Halloween at Unity Village

Yesterday was Halloween.  Normally it is about people dressing up in joyful rememberance of the days when people did this to scare away the Spirits of All Saints Day on Nov. 1st.  Yesterday at Unity, it was completely different.

For Halloween here at Unity Village there were some people who did dress up.  Actually there was even a costume contest.  But the most facinating thing for me was to be here for Halloween at a place where costumes are not the norm.  The norm is for people to be completely who they are - no veil of separation, no veil of guilt, no veil of hiding.  Interesting now that I write this that the no veil idea was involved in most of the day.

I started off in the 630 am meditation.  I have to be completely honest when I say that I have enjoyed so much wakinig up at 530 in the morning.  I definately will be waking up much earlier in Miami now.  After meditation we had breakfast and I was honored to have breakfast with Paul Hasselbeck, long time Unity minister and also person in charge of the SEE program here.  We discussed the idea of the fall of man and the divinity of jesus.  It was a great conversation.  I am no closer to getting my answers but I feel like I dont have to be closer.  Just the mere exchange of ideas with someone who was arousing my intellect was enough.  We discussed that there is only one error perception of Ego Mind.  There is only one Christ Consciousness.  This whole idea of individual consciousness, as I see it, is just another false idea brought on by the feeling of separation.

After breakfast I got a private tour of Silent Unity.  Silent Unity is the prayer ministry of Unity.  24 Hours a day, 7 days a week, people are available to pray over the phone with someone.  This program has been going on for a century now.  Amazing!  Actually there was someone working in the prayer room who has been praying on the phone with people for over 30 years!  I was given a tour by a wonderful woman who truly expressed the joy and the peace that comes from working in a place like this.  I was also given permission to go into the Prayer Chapel.  In the Prayer Chapel there is at least one person praying at all times of the day..again, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.  You have to go in and leave either on the hour or the half hour.  I did a half hour.  The energy in the room was amazing.  I was blessed to have that experience.  And I am blessed to be so aware of the blessing of such an experience.

After that was my 12 Powers class.  I turned in my assignment.  For my project I created a program based on the 12 Powers of Man for the coordinators meeting I have at my job.  I was really happy with it.  The class went well also. 

Then came lunch which was fun and exciting.  The people I have met here are truly a blessing in anyone's lives and truly raise the consciousness of all.

We had a guest at our Jesus Christ Heals class which came to tell us how he cured himself of MS after a moment of enlightment when he was already blind and incapacitated.  He was what seemed to be the picture of perfect health.  Aside from that though, I have enjoyed the class a lot.  I brought up some of my ideas on the ONENESS of our consciousness and the responsibility that we have not only for our own error thoughts but the error thoughts of all others - after all we are all one.  It didnt seem to inspire a lot in people.  I think it is still not part of their process to realize that.

Mediation class was great.  I fell asleep during the first meditation (again) but the second one was fun.  It was based on the Catholic Contemplative Meditation practices.  I think I will adopt it.

We had dinner which again was fabulous.

Then we went to a 7 pm Wednesday Night service.  It was a very interesting service.  You could tell that it was a new ministerial candidate that gave it.  He still needed practice but I was able to see beyond that and hear the message.  First of, I thought to myself that I will one day be up their practicing also, God willing.  It was beautiful to know that me and that ministerial candidate were going in similar paths but both centered in a movement that is based on love and good and a peaceful God.  The talk was on lifting the veil between us and God.  Once the veil is lifted and we see no separation, then we will truly experience love and peace. 

The music was good but it did make me realize how fortunate we are at Unity on the Bay.  I went to the cottage and put on some Inner Voice and started belting out some tunes.  I was singing and dancing for what seemed hours.  it was great.  This morning I found out a student, Pat, had heard the whole thing when she was out and about admiring the moon.  Haha.  Anyway, in Jesus Christ Heals, it discusses the healing power of joy and music.  It says to not worry about how you sing because eventually, as you connect more with Spirit trhoguh song, you will be receptive to that beautiful true voice of Spirit.  I loved it.

Then I did my paper for Jesus Christ Heals and I loved it.  I love all that is flowing from me while here.  There is a lot of inspiration and healing going on.  I cant wait to be back.  I cant wait to take this feeling back home.

Anyway, I am off to explore some more of Unity Village.  Talk to you soon.  I love you Juan!