 Hi everybody. Welcome and welcome to our all day movie workshop. Today we're going to be joined by those who are participating in our weekend online retreat. We have a trusting in the present online retreat happening and we also have those who are just here for the movie just for today. So I just like to welcome everybody and I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host today and I'm going to pass it over to you now David. Thank you Peter and thank you everyone for joining in. Beautiful to see your waves and your smiling faces and it's we're going to have an amazing day today. As some of you know when we have these Saturday segments there'll be a setup for a movie then a movie with commentary and then we'll have after a short break breakout groups in zoom so you can let your emotions up and that's really what a lot of these movies are. They're just a huge opportunity for healing to get in touch with what's in the unconscious mind that needs to come up for release and they're very practical because as most people have a lot of emotions when they watch movies and the movies that Jesus picks for us are their mind watchers, their roto router. He will get your unconscious guilt up in a way that it's hard to even imagine but it's important to express your emotions when you feel them and that's what the breakout rooms are for and also for your miracles and insights because sometimes the insights are like flash bulbs going off and there's so many that when you share them with a group of people it just the blessing just extends and radiates out that your miracle is really everyone's miracle and everyone's miracle is your miracle. So today as Pete said we have a combined audience from around the world from our centers in in Spain and Utah and Mexico. We also have those that are here a part of the retreat trusting the present and so all told we have probably over a hundred people from many many different countries and we're all going to go through this deeply healing experience together and I would say that that the pathway of a course in miracles is through the darkness to the light and so Jesus has told us that this course his course in miracles does not aim at teaching the meaning of love for that is far what can be taught far beyond what can be taught it it just aims at removing the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence and I feel like that's that's a great mindset to have as you authentically go through the healing process as you authentically dive in you realize that there's a lot of uncovering a lot of exposing and a lot of releasing and the philosopher author that we will be in the movie today that the movie is about is Ken Wilbur and and his relationship with Traya or Terry Gilliam and her nickname is Traya and and their relationship will be used as a mechanism for deep deep healing and that is the value of all relationships is to release what is believed in the unconscious mind with a course in miracles it's a fast track so Jesus uses relationships in conjunction with clearing away the unconscious mind so that the light can shine through unobscured uninhibited and this movie today as usual it just it it's the result of prayer um yesterday we were had been praying in the as a community and and there were lots of options and then I happened to click open instagram and this movie came right up and I was like wow is this is this the movie I'm to show maybe I can check there's a trailer what year is it from 2021 what's the release date and I've looked around and I what's the release date ah the yesterday was the release date I was like oh my gosh so it's quite a collaboration for us to bring this movie to you I would say we I will be using it as a teaching device so I will bring uh an edited downsized version of the movie to you for teaching purpose and uh sometimes in our community over many years these have been come to be called uh mini movies and this is where Jesus gives us the you've heard of the director's cut this is the Jesus cut uh and he just this started many years ago after I watched the first matrix movie and was like wow then I watched the second in the trilogy wow and then the third in the trilogy wow and I I thought that's amazing that's over six hours of Hollywood movie footage in a trilogy the matrix trilogy and then Jesus said yeah now download all those onto your hard drive and let me do some editing so Jesus took over six hours of matrix and turned it into an hour and 23 minutes of Jesus Christ version of the matrix we called it matrix redux it was definitely reduced so we'll have a bit of a redux today for teaching purposes and brevity and part of that is because we ask our our global community to to vote on themes and issues and Ken puts it out and basically we look at the the top themes that come in for healing what's on everyone's mind around the world what is it they're going through right now we like these Saturday events and also our retreats to be highly relevant to what's going on in in consciousness so the combined poll of the English and the Spanish came up with these top three uh vote getters in terms of themes and I think it was mentioned last night the first one Eric mentioned the first one which is how to move through deep emotions sadness grief guilt etc this movie is definitely that it addresses the top theme big time and I know for a lot of you that's very important because you have very intense emotions and that's one of the biggest questions how do I move through this how practically do I move through or to allow the darkness to move through my mind and clear away how can my mind be cleaned the second one is personal responsibility versus god dependence the god dependence would be the present moment if you're in the moment you recognize your god dependence and you're not looking to time to solve the problems and the issues you're not looking to the past to solve anything and you're not even looking to the future either to solve anything you are in present trust and that's basically a prayer from a course in miracles let present trust direct the way holy spirit let present trust direct the way and last night Greg and Emily and Eric all talked about letting trust lead the way in their experiences and even talked a bit about how we have changes seemingly happening is part of our community as we go deeper into that deep well of trust of the present moment and and things seem to reconfigure and fall away when you go into it so it's beautiful that we have zoom and we have this digital platform because you can all go with us and at least you can be the observers as we we go through these transformations in our states of mind into just pure joy it's nice to watch the witnesses I saw some comments coming in saying oh so precious watching three calm course of miracles teachers on there very happy to see the presence of peace coming through and the third theme is acting solely from joy and of course that is a very very very advanced state of mind because the holy spirit is the spirit of joy so that to the extent that you hear one voice as Jesus did to the extent that you're consistently aligned with the spirit you're miracle minded you're consistently right minded if you're using course of miracles terminology then that's where you experience the joy and and really the joy doesn't come in in a consistent way until you really have transferred the training the mind training to the great majority of everything that you see you will not start to experience constant joy or even consistent joy until the transfer of training that Jesus talks about in the workbook is mostly complete and also we need to keep in mind that that happiness joy peace of mind uh when we're talking about perception there's always a a relativness tied into that because Jesus comes right out in the course and says a child of God can only know itself in its true environment and you may ask what is the true environment of the child of God heaven nirvana eternity is the natural environment of of a child of God so even when we talk about perception and happy dream and true perception and what Jesus calls the forgiven world that's a mostly consistent state of mind of peace and happiness and joy he does throw a few things in to just say don't you know hold your horses a little bit there don't don't overestimate what the the happy dream is about he says even even the most advanced teachers of God will give into temptation in this world so he's like saying don't think you're home free until you're home free until until you're in eternity that's what it's about God will take the final step God doesn't really take steps but that means that when you remember God when you remember reality in eternity then that is that's not even he says the goal of the course the goal of the course is peace and the goal of the course is forgiveness and atonement but he's not saying that eternity is the goal in fact I put out a little video on our movie watchers guide to enlightenment facebook page of of ken wilber and and he was talking about three aspects he was talking about first comes cleaning cleaning the unconscious second comes waking up and third he called growing up and his growing up is a little different than Jesus Jesus is growing up would be when you're moving in the realms of pure creation and coming to in the realms of pure light beyond perception that would be growing up in course miracles terminology growing up is has nothing to do with human development it has nothing to do with time and space in for Jesus and so you might say if you work with the course you know first you you start to open up and have willingness for miracles then you start to have more miracles and more miracles and more consistent miracles and unlike Greg and Emily and Eric were saying we don't even know what's next what's even coming in our lives or in our community and that's the thing with the course of miracles it's so deep that if you just read one line from the course you know that this is an unfathomably unfathomably deep dive toward the light and Eric was saying he was drawn more and more to the light but you know if you want to just pop open and look at one line from the course it can show you how deep it is okay I'm communities good I like my I like my forgiveness lessons I'm clearing I'm cleaning how deep does the rabbit hole go what might be in store for me miracle principle from the beginning of the book you can heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death and can abolish both are you ready for that this is deep this is Jesus speaking you can heal the sick and raise the dead because you made sickness and death and can abolish them both that just gives you a glimpse of the rabbit hole you know whatever you thought your life was to be whatever you thought you had envisioned for your future I'll guarantee you as you go down the rabbit hole with Jesus you ain't seen nothing yet but baby you ain't you ain't seen nothing yet here's something that you're never going to forget that's God you know that's where that's that's where this is heading is to remembrance of God union with God so this is just a Jesus says in here this course is a beginning and not an end henceforth let the Holy Spirit direct all subsequent learning this is this is the deep stuff a lot of the stuff I mean I I really enjoy philosophy and I enjoy psychology and today we're going to have a treat because this this movie is about an eminent author and and and philosopher Ken Wilbur and his relationship with Treya who comes into his life and it's a love story it's a healing story and it's it's just at the foothills of the mountain we'll call ascension to God this is this is good we need foothills movies because they're very helpful as teaching learning devices so acting solely from joy I would say as as Ken Wilbur and Treya are brought together you can feel the vibrations that they're being called in a in a very deep way to take a very deep dive into into healing and and also I like the fact that with all the different movies that I show on these Saturdays and during these online retreats we come at it from every conceivable angle I mean recently we showed powder you might have seen powder 1995 movie we have shown movies slumdog millionaire was another one that was recent we've shown movies like we call them classics like dark city transcendence the Truman show eternal sunshine of a spotless mind and also from different angles we come at it we showed a William Shakespeare movie what was the name of that one all or nothing something like that and and it was an amazing experience for all of us we so we showed Fatima too that everybody was kind of in a deep mystical state of mind by the end of that movie Fatima spectacular but I I that William Shakespeare movie that I showed it was interesting because William Shakespeare was such an eminent writer many people consider him as far as literature they could in the English language at least we'll say is one of the greatest in the world most people know of Shakespeare he was a channel for spirit and yet the movie begins when the globe theater burns down in London and so this eminent writer Shakespeare with all of his plays and sonnets and directing and working with actors all abruptly comes to a halt when his theater burns down and he goes back to see his wife and daughters which he had not seen in years and it was like Jesus saying hey William you're ready to come out of the textbook and jump into the laboratory and whoa the emotions that came up for William Shakespeare when he went back to his his town and his house and his wife's that he hadn't seen for many many years and his daughters that he hadn't seen it was a plunge into allowing the unconscious mind to come up and probably with all the great writings and plays and sonnets he'd written he would tell you those last years of his life were the that was the the road over he was in with the plumber in his mind down to the depths of the unconscious mind going through healing some of you know how I say that spiritual awakening is one percent principle and 99 practice and Jesus had a message 2000 years ago to the scribes and the Pharisees and the ones that were always talking about the letter of the Jewish law you know he he was wanting to take us to the heart of love to the experience of divine love to to know God directly and that is very different from theology that is very different from religion that is very different from religious traditions even and so today's movie is another example instead of William Shakespeare we have more of a modern day writer philosopher Ken Wilbur Ken's probably not quite as famous as William Shakespeare but William got started earlier you know he had a head start give you just give him a couple couple hundred years and and Ken Wilbur Ken's famous around the world for people that study religion philosophy the perennial wisdom he his books are are spread all around the world he's very famous and in this movie he will have already reached some degree of fame we'll say from spiritual seekers that's his following those are the ones that read his book people that are really into seeking the spirit and he wrote his first book I think it was called like the spectrum of consciousness when he was 23 years old so he was like a prodigy usually people don't begin writing spectacular books that touch that will touch so many people around the world when they're 23 they're usually working at a hamburger joint to pay their their college or university tuition what was I doing at 23 probably cutting grass cutting lawns to get a little extra money Ken's writing spectrum of consciousness and then basically every year he writes another spectacular book usually one a year so by the time he meets Traia in this movie he's he's an eminent writer with Shambhala and his books are are spreading around the world and he has quite a following quite a uh readership and Traia is going to come into his life Traia is very very intuitive Traia is is very we could say in many ways integrated that her her life of her thoughts and her seemingly public life are very much the same she's she's transparent she's to the point or little uh themes she just blew away she's she's transparent she's to the point she's she's direct and I believe that when they're going to first meet she's I think she's 36 years old and he's he's a bit older and they're going to be brought together for an assignment that is very much based on deep healing and actually that is the purpose of all relationships all relationships are for healing the mind all relationships are for clearing the unconscious in a more rapid way why more rapid because people are mirrors of consciousness so the thoughts and the beliefs that you hold on to that you're not even aware of get acted out in the relationships and in the people that you perceive it's a fast track to enlightenment and for Ken and Traia this is going to be a huge acceleration they feel it vibrationally they are stepping into it and and going on this journey and it's it is pretty rapid fire because they will be drawn together get married and then quickly after their marriage the unconscious starts to arise very very rapidly Jesus talks about this in a course of miracles in chapters 15 to 24 and in those early chapters on special relationships and holy relationships he talks about being given an assignment in which it will be very dis disjunctive it's disjunctive to the ego because the purpose when you invite the Holy Spirit in for healing the purpose of the relationship is shifted dramatically from what it once was to what it will now serve healing forgiveness awakening to God the former structure was set up by the ego and it's almost like a rehab project where you have a house that's in need of lots of remodeling and repair and then suddenly you walk in the house and then you go needs a lot of work Holy Spirit please I invite you into Mikasa Tsukasa my mind is your mind please invite I invite you come in and then all hell breaks loose after you make that invitation because it is a mind overhaul that happens the everything that once was the ego and the ego believed it was its territory and its domain in fact consciousness is the domain of the ego Jesus tells us so when you invite the Holy Spirit into your relationship you're basically saying clean me out that's that's that's what you're saying to the to the Holy Spirit God's representative clean me out make me know my wholeness bring me to the light bring me joy I want joy I want lasting joy and happiness and and the Holy Spirit of course answers immediately to that prayer so in the context of of the movie we'll be watching the Traya and Ken will be invited by their their good friends Roger Walsh and Francis Vaughn this touches my heart because when I first came in touch with A Course in Miracles in 1986 it was at a conference in La Jolla California and Francis Vaughn and Roger Walsh were at that conference I got my Course in Miracles book exposure at the same conference and these two are married were married Francis has passed away but they are we're at the time and remained eminent trans personal psychologist they are really at the top of their field and they also lived in up in near Marin and northern California and I would say A Course in Miracles had and still has a huge focus in that area that's where Eric's from homegrown from northern California and that's where Judy Skutch our friends Judy Skutch Eric knows Judy very well actually worked and helped Judy on some projects and we've known each other for years Judy is based up there and her daughter Tamara Robert Bob Rosenthal the daughter Tamara and Bob are the co-co presidents of the Foundation for Inner Peace the publishers of A Course in Miracles and you may have heard of some of their friends Jerry Jampolsky who passed away not too long ago and there's so many great psychologists and trans personal psychologists Willis Harmon I mean there there are so many and they were the group of psychologists that were many of them open to exposure to A Course in Miracles which is saying something for a psychologist the course is from the master psychologist Jesus Christ and not every psychologist is so quick to jump on into that curriculum because it's it's really trans personal it's it's transcending the personal in every sense of of the word so I was happy to be at the conference and and really interact at this conference with Carl Rogers you know one of the the founders along with Abraham Maslow of humanistic psychology and then of course Abraham Maslow took it beyond humanistic psychology kind of was a force and the fourth force of psychology the trans personal psychology I that's dear in my heart I have some friends that I met that are kind of into psychedelics in ayahuasca and they say that's that warms my heart David psychedelics I'm not into psychedelics but I was into transpersonal psychology and and actually transpersonal psychology I think gave me the same experience as the psychedelics without medicine or drugs being around these people I was like lit up and transported even to stand next to Francis Vaughn Ken Wilbur one time he said oh yeah we all we all pretty much call Francis the wisest of wise women when your nickname is the wisest of wise women that's that's good I think we have our own Francis is the is the wisest of wise women so there's a lot of connections going on here and so Francis and Roger are friends with with Treya and they're friends with Ken Wilbur Judy scotch you know lots of connections out there in northern California and as the story goes this is not in the movie but I'll give you I know you love backstories too don't you know I you could talk to me for till the cows come home I know all the backstories of of course the miracles I've met almost all the characters not Helen or Bill but the rest everything I've met them all many times I know them very well they're very dear friends of mine so I have spent quite a bit of time with a lots of them but as a backstory Francis and Roger are married they're living in Francis Francis thought I had a beautiful house out in northern California and they're they're living there and they're working through their relationship stuff yes even transpersonal psychologists have relationship issues and they're working through their issues and they know Treya and they know Ken Wilbur so as Ken Wilbur says in his book Grace and grit which is the name of this movie you can buy the book you can read all the backstories if you want it's Shambhala you can buy the book and read the whole thing but as Ken Wilbur would say he was good friends with Francis and Roger and they were always trying to set him up with a relationship because he was single and they were married and some of you know that dynamic they the married couple always is talking to the single one saying I've got someone for you so Ken is an eminent writer and eminent philosopher and he goes over there and first it's Roger says I've got one for you now Roger he says always is setting him up with beautiful women every time Roger recommends somebody it's some gorgeous beautiful woman and so Roger says to Ken Wilbur I've got I've got the perfect one for you you really need to meet her her name is Treya or her official name is Terry Gilliam and and you really need to meet her and and as Ken tells the story Ken Wilbur says thank you but no thanks you know please would you I'm not please stop doing this you know I really don't like to be set up like this all the time and so some short time passes and then he he's talking to Francis Francis Vaughn and she always tries to set him up with the the woman that would be best for his soul so Roger's trying to set him up with the most gorgeous women and Francis is trying to set up she's the woman who's called the wisest of wise women she's trying to set him up with the one that will be best for his soul and so he's talking to Francis sometime after Roger gave this recommendation of Treya and then Francis says you really need to meet Treya and this is the first time that they've ever recommended the same woman and they have they come from different perspectives so as soon as she said you need to meet Treya then basically the words the three words that came out of Ken's mouth was I'll marry her that was his reaction when his two dear friends were trying to set himself up with the same woman he he really respected them he adored them you know please please stop it but they came with the same name and his first reaction was I'll marry her so there's lots of synchronicities and backstories to how the Holy Spirit works to bring up the unconscious for healing and this is a this is a beautiful love story it's also a a good example of of the Holy Spirit using time and space to bring the unconscious mind up to really flush the ego up from the unconscious into the surface and then the up we always have the choice whether to stuff it back down in the unconscious or we choose to release it to the light release it to the Holy Spirit and free our mind to come to know the will of God to come to have a direct experience of ourself as the Christ at one with God so that's a bit of the the backstory and I think the phrase that they use sometimes you hear of the phrase love at first sight they Ken Wilbur and Treya use the phrase love at first touch because that's how we'll see them meet is invited over for dinner with Roger Walsh and Francis Vaughn so they are invited to have dinner and the four of them will sit down at the table to have dinner and that's when it's felt by I think everyone there at the meal and particularly by Ken Wilbur and and Treya it's just this huge energy this huge sense of a feeling that they never have experienced before and if I had to put it in the Course in Miracle terms it's like oh good now I'm going to send you into the laboratory of a very deep use of relationship for healing and that's really what this this movie is about can we benefit from watching this movie yes Jesus says you don't have to go through everything physically because in Jesus's awareness nothing is physical that he's teaching us that this world is a mental construct and the world has not left the mind of the thinker so what is perceived to be the external world is still in the mind and that's why he tells us all illness is mental illness that's why he tells us there's there are no problems apart from the mind even in lesson 132 Jesus eases us in by saying there is no world apart from what you think you see he's telling us that the world is just thought and that we can release egoic thought and then come to experience a happy dream in a forgiven world with the Holy Spirit but the world is thought there is no world apart from what you think and then he goes on to really he says there is no world exclamation point he doesn't hold back okay get you in the waiting pool and there you go in the deep end my friend rest I remember she used to listen to my talks back in the 1990s and she would go to a nearby cemetery cemetery that's interesting seminary cemetery both but both are really they let you really examine your mind she would go through the cemetery was the second largest in the world and she would put on her remember the the first ones that came out this the Walkman yeah the first Walkman's account they weren't like wireless but you know the little earbuds and the Sony was it Sony or Apple Sony Sony Walkman yeah well we're going down through memory lane you know some of the younger of you are going what Sony Walkman what the heck is that what she would go through the cemetery Sony Walkman listening to my talks and then she would come to this little house I had called the peace house and she would come in sit down and she would have a cup of tea with me and she would ask me all these deep questions until one day she I think she was reading or listening to a talk of mine about lesson 132 in which Jesus says there is no world exclamation point and she came in and she sat down I got her a cup of tea and then she just she said he's done it now I said who Jesus what did he do he's done it now he's gone too far oh what what did Jesus do how did he go too far he he says there is no world he said now that is just that's just too far that's just how is that helpful she said how is that helpful for Jesus to say that and I said well he's he's just telling you that you need to live as if there is no world she said what does that even mean I said just live 100% intuitively live inside your heart live with in the core of your being live with the Holy Spirit that's what Jesus wants us to do is just live with Jesus in our hearts and then the world just seems to be there but then you are you're flowing from an intuitive heart experience you're not trying to judge the world or interact with the world and respond to an external world you're just living from the core of your being so she's she's finally after maybe an hour of that she said okay okay all right thank you and then she went into the bathroom and usually when she would go to the bathroom she would get these downloads from the angels and of course that's the song that they gave her that day was called as if and that was basically the whole message from the angels was matching with her experience of what we talked about as if there is no world as if there is no world a cosmic dream a made-up scheme where figures dance and swirl and nothing means a thing except the truth within that I am mined by God designed he's calling me to live as if there is no world if you want the whole song you can go downloaded for free at musicofchrist.net enjoy there's about 267 songs from the angels and if you happen to like music then this could be a pathway to God if you're a music lover just listen to 267 songs from the angels over and over and find out if your mind doesn't spring into expansion they're all from the angels they're all in line with the teachings of Jesus and of course in miracles so as we look at this movie this is an opportunity for us to really take in the symbols of the spirit orchestrating time and space using the symbol of relationship to uncover the ego to uncover the unconscious mind I will work with I would say the first hour or so of the movie and I will use commentary along with this movie to really point out the key points of spiritual awakening with relationships because this is the pathway of a course of miracles and then we will move forward toward the end of their relationship in physical form and and I'll give some comments toward the end of that as well because that will launch us into the breakout rooms today so I'm so grateful that you're with me and we can go through this together because oftentimes people tell me I wish I had more examples of how this pathway works in terms of relationships number one nothing is at random number two everything that you perceive in the relationship the perception of yourself and the perception of the the other are basically just past thoughts that are still believed to be real that are that are coming up for release so whenever you meet anyone Jesus says remember it's a holy encounter as you see him you will see yourself as you treat him you will treat yourself as you think of him you will think of yourself and then he says never forget this for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself if you allow the Holy Spirit to use the relationship it will release the mind from the past you will discover that the past is is gone if you let the ego use the relationship it will try to use the bodies for its own game to reinforce guilt and that's why in typically in human relationships there there can be a lot of darkness coming up a lot of arguments conflicts disagreements and what this is is the mind basically saying I want the past to be real and I'm going to play a skit to make sure that I reinforce that it's real meanwhile Jesus and the Holy Spirit are it's gone you're just reviewing mentally what's already gone it's already long gone it's it's already been answered by the Holy Spirit you can accept the the correction at any moment you want but when you are trying to hold on to a grievance you are wanting the past to be real you're just using the power of the mind to try to keep the past alive in awareness and Jesus is saying let it go let it go let it go don't hold back anymore let it go let it go the past is in the past you know here I stand it's the holy instant here is here I am now I'm free I'm free now and that's what I really need to experience that's what trusting in the present is all about you you let the Holy Spirit guide you in this moment instead of relying on past learning past programming past conditioning and that is our purpose so for all of you that are here for this experience from all over the world I'm again I'm so grateful we're all together here in this and I think this is a I think this is a good movie this is really a healing movie especially since I I enjoy philosophy enjoy enjoy someone like Ken Wilbur and then enjoy seeing the spirit bring in a a direct transparent female character with an eminent philosopher and writer oh you see how Jesus loves it he's like let's see where the rubber meets the road let's let's really get into the laboratory stop reading the textbook and really come together for a forgiveness practice let's really empty the mind through relationships not just through meditation not just through contemplation but let's actually use the mirroring of relationship to to free the mind and to remember the Christ and ultimately to obviously remember God if you remember the Christ then you remember the Creator so enjoy the movie and I will pop in during the movie for commentary and then wow we're off to the races today you know this is we're taking off with Jesus in a big way and I'm really honored that you cannot be here with me very good