Join us on Sunday, January 9, 2022, from 8-9 pm ET/6-7 pm MT for the next installment of the musical Awakening Together program which will feature Rev. Yolanda, Paul Katz, and married couple Carla and Keyes with their amazing music.

Rev. Yolanda’s first guest will be Paul Katz, who plays with the band Bonnerville and other Hippy Cool artists Lisa Bonner, Sheryl Boltze, Jim Abbott, Steve Fontaine, Geo, and many other great talents. For Sounds of Awakening, Paul is going to play solo just for us! For more information and to listen to Paul’s music visit: www.hippycool.com/music

The second round of guests will be married musicians Carla Lynne Hall and Jim Keyes who have performed hundreds of concerts and educational programs for schools, spiritual centers, and community events over the course of thirty years. Jim Keyes is a multi-instrumentalist, switching easily from guitar, keyboards, banjo, and ukulele, while Carla Lynne Hall sings, plays guitar and percussion. Collectively known as Carla & Keyes, they compose and produce music in their home studio in Westchester, NY.

The ongoing host of this musical program is Rev. Yolanda Mapes. She is a singer/songwriter/performance artist and interfaith minister, originally from Muscle Shoals, Alabama- The Hit Recording Capital of the World. She has been making music professionally for over 30 years, winning the NYC MAC Award twice and inducted into both the NY Blues Hall of Fame and The GLBT Hall of Fame. Rev. Yolanda and her husband Rev. Glen Ganaway are the founders of the “spiritual happening” called Church With a 2 Drink Minimum.

Thoughts of Awakening # 311

Learn to listen to silence.
It too has a Voice.
You must be still to hear its Voice,
because its Voice is not loud
or controlling.

The Voice of silence is peaceful
and suggesting.

It gives ideas of love
into a world
that seems not to know love.
Therefore, its suggestions
may be different
than you would think.

Let go of what you think
out of a desire
to listen to love.

Be still.
Listen.
And joyously follow.

~From our Holy Spirit

Rev. Helen Avery is an Awakening Together Ordained Minister. She shares weekly in our Sanctuary with a half-hour of heart-felt deep-diving into truth, love, and awareness. This candid sharing is a time when Helen explores different modalities and teachings with various non-dual teachers and how the real-life application of those particular teachings is currently showing up in her life. She shares about experiences from her path of awakening including the demonstration of how to utilize these helpful processes and spiritual tools. In her most recent Awakening journey, she discusses radical truth and wisdom from teachers such as Mooji and Helen Hamilton.

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Join us for the debut of a new program, Embracing the Real with Rev. Shiryl Kaplan in the Sanctuary on the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month at 5:30 pm ET/3:30 pm MT. The debut will take place in the Sanctuary on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 5:30 pm ET.

The ongoing inspiration for this new program will be that of the Sufi Teachings. Two of the main sources of inspiration that will be shared are The Sufi Book of Life by Neil Douglas-Klotz and For Love of the Real by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. Some powerful spiritual themes that will be shared will be on serving the Absolute and the gift of nothingness. Rev. Shiryl will also be sharing some simple meditations from The Sufi Book of Life.

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