 Okay. Hi, everybody. Hi. Thanks for joining us again. Welcome to our all day movie workshop. And we have the fourth installment of the gods not dead movies today. So this is the the final God, God's not dead movie for us. So it's beautiful. I'm looking forward to this. And for those just joining in anew. I'm Peter, and I'm going to be hosting today. I can just let you know about the flow of the day. So we'll start the movie with David. And then afterwards we have a 10 minute break. And then that's followed by breakout rooms where you can share any emotions and anything that came up during the movie. Then we'll have a 45 minute break. And then we have the Q&A session with me. So I'm going to pass it over to you now David. Thank you, Pete. Hi, everyone. Welcome. We're going to have a beautiful movie today and a deep dive down down down in our mind toward the light. That's, that's why we're all here. We're here to just dive into the light of our true being. And we have a couple new people joining us for the first time one from United States and one from the UK. We have groups sprinkled around our center in La Casa de Milagros in Mexico we've got the monastery here we've got groups over in Spain and I think the Netherlands it looks like a Netherlands group there. Yeah, I see. I see oh Isabel yeah you were just at the monastery is she's over back in the Netherlands hi Isabel. And my dear friend Anna is is based. She's over there in Europe with the whole team that's traveling Europe but she's going to be translating for into Spanish today on a polar. So thank you. Thank you Anna for stepping in marinas down at a wedding with her family down in Argentina so Anna has so graciously stepped in today to do the Spanish translations. Well, as Pete mentioned. We have the fourth God's not dead movie, and the subtitle of this movie is we the people. And these are the first words of the United States Constitution we the people. And basically to recap what the first three God's not dead movies were about is, you have a group of people, particularly in the United States that are trying to serve God. Believe in God believe in Jesus live a life inspired by God and Jesus. And in the first three movies we saw that these Christians were facing all kinds of obstacles as they move through their daily life. Obstacles that involved human rights obstacles that involved legal rights and rules of the world obstacles involving family. Has anybody ever encountered that when you've gone on a spiritual journey and your family doesn't approve of your of your spiritual journey. In fact they may that they do may do more than disapprove they may break off communication entirely. You know, you might do some of you might have been disowned because of your spiritual journey. And of course as we've seen in the first three movies. The some of the things that everyone goes through. It doesn't matter what religion you belong to really it doesn't matter whether you're more philosophical or more you're more scientific, or maybe you've been an atheist, or maybe you're trying to be undefined and doing the best you can to be undefined in this world and struggling with the emotions that come up as you open your heart up and you start to tune into your intuitive voice and you we could call it. The Holy Spirit, it goes by different names and different traditions, but maybe you're just trying to tune in inside to follow your intuition or to follow Jesus within or the Holy Spirit within. And then every day you seem to encounter obstacles, and these obstacles can take a wide variety of forms but basically they're all ego obstacles. The only obstacle is believing in the ego. You know, the whole purpose of us joining together is to learn to be very intuitive, and then finally to be 100% intuitive, and then to transcend the ego entirely to just listen to that small still voice within, until you followed all the instructions, all the instructions, and all you're left with is a blazing light, the world disappears and, and you're like oh, oh I'm the Christ. Oh my gosh how mistaken I was in my identity but now I see oh my gosh I'm the Christ. And I really not under the laws of this world. I really see now that when I follow the Holy Spirit, I'm perfectly safe, perfectly secure. I have no cares, no worries, no concerns, no regrets from the past and no worries from the future because you start to rest in the Christ self that you are, and you start to feel peaceful. And that's so beautiful. Also I might recap some of my commentary over these last few weeks because I was kind of giving the picture or the story that that this cosmos this linear cosmos of time and space is is basically dark. It was made in hatred by the ego so this is a very dark cosmos. I mentioned I think last week that William Shatner, who played the original Captain Kirk, and he went on voyages in Star Trek, you know the whole whole seasons of voyages with Spock, and the doctor, and, and Scotty down in the engine room. We need more power. You know, Captain Kirk went through a lot of adventures but now William Shatner's he's still living as an actor but he went up in a space capsule in a rocket. And he just reported back that it was, it was dark, you know, all his adventures part of Star Trek, kind of got washed away and he went up and he just said it's just dark space. There's nothing out there, you know, he was part of kind of making it into an adventure but he said it's it's black. It's, it's very very dark it's cold and dark. And let's not sugar coated anymore. You know now he's, he's up in years and he's like he's, he's letting the spirit speak through him that this world was made in hatred and therefore it's very cold and dark. And what I've tried to show in these last weeks is that 2000 years ago there was like, it was more than a blazing meteor. It was more than a blazing light streaking across the sky. Christ was demonstrated on earth, or if you want to use the word you rancher which is called in the cosmic scheme of things. The Christ was fully demonstrated by Jesus 2000 years ago, and that is the light is so bright that when the light made its appearance. The only thing the world could do after about 33 years of this is they just, they said crucify him, because that's what a world of hatred does to pure unconditional love and light. I mean, it's it's the ego's world. So what would you expect the ego to say, Oh, good boy. No. It was raging that the light came because when the light came, we got to see a pretty big contrast between light and darkness like, oh my gosh the light is so loving. It's universally loving it's unconditionally loving. It's so gentle, but yet it's so strong. It's so uncompromising. It's so brilliant. It's just, people are still buzzing today about what happened over 2000 years ago because it was such a demonstration of reality, and it also exposed the unreality of this world. Yes, that's right division is not the truth. Conflict is not the truth. hatred, guilt, shame, pain, fear, no, not a not a not a not a not a not a none of the ego emotions are true. It's just a misidentification of forgetting you're the Christ and taking on a personality and a body identity and getting identified with the screen of images that were projected by the ego. And Jesus is saying now the kingdom of heaven is within you have to let go of these images what mom dad yes, yes. Uncle Fred and Edna. Yes. My circle of friends. Yes, not my mighty companions. Yes, the light is the truth than the images are not. And the images are just stepping stones. They're just steps along the way you know, we should be grateful for those. Now, a lot of times when people see what's happened in the last 2000 years with all the education psychology and advancements and philosophy and everything. Here it is over 2000 years later and we're still trying to live the first two commandments love the Lord thy God with all my heart and soul and might, and love your neighbor as yourself. So we made progress. Not. Don't look to this world for progress. It's, it's, it's, it's not going to show you progress you can experience progress in your heart. When your heart opens up, you can experience progress in joy in peace and happiness. Don't look to the world to measure your progress because the world was made to blind you from the truth like Morpheus told Neo in the matrix. The world was pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. So this world is a veil. This world is like a thick fog. And any of you have ever been out on a lake or on the ocean during a very, very thick fog. One thing you recognize right away is you can't see anything, you can, you can't see anything when the fog is so thick so as we go on this spiritual journey we have to start to realize that when the course says, I do not understand what anything is for, it means it literally when the course lesson number one says nothing I see means anything. That's literal. That means that everything you perceive with the five senses has absolutely no meaning whatsoever. It has no reality because it wasn't created. It's a projection of guilt. So it should become clear that the only way to be completely happy and I mean constantly happy is just to withdraw all beliefs from this world. That's what the Buddha was saying when he said empty your mind and go into the void. It's what Jesus taught us. Ramana Maharshi taught us and the great mystics and saints have all taught us the same thing. Eckhart Tolle a modern day teacher, you know, emphasize the power of now he he he named his first book, the power of now. That's important, because the now is very important. And the linear time is not we go along we start to realize. William Shatner said it's just dark. Even going up into space he thought would be a thrill. It wasn't. He couldn't wait to get back. Actually, it was cold and dark and it was he was not happy at all with that. And that just shows well there's some mind training there. So, I want to talk a little bit about stepping stones because when people read a document like the Bible, or they read the bag of a data, the Hindu Bible, or the Quran, any scripture that you read, you notice that you do enter into the realm of morality, and you enter into the realm of ethics. Now in the ultimate sense if we're pure light, it can't be that we're really confined to a moralistic system of right and wrong behavior, or an ethical system of right and wrong. But I want to talk a little bit about morality and ethics because I've talked about this of course many times before over the years but maybe you didn't hear all my lectures. So morality and ethics are our reflections of pointing toward the light of truth, which is beyond right and wrong, beyond duality entirely. Jesus tells us in the course that truth cannot be described or explained, only experienced. So the truth is the light, it's just pure abstract love and light, oneness, it's the kingdom of heaven. And that's nothing that the five senses can show you, but it's actually who you are. So your destiny is to remember that light, remember God, remember oneness, remember eternity, remember bliss, remember true intimacy that never comes and goes. It's just constant state of pure love, pure unconditional love. And morality seems to be reflections of that. So I'm just going to use the Bible as a reference point today because of course we're on God's not dead. Number four, we the people and Christianity is based on the teachings of the Bible. So let's just pick a little bit from the Bible today and let me talk just briefly about the Ten Commandments. Some of you, you've heard of the Ten Commandments, Moses getting the Ten Commandments. Most of the Ten Commandments are behavioral. So most of the Ten Commandments are still within the moral and the ethical realms that involve behavior. And these are little reflections. These are stepping stones to come back to the light. When the Ten Commandments tell you to love God and really they're pointing back to that love and light, the I am presence prior to time, but most of them like thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not commit adultery. Most of the Ten Commandments are aimed at behaviors. Why? It's because the mind is in such a thick fog. It is so deeply asleep. I mean, it's in a deep slumber, deep sleep, that if the light just showed up to this, this mind in a deep slumber and just said, you are love, you are one. The sleeping mind would say, I wish, but I've got a lot of struggles going on for, for pure love. And so the Ten Commandments were kind of like a framework to give you a moralistic ethical framework to try to move slowly in the direction of going inward and purifying your mind. Jesus taught us on the Sermon on the Mount. He said, blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God. Well, Jesus knows that that purity is a very deep inward journey where you have to let go of all your beliefs of time and space, which means in the end, you have to give up all your beliefs of behavior as well. And moralistic and ethical frameworks always focus on the right behaviors and the wrong behaviors, the ethical behaviors, the moral behaviors and the immoral or the wrong behaviors. And Jesus is telling us in the Course in Miracles, well, that's where you believe you are. You believe you're in the realm of bodies. So those things are just stepping stones. It's like a ladder. You want to live a good moral life. You want to live an ethical life. You want to be a good person. That's a good step in the right direction. But actually you're the light. You're the Christ that's beyond all persons, but you see how it's a stepping stone. So these movies are very helpful to start to say when people really start to open their heart to God, they really start to open the heart to Jesus, they're going to face a lot of seeming obstacles that seem to be in the realm of time and space that seem to be brothers and sisters that conflict with them. And we all know that because we've all done that. You know, everybody who comes to earth goes through this same dilemma. I've heard people say, oh, I wish I could just live in a cave and not have to face any of those damn humans again. You know, please get me out of here. Give me a cave, Jesus. I need to, quick, I need a cave. And Jesus is like, well, if you did go to the cave, chances are you'd be lonely. If you went to the cave without your cell phone, your internet and everything, you know, Jesus is like, then you'd have to face loneliness, grief, loss. You really have to face your mind in the cave, like you do when you're with the human so he's saying why not just use the human beings as mirrors of what's going on in your consciousness and quit trying to run away from the mind training. You know, if you really want to heal just move in with a group of people and find out how that goes. And if you, if you think you had a nice cozy life, and then you still have some unconscious darkness, just move in to a house with some people or get into a relationship, and then see how it goes. I would say you'd never know how your spiritual journey is until you move in with your mom or your dad. Then your journey gets accelerated, because you, you face anything that you deny. And that's a good thing. You want to face it and release it. So, we're going to have the movie today some of the characters you have seen in the previous movies, like there's Martin from China. Martin got all fired up about God and Jesus, and his father disowned him. Basically, since he got all fired up about God and Jesus, his family won't even speak to him. He has come in completely cut off from his family. And then there's another woman from Iran. Aisha, we saw her earlier in earlier movies. She is completely cut off her father will not speak to her. So these are Aisha and Martin will see them in this movie. They've been completely cut off. They started trying to follow God and one of the first consequences was their families were like, that's it. The old Jewish thing was ripped the, ripped the collar, you know, when you're disowned, they ripped the collar, their families are from Iranian and also from, from China and they don't have the tradition of ripping the collar but they basically won't answer the phone. They are not going, they're not on speaking terms with their family. And this is what Jesus meant, you know, when he said when you, when you follow me, he said father will be turned against son and mother will be turned against daughter. And that's in the Bible. And when people read that they go to Jesus really say that what was he talking about. He was talking about when you start to go for the light. All of the past associations that are not in alignment with that inner movement to the light will seem to react with extreme measures, basically and we're seeing Martin, and we're seeing Aisha and their families have cut them off. And we have Pastor Dave in this movie as well and Reverend Dave is he's trying to be a good Christian minister and we've seen the last episode and basically in all the episodes. He is, he's struggling with his faith, because he's trying to minister to his brothers and sisters as a minister would do but he's facing huge emotional challenges. And in this movie, he's going to try to help out a group of families that that want to homeschool their children and basically are being denied the possibility of homeschooling by the government. And so he's going to try to step into join with them to pray and to be truly helpful. We also have a judge in this movie and that judge is representing the legal system, the legal laws of the world. And we have a number of different characters that are going to kind of come back to what was the original founding founders of the United States that wrote the Constitution what were they thinking, what were they hoping for. I've addressed that a little bit previously that that the original founders of the United States. They actually were quite religious, and they, they believed in God, and they founded the United States so much so that on the currency if you, if you read some of the currency in the United States it says in God, we trust. They basically believe that there was a creator, and that somehow the founding of the United States was meant to serve the creator. Now, some of the founders back in those days back in the 1700s 1776, they were some of them were slave owners, and some of them were not. So the ones writing the Constitution about we the people and finding liberty and pursuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Some of these people actually were were slave owners and others weren't. Now, you can see as as time progressed when we got into the 1800s, almost 100 years later, then there was an American president that came along, called Abraham Lincoln, and Abraham Lincoln just basically said, Okay, I'm the president and slavery is wrong. The history is just plain wrong. And he poured his heart into reading the slaves, and he was assassinated. Some of you may have noticed throughout the throughout history the ones that really are the ones that bringing forth a very new vibe like john the Baptist. He had his head cut chopped off. Most of the prophets in the Bible. They bit the dust. Even the modern day prophets like will say like Gandhi assassinated Martin Luther King assassinated, you know there's even Billy Joel you know ends up writing a song called only the good die young. But what he was really getting at I think was that for those that bring radically true ideas into a realm of ego of division and separation. Oftentimes the ego will just try to snuff them out. The same thing happened to Jesus you know it's like 33 years and he goes like that's enough of that. That is just the ego thought Jesus was disgraceful because the ego is a great. The three letters of the ego. The synonym, it could be like EGO edging God out all of education that the ego built was to edge God out all of the rules, all of the wars, all of the division. All of the conflict is just part of the ego's plan to edge God out, because the ego believes it is the ruler, and it rules time and space, and God is to be edged out. See these beacons these beams of light from Jesus and all the mystics and saints shining through the fragmented screen of the world, saying, love is real. Actually love is real conflicts the illusion war is the illusion. Conflict is not real. So, so basically we've gone through these three movies and here is our final presentation called we the people. Now, as usual, you have voted on themes and the top theme that one with the most votes was let my words come from my heart. Really, that's the whole purpose of everything in this world is just let the spirit in you come through your heart and come out. And I know many of you have the prayer of your heart and you're just praying you're just saying yeah God just speak through me shine through me express through me. So let me be as St. Francis prayed you know let me be an instrument of my peace, and the ego is going whoa, no way. The ego is going to say, you're going to upset people, you're going to be thrown away people will just toss you away if you start letting the light come through, and the ego says you're going to pay a price. The ego is the belief in sacrifice so the ego says if you just speak from your heart in every situation, the ego is saying you're going down your your personality self is going down. And you're going to have a terrible life if you live an intuitive life the ego is saying, but the first theme is let my words come from my heart. That's really all this movie is about is, is we get to watch Reverend Dave pastor Dave. Again, one more time for the fourth time he's going to try to speak from his heart, and, and really just from his heart with no people pleasing no compromise, just let the spirit speak through you from from the heart. The second theme is experiencing true freedom. And, you know, this has been a struggle for human beings because the basically the construct of a human being was made to cover over true freedom which is within. So when you go into the light of your true being that's where you experience the freedom. Humans have sought for freedom. And Jesus says, in the course in miracles, what do you want you want freedom of the body, or freedom of the mind for both you cannot have. Basically he's saying that freedom of the body is an ego construct and ego pursuit. And he's, he's telling us, don't try to free yourself in the form, try to free yourself in your mind by releasing attack thoughts and grievances and judgments. And that's how you free your mind, but don't even try to go down that road of freeing your body, because you're going to be disappointed over and over. I don't think you're going to free yourself in the body terms but but the ego is made the body as a limit to block love. So you won't find the freedom in the device that the ego made to block the freedom. You have to actually abandon the control and don't use the body as a goal. You have to use the pleasures and conveniences and comforts of the body as a as a goal, because if you do, you're going to use your mind as a means to reach the ego's goal, and that's not going to work. But if your goal is inner peace, and you allow the Holy Spirit to use the puppet for a little while, you'll finally realize that you don't need the puppet. You're actually beyond the puppet, but you can't reach that without letting the Holy Spirit show you the truth of the light in you and the nothingness of the body. You need to be in to see the power of the mind and the nothingness of the body. And this world was made by the ego to keep you mindless. And that's why it invented the body and says you have a brain, and you have a neurology, and you have organs. Nada, nada, nada, nada to the brain, nada to the organs, nada to the neurological system. It's a projection. It's a projection it has nothing to do with reality. And when you wake up, you're going to laugh at the idea that you once believed in the body, you know, you're going to think what a what a weird and crazy strange belief that was that's got to be the weirdest thing ever. And you will feel that way because you realize that you were never in a body, you just were mesmerized into believing that you were inside the body. And you were looking out through its eyes and listening through its ears. It's a big trick. Okay, next. Seeing that everything is connected. Nothing is at random. Oh, you're going to love it in this movie Wow, you're going to see all the synchronicities, all the nuances of the dance, how Holy Spirit is using the whole dance, just for one purpose is to free your mind. The Holy Spirit doesn't have any other purpose for the world other than as a device to free your mind from believing in it. So Jesus says you made the ego by believing in it and you can dispel it by withdrawing your belief from it. That's what we're doing. We're going to go on ego fast. We're going to give our holy mind to ego thoughts, you know, it's enough. I think we finally reached a point where enough is enough enough of this time to come back to the glory. It's time to come back to the light. I'm not fooling around tinkering around with these time space thoughts anymore. I'm going to let the Holy Spirit use them to guide me for a while while I still believe in them and then he will guide me to release them. And then you don't need guidance. You are the light. You'll even laugh at the guidance thought when you get when you open up to heaven, but until you really experience that light the rinse is extremely important and it's not meant to be minimized. It's not meant to be distracted from. Next, don't attempt to bring the truth into the illusion. Yep, I know this world is famous for statues and churches and synagogues and temples, but actually Jesus is saying no your heart is the church your heart is the temple your heart is the synagogue. Your heart is the altar. And when you purify your heart, then you realize how silly it was to think that you could bring God into structures. Because remember, beyond all idols section Jesus teaches God knows not form. This is a world of idle images and we have to cough it up and and let it go, we have to forget it. We have to reverse amnesia. We forgot God, and we made up images. Now let's forget the images and remember God. Yes. That's what we're doing. We're going in the reverse direction, reverse amnesia. We're going to forget the ego and remember God, ego invented amnesia the Holy Spirit says okay let's turn the tables let's just forget the ego and remember the light. And finally show me that only the truth is true. We're going to see that in this movie that that as we go deeper and deeper, we're going to start to see that what Jesus says the truth is true and only the truth is true. It's going to be an opening to light and a fading away of the darkness. When I watch a movie there's something that jumps out of me. Some of you know if has any of you been to Washington DC has anybody been to Washington DC. I have, and I went around to see all the statues in the sites and one of them of course is the Lincoln Memorial I had to go see Abraham Lincoln, because he was the president that freed this that abolish slavery. I want to see this guy's face. I want to thank him to his face. But, but also, there is a, there is a big tall monument that's like 55 feet wide and it's like I don't know, like 555 feet tall. Washington monument in honor of the first president of the United States George Washington, and it's a very tall white structure that goes more narrow as you go up and then it's got a little point at the top. I actually found out when I was looking at this movie again it just jumped out of me was that basically at the top of the this monument is basically a saying and the saying it's a little cap on top of the point a little pointy top of the Washington monument 555 feet I think above. There's a little cap on the point, and then way up there where nobody can see it, which is really strange they put two words, and the two words were Laos deal. So, at the top of this high monument and the very point where nobody can see it. It says Laos deal and Laos deal means praise be to God. You have to be, you have to have a drone to see it. See how even the ego hides that that I would have liked to know that that at the top of the Washington monument is Laos deal praise be to God, because in the end that's what the founding fathers wanted the country to be. They wanted the country to be a praise to God. Now that's a good way to start a country, even though John London taught us imagine there is no country. The country is an illusion to, but I think it's important to look at the purpose, why are you doing it. That's what Jesus says what is it for. What is the purpose of a country if you're going to found a country you better have a good purpose. And you have to go all the way to the top of the Washington mountain monument to see the term that means praise be to God. Now that's what we're going for. We're going for God, and we're going to have to let the Holy Spirit use all the concepts that the ego made including country, and all of the education that we've experienced. What's the point of education, if it's not to know thyself. What's the point of psychology except to know thyself. What's the point of philosophy and religion. Know thyself. It's the Greeks had it right, even centuries before Jesus they they knew the meaning was know thyself that that's the purpose of Earth is simply to know who you are. What's the purpose of Earth is spirit. It's pure spirit. This is a dream of separation it's a dream of forgetfulness Jesus calls it, and we're here to remember the truth. Now, if you guys stay with us in the coming month you're going to see we're going to have some shifts and changes that we're still going to be showing movies yeah we'll show movies but I think I'm just going to. Come back right after the movie. In November, some point I'm just going to come back and I'm going to get back to the good old fashioned questions and answers. We go through an uplifting movie together your heart opens up and you want one on one interactions with me. You want, you want to deal with what you're dealing with in your perception. Wow, that sounds good but here's what I'm dealing with. And then we have one on one so we're going to be open. It'll be more interactive and actually we're with as we get more into Christian mysticism we're also going to we have a new app we're going to introduce next month. We're, you can have it on your on your phones, you can have it on your tablets, you can have it on your computer you can put your little push notifications, because we're going to start going live. You don't know we're going to show up at any time of day. We're going to come into your world and you're, it's going to be highly interactive. So that's what you've been praying for that's right we want a little more interaction all right we'll give you interaction. It's going to be your phone might start flashing. We've gone live, and then you can say what what I'm in the middle of cooking dinner well just put your phone there in a holder and enjoy the live interactions. We've got a lot of interesting things coming in the next month. Laverne's probably Laverne's like yeah push push notifications let's go let's let's push this right into everybody's life. Right into their world. Let's have God streaming through right coming at you wherever you seem to be I'm at the park. Oh no my phone. Oh, they've gone live again. It's going to be spontaneous where we you know, there's no place to run. Maybe you care your smartphone around in your pocket. Now there's no place to run God is coming at you every at every angle in your back pocket in your purse. It's going to come at you everywhere. You got to not you got to watch an apple watch watch out. Watch out for those live notifications coming at you on your watch even. So I hope you enjoy the movie today because we're going to take another deep dive and we're looking at human rights we're looking at religious rights, we're looking at. Can I follow my heart. Can I have some help navigating time and space, because on certain days, the ego seems to say it wins you know if you have a bad day the ego is in in the mind going haha I won. And we want you to have days filled with love. So love is bursting through your heart just radiating and shining the light to everyone and everything everyone that you meet or think of you're going to be radiating light. And this movie is is another great teaching device for let's all turn to the light and let's give way to where the light wants to take us give way to the Holy Spirit and to Jesus. So enjoy the movie and I'll be popping in for some commentary. See you soon.