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Schedule At a Glance
All Events
are sponsored by
and/or take place at Spirit United
unless otherwise noted.
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THIS 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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KIDS WITH SPIRIT
April 5, 2015
10:30-11:30am
The Children will be with their family in the service this week.
The JOY Path
Details at right.
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NEXT SUNDAY
April 12, 2015
10:30-11:30am
"Dancing on the Earth"
with
John Oakgrove and
The Little Thunderbirds
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LAST SUNDAY
March 29, 2015
"Following Metaphors: Spiritual and Everyday Meanings"
with
guest speaker
Ted Bowman
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Spirit United's Group Meditation Sunday
with
Edwinna Sackariason
Sun, Apr. 5, 2015
9:30am-10:15am
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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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Minneapolis Theosophical Society'sApril EventsAtlantis and the Coming Ice Age with MN Author Frank Joseph Mon, April 13 7:00pm-9:00pm Details at right.
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Film:
Sitchin Asks, "Are We Alone in the Universe?"
Mon, April 27 7:00pm-9:00pm
Details at right.
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Consciousness
with
Gina Citoli
Sat, April 18
7:00pm-9:00pm
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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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Resilient Grieving/
Reasonable Hope Class
with
Ted Bowman
Poem entitled Heavy
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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Support is found within community.
Spirit Vine is here
to help.
We listen.
We care.
Call Spirit United (612) 378-3602
Say you want to speak to the Spirit Vine.
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Spirit United Church
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3204 Como Av SE
Minneapolis, MN
55414
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April 1, 2015
Greetings!
And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Blythe Shelley
Spirit United 2015 Theme:
Twelve Ways of Spirit
April Theme: The Practice of Walking on the Earth
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The First Sunday Meditation is meeting earlier than usual because it is Easter.~~~
Bring spring flowers to the
Easter service
and
Let's have fun - dress in Spring Apparel with your Easter Bonnet
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THIS 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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 KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY
10:30am-11:30am
The children will be part of the adult service celebrating Easter and Spring together.
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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LAST SUNDAY
March 29, 2015  "Following Metaphors: Spiritual and Everyday Meanings" with guest speaker Ted Bowmanand guest musicians Larry David and Gregg Marquardt   Ted shared with us the power of words and the uniqueness each individual brings to the interpretation of words/metaphors based on experiences. It is vital to walk the earth while mindfully using and listening to words. This is so much more than these words say. It is an experience worth your time. To listen, click here.
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 Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Group Meditation at Spirit United
Every First Sunday of the Month
led by
Edwinna Sackariason
NOTE THE TIME CHANGE!
On Sunday, the group will meet earlier than usual. It will begin at 9:30am to accommodate the Easter service.
Edwinna will lead a guided meditation connecting you with your guardian angel. You will learn the heart-link technique.
The first Sunday of each month
9:45-10:30am
in the Spirit United Meditation Room.
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 Lunar Eclipse Shamanic Ceremony with
Jorges Villanueva Castillo,
The "Sol Fire Shaman"
and
The Sol Fire team:
Guillermo Luebbert, Melanie Metz
,
Gina Ferrell, Virginia Sundin,
Lulu Bea & Dane Esethu
Saturday, April 4, 2015
12:00pm-3:00pm $10 donation requested Click here to learn more about Sol Fire Shaman
Write down what would like to manifest
in the New Energy that opened at the Solar Eclipse during the Spring Equinox 3/21/15.
We will burn these intentions to release them
to the Universe for fulfillment.
There will be Crystal Bowl Sound & Light Chanting, Meditation & Mudras, and
Dancing the Labyrinth with the Full Moon.
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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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 Minneapolis Theosophical Society April, 2015 Events
Atlantis and the Coming Ice Age! with MN author Frank Joseph  Monday, April 13, 2015 7:00pm-9:00pm $10 suggested donation Questions: Call Von at 651-235-6645 Frank Joseph has written more than two dozen books about the Ancient Mysteries in archeology and more books about Atlantis than any other writer. His new book Atlantis and the Coming Ice Age (March, 2015; Bear & Co.) shows how ancient prophecies correlate precisely with the latest climatology studies, the rising incidence o f solar flares, and papers from Pentagon and NASA analysts.
Drawing on the latest climatology studies and papers from the Pentagon and NASA analysts, Frank Joseph reveals that we are on the brink of a destructive phase in the global cycle of change as predicted by the Atlanteans and the Maya.
The world's current political, economic and cultural deterioration is paralleled by unprecedented storms and record temperatures, massive solar flares, tectonic disturbances and fissuring sea floors that could release dangerous reservoirs of methane gas into the environment-all of which signals we are headed into another ice age.
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Ancient Mysteries/Ancient Wisdom
Film Series
Sitchin Asks, "Are We Alone
in the Universe?"
Monday, April 27
7:00pm-9:00pm
$5 suggested donation
Questions: Call Von 651-235-6645
A film with Zecharia Sitchin, based on his books, Genesis Revisited and The 12th Planet as we embark on an exciting new journey into uncharted territory; a provocative reassessment of who we are and where we stand in the universe.  Includes the facts about these amazing discoveries along with a series of spellbinding interviews with researchers and the best known, most credible scientist in the world today.
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A Cabaret of Consciousness
Saturday, April 18, 2015
7pm-9pm $30 (Please purchase tickets ahead of time.)
Gina Citoli as "Mama Earth" in her very own one woman musical is a force to be reckoned with. She will captivate you with the energy and presence of a rock star as she delivers a crystal clear message of hope and a higher vision for humanity and the earth.  This show is grand entertainment and pure inspiration! It will put a big smile on your face, delight and fascinate you. You will leave this extraordinary production knowing....
Anything is Possible!
To see more, Click here.
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Spirit United 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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 Resilient Grieving - Reasonable Hope Class
with Ted Bowman
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Many people stayed to be with Ted after his Sunday service message exploring grief and hope together. We are very grateful to have had Ted come back to our Spirit United and share his brilliance. He is changing our world with his beautiful heart-filled work. His work will forever influence humanity. Bless you Ted, the people you touch with your work and your work as it evolves and lives on.
The following is a poem he shared with us.
Heavy
That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying
I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hands in this,
as well as friends. Still I was bent, and my laughter, as the poet said,
was nowhere to be found. Then said my friend Daniel (brave even among lions), "It's not the weight you carry
but how your carry it- books, brick, grief- it's all in the way you embrace it, balance it, carry it
when you cannot, and would not, put it down." So I went practicing. Have you noticed?
Have you heard the laughter that comes now and again, out of my started mouth-
How I linger to admire, admire, admire the things of the world that are kin, and maybe
also troubles-- roses in the wind the sea geese on the steep waves, a love to which there is no reply?
By Mary Oliver From: Thirst: Poems (2006).
Boston: Beacon Press, pp.53-4.
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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!!
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 Little 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.
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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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