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Dear David -

I was wondering about exposing really exposing beliefs and having
them undone - sometime ago I came across the bit in the Course where
the course says something to the effect of "you must be willing to
question every belief you hold dear" - when I read that, I felt so
overwhelmed and went 'oh jesus - how the f am I going to do that.
Very soon after that I came across the work of Byron Katie - I don't
know whether you've seen it - four questions and a turn around - you
write your story and then investigate the reality of each of the
statements or perceptions you're holding about what ever you're
writing about. Then the step is to investigate each statement you've
written on the Worksheet with the following four questions:

1. Is it true?
2. Can you absolutely know that it's true?
3. How do you react when you think that thought?
4. Who would you be without the thought? You may feel as you ask
yourself these questions (especially the first one) that you already
know the answer. The key to experiencing The Work is to go beyond
the quick answers of the intellect and tap into a deeper wisdom.
Ask, then be still and wait for an inner voice to respond. With
practice, this will become easier. You will learn to rely on
yourself—not the world—to see what's true for you.

Example:
Paul should understand me.* *When applying the four questions to
number one from the Worksheet, you may want to simplify the original
statement. For example, "I am angry at Paul because he doesn't
understand me" could be simplified to "Paul should understand me" or
even "I am angry" before you inquire.

What I'm attempting to ask in a very long way is this what is
required of us to really see the falsity of what we think we think? -
  what this is getting to is similar to what you mentioned in your
serenity prayer article - the belief the world I see could change
and it would be better for me - I'd be happier, have more peace,
feel more relaxed and at ease and feel safe - if it (the world, some
other, the situation or who I think I am) was different -  therefore
putting the cause of my upset outside of myself and failing to
recognize my upset is really occurring from a present decision to
get rid of peace and an attraction to guilt and peace.  Would you
comment on this?

I think there's probably more I'd like to speak to you about this
but I have a feeling you've probably got the nuts and bolts of my
question a lot more clearly than I can formulate it.

I also wanted to speak to you about my practice with the lessons of
ACIM - often I feel discouraged and as I write this I recognize this
is of the ego's thought system, when I practice the lesson and I
don't seem to feel peaceful, relaxed and happy for no reason at
all.  I notice my mind seems to be quieter than it once was but it's
not an activity of peace and joy which I have experienced at times -
this activity of mind seems to natually radiate to everything around
me and enlighten for a better word, the world I perceive, everything
seems happy and joyful without me doing a thing - I get despondent
that this does not last or continue to extend and I feel separate
from source again - obviously a current decision at the time and
then it's followed by guilt and fear and when I don't flip out into
peace again with the application of the lesson, I get despondent
about my unwillingness to let go of the error - I'm pretty sure this
is what we call a catch 22 and I'm on the loop train instead of the
peace train - the attraction to guilt and the desire to get rid of
peace is occurring in my mind and again as I type I see I can only
choose now and am always speaking about something that happened in
the past and I'm afraid it will happen in the future.

Any way you might have some insights into this David - I'd love to
hear from you - thanks so much for your willingness to share
everything and your willingness and desire to have awoken from the
dream - you're clarity and patience is so gratefully recognized and
appreciated - I was trying to think of the right word and I would
have liked to write received but my mind seems pretty twisted and
distorted that even though I can recognize the clarity and what's
real in my mind recognizes clear understanding and real experience
you are the living demonstration of, through my distorted lense,
it's not quite hitting home and there's still static covering my
acceptance of your offering.

Merry Xmas David and happy hanuka - may your days be merry and light
and all your christmases come now


love to all

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Beloved One,

Merry Christmas.  Thanks for your indepth questions about
  questioning beliefs and your practice with the Workbook.
Byron Katie's The Work is an excellent example of how deep and
  uncompromising the questioning of beliefs must be for there to be
  true release.

For many years I have been sharing conversations and meditations on
coming to Peace of Mind. These dialogues and prayers have included
all my attempts to bring Divine Principle into full application in
my life by addressing and releasing (having Answered) all questions
that seemed to arise and allowing all doubts and fears to be
dissolved by the Light of Truth. The purpose has been to come to a
State of Clarity and Stillness so that a single, unified purpose
(forgiveness) can be grasped, and a stable perception and State of
Peace can be consistently maintained. I am so grateful for the many
teaching/learning opportunities that have presented themselves, for
in my desire to be helpful I am helped, and everything I teach I am
learning.

Our coming together gives us a precious opportunity to question
perceptions, interpretations, and underlying beliefs and
assumptions, all of which are based on the past, and thus uncover
and experience the present moment in which we are joined as One.
There is no "personal" interpretation or opinion. It is the Holy
Spirit's Interpretation of a forgiven world is a bright reflection
of Abstract Reality!

Though each seeming person appears to have unique personality
traits, past history, skills and abilities, appearance, education,
and "life situations," the Holy Spirit's goal or purpose is one. As
we hold a strong intention of learning that goal, the demarcations
and distinctions and roles and concepts which seemed to separate and
divide us from one another fade and grow dim and disappear. Those
who desire to "know thy Self" would learn the same lesson and share
the same goal of Awakening from the dream of the world of fear and
death.

Many seekers of truth are drawn to the idea of holding a single
unified purpose that results in a unified or whole perception, a
corrected perception of the world. Yet when it comes to practical
moment by moment application, the idea can seem elusive. Problems,
issues, and concerns seem to exist on so many levels (ie., internal
mental and emotional struggles, parent/child difficulties, adult
relationship conflicts, sickness and bodily concerns, financial and
work restrictions, community/regional /national/and global issues,
and on and on the list goes). Solutions attempted at these varying
levels may seem to work for a time, but not for ALL times and in ALL
cases. As one raises to awareness and releases limiting beliefs and
definitions, one can EXPERIENCE the lasting peace that comes from
true forgiveness--holding in mind the Holy Spirit's single purpose.

Initially, this seems to be very abstract and quite a stretch.
Holding to such a purpose, it turns out, requires a tremendous
discipline of the mind (mind training) and a relinquishment of all
other purposes. This seems, to the untrained mind, to be very, very
difficult because the untrained mind believes in the reality of the
physical as surely as it believes that separate goals are necessary
to meet the many seeming different levels of need. Yet perceiving
separate levels of need is a very basic error, and it leads to
searching for solutions within these separate levels. This searching
is the purpose for which the world was made, but the ego is all that
seems to search, and the answers the world offers to the identity
questions of the ego but veil the True Answer within the Mind: You
are the Holy Son of God, created in Spirit, perfect, eternal,
infinite, changeless Love Itself. Such is the remembrance of Self as
Christ in the Mind of God.

The good news is that these last 14 years of gatherings and writings
are available to help save time in the questioning process.  You can
learn from the experiences and questions of others, and the many CD
and MP3 recordings serve to help collapse time for a very willing
and ready mind.  Jeffrey, Resta, Regina, Herb, Kirsten and many
others have used the recorded gatherings to get to the 'bottom' of
the mind in a more rapid way.  These recordings and the writings
available online are a way of dipping deep into the unconscious mind
and loosening the beliefs so that ultimately they can be released
entirely.  These tools, including the music on the web site, simply
  help collapse the time it seems to take to Awaken.  They make the
process into an adventure with many mighty companions along the way.

Keep the faith with your Workbook lessons and avail your mind of all
  that has been freely provided.  I am with you all the way and
Awakening unto Christ is inevitable!  Thanks be to the Holy Spirit
and Jesus for leading the way and showing everyOne the Way, the
  Truth, and the Life.

Glory to God for creating All as One in Spirit!

Love & Blessings,

David

Beloved One,

Thanks for all the Christmas greetings and Love!  I have received
blessed e-mails from You, Holy Child of God, in many countries:
Sweden, United States, Colombia, Germany, France, Argentina, Spain,
Canada, & from Singapore.  I thank You Holy Spirit & Jesus for
Blessing everyOne in the Spirit of Love!!!  I am posting some of the
many e-mails and My replies on our global mailing list.  Merry
Christmas everyOne!!!

Love Always,

David, Kirsten, Regina, & Herb

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Merry Christmas, love and gratitude to you!
with joy, Priscilla

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Hi Priscilla,

Merry Christmas to you and all my dear, dear friends in Medellin!

I love You forever Holy One,

David

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hi there lovelies,

we are getting dolled up for a christmas party right now.  i made my
cheese ball and i am ready to go and Love my Brother.  i wish i
could share all of our christmas goodies with you guys as well.

david thank you so very much for your uplifting emails.  yours are
the only ones i really open any more.  they are so deep i need to
reread them, ESPECIALLY the last one, reciprocity is big time deep
for the christmas season.

i will be logging on after the party to have a look around.

Love forever,

lee and christmas possie

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Have a Onederful Party!

Love,

David

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hi dave its me dave  mery xmass   http://Davevalliere.com   ella
says hi too and skip

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Hi Dave,

So happy to hear from you!  Thanks for sharing the Christmas
greetings and your web site and for Rockin' & Rollin' in Europe in
November - sharing all the good vibes.  Your happy Spirit shines
brightly through your rock music.  We haven't made a 'Rock
Musician's Pavilion' yet but I the music you offered & gave us to
share would be great in that kind of venue.  Give my love to Ella &
Skip and everyOne in St. Pete.

In love & gratitude,

David

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Dear David,

Wow how wonderful it is to see that Christ-mass doesn't end, Its
right here right NOW! There are still allot of miracles to report.
Its funny how the ego will try and attempt to diminish the Spirit(
by projecting on the body of Jeffrey), but what a joy it is in
seeing how impossible that is. I look forward to seeing you in the
spring if its in the flow. I am redoing your tapes for several
reasons, one of the main reasons is, when I transferred them to mp3
I noticed the sound in my new digital mp3 player was off, and it was
not the player but the file it self. So I started to do them over.
Mp3 players are the most popular gadgets at the moment. So I will
redo them for the mp3 player in mind. Its been very joyous working
on them, I feel the energy of the actuality the words are pointing
to, I feel the essence of what the words are pointing to, I feel the
Christ.

The group here in Great Falls has gone very deeply with me and
continues to do so. Many people have fallen away, but the very
willing are still showing up. Everything is being supported,
donations are coming in, and the focus has never for one moment been
on anything but forgiveness. I do not know how to comprise my heart
anymore, it seems like a foreign idea, an insane idea, "why would
someone do that". There is no answer to such an insane idea. I love
you very much and I am very grateful for your constant presence. You
live in my heart forever and ever.

Oh I want to share some of the Holy Spirits teachings with your
yahoo group. People are showing up here from all over now, they want
to be truly helpful. Some are translating, and others are helping
with coping and so on. Here is the full copy of a transcript of the
Teach Only Love Show in Great Falls, MT. Its titled Gods Will for
you. I would love if you could post in two or three parts. How ever
you feel guided.

Love,

Jeffrey Lake

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Hi Jeffrey,

Yes!  Christ-mass is Now & Never Ending!  Thanks for your love and
for shining the Light of Christ in Joy & without compromise.  I was
just sending out a post of Christmas greeting e-mails when yours
arrived.  We are All sooooooo Connected in God's Love!!!  I will
post your e-mail now, and soon I will post the transcript of the
Teach Only Love Show in Great Falls, MT you sent in 3 parts on the
Awakeninginchrist mailing list in the coming days.  Merry Christmas
to you and Kerri and all the sweet ones in Montana.  Thank them for
shining the Light of Christ so brightly.

Hope to see you in March if its in the Flow of the Spirit.

Forever In Love,

David

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We would like to wish you and Kirsten and your family a Merry
Christmas and a joyful New Year.

Than

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Thanks Than!  I so enjoyed the music and the photo of the Falls you
included in your Christmas greetings.  I hope to make it to France
again someday on my world travels.

Blessings of Peace,

David

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Hi David:

Thank you very much for your seasonal greetings, which I want to
return with identical intensity. Have a nice time down under and, if
possible, greet Wolfgang Fassbinder in Christchurch, N.Z.

Lots of Light, Ulrich

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Thanks Ulrich,

So happy to hear from you!  Please send me the e-mail address of
your friend Wolfgang & I will enjoy meeting him when Kirsten and I
visit Christ Church in the South Island next early January.  I will
make it back to Europe next Summer and hope to visit Berlin if I am
Guided back to Germany then.  Blessings to everyOne in Germany.

In Peace,

David

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Hi David,

I wish for you that each moment of this Christmas season and ALL
seasons be blessed.

Peace and Love,

Nakweeyana

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Thanks Nakweeyana.  Give my love to everyOne you meet along the way
in Quebec & Ottawa.

In the Joy of the Moment!

David

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David,

Thanks for your lovely message, I wish you two a lot of peace  and
love. I want to share you the joy of the arrival of my new grandson
Federico on 19/12/05. Actually I´m in New Jersey at the moment. I
wish you the best in your traveling and I hope everything goes well.

Love

Connie

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Thanks Connie.  Enjoy your new grandson.  Hope you have a wonderful
visit in the USA before returning to Colombia.

Blessings Abound,

David

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Hi beloved son of God,

Always wonderful to hear from me in you!

The glory of God carried to the South Pacific, great!

My stay in Wisconsin was just so so wonderful. I did felt the love
and peace of God among my brothers and sisters there.

I send you all my love and joy and my blessings,

Ana

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Hi Ana,

Give my love to Pepe and Susana and all the family!  I sent an e-
mail to you and Susana and friends in Africa about a possible visit
late next Summer or in early Fall.  It would be wonderful to visit
with you and your family again there in the Canary Islands.

Inner Peace Always,

David

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Hello David,

So you are in New Zealand. I know you are a blessing to them and are
being blessed. Carol and I are looking forward to meeting you when
you get back.

In His Unlimited Love

Gary Sigler

http://sigler.org

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Hi Gary & Carol,

Thanks for writing.  I remember you were just in Australia sharing
your ministry in Christ's Name.  I hope to meet you when I return to
North Carolina next March.  Let your friends know that Kirsten and I
will be along the east coast of Australia (Brisbane, Sydney, &
Melbourne) the first couple weeks in February, 2006.  The schedule
is on the Coming Events link on our main web site at:

http://awakening-mind.org

Glory to God!

Love,

David

Beloved One,

Here is the first part of a 3 part series of transcripts sent in by
ACIM teacher Jeffrey Lake.  Jeffrey came to our PeaceHouse in
Cincinnati, Ohio a couple years ago and met his wife Kerri there.
He immersed his mind into our Foundation for the Awakening Mind library
  of writings & CDs & mp3's & casette tapes & Movie Videos & DVDs.
  He is a living example of an open, willing mind and has emerged as
a joyful, clear expression of the Holy Spirit's Voice - a very
helpful teacher of God.  Jeffrey has been shining God's Love in
Great Falls, MT. much of the past year and this dialogue is with our
  friend Brian Logsdon (Hi Brian!) from when they both appeared on
  Channel 7 TV.  A community of ACIM students have gathered around
Jeffrey and have been helping Jeffrey share these profound
teachings, and Jeffrey is also working on producing some of My early
teachings in mp3 format that were recorded in the 1990s.  Enjoy the
transcripts today and during the coming days.  Thanks be to every
Expression of Love & to Jesus, Holy Spirit, and God for the Light of
Truth that dispels the darkness.

In Deep Gratitude & Love,

David

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Channel 7 Segment Transcripts

Transcribed versions of Channel 7 segments have been edited for
content. In some cases, additions, deletions or restructuring of the
original dialogue has been used to clarify or enrich various parts
of the transcript.


God's Will for You, segment #44

Brian: Hello, and welcome back to Teach Only Love. Today we have a
guest, Jeffery Lake . If you're watching this show today then you've
been listening to some voice that's brought you to this place.
Something in you has said, "What is going on here?" and perhaps
today you'll find some clue as to an answer to that question, or
maybe more questions.

Welcome Jeffrey Lake . You've been traveling around the world, the
United States anyway, lately. I know you've been in Kansas and
Michigan, Wisconsin, before coming back here and took a stop in
North Dakota I believe also. Well, it looks that way. You got me
thinking, I took a trip to Wisconsin a couple weeks ago. I kept
thinking, "Am I really traveling to Wisconsin or does it just feel
that way to me? Am I really traveling? What am I really traveling
though and what is going on?" You do a lot of traveling. How would
you respond to that sort of idea? Am I really traveling? Is there
really time and space?

Jeffrey: Yes, that's a very good question. First of all, it's nice
to be here.

Brian: Yes. (warm chuckle.)

Jeffrey: You know you ended the question, with the thought that it
is an idea. It is an idea and ideas in the mind are experienced
through thought, through memory and the mind is identified with
thought through experience. Just as an example let's say, July 4th
fireworks, and you go to see them. There's a beginning and an end.
You watch in anticipation for the fireworks, for the explosions, and
you're excited. Then the fireworks come down and then you come down.
The excitement comes down. That's built on an idea of doing
something in form, [which is always of time and space.]

Brian: Doing fireworks…(laughter)

Jeffrey: Well, it's the mind. It's a mental doing. That's a mental
doing and you could say that it's pretty harmless. It's enjoyable.
It's pleasurable. It's one of the fun things that we do in this
world. But see, the mind through experience then becomes addicted to
searching out some sort of satisfaction through experiences. The
experience of going to the fireworks has to be seen as an event in
time, because the egoic mind feeds on experiences, it feeds on pain.
Let me go into this a little deeper. The seeking of the special
event is where the ego gets you, here's how; the ego doesn't tell
you that pleasure and pain are one in the same. It divides them so
it can trick you into believing that you have to seek for pleasure
but avoid pain at all cost, this is the ego`s thinking. Now we have
to see that all seeking leads to experience…the experience is always
based in time; it's based on time because, there's a beginning and
an end to it. The present moment, right now…it has no beginning and
no end. It's always there, present, filled with… God's love, and
this seeking or wanting the experience is what produces the interval
of time, or the gap, that seems to give you that experience of
uneasiness or that something is missing, "I'm lacking something. I'm
incomplete, I'm separate". So, the mind then has a memory of July
the 4th and thinks "Well, I don't feel very good now but I sure felt
good on July the 4th." But that's a memory, that's the past, and we
have to see memory as a dead thing; yes, memory is dead. This is the
pain of the event, the pain of missing the fireworks, the pain of
having to go back to your meaningless life. If we seek for any
pleasure, pain is inevitable, because they are one in the same or
you can say, they are two sides of the same coin. [God's love] is
right now but the mind's thought is in the past and this produces a
block in the mind and that's what the Course In Miracles (refers to
when it says) that "This is a course in removing the blocks to loves
awareness." Love's presence is always there, but the mind through
mental projections, through mental images then produces these
thoughts and then thinks it's real and compares them. It's no
different than the dreams that you produced last night in your
sleep. The dreams didn't produce themselves in you. The images
didn't make themselves and then pull you into that part of the
dream. The mind made those images. See, it's the same.

Brian: Yes

Jeffrey: It's in the past. It's made up. So, you could say that the
mind, through these experiences, starts to judge what's good and
what's bad, what's valuable and what's valueless [in terms of the
ego].

Brian: The preference system.

Jeffrey: So then the preference system is there. "I prefer this sort
of experience vs. this sort of experience" or "I don't know why
they're doing that. That wouldn't give me any pleasure. I can't see
why that's giving them pleasure." Or, " I am really looking forward
to July the fourth, my life stinks but I always feel good on July
fourth." To make one event more valuable or desirable than another
is the way the preference system works; this is the denial of the
present moment. If you are open now, then this extends everywhere,
all the time. There is no beginning and end, there is no pleasure
and pain, there is only pure acceptance of now, this very instant is
perfect. You can still go to the fireworks but you change your
purpose, instead of going to get something you go to extend love,
however that looks. But the mind is in denial, it prefers time,
rather than the timeless moment of now. It is split in what it
wants; it wants heaven but tries to find it within the time-space
continuum.

It keeps going back to that first split in the mind , [which is] the
identification [with] egoic thought. That's the split and the split
just maintains itself over and over. And you could say that your
behavior or your emotions right now are a reflection of that thought
pattern that you outwardly and inwardly interpreted through your
whole life. Through what your parents, what the school system, what
your government told you and your interpretation of that: either
your attraction or repulsion to that. You know, either way if you
say, "I'm attracted to what they told me" or "I believe what they
told me" or "I don't believe what they told me." See, there's still
a split. There's still a division. It's all the same.
Brian: And those choices that you're just talking about. Whether "I
believe this or I don't believe that" that is how we set up our self
concept, a concept of self through preferences, really. "I prefer
this."

Jeffrey: A hierarchy of values.

Brian: A hierarchy of values. Now the course says, "Do not attempt
to change the world which you made." In some ways, what I think I
hear you saying is that the mind is making this up and we're
traveling through it. Is that what you were trying to say?

Jeffrey: It seems to be traveling through it. You could say that the
[ego] mind made it, not the essence mind, not Divine Mind.

Brian: Not Divine Mind.

Jeffrey: But, it's made through that mental energy; the power of
your mind. The power of your mind lies in interpretation. This world
rests on an interpretation of what's right and what's wrong and
that's based on a hierarchy of values, which is an error. It's based
on a split and the present moment or the Holy Instant [is the
experience of] love when you're not judging [when there is no
split]. So, it rests right back in the mind where [the mind] seems
to make a decision to have that split. The decision is the split
because in Divine Mind there is nothing to decide but God's Will and
God's Will for you is perfect happiness. God creates the Son; the
Spirit, perfect. What is born of the flesh is flesh. What is born of
the Spirit is Spirit. Perfect Love casts out fear. It just doesn't
even come together. Light, by its mere presence, just dissolves the
darkness. It never meets. Light is light is light and that's the
same thing. You could say, in this world the mind has forgotten its
light, the light of God's Will. The light of Mind and has sunk into
the realm of thought, thought that's not of God.

Brian: Thoughts themselves; you say that God's Will for us is
perfect Happiness.

Jeffrey: That's a high thought.

Brian: That's a high thought. But even perfect happiness. It's
beyond a concept. We have ideas of happiness. But, our idea of
happiness falls far short of the concept of perfect happiness as
given to us by Divine Mind, by God. All words really, are falling
short of that experience because that experience is really beyond
words and beyond perception, actually.

Jeffrey: Yes… and that's very good that you noticed that. Because
the word is not the fact; the fact is that God is perfect love. The
mind, through it's hierarchy of value systems or through its
preferences and its lack of awareness of it's identification with
thought has forgotten that light, and now pretends it thinks it
knows what that light is and has set up structures within the world
to say, "I know God and if you do it this particular way you will
experience God or not experience God". [Or it might say]," You will
experience God when you die, when you go to heaven [in the future]."
It's another delay tactic from the [ego] mind. God is right now and
if you heal or, through the light of the Holy Spirit, see the
falsity of that thought system and just pull it out and let it go
and see that it rests on nothing but sand; beach. You know, in the
bible it says, "Build your house on a rock." Rock is the Holy
Spirit; it's abstract. Build your house upon God, perfect Love. And
if it's not perfect love then you [have something to uncover]
because God's will for you is perfect happiness.

So, just to bring it right back again to the doer [mental doing];
this world rests on the doer, but [there is the idea that], `I need
to do something.' The thought and the thinker is the doer, the
experience that seeks for pleasure and avoids pain. It's a delay
tactic for the ego mind, the fearful mind, the wrong mind. It's a
delay tactic… to be focused on thinking it needs something, it wants
something now. Even if it wants to experience the fireworks; it's a
want; it's suffering. It's not real in the sense of what God's Will
is. God's Will for you which is perfect happiness, which is beyond
the word, beyond the concept is right now, and through the wanting,
distorts that Will; it misuses the Law of Mind, Divine Mind.

Brian: Well, it's producing an idea that I'm not complete.

Jeffrey: Right…

Brian: I'm not a perfect child of God. God made me incomplete
somehow. How could I have the audacity to believe that God made me
imperfect?

Jeffrey: Right and there's lots of things [assumptions] under there.
You know, you may feel wrongly about things. "I don't feel good
enough" and the mind is constantly searching. Even if it goes to its
weekly movie or its weekly workshop or it's got its weekly fad
spiritual book, whatever it is.

Brian: (Laughter)

to be continued...



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You may reach us by phone at 406-231-4376 or by email:
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Our shared website is www.teachonlylove.org

"Heaven and earth shall pass away" means that they will not continue
to exist as separate states. My word, which is the resurrection and
the life, shall not pass away because life is eternal. You are the
work of God, and His work is wholly loveable and wholly loving. This
is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is
what he is."

Jesus, A Course in Miracles

Beloved One,

If you need to call Kirsten & I over the next 9 weeks (with the
exception of 16 days at the beginning of February when we will be in
Australia) please call the following mobile phone number:

(64) 21767590   where 64 is the country code for New Zealand.

We have been staying mostly with Mia & Kevin while we are on the
North Island, and we will be here until January 4th.  The phone
number here is:

(64) 9 4280900

Please e-mail us if you want to call for counseling so we can know
exactly when you will call - we have gatherings scheduled and listed
on the main web site and please remember that there is a date/time
zone factor to be aware of when calling. Feel free to call
spontaneously as Guided, and if we are unable to take your call you
can leave us a voice message.  If you add a day and subtract 6 hours
from Eastern Standard Time in the United States you can calculate
the date/time in New Zealand.  For example we will speak on PalTalk
tomorrow (Sat. 2:30pm here in NZ and Fri. 8:30pm in USA Eastern
Time), and everyOne is invited to join us with free downloadable
software from PalTalk.com   We will be in the 'Distance Learning'
Room called 'ACIM Gather' and we always enjoy a lively worldwide
voice discussion with lots of people when we can make a Festive
Friday.

You can always leave voice messages for me by calling toll free in
the USA: 1-800-MY-YAHOO  Mailbox# 6082687746  and I am able to check
for voice messages whenever I check my e-mail.  It is always a treat
to hear your voice and laughter whenever I can.

Love Always,

David

david@...

ACIM students around the world,

I hope all is well and you are enjoying the Holidays. It's always a
wonderful time to spread some light.

We are getting very near to the close of the early enrollment. We
are happy to say that we have 96 enrolled! YEA!

In these last 10 days of the early enrollment we encourage people to
enroll NOW and save the $76. Remember that this $76 savings is just
for the price in January 2006. In July it goes up $25 more. January
2007 it goes up $25 more and it goes up another $25 the last week.

Actually this price, $299 is a $151 savings over the price at the
door.

Please visit the following link and take advantage of the discount
for early enrollment:

http://www.miracles-course.org/Miracles5_2007.html

Love -- Rev. Tony & Rev. Larry

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Thanks for the update Tony & Larry.  I am sure the conference will
be a joyful & profound experience for everyOne.  It will be an honor
to speak at the conference and share God's Love through the
extension of complete forgiveness: Atonement.  I invite everyOne to
come and join in.  Hope to see you there.  Messengers of Peace will
post a reminder every month on the mailing list for those that are
new to the list.  Please feel free to pass these reminders on and
invite your friends.  Also there is a link to the 2007 Conference
for your reference below the left menu on our web sites at:

http://a-course-in-miracles.org  &  http://awakening-mind.org

Tony & Larry request that you let them know who referred you to the
conference when you sign up, so you can use my name when registering
or in sharing the conference information with others.

Merry Christmas & a Happy Holy Instant to All!

In Happiness & Love,

David

Jeffrey: The church meeting, "I got to go. I can't miss the church
meeting." You know you go there. It has a beginning and an end. When
the church is right here right now; when does it begin and when
would it end? Would God create something in time, in form, for you
to chase after or would God give you it right now? Would you give
your son perfect happiness right now? Would you make someone you
love do something to get love, is that real love?

Brian: Of course I would give my son happiness now……..

Jeffrey: Well, then God would too.

Brian: I had an idea come up when you were talking about perfect
happiness [being right now]. It was an image of my son who doesn't
appear to be with me right now. But, because you travel, it seems as
though you're not here with us at times. But you really are here
with me because we are all One Mind and the only thing that appears
to be missing is the physical representation of who Jeffrey is, and
the Jeffrey really that I am experiencing, again comes back to my
mind.

Jeffrey: Yes.

Brian: But it seems like, especially right now, we have this
Hurricane Katrina and almost everyone knows someone that's down
there and involved… and everyone's affected by this seeming incident
and it seems like it's happening over there. But, is that also
somehow a perception in my mind?

Jeffrey: Well, it's all perception. This whole space time cosmos is
perceptual. It's the perceptual realm. It's the split, the first
split introduced by consciousness. It's the perceptual realm and in
the Course [it is called] the ego realm. It's not abstract and
anything that's not abstract is within in that realm. But, you could
say that your interpretation of that is where the power of your mind
lies and if you're perceiving anything other than perfect peace
which is God's Will for you, then you're misperceiving. So, if
you're perceiving victims, then there has to be a victimizer.
Everyone has the power in their mind to interpret whatever they see.
But, we're not trained that way in this world. We're not trained to
see correctly. We're not trained to see divinely. Because we're
trained, from the time we're little, to believe in the split; "This
is good. This is bad." But if we believe that there's such thing we
should or should not do, in that sense, then that seems to produce
the experience of victim and victimizer. The first split introduced
in abstraction [consciousness], is saying, "I'm a victim now. I'm a
victim because I'm now apart from my creator; I'm separate in a body
apart and I don't feel whole and complete but… now I'm in a male
body attracted to a female… and that will complete me." There's
still that want, that need, that split. But really the split is in
the mind, it's way back in the mind. Even though the form seems to
show that there are splits there. But really it's just a
psychological, a mental split that we're identified with, just a
belief, and belief is not a fact. We're identified with a complex
thought system; the wrong mind, the ego mind . So, you could say
that if you were being right minded or tuned into the Holy Spirit
you wouldn't know [the concept of a] victim. You'd have love. It's
not like Jesus walked the earth and thought, "Oh, poor you!" because
that's saying, "I'm better than you and you're sick, but I'm
healthy." Because if you're perfect love, or Spirit, then that
Spirit is not touched, but the body can be, the body can seem to
die. But, that's not Truth. The Spirit is Truth. The body is of time
and space. It just will fall back to the dust again. So, you have to
look at it from that perspective. So, it's not like anything is
really happening to me [as Spirit]. I'm interpreting through a
backwards thought system that something is attacking me. There's
something bad out there, like a storm. You know, you don't have to
be fearful.

Brian: But it does appear there. There is a perception. I'm
pretending I'm sitting in New Orleans and there's a storm coming and
there's wind blowing and stuffs is falling down and my house is
wrecked and this all appears to be this great unfolding. It appears
to be factual. It appears to be happening.

Jeffrey: In a relative sense….

Brian: Yea, but it seems to be happening outside of me. Of course, I
have a choice on how I perceive it, how I want to react to it, what
emotions come up, what I allow to create an emotion in me and here I
am. I have no food. I have no house. I have no water. What do I do?
Where do I go? How can I be neutral to that? How can I not..?

Jeffrey: Well first, yes, it's a good question. It's a hypothetical
again.

Brian: Of course.

Jeffrey: It's a hypothetical. So I can't really answer a
hypothetical question. But, in a relative sense, there are
necessities; food, shelter and these things. But if you look in your
mind and heal the psychological torture that you have within
yourself; the loneliness, the hurt, the ache of separation, the
split between two voices: fear and love. If you go in your mind and
undo this unreal thought system then through that undoing, or the
Course calls it the `atoning process', through that atoning, through
the miracle of the atonement, you correct your interpretation of the
world and become right-minded so to speak. Miracles restore the mind
to its fullness. By atoning for lack they establish perfect
protection. The Spirit's strength leaves no room for intrusions.
Then what you see [is that] you're in such love that whatever seems
to happen, it's perfect, it's in divine order and you're
interpreting it just through that love. You see the only thing God
wants for you is perfect happiness. In the Course Jesus tells
us, "God's Will is your salvation. Would He not have given you the
means to find it? If He wills you to have it, He must have made it
possible and easy to obtain it. Your brothers are everywhere. You do
not have to seek far for salvation. Every minute and every second
gives you a chance to save yourself. Do not lose these chances, not
because they will not return, but because delay of joy is needless.
God wills you perfect happiness now. Is it possible that this is not
also your will? And is it possible that this is not also the will of
your brothers?"

So you see someone crying and you see someone happy. You have the
same love for the one crying as you do [for the one] that's happy
because you know that teaching only love is the only thing that you
can give them. By patting them on the back and saying, "I'm sorry
for you." is saying, again I feel bad right now for you feeling bad.
Is this Gods will? Is this true empathy? What kind of sharing is
that? What kind of gift are you giving your brother? Jesus felt love
for them and that's why when he walked the earth he was love. Even
when they nailed him on the cross, he was love. "Forgive them for
they know not what they do." He was love. He loved everyone. He saw
that there was no victim [or] victimizer… that it was the fearful
mind. He knew that the mind was fearful and was afraid of the
miracle. The egoic mind is very afraid of the miracle. It's afraid
of God because it believes it's done something wrong. So, why would
you tell them that something was wrong?

Brian: The idea is to remind our brother of who he really is;
perfect love.

Jeffrey: Right.

Brian: And you talked about hierarchy of values. There is no
hierarchy in love. Love is love is love is love and yet I know that
I sometimes set up hierarchies where, "Well, I love my family more."
and then its, "Well, I love God more." and then it's "I love my
family more." and then, "I love my friends and it seems like I love
this more right now." and really what you're saying is maybe that
isn't love at all.

Jeffrey: That's not love. That's man made love. That's specialness.
Jesus calls it in the Course in Miracles, "special love" or there's
another term for it, "special forms of love". This is not love.
Because love is so perfect… it's just there always waiting for you.
You can run away, you can pretend you're something that your not,
you can get identified with thoughts, you can drink alcohol, you can
have drugs, you can do whatever and love is there loving. It's not
affected by it. It's not dependant on outside circumstances being a
certain way. That's human love. That's mental love. "I love the
image of my wife. I love the image of my son. I love the value of my
image that I have." That image is blocking you [from] love. That
image is the thought that is the doer. That image is a projection of
that doer, the seeker. So, it seeks.

to be continued...


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Beloved One,

Merry Christmas EveryOne!  I received 2 beautiful e-mails from
India, profound song lyrics from Anna in Sweden that express the
Spirit of Christ so brightly, and a very helpful analogy from my
friend Cathy in the USA that you can use with children to explain
forgiveness to them.

Here are these precious gifts.  Thanks Raj, Ruth, Shahid, Anna, &
Cathy!

Blessings of Peace,

David

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Hi David,

We wish you a happy christmas and a prosperous new year,

Yours in His service,
Raj and Ruth
India

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Dear David,

God bless & keep you & your family and may 2006 be the best year of
your life.

I am Grateful for your presence in my life. Thank you for all that
you have given me.

Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and Happy New Year in advance!!

'May sunshine & gladness be yours, all the days of your life.'

Warm Regards,
Shahid,
India.

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Dear David,

I am sharing more lyrics with you that I´ve heard today. Perhaps you
know them. If you want the song, I´ll be happy to send it to you.
Just let me know. "Let It Shine" is sung by Agneta Fältskog (former
ABBA member).

Enjoy!

(Austin Roberts / Bill LaBounty / Beckie Foster)

There's a star up above the horizon
And it's shining for you and me
Something tells me this was meant to be,
Do you feel like a dance in the moonlight,
Is your heart beating crazy like mine?
You've got something burning bright
Don't keep it locked inside.
Let it shine, show me your light
Let it shine, keep it shining into the night
Let it shine, don't hide it, it's something to see,
Let it shine, let your love, let it shine on me.
Don't you wish you could live every moment
Like that moment's the best one you'll see?
That's the way the world is supposed to be,
When you find someone you can believe in
Letting go is the easy part,
Just close your eyes and take a breath
And open up your heart.
Let it shine, show me your light
Let it shine, keep it shining into the night
Let it shine, don't hide it, it's something to see,
Let it shine, let your love, let it shine on me.
Everyone puts in their time alone in the dark,
Reach out and you're gonna find
The very best part of who you are.
Let it shine, show me your light
Let it shine, keep it shining into the night
Let it shine, don't hide it, it's something to see,
Let it shine, let your love, let it shine on me.
Let it shine, ohh...show me your light
Let it shine, keep it shining into the night
Let it shine, don't hide it, it's something to see,
Let it shine, let your love, let it shine on me.
Let it shine, ohh...won't you let it shine?
Let it shine, keep it shining into the night
Let it shine, don't hide it, it's something to see,
Let it shine, let your love, let it shine on me....

Merry Christmas!

Let Us Feel Real Love an Let It Shine Forever !

Anna


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Dear David,

I was thinking about a passage in ACIM that says forgiveness is my
function, correction the Holy Spirit's.  While I thought about that,
the Holy Spirit gave me this analogy.  Please share it if you think
it might be helpful.

The analogy is of a small child playing on the beach who sees a
piece of broken glass (grievances and judgements).  The glass seems
shiny and attractive and the child wants to play with it.  Of
course, he will hurt himself. Even if he knows it will hurt him and
tries to "solve" the problem himself, he can't, he's just a baby and
doesn't really know what to do.  He might try to bury the glass
(protect the problem) or throw it out into the water (projection)
but it's still there to hurt him if he comes across it again or
steps on it in the water.  But if he calls his mother and shows her
the glass, she, who knows how to handle broken glass safely, will
put it in a bucket and take it away.  Now the "problem" is solved
once and for all.

We are the child, of course, and our mother is the Holy Spirit.
When we see that sharp, shiny temptation, we need to call on the One
who knows what it is and how to solve the problem safely and forever.

Love, Cathy

Beloved One,

Some of you remember Bing Crosby's song "White Christmas."  Get ready
to enjoy a cute little rendition of the song by Santa and his
reindeer.  My friend Ben sent this link to me as part of a Christmas e-
mail.  So funny!  Jasmine you will like this.  :)

In Laughter,

David


http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html

Brian: And you talked about hierarchy of values. There is no
hierarchy in love. Love is love is love is love and yet I know that
I sometimes set up hierarchies where, "Well, I love my family more."
and then its, "Well, I love God more." and then it's "I love my
family more." and then, "I love my friends and it seems like I love
this more right now." and really what you're saying is maybe that
isn't love at all.

Jeffrey: That's not love. That's man made love. That's specialness.
Jesus calls it in the Course in Miracles, "special love" or there's
another term for it, "special forms of love". This is not love.
Because love is so perfect… it's just there always waiting for you.
You can run away, you can pretend you're something that your not,
you can get identified with thoughts, you can drink alcohol, you can
have drugs, you can do whatever and love is there loving. It's not
affected by it. It's not dependant on outside circumstances being a
certain way. That's human love. That's mental love. "I love the
image of my wife. I love the image of my son. I love the value of my
image that I have." That image is blocking you [from] love. That
image is the thought that is the doer. That image is a projection of
that doer, the seeker. So, it seeks.

[An example;] someone has an experience of loving their wife on the
weekend. They had wonderful sex. They had a great weekend. They had
dinner. It was perfect. The husband was almost late. She didn't
notice. It was perfect. All these things are external, right? It's
based on externals. Now what happens if you were late? What happens
if you didn't cook the dinner and you had it planned? What happens?
[With] special love, it's dependent on certain circumstances being a
certain way which are based on a hierarchy of values. What I
perceive through my own conditioning, through America ; the lens of
America . I call it the North American comfort zone.

Brian: [laughter] The North American comfort zone?

Jeffrey: Yes, it's very thick with its assumptions and beliefs and
false ideas [about] what a marriage/relationship is and what a
marriage/relationship isn't. Jesus in the Course tells us, "Heaven
waits silently, and your creations are holding out their hands to
help you cross and welcome them. For it is they you seek. You seek
but for your own completion, and it is they who render you complete.
The special love relationship is but a shabby substitute for what
makes you whole in truth, not in illusion. Your relationship with
them is without guilt, and this enables you to look on all your
brothers with gratitude, because your creations were created in
union with them. Acceptance of your creations is the acceptance of
the oneness of creation, without which you could never be complete.
No specialness can offer you what God has given, and what you are
joined with Him in giving."

Let's take a look at this. Marriage is being married with God in
Purpose to uncover fear in your mind. God loves his perfect son and
wants his perfect son to be happy. Why would he punish him for doing
something wrong? He would say, "My son, you've made a mistake. Let's
correct it and come to me." You could say, metaphorically speaking,
that that is what God is saying through love, through the Holy
Spirit. So, if we look at it from that perspective you can see that
love is not dependant on anything and in this world, special forms
of love are dependant on [external] things. So a good question to
ask is: What can I do to undo this special form of love in my mind
so that I can experience love? Can I shed the light of the Holy
Spirit's purpose of forgiveness in my mind to expose this false
thought system [to see] that I'm tricked, I'm fooled into thinking
that I can have an experience on a weekend? That experience is
[based] in time. Now you have a memory of it and you spend your time
chasing it. "When's the next time I'm going to make love to my wife?
Well she's kind of moody now…I'm kind of frisky." Right? But no one
is really paying attention to how they feel. No ones really is
tuning into the Holy Spirit. Jesus in the Course tells us: "Watch
your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its accomplishment,
and step away from them. Judge how well you have done this by your
own feelings, for this is the one right use of judgment"

Brian: Stuck in the expectation, the judgment of …

Jeffrey: Well, the ego's purpose of the relationship is love/hate. A
a special form of love has an opposite side. It's duality. All
duality has a vacillation, like the pleasure of having sex and the
pain of not having it. It has the up and the down, the high and the
low. So, special forms of love are without purpose, until they are
given over as a Holy Relationship or for a higher purpose, let's say
the purpose to expose specialness / fear. In the special-love
relationship, hatred is inevitable; what you have arising is hatred,
it comes up, sometimes as moodiness or some other form of anger, but
it arises. Then the ego may say, "You didn't do that. I hate you."
Then the next moment, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. I love you"
and you don't even know what the word means. Because it's a word;
the word hand is not my hand. The word love is not love, its not the
experience of love. See, touch my hand. The word hand is a word, but
if you touch my hand there is an experience… beyond the word. Can
you feel it?.

Brian: The sensation. Yes

Jeffrey: The sensation; it's not the word hand, see, and that's the
thing. The mind gets fooled by reading a Course in Miracles or the
Bible or other things it reads and so on. And starts thinking it
knows something because it read something. Then it has to do what it
says [on a form level], you know, its doing and doing. It's still in
that mental loop. Its acting out the idea or concept. It acts, it
pretends it knows something. It's never feeling happy. It's feeling
uneasy. It's caught in the doer. It pretends it's happy, but its all
an act.

Brian: And I've noticed that, like you say, I might even go through
a time when I felt complete joy. Everything is unfolding perfectly,
I'm feeling happy, it looks like I want it to look. And even in
those times it feels like I'm falling short of something, that
there's something, that there's another world beyond this world, I
think the Course says. I get that sometimes and I wonder, how can I
get to that world beyond the world that I see, when what I'm
perceiving seems to be where I'm stuck?

Jeffrey: Yes, listen to what you're saying, "How can I get, how can
I be satisfied right now?" See, this is the key. Tune into your
thoughts and how you feel. "How can I get that?" See, it's still an
interval of time there. "I'm lacking right now, how can I get?" Tune
into that because the want… even [to want] the getting, wanting to
get it, is still producing that seeker, the experiencer. See that,
it's still that wrong-mind.

Brian: Yes, just by saying, "I want to get something." It's like I'm
not that already and I am that already.

Jeffrey: Right, so how can we experience the `I Am' presence?

Brian: That's exactly my question.

Jeffrey: That's it. So we become open to the I Am presence by just
by watching those thoughts, like we just did, without judgment, with
the purpose of the Holy Spirit. The whole Course in Miracles rests
on: Learn to give everything to the Holy Spirit. Bring the falsity
to the truth. Jesus in the Course tells us, " Whatever lies you may
believe are of no concern to the miracle, which can heal any of them
with equal ease. It makes no distinctions among misperceptions. Its
sole concern is to distinguish between truth on the one hand, and
error on the other. Some miracles may seem to be of greater
magnitude than others. But remember the first principle in this
course; there is no order of difficulty in miracles. In reality you
are perfectly unaffected by all expressions of lack of love. These
can be from yourself and others, from yourself to others, or from
others to you. Peace is an attribute in you. You cannot find it
outside. Illness is some form of external searching. Health is inner
peace. It enables you to remain unshaken by lack of love from
without and capable, through your acceptance of miracles, of
correcting the conditions proceeding from lack of love in others."
Bring the false made images, thoughts, assumptions and beliefs to
the perfection of the Holy Spirit to heal your mind, to align your
mind. The one way to do that is without judging yourself and by
totally watching yourself with the light of your mind. [Jeffrey
holding a bottle of water] The mind interprets this water. It's
saying, "I really like this water" or "I really dislike this water."
It's always judging. Notice yourself judging. Watch yourself, let
the feelings come up and see that the judgment is a defense against
God's Will. Now, there's always a [temptation] for the mind to feel
bad because, "Oh, I'm judging." But there's only one judgment, and
that is that the Son, the Spirit, is guiltless, and that judgment is
already been decided upon for us.

Brian: Yes, it's already over.

Jeffrey: So, just because Brian judges this mountain spring water as
better than purified water or purified water as better than mountain
water, it's not a real judgment. [The] water is not touched by a
mental thought. It's not a real judgment, it's still [based in]
time. So allow yourself to notice the mind and it's hierarchies and
what it sees and just give that [thought over]. Ask "Well, how could
that be? How could there be anything apart from God's perfection, if
everything is?" So, just watch that, be okay with that. Watch
the `wanter'. This world is set up as a distraction to defend
against undoing the wanter, against undoing the seeker. It
reinforces the wanter, the doer. That need, that lack, is so central
to the [ego] thought system. [By] accepting the purpose of a Miracle
worker… you're changing your mind about the world you see. You allow
the miracle to end the movement of the doer, the wanter; the miracle
completes you, fulfills you.

Brian: All of us are Miracle workers.

Jeffrey: All of us are Miracle workers, but when you accept that
Purpose you learn to see [that] you can't accept that Purpose and
judge yourself as you are healing because that's adding a chain to
the door that you already have locked. You are letting the chains
off the door by letting go of judgment, letting go of the valuing of
judgment. The word is what this whole world is lost in; the world is
seeking and wanting God but its lost in the idea of God, belief in
God, its stuck in the ritual, or the book. The words have become
lost in translation. The miracle worker has to come to an earnest
honesty in their mind that this seeking, this attachment to the
word, to form, is based in time, based on future happiness, future
goals, and the fact is that God is right now. God is beyond belief,
beyond the idea, beyond definition. Why would God dangle a carrot of
salvation or enlightenment out in front of you? Why would he? Why
would you have to believe a specific belief or string of words to
have God's love? This has to be questioned. Why would God make
things so complicated, why would He tell people in different places
around the world different things?

Brian: He wouldn't.

Jeffrey: Right, [it isn't setup so that] If Brian makes the left
turn here and meets that person, then he's enlightened.

Brian: (Laughter) …set it up in certain ways.

Jeffrey: It's not like that. Remember what we were talking about in
the last session… we were talking about learning to live and die
moment to moment, learning to live and die moment to moment is
learning to see with Christ vision, this is true religion, the
experience of being non judgmental is beyond the word. Let the
psychological assumptions die and in that psychological death you
live moment to moment and you watch; the hurricane is no different
than anything else. You still have love; and then if you feel
prompted to help someone or to send or a case of water or something
and so on… the `healed mind' won't use the word `victim' because it
knows that the power of God is in [everyone's] mind and that the
only thing you can give them is love. And unconditional love is
beyond concepts, its beyond specifics.

Brian: We have to wrap up now, Jeffrey. But, I'd like to continue
this conversation. I know your going to stay in town and do some
more shows with us. I'd like to encourage everyone to come and watch
again and be watchful of your thoughts and use this show as a
backdrop for being watchful of your mind. We all are in One Mind and
that is the Mind of God, the Divine Mind which sees only love. So go
and teach only love and join us next week.

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You may reach us by phone at 406-231-4376 or by email:
jeffrey@... or kerri@...
Our shared website is www.teachonlylove.org

"Heaven and earth shall pass away" means that they will not continue
to exist as separate states. My word, which is the resurrection and
the life, shall not pass away because life is eternal. You are the
work of God, and His work is wholly loveable and wholly loving. This
is how a man must think of himself in his heart, because this is
what he is."

Jesus, A Course in Miracles

Beloved One,

Greetings of Peace.  Many people experience very emotional 'holiday
seasons' as unconscious expectations surface in awareness for
healing.  Here is a Christmas dialogue of healing release.  I share
it now for anyone who really Calls to hear it.

Blessings Always,

David

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Dear David and Kirsten,

Bless you both with waves of Living Love, the gentle Christ Light,
and the healing, blissful Power of the Holy Spirit.  May our Divine
Mother wrap us all in the swadling clothes of her tenderness, and
hold us in her heart.

I very much appreciate all your messages, and this one from Cathy re
our responsibility to forgive while trusting the Holy Spirit to
correct all errors.  It's not hard at this time, Christmas Eve, to
see myself as the little child who comes across "broken glass" on
the beach and tries to dispose of it himself.   And, like the child
in that story orys,  I keep asking my mother, the Holy Spirit, to
get rid of it for me, but more just KEEPS appearing. . . broken
shards of glass!  The shards are from the broken idols lying at my
feet!  And they keep pouring out of my gut and my heart.  Oh, God,
when will it end?   I'm thanking Holy Spirit for the release of this
deep-down pain, and seeking His guidance and direction.

My son came home on leave from the Marines and is asking that his
mother and I join him for breakfast tomorrow, Christmas morning.  We
divorced in 1999, and she had a no-contact injunction filed against
me in 2002.  We had been communicating in spite of it until May when
my girlfriend learned about the injunction.  She insisted I let her
know there would be no more communication until she got the
injunction dismissed.  To date, she's chosen not to do so, but says
she intends to.  We have e-mailed each other a couple of times since
then re our son, but now that Christmas is here, I think it's a
healing opportunity to go to breakfast together as a family, as I
told my ex-wife in an e-mail post this morning.

So much fragmentation!  So much broken glass.  All a result of
living by the wisdom of my feelings of attraction and aversion, and
judging the value of a relationship by how I feel.  I'm getting it
that until I make a total, all-out, unequivocal decision to just
love everyone with no judgments, accepting everyone just as they
are, there will be no lasting peace.  And that has to include me, as
well.  How do I accept myself just as I am while holding the
intention to be vigilant for God and against the ego's belief
systems?  By doing the best I can and continuing to emerse my mind
more in the wisdom of Jesus' Teaching in the Course.  Which is not
different from the core of his Teaching in the New Testament.  "This
is my commandment, love one another as I have loved you."  And
again, "Love God with your whole heart, with all your strength, and
all your whole soul, and love you r neighbor as yourself."  And love
is letting go of fear!  Pray for us.  And if you have any words Holy
Spirit prompts you to share with this brother at this time, they
would be greatly appreciated!

My deep love and appreciation are with you both!  And may the
blessings of Christmas extend into your experience of each holy
instant!

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Beloved One,

Merry Christmas.  I am grateful the messages from the group are
  helpful.  Remember that you did not do anything wrong and you are
  exposing and releasing a belief system that has been a death wish.
   All things truly work together for good.  Whenever I am told that
  someone doesn't want to see me or doesn't want to talk to me or
  doesn't forgive me, I remember that God Loves Me exactly as God
  created Me and nothing of the world has to change to make this Fact
  the Truth that It Is. People are not really people.  They are
  simply thoughts.  There is everything RIGHT about releasing attack
  thoughts and nothing helpful about harboring guilt in any way.  The
  important thing is to keep your heart open and let the ego surface,
  instead of repressing it.  To apologize is to admit wrong doing.
   Are you willing to admit wrong-minded beliefs & thoughts and give
  them to the Holy Spirit? This is something you are truly capable
  of, and there is no point ever to the ego's wishful thinking that
  something in the script could have been different or should be
  different.  You have no control over the world and complete control
  of your state of mind at all times.  Immerse your mind in the
  teachings of Christ, and do not look back.  Only the ego looks
  back, and only the ego sponsors guilt and the breaking off of
  communication.  The willingness to communicate attracts
  communication.  If you are willing to share the Love in our Heart I
  assure you there will be witnesses everywhere you look!

My Peace be in your heart this Christmas.  This includes EveryOne.

I Love You.

David

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David,

Your response yesterday evening was so very much appreciated!  I
want you to know that I started feeling this J O Y all over even
before I read your post!  And it has stayed with me through this
holy instant!  Know that Your peace IS in my heart this Christmas as
I know it is being amplified and reinforced in you!

My love is with you and Kirsten always!

Dearest David.

This reply of yours really touched me with it's authenticity and
sense of groundedness. You are very cute! I feel something shifted
inside of me. In your remembrance I am found, and by your expression
I am clear that there has never been anything seperate from God.

Much Love and Thanks from Denmark

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Beloved One,

I am honored that you are touched in the heart by the expressions of
Love I share.  By the way I am coming to Sweden next year for a
Nordic A Course In Miracles gathering (with ACIM students from
Denmark, Finland, Sweden, & Norway) from August 10-13, 2006 at a
12th Century castle near Stockholm.  If you would like to join us
there you can write to my friend Carina of the Swedish Course In
Miracles Network at:

carina.hansson@...

Love & Blessings of Gratitude,

David

Beloved One,>>

Here is an e-mail message I received from my friend Kimberly Marshall in Florida.  I pass it on and share it with everyOne.>>

The following pictures are of the same place but taken during different seasons:>>

Winter 

Spring   >>

Summer >>

Fall 

Lesson on Life>>

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn >>

not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, >>

in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in>>

summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to >>

describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second>>

son said no it was covered with green buds and full of promise.

The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that >>

smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing>>

he had ever seen.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping>>

with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because >>

they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one >>

season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, >>

and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, >>

when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your >>

spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral:>>

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches
and better times are sure to come some time or later. >>

 >>

Love & Blessings,>>

David>>

 >>

Beloved One,

Here is an e-mail message I received from my friend Kimberly
Marshall in Florida. I pass it on and share it with everyOne.
The following pictures are of the same place but taken during
different seasons:

Winter  http://awakening-mind.net/images/seasons1.jpg

Spring  http://awakening-mind.net/images/seasons2.jpg

Summer  http://awakening-mind.net/images/seasons3.jpg

Fall  http://awakening-mind.net/images/seasons4.jpg

Lesson on Life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn
not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest,
in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance
away.

The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the
third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to
describe what they had seen.

The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The
second son said no it was covered with green buds and full of
promise.

The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that
smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful
thing he had ever seen.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and
drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because
they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life.

He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one
season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy,
and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end,
when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your
spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Lesson:

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.
Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches
and better times are sure to come.

Love & Blessings,
David

Hi Dear David,

I don't know if you have ever spoken about it in the group, but I
would like to ask you about diet. This topic keeps coming back into
my mind. How important is a healthy diet while dealing with and
practicing the teachings of Jesus? Is diet as everything else a
matter of beliefs and perceptions about the food and not really
about the actual food? How do you yourself deal with food and how
big a role does food play in your life? One thing I noticed is that
when I treat my body nicely and eat "healthy" food, my body seems
more pleasant to be in, and I can more easily undertake spiritual
practice and mindtraining. Can you speak about this?

* All my Love to You *

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Beloved One,

Thanks for writing.  The question about diet is another version of
the prayer to step back and let the Holy Spirit lead the way.  The
curriculum is highly individualized, so I cannot speak in broad
generalities about diet.  It is most helpful with diet, as with all
things, to be highly Intuitive and thus very open to the Holy
Spirit's Guidance.  You may use the prayer: "Holy Spirit Guide my
eating that I may be Fed by You."  Truly it is not what you eat that
is most important on the spiritual journey, but Who is Guiding the
mind is All important.  It is not what you put in your mouth that
defiles, but that which proceeds from an unhealed heart.  Likewise,
the miracle brings healing far beyond what the ego judges
as "healthy food."

Healing always depends upon exposing and releasing the ego belief
system, for thus is distorted perception healed.  Problems are never
in form, being always a belief in the deceived mind.  The ego
projected a body and food and weight issues and fitness issues,
etc., to distract the mind from the Light within.  In the reversal
of thought the Holy Spirit sponsors, the mind is empowered as the
mechanism of Awakening.  As you learn to think with the Holy Spirit
you will be truly healthy and vibrant and joyful and energetic.
This health comes from sharing the Purpose of the Holy Spirit, which
is forgiveness.

The body is a symbol or representation, so when you feel well this
is a sign that you are following the Holy Spirit.  Let your feelings
be a barometer to the voice that you are following, and learn to
trust the Voice for God within the mind.  Eat what you feel Guided
to eat and when you feel Guided to eat, and let this be a practice
of the ACIM Workbook lesson: I will step back and let Him lead the
way.  The ego will attribute the feeling to form as it always does.
Yet as you deepen with the Holy Spirit it becomes more obvious that
health is a decision of Purpose and the form is always just a
backdrop or stage.  In Awakening it becomes apparent that there is
nothing causative in form, and this includes the body and food and
exercise and the environment.  Every experience is a decision of the
mind.  With training the mind is consistently miracle minded or
right-minded, and this state of mind is healthy.  The happy dream is
healthy indeed, and peace of mind results from the Purpose &
Perspecive of the Holy Spirit.  In Quantum Physics terms, this is
the Observer.  In ACIM terms, this is the Dreamer.

Digest the Holy Spirit's Purpose in your mind and you will never
hunger again.  :)

Love & Blessings,

David

Dear Everyone,

This morning I talked to David about wanting to buy presents over
the past month, and feeling guilt around this. David suggested I
read the section in ACIM the Manual for Teachers on 7. Generosity.
  The following is my journaling with the Holy Spirit about this,

With love,

Kirsten

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Good Morning Holy Spirit, I understand all that is in the Manual for
Teachers: The teacher of God gives away in order to keep, the
teacher of God is generous out of Self interest, the teacher of God
does not want anything he cannot give away and by giving away in
true generosity the things that are of God are protected forever for
himself. Talk to me about generosity.

Holy Spirit:  Generosity in the world's terms involves individual
ownership, such as giving ownership of an object, place or even giving
  ownership of one person to another. Generosity is often associated
  with time and when time is not available as a means for
  demonstrating generosity, it is substituted with money or material
  possessions.

Generosity in My terms, or in Gods terms, involves being Who You Are
and reflecting this truth through your actions. In true generosity
there is no specialness, idolatry, planning (based on judgment),
comparisons, financial considerations or time considerations. The
teacher of God reflects the giving, generous nature of His father,
Who gives unconditionally to all of His sons whether they seem to be
aware of His gifts or not.

There is no guilt involved when you give as your Father gives. There
is only blessings.

Me:  So when I want to buy a gift for someone and I feel guilt
because it's not what a Teacher of God would do, it's not what David
would do, and if I'm living on Divine Providence it's not what I
must do - and I get angry with David and want to keep separate money
and secrets (like presents) from him – what can I do?

Holy Spirit:  Your desire to give is beautiful. Share your desire
openly with Me, and with David, and with those that you love. Ask Me
if there is a way to express your desire in form and let Me guide
you.

Me:  OK. Thank you.


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I then talked to the Holy Spirit about my stepping back from the
role of "teaching" at gatherings, of feeling the desire to stay in
one place, and that I feel lighter now that I am clear about this.
This year has been one of almost continuous traveling over thousands
  and thousands of miles, and all that I have gone through has been
  shared openly in public forums. It has been intense and now I just
  want to retreat.

Holy Spirit: You can (retreat) now.

Me: David talked about his hermitage experiences, having periods of
rest, taking bike rides and long walks and this seems impossible. I
can't imagine having rest time like this together… I feel caught in
a wheel of having to be productive, do gatherings, cover costs and
air fares, and this doesn't fit with "doing nothing".

Holy Spirit: Let the fear and anger come up.

Me: Well how? I feel confused. David has talked to me about it all.
Often after trips overseas there aren't any funds coming in to help
  with the costs of operating the ministry in the United States.  So
"give it all away for free' only works with financial support.

Holy Spirit: What you "need" will be provided. Release your concerns
of "how". I am the "how". I will Guide you as to where to be, and I
will only Guide you to be in places / situations where you are
supported. You are supported right now.

Me:  Yes but that's only now – what about when David leaves? (David
will return to the U.S in March)... I can't believe I'm asking
this!!

Holy Spirit:  David is not leaving. Everything in this world is
temporary. The use of symbols is temporary but Love is eternal.
You asked for a relationship in which you could experience a love
that would never end. This is that experience. You asked for no
  separation – this is that experience. You asked for the Peace of
  God and beneath the surface of changing emotions and changing
  feelings is the Peace of God.


Me: (I take a deep breath and the feeling of peace envelops me.)

Beloved One,

Blessings of Happiness.  Recently I received a request for some
transcripts that are offered freely as files on our online Yahoo
group.  Many people simply receive the Messengers of Peace messages
in their e-mail inbox, though you can also go online and set your
preferences for viewing the messages (ie., no e-mail web only, daily
digest, special notices only, or directly to your inbox).  You can
subscribe or unsubscribe whenever Guided and there are many features
of the online Yahoo group such as a photos section, links section,
and files section.  To check it all out go to Yahoo Groups:

AwakeningInChrist · A Course In Miracles (link below)

Category: Mysticism
Founded: Jan 31, 2001
Language: English

Description:

All are included in the Love of Christ! Love is Pure Oneness and
Eternal Innocence in God. We are joined in a deep, reverent prayer
of Silence in Which God's Voice Speaks to us. God always Answers in
Love. It matters not what road you've taken. A Course In Miracles
(ACIM) is one clear way freely available for you. Thank You Jesus.
David Hoffmeister speaks from Enlightened Mind all around the world
upon invitation.

Visit the link below to make use of the messages search box, the
files, the links, the photos, and read the messages online.  Feel
free to pass this message on to your friends and spiritual seekers
you know.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AwakeningInChrist/

Love & Blessings,

David, Kirsten, Regina, & Herb

Beloved One,

The experience of joy comes to a willing mind that has given up all
attempts to make exceptions to the miracle.  Only exceptions
block the awareness of ever Present miracle mindedness.  Today look
at some ideas I shall offer to clarify transfer of training as
described in A Course In Miracles.  This clarification will have
tremendous benefits for anyone desiring to experience the State of
Mind I call Enlightenment.

Many have heard of the teaching from the Bible in Corinthians: Love
does not possess.  This world of time-space, made by the ego, is a
construct of possession.  Everything and everyone that makes up
distorted perception is the result or outcome of the desire to
possess.  To be free of limits of any kind, therefore, it is
imperative to expose and release the concept of possession from the
mind entirely.  There is no such thing as partial forgiveness or
partial healing, and no such thing as partial possession.  Either
the mind believes in possession and experiences the illusion of
imprisonment, or the mind has forgiven or released the concept of
possession and is naturally free and whole.  There can be no
compromise or middle ground or balance with the release of
possession.  If you believe you can actually possess anything you
have allowed your mind to be possessed by error or illusion.
Freedom is nothing more than the escape from concepts, and all ego
concepts rest on the assumption of possession.  Once this error is
abandoned, all errors vanish immediately.

Think awhile on what seems to attract so much attention in the
world: the body.  What plans do you make that does not involve the
comforts and conveniences and care of the body.  You treat it like
it is your home, a valued treasure in a world of transient images.
Yet the body is nothing more than a temporary learning device that
you can use awhile to expand your perception beyond its current
limits.  That is all.  The mind can be mind free that no longer sees
itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its
presence.  Without the concept of possession you would not believe
that you  can even possess a body.  Yet you believe far more than
the body as a possession, you have identified yourself with the body
and therefore see yourself as temporary and transitory.  How can
there be consistency and stability at all if your identity is in
constant flux and change?  And this self-concept "identity" seems to
change and be as instable as the things with which it has surrounded
itself.  No stability is possible in an impossible situation, and
this world of time-space is just that – an impossible situation.
Everyday the deceived and untrained mind concerns itself with
survival of the body, and the state of this mind seems often
stressful and at times angry, fearful, and guilty.  Though these
conditions of mind are illusions, they seem very real to a mind that
believes in the error of possession.  Possession is a synonym for
the ego, for the ego desires to get and has no awareness of True
Giving, Which is the natural attribute of Spirit.  Only the mind can
be freed and it can only be freed through the peace of forgiveness
(the release of illusion).  How simple is Salvation.

To experience freedom of mind trust in the Holy Spirit is a basic
requirement.  Without this trust in the Holy Spirit the spiritual
journey will seem like an intellectual endeavor or an impossible
undertaking or a sorrowful, intense series of trials and
temptations.  What is temptation but the wish to make illusions
real?  And who will Awaken to God's eternal Love who still values
the illusions of the ego?  As you answer the Call to Awaken and be
glad the Purpose of forgiveness becomes strengthened in awareness
and the need for the concerns and the dramas surrounding the body
will fade away.  Thus it can accurately be said that without trust
in the Holy Spirit and devotion to this Purpose the Awakening will
seem to be delayed until there is a willingness to trust.  As you
develop trust in the Holy Spirit it can accurately be said that all
perceived problems will disappear from awareness, and with
acceptance of the Atonement it is certain that "problems" will
never "return" again.

Since the topic is transfer of training our brief discussion will
eliminate aspects of this world that seem most problematic for they
are all the same.  All of the aspects I will discuss are based on
the concept of possession, and therefore the Answer or Solution will
always be as simple as the release of this erroneous concept.  Trust
in the Holy Spirit undoes the concept of possession, and as
possession dissolves away only the Light of Spirit remains in
awareness.  The Light of the Spirit simply Is, so when the obstacles
have been removed the Light shines unobstructed in awareness.  The
Light of Love is perfect Oneness, and there is nothing lacking or
incomplete in perfect Oneness.  This is the Unity and Purity of
Heart that Christ radiates forever Being God's Love.

In the time-space cosmos this Love has been temporarily forgotten
and pushed out of awareness.  The sleeping mind has therefore
experienced a kind of amnesia about the Kingdom of Heaven and seems
preoccupied with bodies, environment, food, clothing, shelter,
entertainment, competition, betterment, pleasure, attack, economic
advancement, education, and striving for progress or destruction in
a variety of ways and forms.  These pursuits leave the mind mired in
an unnaturally stressful state that is highly busy and exceptionally
unproductive.  Productivity and Creativity are synonymous, yet the
makings and the strivings of the ego have nothing to do with true
Creativity.  The imaginations and goals of the ego are all of linear
time-space and serve only to perpetuate the illusion of linear time-
space.

The linear time-space cosmos of distortion is a game.  The only way
the game becomes consistently happy is when you allow the Holy
Spirit to Interpret the game from the lofty Perspective of non-
judgment.  Possession is a belief (the ego) which seemed to set the
game of time-space in motion.  The game cannot be won or lost.  The
game can only be forgiven or Observed in a beneficent way.  The game
is in the mind, though the ego projects a world which seems to be
the game.  It is not.  The game cannot be forgiven or Observed
Correctly until you realize that the game is in the mind.  Economics
are therefore in the mind.  Sexuality is in the mind.  War is in the
mind.  Competition, attack, defense, education, entertainment,
pleasure, suffering, bodies, striving, etc. are all games that the
sleeping mind is toying with.  The game of time-space is only a game
in the mind and has no reality whatsoever.  It is a game of belief
and has no real Substance or Spirit.  The only thing necessary to be
free of the linear time-space game is to stop playing the game and
trust in the Holy Spirit for absolutely everything.  Absolutely
everything.  If you open to experiencing the Holy Spirit as the
Provider you can open to experiencing our Self as Christ as God as
the Creator.  The Way is very simple, and it is only the ego that
obscures the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

I dedicated my "life" to experiencing the peace that passeth the
understanding of the world.  It has turned out wonderful.  The whole
world is now a miracle to me, and it feels like a happy fairytale.
Drama has been replaced by Certainty, striving has been replaced by
rest, depression and boredom have been replaced by joy and freedom,
loneliness has been replaced by intimacy of shared Purpose, and I am
happily in Love with God and everything and everyOne.  So peacefully
Present am I, there is no longer an expectation that people, places,
events, or things be any different than they Are.  By Grace I live
in the Heart of God, serenely unaffected by the journey that never
was.  "How" did this awareness seem to happen?  I trust the Holy
Spirit absolutely.  The Holy Spirit is the "How," the means and the
End together as One.  There is nothing left to search for, nothing
left to attain.  There is no problem to solve and nowhere to go.
There is nothing left to do.  Enlightenment is a Present experience.
Here are some lyrics from a song that Madonna sings that I am
listening to right now:

…the spell has been broken, I Loved You so
Freedom comes when you learn to let go (of possession)
Creation comes when you learn to say no (to possession)

You were my Lesson I had to learn (forgiveness)
"i" was a fortress You had to burn (dissolve)
Pain is a warning that something's wrong
I pray to God that it won't be long
I want to go Higher

There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

…the spell has been broken, I Loved You so
You were my Lesson I had to learn (forgiveness)
"i" was a fortress

There's nothing left to lose
There's no more heart to bruise
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

Freedom comes when you learn to say no (to possession)
Creation comes when you learn to let go (of possession)

There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

Freedom comes when you learn to say no (to possession)
Creation comes when you learn to let go (of possession)

Learn to say good-bye (to possession)
Yearn to say good-bye (to possession)

There's nothing left to try
There's no more places to hide
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

There's nothing left to lose
There's no more heart to bruise
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye (to possession)

Love Always,

David

Beloved One,

My friend Anna has been sending song lyrics that inspire the soul.  Here are
some of the many I recently received during the past week.  Thanks Anna!

Love,

David

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LOVE WILL ALWAYS FIND A WAY BACK HOME

I knew that when I cut the cord
There'd be a time of falling
But how was I to know at night
I'd hear your sweet voice calling
And hear your footsteps echo down the hall
Sometimes I think I just don't think at all.

What caught me by surprise this time
Were the words under the tree
So I held your heart up to the light
To see what I might see

CHORUS:
Love will always find a way back home
Love will always find a way back home
Your only chance of holding on is learning to let go
Cause love will always find a way back home.

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"You And I"

High above the mountains, far across the sea
I can hear your voice calling out to me
Brighter than the sun and darker than the night
I can see your love shining like a light
And on and on this earth spins like a carousel
If I could travel across the world
The secrets I would tell

[Chorus:]
You and I
Were meant to fly
Higher than the clouds
We'll sail across the sky
So come with me
And you will feel
That we're soaring
That we're floating up so high
`Cause you and I were meant to fly

Sailing like a bird high on the wings of love
Take me higher than all the stars above
I'm burning, yearning
Gently turning round and round
I'm always rising up I never
Want to come back down

[Chorus]

Fly

You and I
Were meant to fly
Higher than the clouds
We'll sail across the sky
So come with me
And you will feel
That you and I were meant to fly

You and I were meant to fly

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Amarantine with ENYA.

You know when you gave your love away
It opened your heart, everything is new
And you know time will always find a way
To let your heart believe it's true

You know love is everything you say
A whisper, a word, promises you give
You feel it in the heartbeat of the day
You know this is the way love is

Amarantine
Amarantine
Amarantine
Love is always love

You know love does sometimes make you cry
So let the tears go they will flow away
For you know love will always let you fly
How far a heart can fly away

Amarantine
Amarantine
Amarantine
Love is always love X3

You know when love's shining in your eyes
It may be the stars falling from above
And you know love is with you when you rise
For night and day belong to love

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Stuck On You


Stuck on you
I've got this feeling down
Deep in my soul
That I just can't lose
Guess, I'm on my way
Needed a friend
And the way I feel now I guess
I'll be with you till the end
Guess I'm on my way
Mighty glad you stayed

I'm stuck on you
Been a fool too long I guess
It's time for me to come on home
Guess I'm on my way
So hard to see
That a woman like you could wait
Around for a man like me
Guess I'm on my way
Mighty glad you stayed
Oh, I'm leaving on that midnight train
And I know just where I'm going
I've packed up my troubles
And I've thrown them all away
Because this time little darlin'
I'm coming home to stay

I'm stuck on you
I've got this feeling down
Deep in my soul
That I just can't lose
Guess, I'm on my way
Needed a friend
And the way I feel now I guess
I'll be with you till the end
Guess I'm on my way
I'm mighty glad you stayed

Dear Everyone,

This email came from a dear friend who is a beautiful example of
healing, wherever she seems to be,

With love,

Kirsten


My Dear, Dear Sister, ... My Dear True Love,

I have tried to keep up reading all of your postings and have been
translating some into Spanish for our Venezuelan Group that now has
68 members !!!  You are both such teachers! for me and I love You
dearly.  Our healing paths Kirsten are so parallel and joined that
it moves me deeply.  My "vacation" is being quite a healing
opportunity.  I discovered the firsts days of my vacation here on
the Island of Margarita that I was angry !!!!  super angry !!!! and
yet all was perfect, the apartment where we are staying, the kids,
the weather, we had money (a present from my mother ) ... anyway....
and I was soooo angry !!!  I asked the Holy Spirit, "What is
happening?  Show me please ! I do not understand what is happening
to me !" And the response came:

You can rest now.

I have been doing so many things: caring for my ill father, his
death, caring for my ill mother, organising your visit to Venezuela
and everything around it, plus working and teaching the Course.. and
now the Holy Spirit was saying: "You can rest now"  It also said:


Holy Spirit: Let the fear and anger come up.

And I obeyed.  I am obeying.  I am letting it all come up.  I am
not "working", yet I am doing exactly what is required of me:
Healing, releasing the wrong mindedness and this flushes fear and
anger (my ego's of course!) ... its surprising how I feel I am being
taught to look at the emotion being released and not "be" the
emotion... I am looking at all this fear and anger and I Know it is
not real, I Know I am healing, I Know that I am truly searching for
what in truth belongs to me and joy and peace are my heritage.

So I just take a deep breath and watch it all knowing that it is
temporary and that it will go away and all I need will be provided
for me.  I was questioning the Purpose of my "taking this vacation"
and it has become so clear ... "opening doors" I was told once, so
I've done here in the Island for Us, for the Course, for David, for
myself.  I will be meeting with former ACIM teachers here who left
the Course and now with my call (somebody gave me their number
voluntarily) I can sense it stirring, the Love in All, the
willingness to heal.  I am happy to serve my Purpose which is the
Holy Spirit's Purpose of forgiveness.  I am sooo thankful.  I love
reading both your postings my Dear David, my Dear Kirsten.  I
already translated the posting on Diets into Spanish and whenever I
get a chance I'll do as many as I can.

I love you Dearly, Eternally...

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David's reply:

Mi Amor,

You are Pure Love and I am soooooooo grateful for You!  I know that
  the healing is certain and the flushing is to be Watched and
  Allowed.  You have truly opened doors and this has opened your
  heart to Love, Which you radiate.  Be just as You are Mi Amor, and
  rest in My Heart -the Heart we share Forever.  You are always
  welcome at the PeaceHouse, and I forsee a very joyful, restful
  Summer!!!  I invited many more people to the new Venezuela Milagros
  Yahoo group using the Invite tool on the group, and I am so happy
  to watch this group expand in leaps & bounds!  It is a blessing to
  many, and I so appreciate the translations you make & share!!!

In Love Overflowing,

David

Dear Everyone,

I read through the section Honesty (What are the characteristics of
Gods teachers, 2, page 9) in the Manual for Teachers this morning
and had an enlightening conversation with the Holy Spirit,

Enjoy,

With love,

Kirsten

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Good morning Holy Spirit, so when it says, "no word lacks agreement
with another" in the manual (pg 12), this means that honesty wipes
out opinions altogether because opinions change and are therefore
lacking in honesty.


Holy Spirit: Yes. Opinions are of the ego and they are based on
illusions, which are transitory. To have opinions is to make untrue
statements (statements about the untrue) and this has nothing to do
with perfect honesty.


Me: Self-deception is dishonesty and conflict is the result of self-
deception so would you say that every time I am in conflict –
feeling stressed or anxious, that it is because I am deceiving
myself somehow?


Holy Spirit: Yes. Only the truly honest are at peace because they
are not invested in illusions.


Me: So going through the process of healing the mind is a process of
coming to perfect honesty – of exposing all self-deception and
clearing the unconscious away entirely.


Holy Spirit: Yes. This is a good description of "the spiritual
journey" or "the healing process". The unconscious mind is
unconscious because it is full of deceit; it is based on illusions
such as "painful memories". All memories of events in time and space
are untrue. At the conscious level, actions and opinions mostly
appear to be based on recent experiences in this "life-time" (the
life-time of the body) but this is all part of the deception. The
whole mind is ever present. The whole mind is here right now,
including all unconscious or subconscious thoughts. This eliminates
the belief that healing the mind in "this life-time" is impossible.

Your desire for peace is your desire for healing. Your willingness
to expose the deception is your willingness to accept the truth
about your Self. That you are Mind, created perfect and whole, and
all attempts to eliminate or hide this perfection have had no effect
on reality whatsoever.

Desire perfect honesty.

Accept that all conflict comes from self-deception.

Ask for My help whenever you are not at peace and you will receive a
perception that overlooks error / deception.

I can use the images around you to help you realize the truth but
first you must be willing to admit that you were deceiving yourself.


Me: So regardless of what seems to have happened in the past the
mind can be healed in the present because the images, past and
present are just that, images. And now that I am aware of the
healing process I can simply call on You for help and the images can
be used right now for the purpose of healing.


Holy Spirit: You got it.

Me: :-)

Beloved One,

Greetings of Peace, Love, Freedom, Joy, & Happiness.  Here are some
words my friends Vicky in the Dominican Republic & Anna in Sweden
have shared recently.  I share them with Blessings for EveryOne!
Thanks Vicky and Anna.  I love You forever.

From Vicky:

If it's not yet obvious to You, the real reason for this season is
You. A more perfect Child of the Universe has never lived. Until
now, only a celebration cloaked in myth and mystery could hint at
your Sublime Heritage and Divine Destiny. You are life's prayer of
becoming, and its Answer. The First Light at the dawn of Eternity,
drawn from the Ether, that the Universe might know Its depths,
discover Its heights, and frolic in endless seas of Blessed Emotion.

...To Give beyond reason. To Care beyond hope. To Love without
limit ...These are the hallmarks of Divinity - traits of the
Immortal - your badges of honor, and your ticket Home.


From Anna:

Hi again!

Just heard this song on the radio, I´m sure you´ve heard it too.

It´s beautiful "That´s What Friends Are For" with Dionne Warwick and
Elton John.

From me to you:

And I never thought I'd feel this way
And as far as I'm concerned
I'm glad I got the chance to say
That I do believe I love you

And if I should ever go away
Well then close your eyes and try
To feel the way we do today
And then if you can remember ...

Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
That's what friends are for
For good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for

Well you came and opened me
And now there's so much more I see
And so by the way I thank you

And then for the times when we're apart
Well then close your eyes and know
These words are coming from my heart
And then if you can remember ...

Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
That's what friends are for
In good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for

Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
That's what friends are for
For good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for

Keep smiling, keep shining
Knowing you can always count on me, for sure
That's what friends are for
For good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for
(Thats what friends are for)

With Love, Gratitude and Thankfulness

Anna

Dear Everyone,

The following journaling with the Holy Spirit is all about Joy. All
questions are from Number 5. Joy. Manual for Teachers, pg 13.

Enjoy!

With love,

Kirsten

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Good morning Holy Spirit, I've just read the section about Joy. "Joy
is the result of gentleness. Joy goes with gentleness as surely as
grief attends attack". Talk to me about this.

Holy Spirit: Grief comes from the belief in attack. To believe in
loss, that something dear could be taken away or threatened gives
rise to the belief in attack. Where is trust when attack is in the
mind? It has disappeared from awareness, blotted out entirely. To
realize that loss is impossible is the end of fear. Without fear and
without the possibility of loss of any kind, peace, gentleness and
joy are experienced.


Me: Talk to me about "Joy is the song of gratitude".

Holy Spirit: Joy is the expression of your natural state, or your
inheritance, being of God. Peace and joy go hand in hand with
gratitude. The realization that you are safe and loved and whole,
that there is nothing wrong, there is no-one to fix, that all things
work together for good, gives rise to joy. It is only misperceptions
that cover over and obscure the eternal song of gratitude of the Son
for his father. Moments of intense gratitude are glimpses of the
truth that is always there.


Me: Talk to me about "And Christ looks down on them in thanks as
well".

Holy Spirit: This is a metaphor to describe the idea of Christ. This
world seems to be linear and horizontal in its approach to learning
and progress. As you release these concepts from your mind, opening
to the expansive truth, you begin to realize that true ideas are
vertical. This is another metaphor or "stepping stone" idea to help
you out of illusions. Obviously in heaven, in the absolute, there
are no levels. God Is. Christ is and idea in the mind of God. Christ
Is. All is one in perfect equality.
In this realm, God is the highest idea. You could consider angels
and ascended masters to be very high ideas who have access to wisdom
not of this world. They are not bound by the laws of this world.

To use the phrase "Christ looks down on them in thanks as well" is
describing the highest part of your mind, or the true nature of your
Self, looking down in gratitude as you continue to awaken to the
truth about yourself. There is only One Mind, therefore all aspects,
realms, ideas and symbols are reflections of the One Mind. They can
seem to look upon each other, to assist each other, to express
gratitude to each other. Again these are all helpful "stepping
stone" ideas.


Me:  How does this fit with it all being a dream?

Holy Spirit: You are aware that you are dreaming. You are awakening
to the truth of Who You Are and Who your brother is.
Calling this experience a dream is simply realizing that this is not
reality. It is no more complicated than this.

Enjoy your dream, knowing that you are utterly loved and utterly
safe.

David,

My name is Holly and I found your web site a number of months ago
through Jon Mundy's Miracles Magazine.  I am astonished and
overjoyed to witness your understanding of the course through this
beautiful site.  I'm including an article I wrote for Jon's magazine
that came out last month.  It is my way of introducing myself to
you.  I now see that the Course In Miracles is a cookbook for waking
up and it has been very misunderstood.  "Teachers" of the Course
have led students in many directions other then HOME.  I wish so
much I could meet with you and talk but we live on opposite sides of
the country.  I felt I needed to contact you because I feel truly
called to share my new perspective with other students of the Course
and I would so much appreciate your input and experience.  I look
forward to hearing from you.  Here is my article:

THE PROMISES ARE TRUE

I first attended a Course In Miracles group in the mid-seventies
having been introduced to it by my mother.  It's been a part of my
life ever since, changing positions with other practices depending
on what was calling me in the moment.  I've explored Scientology,
Hinduism, metaphysical practices like automatic writing, channeling,
hands on healing and astral projection, Christian Science, Sufi
dancing, Anthroposophy, Sant Mat and twelve step work but studying
the Course continued through it all.

Two years ago, through the grace that is always inviting us, I had
the God realization that the mystics have been pointing to for
eons.  It happened precisely the way the Course said it would.  The
whole time I was studying the Course, however, I had never even
imagined exactly what the Course was -- a cookbook for waking up.
Realization, enlightenment and awakening are spoken of in the course
continuously, but I had no clue that this was the goal of the Course
or a "real" possibility for me.  I am just finishing a book
describing my story because I feel it is very important for others
to know that enlightenment is something that any person can realize,
even if they are living a simple, ordinary life.

I saw the world as a place of madness that I had to control with a
vengeance to survive in.  This awakening has taken me from this
place of fear, depression, hopelessness and confusion to a place of
peace that is beyond imagination.  Everything now is known to be in
order.  My heart is filled with love and compassion.  The movement
of life is followed.  There is nothing to do.  Everything just
unfolds and there is a sense of satisfaction that goes beyond any
concept no matter what is happening in the realm of thinking or
feeling.  Life does its dance.  Everything is the play of Oneness.

Over the years of studying the Course its message slowly revealed
itself on many levels.  This is perfect.  But one of the side
effects of my awakening was the ability to see what all of the
teachings of the masters, over the ions, were pointing to.  I
started reading the Course again with "new eyes."  I was stunned.  I
realized that the course is continuously moving from the relative to
the absolute in circling mandalas.  It uses many different words to
describe the same phenomena of awakening.  So far this is my list,
i.e.: Atonement, Salvation, Holiness, Forgiveness, Knowledge,
Revelation, Holy Instant, My Function, Joy, Happiness and Christ's
Vision.  Sometimes it discusses the "how-to" of awakening and
sometimes it discusses the "side effects" dancing between the
relative and the Absolute Truth..

I have always been a "fundamentalist" when it comes to the course.
I've studied the books in groups, often in people's homes, while
working the lessons on my own or with a partner.  I've never been
attracted to people who are "teaching" the course as this looked to
me like the beginnings of a new "religion" and I wanted to stay away
from that.  I didn't want someone's interpretation of what the
Course said.  I somehow knew the words on the pages were designed to
stop my mind and that's just what they did.

Towards the end of my journey, just as the course describes,
spiritual teachers from different traditions came to support me both
on the inner and the outer. I reached toward God, wanting nothing
else, and then He took the final step Himself.  Now I suddenly found
myself surrounded by Enlightened Teachers.  They came out of the
woodwork.  (Although I've now learned what really changes is your
ability to see Them. God is often the stranger on the bus.  But
that's another story.)

One of these teachers, who has been a big support over the last two
years during my "adjustment period," is a woman named Ellen who woke
up several years ahead of me using the course as her main practice.
She is the only person I've ever met who did the course exactly like
it says.  She practiced the lessons exactly as instructed, using a
beeping watch to keep to the daily lesson schedules, and the lessons
took her home.  I wanted to mention this because I now see so
clearly what the Course is asking us to do.  The lessons undo "your
conditioning" if you practice them precisely and with the faith that
enlightenment is the goal.  Then everything the course describes
will come true.  This is not only possible but a promise.

The other thing that I want to share with you is a practice I was
guided to begin after I woke up.  I started capitalizing every word
in the course that referred to the Absolute.  The result was
astonishing. In the beginning you may find this a bit confusing.
But as you continue, the course will begin to appear like a 3-D
movie, you will see the background differentiated from the
foreground. This is what you need to see to understand "what" you
are.  I introduced this practice to my current group and there was
some resistance at first, but now it is helping everyone see the
deeper meaning spread before us and it has become a delightful game.

Here is one example of what becomes visible when you capitalize the
words referring to the Absolute.  It is the last paragraph in Lesson
167.

"We share One Life because we have One Source, a Source from which
Perfection comes to us, remaining always in the Holy Minds which He
created Perfect.  As We were, so are We now and will forever be.  A
sleeping mind must Waken, as it sees its own Perfection mirroring
the Lord of Life so perfectly it fades into What is reflected
there.  And now It is no more a mere reflection.  It becomes the
Thing reflected and the Light Which makes reflection possible.  No
vision now is needed.  For the Wakened Mind is One that knows Its
Source, Its Self, Its Holiness."

I wrote this as an offering in which I hope you will find some
value.  I have only recently been introduced to the Miracles
Magazine through an acquaintance with Jon Mundy and I enjoy reading
it.  I am now also exploring the teachings of all the mystics
through one of my teachers here in Oregon, Joel Morwood, a true
mystic himself.  The truth is very simple and shared by the mystics
of all traditions. Everything is God.

Love to you all,

Holly.

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Hello Holly,

Thanks so much for writing and sharing your Joy in Awakening with A
Course In Miracles!  It will be wonderful to meet with you when I
have the opportunity.  I may visit the Pacific Northwest of the USA
next year.  I am currently sharing gatherings in New Zealand and
Australia for the next couple of months.  It is always a blessing to
meet  reflections of our Self 'everywhere' and rejoice as One
Being.  Please send me excerpts from your book about your experience
of Enlightenment / Self-realization and anything else that you are
Called to contribute, and I will happily share it with Course In
Miracles students all around the world.  The witnesses for God's
Love spring up everywhere in Atonement, for Atonement proclaims
freedom for everyOne (ACIM Workbook Lesson 139) and Love is truly
all-inclusive.  In the messages on the AwakeningInChrist global
mailing list I also frequently capitalize the words which represent
the Absolute, just like in the example you used from Lesson 167.
One Mind!  I am  grateful for your expression of what ACIM is REALLY
about - Enlightenment!  Your parable of Awakening will be a helpful
witness for everyOne, a precious contribution for the entire
Sonship.

True religion is the experience of Inner Peace, the Present Moment,
and I am grateful for the exposure and release of every ego belief
that seeks to make a "formal religion" of the Course - making ACIM
something "special" that must be adhered to and followed
(ie., special teachers and special books).  The ego was the attempt
  to make rituals into idols and thus obscure the simple Happiness &
  Joy of Awakening Now.  It is a blessing to share an experience that
  comes directly from our Beloved Source: God.  I rejoice with
  everyOne in the Great Awakening to Pure Oneness!  All glory to God
  for creating Spirit as One!!!

Showers of Gratitude,

David

David,

What else can I offer that would make any sense than my deepest
gratitude, and just witness my heart awakening, opening it's leafs
and wanna give everything?

Thanks Jesus and Holy Spirit: Thank you David for being a clear
channel for such unbelievable Grace, that never had any end or
beginning. Your words opened up to such flow of love, and so
naturally I am hopelessly in love with you too (I'm not trying to
score you).

What else am I capable of now that I wander between brothers and
sisters in supermarkets, malls, forrests, streets and alleys and to
recognise something profoundly valuable in every face, and let
myself be pierced by this infinite love, that'll end up swallowing
all I thought I was?

I see it in the eyes of everyone, that we share such mutual love for
each other. Inside our natural state we are profoundly in love with
each others personalities and expressions and lies and projections.

It is like under all chit chattering and drama, lies love as a
tarpaulin, rolled out, the fundament, our safety.

Before I sought fulfilment of a need, I never really knew, and I
searched intensely, and I was looking unhinderedly, and I walked to
all 4 corners of the world, and all the while my happy home was
vibrating within, waiting, neglected. God missed his son. And the
son was lost in his dangerous, cold dream, dreaming that reality was
horrible. There was no peace, not a moment of presence. What else
than a deep, deep sleep can one call that?

I am happily shocked when in moments I discover; this is my dream,
my setup, my play. It is my believe in guilt and seperation I see in
my brothers and blame them for. It is me that places frightful and
terrifying images upon the faces of my sisters. It's my judgement
that darkens the world. It is my projection.

I am so happy for my freedom to forgive the world, the images, the
thoughts, and step into the Garden of Eden in which I am innocent
and recognise innocence in everyone I meet.

I desire to look into your eyes. I long for being unpretentious with
you and contain you and all the errors, you think you have, and
maybe we discover, if we dare, that life only needs to be lived and
never had to be discussed, understood or controlled. Right here is
only inspiration to become a little child again, carefree and with a
loving innocence that wipes away all guilt and fear back to the
nothingness it came from.

So gentle to realize; that nothing but reality is real, and reality
is kind and loving.

I'm in love with life.

Yeah!

All my Gratitude and Gentleness,

Jacob.

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Dear Jacob,

Thanks for pouring your heart out.  You express a profound Love, and
I rejoice with you!  I look forward to our travels together sometime
and to making an audiodocumentary for radio in Europe or wherever
the Spirit Guides for us to do it.  Love to you and all the dear
brothers and sisters in Denmark.  I hope to see many from Denmark at
the Nordic ACIM conference near Stockholm, Sweden next August 10th-
13th, 2006 at the 12th Century castle.  There will be ACIM students
from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in attendance and it would
be great to see you shining the Light amongst them.

In Overflowing Love,

David

Getting Clear: Sharing Words of Clarity from the Holy Spirit (2 CDs) (Newly released)

All About the Dream: How it started, why we are still dreaming & how to stop dreaming (2 CDs) (Newly released)

Let's Talk About Fear: Discussions with the Holy Spirit about Fear (2 CDs) (Newly released)

Special & Holy Relationship: David & Kirsten in Venezuela (DVD) (Newly released)

 

The Book of Mark: The Story Retold by the Holy Spirit (3 CDs) (Newly released)

Conversatorio con: David Hoffmeister (1 CD) (Introductory, Spanish & English) (Newly released)

Beloved One,

Greetings of Love.  Here is a message I pulled from the Early
Writings called A parable of Awakening.  Enjoy!  If you would like
to read some more of these early writings just visit:

http://awakening-mind.org/library/davidearlywritings.htm

Or follow the link to "Early Writings" on the main web site.

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Once upon an illusion of time there lived a young lad, He went
through the world seeing neither good nor bad, People called him
silly and some thought he was a little mad, For this young boy, was
ever happy and always glad.

This care free soul soon seemed to be a man, Many obstacles appeared
in his way but in his heart he never ran, He knew he had always
existed even before time began, He served a mighty Purpose awakening
in God's Plan.

His religion was inner peace and every thought a prayer, Being One
with Spirit extends a Love beyond compare, No need to argue or
debate which image or label to wear He just lived His Life in God's
Loving Care.

Trials along the linear "route" they seem to come and go, He takes
them all in stride sailing wherever the Spirit blows, Following
God's Course an Observer of the show, He tunes to the Heavenly
Channel Being All there is to Know.

So there you have it such a wonderful forgiven world, And Joy is the
reminder that time has been uncurled, I flow in a Pool of Happiness
a smile on my seeming frame, Watching a beautiful canvas as I
joyfully have left the game.

I'm just sittin' here watching the wheels go round and round I
really love to watch them roll

No longer riding on the merry-go-round I just had to let it go I
just had to let it go I just had to let it go <Smile>

Love & Blessings,

David

Hi David

Happy New Year to you!!

I started the last day of the year on a 'high note' - (Revelation
number ???!!)

I was woken up at 4am the morning of the 31st and was clearly told
by HS about 'separation and form OR non-separation and form'!! It
was told to me in such a way that I could understand that it was
crystal clear!!  I was 'overjoyed' at this I can tell you.  To be
finally clear, on something, at least!

Being a medium, it is as plain as day really that there is no form,
but there is no separation either.  It has been staring at me for
years but I never equated that symbology, with what ACIM is saying!!
How bizarre not to see the parallel meaning (for me)!! When I 'see
dead people" (and here I don't mean the physical 'living breathing'
ones!!), they don't have form, as such, but they 'show' me (imprint)
their earthly form to me for clarification purposes.

It was there all the time, just waiting for me to 'see' the reality
of it all!!  Kool!

I also took the opportunity to ask HS what was happening to me just
lately, and it was lessons, (tests though I don't like that word
really it sounds negative), about expectations and letting go and
also to see the illusion of the form etc.  It was a very much 'Wow'
moment and when I fully awoke a few hours later I felt calmer than I
have done in weeks.  It was almost as if I had to end 2005 with
clarity and be free from confusion, so I can go into a new year
(symbollically speaking) with fortitude and peace - well more peace
than I have been experiencing!

New Year's eve worked out very well too!!  I had nothing planned and
had been  letting myself get emotionally worked up though I knew it
was all very silly - damn ego! -and when I woke up (this morning
after the 4am 'call') I saw the whole illusion and I was able to let
it go, what did it matter after all?  I usually 'do' traditional
things (rituals) at new year but I also let all them go and didn't
put the pressure on myself - what freedom!!

I spent a lovely day shopping with a girlfriend whose getting
married in a few weeks and then I was invited to a BBQ with my next
door neighbour and her friends and it was really nice, and I was
home before midnight, wished my neighbour well and came home!!  It
was just great, and no guilt about years of ritual!!  All behind me
now - it's all in the past.

The feeling of 'breaking through the illusion' is a joy!  Hold that
thought!!

Many blessings to you David.  I feel very enriched to have you and
the others in my life at this time.  We are truly All One, together.

I look forward to you sending me your 'invitation to join the
mailing list' on yahoo, once again.  I will get this 'yahoo' sorted
this time!  I already have 4 addresses with yahoo but I can't access
any of them for whatever reason - so will try again when I hear from
you.

May 2006 bring many happy journeys and miracles for you, with
Kirsten and with others on your travels.  See you both on your
return, end of January.

Blessings

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Beloved One,

Thanks for sharing this Magnificent Revelation!  Hope you received
the AwakeningInChrist invitation.  See you at the end of the month.

In Overflowing Gratitude,

David

Hi David!

I wanna wake up with you
I wanna be there when you open your eyes
I want you to be
The first thing that I see
I wanna wake up with you

I wanna lay by your side
I wanna feel every beat of your heart
And throughout the night
I wanna hold you tight
I wanna wake up with you

All the love inside me has been sleeping
Waiting till the right one came along
You can share the love that I've been keeping
You can put the music to my song

I wanna wake up with you
I wanna reach out and know that you're there
I want you to be
The first thing that I see
I wanna wake up with you

And throughout the night
I wanna hold you tight
I Wanna Wake Up With You!


I want you to know that writing to you and recieving your mails has
been PURE JOY for me. I am so grateful that you have taken your time
to read and answer.

Two things have been important for me this lifetime. One thing is
total Freedom from everything and everyone. A feeling of
independence,  boundlessness and invulnerability.

(I never have had any opinions about anything)

The other thing is to Feel and Give Real Unconditional Love to
everything and everyOne and also experience the power of a deep,
intimate  joining in Love and Joy with someOne (actually myself)
where there are no blocks or holding backs, just a wonderful trip to
Heaven.

So, my friend, when it comes to you; I Love everything about you
Eternally.

And my wish for freedom tells me I have to let go of you (or the
concept of David) to release both of Us so we can experience total
freedom and Oneness. You were my lesson I had to learn, freedom
comes when I learn to let go, even of my dearest thing.

I really hope you can feel a permissiveness from me. I have no
expectations or demands. Love has to be freely given and taken.

Tonight, when I welcome the New Year, I too will celebrate The
Eternal Now with you in my mind. Love cannot be apart.

I hope you have a wonderful trip with Kirsten. She is lucky, and I
am truly happy for her!

Forever in Love and Joy

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Beloved One,

I will keep this emotion in my Heart
forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Words cannot express how Loving I feel Now.

David

David,

I have some news to share. Since joining this group and much time
alone with the course, I have taken a new and dramatic step in my
own life.  I have quit my job at the hospital, and am opeing up a
retail store only a mile from my home.  It's called "Body, Mind &
Spirit".   It is on Fletcher and Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa.  I had
a book full of notes and ideas under my bed for 2 years  about this
store, and now I'm finally letting spirit guide me, not letting fear
stop me, and I'm going to help spread the word that we have come to
know as Truth.  I originally wanted to call it "Gods Thoughts"
or "Imagine" after my friend John Lennon, but spirit has moved me to
put together something that even people with no real concept of
spirit can be able to come in and find something to take home.
Perhaps a book, a piece of art, a home spa kit or a natural herb to
help them heal themselves.  My concept is to meet people where they
are, like Holy Spirit does.  Not all are ready for the concepts in
the Course.  But by working with people of all levels, I hope to be
able to raise them up one baby step at a time, starting with the
body (through herbs, or weight loss items) moving to the mind (thru
books, tapes, self-help things) and then to the spirit, to the
Course or similar teachings. I will hold meetings in my store and
help spread the word of the course.  I have been communing with Holy
Spirit over this, and Holy Spirit has given me the ultimate
answer...that This is what I am suppose to be doing!  I was told in
no uncertain terms that "the universe will serve it...as it serves
the Universe" (I think it starts on page 366).  Point is, I know
Holy Spirits voice and i have begun to listen with ALL MY HEART, and
not let fears and uncertainties about "am I good enough, smart
enough, have enogh money etc.  "  I know now that none of that
matters, when Truth is the ultimate goal, nothing in this world can
work against it, and that if I really want to Learn the Course, its
now time for me to Teach it.  I was also told when I asked,
that "Peace and Faith do not come separately".  I must have faith if
I am to really know truth.  And this is a great step of faith for me.

I will keep you updated from time to time, and I will be watching
for you when you come to tampa again and maybe you can come speak at
my new store!!!

Thank you for all you have done and continue to do in my life and
the lives of so many others.

In Gratitude

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Beloved One,

Thanks for following your Heart and for sharing your journey in this
e-mail!  Many people make New Year's resolutions around this time,
and you have decided to listen to and follow the Holy Spirit and
accept your part in the Plan of Awakening.  Your part is essential
to the Plan and in fact the entire Plan depends on you accepting the
part completely.  Thanks for your witness to the willingness/faith
of your Heart.  It offers an example to all.

I am very happy to come and speak at your new store the next time I
am in the Tampa area.

Love & Blessings,

David