Lessons in Living a Thriving Life - Sunday Evening Experience

If your intention is to thrive in the world, in your personal and professional life, and live a life filled with purpose, then join us in our online Sunday evening experience. We’ll be exploring the metaphysical teachings on the nature of reality and the philosophy of the Science of Mind. In these 45 minutes of interactive zoom experience, we’ll delve into lessons from some of the greatest metaphysicians, reflecting on own our own beliefs and actions and how they impact our mind, body, spirit, and community.

Connect via Zoom https://zoom.us/j/408613854.   

Lessons in Living a Thriving Life: Creative Mind

Sundays, Nov 8-Jan 3, 5:30-6:15pm PT (No meeting 12/20)

In this 8-week series, we’ll be exploring one of Ernest Holmes’s metaphysical classics, Creative Mind. This book was originally a series of talks on mental and spiritual laws, given at the Metaphysical Institute in Los Angeles in 1918. The ideas contained in this book are as thought provoking as they inevitably were then. Topics in our discussion will delve into the ideas of personal power, individual responsibility, being alive and inspired in the present moment, and the role we each play in our outer, collective experience.

This Week - Action and Reactions

“Stop trying. Stop struggling. Begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life; even though you do not see them, they are still there.” -Ernest Holmes

Pg. 24-Pg. 29: The Reason for the Universe- Outer Suggestions

Jesus said, “It is done unto you as you believe.” Could we believe that a material mountain be moved? If we could, it would be done. How can we shift our beliefs? We’ll discuss our beliefs and how to open ourselves to even more Good in our life.

Part 1: In the Beginning

Week 1: Nov 8 – I am a Co-Creator

“If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants, it is the same in [our] mind. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives.” -Ernest Holmes

XVII-Pg. 13: Introduction- The Law in our Lives

What is the Word of God? What does “I am that I am” mean? We’ll explore these ideas and how our words and thoughts create tangible results in our reality. 
 

Week 2: Nov 15- Bondage and Freedom

“It will make it much easier for us when we realize that we do not have to make anything, just to know; that there is something back of the knowing which does the work for us.” -Ernest Holmes|

Pg. 14-Pg. 23: Man’s Part- Individual Ideas

How can you be a center of Divine Creation? Do you feel you have to effort to make things happen? What if you didn’t? We’ll be exploring the freedom this insight allows us to experience in our lives.
 

Week 3: Nov 22- Action and Reactions

“Stop trying. Stop struggling. Begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life; even though you do not see them, they are still there.” -Ernest Holmes

Pg. 24-Pg. 29: The Reason for the Universe- Outer Suggestions

Jesus said, “It is done unto you as you believe.” Could we believe that a material mountain be moved? If we could, it would be done. How can we shift our beliefs? We’ll discuss our beliefs and how to open ourselves to even more Good in our life.
 

Week 4: Nov 29- The Perfect Universe

“Realize that Spirit is All Causation, and that all things are made out of it, by the operation of the word through it, and that you can speak the word that is one with the Spirit and there will be no more confusion.” -Ernest Holmes

Pg. 30- Pg. 41: The Use of the Greater Consciousness-About Struggle

Do you believe in two powers or One? Do you believe in God or not? We’ll have the opportunity to share about our beliefs in struggle and how to get ourselves out of that experience.
 

Part 2: Practicing what we Teach

Week 5: Dec 6 -The Same Power Used in Two Ways

“There Is only one power, but we use it in two ways, either to destroy or to save. The blessing and the curse are one and the same thing, the power of mind used either affirmatively or negatively comma the word used in fear and doubt or in faith and assurance period.” - Ernest Holmes.

Pg. 45-Pg. 54: Introductory- The Highest Attitude of Mind

Do you feel like there is evil in the world? Have you heard the concept that Evil is Live backwards? Let us turn from the idea of evil and live in the direction of our greatest good.
 

Week 6: Dec 13- See the Good in All Things

“Do not hesitate to enter into the game of life, but do so with a zest and an enthusiasm that overflows with life. Fill yourself with the radiance of a life running over with power and usefulness. Then shall the world see your light.” – Ernest Holmes

Pg. 55-Pg. 62: Non-Resistance- Be Expectant

How can we hope to make the world into a better place unless we overflow with joy? The world has too many sad faces. Let us discuss this week how to find our joy.
 

No meeting Dec 20. Please join us for the Winter Solstice Service.

Week 7: Dec. 27- Expanding our Thought

“Do you wish to live in a perfect world peopled with friends who love you, surrounded by all that is beautiful and pleasing? Do you wish to have the good things in life? There is but one way and that way is as sure as the sun shines. Forget all else and think only upon what you want.” -Ernest Holmes

Pg. 62-Pg. 72: Expanding our Thought- The Church of God

Are you growing in your life or are you stagnant? This week we will look at how to create movement in our life.
 

Week 8: Jan 3- Embracing Prosperity

“We become what we think, and what we become we will attract.” -Ernest Holmes

Pg. 72-Pg. 93: The Path to Prosperity- Q&A

Is there an area in your life you’d life to feel more prosperous? We take this week focusing on creating what we’d love to attract in our life.