How to Speed up Spiritual Awakening
Living the Uncompromising Life: A Session in Cork, Ireland—How to Speed up Spiritual Awakening
David Hoffmeister shares practical experiences of living focused and purposeful lives of total devotion to the Spirit. He answers questions about the ego, regarding forgiveness, discerning the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the experience of listening to and following Jesus, and choosing in mind instead of attempting to manifest in form and create the future. The talk was a call to be clear on the purpose that leads to true freedom and awakening from the dream of the world.
Gold Nugget:
“What we’re going to talk about today is living a life of no compromise, where moment by moment you follow your intuition, moment by moment you are in alignment with Spirit instead of trying to go egoically against Spirit. Because all perceived suffering is when the mind, consciously or not, tries to go against the flow, against the divine order, against the harmony and the joy that’s our natural birthright as spirit.
So we have taken journeys in which you have higher and higher levels of trust. And when I say higher and higher, I mean trusting that you’re deciding with Spirit, with God, even around the minute things in life—in other words, there are no small things. We also think there’s big decisions and smaller decisions, but our life is a flow of continuous decisions. We are not even aware sometimes that we are making the decisions. Ever have a day when you just start crying, and you can’t think of anything that you’re crying about? You really think, I have no reason to be crying like this, but you just have maybe a deep emotion of sadness coming up into awareness, and there’s a decision going on. Everything is a decision. Now we’re learning from A Course in Miracles that our decisions are based on our beliefs, and so we have to get down to our core beliefs. Because if we have a lot of core beliefs and unconscious assumptions, then it’s more like our life as a human being is more like a robot that’s just acting out a lot of these decisions, many of which are unconscious.
So the first thing that I found in my life was I was going to have to find a way to bring this unconscious up into awareness, and I’d heard different ways people do this like rebirthing, and Rolfing, and there’s all kinds of techniques; different breathing techniques, or just living your daily life—that actually will bring it up too. In fact, if you want to bring it up really fast, I think a combination of meditation and relationships will bring it rocketing into awareness. If you have a meditation practice and you’re involved in interpersonal relationships … there you go. You can use iowaska; you can use other drugs, but I think those are the fastest right there. If you use the combination of silence and relationships, you are going to have so much mirroring going on that you’ve got a whole plateful every day and then some. And so that’s what makes it so difficult when you truly engage on Planet Earth, instead of distracting away with drugs and distractions. When you really say, I’m going to face my feelings. I’m going to be aware. I’m going to be honest with myself., you are really saying to the Spirit, Bring it on! Let’s shift this baby into gear. Enough of first gear or reverse. Some of us feel like we’ve been in reverse for years. Okay, let’s go forward, first gear. Okay, let’s go higher. We really are saying, Bring it on.“
Recorded at the Living a Life of No-Compromise Gathering on August 14, 2016 at St. Peter’s Church in Cork, Ireland
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