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Spiritis Ministry CommUNITY Newsletter |
May 2007 |
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 From
the Heart of Glenda...
My wishes to all Spiritis Ministers for the coming
year:
Go forth with gratitude, optimism,
graciousness of spirit,and an open mind.
Embrace a strong vision, respect the freedom of
others, enjoy your own free will, and be at peace
with yourself through a living union with God.
Gratitude is your greatest prayer.
Resentment is your undoing of prayer.
Optimism is your greatest ability.
A bad attitude is your greatest handicap.
Graciousness of spirit is your greatest strength.
An unforgiving heart is your greatest disease.
An open mind is your source of progress.
Prejudice is your hindrance.
To embrace a vision is to have a future.
To worry about what others may think is to live in
the shadow of their past.
There is no greater prison than the one you create
for yourself.
There is no greater freedom than that which you give
to yourself and wish for others.
There is no greater courage than to be who you
really are.
There is no greater hurt than separation from God.
There is no greater peace than union with your Holy
Source.
May the Peace of Christ be a living flame in your
hearts.
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Bishop
Christopher Hegarty,
Payson, AZ
Chaplaincy for the Elderly - a
Blessed Way to Build Your Ministry
Most of us have heard the word, "Chaplain," and,
typically, we associate Chaplains with the Armed
Forces, or hospitals, prisons or perhaps lay
chaplains. I have had a variety of experiences
as a Chaplain, and in my experience, the folks
that are in real need of caring Chaplains are
the elderly, particularly those in nursing
homes.
It
was shocking to me to learn how many folks in
our nation's nursing homes rarely, if ever,
receive a visitor! Statistics show that more
than 60% of all the elders living in nursing
homes never get a call, never get a card at
Christmas, and never receive visitors.
In
my work with the elderly in nursing homes, I've
recently been offered thousands of free stuffed
animal hand puppets to distribute to the
elderly, and I will make a number of them
available to you if you feel called to this
important work.
I
am offering my services to my fellow ministers
to inform, educate, and assist you in beginning
your ministry in the area of Chaplaincy. For
those of you who might be looking for a way to
begin your ministry, working as a Chaplain will
truly be some of the most important work you can
do as a Spiritis Minister.
If
you are interested in pursuing Chaplaincy as
part of your ministry, educational seminars and
training on how to begin your work as a Chaplain
will be offered soon. This education is a must
so that you are informed and confident as you
reach out to the elderly as a "Chaplain" in your
communities.
Once you have participated in the Chaplaincy
Training Conference Call, you will have a
network of support from fellow Spiritis
Chaplains, as well as my personal support. Rev.
Linda Marie Nelson, Priest, has offered to
coordinate the Chaplaincy Training.
To
register for an upcoming Chaplain Training
Tele-Conference, please send an email stating
your interest in Chaplaincy to Linda Marie
Nelson
Remember to include your name, telephone number,
and email address so that we can contact you
with a date and time for our tele-conference
training.
May
God's Loving Blessings Be With You Always,
Bishop Christopher
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 Bishop
Lee A. Petersen, Arlington, TX
"Fr. Lee Advice"
Rev. Beverly writes:
"Given what we've learned from Jeshua, why do
you choose a vow of poverty, and can it be modified?"
Peace be with you, and thanks so much for your
question. In a way I would like to respond, "Oh my
God! I hope so (that this vow can be modified.)"
Actually the Vow of Poverty has much more to do with my
reliance on God than it does with what's in my bank
account. You can read about this in the Gospel of
Matthew and The Sermon on the Mount, as well as in the
Gospel of Luke. St. Francis of Assisi was appalled at
the wealth of (primarily) the Church with regard to most
of the church members, as well as the Nobility of his
time.
For a
Monk it is a Vow of Community Charity, of being in
the world but not of the world. For me, most
importantly, it is the recognition of God as Source.
With this understanding, it could be considered a
modification from the common understanding of The Vow of
Poverty, which is to always be broke.
Today,
if you Minister outside of The Institutional Church, as
I do, you come to rely upon donations to continue your
work. This is true even of Institutional Churches and
Minister - just turn on Christian T.V. So my personal
financial situation becomes a concern when I worry about
how much money I need, rather than focusing on teaching
the Love of God. I hope this helps.
Namaste+Lee
Why We Celebrate The Liturgy
The first response people have after attending the Mass
is how beautiful it is! So, the easy answer is to the
question of why we celebrate the Mass is because it
evokes that response. Then we can consider why is
the experience of The Mass so beautiful?
I believe it is because of how it makes us feel. We
realize on some level that we have been in the Divine
Presence. The Mass is an ancient tradition and is taken
from the Temple worship tradition. The Priesthood is
also taken from the ancient Temple worship tradition.
In the earliest expressions of The Church we find in
Acts that the people met to pray, to share stories, to
break bread, and that is exactly what we do in The
Mass. Our Mass is just celebrated in a structured form,
and it is structured so that it reflects Divine Order.
It evolved into a structured rite to keep the Greeks and
Romans of ancient times from entering into full scale
orgy, which was how these ancient people worshiped.
Today what we know as "The Mass" is actually a
re-creation of what was done in the ancient Temple. We
enter the Temple, we cleanse ourselves, we learn, we
give thanks and praise, and we offer Sacrifice. Then we
are lead into Divine Union with Christ through the
Sacrament of Communion.
The Mass concludes with a final blessing and we return
to our lives. The Mass can also be seen as Meditation
and a Work of Divine Energy. We all feel this Energy
when we are all focused on the common prayers. Our
Hearts are lifted up to the Divine, Who responds in kind
to our Devotion.
So, The Mass is very interactive. We will learn more
about The Mass as we practice together. It is my hope
that this newsletter will serve to open a deeper dialog.
So I end this article by saying that the most important
part of the Mass is YOUR experience!
Please feel free to email me with questions about The
Liturgy or about the History of Ortha (The Way of the
Original Church.)
Peace
be with you all.
+Bishop Lee
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 Fr.
Chris Jensen,
Newton, CT
Letter from Our "Minister of Ministers"
In
his secular life, Fr Chris Jensen, Minister of
Ministers, is a management consultant, trainer, and
executive coach who bring his clients over 30 years of
in-depth experience in the field of personal and
professional development. His experience and expertise
in process redesign and applied behavioral science cuts
across traditional industry boundaries and addresses the
core ingredients of every business organization: people
and process.
He
has presented his proven, time-tested methods to over
300,000 people throughout the United States, Canada, and
Europe helping their organizations improve productivity
and solve problems in the areas of leadership,
communication, hiring/selection, process improvement,
employee loyalty, and customer relations. He volunteers
his time as an Examiner for the Connecticut Quality
Improvement Award and is studying to become an Examiner
with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He
works with his clients to implement PERFORMANCE
EXCELLENCE using the Baldrige Award criteria for
managing more productively.
The late Rev Raymond Burns, a spiritualist minister at
the Albertson Memorial Spiritualist Church in Old
Greenwich, CT, ignited Fr Chris' flaming passion for the
study of spirituality and Truth. Some forty years later,
Chris was invited to conduct his first church service as
a newly ordained Spiritis minister at the Albertson
Church.
As one of
the pioneers in the human potential movement, Fr Chris
worked closely with Jose Silva to introduce the Silva
Method self-empowerment seminars throughout New England
and Europe. One of his students, Dr. Amar Bose, invited
him to coach and train key Bose Corporation personnel in
applying the Silva skills to enhance scientific
research. He also worked with Apollo
14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell in the
formation of his organization, IONS, the Institute Of
Noetic Sciences. He worked with Ingo Swann, known as the
Father of Remote Viewing, on numerous remote viewing
experiments. In the summer of 1975, Judy Skutch invited
him to join a small group of people to read and comment
on the original typewritten manuscript of A Course in
Miracles. For a number of years, Chris was very active
in the National Prayer Breakfast having become a close
friend of Nina Rote, whose father, Holger Christian
Langmack, author of God and the Universe, was one of the
NPB founders.
While
living and teaching the Silva program in the Boston
area, Fr Ed, a young Episcopal priest became very active
in supporting Chris' seminars. After about a year, the
Diocese transferred Fr Ed out of the area. Several
years later, Chris left Boston and moved back to his
hometown of Ridgefield, Connecticut. A few months later,
Chris "just happened" to see a newspaper article about
the new assistant rector at the local Episcopal Church.
It was Fr Ed! Suspecting that God might have a plan
behind this "coincidence" he reconnected with his old
friend. Together they formed a non-profit research
organization, The Foundation for Christian Psychic
Research. However, one day while working on foundation
business at Fr Ed's home, Chris discovered God's real
plan. She was a beautiful young Sunday school teacher
and Truth student named Marie who was visiting Fr Ed's
wife. A confirmed bachelor, Chris immediately knew his
bachelorhood was in jeopardy. They were married a year
later.
Together,
Marie and Chris have started three churches in the
Connecticut area. World United Church a Religious
Science church in Stamford, Unity Fellowship Church in
Norwalk and Unity of New Haven in New Haven, CT. Chris
served as president of the Board of Trustees for all
three churches.
In early
1997, his close friend from Unity, the late Rev Bud
Paulding, gave him a copy of LWE and said, "This is a
must read." Chris recognized it as a beautiful summation
of all the Truth material he and Marie had been studying
for many years. They held LWE study groups in their
home, which they called Gatherings for God. A few years
later, Bud Paulding called Chris to say that Glenda
Green was starting a church and the first ordination
class was forming. He told Chris, "You are supposed to
be there." Chris recalls that Bud spoke as if God was
speaking through him. Together they traveled to Sedona
and were ordained in the first ordination class in April
2003. When Chris first met Glenda Green, he immediately
knew that Bud's message was correct and that he had been
sent on a mission to help bring Jeshua's message to the
world. Archbishop Larry Jensen appointed Fr Chris
Minister of Ministers and he was elevated to Priest in
2004.
Chris and
Marie live in Newtown, CT and have two grown sons, Craig
and Chris, Jr. Craig and his wife Marina, made them
proud grandparents of Daniel almost two years ago.
Chris, Jr. is a talented musician and song writer who
has expressed a strong desire to become a minister. Fr
Chris' first marriage ceremony as a Spiritis Minister
was the wedding of Chris, Jr. and his wife Kelly. Marie
was ordained a Spiritis Minister in February 2007.
Many people
erroneously think Fr Chris is related to Archbishop
Larry Jensen. He is not except that, supposedly, all
people with a Danish heritage named Jensen are distant
cousins.
Fr
Chris has a strong vision for Spiritis Church. He
believes God has a definite plan for its future and that
every Spiritis Minister has been given a unique
opportunity to participate in the unfolding of that
plan. How each minister chooses to participate is part
of their own personal spiritual growth and the role they
will have in making this a better world for those that
we leave behind.
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 Poet's
Corner
by Rev. Marie B.
Jensen,
Newton, CT
Friendships Love
I had a very special friend,
so close as close can be.
Our hearts and souls were so
entwined we were like one, you see.
I thought that we would never part,
we were so close and true.
Our friendship stood the test of time,
of sad and good times too.
But one day it fell apart,
those joyous special times.
It was as though we'd never
shared that love, that very special kind.
So I prayed and asked my Father dear,
please share with me what I've done wrong.
His answer was quite musical,
as from a sacred song.
He said my dear you should not cry
for things that cannot be.
Just love the Christ within your friend
and not her personality.
For here is were you'll find true love,
but not the worldly kind.
And not the love your thoughts would seek
so deep within your mind.
For the love and friendship that you seek
cannot be found out there.
The proven love that really lasts,
the kind you need to share,
comes only when your mind is still
and thoughts are laid to rest.
Yes, then my child, you'll recognize
the love that is the best.
So love your friend from deep inside,
whether near or far apart.
For the love you feel, the love that lasts,
it's deep within your heart.
For that is where your Christ is, too.
And you will quickly see,
that you and your friend are truly one
in Holy Trinity.
©Marie B. Jensen 2001
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 Eve,
the Mother of All Living
by Rev. Eva
Hershey, Mt. Laurel, NJ
And God said, "Let there be light,
and there was light." And God said, "Let us make man
in our own image."
And God formed man. And God
formed woman. And there was love.
"And Adam called his wife's name
Eve; because she was the mother of all living."
Mother of all living -- what an awesome responsibility;
Eve, a chosen vessel, created in the image of God, the
image of love. As a creation of God, a child of God, she
was given the ability to choose. This was God's great
gift to mankind. God was not interested in making
puppets that would respond only when he pulled their
strings but beings of choice to create their own
experiences.
Is it perhaps time to honor our
mother? "In the image of God created he them."
Eve has been the recipient of much
blame for the choice she made. Her children, trying to
cope with their own inadequacies, have put the blame on
their mother. If she had not eaten the forbidden fruit
I wouldn't be in this fix. "Original sin," caused the
"fall of man," now we all must die. It's not my fault.
The blame has continued through
thousands of generations. Mankind did not recognize the
gift. We saw only a curse. Are we here on this earth as
victims of some unknown evil which the first human
mother passed on to all of her children? Did she bring a
curse upon us all? Or was it a blessing, a blessing in
disguise? In this love song written by Wayne Gavel we
may find the answer:
The Song of the Bride
God dreamed a dream wherein His
love was born,
And in that dream upon creation's
morn
His eyes beheld, and lo, a maiden
fair
Arose before Him like a
jewel--solitaire.
In robes of white, appearing as a
bride,
She knelt and sang a song of
eventide.
God dreamed, and when that melody
He heard,
His heart with love's primeval
chords resounding stirred.
Love's echo sounded on creation's
eve;
A bride rejoiced, her jewels to
receive.
The ransomed stones from Egypt's
wilderness
Adorned that image of a dream in
mortal dress.
The trumpet called; behold the
Lamb said, "Come".
A song filled heaven's auditorium.
No more His wife would tears of
sorrow know;
It was that song her husband
dreamed of long ago.
Chorus:
Angels knew the plan to bring His
dream to life.
God would make a bride to become
His loving wife.
Though the tempter rage and
heavens pass away,
He would claim that bride His own
one day.
"And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold,
it was very good."
Did God not know what would result
when he gave Adam and Eve choice and gave them access to
"the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?" Does
"created in the image of God" still apply? The image of
God is the image of love, eternal love. And within each
of us, though it sometimes gets hidden so deep that it's
hard to find, or is covered over with many layers of
accumulations resulting from our continuing to eat of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, is the seed
of love which was planted by God in the heart of every
soul. A seed must first be buried in the ground before
it can sprout and grow. That seed cannot be destroyed.
God would woo his bride back with a love that is
destined to win. What has been called "fallen from
grace," is the very situation which made grace possible.
How could we know the beauty of unconditional love and
forgiveness if God had not first led the way.
God is love, His love is eternal,
everlasting, without condition. And His will is for us
to return, return to the "mother of all living," to the
garden and the tree of life. We still have choice. We
know the result of eating of the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil. Eve saw it as "a tree to be desired to
make one wise." When we withhold judgment we can learn
much from the experience of another. Perhaps the wisdom
for us is to look at the result and make a different
choice.
Thousands of years later a descendant of Eve came to
earth to help us with our choices. He was called Jeshua.
He came to show us the way to return to love. He taught
us to embrace love and let go of judgments. "Judge not
that you be not judged," an admonition to stop eating of
the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." The "tree
of life" is still available.
"The
kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed,.... Though it
is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is
the greatest of herbs and becomes a tree." Jeshua also
said, "The kingdom of God is within you." The seed may
be dormant, but it will grow when given the right
conditions.
We thank you Eve, and all mothers
throughout history, for bringing us to our own story
today, a story that we can create with love, As we
reflect on the past and see the results of past choices
we can tap into a greater wisdom to help us make choices
that bring us back to the tree of life and eternal love.
"Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
--Jeshua
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 Building
CommUNITY
by Rev. Dr. Newton Bunce, Deacon
Prescott, AZ
What Are We Here
For?
The primary consequence of the first Spiritis Church
Conference was the exhilarating sense of community
that bloomed around and through those in
attendance. Both seasoned and new ministers alike
felt a genuine connection with each other. It may
well have taken root when our beautiful Bishop Green
opened the first morning by sharing with us a direct
call from Jeshua extended to all gathered there.
It was certainly deepened by Bishop Larry Jensen's
suggestion that we meet each other that morning with
our hearts, not the usual "masks" of ego identity
and story. Then came the wonderful impromptu
session with our beloved Bishop Lee, in which many
questions were brought to light and answered. For
the first time we recognized and articulated that
Spiritis Church is "Pre-denominational, Universal
(Catholic) Spirituality."
Then came our
Conference dinner and the "very credible" keynote
address by Bishop Glenda that deeply touched
everyone present with her sincerity and conviction.
And finally, there was the ordination ceremony and
beautiful Spiritis Mass performed by Bishops Glenda
Green, Larry Jensen, Christopher Hegargy, and Lee
Petersen, along with Priests Gary and Nancy
Freeborg, Linda Marie Nelson, and, that truly
enveloped all present in the Spirit of the Love we
are. This entire gathering brought forth a
beautiful sense of inspiring communion.
We had "break-out sessions" for the senior clergy
that deepened our initial sense of connection. We
met and shared ideas, desires, and potentials for
developing a greater sense of community. We talked
about our intentions and what WE needed to do to
ensure the growth and expansion of our church.
Committees were
formed and plans initiated for a bi-monthly or
quarterly newsletter, the reactivation of a church
wide email connection for healing and prayer
requests, a website specifically for the clergy, and
a committee to take the reins for planning
Our
"annual" conferences.
Community infers
communion and communion bespeaks communication.
Given that we are yet in our very formative stage,
and all busy with other lives and existing projects,
communication appears to be our greatest challenge.
We need your help! The committees that were formed
to enhance our connection as "community" need your
help in establishing active and dedicated groups to
handle the challenges of creating a ministers'
newsletter, contributing to the development of and
instruction for the use of a ministers' website, as
well as to work as a team on a committee to organize
yearly ministers' conferences.
The designs discussed
for a "Spiritis Ministers Fellowship" website are
currently on hold. The first thing we need to determine
is if there is a desire or need for fellowship among the
ministers? If none of us are willing or able to take
the time to reach out to each other, there is no need to
invest the time and expense of developing an internet
connection for the clergy.
WE NEED TO HEAR FROM
YOU, THE MINISTERS OF SPIRITIS CHURCH.
The
intention behind designing a website for the clergy was
based on fulfilling several needs. First and foremost,
it is intended to be a resource for all ministers. The
intention is that the site would offer things like book
lists and resources to develop and further ministerial
efforts. Assistance with weddings, memorial services
and other rituals would be available there.
There
would be provisions for a questions and suggestions
"box" through which more information could be obtained
from the respective sources and/or leadership.
Articles could be posted. A chat room or blog could
be established. Descriptions about what and how many of
us are pursuing our ministries would be offered.
In short, the website
could be a means of deepening our connection with each
other and thereby enhancing and extending our ministry.
So, here's the
question: Is there a need for such a website? Is there
a desire for building and maintaining a sense of
community?
We
are a diverse group of people with a broad range of
existing and demanding obligations. We now span various
communities, nations, time zones, and oceans. What are
we here for? Why have we become ministers of "Spiritis
Church?"
In
truth we each represent "Spiritis Church," even as we
collectively represent it. What is it that ties us into
a whole, into Unity, into a community? IS there
something we are about, a common idea or ideal that can
be served, enhanced, or expanded better collectively
than separately? Do we share a common concept, vision,
or purpose?
I
entered the ministry initially because I believe true
healing lies in consciousness. I entered Spiritis
Seminary because the idea of serving Jeshua, of being a
modern disciple, and extending his present revelation of
"Love Without End" through a "Church of the Holy Spirit"
resonated deeply within me.
And I
also sought to be a part of something greater than my
Self. Perhaps that "greatness" is simply the presence
of the Holy Spirit. I am still learning to listen and
hear within my heart. Perhaps that "greatness" is the
number of couples I touch, however simply, as I
officiate at marriages. Perhaps that greatness is
something yet to be discovered. I like to think that
greatness is a common purpose I share with all of you.
To
some extent "structure" has become a "bad" word. Yet
Jeshua says that structure is our tool when we use it
effectively rather than being used by it. Structure or
rather organization is essential to any joint or common
activity. Great things can be achieved, even if it
manifests as nothing more than mutual support for
individual efforts. I am not talking about dogmas and
credos; I am suggesting we have a collective purpose
that may be beyond what we can envision separately.
Surely our collective potential remains untapped.
Our
diversity is our strength. Our message of Loving
Without End, without judgment, of wholeness and unity,
and of a God of Compassion, Love, and personal intimacy
is essential for our world in these times. It is not
"new," idea, but our revival of it in this day and age
certainly can be.
Our message welcoming
Everyone
back to Jeshua's table is awe-inspiring. I would
support you in sharing that message as you are directed,
as I would welcome your support.
We,
the clergy, have a wonderful resource in Father Chris
Jensen, who has been designated the "Minister of
Ministers." If you have issues, questions, a desire to
connect with "someone," he may be a person to turn
contact.
I am
heading up the committee for the minister's fellowship
website. Please feel free to write if you wish to help,
have an idea, or want to respond to anything I've said.
Let's talk. I am also here as your brother in Spirit to
connect for whatever the need.
There
are many of us desiring greater community. Let's reach
out. This is how it begins. This is how it expands.
You are blessed.
Sincerely, Rev. Dr. Newton E. Bunce III. - Deacon
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 Getting
to Know You...
by Rev.Carol Delaney,
Fairfax, VA
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Dear Ministers of Spiritis,
Linda Marie asked me to write
about myself, so I will begin by telling you how
glad I am to be with you all in Spiritis Church,
where my heart feels at home and how wonderful it is
to learn so much about God, our true Home, from
Glenda's work with Jeshua.
I am the mother of two
twenty-something children. I am wife, a professor
of literature and academic writing at Virginia
International University which is in the D.C. area.
I am a counselor, an environmentalist, a peace
activist, and one who seeks to see God AND to
reflect God everywhere.
Since I can remember, I have
always thought that the universe, on every level
and wherever I focused, was revealing something
wonderful to me. What was it? How could I ever
understand and how could I be sure of my
understanding?
As I went through life, which
was quite intense in my hometown of Washington,
D.C., I truly hungered and thirsted after
righteousness without missing any of the delights of
life, so kindly lavished upon me and my two sisters
by my mother, Mary, a tenth-generation
Protestant-American, and my father, Joseph, a
second-generation Italian-American. No kidding,
Mary and Joseph!
While growing up, I remember
there were the 60s peace marches, the race riots,
the tear gas in the streets, but nothing dimmed my
joy. What rang true for me always had to be
joyous. Glenda's work with Jeshua is so excellent
because it rings true--with joy--to such an awesome
depth in both the heart as well as the mind.
I love Glenda's work on the
translation of the Beatitudes, and especially the
first one. Blessed are the poor in spirit, i.e.,
blessed are the simple in spirit, only thus we
cannot lose our way on The Way. The "new 'Kiss
word" from Jeshua, courtesy of Glenda, is "Keep It
Spiritually Simple (K.I.S.S.)," and honestly, doing
so works on practically an infinity of levels!
First of all, when we keep it
simple, we are in accord with our natures. And
according to Jeshua, "The path-The Way-is for Love
to come full circle back to its own simplicity"
(Keys of Jeshua, Chapter 18.) Secondly, when we do
so, we can be "happy learners" (a phrase from A
Course In Miracles); and as any good teacher will
tell you, only students such as these are aiming
easily for the highest and best.
I seek to further the
cross-cultural communication of divinity, with
service in ministering to all God's children all the
time, although not necessarily formally. I feel
very blessed to have contact with so many people,
including my family and friends as well as
international students far from home.
On a more formal note, I have
started a new Lecture Series and Peace Initiative at
the university which begins this April 25th with a
lecture from the U.S. Institute of Peace on the
Arab-Israeli conflict, Iraq, and the Sudan. The
university students, 99 percent of whom are not
American, will take this peace initiative home to
the far corners of the earth.
Many times the Holy Spirit
speaks out through the great writing from the
students in my classes, for the overwhelming
majority of them call upon God in their literary
works, surprisingly enough perhaps. And often I am
called to minister by honoring and affecting the
sacred hearts of my students, which they pour out
enthusiastically in their many assignments.
I worked previously as a counselor with
foster and adoptive families and their children.
Now I counsel at the university one day a week
"officially," but anytime and anywhere
"unofficially."
From a soul's perspective,
future is the promise of perfection which you
remember and seek to re-attain. In that pursuit,
infinite potential will supply your needs,
yearnings, lessons, and alignments until at last you
realize that true completion has always been within
yourself, and is re-attained through liberation of
external desire as well as attachment to everything
outside yourself" (Keys of Jeshua, Chapter 18).
How wonderful to be in the
world, but not of the world, and at home with all of
you in the One Heart of Spiritis.
In Joy,
Rev. Carol Delaney
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Getting to Know
You
by Rev. Jennifer Buergermeister
Bellaire, TX
I was ordained a Minister and Chaplain and
received a Doctor of Divinity degree from
Spiritis Seminary of Sedona, AZ, in December
2004. My ministry focuses on using Sacred Heart
Therapy to expand the heart and unite the mind,
body, and soul to release unwarranted negative
emotions, freeing the body of disease-causing
hindrances known as emotional obstacles.
I am a Ph.D. candidate, and I am currently
completing my doctorate in esoteric and
conscious studies specializing in the healing
arts: yoga and breath, emotional release,
mysticism, early traditions and religion, sacred
geometry and symbolism. I graduated with honors
from the University of Houston with a B.S. in
Psychology and a B.A. in Journalism.
My graduate studies began at the Institute of
Transpersonal Psychology (ITP) in Palo Alta, CA
specializing in the links between mind, body and
spirit, including creative expression, authentic
movement, psychology of the body, spiritual
psychology, consciousness studies and
shamanism.
I am also a Master Practitioner and Trainer of
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and I've
studied extensively under Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.,
who taught me how to understand and utilize
humanity's unique connection with Angels. I
received my Reiki training in Texas, under the
tutelage of renowned Reiki Master and Shaman
apprentice Mary Armenia.
Traveling to China, I learned Feng Shui in five
different cities from Helen and James Jay, and
with Buddhist monks and university professors.
My teachers also include my late soul mate, as
well as Deepak Chopra, Gary Zukav, Caroline
Myss, Ron Roth, Joey Korn, Tad James, Ph.D.,
Eric "Hugging Bear" Davis, Ana Forrest, Shiva
Rea, Robert Boustany, Jonny Kest, John Friend,
David Williams, Bishop Glenda Green, and Dr.
Larry Jensen.
I am grateful for all the knowledge and for all
the wonderful teachers who have inspired me to
share my gifts and have stood by me graciously.
I have been practicing yoga since 1994, having
studied Flow, Vinyasa Yoga with Jonny Kest at
The Houstonian, Anusara Yoga with John Friend,
The Yoga Institute of Houston, Houston area
Bikram's Yoga College of India, Boustany's Hatha
Yoga Studios with Robert Boustany, Shiva Rea
from Venice Beach, Ashtanga with David Williams,
and Forrest Yoga extensively with Ana Forrest.
I have taught yoga at the Southeast Texas Tae
Kwon Do Academy, Tomball Fitness Center, Tomball
College, and I am currently providing yoga
instruction at The Jewish Community Center off
of S. Braeswood, the prestigious Houstonian in
the Houston's Galleria/Tanglewood area, Your
Body Center in Houston's Montrose, and at
Eastern Harmony Clinic specializing in Fertility
Yoga.
I have opened the TEX YOGA inside Sonia's World
of Dance located at 5539 Richmond Ave. near
Chimney Rock behind the Houston's Galleria in
August 2006. Call 713-TEX-YOGA or go to
www.texyoga.com
and
www.inner-realms.com
for more information.
The human nervous system is a hologram of the
universe. At any moment when you think about it,
no matter what you think you are, you are always
more than that. ~Pribram
And the more souls who resonate together, the
greater the intensity of their love, and,
mirror-like, each soul reflects the other. ~~
Dante Alighieri
Blessings,
Jennifer Buergermeister
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