Thursday, April 05, 2007
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Isira -- http://www.isira. com/
Beloved One, On Easter morning my friend Isira Sananda will be sharing Love's Presence at our April 8th Easter morning session during the Blue Mountains retreat (which extends from April 4th-8th).
We will be celebrating Love's Divine Oneness in a way that honors the Spirit's use of all the symbols of the world in peace and love and harmony. Eastern symbols and western symbols, including languages and traditions and music and practices will be expressed and shared. Easter celebrates the remembrance of our Original Innocence, and together we Awaken in Love: Giving Divinity and taking nothing personally.
We will begin the Easter program, our final day of the retreat at 7:00 amIsira will share at 8:30 - 10:00 amIsira and I will answer questions and we will have our closing celebration from 10:00 - 11:30 am
Click the link below to register for the Blue Mountains retreat:Weds 4 April -
Sun 8 -- April Blue Mountains Retreat
BLUE MOUNTAINS RETREAT - WEDNESDAY, 4 APRIL ARRIVAL FROM 2 PM TO SUNDAY 8 APRIL NOON. 4 NIGHTS INCLUSIVE ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS. Includes: accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner, teas etc.,
About David Hoffmeister (from Raj)
THE VOICE FOR GOD "Everyone hears it and yet recognizes it not"
David Hoffmeister is a passionate and deeply committed ACIM disciple. Even more, his life is a shining demonstration of a healed mind. This is why there are always so very many people who come to his blessed gatherings of love.
IF ENLIGHTENMENT IS WHAT YOU ARE SEEKING - TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE A MASTER
During the past two years David has taught and shared with like minded people in Argentina, Colombia, England, Chile, France, Germany, Austria, Peru, New Zealand, Canada, and Spain in the last two years. Now it is Australia's turn to experience this remarkable man and disciple of A COURSE IN MIRACLES.
"Every encounter I have is a chance to get to know me in the truest sense. What I am always teaching is that there are no private thoughts and no private minds. I make myself available to answer questions and to facilitate the expression of the Holy Spirit, which comes through many people, not just myself. And so there is a great feeling of joy. My purpose is to experience peace. You have to be open to your own healing." David
The teachings from David are inspired by the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ. They are reflected in reading material such as the Bible, A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Christian Science, the Urantia Book, Disappearance of the Universe and other books. They offer a roadmap inward to Heaven, through forgiveness, as taught in A Course in Miracles.
Ask and it will be given to you Seek and you will find Knock and the door will be opened to you
From David…
"We want to be so thorough in tracing "specific personal choices" back to the false belief that underlies them all, that there is the opening for the grand moment that seems to change everything and yet is changeless, this Instant.
The teaching I share is that enlightenment is available this very moment. And anything in one's mind that stands in the way of that recognition of enlightenment right now must first be questioned, and then seen for what it is - illusion.
Please don't get into comparing who is enlightened and who is not. Enlightenment is not personal. Just consider these ideas and the holiness of the intention to be clear. Just say and mean: "I want peace! I want it more than anything else.
I'm going to drop all my masks. I see that in order to drop them, I'm going to have to look at them. I want to see the masks for what they are. I want to discern the false from the true — to be right-minded. What a precious opportunity this is!"
Can you think of anything more important than looking at one's own mind and examining the obstacles to this recognition? Is there anything that even comes close to that? This is a very precious opportunity! "
I am happy to share some thoughts about the way I `arrived' at feeling the complete contentment of this Present Moment. The form of the inner journey seems different for everyone, though there are commonalities that give a hint of the same Purpose that unites us all.
For everyone the journey involves an undoing, an unlearning, or an unraveling of beliefs and concepts and assumptions about everything. As the mind is emptied of concepts it becomes obvious that nothing of form and appearances can be assumed to be true, and yet trust in a Wisdom not of this world grows stronger and stronger in awareness until a State of Certainty of Identity emerges.
For me I can say that it began with a sense of curiosity about the meaning of life. Questions about purpose and healing and direction and death and unrecognized beliefs flittered about my mind and kept recurring over and over like a music play list. Most of my childhood and teen years held enough worries and concerns and hobbies to keep my mind distracted from this curiosity, but after I entered university studies the questions about the purpose of everything could not be kept out of awareness.
I used time in a truly helpful manner during 10 years of university studies by literally questioning everything I believed and questioning everything I had previously assumed to be real and true. I was able to release thoughts that told me I should just pick a role and play a part and grow old and die, and I knew in my heart that there was something amiss with the world I perceived.
Though I did not know what had distorted my perception of the world or how to escape the picture of conflict, I knew that freedom and peace and love and joy were what I hoped to experience and live.
When my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer and I watched him wither away to appear like a walking skeleton, and then I experienced his death, my spiritual journey to `Know Thyself' got a jump start and kicked into full speed ahead. Questions that I had never given myself permission to ask came flooding into awareness, and the answers and insights came flooding in as well.
Before I began graduate studies I had found a trustworthy gateway Home - a tickle in my heart that seemed to be Guiding me ever more rapidly inward, developing and strengthening my trust in the Intuitive Spirit, and unfolding before me the steps leading beyond the thinking of the world.
As I followed the tickle I found books that accelerated the opening of my mind, I met people that witnessed to my desire to be truly free, and I experienced glimpses of the deep peace and love that passeth the understanding of the world. Suddenly every relationship was a golden opportunity to heal, every upset was an inroad to unconscious false beliefs, and every opening of my heart was a Homecoming celebration. I was being called out of the thinking of the world to the Kingdom of Heaven within.
After two years of immersing with A Course In Miracles, often for eight hours a day, I began hearing the Voice of Jesus speaking clearly and specifically in my mind, instructing me in the ways of mastering His teachings on forgiveness. I received directions of where to go and what to say and do, lessons in discerning right-minded thinking from wrong-minded thinking, and I was told specifically what was most helpful in terms of the use of time, resources, effort, and money. This opened the way for the next phase of my mind training which was letting the Holy Spirit speak through me. It was one thing to listen and follow the Voice for God.
The next phase required willingness to allow the Holy Spirit to speak using the voice of David, and I was Given numerous assignments to practice this willingness. Jesus guided me to travel throughout the United States and Canada and speak where I was invited to speak, although the entire process felt more like being `spoken through.'
At first I took small trips to New York and Michigan. In the Summer of 1991 the trips became much longer as I set out on my first 5 ½ week journey through the Southwest of the United States and up through the Pacific Northwest (including a visit to Salt Springs Island in Canada) before returning to Cincinnati via Wisconsin and Michigan.
During the first long trip and during all subsequent trips I learned to place complete faith and trust in Jesus and the Holy Spirit to provide for my physical, emotional, and psychological needs. The development of trust was essential for me in order to release my past conditioning and beliefs about survival and safety and protection and planning.
I was learning to be God-dependent by placing my single Purpose out in front and letting the Spirit guide and direct each teaching-learning situation and every holy encounter along the path I walked. In some respects it felt as if I was living out a dream or a fairytale because each day there were so many synchronicities happening and so many apparent `solutions' appearing before any `problem' could even be defined or imagined.
The invitations and offers of help extended throughout the range of the human experience spectrum, from places to stay to food to transportation to books and music to help digging out of a snow storm and emergency road service and towing. I started traveling with no savings in the bank and no worldly investments or organizational support, only feeling impelled to share all the love in my heart and trust that everything I needed to fulfill my function would be provided by Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
After several years of living and traveling in this way I began to meet friends who wanted to share more time being around me, asking their questions and closely observing the way I lived my life to gain insight into the principles and teachings I held dear.
These friends and I began living in spiritual community, and though the names and faces have seemed to change throughout the decade that would follow, this deep feeling of community has remained with me ever since.
Now I experience this community feeling always and in all ways in my heart whether the body of David seems stationary or in motion, alone or in a small group or among hundreds of people. The Purpose I was Called to extend has stabilized my perception of the world, and a feeling of sameness pervades everything and everyone I look upon.
It is very much like a lucid dream that is very happy and calm. The serenity comes from being aware of the dreaming and not taking any of the signs and symbols personally (as if they were actual things existing in and of themselves). The unshakable peace comes from a detachment from appearances and an unswerving dedication to shared Purpose that is continuous.
Everything that seems to come into my awareness I see as Given from the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Being Source-dependent has dissolved away all sense of lack, and thus my attention is never drawn to the images of the world for the purpose of `getting' anything. The images are freed from past egoic intentions and therefore free Now to be used by the Spirit to inspire and bless and comfort in the Plan of Awakening.
There is no question or curiosity about the timing of events and no need to figure out the meaning of the world. There is no one and nothing of the world to fix or change. Being Present allows all things to be exactly as they are.
Seeming plans and logistics and details are Given as they are necessary and helpful, though there is never an emphasis on future outcomes or goals. All that is Given comes safely and surely, and each seeming step feels obvious and natural.
In 1996 I was guided to a small house in Cincinnati, Ohio to use as a quiet retreat and also as a base for launching on subsequent travels and hosting friends from around the world. Immediately the name that was Given to the house was `PeaceHouse' and the house became a symbol for always abiding in peace of mind.
The ideas and love and joy I experience in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit I share on the Internet and at many, many gatherings as time passes by without its touch upon me. As of the printing of this article I have shared at gatherings and stops and visits in 19 countries around the world and in countless holy encounters and Course In Miracles groups as well. The invitations have kept coming and so I go wherever the Spirit Guides in response to the Inner Invitation to join Given by Christ.
The gatherings I share are always very open discussions. As I go to the gatherings I have the willingness to show up in mind and to be truly helpful. I have no agenda and no clue what will be asked or if there will even be talking or not.
Instead, I make myself available to answer questions and to facilitate the expression of the Holy Spirit, which comes through many people, not just myself. People come from so many different backgrounds, cultures and languages. Sometimes I don't even speak the language, but translators show up and it seems like the Holy Spirit is orchestrating the whole thing just for me to share this state of joy and peace and happiness. I'm there to join with everyone.
Those that show up in my gatherings are showing up calling for help. I would say that the Holy Spirit is extremely practical and meets every questioner with what could be most helpful. There is no formula and there is no set answer that can be given across the board because people's consciousness and awareness have such a range.
But when I'm showing up, I truly show up to be only helpful and the Spirit flows through me. I experience joy and so does everyone else in the room. So typically, by the end of the gathering, there are lots of hugs and kisses, sometimes tears, and always a feeling of lightness and joy.
Every encounter I have is a chance to get to know me in the truest sense. What I am always teaching is that there are no private thoughts and no private minds. So the experience that I have when we gather together is of our sameness. We share the same Spirit. This is a feeling more than a group of concepts. It's still always an adventure for me to meet my Self over and over in many delightful ways. I like the spontaneity of the encounters. I like the sense of innocence that we experience together.
I always share in gatherings that there is nothing off limits. This offers a sense of openness that enables everyone to express whatever they're feeling in the moment. This is how we know ourselves. We take the lid off all our feelings and emotions. We bare our soul, and we realize we are not judged for baring our soul. People who I've met along the way feel like they can talk to me and unburden their soul no matter how shameful they feel about it.
I extend what is Given to share and thus remain aware of the I AM THAT I AM. Giving all to all is what having means, and our Heavenly Father's Kingdom is what One Mind has and what One Mind is. In the "process" sense, the more that is shared with those who seek indeed offers more to share. This is, however, the sharing that seems to occur on the horizontal plane and seems to involve the body and words and computers and smiles and hugs, etc.
Yet beyond all "process" and "level" metaphors and symbols, the experience of forgiveness is very, very, very simple! It is a Perspective that is glorious to behold, filled with gratitude and joy, for it is incapable of perceiving any differences at all. Another way of saying this is that forgiveness is devoid of any judgment of specifics, for the Perspective simply sees the false as false, or the falsity of all images.
I share this Perspective with all, for it is the only Perspective that can be shared. There is but one Dreamer of the dream, and in this Perspective all perception is already Healed.
I have no "schedule" to fit anything into. The present moment leaves no "room" for the ordering of "events, situations, and happenings." I watch a stream of past images and simply listen and follow what is Given Within, and that is the Source of all happiness, freedom, peace, and joy!
The PeaceHouse is a symbol that represents a light, happy, and very reverent state of mind. It is not special or sacred "in and of itself," for nothing exists apart from God as a separate entity "in and of itself." Yet in serving the Holy Spirit's Purpose, everyone is welcome and greeted very warmly. All are included in the Spirit's Purpose.
All are reminded of Who they Are. The Presence of God is always very apparent to a mind that is willing to receive that which God has Given forever. Teaching aids appear in many forms, and words, music, books, tapes, videos, DVDs, Cds, pamphlets, web pages, etc. serve the Plan under the Guidance of the Holy Spirit. The world is filled with "parables of hope," and this describes the PeaceHouse and the Awakening Mind ministry that were Given to extend our shared Purpose.
All is offered freely, for there is no cost to anyone. Only gain, using the "process" metaphor, is possible. The desire of the heart is all that is really required.
The Holy Spirit uses time and all the things of time to undo the belief in linear time and the separate sense of self. There is no set form, though the lesson is always the same. Forgiveness, the Perspective, is the only lesson that can be learned. Seeing the cosmos as a single tapestry is Healing, for ideas leave not their source and there is no objective material universe apart from mind. This has been called having dominion over the world, for there is no threat in images once the Dreamer is aware of dreaming.
The Communion of Silence dawns as Mind Awake. Love has no opposite. There is no choice in Being. Mind reaches to Itself, It does not go out. Within Itself It has Everything. Mind is Whole, Singular, Unified, One. The horizontal "personal perspective" dissolves in the Vertical as darkness vanishes in the Light. God is the only Cause, and nothing exists outside the Mind of God.
The world is causeless and therefore without real effects. There is no "brother," be it "self" or "other," "attempting" or "trying to reach" or "striving" in Silent Communion, for All is One and recognizes Its Oneness.
There is no "enlightened person," for the construct of "person" is impossible. There is no "communication" between persons, for there is only One Mind which knows no "betweeness. " Union is not the illusion of two-getherness, for Union is wholly of and in One Divine Mind. There could never be a "joining" of fragments, for the assumption of fragmentation has no foundation in God. Communion transcends the suggestion of "parts," the belief in fragmentation.
Father and Son, Creator and Creation are the only Real Relationship. What is the Same cannot be different, and What is One cannot have separate parts. Communion is the deepest experience of Awe and Gratitude and the Vision of Christ which lifts and replaces the veil of perception forever. An experience that ends all doubting is the experience of Silent Communion.
When symbols merge and have no distinctiveness the time for words is almost over. Words are but symbols of symbols, twice removed from Reality.
They were made as labels for attack thoughts or illusory fragments. As the impossibility of fragmentation dawns, the Name of God safely replaces all symbols. Oneness is Supreme Happiness, and as Silent Communion deepens, there is no need for words or labels.
Divine Communication is a continuous Song of Thanks that Creation sings to Creator, Who returns the Thanks. There are no levels, no layers, no categories, and no differences in Oneness. There is no problem to be solved in the Acceptance of Atonement, for the truth is true and nothing else is true! I thank God!
Spiritual community is a state of mind, and the Purpose of Atonement is witnessed to when the Purpose is held dear. By inviting Christ into one's heart one beholds the symbols of the forgiven world in a unified Purpose.
The Communion of Silence Calls, and the mind emptied of illusions and fantasies is made ready. When Jesus broke bread and drank wine with the apostles in the upper room he reminded them: "Do this in remembrance of me." In every holy encounter and within the holy instant we include our very Being in the Communion of God and Christ and Their Eternal Dance.
I am coming to Australia upon invitation, which I happily received and accepted. Our journey together now is not the way of the cross - it is the Way of the Heart. Sacrifice and deprivation are behind us now, and Joy is the abundantly Given choice available for Awakening.
Love waits on welcome and acceptance, and this is now the focus. This tour of Australia will mirror the mind's journey to the remembrance of God's Love. We will begin on the Gold Coast and journey upward toward an Easter retreat and resurrection celebration high in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. We ascend as One Self, the Living Christ.
In 2007 I have been hearing the theme: `Make no compromise.' The Communion of Silence Calls, and as the year unfolds I feel Called to yield ever deeper to the Call. I have stepped back from many of the functions I have extended in Purpose over the last 16 years, although I still feel a Calling to travel for some of this year.
It will be a year of witnesses to the Silence of Holy Communion. The hush of Heaven holds my heart, and our joining comes in reverence to our Creator. I think of the brothers that joined St Francis and the sisters that joined Mother Teresa and the apostles that joined Jesus in the quest for remembrance of God. There is much to celebrate this Easter and every moment of every day! Arise in Christ, as Christ, forever Christ as One Self in God's Love. Arise and rejoice that Innocence is invulnerable and unassailable, and that the time of true Freedom is at hand. Now is the time.
My friend Isira will be joining the retreat in the Blue Mountains for a day and sharing the Light and Laughter and Divine Love of the One. This Oneness transcends the roads that seem to approach It. Truth is a pathless experience that knows no opposite, far beyond the symbols of the world. Beyond east and west, male and female, young and old, beginner and advanced, you are worthy of the experience of Love Beloved Child of God.
I invite you to join in at any time, at any place, in any part of the tour - and rejoice with us! Join in the discussions along the way. Share your experiences and raise your questions. Meditate and pray with us. Share a meal with us. Climb the mountain with us. Dance and move with us. Stretch with us and expand into the Identity Which God created Forever One. This is an experience of the Awakening Mind. Everyone is included.
I hope to see you in March and April.
In Love and Gratitude,
David
We will be celebrating Love's Divine Oneness in a way that honors the Spirit's use of all the symbols of the world in peace and love and harmony. Eastern symbols and western symbols, including languages and traditions and music and practices will be expressed and shared. Easter celebrates the remembrance of our Original Innocence, and together we Awaken in Love: Giving Divinity and taking nothing personally.
We will begin the Easter program, our final day of the retreat at 7:00 amIsira will share at 8:30 - 10:00 amIsira and I will answer questions and we will have our closing celebration from 10:00 - 11:30 am
Click the link below to register for the Blue Mountains retreat:Weds 4 April -
Sun 8 -- April Blue Mountains Retreat
BLUE MOUNTAINS RETREAT - WEDNESDAY, 4 APRIL ARRIVAL FROM 2 PM TO SUNDAY 8 APRIL NOON. 4 NIGHTS INCLUSIVE ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS. Includes: accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner, teas etc.,
About David Hoffmeister (from Raj)
THE VOICE FOR GOD "Everyone hears it and yet recognizes it not"
David Hoffmeister is a passionate and deeply committed ACIM disciple. Even more, his life is a shining demonstration of a healed mind. This is why there are always so very many people who come to his blessed gatherings of love.
IF ENLIGHTENMENT IS WHAT YOU ARE SEEKING - TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE A MASTER
During the past two years David has taught and shared with like minded people in Argentina, Colombia, England, Chile, France, Germany, Austria, Peru, New Zealand, Canada, and Spain in the last two years. Now it is Australia's turn to experience this remarkable man and disciple of A COURSE IN MIRACLES.
"Every encounter I have is a chance to get to know me in the truest sense. What I am always teaching is that there are no private thoughts and no private minds. I make myself available to answer questions and to facilitate the expression of the Holy Spirit, which comes through many people, not just myself. And so there is a great feeling of joy. My purpose is to experience peace. You have to be open to your own healing." David
The teachings from David are inspired by the Holy Spirit and Jesus Christ. They are reflected in reading material such as the Bible, A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Christian Science, the Urantia Book, Disappearance of the Universe and other books. They offer a roadmap inward to Heaven, through forgiveness, as taught in A Course in Miracles.
Ask and it will be given to you Seek and you will find Knock and the door will be opened to you
From David…
"We want to be so thorough in tracing "specific personal choices" back to the false belief that underlies them all, that there is the opening for the grand moment that seems to change everything and yet is changeless, this Instant.
The teaching I share is that enlightenment is available this very moment. And anything in one's mind that stands in the way of that recognition of enlightenment right now must first be questioned, and then seen for what it is - illusion.
Please don't get into comparing who is enlightened and who is not. Enlightenment is not personal. Just consider these ideas and the holiness of the intention to be clear. Just say and mean: "I want peace! I want it more than anything else.
I'm going to drop all my masks. I see that in order to drop them, I'm going to have to look at them. I want to see the masks for what they are. I want to discern the false from the true — to be right-minded. What a precious opportunity this is!"
Can you think of anything more important than looking at one's own mind and examining the obstacles to this recognition? Is there anything that even comes close to that? This is a very precious opportunity! "
I am happy to share some thoughts about the way I `arrived' at feeling the complete contentment of this Present Moment. The form of the inner journey seems different for everyone, though there are commonalities that give a hint of the same Purpose that unites us all.
For everyone the journey involves an undoing, an unlearning, or an unraveling of beliefs and concepts and assumptions about everything. As the mind is emptied of concepts it becomes obvious that nothing of form and appearances can be assumed to be true, and yet trust in a Wisdom not of this world grows stronger and stronger in awareness until a State of Certainty of Identity emerges.
For me I can say that it began with a sense of curiosity about the meaning of life. Questions about purpose and healing and direction and death and unrecognized beliefs flittered about my mind and kept recurring over and over like a music play list. Most of my childhood and teen years held enough worries and concerns and hobbies to keep my mind distracted from this curiosity, but after I entered university studies the questions about the purpose of everything could not be kept out of awareness.
I used time in a truly helpful manner during 10 years of university studies by literally questioning everything I believed and questioning everything I had previously assumed to be real and true. I was able to release thoughts that told me I should just pick a role and play a part and grow old and die, and I knew in my heart that there was something amiss with the world I perceived.
Though I did not know what had distorted my perception of the world or how to escape the picture of conflict, I knew that freedom and peace and love and joy were what I hoped to experience and live.
When my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer and I watched him wither away to appear like a walking skeleton, and then I experienced his death, my spiritual journey to `Know Thyself' got a jump start and kicked into full speed ahead. Questions that I had never given myself permission to ask came flooding into awareness, and the answers and insights came flooding in as well.
Before I began graduate studies I had found a trustworthy gateway Home - a tickle in my heart that seemed to be Guiding me ever more rapidly inward, developing and strengthening my trust in the Intuitive Spirit, and unfolding before me the steps leading beyond the thinking of the world.
As I followed the tickle I found books that accelerated the opening of my mind, I met people that witnessed to my desire to be truly free, and I experienced glimpses of the deep peace and love that passeth the understanding of the world. Suddenly every relationship was a golden opportunity to heal, every upset was an inroad to unconscious false beliefs, and every opening of my heart was a Homecoming celebration. I was being called out of the thinking of the world to the Kingdom of Heaven within.
After two years of immersing with A Course In Miracles, often for eight hours a day, I began hearing the Voice of Jesus speaking clearly and specifically in my mind, instructing me in the ways of mastering His teachings on forgiveness. I received directions of where to go and what to say and do, lessons in discerning right-minded thinking from wrong-minded thinking, and I was told specifically what was most helpful in terms of the use of time, resources, effort, and money. This opened the way for the next phase of my mind training which was letting the Holy Spirit speak through me. It was one thing to listen and follow the Voice for God.
The next phase required willingness to allow the Holy Spirit to speak using the voice of David, and I was Given numerous assignments to practice this willingness. Jesus guided me to travel throughout the United States and Canada and speak where I was invited to speak, although the entire process felt more like being `spoken through.'
At first I took small trips to New York and Michigan. In the Summer of 1991 the trips became much longer as I set out on my first 5 ½ week journey through the Southwest of the United States and up through the Pacific Northwest (including a visit to Salt Springs Island in Canada) before returning to Cincinnati via Wisconsin and Michigan.
During the first long trip and during all subsequent trips I learned to place complete faith and trust in Jesus and the Holy Spirit to provide for my physical, emotional, and psychological needs. The development of trust was essential for me in order to release my past conditioning and beliefs about survival and safety and protection and planning.
I was learning to be God-dependent by placing my single Purpose out in front and letting the Spirit guide and direct each teaching-learning situation and every holy encounter along the path I walked. In some respects it felt as if I was living out a dream or a fairytale because each day there were so many synchronicities happening and so many apparent `solutions' appearing before any `problem' could even be defined or imagined.
The invitations and offers of help extended throughout the range of the human experience spectrum, from places to stay to food to transportation to books and music to help digging out of a snow storm and emergency road service and towing. I started traveling with no savings in the bank and no worldly investments or organizational support, only feeling impelled to share all the love in my heart and trust that everything I needed to fulfill my function would be provided by Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
After several years of living and traveling in this way I began to meet friends who wanted to share more time being around me, asking their questions and closely observing the way I lived my life to gain insight into the principles and teachings I held dear.
These friends and I began living in spiritual community, and though the names and faces have seemed to change throughout the decade that would follow, this deep feeling of community has remained with me ever since.
Now I experience this community feeling always and in all ways in my heart whether the body of David seems stationary or in motion, alone or in a small group or among hundreds of people. The Purpose I was Called to extend has stabilized my perception of the world, and a feeling of sameness pervades everything and everyone I look upon.
It is very much like a lucid dream that is very happy and calm. The serenity comes from being aware of the dreaming and not taking any of the signs and symbols personally (as if they were actual things existing in and of themselves). The unshakable peace comes from a detachment from appearances and an unswerving dedication to shared Purpose that is continuous.
Everything that seems to come into my awareness I see as Given from the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Being Source-dependent has dissolved away all sense of lack, and thus my attention is never drawn to the images of the world for the purpose of `getting' anything. The images are freed from past egoic intentions and therefore free Now to be used by the Spirit to inspire and bless and comfort in the Plan of Awakening.
There is no question or curiosity about the timing of events and no need to figure out the meaning of the world. There is no one and nothing of the world to fix or change. Being Present allows all things to be exactly as they are.
Seeming plans and logistics and details are Given as they are necessary and helpful, though there is never an emphasis on future outcomes or goals. All that is Given comes safely and surely, and each seeming step feels obvious and natural.
In 1996 I was guided to a small house in Cincinnati, Ohio to use as a quiet retreat and also as a base for launching on subsequent travels and hosting friends from around the world. Immediately the name that was Given to the house was `PeaceHouse' and the house became a symbol for always abiding in peace of mind.
The ideas and love and joy I experience in Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit I share on the Internet and at many, many gatherings as time passes by without its touch upon me. As of the printing of this article I have shared at gatherings and stops and visits in 19 countries around the world and in countless holy encounters and Course In Miracles groups as well. The invitations have kept coming and so I go wherever the Spirit Guides in response to the Inner Invitation to join Given by Christ.
The gatherings I share are always very open discussions. As I go to the gatherings I have the willingness to show up in mind and to be truly helpful. I have no agenda and no clue what will be asked or if there will even be talking or not.
Instead, I make myself available to answer questions and to facilitate the expression of the Holy Spirit, which comes through many people, not just myself. People come from so many different backgrounds, cultures and languages. Sometimes I don't even speak the language, but translators show up and it seems like the Holy Spirit is orchestrating the whole thing just for me to share this state of joy and peace and happiness. I'm there to join with everyone.
Those that show up in my gatherings are showing up calling for help. I would say that the Holy Spirit is extremely practical and meets every questioner with what could be most helpful. There is no formula and there is no set answer that can be given across the board because people's consciousness and awareness have such a range.
But when I'm showing up, I truly show up to be only helpful and the Spirit flows through me. I experience joy and so does everyone else in the room. So typically, by the end of the gathering, there are lots of hugs and kisses, sometimes tears, and always a feeling of lightness and joy.
Every encounter I have is a chance to get to know me in the truest sense. What I am always teaching is that there are no private thoughts and no private minds. So the experience that I have when we gather together is of our sameness. We share the same Spirit. This is a feeling more than a group of concepts. It's still always an adventure for me to meet my Self over and over in many delightful ways. I like the spontaneity of the encounters. I like the sense of innocence that we experience together.
I always share in gatherings that there is nothing off limits. This offers a sense of openness that enables everyone to express whatever they're feeling in the moment. This is how we know ourselves. We take the lid off all our feelings and emotions. We bare our soul, and we realize we are not judged for baring our soul. People who I've met along the way feel like they can talk to me and unburden their soul no matter how shameful they feel about it.
I extend what is Given to share and thus remain aware of the I AM THAT I AM. Giving all to all is what having means, and our Heavenly Father's Kingdom is what One Mind has and what One Mind is. In the "process" sense, the more that is shared with those who seek indeed offers more to share. This is, however, the sharing that seems to occur on the horizontal plane and seems to involve the body and words and computers and smiles and hugs, etc.
Yet beyond all "process" and "level" metaphors and symbols, the experience of forgiveness is very, very, very simple! It is a Perspective that is glorious to behold, filled with gratitude and joy, for it is incapable of perceiving any differences at all. Another way of saying this is that forgiveness is devoid of any judgment of specifics, for the Perspective simply sees the false as false, or the falsity of all images.
I share this Perspective with all, for it is the only Perspective that can be shared. There is but one Dreamer of the dream, and in this Perspective all perception is already Healed.
I have no "schedule" to fit anything into. The present moment leaves no "room" for the ordering of "events, situations, and happenings." I watch a stream of past images and simply listen and follow what is Given Within, and that is the Source of all happiness, freedom, peace, and joy!
The PeaceHouse is a symbol that represents a light, happy, and very reverent state of mind. It is not special or sacred "in and of itself," for nothing exists apart from God as a separate entity "in and of itself." Yet in serving the Holy Spirit's Purpose, everyone is welcome and greeted very warmly. All are included in the Spirit's Purpose.
All are reminded of Who they Are. The Presence of God is always very apparent to a mind that is willing to receive that which God has Given forever. Teaching aids appear in many forms, and words, music, books, tapes, videos, DVDs, Cds, pamphlets, web pages, etc. serve the Plan under the Guidance of the Holy Spirit. The world is filled with "parables of hope," and this describes the PeaceHouse and the Awakening Mind ministry that were Given to extend our shared Purpose.
All is offered freely, for there is no cost to anyone. Only gain, using the "process" metaphor, is possible. The desire of the heart is all that is really required.
The Holy Spirit uses time and all the things of time to undo the belief in linear time and the separate sense of self. There is no set form, though the lesson is always the same. Forgiveness, the Perspective, is the only lesson that can be learned. Seeing the cosmos as a single tapestry is Healing, for ideas leave not their source and there is no objective material universe apart from mind. This has been called having dominion over the world, for there is no threat in images once the Dreamer is aware of dreaming.
The Communion of Silence dawns as Mind Awake. Love has no opposite. There is no choice in Being. Mind reaches to Itself, It does not go out. Within Itself It has Everything. Mind is Whole, Singular, Unified, One. The horizontal "personal perspective" dissolves in the Vertical as darkness vanishes in the Light. God is the only Cause, and nothing exists outside the Mind of God.
The world is causeless and therefore without real effects. There is no "brother," be it "self" or "other," "attempting" or "trying to reach" or "striving" in Silent Communion, for All is One and recognizes Its Oneness.
There is no "enlightened person," for the construct of "person" is impossible. There is no "communication" between persons, for there is only One Mind which knows no "betweeness. " Union is not the illusion of two-getherness, for Union is wholly of and in One Divine Mind. There could never be a "joining" of fragments, for the assumption of fragmentation has no foundation in God. Communion transcends the suggestion of "parts," the belief in fragmentation.
Father and Son, Creator and Creation are the only Real Relationship. What is the Same cannot be different, and What is One cannot have separate parts. Communion is the deepest experience of Awe and Gratitude and the Vision of Christ which lifts and replaces the veil of perception forever. An experience that ends all doubting is the experience of Silent Communion.
When symbols merge and have no distinctiveness the time for words is almost over. Words are but symbols of symbols, twice removed from Reality.
They were made as labels for attack thoughts or illusory fragments. As the impossibility of fragmentation dawns, the Name of God safely replaces all symbols. Oneness is Supreme Happiness, and as Silent Communion deepens, there is no need for words or labels.
Divine Communication is a continuous Song of Thanks that Creation sings to Creator, Who returns the Thanks. There are no levels, no layers, no categories, and no differences in Oneness. There is no problem to be solved in the Acceptance of Atonement, for the truth is true and nothing else is true! I thank God!
Spiritual community is a state of mind, and the Purpose of Atonement is witnessed to when the Purpose is held dear. By inviting Christ into one's heart one beholds the symbols of the forgiven world in a unified Purpose.
The Communion of Silence Calls, and the mind emptied of illusions and fantasies is made ready. When Jesus broke bread and drank wine with the apostles in the upper room he reminded them: "Do this in remembrance of me." In every holy encounter and within the holy instant we include our very Being in the Communion of God and Christ and Their Eternal Dance.
I am coming to Australia upon invitation, which I happily received and accepted. Our journey together now is not the way of the cross - it is the Way of the Heart. Sacrifice and deprivation are behind us now, and Joy is the abundantly Given choice available for Awakening.
Love waits on welcome and acceptance, and this is now the focus. This tour of Australia will mirror the mind's journey to the remembrance of God's Love. We will begin on the Gold Coast and journey upward toward an Easter retreat and resurrection celebration high in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney. We ascend as One Self, the Living Christ.
In 2007 I have been hearing the theme: `Make no compromise.' The Communion of Silence Calls, and as the year unfolds I feel Called to yield ever deeper to the Call. I have stepped back from many of the functions I have extended in Purpose over the last 16 years, although I still feel a Calling to travel for some of this year.
It will be a year of witnesses to the Silence of Holy Communion. The hush of Heaven holds my heart, and our joining comes in reverence to our Creator. I think of the brothers that joined St Francis and the sisters that joined Mother Teresa and the apostles that joined Jesus in the quest for remembrance of God. There is much to celebrate this Easter and every moment of every day! Arise in Christ, as Christ, forever Christ as One Self in God's Love. Arise and rejoice that Innocence is invulnerable and unassailable, and that the time of true Freedom is at hand. Now is the time.
My friend Isira will be joining the retreat in the Blue Mountains for a day and sharing the Light and Laughter and Divine Love of the One. This Oneness transcends the roads that seem to approach It. Truth is a pathless experience that knows no opposite, far beyond the symbols of the world. Beyond east and west, male and female, young and old, beginner and advanced, you are worthy of the experience of Love Beloved Child of God.
I invite you to join in at any time, at any place, in any part of the tour - and rejoice with us! Join in the discussions along the way. Share your experiences and raise your questions. Meditate and pray with us. Share a meal with us. Climb the mountain with us. Dance and move with us. Stretch with us and expand into the Identity Which God created Forever One. This is an experience of the Awakening Mind. Everyone is included.
I hope to see you in March and April.
In Love and Gratitude,
David
Monday, March 19, 2007
LESSON 77 ACIM Workbook
You are entitled to miracles because of what you are.
You will receive miracles because of what God is.
And you will offer miracles because you are one with God.
Again, how simple is salvation!
It is merely a statement of your true Identity.
It is this that we will celebrate today.
Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusions about yourself.
It does not depend on any magical powers you have ascribed to yourself,
nor on any of the rituals you have devised.
It is inherent in the truth of what you are.
It is implicit in what God your Father is.
It was ensured in your creation, and guaranteed by the laws of God.
Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you.
You have been promised full release from the world you made.
You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost.
We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth.
Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.
Begin the longer practice periods by telling yourself quite confidently that you are entitled to miracles.
Closing your eyes, remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours.
Remind yourself also that miracles are never taken from one and given to another,
and that in asking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone.
Miracles do not obey the laws of this world.
They merely follow from the laws of God.
After this brief introductory phase, wait quietly for the assurance that your request is granted.
You have asked for the salvation of the world, and for your own.
You have requested that you be given the means by which this is accomplished.
You cannot fail to be assured in this.
You are but asking that the Will of God be done.
In doing this, you do not really ask for anything.
You state a fact that cannot be denied.
The Holy Spirit cannot but assure you that your request is granted.
The fact that you accepted must be so.
There is no room for doubt and uncertainty today.
We are asking a real question at last.
The answer is a simple statement of a simple fact.
You will receive the assurance that you seek.
Our shorter practice periods will be frequent,
and will also be devoted to a reminder of a simple fact.
Tell yourself often today: I am entitled to miracles.
Ask for them whenever a situation arises in which they are called for.
You will recognize these situations.
And since you are not relying on yourself to find the miracle,
you are fully entitled to receive it whenever you ask.
Remember, too, not to be satisfied with less than the perfect answer.
Be quick to tell yourself, should you be tempted:
I will not trade miracles for grievances.
I want only what belongs to me.
God has established miracles as my right.
You will receive miracles because of what God is.
And you will offer miracles because you are one with God.
Again, how simple is salvation!
It is merely a statement of your true Identity.
It is this that we will celebrate today.
Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusions about yourself.
It does not depend on any magical powers you have ascribed to yourself,
nor on any of the rituals you have devised.
It is inherent in the truth of what you are.
It is implicit in what God your Father is.
It was ensured in your creation, and guaranteed by the laws of God.
Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you.
You have been promised full release from the world you made.
You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost.
We ask no more than what belongs to us in truth.
Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not content ourselves with less.
Begin the longer practice periods by telling yourself quite confidently that you are entitled to miracles.
Closing your eyes, remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours.
Remind yourself also that miracles are never taken from one and given to another,
and that in asking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone.
Miracles do not obey the laws of this world.
They merely follow from the laws of God.
After this brief introductory phase, wait quietly for the assurance that your request is granted.
You have asked for the salvation of the world, and for your own.
You have requested that you be given the means by which this is accomplished.
You cannot fail to be assured in this.
You are but asking that the Will of God be done.
In doing this, you do not really ask for anything.
You state a fact that cannot be denied.
The Holy Spirit cannot but assure you that your request is granted.
The fact that you accepted must be so.
There is no room for doubt and uncertainty today.
We are asking a real question at last.
The answer is a simple statement of a simple fact.
You will receive the assurance that you seek.
Our shorter practice periods will be frequent,
and will also be devoted to a reminder of a simple fact.
Tell yourself often today: I am entitled to miracles.
Ask for them whenever a situation arises in which they are called for.
You will recognize these situations.
And since you are not relying on yourself to find the miracle,
you are fully entitled to receive it whenever you ask.
Remember, too, not to be satisfied with less than the perfect answer.
Be quick to tell yourself, should you be tempted:
I will not trade miracles for grievances.
I want only what belongs to me.
God has established miracles as my right.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Video from Conference
http://video. google.com/ videoplay? docid=7298232181 052176066&q=It%27s+a+Miracle+ san+francisco&hl=en
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Petaluma Weekday Morning Meditations
Weekday Morning Meditations with
Saniel Bonder
BodyWorks,
Entirely FREE—
Voluntary Donations go to COTS,
Dear Friend,
The format is quite simple—come and meditate silently with us in your own style. I begin and end with a few notes on one of my flutes. That’s it. I’d love it if you can offer a small donation to COTS, which does such marvelous work with homeless children, adults, and families here in
Monday, February 19, 2007
Advent: Great Awakening
'The Advent Of A Great Awakening'
With Teachers of A Course In Miracles
Alden & Darla Hughes
Miracles Healing Center, Wisconsin
Temenos Retreat Center
West Chester, Pennsylvania
March 16 — 18, 2007
“We invite you to discover your capacity to heal both mind AND body using the Holy Spirit energy. As Healers, we accelerate this experience by ‘quickening’ the healing essence of light in you.
The time of your resurrection is at hand. It’s time to heal all misperceptions that you could ever be subjected to sickness and death.
Come and no longer be bound by form, concepts or fear to the point of joyful communication with Eternal Love. Together in the Great Awakening, here and now we’ll experience the resurrecting Power of God!"
Friday, March 16th
7:00pm to 9:30pm
Saturday, March 17th
9:00am to 12 noon • 1:30pm to 4:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Sunday, March 18th
9:00am to 12 noon • 1:30pm to 4:30pm
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Temenos Conference and Retreat Center
1564 Telegraph Road. (Route 162)
West Chester, PA
Held at Conference & Retreat Center, NOT Farmhouse
Pictures & Directions: www.temenosretreat.org
Enjoy staying all weekend at Temenos Retreat Center
$310 per person
Includes sessions, bedroom with double occupancy for 2 nights,
2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 1 dinner, and snacks.
Enjoy all sessions and meals listed below at Temenos
$220 per person
Includes sessions, Temenos daily guest charge,
2 lunches, 1 dinner, and snacks.
Please pre-register early for rooms & meals. Required Deposit of $50
Call or e-mail for fee to attend 1 or 2 days of event.
To register and receive more information: Call Mary Williams at: 610-268-8108
For information: E-mail Sharon Young at Miracle-Minded@comcast.net
Lovingly hosted by Wilmington, Delaware Tuesday Morning Course In Miracles Group
web page
With Teachers of A Course In Miracles
Alden & Darla Hughes
Miracles Healing Center, Wisconsin
Temenos Retreat Center
West Chester, Pennsylvania
March 16 — 18, 2007
“We invite you to discover your capacity to heal both mind AND body using the Holy Spirit energy. As Healers, we accelerate this experience by ‘quickening’ the healing essence of light in you.
The time of your resurrection is at hand. It’s time to heal all misperceptions that you could ever be subjected to sickness and death.
Come and no longer be bound by form, concepts or fear to the point of joyful communication with Eternal Love. Together in the Great Awakening, here and now we’ll experience the resurrecting Power of God!"
Friday, March 16th
7:00pm to 9:30pm
Saturday, March 17th
9:00am to 12 noon • 1:30pm to 4:30pm
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Sunday, March 18th
9:00am to 12 noon • 1:30pm to 4:30pm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Temenos Conference and Retreat Center
1564 Telegraph Road. (Route 162)
West Chester, PA
Held at Conference & Retreat Center, NOT Farmhouse
Pictures & Directions: www.temenosretreat.org
Enjoy staying all weekend at Temenos Retreat Center
$310 per person
Includes sessions, bedroom with double occupancy for 2 nights,
2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 1 dinner, and snacks.
Enjoy all sessions and meals listed below at Temenos
$220 per person
Includes sessions, Temenos daily guest charge,
2 lunches, 1 dinner, and snacks.
Please pre-register early for rooms & meals. Required Deposit of $50
Call or e-mail for fee to attend 1 or 2 days of event.
To register and receive more information: Call Mary Williams at: 610-268-8108
For information: E-mail Sharon Young at Miracle-Minded@comcast.net
Lovingly hosted by Wilmington, Delaware Tuesday Morning Course In Miracles Group
web page
Monday, February 12, 2007
Living in Darkness
I was living in darkness and totally lost,
Displeasing you, not thinking of the cost.
Living in a world of sin,
I did not have a true friend.
I was so blind that I could not see
The child that you created me to be.
Forgive me, Father, for all of my sins
I desire to please you and make amends.
Help me, Father, I need you with all my heart.
Please give me another change to make a new start.
I’m begging and pleading, please hear my cry.
I lift my voice to reach the sky.
I want to feel your loving embrace.
Humbly, Lord, I am seeking your face.
I wish to be with you, eternally.
Thank you Lord for loving me.
Regina Lynn Polino
Displeasing you, not thinking of the cost.
Living in a world of sin,
I did not have a true friend.
I was so blind that I could not see
The child that you created me to be.
Forgive me, Father, for all of my sins
I desire to please you and make amends.
Help me, Father, I need you with all my heart.
Please give me another change to make a new start.
I’m begging and pleading, please hear my cry.
I lift my voice to reach the sky.
I want to feel your loving embrace.
Humbly, Lord, I am seeking your face.
I wish to be with you, eternally.
Thank you Lord for loving me.
Regina Lynn Polino
Sunday, December 17, 2006
It's A Miracle Video
It's A Miracle filmed at Endeavor Academy
by Teachers of A Course In Miracles
"World wellness week show from Endeavor Academy. This show features prayer, music and lots of light. Join us for world wellness week San Jose CA 3-5 Nov. 2006."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1292363382530082237
Saturday, December 16, 2006
A Glimpse of Grace
Dear Everyone,
We are happy to announce that a compilation of Davids Early Writings is available upon request in the form of a delightful booklet of approx 60 pages, published by the Foundation for the Awakening Mind.
This taste of David's deeply insightful Early Writings is a gift from Grace. It is filled with Divine Inspiration, all sharing the same consistent message; Release the illusion of separation for Only the Love of God is Real.
A Glimpse of Grace
By David Hoffmeister
A gem from the booklet: "I offer my Love and Thoughts for this moment. Sometimes the form may seem to utilize print, and other times the form may seem to involve a Voice or a flow of images. It is all telepathic, for All is Thought... All is Mind. The Answer always reaches mind in a way that it can grasp or learn from. I am the goal the world is searching for. The Thought behind the forms is all that really matters. The form matters not. Joyful is the experience that Love is Content and not form of any kind."
To request a booklet please email requests@awakening- mind.org or telephone the Peace House 513-898-1364(suggested donation / love offering is $10 plus $2 postage in U.S $5 overseas)
We are happy to announce that a compilation of Davids Early Writings is available upon request in the form of a delightful booklet of approx 60 pages, published by the Foundation for the Awakening Mind.
This taste of David's deeply insightful Early Writings is a gift from Grace. It is filled with Divine Inspiration, all sharing the same consistent message; Release the illusion of separation for Only the Love of God is Real.
A Glimpse of Grace
By David Hoffmeister
A gem from the booklet: "I offer my Love and Thoughts for this moment. Sometimes the form may seem to utilize print, and other times the form may seem to involve a Voice or a flow of images. It is all telepathic, for All is Thought... All is Mind. The Answer always reaches mind in a way that it can grasp or learn from. I am the goal the world is searching for. The Thought behind the forms is all that really matters. The form matters not. Joyful is the experience that Love is Content and not form of any kind."
To request a booklet please email requests@awakening- mind.org or telephone the Peace House 513-898-1364(suggested donation / love offering is $10 plus $2 postage in U.S $5 overseas)
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
from Brian
"To plan ahead is good advice in your world, where you should and must control and direct where you have accepted responsibility. But the UNIVERSAL PLAN is in more appropriate hands. You will know all you need to know. Make no attempts to plan ahead in this respect." (ACIM: Introduction to Miracles ... unedited version)
A Course in Miracles, given to us by Jesus' holy spirit which is everywhere present, repeatedly states that all problems anyone perceives are really only one problem with one solution, and the only question is are we ready for the solution?
"You made the problem which God has answered. Ask yourselves, therefore, but one simple question; "Do I want the problem or do I want the answer?" Decide for the answer, and you will have it, for you will see it as it is, and it is yours already." (ACIM: Chap. 11, The Problem and the Answer)
But then deciding for the answer ... really, really, REALLY deciding for the answer ... is the same as praying for it, isn't it? And to pray for the answer is to pray for salvation, final once and for all time salvation from pain, fear, guilt, and death. Which means to pray for the savior to be born.
Christians (as well as adherents of other religions) may argue: "But the savior has already been born." And of course you can agree. The instant God gave the answer, the savior was born. But have you experienced the savior's birth in your own consciousness, in your awareness, in feelings powerfully felt deep inside yourself and extending out to the far reaches of the universe?
Because Christmas is about you, isn't it? It's about your salvation. It's about Christ being born again in you, wouldn't you say?
So the prayer for Christmas turns out to be your prayer for the one and only experience you have ever really wanted, your prayer for the one and only bridge to heaven. If put into words, it might be something like this:
I want the experience of...
Christ being born...
this moment...
and this here and now...
and this holy instant...
this blessed Christmas presence!"
Lesson 340
Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of us but will be saved today. Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love.
Sunday, November 26, 2006
A Course in Miracles Passage
I am sustained by the Love of God.
Here is the answer to every problem
that will confront you, today and tomorrow
and throughout time.
In this world, you believe
you are sustained by everything but God.
Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols;
pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige,
being liked, knowing the "right" people, and an endless
list of forms of nothingness that you endow with
magical powers.
All these things are your replacements for the Love of God.
All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification.
They are songs of praise to the ego.
Do not put your faith in the worthless.
It will not sustain you.
Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.
It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above
all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace
and safety.
It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten,
nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon
the eternal calm of the Son of God.
Put not your faith in illusions. They will fail you.
Put all your faith in the Love of God within you;
eternal, changeless and forever unfailing.
This is the answer to whatever confronts you today.
Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve
all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence.
Tell yourself this often today.
It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols.
It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself.
--A Course in Miracles
Here is the answer to every problem
that will confront you, today and tomorrow
and throughout time.
In this world, you believe
you are sustained by everything but God.
Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols;
pills, money, "protective" clothing, influence, prestige,
being liked, knowing the "right" people, and an endless
list of forms of nothingness that you endow with
magical powers.
All these things are your replacements for the Love of God.
All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification.
They are songs of praise to the ego.
Do not put your faith in the worthless.
It will not sustain you.
Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.
It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above
all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace
and safety.
It will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten,
nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon
the eternal calm of the Son of God.
Put not your faith in illusions. They will fail you.
Put all your faith in the Love of God within you;
eternal, changeless and forever unfailing.
This is the answer to whatever confronts you today.
Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve
all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence.
Tell yourself this often today.
It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols.
It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself.
--A Course in Miracles
Thanks to the Holy One
Beloved One,
Thanks to You Holy One
to all those who have Answered
God's Call to be messengers of peace
through their peaceful Presence.
All glory to God!
Truly peace of mind is experienced
through the willingness to hold no idols
before the Lord, and thus release all self-concepts
that would block the Light from awareness.
To the thought that calls itself
'author' I say:
God is the Author
To the thought that calls itself
creative in form and boasts of its manifestations
I say
God & Christ create in Spirit
To the thought that is proud of its activities and doings and achievenments
I say,
Not one thought the world believes is true.
To the thought that claims itself
to be a role such as father, mother, sister, brother, etc. I say,
Know Thy Self as the Living Christ.
To the thought that is content to speak or write about theology as
if it knows something I say,
Lay down such foolishness and experience
the Present Moment and all Its Glory.
To the thought that believes there is such a thing as 'intellectual understanding'
I say,
Peace and understanding go together and cannot be found apart.
Joined in Purpose Beloved One, Perfection is all there is to behold.
Thanks be to God for the Purpose in which the world is forgiven and
the Light is for Giving!
Glory Is the Divine Silence that is far beyond the words and the actions
and the shadows of error.
Thanks and Joy to the One Who Inspires and rejoices in the Lord of Life.
The Joy of God is not popular in this world, for the world was made
as a defense against the Truth.
The experience is freely Offered and freely Given.
Though all are Called, few seem to Answer.
Yet is the Ending certain,
for accepting complete forgiveness (Atonement)
is inevitable and Love simply Is.
How happy is the One that realizes:
I am as God created Me!
Such is the Word of God.
Thanks for Answering God, the Holy Spirit, and Christ by
Demonstrating our Divine Love!
In Overflowing Love,
David
Thanks to You Holy One
to all those who have Answered
God's Call to be messengers of peace
through their peaceful Presence.
All glory to God!
Truly peace of mind is experienced
through the willingness to hold no idols
before the Lord, and thus release all self-concepts
that would block the Light from awareness.
To the thought that calls itself
'author' I say:
God is the Author
To the thought that calls itself
creative in form and boasts of its manifestations
I say
God & Christ create in Spirit
To the thought that is proud of its activities and doings and achievenments
I say,
Not one thought the world believes is true.
To the thought that claims itself
to be a role such as father, mother, sister, brother, etc. I say,
Know Thy Self as the Living Christ.
To the thought that is content to speak or write about theology as
if it knows something I say,
Lay down such foolishness and experience
the Present Moment and all Its Glory.
To the thought that believes there is such a thing as 'intellectual understanding'
I say,
Peace and understanding go together and cannot be found apart.
Joined in Purpose Beloved One, Perfection is all there is to behold.
Thanks be to God for the Purpose in which the world is forgiven and
the Light is for Giving!
Glory Is the Divine Silence that is far beyond the words and the actions
and the shadows of error.
Thanks and Joy to the One Who Inspires and rejoices in the Lord of Life.
The Joy of God is not popular in this world, for the world was made
as a defense against the Truth.
The experience is freely Offered and freely Given.
Though all are Called, few seem to Answer.
Yet is the Ending certain,
for accepting complete forgiveness (Atonement)
is inevitable and Love simply Is.
How happy is the One that realizes:
I am as God created Me!
Such is the Word of God.
Thanks for Answering God, the Holy Spirit, and Christ by
Demonstrating our Divine Love!
In Overflowing Love,
David
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Machen (ProBrilliance) Replys
Dear Carl,
We've all heard how important FOCUS is to our Success and Happiness. Remember...what ever we focus on expands. Make it up! Make it fun! Make it happen!
Machen www.ProBrilliance.com
See Below
FOCUS STATEMENT:
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."
-Thomas Edison
FOCUS EXERCISE:
Q: What are the areas of your career and life that bring you the most joy? Love working with color and sound, and the unseen and unheard. Healing. Undoing. Doing through spirit.
Q: How can you inspire others to live their dream as well? teaching and thinking as a master of truth.
Truth masters us with love.
Q: When will you start removing the tolerations and move towards what you really want? When I accept the reality of who I am
Q: Who will you become as you seek to discover more fun in your life and career? Who am I am: a star in a constellation of them
Q: Where will this new focus improve your life? all aspects wealth, family, love, unity, self, and more
Q: Why? God is
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Each week or so, I'll share with you a focusing statement with a brief 6 step exercise that will help you stay focused on what you want for yourself.
Make it up! Make it fun! Make it happen! TM
Machen
www.ProBrilliance.com
ProBrilliance! Leadership Institute
12114 Polaris Drive
Grass Valley, CA 95949
www.ProBrilliance.com
We've all heard how important FOCUS is to our Success and Happiness. Remember...what ever we focus on expands. Make it up! Make it fun! Make it happen!
Machen www.ProBrilliance.com
See Below
FOCUS STATEMENT:
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun."
-Thomas Edison
FOCUS EXERCISE:
Q: What are the areas of your career and life that bring you the most joy? Love working with color and sound, and the unseen and unheard. Healing. Undoing. Doing through spirit.
Q: How can you inspire others to live their dream as well? teaching and thinking as a master of truth.
Truth masters us with love.
Q: When will you start removing the tolerations and move towards what you really want? When I accept the reality of who I am
Q: Who will you become as you seek to discover more fun in your life and career? Who am I am: a star in a constellation of them
Q: Where will this new focus improve your life? all aspects wealth, family, love, unity, self, and more
Q: Why? God is
___________________________________________
Each week or so, I'll share with you a focusing statement with a brief 6 step exercise that will help you stay focused on what you want for yourself.
Make it up! Make it fun! Make it happen! TM
Machen
www.ProBrilliance.com
ProBrilliance! Leadership Institute
12114 Polaris Drive
Grass Valley, CA 95949
www.ProBrilliance.com
Thursday, November 02, 2006
from Pro Brilliance
Dear Carl,
I just wanted to tell you about an upcoming episode of Larry King Live
that I really think you will enjoy--TONIGHT, November 2, at 6:00 p.m. (PST).
(Check times in your area- especially overseas friends and family)
And...let others know about it, too, please.
On the show, Larry will be discussing how thinking positive thoughts and
changing your frame of reference can transform your life and business.
Several of my good friends are also going to be featured. Here is the line up for
the two shows:
John Assaraf www.onecoach.com
Bob Proctor www.bobproctor.com
JZ Knight www.ramtha.com
Rev Michael Beckwith www.agapelive.com
Dr. John DeMartini www.drdemartini.com
Guests on Part 2 (Nov. 16) are:
James Ray www.jamesray.com
Jack Canfield www.jackcanfield.com
Dr. Joe Vitale www.mrfire.com
George Pratt www.drgeorgepratt.com
Jayne Payne www.theintensiveprogram.com
Here's where we need your help...Share this news with everyone you know who
needs to hear it!
And, if you like what you saw, then we encourage you to send a message to the
producers of Larry King Live (http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?12)
to tell them you'd like to see more shows like this.
So get out your calendar and mark this down so you don't forget!
Part 1 to air November 2, at 6:00 p.m. (PST) Part 2 to air November 16, at 6:00 p.m. (PST)
Larry King Live airs on CNN at 6:00 p.m. (PST) and re-airs at 9:00 p.m. (PST) and 12 Midnight (PST).
The show airs overseas on CNN International, as well. See www.cnn.com/larryking for more
information, or check your local CNN listings.
Thank you for your support, and I hope you enjoy the show!
All the best,
Machen
Make it up--> make it fun --> make it happen
ProBrilliance!
12114 Polaris Drive
Grass Valley, CA
95949
US
Thursday, October 26, 2006
From David
"Knowledge has no purpose but that you become spiritual through it."
Swedenborg
Here are the metaphysics
I have shared for the last 15 years and a recent series of holy
encounters that I enjoyed over the past week that symbolize the
forgiven world or the happy dream.
This world is an illusion
There is no world
There are no bodies
God did not make this world
God does not know about this world
(Love, Truth, Reality) is of God, and this is why the above is so.
The only Purpose for the illusion is to forgive it.
Swedenborg
Here are the metaphysics
I have shared for the last 15 years and a recent series of holy
encounters that I enjoyed over the past week that symbolize the
forgiven world or the happy dream.
This world is an illusion
There is no world
There are no bodies
God did not make this world
God does not know about this world
(Love, Truth, Reality) is of God, and this is why the above is so.
The only Purpose for the illusion is to forgive it.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Danish Ahmed:Message about "Conversations with God"
While I was watching the movie I was overwhelmed with emotion and was crying tears of gratitude for this amazing life I have created. I looked at my life and felt proud but then I started to feel sorrow for something that I felt was missing. I wanted a spiritual experience with a woman that I was crazy about, who connected with me on every level, and who wanted to be with me as much as I wanted to be with her.
My intention is to be in a committed monogamous relationship, which would encompass the chemistry I mentioned; and I felt I would be in this type of relationship soon. While watching the movie, I was in a conversation with God myself. Towards the end of the movie, I requested "Please, just give me a sign, a taste, a knowing that I will be in this beautiful sacred connection."
The movie finished and I fell asleep.
The next day, I got a mysterious call. "Hi. This is Christina."
"Christina who?" I asked. (I know many Christina's.) She excitedly said her last name, which I didn't catch. After about a minute, I finally said, "I still don't know who you are." She triggered my memory by recounting the fun way in which we first met and I was thrilled to talk to an amazing friend I hadn't heard from in three years.
Christina and I had met about five years ago. I had a crush on her, though I knew she was unavailable. We connected on so many levels, had amazing conversations about everything, and really understood each other. She would come over to my house and read "Conversations with God" to me. The book had a huge impact on her life, and on my life, and this created yet another bond we shared. All kinds of events occurred to enable us to be spontaneous -- both our agendas for that evening were cancelled. Of course we agreed to get together and watch the movie.
After the movie we went out for dinner. Then she dropped an interesting question: "Would you be interested in going up to my cottage?" I accepted the invitation.
Christina knew that this would be such a special experience for me. And since I like sharing my special life experiences, Christina suggested that I write about all of this in an upcoming newsletter. (So I do have her permission, and it has been edited by her.)
As we continued the two-and-a-half hour drive, Christina would be conscious of pointing-out visual things in nature for my benefit. I mentioned how I cannot see details in nature, and it is strange how most people can sit in nature for hours on end and be totally mesmerized by it, appreciating the beauty of life. I just get bored after ten minutes and want to do something else. I couldn't understand how people could be mesmerized by nature for such a long period of time. It was another fascinating onversation.
Christina knows that I can only see things very close, so when we got to the cottage, she gave me permission to look at her closely. I looked into her eyes, touched her face, and just sat there in the space of love with her for about ten minutes. After fifteen minutes, I started noticing very small details on her face that I hadn't noticed before. I asked her questions about the curves and wrinkles on her face, and complimented her on her beauty.
After twenty minutes, I started crying. I started to become present to how people could sit in nature for hours on end and be totally mesmerized, how they could notice all sorts of details that they couldn't notice before, how they could start seeing all the small intricacies of nature and start becoming present to source energy. I've had the experience of euphoria before, though usually through meditation. For the first time in my life, I started to have this experience of bliss become present simply through physical beauty.
I was really nervous. I've been with women before, but somehow this was totally different. I've been nervous before, but usually that goes away relatively quickly. I shared this with Christina as we cuddled and held each other. I explained that I was nervous more than at other times because of how deeply I felt the connection between us on so many levels. I said, "I love you. I love you because intellectually you challenge me. I love you because emotionally you connect with me. I love you because spiritually you already know me better than I know myself. I love you because sexually you are so sensual, soulful, and beautiful!"
Christina explained that this night was a fantasy she had since we had first met five years ago. I felt like I was continuing a conversation with God. Everything about the evening was so serendipitous and cosmic. Everything was just falling perfectly into place like a fairytale.
She invited me to join her in the shower or wait for her in bed. I gathered my thoughts and cleaned up the area as Christina went to shower. I didn't know whether I should join her or not. Several moments passed as I continued to consider what I should do. Since she still wasn't finished, I thought this was a sign from the universe that I should go in.
As I walked into the shower, I saw Christina's full naked body for the first time. Her wet hair was long and flowing down her back and she looked like a Goddess. The inviting smile she gave me as she looked my way had my heart just melt. Christina and I continued to have three hours of profound intimacy that neither of us had yet experienced. I was truly living the night of my dreams...
Christina lives in another country and is not able to be in a committed relationship right now because she is totally free and committed to herself. While that may seem strange to some, I choose to see it as a sign I asked God for, and therefore my own creation.
My conversation with God hasn't ended. I'm having a Conversation with God all the time. My thoughts are manifesting into my reality, and my reality is therefore a communication back from God to me.
My thoughts are what I say to God.
My reality is what God says to me.
As Neale Donald Walsch says, "We are all having a Conversation with God."
And to God (and to Christina) I say, "Thank you for the night of my life. Thank you for the life of my dreams."
"Conversations with God" is a monumental movie, setting the standard for inspirational entertainment. I've seen the movie three times already, and each time it has a deeper impact on me. I encourage you to go and watch the movie, and discover Your Conversation with God.
"On October 22, Conversations with God is going to open in theatres everywhere across the
-- Steven Simon, Producer & Director of "Conversations with God"
Love,
Danish Ahmed
Monday, October 16, 2006
Working With Spirit
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7PM How does one stay in touch with one's spirituality while engaged in day-to-day work activities? Every working day presents challenges to our composure, ethics and compassion. What practices, methods or insights help keep us grounded in our higher selves, oriented to our center, and bringing forth expressions of the divine in all our dealings?
Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco
Working With Spirit co-sponsored with Social Venture Network.
Some Questions We'll Consider...
We invite you to sit in the circle bringing your curiosity to honestly inquire, your courage to be open to new ideas and your passion to engage this inquiry with "humble chutzpah". Whether you speak, or remain silent, this dialogue promises something for everyone who works in the world and wishes to grow spiritually.
Conversation Starters
Chip Conley, founder, Joie de Vivre Hospitality,largest boutique hotel operator in California, includes 28 hotels, 8 restaurants and bars, and 3 day spas; author, Marketing That Matters (forthcoming)
Margot Fraser, founder and former owner of Birkenstock Footprint Sandals, Inc., the original importer of Birkenstock footwear in the United States
Yosi Amram, founder and CEO of two companies, now an executive coach, currently working on his PhD in clinical psychology focusing on spiritual intelligence
| Schedule | Registration 7:00 PM; Meeting Begins 7:15-9:30 PM |
| Location | Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center 747 Front St. (@ Broadway) 3rd Floor, San Francisco (see map) |
Admission | $20 in advance by registering online; $25 in advance (by email, phone or check); $30 at the door. To register online, go to Registration. |
Check our website at www.ThePresidioDialogues.org for more information, directions and to pre-register online for only $20.
And feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you know who may be interested.
The Presidio Dialogues, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center
747 Front Street, Third Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111-1920
http://tpd.c.topica.com/maafdJYabtK5IbR0fode/
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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from Hay House:
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"Dr. Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Louise Hay, plus a select group of extraordinary world experts are lining up to support Gary Renard and all of them are generously offering YOU their profound tools and resources immediately upon ordering one copy of Gary's new book Your Immortal Reality today!
"For several months a team of experts have worked to pull this offer together for you. It won’t be available next week, next month or even next year! Right now is when you get this deal—no other time. So, please we encourage you to take action right now!
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"Your Immortal Reality could be one of THE most important books on this planet and it is now available to you to help you understand the deepest insights of spirituality. And, if you know anything about Gary Renard he has this incredible sense of humor and it is woven throughout the book that makes you laugh and smile as you are becoming enlightened! This could be the clue as to why his books take off like book-rockets!
"Go here and you will find all of the fun details:
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"Enjoy!
"P.S. Please be sure to share this email announcement with others. I think they will also be amazed at the extent of this generous offer. Provide them with the link to make it easier for them. Here it is again for you:
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http://promos.hayhouse.com/promos/renard/
"Some of the world’s greatest spiritual and transformational leaders are lining up to support Gary Renard today and you benefit in a big way as a result.
"Maybe you have seen offers similar to this before….where authors gather up a bunch of bonus gifts to entice you to invest in their book (which, by the way, is a beneficial thing in of itself), but THIS particular offer IS different and it warrants your attention right now.
http://promos.hayhouse.com/promos/renard/
"Dr. Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Louise Hay, plus a select group of extraordinary world experts are lining up to support Gary Renard and all of them are generously offering YOU their profound tools and resources immediately upon ordering one copy of Gary's new book Your Immortal Reality today!"For several months a team of experts have worked to pull this offer together for you. It won’t be available next week, next month or even next year! Right now is when you get this deal—no other time. So, please we encourage you to take action right now!
http://promos.hayhouse.com/promos/renard/
"Your Immortal Reality could be one of THE most important books on this planet and it is now available to you to help you understand the deepest insights of spirituality. And, if you know anything about Gary Renard he has this incredible sense of humor and it is woven throughout the book that makes you laugh and smile as you are becoming enlightened! This could be the clue as to why his books take off like book-rockets!
"Go here and you will find all of the fun details:
http://promos.hayhouse.com/promos/renard/
"Enjoy!
"P.S. Please be sure to share this email announcement with others. I think they will also be amazed at the extent of this generous offer. Provide them with the link to make it easier for them. Here it is again for you:
http://promos.hayhouse.com/promos/renard/"
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
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