Acim Movie Gathering (Groundhog Day) 2/2/25

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]

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