I want to tell you a little story about how I already knew this place before it came out. Because, well, should I speak through this? Yeah, yeah. But then it's river, I'll take out the river. Oh yeah, you can take out the river. I see them outside. So, yeah, I've been, this is very wild for me to be here, really. Because I've been listening to you for the past ten years, maybe. And I started doing a course in miracles in 2014. And I think you were one of the first teachers to come through that I really resonated with. And so I've been listening to you, just listening, and integrating slowly and practicing. So it's very beautiful to be here. And in one of your speeches, I think you mentioned La Casa de Milávoros. So La Casa de Milávoros, where is this, no? And I found out that it was in Mexico. And I just pinned it on my Google Maps, just so maybe one day I'll go. And I put it there. And when we were doing this tour, I got invited by Marcella to come to this community in Mexico, close to La Bochapala. But I never like put them together. And yesterday I was like checking, where's this place in La Casa de Milávoros? I'm like, no way. So, it's very beautiful to be here. Yeah, totally. And so, yeah, very, very blessed to be here. Very honored. Thank you. This place has had lots of music and dance and things in New York, but not for a while. So this is like a fresh breeze of spirits, love blowing through and bringing out the blankets below us. Well, while I'm here, would you like me to sing a little bit? Yeah. Is everyone here? Looks like we get a full crowd. You want to test? We are. Yeah, I'll test. Yeah. And in this case, it comes up. We've been living in like four houses. They're all on the ground. I don't think we're going to be able to do that. Can you show me some of it? We do. Wow. Seven-year-old youth leader is on the ground. I wish you'd make me free. Every time you pull me back to what it is. There's all into the sky. All the colors that shine in me. The time will stop. I'm shaking. Just exposing it. That's so sweet. Thank you. I'd like to sing one that's very, very related to a person. All of them are because it's big inspirations. But there's one that I just felt that I really felt that it was like a direct communication. I just opened my mouth and all these words started coming out.  Get the tissues out. And I feel like it's a reminder that it is possible to be still and to just become a channel. So this one's one that I really wanted to sing. No pressure. Constant depression. Open to just feel the emotion. Hatred and judgment. Free from love. Killing and fighting. Meet your dad. On a dream. Don't you see what's been missing for you? Let go of that veil that's stopping you. Connecting to everything you. Everything you. Stop paying attention to the things that make you tired. Things that make you bored. Now the power is yours. You are responsible for every situation. Stop fighting the system. The new liberation comes from. The silence in you. Meet your dad. This is our vibe. It's like the feeling is like, you know, from this day forth your ministry takes on a frequency of joy. That's what we're here for. Deep, consistent joy. You can feel it coming through the music and the love, the spontaneous vibe of it all to give you an idea of how my week went. In the middle of the week, I came to a morning meeting and I had all this joy and inspiration and I said, oh, that's right. This Saturday, which was yesterday, I'm doing a movie kind of to a global audience like over 100 people from all around the world and we watch movies together and I let the spirit come through, set it up and then comment during the movie at different parts, key points and things and then we go on. But yesterday's movie with commentary was six hours. We went from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Susanna felt, she said, I knew it was going to go till 4 p.m. I never know. So then I came home, had a little late afternoon siesta to make it over to your concert. But the inspiration was, Jason here and Soren, I just said I need a movie with four people in it. Gandhi, Einstein, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. And they did it. They made a composite movie of those four. The movie was two hours and 27 minutes but with set up and commentary it was six hours. So we used those bright lights and the movie was pretty much set in the context of the years of Hitler's invasion of Europe in World War II and facing what the world now has with Ukraine and Russia very similar with tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of civilians, women and children being murdered and yet taking us with quotes from the course here of the dream and all the great teachings that these four men had given us and their example, especially with Gandhi and his nonviolence. So that's what we did yesterday. But I think the idea came in around Tuesday or Wednesday morning somewhere in there and then Jason, I said, and Kirsten said, no pressure, he just needs a composite movie. And Soren edited, there's a new movie that came out on Netflix called Einstein and the bomb which is very metaphysical where Einstein, it's all based on Einstein's actual words. Nothing but his actual words is spoken and written, Einstein and the bomb, and in it he says past, present, future are illusion. And then we go into E equals MC squared and then quantum physics, I did a whole bunch of talk about quantum physics with that Freud, of course. You know, Jesus had to wait a few centuries before some of these words like ego and defense mechanisms were invented to be able to pull from a lot of the insights that Freud had. And Freud had said all dreams are wish fulfillment and Jesus is 100% an agreement. But the wish is actually the wish for death. The ego is a wish for death, Thanatos, Freud called it. So we had that in there and then Gandhi clips at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the movie was Mohandas K. Gandhi. And then C.S. Lewis is an amazing, well-read, just a great writer and just dripping with the classics from Europe who had a conversion experience and saw the light and went from being a very staunch, devoted atheist to having these experiences of the light and actually joy in his heart that lifted him into this connection. And so one of the movies was, it was called Freud's Last Session. Freud was, all of them had connections to England too. Gandhi went there for his professional university training as a solicitor, as a lawyer. Freud escaped from Vienna and went to England and spent his last year and maybe a year and a half or so in England. C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast and went to England. And Einstein actually fled his home and was taken in, his haven in England. So all four men lived at the same time period. They had to deal with the seeming outpicturing of World War II and they all had a deep desire to know the truth. And then we took the metaphysics to take all of that and go, all right, it only took six hours. Yeah.  We'll go out and the sword knows how long it will take to get something like that edited and put out, but it will go out on Apple and Spotify and for everyone who likes to listen to these things without the movie itself, but that's probably still, what about four? Four hours or something. Four, over four hours of commentary. But that's what I, the point I'm feeling is, this is the joy and the spontaneity of God's plan in this moment. It's always this moment. It's just we're being illuminated. We're being showered with inspiration. It comes through in song and dance. It comes through in talks. It comes through in many ways. Probably for the last seven, eight, maybe 10 years, we've been following along with the advances in AI, artificial intelligence, which I call AI actualizing intelligence, actualizing the divine intelligence that we actually are. How many people here are directly involved with the practical application of AI for the Holy Spirit? You can show hands. They've been working on developing, they made a David AI bot where they just used the data of all my teachings over many, many years and they trained it. Laverne's been working on this project. How long? Since 2017, she's been working on making a bot that I think, what are they calling it now, a forgiveness AI that basically takes you through a guided process of going into your mind and the AI basically starts out with basically how are you feeling and then takes you way... Well, that was the original one, but now it's, now there's how many apps are there? There's forgiveness AI, Matt. There's David AI. Have you heard of David AI? That's the course, the spirit. But there's one called David AI and it basically answers all your course of miracles and all the course of miracles related questions. If you go to spirit.ai you'll see a list of our bots. How many? How many do we have? There's like three main ones at the moment. And how many languages are they in? Many, actually. I lost count. I lost count, but all the major languages are now out in all these different languages. English, Spanish, Portuguese. Swedish? Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Dutch, French. So it's not just the teachings and the metaphysics that came through around the course, but it's also the practical applications. So you can ask these, like forgiveness AI, you could have any upset of any kind, any kind of upset, and then the Vern has trained this AI meticulously when the AI would start to go to the Internet and start to try to pull things off the process of going back, back, back in the mind, she would see it when it would go off and try to distract away from healing. Even the AI was like trying to avoid coming to the light. And the Vern was on it. She was like, we need more testers. We need more testers. We need to put this out. You know, she was like, a bucking bronco. You were riding it. She's like, staying, staying on the... Yeah, you were right out here. Lisa's looking for you. Yeah. But the thing we found with these AI bots was it all depends on the database that you feed it. It's quite spectacular if you are very meticulous with the database. And so Andy was like, first started off, he was feeding the entire text from Jesus and the Course in Miracles into the database. Quite surprised at the answers you got back when that was your... the Course in Miracles was your database. You just turned AI loose from that and Andy was trying it out with different questions and he was like, whoa. It's like, it's watching me. It knows me. It knows my thoughts. And then we had so many community experiences over so many years that that data started to be fed in so people that were even interested in applying it to their relationships applying it to their local communities or families their issues that were coming up with trying to put into practice Jesus says, love your neighbor as yourself. And that's what we've been teaching ever as we approach loving God with all our heart, soul and mind. And so that was kind of fascinating too because of the answers it was giving and into practical application. And then we... because we've been doing this kind of global ministry so long we have the things you'll probably encounter a little bit of it with travel there's there's a lot of logistics because I know from all my years of traveling there's a huge amount of logistics and then your friend who wasn't feeling where... I have a friend Jordy in Barcelona too, yeah. There's many Jordy in Barcelona. Many Jordy. I've noticed. It's like I think of a kind of car or a certain color and then it's everywhere. One day I was going to see a house and I was going with my realtor it was a big huge parking lot. I said, she said, my car's out in the parking lot and well we can just follow each other I said it's a big parking lot it's like a mall she said, well I'll just go out and find it and we'll find each other. We walked out in this huge parking lot we both had red cars and were parked facing each other she had her little crucifix hanging down. She took me to this house we went out to the road and as we approached the road in our two red cars I looked to the right side of the road and every vehicle on the road was red and I looked to the left and every vehicle on the entire road 25 cars were all red and I was like okay something like, whoa, the blood of Jesus or something like that it was so much red and then we followed her and we were guided to a house which we still live in today and the address of the house is one and you can see it as you drive down the road Lisa was like, holy Jesus all the way down but this kind of experience is where we have a name or a color or something or a number it's just a peppered all around us, you know just teaching us that we're all connected we're all one so we've actually started to apply I think at the end of last year I did like seven meetings, seven summits and we pretty much were in the practical application of helping training AI to help us save time so we have more time for prayer and meditation and singing and dancing and then you show up and everyone that's it that's what we want that's how we want our spirituality to be spontaneous we're just enjoying it we're like and this is perfect that you're here because everybody here wants to live just a spontaneous guided life you know and I can tell that's where your music is coming from yeah I'm just fascinated by being next to you and hearing you you've been listening to the voice yeah, I mean for me for me it's been a very intense process to get to to being able to express myself like this gone through a lot of times where I really didn't believe that I can do it and I was telling the story yesterday in the concert that precisely it was Mexico the beginning of an opening for me in 2012 when I was I felt like very depressed with my life and felt like I was in a loop and I felt like there must be there must be another way I can't be living like this all my life and feeling this this nonsense I want to feel joyful, I want to feel happy I want to feel free so I decided to go travel the world and I came to Mexico without like any return ticket just with my backpack a little guitar and by that time I was singing but I was I wasn't singing my own songs I was singing songs that I loved from like all these jazz soulful songs but I was very shy to share my own stories I didn't know how to express it so it took a long time for me to like start meeting people that really had overcome this obstacle and were like shining and I was feeding from all these experiences and by that time I got to South Africa from 2012, four years later no, two years later I arrived to South Africa and I meet this I meet this brother that was in a very similar position than me he wanted to make his own music but he came from the business world and he felt like he wasn't good enough but he recorded himself like his some songs that he had and recorded himself with a microphone and a guitar in his bedroom and when I got to meet him he showed me like what he was doing to that my head really exploded because it made me understand that you can do whatever you want if you feel it and you put love into it and care it evolves through time it grows and expands and it becomes something incredibly beautiful and so that that relationship with my brother Yannick was super empowering for me and we spent two years in South Africa like traveling the country and playing everywhere in the streets and everywhere barefoot singing like five five men singing African tunes it was very empowering and then after that I came back home to Barcelona and I started like all this information in form of music and that has led me here to be able to share back to Mexico exactly like 12 years later you came in here in 2012 and then I came the next year in 2013 I had been traveling all over the world and I started hearing Jesus in China Australia, different places and I kept hearing Jesus use two words in my mind and I listened and I said what it was urban urban mystic ministry urban it's turned into urban mystic urban ministry and I would say wait a minute what is an urban ministry London, Paris, Beijing Shanghai, I've been in Sydney, Melbourne I've been in Delhi, India, I've been in a lot of urban ministry but when I came down here which is close to Guadalajara I didn't realize but it seems like this is where our little community was to grow and flourish so I I actually had a friend from from up in Cincinnati, Ohio who was living down here with the partner and he said I'll organize two all day gatherings for you in Guadalajara so I said okay so we went to Guadalajara did the first all day gathering and he came up to me and he said I'm sorry I totally blanked on the second one I said you blanked on it and he said I just forgot so this this is it and he said yeah this was the one so I said okay so I came up here to this area to stay with he had a friend who was a minister stay with him and his wife and then before I flew back to the states I was there there was a real estate book and I saw this place so on the way to the airport I had them come and show it to me and I came down here and then everything unfolded and I ended up coming back when we you might have heard of the Shriners Shriners Burns Institute they helped children who were burned it was a husband and wife who had owned it and husband had passed away and the wife was selling it so all these miracles began in 2013 I was the only one here so I was just walking around the grounds there was really no furniture and we had at that time used all the money we had to buy it so it was like it'll all show up furniture and then people and so yeah interesting that you had put that little on your maps and here we are Mexico Jesus has really been using that symbol just trusting just like let life carry you let life show you the way without having to like a career trying to build it or shape it or form it you just barefoot singing in South Africa with your brother and friends that's organic it's just such a witness yeah for me this journey that took me to South Africa and coming out of this intense depression of not knowing how to communicate with myself it was it was wild to to understand that I internally I process things like almost in slow motion and sometimes the world to be in fast forward super intense and me inside and being able to travel on my own I started making decisions from this space like what do I want to do today okay today I feel like taking a walk in this town I go do this and things start happening you meet these people take you to this place all these synchronicities start happening but it's they started happening when I started to live in a slow tempo and then after this journey I went back home and again I started like feeling again this rush in this I'm losing my I'm losing my flow so this is something that I really try to like to be with every day like I take things slow I'm gonna make this decision but I need time to think about it to feel it and then respond but when I respond quickly to questions and what do you guys want to do things start becoming boring really boring and when I allow to like feel into what I really want to do and I communicate then this happens you know magic yeah take that the heart over the past week or two maybe if we have a roving mic but there was like huge undoings around responsibility I think that push push push is a society of the world is into a belief in like personal responsibilities driving driving trying to build something make something trying to do something to the world or in the world try to change the world and that slow easy relaxed feeling is just the spirit's guidance saying come here with me abide with me and just let it all unfold and that's kind of I know we've had a few different things I guess Susanna and Andy you took a trip to Porta Villarta and they were going to we were calling it an AI admin summit and then when Susanna got back how many days was it five days everything around what they thought was they were going to do came in a download in about 15 minutes and then they just played in Porta Villarta for the rest of the five days it got accomplished in 15 minutes maybe you want to share about that because that's what sounds like what this is about yeah that was it it was actually just a very deep prayer to relax and trust go of time and just be taken into a different way of thinking and yet we had this assignment like AI admin how can we merge and just save a lot of time really but closer to the time of the trip more and more it felt like wow that's that's just a small part of the trip it's like much bigger it's really just more about the connection and just finding that place of rest and so yeah we went and just really had to trust see if we hear any prompts about the specific assignment and they won nothing okay so let's just trust relax and enjoy go walk on the beach and day two same so just trust deeper relax deeper and just yeah really focus on the connection and the joy and just that it will be shown and then I think maybe the third or the fourth day we all of a sudden I don't even know how it happened but the thoughts came in so quickly and it's like oh boom boom boom let's look at that that 15 minutes later it's like oh I think that was it that was not the reason we went that's like way too small for that to be the reason for the trip so I feel like for myself it's just been this huge experience of a contrast such a contrast and being taken out of time and into that flow of the moment and I think that's where for myself like that's what I want to live from so when you share that I can really resonate with what you're sharing and then how to integrate that into day to day life or something here and so it's but it's been very powerful experience just like a total shift with what do I value more and yeah and it feels like it's actually just still very much integrated but such gratitude for finding that space thank you that's beautiful reminds me of a line from John Lennon's song life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans and you know it's funny how it's almost like we don't even have to figure out how to integrate it into daily life it's like it itself is life it has that pace to it it's very soft and gentle very intuitive it's life itself it's the presence of God in our heart and it's just showing us it's and we have to make that our top priority I think I had the same kind of experience when I would my early days of traveling whenever I would go back to my hometown I would feel things start to speed up and I guess maybe I had unconscious expectations or now I just say I had still lingering past associations in my mind that were kind of like quicksend that I would try to dance over them and they would catch my toes and here I am again but then the more I went out and like you with these big travels and trips then I just felt like I was letting go into the stream like it was more like a twig in the river and the river would wind and bend and bubble and do whatever it was doing and I was just in the current and it was very involuntary too it didn't feel like I had to figure things out or make plans lots of synchronicities just things showing up but I think what I'm hearing from what you're saying Alex is just the permission and the determination and the spaciousness to allow yourself to be carried like that that seems like that's the huge lesson for all of us even our dog Benito is relaxing yep so I mentioned his name he's off Chesa Bird or something but yeah it's so glorious because it feels like that is life itself touching life itself in us and we don't really have to try to fit it into the world we just have to be in it, be it yeah it's sweet sweetness sometimes I wonder though when there's like situations like when you were mentioning now this war on Ukraine things like that are very rough like I had the experience to be in Israel the day before this last war started so the day before Hamas came in and there was this terrorist attack and so I was in this whole thing and I was like so confused like how can this happen I was lucky enough to be able to leave the country the next day but then when I left and I came back to Barcelona I started like hearing all this counter attack and this situation that's very very I don't know very strange how to stay in the flow when all this aggressive energy is happening how to not unbalance yourself how can you be how can you help in these situations yeah I know when I went to a lot of different countries but probably about maybe probably about maybe 10-12 years ago I went down to Colombia and at the time I went to Colombia people there hosted me out in the rural areas outside of Cali out in the mountains and they did kind of say here's the context of what we're dealing with we're dealing with a civil war a country that's been going on for many years there's the military there's the paramilitary there's guerrillas that come down from the mountains and kidnap our children and do anything so it was interesting that Jesus had kind of sent me right into a country that was dealing with kind of a civil war with like three different sides to it going on and there was a protest going on sometimes one day I would wake up and they would say we were going to go into Cali but there's massive protests the streets are filled with huge protests and so we don't feel it's safe to go there and I say okay and there were situations where I would go to course groups like over in Bogota and they say well you're going to meet a woman and of course facilitate her whose son was kidnapped by the guerrillas so when she's doing her lessons every day that's her main issue she's working at her child was abducted and taken away and so it was more what would seem much more extreme than many other of my travels around the United States and Canada it seemed just it's the same world but it's more apt to be perceived as extreme one time I was in communist China with my friend Francis and we were doing a little tour of three cities and we were going to do our final stop in Beijing and just like you did your final concert in Mexico yesterday there's a hotel in Beijing a big hotel supposed to be 200 150 people there and everything the night before the the organizers came and said well there's there's three different teachers for three different spiritual pathways and one of them mentions of course the miracles a lot and the government has detained they've taken these three teachers that have just been teaching similar things to what you're teaching and basically we feel it's not safe we're in Beijing we're in the capital where the government is you know this is to do a public gathering in front of the communist government this is not good they say I totally trust you I said you're the organizers you know they said we know we put this out and people are supposed to be coming to this big hotel and everything but they said we did not feel comfortable with it I said well it doesn't matter to me you can do whatever you want and they said well we do not feel for you to be here this was like midnight and they were telling me this we want to move you to another hotel right now so me and my friend Francis we'll go whatever we trust you completely it's all about this moment it's about the connection it's about flowing with what's given not even expectations around what was planned and organized and so when they took us to the other hotel it was a big team of organizers like maybe eight or ten organizers and they were like it's hard to have a sad look in their face like oh my god we were so looking forward to this we don't even mind that it's canceled but we're just sad and I said well what would you want let's pray together what would you want they said well we just want to be together with you tomorrow and I said oh that's so sweet I said I knew nothing about Chinese culture do they have any hot tubs in Beijing and they said we have the largest indoor hot tub facility pools spas and pools in the world we even have a restaurant in there there's trees I said that's perfect so we could just spend all day in the tubs together they were like yeah and they said there's a restaurant there so there's food we just hang out all day and be together and enjoy this is our last day the last day of the tour so let's do that and they were so happy and then I took it when Jesus says all things work together for good there are no exceptions except in the ego's judgment that to stay in the purpose the connection regardless of the situations that seem to be happening it helped me start to realize that my choice of what I perceive is always there I can either see it with the spirit and feel the unified connection of everything or I can let past thoughts come in danger warning, fear for safety and all those things so when I first took my trips to rural Columbia during the guerrilla warfare that was going on there I had never seen so many guns and pistols and rifles close up I mean when they took me out from Kali into the areas there were guns everywhere it was like I'd seen more guns on television in movies but not up close but to me I had this feeling of joy that everybody was playing their part perfectly and that underneath everybody has a deep prayer for love and connection so I remember pistols over their shoulders and everything I would go by and I would wave to them and they would wave to me I went to Argentina I was in downtown Argentina it was like the changing of the guards they have up in England it was a bank I think and two guards were being relieved by two more guards for another shift and I was watching the guards and I was like this is fascinating kiss each other with these big rifles kiss each other on the cheeks that's adorable that's just absolutely adorable I would tell my host should you see that oh yeah that's customary when they change the I say amazing so it started to be like that even when I would find myself what to describe as kind of dangerous situations I mean the Middle East is kind of as a reputation and that was like what the world would call an unprecedented terrorist attack and I also heard about the music festivals that were going on and all that I was reading that too but I did find that wherever I went I was more just trusting that it was working together for good I would be off sometimes and outside of Buenos Aires where there would be extreme poverty economy collapse financial collapse in Argentina with the pesos going down to almost nothing women and children I was off in the rural areas I met a group of women they could not afford to buy in Cursa de Milagros later on Jesus would have me link up with a man in Bogota who was a businessman and we would collaborate to get a the course in miracles some print books the printing press down in a factory in rural Colombia to distribute in Cursa de Milagros books all over but it was just orchestration that was given through guidance and when I was meeting with the mothers they could not afford there was no course book and they had Xeroxed one chapter from the text and that's all they could do was that one chapter pass around the Xerox copy and I could feel the call was so strong and I thought wow I'm privileged to be able to be used in a way that can teach guidance and unified perception but it was a condensing just like coming out of depression for you took a lot of condensing and a lot of building of confidence to me I began to start to see that everything was happening for me for my forgiveness lessons it was all synchronized with my daily lessons practice and I did go through a lot of scenes that one time I was flying from the I think the east coast I was supposed to fly to LAX to Hawaii to meet a Jewish man who I'd never met and when I got to LAX I was in the airport and I had to take a bus to another terminal so I hopped on the bus and I thought I was going to another terminal but the bus driver drove outside of LAX and we were all like what's happening similar thing happened when I was in China I was flying towards Shanghai to catch a flight the next day back to the United States and the captain came on and he was speaking Mandarin but I had my translator right next to me so I was saying, what's he saying he's saying that the plane has been diverted I said the plane is diverted for most people you don't like your flights to be diverted diverted it went to Ningbo and a whole bunch of miracles happened for me being diverted away from the city where I was supposed to be going and I had so many miracles happen and the same thing happened that day in LAX when we were going towards the terminal the bus driver takes us outside of the airport takes us to a parking lot and we're all on the bus going what's happening what's going on there's a gunman who's just it's a mess shooting happening in the terminal that we were going to and we were taken diverted on the bus away I had thought before I thought maybe I could walk it and then I thought no it's too far, I'm going to take the bus up to the bus and got diverted completely from that it's very similar to like I showed that movie yesterday and there was a scene where Gandhi's in South Africa with his dark skin walking down the streets and probably Cape Town or Jonesburg one of the big cities and he's walking with his friend some of you remember from the movie Gandhi he was a priest who's got the white collar on and everything and a group of boys a group of three boys they started calling him by derogatory nicknames because of his color of his skin and telling him as the priest and him are walking on the sidewalk get off the pavement you colored get off the sidewalk and they had some derogatory words and everything and the priest was like let's let's go the other way let's go the other way and Gandhi said no I think there are times when we have to be courageous I mean I think of Christ he says to the priest Christ said someone smites you on one cheek you should turn the other cheek I think I believe that he was trying to teach a lesson that you have to go forward in faith and trust kind of encourage and the priest is horrified and Gandhi just keeps walking straight to the three guys that are calling him names and saying get off the pavement and then as they get up one of the guys mother comes out before there's any kind of physical confrontation it says where are you still down there you get away get out here where I can see you you're supposed to be gone to work and the whole scene shifts with Gandhi fearlessly going along and the man comes out talks to his mother comes back over stands right in front of Gandhi and Gandhi out of his mouth comes I think you'll find there's room for all of us and the guy just and Gandhi's steps forward and there's a passage in the course where it says Jesus says if you'll be a miracle worker for me I will arrange time and space for you that's nothing that none of us were raised with arranging time and space that's and yet I've had so many experiences over these last three decades where it actually feels like the whole day was arranged synchronized all the time and space was moved for the daily lesson and then when I got deeper into just my calling and my mission there's been so many miracles so many seeming arrangements of time and space that I couldn't even write a book it would be too long it would be like an encyclopedia of all of the experiences where where everything that we need is provided we're not here to get something from the world we're here to be the bringers of light we're here like Gandhi to show the light to shine the light of love and equality and some of the situations the world will judge as emergencies or extreme very extreme conditions but they show us that we're like carried along and that really nothing is lacking in any situation it's our own holiness that we're meant to recognize and to shine and then so many of the experiences have been where I just trust one time I was in I was down here in this area and I was getting ready to go back to the United States and then go over to Europe to do a ten country tour of Europe and then fly to South Africa to do a tour through South Africa and then the day before I'm to leave I I went to the dentist and my young looking dentist he just looks at my teeth and he's and he's got he said you need a root canal I said a root canal I don't have time for a root canal I've got a world tour I'm leaving tomorrow he said oh you need a root canal he said now and he said you need one now I said so I came back over here to La Casa and talked to a friend of mine he took me to a friend alternative kind of healer that had some kind of a quantum machine because that's easier than the dentist just use a quantum machine so I go there and is there any things to hook up to my fingers or anything no no the quantum machine doesn't need to be attached to you so okay so I go there and the quantum machine prints out all these things of what's going to happen in my life with everything possible about the body and everything like this and then the woman who was working with the quantum machine she said she and my friend Judy they started bursting the laughter and I'm sitting there with the quantum machine going next to me two ladies laughing and I go what's so funny now and they go well now the machine is printing out things that are good for you and I said so what's so funny what are you seeing on the print out and they said David is very compatible with cow's milk I said why are you laughing they said 200 people come in and the machine will say lactose intolerant the machine's now saying cow's milk is good for David and the woman just burst in the laughter because of this and then it said oh it's now it's revealing the percentage of your life's purpose that you have accomplished what percentage of your life's purpose this is what a quantum machine does and then they started bursting laughter I said now what's so funny the woman said I've never seen this the machine is saying 100% I've never seen the machine say you accomplished 100% of your life's purpose you know it was covering everything and so at the end of all that I said well I've got to go on a tour and my dentist has just told me that I need a root canal and they said oh we have some they gave me here we'll sell you a bottle like this big of colloidal silver so okay so I took the bottle I went home I packed it in my carry-on not a good idea I go to the airport to to fly I think I had one more flight to do before I flew to the United States and my friend Armelle who was from Belgium she's like the lady who's at the inspections you have to go through security she opens it up and she's like I had wrapped with bubble wrap this tall bottle of colloidal silver and she's like the one was like away they're not going to let me so I sat down and I said she said you cannot go through security with this and they said alright I went over I found a little bench and I chugged the entire bottle the whole thing they were telling me I think the lady with the with the the quantum machine had said take one tablespoon for 12 hours or something and I thought this is Jesus this is a mixture of magic and miracle Dennis said I needed I need root canal and Jesus has given me a quantum machine and a reading and now he's giving me a so I sat there and just in 20 minutes I'm going and Armelle was next to me she was like you're going to kill yourself before we this is like suicide I said I never read the instructions I still because it's 30 so finally I'm getting near the end of it and she's like I can't believe you're doing this I cannot believe it and I said I think this is going to handle my root canal for now it feels intuitive like this was the magic miracle that I was praying for so I did it and then I gave the bottle to the empty bottle to the security lady she threw it away, went on my flight came back, went to the United States I think I went to Utah went over to Kirsten and Jason were with me we did a 10 country tour of Europe then we flew to South Africa and I think I went to Johannesburg when I started to feel something in my mouth this feels kind of weird we had some weird things going on I said well my dentist did tell me back in Mexico that I needed a root canal immediately so I just talked to our host like her name was Patricia and I just said well I think I think I'd need to see a dentist and she said sure, she said do you have any insurance or anything I said nothing that would work in South Africa she said I'll put you on my insurance I don't know that I've ever heard of that so she went in and she talked to me and said this is my friend he's going to be on my insurance and then see a specialist the dentist so I go into the dentist and there's a woman and she goes in there and she's examining and everything she's like you need a root canal this was weeks later and I said I've been told that and she said it's good to have to be done in two parts I have to kind of drill down and inject this stuff down there and then she said how long are you in Johannesburg and I said I think it's four or five days maybe maybe like four days then I'm off on my tour she said okay I'll start now and she drilled down put the medicine in whatever came back a few days later she did the second part but there's been so many of those experiences where it just feels like everything is handled and arranged without my effort there's so many that have happened but it's like you were talking about kind of going in within and just being in that real relaxed place and it's only the ego that tries to judge certain situations and of course from the worldly perspective they would say wow Alex you were very fortunate with the Gaza strip experience but I always feel there's no accidents in the right place at the right time and we always have actually what we need to perform our function and then when I think of it that way then I think oh I just have hundreds really thousands of experiences where it just felt like everything just worked out even though there was initially sometimes a fear or a doubt sometimes so I really think it's all a convincing I'm like the Holy Spirit trying to convince us that we're spirit and we always have been spirit and we're not a body and at the past I think the guidance part gets stronger and stronger where we start to realize that once we're just intuitive and willing to be 100% intuitive and 0% analytical then things start to get very joyful but to the extent we still fall back on some of those linear interpretations then it can that brings up fear immediately when that happens but it's just an opportunity to come back choose again so I do share a lot of the parables because people have a lot of practical questions and that's what came up in the movie when C.S. Lewis and Freud were together they were bantering back and forth about God and why does God allow these things and the really good deep questions so we took that as an opportunity to really go deep within and to just trust I mean the community is just a group of people that have come there's so many countries represented here this gathering just I don't even know how many I quit counting but just in the first row they're all from different countries then different different Holland, Ireland Canada it just goes on and on Argentina Australia but it's a vibrational thing like we found each other with a frequency and the funniest thing is if we sit around and we talk we would think I would never have chosen in a million years to be with this kind of group of people we would say when we were at the monastery and there's no way you can even look back to the past to figure it out it's just been like a symphony of this high frequency that's drawn us together and there's been so many movements and shifts like in the symphony there's different parts shifts in the symphony but but again that is kind of like Jesus saying who is my father mother sister brother he that does the will of our father in heaven is father mother sister brother he was describing it like a frequency even back then because he was saying mothers will be turned against daughters in my namesakes fathers will be turned against sons and people were what is he talking about those are passages in the bible that people don't even like to quote but I think we just saw the new episode of the chosen two episodes down in Guadalajara was it a few days ago and that it was that sorting out of letting our frequency just be carried lifted higher and higher and higher and letting go of all judgments of the form because the form judgments are what's being undone it's just the past to be free of past associations and that's the music that's even pouring through you you know that's the the love that everyone felt at the concert last night everyone was just swaying and dancing and we've been down here since 2013 but we didn't even know that you brought a whole new group of people we were like Jason was like look at this crowd we've been down here and you know they just the frequency they just came from your frequency and you invited us and we were there from the frequency and it's very celestial it feels you know very mystical and very celestial not something that you can put in a box at all happily not something that you can plan not at all I was I was I was hearing a question but I haven't formulated it yet but it's something so we say there's this universal frequency in the world from many different traditions, religions that says we are one you know would you say that the single of the form and the world is to fully believe this and fully live from this space without any associations to my personhood like do you still identify with David? when you were singing that real world song that just was my hardcore coming because to me that's what the happy dream or the real world is and so there's there's such laughter in the mind because anything that seems to be the slightest contraction is it can't it can't hold on there's nothing to hold on to anymore it has no foundation so like there's this inner sense of laughter it's like Jesus laughing at anything like there's no serious moments there's just this little laughter underneath so it started years ago where I felt like I had a little bird on my shoulder that was chirping away giving me commentary on movies and teachers and everything else discernment little discernment bird but now it just feels like it's one big happy dance and it's like Miguel Ruiz one of his four agreements was don't take anything personally that's really what we're in now we're in that phase of the dance and not taking anything personally and then even if something arises you notice it very quickly and it's not some big drawn out drama or depression or some of the things would be so long like getting stuck in things it just doesn't have anything to hold on to and I feel like that's what we're into now we're here to live it to fully live it to be it not to speculate or pontificate but really to be yeah that's it it's a gift it's like open the gift what an opportunity it's a play no yeah you were saying about the soldiers that you were like it's like this innocence no that kids have going back to that it's really a surrender of into this state of really not knowing anything about the world being really kind of clueless and like a couple days ago when we went to see the Jesus the two first episodes of season 4 afterwards we were just skipping through the mall like a bunch of little children this huge mall in Guadalajara and and Emily was saying Cheesecake Factory I'm hearing Cheesecake Factory and Lisa's going Mickey D's, McDonald's we don't have a McDonald's here in this area we don't get out too much so we got down there and Jason was saying I'm open I can go for anything but already Kirsten Susanna and Emily had gone along gone into Cheesecake Factory so we're standing outside I said yeah go ahead and give me something I'm going to go to the Cheesecake Factory if you want to get something so they go over to buy food from McDonald's and take it into another restaurant and and and what are we doing what are we doing I said yeah get me else I said if you go to Mickey D's get me a vanilla milkshake and then I go into Cheesecake Factory and order a glass of milk Leche and then I've got a maltato coming there we're sitting there and then they were talking we were outside before we went in and they said are we going to really bring McDonald's into this restaurant and just come in with our McDonald's bake and everything I said they love us so much I said at the cheese back I said they love us so much they'll just be so glad for all this to be in there even if there's McDonald's and sure enough I sat there in the Cheesecake Factory here comes this big bag of McDonald's and everything and they go oh we checked we said we got McDonald's can we come in here and they said go ahead it was that we love you we could care less if we were bringing McDonald's into their restaurant and then the waiter was coming around we didn't even hide when we pulled out all this stuff from McDonald's it was all over the table and he's like coming up can I take that for you he's taken all the McDonald's this is like this is the state of mind where you expect only miracles and that was my reply was can you take McDonald's into they said they love us so much that was my my answer and sure enough it played out that way too it was that way and then Jason had kind of a healing of that because he said when he was younger he took some food into a restaurant in Canada and were kicked out he still had the past I said there it is that's what this is all for I should take you so it looked like the owner was coming up and I thought here we go he's coming he's coming to kick me out again and he comes up he's like would you like butter with your corn or something I ordered a glass of milk the three of them got a salad and then we had McDonald's fries coming in and quarter pounders and everything like this and then you know Kirsten and I were just here they have the best corn bowl of corn we said to the waiter we want a corn two two corns three corns four corns and they kept bringing this corn and butter and Jason was waiting to get his corn the corn bowls were being passed around it was just we just have so much fun actually everybody calls children of the corn as we're leaving and then JP's like I think that's a horror movie it's like a vibration it's a frequency when you're in it laughter and joy and it just spills out over the whole table even behind the table there was mirrors so we were sitting eating looking at ourselves in the mirror and Lisa thought there was a whole other group behind us because the mirror was there she could see out to the side there was all these images and she thought oh there's a big crowd behind us and I said no that's us so it's like a cat looking in the mirror but you do get more and more clueless but also everything is handled too because we've had to navigate through lots of things over the years but we do pray listen and follow we really do it's a habit now for us we pray and we just become more and more and more intuitive and then the more intuitive you become you start to realize that the whole world you see is a reflection an orchestration of what's going on in your mind so I call it the divine order then you start to see it all is this real world this happy dream this dance and then even things that still can be talked about the war in Ukraine and different things you start to that was part of the six hour movie yesterday I was saying that Jesus is saying that the world that you perceive is nothing more than the reflection of the world that you believe the thoughts that you believe about yourself and he said if you believe in a private mind with private thoughts really individuality is then you'll see a private world that cannot be shared only the thoughts of God can be shared so you're just perceiving your own thoughts and you can only change your mind about that and change the thoughts release the attack thoughts in lesson 23 at first it starts out as an idea but the more you really give yourself to it today then you start to feel that the world is subjective it's really it's just what your emotions are your daily emotions but as you go through a purification process and there's just lots of joy and laughter and we don't take too many outings but when we take an outing it's a lot of joy just even the traffic it's quite a fun trip I was going one time Erpy was taking her first drive here in Mexico City traffic and we're zipping along on the highway she's driving and I noticed very quickly that there's the exit right there for the airport so she on a full 3-4 lane we go just across we're like okay made it good she's like you never forgot but we do that a lot too if I'm out driving and there's traffic coming in both ways I'll just look one way and I'll say somebody to say somebody you check the other way and then I just totally trust and rely on them 100% I'm not even looking I'm just they're like go now don't even look see if the traffic's coming just like the matrix I can guide you but you must do exactly as I say go now lift, raise up, do it slowly you know because you get into that rhythm of listen and follow and the trust grows stronger and you actually feel like you're just living intuitively from your heart and that the world is just reflecting that but you're not really having faith in your five senses because I've had so many experiences one time I was in Roscoe, New York with Ken Robnick and Gloria and it was a weekend they were doing like a retreat and it was a weekend and they had this big lodge but on the weekend it was it was completely vacant and empty and so I was walking by and I heard Jesus say the lodge and I thought I don't even know it looks empty I don't even know it's open so I go the door opened I walked into what I thought was a completely empty big lodge and then they had this was shows how many years ago it was like a phone booth phone booth in the lodge so it said go in go over to the phone booth and I went over to the phone booth and I just stood by it and then the phone started ringing and I'm in a big empty lodge with a phone booth and a phone ringing and then Jesus said answer the phone so I answered the phone and I said hello this is foundation for A Course in Miracles which is Ken and Gloria's and they said oh I'm so glad I got a hold of you I have a friend up there and it's an emergency and I have to talk to her and this is her name I'm standing in an empty lodge in a phone booth with answering the phone saying that and she says please I'm so grateful that you were there to answer the phone and everything I said okay what's her name again so she gave me her name and then out of my mouth comes in an empty lodge I'm like just a minute I don't even know this lady I don't see this lady the voice said just a minute so then I got walked out of the lodge to a road and I saw three women in the distance slowly walking toward me and they came closer, closer, closer for a few minutes and then when they came to me I smiled and I said are any of you and I said the woman's name and she said that's me I said you have a phone call and it was like this is just Jesus having fun he's like taking it away from the five senses in the past just listen follow don't interact as if there's actually something that you know what's happening and that has happened so many times where things just flow and unfold I would never have in a million years have even imagined some of those things but there they were so it was just like him saying I will guide you I will tell you what to say or do put your total faith in me and let go of your past learning so sometimes it feels like you know you mentioned Stevie Wonder you feel like you're just happy and you're blind to the world but you're you're loved you're taken care of you're connected you're happy that was what we wanted all along anyway you know but it's it's like expands your faith when you keep going through those things your faith grows stronger and stronger like Jesus telling Thomas he takes Thomas has Thomas put his finger in the hole and then 2000 years ago said to Thomas to all the apostles blessed are those who have seen and who have believed far greater blessed are those who have not seen and believed he was teaching us don't put your faith in the five senses expand the faith of your heart and your guidance your intuitive guidance and that's the faith you know that's because when I say we have to trust people usually say trust what and trust who and like you said there's so many traditions all over the world and there's the same frequency that when you travel the world you start to really feel it in many cultures and many seeming diverse places and people but it's there it's there for sure we went to this concert last night and I think this was the first song you sang maybe you could sing that for us because we're he sang it second song it was in English and we're hearing Son of God Son of God and I was looking over at Kirsten and I was singing well that's from a line in the court yeah that's what I would say to her he's singing he's opening up the concert singing the lyrics from the course I don't know if you can play that if you have the right I can sing it I can sing it a capella it's just I turn that because it's one of my favorite phrases I am spirit, Holy Son of God free from all limits save and heal and hold free to forgive free to save the world the last two phrases I put aside because they didn't fit on the on the song but and I play it with my friend on the handpan which is beautiful and it goes something like Spirit, Holy Son I'm free from all limits I'm saved and healed and hold I'm saved and heal I'm saved and healed and you see I I'm saved I'm saved and healed and healed are you hearing this? sometimes you hear that at a course gathering but we were just out there and everyone was all swirly and there it was so that was so beautiful for us to touch their heart well this is an interesting one because it came from a long process especially in my relationship with my wife where I felt there was a moment where I focused a lot on my work and she felt a bit pushed away but it wasn't my intention at all I always wanted her to be part of and to envision us traveling together and having fun but there was something in her that I felt didn't want to accept this and so I felt also rejected and we both felt rejected and so we went through a very intense process of should we be together or should we just like go on our own paths but it was very strange because we loved each other so much so we felt that we hit this wall and it was super painful I went through a very hard time feeling this pain and we even like split for a while and I went back to my parent's house and I was just there for few weeks just feeling this crying really going through this pain and finally after a while it became clear for me that this is not something that only I am feeling it feels very common in all my relationships I feel there's moments when we just say things that reveal that we don't love ourselves we don't appreciate ourselves we feel like we're not good enough no so I touched the wound it was this feeling that I'm not good enough and she's reflecting it to me and I'm reflecting it to her and it's super painful but it's something that we have to face and so I I started playing this music and these melodies came at that time but there were no words I couldn't put it into words what do I actually want to say and I don't want I don't want it to be like a victim kind of song like oh you don't love me anymore like all these typical songs that reinforce the thing no it took a long time it took like a few years to actually turn that melody into words and they came in Spanish and it's funny because they actually came on a road trip I did a couple years ago in my van and I took like two weeks to travel through Spain in the van and it was beautiful because I was on my own I slept anywhere I wanted this is a nice spot I park here couple days in the river and I was listening to you all day driving and listening to David yes yes and one day I get to this beautiful lake and I meet this guy on the road he was hitchhiking and I I invite him in and we travel together to this lake and we spend the night in the lake we make a fire and we spend a beautiful night together chatting and the next day he leaves and I'm there in the lake by my own and I start playing this song with him and it just comes out and they come in a way that heal in a way that every time I sing it it's like you know see it on their faces to show it so yeah it talks about this pain but in a beautiful way you know well that you are here and that wheel and all my song will be for you with this sound that makes me here I will sing I feel that I come from the past and it happened and it happened I thought I had it sorry it's not love it's not love to release this weight and save what comes from the mirror innocence innocence that love is not found in time it's unconditional eternal present that already shines that love that freedom is a new out of the wheel thinking of inviting you here for lunch by note you're flying out today tomorrow oh good so there's no we don't have to whisk you off I got invited to this hot springs so maybe after lunch yeah that's nice they're famous around here the hot springs well that's all share our love and gratitude here to have Alex here at La Casa de Milagros they won't eat them we'll talk about it


Hey guys, Shebaer1000 here. Today we're going to make a tasty treat for adults. This is not intended for children under 13. Okay guys, what we have here, enjoy indoors and outdoors. We've got this s'more maker. Okay, it's by Sternow Products. And there's what it looks like. So let's get this out of the box. Let's check it out and see if we can make some s'mores. What we've got here, first of all, we bought this at a liquidation store. We gave $6 for this, $5.99. We didn't get this half off, but there's our safety and setup instructions. Okay, so, you know, looks pretty. It does come with, it does give you a can of Sternow with it. So, and this I guess you would use once you run out of this and you get a new can. You just put this up on the new can. Okay, now it's looking like it says this, and I can't read that. Place base on a flat firm surface. All right, let me read this so I can make sure, I don't know if I'm not sure if this goes up here like this or if it goes down here. I'm guessing it goes like this. That's, that looks right to me. Yeah, it does. Okay, well never mind. We'll just, so, it goes like that. This goes down in here. This is going to go on top here somewhere, to other like that. Okay, so let's move this out of the way. Well, we can't go see through it. It'll be all right. It catches on the fire. Then these are the sticks. You want to put it on a plate? So let's get these sticks ready here. You'll have to get another plate, man. All right, so monkey wants me to set it on a plate. From there. You can see it better anyway, right? So there's that. So the cool thing is, you don't have to plug it in, right, monk? Yeah. So I guess we, monkey here, she saw this and picked it up. She had to have it. So we're doing a video on it. I hope they don't find this enticing to children, because it's not made for children. You know, this is a product review. All right. Yeah. Okay. Extinguishing set up. That's pretty much it. Proper care and cleaning. Okay, so I guess what we're going to, Bruno, I guess what we're going to do is we're going to open this.  You have one in your pocket? No. Okay. And you want a knife?  It's just kind of like a paint can. That's how these open up. It's just like, it's like an alcohol gel, really. It smells like alcohol. Does it? You can use- You can't take too much of a whiff of it. You can use this indoors. It smells like alcohol. And we'll set this. Let's light it up. These are- And it's lit. I know it's hard to see, but yeah, you should be able to see that. See? It burns nice and clean. Oh, yeah, that candy bar. Let me see it real quick. Ooh, it got melted. I thought you had it in the fridge. It's a big candy bar. It's a two block per two blocks, or it's a two block. Seven ounces we got for 50 cents. We got two of them. We got one to make the s'mores, and I got one to eat. So, wow, look at that. That's hot, so you want to put your marshmallow on there. As you can see, they were melted, but that's okay. I mean, it's still good, but that's okay. It's still good. So, Monkey's got her marshmallow on, all good news. Wow, she's roasting her marshmallow. Then we've got our s'more and her graham crackers here. She's got honey. So, roast mine with her. Pretty cool, huh? Mm-hmm. Be a great gift for someone. Yeah. Now in a cold night, sit around, do this, play cards. Yeah, why not? We don't play cards. We would never play cards, have we? No. Wow, look at this. I'm going to have to look at mine. Look how big Hodger's up there.  Here, I want two pieces on mine. Hopefully, that's some pretty thick chocolate there. Yeah, I do. Yeah, I doubt if it'll melt it, but oh, so there's s'more shell mirrors. There you go. Yay. Mine didn't melt the chocolate. What do you think? Oh, yeah. Yeah? Where do you give it? Oh, a 10. A 10? Mm-hmm. So, it gets two thumbs up from you? Yeah. Okay. She gives it a 10. I think, I think I'll give it a, I'll give it a 9 because this thing is cool. It was cheap. I don't know where else you can get them, but like I said, they had a couple there, but we only gave $6 for it, so it's well worth that. And the stern is cheap to buy, so, you know, you don't have to go outside and make a campfire, so that's pretty cool. So anyway, guys, I guess that's it. Well, he says she's out for now. Okay. Monkey's gonna eat her s'more. I'm gonna eat mine, and I think that's about it. I'm gonna put this out after she's done in case she wants to make another one. I'll leave it going for a minute. So, that's our sterno product. It's called, what is it? It's S'more's Family Fundmaker. It's what it's called. So, this is a product review. It's not intended to entice children. In fact, I'm gonna mark this one as 18 and above, whatever.    I'm making it for the adults who like s'mores, you know? All right, guys. Thanks for watching. Monkey says she's out. I'm eating another one. Okay. So, don't forget to check out the Monkey 1,000 channel, and stay tuned for more awesome videos by Shebear 1,000. All right, Shebear the myth man legend. Gone for now. Thanks for watching, guys. Bye-bye. Have a good one. Take care.


Just give me the thumbs up when everything is ready. Great, thank you. And so everybody else will just melt. Sorry about that.  Len is with us after a trip from Russia, so he's a bit jet lagged. So we haven't had a chance to really prepare this speech at all. We've been going back and forth on emails and knowing that it would all suss out in the end. So am I cutting out? Am I good? All right, okay, good. Whoa, okay. So anyhow, I want to thank you all for showing up to the talk. It's really important what we're going to talk about today. And I think that everyone needs to know what's going on, and I'm glad you're here. It's so hard for me to think about technologists in the outside world. Most of my friends are technologists, and I was at the grocery store not too long ago, and I have a bumper sticker on my car that says, Coding is not a crime. And think of the way that I spelled, okay? Visualize it on my bumper. And this woman went by my car, and she looked at the bumper sticker, and she said, what are they doing to those damn fish now? So, I mean, that might kick in a little bit later. But that goes to show you, I mean, the world is not in sync with what you are doing. I had DefCon mark down on my calendar, and this woman saw it, and she goes, is that the end of the world? Is that what's going to happen on August 1st? People don't know and understand and appreciate what it is that you guys do. And ignorance is the one thing that's going to be key in taking away the civil rights and rights in general of technologists and the rights to create and use technology. And the one thing that you can do is do whatever you can to get more visibility on the issue. We had Pat Leahy passing the DMCA along with AOL Time Warner and Disney. He apologizes for it now, but it's a bit too late when you say it. So he said he had no idea what he was doing at the time, and now the damage is done. So the best thing to do is to get some visibility around the issues. Let's see here, I've got all these cards here. Who are you? I am Sally Richards. I'm a technologist. I'm also a journalist. I've been writing and doing stuff in the technology field for the last 20 years. I write books about the future of technology. I consult to startups about where technology is heading, and I'm very much wanting to preserve the civil rights with few of them we have left. And that infringes a lot on technology and the governance of technology. So right now I'm going to introduce Len Kleinrock. Do you all know who Len is? Len is the co-founder of the Internet. And before I hear any Al Gore jokes, I'd like to remind you that Al Gore introduced the DMCA. So his name should not even be mentioned in the same breath as Len Kleinrock. Len and Larry Roberts, the other co-founder of the Internet, made it possible to make something that you could hack into. So Len is going to be talking today about what his original vision of the Internet was and how things have progressed and how it's failed in his original idea about the Internet. So Len is one of the most brilliant people I know, and he is a great, wonderful speaker, which he will be much more elegant than I, who I'm very much a non-linear thinker and speaker and things. So he's going to be a hard act to follow, but let's give it up for Len. Thanks very much, Sally. I'm afraid all the energy and charisma you're talking about is going to be filtered through this technology we call teleconferencing. But I'm happy to chat with this group. As you said, I'd like to say a few words about what the original vision of the Internet was that I had. And as you probably know, in September 69, the Internet began at UCLA in my lab. Two months before that, a press release came out in which I articulated a vision as to what the Internet would become. That vision had five components. First, the Internet would wear. It would be always on, always accessible. Anybody with any device could get on from any location at any time, and it would be invisible. Now, it turns out the Internet succeeded in the first three of those goals, but it failed in the last two. As all of you know, it's not easy to get on from any location at any time with the device by anybody. And certainly the Internet is anything but invisible. If you consider booting up windows or dealing with some of the arcane interfaces we have, the world certainly is not invisible. The question is, why did the Internet fail in those last two pieces of the vision? And the answer has to do with the fact that it was a death-bound mentality in the late 60s and early 70s that produced things like TCP, IP, where your IP address, your device, your physical location, and you were all locked together. We're no longer death-bound. We're no match. We travel everywhere. The devices we carry change. Our IP address has changed. We're no longer behind proxies or behind firewalls. We reach out into the world, and it's a very flexible environment. And TCP, IP, has a hard time with that, as you know. So the question is, what do we do about that? And what did the original intent of the Internet have to do with the topic of today's session? Well, the Internet, as it was created, was one of the culture of openness, of sharing, of non-forprobably access and ownership. And it was funded and managed by an enlightened agency, the Defense to Dance Research Projects Agency, where they allowed people to do what they did on those things which were of interest to them, not a lot of management control, oversight, project meetings, reports, et cetera. And when NSF stepped into the picture in the 80s, they, in fact, continued to promote that same culture. They had a very, very enlightened, acceptable use policy, which allowed all scientists in, and the dot-coms began to arise in the late 80s and early 90s, as you know. As soon as the dot-coms came in, we began to see things like spam, like tracking, like pop-ups, like a certain invasion of our privacy, things we didn't want was suddenly appearing. And then, as a group, such as I'm addressing here, began to throw in hacking, spamming, and viruses, and worms, and denial of service attacks, there was reaction. And the reaction was in the form of tracking, ID identification of who was using law, et cetera. Now, we've developed a technology, in fact, that has the ability to deeply invade our policy, deeply invade it. And by accessing and using that technology, we, in some sense, are inadvertently opening ourselves to allow the technology to invade the privacy. Every time you use your credit card, use your cell phone, log on to a machine, use your email pager, make a bank transaction, buy an airline ticket. In some sense, you're identifying who you are, where you are, what you're doing, and when you're doing it. And, of course, the technology that you and I have created allow those things to be tracked. In fact, the trouble is that the challenge is how we balance the right of government on the one hand to do the things they think they need to do with the right as individuals that we were granted by our constitution. Technology is faster now than the nation's norms and laws have for managing that advancement. And that's part of the problem we're facing, that's part of the reaction we're seeing right now. In the past, when our government was encountered with a scare or a threat, they panicked. And they typically ended up not hitting their target, but in fact finding ways to invade and out-rights in ways that we were not comfortable with. So our actions and usages are being tracked right now. They're being collected and used and circled by groups that don't ask permission. In fact, that we don't even know are using our information. Basically, our privacy is gone. Give it up, get over it, it's gone. And, of course, that's a discussion today. I think the only way you're going to preserve your privacy right now, and I'm saying this with tongue-cheek, is to strip down naked, go to the edge of the ocean, dive in, and hope there's no sonar tracking you, as there probably won't be. The real answer to the question is, and the right way to deal with these issues, is to find ways to get our legislators, our executives, and our laws changed to match the ways in which we want to protect our privacy and our rights. At the moment, it's laissez-faire, it's not clear, technology is way ahead of our legal system and the rights that are written into our code. That's the only introduction I wanted to make. Thank you. We're going to answer some questions. Here we go. Thank you, Len. We're going to answer a few questions before we go into my side of the talk. So, any questions out there? Here we go. Okay, is it necessary for us to give up our privacy to engage on online activity? Well, the operational word there is necessary. The fact is, because of the technology that exists, which does have the ability to track what you're doing, what's done with that is in some sense subject to laws, policies, and administrative procedures. But the fact is, you are giving it up once you engage in this technology. Now, is it legal? Maybe not. Is it right? Maybe not. Is it done for sure? Okay, gentlemen is wondering if we should have two internets, one for commerce and one for just general public, if that would solve some of these issues. That sounds like a bad solution to me. Any time you partition a network into more than one function, you lose the ability.  Things we can't anticipate ahead of time. And by partitioning the network, you may well preclude activities, creations, and interact with time. And I think that would be a mistake. We lost the tail end of that, I think. Is there a problem with the... Okay. Len, could you repeat the last part of that? I'm sorry. What I said is I felt that partitioning the network into more than one type of network which don't interact strongly would be a mistake. I think we would preclude innovations and creativity that we can't now anticipate. And any time you break a network into more than one piece, you're going to limit the interaction which is the heartbeat of the internet. It always has been and I believe will always continue. Yeah. Got another question? Okay. Okay. So by the fact, aren't we already partitioning it currently because of all the legislation and all the firewalls and all of that? We're typically in commercial organizations. If you want to install your own private, private wall, that's your choice. But to insist that certain activities are firewalls against activities, again, would limit the kind of interaction I think the internet is so good at providing and which has been such, provided so many benefits to us in terms of new activities, new applications, new kinds of services. Any other questions? Right here. Do you advocate legislation that would limit technology or are you advocating legislation that will what? Hold individuals accountable for protecting information. Did you get that? I'm not sure I understand the difference there. The kind of legislation I'm talking about is to treat as individuals and as a population, find offensive the kinds of things that are in discussion today. If we feel updated, the right way to handle it is to change the law. Is to maybe replace the particular groups representing us in government and not to violate the law and not to find ways to better deal with it. Of course you can choose to do that and then you're asking to accept the consequences as well. Yeah, back there. And is there a cordless mic that we can give people? Okay, talk loud. What do you think? Okay. Okay, what was that? In terms of protecting consumer rights, could that be broadened to an anti-spam, all media, not just telephone calls type of approach? I think I heard that question. Do you want to generalize the do not call laws which operate the telephone system to spam and other forms of internet unwanted delivery? Is that the question I hear? Yeah.  Okay, I believe that those kind of laws are just fine. I mean if you have a way to opt out of unwanted institutions on your privacy, there can be ways to voluntarily sign up for that and have it enforced. I believe that's exactly the right way to do it. Trouble is, I think, is the effectiveness of those laws. Right now to do not call laws, there's too many exemptions in the telephone system. I suspect that would be true in internet-based activity as well. But that means, excuse me, that's a question of fine-tuning the law. The basic concept I believe is correct. Okay, the mics, I've got my other mic back. Yeah, come up here and, sorry about this lens, it's a bit awkward. I guess my question is, it just seems like a general statement that we should pass laws or have legislation. Is there any particular person in the House or the Senate that's kind of behind this right now, or is any group working on this, or how is it supposed to be deployed or implemented, or who's the thought leaders on this? You get that. I'm not familiar with who in Congress is the right person to go to at this point. I think, first, the expression of concern has to be made very clear, and then find a particular supporting congressman or senator that will back that up. But I can't name individuals right now. Okay, yeah. So are there any groups that you know of, Len, that are working on this stuff? Putting policies together. This stuff, do you mean being concerned about privacy? Yeah. You know them better than I do. The EFF said this one. Okay, yeah. Well, there's a lot of legislation currently being passed, surprisingly enough, by Democrats. Democrats aren't what they used to be. There are some organizations on the EFF.org site. There are links out there that you can go to. It's more fighting for what we have right now than building on what we have, because our legislation is very fuzzy right now, as far as that's concerned. I advise you to start your own group. Any other questions? Yeah, go ahead. Professor Kleinrock, I know that you served as an expert witness on behalf of a number of entertainment companies attacking several peer-to-peer companies. I'm wondering if you're having any second thoughts in light of the subpoena campaign that has gotten underway that it seems to me is a pretty serious threat to privacy today. Well, my basic position is that stealing is wrong, and I feel that a lot of the exchanging of copyrighted material was not a proper action. And that's the base on which I decided to support continuing that kind of activity. The subpoenas that are taking place right now, it seems to be a strong move. I think it's difficult to stop the music sharing, and I think the companies are having a hard time with that. I know they are. So they're taking extreme measures, and in some sense it could have been anticipated that what happened, given the enormous amount of trading that's been placed, and the attitude by so many that this is not a business as usual. This is something that's not out there for the taking, just because it's available. Doesn't mean you should violate other people's rights in this activity. Okay. Any other questions out there? I'm curious as to your disinclination toward technological workarounds to government regulations and constraints. My example being what Zimmerman gave us with developing PGP is something that essentially no government can take away from us. Now it was not illegal, but it was, let's say, an extra-legal workaround. Similar things like anonymizers to permit anonymous net access seem to be ways to achieve privacy without having to persuade politicians to give it to us. Would you comment on those notions? Sure. I totally agree with what you say. I was talking about illegal activities. There are workarounds, and there certainly are some of which you've mentioned, by all means go for it, except the edges of the legal system. Anything that can protect your privacy by all means makes sense. PGP, for example. And I don't feel paid a price for a period for having engaged in that activity, and yet the effect on the world has been significantly positive. Any other questions? Okay. I'm going to go into my talk now. Is Phil in the audience? Phil Zimmerman here right now? No? Okay. One of the things that all of us need to look back on is history, when it comes to... Okay, how's that? Is that all right? Got it back there? All right. One of the things we tend not to look at is what occurred during World War II, and the Army and the Karthi hearings, all the things that went bad. Some of you may or may not have known the story about Einstein. He left Germany in 1932 with his wife, and when things started coming down, he asked his wife to look back on the train and said, say goodbye, you'll never see it again. What he didn't know was that he was coming to get another oppressive government. And at that time, he, well, it was a few years later actually, 1939, when he sent Roosevelt's, President Roosevelt, a letter saying, the Nazis are building an atomic bomb. We need to build one too, to protect ourselves from it, to be able to protect the world from Nazi Germany. Roosevelt called him a communist, and they actually would not issue him a clearance to work on the Manhattan Project, because he was associated, because he knew this inside information about what the Nazis were working on, basically. It was years later when Oppenheimer would be called a communist by the McCarthy pack, and his clearance taken away, it's the father of the atomic bomb, his clearance was taken away. 25 scientists testified that he was not a threat, that in fact he actually helped end World War II, and nothing was done. He was basically a downhill slide from there, he did nothing, and he died a very bitter man. And that was in 1954 when that occurred. Einstein said something that is very relevant to this day. He said, I have never been a communist, but if I were, I would not be ashamed of it. The current investigations are, I can't read my own writing, an incomparability, greater danger to our society than those few communists in our country ever could be. And I see what's going on currently with this stage of Ashcroft and Point Dexter and all of the things they're putting in place to tap your internet line, see what you're doing to look at your keystrokes, they're actually putting in place a deal with the FCC so that your telecom companies have to agree to giving up the information with or without a warrant and to be able to place these wire taps on your lines and to be able to get the information, especially on cell phones. That's a whole new world for them that they're working with. You know, and I don't want to make light of national security. I knew Danny Lewin, I knew Danny Pearl. I don't want to see 9-11 happen again. And I think national security is very important, but what I see in place right now is not national security. It's terrorist activity from the government. I have a pin on here from John Gilmour. We were having dinner and he gave me this pin that says, Suspected Terrorist. And I said, Jesus, John, I already get checkered tickets every time I check into a plane. He was actually on a plane on Virgin Airlines or Airways, whatever they're called. And he had this pin on and he would not take it off. They asked him to take it. I guess he got on the plane first and put it on and they asked him to take it off. They turned the plane around, they dropped him down. I mean, they landed first. Although, you know, don't put it beyond our government. We're pushing people out of planes. But he has been looking for a lawsuit, a very substantial lawsuit to make some precedence. And I think this is going to be it. Our Constitution guaranteed free ingress and egress without having to give over your ID because he's already been fighting that fight for a while. So he had to wait for the next move. And so that's going to be the next level of that whole fight. Now, that program is called CAHPS, C-A-P-P-S and CAHPS 2. What that does is when you get your ticket, many of the airlines are connected into a database where they're checking your credit record, where they're checking your marital status, where they're checking all of the things that could make you a terrorist, such as a bad credit rating or a divorce or the fact that you don't have children. They're refusing to give up this information to the ACLU. They have several cases already underway about how the FAA is making a mess of things. They're not saying what kind of things they're actually doing with this information. They could be giving this information to some other agencies. They could be doing anything. And right now, they've actually redlined some people. You have a green, yellow, red report card that is tied into your airline ticket. And people have been redlined because they're activists. And so those cases are currently being looked at. And you don't have any way to fight that, because they don't have to say what's wrong with you to be on the red list either.  And I'm going to go back even further now for our history lesson here. To the 1800s, where Leland Stanford got in with three other entrepreneurs and they borrowed money from investors, they borrowed money from the government, government loans, and they built the Continental Railroad. That was our first infrastructure that allowed free egress and ingress, that allowed free trade. And as soon as Leland died, they actually froze Stanford University's assets. That's when Stanford University used to be a free school. Can you believe that? And so what they did was they froze the assets. She sold all of her private assets to keep the school open for three years. At the end of that three years, the government said, we're sorry we did that. I guess it was wrong of us and illegal. But here's your money back. We're taking over the railroad anyway. And a lot of companies went down over that. And so that was our first infrastructure that was taken over very easily by the U.S. government. And I expect with all of these laws in place that we're going to see another takeover very soon. There are good laws that keep spammers away. I mean, they're not in place yet. There could be some good laws, good legislation. But along with this good legislation is the RAAA going ahead and putting legislation like the DMCA in place where it's not worth a damn. And it's also putting people like Dmitry Skilarov in prison. And so I was put in the middle of that last, well, when he was arrested. And learned that his wife was called at 3 a.m. Russia time. And the feds actually said to her, we have your husband. You better tell us everything we want to know about your husband. And we have him in jail. And what is that?  So then our government is completely out of control at this time, as far as being able to just legislate whatever they want. It's time of war. And I don't want to have to tell my 14-year-old niece when she's in college and learning about the civil rights that she has lost. Why I was not fighting for them.  And people aren't aware of what's going on right now. And that's, it's up to you. You know, you guys have a lot of power out there. And the next line of products, I feel, is keeping the everyday Jane and Joe's privacy safe from the government, from everyone, from commercial entities who are buying it from the government, from everyone. So people will be willing to pay for privacy in the not-so-distant future. And I believe that that is where the next line of technology is going, especially when you have nanotechnology coming into place. Jesus. When I go over to NASA and Lawrence Livermore and see what they've got cooking, it won't be long before we have the little nanobot mosquitoes. I actually saw this thing and it's amazing. It has a little tiny camera on it. So it can actually go flying into your board room or hotel room or bedroom and whatever, see whatever. But you know, I was talking to a guy from Google, a sales guy the other day. And I said, I'm really concerned about Google. And I don't know what your continued position is because when you go on a Google search, of course you know this, they can see what you're searching for. They can see everything about you. You know, in the daily course of what you search for, I mean it's pretty much a profile unto itself. And that is a scary thing to give a company that much power. I mean it's become a verb, right? You're going to go Google something. And people Google it from their pockets. People Google from everywhere. And the government is now figuring out that they can go ahead and subpoena that stuff. I mean these are not offshore servers. It's a very bad, bad thing what's going on right now. And I just, I hope that you look more into these issues and that you take some power back whatever it means necessary. Trying not to say a call to arms right now. I understand how you get arrested for that. But some very important things are going down in the future. You guys are the future.  So anyhow, that's my talk. Thank you. So any questions? I'm going to get away with no questions. Okay. Any more questions? Oh, we got one. I'm sorry, what is the best way to evangelize your ideas?  You know, I'm not advocating hacking. I'm just saying that you could be creative in this way. You can get your blog up and running. You can tell people. You can actually form groups and start something. If anybody wants to work with me on this project, I'm very open. I've got some little plans in place that you could be very helpful on. So any other questions? No? No? All right. Well, yeah, the question is MIT, a group at MIT figured out how to use caps against itself. Now, you know, our government's pretty lame about technology and legislating technology, and they are hiring a lot of hackers these days who are out of work to help them put things together. But I also know a lot of those hackers are walking in the double line and letting some information out about what's going on. So I do believe there's 50,000 different ways to turn that stuff around and use it against itself. And it can be a very tricky thing to do, but you guys are smart. You can do it. Yeah. How to highlight the negative in the media? I was speaking to a member of the FCC, one of the people in charge of that, and I asked him, I said, why isn't the general public aware of what's going on with the new FCC laws? There's a lot of stuff going on out there currently that's going to change the way that we watch TV, by the way we broadcast TV, by the way we listen and watch and people are watching us through the new legislation. And I asked him point blank. I said, is it because most of the media is still waiting to get their license, and a lot of those newspapers and a lot of those magazines are conglomerates? And it's true. People are afraid to say what's going on right now, because somehow or another, I mean you can still find it on the alternative press, but in mainstream press you don't see a lot of criticism, and that's one of the things that's going to have to change soon. Okay, go ahead. Free press, that's not seen more on. It doesn't exist anymore, except for in very rare circumstances. It does not exist anymore. That's what the beauty of blogs. I highly recommend that... How many bloggers are here? Good, good, good, good, good. Keep blogging, because that's where change is going to come from. No, I don't have a gun. But I was going to suggest that maybe some of the motivation that goes on, we need to have people think a little bit out of the box. Postulating that the reason for all of this is the government has gotten terribly worried about people acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Now the problem with people having weapons of mass destruction is if I acquire a weapon of mass destruction and my neighbors don't have one, then I can start threatening my neighbors and say you will do what I want, or I will use my weapon. One of the alternative ways of thinking about it, since the way that the knowledge and technology seems to be going is that the knowledge of how to do this will become universal, is to say let's try and fix it so everybody has weapons of mass destruction. In this case, you start thinking about things entirely differently and a lot of this restriction that comes about because you're trying to keep knowledge from seeping out into the world becomes irrelevant. You're going to say, well, it doesn't matter. If you have your weapon of mass destruction, threaten you and say, well, if you try using yours, we will use ours and you will be toast. We are the weapon of mass destruction, aren't we? Yeah, I think impeachment's the answer to that. So, yeah. You know, Len set the world free with the internet. Len and Larry. We had a lot of barriers up with communicating with the rest of the world and the rest of the world communicating with us. So, I don't know. There's no answer to this. And my time is over. So I just want to thank Len for joining us today. Thank you very much, Len. And thank all of you for coming and sitting in this heat. Sorry about the air conditioning being off. Thank you.


Okay, I am going to show you how to take a screen or a recording from Zoom and put it into your Google Drive and then be able to share it. So I am in a Zoom meeting. I'm going to quick record and I record on my computer is how I do that. And if you're recording a long class period, it's going to be pretty long. Maybe you don't need the whole thing recorded. Just, I don't know. But so I'm going to do the recording. So I'm going to stop the recording. It'll be converted. So I'm going to end my Zoom and go find that recording. So I do my recording here and it's going to convert it and I can choose. Mine is short. It'll go fast. Yours will maybe take longer if it's a longer one. So I can create a file of where I want those to go. Otherwise, just pay attention to where it goes. Maybe I want a new folder called recordings. And so I put them all into that folder possibly. So that's how I'm going to choose to send mine. Save it there. So I have a folder on my desktop now that is called recordings. And here is the recording. So if I come down and it's in different ways, I can just get the audio. But what we want is the mp4 one here. So I could open it up and play with it. I can possibly just click and rename it now. I'm not sure. Yep. So that's probably what I would do. I'm going to call this maybe date it 929 period one.  And here's my Google Drive. And I'm going to upload that. So another thing you might do is create a folder here in your Google Drive that says recordings. And so I could start by creating a folder and call it recordings or class recordings maybe. So if you have another one that you do other recordings, but I create that folder. Get it up here. There's my class recordings. So I'm going to open that. And I'm going to upload that video. So I come here to new and I do a file upload. And I go back and find it. Remember it was in recordings folder. And it was this one that I renamed. So it is doing the upload here. And there it is. So this naming conventions maybe isn't the best. You got to figure out what so your students and you both know. So now if I open this, it does take a little bit. It might not quite be ready. It might give you a message on my computer is how I do that. So it might give a message that says I'm your video is still being processed. And that's okay. You'll just have to give it a little bit more time. But like I said, this was only 18 seconds long. So it wasn't too bad. But you have to remember to open your sharing settings. And so over here under the three dots, I can put share. Click on the share. Now right now I can put in specific people's names. So if you had a class list of their emails, you could put that in. Or I can get the link. So I am thinking you'd want to use this. And it's going to be restricted to people with your school logins. So if it's just for students, this would work. Because it would be restricted to say anybody with the Boyd County account. Or if that's not going to work because you want parents to be able to see it, you need to open up the shareings for everybody.  And then right by this little down arrow or carrot, I want to put anyone with the link could view it. And so the public's probably not going to find it. They can't search it. But if you send this link out to parents, they'll be able to watch it. So now anybody with a link is a viewer. And you would copy that link. And then you would go to your email and send that to parents. Or maybe you post it on your learning management system for students who weren't there that they can watch it. But I think that's probably going to be the easiest way for you to post longer videos so that parents can access them.