Glenn Clark with goalie Annie Smith Hammond at Stevenson picks up a dramatic 2-1 win here tonight Annie Let me start by saying congratulations.  You know coming away with four points this weekend was really huge for us and our team just played phenomenal this weekend And it was really really good showing for us for you to come in cold and be all asked to do this job The night and keep your team in on a night where the offense didn't maybe click like it did last night and get six Goals how big was it for you and and how great did it feel to be such a part of that?  You know, this is it Can you take me through what it is that you saw in that game winner? You know, it was just money was able to put it home and it was a phenomenal feeling getting the win tonight Your team is fired up you still have work to do. However, going to Canton next weekend You got to go in there and win two to make sure you lock up that first round by How important is it to stay focused this week as you had on the road again? You know coach talks in locker. I'm about staying focused this week and and we're a very hard-working team So I have no doubt that we're gonna do that this week to get us prepared for soon again It was pink the rink day here at Stevenson rocking the awesome pink warm-up and rock in between the pipes Annie congratulations on a big victory and best of luck next weekend. Thank you very much. She's Annie Smith Hammond I'm Glenn Clark. This is go Mustang sports comm


Wow, good morning everyone, I have a few people who are on their way out or already left and said goodbye to us, but yes, it feels really good to come together now just to, you know, bring a closing to the last seven days, but really launching in this, the next phase. Yeah, this morning I think I was just having a coffee there and Peter came, just gave me this biggest hug and he just said, you knew, right? You knew what happened. And what happened was he said, I finally surrendered after 55 years of struggling and we all know that feeling, you know, even whether it's conscious or unconscious, there's some kind of battling that's going on every minute. It's like, there's still some kind of protection, some kind of guarding going on without even knowing what we're guarding or what we're protecting, but that is what seems to be the subtle energy and something just popped in the morning for him. He said 5.30 in the morning. That was so specific. He is taking Jeffrey and Cass, right? All the way to Coochie. Yeah. He's in the first. Yeah, just the seeming thing that seems so impossible and hard and he was talking with me this morning about this movie, an older movie, Jack Nicholson, about breaking through this impossible prison. And yet what happened, what can break this prison is something that's so simple as well. It's just this something happens that allow us to totally surrender. That is... Peter Burst. I'm just talking about... Thank you. You've been revealed. It's so beautiful is that it's like, you know that there is things to clear ahead. You know that your mind, you're going to have a lot of unconscious darkness coming up, and it reminds me a bit of our cast of characters in The Wizard of Oz. You know, when they're in The Wizard of Oz, it's not all a picnic. There is a green witch with a crooked nose flying around on a broom, and there's flying monkeys that can come and take you up at any point.  Like we have with the election last night, I'm getting all these things, and how do we prepare, how do we deal with this? You know, they're happy, but they're side by side, they're going down the yellow brick road, they arm in arm, hand in hand, rough to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz, wonderful. You see, they're optimistic. They're arm in arm. They've got the mighty mates on all sides. The arms are locked. Whatever there was, the wizard of Oz is one because, because, because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does.  You're, you've got the mighty mates, your arm in arm, and we're not trying to sugarcoat Oz. This place is actually called Oz when they always say, are you flying down to Oz? And I said, yes, I'm going to Oz. Yes, that's this nickname for, I like that better than Down Under. That sounds really heavy. Where are we going? Down Under. Are we talking about Hades, hell, purgatory? No, Oz. So we're really, we're optimistic here in Oz, and we're ready for the journey. Whatever we have to take, whatever comes our way, you know, that's, that's good. It's beautiful. And the part of it, you can share what we're doing today. I mean, that's what we do with these final closing sessions, is we really just express what's, what's happened. Yeah, because I think that hopefully that is something that, that really become obvious is that we're not alone on this journey and we're all together. We're all ready. And what is really is going to happen is at any minute, at any moment, we can actually say no more. And I'm ready, I'm ready to break this prison. This prison that seems very hard, seems very concrete, you know, very solid, but something in my heart that is soft, that's light, that is gentle is ready to say, yeah, I'm going to give over to this light and I'm going to, I'm ready. And we're just here together to be in this moment of yes to that, to that gentleness and to that light, to that burst, you know. So, yeah, it's just feeling very, very good to have spent this seven, seven days together and continue on together for this. So normally when we come together in the last session, we just want to hear from you and see what, what happened and what miracles have occurred, what insight you have received, because really this is what we want to remember and we want to keep in our awareness. No matter what darkness is out there, the ego patterns are there, what we really want to remember and extend and keep in our mind is the miracles, the insights and the thoughts of the spirit that are true to us. Those are the, you know, the sparks in our mind that we want to extend and keep it ignite, keep it in flame. So this is what we want to do, we want to hear from you, we want to hear about what happened and what is going on right now in your heart. And then, yeah, we just join the celebration and encourage each other to continue on this journey. The microphone is ready. Yeah, I'll start now. We want everyone on. Just going around? Yeah. We'll just go around. For me there's been not one but many and I've kind of been mounted yesterday and it's come through. Gabrielle has helped me permission again to hear the song with the music of heaven, if that's the right word. But it kind of came to yesterday that I just have to drop everything. There's been projects I've been working on for 20 years, some of them, and everything has to go and then we see what I pick up afterwards. I have to go home and work this out with my family and my wife and various things. And of course the grief was quite strong in me when I realised I have to drop every roll. And Jesus just said, well, you have no idea how the form is going to look like so I don't think you're grieving for losing anything at this stage. It's a little bit early. It has been more than one thing for me as well but I was on that Jekyll and Hyde thing and it's interesting because almost as soon as I parked the car a piece come over me and I'm just buzzing from ear to ear and I've just been in that place of peace to be really honest with you and I do want to thank you very much and we're going to see you in Koojee, is it it? Yeah, I've always decided to be your groupie. So we're going to group along. And I particularly want to thank the staff for all the effort and the wonderful food and everything, that's just been completely awesome and yeah, I'm just really grateful. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you. Give it to us, tell us. Tell us, tell us about it. I went down to the valley to the free studying about that good old way who should wear that Tony crown? Good Lord, show me the way.  I will tell you just a little thing. It's not easy to in a way, if we start there because I've been there to arrive here but it's so easy in an instant, you're there you just drop it and surrender. But anyway, so this morning because I have been battling with this it's been a beautiful journey but there's been battles for me too. I think I've heard the beautiful metaphor was the two wolves, one wolf gets a hold and then the other comes in and whatever. But anyway, but this morning I woke up quite early and I was, I mean yesterday was a low day for me this morning I'm in there going alright, what's going on brother? And I'd already been through all of the things it all makes so much sense and yet so why don't I just surrender? And I did, and I thought to myself I can't wait to see Johnny because Johnny's been a special part of the journey we've been sort of supportive of each other and so on, I could tell some stuff there but all I'll say is this I wondered what the time was so I got my phone and it was dark it was still dark and I grabbed the old phone and turned it on and I thought to myself I can't wait to see Johnny brother, I'm just going for it and as I did so even in the back of my car all the curtains closed and it was still dark it was 5.30 but it's not even 5.30 but as I came and as I said to myself I'm just going for it brother and the light just came on flat out in the dark car and I was blinded by the light don't apologize I've wanted some charisma here this has been started as a penal colony now now this is it the burst he's looking at the flowers this is what I needed on that morning call this morning I hit I kept talking about the burst the burst that's it there you go that's it maybe so but that's worth everything that's worth my whole trip I just come to Oz for these moments okay and you've carried all the way across okay to Pam so Pam is ready to come to pass the torch I don't know why I've got the torch I wasn't ready my mind was saying let's plan what you're going to say and work it out but after seeing that burst I was like I'm ready mine's a quieter which is lovely for me I guess I was thinking I'm a restless soul I'm a restless soul or I have been a restless soul and I've searched everywhere and I feel like the search is an end and that's why the quietness is lovely I'm just overwhelmed with gratitude for the people in my house this morning again the five o'clock wake up oh god is this true you know what's going on I don't know all the chatter chatter chatter chatter I walk to my housemates cause I think I'm afraid well I know I'm afraid to go home and lose what I have and I know I won't and the words as I was driving here today I was driving through the mist and it's like a journey of my life through the mist I was coming in the car through the mist and it's like Cathy just go into the mist it's lovely it's really and here I am and it's let it be let it be let it be all the restlessness ceases let it be and we couldn't remember the lines was Mother Mary comes to me we couldn't remember what was that sentence speaking words of wisdom we got to listen to words of wisdom and we just couldn't get Mother Mary comes to me and it came to me in the mist it came to me and so my heart has fallen over the flowing with gratitude and love for what has been offered to me and all I need to do is hold it and share it yeah thank you I have to admit I had some trepidation when I heard that the title of this retreat was a gift in happiness I was hoping that everyone wasn't going to just be going around pretending that they're happy and thankfully that hasn't been my experience and I felt very supported in digging to find all the blocks to joy and being very supported and safe to really go deep with that and a song that keeps coming to me over the time since I've been here the Holy Spirit had a song he wanted to sing to me it would be, shut up and dance with me yeah the thing that's been coming to me a lot the last six months has been sort of a lot of messages that just relax and like yeah different kinds of relaxation like meditation but also relaxing and that came in on really the first day here for me it was just kind of like yeah just kind of relax and let go and trust was under that I saw like I wasn't really trusting so it was like a deeper message of just relaxing that's okay for me to just let go and not worry about anything and yeah so even when I was coming here I hadn't been away on a big holiday for a while and I was worried a little worry about the food and just camping would be fun but there's still a few worries and when I got here it was like into Shlaks and it's all taken care of yeah it's been really and just sort of the whole seven days it's been like just kind of like resting in that stillness and a place of relaxation yeah so it's been really lovely and I think the second or the third day after the morning talk I had kind of a vision thing of like the everyone like how we're all kind of connected we're all sort of you know I've read it in the course about how we're all one and we're all kind of part of the same mind and it just sort of seemed to sort of it was a vision of that it just seemed to be much more alive and much more real and that stayed with me and that was really beautiful as well very grateful for that so that's thank you everyone for joining me in that peace and stillness this week I'd like to say how grateful I am for this really hard touching connecting experience and the expression sessions which were really profound and just you know feeling everyone's the same and we're all experiencing the same emotions and fears and Dave as well for expressing himself in the very beginning he's sort of the way shoulder really stepped up and for me it's just remembering the pause and not getting into my head and fearful and just accepting everything like all the good and the bad and what I perceive as good and bad is just all perfect and it's awful learning and just keep handing it over all the time so that I can live in freedom thank you first of all thanks for thanks for setting the direction for my thinking for this final moment Francis to the good to the good things of the week because there's been a lot of darkness and there's probably more to come but I'm not worried about that right now so I'll start by thanking everyone because what I've got along the way is I'll try to get the word right the inestimable worth of my brothers on this journey the bravery that got shown in our expression and sessions I got to see that it's not just me it's not just this tiny little me that's doing this it's a bigger me it's way bigger and every every act of bravery to open up and reveal a secret of darkness of fear for me it was also for me so I've been through some personal stuff but what's of greater greater impact to me is that everyone went through personal stuff and all of it seems to have finally helped me and so thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of the amazing people that participated now when I arrived at the retreat of course I had ideas about what I wanted or what I thought it was about oddly enough now at the end of it I've got my answer just even just as late as this morning and because I've got my answer that's what's going to go with me and so many so many things have been answered in that so the direction is very clear the tools are very very clear and while not always comfortable they definitely work they get me to where I need to they get me in there deeper than I've been willing to go so far but now I feel confident and safe to do that so I'm going to continue with this and while I'm not as excited as Pete there's a very sure there's a pounding in my heart and I'm just so grateful and you're an inspiration to me you really are some of your talks out the front there have impacted me deeply thank you Francis and thank you David thank you we are sharing what was most beneficial yeah so I really loved the clearing grooves because after always I felt really light and elevated and connected and like nothing can ever ever ever upset me again until the next upset came and so yes I was looking very much forward to them and I'm very very grateful to Francis's time with me I don't know something really touched me when I was with Francis because she kind of gave me permission to to be to have this darkness coming up and that I'm not doing anything wrong by more darkness coming up that is just going to come up until I've seen all of it and then the glorious day will come when all the darkness is gone and yeah it felt like a great relief that is kind of normal or the process and I'm very grateful for this and I don't know something else happened which I can't explain is like she turned some sort of switch I can't explain it yeah so I'm very very grateful just held this mic feeling a little flutter in my heart and I don't know what to say because I came here with a very very open mind and I wanted to just go with the floor and not me be the past me I wanted to let the spirit lead me in every moment that's what I wanted to do here and meet with my joint with my brothers and you know not judge them and I think this retreat has given me a great opportunity to practice all of that and I'm feeling very light and the word simple comes to my head this whole thing is very simple really it's very very simple and ego just tries to make it complex you know every now and then the moment we start to enjoy the ego just slips in and I'm healed you know I come here I'm not you know many opportunities to practice acceptance of the way it is the way spirit is bringing things in front of me just accept it it is as it is and I've been very comfortable with that you know and whatever stuff came up for me it was a good opportunity for me to see the underlying beliefs which I have to let go as well and me really there's only one purpose and that is to heal and you help me David in answering some of my questions and he says kind of given me another level I think not even another level that example of yesterday that Jesus throws the rope and you just hang on to where you are it was such an opening for me and I literally felt that I'm at the end of that rope Jesus take me now the last step you know I'm here now I've done enough of this 20 years I want to be there with you and I think he's got me he's really really got me I can see that at the end of the rope that's it I'm now leaping into it into that word of Krishna or Christ similar sounding names and no judgment it's beautiful it's a course says the more instant you drop judgment healing happens the rest is just stuff that's it it's amazing it's really really amazing and I was just thinking I'm wearing this thing and this is my Indian guru who taught me the spirituality but you know what I must say that I needed another one with your photo at the back of your sketch on an orange one I can wear one there each because when you walked into my house four months ago and I was near to the court you have shown me the spirit led life he has shown me spirituality you have shown me what spirit how to live a spirit led life and I'll leave it there that's what I got thank you thank you for me this has been a journey into simplicity my life's been calling me into simplicity for years already and when I came here I was fully prepared to be really challenged challenged in whatever ways I could be by living in community sharing a bedroom being the presence of this beautiful energy and I realised I've always looked at life as a challenge and that the amount of difficulty and the amount of suffering that I had to overcome was somehow a measurement of my progress and I've realised during this week because I haven't been challenged and I haven't suffered and I'm sort of going well what's wrong what am I not getting here and I've just been entertaining the idea that maybe life is really simple that there's really nothing I have to do I always thought there was a huge amount more that I had to let go of and I'm sure there will be a continual letting go but somehow I don't see it the same way anymore and I just wanted to say David specifically that I've found your energy really inspiring because it's just really given me the feeling that life could be lived in joy but also that the spiritual path itself could be a path of joy and in the past I always thought it had to be really serious and really difficult and I had to be tested and it's like do I have to keep doing that forever so it's been a very simple and beautiful time for me and I also wanted to thank all the people who prepared this house the bedrooms, the bathrooms, the food the way everything's been organized and has been put together and flowed so smoothly it's like a sanctuary this place I mean the whole property is and all the people I've shared this journey with it's just been a blessing thank you everybody thank you very much one more thing I want to say there's so many, I came here to join brothers there's so many brothers have inspired me but there's one man here who has really really inspired me and I want to give him a big hug and he's the most cuddliest here in this room, this man here Jeff thank you so much in the last 6 days my brother you have I don't know what but there's some long life in you he's amazing guy amazing I love him so much today he cooked bacon and washing with him he even chanted an Indian bhajan with me you know he was just a man we shared so much you have inspired me you have touched my heart thank you thank you these last 2 shareings have inspired the song in me la la la la la for today hey la la la la la la la for today and don't worry about tomorrow anyway there's so many this thing a quick tattree good I can always sing in the interlude I always like to be singing I've been a groupie of Jeff's as well I've had so many realizations this week so I couldn't possibly refer to all of them but it has been a truly awesome week in the true sense of the word awesome every one of you have mirrored to me something very profound and significant and I could individually explain all of that but of course I won't so that's been extraordinary in itself and when I say profound I really do mean significant and profound once again in the true sense of the word I have been searching for a long time and this week I feel as though I've really taken a fast track with my learning and I am deeply profoundly and sincerely very very thankful for that opportunity I'm very grateful to Sue in particular for having us here this is such a good thing happening here I feel as though I've rejoined the human race and over the last couple of years I've increasingly withdrawn from people and I've increasingly lost my faith in people and it feels like a real restoration of all of that along with the learnings and so many profound aha moments and the realization that in the end it's simple it's simple and so I think everyone equally equally for this opportunity I shared at the start of the retreat that I have a lot of fear about a month ago I got a message to make the commitment to trust first rather than waiting for the world and people to give me reasons to trust so it's a huge step coming here to come out of my comfort zone and I had a huge surrender of this fear before I even came on the retreat and got the message that you've already received detainment it's just now been in a state of allowance and being I think I had these huge expectations that this was going to be a really traumatic experience to release everything but it's really just been really graceful loving, gentle step by step and I have felt a lot of happiness and joy and seeing that there's a real strength and being vulnerable and exposing myself and being seen by others there has been a real heart joining by doing that but I can see obviously I've still got a lot to go but this has given me a lot of motivation and determination to stay on this path because it really feels like it's the only way so yeah I'm really grateful for everyone that I met I feel like everything that you guys have said has been for me it's just been amazing thanks to Michael I know you've spent some time with me so yes thank you so much beyond words wow like I had my pop brushing my teeth this morning and the last year just every little puzzle piece fell into place and I just swear but in that I realised and I may not be quoting the course correctly but there's no measure in miracles there's so many little miracles I couldn't even begin to tell but for me in a year long journey of following the calling and just going with it and surrendering and not knowing and embracing the not knowing and enjoying the not knowing and then having it revealed and then to have a year long journey of that from the Andes Mountains through the Tahitian Islands, Malaysia New Zealand, China the United States Uluru and back to here and it dropped in here on the night of the election and I was guided you're here doing this journey to support humanity through this election and I was like I'm not political I'm not an activist or anything like that no interest but what I was shown was there was an opportunity because people were going there has to be a better way and so I was just anchoring and living what I know to be true with my brother my biological brother with my parents with my partner with those in community with me with everybody with you guys here and yesterday I got it on level and this morning brushing my teeth I got it on the bigger level and I've just gone just keep going just keep going just keep following the call just keep doing it and it's fun it's great it's wonderful it's so easy I thought in ten years ago more when I started on that calling I thought oh this is hard work this is overwhelming I can't do this who's gonna do it with me it's all too getting out there and now it's all grounded now it makes sense and very grateful for that coming full circle and realising everything I've been doing has been fully guided and not to question it anymore and to just keep going thank you thank you to everybody here and thank you to Dave he has just been such an inspiration he's in our expression session group and there's another lady too but I think she must have gone but the courage that they have shown to speak their heart truth and other people here too Nicole and other people it's just so such a blessing it's so refreshing and it just feels so beautiful to be naked thank you that's so funny because when I very first started on the spiritual path I knew nothing I went to a retreat that was a year long two weeks to start in group and my biggest fear is that this teacher who was pretty out there was gonna ask it's all to dance naked under the moonlight together and how I'll let the moon or something I haven't taken I did take my clothes off once but but now I understand what being naked is all about and it's nothing to be frightened of thank you for me it's just being in confirmation I guess being here with all of the messages and all of those who've come together to create this event it's just it's just the way I want to live and just letting go of the need to have to understand the greater picture or vision or how it needs to look and just take the next step and how joyful that can be and to really open to be more revealing of what I would fear to bring up that I might be judged or I might be perceived as not ready to walk the path to extend what God would have me do and save and so for me being here it's been the pathways I've explored I've felt a real deep resonance through so many different streams but the resonance has always been presence and that the love that is beyond that stream or way and and so I know that what I've opened to that my mind at times questions how does this support me to truly know God I know that God will show me and that I don't need to understand at that level of how it all works all the things that I've been guided to in my life will serve the greater vision that I'm here and we're all here to share through just being done through it so it's been really beautiful I've loved being here it's felt like coming home it has felt like it's been like a wow it has been a big year of wow am I traveling again and it's just like and what is this for because there's been no real personal wants it's just been ok surrender surrender and part of that's been surrendering to the guidance coming through what would appear to be my partner or another and letting go of the part of me that wants to be in control of that and I've witnessed that in this community how guidance isn't personal it's just how it comes it's just that willingness to follow be led and so that's what I take from this retreat to really deepen that just open to the guidance and just take that wherever that leads me and I know that will because it has been a ways back to love and it's just yeah yeah just really love what you're in France and Sinsu and all here have just really come together that shared purpose that unifies your all and it's just so amazing yeah thank you yeah for me having known a bit jealous of all these lovely experiences everyone has to be having but yeah having known so little before the conference and now it's just been a great learning experience to me a bit nervous about this idea of a lifelong journey and yeah this is just a very beginning I've only been into this for like a week so yeah this is the very very beginning and there's a lot to go you're like a sponge though sponging up from all the veterans yes yeah it's a bit scary but also very exciting and the idea of guidance and not having to plan out your life but yeah I've only learned of this you know a week ago and yeah that's very exciting so not knowing what I'll do next year or the year after just letting it come yes and really great and yeah that also is a bit scary but yeah I'll go into that anyway yeah so thank you David, Francis, Melanie everyone yeah that's really good my memory of Angie before the retreat was someone that was having a relationship with Holy Spirit but being totally suppressed and not being myself in the world having that like secret life with the Holy Spirit but not feeling I suppose listening to the voice of you can't live like that really you can't live totally with the Spirit but I could see that watching David and although I don't like to have intentions because I know that intentions only bring tensions but my intention coming to this retreat was to be who I really am and to be with Spirit and so as soon as I got to the retreat I'm just hugging whoever I see just letting it out but I do recall when I first walked through those arches coming into this place just saying something profound which was just me speaking in Spirit and looking across at Jeff and I just saw the twinkle in his eye and he said something the connection was like this is real like this is reality and to me this retreat has been the end of an argument not just that I can live with Spirit but that I am living with Spirit and that it's finished and I can have that joy and happiness being with Spirit and living with Spirit and all the connections that I've made in this retreat I just know are connections with my true self and that's what I'm seeing and learning to love and accept that those connections are actual connections with Spirit with my true self in what I see and I'm just so so grateful to Spirit so so grateful to all those connections and everything that I see and not wanting to move from that place thank you one of my greatest concerns whenever I come to a retreat is that I've got to go home and the routine if you kind of say of being in a retreat of being spontaneous and joyful and loving doesn't always stay with me when I go home so there were two things that I think will be very very helpful for me and one thing that Francis said was about desire I hadn't made a connection that anger is a desire for me frustration and all those egoic terms were desires but I can choose to have the other desire which is love and peace and harmony and to say I desire the peace of God more than the anger that really had a great impact on me so thank you for that another thing that had a great impact was when I had a session with Michael and I've seen it in action here Spirit at Work and I in the course that talks about being motivated but when I come from a sporting background motivation means something quite different so when Michael suggested how about I use the word inspired by spirit that really had a huge impact as well and I think I can take those two things with me which will keep me on track more than trying to make it all happen those two things will certainly help me to surrender and to participate and I've seen spirit in action here I've seen what it's like in people and I just adore it I just think it's beautiful so I thank everybody here I've only been here a short time and I feel as if I've come to the hump you know when you stay a few days and then you get over the hump and then you move into the well I kind of think I'm at the hump but I've had some lovely people help me with that and I thank them as well so thank you everyone it's been a big week for me I haven't really thought much about spirituality for about eight years I've had so many insights and aha moments I don't even know where to start started at the conference this was built from there across the week I guess a big one for me was I didn't have to put this off until life was less busy kids had grown up that now is the time and you can actually apply all this there's so many opportunities to apply it now it's probably going to be a better opportunity environment to learn in because there's so much opportunity every day so that was really big so that's quite liberating because underneath I think I felt restless to get back into it and resume the journey and give up so much being a parent I thought this was another thing I had to put on hold the expression sessions were really powerful for me a lot of things were triggered in me by what other people said so many things one of them was that my reactions to my son are triggering something from my own childhood so just being aware of that is hugely helpful because then I can shine the light on that false belief and it's so much easier than to have trust that it doesn't have to be this way that there's no need to be afraid of anything that I'm safe I just have to remember to pause it's just that pause that's the thing pause to reflect on that and then to ask for guidance to find out what the way is because I don't know what the right way is and another thing that I'm going to carry forward is that I guess it's wrapped up with forgiveness but instead of judging myself and going oh I've failed again or oh there's that damn ego I can see it now like you get the awareness but instead of having a negative reaction to it just almost laugh at it with lightness and joy like oh look at that naughty child there it goes again playing tricks just view the ego with lightness because it's always going to be there or for a long time probably and rather than having a negative response to it it'll make it easier for me to dismiss it by looking at it with more lightness I'm being so serious about it and they're laughing at it and seeing the joy in it and I've done that a lot this week actually I've caught myself out with a thought or a feeling and I just burst out into laughter walking past what am I giggling about it's just brought up bubbles of giggles in me at various odd times and I've had this awareness of the ego so I found that really useful too and I just wanted to thank you David and Francis for making yourself so available coming all the way to Oz and spending this time with us and with me and everyone as well for coming here taking time out of your lives because it's been such a beautiful environment and community and makes it so much easier to stay open and embrace the feelings of love that are there underneath everything else thank you everyone yeah I was just went to the loo before and asked the spirit what do you want me to say what do you want me to say because I tend to talk too much I think but my ego does a little bit but I feel very expansive right now and all you need is love da da da da da all you need is love da da da da da all you need is love love love is all you need that's what spirit said to me to say thank you everyone it's been a massive blessing in every sense of the word Dave Francis Jeff for our bedtime talks brother there's been certain key people the guru over here the Indian guru in the middle and Peter over here Dave yeah so thank you everyone God bless yous and and I just realise heaven's not a state it's a state of awareness and we are just leading towards experience it's a problem it's a I know that I'm on the right track thank you thank you I realised then Sanjeev was giving gratitude that I was not expressing what I have learnt also to take with me which was a very big stumbling for me you've mentioned a lot the trusting that we trust and not with others and I came here with Ross and then there were fears of trust triggered by two very adorable women in here and I'm so great for you are here because it really had me to look at trusting the God so today's lesson also is in quiet I hear God's word today and the last two days God was showing me quite obvious that I really can trust him in small and big matters because where I was praying to see things differently suddenly miracle was and then I saw miracle and then I felt relief that I can trust and then this morning also little I needed to use a hairdryer I didn't look first it's still there I had already washed my hair and I was like okay there will be hairdryer for me don't worry just trust so then was I was sitting there I thought I'll just ask everybody and I was looking at this woman and then it was like I should be asking her and I was like no she will be the last person here having a hairdryer so I didn't ask her and then I asked another woman no no I don't have a hairdryer another woman no I have done not hairdryer and then I said maybe this blonde lady has one and she said no no but she has one and she is pointing to the lady I was looking at her in the first place I should have asked but I came and no she won't have but it's like see if you trust me then you will just have immediately what you need no need to go in your head work it out so long story short I'm taking with me that I cannot trust in all areas not only in some areas thank you thank you I'm sure I speak for all of us but Sue we would like to thank you so much for opening up this most beautiful home to us and you're such a beautiful human being and I'm sure we all feel the same way so thank you so so much thank you all of our home I really feel that so thank you very touching just hearing you all speak your heart like that because we're just strengthening it the gratitude pours out of us and then it strengthens it and it gets stronger and stronger it's more simple we feel more relaxed love cannot be far behind the tranquil heart grateful mind it's so beautiful I got a song coming in again it's the beginning of remember the Carpenters this place with the sky such a feelings coming over me there is wonder in most everything I see now the cloud in the sky got the sun in my eyes and I won't be surprised if it's a dream everything I want the world to be is now coming true especially for me and the reason it's clear it's because you are near you're the nearest thing to heaven that I've seen I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation and the only explanation I can find is the love ever since you've been around your love's put me at the top of the world make it good for us it's a happy feeling you want to just sing sing to the world it's very beautiful very simple too it's like just having the allowance to just merge when you're watching a flower or watching a butterfly fly by or a bird singing in the tree just the contentment like ah yes thank you let me behold this is what st. Francis was talking about communing just communing the allowance that's perfect we don't have to seek to be into all these busy doings where they smell the roses this is a good place to smell the roses and appreciate the burst we have the in full bloom and then we have here's three right there waiting to come into burst so yeah I just have such such gratitude and this is a we're just winding down on our one stop, one gathering left in Coochie with our groupies this is good this is like awesome groupies because I hear that when I've been in Columbia I go around in groupies and a lot of times in China in China we not only hit groupies but we were actually spawning Sinyasis we had these wandering mystics from India that just go and they don't have any preparations or plans or money and we've actually had some trips where the Sinyasis have sprung forth two of them said let's join together and we were there one time we got to see this man again on this recent trip but in a previous trip I think we were down in Shanghai and he told us a story we met him in a park in Beijing and he had he had heard us speak and he just had let it all go he was dancing around like Peter and then he was down to one suitcase not even a large suitcase and then he was going to hop on this train and he thought why do I have a suitcase and it just had some clothes in and it had his course of miracles book in it but he was so happy he was at the train station and he thought hey I'm letting go of the suitcase too that's just too much so he puts the suitcase out in the railway station and he looks around and he sees a janitor sweeping at the station and so he goes to the janitor and he said there's a suitcase over there see it it's all yours there's some clothes in there I think but that's not there's a book in it and this book will change your life he left his course book as well as the clothes and he told the janitor about it like just go over to your life then he hopped on the train he came to Beijing we met him in a park and then we were guided to go to this spiritual center where this woman apparently was a very wealthy woman who just had traveled around the world and touched in all spiritual pathways including of course the miracles and she had a beautiful spiritual center and we went there to visit her and all the people there were volunteers there was no money exchanged and she would fly teachers in from different parts of the world to teach and there were our two Sinyasis that we had seen traveling and they had taken the train to Beijing and we were like hmm not surprised we would find you here and so that was just a beautiful symbol about how when you really let go and it's beautiful like Shola you've been traveling both of you have been traveling around and that's a beautiful symbol of trusting and letting go one prompt at a time here, there, here, there as a whirlwind of travel and that's a beautiful symbol of letting go because it's like everything's new you're meeting new people you're seeing new sights and that's just another way to get out of the familiar and helps us get comfortable with that flow of just listen follow listen follow very simple doesn't have a future plan just listen follow so it's a beautiful witness to all of us that it can be that simple it's been very precious and another world tour for us winding down we've taken so many I've lost count there are many many times around the world I was just thinking about how many rounds we've done in the last few years I couldn't count anymore but I feel that what has happened for me in the last few years of so much traveling and meeting with people like you is the spirit really opened up my vision because in every one of you I see the spirit at work in your life like I just really appreciate when you this morning Peter spent some time with me talking about I loved hearing those stories because I see the spirit at work with your life with every moment and how it was guiding you and directing you and brought you over at the right time and opened your heart up and it's just so beautiful for me to witness that it's such an honor to consistently witness that around the world with everyone and I guess that is my way of the spirit working with me to see this is not how it was this is not how it was and just keep opening up the perspective of what is true and truth is you know there is a narrow path but I'm saying this with a gratitude in my heart it's not narrow as in it's hard and it's hard to find or it's obscure it's obscure to the ego but it's narrow in that it is the only way you know no need to search for what can seem to be presented in multiple illusory ways they're all there but they're not the way and the way is clear is simple is there and that's the only way it's very simple so for me I just feel like yeah you know someone just mentioned that we all want to find another way and somehow this world is ready seemingly external world but it's actually the calling of our heart to say I want another way then let's be the other way let's be the the way the truth the light and Jesus said I am the way the truth and the light how can we be the way the truth the light but be and be him be one with him and be choosing him in every single moment of our life you know every decision every encounter is our chance to be one with him be the way that the world is calling for so what an amazing path what an amazing journey that we are on gratitude to this awareness of one mind that we're always just experiencing our thoughts we're always just experiencing our beliefs and that's just the fact of it the giving and receiving are the same and it's beautiful that this seeming election year over the United States the Holy Spirit sent me to Bucchi to a farm for the final steps of that process and I have to say just traveling around Europe and coming back to the States and being exposed to a lot of things it was actually one time I was on Facebook people were writing all kinds of things about it and everything it was actually on Facebook where Deepak Chopra was asked about Donald Trump and I found it was just marvelous absolutely delightful how Deepak answered the question in fact I was sitting there with my phone with the biggest grin from ear to ear when I was reading because the questioner was saying well what do you think and the questioner was quite stirred up and had a lot of emotions this was months ago and Deepak said oh he's doing such a favor he's such a favor he's showing us the collective unconscious he's showing us all our beliefs he's doing us such a favor we should all be grateful we should be very grateful for this man and the questioner was quite taken back he said well I hope I could be grateful and everything he said but yeah I'm surely not going to vote for the man and surely you're not telling us Deepak that we should open up that is part of the collective will we shall see we shall see what the collective will is we must accept the collective decision for this you know very very delightful and really when you think about it that's the truth of it that's the truth of everything that we're just witnessing our thoughts people aren't really people they're just thoughts that are acting out in front of us and thank goodness for that because again that's what we're learning from A Course in Miracles is that only full gratitude and full appreciation is due your brother or your sister that's it only full appreciation why? because they're showing you what's in your awareness and if you're not aware what's in your awareness you need to be fully grateful for anything and anyone who brings it up into your awareness because you cannot heal from it until it's an awareness nothing that is pushed into the subconscious mind nothing that is repressed or suppressed is going to be part of the healing until you welcome it until you allow it and so again with yesterday with the election results and everything like that it's just I get a big smile when I think of Deepak's wisdom because that's truly an answer that is an answer it's an answer that everyone can embrace and can see the value of and you can apply it to anything that's just one specific case of many many opportunities that we have and the idea that we're sharing today is that it can be fun the journey can be fun when you stay aware of oh thank you for showing me this whatever I need to look at thank you spirit for showing me this you can have that gratitude that thank you for these opportunities to heal and be healed and extend love and light so it's been good it's been good what you're saying is Donald Trump being the president of America of course one of the strongest country in the world if he has stirred up so many people in a way he has brought in our awakening our unhealed part of our mind that's what you're saying that's what he has done and the collective will has elected him to in a way for all of us to get healed around that because as I understand that if there's anything which upsets me anything Donald Trump's upsets me or many Americans it doesn't affect me directly but it's an opportunity for healing that's what these world leaders do that's what their role is when we get we have got few here in Australia as well but Paul in Henson comes to mind she she stirs up here quite a bit so that's a good way of healing I'm going to start looking at it like that that is actually healing just a comment if you really look at the workbook of A Course in Miracles the first 23 lessons really it's got it all because you're first getting in touch with your perceptions nothing I see means anything with lesson number one it could be stated nothing I perceive means anything and then who works his way begins in lesson four and in lesson ten talking about thoughts so he's talking second one I've given everything I see or everything I perceive all the meaning it is so one, two, three are about perception he talks about thoughts five, six, seven, eight, nine are about perception ten is about thoughts he's immediately going right to work making a connection between our thoughts and our perceptions and basically my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world he's making the direct connection and he works it right through there to lesson 23 I can escape from the world he's done it in 23 lessons he's done the whole cycle if you just did the first 23 lessons with total willingness he's taken he's straightened out cause and effect he's said you're upset you're never upset for the reason that's lesson five he's told you that you can escape from the world you see by giving up attack thoughts giving up judgments giving up opinions giving up grievances positive and negative we may have positive judgments around certain people places and things we may have negative judgments but they both are on the same continuum of judgment we have to give up the positive as well as the negative even songs about accentuate the positive eliminate the negative both part of the same continuum heaven has neither positives or negatives there's no opposites in heaven it's all pure oneness so once you start to see that then at lesson 23 I can escape the world I see by giving up attack thoughts you've been given the answer you've been given the escape from time and space and you've been given the gateway to eternity by the master and then he's basically saying practice this other lessons 24 through 365 to mix it up a little you don't get too bored mix it up a little mix it up but basically essentially it's been given and we have to practice it because we've been given a gift and we have to practice it today it was interesting I've opened Facebook and it said here's the demographics and the pundits now after the whole thing's done everybody's fascinated in the who and the what and the how and how did this happen and all these crazy meaningless things but the demographics I'm kind of interested in the sense that of course the miracles is a non-dualistic pathway to God I call it like a spiritual psychotherapy it's got so much you know psychological word in there as well as educational vocabulary and it's definitely have your Christian terminology in there and so when I looked at the demographics these are the exit polls of when people leave you know what are the demographics I said okay let's look at the charts who voted for Trump it was in red and it was 80% in terms of all religions that voted for Trump 80% were Christians 80% were Christians okay that's interesting and if you are Christian and you are opening to forgiveness I would say that you must come to the awareness that that it is impossible to be a victim and that's what the lesson is for all Christians obviously for everyone on the planet it doesn't matter if they are Buddhists or Hindu, Muslim that is and certainly with Christianity the teachings of Jesus are forgive forgive and be forgiven that's from the Bible and so everything is an opportunity to come to a place to see that it's impossible to be a victim and then I went through they have all the different races who voted and everything and yeah it was predominantly white who voted for him okay white Christians good we got our course in miracles let's get busy extending the course the teachings of the course said they were English speaking the course is in English the course has Christian terminology a lot of white people voted for it and then I went through the whole thing rural versus urban it was rural, mostly rural people not in the cities not in New York or Chicago Los Angeles out on the farm white people on the farm they are Christians these are the ones that brought Donald to us for the next four years and whatever happens the white Christians on the farm are the ones that are doing it and that's good because again like Deepak has said the collective will and it's all drawn in and it's not really these factors but it's a call for healing it's a call for love it's a strong call for forgiveness and the course of miracles is the pathway that I used and I'm very grateful for that I put it up on the internet I remember when the judge sweet they had a copyright controversy on who owns the course and there were seven different lawsuits going at one point and then finally a judge in New York State named Judge Sweet through the case out and said the course had already been in the public domain so in that decision I already had a website prepared in advance so as soon as the very day Judge Sweet said the course was not copyrighted I had it on the web so I could make it available for free for anybody who could read it around the world that's beautiful we're not here to try to spread it in terms of words and concepts but as we live it as we demonstrate it as we show that it's possible to be happy to be joyful then that is the greatest inspiration we could provide in fact you might say that's the only thing we can do is live an inspired life we can't change anybody's mind we aren't here to convince anybody of anything we're here to be inspired and as we extend the inspiration we keep it in awareness that's our way of staying in touch is by giving it away we're not interested in the who or the what because it's one mind extending to itself and strengthening this beautiful state of mind in itself how beautiful how simple we're not here to convert anybody people used to tell us about how many souls have you saved I thought I'm working on one I know that's for sure I'm not interested in the numbers how many I'm asking that question but I'm working on one and that's the attitude that we can take there's an Elton John song where his lyrics are hey now discover your soul how beautiful that's what this is about discovering our soul discovering our spirit the simplicity of that and we're about that we're here all of us were drawn here for that reason even though we had different intentions and we came seemingly in different context it's quite simple we came here to discover the spirit to live the spirit to live in the spirit of love so it's been a real honor to be here with all of you and we've had some great experiences and great laughs along the way really experiencing it could be fun it could be a relaxed life of fun just experiencing that fun that's how our relationships can be they can be fun and inspirational so thank you thank you you're welcome thank you both and Clyde would like to sing a song is that the one where you were going to sing as well Clyde starts off and you come in and join him well you can share it we can get you a microphone you can share the setup for the story and then we can have a have Clyde go in and you can join this is really difficult for Clyde but he's doing it which is pretty cool and he wants to sing Amazing Grace and just very quickly Amazing Grace was about a captain on a boat he was very very brutal and cruel to his slaves and one night he was writing and he had a spiritual awakening as a result of the slaves singing and in that moment his life totally changed and he spent the rest of his life trying to free the slaves and that is what Amazing Grace is all about do you want a microphone? no sorry do you want to do it on your own? yeah Amazing Grace how sweet the sound how sweet the sound how sweet the sound that saved a rich that saved a rich like me I once was lost but now I'm found was blind but now I see Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a rich like me once was I see Grace that taught my heart to fear and Grace my fear rested that Grace appeared a sound that saved a rich I enjoy the close of these retreats because we can find a spot in the sun and have a big group then photos and all just capture the memories of all the happiness that we've shared the fog is lifted the clouds are gone the sun is out we can go out and shine the earth