 Okay, okay everyone we're close to show time, show time again. Tonight's movie is, I think it's a comedy but it also has some good mind watching, some dramatic times in it but but basically in the morning when we were coming together to look at themes that were coming up through this gathering, through this retreat, one of the ones that came up was control and I mentioned a bit about the 12 steps and the serenity prayer. Is anybody familiar with the serenity prayer? It's up over there. Basically that's you know what you can control, what you cannot control and the wisdom to know the difference and with the US elections swinging in a way that is shocking people around the world just like the Brexit vote shocked people it's I'm already getting questions about what's the commentary on this election and but basically that's what this movie the main theme of this movie is giving up control, letting go of control, letting go of control of outcomes and what's underneath that is giving up the belief that you can change the world. Jesus actually says in the Course in Miracles that you have no control over the world you made meaning the ego made the world and the script is written so basically you can change your mind on how you look at the world and that's where you need to put all your mind energy on changing your purpose, on clearing your lens, the lens that you're looking at the world and for those who are familiar at all with the Bible there's a beautiful passage in Corinthians of the Bible that says that you're looking through a darkened glass it's a dark filter that made this world and it's a dark filter that observes this world through the ego's lens and that you have to clean the filter and that's what all this purification and healings about just cleaning your filter cleaning the filter of the mind and as you clean the filter the only result that you're interested in is your state of mind that's the result piece of mind is an outcome happiness is an outcome joy is an outcome but it's not tied into what we would call external outcomes you have to come to a state of mind that is independent of what seems to be outcomes in the world so this movie is a good movie to show on on election day so to speak because it's a good to focus your mind on your state of mind they said that actually there's a spike in searches that is occurring right now and and actually there has actually been a spike on the search end of the world end of the world is spiking today and and we've been talking all week about the world will end in laughter because it was a place of sorrow it has to end in a different way than it began seemed to begin if the world was made in hate the world needs to end in laughter it needs to end in healing it needs to end in forgiveness and so coming to that gentle laughter not a laughing at something or down at something but a gentle laughter of oh I was mistaken about it thank you for showing me the the light thank you for showing me the truth it's very very very helpful so the main character in this movie is played by Catherine Theta-Jones and the movie itself is called No Reservations so it's not a really well-known movie which is good we like to see something that presents us with something new it's gonna have some parallels to the movie last night where the main characters she's she's pretty much we could say very strongly in control of her life in this world and it's she has some sadness and some hurt that's under the surface but it's so controlled that she's trying to manage whatever whatever seems to be hurting in her life with a very controlled life and then there's going to be a man a man and a young girl the same actress that was in our our movie the ultimate gift the cute girl with the pink umbrella that actress she's gonna come in here again this is the second movie the retreat is like the can opener to really pop this idea of control just like she did in that movie she was an instrument for the spirit for breaking out of control so we may stop at a couple times but again most of the times with these kind of movie these are character transformation movies so you can see the spirit at work and then you can start to bring that back to your own life and say ah I'm I'm worthy of the same kind of opening loosening of control learning to develop trust and and being carried higher and higher and awareness by the spirit that's the whole point of all of us okay it's a roll them and we will be probably joined by some other people who this is movie night Jeff does a regular movie and it's usually on Wednesday nights but he's shifting it to Sunday night so for you those of you in Australia and if anybody joins us from Europe those are the time zones that can really take advantage of these but you might check with Jeff before you go back to where you're going if you have a pretty good internet connection like a broadband connection then you can tune in and and watch movies together online using a software called zoom which is free and you can participate in movie gatherings like this from wherever you are in Australia if you have a strong enough connection so just check with Jeff and he'll let you know okay roll them okay beautiful that's another great movie of the you could see the progression of trust the growing of trust that was required to overcome the fear to overcome the control issues and that's what we mean by a read translation of perception the Holy Spirit doesn't destroy what the ego made the Holy Spirit uses what the ego made to take the mind higher so to speak in to go higher in awareness and consciousness and and basically there has to be something that comes in as a substitute for the fear and that's where the the trust has to grow stronger and stronger you can see the beginning phases of this movie was a dismantling she was the lead character was so in control of everything in the restaurant then was Zoe coming in and then the man coming in you know little by little it was started to wash away her control and yet she had a great fear of loss like she would lose her restaurant and her identity was so tied into the restaurant he said you're more than that so she kept getting those little symbols that there was more and little by little as she started to feel more the trust taking hold and opening and expanding then that's where she started to relax and open up and you can see the gentle progression that that is there through the movie that's how the Holy Spirit has to work there has to be a gentle progression and there has to be not any kind of destruction but a sense of of a washing away of what was before and like inserting the love and the connection that's there so it's great that these kind of movies really give you an inspiration of how it can go in your life when you look at different aspects where you have an extraordinary extraordinary amount of control and you have to come to that place where you start to let go of the reins let go of the reins of all that control so yeah just wanted to hear what everybody felt about it and that that was like an answer to prayer when we wanted to get into the point of of addressing control that was one of the areas we didn't touch earlier today but that's that movie really shows it in a broader context of how we need to develop that trust it's really in the spirit but but it's reflected in our relationships when we feel we can trust those that are around us then it's really what we're trusting is the Holy Spirit as we move deeper and deeper into this okay so any feelings reactions insights I was just gonna say that it's was to me show me a beautiful beautiful example of a way in unwinding because from here I have to go home to a place where I have my own business and quite a complex situation with businesses and companies and setting up companies and shops and all sorts of things that I sort of have for some time now not wanted anymore and have absolute no interest in and just before I came on this retreat I was at a point where I would sit at the desk and just not be able to function and you know just knowing that this retreat was coming up was sort of like a bit of a like the Holy Spirit saying you know just wait but I would sit there and sort of just think I can't do this anymore I don't want this anymore and I suppose I've been thinking how how can that how can I unwind from that situation and I'm now sort of seeing different pictures and signs and symbols that I don't have to unwind from I just have to let go and the unwinding will happen so it's a real encouragement to me yeah to just let go moment by moment beautiful I'm glad you were inspired by that she basically in the movie she just would hang on to something until she couldn't do it anymore and then that set up the opening for what was to come next and I've worked with so many people where we look at the self-concept and they feel that they know that there's some shifts and changes coming in the self-concept the Holy Spirit will will bring those about and it will be obvious and my friend Lisa fair she basically was a CEO of a company and she started going out occasionally on trips with me travels to gatherings and having the miracle pour through feeling more inspired go back to her company that she was the CEO of and progressively it was her co-workers and her employees it basically said you know we've got it you know just follow your heart follow your joy and don't be concerned we've got it it's all gonna work out and then she would continue on still doing some of the function like an annual meeting she was supposed to speak at the annual meeting and then one annual meeting came where she got up in front of everyone the nurses had come they brought their children for this annual meeting and she was supposed to deliver like the the almost like the state of the business a report to everyone there and she walked up and she stood there and she read a few lines and she just said I can't do this in some cases when when you have that strong feeling to let something go if you don't and it'll come out at some point she had to walk away but as she stepped down and asked her office manager to finish giving the report because she couldn't she just said I can't do this anymore she was honest transparent she went back back of the room and she kept hearing Jesus in her mind saying gather the children and go into the church and the meeting hall was right next to a church and she thought I am not going to do that and then Jesus had gathered the children and go into the church and I will not gather the children very firmly and go into the church so she said come on kids come on and they all went with her over to the church and then she started singing with them about got the joy joy joy joy down in my heart and and so she was speaking in a church and that was another calling into her her ministry of what her purpose was on on earth away from the CEO and into this that she was called into and it that was just one step of many that would follow but once we let go of the grip once we let go of what we're holding to and we're so identified with that we feel defines us but feels very tight and pressured and limiting then the Spirit will come right in with the next step and it just keeps going like that and going and going and we realize we can't control the direction of this awakening I think he looking back I had like a warm-up session because years ago I had I was led into a job that was involved a lot of travel it was a responsible job I had a car it was sort of a you know it was a house and everything and this really job that sort of looked absolutely perfect and I did a lot of traveling around and visiting businesses a Monday according I went to court into a business and I sat in the car and I went to go for the handle of the car to get out and I physically couldn't move I couldn't reach for the handle and I'm sort of like what's going on what's going on and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't open the door of the car until I sat there for about 20 minutes until it sort of sunk through with me you know and I'm listening it's you have to leave your job and I drove back to the office wrote out a resignation handed it to the manager and then walked out the office and practically singing and skipping down the hallway and people were saying to me what's going on I just quit what what are you doing you know like but I was just so joyful and I think that was like a warm-up session first sort of letting go of something bigger and I went and pick grapes for three months and absolutely loved it and then got sent to America and sort of then but but just that just that that strong message that I physically could not move and get out of the car it was just so clear so experience can be so different but I think this one with this winding down will be different again but still trust isn't it yeah sorry no it's great thank you thank you for witnessing to that it's also Jesus says you cannot wake yourself but you can allow yourself to be awakened in this journey we will always always always be in the humble position of listen and follow and then as we listen and follow and we let the voice for God go before us speak to us at some point it makes speak through us and and that will still be an opportunity to listen and follow even when you're letting the voice speak through you it still is an opportunity like you just show up and you behold what's what's given and you allow the spirit to perform miracles through you but it's it undoes this ego belief that you can create yourself that you you are the creator of your own identity you're given a series of up steps in which there are self-concepts but every self-concept the Holy Spirit gives you will be part of an expanding awareness taking you higher and higher and higher in awareness toward forgiveness which which is a shared identity is you go beyond the personal and to state of mind of forgiveness which is which is shared it's capable of being shared with the Holy Spirit so when you mentioned that we cling on until we can cling on no longer that call to mind event in my late 20s where I was flipped out of a whitewater raft into a whirlpool and there's really water after them on soon was in Nepal is it dusk I got pushed down despite having a life this time I was under for a long time about four and a half minutes and I remember going through these phases of I'll be right I can swim out to then gosh this is hard to panic wow I don't know if I can get out of here and then sorry when I thought of my mum and I said goodbye to her and and then I then took to gratitude of having had a great life and then acceptance that this was the day I met my maker and as soon as I and this is all very quick this transition in my mind because I'd already been under a few units and I was screaming out to take a breath in my body was and I couldn't resist it anymore and as soon as I got to that place of acceptance and handing it over I actually I didn't consciously hand it over but I said okay I accept it now I made a choice to stop fighting and accept it and I had this incredible sense of peace that overcame me and this sense of anticipation I wasn't sad at all there was no panic it was the most blissful piece that I've ever experienced and then the most it wasn't words of God but I've always said it was a divine intervention and I wasn't even on a spiritual journey so much back then but I've always said this this image popped into my head out of divine intervention of instead of trying to go up against the force of the water picture of me duck diving hitting the bottom going out to the side and going with the water just going with the flow but it didn't come into my head until I'd accepted the situation and what I thought was inevitable that then the Holy Spirit intervened and it saved my life and coming up I actually had to clamp my hand over my nose and mouth to stop myself from breathing in because I could not resist anymore but did it save my life just accepting and stopped I stopped arguing with reality and it was incredible that feeling so I but I had to be you know it was like and they're clinging on by my nails to the very end and that where you said reminded me it sometimes you have to be taken right to the edge you'll never be given more than you can handle but that was like really surrendering very much so thank you it's beautiful I just like to thank everybody for the last two movies for allowing me to have the subtitles and for the people at home I really appreciated that and it makes the world of difference to me thank you I was surprised how happy she was that chef lady you know despite the high level of stress in the thing she seemed quite serene there somehow in her little stressed world quite interesting I mean I know it's only a movie but she was right in there somewhere you know yeah she seemed to be able to go into the the freezer to collect herself when she needed it which is important you know we all have those times where we just need to step out and get away chill yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it was good because she yeah with the co-worker she was quite good and then with the the clients kind of this get pushed to the edge but in the end when she did slam the steak down on the raw steak on the table and then what she she did walk out take her imprint off and walk out she says that that felt so good so you know again that was a threshold she had not crossed the job threshold because her identity was so tied in to the job she didn't want to cross that threshold but eventually with all circumstance considered Zoe and with her partner you know that that kind of got to the point where she was willing to go through that threshold too at the very end of course that it comes around as a blessing where there's there's a symbol of a shared shared restaurant which is beautiful too that's a beautiful symbol to end the movie on because there was such a sense of possession and pride and ownership and it even superiority it was all tied into that and this is a good example of how the spirit can use commerce and use skills and ownership and all that in a soft way to unwind the mind from those identities and take the mind higher and higher so it's another one of our movie watchers guide to enlightenment movies where we all went first time we saw mm-hmm it's a good one yeah I find the therapist one bit of a useless therapist number one he never got under the beliefs of I'm just saying that the therapist never had a labyrinth there to take her down to her real core beliefs you know I think I think he missed on that yeah he seemed a little more of what we might call Carl Rogers of Roger and therapists which Carl Rogers came along and he came up with this therapy he was humanistic psychologist and he gave out this therapy called self-directed therapy and Carl believed that every client had goodness inside and his approach to counseling was not directed therapy intervening and trying to guide and lead the therapy which is what traditional therapies had been about his practice was offer the client unconditional positive regard that was the point of the therapy offer the patient the client unconditional positive regard trusting so fully that they have the answers inside that they will make it through and and his therapy became known as person-centered instead of therapists centered in a very directive way so it was interesting I was quite inspired by Carl and I've mentioned already Abraham Mesla they were buddies those two Carl and Abraham had this belief that people were good inside Abraham studying the healthiest people he could find and Carl saying I think my therapy will work if I offer unconditional positive regard I think they will heal automatically because they had that goodness inside and as a side note the course of miracles came about with the scribe Helen Shuckman and her boss who was the comforter that helped keep her calm during those seven years of bringing the course through and and it's a little bit of background if you go back a little in Bill Thetford's very amazing career he was a very well respected psychologist at the time the course of miracles came through but but he was a graduate assistant of Carl Rogers so Jesus had him preparing for his role by working under Carl Rogers is all these things so this therapist for sure exhibited a lot of patience and seemed to let her go in the direction and make even made comments about you know and I'm paying for these suggestions when she disagreed was off the therapy and basically you know went with it and sometimes even got lost in some of the recipes to taste up it and everything but in the end you know he basically it was a long-term kind of a therapy but it's yeah very unconventional very very like send yours saying it's very unconventional but but you know again the spirit just wants to offer loving acceptance and really that's what heal heals Jesus actually at one point dictated a psychotherapy pamphlet after he dictated the course psychotherapy purpose process and practice and in his psychotherapy pamphlet Jesus said healing occurs the instant that the therapist forgets to judge the patient so that's quite a line healing occurs the instant that the therapist forgets to judge the patient and oftentimes it doesn't seem practical but he even talks about the question of payment and and that the healer should ultimately be guided in terms of charging and always remember that that every patient brings a gift and sometimes the Holy Spirit will ask payment and sometimes the Holy Spirit will not ask payment so it's it's a very practical little pamphlet and I believe in the course in the later editions of the course has been published a number of times that they've included song of prayer and the psychotherapy pamphlet right in with the text the workbook in the manual so few by a later edition you believe it's the third edition or beyond you'll get all of those included in there so it's good this therapist basically was outside the box one more command just came to my mind I was reading only yesterday morning in the book that there is no something like that there are no accidents in your life like kind of like it's all planned by by the Lord and oh by the God and you accept it if you want to be happy and if you don't accept it you can be sad so in the in in that ship's life that that accident of her sister dying in that obviously the car accident and then Roy appearing in her life that's what was the changing of the turning point in her losing the control ultimately you know like the control freak she she was in a in a normal sense of events that's a sad event in life you're not losing your sister but the book the course says there are no accidents in life so and it says there's a prayer up at the top that you you to see what you ask for so my is that true like he would have in a way subconsciously asked for that some something drastic like that to happen for her sister to get killed and then leaving her own daughter in her care to soften her control like is that's how it kind of it all works that's that's just came to my mind be interesting to hear your thinking behind that yeah thank you yeah it's it it certainly doesn't seem that way from a human perspective but there have been some Carol amazed and some amazing teachers have talked about soul contracts that everything is contracted and decided way back you might say way back in the mind or way back in the what the soul is it's constructed in that that way but but yeah it's all part of a prearranged plan and basically it fits in what I was saying at the very beginning that instead of looking at the specifics of of like a sister dying or the specifics of of what happens it's always best to remember that that we're opening our awareness to a prearranged plan in which we always have the choice of our state of mind and that everything else in our life as much as it seems like it's open it's open to decisions and we can consciously choose various things and so forth that that there's a much much deeper realm in which everything is playing out as it must and then we still have our choice of am I going to judge it or am I going to behold it with the Holy Spirit that's always what we're practicing regardless of the situation so are those details chosen yeah they're part of an ancient script and and our symptoms chosen yes our specifics chosen yes he makes it very clear everything that seems to happen to me I ask for and receive as I have asked and he even says in the workbook what happens is what I desire and what I what does not occur is what I do not want to happen it's it's just within the realm of the mind everything there's nothing that is not decision but then when you go deeper into this experience of forgiveness you start to realize that that really when you really cut through all these ideas of choosing specifics and so on and so forth used to you come all the way back to this awareness of purpose is the only choice that what is it for is the most helpful way of holding on to looking at decision that if you really want to cut through a lot of complexity and cut the chase and zoom into the atonement the one question that you can ask with anything safely is what is it for you can ask it with your with your job with your relationships with circumstances in your life even when you go to the store and you're contemplating buying something still the most helpful question is what is this for will this carry me toward the light or will this bind me to illusions will this freeze my self-concept and delay my awakening or will this loosen my self-concept and take me towards the light remember everything in this world is backwards and upside down so when things appear as opportunities really it's really important to to as best you can to be aware of the question what is it for will this serve the light will this be for the greatest good of everyone in the universe you see the parameters are much broader than like a specific desire or want of a human being it goes way beyond that but the more we're open to it the more we can start to feel the blessing and sometimes we can feel that when things seem to be really extreme in our life and and we even have the thought like hmm there was a time I would really be upset but strangely enough I'm very calm at this moment and it feels good to have that calmness like a surrender like there's something working here for the good and if we come full circle again with the election results I've already got a someone's written to me on Facebook saying please comment on the election results but I'm commenting on the election results in your mind which voice are you electing to follow which outcome peace or fear is are you going to follow in your mind and and the responsibility of realizing you you can choose your state of mind you can always choose to be peaceful and happy you know you're not at the mercy of outcomes of form and of the world so yeah it's quite profound that we had a movie of letting go of control and yes we still must anybody's been sneaking on their device we don't see anybody's know the result doesn't matter to this group Jeff he says it's over yeah Trump is the president and from what we're talking about here we all asked for it and everything that seems to have it to me I asked for as received as I have asked he's been elected now there was a Bulgarian psychic who did predict she's passed away but years ago that predicted that the United States the African American president would be the last president of the United States so the inauguration is until January this Bulgarian psychic was actually about 75 80% accurate in her lifetime she has a pretty which would mean that we could have some very interesting shit it's not over until the fat lady sings so we should we're going ahead with our mind chaining and moving forward well thank you all thank you that was a beautiful beautiful experience together again and I think as Sue was sharing that tomorrow there's still are they there's the Tai Chi breakfast Tai Chi breakfast and then we really have to look at that what's our time frame going to be 9 or 9 30 to 11 9 to 11 okay 9 to 11 that'll be our we'll have a sharing where you have an opportunity to go around and share your insights and share your miracles with each other and also it'll be recorded so that really it sends out a ripple of blessings you never know what what you're sharing will will bring in terms of extending the blessing and then we'll work towards an 11 o'clock like a closing circle perhaps outdoors unless it's raining or something like that but that will come at the very end and I think if some people have to leave early to to catch a flight or anything I think that's all been arranged Sue's aware of everything yeah there are a few people that are leaving early it's on I think maybe about five of you I think yeah very good and we have oh yeah thank you for joining us thank you well that's what's on the screen I don't look at the screen at the end of the computer. It's virtual. Yeah, yeah. Zoom movie nights. Beautiful. This is going to move now to Sunday. Yep. Okay. That's going to be a week Sunday. Week Sunday. So if any of you want to tune in for a Zoom movie night here in Australia, a week Sunday at what time? Seven o'clock. Seven o'clock. Australian, Eastern, whatever, AEDT, whatever that stands for. Very good. Is there a website that they should sign up for that? Just, yeah, they can go to LivingMiracles.org. LM Virtual. LM Virtual on LivingMiracles.org. And then just sign up. I think you can download on your computer a free Zoom software. And if you've got a smartphone and you have good internet, you can download a Zoom app or on your iPad or on your phone if you want to participate and watch a movie on your phone with others around Australia and maybe the world of Europe. Europe? Yep. Yeah. Japan is in our time zone. Definitely. There we go. Beautiful. Do we have any questions or comments? We are still not there for you. 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