 She says that she knows her makeup but if you don't mind her without makeup I don't think you don't She doesn't have makeup and she doesn't have makeup Thank you for having us because we'll be able to use this video to take the Spanish English teaching to put it up on YouTube or Google so people all over the world in islands where they speak Spanish are able to benefit from this gathering it's a blessing for the whole universe and welcome, thank you for coming and spending this day with us so we'll be using teaching from a course in America both the theory and the practical application and we'll have lots of questions and answers because we want this to be practical in your life so we start off the day with a meditation it will just be one song after you come in from your busy day fill your mind and as I understand it then we'll take a break for lunch and then come back and continue on and we'll continue on for most of the day if anybody feels like they need to take a break or if you need a banho break just feel free to come and go it's very relaxed okay Jenny, do you want to play this song for us? still a little bit the player just wouldn't play any music so I want to know everyone here is familiar with the Course in Miracles book working with the book that's very good so we will cover all aspects of the Course in Miracles if you have any questions about the history of the book what's going on in the book in other countries or questions about the metaphysical system or practical application questions please feel free to stop me at any point if you need an example to clarify principles or if you want me to give an example from my life my life is an open book there are no personal questions or embarrassing questions and one question is everyone's question because we are all waking together and so everything that you share is for the benefit of everyone everyone in the room and everyone in the universe so it's very, very helpful recently I was in South America and my friend Alberto I was able to get a mass market edition smaller paperback edition of the Course in Miracles we could spread it around South America people can afford it because it was much too expensive one woman in Argentina spent half a month souring just to buy the book so the price was exaggerating but now I think people can study the book that want to read the book we even have hopes of getting it in hotels giving it in Bibles having it inside the hotel this version of the book a mundo no real that's pretty strong so the purpose is to have an experience where you have so much happiness and joy that you no longer react and respond to the world you do as Jesus did you hear only one voice and the ego disappears no more chatter no more judgments, opinions like static on a radio station your mind gets very quiet and you feel the flow of the spirit carrying you every day no problems, no relationship problems no financial problems no problems with the environment now you realize you have hot thoughts hot thoughts cold thoughts, no, ego thoughts hot and cold human and dry all the dualistic thoughts of the world they just fade away and then the Holy Spirit can use the symbols of the world to inspire, to bless to bring happiness you only use the body for communication to let the love of God express through you smile more you laugh more you have a sense of peace because you have no stress it's like you're from another world people sometimes say you look like an alien you look human but you don't act human because you're so happy so there's no one to convince you're not trying to make the world filled up with course of miracle students I've been in 22 countries and when I travel most of the people that I meet are not metaphysical students definitely not course of miracle students I have met thousands of course of miracle students in all of these countries but when you're on the train there's a bus in Tabaño you're not going to be meeting lots of course of miracle students but your presence is going to be teaching the course of miracles your attitude demonstrates the peace of God and this is what people will gravitate to you become very friendly very kind you have patience you're not in a hurry you can have conversations about anything it doesn't matter what you're talking about you don't have to be talking about metaphysics and many times we won't be talking about metaphysics about metaphysics and many times we won't be talking about God because it's just not the way people are used to talking in everyday conversation but because you're so calm and peaceful people will come to you and be curious say what's going on you seem very peaceful we just did a television program and the host was talking to us before we started she said it's like you're giving a transmission she said I feel very peaceful and this happens when I go on television and this happens when I go on television many times I was in Cali, Colombia doing a live television show it was broadcast throughout Colombia and it was a Colin show Colin it was a program you could call and so it was live and people were calling it and saying you look so peaceful you look so happy in the Colin show it was an interesting experience for me I don't speak Spanish and I'm on a live Colin show across the country but behind the camera was my friend Victor who was translating to me translating to me in English and we had a wonderful time in fact that day Victor was supposed to go to travel to another town in Colombia but his course of air was featured so you please cancel your trip and come to the television station I have to have a translator for David so he said okay he canceled his whole trip and he came for the gathering the interview and he told me on the next day that that road where he would be taking the bus was ambushed was covered by the guerrillas and people were kidnapped and I said and I see why I was supposed to come to the television station and this is a teaching from a course of Miracles Jesus says if you will be a miracle worker you will become a miracle worker in the service of God Jesus says I will arrange time and space for you so that's very powerful as a human being it seems like you're in time and space but as a miracle worker time and space becomes arranged for you I've had hurricanes I've had hurricanes held off held off until my plane took off until my plane took off and then the airport shut down and then the airport shut down and these last 17 years I have watched time and space watched watched watched this year I have watched time and space opened up for me and closed and it's very unusual but it's a very profound purpose it's like mind over matter the purpose of God is so powerful that everything becomes arranged for the message the messenger is not important but the message is very profound Jesus was just on earth for a very short time but he was teaching a message that was for the whole universe for all the galaxies and it was such a profound message that love was real and time and space were not that it's been like a big tsunami of reaction to his simple message the ego has taken his teachings and turned them around if we look at Catholicism sacrifice punishment and suffering these were not part of the message this was the ego's reaction to a very simple feature about divine love and so here we are 2000 years later and now we have the opportunity to live these simple teachings and they are extremely simple but the ego is extremely complicated complicated so when you work with the course of miracles and you have resistance it's difficult it's challenging this is the ego's reaction to the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit has a mission to undo the ego to show that it's never been real just to believe that was made by believing and when you withdraw your faith from the ego it's gone it's like a ghost that can't really haunt you unless you believe in it so that's why the course of miracles is over 1200 pages because the ego is very resistant to being undone when I was in Colombia I was singing a child's song I was singing the song of a child I was singing a song that says do you know it? well it's a song, it's a girl that part says happy happy happy that the world is not real I don't know they were giving me this song so it became like a mantra everybody was happy singing together imagine teaching your children this song because children deep down inside have a very close to the spirit and we don't have to teach them how to develop the ego we can begin teaching them immediately to let it go because children are reflections of our consciousness and we're all going together so they want to feel not judged we can save thousands of years for everyone because the miracle is so powerful I have worked with people whose lives have been turned around just like my life was turned around I went from being very shy and quiet when I was in school I had very few friends are they ever spoke was extremely shy didn't participate in group activities and now and I'm speaking about God all over the world it's like Moses Moses stuttered and then he had to deliver the 10 commandments for Gandhi he was very shy and then he became very famous in India his teaching was not valid so it doesn't matter what your personality is what your skills and abilities are whether you're intelligent or not whether you have a lot of money or no possessions the Holy Spirit will work with you right where you are right where you perceive your life you don't have to have lots of training to be a miracle worker because Christ will perform the miracles through you if you are willing to have for just an instant no fear no fear miracles cannot be performed when you are afraid or when you doubt the Holy Spirit must wait until you let them come through at the very beginning in 1986 when I got the course of miracles for the first time I started to read it I said oh he wants me to be a miracle worker I you must have picked the wrong person I never thought I would be a miracle worker I could think of many careers many occupations no I never thought I would be a miracle worker but Jesus spoke to me he said I have chosen you you have chosen to do this and you are ready now and I will do it through you if you just join so it just takes your willingness everything else gets handled I did not plan to travel back then I did not even like to travel I had memories of being a child going on trips with my family very bored are we there yet when are we going to get there a long trip very long and I definitely did not plan to travel to other countries I did not even imagine I had no passport but things happened where I was asked and invited to travel frequent flyer miles were given to me frequent flyer miles were given to me so my first trip out of the United States was to a Spanish speaking country Argentina and I flew in first class in first class with wine lots of room I have never since then flown in business class just the first trip and when I landed I did 19 of these gatherings on 19 consecutive days and it was mostly in Buenos Aires which actually has probably between 50 and 100 courses in this group in one city because it's taking off like a while for a very busy so for me that was just a start of many more travels but really I'm not traveling I don't feel like I'm going anywhere I could be sitting at home and the chair just like this talking with people or on the internet or on telephone it feels like it's all just a flow Jesus says in a Course in Miracles that God's Son is not a traveler in outer worlds the Christ is very still it's just a state of mind it doesn't go anywhere it doesn't come or leave it's the present moment it's the state is so relaxed that there are no worries no concerns no past regrets no grievances just open and when we come together we expose the ego and show it's nothing that it has no reason to be believed I was just in France and I met a psychic and so she was doing a reading for everyone in the group using her hands feel the energy and she came around to me and she said you have no ego she went first time for me I said ego time and she said I know it's for my own discernment for my own lessons but you are like a point very stable very still with many things going on around you but you're very still and that's how I feel my days are full of joy it takes a lot of trust to just listen and follow that's the simple plan of selfishness the Holy Spirit takes care of everything I don't charge money I don't have to ask for things things are given because it's a very profound plan it's for the whole universe and we can ask practical questions about relationships sickness how to have a sense of freedom how to learn to trust and have all of your perceived needs met and then you lose a sense of scarcity a sense of lack it just disappears you feel satisfied and content and fulfilled you feel full instead of empty you feel whole and complete instead of lacking so that's what we're going to do today you can pick any topic that you would like to discuss and we will go into the topic usually when I go around the world people will present what seems to be a problem that exists in their life but we begin together to see that there's one problem and it's a perception problem it's just a faulty way of looking at the world where you take something personal you feel offended by your own pride really not by other people and so the pride gets washed away like waves coming washing against the rocks and then the rocks become sand soft and they just get washed away very gently it seems like it takes time to wash away the ego because that is the most gentle answer to the ego the Holy Spirit will never take anything away from you that you do not offer willing with availability so when you learn not to hide and protect your beliefs your thoughts your concepts they are washed away in the light so I don't give talks or lectures it's all very practical interaction and then the questions guide together and we invite the Holy Spirit to bring clarity to bring inspiration to our lives I would like to comment on something that could be clarified who is going to come to the court and I don't know she forgot and today I find her and the problem that she exposed was that her husband would get very mad at her she is very much into personal development she is very much into the business and she is very comfortable to tend to the business together she works with her husband and she is very informed about the course through me so she can comment she was commenting what she wanted to come because my husband is going to be so mad to comment the difficulty in the mind is not in the same life as you are it's not in the same life as you are it's not in the same life as you are I told her that the problem is not in the same life as you are how she faced the fear that she would feel that she felt or if she continued knowing that I invited her to come to the court so she could continue and it's an interesting topic because all of us are dealing with this yes this topic this topic is is addressed in the manual for teachers the question is asked to Jesus are changes required in the lives of the teachers of God changes are required in the lives of the teachers of God the first change that must come is a change in the attitude of the teacher of God he says that some teachers are required to make a change in the form of their situation but this is very rare it usually starts with the attitude and then over time there could be some changes in form and this is the way it went for me I received the Course of Miracles I was ready to go to the mountain and just ascend back to God and I could feel the Holy Spirit laughing he said oh no you're not even close you're at the beginning not at the end and for most people when you first get the book or become aware of the teachings it's a long road to go when I was in South America what you were sharing was told to me many times I would say mostly women came to my gatherings in Argentina maybe 97% in Argentina 97% in Colombia 93% and many of the women had partners who were 9% or would get very angry if they would have a meditation the women would stop meditating before the hazards came home because it would make too much friction they told me they would hide their Course of Miracles books never laid them out so it would make too much friction but they did study the book usually in private and then to use it would be discreet and go to meet with other women who were working through the ideas and talk about their issues the Holy Spirit would guide them where to go so they could open their hearts up without fear of retribution or losing the relationship so most teachers of God are given a very slowly evolving curriculum because it's transforming your mind working with your thoughts with your beliefs and then as your mind transforms the form seems to change and my life the form has changed very much when I first was working with the Course of Miracles I was so passionate and excited but I would go to my parents house and they would be shocked I would talk about miracles they would not look me in the eyes they would talk about the weather they would talk about the sports spores they were not interested at all and then my mother she looked at me she said David you need to find other people to share these ideas with them and I said ah that's the Holy Spirit speaking through my mother so I have found thousands of other people who invite me because we don't try to convert anybody we're not trying to change anybody it's just for your own consciousness we're not even trying to spread the word like the missionaries it's just about inner peace that's why I always wait for an invitation because I really have nowhere to go a couple years ago someone said if the world is so perfect in your eyes why would you travel anywhere and I said yeah, that's how I feel I can stay at home but when people invite me and the Spirit calls me it's just involuntary it's like something wants to extend and it's very easy there's no effort so I go to a conference with hundreds of people and they say what is your topic so I give them a topic but it doesn't matter what the topic is because I never know what's going to come out or not I don't plan I don't have notes I just am willing to extend healing without knowing how it will look or if it will involve words or meditations to take any form I just am willing so with your friend it's more a question of your own willingness you make gently offer a reminder and it feels good but you have no investments but you can't have an investment in the outcome of your friend of your friend's husband of your husband's husband that's beyond your control we have control over our state of mind but we have no control over the world that's the direct teaching from Jesus from the course of marriage he says you have no control over the world you make so that makes it easy you have no expectations if you have no control but the ego wants to have control wants to have things turn out in a particular way the ego has preferences and opinions and all of these mean nothing they only distract you from a piece of mind and that's why you want to let go of the ego and this mentality how would like you to tell it how would you experience you finish the exercises the first time the state of peace in which you are now the first time I did the exercises it was very emotional almost like a volcano erupting and it was just a lot of practice because I did the lessons before I began traveling so the lessons seemed to really start the process of healing in a very accelerated way but then when Jesus called me now I will be used in ways that I can't even imagine and the travel started in 1991 the travels helped me break out of a comfort zone this was just in the United States because I had no money no money in the bank no savings and I didn't know where I would go I had no home no center no church affiliation I had no form of worldly support and I would talk to Jesus and say how is this possible I don't understand how this will work I would tell Jesus money does not grow on trees I could just go and pick and he said yes I know that you believe he said you must keep listening to me and I will show you that you are supported and taken care of but nothing in my education and my past conditioning would prepare me for what was next my first trip I was so surprised I was invited to course in Miraculous and I would be talking I didn't know where I would sleep I had no idea what was going to happen next one time I went to a course in Miraculous and I said where will I sleep tonight and Jesus said wait until after the group so at the end of the group three different people they said come home come and stay at my house so then I said where do I go Jesus said I have three boys and he said I was afraid of where I would sleep I would get many offers but Jesus would say go here go with this one or go with that one so for the first five years I had no house and every day every day was an adventure to see where I would sleep which town I would go to it was like living with Jesus and the apostles but I learned trust and lots of fear came out sometimes people would offer money or gasoline because I had a very small car with only three cylinders and back then the price of gas was very low not like now so I could go for many miles one tank of gas and if I was hungry people seemed to offer food it was like a course of miracles they had potluck so much food was offered and it watched my belly so I went over eating it came so much people were very friendly they would say stay on my houseboat stay in my apartment stay as long as you want they were so generous but the spirit would say it's time to go home to another town another place and then in 1996 I was guided to a small house in Ohio and that became I call it a peace house so I could invite people that had invited me to come stay at my house we said me casa su casa come and now with the world travels we received visitors from many different countries and we have another retreat house it's out in the country in a small forest and people come and I can host them so it's kind of come around and full circle and we learned that giving and receiving are the same and that's very different from the ego the ego is so much based on scarcity the ego says if you give you will have less for yourself but the more we give the miracles the more we feel abundance we feel like we have everything but there's no lack so in answer to your question it has been a slow process over many years the lessons were very helpful but as soon as I can hear the Holy Spirit and Jesus speaking to me I realized that I just had to follow it was like having a little bird on my shoulder the Spirit would tell me where to go to call to write a mail to at the beginning there were no cell phones did not use internet no email it was just intuitive guidance drive the car and pull over to phone booth put the coins in call someone listen to the invitation and go stay for however many days hours just rejoicing people would see me in dreams and call me to write to me Carolina saw me in her dreams all night long not just one dream it was like a small dream it was like a dream of teaching and so afterwards she talked to me and she said I think I think I have to go where you are and I was coming to Colombia and she lived in the mountains so she took a 42 hour bus ride we were in the mountains to come and transfer and that was the first time we met and we have done many other things since then but it's all guided by the Holy Spirit we don't know what country it will be or where we don't know what country we will meet or when but it's just given Jenny's from Sweden so I was just in Sweden and she was filming recording and translating into Swedish so she had a lot of jobs going on at the same time change the film do the recording and speak Swedish I love you I love you Swedish I love you I love you even learn how to say I love you in Iraq so I learned this term in Iraq I love you very good by one term in all the different countries anyway, what I meant for you a change not in the form not in the form but in in terms of your internal change what was the process what was the process in which your character was acting and acting and actually being following the spirit what was the process for example, in my case I was always in the exercise of the lessons in general I enjoy the group where I am I also have a great difficulty in releasing the character and I feel I feel my state my state is very very good and I will never be guided that's why I really like what was your experience of having been in the state of having been in the state of having changed of having been happy of having been happy of having been happy and put lots of use of the sound and this it remind me about a story I heard from India that a man went up to a guru and he said what he is going to take what time he is going to take to reach enlightenment reach enlightenment, the guru took him over to a lake and pushed him under the water and held him under the water for so many seconds, and finally when he came up, the man, and the guru said, when you want enlightenment, as much as you want to breathe, then you will have it. So for me, when I first came to a course of miracles, I just felt waves of love pouring over me. I felt a tickle in my heart that was saying, this is it, and I found my path. And for me, it's in English and it uses psychology terms and Christian terms. English is my native language. I was raised as a Christian, and I studied psychology for many hours in university, and so I thought, I have no excuse, I have to listen. I asked for God to show me the way, and this is the answer to my prayer. So I did the only rational thing. I read the book for eight hours, every day, not continuously, because my ego resisted, and I looked down, and thought, I would go, listen, take a walk, go have a snack, make a siesta, go have a snack, and then when I was rested, I would dive right back into the toilet, and read as long as I could till my eyes. So this went on for about two and a half years, to the point where I had memorized a course of miracles. And then after several years, I would go to groups, and people would ask questions, and the spirit would start speaking through me, and give the page number and sometimes a whole paragraph, or more than a paragraph, with the page number, and people would think I was joking. They'd say, ah, he's just, then they would look at the book, ah. It's word for word, on the very page, but that was the first phase. I had to learn the metaphysics. The ego is so afraid of the book, but there are many different ego interpretations of the teachings of the course of miracles. You can see, if you listen to many teachers, they teach different interpretations, and it's all based on the filter, receiving the Holy Spirit in the best way that they can, to the capacity that they can. So for me, I need to learn discernment. And the Holy Spirit said, every teacher that you meet has a gift for you. You must find the gift. Don't judge and reject anybody. You must listen very carefully. Each teacher brings clarity to your own mind. It's your way of discernment. So, after I read the book, and then I started to share at the course of miracles, and the Holy Spirit started to speak to me, then I was guided to travel to meet other teachers who had dedicated their whole lives to teaching the course of miracles. I went and saw an Indian man named Tara Singh. I went to see a man named Ken Watley, and went to visit many teachers all around the United States. And when I would be listening to them, the Holy Spirit of this mind-mind, making a commentary, telling me, pay attention. This is a good example. This is clear, and teaching me. So the teachers were speaking, and the Holy Spirit was speaking in their arms for my discernment. I spent hundreds of hours doing this. I went to a place in Wisconsin called Endeavor Academy, and I ordered a lot of cassette tapes, and listened for many hours. And the same with other teachers. So it took a lot of devotion to open my mind, and I said to the Holy Spirit, I want to learn to look upon this world, the way that you look upon it. I do not want an ego interpretation. I want to be purified and cleansed from all judgments. And there is, in the manual for teachers, Jesus gives stages of the development of trust, and four of the six are difficult and challenging, because of the ego resistance. So if you have the willingness, you will draw people into your life, draw books into your life. Different techniques will come to you that are very helpful for you. But at first, the gains seem very small. Almost imperceptible. It took a lot of faith for me to keep practicing, even though I wasn't feeling the emotion. So what I've done to help people around the world is I've let the Holy Spirit, I've allowed the Holy Spirit to express in many ways. For example, I have a book called The Movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment. So you have the movies, the películas. Most people see them as entertainment. Or they use them for ego escapism. But the Holy Spirit has guided me to specific movies that are tools for the mind trainer. I write how to use the movies by letting the feelings come to me, not censoring any of the emotions that you know. And many of the movies are very metaphysical, like The Matrix. There's just one movie of hundreds that the Holy Spirit has guided me to put and put. And then the major lessons in the movie are explained. But it does not explain what the movie is about. So people have an issue. Maybe it's an issue with a family issue, or a trust issue. They open up the book, they read through it, they go, ah, that's my lesson. Then they go to the video store and read the DVD or the video, and read the lesson. And watch the movie, and the lesson becomes apparent. I also show movies, different theaters, people's homes, and they're very helpful. I was just with a priest in Sweden who had two mystical experiences after I showed movies. There was a woman in Venezuela who watched a movie. She saw a movie with Jim Carrey, the eternal sunshine. I don't know how she translated it here. She translated it like that. The eternal sunshine with Jim Carrey. And after the movies, she had a face. And she said, I've been, of course, a hero student for 14 years, but I have not had one mystical experience. And she was crying because she said, God is real. I had my first experience in the middle of the movie when you were sharing the commentary. So we used many tools, lots of music, intro dance, like discussions like this, where people ask many questions. I've done probably thousands, it's probably up in the thousands of gatherings over 17 years. And many of them were recorded, or audio recording, so people listen to them. Sometimes they don't even know what the question is. But they hear somebody else sharing it from their heart, asking a question. They go, ah, that was my question. So they become aware of the questions. So there really is many things that you can do. We put so much on the internet for free. And people download hundreds of hours of music in English. So we're working on getting the state. And it all helps. That's why I'm here now. Yeah, lots of faith. It's 23. I guess we will do our lunch sometime. Thank you. Exactly. That's very, very helpful.