PEACE ON EARTH:  THE DETAILS

Rev. O.M. Bastet  Ph.D., Head Minister

This article is presented and provided to you by "Amplifying Divine Light in All" Church

Our main religious purpose and mission is to amplify the Divine Light in everyone. When you read this article, you will agree or disagree with its various points, and then you will know more about what is true for you. Knowing more of your own Truth amplifies your Divine Light. Thus providing/presenting this article is one way for us to accomplish our purpose and mission. This article and our providing/presenting it are therefore an integral part of our exercise and practice of our religion. None of the contents herein are claimed as absolute truth. They represent one possible perspective which might prove useful for you.

All rights reserved under the Common Law. This means please respect our creatorship.

We invite your comments and responses!


"Lokah Samasthah Sukhino Bhavantu."
(Hindu chant and blessing: "May the whole world/all Beings be blessed and experience good things.")


Let's be specific. Let's unpack the idea of Peace on Earth into its details, what it would look like in our ordinary lives. These are some specifics to stimulate you to articulate your own specifics. This way we can meditate on peace longer and perhaps more effectively.

This is a brainstorm version which includes both positively and negatively phrased statements. The negative ones need to be turned around in a later version of this  paper or our reading or contemplating them will manifest more of themselves. Most turn-arounds have been done below, others await. The phrases " not any longer" and "no longer" do some neutralizing of the manifesting power of negative  statements.

Slight redundancies among items are beneficial for contemplating and meditating on a Vision.

PLEASE get back to me with your comments, suggestions, disagreements, additions !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's co-create a big booklet we can put out.

version 12/14/2007
 
Note: This article is crossposted in this Zaadz-site thread about peace: http://pods.zaadz.com/great_news_show/discussions/view/220811

Note: The picture accompanying this article is "E8--Shape of the Universe?" explained here: http://enlightenmentdotcom.zaadz.com/photos/view/287697#comments

NOTE: This is just a Vision. A description of a desired future. It is not everyone's vision, and doesn't need to be; there is room for diversity within peace. This statement of Vision does not even begin to address the complex matter of how we would get there. That is beyond the scope of its purpose.

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And while we're at it, why restrict our vision to Earth? Let's endorse Peace in all of Creation: other planets, other realms and dimensions of Creation, other Universes.
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The use of force and threat of use of force are no longer options for interacting among people, for any reason or purpose, no matter how many people think  that reason or purpose is a "good" one. (Everyone always chooses peaceful, life-supporting ways of interacting for any purpose or reason.)

No one believes any longer that they have the right or duty to use forceful methods to impose views or restrictions on someone else, or take things from someone  else--even for a "good cause," and even if other people approve of that use of force.  (Everyone recognizes, and acts accordingly, that peaceful, life-supporting, life-affirming ways are the only appropriate ways of persuading, influencing, or affecting others or getting things from others.)

No one thinks any longer that they need to take resources from anyone else through the use of or threat of violence. (Everyone knows they have or can get all the resources they need at any time, resources they can get in peaceful ways that benefit all concerned.)

Weapons become irrelevant, unused, unnecessary, obsolete. (People relate to one another entirely through materials and substances and things that are life-affirming and life-enhancing for all.)

No one any longer believes any authority--religious, earthly or heavenly--that tells them to engage in violence against anyone else, or harm anyone else. (People give credence only to authorities that endorse peaceful, life-affirming ways of interacting.)

No one any longer feels the need or desire to destroy or get rid of or control or restrict anyone else for any purpose whatsoever, whether religious, economic, or whatever, even for the supposed "good" of the other. (For every purpose whatsoever, everyone chooses ways of interacting that are respectful, life-supporting, peaceful.)

Everyone respects everyone else's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of  happiness, as these are defined by the most respected and wisest minds of the time.

Artificially-defined or arbitrarily-created groups are dropped in favor of natural affinity groups. (People voluntarily and spontaneously group together and organize themselves into natural groups defined by various kinds of affinities and mutual benefits rather than living as imposed groupings whose composition is decided by force.)

Differences of all kinds among people are viewed as sources of potential enrichment and betterment, rather than any longer as threats. This includes differences in gender, color, customs, beliefs, practices, etc.

For everyone, individual differences are sources of amusement or amazement or consciousness-expansion, or value, not any longer of fear or loathing or disgust or disdain or superiority-inferiority.

No one any longer feels threatened by anyone else's beliefs or characteristics. (Everyone feels safe among everyone else.)

No one any longer feels superior or inferior to anyone else, so there is no longer any need to "cleanse the planet of anyone inferior" or to prove and establish one's own superiority. (Everyone is aware of the inherent equality among all, and experiences this equality fully with respect to everyone else.)

No one any longer needs to get rid of or control any other people or their beliefs or  characteristics in order to achieve what they want to achieve. (Everyone knows they can achieve what they want to achieve through cooperation and Divine Guidance and that others are either neutral or supportive of them.)

No one any longer seeks to own or control through force, resources that they have not produced (such as resources that are in nature or produced by someone else.) (Everyone respects the source of resources, in the natural order of things, and behaves with this respect.)

People are no longer willing to deceive or harm others or the Earth for their own power or financial gain or other advantage. (All people seek to benefit themselves only in ways that have the intention of being beneficial or neutral for others, and everyone is honest with themselves and others about their motives and intentions, all the time.)

Ownership of land and that which is provided by nature is arranged in such a way that respects individual rights and contracts, yet benefits all. New forms of and concepts of ownership are developed to allow this.

Honesty and truth-disclosure prevail, so no one any longer feels deceived or lied to and thus seeks revenge.

Forgiveness and self-empowerment and self-responsibility prevail, so blame and victimhood and revenge are not any longer options.

Everyone takes full responsibility for all of their own experiences, without any longer seeking to blame themselves or an outside person or force; this reduces the need for guilt or revenge!

Everyone's heart chakra is completely open, freely functioning, freely flowing with Divine energies of Unconditional Love. It doesn't mean we personally love everyone in the human emotion of love, but that we allow it to manifest itself in human caring, respect, benevolence, and goodwill, recognizing and acting in accord with the Divine Nature of everyone.

Everyone recognizes and honors at all times in all ways the Divinity, the Oneness-with-Source, of themselves and of everyone else, even if they don't choose to relate to them personally.

Everyone seeks to strengthen and support this recognition and honoring in everyone else.

Everyone values and respects everyone else's right to be who they are and live as who they are.

Everyone honors and respects the rights, choices, dignity, and Divinity of others, and promotes relationships in which everyone behaves this way toward everyone else.

Everyone is so mentally healthy that no one any longer has any desire for violence or harm or manipulation. Also we have all transcended whatever violence is programmed into our DNA. We have all dealt healthily with subconscious aspects of ourselves that would result in violence.

People are aware of their motives for acting, and seek to be open with others about these, and everyone values this openness, and everyone is good at being aware of others' true motives.

Everyone has a high degree of empathy for everyone else, even if they differ significantly from someone.

People communicate freely, openly, safely, with anyone relevant, about their needs, wants, and desires.

People generously share their talents, resources, and every aspect of themselves and their lives and their productions.

People are free to live their lives as they choose and see fit without any longer interference, constraint, constriction, or hindrance, as long as they respect others' rights. New ways and new forms of dealing with behavior that is deemed harmful are developed, ways and forms that respect the innate Divinity and Creative Empowerment of everyone concerned.

No one any longer believes they have the right to receive or use the fruits of someone else's creativity, production, or labor without that person's consent and willingness. (People always get the voluntary consent and willingness of others before receiving, obtaining, or using what the other has created, produced, or made available.)

No one any longer seeks to take the fruit of someone else's labor without their  willingness and consent, even to give it to someone who has less. Even the willingness of the giver does not justify the threat of force for noncompliance with the giving. (Those who want someone to give something to someone else use persuasion, not force or the threat of force.)

No one any longer tries to force someone to give something to someone else, or to use force or threat of force to prevent someone from giving something to the person(s) of their choice. (Giving is always a totally voluntary, freely-made choice.)

People can move around and travel as they choose and see fit, without any longer any restrictions or hindrances, in the peaceful pursuit of their life business and activities.

People support others in increasing their skills at living good lives. People who have fewer resources and life-substances than others are the objects of great generosity and are taught how to fish rather than just given fish.

The planet herself is treated by everyone with complete respect and understanding of her preference for ecological balance and cleanness.

Everyone always has consciousness and behavior that honors and fosters ecological balance, respect, and harmony among all the life-forms, structures, processes, and Spirit-forms that affect our living planet, Gaia.

Everyone always has consciousness and behavior  that 
--- plans and acts in ways that would make life on this planet viable and optimal for all future generations,
--- and takes into account the wellbeing of all living Beings on the planet, as an interdependent system.

Everyone's basic attitude toward the planet, all Beings, and all other living things, is
one of goodwill and benevolence, seeking to benefit and uplift, always willing to be a resource when guided to do so.

Everyone wishes and seeks for everyone else to be living as much from their God-realized consciousness as possible, and acts in ways to only support and encourage this, including serving as the best example possible. Everyone recognizes in themselves and others their innate Divinity as always already present.

Everyone allows others to access and live totally from their own inner Guidance and Wisdom, and manifest their own God-natures in an infinite variety of ways, without any longer interfering on any level: emotional or physical or psychic.

Everyone is always seeking to expand their consciousness and their capabilities, their health and their happiness and their Spiritual living, and to foster and support this for everyone else.

No one any longer deliberately withholds or falsifies information from someone else about the potential harm from doing something, especially something that benefits the one withholding or falsifying the information. (Everyone acts on the principle of fully disclosing truth that might be relevant for the choices and decisions of others whom they are affecting.)

No one any longer seeks to gain advantage of any kind over someone else, or power or control over someone else, especially not by engaging in secrecy, dishonesty, fraud, or the withholding of information that in benevolence would be revealed. (Everyone always treats others as their equal especially by fully disclosing truths that might affect the life or wellbeing of another.)

No one any longer seeks to manipulate anyone else for their own satisfaction or gain, by engaging in any falsity or deception or misrepresentation, or by taking advantage of someone's ignorance on a matter. (Everyone engages in all honest and truthful behavior that treats everyone else with respect, honor, benevolence, and goodwill.)

Everyone acknowledges and acts according to the sovereignty of themselves and every other individual in the Oneness of all, while honoring agreements voluntarily made, and abiding by social contracts voluntarily entered into.

Everyone lives in a way that fosters for themselves and all others the ability to embody and express the highest and best potentials of human life, to live in the most life-enhancing, life-affirming, life-celebrating ways.

Everyone is aware that every aspect of the human body and earthly life--including pleasure and sexuality--is Divine and can contribute to spiritual upliftment. To everyone, physical bodies are holy temples, creations of God. Everything that benefits, honors, and uplifts physical bodies, of self and others, into health, joy, and pleasure is regarded as sacred.

Everyone chooses for themselves and others to be as healthy, thriving, prosperous, flourishing, and happy as possible.

Everyone seeks to foster voluntary, peaceful, nonviolent ways of relating and dealing with controversies, differences, and diversity. Everyone actively seeks to develop new methods, new forms, new concepts of conflict resolution and group decision-making that respect that rights and Divinity of everyone involved.

Everyone seeks to support and encourage groups and individuals whose Divine Purpose includes creating and/or implementing ways of relating and interacting among people in every arena of life (political, social, economic, religious, etc.) that are respectful, uplifting, peaceful, and that work for the benefit of all, as defined by each for self.

Everyone's behavior is totally guided by Higher Guidance at all times, so that coordination of activities for the benefit of all involved is done on a miraculous scale and to a miraculous degree all the time, without conscious effort on anyone's part.

Everyone wishes and seeks the best for everyone else--best as deemed so by
Higher Wisdom, not by Ego-Mind.

No one any longer believes they know what's best for someone else or seeks to coerce or manipulate someone else into that "best." (Everyone recognizes and acts according to the truth that only each individual can know what is best or will benefit or is life-supporting or life-enhancing for them. Thus no one any longer takes responsibility for having benefited or harmed anyone else because they cannot know in fact whether they have done this or not, or even whether what they are planning will do this or not. Everyone counts on everyone else to take responsibility for creating their good in their lives, and assumes this responsibility for self. Thus, no one blames anyone else for harming them and no one feels guilty for appearing to harm anyone. Everyone recognizes that guilt and blame foster violence.This means that while we are all motivated to benefit others, we recognize that we cannot know or predict with certainty whether any particular or specific thing we might do is going to be perceived by any given individual as being of benefit or harm to them. This means we check it out, or allow our own Divine Guidance to do the coordinating.)

All people have been taught, and have learned, how to truly communicate with people whose mental and emotional processes are very different from their own, such as the other gender. Thus understanding has replaced frustration, harmony has replaced resentment, and peacefulness has replaced anger and revenge-seeking.

All men have learned to deal with the physical, mental, and emotional promptings of the hormone testosterone in ways that keep their behavior inside the boundaries in which all persons are respected and benefited. For example, biochemically-based urges for group loyalty, protectiveness, providership, competitiveness, and physical activeness are expressed while always abiding by principles of respect for the rights of others and for the welfare ofothers.

All women have learned to deal with the physical, mental, and emotional effects of the hormone estrogen in ways that result--both short-term and long-term--only in behavior that respects the rights of self others and the welfare of self and others.

All men and women have developed and have chosen new cultural ways of Being and acting that promote only peace-enhancing thoughts, feelings, and actions, enabling them to transcend and leave residuals from past experiences.

New child-rearing practices by men and women have been developed and are being used by everyone, that teach children new ways of dealing with natural human emotions such as frustration and anger and natural human urges such as to possess, to win, and to overcome, new ways that are health-promoting and peace-preserving. For everyone, these new ways of Being and of acting are fully integrated and completely natural.

People have developed, and everyone uses, effective, respectful, and non-violent ways of dealing with and preventing recurrences of, any violent behavior by children or adults.

All the personal, environmental, and social roots of and contributors to non-peaceful behavior (which includes verbal violence, emotional violence, economic violence, and physical violence---all carefully defined so as to preserve everyone's rights) have been studied and understood by many, and all cultural and societal institutions and practices have been designed and are operated and geared to the full use of this knowledge and understanding to promote maximum peacefulness on Earth.



This article is provided to stimulate your own thinking on this subject
by "Amplifying Divine Light in All" Church
The presentation of this article is part of the exercise and practice of our religion.
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This blog entry contains the church brochure and following that, a sample Sunday Service Bulletin. I am sorry right now I have not the software nor the technical knowhow to do any fancy formatting, and in fact editing the line spacings here in this entry seems problematical. The church logo displayed is the next-to-final version. This blog entry and its presentation are part of the exercise and practice of our religion.

"AMPLIFYING DIVINE LIGHT IN ALL"  CHURCH

 

Are you looking for a Church that

                           --respects you as already God/ess-Spirit
           -- fosters your empowerment to
                      co-create a better world for all

--actively works toward a
         life for everyone that is
             loving, joyful, and thriving
                                    on an earth that is clean and peaceful

This is Who We Are

What kind of organization are we?

We are a completely independent Church not affiliated with any other religion or spiritual tradition.

Our primary mission and purpose is to perceive, recognize, evoke, and amplify the Divine Light in everyone. Each of us has a ministry to benefit and uplift others.

Our primary ministry is being a resource for others to know their own God/ess-nature in body, mind, and spirit. Our ministry provides people with direct experiences of their own inherent God-Self nature, and we serve as examples of Divine Light ourselves.

People participate in our Church through various ceremonies, spiritual counseling, eclectic spiritual healing techniques, and groups, classes, and programs for spiritual upliftment. Most of these are open to anyone. They are listed at the end of this booklet.

Our Church spaces are open for specific events and activities.

We engage in outreach, but not evangelism. We provide fellowship, resources, and spiritual evolution opportunities for those who feel a resonance with us.

We offer training for ministers and spiritual healers.

Our authority is from God/ess on the religious level, and from the Divinely-inspired
US Constitution on the secular level. We affirm separation of Church and government. We affirm everyone's God/ess-given inalienable rights to life, liberty,and the pursuit of happiness.

What do we believe?

We don't "believe" or impose/require beliefs, only abiding by ethical values. Each person is endowed with access to inner knowing and guidance directly from God/ess. We foster that access. Here are some "knowings" we share within our Church:

   About God/ess

God/ess is the Source and the Substance of Everything Everywhere Forever Infinitely. God/ess is the Force of Creation, the Creator, the Creation, and the Creating. God/ess is all Consciousness, all Energy, and all Matter. Nothing that exists or happens is not-God/ess or is outside of God/ess.

God has many names, such as Goddess, Divine Love, Divine Light, and Great Spirit.

We celebrate male and female aspects of God/ess.

The ultimate purpose of life is to live continuously in the realization that everything which exists is inherently always already, because it exists, One with God/ess.

Every Being is a sovereign Creation. Our primary authority is God/ess's Will, as known by each for self.

Each Being can directly access God/ess without clergy to intervene or interpret. The best functions of clergy are to support, uplift, encourage, and be of service.

We delight that each person experiences their spiritual evolution and God/ess in their own unique way.

   About Life

God/ess has given every Soul the power to create its experiences through its consciousness, so it has total responsibility for its own life.

Everything that happens, happens by God/ess's Will for the sacred purpose of providing people with an opportunity to increase their awareness of their Oneness with God/ess.

In our Church, Light-Amplifying means Life-Enhancing. Each of us chooses to embody and express the highest potentials of human life, to live in the most life-enhancing, life-affirming, life-celebrating ways.

Central and essential to the practice of our religion is that we regard every aspect of the human body and earthly life--including pleasure and sexuality--as Divine, as sacred, and as spiritually uplifting.

We honor our Creator by choosing to be as healthy, thriving, prosperous, flourishing, and happy as possible, and by fostering the same for others.

A blissful life "in Paradise" is possible in this life to anyone who recognizes and claims their innate Divinity as a Creation of the Divine Creator. People can live a heavenly life, not needing to earn or learn their way out of this life. People are Spirit Masters, not striving human students or sinners.

Everyone has a Life Purpose which can potentially benefit the entire world; our special mission is to help people discover and fully express their Divine Talents.

   About Human Relating

We respect the choices, dignity, and Divinity of everyone, and we encourage others to do the same. We are committed to voluntary, peaceful, nonviolent, non-condemnatory relating even in controversies, differences, and conflicts.

Our religion recognizes that there are many spiritual and religious teachers worthy of study, there are many "paths to God," and there are many religious writings which contain some of the spiritual Truths we share.

Science/rationality/logic and spirituality/intuition/-guidance/revelation are not opposed; our ideal is integrated, flexible left-brain and right-brain consciousness that uses all of these in appropriate ways for various purposes.

Everyone benefits when people expand their conscious-ness to more empathy and compassion, greater wisdom and understanding, more Divine Love, and more of their multi-dimensional SpiritSelf.

We encourage consciousness and behavior that fosters respect, harmony, and ecological balance among all who affect our living planet, Gaia. We encourage consciousness and behavior that
---     plans and acts in ways that would make life on this planet optimal for all future generations,
---  and takes into account the wellbeing of all living Beings on the planet, as an interdependent system.

We support those whose Divine Purpose includes creating and/or implementing ways of interacting in every arena of life that are respectful, uplifting, loving, and peaceful and that promote optimal wellbeing for all. We actively work toward co-creating a better world.

What worship services and sacred activities are open for people's participation?

    Group:

Sunday "Amplifying Divine Light" Church Service

Oprah-Eckhart Tolle-A New Earth  Discussion Group

"Co-creating Our Spirit's Ideal World" Circle,  based on www.intenders.com

"Aliveness Unlimited" class in practical spirituality, life purpose, "finishing the healing," personal empowerment, planetary transformation, and many other spiritual topics

Spiritual Healing Clinic

The "More Joy and Laughter" Restoreth-My-Soul Club

"God/ess's Universe" Book Discussion Group

"Living Spiritually" Study Group

Informational meetings about the Church

    Individual:

"Co-creating New Realities" Spiritual-Healing and -Counseling Services

Tantra Sacred-Sexuality Spiritual-Teaching, -Counseling, and -Coaching Program

Peaceful Pleasure Reiki Holistic Healing Program

Readings of individual Cosmic Essence

Many articles about spiritual topics

Program for training ministers and spiritual "healers."

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Please note there is none of the beautiful graphics and formatting in this version.
What is in boldface italics is repeated aloud together by all.

All the predictions are that many of us will be seeing our sphere of influence expanding greatly, soon, and rapidly. Today we'll focus on choosing the characteristics of our next arena of activity that will offer us the Quality of Life we are entitled to choose, and will assist in our spiritual evolution as well as helping us benefit the world.

 

Invocation, Call to Sacred Awarenesss ........................................Rev. OM
We now invoke Blessèd Self-aware Representatives of the Infinite Radiant
Creative Conscious Energy's feminine qualities, and Blessèd Self-Aware
Representatives of the Infinite Radiant Creative Conscious Energy's
masculine qualities, all who are in the balance, harmony, and synergy of
those qualities.
We invite you to pour forth your blessings upon us and upon all Beings,
upon this place and upon the whole world and all of Creation.
We recognize and rejoice in our Oneness with you and the Infinite
Consciousness. We appreciate the beauty and awesome magnificence of us,
you, and All That Is.
We ask for your help in successfully completing our project of uplifting
and transmuting ourselves and this planet to our highest possible state of
Unity-consciousness and Unlimited Beingness, restoring our awareness of who
we truly already are, and harvesting the wisdom of all our experiences of
separate and limited consciousness.

Chant Three Om's...............................................................................................Everyone
"Om": A Sanskrit word which vibrates with the experience of:
I am now recognizing, acknowledging, and allowing myself to experience that
I am one embodiment of All That Is, and of Divine Grace, the Force and
Power which creates All That Is from the Field of Infinite Possibilities.
As such, I am One with All, and One with the Force and Power of Grace.

Vision Statement for this Church and this Service............................................Rev. OM
Our purpose is to amplify the Divine Light in All, including Gaia herself.
The purpose of this service is to uplift, inspire, invigorate, refresh,
renew and to strengthen each person's knowing of their Oneness with God/ess
and their living in that knowingness.

Welcome and Announcements............................................................................Rev. OM

We Sing Along*................................................................................................Everyone

Meditation, In Silence, Your Own Communion with Your Own Ultimate...........Everyone

An Amplifying Transmission of Divine Light/Love through Energy and
Sound...........................................................................................................Rev. OM

Special Music*......................................................................................."Dreamflight III"

Sharing of Uplifting Stuff..................................................................................Anyone

Message:  Amplifying Our Arena of Activity....................................................Rev. OM

Tithes and Love Offerings.................................................................................Everyone
We acknowledge that God-We-Are is the source of all money, and money is
God-We-Are in action.
We recognize the spiritual purpose of money: a substance used to facilitate
an unlimited variety of exchanges and gifts of goods and services for
embodied Beings who require certain things for survival and flourishing.
We ask for and accept all support, supply, and nourishment in all forms
including money.

Blessing of Tithes and Love Offerings.................................................................Rev. OM
This money is received and accepted in the name of the Church. It is
dedicated to the Missions and Purposes of the Church, blessing our lives
and the world. It is from our ministry and for our ministry. It is received
with rejoicing and appreciation. May the givers be blessed many times over
in every good way.
We now imbue each bill and coin with Sacred-Heart Christ-Consciousness
Love-Light Energy. We raise its vibration entirely to that energy. May it
glow with that energy as it goes forth through the world, blessing and
uplifting everyone who touches it. And through that energy may it attract
back to us, and may we receive, ten-fold itself. We more than give and
receive money, we flow money in and out of our hands and lives. So be it.


Benediction and Inspiration.......................................Rev. OM, Everyone, and Anyone
Sharing of inspirations received during the service.
Playing of Crystal Singing Bowl representing our new higher vibration.

I now choose to accept, integrate, and become every opportunity for
amplifying my own Divine Light Self and Divine Love Self provided by this
service, with rejoicing and celebration. I go forth into a more joyful life
as more of the Divine, fully alive Self I already am, to be a blessing and
upliftment to this beloved Planet and every Being in Her. Through Divine
Grace, it is done.

 
Church Presentation: Spectacular Results!

The Church's various services were presented to the Holistic Synergy Network in the evening on July 25. A 3-page description went out by email to 25 people. Only two other people were at the meeting, but Rev. OM was invited to be on a radio show that reaches 1.3 million listeners, and several local referrals will also be forthcoming!. This presentation
involved a demonstration of Rev. OM's spiritual counseling around sacred sexuality. The purpose of the presentation was to enable Network members to more easily know whom to refer for various Church services.

Please know that Rev. OM is available to pray and meditate with you and for other
spiritual healing and upliftment services, by appointment, in person or by phone.

We encourage networking and fellowship. Please put your own cards, brochures, and flyers on our Sharing Table. Also bring inspiring articles, reprints, printouts, for our Inspiration Notebook on this table, and feel free to browse the Notebook! Please put in notes about uplifting movies, books, videos, music, etc.

Today's Special Music is from the album "Dreamflight III" by Herb Ernst

Today's We Sing Along is "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" sung by Robert Goulet from his CD album "16 Most-Requested Songs"

Community Traffic and Parking Alert
Highway construction in the our Area causes occasional road closures. Do allow a few extra minutes of travel time getting here. If you cannot find parking in any of the three Visitor (uncovered) areas of this condo complex, you can park OK in the lot of the commercial building on the corner next door. Best to NOT park in a visitor spot in another complex.

Feedback Please: We'll be delighted to hear how we can improve our ability to amplify your Divine Light through our services and materials.

   Those who have contributed:
    We are so grateful to Jessica, age 7, for the wonderful Sunday Service she did last week!

  Support You Can Give When Divinely Guided to:
   From time to time we will have guest speakers. Please suggest someone!
   We are always looking for inspirational music. Please tell us what you love.  Even  better, lend us that tape or CD for our Sunday Service.
   Our Sunday Service would benefit from a remote for the background-music player.
   A donation of a carpet cleaning would make us shining and uplifted.

   Volunteers Intended:
   Someone slightly handy could finish the bookcase for the Church Library.
   Someone could find a hard-to-locate Christian song "On Eagles' Wings." See Rev. OM.
   Someone to transcribe one or more Messages would be fabulous. We have a special tape player that facilitates transcription.

We invite you to pick up a list of all our events and activities from the display rack.

Today

A tape or CD of any week's Message is available for $5. Contact Rev. OM to order.

This Week  July 29-August 4

All events are here at Temple of Om Mangala Bastet.

Wednesday 8/1    "God/ess's Universe" Book Discussion Group (First Wednesdays) 7:15 - 8:45 PM.  pick up flyer on this

Thursday 8/2     Intenders Circle (1st & 3rd Thursdays) (free) 7:15 - 8:45 PM
pick up flyer on this

Next Sunday  August 5

Sunday 8/5 Spiritual Healing Clinic (first Sundays) (free) 1:30-3:30 PM     pick up flyer on this

The Message topic will probably be Basic Visioning Guidelines
The Special Music will probably be "Secret Lake" by Vidhano
The We Sing Along will probably be "Amazing Grace"

Mark Your Calendar  

Monday 8/6   More-Joy Club Movie (first Mondays) 7:00 -?   pick up flyer on this

Note: as of 3/18/08 the Aliveness Unlimited class is third Wednesdays because the Oprah-Eckhart Tolle-A New Earth Discussion Group is second Wednesdays

---Wednesday 8/8    Aliveness Unlimited Class (second Wednesdays) 7:00-9:00 PM
pick up flyer on this.   Topic: Are Other People Real?

Thursday 8/9   "Living Spiritually" Study Group (2nd Thursdays) 7:00-9:00 PM
pick up flyer on this    Current topic: Consensus

Monday 8/13  Learn-about-this-Church Evening (the 13th of each month) 7:30-8:45 PM
pick up flyer on this

Thursday 8/16   Intenders Circle (1st & 3rd Thursdays) (free) 7:15 - 8:45 PM
pick up flyer on this


Sunday Messages in July have focused on Amplifying Divine Light in Yourself, Your Life, and All Living Beings
Sunday Messages in August will focus on Visioning, Intending, Choosing and Allowing the Future