ACIM Movie Gatherings with Brian and Alexandra

We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! Suggested donation $20-$100. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected] Choose payment type, “friends and family”. Zelle: Brian Theard, [email protected] Mail a check: payable, Alexandra or Brian Theard, to: Alexandra & Brian Theard 2305 Ashland St #104-209 Ashland, OR 97520 Crypto: XRP: rHh8UiVZASsjfZrdSMjcitQpG9Lpxvh94H BTC: bc1qrkl3fptgtt3vpmz36p84jja7p8u5x80yqfeyy8 Greetings Mighty Companions✨ =========================== Have you ever felt like life is coming at you, and you are at the mercy of everything that is happening to you? Everyone on planet earth has had this experience once, or many times a day, perhaps. Or maybe sometimes you have a sense of being in control, and think you have everything accounted for— you think you have a stable status quo lifestyle. This movie will erode both these polarities and bring forth something else, something beyond victimization or control. I bet you’ll just love this movie for the way it can be used by Spirit to open the mind. Undoing is not of us, but it is up to us to welcome it or not. So let’s welcome this fantastic allegory for unraveling the self concept and bring a positive impact to our state of mind. What does it take to stop resisting the undoing of our private world, and welcome Love’s safe correction? Let’s be honest— ego dismantling is a scary thought while we believe we’re in control of things. While we still want to be in control, we don’t see that we are resisting forgiveness, resisting letting go. The mind can flip into victimization when things seem to fall apart. ✨The Game✨ with Michael Douglass and Sean Penn, definitely captivates attention, and a classic undoing movie it is— packed with insights, and a genuine thriller to boot, depicting many scenarios that help us open to principles from A Course in Miracles that otherwise may seem abstract. The release poster alone says quite a lot-- as you can see the puzzle pieces of his self image coming apart! Nicolas Van Orten (Michael Douglass) is an ultra-wealthy merchant banker, who has every worldly thing. His self concept seems air tight, super secure, and he’s at the top of his world. But there’s only one thing— he’s seriously miserable… he doesn’t like people, and he hates surprises. In comes his younger brother Conrad (Sean Penn), with a unique birthday surprise called C.R.S.— Consumer Recreation Services. It’s an intriguing game with and air of mystery offering an experience that comes to you in "real life", at anytime or place. You have to figure the game out as you go along. Doesn’t this sound familiar, like what everyone ends up having to face in someway— not knowing what is really going on, then attempting to figure it out? Nicolas thinks he’s in control of his world, in charge of his life. Yet memories of his father’s suicide weigh upon him and it's his 48th birthday as our film opens-- the same age of his father when he jumped off the roof. Nicolas is secretly trying to work out this trauma within his consciousness. How much is he like his father, he wonders? The Course teaches us that Spirit never gives us hard lessons for our own good. We have to be willing to learn to stop doing that to ourselves. Spirit wants to only remind us that we can stop fighting, forgive, and be at peace. We can trust. But Nicolas is a tough nut, as we all can relate to in some way. He’s set on not going down without a fight. He doesn’t know what he said yes to with this new “game” where his control has been removed, but he has a destiny to be absolved of his burden. We all are destined to discover it’s safe to let our self concept fall apart without a fight... That our authentic Self has not been changed. This class will be another step to help us take ourselves less seriously, and perhaps begin to soften with the things that seem to shake our false sense of stability. We do want to make things easier for ourselves, and this movie is a key to help us! May all concepts of ourselves fall away in the love of God, in full awareness of our happy function. Brian and Alexandra💞 Please note: Conscious movie watching is not primarily about entertainment. And it has nothing to do with movie critique. It’s about becoming proficient in mind watching and honest feeling. Expect ample time devoted to the teachings of ACIM in conjunction with the movie. We will pause the movie at some points to share ideas and bring light to the topics at hand. Please settle in before hand with minimal distractions.

Acim Movie Gathering (The Man Who Knew Too Little) 1/11/26 We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! Suggested donation $20-$100. Donations are not required to attend this gathering. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected] Choose payment type, “friends and family”. Zelle: Brian Theard, [email protected] Mail a check: payable, Alexandra or Brian Theard, to: Alexandra & Brian Theard 2305 Ashland St #104-209 Ashland, OR 97520 Crypto: XRP: rHh8UiVZASsjfZrdSMjcitQpG9Lpxvh94H BTC: bc1qrkl3fptgtt3vpmz36p84jja7p8u5x80yqfeyy8 ========================================== Greetings Mighty Companions✨ Let’s bring in some humor this New Year! You are warmly invited to A Course in Miracles Movie Gathering with Brian and Alexandra— our first event of 2026. We will start out the year with a comedy called ✨The Man Who Knew Too Little✨ via Zoom, starring Bill Murray, and Peter Gallagher. In the course of our lives perhaps we’ve glimpsed moments of freedom from misidentification. But not uncommonly, we’ve perceived a heavy veil of seriousness, believing ourselves to be defined by our individual character and what we seem to go through. But t's a relief to cry for mercy and come up for air. We came to forgive our serious self concept, not maintain it. And let’s not forget the world of time will end in laughter— not seriousness, death nor destruction. We are not the roles the body seems to play, nor the body that plays them. Spirit sees all bodies and roles as a way to help us remember we are not any of it, and never defined by the body or its abilities. We are safe as God created us— sinless and free. If we begin to see all of perception as theater, is that a dangerous perception or a freeing one? It’s always freeing. The danger is in our fixed insistence that our interpretations are reality. Ego interpretations are not really dangerous in reality, but reality is interpreted to be frightening for the ego. In truth reality is never frightening, threatening, or dangerous— it’s always only happy and free. It’s only refuge to recognize what can't be lost. And it brings a lighter hearted perception. Our function of forgiveness is a happy game we *learn to play* with Spirit. If Spirit wants to play with us, will we not play with Him? Don’t we want to join Him in His happy game, instead of suffer our own unhappy drama? In this funny flick, Wallace, (Bill Murray) says "yes" to a brand new experience while on trip to visit his brother (played by Peter Gallager) in London. He’s gifted with a birthday present called “The Theatre of Life", where he consents to allow actors to intervene in his "real life", giving him a chance to improvise, be spontaneous, and trust a different flow. Notably, when Wallace says yes to “The Theater of Life” he actually becomes fearless, because he can’t take anything happening too seriously. He begins to see it all as theater, and becomes very playful in a funny and quirky kinda way. Yet unbeknownst to Wallace there has been a mix up. He’s actually become entangled with Russian espionage and British intelligence, and is helping to stop a bomb at a banquet with high ranking officials in London. But for Wallace, it all remains “The Theater of Life”, affording him the opportunity to play along! We can learn a lot from this 90 minute skit, which seems to have been filmed with plenty of allowance for going “off script". When we aren’t identified with the roles we play, the course teaches that "happy learning" unfolds with our Inner Teacher, and we make our invulnerability manifest. When we are misidentified with the roles, this ego perception of the world seems so serious and only gets heavier and heavier as time passes. We feel vulnerable in every way. But miracles look on devastation and remind the mind that what it sees is false. And as we lose interest in playing the role of victim, we don't need to take perpetrators personally nor circumstances as a cause for upset. We lose interest in maintaining-a-mood of negativity, and we lose interest in weaving-a-narrative of suffering. We just lose interest in playing the sufferer. As we spot it, we don’t want to do it and it falls away. We can "be of good cheer”, why not? Authenticity includes a necessary sense of humor! A playful perception of the world comes into view as we learn we have no control over the form, but only over how we see it. Something is shifting… What could it be but our interpretation? All suffering arises from trying to control the form and direct the actors as we see fit. Yet if everyone is already playing their part perfectly, they don’t need our advice-- just our forgiveness, and our willingness to let everyone play their part without our judgement. Wouldn’t we start to take everything more lightly and consider all the actors (including our own character) without serious overtones, if we began to see everything as “The Theater of Life”? The take home value of this class will help us to see that we are never reacting to anything directly. As our brother David Hoffmeister says, "We’re always reacting and responding emotionally, based on our interpretations of what seems to be happening.” In deepest love and trust, Brian and Alexandra💞

✨Greetings Mighty Companions✨ A spectacular teaching movie to illustrate the end of fighting with yourself and coming to a decision for peace: REVOLVER, a 2005 film by Guy Ritchie. This is "mini-movie" with commentary from MWGE.org and can be expressed within this profound Course teaching: Truth is, and can be neither lost nor sought nor found. ³It is there wherever you are, being within you. ⁴But it can be recognized or unrecognized, real or false, to you. ⁵If you hide it, it becomes unreal to you, because you hid it and surrounded it with fear. ⁶Under each cornerstone of fear on which you have erected your insane system of belief, the truth lies hidden. ⁷Yet you cannot know this, for by hiding truth in fear, you see no reason to believe the more you look at fear, the less you see it and the clearer what it conceals becomes. [CE T-14.IX.2:2-7] Brian will launch us with a keynote set up and then we'll feature archival commentary from David Hoffmeister and Jason Warwick from Living Miracles. Interestingly, Guy Ritchie made two versions of this movie with different endings. This harder to find version is well suited to aid us in recognizing the difference between the ego’s guidance, and the Holy Spirit's. Also the movie has been streamlined and shortened for teaching purposes by the team at Living Miracles, to bring us right to "the meat and potatoes”. We’re gonna let go of the Hollywood action filler, slice through pride, money, survival and the lie of being in control of outcomes. This gathering will assist us in seeing the ego has no cause, but the miracle indeed does.

We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! suggested donation $20-100. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected] =============================== Greetings Mighty Companions✨ Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May this holiday season be filled with sanity and profound peace. And may our November 30th movie gathering light your mind up and activate you in Spirit. Consider for a moment what it would be like if your entire spiritual journey was compressed into a single 24hr period. If all unconscious limits were lifted so rapidly that you had no other choice but to go with it... What would that be like? In that extreme case, LUCY is our movie, starring Scarlett Johansson, and Morgan Freeman. Get ready... You are invited to join us for an amazing awakening movie, and let your mind be singularly focused and uncompromising. In A Course in Miracles it states, "…Training is always highly individualized. ⁶There are those who are called upon to change their life situation almost immediately, but these are generally special cases. ⁷By far the majority are given a slowly evolving training program, in which as many previous perceptual mistakes as possible are corrected.” [CE M-9.1:5-7] Lucy is an allegory of one such "special case”, envisioned by French writer and director, Luc Besson to be a radical expansion in consciousness. In an interview regarding his film LUCY, he said: “I want the people to travel. I want people to be like, “Whoa, where are we going?!” … and just to follow the ride. It’s a ride, if you accept the ride. If you refuse and say, “Hold on, is it possible that this…or that…etc… then you’re off to the side of the film…. But if you let yourself go on a ride and you want to enjoy it, you are going to have a pretty amazing ride." The deeper meaning of LUCY points to something magnificent. What if you no longer had any time to delay, and no ability to compromise with inessentials— no tolerance for distraction or procrastination? Nothing could cause hesitation because fake choices had fallen away. And a final choice is made. You would know that you have nothing to cling to, because nothing else has any importance… And you might even know you are mentally reviewing a script of all the parts you don’t seem to be playing, so you can see the innocence of all the characters now, before perception’s finale. Just like all the characters in an epic movie that's already been filmed, and edited and saved must point me back to my own dreaming mind waking up to see it’s all me. I am still as God created me. Lucy reminds us that deep down we intuitively know we are here for only one thing— to accept what could never be lost, and cut through all the fake crap that seems to interfere. Lucy is epic. As she approaches one hundred percent of her brain capacity, she gains extraordinary capabilities that increase in power with each hour of her last day on earth. She's radically catapulted from trying to "get her life together" as an aspiring young model taking classes abroad, into having her inner vision open to the inner workings of a tree as it’s sap flows invisibly through its trunk and branches. What happens next is wild. Her life is set on a course that collapses time like never seen before. She suddenly has a single imperative— direct and to the point— no fluff, no people pleasing, and nothing to hide. She somehow begins to see that all she gives is a gift to herself. The take home value of this class will help us to see through compromises and delays, and remember the mighty purpose we came to serve. May our purpose be unequivocal and free from doubt. Brian and Alexandra✨💞✨

Conscious movie watching is not primarily about entertainment. And it has nothing to do with movie critique. It’s about becoming proficient in mind watching and honest feeling. Expect ample time devoted to the teachings of ACIM in conjunction with the movie. We will pause the movie at some points to share ideas and bring light to the topics at hand. Please settle in beforehand with minimal distractions. This remains a free gathering. We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! Suggested donation $20-$100 We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected] Bitcoin Our wallet BTC receive address: 3MaVauS5zYdLNXsh11VwSPcirhUVshnQD8 This address can only receive Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network. XRP Our wallet XRP receive address: rw2ciyaNshpHe7bCHo4bRWq6pqqynnWKQg This address can only receive XRP on the XRPL network. If you send funds via crypto, text Alexandra, 415.250.9455, and she’ll confirm the BTC or XRP was received. Or send a small amount first ($1) and she’ll confirm receipt. Thanks! ================================ Overview: ACIM Movie Gathering (What Women Want) 8/3/25 Would you like to step outside the box of stereotypical thinking and open to the call for love in every relationship? And if you say yes, then wouldn’t the next step be opening to something beyond your own private thoughts and interpretations of that relationship? Well we’ve got just the movie for you, as we commence our hottest month of summer. This August let’s open to more intimate communication with a classic romantic comedy: What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. What if you suddenly became psychically aware of the thoughts of those around you? This is a terrifying proposition for the ego, because privacy is its religion. Wrong minded thinking wants to maintain and justify its own private thoughts and only seems to care about others to get what it wants. Through humorous circumstances our main character, Nick Marshall, gains a surprising and unwanted telepathic ability to hear women’s thoughts, which peels away his false confidence and pretense, effectively frightening him and showing him he desperately needs help. Nick (Mel Gibson) is a self-centered marketing manager, who has a way with women and work. He’s manipulative yet charming. His competitive and clever attitude has earned him status within the marketing firm where he works. But the universe throws him a curve ball, when his boss (Alan Alda) hires Darcy (Helen Hunt), an ambitious creative director from an outside firm, effectively taking from Nick the promotion his sights are set upon. Nick’s chance for integrity arrives unexpectedly, as the universe conspires to help him take a leap he isn’t sure he even asked for— a leap that far exceeds his competitive strategies to excel and conquer. What if his new psychic ability isn’t a curse to be feared, but a way to communicate with his daughter at home and with Darcy at work? Could he help his colleagues instead of compete? What if he could mend his relationships-- not just the ones he likes, or thinks important— but the ones he never seemed to care about? The acceptance of Atonement as taught in A Course in Miracles is about coming into perfect communication with everyone and everything. Clearly we all need tremendous help with this, and we have help within us! Learning to follow the teacher of integrity is an inseparable part of that acceptance. The take away value of our movie will be to help us see that if we think we’re going crazy when the unexpected seems to occur… when our control is revealed to be fabricated and false… perhaps the universe is helping us to trust and heal our misperceptions of that situation. If we think a situation is an unwelcome curse, perhaps it’s just what we asked for, and a blessing for our lives. What if a set back is really a step forward? The course teaches us, 1 Prepare you not for the undoing of what never was. ²If you already understood the difference between truth and illusion, Atonement would have no meaning. ³The holy instant, your holy relationship, the Holy Spirit’s teaching, and all the means by which salvation is accomplished would have no purpose. ⁴For they are all but aspects of the plan to change your dreams of fear to happy dreams, from which you waken easily to knowledge. ⁵Put yourself not in charge of this, for you cannot distinguish between advance and retreat. ⁶Some of your greatest advances you have judged as failures, and some of your deepest retreats you have evaluated as success. [CE T-18.V.1] Let’s open to the teacher within who sees with perfect clarity what success really means, and the integrity of communication which serves it.

We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! suggested donation $10-20. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected] ======================== Greetings Mighty Companions✨ Hold on to your hats! Because this month we’re exploring our dire need to admit we have a perceptual problem. What does this mean, but that the way we perceive is extremely limited, fragmented, chaotic, and erroneous, being an extension of our private thoughts and desires. This no-nonsense, practical topic will be amplified by a sci-fi Black Mirror episode called ✨Bête Noire✨. Our dear brother David Hoffmeister recently featured this episode as summer began, and we’d like to continue extending these ideas to strengthen them in awareness. This episode is amazing, powerful, and a very evocative teaching aid. While we believe in a self concept, we're looking through an ego lens that distorts everything we see. Raising this to light, we can begin to more readily accept the miracle reversal for suffering. But while we think our stance is correct, that we know "the facts”, that we know what’s happening, we won’t realize we're seeing a fragmented world calling it “reality”. Nor will we understand that we are in competition with our brothers and with God! The Course says that it sounds “preposterous" to say, “I think I am in competition with God”, but it’s nonetheless essential to see, if we want to accept the loving correction for defensiveness. So this class will go quite deep! To explore the idea that we have a perceptual problem-- and not a problem in the world— we’ll see our main characters Maria and Verity, reuniting in oddly surprising fashion at a start up business venture. Maria is the creator of new and exotic flavors as an alchemist at a chocolate company called Ditta. Verity, though charismatic at the time of their chance 'reunion’, was a high school classmate who Maria once made fun of, seeing her as a 'computer geek genius'— and a reject of the in-crowd. What we see as the movie progresses is something in the genre of The Twilight Zone. Maria begins to notice minor things that have oddly changed in her world... in her past email interactions... things that she definitely remembers happened differently. These little changes make Maria look really bad, as she defends her memory which nobody agrees with. As Maria seeks to figure out what is going on, and how this is happening, she becomes increasingly obsessed to prove that Verity is the cause of her problem…. As we all know by now, regardless of circumstances, that’s never a helpful direction. The cause of suffering can only be healed in our own mind, and nowhere else. In A Course in Miracles it strikingly states, Perception selects, and makes the world you see. ²It literally picks it out as mind directs it. [CE T-21.V.1:1-2]… For it is we who make the world as we would have it. [CE W-188.9:3]... Perception is a mirror, not a fact, and what I look on is my state of mind reflected outward. [CE W-304.1:3] No one believes this while the ego program seems to rule perception, because our private thoughts seem to be very ineffectual in terms of making the world we see. We even call our thoughts ‘idle’, and swear that the world is happening to us against our will. But the Course is teaching us that we have no idle thoughts, and what we see in the world is only our thoughts. There is no world apart from thought. Let’s reflect for a moment, how does our perception seem to play out while we see the world as standing on it’s own and having nothing to do with our thoughts? As individuals we perceive everything backwards and upside down, because what we see is a purely subjective world— a private world, a personal interpretation based on private thoughts. And no two people see the same world. This is a perceptual problem, not a problem with politics, not a health challenge, not a relationship difficulty, nor an environmental crises. It’s not anything it seems to be in the world, but a mistaken basis for how we see. And thus private worlds conflict, and the truth seems different for everyone. The peceiver of this world is the ego. Here’s what our brother David Hoffmeister has to say about this: "In this world Jesus is saying, you perceive through the ego lens, and you're perceiving a private world, and that world and those private thoughts cannot be shared. The very simple principle is, only thoughts of God, thoughts that come from Spirit, can be shared. You really can’t share bank accounts. You can’t share property, you can’t share bodies. You can’t share anything in the perceptual world, because it’s a projection of private minds and private thoughts. And by Jesus’s definition it can’t be shared.” The take away from our class will be to see the ego thought system so plainly, that what it covers not only becomes obvious, but forgiveness is the only thing we want or care about. Let’s look closely together and be free of all misidentification. And while we’re at it have fun in the process! May our seeing be clear, our minds be open, and our hearts be soft, Brian and Alexandra✨💞✨

Greetings Mighty Companions in Light✨ Let’s bring the theme of TRUST into the spotlight as we launch into Summer. Everyone wants to find Home. A healed mind is filled with trust that "would settle every problem now”, opening to eternity. All true spirituality proceeds as we unlearn the character we take ourselves to be and learn to see through misidentification with all the projected forms of the world. This insightful lesser known film retains a timeless relevancy to helping unlock some of the deepest teachings in A Course in Miracles. Trust is only developed as we learn to listen deeply and let ourselves be led by Strength from beyond our littleness. Our desire for truth leads the way for love to intercede on behalf of our call. At first this is disorienting, but miracles speed us along the way showing us we can’t judge our successes from our failures, our advances from our retreats. But we can trust each step of the way, even when things seem to look and feel impossible. To depict this, we’ll show a profound metaphysical movie titled The Nines— a brilliant, unique film, and a radical plunge inward. What an oddly powerful film! It has a quality of slowly building up as it proceeds to blow the mind and open the heart. The Nines offers light on the power of mind to construct a false self and world, as a substitute for the timeless love of God. The sleeping mind attempts to author itself and the world--- dreaming of “reality" where none exists. This movie is non-linear. Our main character (Ryan Reynolds) plays three different roles which are intimately related: an actor called Gary, a writer named Gavin, and finally, Gabriel, a master video game programmer. Each finds himself in oddly overlapping vignettes, like different incarnations occurring simultaneously. Each version comes to learn that there is definitely something wrong with the world… Something they can’t quite pinpoint… But as each begins to ask questions and unravel clues to his predicament, he begins to remember things that blow the mind open. With intervening help from beyond, Gabriel is faced with a radical decision. Will he accept responsibility for his dreaming mind, releasing the world and his self concept? Or will he try to redesign himself and his environment, searching for satisfaction where there is none? Reynolds has a solid supporting cast played by Melissa McCarthy, Hope Davis and Elle Fanning. All of whom have a hand in his awakening journey, representing the mighty companions that show up to walk us home. The intention for this class will be to help us face our fears of releasing the world and our specialness. Why not resign from all attempts at trying to make time and space our Home? We’ll use this film to bring to light one dreamer of the thought of separation. What does the Course really mean when it says, “I have invented the world I see” and "My Self is ruler of the universe?” Let’s join to explore the answer and find out. In deep trust and gratitude, Brian and Alexandra✨💞✨ Please note: Conscious movie watching is not primarily about entertainment. And it has nothing to do with movie critique. It’s about becoming proficient in mind watching and honest feeling. Expect ample time devoted to the teachings of ACIM in conjunction with the movie. We will pause the movie at some points to share ideas and bring light to the topics at hand. Please settle in before hand with minimal distractions. We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! This is a free gathering. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected]

THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF GROUNDHOG DAY Let’s open our minds and learn something entirely different about having One Purpose. In A Course in Miracles, Phil exemplifies the acting out of what is referred to as a "repetition compulsion” which, as we’ve seen, is common to all time loop movies, as well as to our perception of the world. Patterns of thought seem to repeat and so suffering seems to repeat. Why does it seem to repeat you might ask? Are we doomed to karma? Not in God’s loving plan. We can learn to forgive our use of time, step out of past thinking, and open to generosity. The ego’s use of time is the belief in karma— action and reaction, cause and effect. Karma symbolizes the sleeping mind seemingly stuck in linear time, preoccupied with attack thoughts and personal preferences. These thoughts seem to govern our perception until they're raised to light. Yet while the ego promises to give us what we want in time, it is actually denying and avoiding the light. Routines, behavior patterns, and even addictions are cyclical and ask for healing at the level of thought, not merely at the level of behavior, or form. All errors have already been corrected by the Holy Spirit, but that loving correction cannot be forced— it must be wanted, so it can be accepted. Perception of all our needs can become unified into one need. A single, constant purpose, must be tended with devotion, so that we find contentment and happiness, whatever may seem to unfold or arise. When love is believed to be lacking, the solution always resides within us, where the problem of lack originates. We learn to answer the call for love, if we want love. There is no other need but this. We have to learn to give truly to our brothers instead of attempting to "get" from them. This is an invaluable facet of learning to unify our many perceived needs into one need. Recognizing our belief in deprivation, we can ask and open to the Solution for all scarcity and lack. In this class we will deepen our exploration of why we won't have a different experience if we refuse help. Undoing is by consent only. In order to be only truly helpful we have to give consent and invite healing. We have to admit our need of healing. And we have to offer our willingness to be taught by wisdom that is not our own. Only then can we discover that wisdom is our own. Once we are oriented with our Inner Teacher, our willingness has come into the forefront of consciousness, and a huge rebirth is imminent! Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a weatherman with an attitude problem. Sporting a sarcastic and cocky disposition, Phil is secretly lonely and loveless. Rita, his colleague, (played by Andie Macdowell) is thoughtful, authentic and heart centered. Phil's unsavory pretense is obvious to everyone but himself. Invested in self importance, Phil finds himself stuck in a repeating time loop. He decides to use his time selfishly, trying to seduce Rita and fulfill his ego fantasies. Yet he finds an empty hole he can’t fill, and realizes he can’t escape from his belief in lack by manipulating others. His lack of control over the world he perceives, at first brings despair, yet something seems to be shifting for Phil. He’s just begun to discover he has no clue what really matters... With a cynical demeanor, is he destined to keep suffering, or will he choose to change his tune? ✨Class Intention✨ There is another way of looking at the world. ¹⁰I will be helped as I offer help to others. ¹¹I will know myself as I recognize my only true relationship with all my brothers. [CE T-6.VII.C.12:10-11] 33. There is another way of looking at the world. ²Since the purpose of the world is not the one I ascribed to it, there must be another way of looking at it. ³I see everything upside down, and my thoughts are the opposite of truth. ⁴I see the world as a prison for God’s Son. ⁵It must be, then, that the world is really a place where he is set free. ⁶I would look upon the world as it is, and see it as a place where the Son of God finds his freedom. 🌟[CE W-57.3] How to donate: The classes are freely given and payment is not required to attend. Your donations are appreciated and helpful. Suggested donation $10-20 or more per class. Donation methods: Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected], This is Brian Theard’s personal paypal account. To avoid fees, when asked… What’s it for? Enter something like - donation, gift, thank you, friendship or love! Choose payment type, select “For friends and family”. To send without a fee requires using a checking account, not credit card. Zelle: Brian Theard, [email protected], 415.717.5065. ✨🤲✨

Are you ready to lighten up? What does it take to let go of a self concept? In this fun film, it takes a spunky angel named Cash (Don Cheadle) to bless Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) with an experience of living an alternate timeline in which he made the choice for love instead of selfishness. Jack finds himself inserted as a loyal father and a good husband in suburbia, displaced from his life as a mega rich bachelor and a Wall Street tycoon! In his new life with wife Kate (Téa Leoni) plus a little daughter and baby boy, he’s has to think of others before himself. This is an affront to who he thought he was. Jack believes he had the perfect life with benefits. He *was* a powerful, sexy, and cocky billionaire at the top of his game. But wait... Not so fast... The universe has a loving plan to remind Jack of what’s really important. This world is not our home. Suffering is due to mis-perception, yet our perception can become perfect and clear. Service to self, reflects our meaningless private thoughts. Our real thoughts proceed from a shared source which replaces ego insanity with something profound and intimate. It’s a miraculous state of mind and it’s no small gift. Perhaps being cracked open is just what we need, so we can let love show us the way? In this class our ACIM themes will include: ✨forgiving our self image; releasing our self concept.✨ ✨Becoming a happy learner *instead* of learning through pain✨ ✨opening to real communication, not harboring private thoughts and judgements.✨ The take home value of our class will be releasing the idea of becoming, and enjoying our journey with ✨PRESENCE✨ and an open mind. In gratitude, Brian and Alexandra✨💖✨ Conscious movie watching is not primarily about entertainment. And it has nothing to do with movie critique. It’s about becoming proficient in mind watching and honest feeling. Expect ample time devoted to the teachings of ACIM in conjunction with the movie. We will pause the movie at some points to share ideas and bring light to the topics at hand. Please settle in before hand with minimal distractions. We accept and appreciate donations. Thank you!! This is a free gathering. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected]

They don’t make love stories like this one anymore. Love is free. It can’t be bound by time nor by any of the characters of time, yet time can be used to serve love's recognition. To open our minds And our cast is stellar: Robert Downey Jr. and Cybil Shepard. Supporting cast is just as great: Mary Stuart Masterson, and Ryan O’Neal. This 1989 treasure depicts an artistic/comedic rendition of a reincarnation scenario. And it’s also a romantic comedy, which aims to help us see that true love never dies, but always takes us deeper into itself. This tale is all about love’s deepening. Yet, healing as we’ll see, can be fun and funny— as we watch our characters outgrow the past. They choose to let love reorganize their lives and lift them to greater heights. Love always teaches us that our character can’t be who we are... our roles aren’t really who we are... our relationships aren’t who we are… the past is gone. Love is who we are. The form that love seems to take is never love’s reality. Lifetimes (and all cycles of time) are sometimes referred to as karma, the suffering of the past which seems to repeat over time. But no time or form is a problem for the Spirit. Time can collapse instead of drag on. Form can unravel, instead of imprison. Consciousness can heal instead of fragment into pieces. When love is true, it calls us to recognize the real lesson— there is no loss or danger in letting go, but only gain, only relief, only innocence found. Love has no cost to anyone because it can only bless. Love takes nothing except our suffering away, and gives us everything. Every relationship brings us back to one common lesson of recognizing the holy instant, forgiving the past, and being the love we share and are. How does love generalize to include everyone? Spirit knows how to use our relationships to show us love naturally includes everyone, because it belongs to everyone equally. Love can’t be limited, and can’t ever be contained, because it’s always increasing. We are all in love with each other in reality because in reality we are all the same Self. In this world, we all want the same thing— to find a love that will last. The ego fails to make love exclusive, because wholeness and inclusion are love's keynotes. Time serves no other purpose but to bring about this recognition and let all things be exactly as they are right now. Love is incapable of being possessive or exclusive. To the Spirit of Love, ownership means sharing His mind, His perception, His peace, His time, His being, His love— with all our brothers and sisters. When we stop trying to control the form, we perceive that all forms naturally serve love. Laughs are guaranteed to help us feel our hearts open, as Louie (Christopher McDonald) reincarnates into Alex (Robert Downey Jr.). When Alex meet Corinne (Cybil Shepard), his memories of Louie’s lifetime return, which throws Alex for a loop-- pun intended! The love Louie shared with Corinne comes rushing into Alex’s memory, revealing a choice to either hold on, or actively step out of past roles and definitions— so love can flourish. In our opening to be led by love, love isn’t lost but strengthened and increased in new and surprising ways. Isn’t that beautiful? Isn’t this what we are all asking for? May Love increase in our awareness and blow our minds, please... Brian & Alexandra ✨💞✨