-Sets the tone for an event - of love, harmony, wisdom, and clarity.

-Give thanks in advance for the good to be received/shared.

A benediction offers thanks for what has transpired and blesses participants as they leave.

What is The Thing Itself? How does it work?

What does it do? How can we use it?

• The "Thing Itself" is God, the Creative Process

• It works because the Law acts upon our thoughts, manifesting them

• It turns thoughts into things and conditions

• We use it by consciously choosing our thoughts

It is done unto us as we believe.

We have a creative mind and can think independently.

Law acts upon thoughts to create the life we choose or think we deserve. Where we don't consciously choose, Race Thought determines what we will experience.

Mental conflict: disparity between Mind of God and conscious/unconscious thoughts of individual.

Your thoughts (seeds) are planted into the Universal Subjective Mind (the soil) and then manifests into form (the plant).

Your thoughts create your reality.

Explain the Science of Mind teaching symbol.

• Top/Spirit = God, thought, cause, idea - the initiation of creation.

• Middle/Soul = LAW/Creative Medium - turns thoughts into things.

• Bottom/Body = EFFECTS, manifested reality-all things and conditions.

• Circle = infinity, it's ALL God, no beginning and no end.

- Doted = no actual separation between the 3 aspects of God. 

• V symbol = the passage of Spirit into form, of Cause into effect, through the Creative Medium. Shows how thoughts go into the creative medium and come out as effects and conditions.

What is Law and how do we use it?

• The Law is an unchangeable, immutable, impersonal force that turns thoughts into things and conditions.

• We use it by consciously choosing our thoughts.

What are mental equivalents?

• Subjective ideas or mental pictures.

• Every objective thing has a corresponding mental equivalent. 

What is Race Thought or subjective consensus?

The accumulated subjective tendencies and thoughts of the human race, which tend to show up in as individual experience unless other beliefs are consciously chosen.

The beliefs held by a group, culture, or the entire human race.

Perfect God; Perfect Man; Perfect Being

That we are surrounded by a Universal Mind that responds to our thought ACCORDING TO LAW.

Perfect God; Perfect Man; Perfect Being

The awareness of the wholeness and perfection inherent in each being.

Define Spiritual Mind Treatment

"Treatment is the art, the act, and the science of consciously inducing thought within Universal Subjectivity, for the purpose of demonstrating that we are surrounded by a Creative Medium which responds to us through a law of correspondence.

In its more simple meaning, treating is the time, process and method necessary to the changing of our thought. Treatment is clearing the thought of negation, of doubt and fear, and causing it to perceive the ever-presence of God."

OR

Treatment is Affirmative Prayer: a five step process (Recognition, Unification, Realization, Thanksgiving, Release) for the purpose of setting Subjective Law in motion.

How does Spiritual Mind Treatment work?

• We speak with the voice OF God, and the Law responds

• Recognition = God is EVERYTHING

• Unification = we are one with God, and thus the Creative Process is ours to use

• Realization = speak our word into the Law with conviction and feeling

• Gratitude = keeps the flow moving

• Releasing to the Law allows It to work on our behalf

What is the key to powerful treatment?

• Expanded consciousness of receptivity

• Gratitude that I have what I am treating for

• Faith and conviction that the words I speak are the Truth

• Condition - describe the current condition showing up in your life

• Purpose - State the purpose of the Treatment

• Recognition - Deep awareness of the Presence of God

(I RECOGNIZE the Divine Presence...)

• Unification - State the Truth of Oneness with God

(I am ONE with; I am UNITED with...)

• Realization - Realize and form the mental equivalent for the client. Declare what you know as the Truth for the client.

(I REALIZE that...)

• Thanksgiving - Gratitude for knowing the manifestation in Client's life

(I am so THANKFUL for...)

• Release - Words in to the action of the Law, knowing that what you have spoken is done

(I RELEASE...)

What is a Practitioner of Religious Science?

- Licensed by Centers for Spiritual Living

- Abides by the CSL Policies and Procedures Manual

- Works in consciousness

-Embodies Spiritual Principles and

- Serves compassionately through treatment, spiritual guidance and direction, and visioning

What is the core function of the Practitioner?

Spiritual Mind Treatment

See truth of client and help shift from current condition to the Divine Truth through prayer/SMT.

What is a mystic?

A mystic is one who:

• Has seen the Cosmic Light and senses the Divine Presence. It changes them and others can see this Light.

• Experiences oneness and unity with life and with God.

• Intuitively perceives Truth without mental process.

• Focused on consciousness realization (top part of chart)

What is a psychic?

A psychic is one who:

• Focuses on the level of thoughts/conditions [the middle and bottom parts of the chart), not on the spiritual

• Sees through her own, or another's, subjective mentality, and

• Has impressions that are more or less colored by the vibration of her own or another's thought.

- The work of assisting the client through the process of healing.

- Moving the client from effect to cause.

- Teaching universal spiritual Truths.

- Assisting the client to open the path of receptivity.

- No giving of advice or opinions.

Name the parts of the Practitioner/Client session; give the purpose of each.

• Welcome and Invocation - sets the tone and begins to establish rapport

• Dialogue - used to ascertain the effect that needs to be healed, the belief or mental cause of that effect, and to teach Spiritual Principles

• Client Participation - where the Practitioner may suggest a spiritual practice or 'homework' that will assist in clearing the way for the change in consciousness of the Client

• Spiritual Mind Treatment - given by the Practitioner, for the desired healing which allows for heart opening and movement in consciousness.

Not paying for prayers/treatments

Pay for the practitioner’s time and skill in the use of the law of mind.

Reassessment, recommitment, and re-declaration of intention to a life of spiritual service.

Every 2 years must: 

1. Abide at all times by the Code of Ethics

2. Be an active, loyal, and supporting member of a CSL

3. Compete required CLUs (250) & CEUs (45)

4. Complete application and pay the fee

- Failure to renew within 60 days after the established deadline

- Request to be placed on leave of absence

- License suspended due to Ethics violation or felony conviction

What is a Practitioner to do if a Practitioner/Client session presents them with an ethical dilemma of if they are in doubt about the ethical decision they have made?

- Pray

- Peer session w/ Senior Minister or Licensed Practitioner w/ 5 years, another Minister w/ 5 years, or member of the Department of Ethics & Professionalism.

-Peer consultation when a personal matter might and/or is impairing the ethical choices of the Practitioner’s role and practice.

Practitioner’s responsibility to know:

-Reporting laws of state

-Appropriate legal authority

-Suspected abuse issues in regard to children, spouses or the elderly.

• Follow CSL Policies & Procedures Manual at all times

• Legally report fees as income

• Maintain current Practitioner license

• Report abuse and anything else that is mandated by law

1. Conduct Practitioner/Client sessions
2. TA or teach accredited classes
3. Conducting workshops or seminars
4. Leading a Study Group
5. Facilitating group or individual meditations or visioning
6. Officiating at memorials or funerals
7. Ministry of public speaking
8. Community outreach, hospice, or other volunteer work
9. World Ministry of Prayer
10. Platform duties at Sunday services
11. Holding vigil/high watch for events, meetings, service 

CLUs (250 hours)

- Treatment/prayer for others

- Private client sessions

- Teaching (certified CSL classes/workshops/seminars)

- Publish materials related to SOM principles

- Professional activities (visit hospitals, hospice, jail; memorial services, ritual blessings, etc.)

CEUs (45 hours)

- Seeing a Practitioner as a client

- Classes (college, CSL) that would increase your consciousness

- Other workshops/seminars/retreats that support your practice

Describe/differentiate between the following:

- Leave of absence

- Inactive status

-Retired status

-Practitioner Emeritus

-Outreach Practitioner

- Leave of absence = up to 2 years; cannot charge clients, perform ceremonies, or teach classes; not applied to years of service

- Inactive status = if inactive for 4 years or less must complete reinstatement application/fee; letters of recommendation from Sr Minister; active, loyal, supporting member of community

If inactive for 4 or more years must complete pretty much same as new

Retired status -= 65 yrs or older; served at least 10 years; cannot charge for sessions

Practitioner Emeritus = 20 years of service or longer; No CLU/CEU requirement; no fee

Outreach Practitioner = Active Practitioner who doesn't live where there is a CSL; performs service for community; tied to a CSL

• It is done unto you as you believe.

• I and my Father are one.

• As we turn to God, God turns to us.

The Father of New Thought

The first to grasp the idea that "mind" had something to do with the healing of the physical body.

Known as the "Teacher of Teachers"

Founded Christian Science

Founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind Textbook and many other books.

a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins and was the author of Unity's book, Lessons in Truth.

Greatly influenced Ernest Holmes

Wrote Edinburgh Lectures

Expanded idea of cause and effect

Led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century

Wrote Self-Reliance

Was a major influence on Ernest Holmes' spirituality

Divine Science

Religious Science

Unity

Self-Reliance

The Over-Soul

Warren Felt Evans

Julius Dresser

Science of Mind believes in prayer and a pill.

Christian Scientist believe only in prayer.

1) We are living in a spiritual universe here and now.

2) Based on the theory that the Universe is a system of intelligence, the movement of which is Law, the Intelligence being personal and the Law impersonal.

Asks questions to discover the event or experience that formed a limiting belief.

Works with the client at the level of the event or experience.

Not required, but expected to give with a tithing consciousness.

Give financially,

in an identifiable way,

to Member Community,

with tithing consciousness.

- Don't speak directly to the client

- Speak to the God within

- Speaking to the client diminishes power, breaks intimate connection to God, focuses on human level

- Words: give form to feelings, with meaning have power

- Feelings: behind the words creates power

- Intention: conscious intention gives direction to treatment

-Sacred

-Guided by intuition, love, and compassion

-Supports client

-Clears away human confusion

-Reveals spiritual truth thru Spiritual Mind Treatment

Listen for:

-Belief behind the words

-Truth behind condition

-Inspiration/intuition

Case is won or lost in the consciousness of Practitioner. Law responds to consciousness. Use of the Law is independent of conditions.

Active listening deepens rapport and allows for more specific questions.

Brings what is hidden in unconscious to the conscious awareness of client.

Race thought and subjective thought patterns are revealed and brought to light of Truth for healing.

What the law knows in one place, it knows simultaneously and instantly everywhere.

By shifting Practitioner consciousness, the consciousness everywhere is shifted.

-Redirecting thought from beliefs of limitation to belief in the power of the law of mind

-Teaching the power of thought

-Spiritual Mind Treatment

-Depersonalize the matter.

-Point out the repetitious manifestation of old beliefs is the result of a process controlled by the Law, not an expression of current consciousness.

Assisting client through process in healing.

Move client from effect to cause.

Teach universal truths.

Help client open the path of receptivity.

Recognition of and the faith in the Principle

Conviction that the Law will always respond

Knowledge that Law only responds according to our mental attitudes.

Awareness of Oneness and Wholeness of life.

Accept life as it unfolds: all good, all for reason, no errors, discord is opportunity to learn.

Makes life easier, richer, and open to receive God's full measure of Divine Goodness.

Arises from the disparity between original thought patterns in the Mind of God

and

conscious and unconscious thought patterns of individual.

What is the distinction between process in healing

and

process of healing?

Healing is a revelation through thought of Practitioner to the thought of the client.

Mental work and time it takes Practitioner to convince herself of the perfection of her client

and

the time it takes the client to realize their own perfection.

We don't struggle with conditions but use principles which create conditions.

What we can mentally encompass we can accomplish, no matter how hard it may seem.

Everything is possible in God.

A Practitioner is a person who is trained in the art, science and skill of Spiritual Mind

Treatment. One who works in his/her own consciousness to reveal the Truth.

Mental awareness.

Objective = conscious awareness; its reasoning is both inductive and deductive, therefore it has self-choice.

Subjective = reaction to objective volition.

That which follows cause.

It did not make itself, but which must have a power back of it causing it to be.

All manifestation is effect.

Mind is that in which we live, move and have our being.

Conscious Mind is Spirit, either in God or man.

Unconscious Mind is the law of conscious Mind acting and is, therefore, subconscious or subjective.

Mind is potential energy, while thought is the dynamic force which produces the activity for manifestation.

The One Mind is all of Truth.

There is only one power, the power of LOVE which is the power of God; there is an all-powerful LAW that responds to our thinking.

OR

SOMAS teaches how to live in accordance with Spiritual Principles for greater peace, happiness and joy. The consistent application of which results in good health, satisfying relationships, enhanced creativity and prosperty.

-All thought is creative.

-Life is the out-picturing of what is going on internally in the mind.

-It happens to us as we believe.

-God can only do through us to the degree of our acceptance.

Describe the Creative Process.

(maybe in 25 or 50 words)

Thought (the seed) decends or is planted into the Universal Subjective or Law of Mind (soil), which manifest form (plant).

OR

Thought (the seed) is planted into the subjective mind (the soil) and out-pictures an effect (the plant).

Greater vision of our desired experience results in a greater demonstration in our experience.

We cannot demonstrate beyond our ability to mentally conceive that which we desire to experience. "Whatsoever a man soweth, he shall reap."

Welcome/Invocation - Sets the tone for the session and is the first step to building rapport.

Dialogue - To ascertain the effect that needs to be healed and the mental cause of that effect.

Client Participation - Practitioner suggests a spiritual practice for the client to do that will assist in clearing the way for the change in consciousness necessary for the healing.

Spiritual Mind Treatment - At the end of the session SMT is given for the desired healing. This allows for the heart opening and movement in consciousness.

Rapport helps the client build trust in the Practitioner, thereby allowing for more in depth questioning to get to the false or limiting belief.

Professional Practitioners are self-employed.

Responsible for: establishing the legal entity of the business; any business license requirements; paying taxes; financial and client record keeping; establishing client fees; insurance; office space; and our personal and spiritual growth.

1. Hold Study Groups

2. Conducting commitment ceremonies, funeral and memorial services

3. Facilitating CSL Study Groups

4. Teacher's Assistant for SOMAS classes

5. Writing books/magazine articles aligned with SOMAS principles.

6. Teaching CSL classes, workshops, seminars.

7. Developing a ministry of public speaking

8. Holding vigil or high watch for events, meetings and services of our local spiritual community.

9. Holding eccelesiastic offices within local spiritual communities within CSL.

10. Conducting group or individual meditations, visionsing sessions and spiritual retreats.

Give one statement of identification for the following: Phineas Parkhurst Quimby;

Mary Baker Eddy; Charles & Myrtle Fillmore; Emile Cady; Nona Brooks; Emma Curtis Hopkins; Ernest Holmes; Thomas Troward; Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby - The founder of New Thought and the first to grasp the idea that "mind" had something to do with the healing of the physical body.

Mary Baker Eddy - Established the Christian Science church.

Charles & Myrtle Fillmore - The founders of Unity.

Emile Cady - Wrote the book "Lessons in Truth" for Unity.

Nona Brooks - Co-founder of Divine Science.

Emma Curtis Hopkins - Known as the teacher of teachers.

Ernest Holmes - The founder of Religious Science.

Thomas Troward - Author of the Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science. Expanded idea of cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essayist that wrote "Self Reliance" and "The Over-Soul" and who led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century.

Divine Science

Religious Science

Unity

Self-Reliance

The Over-Soul

Circles

The Thing Itself is First Cause; Spirit; Truth; that Invisible Essence; that Ultimate Stuff and Intelligence from which everything comes - the Power back of creation.

It works through Absolute Law. What it does is manifests through us according to our beliefs. We use it by being aware and consciously creating our life through right-thinking.

What is The Thing Itself, how does it work, what does it do, how can we use

it?

• The "Thing Itself" is God, the Creative Process

• It works because the Law, or creative medium, acts upon our thoughts, manifesting them

• It turns thoughts into things and conditions

• We use it by consciously choosing our thoughts

Explain what Science of Mind teaches to someone unfamiliar with Religious

Science. (25 words or less, no jargon)

• God is all there is

• We are one with God

• We choose the thoughts and beliefs that create our reality, individually and collectively

Explain what Spiritual Mind Treatment is to someone unfamiliar with

Religious Science. (25 words or less, no jargon)

• Prayer that recognizes God is all there is, I am one with God, all that God has is mine, and I am grateful and receptive.

• We speak with the voice OF God, and the Law responds

• In Recognition we remember that God is EVERYTHING

• In Unification we remember that we are one with God, and thus the

Creative Process is ours to use

• In Realization we speak our word ofTruth into the Law with conviction

and feeling

• Gratitude keeps the flow moving

• Releasing to the Law allows It to work on our behalf

• An expanded consciousness of receptivity

• Being grateful that I already have what I am treating for

It is done unto us as we believe. The Law acts upon the preponderance of our thoughts to create the life we have chosen or think we deserve. Where we don't consciously choose, Race Thought determines what we will experience.

Describe the Creative Process in the individual.

• Love points the way and Law makes the way possible.

• God as Love gives Itself to us as limitless possibilities from which to choose. As individuals, we choose with our thoughts and beliefs, which are acted upon by the Law and out picture as our lives.

Explain the Science of Mind teaching symbol.

• The circle represents infinity, everything-and it's ALL God.

• The top section represents the part of God that is SPIRlT, thought, cause,

idea - the initiation of creation.

• The middle section represents the part of God that is LAW, the Creative

Medium - containing all the stuff and all the know-how to turn thoughts

into things.

• The bottom section is the part of God that represents EFFECTS,

manifested reality-all things and conditions.

• The V shows how thoughts go into the creative medium and come out as

effects and conditions.

See Metaphysical Charts II-A and III in the The Science ofMind Textbook.

(Metaphysical charts follow page 567.)

• The Law is a blind force that turns thoughts into things and conditions.

• We use it by consciously choosing our thoughts.

• Mental equivalents are subjective ideas or mental pictures.

• Every objective thing has a corresponding mental equivalent.

• The accumulated subjective tendencies and thoughts of the human race, which tend to show up as individual experience unless other beliefs are consciously chosen. The beliefs held by a group, culture, or the entire human race.

A mystic is one who:

• Senses the Divine Presence.

• Experiences oneness and unity with life and with God.

• Intuitively perceives Truth without mental process.

A psychic is one who:

• Works on the mental (not spiritual) plane,

• Sees through his/her own, or another's, subjective mentality, and

• Has impressions that are more or less colored by the vibration of his/her own or another's thought.

• It is done unto you as you believe.

• I and my Father are one.

• As we turn to God, God turns to us.

• Purpose

> Recognition

> Unification

> Realization

> Thanksgiving

> Release

An invocation sets the tone for an event - of love, harmony, wisdom, and clarity.

A benediction offers thanks for what has transpired and blesses participants as they leave.

Licensing: Complete and pass:

2 years of Practitioner training

Written exam

Oral panels

Pay fees to CSL

Renewal: Complete CLU and CEUs and affirm the prac code.

• Welcome and Invocation, to set the tone and begin to establish rapport

• Dialogue, to ascertain the effect that needs to be healed, the belief or mental cause of that effect, and to teach Spiritual Principles

• Client Participation, to assign spiritual practice or 'homework'

• Spiritual Mind Treatment, for the desired healing

Assisting a client through a process of healing and revealing Truth by:

-asking compassionate questions,

-attentively listening,

-teaching Spiritual Principles,

-assisting clients to recognize and change limiting beliefs, and

-using the art and skill of Spiritual Mind Treatment.

• Abide by the Centers for Spiritual Living Policies & Procedures Manual at all times

• Legally report fees as income

• Maintain current Practitioner license

• Report abuse and anything else that is mandated by law

• Conducting Practitioner/Client sessions

• Serving as a Teacher's Assistant or teaching accredited classes

• Conducting workshops

• Leading a Study Group

• Facilitating group or individual meditations or visioning

• Officiating at memorials or funerals

• Developing a ministry of public speaking

• Doing community outreach or working in hospice or other volunteer work

• Serving in the World Ministry of Prayer

• Performing Platform duties at Sunday services