Okay, hi everybody. Hello Thank you for joining us once again So good to have you all here. Yeah, thank you for joining. We have a movie commentary with David today and I'm Peter. I'm going to be hosting. I can just let you know how the day is going to flow so we're going to start with the movie with David and then afterwards we have a 10-minute break and That's when you can submit any questions and prayers that you have and Then afterwards we'll have a time where David can answer any of your questions and prayers And so I'm going to pass it straight over to you now David Thank you Peter. Hi everyone welcome We're gonna have a maze amazing journey today I'm looking forward to it Yeah, the movie we're going to watch today with Jesus guiding us through it is called the Truman Show and it's from 1998 and I remember at the end of the millennium I I had this strong feeling that we were ready to wake up because the Truman Show came in 1998 and then we had The 13th floor and Dark City and the Matrix all these movies started appearing in our consciousness that the world was a Dream the world was a Matrix the world was of fiction the world was a world of fantasy and dreams and Clearly in all of these movies there is a very strong desire by the main character to wake up from the trick To forgive the illusion to release the false make-believe reality the false trap of existence and awaken to the one to escape from the false world and to experience The real world and then also the light even beyond the real world So for those of you that on the spiritual journey and practicing a course of miracles Jesus has really been keeping step with the movies, you know, just keep introducing more and more movies And it's like Jesus and the angels or here's another movie. Did you get it yet? Okay here try this one Did you get it? Okay, try this one. How about that one? Did you get it? You know Spirit is just offering One movie after another and now we've collected them all we call it the movie watchers guide to enlightenment because if you really want to let the symbols reach your mind and Show you what's in your heart what you already know deep down inside, but you need to recognize it Then we need stepping stone symbols so I think when I went I got a very strong prompt To go to a movie theater to see the Truman show and it was such a mind-opening experience that When the show was over I sat there in the theater for a little while and then I I walked out of the the main theater where I viewed it and down the hall and I just felt so much love for everyone and Every thing that I just stayed in the lobby of the movie theater just Looking at all my brothers and sisters With my heart just bursting in gratitude Bursting in joy and love almost like oh my gosh, I've just been shown the Reality of the love and the unreality of the images and I I couldn't help but gaze upon all the images with this Huge love like this love. I had never felt before I was just like oh my god. What is happening to me? I am just so in love And I remember when I finally did leave the lobby go out to my car In the parking lot I drove to visit my my grandmother Who probably at this point was maybe in her 90s late 80s or early 90s and When I went up to her apartment, she lived on the second floor I Went in she opened the door I went in and I was dancing around her apartment like Fred is there And she was like she was legally blind But she could see enough to know that Something was going on with David because David doesn't usually come into the apartment dancing like Fred is there. I mean I Was dancing all over the place. I could not contain my joy and She said David, are you all right? I Don't think she'd ever seen me that joyful But this was after just witnessing the Truman show and I could not contain it I just could not contain my happiness. I said, oh, I'm I'm more than all right. I Said I'm I'm ecstatic. I'm I'm in joy. I'm in bliss. I'm I can't I can't contain it it's just overflowing in my heart and She she was never usually cautionary with me But she just she just kind of put a finger up to me and she said just don't become a fanatic And I I thought oh no, I don't want to be fanatic about this It just feels so natural though. It feels so gleeful and joyful and I feel so happy I Feel happy for no earthly reason and she did not quite understand that I didn't understand it How could she understand it? I don't think that we can Grasp it in in human terms, but but I know I was so happy and so grateful And I felt like I was in some kind of epiphany So This week when all of you voted on the themes that you would like to Experience directly During the movie gathering I could I could just feel something coming in so strong in my heart and as I went through the themes and It was interesting with our our Spanish themes and our English Whole Spanish pole and English pole were almost like reverse opposites of each other And then we had to total them all together to come up with the overall themes For this week. It was like they were they were opposites, but they had to be put together so This week coming in at number one with the total votes is See my brother as God sees him and I I know when we first read that see my brother as God sees him You know, we may tend to think I just wish I was a Spiritual person I was I was somebody like Gandhi or or Mother Teresa or more Jesus like or more like Ramana Maharshi or Yogananda some of the great mystics and saints more like peace pilgrim but actually we remember from our lessons in the course that that God did not create the body God did not create people Even in the Bible it says God is no respecter of persons That's a good one from the so when we think of See my brother as God sees him We may we sometimes think of a of a highly evolved highly advanced person a Spiritual person we could call it or an avatar or a saint or a mystic And that's really not the way That God sees my brother because God is spirit and God created Christ in spirit and All my brothers whatever seems to be their bodies Whatever size shape they are whatever language they speak whatever country they're from whatever history they have That's all part of the matrix and and the point of Spiritual awakening is to let go of the matrix not to see a higher version of Of the matrix there is no higher version An illusion is by definition means nothing. So you can't have a higher nothing And when we say spiritual person, we're really saying I want a spiritual nothing and So you have to see if we're gonna see as God sees we're really asking for Christ vision We're praying for the light We're we're praying to go deep inside and come into light episodes and and a direct experience of the light Some of you, I'm sure have read near-death experiences where people go through the experience of seemingly Dying the body dying the brainwave stopping and then they go through a whole group of experiences including sometimes going through a tunnel and Seeing loved ones and being greeted then boom they go into this Amazing light that they just say is unspeakable. It's it's indescribable it's Unfalmable and yet when you ask them well, what is it they say? It's pure love. It's it's telepathic. It's unconditional Love it's all love and What was it like being in it? I I was everything I knew everything. I am everything. It's To human beings. It's like oh my gosh That doesn't sound like anything that we can put a box around No, it isn't something. It's the I am presence. It's the Jesus calls it the great rays and he capitalizes G and capitalizes are the great rays the brilliant radiant light of heaven and In order to see my brother as God sees him I have to see myself and God and everyone as light So you might say that this world is like a veil of images drawn up across the light to cover the light to push the light out of awareness and when we go on spiritual Depths when we go deep into our prayers when we go deep into our stillness and and deep into the silent mind We're moving towards a direct experience of that light and Jesus doesn't even hide this in the workbook You know, he he tells you Sink down Beneath the riotous sights and sounds of this world of this insane world He says into the kingdom of heaven and he's He's saying that that is just pure light So that's our first one see my brother as God sees him and in order to do that in order to experience the light directly we're going to have to See the world of images in a very different way than we have we have to Trust the Holy Spirit and Jesus to show us the world In a way where there's no past judgments We can just see it fresh and clean and clear as if we've never seen it before You know, sometimes you can see that sometimes in the faces of animals They just have this innocent look like they're so clueless. They've like they've never seen anything before big wide eyes Like looking into the eyes of a young deer Sometimes you can see it in the eyes of the deer or in a rabbit or I are cat. I See my friends Nuria Nuria and Marino From Spain, they have their little dog today and it's got one of those little protector covers But it looked to me when I was looking at this cute little dog face at the beginning I was seeing like it was like a halo The dog had like a halo around it, you know and and was joining in like oh Truman show. Oh My favorite movie Thank you. Thank you for bringing me online today for Truman show So the second one we have is let go of the fear of making a mistake and Truman show is really good for that because our main character Truman He has his fears his hesitations He's starting to have a spiritual awakening. He's starting to see things that are strange and He's wondering what they mean He's starting to be drawn To certain things. There's a woman Who will appear in the movie in his in his life named Sylvia? Sometimes she goes by the name of Lauren, but she just will gaze at him with these eyes of love and acceptance Like Sylvia doesn't have an agenda.  I just want you to experience happiness that is a beautiful gaze and Some of us have been fortunate to have some gazes like that in our experience Where when you're being gazed at by someone who doesn't want anything from you You feel this huge love. Oh my gosh a Dream figure that it's just reflecting Acceptance total allowance total total. I love you unconditionally. I Love you with no strings attached.  It's very freeing. I mean, oh my gosh to be loved without expectations to be totally accepted Exactly as we truly are with no strings attached. Wow That's what we'll see some glimmers of and that's what this whole movie is about This movie is about letting go of the past. It's about letting go of expectations. It's about letting go of agendas about letting go of control and What we're going to see through the movie with Truman is that the entire World that we perceive is very much like the Truman show in This world we we if somebody talks to you about a movie There's an understanding that movies are are made with by actors and producers and directors and they're just facsimiles, they're just Approximations, they're just assimilations Just like when people talk about dreams Whoo, I had a dream last night. Oh, it was a nightmare. I was so happy when I woke up and Remembered that it was only a dream Or if you go to see a movie like we're watching a movie today We see the movie as oh, they're like dream symbols, you know, it's like a theater going to theater watching Shakespeare Watching a play watching watching a movie is watching something. That's just made up. It's make believe Maybe it's made up for entertainment purposes. Maybe it's made up for To make money Maybe it's made up. It's it's part of a profession called films and movies Which involves actors and writers and screenwriters and directors But we make a distinction between what we call real life and movies When we say let's go to the movies, we're going to something that we have decided is not real but it's something that maybe is Enjoyable or entertaining. It's the same with theater And what Jesus is teaching us in the course is that all your time is spent in dreaming and He's telling us that we really can't choose Between the dreams that we like and the dreams that we don't like Because when we try to choose between the dreams we like and the dreams we don't like Then we make the dreams into a reality that isn't so So he's just saying you need to watch it with me if you can see it and see that you're none of the roles and You're you're none of the characters and You're none of the situations and You would rather Wake up from the dream instead of play the game of judging between dreams Then you are ready to know who you really are and This is kind of the case with Truman because He's gonna get lots of little nudges lots of little signs and symbols Lots of serendipitous Coincidences so to speak that are are there to Slowly teach him that the world that he perceives is not what he thinks it is. It's not Actually a real world the people in it are not really Real people in the sense that they're all actors and Everybody is acting Everybody on the set is a paid actor and and Truman Initially does not understand this that that it's a show You know imagine if you were in such a state of mind where you actually knew that this world was just like a TV show and Every day every 24 hours every day was a new episode What if somebody said well, what are you gonna do tomorrow and you say I don't know I haven't got to that episode yet But but what will you do tomorrow? Oh, I'll do whatever I did in tomorrow's episode But I'll have to watch and see what it is. You see, it's a different mindset It's a different mindset when you begin to be convinced by the Holy Spirit That these episodes are not really important At all in fact the very first workbook lesson is nothing I see means anything He's trying to teach us that we're watching a movie and it's kind of like Groundhog Day. It just keeps looping and repeating Every day, you know wake up get out of bed Brush our comb our hair wash our face brush our teeth Sit down have some breakfast Do whatever we do in our morning rituals and then most of the day is just a bunch of Rituals in form that repeat over and over and over Episode one episode two episode three our life is like a video podcast and We're making a big deal out of out of the issues inside the episode and Jesus is trying to get our attention and saying would you come back here with me and Let's let's learn to watch the episodes without judgment That's the whole goal of spiritual awakening watching the world Without judgment That's how your mind is set free back to the kingdom of heaven because heaven there is no judgment in heaven So when we try to judge the form of things we are caught in a mesmerism or caught in a Hypnotic trance where we we not only are waiting for the next episode But we're anticipating What's gonna happen in the next episode? We are binge watching this world like a Netflix series We are binge watching we are binge watching day after day after day. We never pause We don't take time to pause and This this episode there's 365 episodes every year and it's free. We don't even have to pay for it We don't have to pay for Netflix or Showtime or HBO Max. We're getting this free every day But it's not really free. It has a lot of conditions when we identify with this binge watching We've been we've been binge watching for a year after year after year never pausing to say Maybe I need a silent break. I Need I need a break from this binge watching. I'm I'm overdosing on time and space I'm overdosing on fear False evidence appearing real. I'm overdosing on fear and I'm calling it normal I'm calling it natural. I'm calling it real so our third Our third Theme is faith will carry me all the way into heaven. Wow, we do need faith to let go of this binge watching, you know, because We've obviously been convinced we're watching something real Who who would tune in day after day and be so concerned about the outcomes if we didn't believe it was real you know and When we do get to talk to our fellow human beings for most human beings when they get together There's a certain amount of time that's devoted to talking about problems and issues That's absurd That's absurd Why would you use your day talking about problems and issues when Jesus is saying? Oh, there are no problems and there are no issues, but you're you're You're not a serial killer.  We have no reruns We're we have we have no runs We're just heaven is bliss heaven is bliss. There's no episodes in heaven It's just all love and light. It's that light that they see in near-death experiences, you know where they go into it and then They just feel it's the greatest experience they ever had and then they're pretty surprised when they have to go back To the world go back to the episodes But nobody is forced by the light to go back to the episodes the only way you see more episodes is if you want more episodes You have to want them to see them if you don't want them.  You're watching from the Holy Spirit's high fearless perspective and And it's it's quite enjoyable just to watch When you don't have an agenda when you don't want to change it or control it Okay, our fourth one is seeing difficulties as opportunities for a great healing The key to the shift of mind is is just seeing love or a call for love the Holy Spirit only perceives these two orders of thought Everything is love or a call for love When you experience the love directly, it's just blissful When you experience the call for love you want to extend love Because it's your joy to answer the call for love. You don't you don't want to just sit there passives But if there's someone's calling out for love you want to give it and By giving it where it's called for you start to realize that there's only love that even these two categories love and a call For love it's just a teaching device used to bring your mind back into a state of of perfect love And the last one the last theme is knowing that all steps are carefully laid out for me Well, the Truman shows probably the best movie for showing you that all the steps are laid out before me Because as you're watching Truman, you'll see every single step is laid out before Truman Sometimes he's afraid of the next step Sometimes he wants to recoil and he he can't understand why He would even be given such an option He's he's still afraid. He's afraid, but all of us have to Learn to say yes when those steps come to us Because there's something in our heart that will leap for joy when we say yes to the step We don't even have to understand it We actually will not understand any of the steps until we go through the final exit door And we go through the exit door of this world, which is really the entry door For Jesus and the Holy Spirit We call it exit door. They're like you're really not letting go of anything real So how can it be an exit? You're just you're just learning to accept non-judgment Come come into the door of non-judgment and and be blissful and realize that you never had the power to judge God never created us to be judges God never created form. God never created Time and space and God certainly would never create judgment Now I want to just talk a little bit before we get into the movie in sense of When people come across a course of miracles what I like to tell everyone is it's it's just an Instruction book for mind training for training your mind Yes, it uses religious symbols God Jesus Holy Spirit Yes, it uses educational symbols learning goal curriculum Yes, it does use psychological symbols mind defense mechanisms it uses Philosophical symbols, but actually It's just a tool that your mind can use to reach that state of non-judgment That's all it is Course in miracles is not for persons. It's for the mind that believes in persons People don't need a course in miracles People are projections of the ego But while you believe that you're a person then reading is something that people do right Okay, and this is a way that you can seem to be exposed to new ideas new ideas about yourself New ideas about your brothers and sisters and new ideas about time but I Would say that a course in miracles is just a mind training program that is really like spiritual psychotherapy Typical psychotherapy is for people To change their world and change Change their environment but but spiritual psychotherapy is designed only to change your mind about the purpose of the world and Accept your spiritual reality. So that's why it's a spiritual psychotherapy It's not if you try to do the course with the goal of improving your personality That's like saying asking Jesus give me a better mask to wear and Jesus is like I'm sorry. I'm not interested in the Halloween party. I am interested in Easter And I would like you to stop with the candy and the Easter egg hunts and I would like you to accept Resurrection in your mind so you can remember your spirit. That's all that I'm interested in Jesus He's not interested in Halloween parties and he's really not interested in candy and Easter egg hunts he's only Interested in teaching the the resurrection and And the resurrection is the atonement. It's the correction in our mind for the ego The ego was a mistaken belief and the atonement is a correction for that belief Everything is all about that really it's about nothing else Will the course in miracles improve my sex life? No, of course not will it improve the the environment I live in? No Because the environment is a dream and Jesus is teaching us that all the dreams are the same So he's not going to try to teach you that there are better environments and worse environments He's gonna just teach you that you want to wake up from the seeming environment That you're watching you want to wake up from this serial Episode of the human race just day after day Groundhog Day repeating the same belief in separation over and over and over So before we watch the Truman Show, I thought we would just let Jesus give us a little lesson on on perception Because when we talk about all of our problems in the world All of our relationship problems are problems with the government our financial problems our sexual problems All of our problems of feeling unloved abandoned rejection rejected all of these issues Jesus is like actually it seems very important to you, but if they're actually left because You have a perceptual problem You're seeing a world. That's not really there. That's that's what we would call in psychology and psychiatry hallucinating So you're hallucinating your schizophrenic. You're hearing multiple voices in your mind. That's that's sick That's sick, but this is the human race. We're hearing you know seven billion separate voices talking and And that's why we We build houses and try to just live so there's only two or three voices going on in the house Maybe a dog barking cat meowing and and a partner saying where's are we out of milk? Where's the milk? Didn't you buy enough milk and eggs? We're that's about how much we can handle of the separate voices if you had eight billion voices going in your mind at the same time Yeah, that's not going to be very much fun It's just too much and all those languages too too much Now here's I'm going to use The beginning of a workbook lesson. So we all have the same introductory Lesson on perception because I've said it a hundreds hundreds of times over the years it's the only problem is a perceptual problem and And and I think sometimes Psychiatrists and psychologists get a little bit of the flavor of what that means because they see patients and clients all day And they hear the same things Over and over every day. They know there's something strange going on in the mind But maybe you're not a psychologist and psychiatrist Maybe you're a nurse or a doctor or a construction worker and you don't hear People talking on your construction job every day about their problems If you did you would start to go. Hmm. I wonder what's going on here It's this is a crazy mind. Maybe it's psychotic and Schizophrenic and hallucinating at the same time. So here's what Jesus has to say in lesson 184 the name of God is my inheritance.   What I see is a form of vengeance The reason what I see is a form of vengeance is because it's fragmented It's not holistic There's no holistic experience when you see everything as a separate part All bodies which are greeted by a name The space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the world's perception is achieved You see something where nothing is And see as well nothing where there is unity So he's teaching us this truly is hypnotism mesmerism This is truly a hallucination but We're watching it every day as if it's real day by day We're giving reality to something that God didn't create You see that is the problem God creates in spirit And we're perceiving episodes of something that has no reality whatsoever That is insanity To be seeing what's not there And reacting to it as if it's another new episode And some more issues You see something where nothing is Thus do you think you have given life in separation By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will That's it human beings are our reflection of the belief that everyone has a will of their own And you may even say that if you have an animal in the house the dog You might say well my dog definitely has a will of his own or my cat has a will of her own Yeah, it's the same thing. We believe that people have independent wills But this is not the way God functions. This is how A private mind believes in private thoughts And and everybody everybody is assigned a private mind with their own private thoughts Their own ambitions their own past Their own agendas This is insanity that the very fabric of perception is crazy And Jesus is letting us know this in here What are these names by which the world becomes a series of discrete events Of things ununified of bodies kept apart and holding bits of mind as separate awarenesses You gave these names to them establishing perception as you wished to have Perception be the nameless things were given names And thus reality was given them as well For what is named is given meaning and will then be seen as meaningful So This is Jesus's great lesson in perception. He's basically saying You're watching a tv show And it has different episodes every day And God didn't create any of the episodes And therefore when you feel upset, it's because You have given meaning where there is no meaning You've ascribed meaning to objects. You've given them names. You've given them purposes You've given them agendas You've Given them meaning. This is workbook lesson number two. I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me It's a perceptual hallucination And it's all based on false meaning Also, some of you remember there's a beautiful workbook lesson lesson number 13 In a course of miracles where jesus says a meaningless world and gender's fear Now what he's saying in that lesson is You may say I'm I'm afraid because of a chaotic world or a hostile world or a world of scarcity Or a world of climate change earthquakes tsunamis Financial global financial crisis not enough money Not enough food Not enough oxygen, you know, he's going to tell us in lesson number 13 that you believe you're upset because You see something wrong with the world something wrong in the episodes You watch the episode and you go that's not right That's just not right What happened let's say you just been watching the news over the last few days and you know They have like what the world calls a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Southern part of turkey in the northern part of syria And 20 almost 25,000 people already have been found dead From one earthquake 25,000 bodies have been distinguished from the earth shaking And maybe you you watch that on the news and you go That's not right that that is not right The 25,000 people die when the earth shakes And it happens a lot all over the world over many many years and centuries, but this is the most recent one It's a large earthquake 7.2 And what jesus is saying is if you don't like that episode And you don't like what happened in that episode of that day whatever was february 6th or something like that Then It's not that the earthquake and the death of 25,000 people bother you It's that the meaninglessness of this world bothers you when you Let's say you go through years of your career you raise a family you do all these things you achieve things You accomplish things language things Possession things all kinds of achievement of skills and abilities And then you go to your first the pasana retreat where the instructor says There's no talking and for the next 21 days You're just going to be quiet and watch your mind And the rules are there's no communication whatsoever Then you start to realize how Frightening The Meaninglessness is when you have to sit in silence for 21 days For most human beings they go to a pasana retreat and they go It was hell.  What did you do nothing? That's the problem Nothing I paid my I went there I gave a donation and for 20 21 days of nothing I went out of my mind I went berserk I went absolutely berserk I thought society was was difficult. What the pasana? I've talked to people. I say would you do it again?  I'll do I'd rather die Then then go to the pasana retreat for 21 days And the reason is what jesus is telling us in lesson number 13 is A meaningless world in gender's fear. It's not the the things that happen in the episodes that bother you It's when you get down closer to meaninglessness you start to freak You move through these phases you go down. Okay down Now I'm at the boredom level still boredom level, but then what's underneath the boredom level is Oh my god If if my world and my body don't mean anything Freak out time. It's freak out time Even the pasana meditators who who who formed the pasana As they went down they meditate for decades down in deep silence They reached the freak out point two The pasana meditators would get down there and I go, whoa, did you they compare their notes freaky freaky because Silence is freaky to an untrained mind Because the mind has been trained to believe in illusions And and the holy spirit and jesus is saying let them go and come into the stillness be still And know that i'm god. That's the whole point of the spiritual journey. It's not about spiritual achievements It's not about psychic abilities. It's not about Being a guru or having hundreds and thousands of followers. It's it's not about Trying to make up some kind of a spiritual episode Because you'll find That even when you get to the spiritual episode, you're still not going to be content. You're gonna still say Well, it's it's good, but it would be better if everybody wore white And everybody shaved their heads or everybody A vegetarian or something, you know, the ego will come up with something no matter what Even if you try to make a spiritual dream the ego is Is still going to freak out when you try to just pray and be still because When you go into stillness then the ego and god both have a have a meaning to read on to the emptiness This is why buddha said you have to empty your mind and and all mystics and saints including jesus Have said empty your mind of everything you think you think and think you know You won't know the light until you empty your mind of everything you believe is true Because what you believe is true in this world is blocking Spiritual recognition the direct recognition of the light now. Why am I telling you all this stuff? It's like i'm giving you a a boot camp A boot camp on spiritual awakening because We're going to watch a movie in which the main character is Part of something that he believes is real And yet it's just a tv show The the main characters in this movie are truman burbank truman And then I would say sylvia or Lauren she's the one who who tries to break on to the set and say This isn't real None of this That you're witnessing is real.   I healed you. I don't want To be misrepresented. I'm not here to heal the body I'm here to demonstrate that we are spirit And and it's wonderful if your symptoms disappear and I know you're happy and joyful But please tell no man what just happened most of the time jesus is trying to To prevent rumors from starting that jesus is here to heal the world and heal all the people He wasn't really here to feed the hungry Even though he multiplied the fish And the bread in one case he was just showing the power of the mind But he was not trying to End world hunger He was trying to end spiritual hunger He's trying to end hunger for the light by Demonstrating you are light We all are light We have a spiritual Kingdom and this kingdom is is pure love and light. It's it's with god But this earth Don't try to take my teachings and put them into the earth I'm here to teach you to let go of the cereal TV show that you call life On planet earth and realize that life is eternal There is no such thing as biological life. There is no such thing as genetic life DNA matters Nothing in the kingdom of heaven because there is no bodies and DNA There aren't any molecules or electrons in heaven If if you call energy of this world Something that's not even real Energy of this world whether it's it's atomic energy or photosynthesis or energy you feel in your body When you exercise and and take vitamins. No, no, no nada Nada nada nothing real can be threatened Nothing unreal exist He's just teaching us that We have to look inside ourselves To find the truth We cannot believe that we're going to find it in form Because god didn't create the form and we'll never find our true self in the form so I hope you enjoy this movie because you can take a ride today with truman burbank He's going to start off believing that he's living in a real world And he's going to have to have little signs and symbols and clues That let him know that what he's perceiving is not reality What he's perceiving is a form of vengeance as jesus says I think it's lesson 22 What I see is a form of vengeance truman's going to have to face that Truman is going to have to face that all of the actors Are part of the distraction from know thyself All of the actors are paid All of the products and the props in the show are for sale Does that sound like our planet too? The lands for sale the houses are for sale People even get into prostitution. They sell their bodies You know they everything in this world seems to be have a price or a cost And this world is very similar to what truman's world is too So this is a very strong teaching device And I guess when I saw the movie for the first time I was so ready To be shown another way of looking at the world that I just went into ecstasy When I saw this movie. I just went into pure ecstasy like oh My god, I thought I was concerned about my career My god, I thought I was concerned about my family.  Oh my god This takes your mind back back back back back back back to the light or the light so Enjoy the movie. It's a it's a it's really a great movie. I just I pray that you Uh Can can be shown Through this movie really pray to the holy spirit and jesus to just use it to show you the freedom The freedom that you've yearned for The freedom of mind that you've yearned for So enjoy the show. I'll pop in with commentary and then of course we'll have our q&a session after a break at the end Have some fun sore


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم أحمد لله رب العالمين وأفضل الصلابة متسنين على سيدنا مولانا محمدا وعلى آله وصاحبه وسلم أجمعين سبحانكا لا إِنَّ مَلَا إِلَّمَا عَلَّمْتَنَا إِنَّ كَنْتَ العَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ وَلَا حُولَا وَلَا كُوَةِ إِلَّهَ بِاللَّهِ أَلْعَلِيرْ عَظِيمِ وشراننا معشرة الإسلام إننا من الإيناية رُكنا غيرا من هدمي لما دا الله دعينا لتاعته بأكرم الرسلي كنا أكرم الأممي الحمد لله غااتعين لنا أو أساملي أو مسلم وكل of the various shahairahs of Allah سبحانه وتعالى the sacred symbols of this religion if we have exaltation in our hearts for them it is a sign that we are people of taqwa that we are mindful of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and putting everything in its proper place تعالين, exaltation, magnification, esteem, respect is one of the greatest signs that we've learned something of how to have adab manners before our Lord سبحانه وتعالى and manners with what He commanded us to have manners within His creation to barakah وتعالى and as you and I go throughout life no doubt we will be exposed to a lot and anyone that lives a long period of time will see a lot and the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam told us to the companions من يعيش منكم any of those of you that will live that you are going to see all different types of things and then the Prophet left guidance behind the satellite and for how it is that we need to be in relation to everything that it is that we will see everything will be different as we grow up we move through those teenage years we enter into our 20's we go through various changes then and we go through changes as we get into our late 20's we go through changes and we get into our late 30's we go through changes and we get into our late 40's the various stages or اطوار of life but what it is we want every single stage of our life and all of the sub-stages to be connected to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam one of the most beautiful sarawat one of our teachers اللهم صلي و السلام على سيد محمدان that نورك الساري و مددك الجاري وجمعني بهي بكل اطواري asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى to gather us and unite us with Him in all of the various stages of our life so that everything that is that we go through everything that it is that we experience throughout life it's connected to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam if we go through tribulation it's connected to him and how he that experienced tribulation and how he responded if we go through times of prosperity that it's connected to him and we experience that and exemplify traits of Erbudia in the way that he does sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and every other possible situation in which we can find guidance of our Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and most of us here are familiar faces these are things that you and I do day in and day out week in and week out month in and month out year in and year out and this is something that is beautiful this is something that you and I want to live upon and this is something that you and I want to die upon we don't want these gatherings to have a shelf life and for us just to attend them and to think that they're only important for part of our life you and I want to experience these gatherings and deem them to be important throughout our lives and this is something that we want to nurture in our children and to nurture in our grandchildren and our great grandchildren and our great great grandchildren to appreciate the importance of the remembrance of Allah ونحيد قذكر and especially on the special night later to Juma this is something that you and I should set in our minds from now until the day that we meet Allah that that the night until Juma is a time and a night for zikr this is a night to remember Allah SWT this is a night where is there anyone that has a need such that I may take care of that need is there anyone asking for anything such that I may grant them what is that they're asking is there anyone seeking forgiveness such that I may forgive them right now نحن الآن كما نتحدث عن this door is open for our needs to be taken care of for our sins to be forgiven for anything it is that we are asking for for it to be granted to us where we only to perceive that people of Allah الله سبحانه وتعالى look forward to these times later to Juma and then the day that follows it is a day that you and I should look forward to throughout the week. And Imam Al-Sha'rani mentioned is that the righteous used to wait for the time between the prayers because we know this is a time that dua is answered that he would wait for the time before between the Adhan and the Iqama to present their prayers to Allah سبحانه وتعالى to present their needs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى they in other words they knew how to live they knew how to return back to the Lord and how it is that they needed to be and of all of the things that we can supplicate for us for especially in relation to our close brothers and sisters that Allah has blessed us to establish a relationship with the people of Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentioned there are four things specifically that you should make do offer for your close brothers and sisters four things of course anything good you can make do offer them but these four things are at the heart of the entire matter. This is the crux of the entire matter and they are These four things are the greatest four things that you can ask for people that are close to you and the first is which we all of course know is a brightness rectitude persevering in one's Dean and we know that this is something that is not easy to have as Allah سبحانه وتعالى commanded the best of creation and in there are some indication is that this is what gave our blessed Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم his blessed gray hairs remain upright as you have been commanded to do as you've been commanded to be uprightness is not something that is easy and ultimately as our Lord says that in relation to that those that he bestows his favor upon سبحانه وتعالى that those who say those who say our Lord is Allah سبحانه وتعالى and then they remain upright what does that uprightness look like practically in our lives as we go through these various stages we find ourselves adhering to the five deity prayers that is a staple part of our practice when we know that the very best of the the very best of all actions according to our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم is prayer in the first part of the time how are you and I with prayer how are you and I in relation to establishing the prayer and fulfilling the prayer in realizing the benefits of the prayer and we know that human beings by nature that we have been created impatient is that we are very quick to get out of our comfort zone if the smallest thing happens to us and a lot about what it says إن إن إنسان الخرقة هلوعة if humans have been created impatient إذا مصه الشبره جزوعة look at the what Allah سبحانه وتعالى says if we are touched if human beings are touched even the slightest bit of evil of harm of difficulty جزوعة we tend to panic and we become distressed this slightest little thing happens to us is that we might have a rock in our shoe and not be able to concentrate is that we might have a slight little rash and we are irritable the entire day the smallest little thing happens that our water heater breaks down or that there's a fly in the house and it's a قاومة القيامة the tiniest little thing that makes us bent out of shape إذا مصه شره جزوعة that we tend to panic and we tend to lose patience and we tend to respond irassibly وإذا مصه الخيره and if they are touched by something good the slightest amount of good comes to us we tend to withhold and become miserly and to only want it for ourselves or to attribute it to ourselves or to claim that it was from something that we've earned or something that we are entitled to but there is an exception to these traits that we won't say necessarily that they're from human nature but human beings are prone to them if that we do not establish religion in our lives because a lot of what I think goes on to say إلل مصالين except those who pray إلل دينه هم عد سراته هم ده إيمون those who are consistent in their prayers day in and day out the greatest regulating force of the believer are the five daily prayers that you and I establish in our lives so we need to always remind us of how are we praying those five daily prayers what is the state of our heart in those prayers when are we praying them how are they praying them are we praying them in congregation what are we wearing when we pray them do we give it it's do right or are we that because we have to go that we quickly rush to pray and then send sonams and whoop get right up and then head out prayer is of that it's for our own benefit prayer does not benefit we are the ones that benefit from it and this is just one of many examples of what it means to have إستقامة because just as it means in terms of doing it also means in terms of refraining resisting the urges as we go through the various stages of our life we all زهد is not a sunna of the past and just because we live in the Silicon Valley wherever we live in the United States of America or in the time in which we live and our Prophet prophesied that money was going to become widespread in the end of time we knew that this is something that was going to happen but despite the ability because despite the fact that we have the ability to do something doesn't mean that we should actually do it learning to cut back learning to detach ourselves from the world in which we live especially as we go through the various stages of our life this is critical so the first thing that we can supplicate for our own selves and for our close brothers and sisters is to have إستقامة are all in need of this إستقامة and then the second thing is تبات this relates to إستقامة but it's slightly different and تبات is to remain firm تبات is to remain principled تبات is to resist the urge to the judge in a way that somehow you're compromising your integrity and one of the greatest traits is to have what is called الإنصاف من نفسك إنصاف من نفسك and this means is that never do you expect of others what you don't already expect from your own self الإنصاف من نفسك is that you know what it is that you're going through and you're working on your own self and you have realistic expectations in relation to other people and all it takes is to have a few children if you start to realize and you see some of the not so good traits of yours appearing in your children and then you get upset with them and then you catch yourself like he or she learned that from me that's because of something that is that I do and it's not fair for us too that drill them when we know that it's something that you and I actually know that we do things and we can't expect other people to do those same things not do those same things that we are doing or to do things that we are not doing we have to maintain that balance but the bat is to remain principle and ultimately when we say principle that means that in any given moment there is simultaneously a structural response that we have to have and the more that we are rooted in the realities of the more that we will be being able to do that what is meant by that in any given moment our theology and this is why we want you need to study the books of theology of course and you need to understand the coherence of Islam and you need to understand the theology and the way that we do that is whatever happens we see as being from Allah and we challenge ourselves to reflect what name or names and attributes of Allah are manifesting in the moment and how should I be as an abd before this name that is manifesting just as there is a legal response never and that is the thing that we do and this is one of the most important this requires a lot of knowledge and this is one of the ways that we can actively combat the compartmentalization of religion that is so widespread in our time where we relegate religion solely to the time of the message we have to know how to interact with our wealth we have to know in relation to borrowing money in relation to actually giving someone money in relation to accepting gifts in relation to having debts all of these matters have fit that relates to them and we cannot think that this relates to Salah fit relates to every single aspect of our life there is a legal ruling whether we can do something or we can't do something and I will mention as well everything that it is that we do sincerity before a lot the state of our heart what should be in the heart what do we do when someone praises what do we do when someone criticizes what do we do when we are happy what do we do when we are sad all of these different conflicting states that we go through there is simultaneously a theological legal and spiritual response and the bat is to remain firm there is no situation that we are in save we are firm and we can't waver just as the bat also relates to knowing how to protect ourselves from fitin and again this requires knowledge we have to read what our prophet said understand the time in which we live and the way that the carpet is pulled from underneath the feet of the believers the bat means is that we are weary of the various trials and tribulations of our time and that we know how to protect ourselves from them and then the third is where we are faithful to the covenant that we have taken with Allah and that covenant that we have taken with Allah is to believe in Him and to obey Him and then is to recognize that responsibility that has been placed upon our shoulders that was shown to the heavens and the earth and the mountains and that they were that fearful of it and they did not assume this trust it was the human being that assumed it that should be heavy and to the degree that we understand the severity and the seriousness of that matter that as we transition from this world into the next world experience thereafter the more we realize how serious that is this whole affair is about fulfilling that trust being faithful to the trust that we all took with our Lord in the pre-earth realm we should ask that Allah blesses our fellow brothers sisters with this that they have and everything that Allah gives them everything that they experience that they remain in a state of obedience and servitude to Allah and to fulfill that trust and we share this faith with as many people as we possibly can and the final trait that we should be asking for our مقلوب rather is asking Allah for our close brothers and sisters to grant them a personal khatima a good seal when it comes to death and this is what it is all about every moment that we live ideally should be in preparation for that but of course we're in states of heedlessness so at least the majority of the moment should be lived in preparation for that and if that's not possible or that's not our reality at least some of the moments of our life when we know what is it that you're going to do that's going to leave to the forgiveness and the mercy of Allah one of the greatest things that we can do is to spend our time learning this deen and disseminating it and we had read recently this incredibly beautiful statement of Aboudar that's mentioned in that the Sahih of Imam Al-Bukhari and he said that were I the Lord put on the back of my neck and from the time that it would take to lift that sword and then chop my head off that I have an ability to convey a word that I heard from the Muslims of Allah that I would have done so and look at this metaphor that he's given is that you're at the very end of your life is it how long would that take for someone to put the sword on the back of the neck it's a very short period of time he said that were I to be able to convey just a word of the Prophet SAW that I learned from in that short time which might be 2 or 3 seconds that I would do so this was their hears this was how eager they were to convey the sunnah of our Prophet SAW and were we only to know how important it is and how much people are in need of it this is exactly what it is that you and I would do because every single one of those sunnahs that we bring into our life is increasing the chance for you and I to die in a good state with a Husnad Khatima and then not only is there what is called a Husnad Khatima there's what is called a Kamal Husnad Khatima there's also called a perfect good seal and these are people that die on Ledo to Juma these are people that go to that Mecca and Makkah and Monorua and to die in these special places these are people who die in an act of obedience and that there are people that are like this and you see these stories coming out from all of these people may Allah have mercy upon all of their souls that died in this difficult earthquake that took place recently and that one of the clips that is going around is someone is that when they've been in there for days but there was no foul smell to their bodies and they said that actually it smelled like musk and then they started to look into who this was and they found that this was someone who used to praise the prophet's slice in poetry he used to write poetry about the prophet's slice in him and that he and his son was similar to him as that they didn't smell bad at all and those are the stories that these types of things are possible and the more that you and I that perfume our souls with the mention of the prophet's slice and with his sunnah the more that it will exude from us may Allah to give us to offer and bless us on all of our affairs and to keep us together and bless all of us with the highest degree of استقامة and of Thabat and bless us all to fulfill the covenant that we've taken with our Lord Subhanu Wa Ta'ara after long lives in the obedience of Allah and just as he's gathered us here in this dunya and he's continually gathered us here in this dunya year after year may he gather us ultimately in the here after يارحم الرحمين and to not leave any of us behind not any of our loved ones or any of those that are close to us or our family members or friends and anyone in the community يارحم الرحمين and may we all be entered into the Himaa in sanctuary of Sayyidina رسول الله انت الرسيف الشافعاء وصل الله رسيل محمد ورعا ريوس عبسلهم والحمد لله رب العالمين


We're at a point where things are going to get very complicated, at least they could get very complicated. Multinomial logistic regression is potentially a very sophisticated analysis. What you're trying to do is use several predictor variables in a regression equation to predict not two categories, but several categories. And although it may not sound like a big change, the processing behind it becomes exponentially more complicated. Fortunately, Jmovi makes it possible to do a relatively simple multinomial logistic regression. I'm going to demonstrate this with the state data. And I'm going to look at this one category here, which actually has to do with psychology profiles for the various states in the United States. Let's start by doing this, let's do a quick exploration and get descriptives for psych regions. I'm going to put that over here. And I want to get the frequency table and I want to get the bar plot. And this is based on an analysis of people's online behavior and other characteristics. And the researchers ended up with three categories, what they called friendly and conventional, which is half the states in the sample, relaxed and creative. That's 10 states were about 21% and temperamental and uninhibited, that's 14 of these states in this sample. And here's a bar chart, you can see them. And unfortunately, the labels don't automatically adjust in Jmovi at this point, but that'll happen eventually. But let's see how we can use other variables to predict which states go into which categories. And what I'm going to do for that is I'm going to come back up here to regression and go to n outcomes that's multinomial logistic regression. And when I click on that, the first thing I have to do is pick what my dependent variable is, what's the thing that I'm trying to predict. In this case, it's the psych regions. So I'm going to put that right there. Now I've chosen one with just three categories, that's going to be the simplest. If we had only two we do binomial. And if we had more than that, it just gets so complicated, it's hard to deal with. In terms of covariates, what I'm going to do is I'm going to pick the five elements of the big five personality factors. So that's extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. Mind you, this is not a person by person level, it's a state by state level. I'm going to slide that over into covariates. And then from there, we can start looking at the model that it creates. It takes a moment, sometimes for it to run through this, because there's a lot of calculating that goes on behind it. Let me close this so I can slide this over for a second. We have a pretty big table here. The first one is the fit measures. So we have deviants, we have the AIC, and you'll see that a lot of this is very similar to what we had in the binomial logistic regression. We also have the model coefficients where it's comparing the different groups, the relax and creative minus the friendly and conventional. And it's looking at these various elements, the personality factors, and we have the p values over here. And we see that, for instance, when distinguishing between relax and creative, none of these seem to make a big difference. When we look at temperamental and uninhibited versus friendly and conventional, we do get one to conscientiousness is appears to be an important one and neuroticism is nearly there. Now let's take a look at some of the options we have. Click back on this. And it comes down to model builder, I can put the variables in in blocks if I want. And there may be situations in which I want to do that. But with just these five personality ones, I'm not going to do blocks. But I did demonstrate that in linear regression. So you could take a look at that reference level is what's the one I want to compare it all to. I actually think I'm going to take the temperamental and uninhibited and make that the reference level. And you can see how the order just switches around over here. So this is friendly and conventional minus temperamental and uninhibited. And it just changes the sign of some of the comparisons. Although you see down here, neuroticism becomes an extremely big thing for distinguishing between the relax and creative and the temperamental and uninhibited. We're going to follow up with that. We'll come down to model fit. These are the standard choices here, we'll keep those as they are. And model coefficients. Now, this is where we have the estimates, those are coefficients, but it's nice to have odds ratios and confidence intervals for those as well. And when I do that, I just get a few more columns over here. Now you can ignore this one because it's for the intercept, we don't expect anything particular there. It's the rest of the ones that we're interested in. And you can see, for instance, here, this second to bottom one, this is relaxing, creative, minus temperamental and uninhibited, we're looking at neuroticism, which has to do with kind of having a lot of mood swings or also getting irritable. And we have a significant association here, the odds ratio 0.731. Remember, the null value for an odds ratio is one, if it's either below one or above one, then you have something going on. And especially if both sides of the confidence interval are on the same side of one, as we see here. But this is all going to be a lot easier to interpret if we get the graphs. And so I'm going to come down here to the estimated marginal means. And now it's going to take a moment because I'm going to put all of them in here and I have to do them one at a time. I'm going to take extra version, put that over here. I'll add a new term, do agreeableness, add a new term to conscientiousness, add a new term to neuroticism, and add a new term and do openness. And then I'm going to close this for right now. And what we're waiting for are all the graphs that are come at the bottom, really pretty graphs, what they are, are lines that show the probability. So we have our three regions, each of which is shown by a different color. So this gray line right here is the friendly and conventional. And by the way, this shows this extra version where the mean is about 50 and it goes down to about 30 up to 70. And so as extra version goes up, there's a much higher probability that that state is in the friendly and conventional, you can see that when extra version is low, it's probably relaxing creative. And the temperamental and uninhibited is just kind of low all the way through on that one. agreeableness, friendly and conventional is really high all the way through, you can see that the temperamental and uninhibited low agreeableness, so they're a little cranky there. As it comes down, it comes less likely that they are one of the temperamental and uninhibited because they're more agreeable. Conscientiousness has this amazing crossover where friendly and conventional as conscientiousness increases friendly and conventional, the probability of a state being friendly and conventional increases dramatically. And we have the exact opposite for temperamental and uninhibited, much lower levels of conscientiousness and it doesn't seem to really figure into the relaxing creative states. And then neuroticism with this really peculiar huge crossover. This is temperamental and uninhibited as neuroticism levels get higher, relax gets low, and then we have a funny little peak here for friendly and conventional. And then openness. We see that the friendly and conventional as openness increases, they start out on the low end and then it drops off and the other two pick up. So there's a trade off there. And so this is a really neat way of seeing a visualization of the probabilities and how each factor goes into determining whether a state falls into one of these three different categories. And this is probably how you're going to get the most information and the most insight into your data is through these marginal mean graphs. But you also get an idea for which ones really matter overall by looking at the calculations and the numerical summaries in the multinomial logistic regression.