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our shared purpose is the most joyful way to invite Him into our awareness.
Our approach is based on David Hoffmeister’s teaching of the practical
application of A Course in Miracles, focusing on the Guidance of the
Spirit within. This single-pointed approach is one where absolutely
everything in daily life is used for one Purpose; to come to the experience of
forgiveness and true freedom.
A Course in Miracles Teacher, David Hoffmeister Shares about the body and Communication.
David, A Course in Miracles teacher:Also, we can just get some contrast of using the body for something other than communication. For example, the Olympics: The Olympics are based on competition, and you
will notice that bodies seem to get hurt in the Olympics. Think about boxing and wrestling, these are forms of attack and defense. One time when I was in Venezuela, I went on a sports radio show and the man who
read the scores was also an A Course in Miracles student. He would sit with me in the booth and he would read off all of the scores, and then he would say, "Okay David, you who are an A Course in Miraclesteacher, can you tell us what is happening when players get injured, when they collide or when they have ligament problems." I said, "Well that is coming from guilt in the mind for believing in competition." Let's apply this to business for example, there is something called a Type A personality, full of stress. Type A, work all of the time, never take a break, push, push, push, they can have high stress, heart attacks, high
blood pressure. Another motive could be fame, different actors and actresses being in motion pictures,
or models, using the body to be famous, and to draw attention to the body identity. Fame is not a good motive for the body, it is not a good motive to use the body, or to try to be wealthy, that is a common thing that people use the body for, to work hard with the body to accumulate a lot of possessions and lots of money. They have discovered too, that a lot of people that are stressed out are wealthy people who are afraid of losing their money. Another example would be thrill seeking, using extreme sports, or pushing the body to extreme conditions just to get more stimulation. All of these examples are the ego misusing the body
for its own purposes. And then there is the very obvious one, it is called war. Using the body to kill other bodies, this is not the Spirit.
Then we have stories of all kinds of war injuries that can last for many years, decades. Even the psychological ones like, post-traumatic stress. Where people keep re-living horrific memories of war scenes. I see some of you are taking notes, we can make two categories, ego's use of body, and Spirit's use of body. Holy Sprits use: communication device, and Jesus puts the other into 3 categories:
pride, pleasure, and attack. These are the 3 main uses that the ego has for the body, and these 3 keep the mind asleep and dreaming. The communication purpose will take you first into lucid dreaming, you start
to have more Deja-vu experiences, “mm, I have seen this before." Or, a sense of, "Oh, I am aware that I am
dreaming," which is a very powerful experience. I think we really covered the healing.
I once had a request given to me from a thirteen- year old girl. She had
not even begun high school and she was already ready to retire, and it
does come down to practicalities. I told this girl, I said, "Well you
have very many highly artistic skills, and if you want to paint for a
living, you actually could do that." Her skills were so high.
Her mother was A Course in Miracles teacher and student, and so was her grandmother, and I said, "You could tell them of your idea,"
but I said, "You cannot tell this to your father, he will think you are
completely crazy. And so you will have to make a decision because that
would be a very radical thing to do at thirteen- years old." I did meet
her 5 years later when she was eighteen, and she was preparing to go to
university, and have a boyfriend, and then I did hear about her another 4
years later, she had graduated from university. Even though she had
considered retiring at thirteen, it was too extreme, it was too radical.
So in relation to this question that is
being asked it would be good to talk to the daughter about the
consequences of such a decision, because the Holy Spirit is always
helping us unlearn the world, but it's most important that we give our
skills over to the Holy Spirit.
So if the daughter wants to just stop school, and has no idea of her
purpose, there could be some very harsh consequences to that decision.
But if she is very clear spiritually that she is letting go of the
pursuits of this world, and we do have a lot of indigo children and
crystal children on the planet right now. I think they do have a feeling
that they are here to demonstrate a completely new way of living. In
rare cases they do drop out of school, and it actually becomes a
blessing, a teaching device. If you remember the story of Siddhartha,
his father had all kinds of future expectations for him to be king. But
when Siddhartha left the palace he said, "No, I have to go for spiritual
enlightenment." That is pretty much the same with all saints and
mystics, they seem like the black sheep of the family, they never fit
into this world well, and they would be unhappy if they tried to play
along with the world. Okay, we handled all of the questions. Thanks to
all of those who wrote in.
