 and then afterwards we're going to have a 10 minute break and then we're going to go into a closing session during the 10 minutes you'll have a time to submit your questions and your prayers and in the closing session with David he'll get to respond to them. So I'm going to pass it straight over to David now. Hi thank you Pete welcome everyone a very exciting day we have today we are going to our our singularity our oneness through through AI the Holy Spirit's use of artificial intelligence to help us remember the singularity of our being as God created us. So we have a beautiful day lined up for you today a beautiful workshop and the movie that we've been given for this Saturday is called Transcendence starring Johnny Depp and this movie came out in 2014 but you know Pete and I were talking in the beginning we were saying what a perfect time to show this movie because of recent advances in in AI that are getting popularized that are getting shared in in the media that I don't know if some of you have started using all the AI advancements but there's a lot of them there we go Lucy's got her thumb up yeah we're we're it's now in practice you know where I was telling Andy in our community he's going to have to do like a little workshop or in-service to bring the whole community up to speed on the practical applications of AI right now because Andy was working with one version of AI where he was telling it to it said make me a picture of Jesus walking from the tomb and he got an amazing visual of Jesus walking through the tomb he you know you basically tell it what you want and it constructs the picture for you a non-copyrighted picture and so everything is moving so fast but this movie transcendence came out in 2014 and I think at the time I showed it I think Nicholas was saying it's strawberry fields when he just came wow how old were you 22 20 20 years old coming out to strawberry fields forever festival and then he's watching transcendence with us that's that's the way it goes everything goes really fast and this movie was talking about a lot of ideas that were very very prevalent there I think Elon Musk makes a little cameo appearance in this movie in the audience during one of the Will Kester is the AI scientist played by Johnny Depp and during his speech I think I saw Elon Musk in the audience but this movie is basically showing us it's another metaphor we'll say a scientific metaphor for returning to the oneness of of God and God's creation the oneness of heaven if we talk about it from a quantum physics perspective then this movie is taking us really rapidly towards the the quantum field which Jesus would call the happy dream in in his terms in the course of miracles or we could just say it's from non dual perspective non dual teachers non dual saints and mystics would maybe say it's unified awareness no matter what you call it you can call it love you can call it anything you want joy but we're really interested in being shown and taken into that experience of absolute connectedness absolute connectivity and in the scientific community you might say with the advancements in AI over the last nine years they've been very very dramatic and in terms of AI it's it's like a movement toward singularity and singularity is just oneness so we should be really grateful for all the reflections that are showing us that everything's connected and everything is one there really is no threat to in oneness when you start to realize that oneness is reality how can reality be threatening only threatening to the ego which is the belief in separation the belief in conflict the belief in competition in the movie that we're going to watch there's going to be a group of people that are kind of shown as kind of anti technology and the acronym for for their the name of their group or organization is rift this movie is so good you've just got to laugh at at all the synchronicities that come I mean one of the synchronicities I like too was that you know you voted on five themes and the name the first theme that came in number one is releasing pride and autonomy father what is your will for me and I thought wow that's such an amazing theme and then I noticed the main character is named will so so we're praying father is what is your will for me and we have will is the main character who will go through the transformation of yielding to the absolute yielding to the singularity yielding to the connectivity yielding to the will of God which is just pure oneness and love the second theme that we have here is finding peace beyond the changing images that's an important one finding peace beyond the changing images because a definition of seeming to come into time and space and come to planet earth is is seeking for love in the form and seeking for love in the images and we have definitely tried that I would not hesitate to say we have tried it for many times more times than we are even aware of we've been trying to find the love in the form and what we're really praying for in our heart is to to find the peace beyond the changing images and for me I think one of the most helpful lines I've ever heard it from a course of miracles it's back in the manual for teachers and it's in the characteristics of God's teachers and it's in the section on patience where Jesus says patience is natural to those who trust no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear isn't that a lovely idea no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear he's basically defining patience and saying when you become so lined up with God you'll be able to look through the five senses and and still see images but you won't be disturbed by those images whatever those images are you'll be living in a state of divine patience and understanding that all things are working together for good and you don't need to be concerned or you don't need to be upset ever by the images but there is no situation that has the power to upset you it's only attack thoughts and judgments and grievances that bring the upset it's never the situation the situation's a projection of the attack thoughts the situation is not a cause of upset it's just a projection of an upset in the mind that's based on holding on to a grievance or holding on to a judgment the third one third theme is let go of what I think I know about anything wow that's like a prayer to be clueless I was at the monastery one time and I was giving a talk and I said yeah we should be clueless carefree and cared for don't you like the combination of those three clueless carefree cared for ah that's the peaceful one the last one cared for everything is the spirit is caring for my mind as I'm waking up it's caring for me number four remembering the holiness of every encounter it's never personal that's that's like one of the four agreements don't take anything personally and yet it seems like that will require a full sustained determined mind training uh because you know when we're used to not taking something personal we're we're practicing not getting offended at what people say not get offended at what people do but Jesus is saying well actually you have to take that all the way so we could say that that the mind of christ was was not offended by the crucifixion scene even to the world it was a bloody mess the mind of christ was like no you know the mind of christ is pure spirit so what happens to a body whatever seems to happen to a body really has no no effect on the christ on on the christ mind but going toward that christ mind is going towards this singularity towards this connectedness this this pure spirit that's what we're going for and the last one number five is overcoming the fear of love you know we were talking this morning today about how when you talk to people and you ask them what are the greatest fears some of the fears that come to mind when people are afraid they're very specific you know they're afraid of losing their job or losing their family losing their partner losing their child losing their skills and abilities losing their memory or losing their their intellectual faculties but for many people there is a great fear of the unknown and you might say that that Jesus is asking us to start to question our fear of the unknown he's basically telling us in the text it's it's kind of surprising that he says that you would be so afraid of what you don't know because when you are afraid you're presuming something you're presuming that what you don't know in awareness is frightening and Jesus is like why would you do that you know why would you presume that what you don't know is frightening this is the the human predicament this is the ego's predicament is it wants control over the world because it's terrified of what it doesn't know it's actually terrified of love it's terrified of singularity some of you have heard me talk about different scientists basically even Albert Einstein who he's kind of thought of as one of the most imminent scientists that that ever walked the planet and even Albert Einstein when he was asked about the quantum field where everything is just super connected beyond time and space Albert Einstein said hmm when asked about the quantum field he he said that is spooky action at a distance when Albert Einstein calls something spooky as you see even the most eminent scientist was scared of connectivity because if everything's connected that must mean that everything that we believe and we perceive about this world in terms of fragmentation separate bodies private minds private thoughts everything having distinct objects distinct galaxies you know distinct gases distinct distinct everything anything that's objectified we must start to look at it in a questioning way and say well maybe everything that I am perceiving as separate is just a a subjective colored prejudiced biased perception if I think of phone is a phone Jesus is saying well that's biased what makes you think you can carve out a phone from all the other images in the universe and give it a name you see that's what how deep the the belief in separation goes even to believe in separate people places things situations is is the denial of the truth of oneness of the truth of of love so over the years I've seen you know I've met so many seekers of truth around the world and so many course of miracle students and people from many religions many philosophies many pathways and then the deeper they go into their path and they deeper they go toward the experience they get they get in they may be halfway into it and then they're like three quarters of the way into it and then they get like 80 percent 85 percent into it and then usually the reaction is yikes yikes if if God and love and oneness are true that must mean individuality is not yikes it's all right to give up my possessions it's all right to give up my my things in the world and everything but my identity my autonomous separate individualistic identity yikes yikes yikes so so there's a fear around spiritual awakening that's the fear of love the fear of love is oh my gosh if I surrender to love then there won't be anything left of me and Jesus is just reassuring us no actually there's only one of us so all that's left is all that there's ever been all that there ever will be it's just it's just love it's just divine love all is love and and this world is the attempt to deny the fact that all is love so when we go on the spiritual journey it's like Jesus is just calling us and saying come come closer come closer yikes yikes stop come come come come come come keep coming keep coming and it's all love it's all good it's all warm it's all wonderful just keep trusting me just trust me to to help you let go of everything that you believe without exception I had a group of students back in the 1990s and we were reading the Course in Miracles one day and they came to me and like five or six of them they were all they were all confused and they said can we just ask you about one thing that Jesus is saying in the Course because we don't really understand what he's talking about and it's very confusing and I said sure what is it that you're disturbed about and they said well there's a part here we're reading where Jesus is saying no one is ever angry at a fact and they said that's what does that even mean no one's ever angry at a fact they said we don't even know how to process that what no one's ever angry at a fact what is he even talking about that and they I said well well can you give me an example of a fact and they said no we don't even know what a fact is what does it mean no one can be angry at a fact and I said well God is a fact and Christ is a fact and no one can be angry at a fact if you know the fact of the truth if you know the fact of reality you realize that anger is impossible no one can be angry at a fact and then we went into it a little deeper and basically I was I was saying well the way that that reality works is that reality is pure spirit and reality just extends and extends and extends so you might think of thoughts pure spirit realm thoughts just extending and extending and extending and that's what creation is it has nothing to do with form but the basic fact is God is love and and only love and only loving thoughts come from God so only the thoughts of God can be extended and nothing else can be extended so you cannot extend really a concept you cannot extend any thoughts that are not coming from God only the thoughts of God can be extended because only love extends so they were saying well what does that mean don't I have the power to manifest I said no absolutely not God didn't create a being that had the power to manifest because that would be the attempt to share something that's unlike God so if that's true then that must mean that that opinions can't be shared exactly judgments can't be shared exactly gossip can't be shared exactly falsity cannot be shared exactly that's what spiritual awakening is about is realizing that only the thoughts of God can be extended or shared the rest is a hallucination because it's an attempt to do the impossible that's what manifestation is it's the attempting of the impossible attempting to share judgments which we call gossip in this world that's impossible so it's not that you have to stop it you just have to see the impossibility of it you see it's a it's a difference between trying to stop something that you believe is real versus seeing the impossibility of it so when we get to the subject of AI it's a little bit like the matrix where it's like the humans are afraid the machines will become so advanced that the machines will take over for the humans and the humans don't want to be at the mercy of the machines and I think the machines could make the same argument you know the iPhones don't want to be at the mercy of those damn humans they drop them they scratch them up they have to get new have to keep repairing them and everything that you know machines would probably say what you're afraid we're going to dominate you what about you you you damn full humans you you mess us up and you you drop us you crack us you you heat us up you you overuse us you know if the machines could talk they would probably say you abuse us and now you're afraid we're going to dominate you maybe we should dominate you maybe you should know how it feels but but that was kind of the premise of the matrix you know where the the the machines you know the machines started to dominate the humans so then the humans scorched the skies to block out the sun to cut off the energy for the machines it didn't go very well until finally the one comes to show that you don't have to dodge bullets you can just stop the bullets with your hand because the power of your mind and and all of these great movies including the matrix are showing us is they're pointing to an experience where you start to realize you can give up your ideas of dominating of of machines dominating humans or humans dominating machines you can you can give up your ideas of a of a patriarchal society you know some i've talked to some women and they go this this whole society is so patriarchal when is it going to be a matriarchal when is it going to flip around do we have matriarchal uh one time jason jason found a movie and and he it was a movie of a different planet where all the women were in charge of everything i said oh wow that's a that's a good one a good we put it in our mind watcher category but but it's not about superior inferior it's not about who's better who's worse it's not about who dominates and who submits you start to realize that this whole game of separation this whole game of hierarchies this whole game of of who has the power and who doesn't have the power who who is the dominance and who is the ones that have to be submissive this is the game of the ego and what i'm telling you now is none of it is a fact it's all just conjecture it's all just make believe it's all just fiction it's all just fabrication and jesus is basically always telling us there's only one of us we are we are the one christ we always have been the one christ and always will be and yet if you believe you're something else other than this christ it starts to feel like a mess and it's a mess of time it's a mess of linear time so we're asking to be taken out of that so in this movie today we are going to have a very eminent ai scientist whose name is will kester and and his wife is evelyn kester and they're very much into the whole phenomenon of of ai technology i think it's just i propose that this movie came out nine years ago and now just as the human race is right on the edge of a major shift in civilization we'll just call it a major civilization shift is is coming very rapidly it's upon us now like the invention of electricity or for the cavemen you know oh rubbing sticks together fire the invention of fire was a big one the invention of electricity that we're at another edge of shifting huge shift in human civilization but but what we really want to see is we want to see what is the answer to the question what is it all for we're not so much interested and fascinated by the advancement of technology as we are what is the underlying purpose what is the usefulness of the technology to find that fact of god's love how might the holy spirit use technology advanced technology just as another symbol among symbols to help the mind remember its divinity to to remember absolute oneness absolute spirit so in this movie we're going to see that that basically will kester and his wife evelyn have have really good hearts that they want to they want to use technology in a beneficial way that brings healing that brings blessing that brings efficiency that brings abundance and so they have a beautiful intention there and and yet what jesus is telling us that even when we have an intention for goodness we have to rely on the holy spirit and jesus to take us back to know the will of god because at one point in a course of miracles jesus says trust not your own good intentions the ego actually will disguise itself many times as good intentions how many of you have done something where you felt you were truly acting out of good intentions and then it absolutely blew up in your face and you went my god why would such a wicked evil thing happen to such a kind decent one like me with all my good intentions you see and that just means maybe i don't know the will of god especially if the will of god is for perfect happiness let's just say that will the will of god is for perfect not partial happiness not some happiness and something else but just perfect happiness maybe my good intentions are not exactly the pathway to perfect happiness maybe maybe i've even got assumptions underneath my good intentions and and that's what we discover as we go much deeper we go whoa down the rabbit hole let go of everything whoops i thought i knew something there you know sailing along the wheels fall off you go come tumbling crashing down and then you're just laying there going whoops maybe i don't know as much as i thought i knew maybe i'm still ignorant and i have to start to admit that i need help to know the will of god and the will of god is perfect happiness so that that will take some surrender some alignment now another good thing about this movie is as we start to see symbols of connectedness and symbols of unification and symbols of transcendence we will seem to see doubt thoughts arising you know i think all of us have had some situations where we really thought we knew someone we really were sure that we knew them we could trust them and then something happens and we just are just absolutely dumbfounded we say wow i did not see that coming at all that totally caught me by surprise i would have never expected that in a million years and this is just the purification of our heart and the release of any remaining egoic doubt thoughts that still are held into awareness this purification process um it's really inevitable it's like we're all just yielding into it and we're just being purified by the holy spirit our mind is being purified by the holy spirit and by jesus but but it's the ego part that wants to judge the purification process that wants to say why did that happen why did this happen it wants to try to put the process on a timeline and figure it out from a linear timeline perspective and it cannot be figured out jesus tells us that you know you're not responsible for the error but you are responsible for accepting the correction of the error so basically he's telling us you know you have to have faith in the spirit it's almost like let your five senses go away and then just get your hand out and there you go that's it the stevy wonder pathway to god that's what you need to go for you need to go for the stevy wonder pathway to god because if you think you're going to god with your eyes wide open you're going to have some difficulties oh did you see that oh oh i don't know about oh that oh didn't see that one coming oh you know you if you try to go to god with your five senses that's going to be very very difficult because we need to go inside we need to follow the prayer of our heart we need to follow the prompts and intuitions the nudges of the holy spirit we need to always put god first and say i will step back and let you lead the way i will humbly follow you i would but follow christ holy spirit you lead i will follow if you're using a car metaphor slide out from the driver's seat get out of the driver's seat you must get over to the passenger seat and let jesus drive why because you need a driver who actually knows where they're going you it's not good to try to drive the car into the kingdom of heaven because no cars are are there you have to be carless if you go into the kingdom of heaven but more than that you really need to be in the passenger seat if you're going to wake up spiritually it's very humbling but jesus says in the course you cannot wake yourself but you can allow yourself to be awakened isn't that lovely oh that's a definitely get into the passenger seat do not attempt to drive do not attempt to drive you know even when we are in the driver's seat we say jesus just let me drive i have a gps system jesus is like okay but you know it's going to be it's going to have some delays in there you know if you if you just let me drive you can just sit back and enjoy the ride enjoy the scenery turn the radio on listen to the favorite music he said i'll just get you where we're going real quickly but to the extent that we want to be in charge we want to make our own decisions that it gets very very difficult extremely difficult the prayer of a course of miracles is holy spirit decide for god for me you notice how humble that prayer is holy spirit decide for god for me every day all you have to do is wake up with that prayer here comes another day holy spirit decide for god for me today i will make no decisions by myself today i will step back and let you lead the way today i will not presume anything today i will not assume anything today my mind is wide open to listen and follow you and nothing else i have no other interest today but just to listen and follow you and and interestingly things get very easy when we're when we're in that frame of mind because we're so open to to be directed when we're in that humble state of mind so in this movie i'll pop in from time to time but we're going to see the main character will is going to be zooming toward the will of god his wife evlyn eve the first woman in the bible will be joining and she's going to be on a real steep steep uh trust walk she's going to to try to keep trusting and trusting and trusting even when the fear comes up because if you want miracles you have to have trust if you want faith and developing faith you have to have trust if you want your mind to expand in awareness you have to have trust in the workbook or it's actually the manual for teachers of the course jesus says that there's 10 characteristics of a teacher of god the first one is trust and he says if trust goes the rest of them go to you have in other words without trust you have no chance of honesty without trust you have no chance of patience or of generosity or of open-mindedness you have no hope of the characteristic of the teacher of god without trust if trust goes then all of them go you may think i'm moving along i'm advancing i'm only just a tiny tick away from heaven but if you doubt that whole stairway that you were on it crumbles it's it goes away with a doubt that we know how this works too and we when we have a doubt that it colors our whole perception you know suddenly we're all we're paranoid the world's out to get us we don't have any friends we're lonely we're we're desolate we're desperate with one little doubt that we feel shattered we feel absolutely shattered and that's why jesus is saying yes just keep trusting let the spirit go before you one little moment at a time one step at a time so i think we're gonna love this if any of you are wondering how the holy spirit will use ai then i think we're gonna get a good little snapshot reminder in this movie lots of miracles in this movie so sit back enjoy the movie and here we go thank you jesus for an ai movie to take us home to heaven we like it we we like to be on the surfing on the waves of ai we're not afraid we just want to be surfing with you on the way back to the kingdom of heaven see you soon