 We have a classic movie. We seem to have we're on a roll of classic movies These are kind of movies that you know they're so helpful that you can watch them repeatedly and and gain more of an awareness of who you are and more of a clear route of how to reach true forgiveness and that's why we call them classics because they They can be used over and over and over in your mind training They never get old. They never you never get tired of them and for me It seems like I even have more gratitude and appreciation every time I view one of these classic movies and as usual you voted on your poll movie themes For the themes that were most important to you most relevant to you and We have compiled an English version a Spanish version and our our tribe community version So the combined polls Brought us these themes. So these are the themes that that were used in praying For the movie that can show us the experience of these themes an actual direct experience so the first Theme in the combined poll was dropping all future goals Now, how's that for being unhuman? That sounds like the the most unhuman Theme we could come up with and it's the top of our poll So it must be that none of us are human if we're voting for this Dropping all future goals Planning is a defense And Jesus tells us in workbook lesson one thirty five of his course in miracles That planning is not often easily recognized as a defense We've most of us have been programmed and and raised with the idea that planning is good You know, it's it's not seen as a defense. I can just imagine, you know, if Sigmund Freud had put that in his his teachings of planning as a defense You know, it's one thing to talk about projection or denial or repression Or sublimation and different things that he came up with but even Freud would have been shocked if If he was told planning is a defense and then Jesus goes even further where he tells us not to Activate the past. He were not to organize the present or Plan the future. So now we know why we need each other now. We know how deep the journey goes imagine living your life so spontaneously so Serendipity so in the moment that you don't activate the past Organize the present or plan the future You have to be guided by the Holy Spirit and Jesus to live that way There's no other way to live in that much joy spontaneous joy without the Holy Spirit But planning is not often seen as a defense against the truth. I Know if I even tried to tell my parents when I was growing up that planning was a defense or my any of my teachers From kind of preschool kindergarten all the way through grade school high school Ten years of university. I'd never raised the issue that planning was a defense They would go yeah, well, what is the truth? They would probably ask what the truth is Second one second theme a joyful perception is always available That we can experience consistent joy if we Are under the direction of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is the spirit of joy And by following the guidance of the Holy Spirit you do experience Consistent joy You you may wake up in the morning get out of bed before you brush your teeth You might be doing a tap dance in your bedroom. I'm not kidding I'm not kidding. You just start to feel happy for no Earthly reason no worldly reason just joy as a natural state of mind Where you just are joyful and you want to extend it, you know, you're just looking for opportunities to Share your glee share your joy third theme is healing through true service and function So some of you have been following along know that last week they posted one of my quotes that that Function has nothing to do with the body That that's that takes the guilt right out of your concern about whether you're being a function Function is has nothing to do with the body. It is your attitude It is your state of mind. It is your connection to Holy Spirit That is your function the miracle. This is a course in miracles and the miracle is your function Or if you want it even simpler happiness is your function your function is to be happy Irrelevant of the form Completely irrelevant because again function does not have anything to do with the body It comes from listening to the Holy Spirit within your It comes from being a hundred percent intuitive If you're a hundred percent intuitive then you're in your function And and what you seem to do is not under your direct control But your state of mind is your choice and that is under your direct control you can choose To be joyful and happy every moment And to do that you have to let go of the time loop that we're going to watch today on groundhog day You have to let go of linear time or or the mistake of looping time As if it's it's linear and continuous And jesus says in the course he says That past present and future are not continuous And they won't even seem to be Unless you force attempt to force continuity on them That is not what jesus is asking us to do. He's not asking us to force continuity on past present future He's saying no, you need to let go of forcing anything. You need to relax and accept the moment as it is and let go of your past Regrets and grievances and criticisms and judgments And let go of your future worries and anxieties because You were never created to be a time being you are an eternal being Still a perfect child of god and you've just forgotten it And now you're playing the game of time and space, which is not satisfying And we know it's not satisfying we we can admit we've faced how unsatisfying Linear time is And we need to help we need a lot of help to remember the truth and be content In the moment Because the present moment offers Everything that we could ever want There is Everything is offered forgiveness is offered in this present moment It's a it's a new bright Perception it's a it's a healed mind. It's a It's a sparkly way to look upon the world with the holy spirit And so healing through truth service and function is more of Of relaxing and starting to pray and say What is it That Will bring the most happiness and joy to the whole universe Ha ha that's that's how we start to get into our true function what what What state of mind what purpose is it in my mind? That will bring happiness to the whole universe Without exception that will bless the whole universe The next one number four is undoing guilt around past mistakes If we look at guilt we always see that we believe in something of the past that we did wrong Or that we should have done differently and There's a lot of movies where they try to Replay the past like the movie about time Is one and there's lots of movies we have where there's an attempt to replay the script Uh and what jesus is telling us is The past mistakes are not what you think they are because he's really telling us In the course that bodies don't make mistakes It's the mind Serving the ego's purpose is a mistake And the body will just act out this false purpose And and he's saying don't blame your body Don't don't go back into storage of all of your mind and look at all the things you did wrong That's not going to get you anywhere because It was all part of a misperception based on Not being connected to the holy spirit, which is the the correction So once you make contact with the correction You see that the correction the miracle is a choice And in that choice All mistakes are corrected So uh the miracle Corrects retroactively and progressively so All the past mistakes you believe you made as a body are corrected in the miracle instantaneously And even the future mistakes that you're afraid you're going to make In the future they're handled too The miracle is so powerful of a light in the mind that it corrects retroactively and progressively Wow That's an invitation to the present moment And that's why We are undoing guilt around past mistakes Jesus is saying well if you believe you're a body then the ego will pin Your guilt onto behaviors that you did wrong And it will pin your fear and anxiety of the future and worry onto Projections of what you fear you might do in the future wrong Jesus is like Don't don't go there That you you are a holy child of god and you are innocent And you are still as god created you you can use the present moment to take you right in a straight shot To to eternity you can use the holy instant to your advantage because it it's where your freedom is It's where your guiltlessness Is it's where your joy and happiness is And then the last one is intimacy is of the mind and not the body So that one Is another one where the ego made the body and then In order to keep the mind trapped in the belief in time It uses the body in a way that tries to offer a substitute for divine love And that substitute is what jesus calls the special love relationship And we're going to see in the movie today that That phil Played by bill murray the phil is a is a weather uh a weatherman And uh, he's a weatherman in pittsburgh and he's given an assignment to go to punk satani Pennsylvania a cute little town in pennsylvania where they have a Kind of a tradition of folklore of of checking to see if If the Groundhog comes out and sees the shadow or not and that that will determine about how much how much longer winter will be Or how shorter when winter will be so it's like a a folklore and he's being given an assignment to go out and and cover this folklore this tradition in punks of tony and uh Like most human beings he's he has his Doubts his frustrations his his anger He has his boredom Linear time Looping looping looping time Making an artificial line of time that is is very very boring To the mind the mind is not used to this Time experience the mind was created by god to be in eternal joy and then After the seeming fall from grace The mind fell asleep and believed in linear time and bodies and and that's the big trap That's the that's the quicksand for the mind. That's the That's the trap of sleep And the point of spiritual awakening is to wake up from the sleep and to remember the truth of of heaven of nirvana intimacy is connection And jesus says that miracles are are interpersonal in nature and and miracles offer a sense of genuine closeness and genuine connection and And that is sometimes sought for in closeness of bodies or proximity of bodies so We've all been programmed to think of of intimacy is bodies being together We you know, that's whenever you read the the gossip magazines or whatever so and so is together with so and so now and Who broke up with who and who divorced who and who got together with who? It's that's the gossip of the world is based on the belief that intimacy has something to do with the proximity of bodies But jesus is saying The miracle will bring you that closeness and connection that you seek for you're seeking for it really an intimacy with god And you're seeking to know who you really are As pure love and light and that's where the true intimacy is it's vertical Sometimes I use the cross as an example You don't find the true intimacy on the horizontal axis, but you do find it in the vertical And that's where the miracle is because miracles show you that you and your brother you and your sister are the same You're the same one. You're just interacting with yourself Every single instant of every single day And it's only the belief the belief in the ego the ego tells you that you're interacting with someone else And then as soon as you buy that you and your Your brother you and your sister are different then you've already bought the bait of the ego And then the ego will try to build a case against the other Or sometimes the case against your body what seems to be your personality body But one way or the other the ego is always defending against the awareness that we are the same And that's why jesus says make this year different by making it all the same Is he's he's calling us into the miracle so we can perceive everyone As literally ourselves You are not your brother's keeper. You are literally your brother You are not your sister's keeper. You are literally your sister And that's a state of mind. So intimacy is of the mind and not the body now As a good preparation for today's movie. I was praying this morning with jesus just saying Yeah, is there anything from the course? That that would be a good preparation a good setup for our groundhog day movie today and Jesus said yes go back to chapter 27 of the text and Many times jesus has sent me there. He said I want you to look over two Sections that are back to back One of them is called dreamer of the dream And then this next one is called hero of the dream The dreamer of the dream position in our mind is where the escape happens That if you're able to see that you are the dreamer of this entire dream You can change the purpose for the dream From one of hatred to one of of forgiveness and and love But if you are identified as a dream figure If you are identified with the body or the person Then you have bought the ego's bait And you can but wander in and out of different scenarios and situations and events Lost in time and space and and jesus Has this beautiful section called the hero of the dream, which I think is is quite appropriate For our movie today groundhog day Because in the movie we're seeing a human being fill The weatherman from Pittsburgh And we're seeing that he's not happy And he's not content And he has quite a bit of pride and arrogance Because he's he's suffering from the I know mind He thinks he he knows something About himself and the world and this is the this is a Actually quite arrogant whenever we believe we've figured out the world And we understand our personal Position in that world we are deluded we are we are psychotic and schizophrenic To think that we can understand A personal perspective of the world So I'm just going to read a little bit to you from Chapter 27 the the hero in quotes of the dream Because this relates to Phil and this relates to everybody And and the sooner we can start to release Our attachment to the body and to the personality self and to the world The more quickly we can just realize it's healed. We're healed We we never were what we thought we were So this is the hero of the dream The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world There is no dream without it Nor does it exist without the dream in which it acts as if it were a person To be believed to be seen and be believed It takes the central place in every dream Which tells the story of how it was made by Other bodies born into the world outside The body Lives a little while and dies To be united in the dust With other bodies dying like itself Okay, right there That's like Jesus kind of poking fun at the parody Of what we consider to be this world He's saying this is what you believe in And this is why you're unsatisfied you believe in something that is literally not true and your illusion of yourself and your illusion of the world is Is keeping you from from happiness and joy And now he says in the brief time allotted it to live It seeks for other bodies as its friends and enemies Its safety is its main concern Its comfort is its guiding rule It tries to look for pleasure And avoid the things that would be hurtful Above all It tries to teach itself Its pains and joys are different And can be told apart So there we have it Safety How many of us have had a pursuit of safety? Well, it's a defense against the holy instant Uh, how many of us have have had concern About the comfort of the body Comfort and convenience are Seen to be things that are sought after as important And why would we have Jobs and careers? Why would we do meaningless things that we don't even like we're not even attracted to? Unless we had a very strong Believe in the safety of the body And the comforts and conveniences of the body And the lesson underneath is the beliefs that we can tell the difference between pleasures and joys And And hurt So so jesus says in the text that you can't you're so deluded You're in such a state of confusion that you can't tell the difference between Pain and joy now when you first read that you might think that's insulting At jesus You know give me that give me that much credit that I can tell the difference between pain and joy And but jesus is teaching us in the text as he's saying no If you could tell the difference you would only experience joy You would only experience joy if you could tell the difference But because you can't tell the difference you have a mixed bag of Emotions and experiences on on planet earth in time and space So He says the dreaming of the world takes Many forms because the body seeks in many ways to prove it is autonomous and real Yeah, that's what we thought we thought autonomy was good You know that was part of growing up to be an adult When your child, all right, you're an infant you're dependent on your mom and dad Right and for most of us Yeah, when you're a teenager you're You're still dependent on mom and dad Although I noticed that the finals of today of the women's us open tennis championship is between two teenagers They're both gonna Make more Then their parents made in their entire life probably from one day's work two teenagers playing for the championship of women's tennis today, but for most people We are taught you need to have education You need to have jobs and careers and you need to work very hard to make something of yourself because You need to be autonomous And the reason that you need to be autonomous is because you're believed to be real This personality self Is believed to be real and more than that it needs to learn to survive on its own You can't be dependent on parents and government and handouts. You have to be an autonomous person Who is able to survive in this world? That's what the ego is saying and jesus is saying. Oh, no, that's a trick too Even autonomous successful Well achieving adults is a trick too. It's just another trick It's really not there. You're just pursuing a hallucination To tell yourself that you're worthy and and adjusted to a lie called time and space so Jesus starts to really Crank up the humor He says It it's talking about the body now the hero of the dream It puts things on itself that it has bought with little metal discs or paper strips The world proclaims as valuable and real It works to get them Doing senseless things and tosses them away For senseless things it does not need and does not even want It hires other bodies that they may protect it and collect more senseless things That it can call its own It looks about For special bodies That can share its dream so You get the gist of this is that The whole construct of this world is is a misdirection of focusing on the body and focusing on the adventures of the body That's what all our novels are about. That's what the movies are about That's what the fairy tales are about. It's the serial adventures of the hero or the heroine Of the of the main character And the main character Jesus is saying is not Really important at all That your state of mind is what's important Your happiness is important Your peace of mind your joy is important, but the body is not important The body is just a symbol that the Holy Spirit can use as a communication device for A period of mind training in which you see that It's not who you are And that's why we have workbook lessons to say I am not a body. I am free for I am still as God created me. That's that's where this is heading What is it about this movie groundhog day that is so helpful and so spectacular It's the use of the time loop device in a movie And in which it it becomes apparent to fill that he is repeating and reliving the same day over and over and over And that touches something within us because there's something inside of us that goes wait a minute That's my trap too I keep reliving the same day over I keep I keep getting out of bed. I keep Brushing my teeth and getting dressed showered and dressed. I keep I keep going through these routines and rituals And then as the day goes on I I seem to get tired and I seem to Get ready for bed and go to sleep Maybe I have dreams at night. Maybe I don't maybe I don't remember them But then I wake up the next day and I do it all over again So Jesus is telling us some important things that relate to this movie Jesus is telling us that history Would not exist if you didn't keep making the same mistake in the present Oh my Wow I need to know What's what am I doing in the present moment to generate time? Because I'm tired of time Jesus even says this world is very tired We all know it we can relate when Jesus says the world is is tired. We can go. Yeah, that's it's very tired It's a sleepy world I think I would even say it's a loopy world It's a loopy world. So groundhog day really shows us the loopy world Why is that a benefit? It's because we can see some of the The the errors that That Phil seems to go through Are based on his outlook on the world? We can start to see that That When Phil starts reliving the same day over and over First of all, he's shocked and he feels very trapped in time And the ego doesn't want you to To get to the point where you start to see that the time and the time loop is the problem Because it wants you to think you have financial problems that you have physical problems Problems it wants you to see that you have Relationship problems interpersonal problems It wants you to see you have survival issues It doesn't matter if if you think oh, I've got pandemic issues or I'm avoiding The pandemic in some way. I'm afraid of it What the issue is is what is it in my mind? That is so attached to the past That I would keep repeating the past What is it in my mind that feels so guilty that I would keep projecting out repeated scenarios and situations That are our projections of guilt And jesus is telling us You may have thought about all the problems you seem to experience But the one thing that you never really accepted as the cause of all these projected problems Is your own guilt You fell asleep You dreamed in secret That you were separate from god and then you projected out a world That would convince you That you were separate A world where there seems to be external causes that confronts you every day And the dream was made to Convince you that the dream is the cause and you as a human being are the effect of the dream This whole world was made to convince you that you are a victim of the world To convince you that you are at the mercy of an external world and external forces Call them economic forces call them weather Call them mom and dad Call them children Call them whatever you want you it's a belief that you are at the mercy of something that's outside of your mind And jesus is saying the secret of salvation Is this I have done this thing and it is this I would undo You see he's not telling us to blame. He's just saying admit it You did it and now it's time to let it be undone If you if you seem to have the power to make it up you must surely have the power to let it go And jesus is saying that's good news But he's also saying that that there is no cause outside of your mind now there's a section in the the same hero of the dream section where Jesus starts to talk about the holy spirit and he says The the holy spirit looks not to effects in other words The holy spirit doesn't need to look to the images of the world because he knows the cause Of these images is the ego and he knows that the ego isn't a real cause It it has no reality So whereas you may judge a sick body the holy spirit realizes that the ego which made the symptoms and made the body is not real And you're still innocent That's how the holy spirit heals He always says Don't blame the world Don't blame the body and don't even blame the dream Because it's only the ego In your mind that has set up this crazy dream And the ego is not real And the holy spirit is working to convince the mind To withdraw its projections And to realize that the ego never was Never will be It has no Reality because god did not create it It is just believed to be true, but it is not actually true So when we're tempted to have a struggle like phil Phil is not happy with his his work assignment He he does not want to be in punksatani, pennsylvania. He wants out But The snowstorm comes and he cannot leave. He has to face He has to face his projections He also Feels alone and afraid and so he's going to try to use a special love relationship to fill the void to To end his loneliness and and the target of his special relationship is his producer Played Rita played by andy mcdowell. He's going the ego will try to rope her in to his sad story To be the savior and it's not going to work But in the end The holy spirit shows us that once we let go into our our calling Once we let go into our the joy of our our function Of forgiveness Then the dream Lights up And i mean really really lights up in a way that we can Be released from the entire dream So I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. I'm like a kid in the candy store Watching Ground groundhog day here to me. It's always like the first time. I'm just like We're gonna have some fun today Uh because the holy spirit is going to use this classic movie To show us that we don't have to Play by the rules of time We can we can play by the rule of the miracle In our mind we can go vertical Uh, I always like to reorient even that that living in john song called physical Uh, I I always hear the lyrics in my mind Let's get vertical Vertical I want to get vertical. Let's get into vertical. Let's go vertical Why Why not experience joy? Why not experience the love and the happiness? Why not go for what's natural and real? In our mind instead of trying to tinker around with these ego Images that were just part of a cloud of guilt to try to keep us trapped In the loop of time so sit back enjoy bill murray in this amazing movie groundhog day and feel the freedom of your own mind in your own heart coming Into your awareness because that is why we are here to experience that love and joy