Enjoy this 6 CD set titled Reversing Cause & Effect (with Enlightened ACIM Teacher David Hoffmeister).
David Hoffmeister explores advanced spiritual concepts with Course students who are ready to give acceptance to True Cause and realize the Peace of God.
Reversing Cause & Effect, list of subtopics
· The problem of thinking things would be better if they were different than they are · No beginning or identity in external cause · Believing in self-creation is the authority problem · The world has not left the mind of the thinker (dream and dreamer are one) · Recognizing the false and returning awareness to what has always been · The miracle transcends linear time, which is the ego’s invention to keep cause and effect apart · Stepping out of the familiar picture and prevalent backward thinking, shifting from readiness to mastery · All ego thoughts and the images they produce are past, in the unholy instant, and have not effect on the present · Nothing has occurred to need healing · Terror from thinking the hallucination is real · Peace or self-concept, dreamer or a dream figure controlled by other dream figures? · Functioning in the world · To trace feelings back to the mind’s belief and to generalize, begin with the specific and recognize it as projection · Both “sick body” and “healthy body” are interpretations of the mind that wants to be as it wishes, not as it was created · Healed mind has changed its mind about itself and thereby laid aside doubts, restlessness
REVERSING CAUSE & EFFECT/THE BASIS OF HEALING - (4.5 hours)
Turning to externals to escape and resolve fear / The ideas "part" and "process" are metaphorical / Time and space are in the hands of the miracle worker / The problem of thinking things would be better if they were different than they are
No beginning or identity in external cause / I told the world to teach me what cannot be taught / Believing in self-creation is the authority problem
The world has not left the mind of the thinker -- dream and dreamer are one / Recognizing the false and returning awareness to what has always been / The miracle transcends linear time, which is the ego's invention to keep cause and effect apart / Both of us are innocent or both of us are guilty
Stepping out of the familiar picture and prevalent backward thinking, shifting from readiness to mastery / All ego thoughts and the images they produce are past, in the unholy instant, and have no effect on the present / Time is neutral and does nothing; "process" is a stepping- stone idea since accepting Atonement doesn't take any linear time
Nothing has occurred to need healing / Terror from thinking the hallucination is real / Peace or self-concept\dreamer or a dream figure controlled by other dream figures? / Making demands / Functioning in the world
To trace feelings back to the mind's belief and to generalize, begin with the specific and recognize it as projection / Fear, suffering, pain are projected to the body by a mind that elects to be sick / Both "sick body" and "healthy body" are interpretations of the mind that wants to be as it wishes, not as it was created / Healed mind has changed its mind about itself and thereby laid aside doubts, restlessness
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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.
For more information on David Hoffmeister and his teachings please visit: http://awakening-mind.org
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