 Okay. Hi everybody. Good to see you again. We're here again for our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter. I'm going to be the host today. And yeah, for those who are new, I always like to just share how the day is going to flow. So we have our movie coming up with David. And then afterwards we'll have a 10 minute break, followed by our breakout rooms, where you can express any emotion or anything that came up during the movie. And then we'll have a 45 minute break, and then the closing Q&A session with me. So I'll pass it over to you, David. Thank you, Pete. Welcome. Welcome everyone. We've got a great movie today. I felt a big swirl with this one. When Jesus gave it to me, I was like, oh, I've been feeling this movie for some time, but I couldn't even think of the name of it. And then of course, when it's when it's supposed to be queued up for us to watch together, then Jesus, here it is. This is it. Now's the time. Do it now. That's the story of our life. Do it now. We don't have to be concerned about the past or the future. Just do it now, what the spirit gives us. And that's everything. So I'm really excited because it's a theme. It's a genre called, I would say, virtual reality movies. There's been so many virtual reality movies. I'm not even sure how many there were, but I did look it up on Google and it said virtual reality movies list, and then I went boom into the list. And there was so many virtual reality movies. And of course, this is one of them. This was one that Jesus is picking for us. Because the world that we see, the world that we perceive through the five senses is what Jesus might call virtual unreality. It's a dream. And so virtual is not reality. Even in this world, virtual reality is using generated images to simulate the dream world. This is saying, well, when the mind is asleep and dreaming, the ego is using dream images to try to simulate its own version of reality. But reality is spirit. So we couldn't even say that this world is virtual reality because reality is pure light, pure love. It's the kingdom of heaven. It's Nirvana. It's perfect oneness. So this movie has many, many parallels to help us wake up from the dream. I think I'll tell you what our themes are this week and then I'll give you what I think are the great possibilities and the insights for us to really have an experience of our reality and to experience the power of our mind. So as with every week you voted on the themes that you are dealing with in your life and the ones that are most important to you. And the number one theme was, I will step back and let him lead the way. That's a workbook lesson from A Course in Miracles. And what that is talking about is this talking about developing your connection with the Holy Spirit with your intuition. It's not necessarily saying that you have to follow people in the world because it's your mind that needs the guidance and the guidance can come in all kinds of dream symbols nighttime dreams. And bumper stickers and billboards that can come and talking to your mother or your father, a family member, it can come when you're talking to your cat or your dog. In Wesley's case, there's Wesley with his Holy Spirit dog character. That's who's watching the movie today, Mighty Companions. But when you say I will step back and let him lead the way, basically you're saying, I don't want to personally be in charge of my plan of awakening. Because the personality cells, the mask, the persona is is part of the problem. So you can't really rely on the problem to bring you the solution. You can't, you can't really rely on the personality self to bring you to eternal love or divine light, but you can say Holy Spirit, Jesus, I will step back and let you lead the way you use the personality self you use everything in time and space to bring me to a leaping off point where I remember that I'm, I'm still as God created me. I'm still pure spirit. So the second theme is I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. That takes a bit of mind training, you know, that's why we use the mind training of a course of miracles because the ego says, Oh, you can be hurt by a lot of things in this world. And the ego will use history to say, look at all the people that have been hurt by all kinds of things. And Jesus is saying, No, the world is not where the war is the world is not where the challenge is to struggle. It's the sleeping mind that believes in the world that's holding on to attack thoughts and grievances and judgments. And that's where the attack is in the mind. It's not in the world is just projected to the world. So we seem to have countries being invaded we seem to have a pandemic we seem to have changes and weather conditions extreme climate conditions and all kinds of things foods, food supply chain shortages, petroleum oil shortages and scarcity inflation there's all kinds of things that seem to be happening in the world and Jesus is like, Well, you know, actually it's just attack thoughts in the mind. And if you're willing to forgive those thoughts, you'll be peaceful. You don't have to change the world you just have to change the way you look at the world your filter is dark with attack thoughts and you need to get the cleaner out the alcohol or the Windex. Every day, get that little tissue out. Let's get the tissues out and maybe we're wiping away tears but let's clean that filter. Let's keep cleaning the filter. Let's put it on auto clean. What, what am I going to do today, clean the filter. What's the plan for the rest of your life clean the filter. Clean your ambitions. No, clean the filter now. Do you care how your worldly life ends up no clean the filter the filter is the problem. It's not a worldly problem at all there are no problems in the world is just perception of the world is faulty. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. What a wonderful idea. Every time you get upset you can just say I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts so if I'm hurting if I'm feeling upset or depressed or angry or sad. No, it must be my unreal thoughts must be I'm attached to ego thinking and must be I'm attached to ego grievances, and therefore the world is just witnessing to my attachment to these crazy unreal thoughts. They aren't my real thoughts the real thoughts I hold in my mind are the thoughts I think with God. That's my source, those are my real thoughts but these attack thoughts this fill me layer, you know, clean clean. I've been doing the course for 36 years and I still say clean clean every day clean clean clean clean them all clean them all that's all we can do. Third, trust the relationships given by the spirit. A lot of times we like to pick and choose our relationships and we even believe that we can pick and choose our relationships but Jesus is like well I know that's how you believe your life is but you don't really get to choose who you're going to relate with because he tells us in the introduction to a course of miracles he he says free will does not mean you can establish the curriculum only what you want to take at a given time. And then in the manual for teachers he says, you can't even choose to form. I can't choose to form I can't choose partners I can't choose friends and I can't choose my neighborhood I'm going to live in you mean it's all part of a pre arranged script where I have no choice whatsoever informed. That's right, we have no choice whatsoever informed the world's just a reflection of the choice of the ego or the Holy Spirit. So if we believe in the ego we have ego preferences, and then the world reflects our preferences. I prefer that my friends are this way I prefer my partner looks this way or has this intelligence or these skills and abilities yeah. The world is just a reflection of ego preferences until we forgive and we realize, wow, what makes me think I have that kind of power to decide what reality should be. I believe that we have the power to generate reality, and the course of miracles is not new age it's not telling us we have the power to make our reality. The course actually teaches that reality was created for us and we can only accept reality exactly as God created it. We are not the creators of reality. We are part of it in spirit, but we are not the creators God is the creator. And we create with God given ability but we create in spirit we don't we don't manifest. I always like when I hear all these questions about manifesting do we have the power to manifest no. We've never manifested a damn thing and we never will because we're spirits and spirit doesn't create inform. That's just the misuse of the mind to try to make something in form. That's invention. If somebody says wait a minute. I'm a powerful creator say well yeah you are in spirit but right now with form you're an inventor. We don't need a copyright or a patent for this world we the ego is the inventor of this world. And Jesus does have a workbook lesson that says I have invented the world I see because he wants us first to claim we don't not to hide what we think we've done. So he has a workbook lesson for us I haven't invented the world I see. It goes way beyond that to I am still does God created me but he's saying don't don't skip over the fact. The world didn't just appear it had to have some kind of belief behind it. Because in heaven there are no beliefs so this world has a belief in separation underneath it. The first one is transcending all barriers and communication. And the fifth theme is the power of decision is my own. So, the first thing I'm going to do is just run through. I always like to run through the basic metaphysics. With this kind of movie you really have to be grounded in your metaphysics otherwise this could look to the ego like a horror movie, you know, nobody wants to watch a horror movie so I'm going to try to straighten out our metaphysics right away. So, so you don't have any horrific experience here. Basically, again, God is spirit God creates in spirit, and the ego is the belief in separation so it generates a virtual unreality called time and space. So the dream of time and space will call it virtual unreality. We don't even want to call it virtual reality because it's not real. It doesn't have any eternal nature to it so it's virtual unreality that's what time and space are. So, how does this happen well there's an unconscious beliefs in guilt from believing in separating from God and then the projected world of time and space in fact the whole cosmos of projection is just projected from unconscious guilt. And it seems like in time and space that there's real events that happen. But the best part of it is, they're not real events they're hallucinations. This, they are not real events, we have never had a real event happen, even this, this zoom meeting with me is not a real event. It's just a projection of, of desires and beliefs. It's not a real event. It may seem to have a beginning and a middle and an ending but it's not a real event. It's fiction, it's fantasy, it's hallucination, we can't find any meaning in it. And most people on the spiritual journey, the deeper they go, the more they just look at the world and they go, huh. Not a damn thing I've ever perceived has meant anything. Wow, that's some kind of spiritual realization but that's lesson number one. That's the first lesson in the text in the workbook, nothing I see means anything. It sounds instead of a spiritual realization it sounds like a spiritual disillusionment, but it actually it's quite joyful when you see that the world's not real, because your problems are over. You don't have any problems. You only believed that you had problems and then the world acted out the beliefs. So it's like a theater of unreal events. Now, let's talk a little bit about specialness, we could say that the whole cosmos of time and space linear time and space. That is the product of specialness there's like a wish in the mind. Instead of being content with being a perfect creation of God it's a little tiny wish, a little flicker of a wish that is a little flicker that's like I want to be special. I want to be more special than anything or anyone else and this little flicker of specialness has now projected the whole cosmos. So what we're perceiving as an external world, a cosmic world of people places things, planets, spheres black holes, mountains, lakes, rivers, all of that is the projection of the wish to be special. So, is that a problem, no not really because the Holy Spirit answered the problem the instant it grows up. So it's already handled. It's already corrected. It's already over and gone. But we have memory traces of still wanting, hoping, believing in specialness and now those memory traces are appearing to us as events that still seem to be occurring but really they're done. So number seven I see only the past really all we're ever doing is just watching a movie of the past, a projection emotion picture of our past thoughts and past beliefs and Jesus is like well, it is over and done so really you have no problems because the Holy Spirit has already corrected the whole thing. In this movie, we're going to see this these metaphysics acted out for us in a play it's like it's a movie that's going to reenact and show us this whole thing that I've just explained. It's an Australian movie. I think this is one of the best. This is one of the, this guy's got to be right in the best Australian movies ever I mean, and that's saying a lot because the matrix was filmed in Australia. The Dark City one of our all time classics of spiritual awakening was also, I believe, filmed in Australia but here we have an Australian movie that is like, Wow, it's, it's a huge help to us to wake up. Thank you Aussies. Go Aussies. Yes. We're not too concerned about the football and your tennis and, and your deserts and beaches and, and even the coral reef doesn't compare to this movie this movie is better than the coral reef. This movie will you'll be so grateful for this because this is helping you wake up to eternal life. The coral reef is beautiful. Yes, but this is this movie is practically helpful in forgiving the world. So, we'll shift into some of the movie characters to help set this up. She's a woman who's a very good scientist, and she's not only a very good scientist but she's a computer scientist, and she's a coder, she can, she can write code. And with all the advances in technology into nano technology and bio neural programming you might say she invents a code a computer code that generates a virtual reality experience. And we have at our mystery school we just finished our tabular Ross and mystery school and, and toward the end, the participants were putting on the goggles. And we have really high tech sophisticated virtual reality programming that we put these goggles on and then people think they're flying, and they think they're doing all these things because it's so realistic, and then they get to watch their emotions. And they get to the heights when they start flying those emotions come to the surface. The only purpose that virtual reality has is to let the Holy Spirit use it to heal your mind of false beliefs and false thoughts. You know, we're not doing this. We're not giving people a virtual reality experience with these goggles, just for a thrill, because we are not thrill seekers we're God seekers. We're, we're, we're looking for God we're looking for inner peace and happiness we're not looking for thrills in the world. Everything made by the ego, which is specialness can be used by the ego to to distract away from the light to guard against awakening to get the mind so mesmerized and so hypnotized and all the, the ooh la la of the world. The sensations of the world, the rushes, you know the emotional rushes of people sometimes feel when they're on a beach swimming, or when they're eating their favorite food, or with sexuality, or with drugs. People are just experiencing the ego playing with time and space to distract away from inner peace. Basically, that's what's going on with with everything that you feel is sensationally painful, or sensationally painful. The ego is running the show. And that's how it keeps the mind asleep, because it had to make something that would attract the mind. And pleasure is a is a an invention it's an ingenious invention of the ego to keep you from knowing who you are. And the more that you forgive you go through life you start to get this evenness this very still tranquil mind that is so peaceful and it comes from within your mind and from your heart. So the need for alcohol stimulation starts to fall away. If it falls away and it falls away and it falls away. It falls away all the way across the board. I know someone I sometimes when I travel, people say, Oh, it's nine o'clock tonight I guess David, I don't know I was going to offer you a cup of coffee do you want caffeinated coffee or de caffeinated, because the truth is, don't load yourself up with caffeine before you go to sleep, or you won't fall asleep. But it's all the same to me I'm like yeah whatever just, I don't believe in this causation stuff so it's coffee. Well we're out of coffee, we got some hot water good. You know, it's it's all the same my grandmother lived to be 99 and she used to drink tea and coffee and things and then when she got in her 90s, I would say what are you drinking she said hot water. At the time I thought, is there much flavor in that water but she was long gone. She was, she was so gone from the world she could care less. It's hot, you know, well, okay that's that's plenty right there you know she loved it. So, basically, this scientist this woman her name is Ren. And she has a code that she is able to put into black eyedrops. And then you put the eyedrop just a little drop of her her black solution and her code. It interacts with the subconscious mind, and the chemicals in the brain to generate a virtual reality so this, instead of wearing the goggles that we do at the Tabula rasa mystery school she just has invented some black drops that she has put code in and she's trying to make adjustments to the code because sometimes there's glitches. It's what we call glitches in the matrix from our matrix movie. So she's always trying to perfect her code so she can generate a very helpful virtual reality experience that kind of takes your breath away. We will discover later in the movie that she didn't really invent this code. She actually stole it from her father. Does that sound familiar you know we. This movie's got everything we believe we stole something from our father in heaven, and we thought we could make up our own virtual reality with the power of the mind that we thought we stole from God. And it hasn't worked out well, well it doesn't work out for well for Ren either. But Ren has a beautiful heart she she has really a beautiful heart and her purpose for this code that she put into these black eye drops is basically is she loves her brother very dearly and one time when she and her brother were on the beach. Down there in Australia, they were swimming and her brother went out and then he he went down I think he hit his head on a rock and he became unconscious. So he had a drowning experience which seemed to put him into a coma. So Ren's purpose for this code and these eye drops is to try to reach and connect with her brother who's in a coma. And really she just wants to use her scientific abilities to reach him to reestablish connection and communication with her brother. Jared, who is Jared's in a coma and and also her father. Her name is Ren Amari her father is Dr. Amari he's the one who actually invented the code that she stole but we'll find that out later in the movie and she's she's got issues around her father. She she wants to reconnect with her brother but her brother's in a coma. She has a boyfriend named Danny and she also has used her this code as to build a company and her co founder of the company. The company's name is Other Life and the co founder is Sam. Sam is pretty much more in charge of the finance and the business aspects of other life this company. And it's a virtual reality company and basically Sam her partner is in for the money. He's trying to invent more uses for this virtual reality eye drop thing that they have and and he wants to make money and he's into material success and abundance and money. And she just wants to really connect with her brother. Jared who's in the coma. I'm giving you this so you can really flow with this movie because I'm going to give a lot of commentary on this movie. And I feel that this movie is really a great teaching device for us to learn the ultimate lesson because all of us just want to embrace the ultimate lesson and be done with this world. Let's get the final lesson and be done with time and space it's let's remember God and eternity. That's our main focus. In order to to experience the final lesson we have to experience that everything is mind. There is no such thing as mind and matter. There is no such thing as mind and the physical. Everything is mental and probably your parents have told you at some point in your life that you're a mental case, you're mental. I got that. David you are mental. Now I see it was a compliment. That was Jesus coming through my mom and dad trying to tell me the truth. Jesus says you are mind, holy mind and purely mind. That's all there is. There is nothing but mind. And once you have that realization you are you are back in the tractor beam with God. The belief in a physical reality is the hallucination. The reality will be helpful in us starting to experience that there is only mind as Jesus says all illness is mental illness. That's a pretty strong statement all illness is mental illness. He's saying yes you you you don't have a physical illness ever. You make up a world where there's body symptoms and you tell yourself that you're sick when you get these symptoms but you aren't. That's not it. Only the mind can be sick when it believes in the ego and the body is just neutral to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit doesn't see sick bodies or well bodies. The Holy Spirit doesn't see dead bodies or live bodies. As Ken Wapnick said, there's no, there's no life on this planet. There is no such thing as biological life. There is no such thing as organic life. These are all projections of the mind to make up something that's not true. It's fiction. She called it mesmerism. So we're dealing with a severe case of mesmerism. I say severe, because the recognition that that it's all mind has been covered over by stacks of beliefs and stacks of false thoughts and it's, it's actually the easiest recognition in the world but it's covered over with a lot of defense mechanisms to guard against it. There is a beautiful saying in A Course in Miracles. And this comes from the manual for teachers where Jesus is talking about sickness and he's talking about patients and healers. He says in this manual for teachers, special agents seem to be ministering to him, the patient, yet they but give form to his own choice. He chooses them in order to bring tangible form to his desires. It's this they do and nothing else. So every time we see people, we need to be reminded from Jesus that these are, these are really my thoughts. These are not actually other people. These are actually my thoughts. They're, they're my unhealed past thoughts coming back to me again for another chance to see them anew to release them. And then he goes on to say they are they are not actually needed at all. In other words, you don't really need people or the things of time and space to heal. Jesus is recognized that, that all there is his mind. That's the, that's the final lesson there is nothing outside of you, meaning there's nothing outside of the mind. The patient could merely rise up without their aid and say, I have no use for this. There is no form of sickness that would not be cured at once. Jesus could seemingly heal the sick and raise the dead because he was aware that there was only mind. And in his mind, he, he didn't leave room for sickness because there is no room for sickness in our right mind. There is no room for it. It's, it can't be there. God didn't create sickness. God didn't create death. And so in our right mind, that's where the Holy Spirit lives. And believe me, it's, it's happy in there. That's why our goal is to choose again to choose our right line. Then Jesus tells us, he tells us the whole thing right in these next sentences, he's teaching us that that basically this is how you heal. And he's talking about mental healing again, because the world is not sick. So the world doesn't need healing, it just needs forgiveness. You just have to see its falsity. But he says, what is the single requisite for this shift in perception. It is simply this, the recognition that sickness is of the mind and has nothing to do with the body. What does this recognition cost? It costs the whole world you see, for the world will never again appear to rule the mind. For with this recognition is responsibility placed where it belongs, not with the world, but on him who looks on the world and sees it as it is not. He looks on what he chooses to see, no more no less. The world does nothing to him. He only thought it did. Nor does he do anything to the world because he was mistaken about what it is. Herein is the release from guilt and sickness both for they are one. So Jesus, this, if you want to look it up, it's in the manual for teachers of the Course of Miracles and the question posed to Jesus is how is healing accomplished. Isn't that a beautiful question to ask Jesus Christ. How is healing accomplished and he's saying, it's accomplished just through one recognition that the mind decides, and the body does not decide. People don't choose sickness. People don't choose health. People don't choose success or failure because people don't choose people are projections of the mind of the ego mind you see 8 billion people they tell me now. I used to say 7.8 but now they say David notes. It's now eight 8 billion people in the world, all projections of one mind asleep. You see, so that means when you wake up, the hallucinations over you don't have to worry if grandma makes it. You don't have to worry if your children make it if your partner, the ego put them there and then when you accept the healing they're gone. This that really brings an end to the people pleasing you see because they're not really there. They're hallucinations are grievances that you're still holding in mind. When you get upset with a person you're not really upset with the person, you're upset because you're still holding on to specialness, and specialness is guilt, and you're upset. Not for the reason you think not for what they did or didn't do what they said or didn't say what they should have done or what they should not have done. Nada, nada, nada. This is not the problem. The people aren't the problem. It's the people thoughts that are killing you because God is no respecter of persons. The Bible says and God did not create the body. God didn't create people. Jesus says in the Course, you people the world, the ego people the world. He turns people into a verb. The ego people the world you see now this movie is so good for this. Because if you forget that you're a mind if you if you flip out of mind watching and you start to identify with the characters. If you start to identify with Ren in this one. Oh man are you're going to feel bad because Ren the Ren characters going to go through a lot of kind of psychological stuff, torture and all kinds of psychological things and that's what this movie is for to start to realize, oh wait a minute. I'm dreaming and I don't have to give meaning to this world. That's that's Ren's lesson to of course she's going to show the way for us. She's going to have to start to give up her pursuits because she's really got a very sweet heart she loves her brother. He's in a coma she's trying to reach him using her technology skills and scientific skills and then she's going to have to forgive and release and forgive and release. Ren is going to be today are cleaner she's going to be cleaning. Ren is cleaning cleaning cleaning cleaning today. And we're grateful for it because that's our mind cleaning. Ren's doing all the hard work for us today. We're just observing going okay. I'm not, I'm not going there. I'm not going to go through what Ren goes through. I don't care what I don't need to do this. I just need to forgive. To start it off, Jesus not only gave us a great super great movie, but he even gave us music. He gave us a warm up band. And so today, you're going to be able to relax and sit back and listen to Amanda cook and this beautiful song called miracle of the mind and thank you Diana the Neve for putting the Spanish subtitles on here for us and and away we go.