Monthly Movie Discussion Group - Awakening Together Forum

April 2025 Movie: Free Guy

Joy (Laura Bedford) — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:56:37 +0000

Free Guy is a 2021 action film

It would be so fun to have you with us for our movie watchers discussion group. Watch the film on your own, then tune in on the last Sunday in April to share your own and hear others’ insights. The ever delightful Ryan Reynolds plays Guy (“Blue Shirt Guy”), an “NPC”...a non-playable character, in a video game who realizes and lives his True Nature, supporting life rather than dominating (attacking and defending) life.

Guy opens beyond his programming and becomes increasingly curious, filling up with a sense of wonder and a niggling sense of something more. He begins exercising the ability to choose something different from his programming…stepping outside the box…and, along the way, affecting not only himself, but everyone around him.

Themes such as the ages-old identity question, “What exactly am I?” “What is awareness?” “What is the phenomenal world?” And, “What is possible?” are explored. As Guy fearlessly embarks on being his True Self (Love), and naturally extending love, he returns over and over to his programmed conditioning, yet still remembering something more powerful than his or our wildest imagination.

The film includes much more than mentioned here. As a start, it addresses what can happen when the creative impulse is transmuted through the egoic filter. Witness the innocent yet painful egoic-hunger for validation due to not remembering we are already…which is unimaginably whole, perfect, complete and inherently valuable. Observe a being who longs to be seen and validated by the “bigger ego,” believing that this twisted kind of validation is where happiness “is.” The film is also a beautiful example of an innocent, yet ego-identified being vicious when its personal kingdom feels threatened…a call for Love by a soul in deep denial of the pain of separation from its Divine nature. Witness how Love responds to life, and how ego responds. Guy symbolizes the ever-potent realization that there must be another way to live than to live only ingrained conscious and subconscious conditioned programming of the egoic thought system. If you’re feeling called to attend, you’re invited to don a blue shirt and head into the sanctuary Sunday, April 27 at 8 PM EST/6 PM MST.

YouTube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m-08cOAbc

Free Guy can be streamed on Amazon Prime, Apple TV. Fubo, Disney, Google Play, FXNOW.

November 2024 Movie: Will & Harper

Joy (Laura Bedford) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:06:38 +0000

If you feel prompted, please share whatever Inner Wisdom arose for you with this movie.

October 2024 Movie: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 version with Ben Stiller)

Joy (Laura Bedford) — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 02:05:03 +0000

If you feel prompted, please share whatever insights resonate for you with this movie.

May 26 Movie Watchers Discussion Group ~ August Rush

Shawna — Mon, 13 May 2024 16:30:01 +0000

August Rush is a 2007 American musical drama. 10 year old Evan (played by Freddie Highmore) is a musical prodigy living in an orphanage who runs away to New York City. He begins to unravel the mystery of how he came to be an orphan as he searches for his birth parents. Evan changes his name to August Rush at the encouragement of a character named Wizard (played by Robin Williams) who takes young Evan under his wing to exploit his musical gifts. The story is brilliantly woven together as a symphony of the awakening journey and the sounds and rhythms Evan hears in life. Themes include experiencing a deep, heart calling. An opening ourselves up to listening, learning, and following Divine guidance, which is always all around us, within us, singing us home, supporting us to remember what is real; encountering self-doubts (ego’s vicious voice) in the form of other characters, recognizing these “other” characters are merely symbols of our original projection of a world that seems to be unfriendly/the absence of love…and how we begin to say “no” to the ego voice in our mind and believe in our Divine worthiness; noticing the difference between Divine and ego frequencies; and how the Tao, Life, the Holy Spirit in us, and in seeming others, is helping us and working things out.

August Rush is available on YouTube, free with ads at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYR3rDqsnQM

For a fee on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, YouTube (without ads for a fee); Fandango at Home, Google Play Movies.

August Rush Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpwjrbeoJQ

For the playsheet, go to the 'NEWS" section of our website: https://devwp.awakening-together.org/introducing-this-months-movie-august-rush/

January 2024 Movie: Mr Nobody

Joy (Laura Bedford) — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 16:45:08 +0000

Join us for this month's movie 'Mr. Nobody" on Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT. Pieter Van Prooijen and I (Laura~Joy Bedford) will be co-facilitating the film. It can be found on these streaming services: Hulu; Philo: YouTube; Google Play Movies; iTunes and Amazon Prime. If you feel prompted, we look forward to seeing you!

This Month's Movie Discussion Group

Toni — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 14:59:59 +0000

This Month's Movie is "The Sixth Sense"

Please join us Sunday, December 22, 2019 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT in the Awakening Together Sanctuary to discuss this month's movie: The Sixth Sense, facilitated by George Maddox.

https://youtu.be/3-ZP95NF_Wk