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Embodied spirituality views all human dimensions—body, vital, heart, mind, and consciousness—as equal partners in bringing self, community, and world into a fuller alignment with the Mystery out of which everything arises. Spirituality is consciousness of infinite interrelatedness. It transcends the present moment and we experience an elevated realm of pure consciousness.
Presenter: Rev. Matt AlspaughService Associate: June Wilson This time of year, with its increasing darkness and cooler days (at least in the northern hemisphere) plus the numerous holidays, invites us to ponder mystery. What are the deep questions for which we don’t have answers, some for which we may never find answers? What is the … Continue reading “Let the Mystery Be”
Presenter: Cat Barnett Service Associate: Robert Barnett Your brain can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination. The chemicals released by your brain when you are happy or stressed are the same whether you are experiencing or just thinking about the experiences. This means you should consider your habitual ways of thinking and change them … Continue reading Mind/Body/Universe Connection
Presenter: Richard Clarke Service Associate: Carol Johnson We all know consciousness; it pervades us, and we experience it every moment. But what is consciousness? Physicists these days talk about “The hard problem of consciousness.” Maybe the physicist’s problem comes from their assumption that consciousness emerges from matter. Richard Clarke talks about this from the ancient … Continue reading The Relationship Between Mind and Consciousness
Emptiness, sometimes called boundlessness, is the idea in Buddhism that our understanding of world of things is illusory, hiding a deeper, more interconnected reality. This idea is difficult, even impossible, to grasp cognitively, but may come to us through a spiritual experience like awakening. We don’t have to be practicing Buddhists to find appeal in … Continue reading Emptiness – Zoom Only
Do we have visions for the coming phases of our lives? What do we yearn for, what do we work for? The world has changed a lot in the recent past, maybe it’s time to re-examine, even to change our visions. How do we do this? Carl Jung said, “Your vision will become clear only … Continue reading Opening Our Eyes, Finding Our Vision
Consciousness narrows as we age. As we know more we see less. This is the transition from lantern to spotlight consciousness. It does not have to be this way, though. We can learn ‘Beginner’s Mind’ and bring a new, more open awareness to our everyday life. Richard Clarke will talk about how to do this. … Continue reading Spotlight Consciousness and Lantern Consciousness
Around the world there are two major threads of religion faith and experience; faith like a Christian’s belief in God and experience as in Buddhist meditation. There is a third way, knowledge. Not intellectual knowledge, but direct knowledge, like you know you exist. Richard Clarke and Carol Johnson have studied and practiced this for the … Continue reading Nonduality: The Third Way of Religion
