Film Viewers Guide

Film Viewers Guide April 20, 2011 Over 200 Films

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The Abyss (1989).............................4 Adam (2009) ...................................4 Always (1989)...................................4 Always (1985)...................................4 American Beauty (1999)...................4 Anger Management (2003) ..............5 Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).........5 As Good As It Gets (1997) ...............5 As It Is in Heaven (2004) .................5 At First Sight (1999)..........................5 August Rush (2007) .........................6 Awakenings (1990) ..........................6 Batman Begins (2005) .....................6 Batman Returns (1992) ...................6 A Beautiful Mind (2001)....................6 Being There (1979) ..........................7 The Bishop’s Wife (1947) ................7 Born on the Fourth of July (1989).....7 Bourne Ultimatum (2007) ................7 The Break Up (2006)........................7 Breaking Up (1997)..........................7 Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) .....8 Bruce Almighty (2003) .....................8 Bucket List (2007).............................8 Bullworth (1998) ..............................8 The Butterfly Effect (2004)................8 Chances Are (1989) .........................8 Chocolat (2000) ...............................8 City Island (2000) ............................9 Click (2006) .....................................9 Contact (1997) .................................9 Dan in Real Life (2007) ....................9 Danny Deckchair (2003) ..................9 Dark City (1997) ...........................10 Dead Man Walking (1995) ...............10 Deconstructing Harry (1997) ............10 Defending Your Life (1991) ..............10 Déjà vu (1998) .................................10 The Devil's Advocate (1997) ............11 The Dhamma Brothers (2007) .........11 Doubt – (2006) – the play.................11 Ed TV (1990)....................................12 Elephant Man (1980) .......................12 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) .......12 Eternal Sunshine Spotless Mind 04 .12 Evan Almighty (2007) ......................14 eXistenZ (1999)................................15 Fairy Tale (1997)...............................15 The Family Man (2000) ...................15 Feast of Love (2007)........................15 50 First Dates (2004) .......................15 Field of Dreams (1989) ....................15 Fight Club ........................................16 Finding Forrester (2000) ..................16 Finding Neverland (2004).................16 Forrest Gump (1994) .......................16 The Fountain (2006) ........................16 Frankie and Johnny (1991) .............16 Frequency (2000) ............................17 The Game (1997) ...........................17 Gandhi (1982) ..................................17

Ghost (1990) ....................................17 Good Will Hunting (1997) ................17 The Gospel (2005) ...........................18 Grand Canyon (1991) ......................18 Green Card (1990) ..........................18 Groundhog Day (1993) ....................18 The Guitar (2007) ............................18 Happy Feet (2006)............................19 Harold and Maude (1971) ................19 Heart & Souls (1993)........................19 He Said, She Said (1991) ................19 Henry Poole Is Here (2008) .............19 The Holiday (2006) .........................19 Holy Man (1998) ..............................19 Holy Smoke (2000) ..........................19 The Horse Whisperer (1998) ...........20 Hulk (2003).......................................20 I Am David (2003).............................20 I Am Sam (2001) ..............................20 I Heart Huckabees (2004) ...............20 Illusion (2004) ..................................20 Imagine: John Lennon (1988) ..........20 Imagine That (2009).........................21 Inception (2010)................................21 Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1959)....23 Into the Wild (2007) .........................23 The Island (2005).............................23 It Could Happen to You (1994) ........23 It's a Wonderful Life (1946)...............23 Jésus de Montréal (1989) ................24 Jesus of Nazareth (1977) ................24 Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) ........24 The Joy Luck Club (1993) ...............24 K-PAX (2001) ...................................24 Kate & Leopold (2001).....................24 The Kid (2000) .................................24 The King’s Speech (2010)................24 King of Hearts (1966).......................24 Kite Runner (2007)...........................25 Kiss the Sky (1998)..........................25 L.A. Story (1991) .............................25 The Lake House (2006)....................25 Lars and the Real Girl (2007)...........25 The Last Sin Eater (2007) ...............25 The Last Station (2009) ...................26 Leaving Normal (1992) ...................26 Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) ......26 Let It Ride (1989)..............................26 Letters To God (2010) ......................26 Life as a House (2001) ....................26 Lilies of the Field (1963)...................27 The Lion King (1994)........................27 Little Buddha (1993).........................27 A Little Princess (1995) ....................27 Love Actually (2003) ........................27 Love Affair (1939) ............................27 Made in Heaven (1987) ...................27 Man Facing Southeast (1986)..........28 Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) .....28 The Mask of Zorro (1998) ................28 The Matrix (1999) ...........................28 2

Matrix Reloaded (2003)....................30 Matrix Revolutions (2003).................31 Meet the Fockers (2004)..................31 Meet the Parents (2000)...................31 Mind the Gap (2004).........................31 Minority Report (2002)......................31 The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) . .31 Les Misérables (1998)......................32 The Mission (1986)...........................32 Mr. Destiny (1990) ...........................32 My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).....32 My Dinner with Andre (1981) ...........32 Next (2007) ......................................33 The Nines (2007) .............................33 No Reservations (2007) ...................34 Only You (1994) ...............................34 Original Sin (2001)............................34 The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)............34 Passengers (2008)...........................34 Passion of Mind (2000) ....................35 Peaceful Warrior (2006) ...................35 Phenomenon (1996) ........................35 Phone Booth (1996).........................35 Pocahontas (1995) ..........................35 Pollyanna (1960)..............................35 Powder (1995)..................................35 Priest (1994) ....................................35 The Preacher's Wife (1996) .............36 Premonition (2007)..........................36 A Price Above Rubies (1998) ...........36 The Razor's Edge (1984) .................36 The Razor's Edge (1946) .................36 Revolver (2005) ...............................36 Rigoletto (1993) ...............................37 Romeo and Juliette (1968) ..............37 Scarlet Letter (1995) ........................38 Serendipity (2001) ...........................38 Shall We Dance (2004).....................38 The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Shutter Island (2010) ......................38 S1m0ne (2002) ................................38 Sleepless In Seattle (1993) ..............39 Sliding Doors (1998) ........................39 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)...............39 Snow Walker (2003) ........................39 Solaris (2002) ..................................39 Someone to Love (1988) .................40 Something's Gotta Give (2003) .......40 Somewhere In Time (1980) .............40 Sphere (1998) ..................................40 Spiderman 3 (2002)..........................41 Spirit: Stallion (2002)........................41 Star Trek: First Contact (1996) ........41 Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) ..........41 Still Breathing (1997)........................41 A Stranger Among Us (1992) ...........41 Stranger than Fiction (2006) ............42 Swept Away (2002)...........................42 The Ten Commandments (1956)......42 The Thaw (1996) .............................42 Thérèse (2004) ...............................43

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) .............43 Three Wishes (1995)........................43 The Time Traveler's Wife (2009).......44 Titanic (1997) ...................................44 Total Recall (1990) ...........................45 The Truman Show (1998) ................45 Two Girls and a Guy (1998)..............45 The Ultimate Gift (2006) ..................45 Uncorked (1998) ..............................45 Vanilla Sky (2001) ............................45 Venice/Venice (1992) .......................46 The Village (2004)............................47 Waking Life (2001) ...........................47 A Walk in the Clouds (1995) ............47 Whale Rider (2002)..........................47 What About Bob? (1991) .................47 What Dreams May Come (1998) .....47 What The Bleep (2004) ....................47 When a Man Loves a Woman 1994 48 When Harry Met Sally (1989) ..........48 Wide Awake (1989)..........................48 The Wizard of Oz (1939) .................49 X-Men (2000) ...................................49 Yentl (1983)......................................49 Yes Man (2008)................................49 You Can’t Take It With You (1938) .. .49

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The Abyss (1989) Dir. James Cameron; Ed Harris is “Bud” and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio is Lindsey, his wife wanting divorce. Oil rig workers and Navy Seals try to reach nuke sub in hurricane. Crane falls; Seal leader Coffey succumbs to pressure psychosis, arms warhead. High-speed lights in water. “We all see what we want to see. You have to look with better eyes.” “You’re not alone in the dark. I’m with you. I’ll always be with you. I love you.” Bud is taken to their city. Huge tsunamis stop. They see that Bud is loving. So does Lindsey. “They want us to put away childish things.” Resurrected: Jammer, Lindsey, Bud. Adam (2009) Director: Max Mayer. Film opens with funeral of father of Adam (Hugh Dancy). Beth (Rose Byrne) moves into his building. He has Asperger’s Syndrome, a form of autism. He gets fired, apparently for poor communication skills.

She reads Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome. He can’t handle it that she lied to him. Her father gets sent to jail for two years. She helps him get a job in California and decides she can’t go with him. They were a great help to each other for a while, and then it was done. Relationships are temporary assignments where an opportunity is offered to extend love and true empathy. With a willingness to train the mind and learn discernment, the Voice for God can be recognized and followed. Exposing thoughts may seem awkward and uncomfortable, but healing will occur swiftly when communication is open and honest. Saying what you mean and meaning what you say will open the door to true intimacy and connectedness. "Feeling loved is very important, but loving…that's the necessity," says Beth’s mother. When the lesson is learned, the relationship is no longer needed. In the end, the Spirit reveals that the love from another is no substitute for the love for another. Have the faith and courage to follow your heart and you will witness miracles!

Always (1989) Director Steven Spielberg. Forest-fire fighting pilot Pete Sandich (Richard Dreyfuss) never tells radio controller Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) that her loves her before he dies. He returns as the guardian angel to Ted Baker (Brad Johnson). Ted falls for Dorinda and Pete watches in jealous upset. Pete returns for a consultation with his angel, Hap (Audrey Hepburn), who tells him “to gain your freedom you have to give it.” Pete wishes Dorinda a good life and releases her.

Always (1985) Director Henry Jaglom (David) fictionally documents his own divorce and reconciliation with Patrice Townsend (Judy). David: I want to be known. Alone is not OK, sharing is OK. You just have to go through the pain. Judy: But I feel the pain doesn’t end. I want to be happy. Maybe I want too much. Married couple Eddie and Lucy argue, each sleeps with someone else. Sister Peggy lives moment to moment, no commitment. André Gregory: Every person sees something different. David: In that moment, weren’t you happy? You can only know this second. I’m making this movie and I can have a happy ending. Say, “I’ll never leave you again.” You have permission to be happy.

American Beauty (1999) Director Sam Mendes, Writer Alan Ball. Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) at 42 feels “In a way I’m dead already.” His wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) is 100% into the role of her image selling real estate and into getting fucked by the “king.”

She is controlling, cruel to herself and slaps her daughter, Jane (Thora Birch). Lester says, “I get exhausted just watching her.” He recognizes that he has “lost something.” He has hated his job; finally gets honest with himself and gets fired with a full year’s separation. “I have nothing to lose. I feel I’ve been in a coma 20 years and am just now waking up.” Jane’s friend Angela (Mena Suvari) loves the adulation she gets for her good looks and boasts about sexual exploits. Lester is smitten with Angela and starts lifting weights.

Jane gets interested in neighbor Ricky (Wes Bentley), who sees there is “this entire life behind things, and... this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever… There is so much beauty in the world.” His ex-Marine father insists, “There are rules!” Ricky says about him to Jane, “Never underestimate the power of denial.” Although his dad had him locked up, Ricky doesn’t hate him. He and Jane are honest with each other. Lester says to Carolyn, “This isn’t life; it’s just stuff.” And then later, “You don’t get to tell me what to do ever again.” Ricky’s dad is homophobic and thinks Ricky is having sex with Lester. Dad throws Ricky out and Jane agrees to flee with him. Ricky hits a soft spot when he tells Angela she’s “ordinary and boring.” When Angela seeks solace by seducing Lester, she says (the truth) “It’s my first time,” which jolts Lester out of his fantasy. He gives her loving attention and comforts her, which is what she really wanted, and he gets in touch with his love for his daughter. He feels great, at peace, and grateful. Ricky’s dad, ashamed at his own, just revealed, homosexual desire for Lester, shoots Lester. Ricky sees the happiness reflected in Lester’s face. Lester has a loving vision; sees all the beauty.

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Anger Management (2003) Director: Peter Segal. Timid businessman Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler) is court ordered to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson). The unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc on Dave's life and it looks like Buddy is going to take Dave’s girlfriend, Linda (Marisa Tomei). But Dave finally stands up for himself and wins the girl, according to plan.

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) Director: Steven Spielberg Monica (Frances O'Connor) has been grieving the loss of her son, when here husband gives her David (Haley Joel Osment), an advanced robot, who looks like a boy and loves her as his mother. But when her real son revives she abandons David. David, like Pinocchio, goes on a long journey to ask the Blue Fairy, to make him into a real boy so his mother will love him. He hooks up with Gigolo Joe (Jude Law), escapes a Flesh Fair, and makes it to the drowned city of New York where he meets his maker, Dr. Hobby (William Hurt). Finally his wish is granted.

As Good As It Gets (1997) In New York City, Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin.

In addition, Carol (Helen Hunt), the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

As It Is in Heaven (2004) (Swedish) Directed by Kay Pollak. Daniel Daréus (Michael Nyqvist) is a successful and renowned international conductor whose life aspiration has been to create music that will open people's hearts. After suffering a heart attack on stage in Milan, he retires to the village where he endured traumatic bullying as a child. Daniel buys the old elementary school in the village, and is soon asked to listen to, and offer advice to, the choir. After encountering the bully, he agrees to help them and takes the position of cantor. He throws himself into helping the choir grow and develop and rediscovers his own genuine joy in experiencing people through music.

The choir’s humanity manifests. Daniel grows hesitantly closer to Lena (Frida Hallgren), who was deceived by a former lover. Lena teaches Daniel to ride a bike and they fall in love. Inger believes there is no sin, but is unable to develop a love life with her husband Stig, the minister, who believes in sin and guilt. Some healing takes place. Siv is so obsessed with conservative morality she can’t enjoy herself. One evening when the choir is not in harmony, Daniel asks if anyone has anything to get off their chest. Siv says Lena’s behavior with men is unacceptable. Arne shouts that she’s just jealous; Siv is affronted and leaves. But in the next shot Siv is back at the party singing at the piano with Arne, and everyone is laughing and having a great time. Arne is obsessed with success and steamrolls others; Tore, who is mentally retarded, wants to join the choir and does. Gabriella is beaten by her husband, Conny, the same bully who beat Daniel as a child. Holmfrid, who has put up with being called "Fatso" by Arne all his life, finally stands up for himself; Gabriella, inspired by his example, finds the courage to sing her own song in the choir. Conny beats Daniel, who does not defend himself, and Conny is finally arrested. The choir is accepted into the "Let the People Sing" competition and goes to Austria. Lena tells Daniel there is no death. On the day of the performance Daniel has another heart attack, staggers into a restroom and hits his head on a radiator. As he sits bleeding on the floor, he listens to the choir over a loud speaker. Tore starts the singing by making a moan and others in the choir begin harmonizing with it; this sound is so alive and moving that everyone in the auditorium gradually rises to their feet singing joyously. Daniel hears this magnificent harmony and smiles, having finally "created music that opens people’s hearts." The final scene is of Daniel finding and lifting his child-self out of the tall wheat and embracing him in a joyous healing.

At First Sight (1999) Directed by Irwin Winkler. Blind masseur Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer) massages architect Amy (Mira Sorvino) and they experience a real heart connection. Amy, “He touches me to know me better, not to get something from me.” She finds a doctor who may be able to restore his sight. Val says: “There is no problem,” but agrees to go to NY and has the operation. He can see, but doesn’t know what he’s seeing. His fingers tell his brain and his brain tells his eyes what he’s seeing. Visual therapist (Nathan Hale) calls it mental blindness. He reads, “One must die as a blind person to be born again as a sighted person. However, it is the interim, the limbo between two worlds, that is so terrible.” Virgil, with no “visual memory,” can’t tell the difference between an apple and a picture of an apple. “Your eyes play tricks on you. You have to learn to see.” He can’t get 3-D, scan the whole picture, read, or understand facial expressions. Virgil and Amy misunderstand each other. Virgil, “I feel like I saw you better when I was blind.”

Therapist, “None of it matters if you lose sight of what you want.” Amy sees Virgil as lacking. Virgil feels he’s letting her down, as he let his father down. “All I’ve ever wanted was to be whole.” He goes blind again and returns upstate to his sister (Kelly McGillis). Virgil, “As a blind man I think I see a lot better than when I was sighted. I don’t think we see with our eyes. I think we live in darkness when we don’t see what’s real about ourselves or others or life. No operation can do that. When you see what’s real about yourself, you’ve seen a lot. You don’t need eyes for that.” Based on the actual experience of Shirl Jennings 5

August Rush (2007) Director Kirsten Sheridan. Lyla (Keri Russell), a renowned cellist, falls in love with Louis, an Irish guitar player; they separate and Lyla has their baby, Evan (Freddie Highmore). Lyla has an accident and her father gives the baby to an orphanage but does not tell her. Eleven years later Evan goes to New York to find his parents. He escapes trouble and runs into a church where people are surprised by his musical gift and send him to Juilliard. He writes August Rhapsody in C major and gets to direct his music in Central Park where Lyla and Louis reunite with him.

Awakenings (1990) Directed by Penny Marshall; the true story of a (British) neurologist who, in 1969, discovered beneficial effects of administering L-Dopa to catatonic patients who survived the 1917–28 epidemic of encephalitis. Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) and Nurse Eleanor Costello (Julie Kavner) want to help patients have been comatose for decades with no hope of a cure. Sayer learns about L-Dopa and gets permission to try it on Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro) who went into a coma in his early teens. Leonard completely "awakens" from his catatonic state and is adjusting to his new life. “I’m back. I thought it was a dream.” He becomes romantically interested in Paula (Penelope Ann Miller), the daughter of another hospital patient.

Unfortunately they soon find that L-Dopa is a temporary measure; Paula dances slowly with Leonard, later reads to him. Sayer’s joining with Eleanor and his determination to help, lead him out of his shell and his inhibitions. “ The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.

As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides

is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.

Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly--. An image enters in, rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone

Batman Begins (2005) Writers: Bob Kane, David S. Goyer Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine This movie is a classic for vigilance and mind training. Past grievances can be healed by the adoption of a new purpose and a sense of integrity. Bruce must learn to raise the darkness to the light in order to realize his new identity (Batman) or Son of God. He heads off to far countries to train and eventually goes home to hand over his wealth, company, and skills to a greater purpose. It takes dedication and mind training to allow the darkness to be seen truly. With service to the whole, and the desire to give over all abilities to the Spirit, we become what we truly are; certain, clear, and Self-responsible. There is no vengeance in the Spirit’s purpose.

Bruce Wayne falls into well and is terrified by bats. The adult Bruce (Christian Bale), is fighting in a Chinese prison when he meets Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson) who tells him to find himself he has to devote himself to an ideal. Ducard takes him to Ra’s Al Ghul. First he must master his own fear. As boy Wayne asked to leave opera and his parents were shot. He thinks their deaths were his fault. Ducard tells him he has buried his fear with his anger. Bruce goes to kill his parents’ murderer and Rachel (Katie Holmes) slaps him. Ducard, “You fear your own power. Men fear most what they cannot see. You have to become an idea.” Bruce, “I will not become an executioner. I have compassion.” He blows up the place, but saves Ducard. Bruce, “I can’t do it as a man, but I can as a symbol”-Batman. Carmine Falcone is ruining city. Dr. Crane (Cillian Murphy) shoots poison vapor. Bruce partners with Sgt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman). His butler Alfred (Michael Caine) says, “It can’t be personal.” In the end Rachel lets him go to do his thing.

Batman Returns (1992) Parents drop baby Penguin (Danny Devito) in the river. Businessman Max Shreck (Christopher Walken) has evil plans and pushes his secretary Celine (Michelle Pfeiffer) out the window. She becomes Cat Woman who struggles with Batman (Michael Keaton) but is attracted to his bachelor persona, Bruce Wayne. “Celine, don’t you see we’re all the same.”

A Beautiful Mind (2001) Dir. Ron Howard. After his studies at Princeton, John Nash (Russell Crowe) accepts an appointment at MIT where he meets student Alicia and they eventually marry. Nash is invited to a secret facility in the Pentagon to crack a complex enemy encryption, which he deciphers mentally. He becomes increasingly paranoid and begins to behave erratically. While delivering a lecture he believes he is being watched by hostile people and flees. He is forcibly sedated and sent to a psychiatric facility, where he sees the psychiatric staff as Soviet kidnappers. Alicia retrieves his never-opened "top secret" documents and Nash is finally convinced that he has been hallucinating. Nash's friend Charles and his niece are also delusions.

He secretly stops taking his medication, triggering a relapse of his psychosis. Later Princeton grants him permission to work out of the library and audit classes. He is ultimately able to live with and largely ignore his psychotic episodes. He goes on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Dr. Rosen: You can't reason your way out of this! Nash: Why not? Why can't I? Dr. Rosen: Because your mind is where the problem is in the first place! [Hansen is concerned about John still having hallucinations] Nash: They are my past.

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Everyone is haunted by their past. I've gotten used to ignoring them and I think, as a result, they've kind of given up on me. I think that's what it's like with all our dreams and our nightmares, Martin, we've got to keep feeding them for them to stay alive. Nash: [to Thomas King] I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.

Alicia: It's called "life," John. Activities available; just add meaning.

In this clip <http://www.media-library.us/beautifulmind.htm> John Nash is looking for an original idea. There really are no original ideas; what he is really calling for is the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. With the backdrop of a group of friends trying to get a date, the Holy Spirit undoes the idea of personal ambition being the ideal. All of the guys are in competition for a blond girl but Nash received Guidance that the way for everyone to get what they want is to put aside their individual goals and let the Spirit dictate what is most helpful. The ego sees this as a ploy for Nash to get the blond girl, but we quickly see that what he really wants is the Inspiration as witnessed to by the fact that he leaves the bar altogether in Joy. The clip emphasizes that Insight from the Holy Spirit takes care of the "individual" and the "group". Part of the plan of the Holy Spirit is to collapse these distinctions. So as guidance is followed, it is experienced that there really is only one. Personal ambition and people-pleasing strengthen the small sense of self.

Guidance undoes both to strengthen wholeness.

Being There (1979) Dir. Hal Ashby. Simple-minded gardener, Chance (Peter Sellers), has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When his benefactor dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve (Shirley McLaine) and her husband Ben, an influential businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, he becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. From the book by Jerzy Kosinski.

The Bishop’s Wife (1947) Cary Grant is an angel who joins with Loretta Young, wife of the Bishop, David Niven, who is obsessed with building a cathedral with money from Mrs. Hamilton. The angel plays harp music written for Mrs. Hamilton by her former fiancé whom she lost to her own greed. She sees the truth and all the money goes to the poor; none of them have any memory of the angel afterwards.

Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Dir. Oliver Stone. Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise) grows up Catholic: “God is going to punish you” for having a Playboy. He is very competitive in high school, ashamed of losing a wrestling match. He decides to enlist, US “needs people to make a sacrifice.” His unit kills women and children and he kills PFC Wilson, and guilt haunts him. Kovic is shot and paralyzed. He becomes angry with hospital staff. “My body is my home; I am not at home. I wish I were dead.” He drinks, blames his mother shouting “penis,” blames his country and God. “Who’s ever going to love me?” In Mexico he blames, Charlie, another paraplegic veteran. “We got so lost.” Finally he goes to PFC Wilson’s house and tells his family he shot their son. Wilson’s mother says, “We understand the pain you’ve been through.” Then Kovic militantly protests at the 1972 Republican convention in Miami and finally gets to speak at the 1976 Democratic convention in NY. In “extras” Cruise said what was needed to play Kovic was “searching for the truth and never giving up.”

Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Directed by Paul Greengrass. Bourne (Matt Damon) is being hunted by the people in the CIA who trained him to be an assassin. Still suffering from amnesia and determined to learn his true identity, he comes out of hiding to meet London-based reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar. CIA Director Ezra Kramer says, “Bourne's still a serious threat.” CIA Deputy Director Noah Vosen wants Bourne eliminated, before he finds out his true identity and takes down the CIA. Jason is chased in Paris, London, Madrid, Tangier, and New York while fighting to survive, he is supported by Nicky Parsons. Pamela Landy helps him find Dr. Hirsch learn and how David Webb became Jason Bourne.

The Break Up (2006) A composite, revealing exposure of the futility of attempting “relationship” without Divine Purpose. Relationships without a Divine Aim always “break up,” for they are based on nothing. Divine Purpose could be described as forgiveness, the undoing and releasing of the ego. For the belief in the ego prevents awareness of True Union and Intimacy. And the underlying fear of Intimacy and Union is the ego’s fear of loss of itself, the “personal self ” and the “personal world.” There are pseudo “ego” experiences of attraction and repulsion, bonding and hatred, but underneath there is always a wish to separate and “go separate ways” or to maintain the private, independent sense of self. This is the futility and confusion of all worldly “relationships” and attempts at the “union of bodies.” True Love is of the Spirit (beyond the body) and lasts forever!

Breaking Up (1997) From play by Michael Christopher. They start: “Being in love is like a drug that makes life fun, gives hope and self-esteem.” But 7

later: “We never talk; it’s the end of a dream.” They break up, but each is sad about being alone. They have sex and get back together: “Sex is a key part, like a drug.” Steve (Russell Crowe) fears: “Not knowing who I am here. If this is all I have and it doesn’t last, I have nothing left.” Planning to get married they interview people about what makes a good marriage. Monica (Salma Hayek) quotes Einstein, Marx and Freud to show there is no meaning, only doubt. Steve overwhelmed at start of formal church wedding and passes out, so Monica moves out. They happen to meet later and they show each other pictures of their kids. But neither is really happy and they feel sexual attraction. A long minutes.

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) Dir: Franco Zeffirelli. Francesco, son of a rich merchant, returns from the Crusades in a delirium. As he recovers his reception of spirit is depicted in his capturing and freeing a bird. The opening of his eyes to “vision pure and fair” is shown during the songs: “On This Lovely Day” and “Brother Sun, Sister Moon.” He spends time in meadows meditating on the beauty of God's creatures. He renounces his riches saying, “Our treasures are in heaven. Now I can see so clearly. Man is a spirit. I want to live, be happy and free; a beggar like Christ. What is born of the spirit is spirit. I now am born again.” As “the poorest of the poor” he starts to rebuild a church and gathers people with him. Claire witnesses the change in him and joins him. He shares food equally with the poor while singing the “Prayer of St. Francis.” Hi new congregation sings “If you want to live life free take your time go slowly.” The Pope accepts a new order of beggars, these poorest of the poor who have the inner treasure.

Bruce Almighty (2003) Director: Tom Shadyac. Television reporter Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) curses his bad luck. When he fails to get the anchorman position, he accuses God of tormenting him. “Smite me!” and “You’re the only one not doing your job.” God calls him and finally Bruce picks up on the third attempt. God (Morgan Freeman) offers Bruce his job and gives him divine powers. Bruce proceeds to get everything he wants, like the body of Jimmy Hoffa and the job, but he ignores what his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston), wants and loses her. He asks God, “How do you make someone love you without affecting free will?” God later says, “Since when does anyone know what they want?” Finally Bruce doesn’t want to be God anymore and surrenders. He prays that Grace will find someone who sees her as God sees her and encourages everyone to “be the miracle.”

Bucket List (2007)

Director: Rob Reiner. Terminal patients Edward (Jack Nicholson) and Carter (Morgan Freeman) decide to do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die which they put on their “bucket list.” In the process, they become unlikely friends and heal each other, ultimately finding joy. Closes with song: “Say” by John Mayer Bullworth (1998) Dir. Warren Beatty. Senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty), facing financial ruin and ashamed of cashing in on right-wing political trends at the expense of his liberal beliefs, puts out a contract on his own life so his daughter can collect on his insurance. But living on borrowed time, he finds he is no longer afraid to speak the raw truth, which, after experiences in South Central Los Angeles with Nina (Halle Berry), he does to hip-hop rhythms, much to the consternation of his aid, Dennis Murphy (Oliver Platt).

The Butterfly Effect (2004) Writer/Directors: Eric Bess and J. Mackye Gruber. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), suffers severe childhood traumas and blackouts. At age seven he begins keeping a journal of what was happening before each blackout. One day at college he starts to read one of his old journals and has a flashback. Determined to heal, he develops the ability to travel back in time and "redo" these parts of his past. But his new choices bring even worse consequences to his girlfriend Kayleigh (Amy Smart), his friends, his mother and himself, until his final choice not to separate.

Chances Are (1989) This light movie starts with the Johnny Mathis song. Corrine and Louis are married but when he dies Louis is determined to come back to earth and find her. The angel in heaven forgets to give him the “forget” shot before he comes back to earth as the young man Alex. Meanwhile, after the death of Louis, Corinne marries Philip and they have a daughter, Miranda. Alex comes home from college with Miranda but immediately falls for Corinne and shares some memories. ♥ Chocolat (2000) Directed by Lasse Hallström. Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her pre-teen daughter move into a small 8

town in France and open a chocolate shop just as lent is beginning. The town's small-minded mayor (Alfred Molina) can't accept this and does his best to shut her down, but her warm personality and incredible chocolates win over many townsfolk. Things get shaken up when a group of river drifters, led by Roux (Johnny Depp), stop into town and Vianne takes up with him. Meanwhile, she's been helping Josephine out of her abusive marriage and helping Amande Voisin (Judi Dench) connect with her grandson, Luc, whose mother doesn't approve of Amande's liberal ways.

City Island (2000) It is impossible to see your brother as he really is while keeping secrets and private thoughts in your mind. The family in this movie has a lot of secrets and as sometimes with families, they get revealed under dramatic circumstances. Don’t keep your private thoughts to yourself, give them over to the light within and they will no more be seen in your world. Without exception the projected world is an out picturing of an inward condition. Let’s join in laughing and loving it away!

Click (2006) Architect Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is rushing through his too-busy life pursuing success and neglecting his family. He goes into the magic “Beyond” part of Bed Bath and Beyond. where Morty [death] (Christopher Walken) gives him a universal remote that allows him to “control” time and the world. He can fast forward through upsets and jump to the end of projects. The machine picks up on, and gives him, his desires for success and money. However, he loses his wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and before he knows it, it’s the end of his life. From there he rewinds and sees the opportunities for love that he missed. In a final effort, he manages to tell his son that family comes first. Then he awakens in the Bed part of BBBY and realizes it was a dream.

Awake, he changes course and tells his father he loves him. He happily begins to live in the present with his family.

Contact (1997) Director: Robert Zemeckis Writer: Carl Sagan. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who only believes in what can be proven with empirical evidence. Her deep desire for communication and exploration into outer space are her motivating interests. Without making a conscious decision to go for God, her desire for truth and her willingness to join with her companions becomes her pathway. She finds a benefactor in the form of S. R. Hadden (John Hurt), a billionaire investor. Kent (William Fichtner) is her supportive partner.

As Jesus shares in ACIM, it would be unfair indeed if belief in God were necessary for awakening. Nor is belief in God a really meaningful concept, for God can be but known. Different teaching aids appeal to different people. Some forms of religion have nothing to do with God... yet if two minds join in sharing one goal, God will enter into their relationship because He has been invited to come in. In the same way, a union of purpose leads to healing, being the release of separate interests.

If healing is an invitation to God to enter into His Kingdom, what difference does it make how the invitation is written? Does the paper matter, or the ink, or the pen? Or is it he who writes that gives the invitation? God comes to those who would restore His world, for they have found the way to call to Him. If any two are joined, He must be there. It does not matter what their purpose is, but they must share it wholly to succeed.

The ego cannot handle the Truth and does everything it can to destroy or take away the steps to the remembrance of God. God or mystical experiences are beyond the world's empirical evidence. There is nothing that can confirm the inner except the inner and it is for those who have the ears to hear. The desire to share that experience is what helps keep it in awareness until the journey's end.

Stand firm in what is Real and let not the ego tempt you to forget or shove it under the carpet. You are not Alone. It is a world of beauty as seen by the Holy Spirit.

Dan in Real Life (2007) Directed by Peter Hedges. Dan Burns (Steve Carell), devoted single parent of three daughters, meets the girl of his dreams, Marie (Juliette Binoche), in a bookstore, and they hit it off for a couple hours. But soon Dan finds out she is his brother’s new girlfriend and they are all staying together at his parent’s house. Although Dan tries to hide how he feels, his attraction to Marie and his guilt about it get acted out, culminating in upset and embarrassment. Once the truth is out, however, perception shifts. Dan’s parents and his daughters don’t want him to lose the love of his life and urge him to pursue her, which he does.

Danny Deckchair (2003) Directed by Jeff Balsmeyer. This Oz-like story is based on a true story. Danny (Rhys Ifans) is a Sydney cement truck driver who wants to go camping. His partner Trudy (Justine Clarke), however, finds Danny and camping boring and says she has to work during his holiday. So Danny waits around the house. Glimpsing Trudy’s infidelity, he becomes so frustrated he takes of in a deckchair tied to helium balloons. He lands in the backyard of Glenda (Miranda Otto). He reinvents himself, shaves, and takes Glenda to the local ball. His example helps others to step out. Yet he remains humble and honest. He is found and taken back to Sydney and his job. While stuck in traffic, he gets out and walks away. He tells Trudy good-bye and parachutes back into Glenda’s yard. That they are soul mates is clear when she says she wants to travel with him, taking tent and camping gear on the plane. ♥ 9

Dark City (1997) Dir: Alex Proyas. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) wakes in a hotel bathtub [during the imprint process] with a cut on his head and amnesia. He gets a call from Dr. Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland) who urges him to flee from the Strangers, aliens who came to try to cure their mortality. They can alter matter with “tuning” and make people “sleep now.” In his room John discovers the body of a ritualistically murdered woman. Murdoch is wanted by police inspector Frank Bumstead (William Hurt) for a series of murders. The city experiences perpetual night and everyone falls asleep at midnight, except Murdoch, who discovers has psychokinetic powers. He tracks down his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), who saves him from capture. John: “You didn’t do it.” Emma: “I love you. You can’t fake that.”

Murdoch attempts to find Shell Beach but his uncle’s memory of it has been erased. In an attempt to track Murdoch down, the Strangers inject Mr. Hand with his lost memories. Dr. Schreber forced to adapt and blend memories for them. “Your entire history is an illusion. None of us remember where we came from.” Former Det. Eddie Walenski has gone mad and shouts, “No way out!” “I’ve been dreaming this life. I’ll be somebody else. It’s all a big joke.”

Bumstead recognizes Murdoch's innocence; they confront Dr. Schreber and the three go to find Shell Beach. They tear through a wall revealing deep space and, in a fight with the Strangers, Bumstead falls through the hole. The Strangers are about to imprint Murdoch with their collective memory when Schreber, in rebellion, inserts Murdoch’s own memories plus Stranger secrets.

Murdoch awakens and defeats their leader in a battle above the city. He then returns the sun and floods the area surrounding the city, remaking Shell Beach. “I can make the world be anything I want as long as I concentrate hard enough.” Murdoch encounters Mr. Hand and tells him the Strangers have been searching in the wrong place, the head, to understand humanity. He finds Emma on a pier in the sunshine. She has a new identity and no recollection of Murdoch; they start walking to Shell Beach.

Dead Man Walking (1995) Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon) visits with convicted murderer Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn) during the final week before his state-ordered execution. Sister Prejean becomes Poncelet's spiritual counselor and connects him with a lawyer who helps Poncelet appeal without success. Sister Prejean visits the victims' families and listens to their stories of pain and suffering. She helps Matthew Poncelet to finally take responsibility for the murders and rape he committed. She says, “You are the Son of God,” and tells him look at her, the face of Love, before he dies.

Poncelet asks the father of the boy he killed for forgiveness.

Deconstructing Harry (1997) Harry Block (Woody Allen) writes novels about his own experiences as well as those of his friends, which enrages many of them.

His former wife Lucy (Judy Davis) wants to shoot him. He has been through 6 shrinks and 3 wives but his life is the same: he is still alone and wants sex with every woman he sees. For Harry the most beautiful words are not “I love you” but “It’s benign.” His former student/girlfriend Fay (Elisabeth Shue) marries his friend Larry (Billy Crystal). On Harry’s way to be honored by his old school, his friend Richard (Bob Balaban) dies in the car. The line between his friends and his characters dissolves. He is lectured by his character Ken (Richard Benjamin), by his sister (Caroline Aaron) and by his former therapist/wife Helen (Demi Moore). About Harry: “You create your own world. It’s your dream.” By Harry: “All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.” In the end they all show up and honor him.

Defending Your Life (1991) Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) was killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the afterlife. During the day he and his lawyer (Rip Torn) must prove in a courtroom-style process replaying videotapes of his life, that he successfully overcame his fears. He falls in love with Julia (Meryl Streep), and races to jump on her bus, so they both move on. Funny.

Déjà vu (1998) Directed by: Henry Jaglom. Dana (Victoria Foyt), a young American woman traveling in Jerusalem meets a mysterious older French woman who asks her if she is really happy about being engaged. She then shares her own story of lost love and leaves behind an antique ruby pin, one of a pair. Dana searches for her but the hotel she mentioned was torn down. She finds the jeweler who made the pin in Paris. Then she heads to London to meet her fiancé, but on impulse gets off at Dover. She meets a painter, Sean (Stephen Dillane), on the cliffs. “Have we met before?” He asks her if she knows the Brazilian Portuguese word saudades, which means nostalgia for a thing that may never have been. Dana: the song “White Cliffs of Dover” made me cry. Have you ever been in a place and felt connected, like a clue? You meet somebody and everything clicks. Do you think that exists? Sean: Yes. D: I feel like I’ve been here before. S: I feel it too. D: Well, we just can’t go on like this. S: Just think about it now. [kisses her] He gives her a ride and “White Cliffs” is the first song in his player. In his studio, she’s drawn to picture of a couple in Paris and he gives it to her. She meets fiancé Alex at the home of John and Fern. She asks Alex if he felt he had a choice about her and he said “yes.” John and Fern exhibit special relationship difficulties. Then Sean turns up there on business with his wife, Claire. Dana to Sean: I can’t be with you, you’re 10

married. To Alex: I want to be connected to part of me that’s timeless. Do you know what I mean? No. At tea Fern tells story of Katherine Hepburn missing her true love in Scotland. John’s sister, Skelly (Vanessa Redgrave) tells of how a girl who sang White Cliffs of Dover changed her life. Sean: I have to stick with my marriage. Skelly: Don’t you believe in anything wonderful? Sean: Is the desire an illusion? Skelly: An illusion is the scent of something real coming close. Sean to Dana: These things are sent to test us.

Dana: I just don’t know what to do with this feeling now. Skelly: Jump into life. Alex doesn’t appreciate vase. Sean thinks Dana’s vase is fantastic. They go to his place. Dana: I didn’t think I could love. Now I do. Sean: “To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, neither in time or eternity.” Kierkegaard. Fern: Following your heart has a high price tag, no security. Dana’s father asks her, “Are you sure this is what you want?” He gives her a pin—it’s the other half! Dana: Did you really love her? “Yes, she was the love of my life.” Dana returns to Sean to find he painted a picture of his mother. It’s the woman she met in Jerusalem! Their silhouettes as a couple in Paris form the picture. ♥ The Devil's Advocate (1997) Directed by Taylor Hackford. Young Gainesville attorney Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) has never lost a case. He has a knack for jury selection, an ability that turns out to be inherited. He gets a child molester off, then is invited to join John Milton’s (Al Pacino) New York law firm. His wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) wants to go home, but Kevin is intent on proving himself. John Milton begins to show some uncanny abilities, some of his dealings appear a bit shady, and finally he reveals his egoic/Satanic core. Kevin is attracted to law partner Christabella Andreoli (Connie Nielsen). Milton gives Kevin the case of defending real estate magnate Alexander Cullen (Craig T. Nelson) and Kevin insists on winning it, even though he knows Cullen is guilty and that Mary Ann is desperate to see him. Mary Ann loses her grip and kills herself. Cut back to Gainesville and Kevin drops the child molester case. But the ego never rests. Reporter triggers his pride, touches his vanity, his love of ego self.

The Dhamma Brothers (2007) Directed by Jenny Philips, follows the stories of prison inmates who enter into an intensive Vipassana Meditation program. They learned that internal sensations are what drive behavior and that they could just observe sensations on the body and not to react to them. Vipassana means to see things as they are, which may not be pleasant. “Each student has to face an internal storm.” Grady had to stay there and deal with his stuff. “I couldn’t get away from myself.” Later when he learned his daughter had been murdered, he said, “I have a choice about how to react.”

Doubt – (2006) – the play

by John Patrick Shanley Directed by Doug Hughes at the Walter Kerr Theatre, NY, 2006 Characters: Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius, Sister James, Mrs. Muller, set in 1964 in the Bronx. Action of the Play: Father Flynn, handsome and charismatic, delivers a sermon in which he discusses how, when one is not doing what everyone else is doing, he can experience doubt and feel alone. Sister Aloysius, the head of St. Nicholas Church School is weathered and cynical. She is pleased when told that all the students fear her. She calls the young, innocent teacher Sister James into her office and tells that she has suspicions about Father Flynn’s behavior with the boys and asks her to keep an eye out for anything unusual. Father Flynn addresses the boys’ basketball team in a friendly manner and mentions that it is important to keep your fingernails clean, even if they are a bit long like his.

Later, Sister James reports to Sister Aloysius that the school’s one black student came to class after seeing Father Flynn, put his head down on the table and smelled of alcohol. For Sister Aloysius, this confirms that Father Flynn is a pedophile, and she confronts. Father Flynn says that the boy was caught drinking sacramental wine and had just told him he could no longer be an alter boy. Sister Aloysius does not to believe this.

She calls in the boy’s mother, Mrs. Muller, and shares her suspicions. Mrs. Muller replies that she knows her son is a homosexual, but whether or not anything happened between her son and Father Flynn, could they please forget it until June so he can graduate. The boy had to leave his prior school because he was attacked for his sexual orientation and his father would kill him if something like this became news.

Father Flynn delivers another sermon in which he says that gossip is like slashing a pillow on a rooftop—once the feathers are on the wind they cannot be taken back. Father Flynn talks with Sister James, at the conclusion of which she is convinced that nothing happened. Sister Aloysius tells Sister James that her suspicions were aroused when she saw a boy withdraw when Father Flynn touched him on the wrist.

Sister Aloysius tells Father Flynn that it is her job to protect the children and she will go full speed ahead in trying to get him removed no matter what. She sets out with chilling conviction to destroy him for the sin she believes, beyond a shadow of a doubt, he has committed. Father Flynn declares emphatically that nothing happened, that she could hurt people such as the black student in ways she doesn’t understand. She tells him that she called a nun at his former school who told her something bad about him. He doesn’t believe it and tells her she should have followed protocol and talked to the pastor who was in charge. Sister Aloysius later admits that she never did call the school, that it was a lie. Still she is resolute on getting him out.

Finally, Father Flynn calls the Bishop and is transferred to another church, where he is now both pastor and head of school. Sister Aloysius finally says she has a doubt, but not what the doubt concerns.

My Experience of the Play, Doubt I watched the play with five of my friends. At the end of the play I was sure that we would all have come to the same conclusion—that Father Flynn was innocent. I came to this conclusion because there was no evidence against him. I was saddened that he and the student were hurt by the obsessive attacks of a misanthropic nun who admitted telling lies when it suited her.

John Patrick Shanley said in an interview, “Doubt has gotten a bad reputation. People who are utterly certain are vulnerable to a brand of foolishness that people who maintain a level of doubt are not.” I saw Sister Aloysius demonstrating foolish certainty in her zealous determination to expose Father Flynn as a pedophile.

The playbill states that Ron Eldard, who plays Father Flynn, dedicated his performance to his 7 th grade math teacher, Arnold Heller, “who saved his life.” I saw Father Flynn as a life-saver.

Imagine my surprise when all five of my friends said they had come to the opposite conclusion—that Father Flynn was a guilty pedophile who unfortunately had gotten away.

I now see the play as providing a remarkable experience of the subjectivity of perception. My friends did not experience doubt. They were convinced that Father Flynn was guilty. I was just as convinced he was innocent. We can’t both be right. For me, their certainty was an example of how easily we can be taken in when our

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biases color our perception. If I’m wrong about that, then my certainty is an example of how easily we are taken in by perception.

My conclusions are:

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The ego is quick to judge and sure its judgments are correct.

The ego is frequently mistaken. (Or always mistaken when it sees separation.)

The wise course for me is

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To let it go; not to try to be right, because it doesn’t matter.

To appreciate my brother in his innocence; it does matter.

So, rather than argue with my friends, I chose to let it go and enjoy the rest of the evening with them.

Eating (1990) This is a ‘stream-of-consciousness’ movie in which a group of woman spanning the ages of early birthday twenties to sixties attend a birthday party. A French documentary filmmaker attends the party and becomes fascinated when none of the guests will touch the birthday cake. She begins interviewing the party-goers, and they open up, revealing many hidden thoughts and beliefs, a main theme being special relationship with food. This is a great mindwatcher, or flusher of a movie. You may just watch a portion of it and then journal your thoughts or use an Instrument for Peace if something comes up into awareness to go into further.

Ed TV (1990) Ed volunteers to be the star of a live TV show, where the cameras are rolling 24hrs a day. At first the exposure is welcome and it seems easy to handle, but as the cameras continue to roll, emotions begin to arise. Everyone is swept along in a rapid undoing of private thoughts, which the ego views as entertainment. The Spirit uses it all for healing, knowing that the outcome will be authentic relationships.

Elephant Man (1980) Black and white. Dir. David Lynch. John Merrick (John Hurt) gets cruel treatment from Bytes. “People are frightened by what they don’t understand.” When mobbed at train station cries out, “I am not an animal!” To Dr. Frederick Treves, (Anthony Hopkins) “I am happy every hour of the day. I know I’m loved. I could not say that if it were not for you.” Mrs. Kendal (Ann Bancroft) gives him Shakespeare ROMEO If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. [pilgrim] ROMEO O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.

Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

[John “Then it says they kiss.”]

JULIET Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!

Give me my sin again.

[Mrs. Kendal kisses him on the cheek.]

“You’re not an elephant man at all.” “No?” “You’re Romeo.”

[Tears]

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) Directed by Stephen Spielberg, Music by John Williams. A half dozen aliens are working with plants at a bald spot in the forest flee when government men drive up. E.T. is left behind. Elliot (Henry Thomas) sees him in the backyard and shows kind intentions. E.T. gives Elliot some M&Ms and an empathic connection starts to form.

E.T.’s loving heart glows red and he has power to heal plants and cuts, but above all he wants to phone home for ride. He is getting weaker; Elliot’s brother finds him half dead in a shallow stream and brings him to the house, where government people and doctors descend on them. Elliot tells him, “E.T., I love you.” E.T. revives, his phone message got through. The boys kidnap him and fly him back to the spot on their bicycles. In a tender farewell, E.T. tells him, “I’ll be right here,” pointing to Elliot’s head.

Eternal Sunshine Spotless Mind 04 Director: Michel Gondry; Writers Charlie Kaufman (story) & Michel Gondry In the morning, as Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) is leaving the house he is disappointed to see the side of his car has been gouged. On the train platform he suddenly decides to take the train to Montauk Beach. He notices pages have been ripped from his diary; thinks “if I could only meet someone new, but fat chance; I’m afraid to make eye contact.” He notices only other person there is a girl with blue hair putting booze in her tea. On the train back to Rockville Center she says “Don’t I know you?” He keeps trying to “be nice,” which she Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) can’t stand. “I’m vindictive; I don’t need nice.” Then she says “I like that you’re nice right now.” He puts her off saying, “I need to write.” She slugs him on the arm. After train he offers her a ride home in his car. She says, “Sorry if I came off nutso” and invites him in for a drink. She says, “Drink up; it makes the whole seduction part less repugnant. (Sees his upset) Just kidding.”

Then, “I’m gonna marry you.” Joel, “I should go.” Clem, “I’d like you to call me.” He does. She takes him walking on the ice at 12

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night in Boston. They pull up to her place and she asks “Can I sleep at your house?” While she’s getting her toothbrush a young man (Patrick) asks Joel “Can I help you. What are you doing here?” Joel crying in the car. He hears the song “Everybody has to learn sometime” and throws the tape out the car window.

Two guys drive slowly past his place, “Is that him?” Joel’s neighbor, Frank, “You’re a lucky guy to have Clementine three days before Valentine’s day. He takes pills, puts lights out; the two guys go in with equipment.

Joel remembers Frank’s remark. Joel tells his friend Carrie, “She changed her number.” He goes to Clem’s workplace, a bookstore, and sees her, “She doesn’t know who I am.” She kisses a young guy (Patrick); can’t see his face. Carrie tells Joel “You should make a clean break.” Her husband Rod drops a yellow card; Joel reads it: “Clementine Kruczynski has had Joel Barish erased from her memory. Please never mention their relationship to her again. Lacuna, Inc.” Clem: “Maybe I should end this right now.” “Too many guys see me as a concept that’s gonna save their lives.” Joel goes to Lacuna, tells secretary, Mary, that he has an appointment. About the card, Joel is told: “You should not have seen this.” Dr. Howard Mierzwiak admits Clem ordered the erasure, “She was not happy and wanted to move on.”

Joel decides to erase his memories of Clem. Dr. tells him how to prepare: collect what you have of her, photos, etc. We make a map of your brain. Our tech will come to your house tonight and erase her. “The procedure is brain damage, but only on a par with a night of heavy drinking, nothing you’ll miss.” “As a dream upon waking” The technicians, Stan and Patrick, have trouble with the equipment, voltage, it’s not “wiping clear.” Joel is watching himself, his mind is jumping all over. Clem comes into his place at 3:00AM “I wrecked the side of your car.”

Joel, “You’re a wino. I assume you fucked someone tonight. Isn’t that how you get people to like you?” She is upset, gives him his keys and leaves. Joel comes out next morning and sees car against a hydrant. Shouts “I’m erasing you!”

Many scenes flash by, things transposed, eating Chinese food. They are walking down a street and Clem says, “I want to have a baby.” He says, “Do you really think you could take care of a baby?” She is upset. Mary: Dr. Howard lets people begin again.

Clem says to Joel, “I tell you everything. You don’t communicate.” He says “Talking constantly is not communicating.” Dinner at Kang’s; she, “Are we the dining dead?” He to himself, “She’s gonna be drunk.” Patrick talking on phone, “I’ll be right over, Tangerine.” (What Joel used to call her.) Clem, “I have to go to Boston, now.” Patrick reads Joel’s notes from his diary. Gives her a gift Joel had gotten her. Joel on the ice, “Let me keep this one memory. I’ve never been so happy.” Clem disappears. Joel shouts “I want to call it off.”

Mary and Stan are dancing half naked on Joel’s bed while his head is in the machine. Joel finds the doctor who says, “I’m inside your head too.” Patrick, “I stole her underwear.” Joel remembers rainy day, age 4. He becomes very small under a kitchen table.

Clem “My crotch is still here.” Stan wakes up in Joel’s bedroom, “Oh no, this is very bad, he’s way off the map.” Mary is stoned.

Stan calls Dr. Howard. Dr. goes into Joel’s brain, finds Joel and pulls him out of the kitchen sink. Dr. gives Joel’s body a shot. Joel runs with Clem. He has developed some sort of resistance. They are in bed on the beach. Joel gets snagged by some little boys. They fake smothering each other. Beach in winter, they head toward closed up house.

In Joel’s bedroom, Stan leaves, Mary recites quotes to Dr. Howard: the title line, “Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!” from Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard” (1717) in the hope of impressing him. [Eloise was the student of French theologian Peter Abelard (d.1142) who moved in with her and her uncle. Their love resulted in pregnancy and they married secretly. In a rage, her uncle, not knowing of their marriage, had Abelard castrated. Eloise went to a nunnery and Abelard to a monastery. They continued, however, to love and to write each other for the rest of their lives.] She also recites "Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders." - Nietzsche. She kisses him. Dr. Mierzwiak’s wife shows up. She tells Mary that she’s already had an affair with Howard. Mary had him erase it from her brain. Mary steals the company's records and sends them to clients. Joel and Clementine listen to their initial tape recordings of the nasty ego judgments they each made about the other. At first they take the judgments personally and are upset. But after taking a quiet moment they realize they love each other, decide they can handle it. But Clem plays her tape in Joel’s car “He’s boring. He’s changed me,” and Joel makes her get out of the car.

She walks home, feels anguish; goes to his place.

Joel: “I hate what I said about you.” His tape is playing: “The only way she can get people to like her is to fuck them. She’s so desperate and insecure she’ll end up fucking everybody.”

Clem: “Bye. It was niece meeting you and all.” She exits down the hall.

Joel: Runs after her, “Wait.”

Clem: “For what?”

Joel: “I don’t know. Just wait” They look at each other.

Clem: “OK.” Joel: “Really?”

Clem: “I’m not a concept, Joel. I’m just a fucked up girl who’s looking for her own peace of mind. I’m not perfect” Joel: “I can’t see anything I don’t like about you.”

Clem: “But you will. And I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me.”

Joel: Shrugs, “OK.” Clem: “OK…OK” Joel: “OK” 13

Clem and Joel are both really laughing.

Song lyrics: “Change your heart and look around you. Change your heart; it will astound you. I need your lovin’ like the sunshine.

Everybody’s gotta learn sometime.”

Discussion with David Hoffmeister This movie looks at the themes of relationships, time, memory, releasing private thoughts and forgiveness. It shows how the same issues and struggles come around again and again. You seek love; you are drawn to a certain person, but once you draw close the ego begins to come forward. When judgments of each other come up the hurt is so intense you feel a great temptation to call it off.

But if you start another relationship with someone else the same unhappy cycle of issues repeats. The last scene of the movie shows the desire to join, and this is what it takes to heal. You have to let the judgmental thoughts come up, symbolized in the movie by the cassette tape from the past. All of their private thoughts that were hidden during the “honeymoon” phase finally come out.

The movie shows that when you don’t hide these thoughts, but bring them into the open, then you have to decide: Are these thoughts real or is the love real? This is what forgiveness is all about. When these thoughts come up you need to learn to connect with Spirit and share these thoughts so you can see that they are not real. In truth, everyone is in love with everyone else, but the ego in your mind tries to break this love.

Our minds make associations. The memories you have of love are just scenes and images, as if the love were in the memories and so you don’t want to lose the memories. You try to hold on to them; if they disappear you grab for more. These false memories involving time and space cover over the true love that is deep in your mind. The memories were made up by the ego so you would forget your true love, which is God. God is the only One that gives you unconditional love. You look to your partner to complete you, to be a God substitute. No partner could ever do it. It is a set up. Your memories are an ego trick to keep you from going inside your mind and finding the love that God gave you in your creation.

The spiritual journey involves surrender because it feels like your life is falling apart the deeper you go into your mind. You try to grab on to familiar things from your past but they just dissolve away. They are unreal idols, ghosts.

This is why trust is so important. We are having our memories of time and space deleted by Spirit so we can come back to the true love that is not tied into form. True love is in our minds. We have to surrender our old concepts of love to be born again in our divinity.

The ego is the past, an insane moment that repeats over and over. The only way to break the cycle is to let the ego come up. This is the purpose of relationships. People think they are getting into relationships to find love. What they’re really doing is joining together as a way of letting the ego come into consciousness.

Your partner mirrors your ego thoughts. What you have denied, kept unconscious in your own mind, gets acted out and mirrored back to you by your partner. So relationships are a great gift, a great opportunity to get in touch with what you still believe. If you believe your partner is lazy, controlling, or manipulative, guess where those concepts are? They are in your own mind. The ego is trying to get rid of them through the trick of projection, making them seem to be qualities of the other person. You can reject that person because there are many more fish in the sea, but when you find another fish the mirroring occurs again.

The movie shows that you have to let these thoughts come up; it’s OK to let them come up because that is how you forgive them. At the end of the movie Joel and Clementine are drawn to each other; they agree to meet again to “get it right this time.” All of us have been through this loop many times.

Now is your time to release the past and not be fooled by the ego into projecting the blame on your partner, but to see it as your own thought. It is never someone else’s fault; it is just an error in your own mind. So when you’re meditating and all the judgments come up, and you’re tempted to blame somebody, remember it’s not them. These are you’re your own thoughts that need to be released.

In this world there is nothing more terrifying than love. Love is terrifying because when you give yourself over to it, the self that you believe you are starts to dissolve. Love is so powerful that it will wash away your false identity and show you who you really are.

When you enter into a relationship and start to feel deep love your mask starts to come down and that is where the fear comes. Each of us has lowered the mask with someone whom we loved only to be attacked by them. Then you swear you will never let that happen again; you keep your defenses up in the next relationship. But you are not satisfied. You think that if your partner ever knew the thoughts that are in your mind they would never love you; so you can’t ever let them know these thoughts. But in an intimate relationship the thoughts get forced up to the surface. And then comes the real commitment—do you stand in there and forgive or do you try to escape?

A relationship becomes holy as soon as you recognize the ego impostor as an impostor. Spirit starts to teach you how the ego thinks and sounds. Spirit teaches you how to reinterpret it as a call for love. So when it comes up it is as if your soul is crying, “Please don’t take the impostor’s bait! It is just love calling out.” When someone is hurting, you are to comfort them, not see them as attacking you. Every time an ego judgment comes up it is a call for love. They are mirroring your mind. It is never your partner’s fault. You must forgive them and forgive yourself. Let it go from your mind and you will not blame anyone. You will love every one. As soon as you respond from love the ego is gone and you feel the love.

Evan Almighty (2007) Evan Baxter (Steve Carell) is elected to Congress with the slogan, "Change the world." Although he isn’t into prayer, his first night in his new house he asks God for help. Tools and wood arrive in Evan's yard, animal pairs follow, and his beard grows wildly. He is given several Gen 6:14 “Make thee an ark of 14

gopher wood” hints. God (Morgan Freeman) confirms His request in person. Evan has doubts and resists at first. Then, seeing that the project is about love, he embraces it. God tells Evan’s wife that if someone asks for love, He doesn’t just give them love; He gives them the opportunity to love. She gets it and the whole family joins in building the ark. The predictions are confirmed; everyone is convinced and dances at the end. eXistenZ (1999) Dir. David Cronenberg. Game designer Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is testing her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ with a focus group. She is attacked by an assassin and flees with Ted Pikul (Jude Law) as her bodyguard. She finds her game pod is damaged and Ted agrees to help her check it out. Players have to discover the goal of the game.

Allegra: So how does your real life feel? The one you came back for.

Ted: It feels completely unreal.

Allegra: You're stuck now, aren't ya? You want to go back to the Chinese restaurant because there's nothing happening here. We're safe. It's boring.

Ted: It's worse than that. I'm not sure... I'm not sure here, where we are, is real at all. This feels like a game to me. And you, you're beginning to feel a bit like a game character.

Ted: I actually think there's an element of psychosis involved here.

Ted: Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours.

Allegra: It's like real life. There's just enough to make it interesting.

Ted: We're both stumbling around together in this unformed world, whose rules and objectives are largely unknown, seemingly indecipherable or even possibly nonexistent, always on the verge of being killed by forces that we don't understand.

Allegra: That sounds like my game, all right.

Ted: That sounds like a game that's not gonna be easy to market.

Allegra: But it's a game everybody's already playing.

Chinese Waiter: Hey, tell me the truth... are we still in the game?

Fairy Tale (1997) All the world is full of symbols for those who have the eyes to see and are open to releasing limiting beliefs. Children can be openminded and therefore “see” what is not accessible to the close-minded. Helpers can take many forms, for form can only represent and lead to What is entirely beyond perception: Light & Love!

The Family Man (2000) Directed by Brett Ratner. Jack Campbell (Nicholas Cage) is a Wall Street hot-shot happily living his single life. But one day he wakes up next to his old girlfriend who he almost married 13 years before. Kate, lives in Jersey and they have two kids. He desperately wants his life back as a merger and acquisitions hot shot on Wall Street, not being a tire salesman at Big Ed's. But after a bad start he starts to see what he's really been missing, a lot of love from his wife Kate.

Feast of Love (2007) Vibrational relationships are intuitive and joyful, and no matter how long they seem to last, they fill the heart with gratitude. When you are watching, quietly, with eyes wide open, the difference between superficial relationships, and relationship based on a deep connection is obvious. Eventually everyone's eyes are opened to the Obvious, and as long as there is a willingness to stay open to love, and to embrace what is Given with everything you've got, the fruits are always worth it!

50 First Dates (2004) Director: Peter Segal. Henry Roth (Adam Sandler) meets Lucy Whitmore (Drew Barrymore) in a Hawaiian café one morning. They hit it off, but the following day Lucy doesn’t recognize Henry. Her brain was injured in a car accident and she is unable to retain memories of anything since that day. To avoid upset, her father and brother fool her by re-enacting October 13 every day. Henry prepares a videotape for her to watch every morning that explains what happened to her. After a long time Lucy begins to remember seeing Henry’s face in her dreams. Although she continues to need the videotape, they marry and have a daughter.

Field of Dreams (1989) Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come."

He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

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Fight Club The narrator of the movie (Edward Norton) is bored and materialistic. His works for an automobile company, flying to car accident sites to see if a product recall is necessary. His doctor refuses to write a prescription for his insomnia and suggests that, to see what real pain is, he visit a support group for testicular cancer victims. There the narrator finds is finally able to cry and, afterwards, to sleep soundly. So he begins attending all sorts of support groups. But then another victim imposter, Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), begins to attend the same meetings. Her presence ruins his experience and he angrily tells her to stay away from him. On a flight he meets soap salesman Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and admires his free disregard for convention. Upon arriving home finds his condo was blown up. Alone and friendless, he calls Tyler and meets him at a bar. After inviting him to stay at his place, Tyler insists that the narrator hit him. The two end up in a fistfight, which Tyler fin ds he really enjoys. Another of their fights attracts a crowd and they start the first '”fight club.” Marla calls for help, is rescued by Tyler, and the two start a dramatic sexual relationship. Then Tyler, leaving the narrator out, transforms the fight clubs into a violent anti-capitalist gang. Tyler disappears for while. When a gang member is killed on a mission, the narrator attempts to shut it down. But the gang members now seem to think that he is Tyler. Marla confirms his identity as Tyler, the raging victim under his face of innocence. Tyler appears and explains that he controls the narrator's body when he’s asleep. He has made quantities of explosives in the basement by rendering human fat into nitro glycerin. The narrator is shocked to find plans to blow up credit card companies. Attempting to disarm the explosives he is confronted by Tyler, knocked unconscious, and taken to witness the impending destruction. The narrator realizes he is sharing the same body with Tyler, grabs a gun and fires into his mouth and Tyler collapses with an exit wound to the back of his head.

Finding Forrester (2000) Underprivileged black youth Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) encounters and is befriended by a reclusive white man still living in the Bronx, who helps him with his writing. Because of high test scores and great basketball ability Jamal is invited to attend a prestigious prep school. Jamal figures out the old man is William Forrester (Sean Connery) who wrote one great novel and then quit writing after the death of his brother, for which he blamed himself. Jamal’s integrity inspires Forrester to come to the school, where he demonstrates Jamal’s writing ability and saves him from expulsion. And Forrester goes on to write a final novel.

Finding Neverland (2004) Director: Marc Forster. Johnny Depp plays Scottish playwright James Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Never Grew Up. He likes to have fun and let his imagination go, but his first play is a flop.

James regains enthusiasm on meeting the four young sons of widow Sylvia Davis (Kate Winslet). His wife is in to proper roles, but he’s able to talk about his early life and Neverland with Sylvia. Sylvia gets TB. James puts the play on for Sylvia at her home, saying, “Much of it will have to be imagined.” “…as it should be,” adds her son Peter. Tinker could get well again if you believe in fairies. They do, and Sylvia walks out into the magic of Neverland. Later James tells Peter he can visit her by believing.

Forrest Gump (1994) Directed by Robert Zemeckis. On his first day of school Forrest (Tom Hanks) meets Jenny (Robin Wright Penn). Discarding his leg braces he discovers his ability to run. He enlists in the army and is sent to Vietnam. He makes friends with Bubba who convinces Forrest to go into the shrimping business with him when the war is over. Bubba is killed in action; Forrest is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. At an anti-war rally Forrest reunites with Jenny, who has been living a hippie lifestyle. Forrest buys a shrimp boat and Lt. Dan from Vietnam (Gary Sinise) joins him. His boat survives a hurricane and they pull in huge amounts of shrimp. Lt. Dan invests the money in Apple. Jenny visits and he proposes but she declines. Forrest then goes for a run for three and a half years. Reunited with Jenny, Forrest discovers he is the father of her son. Jenny tells him she is has HIV. They marry and Jenny dies soon after. Father and son wait for the school bus and as the bus pulls away a white feather drifts skyward.

The Fountain (2006) Research oncologist Tommy Creo (Hugh Jackman) attempts to reverse brain tumors in monkeys, motivated by the illness of his wife Izzi (Rachel Weisz). Three stories emerge - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

Frankie and Johnny (1991) Light. Johnny (Al Pacino) has just been released from prison, and gets a job in a cafe beside waitress Frankie (Michelle Pfeiffer). Frankie is a bit of a loner, but Johnny is determined to make their romance blossom.

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Frequency (2000) In 1969 Frank Sullivan (Dennis Quaid) is a NYC firefighter and his son John is six. In 1999 John (James Caviezel) is now a policeman; his father died in a 1969 warehouse fire. John is working on the three Nightingale murders. John tries out his father’s ham radio, and through a phenomenon associated with Northern Lights, happens to contact his father in 1969; [perhaps the signals went through a “worm hole” between parallel universes.] John warns Frank he is about to die in a warehouse fire, but he can go the other way and make it. Frank survives. When 1999 John tells his friends his father didn't die in a fire thirty years ago, they know Frank died of lung cancer ten years ago. 1969 Frank, excited to be alive, visits Julia at the hospital where she stops a doctor from making a mistake, ironically saving the life of cop Jack Shepard, the Nightingale murderer. 1999 John discovers that there were ten, not three, murder victims, and one was his mother. So he tells his father to stop the killer, but Frank get jumped by Shepard (Shawn Doyle),who takes his drivers license. Frank goes to the victim's apartment too late and is arrested for the murder. Frank escapes Shepard at the police station and, after a fight at the waterfront, thinks he drowned him. Frank tells John, but John says his mother is still not there.

Shepard shows up at the house in both 1969 and 1999. When 1969 Frank shoots off Shepard’s hand, 1999 Shepard’s hand disappears. Finally, a graying Frank shoots Shepard and saves John. The closing scene is John and Frank playing baseball as Julia looks on.

The Game (1997) Home movies of lavish birthday party for boy Nicholas Van Orten, who grows to be a cold-hearted San Francisco banker (Michael Douglas). His brother Conrad (Sean Penn) gives him a certificate to play the game as a birthday gift. His father jumped off roof at age 48. Nick goes to CRS and meets Jim Feingold. Game is tailored and supposed to provide whatever is lacking. Nick takes the tests. John 9:25 “I was blind, but now I see.” Finds body of clown on his driveway. Daniel Shorr talks to him from TV news. He fires publisher, Anson. Waitress dumps drink on him. She’s fired. He’s given note: “Don’t let her get away.” Guy dying on street, 3 to hospital, power goes out, get stuck in elevator; escape CRS attack dog, fall into garbage. Her name is Christine, “Someone paid my $400 to spill drink on you.” He gets call: your AmEx card. Room with lewd photos and cocaine.

Guy follows his car, private investigator. False accusation of publisher. His contract was done in disappearing ink.

His house painted psychedelic. Connie shows up in a panic, CRS won’t let him alone. Flat tire, CRS keys, “You’re behind this!” Runs away. Cab won’t let him out, into the water. Handle rolls down window. Nick brings cops to building but floor is deserted. He goes to Christine’s. A dozen armed men chase them. “They emptied all your accounts.” He calls to check. She drugs his coffee. Tells him, “You were talking to us on the phone, now we do have your passwords. He wakes up in a Mexican dump/graveyard. Makes it back, gets gun in his foreclosed house. Finds Jim and takes him to CRS. “I want to meet the wizard.” They are in big cafeteria. Nick gets Christine on the roof. Gun is fake? Real? He shoots and hits Connie in the chest, “He’s dead.” Nick jumps off roof, falls into restaurant, OK. There’s Connie, Happy Birthday. T-shirt: I was drugged and left for dead in Mexico. They hug. Everyone in his life is there applauding him. Christine invites him to coffee and music starts: “White Rabbit” by Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane.

Gandhi (1982) Directed by Richard Attenborough. Gandhi (Ben Kingsley) is thrown off a South African train for traveling in a first class compartment. He starts a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. The government finally relents. In India, Gandhi realized that he had first to live the life of a peasant to understand what it is to be an Indian. Gandhi mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. He completes a march to the sea for withdrawal of the salt tax.

The campaign generates great attention and intense public pressure so the British finally grant India's independence. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but partition of India is carried out. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. “We are children of God like everyone else. Do you want to change things or do you want to punish?”

Ghost (1990) Sam (Patrick Swayze) and Molly (Demi Moore) are a happy couple but Sam is murdered. He finds himself trapped as a ghost and discovers that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost he can not be seen or heard by the living, so he tries to communicate through psychic Oda Mae Brown.

Good Will Hunting (1997) Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has genius-level intelligence and works as a janitor at MIT. An abused foster child, he blames himself and sabotages himself. He solves a math problem that Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård) left on a chalkboard as a challenge. Will attacks a youth and a police officer. Lambeau intervenes and has Will released under his supervision to study math and see a therapist. Psychologist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams) believes “Trust is the most important thing in making a breakthrough in therapy.” Will experiences healing when Sean gets him to understand that, 17

“It’s not your fault.” Will then takes off after his girlfriend Skylar (Minnie Driver).

The Gospel (2005) Boris Kodjoe and Idris Elba star; Writer/Director: Rob Hardy. A budding young minister gets angry at his father for not giving him attention and runs off to fame, women and drink. He enters this world of distractions, pleasures and conflict to hide from the guilt and fear that he has done something wrong by turning against his father. He returns to his father’s house where a warm welcome is waiting but his elder brother resents his return. The elder brother believes he has earned his father’s love, and that the younger brother deserves punishment. He is envious that his younger brother gets his father’s love even though he squandered his life in debauchery. But the father teaches them both that love is eternal and unending and there is always enough to share. With openness and willingness, all can be aware of the glory of the kingdom. Both brothers drop egotistic goals. When vanity is put first, the truth is misunderstood. The Spirit’s gifts come in stillness, patience, and openness, and Spirit knows that punishment is never justified.

Grand Canyon (1991) Dir. Lawrence Kasdan. Lawyer Mack: Kevin Kline; wife Claire: Mary McDonnell; son Roberto; Secretary Dee, Jane Tow truck driver Simon: Danny Glover; his sister Deborah and nephew Otis; Film maker Davis: Steve Martin, girlfriend Vanessa. After saving Mack from a gang Simon tells Mack that on the edge of the Grand Canyon you realize your worries are insignificant. Davis makes bloody, violent films; is shot in thigh. Claire finds abandoned baby and takes it home. Police helicopters constantly over bad neighborhood. Otis, “I’ll never live to be 25.” Their (Deborah’s) house is machine-gunned. Claire, “People living in boxes; the world is so nuts.” Neighbor dies in earthquake. Mack dreams he’s flying over LA at night to window of Dee. Claire dreams of baby; she wants to adopt it. Davis and Mack are against adoption. Claire doesn’t care if it’s rational. Mack wonders if the woman who pulled him away from the bus was real; should he try to get Deborah to move to new area; get Simon to go out with Jane? Roberto, “Are you guys splitting up; look unhappy.” Claire, “I believe there is a reason I found this baby; Simon saved your life and I saved baby’s life; you make a connection and it has to run out. What if these are miracles? I reject your headache in the presence of a miracle.” Dee is cruising and her car window smashed in; young police officer comforts her. Otis says he’s not staying in new neighborhood; goes back. Comes back covered with blood, “I seen some bad shit.” He reconciles with Simon and Deborah. Davis (ironically) tells Mack about man who forgets why he was set on earth, then he figures it out. Jane & Simon work out. A van pulls up to Grand Canyon with Mack, Claire & baby, Roberto, Simon & Jane, Deborah, Otis.

Green Card (1990) Brontë (Andie MacDowell) has to be married in order to be able to rent a certain apartment. And Frenchman Georges (Gerard Depardieu) wants to marry an American to get a Green Card. So the two get married on paper. But immigration wants proof that the marriage is real. They fail proving it to immigration, but fall in love during in the process.

Groundhog Day (1993) Directed by Harold Ramis. Phil the weatherman (Bill Murray) had the uncanny experience if living the same day, Groundhog Day, over and over. Each morning he got up, talked to the same people in the bed & breakfast where he stayed, saw the same people on the street, and had the same conversations. Phil's normal life was filled with limiting thoughts and behaviors. It took the daily rewind of Groundhog Day to get his attention. The defining moment came when he asked someone, "Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today."

With that realization, Phil started to live each day trying something new until he learned to change what he didn't like and create the life of his choice. At one point his co-worker told him, "... you can't plan a day like this," to which Phil replied, "Well, you can; it just takes an awful lot of work." ["Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are." James Allen] Phil was a rude, self-serving, grumpy guy. In the movie he had a moment of clarity and decided to change his life. It's the type of moment that is available to all of us if we honestly pay attention to our situation and the thoughts that brought us to where we are. Phil decided to create the life he wanted. Instead of taking, he decided to give. When he started paying attention to those around him, he realized what was important to them and used that information to do nice things for them. People responded to his kindness, which gave validation to his new behavior and in the process he learned to love himself, which opened the door to February 3rd, the day after Groundhog Day. To those close to him, the changes in Phil's life seemed like an overnight miracle. They didn't see the work he went through.

The Guitar (2007) Directed by Amy Redford. Timid Mel Wilder (Saffron Burrows) is fired, dumped and told that she has a cancer that will kill her in a month or two. About to commit suicide, an ad for a luxurious loft apartment catches her eye.

She moves into it with nothing and orders take-out food and the best furnishings. She dreams of a red guitar that she wanted as a child. She has personal sexual encounters with delivery people Roscoe and Cookie. She tells Cookie, “The objects give me hope.” She tells Roscoe, “If you come back, just come back for the moment. That’s all there is.” She gets an electric guitar and loves to play it. Finally her credit cards run out and she asks, “What day is it?” Her cancer is gone. The doctor asks her, “What did you change?” “I changed everything.” She goes out, joins a band and has a blast in her new life.

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Happy Feet (2006) Directed by George Miller. The young penguin Mumble (voice Elijah Wood) can’t sing his heart song, but he can tap dance it. His mother (Nicole Kidman) still believes in him. But his dad, Memphis (Hugh Jackman), says "It just ain't penguin," and later “Renounce your friends and ideas.” Eventually Noah the Elder casts him out of the community. Mumble meets Ramon (Robin Williams) and his amigos. Together with the crazy-feathered guru Lovelace (Robin Williams), they set out to “appeal to the better nature” of the aliens who are taking their fish. Mumble returns in triumph and gets the girl, Gloria, (Brittany Murphy).

Song Of The Heart (Prince) U might make a different song, yes that's right it's true That don't make anybody more or less as good as u …

Just get up out your seat And wave a flag because everybody plays a part One world united singing the song of the heart Harold and Maude (1971) Director: Hal Ashby. Harold (Bud Cort) is a wealthy teenager who hates his life. He fakes suicide in creative ways in an attempt to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles). His life improves when he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon) at funerals. Maude: “Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral.

You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.” She loves life and imparts the joy of being to Harold before her form departs.

Cat Stevens soundtrack.

Heart & Souls (1993) Four people die young in a bus crash. Their spirits cooperate in the use of the corporal Thomas (Robert Downey, Jr.) so they can each do the one thing that would have made their lives complete.

He Said, She Said (1991) Competing journalists Dan Hanson (Kevin Bacon) and Laurie Breyer (Elizabeth Perkins) move onto television and start a special relationship. Three years later he still doesn’t want to marry her; she bonks him with her coffee cup on the air and moves his stuff out of the apartment. She tells him she needs more from him, doubts that he’ll change. He apologizes and they make up.

Henry Poole Is Here (2008) Cast: Luke Wilson, Radha Mitchell Writer: Albert Torres Director: Mark Pellington Henry Poole feels horribly unworthy and fearful of God and Love. This story is about becoming willing to have faith, the first step in overcoming the fear of opening to the miracle and living in the present. Despite his best attempts to be a doomed, isolated, and mean atheist, his insistently helpful and loving neighbors refuse to be put off (They reflect the desire of his heart.) As he opens up and begins to accept the love that is offered, forgiveness and miracles light the way. Where once he believed his life was over, he now sees that it has only just begun.

The Holiday (2006) Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz) from Los Angeles and Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet), who has a cottage in Surrey, exchange houses.

Iris meets her neighbor, 90-year-old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her to retrieve her self-esteem, and also the film composer Miles, with whom she falls in love. Amanda meets Iris' brother and book editor, Graham, and they fall in love. ♥ Holy Man (1998) Holy Man “G” (Eddie Murphy) stops in Miami to help home-shopping network executive Ricky Hayman (Jeff Goldblum) begin to make a lot of sales. Kate (Kelly Preston), however, sees that G would be happier continuing his journey. Although Ricky loves the money, he does the right thing and lets G go on his way.

Holy Smoke (2000) Ruth (Kate Winslet) is following a guru in India: “When Baba looks at you, you feel happy, truthful and want to 19

do good.” Her mother brings her back to Australia, into the hands of an American “cult exiter,” PJ (Harvey Keitel), with alligator boots. He takes Ruth to a remote cabin; they have sex; she teases him; confesses “I’m heartless.” More sex; she dresses him up. He writes “Be kind” on her forehead. In the morning Ruth says “I’m lost” and sets out across desert with PJ chasing her in a red dress, lipstick, and one high boot. He shouts “I want to marry you; I love you.” Finally he slugs her, puts her in the trunk and is caught trying to get away with her. But Ruth feels compassion for him and holds him in the back of the tuck. A year later Ruth writes from India were she and her mother work at animal shelter, “I love you from far away.” PJ has also healed and has had twins.

The Horse Whisperer (1998) Directed by Robert Redford. Teenage Grace (Scarlett Johansson) is hit by a truck while riding her horse, Pilgrim. Her mother, Annie (Kristin Scott Thomas), a successful hard-driving New Yorker, wants her daughter to be tough and tells her husband (Sam Neill) to “stop helping her.” Grace resists her mother and despairs, “Maybe you should put me down.” Annie decides to take Grace and the injured Pilgrim to the ranch of Tom Booker (Robert Redford) a “horse whisperer” in Montana. She tells her husband, “I can’t explain it. I just know it’s the right thing.” When she tells her daughter, “I’m doing this for you,” Grace fires back, “Bull shit, you just want to be right.” Tom Booker demonstrates patience and acceptance. The horse comes to him; Grace trusts him enough to finally talk about the accident. He tells her, “You didn’t do anything wrong. It could have happened to anyone.” And through him, the family is healed.

Hulk (2003) Director, Ang Lee. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) was exposed to gamma radiation. Since then, whenever he becomes angry he transforms into a giant green hulk.

I Am David (2003) Directed by Paul Feig. Twelve year-old David (Ben Tibber) grew up in a Communist prison camp in Bulgaria. His friend and protector, Johannes (Jim Caviezel) is shot. David is given the advice to escape, cross Europe to Denmark, and deliver a sealed envelope to the authorities. He is told, “Follow my instructions, trust no one, blend in.” He travels though Greece and Italy, where he saves a girl from a fire. He meets Sophie (Joan Plowright) who brings him to Switzerland, gains his confidence, and sends him to him to his mother in Denmark. The one who planned his escape was a Bulgarian officer (Stefan Shteref).

I Am Sam (2001) Director: Jessie Nelson. Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) provides love and a caring environment for his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning). He has a support system of men with disabilities and his neighbor Annie (Dianne Wiest), an agoraphobic pianist who takes care of Lucy when Sam can't. Sam has the mental capacity of a 7year-old and Lucy is now 7 years old. She is as precocious, but begins to intentionally hold back at school to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities then take her away, and a judge allows him only two supervised visits per week. Sam gets high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison Williams (Michelle Pfeiffer) to take his case pro bono. In the extended trial process, he teaches her a great deal about love. In the end, the foster mother who planned on adopting Lucy sees how much the two love each other and lets Sam have custody of her.

I Heart Huckabees (2004) Written and directed by David O. Russell. Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) trying to trace the significance of seeing a tall African, hires two existential detectives: Bernard (Dustin Hoffman) and Vivian (Lily Tomlin). What is the nature of your reality? Blanket symbolizes all the universe, everything is the same, all connected. We need to see the big picture all the time. Everything we want we already have. Zip up in the bag to give up your identity.

Illusion (2004) Directed by Michael A. Goorjian. An ailing movie director (Kirk Douglas) slips into a "dream" and is shown three cuts of the movie of his son's life. He watches his son's growth from mid-teens to mid-thirties as he pursues his life-long love. At first the imagined voice of his father tells him he is worthless and unwanted. But as the story reaches its conclusion, the old man discovers the love he has for his son.

Imagine: John Lennon (1988) Dir. Andrew Solt. This documentary arranged by John Lennon from home movies includes 36 songs.

Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky

Imagine all the people Living for today Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do

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Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in

peace Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one.

Imagine That (2009) Evan Danielson (Eddie Murphy) and his daughter Olivia, whose imaginary friends, Princesses Kupida and Mopida can tell him the stock market future. He comes to realize he prefers love now.

Inception (2010) Jason: The “inception” was the tiny mad idea, the belief that there could be another world than God’s; and it has to be undone.

David: The Inception poster says, "Your mind is the scene of the crime.”

Jason: Let’s undo the crime.

Saito as old man in limbo flash-forward: I know what this is. It belonged to a man possessed of some radical notions.

Cobb: The most resilient parasite is an idea once it has taken hold in the brain. A fully formed idea, that sticks. You have to be completely open for this to work. I can search your mind and find your secrets. I need to know what’s in your mind. This is a dream. You need to completely let me in. [no private thoughts] In audition, Cobb has Mal sit in chair so he can tell if she moves. She does. Dream: 3) in Saito’s palace, 2) in Saito’s mistress’s love nest, 3) in the train.

Cobb to son James (phone): I can’t come home. Mommy's not here anymore.

Cobb: What do you want from us?

Saito: Inception.

Arthur: Impossible. The subject’s mind can trace the genesis of the idea.

Jason: Cobb gets motivated to go deep into his own mind by his desire for freedom. He is stuck in the memories of his wife. He needs help to go into his mind from Ariadne and a team, to get to the root, and release himself from what he believes is true. (Like the Bourne Ultimatum) Freedom comes when he sees it was all his decision.

Saito: [Voice of Holy Spirit] Mr. Cobb, how would you like to go home, to America, to your children?

Do you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

Arthur: This can’t be done.

Cobb: I’ve done it before. [He’s had a glimpse.] We need to go to Paris for a new architect.

Cobb to Miles, his father (in-law): I need your help. I think I’ve found a way home. Your grandkids are waiting for their father. I offer the architect a chance to build grand things, cathedrals.

Jason: Cobb is still confused about what he wants; he thinks it is manifesting.

So Spirit sends him someone who is brighter than he is to unwind his mind.

Cobb: Mal won’t let me design it.

Miles: I have an architect who is better than you were.

Cobb: In a dream you can do almost anything, you continuously create and perceive your world at the same time. You don’t even realize you’re doing it. This allows us to get in the middle of that process.

Ariadne: How? Jason: ACIM tells us that our making of a world is not unconscious. In a split second you decide, and then you forget. You perceive what you believe.

Cobb: You create the world of the dream, you bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious. The people are projections.

Ariadne: How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that its reality?

Cobb: Well dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange. Let me ask you a question, you, you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you?

You always wind up right in the middle of what's going on.

Ariadne: I guess, yeah.

Cobb: So how did we end up here?

Jason: The movie is about remembering the beginning of the dream.

Ariadne: Well we just came from the...

Cobb: Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?

Ariadne: We're dreaming?

Cobb: You're actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping.

This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm. [Explosions] Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange. In the dream your mind functions

more quickly.

David: In the Truman Show, Truman finds the fallen light fixture, he tunes in to their radio station. Likewise, you start to get little clues that the dream isn’t reality.

Cobb: The people are my projections.

Ariadne: So it’s more about the feel of it than the visual. [She folds Paris.]

That’s something isn’t it? Why is everyone looking at me?

Cobb: Because my subconscious feels that someone else is creating this world. The more you change things, the quicker the projections seem to converge on you.

Jason: Often there is resistance by the ego to changes.

David: If you go for peace of mind, you see that you have no control over the world. You can no longer live a “normal life.” You can have the happy dream. But if part of your mind still doubts that you’re the Christ, your doubt thoughts will be reflected somehow by a powerful mind [projections converging]. Keep practicing so you see it’s just thoughts you’re watching; you’re not really living through it.

Cobb: They attack like white blood cells.

Ariadne: You mind telling your subconscious to take it easy?

Cobb: My subconscious. Remember I can’t control it.

Cobb: I know this bridge; this place is real. Building a dream from your memories (the past) is the easiest way to lose your grasp on what is a dream and what is reality.

Ariadne: Is that what happened to you? [She begins to take apart his dream rules.]

David: All this is an attempt to build a world from the past. The mind is addicted to the past, afraid of Divine Reality. The people you see acting out certain roles are part of your addiction.

Mal attacks Ariadne with a knife.

Ariadne: Wake me up! Some subconscious you have. She’s a real charmer.

Cobb: You need a totem so you can tell you’re not in someone else’s dream.

Ariadne: Cobb has some serious problems he’s trying to bury down there.

David: Interpersonal relationships are used by the Holy Spirit as forgiveness lessons. Do all the work. Many movies involve teams of people. You join your mind with the Holy Spirit, and He sends witnesses of the new purpose.

All you do is collect witnesses. The Holy Spirit is the team-builder of witnesses devoted to waking up. You can have peace and be a happy dreamer. He’s using Cobb and his mighty companions (e.g. Eames the forger in Mombasa).

Eames: If you are gonna perform inception, then you need imagination.

You’ve got to start with the absolute basic, the relationship with the father.

Arthur to Ariadne: Mal is dead.

Cobb to Yusuf: It is possible. We need a powerful sedative.

Saito: I’m going, too.

Ariadne to Cobb: Are you going under on your own?

Cobb: I was just running some experiments. The totem idea was Mal’s.

Don’t let me know the details of your architecture.

Ariadne: Why not?

Cobb: In case one of us brings in our projections.

Ariadne: You mean Mal might come in? You can’t keep her out can you?

Cobb: I need to get home. That's all I care about right now. I can’t go home because they think I killed her… Positive emotion trumps negative.

Jason: It can get very intense.

Yusuf: Brain function in the dream will be accelerated about 20 times. Time also changes. The mind compounds each level down.

First level down – a week Second level down – a month Third level down – ten years Ariadne: Who would want to stay in a dream for ten years?

Yusuf: That depends on the dream.

David: The dream is intricate. You need to get sharper and sharper with your discernment between ego and Spirit, because the ego comes up with all kinds of clever distractions that seem to be external, but they really come from

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your desire to still be separate. For example, Sandy had prompt to call Ben with “Border Crossing 101,” but he had to hang up and was turned away.

The “kick” snaps you out of the dream.

David: The Holy Spirit’s kick is the awareness of dreaming; lucid dreaming.

It is that simple. This is the function of God’s teachers; this is invulnerability.

You realize you are the dreamer of the dream.

Mal [In dream]: You remember when you asked me to marry you?

Cobb: Of course I do.

Cobb to Ariadne: You shouldn’t be here.

David. My special relationship! She’s good in bed!

Ariadne: Are these the 'experiments' you do every night? You're trying to keep her alive, aren't you? You can't just create a prison of memories. Do you really think that could contain her?

Cobb: You were not supposed to see that! This has nothing to do with you!

[My special love relationship] Ariadne: Nothing to do with me? We're supposed to be sharing dreams, here!

Cobb: Not these. These are my dreams. [private] Ariadne: Why do you do this to yourself?

Cobb: It’s the only way I can stay in the dream. [admitting his addiction] David: When love is associated with home and family it seems like a huge sacrifice to let them go. Family is so associated with love. Yet Jesus and Peter had families. The family is an ego construct; it is everything in the Mormon religion. In reality, everyone you meet is part of the family of God, without exception. It is all your mind. To learn to love everyone, unconditionally, is to learn to love yourself. Excluding anyone is judgment, like they are not you; you are just seeing the past. They are you.

Ariadne: Why is it so important to dream?

Cobb: Because, in my dreams we are together.

Ariadne: These aren't just dreams, these are memories, and you said never to use memories!

Cobb: I know I did. But these are memories I regret, that I have to change.

David: Cobb is trying to change the past. Isn’t that what manifestation is?

You believe that you can make a better dream, that you can change the script.

You can’t change the script. You can only change your mind about it. Don’t beat yourself up about missing a prompt.

Ariadne: This is your house?

Cobb: The moment's passed. Whatever I do I can't change this moment. I'm about to call out to them [children]. They run away. If I'm ever going to see their faces again I've got to get back home, to the real world. Mal rages.

First level dream in plane: Yusuf dreams rainy city and kidnap Fisher. Saito is shot.

Eames fakes being Browning.

Ariadne: Do you think you can just build a prison of memories to lock her in? When were you in limbo? The rest of the team doesn’t know the truth. At any minute you might bring a freight train through the wall. At any moment Mal might break through your subconscious.

David: This is the value of collaboration, if it’s all one mind, based on purpose, exchanging thoughts, and practicing forgiveness, then you don’t take the dream seriously. If you are still living with a partner who denigrates all this, that means you want to hang onto that doubt thought. Let that spouse and children go. This is the value of a spiritual community. The joy you perceive at the monastery is the result of our linking together in the purpose of forgiveness. If you think there is something outside of you that can affect you, you will think you are being tortured; you will suffer. When you realize they are your own thoughts, it makes all the difference in the world. When you realize this the whole world lights up. Cobb is still very attached to his Mal and the kids; he wants to change the dream to achieve his goal, to find the love he wants.

Jason: A scared partner doesn’t hold you back; she just plays out your own fear of moving into the light.

Cobb: We were working together, on a dream within a dream. I just didn’t understand how we could get trapped and lose sight of what was real. We created a world for ourselves, built a home.

Ariadne: How long were you stuck there?

Cobb: Something like 50 years. It wasn’t so bad at first. Feeling like gods.

But none of it was real. Eventually it became impossible to live like that.

Ariadne: What about her?

Cobb: She had locked away a truth she had once known but chose to forget.

Limbo became her reality.

Ariadne: What happened when you woke up?

Cobb: We’d become old souls. I knew something was wrong with her. She was possessed by this one idea that changed everything: that our world wasn’t real, that she needed to wake up, and she thought that in order to get home, we had to kill ourselves.

Jason: She is so confused, she is convinced dying is necessary; she won’t let him have a happy life; he has to come with her.

Mal: What about your children?

Cobb: She thought they were just projections, not our real children. She was certain there was nothing I could do; she came up with a plan. Eventually, she tells me the truth, that she was possessed by an idea, a very simple idea, that our world wasn't real and in order to get back to the reality, we'll have to kill ourselves. She came up with a plan on our anniversary.

David: R.I.P. It is common to think, well, at least death brings you peace.

What a bizarre idea, that dying by suicide is needed to wake up. This could only come from thinking without Holy Spirit.

Mal: I going to jump and you’re coming with me.

Cobb: Wait; you’re going to die. Think about our children.

Mal: Take a leap of faith. I gave a letter to an attorney about how you threatened to kill me. We’re going home. You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can't be sure. But it doesn't matter - because you'll be together.

She jumps.

Cobb: Oh no! Jesus Christ! I’ve been trying to buy my way back.

Ariadne: Your guilt defines her. She is powered by your guilt. You are not responsible for the idea that destroyed her. If we are going to succeed in this, you are going to have to forgive yourself and confront her. But you don’t have to do it alone.

Jason: Now they are going to go deep into the mind.

David: You join in purpose with Spirit. My plans have failed. You give everything over to the Spirit, to see the nothingness of the error. This is the only way out. I will let Holy Spirit choose the witnesses. It will not be the ego’s plan. You will do this; you will face your guilt. It won’t be pretty. You must get in touch with the unconscious guilt and get it released. The ego wants to make the best of it and die. The Holy Spirit has another plan, which the ego doesn’t like.

Jason: They join to go into the mind. They go after the “I am the responsible for the starving children” error. The perception of starving children is the error. I am not responsible for the ego thoughts. Here is the freedom.

Second level dream: in van Arthur dreams hotel; Cobb as “Mr. Charles” gets Fisher to suspect Browning and to dream in room 528.

Third level dream: Fisher dreams frozen fort. Mal shoots Fisher; Cobb shoots her.

Ariadne convinces Cobb that they need to follow Fisher down another level.

Fourth level dream: Cobb dreams city he built with Mal. Ariadne: You built all this?

Cobb: Yes. This is where she’ll be.

David: This is symbolic of having Jesus inside your mind: you are going to face some of these associations in your mind. The world you perceive is a dream. The world isn’t ready to hear this. Kirsten and I kept going back to the family in NZ as mind training to loosen from the associations. Her mother joined with it. Not her father, they seemed to split up. The value of the family kept loosening. Kirsten almost ditched me for her Shangri-la, Wanaka in NZ. Ariadne: You built all this from memory?

Cobb: This was our neighborhood, places from our past. In this dream we could have what we wanted.

An idea is like a virus, contagious; it can grow to define or destroy you.

Mal: An idea such as, “your world is not real.” Do you think he is certain of his world?

Cobb: I know what’s real, Mal. Mal: No creeping doubts? Admit it. You don’t believe in one reality anymore. So choose me.

Jason: That’s effectively what your partner is saying. No heaven for you; stay here.

Cobb: I have to get back to see our children. You left us.

Mal: You’re wrong. They are here. These are our children.

Cobb: Those are not my children.

Mal: What if I’m what’s real? What do you really know? What do you feel?

Cobb: Guilt. It’s always there reminding me of the truth.

Mal: What truth?

Cobb: That the idea that caused you to question your reality came from me.

[His core guilt thought] Jason: Helena came to Canada and went with me the last time I was going to see my family. We had a link as companions so I could watch myself and say “no” to past ways of relating. It was good for me.

Mal: You planted the idea in my mind?

Ariadne: What is she taking about?

Cobb: The reason I knew inception was possible was because I did it to her.

She had locked away a secret, deep inside herself, a truth she once knew to be true... but chose to forget. She couldn’t break free. So I broke into her mind and planted an idea that would change everything, [that this world is real; that I can make an identity apart from God.] That her world wasn’t real.

Mal: You betrayed me. We can stay here in the world we built together.

Cobb: We need to get Fisher.

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Jason: Now he has to extend it to keep it. One of his friends has gotten lost in the dream world. Now he has to teach his friend. He has to extend his thought to keep it. He has to free his brother.

David: He planted an idea. It is symbolic of creating a tiny limited identity apart from God. The mind takes on that idea, so the Holy Spirit plants the idea that you are innocent, free from your false identities and false memories.

The Holy Spirit plants the seed (inception) of the truth of salvation in your mind. You have to give it away in order to keep it, with everyone you meet, for free, no exceptions. The idea gets stronger each time.

Cobb: Take Fisher. I’ve got to find Saito. I can't stay with her anymore because she doesn't exist.

Mal: Your world is not real! I'm the only thing you do believe in anymore.

Cobb: I wish. I wish more than anything. But I can't imagine you with all your complexity, all your perfection, all your imperfection. Look at you. You are just a shade of my real wife. You're the best I can do; but I'm sorry, you are just not good enough.

David: Nobody in this world is whole. They are all fragments of memory.

You can never see the whole in the parts. The whole is real; the parts are not.

You’re just a shade of my real wife, of the Christ. He has finally made his stand. Your partner is not real. That means you are not real either.

Mal stabs Cobb. Ariadne shoots Mal. Fisher finds childhood pinwheel in safe.

All the kicks kick in.

Ariadne: Don’t lose yourself. Find Saito and bring him back.

Cobb: I will Mal: You remember when you asked me to marry you? You said you dreamt that we'd grow old together.

Cobb: But we did... You don’t remember. I miss you more than I can bear but... we had our time together. And now I have to let you go...

David: This reminds me of that line from Solaris, “Though lovers be lost, love shall not. And death shall have no dominion.” I have to let the image, the concept, of you go, so I can know the reality of you and of me. We exist as Spirit, not as bodies.

Limbo dream level. Ariadne about Cobb: He’ll be all right.

Saito: I’m waiting for someone. I’m an old man filled with regret, waiting to

die.

Jason: Both come to the realization that they are not these bodies.

Cobb to Saito: I’ve come back for you. I came here to remind you of something that... you once knew to be true. That this world is not real. Take a leap of faith. Come back so we can be young men together again.

Stewardess: Do you need immigration forms?

David: Come back and remember that the world is not real. The goal is not God. The goal is to be aware that you’re dreaming. That’s what forgiveness is. That’s when the dream becomes happy. The happy dream is the best.

Then waken to reality. You purify your mind first about what is. This world was made by the ego. The ego has future goals. You are never satisfied. They miss the mark of present peace.

The inception of the Holy Spirit had to take the form of a goal to be understood. The goal of being the dreamer of the dream is a present goal.

The peace of God is my one goal while I abide where I am not at home. The goal is present peace. Now. Welcome home Mr. Cobb [Cheers] Miles: Look who’s here? Children laugh, hug Cobb Top still spinning – The happy dream is still a dream. You are just aware that you’re dreaming. Nothing can hurt you. Don’t take a crazy idea seriously; that’s what the error is. In Simone, “We’re fine with fake, dad. Just don’t lie about it.” Holy Spirit and Jesus say to you: We’re fine with fake (the happy dream) just don’t fool yourself into believing it is real. That’s when you can be peaceful. You will be the presence of Love. In the midst of a funeral, you know it’s fake; you’re there to let the light and Love shine, in the face of grief. You know situation is fake; there is no grief. Jesus came to those grieving Lazarus and hoping for the future. He said, “I am the Life. Lazarus, come forth.” It was a skit to show that who we are is eternal. You can’t die!

How would you live from now on if you knew that you couldn’t die? You would no longer fear getting old and dying. How would you spend your time? Wouldn’t you want to shout it from the mountaintops? Shine the message that we are all eternal. Isn’t that more fun than pretending you’re a human being? The world will end in laughter. The end of the world is a beautiful thing. There is no point in struggling or striving anymore.

Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1959) Gladys Aylward (Ingrid Bergman) is clear about her goal and her calling, and her determination paves her way forward to fulfillment in China.

Into the Wild (2007) Director: Sean Penn. From the book by Jon Krakauer. Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) Travels the country and ends in Alaska. He says: “It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. I’m talking about getting out of this sick society. Cause I don't understand why every fucking person is so bad to each other so fucking often. It doesn't make sense to me. Judgment. Control. I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... give me truth. Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.

The Island (2005) Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor), resident of a contained facility, is waiting to win the lottery to go to the island, the last uncontaminated spot on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers, after witnessing some deaths, that everything about his existence is a lie. He and all of the other inhabitants of the facility are actually human clones used for parts. They are grown in bags until “product extraction.” “Our agnates are never conscious,” lies Dr. Merrick in a sales pitch. Lincoln makes a daring escape with Jordan Two-Delta (Scarlett Johansson) pursued by the sinister forces of the institute. They then decide to return and free the others, getting an assist from Mr. Laurent.

It Could Happen to You (1994) New York cop Charlie Lang (Nicolas Cage), when stuck without enough money to tip his waitress, Yvonne (Bridget Fonda), offers her half the winnings if his lottery ticket wins. The ticket wins $4 million; and Charlie's wife, Muriel, wants the money.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Dir. Frank Capra. George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his life for the good of Bedford Falls. But on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over Uncle Billy’s (Thomas Mitchell) misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr. 23

Potter (Lionel Barrymore). His guardian angel, Clarence (Henry Travers), falls to Earth and shows him how his town, family, and friends would have turned out if he had never been born. George’s wife Mary is Donna Reed.

Jésus de Montréal (1989) Director: Denys Arcand. A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church. Daniel (Lothaire Bluteau), who plays Jesus, wrecks a commercial to protect his friend Mireille (Catherine Wilkening).

Jesus of Nazareth (1977) TV mini-series; 2 discs, (six hours plus) Director: Franco Zeffirelli. A reverent depiction of the life of Christ, from before his birth through his Resurrection, using the Gospel accounts. Robert Powell as Jesus Christ, Olivia Hussey as Mary and a star-studded cast.

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) Diagnosed as having only a few months to live, Joe (Tom Hanks) is persuaded by a rich businessman to jump into a volcano on a Pacific island in order to satisfy the inhabitants. On his trip to the island, Joe meets Patricia (Meg Ryan). ♥ The Joy Luck Club (1993) Four Chinese women born in America learn about the lives and dreams of their mothers who born in China, and come to understand and each other and heal their relationships.

K-PAX (2001) The gentle Prot (Kevin Spacey) says he’s from planet K-PAX and is taken to a Manhattan Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Mark Powell (Jeff Bridges) finds that Prot is unaffected by Thorazine, can talk with dogs, and has astounding astronomical knowledge. Prot also helps fellow patients, “All beings have the ability to cure themselves.” Powell hypnotizes Prot and discovers an emotionally painful history linked to a man named Robert Porter. Prot “travels light” back to K-PAX, taking Bess and leaving his catatonic body. Powell reunites with his estranged son.

Kate & Leopold (2001) Stuart, the former boyfriend of Kate MacKay (Meg Ryan), discovers a gap in the space/time continuum, leading him back to 1876 New York City, where his great grandfather, Leopold, 3rd Duke of Albany (Hugh Jackman) sees and pursues him, accidentally traveling back through the gap to 2001. Kate and her actor brother, Charlie, live in apartment downstairs. Kate is a marketing researcher. Leopold sincerely likes her; she gets him to do a margarine commercial; but when he tastes the product he calls it pond scum and won’t participate in deceit. She tells him that sometimes you have to do what you don’t like. He goes back in time; then Stuart and Charlie show Kate how to get through the portal and she marries Leopold. ♥ The Kid (2000) Director: Jon Turteltaub. Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is a cynical L.A. image consultant with no childhood memories. One night he surprises an intruder, who turns out to be 8-year-old Rusty (Spencer Breslin). Rusty is Russ. They walk together through the past and uncover and heal dark places in Russ's past.

The King’s Speech (2010) King George V's second son, Albert (Colin Firth), second in line for the throne, has spoken with a stammer since childhood and has not gained the public confidence. His wife Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter) finds an unconventional speech therapist, Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), to help him. Lionel insists on the need for the two to meet at his place as equals during their sessions, and that Albert, whom he calls “Bertie,” learn to trust him. [Logue was a Christian Scientist.] Albert gradually comes to trust Lionel and so he does the physical and psychological work as instructed. By the time he is crowned King George VI on the eve of the Second World War, he has become a good public speaker.

King of Hearts (1966) Directed by Philippe de Broca. Pvt. Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates), a kilt-wearing WWI Scottish soldier, is sent by his commanding officer to disarm a bomb in Merville. The Germans have placed a huge bomb in a cement block in the center of town, wired to the steeple clock. Plumpick enters the town and while being chased by the retreating Germans, leaves the door to the insane asylum open.

The inmates come out happily and take over the town. They innocently dress up to act their favorite roles and playfully show complete acceptance of each other. They crown him King of Hearts and can’t understand his concern about the bomb. “I don’t understand war 24

at all. I live in the moment.” His given fiancée, Coquelicot (Geneviève Bujold), asks what he would like and he replies, “To loose my memory.” The Germans return and the people play music, throw confetti and hug them. The Duke notices Plumpick’s “mind is elsewhere.” He says, “I’m scared.” The Duke replies reassuringly, “The world’s a theatre.” The archbishop announces, “His Kingdom is joy.” Finally Plumpick sees the absurdity of the German soldiers and begins to laugh and be joyful. They “share and share alike.” He says, “I’m a loner” and Coquelicot says, “Marry me. Everything starts now.” Plumpick to the people: “Do you know what dying is?” “No!” They delight in following him in a parade but will not go outside the town walls. He returns. They tell him, “Everything you want is at home.” The German and Allied troops meet in the town center and kill each other off. The “insane” people are shocked and return to lock themselves in the asylum. A French general gives Plumpick a medal, but Plumpick returns naked to the asylum. Joining the card game, he asks what the rules are. The Duke of Clubs replies cheerfully, “There are none!” Plumpick says, “I’m not leaving again.”

Kite Runner (2007) Amir blames himself for his mother’s death; he is not a fighter. His father, “Baba,” prefers fighters, like Hassan, the Hazara servant’s son. They win kite contest; Assef rapes Hassan. Amir plants his watch in Hassan’s bed; they leave. Soviets invade; Amir sees his father stand up to Soviet soldier. Amir graduates in CA and wants to be a writer. He marries General’s daughter. He goes to Pakistan to see Rahim Khan, who tells him Hassan was his brother. Amir goes to Afghanistan to get Hassan’s son, Sohrab; beaten by Assef; slingshot; and brings the boy home.

Kiss the Sky (1998) Directed by Roger Young. Jeff (William Peterson, Grisham) and Marty (Gary Cole)conclude that their lives don’t work. They want to be free, so they go to Lake Tova in the Philippines. They meet Andie (Sheryl Lee), 29, who seeks intensity, and have a ménage à trois.

Her monk friend Kozen (Dutch) has no answers. They try to build a sensual monastery. They argue about sex, and leader/follower.

She leaves. The building collapses and they conclude they’ve been prisoners all along.

L.A. Story (1991) A freeway sign informs Harris K. Tellemacher, (Steve Martin) a Shakespeare-quoting, Los Angeles TV weatherman that the weather will change his life in two ways. Sara (Victoria Tennant): And if I were to go?

Harris: All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, I would roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn't work, so your plane couldn't take off. Harris: A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Sara: L.A. is a place where they've taken a desert and turned it into their dreams. It's also a place of secrets: secret houses, secret lives, secret pleasures. Harris: Sitting there at that moment I thought of something else Shakespeare said. He said, "Hey... life is pretty stupid; with lots of hubbub to keep you busy, but really not amounting to much." Of course I'm paraphrasing: "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." [Macbeth] ♥ The Lake House (2006) Dr. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) moves out from her lake house to work in a hospital in Chicago.

Architect Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves moves into the house and they begin a correspondence. They discover that Alex is living the year 2004 and Kate's living in 2006. They fall in love. Alex makes a reservation for a date in 2006, but only Kate appears. Alex does not show up. Alex’s brother tells her he passed away 2 years ago to the day. She warns him by let what not to do and saves his life, so in 2008 they can finally meet at the lake house, built by his father.

Lars and the Real Girl (2007) Fear of abandonment and fear of intimacy go hand in hand, and only a highly individualized approach to healing will allow Lars to move past his fears and open up to love. Pride and fear of ridicule are issues that his relatives and others in the town face, as Lars begins to open towards relating to 'real people' in most unlikely but non-threatening way. The whole town rallies around to support his healing process, and by his own decision he begins to open to the possibility of true love.

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The Last Sin Eater (2007) Dir. Michael Landon, Jr. When Welsh settlers entered this Appalachian valley their leader killed the local chief and a massacre of the Indians followed. He forced his young son, Brogan, to burn the Indian settlement, for which Brogan carried lasting guilt. Later the Brogan Kai (Stewart Finlay-McLennan) wanted to marry Bletsung McLeod (Gabrielle Fitzpatrick), but she loved Sim Gillvarie (Peter Wingfield). To get back at her, Brogan insisted the valley needed a Sin Eater to act as a scapegoat and take on their sins at death.

When the men drew lots Brogan had it rigged so that Sim lost. As Sin Eater, Sim was forbidden to touch or look anyone in the eye again and had to live in a remote cave. Twenty years later Cadi Forbes (Liana Liberato) runs from her mother and crosses a tree bridge 25

over the narrows. Her sister follows, slips and falls to her death. Cadi thinks it was her fault and tries to find the Sin Eater to release her from sin and unbearable guilt. She and Brogan’s son, Fagan, find a Man of God (Henry Thomas) at the river who tells Cadi that she is forgiven and that Jesus already forgave everyone’s sins. Fagan shows up, beats his son and then beats the Man of God, who gives his Bible to Cadi before he dies. Angel LilyBeth guides Cadi. Cadi and Fagan hide in the Sin Eater’s cave, where they discover pictographs showing the massacre of the Indians. They talk to Miz Elda who says it is time they all told the truth. Brogan’s wife, Iona, tells them how Brogan fixed the drawing. Learning the truth, Sim returns to the valley, becoming their Man of God. Cadi’s mother tearfully tells Cadi her truth, that she had been avoiding Cadi only because of her own guilt feelings about sending Cadi’s sister after her instead of going herself, and they are reunited. [Filmed in Utah.]

The Last Station (2009) This film shows the persistence of specialness. Toward the end of his life, Leo Tolstoy, perhaps the greatest author of all time, shared many powerful spiritual ideas: no private property, share everything, all live communally, no private thoughts, the body is unreal and the kingdom of God is within you. Although personally sincere, Tolstoy made compromises with his materialist wife, and his "movement" failed to focus on God/Love. The love represented in the film was about bodies.

Leaving Normal (1992) Directed by Edward Zwick, Starring Meg Tilly, Christine Lahti.

Darly: “We’ll have faith and act accordingly. Pick one of three cigarettes (to decide which road to take.)” “I, relative stranger Marianne, do hereby acknowledge, that every choice I’ve ever made has resulted in complete disaster, and therefore, until we get where we’re going, I will no longer choose a God damn thing.” “I at least have to act like things are going to turn out.” “It chose me.” Just because you’re leaving doesn’t mean you’re no still in the same God damn place.”

Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Golfer Rannulph Junnah (Matt Damon) has a girlfriend, Adele Invergordon, who vows to bring the greatest match ever played to Savannah on her late father's golf course,. Since the war, however, Junnah hangs out with bums and drinks. Bagger Vance (Will Smith) shows up and offers to be Junnahs's caddy. “The shot is gonna choose him.”

Let It Ride (1989) Director: Joe Pytka. Because Jay Trotter (Richard Dreyfuss) always loses when he bets on the horses, he swore to his wife he’d quit. But then he hears a secret tape about how a jockey held Charity back for eight straight races. He gets prompts, such as his fortune cookie: “You could be walking around lucky, and not even know it.” He asks God to let him win, bets, and wins at 40 to 1. He’s deliriously happy and lets each pile of winnings ride onto the next bet. Everybody at the track loves him. He is hot. The horse Hot to Trot winks at him, he places his final bet, and goes home with $69,000.

Letters To God (2010) This is a movie about hope, prayer and purpose. A boy with a terminal illness, Tyler Doherty (Tanner Maguire), starts writing to letters to God as a form of prayer. He encourages everyone around him to do the same, and in doing so, minds are turned towards God as a Source of comfort and communication. The boy’s letter s are given to the local postman, war vet Brady, who is going through his own life struggles and the local pastor tells him that “God put them in your hands for a reason. Let God tell you what to do. God, Help Brady, Thank you, Lord.” The healing is for all, and the desire for healing and connection with God radiates out, inspiring the whole community. His friend’s grandpa. “They’re jealous, because you’ve been chose by God, to receive the honor to be one of God’s warriors.” He makes the kid eyebrows. It’s never too late when you put it in His Hands.

Life as a House (2001) Dir. Irwin Winkler. George (Kevin Kline) has isolated himself; then he loses his job, is diagnosed with terminal cancer and rethinks his priorities. His teenage son, Sam (Hayden Christensen), hates his parents and his life. George insists that the very reluctant Sam come to his place for the summer to help him tear down his old house, which he hated, and build a new house. George to Sam: “I’m happy today; I haven’t been happy in ten years. I want you to be happy, alive.” Soon his ex-wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) starts helping on the house. George: “Everything happens for a reason.” “No, Sam, I wasn't trying to get you to like me. I was trying to get you to love me.”

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Lilies of the Field (1963) This is a movie about hope, prayer and purpose. I’ve never heard the word prayer used so much in a movie before! A young boy with a terminal illness starts writing to letters to God as a form of prayer. He encourages everyone around him to do the same, and in doing so, minds are turned towards God as a Source of comfort and communication. The boy’s letters are given to the local postman who is going through his own life struggles and after asking the local pastor what to do with the letters he is told that they are part of his own journey with God. The healing is for all, and the desire for healing and connection with God radiates out, inspiring the whole community.

The Lion King (1994) This is a movie about hope, prayer and purpose. I’ve never heard the word prayer used so much in a movie before! A young boy with a terminal illness starts writing to letters to God as a form of prayer. He encourages everyone around him to do the same, and in doing so, minds are turned towards God as a Source of comfort and communication. The boy’s letters are given to the local postman who is going through his own life struggles and after asking the local pastor what to do with the letters he is told that they are part of his own journey with God. The healing is for all, and the desire for healing and connection with God radiates out, inspiring the whole community.

Little Buddha (1993) Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Lama Norbu (Ruocheng Ying II) comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his great mystic teacher, Lama Dorje. He gives ten-year-old Jesse (Alex Wiesendanger) a children's book about Prince Siddhartha (Keanu Reeves). Siddhartha leads a sheltered life until he renounces his riches and discovers poverty, sickness, old age and death. He believes it is destiny to relieve all suffering. Through meditation he finds the middle way and becomes the enlightened Buddha. Lama Norbu wants to take Jesse to meet the other reincarnation candidates, a waif from Kathmandu and an upper class Indian girl. Jesse's father (Chris Isaak) having just lost his friend and primary architectural client ("No man can ever escape that curse") is free to take Jesse to Bhutan with the monks. It is a healing experience for all.

A Little Princess (1995) Dir. Alfonso Cuarón. In India, before enlisting to fight in WWI, Sara Crewe’s father (Liam Cunningham) tells her “You can be anything you want to be as long as you believe.” Sara (Liesel Matthews) then attends boarding school in New York where headmistress Miss Minchin (Eleanor Bron) has no-communication rules and treats her severely. But Sara still manages to entrance the other girls with her stories of Prince Rama. Upon learning that Sara’s father was gassed and his estate seized, Miss Minchin makes Sara a servant. She tells her it’s a cruel world and Sara replies, “I don’t believe it.” Sara is kind to people and an Indian in the adjacent house gives her food. When Minchin comes to deliver Sara to the police, she crosses a plank to the house next door where she finds her father, who had had amnesia from the gas.

All are healed to the song “Your heart will kindle my heart.”

Love Actually (2003) Prime Minister David (Hugh) is smitten with Natalie. His sister Karen (Emma) is married to Harry (Alan Rickman), who runs a magazine. Harry is smitten with secretary, Mia. Sarah (Laura Linney), an editor, has crush on Karl but prefers brother. Karen is friends with Daniel (Liam), stepson in love. Jamie (Colin Firth) falls for Portuguese maid Aurelia. Juliet (Keira) has just married Peter (black), whose best friend, Mark, loves her.

Love Affair (1939) On a cruise from Europe to New York to marry his wealthy fiancée, celebrated bachelor Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets night-club singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne) and they fall in love. They plan to reunite on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building six months later to decide whether they should marry each other or not. But on the way she is hit by a car and can no longer walk.

Made in Heaven (1987) Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) dies as a young man performing a heroic rescue. After arriving in Heaven he meets a new soul, Annie Packert (Kelly McGillis). She incarnates as Ally Chandler and Mike returns to earth as Elmo Barnett to find her. He has 30 years to do it.

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Man Facing Southeast (1986) A psychiatrist is brought face to face with his despairs and fears and perceived limitations through an encounter with a “patient” that is not of this world. Rantes, the patient/teacher/learner, is on an earth mission of compassion, and the “fellow patients” around him are drawn to his calm, healing presence. In the end the psychiatrist must decide, as each of us must decide, what/who is insane and what/ who is sane. If the entire ego world is a hologram of insanity, only a mind given to (Spirit) forgiveness can find peace.

Man Who Knew Too Little (1997) Wallace Ritchie (Bill Murray) flies to England to spend his birthday with his brother, James. James, however, has business guests coming over and must find something to occupy his brother. Wallace goes off to take part in the "Theatre Of Life," which promises to treat the participant as a character in a crime drama. But trouble begins when Wallace gets tangled up in a real plot to kill dignitaries at the signing of a peace agreement. Wallace blissfully continues to think it is all theatre. Hilarious.

The Mask of Zorro (1998) Don Diego de la Vega/Zorro returns from prison to avenge the death of his wife, who was killed by his enemy, Don Rafael Montero. Montero took de la Vega's daughter, Elena, and raised her as Elena Montero. The older Zorro takes upon himself to train his successor, Alejandro Murrieta, who as a boy had helped Zorro escape.

Moon so bright, night so fine Keep your heart here with mine Life's a dream, we a dreaming Race the moon, catch the wind Ride the night to the end Seize the day, stand up for the light I want to spend my lifetime loving you If that is all in life I ever do Heroes rise, heroes fall Rise again, win it all In your heart, can't you feel the glory?

Through our joy, through our pain We can move worlds again Take my hand, dance with me (Dance with me) I want to spend my lifetime loving you If that is all in life I ever do I will want nothing else to see me through If I can spend my lifetime loving you Though we know we will never come again Where there is love, life begins Over and over again

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Save the night, save the day Save the love, come what may Love is worth everything we pay I want to spend my lifetime loving you If that is all in life I ever do I want to spend my lifetime loving you If that is all in life I ever do I will want nothing else to see me through If I can spend my lifetime loving you

The Matrix (1999) Writers/ Directors: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski; Neo (Keanu Reeves); Morpheus (Laurence Fishbine), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss); Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving); Oracle (Gloria Foster).

A phone rings, Cypher accuses Trinity of enjoying watching “him.” Trinity: "Morpheus says he may be 'the One'." A sound alerts Trinity that the call is being traced. Trinity easily defeats the six policemen sent to apprehend her and escapes via a pay phone.

Neo, a hacker, is asleep at his monitor. Suddenly his screen goes blank and a set of text messages appear: "Wake up, Neo." "The Matrix has you." "Follow the White Rabbit." Then, "Knock, knock, Neo..." a knock comes at the door of Neo's apartment. It's a group of ravers; Neo sees the tattoo of a white rabbit on a girl in the group and goes with them. At a rave bar Trinity approaches him. "Hello Neo." She introduces herself and he recognizes her name; she was a famous hacker who cracked the IRS database. She tells him he is in great danger; they are watching him. She knows he is searching for an answer to the most important question: what is the Matrix?

At his job Neo is berated by his boss for having a problem with authority and rules, for thinking he's special.

Neo receives a delivery as "Thomas Anderson." He opens the package and finds a cell phone which immediately rings. On the other end is Morpheus, who informs Neo that they're coming for him. Morpheus tells Neo, “I can guide you; but you must do exactly as I say.” He instructs Neo to go out the window, get on the scaffolding and take it to the roof. Neo starts around the ledge but looks down, feels afraid, stops and is captured by the Agents.

Agent Smith asks Neo to help them capture Morpheus, a dangerous terrorist, in exchange for amnesty. Neo gives them the finger and asks to make a phone call. Mr. Smith asks what good is a phone call if he's unable to speak. Neo finds that his lips have fused together.

He is thrown on the interrogation table by the Agents who implant a scorpion-like probe through his belly-button. Neo awakes with a start in his bed and assumes it was a bad dream. His phone rings and Morpheus tells him he is the One and to go to the Adam Street Bridge. There he is picked up by Trinity, Apoc and Switch in a car. Trinity tells him he has to trust her and she uses a device to remove the probe.

Before bringing Neo in to meet Morpheus, Trinity counsels him to “be honest.” Morpheus explains that he's been searching for Neo his entire life. He says he imagines Neo feels a bit like Alice in Wonderland falling down the rabbit hole. "You are here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain, but you feel it. You felt it you entire life. There is something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. It's this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I am talking about?" Neo: "The Matrix?"

Morpheus: "Do you want to know what it is? The Matrix is everywhere; it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it out of your window, or on your television. You feel it when you go to work, or go to church, or pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." Neo: "What truth?" Morpheus: "That you are a slave, Neo. That you, like everyone else, was born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot smell, or touch. A prison for your mind. Unfortunately no 28

one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself." Morpheus holds two pills out. If Neo takes the blue pill he will wake up in his bed and believe whatever he wants to believe. But if he takes the red pill, then "you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. All I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.” Neo takes the red pill. “Follow me.”

As Trinity straps him into a chair, Neo is told that pill he took is part of a trace program so that they can pinpoint him. Neo looks at a shattered mirror placed next to him which miraculously reforms itself. Morpheus, “Have you ever had a dream, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the Real world?" Neo touches the surface and the silver begins to creep over his skin, engulfing him as Morpheus's crew urgently attempts to locate something on the monitors. The silver overtakes Neo and he blacks out.

He awakens gasping, hairless and naked inside a purple embryonic pod with thick black tubes plugged into the back of his skull and the rest of his body. His pod is open and surrounded by towers of pods just like his. Here is actual location of matrix. The poddwellers are dreaming they are projected images of themselves walking around in a city. Suddenly a menacing nurse robot grabs him by the throat. The tubes detach and Neo is flushed down a drain into water where he is snagged by Morpheus's crew. Just before Neo passes out Morpheus says to him, "Welcome to the real world." Neo drifts in and out of consciousness. At one point he asks, "Am I dead?" "Far from it," replies Morpheus. When he wakes again, his body is like an acupuncture pincushion, "Why do my eyes hurt?"

"You've never used them before," Morpheus replies.

Neo finally wakes and Morpheus gives him a tour of his ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. Neo is introduced to Apoc, Switch, Cypher (bald with a goatee), Tank, Dozer, and Mouse. Morpheus: "You wanted to know about the Matrix." Trinity straps him in. A long probe is inserted into the port at the back of Neo's skull.

Neo awakes in pure light. Morpheus: “This is the construct. It is our loading program. With it we can load anything. Morpheus tells Neo that what he is experiencing of himself is the "residual self image, the mental projection of your digital self." Neo: "This isn't real?" Morpheus: "What is real? How do you define real? If you are talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain." "This," he says, showing an image of a modern city, "is the world that you know," a thing that exists "only as part of a neural, interactive simulation that we call the Matrix." Mankind gave birth to artificial intelligence, a "singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines." The machines decided to take over and use man as a power source.

"The Matrix is a computer generated dream world created to keep us under control.” Neo screams, “I don’t believe it; let me out!” He fights to free himself and ends up on the floor vomiting and passes out.

Neo wakes up in his bunk; Morpheus is beside him. "I can't go back, can I?" Neo asks. "No," says Morpheus, “Would you want to?

When the Matrix was first built, there was a man born inside who had the ability to change what he wanted, to remake the Matrix as he saw fit. It was this man who freed the first of us. After he died the Oracle prophesized his return and envisioned an end to the war and freedom for our people. This is why there are those of us who have spent our entire lives searching the Matrix, looking for him."

The return of the One would mean the destruction of the Matrix. If the Matrix exists man will continue to live in complacency inside it and the world can never be free. I did what I did because I believe that search is over; I’m trying to free your mind.”

Neo starts his training. Tank, his operator, straps Neo into the jack-in chair, and loads him up with combat training. Morpheus and Neo stand in a sparring program that has rules, like gravity. But some rules can be bent while others can be broken. Morpheus bids Neo to hit him, if he can. They fight with Morpheus easily parrying and subduing him. A jump program is loaded and they now stand on one of several tall buildings. Morpheus tells Neo he must free his mind of “fear, doubt and disbelief,” then leaps from one building to the next. Neo nervously tries to follow him but doesn't make it, falling to the pavement below. Neo wakes back in the Nebuchadnezzar with blood in his mouth. "I thought it wasn't real," he says. "Your mind makes it real," replies Morpheus.

Morpheus and Neo are walking down a city street and Morpheus explains that "The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. When you are inside you look around. What do you see? Teachers, lawyers, businessmen: the very minds of the people that we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight any change." Neo asks what the Agents are. "Sentient programs," says Morpheus. No one has ever stood up to an Agent and survived. But Morpheus is certain that because the Agents live in a world of rules that they can never be as strong, never be as fast as Neo can be.

Neo startles Cypher who is working at a computer console streaming with green code. Cypher betrays his own fear and doubt by conspiratorially offering Neo a drink and saying that he knows what Neo is thinking, "Why, oh why didn't I take the blue pill?"

Cypher asks Neo if Morpheus has told him why he's here. Neo nods. "What a mind job," says Cypher sarcastically, "so you're here to save the world."

Cypher is now in a fancy restaurant with Agent Smith who asks if they have a deal. Cypher, pointing to a morsel of steak, replies, “You know, I know this steak does not exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, do you know what I have realized? That ignorance is bliss. I want to remember nothing." He strikes a deal to be reinserted into his body as a rich and powerful person in the Matrix. In return he'll help the Agents get Morpheus.

Morpheus is taking Neo to see the Oracle. As they walk out of a warehouse Cypher secretly throws his cell phone into a garbage can. Neo: “I have these memories from my life. None of them happened. What does that mean?” Trinity, “That the Matrix cannot tell you who you are.” The Oracle, Morpheus explains, is the one who made the Prophecy of the One and that Morpheus would be the one to find him. “Try not to think of it in terms of right and wrong; she is a guide. I told you I can only show you the door. You have to walk through it.” She can help Neo find the path, he says. Inside her apartment are other “potentials.” One child who is bending 29

spoons gives one to Neo and says, "Do not try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth...that there is no spoon. It is only yourself." Neo bends it.

The Oracle asks Neo if he's the One. “Honestly, I don’t know.” She points to a “Know thyself” plaque. “You already know what I’m going to tell you.” “That I’m not the one.” “You have the gift but it looks like you’re waiting for something. No one can tell you; you have to know it—balls to bone.” She prophesizes that either he or Morpheus will die, and that Neo will have the power to choose which one it will be. As the crew returns they are trapped. Mouse gets riddled with bullets and, on the Nebuchadnezzar, the real Mouse spurts blood and dies in the chair. The crew climbs down the plumbing of the wet wall. As the police approach, Cypher sneezes, giving them away. The police open fire. A fierce battle between Agent Smith and Morpheus ends with Morpheus being captured.

Cypher returns to the Nebuchadnezzar and, as Tank attempts to bring the others back, Cypher blasts him and Dozer with an electronic weapon. Cypher unplugs Apoc and Switch and moves to unplug Neo. Cypher says that if Neo is the One then only a miracle can prevent him for killing him: "How can he be the One, if he's dead?" Tank, having recovered, fries Cypher with the l weapon and brings Trinity back..

Meanwhile Agent Smith, with torture implements, talks to the bound Morpheus, "Have you ever stared at it? Marvel at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people living their lives; oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world with no suffering, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to define the perfect world. I believe that as a species, humans define their reality through misery and suffering. The "perfect" world was a dream that their primitive cerebellum tried to awake from. That is why this Matrix was redesigned to the peak of your civilization. Or should I say our civilization? Because as soon as we started thinking for you, it became our civilization."

Because Morpheus is being tortured, Tank says they have to unplug him, but Neo stops him. He realizes the Oracle was right and he now has to choose to save himself or Morpheus. He decides to go back into the Matrix. "I'm not the One, Trinity." He only knows he can bring Morpheus out. Trinity will go with him: "Neo, no one has ever done anything like this." "That's why it's going to work," he replies.

Trinity and Neo enter the lobby, heavily armed. They shoot their way past the guards and soldiers and make their way into the elevator where Trinity arms a bomb. They climb through a hatch to the elevator roof. Neo says, "There is no spoon," before he severs the cable. The counterweight drops, propelling Neo and Trinity upward. The elevator falls to the lobby exploding upon impact and filling it with flames.

Trinity brings a helicopter outside the floor Morpheus is on and Neo opens fire on the Agents. Morpheus breaks loose and runs toward the helicopter but is hit in the leg. Neo realizes he won’t make the leap, throws himself out of the helicopter with a harness and catches Morpheus. Agent Smith shoots the helicopter's hydraulic line. Trinity gets it close enough to drop Morpheus and Neo on a rooftop. Neo grabs the safety line as the helicopter falls towards a building. Trinity severs the safety line connecting Neo to the helicopter and jumps on it as the vehicle smashes. Onboard Tank says, "I knew it; he's the One." Neo hauls Trinity up to them. Morpheus: "Do you believe it now, Trinity?" Neo mentions the Oracle and Morpheus says, "She told you exactly what you needed to hear." They call Tank for an exit. They find the phone booth in a subway and Morpheus exits, then Trinity. But Agent Smith’s shot shatters the phone making it impossible for Neo to exit. Neo faces Smith and delivers devastating blows but Smith counters, throwing Neo onto the tracks. He puts Neo in a headlock and, says, “Good-bye, Mr. Anderson." "My name," he replies, "is Neo." He jumps with Smith on his back and hits the roof of the tunnel; they fall back down and Neo back flips off the tracks, leaving Agent Smith to be hit by the oncoming train. Smith appropriates another body. “Trinity, don't worry," says Morpheus, "He's going to make it." Neo reaches a room with the phone but is immediately shot point blank by Agent Smith. Neo slumps to the floor, dead.

On the ship Trinity leans over his body. "Neo," she says, "I'm not afraid anymore. The Oracle told me that I would fall in love and that the man I loved would be The One. So, you see, you can't be dead. You can't be because I love you. You hear me? I love you."

She kisses him. In the chair Neo suddenly breathes. In the Matrix, Neo opens his eyes. "Now get up," orders Trinity.

The Agents hear Neo get up, turn and open fire. "No," Neo says calmly, raising his hands. He stops their bullets in mid-air. "He is the One," says Morpheus. Agent Smith is furious and attacks Neo who sends him flying with a kick. Neo then leaps into Smith's body and explodes Smith. The other two agents look at each other and run.

Neo has made it back. He kisses Trinity. The screen goes black and a prompt appears: "System Failure." Over it is Neo's voice: "I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to show these people a world where anything is possible." He exits a phone booth, looks around, and takes flight.

Matrix Reloaded (2003) As the machines tunnel toward Zion, Neo fears the loss of Trinity. Morpheus: “Trust me.” “There is nothing to fear.”

“I am without fear because I remember.” Commander Lock, on the other hand, doesn’t believe in the Oracle or in Neo. The Architect: “Nearly ninety-nine percent of the test subjects accepted the program provided they were given a choice. [But there is a] systemic anomaly [Neo]. The onset of an emotion [love], designed specifically to overwhelm logic and reason.” Agent Smith: “We're here to take from you what you tried to take from us—Purpose.” Morpheus: “All of our lives, we have fought this war. Tonight I believe we can end it. Tonight is not an accident. There are no accidents. We have not come here by chance. I do not believe in chance.” Merovingian: “You see there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth—Causality.” The Keymaker: “Only the One can open the door. I know because I must know. It is my purpose. It is the 30

reason I am here. The same reason we are all here.”

Matrix Revolutions (2003) As the machines are breaching Zion's defenses, Neo takes a quiet moment and decides he must go to the machine city. His eyes are blinded but he can navigate easily by feeling the light. He and Trinity crash land the city and Neo tells the Machines that the program Smith has grown out of control and only he can stop it.

He gets recharged, fights Smith and blows him up. The program is beautifully restored and the Architect tells the Oracle that the ones who want out will be freed.

Meet the Fockers (2004) Gaylord “Greg” Focker (Ben Stiller) has invited his fiancée’s ex-CIA agent father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), and mother to meet his parents. Greg’s dad, Bernie (Dustin Hoffman), is a retired lawyer and his mother Roz (Barbara Streisand) is sex therapist. Greg starts out in the flow: is offered a cab and is upgraded on the plane. But arguments arise when Jack’s mistrusting, secretive mindset meets the Focker’s open honesty, hugs and kisses.

Sequel to 'Meet the Parents.'

Meet the Parents (2000) Directed by Jay Roach. Instead of following his heart and asking Pam (Teri Polo) to marry him, Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) second-guesses himself and thinks he should ask her father first. As he tries to impress dad (Robert De Niro), one compromise leads to another: he denies he hates cats, gives Pam’s sister a black eye, and starts a fire.

Mind the Gap (2004) Five people, each feeling victimized and incapable of having relationships, get healing lessons and become happy and able to join.

Malissa (Elizabeth Reaser) cares for her dying mother who says, “I hate you.” She tells her mother to forgive herself. Mother was raped by a rich man in town. She uses police radio to find and photo rapists, victims, and their mothers. She wants people to forgive, but fears having an unwanted baby. Sold her eggs to pay for tubal ligation in NY. Dr gave her glasses; Sam’s kid smashes them. She likes him; no operation. Sam and son shave their heads. Sam is afraid of relationship, still the victim of his old fiancée. Vicky carried son-egg. He may have brain tumor; to NY for tests. At speed dating he bumps into Allison and says, “You destroyed me.” She apologizes, “You can forgive me.” He is OK. “Dad, can we still live with Vicky?” John, in Tucson, cheated on his wife who now lives in NY with their son. He thinks of suicide; priest tells him to ask her forgiveness. He goes to see her in NY. Will you forgive me?

“Yes.” Herb, old bastard in NY, stuck in the past, is walking to end of island. Minor heart attack. Then he meets crabby Esther. Jody, guitarist/singer is afraid of men. Has pacemaker. Won’t go in to city. Manny invites her to play at his club. She goes speed dating and sprints out of there. Collapses. John helps her. They hook up. "Mind the gap" is a warning to train passengers to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the station platform. Mellissa says Mind the Gap = goodbye in Britain.

Minority Report (2002) Dir. Stephen Spielberg. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) is chief of the Department of Pre-crime in 2054 DC. Combined telepathic power of three “pre-cognatives” can sense imminent murders. John manipulates their images, solves the case and rushes in with flying cops to prevent the murder. The “hat” is put on the about-to-be perpetrator, who then is put into a capsule. Danny Witwer from the Dept. of Justice is investigating to see if Pre-crime might be making mistakes. When is the choice to murder really made? Director Lamar Burgess (Max von Sydow) doesn’t want Dept. taken away. If a pre-cog disagrees the record is a “minority report.” Pre-cog Agatha speaks to John about a drowning. The pre-cogs show the future murder of Leon Crow and John is the murderer! John goes underground and has his eyeballs replaced to fool the retinal scanners. With his own unit tracking his every move, he sneaks back into Pre-crime and learns that Lamar drowned Agatha’s mother.

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) Math Prof Greg Larkin (Jeff Bridges) is dazzled by Candace, who left him. He loses control. He decides he wants to be with someone he’s not sexually attracted to. He puts an ad in the paper and screens out all the pretty ones. Claire, the attractive sister of Prof Rose Morgan (Barbara Streisand), sends in Rose’s picture. Rose despairs of finding a man who really knows her. Her mother (Lauren Bacall) is still obsessed with her own looks and dresses to the hilt. Greg attends one of Rose’s lectures in which she says: Marriage was the end of romantic love. But courtly love, without sex, is a union of souls. We all want to fall in love because it feels great!

Puccini’s music captures it. Greg takes Rose to dinner and talks math, and she gets it. After concert, Greg, “I’m not interested in sex. Romance is a myth made by advertising. Besides, sex drives me crazy.” Claire is sick of her new husband, Alex. Rose gives Greg prime number cufflinks and he says, “We’re not in love. If sex interests you I could provide it. I like you mind, humor and passion for ideas; I think we should get married.”

Rose to her mother: He wants a companion. Mother: Don’t trust him. They get married at City Hall; Rose wants sex and starts to seduce him, but he bolts. He says he is “confused and disappointed because things were going so well. You 31

knew the arrangement. I took every precaution so there would be no physical attraction.” Rose is crushed and goes back to her mother’s. Her mother shows her a pretty picture of her at age two. Rose starts working out, buying clothes, doing hair, make up. He comes back and says, “I’m shocked. I feel betrayed.” She says, I settled for something I didn’t want. I believe in sex love and passion.

I’m sorry I broke our agreement and fell in love with you.” They split. Alex tries to pick her up. Greg shouts up to her apartment window: “You’re beautiful. I’m sorry. That night I wanted you so much I couldn’t see straight. I love you. I don’t care if you are pretty; I love you anyway.” ♥ Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” ("Nobody shall sleep!”) from Turandot plays. [It is sung by Calaf, (the unknown prince), who falls in love with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot. Calaf says if she can guess his name by dawn, she can execute him; but if she does not, she must marry him. None shall sleep! Even you, O Princess, in your cold bedroom, watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope. But my secret is hidden within me; none will know my name! No, no! On your mouth I will say it when the light shines! And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine! Vanish, o night! Set, stars! Set, stars! At daybreak I shall win! I shall win!]

Les Misérables (1998) Director: Bille August. Jean Valjean (Liam Neeson) gives the greatest gift a brother could give.

He tells the dying Fantine (Uma Thurman) not to worry, that he will bring her daughter Cosette live with her, that the Lord is Cosette’s father and “You are His creation; besides you’ve never been anything but an innocent, beautiful woman.” Inspector Javert is the belief in sin personified. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo (1862).

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The Mission (1986) Jesuit Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) takes over a Guaraní Indian mission way up the river in Brazil.

Forgiven slaver Rodrigo Mendoza (Robert DeNiro) chooses love, at least until soldiers come to close down the mission. Father Gabriel still maintains that might is not right. They all are killed.

Mr. Destiny (1990) At age 15 Larry Burrows (James Belushi) struck out in the championship game. He married Ellen, who had sympathy for him. At age 35 he gets to pick up his life as if he had homered. But he doesn’t like the extra money and beautiful new wife—he wants Ellen. The bartender (Michael Caine) who served him “spilt milk” tells him the secret is to enjoy what you’ve got. Larry is truly grateful to return to his old life.

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) Directed by P.J. Hogan. When Julianne (Julia Roberts) hears that Michael (Dermot Mulroney), the man she went with in college and who has since become her good friend, is getting married, she suddenly feels very jealous. His bride to be, Kim (Cameron Diaz), asks Julianne to be her bridesmaid. Julianne tries several deceits to break them up. Her friend George (Rupert Everett) has clarity and asks her, “Do you love him or is this about winning?” And he teases her with, “You have the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.” He urges her to tell the truth, but she can’t. Despite Julianne’s machinations, Kim still loves Michael and he loves Kim. George tells Julianne to give it up and dances with her at the reception.

My Dinner with Andre (1981) Dir. Louis Malle. Wally Shawn, playwright and actor, and Andre Gregory wrote their own dialog. Andre relates how he dropped out of all routines and expectations. “I didn’t know anything.” He was invited to Poland by Jerzy Grotowski* where he did theatre in a forest with 40 women who knew no English. They worked all night, each playing herself; so they had to wait for impulse and improvise. They learned to play, with many combinations of singing and dancing. At the end they had a christening for Andre and gave him a new name. “For the first time in my life I knew what it was to be truly alive. At first it was frightening because of my fear of death, but then I felt I was floating. To follow one impulse after the next is to be full of discovery.” Then he took a Japanese monk to the Sahara to work on ‘The Little Prince.’ He brought him home for six months and he took over. In church Andre saw a huge monster that had come to inspire him. He went to Findhorn and saw the life in leaves, began hallucinating. Then in Montauk he participated in his own burial, dirt was shoveled over him; then he was resurrected and everyone danced.

Then he was done and went back to his life. Now “I feel I’ve squandered my life, feel guilty; I’m aware of my negative judgments.

Most of us are like Zombies in a dream world.” Wally: Once when I acted the part of a cat, people were hostile towards me. No, I didn’t say anything. We aren’t direct; we cover our feelings; we make jokes and talk about hypotheticals. We perform in our lives just to live up to our roles. But privately we’re confused and don’t know what to do about our lives. We don’t really want to perceive reality; we’re on autopilot after a meaningless goal. When life is habitual, it’s not really living. Andre: Look at how we treat each other—we commit murder every day. If the theatre shows us our isolation, does that help wake us up? No. But experiences like my christening do that. We bore ourselves; we’re asleep, robots; New York City is a prison and we are the guards. But some of us want to create a mystical alternative. To develop a new language of the heart we need to go through the looking glass and attain another form of perception where we are united with everything, and suddenly we understand everything. Wally: I’m just trying to survive and pay my bills. I appreciate the little things. You can’t just believe anything you want about coincidences; science today knows some facts about the universe. It seems your work was to strip away purposefulness and experience being. I don’t accept that as worthwhile. To 32

do nothing seems absurd and makes me nervous. Andre: You can do things and yet be dead inside, merely acting out a role. I found I needed to cut out the noise and find out what was inside me. Wally: I don’t like quiet moments; afraid I’ll be revealed as wanting.

Andre: What if you did what you felt like doing from moment to moment? It is a challenge to really become closer to someone, to not know what the next moment will bring. *In theatre the actor strives to provide an opportunity for integration, the discarding of masks, the revealing of the real substance: a totality of physical and mental reactions for the "emergence from oneself," which is therapeutic for people in our present day civilization. The actor accomplishes this through an encounter with the spectator - intimately, visibly - in direct confrontation with him, and somehow "instead of" him. The actor opens up and emerges from himself - an invitation to the spectator comparable to an act of genuine love between two human beings. This paradoxical and borderline act epitomizes the actor's deepest calling. Paraphrased from Towards a Poor Theatre by Jerzy Grotowski

Next (2007) Writers: Gary Goldman, Jonathan Hensleigh; Director: Lee Tamahori Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson (Nicholas Cage) can see a few minutes into the future. He lives off small-time gambling winnings. But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) uses all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop them. He can see farther when he joins with future girlfriend Liz (Jessica Biel).

What if everything that seemed to play out was just hypothetical? What if every possibility could be seen and then the mind could zoom in and select which scenario to play out? Cris Johnson has a physic ability, once you enter his consciousness, that allows him to do this, and yet without any real sense of purpose, his life is one of hiding and pretense. The Holy Spirit uses attraction and a relationship to get his attention and open him up to seeing that through joining he can go beyond his fears and expand his perception and abilities.

The individual concerned for himself will always end up with the same result (pain and loss). Following the Spirit leads to what is best for the whole. It deletes unnecessary drama and saves time. Cris hides his function or light under a bushel because he is afraid of what will happen. This is symbolized by the limited attempt to use his abilities in a cheap magic show. He can see 2 minutes into the future but has not learned to give it over to the Spirit, which would use it to benefit the whole. He is given a glimpse of his communication ability as he starts to pair up with others and follow prompts but it still must be given over. When he is fully engaged in the Spirit in the scene by the warehouse, Julianne Moore trusts him and links up completely. It is a classic scene for following guidance and trusting a brother or the Holy Spirit, who can see everything from all angles. It is a great movie to remind us that no matter how many ways we look at trying to change the future, we must find out that only a change of Purpose is the answer. The whole world is hypothetical and when this is seen, there is surrender. The script is written and there is no point in trying to figure it all out. Just rest and join with your brother to end the past. It is all forgiven and at any point we can choose again for the Plan of the Holy Spirit.

Super-positioning is demonstrated as Cris explores many places simultaneously. “Do exactly as I say.” He sees into the future and can run time backwards. This is how the quantum field is; all the possibilities are over and done with and the only way to see it is from one perspective, the Holy Spirit's.

'Hypotheticals' video setup - Quantum field is what forgiveness is, but the ego has fragmented it into hypotheticals. We each want to make it “so,” little separation experiments. Cris searches for his girlfriend by using superposition to explore all the possibilities of where she might be.

'Hypothetical' movie clip - He points out the explosives, gets shot. Runs the scene again and finds sniper so they shoot him. He clears all the rest of the decks by splitting himself up and taking every option.

David's conclusion video talk 'Hypotheticals' Everything you perceive is a projection of mind, of a belief system. Each has a private world of hypothetical scenarios. A trick of time that sees separate things. When you empty your mind these meaningless things go away. The last two-thirds of the movie is a hypothetical scenario. [Boom! “I made a mistake. I’ll do it, but I want her left out of it.”]

Our preferences and judgments hold it together. It is much ado about nothing.

'Playing Out' video clip once again Cris acting out the multiple possibilities happening all at once. He approaches Liz, Do you mind if I join you? I have a question about the coffee. Do you have a light? Kendall is loud, stalking her, Cris dodges, beat him up. So he takes a punch “incoming.” She comforts him. “It will, your luck is gonna change.”

The Nines (2007) Part 1 – The Prisoner. G puts on bracelet during titles. He plays a cop on TV, burns his girlfriend’s clothes (and his house), booze, crack, no belly button, “Am I alive?” Wrecks car, M is his monitor/publicist while he is under house arrest. S is mother next door, tries to seduce him.” Is that all there is to love and life?” Mute little girl. “There is something wrong with the world.” G is reading Candide, a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. S, “I can get you out of here but you’ve got to trust me. You’re not who you think you are. You’re a 9.” He crosses the line and M disappears in light.

Part 2 – Reality TV. G is a director/character. M is his choice for the lead. S tells him M needs to be fired.

He does it. M is angry fat girl. He learns Dahlia is not with his show; his show is pulled. S, “You had to give her up.” G slaps S. S, “Is that all there is?” “You’re not a man.” G angry at (imaginary?) cameraman; has 9 over his head. Dialog from Part 1: You’re a 9, a (Christ-like) multidimensional being of almost infinite power (God is a 10). A human is a 7.

Part 3 – Knowing. Video game designer, Gabriel, meets Sierra, who leads him off into the woods. Suddenly he feels weak and Sierra tells him she has poisoned him with the water. She kisses him. “This is an intervention.” He throws up. She says, “I can get you out of here but you have to trust me. You did this to yourself; admitting that is 33

the first step. This planet is your drug of choice. You made the universe, then started playing characters of our own. This world seems OK, until you remember where you came from. Come back with me. You have to want to leave.” Holy Spirit must meet him where he believes he’s at. The blond woman tells him the truth. She is a symbol of help in this awakening. She tells him about the three parallel universes he has created and has been living in, and that he forgot who he was and that it wasn't real. Gabriel returns with daughter Noelle in his arms to his wife, Mary, and the car and the family goes home. When he accepts the truth he has to apply it to his ‘wife and child.’ This thought is shared and wife has fear, then gives him permission. She says, “You need to go, don’t you. It’s not real. I’m not really your wife. It’s all pretend. I love you.” He tells her that there were ninety different variations of the universe and this is the last one. Gabriel realizes he must go and removes the green bracelet from his wrist, unplugs from the game; the universe peels away into nothing as he zooms off into light. (He would then move on to the real world.) Noelle tells her mother that "he's not coming back," that "all the pieces have been put together" and they say, "this is the best of all possible worlds."

[Candide] No Reservations (2007) Kate is a terrific chef at a Manhattan restaurant, sent to therapy by the restaurant owner because she is cold, unyielding, rule-bound, and a pain in the neck. Kate's world is flipped over when her only sister dies and her tenyear-old niece, Zoe, comes to live with her. As Kate struggles to be a parent to a grief-stricken child, the one world she used to control - the restaurant kitchen - is changed utterly by the restaurant's hiring a second chef, the loose, operatic, Italian-trained Nick, who claims it's an honor to work in Kate's kitchen but who she suspects wants to replace her. ♥ Only You (1994) …“can make this change in me For it's true you are my destiny” (playing at start). At age 11 Faith asks the Ouija board and a gypsy who she’ll marry and both say Damon Bradley. As a teacher at 25 she tells the kids “we were one, then split.” Her goal is to find her other half. Ten days before she’s going to marry Duane she gets a message that Damon Bradley is in Italy. She flies right over to find him. Faith meets a great guy who says he’s Damon Bradley and they fall in love. Then he tells her his name is really Peter Right. She is angry and won’t see him again. She quotes Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem, You Who Never Arrived. She tries to find Damon for a while more but finally realizes she does love Peter. Her brother then tells her he made up Damon Bradley on the Ouija board and paid the gypsy to say that name. Faith finally manages to get on the same return flight with Peter. ♥ Original Sin (2001) What is ‘sin’ but the error of deception, and what is Salvation but acceptance of the Correction to error. Sin seems to be acted out in form, in flesh, yet the error is simply an erroneous belief which seems to yield a faulty formulation of reality. Sin is a mistake to be Corrected, not a black mark that can never be erased. The ‘original sin’ was the belief that separation from God was possible. It seemed to be enacted in deceptions of the flesh, yet there is a Perspective of non-judgment Which overlooks the error entirely and sees only Truth. Forgiveness releases the mind from the repetition of the original error, and in this release is true freedom, peace, love, and happiness. Only Original Innocence remains Now. The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Directed by Justin Chadwick. To further their political ambitions, the Duke of Norfolk and his brotherin-law Thomas Boleyn scheme to get Henry VIII (Eric Bana) to invite his daughter Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman ) to court as the his mistress. But Henry is smitten with Anne’s sister, Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson). Although recently married, Mary and her husband agree to accept positions in the court, where Mary falls in love with Henry. Anne is resentful of her sister and highly ambitious. She attempts to marry a nobleman without the King's consent and is exiled to France. When Mary becomes pregnant and is confined, Norfolk calls Anne back to England to keep Henry's attention from Jane Seymour. Anne attracts Henry, but withholds sexual favors until he promises never to bed his wife or speak to Mary. Thus Mary’s giving birth to a son goes virtually unnoticed.

Then Anne insists that Henry divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon. When the Pope will not agree, Anne persuades Henry to break with Rome and declare himself head of the Church of England. Anne then weds Henry and becomes Queen of England. Mary stays by her side at court. Anne bears Elizabeth (the future queen), but miscarries a second child. The king is sick of her. Anne her brother are accused of incest and although Mary tries to save them, they are executed. Mary flees to the country where she lives in obscurity for the rest of her life.

Passengers (2008) Everything we seem to experience is only an act taking place in our own mind. Fear makes you dream a dream of being a person with certain characteristics and you may be using an occupation in the making an identity. There are helpers along the way. You need to have the courage to face the fearful thoughts of the past and welcome them into awareness to heal and see that you were only dreaming and that everyone was there to help you! You just perceived them wrongly!

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Passion of Mind (2000) Dir. Alain Berliner. Marie (Demi Moore) lives two alternating dream-lives, one as a widow in Provence with two daughters, and one as Marty, a single literary agent in Manhattan. Marie falls in love with William and Marty falls in love with Aaron: romantic dinners with candles, gifts, birthdays, etc. Each persona tells her man about the other one.

William gets jealous and vanishes. Aaron finally agrees to accept her as she is and she decides to stay with him.

Peaceful Warrior (2006) Director: Victor Salva Young gymnast Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) is successful but unfulfilled. By chance he meets a spiritual guide, Socrates (Nick Nolte), who helps him "git his haid straight” by facing and releasing the ego while turning to the inner strength and focus that is found in the present moment. Spirit works with the mind to develop true strength. Through trust and discipline the teacher and student can collapse time to awaken to the truth of our equality. Socrates trains Dan to be a real warrior: “People are not their thoughts, although they think they are. Take the trash out of your mind, whatever keeps you from the present moment. Let go of attachments, of thinking that you know anything.” Dan quits Socrates and breaks his leg in a motorcycle accident. He comes back to Socrates who has him find answers from his inside. Dan gets present, trains again, and performs beautifully.

Phenomenon (1996) Dir. Jon Turteltaub. At midnight on his 37th birthday George Malley (John Travolta) is on the street alone when a light approaches him like a comet, knocking him on his back. The next day he beats the doctor (Richard Kiley) in chess. He can speak Spanish and has telekinetic powers. He doesn’t sleep, masters photovoltaics, predicts an earthquake, finds a lost boy and cracks a top security code. For this the authorities bring him and his friend (Forest Whitaker) in for questioning. He says, “We’re all made of the same stuff; I want my life; everything is energy.” The light hits him again when he’s in difficulty outside the library. He is told he has a brain tumor that is killing him. “I’m what everybody else can be; the human spirit is the challenge.” He dies calmly in the arms of his girlfriend (Kyra Sedgwick). The wind in the trees brings peace.

Phone Booth (1996) Director: Joel Schumacher. New York publicist Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) picks up a ringing phone and the caller is a sniper who tells him that if he hangs up, he’s dead. He makes Stu tell everyone the truth, including his wife Kelly and his girlfriend, Pam. “I lie to my friends. I wear all this Italian shit because underneath I still feel like the Bronx. I think I need these clothes and this watch. My two thousand dollar watch is a fake and so am I. I've neglected the things I should have valued most. I valued this shit. I have just been dressing up as something I'm not for so long, I'm so afraid no one will like what's underneath.

But here I am, just flesh and blood and weakness, and uh and I love you so fucking much.”

Pocahontas (1995) Walt Disney animation. Pocahontas (voice Irene Bedard) met the English colonists at Jamestown, VA. and saved the life of Captain John Smith (voice Mel Gibson), who was a prisoner of the Indians, by appealing to her father, chief Powhatan. “If you listen with your heart the spirits will guide you and you will understand.”

Pollyanna (1960) Pollyanna is a budding miracle-worker. She is in her function, flowing around joining with everyone she meets. Although her 'positive attitude' isn't always welcome, her optimistic approach is a deliberate attempt to see things differently. Abraham Lincoln said 'When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will". Hence Pollyanna's commitment to 'look for the good'.

Powder (1995) Director: Victor Salva. In a small Texas town, Powder (Sean Patrick Flanery) was rejected by his father at birth because of his albinism. His mother had just been killed by lighting. After his grandfather dies, Jessie (Mary Steenburgen) takes Powder, or Jeremy, into school, where he moves all the spoons in the cafeteria by magnetic force. The electricity from a science experiment lifts him off the ground. He has the ability to listen to people's thoughts and is very compassionate toward animals and ultimately with the dying wife of the sheriff (Lance Henriksen). He observes that most people feel separate, don't know how beautiful they are and that they really all are one. He has a kiss, saves a guy's life, but really just wants to go home, which he does on a bolt of lightening.

Priest (1994) Director: Antonia Bird. When young priest Greg Pilkington (Linus Roache) meets his co-priest, Matthew (Tom Wilkinson) Greg is quick to judge him for drinking and having sex with the housekeeper. “There is just sin; get rid of 35

her.” She explains that they’d be married but Matthew would lose his job. Greg is gay, but he refuses his gay lover communion. He learns from her confession that a fourteen-year-old girl is being raped by her father, but he will not break the confidentiality of the confessional. The girl’s mother finds out Greg knew about the incest and says, “I hope you burn on hell.” He feels sin and evil inside.

His is arrested with his lover and attempts suicide. The Bishop tells him to “Get out of my diocese.” But Matthew is genuinely compassionate and asks Greg to say Mass together with him. During Mass, Matthew speaks of the need to love all mankind. No one will take communion from Greg until the girl comes to him and they hug each other.

The Preacher's Wife (1996) Reverend Henry Biggs’ (Courtney Vance) marriage to choir mistress Julia (Whitney Houston) is flagging because he is busy trying to help people in the deprived neighborhood they live in. Also his church is under threat from a property developer. Rev. Biggs prays to God and help arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley (Denzel Washington). Rule #2 – I can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do.

Premonition (2007) Telephone message, “Linda, I meant what I said.” Sheriff: Jim died, truck jackknifed. Linda (Sandra Bullock) wakes up and he’s in the kitchen. Wakes up to wine glass, covered mirrors, and pills in the sink. Everyone in black; daughter has cuts on face. Head rolls out of casket; woman in cemetery. Dr. Norman Rush page torn from phonebook. Linda is hauled off. Wakes and Jim is in shower. Tears page and goes to see Roth; gets lithium. Meets Jim and Claire at work. Daughter runs through glass door. Goes to Claire’s house post accident; he was gong to cheat. Supposed to happen because he was a liar. He tripled death benefits. Let him die? Wakes next to Jim. Priest: faithless are empty vessels; it’s never too late. She takes of his shoes; I had dream you’re gonna die. Wakes Wednesday and he’s gone. Jim calls Claire, “I can’t do this.” He dies; can’t change the script. She wakes; believe in something beyond yourself. She’s pregnant.

A Price Above Rubies (1998) Director: Boaz Yakin. Sonia (Renée Zellweger) is unhappily married to a religious scholar. Her brother-in-law offers her a job as his jewelry buyer and takes advantage of her. She gets guidance from her deceased younger brother and a mysterious wise woman. After she encourages a talented Puerto Rican jewelry artist, she is banished from the Hasidic community, yet we know she is landing on her feet.

The Razor's Edge (1984) Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) parties with his friend Gray and flirts with his fiancée Isabel and his childhood girlfriend Sophie in preWWI Illinois. In the ambulance corps, the deaths of friends sober Larry and when he returns he decides to put off his wedding and his job. He says he needs to think and goes to Paris with Isabel’s wealthy uncle, Elliott Templeton, whom he disappoints by becoming a fish packer and living in a dump. Isabel comes to visit. Larry says he’s not returning to his pending job in the US and asks her stay with him. She can’t stand his circumstances, says “I’m special” and leaves. Isabel marries Gray and has two children.

Larry goes to the Ganges in India and then up into the snowy mountains to stay with a lama who says, “I have been waiting for you” and “The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.” (ego/Holy Spirit) Larry learns humility and meditation. Meanwhile Sophie loses it when her husband and son are killed in a car crash. Gray is shaken when his father commits suicide during the Depression, so Isabel brings the family to stay in Paris with Elliot to recover. Larry comes by and cures Gray’s constant headache. They find Sophie is a prostitute; Larry takes her home, sobers her up and announces his intention to marry her. Isabel is jealous and gets Sophie drunk. Larry finds her in an opium den and asks, “Don’t you ever want to go home?” She doesn’t go with him and is murdered. Uncle Elliot is dying and Larry gets him to laugh before he dies. Larry tells Isabel, “I thought Sophie was my reward for living a good life. Now I know there is no payback.”

The Razor's Edge (1946) Director Edmund Goulding. Tyrone Power is the searching Larry Darrell: “I want to loaf. It’s all so meaningless. I want to learn; I can’t stop now. I can’t follow the norm.” Gene Tierney plays his beautiful fiancée who gives back his ring. In Paris a defrocked priest who is “running from God” urges him to go to India. Indian mystic: “God is the only Guide. Happiness comes from within. There is a spark of the divine in each of us.” Larry on mountain: “I had the feeling God and I were One.” On Sophie’s brief life, Larry quotes Keats’ Sonnet to Fanny Brawne, “Faded the flower and all its budded charms.” For the connection with Hindu mysticism: http://followthecourse.com/media/uploads/RazorsEdge.doc Revolver (2005) Written and directed by Guy Ritchie. Jake Green (Jason Statham) spends seven years in solitary confinement, with a con man and a chess master in the cells on either side of him. They never see each other, but exchange thoughts, and Jake learns the makings of a perfect con. Then the two prisoners escape, leaving Jake behind, and they steal all the money Jake had hidden. When he gets out, Jake goes after his former boss and enemy Macha, (Ray Liotta). Jake beats him in a game of chance, humiliating Macha. Zach (Vincent 36

Pastore) gives Jake a card that says, “Take the elevator” just before Jake passes out. He goes to the hospital and on his way home stoops to get another card that says, “Pick up this card.” Bending down causes him to avoid being shot by Sorter, Macha’s sharpshooter. He meets Avi (André Benjamin), who tells him he will die of a rare disease in 3 days, they saved his life and will continue to do so if he gives them all this money and does what they ask. They are loan sharks and Jake hates giving his own money away, “greasing the sheaths of these two pricks.” Together the three of them steal Macha’s heroin safe and gas two gangs to steal their money and drugs. Avi tells him, “The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look. There is something about yourself that you don't know.

Something that you will deny even exists, until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty puss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please, think I'm special. We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. Jake realizes his opponent "Sam Gold," resides inside his head, that’s why no one sees him, the ego. No one can accept having their intelligence questioned. Mr. Gold controls this world, and he tells you what to do. And you think he’s your best friend.

So Avi and Zach (representing Spirit) get Jake to confront the voice of Sam Gold in his head by going and asking Macha for forgiveness. Jake goes to Macha and begs for forgiveness at the foot of his bed. This goes completely against the voice (of the ego/Sam Gold) in Jakes head.

Jake then takes an elevator that gets stuck and a battle takes place. Jake induces the pain Sam Gold hides behind. Sam Gold tries every technique to control Jake, but Jake is now detached from the voice.

"Embrace the pain and you will win this game." Jake completely rids himself of Sam Gold and the elevator starts up. The ego is the perfect con. Jake learns that Avi and Zach, the two former prison inmates, were always ready to take him with them.

The elevator starts up as soon as Jake has control. He realizes he was still in prison and had never left the prison of the mind; now he is free. As the elevator doors open there stands a confused and angry Macha with a gun in his hand. He can’t understand what game Jake is playing, but Jake no longer cares about Macha and walks straight past him.

Ending quotes: “The ego is the worst confidence trickster we could ever imagine. Because you don’t see it.” Dr. Yoav Dattilo, Ph.D. Psychotherapist “And the single biggest con is, ‘I am you.’” Dr. Steven C. Hayes Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist “The problem is that the ego hides in the last place that you’d ever look, within itself.” Dr. Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist “It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts, its feelings as your feelings. You think it’s you.” Leonard Jacobson, author, Journey into Now “People’s need to protect their own egos knows no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill; do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundaries.” Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology “People have no clue that they’re in prison; they don’t know that there is an ego. They don’t know the distinction.” Leonard Jacobson “At first it is difficult for the mind to accept that there is something beyond itself, that there is something of greater value and greater capacity for discerning truth than itself.” Dr. David Hawkins, Psychiatrist “In religion the ego manifests as the devil. And, of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.” Deepak Chopra, M.D. “In creating this imaginary external enemy, we have made a real enemy for ourselves, and that becomes a real danger to the ego, but that‘s the ego’s creation.” Dr. Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist “There is no such thing as an external enemy, no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the ego as the enemy.” Deepak Chopra, M.D. “In that sense you could say that 100% of our external enemies are of our own creation.” Dr. Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist “Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception, is your own ignorance, is your own ego.” Obadiah S. Harris, Ph.D. Rigoletto (1993) Director/Writer Leo Paur. Bonnie (Ivey Lloyd) reads a fairytale about an elfin prince, Ribaldi, who was disfigured yet could heal. Then a reclusive man, Ribaldi (Joseph Paur), moves to town. Bonnie goes to work at his house and he teaches her to sing, He counsels her friend Porter to “Change the way you feel about your father,” and Porter’s stuttering is healed. Ribaldi sings “The Curse” We heard the tales since we were young Heard the songs that have been sung About an evil spell Someone beautiful is cursed We feel sad through every verse Til a kiss and all is well The message that no one can see Is clearer to someone like me There is no curse or evil spell

That's worse than one we give ourselves There is no sorcerer as cruel As the proud, angry fool And yet we cry "life isn't fair" Beneath our cries the truth is there The power that will break the spell We should know very well Is locked within ourselves Yet we'd rather blame

And curse our fate than change We run from everyone to hide from the pain And all the shame The story's old, we know it well About a wretched evil spell The power that will break this curse Oh I know all too well Is locked within myself

Romeo and Juliette (1968) Dir: Franco Zeffirelli. Romeo Montague (Leonard Whiting) goes to a masked party and with one look falls in love with the youthful beauty of Juliette Capulet (Olivia Hussey). A song at the party: “A rose will bloom, it then will fade.” The families are feuding and machismo runs high, the sword is power and peace is weakness. Juliette falls in 37

love with Romeo, then learns he’s a Montague: “My only love sprung from my only hate.” Loss and temporality are romanticized: Juliette, “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” Romeo’s friend Mercutio points out that “Dreams are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy.” Mercutio foolishly provokes Tybalt Capulet, who kills him. Romeo jumps in for revenge and kills Tybalt.

To complete the ego rampage Romeo and Juliette each commit suicide.

Scarlet Letter (1995) Mrs. Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) arrives in strictly Puritan Mass Bay colony ahead of her husband. She and the Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman) fall in love, but resist each other at first. Then, after hearing a report that her husband was killed by Indians, they have sex. Hester becomes pregnant and is charged with fornication and adultery, but she will not reveal the name of the adulterer nor admit to sin. She is imprisoned, then forced to wear the scarlet letter A and to be followed by a drummer in public. Arthur sees it as God’s punishment. Hester’s husband makes it to the colony and secretly searches for the adulterer; he stirs up fears of witchcraft by murdering Hester’s slave.

And by murdering a colonist, he provokes an Indian war. Arthur, Hester and the baby escape. “Who is to say what is a sin in God’s eyes?”

Serendipity (2001) Sarah (Kate Beckinsale) believes in destiny. She meets Jonathan, they go skating and experience mutual attraction, then separate. A few years later each is engaged but thinking of the other. She relies on fate to bump into him; he tries to track her down by credit card number. Her friend tells her: If the script is written, why fight it; give up. But fate delivers: he gets the book with her phone number; she gets the $5 bill with his. His friend tells him: “Don’t be afraid of looking like a jackass. Life is not merely a tapestry of accidents; it’s a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, divine plan. If we are to live life in harmony with the universe, we must all possess a powerful faith in destiny.” They meet at the ice skating rink. ♥ Shall We Dance (2004) Estate Attorney John Clark (Richard Gere) leads dull life with wife Beverly (Susan Sarandon). He is attracted to Miss Mitzi’s Dance School by seeing Paulina (Jennifer Lopez) in window. Bobbie needs a partner for the competition. Paulina coaches them and they inspire her to compete again. Finally Clark decides to dance with his wife—all happy.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is wrongly sent to brutal Shawshank Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover. He joins up with longtime convict "Red" (Morgan Freeman); they make money and eventually escape.

Shutter Island (2010) Directed by Martin Scorcese. US Marshall Ted Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio), is investigating an island prison for the criminally insane. He believes he is on to a plot by the doctors to turn people into monsters, but the plot winds back to him.

S1m0ne (2002) Written and Directed by Andrew Niccol, who also wrote 'The Truman Show' script. Disillusioned director Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino) tries a computer program he inherited from a computer graphics fanatic. The program allows him to use a computer-generated woman to play the movie's central character. Viktor names her "Simone", derived from Simulation One. Seamlessly incorporated into the movie, Simone (Rachel Roberts) gives a fantastic performance. The studio, and soon the world, starts to ask "who is Simone?"

Taransky: “I just brought someone’s dream to life.” Simone: “Are you ever going to tell the truth about me?”

Taransky: “What’s real these days anyway? People need to believe you’re real.” “You have to understand none of this is real.” People, like his ex-wife, project their thoughts onto her. He gives phone and camera interviews, but it becomes difficult to maintain. Two people doggedly pursue him and force him to showcase Simone "live." He presents her as a hologram in a stadium singing “Natural Woman.” Simone ascends to even greater heights, winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. When he says, “Simone isn’t a real person, I invented her,” his ex doesn’t believe him. Hoping to disgust audiences, Viktor shows Simone eating with pigs. But they continue to love her. He says to her, “I know what you’re thinking. This is a phony baloney world so why shouldn’t you live too?” He then uses a computer virus to erase the program, dumps all of the information into a trunk and throws it out to sea. He is arrested for her murder. In his defense he admits that Simone was just a computer program. The police don’t believe that all of this information and photos is fake.

They question him, “So you couldn’t kill Simone because she doesn’t exist?” He says, “There’s no one to kill. His daughter revives Simone from a virus floppy disk in the computer and he is freed from custody. Hi wife and daughter join in continuing the hoax. His daughter says, “We’re fine with fake, Dad, as long as you don’t lie about it.”

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Sleepless In Seattle (1993) Sam (Tom Hanks) is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam's son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie (Meg Ryan). She's engaged to Walter, but he's a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam. ♥ Sliding Doors (1998) Director: Peter Howitt. Helen (Gwyneth Paltrow) is fired when she walks in to her job in the morning. On the way home…

Two scenarios: Honesty and truth-seeking lead to awakening sooner Denial and avoidance lead to awakening later She makes the train (mother pulls child out of the way), on which She has to move to avoid the child and misses the train. She’s she meets James, and when she gets home she finds her mugged, gets home, James covers up and pushes the second boyfriend, Jerry, in bed with Lydia. brandy glass into the laundry basket.

Deception is exposed immediately, traumatically, but healing Private thoughts and secrets are clung to and protected so comes faster. Time collapsed. deception lingers and festers She encounters James in a bar and he asks her to put it out there She doesn’t seriously question Jerry’s story about the brandy so she tells him about it. glass. Helen falls asleep as Jerry tells the truth. She becomes a Helen moves in with Anna and starts her own PR business. James waitress. Jerry goes off with Lydia. Helen calls to tell him she’s and Helen are givers. pregnant, but Lydia makes noise about her toe, and Jerry hangs She is having an opening; James is with her, and Jerry shows up. up on Helen. Lydia gets mad at Jerry and leaves. Helen doesn’t She then visits Jerry, Lydia calls to say she’s pregnant; Helen see Lydia on other side of the window. Helen finally confronts hears it and leaves Jerry.

Jerry about brandy glass, asks him to say yes or no about affair.

Helen realizes she’s pregnant; then learns that James has a wife.

He says no. He goes to see Lydia, Helen comes to door for James tries to find her, does and tells her they are separated, interview and Lydia cries out to her, “I have your boyfriend’s keeping appearances for his mother. baby.”

Helen has accident, her baby is lost.

Helen has accident, her baby is lost. Helen tells Jerry to leave; James tells her he’s glad they sorted things out, “I’m going to “lucky escape.” James is on the elevator and picks up her earring. make you so happy;” she dies.

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Jamal is doing brilliantly on India's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" where the big question of the movie is... A) Did he cheat? B) Is he lucky? C) Is he a genius? D) Is everything destined? The Spirit reveals that everything in Jamal's life was used for reconnecting with love (symbolized by his faithful friend Lakita. As he held his goal out front without getting distracted by trauma or success, he was able finally accept that he doesn't know the answer to any of the world's riddles. He just followed his heart and moved intuitively through life. In this not knowing, everything was given to him as he marveled that the answer is... D) The script is written! It is only a change of purpose that can solve all problems now.

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Snow Walker (2003) Pilot Charlie delivers supplies in the remote Canadian north. One day he comes upon a family of Inuit who implore him to fly their sick young daughter to a hospital. During the flight the plane's engine fails and they crash in a treeless wilderness. Ego-on-the-rampage Charlie demonstrates his inability to survive until he learns from steady, peaceful Kanaalaq. “Walk well brother.” Poem “High Flight” by John Magee.

Solaris (2002) Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Psychiatrist Chris Kelvin (George Clooney), in response to a call for help, goes to the space station Prometheus that has been observing the planet Solaris. Arriving he sees blood and two bodies from a security force. He encounters Snow (Jeremy Davies), who is vague about what happened; tells him to sleep with his door locked. He finds a depressed and shocked Dr. Gordon (Viola Davis) who warns it could happen to him. Kelvin dreams of his dead wife Rheya (Natascha McElhone), and wakes to find her with him. In fear he sends her off in a space pod. Snow says his “visitor” was his brother. Kelvin asks, “Will she come back?” Snow, “Do you want her to?” Kelvin dreams of when he asked her to marry him; wakes and she is there. Rheya: “I can’t remember how I got here.” He remembers her mental illness. She remembers him saying, “The whole idea of God was created by man.”

They had argued about having a child; she was against it. He tells her, “I came back for you that day [she committed suicide]. I’m sorry.” She was clutching this Dylan Thomas poem: And death shall have no dominion.

Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot;

Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

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Kelvin decides he wants to take her (visitor) back to Earth: “This is my chance to undo that mistake.” Dr Gordon tells Rheya her that he sent the first Rheya off in space and Rheya gets angry. Dr. Gordon calls it “a way they get us to be emotionally involved with them; they manipulate us. Your wife is dead. This facsimile is seducing you all over again.” Kelvin, “I can’t leave her.” Rheya drinks liquid oxygen on ship, dies, then resurrects. She says she’s not Rheya, yet wishes they could live in love somewhere. Dr. Gordon ‘undoes’ the Rheya visitor and goes back to earth. The space station falls into Solaris. Kelvin awakes; sees her. He asks, “Am I alive or dead?”

Rheya replies, “We don’t have to think about it that way. We’re together. Everything is forgiven.” They hug, smile, cry, smile.

Someone to Love (1988) Directed by Henry Jaglom. Danny (Jaglom) invites single friends (Andrea Marcovicci, Sally Kellerman) and Orson Welles to a Valentines’ Day party and interviews them about relationship difficulties: role expectations, fear of commitment, fear of loss, baggage from the past, the desire for children, wanting to be complete, wanting to be free, finding the right person. Lines about stories from Shakespeare’s Henry V: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, On your imaginary forces work.

Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think when we talk of horses, that you see them

Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.

Something's Gotta Give (2003) Director: Nancy Meyers. Sixty-three-year-old Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is dating Marin (Amanda Peet), who is in her 20’s. They go to her mother's beach house where they are surprised at by Marin's mother, playwright Erica Barry (Diane Keaton). Harry has a heart attack and is rushed to a hospital. Advised by Doctor Julian Mercer (Keanu Reeves) to stay nearby, Harry stays on at Erica’s house. Harry and Erica spend time together and each is surprised when they fall in love. But they separate and each struggles with fears and beliefs over the next six months. Erica writes a play about their experience. Harry is elated when finds her in a restaurant in Paris, but then crushed when Julian joins her. Harry is alone gazing down at the Seine when Erica finds him. They kiss and are finally reunited. ♥ Somewhere In Time (1980) An elderly lady gives Richard Collier (Christopher Reeves) a pocket watch and says, “Come back to me.” Later Clifford goes to the Grand Hotel and sees a 1912 picture of actress Elise McKenna (Jane Seymour). He hypnotizes himself back in time and meets her, but he is bounced back to present where he dies. They are united in heaven.

Sphere (1998) Directed by Barry Levinson. From Michael Crichton novel. A massive spaceship is discovered on the floor of the Pacific, where it has lain for 300 years. A team of scientists is sent down to investigate. Norman (Dustin Hoffman) is a psychologist. Beth (Sharon Stone) is a marine biologist. Harry (Samuel L. Jackson) is a mathematician. Ted (Liev Schreiber) is an astrophysicist. They discover that the spaceship is American and apparently, in the future, it fell into a black hole. Inside it they discover a large, perfect metal sphere. Harry figures out that it is alive because it can choose what to reflect. Harry goes inside it and is returned unconscious. Beth determines a support person was killed by creatures “not of God’s creation.” Then Harry figures out that the sphere is communicating by computer code: “Hello, my name is Jerry. We are making a journey together. I am happy.” Norman wonders, “What happens if Jerry gets mad?” Harry is reading 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. A support person is pulverized. The sphere communicates: “Are you afraid?” as something like a giant squid attacks their base. “I will kill you all,” and Ted and the Captain are killed; Harry is dreaming.

Computer asks Norman to bring Ted back, “He was humorous, and stop calling me Jerry.” Norman goes to reset the mini-sub and is attacked by water snake. When he gets back he asks Beth where she was. She was “looking for food on the spacecraft (!?)” Norman tells her she’s had a psychotic break. She won’t tell him if she went inside the sphere. Norman is deluged with copies of 20,000 Leagues. He figures out that the code really said “I am Harry.” Meanwhile Beth arms explosives. Norman and Beth knock Harry out with drugs. Beth locks Norman in lab, “You are the one manifesting the snakes and jellyfish. I want you to inject yourself.” She takes the gas out of the lab but Norman escapes. Beth’s fears manifest: corpse in her arms. Harry is up. Beth tells them about explosives; they all run for the mini-sub. They get lost, hallucinate in terror, but get off just before explosion. In decompression they realize they still have the power to manifest. Harry says, “We’re not ready.” They agree to forget it together and do so.

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Spiderman 3 (2002) It isn’t until we fully allow all dark thoughts to surface and be healed, that we can know who we are on a constant basis. Otherwise, deep-rooted grievances and misperceptions will cling to us like a sticky rubber suit, and will seem to run our lives. Even Spiderman must heal his past associations in order to be truly helpful. We must see that we remembered our brother wrong, and no-one, not even our self, is guilty.

Our worthiness is remembered and Purpose is given when we wish to see our brother sinless. Then we can join with our friends in innocence.

Spirit: Stallion (2002) Classic for Authority Problem/Stubbornness. Where there once was autonomy and defiance; through trust, willingness and gentleness it is seen that the Spirit’s way is the way to freedom. At first it is interpreted as a loss of control and sacrifice, but eventually it is seen that there are blessings in accepting Spirit’s call – which is our own. Rebellion leads to continued struggle, but surrender opens up to friendship and brotherhood. Then we are back in the lands where we are joined with the mighty wings of an eagle.

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

Data: Captain, I believe I am feeling... anxiety. It is an intriguing sensation. A most distracting...

Captain Picard: Data, I'm sure it's a fascinating experience, but perhaps you should deactivate your emotion chip for now.

Data: Good idea, sir. [beep] Done.

Captain Picard: Data, there are times that I envy you.

Borg Queen [to Data]: You are an imperfect being, created by an imperfect being. Finding your weakness is only a matter of time.

Lily Sloane [to Picard]: I am such an idiot. It's so simple. The Borg hurt you, and now you're going to hurt them back!

Captain Picard: In my century, we don't succumb to revenge. We have a more evolved sensibility...

Lily Sloane: bullshit! I saw the look your face when you shot those Borg on the holodeck. You were almost enjoying it.

Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) The peaceful Ba'ku live in harmony with nature on a planet that offers Fountain of Youth-like regenerative radiation. They can slow time down, even become younger. But the So'na and some Starfleet officials intend to take the planet for themselves to regenerate their bodies. The Enterprise’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes), and Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) lead an insurrection and manage to prevent the conspiratorial forces from routing the Ba’ku.

Anij (Donna Murphy): Have you ever experienced, a perfect moment in time?

Captain Picard: A perfect moment?

Anij: When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live, in that moment.

Captain Picard: Seeing my home planet from space, for the first time.

Anij: Yes. Exactly. Nothing more complicated than perception. ...We've discovered that a single moment in time can be a universe in itself, full of powerful forces. Most people aren't aware enough of the now to even notice.

Still Breathing (1997) Director: James F. Robinson; Writer: James F. Robinson. The belief in unworthiness and the belief in a cold, heartless, random world are one and the same. The faith in miracles, the spark of joy, visions, intuitions, and loving tenderness are one and the same. This is a love story about a man who believed in finding true love, and a woman who came to believe. It is an uplifting reminder to never give up hope on the deepest desire of your heart, to know and be known, to love and be loved. Dreams of childhood innocence reflect the Divine Innocence within, and miracles bring this Innocence back into awareness. Beneath the hard, cold persona lies the heart of an angel, waiting to be discovered. Ask and you shall be Given, knock and the door shall be opened. There is a destiny that makes us One. None goes their way alone. All that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own. We are the same One, and this is realized in a moment of forgiveness. The story of two people brought together by inspiration, trust and "fate": Rosalyn (Joanna Going) is a con-artist in L.A.; Fletcher (Brendan Fraser) is a puppeteer in San Antonio. They have the same dream of childhood linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has seen in dreams. She thinks he’s her mark. She travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother.

When she learns he’s not her mark, she feels unworthy to be his love.

A Stranger Among Us (1992) Directed by Sidney Lumet. New York police woman Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) goes undercover among Hasidic Jews to investigate a murder/ diamond robbery. She falls in love with the Rebbe’s son, Ariel (Eric Thal). He is 41

attracted to her, but is engaged.

Stranger than Fiction (2006) Director: Marc Forster. Will Farrell (Harold Crick) is a doomed IRS agent in Emma Thompson’s novel; she is the narrator voice. Literature Prof. (Dustin Hoffman) tells him: If you get married it’s a comedy, if you die it’s a tragedy. You may be perpetuating a story. Do nothing; see if the plot follows you. Harold learns to play guitar. Emma rewrites the ending; “we’re really here to save our lives.”

Swept Away (2002) Directed by Guy Ritchie. Amber (Madonna) is an arrogant rich bitch. She takes out her anger on the ship's first mate, Giuseppe (Adriano Giannini). When a storm leaves the two shipwrecked on a deserted island, however, the tables turn. He tells her that now she must listen to him, he is her master, sexually and otherwise, and she must listen to him and obey him, which she learns to do, and to appreciate. She allows his dominance, trusts him, and comes to love him. This can be seen as analogous to a guided leader-follower assignment.

The Ten Commandments (1956) Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Egyptian prince Moses (Charlton Heston) learns he is really Hebrew and joins the slaves. “What I have done I was compelled to do.” Ramses (Yul Brynner) banishes him to desert; he finds shepherds and marries Sephora. Through the burning bush, God tells Moses “I will send you to free the Hebrews.”

Moses, “It is not by the sword He will free His people.” Moses uses various methods of persuasion: rod into snake, water to blood, hail, darkness, and finally a plague on the firstborn, which passes over the houses of the Hebrews. Moses takes his people into the desert, is protected by the pillar of fire and escapes through the parting of the Red Sea. Moses goes up Mt. Sinai where God burns the Ten Commandments into stone tables. Moses sees that many, led by Dathan (Edward G Robinson), have sinned by choosing to worship graven images over God, and they perish. Moses leads the rest through the wilderness until that generation dies. He then gives Joshua the staff and the five books to lead the people across the Jordan River into Canaan.

The Thaw (1996) David introduces The Thaw, wake-up mechanism not being used. Two crew members sent in. Ego/fear/clown in grey tries diversion with dance, threatens with execution. David: Jesus likewise entered world of hated. Ego shows how well he knows them, “this is my world. I speak for you now.” He mocks them, then pleads for sympathy, shifts to discrediting; claims his power over their brains; threatens death; some have been scared to death. Harry Kim uses the truth. Ego: “I have only one demand, to exist.” David: Ego is not really complicated, wants to exist separated from God. It fears you might learn that you are not it and withdraw. When you feel fear, it is the ego not being happy about your spiritual awakening. If you remember who you are, ego is out of business for good. Person: “The system adapts to our thoughts and adjusts the environment to our wishes. The computer manifested our fears into the Ego/Fear guy. He can read our minds.” Ego/Fear: “If we die, Harry dies.” David: Here the ego scares the mind into thinking it’s a body, as weak as a baby, as frail as the aged. It used past memories to scare the mind. The lie of the world has been pushed out of awareness. The Ego tries to scare Harry out of his thoughts of escape. Harry: “This is an illusion.” Ego: I know what really scares you; when you were 9 at the radiation hospital you saw a frightened girl on the operating table. Harry: No! David: Ego will resort to any tactics to keep you from looking within. Captain Janeway sends in a hologram, a symbol of peace. David: Ego resists healing.

Captain Janeway is faced with the problem of how to dispel fear without directly confronting it. The inhabitants are in pods dreaming, connected to a computer-generated environment. They have known it was safe to come out, but haven’t done so. Two inhabitants died from extreme fear. Harry Kim and Lt. B’Elanna Torres go into the system to talk to the inhabitants. The Earth is also an artificially generated world, everybody wears a mask, a persona, and parties to cover their underlying insecurities. If the three minds linked to the computer are removed, all computergenerated characters will disappear. Grey-costumed clown (the manifestation of their fear, the ego) is generated by their minds. He knows their minds. Threats are impossible if you know it is all an illusion, but, if you take it seriously, the threats become a way to keep you here. Lt. Torres remembers they can escape. The ego uses memories to induce more fear. To keep Harry from thinking of escape, Fear makes him appear old and helpless, then like a baby. When your only reality is an illusion, then illusion is reality. Affirmations are like putting icing on a cake of mud. Janeway gets Fear to agree to release the other hostages in exchange for herself. A holographic image of Janeway that is “on the system but not in stasis,” fools Fear. Not sleeping, not under the control of the artificial environment, like the dreamer of the dream, not identified with the body. Jesus was a hologram of the Christ. Christ is pure spirit and can’t come into matter. A mind awake doesn’t play by the rules of the system any more because it follows the Holy Spirit’s instructions. Janeway points out directly that none of this is real and Fear vanishes, “drat.”

Exposing fear and seeing its silliness does work. When you free your mind from the fear you are no longer part of the environment.

You are the dreamer of the dream, not a dream character stuck in the environment, not a personality self. As miracles free your mind from fear, you transition from the nightmare to the happy dream, and then gently wake up; the universe disappears. “You cannot wake 42

yourself. Yet you can let yourself be wakened” [with the Holy Spirit’s help]. T-29.III.3 The world is a closed system. “All its roads but lead to disappointment, nothingness and death.” T-31.IV.24 The Holy Spirit/Jesus is the guide out. Jesus can’t take your fear away. “I have already indicated that you cannot ask me to release you from fear. I know it does not exist, but you do not. If I intervened between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause and effect; the most fundamental law there is. T-2.VII.1 But Jesus can show you your belief system and the conditions you set up to keep yourself in prison. Trust the Holy Spirit to escape.

Thérèse (2004) The true story of Saint Therese of Lisieux. Her Love for God and her simple discovery that holiness can be achieved by small acts of love and compassion became Therese's spiritual path which became known as the Little Way. Her simplicity and gentle way inspired Mother Theresa to take her name and adopt the Little Way as her own.

Although the belief in sacrifice is prevalent throughout this film, it is worth watching. The simple lesson that Therese learns and teaches is that you cannot prove your worth through 'doing'. Loving God and being who you are is the only gift that you have to give - and it is enough.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) Douglas Hall / John Ferguson / David - Craig Bierko; Hannon Fuller / Grierson / Jane’s Father - Armin Mueller-Stahl; Jane Fuller / Bridet / Natasha Molinaro - Gretchen Mol; Jason Whitney / Jerry Ashton - Vincent D'Onofrio; Detective Larry McBain - Dennis Haysbert In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller is the owner of a multi-billion dollar computer enterprise and the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality simulation (VR) of 1937 Los Angeles. Fuller is murdered after he begins testing the system. He left voice message for his friend and protégé Douglas Hall saying: “I found something incredible; this changes everything.”

Doug finds himself the primary suspect, and begins to doubt his own innocence.

Between questioning by LAPD Detective Larry McBain, Doug meets Jane Fuller, who he is surprised to learn is Fuller's estranged daughter. Having a déjà vu, Doug develops a romance with Jane, who we soon find out is attempting to shut down the new VR system. When a local bartender who witnessed a meeting between Doug and Fuller on the night of the murder is himself found murdered, Doug is imprisoned. He is soon released though, after Jane provides him with an alibi. She knows he is “not a killer.”

Seeking answers, Doug jacks into the system to track down a message left for him by Fuller inside the simulation. Within the system as John Ferguson, he meets Grierson and Bridget Manila (?Jane). He tells Grierson he can show him why he passes out and wakes up with perfume on him. Doug learns that Jerry Ashton, a bartender modeled after Whitney, has stumbled upon the truth about his artificial nature by reading the message intended for Doug. Frightened and angry, Ashton attempts to kill Doug, who barely escapes the system in time. When he returns he can fight, dance and smoke.

Unable to find Jane, Doug discovers her double, Natasha Molinaro, working as a grocery store clerk, but she does not at first recognize Doug. This leads Doug to perform an experiment outside the VR system, something that Fuller had instructed him to try in his letter: He tried to drive to a place where he never would have considered going otherwise. When he arrived, he saw that the area and everything within it didn't exist, and was instead an electronic grid. Finally understanding the meaning of Fuller's message, Doug realizes the truth that his own world of 1990s Los Angeles is itself a fabricated simulation.

Several revelations follow: Doug's virtual world is one of thousands, but is also the only one that developed a virtual world of its own. Jane actually lives in the "real world", and only participated in the 1990s simulation in order to assume the identity of Fuller's daughter, gain control of the company, and shutdown the simulated 1937 reality. Doug’s user is Jane's real-world husband David, who has begun to seek pleasure by murdering people in the 1990s simulation. It was David who murdered Fuller, while downloaded into Doug's body, because he had become jealous when his wife Jane fell in love with Doug in the simulation. Only Fuller and Doug found out the truth; all smoke and mirrors.

Whitney, Doug's associate, enters the simulated 1937 as Ashton, who has kidnapped Ferguson and bound him in the trunk of his vehicle. When Whitney is killed in an automobile accident, Ashton's consciousness is released into Whitney's body (in the 1990s).

Ashton kills a security guard. David assumes control of Doug, kills Ashton, and attempts to rape and murder Jane. She is saved by Detective McBain, who shoots and kills David.

The death causes Doug's consciousness to be released back into his body. He wakes to find himself in 2024, connected to a VR system. He disconnects the system and finds Jane and her father, who looks like the man he was accused of killing in his original reality, Hannon Fuller.

Three Wishes (1995) The only lesson to learn about this world is complete gratitude and appreciation for everything and everyone AS IS. This is the giving up of the belief in hypothetical thinking: (that things could be or would have been better off if they were different). Truly all things work together for good and this is experienced from the Spirit’s Perspective (Now), which is high above and far beyond all personal judgments and classifications and expectations. Situational wishes often seem to be granted, but the Grandest Wish of All is forgiveness, reflecting the All-Inclusiveness of Love. What greater gift could there be than to look on all things with great love, gratitude, and full appreciation (a forgiven world) and to Awaken to the Eternal Love of God. 43

The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) The partnership in this movie is one in which expectations are constantly being undone. To the ego it is jolting when a partner keeps disappearing and in this movie it can happen at any time. Any sense of desiring a normal (special) relationship leads to disappointment and the only way to look upon it all is from the perspective of opening up to a Love that transcends time, space and bodies entirely.

Set up with David, 10 min. The main character pops in and out of girl’s/woman’s life. She never knows when he will disappear or when he’ll return. This is a jolt to the ego. The short length of time he’s present begins to really get to her. Cindy: My father would disappear and I had huge abandonment issues. So this is part of my speed-up. David: Cindy has already lived several lifetimes in this one. If used for forgiveness it turns from tragedy to facilitating awakening. She has a raging jealous husband who would show up when we were meditating. You can handle the extreme circumstances, bring the thoughts and beliefs to mind that are causing the scenario. Chance plays no part. The ego expects life without catastrophe, so when the form shifts the ego is upset; it is an opportunity to go inside. What am I valuing more than my spiritual identity? Just let yourself fall right through it. You have spectacular strength and identity that were there all along; you just weren’t aware Henry, at age 5, starts to disappear when his mother is killed in a car accident. Then he is naked in his house, watching himself, his mother and his father read a book on the couch together. Then at the crash site, Henry (Eric Bana) as an adult tells young Henry they are time travelers. He drinks a lot and lives a pretty messy life. When he arrives somewhere, he is naked; so he must pick locks, steal clothes and money just to survive.

At the library, Claire (Rachel McAdams) is looking for a book and the librarian says, "Perhaps Mr. DeTamble can help you."

Claire is in disbelief. She looks at Henry and says, "It's you!" Claire tells Henry she has known him all her life, that he has visited her since she was a little girl. She leaves clothes for Henry in the woods. She has “been in love with him her whole life."

Henry time travels and sometimes leaves his wife for weeks at a time. Before their wedding, Henry disappears, and she marries a much older Henry. They have an argument after he misses Christmas and New Year's. They win a 5 million dollar lottery and Henry says "There are a lot of downsides to traveling, but there can be some upsides." They hear a loud noise and see future Henry gasping for breath on the living room floor, then disappear. They are in shock; present day Henry just walks away. He has a vasectomy but she makes love in the car with a younger Henry and gets pregnant. Their daughter is beautiful and smart and they name her Alba.

Claire's father, while deer hunting, shoots Henry. Back at the New Years Eve party Claire runs to him and they both say, "I love you" as Henry dies. Later on 9-year-old Alba is playing when Henry comes walking out of the woods. When Henry sees Claire, they run to each other and embrace. “Why didn’t you tell me you were coming?” He tells her he doesn't want her to spend her life waiting for him. Claire is crying, telling him that she loves him and will always love him. They kiss, and Henry disappears once more. Claire picks up and folds his clothes, and Claire and Alba then leave the meadow together.

Follow up talk with David, 21 min. A lifetime seems long to us; the movie give a bigger view of time, life and death as mere concepts. And the love is so strong. If you remembered where you came from you couldn’t contain your love. Our belief in time covers over our love. The veil is getting thinner. The daughter can control her coming and going; it is just another choice. There is no death, only a decision. Spirit is saying come home; you don’t need to delay. Don’t be afraid to follow your joy, your call. This scares the ego. When the Wizard of Oz is exposed he says, “Pay no attention to the man behind the screen.” The only way to be victimized is to believe in victimization. Don’t believe it and there goes the dream of the experience. To believe in the ego is to be a time traveler.

“God's Son is not a traveler through outer worlds. Within himself he has no needs, for light needs nothing but to shine in peace, and from itself to let the rays extend in quiet to infinity.” T-13.VII.13.

The ego is the opposite of love. Special love was made up by the ego puff to keep the mind asleep. Both are nothing, but the sleeping mind is attracted to the image. The Holy Spirit is right there to say that there is real Love beneath this special love. We can use this relationship forged in nothingness to expose and uncover the ego. Its ultimate weapon can be turned around to be used as a mirror.

You see your upset in relationship as this belief still held dear in the mind. It is not a curse but a mirror. When you can see it, you release it. Divorce, sickness, is always a mirroring of unconscious beliefs still held in mind. The faulty belief system needs to be uprooted. The ego wants the enemy seem to be outside. So give the special relationship over to the Holy Spirit so it becomes a blessing. The only snags were private thoughts: vasectomy, death. “I’ll protect my loved ones by hiding these thoughts.” But none of them is real. “Though lovers be lost, love shall not. And death shall have no dominion.” The great tragedies, mutual death, are jokes when watched with the Holy Spirit. Death for eternal spirit is crazy. When the fear of death is lifted from your mind, how does that affect you? A movie like this: I cannot really die. There is nothing to fear. No more holding back.

Titanic (1997) A remote diving vehicle brings up a safe from 2 ½ miles down; the diamond is not in it. 100-year-old Rose Calvert (formerly Dawson) is choppered aboard the salvage ship. She tells them the story of the “heart of the ocean” diamond: “They called it the ‘Ship of Dreams’ and it really was. But to me it was a slave ship.” In port, Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) wins a ticket in a poker game, “I’m the king of the world.” Society girl Rose (Kate Winslet) is engaged to the wealthy, domineering Caledon Hockley. Rose: “I saw my whole life as if I’d already lived it.” In total despair she climbs over stern rail, but Jack talks her back. Cal gives his fiancée the diamond. The theme of “better than” is very apparent. Rose trusts Jack “flying” on the bow. Jack draws her nude. Cal accuses Jack of 44

stealing the diamond and Jack is handcuffed to a pipe. Ship hits iceberg. In world of separation lifeboats are boarded by class; but then it’s each man for himself. Fortunately, there is no death. They kiss to general applause. Rose tosses the diamond in the sea. ♥ Total Recall (1990) Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is haunted by a recurring dream about Mars. Hoping to find out more about this dream, he buys an implanted memory holiday at Rekall Inc. He selects the “ego trip.” But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen and his assistant Richter. He learns his wife (Sharon Stone) is one of their agents sent to watch him. From a man on the telephone who tells him, “Do exactly as I say,” Quaid discovers he is Hauser, a former Mars Intelligence agent. On Mars he meets Melina (Rachel Ticotin) who is working for Kuato and the rebels.

The Truman Show (1998) Dir. Peter Weir, Writer Andrew Niccol. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) lives a happy life. He doesn't know is that his life is actually the focus of a reality TV show aired since his birth, that he's the star, that his hometown is a giant set, and that everyone around him is an actor following a script. Show created by Christof (Ed Harris). To induce guilt and water phobia, father takes young Truman for sail with storm approaching. Father: “We have to turn back.” Son: “No, please, Dad.” Father: “OK” and then appears to drown. Truman’s wife Meryl (Laura Linney) and his friend Marlon (Noah Emmerich) kill his ideas of freedom. He escapes briefly to beach with scene-extra Lauren/Sylvia (Natascha McElhone). Dad’s 22-year absence is explained by amnesia. When asked why Truman doesn’t seriously question his reality, Christof replies, “We accept the reality with which we are presented. I have given him a normal life in Seahaven; your world is the sick place. He prefers his cell.” And at the end as Truman is headed toward horizon, “He’ll be too afraid to leave.” Jim Carrey on Awakening Two Girls and a Guy (1998) Directed by James Toback. Long blond Carla (Heather Graham) and short redhead Lou (Natasha Gregson Wagner) meet while waiting outside the apartment of actor/singer/pianist Blake Allen. They discover that he has been seeing both of them for ten months, and telling each that they were the only one. Hurt and angry, they decide to confront him when he gets home. He comes home and sings “You Don’t Know Me” at the piano. Carla shows herself first and Blake says anyone but you disgusts me. Then Lou appears. “I love both of you,” he cries. Then he fakes shooting himself. “I’m an actor and actors lie. I knew it was wrong but it felt right. Can you forgive me?” Carla has sex with him. Lou suggests a trio. None of them have been honest about sexual fidelity. “Language is always lies.

Maybe we’re not capable of monogamy.” Carla is there for him when his mother dies.

The Ultimate Gift (2006) After the death of oil tycoon Howard 'Red' Stevens (James Garner), his greedy family gathered for the reading of the will by Mr. Theophillis 'Ted' Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) and his associate Miss Hastings. For his reckless and selfish grandson Jason Stevens (Drew Fuller), who hated him, Red assigns twelve apparently simple tasks called "gifts" of work, money, friends, learning, problems, family, laughter, dreams, giving, gratitude, a day and love. He meets the girl Emily and changes his perspective on life.

Uncorked (1998) Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Minnie Driver Writer & Director: John Huddles This movie helps show the way the Spirit can work with the mind that believes salvation lies in ambition and success. Ross is an entrepreneur who has lost his way, financially and spiritually. He comes to realize that he has been avoiding his Calling and hiding behind the pretense of 'being the responsible one' of the family. The Spirit comes through Uncle Culllen in unexpected ways, setting into motion events that change the lives of everyone in the family.

Vanilla Sky (2001) Dir. Cameron Crowe. Playboy David Aames (Tom Cruise) wakes up to the recorded voice of Julie Gianni (Cameron Diaz), whom he considers an occasional bed partner, saying "open your eyes." He has it all. Cut to: David in jail with Dr. McCabe (Kurt Russell), a psychologist. David wears a mask and has been charged with a murder he cannot remember. Following the death of his father 10 years ago, David was given ownership of his father's publishing company and is very wealthy. He arrogantly refers to the board of directors as the Seven Dwarfs.

David's friend, Brian, brings Sofia (Penelope Cruz) to David's birthday party and David and hits on her. Julie crashes the party and tries to seduce him, sees she’s losing him, cries. Brian wants Sophie. David walks Sofia back to her place where they stay up all night.

She asks about Brian; he dismisses it. The next morning Julie drives up beside David, tells him he is unfairly ignoring her and attracts him into her car. “For me happiness is being with you. Why did you tell Brian I was your “fuck buddy”? Sex means something. Your body makes a promise.” She starts speeding, shouts, “I love you!” and drives the car off a bridge. In a dream he meets Sofia, what 45

about Julie? Julie is dead and David’s face is mangled. David comes out of a coma and rages at doctors. They give him a mask. He reemerges and sees Sofia again. They go on a date and she brings Brian along. David gets drunk, is a jerk to Sofia, blames Brian for “fuck buddy” and passes out.

In the morning Sofia picks him up from the sidewalk and tells him that she will stay with him if he can get his act together. He has a flash of Julie. David turns his life is around. A German surgeon is able to restore his face and he and Sofia really hit it off. But David dreams seeing his face disfigured in a mirror. Then a flash of Julie mocking him. He ties her up. He’s arrested and told that he severely beat Sofia. Lawyer shows him pictures of Julie’s beaten face. Brian is angry that he beat up Sofia. A man in the restaurant tells David they know each other and that David can control the world, that maybe these people are only here because David wants them to be here. David says, “I want them all to shut up,” and everyone in the restaurant is silent. Dr. McCabe, “Can you tell the difference between dreams and reality?” “Did you sign a contract?” “Tell me what your heart and soul will not allow you to forget. Did you kill Sophia?” David goes to Sophia’s and her pictures are now Julie. Julie kicks him, says, “I’m Sophia.” Then she is Sofia, they go to bed and she turns into Julie, who mocks him. He smothers her. Sees Sophia’s mole. He leaves; his face is scarred.

Dr. McCabe, “Sometimes the mind behaves as if it were a dream, faces change; subconscious guilt (about Julie) is a powerful thing.

You killed your girlfriend.” David sees an infomercial for Life Extension, a cryonics company and thinks that there may be a connection between Life Extension and David's amnesia. They visit Life Extension and learn that David had signed a contract for the Lucid Dream, in which frozen clients experience an unending custom-made “living dream,” with no memory, “a revolution of the mind.” David realizes he is living in the Lucid Dream turned nightmare and screams for Technical Support. The Tech explains that the dream was spliced into his memory at the point he fell asleep on the sidewalk after his date with Sofia. He imagined himself and Sophie like Dylan and Baez, a father figure like Atticus Finch (for McCabe). In his lucid dream Sophie was his savior. “What did you erase?” You never saw her again. You got the company back, but isolated, had headaches, found LE. “Somebody died—it was me.”

(Drug suicide) LE suspended him. Sophia never forgot him and the night true love seemed possible. Dream became nightmare. David, “So all I have to do is imagine something like McCabe coming back.” McCabe bursts through a door. Tech tells David he is on pause; he has a choice: he can be reinserted into the lucid dream with Sophia and no memory of the nightmare portion or he can be awakened in the present time (150 years later) and live in a restored body. McCabe claims, “I’m real,” but he can’t remember his daughter’s names. “What is happiness to you David?” “I want to live a real life. I don’t want to dream anymore.” After a last lucid-dream rooftop exchange with Sofia, “You’re dead and I’m frozen. I lost you when I got in that car. You told me every minute is another chance to turn it all around. I’ll see you in another life, when we are both cats.” He leaps off the skyscraper. Memory images cascade through his mind as he falls; then there is a whiteout followed by the sound of a woman's voice, “Relax David, open your eyes" and his eye opening.

Venice/Venice (1992) Director Henry Jaglom, as Dean, is an American film director at the Venice Film Festival. Jeanne (Nelly Alard), a French journalist, arrives at the festival with the intention of interviewing him and falls for him.

Female interviewees: Movies represent the ideal of life on earth. Jeanne: I'm sad, not being as happy as I should be in a perfect place. I think I know you from the movies. Dean: the movies are not me. (She's in a fantasy; I just want her to see that, or do I?) You are very beautiful. But that can be an illusion, too. Interviewees: Relationships should be perfect like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. D: I want every moment recorded; then I can change it. J: Is this more real? Actor: Is life more real on camera? Yes. J: Observing particles you change them. Schrodinger's Cat is potentially alive or dead until you look. A cat, along with a flask containing a poison a tiny amount of radioactive substance is placed in a sealed box. If a Geiger counter detects radiation the flask is shattered, releasing the poison. Quantum mechanics suggests that after a while the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, in a quantum superposition of coexisting alive and dead states. Yet when we look in the box we expect to see the cat either alive or dead, not a mixture of alive and dead. Interviewees: I wanted to be a famous actress. D: I want someone to share this beauty with. J: The universe is all one thing; to touch one thing affects all the others. D: Our atoms must have been very close before the big bang. Kiss. J: (I feel his movies were made for me. The borderline between reality and unreality is blurred. I would rather have him put me in his life than in his movies.) J: I couldn't have imagined that you would participate so eagerly in Hollywood interviews; you are not authentic; I'm disappointed. D: I can't go see a movie with you; I'm here to work. Interviewees: I wanted Gregory Peck; the men I met were assholes.

J: You only care about yourself. D: Don't make a scene. Interviewees: You could always count on the movies. You can't control it like they do in the movies. I thought there must be something wrong with me. The movie makers know it was a sham.

Jeanne walks into Dean’s Venice, California house and meets his young girlfriend: Interviewees: I become possessed; I change; I play a charade. J: I just don't know what is real beside perception. You can't know beyond your perceptions. How do you know if others perceive the same way? How do you know if you are making it up? Everyone is dreaming a different world. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A sentimentalist thinks things will last. A romantic thinks things won't last. Interviewees: The swashbucklers turned out to be abusers. D: I will make a film, "Happy Ending" and I want a woman to play my wife. D: (She may want something I can't do; I'd fail.) J: I should go back to Paris. I dreamed the whole thing. Jeanne: You have no space for a wife. D: Be in the movie with me as a journalist. [Scene of them disagreeing over the editing.] J: A particle can be in two places at the same time, in quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that measuring the velocity of a particle precisely makes the position uncertain, a manifestation of the observer effect. There are no states of definite position and momentum.

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The Village (2004) Directed by M.N. Shyamalan. In his private wildlife preserve, Edward Walker (William Hurt), with others equally afraid of the world, made a village in which to hide. The elders induce fear of leaving into the younger generation by dressing up as monsters and making noises in the woods. Walker: “It’s a farce.”

Waking Life (2001) Richard Linklater had artists paint over video footage to create vignettes with people talking about subjects like: the limitations of using the fixed symbols of language to describe abstract experience, the experience of looking back on your life, free will, lucid dreaming, etc. Wiley hears a girl playing a paper game say, “Dream is destiny.” A man playing pinball says, “In this dream Lady Gregory says to me, ‘There's only one instant, and it's right now. And it's eternity. And God is posing a question. Time is saying no to God’s invitation. Life is about moving to the yes.’”

Wiley floats up into the sky at the end.

A Walk in the Clouds (1995) Light. WWII veteran Paul Sutton (Keanu Reeves) returns to his material-girl wife Betty. Through a series of coincidences he is thrown together with Victoria (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon), the pregnant, unmarried daughter of Alberto Aragon (Giancarlo Giannini), a Napa Valley wine grower. She is “waiting for a miracle.” Paul is kind, volunteers to pose as her husband for a night so her father doesn’t kill her. Father hates Paul as a gringo, but Paul is also kind to him. Paul tells Jose how deserving and loving she is. Victoria tells Paul he is the most honorable man she has ever met. He finds his marriage was annulled and marries her. ♥ Whale Rider (2002) No matter the circumstances your Call for God will be answered. The situation you believe prevents you from being with God is actually your training ground. The very situation to Forgive and your way out. “The last shall be the first and the first shall be last.” The ego can disguise behind talk about truth, like the seeming leader in this movie, but it doesn’t want to see that truth is Given. The one talking and preparing the most for the “leader” is the most scared of it.

What About Bob? (1991) Neurotic Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) has a habit of clinging to his therapists. He is sent to Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) who is leaving to spend the rest of the summer with his family. Bob manages to find out where Leo is and goes there. Bob just won't go away.

What Dreams May Come (1998) Dr. Chris Nielson (Robin Williams) meets his soul mate Annie, marries her and has two children. The children die in a car accident and Chris dies four years after that. In heaven he is guided by friendly guardian angel Albert is reunited with his children. He learns his wife committed suicide and searches for her spirit. Quotes: You’re creating your world. We’re seeing what we choose to see.

Thought is real; physical is the illusion. Fantasies aren’t what your need. Time doesn’t exist. When you want it you will see it. The old roles get in the way of who we really are. What’s true in our minds is true, whether other people believe it or not. “Don’t give up” = trust. ♥ What The Bleep (2004) Matter is completely insubstantial, like thought. Nuclei pop in and out of existence and it is unknown where they disappear to. Atoms never touch so there is no attack. The brain doesn’t know the difference between what it sees and what it remembers, the same neurons fire. Thoughts can affect reality. What happens within us creates what’s outside us. The universe is best seen as constructed from thought (or ideas) rather than from substance. We are bombarded by 400 billion bits of data per second and select only what we want, matching patterns that we know. We’re living in a big “holodeck.”

At the deepest level we are one, with a false tapestry. Beliefs about who one is and what is real form oneself and one's realities.

David Hoffmeister: This movie shows that everything is connected, everything is a thought. Everything you perceive is a result of your thoughts. Amanda (Marlee Matlin) goes from frustration to realizing that it is her thoughts that produce the entire world she perceives. Once you realize this, you are no longer at the mercy of the world. You can find happiness within your own heart because you are not dependant on the world; it is dependent on you. When you change your mind and come to the present moment you have dominion over the images. You can still your mind, achieve peace of mind and lasting happiness. You have to understand the power of your beliefs and your thoughts.

Quantum scientists are beginning to wake up and see the power of the mind, but still confusing the brain with the mind.

Neurotransmitters and peptides are the same as thoughts because thoughts make up everything. The scientists are saying you create reality by making your own perceptions. Perceptions are temporary, unlike God and eternity. When the scientists say you make your future, your past and the world. But the world is an invention, a fabrication, a fiction because it will disappear. It’s just a learning 47

device that Spirit uses to teach you to forgive and to see the power of your mind. The scientists say we are all one; we are all connected. When you forgive the world you see the world as in your mind. Scientist Fred Alan Wolf: “There is no ‘out there’ out there.”

Co-creation is something you do with God, your Creator. When He created you He gave you all the powers of God. This world is like a mask and you appear to lose your power of creation. Instead you use it to make internal images and try to fool yourself by projecting them outside, like on a movie screen. When you watch a movie, you don’t sit there thinking, “It’s only a movie;” you read meaning into it and get emotionally caught up. What the Bleep helps you recognize the power of your mind.

The kingdom of heaven is within. Yet, if you believe in the ego, you will look outside yourself for answers, for people to lead you.

You are trapping yourself and only you can set yourself free. You already have the answer, it is just covered over. The light is in you now; all you have to do is accept it. Let go of your belief in time. If God created you perfect you just have to accept yourself the way God sees you—absolutely innocent; you never did anything wrong. You only imagine that you did. There is no sin, only errors. And errors can be corrected. This is why you must train your mind.

When you think you hear sounds you are really not hearing. It is like static on the radio. But there is such a thing as inner listening through your intuition, the spirit in your heart. When you listen with this you will get very happy. There is an internal voice for the Holy Spirit that guides you to the inner light in your mind. Before you get beyond the nightmare images you have to have a happy dream. The point is to learn how to change your mind so you have happy dreams instead of nightmares. The point of living is to learn how to be happy. My being here tonight is nothing special, just a thought, a witness to what is in your own mind. There really is no David; this is the voice of your intuition. I am inside your mind. This is the voice of the Holy Spirit and I love you so much.

Science is based on searching for empirical evidence in the world. Quantum physics shows that there is no world outside your mind. It points to what the mystics and saints have experienced through prayer and meditation for centuries. Quantum physicists were shocked to find that they could not get the experimenter out of the experiment. The mind of the experimenter determined where the subatomic particles showed up, proving there was no empirical evidence and that everything was our own perception.

Time is not eternity because it is linear. We can measure time and divide it into blocks. Time is like a mask the deceived mind wears. The present moment is the closest approximation to eternity. So if we can learn to trust, to let go of past and future and become still, we can recognize our creations. Until that point comes it appears as though we evolve in consciousness, until we expand it to include the whole cosmos.

You need to look at your thoughts, and then the beliefs that caused them. Then you need to look beneath your beliefs to the altar of your mind—your heart. This is where you are perfect and have never changed. In this state of mind everything is pure love. As you release the false beliefs it will seem as though you explore many dimensions, because your mind is not limited to your body. You are the Christ. You must learn to love abstraction.

When you dream at night the mind generates dreams and when you wake you also dream; there is no difference. They are all fantasies made up of your beliefs. When you empty your mind of all your beliefs, you will have happy dreams because there is no judgment, only acceptance. Everyone is you. When your mind is clear there is no conflict because there is nobody to conflict with. There is only one of us.

What Women Want (2000) Director: Nancy Meyers. Chauvinistic advertising executive Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) Is passed by for promotion when talented Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt) lands the Creative Director job. She tells her agency that they need to begin to think like women, and Nick is hopeless at it, until an electric shock gives him the power to hear women’s thoughts. He hears what a jerk he is, but then he home’s in on Darcy’s ideas, flirts with her and steals her big account. He sees his mistake and repents.

When a Man Loves a Woman 1994 Alice Green (Meg Ryan) has a serious drinking problem. Her husband Michael (Andy Garcia) is an airline pilot. After an accident, Alice realizes that she has "hit bottom" and goes into a clinic for rehab. When she returns home, she has kicked her addiction but her husband has trouble adjusting. Alice: "It's horrifying how much you can hate yourself for being low and weak and he couldn't save me from that. So I turned it on him; I tried to empty it onto him. But there was always more, you know. When he tried to help I told him that he made me feel small and worthless. But nobody makes us feel that, we do that for ourselves. I shut him out because I knew if he ever really saw who I was inside, that he wouldn't love me."

When Harry Met Sally (1989) Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) meet when she gives him a ride to New York after they both graduate from the University of Chicago. The film jumps through their lives as they both search for love, but fail, bumping into each other time and time again.

Finally a close friendship blooms between them, and they both like having a friend of the opposite sex. But then they are confronted with the problem: "Can a man and a woman be friends, without sex getting in the way?"

Wide Awake (1989) A child named Joshua begins to question the meaning of life after his beloved grandfather is laid to rest. He asks for a sign from God 48

and despairs that he has not been heard. Yet in the end he realizes that an angel has been with him and his classmates all along. The signs of the Spirit are as near and clear as we are ready and willing to see and hear. God always Answers the prayer of the Heart! The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want... He leadeth me beside the still waters... He restoreth my soul... Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

The Wizard of Oz (1939) Orphaned Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) lives a simple life in rural Kansas with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry and three farm hands. Miss Gulch is bitten by Dorothy's dog, Toto, and she shows up with a court order to put Toto away. Dorothy rushes to the farmhouse just ahead of a tornado. The twister drops the house in a village in Munchkinland of unearthly beauty. Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, informs Dorothy that she has killed the ruby-slippered Wicked Witch of the East by "dropping a house" on her. The Munchkins sing "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" and proclaim Dorothy their heroine. The Wicked Witch, however, vows revenge. Glinda advises Dorothy to go seek the help of the Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City by following the yellow brick road. Dorothy meets a Scarecrow with no brain, a Tin Man with no heart, and a Cowardly Lion. The group talks to the Wizard of Oz, a disembodied head with a booming voice. Dorothy throws water on the witch, causing her to melt. Toto exposes the wizard as a fraud; an ordinary man hiding behind a curtain operating a console.

The wizard explains that they already had what they had been searching for all along. Glinda tells Dorothy that she has always had the power to return home, through the power of the ruby slippers. "The next time I go looking for my heart's desire, I won't look any further than my own backyard. If it's not there, then I never really lost it to begin with." Dorothy taps her heels together 3 times, and chants "There's no place like home." She awakens in her bedroom in Kansas. Everyone laughs and tells her it was all a dream, except Uncle Henry, who says sympathetically "Of course we believe you, Dorothy.”

X-Men (2000) Hugh Jackman is Logan / Wolverine. Patrick Stewart is Professor Charles Xavier.

Ian McKellen is Eric Lensherr / Magneto. Anna Paquin is Rogue / Marie D'Ancanto In a world where both Mutants and Humans fear each other, Marie D'Ancanto, known as Rogue, runs away from home and hitches a ride with another mutant, known as Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine. Professor Charles Xavier runs a school for young mutants. But Magneto, who believes a war is approaching, has an evil plan in mind, and needs Rogue’s ability to help him.

Yentl (1983) Directed by Barbra Streisand. From the story "Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy," by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yentl (Barbra Streisand) is the daughter a Talmud teacher in Poland who secretly taught her even though it was against the law for girls to study. When her father dies, Yentl leaves the village and, disguised as a boy called Anshel, gets admitted to a Yeshiva. She is befriended by Avigdor (Mandy Patinkin) who is engaged to Haddas (Amy Irving), but her family calls off the wedding. Avigdor is about to leave town, but Yentl agrees to marry Haddas so he will stay. After Yentyl reveals her secret to Avigdor, he marries Haddas and Yentl goes to America.

Yes Man (2008) This hilarious comedy is a classic for stepping-stones. Carl (Jim Carey) is repressed in all areas of his life. He has fallen into patterns of avoidance and isolation, saying no to just about everything. Through a series of events he is given a clear directive to say “Yes” to every opportunity presented to him, and although at first he is fearful and resistant, the Spirit shows him that he really doesn’t know his own best interests and before long he is experiencing the joy of the miracle from following his prompt. His world opens up in wonderful ways and then, as happens with all stepping stones, this prompt is maximized, and it is time for a deepening in discernment.

You Can’t Take It With You (1938) Dir. Frank Capra. Grandpa, Mr. Vanderhof, to Mr. Poppins: “Do you like your work? Everybody at our place does just what he wants to.

Vanderhof We are like the lilies of the field.” Mr. Blakley offers him $100 K for | Penny (writes plays) = Mr. Sycamore (firecrackers) house and Vanderhof doesn’t even notice. Vanderhof doesn’t | believe in income tax. “Dear God, thank you for our health and what Alice (Secty) Esse (dancing) = Ed (xylophone) we have right now and as for the rest, we leave it up to you.” He told Mr. Depina; Rheba, maid; Mr. Kalinkoff; Mr. Poppins us not to be afraid and do what we want to do. Tony (Jimmy Stewart) doesn’t want to be a banker like his father. Alice invites Kirbys to dinner but Tony brings them a night early, “So they can see the truth.” Alice, “I’ve got to have their approval.” Penny to Mrs. Kirby, “Everyone knows spiritualism is a fake.” Kalinkoff dumps Kirby on the floor. Police raid, fireworks, paddy wagon, jail. Vanderhof: 49

“35 years ago I realized I wasn’t having any fun so I quit and never went back. Did zoo and harmonica.” He tells A. P. Kirby, “You can’t take it with you. Only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends. You got caught in your own trap.” Kirby, “I’m on top and you’re scum.” Vanderhof, “You’re a failure as a father.” I’m sorry. Here take this harmonica.” Court is packed with V’s friends who pay his fine. Alice tells Kirby off and press captures it all. Alice leaves home, Vanderhof agrees to sell. Ruined munitions manufacturer tells Kirby off, then dies. Tony to Kirby, “I’m quitting and leaving. I don’t like it.” Kirby stomps out of boardroom; goes to V’s, who says, “When I’m in trouble I play the harmonica; let’s play a duet of Polly Wally Doodle. They all dance, Tony and Alice will marry, Kirby shakes Vanderhof’s hand. Kirby sells them the house back; everyone feasts and laughs.

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