We Believe In Our Own Soul, Our Own Spirit & Our Own Destiny For We Understand That the Life of All Is God.

Mission Statement
The Center for Spiritual Awakening cultivates the sense of Self in the individual that lies beyond the personality.  We are encouraged to develop a living relationship with this inner source of intelligence, wisdom, and love by using Mind correctly.  An expanded and fulfilling life is the result — including better health, more wealth, great relationships, and joyous self-expression.

WHAT WE BELIEVE
by Dr. Ernest Holmes

 
We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute and self-existent cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by Its creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.

We believe in the incarnation of Spirit in everyone and that all people are incarnations of the One Spirit. We believe in eternity, the immortality and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.

We believe that Heaven is within us and that we experience It to the degree that we become conscious of it.

We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all.

We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God.

We believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling Presence.

We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the individual, and that any person may become a reveler of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.

We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of my thought and acts upon it.

We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind. We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind. We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-Kindness, and the eternal Giving-ness of Life to all.
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We believe in our own soul, our own spirit and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.

And So It Is.
 

What Our Center Believes – Science of Mind Principles
Our foundation is a philosophy called Religious Science developed by an extraordinary man called Dr. Ernest Holmes.  He explained: “The philosophy of Religious Science is nothing new to the world. It is rather a synthesis of the greatest concepts that have ever come to the mind of man. The law of Moses, the love of Christ, the ethics of Buddha, the morals of Confucius, the deep spiritual realization of the Hindus, the mystical revelations of the saints of the Middle Ages, the laws of parallels and compensation of Emerson, the logic of Kant, the spirituality of Swedenborg, the beauty of Browning, and the wide universal sweep of Walt Whitman all find an exalted place in the philosophy of Religious Science.

Religious Science today is practical mysticism. Scriptures are meant to be used in daily life. The understanding obtained from ancient sources is applied to modern problems such as dysfunctional relationships, wealth, physical health and so forth. In the gospel of John it says, ‘If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.’

The Creative Power of Mind
In the beginning of the 20th century Sir James Jeans said, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” Perhaps this is even truer today with physicists contemplating super strings and black holes storing all information in a holographic way. The world’s oldest philosophies have agreed that mind is the primal energy in this universe. To put it simply, life is to you what you say it is to you. Jesus said, “It is done unto you as you believe.”

Dr. Ernest Holmes founded Religious Science on this basis -- that our mind is creative, and it can be changed to produce new experience. The implications of these two ideas are powerful and reach into many areas of daily experience. What do we believe about illness and poverty and difficult relationships? Whatever it is, this we will experience. By thinking “outside the box” of our regular opinions we can actually restructure our beliefs, our sense of values and our lives. Ernest said it this way: “There is a power for good in the universe and you can use it.”

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