easy. Like it was somehow preordained or destined that I was to follow this inner voice and wake up to remember God. It's almost like it's activated, but it's also destined. So many people tell me once they really felt that inner calling that was all she wrote for this world. They had no interest in dilly-dallying or compromising or delaying. The interest in delay is gone down down down and the and the passion to wake up is very strong. The third one is deepen my desire for God. I think all of us know that there's a desire inside of us to know the truth and it is you can call it a desire for God. A desire to remember God. A desire to bring an end to this memory problem, this amnesia where we seem to have remembered something else that's very strange and very disorienting. And then when we come back to the love we start to really get focused in. And that's what this third theme is. Deepen my desire for God. Number four, transcend the body through function. Instead of the the movie in the famous phrase show me the money we're saying show me the glory of God. Show me the light. Show me eternity. That's what I want to be shown. I'm not interested in the trinkets of this world. I want to know the truth of who I really am and who created me. That's the burning passion inside. So that involves transcending the body through function and we can say the function is forgiveness to learn how to forgive illusions and accept the truth. And finally I take the second place to gain the first. That's a variation of I choose the second place to gain the first which is a workbook lesson in A Course in Miracles. So it's basically saying let me be humble. Let me release all pride, all arrogance, all sense of a personality self and let my awareness merge back into the all, into the everything, into the love, into the oneness. I would rather know myself as the all as God created me instead of to identify with this little mask, this little personality mask because identifying with the body and with the mask has just brought experiences of stress, anxiety, confusion, fear, guilt, suffering. It's like when you just even begin to look at the list of all these emotions that are generated by identifying with the personality self instead of our vast, vast Christ self that is a perfect creation of God then it starts to be okay I'm ready to whatever I've been doing I'm ready to open up to the truth of my being. And I have heard different people say that when you are identified with the personality self and with time and space everything is about gaining something, achieving something, reaching something in time and space, trying to be superior. We have strange notions of productivity that somehow we're supposed to be productive in time and space and I think all of the great spiritual traditions whether you go through Buddhism or Hinduism you go through the ancient scriptures of the Vedas you look at a course in miracles all of these amazing perennial wisdom teachings are saying no the pathway to know yourself and to know God is to drop the mask drop drop the pursuits except who you are right now and drop the pursuits of time which are saying that you were not worthy in the past and you need to do something to be good enough to be enough to be worthy enough or respected enough and I think we're learning from the perennial wisdom we can stop this now this this game of not good enough it's not our destiny we don't need to play that game right now we're perfect as we are right now so why should we try to improve on perfection if God created us perfect right now in eternity and the present moment is the gateway to eternity the closest approximation of time that that is given to us is right now so it must be that right now we are innocent we are whole and complete right now that's the truth and then we have to drop all beliefs and thoughts that would tell us that we are lacking that we are somehow falling short that somehow we don't we are not deserving of this beautiful essence that we truly are so this is going to be fun today I'm going to have so much fun with you I hope you have as much fun as I'm going to have today because when I looked at that first theme fully saying yes to the present moment I just prayed and prayed to Jesus I said this is really what we're all calling for we want to devote ourselves to the present moment but but in this world it seems like there's so much else that's that's before us it's like the trick is trying to distract us into everything but the present moment you know people say don't waste time time is money and and a lot of times we hear phrases like well I've got some time to kill this afternoon or you know all these cliches about time and and actually I think we're more interested in the present moment than we are about time in general we would love it if we could come drop into the simplicity of the present moment and have no worries no cares no anxieties and no regrets and and no grievances in fact I would say the present moment offers everything that we want in fact I think if you go fully into this moment you'll find you can't even find an opinion in the present moment isn't that delightful what a what a life if somebody says what's your opinion about this you can say I have no idea I'm very content in this moment but I have absolutely no idea about an opinion on anything so when I prayed to Jesus this time instead of of getting something that's longer he gave me like a two part presentation today and the first part of that presentation are you ready you might want to write this down the first part is called the fabric of the cosmos the illusion of time that's that's what we're going to immerse our mind in first the fabric of the cosmos the illusion of time and some of you are familiar with Brian Green and he's a scientist a very friendly very expanded expanded mind a very curious like many scientists are he's he's quite interested in in looking closely of what does time actually mean to us you know it's one thing to keep time with a watch or a clock but what does time actually mean you know he'll say we always talk about time it seems like it it's part of every aspect of our experience of this world but when you actually ask people what is it then they sometimes don't ask me to define it it's just it's what I deal with all the time but but they don't really know what it is and he's pretty curious what is time and of course Brian Green will take us on a journey involving Einstein and when Einstein was young when he was growing up and around Switzerland where we all think of Swiss watches and timepieces he was growing up when it was a big deal to measure time to wear time on your wrist or to to make beautiful clocks as furniture he was growing up in an era where it was seemed to be a big deal this thing of time but we know Einstein was never just accepting the surface of things he started to question what is it really and I think Einstein was was in the first wave of all the great quantum physicists that came along and as I've said hundreds of time quantum physics really takes us beyond empirical science it takes us beyond Newtonian science which is kind of like the previous they called it common sense view of the world that and part of that is that the time just exists this is what Isaac Newton said he said I'm not interested in in probing anything about time it's just there but there then Einstein comes along and and it's like is it really what what's really maybe we need to it's like saying there's an elephant in the room what's just there well you know Einstein was more concerned like what is it what is this thing we call time linear time and so we're going a bit down the rabbit hole with our first segment the fabric of the cosmos the illusion of time now I know some of you're saying if the goal that Jesus has got for us is fully saying yes to the present moment why is it that we have to watch a segment of scientists looking at the belief in time and it's like with of course in miracles Jesus will say here here are the laws of chaos and this is what you believe and when he goes through the laws of chaos in his text he will say you may disagree you may say I don't believe in any of these things Jesus you're just coming up with laws of chaos but I don't believe in these laws of chaos and he says brother if you think your feet stand on solid ground you do believe them you see how Jesus is so sweet he gives us the laws of chaos and he knows the first thing that we'll say is not me Lord I I believe in love I am not a fan of the laws of chaos and he's like well actually if you believe your feet are on solid ground you do believe them so that's why our first segment today is going to be the fabric of the cosmos the illusion of time I am going to have so much fun today because we are thoroughly going to look at time and see that it is a trick it's not just something that's there like Isaac Newton said and it's certainly not an absolute a lot of times people will say and in fact if you go to university and you study all these different fields of thought and fields of study they're all rooted in the belief in linear time and I've never gone to university where on the entrance registration to get into the university they ask you if you believe in time or not they just don't even ask the question they're so mesmerized in Newtonian empirical perception of the world that it's like that's the accepted thing and some people would say David don't be ridiculous you're never going to go to a university and be asked if you believe in time they would say that's like interviewing a fish telepathically in the ocean and say do you believe in water and I'd say I would do that I mean I think a fish and I could have a deep joining of spirit we might be able to dispel the water belief wouldn't that be fun that would be a transcendent experience we're not talking about a fish out of water we're seeing no fish and no water that's the kind of fun I have these are the kind of discussions I enjoy how can we actually start to dispel everything that we believe in and so what if if everything that we believe in is based in linear time who cares so what now what maybe now we're ready to let go of the whole thing maybe now we're ready for eternity maybe now we're ready for joy that has no break just constant state of joy constant state of happiness and and to do that we have to see the trick of time you've heard me talk a bit in the past about Brian Green you know what I like about Brian Green he's he loves to bring in the graphics and he kind of shows the big bang and then this kind of it looks like a loaf of bread the cosmos actually looks like a loaf of bread and then he goes slicing the loaf of bread and he tries to dissect it for us and try to figure out the impossible because the Course is teaching us Jesus is saying the separation never happened so this loaf of bread actually never got baked and neither was there a big bang wow that's good so I know if you're interested in going with me today we're going to go back prior to the big bang we're going to you've heard of entropy which is the movement towards disorder and now the scientists agree the cosmos is moving toward increasing disorder and it's accelerating it's not slowing down it's just the cosmos is an accelerating projection of of the ego so it shouldn't surprise us that it's just accelerating disorder and meanwhile we want to have order but what Jesus is going to teach us is we don't get order by arranging the contents of time and space we come into order where God orders our thoughts in spirit by going prior to the loaf of bread prior to time as Jesus taught before Abraham was I am before the loaf of bread of the cosmos was I am before the the conundrum of entropy seemed to be I am I am the light that's prior to time I'm not in time I've never been in time that's been the hallucination that's been the the story everything we have even in terms of reincarnation they're all stories in the loaf of bread but today I I tell you we're going to hop out of that loaf of bread and then I'm going to have a brief musical interlude where you can take a pause after the first segment and feel the joy of of coming into the light and then the next one is going to be of course once you start to see the trick of time then what should you devote yourself to that's part two I'm going to show you exactly what to devote your mind to in a very direct way in part two so as Jesus teaches nothing real can be threatened the I am presence cannot be threatened nothing unreal exists he's talking about the cosmos and linear time herein lies the peace of God so we're going to go through a very experiential movement today what will come in part two will be a very devoted symbol of of being of one mind with one desire to remember God and this single desire like Jesus taught in the Bible let thine eye be single or as he teaches us when you have only one desire and that desires for God then you you become ready to return to creation or heaven and that is is something that that I think we discover at some point like wow that must be the purpose of everything is to to discover my true reality and to discover that I last forever that I'm not limited to to the body and to the things of time so that second segment I think is going to be delightful because you're going to hear witnesses in that second segment witnesses of people who tried it out they tried the loaf of bread out of time and then they just thought this isn't really my purpose I really shouldn't be devoting my mind into the things of time most of us have not seen lots of examples I think over the last 36 years I've seen lots and lots of examples but I think growing up through my childhood and my adolescence in my 20s it's not like my world my dream was peppered full of witnesses saying drop everything and be the eternal being that you are that's just I never had a professor that said that to me my parents didn't tell me that and it was even kind of hard to find a book that would just say you open it up drop everything and be the eternal being that you are you know that would be a pretty short book if that was it but those were not coming around most of us had lots of other witnesses about grow up be somebody attain something achieve something and have a goal in the world when actually the spirit is saying I want you to begin to be willing to really drop it in your mind not in fear but in joy drop drop the mask in joy not in fear just in an absolute joy so I hope you enjoy it as much as I'm going to this is going to be a very fun ride today we're going to go from science and we're going to have an interlude of music and then we're going to go into religious life it's a it's kind of a segue science I'm going to talk an expansive science then a beautiful segue then we're going to go into the life of devotion so enjoy the ride with me I think you're going to be convinced just like me this is it