Relationship with Spirit

Spiritual Practice | Addictions, Desire, Dismantling, Ego, Family, Feelings of Lack, Healing, Holy Relationship, Identity Confusion, Mallorca Spain, Miracle Impulses, Private Thoughts, Projection, Series Mallorca 2015, Sex and Sexuality, Special Relationship, with Friends

Zooming in on Atonement—Relationship with Spirit

Relationship is the path to Awakening. Spirit uses what the ego made to guide you back to divine Love, and non-compromise is key; you cannot compromise your heart if you desire real relationship with Spirit. Because of expectations, people are afraid to speak their heart or say what is on their mind. See that other bodies are acting out your own beliefs. Honesty with others brings you into touch with your own doubt thoughts about your true Identity as Spirit.

Addictions, appetites, and desires are misguided miracle impulses, stemming from a perception based in a belief in lack. Let Spirit use your body to guide you Home!

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Gold Nugget:

“When there was this sense of separation from God, the ego projected out the people, the places, the events, and everything else, and used that projection to make its substitute for Love—the substitute self-concept—in place of the Christ-Self or the true Self. And so these configurations, including family and so on, are part of a defense against the intimacy of divine Love. So, there are a lot of expectations tied in with them as you go forward. That is why people are afraid to speak their heart or say what is on their mind. They do not want to rock the boat or get thrown out of the boat. Maybe you have heard stories of, I told my daughter that and she never spoke to me again for sixty years, or something like that. And so you’re thinking, I’m not going to go down that road. I will not risk the relationship.

But you start to realize the thoughts these characters are acting out are your own doubt thoughts about who you are. And thank goodness that they are acted out. I mean, that is how we get in touch with them; as they are acted out! We have them so pushed out of awareness that we are not even in touch with the dark thoughts, the subconscious thoughts of anger and attack; the rage that is underneath there. In fact, when Jesus is talking about the self-concept, he is talking about it as a two-tier system. He says the top tier is the ‘face of innocence.’ And the face of innocence is sometimes ‘wet with tears at the injustices of the world.’ T-31.V.3:2 But the face of innocence is like the top mask; the bottom mask is so dark that Jesus uses the phrase ‘draped with sin.’ That is how he describes the bottom tier, draped with sin.

And the top tier was made so you never would have to look at the bottom tier. So, when these characters are acting things out on the top tier, or on the surface of consciousness, it is just really a good opportunity to start to say, What do I believe? What are my thoughts? and start to see the need for healing. And it starts to take you in a whole new direction. Instead of being concerned with what other people are thinking and other people’s reactions, you start to see, Oh I’ve got a big internal job of healing to do here and I need to start to watch my thoughts more carefully and allow these thoughts to surface without concluding that I’m evil or bad. I just have to learn to let them come up; give them air, let them come, and have a bit of spaciousness so they can arise into awareness.“

Recorded at the 2015 Mallorca Devotional on May 4, 2015, in Mallorca, Spain

I Taught the World to Teach Me

I Taught the World to Teach Me – In this session, David Hoffmeister emphasizes the importance of loyalty to the Spirit, the inner teacher, over personal desires and external opinions. This loyalty stems from truth and a deep connection with the Holy Spirit, not the ego’s demands. David shares parables of taking full responsibility for our state of mind by recognizing that we taught the world to teach us. By keeping this empowering thought in mind, it’s possible to remember that we don’t need to wait for externals to choose to be happy.

Coming Together with the Purpose of Healing

Coming Together with the Purpose of Healing – David Hoffmeister explores the perceptual problem, which pertains to the belief that the subject and the object are different, that the observer is different from the observed, and that the personality-self is different from the world that surrounds it. When we see an issue in the world, it really is just a split in the mind. This belief can result in significant problems such as conflict, climate change, and hunger, all of which can be traced back to the division within the mind. “Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved,” (W-79) and “Let me recognize my problems have been solved.” W-80 By examining the projected world, we often fail to identify the core problem because it manifests in many forms. You may resolve a few problems today, only to encounter more tomorrow. Therefore, the key lies in our perspective, which stems from our interpretation.

Relax, Step Back, and Unwind from the World

Relax, Step Back, and Unwind from the World – David Hoffmeister shares about the importance of placing the future in God’s hands, a concept that requires enormous trust. This trust is crucial as we have been conditioned to learn the past and plan the future. Trust is the foundation of a teacher of God and allows us to relax and feel divine ease. During this profound talk, David also gives an overview of the very first Strawberry Fields Festival in 2009. Jesus tells us to go from nightmares to waking with a transition between happy dreams and gentle waking. This process helps us feel softer and gentler, making the struggle and challenge easier. Enjoy this deep discussion with the participants that goes deep and yet fun.

Opening to Deeper Prayer

Opening to Deeper Prayer – David Hoffmeister begins this 4-day Japan retreat by exploring the concept of undoing the self-concept—a conditioned expectation that obstructs our understanding of the world. The ego arises from the mind’s pursuit of self-improvement, crafting illusory goals that keep the mind preoccupied and detached from its boundless nature. The ego’s game is endless, as it neither begins nor concludes. The purpose of our practice is to abandon the pursuit of temporal goals and relinquish the false identity—the mask of the ego. In doing so, we experience the mind’s all-encompassing nature, recognizing that the world, society, and everything once perceived as external are within the mind. As the mind reaches a state of rest, the external world reflects this peace, becoming more harmonious.

A Path of Gentle Letting Go

A Path of Gentle Letting Go – In this session, David Hoffmeister speaks about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, focusing on self-actualization as the top goal. This concept is based on the Greek belief that ‘know thyself’ is the ultimate goal of human development. The ego attempts to deny this through hypnotism, mesmerism and imagination, covering the truth with unreal images. Atonement, the correction, is the awareness that the separation never happened.

Teaching the Holy Instant

Teaching the Holy Instant – At the beginning of this talk, David Hoffmeister discusses the concept of choice and the duality of life. We seem to live in a world of duality, where one of the primary goals is to find a life partner. We can see even that is dualistic because even a successful life match involves two, while reality involves only one.