At the age of 21, Tim is told that he has the ability to time travel. He uses this gift to go back and redo experiences where he was afraid of intimacy, where he was too afraid to “take the risk.”

Through these opportunities he gets to play things out differently and be a miracle worker. He steps up to support his loved ones when they need it. In doing so, he learns that, regardless of his efforts, he could not change outcomes. The script is written. Some things are meant to be, and some are not.

Forgiveness is releasing the mind from the past entirely. Complete forgiveness is living in full awareness of the present moment, where there is no desire to “go back” or have any control over the script. As a stepping-stone towards complete forgiveness, memory can be used to revisit scenarios and come to total acceptance of what is.

When there is fear in the mind, opportunities to be a miracle worker seem to be missed. Hesitation leads to regret and guilt, because the self that hesitates is afraid of getting it wrong. This self lives in time, preoccupied with wishing that the past were different and hoping to get it right in the future.

Undoing Linear Time with David — The Spaghetti Noodle Demonstration

I’ve described linear time as being like a lengthwise piece of spaghetti. This is a very graphic symbol. I wish they had used this when I was in high school or when I was a child. My parents could have started things off when I was little enough to understand it by saying, “Okay, this piece of spaghetti represents linear time. This is what we’re dealing with here.” But because they don’t use that symbol, they say, “You’re late! Dinner was fifteen minutes ago and you’re late.” This is what late is [holding up a piece of spaghetti]. Every grievance that a parent has is about this, about time. It’s not really about behaving, or children that don’t behave. Oh no, the parent believes in time and is really angry about this belief, and then tries to project it out onto their children. They say, “You’re late,” or “I didn’t want children until I was in my 30’s and I had you prematurely.” These projections come from the belief in time.

From Birth to Death – Undoing Linear Time

In this world, you get apples from an apple tree, pears from a pear tree, and oranges from an orange tree. In Heaven, you get Spirit from Spirit. You don’t get trees from Spirit, or apples from Spirit, or pears from Spirit. Our identity is Spirit, not the spaghetti line [holding up the spaghetti]. This is not our identity. If you look at the spaghetti line, we’ll call one end birth and one end death. That’s the trick of this whole thing—believing that a soul makes a journey between birth and death. Where did a soul come from if the soul is created by God? How can it journey from birth to death when this isn’t real? How could the soul take a journey from birth to death? How could a soul incarnate? You’ve heard of reincarnation? That one always puzzled me. I used to read all these Eastern books about reincarnation. For a while, that was cool stuff because nobody gets turned away; everyone makes it home. It’s a just a matter of time as to when you get there. That would be cruel! Why would meaning make you wait an instant? Or make you spend a lifetime—this whole thing between birth and death? ~ David Hoffmeister

Join Us at the Online Movie-Workshop Every Saturday at 9am MDT

Every Saturday at 9am MDT (Central Daylight Savings Time) we show an online movie and give spiritual commentary. If you like movies and want to go deeper into the teachings of A Course in Miracles, you can join us for this weekly movie gathering from the comfort of your own home!

At MWGE, we take a mystical approach to movie-watching. We use them solely to practice watching our emotions, noticing our thoughts, and staying attentive to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of each scene. In this way, we experience great healing in mind, get better at practicing forgiveness, and have loads of fun doing it!

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