A New Day for Our Beloved Magazine

By Editor and Creative Director Holli Sharp

I have important news for our treasured readers of Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

We're on a quest to save the magazine. Over the past three years, the cost of printing and postage has taken its toll. We are seeing a loss every month despite a reduction in staff and cutting most other expenses. In this economic climate, it's a challenge facing even the largest and best-known magazines. After months of discussion with Centers for Spiritual Living leadership, we have an innovative solution we feel is a positive change all around.

We'll print double issues beginning with the September/October 2023 edition. You'll receive the same amount of content, for the same price, while helping us ensure the magazine sees its 100th birthday in 2027. Digital subscribers will have access to monthly content, so no changes there.

We become better stewards of the planet by saving paper, ink and envelopes. We decrease our carbon footprint by shipping only six times a year. And while change can be uncomfortable, we invite you to embrace the benefits and see a sustainable, thriving future for the magazine Ernest Holmes founded.

It is a privilege to write the next chapter for this magazine with you. Ours is a tale of the limitless potential of the human spirit.

Holli Sharp, Editor and Creative Director

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Celebrating Summer

As the solstice sun rises on its day of greatest power,

it draws up with it the power of herbs, standing stones,
and crystals.

In the shimmering heat-haze on the horizon,

its magical energies are almost visible.

– Anna Franklin

Meditation on the Body Temple

By Ernest Holmes

Let us take as the thought for our meditation today these words from the Apostle Paul: “We are a colony of heaven and we wait for Christ, who will transform the body that belongs to our low estate until it resembles the body of his glory” (Philippians 3:20).

And let us see if we cannot come better to understand and inwardly feel the meaning of that Divine Body, which is perfect. And let us be certain to identify this physical body of ours with the Spirit within us.

Affirm with me: This body of mine is a temple of the living God. And as I wait upon this living God, I know that every action, every cell, every atom of my being is at this instant brought into perfect harmony and perfect health, that every shadow of doubt or worry or fear is instantly dispelled from the radiance of God ’s glory, which is within.