Movie Watcher's Guide to Enlightenment(Page 4)
Three Wishes- The only lesson to learn about this world is complete gratitude and appreciation for everything and everyone AS IS. This is the giving up of the belief in hypothetical thinking: (that things could be or would have been better off if they were different). Truly all things work together for good and this is experienced from the Spirit's Perspective (Now), which is high above and far beyond all personal judgments and classifications and expectations. Situational wishes often seem to be granted, but the Grandest Wish of All is forgiveness, reflecting the All-Inclusiveness of Love. What greater gift could there be than to look on all things with great love, gratitude, and full appreciation (a forgiven world) and to Awaken to the Eternal Love of God.
Titanic- As the ship of the world (fame, fortune, pleasure, status, recognition, speed, and a glittering diamond) sinks to the depths of its own darkness, I know that the true Heart of the Ocean (Love) rises and goes on and on. Thank you, Spirit, for the recognition of What is Real and Valuable and Meaningful. Once more You open the Door, and You're here in My Heart and My Heart does go on and on. Love is the saving Grace. Though the ways of the world once seemed to suffocate and imprison, living in the faith of the moment has brought a freedom that reaches to Eternity. Thank You God! You're Here, there's nothing I fear, 'cause I know that My Heart does go on and on..... Love is Everlasting!
Total Recall- Virtual reality, like the holo-deck of the Enterprise in Star Trek's Next Generation, is an artificial environment that seems completely real. One can "program" the scene as one wishes it to be. Such is the world. Based on the belief that you can author your self and world to a particular preference or liking, the wish seems to manifest. Yet how can a wish to be something You are not succeed. In dreams it may seem to succeed, but not in Reality. A journey away from the One Self is a fantasy, and therefore cannot occur. God is the Author of Reality. This is the Fact to be accepted. How joyful is the realization that there is no Love but God's and that there is no life, mind, intelligence, or substance in matter. Remembrance of God is the only True Experience of Total Recall.
Two Girls and a Guy- A raw, direct exposure of the ego's tactics of denial and projection. An uncovering of the deceptions and defenses and diversions of the ego in its attempts to cover its tracks and stay hidden. True Love does not possess. True Love has nothing to hide. Yet in worldly "personal relationships," the desire to possess remains unforgiven, for all such "relationships" are constructed by the ego. Along with the concept of "personal relationships" comes envy, jealousy, rage, lust, guilt, shame, betrayal, rejection, abandonment, distrust, and a variety of forms of fear. The ego's theme song is "You don't know me," but the Spirit's theme song is "I AM THAT I AM." Glory be to God for Our Real Relationship in Spirit!
Venice, Venice- What is real and what is illusion? Are making a movie, being a character in a movie, or experiencing this world from a "personal" perspective really any different? What constitutes acting and being an actor as contrasted with being authentic and being real "in this world?" From the world's perspective there is a distinction made between "real life" human dramas and "the movies." From the Spirit's Perspective, however, there is no such distinction. All is One. Everything is connected. Life is a State of Mind, a State of Being, and is far beyond error (the world of bodies and events and dramas and scenerios). God is the only Cause. Truth is true and only the truth is true!
What About Bob?- Who is the therapist and who is the patient? Who is the Healer? The personal perspective cannot heal because it is the very definition of sickness. The Spirit's Perspective is Healing for It is of the Spirit, the only Healer. The ego's pretense of "personal healing" is exposed as a farce in this comedy about the "unhealed healer." All anger comes from guilt, and all guilt comes from holding onto a personal self-image or personal perspective on the world. The world of fragmentation and the personal self are two aspects of the same illusion: the personal perspective. How glorious is the Oneness which God created Perfect and Eternal! How magnificent the Self which God created in His Own Likeness: Spirit & Light! True Healing is the Gateway to remembrance of God.
What Dreams May Come- The world is the pictorial representation of false thought, much like the canvas represents the painter's foolish imaginings. The world is nothing more than sleepiness and forgetfulness dreams it to be. Change your mind about the dream entirely, and you will see the world differently. There is no "life" or "afterlife" or "prior life," for all dreams are imagination. Yet the Spirit's temporary Purpose for dreams and images is to teach forgiveness--a unified Perspective. This Perspective is reached through the willingness to join. The willingness to join. Despite all fears and doubts and warnings, be willing to join, to overlook illusions and to recognize the One Self that is Love. Be so willing to join that you will journey through the darkness to the Light, through the hell of error to the Joy of Truth! We shall see with Vision when there is no fear to See what imagination was made to deny. Do not be afraid to look on the Love Within. Only the anticipation will frighten you. Come with open arms and lay down all defenses. God loves You forever!
Which Way Is Heaven? (videotaped stage play)- The joy of Waking Up to God! Setting out to go inward. Leaving "the daily grind" and "the special love relationship" behind. The encounters along the way (the Church and the Spiritual Store). The disillusionment. The Call for Help. The Holy Spirit's Answer: God Is! The borderland in which all witnesses are seen in completion and wholeness. The Ascension as One "I am risen!" beside elder brother Jesus. The songs of praise and gratitude and celebration!
Wide Awake- A child named Joshua begins to question the meaning of life after his beloved grandfather is laid to rest. He asks for a sign from God and despairs that he has not been heard. Yet in the end he realizes that an angel has been with him and his classmates all along. The signs of the Spirit are as near and clear as we are ready and willing to see and hear. God always Answers the prayer of the Heart! The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want... He leadeth me beside the still waters... He restoreth my soul... Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Amen.
Yentl- Papa, watch me fly!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you God! Glory to God in the Highest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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E-mail from Sandy Schmukler about the movie "Dark City"--
"What a great movie! ....The best description I can think of is "accurate". It's an accurate assessment of the unreliability, unsubstantiality, and unreality of the material world, where everything is in constant change.... The "human" is literally a memory package fooled into believing he is his memories. The only verification a "person" has of himself is memory. How revealing. Mortal mind wants to "join" with and be like the person; it tries to masquerade as our own thought. In addition, every memory is suspect; no memory really belongs to anyone because it has all been switched around and is, in fact, world thought. "We fashioned this city on stolen memories - different eras, different pasts all rolled into one." That's so beautiful and so true, and this is straight out of the Course (A Course In Miracles) - no one knows if it's day or night because we're used to "seeing" in darkness.
Amazing symbolism. Shell beach, the ocean is the distant memory of Home, of God. Darkness fears the light, Life. We need to go past the symbol of God, beyond the human definition, past the painting on the wall. Mortal mind threatens that there is nothing beyond its own limitation. There is no ocean, no God. Its continuing command is to sleep, to surrender. The awakening Mind declares it's not imprisoned in a body,"The person isn't in here - you've been looking in the wrong place." Even when the symbols are jumbled the Truth is still revealed.
...Finally, all that's true is the light and the love.
Thank you for sharing this.
Love,
Sandy"
E-mail from Leigh Taylor-Young--
Dear David, What a beautiful Spirit you are! Thank you for your letter. My projects and mind are very full. However, I send you prayers, light and Love for all your wonderfull endeavors. God Bless you! Lty
E-mail from Susy after a holy encounter on the phone--
My new friend, i write to you a thank you...the thanks just as easily given unto the Divine order. For, I am quite extatic at the moment, and it feels so wonder-full to be excited not so much for the future (though there is plenty there) but for the ever present Now!
another opportunity to tell you how wonderfully enriched i feel having met you. I am ready, i am open for all goodness to pervade my entire being...and speaking with you but an hour ago has excited the heck-ens outta me!
Wow.
A delicious sleep to you!
~Susy
E-mail from Kathy Martin--
Dear David:
You are a wonderful example to me of the truth. I greatly appreciate it. I know that you do nothing expecting gratitude, however, I want to say it often, because you touch the lives of Spirit through us so much, and it is an inspiration to me and so many. Thank you for being so dear, and sharing so much with me. I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Kathy
E-mail from Jane Logan--
Dear David,
How grateful I am for you in my life--a shining example, a beautiful reminder and one who did not give-up on the eternal love that is our only reality. I said to myself a couple of years ago that I wanted to know love that has no end and you, my friend have been the shining example of just that in my life.
Love,
Jane
E-mail from Carole Ryan--
I listened/watched your video with Penelope "Awake in the Dream", again Saturday night and again, I so appreciated the peace you share from the Holy Spirit!
Awake in the dream, Sharing our joy, Carole the Christ, sister of David the Christ
E-mail from Wayne Adamson--
David,
Thank you so much for your informative and enlightening websites. More importantly, thank you for "Being Who You Are."
Your Love to the Path of Peace and the Oneness of Life are but another proof that the Convergence is Unfolding and that "We Are Beings in the Light of Becoming."
Again, David, thank you so very much.
In Love & Peace, Wayne Adamson
E-mail from Penelope Chatterton--
David, your greeting is beautiful and passionate! A man after my own heart! May the holidays be blessed as I am confident you are a blessing to all!!
Love,
Penelope
E-mail from Brian Cordova--
Hi David! Just a quick thank you for the videos and books. I picked them up at the post office today and I intend to watch them before I leave for California as well as read the materials while I am in California. You say something on one of the tapes that immediately got my attention (the interview with Penelope Chatterton, buzz word "linear"). About three years ago, I read the following in the Course: "No man cometh unto the Father but by me" does not mean that I am in any way separate or different from you except in time, and time does not really exist. The statement is more meaningful in terms of a vertical rather than a horizontal axis. You stand below me and I stand below God. In the process of "rising up," I am higher because without me the distance between God and man would be too great for you to encompass. I bridge the distance as an elder brother to you on the one hand, and as a Son of God on the other. My devotion to my brothers has placed me in charge of the Sonship, which I render complete because I share it. This may appear to contradict the statement "I and my Father are one," but there are two parts to the statement in recognition that the Father is greater."
As I read this, I visualized a cross. Yet I saw a new meaning given to the cross from what I had known before.
For Christmas that year, Jim gave me a cross he made with the same design. Funny thing was that he was afraid I would not like it. I fell in love with it immediately as it was surely a gift of love. It now hangs in our living room.
Thank you once again, and thank you for being such a blessing to me. You have already inspired me more than you know.
Love, Brian:-)
E-mail from Roseanne--
Beloved David -
Thank you so much for your beautiful and Loving words of appreciation!
How Grateful I AM to have finally listened to the Calling of Spirit to move beyond my fears and trepidations to post this email! For, your letter alone has brought me more Joy than any sale of books could ever!
:)
I have been tithing this book (I Can!, I Will!, I Am!) since Christmas of 1992, and freely sending all of my writings out online since I discovered the Internet (or it discoverd ME!) three and a half years ago!
I am most eager to visit the websites you mentioned; and would love to join your group in a chat at some time! But, right now I need to get off this computer!
:)
I am currently putting together another compliation of the writings Spirit pours through me so freely, and sending them out via Email as I put them on computer, as my process is to receive these Messages by Hand.
If you would like to receive other excerpts and be placed on my mailing list, please let me know and I will be most happy to send you some and include your address on my list!
Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing to Awaken God's Spirit within All!
I thank you for your Presence upon this Earth; and I thank God for your Life!
May you be Blessed with Oceans and Oceans of Love to surround, enfold and infill you in every moment!
Walk in Harmony and Grace!
Roseanne
E-mail from Caroline Myss--
Dear David,
Thank you for taking the time to write and for sharing your thoughts and ideas. Your letter is interesting and thought-provoking.
I truly appreciate your kind words and support.
Sincerely,
Caroline Myss
E-mail from Ben Gilberti--
Just wanted to thank you again, David, for your exceptional love and your exceptional array of avenues to get in touch with you no matter where you are.
Much love,
Ben
E-mail from Iriana--
Dear Beloved David,
I just had a moment to reread your letter to me. It is so uplifting. I do have a Yahoo address and will go online and post writings, ideas, etc.
You are an amazing being and thank you for being such an inspiration to us all.
Eternal Oneness and Love, Iriana
Please write to me at: awakening-mind@hotmail.com Your comments and questions are always welcome.
Love,
David
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Miracle Movie thoughts --Thanks to Carlene and the gang in Nashville!
www.themodernmystic.com God Goes To Hollywood--Thanks Ben & Mary Kay!