ColumbiaCSL Podcast

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

S3_E1-Catching Life’s Vision of Itself AS You with Rev Rafe Ellis

Visioning is a simple yet powerful spiritual practice that transforms every aspect of our lives from clarity about our life purpose, to our interpersonal relationships, to the organizations to which we belong, and the societies in which we live. Join us for a special visioning service for the New Year.  

S2E50-A Wholeness Resolution with Reverend Rafe Ellis

Every day this year, no matter the circumstances, we can choose to feel blessed, be a blessing for others, and allow wholeness to be the lens through which we view our lives and the world.

S2E49-Embodying Christ Consciousness; A Wholeness Prototype with Reverend Rafe Ellis

The birth and life of Jesus are metaphors for our own celebrations and disappointments. But in our most tender moments, we know that we are even more than that. Christ consciousness is the feeling of wholeness, allowing our natural compassion and our love for one another to reign.

S2E29-In the Name of Wholeness; Enriching the World with Reverend Rafe Ellis

The American writer Henry Miller said, “The moment one gives close attention to anything – even a blade of grass – it becomes mysterious, awesome, and indescribably magnificent.” By virtue of our holy place in the Universe, we are charged with the world’s enrichment.