 Okay. Hello everybody. Welcome. Welcome to our old-day movie workshop. I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host today. And yes, I'm looking forward to this movie, another one I haven't seen. So I'll just give you a little bit of a introduction of how the day is going to flow for those who are new. So we'll start with the movie with David. And then afterwards we're going to have a 10-minute break. Then we will have breakout rooms where you can share any emotions or anything that came up during the movie. And then we'll have a 45-minute break. And then we're going to have questions and answers session with me. So I'll pass it over to you now, David. Thank you, Pete. Thank you. Welcome, everyone. Glad you can join me today. We're going to take another deep dive into the mind and into the spiritual awakening of through forgiveness that Jesus is taking us on this journey. He's showing us the way. Everyone says on the surface they want to be free of pain. They want to be free of guilt. They want to be free of sadness and hurt. They don't want any anxiety in their life. Well, then we just have to follow Jesus, the master who has transcended all of these emotions because they were all generated by the ego. And Jesus just awoke and he's our symbol of awakening. So now we have his beautiful course and miracles to lead us. And today we're going to look at some things in the course. And we're going to look at some very deep teachings today. Today I have to say, well, you know, today is a root canal day. I hope you guys are ready for root canal. You know, sometimes you enjoy getting your fillings and polishing your teeth, teeth whitening and all this and this. But then eventually you get called in for the root canal. And usually you say, knock me out. I don't even want to know about this. This is way too much for me to handle. I don't live for root canals. Jesus, he likes to have worked with us and do the root canals in our mind because what's underneath the surface of the teeth and gums is the roots and the roots is the subconscious mind. So everything you perceive in this world is a projection of the unconscious mind. That's why on the surface of things, a person can say, why do bad things happen to me? I'm a kind generally. I'm kind and sweet and loving. And then why do I have to have a disaster? It's ruining my day. It's ruining my life, these disasters. If I could just eliminate the disasters and Jesus says, well, we have to raise up the unconscious mind and see the impossibility of the ego, the impossibility of evil, the impossibility of error. And once we can see the impossibility of error, then we're home free because we're the Christ. We've always been the Christ and we just need to wake up and remember ourselves as the living Christ like Jesus did. He's a great way show or a great example. Now, to put this into context a little bit, the past few weeks, I've been talking about my friend Dorothy. I even had a friend write to me from Colorado and it was going through intense anxiety and she listened to one of the recent movie commentaries and she said, oh my gosh, that popped me completely out of my anxiety. I was from intense anxiety to laughter. And she said, I learned to channel my inner Dorothy. She said, and that's a pretty good compliment to Dorothy. Actually, after going from anxiety to peace, then you can say, oh, I'm channeling my inner Dorothy, my inner Christ, my inner Jesus, my inner Buddha. Now, some of you who work with the Course of Miracles know that, you know, there's 31 chapters in the text. There's a workbook, and then there's a manual for teachers, including a clarification of terms. But some of you have heard me refer to the text in the middle of Jesus's text kind of more towards just past the middle. Jesus basically spends nine chapters talking about the biggest block to the awareness of God. In other words, Jesus basically says you're home free, except for one thing. And if you can get this one thing, then you're home free. So it must be pretty important. And what he's going to do is he's going to expose the ego's deepest tricks, the ego's deepest defense against God, and the ego's greatest gift, its biggest weapon. He's, he's going to go down to the ego's atomic bomb, and he's going to dismantle the bomb and say, you don't have to be afraid of this bomb, because I've already dismantled it. You're just afraid of something that the ego is trying to scare you with. But, but actually I've already dismantled it. It's, it's, it's diffused. The bomb is diffused. So relax, I got you. There's not going to be a bomb. It's already diffused. And it's so important that Jesus spends not one or two chapters on it, not four or five chapters on it. He actually spends nine chapters in his texts, out of 31 talking about this boasted weapon of the ego, this, its greatest defense. In fact, at one point, Jesus says, you're almost home to heaven. You just have one thing blocking you from heaven. And that is the special love relationship. See the ego had to come up with something in this world that would be attractive, that will get your mind's attention, that will help you in its purposes to stay identified with the body and not remember that your spirit. You see, it's very important to the ego that you buy the substitute for love. The body was made as a substitute for love. If you don't believe me, check out Madonna's Ray of Light album. She's got a song on their substitute for love. And it's a sad song. And I would have to say that the ego substitute for love is extremely attractive. It sparkles like diamonds and rubies. It is so attractive that it's one of the biggest things that this world seems to offer to keep you from going inside and recognizing yourself as the Christ. To keep you from the kingdom of heaven within is the great grand distraction of the special relationship that's projected from the ego onto the surface of consciousness to catch your eye, to lure you away from the kingdom of heaven, to keep you asleep for centuries and maybe even millennium. Some of you don't like reincarnation, but this is what the ego does to keep you asleep for millennium. It's not talking about one lifetime. It will pursue you beyond this lifetime. Just when you think you've succeeded, it says sleep. Back to sleep, you go one more lifetime. You aren't even close to escaping. I've got you. Like the Wizard of Oz, the wicked witch of the West. My pretty, I've got you. The ego, it's so sneaky and tricky and ingenious. In fact, there's a couple of teachers of the course, Ken Wapnick and Gary Renard who I've heard them both say in terms of the ego making time and space, making this entire cosmos, both Ken and Gary have said the word impressive. I don't actually believe that because I don't think illusions are ever impressive. I think God is impressive and Christ is impressive and the Holy Spirit is impressive, but I'm not really impressed by how ingenious the ego is to project such a complicated world of time and space, such a vast dream of so many intricacies that you get completely fooled about your true identity and completely caught up in the quick sand, totally enamored and enured with illusions. I don't think that's impressive. I think that's foolish actually. That's my word for the ego and its projections. The ego is the fool because it's a death wish and God is eternal life and Christ is eternal and there is no love but God's love. There aren't different kinds of love. Jesus tells us in the workbook, there's only one love and that's the love of God. And when you're in that experience, you are intoxicated in love. You are drunk on love. You are awake in love. You are joyful in love. You are gleeful in love. Love is everything and there is nothing but that love. So that's the point of, of course, the miracles is to teach you that love is all there is. Anything else that you're perceiving is, is a distraction away from God's love. Jesus does say at one point he says, you never have really considered removing every scrap of fear that you still hold on to in your mind. You never have really honestly considered to remove every scrap of fear. Who's in it with me? Who's in it with me for removing every scrap of fear and knowing the love of God? That's all we're here for. We're not here for any other reason. Nothing else is going to get our attention now, except knowing who we are is the Christ. So a while back, I think probably maybe two or three years ago, or a while back in Mexico, I, I showed a movie that was called Whitney. Has anybody ever heard of Whitney Houston? Well, what, what a movie. I've actually had people tell me that they had trouble watching that movie with my commentary because they, they were so heartbroken. They couldn't stand to see this beautiful, vibrate, vivacious, joyful, gleeful Christian, young Christian woman who was all swept up in the love of Jesus. And then as her voice was angelic, her voice was like we could say not of this world. The ego jumped on that voice and then through a series of things that it does fame, fortune. And then of course it waits till the end. The, the fame really didn't, didn't crash Whitney. And the fortune didn't really crash. Those were annoying things for her. But the special love relationship. Jesus always says you have to be careful of this special love relationship because even if you're a wrestler like Andre, the giant, the ego will take you down. I mean, the ego will take you down to the mat with this special love relationship. It knows that that's his most boasted gift. Just when you think you're going to escape fame, just when you think you're going to escape fortune and all the tricky, greedy things that the ego throws at you, it's going to try to kick you behind the legs and take you down to the mat with the special love relationship. Why would Jesus spend nine chapters on one thing unless it was important? He would not have spent nine chapters in the middle of his text telling us. Now with my friend Dorothy, she, she worked up in the Catskill Mountains. When I first met her, she was at the foundation for A Course in Miracles and she, she worked in the garden and she worked the dishwasher and, and she also was the chef. She was like a chef in the kitchen. And when I was there, she told me one time that she said, whenever Ken Wapnick does those chapters I'm talking about 15 to 24, whenever he does those chapters in a workshop, she has to order seven times as much food to feed the participants. Why did it, why did they need seven times the amount of food for those chapters is because the resistance to these ideas is absolutely enormous. If you think you're resisted to Vladimir Putin, you ain't seen nothing yet till you go down and face the ego with these ideas. Vladimir doesn't even stand, he's not even in the conversation with what we're going to do today. We're going, we're going deep dive. We're going to drop so deep today. We're going down the rabbit hole. We're just going to drop all the way through the rabbit hole. And of course, when we get down there, you may feel like you want to grab the chips and dip and put your camera on like Dorothy. You may, you may rush for the ice cream, the chocolate, the ego might not be able to handle the truth. That's the famous line from Jack Nicholson. You can't handle the truth, but I'm telling you, you can handle the truth and leave your cameras on. I have fun watching your faces. That inspires me to do what I'm doing now when I see all your faces. And that's part of the joy of this dive. We're diving in this together. We're doing this together. So I showed the movie Whitney, where she went from a happy, joyful, inspired young woman angelic voice to drug addictions, crazy, wild, special love relationship. And then she committed suicide. And people have trouble watching that. But I don't think you have to really have trouble with it once you understand what the ego is doing to make you so sad that you would kill yourself. What the ego voice always wants you dead, but it's very tricky. It tries to trick you with idols and images in the world so that you can be placated, so that you can be distracted from the truth, so that you can seek false idols and then think that you're succeeding when in fact you're slip sliding away as the Paul Simon song and Simon and Garfunkel song. Now, I don't do this very often because it's not popular. People like comedies. This is not a comedy today. This is not a comedy. Whitney, the movie Whitney was not a comedy. People had trouble. Turn it off. Stop it. Stop it. Don't show me that. Don't show me that. Well, let Jesus show it to us. We can handle this. We're not shy when it comes to spiritual awakening. So today, I'm going to show you the newly released movie, the mystery of Marilyn Monroe, the unheard tapes, because most people know that Whitney Houston was kind of like an iconic singer who sang the song, The Greatest Love of All, but there are people that say Whitney Houston was the greatest singer of all time. Her voice was way, way, way beyond this world, obviously. And yet she committed suicide. Well, Marilyn Monroe, some of us don't know too much about Marilyn's childhood. We're going to find out in the movie today that she moved around from foster home to foster home. We're going to see that she had a very difficult childhood and adolescence. Being a foster child, she was just pushed and moved around from foster home to foster home, so she didn't ever have a sense of family or a sense of love and connection when she was growing up. And we're also going to see that as she rose to great fame, as she became perhaps one of the most well-known sex symbols of all time, as she became known as a motion picture actress. She would sing in her motion pictures. She had charm. And some of you have heard me on my other talks over the many, the last 30 years, how I said that Marilyn Monroe seemed to have everything that this world would say is necessary for success. She had fame. She had money. She had famous husbands, famous successful husbands, two of them. She lived in a big, beautiful house in Riverside, California. She could travel around and move around because she was a movie star and the studios kind of took care of their movie stars. So basically she had everything that the world could offer, but remember who made this world. It was the ego who made this world. God didn't create this world. God creates in spirit. And so all those things that Maryland seemed to have that people sometimes will even tell me that they're jealous of Marilyn Monroe. Like, whoa, you know, like, wow, that girl, she had it all. The only thing is that the all that she had was a projection of the ego. The mind is so powerful that it makes up concepts like it makes up a body. It makes up a sexy body. It makes up a successful body. It gives the body skills and abilities. And it literally projects them out. So fame is not a concept in heaven. There is no such thing in the kingdom of heaven as something of fame. The ego made up fame. And you have to have an image to have fame. You see how the ego made the body. And then it magnified that body and called it fame. So the ego projected fame onto Marilyn Monroe. And, and of course, in other characters in the dream, the ego projected popularity onto Marilyn Monroe, the ego projected wealth onto Marilyn Monroe. And the ego projected motion picture success, many amazing films. All of that was a projection because the world, as I've told you, is a projection of the ego. God didn't create this world. I seem to have to repeat that a few thousand times. And people always, ooh, that's not what it says in the Bible. Who cares what it says in the Bible? I'm not interested in the opinion. God did not create the world. If I have to rewrite the Bible in Genesis, I'll do it. If I have to rewrite the whole Bible, I already did. It's called Unwind Your Mind Back to God. But it may take a couple centuries before it catches on. But I'm not interested in how many centuries it takes before it catches on. The Bible's already here and the presence of God is in us. And God did not create the world. God did not create fame, money, popularity, success. But God did not create the body. And God did not create sexy bodies. And God did not create ugly bodies because God did not create the body. God knows nothing of a body, not a single thing of a body. God is pure love and pure love cannot even look upon this dense, vibrating matter that the ego made up that's called the body. God's not interested in bodies. So we have today the movie on Netflix, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe, The Unheard Tastes. Now, we didn't really know the whole story. Everybody's always said, oh, that was tragedy. You know, Marilyn Monroe committing suicide and taking multiple things. But I think the only time anyone would even contemplate suicide sincerely or seriously is if they were very sad or they were very hurt or they were extremely offended in some extreme way. Or maybe they were just sick and tired of this world. They were like, stop. Let's stop this. I don't even know what's next. But the pain of what I'm experiencing now is so intense that that's where the ego comes in with its voice saying, yeah, just kill yourself. That's the ticket. That will help you. And we all know intuitively suicide is death. And Jesus tells us heaven is not reached through death. You reach life through life. And forgiveness is our version of life in this world. Forgiveness of illusions is actually the most happy, vital experience we could have. We call it the atonement. The atonement is the Holy Spirit's gift to us to help us escape from time and space and wake up to eternal life. So atonement would be the way, you know, if somebody puts on your gravestone, R-I-P, rest in peace, you don't go from just feeling terrible to just dying and then you're in eternal life. It would be so nice, you know. Gee, all I have to do is kill myself. And they said, David, if it's true that I just have to die physically to be in heaven, then wouldn't everybody do mass suicide? You know, like, let's get this over with as fast as possible. No, that's not it. Suicide is not the answer. And suicide is almost like taking a remote control and deciding to change the channel. You've been focused on one channel of delusion. You want to change the channel to another channel, then that's, you know, suicide or getting hit by a bus or the same. It's just the versions of changing the channel, you know. But suicide is not the answer. So it must be that if Marilyn Monroe had everything that the ego could offer and she still committed suicide, that it must be that maybe the Holy Spirit can use this story of Marilyn Monroe as a teaching device that will help us all. Because most of us haven't seemed to achieve the extremes of Marilyn Monroe. It's not like we have our personality character being voted the sexiest woman alive. It's not like our personality characters appeared in movies with all these actors and actresses. It's not like our personality character was married to Joe DiMaggio as a Yankee clipper. The famous Joe DiMaggio, yes, she was married to Joe. He was a nice guy, great baseball player too. And she was married to Arthur Miller, who was a playwright, very good playwright. Death of a Salesman, you know. There's all kinds of famous plays that he wrote. But basically what we're learning is that an attractive, successful, wonderful in the world's terms partner is not going to get you back to the Kingdom of Heaven. You've got to do the mind training. You've got to do the praying, the meditating, the listening to the guidance. You have to do all the things that all the mystics and saints have had to do to reach higher states. Look at Mary Magdala, for example. Mary Magdala lived at the time of Jesus and she was from the town of Magdala. And her father and her brother wanted her to get married like that was the thing for women back in the day. You know, you do what you do. You're helpful. You wash laundry. You do the food stuff and da, da, da. And then eventually you get a husband and you bear children and you keep the family lineage going. You keep the Jewish nation going. You know, back in the day, you know, that's part of procreation. You know, keep the Jewish nation going. That doesn't get you to the Kingdom of Heaven. That's part of the distraction from the Kingdom of Heaven. Time, everything of time is keeping you from the Holy Instant, from waking up now to the Kingdom of Heaven. So everything the ego made is just for one reason, to keep you blind from knowing who you are, to keep you blinded in the darkness from the light. Because if you knew that light, you would rush to God in gratitude and thankfulness for that divine light. So, as usual, you know, you gave me some themes to work with. The first theme that you have, you voted this number one with 60 votes, it was falling into dependency traps versus rising up my self as spirit. Falling into dependency traps versus rising up my capital self, my Christ self as spirit, as one with God. Wow, that's it. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be free of all false dependencies? You know, everybody's like, well, I would like to do this, but I don't want to upset my mom or I don't want to upset my dad. My family would be very upset if I go for spirituality. What are you going to do for a job? What are you going to do for a career? Oh, divine providence. I'm channeling Jesus and the Holy Spirit. And that's when the parents get really worried, like, oh my God, we have failed. I was supposed to raise a good, upstanding citizen, tax-paying, contributing to society. And now they got their hands like this and they're like channeling Jesus and writing things down from Jesus and following their inner guidance and following their intuition. That's a nightmare for most mothers and fathers. Absolute nightmare. They feel like their whole life is wasted. Because their offspring is now turned all nirvana. It's like, come on. They probably were listening to the band nirvana. Now they're in nirvana and they're going toward nirvana and the parents are pulling their hair out going, oh my God, I blew it. I totally blew it. So just for a little help, I wanted to talk a little bit about this dependency word. Let's talk about dependency. Dependency doesn't have a good connotation in this world. If somebody asks you on a job interview, what are your strengths? And you say, dependency. Out the door. You lose the job. And then so nobody likes the word dependency. And then let's use codependency. That is a word that's used to describe relationships, codependency. That's not a good word either. If you go to a therapist and the therapist listens to you wail away and as you cry and scream and kick for a few years and then finally the therapist goes, I think we have some codependency issues going on here. And you go, oh please don't use that word. I know I was raised in a dysfunctional family, but please don't call me codependent. So nobody wants to be dependent and nobody wants to be codependent. Here's another word I'll throw out for you, independent. Oh, now that one feels better. You see people like that, like the declaration of independence. I am woman hear me roar into numbers too big to ignore or I'm an independent male. I am the divine masculine. I am independent. Listen, independent and codependent and dependence are all invented by guess who the ego. That's right. There's no independence in heaven except creation. Jesus says God created you perfect. And you have an independence in creation in spirit. You're independent. That's the good version. All on earth. Independence is autonomy. It's just as difficult. It's just as much of a defense against love as codependence and dependence. So the ego doesn't care which of its three tricks you will fall for. It doesn't care if you call yourself codependent or dependent or independent. The ego is laughing if you identify with any of these characteristics because why? They're all time characteristics. They have nothing to do with eternal spirit. So even if you say, oh, on the enneagram, I'm this number and I'm very independent. Listen, you don't want to be on that enneagram. I actually had an enneagram expert one time. I was invited to speak at an enneagram conference one time and I was in Columbia and I spoke about awakening from the dream. They all loved it too. But when somebody who was an enneagram expert, they said, David, do you know what number you are? I was quite aware that I was none of the numbers. So I told the enneagram expert I'm none of them. And he said, no, all human beings are one of the numbers. And I said, okay, you don't like my answer. I'm none of them. I'm all of them. None of them, all of them, you know, there's no middle ground. This course will be believed entirely or not at all. You are never a number. Unless you want to consider yourself one with God, that's not bad. But I don't think that's a number. I think that's a reality. That's not a number. That's a reality. So first thing is, let's take a look at this whole thing about dependency, because our number one theme is falling into dependency traps versus rising up myself as spirit. Here's what Jesus has to say. He says, except you become as little children means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father. So Jesus is flipping the ego's word dependency. And now he's flipping it back to God. And he's saying, be totally dependent on God, like all the mystics and saints, just listen to one voice the Holy Spirit, be dependent on the Holy Spirit for all your needs. For everything that you believe you need in this world, be dependent on the Holy Spirit. I see Micah, Amanda on over there. Jesus has given them a house. He's given them a whole house overlooking the water. And all they had to do was leave behind everything else in the world. And then they get a nice house in Spain. And it was owned by the Catholic Church. And the Catholic Church is giving it over to three people that are into a course of miracles. You see how Jesus is having fun with the Catholic Church. Now he's got, they're going to be in a beautiful church owned property because they're dependent on God. You see the difference? Not dependent on jobs, not dependent on careers, not dependent on countries, not dependent on theologies and ideologies, but just really simply dependent on God. You follow the Holy Spirit. Everything you need is provided. Carol's there. Carol's working on a movie with Jesus. And all he's asking you to do is let Jesus and say, let me make the movie and you'll have some fun. But if you think you're Carol and you're going to use your past learning on this movie, it's going to be a riding a wild Bronco. But you see, that's because God dependence is what it's all about. It's all about listening and following the Holy Spirit. Nothing has any meaning except listening and following the Holy Spirit. The world has no meaning except listening and following the Holy Spirit. Jesus says most of the loftier concepts of which you are capable now are time dependent. So maybe you have certain things that you are aspiring to. Maybe you want to be a spiritual success story and you have some image of what that would look like a guru or something. Or maybe you want to be altruistic and you want to make a lot of money so you can be a philanthropist and give a lot of money away. Or maybe you want to be a healer. You want to have bodies come to you and walk away out the door. I'm healed as they run down the hill. You think, oh, that's good. I'm a good healer. These are, again, most of the loftier concepts of which you are capable now are time dependent. So that's why the Holy Spirit has to work with the concepts in the mind to help loosen the mind from all of them. And you'll get certain concepts as you go along. Maybe to be a healer. Maybe to be a speaker. Maybe to be even a miracle worker is a human concept. But the more you go into what it actually is, the human part disappears and you find that you are a miracle of God. Your identity is a miracle. I'm not talking about the body either or the personality. You start to go, oh my God, what if I'm a miracle of God? You see how it has to go through the rinsing away of the concepts. But most of the loftier concepts of which you believe you are capable now are time dependent. Trying to think of an example like, let's say you're a very generous person like a philanthropist or maybe another one would be that you're a light worker in the world. Light worker is still a human concept because in the end, the light, it just is, it doesn't work. The light doesn't work. It just is. But if you're a light worker, it means you're just letting the Holy Spirit come through your mind to be used in a way that helps bring light by you recognizing yourself as the light. I am the light of the world. Then you bring that light with you. Okay. Your whole creative function lies in your complete dependence on God whose function he shares with you. That's from chapter 11. The belief in ego autonomy is costing you the knowledge of your dependence on God in which your freedom lies. So much for autonomy. I see people that really practice spirituality so deeply and they free themselves up from being codependent. And they free themselves up from being dependent on people and places and things and the government for handouts. They free themselves up. They free themselves up, but then the ego snaps and hooks them with the autonomy idea because they think I am an autonomous, powerful person. I am an individual, unique expression of the love of God. I am a powerful person. I'm a power man, a power woman and the ego is laughing, going, got you with the autonomy. You gave up the codependence and the dependence, but wow, I got you easy, pride, vanity, hooks them every time. So that's right. You have to be humble. You have to lay aside all self-concepts, including the autonomy one, because the ego knows that it invented the body and it knows that the mind will be tricked with one concept called freedom of the body. You see how sneaky that is? And then Jesus comes in and says, what do you want? Freedom of the body or freedom of the mind for both you cannot have. Oh, Jesus is going to try to pull ropes out on one of the ego's biggest traps. It's going to try to read. Jesus will just pull that right now from under you. And everybody knows that the saints all went for the stillness. Actually, like Paramahansa Yogananda, he could not, he could care less of being famous because his real draw was into Samadhi. You see, a famous guru is nothing compared to Samadhi, the state of mind. So Paramahansa Yogananda is a symbol of he just let himself just ease into the stillness and toward the end of his life, he would go into such deep Samadhi states that his disciples, his monks, his followers would get scared because he was still breathing, but he didn't move for a long time. That's because he was going into Samadhi. The body was not necessary to be moving, but they started to freak. And then he would just say kind of just whisper this word into my ear or blow on me. If you get too scared, blow on me. I'll come out for you just to calm you down a little bit, but I'm going back. The world that I see holds nothing that I want. So you see that's a big difference between trying to be a famous guru. The real essence of divinity is just to be one with God. And you care less about the world, the images, you don't care about fame, money, you don't care about followers. You don't care about anything of the world because they're all time concepts and you're not interested in time. Okay. Now, here's your second theme. It's taken me a while. Usually I rattle right through the five themes, but this is your second theme. I'm trying to give you a good setup because I know that if we're doing a root canal, you need this setup. This is the preparation for the root canal. I'm doing this as a preparation for where we're going today because without this, it's going to be uncomfortable. You need to have some truth ideas in your mind swirling around for today's journey. Okay. Second one. This is the second theme. Seeking love outside my capital self versus knowing that I am enough. You might just say, I am. Seeking love outside myself versus knowing that I am enough. Here's what Jesus has to say in the Course. Seek not outside yourself for it will fail and you will weep each time an idol falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not. And there can be no peace accepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in his place. There is no other answer you can substitute. And find the happiness his answer brings. Seek not outside yourself for all your pain comes simply from a futile search of what you want, insisting where it must be found. So when we seek for happiness in the world, it always falls apart. The wheels fall off at some point. Be you glad that you are told where happiness abides and seek no longer elsewhere. You will fail, but it is given you to know the truth and not to seek for it outside yourself. And then one more time, he really likes this this theme. Seek not outside yourself. The search implies that you are not whole within and fear to look upon your devastation, but prefer to seek outside yourself for what you are. Whenever we look for worthiness in terms of the body, in terms of the skills of the body, in terms of the accomplishments in the world of the body, whatever your resume says, if whenever you try to look at history in the past and somebody puts you down and you say, hey, you know who you're talking to? Do you see my resume? Do you know who you're talking to? You know, Jesus is like, I'm not interested in the resume. That was the first thing that Jesus had me delete after 10 years of university. I thought he was going to take me into the magical world of manifesting or something, learn how to be a manifestor. Jesus is like, no, actually not. Delete your resume. Do you know how hard I would delete it right now? I'm going to lead you now. You don't need the resume. Your resume is of no use to me now, because I will guide you step by step. And that was a big turning point for me. I just deleted it. Of course, I deleted it from my word processor. Back then, we didn't have computers. We had word processors. And first, I threw all my resumes in the trash can and I put them out in the garbage. And then Jesus said, no, I meant deleted from your word processor. You get rid of the image of the thing. I don't even want to see that image around. You can just print more. You keep that hidden in your word processor. Get it out of there. It's off of your word processor. Your mind now, I'm going to use you now in ways you can't even imagine. So if you want to, if you're saying, yes, Lord, I will follow you, then that means you follow the instructions. And the first one was delete the resume. So here's the big one too. This is the third one that you have in here with 40 votes. It says, believing in loss, betrayal and rejection. In the end, this is important. We look at this because Marilyn Monroe is going to symbolize a deep unconscious belief in rejection. And she's going to seem to be betrayed and rejected in her childhood, in her teen years. And then when she gets married to Joe DiMaggio, she's just out having fun doing a movie. The wind blows up under her skirt. Her legs are showing in front of everybody. It's gathered there in New York City. Well, that's the end of that marriage because of an expectation from a husband that, no, my wife is an exhibitionist. It's all right that she's the sex symbol of the whole world, but she shouldn't be on the streets of New York filming a film. And what could she help with the wind blew under her dress? That's the end of that marriage. And then she'll marry a famous playwright. But she's going to believe that she's rejected from her family, believes that she's rejected from foster homes. Then she's going to believe that she's rejected from the first husband. And then she's going to believe she's rejected from the second husband. And then before she kills herself, she's going to be believed she's rejected from two more men. And they seem to be pretty prominent men. John F. Kennedy, the president of the United States and his younger brother, Bobby. And that rejection is going to bring such heartbreak into her that she's going to kill herself. But that's not a tragedy unless you start to see that it's just a belief that set the whole thing up. It's just the belief that she was not the Christ. It's just a belief that there were these famous authority figures and famous characters, famous men that could reject her. And what Jesus is saying is the secret of salvation is but this, you are doing this to yourself. You are choosing to believe in the ego. And the ego is the belief in death. It is the belief in betrayal. It is the belief in rejection. It is the belief in abandonment. And people are doing it to you. That the movie is being acted out so you can see with the Holy Spirit that you're none of it. That you're the Christ. You're the I am presence. You aren't in this dream at all. You're just dreaming a dream of separation, of abandonment, betrayal, rejection. I know all of us have gone through those emotions. Those are the ones that hurt the most. Abandonment, betrayal, rejection. There's nothing that cuts like a knife in our heart. Like a twisting knife when you believe that you know somebody, you trust somebody, somebody's a dear friend, and then they seem to betray you. They're doing you a favor. They're just acting out the belief in betrayal so you can cast it out of your mind. When you have a grievance, Jesus says, pluck the offense from your mind. Let the Holy Spirit pluck it from your mind. Don't blame your brothers and sisters. They're not doing anything wrong. They're just helping you by acting it out. Like Shakespeare said, all the world's a stage and everyone must play their part. We should feel grateful for every part that's being played because it's helping us mirror to us what we still believe in our unconscious mind. We couldn't even see it unless they acted it out. We should stop and give them bravo, Oscar to you. That was the most vicious, wicked dream character I've ever seen. I made it up, but thank you for showing me that I made it up. I needed you to act it out so I could see that I believed in it first because we can't perceive it unless we believe it. You got to believe it first before you can perceive it. And if you believe in forgiveness, you'll see a happy dream. I guarantee you you'll see a happy dream if you believe it. But if you just say, maybe in 10 lifetimes, I know there's some teachers that even teach you cannot hear the Holy Spirit's voice. Don't believe it. If anybody tells you you can't hear the Holy Spirit's voice, don't believe it because if you believe it, then you'll seem to go, I can't hear. Why can't I hear? I say, well, look at the signs and symbols all around you, but I want to hear it. Well, if you want to hear it is, you'll receive it. Just if you really want to hear it, you will hear it. There's nothing that can stop you from hearing it because that's the only voice that makes sense. That's your voice of sanity, your voice of happiness. If a teacher tells you you will never hear the Holy Spirit's voice, don't you believe it for one second because that is the most natural voice there is. And even though it's rare, is rare going to stop you? If it's rare, that's not going to stop you. Okay, it's rare. I'm still going to hear it. I don't care if it's rare. I don't care if my steak is coming off the grill rare. I'm still going to eat it. And I don't care if you tell me it's rare to hear the Holy Spirit. I'm still going to hear it because I want to and my mind is powerful. Okay, here's, here's, we're talking about belief in loss, betrayal, rejection. Here's what Jesus says, find hope and comfort rather than despair in this. You could not long find even the illusion of love in any special relationship here. For you are no longer wholly insane and you would soon recognize the guilt of self-betrayal for what it is. So every time you think you're in this perfect romantic relationship and you think there is a God, oh my God, Jesus gave me my soulmate, don't stop there because as long as it's personal or interpersonal, it's not the final goal. It's, it's like there's still self-betrayal. And that's why don't be shocked when you're with your soulmate and your anger comes up. Because that's the purpose of the soulmate is to once in a while act out the rage that's still buried down there so that you can release the rage. You see how that's an important function. Those people don't like that, that ruins the story they see. David, you are ruining every fairy tale that I've ever had. Good, they need to be ruined. If you need to actually see that Cinderella and the Prince is just a good starting point, you know, it's better to be a prince than a frog. Maybe they're really in the real world, they're the same, but it's a step, you know, okay, you can be this prince, but then Jesus says, yeah, but that's still an opportunity to find your own self-betrayal, which is in your unconscious mind. You see? So don't get fooled by the form because it's just a step along the way. Jesus says this, the betrayal of the Son of God lies only in illusions. And all of his quote sins are about his own imagination. His reality is forever sinless. He need not be forgiven but awakened. In his dreams, he has betrayed himself, his brothers, and his God. Yet what dreams has not been really done? It is impossible to convince the dreamer that this is so, for dreams are what they are because of their illusion of reality. You wouldn't even give a thought to your nighttime dreams if there wasn't a part of your mind that believed, wow, if that happened to me, that could be upsetting. That's what a nightmare is, a nightmare is a fantasy generated by the ego to scare you into believing in a body. You know, it's like, ooh, it's trying to scare you into staying asleep. And nightmares, we don't wake up with nightmares, we wake up with happy dreams, we wake up with forgiveness dreams, we wake up with dreams of non-judgment. Okay, the final, well, there's two more left, seeking approval from others versus knowing that I am complete already. The one emotion in which substitution is impossible is love. Fear involves substitution by definition for its, it is love's replacement. So in other words, there was just heaven and God. As soon as there was the belief in separation, then the Holy Spirit was created as an answer to the belief in separation. So the Holy Spirit only came into existence as a bridge when there seemed to be the belief in separation. Does that make sense? If there's, if there's no separation, why do you need a bridge? It's all is one, all is love. But as soon as there was a belief in separation, the Holy Spirit was created instantly as the answer to that belief. And it took the Holy Spirit one, less than one second to handle the cosmos. It was solved, the instant it was, it projected. So the Holy Spirit is pretty quick. Now, listening to the Holy Spirit when you believe in illusions can seem to take time because there's a lot of resistance to that voice, voice for love. Fear is both a fragmented and fragmenting emotion. Fear, it seems to take many forms and each one seems to require a different form of acting out for satisfaction. While this appears to introduce quite variable behavior, a far more serious effect lies in the fragmented perception from which the behavior stems. So in other words, Jesus is saying, don't be too concerned what the bodies are doing. It's your mind. And it's the distorted perception and distorted belief in your mind that's producing this distortion. Don't be concerned about what bodies are doing or not doing. Look at the motives and the meanings and the values that your mind is giving to the body. Remember recently I was saying the body is nothing more than a learning device. Using this thing is like, oh, yeah, learning device. Learning devices don't make mistakes. It's the mind that tells the learning device what to be. So let's imagine this is Marilyn Monroe. Now, I know you're going to say, David, that's a very poor representation. It's not quite as curvy as it could be, but I'm just using it. It's a learning device. That's what Marilyn's body was, was a learning device, right? It's the same as everybody. It's the same as his pen. So this is Marilyn. Now the ego is like, oh, fame. Oh, sex appeal. Oh, popularity. Oh, money. Oh, wow, you've got it all. Are you happy? How about a famous husband? Are you happy now? No. Okay, let's get Arthur Miller in here. Oh, Arthur, it values you for your mind too, not just your body. No, she's not smart enough. Oh no, oh no. You see, these learning devices are not the problem. The problem isn't with the body. The problem isn't with the personality. It's the mind that is reading meaning into these characters. The mind is saying you're a body. The mind is saying you're a famous body. You're a famous actress. You're a famous icon. You're a sex appeal. You're the sexiest woman in the history of the world. You know, you see how the ego is just reading meaning onto this little learning device. It's like, this would be like you doing this to your pen. And then if your cat was in the same room or your dog, they would look at you like bonkers. My pet owner is Looney Tunes. They're chasing all kinds of false values and they're projecting them onto the bodies, you know, and they're not going to be happy. So we need to have this context when you watch this movie today. Otherwise, you'll be sad. You'll be sad if you don't remember that the body of Marilyn Monroe is just a learning device and learning devices don't make mistakes. The mistakes are totally judgments and evaluations in the mind, the ego mind, the wrong mind, not your right mind. Your right mind is happy. The Holy Spirit lives in your right mind. So why not live there with the Holy Spirit? Why not take up residence in your right mind with the Holy Spirit and have a good laugh at the whole thing instead of going into the wrong mind? Oh, I'm sorry for what I said. I'm sorry for what I did. I think the body is more than a learning device. I think it's me. And I think this me made the terrible decisions, wrong behaviors. And Jesus is like, come on. You are not listening to me. The body is a learning device for the mind to wake up. It's your mind that wakes up. Everybody's arguing about which bodies woke up and who woke up first. I'll tell you now, no bodies have ever woken up because bodies are projections of the ego. They don't have minds of their own. They don't have their own private thoughts either, and they don't even wake up or fall asleep. They act like they fall asleep at night, but that's an act. The ego is projecting even sleep. The ego projects sleep onto the body. Oh, look, it's a sleeping body. Oh, it's awake. It's lively. Oh, it's asleep. You see, that's all just false projections. The mind is making the whole thing up. This is lesson number two from the workbook. I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me. I have given everybody I see all the meaning it has for me. I have given every cat and dog, every mountain, every tree, all the meaning that it has for me. Oh my God, that's profound. Well, maybe I should roll back to lesson number one. Nothing I see means anything. In other words, God is the only reality. So there's nothing in perception that has any meaning. That's what spiritual awakening is about. Okay, we made it down. The last one, believing that I am a victim versus seeing I am not the victim of the world I see. Oh, you only gave it 31 votes. Oh, you don't like this victim one. Ha, ha, ha. Coming in at number five is victim and abuse. Okay. And Jesus does tell us, he says, this is the ego's core teaching is that the ego is telling you that you are a victim of somebody else or something else. He says, this is what the ego's entire teaching is. So if you can hear the insanity of what I'm going to read to you, then you're becoming sane, but you have to be able to hear what I'm going to read to you. The Jesus is saying is the ego's core teaching. And if you can see that it's, it's not true, then you're, you're happy. You can't, you can't be stopped. Your happiness cannot be stopped. So here it is. This is from text chapter 31. He's, he's waited 31 chapters to tell you the ego's core teaching. And here it is. I am the thing you made of me. And as you look on me, you stand condemned because of what I am. On this conception of the self, the small self, the world smiles with approval, the ego smiles with approval for it guarantees the pathways of the world are safely kept. And those who walk on them will not escape. So I'll read it to you again. I am the thing you made of me. And as you look on me, you stand condemned because of what I am. That is so deep that some of you might be saying, can you just give me one example, David, of that, because it's I'm having trouble digesting that I am the thing you made of me. And as you look on me, you stand condemned because of what I am. I'll give you an example. There's a teenager, the teenager is so frustrated, so angry, so bored with school with everything of this world that the teenager says to his parents, I think I'm just going to kill myself. Are you happy with that? And that is an example of I am the thing you made of me. You burst me into this wacky, crazy nightmare world. You burst me into this world. Now, I'm just, if I kill myself, will that make you happy? You brought me here and now look what the world did to me. So are you going to be happy if I take myself out of the world? That's kind of an extreme example of the ego's thinking. That's a suicidal example. You brought me here. How dare you? How dare you bring me into this nightmare world? I'll get back at you. I'll just kill myself. You see, that's the crazy logic of the ego, but that's an extreme example of what this is teaching here. A smaller example would be when you give your mother or your father a lecture on what they didn't give you as a child. You didn't give me enough love. You didn't give me enough care. You didn't buy me an iPhone. This is a modern version. How could you not buy me an iPhone? Every other student in the school has an iPhone and I have air, nothing to put in my hands. You see, this is part of the you were not a good enough parent scenario, but underneath you were not a good enough parent is here it is. I am the thing you made of me and as you look on me, you stand condemned because of what I am. You see, it's a blame game. The ego, that's its game. Blame the parents. Blame the culture. Blame the politicians. Blame the neighbor. Blame your brother and sister. You see, this is a blame game. The ego is a blame game. And the only way you're going to be happy is to give up the blame game. You have to take 100% responsibility for your state of mind. And as soon as that little ego starts to come in there and starts to say, well, they didn't really treat you very well and, well, they could have done this better and they should have done this and could have would have should have blah, blah, blah, don't listen to it. That ego is trying to get you to blame the world. And then Jesus, he never leaves us there. He tells us the escape. Here's Jesus giving us the escape. You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. No other cause does it have. It has nor ever will. Nothing more than a fearful, idle dream has terrified God's son and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his father and made war upon himself. So fearful is the dream. So seeming real, he could not awaken to reality without the sweat of terror and a scream of mortal fear. Unless a gentler dream preceded his awakening and allowed his, his calmer mind to welcome not to fear the voice that calls with love to awaken him, a gentler dream in which his suffering was healed and where his brother was his friend. God willed, he wakened gently and with joy and gave him means to waken without fear. So he's saying, please accept this soft, gentle dream that the Holy Spirit is offering. Please just stay with me, Jesus is saying, just look at the world with me and see how soft it is, see how kind it is. In forgiving eyes, the world is so kind and you can look upon any sight through the kindness of your own mind, through forgiveness. And then here's a paragraph that will save you every time you think you've been wrong, every time you think you've been abused, mistreated, every time you feel nobody recognize your true worth or you've been not appreciated. Here is your paragraph that will save you. This is, it doesn't get any better than this. This is so soft. Imagine Jesus telling you this right now. Dream softly of your sinless brother who unites with you in holy innocence. And from this dream, the Lord of heaven will himself awaken his beloved son. Dream of your brother's kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. Forgive him his illusions and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave. And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams. If your brother and your sister were perfect in your dreams, you don't have to dream anymore. There's, there's no, you don't even have to forgive because if your brothers and sisters become perfect in your dreams, you're home in heaven. You don't need bodies anymore. You don't need, you don't need to be dreaming once your brother and sister are perfect. In fact, all it takes is one brother or sister. You know, some of you I see you at La Casa de Milagros looking around at Living Miracles, Mama's Theory, Micah, Amanda, just turn around and look at each other and just realize all you have to do is see one person is perfect, which means see beyond their body. And, and you'll just smile, your final smile on earth. You won't be here long because you'll be so happy. You'll be like, oh, sweetie. Oh, you adorable one. Oh my gosh, was I mistaken in you. You are just so loving. I can't, oh, I can't stand it. You're so beautiful. You know, that's, that's where this is going is because Jesus knows that, that who we are is spirit. We're not bodies. So he's like saying, just forgive one. That's all it takes. He's not even asking you to forgive 7.8 billion. He's just practice with one practice with one, but do it all the way, you know, go all the way with it. So, and finally, I came across this course. Some of you can probably, I'll show it to you, then I'll read it. This is what I came across in the course today. I don't know if you can see it there. I'll read it to you. It says, this course does not attempt to take from you the little that you have. It does not try to substitute utopian ideas for satisfactions which the world contains. There are no satisfactions in the world. There are no satisfactions in the world. Believe this one thought and you are indescribably happy because you see if you believe that one thought, then you can let the past and the future go, right? What else would you need time for if you believe that one thought? You see, that's Jesus is so good. He's so wise. He so is reaching us with all this freedom. Believe this one thought, but there are no satisfactions in the world. So, you see, Jesus is finally answering Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones who's saying, I can't get no satisfaction. I can't get no satisfaction. And I've tried and I've tried and I've tried and I've tried. I can't get no. He's actually answering the Rolling Stones. Jesus Christ is answering the Rolling Stones with there are no satisfactions in the world. That's why Mick could not get satisfactions. He had a lot of girlfriends. He had drugs. He had rock and roll. Could not satisfy Mick. Even with rock and roll, Mick was not satisfied. So now we're ready for Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe, if you can now go past Mick Jagger, Mick was kind of famous, but not Marilyn Monroe. She's going to pop the cap off of this lid today for us. So sit back and enjoy the ride because we're going to look at the lifetime of Marilyn Monroe and we're doing it for the purpose of freeing the whole universe because Jesus knows we need extreme teaching examples. That's why the crucifixion, the whole story of him going on the cross was an extreme teaching example in which he taught teach only love for that is what you are. That's an extreme teaching example that you can't kill the Christ. But now we're going to let Marilyn Monroe show us that the world we see holds nothing that we want. We don't, you know, Marilyn, you know, she just had what the world would call a natural sex appeal and she used lipstick and she used makeup and even in A Course in Miracles, Jesus uses those kind of metaphors. He said, would you put lipstick on a skeleton and dress it up? That's in the Course. Jesus is poking fun at our learning devices. Why are you putting a lipstick on? Why are you, oh, that low, are you trying to attract another body's eyes with what you're doing with this learning device? Well, you're offering him a crown of thorns if you're doing that. Next time you think about dressing the body up to attract another body's eyes, Jesus says, yes, you're offering him a crown of thorns. You're actually offering guilt as an attraction. And I will talk about that. I will talk about the attraction of guilt as we get into this movie because for most people, they say, I'm not attracted to guilt. I don't want guilt. Guilt is not my goal. But unconsciously, we have to look at the attraction of guilt because that's what keeps the mind trapped into the body identification. So enjoy the movie. I'm glad I gave you a good setup here. So I think you will enjoy this movie now. I hope it'll be a nice, a nice joyful flight and you don't have to, there's Zach or there's Grace and Vanessa over there in Spain. You look pretty happy. There's Barrett. Okay. Enjoy the movie. See you soon.