A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Podcast

Movie "12 Dates of Christmas" Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop The number one theme in the movie poll was trying to get it right versus relaxing into our true purpose this week. That's our problem. We've been trying to get it right in time and space and thinking we know what right is in time and space. That's a problem. How can you accept the correction for a problem...

Movie "Frozen 2" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop Our movie today will be one you will want to watch at the end of your life. Put it on so you can pass away with a big smile on your face and go, saying, Oh god, thank you. Thank you for reminding me. Thank you for calling me home. Thank you for answering my call for help. Thank you for showing me the way to love and...

Closing Session - Tabula Rasa December Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu We cannot only want the ego because of who we are; it's impossible! So in eternity, we are determined that we want God, and that is never going to change. But the problem is that because we're confused, we want the opposite as well. That's where the mind is split. That's where the experience is divided, and...

The movie "No Sleep 'Til Christmas" - ACIM Movie Workshop with David Hoffmeister - Tabula Rasa December Online Retreat Nobody likes to be told of their flaws. Nobody likes to be told what's wrong with them. People like to hear good news. They want to listen to the good things. That's how the ego thrives. Jesus is like, well, that's okay. But actually, both the positive and negative attributes are...

Opening Session - Tabula Rasa December Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu From David's and Frances opening statements: "I think one's question is everyone's question. One's prayer is everyone's prayer because there's really only one of us. And that's what we're being convinced of, that everything I perceive through my mind is my mind. So I'm always looking at a motion picture of...

Movie "Sully: Miracle on the Hudson" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop from Davids commentary: "To live in the miracle, we need to learn to live the love in our hearts without relying on the five senses because the ego made the world, and the ego made the five senses. Truth is one, and if anybody tells you, about the five-fold truth. Say no truth is one; there's only...

Movie "Sweet November" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop To meet my brother without a past. If you can experience this today, your life will be the most joyful, happy, vibrant life, beyond anything you can imagine, because when you can meet your brother without the past, you meet in the present moment where truth is found. In the Bible, Jesus says, take the stranger...

Movie 'Life or Something Like It' - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop Dropping the mask and facing the fear of intimacy is the first voted theme for the movie today, and yes, we're ready for that one. Sometimes we think of the mask as our persona, our personality self. Still, Jesus would say, well, it's dropping your identification with the personality self, the person...

Movie "Now You See Me" - Movie Session Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister The movie in this session is about magic and magicians, and maybe you don't think of your personal self as a magician. But the mind that made your personality self is the mind that believes in the ego, and the ego is the sponsor of all magic. So basically, as we go through the day, that's magic when we swipe a...

Opening Session - Tabula Rasa November Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister & Frances Xu David: "The Tabula Rasa way of life is our way of life now. It is the title of the weekend retreat because that's how we are living our life. And so, if we do look rather clueless and innocent, then that's a good sign 😊." Frances: "Yeah, we are here to LISTEN to the Spirit. together and give ourselves over t...

Movie "The Preachers Wife" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop Being 'done through' means being animated by the Holy Spirit and listening to only one voice and having only one purpose. And then everything that the body seems to say and do is coming from the Holy Spirit. There's no person that has to figure out how to be 'done through', it's happening just from your pra...

Movie "The Nines" Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop A lot of quantum movies, go far beyond the linear timeframe that the ego offers us, and our movie today "The Nines" is going way beyond what seems to be the accepted meaning and interpretation of this world. Most people on the planet Earth can relate to time as yesterday, today, tomorrow. But, there's something much,...

Movie "Solaris" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop "In today's movie workshop, we're calling on Jesus and the Holy Spirit to take us through the temptations of the ego. Beyond the darkness and all the shadows of this world. And we are joining in piercing the ego's veil together, and open our hearts to experience, pure love. That is our prayer. And we're going to explo...

The movie "Full of Grace" Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop "At one point, Jesus uses a metaphor in the Course, where he says, you have these fallen leaves from the trees landing on a stream, and the leaves float down along the river stream, and Jesus says; Come with me, sink beneath the leaves, sink down underneath the leaves with me into the Kingdom of Heaven. It's a...

Closing Session - Tabula Rasa October Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu David; I'm like a kid in a candy store with big eyes, beholding, what are you showing me now God? Always in the joy of what I'm being shown. Like our Tabula Rasa theme. Jesus told us in the course that, "You taught yourself this world and you taught yourself so thoroughly that you never paused for one moment...

Movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat Movie Workshop Linear time is a construct of the ego, and you may notice that most of your thoughts during the day relate to the past and the future. If you wonder why you're not happy all the time, it's just because you have thoughts of the past and future still hanging around in the unconsc...

Opening Session of the Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister, Lisa Fair, and Frances Xu - October 1, 2021 "A healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan," Jesus says in A Course in Miracles. Still, all of us have been raised with the notion that if you want to be a successful functioning human being, a successful functioning citizen, you have to plan for the future, and if...

Movie "Words on Bathroom Walls" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop From David's commentary to the Movie "Words on Bathroom Walls" -" I'm saying that all the characters, you're looking at in the world are part of a mental schizophrenic state, and that the sleeping mind, who believes in the ego, is definitely schizophrenic. The ego is generating people, and characters t...

Movie "Insurgent" - Commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop We don't wake up through rebellion, you know, we tried. We tried other ways as well and they didn't work either. And now we're about forgiveness, release the world, release the thoughts of time, release the thoughts of space, release the judgments, release grievances. Oh, it sounds so pretty. It is actually pretty....

"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...

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...

Closing Session - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu - September 2021 The 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 did...

"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...

Movie Workshop "The Truman Show" - Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister - September 2021 The 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 placemen...

Opening Session of the Tabula Rasa Online Retreat with Frances Xu and David Hoffmeister - September 2021 Davids'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,...