 I think the community has kind of developed really around David because I know David started his path on his own, just he and Jesus travel alone and go to homes wherever he was invited and go to course groups wherever he was invited and then when people started to go around David and saying I want to live with you it wasn't like David said I want to start a spiritual community it didn't start like that it was people came to him saying I'm your students I want to learn from you and I actually want to live with you 24 seven and people started to just start to form around you with properties and different things that was the start and I really feel that is important because because from the very beginning this is a very clear focus that we are not leading the way with a plan or idea of how it's going to look because the whole purpose is we are going to be shown this whole life on earth in time and space if we're going to use be if that's going to be used to undo our entanglement or believe in time and space we have to be shown and we cannot really sort out the plan from within within this realm of mind so so this is how it got started David was clueless and it's like okay a community is coming and people are living around and and he just continued to travel you know continue to travel and certain people say I want to travel with you so it just started like that and more and more people came to live in a base where whether he travels away or not they just settled there so I think then gradually a monastery living miracle monastery was donated by Suzanne in Utah United States that's where the first wave of volunteers came to support and I remember I was probably among that wave when we just got the monastery it just opened and I came and it was the same I didn't really come to to live in community at all I just finished a long retreat with David in Australia they all left and I really was looking at my life and how I was not myself I could not really follow my calling so I was really looking at all the situations and decided to make some make some changes and I made the biggest change which was I was going to leave my marriage because I couldn't really be truthful to myself if we're gonna stay together there was so that was the biggest but I was terrified after I made that decision I was so terrified that I I texted David and he was probably still have one more day in Australia then he was gonna go I texted David I said I did this and then he said to come down where we are which was few hours away from Sydney and just be with us for a day because they were leaving the next day so I went down and I felt so bad in my heart just like the dark dark uncertainty about what did I what have I done what was gonna happen at the end of the day just couldn't stand it I just said can I just spend some time with you just a few minutes just to sit down because I was just trembling and then he said welcome to visit us in Utah so I thought okay thank God I have a next step and I didn't come in until I made a huge move so when when I went to Utah I was only thinking of three months that's the only time I could stay in the United States three months and I thought by the end of the three months I would finish my mind training it was it was just taking you know it's three months mind showing that's a long time so that's that's that was probably nine years ago when I came so that's that's really and I believe that was a lot of the you know we were in the same situation with a lot of the people who came together in that time week we felt called to receive mind training that was really the only purpose we went there for no it's not our life it was it was not intention to to do anything except just for ourselves so gradually I think it just continued on continued on one thing after the next because because Spirit kept giving me new assignments and new hard opening and life opening and mind opening experiences so I felt like I was expanding expanding expanding there was nowhere else that I needed to go because I felt like even though I was living in the community I wasn't really living in one place I was continuously expand and feel like the community expanded with me together so we were like just that's that's the experience but the purpose is so important because if we go to a place and feel we're gonna make something out of it in terms of goals in time and space then that is actually the total opposite of awakening and that is not gonna work it's gonna be a huge compromise of our calling so so you know you can imagine for we have people who come from different parts of the world and at any given time the size already always varies you know from year to year sometimes we have a lot of people all of a sudden sometimes we have a very small group and people come from you know one week one month to just indefinite we we we really don't know but it was just orchestrated but I do say that David kept the purpose very very pure because it's very tempting to mix intentions and purpose with the moment you get into daily life get daily living and with group of people and we're talking about daily things talking about projects you know when we do a retreat we don't say whatever the result you know if it happens it happens if it doesn't happen doesn't happen no when we when we receive the prompt to put a retreat it is happening because there is an integrity underneath it if spirit said this is what we're gonna put out and what we're gonna do we take steps very very specific steps and we're not like who knows we don't know let's see there is actually a difference so so when we come together there there are a lot of projects like this daily day in and day out so it's all kind of feeling the same as living anywhere in the world actually in terms of how it looks but the only difference which is a huge difference is the purpose is very very single and the moment temptations come up to mix the purpose and to split the purpose or change the purpose it gets written out pretty quickly because it held you know very very sturdy from David and from everybody's intentions so yeah I really just feel it's it's important we cannot talk about spiritual communities and how we live without talking about what is truly the foundation of it because if we talk about what we do and how we do things it's not really the message it's not the picture you know the only reason that we are living together is because of the purpose and the only reason that we seem to be able to to continue on and advance in our spiritual awakening is because of this purpose and the only reason that I can share with you today and all of us can have anything to share is just because of this purpose that's really there's nothing else to share except that so yeah so having said that then we can talk a little bit more about the specifics yeah and I just also want to to lay the context when you put the purpose out front to forgive it is like you're handing over all attention concern worry about outcomes in the world we're not talking about advocating a certain way of living when you when I think community I think purpose when I think community actually I think communion with the Holy Spirit I think communion with Jesus is what I'm thinking of I mean holy communion not taking bread and not from the Catholic system or the church system but but being in alignment and sharing the same prayer and letting the spirit guide and that means giving over the concern for the form and saying you give me if there's a word I need to speak you give it to me somebody I need to meet I'm happy you you tell me how or you bring them to me if I'm supposed to travel somewhere then let's do it you be you in charge it's not about the boxes that I talked about at the beginning category statuses boxes you know I would I would rather have communion with you than have a status in the world I would rather have communion with you spirit rather than be identified with a with a country you know that's John Lennon again imagine imagine there's no country I wonder if you can there that's what this Holy Spirit was telling me the same thing that John was sharing in his song imagine there's no country that's an artificial construct you know American and German Australian you know it's like and languages you know those those are artificial you know there's a language of the heart there's a language of of the of the unified mind there's a language of the spirit and it takes us into this divine silence where we just are perfect you know it's just isn't this there's nothing there's not even words in that pure being this so all I wanted to do is say you guide my words you guide my interactions you guide everything it's all yours and that's why we are not advocating a particular form I could not advocate advocate a form when the parable of David has been filled with so many different forms I mean after I received a course of miracles in 1986 it was very intimate but it was so intimate that I would just pop it open as like an oracle I would pray have a question pop it open get my answer it happened over and over month after month and then Jesus said I can do it with watch we do it with the radio too pray ask your question now you're in your car turn the radio on oh my god he said no see that sign over there oh let's go to the library you don't even need a course of miracles I'll pray ask your question walk through the rows of the library I'll tell you where to stop you reach up you pull the book open you pop it open oh oh it was like okay I see I see you're in charge you I pray for the answer and you're gonna give it to me in in a song on the radio and somebody speaking to me in the billboard I mean it's gonna come flooding into me if that's my prayer to be shown to be guided to be led I'm not limited by the course I mean it's gonna come everywhere and so for me that's the purpose and the purpose goes in line with the with the prayer of the heart I'm more interested in all of us praying together and not praying together just with words but getting in like we're on the same channel we're all tuned in our our minds are all connected to the same purpose so it's like a dance like we had last night imagine your daily life being like that dance that we experienced so spontaneous so just joyful so happy not a care in the world we're just swaying and moving and running and we're being it's like played with the spirit you know we're just we're just totally to me that's what community is that's what communion is and and then another line from imagine that song imagine no possessions I wonder if you can well we're not into ritualistically trying to say okay you no possessions no possessions because we know that possessions are in the mind right the ego is the possessive part of the mind but if you start to trust and you start to flow and let the spirit orchestrate things then you start to realize that everything in this world is a backdrop I'm not advocating a certain way that people should be or a certain form because in 1991 I said okay Jesus what's next and you've heard of like maybe the Aborigines in Australia Marla Morgan's book of when she goes on walkabout in the in the abridge well Jesus says we're going to do a little drive about and I said okay I don't have a car he said well I'll take you to you know we'll go to the car dealership and you've got how much money okay we'll get you a look he got me a little gold three cylinder little was really good the price of gas back in 1991 was very cheap and he got me a three cylinder car which could pretty much run on fumes I very rarely had to fill the car up I'd fill it up and then drive across states across the United States could go for miles and miles and miles on this little thing and Jesus said yeah we're going a little drive about and actually that drive about actually lasted five years that's the thing with Jesus leading the way you just you know you think you're going on a trip and it's a trip it's a mind trip we're going on a trip he didn't really tell Helen Shuckman what was coming he didn't tell Judy he never tells any of us where it's going because we'll get too frightened but he just gives us little morsels like breadcrumbs here you go just follow the breadcrumbs that's all just the next breadcrumb that's all you got to focus on here the next breadcrumb so he took me out for someone who didn't even like to travel yeah on a five-year trip that really washed that one away and then I was taken in and met these people all over I had so many miracles and that was the form that initially it took after just reading the book studying the book using the book as an oracle and being very devotional I didn't even know of course groups at the beginning I didn't even know there was such a thing as course of miracle groups all I know is I was having a very deep intimate experience with Jesus and that was all I needed I didn't even have to think about groups and then when I started traveling around for five years I met a lot of people in groups some groups welcomed me in I went to one group a course group and they had a set of bylaws and and they had to take a vote whether I could speak at the group and I was like whoa and Jesus like I'm teaching you to be present with me you do not need to be concerned about rules and groups and everything like this stay with me that's the goal here uh don't judge anything I was invited one year to to a conference um where I was going to be a speaker and the minister set up a session with the whole group where it was myself and another minister and another minister holding a stopwatch and I was like okay never seen this one well the guy the minister with the stopwatch would give like the first person like a minute or two minutes to speak and then time and then there would be like it was set up like a political debate except this was about spiritual awakening and enlightenment so I remember talking David you can go somebody asked a question from the audience about enlightenment I would get talking talking talking and then in mid sentence and so one of the most important things to remember as you're on your spiritual journey is ding time Jesus closed my mouth on time even if I was in mid sentence because that was the format that was given and I was not to try to buck the format I was to be there in happiness and joy and stay attentive and if that was the rule that was given then I would stop right on the stopwatch well there was some people in the audience that were quite upset and there's a lot of people shaking things all kinds of things going on and this went on until finally I said I know Jesus is going to have some fun with this uh because he always does he's so playful he uses anything to to make it playful and joyful this went on for some time finally my time to speak I was speaking and I was speaking and it went on in a joyful way and the guy holding the minister holding the stopwatch was not was not stopping me I was way beyond the time until the other minister said hey hey hey hey what's going on here David is way over time he interrupted the whole thing this is not great you know what's going on and then the minister with the stopwatch said I know David mentioned my name in his answer I felt to give him as long as he wanted to speak with a total straight face he says well the whole audience burst into laughter the minister next to me burst into laughter the minister with the stopwatch and everybody was bursting with it because Jesus was playing with the time idea showing us we don't need to be so attached to time and rules and I I always know Jesus is going to use whatever the situation is for lightness for joy for happiness as long as I have no investment in anything I can experience it with Jesus but if I have an investment of the outcome based on time beliefs or expectations whatever then I'm not going to be happy I'm gonna gonna be stirred up so that's part of what we focus on so much it's not just a group of people spending time together but it's it's the purpose it's the prayer underneath that is so important