Emotions/Themes: Purpose, Family, Dropping the Mask, Fear, Forgiveness, Dare to Take Step, Trust, Compromise, Fear of Sacrifice, Letting Go of Control

Excerpt: The road to God is filled with inspiration, collaboration, joy, and miracles. Without this Purpose, whatever is sought after will be experienced as empty, because all roadways of this world lead to death and away from God. Fear of change and loss results in the attempt to control the external form, control others, and control the world around us. All things work together for good, and changes are always helpful for expanding the mind beyond the familiar, limited self-concept.

Emotions/Themes: Depression, Dare to Take Step, Purpose, Letting Go of Specialness, Sex, Vibrational Connection, Transcending Roles, Dropping the Mask, Forgiveness

Excerpt: Jeff and Marty are finding themselves tied down with wives, mortgages, prescription meds, ungrateful children and uninspiring jobs. Seeing how locked into the reciprocal ways of the world they are, they start to recall a time and place in the 1970s when they were happy and free. If they are going to make a leap for freedom, they have to do it now! Ultimately, everyone must come to the realization that there is nothing in form—no person, place or thing—that will make us feel complete and whole.

Emotions/Themes: Unworthiness, Dropping the Mask, Dare to Take Step, Purpose, Guidance, Trust, Signs and Symbols, Abandonment, Mighty Companions, Divine Providence

Excerpt: Leaving Normal shows a journey of trust and letting go of the past; taking off on a trip and letting it unfold, learning and growing from relationships and encounters along the road. Our two main characters are so open to guidance that they hold open a map and go where the bird droppings land on it! This is a movie about forgiveness and letting go of deep inner pain, guilt, and expectations.

An Exercise: Trust Walk with Indiana Jones

Reminding yourself of the miracles that you have had is a very helpful way to reinforce the truth in your mind. Watch this clip from Indiana Jones and then sit quietly and recall a time when you were guided to take a “leap of faith.” Once you have your “leap of faith” situation in mind, answer the questions here. This exercise is from The Doorway, an online self-study program to deepen in your experience of A Course in Miracles through movies with commentary, movie clips, audio and video talks, journaling and more!

 YouTube: Release the Doer & Be Done Through

Any seeming accomplishment in the world is never a lasting or fulfilling experience. Once you begin to see the valuelessness of the world, you may come to an experience of disillusionment, which is the leaping off point. 

When you let go and trust guidance, you begin to feel a sense of ease that everything is being done through you rather than being done by you. Rather than struggling and straining, you fall into the natural rhythm and flow of life, which is effortless.

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Use the Mind Tools!

MWGE.org has “Mind Tools” such as the Levels of Mind worksheet available for easy access when watching a movie. Use them whenever you feel an upsetting emotion while watching a movie. Pausing the movie to fill out a mind tool while the upset is fresh is most effective. It can be very simple and fun! 

Newly-Added Full Movies with Commentary Reveal Profound Metaphysical Themes

Lift Out of the Human Trance of Time
By Using Movies for Mind Training

A Course in Miracles says that everything we think about is in the past. When you go to watch a movie in the cinema, you’re watching something that’s already been produced. The movie’s over. They’re not making the movie while you watch it. They’ve already made the movie. It’s in the can. Now, it’s digital. It’s in the memory, but you’re reacting to it as if it’s happening right now. 

That’s exactly what’s happening in the mind. The movies are just reflecting back to us that we’ve forgotten who we really are and we’re caught up in the past. We’re replaying and rehashing the separation over and over. It’s very hypnotic. It’s like a trance. We’re caught in a human trance and we need some really good training from a master to lift us out of it. The more you realize what’s happening the more it becomes obvious that what Jesus calls mind training in A Course in Miracles should become your top priority.