 So we use a lot of movies in our waking up, you already saw a wonderful movie last night. We'll have many more as we go along, but let's just look at the movie metaphor for a minute. I was listening to an interview on the internet several days ago. There was an actor, Matthew Muhammad, and he was talking to the Texas Long Mourns football team, and he was giving him a philosophical fired up speech that basically he had the line that he told them. He said, I pretend for a living. I pretend for a living. This is an actor saying, I pretend for a living. That's what I do for a living. And then I think of that and then I landed in Dublin Airport and I'm coming through the hallways. I love these airports over here in Ireland because they have all the pictures, the photographs of Irish people. Some of them are actors, I mean not just actors, just a range of people. But what I'm saying and what the Course in Miracles is saying is that all those pictures are pictures of actors. Because all human beings are part of an act. And I did go to the dictionary one time to look up act, just to see what the dictionary says for an act. And it said to pretend. So it's like Matthew was saying to the football team, I pretend for a living. It doesn't matter what you seem to do for a living, whether you're a father or a mother, whether you have a family role, whether you have a professional role, whatever you seem to do for a living kind of implies that you do for survival of the body. You actually do things to receive wages or money or some compensation so that you can have money to spend on things like food, clothing, shelter, entertainment and so on and so forth. And you start to see that the whole system from a Course in Miracles perspective is a pretense. There's a big self-deception going on with this and a big pretense. When we think of movies, we think of watching something that has been filmed with actors, actresses, a script, you know, producers, directors. There's a lot of collaboration that goes on from a lot of people. But it's like a theater put on to film. It's like recording plays. Like in the old days, Shakespeare, we used to have live plays, live theater. Now we just record live theater and it becomes a movie. And it's something that you go to watch, maybe for wisdom or entertainment or distraction or for a number of reasons. People go to theaters, pay money to watch movies. And I've watched a lot of movies, thousands and thousands of my life. And I was just thinking this morning of a movie from a filmmaker called Henry Jaglam, who I particularly enjoy. And he made this film a number of years ago called Venice, Venice, in which he was kind of exploring the nature of movies. And he kind of went against the cardinal rule of movies and theater in that movie, because he was the filmmaker and he had a scene where people were in a nice, beautiful room like this. It was a lunch scene. The characters were having lunch. They were talking. And the discussion quickly got into quantum physics. And one of the French journalists was starting to ask questions and talking about shredding or cat experiment. And they started talking quantum physics. And then he got very philosophical and he said, what if all of this is a movie? He said to all of his lunchtime dinner guests, he says, what if all of this is a movie and you're all just actors in a movie that I'm making. And the camera is right over there. He pointed right into the camera. And in the middle of the movie he did what the cardinal rule of movies, because it's supposed to take you in as if you're there in the movie. And he pointed out, he pointed right into the camera and he looked and all the characters tried to look and everything got real still. How does that end the scene? It was kind of a fun moment for me because he was actually a filmmaker in the movie and he was taking that moment to point out one very important thing. This is just a movie. All of them came out of character in that moment. He was playing himself in the movie. He was playing Henry Jayden. So he was giving you a clue. He was going to go for something that has never been done before in movies. And then he has the audacity to stop in the middle of the scene as he's talking quantum physics pondering the nature of things to say what if this is a movie and you're all just characters in my movie and the camera is right over there and points right into the camera and all the characters look up. And in that moment as you're watching a movie you are totally aware that you're watching a movie because he's made you aware of it. You aren't going to find that in most movies. That's the cardinal rule. No, they're acting. They want you to forget that you're watching a movie. They want you to be so engaged that you're right there with them in the plot. That's the purpose of the movie. There's so much pretense that nobody ever stops in the middle of the movie. There was another movie called Orlando and some of you might have seen... What's her name? Swinton. Swinton who actually plays a man or woman and she plays many male and female characters in kind of a reincarnational thing where it's covering many centuries. So you're getting a real broad view of this isn't like a little strip of life. This is like a real broad view because she's male, female, male, female. At one point kind of like near the end of the movie after she's gone through so many character transformations she doesn't say it's a movie but she just looks right into the camera with one of these looks like what's going on here. It's a really beautiful scene. She doesn't even say a word. She just looks right into the camera with one of those looks like you know that there's more than this. You know that there's more than this. It's a knowing moment and her eyes convey, her face conveys so much in that moment because when you're in the theater and you're watching it then you just see that scene where she looks right into the camera after she's gone through so many character changes. It's a mystical kind of moment in the whole movie. It means the best moment. It gives you a glimpse that there's something beyond all of this. So if this is a movie, let's just say this is a movie not the kind of movies that you go to see in the theater but we'll say what's called daily life that this is all a movie as well. Just like when you're dreaming at night and you're so caught up in the dream that until you wake up from the dream oftentimes you're not aware that you were dreaming. You're so in the dream it so much seems to be happening to you. You so much seem to be a character in the dream at night. In nighttime dreams you're completely forgotten that you're dreaming. We have a movie called Inception which will be in Art of DiCaprio in which there's so many layers of dreaming that the characters are unaware of the dream at all. They're just acting and reacting like human beings do. So imagine that this is a dream and imagine that the only reason you take it so serious the only reason you ever get upset with this motion picture what we call life on planet Earth the only reason you ever get upset at all is because you've been duped. Your mind has been duped. Your mind has been tricked into believing that you are a character in the dream and that you are surrounded by other characters. And just like in a movie set when you watch a movie you know there's different camera angles in the movie. As you watch the movie it cuts from camera angle to camera angle covering the movie. Well imagine that your five senses through your eyes and your ears that these are your little microphones little funny shaped microphones and this is your cameras and you've just got a camera angle here on planet Earth you know it shifts around and there's seven billion camera angles in this movie because it's like the Truman Show there's a lot of angles and a lot of cameras but these are like roving camera angles they seem to move about so it's quite an interesting experience on planet Earth with seven billion camera angles and you start to it's interesting to think of people as camera angles instead of people instead of actual people it's just your mind dreaming a dream and there's seven billion camera angles in this dream and none of those camera angles are showing you the same picture but it's just like in the movie you get to see many different angles but movies aren't usually filmed from the character's perception it's almost like there's a lot of different camera angles where the camera is wherever the camera is but imagine that your body is like more just like a camera angle in this multi-faceted movie and the only reason you ever ever ever seem to get upset is because of the camera angle that you're looking through if you were so far back we'll say more to a universal camera angle we'll call it a Holy Spirit camera angle we'll call it above the battlefield above the battlefield camera angle you would see that there's nothing to get hung about as the Beatles said you would see always peaceful from this universal camera angle and it's only from these individual camera angles which are just a very tiny portion just one tiny camera angle of the whole thing that's where the upset comes in that's where you take it personal that's where you have a personal offense it's like hey my camera angle is offended at what you said or what you did the universe is like maybe you should let go of that camera angle come back up here because it's just the camera angle that's causing the problem