I'm Peter. And we've got a brand new movie I'm really looking forward to today. So yeah, first I'll just let you know if you're new how the day is going to flow. So we're going to start with a movie with David. And then after the movie, we'll have a 10 minute break. Then we're going to have breakout rooms where you can share anything that came up for you during the movie or any miracles you had. Then we'll have a 45 minute break and then a closing session with me. So I'll pass right over to David now. Thank you Pete. Hi everyone. Welcome. Welcome to the Saturday movie. I'm very excited. I'm very, very excited about our new movie today. It came out in October of last year. So it's just several months old. And it's it's actually another spectacular movie. Some of you have been on these movie gatherings with me for over the last two years, even a little beyond two years. And so I cover all kinds of themes. I cover forgiveness. I cover quantum physics and how that relates to spiritual awakening. I cover cause and effect, not the cause and effect that we learned in our science class for every action. There's a reaction, you know, not astrophysics, but actually, from Jesus Christ, cause and effect, which is kind of important. When Jesus speaks about cause and effect, we have to listen because it's so different than everything we believe in. So I remember I was kind of reminiscing a few days ago that before I got into A Course in Miracles, before I really got consciously on my spiritual journey one time, I was reading a quote from a poet named Edward Markham. Some of you may have heard of Edward Markham, but anyway, I hadn't. I just saw this quote one day, and it hit me so strong. I remember I was just going along, da-da-da-da, living my human life. And then suddenly I came upon this quote from Edward Markham, and I thought, wow, there's something to this. That is deep. I thought that is really deep. And basically, it was basically saying, Edward said, there is a destiny which makes us brothers. None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own. So I think when I was reading this quote from Edward Markham, I was thinking, wow, that's right. It's all connected. Everything I'm giving, I'm really giving to myself. Everything I'm receiving, I'm really receiving for everyone because we're all so connected. We're really the same one. We're the same mind. In fact, we were created as one. And Jesus tells us that we are an idea in the mind of God. Christ is an idea in the mind of God. And that as that Christ that we are, we also have creations and we extend the same creative ability that God extended to us. But it's all pure spirit. So we have creations in heaven. We're not aware of them when we perceive time. But they're there. They're waiting on us.  Well, these creations, we forgot we were, we forgot we created them. We forgot we were feeding them with our love and light and we forgot about them. But they didn't forget about us. They remember us in our pure state. So over these last two plus years, I've talked about so many topics. And this is a time for those of you who've hung with me for all this time to kind of consolidate your learning. Now's the time where we're going to kick it into fifth gear. Now's the time when we're going to consolidate our learning and move into joy, move into bliss, move into ecstasy. Our time for dilly-dallying with these little metaphors and concepts is about over. It's the time for us to really get some major joy going here. And, and how else do we do that is I'm going to use my hands to conduct the symphony today.  I'm going to bring in the idea that, that in heaven there is no choice because in pure love, there's nothing to choose between. Choice is an invention of the ego that requires the belief and duality to even seem to exist. So don't be too concerned about your personal choices because actually, if you really start to follow me, you realize you don't have any. This is the part where people start to go, oh no, he's, he's going into another realm. He's talking about going beyond choices.  And I said, no, you don't have any human rights. You have a right to remember yourself as God created you. If you have one right, that's your right. What about the constitution? That's your constitution. You have the right to be as God created you. That's your freedom. That's what free will is, is remembering who you are. It's not choice. Free will actually has nothing to do with choice at all. And that's where philosophy kind of struggles. Some of you have anybody read any philosophy? All the centuries of great philosophy. It's good stuff, but the problem is they run into great difficulty when they try to equate choice with free will. No, God created you in free will. That's your identity is free will. Your will is God's will for perfect happiness. Heaven is free will. And Jesus tells us in the manual for teachers, in the, you know, the clarification of terms, Jesus says, no, there is no free will in this world. Well, that's good to know. No wonder philosophies had so much trouble with that one because, because philosophy is just theorizing about what could possibly be. Jesus is not theorizing in case you know Jesus is the master philosopher. He's the master teacher. He's, he's the master of the universe. He's, he's not, you can't compare him to anything because he's, he's everything. He's, he's one with God and God is everything. So it's hard to kind of put Jesus in a box when Jesus is everything, everything behind the veil of this crazy world of perception is Jesus is delight is the I am presence is us. We're all with him too. That's why he's always so happy because he knows where we really are. He knows who he really is. He knows who we are. And that way he's very, very happy. He doesn't take anything so seriously as, as the world. So to start off with, I thought I would just read a gem from I'll just mention, I'll just mention real quickly in lesson 253 of the course workbook. Jesus says something, and you may have heard it before in a slightly different variation. Ramana Maharshi says the same thing. Okay, they both say the same thing. And, and this is Jesus's version of, of what they both say. And the workbook lesson is called my capital self is ruler of the universe. So just take a moment before we go into this spectacular movie to just take this and, and breathe this in, breathe this, this statement into your heart digest this statement today, because it will help you just to have this as a prayer on your heart for the movie I'm going to show because from the ego's perspective, everything is complex and difficult from the spirit, everything is, ah, ah, it's just bliss. So that's why I want you to breathe this one in as a prayer. Just, just have the aroma, let the aroma come into your senses and really take it in. This lesson 253. It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself.  Here we go. This is the important one. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations. I just talked about them. I just talked about them. Children of my will in heaven where my holy self abides with them and him who has created me. So what happens is what I desire and what does not occur is what I do not want to happen. Well, I guess I guess that if that's true, there actually cannot be any victimization. There can be no abuse. There can be no mistreatment. If everything happens that I desire and, and if I, if I don't want it to happen, it doesn't happen. I don't even perceive it unless I want to perceive it. So let's, let's use that in a broader perspective. If I perceive evil, it must be I want to perceive you. If I perceive error, it must be I want to perceive error. If I perceive separation, it must be that I still want to perceive separation. Let's take God off the hook here. You know, God's not, God loves us so much. I mean, beyond anything we could ever imagine. It's unfathomable love. It's just unfathomable love. But let's realize that, that whatever we perceive is there by our own election, it's by our choice. And even deeper than that, it's because we, we want it there. If we want to see a world, we see a world. And if we want to go beyond this world, we go beyond this world because it's natural. God is the most natural thing to experience. God is, you can reach God directly and, and it's the most next natural thing in the world to reach God. You may say it's not easy, but I think, you know, at some point, even the word easy will come in. Oh, I see Antonio just came in. Hi, Antonio. Antonio just wrote to me this morning, said there's a problem with the Jesus movie that we're making, the new resurrected Jesus movie. Not in my mind. We're gonna, we'll, we'll make the best Jesus movie in history. If, just as an extension of love and light and truth, that's the way I see it. But the producer thought it might be a fiasco with all the course quotes, but still we'll have some fun. So we are really starting to realize that, that if we're going to open up to God, we have to be pretty clueless about this world. Why do we have to be clueless? Because everything that we believe about the world is part of the veil that blocks us from the light. And I mean everything. I'm not talking a partial shift is necessary. I'm saying everything we believe. I think it was last week or the week before when I was talking about deja vu and I, when I did the relationship movie, the quote came in and the quote from the course from Jesus is, everything you want from a relationship can and will hurt you. That's the big one. Everything you want from a relationship can and will hurt you. That's pretty definitive. That just inspires me to let go of everything I know of relationships. It's like if it's a hot burner, why touch it? I don't want to touch it if it's that hot. And then Jesus tells us that's because this is a world of fiction. It's a world of fantasy. Everything you believe about physics is not true. Everything you believe about astrophysics is not true. Everything you believe about science is not true. Everything you believe about relationships, it's not true. And you could just go on and on. And that's why it's a world of fiction. It's a world on an unreality. There's even a part where Jesus is kind of asking us, if you really want to be happy, then you have to first take a look at when you say, how can I be happy in this world? And Jesus comes back to us with a question and he says, who is the you who are in this world? That's how Jesus answers the question. How can I be happy in this world? He's like, who are the you who's in this world? He's talking where the I am presence that's prior to this world. So that's why we have to look at what we believe and we have to actually let it go. So as every week, we basically put out a poll of themes. And so before I prayed and received this movie to show you today, I'm just going to read to you the top three themes that you voted on this week. That's why we have this movie to go deeper. The first theme is called Desiring God Above All Else.  Thank you. You all voted that number one. I can't think of a better one. That's my choice too. Number two, being truly convinced that I can't mess it up. Wouldn't that be delightful if you were convinced that you can't mess it up? Imagine how light and carefree you would be. How happy singing like the birds, singing like a lark. Why are you singing all the time? Why is a beautiful song in your heart all the time?  All the guilt comes from the belief that you can mess it up. All future worries come from the belief that you can mess it up. All past regrets come from one belief. The belief that you can mess it up. Or maybe you believe you did mess it up. And you're still trying to correct it. Because there's a lot of religions that will tell you, yeah, you did, you messed it up bad. You really messed it up. I know in Christianity, I see Portia there, some of us have been raised in Christianity, but we were growing up. And one of the things we were taught was everyone is a sinner. And that we better learn the sinner's prayer. That's basically our starting point. I see Helena too. We had some Christianity in our starting point in our trampoline. And Jesus is saying, well, in the Course he actually says, well, there's actually one thing that you cannot do and that is sin. It's a little different than the message I had when I was growing up.  And for you to actually believe in sin is the greatest arrogance that you could ever have because you were created perfect by God, by the Source. And to sin is to deny that you are as God created you. So we're going to go deep today. We're going way past our trampolines, our springboards. We're going to bliss today. Today is a day of bliss. And then the third one that you voted for is handing over all my relationships to spirit. Wow. I just think that sounds indescribably happy. If I'm actually actually going to hand over all my relationships to spirit, it's basically saying I must have been wrong because I didn't experience total happiness in all of them. So I must have been mistaken.  For years people would ask me, because I've met so many people around the world, all my travels, they would say, oh, have you heard from so-and-so? How are they doing? And I say, oh, they're great. They're great. And they say, when was the last time you heard from them? I said, oh, I don't know. Maybe about seven years ago. How do you know they're great if you haven't heard from them for seven years? I said, well, they're great because they're in my mind. And my mind is in the mind of God. So they're great. Everything that comes from God is great. So I'm not saying that the bodies of the people are in the mind of God, because God didn't create bodies. But the spirit of love that resides within all of us is safe because God created it. It's untouched. It's undefiled. We are innocent as God created us. We are innocent. There is nothing that can throw us off of remembering God, because that's our purpose for everything now. We've come to the point where we're going up the mountain, so to speak, and we're going to the peak. And the peak of the mountain is to remember God. And it's our destiny. Let's be honest. That's our destiny. We can't avoid that. If God created us, we can no longer even attempt to avoid that destiny. I actually love destiny movies. When I read that the first theme was desiring God above all else, I started to have a flood of movies that started to come into my mind, and they're all destiny movies. They're all, without a doubt, destiny movies. Slumdog Millionaire 2008. Best Indian movie in history by far. Why? The script is written. You can't mess it up. Love is real. Wow. And I remember that movie ends with a happy Bollywood dance. Oh, my heart just exploded. Mr. Destiny 1990. Time traveler's wife 2009. Serendipity 2001. Sleepless in Seattle 1993. Only you, Robert Downey Jr. 1994. Destino Italian. You can't mess it up. It's destiny. Still breathing 1997. Deja Vu 1997. L.A. Story 1991. Let it ride 1989. The adjustment bureau, Matt Damon 2011. And then even a Black Mirror episode I thought of from the internet. It was a beautiful one called Hang the DJ, episode four. Season four, episode four. Why am I so happy when I read those movies? If you go back and listen to the replay of this, if you want to have a happy week, just watch those movies. Watch them Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You're going to be happy. You're going to have to peel yourself off the ceiling when you watch those movies because those are all destiny movies. Every single movie I just read teaches you can't mess it up. Every single movie teaches that love wins because love is real. Every single movie shows you that it's worth desiring God first, placing God first above all else. And you feel it in your heart. I watched these movies. It doesn't matter if I've seen them a hundred times. My tears of joy are going to come streaming down this face every single time because the joy is coming inside. The movie is reflecting the joy in my heart. It's just bursting out. And that's why I like destiny movies. So let's be clear that our ultimate destiny is to remember God and remember who we are. We call it self-realization. We call it self-actualization. We call it know thyself. But whatever you call it, our destiny is to remember our true identity. And then in terms of this world, we just read lesson 253 where Jesus said, even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. Oh my gosh, now he's saying that I'm not only destined to wake up, but even in this world, everything that I experience is part of me remembering my destiny. What does he mean by that? If the world is a world of form, why is he now shifting down to form from eternity? He's saying, well, actually the laws of eternity apply even with this world. What does that mean?  That's like lesson 152, which is reminding us in the workbook that the power of God, the strength of God is in us still. It may have been covered over, but it's still there. You can put your light, he said 2,000 years ago. You can put it under a bushel, but you can try to hide your light. That light is real. That light is who we are. One thing we're going to watch with this movie is we're going to see, this is a 2021 movie, and it's called Needle in a Time Stack. You've heard of Needle in a Hay Stack? This is Needle in a Time Stack. We're going to watch, I think this is just another great quantum movie that's going to show us. Like Mr. Destiny, kind of was a little linear, but it had different scenarios. Mr. Nobody actually is probably one of the most quantum movies you ever experienced. It's hard to watch unless you have a lot of commentary, but I'm going to give you some good commentary. I think this one's maybe just a little bit easier to follow than Mr. Destiny.  We're used to that. We watched Groundhog Day. We've seen the timeline's loop. We watched all the Looper movies that I have in my movie Watchers Guide to Enlightenment, so we're prepared. We like a good time movie.  Let's give a cheer. Sometimes I talk about the producers and the directors. Let's give a cheer here for a moment to Christopher Nolan.  Inception. Oh, my God. Etcher Steller, Tenant. I just did a movie gathering. I think when Tenant first came out, maybe that was a couple years ago or so. Yay, Christopher. Here's someone who's so interested in time that he makes spectacular time movies. Whenever we watch a Christopher Nolan movie or one that he's made, we always go, hmm, wow. That's a good one. I'm going to have to think about that. Admittedly, like Tenant, it was time travel going back in time. Then we have movies like Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox, and we have movies that take us around the timeline with time travel. But this movie is going to, it's not going to really focus on that. It's going to focus on our perception. Like nowadays, when we experience the world, we go along day by day, and then suddenly we see there could be a big event. Maybe it's a big storm or maybe it's a solar flare storm or maybe it's a tsunami or a hurricane. Maybe it's a country invades another country. I know over in Europe there's all this talk right now of of Ukraine has got a lot of troops around Belisar, Belarus, and a lot of troops around it. But these are events in the world. Now, this movie is a little bit futuristic. Let's roll the clock from our world that we seem to see now a little bit into the future. Do they still have smartphones? Yes. But they're cool smartphones. They're really cool. They're even more cool than the iPhone I'm holding. So it's a little bit into the future. They still use smartphones, but they're cool. They still use cars. They still go to work. They still have jobs and careers and so on and so forth. But in this slightly futuristic world, one thing that they have really perfected is they have time travel. It's consumer, it's commercial time travel. You can go in and you could say, I want to take a trip back into my memory and it cost a lot of money. It cost a lot of money. You better be really rich. If you're going up on a SpaceX thing today, you better be invited or have a lot of money. Your last name better be Musk if you're going up into space consistently. Because it's pretty rare on earth for people to be going up into space. In this future, you can go and you can actually go back into the past and it's called jaunting. A few people can afford to go jaunting, but they have to have a lot of money. I'm talking a lot of money to go jaunting. There's some rules. You're not supposed to change the past when you go on one of these vacations. You see, there's a lot of my movies like Time Traveler's Wife that basically show that you cannot change the past. We've got a number of movies in our Movie Watchers Guide that show you you cannot change the best. In this movie, there's this jaunting which does allow you to go back, but you have to pay a lot of money. You're not supposed to change the past. That's against the rules. It's a crime to go back and change the past. You can see why. Because if you have a partnership and you don't like the partnership, you can go back and try to change something in the script to change the relationship based on changing the past. Wait a minute. That's why we watched Groundhog Day. That's why we watched all of our beautiful Looper movies are showing us that you cannot change the past. They're so spectacular to show us that lesson. You cannot change the past. You cannot change the past. You can change your perception of what you're viewing, but you cannot change the past. What Jesus does in A Course in Miracles is, by lesson number seven, he says, I see only the past, meaning we're not talking past, present, future here. We're saying that the entire perceptual cosmos, the entire perceptual cosmos of linear time is the past. You can see that Jesus' version of not changing the past is even more profound than we could even imagine. Because if I really joined with Jesus and I said, you know what, Jesus? You're right. I can't change the past. All I can do is forgive it. I can just release it. The past is gone. It can touch me now. All I can do is release it. If I really believed Jesus, then that would be the end of all my problems, because the only problem in the mind is the belief that the past is still active, the past is still present, and that you can change it. But the Serenity Prayer told us, you know, change the things you can and accept the change you can, forgive, release, let go of the things you can't and know the difference. That's the Holy Spirit. So basically, the entire Course in Miracles is just about letting go of the past. And yet, when we still believe in the ego, we believe that the past is present, and then we have things called financial problems, relationship issues, career issues, job issues, interpersonal conflicts, conflicts with nature, conflicts with the government. It just goes on and on. If we believe the past is still here in our mind, we have invited a huge amount of problems. And Jesus is like, no, no, let it go. Let it go. This is going to be the key to happiness. Just let it go. It's gone already. He does actually tell us, some of you remember Lesson 158 from the workbook. And I always like to come back to this, because this is another thing that we need to remember as we go into the movie today. He says, the revelation that the Father and the Son are one will come in time to every mind. Yet, is that time determined by the mind itself not taught? So you're not going to learn how to remember that end of time. You're going to have to join with the Holy Spirit to see the end of time. There is no way that a person can see the end of time, because persons are part of the block to seeing the end of time. Miguel Ruiz, remember his four agreements? What was one of them? Don't take anything personally. Miguel, yeah, Miguel, come on, you got it there. That's it. He's helping us take us to that point where we let go. And then this is what Jesus says. We drop down a paragraph. Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic. Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end, your doubting has been set. For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended. Looking back on it, imagining we make it once again, reviewing mentally what has gone by. Oh my gosh, that paragraph will be in your mind today when you watch this movie, because we're not going at it to just look at a movie of a little sliver of a lifetime. We're getting back and we're going to see multiple scenarios, multiple romantic relationships, multiple struggles of a man named Nick. One time we see Nick and it looks like Nick is married to Jeanine. And then there's another time we see Nick and he's married to Alex. And then there's another time we see Nick and he's just single. He's not married to either one of them.  Single, married, married. Now this is helpful for us because how many of you have struggled about the question, am I with the right person? How many of you have ever struggled with a regret? Did I miss my chance? Did something pass me by? Did I blow it? Did I mess it up? And if you have those struggles, then the ego is going to say, oh, yeah, what about the future? It could continue. You might be as lonely as said as you were in the past in the future. You might be condemned to loneliness. You see how the ego works? It's trying to scare us. It's really trying to scare us with this loneliness idea. Or it's saying, well, look at the past. You lost. You have great loss in the past. What about the future? What if that happens? What if that continues to play out a whole linear time of loss? So you can see that this is the kind of movie we need because when we try to forgive people, we still are believing that the problem is with the people. And you know what the problem is? It's time. Linear time is the problem. Jesus says in the Course, eternity and time conflict. Why? Well, God is eternity. And time is the ego. That's a good, simple way of realizing why eternity and time will conflict as long as you attempt to hold both in your mind is what he's saying. As soon as you give up the idea of time for all time, then eternity reigns. I love the Christian song. It's all about God reigns and glory to God. And God is over everything. There's nothing that God can't do. All praise to God. That's all great because God is real. It's good to praise something that's actually real. But when we start praising the things of time, we're praising the temporary and we don't realize how that's not really praise at all. Why not praise the eternal? Why not praise your eternal nature? Why not get out of bed in the morning and go, Hallelujah. God created me eternal. I'm thankful for that. I can start with my thankfulness list, but I want to put that at the top. Thank you, God, for creating me like you. That's the best news I've ever heard.  So that's important for us. And I've done this many times. Some of you have looked it up on the internet, but I've done a lot of teachings over the last 35 years on cause and effect. So I'm going to give the cliff notes because this is important as we go into this movie today, that in reality, God is the cause and Christ is the effect. The cause God created Christ, but the effect did not create the cause. So that's why I know it can be like, well, it sounds like two things, but it's not really two things. It's one spirit. But God is the prime creator. God creates Christ and Christ has creations and it's hard to, you can't grasp it in this world because there's no, there's no parallels. There's no examples. We don't have any examples of that in time, but that's the truth. I'm just giving to you the straight truth. Now, when the mind believes in something more than heaven, more than nirvana, more than God, it sets up a split because now there's a part of the mind that is with the Holy Spirit and remembers the truth. And now there's a part of the mind that has forgotten. You see, this is a split mind. A part of the mind remembers and a part of the mind forgets. That's schizophrenia. That's schizophrenia.  That's a problem because you're the Christ. And the person is like, that's Latin. Persona means mask. We're not talking face mask here. We're talking cosmic mask. Like the whole cosmos of time and space is a mask drawn over the light, drawn over the truth. So we're on to it now. We're not going to be fooled by this cosmic mask anymore. We've got our course in miracles and we're not stopping until we remember the truth. We remember our identity. Let me go back to this cause and effect thing. So here's what's happened when the mind believes it can separate from God, which is just a belief. It's not a reality. It's a belief.  Let me explain that split off and turned around. Split off means when you believe in the ego, you believe that Christ can leave the mind of God. Absolutely impossible. Why would God create a creation that could leave? That makes no sense. If you're eternal love, I would just say, I'm just going to play around today. I feel like using some rat poison or something to try. That doesn't make any sense that God would create separation. God is pure love. God is pure oneness. So the separation is the belief that Christ could leave eternity and go into time. That's what the separation is. It's a belief in the mind. It's just a belief in the mind. It's not a form. It's a belief that you could leave God. And then after that initial split, cause and effect are turned around. What does that mean turned around? Well, it means that in the projection of the world, it seems like the past causes the present and the future. In physics, it seems like for every action, there's a reaction. Has anybody ever baked a cherry pie before? Anybody bake a cherry pie? I love cherry pies. As though you make the crust, the flour and you make the dough and you roll it, rolling pin and you make the crust and you put it in a pie pan and then you get your cherries. You get some nice juice, cherry juice. You put it all in there. You put the crust on the top and you put it in the oven. Well, you turn the temperature up nice and high, but what if your temperature is too high?  It is burnt. That's an example of turning cause and effect around where there seems to be causes in the world, like leaving your cherry pie unattended and in the oven too long and the effect is it's burnt like a crisp. You can't even eat it. It's black. It's just it's burned like a crisp. You see now that's an example of cause and effect. Now, I know a lot of you are saying to me, David, I like when you give us concrete examples, but when was the last time you actually baked the cherry pie? Okay, if you say give me something more relevant in your life, something more recent where you had to look at the belief in cause and effect. I'll give you an example within the last year of my life where I had to really look at cause and effect. There's this platform on the internet called Instagram. Some of you might know it, so I had an Instagram page. I had a David Hofmeister Instagram page and then I had a Course in Miracles Instagram page and then one day it seemed to get hacked, both of them within five minutes of each other. Both of them were hacked and both of them disappeared. They just completely disappeared and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put David's Instagram pages back together again. They're gone. They're hacked and somebody seemed to have a lot of fun, but they're gone. Jesus told me, he said, now there you go, David, this is a prime example of cause and effect because I told you a thousand times that time is simultaneous, that there are parallel universes going on. It's all happening at the same time. The Holy Spirit knows this and the only reason you ever get upset is because you don't. The Holy Spirit knows it's all simultaneous.  Was I Cleopatra? Was I Julius Caesar? Jesus is like, you're the whole thing. It's all simultaneous. You've never been anything before and you never will be anything in the future. It's all simultaneous. It's just a trick, a sleight of hand that the ego tries to tell you you have past lives and future lives. My friend Gary Renard, he wrote The Disappearance of the Universe. One time I asked Jesus, I said, is this really what this all about? That the universe is going to disappear? And Jesus said, how can what never appeared in the first place disappear? What? How can what never appeared in the first place ever disappear? In other words, it's all simultaneous and you have decided what appearances mean and what disappearance means. You see, that's duality. Appearance, disappearance. Beginning of a lifetime, end of a lifetime.  I said, wait a minute, wait a minute. My friend Gary, he wrote a book called The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other. And Jesus said, no, that's ridiculous because we're eternal beings and nobody knows anybody else at any time in time and space in the past or the future. So Jesus and Buddha by definition could have never known each other because Jesus is one mask and Buddha is another mask and masks don't know each other. Spirit knows, masks don't know each other. And this is going to come up in the movie because our main character, Nick, he's got, he's got relationship with Janine, he's got a relationship with Alex, and both times he's going to ask them, if I never knew you, would I still fall in love with you? He's very philosophical.  And Jesus is telling us, no, to love is to know. Whatever you call, bodies coming together and knowing each other, that's, that's nothing. That's, you don't know, nobody knows anybody. Jesus tells us, minds are joined, bodies do not. Not only do bodies, they don't ever join, but they never can be known or know anything. Because why? They're dream figures. And we're the dreamer of the dream. You see how important it is to realize that's what forgiveness is. When you, when you see you're the dreamer of the dream, you can see that the dream is just simultaneous. There's not multiple dreams going on. There's not a Jesus dream and a Buddha's dream. And look, they met. Now dream figures never meet, ever. So I'm, that's why I'm saying I'm consolidating today. You've been with me for two years. So you knew this was going to come. You knew the day would actually come when I would actually start to really get, get down to the core with you. Why is the world a perceptual hallucination? Because God didn't create it. Why are all these struggles and interpersonal relationships going on all the time? Because they're misperceptions. Interpersonal relationships are the belief in miscreation, the belief you can create. Oh my God, that's what an interpersonal relationship is. And yet Jesus uses what the ego made to take the mind back to God. You see how, how practical Jesus is. He doesn't deny their existence. He just says, give them to the Holy Spirit. So let the Holy Spirit direct all your relationships. That's the highest teaching that it can be. If you believe you're a person and you have personal choice, then, then it gets difficult. Oh, now I've got to choose the right partner. And I've got to choose the right job, career. And you see how pressure, the stress is getting everything you believe you have to choose personally. And what does Jesus say? He says, Holy Spirit, decide for God for me. You see how different that is than a personal choice.  That's the workbook lesson. I will step back and let him lead the way. That's basically saying, Holy Spirit, Jesus, you're in charge of my day. I give it to you. This day is my gift to you. Use it for your purposes of forgiveness. Help me see everyone with the same love. Help me treat everyone with the same kindness and gentleness. Help me know that it is, it is not I as a person to live, but it is Christ that lives in me. Show me the love by having me extend your love. This is what it means. Take my feet. Take my hands. Take my mouth. Use my lips. Let me make a joyful noise unto the Lord. It says in the Bible, let's make a really joyful noise unto the Lord by giving it over to the Holy Spirit and saying, you are in charge of my relationships. Pressure is off. I don't have to try to pick the best relationship. I have to find a way to appreciate 100 percent whatever is in front of me, whatever I'm dealing with in perception, to really appreciate it completely. I've covered choice. I think I'm giving you a pretty thorough start here today because I want you to have a bliss. I want you to find a bliss.  I've got Jesus charging the batteries. We're ready for lift off here. Let's just take a moment to, I'm just going to read just for the fun of it, the beginning of the real alternative section. That's chapter 31. It's the last chapter in the book, but this is why I'm reading it for you. Jesus says, there is a tendency to think the world can offer consolation and escape from problems that its purpose is to keep. Every time I look to the world to solve a problem, I don't realize that the ego made the mask of the world so that I would be stuck with problems for a millennium. That's the reason why this world was made. I wouldn't know myself as God created me. It's a pretty tricky and genius illusion while you believe in it. It's laughable when you don't. It's pretty funny. It's a joke, but when you believe in it, it's quite serious. It's quite serious if you believe it. Why should this be? Because it, meaning this world, because it is a place where choice among illusions seems to be the only choice. And you are in control of outcomes of your choosing. Thus you think within the narrow band from birth to death. A little time is given you to use for you alone. A time when everyone conflicts with you, but you can choose which road will lead you out of conflict and away from difficulties that concern you not. Yet they are your concern. How then can you escape from them by leaving them behind? What must go with you? You will take with you whatever road you choose to walk along. Real choice is no illusion, but the world has none to offer. Nada, nada, nada. No choice. The world can offer no choice. That's not a single one. There is no choice in its alternatives. Seek not escape from problems here. The world was made that problems could not be escaped. Be not deceived by all the different names its roads are given. They have but one end. All of the roadways in this world, all of the scenarios of this world, all of the seeming lifetimes of this world were made by the ego to keep you from knowing who you are. And Jesus says that in the work in the text, he said, all the world's roadways lead to death. And he says, men have died on seeing this. But if they'd just gone one more step, they could have been led, lifted to heights of happiness.  Big mistake thinking I could be separate from God. And Jesus is like, ah, it's not so big actually. It's already been corrected. Holy Spirit handled that like nothing. That quick it was corrected. But you have to accept the Holy Spirit and you have to accept the correction for yourself. You see how it works. It's not about correcting our brothers and sisters. They're not the problem. It's in our mind accepting the correction. It's accepting the Christ inside us in our mind. It's accepting the love within. It's not about trying to change the world. I had a woman wrote to me on YouTube and she said, she watched my video and she said, but does this mean I have to accept mandates, vaccine mandates? That's what she wrote to me. She listened to my video. She said, does this mean I have to accept vaccine mandates? And I wrote back to her and I said, well, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar and unto God that which is God.  Mandates, government mandates or societal mandates, how can that take away your peace of mind unless you believe there's a world external to your mind that has the power to make you a victim? It's really pretty simple. If you either believe in separation in an external world or you believe that you are one with the world, I think the world's pretty happy. I see a very happy world. I really do, but I also see that it's my mind. I take full responsibility for my happiness and then I see a happy world. You see how that works? If I accept it, then I perceive it. If I accept that the world is forgiven, then I see a happy dream. And if anything comes to try to say, David, David, I say, wait a minute. I am the dreamer of the dream. That's what you say to the hand, the claw. The claw comes after you and you go, I am the dreamer of the dream claw. Everyone remembers the claw from the movie Liar Liar. That was one of the funniest things that Jim Carrey did. He played with his child with the claw. The claw. If the claw comes after you, just tell it, I'm the dreamer of the world of dreams. No claw is going to mess up my day or my state of mind. You see, this is the attitude. This is what you have to do with the mind train. This is why you're using a Course in Miracles. Okay, I know you've come. You've got your popcorn ready. Now you're saying, are we ever going to get to see a movie, David, or are you going to be in the pulpit all day? No, I'm just an assistant to give you some commentary today. We're all going to enjoy the movie together. A little bit of setup for the movie. I already told you it's a little bit futuristic. Nick is our main character. He's a really sweet guy. Nick is a really cool sweet guy. He's like a designer, an architect. That's his profession. He's going to open up our movie. He's going to be married to a wonderful woman named Jeanine. This is good because this is a way a movie starts with a loving relationship. Here we are with Nick and Jeanine. Then there's going to be little things that start to happen. These things start to happen to Nick and to Jeanine. Basically, everyone in the movie are called time shifts. They're called phases or time shifts. When we read a Course in Miracles, we hear Jesus tell us that a miracle is a shift in perception. Isn't it great to watch a movie where the characters are going along and then all of a sudden, boom, here comes a miracle. It shifts the perception. Jesus says miracles rearrange your perception. It literally rearranges the world. It rearranges the perception. These are called phases. These are called time track shifts or time shifts or phasings. Those are the words that they use in this movie. I love a movie that instead of having a disaster happen, you have a miracle that happens. It just starts to reorder perception. Isn't that great? Then you get to see how the characters react. We all react a little bit fearful sometimes when we have shifts because Jesus says the first shift that you had ever was the separation. That means every shift that you have from now on, there's a little bit of fear with the shift. Even though you're waking up to God, it's good news. You feel a little afraid when you have a shift. This is good. Jesus has given us a little pep talk there. Those are the shifts, the time tracks, the time shifts. Then I mentioned earlier, there's another thing called time travel. It's called jumping, which is basically going back in time. This is the new recreation for the rich. You have to have a lot of money if you're going back into time. You better really be loaded. This is not for your average person on the street. This is a new technology. You have to go to a company and pay them a lot of money to do it. That's called jumping. I want you, when we come to the part and they start talking about jumping, don't be surprised. This is just paying a lot of money to go back into the past. Okay. Then in this movie, pretty early on, we have Nick's birthday. Nick, do any of you ever have a birthday and you start to question everything? Everybody's saying, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. They're all happy, happy birthday to you, David or whoever. You start to go, what is the point of celebrating these times around the sun, earth going around the sun for a year? What is the point in doing this? Then Nick starts to get very philosophical. Is he happy? What's the point of it all? What's the meaning of everything? Isn't that great? Don't you love a main character who starts to get philosophical? Because why? We're all philosophical. We wouldn't all be here in the Zoom room if we weren't asking some of these same questions. We like Nick. Nick is starting to ask this and he's wondering about his relationship and he starts to get these intuitive feelings.   In the movie, it's played by, you know, you can see Charlie and you can see Janine and they've got such a happy loving couple and they have a dog named Charlie. Okay? It's a happy couple with a happy dog named Charlie. Then comes the time shift, the miracle time shift and it's still Nick married to Janine and now the dog is a cat named Charlie. And Nick is like, I, he's like, I don't even like cats. And Janine's saying, what do you mean?  The cats are cats.  Now, and Nick is like thinking something's off, something's different. I can't quite because once you're in the scenario, once you're in the trajectory, you've got nothing to compare it to.  I've already been over the amnesia part. And what was the movie? Chances are we talked about the amnesia. You don't remember things from the other scenarios, the other trajectories. Now, let's not forget what Jesus told us that to believe that you are in the world and you have choice as a person in the world is, is crazy because everything you perceive is coming from a projection of a private world and an ego, a private mind and a private thought. There's only one of us, but, but once you believe in the ego, you believe that you're one among many. You see how, how tricky it is. That's how the ego gets you into a body identification.  We're just talking, you see, it's a perceptual hallucination. Every time I say it's a perceptual problem is because once you believe in the ego, you forgot that you're sleeping and dreaming all of these characters and you believe that you're one of them.  You forgot you're playing a role. Now you're identified with the persons and the bodies in that scenario. So you see how, how this is very difficult for Nick because here's Nick, and then it's Nick and Janine and Nick and Janine, nice, happy marriage. And then Charlie, the dog. And then suddenly it's Nick, Janine and Charlie, the cat. And you don't know what's gone wrong, but you're thinking sometimes not right. But you don't know that you've gone through a miracle. It's a time shift. It's collapsing time. Jesus talks about this in the course. It's rearranging perception. So this movie is really showing us the miracle.  He's going to work and suddenly there's a big, there's a time track, a time phasing, a miracle. And he's still sitting at the desk with his whole group of teammate workers there at work.  So it just shows you there's some resistance to these miracles. I love it. A movie that's actually showing instead of catastrophes, it's showing mind shifts. It's showing actual shifts of perception. That's why it's a little bit futuristic. In this movie, the course has been around a lot longer than it has now. This is a little more advanced because now they're starting to appreciate the miracle shifts are occurring. They're a little frightened by them, but they're still trusting that it's working out for the good. They have to. They're frightened of what it could mean. Where is this heading? But they're trusting of that. So also I want to mention that there is a friend, that is a friend of Nick's. It's a friend of Jeanine's. It's a friend of, there's another woman who will be another partner, another marriage partner in there. Her name is Alex. She's the same actress that played in Slumdog Millionaire. She was the love interest in that too. She's just decades later coming on, giving her contributions to the movie watchers, Dad to Enlightenment. So Alex there, and then there's Tommy and they all seem to know each other, but there's different configurations in this movie where they're put in different configurations and you'll be able to follow it. But you can see that the problem is a problem of time. It's the mind that believes in these separate characters. That is the problem. It's the ego, the belief in private minds, private thoughts, and private worlds. That's the problem. The problem isn't between the characters in the dream. The problem is in the perceiver that's perceiving the separate characters. Is this deep enough for you? Are we getting to the depth now? You know, this is what I mean. That's why Jesus is telling us you first have to accept you have a perceptual problem. So you're not afraid of these miracles because the miracles are going to rearrange your perception and show you a holistic world. Show you the world from the Holy Spirit's perspective. That's what we want. That's joyful. It's not frightening at all. Now, when this starts to happen, one last thing I'll say is it's Nick's birthday. He's wondering, Charlie the cat. You know, wait a minute. Charlie the dog. Charlie. Then it goes to Charlie the cat. He's wondering about this, but basically he has a sister and his sister's named Zoe, and Zoe has a very close friend and she's also a character in this movie. Her name is Cebilla, and she's just known as the one who speaks Portuguese. That's it. Cebilla, the one who speaks Portuguese. Antonio, I hope you're enjoying this, that Jesus is always giving you a little gift every time. So here we have Cebilla who speaks Portuguese, her best friend, Zoe, who's the sister to Nick. Now, that's all I'm going to tell you is that I'm just giving you the setup because we're going to have some fun with this movie because we're getting an opportunity to peek behind the curtain at what this world of separate lifetimes is really about. When you're inside of what you perceive as a lifetime in this world, you know there's trouble, right? Is there anybody here who has not experienced any trouble in this particular scenario between birth and death? If you have not had any trouble, then you should be here teaching the leading the facilitating class. I'll watch the movie along with you. So what we're saying is that the belief in private minds, private thoughts, and private perspectives on the world, that's the trick. And some of you are wondering, is this all true, David? Are you really, what did you have this morning? What is in your pipe?  That's why you're feeling a little dizzy right now, because I'm giving you directly, completely heart to heart, the most deepest teachings on the planet bar none. There are no deeper teachings in this. This is it. If you can feel a little lightheaded and stay on the carpet with me today, you're going to go indescribably happy as we come through this, because you're going to go, oh my gosh, I wish I knew this. I wish I knew this. It would have demystified everything. It would have demystified all my relationships. It would demystify my career. It would demystify my country. It would demystify my culture. It would demystify society. You would start to see everything in proper alignment, and then you would probably laugh. You would probably have a big laugh. You would laugh at Jesus. You would say, oh my god, I can't believe that I believed in this. But this movie, we need movies to help us experientially move through this, because this is deep stuff. It doesn't get any deeper. We've been at this for over two years now. So we're going into the advanced, so-called advanced. There's no order of difficulty and miracles, but anyway, I'm still taking you into the advanced session today. So sit back, enjoy, enjoy this. I know this will answer every question. Andrea, I see you there. You know, you're there in Mexico. We've got Antonio over there. You're wondering what's happening with my couple relationship. When will I see you again? When will we have magic moments? You know, and Antonio's over there. He's trying to deal with this movie thing now. The producer is telling him it's not going to work, even though the lines are from Jesus. Jesus Christ. And she thinks the thing is not going to work. So, but this movie will help you, Andrea. This is, I felt your prayers. I felt you praying like, what is happening with my life, with my relationship and everything. This movie is your answer. This is the answer to your prayer. That's good. All right, let's go. We're ready now. Let's hop on into the movie scenario and let's really enjoy it today, because this is as deep as it gets. It just doesn't get any deeper.


Hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to a Love Life channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today we're going to talk to Michael Jackson in the afterlife. That's all good. It's been a long time. It's been at least a year, probably two years, probably three years since we've actually talked with Michael Jackson. Okay, so I hope my audio is good here. Let's see. Have this great microphone. Maybe I've seen this on my Sunday morning coffee podcast. Actually, you know what? Let me just turn on a light, I think. Maybe the light here. Let's just see. Better. I'm so bad at the lighting thing, whatever you guys see YouTube channel. Okay, I'll do the best I can. All right. So we're just off with some inspiration from Michael Jackson. I want you to write in the comments below. What songs do you love of Michael Jackson? Now I'm old school. I'm old school. I'm going to listen to... I listened to Human Nature already. Human Nature. Yeah. That's old school. And now I'm listening to... Do you remember the movie Free Willy? Oh, I love this song. So I'm going to listen to this on my AirPods because I can't listen to it with you. I did a channeling for someone with Michael Jackson, a private channeling. So you are my friend. Okay, now I hear him. Here he comes. And he's totally you guys. I can see him like doing that thing he does, you know. Okay, all right.  All right. Here we go. They told me I'm meant to be faithful and walk with that. Invite to the end, but I'm only human. Some of you are going to be so annoyed by this introduction. That's okay. We're getting inspired, you guys. I have no idea how that's going to look on camera, but whatever. Michael is here in present. Hey, nice to see you. I know it's been a while. Yeah, it's been a long time. There's reason for that. It's been hard. Yeah, it's hard to chat. It's hard to have these conversations with you. But I'm willing to do that tonight. I think it's a good idea, especially for people who really love your work and enjoy your music. Like, I do enjoy your music very much and your moves are very incredible. They're very incredible. It's funny. It has been a long time since we spoke. Yes. Can you give us an update on to as to where you're at in your healing process and your healing journey. Last we spoke, you were working on quite a few things. So he shows me his daughter image of his daughter. I do have a daughter. I know, I know it's a thing. It's a thing. Yeah. You want to make the world a better place for children, he says. That's grossly underestimated and widely misunderstood is what he's sharing. You're kind of philosophical a little bit Michael you feel a little different right now. I think that's a good thing you guys. That's a good thing. So let's talk about mistakes and change. Can we do that. We're recording this video in December of 2021 and so we're at the ending of a year in the beginning of the year it's natural I think for people to think about change and look back on the year or their lifetime perhaps and consider maybe mistakes that they've made and kind of be hard on ourselves I think. I know that I do that I reflect and I have lots of clients that I work with that feel like that. When things come up, you know, I really would encourage people to be really forgiving with themselves but it'd be great to hear from you how you think about feel about my mistakes that topic, let's talk. Right away says a judgment. There's a lot of judgment. He feels so much more mellow you guys like almost like he's on meds or something you know like in the after that she just feels really chill and mellow. There's not a lot of trying to present a certain persona to me it's just very mellow, very mellow. I appreciate that very, very mellow yeah very calm. He says there's a lot of judgment I think that the primary message right now is about the judgment piece. Yes, he says yes yes. I think it's really he says I think it has to do with confidence, being confident and you just, you have to not care what other people think and I know it's so cliche to say that but it's he says, he's so quiet you guys when he talks he literally talks like this like almost whispery it's really hard to not sound like that because it's natural for me to just mimic how I hear you know it just is. It's really natural to be hard on yourself I think it comes from wanting to be really good, really good. He says you just really can't care. And that sounds horrible he says it sounds like you're an awful person but really what you're doing is you're choosing yourself and loving yourself. Oh my gosh are you really going to talk about self love Mr. Michael Jackson. That it would be a good topic. And he says, you have to care so much about yourself that you will do what it takes to keep yourself safe and healthy and just feeling really good and taking care of yourself that's so so important so important. I saw I'm asking in my mind so I'm like okay mistakes so you've made some mistakes I mean your debt being one of them right. Yes, he says yeah yeah. That's pretty public he says yeah that's pretty public. So are there things you would have changed. I mean obviously I can assume maybe but can you talk about that a little bit mistakes and things you may have changed. But he says oh yes. I wouldn't have pushed myself so hard quite so hard, he says. I didn't push. I pushed really hard. He says, but I want to be really clear I want people to understand that it wasn't, it wasn't other people pushing me to do things that I didn't want to do it was me. It was me competing against myself is what Michael saying me competing against myself is what caused my death. It was me competing against myself and he says, I used lots of anything at my disposal to be able to help me perform above anything. I took performing and entertaining when I he says I got I got too obsessed too obsessed with it. I wanted to be the best and the greatest and had been years. And I had been through a lot of my body. And it was so much older. It's really a lot to ask of your body. He says was taxing. These are not excuses I know it sounds like a list of excuses excuses excuses I know I know I know I know I know that the mistakes that were made were my own. I trusted people I shouldn't have trusted. Oh, that's a little blamey blamey. That's a little blamey blamey do you guys hear that that's a little bit blame Michael that's a little bit blamey says it's not just one person's responsibility or fault it's all it's the collective all he said so everyone does have a part to play and ownership of that he says of the outcome yeah they do yeah everyone does yes yes yes he says yes, but he's also saying. It was very easy. It was but it was very easy for me to get all of the medications and he's saying the drugs that I need it is what he's he's literally using the term drugs. I'm just going to say that using the terms drugs, I don't mean to be disrespectful and he's not being disrespectful he's using the term drugs, which maybe prescription drugs that kind of thing. Do you feel as though Dr Murray was at fault for your death are liable he says yes. There's definitely liability there's definitely responsibility yes he says yes yes there's definitely there's responsibility there yes that needs to that needs to be be held yes yes accountability yes accountability yes yes says yes yes it was too much. Could I have been saved yes, he says yes. Yes I could have been are you feeling angry about that. He says you know in the afterlife he's like saying you know a spirit doesn't get angry like in that traditional sense he says but yes you know that there's unresolved consequences for that for my children mostly he says for my children. He says yes, yes. Wow. Oh, just gotta. About that. I literally see I'm looking at his kids blanket. Prince. Um, he's just like there's a long pause right now. Is there anything specific that you'd like to share. He's talking about believing in yourself. He's like feeling a little life coachish life coachy like motivational speaker like believe he says you just need to believe in your talents and your skills more than anyone else. That's what you need to do. If you want to be successful if you want to be successful and happy he says happy. He's sharing that he was at his happiest when he was performing. He's saying his family made him happy yes but he also really needed to perform really needed to be in front of an audience really really needed that he's saying he really needed that deeply needed that. So, in reflecting on your life. Is there anything that you would want us to know about you that maybe we don't know that the general public we're just not aware of. He says, I really liked animals. That's one thing he's showing that he really liked animals and he was caring and kind to animals he wants to know that I don't know why that's coming. Is it because the chimp, the monkey and stuff like maybe I don't know but he's saying I really genuinely cared about animals he wants people to know that that he wasn't it wasn't about and he was not cruel to animals. He genuinely cared about animals wants to say that. Okay, okay that's a lot. Okay, he literally just says I would never hurt another living being same that never intentionally is what he just said. Okay, okay, okay, let's not get in too much into some other stuff, because I really do feel. Let's keep our focus. How about we talk about self love let's talk about that a little bit. Do you have some advice or guidance about self love and empath empathy. It's hard to believe some people think I was a narcissist, he says he uses the term I did not use that term, I did not use that term, I did not. They're going to string me up Michael you don't understand your fans are intense just like Prince fans intense, which isn't a bad thing just like they like to shoot the messenger. So I'm going to get a lot of comments, which is fine. That's whatever that's fine say what you need to say it's okay. Say what you need to say, okay. Say, say, say what you want. Okay. And Michael Jackson. Talk about being an empath. He's saying, I feel, he says, I know that people think I'm like this narcissist or what that means is, I feel, I feel a lot.  Can you give us any advice about feeling and managing feelings and emotions. He says it can your feelings your emotions he says your emotions can make you do crazy things. So much misunderstanding about emotion. So many things to misunderstand he says about emotion he says. So many things up so much up he says I screwed so much up about emotion, not good with the motion he's saying I'm just, I am no master at all and he says, I would say it's just hard. Really hard emotion is hard. Are you. So I'm thinking about relationships and things like, you know, with your wife, and then, well, like Lisa Marie and then I think Debbie is her name right was a Debbie. He's just saying, oh, sorry.  And if they don't tell you. You have to ask. And when you ask you have to be willing to listen to the answer. And when the problem is when there's misunderstanding, because you don't ask and you don't listen he says you have to do both you have to ask and listen. But he's also saying but there's a third factor, they have to be willing to share. He says, if you can only rely on what they say. That's hard. And he says, from his experience, they don't say everything they don't really share they kind of other people he said they expect you to just kind of understand like without like intuitively almost right because I'm thinking he says that kind of just to know what they need. And what they're saying when they're not saying it, what they're not saying it's he says it's not so much about what they say it's what they don't say. It's like this whole complicated like figuring out peace he says and so marriage is really hard he's saying really hard. But it's more successful I think he says if you're if it's based on a good friendship, there has to be a solid friendship he says that helps that makes a big difference you know. I don't have time to give marriage advice but relationship wise I can say that. You're not boring. I wanted to talk with Michael Jackson. Alright, is there anything else and specifically about like maybe the psychic energy of empath being an empath, because you know we've never totally talked about this. Because when it comes to matters of the heart affairs the heart is just he says it's, he says it's beyond me. I'm going to admit that I don't have any, I really don't have good, a good foundation about this. I don't have a good understanding. I know that there's a lot of pieces, and that there's a lot that can be messed up. That's what he's saying. Well I can be messed up about it. I think that's fair he feels like a teenager you guys he feels like a teenager like a 15 year old, trying to talk to me about relationships, not love or sex but relationships you know. That's fair I think that's fair. I think that's fair. Some mistakes and then empath, empath love relationship. Okay, I'm sorry, I do not. He's not boring. I'm just tired.  It's hard when you don't have a lot left and you're tired right he says it's hard so you understand like with it with the tour and he says now you can understand and he says I want forgiveness. You guys he wants forgiveness for his death and the way he died, because he was just trying to be the same Michael that everyone expected him to be, and he's saying, just my forgiveness that. Oh, Michael that's that's sad you guys that's sad. I mean I get that there's a whole lot of other stuff around your life but that's just sad. But you do feel like you have way more perspective than you had before when I've talked to you. And that is good. That is a good thing if you haven't watched the playlist here and above live channel for Michael Jackson and you'll see what I mean there's other videos and I did the long long long long time ago with Michael Jackson and so he felt very different than he feels now so that's I think that's positive you guys and that's positive. Right. Thanks for being here Michael appreciate it. Thanks for being here I see a lot of yellow which is solar plexus or your spirit, your life on purpose your intuition so I hope that if you are an MJ fan or if you're not you're just here at above live channel for the first time I'm Bridget hi nice to meet you, the host here. We have some videos here on Mondays to inspire your spirit and fill you with hope with afterlife celebrity guests. We have interesting conversations then, and a lot of times I'll give you advice or perspective on living a human life and that's what the point is here. That is what the plan is. So it's your life. After all, this is your life. So live it. Just live it. Thanks for being here.


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This is our team. We have a domain expertise in both investments and technology and ESG and sustainability. Sophie and Jonathan, Eve and I worked together as colleagues at Axe Investment Managers at the Rosenberg Equity Division, which is the quantitative equity group where we dealt with a lot of data, big data. We built models and quantitative tools to analyze companies and build portfolios. We, for a lot of years, fully integrated ESG into ESG dimensions, into our portfolios, into our assessments of companies from the early on. So we never had a non-ESG version and an ESG version. We always felt that those things were material to company analysis. So we've been working together for a while from the investment asset management side. And we've now put our minds together and our skills together and our domain knowledge together to attack the vast amount of information that's out there to help us understand companies and the way they're working through issues of sustainability and how they're being perceived out there. I mean, I think as you've heard throughout this conference, the big challenge here, there's no shortage of data and that data is just growing exponentially. The number of us that are attacking the analysis of that data isn't growing quite as fast. So there's what we call an intelligence gap here. One of the goals of this conference has certainly been to find solutions and tools and ways to shrink that intelligence gap. And another way of doing that is another one of the goals of this effort, the integrate effort, is to build. And what we heard a lot about during the conference is to find ways to make the data that is reported more structured, more consistent, more transparent. What we're working on, though, is another subset of that data, which is a very large subset, which is very unstructured data. So no matter what we do on improving the structured data, there's still a huge component that's unstructured. Some estimates put that data as about 80% of all relevant information. And it mostly comes in this format of documents, news, social media posts, customer reviews, employee reviews, NGO reports, industry research. All this unstructured text and language data is really what we're focused on and what we're trying to understand. What we have to do when we're faced with that much information is use machines to help us with that effort. So artificial intelligence and particularly national language processing helps one underneath it to identify trends to look for emerging issues or crises or companies, reputational risks that might be being sourced or being identified through various news and documents out there. And also, as we heard yesterday, too, about the importance of both reputation and purpose to improve your brand image, you can also pick up signals and information on a company's brand image there. And companies can use this information to kind of understand where they're standing and help protect or improve that brand. The way it works in practice is a variety of technological solutions because there's only one way to do all this and that's through harnessing the power of technology. And it starts at the bottom with extracting data, all this unstructured data, the various news sources. We have feeds that get us information from about 37,000 different publications. We get hundreds and process hundreds of thousands of these documents in real time during each day, and then we map those data and that information to companies. That's that first line of processing where we process that data, bring it in, collect it, map it to companies, map it to industries, map it to countries. And then we connected further in the AI engine to events. There are various events that are picked up in the news and also to categories like sustainability categories from the SASB or SGGs or other customized categories. And then deliver it all through a front end, a SAS platform front end, or customized kind of enterprise version APIs and direct data feeds to companies. The idea, though, is to come up with a sense of what's going on from this kind of crowdsource unstructured data that companies can use to assess how they're doing, how their competitors are doing, and what's going on with trends and various dimensions. And importantly, our first application of it is within the sustainability world. Next, turn it to Eve, who's going to show us or get into our tool and kind of demo it. It's called Iceberg. Tensorial is the name of the company, and Iceberg is the name of the first generation tool. I was heartened to hear some references to Iceberg yesterday and the discussion of tangible versus intangible assets in valuation of companies and the valuation of companies and the idea that a lot of the value of companies are in these intangible assets that's not reported on financial statements, not seen above the waterline necessarily. And there's a lot of information when you go to value a company that's kind of below the surface of the water, below, you know, that's not seen like an iceberg. And we're doing the same kind of thing. There's a lot of information out there. What we're trying to do is bring more of that information up above the surface. So that's that's the name. Stop sharing now and let Eve share his screen and take us through the tool. All right. Can you see the screen? Yes. All right. So this is our tool. This is called Iceberg, as Steve mentioned. First of all, what we want to do with the screen is to select a watch list, which is a list of companies that users are interested in. And as you can see from the left, you have filters to select the list of companies you're interested in. And we are a global company, which means also we look at companies all over the world from every country. So you can select a country that you're interested in. And you get the list of companies that you want in that country. For now we're looking at about 100,000 companies. But we can scale that up to potentially a million companies. We can also, if you prefer to set up companies in a given industry. And again, we look at all the industries. So we end industry agnostic. And you will get for a given industry are the companies that belong to these industries. This is what's called the gigs industries. Or you can go by size. And again, we look at the very large company or very small companies. So we also are going to stick to size. And we also have to stick to status. We look at public or private companies. Private companies are especially useful for supply chain. So you can do that in the filters. And for this demonstration. Once you select the companies that you're interested in, you select the button here that says I want to follow that. And for this talk, I'm going to select PepsiCo as one of the companies we're interested in. So once you select that company, maybe later I will show Pfizer to show that this tool is in real time. So the, the tool I'm showing you now, the news that we get. And the articles I can show you now, we're not the same techniques ago, I will not be the same techniques from now, especially with what's going on with Pfizer. But for PepsiCo, once you select a company, you go to the news feed and you say, okay, I want to look at what's going on with PepsiCo. And then within that you see all the news and all the events. We call them events that are related to PepsiCo. And then we have what's called frameworks. We have the business framework, the environment framework and the social framework. And you say, okay, I want to look at the business framework. And I want to see what's going on with PepsiCo and COVID-19. So there's quite a few things going on. And for some reason, lately PepsiCo has been using, we're talking about mentioning an interest in alcohol beverages. So why is that? Well, we can see that there is a relationship here between what, for some reason, between what PepsiCo is trying to do with alcohol beverages and COVID-19. And we detected two events in that direction. They're both, both about one month old. And this is what happens now to explain to you what an event is. It's an NLP, Natural Language Processing Techniques, to in some sense relate in a semantic sense of what these articles are about. So when I click on this first list here, I get the articles related to that topic, which is in this case COVID-19. And you see in here the content of what we call the centroid of this event that shows the news related to PepsiCo and COVID-19. But I can also go to related articles, which is the clusters of these events that are related. And by going through this cluster, I can see why there is a relationship between what PepsiCo is doing with alcohol and COVID-19. So then we can click on any of these real events within this set of articles, and I can enter the details. So that's an example of an investigation we can do on the COVID-19 site for every company in the world. Now, to show you another example, we can go inside the environmental side of things and we can see what's going on with PepsiCo and Energy Management. Well, I find a number of articles here. And we can see, for example, the second list, which is also a set of articles, a cluster of articles, that relate to what PepsiCo is doing with Energy Management. And here I see again the center of this event, but I can see all the articles related to Energy Management. And you can see the list of them, and there is quite a few. And for each of them, you can see the source of these articles. These sources are also global. They come from every country. And each of them may have a different view of the meaning of what PepsiCo is trying to do with Energy Management, which is basically to go to power operation with renewable energy. And you can see the interpretation of what it means within these articles. And this one, for example, is beverage technology and markets. So it's again a professional premium publication, but they give the one point of view about what PepsiCo can do with renewable energy. I would take another example here, go into the social framework, and we can say, well, I want to see what PepsiCo is doing with employee engagement, diversity and inclusion. And again, we'll find a number of articles here, a number of events. And most of them are like two or three weeks old. And I can select this one, for example. And you will see that PepsiCo is about to invest or invest $170 million in Hispanic business to promote diversity. And again, we can go inside of these events and go to related articles. And we can see, for example, this article published by Industrial Baking and Snacks. And we can see that PepsiCo is also not doing this big investment, but is trying to do things that are more local in this case to change values in Chicago's racial and ethnic wealth equality. And that's going on right now. And you can see the details about what PepsiCo is doing. And see also the highlights of these articles and how much PepsiCo is investing. So that's what we detect with the framework. Now what we can do also from this, of course, we can select any of these categories. And we can go into the details of PepsiCo. And we click on this and we can select, again, either by virtue of PepsiCo. And with PepsiCo, what we see here, actually, is the time series of events that happened with PepsiCo over the last month or so for now. But we have data that it's, we have about 14 years of data. So we can see the evolution of these news. We can select our game. We can see basically the statistics of these events. We can see that the number of articles, we can see the changes of the time. And we can see the peaks. So we can go into the time dimension and say I want to zoom in on this. And I want to see what happened in that day. And we can see all the articles related to PepsiCo on that date. I can also enter, for example, a competitor. I can enter Coca-Cola and I can enter COVID-19. And potentially here I will see all the comparisons of what PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are doing for COVID-19 over the last month or any period that we want. So that's the basic functionality that I want to show you. And I'm going to stop sharing and pass the microphone back to Steve. Yeah. You can bring Brad into and can let people ask questions. You can sort of see the tool, the use, the, you know, what we envision it being used for and what we are targeting at is, you know, companies that want to understand their own initiatives along these dimensions and how that's being picked up in the press and reports and documents, how their competitors are doing along those dimensions, what kind of trends along these topics are happening. And then also, you know, maybe they want to look at their supply chain. They can put their own companies in their supply chain, see how they're scoring or see how the world is talking about them through these various sources. So we'll pause at some people asking questions. Okay. So first of all, thank you, Eve and Steve, a great overview. And it's obviously, this is a powerful tool. I mean, it's not humanly possible, obviously, to parse through the amount of media and the types of sources and information that your platform can do at any given day. And as you said, you know, it could change, particularly if you're in a heavy news cycle like a Pfizer. That's probably changing by the moment as more is written about their, you know, their vaccine and the potential impact. I think one of the challenges that you often see when you look at across media broadly is that, you know, certain publications, they like to believe, we like to believe that they're taking perhaps an objective stance and showing all sides of an issue. But we know I think in reality that that's not necessarily the case. And some news sources have a very sort of persistent point of view. And I was wondering if either of you could talk about your platform may take that into consideration or, you know, how that, how do you track a potential bias in a position from a particular source and how that might get reflected in the analysis? Yeah. Yeah, so I would say that for now what we want, you're right that there is probably subjectivity in these publications. Although you can see the few publications I've mentioned, they're very professional. Some of them are very professional publications. Some of them may be not as objective. For now we mostly leave it to the user to decide which publication they're interested in and the publications they're not interested in for any reason. We are thinking of doing some kind of a, if you want some sentiment indicator about the objectivity or subjectivity of sources. But we're being very careful with that because we don't want to add our own bias to existing biases. It's difficult to, to surprise the bias and not to add your own bias. So we've been very careful with that. So we want to give maximum power to the user to decide what is the bias or not. And one thing to help with that power is to be able to see by types of source, maybe categories of types of source, how that information is collecting. So that you can, you can kind of see if there are differences of how different types of sources are, are reporting that. So that's just a matter of categorizing by source, as opposed to excluding or kind of doing a, a warning flag on this source, or is another source. So Steven, so sort of following along that, that line. Obviously you have already built a number of categories that your, your platform already has in place. Are you considering adding other categories from other frameworks and that kind of thing? Could you elaborate a little bit on that? Yeah. So we have fish started out like a lot of folks did with the SASB type frameworks, adding SDG frameworks, just being at this integrate conference. There's probably about seven more frameworks that I now have on the to do, on the to do list. So there's a lot of frameworks. And as Bob mentioned most recently, you can collapse a lot of those frameworks into certain categories. So that whole idea of not overwhelming, but capturing all the nuances of different frameworks and different taxonomies is important. So that, that's, that is definitely work there. The other component that Eve showed at the start was sort of business dimensions. So sort of corporate result dimensions. It's a little different than and needs to be, and part of this conference also is connecting up those worlds with sustainability frameworks with the corporate results dimension. So at the same time we're building out that set too. It's part of the whole NLP AI effort is it's not just searching on key words, but it's sort of intelligently with your domain knowledge. What are the words and the ways those, those frameworks and those goals and topics show up in these text documents and sort of building the way that the engines can kind of look across those documents and find and cluster these things. It's really where the AI comes into play. So in, oh, sorry, go ahead, Eve. Yeah, I would add also that the technology behind it is very flexible. And currently these frameworks can also be industry specific. And we currently working with a transportation, for example, industry. And we're building a framework that that's specific to this industry, what they're interested in, and we can add it to a framework and categories. Right. So in terms of, you know, Stephen, and Eve, you both mentioned that obviously you're scanning. I want to say, I think it's 500,000 or more sources of information a day. I know you mentioned obviously news events and there's a wide variety of things that are passed over those new sources today. Can you kind of give a sense of some of the other sources like social media and things that you might be, that your engines might be scraping or the other kinds of sentiment that you're measuring in the market? Sure. Eve, do you want to talk about that? Yeah, we started with a major source, I would say a new source aggregator. That's called Navia. And we're looking at about 27,000 different types of sources of publications. We consider that these sources are premium. They give you good information. They're better than the social media in a way. They are more, they go deeper into any topic, but we will, we are in the process of integrated social media and RSS from Google. So that will also come up. So we're increasing our sources as we speak. It's being tested right now. What Eve called RSS from Google is sort of the Google universe of documents, which is a lot, and in multiple languages. So that's the other work, which is to map to languages. Right now we can do all what Eve showed in English can be done in French too, because half our team is in Paris, half our team is in the Bay Area in San Francisco. So those are the two languages at first, but the underlying sources now are in multi languages. And then who would you say are your, to me, I see a couple of different potential users in companies for your tool, but I wanted to kind of get a sense from you. Is it targeting a very specific type of user or give us a sense of who your audiences are. Yeah, I think on the sustainability dimensions, the sort of the CSO, hopefully pushing that up to the CFO, the way you guys have been, we've all been talking about the last three days, people within that sustainability efforts department or group that are trying to show how these initiatives that they're doing are being reflected in the outside world there. So picking up some of that information. Look, we're doing what we just did is resonating, it's showing up in these various sources, or here's what our competitors are doing on these dimensions. Maybe we're lagging behind on this certain trend. So that kind of in the corporate world, I would say communications firms also sort of PR firms that work for these corporations that want to understand how is my company being perceived out there. Can I kind of get a set of news doc in documents that are related to various topics for this company? Certainly kind of regulators and folks that want to monitor companies, investors too. I know when we were managing money at AXA, we often wanted to have stories to tell about the companies that were in our portfolios, good stories on the SD dimensions, or we wanted to know about bad stories that were coming up as well. So investors and then the asset owners who want another dimension to kind of bring their portfolios score, if you will, to light in a way that's not just the metrics that we've been talking about a lot in the last couple of days, but also in a more sort of narrative driven version.


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Welcome to WSIS Forum 2018. I am delighted to be joined by Mr Mark Fuhrer, who is the former director of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications, OFCOM, and ex-president of the FCC. Mr Fuhrer, thank you very much for joining us. Sure. So, you have been involved with WSIS from the start, haven't you? Tell us about the beginnings of the event. Yes, the beginning was in Marrakech at the plenary of the ITU in 1998, when there was a suggestion of some countries to do such a summit. And I must say at the beginning the enthusiasm wasn't very great, certainly not with ITU. The secretary general at the time, when he was accepted and said, yes, we should do that in 2003, he was far from very amused about this idea, because ITU saw itself very much as a technical organization and, of course, information society has a lot to do with, as the name says, with society with social questions, political questions, and so on. And, obviously, they could see that it would be a hard process, a difficult process. Nevertheless, we started it. It was an uphill struggle, but I had the honour and the pleasure to chair this preparation, you know, you can imagine, freedom of expression, ICT for development, regulation of internet or not regulation of internet, all these topics, there were heated discussions and I had to lead that all into one package of action plan. At the end, we achieved and, yeah, so it's nice to look back 15 years ago. And what about the future? Well, what about the future? I mean, the question is, of course, what has been achieved through this process? And I think what is the name already says, it's a process. And I'm very, very proud and delighted what happened, because many people said, well, we'll have this summit and then nobody speaks about it anymore. And thank God, this is not the case. I was just at the Internet Governance Forum last November, and I was impressed all these stakeholders, civil societies, discussing this topic, this topic, so many people. So it is a debate, it is a huge process in the whole world with all branches, still very much controversial, obviously, that's part of the thing. But I think that is the very positive thing. Also, here was this forum, you know, that this is a process, that this is an ongoing process. You can't expect quick results, there will be never quick results, ICT for development. There is, unfortunately, always a digital divide, but it's the aim to discuss how can we breach this divide, how can we, for example, free media. We all know that in many, many parts of the world, the media is not free, the press free speech is not granted. It's not even better than in 2003, unfortunately. But still, this is something which has to be discussed and has to be also finger pointed and say, why is it not? And especially with the Internet, a free expression, free speech is the core of the Internet and that we still have to achieve. So it's still a lot of work to do, but it's important to keep the momentum going, isn't it? Oh, absolutely. And I think that's the thing. Of course, what is working very well is where this ICT as a tool, as a means, has economic advantage. E-business is going very well. Google has developed, which has fantastic possibilities.  Facebook, all these things. So the communication has been improved through these things. But of course, there's also much money, as we all know, involved. So in this thing, it's going very, very fast and very well. Where we have problems is in the universal service, questions like e-hels, questions like democracy, of course, but also a question of development, you know, how to achieve the millennium goals at the time and now the sustainable development goals. I mean, that is probably something where you don't earn much money. And that's where politics and also the engagement of the people involved here should show. Mr. Mark Furrow, thank you very much. Okay. Pleasure.


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