New Tools, Ancient Wisdom

From the mundane to the exceptional, there’s an app for that. You can order your groceries online, book the travel you’ve always dreamed of, find a business partner or buy a house — all from your electronic device while sitting on your couch.

It should, then, come as no surprise that online tools can help you expand and solidify your spiritual travels as well. In the May 2019 issue of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine, writer Karin Wilson explores one such app, InsightTimer. From 2014 to 2018, InsightTimer grew from 100,000 to more than 6 millions meditators across the globe. Each day, half a million users log in.

“The app makes it easy to explore a variety of meditative modalities and topics, from chakras and contemplative prayer to Christian traditions and Confucianism,” Wilson explains. It also offers access to more than 3,000 teachers offering guided meditations and courses focusing on faith-based and science-based perspectives. “You can create a custom spiritual journey and transform screen time into Spirit time,” she writes.

Developer Chris Plowman is adamant that the app remain open at the top — to spirituality, to music, to all manner of human expression. “The point,” he says, “is to evolve with community — whether that’s local, or in your workplace or at home, through your higher power…. That’s really what InsightTimer is trying to do — help people be connected.”

For more or to download the app, visit https://insighttimer.com.

Website Expands Resources

for CSL Communities

Just as there may be an app for spiritual growth, there may also be a meme that perfectly captures your message. For the past three years, Science of Mind magazine’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have included memes and graphics that represent the messages of Ernest Holmes, many of the magazine’s writers and New Thought visionaries.

Now there is a library of those memes available at https://scienceofmind.com/meme-library/. The memes are available free of charge and cover a range of topics, displayed in an array of graphic styles. Associate Editor Holli Sharp creates the memes to give a visual representation of the words published in the magazine — and she collected them into this resource in support of the online presence of all CSL communities. (A password is required for access, and instructions are included for creating that password.)

Another resource available through our website is our 5th Sunday Curriculum, created to offer resources especially useful in a year with four months that have five Sundays. The 5th Sunday series uses the Spiritually Guided Uplift Ministries available from the Association for Global New Thought and developed with input from CSL and other New Thought organizations and communities. As Dr. Kenn Gordon writes, “This Spiritually Guided Social Uplift Ministry (SUM) provides what so many centers are hungry for — a practical, productive and meaningful way to engage on difficult and challenging topics.”

Find the 5th Sunday Curriculum at https://scienceofmind.com/sum-programs/.

Of course, the website continues to include information on the magazine’s content, including online exclusive articles, guidelines for writers, monthly themes and so much more.

Recognize Ourselves in Others

— By Rev. Paula Belleggie

This day as I encounter others, rather than being quick to judge, I choose to be quick to recognize; that as I behold others, even those with whom I disagree, I recognize the livingness and lovingness of the One behind their actions and words, and then I am faced with the Beloved.

No longer do I imprison myself and my experience by a sense of separation and duality; rather, I stand in the knowing of “with the grace of God, there go I.” I embrace rather than turn away. I walk beside rather than pull away. I live, love and serve from this awareness. I behold the lovingness of God, and my life is changed now. And my recognition ripples out and awakens this truth in all.

Deposit Hope Into the Bank of Life

— by Dr. Ernest Holmes

How would it be if we all opened a spiritual account with the Bank of Life and, realizing that we are drawing on the Infinite, each day deposited enough hope and happiness and faith to more than meet any emergency that might possibly arise? The wonderful part about this is that we know Life contains all these things and it wants to give them to us. It is intended by the Divine scheme of things that we should have them.

Why can we not think of it this way: God has already made the initial deposit — and a big one — for everyone who is ever born into this world, because God has given Himself to us. …

If you take the time to harmonize yourself with Love, you will find that when some incident that seems hateful or discordant arises in your experience, you can draw on a Reserve Force. When some experience comes along that seems unloving, you are able to write a check from your Bank of Life that will cover every liability of unkindness. God is Love, and all the Love there is is yours now.

— Excerpted from entry for April 22, 365: Science of Mind, A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes