 Okay. Hello everybody. Welcome. Welcome to our all day movie workshop. Good to see you all. Yes. So once again, we have our online retreat weekend happening this weekend. So we have a bit of a larger group with us today. And so, yeah, some some are here for the retreat. The light has come. And then we just have others who are just here for the movie. So welcome everybody. I can let you know how the day is going to flow. So we're going to start with David and the movie commentary. And then afterwards we'll take a 10 minute break. And then we'll have the ending Q&A session with David. So I'll pass it right over to you now David. Thank you. Thank you Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome to everyone is part of our weekend online retreat and those that are joining in on the movie workshop. We have a lot of people in our centers in Mexico and up here in Utah where I am. And just like to send a welcome to the some new participants we have joining us we have Isabella from Brazil, Annabelle, Janet, Sal and Cynthia all joining in from the United States to the online weekend retreat. She's joining in for the first time in the United States to our movie workshop. And there's my friend Tanya from Ireland she's joining in with us so we, we have a huge global audience today I think all told everybody watching, including the centers will be up over 100 enjoying this beautiful movie that Jesus has selected for us. I'm very excited about this movie the last time I showed this movie. Jesus had me in contact with one of the actresses that plays powders love interest. And right before I went on the air she joined in our zoom so we had someone from the movie back in 1995 watching with us so Jesus through a little, a little bonus and for us. So, our theme for the weekend is the light has come. And that is so profound because this theme is teaching us that who we are is the answer to everything who we are is a divine creation of God. It's a spirit. It's, it's the Christ idea, the pure Christ idea, and that Christ idea is pure light. And so when we say the light has come. It means that right now that light is fully available to us through a decision to forgive the world and accept our. It means prior to time to actually go beyond time into this amazing state of light. So, how joyful for us to have a movie. This movie came out in 1995 and I remember, I just had such a hard opening when I saw the movie in the theater, I just stayed in the theater. It was a joy just coming down my face when I first saw it. But 1995 yeah, some of you weren't even born in 1995. Some of you maybe are watching this movie for the first time, you're in for an amazing experience, because this movie is a very strong reflection of the light has come. It is powder that I said 1995. And this movie came through prayer and the movie poll that we take every week so these are the themes that we will dive into today. These are the themes that we are praying for a direct experience of today. That's why we watch these movies we just watched them so we can be taken into an experience. We really don't have any other reason to watch movies, other than to let the spirit take us into an actual direct experience of who we are. So the first theme that we came in number one with 69 votes was rely completely on God for everything. And that's what Francis and I were talking about. On the Friday session, as we open things up, and that's why we also had Ken and Anna speaking about their journey with miracles, daily miracles and having everything provided. We also had Amanda and Micah on talking about their miracles of how things have just fallen into place for them. And what we talked about was putting God first when you put God first, that activates the awakening in a very strong way. And once you really sincerely put God first in a very sustained and devoted way, then you will notice that your life and your world starts to be filled with miracles, flooded with miracles. And so to rely completely on God for everything really means you have to let go of all past beliefs, relying on money, relying on work, relying on governments or families, friends, parents, relying on children. All the things of the ego are saying that you are dependent and reliant on things of this world. Basically, you are reliant on the images of the world. And the ego said, you are made by the world, by mom and dad, and you will die in the world. And basically, you will live a life dependent on the laws of this world, on the laws of economics, on the laws of medicine, on the laws of climate, on the laws of physics. And what Jesus is teaching us through the course is that we can rely on God and God is our metaphysics. God is what goes beyond the physics of this world. That our mind is so powerful, because it was created by God and really we are not at the mercy of this world at all. Jesus discovered this, he lived it, he demonstrated it, and now we're learning from him how to live it ourselves. The second theme is trust. My only part is to say yes. If we say yes to God, that is putting God first, we're just basically saying, Well, you're my creator, and you created me in love. So I would rather be mistaken about my identity in the world which the ego made the ego generated a false identity. And I would rather know the truth of my being than to believe the lie that was made up to take the place of who I really am. So basically every second of every day, we are choosing to either identify with the imposter self or with the real self, the real self is the Christ, the imposter self is it's it's the ego but it takes the form of a personality self and a fragmented world. The third theme is allow communication to flow like a river. The key to our healing is we need to like the John Mayer song say what you need to say, speak it up. We need full communication. We can't hope to wake up to heaven with partial communication because partial communication involves people pleasing, trying to just walk on eggshells every day to not step on too many toes to overturn the apple cart you know to not to not disturb too many people. We've been too shy about our awakening it's time to be a bold Christ. And the way you're a bold Christ Nana. I took that from Nana. Nana's prayer the other day be a bold Christ to be a bold Christ you have to speak up. You have to not only speak up but you have to let the Holy Spirit speak through you. And you may have noticed when you let the Holy Spirit speak through you in this world, because the ego made this world, it, it seems to cause some disruptions for a while. This also this to shall pass. I'm really, I'm really not having I'm not experiencing any disruptions but I'm really in my full bold Christ mode. I had a student many years ago maybe 15 years ago and one year as I was starting the new year like we're doing now I said, I said this year I told her her name was Carrie I said this year carry I'm going to be. I'm going to be much bolder than I have ever been and she said, you got to be kidding me. He said, Oh my God, if you get any more bolder I don't know if I can hang around. But we have to be bold in gentle love, and we have to be bold in being in touch with our feelings and not being afraid of our feelings and not being afraid to be in touch with our feelings. The ego is terrified of love. So when we go on this journey to wake up, we will have to face our fear of divine love. It's not so much a fear of sexual intimacy is a fear of the intimacy of the mind. And sometimes you know, even if you have a friend that you haven't talked to for a while, and they show up and you have hugs and you have joy and laughter and then you go to the grocery store. We're in the car together and suddenly there's an awkward silence. This is this awkward silence in the car is a fear of divine love. There's no reason for us to be awkward with our brothers and sisters where there's no reason for us to feel separation from each other because really the same one in mind, not in body in mind. It's the same one. And this world is an attempt to run away from that mind to forget that mind to be mindless and get identified with the body and a brain and a bunch of images, which really are not our true identity. Number four find true purpose in all my relationships. Wow. Find true purpose in all my relationships. This is a great movie for that. Because powder. Our main character. He's, he's going to be very connected emotionally with every one and everything he's extremely intuitive. He has ESP extra sensory perceptions. He can, he can read people's minds. He has psychic abilities like psycho kinesis some of you who studied parapsychology know psycho kinesis is the ability to move objects with the power of your mind. He's very good with his psycho kinetic powers psychic powers but he's also kind of a, he's almost like electricity man he's, he's tuned into electricity. And that means that all appliances electrical appliances around him. He's very sensitive with all of them like, like cars and televisions and everything that involves. Electro electricity. And then finally the last theme is don't be afraid to let the light shine through. The, our main problem has been that we have accepted an imposter cells. We have accepted a personality self and a fragmented world in the place of our Christ reality. And Jesus says, it's quite a gap. The eternal life and the cosmic linear time construct, they don't really meet. There is no meeting point between eternal life and this linear cosmos of time and space. And like the Bible says perfect love cast out fear. So that's what we're opening our hearts to we just want to know perfect love, because that's who God is and that's who we are. We were created as perfect love we were created as divine innocence and we won't ever be happy in the in this environment of time space we will be eternally happy remembering our, our source, which is heaven, which is God. So, what I like about this movie today is this movie is going to be a great bridge for us. Because, when we look at powder powder is a young man. Who, who basically his his mother was pregnant with him and then she was struck by lightning and she was killed. And then powder was born. He was born even though his mother was killed by the lightning and then his father was told in the hospital you'll see that the baby had abnormalities and that's the pigmentation albino. So powder has very light skin. His eyes look very different from human being. And most of us who have been around planet Earth for a while we know that this is a planet that is made by the ego along with all the other planets and everything else of time and space. But the ego likes conformity, and the ego is, even though it made the differences, it, it always accentuates the differences. That's what racism is about. That's what sexism is about every single prejudice is about differences. Every single bias is about differences, and Jesus is telling us this and you're all the same. You, you, you may look different in body, and you may have different forms and shapes and sizes. You may have different colors you may have different skin pigmentation, I colors. You may have different gender and on and on and on, but, but basically the message of Jesus is that we are the same because we come from God, and God created us as spirit. And that our perception of form all of these fragmented images is just a veil covering over the face of Christ, covering over our true divine essence as the Christ. The world is the veil drawn over the mind. When the mind is asleep, it believes in the veil. When the mind wakes up it sees there was no veil. It was a, it was a crazy dream that really was not it never had a reality. With powder, powder is is going to grow up in kind of a secluded life, mostly living in his, his mother's parents, his grandparents basement. And he's going to basically learn what he learns about the world through books. He's, he's highly intelligent. He's gentle. He's very tender. He's extremely sensitive. And he's going to be a pretty good role model for all of us in going from being human to being the light. That's why we like our mystics and saints because they're good role models. That's why we like Jesus. That's why we like all the mystics and saints through history because they're showing us that this can be done. This can be accomplished and take heart, because you must hang with this and face every obstacle in the mind that has been put between you and God. You have to face every fear, you have to face every doubt, every bit of shame, every bit of resistance, you have to face it. And powder is a good example because in terms of development of consciousness, he's a little bit higher up than most humans. Are not as intuitive as powder. Most humans cannot read minds. Most humans can't move objects with their minds on a conscious level. He can do it consciously. Jesus is telling us, you know, we're, we're moving everything in time and space with the power of our mind. It's that powerful, but we're not aware of that. On a daily basis, it seems like it's external. It seems like there's a lot of motion going on in the world outside of our mind when it's actually, it's motion within our minds, our sleeping mind and our mind is moving all the people and the objects and the images around it's an extremely powerful mind. I shared this with Helen Shuckman, the scribe of A Course in Miracles and when I first read it, you know, I think I fell off the bed when I was reading it, because I was like, Wow, that's a powerful mind if she was wondering asking Jesus what does astrology have to do with the lives of men and women? What does the movement of the planets have to do with the lives of men and women? And Jesus said, Well, your mind is moving all those bodies around all those people and it's moving all the planets behind it. I fell off the bed. That's how powerful our mind is. Our mind is under the egos. When it's under the egos belief system, it, it's just making up a hallucination of a world and cosmos. And, and we never quite fit into this world. Not to say that we haven't tried. We've tried to adapt and adjust and play to be a good personality, but we really were never really going to make that happen because we're really a good spirit, not a good personality. And we can't force ourselves to be something that we're not. And with powder, basically Jesus has taught us that consciousness is the domain of the ego, he says in the course and he says that consciousness first arose after the separation belief. Consciousness has levels and consciousness can be trained. And ultimately, there are no levels because consciousness is the ego, the domain of the ego and what is not real cannot have levels. And what is not real cannot be trained. But for our purposes, most of us know that we're on a journey where we seem to move higher and higher into higher levels of consciousness and powders an example of one who's, who's gone way beyond the norm of human beings. And also though he stands out because, because he, he, he's not going to people please. When he comes out of his hiding space, his very sheltered life after his, his grandparents, pass away then, then we're going to see that his life is going to be a good teaching device for us because all of us have to learn how to let our yes be yes, and our no be no. All of us have to let the Holy Spirit speak through us and smile through us and laugh through us. All of us have to surrender and say yes to the spirit and let the spirit use what the ego made, meaning the body and our personality to release the body and the personality. We have to let the Holy Spirit use time so that we can release time release the belief in time. So, some of you are perhaps doing the workbook lessons of a course in miracles. How many of you started the daily lessons. January 1. Is there anybody here practicing a course in miracles. Great. Well, today's lesson is a number seven, I see only the past, and to recap. These are four, four, we're in the middle of four lessons that I've used my whole life with the course. I always, every time I started to get upset, I would always remember lessons five, six, seven, eight, it was a four part process to undo the ego. Every time I started to get upset. I heard Jesus like remember five, six, seven, eight. I'm never upset for the reason I think I'm upset because I see something that's not there. I see only the past, which is today's lesson I see only the past. And number eight is my mind is preoccupied by past thoughts. How did I memorize those four. Every time that you go tried to get me to feel upset, I would stop and go, Oh, hold on here. Nothing's happening to me here. Let's go back five, six, seven, eight, let's do the five, six, seven, eight dance here and break free from this upset because God's will is for me to be happy not to be upset. So the lesson for today is I see only the past and and what this means is that when we look at the world. When we look at this zoom screen and this movie gathering that seems to be happening right now. It's actually over and gone. We're simply as Jesus says in lesson 158 we're reviewing mentally what has already gone by imagining that we're making the journey once again. So we're watching a movie. While we're looking at the screen right now on the zoom room. We'll be watching a movie called powder. Some of you who say I've never seen powder. Well, you've seen it all we've all seen it all. We're just watching the past. But we believe that it's still happening. You see that's the trick of the ego. The US tricked us to believe that what we're perceiving is still going on. The mind training of all these workbook lessons is to give us an experience that it's over. The past is gone. The past is over and everything that we perceive has already happened. It's part of a prearranged script that Jesus tells us. He says the script is written. And basically, we're, we're learning to release our, our investments in the past. We're learning to release the meaning that we've given to the past. And above all, we're learning to release this idea that it's still happening. Imagine how happy you would be. Imagine the smile on your face when your mind realizes that it's over. It's like a bottle skag song. Why can't you just get it through your head. It's over, it's over now. Yes, you heard me clearly now I said, it's over, it's over now. That's what we're doing today. Lesson number seven, it's over, it's over now. We also see how relaxing that would be because that would mean that your to do list that you have mentally in your mind every day. That's over too. Isn't that good news. You don't have a to do list anymore. There's no shoulds and obtuse and have to use anymore you see how practical Jesus is. He wants to free our mind from the beliefs that we have to do things to be worthy. He wants to do things to survive, you know, he's really going to go train our mind to really see that that we're it's it's over. Now with powder. He seems to be very telepathic so you know one of his early memories is he remembers his mother being struck by lightning, even though he was still in her womb. He remembers the hospital where, where he was delivered even though his mother had passed away he was delivered at a hospital, and he also remembers his father coming there and it's very traumatic because his father when he sees this little albino baby is really going to seem to reject him completely and say that is not my son, and powder will pick up all of his father's thoughts. And I've gone through very telepathic phases in my life where I, I felt like my mind was a giant NASA satellite dish. I was picking up everyone's thoughts. I don't know it was very noisy. It was a little frightening to pick up everyone's thoughts. And for me, it was part of a discernment because Jesus was saying yes yes this is part of the awakening it's part of your psychic abilities but, but the psychic abilities are not important in and of themselves. Oftentimes we think psychic abilities are associated with higher states of consciousness, but Jesus is trying to remind us, but all the states of consciousness are false. So don't get too proud about any psychic abilities that you seem to have because they're all false. None of them are part of the kingdom of heaven. It's the purpose is to use the Holy Spirit can use the psychic abilities to help you wake up. And the ego will try to use the psychic psychic abilities to keep you in hell. So, the purpose for which the psychic abilities are used are extremely important. And we'll see that today with powder. Because he has some pretty advanced psychic abilities, but when fear comes in, and he lets the fear use his psychic abilities it doesn't turn out well at all. It's traumatic. When he allows his psychic abilities to be used by the Holy Spirit, it results in healing and the symbols of healing. So this is also very helpful for us to see someone like powder, because of course all of us are going to go through this awakening. And I like this movie too, because it's very transparent about psychic abilities and how the ego reacts with such fear to the power of the mind, to the power of psychic abilities. I hope as we move through this you will start to realize that psychic abilities aren't important in and of themselves because nothing exists in and of itself. But it's the purpose that we're always praying for the Holy Spirit to guide us. Help me use everything that the ego made for the healing of the mind. Yes, even psychic abilities were made by the ego. It's just still a misuse of mind. When people say, ask me, what does Jesus say? What is the helpful use of the mind? And that's what Jesus calls creation. God is a creator and God created Christ to create like God in spirit. So the actual function of the mind in heaven is to create and to extend as God extends. This is a world of miscreation. This is a world of misperception. And this is a world based on the belief that you can misuse the powers of God. That's why even things like manifesting are our little stepping stone ideas, because as soon as you realize you have a powerful mind and you can manifest things, Jesus is like, good, good, good, good. Now you see you're very powerful. Now stop using it with things. Come back and let's go back and create like God created us to create. Let's go back to heaven and use our creative ability in the purest way and Christ has creations. You might say that our creations are like our babies, but these babies are spiritual in nature. These are not little baby bodies. These are spiritual creations that we have part of our natural creative ability in heaven and we can't remember our creations until we forgive this world, and we wake up to remember our creations. So I think you're going to really enjoy this movie. I remember when I was in the theater. I thought, wow, this is raw. I just was so happy to find such a raw movie that that was such a good demonstration of spiritual, the steps of spiritual awakening. One thing I always get from it is the temp Jesus says in the course he says beware of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated. When the mind seems to fall asleep, it perceives what we call planet Earth is like filled with interpretations of myths of abuse of mistreatment. Whether it's we're talking physical or psychological, this is a projection of the ego and the ego is the belief in victimization. You, you look out the world, I mean, I can look right out my window here and I can see that there's not only trees but there's there's animals out there. And what do we know about the animal kingdom on planet Earth it seems to be survival of the fittest. It seems to be under the laws of killer be killed. In case you've ever watched Marlon Perkins and the animal kingdom. So when we look at the creatures of this earth. And I think we have to put humans in there too because we have a war going on in Ukraine. So there's still this attack and defense is all a projection of the ego belief system. It has nothing to do with reality whatsoever has nothing to do with the kingdom of heaven. What we're doing is the first step in spiritual awakening is you have to realize that this world this cosmos was made to keep you mindless to forget about the mind and forget about the power of the mind. It may seem striking like why am I so afraid of the mind, if God created me as an idea in the mind of God why am I so afraid of the mind. The ego belief system has generated a fear of love and a fear of the mind. The main thing that people start to realize when they do the workbook of a course in miracles is that they were not really aware of how afraid they are of the power of their mind and the power of thought. On the surface it may seem like why would I be afraid of the power of my thoughts. It's because of the belief in miscreation. If you believe that you can use thoughts to miscreate and use thoughts against God's will that generates terror in the mind in the sleeping mind that generates terror. Even people I know who are what they call themselves manifesters. They love to talk about all the good things that they're using their mind to manifest with, but they don't like it when the topic turns to war or hunger or disease. You see, that's the flip side of manifesting and people don't like to think that their thoughts are generating war. But Jesus is saying as long as you believe in the ego which is a death wish, then as long as you believe in the ego you are a death worshipper he says, and that tells us we need help. If we're, if we're worshiping death and we're not aware that we're worshiping death, we need help. We need lots of help. I hope this movie today helps us all out to start to understand that we don't need to be afraid of love. We don't need to be afraid of the power of our mind, and that the Holy Spirit's in charge. So it's guaranteed that we're going to wake up from, from this dream. And that is our theme the light has come and and nothing can prevail against the light of God's God's love. So, sit back, enjoy the movie. I will come in from time to time with some commentary and again welcome to our, our new viewers. I hope you enjoy the ride. Keep your, keep your hands inside the carpet today on our carpet ride. Don't, don't get, don't go trying to pick some meaning from the movie that that's outside the carpet. The carpet is the Holy Spirit. Keep your hands inside the carpet. Okay, see you all soon.