December 2011
News from The London Centre for Positive Living (Science of Mind London)
Greetings everyone. This week I was reminded that one of my teachers once said to me, 'it doesn't matter if only one person turns up to a class or meeting. Just remember that each person is a potential Buddha or Jesus or mystic'. And while it sometimes may feel a bit disheartening seeing only 10 or 20 people at aSunday meeting rather than the 2-3,000 that our first minister Dr. Joseph Murphy used to have back in the 1950s, I always remember those words of advice. We do have in our midst many whom I would classify in this fashion and I feel privileged to have dedicated practitioners who assist in teaching classes and giving Sunday talks and workshops. As well we have four wonderful graduates sitting their final exams onDecember 7 and I know that our thoughts and best wishes are with them as they complete what has been, for all of them, a demanding and life-changing experience. Next year we will be offering several new courses which I know will be of interest to many people. The article below gives a brief description of each and further information will be provided in the New Year. As always I am open and receptive to abundant good in all its forms. If you have any suggestions on how to grow our community and would like to help in anyway, I'd be only too pleased to hear from you. Our email address is: info@scienceofmindlondon.net. With an abundance of peace, love, joy and all good for this and every day. Neil
SUNDAY Join us next Sunday, December 4, for a 1 p.m. meeting and talk. Tyson will give a talk entitled FOLLOW YOUR STAR. Then we'll have a short visioning workshop on finding our life's purpose. So join us and learn how to follow your bliss! LOCATION: The Chancellors Room, Ground floor, Hughes Parry Hall, University of London, 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, London, WC1H 9EF
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WHO'S WHO AT THE CENTRE: Leader: Rev. Dr. Neil Mence
Senior Practitioners: Bindiya Chanrai, RScP Tyson Joseph, RScP
2011 Practitioner graduates: Angelo Paragoso Becky Philp Natasha Hawtre-Woore Tim Fredianelli *******
Practice-Knowing the Truth : Ernest Holmes All our study and concern with theories is only that we may prove and practice them. Practice, then, is the art and the act and the science (art because it is harmonious, a thing of perfect harmony; act because it is an aggressive, conscious thing; science because it is subject to exact laws) of bringing our thought consciously and subjectively to absolutely believe and accept and embody statements and declarations which affirm the great realizations of spiritual perception as now present in fact, in experience, and manifestation. Practice is not suggestion. Practice is not a rite of concentration. We do not try to concentrate livingness; we try to center our attention upon it, that we may see that it is concentrated already. Practice is knowing the truth that the same pure Intelligence-the volition and will that created the universe-is incarnated in us right now. The spiritual mind treatment becomes a statement of our belief, an affirmation of our investigation, and the specific things we accept in our treatment externalize in exact mathematical ratio as the beliefs which deny them are dissolved from our consciousness. We are not religiously superstitious. We say this: There is such a thing as Spirit. Spirit is intelligent; It is all-powerful. Spirit is really here; It does work, but It can only work for us as we let It. We only let It as we believe and embody It. Therefore, we will practice our belief. In such degree as we do this, we find that we are practicing self-realization, and this is the most remarkable thing that has been discovered: the power of spiritual thought force over apparent material resistance