Seek Ye First the Kingdom (Part 1)

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Be like a feather in the wind, living in the flow of trust, and divine providence will carry you. This is the message of the Holy Spirit; that when you put His purpose first, everything you need in this world will come without effort. But we can’t just wish the ego thought system away. As David Hoffmeister tells us in this talk, we have to purify the mind; we have to let Holy Spirit unwind us out.

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Gold Nugget:

“We have to be convinced by the Spirit that fulfilling our function is not a sacrifice at all. Forgiveness is a gift to ourself. We are not freeing anybody else. We are freeing our heart, we are freeing our soul, through that. I think when it comes down to answering the Call, once you just have a feeling like I want to fulfill my function, I want to answer my Call, but I have these things that I have to handle first, or these responsibilities, these duties, these obligations, or whatever; I have to say, Am I willing to be unwound from those false senses of responsibility, and duty, and obligation, and be taken back into a state of grace and a state of perfect innocence, in which I was created? That is why the title of my latest book that came out is called Unwind Your Mind Back to God. That unwinding is very, very important.

I am not going to live a life based on obligations. But we have to let the Holy Spirit rinse our mind of the obligations. We can’t abdicate. Even if the ego wound us in, we can’t just take out the sword and chop. We actually have to let the Holy Spirit unwind us out. The ego wound us into its thought system, and we have to let the Spirit unwind us.

You have got to let guidance unwind you. You can’t think that you know how to unwind yourself from the guilt, when it was your own best plans that the ego sponsored that got you into the guilt. How do you think that the ego is going to take you out of it, when it wants you guilty? It is not going to unwind you from that. So as we go deeper into it, and as we practice turning over our mind, turning over our thoughts, turning over our decision making capabilities to the Spirit, the miracles just start raining in.”

Recorded at the Into His Presence Would I Enter Now retreat on April 20, 2015 at Alverna Heights Spirituality Center in Syracuse, New York

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.