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Sunday MorningsSunday Mornings Zoom: 789 699 326
Meditation: 10:45 a.m. Service: 11 a.m.
Senior MinisterSenior Minister Rev. David Robinson
The Soul’s CallThe Soul’s Call
InsideInside
Summer Prosperity Summer Prosperity
Boot CampBoot Camp
Interfaith Works ProjectsInterfaith Works Projects
New Home UpdateNew Home Update
Poetry by Kathy GilliamPoetry by Kathy Gilliam
AA fter last month’s Wholly Holy Uprising, we come to the Soul’s Call. In the hero’s journey mythologies, the hero eventually has a dark night of the soul experience. With the topics of
the first two weeks being “Pushed by Pain” and “Lean into the Discomfort” we are being called to face the places of darkness that live within us all. But face them, not wallow in them or be overwhelmed by them. Ernest Holmes reminded us that we do not deny the existence of a condition we’re facing, we deny that it has to continue to exist. When we can look face-to-face with the places of pain, we gain mastery of them. When we see them with both clarity and kind attention, they can no longer hold sway over us.
HappeningsHappenings
“God never intended people to “God never intended people to
suffer. Suffering may be salutary suffer. Suffering may be salutary
(healing) in that it leads us to a (healing) in that it leads us to a
place where we learn that it is place where we learn that it is
unnecessary!” unnecessary!”
~ Ernest Holmes, SOM 109.3~ Ernest Holmes, SOM 109.3
The second half of the month is about a greater expression of love and freedom. So don’t fear the dark, you are the light. Just as we celebrate the longest day of the month in June, moving from the darkness of winter, we bring our own, ever growing light into the world. Once we face the dragons, we no longer fear them. ~Rev. David
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June 6June 6thth ~ Pushed by Pain~ Pushed by Pain
Pain can be your motivation for a breakdown, a breakup or a breakthrough.
June 13June 13thth ~ ~ Lean into the DiscomfortLean into the Discomfort
A difficult birth does not make a baby any less beautiful. Guest Singer: Peter Mayer
June 20June 20thth ~ What’s Evolution Without ~ What’s Evolution Without
Love Love Evolution leads us to more fully express the Divine and the nature of the Divine is love.
June 27June 27thth ~~ The Soul’s Call to FreedomThe Soul’s Call to Freedom
Our true nature is freedom. Our soul is always calling us in that direction.
Core CouncilCore Council
Rev. David Robinson, Spiritual Leader
Buffie Finkel, President
Barbara Yanagimachi, Vice President
Christi Johnson, Treasurer
Luke Sutton, Secretary
Message Phone: (360) 255-7878 Mailing address:
3701 Pacific Avenue SE, PMB 327 Olympia, WA 98501
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Sunday Talk Titles Sunday Talk Titles
Books for JuneBooks for June
Timeless WisdomTimeless Wisdom
II deas make a difference in the life you live. The idea always comes first
and the experience follows. The ideas you will encounter in this book can make a difference in the life you live. They are interesting and
easy to read. But their value can be assimilated only by going beyond the mere words themselves and grasping the full impact of the meaning behind them. If it is time for you to move on to something better in life, you can find the ways and means on these pages.
Evolutionary VisionEvolutionary Vision
TT his is a prayer book for evolutionaries and activists, for
deep ecologists, for spiritual seekers engaged in passionate renewal and for all those thirsty for a spiritually coherent worldview. The Soul
Brent Pendleton, Brent Pendleton,
Amy Shephard Amy Shephard
& Shani Banai, & Shani Banai,
our beloved Music our beloved Music
& Sound Team& Sound Team
Awakening Prayer is a repeated mantra. With repetition it reveals a spiritual universe of both power and beauty. James O’Dea is the former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Group. The book not only includes the prayer itself but a section on the power of prayer as well as expanded contemplative line-by-line reflections and explanations.
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“Where does your“Where does your
principle meet the road?” principle meet the road?” ~ Rev. Temple Hayes,
First Unity Spiritual Campus St. Petersburg, Florida
EE xpand your individual and our collective prosperity. As we move toward our new building and the new consciousness which moving into that
building will call forward, this is a powerful program we can do together to lift our money consciousness.
Summer Prosperity Summer Prosperity
Boot CampBoot Camp
II nterfaith Works is a local organization comprised of churches and spiritual communities in the Olympia area. It has been supported by donations from
CSL for quite a few years. Kathy Gilliam and Carol Kautzmann are representatives on the program council. They wanted to share some of the ways in which IFW is offering ongoing support to the homeless members of our community. Through grants and donations they are in the process of constructing a multi-story building at 2828 Martin Way. It will be a homeless shelter on the ground floor and provide 68 individual apartments on the three upper levels. In the next newsletter you will see ways in which CSL and individuals can help to complete this project in creative, much needed ways. Interfaith Works also joined in supporting a national movement called Faith in Harm Reduction. This involved creating altars in local shelter locations as a place for reflection, a place to lay down what is being carried and as a sign of dignity. It also served as a symbol of dignity from the Program Council toward shelter guests. Kathy and I created an altar (below) on behalf of CSL in the shelter in the First Methodist Church. It was in place for a week. ~ Carol Kautzmann
Interfaith Works Interfaith Works
UpdateUpdate
For four Mondays beginning on June 14th, join a program developed by Rev. Karen Russo called the 21 Day Money Jump Start. This is a fabulous, self-guided and facilitated immersion into lifting our individual and collective prosperity. All materials, including music and videos are provided. Rev. David will facilitate all four Monday morning Zoom meetings. They will be recorded in case you can’t make that time. Rev. Karen will join us for one of the sessions. Cost is only $97.
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Youth & Family ProgramYouth & Family Program
June’s youth program theme, The Soul’s Call ,June’s youth program theme, The Soul’s Call ,
is to embrace and awaken our true nature, is to embrace and awaken our true nature,
evolving the global consciousness. evolving the global consciousness.
First Week: Pushed to Love by PainFirst Week: Pushed to Love by Pain
The Law of Mind does not say I am big—I am right.
It just says I AM—and it automatically says yes.
In every situation that feels difficult or
challenging, we choose to magnify the joy and
love that is our inherent birthright.
Youth create beautiful art from scribbles after
watching an animated short film about a mother
who learns to accept the beauty around her,
allowing her to let go of her grief.
Week Two: Learning from DiscomfortWeek Two: Learning from Discomfort
“Right here is where our faith in the Power
greater than we are must be brought into play.
For we as individuals are rooted in this Power.”
LSOM, p. 227
Our Invisible forces never leave us; however, we
sometimes forget they exist. Or we limit the full
potential and power of those Invisible Forces.
Youth explore their invisible Chakra forces and
practice a fear-to-faith exercise finding the
opposite truth to whatever fear we are imagining.
Week Three: Week Three: Evolving with Love Evolving with Love
Father’s DayFather’s Day
Love is the currency which comes in many
different forms, like kindness, friendship,
honesty, caring and generosity. When we
recycle or pick up trash left behind, water
plants, feed animals, help friends,
practice peace, stand in faith and bring
our joy, we are making deposits into our
spiritual bank account.
Youth perform anonymous acts of
kindness and leave behind a pay-it-
forward card to encourage the receiver to
do the same by paying it forward in turn.
We celebrate our fathers and honor the
divine masculine in all life.
Week Four: The Soul’s Call to Week Four: The Soul’s Call to
FreedomFreedom
Do you have someone in your life who is
joyful all the time? They always lighten
the mood or put a smile on your face.
These people live from their spiritual
truth, from the joy, the love and the light
of creation at the heart of their very being
which gives them freedom. This joy, love
and light is in the heart of every being.
Youth learn how chakras radiate energy
and how to balance their energy to
naturally express their full spirit to the
world.
~ Adrienne Cherry, Youth Director
Call the message phone: (360) 255Call the message phone: (360) 255--7878, ext. 4 to listen 7878, ext. 4 to listen
to a prayer recorded each week by a Practitioner. to a prayer recorded each week by a Practitioner.
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Teresa Bielenberg Linda Bremer
Sandy Dell
Alex Perlman Sylvia Schroeder
PractitionersPractitioners
7th – Renee Gillard 8th – Luke Sutton
14th – Jason Suess
Susan Einhorn Buffie Finkel
Marlisa Johnson
SS even individuals from our CSLO Community are forming the Libby Road Partnership, LLC to facilitate purchasing the property on Libby Road.
This property feels compatible with our Center’s visioning process and the New Home Team’s outlines and wish list. As you may know, it was developed by all of us over several years. The investors are long-time, deeply involved members of our center and it will be our highest intention to consider CSLO in our decisions regarding the property. Please know that each of the investors holds this community in the highest regard and deepest love. A significant remodel would be required before the property can be offered to the church for lease. Libby Road Partnership is in the process of forming the LLC while reviewing inspections and assessing costs. If the CSLO community determines the remodeled property is a place that allows
our community to thrive and grow, Libby Road Partners, LLC, would serve as landlords and CSLO would be the single, beloved
Prayer Prayer Support Support
tenant until the church purchases the property or decides to move to a different location. Let us celebrate that our community has completed STEP ONE. For years we have imagined our home into being. Together we have prayed, visioned, focused, grown and refined our dreams. Here is a demonstration of our diligence and prayers. Libby Road Partners humbly ask for your prayers and support for STEP TWO. STEP TWO is the completion of the property purchase and all renovations. This will allow the completed building to be leased by CSLO in time to celebrate the winter holidays in our new home. Libby Road Partners absolutely trust in the power of our community to hold and bless this dream of a physical home for the Center for Spiritual Living, Olympia. Please join us in knowing, that one way or another, our Beloved CSLO Community is going to love each other home.
~ Buffie & Mark Finkel, Kathy & Larry Gilliam, Carol & Denny Kautzmann
and Karyn Lindberg.
New Home UpdateNew Home Update
17th - Beth Thompson 21st - Brent Pendleton 22nd - Susan Einhorn
Celebrating June BirthdaysCelebrating June Birthdays
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June hasJune has arrived and with it I encounter another birthday of introspection. It is time for the yearly cycle of considering where I began, what I have experienced, and where I am going. Examining one’s life at any point along the journey can turn an innocent quick peek into a plunge down the proverbial rabbit hole. It is made more challenging for what we see is not necessarily true. Also partly because recalling memories is a process of reconstruction. The mind groups similar experiences together which helps in choosing the appropriate learned behavior. When faced with a familiar situation we can react automatically. This is the process for learning which is beneficial but may also create blind spots. There can be areas of our memory we choose not to acknowledge or simply rewrite what we believe the experience to be. This can be especially true in the case of emotionally charged situations as acute stress enhances memory. It is as if the brain copies a record of the negative emotional experience in bold type. No matter how we may avoid them, the pain they carry still exists. “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
- Henri Bergson
Science of Mind teaches that thoughts become things. The willingness to examine painful or difficult areas of our life can reveal important information that can help to free us from unhealthy beliefs or thought patterns. I can practice compassion for myself knowing that I may not have been ready or able to face some challenges as they occurred. I give myself permission to step into the discomfort with love and acceptance remembering that God is with me every step of the way.
I gratefully enjoy new experiences of peace and contentment as I challenge and release old negative beliefs and patterns. My new thoughts create a positive and welcoming environment which supports and celebrates the freedom of my authentic self.
Who is Henry Bergson? A French philosopher and writer (1859-1941) he was the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy which
rejected static values in favor of values of motion, change and evolution. His influence among philosophers has been greatest in France, but it has also been felt in the United States and Great Britain, especially in the work of William James; George Santayana; and Alfred North Whitehead, the other great process metaphysicians of the 20th century. Bergson won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. ~ Susan Einhorn, RScP
Freedom CallingFreedom Calling
I gratefully enjoy new I gratefully enjoy new
experiences of peace experiences of peace
and contentment as I and contentment as I
challenge and release challenge and release
old negative beliefs old negative beliefs
and patterns. My new and patterns. My new
thoughts create a thoughts create a
positive and welcoming positive and welcoming
environment which environment which
supports and celebrates supports and celebrates
the freedom of my the freedom of my
authentic self.authentic self.
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Guess who?Guess who? This CSL member received her degree and teaching credentials at San Francisco State in the 1960’s—the hippie era—living in the Haight Ashbury District. She and her boyfriend at the time flew to England and then traveled overland culminating in a flight to Australia. They had a year and a half there which included scary times and adventures. We will each have to engage with our own Jean Hill- Miller to hear more of these tales. Jean continued to travel and enjoyed experiencing many cultures and customs around the world. “This certainly enhanced my understanding that we are all one,” Jean explains. She has been able to instill this knowingness in others via her working career as an elementary teacher in Australia, England, and here in the U.S. She has also been a business owner, a life coach, an early childhood specialist, a trainer and coach, a college instructor and a parent involvement specialist. “Most importantly, I was a working mom of three wonderful, very busy children,” Jean says proudly. With retirement from her varied careers, Jean has been able to enjoy reading, family time, playing cards with her granddaughter and attending all of her grandchildren’s sporting events. Her daughter and son and their families live in the area while her youngest daughter resides in Sweden. She has
also rekindled her interest in painting. Jean’s husband, Bob, introduced her to Science of Mind after they met on E-Harmony in 2004. The two were married by a CSL minister in 2007 while living in Sacramento. The couple moved to Olympia where she worked for Child Care Action Council as a trainer and coach for childcare teachers.
Retirement for the third time occurred in 2018. Upon looking back on her busy life she reminisces, “I do miss the camaraderie of working and the pleasure of knowing I have made a difference in the lives of children, families and teachers.” Both Bob and Jean have taken Foundations. Jean has also taken many other classes and facilitated Sacred Circles. She has served on the Core Council for three years, chaired the Prosperity Committee and was a greeter before CSL began zooming.
“The spiritual principles just seemed common sense and in alignment with what I had believed before I even knew about Science of Mind,” she explained. Jean is so proud that even through this last year, CSL has remained a strong and healthy community. She sends special kudos to Rev. David, Brent, Amy, and the practitioners for their flexibility and to Shani for their expertise with Zoom.
~ Linda Sickles
A Toast to a Beloved MemberA Toast to a Beloved Member
“The spiritual “The spiritual
principles just principles just
seemed common seemed common
sense and in sense and in
alignment with alignment with
what I had what I had
believed before I believed before I
even knew about even knew about
Science of Mind.”Science of Mind.”
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Brent Pendleton,
Music DirectorMusic Director
Shani Banai,
Zoom SupportZoom Support
Adrienne Cherry,
Youth DirectorYouth Director
Marlisa Johnson,
BookkeeperBookkeeper
Tiffany Merkel,
Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant
Sandy Dell,
WebsiteWebsite
Karyn Lindberg,
Newsletter EditorNewsletter Editor
Message Phone Message Phone (360) 255-7878
Website Website
www.cslolympia.orgwww.cslolympia.org
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The Women’s Circle meets on The Women’s Circle meets on
Saturday, June 19Saturday, June 19th th ..
All CSL women are warmly invited to attend. All CSL women are warmly invited to attend.
For time and place please contact:For time and place please contact:
Carol Kautzmann: [email protected] Carol Kautzmann: [email protected]
The CSL Men's coffee group The CSL Men's coffee group
meets every Friday at 10 a.m. meets every Friday at 10 a.m.
at Bayview Thriftway at Bayview Thriftway
For more info contact For more info contact
Denny Kautzmann at: Denny Kautzmann at:
[email protected]@gmail.com
Sacred Sunday MeditationSacred Sunday Meditation
She crouched upon the thin divide Warily glancing from side to side Life as she knew it was on her left On the right seethed Insanity’s murky depths.
Deep and secretive like a gossamer veil She longed to slide mindlessly into the swells For Life as she knew it was a sucking leech Draining, imperious, demanding and breeched.
But Life as she knew it was all that she knew So she crouched for years decision past due Then late one night she took the plunge And her soul soaked up joy like an ocean sponge.
For by diving in she discovered What years of crouching hadn’t uncovered That Life was flowing on either side And Insanity was crouching on that thin divide.
~ Kathy Gilliam
On the third Sunday of each month, you are invited to On the third Sunday of each month, you are invited to
engage in spiritual practice with friends. It is a deep, engage in spiritual practice with friends. It is a deep,
lovely, sacred time. Meditation, contemplation, inner lovely, sacred time. Meditation, contemplation, inner
journeying and sharing of experiences are just some ofjourneying and sharing of experiences are just some of
what happens during this time. Join us on Sunday, June 20what happens during this time. Join us on Sunday, June 20thth
from from 6 to 7 p.m. ~ Zoom: ID# 7896 to 7 p.m. ~ Zoom: ID# 789--699699--326 326
The Thin DivideThe Thin Divide
