 Welcome to our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter and Today we're joined by friends from our tabula rasa online retreat weekend and also just our regular Movie workshop attendance. So welcome to you all and so we've got a big group here today And so I can just let you know about the day. So we'll start with a movie with David Then we're going to have a 10 minute break Then we'll have our breakout rooms where we will have a chance to get in touch with any of emotions or themes that came up for us and Afterwards we'll have a 45 minute break and then we'll have a closing session, which I'll be holding today So thanks so much. I'll I'll cross it over to David now Hi, hi everyone So beautiful to see you all all your smiling faces and We have our mystery school Participants there. I see them all in the room and we've got our living miracles monastery cozy there You've heard of couch potatoes. We are the couch community. We are always in soft cushy couches and chairs Maybe it was lifetimes of being monks and nuns and sitting on hardwood Boarded pews and now we are going for the soft route to God We're still into mysticism, but we we have cushy chairs and couches for our bottoms So I'm so glad you're with us I see a large arena and her little boy from Peru Joining in brand new today. I sent you a link to the arena on For the discounted South America so you could come and join us more often and We always love to see the new ones that are there others Daniella Patricia I See you all it's just so beautiful We have Spanish translation for those of you who who want to hear today's Talk and and and see the movie with Spanish subtitles. So you just have to go to the the Spanish Icon the language icon interpretation icon and click on Spanish if you would rather hear it in Spanish If you want to hear it in English, make sure you click on on the English Well today we it's very exciting because I'm playing a classic movie This is the kind of movie that is like a can opener for your mind if you feel like your progress on of on the inward journey has been slow and Methodical This one is going to be a celestial speed-up today. You will be smiling from ear to ear Today after today's workshop because We will go deeply into an unraveling and an undoing of the ego and The ego has made a lot of beliefs to protect itself It's just like a little tiny puff of nothingness. It's a tiny mad idea Jesus calls it and He says in a course in miracles Into eternity where all is one there crept a tiny mad idea At which the son of God remembered not to laugh So our only mistake was taking serious The idea of separation from God the idea from separation from our source and yet Even though it's a tiny mad idea and it's just a tiny puff of nothingness. I Want to tell you that it's an ingenious Tiny puff of nothingness. What does that even mean? It means that our mind is so powerful that if we believe in it We can seem to make up hell We can make up we can make up Conflict war disease We can make up Delay we can make up sorrow. We can make up guilt and shame and pain and Today's movie is going to help us start to Step by step go into our mind and go through a dismantling of the ego It's unwinding your mind back to God and winding your mind away from the ego and toward the light Now two of the things that are the strongest ego defenses against love eternal love and light Our linear time, which is an entire projection in eternity. There is no linear time It's just all pure bliss and love forever and ever and ever And Some of you maybe even are familiar with the Bible. I know some of you enjoy the Bible. Some of you hate the Bible I I would say that everything that you need to know about spiritual awakening is actually in the Bible, too So let's not cross that off our list too fast Some of you might remember in Corinthians in the Bible. It says that which is temporary will pass away But that which is eternal will last forever Well, that's no different than saying nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists Herein lies the peace of God. It's right there in the Bible you know, it's it's been there for thousands of years and and yet we have to be ready to Open our hearts to God's love and and to the healing power of forgiveness So linear time is a construct of the ego and you may notice that most of your thoughts during the day Relate to the past and the future if you wonder why you're not happy all the time It's just thoughts of the past and future that are still hanging around in the unconscious mind And you get little flitters and floaters During the day. Oh, what am I going to have to eat for lunch? Well, what will I have for dinner? Is it going to rain today? Is it going to be a sunny day? Will I be able to go out and take a walk? Listen, these are thoughts of the past and future These are not from Monah Maharshi thoughts. These are not Jesus Christ thoughts These are not Parma Hansa Yogananda thoughts. These are thoughts of the ego of linear time and yet we have to allow Jesus and the Holy Spirit to use the symbols of time to undo the belief in linear time See how practical Jesus and the Holy Spirit are they don't they don't try to hurl you into eternity They don't just hurl you screaming into the light They actually Common massage your mind with beautiful movies like today Which this is a mind massage no doubt this is a mind massage And it's got a lot of classic lines The main character is Joel Johnal Joel bearish who's played by Jim Cary Jim Cary and Kate Winslet is going to play Clementine. Those are our main characters But at one point Joel is having Clementine erased from his memory and he says to the doctor whose name is Howard Isn't there a risk of brain damage and the doctor answers well to some extent this whole procedure is brain damage But it's on the par with a heavy night of drinking. So don't don't worry We're not interested in brain damage. We're interested in freeing the mind of attack thoughts Freeing the mind of judgments Freeing the mind of opinions. That's where we come to the stillness of the present moment Now this movie is as I said is a classic it's in our movie watchers guide to enlightenment and When I first saw this movie in a movie theater, yeah, there was a man an elderly man who basically Said it was the worst movie he had ever seen in his life and Why am I showing you this movie is because it uses a technique That is very uncommon in movies and I'm talking about the general mainstream movies This is a it's a very unusual technique Not in a lot of our movies like like next or You know Momento or there's so many movies we have that use the same technique. I I checked it out on Google The technique is called non-linear narrative It's also called disjointed narrative or Disrupted narrative. So just those words should let you know that this is not your every day average movie If it's if it's non-linear narrative disjointed and disrupted What is it disrupting? It's disrupting the ego But that this movie is using a technique that is excellent For your meditation practice. It's excellent for your open-eyed meditation You may even consider today's movie an open-eyed meditation Where the spirit is helping you? detangle false linear memories and detangle these Special relationship memories that were made by the ego to be a substitute for light so we have a precious opportunity to really start to potentially move through what Jesus calls special love hate relationships Why is that important if we're going to wake up to eternity is that? that Jesus describes this ego construct of special relationships as the egos most boasted gift and He describes it as as the egos chief weapon it's major weapon against the Holy Spirit is is special love relationships special hate relationship and It's also the egos greatest gift. So if I go into a little bit of metaphysics to give you a background When the separation from God seemed to occur when the fall from grace That the Bible talks about seemed to occur not just the Bible all religious traditions talk about the fall from grace When this seeming fall from grace seemed to occur The Holy Spirit was given as the answer the immediate answer to this crazy mad idea So it was already over There was no Historical war to be fought it wasn't like legions of angels fell away and turned to the dark side and Lucifer rose up with a big group of Dark angels and then the light angels had a big fight. No Holy Spirit is like nah That's how long it took For for God to answer the Holy Spirit is the answer simultaneous So in other words It's that's your only purpose now is to accept the correction accept the Holy Spirit in your in your mind Accept the atonement That's your only responsibility. Do you have responsibility for houses? No Cars no cities countries politicians. No, no, no not another Do you have responsibility for children? No parents? No kitty cats No birdies Tweety birds. No You are not responsible for anything in form. You are responsible in your mind for accepting the correction of the Holy Spirit And that's why today's movie will take you light years Light years ahead in your spiritual awakening. You're not going to be Cruising along like a snail here. You're hopping into super supersonic jet today Hold on Hold on to your hat. The G's can be pretty strong, but you're gonna love it because This the corrections already occurred and and now all you have to do is accept it So it doesn't you don't have to make something happen You don't even have to figure something out all you have to do is accept your perfection And that's what the Holy Spirit's correction shows is is you're perfect Not you as a body, but your mind your spirit your divine mind is perfect So what do I like about this movie? Well, it's it's using this disjunctive a narrative approach to To undo the belief in guilt It's like if guilt was like an iceberg This movie is like a blowtorch. I mean a big blowtorch It's like a giant a giant light that can melt away guilt and that's important because whenever you struggle with illnesses or emotional conflicts or Issues with brothers and sisters or politicians or governments. That's just a projection of this Iceberg of guilt and today we're going with the blowtorch this movie uses the the technique of seemingly deleting painful Memories, but it not only deletes the painful memories it it actually deletes the positive memories and the negative memories and I know some of you are saying I Don't like that. I went the Holy Spirit to delete all the negative memories and Leave the positive memories leave my My little scrapbook of positive memories, but what Jesus says is the negative thoughts in your mind are very dark and The positive thoughts in the mind are shadows of your real thoughts. Oh my you mean my positive thoughts Ice cream is is just a shadow of my real thoughts in heaven. Yes, that's right There's no ice cream in heaven. It's it's much better than ice than ice cream in heaven But it doesn't melt Eternity doesn't melt it just lasts forever and ever and ever So so we have to allow the Holy Spirit to wash away the negative wash away the positive and leave us with the eternal thoughts and If this seems radical just read workbook less than 133 for example from the workbook. I will not value. What is valueless? Where Jesus says if it won't last forever It has no value whatsoever And if it will last forever it has complete total value. So What has value is is the everlasting? What does not have value at all is the passing this is a temporal world of time and space. It's a trick It's a sleight of hand It's a it's a it's a big trick to try to fool the mind from From going back to heaven from experiencing and remembering heaven Now I say remembering that's an important word for this movie because this movie is all about memory and If you have Egoic false memories in your mind that you are giving belief to That you're giving value to that's where the the upset emotions the upsetting emotions are coming from believing in the impossible Jesus talks about this. He starts his mind training program pretty strong there unless the number five in the workbook I'm never upset for the reason. I think I'm upset number six because I see something that's not there Number seven. I see only the past Yeah, that's a that's a perceptual problem for sure and then number eight is my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts So anytime you get upset you might as well just do a five six seven eight You know, you want a new exercise routine five six seven eight never upset for the reason I think that because I see something that's not there. I See only the past and my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts five six seven eight five six seven eight Ego tries to sneak in and upset five six seven eight Work it work those thighs work those Arms in a good way five six seven eight You're not going to mess around with this ego. You are not going to mess around This little tiny puff of nothingness is had enough time running your mind Five six seven eight. You're out You're out of there So this movie is is good because it shows the egos greatest defense against the present moment or the holy instant and that is its use of artificial relationships to attempt to gain a sense of intimacy and Jesus says that the miracle will bring about true intimacy That's sometimes sub for in interpersonal relationships So why do these romantic escapades keep crashing? Why even Cinderella, you know, she finally gets the prince in the end But in the end they both die, you know, if you go far enough into the future all All fairy tales and in death That's not exactly a happy ending sickness and death how about eternity as your Your goal Why not aim beyond the stars because the stars are just burning gases Why not aim for the eternal nature of the love and light of God? That's beyond time and space beyond the stars and planets and black holes. Oh There's Rohit I see from India Ha ha ha His dad used to beat him when he was young He would watch movies and his dad would beat him and beat him And so he developed a huge aversion to movies and let there's Rohit is showing up today He's had enough of the ego. He's gonna wash away those dead memories of the beatings We're going after the whole thing today Rohit. I Love it We're going for the homerun of spiritual awakening so What are some of the characters in the movie? Well There's a company in the movie that is is called lacuna and this company if you have Too many painful memories in a relationship This company will offer to map your brain And go in your brain to this is all just a metaphor But the brain to find your most painful memories and to eliminate the painful relationship from your mind by deleting zapping the memories of the relationship so this is the company that That that first clementine goes to when she just can't take any more of her boyfriend Joel She goes in to have Joel Deleted from her memories and then when Joel finds out about it He is so hurt that of course he goes into the same company to strike back and delete Clementine now This is a great premise you won't find a movie like this you could search For decades you're not going to find a movie like this, but this is just symbolic of the Holy Spirit Clearing the mind of all the positive and negative memories of linear time and space To come back to a state of silence a state of stillness and a state of absolute gratitude Who works for Lacuna? We have Patrick Stan Mary and Howard Patrick and Stan are kind of like you're they're the ones that that Really do the procedure Mary is the receptionist and Howard is the doctor that's in charge of the whole thing Who ever wrote this movie? What a movie you Are Holy Spirit you are giving us the most enjoyable way to wake up from linear time. I have ever Imagined this it doesn't get any better than this and then there's some friends Carrie and Rob that are our friends of Joel and They were With they invited him to a party on the beach and then that's where he met Clementine and then he mentions Naomi which is his ex girlfriend and You know, we all know that thing when you when you feel a heartbreak then the mind ego jumps right in What about the X go back to the X, you know go back to the past To try to find the intimacy. That's a nice symbol for us to see that we never will find True intimacy by going back to the past. We have to go to the holy instant with Jesus Now there's a poem in this movie that is so good It's a quote from Alexander Pope and I'm gonna read it for you because I Love it when movies are just based on something really deep and I think you know I love Solaris the Solaris movie the Dylan Thomas poem though lovers be lost Love shall not And death shall have no dominion. Whoo That is a smoking quote That is that's coming right from the light. Here's our quote for today From Alexander Pope How happy is the blameless vestal lot The world forgetting By the world for God Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind each prayer accepted and each wish resigned that That says it all that quote Is is the teachings of a course of miracles each prayer accepted each wish Resigned each ego wish resigned There's also a phrase that is so important in this movie because At the beginning of the movie we're going to see how How Joel and Clementine met Joel was on his way to work He was just ready to catch the train to go to his methodical repetitive Workday just like the Beatles song another day It's just another day. He's he's he's in his loop He's in his Groundhog Day loop and yet when he gets to the train station He decides not to go to work He bolts away and he races to barely squeeze into another train and he decides to go to Montauk Which is a very small place on the coast Up in in New England and it's it's actually a beach. He goes on a winter's day. He goes to a beach and in Montauk Why is Montauk important in this movie? It's because He needs to take a spontaneous out of pattern change To break out of the routine of his linear life To open his mind to the guidance of spirit and and he does he Breaks away from his routine. He goes to Montauk He calls in sick and he goes on on a wintry day He goes to this cold windswept beach in Montauk And that's where he meets Clementine. Why is this important? It's because We need to have the miracle of God's love Come as an out of pattern experience in our mind That we recognize and we say yes to God What's that song we like so much running for the light What's his name Brendan Brendan Lake. Oh my gosh run into the light. That's what Montauk is he Decides that he just needs to do something different. He can't do the same old routine That he's accustomed to he needs to break free and Spontaneously he goes takes a train to Montauk where he meets Clementine This is how spiritual awakening happens you you feel this strong feeling inside and You feel something that you're really called to do that's so important and As soon as you think at the egos, are you crazy? You've got to go to work today You've got to you've got to do your duties. You've got to fulfill your obligations. You've got to meet the the criteria of the day which the ego set up and You're called to be open to be shown that there is another way just like Helen Shuckman and Bill Thedford had that meeting in Bill's office and And where Bill just poured out his heart there has to be another way and and surprisingly for him Helen Shuckman said to Bill you're right Bill and I'll help you find it and that's how the prayer of the heart The collaboration that brought forth the course of miracles just started with one human being Pouring their heart out and another person saying I'll join you I will join with you in finding that better way better way to live I've had people over the years believe it or not. They send me an email and they go Dear David Meet me in Montauk How's that for an email? You you go and that's all the email says is just as David meet me in Montauk Somebody has seen this movie and it's impacted them and they got it They know they've got to go for God They've been futzing around too long with this ego time space construct It's time to go for the holy instant. It's time to go for God and Of course our closing song. Please stay around When the movie ends and the credits roll do not touch that dial Do not do not touch that off button We have a song we're gonna listen to maybe of Astanza and a chorus of the song Because that song is going to be the Holy Spirit singing to us Calling us out of the world of time and space into the eternal present so Sit back enjoy the movie. I will come in at certain points for for commentary What a fun ride we've got today this it doesn't get any more fun than having an internal dismantling of the ego that you actually enjoy and Enjoy the ride because Joel and Clementine are doing it for all of us And we're just going to behold the glory of Seeing that we can allow time and space to to be erased from our mind by the Holy Spirit We can do it Voluntarily we can do it willingly when we realize that that this is our opportunity to remember God and eternal love So enjoy the movie See you soon