 We are going to film I don't this is no accident or synchronicity There's a hand to barely saw but you see what Chris is doing. He'd hardly ever Ever ever ever rains in the desert. Yeah, you hear I say come on Holy Spirit. Whip something up Look what we've got coming our way. It's started just a little sheet lightning Really these talks that I do are talks of enlightenment or self-realization Christians call it salvation, although this is not the salvation of necessarily believing in a man that lived 2,000 years ago, but this is coming to the living experience of the Christ within you or the king of heaven within you and You know I can use Christian language. I can use other language, you know, we're talking about Nirvana or heaven or a state of mind that's that's absolutely peaceful and joyful and free-flowing and very much a state of happiness of supreme happiness That's attained simply by letting go of judgments and learning how to trust your intuition or your higher power or Holy Spirit in Christian terms And it's a state of mind that's always accessible and always available, but it just takes you might say mind training Meditation is aimed at the same thing prayer is really aimed at the same thing so please ask your questions or share your experiences in your own spiritual awakening and These gatherings are not per se for some miracles. That's just one tool among many tools that people use on the path of self realization and And so this is definitely I could say of these gatherings just Awakening gatherings in fact the foundation that that came up that helps Organize or set up some of these gatherings or put materials out It's called the foundation for the awakening mind and you might say that your mind is just awakening to the truth of its glorious reality of love being pure love and Forgiveness is a term that I use a lot really means releasing all the illusions from your mind illusory concepts and illusory ideas clearing your mind away very much like the Buddhist talk about emptying your mind of Entering the void although through the void is the Supreme being it just seems like a void when you're going through it because you don't know what's going to be through the keyhole But I share the same message that Jesus shared 2,000 years ago is that what's through the keyhole is glorious And it's worth the it's worth the steaming efforts of going deep into your mind and questioning everything I'm having a debate with some friends about Whether your message is is a philosophy or Your own personal belief or or if it's based on some kind of a universal human need Can you can you understand my distinction? Can you talk about that? The message that I share really is it comes from a very intimate experience that I am having with With the God or with the universe or with everything and everyone So I would say that in terms of you mentioned a few different aspects there We'll take we'll take a one at a time one philosophy There are a lot of different philosophies and there are a lot of different theologies and I would say that those are kind of like roadways up the mountain that we tend to meet people that share Some similarities in philosophies and theologies and we go. Oh, I resonate with that, but I don't resonate with that So you might say there's this sermon going on while you're while you're moving up the mountain There's a lot of philosophies and there's some of them crisscross a bit So you keep meeting travelers along the way going. Hey happy to see you again As you keep moving on your individual journey, which is very very Unique in one sense because everyone who goes on this journey has traveled the road that is Seemingly very unique for people that you meet the places you go So I would say with philosophies and theologies There are many that are moving up this mountain. We might say the mountain of consciousness towards Oneness or the union consciousness or Christ consciousness, whatever you like to call it So what I teach really is that I have been open in my life and I've spent ten years in college And I spent many years spending philosophy and psychology and religion and those have all been Welcome You made it. There were two accidents on the one hand. I know. I know. We were as excited as I can tell them to. So I would say that I would say that a universal theology or philosophy is impossible by the universal experience The experience of love or peace inner peace. I'm talking about not something on the outside That's where all the philosophies and theologies are really aiming and so I would say ultimately my message is not about Philosophy or theology. I'm happy to talk about those things very freely openly discuss those things But mine is an experience where it feels like at some point along my journey there was a leap where All of a sudden my mind became completely all-inclusive and I saw that everyone was me And it didn't matter whether they call themselves a believer or a non-believer or an atheist or agnostic or a Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu or whatever So mine is like a universal experience in my heart where everywhere I go in the world And everyone I meet it's like meeting myself over and over and it's like having self love that radiates so that you feel that love with everyone you're with and Frankly, I really don't care of what the what the surface police are. I've had people show up in my gatherings one man in Texas last year We were going around the room like this and he said hi, my name is Arthur and I'm an atheist And I believe that if there is a God his name is Arthur And I think that we're all part of one mind and we're all connected And Arthur didn't speak much in any of these gatherings, but he sat there with a big grin on his face For like four or five gatherings and then at the very end he said Well, I don't know if there is a God I kind of like the God of the Course of Miracles which is just again this book That says the God is universal oneness not a punishing God And he said the reason I consider myself as an atheist is because I don't like the idea of a punishing God or an Anthropomorphic God that kind of zap strives and you know Sometimes in the Old Testament the Bible was kind of twisted and I was like great Arthur Whatever floats your boat. I mean, you know, call it whatever you want call God Arthur if you want Work as good as an op-man and anything else So that was one aspect of your question now in terms of like a personal experience in one sense it has been an experience that I've gone undergone but Strangely, it's kind of like an impersonal love in the sense that I Feel like my experience of love is really undefinable So I don't even try to define God or define love anymore. It's just what is It's just like an experience of the present moment in the simple terms But what it is is it's an experience that doesn't really have an object So, you know how the bumper stickers say I love my Volvo or I love the LA Lakers Where it's got something after the I love whether it's You know, California or New York the Yankees or something or it's even beyond I love my wife or I love my husband Or I love my kitty cat. It's just that the I love stands by itself Because love doesn't have an object. It's like it's it just radiates to everything kind of like in this world it would be like Like a flower giving off a perfume. It's not like telling the wind Don't go over there. I don't want that dog smelling me, but I like that cat down the road blow over there Telling the wind where to carry it. I mean it's just the flower gives off the fragrance