More From David Hoffmeister: The Simplicity of Being Present

Beloved One,

Today I am Guided to write some words about the simplicity of the Present Moment and the ego's vain attempts to obscure the plain and simple Truth. When the mind is drawn to thoughts about the past and future it is literally blank and sound asleep. As these thoughts are not keep hidden and freely given over to the Spirit, they disappear from awareness, opening the mind to the Present. Darkness, unprotected and undefended, must give way to Light. Yet nothing can be kept hidden from awareness in the mind for the Light to shine unencumbered. Without being exposed, the ego will seem to rule one's state of mind.

In A Course In Miracles Jesus says:

"You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. Therefore, it is the tiny part of yourself, the little thought that seems split off and separate, the Holy Spirit needs. The rest is fully in God's keeping, and needs no guide. Yet this wild and delusional thought needs help because, in its delusions, it thinks it is the Son of God, whole and omnipotent, sole ruler of the kingdom it set apart to tyrannize by madness into obedience and slavery. This is the little part you think you stole from Heaven. Give it back to Heaven. Heaven has not lost it, but <you> have lost sight of Heaven. Let the Holy Spirit remove it from the withered kingdom in which you set it off, surrounded by darkness, guarded by attack and reinforced by hate. Within its barricades is still a tiny segment of the Son of God, complete and holy, serene and unaware of what you think surrounds it." (T-18.IX.1)

Protect an attack thought and it seems real and justified. Expose it to the Spirit and it dissolves instantly. The reason forgiveness seems to take so long in time is that the difference between what is the same and what is different is still obscured. No attack thought has a foundation or a real cause, so judgment of the effects of the world has no meaning in Reality. Yet to a sleeping mind that believes in real effects and specifics, the Spirit offers another Way of looking at the world. This Perspective is the Answer to every seeming specific problem that arises in awareness.

Jesus also says: "You have been told to ask the Holy Spirit for the answer to any specific problem, and that you will receive a specific answer if such is your need. You have also been told that there is only one problem and one answer. In prayer this is not contradictory. There are decisions to make here, and they must be made whether they be illusions or not. You cannot be asked to accept answers which are beyond the level of need that you can recognize. (SOP-1.I-2)

Guidance must come from the Spirit and reach the mind when and where the mind believes it is. Most of the Guidance the mind receives from the Spirit is specific, since the sleeping mind believes in specifics and could not understand an abstract Answer. So this means it is extremely important to follow the intuitive steps which are Given for Awakening. All the steps aim at the washing away of the addiction to specifics and linear believing and thinking and perceiving. When eventually distractions disappear, the Truth is beheld and accepted exactly As Is, and this is the simplicity of Being Present. Now is a moment in which one receives and gives perfect communication with the entire universe, and nothing is kept hidden or seperate or apart. A Course In Miracles is a tool for experiencing this moment.

Jesus says this about A Course In Miracles: "The reason this course is simple is that truth is simple. Complexity is of the ego, and is nothing more than the ego's attempt to obscure the obvious. You could live forever in the holy instant, beginning now and reaching to eternity, but for a very simple reason. Do not obscure the simplicity of this reason, for if you do, it will be only because you prefer not to recognize it and not to let it go. The simple reason, simply stated, is this: The holy instant is a time in which you receive and give perfect communication. This means, however, that it is a time in which your mind is open, both to receive and give. It is the recognition that all minds are in communication. It therefore seeks to change nothing, but merely to accept everything." (T-15.IV.6)

Is there any way that could be simpler and more direct than complete acceptance Now. How simple is the obvious. Jesus continues:

"Being so simple and direct, this course has nothing in it that is not consistent. The seeming inconsistencies, or parts you find more difficult than others, are merely indications of areas where means and end are still discrepant. And this produces great discomfort. This need not be. This course requires almost nothing of you. It is impossible to imagine one that asks so little, or could offer more." (T-20.VII.I)

and...

"Think not that happiness is ever found by following a road away from it. This makes no sense, and cannot be the way. To you who seem to find this course to be too difficult to learn, let me repeat that to achieve a goal you must proceed in its direction, not away from it. And every road that leads the other way will not advance the purpose to be found. If this be difficult to understand, then is this course impossible to learn. But only then. For otherwise, it is a simple teaching in the obvious. (T-31.IV.7)

A Course In Miracles points to a living experience, not another set of self-concepts. Christ asks for trust in the Inner Guidance so that all self-concepts and specific images can be laid aside forever. What you seem to do comes from what you seem to think, and what you seem to think comes from what you seem to believe. So you must learn to systematically, with the Spirit's Help, question EVERYTHING that you seem to believe. The miracle offers a replacement to false identity dependency. When the mind clings roles and concepts and rituals it remains defensive and fearful, even if it is unaware of the depth of the fear that lies beneath. Yet the unconscious guilt and fear and hatred must come to the surface before they can be released forever.

It is an art to let the Spirit use the symbols of the world without identifying with them. One seems to write a book and yet cannot identify with the image of being an author. One seems to speak and yet cannot identify with the image of speaker. One seems to teach and yet cannot identify with the image of teacher. One seems to 'have' a child and yet cannot identify with the image of parent. There is no 'doer' in Being Present. The ego made the 'doer' so it could project the ontological guilt stemming from the belief in separation onto the bodies and images of the cosmos. Yet Divine Presence is without guilt and projection. Presence simply extends Love. Presence is universal and impersonal, Being Pure Love.

If you feel an emotion that doesn't feel simple, be humble and willing to let go of the self-concepts and images of complexity. Who is this 'doer'? All stress and anxiety and fear and guilt and anger come from identifying with the 'doer.' When I say let the ego be undone, I am refering to the identification with the 'doer.' In unified perception (forgiveness) there is no 'doer.'

There is tranquil Stillness in the Present. There are no controversies or distractions or dramas or self-concepts right Now. The concept of a 'doer' but seemed to thrive in the concept of a story. The story was fictitious because it was linear. The story was based in time, and depended upon it. Yet time is simultaneous, not linear. Rejoice and be glad! Remember this one insight and you will never thirst again for another story. :)

In Love & Gratitude,

David

Tax deductible donations: http://awakening- mind.org
David Hoffmeister Ph:513-898-1364 Mobile:717-629- 0950

__._,_.___

.

__,_._,___

Re: [Message from Messengers of Peace] Messages of Gratitude

Dear David,

Your web link was sent to me by a friend and I have been deeply
moved and inspired by it and your work for the Kingdom.

I have been greatly blessed by half a lifetime of wondrous contact
with and leading, guiding, inspiring from the living Jesus, who
first manifested to me in a basement room in Vancouver, Canada, in
1967. It was such a magnificent, soul-soaring experience that I
immediately wanted to rush out into the world and shout from the
roof-tops that he is ALIVE, REAL. But he had other plans for me. In
fact he told me many times over the years that we – he and I – had
agreed and arranged `afore time' (which was his way of saying,
before I incarnated) the path along which he would lead me. He also
said many times, as we journeyed along Life's Path, `I lead, do thou
follow.'

He knew where we were going but this was, according to pre-arranged
plan, withheld from my conscious awareness, until the last few
years. In recent years it has been revealed to me that the objective
of not knowing but following in faith, trust, obedience and
commitment, was so that I could have this decades-long experience of
the real, living Jesus and his great plan for the spiritual
upliftment of `all who will' to the `Kingdom Awareness' and then
share the practical and soul-feeding benefits of these experiences
with my fellow travellers on the Path back to Eternity.

Under guidance and much help from the Holy Spirit I have written a
book about these experiences, "Synchronicity, for Goodness' Sake"
(SFGS) and this is freely available on the Honest to Goodness (HTG)
website: www.honest2goodness.org.uk I hope you will find an
opportunity to visit the site and perhaps read the book; I believe
it will resonate with you....

...Love, Light, Peace and Joy bless and accompany you on your
wonderful mission for the Kingdom,

Brian Longhurst

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -

hi david...

great talking to you yesterday...

we are contacting you with what we know is an extraordinary
opportunity at this time.

please know that all of the bridging shows are now available for
viewing (including the one you were a guest on) on both google video
and youtube, as well as other internet video sites.....we now have
over 450 hours of programming "dedicated to the oneness" available
on the internet for viewing 24/7 worldwide... ..with extraordinary
international response.

we are very, very excited and believe that there is an enormous
opportunity for us all at this time if each individual bridging
guest, artist, and/or musician featured the link to their individual
bridging show (in your case, where your art was featured) on google
video and youtube from the home page of their website.

The potential if we all linked sites, in a joyous, loving, and
collaborative way, is so incredible.. ..energetically. ..to help heal
the heart of the planet...... to spread the vibration of love and
oneness….that we felt it imperative that we contact you to let you
know what is possible now.

please check with your webmaster about featuring your show, BH&E
SHOW #181 from the home page on your website.

To check out the bridging shows on google video go to:

on google:

www.video.google. com/videosearch? q=bridging+ heaven+%26+ earth&hl= en

if you have any questions or need help with featuring your bridging
show on your website, please call us or email us. or if you have
any other ideas, thoughts, dreams, visions about any other
collaborations, do not hesitate to contact us at any time.

love and blessings,

bianca

Re: [Message from Messengers of Peace] New en-curso-en-milagros.org Spanish Awakening Mind site

Beloved One,

Our webmaster Kerri Lake has redesigned our Spanish Awakening Mind web
site, and it is online now. It has a number of UCDM mp3 audios and
helpful online videos along with translations of writings from our
main Awakening Mind web site that were made by my friend Sylvia
Gonzalez. If you know of anyone who may benefit from these Spanish
and Spanish/English materials, please feel free to pass along this
link to them:

http://un-curso- en-milagros. org

In Love & Gratitude,

David

Re: [Message from Messengers of Peace] David H, Paltalk, Saturday 29th 8:30pm

Beloved One,

David will be teaching in the ACIM Gather room this coming weekend on the topics of:

Teacher of Teachers: A Practical Study Guide
for the Application of ACIM &
Salvation is no compromise:
The Mind is Either Serving God or the Ego

EST Saturday 29th 8:30pm 
NZ Sunday 30th 12:30pm and
Aus ( Brisbane ) Sunday 30th  10:30am

David began his journey to spiritual enlightenment in 1986 when he encountered A Course in Miracles and recognized it as the tool he had been seeking for a radical transformation of his mind and perceptions. Through complete devotion to questioning every belief and concept held in his mind, he experienced the merge that is described in ACIM as healed perception. The Voice that speaks through David and the peace and love and joy that emanate through him are unmistakably the Holy Spirit.

Many students and teachers of ACIM continue to ask for more of a practical, step by step approach to learning the metaphysics and going deeply into the application of the teachings, and the newly launched Teacher of Teachers website has come as an answer to that prayer. To learn A Course in Miracles requires a genuine understanding of its theories, yet, theologies, concepts and ideas do not lead to revelation, they can only point the way. ACIM is a Course in mind training and the purpose of this website is to facilitate mind training; to go from theory to practice and ultimately experience. The ideas conveyed on this website are the result of miracle-mindedness which transcends all personal perspectives.

This Saturday evening David will speak about the website and its application, as always open to receiving questions and sharing communications for the purpose of awakening. A second topic that has been requested is: Salvation is no compromise of any kind. There is no middle ground and there is no decision maker. At every given moment the mind is serving God or the ego.

"Teaching is done in many ways, above all by example." -ACIM

 

Websites:     http://teacheroftea chers.net             http://awakening- mind.org

Access Instructions for Paltalk: http://www.acimgath er.org/instructi ons.htm

Original Guidelines of ACIM

Hi everyOne,

 

It is always Helpful to remember the Guidelines given for using A Course In Miracles.

 

Here are the original Guidelines given by Jesus to Helen Schucman and Bill Thetford for the overall use of A Course In Miracles in the world. These Guidelines are still very helpful and practical today.

 

1. A Course In Miracles was copyrighted when it was first published in the 1970s in order to keep its thought-system intact during the first 3 decades of its birth and distribution to the world.

 

2. A Course In Miracles was intended to be a self-study course. Only Jesus & the Holy Spirit can reveal the meaning of the Course to the student's mind. Only God knows the readiness of the student to receive this revelation.

 

3. A Course In Miracles was only to be published by those who devoted their lives to its guardianship.

 

4. A Course In Miracles was not to be commercially advertised. It has and will continue to make its own way around the world. Freely you have received, now freely give.

 

5. Free copies of A Course In Miracles were to be provided to those people who could not afford the cost of the Course. This function was originally the responsibility of the publisher, and now is up to everyone who hears and Answers the Call. A Course In Miracles is now offered freely on the Internet for those who wish to read and/or print a copy of the book for their study and use.

 

6. No one was to make any money from A Course In Miracles. Revenues and donations are always to be used for sharing and extending the Course with the world and experiencing the Inner Peace of the Kingdom of Heaven within.

 

Love & Blessings,

 

David

 

http://teacherofteachers.net

 

Tax deductible donations: http://awakening- mind.org

David Hoffmeister PH: 513-898-1364   Office: 608-268-7746  Mobile: 717-629-0950

 

__._,_.___

.

__,_._,___

Teacher of teachers web site launched

Teacher of teachers web site launched

Dear Friends, 
 
I am pleased to announce that after many months of preparing audio and written material, that phase one of the Teacher of Teachers website is now online and waiting to be utilized. I won't spend much time here describing it because it really speaks for itself. However, I will copy and paste a few items directly from the site which gives an overview of it.  
 
I did wanted to make a note of one thing which I feel is of importance for the site's users. You can access the website by two different URLs (website addresses). You may use http://www.teachero fteachers. net or http://www.miracles home.org. Either one will take you to the same place. However, by using the miracleshome. org address, this should allow your browser to give you the title to each page and each audio at the top of your screen as you go through the materials. I think this can be particularly helpful when you are listening to an audio track and wondering, "What's the name of this talk?" If you are using miracleshome. org you will know. Otherwise it will just say something like "Teacher of Teachers – A Course in Miracles Study Resource". The domain name teacherofteachers. net forwards to miracleshome. org and for some reason it doesn't make the page titles available when you use that URL.

Now, I want to thank all of the volunteers that gave their time, devotion and love to this project. It couldn't have happened any other way. Even if you volunteered but I didn't have a project for you at the time, I still want to express my gratitude and to also let you know that I still have your email addresses and I haven't forgotten about you!   
 
It has been a joy and an inspiration to work on this site and it brought so many people together to serve a purpose that is totally unknown to this world. This website is given to the Sonship by the Sonship and I am honored and blessed to have taken a role in its initiation. This has been a profound experience of the idea in the Course that states, "the only true pleasure is doing God's Will".

I leave you with the following and I do encourage you to follow the suggestions given as to how to use the site. Lots of consideration was taken in the organization of the materials. Without further ado, here is your website Beloved One. 
 
Love, Kerri

 
Teacher of Teachers is dedicated to the advanced teachings of  
A Course in Miracles. This website is intended as a study aid for anyone who wishes to study and master the theories of ACIM. This library contains approximately forty-five hours of audio MP3's and nearly two hundred fifty pages of written material.

About this website...

Teacher of Teachers refers to the Holy Spirit, which in A Course in Miracles terminology is also called the Voice for God and the Right-Mind. The intention of this website is to be as clearly aligned with the Holy Spirit, the one true Teacher, as possible and for the materials available here to be reflective of that perspective. On that note, we have felt guided to make this website as 'impersonal' as possible, or even 'anonymous' in the sense that the focus here is the content of the materials, the conveying of ideas, rather than on whomever the speaker or the writer seemed to be. This serves as a reminder that all true wisdom is of the Spirit rather than persons. It wasn't practical in all circumstances to eliminate every name mentioned - particularly in audio format - but this has been done in most cases with the written material.

A large quantity of the audio material on this website has never been made available before. Most of the audio material on this site had been archived in audiocassette format for many years, having been moved around from damp basements to hot attics, trunks of cars and finally office shelves. Much care has been put into the preservation of the sound quality of these materials but in some cases full restoration of the sound was not possible. We would encourage you to keep in mind that the material that is available here is available because of its content. Certain tracks may have spots where it is hard to hear but in most cases this lasts only briefly. Transcripts have been made for most tracks that were of lesser audio quality.

Like any other tool, this website is a beginning and not an end. What you will find here is a collection of ideas and no single idea in this world is wholly true. Only one thing is for certain, and that is; you will find what you are looking for because, as the Course says, the mind always gets what it wants. We would invite you to simply be open to the ideas here rather than immediately accepting or rejecting them. Thoroughly open your mind and inquire within and there will the Teacher be.

The format of this website is done in a way to make more efficient use of the growing quantity of materials and archives which have been accumulated over the years, allowing the user to explore a great number of the concepts and ideas in a simple format. Much more will be added to this website when it is available. It is now and may always be a work in progress. We invite your comments and suggestions and hope that you will feel free to contact us anytime.

This website and all that we do is done on a donation, Love Offering basis. If you feel that you would like to support this resource, please consider visiting our Donations page. Some of the resources on this website may be ordered as a hard copy. Please see our Order page for more information. All gifts are tax deductible.

How to use this website... 
 
We recommend that you start with the first item listed on the 'Laying the Framework' page and then continue in order to the last item before moving on to the next set. Don't forget the supplemental materials!

Teacher of Teachers is setup to start from the beginning. As Jesus says in ACIM, healing is done from the bottom up and not the top down. As said, most of the audio material on this website has never been made available before. Other materials have been made available and archived in various sources on the web and are now here to be utilized more efficiently. All materials have been organized and arranged to build upon each other. The focal points of this website are the audio recordings and the longer papers or transcripts. Supplemental material is added where appropriate. Links to the key metaphysical principles for the audio tracks will be added very soon.

The materials library is constructed of three parts:

The first is called Laying the Framework. It starts with some of the most basic (and fundamental) ideas that are presented in A Course in Miracles as well as some items about the Course itself. A lot of the first questions and issues that are raised by those who find the Course are answered here in one form or another. Some of the early metaphors of the Course are introduced and explored as well as some of the fundamental metaphysical ideas.

The second set of materials is called Unlearning the World. This section covers many concepts, particularly the middle and later metaphors used by the Course. This is the stage of learning where egoic assumptions, beliefs and distortions are brought more clearly into awareness. A solid understanding of the ACIM metaphysics is the key to moving into the final stage of learning to unlearn the world; the transfer of training.

The third set of materials is called The Transfer of Training. Knowing the ideas isn't enough to have the experience beyond the words; they must be lived and applied. The deepest teachings about the advanced ideas of cause and effect as well as the subject / object split and relationships are covered here as well as many other ideas. A solid understanding of the most advanced metaphors of ACIM combined with a willingness to transfer those ideas to one's life without exception has only one result; a clear mind and consistent happiness.  
 
Welcome to Teacher of Teachers Beloved One.

To continue to Teacher of Teachers please use one of the following links: 
http://www.miracles home.org or 
http://www.teachero fteachers. net 
 
Listening to MP3's on this site requires a media player. 
If you do not have one, you can download Quicktime Player now. (It's free).  
If you do not have Adobe Reader, you will need it to view PDF files.

__._,_.___

Holy Spirit Speaks Part 5 of 5

Holy Spirit Speaks Part 5 of 5 Remember this From My Universal Curriculum

 

To transfer My ideas to ones life wholly opens the mind to knowing. To be free of confusion and fear is to be truly religious. Only the total transfer of the My Universal Curriculum (which is rooted in the idea of forgiveness) will undo the confusion between form and content. Remember this, "The only judgment involved is the Holy Spirit's one division into two categories; one of love, and the other the call for love. You cannot safely make this division, for you are much too confused either to recognize love, or to believe that everything else is nothing but a call for love. You are too bound to form, and not to content. What you consider content is not content at all. It is merely form, and nothing else. For you do not respond to what a brother really offers you, but only to the particular perception of his offering by which the ego judges it."

 

I have said many times before, confusion will end completely when My Course is used as a ladder for the specific (worldly) oriented mind, so that it can be launched into abstraction through a series of concepts that undo themselves. The mind is too attached to make the giant leap. So I have given you a conceptual course to loosen your mind into that which is naturally abstract. The point is not too-camp out or get stuck on a metaphor or concept. Neither are we to organize or conceptualize spirit within the world. This is a contradiction and denies My Curriculum.  The point is to yield into abstraction by loosening the mind from form- we use this stepping stone approach until all concepts has been transcended.  Remember this, "Thus were specifics made. And now it is specifics we must use in practicing. We give them to the Holy Spirit, that He may employ them for a purpose which is different from the one we gave to them. Yet He can use but what we made, to teach us from a different point of view, so we can see a different use in everything…This world is full of miracles. They stand in shining silence next to every dream of pain and suffering, of sin and guilt. They are the dream's alternative, the choice to be the dreamer, rather than deny the active role in making up the dream. They are the glad effects of taking back the consequence of sickness to its cause. The body is released because the mind acknowledges "this is not done to me, but I am doing this". And thus the mind is free to make another choice instead. Beginning here, salvation will proceed to change the course of every step in the descent to separation, until all the steps have been retraced, the ladder gone, and all the dreaming of the world undone."

Level confused teachers and students equate truth with conceptual thought, therefore denying My ladder. These confused teachers are teachers of ego. I am calling you from the world and one needs to be very clear on all worldly values, assumptions, so one can be a teacher of God. A true teacher of God can teach through silence, they teach through the joy of being one. There is nothing to do but Be Who You Are. The true teacher can teach without words.  I am calling all to teach only love, but only a few hear My Voice. Like I have said, "To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less."

 

Many of My teachers and students of the universal curriculum proclaim to be teachers of God. They spend much of their time picking passages (quoting scripture), focusing on precise terminology (form). They use their intellectual stances to prove their assumptions. Some make personal careers on these assumptions; and many teachers' right books without questioning their assumptions.  Most books are based on ones personal assumptions and yet they proclaim they have the truth. They do this to establish their opinions, to solidify their egos. This is missing the mark of My Curriculum. The undoing of the ego is the only purpose for time and the world. This is not about good or bad, because you are beyond this world of duality. But those who cling to interpretations - cling to the word - cling to ones earthly lives are far from the truth and there is a consequence for this; there is pain and destruction. Remember this, "The arrogant must cling to words, afraid to go beyond them to experience <which> might affront their stance. Yet are the humble free to hear the Voice which tells them what they are, and what to do."

 

Its insistence, its stance, shows the egos attempts to preserve itself through a conceptual identity of its particular spiritual path, an identity based on conceptual thought. True spirituality isn't about having a belief system, even a superior belief system that is to be revered. It is about undoing, it's about the Atoning of all beliefs. Once the mind is free of belief, it can reference from abstraction, which is beyond belief.  But until abstraction is experienced, beliefs will be our tool – they can be nothing more. True spirituality is learning to accept perception as it is, seeing life now. Remember, "Complete abstraction is the natural condition of the mind. But part of it is now unnatural. It does not look on everything as one. It sees instead but fragments of the whole, for only thus could it invent the partial world you see. The purpose of all seeing is to show you what you wish to see. All hearing but brings to your mind the sounds it wants to hear."

Let me ask this question: Can the mind, <which> is not of this world, ever free itself from the desire for the world? Lowering the mask of personhood is the only purpose for the world. Lowering the mask of personhood frees the mind. Allow the persona to crumble, allow it to fall away!  Let go of your ideas of family, religion, spirituality, God, truth, let go of all belief and values of the world. My angels sing through out heaven as you see the superficiality of all belief and theology. When we can see the attempt to be spiritual through a belief system is missing the mark - then the way out of illusions is seen and recognized. Understanding this is a giant leap towards the preparation of Knowledge. Remember this, "Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God."

 

What do you feel? Is peace in your awareness? Are you certain which way you go? And are you sure the goal of Heaven can be reached? If not, you walk alone. Ask, then, your Friend to join with you, and give you certainty of where you go."

 

InLove,

 

Jeffrey

from AwakeningInChrist@yahoogroups.com