David Hoffmeister & A Course In Miracles

Movie "Just Friends" To Know God Is Everything with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat.Join David Hoffmeister on this first-day 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.To know God is everything and has to be everything in your life. The way we come to experience knowing God is by having that be our only desire. When we say only desire, we mean only desire. Jesus is telling us that once our desire becomes single, then we return to our natural state of spirit or creation. That's what it means to have a single desire or you could call it desire-less-ness. Because Oneness doesn't really want for anything. Is-ness, Spirit, and Reality don't have any wants or needs. The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at h

The Movie "The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe - The Unheard Tapes" Falling into Dependency Traps? - Commentary by David HoffmeisterThis Movie Workshops number one theme is 'Falling into dependency traps, versus rising up my Self as Spirit.' So here's what Jesus has to say. Except you become as little children, which means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the son in his true relationship with the Father. So Jesus is flipping the ego's word dependency back to God and saying, "Be totally dependent on God." Like all the Mystics and Saints. Just listen to one voice, the Holy Spirit, and be dependent on the Holy Spirit for all your needs. For everything that you believe you need in this world, be dependent on the Holy Spirit. Not dependent on jobs, not dependent on careers, not dependent on countries, not dependent on theologies, but just simply dependent on God. When you follow the Holy Spirit, everything you need is provided. Falling into Dependency Tr

Closing Session - The Happy Dream Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuYou cannot wake yourself, but you can allow yourself to be awakened. That's a big one. You cannot wake yourself means the personality self doesn't have a contribution to make. The only contribution you have to make is your willingness in your mind. When you're willing to heal false and distorted perceptions and join with the might and the glory of the Holy Spirit's great willingness, or we could say, it's the capability for healing, which is its function in healing. When your little willingness joins with that capability for healing, healing is ignited. The problems come in when the personality self tries to take responsibility for itself as a body as a person through its own learning.Enjoy David and Frances talk about the happy dream and engaging the participants on their favorite topic, consistent happiness.If you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: http

Movie Session - "How Do You Know" - The Happy Dream Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister Before you come to a state of consistent happiness, you seem to go through a dismantling. It's a dismantling of the self-concept, the image you believe you are, and the image you think the world is. Some of you may say it's quite a big thing to let go of this personality, including letting go of your belief in external wars, famine, external countries, and politicians. You have to let go of your belief in external stars, quasars, and black holes, and you have to start to realize, Oh my gosh, I'm the dreamer of this dream, and there's nothing outside of me. There's nothing that can hurt me and nothing that can harm me. To go through this dismantling, all you have to do is follow the guidance of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It's straightforward. It's not a complicated thing, even though the Ego will try to make it cumbersome and will try to say but but but. But the truth is simple. And today's movie will take us from the par

Opening Session - The Happy Dream Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuConsistent happiness is no small topic at all. When Jesus says, "Dream softly of your sinless brother, dream of his kindnesses rather than the hurts he gave," he's always pointing us to the mind as to where the happiness originates. God created you as Spirit, and your happiness radiates out to everything and everyone. When you're happy, the whole world is happy. When you're not happy, you're not seeing a happy world. You may label some outcomes and events as happy, but you won't be consistently happy. It's impossible with judgment in mind.Enjoy David and Frances talking about and engaging the participants on their favorite topic, consistent happiness.You can watch the beginning of the session here on YouTube.https://youtu.be/5CUjpwn-mPkIf you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on May 6, 2022, at La C

Happy Dream Retreat and Monastery Goin’ Green.David shares the new direction for the Living Miracles Monastery in rural Utah:Passive & Hybrid Solar ProjectsGreenhouse shared space & soft, central climateHarnessing wind powerWater retention and garageNew windows/staining/stonework/repair projectsCollaborations and practical mind trainingDaily prayer and communication opportunities

The Movie "Only You" - Accepting My Part In God's Plan for Salvation with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopAccepting my part in God's plan for salvation sounds beautiful, and it sounds like it must be kind of profound. But, accepting my part in God's plan for salvation is, in simple terms learning to come to live in the present moment. If you're living a guided life, you accept your part and God's plan. If you're living a spontaneous life, where you're spontaneously inspired, and you have a wellspring of inspiration rolling through you every day, you're accepting your part in God's plan of salvation. Jesus says we each have a special part in the plan; what he's really saying is to let go of trying to control the world. Let go of trying to control the script. Let go of trying to control people. Don't plan your life; if you plan your whole life out, that's how you make God laugh because God didn't create linear time. So when you plan your entire future out, the angels are all laughing like, oh my

The Movie "Ira and Abby" Allowing All “Unfinished Business” to Be Healed with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Movie Workshop.The number one theme deciding this week's movie was, Allowing All “Unfinished Business” to Be Healed; what could the unfinished business be, except unconscious beliefs that we're still hiding from the light? One time Helen Schucman was flying with Jesus, and they looked all over the world, all lifetimes and everything, and they almost missed Helen Schucman's entire life because it was just a blip. What we think of like our whole life is in the time-space dimension just a fraction of a second, as in the teeniest blip. If you could see your entire lifespan between birth and death as this tiny, minuscule little blip, then you would know what Shakespeare meant when he said Much Ado About Nothing. What a joke to think I got all bent out of shape and all upset and emotional and suffering over a tiny blip. Considering that the ego is a little puff of nothingness, it shouldn't surprise us that its w

Closing Session - 5. Session at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David HoffmeisterJoin David Hoffmeister in closing the 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, David opens up to questions from the participants, like can you talk about the mind that wants to go towards awakening? And David starts his answer with, Yes, there is one part in the workbook where Jesus talks about that there is a little child in you, and that little child needs your protection for a while to be itself. It needs quiet. It needs nurturing, and you are becoming aware of that part and are beginning to lean towards it.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.livingmiraclesc

“Knowing” - 4. Movie Night at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David HoffmeisterJoin David Hoffmeister on this fourth-day 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.Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is “Knowing.”This movie shows there is a way to truth through surrendering to something greater than one’s tiny self. What is perceived as insane in this world is actually a call to be sane. The end of the world is in the mind, but it can seem as if everyone isn’t ready to leave the world behind. All are called, but few choose to listen.Suppose all your problems came down to one error made and repeated repeatedly. That one error would be the belief in the ego. It sets up cycles of what seems to be reincarnation, even though who you are, is the Word of God, and the Word never enters

"Perfect Sense" - 3. Movie Night at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David HoffmeisterJoin David Hoffmeister on this third-day 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.Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is "Perfect Sense."Perfect Sense is a powerful film where the characters go through a shared and accelerated awakening experience. Due to a virus, they lose four out of the body’s five physical senses, one by one. As we rely less on the body’s senses to tell us who we are, what we are will tell us of Itself. The Spirit is leading us into a present experience well beyond the understanding of our body’s senses. In the final hours, all that is left is profound love and appreciation and a shared urge to reach out to one another to end the dream of fragmentation once and for all!

"Her" - 2. Movie Night at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David HoffmeisterJoin David Hoffmeister on this second-day 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.Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is "Her." Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and how technology isolates and connects us all.The thing about the ego is that it did it as a cloaking device when it made and projected this world. It did it as a distraction. It did it as a substitute reality, a substitute for love. So it had to make it pretty e

Movie "Evan Almighty" To remember God is to follow His guidance with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat.Join David Hoffmeister on this first-day 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.Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from the Holy Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is Evan Almighty which is a follow-up to Bruce Almighty. A Course in Miracles is not really a Course as much as it is unlearning and undoing. So, it's very much like traditional spirituality, which is emptying your mind and everything you think, you think, and think, you know. It's everything that Buddha and Lao Tzu talked about, and all Mystics and Saints agreed, yet it's called A Course in Miracles. So it gives you the lead-in or illusion that you're going to learn something. But this book doesn't lend itself to learning in the

The movie "Before I Fall" - Let Go of Thinking for Yourself with David Hoffmeister.Today's movie is a looper movie given to help you wake up because it shows you your mistakes. The only mistake you're making is trying to hold on to the past, and when you try to hold on to the past, you repeat it and don't let it go. But Jesus wants us to forgive the past and recognize that it's already gone. So when we try to loop it, we're trying to keep it going, and Jesus is like, you're not going to wake up if you keep looping time because the ego is time. It's the belief that separation is real. So if you keep making the same mistake in the present moment, not listening to the voice of the Holy Spirit, only listening to your past learning, you're going nowhere. You're just going to stay stuck in the illusion of time. But if you follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you're going to get happier and happier, and you're going to be like me, where you can scrape me off the ceiling, you know, just having a happy, happy, happ

Movie 'No Men Beyond This Point' - Putting The Peace of God First with David HoffmeisterIn this Movie Workshop, David talks about putting the peace of God first and how to see the sameness of all hypotheticals and the nothingness of outcomes in form. A hypothetical is simply something occurring as if it's real or as if it's happening. It could be described as anything that seems real but actually is not occurring. It's a perceptual hallucination. And looking at the Course, Jesus teaches us that your perception of linear time is simply a reflection in the mind as if the separation had occurred. If separation from God were real, then the perception of linear time would be the outcome. So, according to Jesus, linear time is a hypothetical, AS IF the separation could occur. Listen also to the ACIM lesson of "Let all things be exactly as they are." https://youtu.be/SR4BxFPIHDQ and see the movie "No Men Beyond This Point" to help you listen to this Spreaker audio! Enjoy David's commentary in this weekly Movie Works

Closing Session - "Place the Future in the Hands of God" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuYou know, no matter what, we can't even judge what is good and what's bad because all our judgments are based on perception. That is such a profound, universal lesson, which says. No, only in God, can we find true peace. When Jesus says, "What do you want freedom of the body or freedom of the mind for both you cannot have and whichever you choose, the other will have to serve." So if we choose the freedom of the body the mind will have to serve to find how to get freedom for the body and as Jesus describes it, in that process, the mind becomes extremely mad. The only true service is to use the body to serve the freedom of the mind, which means that we place our future in the hands of God.Enjoy David and Frances's closing session of the "Place the Future in the Hands of God" Online Retreat. If you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: h

Movie 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' - Deepen My Core Desire for God Movie Workshop with David HoffmeisterDeepening my core desire and calling for God is very precious because when your heart gets focused on God, on waking up to God, on forgiving all things that block the remembrance of God's love, you end up with a feeling of being uplifted, a feeling of enormous gratitude and of being blessed. A sense of being closer to God. Having the flame of your desire for God burning in your heart burns away all illusions, burns away the idols, burns away the false perceptions that veiled your beautiful light from our awareness and the awareness of the happy nudges from spirit. We all get those happy nudges, you know, those little inner promptings telling us, here you go, this is for you. Follow this, and you'll be happy.Deepen your core desire for God as David Hoffmeister uses powerful ACIM teachings and the movie "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" to help you do so! You can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://you

Opening Session - Place the Future in the Hands of God Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances XuWhen you put your future in the hands of God and begin to live by inner guidance in the present moment, it can feel quite foolish at the beginning because our past conditioning is hammering harshly away at us. "What do you think you are? This is ridiculous, and you're throwing your whole life away for God, the great question mark the ego says. The ego won't even admit that there is a God, and if it has to admit that there is a God, it's a punishing God. It throws a fake God in there. So it's pretty interesting now we're going into this Place the Future in the Hands of God Retreat, that we need each other to reflect miracles. We're mighty companions to one another. We're witnesses to one another's miracles and how God is helping us. The Holy Spirit's presence is a burning, intense calling to wake us up, and we only have to join our little willingness to this burning, intense calling to wake up, and that w

Star Trek - Voyager Episodes - 'Waking Dreams' and 'The Thaw' - Seeing I'm the Dreamer of the Dream with David HoffmeisterToday we're going beyond where no man has ever gone before because Jesus says when you are going towards the dreamer of the dream position, then we're not talking about a man or a woman. We're not traveling through time and space, looking through the galaxies for meaning. We're going beyond the wormholes, beyond the black holes. We're going beyond the celestial realms of time and space of what is in A Course in Miracles called a vast illusion. Shakespeare got it right. He was on to it; he called it Much Ado About Nothing.It's no small state of mind to look at the world and have a big smile on your face and a burst of gentle laughter and go hmm, Much Ado About Nothing. That would include all events in time and space, all the wars, all the diseases, all the hurricanes and tsunamis and plagues, and viruses. All the big stuff, let's throw them all in there. And all the seemingly good things as

The movie "A Time for Heaven" Recognizing It's Always My Own Lesson by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop'Recognizing it's always my own lesson' won the poll this week, and it's not referring to our personality but the simplicity of salvation. Nor is it about enough people getting the lessons or having the 100th monkey or some threshold where enough of the collective consciousness gets the lesson. No, it's the lesson of our minds. When we awaken, everyone wakes up. It's not something that has to be occurring in time or overtime. It's just a momentary recognition of, who you are, and seeing what's real and what's not. That is the discernment. That's the final lesson of the Atonement; accepting the correction.Enjoy David's commentary in this weekly Movie Workshop.You can watch the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G0RqwfLyMFE.A Time for Heaven OFFICIAL FULL MOVIE: https://youtu.be/W04bzAXKDxYIf you want to know more about Living Miracles, Weekly Movie Workshops, David Hoffmeis