A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Podcast

"Jesus says in the Course, 'The past is over, it can touch you not.' And then he says, 'All of the past is gone, and only its beauty and loveliness has been saved for you.' So instead of over and gone he's saying, 'Only its beauty and loveliness has been saved for you.' There's something wonderful about that idea, that only the beauty and loveliness from the past has been saved for you. Because if the world is just form and the Holy Spirit can use form—the Holy Spirit can use everything that the ego made, the ego made the form, the Holy Spirit can use it. That must mean that there's a way where I can look upon it with no attraction and no avoidance, with no feeling of being limited and no feeling of 'Oo la la, I'm so glad I've got this thing or that thing.' And that must mean there's a way of looking at [the world] where you're totally free in your mind." ~ David Hoffmeister from this second session of the Tabula Rasa Mystery SchoolEnjoy this second session with David Hoffmeister of the first Tabula Rasa Mystery School in 2021.If you are interested to know more about the Tabula Rasa Mystery School and upcoming mystery schools, go to https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/tabula-rasa-mystery-schoolRecorded on September 16, 2021 in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Movie "GROUNDHOG DAY" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop. Imagine living your life so spontaneously. So serendipitously. So, in the moment that you don't activate the past, organize the present or plan the future. Jesus says in the course ... that past, present, and future are not continuous unless you attempt to force continuity on them, which is the opposite of what he is asking us to do. He's saying, No, you need to let go of forcing anything. You need to relax and accept the moment as it is and let go of your past regrets and grievances and criticisms and judgments and let go of your future worries and anxieties because you were never created to be a time being. You are an Eternal Being, still a perfect child of God. You've just forgotten it. And he's saying don't blame your body, don't go back into your mind and look at all the things you did wrong. That's not going to get you anywhere because it was all part of a misperception based on not being connected to the Holy Spirit, which is the correction. You see, the miracle is a choice. And in that choice, all mistakes are corrected. The miracle corrects retroactively and progressively. All the past mistakes you believe you made as a body are corrected in the miracle instantaneously, and even the future mistakes you're afraid you're gonna make are handled too. So powerful is the miracle that the light in the mind corrects retroactively and progressively. That is an invitation to the present moment. And that is why we are undoing guilt around past mistakes.Enjoy David's transformative commentary to this classic movie and hear Peter interact with participants in the closing session.You can watch David's introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ld3rS_whGEA.If you want to know more about Living Miracle and David Hoffmeister and upcoming events, look here: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.The movie workshop was recorded Saturday, September 11, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Closing Session - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu - September 2021The Holy Spirit is all about giving and extending, and the ego is all about getting and controlling. The ego doesn't mind the concept of giving as long as it can 'tack on' to the getting. I'll give this to you if you let me get this back in return. Jesus says that's not really giving at all. God didn't create us as pure spirit and say, "...and by the way, here are my demands, and here are the conditions of what you have to give me back. God just radiated pure light and joy and spirit, total communion simply because God is that way. But in terms of this world, which is a world of ego projection, reciprocity is the key principle. Everything in the ego's world is reciprocal. And Jesus tells us right out in the course that we have to undo the belief in reciprocity. So, whether we're talking about being a minister, or whether we're talking about being a meditation teacher, or we're talking about just being happy, happiness will come from giving and not from the getting mechanism of the ego. No one who is in the getting mode will ever find lasting happiness. Enjoy David and France's talk and engagement with the participants in this closing session that ends the first Tabula Rasa Online Retreat.If you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on September 5, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

"Today we'll start to get into the teachings, the practical application of the teachings, and the devotion that's actually required to live this in a constant state of mind which is really the goal for all of us. We all want to be happy and we want it consistently, we don't want patchwork of happiness, a little of this, a little of that. We know we are worthy of much more, so we have to ask for it. And we have to really sincerely ask for it." ~ David Hoffmeister from this opening session talkEnjoy this opening session of the first Tabula Rasa Mystery School in 2021.If you are interested to know more about the Tabula Rasa Mystery School and upcoming mystery schools, go to https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/tabula-rasa-mystery-schoolRecorded on September 2, 2021 in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Movie Workshop "The Truman Show" - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister - September 2021The Truman Show is a fantastic awakening movie about undoing time and space and having the courage to follow the call of the heart. The world is a show produced and directed by the ego. It employs many actors, uses many sets and time loops. The show depends on sales, labeling, and product placement to sustain itself. The ego has made sure that the show is aimed at drama, repetitions, distractions, pretense, and ultimately resorts to fear in order to perpetuate itself otherwise the mind will not continue to believe its reality. Once the show is seen as nothing but a contrived skit of past memories, we can leave it and say "If I don't see you again, Good morning, Good afternoon, and Good night.Enjoy Davids's mindful use of the movie symbols to wake us up to the hidden reality behind the show and meet Peter Kirk hosting the closing session in the second part of the workshop.You can see some of the introduction to the movie on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bDtAjbKP3nsIf you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on September 4, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Opening Session of the Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with Frances Xu and David Hoffmeister - September 2021Davids's introduction to the session: "To live in a Tabula Rasa frame of mind is really a very practical way of living. I think that's the most practical way of living. So what we're calling Tabula Rasa or having a blank slate, is really what Jesus refers to in the Course of Miracles' Workbook, where he says, ... allow everything that the ego has written on the world, to be removed and then, when you have a clean, open space, the Holy Spirit will come and give you the meaning of forgiveness and he will give you the gaze, to look upon the false as false, from a place of confidence and assuredness and certainty and laughter and joy and happiness and that's the view we want. So really the spiritual journey is opening to the Holy Spirit's perspective. Opening to another way of looking at the world in which, Jesus tells us, this world was made in hatred, but you can see it through a loving gaze and this is the gaze of the Holy Spirit, the happy dream, or the real world as Jesus calls it. Enjoy this first session in a new series of Tabula Rasa Online Retreats that will return at the first full weekend of the month. If you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on September 3, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Movie "Brother Sun Sister Moon" Commentary David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopThe first 4 themes behind the Brother Sun Sister Moon movie workshop were Divine Providence, Tabula Rasa - a clean slate, Giving all to all, and True empathy. The 5th and final theme was a mystical community, and in the movie, we get a glimpse of St Francis following his calling and the establishment of his mystical community. At first, it is just him, walking out of the gates of Assisi naked in front of his parents, and the entire city with arms wide open, Like here I am Lord. That's the kind of faith it takes to follow God. To say, I would hold nothing before you God, I give away my ideas of possession, of control, of ownership, of being right, of superior-inferior thinking. All of that, with arms wide open, I give it all to you. Take it from me. And that is the start of what we could call a mystical community.Enjoy David's profound commentary on this wonderful devotional movie.You can watch the whole introduction to the movie here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rXtwwKSdaAIIf you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on August 28, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Movie "Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopFrom David's commentary: "Unlike Paramahansa Yogananda, who was still a fairly young man when he went to America, our Swami today is gonna wake up 70 years old and hear that he's to go to New York City from Calcutta, and he doesn't have any money. That is how the spirit really opens your heart wide. You are taken beyond your imagination and beyond what you would consider a safe probability of how your life would go. This Swami will show us that age is not an excuse. If this man can follow the spirit at 70 years old, penniless, go through the winter in New York, homeless, then none of us have an excuse. It's not like you're being called as a personal Savior, but you do have a part to play. And that part is your special function, which will be given to you, moment by moment. Again and again, it's living spontaneously in the moment without a future and has forgiveness be the key to happiness. We're not talking about necessarily forgiving a person; we're talking about being able to just see the false as false. Everything we perceive through the five senses is dualistic until we forgive, and that's why forgiveness is the key to happiness. There is a way of looking at the world in which the body's eyes continue to report differences, and that is to put them all into one category. They are not real. That is non-duality. There's your non-dual happiness. And then the ego says, Oh yeah, you're not going to survive. If you go in that direction. But you'll do more than survive; you'll be in the sweet grace of my My sweet lord."Enjoy David's enlightening commentary.You can watch the whole introduction to the movie here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FrfI1sOYEjQ.If you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on August 21, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Prayer 🙏🏽🕊 with David Hoffmeister - Universal UCDM ConferenceEnjoy this online meeting with David Hoffmeister organized by the UCDM Universal group, where David goes deep into the topic "Prayer"!You can join our online community "Tribe" here 🕊 https://livingmiraclescenter.org/community.html✨ If you found this meeting inspirational check out our upcoming events with David here https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/eventsThis session was recorded on August 18, 2021, at Living Miracles Studio in Chapala, Mexico.The session can be watched on YouTube: https://youtu.be/t7ipTqj9btsFollow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Movie "The Island" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie WorkshopThe movie "The Island" and Davids's commentary show us the awakening process right through from when we are in a deceived, conforming state to when we realize that what was considered to be life was not really life at all. We are basically a society of men and women deceived from birth who need to discover their true identity. We need to join in relationships of purpose. Our training is to follow prompts and become highly intuitive and determined to overcome the ego’s attempts at stopping us from exposing the darkness. David lays bare the ego’s temptation to go off and build a haven for ourselves and points out the Spirit’s call to us to extend love to everyone by going deep into the mind and flip the master switch that dismantles the ego’s illusion entirely. In the process, we learn to face the fear and allow the light to shine through, thereby freeing everyone as we open up to the light, even those who seem to be the enemy join in the celebration of innocence and freedom.Enjoy David's profound and bold commentary that dismantles our illusions about freedom.You can watch the whole introduction to the movie here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/u6y-FBjAyQo.If you are interested to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded on August 14, 2021, in Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw