Hear the Voice for God Together
Spirit Does Not Incarnate—Hear the Voice for God Together
Join David Hoffmeister as he addresses a variety of questions about the spiritual journey, such as karma, sickness, and letting go of body identification. He also talks about some of the common pitfalls on the path to Awakening and the wonderful news that we can all hear God’s Voice together!
Gold Nugget:
“There is one Holy Spirit, and we can hear the Voice for God together. We have to in the end. Jesus even talks about that in The Song of Prayer. He is talking about two people praying together; if they are genuinely attuned to each other, he says, they will hear the same thing at the same time. And isn’t that amazing! When you consider that no two people see the same world, no two people have the same, identical perception of the world—it is all variable perception—and yet if they are genuinely attuned, they will hear the same thing at the same time.
Now that is good to know because, of course, over these 25 years of travel and everything I have seen, many things happen with the Course, and one of them is, My Holy Spirit is telling me something different than your Holy Spirit. What did you say? My and your Holy Spirit? Does that mean there are seven billion Holy Spirits running on the loose out there? You see, guidance is guidance. We have to be able to tune in to that guidance. And it is not like the Holy Spirit is going to tell people conflicting things in order to set up a conflict. The Holy Spirit will reach through the mind whatever your belief system is and come through in a way that can be understandable. But also it is this sense of attunement.”
Recorded at the God Is the Strength in Which I Trust Gathering on April 26, 2015 in Danville, Kentucky
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