Hawthorn Center
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Creation in Action”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States"We cannot separate thoughts from things and hope to demonstrate things through thinking." ~ Ernest Holmes How to Use the Science of Mind - Principle in Practice pg. 9 Join us as Rev. Rafe, guides us through an exploration of the activity of creative Mind. We'll enjoy the musical talents, treasure and gifts Felicia Taylor. […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Making Your Power Real”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States"The One" is not a spirit but the Spirit. We are each a unique, individualized, differentiated manifestation of "The One" which Itself is one undivided indivisible whole. Join us as Rev. Rafe, guides us through an exploration that the "The highest God and the innermost God is One God." We'll enjoy the musical talents, treasure […]
SUNDAY COMMUNITY POTLUCK BRUNCH SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Spiritual Mind Treatment… Step Five”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States“Treatment is not for the purpose of making things happen; it is to provide, within ourselves, an avenue through which they may happen. Treatment opens up avenues of thought, expands consciousness, and lets Reality through; it clarifies the mentality, removes the obstructions of thought, and lets in the Light.” -Ernest Holmes The fifth step of […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Spiritual Mind Treatment… Step Four”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States“Treatment is not for the purpose of making things happen; it is to provide, within ourselves, an avenue through which they may happen. Treatment opens up avenues of thought, expands consciousness, and lets Reality through; it clarifies the mentality, removes the obstructions of thought, and lets in the Light.” -Ernest Holmes The four step of […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Spiritual Mind Treatment… Step Three”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States“Treatment is not for the purpose of making things happen; it is to provide, within ourselves, an avenue through which they may happen. Treatment opens up avenues of thought, expands consciousness, and lets Reality through; it clarifies the mentality, removes the obstructions of thought, and lets in the Light.” -Ernest Holmes The third step of […]
IN PERSON SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Spiritual Mind Treatment… Step Two”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States“Treatment is not for the purpose of making things happen; it is to provide, within ourselves, an avenue through which they may happen. Treatment opens up avenues of thought, expands consciousness, and lets Reality through; it clarifies the mentality, removes the obstructions of thought, and lets in the Light.” -Ernest Holmes The second step of […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “No Contradictions?… Say Whaaaaaat?”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIn his book Spiritual Awareness Ernest Holmes writes: "Faith is more than an objective statement. We do not have perfect faith while any subjective contradictions deny the affirmation of our lips. The Bible says that we must know in our heart. When the intellect is no longer contradicted by our emotional reactions, then the word […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Birthing Consciousness”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesThe secret of grace is contact with the Infinite Invisible, the universal center of being within us. This is the experience of the Christ. In mystical literature, this spiritual experience is called Illumination, Cosmic Consciousness, or Christ-Consciousness; in the New Testament, it is spoken of as being “born again,” or rebirth. ~Joel Goldsmith, The Art […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Is There REEeeeeeaaallly Only ONE?”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States"While we have all these differences in our theologies, (they are all good, all part of the unity too), we have to start with the necessary base fundamental unity in all things, over all things, through all things, and which IS all things. Brahma is all." ~Ernest Holmes The Philosophy of Ernest Holmes, Pg. 43 Join us […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Bonnie Anderson “Behold, ALL things are New, including YOU!!”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesWe experience an event, and a memory of that event is formed. But our memories may not be as reliable as we think. While it is true that we cannot go back and change the factual event, we can and do change our memory of events and our relationships to them. Special musical guest Andy […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Breaking the Habit of Habits”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesHabits are the behavioral evidence of repeated memories. New Thought offers us a technology for breaking the habit of habits.
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Are You Living in the Moment or the Memory?”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesThe majority of our thought comes into our awareness as a response or reaction to some stimulus in our environment, this is memory. New thoughts come into our awareness when we see beyond memory to what is present in the moment.
SUNDAY “BRUNCH” SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “An Experiment with Language and Thought”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesJoin us as we consider and discuss how we might apply the teachings explored in January, February, and March to our Columbia CSL community. This will be an extended brunch service with an interactive hybrid activity that engages the online and in-person participants of our Columbia CSL community. The room will be set up with […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Thought and Non-Thought”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesThe distinction between what is real in physical form and experience versus what is mere thought and therefore imaginary or illusory is absolutely necessary, not only for success in practical affairs but also if we are in the long run even to maintain our sanity. Music by our amazing Music Director, Jami Hudson Craig […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “The Thing and the Thought”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIt is commonly believed that the content of thought is some kind of reflective correspondence with ‘real things’, perhaps being a kind of copy, or image, or imitation of things, perhaps a kind of ‘map’ of things, or perhaps a grasp of the essential and innermost forms of things. Join us as we explore if […]
SUNDAY SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Thought and Intelligence”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesThe understanding of whether or not any particular thought is relevant or fitting requires the operation of an energy that is not mechanical, not memory, not predictable. The energy of intelligence or Mind is experienced as an act of perception completely free of yet related to the process of thought. Music by our very […]
Columbia CSL Annual Meeting In Person AND on Zoom
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United States +1 moreJoin us as we review the business and accomplishments of 2023 and set our sights & intentions for 2024 including voting on the Board of Trustees slate: Jami Hudson Craig Zita Johnson-Betts Reggie Kapp Dale Kane Come and celebrate all that has been and be a part of what is yet to come!! SIGN UP […]
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis ” Reality and Knowledge as Process”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesThe 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 everything changing, but all IS flux. That is to say that what is is the process of becoming itself. Music by our amazing Music Director, Jami Hudson Craig & […]
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “An Experiment with Language and Thought”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesLife 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 to bring our thinking and experience into synchronicity with the natural movement of Life. Music by our amazing Music Director, Jami Hudson Craig.
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Western and Eastern Insights into Wholeness”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIn 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 wholeness.
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “Fragmentation and Wholeness”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesWe 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 problems while interfering with a clarity of perception that enables solutions. Healing comes as we shift to a one-ness of the thinking process and its content, similar in key ways […]
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “How To Use Community”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIn The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that: “One of the greatest difficulties in the new order of thought is that we are likely to indulge in too much theory and too little practice. As a matter of fact, we only know as much as we can prove by actual demonstration.” Community is a […]
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “What Community Does”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIn The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that the Divine contains all knowledge and wisdom, but, before the Divine can reveal Its secrets, It must have an outlet. We, individually and collectively as a community, become such an outlet to the degree that we become receptive to It.
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “The Way Community Works”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIn The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that the essence of the whole teaching of Science of Mind is Universal Energy, Life Itself, creating individualized centers of expression through humanity functioning at the level of its concept of this Universal Energy, Life. Imagine the creative power of a coalesced synchronized community.
SUNDAY IN PERSON SERVICE: Rev. Rafe A. Ellis “This Thing Called Community”
Hawthorn Center 6175 Sunny Spring, Columbia, MD, United StatesIn The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that the Divine plan is one of freedom and that all instinctively feel this because the inherent nature of humans is forever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom. What better place to support and celebrate ourselves and one another as we learn to express our […]
