Rev. Rafe Ellis

The majority of our thought comes into our awareness as a response or reaction to some stimulus in our environment, this is memory. New thoughts ...

Join us as we consider and discuss how we might apply the teachings explored in January, February, and March to our Columbia CSL community. This ...

The distinction between what is real in physical form and experience versus what is mere thought and therefore imaginary or illusory is absolutely necessary, not ...

It is commonly believed that the content of thought is some kind of reflective correspondence with ‘real things’, perhaps being a kind of copy, or ...

The understanding of whether or not any particular thought is relevant or fitting requires the operation of an energy that is not mechanical, not memory, ...

The notion that reality is to be understood as process is an ancient one going back to Heraclitus’s awareness that “everything flows”. Not only is ...

Life is movement yet our thoughts regularly affix Life in static and immoveable concepts, ideas, and images. Today we will explore simple, powerful and playful tools ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...