Forgiveness

Download the Guide: How to Watch Movies for Spiritual Awakening

Download the How to Watch Movies for Spiritual Awakening worksheet:
(English), (Español) and watch the Video!

Welcome to the How to Watch Movies for Spiritual Awakening worksheet. It is important to review how the ego denies enlightenment in order to use the worksheet most effectively.

  • First, the ego denies Spiritual Awakening through hidden desires to avoid awakening. Not feeling "enlightened" or "Awake" is synonymous with not being at peace. This disquietude arises  from hidden desires. 
  • Second, it is important to understand that the ego is designed to obscure inner Light from awareness. The ego does this by hiding subconscious desires for experiences of pain, suffering and illness below the level of awareness. Desires are denials that Enlightenment is your natural state.
  • Thus, Enlightenment is merely ceasing to deny inner Light by releasing the hidden desires that deny inner Light. Watching Spiritual Awakening Movies can help reveal which hidden desires need to be released to Light. In A Course in Miracles the release of a desire is called a Miracle. 
  • All pain, illness and suffering arise out of hidden subconscious desires for objective experiences that deny Inner Light. Thus, releasing desires with Spiritual Awakening movies can help alleviate pain and suffering.
  • In summary, watching movies with Jesus (also called the Voice for God/Holy Spirit) is a simple and direct means for identifying and releasing hidden subconscious desires. 
  • Many of the movie reviews on this site list the subconscious desires that deny Enlightenment that can be seen in the movie.  You can find many more desires listed in Chapter 20 of Jesus: A New Covenant ACIM

Watching movies for Spiritual Awakening is a means for learning to tune into the inner Voice that reveals desires to deny Divinity hidden in the subconscious mind.

This inner Voice can help direct you in identifying secret subconscious desires and releasing them to the Light of Truth. In A Course in Miracles this release of a denial of Light is called a miracle.

The inner Voice for truth (Voice for God) within is the Voice of wholeness. This is in contrast to the voice of the ego, which is the voice of fragmentation. In ACIM this voice is called “wrong minded”. The Voice for God speaks of unity and of Love. It is the Voice of the Light that Lights everyone who is born as described in John 9 of the Bible.

In this blog and in the worksheet we refer to this Voice as Jesus because this is one of the most powerful symbols of Enlightenment in consciousness.

Virtually all Spiritual Awakening traditions talk about the necessity of releasing desires. This is purification or shadow work. Learning how to recognize the desires (the "wanting' of an experience of more or less than All that Is) and releasing them is a means out of all pain and suffering.

The general process for identifying and releasing subconscious desires can be found in the Joining in Light Miracle Worksheet. Click here to download.

A List of many subconscious desires to deny Spiritual Awakening can be found in Jesus: A New Covenant ACIM. Download it here.

Several of the Spiritual Movie reviews on this website contain a list of the subconscious desires that can be released while watching the movie. For example:

Palm Springs is a Spiritual Awakening movie that reveals many of the underlying desires of the ego thought system.

Wake up with the Movie Palm Springs

Download the Guide: How to Watch Movies for Spiritual Awakening2022-06-01T17:06:00-05:00

Release the Desire for the Addiction to Death. Light Circle ACIM

The power of Joining to uncover how the ego relishes the experience of Death. 

T

his YouTube session is a review of the addiction of the ego to death experience. It is also to discover by direct experience how miracles (a change in perception that death has value) are the means to release the desire for death experience from the subconscious mind.

This is releasing the death wish. The death wish is self delusion that arises out of deeply hidden beliefs buried in the subconscious mind that the experience of death has value. In order to transcend the ego it is essential to admit that the experience of death is a chosen experience. (The Session is in English and Spanish).

Three movies demonstrating the desire for the play of repeated death and “coming back to life”–Edge of Tomorrow, Groundhog Day, and Before I Fall are mentioned in the session. The message in these movies is that the only way to end the endless cycles of death is to accept Jesus’ curriculum of releasing the desire for death (forgiveness).

The ego mis-creates death and then “forgets” that it created death as experience!

The ego is the desired experience to create the experience of death and then deny that it created it! Thus the ego is a denial of the denial of inner Light. In other words the ego is a decision to deny Divinity and then hide from itself (deny) that it created death experience.

The ego pretends to be horrified by death,
yet if we look closely we can see it is relished experience.

On the surface the ego would speak as though it is horrified by death as though death is something to be avoided. Yet with deep looking with the One who Knows, Jesus, it can be seen that the experience of death is a “treasure” that the ego hides deep in the subconscious mind. This is the same as the Death Wish, the wish to experience death over and over in the mind to “kill the Light” from awareness. This is a choice to avoid admitting that death is impossible.

The ego is the addiction to death experience (ACIM)

Further, the ego will avoid anything that will reveal that death is unreal. All assignments by the Holy Spirit are to reveal the hidden beliefs that death has more value than the experience of God. This is the addiction to death, the deep relishing of the experience of death. This is not only relishing the experience of death of a body: it is relishing death to the awareness of inner Light.

As long as there is a belief that heaven can be found in hell (death), consciousness will avoid accepting a miracle. There is great power in looking directly with Jesus to uncover hidden desires in the subconscious mind around the Death Addiction.

Mighty companions share what Jesus tells them about their addiction to death (at the end of the session.)

At the end of the session mighty companions share what Jesus is telling them about their attraction to death and how the ego has turned death to seem like heaven:

The hidden belief that death is a way to find peace.

 

1. Mary shares, “Jesus says that I have the desire to show God I’ve got the power and control. Jesus is saying this is death and does not work.”

She believes death is a release from having to do something-a means to find rest (peace). This is the idea that rest comes “after” death. He also told her that this is the means the ego uses to keep the experience of feeling in control and out of control (simultaneously).

We hear yes to accepting a miracle for this desire.

Cay’s comment: Jesus reminds us that we’ll dabble in death by playing/running the same record over and over again until it is healed.

The desire for death as a “power card” that can be played at any time.

2. Tahina expresses her curiosity with this topic of looking at the desire for death. Jesus points to her desire to have a card in hand that she can play at any moment to stay in the game, meaning she can always choose to “play the death card”.She shares that she has a desire to die. “Death is a card I hold in my hand that I have the power to play at any time.”

This is the belief that death is a means to heaven (via hell) by “getting and holding on to” power.

3. Lina asks Jesus: What is death? Jesus tells her it is the desire to deny the Light within. She also asks if seeing this is enough and Jesus reminds that it is most helpful to look at each desire one by one to clear all of them.

In this we can see the power of being guided by Jesus so directly and specifically on every single desire for release to a miracle.

I don’t want to give this up, I am addicted to death.

4. Jesus shows Cathleen how she sees death as heaven. She says, “He is showing me a party, a reunion. And he gave me the word rest, as in “no more work.” He says the ego makes work and then if you die you don’t have to work anymore, the idea that peace comes after death. Cathleen admits, I don’t want to give this up, I am addicted to death.

 

Jesus shows us how we are addicted to relishing death experience!

Cay comments: This is a trick in the mind, a trick of the ego, that makes us believe that we can get to heaven through hell! Jesus says that fear is a cover-over to avoid seeing that death is not real. As long as there is a belief that heaven can be found in hell (death), consciousness will avoid accepting a miracle.

There is great power in looking directly with Jesus to uncover hidden desires in the subconscious mind around the Death Addiction.
If we have a belief that death is freedom the experience will keep repeating and defenses to protect the death wish will come up. The ego will fight to keep this false concept of freedom in order to keep death in the mind.

The ego will fight to keep this false concept of freedom from death in order to keep death experience repeating in the mind.

He reminds us that miracles require conviction. The conviction that you are more than the idea you have about yourself. Not accepting the miracle is trying to keep the death concept alive.

To “wake up from the dream” you must see how you love/value the addiction and that deep down you believe the addiction works. There is some deeply hidden belief that there is value in keeping addiction. This is how the ego uses time – the “Las Vegas gamble” that it is going to work in the future. “I can keep the addiction and it is gonna work out in the end.”

We need Jesus to show us how it never works out in the end.

All the scenarios when we were pretending it was going to work out and it could never work out so we can finally admit it’s never going to work out.

Jesus reminds us, “Do not underestimate how much you like the power of death.” The ego thinks that giving up the idea of death is a sacrifice.

This must be seen directly so that there is no longer an investment in self delusion.

Release the Desire for the Addiction to Death. Light Circle ACIM2022-05-15T08:16:37-05:00

Join Us for the “How to Watch Movies for Spiritual Awakening” Retreat

Watching Spiritual Awakening movies can be a fast means
to clear subconscious desires that deny Enlightenment.

Click here now to register.

Click here view the brochure.

The ego is the desired experience to deny Enlightenment and then hide that it denies Enlightenment! Thus the ego is a denial of the denial of inner Light. This is what makes Spiritual Awakening seem difficult or illusive at times In other words the ego is a decision to deny Divinity and then hide from itself (deny) that it created death experience. This retreat provides a specific means to watch movies to clear subconscious desires to deny Enlightenment!

Why is watching Spiritual Awakening Movies helpful for Enlightenment?

Watching the best Spiritual Awakening Movies for Enlightenment is a means to learn how the ego mis-creates the experience of pain and suffering. These movies expose the underlying beliefs and desires that make the experience of pain and suffering seem intractable or difficult to change. Yet when these desires are uncovered and released to inner Light, the experience of pain and suffering can no longer manifest.

It can be surprising to discover how much pain and suffering is actually relished below the level of awareness. Yet this is a happy discovery, because it can also be seen that it is a choice to experience pain and suffering, and this "desire" can be released. And in this discovery it is also seen that there is a way out of all pain and suffering!

Click here now to register.  The Retreat cost is $125 USD

Click here view the brochure.

The ego's purpose is to have a long, drawn out, delayed Spiritual Awakening on a timeline!

On the surface it would seem that Enlightenment is simple! Simply recognize the Light within. Yet even with powerful awakening experiences that "All is One", unhappiness seems to crop up over and over? Why does this seem to happen? It happens because hidden deep in the subconscious mind the ego hides the "treasure" of denying Spiritual Awakening and making it seem difficult or impossible. This is the ego's plan to delay awakening on an extended timeline.

Learning to release desires is the way out of pain and suffering and the path to Enlightenment

Virtually all Spiritual Awakening traditions talk about the necessity of releasing desires. This is purification or shadow work. Learning how to recognize the desires (the "wanting' of an experience of more or less than All that Is) and releasing them is a means out of all pain and suffering.

Click here now to register.

Click here view the brochure.

The movie Palm Springs is a good example of a movie that reveals the underlying desires of the ego thought system.

Virtually all Spiritual Awakening traditions talk about the necessity of releasing desires. This is purification or shadow work. Learning how to recognize the desires (the "wanting' of an experience of more or less than All that Is) and releasing them is a means out of all pain and suffering. Click here to read the spiritual commentary for Palm Springs.

Wake up with the Movie Palm Springs

Join Us for the “How to Watch Movies for Spiritual Awakening” Retreat2021-11-17T15:54:20-06:00

What is the meaning of a Dark Night of the Soul – A dark night is not necessary!

A dark night of the soul is a belief that it

is necessary to go through hell to get to heaven.

Despite what the ego will tell you,

A Dark Night of the Soul is NOT necessary.

I wrote this blog originally in 2018 where I believed (feared) a dark night was necessary. Thankfully Jesus showed me I was completely wrong. This is a happy update. God’s Will is perfect happiness, and a Dark night is a denial of God’s Will.

  • Some spiritual traditions refer to a deep period of darkness and pain associated with Spiritual Awakening as “A Dark Night of the Soul.”

The ego would like nothing better than every student of A Course in Miracles (or any other spiritual tradition for union with God/complete undoing of the ego) to have a Dark night.

  • The ego is the perpetuation of pain and suffering that is maintained through the hidden subconscious desires for painful experiences. The ego’s nature is interpretive, and it never interprets spiritual awakening in a positive manner. Thus, for some who awaken, part of the process seems to be a period of darkness and pain.
  • The good news is that it need not be experienced if the underlying mechanisms (desires) of the ego are understood.
  • By understanding the nature and source of all pain and suffering and releasing the cause of pain and suffering (deeply hidden subconscious desires) it is possible to transcend without a dark night.
  • In A Course in Miracles, the change of mind to release these hidden desires is called a miracle.

A Dark Night of the soul (a painful and dark spiritual awakening) that is referred to in some spiritual traditions arises out of hidden desires for pain and suffering experience.

  • The hidden subconscious belief under a dark night of the soul experience is that it is necessary to go through hell to get to heaven. And there is the belief that somehow this is required by God. God does not require a dark night of the soul, but the ego will try to make you believe He does.
  • If you are experiencing what you think is a Dark night, you can be SURE you are refusing to talk to Jesus—the Voice of Wisdom/Inner Light/Holy Spirit within—because this Voice of Truth will tell you differently and show you a different way.
  • All experiences are desired experiences. Every one including a Dark night! All fear, illness and suffering is desired. Yet when this is seen, this is happy news, because it can also be seen that this need not be the experience
  • As soon as I realized that a dark night was desired experience, I started asking Jesus to help me release ANY subconscious desire for a dark night experience! it was humbling to see that this desire was still lurking in the subconscious mind, yet happiness to see that it can be released.

When desires are released (the death wish), including the desire for a dark night of the soul, then the experience can no longer arise.

  • Join quickly to clear any desire for a dark night of the soul. You can use the Joining in Light Worksheet.
  • What is striking is seeing how much resistance there is to deeply looking at and releasing the desire for a dark night of the soul! Persistence is often necessary.

Dark night is a denial of God’s Will.

So much happiness! So much relief! Amen, amen. and you can do it too. See the YouTube talk on this topic below! No dark night of the soul!

A dark night is the desire for an experience of attempting to win heaven by going through hell.
The ego wants you to have a “horrendous awakening experience”

The ego by its very nature denies the simplicity of the Divine Light within, and thus would have you have a “horrendous awakening experience”. What if a dark night is only a desired experience that the ego hides in the deep caverns of the subconscious mind–the mistaken concept that it is necessary to go through hell to get to heaven–and this idea can be released, so that the experience of a dark night can not manifest?

The Crazy Dream Bubble Diagram Describes the way out!

The Crazy Dream Bubble diagram mentioned in the session describes how the ego hides the desire to resist awakening to Truth. https://youtu.be/rtpXu4hgJzs

For more on how to find your way out of the Crazy Dream bubble,

Download the free Joining in Enlightenment Phone app (open the link on your phone:) https://tithely.app.link/joining-in-light-devotional-center

If you hunt for darkness you will find it.

This is an excerpt from my original post (below), and Jesus told me this was unguided! A good reason to ask for guidance on everything. I can now see that there can be pride in having a “big dark night of the soul”! The ego is comparative even about a dark night.

I was surprised to find in a “google search” that so little is written on this dark night of the soul-a term first coined in a poem by John of the Cross. I found myself guided to read his teachings (DarkNight-StJohnoftheCross.pdf) and this condensed version https://catholicstrength.com/?s=dark+night and can feel in his words much of the same teachings as in ACIM. Every idea of the world must be given up and seen through in the Light of Truth.

It is necessary to purify all of the thoughts and ideas of the world and go naked to your God (contemplative prayer). The purification is talked about in non dual traditions as well. (ACIM for non-dual students)

This has all been very humbling, and I can now understand the great value of humbleness for God’s holy kingdom.

To turn hell into Heaven is the function of God’s teachers, for what they teach are lessons in which Heaven is reflected. And now sit down in true humility, and realize that all God would have you do you can do. Do not be arrogant and say you cannot learn His Own curriculum. His Word says otherwise. His Will be done. It cannot be otherwise. And be you thankful it is so. M-14.5.9

Love and gratitude for mighty companions,

Cay

What is the meaning of a Dark Night of the Soul – A dark night is not necessary!2021-10-22T09:16:53-05:00

Is emotional release a healing process for Spiritual Awakening?

Emotions may arise in the Spiritual Journey;
however, emotional release is unrelated to healing!

Although there is a strong belief in consciousness that healing comes from releasing suppressed emotions, this is a misunderstanding about how true healing occurs.

  • In order to understand what true healing is, it is important to understand how the perception of pain and suffering is generated. Consciousness is a play of false perception of separation from Source. This false perception generates the experience of all pain and suffering. True healing is the choice to no longer invest in false perception. It is the direct result of willingness to perceive (the choice to see things) differently. Seeing things differently means releasing hidden subconscious desires that generate false perception.
  • Hidden subconscious desires deny the natural state of peace and thus the natural state of Being. In A Course in Miracles (ACIM) this release is called a miracle. A miracle is a decision that is always available to release the belief that there is value in keeping hidden desires that generate emotional experiences.
  • The “Crazy Dream Bubble diagram” (below) depicts how the outer ring of desire (green ring) is used by the ego to obscure Light—the natural state of being. As the ego dives deeply into the dream state, thoughts, feelings and emotions arise (deeper layers of pink and blue) resulting in a world (mis-perception) of separation from Source (Inner Light) (aqua layer).
  • Miracles, the release of hidden desires that deny inner Light (depicted by yellow box on the right hand side) always occur at the level of desire. Thus, forgiveness and healing occur at the level of release of hidden desires.
  • Emotional experience is a signal of dreaming. The ego relishes swings of emotion as this obscures the natural state of Inner LIght and thus peace.
  • Thus healing does not come from releasing emotions because emotions arise out of and are secondary to hidden subconscious desires to deny inner Light/inner peace/inner happiness, the natural state.
  • The picture below depicts how hidden desires are like the fuel of a fire that, along with oxygen (hidden thoughts/beliefs), feed the flame (emotions) and thus the experience of separation.
  • Healing comes from releasing the ego desire to deny inner Light and thus Love through deciding to no longer value something other than Light. This decision is called a miracle, a change in perception that experiencing something other than Light, has value. The play of consciousness is to place more value on the desire for experience, more than our natural inheritance, which is Light/Joy/Happiness. Our natural state of being is Joy and this is Identity, which is very different from emotion. Emotions move and change. The natural state of Joy is unchanging.
  • “Accepting” emotions is not helpful as this makes emotions seem real. As an Infinite Being you are far more powerful than any emotional experience. What must be accepted is that there is a hidden subconscious desire to deny inner Light that is creating (mis-creating) the experience of the emotion. All power comes from willingness to release the hidden desire to the light of truth. You can simply notice the emotion, quickly admit healing is necessary and ask for help from a joining partner/the Holy Spirit.
  • Thus, while emotions may (and probably will be experienced) on the Spiritual Journey, know that it is not absolutely given that they be experienced for Spiritual awakening. In Spiritual Awakening consciousness displays a wide variety of movements—thoughts, feelings, emotions, and energy movements. Consciousness is an addiction to identifying with movement. When movements are experienced it is best to ask Jesus to interpret whatever is arising, as the ego is very deceptive in using movements and emotional states to deny the experience of Divine Light within.
  • Emotions are not to be judged as right or wrong, rather, they are to be seen for exactly what they are, a by-product/expression of the desire for an experience of denying inner Light.
  • You have merely to ask Jesus, the symbol of the Voice for God within, whether whatever is appearing is a “holding on” or “releasing” an inner desire. If it is “releasing”, that means there is an acceptance of the change of perception that something in form has value. This means the desire for an experience that is not of peace is no longer valued and is released. If it is holding, then there is something deeper under the emotion that needs to be seen through to fully release the desire to deny inner Light.
  • The Joining in Light Center offers many ways to join. Joining is a powerful means for uncovering and releasing desires. Joining is coming together to see what is true using the Joining in Light Miracle Worksheet. To find out more about joining click here.

Miracles arise from the willingness to decide to change the perception that a desired experience has value. With willingness, the desire for an experience of pain and suffering, which often expresses out as emotion, can be released without any emotional release whatsoever! This is the power the mind has to simply make a different choice, to choose the power of Love over fear/denial of inner Light.

Notice where emotions are in the Dream bubble diagram. Emotions are very deep within the dream layers, well below the levels of thought and below desire. Miracles occur at the level of desire, so why not focus on releasing desires, the real source of desired experience which produces emotions as a by-product? The intensity of emotions are driven by subconscious beliefs and focus, a decision within the play of consciousness to “look away from” inner Light. Notice how it is possible to increase the intensity of an emotional state just by focussing on a set of thoughts and meaning. A constellation of a group of thoughts and the associated meaning is a story. This the playground of the ego.

Is emotional release a healing process for Spiritual Awakening?

✨ Why does Spiritual awakening seem elusive?
Because of the hidden desire NOT to be awake!

Download the free Joining in EnLightenment Phone app here:

https://tithely.app.link/joining-in-light-devotional-center

(if you are outside the US send the above link to your phone and open it in on your phone!)

This app is packed with resources:

  • Worksheets for clearing deeply hidden desires to avoid Spiritual Awakening
  • Learn to hear Jesus/the Voice for God.
  • Watch Live Streams. All at your fingertips!

Click below watch the video of all the EnLightenment App features

Contact us here or through Facebook/Facebook messenger.

Love,

Cay

???

Screen Shots of the Phone App

Is emotional release a healing process for Spiritual Awakening? Is emotional release a healing process for Spiritual Awakening? Is emotional release a healing process for Spiritual Awakening?

Subscribe to the Joining in Light Newsletter

Is emotional release a healing process for Spiritual Awakening?2021-09-23T18:31:26-05:00
Go to Top