Loose the History, Embrace the Mystery!
Opening Session – The Mystical Heart of Christ – Online Retreat—Loose the History, Embrace the Mystery!
David Hoffmeister shares many topics in this session. When we expand our awareness and faith, this results in a direct experience. When there is a total lack of interest in the past and no concern for the future, Atonement is reached. Let’s trust God will take care of us and everyone else.
Gold Nugget:
“You’re bringing up one of the most important things in terms of healing, in the sense that you’re aware that there’s things that you were brought up with and that you still have a belief in and an investment in, and that’s part of the healing. Is when you start to see, Oh, I have an association in my mind between crying and being weak. Or there’s some kind of a protective mechanism, that when I start to feel a little bit of sadness, then the big shutdown comes. It’s almost like the ego goes, No, no, no, and it just closes the door on that emotion. The ego doesn’t want you to feel the fullness of the sadness, or the fullness of any emotion, because of the intensity of the emotion. And then when we do feel these intense emotions, like sadness, then the ego uses it against us and says, Oh look, you’re insufficient. You’re not functioning. You’re not enough. You’re not evolved enough. And it will use it as a put-down, to maintain the defense.
But just like in many wedding vows and many traditions where a man leaves his family, a woman leaves her family, and you join together in a marriage, of connecting and joining for growth, for expansion, this is like a new opportunity that you have in your relationship, to allow those emotions up. And in allowing them up, you might say to let the mask crack a little bit, the mask of ‘keep it together,’ the mask of ‘hide your feelings,’ the mask of ‘you must not show emotion to be strong.’ All those associations in the mind are just starting to, little by little, come up into awareness so that they can be seen for what they are. But we have to do it experientially. We have to do it in our daily lives. And that’s what the healing practice is. So, that’s why we have in our communities ‘no private thoughts’ and ‘no people-pleasing.’ Because we’re really here to encourage people to get in touch with what’s going on in their mind, not to try to just push it away like a standard reaction.”
Recorded at Tabula Rasa Online Retreat The Mystical Heart of Christ on November 4, 2022
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