Videos
To bring a little more excitement to our discussions here at the Village, I’ve added a few videos on diverse subjects as and when they appear in our conversations. If you have any particular subjects you would like to see covered, please don’t hesitate to contact me (address on the ‘home’ tab).
Happy Birthday, Villagers!
It was our birthday recently at the ACIM-Village and I just wanted to send you all a big ‘thank you’ for the past year, for your support and interest in our work together. I look a little ‘stressed’ but it was my first video test! Trust me, inside I was euphoric!
Series on “Mental Cannibalism”: Take a morning walk with Athos and me…
Mental cannibalism is a part of everyone’s unconscious experience in this world. It is particularly easy to feel uncomfortable about this idea; it can easily fill us with feelings of fear or guilt, but that would be real a pity since that’s really not the goal of this teaching. In this video series, in order to put this discussion in a context that leads towards understanding and freedom, and away from guilt, I take you on my daily morning “cannibalistic” walk.
Athos, my faithful dog, and I will try to help you see through this ego strategy that would keep us believing we can extract something from the people and scenes outside of us to assuage the perceived inner lack. The truth, of course, is that everything is within; the Love of God cannot be absent and is all we truly seek. Yet that is not our experience. In this three part discussion we try to work through this enigma, looking closely at what we believe is happening as we encounter both beauty and ugliness.
Part 1 presents the general outlines of this topic. My goal is to take you on a walk with me during which we will be sorely tempted to believe there is something ‘beautiful’ outside of us that we would like to bring inside (cannibalism), which will serve as the central point of our discussion.
Part 2 sets us on the path, enjoying the first few wonders of the day, while I describe the ‘unpleasant’ incident of a smelly van, which then turns into a real encounter with a “peace-of-God-destroying” tractor!
Part 3. We return home and try to make sense of the whole picture of special hate and special love relationships and the role of mental “cannibalism”. We emphasize the importance of not feeling guilty about what we perceive as our cannibalistic and murderous tendencies to extract things from our environment. We recognize the inevitably of leading our lives through manipulation and strategizing, and the importance of stepping back into a place above the battleground from which we can observe non-judgmentally the workings of our mind.
Bernard – my man!
Awesome videos and Happy Birthday to all!
Cheers!
Just viewed second video *sigh* what a lovely earthly home.
Thank you for taking us along on your walk with Athos and for
walking us through the voices in your head.
I have a better visual now when visiting you at the Village.
But more importantly I have the sound of your gentle voice reminding me
to look again-to look past my projections.
A wonderful Birthday Gift.
happy thanks … joyful gratitude … abundant inspiration … how blessed we are by bernard and all of the participants of our village
so wonderful
thank you
when such love and appreciation is present, our hearts are joined
this is sharing heaven
this is home
Thanks Bernard for this so wonderful gift! You are a really loving and caring Mayor. And happy anniversary to all the Village. I am going to repeat my words from the other day:
We are coming together
to lit a light.
We are coming together
to put aside the weeds of our path
We are coming together
to join and laugh.
We are coming together
to be just One.
Happy Anniversary!!!!
Lots of hugs,
Lisi
HAPPY BIRTHDAY VILLAGE !!! and thank you for the excellent cider and the lovely video!
Big Hug from Hedda
So touched by your heartfelt love Bernard. That toast warmed my heart. You didn’t notice but I poured what was left in the bottle on my glass. Mmmmm, real good. Thank you. Thank you. And to the rest of the Villagers, I feel truly blessed to be in your presence. Love you all.
Many warm thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts. As you know, it’s my great pleasure to be able to offer you all this comfy, cosy place of learning. Here’s to more wisdom and challenges, heartfelt sharing and FUN! Clinking glasses all around!
Just now got the time to watch via firefox. Great stuff. Thanks Bernard.
Bernard – Just finished watching all of the videos! First of all, thank you for the delicious beverage, seeing you, your beautiful home and precious animals – and I must trust that you are aware of my sincere gratitude for this village as well as villagers. 🙂
The videos on cannibalism are excellent. You are a wonderful and helpful teacher. I will watch them over many times – as this is an issue that as course students, we all struggle with. I know I have, and continue to. I have no more words to express my appreciation for these.
Jean Weston has kindly given me her permission to post her notes from Ken’s academy “One Brother is All Brothers” and the Saturday workshop “Intimacy Without Needs” that I attended last week. She is an excellent note taker, and has captured a complete overview IMNSHO. I am grateful for the opportunity to give back – through Jean – a touch of what I have and continue to receive here. I will be posting these later this afternoon, as am leaving for the day.
“Bottom line – we can’t have our specialness cake and eat it too.” Wow! 🙂
With Gratitude and Love,
melody
Yea!! IE glitch fixed. Yea!! Jean notes on Ken later. Yea!! Melody.(-:
Happy Birthday to the village!
Thanks for the great lovely videos Bernard.
Eric.
Bernard…You rock! I am here…I read often and I love you guys. Loved the beautiful celebration and toasting video and I will be watching the other videos this weekend now that I can view them. Can’t wait for Jean’s notes from Melody. I have been blessed with times of peaceful silence the past few days. Loving hugs to all. Kendall
Hi gang—Jean’s notes sent by herself are under “Temecula!”
ENJOY!!!!
Bernard bro –
The toasting video is particularly – i want to say – ‘poignant’. Not sure if the word fits, but there it is. heartwarming and touching indeed. Hugs,
a
Just watched the videos again, on this day that *I am doing only what I want to do. 🙂 Kind’ve a present to myself in the midst of hecticness…..ah…..but the peace of God is in my mind no matter what the outer circumstances.
“You can’t have your specialness cake and eat it too.” Yes……how very true!
With Gratitude and Love
melody
Re-looking at those videos, I promise everyone I’ll get better! It was just a beginning for this little ACIM-starlet. My hair was such a mess, ugh.
Lol….lessons….lessons….lessons in forgiveness! 🙂
*I thought you looked great!