Movie 'Doom of Love' True prayer and The Present Moment with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Online Movie Workshop Forget what you think you need and dare to live in the present moment, no matter what the world tells you. Regardless of the past's opinions and conditioning, dare to live in the present moment. We need help with that. We need somebody to show us the way because it seems like we've put quite a lot of effort into making goals for the future. And we've been like a hamster on a hamster wh...
Jul 11, 2022•1 hr 41 min
Closing Session - "My Spirit-given Function" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu When you surrender, you're saying, whatever Your will is, God, I'm letting go of my expectation for an outcome. And the Course in Miracles adds; Let all things be exactly as they are, and all things work together for good. And if we need it just one more time, Jesus says; Without judgment, all things are equally acceptable. Wow! Without judgment, all things are equally good? What a state of mind. No...
Jul 04, 2022•2 hr 48 min
Movie 'Breakthrough' - "My Spirit-given Function" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister We must realize that it's not people that get sick, and it's not people that die. Those things bodies go through, including birth and death, are inventions of the ego. They're just concepts that the ego made up in mind. God didn't create them. From the perspective of only one mind, the miracle rearranges perception, and the heart's prayer is answered in the form of peace, happiness, and joy. What seems to be ...
Jul 03, 2022•1 hr 56 min
Opening Session - "My Spirit Given Function" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu In the work with A Course in Miracles you start to realize it's more about undoing than doing. It's more about emptying the mind of everything you think you think and think you know and everything you believe is true. It's like all the Mystics and Saints of all the centuries have told us. Empty your mind and you will know the truth. It's very simple. And with this topic of My Spirit-given function, ...
Jul 03, 2022•2 hr 16 min
The Movie "Tangled" - Let go of seeking validation outside your Self! with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop If we look for validation of our worth in the images and the shadowland around us, we will be emotionally in trouble. The love of God sustains me, but the world I see is a form of vengeance. As long as you're looking for external validation in images, the world you see will be a form of vengeance. It's not really a vengeful world, even though it was made in hate by the ego....
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 42 min
The Movie "Lucy" - Live in full integrity and be uncompromising in your desire for truth! with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop Living in full integrity. We always say if that person has integrity, that they have consistency. They say what they mean, and they mean what they say. They follow through on what they promise. So that's what we think of when we think of integrity. Jesus has a higher definition of integrity; he says that integrity is of the mind, and when you align with ...
Jun 19, 2022•2 hr 36 min
The Movie "Hollywood Stargirl" with commentary by David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop Actively choose the Spirit's thoughts, no matter what the seeming circumstances. Why is that so important? Jesus tells us that this whole world of time, space, and the cosmic universe is a self-concept. It's an identity. It's a self-concept that God didn't create. So, we're here to wake up from the amnesia of forgetting our eternal being as the Christ, and we're here to wake up from this idea that ...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr 35 min
Closing Session - "This Holy Instant" Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu David: I had just completed ten years of university, and then Jesus instructed me to delete my resume, and you know, I tried to throw all the papers away, but he said, No, go to your word processor and delete the memory of the resume, not just the paper. I want that resume out of your mind now because I will teach you how to live in the given. I will teach you that I'll provide everything you need if you s...
Jun 07, 2022•2 hr 33 min
The Movie "Fatima" - This Holy Instant Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister The title of this workshop or retreat is "This Holy Instant," which is the most profound teaching in A Course in Miracles. Forgiveness takes you towards the Holy Instant, the present moment, the powerful now moment that releases the mind from time and space. That frees the mind from believing in the cosmos. The holy instant releases the mind from believing in bodies, from believing in separation, believing in difference...
Jun 06, 2022•3 hr 20 min
Opening Session - 'This Holy Instant' Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu There's no learning in heaven. God created you perfect. The spirit doesn't learn. So when we think about the Holy Instant, the Holy Instant is not learned. So we're entering into a whole different realm than human beings have ever known because all humans have ever known is the past repeating itself day after day. The ego has programmed us, and you may believe you have free will in this world, but that's a...
Jun 05, 2022•1 hr 57 min
Episode 'The Chosen S01E03' - Movie 'Awake - The Life of Yogananda' - Living in the giving, give as God give with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop. Living in the giving. Give as God gives. That's no small thing when you think that God is just pure love and light. It radiates, it extends, it gives. God is pure giving. Getting has no meaning to Him. To God, achieving has no meaning, possessing has no meaning, and accumulating has no meaning. So isn't it wonderful that we have a cre...
May 29, 2022•2 hr 19 min
The Movie "Holy Man" How to Enter a Life of Pure Inspiration! with David Hoffmeister - A Weekly Online Movie Workshop Today's movie shows a very tense relationship between Ricky and Kate. Even though they're working together for the same company and trying to improve the ratings to make more money, everybody wants love and connection, and everybody wants to feel alive. That's all we want - love, connection, and to feel alive. We're not asking for too much. We're asking for what God gave us in ou...
May 22, 2022•2 hr 9 min
Closing Session - The May Renovatio Movie Retreat with David Hoffmeister Join David Hoffmeister in closing the second residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. In this last session, after 4 deep movie sessions during the week, David opens up to questions from the participants. Enjoy this beautiful question-and-answer session. If you want to know more about ...
May 21, 2022•1 hr 55 min
The Movie "Everything Everywhere All At Once" - The Simultaneity of Time with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat So, simultaneous time as opposed to linear time, what does it mean? It seems to be an oxymoron and a contradiction in terms. Simultaneous time is entirely different from linear time. This movie will help us move toward the experience of simultaneous time or the present moment. You have made up names for everything you see. Each one becomes a separate entity identi...
May 20, 2022•2 hr 3 min
The Movie "Free Guy" The Hero's Journey with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat So we're going for a movie tonight that follows the hero's journey. Typically in the projected world, we have heroes and villains, and the heroes are supposed to be succeeding and saving the day, and the villains are always doing bad things and so forth. Underneath is the stratification that says that heroes are different from villains. The heroes are the good ones, and the villains are the bad o...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 42 min
The Movie "X Men Days of Future Past" - Time and Space Are the Same Error with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat Jesus says in the course that time and space are the same error. We can think of time and space as perception, as subjectivity. Each person perceives the cosmos, their body, and other people from the point of view of a private mind with private thoughts. And so everybody sees a private world which is entirely subjective, derived from what you believe. What you pr...
May 18, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Movie "Just Friends" To Know God Is Everything with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat. Join David Hoffmeister on this first-day residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. To know God is everything and has to be everything in your life. The way we come to experience knowing God is by having that be our only desire. When we say only desir...
May 17, 2022•2 hr 31 min
The Movie "The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe - The Unheard Tapes" Falling into Dependency Traps? - Commentary by David Hoffmeister This Movie Workshops number one theme is 'Falling into dependency traps, versus rising up my Self as Spirit.' So here's what Jesus has to say. Except you become as little children, which means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the son in his true relationship with the Father. So Jesus is flipping the ego's ...
May 16, 2022•3 hr 20 min
Closing Session - The Happy Dream Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu You cannot wake yourself, but you can allow yourself to be awakened. That's a big one. You cannot wake yourself means the personality self doesn't have a contribution to make. The only contribution you have to make is your willingness in your mind. When you're willing to heal false and distorted perceptions and join with the might and the glory of the Holy Spirit's great willingness, or we could say, it's the ...
May 11, 2022•2 hr 40 min
Movie Session - "How Do You Know" - The Happy Dream Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister Before you come to a state of consistent happiness, you seem to go through a dismantling. It's a dismantling of the self-concept, the image you believe you are, and the image you think the world is. Some of you may say it's quite a big thing to let go of this personality, including letting go of your belief in external wars, famine, external countries, and politicians. You have to let go of your belief in e...
May 09, 2022•2 hr 53 min
Opening Session - The Happy Dream Online Retreat with David Hoffmeister and Frances Xu Consistent happiness is no small topic at all. When Jesus says, "Dream softly of your sinless brother, dream of his kindnesses rather than the hurts he gave," he's always pointing us to the mind as to where the happiness originates. God created you as Spirit, and your happiness radiates out to everything and everyone. When you're happy, the whole world is happy. When you're not happy, you're not seeing a happy...
May 08, 2022•2 hr 1 min
Happy Dream Retreat and Monastery Goin’ Green. David shares the new direction for the Living Miracles Monastery in rural Utah: 1. Passive & Hybrid Solar Projects 2. Greenhouse Shared Space & Soft, Central Climate 3. Harnessing Wind Power 4. Water Retention And Garage 5. New Windows/Staining/Stonework/Repair Projects 6. Collaborations And Practical Mind Training 7. Daily Prayer And Communication Opportunities
May 05, 2022•17 min
The Movie "Only You" - Accepting My Part In God's Plan for Salvation with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Online Movie Workshop Accepting my part in God's plan for salvation sounds beautiful, and it sounds like it must be kind of profound. But, accepting my part in God's plan for salvation is, in simple terms learning to come to live in the present moment. If you're living a guided life, you accept your part and God's plan. If you're living a spontaneous life, where you're spontaneously inspired, and...
May 02, 2022•2 hr 23 min
The Movie "Ira and Abby" Allowing All “Unfinished Business” to Be Healed with David Hoffmeister - Weekly Movie Workshop. The number one theme deciding this week's movie was, Allowing All “Unfinished Business” to Be Healed; what could the unfinished business be, except unconscious beliefs that we're still hiding from the light? One time Helen Schucman was flying with Jesus, and they looked all over the world, all lifetimes and everything, and they almost missed Helen Schucman's entire life becaus...
Apr 24, 2022•1 hr 43 min
Closing Session - 5. Session at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David Hoffmeister Join David Hoffmeister in closing the residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. In this last session, David opens up to questions from the participants, like can you talk about the mind that wants to go towards awakening? And David starts his answer with, Yes, there is one pa...
Apr 23, 2022•1 hr 59 min
“Knowing” - 4. Movie Night at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David Hoffmeister Join David Hoffmeister on this fourth-day residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is “Knowing.” This movie shows there is a way to truth through...
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 38 min
"Perfect Sense" - 3. Movie Night at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David Hoffmeister Join David Hoffmeister on this third-day residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is "Perfect Sense." Perfect Sense is a powerful film wher...
Apr 21, 2022•2 hr 38 min
"Her" - 2. Movie Night at the Renovatio Movie Retreat with David Hoffmeister Join David Hoffmeister on this second-day residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is "Her." Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed o...
Apr 20, 2022•2 hr 23 min
Movie "Evan Almighty" To remember God is to follow His guidance with David Hoffmeister - Renovatio Residential Movie Retreat. Join David Hoffmeister on this first-day residential movie retreat in Utah! This intimate, in-person retreat is for those who desire to go deeper with the teachings of A Course in Miracles, using movies as the primary tool. Through prayer, David is “Given,” the perfect movie from the Holy Spirit that best meets our present healing needs and themes. Today's movie is Evan A...
Apr 19, 2022•2 hr 43 min
The movie "Before I Fall" - Let Go of Thinking for Yourself with David Hoffmeister. Today's movie is a looper movie given to help you wake up because it shows you your mistakes. The only mistake you're making is trying to hold on to the past, and when you try to hold on to the past, you repeat it and don't let it go. But Jesus wants us to forgive the past and recognize that it's already gone. So when we try to loop it, we're trying to keep it going, and Jesus is like, you're not going to wake up...
Apr 17, 2022•2 hr 38 min
