Experiencing the Quantum – The Meaning of the Movie “Next”
This month’s newsletter features Next and other movies in the MWGE collection that open the mind to the meaning of quantum awakening!
Now Playing at MWGE.org | July 2018
Experiencing the Quantum
“No one can really tell you what quantum is, you actually have to have an experience to really get it in your heart. So that’s what we’re going to aim for in watching this movie together—a mind-blowing experience.“
David Hoffmeister
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What if everything that seemed to play out was just hypothetical? What if every potential possibility could be seen and the mind could zoom in and select which scenario to play out? Chris Johnson has a psychic ability that allows him to do this and yet, without any real sense of purpose, his life is one of hiding and pretense. Through attraction and a guided relationship Chris opens up to seeing that through joining he can go beyond his fears and expand his perception and abilities.
No matter how many ways we look at trying to change the future, we must find out that only a change of purpose is the answer. The whole world is hypothetical, and when this is seen there is surrender. The script is written, and there is no point in trying to figure it all out. Just rest and join with your brother to end the past. It is all forgiven, and at any point you can choose again for the plan of the Spirit.
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When you’re thinking about the future and imagining possible outcomes, those are hypotheticals. To have hypotheticals, you have to have linear time and you have to have cause and effect apart as if there are these real scenarios that happened in the past and real possibilities that might happen in the future. It’s like a cobweb of lies that the ego has set up. A Course in Miracles teaches that cause and effect are together and not apart. It means that all of time is happening at the same time. Talk about a mind-bender.
More Great Quantum Movies
What the Bleep Do We Know!?
Emotions/Themes: Quantum Physics, Victimization, Heal Past Associations, Real Sight, Discover True Identity, Time, Awareness of Dreaming
MWGE Excerpt: This movie shows that everything is connected, everything is thought. Everything you perceive is the result of your thoughts. Amanda goes from frustration to the realization that it is her thoughts that are producing the entire world she perceives. Once you realize this you are no longer at the mercy of the world. You can find happiness within your own heart because you are not dependent on the world; it is dependent on you.
Lucy
Emotions/Themes: Awakening, Holy Relationship, Time, Mighty Companions, The Script is Written, Real Sight, Awareness of Dreaming, Quantum Physics, Present Moment, No People Pleasingness, Unworthiness
MWGE Excerpt: Who you are is from before time was. Time is a concept made to measure and therefore “give reality” to man’s existence within an illusion. Matter is held together by thought and the belief in (and the need for) a bodily identity.
Interstellar
Emotions/Themes: Trust, Doubt, Purpose, Mighty Companions, Quantum Physics, Time
MWGE Excerpt: 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..
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Hypothetical Thinking is a Torture Device to Keep the Mind From the Present Moment
“What if…?” Do you ever find yourself asking hypothetical questions? In this session, ACIM teacher David Hoffmeister reminds us there is no future or past. There is only now. Future and past only exist as concepts in the imagination. Hypothetical thinking is a torture device. Its main purpose is to keep the mind in the past or future. The whole journey to peace of Mind is to realize nothing could be different than how it is. All things work together for good. The script is written; therefore we can accept all things as they are. Once we do that, we are automatically connected with our inner guide.
A Great Hypothetical Example —In Under Minutes
(In the movie, Chris looks ahead to the future to see what happens if he speaks to the FBI agent when she comes to his home to ask for his help. He leaves before she arrives, to avoid a meeting.)
That was a good example of a hypothetical. There is a two minute window where he is saying “I want to see why she is here.” So, not only do we hear her play out all her thoughts, in the hypothetical two minutes, but we also get to hear him play out his thoughts. We hear his distrust of those people who tried to test him, help him. “Really, don’t mess with me. I’m already feeling strange with this psychic ability. I don’t feel loved, and I don’t want to have anything to do with your game, whatever it is. Even if, as you are saying, it is to save lives.” He is so burned out from feeling so poked and tested for so many years. Those were good examples of hypotheticals.
We got to see the train hitting the car; a quick hypothetical. Then we got a little longer glimpse into hypotheticals with his window into the conversation with the FBI agent. We’ll come back to this point, because everything is hypotheticals. It’s just that the mind is convinced that certain things are actually happening. Then there are certain things that you can just think about, and call them what you will; fantasies or “it was just my imagination running away with me”. That would be, running away with my spirit. Or covering over my spirit with all this imagination. So basically, the mind is asleep and is believing in all these hypotheticals. It believes that what it sees around it is actually happening. The Holy Spirit had got to show the mind that it is all hypotheticals. That none of it is actual. ~ David Hoffmeister
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Every Saturday at 9 MDT 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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