 Okay well hello everybody and welcome to our all-day movie workshop and I'm Peter I'm going to be the host today and for those who are new I can let you know how the day will flow so we're going to going to start with the movie with David and then after that we will have a breakout room session where everybody can share what came up for them during the movie and finally we'll have a closing session later on today where we can go a little bit deeper with everybody so I'll pass it straight over to you now David. Thank You Pete. Welcome everyone glad to see you on screen see your smiling faces all around the world quite an amazing thing when we can join together in miracles like this from different parts of the world I think we have total of about 79 people all gathered together today watching and today as usual we were we will go through the themes that you voted on during the week and we will use those themes to go much deeper into our mind using the medium of movies to help clarify our mind and come to our right mind as Jesus would call it from a course in miracles so it's very exciting to be able to use these modern day parables that we call movies as a way of teaching our mind how to forgive the world and how to release judgments release all sense of condemnation free our mind from fear and guilt and shame and wake up to reality which is pure spirit and the pathway we are using of course in miracles is saying that yeah once once you really get connected to your internal teacher and you can call that internal teacher any name that you want sometimes we use Holy Spirit or Jesus but it's just your guiding spiritual intuition that is taking you into this wake-up experience we are really tapping in once you really tap into that intuitive voice then your way will be very different than it has been in the past because you will be living a life based on guidance and pure intuition hundred percent intuitive life is really the goal that we're moving towards and an intuitive life of guidance takes you into a sense of the great rays or the the light of heaven which is our natural identity that we call the Christ so today I thought I would start by opening on looking at our top poll results the combined poll results for English poll and Spanish poll and these are the themes that we use to pray into our movie to to go into our healing experience today coming in number one at the top of the the polls was speeding up my awakening through joining so that is very strong through joining and a lot of times people who study a course of miracles they say joining what does that mean joining how what does that mean in Jesus's terms you know I may think of joining with my mother or joining with my father or my neighbors or my children but what does Jesus mean by joining he's talking about purpose he's talking about sharing a common purpose with everyone and everything to Jesus you could you could join with a cup you could receive salvation by joining with a cup and in the workbook of a course of miracles Jesus says you could you could experience vision which he's talking about the vision of Christ by joining with a table so our he's saying if you could forget all of your past ideas about a table that the table could show you Christ's vision and that's what Jesus means by joining he means by laying aside the past of everything you've learned about the world about time and space about men and women about time about human development about money about sex about food about climate about electrons and molecules everything you've learned about Newtonian physics if you could just forget everything the table would tell you who you are the table would show you Christ's vision you can join with a table with a cup with a pencil with a pen it doesn't matter Jesus is not talking about necessarily human interaction when he says joining he means let thine I be single let your mind know one purpose forgiveness and it will light up so bright that you will remember who you are Christ and who God is I am presence that's where the joining really takes place so joining oftentimes people think of it as a verb I'm going to join with my mother for lunch I'm going to join with my daughter for dinner no we're actually talking a little deeper than bodies coming together Jesus says in the course minds are joined bodies do not he's not such a fan of of bodies joining and yet he's so practical if you believe in bodies Jesus will find a way to use those bodies to bring the mind back to Christ vision that's how amazing the plan of awakening is if you believe in bodies Jesus Holy Spirit they're like no problem no problem you believe in bodies okay we can work with that Jesus even tells us he was tempted to believe in the same thing he's like telling us there was a time I believed in bodies to he was tempted to believe in bodies but then he saw that they weren't real and he realized that love is real and God is real and this world is not you know so that's that's kind of an important realization for all of us you know it's like oh thank God that's why you're the way shower that's why I need to step back and let you lead the way because you remembered the light you remembered the oneness you remembered eternal reality that's kind of important if you're gonna have a way shower I would say that's a good criteria for having a way shower if you are contemplating ever following one I would follow one that remembered the light I think that's a that's a good leader if you're gonna believe in a leader that's the kind of leader I would believe in someone who remembered reality not necessarily political leaders or even on planet Earth even the the spiritual leaders can can oftentimes get kind of wacky and that's why you have to pray to remember the spirit and forgive the flesh because Jesus says even in this world teachers of God can give way to temptation it just shows you that the fog of forgetfulness that the fog of darkness the fog of sleep is thick and you have to have the faith if you're going to transcend this fog but of course you have very good teacher in Jesus he's he's already transcended the fog and he says when I awoke you were with me so he's saying we're really at home in heaven with the Christ and we're just dreaming of exile we're dreaming of separation and it's not true second in the poll was acknowledging God's presence here and now the most important thing there is that God's presence is here and now and that's why we want to acknowledge it we don't want to throw it off into the future and say God will save me sometime in the future no salvation is here and now and the presence of God's love and light is is here and now and we always practice that when we're watching movies in fact some of you are getting so good at it that you actually are reporting that you're laughing through the movies I show a movie that seems to be about the end of the world and you come on screen and go I laughed all the way through the movie that's pretty good if you can laugh through like last week wasn't it knowing if that's an end of the world movie if you can laugh through that movie you're in good shape you're you're zooming in quickly to the happy dream because you know that's as the world is getting destroyed by a giant solar eclipse some of you are laughing that's good that's good that's those are the kind of mighty companions that we like to have laugh at the end of the world so acknowledging God's presence here and now came in second only by one vote it was 69 votes and the first one speeding up my awakening through joining got 70 votes third in the poll resting in the flow of true giving so some of you know how how I get all fired up about giving because God is a giver God is the giver of of eternal life God is the prime creator God is the giver of love God is the giver of perfect happiness God is the giver of pristine eternal peace of mind God is the giver and if I am going to know myself as a creation of a perfect God then I have to be a giver in the same way that's why of the 10 characteristics of a teacher of God number seven is generosity that's an earth word for giving and true generosity doesn't necessarily regard it's not related to necessarily money or earth presence like giving away lots of earthly presence it's it's more equated with your attitude if you're a giver then you always have that beautiful receptive ear to listen to your brother and sister in a time of their need if you're a giver you stay present you're focused on the here and the now you're not focused on the past or the future because all giving occurs in this moment so when you stay in the now when you stay present that is how you truly give and so resting in the flow of true giving means that you have a very generous spirit in your in your heart in your mind that you're in touch with and you live that generosity you live in the state of giving and you do discover that giving and receiving are the same so you feel very blessed as a giver it's not like you're a giver looking to get something back true giving doesn't look for anything in return it just is in the joy of the giving the joy of the extending the joy of spreading the light spreading the love that's where the the true giving is and then the final two poll themes were releasing the belief that awakening requires suffering so yeah I was recently asked that by Lorraine when I was over at La Casa de Milagros and she was saying I'm a little concerned about the dark night of the soul I said yeah suffering is optional it's it's not necessary but it's often an experience because the fog is so thick but it's not necessary suffering is optional and actually the closer you come to the light you start to pick up the course and read passages that the Holy Spirit needs happy learners he doesn't say the Holy Spirit needs suffering learners he says the Holy Spirit needs happy learners and happy learners quickly learn the lessons of happiness if you want to be quick if you want to really go for heaven without delay without hesitation you have to realize you're in for a happy learner trip you have to really say to yourself suffering is optional I'm going to choose the happy learner option I would rather I would rather go directly to the happiness without delay and all all that requires is it does require a lot of willingness you have to be ready in your mind and you have to be willing if you're ready but you're not willing it's not going to go so happy and and if you're willing but you're not ready it's not going to be happy either you have to be ready and willing so those are our five themes and when I was praying before this this movie session I was really praying what what about the miracle do you want to emphasize today with with what I'm going to show to our beloveds all around the world and Jesus said well I want you to emphasize that that miracles are a collaborative venture again just like the word joining collaborative can have a lot of different meanings and connotations and what collaboration really is is when you tune in to your intuition or to the spirit that's ultimately where the collaboration is occurring it's a collaboration in your mind it's basically saying Jesus Holy Spirit I offer you my mind and everything that I believe in to use for your plan of awakening I offer you the service take my body use it take my bank account even if there's not much money in it Jesus loves it when you turn it over even if it's only got like two dollars and Jesus is so happy when you say take my bank account it's only got two dollars he's like thank you you're giving me control of that two dollars yes Jesus loves it when you give over control of the things of time and space and you say be you in charge take my house take my car to borrow the Rodney Dangerfield line take my wife Jesus loves it when you say take my wife take my husband because he knows that when you believe you're in charge of the wife or the husband you got problems you are in for a rough ride you know a lot of people do they get married and they go I can I can fix them they're gonna fix their upper project I can change them just give me some time and Jesus is shaking his head going that's a tough one you're in for a rough ride if you believe you can control people then that's that's going to be a rough ride if you even believe you can control the body that you believe is your own that's a rough ride Jesus wants you to give the body over to him because once you hand all your body thoughts over to Jesus he can use them to unwind you from the belief in the body thoughts but as long as you believe you're in charge of the body how thin it is how fat it is how much it weighs how it looks rough ride you're not going to be a happy learner if you think you control your body because that's again part of the realm that you need to give over to Jesus Jesus wants to control all of time and space for miracles to unwind you from the belief in time and space and if you believe in them and you believe you're in control of them you're in charge it's not going to be a smooth ride it's going to be a rough and rocky road that you take and it's going to be very long if you think you're in charge of your own awakening Eric shared that recently where you were saying when I believed I could wake myself up it got the problems came quickly and very intensely and then Eric referenced that line in the course you cannot wake yourself but you can allow yourself to be awakened ah I like the sound of that I can allow myself to be awakened Jesus you're in charge I'm the follower and I can allow myself to be awakened it's more than possible it's inevitable what I have to allow it so that is very smooth so that's what Jesus means by miracles are a collaborative venture there should be a sense of connection of joining involved and really ultimately you're joining with the Holy Spirit and Jesus even though it seems like you feel connected with your brothers and your sisters that's because you're connected in your mind your heart is into this your mind is into this and another thing that's important to remember is that miracles are involuntary they should not be under conscious control that's that's a pretty strong one miracles are involuntary the nature of miracles is that they're involuntary what does that mean well for most human beings they actually believe to some extent that they're in charge of their spiritual journey and in charge of their awakening and in charge of their life their earth life that's why they have bank accounts that's why they have insurance policies that's why they have rules house rules you know here's my house rules you want to live in my house here's my house rules you know it's very much a pattern of control human beings believe they're in charge of of their life they don't realize the script is written and they're watching something that's just the past and they believe that it's still happening and they believe they're in control of their behavior jesus is saying no miracles are involuntary he says what you do comes from what you think and you can control the direction of your thinking you really only have two options either thinking with god that's the right mind that's the miracle we're trying to think against god that's the ego that's where all the false control comes in that's where all the guilt and fear come in but you really can control the direction of your thinking you can learn to discern between these two systems of thought one of love and one of fear and you can choose to align with the love thinking that's your real thoughts jesus talks about in the workbook your real thoughts are the thoughts that you think with god and the ego thoughts are thoughts that you're trying to think apart from god crazy insane to try to think against the creator when the creators only love what's the point of trying to hold on to thoughts of fear you know ridiculous you know you're not going to you won't experience joy if you keep holding on to thoughts of fear and doubt of pain of guilt so we're really learning to give it over and i think in i'm going to show today parts of two documentaries these are documentaries that really show the nature of the miracle in action we need examples we need examples because when we believed in separation when we believed in the ego we became so lost in the darkness so lost in time and space that we forgot all about heaven we forgot all about divine love and we became into the the survival game we we got lost in the survival of the body game and it's a game that really goes nowhere it's it's a game that seems to play out over millennium but you're left with nothing shakespeare called it much a do about nothing that's the game of body survival and yet in the dream world that we're looking at that's the number one game everybody is interested uh you know oh i met somebody at a bar you did did it go well yes do you think he's the one she's the one what did they do for a living you know what see right away people are not so interested in in the divine love they're interested in what do they do for a living what's their background give tell me more details about their time space identity don't tell me you just had a miraculous uh first holy encounter there in the bar give me the details of the juicy details of what do they do for a living you know you come home to your parents you know i met someone what do they do for a living wait a minute that should not be the first question that should not be the first question but that is the first question in this realm you know people are so interested in their identity how well are they playing the survival game what does that have to do with anything well to the ego it has a lot to do with compatibility with future success with future comfort uh this uh crazy survival of the body game is is the main game on planet earth again holy spirit and jesus are like no problem we can deal with that we know that you're invested in that game and which will take you to another game we've got this other game called forgiveness it's a happy game uh of non-judgment it's a happy game of many many miracles but but you have to be you have to be slowly lured and induced towards the light you have to be convinced there's another way than the survival game of the body you have to you have to want to know there's another happy game and jesus and the holy spirit want to offer that as as a way of approaching the light so two documentaries jesus gave me two documentaries to teach about miracles today i absolutely adore these two movies these two documentaries they are they are far from boring i think the first documentary i'll show you it may be a little bit over an hour of the first documentary and one thing i found out about this documentary uh yesterday was you know they have sometimes they rate movies some of you have heard of the the rotten tomatoes ranking this got a hundred percent ranking of of goodness of outstanding a hundred percent ranking on rotten tomatoes i don't know if i've ever come across a movie that gets a hundred percent ranking on tomatoes that's because it's so spectacular at showing the miracle in action it's so spectacular at showing the use of one man's life toward uh opening to love opening to connection opening to equality opening to respect all those good things that we know are there for us if we are willing to be shown how to live that kind of life and uh the man's name who is in it uh his name is clarence avante and uh i remember i came across this movie i believe in 2019 in netflix and i showed it with a group of friends up from camis and the name of the documentary is called the black godfather not exactly the kind of title that may jump out for you if you're you're looking for a spiritual awakening movie but i'm glad jesus is in charge because i i remember uh opening up and jesus told me yeah you're going to watch the black godfather i said the black godfather oh i'm so glad jesus is in charge here jesus knows where all those gems are that are mind openers that help wake the mind up so that's the first movie i'm going to show and and we're going to get a little taste of this man uh he's he's a music producer he works in the field of of music much of his life as first as an agent for prominent singers then as a music producer he he owns and and starts and owns music labels and he even gets into some film production and support there and he's just a good hearted guy he's just a guy that has a big heart and he's into connecting and this is no small thing in a world of isolation in a world of autonomy in a world where people try to hide away from love it's good to have an example of someone who is very big hearted and clarence is such a connector that he seems to come in contact with lots and lots of people presidents he he he knew three presidents he was a good friend he knew Mohammed Ali the boxer he knew all types of musicians ranging through decades from going back into the 50s the 60s the 70s the 80s he's still going he's retired now i think he's about by now i think he's about 88 years old and retired but we're going to get a taste of clarence i think there was a very famous movie that was the one james stewart was in um clarence the angel there was a it's a wonderful life right i remember the angel and it's a wonderful life with clarence and wow we're going to see the the afro-american version of clarence alive and well in the decades the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s he's still going he's still clarence the angel it was actually his daughter that decided to make this movie uh because she wanted to show the fullness of her father's uh life on earth and how many people he touched how many people he loved how many lives that through him the spirit affected so many lives baseball players hank erin most home runs in history of major league baseball clarence had a hand in that uh he affected people president of the united states who was the first negro the first african-american president of the united states barack obama who had a hand in that clarence clarence is going to touch people from film stars to major league baseball to to presidents of the united states he he touched jimmy carter uh was a president i think when i when i was like 18 years old and first had the right to vote in the united states i i went to the ballot you know i was like oh that's back when i used to believe in voting but uh back then and i remember going there and going in and i've who am i who should i vote for all the peanut farmer there's a peanut farmer on the ballot a peanut farmer that's the guy and so clarence had a hand and touched jimmy carter's life he he touched uh barack obama he touched clinton's life bill clinton's life in fact when bill clinton gets interviewed about clarence his head kind of goes down and a tear comes into his eye when you have a president of the united state tearing up at the mention of your name that's a miracle that shows you clarence has had some kind of love in his heart if he has that much touch on on different people and that's just the holy spirit coming through clarence and through his use of connecting in terms of this world and then the second documentary clarence is in that too in fact the second documentary i'm going to show in part is one of a a singer-songwriter named sexto rodriguez some of you may be familiar with this this documentary goes back a few years it was made by a swedish director and it won all kinds of award it's called searching for sugarman it's based on the true story of a a young man named sexto rodriguez who is from Mexican descent and origin actually uh sexto was born in detroit michigan but he actually his father emigrated from mexico to detroit to the united states back in the 1920s and sexto is he's like a poet he's like a a poet where the spirit comes through a lot of his lyrics and touches people through these lyrics some people have compared him to like like bob dillon or jim crotchie and there's been so many great uh you know janice joplin there's so many great poetic artists who are singer-songwriters and yet when i was growing up i knew about the Beatles i heard of bob dillon janice joplin i heard about a lot of them but interestingly when i was growing up i didn't hear about sexto rodriguez growing up in america well we're going to see how the holy spirit is going to use this young man and his beautiful lyrics in a profound way on planet earth unbeknownst to sexto sometimes uh when you look at the cover albums it's got sexto rodriguez sometimes it's got jesus rodriguez hey sus comes in there sometimes he's called the the the prince the sixth prince he he's a very mysterious character i would say if you study the history of of rock and roll and folk singers this guy sexto rodriguez is at the top he is the most mysterious singer on the planet in the history of of music and yet jesus will use him in a way that will be hugely impactful in the greater plan of awakening in one sense jesus uses music to help transcend ego beliefs ego believes in justice and injustice uh ego believes in abuse all kind of ego believes in segregation racism all the isms that ego comes up with to try to prove that separation is real jesus and the holy spirit love to use music it's like a higher order of communication to lift the mind out of these false beliefs to lift the sleeping mind up toward the light and we're going to see an example so in the first documentary i'm going to show it's going to be a focus on clarence avant who is nicknamed the black godfather and how the spirit uses him to bring a sense of love and light to lift the mind up from its its places of competition and of isolation and control and autonomy up to collaboration and if you look at clarence's life you can feel the spirits underneath it it's it's the sense of the involuntary life being used to bring a blessing where there's great need of a blessing and then in the second documentary which i will show in part searching for sugar man uh basically i'm going to show you how miracles are involuntary and that you you not only aren't in conscious control of the miracle but but miracles bless people that you haven't even met so while you're practicing of course the miracles and you're doing your workbook lessons and you're opening your mind up to miracles and used by jesus and the holy spirit you are actually blessing people that you have never met you are affecting situations that you are not even aware of the mind is so powerful that as you allow yourself to be used for this function of forgiveness it's like reshaping reconfiguring time and space and bringing all the parts of perception back into alignment with god it's a huge function to be a miracle worker because you don't always see the effects of your efforts at mind training but this second documentary will show you how far reaching the effects can be because sexto rodriguez he is a a man of mexican descent who's living in detroit michigan and he's basically a construction worker he helps remodel rehabilitate buildings he helps demolish demolish buildings that's his trade uh he said detroit construction worker who's being used by jesus to impact the whole world through his willingness so some of you often say what can i do i have such a tiny part jesus and jesus is like actually no your your part is not as tiny as you think you may be believe you're a man or a woman you may believe you have such and such cultural background you may believe you have limited skills and abilities but your mind is the holy christ and your mind is so powerful that everything that you are perceiving is coming from your mind it's not coming from the ego only it you know there's a mind there's a powerful mind behind it and the ego belief is a belief in miscreation so what you perceive through your five senses is is based on the ego filter but the mind the power of the mind behind that ego belief is so powerful that it not only can move mountains but it can it moves the spheres of the planets the stars it it moves all the human lives that you perceive it moves the waves on the ocean it it moves the hurricanes and the tsunamis that mind that you are is so powerful that you need to get in touch with the power of that mind you're afraid of it jesus is saying you're actually afraid of your thoughts because you believe you can miscreate with the power that god gave you you can't you can't the world's much to do about nothing you haven't you haven't sinned you just believe that you have you haven't miscreated you just believe that you have you haven't destroyed anything you just believe that you have you've never really made any real mistakes but you believe that you have and you have guilt because of what you believe you have done you have not accomplished any kind of separation in reality but you believe you have it. The Course in Miracles was was scribed by Helen Shuckman with her collaborator Bill Thetford and Bill Thetford I just recently recorded a podcast with Judy Scotch-Whitson who's the the publisher of A Course in Miracles a new Bill Thetford very well dear dear friend of Bill very good friend of Helen Shuckman very good friend of Ken Wapnick the original four that really helped bring the Course in Miracles into this realm and at the beginning of the podcast even though the we had Matt had not pressed record yet Judy spent the first 10 minutes talking about her great connection with Bill Thetford including the last day on earth for Bill Thetford he was obviously one of the first two Course in Miracles students on the planet he came to visit her because it was going to be his birthday on the 4th of July and we were talking about the whole idea of independence and and so forth and then Bill told her the night before his birthday that he had forgiven all of his relationships he was so happy and he said well tomorrow's my birthday and that's my day of freedom he would lay aside his body on the 4th of July independence day at 11 o'clock in the morning in Judy's front yard after having said he was going out for a walk in the sunshine and he also told her not only was this 4th of July birthday his day of freedom but he also said I'm going to go out with a big bang and even though Judy had invited 30 to 40 friends of Bill's to come to his birthday he laid the body aside on her front lawn on basically 11 o'clock in the morning and then in the evening they all celebrated Bill's day of freedom by watching fireworks on TV Bill said he would go out with a big bang and they all watched the fireworks that's the nice way to go for the first we'll say the first Course in Miracles student in the world he and Helen were the first two and he went out with a big bang and literally Judy told me there was her neighbor was a cardiologist who was trimming who was doing some yard work when Bill started to go down and he was like two seconds away but he got there and he he saw Bill going down and he said Bill died instantly he didn't even he was already dead when he hit the ground I think people have told me that his heart literally exploded when your heart explodes that's the symbol of you've reached such a state of joy you can discard the body that's the way to go as a Course in Miracles student if you if you want to look at Jesus as your way show or you can look at Bill as a good example of practicing that Course in Miracles so sincerely that he had forgiven his relationships and he simply instantly laid aside the body as I said suffering is optional even in the point of death he he died instantly so these are all good examples for those that practice the Course in Miracles and my prayer is today that through watching these two documentaries in part I'll show basically the the first part of each documentary that you really start to get a feel for the miracle not just the word miracle but I mean you start to really feel how powerful the mind is how you can be used in an involuntary way by Jesus for awakening for everyone and that you are not personally in charge of this so-called lifetime that the spirit is going to have some fun with the symbols of time and space and take you into a state of mind that is so beautiful so pristine that you will laugh you will finally laugh at this world and you will realize that that it's it's a dream Jesus says in a Course in Miracles it is a joke to think that time can come to circumvent eternity it's a joke now I know a lot of you and myself included have not always remembered that it's a joke sometimes we take this dream pretty seriously we actually get pretty irritated and upset at the dream because we have forgotten to laugh we we don't know how to forgive until Jesus and the Holy Spirit teach us how to truly forgive the dream of time and space so that's my prayer for today that we will really take one giant leap in awareness with Jesus showing us the way to really begin to take this world in a more of a lighthearted way and like Bill Thetford at the end of his life you know we can discard the body when we are happy when we have forgiven when we have found joy the body can be discarded that is the way that this game of survival ends in a happy way with a happy tune on a happy tone in our mind is is through forgiveness and through the miracle so sit back and enjoy I will come and join in at various parts of these two documentaries and thank you Jesus for these amazing witnesses of Clarence Avant and of Sixto Rodriguez neither of them did I know about at all when I was growing up and Jesus said you might want to take a look and see this because this is a good example of how the miracle works and that's what I always want I want Jesus always show me the miracle perform miracles through me use my mind use my heart for the greater good of everyone and everything and this is really a good example of it today so enjoy the movies enjoy the documentaries and we'll have a nice closing section later on after the interactive break