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>>From the beginning, humanity has

yearned to understand itself and its relationship

with its creator.

In the days of Moses, the creator

was known as the God of our forefathers

or the God of Abraham.

But there was no real name for the divine creative presence.

Then one day, Moses, who was just a poor shepherd,

came upon a burning bush, and yet the fire

did not consume the bush.

A voice spoke to him, saying that he

must go unto the pharaoh Rameses and demand

the release of Israelite slaves.

When Moses asked who he should say sent him,

God said, "I am that I am."

For the first time in history, God had a name.

Armed with the power of God's name, "I am that I am,"

Moses produced some of the greatest miracles of the Bible.

Religious authorities, recognizing the name's

awesome power, declared that uttering it

was the highest blasphemy.

And so its strength was unrealized, misinterpreted,

and misunderstood.

Moses never reached the promised land,

nor did the code that could unlock

the awesome power of God's name and set all of humanity free.

>>A code that could set humanity free.

It may seem impossible, but Moses learned something

from God that day that changed the world.

In fact, we still talk about the miracles he produced.

When God gave Moses the name "I am that I am,"

there was a simple code that went

with it that unlocked the true power and meaning of the words.

But then the name of God was banned, and uttering it

was sometimes even punishable with death.

And so the code was lost.

A code is a system of letters, numbers, or symbols

that communicates information when

converted into normal language.

If the Moses Code could unlock the power of God's name today,

is it possible that we would have the power

to create miracles just like Moses did 3,500 years ago?

For the first time, world-renowned scholars,

psychologists, and philosophers will reveal the Moses Code

and how you can harness its energy to change your life.

Today, we have the power to destroy the world many times

over, but the Moses Code unleashes a new kind

of power, one that creates worlds and helps us fulfill

our individual and collective destiny.

Incredibly, the Moses Code is far simpler

than you may have imagined.

Most of us were taught that the name given to Moses

was "I am that I am."

That doesn't make sense without the code.

In reality, the name was much simpler.

The Moses Code is a common symbol,

something that we see and experience every day.

The Moses Code is a comma.

>>The Moses Code is a comma?

>>A comma.

>>I don't think so.

>>"I am that, I am" with a comma.

>>We're not saying that the Moses Code is a comma.

We're saying the Moses Code needs a comma.

>>"I am that--

>>Comma.

>>--I am."

>>The right name of God, "I am that I am,"

has intrigued me for many, many years.

When I was a child, I was told this by the adults around me.

"I am that I am," sayeth the Lord.

And I thought, what in the world does that mean?

"I am that I am"

Then one day, a spiritual teacher said to me,

I want you to change your life in 24 hours.

I want you to walk down the street for 60 minutes today,

and I want you look to at everything you see,

and I want you to identify personally

with that, whatever it is, the grass, the flowers,

other people, the wino, the rich person driving by,

the chauffeur-driven Cadillac, whatever it is.

Just look at it and say, I am that.

So I did that.

I walked down the street.

I was with a friend.

And I was saying in my mind, I am that.

I am that.

I am that.

Whatever I looked at.

If I saw violence on a TV screen, I am that.

If I saw something beautiful happening

in the park between a mother and a daughter, I am that.

I was just saying that to myself and allowing

myself to identify with all that is.

And the friend that I was with looked at me

and said, what are you doing?

I said, oh, I'm just saying, I am that.

She said to me, no, you're not that.

You're not that.

You're you.

I said, no, no.

I am that.

You don't understand.

I really am that.

She said, no, no.

You're you.

You're really mixed up in your head.

I said, listen to me.

I am that.

I am.

And then I said, oh my god.

Did you hear what I just said?

I just said, I am that.

I am.

The great name of God, "I am that I am,"

has been misunderstood from the beginning of time.

It's simply God's simple way, God's very human way

of saying an enormous truth.

I am that.

I am.

>>It's just the presence of God saying I am that.

Everywhere you see, you see me.

People used to same God is in everything.

Really, everything is in God.

>>God isn't just saying that I created that.

>>God is this feel, this presence,

that is everywhere in its fullness.

>>God is saying, I am that.

>>I am that.

>>I am that person.

>>I am that.

>>I am that experience.

>>I am that.

>>I am every that that there is.

>>Many of us are still stuck at kind of a fifth grade

idea of God, and so we have, "I am that I am"

is this man in the sky with a white, flowing beard

and these big, long, flowing robes.

>>God made us in its image, and we've

been trying to return the favor ever since,

meaning that we've made God in a man's image.

>>And this "I am that I am" is out there, ready

to decide capriciously whether to bless us or punish us

for certain things.

>>Now of course, God can't be jealous

because God's the only game in town.

God is infinite, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient,

so there's nothing for God to be jealous of.

So that was a primitive mindset, projecting human emotions

onto forces they didn't understand.

>>And we project that presence outward instead

of having a relationship with that presence inwardly.

>>If God actually is each one of us,

then that would mean that each one of us

is an embodiment of God.

If that's true, then what would the possibilities be?

What could we create?

>>We're walking to the wall now, where

we're going to join thousands of other people

in circling the entire Old City of Jerusalem.

>>But before we go there, we're going

to explore three keys for unlocking

the experience of being an embodiment of God,

actually feeling in our bodies.

And we're going to use three letters

to do that-- G, O, D-- to help make it easier

for us to remember.

When these keys are applied to our lives,

then we'll be able to turn that simple comma into one

of the most transformative tools in history.

The first key for experiencing ourselves

as an embodiment of God is Giving.

We've all heard that it's better to give than to receive,

but is that really true?

And how can we give if we don't have enough ourselves?

Mystics and saints like Saint Francis

said that it is in giving that we receive.

Is that just a nice spiritual slogan?

Well, you know, it really only comes down

to one idea that's pretty far out.

>>That which we give to others, that which

we give to the world, we give to ourselves.

So whatever one wants to experience in one's own life,

one chooses to give away.

Now of course, the thought is how can I give it away

if I don't have it?

Because the reason I'm trying to draw it

to me is because I don't have it.

But the very giving it to another

is what causes you to realize you've had it all along.

>>There's a part of your brain in the [? limbic ?] brain that

is not time oriented and that's not the object oriented,

meaning it can't tell the difference between itself

and others.

And it has no sense of past, present, future.

That timeless and objectless place in my brain

receives what I'm giving because it doesn't know whether it's

going out or whether it's coming in.

>>Whatever it is that we are creating for someone else,

our bodies experience it first.

So when we offer the prayers or the thoughts, feelings,

and emotions of a peace for our loved ones,

halfway around the world or between nations,

we are experiencing that peace and that healing as well.

And in this way, once again, we see the example

that giving truly is receiving.

>>So if you criticize other people,

your brain doesn't know you're criticizing them.

It receives it as if it was self-directed.

If you care for and give to another person,

that part of the brain doesn't know which way it's going,

so it always receives.

The brain always receives as a gift to itself

what it's given to another person.

>>We don't even have physical contact anymore.

We don't look at each other because of technology.

We barely see each other face to face.

So we're missing that connection also.

Make that connection.

Give back to someone.

Let that person cut in line.

Let that person in traffic.

And I'm telling you, it just keeps-- it'll flow.

And you'll feel better for it.

>>There's a dimension about who we

are that, as a result of giving, that's

the only way we make that connection.

That's why my favorite book says, the greatest among you

will be your servant.

A servant is a giver.

>>I think service is misunderstood in our culture

because we confuse service with servitude or servant, which

to the ego is offensive.

It's demeaning.

But there is a saying-- and I always

have used it-- to serve is to rule.

To be able to be of genuine service really

allows you to feel that your energy and your efforts

make a difference.

>>September, 2001, I was in New York.

I awoke to the news.

And my friend that I was staying with,

Doug, we went to the roof of his apartment building

and watched the World Trade Center crumble.

And both of us simultaneously looked at each other and said,

we have to go down there right now.

We were literally running against the current of people

that were rushing out of the scene.

We were running into the scene.

Doug works in the media, so he had media badges

that allowed us to get beyond barricades that were just

being set up by local police.

There was still no support system for these firefighters

and these rescue workers, so it became a real necessity

that we find food and water really fast.

So we actually, with the support of a couple of NYPD police

officers, we started looting all the nearby delis

and supermarkets.

And we had turkey meats, and we had the finest

of New York delis meats and everything.

After a while, it became clear that there was just one food

that all the rescue workers wanted.

And that was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

And I later realized that it was because it was comfort food.

And it was the first area where they actually

did the first roll call.

The fire chief stood up on top of one of the crushed fire

trucks.

There were probably 400 names that he called off.

And at least half of them were not present.

As the reality set in with all of the firefighters

around, that they were not present because they were not

alive, they were in the building,

they started to literally crumble like dominoes

all around us.

They feel to their knees.

They sat on curbs.

And these big, hardened men were just in tears.

The earth movers came in to clear the way

for all of the rescue vehicles.

And Wall Street was lined with fine automobiles.

So the only way to move them was to literally push them over

with these earth movers.

They just flipped the cars, one at a time, all the way

down the road, flipping cars out of the way.

And I watched these material items

go from being this beautiful car that I was drilling over to

just been trashed in seconds.

We watched them.

We just stood there, like 12 guys going, oh my god.

How can they do that?

But then it became really clear to me

that it's like, that was so irrelevant to the task

of finding people alive, that all of the material world

was just garbage at that point.

It didn't matter.

I had suited up in a rescue worker's uniform,

basically, with a respirator and everything on.

And this actually ended up becoming my pass

to get into ground zero, where it was nothing

but qualified rescue workers.

And here I was, just a civilian with really

no qualification to be there.

So the first victim that was found

was this little man in a suit.

And he'd been completely crushed and disfigured

under a fire truck.

And I stood there looking at him and imagining

what his story must've been, that he likely

hid under the thing that felt the most secure,

like a fire truck.

Do you what I mean?

He probably crawled that fire truck as debris

was falling only be crushed under that fire truck

when that entire rig was crushed upon him.

And so that was really the first sobering moment of, wow.

OK.

This is what we're here for, and this

is what we're going to witness.

And am I up for it?

And I didn't really even have think about it.

It was just a yes.

>>We have to understand that when we perform service

for others, we're not really doing that.

I mean, it looks like in the illusion that we're doing that,

that we are serving others.

But the truth is, there's no one else to serve but the self.

There's nothing going on in the world except self-service.

>>The more you give, the more you receive.

But the desire to give is not strictly for getting in return.

You know, there's not this intellectual thought of,

OK, well, I'm going to give to you, you, and you

because if I do, then maybe I'll get something.

Most of us operate in that mode already.

>>Moses didn't do that.

He just gave and received and served.

>>We want to get as God gives, without expectations,

without wanting anything in return, just to connect

with another person, to serve in the grandest way.

>>Greatness is your capacity and your willingness

to be of service.

Service to what?

Service to love, service to peace, service to beauty,

service to God, service to joy.

>>I think that when we do that, when

we take our attention off all of our problems

and all of our circumstances, and we put it on somebody else,

it's the thought of doing that that allows

us to lose track of ourselves and lose track of our problems.

And that's an act of creation.

>>Recently, I was inspired by my own son, Beau,

who was having a bar mitzvah.

And the rabbi explained to him that the mitzvah was really

in the stretch, going beyond what he felt comfortable doing.

>>What kind of challenges do you feel like you've faced

and that you had to overcome to do this great mitzvah?

>>I'm giving away all my money, so that's always hard.

>>What kind of project are you going to do?

>>I'm raising money to build a school

in a poor part of Uganda.

>>He decided that he would build a school--

>>An entire school?

>>Yeah, a seven room schoolhouse.

>>--and donate 100% of his money.

>>Moses did exactly the same thing you're doing, Beau.

He left his comfort zone to do something good

for people that desperately needed it.

>>The village where Beau's project is going to be built

is called Kikoiiro.

And the difference between a child going to school

and not going to school is really

the difference between life and death for many children.

>>It says, Beau, I've decided to put

my money towards the school.

>>We've received money from over 500 people.

>>That's great.

How old is she?

>>She's only 12.

That's weird.

>>No, I think that;s beautiful.

>>I know.

That's awesome.

>>They were just ecstatic.

And they really got that this was a child helping children.

>>How does it feel to be a philanthropist?

>>What's a philanthropist?

>>This has been a tremendous opportunity,

not just for the children of Kikoiiro,

but for also kids in the US to get the idea that there's more

that they can do.

>>There's some people that don't have the capacity

to receive the good that wants to come into their life.

And they end up becoming martyrs.

They end up burning themself out because they give,

but they never replenish themself

through being available to the presence expressing

through them, through receptivity.

>>The couples who proceed slowly in therapy,

the couples who seem to never get there,

and no matter what happens in the relationship,

they just don't, quote, "really improve,"

have what we call a defense against receiving.

They have no receptors for letting stuff in, not only

letting love in, but letting compliments in, letting

positive statements in, letting appreciation in.

>>To surrender yourself enough to be able to receive, first

from God, the Holy Spirit, and then from those around you,

I think is one of the most sacred acts that we perform.

>>The complete, whole state is an individual

that gives with ease and with the grace.

They are here to give, to share their gifts, their time,

their talents, their capacities, while at the same time,

they're in tune with the fundamental order of existence,

their real being.

And they're receptive to this flow through them.

They can receive love.

They can receive intuitive hits.

They can receive wisdom and guidance.

They can receive the beauty that is everywhere.

So there's a complete cycle.

And ultimately, giving and receiving are one.

>>Most of us have heard prophets and sages

and enlightened beings say that we're all one.

But we look out at the world and we see separation everywhere.

So how can that be true?

Does that mean that I'm one with Jack the Ripper as well

as Mother Teresa?

Does that mean that I'm one with you?

Are these just airy fairy ideas?

Or could this be the next step in all

of us realizing that we're actually an embodiment of God?

>>The fundamental principle that you find encoded

in all major religions, all authentic spiritual paths,

is this spiritual idea called oneness,

that we are at one with life.

We're at one with the presence of God.

We're at one with each other.

>>We find that in all the traditions.

"Hear, o Israel, the Lord our God is one."

One presence, one power.

The Atman, the Buddha nature, the Christed one.

It's in quantum physics, Rupert Sheldrake, the unified field.

One presence, everywhere.

>>This oftentimes doesn't seem to square

with physical evidence, primarily

because the average individual sees the world

through the filter of a sense of separation.

They see the world through their senses.

>>And if you're more in the ego, then you're

going to sense survival fear, this angst

that you've got to get yours, that it's all about getting,

getting, getting, getting.

>>Through spiritual practices, you go beyond that

the sensory realm, and you enter into a field

where you see not with eyesight, but with insight

that everything is connected.

The scientists, the quantum scientists,

would call it a unified field that is everywhere

in its fullness, that it's undivided.

>>Because that's what's being awake means.

It's say, well, I'm dancing this illusion of separateness

but I'm not separate.

>>So once an individual has broken through,

then all the things on the surface that seem separate

begin to work together for our good

because we're now in tune with everything

on the invisible level.

So you end up working not harder,

but you end up working a lot cleaner, a lot easier,

because you're in tune with all of life.

So you're not trying to make something happen

on the surface, you're trying to make something welcome

on the invisible side of life.

So oneness is the primary principle.

It's the linchpin of power.

We're at one with God, one with live, one with life,

one with all the power that there is.

>>Until we're willing to embrace the totality of our humanity

and our divinity, we can never be in oneness

because we're taught to say, I'm not that.

We're taught to say, I see something I don't like,

so I don't want to be that.

And we push that part of ourselves aside.

>>All of us, including myself, at times

find it hard to be at one with someone or someones

that either don't agree with us or that

have values that we believe to be totally destructive.

>>These days, I'm having a lot of trouble with phony people.

And I can see that I don't like that part of myself,

that I'm always searching for ways to be

more authentic and more real and show more of myself,

even as a teacher.

>>I finally went to take my first nap

in 40 hours, 40 plus hours.

I really don't know.

It was kind of timeless there.

And I found an apartment building

that had been completely abandoned.

And so I went into the lobby of this apartment building,

and I found a couch.

And I dusted it off, and I lay down on the couch with my face

against the back of the couch.

And I cuddled up, and I bundled up.

And probably about a half hour into my sleepless nap,

I could feel the little man, the first victim that we found,

the little man in a suit, I could

feel him kneeling behind me.

And I could see it vividly.

He was kneeling behind me, his disfigured

face staring at the back of my head.

I could fill his breath on the back of my neck.

And I was pretty terrified.

And I just lay there for I don't know

how long it was, five or 10 minutes, just thinking, what

is he doing?

And I was still and quiet long enough for that voice,

whatever you want to call it, my internal voice, that

said to me, very loud and clearly, this

could be your Vietnam or dot, dot, dot.

>>And it just left me kind of hanging like that.

I don't know what the dot, dot, dot, was.

But I knew what the, this could be your Vietnam,

meant, having grown up seeing all the ex-vets with all

of their drama that they have brought back

from the war and their flashbacks.

Having just had my first ground zero flashback,

I knew that this could be something

that could stay with me that way for the rest of my life

and it could probably trouble my future.

Or-- and I knew that the answer to the

or was back out on the rubble.

So I got up, and I suited it up again, and I put my mask on.

And I walked around the building.

And as I rounded the corner, they

had put up a new work light.

And it was this very bright, brilliant light.

And everything just seemed so bright and so brilliant

that I was just struck.

And I just looked around at all these people.

And everything, everything just instantly

appeared different to me.

And I stood there with tears in my eyes.

It felt like the world was in slow motion.

I was watching people go by, and all I could see was

is spirits crossing and spirits working,

chain gangs of spirits.

And it was so clear to me that everything was interconnected.

And it was all one big body of God.

Everybody had dropped their egos.

They had drop their identities.

They had dropped their rank.

And they were working together for the greater good of all.

And I was so lit up with possibility

for human kind, of what it can be like when we all

are working together in this way.

And I could really get beyond concept what oneness was.

Knowing that the entire world was experiencing

what it was experiencing, all the separation and fear

and chaos that was going on in the world,

here I was standing there, experiencing in the greatest

bliss and beauty of my life.

And I remember just wishing that the world could

see this situation through my eyes.

>>When I first decided to be on this spiritual journey,

I was really looking to become a better me.

And my sister always told me that I was angry

and I was selfish and self-absorbed

and this whole list of characteristics that I

didn't want to be.

So I started working on becoming this nice person.

And I learned how to talk in a nice voice.

And I learned how to give things away

that I had if you wanted them.

I did all these things.

And then I went to a seminar one day.

And I'm standing there, and everybody's looking at me.

And in the middle of the seminar, this woman shouts out,

you're a [BLEEP].

And I thought, well, I know that.

How does she know?

And she said to me, let me ask you something, Debbie.

If you were remodeling a house and you

were six weeks late and $20,000 over budget,

do you think it might help to be a little [BLEEP]?

And all of a sudden, a light went on

because I thought if I just got rid of all my bad qualities--

and believe me, I have plenty-- that somehow that

would make me a good person.

The piece I was missing is that every dark quality of mine

came bearing gifts.

>>And you can go down the list.

Things that we see that are very negative

oftentimes have the effect of taking us

to the next stage of our evolution.

You take somebody like a George Bush.

He was an evolutionary trigger.

He's galvanized the peace movement,

parts of the peace movement that haven't spoken

to each other in many years, since the '60s.

He comes along with a war ethic and a preemptive strike war

ethic, peace movement starts talking.

So he actually was a very positive force

for the evolution of many positive things on the planet.

>>See, if I want to grow and evolve spiritually,

I have to take my projection off of them

and own and embrace that part of myself.

>>We have to be lovers of humanity.

We have to be lovers of ourself, and even

seek to love that which our ego or our mental perception

would say, you know what?

I can't love that.

>>I'm a phony [BLEEP].

Now the question is, how am I going

to love myself being a phony [BLEEP].

>>Go within and embrace it anyway.

>>And even as I say this, they're

probably going to bleep me out because nobody

can bear that they might be a phony [BLEEP].

So they've got to shut me down, and we all

have to pretend like we're not that.

People get confused in this conversation because they'll

say, well, I'm not a murderer.

Or, I'm not a rapist.

But I would say, find out what kind of person

would be a murderer.

What kind of person would be a rapist?

Those are the questions that we must ask ourselves

because maybe a rapist would be somebody who's wounded or sick.

We all have a wounded part of ourselves.

We all have a sick part of ourselves.

We all have a twisted part of ourselves.

And even though we'd like to fit into the ego's ideal of being

a perfect human being, we're not.

We're all that there is.

And when we can open our hearts and have compassion

for the part of us that might murder,

we have no idea if we're capable of that,

especially if we're living and watching this film.

But maybe, maybe, the right or wrong circumstances, we

are all capable of anything, the most beautiful, glorious,

act of greatness, and what we would consider

one of the most horrible crimes against humanity.

And when we embrace all of ourselves,

knowing that we're both human and that we are divine,

well, voila.

All of a sudden you have a whole human being.

And what you feel is oneness.

>>I was married to a woman who was in so many ways

the embodiment of all the things we're talking about.

Linda has always been such an inspiration for me

and I know for so many other people because

of her kindness and her beauty.

When my daughter and I were in Minnesota with family,

we woke up the next morning to hear

that two men had broken into her apartment and had killed her.

The anger and the grief and the profound sadness for me

was overwhelming.

My daughter and I and a couple of others,

we were talking and crying.

It was very late at night.

And my cell phone was beeping because the battery

was wearing down.

And so I just hit the button to turn the power off.

But for the first time, it didn't go off.

Something very different happened.

The one and only picture that I have of Linda on my phone

flashed full screen and froze there.

And we felt her so profoundly connected with us.

And it was in that moment I felt this profound shift within me,

even toward these men who had killed her.

For me, the powerful emotion I felt over and over again

was this connection, this compassion,

for people who must have gone through something truly

terrible to have committed such a terrible crime

against a woman who was so beloved and so cared

for by everyone that knew her.

There was a song that I wrote and performed at her funeral.

And it was a way of both healing my heart,

but also imagining what Linda would

say from the other side of the veil,

if she could reach back and speak to us about oneness.

(SINGING) And if ever you forget me, just call me by my name.

And my soul, it will answer time and time again.

And if ever you should leave me, I'm never really gone.

You can find me deep within you, in the one.

>>If you have a spiritual practice when

those insights occur, they integrate

into your way of living.

They don't wipe you out, nor do they just

fade into the recesses of memory as to a wonderful moment

you once had.

Integrates into you.

And that sense of oneness and unity

becomes more real than anything.

>>Do you have a destiny?

Moses believed that his destiny was to lead the Israelites out

of Egypt into the promised land, while on the other hand,

Forrest Gump felt that life is like a box of chocolates,

and you never know what you're going to get.

It can be a little scary trying to tackle an idea so big.

But it might be worth another look,

since the final key to experiencing yourself

as an embodiment of God is to uncover your deepest

yearning and your reason for living.

>>The calling is always upon us.

There's always something within us

that wants to become conscious of itself as us.

It's called the next stage of our evolution.

There's something within all of us that we must express.

>>So Moses represents you and me, an ordinary person

on an ordinary day having an extraordinary experience, where

Moses climbs a mountain and there he

has an encounter with a presence that shows up

as this flame in a bush that is burning.

But the bush won't be consumed, meaning

that the source of this presence isn't in the material realm.

The source of this presence comes from

and is presencing that which is divine and eternal.

And Moses doesn't know quite what to do with this,

as either you or I would do.

He knows-- there's something in him that

knows this is about completely transform his life.

>>Now, I consider myself a fairly spiritual person.

But if I were sitting here today and the bush

were to start burning, in my mind,

I'd go get the fire extinguisher.

>>The bush is always glowing.

I had an opportunity to be with a powerful shaman in Africa

a few years ago.

And we were traveling at night, and I was kind of stumbling,

and they would just walk into the jungle

like it was daylight.

And we went out to a clearing and had

this very powerful experience out there.

And after the experience, everything was lit up.

Everything was aglow with this fire.

The leaves were on fire.

The ground was on fire.

Everything was aglow.

And I was aware that these individuals that were taking me

through the jungle, they were seeing like this.

They had this night vision that allowed

them to see the luminosity from all of nature.

And in that instant, I had the same thing.

I had that kind of a spiritual night

vision that allowed me to see that everything

was ablaze with the spirit of God.

And I thought about Moses seeing the burning bush.

That moment he was in transcendent awareness,

that he could see clearly that God is everywhere.

And everything is aglow with this fire, this power,

and this presence.

Moses was having a good day.

>>When Moses asks the bush, asks this flames,

asks this presence, who are you?

He hears, "I am that I am."

And we don't know whether the conversation is actually

audible in human terms or it's a transmission

from the knower that is everywhere

present into his heart.

But nevertheless, this communication says something.

And the communication is this.

There is a journey you are to take.

Joseph Campbell would later call that the hero's journey.

But there's a journey that is for each one of us

to take that takes us from our local, temporal, egoistic point

of view or self to an understanding, a person

of destiny, a person of wholeness and completeness.

And that journey is the Moses journey.

>>Moses didn't think he was worthy.

And so that unworthiness combined with willingness

provided a space for the presence of God

to come through because Moses wasn't blocking God out

with his ego.

>>So the rest of the story is both a literal story,

a historic story, but it's also a meta-story.

It's the story of you and the story of me.

And all the characters in that story are parts of ourselves.

So Moses is then told that he must go and free the slaves.

And he is to take them to the promised land

or to fulfillment, to the land of milk and honey.

And he questions it.

I can't do this.

He stutters.

He can't speak well.

He's like, who am I to do this?

And you and I feel the same way when

a dream, an idea a calling, something calls to us

to make a difference, give something, do something

in your local community, do something for the world,

do something for your family, do something.

And right away, we feel like, oh, I'm not up to it.

I don't have what is required.

I'm not enough for that.

>>I think everyone has to come to grips with the fact

that there's a destiny within all of us.

There's something calling all of us.

And we are presently not the person

that can deliver that destiny.

We grow into it as we say yes to it.

There's an old statement that God does not

call the qualified.

God qualifies the called, so that when we answer that call,

then the presence qualifies you.

It qualified me.

I didn't have all of the skills.

I didn't have the resources.

I didn't have the money.

I didn't have the space.

Didn't have anything.

But God qualified me through my yes.

So people showed up.

Resources showed up.

Buildings showed up.

Individuals who could catch the vision that I was articulating

showed up.

And then I changed.

I grew.

So the person they said yes is not

the same person sitting here today.

The person that's sitting here today,

saying yes to the next stage of the vision,

will not be the person that inherits and articulates

and manifests that aspect of the vision.

We're constantly evolving and growing and unfolding,

based on our ability and our willingness

and our capacity to say, yes, I'm willing.

Yes.

>>And so Moses agrees to the journey.

And there's that part of us that says yes

to our own destiny, that says yes to our purpose

as we discover it.

And then of course, comes having to encounter

Pharaoh, not only the historic pharaoh,

but the personal pharaoh.

The personal pharaoh is our intellect.

It's the part of us that's all made

an agreement with the kingdom of our lives

as we've known it, everything just as it is, the status

quo, the comfort zone.

And then there's this part of us that was to emerge,

this part of us wants to make a difference.

And there's a whole argument that

goes on internally about, no, I'm

not about to make that change.

And ultimately, in this story, which

is your story and my story, the hero's journey,

the trouble builds up.

The trouble gets tougher.

Things get more and more complicated.

And finally in desperation, pharaoh says, OK.

Go ahead.

Take the people and go.

>>Now, the thing that I find very interesting about Moses

is that he had a speech impediment.

We don't know what kind it was.

But one might think, why would God choose someone

with a speech impediment-- let's say a stutter-- to deliver 400,

4,000, however many, unruly Israelites

into a new way of being?

So here they are, fussing and arguing

among themselves and Moses with his speech impediment,

(STUTTERING).

You would say, why does God have such a sense of humor?

And you'd say, why would he choose Moses?

>>One of the reasons why God could use him

is because of his humility.

And oftentimes people that seem that they're lacking something

within themself, they become great vessels

and great vehicles for the power of God

to express through because there's

nothing to inhibit the flow from expressing through them.

>>Very often we think we have impediment or limitations,

and we don't think God can use us.

But God will take your limitation and use your

and it to deliver somebody else into a new place

and a new way of being.

>>So the sea opens.

And then the real journey begins because they

spend 40 years in the desert.

In the Bible and in many of the mystical traditions,

40 is symbolic of simply this, the amount

of time required for transformation.

Noah has 40 days in the flood.

Jesus has 40 days on the mount of temptation.

Moses has 40 years in the desert.

It's the amount of time required for the transformation.

And for some of us, this is our 40th moment right now.

Watching this right now, we know that this

is the moment when the life we've lived

is not sufficient to the purpose that we're being called for.

>>I think it's useful for us to understand

why the soul came to the body.

The soul came into physicality in order

that it might experience itself, express itself,

in the physical world as who it really is, thus

to know itself in its own experience.

>>So the fear is that if we identify the "I am that I am"

with the "I am that I am," that somehow it

makes us pretending to be something we're not being

or taking on something.

But what if it's just the opposite?

What if by saying that I am an opportunity for the

"I am that I am" to presence divine love through my hands

this day to a child that I'm teaching

or to an old person I'm helping carry the groceries

or to someone that I call who's in pain or hurting in some way,

and I'm the voice that comforts them?

What if when we give ourselves just the possibility that if we

allow ourselves, the "I am that I am"

might be an avenue through which the "I am that I am"

that is God, that is the presence, that

is the power of life itself, might find a way,

an entry point, to make a difference for good right

here on planet Earth.

>>Ah, but we've got to be careful here

because when the ego start to think that it's God,

it just gets arrogant.

It gets greedy.

It takes us over completely.

It's not a pretty picture.

We have to dip in to our soul, to our essence,

in order to be all that there is.

>>The difficulty is this.

We're a mixture of a constellation

of different identities that have

emerged for different reasons.

We're mothers.

We're fathers.

We're brothers.

We're sisters.

We're employers.

We're employees.

There's all kinds of identities.

And every single identity is pulling

upon our energy for its survival.

However, there is a central identity

which is the I am presence.

There's a central identity which is not

in comparison with all other identities

or in comparison with anybody else.

It's the image and likeness of God.

It's a unique configuration of infinite potential,

infinite possibility.

And within that core identity, it is speaking.

It's calling our real name and inviting us to greatness.

It's inviting us to be more ourself.

>>Remember, it's the still, small voice.

We have to get quiet enough to hear it.

>>And through spiritual practice of prayer, lowly listening,

meditation, after a while, you're

able to tell the difference between the voice of one

of the constellation of shifting identities or the true voice

that's coming from your soul that wants you to be great.

And the definition of greatness is your capacity

and your willingness to serve.

>>When we get past survival, when

we get past those small-minded things,

then the only thing the soul wants to do

is to make a difference, to give to humanity.

>>What can I do?

There's so much you can do, you can't even believe it.

Right the end of your fingertips is a whole world

of your possible creation.

And it is ignited, it is inspired, it is embraced,

and it is, in fact, experienced in extraordinary ways

the moment you decide to be in service, not just to the world,

but to the world of your own creation.

>>When that central voice begins to speak, and it's still

and it's small, it's calling you to a greater degree of service

and a greater degree of serving humankind, a greater

degree of serving your family, a greater degree of serving

everyone you come in contact with.

That's one of the ways you can tell

the difference between that voice.

Is it calling to serve?

Or is it calling you just to take care of yourself?

If it's calling you just to take care of yourself,

it may be coming from the ego.

>>The question often arises for us,

so how do I know the difference between God's will and my will?

And do I have a will?

What do I do with my will?

My understanding of that is that, where is God?

Jesus said, the kingdom of God is within you.

So within us, we know we have the pharaoh part,

or the intellect, or the part of us that

argues for circumstances that we know.

And then there's the prophetic part.

There's the part of us that does have

a destiny, that does have a call,

to make a difference for good.

And so when we align the pharaoh with the heart,

then we align our will with God's will.

>>When we enact creation, we are emulating the creator.

And the result of that is that we feel good.

We feel love.

We feel expanded.

>>You also need inner peace.

It needs contentment, love, creative expression,

and of course divine connection.

Those are the qualities that make you feel good.

>>You're actually wired so that you'll

know you're on track by the aliveness you feel.

I am that I am.

>>And it's in your being, your embracing of the presence

and standing in that, that you give the greatest gift

that you can to the world.

>>And so the understanding about that and then living from that

is the journey.

A Course in Miracles calls it the 18 inch journey

from the head to the heart.

>>In that moment, standing there overlooking ground zero and all

the chaos that was going on, arose my life destiny.

All my selfish pursuit of trying to get

what I needed to get and be where I needed to be in my life

just seemed ridiculous.

I knew that from that point on, my life would be about all

of us.

It would be about community.

My heart was so filled with possibility, of what we're

capable of when we're working from that point.

Because I know it's possible, my whole life

now has been about recreating that community.

It is the catalyst for my wanting

to create Elevate Film Festival, which, when you really break it

down, it's just a community of people who understand

this oneness that I'm talking about.

Can we bring people into an experience

that's so much bigger than who we think

we are that we can experience that level of oneness?

Because when you do, there's nothing

more beautiful in this lifetime and this experience.

There is nothing greater than that.

>>The kingdom of God is unconditional love.

The kingdom of God is peace of mind.

The kingdom of God is joy in my soul.

I said, yeah, let me seek that stuff.

And then I don't have to worry about getting anything,

being with anybody, doing anything special.

Let me go for the unconditional love, first of myself,

and then to be able to extend it to everyone else.

Let me go for the peace of mind where

I'm not worried about what might happen, what could happen,

where I'm just embracing the presence, my I

am-ness, the manna of God in this right now moment.

Let me go for that.

And let that trickle down and fill

every other aspect of my life.

>>That's the kingdom.

To that degree that we begin to know who we are,

that who I am behind my eyes is the same person

that you are behind your eyes, then that's the kingdom.

And that's the connection that connects all of us.

And as we get closer to that, then we

begin to manifest the attributes of that in our life,

in our daily living.

>>So once I really understood what the kingdom was, oh yeah.

Oh yeah, baby.

I want to seek that.

>>So paradoxically in that moment,

while the world was experiencing chaos and confusion and fear,

I was standing there experiencing

my first true experience with God.

Through giving and the service that I was witness to,

I experienced the oneness, the greatest sense of oneness,

that I ever knew was possible.

And from that arose my destiny.

>>Now that we understand the three keys for experiencing

ourselves as an embodiment of God,

now it's time for us to consider what

we can create from that new experience.

If saying and being, I am that I am, really

can unlock the power of God within us,

the next question is, well, how extensive is that power?

Can we move mountains and create miracles like Jesus and Moses?

Are these just fantastical ideas,

or can they really change the world?

>>"I" is the creative factor of the universe.

And when you add "am" to it, what you get

is the movement of the creative force of the universe.

So every time you say, "I am," you are creating.

You are creating movement.

Think of it this way.

We say, I am broke.

Yes, and that's how you stay.

I am lonely.

Yes, and that's how you stay.

But if we were to begin to use the creative force

and energy of that name, I, and the movement of am to say,

I am whole.

I am holy.

I am complete.

I am beautiful.

I am gorgeous.

I am wealthy.

I am, we begin energy moving in our life.

And we re-educate our souls.

That's all Moses had to do, was to bring

that oneness, that creative energy of God,

and put an action to it.

And Pharaoh had no choice but to back down.

He recognized what he was dealing with.

>>He was able to take the I am presence

and lift up an entire nation to see who and what they really

were and whose they really were.

>>There's actually a way to activate this creative energy

through a process that we can practice every day.

And the great thing about this process

is that it applies to almost every area of our life.

And you can remember it with five simple words.

And guess what the words are?

>>(WHISPERING) I am that, I am.

>>The only thing that changes is what

you focus on when you say those words.

The first step is to imagine what

you want to be, do, or have and really make sure

that it's something that matters.

And the second step is to repeat the words, "I am that, I am"

and allow yourself to expand into that new possibility.

>>So if we want to have a new way of being,

we must say it and repeat it time and time and time again.

When we repeat things, we encode them in our consciousness.

>>The third step is pretty easy.

In fact, you're already doing it.

It's to breathe.

Controlled breathing centers you, energizes you,

and actually amplifies the effect.

One way to practice this is to say, I am that,

on the out breath.

And then as you breathe in, either think or say the words,

I am.

Like this.

I am that.

(WHISPERING) I am.

I am that.

(WHISPERING) I am.

This simple process takes whatever

you're feeling and imagining and projects it out into the world

so that you can experience it in your real life.

>>One of the ways I like to support people in doing this

is by thinking about the qualities that inspire you,

the qualities that you desire.

See somebody-- maybe you know them

or maybe you've read about them-- in your awareness.

Bring that image of them very close to you.

And then just close your eyes and start repeating,

I am that, I am, really allowing yourself to encode that image,

that way of being, and those qualities right into yourself.

>>I am the joy I want to experience.

I am the peace I want to experience.

I am the beauty I want to realize.

I am the abundance I want to realize.

And through the power of that declaration,

through the flow of that kind of energy,

it manifests in and as your life.

>>When we talk about manifestation or getting stuff,

we want two cars, three houses.

You've got one butt.

Why do you need four cars?

I could say the same thing about shoes.

I've got two feet.

I've got 80 pairs of shoes.

But it's manna to my soul.

But manifestation of things is not

the same thing as manna, the presence of God,

that supplies your every need.

>>There are some people that are dominated by the ego,

and they try to get.

They try to use the principles for acquisitiveness,

to get things.

And they hoard.

And inside, they're very poor people.

They may have a lot of stuff, but they're just

poor people with a lot of stuff.

>>Advanced students understand that it

works exactly the opposite, not to try to magnetize something

to us, but to try to bring something through us.

>>Many people say, I just don't know who I am.

They don't know their soul.

They don't know their soul.

And it's great.

People think they can reach out, get the cars, the jobs,

the best relationships, the money.

People get that, and more power to them.

But they still say to themselves, I still feel empty.

What's missing?

You forgot about the soul.

>>And that's really what we want.

We want the grace and the majesty and the presence of God

to so fill us until it's unspeakable

because if we can speak and call it something,

we'll try to fix it and change it.

So we just want to be.

And in that being-ness we have the manna,

which is the manifestation of the presence of God.

And it's not about car or a house.

It's about the presence of God.

>>Truly embodying in the God presence

isn't just about being saintly and having

this upward connection to the divine

that we would call mystical and enlightened.

But it also requires that we fully inhabit our bodies

and fully be in our sensuality, our sexuality,

and really combine and fuse those energies.

>>Love is God.

God is love.

So you are God.

You are love.

And when you use that energy of love, God will always say yes.

He will manifest exactly what you want.

>>So if you can access that feeling of oneness

or the energy of wholeness, what Jesus calls

the kingdom of heaven within you,

then you can begin to experience that all around you

in the world.

>>But if we have an idea that something

other than the kingdom of God is something we will seek after,

that we will create because we are so powerful,

we will create in our own illusion

that which is not of the heaven of which we dream.

That is, we'll create our own hell on earth.

>>Moses and the code never made it to the Holy Land.

And since then, Israel has been in constant conflict.

Millions have lost their lives due to a misinterpretation

of the name of God.

And religious factions have been fighting for centuries,

ironically, in the name of God.

The thousands of people of all races and religions

are flying in from all corners of the world, armed

with the powerful intent to finally bring peace to the Holy

Land by literally embracing the Old City of Jerusalem.

>>At the time of the hug and before, it is important for us

to keep our pure intention and relax.

>>So we're walking to the wall now,

where we're going to join thousands of other people

in circling the entire Old City of Jerusalem.

>>Can we stretch the line?

>>People, how are we doing?

[HEBREW]

>>We're here facing the wall, so as you breath out, you say,

I am that, meaning I am that peace in Jerusalem.

Feel the peace radiating from this city.

>>I am that, I am.

I am that., I am.

I am that, I am.

I am that, I am.

I am that, I am.

I am that, I am.

I am that, I am.

I am that, I am.

>>(SPEAKING HEBREW)

>>(WHISPERING) I am that.

I am that.

>>And so, 3,500 years later, Moses's journey

is complete, by delivering the true meaning of the name of God

to the whole land.

It began with a conversation, but continues today

through each one of us.

The door has been unlocked.

Now it's up to us to step into a new world.