 I'd like to welcome everyone. It's really an honor to be here, and I think this is really a spectacular account of wheat where you can get 50 plus people together for a whole week to share the same purpose consciously. It's just really, I think you're gonna have a spectacular week, and we have so many resources. So many resources available here. I know where it is that I will be talking to this discourse, but I always say I really don't give discourses or lectures so much as it's an open discussion. We call upon the spirit, and the questions, the experiences, the miracles that are shared is really just us opening up and letting the spirit just wash over us and bring clarity and illumination. And so that's really what it's about. So we'll have themes, but as usual with these themes, we can get into any topic areas, any subtleties, any of the nuances that are commonly part of this spiritual journey. And with all of you here with us calling upon the spirit, I just think that this is going to really be a very helpful week in terms of really clearing away a lot of obstacles and debris. And the love is already there. So it's not like you're really trying to attain something or achieve something, it's just more, just recognize something that's already here and now and clear away some of the obstacles and the complexity. Because the truth of living that has a moment is extremely simple, extremely simple. And it's only the ego that tries to make it very complicated. And when we join together, so many of us are at this purpose, it's like there'll be a lot of joy, laughter, there'll be a lot of sharing and experiences where they'll find you and meet people that'll have a lot of parallel experiences that are going on with what you're going through, which is always a wonderful phenomenon because it's like, oh, I'm not alone in this journey. So it's going through a parallel experience and then you can experience and bring you together and you can bless each other with that. So it makes it easy, it makes you feel like you're not gonna be out on a limb or all limb. And we're gonna use a lot of different things. We're using movies. We recently, during this past week, we just updated our movie watchers guide to Enlightenment. So I thought one thing I could do for you now, Kirsten, could you get the movie watchers guide and maybe just come up and just read what the Holy Spirit has to say about our movie tonight. It's kind of nice to know the lesson before you watch the movie. Now, if you clue what to look for, this is actually called Joe versus the Volcano. Come, Hanks, make run. This is the brand new guide you've seen in the past. It's updated. So it's real, so it's real. Okay. Joe, this is the Volcano guide. The Spirit awakens the sleeping mind through contrast experiences, becoming the sleepy one to lead the past of limited elites behind you and trust that there's a better way. All the world is sweet and the mind and the way is constantly amazing on the vastness of grandeur. Nobody knows anything and must believe for a miracle. A leap in faith beyond the past when we're here into the glorious light. The light seems to blow the little self away. No matter what the apparent circumstances, one is always faithfully held in God's love. All apparent sickness came from yielding to the suggestion of vulnerability and being at the mercy of the body and world. Such a rolling sword is like a brain cloud. You'll hear that here in the brain. Obscuring natural spontaneity and aliveness. And trusting our intuition and following our heart, one sees the depiction of the life of God in his nature. So that's just an example of the way we're going to come at this through discussions and movement and meditation and movies. I go around the world, I've been in like 21 different countries and every country I go to, they love the movies. Hollywood is big everywhere and they're like the modern day parables. Jesus taught the parables 2,000 years ago. Nowadays they're common movies where people can talk and get discourses about themes that are very important to them. And it's a way of inviting people to talk. They have open discussions about things that are very important as opposed to just the basic stuff about the who, what, where, when, the gossip, the news, and so on and so forth. So I'm really talking about these themes. So our movie tonight, it's got a lot of humor. It deals with themes about death, the fear of death, relationship issues, sickness, fear of commitment, and just a whole group of things. And some of you might have been in like, felt like you've been in bed-in jobs or bed-in relationships. Steven Spielberg put this movie together and at the beginning of this movie they try to generate a scene of the worst possible job in the history of the universe. And Joe has it. It's the one where he feels sick. Because of course our mind generates the environment that we see. The job, the boss, the employees, the situation, and it seems like a very, very, very dead-end job which don't need to change. And the whole movie then launches him on a journey of faith and trust. And that's going to be our first theme as we start off tomorrow. We're going to start off talking about trust. So we get to watch it first in Joe. How did Joe go from the worst job in the world to the dead-end job into an open heart, into a sense of aliveness, into a sense of wonder, joy. So that will be a good springboard for all of us. And the little time that we have here before we take off on our adventure to find the restaurant tonight, unplanned adventure, a synchronicity convention you never know. I feel really honored. I've been traveling since 1991, wherever invited. I really spent the first five years of my spiritual journey just with a lot of study of scripture, prayer, meditation, all the typical things that people go through. And then I was just really wide open. And in 1991, I received the guidance to start traveling and to take those thoughts of what I should wear or eat and to seek the first of the kingdom of heaven and let all things be added. So I've been living like Jesus and the Apostles since 1991 and just its doors have opened and I've kind of gone around and around and around the world. It's nothing that I plan. I didn't plan on this when I was a child. I didn't visualize it. I didn't do any vision boards or anything to try to make happen. I was very shy and planned as many of you know and so I wasn't planning for this at all. I had nothing to make this plan. But it's been very joyful. I've met just thousands and thousands of people and reflections of love on this journey. And also, I'm very honored that we have a team of us here this time. A lot of times, during the first five years I did a lot of traveling on my own. So I was just going out and sometimes I would get paired up with a musician, a singer-songwriter or someone that would help extend the message and it was beautiful doors and many doors opened. And then back around 2003 I was invited to start traveling international. Before that I had just gone to the United States and Canada. So the doors opened up with many miracles to get me down to Argentina. Mostly along the coast down there. I had three people traveling with me and so there was four of us traveling and it was quite an extraordinary thing to have four of us traveling together on a long trip. And so really what's happened this year with any coming from Sweden and Kyrgyzstan and Jason coming along with me is I think you're in for a real treat. I really hope you get to spend some time and talk to these people that are traveling with me. And also with Raj and Kanya it's just been such a great job. You know, we couldn't even do these kind of retreats if there wasn't somebody really handling talking on the phone, answering emails and handling all the logistics. And Kanya's here because she's ready for a retreat too. So she's going to be serving you and taking some beautiful rest time to do that. Janine too has come all the way from Melbourne with us just to show up and to be of service and so she's going to help us with I think some singing. We've got some singing going on. Janine has a great voice so we'll get to hear a lot of her voice and everything. But I think to just spend a few minutes we have a few minutes to believe. Kirsten, come up. You come up first. I had Kirsten back in 2005. She was over in New Zealand right across the water here and she basically was there. Jackie and a woman named Mia from Sweden brought me over to New Zealand and we had a wonderful time over there and Kirsten kept hearing this interprompter when I heard the story that she would be going to the United States to come over with me. She kept hearing it over and over from the men even when I was traveling with Jackie she said I could go to the peace house long before she knew it consciously there was a plan in motion and she was to come over. So she has come over and she has joined in and she has gone through so much clearing of ego and has so many joyful experiences to share and she's shared many of them but she is available this week and she's just really committed to really living a life of a purpose of a loaded purpose in a very deep and compromised way. So I want you to take advantage of that that we're going to be going into these deep themes and we'll talk about a lot of deep ideas but you know how the practical experience and meeting the people who are actually walking through the steps and living through things is so important and that's what we have available we have lunches, we have free time so if you get a chance when we do these breakout lunches and you have questions with Kirsten about how do you really put this into practice how do you really live this that's the time to go and go on one of those lunches if you can do it with Kirtanza yeah yeah yeah yeah on the silent day movement kind of thing it's very very helpful she's worked for probably the last year and a half, two years just perfecting this technique of letting the emotions come up and through graceful movement and of course their professors and everything so there's your and Jason, why did you come up? Jason has joined very recently with us and he again has just completely over the new first stories about you know St. Francis and Mother Tree St. Francis we all cut their hair you know and take all these vows and then we we are very very devoted but we didn't you know we don't really have a lot of vows and rituals at our peace house we just had two guidelines no people freezing and no private thoughts which is just the best way of exposing the PO without having a lot of rules and rituals that you've got to adhere to and so but Jason just came and quickly dove right in and I have been I think since about 1999 one of my students back around 1999 said you're going to be traveling all over the world David you're going to need a non-profit organization I said I'm not into organizations you know the present moment can't be organized he said yes but you know in terms of just handling donations and traveling logistics you know you have to have a way a symbol that will be helpful to you so you can do what you do he said ok go ahead do what you need to do he set it up so we've had this non-profit foundation for since 1999 but also as well as traveling speaking counseling writing laughing playing all the stuff that mystics do I still have to handle a lot of logistics in terms of making sure the light bill gets paid there's a lot of transitions in the spiritual journey people come and go especially if you do everything on a voluntary basis with no paid staff you know as you know you can have any experience with non-profits even if you have paid staff there's a lot of turnover if you have no paid staff the cats the cats the cats are the most stable people I've seen I feel like a cat I've worked with and been there all along but Jason has come in and this past year was the first time I got the guidance from the Holy Spirit to really step back kind of go off in the orbit and just into my joy and happiness and so he is handling all these logistics he's like the managing director of the symbol of the foundation and so Jason hears all these prompts from the Holy Spirit he's got a good handle on everything that's happening and it just makes it smooth for everyone and so it's also part of my training of letting the Holy Spirit speak through him now because it's the same thing I went through where first thing you have to do is clear away the debris so you can hear your inner voice because you need guidance to take the place of the ego's chatter and then once you do that then the next step is letting the Holy Spirit speak through you so you have no fear no embarrassment it could be more like Jesus you could talk about God sometimes if it's appropriate and other settings it's not appropriate to talk about God and Spirit just smile and laugh and deem and people feel the love of God but you know it has to be what's most helpful so Jason's been doing a lot of that where he's just been handling so many things and so I really hope you go to his sessions it's like four to five movies on most he'll be getting out of the Course in Miracles book and having open discussions so you can bring any kind of questions you have it doesn't matter if you stay in the Course or not if you want to just have a very handy interactive session Jason will be there every day and again if you get to know him you're in for a great treat because he's just got a lot of promise from the Holy Spirit coming in and it's exciting when you get that out and then Jenny Jenny just answered the call to come over here all the way from Sweden the other side of the world she just I said would you like to come to Australia and she said yes she said I said well you know you may want to think about it a few days she said feels good to me yes she'd already looked into a quite intensive yoga retreat over there in Sweden where they were eating all kinds of organic foods and how many days of silence 33 days 33 days of silence I mean and physical rigors and exercises you know they're not kind of gentle stretching yoga you know time with the postures and the fuzz and you know the real rigorous one so she was really kind of in a already rolled and paid money for a spiritual boot camp out there in rural Sweden but but she just prayed on it I said wait a few days and see what feels right and she felt she really was to come so she has a very graceful silent presence she's a wonderful listener which is really important if you need to talk to somebody and you need to pour your heart out and you don't want them to be giving you a lot of spiritual advice and breaking in every two seconds watch her do that watch her do that that was cool she did that she's somebody who graciously listens and loves you and everything Jenny is available for that she would love to do that and she'll be there with Raj leaving the gentle yoga stretches and music sessions in the morning seven to eight and then if you want to she's just available you know throughout the day different break times and free times to talk to you she's also been told by a psychic that her her purpose is really healing and so she's to be a healer and already several days ago last week we were driving back from a gathering maybe it was in Lisbon somewhere around there and and Jason she just was doing little hands-on healing in the backseat Jason what was your experience with that? oh it was blissful she just built this energy to start to come towards your and so she just started doing some hands-on Jason was in and just she went into a motion coming out you know how psychic can tell you you're to be a healer but what are you going to do what are you supposed to do you know go take a course in healing or you know or do you just have to be willing to let the spirit pour through you and cultivate it in your heart so so that's another thing that she's just excited about the feeling of healing energy pouring through so too if you're going through something some day and you just feel happy to be with you and it takes a lot of willingness to she's also been trailing with me and she's coordinating my European travels which are coming up beginning on May 8th so I'll be like two months in Europe in six different countries and again you know for me I just love to show up and shine my light and everything but there's a lot of logistics to go in you know even in the days of Jesus and the apostles imagine twelve guys you've got to head going for food all the stuff that Raj is doing for this gathering and she you know she does it she's been calling airlines and communicating with people sometimes people do a gathering like this for the first time and they're frightened there's like oh my gosh people are going to show up and I've never done this before she's got to be there just to email them talk to them on Skype on the phone just gently coax them and say it's going to be great the spirits in charge you don't have to be an expert at putting these things on so thank you for coming for coming and Raj come on Raj is such a big big part of why we're even down here we just I just went to organize the Christian Chips on Tuesday not on Tuesday not on Tuesday I could shut the Christian Chips down here the Holy Spirit said wait the guy said oh currently I'm opening Tuesday not quite and what about the thing on Saturday morning you should tell me about how that worked out he stopped in at this restaurant today and Raj said this is where we're going to be coming and so he went again to the guy and said we're really coming with like 50 people and he said no Saturday morning in the middle of the school holidays no we're closed that's an hour in the morning he said we'll just have to look best we can and I said well I'm trying to get them to come in sort of slowly dribble in rather than all hit you up once and I said we'll be here about quarter to eight he said we don't have until late 30 and then his eyes and his half and he said oh don't be willing Saturday morning I'm having restaurant experience I won't arrange time it's basically because Raj I just don't feel like there's anything to promote in terms of myself I feel like I'm just having an experience of the present moment so I haven't tried to promote myself or orchestrate things around the world I just get invited but actually Raj you invited me he invited me he was the first one he invited me to come down here and then nobody booked for the thing there's gonna be this big international thing and Jerry Pinar and Jay Em, and all that stuff and nobody booked he's got a fortune internationally promoting it and two people actually said they might come two people were expecting like two hundred but that invitation got me then that's when Jackie and me and several of them were getting favored to come to New Zealand so that was my first visit here to the south Pacific so they came from there As we came around, it turns out that we were just kept talking, talking, and I think there was a point when Raj and Sue's had an old motorhome, Kobe, that they keep parked in Joshua Duffield Street, California, and they sent me a long email one time because they took, that was a very joyful trip with a lot of miracles, but so many things broke down on one trip. They sent things and people at these places where they fixed the motorhomes and never seen broken. They couldn't believe those kind of things. So in one sense, it was, they didn't call it a trip from hell or anything, but it was kind of this email like, what are we missing? Why would we have such a journey? You know, where they go into prisons, they're all over the place, shining their light. Why would we have such a struggle? And we talked a little bit about expectations and how if you expect anything to be any certain way, then that's something that needs to be released. So then... That's my best phone call. Raj did invite us, and so Raj has been like a major, major reason why we've been able to come. I've been able to come to do tours along the east coast of Australia these last three years. And it's a major part of the reason why we can all be here today, just because he's tuned in to Christ, he's tuned in to this spirit, and he was able to find a place up here that was reasonable for all of us, so we could all come. I mean, considering eight days and seven nights, you know, that's getting into quite a large chunk of time. But that's really what you do well as far as just give it over to the Holy Spirit and then flow with it. And so you can see already we're flowing and it's six o'clock, so there we are. Okay. So there's also a group of people coming by six o'clock, what are they called? What's that? There should be somebody coming. Tonight. Oh. Wednesday. Oh, that's on Wednesday. That's on Wednesday. I'm doing that differently. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. That's on Wednesday. That's on Wednesday. That's on Wednesday. And so if anybody and any are right, please come stand out here. If anybody with a car with a space in it, even if it's a little space, please come here and share it.