 Hi everybody. Welcome. Thank you for joining us again. Great. Well, we have a full day ahead of us. And for those who are new, I know there are a few new people joining us today, so welcome. I'm Peter. I'll be hosting. And I can just let you know about how the day will flow. So we're going to start with David. He's going to give us a movie commentary. And then afterwards we'll have a 10 minute break. And then we're going to have a Q&A session and during that 10 minutes you'll have an opportunity to submit any questions you have and any prayers. So I'll pass it straight over to you now David. Thank you Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome again. We're going to have a beautiful, beautiful deep dive today. Yeah, I know for a lot of you who have used the pathway of A Course in Miracles. You remember that prayer that Jesus offers pretty early on in the beginning of the second chapter of his text, where he says, I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent him who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, or he who sent me will direct me. And I'm content to be wherever he wishes, knowing he goes there with me, and I will heal as I let him teach me to heal. And whenever Jesus puts the words in a prayer truly helpful, that's kind of an interesting open, open-ended prayer, like to go deeply into what is truly helpful. That just means we have to unlearn a lot of our beliefs and thoughts which have told us what the ego believes is truly helpful and let it be replaced by the Holy Spirit who actually knows what is truly helpful in any moment. So today's movie is going to help us go a long way. I know a lot of you on the spiritual journey, sometimes you have the thought like, oh, I kind of wish I got into this sooner, or I wish, I wish I was further along, or I wish I could be in a deeper space and a deeper state of mind than I seem to be, and what that really is a prayer is a prayer to learn how to be truly helpful. Because once you open up with humbleness and humility to serve the greater good of everyone and everything, then you get in touch with what that truly helpful really means. But until then, it just seems to be a lot of little baby steps. I know sometimes you read things in a Course in Miracles and you just go, wow, I really wish I had a good example of this to help me really grasp this for myself. And there's one little section from the Course I thought I'd start off with today from the Manual for Teachers. It's the beginning of the Development of Trust section. And I'll read it, and then at the end of this movie, you tell me if this movie isn't the best example of this little section that you've ever seen in your life. Yes, that's right. You prayed and Jesus is giving you a classic movie today. He's giving you one of his all-time classics to burst the mind open into expansion. So we're all in for a major treat today. This is one of the classics. So what Jesus starts off his Development of Trust section with is this. First, they, meaning the teachers of God, the miracle workers, must go through what might be called a period of undoing. This need not be painful, but it usually is so experienced. It seems as if things are being taken away. And it is rarely understood initially that their lack of value is merely being recognized. How can lack of value be perceived unless the perceiver is in a position where he must see things in a different light. He is not yet at a point at which he can make the shift entirely internally. And so the plan will sometimes call for changes in what seem to be external circumstances. These changes are always helpful. Wow. There it is. That's the first, first step in giving yourself over to Jesus. And some of you may be saying, did I miss that step. But actually, this movie, if you think you missed it, you won't have missed it after this movie. Things is going to make sure you don't skip the first step. He's going to use this movie to say, okay, now we're on the same page. Now we're all, we're all together now you didn't skip anything. You didn't miss anything you're right on track. So as usual, we put out a movie poll on a bunch of different platforms and channels and these are the themes that you voted for. And this is what happens. You vote for themes. I simply basically look at the number one theme and I pray to Jesus and I go, what have you got for me. And today Jesus really gave us a download he gave us two songs one song I'm going to play before the movie to kind of get you in the mood to get you ready. The warm up band is going to be Kim Walker to get you in the mood for Jesus. And then you're going to see a pretty intense movie. It's a movie of undoing the self concept and opening your heart up in a big time way. So if you think you missed that step, you don't have to repeat it yourself, the movie will do it for you. And then I'm going to have another great singer, Lauren Dagle close with with a song that will touch your heart. If your heart isn't completely wide open it will be after the second song. And then we'll take our break for 10 minutes and I'll come back for Q&A and and and shareings and expressions. So here are the the themes that you voted for coming in. Number one, strengthen my inner connection with the spirit. 63 votes. Watch out if you I tell you this movie, this movie will strengthen your connection with with the spirit. No doubt. I don't think you could avoid it with this movie. This movie is so expressive and so helpful that all you have to do is just sit back and let your heart open up gradually as as the movie moves along. Coming in number two. This one's a big ask, forgive all personalities and see only spirit. That's a big one. Forgive all personalities and see only spirit. Woo. You're calling on the vision of Christ for that one. That's a big one. You put that number two watch out. Jesus is going to throw a classic at you. You don't throw that kind of theme at Jesus and expect to get away with it. He's going to make sure you really are forgiving all personalities and see only spirit. Number three, discover my part in God's plan for awakening. Yay, discover my part I want that far give it to me Jesus, hand it out. I'll take it. I'll do it. I say yes I say yes, I say yes, except the collaborations that are right in front of me. Look around that your mighty companions today. We are the collaborations that are right in front of you. And again, it's a, it's a classic movie so it can't get any simpler than that except the collaborations that are right in front of me. And finally very important, feeling safe to release unconscious emotions. Feeling safe to release unconscious emotions. Wow. If that's your number five you're asking for a classic. You're calling on Jesus big time today and he is going to deliver big time. The movie for today is from 2006 it's called peaceful warrior. And basically this. This movie is based on the events of of a man named Dan Milman, his, his life experiences. He put it down in a book. They made it into a movie. It's, it's also got Nick Nolte playing Socrates. And I don't usually show you movies usually show you movies where we follow along with the plot and the main characters. It's not often a strong teacher symbol that is in the movies. Occasionally there is. Obviously, whenever we're showing a movie about Jesus there's a strong teacher symbol, and we show a movie about yoga Nanda, or Ramana Maharshi strong teacher symbols. And this is a modern day parable in which Nick Nolte is going to play Socrates and he is a very, very uncompromising teacher. I would say most people on the spiritual awakening and indeed most course and miracle students don't come too close to a very, very uncompromising teacher. When I was going through my awakening experiences I, I was able to come in contact with a number of course and miracles teachers and meet them and spend some time with them. And one of the early ones back in the 1980s was a was a Sikh man from India named Tara Singh. And I went and I met Tara Singh and he had a very funny saying he said, no one goes near a true teacher. Jesus could hardly find 12. No one goes near. And I always left Jesus Jesus could hardly get 12. And one of the early course and miracles teacher and he was very uncompromising. And in this movie Socrates is very uncompromising for people that are not on the spiritual journey. Jesus is so uncompromising that that for them Socrates could be a bit of a nightmare. If you're, if you're attached to the world in many ways and you come near a non compromising teacher it's it seems more difficult more challenging, because basically the teacher, if you're close to your student relationship, the teacher won't really let you get away with anything. And, and deep down that's actually the prayer of the heart, you know, please come close to me and please show me where I'm clinging to the ego show me where I'm clinging to the world. But most people, they, they like more of a gentle pathway so most people do are not part of us rums, or not part of spiritual communities because there's a little bit too much reflecting going on, and the reflections are a bit too intense for the ego. But in this case, you can sit there in the comfort of your home on your comfortable chair or couch and get to watch it in action. Because this this Socrates is not is not going to wishy-wash he's not going to wash over things he's not going to avoid things. It's just a very direct pathway to God it's very much like that. That first paragraph I read in development of trust. It will seem as if things are being taken away from you, but because you're not entirely ready to make the shift internally it will seem to be external circumstances that will help you along. Most people would say, hey, those are some pretty extreme external circumstances but. But remember, all things work together for good there are no extreme circumstances to Jesus. He just wants you to wake up and remember who you are remember the Christ. And so this movie is some something that I've used probably for the last yeah. Decades since it came out. I guess that's probably over one and a half decades since this movie came out and I've certainly been guided by Jesus to use this movie over and over. So, the other thing is this movie gets at some themes about what is true service. When you look back at at the history of spirituality you know sometimes when we look back at at spiritual awakening we have people like Mother Teresa comes to mind whenever I think of service, you know she had a very service devoted ministry. And it's not so much what you do that's the service but it's how attentive you are to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That's what makes the service the service is not what you do so much inform but it's the motive or the purpose with which you do it. Jogito was writing to me, she has all this beautiful artwork that just pours through her so naturally. And we had a nice little discussion on Instagram today but but this movie will help with that idea of letting yourself be done through. So you have your mind, giving your body over to the Holy Spirit and and say, use me. And basically, there's a very famous line in the Bible that says it's not I that live, but Christ that lives in me. Don't you love that. It is not I that live, but Christ that lives in me. The purpose of service is not to serve people. Really, you're serving the Holy Spirit and Jesus with all service. Now the ego will try to flip that around and say service is sacrifice. And just like Nazi Germany was called they had the SS. They put service and sacrifice together because ego always keeps service at the timeline level and the person level. And then the ego is always upset with service. And the ego is like why am I serving and other people are not serving, or why, why am I serving more than they're serving and it will try to use comparison and all kinds of tricks to really keep you away from service. But in the truest sense, like with Mother Teresa and many people, you can see their good examples of they pray and they listen and they follow within. And that is the pathway of service. Pray to the Holy Spirit and Jesus listen and follow. And that is what the service is. And as you serve the Christ, your flow of support is always going towards spirit and going away from the timeline. So big on loyalty, you know, being loyalty to family loyalty to friends loyalty to businesses and bosses loyalty to all kinds of horizontal things on the timeline. And what Jesus is really wanting us to learn is loyalty to the Holy Spirit. Why not be loyal in your prayers to the Holy Spirit. Listen to the Holy Spirit, follow the Holy Spirit, if you're going to be loyal to one why not be loyal to the Comforter to the bridge back to eternity. Why not be loyal to the one who knows the way. Why not be loyal to the escape hatch from time and space, you're going to be loyal. That's where to be loyal. And that's truly helpful. And as soon as our loyalty starts to go horizontal, then it gets tricky. Because then we find things like betrayal and rejection and abandonment come up and, and then we start to get really disoriented and we start to feel really sad and depressed, because our loyalty is horizontal, it's to the flesh. And that's what is said in the Bible, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit. He's saying be born again in the spirit, be born again in Christ, be born again in the Holy Spirit's beautiful guidance for you in this moment. It is always for the present moment, guidance is always to take you into the holy instance where you can wake up in the present moment, guidance is never to take you back to the past or to take your mind into the future. That's the ego that focuses on the past and the future. So this movie is really good for answering the question what is true service. It's also good for answering the question what is true strength. We have a movie about a group of athletes, an athlete and a group of athletes, and physically they are very fit, they are strong, they are muscular, and in the world's definition, which is the ego's definition of strength in the body. They are excelling, they are some of the top athletes in the country of the United States top athletes in the world. But we have to have everything in our mind retranslated by the Holy Spirit. We do need our definitions of service to be retranslated by the Holy Spirit into true service. But our definitions of strength be retranslated into true strength. True strength is your faith and your devotion to the light of love. That's where your strength comes from. Identifying with love is strength. Identifying with light is strength. And that's a fact. And yet, for the human being who's just beginning to develop faith and let go of the persona let go of the mask of personality. It's going to be a lot of temptations and challenges because the ego will always try to keep it horizontal and keep it physical. And the Holy Spirit and Jesus are always trying to bring it vertical and bring it off the timeline back into the mind and in deeper still toward the light to go toward identifying to the light. Another question this movie answers is, where does one find true strength. Many of us have looked for strength and money. Maybe we've looked for strength and possessions. We've looked for strength and physical skills and attributes we've looked for strength by strengthening our body. I certainly went through that I, I would watch my calories I would exercise regularly I would try to eat always nutritious foods and watch out for polyunsaturated fats and read. I read the labels on food and all I mean I did all that too and then at some point Jesus said, you know you still are looking for health in someplace other than your mind and the Holy Spirit, you still are looking for security and safety in the midst of the body and the world, and you still are looking for strength in terms of the body. Yeah, there were times in the parable of David were actually belong to a gym and yep I would go hit the repetitions, a little bit of weight lifting a little time on the running, walking, biking, going through physical exercise, and Jesus comes into the course and he says, all health is of the mind and all health is relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly. We think that there's certain things in this world that seem very natural that we can use the body for competition, sex, trying to be the best, be the best that we can be as a human being and this movie will go after all those things. We have a group of athletes in this movie that, including Dan Milman that are that are basically Olympic hopefuls they are that they are that skilled of athletes, they are Olympic hopefuls. And of course, anyone knows that the Olympics are all about representing your country to try to win the gold medal and be the best athlete in your particular sport. The best athlete in the world, and they're held once every four years and if you win the top prize you get a gold medal, second prize, second place is silver third place is bronze. This is all ridiculous to Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus and the Holy Spirit know the whole world is a world of illusions, and that there is no better or worse illusions. There is no better or worse anything in this world. There aren't better or worse persons. There aren't better or worse occupations. There aren't better or worse skills. And this whole world is a world of projection based on the ego's belief in separation and competition. So what a great movie to have watch an athlete will say a mind that's identified as an athlete, quite a good athlete actually, and go through a spiritual awakening of dismantling the self concept of that self concept of being an athlete. This athlete is a it's a good teaching device just like I sometimes show movies like Marilyn Monroe's story because she seemed to have it all in terms of the world and she was very depressed at the end of her life and she committed suicide by overdosing on pills and basically this movie is really good because unlike the Marilyn Monroe story where you just had me giving the Jesus commentary all the way through. We are going to see some characters like Socrates, who are going to be part of a direct dismantling of the self concept of pride of competition of comparison. All the things that seem important to the world and to the ego actually have no importance in spiritual awakening whatsoever. The Holy Spirit and Jesus can use the symbols and use all the symbols of the world because they're just neutral. But actually when we get into things like pride and competition and comparison, those are egoic beliefs that have to be undone. Most of us are used to serving other people serving a company serving children serving our country. But Jesus is going to start to show us through this movie that that is the concept of service is greatly misplaced, because those are all ego definitions. The true service is coming to listen and follow in the present moment and be a conduit for Jesus a conduit for the Holy Spirit to let the Holy Spirit smile through your puppet. Laugh through your puppet hug through your puppet bring words of care and comfort through the puppet. You know that we have a purpose for this puppet, and this puppet is simply to be used by the spirit to bring a blessing to everything and everyone that we meet or we even think of. And that's how deep the spiritual journey goes. Main characters, we have Dan. Dan Milman it's this is kind of based on a on an autobiography so this is kind of the story of of Dan Milman and his spiritual awakening. We have Socrates, as I mentioned, played by Nick Nolte and this is the teacher that's going to show up in Dan's awareness. And he will show up quite unexpectedly and there's going to be some miracles at the beginning of that appearance that are really out of pattern they are not normal. That's going to really get Dan's attention. It also gets all of our attention whenever we see something happening in the world is very out of pattern. It's it's a strong feeling in us like wow that's that is not normal. Miracles miracles are you might say beautiful interventions that come from the spirit into our mind and get reflected out in ways that sometime really get our attention. They really get our attention we think there's something more when we see something like that happen in this case it will happen at a gas station a service station, and that will kind of set things in motion in Dan's life. Also there's a woman named Joy, who, who is like a volunteer helping out Socrates. Joy is an example of one who's who sees the value of a spiritual teacher she's drawn to go deeper into the spirit, and she's there voluntarily as a friend as an in true service and so she's a great example. Those are the main characters actually, because those are the ones that will be the mighty companions that will be there as symbols of support during a lot of intense undoings. And many of us have gone through very, very intense undoing. Sometimes we were going through so many ego undoings that we felt like our world was falling apart, like, like our world was shattered. And, and this movie is good for showing that that there seems to be a shattering but it's actually just a reinterpretation. Just the Holy Spirit and Jesus showing us a higher perspective and reorganizing perception to line up with forgiveness. So, we will first enjoy a beautiful song from from Kim Walker, and this song is called breathing room, and I think that's all of us have just prayed deep down in our heart. I need some breathing room. I've, I've just about lost my breath with this world but I need some breathing room I need to feel your care and comfort I need to feel that you're with me in in my heart. And then at the end of the movie will have that song from Lauren Dagle. And that will be, that will conclude our, our presentation for the day then we'll have the q amp a afterwards so everybody. Sit back, give your heart over to the song to give yourself a good open, clear mind to receive what Jesus has today. And then let the movie take you and show you the way to developing that inner strength strengthening your inner connection with the spirit. And I'll pop in I'll be there. Keep your hands on the carpet today this is one of those where you don't want to be sticking your hands over the magic carpet. Stay on the carpet. As we go through this. Please, it's a classic.