David Hoffmeister & A Course In Miracles

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