 Hi everybody. Good morning. Good afternoon wherever you are. And welcome to our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host today. For those who are new, welcome. I can let you know a bit about the day. But before I do, we have a larger group with us today. We have a online retreat happening this weekend. Miracles are involuntary. That's our theme. And so we have some people here from the retreat and some just for the movie workshop. So welcome everyone. So we're going to start with the movie with David. And then afterwards we have a 10 minute break. And then we're going to have a breakout room or breakout rooms after that where you can express any emotion or anything that came up. And then we have a 45 minute break and then we have a Q&A session with me. So I see David there. I'll pass it over to you now. Thank you Peter. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome. Exciting. We have our final two episodes today of another self, the Turkish series and it's part of our miracles are involuntary weekend online retreat. So, so that's really what we're aiming for. We're, we're aiming for a state of mind in which we just feel like we're flowing all the time, we're just in the flow. You know, like they said in the 1960s, go with the flow. We want to live in the flow, live in the flow. Always live in the flow. Be happy, be joyful, be free. And we have a great setup today. As you know, for those of you that are here. Every week on, on Saturdays, you know we have a poll of themes and the themes flow with with the movie or the series that we're presenting and they also flow with our online retreat theme. So today, the themes that were voted on. Number one coming in number one with the most votes direct communication. Say what you need to say. Isn't that lovely. That sounds like that John Mayer song, say what you need to say, say what you need to say. Yeah, we need to hear that song a lot. Because some of you have said, Oh, David, I'm a big people pleaser. Maybe you should play the John Mayer song every day, every morning before you get out of bed. That's a way to rinse away some of that people pleasing just now today I'm just going to say what I need to say I'm just going to, I'm going to roll with it. I'm going to let it flow off of my tongue, whatever it is I'm not going to prejudge it or bite my tongue and hold stuff in I'm just going to say what I need to say. Coming in number two accepting I am worthy of love. That is so important. If we're going to give up private thoughts and people pleasing we have to feel we're worthy of open communication. We're worthy of sharing what's really important to us, and we're open to receive communication as well we're open to give and receive communication. And that's how I begin to accept that I am very very worthy of love. Number three embracing my function as a miracle worker. 43 votes. Number four, let it go and let it be. We're adding to the famous Beatles song let it be, let it go and let it be. Let it go and let it be, let it go and let it be. Yeah, we can we can remember that tune that happy tune today, especially as we're watching this series. Let it be ready when you make to the final scene. Just remember my voice, let it go and let it be. That's the only way to be happy. So that's, that's good that's our fourth, fourth theme. And the last one number five, all things work together for good. In the Bible. It says all things work together for good for those who love the Lord. And of course in miracles it says, all things work together for good there are no exceptions, except in the ego's judgment. And really the Bible in the course you're saying the same thing, you know, that it's all happening for our good, it's all happening so we can remember God's will for us which is perfect happiness. I did a little live stream this morning early early morning with my friend in Germany, but the, and we were just having such a good talk because basically that's our plan of life is. What is your will for me that's it. That's, that's the prayer. What is your will for me God what is your will for me to have an open mind and just be able to take whatever is flowing throughout the day. With the open prayer of God what is your will for me. I would accept your will for me. Your will for me is perfect happiness so that's why I want to know your will for me, because we all want to be happy right, who doesn't want to be happy. But we have to be emerged with God's will to to know that happiness. You know what we're looking at when we watch this series is where we're beginning to get a pretty good feel that the only thing we're ever upset about is when some unconscious darkness rises up from our subconscious from our unconscious mind. And when the darkness comes up, we are tempted to interpret the events of our world in a in a dark way. And these can be interpretations that involve abuse or neglect, some type of mistreatment. It can be interpretations that involve betrayal or rejection or abandonment. It can be interpretations where we feel offended, or where we feel like we weren't heard, or like we feel invisible. But all of these dark interpretations of the world were not created by God. These are just egoic interpretations. God's perfect love and perfect happiness and joy is not creating any of those things. God doesn't even know of abandonment or rejection or abuse. God is just pure love and pure oneness. It's eternal life is basically what God is and an eternal life is, you might say that's our that's our inheritance when when God created us as a perfect being of light as the Christ. Then we were we inherited the traits of God, eternal, changeless, joyful, happy, peaceful, pure love. We inherited all of the characteristics of God, and we even received creative ability but the ego is an attempt to use that power of mind for projections. And that's why this series is really showing us that as long as we believe the past is real, we're going to perceive things in a very distorted way. Imagine that you have a filter in your mind, and that the ego is is dark spots. And if you've got a lot of dark spots on your filter, you're not going to be able to see clearly. That's talked about in the Bible in Corinthians, where it's spoken that we are looking through a darkened glass, and we don't see clearly. Jesus tells us in the course. Yeah, that's right. You don't really see anything because your vision is so dim and you're not seeing with the vision of Christ. But once you see with the vision of Christ, you realize how wonderful light is and how wonderful love is. And then you'll go, oh my, I never knew. And Jesus will say, well, you did know you just forgot. It's not like you never knew you knew, but you forgot that a little case of amnesia, little case of time space amnesia there. So, so I want to try to make it simple because I think everybody can realize that whenever you get into an argument or you feel upset. Basically, because the the person either the projection onto you as a personality or onto other persons is basically saying you're not fulfilling the role that was set for you. And guess who set all these individual roles, the ego. So, before you even came into time and space, you picked it all. You picked your body your hair color your eye color you picked your family you picked your country you picked your environment you it was almost like you. You had a menu of ego choices and you picked them all, and it's all part of a pre arranged plan. So basically you're just watching a movie of what you picked before you came. And if you were aware that it was just a movie, and that you made all the choices, all these egoic decisions, then you probably would be a little easier on yourself and say, I'm going to cut my mind to break here. And I am not going to stick to judging the things that I picked, because I must have been lacking. I must have believed I was lacking something to pick all these specific things. You know, sometimes when you make a choice in this world you think I want to take it back I want to do over. I want to, I want to make another choice is it all right if I change my mind and Jesus is saying it's actually it's necessary for you to change your mind. It's more than all right. It's absolutely necessary that you change the mind about what you believe you are. And we can tell what we believe we are by our, our contractions in emotion by our, our, our dark emotions whenever we're feeling upset is because we simply are believing that somebody let somebody down in terms of the roles. And again, God did not create these specific roles these were ego choices. So in the end, we're just here to let go of ego choices and make another choice. See the world in a different way with with the Holy Spirit. So, some of you have been following along we have three women who are besties three best friends. We have Ada and Laila and Sevgi. And at the beginning of this series which was about four weeks ago when we first started doing this, it became pretty clear that two of the women. Ada and Laila were married, and one of the women, Sevgi was not married and she started off being diagnosed with cancer. And then as we watched the characters develop in this Turkish series with all these episodes. What we saw was that there seemed to be private thoughts and secrets that little by little were being exposed through the interactions. Ada was married to Salim, but her former boyfriend was Toprak. And as soon as Toprak enters the scene. Oh, wow, we've got a love triangle, a married woman with a husband and an ex boyfriend. As soon as they begin interacting, we start to realize that there's private thoughts, there's secrets, there's judgments, and there are hurt feelings. There's gent jealousy, there's envy, there's anger. There's all these dark egoic emotions that are coming up. And seeing that also with Sevgi, where she started off being diagnosed with cancer, her girlfriends felt sorry for her. But she goes to see Zaman, and suddenly Zaman starts to bring in the family patterns that have been going on for generations which is just symbolic of beliefs and thoughts in the mind. There are real generations, but the the ego just projects the world, and then the generations just act out the beliefs. So if you believe in abuse will say are abandonment, then it just gets acted out generation after generation, until your mind finally goes. Yes, I am not. I'm entitled to more than abuse and abandonment, and then you let it go and then suddenly the world shifts the whole world shifts and looks different. So the world, the perceptual world of time and space linear time is just a motion picture, acting out the beliefs and the thoughts and the emotions in the mind. The good news is you can change your mind. And when you change the purpose of your mind to forgiveness, then all of your feelings and all of your beliefs and thoughts line up with forgiveness. And then you see the world in a completely different way. Remember, it's just a motion picture is just acting out what you believe. The temptation is always to blame characters, but the characters aren't doing any more than they were told to do. You know the ego passed out all the parts, and they're just acting out the part you should be going Bravo. Oh, what a dominating mother. What a wicked, wicked brother you played. You really played that Oh to a T you just played the part just as it was written by the ego Academy Award. You're not angry. So at the end of the stage play at the end of a Shakespeare play like my best or Romeo and Juliet you know the audience cheers, all of the actors and all the actors come out and the actresses take a bow, and there's a big standing ovation. Bravo Bravo. Oh my gosh you play that so well. Now while you're watching the play you might occasionally identify with certain characters and feel some emotions and that's what happens with this world. You get too attached to the characters. Then you start wanting to protect them or defend them, you start wanting to correct them. You start wanting to tell them, you behave. Even a parent telling a child go to your room and don't come out until you learn to behave. But the mind assigned the part from the ego so it should be going oh little Johnny. That was a great act that you just did. You, you are such a good actor, and you're showing me that I still have control mechanisms going on in my mind and I'm sorry I believed I was a parent. I believe you were a child believe you were my child. And what you did. Bravo for that. Oh my gosh I see what I have to release in my mind. When you're blaming the child you actually thank the child for acting out what you needed to see what you needed to release. So you start to see the world is just mirroring. You can start to feel gratitude for everyone. Everyone right now in the world. So, Vladimir Putin is he's playing the best tyrant that he can I mean he's he's going all out because the ego gave him that part. So yeah you're going to go through this and this and finally you're just going to invade Ukraine, and then you'll break off communication with the West the world and do this and you have to go Bravo tyrant. Oh my gosh that's that's an Academy Award performance right there. But, but if it's acting out tyrant or a dictator or someone that some people would say is evil even, you know, that evil part was assigned by the ego, not by God. God doesn't give any evil parts out. God doesn't even know if time and space how could God be passing out evil parts. It's just we have to learn to take everything as a mirroring of what's going on in the unconscious mind, and you may say, Well listen, I, I may have some bad days but I don't have any tyrant thoughts in my mind. It's not even acting out a tyrant thought it's not in my mind and I say well it's unconscious. That's why they call the unconscious you're not aware of it. You believe it but you don't even know it's there until he acts it out and then you get a chance to forgive it. And then you see oh here comes a tyrant thought. Here comes a dictator thought here comes a war aggressor thought. Oh my gosh I didn't know I had any war aggressive aggressor thoughts left in the unconscious mind I must have. Oh there's one. Okay. Thank you Vladimir. I like that name Vladimir. That's really cool name. Thank you Vladimir. Thank you thank you thank you for helping me see that I couldn't be upset unless I believed. I believed in the ego. So, the other thing is is the Holy Spirit and Jesus want us to see the world in a holistic way. And that means see the big picture. Don't get fixated on any of the parts. Remember the ego passed out the parts so why would you think you could know God's love if you were fixated on the parts. Jesus instead said show me the whole show me the whole thing show me the whole picture show me a forgiven world show me show me a happy dream. I would rather see a happy dream than be right about the parts. But as long as we're focused and fixated on the parts then that's where the dramas come in. Some parts need to be protected or defended. Some parts need to improve. Some parts need to be less boastful and prideful. You know, basically, some parts need to change in order to for us to be happy and they don't. They're just exactly the way they were written. And yet this kind of series starts to show us. Oh my gosh. I just need to look upon the world and full appreciation. The very first one is direct communication say what you need to say, and that is like a tool for the sleeping mind to learn to wake up by not hiding and protecting thoughts. By not maintaining secrets if you say what you need to say that will unravel secrets. And of course you can do it with love to you know you you can do it with a state of grace and presence. Because when you're saying what you need to say, it's really to release it. It's not. It's not to make anybody right or wrong it's not to point finger and blame anybody is just to speak it up and say, This is what I've been dealing with, but I'm willing to let it go. And I want to express it or talk about it. And that works. It works. And this episode just as a little bit of a recap with audit and her husband Salim and toprock, you know, basically, we are seeing throughout the series that audit became a doctor. She watched her father die of cancer, and she became quite bitter with her mother because her mother left when her father had cancer. And we know that there's definitely some family skeletons and secrets in others past and little by little over the episodes she's starting to see that her thoughts and her past beliefs are a determiner in what she's perceiving. So she's gone from being the medical doctor to now she's slowly becoming a little more open to what are the psychological causes in my mind, what are the psychological aspects of the past that are determining my issues that I'm going through in my relationships. And basically toprock represents the other all the men in her generations of women in her life that have been left or abandoned. And meanwhile, she became a doctor to try to compensate for this hurt by saving lives. So even the roles that we take occupationally or friend roles relationship roles family roles they're all projections of the belief that something's lacking. So when you look at your family and you think, Oh my gosh, I had a dysfunctional family, of course, you had a dysfunctional family what do you think the unconscious mind is going to project a perfect family. The ego is of course going to project a seemingly dysfunctional family because that's what it is the ego is dysfunctional. So what you know what you get from dysfunction is is a distortion or seemingly dysfunction. But actually they just played their parts perfectly you know in the end you start to say thank you. Thank you dad. Wow, great role, Oscar for you. Thank you mom. Fantastic role. The best I've seen Oscar for you, and you start passing out the Oscars for acting out the thoughts and beliefs so perfectly, even though the emotions were not comfortable. We acted them out so that they could be forgiven and released. And then we see that. She has issues with her mother, Belgian who's passed away now in a recent episode, and she still is waiting to find out what is underneath these persistent issues that I'm having. Also, just to catch everybody up if you're watching this for the first time. Her mother's Belgian. She went to her grave she passed away with her secret, but the Holy Spirit will help that one get revealed through a photograph, and then Mucko, whose seven keys mother she's got a major major secret that she's not sharing. We've seen in some recent episodes, her eyes get real shifty. She seemed to really like them on. She was baking for him at one point and now in recent parts of the episodes. She seems to dislike them on. She goes from baking for them on to questioning them on and being very suspicious. What Jesus calls this is a love hate relationship. When we, when we hold somebody up on a pedestal. And we do special things for them. It's because we're trying to make them more valuable in our mind and make a special love relationship with them and the flip side of that is special hate. If they don't do what, what the ego wants them to do, then the hatred comes in. So Mucko is really a good example of special love and special hate she's, and she's just sitting on a family secret that she's not telling her daughter. And that's why she's so into protecting the family, keeping the family together at all costs. And, and pretty much seeing everything through the filter of the family, everything that's good is what serves the family staying together, everything that's bad is what is that breaking the family apart, and that's because it's special love and, and special hate. I think we're just enjoying the treat of this whole series, because sometimes it's better when you can see it acted out in other characters, it's less threatening, you can, you can see it. You can gain the insight by watching what the characters are going through. The thing about it is, we've been raised with a lot of fairy tales and, and sometimes people say, Oh, don't, I don't know whether to see this movie doesn't have a good ending. What's a good ending. What's a bad ending. You just more judgments, you know, basically what we're really asking for is, is, can I find peace in what I'm looking at that's really what the question is and I am I going to find the peace of mind that God wills for me when I'm looking at the world. And that's, that's always our question. So, I hope you can enjoy these, these next episodes. I'm going to cut my setup short because I'll have commentary throughout, and then at the very end there's this amazing song, I could just listen to this song over and over. It's definitely a song that teaches a course in miracles and it's so wonderful. And we'll play that one when the credits roll. Let's try to play that song. It's, it's just basically the key line in, and it is no one's born to die. None of us have been born to die. All of us have been born to resurrect this. We've been born to say, Okay, it's time to wake up to heaven. To leave the world behind by forgiving it, not by trying to fight it or battle it just by lessing it and, and, and releasing the ego and feeling the softness and gentleness of it. And then, usually at the end of the movie that's pretty much the end but I think we, I might have a bit of commentary coming through after the final song so it's such a deep series that I'll try to do a summary. When we make it through the final song. So sit back. Enjoy the ride have fun watching the characters and pay attention if anything comes up because you want to work with that you want to give that over to the Holy Spirit. See you very soon.