 I'm Peter. And we've got a brand new movie I'm really looking forward to today. So yeah, first I'll just let you know if you're new how the day is going to flow. So we're going to start with a movie with David. And then after the movie, we'll have a 10 minute break. Then we're going to have breakout rooms where you can share anything that came up for you during the movie or any miracles you had. Then we'll have a 45 minute break and then a closing session with me. So I'll pass right over to David now. Thank you Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome to the Saturday movie. I'm very excited. I'm very, very excited about our new movie today. It came out in October of last year. So it's just several months old. And it's it's actually another spectacular movie. Some of you have been on these movie gatherings with me for over the last two years, even a little beyond two years. And so I cover all kinds of themes. I cover forgiveness. I cover quantum physics and how that relates to spiritual awakening. I cover cause and effect, not the cause and effect that we learned in our science class for every action. There's a reaction, you know, not astrophysics, but actually, from Jesus Christ, cause and effect, which is kind of important. When Jesus speaks about cause and effect, we have to listen because it's so different than everything we believe in. So I remember I was kind of reminiscing a few days ago that before I got into A Course in Miracles, before I really got consciously on my spiritual journey one time, I was reading a quote from a poet named Edward Markham. Some of you may have heard of Edward Markham, but anyway, I hadn't. I just saw this quote one day, and it hit me so strong. I remember I was just going along, da-da-da-da, living my human life. And then suddenly I came upon this quote from Edward Markham, and I thought, wow, there's something to this. That is deep. I thought that is really deep. And basically, it was basically saying, Edward said, there is a destiny which makes us brothers. None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. So I think when I was reading this quote from Edward Markham, I was thinking, wow, that's right. It's all connected. Everything I'm giving, I'm really giving to myself. Everything I'm receiving, I'm really receiving for everyone because we're all so connected. We're really the same one. We're the same mind. In fact, we were created as one. And Jesus tells us that we are an idea in the mind of God. Christ is an idea in the mind of God. And that as that Christ that we are, we also have creations and we extend the same creative ability that God extended to us. But it's all pure spirit. So we have creations in heaven. We're not aware of them when we perceive time. But they're there. They're waiting on us. It's almost like you forgot to feed your cat and then you forgot all about your cat and then suddenly you were aware of your cat. Well, these creations, we forgot we were, we forgot we created them. We forgot we were feeding them with our love and light and we forgot about them. But they didn't forget about us. They remember us in our pure state. So over these last two plus years, I've talked about so many topics. And this is a time for those of you who've hung with me for all this time to kind of consolidate your learning. Now's the time where we're going to kick it into fifth gear. Now's the time when we're going to consolidate our learning and move into joy, move into bliss, move into ecstasy. Our time for dilly-dallying with these little metaphors and concepts is about over. It's the time for us to really get some major joy going here. And, and how else do we do that is I'm going to use my hands to conduct the symphony today. I'm going to bring in a little cause and effect, a little quantum physics. I'm going to bring in the idea that, that in heaven there is no choice because in pure love, there's nothing to choose between. Choice is an invention of the ego that requires the belief and duality to even seem to exist. So don't be too concerned about your personal choices because actually, if you really start to follow me, you realize you don't have any. This is the part where people start to go, oh no, he's, he's going into another realm. He's talking about going beyond choices. A lot of people are always telling me, I mean, most of my life, David, we have human rights. And I said, no, you don't have any human rights. You have a right to remember yourself as God created you. If you have one right, that's your right. What about the constitution? That's your constitution. You have the right to be as God created you. That's your freedom. That's what free will is, is remembering who you are. It's not choice. Free will actually has nothing to do with choice at all. And that's where philosophy kind of struggles. Some of you have anybody read any philosophy? All the centuries of great philosophy. It's good stuff, but the problem is they run into great difficulty when they try to equate choice with free will. No, God created you in free will. That's your identity is free will. Your will is God's will for perfect happiness. Heaven is free will. And Jesus tells us in the manual for teachers, in the, you know, the clarification of terms, Jesus says, no, there is no free will in this world. Well, that's good to know. No wonder philosophies had so much trouble with that one because, because philosophy is just theorizing about what could possibly be. Jesus is not theorizing in case you know Jesus is the master philosopher. He's the master teacher. He's, he's the master of the universe. He's, he's not, you can't compare him to anything because he's, he's everything. He's, he's one with God and God is everything. So it's hard to kind of put Jesus in a box when Jesus is everything, everything behind the veil of this crazy world of perception is Jesus is delight is the I am presence is us. We're all with him too. That's why he's always so happy because he knows where we really are. He knows who he really is. He knows who we are. And that way he's very, very happy. He doesn't take anything so seriously as, as the world. So to start off with, I thought I would just read a gem from I'll just mention, I'll just mention real quickly in lesson 253 of the course workbook. Jesus says something, and you may have heard it before in a slightly different variation. Ramana Maharshi says the same thing. Okay, they both say the same thing. And, and this is Jesus's version of, of what they both say. And the workbook lesson is called my capital self is ruler of the universe. So just take a moment before we go into this spectacular movie to just take this and, and breathe this in, breathe this, this statement into your heart digest this statement today, because it will help you just to have this as a prayer on your heart for the movie I'm going to show because from the ego's perspective, everything is complex and difficult from the spirit, everything is, ah, ah, it's just bliss. So that's why I want you to breathe this one in as a prayer. Just, just have the aroma, let the aroma come into your senses and really take it in. This lesson 253. It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. Here we go. This is the important one. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations. I just talked about them. I just talked about them. Children of my will in heaven where my holy self abides with them and him who has created me. So what happens is what I desire and what does not occur is what I do not want to happen. Well, I guess I guess that if that's true, there actually cannot be any victimization. There can be no abuse. There can be no mistreatment. If everything happens that I desire and, and if I, if I don't want it to happen, it doesn't happen. I don't even perceive it unless I want to perceive it. So let's, let's use that in a broader perspective. If I perceive evil, it must be I want to perceive you. If I perceive error, it must be I want to perceive error. If I perceive separation, it must be that I still want to perceive separation. Let's take God off the hook here. You know, God's not, God loves us so much. I mean, beyond anything we could ever imagine. It's unfathomable love. It's just unfathomable love. But let's realize that, that whatever we perceive is there by our own election, it's by our choice. And even deeper than that, it's because we, we want it there. If we want to see a world, we see a world. And if we want to go beyond this world, we go beyond this world because it's natural. God is the most natural thing to experience. God is, you can reach God directly and, and it's the most next natural thing in the world to reach God. You may say it's not easy, but I think, you know, at some point, even the word easy will come in. Oh, I see Antonio just came in. Hi, Antonio. Antonio just wrote to me this morning, said there's a problem with the Jesus movie that we're making, the new resurrected Jesus movie. Not in my mind. We're gonna, we'll, we'll make the best Jesus movie in history. If, just as an extension of love and light and truth, that's the way I see it. But the producer thought it might be a fiasco with all the course quotes, but still we'll have some fun. So we are really starting to realize that, that if we're going to open up to God, we have to be pretty clueless about this world. Why do we have to be clueless? Because everything that we believe about the world is part of the veil that blocks us from the light. And I mean everything. I'm not talking a partial shift is necessary. I'm saying everything we believe. I think it was last week or the week before when I was talking about deja vu and I, when I did the relationship movie, the quote came in and the quote from the course from Jesus is, everything you want from a relationship can and will hurt you. That's the big one. Everything you want from a relationship can and will hurt you. That's pretty definitive. That just inspires me to let go of everything I know of relationships. It's like if it's a hot burner, why touch it? I don't want to touch it if it's that hot. And then Jesus tells us that's because this is a world of fiction. It's a world of fantasy. Everything you believe about physics is not true. Everything you believe about astrophysics is not true. Everything you believe about science is not true. Everything you believe about relationships, it's not true. And you could just go on and on. And that's why it's a world of fiction. It's a world on an unreality. There's even a part where Jesus is kind of asking us, if you really want to be happy, then you have to first take a look at when you say, how can I be happy in this world? And Jesus comes back to us with a question and he says, who is the you who are in this world? That's how Jesus answers the question. How can I be happy in this world? He's like, who are the you who's in this world? He's talking where the I am presence that's prior to this world. So that's why we have to look at what we believe and we have to actually let it go. So as every week, we basically put out a poll of themes. And so before I prayed and received this movie to show you today, I'm just going to read to you the top three themes that you voted on this week. That's why we have this movie to go deeper. The first theme is called Desiring God Above All Else. What a sweet theme. Thank you. You all voted that number one. I can't think of a better one. That's my choice too. Number two, being truly convinced that I can't mess it up. Wouldn't that be delightful if you were convinced that you can't mess it up? Imagine how light and carefree you would be. How happy singing like the birds, singing like a lark. Why are you singing all the time? Why is a beautiful song in your heart all the time? Because you finally were convinced by the Holy Spirit that you couldn't mess it up. All the guilt comes from the belief that you can mess it up. All future worries come from the belief that you can mess it up. All past regrets come from one belief. The belief that you can mess it up. Or maybe you believe you did mess it up. And you're still trying to correct it. Because there's a lot of religions that will tell you, yeah, you did, you messed it up bad. You really messed it up. I know in Christianity, I see Portia there, some of us have been raised in Christianity, but we were growing up. And one of the things we were taught was everyone is a sinner. And that we better learn the sinner's prayer. That's basically our starting point. I see Helena too. We had some Christianity in our starting point in our trampoline. And Jesus is saying, well, in the Course he actually says, well, there's actually one thing that you cannot do and that is sin. It's a little different than the message I had when I was growing up. But he's saying, oh, listen, God created you perfect. And for you to actually believe in sin is the greatest arrogance that you could ever have because you were created perfect by God, by the Source. And to sin is to deny that you are as God created you. So we're going to go deep today. We're going way past our trampolines, our springboards. We're going to bliss today. Today is a day of bliss. And then the third one that you voted for is handing over all my relationships to spirit. Wow. I just think that sounds indescribably happy. If I'm actually actually going to hand over all my relationships to spirit, it's basically saying I must have been wrong because I didn't experience total happiness in all of them. So I must have been mistaken. And I would rather put you, Holy Spirit, you, Jesus, in charge of my relationships. For years people would ask me, because I've met so many people around the world, all my travels, they would say, oh, have you heard from so-and-so? How are they doing? And I say, oh, they're great. They're great. And they say, when was the last time you heard from them? I said, oh, I don't know. Maybe about seven years ago. How do you know they're great if you haven't heard from them for seven years? I said, well, they're great because they're in my mind. And my mind is in the mind of God. So they're great. Everything that comes from God is great. So I'm not saying that the bodies of the people are in the mind of God, because God didn't create bodies. But the spirit of love that resides within all of us is safe because God created it. It's untouched. It's undefiled. We are innocent as God created us. We are innocent. There is nothing that can throw us off of remembering God, because that's our purpose for everything now. We've come to the point where we're going up the mountain, so to speak, and we're going to the peak. And the peak of the mountain is to remember God. And it's our destiny. Let's be honest. That's our destiny. We can't avoid that. If God created us, we can no longer even attempt to avoid that destiny. I actually love destiny movies. When I read that the first theme was desiring God above all else, I started to have a flood of movies that started to come into my mind, and they're all destiny movies. They're all, without a doubt, destiny movies. Slumdog Millionaire 2008. Best Indian movie in history by far. Why? The script is written. You can't mess it up. Love is real. Wow. And I remember that movie ends with a happy Bollywood dance. Oh, my heart just exploded. Mr. Destiny 1990. Time traveler's wife 2009. Serendipity 2001. Sleepless in Seattle 1993. Only you, Robert Downey Jr. 1994. Destino Italian. You can't mess it up. It's destiny. Still breathing 1997. Deja Vu 1997. L.A. Story 1991. Let it ride 1989. The adjustment bureau, Matt Damon 2011. And then even a Black Mirror episode I thought of from the internet. It was a beautiful one called Hang the DJ, episode four. Season four, episode four. Why am I so happy when I read those movies? If you go back and listen to the replay of this, if you want to have a happy week, just watch those movies. Watch them Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You're going to be happy. You're going to have to peel yourself off the ceiling when you watch those movies because those are all destiny movies. Every single movie I just read teaches you can't mess it up. Every single movie teaches that love wins because love is real. Every single movie shows you that it's worth desiring God first, placing God first above all else. And you feel it in your heart. I watched these movies. It doesn't matter if I've seen them a hundred times. My tears of joy are going to come streaming down this face every single time because the joy is coming inside. The movie is reflecting the joy in my heart. It's just bursting out. And that's why I like destiny movies. So let's be clear that our ultimate destiny is to remember God and remember who we are. We call it self-realization. We call it self-actualization. We call it know thyself. But whatever you call it, our destiny is to remember our true identity. And then in terms of this world, we just read lesson 253 where Jesus said, even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. Oh my gosh, now he's saying that I'm not only destined to wake up, but even in this world, everything that I experience is part of me remembering my destiny. What does he mean by that? If the world is a world of form, why is he now shifting down to form from eternity? He's saying, well, actually the laws of eternity apply even with this world. What does that mean? He's like, you are so powerful that your mind decides what you perceive. That's like lesson 152, which is reminding us in the workbook that the power of God, the strength of God is in us still. It may have been covered over, but it's still there. You can put your light, he said 2,000 years ago. You can put it under a bushel, but you can try to hide your light. That light is real. That light is who we are. One thing we're going to watch with this movie is we're going to see, this is a 2021 movie, and it's called Needle in a Time Stack. You've heard of Needle in a Hay Stack? This is Needle in a Time Stack. We're going to watch, I think this is just another great quantum movie that's going to show us. Like Mr. Destiny, kind of was a little linear, but it had different scenarios. Mr. Nobody actually is probably one of the most quantum movies you ever experienced. It's hard to watch unless you have a lot of commentary, but I'm going to give you some good commentary. I think this one's maybe just a little bit easier to follow than Mr. Destiny. Please stay on the carpet with me today, though, because if you drift off, you're just going to be scratching your head, because it actually has multiple timelines in it. We're used to that. We watched Groundhog Day. We've seen the timeline's loop. We watched all the Looper movies that I have in my movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment, so we're prepared. We like a good time movie. Is there anybody there who likes time movies as much as I do? Let's give a cheer. Sometimes I talk about the producers and the directors. Let's give a cheer here for a moment to Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan, let's give a big cheer. Inception. Oh, my God. Etcher Steller, Tenant. I just did a movie gathering. I think when Tenant first came out, maybe that was a couple years ago or so. Yay, Christopher. Here's someone who's so interested in time that he makes spectacular time movies. Whenever we watch a Christopher Nolan movie or one that he's made, we always go, hmm, wow. That's a good one. I'm going to have to think about that. Admittedly, like Tenant, it was time travel going back in time. Then we have movies like Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox, and we have movies that take us around the timeline with time travel. But this movie is going to, it's not going to really focus on that. It's going to focus on our perception. Like nowadays, when we experience the world, we go along day by day, and then suddenly we see there could be a big event. Maybe it's a big storm or maybe it's a solar flare storm or maybe it's a tsunami or a hurricane. Maybe it's a country invades another country. I know over in Europe there's all this talk right now of of Ukraine has got a lot of troops around Belisar, Belarus, and a lot of troops around it. But these are events in the world. Now, this movie is a little bit futuristic. Let's roll the clock from our world that we seem to see now a little bit into the future. Do they still have smartphones? Yes. But they're cool smartphones. They're really cool. They're even more cool than the iPhone I'm holding. So it's a little bit into the future. They still use smartphones, but they're cool. They still use cars. They still go to work. They still have jobs and careers and so on and so forth. But in this slightly futuristic world, one thing that they have really perfected is they have time travel. It's consumer, it's commercial time travel. You can go in and you could say, I want to take a trip back into my memory and it cost a lot of money. It cost a lot of money. You better be really rich. If you're going up on a SpaceX thing today, you better be invited or have a lot of money. Your last name better be Musk if you're going up into space consistently. Because it's pretty rare on earth for people to be going up into space. In this future, you can go and you can actually go back into the past and it's called jaunting. A few people can afford to go jaunting, but they have to have a lot of money. I'm talking a lot of money to go jaunting. There's some rules. You're not supposed to change the past when you go on one of these vacations. You see, there's a lot of my movies like Time Traveler's Wife that basically show that you cannot change the past. We've got a number of movies in our Movie Watchers Guide that show you you cannot change the best. In this movie, there's this jaunting which does allow you to go back, but you have to pay a lot of money. You're not supposed to change the past. That's against the rules. It's a crime to go back and change the past. You can see why. Because if you have a partnership and you don't like the partnership, you can go back and try to change something in the script to change the relationship based on changing the past. Wait a minute. That's why we watched Groundhog Day. That's why we watched all of our beautiful Looper movies are showing us that you cannot change the past. They're so spectacular to show us that lesson. You cannot change the past. You cannot change the past. You can change your perception of what you're viewing, but you cannot change the past. What Jesus does in A Course in Miracles is, by lesson number seven, he says, I see only the past, meaning we're not talking past, present, future here. We're saying that the entire perceptual cosmos, the entire perceptual cosmos of linear time is the past. You can see that Jesus' version of not changing the past is even more profound than we could even imagine. Because if I really joined with Jesus and I said, you know what, Jesus? You're right. I can't change the past. All I can do is forgive it. I can just release it. The past is gone. It can touch me now. All I can do is release it. If I really believed Jesus, then that would be the end of all my problems, because the only problem in the mind is the belief that the past is still active, the past is still present, and that you can change it. But the Serenity Prayer told us, you know, change the things you can and accept the change you can, forgive, release, let go of the things you can't and know the difference. That's the Holy Spirit. So basically, the entire Course in Miracles is just about letting go of the past. And yet, when we still believe in the ego, we believe that the past is present, and then we have things called financial problems, relationship issues, career issues, job issues, interpersonal conflicts, conflicts with nature, conflicts with the government. It just goes on and on. If we believe the past is still here in our mind, we have invited a huge amount of problems. And Jesus is like, no, no, let it go. Let it go. This is going to be the key to happiness. Just let it go. It's gone already. He does actually tell us, some of you remember Lesson 158 from the workbook. And I always like to come back to this, because this is another thing that we need to remember as we go into the movie today. He says, the revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet, is that time determined by the mind itself not taught? So you're not going to learn how to remember that end of time. You're going to have to join with the Holy Spirit to see the end of time. There is no way that a person can see the end of time, because persons are part of the block to seeing the end of time. Miguel Ruiz, remember his four agreements? What was one of them? Don't take anything personally. Miguel, yeah, Miguel, come on, you got it there. That's it. He's helping us take us to that point where we let go. And then this is what Jesus says. We drop down a paragraph. Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end, your doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended. Looking back on it, imagining we make it once again, reviewing mentally what has gone by. Oh my gosh, that paragraph will be in your mind today when you watch this movie, because we're not going at it to just look at a movie of a little sliver of a lifetime. We're getting back and we're going to see multiple scenarios, multiple romantic relationships, multiple struggles of a man named Nick. One time we see Nick and it looks like Nick is married to Jeanine. And then there's another time we see Nick and he's married to Alex. And then there's another time we see Nick and he's just single. He's not married to either one of them. Look at his marital status is all over the place in this movie. Single, married, married. Now this is helpful for us because how many of you have struggled about the question, am I with the right person? How many of you have ever struggled with a regret? Did I miss my chance? Did something pass me by? Did I blow it? Did I mess it up? And if you have those struggles, then the ego is going to say, oh, yeah, what about the future? It could continue. You might be as lonely as said as you were in the past in the future. You might be condemned to loneliness. You see how the ego works? It's trying to scare us. It's really trying to scare us with this loneliness idea. Or it's saying, well, look at the past. You lost. You have great loss in the past. What about the future? What if that happens? What if that continues to play out a whole linear time of loss? So you can see that this is the kind of movie we need because when we try to forgive people, we still are believing that the problem is with the people. And you know what the problem is? It's time. Linear time is the problem. Jesus says in the Course, eternity and time conflict. Why? Well, God is eternity. And time is the ego. That's a good, simple way of realizing why eternity and time will conflict as long as you attempt to hold both in your mind is what he's saying. As soon as you give up the idea of time for all time, then eternity reigns. I love the Christian song. It's all about God reigns and glory to God. And God is over everything. There's nothing that God can't do. All praise to God. That's all great because God is real. It's good to praise something that's actually real. But when we start praising the things of time, we're praising the temporary and we don't realize how that's not really praise at all. Why not praise the eternal? Why not praise your eternal nature? Why not get out of bed in the morning and go, Hallelujah. God created me eternal. I'm thankful for that. I can start with my thankfulness list, but I want to put that at the top. Thank you, God, for creating me like you. That's the best news I've ever heard. You created me like you, spirit. So that's important for us. And I've done this many times. Some of you have looked it up on the internet, but I've done a lot of teachings over the last 35 years on cause and effect. So I'm going to give the cliff notes because this is important as we go into this movie today, that in reality, God is the cause and Christ is the effect. The cause God created Christ, but the effect did not create the cause. So that's why I know it can be like, well, it sounds like two things, but it's not really two things. It's one spirit. But God is the prime creator. God creates Christ and Christ has creations and it's hard to, you can't grasp it in this world because there's no, there's no parallels. There's no examples. We don't have any examples of that in time, but that's the truth. I'm just giving to you the straight truth. Now, when the mind believes in something more than heaven, more than nirvana, more than God, it sets up a split because now there's a part of the mind that is with the Holy Spirit and remembers the truth. And now there's a part of the mind that has forgotten. You see, this is a split mind. A part of the mind remembers and a part of the mind forgets. That's schizophrenia. That's schizophrenia. And then what follows from schizophrenia is you have personality disorder because when you follow the mistake, then you believe you're a person. That's a problem because you're the Christ. And the person is like, that's Latin. Persona means mask. We're not talking face mask here. We're talking cosmic mask. Like the whole cosmos of time and space is a mask drawn over the light, drawn over the truth. So we're on to it now. We're not going to be fooled by this cosmic mask anymore. We've got our course in miracles and we're not stopping until we remember the truth. We remember our identity. Let me go back to this cause and effect thing. So here's what's happened when the mind believes it can separate from God, which is just a belief. It's not a reality. It's a belief. Then cause and effect are split off and turned around. Let me explain that split off and turned around. Split off means when you believe in the ego, you believe that Christ can leave the mind of God. Absolutely impossible. Why would God create a creation that could leave? That makes no sense. If you're eternal love, I would just say, I'm just going to play around today. I feel like using some rat poison or something to try. That doesn't make any sense that God would create separation. God is pure love. God is pure oneness. So the separation is the belief that Christ could leave eternity and go into time. That's what the separation is. It's a belief in the mind. It's just a belief in the mind. It's not a form. It's a belief that you could leave God. And then after that initial split, cause and effect are turned around. What does that mean turned around? Well, it means that in the projection of the world, it seems like the past causes the present and the future. In physics, it seems like for every action, there's a reaction. Has anybody ever baked a cherry pie before? Anybody bake a cherry pie? I love cherry pies. As though you make the crust, the flour and you make the dough and you roll it, rolling pin and you make the crust and you put it in a pie pan and then you get your cherries. You get some nice juice, cherry juice. You put it all in there. You put the crust on the top and you put it in the oven. Well, you turn the temperature up nice and high, but what if your temperature is too high? Or what if you start playing with the cat and you forget about your cherry pie and you didn't set an alarm and then your kitchen starts to smoke and you pull the cherry pie out of the oven and it is black. It is burnt. That's an example of turning cause and effect around where there seems to be causes in the world, like leaving your cherry pie unattended and in the oven too long and the effect is it's burnt like a crisp. You can't even eat it. It's black. It's just it's burned like a crisp. You see now that's an example of cause and effect. Now, I know a lot of you are saying to me, David, I like when you give us concrete examples, but when was the last time you actually baked the cherry pie? Okay, if you say give me something more relevant in your life, something more recent where you had to look at the belief in cause and effect. I'll give you an example within the last year of my life where I had to really look at cause and effect. There's this platform on the internet called Instagram. Some of you might know it, so I had an Instagram page. I had a David Hofmeister Instagram page and then I had a Course in Miracles Instagram page and then one day it seemed to get hacked, both of them within five minutes of each other. Both of them were hacked and both of them disappeared. They just completely disappeared and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put David's Instagram pages back together again. They're gone. They're hacked and somebody seemed to have a lot of fun, but they're gone. Jesus told me, he said, now there you go, David, this is a prime example of cause and effect because I told you a thousand times that time is simultaneous, that there are parallel universes going on. It's all happening at the same time. The Holy Spirit knows this and the only reason you ever get upset is because you don't. The Holy Spirit knows it's all simultaneous. Whenever you go to a past life regression, you're going into this simultaneous thing and you're trying to pull out a little memory of a lifetime. Was I Cleopatra? Was I Julius Caesar? Jesus is like, you're the whole thing. It's all simultaneous. You've never been anything before and you never will be anything in the future. It's all simultaneous. It's just a trick, a sleight of hand that the ego tries to tell you you have past lives and future lives. My friend Gary Renard, he wrote The Disappearance of the Universe. One time I asked Jesus, I said, is this really what this all about? That the universe is going to disappear? And Jesus said, how can what never appeared in the first place disappear? What? How can what never appeared in the first place ever disappear? In other words, it's all simultaneous and you have decided what appearances mean and what disappearance means. You see, that's duality. Appearance, disappearance. Beginning of a lifetime, end of a lifetime. Past life, future life. I said, wait a minute, wait a minute. My friend Gary, he wrote a book called The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other. And Jesus said, no, that's ridiculous because we're eternal beings and nobody knows anybody else at any time in time and space in the past or the future. So Jesus and Buddha by definition could have never known each other because Jesus is one mask and Buddha is another mask and masks don't know each other. Spirit knows, masks don't know each other. And this is going to come up in the movie because our main character, Nick, he's got, he's got relationship with Janine, he's got a relationship with Alex, and both times he's going to ask them, if I never knew you, would I still fall in love with you? He's very philosophical. If I never knew you, would I still fall in love with you? And Jesus is telling us, no, to love is to know. Whatever you call, bodies coming together and knowing each other, that's, that's nothing. That's, you don't know, nobody knows anybody. Jesus tells us, minds are joined, bodies do not. Not only do bodies, they don't ever join, but they never can be known or know anything. Because why? They're dream figures. And we're the dreamer of the dream. You see how important it is to realize that's what forgiveness is. When you, when you see you're the dreamer of the dream, you can see that the dream is just simultaneous. There's not multiple dreams going on. There's not a Jesus dream and a Buddha's dream. And look, they met. Now dream figures never meet, ever. So I'm, that's why I'm saying I'm consolidating today. You've been with me for two years. So you knew this was going to come. You knew the day would actually come when I would actually start to really get, get down to the core with you. Why is the world a perceptual hallucination? Because God didn't create it. Why are all these struggles and interpersonal relationships going on all the time? Because they're misperceptions. Interpersonal relationships are the belief in miscreation, the belief you can create. Oh my God, that's what an interpersonal relationship is. And yet Jesus uses what the ego made to take the mind back to God. You see how, how practical Jesus is. He doesn't deny their existence. He just says, give them to the Holy Spirit. So let the Holy Spirit direct all your relationships. That's the highest teaching that it can be. If you believe you're a person and you have personal choice, then, then it gets difficult. Oh, now I've got to choose the right partner. And I've got to choose the right job, career. And you see how pressure, the stress is getting everything you believe you have to choose personally. And what does Jesus say? He says, Holy Spirit, decide for God for me. You see how different that is than a personal choice. I mean, if you wake up in the morning and that's the first prayer that you have, Holy Spirit, today, decide for God for me. That's the workbook lesson. I will step back and let him lead the way. That's basically saying, Holy Spirit, Jesus, you're in charge of my day. I give it to you. This day is my gift to you. Use it for your purposes of forgiveness. Help me see everyone with the same love. Help me treat everyone with the same kindness and gentleness. Help me know that it is, it is not I as a person to live, but it is Christ that lives in me. Show me the love by having me extend your love. This is what it means. Take my feet. Take my hands. Take my mouth. Use my lips. Let me make a joyful noise unto the Lord. It says in the Bible, let's make a really joyful noise unto the Lord by giving it over to the Holy Spirit and saying, you are in charge of my relationships. Pressure is off. I don't have to try to pick the best relationship. I have to find a way to appreciate 100 percent whatever is in front of me, whatever I'm dealing with in perception, to really appreciate it completely. I've covered choice. I think I'm giving you a pretty thorough start here today because I want you to have a bliss. I want you to find a bliss. I mean, I'm charging the batteries up. I've got Jesus charging the batteries. We're ready for lift off here. Let's just take a moment to, I'm just going to read just for the fun of it, the beginning of the real alternative section. That's chapter 31. It's the last chapter in the book, but this is why I'm reading it for you. Jesus says, there is a tendency to think the world can offer consolation and escape from problems that its purpose is to keep. Every time I look to the world to solve a problem, I don't realize that the ego made the mask of the world so that I would be stuck with problems for a millennium. That's the reason why this world was made. I wouldn't know myself as God created me. It's a pretty tricky and genius illusion while you believe in it. It's laughable when you don't. It's pretty funny. It's a joke, but when you believe in it, it's quite serious. It's quite serious if you believe it. Why should this be? Because it, meaning this world, because it is a place where choice among illusions seems to be the only choice. And you are in control of outcomes of your choosing. Thus you think within the narrow band from birth to death. A little time is given you to use for you alone. A time when everyone conflicts with you, but you can choose which road will lead you out of conflict and away from difficulties that concern you not. Yet they are your concern. How then can you escape from them by leaving them behind? What must go with you? You will take with you whatever road you choose to walk along. Real choice is no illusion, but the world has none to offer. Nada, nada, nada. No choice. The world can offer no choice. That's not a single one. There is no choice in its alternatives. Seek not escape from problems here. The world was made that problems could not be escaped. Be not deceived by all the different names its roads are given. They have but one end. All of the roadways in this world, all of the scenarios of this world, all of the seeming lifetimes of this world were made by the ego to keep you from knowing who you are. And Jesus says that in the work in the text, he said, all the world's roadways lead to death. And he says, men have died on seeing this. But if they'd just gone one more step, they could have been led, lifted to heights of happiness. You see, first you go through the disillusionment like, oh, wow. Big mistake thinking I could be separate from God. And Jesus is like, ah, it's not so big actually. It's already been corrected. Holy Spirit handled that like nothing. That quick it was corrected. But you have to accept the Holy Spirit and you have to accept the correction for yourself. You see how it works. It's not about correcting our brothers and sisters. They're not the problem. It's in our mind accepting the correction. It's accepting the Christ inside us in our mind. It's accepting the love within. It's not about trying to change the world. I had a woman wrote to me on YouTube and she said, she watched my video and she said, but does this mean I have to accept mandates, vaccine mandates? That's what she wrote to me. She listened to my video. She said, does this mean I have to accept vaccine mandates? And I wrote back to her and I said, well, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar and unto God that which is God. Your holy state of mind is what you render unto God because God created you render your state of mind to the Holy Spirit and Jesus and you'll be happy. Mandates, government mandates or societal mandates, how can that take away your peace of mind unless you believe there's a world external to your mind that has the power to make you a victim? It's really pretty simple. If you either believe in separation in an external world or you believe that you are one with the world, I think the world's pretty happy. I see a very happy world. I really do, but I also see that it's my mind. I take full responsibility for my happiness and then I see a happy world. You see how that works? If I accept it, then I perceive it. If I accept that the world is forgiven, then I see a happy dream. And if anything comes to try to say, David, David, I say, wait a minute. I am the dreamer of the dream. That's what you say to the hand, the claw. The claw comes after you and you go, I am the dreamer of the dream claw. Everyone remembers the claw from the movie Liar Liar. That was one of the funniest things that Jim Carrey did. He played with his child with the claw. The claw. If the claw comes after you, just tell it, I'm the dreamer of the world of dreams. No claw is going to mess up my day or my state of mind. You see, this is the attitude. This is what you have to do with the mind train. This is why you're using a Course in Miracles. Okay, I know you've come. You've got your popcorn ready. Now you're saying, are we ever going to get to see a movie, David, or are you going to be in the pulpit all day? No, I'm just an assistant to give you some commentary today. We're all going to enjoy the movie together. A little bit of setup for the movie. I already told you it's a little bit futuristic. Nick is our main character. He's a really sweet guy. Nick is a really cool sweet guy. He's like a designer, an architect. That's his profession. He's going to open up our movie. He's going to be married to a wonderful woman named Jeanine. This is good because this is a way a movie starts with a loving relationship. Here we are with Nick and Jeanine. Then there's going to be little things that start to happen. These things start to happen to Nick and to Jeanine. Basically, everyone in the movie are called time shifts. They're called phases or time shifts. When we read a Course in Miracles, we hear Jesus tell us that a miracle is a shift in perception. Isn't it great to watch a movie where the characters are going along and then all of a sudden, boom, here comes a miracle. It shifts the perception. Jesus says miracles rearrange your perception. It literally rearranges the world. It rearranges the perception. These are called phases. These are called time track shifts or time shifts or phasings. Those are the words that they use in this movie. I love a movie that instead of having a disaster happen, you have a miracle that happens. It just starts to reorder perception. Isn't that great? Then you get to see how the characters react. We all react a little bit fearful sometimes when we have shifts because Jesus says the first shift that you had ever was the separation. That means every shift that you have from now on, there's a little bit of fear with the shift. Even though you're waking up to God, it's good news. You feel a little afraid when you have a shift. This is good. Jesus has given us a little pep talk there. Those are the shifts, the time tracks, the time shifts. Then I mentioned earlier, there's another thing called time travel. It's called jumping, which is basically going back in time. This is the new recreation for the rich. You have to have a lot of money if you're going back into time. You better really be loaded. This is not for your average person on the street. This is a new technology. You have to go to a company and pay them a lot of money to do it. That's called jumping. I want you, when we come to the part and they start talking about jumping, don't be surprised. This is just paying a lot of money to go back into the past. Okay. Then in this movie, pretty early on, we have Nick's birthday. Nick, do any of you ever have a birthday and you start to question everything? Everybody's saying, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. They're all happy, happy birthday to you, David or whoever. You start to go, what is the point of celebrating these times around the sun, earth going around the sun for a year? What is the point in doing this? Then Nick starts to get very philosophical. Is he happy? What's the point of it all? What's the meaning of everything? Isn't that great? Don't you love a main character who starts to get philosophical? Because why? We're all philosophical. We wouldn't all be here in the Zoom room if we weren't asking some of these same questions. We like Nick. Nick is starting to ask this and he's wondering about his relationship and he starts to get these intuitive feelings. Every time there's a phasing, every time there's like a time shift, he thinks something is a little bit fishy. Something is a little off. In the movie, it's played by, you know, you can see Charlie and you can see Janine and they've got such a happy loving couple and they have a dog named Charlie. Okay? It's a happy couple with a happy dog named Charlie. Then comes the time shift, the miracle time shift and it's still Nick married to Janine and now the dog is a cat named Charlie. And Nick is like, I, he's like, I don't even like cats. And Janine's saying, what do you mean? You, you know, you, you love the cats. The cats are cats. You know, it's, so you see what these little shifts, it shifted Charlie from a dog body to a cat body. Now, and Nick is like thinking something's off, something's different. I can't quite because once you're in the scenario, once you're in the trajectory, you've got nothing to compare it to. You know, you forget, it's amnesia. I've already been over the amnesia part. And what was the movie? Chances are we talked about the amnesia. You don't remember things from the other scenarios, the other trajectories. Now, let's not forget what Jesus told us that to believe that you are in the world and you have choice as a person in the world is, is crazy because everything you perceive is coming from a projection of a private world and an ego, a private mind and a private thought. There's only one of us, but, but once you believe in the ego, you believe that you're one among many. You see how, how tricky it is. That's how the ego gets you into a body identification. And then there's a bunch of other bodies, like 7 billion other bodies, just humans, not even talking about the animals, the butterflies, the snails. We're just talking, you see, it's a perceptual hallucination. Every time I say it's a perceptual problem is because once you believe in the ego, you forgot that you're sleeping and dreaming all of these characters and you believe that you're one of them. You believe you, you forgot you're playing a part. You forgot you're playing a role. Now you're identified with the persons and the bodies in that scenario. So you see how, how this is very difficult for Nick because here's Nick, and then it's Nick and Janine and Nick and Janine, nice, happy marriage. And then Charlie, the dog. And then suddenly it's Nick, Janine and Charlie, the cat. And you don't know what's gone wrong, but you're thinking sometimes not right. But you don't know that you've gone through a miracle. It's a time shift. It's collapsing time. Jesus talks about this in the course. It's rearranging perception. So this movie is really showing us the miracle. Now Nick is a little spooked by this, and he gets a little bit of a bloody nose when it happens. He's going to work and suddenly there's a big, there's a time track, a time phasing, a miracle. And he's still sitting at the desk with his whole group of teammate workers there at work. And he gets like a nose bleed and he calls his wife right away and she's got a nose bleed. So it just shows you there's some resistance to these miracles. I love it. A movie that's actually showing instead of catastrophes, it's showing mind shifts. It's showing actual shifts of perception. That's why it's a little bit futuristic. In this movie, the course has been around a lot longer than it has now. This is a little more advanced because now they're starting to appreciate the miracle shifts are occurring. They're a little frightened by them, but they're still trusting that it's working out for the good. They have to. They're frightened of what it could mean. Where is this heading? But they're trusting of that. So also I want to mention that there is a friend, that is a friend of Nick's. It's a friend of Jeanine's. It's a friend of, there's another woman who will be another partner, another marriage partner in there. Her name is Alex. She's the same actress that played in Slumdog Millionaire. She was the love interest in that too. She's just decades later coming on, giving her contributions to the movie watchers, Dad to Enlightenment. So Alex there, and then there's Tommy and they all seem to know each other, but there's different configurations in this movie where they're put in different configurations and you'll be able to follow it. But you can see that the problem is a problem of time. It's the mind that believes in these separate characters. That is the problem. It's the ego, the belief in private minds, private thoughts, and private worlds. That's the problem. The problem isn't between the characters in the dream. The problem is in the perceiver that's perceiving the separate characters. Is this deep enough for you? Are we getting to the depth now? You know, this is what I mean. That's why Jesus is telling us you first have to accept you have a perceptual problem. So you're not afraid of these miracles because the miracles are going to rearrange your perception and show you a holistic world. Show you the world from the Holy Spirit's perspective. That's what we want. That's joyful. It's not frightening at all. Now, when this starts to happen, one last thing I'll say is it's Nick's birthday. He's wondering, Charlie the cat. You know, wait a minute. Charlie the dog. Charlie. Then it goes to Charlie the cat. He's wondering about this, but basically he has a sister and his sister's named Zoe, and Zoe has a very close friend and she's also a character in this movie. Her name is Cebilla, and she's just known as the one who speaks Portuguese. That's it. Cebilla, the one who speaks Portuguese. Antonio, I hope you're enjoying this, that Jesus is always giving you a little gift every time. So here we have Cebilla who speaks Portuguese, her best friend, Zoe, who's the sister to Nick. Now, that's all I'm going to tell you is that I'm just giving you the setup because we're going to have some fun with this movie because we're getting an opportunity to peek behind the curtain at what this world of separate lifetimes is really about. When you're inside of what you perceive as a lifetime in this world, you know there's trouble, right? Is there anybody here who has not experienced any trouble in this particular scenario between birth and death? If you have not had any trouble, then you should be here teaching the leading the facilitating class. I'll watch the movie along with you. So what we're saying is that the belief in private minds, private thoughts, and private perspectives on the world, that's the trick. And some of you are wondering, is this all true, David? Are you really, what did you have this morning? What is in your pipe? Now these are the deepest teachings in the planet. That's why you're feeling a little dizzy right now, because I'm giving you directly, completely heart to heart, the most deepest teachings on the planet bar none. There are no deeper teachings in this. This is it. If you can feel a little lightheaded and stay on the carpet with me today, you're going to go indescribably happy as we come through this, because you're going to go, oh my gosh, I wish I knew this. I wish I knew this. It would have demystified everything. It would have demystified all my relationships. It would demystify my career. It would demystify my country. It would demystify my culture. It would demystify society. You would start to see everything in proper alignment, and then you would probably laugh. You would probably have a big laugh. You would laugh at Jesus. You would say, oh my god, I can't believe that I believed in this. But this movie, we need movies to help us experientially move through this, because this is deep stuff. It doesn't get any deeper. We've been at this for over two years now. So we're going into the advanced, so-called advanced. There's no order of difficulty and miracles, but anyway, I'm still taking you into the advanced session today. So sit back, enjoy, enjoy this. I know this will answer every question. Andrea, I see you there. You know, you're there in Mexico. We've got Antonio over there. You're wondering what's happening with my couple relationship. When will I see you again? When will we have magic moments? You know, and Antonio's over there. He's trying to deal with this movie thing now. The producer is telling him it's not going to work, even though the lines are from Jesus. Jesus Christ. And she thinks the thing is not going to work. So, but this movie will help you, Andrea. This is, I felt your prayers. I felt you praying like, what is happening with my life, with my relationship and everything. This movie is your answer. This is the answer to your prayer. That's good. All right, let's go. We're ready now. Let's hop on into the movie scenario and let's really enjoy it today, because this is as deep as it gets. It just doesn't get any deeper.