Do you Love to sing?

We are building a choir and would love to have YOUR voice!

Rehearsals are the third Sunday at 11:30 AM and the fourth Sunday at 9 AM 

If you enjoyed what you saw on Oprah and Larry King Live, Beyond Positive Thinking, and the film The Secret, then you will love our Center. We believe God is all there is! God is the infinite power and presence of all life! Have you ever wondered if there was a place where everyone believed this? Give us one Sunday...you’ll feel the love!

November ~ Awakened Mind, Awakened World:
“How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci”

Join us this month as we learn a practical approach for applying the essential elements of Leonardo’s unsurpassed genius to enrich our lives. We will discover an exhilarating, original way of seeing and enjoying our world as we develop powerful strategies for creative thinking and new approaches for greater self-expression. We will learn proven techniques for sharpening our senses, liberating our unique intelligence, and harmonizing body and mind. With Leonardo as your inspiration, you will make your life a “work of art.”

Sunday, November 2 Curiosita - An insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning. Music: Hal Ratliff and Shades of Light

Sunday, November 9 Dimostrazione - A commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence and a willingness to learn from mistakes. Music: Hal Ratliff and Jennifer Hart

Sunday, November 16 Sensazione - The continual refinement of the senses, especially sight, as the means to enliven experience. Music: Hal Ratliff and Tim Dismang

Sunday, November 23 Sfumato - A willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox and uncertainty. Music: Hal Ratliff, Michael Paul Smith, and the Joyful Voices Choir.

Sunday, November 30 Arte/Scienza - the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. “Whole-brain” thinking. Music: Hal Ratliff and Ed Munter
 

Recommended Reading for November

 (please let us know if we can order these books for you to deepen your spiritual growth):

How to think like Leonardo da Vinci - Michael J. Gelb “By capturing the very essence of da Vinci’s life and genius - the seemingly perfect integration of mind, body, spirit, and soul - this book guides us in a discovery and understanding of the boundlessness of our own full human potential.” -Deepak Chopra

 

See What's Happening at the Center!

Events Classes & Workshops

•Sundays, November 2, 9, 16, 23 Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive
We are sponsoring our annual “Caring and Sharing” Thanksgiving Food Drive this Month.

We invite you to bring nonperishable food items, toiletries, paper goods, infant and toddler care supplies, and/or grocery store gift certificates to assist families in our area who are in need of help.

All your donations will be delivered to the South County Outreach Food Pantry which provides assistance to more than 700 families each month.

We will accept your donations, here at the center, the first four Sundays in November (November 2, 9, 16, 23).

Thank you so much for assisting and supporting families who need our help.

•Saturday, November 8: Sacred Journey: Meditation Gardens ~ 11 A.M.

We will have an opportunity (on Saturday, November 8 to make a sacred journey to the beautiful Meditation Gardens of the Self-Realization Fellowship Retreat and Hermitage in Encinitas. We’ll gather at the center (23685 Birtcher Dr., Lake Forest) around 10:50 A.M. and leave at 11:00 AM sharp! (Let’s plan to caravan and carpool.) Along the way, we’ll stop at the Village area in Carlsbad for an hour or so of free time for sightseeing and a no host lunch and then we’ll get back together for our sacred journey to the Gardens.

Please contact Bill Adamo bill.adamo@att.net for more information.

•Sunday, November 9: Mystical Meditation Series ~ 12:30 - 2 P.M.
This fascinating series, facilitated by Guy Lamunyon, explores many forms of meditation, including Breath Meditations, Heart Centered Meditations, Awareness Meditations and Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. Please note: Wear comfortable loose-fitting clothing and bring a pillow and mat, towel, blanket or small carpet.

For additional information or to contact Guy, please visit: http://www.meditation.freehosting.net/

•Thursday, November 13: New Classes Begin ~ Mornings and Evenings
This eight-week exploration of the Edinburgh Lectures by Thomas Troward is being offered Thursday mornings 9:30 - 11:30 A.M. and Thursday evenings 6:30 - 8:30 P.M. This is powerful material that will give you deep insights and new understandings in many areas. If you set an intention to put these new ideas into practice, they will transform your life.

The tremendous knowledge and consciousness of Thomas Troward permeates Ernest Holmes’ writing and we will be looking at the similarities. This course is a lively, interactive journey through one of the greatest minds in New Thought. Welcome to the adventure!

Pre-registration is necessary. Tuition $115 (members’ $100) plus workbook ~ The Troward Reader ($15). If you are repeating this class, there is no tuition fee.

•Wednesday, November 26: Thanksgiving Eve Service ~ 6:30 P.M.
Let’s come together and give thanks for all the blessings and people in our lives. Please bring your favorite holiday dessert to share. Gratitude service at 6:30 p.m. followed by a dessert potluck.

• Sunday, December 12: Mystical Meditation Series ~ 12:30 - 2 P.M.
This series, facilitated by Guy Lamunyon, explores many forms of meditation, including Breath Meditations, Heart Centered Meditations, Awareness Meditations and Vigyan Bhairav Tantra. Please note: Wear comfortable loose-fitting clothing and bring a pillow and mat, towel, blanket or small carpet.

For additional information or to contact Guy, please visit: http://www.meditation.freehosting.net/

•Sunday, December 21: Holiday Service and Concert
We are holding our annual Candlelight Service. There will lots of Christmas music with Andrew Pettit, Hal Ratliff and members of our choir, a special Christmas Message, our traditional youth Candle Ceremony, and back by popular request, re-enactment of “The Tapestry.”

After the Holiday Service (11:30 A.M.) we are planning a spectacular Holiday Concert with Hal Ratliff, Andrew Pettit and friends . . . followed by a scrumptious Holiday Luncheon. Please invite your family and friends as this glorious service is planned for the entire family to enjoy.

•Wednesday, December 31: World Peace Meditation ~ 4 A.M.
We invite you to join us for the World Peace Meditation and
Prayer at the center.

At noon Greenwich time (4:00 A.M. our time) December 31, men, women, and children around the world will gather to participate in the most comprehensive prayer activity in the history-- a planetary affirmation of peace, and love, forgiveness and understanding involving millions of people in a simultaneous global mind link. The purpose: to reverse the polarity of the negative force field in the collective consciousness; achieve a critical mass of spiritual consciousness.