MERCY: Escaping the Machine of the Ego - A Movie Introduction by David Hoffmeister

Join David Hoffmeister in this live pre-movie session as he prepares students for a screening of the futuristic thriller Mercy, which they will watch afterward at the local cinema.Set in a world where an AI judicial system delivers life-or-death verdicts in a matter of minutes, the film serves as a visceral metaphor for the ego’s "courtroom" of the mind.David uses the story of Detective Chris Raven—a man judged by the very system he helped create—to illustrate the A Course in Miracles concept of "reversing cause and effect." By exploring the high "guilt percentile" assigned by the AI judge, David shows us how we have authored our own dream of judgment and how the world we see is a projection of an internal belief in separation.This session dives deep into the ego's "categorizing mechanism" and the futility of seeking evidence to prove our innocence in a dream. Instead, David points the way toward the "Holy Instant," where the desire for truth overrides the data of the past. As we prepare to watch Chris Raven’s race against time, we are invited to look past the "matrix" of formal education and societal rules to find the shimmering, translucent reality of our true Spirit.Recorded live as a movie preparation session, this talk is an invitation to stop being a victim of external forces and start recognizing the power of the mind to choose a different vision.For more information about movie gatherings, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsRecorded January 25, 2026 in Casa Quantico, Chapala, MexicoFollow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

In this special bilingual movie gathering, David Hoffmeister presents a powerful compilation of episodes to illustrate the transition from a world of separation to a world of Oneness.The story depicts a spiritual awakening reaching the planet, shifting the collective consciousness so that 8.4 billion people suddenly share one mind and one purpose. Wars, competition, and scarcity disappear, revealing a world of peace. Yet, a small group of people—representing the ego—resists this change, clinging to their individual identities and grievances.David focuses on the main character to demonstrate how the ego reacts to the threat of peace. Even with the world healed, she remains upset, proving the A Course in Miracles lesson: "I am never upset for the reason I think." Through the metaphor of a lost purse, David explores themes of loss, pride, and the resistance to joining. He reminds us that we cannot bring truth to our illusions; we must bring our illusions to the truth.Ultimately, this session is a call to give our full consent to the Holy Spirit. We are asked to stop protecting our private thoughts and specialness and to realize that "unified needs lead to unified action."Enjoy David's profound commentary with German translation.If you want to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/events.Recorded online on January 24, 2026.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

WE ARE BACK!Join David Hoffmeister, Marina Colombo, and Urpi Milla for this special Relaunch session of "The Way of the Mystic."In this episode, the hosts joyfully welcome you back into the flow in preparation for the upcoming Weekend Revivals, resuming on February 6th. This isn't just about studying spiritual concepts; it is a call to a heart-opening adventure beyond rituals, rules, and structures, where Love itself is our guide.Listening in, you will hear David emphasize the crucial shift from intellectual understanding to actual application. As he states, these teachings are meant for living—a practical template for every relationship and situation in your daily life. Urpi emphasizes the need for the "how-to," offering practical tools like "Levels of Mind" to navigate emotional triggers and find true release in the moment. Marina outlines the exciting journey ahead across weekends, each with a different theme designed to deepen your experience.What to Expect in the Upcoming Revivals: This program offers live sessions featuring enlightening movie gatherings, inspiring music, deep-dive "Levels of Mind" sessions, and practical instruction—all pointing us back to the radiant joy of Christ.Important Dates:Revival Relaunch Session (This Recording): Tuesday, January 20Weekend Revivals Resume: February 6thReady to join the adventure? Register for the upcoming retreats for free here: https://programs.the-christ.net/courses/the-way-of-the-mysticFollow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

In this vibrant bilingual session, David Hoffmeister uses a movie as a powerful parable for the spiritual journey. While the on-screen action features "Hunters" battling evil spirits, the deeper metaphysical teaching points to the "tiny mad idea" of separation and the ego's attempts to make fear real.David teaches that the world we see is akin to a theater. By viewing the intensity of the world—its battles, conflicts, and dramas—as a script we have written, we can step back and observe without judgment. This practice of "watching" allows us to remain defenseless in every situation. We learn that we are not the characters fighting in the dream, but the dreamer who can choose to wake up.Note: This session includes consecutive Japanese translation.To participate online in a Movie Gathering, join our online community: https://programs.the-christ.net/courses/membership-weekly-online-movie-gatheringsIf you want to know more about David Hoffmeister and Living Miracles events, here is more information: https://circle.livingmiraclescenter.org/eventsThe Living Miracles community practices the teachings of A Course in Miracles daily in very practical ways. If you feel inspired to join us, you can learn more and register here: https://programs.the-christ.net/ Recorded online, January 17, 2026, Chapala, Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

In this bilingual movie gathering (with Portuguese translation), David Hoffmeister uses a film about a woman who gains the ability to hear people’s inner thoughts as songs to illustrate a profound truth: There are no private thoughts.Connecting the movie’s plot—triggered by an MRI and an earthquake—to A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 19, David explores the reversal of cause and effect. We often believe that external events—like a flat tire, a grumpy boss, or sour milk—cause our bad days. However, David explains that the world is actually a projection of our own minds.Join this session to discover why the ego’s version of reality is a "hallucination" and how the Holy Spirit offers a way to wake up from the dream of separation.For more information about bilingual movie gatherings, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsFree Bilingual Movie GatheringsThis January, we’ll meet each Saturday for an online movie gathering with David Hoffmeister! Through David’s deeply insightful commentaries and teachings, the mind is opened to a living experience of A Course in Miracles, offering a profound opportunity for healing and heartfelt connection. All sessions are in English, with live translation into one of the following languages each week: Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, or German.Recorded live online on January 10, 2025, in Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

In this transformative bilingual movie gathering 'Answering Your Inner Calling', David Hoffmeister opens with a radical invitation: let the movie do the spiritual "legwork" for you. David explores the profound teaching that "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand"—not as a metaphor, but as a literal truth that shatters the illusion of linear time.Drawing from A Course in Miracles Lesson 158, David breaks down the concept that "time is a trick, a sleight of hand," and explains why we cannot bring the truth into our illusions. Instead, we must bring our illusions—our goals, our history, and our beliefs—to the light of truth. Join us for this deep dive into non-duality, where we learn to look past the "fireworks" of the ego and embrace the eternal present.For more information about bilingual movie gatherings, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsFree Bilingual Movie GatheringsThis January, we’ll meet each Saturday for an online movie gathering with David Hoffmeister! Through David’s deeply insightful commentaries and teachings, the mind is opened to a living experience of A Course in Miracles, offering a profound opportunity for healing and heartfelt connection. All sessions are in English, with live translation into one of the following languages each week: Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, or German.Recorded live online on January 3, 2025, in Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

🎬 The Impossibility of Sacrifice and the Reality of Oneness – Movie Session with DavidIn this illuminating movie session with David, we are gently guided into the remembrance that awakening is a one-way ticket to the heart—a natural return to what has always been true. Through commentary on the second mini-movie from the series Pluribus, David reflects on Oneness, showing how resistance, anger, and judgment are delay maneuvers of the ego, while God’s Love for us remains unstoppable and all-encompassing. ❤️‍🔥 The movie scenes unfold as living parables, reminding us that awakening is not forced but comes through a gentle willingness to lay aside fear and accept the happiness already given.He emphasizes the importance of changing perception rather than trying to change the world. As we are all going deeper in applying these teachings in our daily lives, we are continually invited into the quiet recognition that the game of fear has no real power. As David reminds us, “Salvation can be thought of as a game that happy children play… be happy now!” (W-153.12:1-13:1)For more information about The Way of the Mystic, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsRecorded live online on December 13, 2025, in Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

💜Last Movie Session of the Year - The Light of Communication 💜Enjoy and sink deeply into this last movie session of The Way of the Mystic Weekend Revivals. In this session, David shared an amazing episode that reveals all the “devices” or “hoods” the ego uses to block communication.As David shared in his commentary, telepathic abilities are symbols that remind us that we are one. Their purpose is to bring us into the Light of communication or the holy instant. The real question we are invited to ask is: What is it for?Reading private thoughts without purpose won’t bring us closer to the truth. We are meant to overlook the error, let go of the idea of privacy, and join in stillness and connection. The main characters beautifully demonstrate this journey back into union.For more information about The Way of the Mystic, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsRecorded live online on November 29, 2025, in Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

💜 Movie Session: The Power of Decision is My Own 💜Our weekend movie, Transcendence, gave us a powerful doorway into the ACIM theme that The Power of Decision is my Own. David opened the session by showing how the film’s story centers on Will, a brilliant AI researcher who wants to understand the world, and Evelyn, his wife, who has a heartfelt prayer for the world. The other characters, driven by fear, skepticism, or loyalty, reveal how doubt breaks communication and how fear breeds the belief in sickness, danger, and loss.With David’s commentary, the movie becomes a clear teaching on how the Holy Spirit can use absolutely anything for awakening. Rather than focusing on AI as a threat, we’re invited to look at the mind that projects fear onto what it doesn’t understand. Jesus’ question echoes throughout: If you don’t know your reality, why assume it is fearful? The film shows how we cling to limiting beliefs while mistrusting the very Love that would free us. Without the Holy Spirit, there is no escape from the impossible situation the ego sets up—and yet the Guide within us lovingly leads us back to what we truly want: God’s Love. This session shows that our state of mind is everything and that faith in God carries us beyond the world we made.For more information about The Way of the Mystic, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsRecorded live online on November 22, 2025, in Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw

Movie Session – “The World Will End in Laughter” ✨In this session, with commentary from David, Marina, and Urpi, we watched a comedy to explore the central theme of how we perceive the world and what purpose we serve.We were reminded that, as Jesus says in *A Course in Miracles*, the world will end in laughter, and this film helped us approach that idea in a lighthearted yet deeply meaningful way.David invited us to consider that the world is a stage, a scripted play in which we all perform different roles. Suffering arises only from our interpretations, and we have two choices: to see with the ego—producing fear and guilt—or to see with the Holy Spirit, who reveals innocence and a happy world.Together we explored how, by recognizing that everything is part of a dream, we can stop judging, release the ego’s roles, and open to One Voice: the Holy Spirit, our Guide toward the healing of the mind.When we join with His purpose, we attract witnesses of love, time reorganizes for our benefit, and we begin to experience a joyful dream.The session concluded with a Q&A, integrating the insights and carrying the message into our hearts.For more information about The Way of the Mystic, David Hoffmeister, and Living Miracles events, visit https://www.the-christ.net/eventsRecorded live online on November 17, 2025, in Mexico.Follow us on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DavidHoffmeister Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACIM.ACourseInMiracles Learn more about David & Living Miracles: https://livingmiraclescenter.orgLearn more about A Course in Miracles: https://ACIM.bizDavid's Spanish Youtube Channel is: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP9Gw00CldPUmiu43y7fdWw