I did something similar back in 1989 by creating "Tranfromational Friends of Santa Monica". I opened my apartment there to the community every Wednesday night for 1 1/2 years. Everyone who came to the door was welcome. We sat in a circle and started the evening with a 1/2 hour silent meditation. I would play relaxing music to begin and inspirational music to end the meditation. Then we would go around the circle and share about our personal gift or vocation and other uplifting events in the area. This was followed by a speaker or movie of an inspirational nature. Lastly, I would provide a table of healthy, delicious food while people socialized. After that, I rented the Quaker "Friends Meeting House" in Santa Monica twice a month for larger gatherings simiolar to what I did in my home. If the speaker was of high enough quality we would have a followup weekend workshop. Lastly, I later wrote a chapter in a book called Transformations. My contribution was called, "Building Conscious Community, One Home at a Time". Now that I am much older, I have an online presence called "SacredFriends Community" where I share about mind/body/spirit Culturally Creative Events, Speakers, Seminars, Articles and sometimes Products that are spiritually uplifting and relevant to the times we are living in. If you are interested in joining our online community you can go towww.SacredFriends.org to sign up. If we only realized our capacity for uplifting humanity and acted on it, image the world we could be living in...thank you dailygood for providing such relevent articles and people to catalize this movement!!!
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