We > Me: Going Further Together
— Derek Hinchliffe, RScP
“In the flow of love, you will tend to see and respond to the divinity in all persons.”
— Eric Butterworth
We all live in a community. Actually, we live in several. Communities are geographical, social and spiritual. This Sunday, Derek Hinchliffe, RScP, explores how our own personal spirituality affects our entire community. From jigsaw puzzles to space travel, together we will discover the reasons why “We” is so much greater than “Me”.
Join Derek Hinchliffe, RScP, and the rest of the Sunday Six on October 17 at 10:30am on Facebook Live.
Tune in early at 10:20am to hear the music of New Thought musician, Karen Drucker.
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This Week’s Science of Mind Theme
We > Me: Going Further Together
Ubuntu is a part of Zulu life philosophy meaning “I am because we are”. A community is greater than the sum of its parts and each individual is uplifted by the support of the group.
Learning about and fully embracing people from many cultures and walks of life helps us to be a better spiritual and global community. Engaging our spiritual practices of listening, openness, forgiveness, surrender, faith, and trust all lend themselves to going further together in community.
As we go through life, we evolve and expand in consciousness. The individual is focused on their own personal development. When individuals come together in community, the engagement takes on a different focus of collaboration and shared goals. Openness and compromise ensures that everyone’s voice and interests are included. Working together in camaraderie brings love, shared accountability and participation.
The more we appreciate the uniqueness of everyone in our community, the more we all grow and expand in our unified richness. The stronger the ‘me’, the stronger the ‘we’.
Visioning Session #1
We are moving into a new time here at the Centre for Spiritual Living Kelowna. We’ve created the first of several opportunities to get together as a community to begin the process of co-creating our “NEXT”. This will start with a series of visioning sessions designed for everyone who’d like to be a part of this process to join together on Zoom.
Visioning is a process developed by Michael Beckwith to create a realization of our greater yet to be. It’s not visualization; it’s a process to assist us in getting in touch with what’s alive at the higher levels of our spiritual potential.
It’s a consciousness-stretching tool designed to take us beyond what we know and what we know we can do; it allows us to glimpse a greater potential than we might know from our human thinking level. Visioning is really spiritual brainstorming. It’s fun and easy. We’d love to have your participation.
Date: October 24, 2021 at 1pm PT
Passcode: visioning
Book Discussion
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
by Sonya Renee Taylor
Facilitator Amanda Pope looks forward to discussing this powerful book with others in a safe and accepting space.
“I’m excited to create that space where we can share and explore what it means to practice radical self-love. We all have bodies, and many of us have complicated relationships with them. Join me as we dive into exploring the ways in which society’s view of physical bodies has the power to impact our life experience, and how we can also free ourselves by practicing self-love.”
Starts October 20, 2021 at 6:30pm to 8pm, every Wednesday for 6 weeks.
Please RSVP on the event page.
Suggested donation: $80
Donations can be made through our website or by e-transfer to donate@cslkelowna.org.
Please don’t let this suggested donation stand in the way of your participation in this discussion group. Whatever donation you can afford is greatly appreciated.
If you have extra to give and you would like to contribute towards someone else’s participation in the group that is also greatly appreciated.
Practitioner of the Week
Jade Harms, RScP is our practitioner of the week. Contact her directly at practitionerjade@gmail.com for your personal prayer request. Remember: our practitioners are here for you. They love to serve you with support and positive prayer (also known as Spiritual Mind Treatment). They are as close as your email and will respond to your prayer request as soon as they can. Please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Regular Events at CSLK
Here’s a summary of upcoming events. See more details on our website.
Coffee and Connection with Dr. Deb, Rev. Barb and friends is back in full force, every other Thursday. Our next time together will be October 21st at 10am. Everyone is welcome to this time of casual connection.
Passcode: connection
After-service Community Chat (formerly called Fellowship) is every second and fourth Sunday of the month. Join Laura, Joanne and other members of our CSLK community for a friendly catch-up chat after our Sunday Celebration. Our next Community Chat is on October 24. Everyone is welcome!
Passcode: community
Pre-service Meditation is every first and third Sunday of the month from 9:45am to 10:05am. You’ll have time after the meditation to refresh and switch over to Facebook Live for our Sunday Celebration. The next meditation will be on October 17th.
Passcode: meditation
Our Sunday Celebrations are at 10:30am on Facebook Live. Visit our page at https://www.facebook.com/CSLKelowna/ and scroll down until you see the video. (The replay can be watched later on YouTube.)
Our children's VIBE program is on hiatus.
We are so Grateful for your Support!
We’re thankful for the many ways we are able to accept donations:
On our website cslkelowna.org via PayPal or credit card.
Through Interac money transfers sent to donate@cslkelowna.org.
By CAFT automatic transfers directly from the bank.
Cheques can be mailed to: Suite 131, 101-1865 Dilworth Drive, Kelowna, BC V1Y 9T1.
For more information, please contact our treasurer, Derek Hinchliffe.
MIND-FULL MOMENT
“… we are loving our neighbour, whether that neighbour appears as a friend, relative, enemy, animal, flower, or stone.”
— Joel S. Goldsmith
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