How Is Everything Arranged for Miracles?
“The Body, Sickness, and Level Confusion” Online Retreat Session 2: Transcending Level Confusion—How Is Everything Arranged for Miracles?
This powerful session with David Hoffmeister is a profound and inspiring talk about healing, transcending level confusion, and experiencing total joy!
Gold Nugget:
“And that’s why consciousness, which is the realm of beliefs, is the domain of the ego. There was no consciousness even. There was no split. In Heaven, there never was such a split. But consciousness not only has split, but it has levels. You’ve heard of levels of consciousness, raising your consciousness. This is all within the egoic realm. To believe that you have responsibility for this error called ‘ego,’ this error called ‘consciousness,’ and for all the projections, all the symbols and images, including bodies. If you believe you’re responsible for any of that, then you have just taken responsibility in your mind for the impossible. You’ve taken responsibility for something that could never be so, could never happen. And this induces a false sense of guilt, being responsible for something that could never even exist. You might say you’re taking responsibility for a hallucination. And even if you’re in psychiatry or psychology, they would say, ‘No, you need to learn to release your hallucinations. Not take responsibility for them. You’re doubly insane if you’re taking responsibility for your hallucinations.’
And yet, if we look closely, we all realize we have a lot of responsibility for the body and for other bodies, maybe family bodies, you know. Whatever those bodies are in your constellation, in your mind, that you’re taking responsibility for, you’re placing a false sense of responsibility where it can never be placed. And you’re also saying, I can create myself. And you’re also saying, No, it’s more than spiritual creation. There actually is something called ‘physical,’ that is apart from mind. And that is really delusional. To think that there can be something called ‘physical,’ apart from mind. That violates the prime directive, the only prime law that there is; is love extends itself, and love creates like itself. And then to believe in the physical is a total denial of the law of love that God created”
Recorded at the Awakening from the Dream Online Retreat – The Body, Sickness, and Level Confusion on March 3, 2018
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