David Hoffmeister & A Course In Miracles

Documentary "How To Change Your Mind" - The Holy Spirit Can Use Anything the Ego Made with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie WorkshopThe Holy Spirit can use anything the ego made. It can use the body to communicate eternal love and forgiveness. Isn't it great that the Holy Spirit can use the trees, the sky, the planets, and even the black holes, the galaxies, and the cosmos of time and space to point back to the singularity of the mind that there's only one of us? Every molecule is there to be used by the Holy Spirit to teach us that there's only one of us, every electron, every atom, and everything that we perceive has only one purpose, and that's for us to forgive the world and remember our oneness as we are a child of God, perfect, innocent child of God. So the Holy Spirit can use anything the ego made. It can even use plant medicine. Enjoy David Hoffmeister's commentary and profound A Course in Miracles content in Episodes 1 & 2 of the Netflix documentary series 'How to change your mind,' The new sci

Star Trek: The Next Generation 'Remember Me' with Commentary by David HoffmeisterThe human condition of separation is a condition that has been accepted as the normal state of mind, an individual's private thoughts, going for brief glimmers of intimacy and connection. The whole situation of time-space is one of separation, division, isolation, and loneliness because of how it's set up. Most people spend their entire life dealing with issues around loneliness and isolation—difficulties with communication. Relationships seem difficult. Groups seem difficult. The government appears difficult. Countries seem like a tricky thing. In Christian terms with the Trinity, the Holy Spirit's perspective will say, here's what healing is; it's coming down to a shared perspective. The Holy Spirit's perspective is the only perspective that can be shared; everything else is the attempt to share something that was set up to not be shared.Enjoy David's commentary on the Star Trek - The Next generation - Remember Me - s04e05YouTu

Movie "Hare Krishna! The Mantra, The Movement And The Swami Who Started It All" by David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie Workshop Living from a giving state of mind! If you go into that experience and realize that giving and extending is what all life is about. Then you can gain the trust to say, well, in the past, I've had this gearing mechanism; maybe I wanted to get a partner or a family, perhaps I tried to get a house. Maybe I wanted to get a career; perhaps I wanted to get money and possessions. But, of course, the ego has set up an intricate network of distractions in this world of time and space. At every angle, every direction you look, there are distractions, not just some but many. And so basically, when we go on an authentic spiritual journey, we have to admit to ourselves, okay, we're facing distraction through our five senses, but our intuitive self is calling us deeper inward into the mind to an inspiring journey that has a lot of thoughts and beliefs that are blocking us from experiencing life.Enj

David & Svava share a 3 hour closing session on Sunday, with music and profound teachings and questions and answers. Topics ranged from discernment and guidance to the metaphysics of the mind and practices/practicalities of awakening through forgiveness. Examples and metaphors included: overhead projector, movie theater, gap or spot or dot of time-space. ACIM WB Lesson 300: “Only an instant does this world endure.”(https://acim.org/acim/en/s/719 | W-300)

Decision and Belief, Perception problem, Practical Guidance, Accepting the Atonement, Svava sings only Love and Eternal. Lively session indeed!

The movie "Life or Something Like it" Fully Accepting What is Right in Front of Me with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Online Movie WorkshopFully accepting what is right in front of me is the key to a happy life. If you can fully accept what is right in front of you, you can have a relaxing, joyful life. In the end, Jesus says you have to accept the atonement, and what he means is that the correction for this entire world of time and space is in the present moment. And the present moment is right under your nose; it's so close. It's above your lips. It's front and center. So sink into the present moment and know that you are loved and know that you are free. Enjoy David Hoffmeister's commentary and profound A Course in Miracles content on the movie "Life or Something Like it" and learn how to fully accept what is right in front of meYou can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/A2wdKpMrF_M.If you want to know more about Living Miracles, and the Weekly Movie Workshops, look here: http

David Hoffmeister - Where Is This All Going? - Talk at the Monastery on September 5, 2022The belief in choice is unconscious for most people. In the world, the choice is considered a positive thing. And the more choices, the better. It's associated with lots of things. Freedom, happiness, joy, and peace, but it's not the choice or the choices of this world that bring freedom or happiness and peace.What Jesus means by choice is that the greatest gift God bestowed on his son, referring to the sleeping Christ, is that the mind that changed into believing it could be something other than what God created can now switch back into accepting what God did create. From a personality identity to a spirit identity, to an I Am identity, to an eternal identity. So that's what the whole point is. Jesus is asked the question in the Course How will the world end? He answers the question with a question. Can what has no beginning have an end? So you can see from the perspective of the spirit that it's just about undoing the q

Closing Session - Miracles are Involuntary - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuJesus said in the Bible, "When you pray, go to your closet and shut the door." He didn't just say go to your closet. He said, Go to your closet and shut the door. So he's giving us full permission to say; These distracting thoughts about the past, past regrets, and future expectations; Shut the door! What about this? How's it going to end? Where's it going? And Jesus would say, who cares? Do you believe in the future, or will you be with me right now? Isn't it enough to be with me right now? It is enough. It is enough. When you suddenly realize that Jesus is literally arranging time and space and taking care of everything and always has and always will. Then you know that there's never been a time when we personally did anything important or unimportant. There's never been a time when we messed it up or did it right. He's telling us that you're not the doer or the body. God didn't create the body. So w

Netflix Series "Another Self Episode 7 & 8" Miracles Are Involuntary with David Hoffmeister - Online Retreat Movie WorkshopDirect Communication: Say What You Need to Say. Isn't that lovely? It sounds like John Mayer's song, "Say What You Need to Say". Yeah, we need to hear that song a lot because some of you say, "I'm a big people pleaser". Maybe play that John Mayer song every day or every morning before you get out of bed. That's a way to rinse away some of that people-pleasing. No people-pleasing today, I'm just gonna say what I need to say, I'm gonna roll with it. I'm gonna let it flow off of my tongue. Whatever it is, I'm not going to prejudge it or bite my tongue and hold stuff in. I'm just gonna say what I need to say. Enjoy the profound commentary by David Hoffmeister on the final episodes of the Netflix Series "Another Self Episodes 7 & 8" and use it to experience the involuntary nature of Miracles.You can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YiExHqapQuA.If you wan

Opening Session - Miracles are Involuntary - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuTo the extent that you believe in linear time and the lack and scarcity and conflict of the ego, to that extent, there's a heaviness built into the human condition, and yet the prayer is always to the Holy Spirit; Lift me up, lift me higher and higher. Lift us up where we belong like in the Joe Cocker song; Love lifts us up where we belong. So that's the prayer of our hearts. In the beginning, anything that we've been hanging on to seems to come up from the unconscious, and at first, it's a little intense to see, oh, my gosh, these defense mechanisms that I've been holding on to must be defending something that's not real. Because Spirit doesn't need defense, Spirit just is. So it must be that the ego self-concept, made as a substitute identity, is a heavy armature around it. So when we become aware of the defense mechanisms, which can feel intense because we tend to judge ourselves, questions arise; W

Star Trek - Strange New Worlds - Ep. 10 'A Quality of Mercy' - Commentary by David HoffmeisterIn this season finale, just as Captain Pike thinks he's figured out how to escape his fate, he's visited by his future self, who shows him the consequences of his actions.This particular episode is very touching. It can really touch your heart. It can help activate the love inside because the theme that runs through this episode is the most profound teachings of A Course in Miracles. In the workbook, Jesus says, Time is a trick, a sleight of hand in which figures seem to come and go, and then he says that we are but reviewing mentally what has already gone by. This world was over long ago. There is a point where the question is put to Jesus in the workbook; How will the world end? Wow, that's an interesting question that's been bounced around for quite a few centuries. How will the world end? And again, as usual, when he wants to make a point, he answers a question with a question. Can what has no beginning have an e

Netflix Series "Another Self Episode 5 & 6" Experiencing the Power of Forgiveness with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie WorkshopExperiencing the power of forgiveness. Forgiveness is not personal. People don't forgive other people. No matter what we've believed, we don't forgive other people. Our mind needs to forgive people or projections of the ego. So when you're trying to forgive a person and have difficulty forgiving a particular person, that's because forgiveness is for the mind. It's not for people. In fact, when you forgive, you laugh at the idea of people. You think, Oh, I was obsessed with people.The ego made this world of time and space to keep you mindless. So when we're praying to experience the power of forgiveness, what we're starting to pray for is to help me remember the power of my mind. Help me, Holy Spirit, to remember the power of my thoughts because the thoughts that are real are the thoughts I think with God; they are eternal thoughts. Forgiveness is of the present moment, where yo

Netflix Series "Another Self Episode 3 & 4" Pray, Be Patient and Let the Healing Happen with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie WorkshopThe series we're following is called AnotherSelf. It refers to your Higher Self that's inside, within your mind, the self of pure love, light, and joy. Yet, the selves we have believed in say we're personalities and bodies. It seems radical to think that the body is not real, and Jesus knows that that's pretty radical for a sleeping mind. So he's saying, "Well, why not just think of the body as a symbol then?" Maybe you can be open to the body just being a symbol of your mind awakening, where you start to give it a temporary meaning of being a witness, like an angel or a blessing. So you begin to look around and see, whatever bodies you still perceive, you see them as angels, like you're surrounded by angels everywhere. It's not true in any real sense because you're the Christ but in a temporary sense, isn't it better to look at people as angels that are just showing you

Star Trek - Strange New Worlds - Children of the Comet - Movie Gathering at the Monastery with David HoffmeisterThe beautiful thing about mysticism is that once you have had One recognition, your experience will start to move in the direction of gentleness, and the One recognition you have to have to move in that direction is I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. People aren't really people! If you're upset with certain relationships, politicians, or things happening in the world, you just haven't yet embraced the idea. When you identify with your attack thoughts, you can expect intensity, drama, conflict, fear, and doubt, and when you start to realize that this world is a world of thought, your purpose is to forgive those thoughts and disengage from them. Then you move into what Jesus calls the work; I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts, and that's what the mystical journey is about. Enjoy David's commentary on the Star Trek - Strange New Worlds 2. episode - Children of the Come

Netflix Series "Another Self Episode 1 & 2" Allowing Deeper Hurts to Surface for Healing with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie WorkshopOften, we think it would be nice to live a peaceful life, but when we try to control the aspects of the world that we think bring about peace, we find it doesn't work. It's very frustrating to try to control the world. So allowing deeper hurts to surface for healing is of the utmost importance. Stuffing and repressing things out of people pleasing. Keeping private thoughts and secrets to hide the HURT will not work if you want peace. We need to let the darkness in our minds and past memories surface into awareness so we can become fully aware of them before we can let them dissolve in the Light.Enjoy the profound commentary on the Netflix Series "Another Self Episode 1 & 2" by David Hoffmeister and Allow Deeper Hurts to Surface for Healing. You can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/esab0wrfRc4.If you want to know more about Living Mir

Closing Session - 'Trust Would Settle Every Problem Now' with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuSometimes great non-dual teachers tell you to give up the search. But giving up the search is easier said than done. For example, Jesus tells us that everyone who comes to earth or comes to time and space will seek because they believe they're lacking something. And believing in lack means believing in the ego. So they take on a mask, a personality self, and at some point, they give the mask identity of a seeker. How funny, a mask seeking. In reality, it's the sleeping mind that needs help, and when invited, the Holy Spirit comes rushing into our mind to save the day, bring us to true happiness, and be the bridge back to eternity. It's not that you have to search in the world for anything. It's unnecessary to seek for love; your task is to strive to remove the barriers to love's presence. And that's what this inward journey is about. And that's what this closing session is about. How do we surrender to this great cal

Movie "Saving Mr. Banks" - Trust, Let Go and Let God! with David Hoffmeister - An Online Retreat Movie WorkshopThe theme of this movie workshop was "Trust, let go and let God," which coincided with the Monthly online retreat topic "Trust would settle every problem now. So if we're going to let Trust settle every problem now, we must let go of the past and the future. We have to let go of our regrets and grievances, and we must let go of our ambitions and future worries. Finally, we must trust that present guidance will carry us through. Enjoy David Hoffmeister's commentary and profound A Course in Miracles content on the movie "Saving Mr. Banks" and learn how to trust, let go and let God!You can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/l__rOvVq-cY.If you want to know more about Living Miracles, and the Weekly Movie Workshops, look here: https://bit.ly/ACIM-Movie-Workshop.Look for more info on David Hoffmeister and Monthly Online Retreats: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.

Opening Session - 'Trust Would Settle Every Problem Now' Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuOur fragmented perception is the problem, and happily, trust is the answer to all perceptual problems. Trust would settle every problem now; no matter what seems to be occurring in your life, trust will bring you into present peace. It's not so much whether you have trust or not, but what you put your trust in. Are you trusting in your past learning to guide you, or are you trusting in the Holy Spirit at this moment to guide you? It's not whether you have trust or not; it's not a quantifiable thing. It's just what am I invested in? Enjoy David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu's opening session for the Tabula Rasa weekend online retreat with the topic 'Trust Would Settle Every Problem Now.' Hear them share from their lives how they transferred trust to Jesus and the Holy Spirit and away from the ego, which is where the happiness comes in. You can watch the beginning of the session here on YouTube.https://yout

Movie "The Pilgrim's Progress" - Experience the True Meaning of "I Need Do Nothing" with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie WorkshopExperience the true meaning of "I need do nothing" is the most profound teaching in the universe's history. You are perfect as you are right now and you need do nothing in this very instant, at this moment.When you hear those words, I need do nothing. There may be another voice in your mind: What about my children? What about my job? What about my cleaning task, or what about the many things I have on my to-do list today? And Jesus is calling you saying, no, actually the truth is, I need do nothing. The keyword is need. With God, there are no needs. In Heaven, there are no wants. In Heaven, nothing is lacking, and if you believe you have needs, then this is where the forgiveness work comes in, the clearing and emptying of consciousness.What if you weren't a body at all? What if you were just pure light and the body was just a figment of imagination like a little twig, and instead

David Hoffmeister "Salvation is No Compromise" - Talk at the Monastery, July 26, 2022Jesus says in A Course in Miracles that Salvation is no compromise of any kind. It seems to be such a non-compromising teaching, and when you read in the course's workbook, The Truth is true, and only the Truth is true. That sounds very non-compromising. And Jesus continues, You have to accept both aspects of this statement to realize what I'm talking about. You have to understand the first aspect, the Truth is true, and you have to understand the second aspect that only the Truth is true to experience eternal life. The ego's belief system is a compromise on our identity. It's a belief we're something we're not that makes you experience a world in which separation, duality, and opposites are seemingly real. None of the world's laws would make sense without believing in opposites. So, Salvation is no Compromise of any Kind means that if you want to realize who you are and accept the correction for this entire world of time and