ACIM Movie Gatherings with 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 ✨💞✨

Greetings Mighty Companions✨🙏✨ We’re going to celebrate Fall with transformation. As we come to the end of October, this riveting and stunning flick called “Source Code”, will rock your world in the best of ways, and take us high above the battleground. We’ll gain amazing clarity for how the journey of awakening goes, by looking from a 40,000ft view. And we’ll open into the mystic… Letting go of what we thought the world was for, becomes easier as we begin to question who we thought we were, and what we believe ourselves to be right now. And we inevitably begin to observe disorientation as imaginary constructs fall away, which is to-be-expected in our own unraveling. It’s ok, we are completely safe, and we won’t be abruptly picked up, and hurled into reality! Let’s take each other’s hand and walk home together. This is the prayer of our heart, for all our gatherings. ²Time is kind, and if you use it for reality, it will keep gentle pace with you in your transition. ³The urgency is only in dislodging your mind from its fixed position here. ⁴This will not leave you homeless and without a frame of reference. ⁵The period of disorientation which precedes the actual transition is far shorter than the time it took to fix your mind so firmly on illusions. [CE T-16.VI.8:2-5] So don’t despair if you’ve perhaps found your journey intense at times, and would like gentler seas. Perhaps you feel your sense of self diminishing or disappearing? It’s ok to let things fall apart. There is an underlying divine order to Life that isn't of our making. It gently reveals itself as we ask for help, and welcome it. This class will help us stay the course and discover the awareness of happy dreaming. The true purpose for this world is to be discovered in every scenario we encounter, not just some. What is that purpose but to heal the cause of our suffering and misidentification? There seem to be many other things going on, but really that is the only one. And yet, one single purpose will transform us, making our lives a testament of devotion to truth and service to all our brothers. Source Code is a non-linear love story, in which we find limits rapidly falling away, and expansion of consciousness for our main character Captain Colter Stevens, (Jake Gyllenhaal). Stevens finds himself waking up from a nap on a commuter train on the way to Chicago. Except he doesn’t know how he got there. In his last memories, he was a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. But on the train, his friend Christine calls him by the name of Sean, which is utterly confusing for Stevens. This movie is an unconventional pictorial inquiry into the age old question “Who am I?" This masterpiece of a movie, is a sci-fi diamond with pristine facets— a great way to slice through the imaginary B.S. of what we call life in this world, which seems oh-so very, very real and scary at times. We'll slice through littleness and disorientation— all that makes us feel painfully puny, at the effect of forces which control us against our will, misidentified as someone fighting against something, defending from attack, and needing to figure something out in order to stay safe. Spirit’s Single purpose is the relinquishment of all other purposes, all other interests, all other wishes, and all other concerns. It's reawakened through welcoming truth to correct all errors in my mind, because there is no other mind to be undone, and saved. Truth’s Correction is safe and brings peaceful perception. All we stand to lose is our fixed belief in death. All we stand to gain is being truly helpful to all parts of ourself. This is so satisfying that once we taste it, we never want to look back. Our friends at MWGE.org share this description for how this film will open our hearts and expand our minds: "You are convinced by your everyday perceptions of yourself that you know the personality self that you are. Yet when you open your mind, Spirit will loosen the grip of this idea. If you think you know what’s going to make you happy, you have no clue how deep the rabbit hole goes. This movie gives opportunities to see, “Oh, I was wrong about that.” We come to see that we hold underlying grievances, and that the grievances can be healed through forgiveness." In gratitude for the One Teacher who is never mistaken, Brian & Alexandra ✨💞✨ We accept and appreciate donations! This is a free gathering. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected]

Greetings Mighty Companions in Deepening Trust✨ We’re diving deeper with this film, and keeping it funny to boot! Our featured presentation will be a top notch dramedy with supreme acting by Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Hayden Christensen: Life As A House. Our theme for this class will explore the questions, What does it take to change your mind in an instant? What is the spiritual significance of completion? We’ll let go together, and push off from the shore, into the middle of the river!! This is our precious time to unlearn fixation on personal suffering and survival, opening instead to 🌟TRUST THE SPIRIT🌟 every step of the way. This lesson can’t be learned in the future, but can become our guiding light right now. This movie will expand our minds on the nature of true healing, pointing us toward the cause of healing within, instead of fixating on the effects or symptoms. When we recognize the cost of holding grievances and harboring hatred, healing is no longer feared because we’ve got nothing to lose except our suffering. So "losing it" is a good thing!!! We're not losing our minds, but gaining our sanity. In this most excellent film, we have an authentic portrayal of healing the perception of family dysfunction, and recognizing what’s really important in life. This goes beyond all family ideas. What does it take to bring about the healing of our perception? We have a tantalizing hint come forth for our hearts to drink in and open with: George: "You know the great thing though, is that change can be so constant you don't even feel the difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't even notice that your life is better or worse, until it is. Or it can just blow you away. Make you something different in an instant. It happened to me." Sometimes it seems to take a challenging circumstance to help us re-evaluate our priorities and come back to what’s truly important. And what is important except the love we have to give and share? In this movie we’ll explore the power of recognizing any moment could be our last, and we have no more time to waste on our pitiful and pathetic narrative of personal suffering. When we are faced with a "life or death” situation, our story becomes so old and ridiculous that we simply outgrow it. This movie will reinforce the decision to follow our heart and to give everything to that endeavor. When we come into the prayer of our heart, we find a magnetic quality which has the power of love. Being loving, that prayer attracts love to itself, and gives it freely. Forgiveness naturally flows when we are willing to let the past go and begin again, with mighty companions beside us. Sam Monroe (Hayden Christensen) is the son of George Monroe (Kevin Kline). After losing his job in dramatic style, George realizes he has to find a way to heal the hatred that has been harbored in his family lineage, passed from father to son. When George’s health begins to fail, he knows he has to make some critical changes in order to find a loving reconnection with Sam. The decision to spend the summer with Sam and finally build the house he always dreamed of, sets a change in motion for them both. In fact, George's power of decision has a positive impact on all those around him including his ex wife, and Sam’s mother, Robin (Kristin Scott Thomas). George’s willingness seems to be contagious, and his endeavor becomes a catalyst for a heartfelt collaboration. "A miracle is never lost. It touches many people you do not even know and sometimes produces undreamed of changes in forces of which you are not even aware. That is not your concern. The miracle will always bless you."Tx:1.73 The take home value of our class will be a soft and open heart, and perhaps the release of shame and fear associated with our failed personal histories. It’s never too late to begin again and teach only love. May we all be blessed in the healing power of our decision, the end of suffering, and the birth of real happiness. Brian & 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! This is a free gathering. We use all donations toward our mission of bringing peace. Venmo: Brian Theard @teachonlylove PayPal: [email protected]

✨Greeting Courageous Companions✨ Do you want to genuinely experience the all time best love story ever made into a movie?! Your heart is not only guaranteed to expand, but we will deepen in our understanding of holy relationship… by watching the special relationship come to clear resolution and healing. It's a grand metaphysical heart opener about healing the dream of time, titled: The Time Traveler’s Wife. We’ll use this film to greatly support our current class offering: Journey through the Manual For Teachers. All are welcome to attend this movie gathering. This film has a stellar cast, starring Rachael McAdams and Eric Bana who masterfully show us a view of time that unravels linear misconceptions and helps us see how the entire script is already written before it's begun. And even as we struggle to stay true to love, our minds are already healed any moment we choose to accept it! Everything is working together for the good of all. We can’t change our destiny but we can change our mind about the purpose for our lifetime. And in so doing, our fears are replaced by deep appreciation and supreme gratitude for the ones around us. Because everyone mirrors our healed mind in the end. Why should we put this off to the future? As the Course says, ⁹Patience is natural to those who trust. ¹⁰Sure of the ultimate interpretation of all things in time, no outcome already seen or yet to come can cause them fear. [CE M-4.VIII.1:9-10] Let’s see how the purpose of a Holy Relationship carries us through all life circumstances, beyond all seeming differences which define special love/hate dynamics. This powerful and emotionally uplifting film will depict what everyone must ultimately learn--- letting go of our false control of outcomes and opening to God’s plan of perfect love and light. This film is both artistically and mystically conceived. A real masterpiece that will serve us well in exploring the deeper teachings of ACIM. in deep acceptance and open hearts, Brian and Alexandra 💞 Fieldofchange.com

✨Greetings Mighty Companions✨ There’s nothing like a romantic dramedy to explore an essential spiritual question… Where does one find true stability? Where does it reside? In what? Perhaps we recognize that our stability cannot reside with our own sense of control in our lives... A COURSE IN MIRACLES points us toward real stability by saying, "Only a constant purpose can endow events with stable meaning. ²But it must accord one meaning to them all.” [CE T-30.VIII.3-4] Our featured movie to kick off Summer is called: No Reservations. It’s a great little flick to show how all happenings in our lives always have the same purpose for the Spirit: to bring us into an awareness of the present by helping us to trust our brother. When we are stuck in the past, day after day, in our routine, we’re on autopilot, lost in a dream… When somehow our false sense of control is disillusioned, we still cannot make sense of our lives. But if we open ever so slightly to joining with what is beyond our littleness, then Spirit reveals itself in miraculous ways which lift our hearts. Miracles reflect the willingness to communicate from a clear and more loving ground of awareness. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Kate, head chef at a fancy high end restaurant. She has tensions with her boss who has insisted that she attend therapy, but Kate doesn’t know why. She runs a tight ship and almost all her customers love her, paying top dollar. She aims to please but is heavily defended against customer complaints, aggressively spitting fire and fury if someone criticizes her dishes. She has become so deeply identified with the role of head chef, she's forgotten what it’s all for. For Kate… well… no one seems to knows better than Kate, so she does it herself. She runs everything to the point of perfectionism. She seems to be headed toward burn out. But everything changes when her sister dies suddenly in a car accident on the way to have dinner with Kate. Which makes Kate the legal guardian of her niece Zoe, (who doesn’t really like her sophisticated cooking.) Enter Nick, (Aaron Eckhart) an Italian sous-chef with a love of opera. Kate dislikes Nick because he’s spontaneous and unpredictable. Zoe loves Nick’s more refreshing way with things and his yummy Italian food. Kate is presented with an opportunity to trust and collaborate with her new sous-chef, or distrust and compete against him. Nick brings exuberance into Kate’s very serious kitchen (as well as Kate and Zoe’s personal life), which threatens the calculated way Kate does things. But Kate needs more than a little opera and charm from Nick. She needs a miracle to raise Zoe in a new town after her mother’s sudden death. Kate must navigate the waters of huge change: becoming a mom by default, losing her sister, and trusting something bigger than herself in her personal life and career. So let’s take a journey into loosening our grip, and opening our hearts. This is a love story that will help us see through the rules and limits by which the ego attempts to establish control. And what might we find instead? Can we admit when we're mistaken and find out? In service to God’s loving plan for everything, Brian and Alexandra💞