Awakening Classic
Sweet November
An awakening classic for loosening from roles and worldly ambitions, and opening the heart to an experience of true intimacy in the present moment.
An awakening classic for loosening from roles and worldly ambitions, and opening the heart to an experience of true intimacy in the present moment.
The world is full of fairy tales and miracles; a good, honest heart; a promise that is kept; a destiny that could not be denied.
A typical American family has suppressed rage and past grievances that cover over compassion and love.
Love sees no error. This movie is set in a time when racial divisions were still firmly held in the mind.
Sam keeps reliving the same day over and over again. With each passing day, Sam starts to question why she and her friends do what they are so habituated to doing…
This is a fantastic metaphysical movie, showing the awakening process right through from being in a deceived, conforming state, to realizing that what was considered to be life was not really life at all.
This futuristic movie centers on Jack, a veteran assigned to extract Earth’s remaining resources for a surviving human colony that has been relocated to another place in the cosmos.
The willingness to communicate attracts communication, even across and beyond the barriers of time.
In the ego’s world, the mind is a slave to the body. To wake up from the dream of separation, we need to use the body as a means for expanding our consciousness instead of treating it as an end or a goal.
A fantastic ‘contrast’ movie to be shown how deluded the sleeping mind is – believing in and seeming to play out misuse of the mind’s power.
This movie is a biography of the life of Paramhansa Yogananda, an Indian mystic who brought the practice of Kriya Yoga to North America in the 1920’s.
The Shape of Water is a heartfelt adventure film that contrasts ego and Holy Spirit symbols very clearly.
The movie demonstrates how an unplanned life and purposeful, heartfelt interactions can unfold easily when being helpful is put above personal goals or specific outcomes in the world.
This documentary film follows Brittney Kaiser, the former business development director of Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm.
Jack Malik is an aspiring musician who struggles to be successful in the music industry.
In this futuristic episode, the man-made factory known as the Autofac has essentially taken over the world after a nuclear war 20 years earlier.
This is a profound futuristic episode that shows the possibility of having special romantic relationships transformed into holy relationships.
Based on the true story of Christian singer/songwriter Bart Millard. God indeed is calling us all home through what inspires us and blesses all.
The Holy Spirit arranges time and space for the miracle and, even though Papale doesn’t fit the mold of a pro player, he realizes he has nothing to lose in trying out.
A documentary on Christian mystic Thomas Keating and his devotion to the stillness within.
James accepts a cargo delivery job from Mexico to the US, only to discover his “cargo” is two young women in need of help.
The essence of this documentary is about letting your actions be inspired by love and paving new pathways for that love to be extended.
Only by laying aside separate interests and truly communicating can these astronauts return home together.
Nobody is ever directly upset by people or events. It is only an interpretation that gives rise to upset.
All private thoughts are attack thoughts and need to be released for you to make it back to Heaven.
When we think of relationships in this world we think of compartmentalized love: husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, the love of a parent for
There are many intricate ways to hide out from God’s love and avoid accepting the correction for the pain, shame, and guilt in the mind.
This movie helps us get in touch with the power of the mind and how real the experiences in this world can seem to be,
This is a powerful and inspiring movie about non-compromise and facing the doubt thoughts that arise in the mind in the most challenging of circumstances.
A willingness to look upon and release attack thoughts and repressed emotions is the only way out of fear. We can try to change our
This is a great movie for moving past the fear of intimacy. It exposes the false belief in private minds as one moves toward authentic
This is a powerful forgiveness movie that helps loosen the mind from fixed ideas about linear time and to awaken to the present moment. Some
A wonderfully-inspiring movie based on the relationship between the late 19th century Queen Victoria and an Indian servant named Abdul. Abdul is sent from India
This movie’s main message is the value of extending and giving from the heart in order to escape from the painful loop of linear time.
This a wonderful parable about an Indian yogi named Neelkanth. We join him from the beginning of his spiritual journey as an 11-year-old boy and
As Jesus says in A Course in Miracles, you have to go through the darkness to the light. If you seem to be experiencing physical
Season 3, Episode 1 This episode is a great parable of undoing and letting go. Every interaction in it involves a rating of self or
This is a profound movie about the life of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. It beautifully portrays that when we are aligned with the
This documentary presents the life-changing journey of several innovative Western thinkers who travel to India to meet with the Dalai Lama. Though their initial purpose
“Trapped in Paradise” is a great forgiveness comedy and a wonderful Christmas movie for seeing that the miracle is always happening regardless of whatever you
This episode is great for showing the power of the mind. If something disturbing is held onto that is believed to be real, it will
This is a touching movie about the power of prayer and faith in God. Mack grew up in a family where his father was very
There are a lot of parallels between the city in this movie and the world we seem to live in.
On the spiritual journey, when your mind shifts into the miracles and starts to go right side up, the only temptation will be thoughts in the mind that are doubting that transformation.
Will Trainer’s active and adventurous life changes suddenly when he is left a quadriplegic after an accident. He becomes bitter and angry, and longs only for death, no longer wanting his new life with all its physical and emotional pain. He makes an agreement with his distraught mother that he will give it six months to find a reason and desire to live. His mother tries various caregivers in the hope that one of them will be able to reach her withdrawn son.
Season 1, Episode 4.The ego wants us to keep secrets and thus maintain our sense of guilt and separation. Angela is being blackmailed because of some past behavior and she fears telling her high profile husband who is running for senator. She resorts to using campaign money to pay off the blackmailer and, as her guilt thoughts continue to escalate, she reaches a point of despair and attempts suicide.
Season 8, Episode 15
Thank God there is a plan of such magnitude and perfection where nothing is out of place and everything is working together for good, no exceptions. This is the healed perspective and this is what our minds open to as we practice forgiveness and keep stepping into our function as miracle workers.
In order to awaken we must first realize that everyone is dreaming the same dream and that there is only one dreamer of the dream.
This is a touching story about the healing journey of Ben and his six children who live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The children are home schooled by their father and given much structure and discipline in terms of their education and physical training.
Jim Preston faces his beliefs in separation and loneliness after waking up alone on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony while the other passengers remain asleep.
Daniel believes he is stuck in time, living out a curse that he doesn’t understand. He finally realizes, “I did this, you didn’t do it to me.” Freedom comes when grievances of the past are laid aside.
The role of the accuser will appear in many places and in many forms. And each will seem to be accusing you. Yet have no fear it will not be undone
God’s calling to us is very simple: to be happy right now. The ego wants to detract from present happiness by attempting to activate the past, organize the present, and plan for the future.
This movie takes us through a variety of special relationships to holy relationship.
Inspired by scripture, this movie imagines one year in the childhood of Jesus.
“Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time.” (W-7.2)
A high school teacher quotes Jesus in history class and she is sued by the school board and the American Civil Liberties Union for violating the separation of church and state. She won’t recant. But God has a plan.
Driven by success, Adam Jones is a visionary with a passion for food. He yearns to make food that makes his diners “sick with longing.” He believes in perfection in form—“if it’s not perfect, you throw it away.”
Identity and self-concept disguise who we truly are. Sometimes confusion arises and a belief in changing the external: the body, form, or gender is thought to be a solution to the amnesia of this dream world.
Elvis “The King” Presley wants a federal badge so he can go undercover as a narcotics agent and help fix the drug problem he sees in American young people. So he has a secret meeting with Nixon. Much pride and resistance is undone in this hilarious meeting of two historic icons.
An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path
Are you ready to let go of your world? “Room” can help prepare you for the unraveling of the ego.
Harold Crick is living a monotonous, highly organized, routine life. He counts how many times he brushes his teeth and how many steps he needs to take to get to the bus stop. He is intricately aware of how many minutes and seconds everything takes. Nothing spontaneous or joyful, and Harold has no intimate relationships that involve communication from the heart.
Homer is uninspired at the prospect of becoming a miner like most other men in the small town of Coalwood, W.V.
The single desire of the Son to reunite with the Father is a Love that knows no limits.
At times, the path of awakening can feel exceptionally difficult, even impossible. But this is only the limited perspective of the ego. All things are possible when given over to the Spirit for healing, even what appear to be insurmountable challenges.
Self-love has nothing to do with form. It comes from an inner knowing of the truth of who we are—Love Itself. Sometimes a shift in form is part of life’s script, and these changes are always helpful.
Clavius, a Roman Tribune present at Jesus’ death, is tasked with finding Jesus’ missing body after the resurrection. Although the authority figures of the church and the Roman guard have given him this task to hide the truth, the search turns out to be Clavius’ pathway to God.
This is a summary on a commentary by David Hoffmeister on the 2004 documentary “Return to Source: Philosophy & The Matrix,” an examination of the profound impact of “The Matrix Trilogy” in bringing forth the perennial wisdom of the ages on the big screen.
Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive
This documentary can be used for looking at body thoughts and personal identity. It exposes the belief in being female and the actress self-concept.
When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe’s regulars come to realize how intertwined their lives truly are.
The giving of one’s time, money and gifts can look like the Spirit’s giving, but if there is a thought of getting something in return…
True love is extending and helping regardless of changing appearances. Form seems to shift and change, but the strength of love in the mind is fearless. Be not concerned about the form of the person you are with, for you are always with your own Self, and when you help anyone, you are helped.
The phrase “wag the dog” is used to indicate that attention is purposely being diverted from something of greater importance to something of lesser importance.
Opportunities for healing come in unexpected and surprising ways, and no one is more surprised than Jules, founder of a hip online fashion label, when her colleague assigns her a suit and tie-clad senior intern.
“The 33” is a powerful movie demonstrating that commitment to a singular purpose will take you all the way home. Trapped in a mine two thousand feet below the earth, thirty-three men join in mind to make the decision for God. The egoic fear-based thought system is not undone by staying on the surface of the mind; we must be willing to go down to the very basement to fully unplug from the ego.
Michael is a doctor who undergoes a rapid “cracking and peeling” of his self-concept in a twenty-four hour period. He appears to be the epitome of someone who’s “made it.” He’s a rich oncologist with an expensive sports car, a beautiful wife and promising career. Michael sees himself as a helpful guy with a great life, but he is hiding pride, anger, and hurt underneath the mask of success. He became a doctor in order to alleviate unresolved conflict and guilt from his past.
A metaphysically pure episode showing that the perceived world is merely “wish fulfillment,” the playing out of the desires of the heart.
A good leader is intuitive, and extends a clear invitation to the other to join. Firmness is necessary when met with rebellion, but the goal is always a collaboration in which the listening and following ultimately becomes a dance. Trust is essential in any partnership. It is developed through consistent leadership, resulting in joy. With trust comes learning and miracles occur naturally.
To merge into an experience of dancing as one, both leader and follower have to make a decision, in strength, to trust themselves and each other.
El comandante Sisko, el personaje principal de este episodio maestro de la serie Star Trek, siente un fuerte disgusto en contra del Capitán Piccard.
Season 4, Episode 25
Underneath the attempt to control someone else is guilt, protectionism, and fear of the past being repeated
A metaphysically pure episode showing that the perceived world is merely “wish fulfillment,” the playing out of the desires of the heart.
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense, everything that comes from love is a miracle. T-1.I.3.
The Stone family and their relationship partners gather for Christmas and experience a profound undoing of pride and an opening of the heart.
Ira needs a miracle. He is unhappy; bound by uncertainty, unable to make decisions or complete his college dissertation and in a general state of confusion. Dumped by his therapist who suggested he “get unstuck and try something else,” he follows an inner prompt to enter a health club where the poster in the window asks, “What are you waiting for?”
This is a classic tale of the seeming fall from grace. As the film opens we see Lexi happily figure skating on the pond by her home. She is truly happy and in need of nothing; at Home and one with God, she is a symbol of innocence and wholeness.
The concept of the self has always been the great preoccupation of the world
This is a powerful quantum physics movie about answering the call to awaken. It takes you on a mind-bender through time and space, to see that ultimately it is all mind, that we’ve only ever been communicating with ourselves, and that Spirit will use everything that we seem to believe in to reach us.
Once we get a taste of our true nature, it is impossible to go back to the way things were before. Peter Appleton is given the opportunity to step out of his life of littleness and compromise and to walk in the shoes of his higher self.
When a journey is started, we think we know why we take it, and often we don’t! But there is a knowing that this path has to be taken anyway. Along the way we let go of the past little by little, and in every small release, the presence of Love becomes more evident, more consistent, letting us know that we are on the right track.
Love and faith have the power to inspire miracles, even when all seems lost. Winter is a dolphin whose tail was damaged to the point of having to be removed.
Awakening requires a full focus and a never give up attitude. Spirit gives the means. The goal is set. The willingness to listen and follow is all that’s required.
When the mind is ready to expand to a new level, everything that stands in the way of that expansion gets pushed to the surface. Remembering our true identity involves vigilance against the temptation to project attack thoughts, be a victim, or hold grievances.
It is not up to us to decide what strengths and abilities are most helpful in God’s plan for the salvation of the world.
The main character in the story, Burke, has created the concept of a best selling self-help guru to hide a terrible secret.
Those who are destined to meet will meet. The script is written and there is nothing we can do to change that. Our struggles and upsets arise when we think we can control what plays out in the world of form.
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