Join us Tuesday, January 24, 2023, from 5:30-6:30 pm ET/3:30-4:30 MT for the debut of a new program featuring the teachings of Ramana Maharshi. This new weekly program will be facilitated by Lina Luckway. She will be reading and sharing from Be As You Are. 

Be As You Are is a treasury of Ramana Maharshi’s knowledge. The book collects conversations with the many seekers who came to him for guidance, answering the questions sought on the road to enlightenment. Self-realization is the vital quest we must all pursue before we can attempt to understand the world.

Ramana’s method of self-inquiry is to dissolve the belief of separation from the Self, his insistence that there is a direct path to awakening and that enlightenment can be attained by anyone is in strong focus. Ramana puts everything in clear and simple words, and Hindu terms and Sanskrit words are also explained. There is no need to be familiar with Hindu scripture before reading this book.

Let’s get together, read and discuss the essence of Ramana Maharshi’s teaching Be As You Are, and see what insights and delights unfold.

Lin Castaldo will be sharing a new half-hour program in the Sanctuary on the 1^st, 3^rd, and 5^th Tuesdays of the month from 7:30 – 8 pm ET. She will be exploring the book Silence of the Heart ~Dialogues with Robert Adams.

                        “Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) is an American Self-realized master and a direct disciple of Ramana Maharshi. This book is dedicated to the teachings of Robert Adams during his Satsangs from 1991-1993. If you are a sincere seeker, and if you find the all-important heart connection with Robert, your life will never again be the same.  Doors will unlock, magic will happen.”

Join us for our next Movie Watcher’s Group which will be facilitated by Rev. Kelly Barber on Sunday, January 22, 2023, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.

This Beautiful Fantastic is a 2016 British romantic drama film. Bella Brown is a young woman with an obsessive–compulsive disorder. She works in a public library and is trying to write a children’s book. Bella makes unlikely alliances to help her break through her fears, in this case, her fear of plants. With the help of a cook and mean old neighbor she discovers the way to unlock her guardedness, transcend into a new world where flowers and trees are no longer the seeming enemies, and she unexpectedly discovers inspiration where once there was none.

The impetus for the choice for this movie is how the metaphor of gardening can so easily relate to our own spiritual practice, with how one may need careful tending, patience, and consistency needed to bring forth something nourishing and full of substance. These concepts point to the building blocks of spiritual practice in that we tend to the unseen and through faith something miraculous springs forth.

You can find this movie on Amazon Prime, YouTube, Vudu, Tubi, and Itunes.