you know I've always followed this
saying that Joseph Campbell said follow
your bliss and other people say just
follow the love in your heart and the
rest will take care of itself when I got
into spirituality I just the more I got
into the glee and the joy and the
happiness I did get into the fun of
extending it in all kinds of ways that
that people could relate to that's why I
use movies I had so much fun with movies
letting the spirit do commentary on
movies that actually it is becoming more
common where people have mystical
experiences with me in my movie
gatherings
more so than meditation or talks or
anything else I just like I totally get
into the joy and the Glee of it when I'm
showing a really super super super deep
metaphysical movie and I'm there just in
the glee of it and the spirits ripping
through me I was in Venezuela a woman
came up to me after I showed Eternal
Sunshine of the spotless mind the Spirit
was just ripping through me like oh it
was like a these Revival tents or
something and down there in Venezuela
and she came up after the movie with
tears pouring down her face he'd been a
14 year course student but had never had
her first mystical experience and she
was crying when she came up to me
afterwards and she says oh now I know
oh my practice will be changed forever
you know when you when you haven't had
them it takes a lot of faith and you
know determination to hang in with the
practice when you hit when you do have
them your whole practice gets knocked up
a notch or two then there was another
man in at our monastery I think it was
Solaris I was showing Solaris and I was
so into it there and got so just totally
into it and he had a mystical experience
so it's starting to happen more and more
that people are having a mystical
experiences in my movie gatherings
that's delightful for me you know that's
a beautiful reflection I'm having that
much fun I'm feeling that much just
lifted up and taken beyond time and
space in the glee of the moment and the
movies they're like the modern-day
parables so imagine if you had a great
great great parable with great
instruction kind of priming you and
priming your mind and priming your mind
to really get bleep bolted into this
experience that's really but it is some
of you might have seen a movie that was
filmed in Hawaii called 50 first dates
with drew Barrymore
what I liked about that movie I had I
had a really mystical experience one
morning when I was down in Cali Colombia
and I was just thinking of that movie
and it just went into euphoria because
Drew Barrymore has this accident was
seemingly where she flies with his tree
and she hits her head and she loses her
memory her long-term memory and she she
can't think past a certain day she
thinks it's the same day and then it's
such a great movie we're out of a
Sandler plays the character starts to
fall in love with her and he uses a
video to reorient her mind over and over
day after day about the accident and
everything that she's pushed out of
awareness he uses it over and over in
order to reach her you know to break
past this and at this separation problem
this memory problem and when I was in
Colombia I thought that's it that's it
we just have a memory problem
we're just reliving the unholy instant
we're reliving the past every day like
Groundhog Day and we've forgotten what
the present moments like you know
Eckhart Tolle is telling us power of now
everyone's telling us live in the now
live in the moment but we were just
reliving this time of separation over
and over and it seems to be people push
our buttons and we have struggles but
we're just reliving to pass
you know we haven't learned how to let
it go but I thought of that movie and I
thought wow that is so cool that he had
so much love that he could use this this
video to reorient her mind to bring her
fully into like a link with him where
she would feel peace and calm and she
wouldn't have fear and she could join in
link with him so much so by the end of
the movie that but she couldn't still
didn't know who he was but she would see
his face in her dreams you know it was
the starting to the spirit was breaking
through her consciousness and so what I
thought is you may not see me so much
for this Chautauqua's cuz I might just
be in my house watching these mystical
movies that I've done these commentaries
on like it's so excited what had
happened and I'll just be good to see
you hear this sounds going in there and
I'm just gonna be higher than a kite in
being reminded of everything that I've
taught you know now getting played back
to me you know just reminded reminded of
the glory of all this is I was left poor
threw me let it come back to me wouldn't
that be a fun way you know people talk
about meditation prayer you know watch
me watch movies and and wake up to God
you know I'm gonna find the fun routes
you know people are getting bored with
the synagogue and the temple the
meditations too tall and everything come
on with me we are movie watchers you
know cuz I you know you gotta go with
where your passion is you gotta go with
where your fun is your pizzazz your joy
you know if it if your spiritual journey
seems like so many rituals okay I'm
gonna do my spiritual practice now
before I get on with my day
who wants how are you gonna make that
your 99% practice if you don't even like
it you know if you resistance to it how
are you gonna do it 99% no with me with
movies I could probably not
yeah I just because I it's the spirit
like using it in some higher way so I'm
whole I'm always advocating the Sun way
to God you know I have a friend and
pisarra who's called the Laughing Saint
in Australia and her pathway is to laugh
she one time left for over a week
continuously you can laugh for over a
week but but that's her pathway and and
and I think that that it can be fun it
you know if you think you're waking up
to all that is why shouldn't it be fun
why I mean I had to wash away some of
the old ego ideas of fun of course I had
those too and we play them out and and
sometimes the things that the ego
sponsors is fun aren't fun anymore after
a while you have fun for a while and
then all of a sudden you reach a boredom
with it or a dullness with it it's not
fun anymore
but this stuff is it this is
intoxicating in a good way it's it takes
you up into the ecstasy but it's it's
through your willingness to to go with
it you know to dive into it so I
actually somebody asked me they said are
you how many weeks of the year do you
vacation and I said what do you mean
like like vacation like have fun and I
said they said yeah I said well that's
that's 52 weeks that's the whole year
don't you work and I said well you can
share a perception I mean they're
working all the time or I'm having fun
all the time
because I do feel my work is fun you
know I have a good boss actually a good
creator so that's where we're coming you
know with this we're coming more into
that alignment of heav why can't we have
fun with spirituality you know I just I
really think that that that is a
question we really have to look at if
we're not having fun with our
spirituality then then there's something
to question maybe we've gone too serious
with something it's some kind of a tweak
we need if our spirituality isn't fun
of course there'll be pockets of
resistant
but fun can overcome the resistance