 And then we'll have a 10 minute break and we'll have some breakout rooms where you can share anything that came up for you during the movie. And we'll have a longer 45 minute break, and then I'll be holding the closing session. And so I'll pass it straight over to you now David. Thank you. Thank you Pete hi everyone. Welcome. We've got a beautiful Christmas time movie again this week to help us wake up from the dream of separation and death. I can't think of a better Christmas present than forgiveness and waking up from the dream of separation and death because that present is an eternal present. That present is not something that is here one day and gone the next that present lasts forever. And I think we're all ready to start to receive the gift of eternity. You know we've been told by Jesus that that the, the whole purpose of this world is forgiveness and, and in a course of miracles, he calls that the atonement. He says the atonement is the first miracle and the last miracle, and all the miracles in between. So that gets my attention. If, if that's the way he defines the atonement, or the correction as the first miracle the last miracle and all the miracles in between, then you know it's got to be important. It's important that he says it's our only responsibility twice in his course of miracles he says that it's the only responsibility we have. Basically, we don't have any obligations, we don't have any duties, we, we have nothing in time and space that we have to do. In our mind, we have to accept the correction for the belief in separation. That's our responsibility. It's not really an obligation it's a requirement because we, we were created happy by God, and God's will is perfect happiness for us. And so the only way we know God's will for us of perfect happiness is to accept the correction for the error. So you see what I mean, this is important. That's why we're talking about it today and that's what the movie is ultimately about. It's about accepting the correction for the error. Because there are no errors in God's mind. And there aren't any errors in eternity. So it must be that if I'm perceiving myself in time that I need to accept this correction. It seems to be pretty important. So today we have some beautiful themes that you all voted on throughout the week. And so I always like to refer to our themes because that's where our prayer starts we start with our themes we pray to Jesus and the Holy Spirit to use these themes to reach us and help us wake up from the stream. And this week, the number one theme that you all voted on is trying to get it right versus relaxing into true purpose. That's our problem. We've been trying to get it right in time and space and thinking we know what is right in time and space. That's, that's a problem. You know, how can you accept the correction for the problem if you think you already know the problem. And if you're sure it's a financial problem or if you're sure it's an interpersonal relationship problem, or you're, you're for sure that we have a pollution problem, or a pandemic problem, or an overpopulation problem, or fill in the public, anything you want to call a stressful situation is really defining the problem in terms of the form. And Jesus and the Holy Spirit are telling us, it's not the form. That's the problem. The form is just a reflection of what you believe. And you think you're something other than the Holy Christ. And that's the problem, thinking you have an identity apart from, from God's perfect love and light. That's the problem. So good, we're all, we're all on the same page there. So beautiful, trying to get it right versus relaxing into true purpose. The second one is looking for hearing the Holy Spirit in all my brothers. Wouldn't that be cool? If no matter who you were talking to, no matter who you were talking to, all you were hearing is one channel. Let's say you had a channel in your mind, and it was called Holy Spirit channel. And all you could hear was what they were really asking for. Even if they were screaming at you in form, you could hear on your soft Holy Spirit channel. They're just hurting because they think this, they're just having a bad day, and they're coming to have you just bless them. They just want you to give them a blessing. That's all they're doing. Don't pay no attention to the screaming red face. It has nothing to do with anything. They're, they're hurting and they, they're asking for love and don't even react defensively at all because there's nothing to react against. All it is, is a beautiful call for love and nothing more. So we're going to try to tune into the Holy Spirit today and all our brothers and sisters. And this movie is perfect for that because it's a relationship movie. And you know how the ego likes to make relationships, it makes a hierarchy of relationships, the ones that it likes, the besties, the partnerships, you know, the husbands and wives and then the, the indifferent ones like oh yeah, I've heard about them. I don't care. And then the ones that it hates. So you're either on the good side of the ego or the indifferent or the hatred. You know that's all it knows is a hierarchy of illusions and really that's really not sacred to us because we're, we're holy, and we want to see everybody is holy. We don't want to be fooled by these crazy opinions and judgments of who we thought they were based on the past. We want to know who they are right now. We want to see who they truly are right now, always and feel that in our hearts. Okay, the third one is resistance to fear of communication. And this isn't necessarily fear of communication in form. This is fear of communication from the Holy Spirit. Because that's what the sleeping mind is afraid of. It's afraid of the Holy Spirit. Why is the sleeping mind afraid of the Holy Spirit because it has a feeling if it follows the Holy Spirit, it will lose its individual personal identity. And it doesn't want to do that. The Holy Spirit saying, we're all the same one. We're all spirit. And that's what all the communications from the Holy Spirit are. They're always reminding us that we're the same one. We're never upset at anybody else. We're just upset at some thought or beliefs that we hold about ourselves, which is telling us that we're separate. That's what the ego is. It's a belief in separation. So when we say resistance to or fear of communication, we're really talking about the fear of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus says in the Course in Miracles, there are many answers you have received, but have not heard. So we've received all the answers in our mind to every question that we would ever have. We've already received them. They've already landed in our mind with the Holy Spirit. But he says there are many answers you have received and have not heard. And that's just because the ego is too afraid to hear what the Holy Spirit has to say. Because the ego believes in separation, the Holy Spirit always speaks for unity, always speaks for love, connection. You're the same one. There's no problem. The problems have all been solved. You're home free. You're just dreaming a dream of exile, but you're actually safe at home. You're here with God. You're here with me. You're safe. You're safe in spirit, but you're afraid of the communication that tells you that because it seems frightening to the ego. I sometimes refer to one of the early quantum physicists, which was Albert Einstein. And when Albert and a group of quantum physicists first discovered the quantum field, it scared them. It scared them. They thought we'll never be able to publish this in the scientific journals will be the laughing stock of all the scientists. And that's what would have happened if they published it back in the early 1900s, they would be the laughing stock of all the scientists back in the early 1900s. And then I told you that that what the quantum field represents everything being completely connected and Albert Einstein found this connection that they found in the quantum field he called spooky action at a distance. When a scientist uses the word spooky. That is fear. Scientists don't know the pure oneness of God's love and light. It's there investigating the empirical, most of the time. They discovered the quantum field where everything was connected regardless of space and time. That's why, you know, Albert Einstein called it spooky action at a distance, we're going to go towards that quantum field today. This is our Christmas present to ourselves. We're going to the quantum field of complete forgiveness today. And the other one we have here is everyone perfectly acts out our own beliefs. So every person that we perceive is just a pictorial representation of what we believe. If we don't like somebody. It's not really them that we don't like. It's there's something we're holding on to in our mind. And we projected out into a character to act it out for us. But what Jesus is telling us in the course is he says, you either extend the truth or you multiply illusions, you either are extending love, or you're projecting what you don't like. On to the world as if it's not you. So when you point the finger at somebody and you say I don't like them. I don't like their personality. I don't like their behavior and everything. Just remember when you point the finger at anybody, you've got three fingers pointing back at you every time you point the finger at somebody else. One for the father, one for the son and one for the Holy Ghost, you've got the Trinity in your face. Every time you point a finger at anybody every time you try to blame somebody. Every time you find try to find fault in anybody. The Holy Trinity is pointing back at you saying no no. This is your own thought about yourself. This is not them at all. This is just you thinking you're separate from God. Don't don't blame them. Release, release the thought. And the final one. We have is releasing feelings of guilt and sacrifice for following my calling. I think we should start to have some fun. Is anybody in for fun with me? You know, I mean if we're waking up to all that is shouldn't that be fun? Why should that be a struggle? Why should we have to feel oh I got to do my spiritual practice today before I go to work. I got to, got to read the course. I got to do my prayers and meditation. We should be happy to do the prayers and meditation. We should be overjoyed to do the lesson of the day because it's his for us. It's for us to learn we can have some fun. Let's have some fun. That's, that's to me fantastic. So I feel like the spiritual journey is intended to be fun. And only the ego thinks it's not fun. The ego is going to portray it as hard, difficult, challenging. You know, it just doesn't have a good word about anything, especially the spiritual journey. It doesn't like the spiritual journey because it's out of business if you go on that journey. That's a going out of business sale for for the ego when you go on your spiritual journey. That's Black Friday for the ego. If you go on your journey with true authenticity, that's Black Friday for the ego because it's like oh no. Oh no, no, no. I had this mind captive for millennium and now it's decided to resurrect and wake up. What the heck, what's going on. So those are our movie polls themes for the week. And again, we have a Christmas movie to help us wake up. Now, the one thing that I find interesting is we do have a lot of time based movies in the movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment, probably Groundhog Day is one of the most famous time loop movies. But if you spend some time, you'll notice in our collection we have many loop movies. And what is so good about a looper movie where the day seems to repeat is that it slows down time. And it starts to show us what's going on. We can see the lesson more clearly when it loops. Now, without the looper movies, we just are too lost. We're too lost into the ego's games and distractions. We can't really see the lesson unless we slow it down. And so Groundhog Day was fantastic. Because when that first came out, we were like, look at Phil the weatherman. Oh my gosh, he's reliving the same day. He's stepping in the same puddle. He's learning. He's falling into the same traps every day. And we can relate to Phil because we start to think, oh my gosh, Phil's life is like my life. And that's the first step in starting to wake up from the dream. You have to be able to notice the beliefs and the thoughts. You have to notice the ego patterns before you can be free of them. That's why people like astrology, anybody here had any work with astrology that that helps out astronomy that helps out numerology that helps out all these different things that people do when they go on the spiritual journey. There are several helpful symbols of starting to look at the patterns of thought and believe that you're still holding on to in your mind. And that's where the value is. So, if we go back to the Bible and what Jesus said in the Bible 2000 years ago. One of the most important things that he said, and this I think this is one of the most important things that Jesus ever spoke while he was here on the planet. It's very, very simple but it says a lot. He said before Abraham was, I am. He was saying that our Christ identity is not in the future. It's literally before time. That's why, when people say, I mean, I follow Akartali. I'm following Muji. I'm doing all this shanti. Why is it that I'm watching all these teachers, and I'm having such as so many issues in my life and it's like, well, it's because the presence, the present moment. The presence of love, the I am presence is not in between the past and the future. If you look for it in time, you will not find it. And Jesus was the first one to wake up from this dream and what did he say before Abraham was, I am. And I also like the context he said it in because they were ready to stone him when he started talking about the Messiah, and he said the day has arrived. He was basically saying he was the prophesized Messiah from the Old Testament. And then they basically looked at him and said, how dare you, you young 30 something year old man, how dare you call yourself that. And basically, they were getting ready to get the rocks and stone Jesus and he simply calmly said before Abraham was, I am. Before time seemed to exist, I am. I am the presence of spirit of love and light that exists prior to time. Now, the reason today, today's movie is going to be so helpful for you is because it's going to reorient your mind where to look. See if you've been looking in the wrong place, no wonder it's frustrating. If you've been trying to find eternity in time, that's a problem, because the present moment is not between the past and the future, it's before time was so when Jesus says before Abraham was, I am. He's telling us that it's prior to time. So I'm going to show a time loop movie that is aimed to help you release the entire loop of time, because the past repeating itself over and over is what time is. Jesus tells us history would not exist if you didn't keep making the same mistake in the present. We need to get super clear on what that mistake is so we can stop it. Stop choosing it. You know, we don't need to be keep choosing the same error and facing the same issues over and over and over we can actually let this come to an end. Now, even in the workbook of A Course in Miracles, Jesus starts introducing time ideas already in workbook lesson number seven he's trying to rinse our minds from all beliefs in time and already by number seven in the workbook he's saying, I see only the past. And then lesson number eight is my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. I see only the past because my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts. So in lessons seven and eight he's telling us the gateway to eternity he's saying that your consciousness is preoccupied with the past. And in A Course in Miracles Jesus calls the past the unholy instant. And then we see that the correction for the unholy instant the instant of the ego belief is the holy instant. Okay. But what I want to emphasize is that that the answer is prior to the problem. If you look for the answer inside the problem, you won't find it. If you look for it after the problem, you won't find it. The answer is prior to the problem because there is no problem. So that's why you have to find the answer before the belief in a problem. You can't find it in the belief of a problem. Does that make sense? You can't look in the past to find the answer. And yet all the five senses are part of the past. So now you know why we call it the intuitive journey. Now you know why we call it the inner journey because the five senses are part of the past and you cannot find the correction in the past. So I just want to read to you a very paragraph from The Manual for Teachers in A Course in Miracles because Jesus is so direct that I think what I'm going to read to you applies perfectly to today's movie. And this is what Jesus has to say in The Manual for Teachers. Jesus says, in order to understand the teaching learning plan of salvation, it is necessary to grasp the concept of time that the Course sets forth. We're not interested in the concept of time that the world sets forth. We're interested in the concept of time that the Course sets forth. Because if everything that we believe about this world is rooted in linear time, there has to be another perception of time that we need to know if we're going back to eternity. We can't find it using the ego's concept of time because the ego invented linear time. There is no linear time in eternity. Eternity is forever. Eternity is everlasting. It's bliss. It's oneness. There is no such thing as time. There are no seconds or weeks or months or years in eternity. In fact, eternity is prior to the belief in time. So in order to reach eternity, we have to understand the Course's concept of time. He says, Atonement corrects illusions, not truth. Therefore it corrects what never was. Further, the plan for this correction was established and completed simultaneously for the will of God is entirely apart from time. So is all reality being of Him. In that instant, the idea of separation entered the mind of God's Son. In that same instant was God's answer given. In time, this happened very long ago. In reality, it never happened at all. Never happened at all. That means when we say love is all there is, that's a fact. Love is all there is. The Beatles said all you need is love, meaning all you need is the forgiveness of the illusion to remember the love. That's what the interpretation of the Beatles. We've got to do a Holy Spirit interpretation of the Beatles. But they knew what they were talking about. They were messengers. They were messengers of light. The world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago seems to be happening now. This is made long since appeared to be open, yet to be made. So we're going to see that in today's movie that the main character is going to face a time loop. And just like Bill Murray kept repeating Groundhog's Day. Now this is like a spiritual version of Groundhog's Day. We're watching today. The spiritual version of Groundhog Day. Why is it the spiritual version is because the day that loops is Christmas Eve. The day that keeps looping is Christmas Eve. What is Christmas Eve evening as night? The night before the birth of the light of Christ. You see? So Christmas Eve loops. We're all dealing with Christmas Eve every day of the year. We're praying for Christmas. We're praying for the birth of Christ. We're praying to realize that I am the Christ. We're praying to realize that I am born again in the light that God created me as. I'm a new ever new eternal creature. So to speak, I am an eternal light in the light of Christ. But if I'm going to stick on Christmas Eve. That's that's before the Christ. And that is got to be time. That's that's got to be a loop of time that goes nowhere. That has to be frustrating to be stuck always on Christmas Eve. And you never get to wake up for the dawn of the light of Christ. You know, that's very frustrating. So that's why this is a spiritual version of Groundhog's Day. This is our wake up call. The lessons that our main character is going to go through. Her name is Kate. In Groundhog Day, we had Phil, played by Bill Murray. Today, in this movie, Kate, played by Amy Smart. Because I love the titles, the names are so good. We're going to see that Kate is got to face what she is believing in order to remember the truth. In order to come back to experience the love she has to face her beliefs. So this story. The movie came out in 2011. And it was called the 12 dates of Christmas. Because it's, it's a looping Christmas Eve movie where she keeps reliving her blind date. She has a blind date on Christmas Eve. And this blind date represents her chance to wake up to true love. And the reason that it keeps repeating over and over is because she has an agenda. She has an agenda. She wants to get her old relationship back. And she wants to get her old relationship. His name is Jack. She wants to get Jack back. And her girlfriend, her best girlfriend, is telling her that's crazy. And her, her father is not in line with that idea, her biological father there. Her dog, Max, is not in line with getting Jack back. In fact, everyone seems to realize that that you're not going to find happiness by trying to reinvent or recapture something from the past. We all tried it. Is everyone tried that? We, I mean, I tried it. We all, we've tried it. We tried to reinvent the past and, you know, preserve the past and, you know, redo the past. It doesn't work. We tried. We all tried. But Kate still believes she has to recapture this past relationship in order to be happy. And what it is, her dog Max is the Holy Spirit character. Her dog, her dog Max has other plans. She's trying to reinvent the past and her dog Max is trying to save her from the past by showing her that the past has no value. The past is not where the intimacy was. It's not where the connection was. It's right now. The present moment is where our opportunity for this, this happiness, this connection is right now, always right now. And that's because our perception of linear time is blocking us from the reality of eternity. That's actually a point in the course where, where Jesus does say that time goes backwards. He says, this is what Jesus says time really then goes backward to an instant so ancient that it is beyond all memory and past even the possibility of remembering. Because it is an instant that is relive again and again, and still again, it seems to be now. And thus it is that pupil and teachers seem to come together in the present, finding each other as if they had not met before. The pupil comes at the right time to the right place. This is inevitable because he made the right choice in that ancient instant, which he now relives. So basically, it's telling us that time is simultaneous time is not linear at all. The whole point of every encounter that we have is to remember the present moment. There is no purpose to any encounter that we have or any relationship except remembering the present moment. And then Jesus goes on to tell us how exciting that's going to be when that happens. He says that the when you realize this is the teaching learning situation. Each one learns that giving and receiving are the same, the demarcations that they have drawn between their roles, their minds, their bodies, their needs, their interest. All the differences they thought separated them from one another, fade and grow dim and disappear. All those things I just mentioned all those differences the roles, everything they're all based on time, they're all made up by the ego. They're all part of a trick to keep us from remembering who we are. They're all part of a trick to keep us trapped in expectations. Oh, you should treat me better. You shouldn't have done this. Think of all the arguments about about what should have been different in a relationship. All the could have would have should have, you know, if only you had done this different if only you had done that. Oh, no, no. Jesus is saying no, no. It's a problem of not recognizing the present moment that this time is simultaneous. And everything is included in this moment, everything without exception. So it's only the belief in linear time that blocks us from the love. And that's why we have to empty our minds, like in Buddhism, they say empty your mind in a day to the Dante, empty your mind, all yoga and spiritual practices of the East say empty your mind. They're saying, in order to make a space for the divine presence in you, you have to empty your mind of everything you think you think and believe that you know, in order to come with holy empty hands unto the presence of God's love. So we're going to see that with with Kate. Kate is she works in advertising. She is she is single. And Kate has a father she, her mother has passed away. And she still deeply misses her mother. And her father has met a new woman Sally and he's remarried. He is happily remarried. And his daughter Kate is not like the new wife. She feels sad still about the loss of her mother. And she cannot get over that, that loss. So she cannot really appreciate that her father has moved on. There's three significant men that that Kate has in her life at the beginning of this movie. One is her father who has moved on with Sally and he is married Sally. The second one is her ex partner Jack, who has moved on and now has a new girlfriend named Nancy. And there's one more. Let's see. Father. Oh yes, the man she's meeting on the blind date. Myles and miles. About a year prior to the blind date mile miles wife has died. And so now miles is moving on from his wife dying. So the three significant men that Kate will have in her life her father, her ex partner Jack and miles, all are moving on from grief moving on from loss. Opening their hearts to love opening in their hearts to the new to the lesson to find love in the present moment. And that is definitely we said reflecting the beliefs. That was one of our, everyone perfectly acts out our own beliefs so she is getting a lot of witnesses that it's time to move on. That dog max feels she moved she should move on her dad, everyone her girlfriend. She is clinging to the past. She is clinging to the grief and hurt of the past. And she is not opening to the healing of the present moment. So that's the situation of this movie. That's for all of us. She simply has a strong attraction to the past, and somehow she feels that unless she gets the relationship of her own personal choosing that she will end up all alone in the future. And we've all faced the same temptation. We have believed that unless we have this particular relationship, we are going to end up alone. It's almost like we believe we have one chance and if we blew it we blew it, and we're going to end up all alone, we're going to die all alone, if we hadn't made that terrible mistake. And Jesus is like, please, that's not the truth. I'm right here with you. In fact, when she ends up on Christmas Eve with her dog Max, she said, Oh, I'm going to end up all alone. And then she looks over at Max and, you know, don't like as if like, don't take that the wrong way. In talking to Max, she's really talking to the Holy Spirit and saying I'm going to end up all alone. And Max the dog is Holy Spirit representation like looking at her like, I love you. I love you right now. Why, why, why are you holding on to such strange beliefs. So I think we're going to have a great movie today. I think you're going to laugh. It's a comedy. It's, it's very metaphysical. It's, it's highly highly metaphysical. And in the end, it opens our heart up to an expansive view of relationships where we realize we are surrounded by the beloveds, we are surrounded in every direction. We are completely engulfed in love, if we will just allow it, if we will just accept it, we've always had the love with us, except we were looking for it in some other place, the past, where it couldn't be found. And then that's what was the big struggle. So sit back, enjoy the movie, I will pop in from time to time, and enjoy this beautiful Christmas tale, as we attempt to release Christmas Eve, and wake up to the birth of Christ as who we are. And that's our Christmas present this year is remembering who we are. That's the present that lasts forever and ever you don't even need rapping and ribbon for that one. That is something that will stay with you for your entire eternity. And that's something that we all want. So enjoy the movie, and I will be popping in from time to time.