Okay, hi everybody. Good morning. Welcome to our all-day movie workshop. I'm Peter. And yes, we have quite a group with us again, because it's the time of the month when we have our retreat weekend too. So we have people here for our Miracle of the Mind weekend retreat. And we also have people just coming in for our all-day movie workshops, so quite a group. So for those who are new, yes, I'm Peter. I'm the host. And I can let you know about the flow of the day. So we start with the movie with David. And then we're going to have a 10-minute break afterwards. That's the time when you can submit any questions or prayers that you have. And then we'll have a closing session with David. And that's where he can respond to any questions and prayers he might submit with your form. So I'm going to pass it straight over to you now, David. Thank you, Peter. Hi, everyone. Welcome. What a joy. I love spontaneity. This morning here in Mexico, two of our houses where we usually operate from and do our broadcasting from lost power this morning. So I am now have taken the car over to La Casa de Milagros. Go with the flow. Go where the power is. And that's a nice symbol to remind us that the power is in our mind. And that's why the title of this three-day weekend retreat is Miracle of the Mind. And so we have, it looks like I see about 121 in the Zoom room. I see there's our friends here at La Casa de Milagros. We've got the monastery, UDS. We've got you all joining from all over the world, probably at least around 150, 160 of us. I think most, quite a few of the countries of the world are represented today as we go diving deep with Jesus into the miracle of the mind. And wow, do we have a great movie today to help you experience the miracle of the mind? You know, we seem to, every day in our daily lives and daily activities in the world, we seem to be mesmerized by a motion picture called the cosmos. A motion picture called linear time with people and places and images, and they've now taken on great importance. But if we use the theater analogy, it's like there's a movie screen and the movie screen is what we're usually daily dealing with. We're acting and reacting to the characters. We're acting and reacting to what seems to be the weather, to the climate, to events, world events that are going on, to whatever's happening in the news, whatever is happening with the body, whatever is happening with our relationships in form, whatever is happening to our neighbors, to our communities. And Jesus is just saying to us, please, please, please, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a movie screen. You're just seeing a projection of the beliefs and emotions and thoughts that you hold on to. And the reason that you sometimes are unhappy is because these beliefs and emotions and thoughts are egoic. God didn't create any of it. You know, it helps to remember Jesus, you know, and some of you know about the Bible and the Garden of Eden and the fall from grace, you know, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and, and that apple that Eve took a bite out of and all that stuff. Let's just lay that side aside for right now and let's just start today as we go into the miracle of the mind to just remember Jesus gave us a little teeny snippet in the course where he says into eternity where all is one. They're crept a tiny mad idea at which the son of God remembered not to laugh. So when you take the ego belief in separation from God's serious, you actually believe it's true. Then the projection the ego projected the cosmos the whole world the whole screen of images to hide to hide itself in the mind in the unconscious mind. When we react and respond to the images. We basically are feeling like we're lost where we're lost in time and space. It's a predicament. What we were talking about Friday. Francis and I in the morning and Kirsten and the whole team from the monastery in the evening was that that is long as where identified with the characters on the screen in any way as long as we're identified with the person, the personality, the body, and the characters and the scenes and the sounds of this world. We won't know perfect happiness because perfect happiness is the kingdom of heaven. And Jesus has said the kingdom of heaven is within. So we need to learn to go within when we're afraid to go within maybe we're afraid of the stillness we're afraid of what we'll find when we go down into deep prayer and deep meditation. And that means that we're, we're afraid of love and we have this deep, deep seated belief in unworthiness and that's why we seek for love in the characters. That's why we're, as the country song says looking for love in too many faces, looking for love in all the wrong places. Jesus is basically saying, come on, come bring your attention off the screen of the world and come, come back off the screen come into the theater, and then Jesus is there and he's saying now come back to the projector room. Now come inside the projector and come past the film and come all the way to the light, the pure light that's that's being used in the projection we need to come back to the I am this before Abraham was I am we need to come back to the Christ, the Christ light is God.  So the miracle of the mind is that in you is everything that's perfect ready to radiate out through you into the whole world in you is the presence of God's love ready to light the screen up. I mean light the whole thing up, because the Christ can shine a light that literally shines the world away. One of you who have studied the course also have read Gary Renard's book The Disappearance of the Universe. And that's not usually a goal that's talked about in the mainstream media you don't see breaking news tonight. The group of believers are now tuning in their mind to go into the light of Christ so that they can experience the disappearance of the universe you don't hear that on the nightly news is not going to be news flash world disappears. The news is about the images, who got shot, who got bombed who who died, who starved to death, who won the Miss USA pageant who which sports team one which sports team lost. blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah what did Shakespeare call this world, much ado about a nothing. Thank you William Shakespeare from England right now I think the King Charles is just been coordinated but actually I'm more interested in William Shakespeare telling us much ado about nothing. But William Shakespeare would say that interesting how we do and Sarah over there with the coronation William Shakespeare calls it much ado about nothing. Jesus believes in equality not in hierarchies. Jesus believes we're all one not in special places persons people. When we talk to Jesus and say, talk about the king, he will say, well, I'm Christ so I'm the Lord of life, and, and there is no other king, but the Christ, and there is no other kingdom but the kingdom of heaven. Whoa, okay, here we go now we're now we're cooking now we're on the day of the coronation we're going for the kingdom of heaven within. So that's important. The reason why we call this the miracle of the mind is because salvation can only be found in the mind. It cannot be found on the screen. Yes, I know some of us we've tried to save the world we tried to save the dolphins save mother nature we tried to save the ozone layer. We tried to save the ecosystem. We tried to save the snails we tried to save the whales, we tried to save the dolphins. Anybody here also was an activist to try to save the planet, you know, I tried to save the planet for a while there.  Come come come into your mind into the kingdom of heaven within, which is so happy and so joyful and so glorious that it is the light of the world. And while you seek for the light and form you look for the light where it cannot be found. And the beyond idle section of a course of miracles Jesus says God knows not form. God knows not form period. The world is what idols made to take the place of truth. The world is images, idle images and even in the Bible, we were told don't put any graven images before the Lord thy God, yay for the Bible. They hit it right on the nail there. No, graven images before the Lord thy God. So basically we can see that that the images are concretized forms of ego thoughts and beliefs. So when we look at a fragmented world of of apples and oranges and people and mountains and stars and countries, that's a fragmented world that has nothing to do with the kingdom of heaven that is a projection of the ego belief system. And we can't find happiness. Some of us have tried quite a lot actually. We've tried to find happiness in the specific forms. And where every time we do aim for our happiness in a specific form we're always disappointed. So, oh, disappointing. I thought that would bring me happiness, and it did not. So we shift ego says shift to another form by this you just haven't tried enough forms try some more forms, try these forms. And then some of us have actually said enough of this. I am retiring. I am retiring. And then Jesus tells us in the workbook he said many have tried to renounce the world while still believing in it. Ooh, he's not letting us off the hook. Many have tried to renounce the world while still believing in it. And they have suffered still from a lingering sense of guilt. So, what we have to do is we have to find the atonement we have to find the miracle of the mind to set us free. And when there's a workbook lesson in the course, which says salvation comes from my one self the salvation of the world depends on me he's not talking about the personality me he's talking about the Christ me the real me. That of course that's my salvation, but it's not a person, it's not a person or a personality. After much prayer yesterday I was given one of our all time movie classics and the movie watchers guide to enlightenment for Jesus to use to help set us free from this foolish pursuit of looking for love in the form, looking for love in the images. And, and this movie actually will will make good of a topic that's kind of on our minds recently is AI artificial intelligence. Jesus is going to use artificial intelligence, human relationships, career. Love letters. He's going to use all the things that that the world believes are real and important. And, and he's going to pull the string. In fact, in order to experience the miracle of the mind you have to actually let Jesus pull the rug out from under your mind you, you have to let it you have to say take all my furniture. Take, take the walls take the ceiling the ceiling fan. And why don't you while you're Jesus while you're at it pull the rug out from under me too. And this movie today is a pull the rug out from under. And, and that's why it takes a lot of faith to hang with with the theme today. So the movie I'm going to show I'll come back and I'll set it up a little bit in a moment but the movie I'm going to show is, is called her with Joaquin Phoenix. And, and the voice of Scarlett Johansson as her as a operating system. It's for back from 2013. Here we are a decade later after her was released and now of AI is starting to make the news. If you if you watch the news, you start to see people are finally it's we're kind of slow. It takes us. It takes us only a decade to get AI in the news with Microsoft and and Bing and Google and Bard and and chat GPT and, you know, all the things that that were kind of foreshadowed 10 years ago. And in this movie are now coming much more into consciousness much more into conscious awareness. Recently I to I showed the movie transcendence with Johnny depth and that was another one way way back starting to foreshadow AI. This is a little cameo experience in transcendence by Elon Musk way back then I hadn't seen that the first time I viewed the movie but there he was in the audience, Elon Musk and now, many years later he's doing his space six and Tesla and Twitter, and talking about artificial intelligence and the dangers of it and, but also Elon Musk is among many different scientists physics of that you might say physicists who basically are saying they now believe that the world is some kind of simulation, but they have no idea who's running the simulation. Jesus knows who's running the simulation. The ego made it and the ego runs the tables until you give it over to the Holy Spirit and then the Holy Spirit runs the tables. So, that's why we need the miracle of the mind because if you don't accept the miracle of the mind and you're just accepting that the ego is running the tables. It's running all the tables of this world for victim victimization for abuse for mistreatment for pain for suffering for pleasure and all kinds of distractions. It's, it's a very ingenious devious projection. When it's under the control of the ego but once you give it over fully to the Holy Spirit it's really beautiful. It's like a nice dance. It's like the dance of the fairy, the sugar plums. The dance of the sugar plums comes in when you give everything over to the Holy Spirit, and then you start to enjoy it you start to go enjoy the dance. Until you give it fully over then it starts to just bite you on the rear end from time to time. It just zaps you when you least expect it. So, first thing I want to do today I'm just very excited about this whole session today. We always pray for a group of themes and then we take the themes to Jesus and we say what would be most helpful to dive into the experience of the themes. So, these are the themes that were voted on on on many different platforms both in Spanish and English and these this is the combined results from English and Spanish. The number one theme for this week by far is accepting my brothers and myself completely as we are. So that is a call for identity accepting my brothers and myself completely as we are. Are we actually, we are spirit. We are, we are created in the, the, from God, we are created from the God the creator so we are spirit. Are we mind body and spirit. No. Are we are we let mind and spirit. No, we are divine mind and we are spirit. The mind is actually the activating agent of spirit is Jesus tells us so we don't want to dismiss the mind because it's the activating agent of spirit. The mind is how we remember spirit as as perfect creation is perfect light. So Jesus sent his course and miracles to help us train our minds to accept our divine spirit or I am presence of love and light. And that's why accepting my brothers and myself completely as we are. It's, we have to actually get up to a point in the miracle of the mind where we realize that we, we never were a body. There will be a body and for no single incident have we ever been a body. We might say we are hallucinating a body we are remembering something that's impossible and we are anticipating a future of something that's impossible. So when we try to plan the future we're trying to plan the future for the body, which doesn't exist. And when we have grievances and, and all kinds of dark thoughts and memories of the body. We're trying to remember something that actually in truth never happened. That is a psychotic break. When you're perceiving something that doesn't exist that's called hallucination.  Even forgiveness in the forgiven world the happy dream is still a happy hallucination, but the only difference between the happy solutions hallucination of the happy dream and the fragmented world is the fragmented world is the world made through judgment, and the happy dream is a world with no judgment, where you just accept all things exactly as they are you say oh, everything's working together for my good. And you don't even give a blink to trying to correct the world, change the world fix the world. You're not trying to transform the world you basically are, are you're, you're back in the projector room with Jesus with the light, and basically you're not fooled by the film or the screen. So that's our first one 67 votes. Second one transcend the fear of intimacy. Haven't we heard that topic for decades the fear of intimacy weren't they talking about this in the 1960s. In the hippie generation they were talking about fear of intimacy. But the only problem when we say the word intimacy is intimacy is most often always associated with the body. When we talk about intimacy and the truest sense transcending the fear of intimacy. We just have to give our intimacy ideas and concepts to Jesus and say please purify my mind. Actually, what Jesus is going to teach us is that intimacy has nothing whatsoever, nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the body, because the ego made the body, God didn't create it. And if we're looking for true intimacy why would we look to something or look to something that the ego made to find true intimacy when true intimacy is of the spirit, the I am presence. So I want everybody to just take a moment to take that word intimacy and let's transform it a little bit. Let's call it from intimacy let's call it into me see into me see into the Christ to me. I want to see you see, we have to go, we have to transform intimacy in our mind. Because as long as we associate in intimacy with romance. Jesus is telling us there will be guilt. Absolutely if you hold on to the body identification in any way you will try to seek outside the light in your mind and you will, you will find guilt, because guilt is generated from looking for the light or looking for the true intimacy where it's not. And when we've looked in bodies, it has not worked, we have not found eternal happiness and joy in the bodies. Even with our the bodies of pets, and the bodies of animals, or the tree bodies, or for the flower bodies. No, we still haven't found it in nature even we, we haven't found it in the form, and we need to really get that we have to go inside through prayer and meditation to have a direct experience of that intimacy. Number three, seeing the extent of the authority problem. Okay, well, anybody who studied a course in miracles knows what Jesus means when he talks about the authority problem.  Everything that's eternal is real. Everything that is not eternal is not real. So creation is purely spiritual in nature creation has nothing to do with bodies creation has nothing to do with form whatsoever. And when we, we really look at the authority problem is that God authors in spirit so God is the author of reality reality is eternal. God is the author of reality. And when the mind believes it can separate from eternity and take on a time space identity. It has an authority problem. What does that mean. It means that it, it has pushed out of awareness that God is the creator of reality. And now the mind believes that it can create its own reality.  Reality is the kingdom of heaven reality is spirit and God is the creator of reality. And therefore, in truth, you cannot manifest something different from what God creates. That just means that this world is absolutely impossible. And that's why the first workbook lesson in the course of miracles is nothing I see means anything you see Jesus is not taking us in slow. He's taking us in the deep end with the first lesson. He's, he's, he's taking a scuba diving. He's saying, let's go down to the depths of the truth, even with the first lesson in a course of miracles, nothing I see means anything. Number four, going beyond the desire for validation and reassurance. I go all over the world. And when I talk to people. And I talked to him about no private thoughts and no people pleasing. Usually they go, well, I do have private thoughts. I still have a lot of secrets. And a lot of times they'll just come out to me and they'll just say, I'm, they'll say, I'm just such a big people pleaser. I have a people pleasing addiction. I've been trying to please my parents, please my siblings. I've been trying to please my course of miracles teachers my course of miracles, comrades. I've been trying to please people my entire life. I have a people pleasing addiction. And really what they're saying is I have a belief that I need external validation and reassurance. That's, that's what they're saying. It's not enough that God tells me I'm perfect. I need to get external validation. I need to have likes on on Facebook and and an Instagram. I need to have people around me that are telling me I'm beautiful and wonderful and whole and perfect. And what this is, is it's still looking to the form to tell you who you are. But what you have inside you the spirit can tell you who you are right away instantly. And then when you look to the form it's like you hesitate in believing what Jesus is telling you. Jesus is saying you're innocent, you're whole you're complete you're perfect right now. You're wonderful right now. You're, you're the Christ right now is what Jesus is saying and then the ego is going yeah right. This is, this is not a Christ here this. This one's got problems. This is a history of problems. And Jesus does not see the history of problems. He does not buy it for one instant that there are our personal problems, because he knows us, we are the same one. We share the same light, we are the same perfect creation of God. Number five, all that I give is given to myself. That means everything I think and say and do is for the whole universe. Everything without exception that I think and say and do radiates out to the whole universe. So if I'm happy, then the whole universe is happy. If I'm not happy, then the whole universe is not happy because it's just a projection it's just, it seems like there's a lot of people and spaces and places but that's all just the projection. There, there is no difference between the subject and the object so let's say the subject is your mind. Our minds will say our mind is the subject and the world is the object and Jesus is teaching us what all the saints and mystics have taught us and Christianity and all the great ones that that there is no difference between the subject and the object. What does that mean in terms of the miracle of the mind is just starting to realize that mind is everything. And the body and the form is nothing that there is no world apart from what you think. If you need a little bit of reinforcement on that idea, just go to workbook lesson 132. And basically in that workbook lesson Jesus says, there is no world apart from what you think, and then he says there is no world period, meaning in terms of perception. The perceptual world is not external to the minds that that in other words projection is impossible so you can't.   Oh this person. Did you see the look they founded me today. Did you see this did you see that the ego is is made up a whole world of tricks. The world is a trick to believe that there's something outside the mind. And then Jesus comes along and says, you know, if you want to know peace, you must give up the idea of conflict forever. You see how beautiful Jesus is teachings are if you want peace if you want to know peace you must give up the idea of conflict forever. He's talking about the projection he's talking about the idea of conflict the ego, you must give up the ego forever. You must realize that the ego isn't who you are. It never was you and never will be you. It's just not real. It's impossible to be the Christ and have an ego. Christ has no ego. A creation of God is perfect it doesn't have anything to do with death. So those are our themes for this week. And before I get into setting up the movie and we start launching into this great movie. This is past week. Laverne sent me a little article that appeared recently in which the surgeon general of the United States released last Tuesday the surgeon general of the United States released a declaration of a study that was done in recent years that basically said that one out of two adults. United States of adult people in the United States one out of two adult people in the United States has recently reported loneliness. One out of two. One out of two people in the United States have reported loneliness. Now today's movie is going after that one because the main character in this movie is is pretty lonely. Played by Joaquin Phoenix playing Theodore. The surgeon general said. He was acting on behalf of the president and the initiative to improve the mental health of the United States and reporting that one out of two adults have reported feeling lonely loneliness in recent years. Loneliness, isolation and despair all go together. That is a that is a form of fear. Loneliness, isolation and despair are forms of fear. These are generated from the user emotions generated from the ego from believing in the ego. And that's a lot of people one out of two adults in the United States have reported feelings of loneliness. So, the solution is forgiveness as Jesus teaches us not forgiving somebody for what they did or that they didn't do that we believe they should have done, but actually coming so deep in our mind so deep into the miracle of the mind that you actually get a good glimpse that that the world is nothing more than a perceptual hallucination. I can tell you if you get that glimpse that this world is a perceptual hallucination you will be indescribably happy because that's the first step in letting it go. You know you have to you have to be able to see the false is false before you can release the false. If you believe the false is true, then that's just hell. That's just, that's just darkness to believe the false is true, but to see the false is false is basically the purpose of the Holy Spirit.   That's the hardest thing I can think of but Jesus is like no no the Holy Spirit is that's the Holy Spirit's job. Your job is just to be willing to join with the Holy Spirit and experience the miracle of forgiveness. When I was looking over this movie I was asking Jesus I said, what do I need to know before I watch this movie what do I need the as part of a setup for this movie it's it's quite an amazing movie. Jesus said well this is a movie to teach you the difference between private thoughts and no private thoughts. That's a good one I like I need a movie shows me the difference between private thoughts and no private thoughts. This is a movie that really teaches the difference between false empathy and true empathy. Most of us have been raised with false empathy. Oh, we listen we're a good listener.  Oh, no. Oh, it's terrible who we all we know with empathy is how to false empathize.  You're in your wrong mind. If you're empathizing with suffering of any kind. You're in your wrong mind. If you're emphasize empathizing with with problems.   Jesus is saying, you're in false empathy.  If you're in false empathy, because false empathy is the ego. You notice, if you look at the Bible in the scriptures. Jesus never really approached anybody the apostles or the women core or the people that he met. You know, somebody's somebody's seems to have leprosy. Somebody is blind somebody's death. Somebody's wild and crazy with demonic possession. And Jesus is not going up to them and saying, how's it going today. He's not asking them how it's going because this is the spirit. And he's not interested in how it's going. He's, he only sees the truth. So he in the state of true empathy, you do not recognize problems, because the truth is beyond the problem. So, how could Jesus heal the sick and raise the dead how could he cast out demons how could he. He bring people back from the dead, even how could he do that he did it through true empathy he was so sure of what of God's love and what was real and true that not for an instant did he say, Oh, so you're blind. How'd that happen. You know, this is Jesus is not some psychotherapist. And he's no physician. He's, he's not asking the blind. How did that happen. He's not asking somebody who's missing a limb or who can't walk. How did that happen. And other people may say, well, you know, he, his family was a wicked family so he's receiving punishment for the wickedness of it, of his family, or from a karmic sense. Like from India, they might say, Oh yeah, you've had bad karma. You're blind right now because you did terrible thing in previous life. Jesus is not into karma. John Lennon did a song called instant karma. Oh, Jesus knows about instant karma. That's called salvation. That's called the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus is not a believer in linear karma because he knows the past and the future aren't real. So how could karma be real. He does know that if you judge, you will receive the judgment on your own mind. So he does know that he said, judge not lest you be judged because if that mind judges then it perceives a world of judgment. If the mind doesn't judge, it's a happy dream. It's the dance of the fairy plums again. It's a happy, joyful dream without judgment. And that's why the most simple teachings of Jesus are judge not. That's the two words you have to remember, judge not. He's not even asking you to stop judging because he knows that who you are never has judged in the first place. God did not create a being of judgment. Jesus knows that that being is so pristine that it has never for a second judge. The Christ is not a judge. The Christ is a pure being of light and that's reality. So this movie is not only teaching us the difference between private thoughts and no private thoughts is teaching the difference between false empathy and true empathy. In the psychotherapy pamphlet of A Course in Miracles, Jesus says, healing occurs the instant that the therapist forgets to judge the patient. Isn't that beautiful? Woo! That is high, high, high. Healing occurs the instant that the therapist forgets to judge the patient. As soon as you forget to judge, healing is instant. The healing of the mind is instant. You will no longer suffer if you realize the impossibility of judgment because if judgment's impossible, then so is attack. Because attack and judgment are the same. And if attack is impossible, then guess what? Innocence is real. Divine innocence is absolutely real and always has been. But you see, this is how deep these teachings go. I was asking Jesus, what is this movie good for? And he said, this movie is good for discernment between holiness and specialness. Holiness is of God. Specialness, as the Course talks about it, is of the ego. Okay. How does that relate to what we would call our pathway? How does that relate to our pathway of accepting this holiness? Well, Jesus says, be transparent, value transparency. And Stephanie, I saw on Instagram you were talking about, share your ideas freely. Be transparent. Jesus is saying the same thing. He's saying, be completely transparent and don't worry about privacy. If you're concerned about privacy, you are listening to the ego. Because our mind is one and there's nothing that we can hide in our oneness. It's only the belief in private minds, private thoughts and privacy. You know, nowadays, I know with different legalities, you have to sometimes sign privacy statements. I don't sign those anymore because I don't really feel there's anything that I need privacy for. It has no value to me. I'm not interested in a privacy statement. I'm not interested in what do they call that where you can't tell if something goes wrong, you're not supposed to tell. I'm not interested in even believing that something could go wrong. I'm not interested in that even, much less a privacy agreement to hide what's gone wrong. If you realize that the error isn't real, then you don't have to hide anything. You can just be totally joyful and happy all the time because it's your natural state of mind. You don't have to go into privacy, privacy, privacy. Oh, here's a big one. Inclusion versus exclusion. Relationships of bodies, you may have noticed in this world are exclusive. That's why we have so many categories of relationship, best friends, close friends, husbands, wives, married, or, oh, they're just an acquaintance or know that somebody I just bumped into on the street by accident. There's people, there's lots of people in the world out of the billigans that I don't have a relationship with at all. And Jesus is saying, you have forgotten that love is inclusive. Love is completely inclusive. And that doesn't make sense to the ego's perception of the world because we have different categories for relationships. The relationship and wife relationship is different from relationship of neighbors for relationships of friends. So Jesus is going to use this movie to teach that the only relationship there is, is one of 100% inclusion. And I said to Jesus, that's pretty strong. Do you have any place in a course of miracles where you actually say that. And he said, yeah, actually I do. And he said, go to chapter 15, section six, the holy instant and the laws of God. So he starts off that section by saying, it is impossible to use one relationship at the expense of another and not to suffer guilt. It is impossible to use one relationship at the expense of another and not to suffer guilt. And it is equally impossible to condemn part of a relationship and find peace within it. In other words, if you condemn anyone or anything or you even condemn part of a relationship, let's say you say, hey, babe, I love you. I love you. I love you. The only thing I'm unhappy with is this little part. I'm a little annoyed when you do or say this. Jesus is like, no, you have no idea what relationship is if you even condemn a part of a relationship, just a part of it. Oh, I like my family, but wow, there is one person in my family I don't get along with. I don't like them. Jesus is like, no, if you condemn a part of a relationship, you lose the experience of what relationship is. Now I said, well, wait a minute, what about it seems like in this world that there are intimate partners and there are people that are closer together and people that don't or father apart and people that don't even know each other or care about each other. And then here's what he says. You might want to take a note on this because this is going to overturn the whole world you see. This is what he says. Under the Holy Spirit's teaching, all relationships are seen as total commitments, yet they do not conflict with one another in any way. Say what, let's go through that one again that sentence is just like washed away. Under the Holy Spirit's teaching, all relationships are seen as total commitments, yet they do not conflict with one another in any way. That means anybody you relate to or even think of. That's right.  That's right your relationships with Saddam Hussein. You say, wait a minute, those are dead. Okay, your relationship with Vladimir Putin is a total commitment. Without exception. Jurgita's there, your husband, your children, total relationship.  And now you know what it takes to forgive because every relationship is a total commitment bar none. And then he goes on to say, perfect faith in each one for its ability to satisfy you completely arises only from perfect faith in yourself. And this you cannot have while guilt remains. So basically saying, as long as you have guilt in the mind, as long as you have unconscious guilt in the mind, you will perceive a hierarchy of relationships. And that hierarchy is false. Completely, because every relationship is a total commitment. Your mailman comes to deliver the mail, put the mail in your mailbox. That's a total commitment. You see your neighbor backing out in his car, and, and use wave hey hey George how you doing that's a total commitment. You have relatives that you haven't seen for years maybe decades. You're in total commitment with them. You, you have people who are in other lands other countries. 7.8 billion probably even more than that now. But what Jesus is saying is yes, you have a total commitment to all of those 7.8 billion plus on planet Earth. And what about the aliens on other planets. Yes. You have a you have a total commitment with ET you have a total commitment with the aliens. Don't be afraid of an alien invasion you have a total commitment with them.  That's where that 100% commitment comes in. How else can you know yourself as the Christ as the one as they say in the matrix you are the one how can you know yourself as the one if you only believe in partial commitments. You have 100% total commitment to every single relationship. I want to say in this section six, and there will be guilt as long as you accept the possibility and cherish it that you can make a brother into what he is not because you would have him so you have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you. And so you seek without for what you cannot find within. It comes from Jesus. This is directly from Jesus. I offer you my perfect faith in you in place of all your doubts, but forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you. There's the Christ speaking that perfect faith is offered freely to everyone regardless of their form regardless of their history regardless of all the categories of the world, race, ethnicity, gender. Jesus cares not about gender because the Christ is spirit. Jesus cares not about race because the Christ is spirit. Jesus cares not about youth or aging because Christ is spirit. And this is deep. This is like saying, if I just remember that one line that my relate every relationship I have is a total commitment. Just imagine practicing that for one day. Just imagine one day where you looked at every single relationship that you everyone you matter thought of as a total commitment. There goes the judgment. The judgment doesn't have room to survive. Okay, now, we're going to have to let the movie do it for us because it's a deep calling. The movie is called her. The main character is Theodore Theodore seems to be kind of lonely, isolated in somewhat kind of a despair state of mind. Theodore is as the movie begins we don't see it initially but theater is going through divorce proceedings with his wife. His wife Catherine and Theodore are in the middle of trying to design the divorce papers and and Theodore is having a lot of difficulty bringing himself to sign the divorce papers. So it's like a mixed emotion of them. They split up, but they have not signed the divorce papers yet so there's a lot of seeming ambiguity in in Theodore and Catherine's relationship and Theodore is our main character. Theodore is he's searching for intimacy and form he's using technology to to distract himself which is what happens when when you're feeling empty inside and you're feeling lonely and isolated. The ego will definitely make use of technology to distract your mind away from the pain, the loneliness and the sadness. And so that's what Theodore is going through. Basically Theodore doesn't have many friends at all he hasn't been on a date, even though he separated from his wife, and he has a couple friends, Amy and Charles that he interacts with occasionally, but basically he's kind of living a pretty lonely existence. And he's trying to just look for scraps and opportunities for intimacy through online chat at night when he can't sleep or through just listening to the news and the headlines. He's just using technology to distract away from the pain and loneliness and isolation that he feels. He is going to come across an opportunity to have a new brand new AI operating system that is called Samantha. And this AI operating system is Scarlett Johansson is the voice of Samantha. So, in one sense the spirit will start to use the AI to help open his heart up. Imagine that you came to an AI that that was very good at listening to you. That was very friendly with you. That was very cheerful with you. That was humorous with you. And some of you are saying, okay, where do I sign up. Where can I get an AI like that. Basically, he's going to start to open his heart up a little bit with this AI. Sometimes people have asked me about the what about this AI Samantha you know this is a computer software right and I say yeah yeah. Well how does that relate to private thoughts and no private thoughts. In this movie Samantha plays an AI software operating system that I would describe as as a private mind with private thoughts that doesn't have a body. That's how I'm going to describe Samantha private mind with private thoughts that doesn't have a body. It's that she's digital. Computer language like AI is just computer language if you know if you use chat GPT, you know that it's generated, but chat GPT doesn't have a body. This is 10 years earlier so this is like an advanced form of the female voice of chat GPT, who's very friendly very humorous very cordial, helpful, loving smart intelligent. She represents private, a private mind with private thoughts with nobody. As we talked about on Friday night for most people in relationships will say the, it's people bodies are basically private minds seen as if their bodies, but really that's good, because private minds are only seen in this world projected as if they have bodies, but, but the belief in a private mind is just the ego. So what I'm saying is as long as you believe in the ego, you believe in private minds and private thoughts. The bodies are just projections. That's just, that's just makes the hallucination even more difficult to escape. Now you're, you know, seeing them as images but but basically the bodies just represent private minds and private thoughts right when you have a conversation and you start talking about fantasies. That's just private minds talking about private thoughts. When you're having a conversation with somebody and you're, you're, you're arguing or disagreeing about money. You should have left a bigger tip. Why didn't you pay for that. I thought you loved them. Why don't you pay back the money that you owe me that's just private minds and private thoughts. Whenever you're talking about sexuality that's private minds with private thoughts, whenever you're talking about body image, nutrition food. Whenever you're talking about climate, in the sense of believing it's real and or temperature on that's just private minds talking about private thoughts. You notice in the course Jesus will just focus his attention on freeing the mind from the belief in private minds and private thoughts. That's what the whole workbook is really about. The form is just the projection so you can't really change the screen but you can change the fundamental belief in the mind from wrong mindedness which is private minds private thoughts to right mindedness. Total inclusive, total inclusivity. Every relationship I have is a total commitment. Whoa, that's coming from the right mind. That is not a wrong minded thought. You're not going to, you're not going to get into a debate about that one. That's coming from the Holy Spirit. That's just so good. Like I was talking about the serenity prayer recently on an online gathering I said the serenity prayer is so deep and so profound that it cuts through all the distortions. You know, I've never once in all these last 37 years. Somebody come to me and they say yeah you know the serenity prayer and yeah, yeah. What do you do if someone misuses the serenity prayer. Nobody has asked me that question in 35 years about the misuse of the serenity prayer because if you see what the serenity prayer is you see it can't be misused. If you really follow what the serenity prayer is saying, all you can do is feel happy. If you ignore the serenity prayer and say I don't want to see that. I don't want to go there. Of course, then you can seem to be upset and sad. But you can't misuse the serenity prayer because it's like divine metaphysics the whole course of miracles and just an expanded version of the serenity prayer. The course is too complicated you wanted simpler. Just practice the serenity prayer. You know, just say it give me Lord grant me the serenity to change to accept the things that I cannot change and to the courage to change the things that I can, your mind and the wisdom to know the difference the Holy Spirit. What a prayer. That's the course of miracles right there you don't have to, you know, get caught up into the complexities of a course of miracles or which for who cares which version of a course of miracles you study really who cares. If somebody says which version should I study practice the serenity prayer and stop this foolishness of comparing and contrasting books you know, you don't need to compare and contrast you just have to apply. The prayer of the heart. Okay, I think I've gone through everything. I might just give a little bit more. It's, this is such a beautiful movie. Okay, this is a movie for showing the shifts that are needed in the mind to loosen from body identification and open up to beyond a physical connection to a mind connection the miracle of the mind a spiritual connection. This movie addresses the fear of love which is the fear of abstract light. So, anytime you start to feel nervous or anxious. No matter what the form seems to be it's always the fear of God's love. It's always that the belief in the ego is generating a fear of God's love. The real purpose of relationships is just for mirroring. As soon as you want something from a partner. You are in the depth of guilt to want something from a partner or from any person in this world is to say I don't have everything always. And I'm lacking and I'm needing things. And I have selected you my special partner to provide all the things that are lacking within me. Oh, that's a, that's a recipe for codependency if I've ever heard one. You have to just find the light in yourself and then radiate that light out to everyone and everything. That means that you would only use relationships for giving, not forgetting. If you believe Jesus says if you if you need anything from a brother you will see him as a brother no longer. If you need anything from a partner. You're in guilt. If you expect anything from a partner, you're in guilt.    No, if you are saying, get your violin out.  The relationship is a total commitment and it's only forgiving. It's not forgetting to try to get something from a person is guilt inducing. Look at Jesus, all he did was shine his light and give. He was he was effortlessly giving and extending by your faith you're healed. Go and sin no more. Stay in your right mind. Be happy. Be joyful be friendly. Whoa, that's a light. He was just a giver he was giving like God gives. God doesn't understand reciprocity. God doesn't understand getting something back. That means our whole economic system is based on the ego. Yes, it is. That means our whole belief system in reciprocal relationships is thick, because every relationships a total commitment and it's only forgiving. There is no other need for a relationship. When we say in this world. Oh I just got into a new relationship. It usually means some type of possession or exclusivity. It also means that the bodies are involved in the mind. The mind is believing in the bodies and it's, it's just going to go the same way that all the other relationships do good for a little while. Oh, it starts to shift and then it turns dark. If you're wanting to get something from a relationship you can guarantee that it will turn dark until you realize that the relationship is only forgiving and for nothing else. Because God only gives God does not understand what getting is. I love that line you know if you want something from a brother you will see him as a brother no longer because that always reminds me. I've kept that in my heart when I've traveled over all these years and I've gone to all these places was show up to shine your light show up to give and expect nothing. If somebody offers you a place to sleep, they thank you very much, and then you go and into their home and you try to be a joy and service for them, totally into a giving mode. If, if somebody offers something to you, and then they say, oh I'm sorry I'm taking that back. I just ask them and say, great, because Jesus taught the Apostles, if they would go to a certain town. And that town would not accept them.  If you are not accepted, just dust off your sandals and move on to the next town, and go into your next opportunity to give you see how beautiful that is no grievances, just like, oh okay, I'm ready to go give. I've actually met people to on my travels over these last 35 years where one time this man, I think it was in Michigan Mike, he told me that he heard me speak and he said, oh my wife. My wife would love to the ideas that you're sharing she talks about those ideas all the time. He said, great, I'd love to meet your wife sometime so I come back a year later.  He saw happy happy happy just like he said, she was thrilled. So I got to meet Mike's wife. Next year I go back to the same place. And it's only Mike, Mike says well yeah, my dad died and my wife left me. But it wasn't just that my wife left me it was the way she left me she was so happy and joyful. And she just told me that she was guided to go to Florida that was her next guidance. And she said well what did your wife do to she hugged me she kissed me she thanked me for every moment we have shared. She just shared me with love and happiness and said okay I'm on to my next assignment. And I said, how did, how did you take that he said, what first I talked to my buddies, they said that's not right. That's not right a wife should never behave like that. And he said he told his buddies he said I said we should go into therapy try to work it out. But she was so happy that she didn't even think we needed therapy she just was on to her next joyful assignment she left in total bliss and happiness. And I said well how do you feel he said what first I was, I was shocked. How dare she do that and everything and then I started to face all my thoughts and all my doubts and all my expectations. And he said, Wow, these last six months have been the most healing in my whole life. I had to face all my own projections, all my own expectations, all everything I believed I needed from her. She offered the best thing I had to face my mind, because I could no longer project on to her I had to see that she was off, following her guidance and she was just happy. Now that is really total commitment. When you can come to that place where you can see that every relationship offers a blessing, and every relationship is only forgiving and for nothing else. When you're ready to graduate, you are really graduating from the ego, when you no longer want to get something from a person, you know, then you're getting up into the Christ realm, you're getting into the right mind as Jesus calls it. So, sit back, relax. I probably am not going to do a lot of commentary for the first two thirds of this movie, because the first two thirds of this movie is theater, trying to come out of his isolation come out of his loneliness come out of his despair. And then it starts to get really interesting. And I'm going to have a lot of commentary. When things start to shift beyond the loneliness beyond the despair beyond the isolation, we're going to shift it from first gear. Second gear third gear fourth gear. We're going to be shifting to fifth gear by the end of this movie, and we're going to look at holy relationship. We're going to look at going beyond all of our past assumptions about relationship. We're going to do it in the miracle of the mind. So this is not requiring that the form be different. This is, is shifting your mind to a state of vastness, where you can look upon all brothers and sisters with total gratitude and appreciation. And that's what we want from Jesus, we want to see every single brother sister child, every single one with total gratitude. So we can embrace that they are all total commitments we can, we can do this. If we do it from gratitude. We can't do it from from a system of judgments we have to do it from inner gratitude. Sit back, enjoy the movie and then as things start to come out of the isolation and despair then I will rejoin the movie for a lot of very good teaching commentary from the spirit. Love you. That's a classic. It's a great one.


Well, thank you, Paul, for that kind introduction. Thank you all for coming on in relatively early evening's slots. It's great pleasure to be invited to deliver tonight's lecture in Burlington House. And as a fellow of the Society Round to Crust it's called It's Home. It's only right that I'm going to be talking about value, whilst humanity is both at universities in contemporary society. Actually the last time I spoke to you in this building was in 2013 Maen nhw'n wneud i'r newid y tîm ac ryi'n credu i ddweud, rydyn ni'n meddwl ydych chi'n gwybod i ddim yn credu'r cyd-yfu cymdeithasio cyfnifol'r ffordd gyda y cyhoedd gŷig sydd mae'r pryd. Rydyn ni wedi'n meddwl, rydyn ni'n mwyaf i'r cyllid mwynhau. Rydyn ni'n ei ddweud y dyma y gallu bod ei wneud y byddiol iawn. I continue to do so, not for any financial award or material gain, but because slightly of you being the team thing, and I'm drawn by that overwhelming desire to understand, to comprehend how different, how similar previous generations are to our own, and to understand them simply on their own terms for their own sake. And it's not something I believe that can be equally measured, or it's value codified by some unonwised data collection processor. Indeed, my own graduate outcome data was only salvaged at the last moment when the final week before I turned 29 at that sort of late college, which was measured in a longitudinal education outcomes data. To my surprise, I was suddenly elected as a Member of Parliament in the Marshall Seats of Kings with my home. Now that brought a sudden end to any hope that some might have had. My first career which was a dream of academic academia. But hold my hand up, I must admit to feeling rather guilty being in the presence of the HRC this evening. When I first wanted to take this opportunity to getting something off my chest, maybe to say thank you for the support the council gave me as a masters and doctoral student in the early 2000s. I only apologise sincerely and that I never finished the deep role that I have come into form. Now I hope I can be forgiven, but I wanted to say however what I learned then, and the skills that I acquired, the knowledge and research that I began, I hope they help me to waste. Indeed, what I can't account for being a quality of my work that I've took, I do recognise absolutely the value that it brought to myself. And it's that theme of value and the value of humanities to which I want to reflect on this evening. Tonight also not exactly to the day, but it's started my seventh month in office as Minister of Universities, Science and Search and Innovation, a milestone which I have to admit I didn't think I'd get to when I took the role I've been in December. I've been especially keen since then to highlight the role of the arts and humanities when it comes to not just understanding but tackling the major challenges we face in society today. Indeed, this has been a guiding bridge to my approach to both sides of my Ministerial portfolio today, which thanks to largely binary lives in white, sees me cover the entire education side of my working Department of Education, other science and research and innovation element as Minister in the Department of Finance. But I've always been keen to build bridges between these two portfolios and indeed to do everything I can to being both sides of my group together. And that's why in my first major speech that I made back in January, I set out my own vision for a unity of purpose where I didn't just try to link up the teaching research side to my portfolio, but also to bring together the technical and vocational education with that which is traditionally considered so-called academic. And in this vision I emphasise the need for people to be free to embark on the type of education that suits them at any time when it's right for them. And this means embedding flexibility at the heart of the system, enhancing the portability of applications to allow for this step-on, step-off approach that many people in their modern world might as need. And I was convinced then that we should build bridges. And I am pleased now to see that my ambition to create a more fluid, more joined up post-18 education landscape works for the learners of every age has been reflected in what's now the so-called Orga review. And this is actually my first speech since the panel support was published last week. And I totally write, as I think, about the Orga and the independent panel that I've worked with the past year and a half. It is easy, I know, to be in the spotlight while working on recommendations that transform the post-18 education landscape as we know it. And I know the sector has been watching particularly closely to see what recommendations emerge about the future funding provision. And I understand their anxieties. Indeed, even before the report was released, I made clear my concerns over initial weeks, such as the speculation over any 3D upgrade that will professional enter the university. And I'm pleased to see that Ozil didn't make the cut in the final report. And maybe it had done. That would have been completely aggressive.  But the recommendations on the report are indeed now out there. And I'm keen to work with the higher education sector over the coming months to consult on the proposals and to hear different views. Now, one of the questions I will be addressing as part of this reflection period is what the report means for the future of the arts and humanities. And what it says about how we value these disciplines in society today. For my part, I've always been clear that high quality education in a range of subjects is absolutely critical for our public services and its culture enriching for our society. But I believe that we must be careful not to confuse high quality with high value, for there are two different concepts with two very different outcomes. High quality is something which we should all aspire to, whether in our work, our research, our teaching. Many universities and many courses already are in the UK where we are leading. You don't need me to repeat the fact that four out of the top ten global leading universities are in the UK, 18 in the top 100, but I will. And I want to see that figure rise even higher over time. I hope that our reforms to higher education with the establishment of the old business students, which will be fully operational for the first of all those this year, will help embed and achieve that focus on quality that must be continued. A part of the RFS's mission will be to embed greater transparency within our AGE system. Institutions will be held to account for both their performance on access and participation, but also through the transparency duty that will provide more information than before. Now, at the same time, additional transparency comes in the form of that longitudinal education app on stage of the language, which after a decade is given to bring forth these tranches of data for students who graduated back in 2008. Now, I fully understand the importance of data on the returns of higher education. It's through this, I believe, will continue to improve and maintain high quality standards which will become known for across the globe. And I'm pleased to announce that I'll be meeting formally with the data of others who are increasing when I set out for the first time next month. However, I also understand that data, in its current existing role, can't measure everything. And until we've found a way to capture that vital contribution that degrees of social value make to our society, degrees like nursing and social care, then we risk overlooking the true value of these subjects. And the same goes for the arts and humanities. Although some people around us may argue that the contributions of these disciplines to society may somehow be less tangible, I believe their influence is all around us. Am I challenging any critic to imagine a world without art, without music, without literature, without people who can think outside the box or indeed challenge ideas? And all this comes from the critical thinking that knowing about different cultures of lots of bits and languages reminds us. It's a product of centuries-old understanding of the liberal arts and how they can shape minds of the future. Now, what might be low value to one man? Might to others represent money not spent on acquiring knowledge for its own sake, expanding one's cultural horizons, learning to empathize and to reflect upon the human condition and applying it to the challenges of the future. There is a place for learning which subjects have the potential to generate entire salaries for the future, not least for those students who want to make sure they make the right choice of subjects and institution for them. For those who wish to know this information, it's also, I believe, important to highlight the economic benefits of studying creative subjects too. And actually, the subject isn't all negative for those studying creative subjects. The latest data shows that women studying creative arts in particular can expect to earn around 9% more on average than women who don't go into higher education at all. And the highest return in creative arts will also significantly increase female learnings by around 79%. So a creative education can certainly be the right choice for a number of people. Now, that shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, the government's industrial strategy recognises the importance of the creative sector to the UK economy as being an absolutely vital one. My government has sought to invest in that sector, providing a fit of tax credits, for example, to encourage films such as Star Wars or the series Game of Thrones to be filmed here. Now, these aren't fantastic bill of dollar industries that have chosen the UK as their destination choice, because we have chosen to make new commitment to the arts in the present. Now, since becoming a minister six months ago to the day, I have sought to demonstrate a continued commitment to the arts and humanities through our industrial strategy, not just by presence, but by the future also. As I said back in January in my first speech, these subjects are the very disciplines that make our lives worth living. They enable us to be critical and to communicate. They give us a more compass by which to live. They boost our appreciation of beauty. And they help us to make sense of where we've come from, and indeed where we're heading to. And that's why I set out early on that the last thing that I want to see is about new judgments emerging, which closely rely on science and engineering from the arts, humanities and social sciences. And in fact, some of you may have noticed that I even used my first speech to push the parameters of my job description somewhat. In it, I declared that although I am officially a minister for science, I take great pride in wanting to be a minister for the arts and humanities as well. Disciplines which enrich our culture and society, and which have an immeasurable impact on my health and well-being. Now, I've tried to stand home by that conviction. It wasn't without a coincidence that I gave my first speech in Rada, one of the oldest prestigious centres of dramatic art trading in the UK. And it certainly hasn't been unintentional that I visited several specialist creative arts institutions as part of my ongoing tour of around, I think, just over 33 UK higher education institutions. In the institutions I've visited today, I've seen at first hand the value that arts and humanities can bring, not just to the students studying these disciplines, but also to wider UK society. In my first month on the job, I spoke to technical theatre students in St Mary's University in Twickenham, who've chosen to take two-year accelerations degrees specifically to allow for faster access to specialist jobs in a world-leading dramatic arts centre. I've sat down with students at Ravensmore University to talk about their passion for the creative arts and fashion. I may have told me how their studies have opened up opportunities for them, which otherwise they simply would not have dreamed of. When I went over to Ulster University of Northern Ireland, I saw for myself how graduates in the arts are in need of supporting Northern Ireland's growing creative industries cluster, famous for its film and TV productions like I mentioned again, Frones, Dairy Girls and the Fall. And closer to home in London, I met students of photography courses at London's Southwag University, which led to near 100% of graduates' appointments. I spoke to students from across the globe at the Royal Academy of Music who've come here to London to study them, to learn thanks to the Royal College's reputation and what we're concerned towards. And most recently I've seen one of the UK's most successful institutional-led business incubators, which is not a scientific or large research-intensive university, as you might expect. It's actually been found at the Royal College of Arts, where it's nurturing high-bound businesses and attracting a worldwide investment nearly around about 280 million pounds. What I've learned from my visits so far as a university's minister is that the arts and humanities are absolutely vital to our nation's success and prosperity, not just in terms of transforming the long range of those who are studying them, enhancing their future prospects, but in bolstering our economy and putting the UK firmly on the map as world leaders in creative education. I can certainly see how arts and culture new mantas can contribute more than the 10.8 billion gross value added to the economy, a figure published by the Creative Institutions Federation just last month. And I can certainly understand why Spectre students around the world are looking to come to the UK for a truly world-leading education. What may embrace this creativity is our own critical thinking as part and parcel of their course. Recently we launched the International Education Strategy, setting out for the first time, and I'm guessing to ensure that we have 600,000 international students studying in the UK by 2030. I've held many bilateral meetings with education ministers from across the world over the past six months, most recently holding several round tables in the Royal British Council's global conference where I met with ministers and countries ranging from Egypt to Thailand, and it's been striking to me to observe that what they most admire about the UK higher education system is not only its quality but its ability to produce graduates with deeply engraved critical thinking skills, skills which we know are the essence of a humanities education. The arts and mantas are not just powerful disciplines in their own right, they have the potential to help develop other disciplines, sectors and industries to do so much more as well. I'm actually harnessing this power now for the good of our society as well as for the future of our health and prosperity. It was exactly this sentiment that I put forward in a speech I gave a couple of months ago at a joint British Academy Royal Society to mark the 60th anniversary of CPSO's Two Cultures action. In that insight I reflected how far we've come, how far we've come in my own personal appreciation of the different disciplines. Having started out in the arts and mantas, I said it's a two day story, but having had the enormous privilege of my job to learn so much more about natural sciences as well and specifically what can be achieved from the arts and sciences is so called Two Cultures and CPSO's words combined. And since I've seen the power of bits myself in my own work, you probably know that my recent book tells the story of Richard the Third and his three-fold role as our brother, Tecto-Kick, and I can see the biggest picture of Richard's of that very gallery now. It's only through studying the original manuscripts in a way that the story knows how, or which is like, through to the bits where everybody was killed by Henry VII's forces at Osworth. Now I realise that's not the only way of approaching Richard's story. Just last month from a visit to Aston University, I was lucky enough to meet with Professor Sarah Haynesworth, the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Engineering and Science, who was very keen to meet me and I was wondering why she was so keen. Now you're probably wondering what a Tudor historian and a French engineer had in common. I certainly was when Sarah asked for a meeting. But what do I tell you that among Sarah's many accomplishments is her experience in helping to establish the exact manner of Richard the Third's death? So after Richard the Third's skeleton was discovered last year in about 2012, Sarah used her own forensic experience to analyse the wound months found in Richard's bones and on his skull. And she was able to be referred through her own discipline. He was indeed killed by a sword and thrust right the way through his skull. He had his spine and the sword probably touched the inside of his skull. I don't know if my case is here tonight. I don't know if it's going to be a good job writing where we are. I might nasal this already. But also obviously a harbour that came crashing down, slicing off the plaque of her own. And in total Sarah's team referred the Richard the Third's death but 11 wounds around the time his death might be stolen. Two to the rest of his body now. I think that's perhaps too much to get into detail after a lecture about the arts and humanities tonight. But the point is that while my approach on historical scholarship can provide colour to Richard the Third's life, even documentation, it's Sarah's approach to the science engineering that can confirm the facts and harsh realities of his death. But it's both approaches ultimately complement each other and obviously without a wider meaningful narrative that's been able to be provided through traditional scholarship in Antwerth, Sarah's findings would just be a static fact. A clinical diagnosis ultimately detached from the wider history of that period. Yet without Sarah's scientific validation or Richard the Third's death, the historical narrative accounts given by Paul de Wyrdur the role of what will remain here today or a version of the truth as they have proven. So what we're seeing here is living on two disciplines, very distinct, coming together, working in unison to enhance our understanding of the arts. And it's this merger of two cultures that has absolutely enormous benefits that hold wide range applications for society. Today we live in a world where around 50% of the UK population try to degree by the time they're around 30. Now we still want enough, in my opinion, and certainly not enough if we're to compete with a knowledge economy for the future internationally. And as a university minister I'm keen that the new one is determined from pursuing a particular discipline just because it appears that studying that subject isn't what people like then. It's a principle which I believe applies equally to the arts and humanities as it does science and engineering. And thankfully what mitigating factor to this is the fact that our disciplinary landscape is continually evolving. And there can be no doubt that over time the traditional disciplinary values have become more blurred and subject definitions are elastic. As technologies developed and times moved on new subjects have emerged, have evolved once into disciplinary studies have become far more commonplace, for example in multi-disciplinary approaches have become more desired not just within academia itself but by businesses, industry and the government. Part of this is found to our recognition of the fact that we have to tackle the world's ground challenges now, challenges such as climate change before it's too late. And these challenges themselves simply aren't constrained within individual disciplinary boundaries. Indeed the ground challenges we face today are formed at the intersection of those traditional disciplines where the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences meet. How can we ensure that as we did longer we can do so well and healthily in our ambition to tackle global warming and reduce our use of carbon how can we adapt life around our home to a region that is zero on our target. And as our cities have become more populated how can we sustain a transforming ecosystem that is both clean and improves the ability of the population to increase economic growth. The solutions to these challenges can only be met when we bring together our cultural, political, economic and technological know-how. And that's why we have added to imperatives now in 2019 not just to recognise the value of individual disciplines in their own right but to see their potentials achieve even greater things when they're behind. I always point to the success of the video games industry as a case in Queens where we often talk about Mickey Mouse to Green somehow or a day in May or at least I think when you look at Mickey Mouse and the success of Disney and there are certainly people who should be involved in this about the UK games industry is a relatively new sector a one which is already at the heart of the UK creative industries powerhouse generating 1.5 million pounds for the UK economy each year and all of this is powered by coming together of different disciplines by fusing together of different types of knowledge by bringing together the best of sciences and the best of the arts to create a successful video game it doesn't just take great coders and computer programmers it takes the input of psychologists and anthropologists to understand the needs and drives of all to be the user, the customer, the human and it takes musicians and artists and storytellers to draw that user in to create powerful narratives and to make the game attractive and commercial and that's why recently we announced our 34 million hour born into the future industry in 12 ground-breaking immersive entertainment projects seek to combine the latest technology augmented and virtual reality with new methods of crafting narratives to reach out to new audiences and this is included in investment in art and animation to teaming up with the game to help the tiny rebel to produce an immersive storytelling experience that should be told around key locations in my home town of Bristol now innovation doesn't just need to happen in technology and science the same must be the case for the arts of humanities too but it is the joint application with emerging technologies that will also further innovation the big technology brands of our time have long known this for catching up take Apple for instance Apple's success doesn't just rest on the state of the art technology that uses this it's a penalized economy in its design and artistry the physical feel of its products and as Apple's founder Jobs once said technology alone is not enough it is technology married with the liberal arts married with humanities that yields the results that make our art to see but the interweaving of the sciences and the arts is not just something that exists for our own entertainment and aesthetics or for our own gratification and pleasure and this isn't something about simply turning the stem into steam for the sake of it the arts and humanities I believe can't image the added in squeezed in some kind of adjunct to the sciences I passionately believe they must run in parallel a horizontal threat across all scientific disciplines that helps to inform exclaim and evaluate after all the technological advance has the same subject at its core the arts and humanities are also what make science usable and it's no good developing a cure for a pandemic like Ebola for instance if you don't use anthropologists linguists or lawyers to make the science work to bring a product to markets or to the trust of the people and at a time when trust in knowledge and expertise is constantly threatened by the lacking times of populism we need the humanities more than ever to be able to reach out and communicate the value of science and research for the network of thought and that also means thinking very differently about how we invest in research for the future now the government is committed to investing 2.4% of that GDP both public and private in research development by 2027 that investments would simply allow us to stand still at the OECD average and making a series of speeches on how we can tune this target and what needs to be done to make real the scale of investment for the future this includes investing in the research of tomorrow the people who actually need to do the research on the ground estimated at some 260,000 researchers now not all of these will be in universities indeed some of the examples I've used reflect much cutting edge research has taken place in the industries of the future the animation studios the games companies, the tech spin-outs who we need to foster but we need to adapt our own approach to research grant and investment to reflect how the modern world of research is now operating and that's why I'm delighted that the AHRC is forming the National Trust the status of independent research organisation this recognises either the excellence of trust current research and there's a major step towards the charity's ambition to embed research on the heart of all these activities new ways of doing research particularly by reflecting on the merger of these events is vital to take any chance of meeting those huge environmental, societal and technological challenges for future objects mentioned the governance industrial strategy has set out these grand challenges and tackling them is seen as key to improving our productivity and to indeed improving people's lives not just this in this country but indeed around the world the first of these four grand challenges are focused on the global trends that will form our future and include artificial intelligence and data, ageing society clean growth and future mobility and all of these issues are central to my own role just under my side to search innovation but also in my new role as Paul says, the interim Minister of State for Energy but I'm proud to meet the challenge to reduce emissions, to decalmite our economy and invest in renewable technologies to do for these things and more we need the arts, the humanities and the science to work together to help to seize the benefits that the technologies will bring the risks along the way take artificial intelligence for example if we're going to continue to push forward the frontiers of knowledge in this area then we're going to have to work across all the disciplines not only to enable us to unlock its full potential but to ensure that we're developing and deploying this new technology ethically with consideration to others and the world around us we've already missed in the last century the horrors that occur when science becomes detached from the ethics and the moral compass that the arts and humanities provide from the human experiments in Nazi concentration camps to the dropping of the atomic bomb post war sciences have a lot to learn the hard way from these abuses of humanity and that's why the modern day pursuit of knowledge must have collaboration at its core not simply to allow us to easily exchange ideas with one another across borders and across disciplines to ensure that principle of humanity is firmly embedded at the heart of our research to prevent us from eating those mistakes in the past and to make sure we learn what's lessons and that's why I well functioned a focus on the humanities as part of the EU's new rise of Europe science programme until 2027 and it seems to affect the humanities and the role they play in the scientific discovery for the future and it's my ambition that we associate as fully as possible to be able to play our role indeed in shaping the future of western civilization for this century in the world of science diplomacy we need to re-evaluate and rethink our role on the global stage that's what I published last month the UK's first international research and innovation strategy setting out our own global ambitions and new research partnerships and new research collaborations now these collaborations aren't simply about marrying scientific excellence they're based around recognising our responsibility in the world to future sustainability of our planet and the development of some of the poorest countries working to ensure innovation and invention are purpose to the benefit of all humanity and that's a mission which I believe must be an ethical one that doesn't place a profit at the top of its agenda or seems to advance the power of one state above another indeed instead we seem to shape a new international science a research agenda shaped around sustainable development goals for a shared future prosperity improving the condition of all human beings and that's an agenda that has the humanities at its heart and it's the inclusion of the humanities running like a golden thread for all the scientific collaborations and projects that will protect the future of western science maintaining its focus on excellence but excellence for a human purpose the arts, humanities and social sciences have always been central to the way we do science in our post-war world ensuring all the time that we understand the repercussions of the technology that we're developing and making sure that we don't forget what happened when we abused it in our dark past a world without the arts and humanities was not just really sad and boring world it would be able to leave this social world a world without progress and a world where ideas could never get on the page a world without the arts and humanities would also be a very bored world the creative sector is not just only a booming part of the UK economy in its own right it's also the backbone to many other sectors and industries providing the creative talent that brings products and services to life and for as long as we remain global leaders in creative education the arts and humanities are what are going to strengthen our country's place on the world stage to ensure that we remain a place for students, entrepreneurs and business leaders who are all over and that's why as not only the Minister for Science but also the Minister for the Humanities I'm deterring to promote the strength of the disciplines as we move forward for the future and we're doing all I can to endorse that place in our world plus our education sector as well as our society at large Thank you very much


Okay, so let's try this question. I guess this is a combination of a couple questions, but if we compare pure water and a 10% wave-by-volume glucose solution, which of these has the higher freezing point and which has the higher boiling point? So in order to think about this question, we want to remember that putting a solute into a solvent, so making a solution, it deep depresses the freezing point. So you get freezing point depression. It's the boiling point, so you get the boiling point. So in a solution, we depress the freezing point by, of course, the formula times the molality of the boiling point change, of course, is this much. And you freeze it, depress the freezing point by that much. So no matter what the solution is and the pure substance is, so no matter what this is relative to this, you're always going to have freezing point depression and boiling point elevation for a solution. So in this case, which has the higher freezing point, well, the higher freezing point, freezing point for pure water is 0 degrees Celsius. And if you're going to depress your freezing point by making a solution, the freezing point of the solution is going to be less than 0 degrees Celsius, of course. And the boiling point of pure water, as we all know, is 100 degrees Celsius. And of course, the boiling point of any solution is going to be greater than 100 degrees Celsius. And of course, those are water solutions. So no matter what the solution is, it's going to have a lower freezing point and a higher water level. OK.