David Hoffmeister & A Course In Miracles

David Talks about Purpose at the Monastery - Monday, July 25, 2022At Living Miracles Monastery 'Go Green - Come Clean' event, David Hoffmeister gave a morning talk about purpose. ✨The Perfect way to start the day!

Movie 'I'll Follow You Down' - Let Go of Everything I Think I Know with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Movie Workshop. Letting go of everything, I think, I know will take some trust because letting go of everything I know means I have to go down the rabbit hole and open my mind to be shown something brand new. But maybe it's not so new after all, maybe it's what's always been so, and I just covered it over in my mind. It's always been there, but it was covered by many shadows that the ego put there to blind me from the truth. As Morpheus told Neo in the Matrix, the world was pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.Enjoy David Hoffmeister's profound A Course in Miracles content and movie commentary, and learn how to 'Let go of everything I think I know.'You can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-mn1_uST4Uo.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 a

Secular: denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. And yet if God is all, Spirit is all, there can be no other. What is the devotion of my heart - to Awake in God’s Loving Presence.Mysticism - devotion to God.The secular fades away, and only mystical devotion to God is so.

Movie 'Otherlife' - Step Back and Let the Holy Spirit lead the Way with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Online Movie Workshop I will step back and let Him lead the way, that's a workbook lesson from A Course in Miracles, and it's about developing your connection with the Holy Spirit and your intuition. It's not necessarily saying that you have to follow people in the world because it's your mind that needs guidance. And the guidance can come in all kinds of ways, through dream symbols, bumper stickers, billboards, or talking to your mother, father, or a family member. It can come when you're talking to your cat or your dog. But when you say I will step back and let Him lead the way, you're saying, I don't want to personally be in charge of my plan of awakening because the personality self, the persona, is part of the problem. So you can't rely on the problem to bring you the solution, but you can say, Holy Spirit, Jesus, I will step back and let you lead the way. You use the personality self. You use everything

Movie 'Doom of Love' True prayer and The Present Moment with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Online Movie WorkshopForget what you think you need and dare to live in the present moment, no matter what the world tells you. Regardless of the past's opinions and conditioning, dare to live in the present moment. We need help with that. We need somebody to show us the way because it seems like we've put quite a lot of effort into making goals for the future. And we've been like a hamster on a hamster wheel in a cage running the wheel of time. Our ego is pushing the Wheel of Karma, telling us that we're guilty in the past and will have to overcome the guilt in the future.So the sneaky wheel and the hamster keep spinning until finally, the hamster remembers the secret of true prayer: Forget the wheel, forget the past, and forget the future. As a true Godfather would say, "Forget about it."Enjoy the profound A Course in Miracles content and commentary on the new Turkish movie 'Doom of Love' by David Hoffmeister, ACIM tea

Closing Session - "My Spirit-given Function" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuWhen you surrender, you're saying, whatever Your will is, God, I'm letting go of my expectation for an outcome. And the Course in Miracles adds; Let all things be exactly as they are, and all things work together for good. And if we need it just one more time, Jesus says; Without judgment, all things are equally acceptable. Wow! Without judgment, all things are equally good? What a state of mind. Nothing is out of place. Nothing's going wrong. Nothing's going right. Thank God. It's a world of illusion, so I don't need to judge it positively or negatively.Enjoy David and Frances's talk about surrender and engaging the participants in their Spirit-given Function.If you want to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on July 3, 2022, at La Casa Quantico, Chapala, Mexico.

Movie 'Breakthrough' - "My Spirit-given Function" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister We must realize that it's not people that get sick, and it's not people that die. Those things bodies go through, including birth and death, are inventions of the ego. They're just concepts that the ego made up in mind. God didn't create them. From the perspective of only one mind, the miracle rearranges perception, and the heart's prayer is answered in the form of peace, happiness, and joy. What seems to be healing like a boy's body returning from death is only a witness. Jesus tells us that whatever you perceive in form is just a witness to your belief. So no actual healing occurs in form because form is images. You have to heal the mind that believes that the images are real. You see, that's what the healing is. That's why Jesus says nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.Enjoy this profound A Course in Miracles Movie Workshop content and commentary on the movie 'Breakthrough

Opening Session - "My Spirit Given Function" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuIn the work with A Course in Miracles you start to realize it's more about undoing than doing. It's more about emptying the mind of everything you think you think and think you know and everything you believe is true. It's like all the Mystics and Saints of all the centuries have told us. Empty your mind and you will know the truth. It's very simple. And with this topic of My Spirit-given function, we can say that, in order to know the function that God gave you, and God gave you eternity, then you will have to unlearn a lot. Function in this world is associated with form and also associated with the body. And I can tell you that has to be forgotten. We have to unlearn all of that, in order to live the truth, because this world was made as a veil to keep us from knowing the truth. Find your Spirit-given function with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu and listen to the sweet interaction between David and the retreat

The Movie "Tangled" - Let go of seeking validation outside your Self! with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopIf we look for validation of our worth in the images and the shadowland around us, we will be emotionally in trouble. The love of God sustains me, but the world I see is a form of vengeance. As long as you're looking for external validation in images, the world you see will be a form of vengeance. It's not really a vengeful world, even though it was made in hate by the ego. But we don't have to see it that way. You can embrace it and be happy if you don't judge it. No matter what's happening. Don't judge it! If you judge the images and the shadowland around us, good or bad, then it will seem vengeful to you in your awareness. Vengeance and hatred will simmer underneath if you keep seeking value in externals.Enjoy the profound A Course in Miracles content and commentary on the movie Tangled by David Hoffmeister, ACIM teacher, and find out how to let go of seeking validation outside yoursel

The Movie "Lucy" - Live in full integrity and be uncompromising in your desire for truth! with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopLiving in full integrity. We always say if that person has integrity, that they have consistency. They say what they mean, and they mean what they say. They follow through on what they promise. So that's what we think of when we think of integrity. Jesus has a higher definition of integrity; he says that integrity is of the mind, and when you align with oneness and truth, everything you think, say, do, feel and believe will be in alignment.That's what Jesus calls a miracle. When everything you desire, believe, think, feel and perceive is in total alignment, you realize that time is simultaneous. And you have been entirely mistaken about linear time because you will never find integrity in the perception of linear time. You might as well give up right now and say, if I'm going to have integrity, I have to let go of everything. Everything that I've perceived has been mis

The Movie "Hollywood Stargirl" with commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopActively choose the Spirit's thoughts, no matter what the seeming circumstances. Why is that so important? Jesus tells us that this whole world of time, space, and the cosmic universe is a self-concept. It's an identity. It's a self-concept that God didn't create. So, we're here to wake up from the amnesia of forgetting our eternal being as the Christ, and we're here to wake up from this idea that we're time-space creatures, that we're bodies. Even the idea that you're in a body is just a concept, and as long as you just cling to the pictures and you don't go into an actual experience of pure beingness, the ego is quite happy. It doesn't want you to experience the oneness, the joy, the connectedness; you see, actively choosing the Spirit's thoughts means being in the Miracle because the Miracle is a thought that comes from the Holy Spirit. It comes through your mind and consciousness, radiates out, and shows you

Closing Session - "This Holy Instant" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuDavid: I had just completed ten years of university, and then Jesus instructed me to delete my resume, and you know, I tried to throw all the papers away, but he said, No, go to your word processor and delete the memory of the resume, not just the paper. I want that resume out of your mind now because I will teach you how to live in the given. I will teach you that I'll provide everything you need if you shine your light. If you'll just let me speak, laugh and smile through you and be happy. You don't have to learn and figure out what to do; that's the human problem. We have conflicting ideas from the past. Nobody agrees on anything. And then, we are supposed to make our life decisions based on our past learning. It doesn't work. You know, it's a trick. But if we make our way and let present trust lead the way, then what an adventure. Then you're on an adventure.Experience this A Course in Miracles online retreat and le

The Movie "Fatima" - This Holy Instant Online Retreat with David HoffmeisterThe title of this workshop or retreat is "This Holy Instant," which is the most profound teaching in A Course in Miracles. Forgiveness takes you towards the Holy Instant, the present moment, the powerful now moment that releases the mind from time and space. That frees the mind from believing in the cosmos. The holy instant releases the mind from believing in bodies, from believing in separation, believing in differences, believing in hierarchies, from believing in better and worse. Most human beings have a deep belief in the ego and that there are better and worse. But not the spirit; the spirit doesn't see better or worse. So the Holy Instant is the key to everything. If you just right now, for the rest of your life, devoted your single-minded attention to just this one thing, experiencing the Holy Instant, and put all your effort and willingness into this one direction. I tell you, if there were smiles in heaven, there'd be a lot o

Opening Session - 'This Holy Instant' Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuThere's no learning in heaven. God created you perfect. The spirit doesn't learn. So when we think about the Holy Instant, the Holy Instant is not learned. So we're entering into a whole different realm than human beings have ever known because all humans have ever known is the past repeating itself day after day. The ego has programmed us, and you may believe you have free will in this world, but that's all a projection from the unconscious mind. So if you sometimes feel like a robot, like you're just doing the same things repeatedly, it's because the ego invented time and space.You see, we are brought up with a curriculum in judgment. If you go to school, you're learning a curriculum in judgment; even before you go to school, your parents and your siblings teach you a curriculum in judgment. Don't do this. Treat people this way. You know, it's full of judgments, and then we reach a point where we would rather pray, lis

Episode 'The Chosen S01E03' - Movie 'Awake - The Life of Yogananda' - Living in the giving, give as God give with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop.Living in the giving. Give as God gives. That's no small thing when you think that God is just pure love and light. It radiates, it extends, it gives. God is pure giving. Getting has no meaning to Him. To God, achieving has no meaning, possessing has no meaning, and accumulating has no meaning. So isn't it wonderful that we have a creator that is just a pure giver? Jesus tells us in the Course of Miracles God's will for you is perfect happiness. So it must be that this state of pure giving is the happiest state of mind. It is an eternal state of mind. And that's why we're working on forgiveness so we can wake up to Eternity because eternity is what heaven is. It's just pure happiness. To experience happiness concerning perception takes a lot of cleaning your mind, forgiving, clearing away, and releasing attack thoughts, grievances, and opinions. You

The Movie "Holy Man" How to Enter a Life of Pure Inspiration! with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Online Movie WorkshopToday's movie shows a very tense relationship between Ricky and Kate. Even though they're working together for the same company and trying to improve the ratings to make more money, everybody wants love and connection, and everybody wants to feel alive. That's all we want - love, connection, and to feel alive. We're not asking for too much. We're asking for what God gave us in our creation. We're just asking to be natural. So Holy Man will contrast the commercial world, which is the world of the ego, with a simple Pilgrim, who is very devoted to God and happiness. The Pilgrim is not concerned about whether it's politically correct or not. Pilgrim is into truth, not opinion. Pilgrim is into truth, not theology. Pilgrims don't care about theology. They're into living in the present moment in truth. That's what spirituality is. It's about love. And love and fear don't go together. So when you go f

Closing Session - The May Renovatio Movie Retreat with David HoffmeisterJoin David Hoffmeister in closing the second residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool.In this last session, after 4 deep movie sessions during the week, David opens up to questions from the participants. Enjoy this beautiful question-and-answer session.If you want to know more about Living Miracles, and Weekly Movie Workshops, look here: https://bit.ly/ACIM-Movie-Workshop.Look for more info on David Hoffmeister and upcoming events: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.The movie retreat session was recorded Friday, May 20, 2022, in Duchesne, Utah.

The Movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once" - The Simultaneity of Time with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie RetreatSo, simultaneous time as opposed to linear time, what does it mean? It seems to be an oxymoron and a contradiction in terms. Simultaneous time is entirely different from linear time. This movie will help us move toward the experience of simultaneous time or the present moment. You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity identified by its name. By this, you carve it out of the unity. You designate its unique attributes and set it off from other things by emphasizing the space surrounding it. You see something where nothing is and see nothing where there is unity, a space between all things and you. When you feel afraid, it's the ego's fear of wholeness. You've become accustomed to pieces and parts, naming little things and adapting; you feel like the pieces and the elements, and the separation is natural. But the threat to this fragmented pe

The Movie "Free Guy" The Hero's Journey with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie RetreatSo we're going for a movie tonight that follows the hero's journey. Typically in the projected world, we have heroes and villains, and the heroes are supposed to be succeeding and saving the day, and the villains are always doing bad things and so forth. Underneath is the stratification that says that heroes are different from villains. The heroes are the good ones, and the villains are the bad ones. What Jesus wants us to do is to be able to look on the world and see everything in the world as wholly the same. "Make this year different by making it all the same." He's saying that to see the world as all the same; you have to forgive the world because to the Holy Spirit, the world is neutral. So there aren't good bodies and bad bodies. There aren't hero bodies and villain bodies. There aren't those who are saving the day and those trying to destroy the day. The Holy Spirit sees the body as neutral because God d

The Movie "X Men Days of Future Past" - Time and Space Are the Same Error with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie RetreatJesus says in the course that time and space are the same error. We can think of time and space as perception, as subjectivity. Each person perceives the cosmos, their body, and other people from the point of view of a private mind with private thoughts. And so everybody sees a private world which is entirely subjective, derived from what you believe. What you prefer to believe is the world that you see. And so, from a human perspective, people would say, Well, that is neat that there are seven billion different perspectives. Still, it's just a private world, and what you perceive is a pictorial representation of your consciousness. So our perception of time is very relative, which most of us can relate to because sometimes, when we are happy for no earthly reason, we lose track of time. If you want to know more about Living Miracles, and Online Weekly Movie Workshops, look her