ColumbiaCSL Podcast

S3E12-Thought and Non-Thought with Reverend Rafe Ellis

The distinction between what is real in physical form and experience versus what is mere thought and therefore imaginary or illusory is absolutely necessary, not only for success in practical affairs but also if we are in the long run even to maintain our sanity.

S3E10-Thought and Ingelligence with Reverend Rafe Ellis

The understanding of whether or not any particular thought is relevant or fitting requires the operation of an energy that is not mechanical, not memory, not predictable. The energy of intelligence or Mind is experienced as an act of perception completely free of yet related to the process of thought.

S3E9-Reality and Knowledge as Process with Reverend Rafe Ellis

The notion that reality is to be understood as process is an ancient one going back to Heraclitus’s awareness that “everything flows”. Not only is everything changing, but all IS flux. That is to say that what is is the process of becoming itself.

E2E8-An Experiment With Language and Thought with Reverend Rafe Ellis

Join us for an inquiry into the role of language in fragmentation and wholeness.

S3E7-Western and Eastern Insights into Wholeness with Reverend Rafe Ellis

In the development of civilization, humanity’s views were essentially of wholeness rather than fragmentation. Perhaps identifying the path of fragmentation can lead us back to wholeness.

S3E5-How to Use Community with Reverend Jenna Wexler

In The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that: “One of the greatest difficulties in the new order of thought is that we are likely to indulge in too much theory and too little practice. As a matter of fact, we only know as much as we can prove by actual demonstration.” Community is a proving ground!!

S3E6-Fragmentation and Wholeness with Reverend Rafe Ellis

We begin our exploration of David Bohm’s “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”. Fragmentation leads to a general confusion of the mind and creates seemingly endless problems while interfering with a clarity of perception that enables solutions. Healing comes as we shift to a one-ness of the thinking process and its content, similar in key ways to the one-ness of observer and observed.

S3E4-What Community Does with Reverend Rafe Ellis

In The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that the Divine contains all knowledge and wisdom, but, before the Divine can reveal Its secrets, It must have an outlet. We, individually and collectively as a community, become such an outlet to the degree that we become receptive to It.

S3E3-The Way Community Works with Reverend Rafe Ellis

In The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that the essence of the whole teaching of Science of Mind is Universal Energy, Life Itself, creating individualized centers of expression through humanity functioning at the level of its concept of this Universal Energy, Life. Imagine the creative power of a coalesced synchronized community.

S3E2-This Thing Called Community with Reverend Rafe Ellis

“Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated, is an equal demand. (Columbia Center for Spiritual Living) cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness. (Adapted) from This Thing Called You by Ernest Holmes