My Prayer for My Country
Ernest Holmes

Believing in the Divine Destiny of the United States of America and in the preservation of liberty, security, and self-expression for all, I offer this, my prayer for my country:

I know that Divine Intelligence governs the destiny of the United States of America, directing the thought and the activity of all who guide its affairs.

I know that success, prosperity, and happiness are the gifts of freedom and the divine heritage of everyone in this country; that they are now operating in the affairs of every individual in this country.

I know that Divine Guidance enlightens the collective mind of the people of this country, causing it to know that economic security may come to all without the loss of either personal freedom or individual self-expression. I know that no one can believe or be led to believe that personal freedom must be surrendered in order to insure economic security for all.

The All-knowing Mind contains the answer to every problem which confronts this country. I know that every leader in this country is now directed by this All-knowing Mind and has the knowledge of a complete solution to every problem. Each is impelled to act upon this knowledge to the end that abundance, security, and peace shall come to all.

And I know that this Spiritual Democracy shall endure, guaranteeing to everyone in this country personal liberty, happiness, and self-expression.

Originally published in Science of Mind magazine, July 1953. 

Take a Guided Journey with Jean Houston

We are we are delighted to offer our newsletter readers a special fourteen-minute meditation that Jean Houston created just for Science of Mind readers, inspired from her recent book The Wizard of Us. Houston makes you feel that you are sitting around the fire with her, in some ancient time, perhaps with the moon rising in the sky and the gleaming faces of your beloved fellow seekers near. Plan a special time for yourself, settle in a comfy chair, and feel yourself revived, nourished, and revitalized by Jean Houston into that which you truly are—infinite, invincible, and eternally creative. As she believes, as she thinks, as she lives, the greatness of who we are is right here!

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The Moon, Jean Houston, and You!
Pamela Bloom

In 1968, Apollo 8 went to the moon, and what the astronauts found most awesome (their word!) was not the first-time, up-close look at the moon, but their mid-space glance back at the Earth. The sight of our beloved planet hanging in space—“a beautiful oasis out in the middle of nothing against the backdrop of infinity”—left many of the astronauts speechless, even inspiring Edgar Mitchell into a state of Oneness that he later discovered the ancients had already dubbed salva kalpa samadhi. In this heart-opening clip from the upcoming documentary Continuum, Mitchell talks about his life-changing unifying experience: “[In that moment of seeing the Earth from space] I fully understood that the molecules in my body, and the molecules in my partner’s body and in the spacecraft, had been prototyped in some ancient generation of stars. In other words, it was pretty obvious from those descriptions that we are stardust.”

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When I heard Mitchell’s comment, I thought back instantly to my interview with Jean Houston in July’s Science of Mind magazine. Jean is truly an astronaut of the soul. In fact, in recent years, her visits to NASA have proven to be her biggest inspirations as she’s peered through the Hubbell telescope into the swirling cosmos. But as we know, Jean is also a lot closer to home; she wrote the introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Science of Mind. I asked Jean in a follow-up interview if she remembers the first time she encountered the work of Ernest Holmes.

“I actually met Ernest Holmes when I was nine years old,” she recalls happily. “My mother went to one of his services in southern California, and she took me with her. I remember I shook hands with him. He was very jolly. Absolutely delightful! And I probably first read The Science of Mind when I was ten years old.  At the time I was running off to at least twenty different schools, just the ones I remember, because Dad was in show business [he was a comedy writer for Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and others and frequently moved the family]. I was mathematically stupid but theologically precocious. So I was always looking in the local library for the knowledge of other societies, other places, other religions. Naturally, I was very much taken by New Thought.”

For more about Jean Houston’s mythic life, and an exploration of her work, click here.

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