Dec 15, 2011
Who's the teacher?
The teacher is not a specific person or role that is played by a specific person... it's in the eyes of the one who looks... Everything and everyone, in each and every moment is the teacher!!!! It's always an invitation to see ....
Don't look outside yourself....
There is nothing to be found outside yourself... It's already here. All the answers are here! Just look, question! All that seems to happen can be used as a doorway to go inward, deeper...to bring you back Here and discover what's always been, what is... unveiling the illusion to recognize the Truth...
Armelle
Armelle
Dec 14, 2011
Mysticism: Transitioning to abstract Oneness (David Hoffmeister and sharing from Armelle)
In AwakeningInChrist@ yahoogroups. com, "David" wrote:
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> The mystical transition happens prior to mystical Oneness. Resurrection is when Christ is recognized. This is the completion called the mystical State, the gateway to Eternity. No longer is there a person, for Spirit is forever One with God.
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> Before the mystical Union is the gift of contemplation. It is the INVITATION to this higher life to be unfolded. This gift is like a trumpet call, which begins the FINAL JOURNEY to God.
>
> Forgiveness points the way. It should be defined here what it is. It is the ability to Perceive wholeness at once:
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> THE SUBJECT CEASES TO PERCEIVE HIMSELF IN THE MULTIPLICITY AND DIVISION OF HIS GENERAL CONSCIOUSNESS. HE IS RAISED ABOVE HIMSELF. A PURE THOUGHT SUBSTITUTES ITSELF FOR THE NORMAL SELF. IN THIS STATE, IN WHICH CONSCIOUSNESS OF I-HOOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORLD DISAPPEAR, THE MYSTIC IS CONSCIOUS OF BEING IN IMMEDIATE RELATION with GOD.
>
> One sees instantly that the only way one could remove the taint was to still the mind and release all attachments with people. It is at the point of PEOPLE - wanting their love, wanting involvement, that one falls short. It is always applause, recognition on an earthly level, that trips one up. Stillness is the way.
>
> WITHDRAWAL from the thinking of the world is the only answer. Distraction from God saps your energy, confuses and distorts awareness.
>
> You can do more by PRAYING than by talking. The Lord will say "drop everything and forget all."
>
> What you DO want to do is to be open to the eternal realm of God; to think about Truths and to receive impressions from the Divine Mind. It isn't any use to tell the mystic not to focus on those things; for this was the mystic born, for this the mystic is talented. You might as well tell someone like Mozart not to compose music.
>
> The state of mystical life is a type of COCOON. It is an atmosphere, a world wherein the mystic soars. It is NOT a delusional world, but it is intuned to another dimension - Higher. In this mystical cocoon you are developing, but in another way than the typical life. You are learning to use faculties that have previously been dormant or inactive, or you are learning to use full force those talents you already used in part.
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> When you enter the cocoon you release all about you. The world of time and space and people and friends and relatives fades into the background of consciousness and disappears. You live in the Heart of God.
From David Hoffmeister
RE:
oh David Thank You sooo much for writing this....
Yesterday I felt writing you several times and expressing what's unfolding here, but no words came... It's like there's a pull from That to express Itself and no words to put it, no words to describe what's going on...
Since we talked the other day, the Stillness is even deeper, it's a Pure Delight. Questions, thoughts arise and as looked at, they are seen for what they are, distraction. It makes no sense at all for the ego, for the mind to not pay attention to them, to not believe them, to not give power to them, to not search for answer... and it totally feels that those answers are only in the Stillness! For there, everything just vanishes, and nothing, absolutely nothing is needed!
Fear arises and is felt, allowed, met and it disappears. Sometimes it seems like the body is shaking, and in this total allowance, there is bliss. Fear, the word, is left, and there is just the experience of an energy and an openess to it.
It seems that memory is going too. It's difficult to put into words, but it feels like there is no past anymore. Actually there hasn't been any past, it feels. There isn't any certainty that yesterday was, that the image in the mind that says: "Yes there was a yesterday!!" seems empty, meaningless. Why bother when Everything is Here, Now! It seems that some images come, but there are more a story, than 'my' story, and always a potential to go even deeper, to deepen into What Is and forgive all the images.
It feels that the body is moving, doing its things, and I watch. I can see some stronger grip of identification, but they are seen, and don't have that much power. It feels like Life is happening in me. I am not the doer of This.
There is no need for anything to be different for everything is absolutely as it is supposed to be. There is no need to know what's next for Now, is all there is, full and complete with Being. There's a feeling that maybe there will never be any inspiration anymore for anything because This is so full that nothing else is needed! Or maybe is it that it wasn't true Inspiration in past experiences and that there was always a desire to get something out of everything and that gone, there is room for only True Inspiration.
There's a feeling of beginning, that everything is fresh and new. And a feeling that everything as this character knew it is ending.
There is little words coming from this mouth, for mostly, there is nothing to say. Just This is more than enough. Even when there seems to be others, it feels that all the energy here is inward, there is no interest about what's going on on the screen, so often it seems like not hearing what is said or talked about if it's not specifically addressed to me. Before that could happen, but it was more of a doing, now.... it is! and therefore totally effortless!
It's like this could go on forever, and in the same time like no words will be able to convert fully This. But This is beyond words...
I am so so so grateful for Everything.. .
Love You Forever!
Armelle
>
> The mystical transition happens prior to mystical Oneness. Resurrection is when Christ is recognized. This is the completion called the mystical State, the gateway to Eternity. No longer is there a person, for Spirit is forever One with God.
>
> Before the mystical Union is the gift of contemplation. It is the INVITATION to this higher life to be unfolded. This gift is like a trumpet call, which begins the FINAL JOURNEY to God.
>
> Forgiveness points the way. It should be defined here what it is. It is the ability to Perceive wholeness at once:
>
> THE SUBJECT CEASES TO PERCEIVE HIMSELF IN THE MULTIPLICITY AND DIVISION OF HIS GENERAL CONSCIOUSNESS. HE IS RAISED ABOVE HIMSELF. A PURE THOUGHT SUBSTITUTES ITSELF FOR THE NORMAL SELF. IN THIS STATE, IN WHICH CONSCIOUSNESS OF I-HOOD AND CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORLD DISAPPEAR, THE MYSTIC IS CONSCIOUS OF BEING IN IMMEDIATE RELATION with GOD.
>
> One sees instantly that the only way one could remove the taint was to still the mind and release all attachments with people. It is at the point of PEOPLE - wanting their love, wanting involvement, that one falls short. It is always applause, recognition on an earthly level, that trips one up. Stillness is the way.
>
> WITHDRAWAL from the thinking of the world is the only answer. Distraction from God saps your energy, confuses and distorts awareness.
>
> You can do more by PRAYING than by talking. The Lord will say "drop everything and forget all."
>
> What you DO want to do is to be open to the eternal realm of God; to think about Truths and to receive impressions from the Divine Mind. It isn't any use to tell the mystic not to focus on those things; for this was the mystic born, for this the mystic is talented. You might as well tell someone like Mozart not to compose music.
>
> The state of mystical life is a type of COCOON. It is an atmosphere, a world wherein the mystic soars. It is NOT a delusional world, but it is intuned to another dimension - Higher. In this mystical cocoon you are developing, but in another way than the typical life. You are learning to use faculties that have previously been dormant or inactive, or you are learning to use full force those talents you already used in part.
>
> When you enter the cocoon you release all about you. The world of time and space and people and friends and relatives fades into the background of consciousness and disappears. You live in the Heart of God.
From David Hoffmeister
RE:
oh David Thank You sooo much for writing this....
Yesterday I felt writing you several times and expressing what's unfolding here, but no words came... It's like there's a pull from That to express Itself and no words to put it, no words to describe what's going on...
Since we talked the other day, the Stillness is even deeper, it's a Pure Delight. Questions, thoughts arise and as looked at, they are seen for what they are, distraction. It makes no sense at all for the ego, for the mind to not pay attention to them, to not believe them, to not give power to them, to not search for answer... and it totally feels that those answers are only in the Stillness! For there, everything just vanishes, and nothing, absolutely nothing is needed!
Fear arises and is felt, allowed, met and it disappears. Sometimes it seems like the body is shaking, and in this total allowance, there is bliss. Fear, the word, is left, and there is just the experience of an energy and an openess to it.
It seems that memory is going too. It's difficult to put into words, but it feels like there is no past anymore. Actually there hasn't been any past, it feels. There isn't any certainty that yesterday was, that the image in the mind that says: "Yes there was a yesterday!!" seems empty, meaningless. Why bother when Everything is Here, Now! It seems that some images come, but there are more a story, than 'my' story, and always a potential to go even deeper, to deepen into What Is and forgive all the images.
It feels that the body is moving, doing its things, and I watch. I can see some stronger grip of identification, but they are seen, and don't have that much power. It feels like Life is happening in me. I am not the doer of This.
There is no need for anything to be different for everything is absolutely as it is supposed to be. There is no need to know what's next for Now, is all there is, full and complete with Being. There's a feeling that maybe there will never be any inspiration anymore for anything because This is so full that nothing else is needed! Or maybe is it that it wasn't true Inspiration in past experiences and that there was always a desire to get something out of everything and that gone, there is room for only True Inspiration.
There's a feeling of beginning, that everything is fresh and new. And a feeling that everything as this character knew it is ending.
There is little words coming from this mouth, for mostly, there is nothing to say. Just This is more than enough. Even when there seems to be others, it feels that all the energy here is inward, there is no interest about what's going on on the screen, so often it seems like not hearing what is said or talked about if it's not specifically addressed to me. Before that could happen, but it was more of a doing, now.... it is! and therefore totally effortless!
It's like this could go on forever, and in the same time like no words will be able to convert fully This. But This is beyond words...
I am so so so grateful for Everything.. .
Love You Forever!
Armelle
Dec 11, 2011
Say YES to your Self! Using the Holiday season to undo people-pleasing.
I've been miraculously invited to talk on Paltalk last Saturday! I love how things happen! It's so great to see that Life has plan that will unfold with or without 'my' consent! This is Joy! Freedom!
Enjoy the talk...
And remember that everything, everyone at a deeper level, always collaborates for revealing what's blocking the awareness of the Truth, the Love that we are...
Have the courage to break the pattern! Listen to your Heart, to the Spirit! And allow whatever arises from that to be... exactly as it it, meet whatever has been repressed or covered by acting a certain way... And in the meeting of those feelings, discover what is always Here!
Say YES to your Self. Using the Holiday season to undo people-pleasing, paltalk.
Lots of love
Armelle
Enjoy the talk...
And remember that everything, everyone at a deeper level, always collaborates for revealing what's blocking the awareness of the Truth, the Love that we are...
Have the courage to break the pattern! Listen to your Heart, to the Spirit! And allow whatever arises from that to be... exactly as it it, meet whatever has been repressed or covered by acting a certain way... And in the meeting of those feelings, discover what is always Here!
Say YES to your Self. Using the Holiday season to undo people-pleasing, paltalk.
Lots of love
Armelle
Dec 6, 2011
What is Love?
Yesterday before sleeping, I asked "what is Love?"
First came an experience, then I heard... "... the blooming of everything exactly as it is..."
Love You!
Armelle
Nov 30, 2011
Just This...
Purity, Simplicity... Silence...
Listen...
Silence...
Love is full and empty
Transparent and multi-color
Everything and nothing
And nothing happens... only This
A drop of water on a branche
... nothing
"Flop"
Falling on the ground
Listen...
Silence
Your heart beat
Look...
Beauty without form
The Mystery!
Love is everywhere... And You?
Where are You? Who are You?
Oct 18, 2011
Trusting You
Here's a video taken of us singing our song "Trusting You". This video was taken several weeks ago in California at a gathering with David Hoffmeister. Our friend Jason Press played the keyboards. Enjoy!
Sep 29, 2011
Series of concerts: "Walk with the Spirit"
I am sooooo happy to share what has come to us as we are resting along a lake in Hanover, ON...
Last Saturday was our first concert "Walk with the Spirit" at the retreat at Lloyd's in Kirkfield where we shared almost all our songs and our path through them... And today we feel that it was just the beginning.... we feel guided to offer this concert over and over again wherever we are invited to, wherever there is a Call to go deeper in the mind and step into Trust that everything is always given, and every prayer always answered!
Thank You Spirit, God, Life, Everyone....
It is soooo amazing to watch what's given!!!!!
Joy Joy JOy...
So if you are interested or inspired by a "Walk with the Spirit" concert, contact me or Erik... wherever you are, we will be happy to answer the Call...
Lots of love... Armelle
P.S. Enjoy the following short video clip that our friend Jason took of us at our recent concert...
Last Saturday was our first concert "Walk with the Spirit" at the retreat at Lloyd's in Kirkfield where we shared almost all our songs and our path through them... And today we feel that it was just the beginning.... we feel guided to offer this concert over and over again wherever we are invited to, wherever there is a Call to go deeper in the mind and step into Trust that everything is always given, and every prayer always answered!
Thank You Spirit, God, Life, Everyone....
It is soooo amazing to watch what's given!!!!!
Joy Joy JOy...
So if you are interested or inspired by a "Walk with the Spirit" concert, contact me or Erik... wherever you are, we will be happy to answer the Call...
Lots of love... Armelle
P.S. Enjoy the following short video clip that our friend Jason took of us at our recent concert...
Sep 21, 2011
Open to Wherever the Calling of our Heart wants to lead us...
With our cross-Canada adventure winding down soon, Armelle and I are opening ourselves wide open to invitations to any part of the world where there may be a strong Calling for greater depth in terms of practical application of Course principles. After a period of deep inner healing these past few weeks, it feels like the next step for us now will be a mixture of more travel and sharing of our music... as well as some quiet time to for prayer, meditation, and Spirit-guided projects. We're completely open to going wherever in the world we are Called, therefore, I wanted to make this post to put the word out there that we are totally available for invitations from anyone who feels a strong inspiration to join with us!
When we joined with David (Hoffmeister) recently about what he felt might be our next step, Ireland came to his mind, and so we are certainly open to any strong invitations to travel there. Armelle has also been having Spain come to mind a bit lately, and so an extended stay in Europe may be in the cards for us next. One practical consideration we have is that our bank account only has about $700 USD in it right now, and so any invitation for us to travel overseas would most likely have to be strong enough to include a miracle around the financial aspect of it. We also have many friends in Canada and the U.S. whom we've joined with at various times these past couple of years and who have given us warm invites to come visit again, and yet we just have to feel out where our Heart's Calling feels the strongest...
Therefore, if you feel a stirring in your heart around the idea of us coming to visit you to hold a gathering or even just to connect, even if you don't know how that will happen practically, please feel free to email or call us directly. We're all on this journey together, and even if we don't end up traveling to you in form this time around, it may simply be a prompt for us to connect using the many wonderful technologies that are now available!
With all our Heart, we wish you an experience of Joy and Inspiration, and look forward to joining with you soon!
Erik & Armelle
707-364-0957
erikarchbold@gmail.com
dancinginthelight1@gmail.com
P.S. If you're interested in joining our Canada tour Facebook page, just search for "ACIM Canada Tour 2011" under Facebook groups, and click "Join". Lots of Love...
Sep 13, 2011
Two weeks in...
Well, Armelle and I are about two weeks into our cross-Canada tour with Jason Warwick, and I woke up this morning with a prompt to update the "Where We Are Now:" section of this blog, since it's been quite a while since I did that...
We just arrived in Winnipeg yesterday and are now staying at the house of a new friend of ours, Karina. Our other friends, Kerri and KJ, flew here a few days ago from Utah and will be joining us on the bus for the rest of the trip to Quebec. The trip has been incredibly healing for me, helping me to see many long-standing patterns of mine which reflect the way my ego rebels against the Spirit's plan. It's been quite humbling, and I will be forever grateful to Jason, Armelle, Geoff, and all the others on this trip who've been instrumental in helping to flush these patterns into my awareness.
If you're interested in following us on Facebook (assuming you already have a Facebook account), we have a Facebook group called "ACIM Cross Canada Tour 2011" which you can join to see all the photos, videos, and updates we've posted there from our tour!
The east-bound tour will end in Toronto on Oct 7th, and after that, it feels like Guidance may be coming in for Armelle and I to fly to Europe! Its not for certain, but as always, we're wide open to any invitations from people who feel inspired to host us for any length of time, and for some reason, Europe, and specifically, Spain, keep coming to mind. So we'll just stay open and see...
Feel free to contact us anytime if you wish to connect!
Lots of Love,
Erik
We just arrived in Winnipeg yesterday and are now staying at the house of a new friend of ours, Karina. Our other friends, Kerri and KJ, flew here a few days ago from Utah and will be joining us on the bus for the rest of the trip to Quebec. The trip has been incredibly healing for me, helping me to see many long-standing patterns of mine which reflect the way my ego rebels against the Spirit's plan. It's been quite humbling, and I will be forever grateful to Jason, Armelle, Geoff, and all the others on this trip who've been instrumental in helping to flush these patterns into my awareness.
If you're interested in following us on Facebook (assuming you already have a Facebook account), we have a Facebook group called "ACIM Cross Canada Tour 2011" which you can join to see all the photos, videos, and updates we've posted there from our tour!
The east-bound tour will end in Toronto on Oct 7th, and after that, it feels like Guidance may be coming in for Armelle and I to fly to Europe! Its not for certain, but as always, we're wide open to any invitations from people who feel inspired to host us for any length of time, and for some reason, Europe, and specifically, Spain, keep coming to mind. So we'll just stay open and see...
Feel free to contact us anytime if you wish to connect!
Lots of Love,
Erik
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