here
You give
everything?
to me
where I thought you ask for sacred face.
reaches to a sea
when I give my trust
to you.
Give my life to
me.
a good
you show me you can
play.
hide and seek
tomorrow
I was lost but now I found
your sweetest.
Amazing Grace was through
the song
I will take down the Walls.
Your light comes streaming.
We're a feud you might.
Reach it.
Me you pull me. Holy one instead.
How could I try to hide from
you?
for now, I know my Smiles are
wrong with
flowing Metro
when I knock on your door.
You invite me.
out straight down
where I am in you
sweet Amazing Grace
sweet Amazing Grace
Thank you so much.
food
Yeah, when you first came to Strawberry, it was Laura singing songs
and having a bit of a jiggle with that now, it's just
Grace. Yeah, I didn't
even brush my teeth and shower. I know that's great. No preparation
necessary.
Yes, wonderful, isn't
it fun? This is what grade? That's
a Grace is yes. Come as
you are exactly. Yeah.
That's so beautiful. Those those songs and those words
are just what I was feeling to talk about today. So it's all
perfectly orchestrated. We don't
have to have a meeting just show up.
That's great.
Wow. Well welcome everyone. Good morning.
Ah, beautiful beautiful sparkly sunshine
and sparkly eyes. That's the
way to start today.
Yeah, I thought.
We've been talking about the theme.
All week of just seeing the the
no thingness of the world the note
thing this of persons personalities the note
thing this of wearing a mask.
It's not that you can change a personality or make it
better. It just isn't there.
and it's just a belief that it is is where the
challenge in the struggle comes in
the Bible
it says God is no respecter of
persons.
Isn't that a lovely line?
God is no respecter of persons.
And The Mask doesn't really have
a value. I mean what what would be the purpose of
wearing a mask anyway?
If you are who you are and you've always been Who You
Are.
And that is an internal Spirit than anything
that you would try to add to eternal
spirit.
Would only be a difficulty for you.
And it's interesting about this realm because I kind of just listen to the
words that are used.
and where that came to mind today was have
and having
and as I listen to the word have we're having used
on planet Earth. I find that it's
being used in a very peculiar and strange way.
having
having a body.
Having a car having a bank account.
Having a personality having personality traits
having personality skills.
abilities
having education
having a family
having a spiritual path
There's Something About This having word that is very
strange the way it's being used
on this planet
as
what you have is what you are.
And the way I'm hearing having used on the planet, it's
a synonym for possession.
All those things I mentioned.
You could substitute possess.
for the word having
the way that's used on this planet.
I possess a car I possess personality traits
skills abilities money clothing a
partner.
a spiritual path
even I have a spiritual path and it is
whatever Course in Miracles or a date
of adanta Buddhism.
Taoism
it doesn't really matter. It's the word having is
being used as a possession.
And I'll tell you something love does not possess.
And love is identity. Love is who we
are. It's not an attribute.
Sometimes we say oh that person is so loving as
if a mask could be loving.
It's words having.
having possessing
love does not possess. That's the central issue.
and possession always involves thingness how
Lisa and I have talked about no thing this
she's even saying my God is no thing this
or everything this
but you see it's The Possession part. It's the belief
in the parts.
And the belief in the possession of the parts.
That blocks the awareness of Love's
presence.
In truth what you have is what you are.
Because what you are comes from a source.
You you have a source.
And anything in this world that's used to deny. That source
is self-deception.
playing little
it's playing small.
His identifying with personality instead of the vastness of
beingness.
If you could just call upon the angels and have a chat with the angels in
your bedroom every night before you go to bed. They would
laugh at this idea of possession.
That's the funniest thing to Angels.
When you try to tell them you have something you
possess something. They just laugh.
That's their job. They they
hang around and laugh laugh and laugh and
laugh and this it's really funny idea to possess.
because our very being
actually, if you want to come up with a synonym a true synonym for
having it's being
having and being
are identical
what you have is what you are.
some of you saw
I heart huckabies, you know and Dustin Hoffman
and Lily Tomlin is
the existential detectives, but they there's an early line in
there. We're basically
Dustin Hoffman saying everything that you want.
You already have and are.
Everything that you could ever want you already have an R. It's a
beautiful expression of the truth in that
movie early on.
and then he has to go under the
issues the blanket idea and he Zips him up and one of
the zip bags to for him to get in touch with his unconscious beliefs.
And all the images that are still in there, but basically he says
it to straight up what you have is what you
are what you always have been you already are.
Everything you could want to be you already are so.
How does that translate? Well, this is
just the state of mind. That's what Lisa cares
and I have been sharing with you. That's what these teachings are
about. It's a state of mind.
And it's so simple. It's closer than breath. It's
not it's closer than under your nose. It's it's it
is who you are. So it's
the most simple experience ever
and it's only been covered over with a
lot of nothing much to do about nothing much
to do about no thing.
The thing this thing keeps coming in.
And when you try to find the piece of
God through things you don't.
succeed finding peace through things
and I'll tell you now you won't even find it through words.
Sometimes people read the course and they
say I'm just gonna
keep reading this thing until
I have an experience and it's like you won't find it.
in the words
If you go to the workbook it says our time are
used for words is almost over now.
It's actually.
Launching you past the words.
Saying things like simply do this be still.
Play aside all thoughts of what you are what God
is.
Everything you've ever learned. Hold on to nothing.
Do not bring with you one thought the past is taught nor
one thing that you've learned before from anything.
Forget this world forget this course.
Come with open arms unto your God.
It's just an association in the mind is having thing
having and possession.
In this world, it's good to have things even though
we're talking about no thing. That's it's good.
The world teaches it's good to have things and the more
the better.
And that's how success is judged.
Who see those bumper sticker? Whoever dies with the most toys wins
the game?
And some of you might remember there was
a bumper sticker. I think it first the circulating round on
Volkswagen Beetles back in the 60s life's a
b**** and then you die, you know.
And I remember one time back. I think it was maybe the 80s where
I was driving along and I saw a bumper sticker Life's a
joy and then you ascend.
The spirit always has an answer.
for anything like
that's my whole philosophy of life right there
on that bumper sticker Life's a joy and then you
ascend.
How glorious how simple?
So I'm going to talk about a few things today that seem
to be popular and valued in
this world.
One of them is autonomy.
Who how the ego likes
autonomy?
There is nothing useful or helpful about
autonomy.
But if Fleetwood Mac say Stevie Nicks, you can go
your own way go your
own way. You can call it another
lonely day. Yeah.
If you're in for autonomy, you're in for a loneliness
loneliness.
The lonely the journey to God the lonely Journey fails because
you never find God in a
sense of loneliness.
That's sadness.
That's poor menus.
That's a pity party.
Why would you find the creator of the
universe in a pity party? You really think
you would find the source through pity?
Autonomy is so raised up in this
world, you know parents raised children and they feel like
they succeeded if they're autonomous individuals.
What an oxymoron autonomous
individuals let's explore that
why is that an oxymoron? Why
is autonomous individual a contradiction in
terms?
because autonomy true autonomy
comes from
The Source the Creator, you
know if there's something that you are that's truly
Eternal and good it has to
come from the source everything that is
real comes from the source everything that
is unreal
Need be just seen for what it
is and let go.
Autonomy your autonomy, we learn in the course
of Miracles. You're autonomy.
Was given you in your creation.
so
it's actually impossible to be an autonomous
person.
But it's actually natural and actually
possible and real to be.
Autonomous Spirit, what does autonomous
Spirit even mean? You never hear that? Nobody ever
talks about autonomous spirit and yet in the Course in Miracles.
It says you're autonomy comes from your
creator.
In fact everything that's true and real and
good comes from your creator. You are given a spiritual
nature that comes from
source and that autonomy is real
and true, but that's spirit.
When you remember your self is Spirit, you will know your autonomy.
That's how you will.
find true autonomy is only in knowing Source
only in knowing Spirit and the other is a
you can say it's an imposter.
Tommy
personal autonomy, never ever ever brings an
experience of lasting happiness.
You may have an artificial sense of control. You
may have an artificial sense of
Independence. That's what I keep hearing when
people talk about autonomy in this world Independence.
Even countries selling celebrating independence day.
I mean I've been in a lot of countries and they have their own independence days
each country when they were freed from the
tyranny of another country of
being a colony.
You know, I see it because I traveled a lot of countries. So I
hear they say today's our Independence Day. We celebrate our
independence as a country.
And what did John Lennon say you imagine? There's no country.
I wonder if you can nothing to kill or die
for and Brotherhood of Man and we celebrate.
A an imagined day or at John Lennon
day of imagine. There's no country instead
of pride in the date.
when the country supposedly
was free a free country is an oxymoron
too. The more you listen to me. You'll see that all this
world of linear time is just full
of contradictions.
An oxymoron as it make no sense that the
tooth two ideas don't even fit together.
That's why they can't be believed because they have no basis
in reality. No Eternal
basis. No life of
themselves. No source.
So we talked about autonomy. Let's go on Independence. That's
another one Independence.
I want to be people tell me I want to be an independent person.
I say what's that?
Hey that seems like a contradiction to me independent person.
They say I want to be a free thinker.
What does it mean to be a free thinker?
Can you actually think apart from your Source?
If everything in your being comes
from the source? How could you be a free thinker thinking
apart from source?
That's just like trying to be an autonomous person independent of
source.
Your free thinking is thinking with God not trying
to think against God.
And how do you think with god? Well, I'll tell you what, it's
certainly isn't with thoughts of linear time.
If God is a god of Eternity and God
creates eternally and that's
your true thought your true idea your
true life. Then anything that you attempt to
think apart from God is tyranny.
You won't find happiness.
thinking thoughts of linear time
Some of us have heard be still and know that I am God.
There you go.
There you go.
What else is that practical should you devote your mind to other
things? No?
No.
That was a good one be still and know that I'm God be still
that is really underneath meditation.
Not under necessarily meditation practices
that tell you you have to sit a certain way breathe a
certain way use a certain Mantra and do it for a
certain many hours every day. That's still very much
a practice. It's still very much on the
timeline.
And you do in the end have to go so into it that
you actually let that all go to that's
still part of a linear practice, but but be
still and know that I'm God is calling you in to that.
super super still quiet moment that
that is the presence of love. That
is the presence of God.
So let's talk about freedom.
And people say I want personal freedom again.
hmm those two words together
two words commonly used in the world personal
freedom
Personal choice sometimes personal freedom and
personal choice we used together. Hmm.
Hat is going nowhere fast. You know
you you try to attain
something. That's absolutely unattainable.
When you go for personal autonomy personal freedom
personal choice?
personal Independence
All of these are just Concepts.
That are meant to defend against the love and the
light that you are.
none of them bear fruit
so sometimes people say I'd like to be
in a good space a good environment.
I like a better environment than the one I'm in.
But Consciousness is the environment.
the thoughts of Consciousness the contents of consciousness
are literally the
environment that you've chose to surround yourself
with
so we're here talking about purification of consciousness.
You're not going to find your true identity
or piece in tinkering around
with cut with with the forms that
seem to be Consciousness. You have to deeply go
inside and release.
these contents of consciousness
How do you release them?
Just by seeing that they're all the same.
You can't release them partially.
Can't say I'm 80% pure.
It well when
you're good, I mean look at it again. Is that isn't that
a contradiction of terms 80%
pure
you see that you following me you're getting
You're starting to see how silly that's why the angels are always laughing.
There's nothing more funny than the human being.
And the angels just laugh and laugh millions of
them on this on a pinhead. Just imagine just
all those angels left.
Because because after a while you start to realize
it's not so much that you have to give up something but
you just have to see what you never were and
never will be and then have a good laugh have a good belly left
on it. That's the way it's done
not by giving it up piecemeal.
Oh, I'm 90% pure now.
Yeah, well.
That's not gonna go that's kind of cut it either 90%
come to the Pearly Gates. I'm 90% here Lord.
I know you not.
I know Purity, but I don't know 90%
I don't get that.
so
let's talk a little bit about creativity because that's another thing that gets.
talked about
Creative person I have to say again. That's an
oxymoron.
I've never met a creative person in my life.
Because creativity is Spirit.
Creativity comes from Spirit the Eternal extends the
Eternal. Oh you're creative. All right, that's your
nature, but you're not a creative person.
You're not a creative person.
Or is it a great? You meet somebody have some friends
and they said did you meet so and so now I left
the coffee house?
They are a real spiritual person.
That's another laughable thing. How do you have a
spiritual person? What is it? Some are unspiritual?
and summer spiritual
and then this thing about good energy and bad energy.
Oh, that's so so for lunch. They
had really good energy.
And then when you have the bad energy part
is like stay away stay away from bad
energy cover yourself.
protect yourself
psychically protect yourself
call on the angels to wrap you in Silverlight when
you're around that kind of energy the angels are laughing
if you actually pray to them.
and has to be protected from
Evil and evil demons and
energies the Angels laugh at that too. They think it's the funniest
thing.
Because the angels are aware, you know of your Perfection of
your true beingness.
And they want you to laugh.
at everything
that's that comes as a Temptation. That's
the way you transcend Temptations as
you laugh at them.
You know, that was my talk yesterday. We didn't we discover that
it was the group The Temptations that say It's
Just My Imagination Running Away
with me. That was our Discovery yesterday that we
don't have to let anything run away with
with our who we are. It can't imagine Nation
can't even touch Who We Are
It's really profound when you just when you
just see just stop for a moment and just see it.
And you know it already.
I can see as I speak. I see a nodding.
Head a smile on the face. It's like, huh? I
know this I know this and and
maybe it's been temporarily pushed out of
awareness. But then wow when it's back you drop into
it. That is what Lisa did the first
talk just
You drop?
into this
glorious state
then everything seems funny.
There's no problem. There's nothing to
be serious about.
There's nothing to defend there's nothing to argue about.
drop
drop
nothing to get hung about Strawberry Fields
Forever.
When we open this up when Eric sang, he actually
sang your rendition.
He couldn't remember the other one here your
addition to those taken over in the mine now.
And we all remembered it. We all could sing along.
Yeah.
It's beautiful. That's the way Spirit just
comes in and it just fills you
up it occupies your mind because it
is your mind.
And you're free.
of the past
someone raised the the line from the course the
script is written and all that really means is is that
everything that you perceive?
of the linear world is
Gone, it's the past.
everything
For years, I've been using some phrases. I
would call it the past pass and the Future Past. Are you
are you hung up in the past pass or the Future
Past? He was a David that's ridiculous. There is
no future past say well, how do you think the psychics read
the akashic records? How do you think psychics predict?
Why do you think there's prophecies and everything? It's all reading the
past?
Not even difficult.
You know, it's just the ability to read the past the
past past the Future Past. So now this year the
X-Men some of you seen the
latest X-Men movie Days of Future Past. Here
we go. Now they made a movie out of it. I've
been talking about the future path for so long. It's only time
when College Hollywood catches up and there it
is Days of Future Past and it was it's gonna be
one of our Festival.
Movies we're gonna show it that our movie festival Days
of Future Past.
Will show about time that's another one that's in the
makers of Love Actually amazing movie.
It's we're coming into an awareness that the
past is the past is the past. You don't
have to fix the past. You don't have to change the past. You
don't even have to acknowledge the past. You just
have to see it for what it is.
If the world is passed, you know how Jesus says
in the course the world was over long ago.
Why would you try to fix something that was over and gone?
That would be absurd.
To fix something that was over gone.
Or even if you said oh that's just a figment of my imagination. Why would
you try to fix or change the figment
of imagination?
It's certainly a better use of your mind's energy than trying to
fix the past.
And and how does that play out when you try to fix a
partner when you try to fix a house?
Some of you remember some of the best comedy movies Shelley
Long and Tom Hanks Money Pit.
Really how funny that was.
They just try kept trying to fix this house and kept throwing
more money and more money and more money into
it. And it was The Money Pit. It just was absorbing
doses of
money and it was just hilarious because it
was just falling apart at the seams. No matter
how much money they put in it. They actually believe they were
going to succeed and
That was that and you could see that with families
you can see that.
With jobs with careers, you know
trying to build a career.
You know working so hard and a career
being loyal to a company loyal to
an occupation this and this and then
when you're ready to cash in and get your Rainbow your
pension plan, but my pension
plan is no longer there or it's
been stolen or hijacked.
Wait, where's my gold what you I don't have a pension plan or a
gold watch.
But I worked for years loyalty go
slating away going in and shaving
getting dressed up and brushing my teeth
and going to that same job and I was loyal to
my employer and everything and and the pension plan
is gone. It's stolen again. Why
would you put your faith in time?
when you're an eternal being
why would you put your faith in time?
But put your faith in houses put your
faith in.
Savings and Investments all kinds of
things. Why would you put your faith in something? That
is just ephemeral.
That will just pass away.
like Dust in the Wind
with nothing to show for it.
so
I would encourage I call it Divine Providence.
There was a time too and I was talking to Francis zoo and
she had this huge Insight one day that persons don't
have.
Divine Providence that no person ever
experiences Divine Providence and that's even
kind of sneaky because you know, you think of Divine Providence
some of you may think of Mother Teresa or Saint Francis
or Jesus the apostles or whatever and she
had this flesh of insight one day that that it
was her mind her awareness her Consciousness that
was being perfectly provided for by Source not
the person that was way too small.
It's a stepping stone idea. If you think
that you're supported by jobs and careers and
politicians and even growing crops
and all kinds of things in this world.
Then your mind needs an experience that it
is perfectly provided for.
It is perfectly sourced.
You need to know peace of mind. You need
to know the Stillness that you are in order
to know that province that being taken
care of feeling.
So In A Course in Miracles we've got
A symbol called the Holy Spirit and there's some
great passages in there attainment of the real world
and so forth.
But isn't this lovely the holy spirit will give you everything you
need? Oh, that's good.
The holy spirit will give you everything you
need and there's more and we'll
renew it.
As long as you have need of
it.
Whoa, this is a promise.
The holy spirit will give you everything you need and we'll
renew it. As long as you have need of
it.
But the Holy Spirit would not have you
linger in time.
So you have everything you need and it's renewed
as long as you have need a bit, but the Holy Spirit would not
have you linger in time.
The holy spirit will take nothing from you.
But will not have you linger in time.
Why because you weren't created as a time being you
were created as an eternal being.
And the spirit is always helping us unwind from limitation
unwind from lack unwind from
littleness unwind from scarcity unwind from
conflict.
The Holy Spirit would not have us linger in time.
Thank God.
That's why you can talk about I mean the
miracle of manifesting and I've had people say I can manifest anything.
Anything but it's like at some point
after you start to realize the power of the mind then Eternal.
Peace.
Has to come in as the direction.
Because otherwise, you can get a playing around and tinkering with
the symbols.
You know, okay, the mind is capable of tinkering with
the symbols, you know.
The mind that believes it's separate is capable of tinkering with
the symbols, but the mind that is whole and complete doesn't
want symbols.
What is the symbol but a representation?
A representation. It's not an actuality
a symbol will never satisfy you even
the best symbols are meant to disappear.
Because they're just representations along the way a
little signposts.
Like yeah, we're off to see the wizard. You know, you you keep
falling Follow The Yellow Brick Road, you know, you've got
to realize we're given beautiful beautiful symbols
to go on on this, but it's not meant to
we're not meant to linger in the
symbols.
We're not meant to freeze down.
And even in The Wizard of Oz, you know, they go in
this whole trip to find the wizard and to go back
home and this and this and this and you find out it was all dream.
the whole thing the flying monkeys the Wicked Witch of
the West
I was reading a bit about The Wizard of Oz recently and
how they made it. They had like like six different directors.
They kept having a director firing another one another one
another one.
Dorothy was supposed to have blonde hair.
And so they tried to
get Shirley Temple.
But she couldn't sing.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow surely Temple
didn't have that good other voice. So they finally got Judy Garland
with red hair. I mean they kept changing and
changing they had all these different set changes
production changes. I think they had like
23 major changes six changes of directors
and yet the it came through as
it was just a dream.
All those frightening characters the flying monkeys with
green witch with the long nose or anything was all
just some of the characters in her Kansas life, you know
dreamed up in this dream all about going home.
And of course, we know Kansas is not really home. I've been there. I
tried that out, too. I had a Hermitage in Kansas in the
middle of Kansas, too.
There's no place like home. There's no place like home. But
no, I know
what was that about?
A lot of cornfields. I'll tell you with cornfields and
weed fields.
But it's flat. Yeah so flat.
But we start to realize that there's something much
more and all these movies and all
these Parables and all these fairy tales are pointing us.
to that
we can see that we hear all these songs
that we've been being serenaded now for decades of
amazing Waking Up songs.
Amazing amazing songs, and it's all for this
simple simple experience.
of beingness
Now people have said to me listen.
I can hear what you're saying, but you ain't going far on
planet Earth you go for this non-possession
stuff. Good luck. Sucker.
You know you are going to go for a big tumble. You're
gonna just be old and fat and
gray and crying. Why didn't I
invest? You know, I mean,
I hear this all the time they see Davis lost
his marbles and he's not he's beside himself and
you know, I'll tell you what you you never can
truly live.
Unless you experience the joy of non-possession and I'm
talking about even with relationships. You think you've
had some great inner personal relationships.
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
Because this experience of agape love
this experience of unconditional Universal love.
That's gonna knock your socks off that's gonna blow your
mind and these
interpersonal relationships have
been good reflectors. You have to thank them you have got to be grateful because
they really flushed up a lot of unconscious crap and you
thought it was real until it
came up and you went. Oh, please.
No more. I am not going down that road
again. I mean I went to
Spain. I think it was a year or two ago, and I was giving
a talk in in the Canary Islands.
And the biggest of the Canary Islands and I ate
my friend had told me I was supposed to come there and marry this
couple but I forgot all about it. So I was given my talk and
I was saying, you know, there's only one really.
true accurate wedding vow
and that is I love you now.
That's that's about as accurate as you can get
and it's short and sweet as you can get and so
they were translating my friend. Susanna
was translating into Spanish. I didn't
know but the bride and groom were were in the audience and I
was supposed to marry him the next day. So
So then the next day, you know I put on some.
Music for the event Amazing Grace. I
had Amazing Grace playing the background the bride
in the room come up to me and the no a
little bit of Poquito tiny bit of English and
they I said well, what what's do you
want for your service? Do you want? What do you want for the vows and have you
thought this through that they had the ring they both had been
at the event of mine. It's oh no, we got the vow.
It was in Spanish and it was I love you now.
That was it. They would both Exchange.
I love you. Now with a ring of No Beginning
No End as the symbol.
It was bu it was very kind of mystical and ethereal and
everybody was so happy everybody that come
showing up and coming in. It was just a happy scene
happy reflection. And that
is the Simplicity of it.
Other times I've visited people who are
going through divorces or breakups and everything.
I just don't get that. I don't.
I don't really understand. What a breakup is.
So I'm showing up in full Joy
Full Throttle joy and I walk into
sometimes houses and families and there's is allegiances
and alliances and who did
what to who and who's wrong and who's
never going to speak to who and who's been jilted
and you know, who and you
know, I'm just like please please this.
Let's honor that.
The mind is when it's asleep. It's making choices. It's
it's actually everyone's doing the best that they can based on
what they believe.
Their choices are actually beliefs.
And they're they're emptying their mind. They they know deep
down the way the truth is Emptiness is empty the
mind of everything you think you think they've been around they've
read the same books. They've been exposed to the same teachers for centuries.
They know that and they're really doing
the best that they can.
Based on what they believe.
Can we not honor that?
can we not honor our brothers and sisters as they
take their seeming steps and do
the best that they can and and can
we not have charity for them can we not have vision
of seeing their innocence really is
what they are is pure innocence Behind These seeming
Choices in form as persons there's
an innocence there.
Can we not focus on that?
Can we not Overlook their?
their
failings and their misgivings and their you
know, even the perception of these things.
There's a line in the Course in Miracles.
Where Jesus says dreams softly of
your sinless, brother?
dreams Softly
of your sinless brother remember his kindnesses that
he gave
Focus your mind on the kindnesses
focus your mind on the generosity
Focus your mind on the sweetness Focus your mind on
the charm
Focus your mind on the love
And let go of everything
else because it's all for your
mind. Whatever you focus on you
reinforce, or you strengthen in
your own consciousness.
focus on the little hurts
if you focus on the little
misperceptions with a little mistreatments with
a little glares and glances
that they occasionally seem to come into your awareness if
you focus on that you retain that in awareness.
You know Jesus just said, you know love that the Lord
thy God with all the whole heart soul and mind and and love
thy neighbor as I selves. And what's the
basis of the second commandment? He really just emphasized those
two. He didn't emphasize the other eight.
Why would you love your neighbor as yourself unless your
neighbor was yourself?
Unless you really weren't your brother's keeper your sister's keeper,
but it they were actually just
reflecting your consciousness.
And you start to see that self-love true self-love
is not a thing
of bodies. It's it's your spiritual reality.
When you love your neighbor as yourself, you're just loving.
your loving as your Source loves
you Source makes no distinctions.
The Source doesn't love some and not love others the
rain comes and the rain falls on
everything it falls on the trees on the cactuses on
the rocks
It falls on the people it falls on the telephone poles.
It falls. It's not coming down going. Oh
watch out there. It's a telephone pole is electric there.
Let's go over there and hit some Cactus or
something.
You know, it's
it it doesn't discriminate and
neither does love the sunshine doesn't
discriminate either it just shines.
Anyone who wants to can go and bathe in the sunshine,
it's not aiming. It's Rays somewhere.
Ooh, there's a better one over there. There's good energy
over there. Let's shine over there. Oh, it's dark
over there. Let's send some clouds. You know,
this is not how life works.
discrimination
Okay, that's my Spiel for the morning. Okay.
But I'm open for any questions comments.
What have you whatever?
I just want to say too how practical this is, you
know, even though pulled people told me you can't you
you can only be giving to a point you can
only be generous to a point generosity has this limitations.
I don't think so.
I'd say love doesn't have any limits. We have
a Wellspring of love because we come from a
Eternal source that has no limits. So that
means the love in our hearts has no limits.
So we can give that away and we're not talking about.
Like giving in terms of material possessions because
we're actually talking about seeing that that's impossible material possession,
you know is actually in another oxymoron.
So we're not talking about trying to
become a philanthropist or something
but we're talking about the Beatitudes give the
all the love in your heart shine it share
it.
Indiscriminately, don't try to
figure it out or hold it
back or aim it in a certain way. Just let it
flow and generosity, you
know.
Even some of these symbols that some of you know about these scenes and
the apostles and the franciscans and so on and so forth. They
had this thing called shared property.
That was just a symbol, you know, you can't really share property.
Remember what Mary bakeretti said there's no mind and matter.
There's no life truth substance intelligence and matter so
you can't really share property, but it's just a symbol.
And and you'll find that many things in your life.
You just see that they're all symbolic, but
the symbols don't mean anything in and of themselves.
As soon as you realize this Holy Spirit that's using
the symbols.
And you go. Ah
I've never have had a possession. I never have
had control over this whole thing. Yeah, then
you start to realize that you're really really
free. The spirit is in charge
of the use of symbols. And again the holy spirit will
give you everything that you need and will renew
it as long as you have need of it, but would not
have you linger in time. That's very comforting.
That that's means you can let go and say
well, I'm definitely not in charge here of anything.
And yet I am so provided for I don't have to
put thought and energy. That's what
Jesus taught take. No thought for what you shall wear what you shall
eat, you know.
Take no thought for the morrow.
Give no thought to the morrow. Wow, that's
really freeing, too. No thought
for tomorrow my gosh. I don't have to get into planning and
scheming and striving and
how I'm gonna keep this body surviving another day another year
and other 10 years.
What am I going to do when it's old and gray? No, please
take no thoughts.
For tomorrow you feel how relaxing that
is.
Put your full attention on the Kingdom right now.
Kingdom of Heaven is within give your full attention to it.
Don't hold back. Don't make any exceptions to it.
you'll be
more
free than you've ever could have imagined in
terms of the world that state of
mind is more is more free than anything you could imagine.
That freedom doesn't really have a form so that you
can see thinking about I could
be a little Freer. If only I had
Possessed possessed possessed possessed, you
know, that's not the way.
That won't lead to Freedom.
Jesus says in the course. What do you want freedom of the
body or freedom of the mind for both? You cannot have
I pay attention when I hear
for both. You cannot have.
I'm not going to try a mix.
If the master if the Lord is telling me clearly one
thing.
Don't need to bucket. I don't need to fight it. I don't need to try
to prove him wrong and say I'm gonna do both. Oh
do both and Justified. No
I've gone for freedom of the mind
I've gone for an experience that
is not tied into form where I
don't need to have things a certain way to have freedom.
The body can seem to be stationary or move doesn't
matter. My freedom is not dependent on the
body circumstances environments can
shift and change doesn't bother me because my
freedom is not dependent on the circumstances.
situation
I think it was Marianne Williamson who said
happiness is not circumstance dependent.
Very wise very wise it's true.
true
Okay, we'll open it up.
Francis there's a
phrase that came to me.
and
I feel prompted to share it.
When people would question me about various things.
and I would
I'm sure it was guided.
That there is no such thing as the
rest of my life.
Okay, and that
kind of stopped the conversation? Yeah.
I'm sure that was a lot of fun when you're children were
asking about their will and inheritance and you
said there is no such thing as the rest of
my life.
Oh, okay.
But I see that you're smiling. That's very
good.
Rick
touched on Independence
And given that
it's a label.
generated through form breaking it down I got
In dependence and the
word I got it just absolutely clamps
me inform.
Clamps me that I left in
dependence. Yeah, very
good. That's very
good. Wow. Now
everyone all day is gonna be going. Wow, I might
in dependence.
To what Rick said? Yeah.
the funny thing too is I think in this world like
dependence is really got a bad name and Independence
seems to have a good name. And
the funny thing I find is that
when we talk about Divine Providence and emptying your mind of
all these Concepts that I like the
way and of course in Miracles dependence is flipped around in a
positive way in a very positive way.
Dependent on your creator. I mean if your creator created
you and you live and move and have your life in your creator.
Then wouldn't that be the most helpful thing to
be dependent and that's why Jesus said except you
become as little children. You cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
He wasn't saying that little babies infants were.
Perfectly Serene and peaceful because we know they cry
they kick they scream they poop.
They squirt they pee, you know, this is
not except you become his little children. You're like
if you had a baby Jesus, you know what you're talking about
infants. No, he's saying what are
we know about infants? They're completely infants are completely
dependent.
On mother and father for everything they don't
come into this world autonomous. Okay, here
I am. I'm autonomous and free. I'm a
unique individual expression of God and I'm autonomous and
free and get out of my way. Well, no there completely completely
dependent and Jesus
was saying you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven except you
become as little children because he was pointing on
you need to become as dependent on
your Source on on your spirit
on the spiritual guidance as little infants
are babies.
To their parents that's what he was teaching. He clarified that
in the course of Miracles. I always wondered a little bit like no
I think kids are kind of innocent looking but all
the time. I don't know how good that
metaphor is but no, I didn't understand the metaphor. Now.
I understand the metaphor. He clarifies it but you
love that Jesus Christ always clarifying things
in the Course in Miracles.
Tweaking you're going. Oh, that's what you meant.
That's the two men. Oh, okay.
I get it. I see it. And that's it.
That dependent thing is
I like being dependent on on Source. It's
within it though. It's not a external dependence
like like the when I
was in grad school and they listened to my tape and they said David, you
know doesn't rely won't
trust or rely on external sources.
That was a prophecy. I guess it was
pointing me to the kingdom of heaven within and just trust.
And that's the whole basis of all the characteristics of a
teacher of God. It's all based on trust and if trust
goes
the rest go and if you're dependence on Source goes
Then that's it. Some of you remember David
Hawkins the he passed away a little while. I
used to live down there and was it down there Sedona Sedona? Yeah,
that's where you're from. He he wrote
power versus for us all wrote things and he was using a
lot of Kinesiology and yeah, testing this
and this but and he would kind of rate things spiritually.
He would rate all these things and what was fun as he
would say he would.
A book would come out it would be like channel from
Spirit and the book would come out and it
would be like rated at like, you know seven or
an eight, you know on the scale and an
interesting thing he noticed was at the time it came
out the author of the book was was rated as the
same as the book.
And then a curious thing would happen. The book would remain at that
Kinesiology rating and the authors.
Grading would drop I thought that's
really fascinating. The book would stay
the same the authors. What would happen Fame?
Pride Fortune adulation oh
on this planet
Even if you Channel a great book, you've got to
say the ego is sitting back going. Okay good right.
You had a great Chandler book there.
I'll get you yet with vanity.
Like at the end of The Devil's Advocate, you know.
Al Pacino plays the Devils at vanity get
some every time you know good it's
good to be aware of these things. These kind
of things. We're here to undo Pride.
We're not here to have successful personal lives.
We're here to be humble to be as little children
to be present to be
as God created us spirit. That
is really what it's about. So I
I'm glad you're bringing that up because that sits right in Independence in
worldly dependence.
Gets you nowhere. We think
it's we think it's giving us freedom. Yes, but
in fact
it's it's clamping is into the dependence on
ego. And yes, really? That's wow. That
would be greater than you could do a whole lecture at
a non-duality.
Conference that Independence and dependence are
actually the same. We have Angels here that
are just bringing up the jumping in
the yard. There's something that's to be spoken quick quick.
I'm talking and I
see yeah like
this this whole thing. I'm doing I'm doing
the pride and be like
little children and we're not here to be successful person. It
just really inspired me. We're watching.
Tonight at 7:00 at 7:00. We're gonna have a
movie session and we're gonna watch the kid.
So it's just perfect. Yeah,
I kept hearing a movie a movie
and like I can't think of anything, uh, probably at
the chapel. Yeah, so and then I get
here and check out check out your movie list and I
just went through my movie listings. I was like no no, no, no and it
was like the kid. Yes, and then I hear David
talking about we're not here to be successful
persons and we're here to be a little children dependent
very much dependent. And
so so that's perfectly
Yeah, I keep having this notion to
take space.
Just to be to not be
social.
And and I I wonder is that ego or
is that?
Essential I you know, I just don't
know.
Okay. Well, let's look at that one. Take space.
To not be so social.
to be
yeah.
And it seems right but
then I question.
Am I up to something? You know am I
avoiding from you? Yeah, that's
it. That's a good thing. Right? Am
I trying to make something happen? If you know
the thing I think is so great is there is
a way shower there is one within us that is
guiding comforting leading
us and it knows the way some of
you know that you know, of course the Miracles workbook, you know, you go through all these
lessons 365 you go through 360 and
and then you get
to the final five, you know, the Final Five Lessons
and it is you know this holy instant
what I give to you.
Be you in charge isn't that
great. The whole thing is set up to to have
you be dependent on spiritual guidance, you
know, this course is a beginning not an
ending henceforth listen to the voice for
God which will direct all subsequent learning.
You see it's it's the thing
of the Temptation could just come in and thinking if
I if I had a little more space and I was more away
from people maybe I would be
happier or sometimes people flip the
other side as they feel like they need partners and
Community. They need to have people around them. Otherwise, they'll
be lonely. You know, both of those would be kind of
ego definitions of of it. So I
just feel like the most helpful humble
place is when you are in that place of
of
This holy instant what I give to you be you in charge. Were
you are just open and receptive you have
the state of allowance and willingness there
and then instead of
trying to imagine something you can feel it.
You know, you just kind of just notice things
happening. I know for myself that was
important. I I seemed to be guided into
Hermitage experiences to face things.
Sometimes people come out here to the monastery because they have so many intense
emotions and they they love how gracious the rocks
are out here.
You can scream at the Rocks shout out the
Rocks the Rocks won't call the police on you. Go straight
jackets coming, you know, sometimes people just go and whoa, they
let off a big big emotional discharge in
the Rocks like
That's fine. They're not
bothered.
By emotional discharges now
try that in your family settings. It's a
different reflection that comes back so there can be a spaciousness.
And a kind of a loosening that goes on as you
experience yourself as the light of the world and
then in that light.
Every the miracle is involuntary. So you you
may seem to be send out to
shine and share seemingly, but it's
not really about what the body does or doesn't do and in
the end. It's not about being close to
bodies are far away from bodies. Sometimes people
like to be around nature and plant bodies
or animal bodies as a stepping
stone because they're not so intellectual, you
know, they're not saying what what does
that mean? You know, you say that to you express what
you do to a tree and trees like okay good, you
know, it's it's very accepting. So those
are helpful symbols and steps along the way.
I noticed yesterday.
It was like after lunch and I went I
just kept hearing rest and I went do I need to rest
and then I laid down and rested and
then after I went oh, I guess I did because rest is
what happened. Yeah, that's nice. That's
you're just easing into this involuntary flow.
That's beautiful. That's that's what it's all about.
Really?
Kevin
there's a whole bench back there. Yeah.
I had a couple of wordplays come to me when you were talking about
possession.
One thing that came out you were talking about having and possessing the
possessions.
Then the phrase demon possession came to my
mind like there's the same word. Yeah.
Demonic possession that's something yeah. I heard growing
up a lot too. Yeah.
And when you were talking about love does not
possess.
Just the phrase popped into my head loved professors
not possesses. Hmm.
Yes, I like that. Wow, you
and Rick should have a seminar this afternoon. That's great.
love professors
not possesses
Yeah.
Yeah, just following on from what was
his shared the business
of they're the the idea that love has
no object.
I have
difficult difficulty saying.
When somebody says I love you.
I kind of
wavered with that one and I'm saying
look it's not regular.
but and
If I'm not saying I love you, then I'm
afraid it's almost like I'm a bit afraid that
I'm gonna lose it. Like I'm gonna you know, I'm gonna lose everybody if
I if I say, no, it's not me you love then
they're just gonna
Fade away and if everybody just Fades
away, I'm not really sure I'm comfortable with that.
And I wouldn't say it to everyone.
but
it's just not trusting completely I think is what it
comes down to.
Yeah, it's
it's just sort of on the cusp of saying look.
You know you and I are staring in front of one another and
reflecting.
Well, and I'm not it's just getting to the point where I
can acknowledge that. It's not you.
But I'm loving
and be able to say it and trust that everything's going to
be okay.
Like trust that all my mighty companions aren't
just gonna disappear. Well, actually the mighty companions probably
wouldn't
it's just an awkward moment.
Yeah, let's explore that. I'll I'll do a
little discourse on love like a roomie.
So we start off with love has no object and then
you're describing this awkwardness. Sometimes a hesitation.
Sometimes you may say it's not
Rick that you love but there's a fear of turning somebody
off or losing.
things
there's a part in A Course in Miracles where she's says you
have many strange beliefs, but perhaps
the strangest of all your beliefs is
that you can lose the ones that you love.
That's pretty strong. Perhaps the strangest of
all yours beliefs.
But what what's happening is if you followed all these
ideas and Concepts that we've been talking about today down to
the root like if you could find the root.
You know, what's the root of all evil? What's
the root down there in the mind that brings all these
distortions and distorts even love distorts the
experience of love. It's sacrifice.
sacrifice
Is that the core of all distortions?
And sacrifice is the belief that
something can be lost or must be lost that
there's a cost. There's a price to pay.
even all those misinterpretations of Jesus and Christianity
sacrificial lamb
You know blood of the lamb slain, you
know, as if God would require one of his innocent children
to be sacrificed for the good of the whole for the prime
directive or something, you know, no sacrifice is
under all of the
fear of love. That's where the fear of love comes in.
It's a very strange thing fear of love.
Even when the Bible says fear God and keep his Commandments. It's
not talking about fear. Like we
talk about is being all of God
and keep his Commandments. That's the proper interpretation of
fear. God and keep his Commandments now.
The the reason that they're is a
little bit of awkwardness and and sometimes a
strange feeling or a little hesitation is because
everything that goes for love in this
world is a construct that was made to take
the place of love.
Like you watch the bumper stickers, you know, I love
my whatever New York Yankees or
Canucks or you know, whatever. It
could be. You could put after the I love what
whatever objects are put after that. Those are
all idols and substitutes actually for what true
love and divine love is and then romantic Love
Actually that's a construct too. That's where
the hesitation and the awkwardness comes in because the
words come out.
I love you, but as long as there's associations and
connotations.
Around persons that are still in there. It's going
to be some awkwardness because sacrifice is
still at the bottom.
You know like we come up with words like
polyamore and and the
idea that there could be many love.
But love is one.
And not many so you will never have
a true experience of Many Loves or monogamy
as if like, there's just
you can love one person
more than any other you know that it's actually possible.
Hmm sacrifice is underneath all
of these Concepts.
And that's why the Mind needs to be rinsed blessed
are the pure of heart for they shall see God pure of
heart Purity. That's purifying all
Letting Go all these Concepts emptying
the mind of all these concepts of love to come
into the actual experience of Agape divine unconditional
love. So it's it's great
that you're noticing that's you're just onto it.
You know, you're there's a little awkwardness there.
And what's underneath that awkwardness kind of like the Princess and
the Pea, you know, there's all those mattresses.
At the very bottom of all those mattresses, there's a little p and
she's sensitive.
Is she's feeling the pee.
Even under the all those layers and mattresses of
softness. She still feels the pee. You're just opening
your heart up you're coming into an experience where
even when the I love you
words are spoken. You're just gonna pay attention and
see if there's a little bit of awkwardness even underneath
those words. That's beautiful.
That's exactly how you heal is by
noticing.
And being sensitized to that so that
you can let go of anything that's there.
I mean they they had the quantum Love Song Kirsten
and Ricky and Eric came
up with.
This love is not romantic this
love cannot be contained. Of
course in our hearts. We know that love cannot
be contained because God cannot be contained
because love in the end is undefinable
as soon as we Define it.
Then there's sacrifice.
involved
it's kind of an interesting story the way the the
ego Twisted the whole story of Jesus like the blood
of the lamb and
Sacrifice offered up for the sins of mankind and
everything that story has not solved anything.
Just probably raise more question marks. Like why
would a god of love require the killing
or the suffering or the sacrifice of
of a child doesn't make sense and
and with good reason as we see that it's
it's erroneous. It's
it's not it I even had I did my
my book Awakening through A Course in Miracles and someone I
saw online the other day had given it a one-star
rating.
Because they said that you know, basically that David
had left out Jesus's sacrifice.
Damn, right. I left out. Jesus is sacrifice.
I'm happy with a one-star writing if that's that's
behind it throw in the ones I don't
care if they're fives are ones because love
does not sacrifice. There is
no sacrifice in love. That's what the whole
Awakening is is coming to see.
You know that there's no sacrifice in love. But
every time we have a hesitation around anything,
I'll tell you what's underneath the hesitation.
It's still the belief.
in sacrifice
Even in the movie The Giver I just saw the movie Giver. I was watching watching
watching and there was still this one will have
to sacrifice.
Sacrifice his life for whatever for the community. There it
is again, you know, it's just it's underneath. It's
the root of all distortions. It's the
root of all hesitations. It's the root
of awkwardness is the belief in sacrifice.
That you can lose something someone's got to lose. It can't
be win-win-win. You know, that's what sacrifice is
saying it. Oh, yeah, it's gonna be a cost. There's a
price to pay.
I have found no price. I am giving giving all
the love in my heart extending giving giving giving
and I I have not found a price.
I have not found a price people always say that every
human being has their price. Well, yeah,
but we're Spiritual Beings.
And our spirit doesn't have a price.
Freely, you have received now freely give I love that.
I resonate with that the core of my being
so thank you. That's great. Thank you for bringing up
that little
hesitation that
fingers are pointing everywhere teeth of
their Whoa We got some
I made
it simple queue in.
I'm in the midst of it experience. So
so what what I'm finding?
you know here now with me is
you know yesterday I thought
I'd offered to sing it three and that sort
of got rejected or pushed
away or something and
and in a way, I
offered some
reading for like poetry and that
got rejected and and I'm asked not
to express that the altar
sessions.
and
if you remember there was those days we spent
together.
You know where people were just singing and I didn't sing.
and it was a little awkward with my son, but
I mean there's but
feeling
I mean, you know, I could go to the blaming but what's
really happening. This is somehow I'm
projecting out in the universe a
total squelching of myself.
with the book with the music with the
you know, it's it's like the
force back at the tremendous creativity
coming through of spirit.
and um
So I could even Friday night. Like I
was sure he's gonna sinks Saturday because Spirit was talking
to me for two hours. I mean it was like
12:36 and 111 and 201
and they'd be these just downloads
of what I was supposed to say and what you
know and and somehow that it doesn't happen.
and somehow the
it was
excruciating to me today not to
get to
offering the alter session and so
separate in making myself
and not
able to make a fist
very painful to me right now like it
was so I thought it was gonna sink today, you know, and the
three o'clock changes and seven continuously.
But it's way more than that.
And so that just offered.
Thank you. Sundari. I
know too that before you even were coming here. You were
sending me that wasn't the Requiem and you've been
singing for days and days and days I'm saying
four days a Davy saw in San
Francisco it just right before now two days after this.
I have an audition to get back in this choir. Yeah. I
hadn't Sun classical for 15 20 years.
Oh my God, can I read music and Kevin Kevin? He's
so brilliant.
Having said oh, yes, seeing from the
requiemen somehow we've put together like four or five
pages of this huge Requiem with the all these parts and orchestration
and made it into a solo and it's
just so there it is. So the collaboration. Yeah,
and it's like
it's all kind of like a kind of like
it all comes out. That's what I love about like this year.
We used to Seven Day music festival and I've
been now we're doing with the movies the 10 days
and so it's it's like that
thing of that I had talked about dance as
if no one is watching sing as
if no one is listening. You know, it's it's who
we are is the gift.
There's all this love that who we are as the gift.
And of course at times it
wants to come out and be expressed and at other times it's just
this thing of of timing in
other words. It's divine called Divine timing like everything comes
at its at its time.
And I even this past year was kind of
interesting for me because the holy spirit's been using me to sing and
speak and laugh and hug and move and this and this
and I remember I was in Hawaii and and I got
an invitation from it. Would you come to a silent
Retreat? We'll fly you into the silent retreat?
We don't really want you to speak at all. That was
good too. Oh, wow, this is cool. Why
did he flying have blown the halfway around
the world to just do nothing at all?
We just want your presence.
We just want you to show up. We don't want you to express anything.
Zip it I
can
mini me. You know, Austin Powers zip it zip
it. Well, I had a delightful
time. I had a delightful silent Retreat
just going around and I gazing with everybody and
listen this but because that's what was asked for.
So I think part of me is once you start to see that you
are the present you are the light of the world. You are
the love.
And and that is everything you are the gift. You are
the gift you are. You know, the Kingdom
of Heaven is within you Jesus says the word
within is actually unnecessary.
You know the Kingdom of Heaven Is You?
whoa
Is you the word within is actually unnecessary? I
love that, you know, so in Miracles
are involuntary. So you have all this love and and you
can feel it and and everything and then and then
even the need to express
it in a particular way can block
the awareness of the gift. Even the
need to express it in a secure in particular
way or in a particular time. You see that how that's
getting rinsed and washed and I say great
all for the glory. I want to just
be happy. So that's
the joy and I'm
happy that you can just come here and and say whatever
you need to say because I join
with you in the in the gift. You are
the gift.
You are the gift.
You really are the gift.
This you are the Sun and sunshine and sundari
really? Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
beautiful
Carolyn that's
here.
We still have that song to come. What's it? What's the name
of it?
recognize
so I asked for
Less body identification and what's happened is
it's accelerated.
It's just
one big huge distraction
that I set up to keep me from receiving love.
That's how I see it.
So
I'm so concentrated on these things that are happening inside
of this body that
It you know appears that I have to go to Park City to do something to
take care of the body. And so then
I'm missing things and
I guess I'm just not sure.
how to ease that and
and really
Let It Go
Well, one of the things I think that's helpful
is kind of again. It's it's like loosening.
from the idea of
time and the day and and how
things are supposed to go. I love just coming into what
seems to be a new day with with just
an openness. Like like I mentioned at the
very end of the workbook, you know this holy instant.
Would I give to you be you
in charge?
That there's no accidents in form. Even when there's
a feeling like something needs to be taken care of like to
go to you know, a clinic or
to go to see a practitioner or something like this.
It's always to bring the light you
are a bringer of light.
Your attitude is essential.
And when even when if you're called to go meet with
a practitioner or into a clinic or something like that
still you are the bringer
of light everything is for the same purpose.
And then the ego tries to say, but you'll miss.
This and you didn't come out here all the way to try after the
Utah to to be handling this body stuff and
so forth It's the presence that you
bring.
You bring with you that that is the gift.
I had a woman one time who I was
at A Course in Miracles group and
and
we were waiting for the start of it and I kept hearing from
the spirit. Not yet. Don't start yet wait wait, and then
this woman walked in crying and saying she'd
been diagnosed.
I think with with cancer or
something and she's been her whole
life.
Like a lot of it reading the course and telling her husband
or children. It's all in the mind. There's no disease. There's
no sickness.
You know, that's a figment of imagination and on and
on and on and then coming right from the the doctor
and coming into the course group just shocked just embarrassed
can't go home. I can't talk
to my children can't talk to my family and and
the spirit just poured through me because because
she was feeling she needed to go and have
some treatment, you know, go to the hospital and have
treatment and everything and it was it was all from this mentality that
I've done something wrong.
And I just everything that came through from the
spirit was like you are the light of the world you
bring a blessing with you
wherever you go, wherever you are guided to
go you bring a blessing and just she
joined me in the joy.
of that like the encounters with going
to the hospital and so and so forth and more Parables came
out about about a woman who
Who basically had to be operated on for in
her neck for the?
for the lip cancer that she had and
While she was undergoing the operation she had a
past life flesh of her at the guillotine.
And having your head chopped off.
Because she had some hesitation around the doctor and the and the
operation and she saw that that with
this past life flash and it was the same circumstance. It
was a blade and neck involved and that this was all about
a reinterpretation and she was there to
forgive.
Forgive this flesh of this memory.
Forgive that she could ever be mistreated forgive that she could
ever be harmed. This was a surge in offering the
blade and the symbol was coming in it was there he was
just an agent of healing.
There to help her.
Whereas the other one was literally to have ever head
chopped off. He was just it's all about reinterpretation.
And so, you know when you
come and you make this journey this pilgrimage or
even to come here with with all the strawberry symbols.
God goes with me wherever I go God is in
everything. I see it's it's I am
here to be truly helpful. I'm here to be the light.
Of the world. I'm here to shine the
light and I'm not here to judge the symbols and the props.
You know.
It's a temptation to think. Oh, like you mentioned
like a bladder infection or whatever. The
the presenting problem seems to be
it's never about that. We are we are here.
We have a glorious message to shine a glorious
attitude to shine and Gloria's presence to shine. And
and so it's just that tweak in
the mind just reorienting back.
To I'm here to be truly helpful.
and I don't have to understand the props or the symbols
or how
the body is used or where the body
is used. You know, I can let go of all
that safely and come back to I am
here to be truly helpful.
And it it does draw your attention, you know.
To the miracle. It just draws you into that and
it takes it off of the interpretations,
you know, which is where the mind
gets hung up. It just gets hung up with these interpretations. I
was at a healing Festival a
number of years ago and a friend
of mine Cindy.
She had her whole day planned at being at
this healing Festival. It was in Wisconsin and we're going
to do a thing on the Matrix and always the whole
schedule full of things and she woke up in the
morning and she couldn't move her body. It just she just
was completely couldn't move her body at
all.
And she just felt so bad that she was
at this healing conference and she was bedridden.
and
and I remember going to her room and
And looking at her she said I just I
please pray with me. She said I feel
so bad that I met a healing conference and
I can't move my body. I can't get out
of bed.
And so we prayed together.
And we felt the love of God and we felt the
joy.
But instead of her rising out of the bed.
this body
we curled up and we just meditated in bed
all day long.
in the glory of God
Yeah, the Matrix thing we've done all that. We've
done it all before this is it let's just
cuddle and curl up in God's love and then
we just laid there in the glory all day and then she
rose up the next day and she was a typical active.
Am at the body, you know, we're just as active as
could be it wasn't a problem.
An inactive body is not a problem.
It's only the Judgment that things
should be different.
Than they are that's where the the
luck comes in.
So it's just beautiful to remember that you know.
That what seems to be the interpretations of
the body can't hold you back. Can't stop the miracle.
Nothing can stand in the way of the miracle.
Thank you.
Hey.
Would you clear something up for me about this reincarnation?
Because you know an abused Temple.
They were you know, they were talking about for example
the flying dreams. They were saying wet means you flew before you're gonna
fly and then one time and it was this thing where I was in a spaceship
and I thought maybe it was like
it wasn't a dream but
So what's the deal with the rear incarnation?
well
It's all symbols.
You know, it's all symbols in the mind. We we talked about
that with one of your questions the other day, you know that you were saying
oh, so it's all it's all symbols when we just make distinction
between the symbols is if like
we've done it before or so are and so forth.
yeah, you might say we've done it all before and and
at the
same sense when we go into this no thing this
and everything this we've been talking about them
during this retreat.
you start to see that that in the end everything starts
to just
merge together because it is together or you
might say that that all distinctions.
Start to Fall Away.
Into a state of mind just the present
State of Mind.
And so I would say that with past
lives or past life regressions or things if
you notice a pattern or you
notice a pattern that's that's really the the advantage
whether it's astrology or past life
regressions, and there's so many different tools and techniques. It's
all just
To help you notice the patterns.
you know underneath
what are the patterns and then just noticing the patterns
is just an opportunity to forgive.
You know and forgiveness collapses time forgiveness
shows you the sameness of
all things forgiveness lifts you into this
glorious State of Mind where where you're aware
of the sameness and those distinctions that
seem to be important there along the
way they start to to fade
his way as well. I always tell people just pay attention
to your emotions, you know, if it's
like a flying dream or something it's not
so important whether you've done it before as it
is the feeling of of the
soaring and the freedom and so on and so forth,
you know, and when you feel limited or
constricted in some way then that's just turns into
an opportunity for forgiveness, you know for for
healing release.
so the woman she was not really ever got her head cut
off for you know, the scalpel thing or is that
just you know, I mean
It's it's a symbol. There's a
parable one time when?
This man was carrying some heavy groceries
in and his back went out and so he
started this praying and opening to Jesus. And so Jesus
works with him with the time symbols for a while.
He says what you think your back went out.
Because you were carrying all these heavy groceries
and you shouldn't have tried to do it all by yourself. You should have asked for
some help.
And but that back pain that you were it
has nothing to do with carrying the groceries. He says first of
all to the man he says actually
you had you had when you first seem to
come into this world you had you were
taking to a Christian Science facility and
you had a breech birth and the pain
that you experience. There's nothing to
do with a groceries. It's this you haven't forgiven the doctor. You
haven't forgiven your mother. He has describing
this whole situation occurring at
Birth where there was a breach birth, and he still
was holding on to grievances of some of the characters the mother,
you know, the the people at
the facility and this and this and this
And then they get then Jesus said let me tell you something.
the birth never happened
to see how he's so practical. He takes it from the groceries.
and he takes it back to the breech birth, and then he goes
He pulls the rug out it never happened.
There's a rug here goes the rug there goes the
kleenex there goes the tears, you know, no need for tears
about this breech birth. It never happened. And that's
really what we're learning through forgiveness. You know,
he takes it in and working with the mind the
symbols that it can relate to the symbols that can handle
and then it never happened. You know, that's that's
how deep forgiveness goes.
and now my elbows messed up Monday now it's going
Yeah, I just did that skit just for you.
It's unvoluntary didn't even try to do it.
Yeah.
Francis
This will be I look at the time. This will be our last question and
then
recognition
been so
you've been
so helpful with symbolism and body stuff.
I have an annoying
condition that's in the back. I mean,
I can't see it and it's been years and
years happening goes away and comes back and I'm
looking at the symbolism of it being
something, you know in the back that I can't see
I can't reach it. You know, it's just the and
I just wondered if you had anything helpful to
to suggest
as you've been so helpful for the people. Thank you.
Yeah, the only thing that's coming to
mind because we talk
about symbols and we start to get an awareness that
nothing is as it seems.
and
so if this seems to be a condition that
Is in the back and that that you can't see it.
But you experience it, you know, it's in the most simplest of
ways. I always just say what's the message of the symbol? But
but that can be that's coming
to mind is just don't look back.
Don't look back.
Okay, we're ready for our closing
song.
Go.
I hear the color remember letting the
joy flow.
I can understand.
Radiates a child is left.
to feel power
Go.
get lost and
only after
I thank you for your life
disorder anything it
helped me down.
from
know
If Ever I go
side reach
for
you
go defensive control just
be
you