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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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Group Meditation
Sunday
with
Edwinna Sackariason
December 6, 2015 9:45am-10:30am
Details at right.
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THIS SUNDAY
Dec. 6, 2015 10:30-11:30am
Activating Hope Around the World with guest speaker
Gary J. Boelhower, PhD and musicians Meg Miura and David Chapman
Details at right.
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KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY December 6, 2015 10:30-11:30am
Details at right.
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NEXT SUNDAY
December 13
10:30am-11:30am
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LAST SUNDAY
Nov. 29, 2015
10:30-11:30am
Peace
with
guest speaker
Yvette Erasmus
and
musicians
Meg Miura and David Chapman
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Minnesota Musings Presents
Dual Intuitive Readings and Toning
with Birdie and JJ
Sun, Dec. 6, 2015
1:00pm-5:00pm
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~ Minneapolis Theosophical Society's December Events Mini-workshop
Dowsing Techniques
with
Renee Soberg and Don Prohaska
Monday, Dec. 14
7:00pm-9:00pm
Details at right.
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Film Screening of
It's A Wonderful Life!
Monday, Dec. 28
7:00pm-9:00pm
Details at right.
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Winter Solstice Ceremony and Celebration with the Spirit Walkers and Special guests
Sat. December 19
7:00pm
Details at right.
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Kirtan Celebration
on
New Year's Eve
Thurs, Dec. 31
7:00pm-Midnight
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events at Other Venues
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Blossoming Hearts
~ Meditations of Peace and Healing Ourselves and Our World
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Thank You Decorating Crew
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~ Candlelight Service
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~
The Pledge Drive
Details at right.
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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 table 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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December 2, 2015
Greetings!
"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."
~ French Proverb
"Hope never abandons you; you abandon it."
~ George Weinberg
"Hope is not a dream but
a way of making dreams become reality."
~ Author Unknown
Spirit United 2015 Theme:
Twelve Ways of Spirit
December's Theme: Practice of Pronouncing Blessings
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Group Meditation at Spirit United
Sunday, December 6, 2015
9:45am-10:30am
in the SU Meditation Room
with the guidance of
Edwinna Sackariason
The first Sunday of each month join the power of group meditation. Edwinna facilitates a brief guided meditation followed by a time of silence.
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THIS SUNDAY 
December 6, 2015
10:30am-11:30am
ACTIVATING HOPE
AROUND THE WORLD
with guest speaker Gary J Boelhower, PhD
and musicians Meg Miura and David Chapman
 We activate hope decision by decision every day. Although the daily news proclaims a world divided and in conflict, there is a deeper wisdom that recognizes the common principles that unite the interconnected human family on its daily journey. When we understand these universal principles that are shared across the spiritual traditions of the world, we have reason to hope. When we make wise decisions based on these common principles, we bring hope alive in a world hungry for justice and peace.
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 KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY
December 6, 2015
10:30am-11:30am
Respect Theme for 2015-2016
We create beauty in our lives and our world.
Virtues: Love, Wisdom, Humility, Honesty, Courage/Bravery, Respect, Truth
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NEXT SUNDAY  December 13, 2015
10:30am-11:30am
The Love That Moves the Stars
with Rev. Ron Moor
and musician Josie Just
On this third Sunday of Expectancy we will explore the state of being we call Love, the love that exists in true friendship and community. Consideration of friends, family, and community all become more heightened this time of year as each of us ponders how, where, and with whom we will mark this time of shivery cold, and long, dark nights. Yet it is in the cold darkness, light is reborn and a new year begins.
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 LAST SUNDAY
November 29, 2015
PEACE
with guest speaker
Yvette Erasmus with musicians
Meg Miura and David Chapman
Yvette spoke about her experience of integrating into her life the practice of nonviolent communication. She shared how it has transformed her being in relationship with herself, others, life and the world. It manifests peace. As a teacher of this practice, she gave a quick overview of its concept and a few steps to implement it into daily living. Her passion and insight communicates when one fully immerses into this practical and spiritual way of living, peace does happen Listen by clicking here. You will be inspired.
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 Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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 Minnesota Musings presents!
Dual intuitive readings and toning
with Birdie and JJ
Sunday, December 6, 2015
1:00pm-5:00pm $3 per minute
Register by clicking here to go to Birdie's email.
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 Minneapolis Theosophical Society's December Events
Learn to find unseen things and find answers to questions in December's Mini-workshop.
Dowsing Techniques 
with Renee Soberg & Don Prohaska
Monday, December 14, 2015
7:00pm-9:00pm
$10 suggested donation
Questions: Call (651) 235-6645
Learn how to find something or someone  through dowsing. Learn how to find answers to your deepest questions. This is a hands-on workshop that will give you personal knowledge and experience in the art of divining and how to use divining rods.
Renee Soberg and Don Prohaska are both members of numerous prestigious national dowsing organizations and are experts in this field. Both are members of the Theosophical Society.
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Newly Colorized, Re-Issued Movie Classic
It's a Wonderful Life!
(Paramount, DVD, 130 min.)
Monday, December 28, 2015
7:00pm-9:00pm
$10 suggested donation
Questions: Call (651) 235-6645
Join us for a screening of perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema. George Bailey (James Stewart) grows up in a small town dreaming dreams of adventure and travel. Circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. Capra's triumphant in acknowledging the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement.
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Winter Solstice Ceremony 
& Celebration
with
Jorge Villanueva Castillo
and the
Spirit Walkers
Saturday, December 19, 2015
7:00pm
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6:00pm-7:00pm
Free Shamanic Healings
Cut Cords and Attachments with Mayan Shaman
Jorge Villanueva Castillo
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Native American Drumming and Ceremony  with
Rev. Ron Moor,
Al Baker-Thunderheart Drum Group,
Darnell St. John
& Shire Ted
along with  Magical Native South American Flute Music by Carlos Quinche.
Join Mayan Shaman Jorge Villanueva Castillo and the Spirit Walkers as we celebrate the winter solstice! Join the Eagle and the Condor as we honor the strength of the Buffalo who lives in integrity, with the male and female hemispheres of the mind in equilibrium, walking strong through the prairies, hills and valleys called life. We will celebrate the end of 2015 and beginning 2016 with astrology, channeled messages, drumming and more.
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Kirtan Celebration on New Year's Eve
Sing in the New Year with a clear mind and a heart full of joy. Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:00pm-midnight
Free will donationALL ARE WELCOME!
(A significant portion of the evening's donations will support the healing process of Marianne Turnbull, a Bhakti friend receiving treatment for cancer.)
- This is an alcohol-free event.
- Please be considerate of those who are sensitive by not wearing perfume or strongly scented hair/body products.
- Bring your water bottles.
- If you would like to sit on the floor near the front, bring your blanket or cushion. Many chairs are available.
7:00pm-8:15pm Temple of Light
~Frank Florin, Kim & Roger Klisch, and Dave Urban
This band of four, blends male and female vocals, harmonium, guitar, and percussion instruments in meditative and spirited chants. They play monthly in the Twin Cities. 
8:30pm-9:45pm Kirtan Path
~ Pascale LaPoint
Pascale invites you to open your heart and raise your voice to the Divine, connecting with your innate center of joy and love. Kirtan Path
has been singing with the greater Twin Cities kirtan community for six years, has played at many festivals--including Bhakti Fest Midwest--and has produced the CD
Samgayati - A Gathering in Song.
9:45pm-10:15pm Tea & Snacks
10:15pm-11:45pm Ananda
~ Andrea Sullivan, with Sam Adams, Perry Ehrmann, and Dhanny Boldtergeist on tabla
Anada = unending bliss and holds true to its name. This is an eclectic kirtan with multiple instruments and expressive devotional chanting with love.
11:45pm-Midnight Final Kirtan Jam Meditation
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Make a difference in our fractured world.
Magnify your own action for healing & making peace.
Deepen your spiritual practice.
Join others at Spirit United.
Extend your personal practice.
Blossoming Hearts -
Meditations
of Peace and Healing
Ourselves
and Our World
Every Wednesday Evening
Beginning December 2, 2015
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Suggested donation $15
All are welcome!
Each session will begin with breath and movement practices to help deepen our meditation. Then we will embark on a series of guided and silent meditations designed to bring greater peace and healing to ourselves and to our world. The focus will always be on peace and healing. Each week will vary according to the current needs of the world and of the group itself. We will do world work and we will do a group meditation for the collective individual needs.
Our guide for the month of December is Ron Moor. Ron has been an adventurer of meditation for almost 40 years and has led and taught meditative practices across this country.
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THANK YOU
HOLIDAY DECORATING CREW
Our gathering space is beautiful.
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Candlelight Service
Thursday, December 24, 2015
4:30pm-5:30pm
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The Pledge Drive
During the Who We Are forum, the annual budget was mentioned. Thus the Pledge Drive was referred to as a vital part of supporting Spirit United.
As of November 13, 2015, Spirit United has received 34 pledges for a total of $35,822.
Our goal is $60,000 plus because our precise annual operating budget is $100,000.
You make a difference. Remember all amounts, weekly or monthly, are welcomed because they make a big difference to our financial outlook. or ask for one to be mailed to you. Click here to connect with the office.
Please give generously. Thank you!
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