A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Podcast

David Hoffmeister & Frances Xu - Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat - The Illusion of Time - Closing Session. In this world, Heaven is a choice, because here we believe there are alternatives to choose between. We think that all things have an opposite, and what we want we choose. If Heaven exists there must be hell as well, for contradiction is the way we make what we perceive, and what we t...

Song from album The Light of Truth Follow us on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister  https://www.youtube.com/@LivingMiracles Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles   Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events Learn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.biz David's Spanish YouTube Channel is: https://www.you...

Svava Love and David share a calming of the heart, a life of devotion, and the context and examples of the mystic and mystical pathway. Svava shares 3 inspired songs she received from Spirit: A Beautiful Day, I Found You, & My Savior. Ana Paola translates the spoken words to Spanish, as the co-living community at La Casa de Milagros in Chapala, Mexico listen in and participate! Follow us on: YouTu...

David Hoffmeister - Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat - The Illusion of Time - Using the Miracle to Collapse Time. Time is your friend if you leave it to the Holy Spirit to use. He needs but very little to restore God’s whole power to you. He Who transcends time for you understands what time is for. Holiness lies not in time, but in eternity. There never was an instant in which God’s Son cou...

"TANGLED" - Weekly online movie session - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The call to go home is so strong in our hearts that nothing and nobody can stop us. We can delay our journey by trying to please people, or in the case of this movie, trying to please the mother. But nothing can prevent the main character from responding to her heart's call. The movie Tangled is used to cover a variety of th...

"God is the Bigger Elvis & Mystic India" - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The two documentaries that are on the program for this weekly Movie Gathering are going to help us get clear on why we are here. Most people who come to this world see things like striving for an identity, achieving things, being triumphant, being fortunate as a good life. That's what is defi...

"EVERY DAY" - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The movie Every Day was picked as a result of a topics poll where the clear number one was "Letting Go of Form and Following Guidance. In A Course in Miracles is says, "When you decide upon the form of what you want, you lose the understanding of its purpose" and in this movie gathering David adds, "and when you decide u...

"POCAHONTAS" - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The weekly online movie gathering poll was unmistakenly clear this week 💝 Choosing Trust Over Past Learning 💝 Number one in both the English and the Spanish poll. And what can we then learn from the chosen movie, Pocahontas? We can learn to trust the signs and symbols that the spirit uses to guide us towards awakening...

David Hoffmeister & Frances Xu - Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat - Jesus, Our Beloved Elder Brother - Closing Session. Jesus is a Spirit whisper, like Robert Redford was a horse whisper. Jesus went from being a child to being a man to being Spirit because he listened to only the Holy Spirit in his mind. We are all Spirit whisperer, we are all Saints in training and the whole purpose of bei...

David Hoffmeister - Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat - Jesus, Our Beloved Elder Brother. When Jesus said that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, he meant that the Kingdom of Heaven is close. Closer than your breath! It's so simple, so obvious, and yet so overlooked because the ego disguises itself within so many symbols in this world, is moving around and taking on so many masks because it's...

"The Man Who Knew Too Little" - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister "We have to do a master class on forgiveness tonight because the topics for this week's movie are so deep", says David at the outset for this week's Online Movie gathering. The number one topic this week is Unworthiness vs. Divine Innocence. "When you are going towards Divine Innocence you are going tow...

I AM SAM - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister Simple sincerity and openness and a loving heart transcend the intellectual distractions, complexity, and frantic desperation of the ego. What the world calls acceptable competency in parenting skills and education is vastly overrated when these concepts are endowed with ego goals of pride, status, and upward mobility. Yet,...

OTHERLIFE - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The Sci-fi movie OTHERLIFE was chosen for this week's movie gathering to illustrate the voted-for poll themes 1. Self-Judgment / Self-Attack 2. Wanting to Control 3. Feeling Responsible for Others And what a movie this is. This movie helps us get in touch with the power of the mind and how real the experiences in this worl...

TWO POPES - Weekly Online Movie Gathering - Commentary by David Hoffmeister Two movie themes in the English movie theme poll this week, 'Undoing the Doer' and 'The helpfulness of direct communication' came in very close as one and two, and with the Spanish main theme 'Seeing through the belief in sacrifice,' the chosen movie was TWO POPES. The themes in TWO POPES are brilliant teaching material as...

RISEN- Weekly Online Movie Session - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The movie theme poll this week was very clear, even the Spanish and the English poll were lining up. Number one and two were Miracle-Mindedness and Taking back projections. What can be more miracle-minded than watching Jesu resurrection and for Clavius, the roman Tribune, taking back his projections and gets reborn in the wake of...

David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu - A Required Course Online Retreat - Closing Session. A Course in Miracles is an uncompromising path to God, that is what makes it so gentle - there is no wiggle room. Although that idea may seem scary to the ego, it really is where the release point comes in the mind. When we are willing to give ourselves wholly to God we are happy. It is only withholding that cau...

David Hoffmeister - A Required Course Online Retreat - Miracles Are Involuntary. A Required Course and free will mean that you can't establish the curriculum but it does mean that you can decide what you want to take at a given time. When we give ourselves over the presence behind the course and everything, we see that it is a course in forgiveness, but not forgiveness as we know it when we forgiv...

AWAKE - Weekly Online Movie Session - Commentary by David Hoffmeister The movie theme poll this week was very clear "Accepting Your True Function: Happiness" for the English voters and for the Spanish voters "Healing Jealousy, Comparison, and Competition". What movie can span both aspirations other than AWAKE - The Story about Paramahamsa Yogananda who wrote the book AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI. If an...

This Heart Talk between Maria Gabriel and David Hoffmeister is for those who want to go deep into what true identity means. Our timeless being awaits. David and Maria have worked with A Course in Miracles for many years. David has traveled the world over the past 34 years, sharing his experiences of living in a ‘miraculous state of mind’ as a genuine result of applying the teachings of A Course in...

Living Church Ministries led by Senior Pastor David Hoffmeister initiated 10 new ministers Sunday, September 27, 2020. Erik Archbold and Emily Alexander and Monica provided live music for the event. It was a very emotional and joyous event with many tears and a lot of laughter. To start with David read this section from A Course in Miracles: You are among the ministers of God. Let us today be neit...

50 First Dates - Weekly Online Movie Session - Commentary by David Hoffmeister David uses the movie "50 First Dates" to talk about Unworthiness, Fear of dropping the mask, and Overcoming People-pleasing & Compromise. Even though 50 First Dates is a comedy, it reflects a deep truth that we all have to face, that if we want to experience Love we have to bring it into every moment of the day without...

The movie Tenet is based on time inversion, the reversal of entropy. But the perceived conflict between present and future is fiction, and the Present Moment offers the gateway to Eternal Innocence in God. This commentary and teachings from Jesus Christ offer a completely new interpretation of the world through the Perspective of forgiveness. In gentleness are all unreal concepts of linear time re...

Mary Magdalene - Weekly Online Movie Session - Commentary by David Hoffmeister T-4.I.1. A good teacher clarifies his own ideas and strengthens them by teaching them. Teacher and pupil are alike in the learning process. They are in the same order of learning, and unless they share their lessons conviction will be lacking. A good teacher must believe in the ideas he teaches, but he must meet another...

Forever My Girl - Weekly Online Movie Session - Commentary by David Hoffmeister There are many intricate ways to hide out from God's love and avoid accepting the correction for the pain, shame, and guilt in the mind. Liam, the main character, is a famous country music singer with a deep underlying hurt. All his fame and fortune are part of the distraction away from facing the pain he has carried s...

David Hoffmeister & Frances Xu - Full Transparency Online Retreat - Closing Session This world is a substitute for God and when you accept a substitute for the real thing, you are in for a storm. You know that you are in for a challenge when you apply your powerful mind to something that is not true. It will end in a struggle. Erik Archbold sings "It's Only Me" at the beginning of the session. Thi...