 okay hello hello welcome everyone welcome to our all-day movie workshop i'm peter for those who are new and i'll be hosting today and i'll just let you know how our day will flow so we will start with the movie shown by david and then we're going to have a breakout room opportunity to share what comes up for us during these movies and then we'll have a closing session later on where we can go a bit deeper with anything that was coming up and a couple breaks in between so i'll pass it straight over to you now david thank you pete welcome everyone glad you could be with me today we've got a very good movie i think it's going to be a very healing and emotional day for you because today's movie offers us a good opportunity to really let some unconscious feelings and beliefs get flushed up around some topics and themes that are very very universal in the human condition and there's much confusion around these beliefs and that's why there's so many mixed emotions in the human condition if you ask people if you had a choice to live a happy life would you take it if you had a choice to live a life that's peaceful and joyful that's free from fear free from anger free from hatred free from guilt that seems on the surface like that is a something you would want and i think deep down everybody wants to be happy it's just that there is a lot of confusion in a split mind that doesn't know what it is and therefore doesn't know what anything is jesus has assured us that when you don't know who you are you don't know anything because who you are is the point of everything and if you've forgotten your spiritual reality and you believe in the ego then you believe in an imposter to the christ you believe in an imposter to spirit and therefore you are lost in time and space and wandering about like a feather dancing in the wind wondering where you're going to find stability meaning purpose and how you can find happiness in a world of projections in a dream world where nothing is certain and nothing is clear so once again you have voted on your poll of what you are most interested in and and i've prayed for a movie that will bring clarity to the questions and the themes that you have brought up and the top three in the combined spanish and english polls the top three themes are a huge invitation to the light number one coming in number one with 70 votes keeping the heart open to god's love really i can't think of anything that's more important than keeping your heart open to god's love especially because god is love and if you want to know love then to know god is to know yourself as love as pure love because god is pure love and to know god you have to really keep your heart open during these experiences of time and space ego is always trying to say here no death and and no sickness and no guilt and and your heart is like saying oh really is this the meaning of life sickness struggle suffering and death uh is that the meaning of life and jesus is saying no actually that is not the meaning of life love and life are synonymous but jesus is telling us that life is eternal life life is life in god not in form second on the combined movie poll results was how to forgive and move through hurt and hatred it seems like for every human being there is a lot of hurt and hatred that has to be faced and from jesus and his context in a course of miracles he's saying all the hurt and hatred that you experience is coming from your unconscious ego beliefs you believe something that's not true and therefore you experience hurt as an emotion and pain as an emotion hatred as an emotion hatred has nothing to do with the truth and hurt and suffering has nothing to do with the truth but as long as you believe in the ego which is the belief in separation from god you experience unreal emotions that god doesn't even know about but because you are using the power of your mind to believe in something that is not a part of god's will that is not a part of heaven that has nothing to do with eternity if you believe in suffering you can seem to experience it not in reality but in dreams and nightmares and in a hallucination of time and space so that's why we're here to forgive and wake up we're here to forgive the ego and to wake up to our eternal birthright of eternal happiness the third one is the joy of being used by the holy spirit there can be nothing more joyful than giving everything that the ego made over to the holy spirit and saying now you use it to wake me up the ego made time and space the ego made bodies the ego made what seems to be individual intelligence based on past learning based on a faulty perception of of reality that we call time and space that isn't real at all but it seems very real and so the way to escape from the ego is to give everything that the ego made back to the holy spirit and say now you use these dream symbols to wake me up from this nightmare of linear time use these dream symbols to help me make contact with that which is eternal that which never changes that which is pure happiness and and joy so when we look at the world it's good that we just start to admit that the world is nothing more than dream symbols the ego invented the words the ego invented the people that speak the words the ego invented everything the planets and stars and and the entire cosmos of images and yet if we give all of that over to the holy spirit we can say use what the ego made to release my mind from the ego now one of the things that that we face as human beings is we have these beliefs in things like government countries religions theologies and as we grow up we hear so many different opinions about what to believe Jesus is telling us that this realm of time and space of fragmented consciousness is the realm of beliefs so in heaven it's not like you go go back to heaven and use you don't even have a mouth to say to god but it's not like you think gee god what tell me what beliefs are true because there are no true beliefs their belief is in the realm of falsity so whenever you say i want to believe what's true the closest approximation to a true belief is forgiveness but forgiveness is an illusion too because in heaven there's nothing to forgive everything is pure love and oneness in heaven so there aren't any beliefs there's not even forgiveness in heaven because there's nothing there's no separation so there's no need for a correction for whatever happened and heaven is just pure love and light but in terms of time and space to forgive is important because it frees the mind from the ego beliefs and every belief about religion about politics about men and women about the masculine and the feminine all the dualistic beliefs that make up time and space cats and dogs up and down fast and slow hot and cold all the beliefs and differences all the beliefs in in gradation of differences all of them are from the ego right now people are telling me you know one of the beliefs that that they're struggling with is is to vaccinate or not vaccinate that's that's a popular topic the ego has got all kinds of tricky distractions to try to keep you from knowing who you are and to vaccinate or not to vaccinate is just another trick of the ego there's there's all kinds of beliefs about whether you're like in the Christian realm we'll call it are you a believer or not like a believer is is one who believes I guess depending on your religion or your culture but a believer is is one who has maybe religious theology like a faith in in some kind of religious doctrine or theology and a non-believer might be someone we might call an atheist or an agnostic but even these categories of the believer non-believer of the atheist versus the the faithful person remember God didn't create people and so and God doesn't know of beliefs so in this realm of belief the way to be happy is to realize that they're all false every last one of them that God didn't create any beliefs so you don't have to worry about having better beliefs or the right beliefs because God didn't create any of them so we would say that forgiveness is this realization of just seeing the false is false and the only one that can see the false is false is the Holy Spirit and Jesus so that's why if you believe like in the United States Constitution Bill of Rights if you have the the right to life to liberty and the pursuit of happiness let's get clear on what we're talking about life is not biological life life is eternal life it's that you live forever you can never die that's the kind of life that you want to know not biological life not time space life we're talking eternal life and liberty is another word for freedom you want to be a free spirit not a free person there is much struggle on the planet to be a free person but Jesus tells us what do you want freedom of the the body or freedom of the mind for both you cannot have if you want liberty you have to forgive the world and wake up to eternal life that's where the liberty is everybody's always confused about free will sometimes people say well God gave human beings free will no God is eternal spirit and free will is eternal spirit and God doesn't know of separation God doesn't know of duality God doesn't know of time and space the Holy Spirit is the remembrance of God and that's just the reminder in our the reminder in our mind to give it up give up these foolish beliefs that are from the ego and then the last one I mentioned pursuit of happiness that's interesting that that's one of our so-called rights for as a United States citizen but but that doesn't tell you much the pursuit of happiness how many of us have pursued happiness in ways that we were sure it was going to make us happy but but when we achieved something or accomplished something or accumulated something or owned something or possessed something we still weren't happy we this this is a realm of the pursuit of happiness but there's two different ways to go about it one which is the ego is seek outside yourself for happiness and then the Holy Spirit is saying seek inside yourself the kingdom of heaven is within do not seek outside yourself so when we look in the forms and the images we are looking outside of ourselves because who we are is spirit when we're looking in the form for the outcomes and the learnings and the accomplishments to satisfy us we are never satisfied we always are forced to as the egos it gives us something else to pursue something else to search for so today's movie might be classified as kind of a it's a it's a Christian movie but I would say more than that we're going to let the Holy Spirit use this movie to take us to the true experience of our Christ nature to take us beyond artificial distinctions beyond personal rights beyond personal freedoms because there are no personal rights or freedoms the ego made up a smoke screen of pursuits to distract the mind from the simplicity of be still and know that I am God from the simplicity of a quiet mind a tranquil open mind and we're going to see through today's movie that that all kinds of issues will be raised up uh when we talk about religion whenever I hear the word religion I just simply equate religion with inner peace I really don't equate religion with some kind of cultural historical theology or system of beliefs and yet we have some amazing characters throughout history that have been symbols of a love that is not of this world in this particular movie the three symbols we're going to hear that there are symbols of non-violence that are symbols of peace that are symbols of equality freedom we have Mohandas K Gandhi we have Martin Luther King and we have Jesus Christ these are three historical figures that are very well known for their peace and for their non-violence and for their teachings about equality and yet these three characters are going to be brought up in a in a history class in the 11th grade history class at a high school in the United States actually the name of the high school in this movie is Martin Luther King high school so how appropriate a discussion involving Martin Luther King Jesus and Gandhi in a history class Socrates the the famous Greek philosopher would have loved it you know he would have said good you're having a real good heartfelt discussion about what's important in life what are the values that are important where do we find meaning that's the kind of thing I wish I was discussing when I was in high school in history class I wish I had that kind of discussion what's the meaning of life what is the purpose of these historical figures what were they trying to teach us what were they trying to show us actually in public schools there are a lot of rules about what you can talk about and what you can talk about there are our ideas of separation between church and state the United States is as country countries go it's one of the newer countries in the history of the world but for those of you that have lived and experienced Europe I see Muna is there and a lot of you have have have experienced a lot of Europe you know the history of Europe with church and state the pope even st. Francis his his little church got burned down by the Catholic church it was the bishops soldiers burned down st. Francis's church you can see where if you mix politics and power to rule with religion that's where you have an issue and so in the United States where there's an emphasis on separation between church and state even that wherever there's an emphasis on separation you really have to question what is the source of this separation belief the ego is what generates all of these beliefs and separation whether it's in cultures and languages and people in countries separation of philosophies separation of different ways of thinking all of it is generated by the ego and Jesus is is a the way shower in the sense that he's saying go beyond these foolish beliefs in separation and forgive the world of time and space that the ego made and remember that you are a perfect child of God still one with the creator still one in eternity so today's movie will be an emotional ride through some ego uh perplexities ego complications that are really just systems of belief that need to be forgiven and need to be released now last week I I showed I showed some documentaries and some of you did express like oh we had an expectation you were going to show a real movie and not a documentary maybe you had some entertainment expectations so this week I'm getting back to showing you a movie although I can't tell the difference between the documentary and a movie anymore to me the matrix was a documentary of the human condition and people say no David that's a fictitious movie well to me the matrix is just the documentary of the whole human condition and this movie was made out of a lot of issues that are are presented in terms of this world these issues in this movie are being addressed because there's a lots of court cases around these issues there is lots of disagreement in the human race around the themes that we are going to be exploring in this but remember we are are coming from the themes that you have selected number one of course keeping the heart open to God's love we're not going to try to reduce this beautiful theme down to topics of atheism versus theology we're not going to try to figure the answer out to opening our heart to love through Darwinism and evolution versus creationism basically all of the beliefs of Newtonian science including evolution including Darwin and all Newtonian science it's all false every last scrap of it is false and all the theologies of somehow God creating the heavens and the earth and then somehow getting tired after he was so busy making the earth that he had to have a day of rest because God all that creating going on you know planets and spheres and black holes and and men and women and animals and trees and mountains you know oh it's exhausting to think about it yeah sorry God doesn't create time and space so the big struggles that I always am hearing about creationism versus science or creationism God and theology of God creating heaven and earth versus Darwin and the evolution of the species it's all false it's all hogwash so we need some help if everything that we're perceiving through our five senses is false we need some real help if everything that we've believed about human beings is false if we start to realize everything we've even believed about interpersonal relationships is false and we're asking for holy relationship we're asking to know the light we're asking to know the eternal nature of being we need lots of help and actually Jesus is a very good helper to help us navigate beyond these beliefs of time and space so I think you're going to enjoy today's movie because we are going to get into legal concepts we are going to get into concepts of preaching versus teaching we're getting into secularism versus what's called more of a religious perspective we have to go beyond theologies to find the present moment we have to go beyond philosophies to find the present moment we have to realize that a lot of the things that we've believed in that we call human rights are made up by the ego and that we do have a right to know who we truly are we do have a right to find eternal happiness we do have a right to remember God and all of the beliefs of this world have been used to make a veil to cover over the awareness of God so why we are here today joined in healing we're not here to heal cancer we're not here to to end poverty as defined by the ego we're not here to to make the world into a better place we are here joined together to pray for the light of truth to help us go beyond the veil of separation we are here to release all false beliefs that we've ever held about everything and everyone to be still and and know the truth of of our being to know the truth of God's love for us and that we are a perfect innocent child of God and always have been and we're going to use this movie today with the help of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to be lifted beyond the limits of ego thinking and of time and space I've had movie gatherings where people have told me that they've had mystical experiences in the movie gathering they've they've actually whether they were doing a movie in mmt or they were in a movie gathering and they just for a moment let their mind go and soar higher and higher in this experience of the light and they've had this vast experience of who they really are and who everyone really is beyond the veil of forgetfulness beyond the veil of sleep is the joy of waking up so I think you're going to like it today in this movie the main character is Grace Wesley Grace is is a high school teacher and she teaches history and she's going to get a question from one of her students when Grace is speaking of non-violence when she's speaking of this topic of historical figures who have been known for non-violence Gandhi Martin Luther King and we see that the student will say that sounds a lot like the teachings of Jesus of love your enemies and grace takes a moment to bring Jesus into the discussion with some of Jesus's teachings as well it's interesting to me that Jesus is a historical figure but he lived 2000 years ago so it's pretty far back and therefore when we say things like Gandhi said or Martin Luther King said oftentimes people will say that about Jesus but all we really have is the scriptures and in terms of readily acceptable things that of course we have channeling we have through prayer people hear Jesus speak to them and so forth but but in terms of the scriptures in this movie there's a lawyer who will basically emphasize what Jesus allegedly said is the allegedly it's you can throw the allegedly word in there if it's if it's pretty far back it's also a way things get dismissed oh allegedly Jesus said well actually there's a lot of historical evidence so to speak of of a lot of things that happen from many witnesses and even though it's 2000 years ago these are just symbols and witnesses to the mind that's waking up and another thing that's beautiful is is that the woman who's asking the questions the student is her name is Brooke and basically Brooke her her brother has passed away and she has a sadness around the passing of her brother she wishes she still could have five minutes with him to say how much she she loved him and she's come Brooke comes from a family that's more into upward mobility success and making money not uncommon in this world and Brooke is the one who's asking the question about Jesus because she's curious about Jesus she's curious about the scriptures and the Bible that's one of the boxes that was left as they're clearing out her brother's room was a Salvation Army worker bringing back saying here you may want to keep this Bible she sees that her her brother who she didn't even know was into the Bible or anything in terms of scriptures that just raised a lot of questions for her those kind of things things like sickness and death they do raise questions in the mind like what's it all about what is sickness how does death come about is there a God would God have anything to do with things like sickness and death these are deep questions that sooner or later human beings do start to ask these questions how could it be possible that there would be suffering if God is pure love all the questions the perennial questions are going to come up in this movie also we have another woman in the movie named Amy who had been diagnosed with cancer but she goes into remission before the cancer she didn't really believe in God but she started praying when she was diagnosed with cancer and then when she goes into remission she's really questioning her her ideas about God and we have a lawyer in in this film named Tom who's not a Christian but he he's got a good heart and he's just in the field of law to try to help people so the Holy Spirit will use Tom the lawyer we have a judge we have a court case in here with with lawyers Judge Robert presiding we have different characters Grace's father is is an elderly devoted Christian man who's really into faith we we're going to have a mix of characters there's a man named Martin who's an Oriental man who is starting to become very curious about God and the Bible of course the miracles has been referred to as a scripture just like the Bible is referred to as scripture just like the bag of a Gita is referred to as this scripture the Daljejing and there's many different scriptures in many different traditions scriptures are words that can point us to expand our faith in what is not seen by the five senses is not perceived with the eyes it's to help put us in touch with our creator it's to help put us in touch with the source of life that's what mysticism is it's a devotion it's a devotion to find the source to find the creator to know the creator beyond the five senses beyond the beliefs of time and space to know the creator and to know one self as a perfect creation of a perfect creator that is the meaning of life is literally what the ancient Greeks called know thyself that is the purpose of life is to know who you are and the ego is the belief that you're something that you're not it's the belief that you can separate from that which created you now this movie is fantastic because you're going to be able to start to relate obviously to these characters and to their search for meaning and happiness and we are going to see that the ego wants to perpetuate itself the ego is into complexity the ego is into separation the ego is into differences the ego is into linear time past present future and the ego enjoys analysis the Holy Spirit accepts the ego analyzes to free your mind from the ego you must come to expand your faith expand your trust in the Holy Spirit which is the representation of God in the sleeping mind and as you open to the Holy Spirit and you follow the instructions of the Holy Spirit you will expand your faith in love your faith in eternity your faith in that which never changes and you will begin to release the things of time and space it's interesting in this movie grace simply wants to stay with the truth and tell what seems to her is the obvious truth grace has had a direct experience of of God grace has heard the voice speak to her in her mind and the voice simply said to grace who do you say that i am that is profound when the voice of who you really are calls to your sleeping mind and says who do you say that i am because that is our own opportunity to remember who we really are and yet the world of history the world of differences and separation will always have you doubt that small still voice in your mind that is trying to remind you of who you really are the the ego is always trying to use the things of time and space to keep you from the simple recognition of who you really are the ego will use education to block you from the truth the ego will use beliefs in personal rights the rights of bodies the rights of bodies to be free and jesus is saying no your mind needs to wake up you need a free mind in order to know your creator you're not going to find God in the body and you're not going to find God in searching for God in theologies of this world it doesn't matter which religion you you subscribe to it doesn't matter because in the end God is an experience God is not a belief and who i really am is not a belief it is an actual direct experience of direct connection with the source with the creator so this is fantastic because all of us are joined together in this movie gathering so we can know the truth of who we really are the reason we're here joining together with this movie is because we've grown tired of theologies we've grown tired of pursuing and seeking in time and space we're ready to remember the truth of our being we're ready to cast aside all pursuits of time and space and we want to be shown a direct experience of who we really are jesus is just a symbol of that direct connection because christ is not a man or a woman and christ is is not even masculine or feminine you know people sometimes i got i get a kick out when they argue whether the holy spirit is masculine or feminine it's like oh come on do we we have got to have better use of our time than trying to be anthropomorphic and trying to put ego concepts onto the divine the god is one god is spirit not god isn't male or female or masculine or feminine gondi when i first watched the movie gondi i just had tears rolling down my face during the whole movie because i thought isn't that great that a human being stood up for non-violence that a human being showed stood up for equality i thought the same with martin Luther king you know when i was growing up i i studied the teachings of martin Luther king and and how he stood up for for equality and non-violence and he had a very famous speech where he said i had a dream and then jesus comes along and says yeah i i work with martin Luther king i'm trying to show you a happy dream david i want to show you a happy dream because before you wake up to eternity you've got to experience a happy dream you need first the happy dream of forgiveness before you can know who you really are so to me when i watch this movie it's it's emotional in the sense that it stirs the spirit in you to wake up from this belief in differences it stirs the the spirit in in your mind to recognize itself beyond the body it stirs you up to start to realize that all people are the same and that all belief and differences are unreal we are tired of this ego game of superior and inferior we're tired of this game of advanced and beginning we're tired of of believing that some people are more important than other people those beliefs are not the teachings of jesus jesus was teaching us we are the same because we have the same creator and that creator is love god is love and we are an offspring not the body but our our spirit is a creation of an eternal creator so sit back enjoy the movie and i will pop in from time to time with a little spirit commentary but this movie is so self-evident that you can feel jesus in every frame of this movie if you so wish if you so pray and desire this movie can be a witness to the prayer of your heart that that god is real that love is real and that love is all that you can know in the end you can't really know this world but you can know the love of god and that's an answer to our our poll keeping the heart open to god's love so enjoy the movie enjoy the whole day and i will be with you through the whole thing and i know we are going to have a big heart opening today of feeling the love of god feeling experiencing the love of god in your heart let it burst open let your heart burst open today be willing to lay aside all opinions and conclusions and just start to feel the love of god coursing through you flowing through