Enjoy the first 6 CDs of this 15 CD set titled Awake in the Mind: Intensive on the Bay (with Enlightened ACIM Teacher David Hoffmeister). The Intensive was recorded over a two week period in Traverse City, Michigan. You can order more of the set by e-mailing requests@awakening-mind.org
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David began his journey to spiritual enlightenment in 1986 when he encountered A Course in Miracles and recognized it as the tool he had been seeking for a radical transformation of his mind and perceptions. In the early years David studied the Course with passionate intensity, often reading it for eight or more hours a day. After two years of this study, David began to seek the company of other students of ACIM, attending as many as five groups a week. He was startled to find that a Voice was speaking through him with great authority, so that many began referring their questions to him.
Among family members, friends and teachers, David was always known for questioning everything, rather than accepting conventional answers. Thus he was delighted to find in the Course support and encouragement from the Voice of Jesus for his careful examination of every idea, belief, concept and assumption in his mind. Jesus became David's internal teacher, answering his every question, guiding him to hand over the day-to-day management of all relationships, circumstances and events in his life, and providing inner discernment.
In 1991 David was impelled to make another leap of trust and to begin traveling around the United States and Canada, sharing his clarity of understanding related to A Course in Miracles. He followed Jesus' instructions to "become as a child", allowing himself to be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit for money, transportation, shelter, food and the words to speak in countless ACIM gatherings, churches, metaphysical and spiritual groups and a host of holy encounters with persons who knew nothing of the Course. David found that it was his constant joy and peace that was the best teacher in all encounters, and that it was this peace that all his brothers and sisters were seeking. The Voice of Jesus told David – as it instructed the apostles 2,000 years before, "Freely you have received; freely give." Thus David has never charged for his time, teaching or any of the many materials he gives away, but has been supported entirely by love offerings. In all his years of traveling and sharing the wisdom of Christ, David has become a living demonstration of the principles of A Course in Miracles, such lessons as:
"I am sustained by the Love of God." "I am the light of the world." "I will step back and let him lead the way." "In my defenselessness my safety lies." "God's will for me is perfect happiness."
David learned through countless miracles that he could perfectly trust the Holy Spirit to provide for him and guide him through every situation. Everything he seemed to need to accomplish his purpose as a teacher of God was given without his making any effort whatever. Several hermitage experiences helped David to free his mind from ego chatter and enter into deep Silence, where he ultimately experienced Enlightenment.
Awake in the Mind: Intensive on the Bay - MP3 files on 2 CDs. David Hoffmeister discusses advanced spiritual concepts with Course students who are ready to go deeper in the mind in order to awaken to the Peace of God. This 17 ½ hour intensive covered a wide range of topics and participant areas of interest, allowing for in-depth exploration. Basic terms and the structure of the mind were presented first, and then expanded as the theme of Purpose was clarified.
Awake in the Mind MP3 file topic list:
File 1A Introduction / Topics of Reference Guide / Ask about the mind and dispel level confusion / Overview of 4 papers / Terms: perception, ego, Holy Spirit, miracle, and revelation / Explanation of chart - diagram of the mind
File 1B Explanation of chart (continued) / Level confusion / Body identification /disidentification / Present decision, not past event, causes upset / Choice is at the level of mind; behavior is symbolic, not causative / Choosing between the valuable and valueless
File 2A Consciousness and the push-pull of receiving-resisting messages from the Holy Spirit / Attack or call for love? / Attack thoughts - perceiving pain, victimization, etc. / Beliefs obscure real thoughts, so must be examined /Continuous, habitual mind-watching
File 2B Sickness, magic, healing / Only responsibility is to accept Correction for my distorted perception / The body is not creative; body is a learning device the Holy Spirit uses for communication / Unforgiveness is healed by forgiveness; guilt is released by disidentifying with the ego
File 3A Self is hidden by the self-concept / Ideas leave not their source / Sickness (continued) / The ego / Jesus symbolizes an awakened mind
File 3B Sickness (continued) / Two uses of abilities / The mind, not the world, is the classroom for learning / Consistently choosing with the Holy Spirit
File 4A Prayer / Sickness (continued) / All perceptual experiences are symbolic / The mind is not here in the world - the world is in the split-mind / Children /Discipline, intelligence, readiness
File 4B Trap of making ACIM book, groups, conferences, etc., special / Going within - setting the stage / resisting it / Relationships, intimacy, freedom
File 5A Communication in relationships / Conditions, compromise, completion in the special love relationship / Uses of the body by ego, Holy Spirit
File 5B Ego uses of the body (continued)
File 6A Ego uses of the body (continued) / Concepts of sacrifice, marriage, and family / Getting it NOW and experientially / Holding to Purpose
File 6B The two (ego & H.S.) uses of the body (continued) / The openness of I don't know / No need to wrestle with attachments / The power of Intention & Purpose / The pursuit of pleasure is the pursuit of pain / Only One Mind; another s mind is metaphorical
File 7A The dreamer disidentifies from all figures in the dream and awakens / The script is written / Identity crisis / Salvation s task: exchanging concepts for expanded concepts / Wanting specifics / What do I do? / Projection and misperception
File 7B Lessons 1 - 14: the metaphysics of forgiving, overlooking what is in my mind / Doing flows automatically from thinking / Manifesting as a stepping-stone toward recognizing the mind s power
File 8A Lessons 1 - 14 (continued) / Nothing you need will be denied you / Mystical-revelatory experiences / Concept of competition / Truth is uncompromising / Holy Instant - Atonement awaits acceptance
File 8B Lessons 1 - 14 (continued) / Belief in competition with God / The two (ego & H.S.) uses of relationship / Partner as a God-substitute in special relationship / Attempts to keep another bound through guilt
File 9A Mind-watching; detaching from thoughts / Concept of family / Food, shelter, & basic needs are provided for in fulfilling function / No other people or this person to wonder about / What is it for? instead of Why? / Ego uses of relationship (continued)
File 9B The desire to awaken / Letting go of the self-concept / Community defined at the mind level: intention / True communication IS the Holy Spirit / Learning through contrast / Special relationship (ego uses of relationship continued)
File 10A Sexuality in the hierarchy of illusions / Trust / Wanting to be understood / Doubt thoughts
File 10B Urgency, single desire / The Immediacy of Salvation / Belief in time is the attmept to hold cause and effect apart / Present decision is the only decision there is
File 11A Healing the pleasure, forgiving the good as well as the bad / Examining the self-concept / Only one false belief, all illusions are one / Projection retains the split in the mind
File 11B Becoming aware of Purpose / The experience of right-mindedness / Detachment from the illusion / Using movies for mind-watching
File 12A Two uses of speaking / The impossibility of being peaceful AND perceiving myself within a dualistic world / Talk at Unity on the bay: Forgiveness of the human experience
File 12B Talk at Unity on the bay (continued): Learning Forgiveness / Questioning personal beliefs / Overview of the 3 books that comprise ACIM / Underlying metaphysics / Change in form following a change in mind
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