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Schedule At a Glance
All Events
are sponsored by
and/or take place at Spirit United
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THIS SUNDAY
March 29, 2015
10:30-11:30AM
"Following Metaphors: Spiritual and Everyday Meanings"
with
guest speaker
Ted Bowman
Details at right.
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KIDS WITH SPIRIT
March 29, 2015
10:30-11:30am
The JOY Path
Details at right.
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NEXT SUNDAY
EASTER SUNDAY
April 5, 2015
10:30-11:30am
Awakening the Dreamer to the Beautiful New World
with
Rev. Ron Moor and
guest musicians
Josie & Brian Just
Details at right.
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LAST SUNDAY
Mystery School Sunday
March 22, 2015
Exploring More Deeply the Spiritual Practice of Wearing Skin
with
Rev. Ron Moor
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Resilient Grieving/
Reasonable Hope Class with Ted Bowman Sun, March 29, 2015 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Lunar Eclipse Shamanic Ceremony
with
Jorges Villanueva
Castillo
and the
Sol Fire Team
Sat, April 4
12:00pm-3:00pm
Deep Compassionate Listening:
A Gift of Awakening
with
Dr. Mark Umbreit
Sun, April 12
1:00pm-2:30pm
Details at right.
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A Cabaret of
Consciousness with Gina Citoli
Sat, April 18 7:00pm-9:00pm
Details at right.~~~~~~~~~
New Member and General Inquiry Class with Rev. Ron Moor Sun, April 19 After the Sunday Service
Details at right.
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Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium in collaboration with the MN Pachamama Community Sun, April 26 1:00pm-5:00pm
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events at Other Venues
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2015
Spring Equinox Ceremony
and
Celebration
Details at right.
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Look at the List! Amazing!! Details at right.
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SU's Music Director Wants Your Input Details at right.
Create Community Connections
Details at right.
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Enhanced Prayer Ministry
Newsletter Submissions
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Support SU the Easy Way. Details at right.
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We listen.
We care.
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Spirit United Church
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3204 Como Av SE
Minneapolis, MN
55414
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March 25, 2015
Greetings!
Some of Life's Metaphors:
A laugh in the sea of sadness.
She swam in a sea of diamonds.Love is growing a garland.
Your friendship is a picture to my frame.
Authority is a chair, it needs legs to stand up.
Words are false idols.
Ideas are wings.
The sea is a hungry lion.
He kicked the bucket.
A heart of gold.
A light in the sea of darkness.
Strength and dignity is what she is made of.
Heart of a lion.
He is the sun of my sky.
Pull up your socks.
Life is mere a dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.
Drowning in the sea.
Jumping for joy.
Fear is a beast that feeds on attention.
Spiritual seeking is treasure hunting.
Life's journey is a bicycle ride down the hill.
Ideas are water.
Thoughts are a storm, unexpected.
Spirit United 2015 Theme:
Twelve Ways of Spirit
March Theme: The Practice of Wearing Skin
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The Spring Equinox Celebration
was a drumming success.
Over 120 of us joined at Spirit United Friday evening, March 20, to drum, chant, tone, and celebrate this turning of the wheel to a new season. Spring has officially arrived.
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THIS SUNDAY
March 29, 2015 
10:30am-11:30am "Following Metaphors: Spiritual and Everyday Meanings" with guest speaker Ted Bowmanand guest musicians Larry David and Gregg Marquardt  
Metaphors are common, especially for spiritual matters. Metaphors can contribute to clarity or understanding AND metaphors can be confusing and misconstrued. Perspectives about our own metaphors and for following the metaphors of others will be discussed. Scriptures, and literary resources will be included.
Ted is staying after the service to teach his class Resilient Grieving/Reasonable Hope. See below for details.
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 KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY
10:30am-11:30am
2014-2015 Theme:
The JOY Path
"When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
~ Rumi
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NEXT SUNDAY 
Easter Sunday
April 5, 2015
10:30am-11:30am Awakening the Dreamer to the Beautiful New Worldwith Rev. Ron Moor and guest musicians  Josie Schmidt Just and Brian Just
Do you live on the earth or in the earth? What dream are you dreaming? Our sub theme for April this year is The Spiritual Practice of Walking the Earth. We will embody this theme beginning with our celebration of Easter. For this special Sunday we are inviting you to dress up a bit in some spring clothes, maybe  even a fancy hat, and to also bring a spring flower, cut or potted, to place on our altar and bring home after the service. Once again, Tom Vetter will gift us with his wondrous Easter labyrinth that will grace the floor of our sanctuary. As you emerge from walking the labyrinth you will have the option of receiving an anointing with a special blend of oils, called a chrism. Joining us for this service and providing our music is our former musical director, Josie Schmidt Just and her husband Brian. Rev. Moor's message this year is entitled Awakening the Dreamer to the Beautiful New World. It is a message of how increasingly we are waking up from the old dream of separation, over consuming and competing. Our Easter service will begin a month of activities including A Cabaret of Consciousness with the amazing Gina Citoli Saturday, April 18, 2015 and concludes with the evocative, inspirational Awakening The Dreamer Symposium on April 26, the Sunday following Earth Day. The symposium is facilitated by our friends of The Pachamama Alliance. So mark your calendars, get your spring clothes out of the back of the closet, and join us for a special Easter service.
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March 22, 2015
Explore More Deeply the Spiritual Practice of Wearing Skin
with Rev. Ron Moor
Unfortunately there was a difficulty and the service was not recorded. So, Ron wrote the following to provide a deeper synopsis of the service.
Spring has officially arrived. Over 120 of us joined at Spirit United on Friday evening, March 20, to drum, chant, tone, and celebrate this turning of the wheel to a new season. Our sub-theme for March is The Spiritual Practice of Wearing Skin. Our service this past Sunday was a reminder that our physical bodies are being called as well as our consciousness to the new paradigm of inter-being. Think of all the physical activities that have become more and more popular over the past 40 years, all the health clubs that dot the landscape, all the yoga, tai chi, quigong, and martial arts classes. Think of the surge in diet awareness and the exploding organic food movement. Our bodies are less and less considered to be just a vehicle for our brain, something we have to maintain like an automobile. Our body is our mind, our mind is our body. The time of separation between body, mind, soul, and spirit is ending as we move into the new paradigm. As we integrate our entire being into a wholeness, we are more able to be conscious of our connection with the greater body/mind of the world. The time of separation, of the old story, is coming to an end. Are you ready?
The Old Wisdom
by Jane Goodall
When the night wind makes the pine trees creak
And the pale clouds glide across the dark sky,
Go out, my child, go out and seek
Your soul: the eternal I.
For all the grasses rustling at your feet
And every flaming star that glitters high
Above you, close up and meet
In you: the Eternal I.
Yes, my child, go out into the world; walk slow
And silent, comprehending all, and by and by
Your soul, the Universe, will know
Itself: the Eternal I.
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 Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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 Resilient Grieving - Reasonable Hope Class
with Ted Bowman
Sunday, March 29, 2015
12:30pm - 3:00pm
$15
Metaphorical shipwreck may occur with the loss of a relationship, violence to one's property, collapse of a career venture, physical illness or injury, defeat of a cause, a fateful choice that irrevocably reorders one's life, betrayal by a community or government, or the discovery that an intellectual construct is inadequate. (Parks)
However named, grieving such losses may be essential for a fuller grief experience AND beginning to dream and hope again. In this interactive session, participants will be presented with distinctions of altered assumptions and expectations. Further, ways of practicing resilient grieving and reasonable hope will be addressed.
Bio: Ted Bowman is a grief and family educator. He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Saint Thomas. He is the author of numerous chapters, articles and books, many of which address themes of grief and hope.
After Ted led a Sunday service in 2014 he was asked by Spirit United to offer a class because of the outpouring community members asking for more from him.
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 Lunar Eclipse Shamanic Ceremony with
Jorges Villanueva Castillo,
The "Sol Fire Shaman"
and
The Sol Fire team:
Guillermo Leubbert and Melanie Metz
Saturday, April 4, 2015
12:00pm-3:00pm $10 donation requested.
Before the event, write down what it is you want to manifest in the new Energy that opened at the Solar Eclipse during the Spring Equinox. During the ceremony we will burn these intentions in order to release them to the Universe for fulfillment.
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Deep Compassionate Listening:
A Gift of Awakening
facilitated by Dr. Mark Umbreit  Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:00pm-2:30pm $20 Register: Click here to contact Mark. Deep compassionate listening is a mindfulness-based practice grounded in our heart, not our head. It goes far beyond the more common active listening that by definition keeps us in the head. By working with breath and silence, taming our ego, deep listening is truly of a gift of awakening for both the practitioner and the recipient.
The workshop will provide opportunities to learn and practice centering/breath work, deep compassionate listening, and cultivating the power of presence through mindfulness. Mindfulness, deep listening, and stories are the spiritual core of peace building within and among others.
Course Objectives:
1. To understand the healing power of deep compassionate listening
2. To learn and experience the practice of deep compassionate listening
3. To understand and practice the combined power of mindfulness, deep listening, and stories as the spiritual core of peacebuilding within and among others.
Presenter Biographical Information:
Dr. Mark Umbreit is Director of the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota and a Visiting Professor at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Mark is also on the faculty of the Center for Spirituality & Healing at the U.M. His most recent book is Dancing With The Energy of Conflict & Trauma: Letting Go - Finding Peace. Mark has been working with colleagues in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine on peace building initiatives.
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A Cabaret of Consciousness
Saturday, April 18, 2015
7pm-9pm $30 (Please purchase tickets ahead of time.)
 This show is more than a concert or a workshop yet has qualities of both. Experience the Wonder of Awakened Entertainment a magical journey into new vistas of reality! Click here to learn more.
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New Member and General Inquiry Class
Sunday, April 19, 2014
11:30am after the service To register or for questions: Contact Rev. Ron Moor by clicking here.
Are you interested in knowing more about Spirit United -its principles, its history, its structure and more? Have you thought about becoming a member of this community? Come talk with Ron to gain further understanding about who we are.
New Members will be received in a ceremony on Sunday, May 17, 2015 during the service.
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Want to be part of creating a whole new world? The first step is attending the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
AND Potluck.
Join us as we bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
 Spirit United in collaboration with the MN Pachamama Community will facilitate dynamic group interactions, leading-edge thinking, and powerful multimedia, to inspire you to connect with your deep love for our world and empower you to make a difference. This event is designed with some of the finest scientific, indigenous, and activist minds in the world, the Symposium explores the current state of our planet and will connect you with a global movement to reclaim our future.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
1:00pm to 5:00 pm$20-$50 sliding scale donation at the door (Proceeds shared by both organizations.)Bring a dish to share for the potluck.
Register on line (and learn more about the MN Pachamama Community) by visiting their Facebook page. Click here. Direct questions to Holly by clicking here.
 TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES.
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Friday, March 20, 2015
Spring Equinox Ceremony
and Celebration
with
Jorges Villanueva Castillo,
The "Sol Fire Shaman"
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LOOK AT THIS LIST!
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR APRIL
- Attend all or some of the events.
- Tell your friends what we offer.
- Ask them to bring their friends.
AMAZING!!
Ted Bowman as speaker at this Sunday's service and his class after the service, Resilient Grieving/Reasonable Hope.
Easter Service on April 5. We would love for people to bring flowers to be placed on the altar and then take home after. Dress-up in your fun spring clothes and fancy hats.
Jorges, the Sol Fire Shaman, and the Sol Fire Team returns for the Lunar Eclipse Shamanic Ceremony to extend the celebration which began Friday of the Spring Equinox on Saturday, April 4th.
John Oak Grove and The Thunderbirds will join us on April 12th's Sunday service.
Mark Umbreit's class on Deep Compassionate Listening: A Gift of Awakening is April 12th from 1:00pm-2:30pm.
The Cabaret of Consciousness with Gina Citoli is Saturday, April 18th.
The new member orientation will be April 19th and the reception ceremony is
Sunday service May 17th.
Bernie Saunders is our guest speaker
on April 19th.
Mystery School Sunday on April 26th followed by a community potluck and the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium from 1 - 5pm.
and
Ron's new class is a Healer Practicum starting Tuesday April 28 through July 14th.
WE OFFER MANY TRANSFORMATIVE OPPORTUNITIES.
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Spirit United's Music Director Wants Your Input
Bettie Seitzer wants your thoughts, feelings and ideas about the music on Sundays and within our community.
- What do you enjoy about the music at Spirit United?
- Name musicians or types of music you would like to be brought to Spirit United.
- Share anything you want me to know about the music at Spirit United.
Thank you for your participation.
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CREATE NEW CONNECTIONS
Members can advertise an  d network at Spirit United with your business card.
Put your card with a small holder on the Members' Table located to the left of the Meditation Room.
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To use this enhanced prayer service: Fill out the request form and place it in the wooden prayer box on the pillar next to the meditation room OR click here.
Your prayer requests will be held in community meditation with sacred intention everyday for one month to enhance the power and intention of your prayer.
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