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"ACIM Conference 2007
"An Opportunity To Gladden Yourself"
February 23, 24, 25 - 2007
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A story it is a good one

Beloved One,

Here is a dialogue I know you will enjoy:

A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning
challenged his students with this question. "Did God create
everything that exists?"

A student bravely replied, "Yes he did!"

"God created everything?" The professor asked.

"Yes sir, he certainly did," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything; then God created
evil.

And, since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works
define who we are, then we can assume God is evil."

The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's
hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself,
boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the
Christian faith was a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said,
"May I ask you a question, professor?"

"Of course", replied the professor.

The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"

"What kind of question is this? Of course it
exists. Have you never been cold?"

The other students snickered at the young man's question.

The young man replied,
"In fact sir, cold does not exist. According
to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the
absence of heat. Every body or object is susceptible to study when
it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter
have or transmit energy.

"Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter
becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold
does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel
if we have no heat."

The student continued,
"Professor, does darkness exist?"

The professor responded,
"Of course it does."

The student replied,
"Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either.
Darkness is in reality the absence of light.
Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact, we can use Newton's
prism to break white light into many colors and study the various
wavelengths of each color.

"You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break
into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how
dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present.
Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what
happens when there is no light present."

Finally the young man asked the professor,
"Sir, does evil exist?"

Now uncertain, the professor responded,
"Of course, as I have already said. We see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of
man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.

To this the student replied,
"Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light."

The professor sat down.

The young man's name - Albert Einstein

email from David

Some basic Questions Answered

David,

I have been formulating some questions and wondering if you could
shed some light on them. I was first questioning my concept of
God. For many years I have understood God as a being of sorts, or
perhaps a conscious all knowingness, that knew me, thought about me,
and everyone else in this universe and beyond. I also saw God as the
creator in this world which is constantly being formed. Now I don''t
know about any of it. What is God. Just beingness? I am??? What
exactly is that. If God is just being, or existence, then why bother
saying a prayer? Who hears it other than me? What good can it
possibly do? Thanks in advance.

Sincerly

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Dear Beloved One,

Thanks for writing. You are a blessing. It is always wonderful to
hear from you. You are what you have been searching for. Identity
in God is "closer" than a breath.

God is the Eternal Love Which remains forever and forever and is
Known when all concepts of time-space have dissolved away. Emptying
the mind, as in Zen practice, is making clean the Altar to Divine
Mind. God creates Spirit, and matter is simply the "matter" or
focus of forgiveness/release of illusions that cloud the mind.
Prayer is the desire of the heart, and true prayer is the single
desire or desirelessness that transcends the multiple desires for
things and perceptual experiences that the ego (error) craves. The
truth is simple because it is one. One prays continuously and that
is why it is important to be watchful of what you ask for or desire.

God Knows the prayer of the heart. Beyond the words and questions
and symbols is an experience of certainty in which there is no
doubt. It is impossible to truly be anything but this certainty.
Question and Answer, asker and the one who is asked but seem to be
different in dreams. Yet there is a Point, a State of Mind, in
which everything is experienced as One.

Concepts were made to deny the Eternal. In forgiveness of what never
was is a final concept accepted to take the place of the "many."
Unlearn every concept of time and all conflict and doubt is undone.

The I Am presence is Pure Spirit. Only this Self can BE Known. All
"else" fades and grows dim and disappears, for time could never come
and take the place of Eternity.

I am with you all the way in simplicity. I am always happy to talk
with you and can give you a call if you think it would be helpful.

May your unlearning be Joyful and our Mind remain in Peace forever.
We walk the Selfsame road, and the way is easy. The way inward is
natural. You are my very Self in Love, and I rejoice in our
Innocence. Nothing else ever was true. Keep shining our Light. It
is soooooooooo bright, as You are. You are the One!

In gratitude and love,

David

Teach Only Love Merging with Awakening-Mind

Beloved One,

In the coming months there will be a merging of the Teach Only Love Sanctuary, which is located in Great Falls, MT, into a branch of The Foundation for the Awakening Mind, which is located in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Teach Only Love Sanctuary will continue to serve as a Miracles center for the study of A Course In Miracles under the symbol of Awakening-Mind.org

The Foundation for the Awakening Mind is a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization and donations to the Sanctuary will be tax deductible when everything is finalized. We will use the Awakening-Mind.org symbol to express the teachings of the Holy Spirit, Who teaches us His unified purpose through consistency, and true consistency in His purpose is JOY!

Love,

David, Kirsten, Jeffrey, & Kerri

Consciousness

Consciousness is the receptive mechanism, receiving messages from
above or below; from the Holy Spirit or the ego. Consciousness has
levels and awareness can shift quite dramatically, but it cannot
transcend the perceptual realm. At its highest it becomes aware of
the real world, and can be trained to do so increasingly. Yet the
very fact that it has levels and can be trained demonstrates that it
cannot reach knowledge.""Revelation unites you directly with God. Miracles unite you
directly with your brother. Neither emanates from consciousness, but
both are experienced there. Consciousness is the state that induces
action, though it does not inspire it."
"Consciousness, the level of perception, was the first split
introduced into the mind after the separation, making the mind a
perceiver rather than a creator. Consciousness is correctly
identified as the domain of the ego. The ego is a wrong-minded
attempt to perceive yourself as you wish to be, rather than as you
are. Yet you can know yourself only as you are, because that is all
you can be sure of. Everything else is open to question."
"The means of the Atonement is forgiveness.
The structure of "individual consciousness" is essentially
irrelevant because it is a concept representing the "original error"
or the "original sin." To study the error itself does not lead to correction,
if you are indeed to succeed in overlooking the error. And it is just this
process of overlooking at which the course aims."
"Very quietly now, with your eyes closed, try to let go of all the
content that generally occupies your consciousness. Think of your
mind as a vast circle, surrounded by a layer of heavy, dark clouds.
You can see only the clouds because you seem to be standing outside
the circle and quite apart from it. From where you stand, you can
see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the
clouds. The clouds seem to be the only reality. They seem to be all
there is to see. Therefore, you do not attempt to go through the
mind past them, which is the only way in which you would be really
convinced of their lack of substance."
Consciousness is synonymous with split mind. It receives messages
from "above" or "below," the Holy Spirit or the ego. It is the focus
of the mind training lessons in the ACIM Workbook and can be trained
to reach the forgiven world that Jesus calls the "real world." This
is the dreamer of the dream Perspective that I speak of frequently
which is a state of consistent peace and nonjudgment. Revelation and
miracles emanate from the Light beyond consciousness. God and
Christ, Being Pure Eternal Abstract Light and Oneness, have nothing
to do with consciousness (which is 'split' into illusory levels).
In this sense there is no "God Consciousness" for Oneness and split mind
are not reconcilable. God and Christ are True and consciousness is
make-believe or false. God and Christ are Spirit and consciousness
is the belief that there is "something else" in "addition to" Spirit.
Awakening could be described as the "release" of the make-believe
"something else."
Creation is the Light beyond consciousness. Consciousness, being the
domain of the ego, does not have creative ability. God creates the
Eternal and the ego or error "makes" the finite, temporal, illusion
of time-space. It is consciousness which seems to unlearn the ego
(or split) and thus learn of forgiveness (perceived wholeness), yet
the quotation above saying "it cannot reach knowledge" reflects the
realization that consciousness is an illusion which must disappear
before remembering the Knowledge of Heaven or Pure Oneness.
You wrote: "I use the term 'consciousness' to mean that which creates
and animates the illusory form; that which is an Aspect of God and
never leaves His Mind -- a part of the Mind of God. My understanding
is that this Consciousness, being an Aspect of God, is eternal and
plays and plays and plays, extending Love first in one direction,
then in another, including making up and pretending to experience an
illusion of separation complete with amnesia about Reality." Christ
never leaves the Mind of God, yet consciousness is the belief that
Christ has left the Mind of God. Creation extends Eternally and as
ACIM states: "God knows not form." Christ is an Eternal Idea in the
Mind of God. It is the ego domain of consciousness which seems to
be "...making up and pretending to experience an illusion of
separation complete with amnesia about Reality." God does not
forgive for God has never condemned, yet forgiveness (release -
letting go) applies to consciousness and thus to releasing the
obstacles (what was ego-made) so that the mind can remember God,
Christ, and Eternal Creation.One of the key metaphysical ideas for
understanding the importance and necessity of forgiveness of illusion and the release and
detachment from the judgment of the world is stated in ACIM as
follows: "The world was made as an attack on God. It symbolizes
fear. And what is fear except love's absence? Thus the world was
meant to be a place where God could enter not, and where His Son
could be apart from Him. Here was perception born, for knowledge
could not cause such insane thoughts." God Is. Christ is Awake in
the Mind of God. The mind which sleeps and dreams of images appears
to play with idols, toys of its own "making," yet the Holy Spirit
uses what was made to go far beyond what was made. The Holy Spirit
Made a waking Dream cleansed of judgment. The Holy Spirit knows the
distinction between the real and the unreal, and the judgment of the
false AS false is the only meaningful judgment to be made. This
Atonement is the gateway to freedom beyond all dreaming - to
remembrance of Self as Christ in the Mind of God. God and Christ are
Abstract Eternal Love, and the seeming world of parts and specifics
is the veil which HAS BEEN forgiven.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within. I will use the metaphor mentioned
in the ACIM Workbook. If Divine Mind were a vast Circle of Light and
if this Circle was seemingly surrounded by dark clouds of false
belief and perception, consciousness would be the illusory experience
of being "outside" of the Circle. In sinking beneath the clouds of
illusion, the experience is One of Pure Light. In Truth Light cannot
be surrounded or circumscribed, for Light is literally the Allness of
God and Christ Which Know Perfect Oneness. I rejoice in the
forgiveness of illusion, for a Child of God cannot be limited in
awareness except by illusory belief. And happily this need not be.
I love You forever and ever!
David

Berkeley Event with Master Teacher

A Course In Miracles
Spiritual Transformation
An Invitation To A Great Experiment
Lawrence Hall of Science,
University of California, Berkeley
Saturday, April 8 through Sunday April 9, 2006

Come and experience with Master Teacher,
an inevitable decision of discoveringour journey without distance
in the space of an instant of reality.
See if the religion of your nature andthe philosophy of your being
can be integrated, through the science of your mind,
into the brilliantly fearless new reality that is your evolutionary destiny.
Once again, "Remember that it is impossible that anything that is happening to you is but by accident." You may very simply say, this is the time I choose to awaken,
and it will be true and it will always have been true.
All around you are the teachers you have chosen to assist and accelerate the necessary confrontation of your own objective self-identity in the whole eternal perfectly creating universal mind that surrounds you, so that you may undergo your inevitable experience of resurrection and enlightenment.
What you have been afraid of, and denying through your own possessive fear, is your own illumination. You are returning to God Mind through the memory of your transformation from a temporal being to the reality of eternal life. So right here, right now, is the time for your passage from death to life.
This is a teaching of initiation, or the determination of an individual mind to come to its own whole universal self. It is the transitional passage from time to eternity. From this apparent nightmare of separation to the remembrance that you are perfect as God created you. It is accomplished through a bright reassociation of your individual perceptual self-identity.
This is your awakening and every obstacle that peace must flow across is surmounted in exactly the same way. The fear that raised it yields to the love beyond, so the fear is gone.
A Course In Miracles Spiritual Transformation Program
with Master Teacher

Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Saturday, April 8, 2006 - 9:00 AM through 5:00 PM
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do nothing!

"Be At Peace and Do Nothing!"
"There is nothing you need do ... but wait ... and see what happens!"
How many times have you heard your inner voice telling you to quit doing, quit planning, quit trying to make things happen, quit studying A Course in Miracles and simply let the Course work on you?
There is nothing to do but wait and see what happens. This is actually the fundamental message of Jesus Christ. You are already all the love, joy, and creative power of the universe. You need only do nothing to let God's love, joy, and creative power extend and lighten your world.
"When peace comes at last to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against giving in to sin; when the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation; or when the goal is finally achieved by anyone, it ALWAYS comes with just ONE happy realization, – 'I need do nothing.' Here is the ultimate release that everyone will one day find in his own way, at his own time. You do not need this time. Time has been SAVED for you." (ACIM Text Chap. 18)
You need do nothing with your mind to experience total enlightenment and total extension of light because ... engaging your mind is your way of compressing the light. Forming your unformed infinite mind into finite thoughts is your method of making yourself little and making a little dark world.
"Oh, but I'll use the infinite energy of my mind to form positive thoughts so I can have prosperity and well-being."
Sure you can do this ... but for every thought you form to create prosperity and well-being, you have inserted an ego self-identification which blocks the infinitely more grand plan God has for your prosperity and well-being, while simultaneously strengthening your downfall. You are simply trying to do it yourself, not trusting that the Holy Spirit, left to His own devices, has a fail-proof plan for your prosperity and well-being which you could not have imagined.
In other words, you trying to think positive thoughts can meet with only temporary limited success only in your judgment, which is not the judgment you really want to be relying on.
"In no situation which arises do you realize the outcome that would make you happy. Therefore you have no guide to appropriate action, and no way of judging the results. What you do is determined by your perception of the situation, and that perception is wrong. It is inevitable, then, that you will not serve your own best interests. Yet they are your only goal in any situation which is correctly perceived. Otherwise, you will not recognize what they are." (ACIM Lesson 24)
"But if I listen inside to the Holy Spirit's voice, to thoughts 'out of the blue' which I didn't make up, I'm often guided to take some action. So the Holy Spirit definitely guides doing."
Yes and no. Yes in the ego's eyes, no in the Holy Spirit's vision. Thoughts "out of the blue" are thoughts you did not initiate in your mind, so you did nothing with your mind. You simply experienced an instant at peace in non-doing, and while at peace in non-doing ... you heard guidance. Now if you follow the Holy Spirit's guidance, although it might seem like you are doing something, you are actually being undone. The Holy Spirit's guidance serves one purpose only, to undo you and the world you've made up. What you interpret as receiving guidance and doing something, the Holy Spirit is happy to see as you following guidance and allowing undoing.
"You perceive the world and everything in it as meaningful in terms of ego goals. These goals have nothing to do with your own best interests, because the ego is not you. This false identification makes you incapable of understanding what anything is for." (ACIM Lesson 25)
"But I've heard that the development of clear spiritual hearing, for example, takes a great amount of practice. What if I practice, and practice, and practice inner hearing so my inner hearing can come to be ever present and easily heard? Isn't all that practice a form of doing?"
Again, not in the Holy Spirit's way of seeing things. Because the very practice of inner hearing is the practice of doing nothing with one's mind, allowing one's thought and picture forming faculties to be altogether disengaged, so what is heard is from what we call "divine intelligence," or the "Voice for God."
"Nonetheless, the Course is a course in mind training. I've heard it said that an untrained mind accomplishes nothing."
Yes, and the "training" referred to is not you training yourself but the Holy Spirit's work, training you to do nothing with your mind. Because everything you've ever done with your untrained mind literally has meant nothing.
In short, there simply is nothing to do. It's as simple as that. Jesus Christ tells us our salvation and our world's salvation is a done deal. But since your ego is deadly afraid that it cannot exist unless it is doing, the desire to do is very, very powerful and deeply ingrained. Your only hope is to pray with all your heart and soul, and all your being, for trust. Then the more you open to trust, the more you are able to let go of all doing and let God.
"'I need do nothing' is a statement of allegiance, a truly undivided loyalty. Believe it for just one instant, and you will accomplish more than is given to a century of contemplation, or of struggle against temptation. (ACIM Text Chap. 18)
So do not ask: what would Jesus do? Rather ask what Jesus asks of you? And the answer from Jesus is: "Victory is already assured! Please remember to do nothing."
"Now you need but remember YOU NEED DO NOTHING. It would be FAR more profitable now merely to concentrate on this, than to consider what you SHOULD do." (ACIM Text Chap. 18)
Would a little humorous memory device serve a purpose?
There is an apocryphal story in which a disciple asks Jesus:
"What is holding me back? It seems I'm stuck?" Jesus answered:
"You're full of yourself, with everything YOU do. A good release is needed, of your own ... do do!"
from: Monthly Article of the Holy Instant Christian Church
http://www.geocities.com/holy_instant/Apr2006.html

Questions for David

Hello David!

I have a few questions for you that are on my mind...

1) ACIM says as a Miracle Principle that "Miracles should not be
used as spectacles to induce belief"... If this is true, then how
would you define Jesus' miracles such as feeding the multitudes,
raising the dead, etc?

2) Wayne Dyer really speaks to my soul! I see him and ACIM in
perfect alignment with their teachings. Do you see the same
consistency in teachings between ACIM and Ernest Holmes? And ACIM
and The Unity Church?

Thank you as always for your wonderful help in poking holes
(miracles) in my clouds that are blocking the Sun. I also would
like to share with you a verse I came up with:

DON'T SEE THE SUN SHINING, BE THE SUN SHINING!

In Love

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Beloved One,

Thanks for sharing your questions. Miracles are always only for the
mind of the perceiver or dreamer (mind is one) and what seems to
occur in form is merely symbolic. Miracles are for the mind that
has the ears to hear, so to speak, or the willingness and readiness
to behold. Seeming changes in form reflect the shift in mind of the
miracle-minded, and though some of these changes seem to
transcend "known physical laws," in Reality there are no "known
physical laws." The Law of Love (Spirit) is the only Reality.
Feeding the multitudes and raising the dead were symbols of the
Divine Law of Love Which has no limit or lack. It is truly the
beattitudes or state of mind that demonstrates the miracle has
come. It is this state of mind in which consistency is possible and
this is a characteristic of Awakening. "Consistent form" is a
contradiction in terms, although behavior can seem to become
more "stable" for the miracle-minded. The easy way to remember that
miracles are not intended to be used as spectacles to induce belief
is to remember that miracles are the means of Awakening for a mind
that already "believes" yet is also willing to go beyond belief
and "Be Still and Know That I Am."

The teachings you mention are all very helpful stepping stones in
Awakening to Oneness. The Holy Spirit will Guide you to discern the
true from the false in all regards, and the deeper you seem to go
you will seem to transcend all linear concepts and come to an
experience that will end all doubting. The teachings you mention
have Oneness as their main focus, yet there are subtleties of ego
concepts that are transcended completely in Enlightenment. Your
inner work with the Holy Spirit will instruct you on your inward
movement and Help you lay aside every linear (past-future) concept
(such as balance and process and growth and personality). You are
moving steadily inward to the experience of Atonement, Christ, and
God's Love.

Thanks for your devotion to Truth

Gospel of Thomas

THE GNOSTIC SOCIETY LIBRARY
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gospel of Thomas
Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer
(Visit the Gospel of Thomas Collection for additional information)
"These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded.
1. And he said, 'Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.'
. Jesus said, 'hose who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]'
3. Jesus said, 'Your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
'When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty.'
4. Jesus said, 'The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.
'For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one.'
5. Jesus said, 'Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.
'For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.]'
6. His disciples asked him and said to him, 'Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?'
Jesus said, 'Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed.'
7. Jesus said, 'Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human.'
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Selection from Robert J. Miller, ed., The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version. (Polebridge Press, 1992, 1994).

from Miracle Times

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A Course In Miracles - Action Of Mind
"My Body Identity is what the Grievance Is!
"You are in an impossible situation.
"You are only ever dealing with the EFFECTS of thought form images in your own mind.
"They are telling you exactly what you asked them to tell you.
"At best they offer you salvation, at worst they are already gone!
"The change MUST occur in the Mind before any hope of real change take place.
"There is absolutely no result, whatsoever, to anything that seems to be happening in time and space.
"The alternative that was shown to me was a provision from out side of time and space.
"It was and is always available to use or reject at every instant.
"The choice is being made all the time, by you in your own Mind.
"Here's Jesus from today's lesson;
'...The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God's plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever it is accepted, it is accomplished already.
'What is salvation, Father? I do not know. Tell me, that I may understand.'
"Then we will wait in quiet for His answer...
"The two times I asked this question and really wanted the answer I was told, 'The fix is i'" and 'it is accomplished.' Wow, what a relief. Thank you God. I was simply mistaken, about EVERYTHING!
"After reading this next section I thought I should add it, from the Workbook Lessons,
'Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot not be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. God's Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.....read on."

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Message from David Hoiffmeister

Greetings Holy One,
It seems that relationship in this world involves partnership. And
the concept of partnership is a mirror of the unconscious belief in
incompletion or lack.
Reciprocity always involves "giving to get,"
and this ego belief is dissolved in the Light of giving as God Gives,
unconditionally and everlastingly.
Learning to give in the fullest sense will draw one out of a sense of
having a separate will apart from God's Will.
As long as one holds onto a self-concept or image,
one must want to get something outside of
One Self, and must believe it is possible to do so.
The opportunity with a "partner," indeed with
anybody you meet or even think about
each day, is to learn how to give totally, completely, without
distinctions or conditions of any kind.
Think of it like this.
A partner and anybody that comes to mind are
calling on the Sacred. Listen carefully to the Spirit, for what your
partner or brother or sister is asking for is what you are asking
for. And what you give to your partner, you give to yourself.
This is what is meant by the path of devotion. In devoting yourself
to one goal, forgiveness, you lose all sense of separate interests
and separate selves. No request is too large or small in this
Perspective. You can only join in this Perspective, the Perspective
of the dreamer--never in the dream. Love does not oppose. There is
nothing to fight, defend against, or be right about. And devotion
requires trust, for trust in the Spirit dissolves all doubt.
By learning to give without distinctions, you will learn to
experience your Self as beyond "situations," as Everywhere and
Everything! All that you need do is trust, step back, and do not
interfere with an Experience that will come directly from God.
True Giving will reveal Itself as You.
You will discover that relationship is not personal. The only Real
Relationship is Creation and Creator. Relationship is not between
persons, for thought-form associations deny the only Real
Relationship of Spirit. You cannot experience what True Relationship
is until you have first realized the impossibility of the attempt to
make past associations take the place of Reality. Reality and God are
always in eternal relationship and direct communication
or "Communion." All concepts of relationship must give way to forgiveness,
seeing the false as false, and understanding that thought-forms cannot be
meaningfully associated, ordered, or arranged. A hierarchy of
relationships is meaningless, for Love is One and of Divine origin.
Time is simultaneous, not linear and sequential. Forgiveness does not
attempt to change the past to compensate for a feeling of lack or
guilt or inadequacy or incompletion. It sees the past as over and
gone. By seeing that the picture of the world is just a picture, the
mind is freed from attempting the impossible and can recognize Itself
as Changeless Mind!!! The awareness that illusions are one opens the
way for the Recognition that Mind is One! This is the realization
that Love is All there Is!
Thank You God for Divine Relationship which inspires forever and
ever!!!
Many blessings cascade upon You Holy One,
Our Relationship is intimate and eternal and Divinely Content.
Love,
David

The Gospel of Eve

Selections from The Gospel of Eve -
"I am thou and thou art I.
"I stood upon a high mountain and saw a tall man, and another of short stature, and heard something like the sound of thunder and went nearer in order to hear. Then he spoke to me and said: 'I am thou and thou art I, and wherever thou art, there am I, and I am sown in all things; and whence thou wilt, thou gatherest me, but when thou gatherest me, then gatherest thou thyself.' [Epiphanius, Panarion, 26.3.1]
"They say that the same soul is scattered about in animals, beasts, fish, snakes, humans, trees, and products of nature." [Epiphanius, Panarion, 26.9.1.]
"And the pitiful pair, having made love, then proceed to hold up their blasphemy to heaven, the woman and the man taking the secretion from the male into their own hands and standing looking up to heaven. They hold the impurity in their hands and pray . . and say "We offer you this gift, the body of Christ." And then they consume it, partaking of their shamefulness, and they say: "This is the body of Christ and this is the Pasch for which our bodies suffer." . . When they fall into a frenzy among themselves, they soil their hands with the shame of their secretion, and rising, with defiled hands pray stark naked, as if through such an action they were able to find a hearing with God." [Epiphanius, Panarion, 26.4-5]
"If one of them fails to anticipate the immission of the seed from the natural effluence and the woman becomes pregnant, then listen to something even more dreadful which they dare to do. Extracting the foetus at whatever time they choose to do the operation, they take the aborted infant and pound it up in a mortar with a pestle, and mixing in honey and pepper and some other spices and sweet oils so as not to become nauseous, all the members of that herd of swine and dogs gather together and each partakes with his finger of the crushed-up child." [Epiphanius, Panarion, 26.5.]

The Only Error

This from Kirsten--

"There is only one error.
It is the belief that I am not as God created me.

"This one error includes the belief that My brother is not as God created him.
It is the same error. It has the same solution.

"The one solution, the one correction of this mistake,
Is Atonement, the forgiveness of my error. "

[The Atonement, or undoing of error, consists of
not seeing what never occurred.]

hearken back to the Schma in the Jewish tradition*:

"Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the lord is One"

Append: The Lord is One, I and the Lord is One. We are One.


"My Brother and I are One.
My Father and I are One."

As a side note: here are RaMBaN's* Principles of Faith (--one can clearly see the distinction between good and evil--the duality. However, if the Lord is One, there what power can arise to oppose Him? Don't these statements not express the Unity of Creator with the Creation, or leave them unstated? In this iteration, the Schma does not go as far as Kirsten in her extensions) :

God exists God is one and unique.

God is incorporeal.

God is eternal Prayer is to be directed to God alone and to no other.

The words of the prophets are true.

Moses's prophecies are true, and

Moses was the greatest of the prophets.

The Written Torah (first 5 books of the Bible) and Oral Torah (teachings now contained in the Talmud and other writings) were given to Moses.

There will be no other Torah.

God knows the thoughts and deeds of men.

God will reward the good and punish the wicked.

The Messiah will come.

The dead will be resurrected.

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Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (1194-1270), also called RaMBaN (acronym) or Nachmanides, a preeminent halakhist, religious scholar and mystical teacher who lived in Spain. After a debate over which is the superior religion Judaism or Christianity, though granted immunity by the King, he fled to Israel and is regarded as the first proponent of Zionism.

New Version of A Course In Miracles

Beloved One, Blessings of Peace.
I returned to the Peace House after six months of travel and am enjoying the joy and laughter with Jeffrey Lake, Sylvia Gonzalez and Chris Cornelius for several days before departing for Europe for more holy encounters.
Greta from ACIMI had written to me asking if I had seen their new printed version of A Course In Miracles, and after I wrote back she sent me a couple copies.
Last year my friend Dana had showed Kirsten and I the new published version of the book, which is based on the Criswell Edition (public domain version) of A Course In
Miracles and the Gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth according to St. Matthew and St. John. The latter gospels are taken from the Aramaic of the Peshitta.
Thanks to Greta and ACIMI for sharing this information with everyOne.
For more information about the book you can contact:
A Course In Miracles International
Miracles Communication Center
P.O. Box 217, Lake Delton, WI 53940
Phone: 608-253-4622
E-mail: mcc@acimi.com
In Love & Gratitude,
David

About Jeffrey Lake

--from David Hoffmeister

"Jeffrey Lake held his first talks in Edmonton, Alberta.
"He began speaking at various addiction and spiritual centers and with many individuals. He also worked as a counselor in a group home.
"A deep sense of joy guided him from within and eventually he was inspired to leave his job, apartment and possessions to learn a life of trust.
"He embarked on a journey that took him all throughout Canada.
"Several times during his travels he was spontaneously invited to speak at various groups to share his joy and wisdom.
"It was during this journey that Jeffrey had a vision of traveling with "Teach Only Love" as a symbol of shining the Christ Presence.
"Soon after, he arrived at the PeaceHouse in Cincinnati, OH to study A Course In Miracles metaphysics with David.
"In a short time Jeffrey emerged as a clear, loving, consistent, and uncompromising teacher of God.
"He was Called to share his teachings and open a center in Great Falls, Montana. "There he appeared on television interviews and profound writings and inspired teaching sessions came pouring through him as an expression of his love and devotion.
"Jeffrey has traveled throughout the United States and Canada sharing many gatherings and has inspired hundreds of people to open their hearts to God's Love.
"He often teaches on Pal Talk in the ACIM Gather room and, together with the participants, exposes and uncovers the "i know" ego mind so that right-minded thinking and healing can be experienced.
"Jeffrey expresses the clarity of the Holy Spirit, the Teacher of teachers, and offers the Discernment necessary to be free of the ego forever.
Jeffrey is experienced and advanced in the Art of Awakening to Pure, Perfect Oneness.
"In Love & Gratitude,
David"

Kirsten, Revised

God Is the Author of Everything.
He creates by Giving, by giving us the Love
in which We were Created, and in which
We Create.
We share the
Love that He Is.
To remember God
Is to accept our Oneself as God created Us,
To give as He gives,
And to teach what God Is--
Is Love, for that What We Are.

from Kirsten

Dear Everyone,

I asked the Holy Spirit about Oneness this morning,

With love as always,

Kirsten

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Oneness:
You can feel it. It is a feeling, knowing you are connected to
everything, to everyone, you Are everything, everyone.
There is nothing outside of You, there is nothing outside of your
mind. Therefore there is nothing to fear.

There is nowhere you have not been, You Are everywhere.
How can you yearn for things unknown when there is only One Mind,
And that Mind is inclusive.

Remember always there is no one and nothing outside of your Mind.
I Am within your Mind. I Am Your Voice. There is only One Voice for
God, this Voice is within the One Mind, seemingly Guiding each "one"
home to the remembrance of God, remember there is only One Voice.

What is spoken to each "individual" is right for him to hear at that
time. Therefore do not contradict (attempt to correct) your brother
because he is always right. He is being Guided as you are,
But what is right for him may not be for you (to follow) at this
exact moment in time. This is where discernment comes in.

Trust in My Voice, knowing I Am Your Voice, the One Voice for God,
heard and spoken through all when you have the ears to hear.

Remember everything is carefully planned for you by One who loves
you. There are no exceptions.

To hear My Voice spoken through another is no different to hearing
My Voice spoken from "within". When resistance is high, when fear is
present, when doubt is projected onto form, My Voice cannot be heard.
Guidance given you is perfect for you at the time. There is One plan
for awakening but it is highly individualized.

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Question: What about "honoring people where they are at" when it
seems like honoring resistance sometimes?

Honor the Christ. Honor your brothers/sisters for the Love that they
Are.

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From the Manual For Teachers, #4 What are the Characteristics of
Gods Teachers? #8.Patience, Pg 15

"Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait
without anxiety. Patience is natural to the teacher of God."
"Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no
outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear."

Interview with Lama Lodu Rinpoche

published in http://kdk.org/LamaInterviewSnowLion082005.html

Do Not Think

Do not think.
Listen and accept.

To think is to think you know
and to think you can decide,
because to think is to believe
that you are all that you think you are.

To not think is to trust
that you are more than you think
and more than your thoughts.

To not think is to allow an opening
through which you may discover.