SEPTEMBER 27, GUEST SPEAKER DR. KARMEN SMITH

“AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT”

"Ancient Wisdom, Conscious Choice. The reality you enter begins with you."

The outer world and inner world are not completely separate. What we believe affects what we notice. What we notice affects what we choose. What we choose effects what we repeatedly experience. Manifestation isn’t magic without participation. It is consciousness becoming behavior, behavior becoming pattern, and pattern becoming lived experience.

OCTOBER 4, GUEST SPEAKER GRANDMASTER YUANMING ZHANG

“DAO” Primordial – Spirit Energy

Grandmaster Zhang, through a translator, will discuss the original Divine Energy or Life Force from which all creation arises and through which all life is interconnected.

Primordial means existing from the very beginning; ancient, original, foundational. Spirit Energy refers to the Divine Life Force, Presence, or Intelligence that animates and connects all life. Through his unique understanding and experience, participants will gain a deeper spiritual understanding of the fundamental Presence underlying life.

OCTOBER 11, GUEST SPEAKER REV. LEE HITE

“KNOWING TO LIVING: EMBODYING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE”

Spiritual insight can inspire us, but transformation begins when what we know becomes how we live. Explore how spiritual truth moves from the mind into our choices, relationships, and daily practices.

Through the pathway of Awaken · Align · Embody, we will consider what it means to recognize our Divine identity, align with what matters most, and become a living expression of the wisdom we already carry. The spiritual life is not something we perfect someday; it takes form through the small, honest choices we make today.

OCTOBER 18, GUEST SPEAKER KENN DUNCAN

“VIPASSANA PRACTICE: Meditation and Mindfulness for
Compassion and Kindness in our daily lives”

The practice of meditation and mindfulness on and off the cushion.

How we can bring these insight practices into our daily lives and how it could make a difference in our relationship to ourselves and to others, our earth and our world.

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“Insight Practice Woven into the Daily Life” workshop following the service. 
Workshop Summary: How we can bring the Practice of meditation and mindfulness on and off the cushion into our daily lives. A look at how it could make a difference in our relationship to ourselves and to others, Mother Earth and all beings.  

How this practice can help us cultivate compassion and live with more open hearts.

Cost: Love offering

OCTOBER 25, GUEST SPEAKER JENIFFER WHITMER

“Shifting Realities: Stepping out of the matrix of stress and into god’s peace”

On any given day, we are bombarded by different "realities"— the reality of our stress, our fatigue, our past limitations, or the loud opinions of the world around us.

When we operate from these spaces, we make major life decisions out of fear and survival. Explore how intentional prayer and neural alignment allow us to quiet the subconscious noise, step completely out of the worldly matrix,and plug directly into God’s reality.​