 Welcome everybody, welcome to our all day movie workshop. I'm Peter, I'm going to be your host today. And today we're also joined by our friends from our UCDM Universal event last Wednesday. So welcome. And I can just give you a run through of the layout for today. So we're going to start with a movie from David and then afterwards we'll have a 10 minute break. And then we're going to have our breakout rooms where we can share anything that came up for us during the movie. And then we'll have a longer 45 minute break. And then we're going to have our closing session which I'll be holding today. So with that, I'll pass it over to you now David. Thank you, Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome to our Saturday movie workshop. And as it would happen, we have one of the all time classic movies that will probably send chills down your spine with the miracles that you'll experience today. Cause this movie is so profound, it's so deep. For many years, as we were just developing our movie watchers guide to enlightenment, when people would ask me as I was traveling around the world, what movie would you recommend that I watch? And I would laugh and I'd say, well, there's so many great movies. It's hard to make a recommendation of one movie. And then they'd say, well, what's your favorite movie of all time? And I'd say, oh, I can't pick. They're all so good. I can't pick a favorite movie. But for many years, I would tell people, if you were stranded on a desert island and you were in your last days, and you had the choice of one movie to pick before you had to face the pearly gates of heaven, and you wanted to make sure you got through the gates and you didn't want to waste your one movie pick, I would pick this movie that we're showing today as the one movie, if you had one last request, this is what you want before you go to the angels. Because after this movie, you're prepared to go with the angels. You're ready to go into the light and without hesitation or reservation. So the movie is called Solaris. It originally was a Russian movie and then it was remade into a sequel starring George Clooney. And this remake is the one we're going to be showing today. So you don't have to worry about your Russian language skills, we're going to show the English version with Spanish subtitles. And this film came out in 2002. So it goes back a ways. I've been doing a lot of traveling over these last two decades. So that's why I referred to this movie so often. So I'd also like to welcome all of our Spanish speaking participants today. I think this is the first Saturday where we have more Spanish speaking people than the other languages combined, the rest of the world. So we're very grateful to have you come and have a taste of our beautiful movie gatherings and workshops. And I can't think of a better movie to show you to help with healing all relationships, to clearing your memory from all the cobwebs of the past and from opening your heart up to the holy instant to the beautiful light of Christ and the light of God that is within us that has just been covered over by ego beliefs and ego thoughts. So for a number of you who are new, Pete gave you a little bit of an outline of how the day will go. And what we do every week is Kenneth puts out a list of movie topics. And then during the week, whether it's in tribe or on Facebook, we have a tribe voting going on for the themes that are most relevant for you, the themes that you most would like to have an experience of in a very direct way. So we have tribe is an online community. We have people vote on themes in there. They vote on Facebook in Spanish and in English. And then we take the combined themes and we see which themes got the most vote and then pray on a movie. So this is how we arrive at the movie that we're all going to watch today. And I will just read you the themes that received the most votes. So these are themes that were voted on around the world that you would most likely to like to hear about and really be taken into an experience of a direct experience of the theme. So the theme that got the most votes was a line from A Course in Miracles. Trust would settle every problem now. So that, you can just let that sink in. Trust would settle every problem now. That this is truly a journey of trust. And that's why in the manual for teachers of A Course in Miracles, when we come back to the section on teachers of God, Jesus describes 10 characteristics of a teacher of God and he says that all of the characteristics rest on trust. And he says if trust goes, then the rest are gone too. So much for being honest or gentle or generous or open-minded, whatever characteristics you see there it's like a bowling ball alley where you have to knock the pins over. The lead pin is trust. And then you have to hit that pin in order to hit the rest. And if your trust wavers, if you have fear and doubt, then you can forget about the rest. The rest is, when all the rest go, it's like, only human, that's right. The divinity is kind of covered over when there's not trust. So Jesus has a whole section called the development of trust where he talks about six stages that you have to go through to reach enlightenment. And trust is a key one. So that's not surprising that that would be the top poll vote-getter. Trust would settle every problem now. Second theme, exchanging all time thoughts for this eternal holy instant. That's not a line in the course, but it's almost like Jesus got a little can and put two or three of the most important ideas into one sentence. And 73 votes. Survey says 73 votes. Third theme is learning to be prayerful in everything. So you might say, instead of thinking of prayer as an activity that you do on certain occasions or certain times when there's, when I find myself in times of trouble, down to the floor and on my knees. If you're pray only when you really are in trouble, then that's not learning to be prayerful in everything. It's what I call pray without ceasing where your heart is singing a song of gratitude and you're in alignment with God and you have surrendered all sense of a separate self over so that you're in constant prayer and you pray without ceasing. That was something that I always liked when I heard it the very first time, pray without ceasing. And now we know more about prayer. We know that it's beyond the words. The prayer is your desire of your heart. The prayer is the altar of your heart. So, you know, what Jesus told us 2,000 years ago, he said, you know, where your treasure is there, where your heart be also, where you put your desire, what you desire is given you because that which is given is received. Everything that comes around goes around what you call it, the law of giving and receiving or any way you wanna describe it. It all comes down to the power of the mind and the altar of the mind. So, that's why Jesus said, let thine eye be single. He was telling us to be single in our prayer, single in our desire, single in our devotion. And in that sense, blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God. Through that single desire, that's where we experienced our self as a perfect child of God. And then the fourth one is accepting the correction is my sole responsibility. And it was just this past week where I gathered with a lot of the Spanish-speaking audience and the topic for the day was the correction of error. So, here we are. You're now in the movie workshop, we're carrying on from that theme and that's the fourth theme in the combined poll. Accepting the correction is my sole, my one responsibility. So, when I think of this movie, some of you know recently I showed the movie The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. And in that, I quoted this very famous quote by Alexander Pope and I thought, while I was doing that, I thought, yeah, there was another movie that has a very, very famous quote, and it's this one. This movie has a quote that's mentioned in the movie and the quote is from Dylan Thomas and the short version of the quote is, though lovers be lost, love shall not and death shall have no dominion. And that's the short version. But I thought I would give you a treat and I would read you the whole thing just because it's so precious. And it sounds pretty intense. This is like an intense poem. But how have our experiences been on earth? Anybody have intense experiences on pointed earth? I did. And I like it when a poem kind of captures the essence of the intensity, but also the sublime bliss of what is beyond the intensity. Beyond the dark night of the soul is the bliss, the paradise, the joy, the gratitude of the kingdom of heaven, of light and love. So I think this poem fits this movie very well and I'll just read it to you. It's by Dylan Thomas and the title of it is called and death shall have no dominion. You know Jesus would love this. He was the way, the truth and the life that showed us, demonstrated to us, death has no dominion. And death shall have no dominion. Dead man naked, they shall be one. With the man in the wind and the west moon, when their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, they shall have stars at elbow and foot. Though they go mad, they shall be same. Though they sink through the sea, they shall rise again. Though lovers be lost, love shall not. And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea, they lying long shall not die windily, twisting on racks when sinews give way, strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break. Faith in their hands shall snap in two and the unicorn evils run them through. Split all ends up, they shant crack. And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion. No more may goals cry at their ears or waves break loud on the seashores, where blue a flower may a flower no more lift its head to the blows of the rain. Though they be mad and dead as nails, heads of the characters hammer through daisies, break in the sun till the sun breaks down and death shall have no dominion. So what's exciting for me is today, we're calling on Jesus and the Holy Spirit to take us through the temptations of the ego beyond the darkness and all the shadows of this world. And we are joining to pierce the veil together and open our hearts to experience pure love. That is our prayer. What a great way to spend the Saturday, right? Piercing the veil of time and space and opening to the glory of God's love. I can't think of a better way to spend Saturday. And we're doing it with a movie that is kind of a, it's a mix between like futuristic space travel. Like there, we have so many good space travel movies in our movie watchers guide to enlightenment. And we're going to explore the topic of memory, a partial memory and we're going to explore how the principle of all that I give is given to myself and that the principle of giving and receiving are the same. We're going to do it through a journey, a space journey a space journey in which a space station is kind of we could say marooned very close to a planet and the planet's name is Solaris. If you break down the word Solaris, solar means light and is means is. So Jesus is like, he's giving us preschool, light is. And how does this relate to A Course in Miracles? Well, there is a part in the workbook of A Course in Miracles where Jesus says we say God is and then we cease to speak. In other words, those are the last two words that ever needs to be spoken because that God is is a fact and another way of saying God is is light is. So I love the title of this movie. That is the main theme. That is the main topic that runs through the whole movie. Light is. And if light is, then what does that have to do with the human condition? Because the human condition is, we'll say, seven billion individuals on planet Earth and then of course we have the plants and the animals joining us and the angels and all kinds of other beautiful fairies and creatures. Some of them we can see, some of them we can't see, but there's a lot of us. More than we know, it's heavily populated. And what does God is or light is have to do with the human condition? Well, I said before that the human condition on planet Earth is about seven billion individuals. And let's take a look at that word individual because what we consider to be an individual is an individual person, an individual person with private thoughts and a private mind, apart from all the other individuals. So this is definitely a tapestry of pieces, many different pieces, seven billion separate pieces. And there's a word that I like to use in place of individual, because most of the times people say that with pride. I am an individual, they're like proud of it. But I think a better word than individual, what we really want in our heart is indivisible. Wouldn't it be great? How many indivisibles do we have here? Indivisible, not able to be broken apart. Indivisible, not able to be divided. Like the light, like Christ, one Christ, one light, one mind, one heart. And this movie is really going to take us into looking at the fear of love, at the fear of light. The reason light could be reacted to with fear is only the ego reacts with fear to love and oneness. Oneness is just the most natural, essential experience there could ever be because that's what heaven is, heaven is pure oneness. And God is oneness and Christ is oneness. The Holy Spirit, all of the Trinity are just symbols pointing to one spirit that cannot be divided. It's an indivisible spirit, but the ego is petrified, is terrified of the light because to the ego, separation is reality. To the ego, fragmentation is reality. And that's why we have separate everything in distorted perception, specific images, specific people, places, things. Time and space are both very specific and are measured with different little increments. And human beings are part of this fragmented perception. So the humans get judged and measured as well by how old they are or how tall or short they are or what their skin color is. It's all part of fragmented perception. So this movie is going to be a parable. It's going to take us on a journey to come closer to the light that we truly are. And the way it's going to work is Chris Kelvin, who's played by George Clooney. He is a psychologist and he's a psychologist on planet Earth and he is being called in to an emergency rescue mission because some strange things, some strange unexplainable things are happening at the space station that is near this planet called Solaris. This movie is going to be a journey into what I talk about all the time that the problem is a perceptual problem. I know for years people have said, yeah, it sounds good, David, but I don't know what you mean. It's a perceptual problem. Well, this movie is going to take us on a ride into the nature of perception, the nature of perception because Jesus is telling us what you believe is what you perceive. Jesus is always, he's telling us in the workbook that the thoughts that you think you think and the world that you think you see are the same. That there is no external world outside of your mind. You're thinking up the world and the world is a motion picture of your thoughts. So if you don't like something in the world, that's Jesus says, change your thinking. And the ego says nonsense, change the world. But if the world is just your thoughts and you're just perceiving your thoughts always without exception, then it helps to have an experience to begin to see, oh, I'm just upset by my past thoughts. My past thoughts, I'm just upset by these ego thoughts that I am believing real. My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. Solaris is this planet where there's, it's kind of got bright lights coming off of it and it's kind of got like a purple haze with it. It's a cool planet. I would love to just live there in Solaris. In fact, I feel I do. I just getting light and purple coming from me every day. Oh, I got green on today, but somehow that happened. But it's just showing that all that I give is given to myself. That there is no problem with the world apart from the thinking that made the world. And if I'm willing to release the thinking, the ego thinking that made the world, then I'll see a whole different world. I'll see a world of reflected love. I'll see the world with the Holy Spirit and with Jesus. So Chris Kelvin, he's a psychologist. He's gonna be called into an emergency rescue mission because he has a friend who's on this space station named Jabarian and there's other characters up there. Dr. Gordon, she's on board. There's a character called Snow. I think you're gonna love Snow. He's a little neurotic, but he really speaks what's on his mind. And if he doesn't know the answer to something, he'll just say exactly or right. Imagine answering a question. You get a question, you just go exactly because there's something happening on the space station and no one really knows what's going on. I think how many of you feel that with Earth that you're starting to feel like you really, really don't know what's going on. You're really getting really close to that point where you're like saying, throwing your hands in the air, like, okay, once again, I have no idea what is going on. Well, this is what's going on with Solaris because it's not predictable. Even though you have Dr. Gordon who's a very bright woman, she is terrified of whatever's happening up on the space station. They're all a bit afraid, all of the inhabitants and we'll see that they've already tried to send a security mission in to calm things down and the whole security team disappeared. You know, imagine sending troops off to war and your troops disappear. That they don't know what's going on. The security team has disappeared and so they're sending in a psychologist because they think the last resort is send in a psychologist. We all know that that doesn't work very well either unless the psychologist happens to be Jesus Christ. Then we've got a little bit of a chance there. If Jesus Christ is our mind training psychologist, then we've got a good leader. We've got a good way shower but as far as typical psychologist, I've been there. Maybe transpersonal psychologist, that's a little closer but you need JC for your psychologist. So Chris Kelvin's gonna go up there and then you're gonna see what he encounters. What I think is great about this movie is this movie is taking you into your mind. If any of you have wondered, what exactly is my mind? Is it powerful? Is it deluded? Is it teachable? Can it be saved? Some of us have thought that when we're going through the monkey mind for many, many years, decades, we may have a thought sometime like, is there ever an end to this monkey mind? Is there an out? Is there an escape hatch from this thing called mind? Today we will learn the escape hatch. Jesus will teach us this movie that there is indeed escape from the distorted perceptions of the ego. So also this is a relationship movie. And this movie will take on all the themes of relationship. All of the seeming thoughts of interpersonal conflict are shown in this movie. Suicide is dealt with in this movie. And also we are gonna go all the way from suicide and conflict to though lovers be lost, love shall not, and we go all the way with Jesus too, and death shall have no dominion. We are being taken on a journey toward eternal life, eternal light and life in God. That's what we've all wanted. This is the most important kind of movie that we would ever wanna watch. We don't need more action adventure. We don't need more chasings. We don't need more guns and bombs. We need a movie that takes us in our mind to face the light that is in our own mind and that is the peace and the calm and tranquility that we pray for, that we always pray for. So the main characters again are Chris Kelvin is the psychologist. Rhea is his wife. Initially when the movie opens up, Chris is all alone. We don't see Rhea because Rhea's not there. Rhea is no longer in Chris's life. She has committed suicide. So he's a psychologist that's dealing with his own pain about the suicide of his wife and he's working with clients and he's going through the same healing process that everyone goes through. But I would say when he is called on this emergency rescue mission, this is going to accelerate his healing process. When you go on a mission to Solaris toward the light, you will face things that you never imagined that you had to face. You will have to face every fear, every doubt, every aspect of what Jesus calls the authority issue will come up the closer you get to that unconditional love and that blazing light. This is not a common thing that's even talked about on earth because if you talk about love in the context of conversations on planet earth, people are always searching for love and the fear of love is not often a topic of discussion. Fear is talked about in terms of just itself as being a very debilitating emotion but it's not usually applied to love, fear of love. Although of course the miracles gives us a whole context for that, that our fear is of redemption, our fear is of awakening, our fear is of the light of heaven, the light of Christ. And when we seem to have issues that involve interpersonal relationships or the body or disease or death of the body or fears and insecurities that are related to the body, that's just a projection of the fear in the mind. So even something like a hurricane or a pandemic or a tsunami, those are all just projections of the fear of knowing who I really am. That the fear of the light is what the fear is. It's an identity fear. It's a fear of true identity and this movie really shows it. It really goes under the surface and takes it away from the surface issues. So sit back, enjoy the movie. I will come and offer some commentary at different parts and I think you just have to allow your mind to be taken on a ride, on a journey by Jesus and the Holy Spirit today because this is really what you've been praying for. You're praying for a journey to the light which is really just a recognition of the light. It's not a real journey at all. It's just a moment of recognition and that's what enlightenment is. It's just a moment of complete and total recognition of the unending love of God. So enjoy and I'll see you back very shortly.