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W E L C O M E T O C E N T E R F O R S P I R I T U A L L I V I N G . We are dedicated to being your welcoming spiritual community, a force for good in the world, and bringing you universal spiritual principles and practices that inspire and empower.

In these pages you will find classes, workshops, retreats and scared travel opportunities for you to learn and practice powerful and spiritual tools, including prayer, affirmative thinking, meditation and more.

By putting these age-old spiritual practices and traditions into action, you will open and expand your heart as well as your mind, awakening within you the power to transform your life and enrich the lives of people around you. At our Center, spiritual exploration comes with opportunities to create community. Classes often include work in small groups where you’ll be

supported in practical and tangible ways—invited to share your experience as it unfolds and support one another in prayer and consciousness. You may find that the relationships you establish here will flourish into a long-term system of support, deep caring and encouragement.

We are grateful for the opportunity to guide and accompany you on your path of spiritual study and exploration. If you have questions on what class or workshop is right for you, feel welcome to connect with us by email, phone at 206-527-8801, or check in at the registration desk.

Blessings to you,

Kathianne Lewis, DD Spiritual Director

Beyond Limits: Practical Spirituality for Modern LifeW I T H K A T H I A N N E L E W I S , D D

Do you have an urge to live life with more freedom, authenticity, and humor? Are you being called to go beyond your limits? Ready to take back the power you have given away to conditions and others?

If so, it is your time to break free of any self-imposed limitations and step into your birthright—a life filled with more creativity, love, joy, abundance and wholeness.

With dialog, introspection, readings, group activities, and support from others, develop a new concept of yourself and take ownership of and reclaim your innate power, know your power to change your life forever, no longer leaving your life and your happiness to chance

This is a certificated course and is a prerequisite for CSL membership as well as many classes, retreats, and trips.

Mondays, Sep 18–Nov 6, 6:30–9pm

TUITION: A Pay What You Will course: student determines value, at, above, or below suggested tuition of $225. Cost of textbooks is additional.

MATERIALS FEE: $15 (non-refundable, paid at time of registration)

ROOM: Celebration Hall

Course Catalog

FALL 2017

Exploring SpiritualityTools for Transformation

Register for classes online or by phone SpiritualLiving.org/classes | 206-527-8801

Exploring Spirituality | T O O LS F O R T R A N S F O R M AT I O N C O U R S E C ATA LO G | Fall 2017

In the Beginning: What We Believe and How We Teach ItA N I N T R O D U C T I O N T O S P I R I T U A L S T U D Y

New to CSL classes? Come for an overview of the concepts we teach, get details on classes, and experience a sample class session. You’ll also get to know other CSL folks through

entertaining exercises. Come have a fun, fast-moving time together!

Sun, Sep 3, 1:30–3:30pm

INSTRUCTORS: Peter Hannah, LMHC and Jen Hannah, RScP, Practitioner and member of the Beyond Limits teaching team

TUITION: Love Offering

ROOM: Holmes

The Path To Wealth7 S P I R I T U A L S T E P S F O R F I N A N C I A L A B U N D A N C E A N D F R E E D O M

Join May McCarthy in discovering how to increase success in your personal and professional life. Learn how to commit to recognizing and partnering with a characteristic of Spirit as the Source of Your Intuition called the CSO, or Chief Spiritual Officer. You’ll learn how to work

with your new partner, separate job responsibilities, and experience more fun and freedom as you focus on only your job and achieve greater levels of success!

You will learn to trust that the CSO will do its job with excellence while you realize more of the good that you want in your life with less of the work.

Sun, Sep 10, 1:30–4:30pm

INSTRUCTOR: May McCarthy, Entrepreneur, best-selling Author

TUITION: $25 by 8pm, Sun, 9/3; $35 after

ROOM: Holmes

Steps to Freedom: Prayer and MeditationDaily connection with Spirit creates an inward strength that can help you live with more Ease, Peace, Grace, and Love. This class is your laboratory for testing different types of meditation and learning tools to discover and create your preferred daily spiritual practice. You’ll also build on

the Affirmative Prayer skills learned in Beyond Limits by doing treatments for yourself and others.

This course is certificated and recommended as your next step, after completing Beyond Limits.

P R E R E Q U I S I T E : Beyond Limits

Tuesdays, Sep 12–Nov 14, 6:30–9:30pm

INSTRUCTORS: Rev. Harold Costa and Alexa Burns, RScP

TUITION: A Pay What You Will course: student determines value, at, above, or below suggested tuition of $225. Cost of textbooks is additional.

ROOM: Thomas Troward

MATERIALS FEE: $15 (non-refundable, paid at time of registration)



Care of the SoulUsing Thomas Moore’s beautiful and best-selling book Care of the Soul, you will be guided in deep conversations that engage the wisdom of your soul: your attachments, your

loves, your relationships, your community, along with inner-communing and intimacy with your Soul. The focus of our class time will be connection, with self and with others, and in addressing your personal soul work.

Thomas Moore is scheduled for a speaking engagement at CSL on Nov. 3–4, which can be the “cherry-on-top” of your soul growth experience.

Please join Patric and Debora in this opportunity for deep soul connection with yourself and others in the CSL spiritual community.

P R E R E Q U I S I T E : Beyond Limits

Wednesdays, Sep 20–Oct 18 (no class 10/11), 7–9pm

INSTRUCTORS: Revs. Patric Creelman and Debora Gay


ROOM: Holmes

Revealing Wholeness Through Physical ChallengeLife-threatening, chronic, or debilitating conditions hold within them a deep call to embrace our Wholeness. This course will assist you in opening to a deeper sense of healing and wholeness in the midst of your physical adversity. Each week expands on a distinct topic for using the time of physical

challenge as an opening into a greater expression of Life. A lending library of books related to the teachings will be available in class.

Wednesdays, Sep 27–Nov 15, 12–2pm

INSTRUCTOR: Lynne Zeller, RScP

TUITION: Free


Exploring Egyptian Mythology and Eternal LifeMichael Bogar, mythologist and theologian, will introduce you to the life and death of King Tutankhamen. Learn about other ancient Egyptian rulers and myths, including Amduat and his elaborate and precarious journey through the Underworld into eternal life. This class

will focus on the psycho-spiritual meanings of ancient Egyptian spirituality and how it sheds light on our own journey toward immortality.

Thursdays, Oct 12–26, 6:30–9pm

INSTRUCTOR: Michael Bogar, MDiv, ThM





An Introduction To Pastoral Care Skill BuildingF O R P R A C T I T I O N E R S A N D M I N I S T E R S

This new Pastoral Care skill-building course, developed by Rev. Michael Ingersoll, focuses on enriching the consciousness and skills of our ministers and practitioners when dealing with the deeper emotional and spiritual needs of our community, particularly during times

of change, challenge and possibility.

Learn skills and techniques as a Pastoral Care provider to assist you in delving deeply into the meaning of personal care. Discover additional tools for deep listening,

boundaries of care, and expanded opportunities for personal growth. Become empowered to provide effective service in, and become an important part of, our new Pastoral Care Ministry.

P R E R E Q U I S I T E : open to Ministers and Practitioners only

Thursdays, Oct 26–Nov 9, 6:30–8:30pm

INSTRUCTOR: Rev. Michael Ingersoll

TUITION: Love Offering

ROOM: Holmes

The Soul’s CodeThomas Moore’s mentor, James Hillman, wrote the bestseller The Soul’s Code. In this landmark book, he proposes that our life-calling and basic character is inborn and archetypal. Our central mission in life is to realize those instinctive archetypal imperatives, sometimes called “living your

own myth.” Hillman called this process the “acorn theory”—the idea that our lives are formed by a particular image unique to each of us, just as the oak’s destiny is contained

in the tiny acorn. Learn more about Hillman and your own myth in this course with Michael Bogar.

Thursdays, Nov 2–16, 6:30–9pm




Your Wishes: A Living Will with Heart and SoulWhen tragedy strikes or the end of life is near, it seems no one is ever prepared. Still, we will help in that preparation by providing you with planning tools and conversations that ensure your wishes are followed and respected at this critical time.

This class uses Trudy James’s film Speaking of Dying, and the 5 Wishes Living Will, a legal Advance Healthcare Directive document in Washington State, to help you express your wishes in areas that matter most: the personal and spiritual, in addition to the medical and legal wishes that you want observed. We will help you identify and describe what good care means to you, whether you are seriously ill or not, allowing your caregiver, family members, and medical staff to know exactly what you want; and for your loved

ones to speak clearly and confidently for you, if or when you are not able.

Class topics include: Selecting your Healthcare Agent, End of Life Care Options, Grief and Bereavement, Disposition Decisions, Burial Options, Your Legal Legacy, Service Planning and more.

Mondays, Nov 6–27, 6:30–8:30pm

INSTRUCTOR: Rev. Michael Ingersoll


ROOM: Holmes



Discovering the Light within the DarknessLife is filled with times of joy and sadness. Often, we think that there is only pain in our darkest experiences. We may limit the way we express ourselves, due to feelings of shame and embarrassment. In this class we will set ourselves free by finding the Light in our darkest moments.

At CSL we teach that the Divine is omnipresent, existing in everything—together we will uncover it!

Rev. Harold walks with you in discovering the Light within everything, even in what seems to be our darkest times.

Once we see the Light, we move forward with Ease and Grace, instantly propelling a light-filled life.

Sun, Nov 12, 1:30–4pm

INSTRUCTOR: Rev. Harold Costa

TUITION: $25

ROOM: Holmes

Path To Membership: Join The Circle!Are you home yet? This workshop is your final step in making CSL Seattle your spiritual home, your place to put down roots, grow, and thrive. You’ll learn about the Five Spiritual Practices members

are asked to embrace: Prayer, Meditation, Sacred Service, Gracious Giving, and Spiritual Study. You’ll also get an opportunity to meet other new members and learn more about our community. Membership is a requirement for Inward Journey and Practitioner Training students.

P R E R E Q U I S I T E F O R M E M B E R S H I P : Beyond Limits

C H O O S E F R O M :

Mon, Nov 13, 6:30–9pm, or Sun, Nov 19, 1:30–4pm

INSTRUCTOR: Rev. Harold Costa

TUITION: Free

ROOM: 11/13: Oak; 11/19: Thomas Troward

N E W M E M B E R S H I P S U N D AY: Dec 3, 11am service

Celebrating our new members with Rev. Harold!

A Christmas Carol: The Archetypes of Past, Present, and Future in a Soul-making Life

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future. In Dickens’s view, “Time” is not conceptual, but a living archetypal

presence with three faces—each working to sculpt a unique soul through the images and emotions that haunt our Pasts, Present, and Futures. Uncover the soul that your past, present and future are forging in this class with Michael Bogar.

Thursdays, Dec 7–21, 6:30–9pm






Advanced Spirituality StudyI N W A R D J O U R N E Y 2 017–2 018Are you ready to challenge yourself to a deeper love, practice and expression of the Science of Mind and Spirit? Inward Journey is devoted to advancing spiritual awareness and exploring your relationship to the universe, and is designed to prepare you to live more fully and purposefully. This year of study (fall–spring) focuses on deepening your knowledge and understanding of Science of Mind as taught by Ernest Holmes and Emma Curtis Hopkins. You will develop a deeper practice of the application of living a conscious life for the benefit and blessing of yourself and others, and become aware of what needs to be cleared in your own consciousness, as you begin to apply your spiritual understanding to all human conditions.

P R E R E Q U I S I T E S : Beyond Limits and CSL Seattle membership, and at least three of the following classes: Steps To Freedom: Prayer and Meditation (formerly Spiritual Practices To Live By), Self Mastery, Essential Ernest, The Roots of New Thought, Financial Freedom, and Watching God Grow Up. Contact Kathianne Lewis, DD with request for exemption of prerequisites.

C L A S S E S : Tuesdays, Sep 19, 2017–May 15, 2018, 6:30–9:15pm (excluding holidays)

R E T R E AT S : September 15–17, 2017 and Mar 19–22, 2018, both at Rainbow Lodge Retreat Center, North Bend, WA

FULL TUITION PLAN: $1,944/person double occupancy or $2,376 single occupancy*

DEFERRED TUITION PLAN: $2,034/person double occupancy or $2,466 single occupancy*

*Single occupancy: pricing as noted only if space is available

2018 Retreat and Sacred Travel T H E G R E A T I A M — D E E P L I S T E N I N G M E D I T A T I O N R E T R E A TOpen further in awareness to The Great I AM. Open to the Consciousness that lies within and focus on the Amazing “I AM” that is the Center of Our Being.

Leave the retreat with a stronger sense of Peace, Power, and Holy Purpose, while making dear, new connections with others from Center for Spiritual Living.

Jan 8–11, Mon 9am–Thu 2pm

FACILITATOR: Kathianne Lewis, DD

TUITION: $500/person double or $650 single occupancy

LOCATION: Rainbow Lodge Retreat Center, North Bend, WA

S A C R E D T R A V E L W I T H K A T H I A N N E L E W I S , D DMake your next vacation a spiritual journey with Kathianne Lewis, DD. You’ll return home with so much more than good memories and lots of pictures. Return refreshed and renewed, with a greater awareness of your spiritual nature and your connection the Divine. All destinations for Sacred Travel are Spiritual Hot Spots. In addition to visiting and experiencing local sights, daily spiritual practice sessions with Kathianne will assist you in your transformational experience.

P R E R E Q U I S I T E S : Beyond Limits or Foundations

PORTUGAL, May 5–13, 2018


TUITION: $3,104/person double or $4,390 single occupancy

IRELAND, September 8–17, 2018


TUITION: $3,940/person double or $5,450 single occupancy

Visit SpiritualLiving.org/retreats for detailed itineraries. To sign up for Sacred Travel, contact

our Registrar, Heidi Dillehunt, at 206-527-8801, x5101 or [email protected].



Spirit At Work

B E T T E R B U S I N E S S B R E A K F A S TExpand your experience of thriving and success. Explore a different focus each month, all aimed at supporting you in taking the next step in your business’s growth and your professional development. Enjoy a great meal while sharing challenges, successes, and hopes with other like-minded professionals.

First Tuesdays, Sep 5, Oct 3, Nov 7, Dec 5, 7–8:30am

FACILITATOR: Don Beaty, RScP

TUITION: $30 by 8pm on previous Sun; $35 after; includes full breakfast buffet

ROOM: Fellowship Hall

W O R K I N G O N Y O U R B U S I N E S S F O R U MSupported by experts from a range of business disciplines, this is your uninterrupted time to enlist a brain trust in helping you navigate challenges and opportunities, and impact your outcomes.

Working On Your Business gives you an opportunity to direct your focus, discipline, and skills upon the growth of your professional life, with expert help or uninterrupted time to accomplish an objective.

First Tuesdays, Sep 5, Oct 3, Nov 7, Dec 5, 9am–12pm

FACILITATORS: Don Beaty, RScP, Paul Ramey, Keith Jefferson, Colleen Patrick, Jeffrey May, RScP, Rick Gage, with Practitioner Jane Power

TUITION: Free

ROOM: Holmes

C R E A T I N G Y O U R R I G H T L I V E L I H O O DA fresh and powerful approach to finding your ideal work or making your current work your ideal. Learn to engage Spirit as your Partner, such that your Livelihood becomes a vehicle for expressing your genius while being richly supported. Come to all six sessions or attend as you are able.

F A L L S E S S I O N 01: Tuesdays, Sep 5–Oct 10, 9–10am

F A L L S E S S I O N 0 2 : Tuesdays, Nov 7–Dec 12, 9–10am

TEACHING TEAM: Carrie Sjaarda, PhD, and Constance Welch, RScP

TUITION: No fee required


NOTE: new sign ups welcome each week

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A Community of SpiritCenter for Spiritual Living teaches universal spiritual principles and practices that inspire and empower. Honoring all paths to the divine, our teachings are a synthesis of the opinions of philosophy, the discoveries of science, and the revelations of spiritual traditions the world over.

Join us in community—celebrating joys and triumphs, as well as supporting one another through loss and sorrow. In all the seasons of our lives, spiritual community makes the experience better. It is richer, deeper and more expanded because we are sharing who we are with others.

Visit our calendar at SpiritualLiving.org/calendar for up-to-date information on talk themes, guest speakers, musicians and for more opportunities to connect.

G U I D E D M E D I T A T I O NSundays, 8:30am, Sanctuary

U P L I F T I N G S E R V I C E SSundays, 9am and 11am with Livestream at 11am.

First Wednesdays, 7pm

C O M M U N I T Y A N D D R O P - I N S U P P O R T G R O U P SVarious groups meet Sunday–Thursday. Learn more and see all groups at: SpiritualLiving.org/groups.

The Power of PrayerPrayer Practitioners are licensed spiritual coaches who use affirmative prayer to support you in connecting to your Higher Power, Presence, and Good of God within.

Practitioners are available for one-to-one private spiritual counseling as well as by phone and prayer circles.

Learn more at SpiritualLiving.org/prayer-support.

C O N F I D E N T I A L P R A Y E R R E Q U E S T S206-524-PRAY

U P L I F T I N G A N D I N S P I R A T I O N A L M E S S A G E S206-525-GIFT

P R A Y E R C I R C L E SSundays after 1st and 2nd service

Registration and PoliciesRegister online SpiritualLiving.org/classes, in-person at the Registration Desk in the Celebration Hall Lobby after services, or by phone at 206-527-8801.

Information on policies including auditing, Pay What You Will programs, required texts, and refunds may be found on our website at SpiritualLiving.org.

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