 Okay, we're welcome everybody. Hi, welcome to our all day movie workshop. For those who are new, I'm Peter, and I'm going to be the host today. And welcome to all our Portuguese friends. This is the one day of the month that we have all of our Portuguese, Spanish, and English speaking friends together for the movie. And this is one of my favorite movies too. So I'm very happy. So I'll pass it right over to you now, David. Okay, thanks Pete. Welcome everyone. Good. You can join us today. I think we have about four new people. And we have a beautiful movie viewing audience from around the world. And that includes our centers in Spain and Utah and Mexico and then lots of you from different parts of the world. As we go through this very deep healing journey together. And today, we definitely have a relationship movie. This is a this is a very, very helpful movie for really coming clear in our minds of the healing that is destined for us. Coming from the Holy Spirit and relationships can be used by the ego for specialness and to reinforce guilt. And most everyone that I've ever met has faced a lot of this sense of guilt with with regard to relationships. And it's been like a mystery. It's been like a riddle. Like, how do I get out of this stickiness this quicksand of guilt around relationships, whether they're parent child relationships or their interpersonal romantic relationships or their work relationships with the boss or coworkers, or their relationships that that have been formed by the family units that seem to be very genetic and biological. How do we be lifted up in our minds to reach a state of mind that that we can really feel this deep unconditional love, not the conditional love that are often. Experienced in very possessive and controlling and rigid relationships, and the prayer of our heart is help me Jesus, help me soar up above this sense of guilt and take me to true innocence and take me to true freedom and happiness and joy. So, we have our movie poll results in and that's really what comes before we pray on the movie, what movie will we be using to really come clear and really be shown the clarity that answers the theme. And the theme this week we have a combined English Spanish and Portuguese on the fourth Saturday of the month we invite all of our Portuguese speaking friends from around the world, and joining our Spanish speaking friends and English speaking and coming in number one this week on the poll results was going towards spirit given relationships. What does that mean aren't all relationships given of the spirit. What's the difference between a spirit given relationship and whatever else there could be. Everything that comes to us is is capable being used by the spirit to help us forgive the world. So there's no relationship that's by accident. There's no relationship that's by chance. There are no relationships that it's like how this odd relationship get into my relationship queue. It doesn't belong there. They're, they're all they all belong there. But when we say spirit, given relationships, we're talking about relationships that are dedicated to the purpose of forgiveness. The purpose is in the mind. So it's more saying, am I willing to let all my relationships be used by the Holy Spirit for my healing and for the, for the healing of the whole or am I going to let my relationships be directed by the ego, which is the getting mechanism which is a sense of insecurity lack. This is where codependency comes in and relationships it's the ego's purpose for the relationship that makes it codependent. It's not the relationship per se it's the purpose that the ego gives to relationships in order to get something. You've heard, sometimes when people talk about partnerships, they say I'm looking for my other half. Well, you know, that is not exactly a holistic perception of, of the person or the partner. I just mentioned this famous family therapist named John Bradshaw, and he used to write on a blackboard that the human perception of relationships is one half, plus one half equals one. That's not saying much. When, when we're looking at people as haves. And I need to find my other half to complete me. What was that famous movie that john john McGuire or something Jerry McGuire. There's a line in there where he says to the Renee Zellweger character, you complete me. And that is what we're talking about when you actually see the other person as the half that has to complete you. You have a very limited perception of relationships to think that you are looking for a partner to complete yourself. That's part of the ego's equation. John Bradshaw would would say actually, it's, it's not a plus sign it's not an addition sign in there it's a multiplication sign. So one half times one half equals one quarter. That's how you feel when you're in a relationship, you feel like a quarter of yourself. You feel, wait a minute, I feel worse. I feel worse than before. I thought this was going to complete me and I feel worse what's going on. John Bradshaw said no it's a multiplication sign so he said the solution is one times one equals one. You come from your own wholeness and strength and spirit, and you join with the wholeness and strength of your brother and sister, and you experience the wholeness of God. And so he was just using the mathematical equation to explain a very different perspective on relationships. The first and our top vote getter by far was going towards spirit, given relationships, which is really saying Holy Spirit, you guide me in the purpose for my relationship. I give this relationship to you to guide for the healing of my mind. And that is a very holy purpose. That is a very, very holy purpose. The purpose of the movie poll results is exchanging special love for the love of God. And again this does relate to purpose. It's really just letting the purpose of the ego in the mind which is specialness be replaced by forgiveness by the desire to experience wholeness by the desire to experience innocence. There is no freedom and love and happiness that forgiveness is the gateway to the true experience, and ultimately to remembering God and the love of God, and remembering the kingdom of heaven. And the third theme is choosing to overlook error. The only way that error can be overlooked is with the strength of the Holy Spirit. It's not possible for a person to overlook error, because the person is part of the construct that the ego made, and you can't overlook something. When the ego itself is the error and you're looking through the five senses of the body and through the ego's filter, how are you going to overlook error if you're looking through the filter of the ego? There's no way, because the ego is the error. So this is where, oh yeah, Jesus, Holy Spirit, I need your help here. Do not see error. What? What do you mean do not see error? What do you mean this whole world is full of errors? No, Jesus said no, it's in your mind and come back here with me and look at it with me. And I'll show you a whole new world, a new fantastic point of view. I'll show you, I can show you the world. He can, shining, shimmering, splendid. He actually has the real world, the happy dream for us to see, but we do have to let go of all of our egoic perceptions of the world, and that includes anything that is perceived through the filter of the past. And we need a happy dream that's what Jesus called really a purified form of the past. It's the past. Imagine if you have a photo and you could just use a process to take all the judgment off of the photo, like you peel off a film. Oh, look at that. Wow, it looks a lot brighter there without the judgment layer on it. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, you know, that's, that's the difference. That's what we're doing when we exchange special love for the love of God. It's really exchanging judgment for forgiveness. And, and giving up the judgment and accepting the forgiveness accepting the Holy Spirit's blessed judgment of the world. But the Holy Spirit has a judgment for the world. Yes, it's called the last judgment it's not fearful. You know, some of us grew up Christian, and we were like, who were shaken our knees were shaken when we were thinking about the last judgment. I remember when I was reading in the course and I got to the, I think it was back, pretty late back in the book where it said, what is the last judgment. And then I got to the part where, where Jesus gives us the last judgment. Holy are you eternal, free and whole at peace forever in the heart of God. Where is the world and where is sorrow now. That's it. That's the last judgment. That's the last judgment. Wow, that's so beautiful. That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. That's the last judgment. It's, it's the judgment that opens the way to the remembrance of God. And there's no guilt in that judgment at all. It's like, that's more I am not a body I am free I am still as God created me. And then coming in a little bit with a couple votes less was exposing attack thoughts. That's what we're doing with relationships. Everyone who seems to come to this world and perceives the world of bodies and time and space is dealing with a belief system in lack in guilt. It's a, it's a death wish. And so there's nothing redeeming in the ego belief system. And I would say, for this movie today, the word that comes to mind is unworthiness that when we believe that we have a time space identity instead of an eternal spiritual identity. Take on this feeling of unworthiness. Some of us have been raised hearing different words as we grew up like sin. Whenever I would ask people like, what does sin mean they'd say it's it's bad. Well, can you be more specific. They'd say it's, it's just like a black mark on your soul. It sounded very good to me. I was not a fan of the word sin, black mark on my soul. But then I did read at some point where the Aramaic word sin for sin basically meant missing the mark. It was an archery term for for sin missing the mark. Okay, missing the mark, like an error or a mistake. Okay, I think that's that's good. And then Jesus goes even further and he says, all your errors have been corrected. They were corrected instantly by the Holy Spirit. And now you have to open your heart to love and open your heart to forgiveness because in order to experience your innocence and to know the love of God you have to release your belief in the error. You have to divest your mind from the error. You, you made the ego by believing in it and you can dispel it by withdrawing your belief from it. Oh, that's great. So that's basically what this life is about then withdrawing the belief and the investment in the ego. Yeah. And he says, Yeah, you're to live as if you have no ego. Okay, that's good. That's your give it to me straight. That's okay. I had other career goals in mind but now I'm told I'm to live as if I'm not an ego. Okay, that's good. Let's get with the program here. Good to know the program. I thought it had something to do with being a better body or being a better person but he's like no no it's it's deeper than that you're to live as if you have no ego. And he says, I assure you you don't. He says when I awoke you were with me I transcended the belief in the ego and you are with me. So you're here with me, you just think you're there. You're, you're really at home in heaven but you're dreaming of exile and now I'm going to work with you to bring an end to your awareness of this crazy dream of time and space. So in this movie, we have. We have a young man from Texas from San Antonio, Texas, and played by Brendan Fraser and his name is Fletcher. We have Fletcher in Texas and he has a wonderful grandmother named Ida, and they have a great relationship reminds me of David and Lillian actually a little bit of this movie. Although Lillian didn't play the tuba, but, but we still it was a really loving relationship we, we didn't really play musical instruments but actually. What Fletcher and Ida do, they'll go out on a little boat and the lake and, and, and play Schopenhauer, you know, very lovely relationship. And basically, Fletcher is, he's an artist, he likes visual arts but he, he likes to cut things out of magazines and what did we used to call that where you take them out and you paste them collage. He's not so much a painter artist or digital graphic artist but he's a collage artist. He expresses his ideas through cutting out pictures from magazines and then pasting them all together. And he's also an artist he's a street performer, in the sense that he's like he's a puppeteer. He's got a beautiful gift of, of connecting with people through puppets where he goes out and he'll go to a house or go out on the street corner and he'll bring his marionettes, and he'll have his friend, Tree Man, who plays a little bit of music for him in his background and so he has the puppets kind of dance and talk to each other and he does little skits. So to me, he's a street performer, he's an artist and in that way too, but he's got such a beautiful heart. He's trying to help people, he's trying to make people happy, he's trying to use this interesting little gift that he has to bring cheer and bring comfort to people. He's a little girl who's sick, he goes over to the family to bring his puppets along and and do a little puppet show. And also in this movie is, is this experience that his grandmother and his family has a tradition that the men in the family tend to have these, these visions. These visions are about their true love. It's almost as if the spirit has destined us to meet certain ones, and even in a course in miracles. In the manual for teachers Jesus talks about that there's really no levels of relationship, because it's all, it's all really to be used for for awakening and for God's for remembering God's love, he says within this world, there seems to be like three levels of relationship, casual encounter, and then two people who meet and come together for a teaching learning situation, and then they appear to separate. And then there's the lifelong teaching learning opportunity which he says is very rare, but should they decide to the perfect lesson is before them and can be learned. He says, oftentimes, even in these rare lifelong relationships, the partners may be hostile to each other, perhaps for life. He's like, he's shooting down any kind of soulmate Cinderella ideas that we may have by saying, listen, it's for forgiveness. That's what it's all for casual encounter, a fairly intense teaching learning opportunity that where the partners seem to separate and the lifelong partnership are all for forgiveness all for accepting complete forgiveness accepting the atonement and waking up from the dream. So, in this movie Fletcher keeps hearing about his, his dad is his grandfather and how they, they had these visions extraordinary kind of visions and, and how they were brought together with their life partner or their in this movie it's called like the true love in a very serendipitous way, very extraordinary kind of way, not meeting each other at a baseball game or something. There's, there's, there's like a vision involved so they have like a premonition or a series of premonitions before they, they meet their life partner. And so we will have in this movie premonitions we will have these little flashes of visions, and also some dreams that that the spirit can work through dreams as well, in terms of bringing together to people that are destined to be together is what they call their true love. It's just, it's a, it's a teaching learning opportunity that that the spirit will use in a very very obvious and direct way to go to complete forgiveness and complete waking up from the dream. In some sense, we're dealing a little bit with the whole mythology around soulmates with this movie. And, and Jesus is really going to show us the difference between the Holy Spirit's purpose for relationships and the ego's purpose, because Fletcher is going to have some flashes and premonitions of his, his life partner, and he will try to put them down using his visual arts with the magazines as best he can, but he doesn't know who the woman is, he doesn't know her name. He doesn't know where she lives. He just is getting like a download of a flash or a vision. And the woman that is destined to be partnered with Fletcher, she's living a very hard life. She, she has not had an easy life. She has a lot of fear. She basically is a con artist. She, this is a good example of such a fear of love and such a deep seated unworthiness that she, she also is an artist, and yet the art gets used as part of the con. She has a friend, her best friend is, is Elaine, and her name is Rosalind. And these two women are part of a con team to try to meet men and take their money. So that's her purpose for relationship. It's like just to rob people, entice people, lure them with their looks, and, and everything is if it's going to be a relationship and then take their money and move on to the next, the next one, the next con. And so that's, that's just an example of the ego's use of relationships because the ego always is using it to get something. In this case, get money. That's, that's a pretty straightforward one using relationships to get money. That is not the Holy Spirit's purpose for relationships at all. The Holy Spirit doesn't use relationships for getting anything. They're all used for forgiveness for bringing unconscious darkness up into awareness so that you can release it. And then you can feel the love in your heart growing stronger and stronger as the darkness is allowed up and it's allowed to be handed over to the Holy Spirit and released. So, it's interesting that these two characters Rosalind and Fletcher seem to represent on the surface, a very, a very different purpose for relationships and yet to the Holy Spirit, all relationships only have one purpose and that is healing. It's not like the Holy Spirit assigns different purposes to different relationships. It's the purpose is always healing the mind without exception. So, in this world, if you are looking to be partnered up with somebody else, the ego will have you look at your past, look at your, your likes and dislikes. Look at your interests. Look at the compatibility. How compatible am I with another person? Can I live with them in the same house or in the same room? Is there an attraction there? Is there a strong attraction there? If there are some repulsions, the ego is like, well, you better have some strong attractions there if you've got some major repulsions going off in your mind. So, basically, the ego is looking at more like that equation I mentioned with John Bradshaw, you know, one half looking for their other half to complete them. And the Holy Spirit is saying, let's allow the attack thoughts up. Let's allow all your judgments and criticisms, all your fears, and let's loosen this deep-seated feeling of unworthiness that you believe you are unworthy of love, that when you come close to love, you rush back to darkness because the mind that believes in the ego is so encrusted, so programmed by this unconscious darkness that it's afraid of love. And Jesus says in the Course, you may think that you're afraid of dying, but actually you're afraid of redemption. That's an interesting idea. Are you talking to me? You're saying I'm afraid of redemption. Yes, you are. As long as you believe in the ego, you are terrified of redemption because you're afraid you're going to lose something like an identity. And he says, let me assure you, you aren't losing anything. Redemption doesn't involve loss at all. It involves light, not loss. In fact, in the immediacy of salvation section of the Course in Miracles, Jesus is basically saying that you can't experience salvation unless it's immediate. He says you basically are believing that there must be a time that must elapse between now and the time that you forgive. And he says in that section, be not content with future happiness, for it is not your just reward, for you have cause for freedom now. And so he's always calling us to the Holy Instant. He's always inviting us to the present moment. He's always saying, come with me into the light and know who you really are. Know the vastness that you are. Know the eternal being that you are. We are the same self. We are the same Christ. And the only difference between you and I is this thing called time. He's aware that time isn't real. And to the sleeping mind, time seems to be very real. And therefore there's guilt with that time space identity belief. So what's so good about this movie is we are going to see the Holy Spirit orchestrate time and space to bring these two characters together, Rosalind and Fletcher. And this is not like they, they've been introduced by friends, they don't even know each other's name, they don't even know what each other look like. And yet the Holy Spirit is going to orchestrate everything to bring them together. And when they do come together, the lesson of forgiveness really starts to deepen because Rosalind, she's playing her con games. And so she is basically in it for the con to, to get his money that she believes he has. He's, he's a street performer that performs in Texas for donations coins that come in. She thinks he's a businessman with lots of money. So she's going for the sting, and she's trying to get his money. And for him, he has listened to all of these, these different talks and stories of his, his, the men and his family is dead his grandfather, and, and the premonitions and meeting their true love so he's coming from a tradition that is open to visions and signs and symbols that lead to this, these very deep committed relationships that in which love can grow and, and bloom as he sees in his grandmother, you know, as he sees in his life. He's living a fairly simple life and he's open, but he there's a part of him that's like, Oh, I don't really know if I believe all these wives tales, you know, and like, he's got his own resistance to love. He's got his own resistance, you know, like, Oh, I've heard all the stories but I don't know if if I even believe in such a thing. And one of them, Rosalind basically has so much fear that she, she's not very open to the idea of authentic love. She's just basically living what she sees as a very hard life in LA, and she's had some very extreme encounters with with men that have left her with a bad taste in her mouth and she's, she's, she's not so open. And yet, she must have a crack of willingness in her mind like everyone does to experience something beyond the kind of dark perception that she has of herself and the world. And then with Fletcher, he's, he's a little more willing. And so he's going to be the one that the spirit will use to initiate things. Especially to follow the prompts and the guidance. And then when they come together. It's really sweet, because you can see in this movie the egos motives are pretty laid out bear you know Rosalind is is trying to use the relationship to get his money. He doesn't even have much money, but he's in it for his true love, because that's the, that's the way it is with the men and his family, you know he's heard all the stories. You can see the spirit just needs a little willingness to light the flame of healing to spark the undoing of the ego, just a little willingness in the mind to let the relationship be used for healing will take the relationship and the mind soaring into the depths of happiness, flying far above the, the egoic motives. It's, it's like it takes you toward the holy relationship, and toward this huge heart opening blessing where you actually learn to forgive and experience your heart in true divine love. That's no small thing. And of course we have a lot of fairy tales that are based on that a lot of our fairy tales are about the two coming together and overcoming a number of obstacles and then remember how the old movies have the words at the end of the final frame of the movie, and they lived happily ever after. That's right, even Joe versus the volcano if you if you're saying David, I've never seen a movie where that happens, then go to mwge.org and watch because that's exactly how that movie ends, and they lived happily ever after. That's the fairy tale ending. And in this movie, there's a lot of forgiveness is required to move towards the fairy tale ending to move towards an authentically healing, opening, growing, expanding relationship, because the relationship just has to reflect the state of mind. And, and what I've said at the beginning is really what it's all about you, you have to embrace the Holy Spirit's purpose. As you give way to the Holy Spirit's purpose. You can start to feel this feeling of holiness happening inside of you. And, and for everyone that is the prayer of the heart to know the holiness of the true identity to know the holiness of God to know the holiness of the light. There's a lot of holiness lessons in the workbook of A Course in Miracles, and Jesus will bring them up and repeat them and throw them in little bunches, because he knows that when there's a deep feeling of unworthiness and guilt, the mind has lost track of its healthiness, it's it has pushed its holiness out of awareness and it needs to come back in touch with that. So, the name of the movie in English is still breathing. And I believe in Spanish what do we say United United by destiny. Isn't that sweet. United by destiny in Spanish and Portuguese I don't know. We'll find out. I dreamed about you. Oh, I love it. The Hollywood title still breathing and then United by destiny and I dreamed about you. I have to tell you the Portuguese and the Spanish are winning my heart over. I'm just getting, I'm getting swollen with love at all these beautiful symbols that we have. So here we go. We're going into a movie that will help us really get in touch with spirit given relationships and and that's because we're praying to be shown the purpose for for our relationships and and we need symbols we need to be convinced we need. We need to realize that there's a way instead of just using our past learning, like we're going grocery shopping for a partner. Okay, does it look fresh is the squeeze here there you know, no no, that's the ego's purpose for relationships how well does the partner fit into the ego box from the past. How compatible is the partner based on past preferences and past likes and dislikes. No, that's that's not holiness that's that is death. Of course, we have tried this out a lot, but that's that's actually how it's not going to work. And then the Holy Spirit orchestrates time and space to to bring us reflections that show us that it's possible to open up our hearts and actually to truly love from from the inside out to to really get into the giving to get into the giving like like the Holy Spirit wants us to get into not into the reciprocity not into the, the getting but into the, the beautiful innocence of giving. So sit back and enjoy the movie if you like a good love story that takes your mind higher and higher towards light. You've got a classic coming. And as Pete said, this is one of Pete's favorite movies. So you're going to see one of