Best Spiritual Movies

Awakening with the Movies

David Hoffmeister uses the best spiritual movies as modern-day parables. Jesus shared his profound wisdom, light, and love through the use of parables. He taught from a fishing boat, from the mount, during meals, or anywhere he was amongst people. He was a public mystic; his was a ministry that demonstrated the Christ. Jesus used parables because he wanted people to be able to relate to his teachings.

David uses movies as teaching demonstrations because people can relate to them; while watching a movie they can relax and let their hearts open up. Watching movies is an enjoyable way to wake up and heal. It is not as threatening as being, for example, in a family situation or confrontational relationship. The best spiritual movies can help to “collapse time” in the sense that they can be used to get in touch with the unconscious in an experiential way.

A Course in Miracles Online

A Course in Miracles is a vibrant non-dual program to heal and awaken the mind. For me, after decades of seeking, it was the answer to the deepest call of my heart. It brought clarity to the seeming discrepancies between it and the Judeo-Christian theology I was born into, and is a very clear and practical program for undoing all the blocks to awakening to your true identity—to Oneness.

A Course in Miracles works directly with the mind to release all thoughts of judgment, guilt, sickness, fear, and death (the ego thought-system) through forgiveness and miracles. This mind-training program brings you into a deeper relationship with your internal teacher, so it can guide you through this cleansing and purifying process. This returns the mind back to its natural, awakened state.

With willingness to question every thought and value that I hold, A Course in Miracles promises that its teachings cannot fail! I am blown wide-open with gratitude and love for this book and for the clear teachings of David Hoffmeister.  They are unwinding me from the cruel and harsh belief in a world of victims and victimizers that I perceived, to a new way of seeing, and of being more consistently aware, joyful, and at peace!

~Ann

Non Duality Teachers | Non Dual Teachers

 

Non Duality Teachers and the Belief in the World.

The Awakening path and the teachings of all non duality teachers comprise a system of thought that points to a fundamental intrinsic oneness of mind—an experience of pure Awareness without separation.

If the goal of Awakening is for an experience of pure awareness or oneness, then the world of form seen as separate objects must be an expression of duality. Anything that reinforces this will cover over the oneness that you are. David Hoffmeister, one of the most consistent and clearest contemporary teachers of non-dualism has been saying for a quarter of a century that the world is a “distractive device” for the mind. A life busy manipulating the world while trying to discover who you are, will not work. But there is something inside of you that intuitively knows oneness is real! David Hoffmeister, one of the many western non duality teachers, has consistently taught the whole untainted picture of the Awakening journey. His gentle manner and happy tune is a delight for those whose eyes have grown tired of the bustling activity of the world’s ways.

We are one and we are not separate. Yet, to be able to discover the reality of our awakened living presence, we will have to question everything that we hold valuable.

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What is non duality Teachers?

The path of Awakening Mind is based on the one truth that only God is real and the duality of the world is false. This essential answer to the question of what is duality? is conveyed in both Advaita Vedanta and in A Course in Miracles with no contradiction, although the words sometimes differ.

Let us dive deeply into the mind until it is apparent that peace of mind is available to us this very instant. We want to take a close look at all the false beliefs, presently held dear, that obstruct the awareness of True Self and God. We want to raise these false beliefs to the light and trace them back to their false cause—the belief in separation from God.

The feeling of restlessness is related to choices that seem varied and complex. Can you see that, if this is the case, you must believe that there are real future choices to make? What are these personal choices between? Aren’t they perceived to be between options or alternatives within a dualistic world? Aren’t they seen to be between two or more specific things? That’s inherent in this concept of choice, isn’t it? Now, what is the commonality of the choices in the world, the personal choices that we are describing? They are always choices between forms and specifics. Choice rests on the belief in a dualistic, linear, time-space world of opposites, including past/future, does it not?

So it comes down to this: the whole idea of choice between specifics must rest on the concept of linear time, as contrasted with simultaneous time—Now! Heaven is Eternal Oneness and has nothing to do with choice, since there is nothing to choose between in Oneness. One must see choice where it has meaning as a learning device, at the mind level, before there can be remembrance of choice less Oneness. Just beyond all the things you think you have to do lies one simple choice. All you have to do is make one decision for peace! Really it’s not even a decision; it’s just an acceptance. What we want to look at is everything that seems to stand in the way of this acceptance. It’s that simple.

To continue reading and have access to a profound audio discussion of these principles, click here.  You may also enjoy the video below in which David Hoffmeister is interviewed about his teachings.

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