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is the expression of it. I walk and talk from the vibration ofjoy.
Knowing that all activity in my life is the activity of
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me. I use all of these situations as divine opportunities
for my expansion and growth.
love
I am surrounded by the love of God at all times. The
love of God indwells my very being. I am the loving
expression of pure Spirit. I am the love of God.
peace
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There is one power that operates
through our thought and we receive
according to our belief. Ask yourself:
"What am I thinking?" Ernest Holmes
12 L a A d e l i t a : T h e L i f e o f
D o l o r e s H u e r t a Now in her
fifth decade of working for social equality, Dolores Huerta is the embodiment
of compassion in action. Glenn Swain
22 L i f e L e s s o n s f r o m the
Puritans: N e w Thought
M e e t s a n O l d T r a d i t i o n Do
the teachings of your heritage cast a
shadow on your dreams? Here's how the
Puritan ethic supports you in following
your bliss. Tama J. Kievcs
78 R e c o n c i l i a t i o n D a y :
A n Invitation to M a k e
A m e n d s when some residents of
Columbus, Indiana, met with citizens of
Bogota, Colombia, a special connection
was made. One year later members of
both communities were celebrating a
day of forgiveness and peace. Find out
how an idea is becoming a national
movement. Marielena Zuniga
86 M e t a p h y s i c s : W h a t ' s i n
a N a m e , a n d W h a t Isn't
What are metaphysics anyway? Who
wants to know? Jesse Jennings
94 T h e N e w F r o n t i e r o f
A g e l e s s L i v i n g join those on the
path to a wise, happy, healthy second
half of life. Linda McNamar
Cover image: Door from St. Francis adobe in
Taos, New Mexico.
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contributors
Dr. Ernest Holmes was the founder of United Church of Religious Science/
United Centers for Spiritual Living, and Science of Mind magazine.
Rev. Dr. Jesse Jennings is minister of the Creative Life Spiritual Center in Spring,
Texas. He is the editor of Ernest Holmes's The Hidden Power of the Bible and writes
the Questions and Answers column for Science of Mind.
Tama J. Kieves is the author of This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love,
is a sought-after speaker and career coach who has helped thousands of individuals
worldwide to discover and live their creative dreams.
Rev. Dr. Linda McNamar has served United Centers for Spiritual Living in many
capacities in her twenty-three years of ministry. She currently is the minister of First
Church of Religious Science, Laguna Woods, California.
Phoenix-based writer and editor Glenn Swain loves interviewing people who
exhibit pure passion. About Dolores Huerta, Swain says, "Huerta's passion to serve
began with her grandfather's teaching of ethics, respect and how to pray. Her influence not only in the Hispanic community but in American women's history is
unmatched."
Marielena Zuniga writes from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is a frequent contributor to Science of Mind. Her work has appeared in Spirituality & Health and
Soroptimist magazines and in the book Embracing Relationships.
All books excerpted or reviewed in Science of Mind, as well as books written by this month's contributing authors, are available for purchase online at www.scienceofiiiind.coni.
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EDITOR'S N O T E
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LETTERS
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L A N G U A G E OF JESUS
Rocco Errico
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PHILOSOPHY IN A C T I O N
Kathianne Lewis
100 REVEALING HEALTH
James Rouse
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I N N E R VISIONS
Iyanla Vanzant
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SUCCESS A N D SPIRIT
Terry Cole-Whittaker
1 0 4 QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS
Jesse Jennings
1 0 6 Y O U R SPACE
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SPIRITUAL VISION
1 1 0 MEDIA REVIEW
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DAILY GUIDES T O
R I C H E R LIVING
1 1 2 LAST W O R D
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don t give up your day dream
month my niece will start college. She had a difficult
choice—to attend a fery prestigious liberal arts college or
study the cello with a renowned teacher at a less highly
regarded school. She's an exceptional player and performer
and she loves being a musician. Even so, everyone (except
the cello teacher), seemed to think that turning down the
liberal arts school was simply not an option. She refused to
Amanda Pisani commit and for months wrestled with her decision. The
"obvious" choice was just not that obvious to her. And with
great integrity she decided to follow her heart. I'm so proud
of her.
How often do we allow ourselves to really answer what
calls us? This month our contributors offer sound advice on
the benefits of pursuing our passion, even when the world
around us seems to favor a different path.
In her reflection on following our hearts, "Life Lessons
from the Puritans," Tama Kieves finds support in the Puritan
work ethic. The value of "hard work" (a cornerstone of
Puritan teaching) is not, according to Kieves, something to
dismiss. She contends that just because living our dream
requires us to put out some energy or face challenges, that
doesn't mean that our passion "isn't right" for us.
Disappointments and obstacles are often part of the process.
Kieves writes: "Yes, the life of living your calling is one of
flow. But it is also one in which we stand up to challenges,
reach beyond our limits and grow.
Rev. Linda McNamar also discusses reaching for our
dreams in her essay "The New Frontier of Ageless Living."
McNamar sees that the aging process is evolving. As we
approach retirement, more and more of us are "finding
something we love to do, some way of service, or a way to
express a long-denied gift or talent." The value of the present
moment, she observes, doesn't change for us over time.
Whether you're eighteen or eighty, why not choose now
to be when you free yourself to follow your dream?
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Ernest Holmes's writings.
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et us say that the
Spirit creates by becomi n g the t h i n g that it
t h i n k s . T h e r e is no
other possible way i n
w h i c h it c o u l d w o r k .
Since it is all and there
is no other, the thought
of opposing forces never
enters i n t o its m e n t a l
w o r k i n g ; w h e n we are
judging from the outer
we are not w o r k i n g i n
line with the power that
we should be using.
The Spirit may offer, but we must
accept the gift before it can be made.
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock."
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We must come to see that there is only
One Power and that we are touching it
at all points, for there is not a power of
poverty and a power o f prosperity.
There is the one becoming the many;
it makes and it unmakes that a higher
form may appear to express through it.
All that is not in line with its forward
movement will soon pass away, for it
"recognizes no opposite. As far as we
are concerned, what we are and what
we are to become depends only upon
what we are thinking, for this is the
way that we are using creative power.
T h e sooner we get away from the
thought that we have to create, the
spirini.illaw
sooner we will be able to work in
line with the Spirit.
Always man uses; he never
creates anything. T h e united
intelligence o f the human race
could not make a single rosebud;
it does not know enough. But
our slightest thought adrift in
mind causes the same power that
makes all things to create for us.
The great error of the race is. and
always has been, that men have
thought to give a physical reason
for things. When that reason has
not answered the problems of life
they have sought out some other
reason just as physical. The fact
that they are all wrong is shown
in that every generation has
found a different reason. When
truth is found it w i l l also be
found that it never changes to
suit the whims o f the human
fancy. This is proven by the fact
that whatever o f the real truth
the race has discovered has never
been changed.
Trust in the
Activity o f Spirit
The truth that was revealed to
the prophets o f old has never
changed; it is the same today as it
was thousands o f years ago.
Whoever touches truth, no matter in what generation, w i l l
always get the same answer. The
great truth that was revealed from
Moses to the time of Jesus is the
same truth that is still revealed to
all who will accept it; it is simply
this: we are n o w l i v i n g in a
Spiritual Universe, governed by
mental laws of cause and effect.
Moses saw it mostly from the
standpoint o f the Law o f cause
and effect, an eye for an eye.
What does this mean? It means,
as Jesus said, "As a man sows, so
shall he reap." Moses saw the law.
Jesus saw not only the law ("I am
come not to destroy but to fulfill"), but he saw behind the law
the reason for it, and revealed
b e h i n d all law the Great
Lawgiver, a G o d of love working
out the great inner concepts o f
His own being in harmony and
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the use of law; He understood all
law and He well knew that all
law was at His command; He did
not break the law, He fulfilled it.
So we must find that all is at our
command through these same
laws. The man who understands
law and complies with it w i l l
have no difficulty in demonstrating that it is as true for him as it
ever was for anyone else.
What, then, are the laws
underlying prosperity? The first
is this, and we must not try to
escape it: "Thou shalt have no
other Gods before me." This Me
is Spirit. We are, then, to trust
only in the activity of Spirit for
what we need. But the world
will say, "Human things come
through human agencies." This
may be true, but we must realize
that the power we are dealing
w i t h also has w i t h i n its own
mind all people and all things.
We do not have to treat people; what we have to do is to
embody principle. Principle may
use people, but that is no part of
our responsibility. Ultimately all
is Spirit, and Spirit which is the
beginning is also the end of all
manifestation. "I am the Alpha
and the Omega." Our life, then,
is to be governed by Spirit. We
need look no further. It will do
for us all that we will ever ask,
provided we believe. Why, then,
has it not done so? The answer is
that it has already done so, but
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we have not received it. The
Spirit may offer, but we must
accept the gift before it can be
made. "Behold, I stand at the
door and knock." We must
understand that this receiving is a
mental process; it is one of mentally taking.
One Power
The way, then, that we are using
mind through our thought is the
way that we are treating ourselves
for prosperity. So simple, and yet
we have not understood it! If a
man says, "I have not," he will
not receive; if he says, "I have,"
he will receive. "To those who
have shall be given, and to those
who have not shall be taken away
even that which they have." This
is a veiled statement of the law of
cause and effect. When you send
out into mind the thought that
you have not, it accepts the idea
and takes away from you even
that which you have. Reverse the
process and say, "I have," and it
will at once set to work to create
for you even more than you now
possess. You will readily see then
that you are not dealing with two
powers but with one, and that it
operates through your own
thought, doing unto all even as
they believe. •
Excerpted from Creative M i n d ,
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p h i l o s o p h y ii) w r i t i i \
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prosperity principle
a lot o f talk about prosperity, success and
"getting what you want" nowadays. This isn't anything
new. Ernest Holmes wrote and spoke about those subjects during the first half of the last century. What I
find new and fresh about Holmes's approach is that he
used terms and phrases we don't normally associate
with prosperity teachings.
In Holmes's essay this month, "The Way of Spirit,"
Kathianne Lewis
he refers to the scripture "Thou shalt have no other
gods before me," (Exodus 20:03, King James Version).
Holmes continues:
THERE'S
We are, then, to trust only in the activity of Spirit
for what we need. But the world will say, "Human
things come through human agencies." This may be
true, but we must realize that the power we are
dealing with also has within its own mind all people
and all things.
The passage from Exodus is perfect for a lesson on
prosperity, success or achievement of any kind, because
at the heart of a spiritual practice is the idea of looking
to G o d and only G o d as our source of all that is good.
God must be the first thing we look to and the last
authority we lean on if we are to stay true to our spiritual path. If we are to live as spiritual beings, we must
see G o d as the ultimate power.
Kathianne
Lewis is Senior Thus, we might construe the above Bible verse to
mean: "I will give G o d and only G o d authority in my
Minister of
the Center for life;" or "I will not believe that any material conditions
or circumstances are more powerful than my connecSpiritual
tion with God." It could also mean that when ecoLiving, a
nomic conditions look bleak, we stay confident that we
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L a Adelita
The Life of
Dolores Huerta
Glenn Swain
A
J. A.s a young girl g r o w i n g up i n the
1930s, Dolores Huerta and her two brothers were taught corridos (folk songs) by
their grandfather, H u r c u l a n o C h a v e z .
M a n y o f the songs were about the
M e x i c a n R e v o l u t i o n . O n e song, " L a
Adelita," told the story of a young woman
in love w i t h a sergeant. She not only
c o o k e d for h i m and cared for the
wounded, she actually fought in battles.
The term "la adelita" has come to signify a
woman of strength and courage.
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N o expression could be more
appropriate in describing Dolores
Fernandez Huerta.
Huerta is one the most significant labor leaders in U.S. history.
A l o n g with Cesar Chavez, she
c o f o u n d e d the U n i t e d F a r m
Workers union in 1962, dedicating her life to the struggle and
dignity of migrant farm workers.
She has also been a force in the
women's movement. From her
grandfather, an engaging, masterful storyteller, Dolores learned of
her culture and religion; from her
mother she learned that if someone needs help, one doesn't wait
for them to ask. It's what you're
supposed to do. She has carried
this p h i l o s o p h y through her
entire life.
Huerta, forceful and uncompromising, has seen hard times,
too. She has faced w r e t c h e d
racism; and has been beaten in
the streets by police. Through it
all she has remained a voice for
those who have been dubbed the
forgotten class, poor farm-working Americans who have found
back-breaking work and discrimination a daily occurrence.
N o w seventy-seven, she continues the cause to help eradicate
prejudice and intolerance. Often
when she speaks, Huerta reminds
her audience that we are all one
human race—and that human
race originated in Africa.
Planting Seeds
Today, what remains of Dawson,
New Mexico, are a few buildings
and a cemetery filled with iron
crosses marking the resting places
of local families and men who
died i n Dawson's coalmines.
B o r n in Dawson on A p r i l 10,
1930, Dolores Huerta, her two
brothers, and her newly divorced
mother, Alicia, would leave the
town when Dolores was a toddler and head for S t o c k t o n ,
California. There, while Alicia
worked at a cannery at night and
as a waitress during the day to
make ends meet, Dolores developed a close relationship with her
grandfather. He began calling his
gregarious, chatterbox granddaughter "Seven Tongues." " H e
was really our father figure; my
father didn't have that m u c h
influence on our lives," she says
of Hurculano. "It was our grandfather who taught us ethics, not
to call people liars, keep your
word, respect others and make a
commitment. I guess you could
say that that was our first civil
rights lesson."
As a child, Huerta's only connection with her father would be
a small black and white photo he
sent to the family in the late
1930s. "I was really afraid of my
father," she says. "I really didn't
understand anything about my
father's activism [he served in the
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N e w Mexico State Legislature] until later on when I
got involved."
Huerta's organizational
skills formed early i n G i r l
Scouts, where she learned
leadership development. "I
was always t r y i n g to do
things to help teenagers out
because we were always
DOLORES
faced with a lot of discrimiHUERTA
nation."
Photograph hy Angela Torres.
In the 1940s, Huerta's
mother, now remarried, owned a C o m m u n i t y Service Organizarestaurant and h o t e l , w h i c h tion (CSO), a M e x i c a n - A m e r i Dolores and her siblings helped can association that helped peorun. It was here in this ethnically ple to register to vote, organized
diverse situation that Huerta met citizenship classes for immigrants
people of different nationalities, and leaned on local politicians for
including Japanese, Chinese and improvements in barrios.
Filipino guests.
"When I really learned how to
" M y m o t h e r was a person do things was when I joined the
who was always helping others, C S O , " she says. " W e took on
she was a very giving, generous battles in our community that we
person and active in the commu- won. That's when I learned what
nity," Huerta recalls. "We always organizing was and what y o u
had people living with us who could do through organization."
needed a place to stay. She always
A r o u n d the same time, as a
made room. It was her philoso- first-grade teacher in Stockton,
phy never to turn anyone away Huerta grew restless. She was frushungry. Even as little kids, when trated by her poorer, barefoot stuthe hobos would come to our dents' plight and by her job's limihouse, we w o u l d always give tations. She knew that she wanted
them a bunch o f peanut butter to do more than teach and she
and jelly sandwiches."
became a full-time organizer.
In the m i d - 1 9 5 0 s , H u e r t a
would find her niche in commuHarvest
nity work and social activism. The seeds of social consciousness
She began w o r k i n g for the and activism had been planted. In
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.ichvist
addition to the needs of children
and teens, Huerta became concerned about the living and working conditions of farm workers.
Exposure to pesticides, heat, sun,
overcrowding, dirty water and
sanitation-related diseases made
farm work one o f the nation's
most hazardous occupations.
In the course o f her w o r k
Huerta met Mexican firebrand
Cesar Chavez, and together they
formed the N a t i o n a l F a r m
Workers Association in Delano,
C a l i f o r n i a on D e c e m b e r 14,
1962. She sees the spawning of
the union (which evolved into
the U n i t e d F a r m Workers o f
America) as one of her greatest
achievements.
" T h e farmers u n i o n exists,
w h i c h was a miracle i n itself,"
Huerta says. "There had never
been a farm workers union in the
United States."
Huerta burned her own brand
into the organization. W h e n
Delano grape workers went on
strike, it was she who manned
the picket line. She became the
union's first contract negotiator
and she conducted more than
one hundred grievance and arbitration procedures on behalf of
the workers.
"The contracts we signed—we
got healthcare benefits for the
first time for farm workers,
d r i n k i n g water, toilets, things
farm workers never had," Huerta
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adds. "Also, the immigration law
we passed in 1984-85, where we
got one m i l l i o n , four hundred
thousand farm workers legalized,
I t h i n k that also was a huge
accomplishment."
In 1975, after successfully
marshaling together Hispanic
organizations, peace and feminist
groups and community workers,
California Governor Jerry Brown
signed the A g r i c u l t u r a l Labor
Relations Act, a bill of rights for
farm workers. It was the first of
its kind. The bill allowed farm
workers to negotiate with farm
owners for improved w o r k i n g
conditions and wages.
" W h e n you organize, you're
ultimately trying to affect public
policy," Huerta says. "Democracy
is when people get involved and
they are able to make their voices
heard at the political level. If
people do not get involved, then
the politicians don't know what's
going on at the people level.
That's the way we make changes.
You have to figure out tactics or
pressures. It's like what Ghandi
said about conflict: Conflict isn't
necessarily bad because w h e n
y o u have c o n f l i c t everybody
learns something. B o t h sides
learn something about themselves
and each other. It becomes a
l e a r n i n g and
strengthening
process."
H u e r t a remembers fondly
Robert Kennedy and all that the
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compassionate senator did to help
her and Chavez relieve the hardships of farm workers. "He was a
person who we could call on for
help, which we did and he did
help," she says. "It was great to
know that you had someone like
him who was a very sincere individual who shared our values and
was willing to come to bat for us
when we needed him." Kennedy
helped raise funds for a twentyfour-hour Delano medical clinic
that catered to workers and their
families. W h e n farm workers
were arrested during a boycott,
Kennedy sent his attorneys to get
them out of jail. W h e n Chavez
ended a fast in early 1968, it was
K e n n e d y w h o came to break
bread w i t h h i m . T h e u n i o n
responded by campaigning for
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Kennedy in the California p r i mary. In the wee hours of June 5,
1968 at the Ambassador H o t e l
ballroom, the youthful Kennedy
recognized the farm workers
union and its leadership for its
help i n w i n n i n g the primary;
Dolores stood near Kennedy on
stage as he ended his speech,
" N o w it's on to Chicago and let's
win there." "His assassination was
devastating," she says. "I think our
country has never recuperated."
Three days later, Huerta was part
of the funeral entourage that traveled on the train that carried
Kennedy's body from N e w York
to Washington, D . C . She remembers the multitude of sad faces on
Americans who solemnly stood
by the tracks, some waving flags,
some saluting. Inside the train,
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Huerta noticed compassion and
calm. "What impressed me about
r i d i n g on that train was the
Kennedy family," Huerta says.
"The Kennedy family was reaching out and consoling people. To
me that just showed the class that
this family has."
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Today, Huerta still works long
hours as president o f T h e
Dolores Huerta Foundation, a
501(c)(3) not-for-profit organizat i o n located i n B a k e r s f i e l d ,
California. The foundation's mission is to build active communities working for fair and equal
access to healthcare, housing,
education and jobs w i t h an
emphasis on women and youth.
She is also the
SecretaryTreasurer Emeritus of the United
Farm Workers of America, A F L C I O (UFW).
In addition to her social work,
Huerta parented eleven children,
now ranging in age from thirty
to fifty-four. She also has twenty
grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.
Last January, R e p . N a n c y
Pelosi became the first female
speaker of the House of Representatives. The ceremony did not
go unnoticed by Huerta. "People
are not used to thinking of having
mothers in leadership," she says.
"I think that was a great thing
that Nancy Pelosi did when she
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was sworn in as speaker. She had
all her children come up. When
you come down to it, this is what
we're all working for: the future
for kids, right? I think it would be
great i f more women who get
into positions of power are willing
to bring children into the equation. It makes men more supportive, I think, not only of women,
but also of the fact that they need
to do more for children."
Commemorated in numerous
Chicano murals and ballads—"La
Adelita" comes full circle—and
the first Hispanic American to be
inducted into the United States
Women's Hall of Fame, Huerta's
place in American and Mexican
history is secure.
"It's hard for me to define it,"
she says of her legacy "It's probably easier for others to define it. I
k n o w w h e n I talk to w o m e n
they say I've left a legacy for
them. W h a t I'd like to leave
behind is for people to realize
that they have power and they
need to use it.
"Every one o f us has power.
We need to use it and not be
afraid to use it. We need to share
what we learn. We have to go
beyond our own fears. If we don't
come out o f our own comfort
zone we can't do anything."
To learn more about the work of the
Dolores Huerta Foundation, visit
www. doloreshuerta.org.
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and nurture it for a lifetime.
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New Thought
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Tama J. Kieves
was a corporate attorney, a graduate
of Harvard Law School, striding down
the cream-colored halls o f a life that,
despite expansive "success," felt narrow. I
longed to wear jeans, walk on beaches
and write poetry, but I feared poverty
and the uncertainty o f following my
heart.
After much deliberation, I left to "follow my bliss," and
dared to write about the experience of trusting my inner
voice. The twelve-year journey of writing my first book was
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the most liberating, astonishment-filled experience o f my life.
It was also the most excruciating.
Here's what I learned: Bliss has
many dimensions. I am so grateful that I didn't miss this spiritual
transformation i n my lifetime.
And I don't want you to miss it
either.
As a career coach, I work with
artists and entrepreneurs o f every
kind. What they have in c o m mon is a desire to follow their
o w n imperatives and dare an
unconventional life of splendor. I
want them to follow this sweet,
wondrous path, too. That's why I
suggest they come to a broader
appreciation o f what it means to
"follow your bliss."
So many o f us in the personal
growth movement have rejected
the values with which we were
raised, including the seemingly
austere standards o f the Puritan
ethic. W e favor e m b r a c i n g
"flow," prancing through a garden, always in bloom. We search
for synchronicities and take it as a
sign w h e n things don't come
easy. W h e n an endeavor is difficult, we see it as "not meant to
be." A n d yes, the life o f living
your calling is one of flow. But it
is also one i n which we stand up
to challenges, reach beyond our
limits, and grow. T h e conventional values o f the Puritan ethic
still have something for us.
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We don't just embrace our children when they're especially cute
or it's convenient. Likewise, the
path o f h o n o r i n g y o u r true
expression deserves your outrageous dedication. That's why the
Puritan ethic, put i n a l o v i n g
context, has secrets to offer those
of us who dare to live our truest
dreams in this world.
Just to refresh your memory,
the Puritans were the guys with
pointy hats and tight collars and
pinched faces. They feared the
idle and mirthful. They believed
you could purify yourself with
hard work, impress G o d and w i n
yourself a lifetime membership i n
heaven. T h e y b e l i e v e d that
worldly pleasures would corrupt
the soul and that ease was sugar
to the devil. I very much doubt
that they would have had k i n d
words for Joseph C a m p b e l l or
Deepak Chopra.
Still, here's some deeper perspective from the Puritan ethic
that can help you liberate your
bliss and nurture it for a lifetime:
The Value o f Struggle
T h e Puritans believed i n hard
work for hard work's sake. I do
not suggest you struggle to do
something you do not want to
do. But I do suggest you "struggle" to do s o m e t h i n g y o u do
want to do. If you pursue a path
of creative expression, you w i l l
travel through the thickets o f
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resistance and doubt. Inspiration
often leads us into upheaval.
That's the process. In studies of
creativity, it's called "creative tension." This kind of sustained friction ignites new capacities and
illumination.
Years ago, I had tea with an
acquaintance. I'd had a classic
"writer's block" day of hating the
book I'd written so far and feeling deprived of grace. I doubted
my talent, my message, every
decision I'd ever made and my
basic right to breathe. " I ' m
stuck," I shared, tears welling.
"It's just not coming out." This
woman, a non-writer, dismissed
my artistic crossroads breezily:
"Maybe this just isn't your path.
Doesn't sound like a flow. You
should just let it go." I sipped my
tea, and wished for a moment
that it was opium and could make
everything go away. Now I wasn't
only struggling with writing a
book—I was struggling with the
fact that I was struggling.
But I couldn't let the writing
go. I felt this inner urge, this
strange compulsion to keep
going on. I knew i f I left this
project, I'd leave others at just the
same point of impasse. Besides, I
knew that real transformation
involves what I call "a holy tussle." In the natural world, there
are butterflies born with their
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vanize the strength and momentum it takes to fry. M y pain, like
that of the young butterflies, was
the pain of transcending limitations, the pain of birth. I gave
myself a pep talk: "The hero's
journey creates the hero. Heroes
don't skip steps, bribe the
bouncer or jet off to lush destinations. That's tourism. Heroism
doesn't mark a change in position, but a change in self."
I am so grateful I did not listen to my friend who wished me
ease. I know an ease of soul I
can't even express because I wrestled with the writing process and
put my book and my true self
into the world.
The Value of
Opposing Idleness
The Puritans believed in relentlessly staying busy because idle
time was "the work of the devil."
I don't believe in staying busy,
but I do believe i n staying
focused on what you came here
to do.
There is a certain "staying
busy" that is not helpful on this
journey. A false sense of productivity or generosity can distract us
from what we really want and
what Spirit asks of us. I have a
client who longs to paint and
make jewelry. "But," she says,
"Things keep getting in the way."
She had to help her husband clean
the garage. She had to help her sis-
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spirit l i . i l w i s r i o r n
ter choose a crib. She had to serve
on the board o f a volunteer
humanitarian organization. A l l of
these activities are virtuous and
vigorous. Yet, in her case, they are
all idle. They do not serve her calling. These kinds of commitments
are great big marshes that suck up
energy and time. Idleness does not
refer to a level of activity, but to
the nature of the commitment. If
you really love yourself, you won't
waste any time. You will devote
yourself to the work that expresses
your spirit. Y o u w i l l respect,
explore and advance the direction
of a brilliant intelligence within
you. Y o u w i l l run, not amble,
toward that which inspires you.
That said, you must remember
that rest, in the form of allowing,
is often an important and necessary way to initiate creativity.
Many of us are learning to let go
of the grasping need to control
and let our life's dreams unfold in
ways that defy logic. The great
Sufi poet R u m i teaches, "Mystics
are lazy because they know the
corn grows of itself." Sometimes
our actions are " i d l e " because
they are familiar, forced and
uninspired. This is not a path of
pushing. But it is not a path o f
standing still either. It is one o f
following a pull.
T h e Value o f Temperance
The Puritans feared passion, seeing it as being out of control, liv-
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ing a life of reckless immorality.
The path of living your calling is
one of embracing and nurturing
your passion. Yet, it's not always a
path o f burning i n your blood
and sweating with excitement. I
encourage you to embrace the
times that do not excite y o u .
Become a steward of your talent
in all seasons and conditions.
Tend the garden when it wilts,
and you w i l l enjoy more blossoms.
Inspiration comes and goes.
But every successful visionary,
artist and entrepreneur knows
that showing up, even without
passion, is how we re-ignite the
passion. I rarely "feel" like writing. B u t when I sit down and
m u c k a r o u n d w i t h words, I
often bump into a sentence that
takes me on a chariot ride; off
we go, into the luminous field of
fresh words and ideas where I
am convinced I w i l l never run
dry and never come down. I've
had enough experience to know
that I can always count on that
c h a r i o t r i d e . I ' m w i l l i n g to
respect my talent even when I
don't feel talented. This is what I
tell my writing students: Don't
wait to be great. Get started in
dullness. A p p l i c a t i o n leads to
inspiration. D o not be afraid o f
boredom, repetition and sludge.
D o n ' t let the pranksters fool
you. Y o u r creativity is always
there.
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Following your bliss doesn't
always look like bliss. Lisa is a
concert pianist who draws
crowds. But though she has
played exquisite and intricate
pieces of music for more than
thirty-eight years, she still practices scales and warm-ups. She is
following her heart in this mundane activity. She is fanatically
dedicated to her passion. That
doesn't mean she always feels passionate. But she knows commitment gives her access to the peak
experience she craves: excellence
in her expression.
Recently, I had a client say to
me, "I want to be excited everyday. I want to live life full out." I
used to feel that way, but excitement is no longer my definition
of success. If you require rapture
before action, you will limit both
your rapture and action.
These days, I look for peace
of heart. Are you peaceful in
your soul? I travel often, offering
lectures and workshops. Whenever I board a plane, I remind
myself that i f something happened, all is well with me. I am
squarely on my path. I am doing
what I came to do. That feeling
is a constant, even when I have a
day when things just seem to go
wrong. Peace is a better friend
than excitement. It doesn't leave
me in the difficult times. It helps
me maintain my course and
travel further down the road,
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closer to everything my heart
desires.
The Value of Repudiating
Worldly Rewards
The Puritans believed in renouncing worldly rewards in favor of
eternal rewards. There is a wisdom in this. I don't believe that
worldly rewards are bad, but I do
believe that they should not be
high on our priority list.
As an attorney, I could buy
the things I thought I wanted.
But I came to realize I didn't
want things. I wanted to feel
whole and alive. As a writer, I
chose to "sacrifice" a life of luxury. But I discovered a chorus in
my bones. Nothing pays as well
as living your calling.
Don't get me wrong, I think
worldly rewards are delicious.
But I think so many of us depend
on them in order to define our
worth. I watch gifted people
turn away from their gifts so that
they can get a better job. They
call it security, though we are
never secure when we turn away
from our strengths. They earn
more money, but it's never
enough. They cannot purchase
happiness.
Students often ask me now,
"Would you still have been glad
that you spent twelve years writing a book, if it had never gotten
published and become a bestseller?" Yes, I say. Yes, yes, yes.
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I'm a human being and of course
I would have been disappointed
i f I'd never e x p e r i e n c e d any
material success or recognition
for my dedication. But what I
got out o f this j o u r n e y is so
much more than a check, a byline, or even fan mail. I fell in
love with my creativity and with
my beloved higher self. I turned
away from my past and the empty
goals o f my culture and conditioning. I took myself and my
"crazy" desires seriously. And at
every juncture of difficulty, I had
to learn how to be kind to myself
and trust in an infinite love that
would rush to meet my every
need with tenderness and astonishing perfection. I can't imagine
how else I would have discovered
the power within me that is not
of me. In my book, litis Time I
Dana!, I put it this way:
I'm proud of what I've done.
But I'm even more enthralled
by w h o I've become. I've
become someone who trusts
that, though I teel as fragmented as a flaming leaf in
autumn, I house the capacity
o f a tidal wave, a meteor
shower, a white tornado o f
inspiration. I've become someone who believes that every
human being has a tornado
just beneath the skin and that
we are meant to live o u r
dreams so that we can discover
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that natural force within us
that blows constriction away.
The Bible says, "Seek ye first
the Kingdom of God and all else
shall be added unto y o u . " In
modern day self-help lingo, that's
" d o what you love and the
money will follow." But I'll take
it a step further. It doesn't matter
whether the money follows. D o
what you love because there is no
other reason to be here. If your
doctor said you wouldn't live
unless you took a purple p i l l ,
would you refuse because you
weren't being paid to take it? O f
course not. Then express your
love. Because we are not alive—
until we are true to our hearts.
Our Calling
Those Puritans had a lot o f it
right. While we do not need to
purify ourselves in the eyes o f
("iod. we do long to experience
our purity. W h e n you accept
your c o m p e l l i n g desires, your
mission here, you have stepped
upon the path of self-realization
and wholeness. Dedicate yourself
with all your heart to shedding
your perceived limits.. .and step
into your divine incarnation. The
Puritans believed we experience
heaven in the afterlife, but on
that account it seems they were
misguided. Because heaven is
here, in d o i n g the work you
came to do. •
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C O N T R O L L I N G our mind is absolutely essential. If we
don't control our minds, we can become controlled by
past experiences or by the minds of others. Once a
person's mind gets locked into, "I should have, could
have or w o u l d have, but didn't," there are only
grudges, grief and regrets. Sometimes when a person's
goals and dreams appear to be lost, he can fall into
deep depression and torture himself by repeatedly
going over what happened.
While it is valuable to learn our lessons from what
has happened, once an event is over we need to turn
in the opposite direction and re-create ourselves as we
desire to be. Whatever we get tomorrow or the condition in which we find ourselves will be the result of
what we desire, t h i n k , say, hear and do i n this
moment, and also what w i l l come to us by divine
intervention or grace.
Lamentation and discouragement rob us o f the
blessings that are being given to us; instead of allowing
the river to flow through us, we stop it to hold onto
what we have and to sorrow over what we think we
lost. A l l that gets taken away is what we do not need,
for all we need is to remember that G o d is within us,
others and everywhere, as our best friend, and to be in
joyous communion.
Wealth in all things is being given to us in this eternal moment of now. This wealth runs like a river that
works by the law of circulation. A block in the flow
does not affect G o d or limit the abundance of whatever we desire, but it does limit or stop the flow of
wealth to us.
We are eternity, bliss and consciousness; no matter
what has happened or is happening, there are lessons
that we need so that we can evolve into the fullness of
our godlike nature. Affirm: A l l I need to fulfill my
divine destiny is flowing into my life from expected
and unexpected avenues now and forever.
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LINDA W A T S O N
I N writing these guides I endeavored to write from the
deepest part of myself, to share with you what I have
encountered through years of interacting with others
as a practitioner and teacher. These guides are for you,
dear readers, and I invite you into an ever-increasing
experience of soulfulness with which you can embrace
those around you.
Linda Watson is a practitioner, yoga instructor and inspirational speaker hy profession and passion. She offers experiences to engage in deep soul work through her Art of Soulful
Living presentations and workshops. A significant focus of her
twenty years as a practitioner has been training and mentoring
practitioner students and other practitioners, as well as sharing
New Thought/Ancient Wisdom principles and practices.
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morning
/ have always been delighted at the prospect of a new d
a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of mag
waiting somewhere behind the morning.
JB Priestly
...sweet as the morning dew...brilliant as the noonday sun.
The Science of Mind, page 457
to the sun's beckoning call to cherish nature's gifts,
dawn brings us magical treasures and pleasures. M o r n i n g is
announced by the rejoicing songs of birds, reminding us that
life is like a melody. The stillness of the morning calls us into an
experience of communion with creation.
Rather than rushing through the morning, have you considered creating sacred time to nurture your soul and deepen your
connection with Spirit? M o r n i n g is like a blank canvas, awaiting the creative imprint o f our intention and our vision. W h e n
we begin our day attuned to that which is deepest and most
sacred i n us, we are enveloped in a state o f grace that goes
before us throughout the day. Each moment becomes an
expression o f the consciousness established earlier—where
intention goes, energy flows.
As life offers itself each morning, drink in the sweet nectar
of its promise. Behold the holy presence and become keenly
aware o f the glory o f G o d w i t h the dawning o f each day.
Remembering Rumi's words, "The breeze at dawn has secrets
to tell you...don't go back to sleep," I wish you a month filled
with glorious good mornings!
AWAKENING
affirmation
I awake each morning to the magic of life's gifts and blessings. I
savor the sweetness of sacred time in soulful communion with
Spirit and creation.
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listening
To really listen to another human being and yourself, not just in words,
proclaims a relationship that demands being in the moment, fully
focused on what you are hearing. People yearn to be listened to...
liana Rubenfeld, The Listening Hand
Some day we shall learn to lay our burdens on the altar of Love...
a good listener endears us to many i n friendship.
Everyone needs someone with whom to talk without restraint
or regret; someone who we can share our yearnings, challenges,
hurts and secrets with. Whole-souled, deep listening creates a
powerful portal for healing to take place.
Being listened to and understood provide a touchstone so we
may feel connected to each other and to life. So many people
have never really been listened to. They live in a lonely silence,
with no one to hear how they feel. Deep, compassionate listening can be the soothing balm we offer them. In listening to
them they are able to break their silence, and we are able to
offer them the encouragement and support that they need.
In a study to test the listening skills of adults, the results
indicated that the test subjects heard 25 to 50 percent of what
was said, and regarded listening as a passive activity. Hearing is a
physiological response, listening is an emotional and intellectual
one—an act of caring and consideration. "We can only hear
through the love that listens," wrote Paul Tillich. Let us listen to
each other as we share the healing gifts of whole-souled listening.
BEING
affirmation
I enter into a heightened state o f awareness o f the healing
power of listening.
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sufficiency
The world is enlarged for us, not by new objects
but by finding more affinities and potencies in those we hav
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To return to a sane simplicity is one of the
first and most important things to do.
people seem to be inspired to simplify their lives—that
irrepressible urge to clean, purify, unclutter, update and organize. In this quest for a less complicated life, we invariably
encounter the sheer volume of our accumulated possessions.
This has become a phenomenon, as evidenced by numerous
books and seminars on the subject.
William Morris, the English craftsman and designer, advised
people of the Victorian era to, "have nothing in your homes
that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful."
This seems like an enlightened approach to the concept o f sufficiency. It's interesting to note that the word "sufficiency" has as
its origin o f meaning, the word "satisfactory."
The practice of sufficiency can be an opportunity to redirect
the energy o f accumulating and acquiring into appreciation and
gratitude. Lao T z u , in The Tao of Peace wrote, "Great trouble
comes from not knowing what is enough. Great conflict arises
from wanting too much. W h e n we know when enough is
enough, there will always be enough." May you discover the
contentment of sufficiency.
MANY
affirmation
W i t h great joy, I open to the practice of simplicity and sufficiency in my life.
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appreciation
Appreciation is the highest form ofprayer, for it acknowledges the
presence ofgood wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen, Handle With Prayer
...if thought and faith, prayer, hope and
appreciation are anything at all, they are definite.
I HAVE an unusual hobby—I engage in a practice of appreciation and acknowledgment of goodness, excellence and kindness. Wherever I go, I seek out those who provide excellent
service, impart kindness and consideration or extend special
effort in service to others. I routinely fill out customer service
surveys at stores I visit, acknowledging those who made my
experience a pleasant one.
I have experienced and witnessed the power of appreciation
to inspire, restore, reassure and heal. I have observed individuals
lifted out of the depths of darkness and despair when the fight
of acknowledgment and appreciation illumined their diminished spirit.
As we give thanks and appreciate more, we have more to
appreciate; according to the laws of quantum physics, the act of
paying attention to something increases the possibility that it
w i l l continue to occur. W h a t we focus on multiplies and
increases.
May you experience the joy of deepening into your practice
of appreciation and gratitude by being a beneficial presence
wherever you are.
affirmation
I deepen into my practice of expressing appreciation and gratitude.
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inspiration
To be inspired is to be moved in an extraordinary manner by the po
or Spirit of God to act, speak, or think what is holy, just and tru
Henry More
The Spirit flows through me, inspiring me
and sustaining that inspiration.
H o w often in our day do we turn to some source of inspiration
to re-focus our attention and realign ourselves with truth? We
can recall circumstances when a certain passage in a book, a
poem, a quotation or words from a song served as a bridge to
move us from one state of awareness to another.
We need inspiration to keep our spirit buoyant just as we
need to breathe air to keep us alive. Like thirsty plants that need
watering, I believe our souls are sustained with the constant
affirming of our inherent wholeness and of life's goodness.
Many years ago, I was encouraged by a friend to create a
treasure box in which I was to save notes, letters, pictures, my
children's drawings and other items that I felt were inspirational;
I was to open the box when I felt discouraged or disheartened.
The treasures of the box were particularly helpful when my
children were going through their rebellious stage; it brought
me comfort to look at the mementos they had given me over
the years that said, "I love you, M o m . " It was the perfect way to
keep my heart open to the larger picture. Remember to stay
inspired and to be an inspiration!
.••Tin nation
I am reminded of the goodness of life by taking in daily doses
of inspiration
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rhythm
When you are in rhythm with your nature...
providence is at one with you; it minds you and brings you
to your new horizons. To be spiritual is to be in rhythm.
John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
My body reflects the perfect motion,
the rhythmic ease of Mind in action.
I A M perched high on a rock, just yards above the crashing
waves washing up onto the shore. The sweeping view of the
horizon saturates my awareness. I am awed by the spectacular,
rhythmic dance of nature's elements, merging, meeting and
pulsing with primal power and passion. I am reminded of the
interconnectedness of life dancing with itself.
D o you yearn for movement and rhythm in your life, sensing its proximity, yet seemingly beyond your reach? If so, I
invite you to engage your body and m i n d i n movement;
retrieve the soulful, dancing spirit within you and release your
inner rhythm. W h e n we move, our intellect is suspended, our
critical voice is silenced. Movement gives us access to the realm
of our soul, to the places within us that long to be liberated.
Gabrielle R o t h writes, "Dancing...is the fastest, cleanest,
most joyful way to break out of your ego chains and liberate
your intuition...if you dance like this long enough...the power
of your soul will kick in and kick butt—specifically yours." Feel
the soulful rhythm of your life emerging from its quiet yearning. Let the dance begin!
affirmation
I joyfully let the rhythms i n my body, m i n d and soul be
unleashed. I feel the power of dynamic movement expressed
everywhere in my life.
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love
We are here to keep the love going around.
Larissa, age 4
The life that has not loved has not lived, it is still dead
T H E most profound experience I have had in the realm of
human loving is that of being a mother. That inexpressible
awe of birthing life into existence, accompanied by the astonishing wellspring of love evoked when I first looked into my
daughter's eyes, is as palpable for me today as it was thirty-one
years ago. W i t h the birth of my daughter, I suddenly understood what Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis meant when she
wrote, "Being a mother has made me the person that I am."
Looking through the lens of love, life takes on a panoramic perspective so spectacular that it envelops all o f our
experiences. Jean Houston offers, "...you cannot love the
Beloved of the soul without increasing your capacity for loving another human being."
Love knows no distance, time or space. We have all had
unexplainable synchronicities with those we are close to—
we're calling them on the phone when they're calling us!
Love connects us with each other. W h e n I celebrate my
daughter Larissa's birthday, I celebrate the birth of divine love
in my heart and soul that has blessed my life since the day she
was born.
affirmation
I am a transparency for divine love. Everyone I encounter and
hold dear in my heart is embraced in the unconditional,
unwavering love that heals.
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Saturday, September 8, 2007
breath
Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
Mary Oliver
When we associate our breathing with the very Life and
Light of God, nothing can retard the flow of life through us.
T O D A Y is a glorious day to take a deep breath of life, joined
together with the presence that breathes as all of us. One of
my greatest joys in teaching yoga, is bringing the gift of conscious breathing to my students; most have been accustomed
to paying little attention to their breath, considering it an
autonomic, unconscious process.
W h e n we become aware o f how intrinsically linked
breathing is to our ability to exercise dominion over our life
and our sense of well-being, everything changes. We practice
mindfulness of breath so we can become aware of our most
basic level of aliveness, eventually developing the capacity to
focus our awareness on the present moment.
Unless we consciously focus on breathing deeply, we are
most likely holding our breath, restricting the flow of the life
force within us. "The holding o f our breath represents an
unconsciousness desire for certainty," writes yoga teacher
Donna Farhi, "we hold onto life, and in a sense we hold out
on life...and, then, of course, life holds out on us."
What would it feel like i f you were truly taking in life? I
invite you to take a deep breath of life, letting the fullness of
Spirit reveal itself through you, one breath at a time.
affirmation
I take a deep breath of life, allowing the fullness of Spirit to
flow through me in such a way that I am endlessly inspired.
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passion
Seeing our life as a great story can fill us with a passio
for the possible, give us access codes to a new ran
ofpossibilities, and grant us a mythic life.
Jean Houston, A Passion for the Possible
The spark which burns at the center of our own soul
is caught from the living and eternal flame of the Spirit.
N A T U R E is at its finest during these September days. Leaves
are changing color, seemingly aglow with passionate possibilities.
M u c h is asked of those who feel called into an expanded
expression of existence. We are compelled to liberate ourselves
from our old story, replete with its litany of limiting beliefs; we
refrain from listening to the remnants of critical self-abnegation. Joseph Chilton Pearce reminds us that "passionate intent
with unconflicted behavior brings forth our desires."
What are you passionate about? For what does the flame
in your soul burn? H o w are you inspired to express your creativity and passion? Passion can bring us to the zenith of our
existence, ultimately leading us to our purpose. The invitation
is to reach into your soul and fuel the fires of your passions as
you amplify your power to bestow great blessings and benefit
to humanity. Whatever reasons you've had for not being fully
engaged in living a passionate existence, remember—you are
the one you've been waiting for!
affirmation
I unleash the passionate intent in my soul so that my life may
be a blessing as I fulfill my destiny as a beneficial presence.
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friendship
With each true friendship we build more firmly the
foundation on which the peace of the whole world rests.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is almost certain that between friends
there is at all times a silent communication...
H o w often have we found comfort and solace in the love and
caring of good friends? The people who have been unwavering in their steadfast gaze into our souls, who have resolutely
reflected our divine nature in the midst of our human antics.
Those kindred spirits to w h o m we have relinquished our
facades and fears. These are our treasured friends and allies,
they are our soul friends.
I loved the concept of anam cam (soul friend) from the
moment I encountered it. John O ' D o n o h u e wrote, "this
friendship was an act of recognition and belonging.. .a sense
of ancient knowing." We have had moments along our journey when we have met people with whom we instantly felt at
ease. These soul friends warm and sweeten our life in countless ways. In their presence we have reclaimed our wholeness
and authenticity, we learn to trust again.
Let us be deeply grateful for those soul friends with whom
we have experienced mutual beneficence, who have blessed
our lives immeasurably. We are keenly aware that these
friendships, as Gandhi stated, "build more firmly the strong
foundation on which the peace of the whole world rests."
affirmation
I remain ever grateful for the friends who have blessed my life
and in whose love I have been nurtured and healed.
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prayer
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might a
pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahil Gibran
To pray without ceasing is to doubt never
but to always trust the Law of Good.
are times in life when we have had unfathomable darkness, sadness and loss. These experiences can leave us feeling
separated from the good we know in our expanded states o f
consciousness; if, however, we have developed our prayer and
meditation practices, we ultimately discover a reservoir of faith,
trust and vigilance to support us. This reservoir can keep us
warm when the cold realities of life press hard upon us.
Prayer as an activity o f our consciousness is always available
as a response to all circumstances, situations and conditions.
When done with conviction and certainty it can put us in a
conditioned state of readiness, a way of being that is strengthened and fortified through consistent practice.
In its purest sense prayer is communion with the divine
presence. It is the way in which we can bring ourselves to the
altar of truth to remember who we are and what we represent.
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays,"
Kierkegaard so aptly explains.
As we fill our reservoir with the living waters o f our prayers,
let us be mindful of Gibran s words to "also pray in the fullness
of your joy.. .and abundance," as well as in difficult and challenging moments.
THERE
affirmation
I fill the reservoir of my soul with resonant prayers of deep faith
and conviction.
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seva
A person all wrapped up in themselves
makes for a mighty small package.
Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith
The understanding heart isfilledwith
sympathy and helpfulness toward all.
I HAD the honor of knowing Peace Pilgrim II, an incredible man
who dedicated his life to continuing the work of the original
Peace Pilgrim, a woman who gave up all of her belongings and
embarked upon a walk of peace that lasted for twenty-eight years.
Peace Pilgrim II began his journey in 1989. I encountered
him when he found his way to my spiritual community, and
subsequently became the long-term house guest o f a dear
friend of mine. We spent many evenings hearing about his travels and adventures on his pilgrimage for peace. What always
struck me during these times was his resolute, unwavering dedication to using his life in service to others.
While we may not be engaged in endeavors as consuming as
walking across the country, there is work we can do to be of
service. From delivering meals to seniors to mentoring young
people, there are many programs i n our own communities
through which we can help others. There are also more subde
ways to be of service: helping someone who may not be able to
ask for assistance, offering the gift of listening or refraining from
judgment. Seva (Sanskrit for selfless service) delivers us from our
individual, self-absorbed realm o f existence into the world
around us.
affirmation
I lovingly serve where I am called.
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dance
To dance then, is to pray, to meditate, to enter in
communion with the larger dance, which is the universe.
Jean Houston, A Mythic Life
.. .steadily and rhythmically the Life of God
is pulsing through your body.
has been a part of my life since I was a child; dancing
transported me to a place of sheer delight and unbridled happiness. I feel that dance and movement are the means by
which we connect the body, mind, soul and spirit. "We long
to be moved, to connect with our souls," writes Gabrielle
R o t h , "Once our body surrenders to movement, our soul
remembers its dance."
Dance is an integral part o f most cultures and spiritual
paths. Throughout history people have engaged i n dancing to
attain a sense of holiness, to know their inherent divinity, to
feel the sacred. "Take me to the places on the earth that teach
you how to dance...to make my heart whole again," wrote
Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
While many people will dance at celebrations and parties,
they wouldn't think of dancing alone as a spiritual practice.
Dancing can help us to overcome the habit of inertia, of feeling stuck, separate and disconnected from ourselves and others. When we move, we release toxic energy and open to a
sense of wholeness, holiness. "Let this day be lost to us on
which we did not dance once," wrote Friedrich Nietzsche.
I hope you dance!
DANCE
affirmation
I dance with life and allow the true rhythm of my heart and
soul to be fully expressed.
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pilgrimage
What matters most on your journey is how deeply you see,
how attentively you hear, how richly the encounters are felt
in your heart and soul.
Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage
My ways are made straight before me.
The pathway of Life is an endless road...
T o live more deeply, we often journey to places that offer us
a different rhythm, a fresh perspective and enough unfamiliarity to awaken us from our comfort zones; we welcome the
opportunity for these places to transform us from self-sufficient, independent sojourners into members of the family of
humanity. "Pilgrimage to the place o f the wise is to find
escape from the flame of separateness," R u m i wrote.
There are countless ways to engage i n the exploration of
our soul—sometimes we feel the draw to a remote retreat
experience, quiet solitude i n which we lose ourselves and
sink into the deep interiors of self and soul; at other times we
are called to visit sacred places that fully engage us i n the
world around us and finding parts of ourselves.
J . R . R . Tolkien wisely wrote, " N o t all who wander are
lost." A pilgrimage is a journey with a deep purpose—a
sacred intention lies at its heart. Essentially, it is an inner journey of the soul. May your journey on the pathway of life be
filled with richest, deepest blessings.
affirmation
I travel the pathway of life with a sense of exploration and
wonder. I let the sacred be revealed in all things and all ways.
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gratitude
For all that has been, thanks! To all that shall be, y
Dag Hammarskjold
An attitude ofgratitude is most salutary,
and bespeaks the realization that we are now in heaven
THERE are some of us who hurl through our days at such a
furious pace that we miss opportunities to experience and
express gratitude. We become so focused on accomplishing,
accumulating or achieving that we don't notice how much we
already have. Maybe it's time to stop and smell the roses.
The practice of gratitude can draw us into a more generous
existence. Studies conducted at the HeartMath Institute indicate that gratitude affects our physical as well as our emotional
health. In those who expressed gratitude, there was an increase
of parasympathetic activity, beneficial i n managing stress.
Research indicates that heart-transplant patients who practiced
thankfulness reported fewer difficulties with their recoveries.
Further studies reveal that grateful people are generally more
positive, empathetic, supportive and feel more connected to
others and to the goodness of life.
Being thankful brings our attention to that which is often
taken for granted: being alive, good health, enough to eat, a
warm bed, the sound of our children's voices.
Gratitude transforms life into an extraordinary adventure of
aliveness, and every moment offers us the invitation to be
more alive with gratitude.
affirmation
I am filled with immense gratitude for the countless blessings
in my life and for life itself.
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Sunday, September 16, 2007celebration
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake
We are to live today as though God were in
His Heaven, while all is well with our souls.
we all love to celebrate...to delight in life...that sense
of being joined together in honoring and appreciating living.
Fondly etched in my memory are the frequent gatherings and
celebrations that occurred as I was growing up. Because we
had the largest dining room table, most of those gatherings
were in my family's home. I remember kids running everywhere, joyous laughter, great stories and lots of food.
The word celebrate originates from the Latin celebrare,
meaning frequented or honored. While we tend to think of
celebrations as special occasions that mark significant events
or milestones, celebration could be considered a practice for
focusing our attention on that which is holy or whole; for
that which is good, that which we are grateful for.
Waking up each day seems reason enough to celebrate.
We are summoned into each day by the invitation to lift our
hearts and minds i n joyous celebration o f our aliveness.
Often the complexities and concerns of life feel overwhelming, celebrating helps to ease our difficulties. Isn't that just
what Sunday morning services are, celebrations of the Spirit?
Strike up the band, put on your dancing shoes, cook up a
feast and invite everyone to the celebration of life!
DON'T
affirmation
I cultivate the practice of celebrating as a way of keeping my
attention on what is holy, whole and very good.
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a new story
New birth requires new being... that you choose a richer, juicier sto
even a new myth by which to comprehend your life...that you b
sourced and resourced in God.
Jean Houston, A Passion for the Possible
New thoughts create new conditions.
I O F T E N encounter people who are yearning for a life filled
with greater meaning, fulfillment, passion and purpose. It's as
though there is an urging within them to move beyond the
boundaries of their histories and into a more expanded way
of being in the world.
Encoded in each of us is a larger rendition of who we are,
seeking to emerge as a powerful and passionate existence. In
unexpected moments, we have been astonished by our inherent capabilities, competencies and capacities; we wonder how
we can bring these aspects of ourselves forth.
N e w chapters in our lives usually announce themselves
through difficulty, confusion or a sense of feeling untethered
to what we have known to be true. H o w then do we embark
upon a course of rewriting our story that more accurately
reflects our true nature? We can start by releasing all useless
energies, habits, relationships and perceptions that have contributed to the "small" version of ourselves.
We can redirect our thoughts and re-vision our perceptions. We can announce an end to our dramas and sagas, and
proclaim our readiness to live the story etched in our hearts.
affirmation
I release all unproductive habits, perceptions and relationships.
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purpose and destiny
Ifairly sizzle with zeal and enthusiasm and spring forth with a
mighty faith to do the things that ought to he done hy me.
Charles Fillmore
So we, and we alone, control our destiny.
is a Sanskrit word that means "purpose." It implies
that each of us has unique abilities, which are essentially our
gifts and contributions to the world—our dharma is the coding within us. So often we concede to self-imposed expectations or those of well-meaning friends and family; if we are to
fulfill our destiny we must remain resolutely committed to
that which has been revealed in our hearts.
A story I recall illustrates this quite vividly. A young man
graduating from law school walked over to his proud parents,
who were waiting to congratulate him. After thanking them
for their support, he handed them his diploma and explained
with a lovable grin, "This is actually for you...now I'm going
to become a fireman, just as I've known I would since I was
five years old!"
Following our dharma requires that we relinquish the l i m iting belief that at some future time we will be more capable
or have more time and resources than we now have. Indeed,
it is by choice, not chance, that our destiny unfolds. Life is
waiting for you to fulfill your destiny in a way that no one
else can.
DHARMA
affirmation
I invite my destiny to be fully revealed as the fullness of Spirit
expressing as my life.
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supply
Our consistent spiritual work will eliminate the belief in scarci
or that the Good of the Universe is being withheld from us
Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, Living from the Overflow
Our belief sets the limit to our demonstration
of a Principle which, of Itself is without limit.
W E live in an abundant universe. It only takes a moment to
notice the irrefutable evidence of this truth. Looking up into
the limitless sky, glancing across vast fields of wheat, observing
the landscape of life revealing its fullness as far as the eye can
see, we are sure to be filled with a sense of the infinite.
The qualities that j o i n us with our good are receptivity,
acceptance, circulation, stewardship, generosity and gratitude.
Each of us has desires for things and experiences we anticipate
will make us feel happy, fulfilled and safe.
It has been noted that i f we are experiencing lack, it is due
to our inability to make contact with our supply, to receive
what already exists. Ernest Holmes explained, "To demonstrate.. .Divine Givingness.. .we must set up a receiving center;
for no matter how abundantly the H o r n of Plenty may pour
out Its universal gifts, there must be a bowl of acceptance.. .or
the gift cannot be complete."
Additionally, as we engage in the practices of circulating
good, maintaining mindful stewardship over what we have,
being generous and offering gratitude, we are sure to be joined
with the great good that exists for all of us.
affirmation
I gratefully and graciously accept and receive the good, the
demonstration of supply, that has already been given to me.
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trust
I suspect we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens,
voices, cries, revelations and appeals are homogenized into each day's
events. If only we knew how to listen, how to read the signs.
Sam Keen
...we should learn to trust life.
A N U M B E R of years ago a companion and I decided to embark
on an "adventure in trust;" it was a road trip that included minimal planning. Our intention was to deepen into our practice of
trust and to be guided by our intuition. We set out with our
A A A Tour Guides, our cell phones, snacks and our anticipation
of a great adventure.
We paid attention to the "signs" that appeared along the
way and we experienced a remarkably seamless flow of movement throughout our days. If we became uncertain how to proceed, we patiently waited for an insight to surface. The journey
was filled w i t h serendipity and memorable moments that
unfolded out o f our intention to trust ourselves, trust the
process and trust God.
H o w often do we find ourselves focused on a particular outcome, a certain goal or an intended destination? Is it possible
that in our attempts to be efficient, organized and productive,
we may miss remarkable experiences, opportunities or encounters? Goethe's inspiring words, "Just trust yourself, then you
will know how to live," remind us that there is guidance and
wisdom that can be trusted when we listen to our intuition.
affirmation
I trust the divine wisdom within me, always and ever leading,
guiding and directing me.
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oneness
At our core, we are pure... the holiness of our true selves
The task is to evolve our lives toward greater connection with Go
to become more fully, embodiments of Spirit.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Spirit Matters
.. .wherein the soul recognizes its Source and meets
in joyful union, in complete At-One-ment.
T H I S evening at sundown heralds the arrival of Yom Kippur. In
the Jewish tradition, this is considered the holiest day of the year,
the Day of Atonement, when one is closest to G o d and to the
quintessential core of one's soul. It is a time of deep reflection and
reconciliation. O n the Jewish N e w Year, one considers all that has
transpired over the past year and looks ahead to the coming year.
The Talmud teaches that we are to be satiated by our feelings
of closeness to G o d and therefore abstain from external nourishment, therefore the practice of fasting is observed; this is a day
dedicated to the internal nourishment of our soul—either in the
synagogue or resting at home.
Growing up in a traditional Jewish community, I remember
feeling the transformational power of this holy-day. It was a sacred
time to reconcile the past and move forward with resolve; there is
a profound connection with all of life, a sense of oneness. Many
years later, when I came upon the variation of the word atonement as "at-one-ment," the significance of this holiday became
much clearer to me. Wishing you the joy o f celebrating your
oneness in the Spirit.. .and L'shanah tovah! (a good year).
affirmation
I celebrate this day of experiencing a deeper realization o f my
oneness in Spirit and with all of life.
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nature
Glorious intoxication of the soul is the reward
of all who seek it in the bosom of Nature.
Kahil Gibran
The furtherance of evolution depends upon our
ability to sense a unity with Nature and herforces.
provides us with deep wisdom and the template for
manifestation; it becomes evident in our observations that a perfect pattern of life resides in every seed and in every stage of the
creative process. A l l things occur in sequence, first the seed is
implanted into the fertile soil, followed by the intricately formed
root structure; as the necessary elements are supplied for nourishment (from seemingly nowhere), the first signs of growth appear.
One can no more hold back the creative process than the changing of the seasons or the rising and setting of the sun.
As we set about to grow the garden of our life, what shall
emerge? Ernest Holmes wrote, " H o w are we going to use this
creative power within us...consciously and constructively
or
unconsciously and more or less destructively...?" Nature teaches
us about reverence for all of life and inspires us with her beauty,
mystery and wonder. We also learn about change and diversity—
there is always a dynamic event in progress, some movement,
growth or falling away
We are offered the invitation to use the profound insights and
inspiration we receive from nature in creating our habitats. May
the most wondrous and beautiful garden of good blossom as your
life.
NATURE
affirmation
I do indeed sense my unity with nature and use her example to
create a magnificent garden of good.
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23, 2007
C i a n e e
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under
sun; a time to be born, a time to die; a time to plant and a time to reap
Ecclesiastes 3:1
She [nature] will let us stay just long enough to gather th
experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the so
When the change comes, we should welcome it.
the sun crosses over the equator, heralding the arrival o f
the autumnal equinox; the time when the northern and southern
hemispheres receive the same amount of sunlight, and day and
night are o f equal length. As the long summer days are transformed into the shorter days, nature slows down. It is a time of
harvest; a time for gratefully accepting and graciously letting go
of that which is no longer needed.
The equinox invites us to consider what we have harvested in
our lives and how we have been transformed by our experiences.
Nature serves as a constant reminder that transformation and
change are necessary for new growth and expansion: A tree
releases its leaves in order for the next cycle to begin, some animals shed the outer layers of their skin—a yielding must occur for
the new to emerge.
Transformation is often precipitated by a loss, a breakdown of
existing structures or illness, and we can easily become fearful or
erroneously presume that something is not as it should be.
Remembering that all things have their season, we are inspired by
nature's example to accept the countless blessings and gifts every
season of our life offers us.
TODAY
affirmation
I cultivate the practice o f welcoming change as an activity of my
consciousness.
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Sabbath
How did we get so terribly lost in a world saturated with
striving and grasping, yet somehow bereft of joy and delight?
I suggest that it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath.
Wayne Muller, Sabbath
...rest in perfect confidence, peace and certainty...
never becoming anxious, never being hurried nor worried...
time ago, I reluctantly released my desire for a Sabbath
practice because I frequently travel over the weekends. Then I
had an insight. M y schedule is lightest on Mondays, and, while
some of us think of Monday mornings as the start of a long work
week, I greet Mondays with a warm welcome—it has become my
personal Sabbath day!
O n Mondays the tempo of my life shifts into slow motion. I
am able to withdraw from the relentless activity of life, and take a
respite from the endless list of tasks, errands and responsibilities. It
is a day of centering down into the ground of my being.
Wayne Muller writes, "Sabbath is more than the absence of
work. It is the presence of something that arises when we consecrate a period of time to listen to what is most deeply beautiful,
nourishing or true.
In our fast-paced lifestyles, the "always o n " mentality has
become the model for success; we have come to regard rest as a
necessary inconvenience. Won't you consider dedicating at least
one day to resting and nurturing your soul in the deepest way? It
will transform the quality of your life.
SOME
affirmation
I dedicate sacred time and space to nurturing my body, mind and
spirit.
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wholeness
Your body is your temple — keep it pure and holy for the soul to reside
B.K.S. Iyengar
My whole being responds to the thought of Life.
I am alive with the Great Vitality of the Spirit.
there is ample evidence that cultivating healthy habits
results in a higher quality of life and increased longevity, for many
there remains a disconnection between their minds and bodies.
When we remember our true nature as individualized expressions
of the Divine, we are called into a realization of our bodies as
sacred.
Dr. Candace Pert, a research Professor o f Physiology and
Biophysics, has written extensively about the spiritual aspect of
healing in mind-body health. She found that 80 percent of illness
and disease is caused by stress.. .which, she explained, results from
spiritual isolation, and a disconnection from our divine source.
Wholeness, therefore, requires an embodiment of our divine,
spiritual nature and an honoring and cultivating of healthy habits.
"To ignore or abuse the body is mistaken spirituality," wrote Jack
Kornfield, "when we honor the body with our attention, we
begin to reclaim our feelings, our instincts, our life."
Our invitation is to fully inhabit our bodies with grateful
acceptance, love and respect. Whoopi Goldberg said it best, "I've
learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great
deal of love and respect 'cause I like me...I think I'm kind of
cool."
ALTHOUGH
I embody the living presence as the sacredness of my body.
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stillness
Be silent and calm every evening and morning... this will produce
an undaunted, unbreakable inner habit of happiness that will make
you able to meet all the trying situations of everyday life.
Paramahansa Yogananda
A great stillness steals over me and a great calm
quiets my whole being, as I realize Thy Presence.
the pace of life becomes too frantic, our soul longs for
stillness and quiet. A l l too often, we find ourselves swept up into a
state of hurry; we rush from one thing to the next, only to find
that we can hardly recall the purpose of the day's activities—we
become oppressed by time. We compromise ourselves in various
ways, particularly in our ability to express patience. W h e n we are
impatient, we miss out on the enjoyment of life, unable to notice
the gifts each moment is offering.
When we are still, we gain access to inspiration, insights and
ideas inscribed in the interior, intuitive places within our deepest
heart and soul. W h e n we slow down we are able to connect with
our feelings.
Quiet and solitude allow us to enter into a sense of timelessness in which we rekindle the light that is within us. I have always
been deeply inspired by these words of Franz Kafka: "You do not
need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen.
D o not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The
world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no
choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." May stillness bless your
life.
WHEN
affirmation
I gladly create time in each day to be nourished and nurtured in
the stillness.
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community
When we seek connection, we restore the world to wholene
Margaret Wheatley, Finding our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time
The one who has learned to love all peopl
will find plenty ofpeople who will return that love.
O N E of the deepest longings of the human soul is the desire to
belong—to be included, encircled, accepted, acknowledged.
Many of us also have a desire to make a difference in the world.
Both of these very basic aspects of our existence are fulfilled in
our experience of and participation in community.
Margaret Wheatley, known for her brilliant ideas and practices
for organizing in chaotic times, described the importance o f
belonging: "One of the things I've learned in the poorest places
on earth is that when people have each other, that's enough. We
think we need all this stuff...resources...training...degrees...people know that they can only get through a difficult time when
they do it as one... together." She further explains that we get
through uncertainty not with our plans and strategies, but because
we have trusting relationships and we k n o w how to w o r k
together.
Gathering in community helps us generate more meaning in
our life and amplifies our individual efforts exponentially. In community, we support each other in standing for and practicing the
values of service, compassion and generosity as opposed to what we
frequently encounter as individualism, competition and control.
affirmation
I join in the spirit of community to bring about as much good as
I can.
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beholding
In the faces of men and women, I see God.
Walt Whitman
There is no end to the Divine Nature and therefore
no end to the possibility of our expressing It.
A F T E R twenty years of listening to my clients and students share
their deepest desires, their discouragement and dreams, I believe
that many people underestimate themselves. This diminished
sense of self is often the catalyst for us to seek healing from a sense
of lack. It is at this point when many people find their way to a
spiritual journey, working with a practitioner or engaging in
some healing modality.
In describing the role and work of a practitioner, I especially
enjoy the word, beholder. Practitioners are trained to gaze at life
with a perception of wholeness, a consciousness that sees the integral goodness and perfection of all that is. W i t h a practitioner's
unconditional positive regard, compassionate understanding and
unwavering intent to behold one's highest self, healing occurs.
When we cultivate the practice of beholding, we truly understand the profundity o f Rilke's words: "...there's a power i n
me/to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has
ever been real without my beholding it. A l l becoming has needed
me. M y looking ripens things /and they come toward me, to
meet and be met."
affirmation
I become a place o f beholding, witnessing and reflecting the great
good that is in everyone and in all of creation.
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j°y
Joy is prayer... Joy is strength.. Joy is a net of love hy which
you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with joy
Mother Teresa
If we gaze longingly at joy, it will make its home with us,
and we shall enter its portals and he happy.
P E G G Y Rubin, author and remarkable teacher, developed an
eight-fold path to assist us in cultivating joy in our lives. I find
one of her suggestions especially lovely. She calls the activity
"joyful remembrance," in which we are encouraged to create a
joy bank.
The idea is to make deposits of the joy we experience, and
then send them back out, amplified, in radiant waves as a blessing to those around us. In sharing this practice with others, I
was astonished to learn that many people didn't exactly know
what brought them joy. Some didn't feel it was appropriate to
be joyful because of the amount of suffering which exists in
the world, while others described a disconnection or disassociation with feelings of joy or happiness.
Here's an insightful remark, "Life will bring us pain all by
itself, our responsibility is to create joy," and Emerson advised,
"Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it and you will find
you dance with everything." Sounds like a great approach for
inviting joy to make its home in us. Joy is a choice worth making regardless of how much dust we must wipe away to find it.
affirmation
I embrace and trust the imponderable joy of being alive. I send
out an amplified spirit of joy in radiant waves as a blessing to
everyone.
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authenticity
/ wish I could show you, when you are lonely or
in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz
There is something Divine about us which we have
overlooked. There is more to us than we realize.
T H E R E is nothing quite so captivating as observing someone
expressing his authentic nature. This is especially true o f
younger children, who, unmasked and uninhibited, reveal
their irrepressible authenticity because they haven't yet learned
to do anything else. We are born with a mandate to be completely who we are, and in doing so, we make our contribution to life.
After facilitating a workshop recently, one of the participants handed me a card, thanking me for what she had
received that day. Her note expressed appreciation for my having left a "soulprint" on the community, bringing everyone
together in a revitalized, renewed way. It occurred to me that
what she referred to as a soulprint was my passion to empower
and call others into their authentic expression. M y friend,
Rabbi Marc, describes a soulprint as our spiritual signature,
the way our soul touches the world.
We are all called to live authentically, to leave a trail of
soulprints wherever we go, like a lingering fragrance. We are
so much more than we think we are. The world is waiting for
you to shine and for the imprint of your soulprint!
M y life is a transparency for the authentic expression of the
Divine.
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Alabama
Birmingham—Eugene Herrington, Min., Katherine Cro/ey,
Founding Min.—Sun 11:00 am. Call for information.
(404) 792-1080 (205) 824-8240. Mail 2385 Dolly
Ridge Rd. Apt. 245. Zip 35243 Email:
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Dothan—Glenda
Davis, Min.—Wed. 7 p.m., 942
So. Oates St. Zip 36301. (334) 693-2688,
[email protected], www.rsdothan.org.
Alaska
Anchorage—Marquita Pierre. Min— Sun. 11 a.m., Mail: 929
East 81st, Suite 105, Zip 99518. (907) 522-0940
Arizona
Avondale—Study Group—Larry Pesta, Dir.—(623) 3994887, www.spiritworksphoenix.org
Bisbee—Sandra
Jean, Min.—Sun. 10 a.m., Bisbee
Woman's Club, Quality Hill. Mail: P.O. Box 416, Zip
85603. (520)432-4961 or (520) 432-1287
Lake Havasu—Sun. 10 a.m., 2126 Mc Culloch Blvd., #15.
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Peoria—Ron Fox, Min.—Sun 10 a.m., 9745 W. Peoria, Zip
85345. (623) 972-3205
Phoenix—Michelle Medrano, Min.; Karen Russo, Sunday
Cote, Kathryn McDowell, Staff Min.s—Sun 9 &
11am, Taize 6:30pm; Wed Service 7pm; 9659 N.
Hayden Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85258-1804. PH: (480)
391-1126 FX: (480) 391-1235
Prescott—Robert H. Henderson, Min.—Sun. 10 a.m., 3755
Willow Creek Rd. Zip 86301. (928) 778-1602
Rimrock/Sedona/Verde
Valley—Study
Group—Jalene
Greer. Dir.—Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Call for
information (928) 301-4939
'Sedona/Verde Valley—Stanley Otterstrom, Founding
Min.—Sun 10:00a.m. Email: revstanley@sedonacrs
.org. Contact website for info, www.sedonacrs.org.
Mail: PO Box 2223, Zip: 86339-2223
Tucson—Rev Donald Graves, Minister—-Sunday, 10:30
a.m., Meditation 10:00 a.m. Office address: 4500 E.
Speedway, Suite 84, Zip 85712. Phone: (520) 3191042 [email protected]. For adult and youth
Sunday Service information, see website: www.religioussciencetucson.com
Yuma—Merilyn Chilleen, Min.—Sun. 11 a.m., Meditation
10:30 a.m., 781 2nd Ave., Zip 85364. (928)782-7885
www.religious-science.orgA' uma
California
Apple Valley—Sun. 10a.m. 18575 Corwin Rd., Zip 92307.
(760) 242-2302. Email: [email protected] www.
hdcrs.org
Auburn—Foothill Community Church —Wayna Scovell.
Min.—Sun 10:30 a.m. Dewitt Center, 2945 First St.,
Zip 95603. (530) 823-6986. [email protected]
Auburn—Study Group—Patricia Seeley, Dir.—Call or email
for more information (530) 268-2745 Email: [email protected]
Bakersfield—Sunday: Meditation 10:30 a.m., Service 11
a.m., 222 Eureka St., Zip 93305. (661) 323-3109
Beaumont—Art Carter, Min.—Sun. 10 a.m. 802 Maple Ave..
Zip 92223. (909) 845-6328
Bishop—Freda Lindsay, Min— Sun. 10 a.m., Meditation
9:40 a.m. 129 E. Line St., Zip 93514. (760) 873-4195
Burbank-Toluca Lake—Dr. Harry Morgan Moses Spiritual
Director—Sunday Sen/ice and Children's Church 10
a.m.; Meditation 9:40 a.m.; Wednesday Services 7
p.m.-260 North Pass Avenue. Burbank, CA 91505.
September 2007
(818) 848-4158 Email: [email protected]
Camarillo—Sun: Meditation 10 am., Service: 10:30 a.m. 340
Mobil Ave. Zip 93010, (805) 484-1137, Email:
[email protected] Web: www.camarillocsl.org.
Chatsworth—Carrie Lauer. CSL— Sunday Meditation, 10:00
am., Service 10:30. Radisson Hotel, 9777 Topanga
Canyon Blvd. Wednesday Meditation Service 7:00
pm, Center Office, 21032 Devonshire Street, Suite
208. Mailing address PO Box 4842, Zip 913134842. (818) 709-1451. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.centerofspiritualawakening.com
Claremont—Patt Perkins, Min.; Miriam Mercado, Staff
Min.—Sun. 10:30 a.m., Wed. 7p.m., 509 S. College
Ave., Zip 91711. (909) 624-3549. www.claremontcrs.org
Corte Madera—Karyl Huntley, Sr. Min.; Lloyd Tupper,
Founding Min., Sarah Hargrave, Barbara Leger, Lani
Howard, AssLMin—Sun 10 a.m., Corte Madera
Recreation Center, 498 Tamalpias Dr., Mail: 101
Casa Buena Dr., Suite B, Zip 94925. (415) 924-1494.
www.ggcsl.org
Covina—Kristina M. Collins, Min., Roger Juline, Anthony
Streets, Asst. Min.—Sun 11 a.m.. 5446 N. Citrus
Ave., Zip 91722. (626) 332-6838
Cypress—Diane Hogan, Sr. Min.. Annie McCary, Staff
Min.—Sun. 10 a.m., 4552 Lincoln Blvd., Ste 104,
Cypress, Zip 90630. (714) 761-2004. Email:
[email protected]
Davis—Gregory Toole, Min.—Sun. Meditation 10:45 a.m.,
Service 11 a.m., Congregation Bet Haverim, 1715
Anderson Rd. Mail: P.O. Box 2276, Zip 95617. (530)
297-0590
Del Mar—See Encinitas listing.
Downey— Sun. 10:30 a.m., Meditation 10 a.m. 10000 Paramount Blvd., Zip 90240. (562) 928-6469
Dublin—Study Group—William Graham. Dir.—Meets 3rd
Sunday of month 3:00pm, 11852 Dublin Blvd, MindKey Hypnosis Center, Zip 94568, (925) 803-0403,
email: [email protected]
Encinitas—Christian Sorensen, Spiritual Leader; Tammy
Miller, Katherine Economou, Asst. Mins.; Christina
Tillotson. Dianne Nockey, Staff Mins.—Sun:
Meditation 10:20 a.m., Service 9 & 11 a.m., Wed.
Service
7
p.m.,
1613 Lake Drive, Zip 92024. (760) 753-5786,
www.SeasideCenter.org
Escondido—Audrey
& Les Turner, Co-Min.s, Debbie
Timmons, Asst. Min.—Sun. 10:00 a.m. 1330 East
Valley Parkway, Suite G, Zip 92027. (760) 7410853., Webwizard: [email protected]
Eureka—Betsy Elliott, Min.—Sunday Meditation 9:30 a.m.,
Service 10:00 a.m., Odd Fellows Hall, 239 Buhne
Ave.; Mail: P.O. Box 1049, Zip 95502.; Office: 514
Russ St., Zip 95502 (707) 443-5743
Fairfield/Suisun City—Joan McKenna. Min— Sun. Service
10 a.m., Fairfield Senior Center, 1200 Civic Center
Dr. Mail: P.O. Box 2694, Fairfield. Zip 94533, (707)
421-3112. (707) 435-0821, [email protected]
Fallbrook—Guy Williams. Min.—Sun. 10:00 a.m., 331 East
Elder St., Zip 92028 (760) 723-8291
Fontana—Wanda Haynes. Min.—Sun. 11:00 a.m., 16650
Arrow Blvd. Mail: P.O. Box 787, Zip 92334-0787.
(909) 355-0683
Fresno—Shirley Hart. Min.—Sun. 11 a.m., 723 W. Clinton
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Gualala—Alyce Soden.Min— Sunday 7 p.m., 33801 S. Hwy.
1, Zip 95445. (707) 884-3631. Email: soden@
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Hemet—Anne B. Greene. Asst M/n. Leora Nash. June
Stanford-Clark. Staff Mins.. Drs. Ernest & Florence
Phillips. Emeritus—Sun 10 a.m.. 40450 Stetson
Ave., Zip 92544. (951) 658-5157
Huntington Beach—Rev David Phears. Senior Mm—Sun
Med. 9:00 am. Service 10 00 am Wed 7pm. 7641
Talbert Ave.. Zip 92648-1315 (714) 596-0900
www.hbcrschurch org
Irvine—Joshua Reeves. Mm —Sun 10 40 am Meets at the
Irvine Improv at the Irvine Spectrum. 78 Fortune Dr
Irvine CA 92618 www.themeamngplace org Phone
(714) 60&O359
Jackson—Study Group—Shawn Combs Dir—Tues. 6:30
pm.. Paperbacks Plus. Mother Lode Plaza. Zip
95642 Call for information Mail: 0 Box 1585, Zip
95642(209)223-1186
La Crescenta—Beverly Craig. M/n—Sun 10 a.m., 4845
Dunsmore Ave . Zip 91214. (818) 249-1045
Laguna Hills—First Church of Religious Science. Laguna
Hills—Linda Mc Hamar. Mm — Sun. 10 a.m.. Leisure
World. Club House 3. Dining Rm 1 Mail P O Box
3912. Zip 92654, (877)633-1583
Lakewood— See Cypress listing
Lancaster—Don Welsh. Mm.: LaVonne Rae Welsh, asst
mm—Sun. 11 a.m.. 1030 W Ave L-8. Zip 93534
(661) 948-0873. avcors@juno com. www avcenteroflight org
Lodi/Lockford— Services 10:00 am 11455 East Locke Rd
Lockford. Ca 95237 Mail address PO Box 925.
Lodi.Ca. 95241.
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Hawkins. Mm—Sun 10 a.m.. 6695 Pacific Coast
Hwy #125. Zip 90806. (562) 980-7610. email:
info@NamastePlace com
'Long Beach—Center for Inspirational Living-Patncia King
M/n—Sun 10a m.. Meditation 9:45 Long Beach
Playhouse. 5021 Anaheim Rd Zip: 90804 Mail: PO
Box 334. Seal Beach Zip: 90740 Phone (562) 2434880 Email revpatking1@earthlink net Web
www inspirationalliving us
Los Angeles—Founder's Church of Religious Science—
Arthur Chang. Mm.. Larry Barber. Assoc. M/n..
George Hmes. Staff Mm— Sun 10 a.m.. Wed 7
p.m.. 3281 W. 6th. Zip 90020. (213) 388-9733.
www founderschurch org. fndercrs@pacbell net
Los Angeles—Guidance Church—Nirvana Gayle. Sr Min.;
Manlyn DeLaHoussaye. Juanita B Dunn. Mary Shy
Taylor. Asst Mins. Herracia Brewer. Asst MinisterSun. 9:30am Devotional Service, 10am. Worship,
Youth S Children's Church. Wed. 7 pm Healing
Service. 7225 Crenshaw Blvd.. Zip 90043 (323) 7780773
Los Angeles—June Cobb Church—Carol Traylor. Mm —
Sun 11am. 1195 E. 55th St.. Zip 90011 (323) 2330097
Los Angeles— Teaching Chapter—Living Life Fulfilled—
Taffye Wallace. Director—Call or email for information Phone: (310) 743-4183. Email: t a f f y e w ®
yahoo com. www livmglifefulfilled.com
Los Angeles—Tnangular Church—Gregory Pitts. Sr. Mm;
Alma F. May. Ingle Mane Luster. Thelma Lawrence
Pyne. Michael Forte. Asst Mins—1938 S Western
Avenue: Zip: 90018 Phones: (323) 731-1194: (323)
294-3974; Fax: (323) 731-1887 E-mail [email protected]
Marina del Rey—Teaching Chapter—Rev. Sage Bennet.
PhD. director —Call for time and day of meeting
Meets at 14025 Panay Way. Zip 90292 Mail: 578
Washington Blvd #707 Zip: 90292 Phone: (310)
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Email:
[email protected]
www.sagebenNet.com
Menifee Valley—see Sun City
Merced—Study Group/Center—Judith Hartman, Dir.—166
East Donna Dr.. Call for information (209) 383-5385
or email: jhartcentr@aol com
Napa—Napa Valley CSL—lanet Garvey-Stangvik. Min —
Sun 10:30 am 1249 Coombs St zip 94559. Mail:
1237 Coombs St. 94559; (707) 2524847
North Hollywood/Van Nuys—Mark Viena. Sr Mm.: Marc
LaPonce. Asst. Mm . Nadine Weathersby. Staff
Min— Sun 8. 9:45. 11:30 a.m.; Wed 7:00 p.m.
6161 Whitsett Ave . Zip 91606 (818) 762-7566
Oakland—East Bay Church of Religious Science—Elouise
Oliver. Sr Min. Andnette Ead. Asst. Min—Sun. 8 &
10a.m.4 12 p.m.. Wed Service 6:30 p.m., 4130
Telegraph Ave.. Zip 94609. (510) 420-1003. email:
info@ebcrs org www ebcrs org
Oakland—First Church of Religious
Science—Joan
Steadman. Min. Hamet Quigley. Claire Rose. Asst
Mins—Sun 9 & 11 a.m.. Wed. 6:15 p.m.. 5000
Clarewood Dr. Zip 94618 (510) 547-1979.
fcrso@pacbell net www firstchurch-oakland org
Occidental—Josephine Smith. Minister—Call or email for
information. Phone: (707) 874-2644 Email:
josmithdc@juno com
Cya/— Teaching Chapter—Susan Burrell. Dir —Services
Sunday 9:30-10:30. Call for location. Mail: 506 E
Aliso St, Zip93023 . (805) 390-9664.. Email: [email protected]
Palmdale—See Lancaster listing
Palm Springs—Michael J Kearney. Sr Minister: Beverly
Lee-Branom. Asst Minister—Sunday. 9:00 AM
Healing/Meditation Service Sunday. 10 30 AM
Celebration of Life Service 2100 E Racquet Club
Rd.. 92262 Phone: (760) 323-5447 Email pssecoffice@dc IT com Web: www pssec org
Pasadena—Charles Rose. Min— Sun. Celebration Service
11:00 a.m.. 277 N El Molino. Zip 91101 (626) 7954216
Placerville—Rev
Robin A Davidson. Sr. Mm— Sun
Meditation 10:00 am. Sun Service Celebration 10:30
am Town Hall 549 Main St. Mail: PO Box 1293.
Zip 95667 Office address 297 Placerville Dr. Ste
J. (530) 672-3119. www mtnside org
Pomona Valley—See Claremont listing
Prunedale—Teaching Chapter-Kathleen Nicholls. Dir— Sun
10:30. Prunedale Grange Hall 17890 Mora Rd. Zip
93907 (831)663-2378. [email protected]
Quincy— Hannah Rothlin. Director—can or email for meeting
time and location Phone (503) 394-8343. Email
[email protected]
Rancho Bernardo—Sun. 10:30 a.m.. 12540 Oaks North Dr
Ste B-3 Mail: PO Box 501414. San Diego. 921501414.(858)485-8119
Redondo Beach—Study
Group—Tina Fox. Dir.—
Call or Email for information (310) 374-8001 Email
tifox@cisco com
Riverside—Community Church of Riverside—Lee Brown
Rate. Min.. Jerry hobby. Staff Min—Sun. 11 a.m..
3891 Ridge Rd.. Zip 92501. (951) 683-2343
Riverside—Visions Center of Religious Science—Jacki
Smith. Mm—Sun 10:30, Evergreen Masonic Lodge.
5801 Chicago Avenue Mailing address PO Box
3184 Riverside. CA 92519 Phone 1951) 276-2291
Sacramento—Center for Spiritual Awareness—Georgia
Prescott. Min—Sunday service Call for Service
times. 1020 W. Capitol Ave . West Sacramento. Zip
95691 (916)374-9177
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Sacramento—Study Group—FranOone. Dir —Call or email
for information (916) 688-0506 [email protected]
Salinas—See: Pnjnedale
San Diego—San Diego Center for Spiritual Living—John
Poleski. Sr. Minister: Dr Gordon Bishop. Founding
Minister—Sunday Meditation 9 30 a m . Service
10:00 a.m.. in the New School of Architecture
Building. 1249 F Street (at Park Blvd ). Downtown
San Diego. ZIP 92101 (619) 491-3087 Email
Office@downtownccorg. www.sdcsl.org
San Diego—Universal Spirit Center—. Kevin Bucy. Sr.
Min —Sun 8:45 Meditative Experience. 10 30
Music-Filled Celebration. Wed 645 pm Svc. 3858
Front St (at University Ave.) ZIP 92103 (619) 2914728 www UniversalSpintCenter org
'San Diego—Shiloh Spiritual Center—Roxie Hart. Min—
5995 Mission Gorge Road, 92120 619 640-2020
Mail: P.O. Box 16161. zip 92176. shilohspirit1@
aol com: www shilohspmtualcenter com
San Diego—Spanish Center—Rev Cielo Torrens. Mm —
Call for information (858) 668-0853
San Diego—Study Group—Rev Duchess Dale, dir —Call
for info (619) 501-2922 www breathmgenterpnses
com
San Diego—Teaching Chapter—Gary Kuebler. Dir—Call or
email for information (858) 722-2441 day. (858) 5770308 eve [email protected]
'San Diego—Vision Center for Spiritual Living—Rev. Patti
Paris. Min—10 a.m. Service. 9:30 meditation
11260 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. San Diego Mailing
address: 7777 Alvarado Rd.. Ste. 321. La Mesa Zip:
91941 Phone (619) 303-6609. Email: revpatti®
visioncsl com www visioncsl.com
San Dtmas—Teaching Chapter—Grace Lovejoy. Dir—Sun
11:00 service. 10:45 meditation. 220 Monte Vista
Ave at Masonic Temple Phone: (626) 332-3609 or
(818) 556-2236 Email:
graceloveioy-rscp@
hotmailcom
San Fernando—Alma Gonzales Robbins. Mm— Sun.
Service 8 am. (Spanish). Call for location . Sun
Service 12:15 pm (English). 820 San Fernando Rd .
2nd Fl . Mail 13042 Foothill Blvd PMB 6021.
Sylmar.
Zip
91342.
(323)702-9081..
Lightoftruthreligiouscience@hotmail com
San Francisco—San Francisco Center for Spiritual Living—
Muata Rasuli. Mm—Sun 11:00 am. Meditation
10:30. 278-280 Claremont Blvd.. Zip 94127 (415)
731-3887
wwwsfcrs.org
Email:
revmuata@sfcrs com
San Francisco—Spiritual Ennchment Center—Celebration
10:30 a.m. Meditation 10:00 am Wed meditation
6:30. 2118 Hayes St. Zip 94117.(415) 831-9437.
www sfglobalheart.org
San Jose—David Bruner. Mm: Jane Beach. Asst. Min —
Meditation 8:30 a.m. Service 9:00 and 10:45 a.m.,
Wed. 7 p.m.. 1195 Clark St.. Zip 95125. (408) 2941828 www.SanJoseCenter org
San Jose—ltlummala Spiritual Center—Carolyn Jolly
Douglas. Sr Mm: Allen David Young. Asst Mm —
Sun. 10:30 am, Sherton San Jose Hotel. 1801
Barber Lane. Milipitas: P O Box 610145, San Jose.
CA 95161. (408) 435-7961. Email: illumina@illuminata-sc org . www.illummata-sc org
San Juan Captstrano—Sandy Moore. Sr. Mm . Rev Kirk
Moore. Asst Min and Music Dir.. Rev. Adrian
Windsor. Asst. Mm—Sun Meditation 8:30 a.m..
Sun Service 9 and 10:45 a.m.. 27121 Calle Arroyo.
Suite 2200. Zip 92675. (949) 481-4040.. Email:
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office@centerfortmth org www centerfortruth.org
San Rafael—Jane Strem. Mm— Sun. Meditation 10 a.m..
Service 10:30 AM—85 Mitchell Blvd. #3. San Rafael.
Zip 94903 (415)472-2852
Santa Ana—Sun 10 am. 600 Golden Circle Dr. Zip 92705,
(714)541-3365
Santa Barbara—Karen Wemgard. Mm—Sun 10:30 a.m.,
487 N Turnpike Rd.. Zip 93111 (805) 964^861
Santa Clanta/Valencia—Sun. 10 a.m.. 19310 W. Ave of the
Oaks. Newhall. Mail: 18565 Soledad Canyon Rd.,
«123.Canyon Country, Zip 91351 (661) 298-9411,
Email: mail@sccrs org., wwwsccrs.org
Santa Cmz—Angela Geary. Sr Minister—Sun Meditation
10:00 a.m. Service 1030 a.m.. 1818 Felt St, Zip
95062.(831)462-9383
Santa Rosa—Edward Viljoen. Min. Joyce Duffala. Asst.
Mm. Ruth Bamhart. Maggie Suck. Carol Chase. Kim
Kaiser. Josephine E. Smith. Staff Mins: Marilyn
Mooney. Mm Ementus —Sun. 8. 9:30 and 11:15
a m , Wed 7 p m 2075 Occidental Rd . Zip 95401.
(707) 54M543
Seal Beach—Peggy Price. Minister— Sun. 10 a.m.. 500
Manna Dr., Zip 90740. (562) 598-3325
Signal Hill—see Long Beach
StocMon—See Lodi listing
Sun City/Menifee Valley—Don Lunday. CSL Dr Casey
Gryba. Min. Ementus—Meditation 9:15 a.m., Service
10:00 am 26805 Murrieta Rd., Zip 92585 (951)
679-6622 Email: centerforspiritualliving@verizon
net: www religiousscience.org/Sun City
Tn-Cities— Teaching Chapter—Rev Kathleen Geier. Dir.—
Call or email for information Kathleen@
godatplay org (510) 489-3860 day 51CM61-0397
Tustm—see Santa Ana
Vallejo—Sun meditation 10 30 am . service 11 am 223
Spnngs Rd Mail: 229 Spnngs Rd. Zip 94590. (707)
643-3617. Dial-a-Prayer (707) 643-4357 email:
[email protected]
Ventura—Bonnie Rose. Mm— Sun Meditation. 10:30 a.m..
Services 9 and 11 a.m. 101 Laurel. Zip 93001. (805)
643-1933.
Victorville—Study Group—Rev Milli Bradley. Director—Call
or email for information. Phone: (866) 953-2341.
Email: [email protected].
Whittier— Shawn Kindorf. Sr M/n—Sun. 10 a.m.. 12907 E
Bailey. Zip 90601 (562) 698-0341 Email
HarmonyCSL@ msn.com
Yreka—Study Group—Marilyn Letsos. RScP. Dir— Call
Glenda Thomas for info at 530-841-0510.
Colorado
Aurora—Karen Paschal. Sr. Min.. Lisa Williams. Staff Min —
Sun. 10 a.m. 1680 South Chambers Rd Zip 80017
(303) 369-8222
Boulder/Lafayette—Alexandra
Potash. Min — Sunday
Meditation 9 15 a.m.. Service 9 30 a m . Youth
Services, 9:30 am.. 200 E Baseline Rd . Lafayette,
Mail: 107 E. Geneseo St Lafayette. Zip 80026, (303)
664-5603. www religiousscience org/newhonzons
'Castle Rock—Marilyn Lewis. Min—Sun. 10am Castle
Rock Recreation Center. 2301 Woodlands Blvd
Mailing P O Box 1705. Zip: 80104 Phone: (303)
973-8520 or (719) 481-8624 Email Centerfor
[email protected]
Colorado Spnngs—Charilotte Amant. CSL Wanda Gentile.
Assoc. Min—Sun Meditation 9 a.m , Service 9:30
a.m. 3685 Jeannine Dr„ Zip 80917-8002 (719) 5966894. Email. [email protected] Web www.community-for-spiritual-
Science of Mind
rhinvlu-s study groups and rcMrliinp; rhnpte
living.com
Cortez—Study Group—Mary Beth Gentry, director.—Call or
eMail for information. (9 0) 882-3240, [email protected]
Delta—Kay Spinden, Min.—Sun. 10:30 a.m., 658 Howard
St., Zip 81419. (970) 874-3425.
Denver—Denver
Church of Religious
ScienceJim Chandler.
Sr. Min.; Barbara
Hays,
Asst. Min.; Mary Jo Honiotes, StaffMin—Sun. 10:00
a.m. Wed. 7:00 pm. 1420 Ogden St. Zip 80218.
(303)
832-5206. Email:
[email protected]
www.DenverChurchof ReligiousScience.org..
Denver—Mountain Vista Religious Science Community
Church—Rita Foster, MR—Sun 9:30 a.m.; 4345 W.
41st Ave., Denver. 80212. Phone: (303) 477-3838
Email: [email protected]
Denver—Mile Hi Church of Religious Science—Roger Teel,
Sr. Min.; Robert A. Smith, Patty Luckenbach, Lloyd
G. Barrett, Marjorie Staum, Cynthia James, Asst
Mins., Marilyn Connolly, Barry Ebert, Staff Min.,
Christina Plym, Staff Min.; Mary Jo Honiotes, Staff
Min.—Sun. 8:15, 10, 11:45 a.m., Wed. 7 p.m. 9077
W. Alameda Ave., Lakewood, Zip 80226-2858. (303)
237-8851, www.milehichurch.org.
Denver—Oasis Center for Spiritual Living—S. Tucker,
Senior Min., Lynn Tucker, Assoc. Min— Services:
Sun. 10:30 a.m., 9940 East Costilla Avenue, Suite B,
Englewood, Zip 80112 (303) 662-1505,
http://www.OasisCSL.org
Durango—4 Comers Study Group—Karen Kauffman, Dir.—
Call for information (970) 884-4889
Fort Collins—Cheryl Jensen. Min—Sun. 10:00 am. 2020 S.
College Ave. Ste C, Zip: 80525. Phone: (970) 2241206. Email: [email protected]. Web:
www.wholelifecsl.org
Frisco—Study Group—Gail McDonald, Dir.—Call or
email for information. (970) 390-1811, [email protected].
Granby—Study Group—Bonnie Rozean, Dir.—Call or email
for information. Phone (970) 887-0209. Email: [email protected]
Grand Junction—Michael Toiphy, Min.—Sun. 10 a.m., 1622
Glenwood Ave., Zip 81501. (970) 242-2043
Greeley—Sun. Service and Jr. Church—9 a.m., 929 15th St..
Mail: P.O. Box 336724, Zip 80633. (970) 351-8122,
www.religiousscience.org/greeley
Connecticut
Hamden—Study Group—Rebecca Botkin, RScP, Dir.—Call
for time and location., (203) 230-9031., Email:
[email protected]
Delaware
Rehoboth Beach—Study Group—Co-directors: Dorothy
Hand, 302-226-7776; Aimee Ganster, 302-5392783—Information at: www.pathwaysspiritualcenter.org/satellite. Mailing address: 19 Glade Farm
Dr., Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Wilmington—Gayte Reuter, Min.—Call for time and directions, 3611 Birch Circle, Zip 19808. (302) 998-3699
District of Columbia
Washington—See Falls Church VA
Florida
Auburndale/Winterhaven—Sun. 10:30 a.m., 3742 K-ville
Ave, Zip 33823. Mail: P.O. Box 97, Eaton Park, Zip
33840-0097. (863) 510-0300
Cocoa/Merritt Island—Virgil A. Gfeller, Min.; Bonnie Mussel-
September 2007
white, Outreach
Min.—Sun.
10:30 a.m.,
5 Rosa L. Jones Dr, Cocoa. Mail 480 Sail Ln. Apt.
302, Merritt Island, zip: 32953. (321) 452-1736.
Email: [email protected]. Call for location of other
activities.
Daytona Beach—David Carter. Outreach Min.—Sun. 10:30
a.m., 1104 H, Beville R d , FL 32114. (386) 672-6382
Eustis—Cay Thompson. Min.; Don Thompson, Staff Min.—
Sun. 10:30 a.m., 26 S. Grove St., Unit 1, Zip 32726.
(352) 589-2620. Email: [email protected]
www.cfsom.org
Ft. Pierce—Sun 4 pm at Unity Church, 3414 Sunrise Dr, Zip
34982, Mail: 410 NW Canterbury Ct, Port St. Lucie,
Zip: 34983 (772) 785-8525
Gainesville—Study Group—Delite Piper, Dir.—Call or email
for time and place (352) 629-3897. Email: [email protected]. Mail: PO Box 357579, Zip: 32635
Hollywood—Alma M. Stevens, Min.—Sunday 11 a.m., 101
Ansin Blvd. (I-95 & Hallandale Blvd.). Mail: 919
Hillcrest Dr, #615, Zip 33021. (954) 921-7073 or
9644271
Miami—Sun. 10:30 am 2490 Coral Way, Coral Gables, Zip:
33145. Mailing address: 800 S. Dixie Hwy. #304.
Coral Gables, Zip: 33146, Phone: (786) 206-6355.
Ocala—Peggy Hosteller. Min.; Vicky Woods, Pastoral Care
Min— Sun. Service 10:30 a.m., Meditation 9:45a.m.,
1009 NE 28th Ave. Zip 34470. (352) 629-3897,
www.olec.org
Orlando—The
Center
for
Spiritual
LivingSun. 10:30 a.m., 709 Edgewater Dr. (West U.S. Rt.
50 & Edgewater Dr), Zip 32804. (407) 423-5571.
www.orlandoreligiousscience.org
Orlando—The Manna Group Teaching Chapter—Bonnie
Musslewhite. Mentoring Min.; Peg Seykora Dir.—
Sun 3:00 p.m., College Park Women's Civic Club,
714 Dartmouth St. Email: [email protected],
(407) 2304040, (407) 365-5846
Palmetto— Sun 10am, 1327 10th St. East. Zip 34221. (941)
729-0099. www.msccom.com
Sarasota—Toni La Motta-Min.—Sun 10 a.m. Girls, Inc. 201
S. Turtle, Zip 34237. (941) 330-9922 Email: [email protected]
www.sarasotacelebrationcenter.org
Souffi Daytona—Study Group—Kathleen Zurenko, RScP,
Dir., Jo Lowery Co-dir.—Every Sunday 11:00am12noon, Marcell Apt. Community Center, 580 Reed
Canal. Phone: (386) 248-1868. Email: [email protected]
Tallahassee—Study Group—Sue Howden (850) 942-0584,
Bret Oglesby, (850) 544-6834, Mark Palmquist, (850)
539-5853, Co-directors—Meets Mon. 7 pm, Unity
Church, 2850 Unity Lane. Email: c a r m a r l © b e l l south.net. Mail: 3211 Tallavana Trail, Havana FL
32333-5620
Tampa—Nikki Colman Ackerman, Min.; K. Knox, Asst.
Min—Sun. 11 a.m., Childrens Church 11 a.m., 4600
E. Busch Blvd., Zip 33617. (813) 985-2428.
Email:[email protected],
www.TampaBayChurch.org
Georgia
Atlanta—E. Wendy Williams, Min.; John Bell, Outreach
Min.—Sun. 11 a.m., 2054 Harobi Drive, Tucker, Zip
30084. Mail: P.O Box 53324, Atlanta, Zip 30355,
(404) 233-2061
Snellville—Teaching Chapter—Rev. Mary Louise Ruffner,
Dir.; Robbin G. Ruffner, RScP, Co-Dir— Mail: P.O.
Box 391175 Centerville, GA 30039 Contact us for
information: Phone: (770) 978-3681. e-mail:
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[email protected]; website: www.stillpointspiritualcenter.com
Won—Study Group—Jane Campbell. Dir.—Call for time
and location. (229) 382-0743.
0300 or (337) 264-1222.
Mandeville—Study Group—Angela Davis, Dir.—Email for
information: [email protected]
Idaho
'Scarborough—Linda Holmes. Min— Sunday Service 10:30
a.m., Camp Ketcha. 336 Black Point Road, (Rt. 207),
Mail: 35 Day Road, Gorham, ME 04038, (207) 4092155, [email protected].
Boise— George Dashiell, Min.; Sara K. Donesley. Staff
Min— Sun. 10:30 a.m., 600 N. Curtis Road, Ste. 105,
Zip 83706. (208) 375-0751
Coeur d'Alene—Carolyn Holland. Mm—Sun. Meditation
9:45 a.m., Service 10 a.m.. 618 E. Wallace. Zip
83814. Mail: P.O. Box 804, Zip 83816. (208) 6670462, www.openinghearts.org.
Nampa—Study Group—Janet Somalinog and Ron Pirnie.
Dirs.—Call or email for information. Phone: (208)
870-9065. Email: [email protected]
Sun Valley—John Moreland, Min.—Sun. Meditation 9:00
a.m., Service 9:30 a.m., 12446 Highway 75 at Gimlet
View, Ketchum, Mail: P.O. Box 1195, Zip 83353.
(208) 727-1631. www.lightonthemountains.com
Illinois
Belleville—Rev. Annie P. Clark. Minister—Sunday 11:00
a.m. 626 N. 38th St. ZIP 62226 Phone: (618) 3550897 E-mail: [email protected]
Bloomington—Study Group—Kip Doronila, Dir. —Call or
email for information. Phone:(312)238-9408 Email:
[email protected]. Web: www.kipdoronila.com
Chicago—Chicago
Center for Spiritual Living—Mark
Anthony Lord, Min.—10am Meditation, 10:30am
Service. 2851 N. Seminary. Mail: P.O. Box 60433
Zip:
60660.
773-248-6452
Email:
[email protected] Web www.chicagocsl.org
Chicago—The Power of Oneness Spiritual Center—Celeste
Frazier, Sr. Minister— Sun. 3:30, meditation 3:00.
University Church, 5655 S. University Ave. Mail:
8142 S. Eberhart. Zip: 60619. Phone: (773) 9629081. Email: reverendc@powerofonenesspractice
.com. Web: powerofonenesspractice.com
Peoria—Study Group—Elaine Blom, Dir.—Call for info (800)
248-1399
Maryland
Baltimore—Sun. 10:30 a.m.. 2129 N. Charles St. Mail: PO
Box 33182, Zip: 21218. (410) 244-7321. Email:
[email protected]. www.spiritualempowermentcenter.org
Union Bridge—Teaching Chapter—Rev. Marsha Lehman,
Director—Call or email for information. Phone: (301)
898-3208. Email: [email protected]
Michigan
Coldwater—Study
Group—Susan Magocs, Johanne
Saltzgaber, Co-Dir.s—Tuesdays 7 p.m. (517) 2787990. Email: [email protected]. Call for
location.
Grand Blanc—Study Group—Gloria Phillips & Gayle Silas,
Co-Dir.s—Thurs 12:30-2:00pm, 2512 S. Dye Rd.,
Flint, Zip 48532. Mail: 10084 Shadybrook, Zip 48439.
(810) 694-6203, email: [email protected]
Minnesota
Minneapolis—Glenn E. Chaffin, Ministser—Ca\l 952-4730350, or email [email protected] for
information about classes and gatherings.
Minneapolis—Minneapolis
Teaching
Chapter—Sher
McNeal, Min.—Call for information. (612) 770-8343
or email [email protected]
Minneapolis—Nancy Herrick, Minister—Sun. 10:00 a.m. at
The Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. Mail: 110
Bank St. SE. Zip: 55414 Phone: (612) 388-8223.
Web: www.OurSpiritualCenter.com
Missouri
Overland Park—"Celebrate Life Center for Spiritual Living"—
Susan Peterson, Min.—Sunday 10:30 am. Call or
email for more information. (913)526-1182 www.celebratelifecenter.org
Overland Park—Study
Group—Norris
Hill, Dir.—
Wed 7 pm. Call (816) 924-2857 or (913) 541-0601
for information and location.
Kansas City—Center for Spiritual Living—Chris Michaels,
Sr. Min.; Jarie Newsome, Asst. Min; Julie Klinghoffer,
Staff min.—Sun service 9:00 and 10:30 am, Wed.
service, 1st & 3rd Wed., 7:00 pm. 1306 West 39th.
St., Zip 64111. (816)931-2395. www.cslkc.org
Overland Park—"Celebrate Life Center for Spiritual Living"—
Susan Peterson, Min.—Sunday 10:30 am. Call or
email for more information. (913)526-1182 www.celebratelifecenter.org
Overland Park—Study Group—Norris Hill, Director—Wed 7
pm. Call (816) 924-2857 or (913) 541-0601 for information and location
St. Joseph—Study Group—Ruth Young, Dir.—Sun. 10:30
a.m., 2301 Fredrick Ave., Zip 64506. (816) 279-1600
St. Louis—Marigene De Rusha, Min—Sun. 9:30 and 11:00
a.m., Meditation at 10:30 a.m. 12875 Fee Fee Rd.
Zip 63146. (314)576-6772 Website: www.cslstl.org
St. Peters—Pat Powers, Min.; Denise Judd, Asst. Min—Call
for information (636) 294-5013.
Kentucky
Nevada
Indiana
Columbia City—Study Group—Pam Fill, Dir.—Sun. 4:305:30 pm, Meditation 4 pm. 1080 B Spartan Dr. Zip:
46725. Phone (260) 244-1900 or (260) 244-7866.
Cell (260) 416-8839. Email: [email protected]
Iowa
Carroll—Study Group—Myron and Shirley Johnson, Dir.s—
Call or email for information (712) 792 3745. Email:
[email protected]
Kansas
Louisville—Study Group—Vicky Jeter, Dir.—Call for information. Phone: (713) 623-1974 or (281) 701-7356.
Louisiana
Lafayette—Study Group—Cheryl Dobbs, Dir.—1st and 3rd
Sundays 10:30 a.m. Call for directions (337) 264-
70
Maine
Carson City—Gil&GailLinsley, Co-min.s—Meditation 10:00
a.m., Service 10:30 a.m., 675 Fairview Dr. #241-220,
Zip 89701. (775) 882-0901
Las Vegas—Doug Foglesong, Min.—Sun. 9 & 10:30 a.m.,
Wed. 7:00 p.m. 1420 E. Harmon Ave., Zip 89119.
(702) 739-8200
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( lunches, sriKiy groups and n i c h i n g rh;iptvrs
Pahrump—Study Group—Teresa and Ernie Fuller. Dir.s—
Sun. 10:30 a.m., Haven Selah Retreat. 1680 N
Blagg Rd, Zip 89060. Mail: 1641 Sharon St. Zip
89060 (775) 727-8633. [email protected]
Reno—Liesa Garcia. Mm—Sun 9:30 & 11:00 a m . Youth
Ministry and Nursery, Sun. 11:00 a.m.. 4685
Lakeside Dnve Zip 89509 (775) 826-0566 Email
Icc2u@ nvtjell.net; www Iccreno org
New Jersey
'South Jersey—Teaching Chapter—Marie Strzykalski.
Director— Offenng classes and workshops PO Box
303 Mt Laurel NJ 08054. Email GlobalHeart
[email protected]
Trenton—Study Group—Ronald J. Franks. Dir.—Call for info
(609)581-1436
New Mexico
Albuquerque—Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living—
Patnck Pollard. Minister—Sunday 9:15 and 11am,
Wed : Beyond Sunday Dialogue, 6:30pm, 2801
Louisiana Blvd NE, 87110 (505) 881-4311 web:
wwwcslabqorg email: office@cslabq org
Albuquerque—High Desert Church of Religious Science—
Jac Blackman. Senior Mm —Sun. 10 a.m.. Paradise
Hills Community Center. 5901 Paradise Hills Blvd
NW, Mail: P O Box 67826. Zip 87193 (505) 9221200 www highdesertcrs org
'Belen—Qale Stewad. Min— Sun 9:30a.m . Thurs meditation 6:30 pm 2295C Highway 304, Rio Communities
Mail PO Box 716, Zip 87002 Phone: (505) 8615774. Email
revgale@racfrs com Web:
www.racfrs com
Bernalillo—Teaching Chapter-Jennie Goff. Mm— Call
or email for information (505) 888-5410 Email
Ijg1077@aol com
Las Cruces—Sandhi Scott. Min —Meditation 9 30 a.m..
Service 10:30 a.m.. 575 N Mam St., Zip 88001
(505) 5234847, [email protected]
Santa Fe—Bernardo Monserrat. Min—505 Camino de los
Marquez, Zip 87501. (505) 983-5022 www religioussciencesantafe org
Tyrone—Study Group—Walter R Glazewski. Dir—Call for
time and location Mail: P O Box 296. Zip 880650296 (505) 534-0300. glazwm@zianet com
New York
Albany—Sun. 11 a.m.. 1237 Central Ave„ Zip 12205 (518)
446-1020 www forspintualliving org Email: [email protected]
New York—Meditation 10 45 a.m.. Service 11:00 a.m.
Please call or check our website for directions, time,
and location Mailing address-244 5th Ave. #B253,
Zip
10001.
(212)
802-7479.
Email
creativelightcrs@aol com: www.creativelight.org
Rochester—Study Group-Joanne Siebert. Dir— Tues 7PM
(585) 247-6386 Email pjsiebert@|uno.com. Call or
email for information and location
Rochester—All Souls United Church of Religious ScienceSun 10:30 am 460 State St, Ste 407. Zip 14608
Phone. (585) 482-9238 Email: w s t r o t h e r ®
rochester rr com
North Carolina
Asheville—Barbara and John Waterhouse. Co-Mms— Sun
11 a.m.. Two Science of Mind Way . Zip 28806
(828) 253-2325
Asheville—Teaching Chapter—Denise Schubert. Min—Call
for information 479-283-9409
September 2007
Graham—Sun. 11:00 a m , 309 So. Maple St. Zip 27253.
(336) 227-7930
Ohio
Akron—Teaching Chapter—Michael Mangus. Dir.—
Sun. evening Service 6:30 p m 91 Spnngside Dr. Zip
44333, Call for Directions, (330) 777-0250 Email:
[email protected]. www summitspintualcenterorg
Cincinnati—Linda Ketchum. Min—Sun 10:30. 5701 Murray
Ave Zip 45227. Call for directions Phone (513) 2182128 Email: info@beaconoflife org www.beaconoflife.org
Cleveland—Miracle Church of Religious Science—Sun 10
a.m. . 11713 Buckeye Rd, Zip 44120. (216) 9910015 Email: mcorscleveland@juno com Web
www mcorscleveland org
Dayton—CCColtrain. Mm— Sun 9:00and 11:00a.m..4100
Benfield Drive . Zip 45429 (937) 298-1376.
staff@godexpressing org: www.godexpressing org
Oklahoma
Edmond—Suellen Miller. Mm —Call or Email for information:
(405)330-4116 [email protected]
Oklahoma City—Shelley Heller. Sr Min —Sunday
Meditation 1000 am, service 10:30 am 3332 N.
Meridian Zip 73112. (405) 946-6753 www.unitedlife.org
Tulsa—Sun. SOM discussion group. 10:15 a.m.. Youth
Ministry 11 a.m.. Celebration Service 11 a m , 9022
E 31st St.. Zip 74145. (918) 665-0607
Oregon
Bend—Study Group-Sandra Jones and Janet Hulme.
Dins —Call for info (541) 617-5930
Cave Junction—Study Group—Millie Parker. Director—Call
for information. (541) 956-9697. Email:
imparkerl @earthlink.net
Grants Pass—Sun. 10:30 a.m.. 466 SW "I" St, Zip 97526
(541) 479-0007 www grantspassunitedcommunitychurch com
Medford—Jeanane Foumier. Mm —Sun 9 and 11 a.m. and
Wed. 7 p.m.. 1119 Ellen Ave . Zip 97501. (541)7348581, MedfordCSL@aol com
Portland—Portland Center for Spiritual Living—Lynn
Johnson. Min.—Sun Meditation 10 am Service
10:30 a.m. 6211 NE ML. King Blvd. Zip 97211
Phone: (503) 261-0677 Email: [email protected]
Web: www pcsl us
Portland—Whole Life Church of Religious Science.
Scott Awbrey. Min — Sun 10 a.m.. Service location:
3890 Upper Dr. Lake Oswego Zip 97035. (503)
697-1620 email [email protected].
www thewholelifechurch org
Redmond—Study Group—Paul Halpin. Dir—Call or email
for information Phone: (541) 548-5525 Email
JPaul@BendCable com
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia—Sheila Pierce. Mm —Sun 11 am The Center
of Peace 4700 Wissahickon Ave Zip 19144, (215)
843-7707. fax 843-6043
Pittsburgh—Nancy Kandel. Founding Spiritual Leader—Sun
MeditatioMOam, Service 10 30am. 5655 Bryant St
Zip15206.
412-362-5096.
nancykandel@comcast net. www oneintruth org
Reading—Study Group—Charles Curtis. Dir—Call for information Mail P.O. Box 557. Zip 19607 (610) 7750271 Email: [email protected]
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lyfree.org.
Rhode Island
Warwick—Sun. 9:30 a.m., 292 West Shore Rd. Mail: P.O.
Vermont
Box 9297. Zip 02889. (401) 732-1552. www.religiousscience.org/Warwick
South Dakota
Custer—Jil J. Bradeen, Dir.—Call or email for details (605)
440-0650 email: [email protected]
Hot Springs—Study Group—Melody Inchumuk, Dir.—Call
for Information. (605) 745-4543.
Texas
Austin—Richard
Imprescia. Min.—Sun. Service and
Children's Church 11 am. Adult Sunday School
10:15 am. Service location: Asian American Cultural
Center, 11713 Jollyville Rd.; Mailing address: First
Church of Religious Science, PMB 358, 402A West
Palm Valley Blvd., Round Rock, TX Zip 78664-4200.
(512) 244-2100. E-mail: [email protected].
Website: http://www.fcrsaustin.org
Bandera—Study Group—Debby Gibson, Director—Call or
email for information. Phone: (830) 796-7688. Email:
[email protected].
Brownwood—Study Group—James Smith, Dir— Sun. 10:30
am. Adams Street Community Center, 511 E. Adams
St. (325) 998-6131. Email: Iuv4gives@pegasusbb
.com
Dallas—Center for Spiritual Living—Petra Weldes, Min.;
Marsha Meghdadpour, Asst. Mm—Sunday 9 & 11
a.m., SOM study: 10:10 a.m., 4801 Spring Valley
Rd., Ste 115, International Pkwy, zip 75244 (972)
866-9988. www.csldallas.org; [email protected].
'Dallas—Robert W. Mitchell, Min.—Sun. 10:30a.m. 5938
Skillman St. Zip: 75231. Mail: PO Box 820543 Zip:
75382. Phone: (214) 361-2096
Email:
[email protected].
Dallas/Irving—Celebration of Life Church—Sun. Service, 11
a.m., 1646 W. Irving Blvd., Zip 75061. (972) 2530089. www.colchurch.org
Houston—Lifeworks Center for Spirited Living—Patty
Rumpza, Min.—Mail: PO Box 692465, Zip 77269.
(832) 577^1761
Houston—The Center for Spiritual Living—Sun. 11 a.m.,
6610 Harwin Drive, Zip 77036. (713) 339-1808
Houston/Spring—Creative Life Church—Dr. Jesse Jennings,
Sr. Min.; Marsha Lehman, Cathy Bennett. Staff
Mininsters—Sun 9 & 11 a.m., Wednesday, 7:00 pm.
5326 Spring-Stuebner Rd., Suite 200, Spring, TX,
Zip 77389. Phone (281) 350-5157. Email [email protected]
McKinney—Teaching Chapter—Lynda Kay, Dir.—Call for
more information (972) 542-5690
Midland—Sun. 11 a.m., 2311 Elizabeth St., Zip 79701. (432)
684-4230
San Antonio—Cindy Flor, M m — S u n 11:00 am, 2101
Lockhill Selma Road Suite 200, San Antonio, TX
78213. Phone 210-342-7897. Www.sacenterforspiritualliving.org
San Antonio—Study Group—Kathleen A. Barfield, Dir.—Call
or email for information. Phone: (210) 363-8368.
Utah
Rutland—Study Group—Margaret Gilman, Dir.—Call or
email for information (802) 775-9407 or
[email protected].
Williston—Study Group—Susan Morton. Dm—Wednesday
7-8:30 p.m. Unity Church of Vermont. Call 802-8785062 or email [email protected] for details.
Virginia
Falls Church—Trish Hall, Sr. Min.—Sun. Meditation 10:20
a.m., Service 11:00 a.m., Evensong Contemplative
Service 6:30 p.m., 2840 Graham Rd., Zip 22042.
(703) 560-2030. www.ccrs.org
Sterling—Study Group—Connee Chandler, Dm—Sun. (First
and Third) 11:00 a.m., Mail: 46723 Hobblebush
Terrace, Sterling VA, 20164., Call for Location (703)
406-3427. Email: [email protected], Website:
sterlingstudygroup.org
Washington
Bothelr—Suzi Schadle, Mm.—Sun. Meditation, 9:30 a.m.,
Service 10:00 a.m. at Northshore Health & Wellness
Center 10212 E. Riverside Dr.;Mail, Office, Classes,
Events, Bookstore, Fri. Spirit Express 7:30 p.m.at
18102 102nd Ave. NE, Bothell, Zip 98011; (425) 9419717, Email: [email protected] ; Website:
www.csle.org
Clarkston—Study Group-Denise Heinemeyer, Dir.—Call for
information, (509) 758-3031
Mf. Vernon—Jessie Rees, Min—Sun. 10:30 a.m., 1508 N.
18th, Zip 98273. (360)428-5667
Olympia—Sunday Meditation, 10:30 a.m. Celebration
Service 11 a.m. - 1st Wednesdays "Spiritual Oasis"
meditation & prayer 7 p.m. at the Nova School 2020
22nd Ave SE, Olympia, WA (360)570-2112 website:
www.csaolympia.com
Seattle—Kathianne Lewis, Sr. Min.; Liz Mirante, Lynn
Jardine, Jackie Allen, Sharon Ramey, Yvonne
Cottrell and John Halas, Staff Mins. Jerry Fetterly,
Staff Min.—Services Sun. 8:25am, 9:45am &
11:30am, and Wed. 6:30pm Meditation/7 pm
Service. Classes, concerts, events & bookstore.
Location: 5801 Sand Point Way, N.E., 98105. (206)
527-8801. [email protected] website:
www.SpiritualLiving.org
Tacoma—Frances Lorenz, Min.—Sun. 11 a.m., 206 N. "J"
St., Zip 98403.(253) 383-3151.
Whidbey Island—Jim Freeman, RScP.—Call or email for
information.
(360)
331-2617.
[email protected]
Wisconsin
Madison—Study Group-Cindy Hopfensperger, RScP, Dir.—
Every third Wednesday at 7p.m.. Verona Public
Library. Call or email for information (608) 216-5785
or [email protected]
Global Churches and Study Groups
Canada
British Columbia
Salt Lake City—Elizabeth O'Day. Minister, Jan Ewing, Staff Vancouver— Sun. meditation 10:15 am, service 11:00 am.
Vancouver Masonic Centre, 1495 W. 8th Ave. Mail:
Minister—Sunday, 9:30 and 11:00 a.m., child care at
#107 8838 Heather St., Vancouver, BC
both, Youth church at 11:00. 870 East, North Union
V 6 P , 3S8. Phone (604) 321-1225, fax (604)
Ave. (7145 South) Midvale 84047. Mail: PO Box
321-4569, email: [email protected].
57424 Zip: 84157. (801) 307-0481. Email: officeaswww.cslvancouver.com
sistant@ spirituallyfree.org. Web: www.spiritual72
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Nova Scotia
Abia State
East LaHave and Halifax—Study Group—Patricia A.
Watson, Dir.—Call for information, (902) 7664511
(East LaHave) (902) 422-9395 (Halifax). Mail: 4764
East LaHave, R.R. #3, Bridgewater, N.S. B4V 2W2..
Aba—Study Group—Okoro Kalu Ogbonanya. Dir.—260 A
Faulks Rd., Ariaria. Mail: P.O. Box 3512.
Aba—Study Group—Prince C. E. Ihemeson, Dir.—Science
of Mind Center, 15 Amazu Ave., by 72 Umuechem
Rd„ Mail: P.O. Box 1661, Aba-Abia State.
Puerto Rico
Akwa I bom State
Vieques—Study Group—Ogla Silva, Dir.—Call for information-PO Box 300, Vieques, Zip 00765. (787) 7410414. Email: [email protected]
Caribbean
West Indies
Trinidad—Study Group—Irwin K. Merritt, Dir.—Mail: 45,
Allamanda Ave. Malabar, Arima, Trinidad, West
Indies
Mexico
Mexico
Ciencia de la Mente Mexico—Rebeka Pina, Dir.—Heriberto
Frias #925 A', Colonia del Valle, CP 03100, Mexico
DF, (52) 555-682-6761 & (52) 555-682-8965.
Rebekapina2@ aol.com., www.cienciadelamente.org
Baja California
Tijuana—Teaching
Chapter—Janice
Deaton, Dir.—
c/Ensenada 2277 No. 2, Col Cacho, Telephone in
Tijuana 52 664 215 5908
Jalisco
Chapala—Study Group—Ann L. Brandt, Dir.—meets
Tuesdays 10:30-12:30. Call for information (376)
765-2037, email: [email protected]
Monterrey
Nuevo Leon—Study Group—Alida & Jose L. Sosa. Mins —
Ciencia De La Mente, A.C., Apdo. Postal #352, San
Nicolas De Los Garza, Zip 66451.52 83-767549
Central America
Costa Rica
Cobano—Study Group—Maggie Hill, director—Call or email
for info. (828)221-1940. [email protected]
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca—Study Group—Nanci Wright
Stevens, Dir.—Pozo De AYA, Playa Negra., Puerto
Viejo De Talamanca., Costa Rica, 011-506-7500524, Email: [email protected]
South America
Argentina
Buenos Aires—Study Group—Ana Fumarco. Dir.—Ciencia
De La Mente—Castillo 549 14 "C" 1414 Buenos
Aires, Telefono (5411) 4773-8454., afumarco
@yahoo.com
Colombia
Bogota—Study Group—Peter Montana. Dir.—Call or email
for information. Phone: (408) 445-8485 Email: [email protected]
Peru
Lima—Teaching Chapter—Gladys Gonzales-Vigil Zorrilla.
Director—Phone or email for information. Phone:
(511) 435-8766. Email: [email protected]
Ekpe Atai—Study Group—O.R. Nyaha. Dir.—Okoro Atai
Odot P.O. Ekpe Atai L.G. area.
Uyo—United Church of Religious Science of Nigeria—Udo
Otuk Owo, Min.—107 Oron Rd. Mail: P.O. Box 736.
(085)201-988
Uyo—Study Group—Barrister Clement S.J. Otton, Dir.—
Room 10, Accademic Block, university of Uyo. Mail:
Council Affairs, P.M.B 1017. Every Sunday by 4 p.m.
Uyo—John E. Ekanem, Dir.—No. 4 Nung Ebene Rd,
Ikot Idaha, Ibiono, Off Itam Junction. Every Sunday
by 3:30 p.m.
Anambra State
Aguata—Bishop D.E. Enemuo—Ndikelionwa Town. Mail:
P.O. Box 877.
Imo State
/mo State—Mary U. Egwilem.
Ezinihitte Mbaise.
Dir.—Umubo-Onicha,
South Africa
Johannesburg—Teaching Chapter—Gerd Pontow, Dir.—
Mail: P. O. Box 1248 , Bromhof 2154, South Africa
Call 27 11-476-9766 or email: [email protected]
for time and location of meeting.
West Africa
Sierra Leone—Study Group—Philip M. Conteh. S. Y. Soriba,
Co-Dirs— Sun. 5p.m., Mail: P.O. Box 63, Moyamba.
Asia
Middle East
Study
Group—Doreen
M. Cumberford,
Email:[email protected]
Dir.—
Indonesia
Bali—Study Group-Brenda Ferriera, Dir.—Call for information 0818 05 344 309
Australia & New Zealand
New Zealand
Christchurch—Study Group—Beverly Lundell, Dir.—Call for
information. Tel. (643)326-7172 Mail: 11 Peninsula
View Scarborough, 8008. [email protected]
West Perth
West Perth—Joan Stam, director. —Meets 10:00a.m. 2nd
and 4th Wed. of each month. C.W.A. House, 1174
Hay St. West Perth. Phone: (08) 9386-3549. email:
[email protected]
Sydney
Sydney—Study Group—Rev. Laurie Levine, Dir.—Call or
see website for information. (612) 99989 8988 or
0410 499 602 mobile. Web: www.positivelivingspiritualcentre.com
Queensland
Mudgeer ABA—Study Group—Rev. Dr. Barry Pierce,
Director—Mail. P.O. Box 1508, Mudgeeraba, Old
4213, Australia - Phone: (61J-7-5530-2706, Email:
[email protected]
Omouku Rivers State—S. A. liavbarhe. Dir.—#41 Ichoku St.,
Box 198
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Belgium
Vilvoorde—Arlette Clauwers, Healing Center Europe,
F.Campoinlei 5, B-1800. Telephone: 32-2-252-58-25.
E-mail: [email protected]
England
Bournemouth—Anya Slatter.Min.—Mail: 73 Braboume Ave,
Ferndown, Bournemouth, BH22 9 E H , Call for
Information. 044-1202-896-195
Exmouth. Devon—Study Group—Bob Bryant, Dir.—Won.
7:30 p.m., monthly, 59 Douglas Ave. Exmouth.
Devon, Zip EX8 2HG. 01395-265946
Manchester—Lorraine Shaw, Dir. —call or email for information. Phone 07913-091206 Email: mizshaw@
gmail.com
Kings Langley/Hertsfordshire—Study Group—David & Linda
Seriin. Dirs—Monthly meetings. Enquiries welcome.
Call for information. 01923 264550. Email:
[email protected]
London—Study Group—Neil A. Mence-Dir— Call or email
for information. 020-8875-8422 or [email protected]
Middlesex—Study Group-Maria Luisa Magadanp Aguilera.
Dir.—Call or email for information. 0(20) 8906-0380
Sheffield—Study Group—Neil Robert Maycock. Dir.—Meets
on-line anytime. http://spiritualconversations.invisionzone.com: [email protected] phone 44
07976402349
France
(Near Menton and Monte Carlo)—Study Group—R. PetitBon, Director— BP 9, 06190 Roquebrune Cap
Martin. Phone/fax: (33) 4 93 57 60 15 Email: [email protected]
Germany
Schmitten—Study Group—Rosemarie Schneider, Dir —
CSA Europe e. V , Centrum fur Selbst Aktivierung.
Special Focus Ministries
Bahama
Harbor Island
Higher Vision International Center of
Truth
Rev. Brenda Woods, Dir.
(310)6454844
[email protected]
California
Children's Ministry of the Global Heart
Nancy Zala. Min.
5918Culview St.
Culver City, CA 90230
(310) 559-3900
Expect Good, Inc.
5731 McFadden Ste. B
Huntington Beach, CA 92649
(714) 3624252
www.expectgood.com
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Limesstrafle 16, 61389 Schmitten-Oberreifenberg.
Email: [email protected]; website:
www.naturparkhotel.de
Norway
Oslo—Study Group—Gregory M. Coyle. Dir.—Call or email
for information 47-40294836 [email protected]
Russia
Izhevsk—Center of Spiritual Science— Galina Yemelyanova,
Min—Mail: P.O. Box 1977. Zip 426000 (3412) 7600-722, Email: [email protected]
Krasnador—Science of Mind Center—Kuban—Ronald C.
Rude. Min— Sevastopolskaya Str, 2-26, Krasnador,
Zip 350049. Phone: 87777-3-22-82 revron@
adygeya.ru
Maikop—Ronald C. Rude. Min—P.O. Box 113, Maikop.
Russia. Zip 385000 [email protected].
Phone:011-7-877-775-3382
Psychology—Alexander
Votkinsk—Center of Spiritual
Tensin. Min— Mail: ATTN: Rev. Ron Rude. P.O. Box
1977. Zip 426000 (3412) 71-03-86
Switzerland
Basel—Study Group— Verena Eckerlin. Dir.—For meeting
times and place, phone Verena at 0041 61 641 78 07.
Ukraine
Cherkasy—TEMENOS: SOM Center for Self-Realization—
Barbara Leger Dir. —Gargarina 35. #27. Cherasky,
Ukraine 18000. Phone:011-380-979514303. Web:
www.scienceofmind.org.ua email:[email protected]
Global
Global Heart Online Study Group—Jill Iris, Pat Watson, Cod/re.— www.globalheartonline.com. Check website
for dates and times for chat room.
Rancho Cucamonga—Teleconference Study Group—Ann
Ronan, Dir.-Call for details (909) 717-1113
Gloria Diamond Conley. Sr. Min.
Betty Jo Black, Chaplain
7287 Lynch Rd.
Sebastopol. Ca. 95472
Phone: 707-829-6910
www newperspectives.net
Sacred Story, Sacred Song
Christy Engels, Min.
10736 Jefferson Blvd. #197
Culver City, Zip. 90230
(310) 280-0527
[email protected]
Singing Earth Foundation
Marilyn Miller, Min.
6412 E. Palomino Circle
Somis, CA 93066
(805) 386-2694
llinois
Spirit Connection
Cindy Middendorf. Min.
522 Troy O'Fallon Road
Troy, IL 62294
(618)667-1601
[email protected]
VisionPoint
Spiritual Education Center for World
Leaders
Pearl Mroz Tabbert, Min.
Call for Location: (630) 430-9315
pearlwise@mindspring com
Missouri
Global Center for Contemporary
Spiritual Music and Arts
Roy D. Fisher. Min.
9378 Olive Blvd, Suite 101
St. Louis, Missouri
(314) 963-9797
[email protected]
New Jersey
On Higher Ground
Reverend Marie Strzykalski
Science of Mind
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Prison Chaplaincy Program
PO Box 303
Mt Laurel NJ 08054
609-868-2372
New Zealand
Sacred Space Minislnes
Pamela M Kilboume, Min.
26 Jenkinson Street
Waihi Beach. New Zealand 2980
[email protected]
64-7-863-1383
64-7-863-1363 Fax
64-27-286-0009 Mobile
Oklahoma
International Brothers and Sisters of
Choice
Nancy and Bud Moms. Min.
11612FootmansCt.
Yukon, OK 73099-8127
(405)373-3617
Oregon
Ministry for Ministry
Rev. Kathenne Neville Smith
POBox500PMB127. Molalla
Zip: 97038
Phone (503) 829-4149
Email: revKNS@ministryforministry
com.
Web: ministryforministry com
Virginia
Evensong West Ministnes
Hilary Taylor, Min.
Mail: PMB 545
21010 Southbank St.
Sterling, VA 20165
Call for directions: (571) 2784617
revhilary@yahoo com
www.revhilary com
Spintsong Center for Practical
Spirituality
4201 Wlson Blvd. #110-246
Arlington, VA.
(866) 246-9690
[email protected]
www.reverendmargaret com
Washington
Heart Path Retreats
Colleen and Bob MacGilchnst.
MA. LMFT. Mins.
(360) 756-1160
John Halas, Min.
(206) 399-7798
414 Boulevard. Unit 201
Bellingham.WA 98226
[email protected]
One Vibration Radio Ministries
Annette Lake, Min.
Call or Email for information.
Phone (206) 595-9985.
email: [email protected].
Web. www.One VibrationRadio.org
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misunderstood teaching of Jesus is the one
that the author of Matthew's gospel records in chapter
5:29-30. The King James version translates it as: " A n d
if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it
from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
members should perish and not that thy whole body
should be cast into hell. A n d i f thy right hand offend
thee, cut it off and cast it from thee; for it is profitable
for thee that one of thy members should perish and
not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."
Jesus was interested in the welfare o f the people
who listened to his teaching. He was not speaking of
an afterlife but rather of the mental torment one may
suffer from doing wrong. "For it is better for you to
lose one of your members, and not have your entire
body fall into hell" is a typical, Aramaic figurative
speech pattern. It implies that an evil act of the hand
or the eye is greater than the loss of a hand or an eye.
One can do without the things that may be coveted
with the eye or stolen with the hand, rather than losing one's entire life and suffering mental and emotional regret. One who obtains something wrongfully
suffers an inner torment. The entire body is thrown
into mental anguish.
Metaphorically, the term "hell" in Aramaic means
"mental suffering, anguish, inner torment and regret."
Some teachers in the West and those influenced by
Western religious interpretation of scripture believe
God would burn human bodies or souls as a punishment forever. In the ancient world of the Near East,
burning by fire was a form of Babylonian capital punishment. A body can be turned into ashes in four
hours; unlike physical suffering, mental suffering goes
on forever.
W h i l e these remarks sound quite harsh to
Westerners, these expressions were in current usage at
the time and were understood by Near Easterners.
ANOTHER
Rocco Errico,
Th.D., Ph.D.
Rocco A.
Errico is
founder and
president of
the Noohra
Foundation,
in Smyrna,
Georgia.
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r e c o n c i l i a t i o n : to re-establish friendship;
t o settle o r r e s o l v e a d i s p u t e ;
to b r i n g one's self to accept.
W h e n Nancy Linxwiler was fifteen years old,
her father molested her. The event left her scarred
and angry. She asked herself how she could forgive him, much less reconcile what had happened
to her. Many times she took steps toward reconciliation, only to find more layers she needed to
heal.
Linxwiler s pain survived her fathers death. While not condoning his
behavior, she recalled her father as a man who she once had looked up
to, a man who inspired her to stand on her own two feet. "He had
brought me great pain, but also great strength," she says.
She chose to be a pallbearer at his funeral. "It was a way I could
express honor for his life and his personal struggles and was an outward
act of forgiveness, or at least the beginning of it," she says.
Today, the forty-five-year-old Indianapolis woman continues on her
journey of reconciliation. She feels blessed and celebrates the moments
when the pain and fear have lifted from her heart, body and soul.
"Each time you take a step to get to the other side, you feel lighter,"
she shares.
To hear Nancy Linxwiler speak—as well as Christine Lemley and
Lila Pagni—is to be caught up in their passion for the need for reconciliation in today's world. While connected to forgiveness, reconciliation is much different, they say. And while both are needed, re-
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spirirnniourreach
c o n c i l i a t i o n is a first step, one
that Lemley and Pagni and other
members o f the Interfaith F o r u m
C o l u m b u s ( I F F C ) , Indiana, hope
p e o p l e w i l l take each year o n
R e c o n c i l i a t i o n Day, O c t o b e r 4.
In 2006, members o f the I F F C
o r g a n i z e d a n d spearheaded the
first annual R e c o n c i l i a t i o n D a y
i n Indiana. O n a personal level,
the i n t e r f a i t h a n d i n t e r c u l t u r a l
day is a t i m e to m a k e amends,
and show appreciation for family,
friends and acquaintances. O n a
b r o a d e r scale, the day is a n
o p p o r t u n i t y to b u i l d b r i d g e s
between people divided by hatred
and ignorance.
Lemley, an interreligious spiritual director says, "It's a day for
people and for nations to consider
r e c o n c i l i a t i o n instead o f m u t u a l
destruction. It is a day to initiate
p e r s o n a l peace over anger,
grudges and judgment."
T h e i r dream is f a r - r e a c h i n g —
that the i d e a a n d p r a c t i c e o f
R e c o n c i l i a t i o n D a y w i l l spread
nationally, and eventually internationally. " W e want to take this far,
far beyond our community," says
P a g n i , a l i c e n s e d c l i n i c a l social
w o r k e r i n C o l u m b u s . " T h i s is a
day to do something tangible to
re-establish friendships or resolve
disputes."
For L i n x w i l e r , R e c o n c i l i a t i o n
Day offered the opening to reconcile her hurtful experiences w i t h
her father. It's already brought her
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exactly what she needed o n many
levels. " R e c o n c i l i a t i o n is a gift
that keeps o n giving," she says.
F r o m India to Indiana
T h e idea for a R e c o n c i l i a t i o n D a y
f o u n d its w a y f r o m I n d i a to
Indiana t h r o u g h L e m l e y , P a g n i
and D a n Enslow, I F F C delegates
to the 2005 G o l d i n Institute for
International Partnership and
Peace C o n f e r e n c e i n A m r i t s a r ,
India.
T h e I F F C delegates w e r e
a m o n g those f r o m t w e n t y - t w o
c o u n t r i e s and cities b r i n g i n g
i n f o r m a t i o n about existing p r o jects i n their communities related
t o the c o n f e r e n c e ' s t o p i c o f
"Conflict
Resolution
and
Reconciliation."
" T h e G o l d i n Institute felt that
people needed to come together
as partners and partner cities more
frequently," P a g n i explains. " S o
they began a n n u a l conferences
based o n one topic where people
f r o m a r o u n d the w o r l d c o u l d
c o m e together a n d share w h a t
their c o m m u n i t i e s were d o i n g . "
As they listened to delegates from
other countries discuss ideas and
best practices around the conference's theme, the I F F C representatives were especially impressed
by concepts brought to the table
by representatives f r o m B o g o t a ,
Colombia.
That city had initiated the celebration o f "Sister M o o n , Brother
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Sun Day," on October 4, the feast
of St. Francis, as a time for restoring and healing wounded relationships, Pagni explains.
The Bogota group shared the
importance of designating a day to
take reconciliatory action within
families, or in other kinds of
estranged relationships where
reaching out to another could be
a first step toward understanding,
Lemley shares.
Pagni adds, "The people of
Colombia have had to deal with
staggering issues in their country—drug trade, guerrilla armies,
poverty. They wanted to bring
families and people with differences together. So they chose St.
Francis Day as a 'touchstone' day
when people could begin to reconcile differences and live more
peacefully."
The concept seemed so doable, that the IFFC delegates felt
they could bring it back to
Indiana and initiate it in their own
communities. "I was excited because it sounded so simple," Pagni
says. "It was something to which
you could say ' y ' d we really
thought the people of Columbus
might grab on to the idea and
agree."
Lemley adds, "St. Francis is a
universal archetype for relationships and peace. It would be an
easy connection to make, and we
chose to call it Reconciliation
Day."
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Reconciliation and
Foreiveness
But what exactly is reconciliation?
Is it the same as forgiveness? And
why is it important, personally
and globally? The word itself has
inspired much dialogue, Pagni
says. So she herself had to look up
the word in the dictionary. The
definition read: To re-establish
friendship; to settle or resolve a
dispute; to bring one's self to
accept.
"We know that in bookkeeping that when you reconcile,
you're bringing things into balance and harmony," she says. "So
when you begin to look at reconciliation and forgiveness, they are
interconnected. Forgiveness is
defined as: to excuse for a fault or
offense. Certainly reconciliation
can move toward forgiveness and
forgiveness toward reconciliation.
There's an intertwining there, but
also a distinction. I can reconcile
what has occurred in my life and
not forgive the behavior."
"Reconciliation is simply
opening the door," Lemley says.
"It's making the first move, reaching out to someone. You realize
there is pain and suffering
between the two of you, or a
group of people, and you make
that first step."
She offers a personal story. Not
hearing from an estranged brother
in years, Lemley kept sending him
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postcards, letting him know that
he was cared about and loved. She
heard nothing in turn, but persisted. One day he finally sent her
a note, acknowledging the postcards, and included his phone
number and e-mail.
Lemley picked up the phone
right away. They talked. A gay
man, her brother had been concerned that she and other family
members would not accept him.
As they spoke, he said he never
knew reconnecting would be so
easy. They are back in each others'
lives and now keep in close touch.
The benefits of such reconciliation are many. "We feel wholeness
and that our lives are in balance,
and our lives have everything to
do with relationships," Lemley
says. "We're part of this extraordinary life network and when part
of that network is broken, we feel
it and others feel it. When we are
in balance and feel whole, we
then affect everyone around us in
positive ways."
For Pagni, the benefits also are
about plugging into happiness and
joy It allows grace to enter, she
says. " O n a global level, when we
reconcile we experience greater
joy and we utilize all the resources
that benefit everyone."
The First
Reconciliation Day
W h e n the three I F F C delegates
returned from India to Columbus,
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they were excited, proposing the
idea of a Reconciliation Day to
Mayor Fred Armstrong. He liked
the concept and p r o c l a i m e d
O c t o b e r 4, 2006, as the first
annual R e c o n c i l i a t i o n Day i n
C o l u m b u s — a day to make
amends and seek harmony. As a
result, Indiana mayors in six other
cities also declared the date to be
Reconciliation Day.
T h e proverbial "idea whose
time had come," Reconciliation
Day was promoted through newspaper articles, radio talk shows
and a PBS documentary. It was
encouraged as a day for people of
all traditions to work on resolving
conflicts or issues that have kept
them separate from others. In
addition to a day for repairing
relationships, it was also a time to
show appreciation for family,
friends and acquaintances.
Groups came up w i t h their
own ideas to mark the day, Pagni
says. The IFFC held a meeting to
discuss issues o f reconciliation
from personal perspectives, as well
as issues affecting their communities and the world. Mayor A r m strong himself sent four personal
letters o f reconciliation. Other
politicians also entered the spirit
of reconciliation, with candidates
i n Jennings C o u n t y , Indiana,
agreeing "to take dirty, personal
attacks out of politics."
In addition, the Sisters of St.
Francis o f Oldenburg, Indiana,
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offered free showings of An
Inconvenient Truth, that included
community dialogue about
humankind's need for reconciliation with the Earth. The First
United Methodist Church conducted a bell-ringing ceremony
at noon and a prayer emphasizing
a call to action. Numerous pastors spoke about reconciliation in
their sermons the Sunday prior
to the day and challenged parishioners to take suggested actions.
Rev. Mark Teike, pastor of St.
Peter's Lutheran C h u r c h in
Columbus, said in the PBS documentary, that reconciliation is the
right thing to do. "None of us
wants to be at odds or in conflict
with others. If people have a
sense of division with loved ones
or family members, they might at
least make some attempt for
communication with them, to
touch base with them. For someone else, the event may be
marked by meeting with somebody in his community or having
lunch with somebody who is different from them."
Step One
W h i l e Reconciliation Day in
Indiana was a success, taking that
first step toward reconciliation can
be difficult for many people.
Some fear cultures and faiths that
are different from their own, so
education and communication are
critical, say Pagni and Lemley.
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One of the purposes of the
IFFC is to bring people of all different faith backgrounds together
in dialogue, education and celebration of diversity. "Dialogue is
an essential process to eradicate
some of the fears and anxieties of
people being different from ourselves," Lemley says. "It's about
inclusivity. That's the essential element in understanding 'the
other.'"
People also need to understand
that differences can be good,
Pagni adds. As a social worker, she
has an ethical value that allows for
a client's self-determination, unless
that client is in danger of harming
herself or himself or another.
"But it's often hard to bring
that message to the world at
large—that even though I may
not agree with your spiritual
beliefs, or your lifestyle decisions,
you have your right to them. And
I would appreciate you not
putting your values on me as
well."
Fear comes through the
unknown, Lemley agrees. And it's
only in engagement with others
through dialogue, or awareness by
contact with others, that we
become more comfortable, she
says.
"The challenges to reconciliation are based in fear and anxiety,"
she adds. "The brother I connected with had been afraid of
what conversations might take
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place, how he might be judged by
family members. Often we make
reconciliation more complex and
difficult than it really is, but it does
take courage to reach out. That's
the purpose of having a touchstone day, o f having an observance...that i f we're estranged
from someone, we can take that
first step. I'm thinking about St.
Francis who preached that peace
begins within ourselves."
Some of those first steps might
be sending an e-mail or letter,
sending a bouquet o f flowers,
stopping by with some bread or a
bottle of wine. Those are outward
actions. But reconciliation first
starts as an inner process, Lemley
believes.
"There is a deep inner knowing that nudges our interior self,"
she says. "Some people may call
it intuition, others may call it
' d o i n g what's right.' B u t it's
learning to pay attention to that
indwelling voice, trusting it, even
when we have cowardly feelings
about taking action. Listening to
that inner voice gives the impetus
to make a move to reach out for
reconciliation. It is that deep
knowing that generates the first
step in the journey toward reconciliation."
M o v i n g Reconciliation
into Consciousness
Today, the IFFC and others are
spreading the concept of Recon84
ciliation Day, hoping to build on
the idea brought to the Goldin
Institute from the Bogota delegates. They realize the seeds will
take time to germinate and grow.
But they are patient.
"There are so many broken
and wounded aspects in our
world. It's time for us to move the
healing concept of reconciliation
into human consciousness,"
Lemley says.
Observing a R e c o n c i l i a t i o n
Day, communities and groups can
organize whatever activities they'd
like, Pagni adds. "It doesn't have
to be a specific process. They can
choose to have community dialogues or spiritual services—whatever they want. This year, Reconciliation Day preparations are to
engage as many cities i n the
M i d w e s t as possible w i t h the
intention of generating interest to
radiate across the country, the
whole of America."
Ultimately, IFFC members hope
that reconciliation goes beyond a
single day of observance—that the
thought, heart and spirit of reconciliation begin to happen in the
world every day. Pagni offers: "As
we move to reconcile smaller problems, perhaps larger ones can also
be resolved." •
For more information about
Reconciliation Day or the Interfaith
Forum Columbus, visit www.reconciliationday.net.
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a reader o f this magazine your personal spiritual
probably include some or all o f the following,
together in an order o f weightiness most to your
Take a moment to look and see i f you believe
the primacy of non-physical reality (or "mind over matter")
Deity as source-energy, limitless intelligence, and so on, rather
than a big. judging personality
boundless human potential
inclusiveness, openness, kindness and compassion as healthy
approaches to life
there being certain spiritual laws or principles supporting the universe, that anyone can use to better his conditions
thinking yi terms of there being a universe, rather than just your own
stake in it
the fundamental unity of all life everywhere, regardless of appearances
thoughts being intangible things, and things being tangible thoughts
positive thinking as more useful than negative thinking
listening to and learning from your feelings, or at least nodding at
them
higher states ot consciousness than the ordinary waking kind
meditation and prayer as leading to these states
subjective and situational (rather than objective and absolute) "good"
and "evil"
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• heaven and hell as states o f
consciousness, not after-life
destinations
• unconditional love as the mortar that bonds everything to
everything else
• whatever it is you seek being
found within your self, rather
than outside it
• a subjective reality wherein the
perceiving mind shapes what's
being perceived, so that you
feel it's within your own mind
that most o f your spiritual
work is done.
ent doctrines also like having the
short answer that can be dispensed
to get past the preliminaries and
on to the point. Thus many who
walk this Science o f M i n d path
refer to themselves as persons who
"study metaphysics," or, less commonly, as the medically-tinged
"metaphysicians."
Metaphysics is the vast country
of which N e w Thought considers
itself to be a small but critical
province. Far fewer people have
heard of N e w Thought than have
heard of metaphysics—it's just not
as handy a descriptive device. I
Now, can you condense all of recall being asked what sort o f
these beliefs into one word? Some philosophy mine was. I responded
can do this.
w i t h " N e w T h o u g h t ; " then
The word is metaphysics.
through an awkward, who's-onMetaphysics is a brief, eco- first sort o f exchange, came to
nomical and intelligent-sounding realize the other party was waiting
answer to have at the ready when for me to reveal what exactly that
asked, "Say, what do you single, particular new thought was,
believe?" and you don't have the not understanding I referred to a
time, energy or frankly the inter- whole body o f teachings. The
est to line out each of the seven- meeting o f minds around this
teen concepts listed above. Too, point can further disintegrate
you'll agree that as stand-alone when you go on to explain that
concepts, those seventeen are sub- " N e w Thought" teachings aren't
ject to a lot of nitpicking, which really new at all, but very ancient,
diminishes when they're taken as a that it's only the member instituwhole, because they all tend to tions that are relatively new,
explain each other in a logic that t h o u g h getting older by the
some would call profoundly cohe- minute.
sive, and others circular. We who
The term N e w Thought, as
subscribe to these values are not you probably know, refers directly
alone in desiring a short, snappy to certain member institutions—
term for our comprehensive belief D i v i n e Science, U n i t y and
system; those with entirely differ- R e l i g i o u s Science, plus some
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unaffiliated groups and bodies
teaching basically the same
things—which is why we seem to
need a broader generic term that
covers not only these, but the
whole gamut of things New Age
as well—things that, again, aren't
new at all, that is, only their astrological Age: was Piscean, now
Aquarian. Casting about for that
term, we see "holistic religion"
gaining currency. Holistic means
"involving everything," but holistic religion doesn't really do that:
it excludes the exclusionary.
Prejudices and dogmatic positions
are not welcome aboard. So what
results can't precisely be called
holistic, just somewhat broader
and more liberal than before. Too,
holistic religion assumes the disadvantage of having painted itself as
a religion at all, which even the
New Thought religions have been
hesitant to do, preferring in their
formative years to think of themselves as elaborations or deepenings to the Christian religion, if
not merely a set of techniques for
the improved practice of any religion, Christian or not.
In those formative years, by the
way, all this stuff tended to be
called "Truth teachings," though
that had its own bundle of difficulties, because it left the hardly
holistic impression (or else it came
right out and said) that whatever
else might be believed was simply
in error.
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So the seventeen items above,
plus a whale of a lot more, constitute the modern body of metaphysics. Having determined that
it's sure a real time-saver to label
ourselves metaphysical, we may
also ask whether it's accurate to do
so. This will depend on who we
ask.
Let's start with Aristotle, as it is
from him that the term derives, in
the shape of Greek ta meta ta
phusika, meaning, "the things after
the physics." Aristotle's teachings
as we have them today were
mostly oral, collected as scribblings
by his students. In that collection,
immediately following four of his
treatises on the physical world,
comes a fourteen-chapter presentation on metaphysics, opening
with "The advance from sensation
through memory, experience, and
art, to theoretical knowledge," and
concluding with "The causal
agency ascribed to numbers is
purely fanciful," Aristotle's shot at
the Pythagorean worldview.
Because these writings on the
workings of the mind and the universe followed those on physical
science, they are the writings after,
or beyond physics. This is what
"metaphysics" originally meant:
nothing especially esoteric, just
practical. (In a similar vein, we are
told that the last words of Goethe,
the great German writer, scientist
and artist, were, "More light." Into
this all sorts of allusions can be and
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have been read. I enjoy believing root questions, regardless of the
Goethe meant that through physi- writer's affiliation." Among its percal death he knew he would be sistent and resolute entries we find
ushered into a nonphysical place pieces on Hegel, Liebnitz, the
of endless light in the form of spir- philosopher and Carmelite nun
itual illumination. As it happened, Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta)
though, he was just asking for who perished at Auschwitz, and an
someone there at his bedside to overview of thirteenth-century
please open the shutters. But no ethics.
matter, he could have meant the
It was Immanuel Kant in the
other as well.)
eighteenth century who through
W h i l e the term metaphysics "transcendental idealism" began
was coined via the arrangement of to direct metaphysics toward the
Aristotle's works, the essence of form you and I recognize, turning
what we have taken it to mean is as on the question of whether it was
old as the hills. Some call it the possible to conceptualize the
"perennial philosophy," this com- whole meaning of existence withpilation of those seventeen points out first taking into account the
and more, others the "great chain nature of the mind that was doing
of being," " t h i n live wire," or the conceptualizing. That is to say,
"underground stream." Yet this is there is reality, and there is the
still a specialized, maybe even personal mental impression and
hijacked, use of the term. In the perception of reality, and how do
world at large metaphysics has you separate one from the other?
come to stand for any attempt to You don't, said Kant, and went on
characterize existence as a whole to define twelve categories o f
rather than as an assemblage of ele- "conceptual apparatus," through
ments. Really, metaphysics is a which the self meets its world.
much larger field than self-help or Further, he believed that the tools
personal transformation. For by which we interpret sense expeinstance, the Review of Metaphysics, rience are useless for dealing with
a distinguished scholarly publica- whatever may lie beyond sense
experience. N e w tools would be
tion, states that it is "devoted to
necessary for that.
the promotion of technically comAbout the time of Kant, tranpetent, definitive contributions to
philosophical knowledge. N o t scendentalist poets began turning
associated w i t h any school or out their verses, Swedenborg's
group, not the organ of any associ- mysticism was articulated, and in
ation or institution, it is interested the next century these fed the
in persistent, resolute inquiries into imagination o f Emerson i n
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phy," w h o differentiated between
metaphysics o f the descriptive and
the revisionary kinds. T h e first
seeks to describe the structure o f
our thought about the world, the
second to not only understand but
improve that structure.
N e w Thought, then, may be
classified as r e v i s i o n a r y m e t a physics. There is, first, what the
philosophers called the world, and
Apart from the usual opposi- we like to call it the universe.
tion to everything new, the one Then there are your, my and our
great obstacle to the reception mental frameworks i n w h i c h this
o f that spirituality, t h r o u g h universe exists, o u r conceptual
w h i c h the understanding o f realities, or mental shelving o n
M i n d - s c i e n c e comes, is the which to place what we perceive.
inadequacy o f material terms W h e n the shelves get t o o
for metaphysical statements, crowded, things fall off, and the
and the consequent difficulty process o f sorting through and
o f so expressing metaphysical rearranging the shelves' contents is
ideas as to make them compre- what we experience as a spiritual
hensible to any reader, w h o has emergency or crisis i n faith.
not personally demonstrated
We don't know what to believe
Christian Science as brought any more, so we reconstruct our
forth in my discovery. Job says: belief systems i n full.
" T h e ear trieth words, as the
B u t the process o f b u i l d i n g
mouth tasteth meat." The great new shelves, and not only n e w
difficulty is to give the right shelves but new rooms i n w h i c h
impression, w h e n translating
to put the shelves, and then new
material terms back into the
"interior casdes" i n which to put
original spiritual tongue.
those rooms, is what we experience as not just the emergent or
Now, another watershed devel- critical, but the extraordinary and
opment i n the unfolding o f what truly magical.
we k n o w as metaphysics came
Metaphysics, for us today, is an
w i t h the w o r k o f S i r Peter attempt to fashion a workable,
Strawson (1919-2006), O x f o r d agreed-upon description o f the
professor and welcome advocate indescribable. This is both imposo f " o r d i n a r y language p h i l o s o - sible and highly rewarding.
America, while Phineas Q u i m b y
began his experiments with mental/spiritual healing, numbering
among his patients M a r y Baker
Eddy, who would take metaphysics
to places undreamt of. Still, in her
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures (114:32-115:11), we read
of the challenges with finding the
right terminology:
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We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute
and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation
but is not absorbed by Its creation. The manifest universe is the body of
God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness
of God.
We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in everyone and that all people
are incarnations of the One Spirit.
We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.
We believe that Heaven is within us and that we experience it to the degree
that we become conscious of it.
We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all
discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all.
We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God.
We believe that God is personal to all who feel this Indwelling Presence.
We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the individual, and that any person may become a revealer of
Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a
Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by
this Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts
upon it.
We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.
We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind.
We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the
eternal Givingness of Life to all.
We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we
understand that the life of all is God.
Originally written as "What I Believe" by Ernest Holmes, this statement was published in the first issue oj Science of Mind magazine, October, 1921. This edited
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Ageless L i v i n g
Linda McNamar
T
J_ oday, people are growing older in a new way.
As we approach what is called retirement age we
are choosing to "retool" rather than "retire."
Finding something we love to do, some way of
service, or a way to express a long-denied gift or
talent, we are assuming new adventures at a time
when previous generations began to wind down.
We are pioneers on the frontier of a new way of aging. But what does a
person on this frontier call himself? For me, "senior citizen" is just for
discounts and "elder" is the generation before me. Nonetheless, I do
want to blaze the trail to being a wise elder. How does a person find his
way to wisdom?
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choices
Baseball legend, Yogi Berra
said, "When you come to a fork
in the road, take it." As we come
to places where our pathway in
life divides, it doesn't matter
which route we take for the most
part—there are always lessons to
be learned and things to be
gained. But eventually we come
to a decision that makes a vast difference to us and to those around
us. It is a parting of the ways that
leads to being either a cranky old
person or a wise elder.
For pioneers on the new frontier o f aging there are no role
models from the past for making
this choice. We are creating the
future w i t h our attitudes and
actions today. Because o f our
lengthening lifespan we have
opportunities to contribute to the
world around us far longer than
did our ancestors. But, if we cling
to wanting life to be the way it
used to be—in our body—in our
activities—or even in our ability
to remember details, we may miss
the richness and value of the present moment.
A wise elder can be defined as
any person more than fifty-five
years of age who has made a conscious commitment to a vital, lifeaffirming second half of life. We
all k n o w the definition o f a
cranky old person.
A while ago an e-mail message
was circulating around the web.
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inally wrote it. It said, "Life should
not be a journey to the grave with
the intention of arriving safely in
an attractive and well-preserved
body. But rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in hand, body
thoroughly used up, totally wornout and screaming woo-hoo, what a
ride!" While there are those who
object to being worn-out and
used up, I don't hear this as a negative idea. What I hear is someone
who doesn't hold back, someone
not fixated on staying young,
someone w h o is enjoying the
whole ride, looking forward rather
than into the rearview mirror—
someone who is letting go, loving
life and gaining wisdom on the
way. What a great image—sliding
into the gates of heaven filled with
an enthusiasm for life!
O u r Inherent Wisdom
There is an inherent w i s d o m
within us just below the surface of
our logic and reasoning mind. It is
the wisdom of the universe. To
access this wisdom and intuition
all we need to do is to relax our
bodies and minds and allow our
hearts to feed our consciousness
from within.
As we quiet down and sense
our impressions, feelings and
physical responses, we find our
intuition and creativity. Fed by the
experiences o f the past—the
learning from the hard knocks and
soft landings of life itself-—we find
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ourselves filled with the courage,
compassion and creativity that are
the components of wisdom.
Wise elders see value in their
current conditions. Wise elders
harvest from the past all that is
good and release the rest. They
share their knowledge without
giving advice and are interested in
the newness o f the u p c o m i n g
generations.
A cranky old person sees life
through the lens o f loss. H e
focuses on his body as deteriorating, his memory as going and the
past, which appears to be so much
happier and peaceful than today.
Lucky for us, this choice can be
remade at any time and a new
direction begun.
The opposite of wisdom is not
foolishness. It is shortsightedness—not having a large enough
T H R E E
perspective on our experiences.
Ernest Holmes wrote: "Until we
awake to the fact that we are One
in nature with God, we shall not
find the way of life. Until we realize that our own word has the
power o f life, we w i l l not see
clearly." But as you and I come to
see that we are created i n the
image and likeness of the Creator
of all, we will become more like
K i n g S o l o m o n i n the O l d
Testament. W h e n he was asked
what he would like to have more
than anything, he replied, "wisdom." As we seek the wisdom of
our years we too are able to ask
any question, look inside, and find
a truly wise answer there.
Staying Open
Becoming older is not necessarily synonymous with becoming
PRINCIPLES F O R AGELESS
LIVING
BE UNIQUELY Y O U
Resist any impulses to take on characteristics of aging just because
statistics say that they occur. You are unique. Look to who you are,
not what someone else says you should be.
G R O W Y O U R I N N E R LIFE
By opening your mind to the deepest parts of who you are through
meditation you will find aspects of your being as yet undeveloped.
Find a gathering or group that nurtures your new insights.
DIRECT Y O U R ENERGY
Instead of focusing on what can or cannot be done, focus instead on
what you can be. Consciousness of being is the window to wisdom.
There is always enough energy to be the qualities of Spirit, wherever
we are.
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wiser. A wise elder avoids the
temptation to project his issues,
values and way o f doing things
onto others. H e does not give i n
to the t e m p t i n g n o t i o n that
" m i s e r y loves c o m p a n y " and
provide a miserable experience
for those around him. We might
better cultivate a healthy sense o f
humor about becoming older,
thus increasing our chances o f
becoming wiser i n the process.
Accepting the things we cannot
change and being strong enough
to change the things we can, will
help to establish us i n an open,
visionary and creative life. The
path o f the wise elder is one
who is emotionally satisfied and
filled w i t h meaningful activity.
As wise elders we work to seek
to understand what gives people
hope, comfort and security. As
we stretch to i n c l u d e "the
other," we create safe spaces for
our interaction and we become
an example o f a living spirituality. As such, we must actively
challenge and test our beliefs
regularly, n o t necessarily to
change them but to be able to
include new views and new ways
of perceiving life.
At the Crossroads
If you find yourself at a crossroads
and find the unknown frontier of a
new way of aging on one hand
and the old familiar ways on the
other, set your intention to do
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things in a new way. Change your
routines. Try new foods, color
your hair, take a class in Spanish.
Look for the connections between
thoughts and actions. Listen to
other generations with the intention of understanding. You might
ask: What does this have to do
with inner wisdom? The answer is
that Spirit's wisdom is all around
us, as well as w i t h i n . As we
become more and more awake
within the present moment, we
also become more receptive to all
that life has to offer.
W i l l you become a wise elder?
The choice is yours. Ask yourself
these questions:
Do you want to offer your talents and energy to the world? Are
you curious about the thoughts
and values of the next generation?
What difference does it make, or
can it make, that you're alive, and
to whom does it make this difference?
This is a time o f marvelous
opportunity. Will you walk a new
way of the ageless, a path of social
wisdom and empowerment, a path
of fulfilling dreams? Will you walk
in celebration of your creativity
and connectedness, mobilize your
wisdom into a vision of contribution and have a life dedicated to
aging with a new attitude? W i l l
you accept the things you cannot
change and change the things you
can? These are the keys to ageless
living. •
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James Rouse
I GREW up in a small town in the countryside o f
Vermont. During the fall I could walk across the dirt
road in front of my home and eat as many apples as I
desired. The eggs and milk my family enjoyed were
produced about a mile down that same road. I was
under the wonderful illusion that food was plentiful
and close to home. M y family now lives in the foothills
of the Rocky Mountains where we do our best to be
mindful about what we buy and how we celebrate the
earth's bounty. With snow on the ground about five
months out of the year, this isn't always easy. This is
where I believe sustainable cuisine merges with conscious cuisine.
Since the 1970s, Alice Waters, the chef and founder
of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California, has
used "green" practices. She used the produce and dairy
products o f local farmers in her celebrated cuisine,
while, at the same time, giant "agribusinesses" were
putting small farms out of business. Eventually more
processed foods began to hit store shelves and there was
an increase in lifestyle-related (preventable) diseases,
such as diabetes. Thankfully the idea and practice of
sustainable cuisine is growing across the globe. Eating
sustainably (and thus mindfully) is not about giving up
your favorite food, per se, be it the fish from foreign
shores or fruits and veggies that aren't in season anywhere close to home. Rather, it's all about what you
are getting and growing in return, which is conscious
consumption.
The average meal travels over 2,500 miles to make it
to your table. Each week, i f everyone in the United
States ate just one meal made with local ingredients,
we would save our country over a million barrels of
oil. This brings a sobering meaning to going out for
dinner and a call to come back closer to home. Eating
consciously is a wonderful way to support your health
and well-being and at the same time benefit the planet
by decreasing how far your food has to travel before it
ends up on your plate.
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F C H I D R >R
Ii IOUGII I
•
Support small family farms by choosing to cat locally
grown food whenever possible, and by purchasing
local produce and other food products from independent farmers at local farmers markets.
• Use less gas by patronizing restaurants that are close
to home. When we make choices that have a sustainable side to them we are able to experience the great
good that comes with knowing we are moving our
planet in a more healthy direction.
• Make the food preparation a ritual in itself by bringing in music and turning off the TV. Break out into
uncharted territory with new recipes. See how close
to home you can eat by enjoying at least one course
trom a local grower.
• Being a part of conscious cuisine encourages a
healthy and spirited culture of connection. A lot of
what may be missing in our "diets" today can be
directly related to being devoid ot .1 healthy dose ot
co-creating and community. Make a bold move and
inspire or insist that you eat meals together as a family
as often as possible.
• When families come together to share a meal the
blessings are many and all empowering. Embrace
mealtime as a means to foster both health and healing. Research suggests that the more meals we eat
with our children, the less likely they will experience
depression, drug or alcohol abuse; even the risk of
suicide decreases. The dinner table is a place where
families often do their best work in building trust,
resilience and love.
The speed at which we eat and run from one thing
to the next is leaving us unsatisfied and frankly,
unhealthy. Why are we always in a hurry? ("hoose to
allow mealtime to be a respite; a time to unplug, a time
to engage at .1 most delicious level oi experience and to
connect with the Source of your food. Begin where you
are today and see the opportunity to bring about a conscious shift in your eating choices.
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Rouse is a
naturopathic
physician with
extensive credentials in the
wellness field
including postdoctorate work
in acupuncture
and Chinese
medicine,
tratispersoual
psychology and
certification as a
yoga teacher.
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tne way it works
Jesse Jennings
Ifeel asifthere are mixed messages about whether hard wor
part of a healthy spiritual practice. What do you think?
Maybe the messages just sound mixed because it's not
a yes or no question. First of all, what is "hard" work
versus other work? Right here we're into subjectivity.
Physical labor is hard to some, but desired by others, and
the same is true of intellectually rigorous work. Thus is
work "hard" because it is not the right fit for whoever is
doing it? O n the other hand, we might look for some
objective qualities of hard work, like the amount of time
it takes to do it or the volume of sweat expended in the
process.
There is a saying that a person "never works again"
once he has found a passionate creative outlet. Again,
we are faced with a subjective, intangible property, such
as what constitutes "passionate." We can combine all
the subjective aspects behind an action into the sphere
of "intention." What are the intentions motivating our
work? What are the results we are trying to produce?
Some people deliberately work hard in order to convince themselves they deserve prosperity, or respect,
when deep down inside they don't feel at all worthy of
these. For this reason, N e w Thought teachings emphasize that no one needs to "earn his keep" as a child o f
God, that we are all worthy of all good, and that knowing and accepting this causes our work to be transformed because it can now come from a place of joy
rather than fear.
Why is "releasing" vital to spiritual mind treatment?
Our contention is that, in our prayer life, we're dealing w i t h a principle rather than a personality that
"receives the direct impress o f our thought and acts
upon it." In order for this principle to do that acting, we
have to consciously hand over to it our thought-impression. Otherwise the thoughts about the desired goal
remain pretty much in our heads, where they remain in
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their formative stages.
Ernest Holmes and others employ gardening metaphors to make this point. A seed (or thought) is
implanted in the soil (universal subjective medium, or
subconscious aspect of mind, or creative principle),
which is the fertile place for it to grow into a mature
plant (or form, or manifestation).
Undue haste, anxiety and so forth would sometimes
have us "take back" our treatment, and Holmes and
other teachers tell us to resist this impulse. For one
thing, if we intellectually knew what to do to make our
desire come about, we would have already done it. For
another, if we do remove it from its fertile ground, we're
never going to be able to guess beforehand from where
our good is coming, or by what means, or when, much
less speed up its arrival. So, with a declaration of
"amen" or "and so it is" or sometimes both, we release
the idea into the creative process.
What one thing is everyone seeking? Inner peace? Harmony?
Balance? Or something else?
Jesse Jennings
The answer that I come up with is "meaning." Not is minister of
that the other items on your list aren't attractive, but to the Creative
me they are secondary, because we will forego almost Life Spiritual
anything else, if we feel that what we're doing, and our Center in
life in general, has meaning.
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living on purpose
ACROBAT
Judy Black, For me, living on purpose is similar to the process of
Portland, walking a tightrope. The first step is my intention to get
Oregon
up on the rope, and the second part of the process is
slowly walking across it.
This challenge feels good until I lose my focus, and
then my balance; there are times when I am able to catch
myself before I fall, and other times when I find myself
back on the ground.
With some delay, but no less determination, I gather
my thoughts and look for a way to get back up on the
"rope." Every time I fall or waver it becomes easier to start
over, and I improve my balance, and continue to move
toward my lifetime goal of living on purpose.
C H O O S I N G LIFE
Simran
Singh,
Lexington,
South
Carolina
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Looking back over the past several years of self-study, I see
how my soul has been calling me to show up. It has been
setting the stage for me to begin a spiritual journey of
growth, self-healing and discovery.
M y faith has always been steeped in the Sikh tradition
and my love for Babaji is what has carried me through.
Babaji brought to me two gifts that have supported me
tremendously in learning to truly breathe each day into
existence, Science of M i n d and Iyanla Vanzant's Inner
Visions Institute.
I have become a Spiritual Consciousness minister and
continue my course of study in this manner. Because they
don't understand my path, I have had to release a lot of
people from my life.
M y husband has left me, and my family and friends
have turned away from me. I understand their actions stem
from a fear of the unknown and their love for me. I know
if they should ever choose to see my light, they will return
to me.
In the end, the result of my actions is I am now living
on purpose; this has a double meaning for me. The first
meaning is: Now I choose to live. M y existence for many
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years was that of the walking dead. It was unconscious,
robotic and unfeeling.
Now, everything I do is on purpose. I choose to wake
up. I choose to make a difference. I choose to he happy.
And, I choose to create my life, living as I believe Source
intended all of us to live: limitless, creating, loving and
sharing. I now have a purposeful life.
The second meaning tor me is, I am now standing in the
integrity of who I am, regardless of what shows up. I am
willing to take risks and to be different; to have the courage
to speak up. Whenever fear arises I am able to take it by the
hand and show it how to move forward, so that it transmutes into something beautiful. Living on purpose to me is
not being afraid to be the human example of godliness.
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I have been a follower of the Science of Mind philosophy Seraphica,
for a long time, and I love the truth it tells and the falsities
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lenged by this question: How do I define myself in a society that is deeply ingrained in racial, social and sexual
identities?
I have faith that one day this issue will be obsolete; in
the meantime, I have been finding a rebellious joy in living on purpose according to my spiritual identity.
I no longer see myself as a forty-two-year-old, AfricanAmerican woman; I am no longer bound by a race label. I
have redefined myself as an ageless, universal woman of the
cosmos. How would we view others if we identified ourselves with the whole human race? I challenge everyone to
live fearlessly on purpose, allowing love, joy, prosperity and
happiness to flow into their lives.
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AWAKE
Every day of my life is a day to be conscious. I have chosen
Kissiah
this as my spiritual practice over all others because it has
Young,
taught me that life is not about some external experience
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that is happening to me. I awaken into this knowing and it Internet
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frees me. With my eyes wide open, I can see my choices,
the decisions I've made, the mistakes and the triumphs.
M y life is not by accident, and each event that crosses my
path presenting itself as an experience is a direct result of
my thoughts—this is spiritual law.
Living consciously has not always been my practice. It
has not always been my truth. There was a time in my
life when it felt as i f I was living in a haze of sorts with
my eyes closed. During this time it was far easier to
point my finger outward than it was to go inward to
find the problem and the solution.
Unknowingly, I was living in a state of lack and limitation. I felt imprisoned. It never crossed my mind that I
was in control of my experience. W h y would it? W h o
really wants to assume the responsibility o f all that
comes with living consciously? I didn't.
I realize that the unconscious practice I had of searching outside of my self, because I thought it was easier
than looking inward, was an illusion. I recognize that
living consciously is the only way for me. I make the
causes in my life and watch as the effects happen.
I am fully capable of determining the outcomes of
the experiences in my life. There exists no separation
between the truth Jesus Christ spoke and my own. This
knowing has freed me and has led me to a deeper practice of living consciously.
- l o w ro snhmir
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Most of Spong's twenty books address conventional Christian perspectives of Jesus' life
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one that emphasizes Jesus' iconoclastic stance against the mainstream ideas of his day and how his followers attempted to
explain the experience of Jesus to others.
Spong sets the stage by separating the human Jesus from the
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