June, 2014

The Global Vision

Each month in 2016, we will be focusing on a different aspect of the Global Vision. Join us as we explore.

We see a world that works for everyone

Where all life is honored as expressions of the Divine
Where people live according to spiritual truth
Where humanity awakens to spiritual magnificence
Where humanity rediscovers personal creative power
Where we live as one global family
Where kinship with all life prospers
Where unity and connection is emphasized
Where forgiveness is the norm
Where spiritual guidance is valued
Where we are called to conscious social action
Where people have enough food, homes and a sense of belonging
Where there is peace, harmony, and justice for all.
Where resources are valued, cared for, and shared
Where communities are meaningfully involved in service to the world
Where there is a renewed emphasis on beauty, nature, creativity, art, and aesthetics.

Maleficent — Knocking Down Walls With the Power of Love

This past Friday Suzanne and I went to see Maleficent. It’s the backstory of Sleeping Beauty, featuring Angelina Jolie as the title character, who first appears by name in the classic Disney version of Sleeping Beauty.

I will try not to reveal too much plot or any spoilers, but there are a couple of metaphysical lessons in this movie.

We first meet Maleficent as a young girl, a fairy who is a leader of the fairy kingdom. Across the moors is a kingdom of humans and the two barely get along. One day, a young man named Stefan comes into the kingdom and he and Maleficent become fast friends and fall in love. On her sixteenth birthday, he gives Maleficent the gift of “true love’s kiss” — but sadly, it does not last. His ambition to be king causes him to betray her.

The King wants Maleficent killed. Whoever can do it will be his successor. Stefan cuts off her wings and brings them to the King. He is anointed successor.

The years pass, and King Stefan and his queen have a child, a princess they name Aurora. (Aurora means “light”. It is also the name of the goddess of the dawn.) From here, much of the familiar story of Sleeping Beauty kicks in, but with additional wrinkles.

Seeking revenge, Maleficent lays a curse on Princess Aurora — that on her sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger and go into “a sleep like death” that can only be broken by “true love’s kiss.” Stefan entrusts Aurora to the care of three pixies until the day after her sixteenth birthday.

Maleficent saves a bird named Diaval and turns him into a human. He switches back and forth at various times to be Maleficent’s wings. She also constructs a wall of thorns to keep the humans from Stefan’s kingdom from ever again setting foot in the moors. (The moors are also protected by some very strange looking creatures that made me think that some who failed auditions to be orcs and ents in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies found jobs at Disney.)

Every day Maleficent watches Aurora, to the point that when Aurora finally meets her, she identifies Maleficent as her fairy godmother. By this time, Maleficent has developed a real love for Aurora and is trying to find a way to undo her curse. Unfortunately, when she spoke it, she decreed that no power on Earth could break it. (It takes a power greater than that of humans and fairies.)

Eventually, Maleficent tears down her own wall and heads for the castle to try to save Aurora, but she is too late and Aurora is in the deep death-like sleep decreed by the curse. A prince from another kingdom arrives and he kisses her, but that doesn’t do the job. Eventually, however, the right kiss arrives and she awakes.

Meanwhile, Stefan is trying to kill Maleficent. There is a great battle, Maleficent turns Diaval into a dragon, but they’re trapped. However, Aurora has been poking around the castle and comes on the display case where Maleficent’s wings are stored. She breaks it, the wings fly in, the day is saved.

What do we draw from this story?

First, the power of love. It takes true love to awaken Aurora and it takes true love to end Maleficent’s desire for revenge. (She also realizes that Aurora may be the way to peace between the two kingdoms.) Their love for each other saves them both. The movie is a testament to the power of love to overcome the hatreds of the world. Love overcomes revenge and causes Maleficent to release it.

Second, we see that only you can tear down your walls. No one can do it for you. And as long as those walls stand, you cannot let anyone in. That cuts you off from the world. Breaking down those walls is essential for love to flourish.

All in all, a lovely afternoon well spent.

Breathing In – Breathing Out

Treatment by Rev. Faith Woods, RScP

Breathing in – Breathing out

Relaxing….

Breathing in – Breathing out

Spirit creeps into my conscious mind…

Breathing in – Breathing out

The perfection of the frustration becomes known…

As I invited Spirit to be the guide of each moment this day, I know that the forgotten phone, the mis-take of time and date on my calendar, the edgy feeling of the office, is all here to beckon me to look deeper and recognize that Spirit is in charge. All these random events invite me to pay attention. They are notations in the ebb and flow of Life – reminders that there is more than this. I recognize the fullness of the time that is here now. Recognizing there is only One life I know that the potential is present for me, for us, to choose each moment as full and rich and perfect just as it is.

I turn my awareness to the philosophy and way of life I have chosen. I choose to know that as each person casts his/her light and talent into the pool that is known as Celebration Center for Spiritual Living, our presence in the world shines brighter. I see this pool is filled and refreshed as each person shows up and we create an oceanic wave of love. Knowing this moment is forever constant and forever changing, I say “yes” to the expansiveness of Science of Mind and those dedicated to it.

Celebration Center is richly blessed, abundant, loving and lovable, peace filled, healthy and ever expanding as its love of life resounds through the universe. The wholeness and perfection of Spirit is found right here, right now in our lives and in the organization we are part of.

Breathing in – Breathing out

I go deep into Gratitude…

Breathing in – Breathing out

Peace seeps into my awareness…

Breathing in – Breathing out

I go deep into Love…

I go deeper and release this prayer into the perfect Law,

As so it is

June 18, 2014

God as my “Wing-man.”

Treatment by Carol A. Haave, RScP

Have you ever started something new that you were really excited about? Time just seems to fly, doesn’t it? That IS “The Fountain of Youth” 🙂 There is an energy and an anticipation about what might be when we start a new project, job or endeavor. We eagerly await the future while creating our masterpiece in the present. And it’s delicious. We seem to have more energy and more time — for everything — even though we are busier than we ever have been recently. That’s how we defy aging — to be so engrossed in something new or something that we love — that time stands still almost.

Today, I am grounded in the present but am eagerly anticipating the future. I am visioning the success of my new launch and know that it has been Divinely inspired to help thousands of people become passionate about their work and their lives. As each person is touched by what they learn about themselves and the trans formation process for profound meaningful change in organizations, they extend a positive reach exponentially throughout my community, the country and maybe even the world.

I give my gifts in service and know that they were imbued in me by God. Only I can provide this experience to others in this way, as no one else has the experience, knowledge, skills and talents identically that I do. People who need to hear my message are naturally drawn to me. I love what I do, and I make oodles of money doing it — money that can then be used to support people and causes that I care about and believe in.

Thank you, thank you God for this gift. I am so excited about the possibilities, and I am open to Divine guidance about next steps. I know that my vision may be limited by my experience in the world, but I open to a grander vision of Divine Intelligence that acts on my behalf and attracts to m e the perfect clients and customers for my work.

I have a “huge” meeting on Thursday that I am confident will be successful with God as my “wing-man.” Releasing these words into the Law and knowing their Truth for me and for anyone else who has a grand vision of how to bring their unique gifts in the world, I let go. And like a little child, I wait expectedly knowing that God is my Source and my Supply and that all is fabulously well! Success is mine. And so it is!!

June 16, 2014

Change is in the Air

Treatment by Tim Phares, RScP

Change is in the air. We’ve had several cloudbursts here, right in the middle of warm and dry days. The political world gave us a major upset tonight as the House Majority Leader went down to an obscure college professor. Whether it’s weather, politics, theatre, sports, or whatever, change is definitely in the air.

How do we handle it? Do we resist it? Resistance is energy (ironically measured in “Ohms”), so when we resist, we simply add energy to what we’re resisting. Do we simply sit and allow? That opens the door to being overwhelmed by changes that perhaps are not for our highest and best and/or not the direction we want to go. But we let ourselves go with the flow, rowing and paddling to manage it the entire time. We don’t resist, we don’t sit back and crash on the rocks, we paddle.

This morning on the radio on a talk show, I heard the host say that when I change my mind, the world changes. When we choose to be happy, when that happiness comes from within, we make better choices. Our worldview improves. We’re more harmonious. (If I mentioned the name of the host, you’d be really surprised, but he says this sort of thing a lot.) This summer, he urged, let’s reset and restart. So we simply choose to paddle, to restart, to be in the harmony, as we pray.

The One Life is All There Is. It is your life, it is my life.

I know that as the One Life in expression, in form, I reflect what the One Life is — harmony, new beginnings, openings, opportunity, that is what I am. Every moment is a restart, a reset, a new direction to paddle, an opportunity to sing harmony, or melody, and let my individual contribution reflect and enrich the entirety of the tune. We are in tune with each other and with the stillness that is at the center of all the change.

I accept this with deep gratitude.

I know it’s done, I let it be done, and it is done.

And SO it IS!

June 10, 2014

Synthesis

Treatment by Ed Preston, RScP

Synthesis

Prelude

I’m giving a talk next Sunday on “Synthesis” which came from an Angel Card drawn from a deck of Angel Cards.

One definition of “Synthesis” in Philosophy is the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis andantithesis. So,

Thesis: I want to think about “Synthesis” tonight for my talk preparation.

Antithesis: I want to completely forget about “Synthesis” tonight and relax.

Synthesis: I want to completely forget about thinking about “Synthesis” tonight, or something like that.

Treatment

I come into my quietness and become still. I accept the peace of this stillness as the antithesis of the busy day that I have had. The peace brings a sense of gratitude for all the wonderful things I have gotten done in this busy day with its noise and movement and occasional stress. I blend the peace and the gratitude into a joyful synthesis of each thesis and each antithesis describing my day. I now divinely accept something I’ve said all my life, “There are two sides to every question.” I simply allow the goods and the bads, the ups and downs, the rights and wrongs, the this way and that ways of my life to become divine in my life as I synthesize them all into a feeling of Oneness. We are all one in the contrasts of life as we synthesis each moment, finding the broader view which makes us One with One another.

I realize that my world of opposites is also a world of Oneness. There are two sides to every coin. Even Oneness depends on Manyness for its own meaning. They require each in the synthesis of life as we know it. So, I celebrate the power we each have to synthesize our contrasts and conflicts and opposites into a celebration of life as it is, a life of Oneness that comes from our own power. I know each of us can know the peace that comes from synthesis in our lives. We rise above the opposites and see the bigger picture, knowing that Oneness and Manyness are our ultimate Synthesis. We accept and know.

For this sense of peace and gratitude I give great thanks. I accept my life, and the lives of everyone reading this, just as they are: full of theses and antitheses and syntheses. We have the power to synthesize joy from all that is. So, in great thanksgiving, I release and let it be, peacefully synthesized.

And so it is. Amen.

June 9, 2014

Come Back to my Place of Peace and Calm

Treatment by Carol A. Haave, RScP

Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Do this a few times.

Let the tension and stress leave your body with each breath.

Replace what you don’t want with what you do.

Smile.

Think of something that makes you wildly happy.

See it in your Mind’s eye – picture it.

Feel it on your skin.

Smell it in the air.

Hold it in your hands.

Hear it.

Just for 30 seconds — or until it lets you go!

Know that you can do this man y times a day and especially when you are frazzled. In this moment, I am grateful for this teaching, for the Power and Presence of that which is in all, as all, through all. I remember to come back to my place of peace and calm whenever I need a pick me up or to change the direction of my thinking. I aspire to have more positive thinking than negative. Each time I choose in favor of my happiness and passions, I bring to the world the best of who I am. That’s what I am here for. I make a difference where I stand. Ever grateful for remembering that I am an instrument of God’s peace, clarity, success, happiness, wealth, health, and generosity, I bask in it. I give thanks for it. I am it. Thank you God. And so it is.

June 5, 2014

The Essence of My Being.

Treatment by Leslie Waldrup

After the crazy two months I had running here and there I had a chance to have lunch with some of my fellow practitioners today. It was delightful to see everyone’s smiling face and share conversation. We talked about various things and when the conversation was maybe not lunch worthy, someone would say next topic and we were off again. I delighted in the good food but even more in the good people around me, and the divine expressions they are; for even though I hadn’t seen my friends, we didn’t miss a beat. I took a step back and just breathed in the energy around the table. For it is amongst these people and a few more that I have come to know my spiritual truth, the essence of my being. I am so grateful!

So it is from this place I know that everything everywhere is all God. I know each and every expression is a divine creations, I know this for myself and for everyone reading this. For we are all the many talents and treasures that God is and so much more. I know from the smiles on the faces today and the sound laughter that God is present everywhere. It is good and very good.

I give great thanks for the love of God and the people around me and I carry this love with me. I know that it is always present even when the smiling faces aren’t.

I know this truth. As I have spoken my word, I just release it and let it be so…

And so it is!

May 31, 2014

Nature is the Manifestation of God Around Us

Treatment by Rich Kurasiewicz, RScP

Memorial Day is not only a time of remembrance of special people in our lives, but also the start of the Summer season. It is getting warmer, the flowers and trees are blooming and Nature, in general, is expressing itself in a wonderful, technicolor manner. We also can Live in such a manner when we realize the Truth and allow It to set us free. Nature is the manifestation of God around us, while we each are the individualized expressions of God. We, too, express in a wonderful, technicolor manner through our consciousness connecting with the Spirit within through daily spiritual practices, such as prayer, meditation, visioning, practicing the presence, tithing, etc. So we pray…

God is all there is–the Power, the Presence, All-Good, Pure Love, everything and everyone. God is ominipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent–the Alpha and the Omega, eternal and immortal. God is the entire Universe created from the Self-givingness and Self-knowingness out of God Stuff, Spiritual Substance–the Creator and the Creation! I am that I am. I am one with the Power and the Presence and of the Creation. I am a co-Creator of this Life which is One Life as an individualized expression of God and as the activity of God as Love in the world. And just as I am perfect, whole and complete, I know that each and everyone is perfect, whole, complete, eternal and immortal. I declare that each and everyone expresses the Truth of their being and is a blessing to themselves and to everyone they come in contact with. I know that Peace, Love, Joy, Health, Abundance, Harmony and Happiness are divine gifts available to each and everyone to receive in gratitude for the gift has already been made and awaits our acceptance. Life is to be lived with Love as the primary focus and energy for all with an expectation of Good for ourselves and for everyone else for there is only One Life and that Life is God’s Life and it is our Life right now!

I am so very grateful for the Truth that manifests daily in everyone’s life through the Power and the Presence of God in everything and everyone. I am so very grateful for the One Life that is lived by each and everyone and all the blessings of Good that manifest in each and every Life daily, continuously. I am so very grateful for the spiritual practices that reveal the Truth that sets us free to live and to live more abundantly. And I release my Word unto the Law where it is already known in the Mind of God and is assured of fulfillment. I know that my Word will not return unto me void. I do give thanks that this is so and so it is.

May 27, 2014

Treatment by Frank Mastoris,

Today as I was driving home, I was enjoying the mist and fog. It reminded me of how God is nurturing all expressions of itself. So today I treat.

There is one complete divine expression. It expresses itself as everything including the mist and fog. That mist and fog is God. God in it’s multiple expressions.

I am one with this thing called God. It expresses through me, as me and through all form. I too am expressed and nurtured by the mist and fog. I to am God.

As I know this about myself, I know this about each person who is part of and has ever visited the Celebration Center. We are all one with the divine perfection of God expressed as the mist and fog. We are all nurtured by God and we are nurturing the world of form around us because it’s all God. God nurturing itself, with itself.

I give thanks to God for the Gift of itself expressed through all life. I give thanks for the Gift of God expressed as each of us.

I release this to the law knowing we are all that God is and so it is.

April 7, 2014

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