Radical Inclusion Begins Within

The premise seems deceptively simple: The journey of self-discovery includes learning to love ourselves. On our journey to discovering who we are, we first learn to be comfortable with our own uniqueness and our differences from others. Then we set out to find a community where we feel included and celebrated.

In the June 2019 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine, Rev. Karen Fry and Dr. Petra Weldes open their hearts, their lives and their journeys to accept themselves and to create a space that celebrates diversity and invites inclusion.

“We are working to create a community that includes and celebrates every type of person, every diversity,” Fry says. “By sharing our lives openly, we hope to inspire LGBTQIA people, along with anyone else who identifies as unique, to be proud of who they are and to live out loud.”

Weldes adds, “I am uninterested in identity labels that are focused on my human self. I seriously work to identify myself as the Divine Self, the I AM That I AM. At the end of this life, at that point, I’ll no longer be white, blonde, female or gay, but I will still be the I That I AM.”

“I want to live in the spice rack of life,” Fry says, “while living in congruence with our faith. The diversity in our community truly gives me hope for humanity.”

The radical inclusion they demonstrate — internally, for each other and in their CSL Dallas community — not only returns to them exponentially, it models love in the world. And through that, love wins.

— For more information about CSL Dallas and its focus on radical inclusion, visit www.CSLDallas.org.

Create or Join a Heart of Peace

Meditation Circle

"We must think peace if we wish to express peace.” – Ernest Holmes

Centers for Spiritual Living’s Heart of Peace Initiative joins together prayers from around the world — from Australia, Ukraine, Germany, England, Canada, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States. This global effort seeks to raise the consciousness of peace across the planet, effecting major changes to the manifestation of events and daily life. Through the long-standing spiritual practice of collective meditation, the Peace initiative takes a stand for a world that works for everyone.

This is your invitation to join this global effort by creating a Heart of Peace Meditation Circle or other activity in your community now — or to join a circle already in action. To find out more about this initiative and how you and your community can participate, click here for the CSL Heart of Peace Initiative website.

Celebrate the Divine with Fur,

Feathers and Scales

You love your pets. In the United States alone, roughly 85 million people choose to share their homes with divine creates who walk on four feet, those who have feathers, fur or scales. Perhaps that helps explain the popularity of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine’s Special Section honoring our beloved pets, published each year in June.

On the sacred journey of our lives, there are no more supportive and unconditionally loving friends than our animals. This year marks our fourth annual section dedicated to the friends who always have a purr, wing or wag to uplift our daily experiences.

We thank our readers (and our staff) for sharing the sweet faces of these divine creatures. See them in our June issue or get your pet fix at https://scienceofmind.com/beloved-pets-gallery/.

Possessing Divine Qualities

by Ernest Holmes

Man sends forth his thought to coalesce with other thoughts in the Creative Medium of Mind. Mental combinations are made as his thought picks up other thoughts for which he has an affinity; thus form is produced and cast into his experience.

Thoughts, like germs, must find a congenial soil in which to take root, to germinate and grow. The thought of the race is held in solution in mind and race suggestion is a very real thing. We tune into it and draw back that to which we vibrate. Hate begets hate and love draws its own to itself as though the hand of God had brought it.

How wonderful is man’s dominion, how fraught with limitless possibility! …

This God Principle in us is the reality of our natures. It is the power by which man holds dominion over palm and pine. Perhaps the Mind of God is like the ether of the physical universe. When electricity passes through a wire, it is a vibration in the ether which circulates between the atoms of copper. So, it seems to me, thought passes through the ethers of mind to produce form, to attract or to repel. …

Right now we are connected with our good, but we must whisper the message of our desire into the Creative Medium of soul. The answer will come back to us as the image of our thought recognizes its reflection in the pool of the spiritual Substance, which is forever held in solution and which is forever ready to take form. In the same way, we are connected with the past, the present and that future that we may give birth to if we will.

— Excerpted from “The Power of Creative Consciousness,” published in the February 1950 issue of Science of Mind magazine.