Okay, hi everybody. Good morning. Well, good afternoon, whatever time of day it is for you. Welcome to our all day movie workshop. I'm Peter for those who are joining in you. And I'll just be hosting through today. And yeah, we have our, it's the first weekend of the month. So we have our table or us online retreat happening to so we have people who are just here for the all day movie workshop, and our retreat participants. So we have quite a full room here in zoom. So it's good to see everyone. And yeah, I'll just let you know how the day is going to go for those who are just joining in you. So we have the movie with David to start off with. And then after that we're going to have a 10 minute break. Then we have breakout rooms. And that's a place where you can share any emotions or anything that came up during the movie. And then we'll have a longer 45 minute break. And that's followed by a Q&A session with me. So I'll pass it over to you now David. Okay. Thanks Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome. So grateful to see your smiling faces. So grateful to be on this walk with you as we open our hearts and minds up to the spirit. And this is part of an online retreat. So we have these Saturday all day movie workshops, but we blend it together in the first full weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday of every month. So we're so grateful to see you here. I see, yeah, there's a lot of people. People look like 100 and 118. And then we have groups of people sprinkled around I see in Spain at the, at the monastery down in Mexico. So yeah, it's beautiful to come together with such a holy purpose. And I'm just bursting with happiness and joy today. I mean, probably recently I showed a movie. I'll follow you down where I said, I said, we have Jesus with us. The presence of Einstein is with us. And, and today, on this Saturday, we have the presence of a, of a beautiful being with us named Walt Disney. I just want to thank Walt Disney for all those amazing cartoons that a lot of us watched when we were growing up. Here's a man who cared about children. He adored his, his own daughters. He adored children all over the world and he wanted to make movies that would inspire children to grow up to be inspired adults. He wanted to have movies with a meaning. He wanted to bring bright colors into our, our experience because some of us were not used to such a bright range of colors and such beautiful characters that would help us open our hearts up. When we came to this world, you know, Jesus tells us in the course the world was made in hatred. And we thought, wow, when you're coming to a place that was made in hatred, you need Walt Disney's to come along and to put their heart and soul. And he just started, just started drawing a cartoon with big ears and it was Mickey Mouse was the first character. And then he thought, oh, I think Mickey needs a partner. So I'll draw Minnie Mouse.  And we know that it was more than just animation, more than just cartoons, you know, he, he went off into making movies and his movies blessed people all over the world, including us. So today, that's right. We're not calling on the mystics, the saints today, we're calling on all of them as well, but we're having Walt Disney, who, he's a great example of let your heart song come through. Let your joy come through in a way that brings a blessing to everyone and everything. And we know that not only did he make movies, but then he opened Disneyland in, in Southern California. And then he opened Disney World down in Florida. And he also was making these theme parts for children to come and be with their families and be outdoors and, and enjoy the beauty of outdoor nature. So he had a whole life of giving and extending in such a beautiful way. And he's, he's going to play prominently in this movie. We're used to watching cartoons about Walt Disney, by Walt Disney and his company. But today, Tom Hanks is going to play Walt Disney. So we're going to see some of the forgiveness lessons that Walt Disney had to go through. We're going to see that he, he had his own forgiveness lessons like everybody in this world. And he opened his heart to truly start to feel that love and warmth of spirit in his heart. So as a lot of you know, we, we put out movie polls. And we sprinkled them around. We have like three or four movie polls. We combine the results. And then when we have the results of the themes, we pray to Jesus on a movie. We pray to Jesus to give us a movie that will really touch on all the themes in the most impactful way. So it goes from being themes to an actual experience in our heart. We actually start to feel the presence of God, the presence of love, the presence of spirit beyond, beyond the words. So appropriately, basically this week the, the number one theme came in trust, let go and let God. Isn't that a great theme for a weekend retreat? Trust would settle every problem now. We know that if we're going to let trust settle every problem now, we have to really let go of, of the past and the future. We have to let go of our regrets and our grievances. And we have to let go of our ambitions and future worries. We really have to trust that present guidance is going to carry us all the way through. I love it. I see. Johnny Jax, you've got your puppy dog that he's giving us a bit cute. Wow. Cute, cute, cute. I love it. We're watching a movie with Walt Disney and you've got the, we're watching a movie with Walt Disney. I think he's as cute, more cute than the, than the ones in the, in the movie, in the movies. You've got him right there. So let me say a little bit about trust, let go and let God. I mentioned last night and that beautiful session that, that God's teachers have trust in the world because they know that it's, there is a power that is in the world. And it, it, it's not, it's, it's basically the power of love governs this world. Even if the world was made in hatred by the ego, all of the universe is governed by the power of love because God is, is the creator of spirit. And you can put a veil of time and space on top of spirit, but it doesn't change what spirit is. Spirit is really all powerful. It's all knowing it's omniscient. There's, there's nothing really but spirit. Spirit is, is reality. And so in this world, you can start to relax with the world because you know that there's a power that's in the world, but not of it. In other words, every situation is truly governed by the power of love. And we might say that's what a miracle is.  And as much as it was fragmented by the ego, all it takes is you just easing back into the miracle in your mind. And suddenly you behold a happy dream because you're not judging the world. You're, you know, so what, you know, if it was made in hatred by the ego, as my friend Dorothy always used to say, so what? Now what? I like that attitude. So what? Now what? The world was made in hatred. So what? Now what? The world was made as an attack on God. Jesus tells us in the, in the workbook, that's pretty strong metaphysics. The world was made as an attack on God, a place where God could enter not. Okay, so what? Now what? Are we in for the miracle? Are we in for the joy? Are we in for the happiness of right now? Are we in for the correction of the air? I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in analyzing the error. I don't even need metaphysics that analyze the air. I'm into the joy of the correction, the joy of the present moment, the joy of the presence of God's love. That's what really interests me. That is my heart's desire. Yeah. I was singing that REO song, you know, there's so many good REO Speedwagon songs, but, but it's basically that love I feel on my heart that doesn't want to sleep. It just wants to keep on loving you. It's, it's that love that doesn't want to let go of God's love because it knows it can't. It's, it's that it's time to bring the ship into the shore and throw away the oars forever. It's time to get into the joy of, I can't fight that feeling anymore. I've forgotten what I started fighting for. It's time to bring the ship into the shore and throw away the oars forever. Let's get into the glory of the grace of God. Let's go all the way into the glee and happiness of God. God is unstoppable. Love is unstoppable. Error can only seem to cover it for a glimpse for a little moment, but, but a little veil is not going to, to shield us from the love of God because God created us and God's will for us is perfect happiness. So to me, when I read trust, let go and let God, which is our main theme of the retreat and of the movie. I say trust in the Holy spirit. That's what it means. It's not saying trust in the flesh. It's not saying trust in linear time. It's not really saying trust in the images of the world. I think it was our friend, Stephanie Renetto. Stephanie, you wrote in a question and you were making the comment you were saying, well, the issue is I really can't seem to trust people because, because in my experiences, you know, in this world, people have always let me down. Well, I, I totally agree with that. I, I think I had a similar conclusion myself. I thought, wow, if I'm trusting in people, I don't know how far that's going to get me. But Jesus said, well, I'll give you a workbook lesson. I trust my brothers who are one with me. I'm just saying trust in the guidance of the Holy spirit, trust in your intuition because that intuition knows that there's only one of us. That's really what trust in my brothers, you know, means. I trust my brothers as I trust in you, God, because I know that my brothers and sisters aren't actually flesh. They're actually spirit. And I'm not going to fall for the trick of time and space getting too wrapped up into the body and flesh when even in the Bible, Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. And then some of you know, St. Francis, the beautiful mystic saint who lived in the 1200s. He loved to quote Jesus and St. Francis said, quoting the Bible, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit. I now am born again. Okay, that sounds pretty good. He's just talking about the present moment. He's talking about the same thing that Eckhart Tolle is talking about. The Mooji is talking about that Byron Katie is talking about that all the mystics and saints are can't stop talking about the present moment because that is the gateway to eternity. And so that's why when we trust, we are trusting in this moment. We are not trying to say that you need to trust in the form. We're saying trust in the guidance, trust in your intuition in this moment. And it will set you free. It will set your mind free. That's all my life has been dedicated to. I remember even when I was reading the course and studying it and practicing it every day. I thought, wow, this is really just getting me to trust in the Holy Spirit and Jesus. You know, it's really my practice is really about present trust. Let go of my past learning. I know we all have had a lot of past learning. I had 10 years of university on top of high school, on top of grade school, on top of kindergarten. And most of us have had a pretty long history of past learning. But Jesus, it doesn't matter. He says, still, you must let present trust lead the way. I watched the beautiful session last night with Jason and Kirsten and all those beloveds that were called up and spoke. And, you know, I hope you were just as excited and enthralled as I was because, you know, there's really nothing special about time and space. There's nothing special about any certain person, place, event, location. There aren't any special tasks. There are no, no more tasks that are more holy than other ones. But there is a goal that we share of listening to the Holy Spirit in the present moment. That is our shared goal. And so what they were talking about, was even when you're seemingly out in rural canyon in rural Utah, even when you're working on whatever projects with solar panels or building a deck or building a patio or windows, replacing windows or painting, staining. There's nothing special about any of those things. We know that. But the main thing is, think of it as like when you're a little kid and you're in the sandbox and you're playing with the sand and you want a joyful experience with everybody else in the sandbox, right? Nobody likes to be in a sandbox and have people throwing sand in your eyes. We want to play happily in the sandbox. And the Holy Spirit is saying, I'm going to give you roles and concepts that are just purposely designed for one thing to see that you're all the same one. Because to Jesus, nobody's ahead. Nobody's behind. There aren't higher roles. There aren't lower roles. There aren't better roles. There aren't worse roles. Every role that we seem to take on is a concept. In the mind. And what Jesus is saying is trust me. Trust the Holy Spirit to use the role to let go of your authority problem. Oh, what does that mean? Well, you believe you author yourself when God authors you in truth. God authored you as the Christ. And now you believe you are the author of yourself because you seem to believe that you've never made up a personality self that's real, which God didn't create. The flesh is very temporary. All of us know that this, this body is seemingly, it comes, you know, through what seems to be linear time procreation and gestation and embryo and birth and growing old and developing skills and abilities, learning and then growing, you know, sick and dying, or maybe being abruptly disappearing from the dream. And eternal love did not create this temporary schism. This temporary time and space world, which even Einstein, he says it's just a, it's an optical delusion of consciousness. And it's, he says, albeit a very persistent illusion. Well, it's persistent if you're the ego, because the ego made it. It wants the time and space to persist. And all the mystics and saints say, trust your intuition. Trust the spirit right now. And you're, the spirit is not guiding you to heaven. It's guiding you to let the form be used by the Holy spirit in a way that shows your first of all, your perfected quality with your brothers and sisters.  And then it takes you into a state of mind where you just see that there's just one. It's just one of us. There never were multiple personalities. Admittedly, we seem to have a slander. There never were multiple personalities. Admittedly, we seem to have a sleeping mind with multiple personality disorder. But like Sybil, we've except our multiple personality disorder is like 7.8 billion different alters, meaning personalities. So we've, I think they, what did they call that? I think that's the, for those of you in psychology, I remember back me up, is that DID? And she said, I forgot all that stuff. I'm a mystic now, but, but it used to be dissociative identity disorder, which is multiple personality. And that is the human condition, believing that the personalities are real. Schizophrenia. People know who study maybe the psychology psychiatry. They know that schizophrenia is hearing multiple voices. Multiple voices. And what do you think this world is? It's multiple voices. This world is schizophrenic for sure. And it's not only DID and schizophrenic, but this world is also part of psychosis. What is psychosis in psychology or psychiatry, but a break from reality? Spirit, heaven, nirvana is reality. And this world of fragmentation of a dark glass that seems to appear as fragmented people places things. That is fragmentation and that is psychotic. So the next time you feel you want to judge somebody, just remember, wow, before I point the finger and judge my brother or sister, maybe I should remember that I've got a very severe case of DID, multiple personality disorder. I'm psychotic and schizophrenic. Who am I to judge any person place or thing if I've got a major case of DID, psychosis and schizophrenia going on. Thank goodness we have Walt Disney to help us today. Walt's with us right now and he's going to help us. So we're here to feel the joy of God's love. Hope you feel it too. I'm just bursting today. Walt's got all over me. I've been taken over by Walt Disney. Okay. Thank you for your patience. Now I'll go to the second theme for today. Let go of personal responsibility. Did you notice when Jason and Kirsten were talking to yesterday that the only times they had constriction or difficulty or challenge or fear comes in when they would take personal responsibility for anything that they were perceiving. And then when they brought up this beautiful parade of beloveds that are here, every single one that I heard talk all the way through Anthony and Antonio at the end, Antonio was talking about the dark night of the soul and about having to go through those three, look at those three pathways to find the pathway to God, to Dios. And basically was so beautiful because everything, including the dark night of the soul is one simple error. And it's called personal responsibility. Put it this way, if God didn't create the body, why are you? Why is your mind or our mind accepting responsibility for this body? If God didn't create it? Why should we be so concerned about it? Why should we feel so dark about its behaviors and its past? Why should we feel so bad about the personality self when God didn't create it and God just wants us to be happy. God wants us to wake up from the dream and remember heaven, remember spirit. So that is very important. That's the number two theme, receiving 50 votes, almost as much as the trust theme. With 50 votes, it came in five behind the trust. Third is feeling safe to share all my thoughts. Now, if you watched the session last night, you not only saw that whenever anyone was expressing, you know, whether it was Soren or, or Isabelle, whether it was Danique, whoever was talking, the only time they felt stuck, the only time they felt fear, they felt afraid was one, they were taking personal responsibility for something and Jesus doesn't want us to take personal responsibility for anything. Why? Because our one responsibility is to accept the atonement, to accept the correction. Here's a quote from a Course in Miracles. Jesus says, you are not responsible for the error, but you are responsible for accepting the correction. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that beautiful? We're not responsible for separation. We are responsible for accepting the correction. But every time we project responsibility onto the body, the person, personality or onto other bodies, our brothers and sisters, we are not accepting the correction.  You see, it's really that simple. That's why the theme of this online retreat is trust, trust would settle every problem now. On the surface, when you read that, the ego is like, oh, humbug, that's, oh my God, do you believe that bunk trust would settle every problem now? The ego is like, are you kidding me? You've got so many problems on so many levels. You've got a maze of complexity going and you're actually going to believe trust would settle every problem now. And Jesus is saying, please believe me. Please believe me. It's the truth. If you will just follow my guidance, you will accept the correction and you will wake up in heaven. You will know eternal life. This veil of time cannot keep you asleep forever because you were created from foreverness, from eternity, from the infinite.  You were created perfect by God. God is incident and so are you. So when we look at that second one, let go of personal responsibility, that's where the guilt's coming in. And we have to learn that our one responsibility, Jesus says in the Course, the sole responsibility of the miracle worker is to accept the Atonement for himself. And then he says it a second time, the sole responsibility of the Teacher of God is to accept the Atonement for himself. He even repeats it. He's so sure he's come through time and space and he knows what's real and true. He's telling us, whatever you think you're responsible for in person, personalities, it's not really that. They're just symbols that the Holy Spirit will use to help you forgive, which means to release these idols, these false beliefs, false thoughts. I know a lot of you have written in questions too. Lucia Young, I see you there over there, Great Britain, you wrote in, you say, well, I've got a partner, I got a family, and now I'm diving into the Course and I don't want to hide from God anymore. Well, maybe tomorrow we'll get a chance to do a nice one-on-one with you and explore this, but you're just speaking up, you're new, but you're speaking up for everybody here. Some people have been here for years. You're just showing up and saying, wait a minute, the ego has no clothes on. What's going on behind this trick and why am I hiding from God? What's the deal? Why would I hide from my Creator? So number three is feeling safe to share all my thoughts. And I think that's probably the main thing you took away from the session last night. Soren came up, he shared all of his private thoughts, and he shared the whole range of them. Soren, thank you. I can always count on you for that, from thinking you know what the project is to realizing, yes, we did it.   Whoa, when you start to realize that's your function, is to be the light of the world and hold the light for yourself and everyone else, you're going to get into true empathy that Jesus talks about, and you're going to be so happy that you will forget whatever you believed before. You're just going to light up in true empathy. But you have to feel safe to share your thoughts. Isabel, so beautiful how transparent you were with everything. Danique, how pure and beautiful to share it all just so transparently. Antonio, I just enjoyed and Eric singing the songs, all of that was just, Eric's songs are transparent. He's just written the lyrics from the spirit with huge transparency, and I could see everybody's head swaying, people closing their eyes when Eric was playing, because you're all getting into the rhythm of the soul. You're all getting into just relax, just relax. Okay, number four, healing through inspiration. The only way that we heal is through inspiration. We don't heal through shoulds and opts. We don't heal through, I must do this, I must do that. You know, dark and boring. Life would be if we, you must do this today. Instead of just opening to the spirit and saying, okay, what is my great inspiration? I'm going to step back today and let you lead the way. Shine through me, sparkle through me, sparkle through my eyes today. Let me sparkle the love and light of the kingdom of heaven, let's go wherever I seem to be, whoever I meet.   Are they a believer or an unbeliever? Who cares? Are they an atheist or an agnostic or adhering to some religion? Who cares? So what? Now what? I'm interested in the present joining. I don't care if they have an educational background or they're uneducated. If they're, if they're skilled or they're unskilled, if they're beautiful or ugly, if they're, you know, all of these are just judgments of the ego. Why would I care about any of those things when present joining is everything? You know, I'm here to join and connect with all my brothers and sisters, and I know that that's what, what my Christ mind is inspiring me to do. So I'm simply just doing a natural thing. I'm just living a life of inspiration. I'm having a lot of fun with it too.  It's not true. It's just not true. When you surrender to the spirit, you feel the joy of the spirit, you feel inspired and you'll be like Walt Disney. When you're out there, you're living out there where Walt Disney was first Disneyland. Imagine using all those computer skills and gaming skills and all the things that you enjoy as Walt Disney used them.  He had so much fun. He decided to open another theme park in, in Florida. He was not even enough. He had too much joy to share. He thought I'll share some on the other half other side of the country. So, and the final theme is awakening and is a collaborative venture. I think you picked that up from last night's session. If you get 20 people together. And none of them really care about. They're all working on their intuitive guidance. And it doesn't matter even if the spade goes down and cuts into a gas line that Kirsten was saying, it just turned into a miracle. A miracle of getting the gas line fixed. Enjoy all the holy encounters with the gas company. Enjoy all your encounters with the gas company. Enjoy all your encounters with the gas company. Enjoy all your encounters. Nothing's ever going wrong. Remember, everything's happening for your awakening. Nothing's happening against you. The Bible says if God is with us, who could be against us? There is nothing against us. It's just a trick to believe there's enemies, that there's obstacles, external obstacles. That's just not the truth. So, awakening is a collaborative venture. We see that last night, the whole session show that here's 20, 20 some people now who are just praying together. They're having morning meetings. Eric's singing them a song to remind them of the joy of heaven. Every once in a while. And they're going around with. With tools. Power tools. Lynn. Lynn's out there, you know, all right. She's a psychologist. She was a psychologist, but she loves power tools. You see how she gets out here in the desert. And then. And then, wow. Person's like, well, but she's over there in the shed. Wait a minute. She's on the roof over there. Lynn is everywhere with those power tools. She's a psychologist that's now having fun. With power tools. And there's nothing special about power tools, of course, but it's just symbols. You see, if you pray to God, and you join together and you share the same purpose to hear the Holy Spirit. That's good. Now I will admit there actually are teachers of a course in miracles and spiritual teachers that. That don't ever talk about guidance. Because they don't believe it. They don't believe that you actually can hear the voice for God. What does Jesus have to say about that in the course? He has a workbook lesson where he says, you know, it is very possible to listen. To the voice for God. Throughout the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. That's pretty direct from Jesus Christ. If Jesus tells you you can hear. The voice of the Holy Spirit. And you can hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. And you can hear it all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. That is definitely a teaching of the course that says you can hear guidance. I actually. Started hearing guidance. Back in. It was in the 1980s. The late 1980s. The course came to me in 1986. And after maybe about two and a half years, or so. I was hearing guidance. So it didn't matter if I had other course teachers telling me I couldn't hear guidance because I could. It was talking to me every day and in regular terms. And it was very loving too. It was very friendly. It was very gentle. It was very kind. It was very loving. It was very wise. I have to say now. Very, very wise. Because it always. Was knew the best thing for me. It always knew my own best interest. It did. David didn't, but it did. And. And also I have to say this is the big point. That the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the guidance of your intuition. Is extremely practical. The guidance will never. Give you something that you cannot follow. The guidance of the Holy Spirit. It will never give you something that you cannot follow. The guidance will only give you what you can follow. Now, to me, that's actually very practical. Because if the guidance gave me something. Which was way beyond what I could expect myself to do. I would think. That's, that's not the, that's not the Holy Spirit. I start doubting the voice. But. Every time Jesus and the Holy Spirit guided me. Starting in the late 1980s. It always turned out wonderful. I mean, my heart kept opening. I started traveling. I didn't even like to travel. I started speaking about the course. Even though my parents had told me, don't talk about God or politics in public. Jesus apparently thought that was okay to talk about God in public because it wasn't something I would have done. I would have. Please, you know, can't they just read the book? Do you have to put me out there? I might get fried. Look what happened to the, to the, to the. The prophets in the Bible. Look what happened to Joan of Arc. She was like, she was burned at the stake. I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I really want to speak to this David character. Maybe there's another one. Maybe there's another character. It's for you. Okay. What can you do when you hear guidance? You can't, you can't really go against it. I tried that too at the beginning. I tried, you know, I made myself sick.  Well, surprise, surprise. Follow the guidance and be happy relief and don't follow the guidance and feel guilt, struggle, pain, suffering, you know, it's it's pretty simple and pretty obvious. Now, you may want me to now relate what we just talked about what I just shared with you to our movie today. Because even though there's 20 some people here at the monastery, most of you are sprinkled all around the world and we're all on zoom. But today you're going to see the the animation cartoon master of film Walt Disney is is actually he's he's got himself in in the movie today. And instead of being called Walt Disney it's called saving Mr banks it came out in 2013. And the reason this is such a beautiful movie to watch on the heels of just what we saw last night for some of you who are part of the online retreat is that the plot and the basic story is is that Walt Disney. He loves his children his daughters so dearly he's got two daughters. He, he reads to them he. He's a beautiful loving father and he happens to read to his daughters. At some point, much younger in his life. He reads a book called Mary Poppins. Because everybody heard of Mary Poppins. She's pretty famous. So he reads, he reads a book to his children and his daughters love it. I'm sure his daughters love it his wife loves it and Walt Disney loves it too. And his daughters say daddy please please make it into a movie. So he loves his daughters what is it what's a great father going to do but he promises his daughters, I'll make it into a movie. The only thing is is the writer of Mary Poppins is a woman named Pamela Travers, and she's the movie will open up with her, you know, living in England and, and she originally came from Australia living kind of in the outback of Australia and she's a writer. She's a very, very good writer. She's the woman who wrote Mary Poppins. So for 20 years. Walt Disney persist for 20 years to try to keep a promise to his two girls who probably by in 20 years have grown up into young women.  And he's tried for 20 years to get Pamela Travers Travers to give him the rights to the book, she wrote Mary Poppins so that he can keep the promise to his girls. That's the premise of the movie. Well, what's interesting about it is, of course, everyone who comes to this world has a self concept Walt Disney is a self concept. Any person that you can name comes to the world with self concept, even Jesus seemed to come to this world with a self concept and then at one moment he, he awoke and he realized that he wasn't the Jesus character he was just the universal spirit he had totally identified with the Holy Spirit. And he realized that he wasn't the puppet. He was the vastness of the Christ, beyond the puppet. But Walt Disney. He still believes he's a movie maker husband. He still believes he's the father. He still believes he's the head of a company. Walt Disney Enterprises. So he's got a self concept and of course Pamela Travers she's got the concept of being a woman originally from Australia living in England and she is. She's somebody I saw I think my friend Lucy Rick said she's like the, the Helen Shuckman of, of, of movie movies and writers. Whenever you get compared to Helen Shuckman you know what you're in for she's, she's proper British she's just very proper British very proud, very strong minded strong willed stubborn. She's like Helen, and she's got an assignment where Helen Shuckman's assignment was with Bill Thedford, easy, mild mannered bill Thedford tall lanky, happy friendly bill Thedford, and Helen Shuckman the scribe of the course.  She don't call me channel. She's Helen said I'm a scribe, not a channel scribe you got it. So, there's a lot of things and now just like Bill and Helen came together, Walt and Pamela are going to come together for a seeming surface collaboration about making a movie from the book, Mary Poppins, which Pamela Travers wrote. She's been trying for 20 years to get her to do this collaboration. And basically, she has refused. She has denied she has resisted.  You know, you don't have any money left. Well Disney is offering you a lot of money, so he can keep his promise to his two girls, and as an agent. I'm telling you Pamela I think this is the time you're out of money, there is no more money so this would be a helpful collaboration, even in the level of form. When you're out of money, and somebody wants to collaborate with you and pay you money for something that you did. That seems like a pretty good opportunity and that's going to be the setup for it. Now how does this relate to Kirsten and Jason's talk last night with all the volunteers at the monastery. Well, when they come together in a collaboration just like at the monastery. No, 4849 acres. High desert and there's a collaboration called going green going clean going on. That's a fun name Jesus going green going clean. And in this it's a collaboration between a very good writer who wrote Mary Poppins and Walt Disney. So here they come together. And they have roles. She's the, she's the writer. He's the movie maker. And then you've got to, you've got to adapt the screen. Walt Disney might want to use, you know, music actors, actresses, maybe even some animation in the movie Mary Poppins and this and this and then you have the writer, and they have to find a way to merge. And there's a team of people that Walt Disney has that will try to interact with Pamela, the best they can, but she's very staunch and stubborn and strong willed and so whenever you have a collaboration you have to be willing to see that there must be a deeper purpose for your coming together it's stepped except fixing up a monastery or making a movie. Jesus is not really concerned so much for the things of form, because the script is written, and Jesus knows it's all just a prearranged script anyway it's all just the past. So to Jesus, when you say, Oh, a new movie, Mary Poppins Jesus is like, there's nothing new under the sun. Nothing new under the son, the Christ. The world is old. All the images. He says you're dreaming of the past and you still believe it's present. He says in in lesson 158 in the workbook, you know where where what we're mentally reviewing what has already gone by. Jesus says in the course he says we I stand at the end of time. And I'm calling you to join me to at the end of time well really the end of time is seeing that it's not real and that it's already over and done. That is so far from human experience that this world is already over.  You have the biggest smile on your face because the present moment is going to be shining through your face as you see only the past, and you realize the past can touch me not. I am not at the mercy of the world. I am not the mercy of images. I am not at the mercy of time and space, even Einstein knew it. He said, he said time and space are aren't actual objective things. They are actually just ways of thinking. Einstein said, what time and space are just ways of thinking mystic Einstein mystic Einstein strikes again. It's all the same. Jesus, Einstein quantum physics it's all coming together psychology. It's all coming together in divine awakening. We're here waking up to our true reality. In this movie of course we're going to see forgiveness because a lot of you hear me talk if you're on these movie retreats, or these movie workshops I talk about what Jesus says the mind has two parts sleeping mind is two parts. He talks about the dream that you dream in secret which is the unconscious mind and then the dream that you gave away which is the projected world. The sneakiest thing about the ego is it's mostly like an iceberg it's mostly unconscious. So, if we look at this movie today we can see that Walt Disney and Pamela they are sitting on some unconscious guilt. And they're coming together, seemingly to make a movie about Mary Poppins, but that's just on the surface. They're coming together for the same reason that we're all here together now for the same reason any two people come together to serve God is to realize that we need to forgive our mind for what it believed happened to us in the past. We all sat down in a place of safety and love and you all told your war stories and believe me, I have never met anyone so far on the planet who has no war stories. I usually get to stay with them in their house for a while and then they tell me their war stories. I think right now at this point I think Jesus but he's not he's not a person on the planet but Jesus actually has no more war stories because he realized they were all false. So, he wouldn't tell them anymore because he thought that's much to do about nothing. I'm not even there's nothing bad to talk about it's all God it's all glory it's all love. But Pamela and Walt are going to come together and on the surface they're collaborating on projects just like last night. All those 20 some people are working on projects at the monastery here, but actually that's not what's going on because underneath the fears, the doubts, the dark thoughts, the hesitation, the restlessness, the I'm bored. All those kind of things are burbling up from the unconscious mind to be released. So believe me it's more than just making solar panels. It's more than just, you know, making a patio or changing windows or fixing a roof or whatever. There's much more than feeding the cat. There's much more there because the unconscious mind has to come up for release. And that's why Jesus says you must bring the darkness to the light your one responsibility is to accept the correction, which is the light, but you have to be willing to let the darkness come up. And meanwhile, why not let the spirit use your body for something that serves the whole. That's what I thought, you know, sure. Great. That's, that's just wonderful Jesus. I got a life of letting the unconscious darkness come up. All right, I'm in. Okay, I'll do it. But meanwhile he said why not.  Why not let me move through your body. Why don't you give the puppet of David over to the Holy Spirit, and let the Holy Spirit have some fun for a period of time. Because even what you think of as a long time is not a long time it's just a blip. Time seems to be extremely long but it's just a blip. It's just a little dark spot in a in a bright mind of light. It's a tiny gap.  Why not give the tiny little gap over to the Holy Spirit and say shine through me sing through me love through me hug through me be joy through me. For however long until it's time to lay the puppet aside. That's a pretty good thing to do I can tell you just let Holy Spirit use your body for however long is required and then you lay the body aside like you're taking off a pair of pants or a shirt, a sweater.   You don't care if it's a colorful sweater like Walt Disney like these go with the colors. By the time you are ready to let it go you'll be ready to let that sweater go. But you will gently lay it aside, you're not going to fight with it you're just going to let it kind of fade away. Thank you sweater job well done. It's time for some love and light. Well, this movie is is a huge forgiveness movie because in this movie you're going to see what was what they were talking about in that session last night. It's a good prayer to just be of one spirit to hear one voice to to let the spirit move the, the, the power tools and the, and the vehicles and the bodies and the, the, the wood beams and the concrete and all this, let the spirit play in the sandbox and have some fun in the sandbox, but don't get too focused on what's happening in the sandbox because that's the ego ego will start to say I don't like it. I don't like this sandbox I want to be in a different part of the sandbox or I want to have a better tool or I want to have a better part, a better role.  I'm going to show you you're not in there. You're not a dream figure you're actually the dreamer of the dream, you're dreaming this world. And if you can see that you're dreaming it you can stop dreaming it. But as long as you think you're a dream figure. It's, it's not pretty. Nothing goes well on the battlefield of the world but you have to go above the battleground to be lifted up to the real world to the happy dream to the joy to the to the glee. So, I want to get back and enjoy a movie that will take you the story I told you and we'll see some flashbacks to Pamela Travers early childhood when she was in Australia.   Enjoy, enjoy the movie. See you soon.


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Hello, and welcome back to Fill 320, Deductive Logic. I'm Professor Matthew Brown, and today we're talking about proof strategy and proof theoretic concepts. This will be our last lecture for the unit on proofs in an SL. Let's get into it. So I wanna start by talking about proof strategy. I'm gonna talk at the beginning of this lecture in general terms about proof strategy, and then at the end of the lecture, we'll work through some proofs together, and you'll see how these strategies are applied in practice. The first strategy I wanna talk about is working backwards from what you want, right? So when you have a proof, you know the statement you're trying to prove. You need to ask yourself, what rules could get me what I need? For example, if you're trying to prove a conditional, if the main connective in the sentence you're trying to prove is a conditional, you might need to use the conditional introduction rule at the end of the proof. So how can you get there, right? How can you get what you want using the appropriate rules? So the next strategy is to work forward from what you have, right? You ask yourself, what rules can be applied to your premises in order to derive other things that might be helpful in moving your proof forward? Another strategy is to change what you're looking at. Think about your replacement rules. They can often make your life easier, right? If a proof seems impossible, try some different substitutions to change what you're looking at, and that may give you some idea of how to move forward. Definitely do not forget indirect proof. The conditional introduction rule, the negation introduction and elimination rules, these are your friends, right? They can help you prove things that direct proof rules cannot help you with, right? And then repeat as necessary. Keep working forwards and backwards until you figure out how to connect your premises to your conclusion with a valid derivation and persist, right? I mean, this is perhaps the most important strategy. There's a lot of trial and error in coming up with valid proofs and it's not always obvious. You might go down some dead ends, but just keep at it, right? And you should be able to find a proof eventually that will work. So those are some ideas for proof strategies. In the last part of the lecture, we'll practice some of these strategies as we work together on some proofs. Next I want to talk about some proof theoretic concepts, right? These are concepts that help us think about what we're doing when we're deriving proofs, right? The first is this symbol, right? We'll use this symbol here called the single turn style or just the turn style to indicate that a proof is possible, right? We call it a single turn style to underscore the fact that it is not the double turn style symbol that we'll use for a different but related concept in the next unit in chapter five, right? When we're talking about models, right? You've seen it actually in some of the truth table problems that we did in the last unit. Okay, so what do I mean that this means a proof is possible? So suppose you have a turn style B, right? I have some sentence A, some sentence B. This means that we can prove B on the basis of A, right? Or we might have a whole set of sentences A1, A2, A3, et cetera, and on that basis we can derive B, right? So the turn style here means that B is provable assuming A or on the basis of premises A or A1, A1, A2, et cetera, right? Or we say it's derivable from A, right? B is derivable from A, right? To say it's derivable is to say we've provided a proof. Sometimes you see the turn style here with a sentence on the right, but nothing on the left, right? This means that C is a theorem of the proof system we're using. So for our purposes right now, it means that C is a theorem of SL. A theorem is like a tautology. You can prove it without any premises. That means it's always true no matter what premises you assume. Finally, if we have both, if we have a proof from A to B and a proof from B to A, if we can derive B from A and we can derive A from B, we say that A and B are provably equivalent, right? This is like logically equivalent that we saw before, right? But instead of using truth tables and instead of using a semantic style to show that they're equivalent, here we use proofs, that we can derive them from each other. That means they're equivalent. So those are some of the proof theoretic concepts that I want you to know that help us think about what we're doing when we're doing some proofs. Finally, today I want us to go through and try some proofs. So take a moment and pause the video and try to write down a proof on your own for each of these four arguments. And when you're done, come back, unpause the video, and we'll work through them together in Carnap. Okay, welcome back. I've got Carnap open here and I'm gonna try to work through these proofs. I'm gonna start with the first one here. And first thing I need to do is I need to put in my premises, right? So I've got four premises here. P is one of my premises. What else do we have? We have if P then Q, sub-premise, if Q then R is a premise. Oops, made an error there. Let's see, there we go, Q then R. And then if R then S is a premise. And I'm trying to prove that S, okay? Let's see. So there's some different options I might pursue here, but I'm just gonna start by thinking about what can I do with what I have, right? I've got a conditional P then Q and a P, so I know I can use conditional elimination to get Q. That's on lines two is the conditional and one is the antecedent, right? Well, now I can, okay, I think I see how this goes. I can get R the same way, conditional elimination. On three is the conditional and line five is the antecedent.  And that gets me my proof. Great, is that the way you did it? Another way we could do it is to use one of our derived rules that we talked about last time, right? Which is the hypothetical syllogism. Just to remind you how the hypothetical syllogism goes, if I have two conditionals A then B, B then C, I can derive if A then C, right? So let's go back and try it that way. I have P then Q, Q then R, so I can get the P then R, right? Through hypothetical syllogism lines two and three. There we go, okay. So I got P then R and I can get P then S the same way, hypothetical syllogism on line five and four. And now I have P then S and I have P so I can get S through conditional elimination on line six and one. Another valid proof. Let's look at the second one. I already got my premises in here, so I just need to figure out how to get what I want, which is Q and S. Okay, let's see. So I have P and Q, that means I can get P through conjunction elimination on line one. And then I can use conditional elimination to get R and S through conditional elimination on line two and three, right? So I'm just, right now I'm just again, transforming what I have. I want Q and S. Okay, well I can get Q through conditional elimination, right? I'm gonna need to also get S on its own because to get a conditional introduction, I'm gonna need S and Q, right? Okay, I can get S on its own too through conjunction elimination on line four. Did I say conditional elimination up here? I meant conjunction elimination on line five. Okay, so I've got Q, I've got S, that means I can get Q and S through conditional introduction on lines five and six. And that gets me a valid proof. That's done. Can you even tidy it up if I like? I'm doing the rules out of those at the right button. I'm done. Let's look at the next one. It looks a little tough because I only have one line and it's a conditional. So I know there's nothing I can do with that in terms of a direct proof. My conclusion that I want is also a conditional. So that suggests I'm gonna need to do an indirect proof. That suggests I'm gonna need to use conditional introduction. The way that works, remember, is I start with the antecedent of the conditional as an assumption, use AS, to stand for assumption in Carnap. And I work from there. If I have Q, I can introduce P or Q. That's how disjunction introduction works. If I have P or Q, that's the antecedent of our conditional in line one. So I can get R that way through conditional elimination on lines one and three. And R is what I'm looking for in the consequent of my conditional Q, if Q, then R. So I can close out my subproof. I can discharge it. And I can use the conditional introduction rule to get if Q, then R using conditional introduction on lines to through four. Remember, with conditional introduction and all indirect proofs, you give the full range of line numbers for the subproof as your lines here. So there's my valid proof. Did you get it or did you get it a different way? You can let us know in the comments or on Discord if you tried it a different way and it worked or you think it did, you can check it. All right, here is another case where we've only got one premise. We're not gonna be able to simply use a direct proof here. We're gonna have to use some kind of indirect proof. And again, I have a conditional. So I think that is going to weigh in favor of conditional introduction. Let's try it and see if it works. P and Q is the antecedent of the conditional in my conclusion, right? So that's a start. That's the assumption of my subproof. On that basis, I can get P through conjunction elimination on line two. And then through conditional elimination, that was conjunction elimination, through conditional elimination, I can get not Q and R. That's conditional elimination on lines one and three. Yes, good. Now, what can I do with not Q and R? Let's see. I think what I wanna do here is transform it into something else. I'm gonna go look at my reference sheet from the back of the book and my replacement rules. And I'm gonna look here at the DeMorgan's rules. And I see if I've got not A and B, I can exchange that for not A or not B. So that's what I'm gonna do. Not Q or not R through DeMorgan's on line four. Yes, successful, okay. If I've got not Q or R, how can I get not R? That is what I want in the antecedent. I'm close. What I need is, let's go back and look at our rules again. If I have, by the way, these are at the back of the book. So if you need to quick reference, you can always look at these rules. I want to do disjunction elimination to get the not R. I need the negation of the other side. So I need the negation of not Q, which is Q, which I can get through conjunction elimination on line two. Then I can get not R through disjunction elimination on lines five and six. That says no, ah, I know why. It's because I need to transform this to not not Q using the double negation rule. And then I can use my disjunction elimination on lines five and six, on five and seven. Yes, the rule says, if we look at it here again, if I've got A or B and I have not A, I need, I can get B, right? Well, we look here, I have in the disjunction not Q or not R. So what I need is the negation of this, which is not not Q. That's why that's how that works. All right, that is all I need to discharge my subproof. So I have P and Q, then not R, and that is through conditional introduction lines two through eight, oops, two through eight. And that's it, I'm done. So that's all we have for today. I hope that you had good luck with those proofs. You understood what we were doing. If not, if you have any questions, feel free to drop them in Discord, send me an email or get in touch during office hours, or leave a comment on the video. That's all we have for unit four on proofs. Please go ahead and work on the practice problems and give the exam a try when you feel ready. And I'll see you in the next unit. Bye for now.


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