 I'm going to go ahead and introduce David from the program, so I don't miss anything. So, here we go. David Hofmeister, he applied a course of miracles intensively in his transformation of consciousness. He brings to discussions a depth of thought and the ability to use a variety of metaphors and examples to shed light on an array of uplifting ideas. For several years he investigated the writings, tapes, foundations, and groups which ran up around the course of miracles, and sought out to help others and devoted their lives to the course of miracles path to help deepen his own understanding. In 1988, David began sharing his ideas from the course, sprinkled with experiences from his own inward journey, and in 1990 he began traveling to dialogue with others who devoted their lives to the awakening process. In December of 1991, David began traveling and speaking on the course of the country, handed to Canada. In 1992 he addressed the first ever ACIM duration conference near Logan, Ohio. In 1993-94, he toured the Midwest conducting a gathering of tendencies which were reported on audio tape. In 95, David spent many hours in silence and was recruited from a church, and in 1960 he founded the Peace House in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 99, the foundation for the awakening might was established as a publicly supported, non-profit organization, dedicated to teaching and learning true forgiveness and awakening to reality. The foundation makes journals, audio cassettes, video cassettes, and they have talks and gatherings and retreats available to the public on a donation basis. So everything I did was website, advanced donation basis. So he's my kind of guy. In 2003, David became an international lecturer on the course, and now shares his inspirational ideas on a worldwide basis. So David, come on in. So thank you everyone. It's just wonderful being here at the One Center. To me, One is just such an expressive idea, an experience of what we really are. It's a question of miracles in my, by the way, the whole of you. I've used the question of miracles in my transformation, and what I've gone through is what Robin was talking about, a surrender of control, of trying to direct my life and giving it over to the Holy Spirit, to higher power, whatever you'd like to call it. And really going for an experience, because I got to the point where I really start to see that we really don't need more theologies in the world. We have a lot of religions with theologies, but what everybody is going for is that experience of peace of mind, of inner peace. And as we were talking about, even the drumming that started off about cleaning, we're moving the obstacles, that's what the whole journey to peace is. It's just going within your mind to start to realize that there's obstacles in there, that there's grievances, that there's hurts. That's what you see as very unconscious policers and inseparation. And inseparation and wonders don't go together. So that's why when you work with the chores or any spiritual path that takes you inward to removing the obstacles to the words of the Blessed Friends, then you really are getting into this experience of inner peace and joy. I travel around the world now and all of the United States and Canada, and I would say that I call these gatherings we have enlightenment intentions because it's not any particular path. In fact, it's a joy when I find I just go meet myself over and over and over wherever I go. And it doesn't matter what culture I'm in, it doesn't matter whether the people even seem to speak the language that I speak. When I've been down to Argentina, they've had, I just did 19 consecutive gatherings down in Argentina in last March. And they had translators following me around speaking in Spanish. Sometimes two translators at a gathering. When the translator gets stuck on a word, people would call out words from the audience. This was a culture down there in Argentina where there was like probably 85% Catholic. So Jesus is a very powerful symbol. But their economy has collapsed. Children are starving. They're kind of reaching a point in consciousness that a lot of people around the world are reaching where they're desperate for an authentic spiritual experience. You know, they don't want to know theology or pray to some statue or some painting or to somebody in, you know, spirit in the sky. They want the actual experience. So what I noticed in all my gatherings in Argentina was that people came It was almost like a revival. There was lots of tears. People were crying. There was lots of healing that was going on, spontaneous healing. There was one woman, anologist, who had such a deep-seated hurt that she was crying so much that another woman had to come behind her and put her arms around her and place her so the woman could even get her question out. But it was really a powerful experience for me because it just shows how when you really have a passion for healing and you really, really want to have that inner peace your life may get thrown into seeing habit or chaos but as we've just heard, it turns around. And what Robin was sharing too is I can so much relate to what her and her husband are going through right now as a human in the sense that that's what my life was back around around 1990, 1991 because I would be guided, I received a calling too to just go around and share my life and share my joy and initially my biggest concern was that I didn't have any financial backing I didn't have CDs in my markets I was not affiliated with any kind of organization or religion or anything and I used to talk to Jesus a lot and kind of say I don't know about where you live but down here money doesn't grow on trees you can't just throw in your back yard and shake the tree and have $100 bills come slowing down but I kept hearing, just have faith in my child just go shine your light, share your joy and I'll take care of the rest and Jesus said that 2,000 years ago about looking at the lilies in the field and now there's been their boil and speaking verse to kingdom of heaven and all things else will be added and so when I got to the chorus it was kind of like he was saying in case you missed it I've been saying this for the 2,000 years but there's a message in the chorus that says once you have accepted this plan God's the voice for you and it's a one function you could fulfill there will be nothing else the voice pair will not erase for you but vouch your efforts he will go before you making straight your path and leaving in your way no stone to trip on, no obstacles to bar your way nothing you need will be denied you not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it you need to take thought for nothing except the only purpose you would fulfill and I read that passage it was almost like people were saying did you get it? did you get it? have faith so some of it I just thought well I'm going to put all my eggs in one basket mine will be in the basket of faith this is a trust and after 10 years of college and lots of education jobs and experiences and whatever I just felt compelled to start traveling the country and what happened to me my very first trip was a five and a half week week trip that came out here to California it was really all over the United States Canada I had so many miracles it just kind of knocked my sock out I mean it just absolutely blew me away that I would be so well taken care of you know I had thoughts about maybe end up like a bag lady on the street somewhere and you know but none of that you know it was I went to a lot of push and miracles gatherings I was taken in it wasn't so much even like a peace program I've always talked about you know there was always a place to stay always someone to meet always someone to talk to I was always taken in and at times I would go to churches or bookstores or gatherings and I had like two or three invitations so it wasn't so much trying to find a place to stay or have food to eat it was like you know kind of say no thank you I've had enough so that's been the experience for me and I went back in 1991 so I can really relate to the problem that I have with children right now because you're right on the cusp of this glorious ride where people get sent to you and you get to shine your life and you really have to trust that everything that comes to you is coming from your higher power from the Holy Spirit whenever you start to get into guilt it's always because you're back into the personal perspective of okay I've got to do something or looking to certain people like looking to a form of collective or to donors it's never going to get into that thing like we're getting greeted and serenaded it's so beautiful it never gets into this thing of favoritism or who donated what or how much I know Robin and her husband are experiencing the volunteerism of people just showing up and there's so much joy that you actually lose track of what you're doing in terms of form you start to get more into your own business which is just to shine the light and when you shine the light things just show up in miraculous ways and in these last 13 years like if I wrote a book it would probably be bigger than the Bible and the Orangish book and of course the miracle combine all the miracle parables and experiences but I like to just when I travel I share some pieces of them here and there just because there are just stories of inspiration that when you let go of trying to control your life God is there so I feel extremely honored to be here and everywhere I go I just feel like I keep meeting myself over and over and of course the miracle is just one path that aims at what we might call self realization know thyself enlightenment salvation oneness I feel just like a child full of joy in the sense that I've reached the state of mind in this transformation that I actually don't have any problems anymore I actually don't have any financial problems or health problems I have no relationship problems I was talking in a group yesterday for about four hours and they met me from my videos and stopped working on the web and in this state of enlightenment with self realization you see that everybody is there with you it's not somebody being enlightened and everybody else being enlightened I've got it but you don't what you do in this state is you see everybody with such love and honor and respect because you're looking through the structure of your own mind and when you remove all those obstacles and grievances everything is beautiful everyone's beautiful and in fact when I go to other countries when I was in Argentina the bombs started going they did and there were people protesting out on the streets anti-American protests and banners flying everywhere and I was just like a child walking around and I was like wow look at all these people and I asked one of them what stood that banner say because it was under across the street and it said seen your bush take up knitting I said now that's a peace valley see your bush take up knitting I said I think I'm in the right country here so I went to the gathering and they're all speaking Spanish and everything and I don't know where but Spanish though they're asking me all these questions and one of the questions was they were really some of them were really interested in the war my idea of the war was so they first played one of the questions in Spanish to be what is your position on your president what is your position on your president and they gave me the the thing and was like okay what is my position I have I have no position on my president and then they came back to me and they said don't you understand the question and I said no it's not understandable I said we're all children of God we're all spirits and we are children of a loving source and this isn't political God really isn't political God doesn't see political boundaries or like the Native Americans say there's no dividing line between countries and states it's just all shared and so I just basically said I have no position and I learned the Spanish word claro they're all not a claro and then I had I just broke out into a rendition of John Lennon said imagine imagine there's no country no wonder if you can nothing to kill or die for a brotherhood of men and all these women about ninety-six percent women started singing with me imagine on key and I had my big moments like kills going down my spine like where am I whoa I thought I was in Argentina but we're all sitting there singing on key you may say yeah it was so beautiful and that was the feeling of oneness I mean that was the feeling that nobody there was taking seriously this idea of conflict when you get into the joy and you really feel that joy in your heart you know that you are connected with everything and everyone and there are no barriers and there are no boundaries whatsoever and I found into this really deep in my mind so that I get a lot of questions and about you know what about grave and murder what about Nazi Germany what about disease plague and all these different kind of things and so I sit there and calmly go into people deep into the mind all the errors of perception down to what I call healed perception a place where you see the world differently than you saw before where before you saw division and separation suddenly you see oneness you see the whole tapestry and the whole tapestry is so beautiful it's so beautiful and those are good questions I think it's important what I've learned is it's very important to allow your mind to ask questions because once you allow your mind to ask the questions you have the answers within yourself you don't really need the gurus or priests or ministers or you don't need saints to tell you how to act and how to behave what you really need is just the transformation in your own heart and then all your behaviors you know once you get your mind in the line with your source then it really is smooth sailing from there so I have this experience of oneness what I would say it is I would say it's a tiny tweak in the mind just like you know sometime when you're having a bad day and then all of a sudden something changes inside and you change your tune and you don't even know what happens in your adventures but if you're skipping along for one minute it's everything seems so dark for the next minute everything seems so happy that's a miracle it does take a miracle to look upon this world from a place of peace and to be in a state of peace of mind to think a lot of miracles you have to say what I would call to be consistently miracle minded that's the cause of the sake to stay in a state above the battleground of peace and joy it takes trust there is no way that you can seem to move through this world without trust and faith and when I'm talking about trust I'm talking about in your higher power within those inner prompts that are guiding you every second of every day it's always there for you it's just like always gently reminding you how perfectly, how innocent all of us have been raised with a belief system that we feel like we have to strive and attain and accumulate and in the state of mind I'm in like I was sharing yesterday I don't have any possessions I don't literally own anything and it's not so much a form thing but it's like giving up the idea of possession you know in relationships and in every interaction I do the Holy Spirit of the Dynasty said you have to learn to give that God gives give us the flower that launches its fragrance into the air for everyone to smell let it give everything away so freely and realize that you're perfectly provided for and you will demonstrate a state of mind that is not of this world because this is a world of seeming scarcity of black gardens and agreements and lots of things that go on and it takes a lot of faith to turn your mind around from that and say I just want to give it all away for free and trust that it will all be provided so that's really what I'm sharing that's what my last 13 years have been is I've done hundreds and I've felt we've thousands of gatherings and talks and restaurants bookstores, backyards here we are in this patio area I just went on a beach at this fun and an orchard I think I was in an orchard called Elk Grove here I was in an orchard and it was a hot day about 100 degrees everybody was under the tree so I had no microphone system I had to let the voice kind of boom through but all these gatherings have really been for me I think we've talked to thousands of people in lots and lots of places but it was all about my own transformation of consciousness my own willingness to whether not to judge anymore to just accept everybody exactly as they are in the present moment and the thing I really want to focus on too is that oneness is synonymous with the present moment the present moment is extremely simple and if you ever notice when you're fully present how joyful and happy you feel you're just happy for no worldly reason at all you're clueless and you're happy and that's what it means to be content in the present moment and what I'm saying is it's actually possible to live in this present moment always I mean I'm in a situation where I really don't feel a need now to go anywhere or do anything and as I was saying in yesterday I had a little three-legged path that I played with I'm very content and feel the perfection of everything in this moment and it's only when I get invitations that I go, well what, an invitation and I've got nowhere to go with nobody to convince I'm not trying to complicate I'm not trying to convince anybody I think actually I'm really feeling right now that everybody's just perfect right where they are and I can't divide into a world anymore and take sides and all that craziness I've gone past that point so I was up in near Danville, California and spent time out there and that's when I was showing up at my lunch table and then at the end of the conference it was a course of medical conference so they came up and they went to the man who set it up and he found a cell phone and said we're going to kidnap David and the minister told him he said well why don't you ask David first if he wants to be kidnapped and I said oh I want to be kidnapped I've had it all up in the whole time the month so they did kidnap me and they took me all over San Francisco and all kinds they took me to bars and but there's something to do if you get a mystic or a saint you know you would take him to the bars you know I don't know and I don't judge anybody so to me it's chop all, bar, whatever it's all and so we had it all you know we just went around and we were laughing and the race parking space, parking space so before we get to these places you know we get there from right into the parking space we didn't hit a ball laughing and everything and they and Scott said well my sister is opening a one center and I said oh one center and she wants to open it on one one one at one I'd like to word one but that was like one one one at one that was a one center got to see attention so that's why I'm here is because that was an invitation and then Scott mentioned about the name and I thought how cool and I was talking about doing the one world tour because everybody is the same I see the atheists and the nostics and the Christians the Buddhists and the Hindus and Native American and all of the same so I just see one where I look and I had so much fun atheists come to my gatherings and I had so much fun with everybody because I had nothing to contest I think they're all sweeties whatever they said or do when I was in Argentina I was there with the military police and the barracks and the back you know wild wild I got there the woman who picked me up got lost and I got to meet the military police and machine guns this is an adventure when you realize that you are as the matrix says you are the one you can't be harmed because there's nothing outside of you that can harm you there's nothing to defend against anymore so you're invulnerable and that's what makes it fun we've grown up in a culture anybody here remember Mr. Magoo Mr. Magoo hey is that a spiritual figure or what I mean Magoo Magoo was always happy it didn't matter they couldn't take his car out whenever he'd be just linking he'd kind of like flying to the world and he was so in tune anybody see the movie Being There with Peter Sellers how beautiful simple he was everybody projected all these things onto him but he was just going around loving everybody I like to watch peace salt everything to say well recently we've got California talking about some of these movies the man who knew too little what you like to be the man who knew too little they tried to poison him choke him, scramble him kidnap him he left his way for the whole movie it was in the mindset that it was we thought it was interactive theater and it had all characters so even though people were trying to kill him they thought he was some kind of super agent like a super American agent because he said he is good but he was he was simply clueless and defenseless and that's why he was so perfect you know when they go to mug him at the beginning he caught himself he had knives he had a cool knife on him he was like let's do it again because he was in the state of mind that the Course in Miracle talks about that it's a dream why would you react with fear of the dream if you knew you were the dreamer it's when you forget that you're dreaming and you get all caught up in the dream figures and you think you're one of the fingers and you think that all these characters around you that mean you ill you forget that you're dreaming and that's what's so profound about this transformation is that it empowers you to see that you are the dreamer of the dream you can have people mind you can do what Jesus talked about be a good shearer but I've overcome the world not by fighting it not by trying to kill it not by trying to destroy it but just by learning to forgive it so these are profound ideas and it seems like wherever I go Chip Spontane is getting spring up I sent him the invitation to come out here to the One Center which we should have raised as a given running back there set up again yesterday and set up a bunch of other ones now I've got the stringers going up to California and back down and down to San Diego and I'm just going to fly out here initially, fly out and back so I've got a round for ticket that's donated to me and now I'm not even going to get to use the second half of them round for the ticket because my dream of her is that she was guided to she met this guy at a cafe who donated a car to her and so we are going to develop, we're in the broken carriage it's a green bull flag at the top unlike the fairy tale but we're just going to be galvanizing around as Robin was saying she had another, seemingly another place lined up and then this place shows up and it's better than you can ever imagine when you surrender your life to spirit it's like you're not going to be some poor desolate being that's laying in the gut somewhere, it's just getting better and better and better the more you take your hands off of the steering wheel in fact interaction becomes to be almost like a passenger where you feel like you're in the limo and your higher power is doing the driving and as funny as that sounds there's actually a line across the miracles where Jesus says it cannot be difficult to do the test but Christ has appointed you to do for it is He who does it in other words you are just a translucent transparent vehicle like that plant makes me an instrument and when you don't make anything personally I tell you it is like a cakewalk you watch the world it's just like a fairy tale and when I talk about my life to people they say it sounds like some kind of a fairy tale but it's a very happy fairy tale because you're not in charge and you don't have to feel this that's a strain and stress and control always trying to run the show so I feel honored and usually I also say that I never go I never get a sermon because I talk a little bit but then I don't really have a whole lot to say that someone people ask me questions so as we wrap it up here I may have a few more minutes how are we doing on time what are your pearls here in about 1922 20 minutes okay we've got 20 minutes so what I always like to do because we're all connected and we're really all one is I always like to open up to the floor for credits because the spirits always with us and always orchestrating all of our encounters and that's what makes it fun for me I wouldn't like to just go around and give a bunch of talks because the bio says lecture but I don't really see myself as a lecturer I'm more like a little child that has all this free and I like to show up places and then have people ask questions and then it gets interesting because we get into all kinds of good stuff so while we have about one minute or so does anybody have any questions or comments and again there's no good questions or bad questions so just go free to what I'm not at I will be happy to answer any questions no problem