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Introduction to the Ageless Wisdom: a Foundational Study Group
~Closed until September,2025.
Description: Together we will study The Path of Initiation by Lucille Cedercrans. This accessible book’s stated purpose is to introduce the beginning student to the basic concepts and practices of the Wisdom Teachings. It contains the basic themes needed to begin exploring the Ageless Wisdom*. Most importantly, there are practical, useful exercises to help us live more effectively in our everyday lives to bring a finer quality of Life to the New World Community. Both those new to this work and those seasoned in it will find this book and the study of it in a group setting to be of value.
Text: The Path of Initiation
Explorations of Consciousness through the Works of Martin Muller
~Open to those who have read the book, practiced the exercises, and
previously taken an Ontology Energy Training (OET) class.
Text: Prelude to the New Man: The Science of Being by Martin Muller
Facilitator and Contact: Gabriele Matheson – gnmatheson@gmail.com
Schedule: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays – 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Pacific; 1:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern
Location: Zoom
We are the Path, Year 4
~Open to those who have already attended the first three years of We Are the Path.
Text: Excerpts from Lucille Cedercrans and others.
Facilitator: Elisabetta Raspini
Contact: Margo Rush – margo.rush@shaw.ca
Schedule: 2nd & 4th Thursdays 9:00-10:30 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Eastern
Location: Zoom
Global Group: Discovering Soul’s Journey
~Open to anyone.
Description: This course is based on the idea that the magical power of soul is available to anyone who seeks to become of practical service in relationships with others and is prepared to learn through group study and meditation. We invite men and women who are seeking to strengthen their intuitive capacities, increase their awareness of the fact of soul and bring soul insight and action into their everyday lives.
Text: A Treatise on White Magic by AA Bailey
Students meet via email as a Global Group and follow a program of study from early September until early June. The course is open to anyone who has access to the Internet, regardless of previous experience in esoteric studies. Study assignments require about ten hours of preparation spread over each three-week segment of the course. A text is assigned and other materials are distributed.
Facilitator and contact: Nick Foster – nickrfoster@outlook.com
Schedule: September – May
Location: online via email
Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
~Open to current members only this year.
Description: The Light of the Soul states in several sutras how we can begin to control our physical, emotional, and mental bodies. The commentaries provide more understanding of each sutra and present suggestions to improve our unruly personalities. The ways to control the physical and emotional bodies are presented clearly. As we follow along this road map it will eventually lead us to control of the mind and its illumination by the soul. The Yoga Sutras show us the way and the means through which we can allow the light of our soul to shine more brightly through its form and thus become better servers for humanity and the spiritual hierarchy. They are step-by-step instructions toward the expansion of consciousness and eventual enlightenment.
Text: Light of the Soul by AA Bailey
Facilitator: Rachanee Usanno
Contact: Matheson – gnmatheson@gmail.com
Schedule: 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month. – 7:00-9:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Esoteric Astrology
~Open to anyone.
Description: “Astrology is described in this book as “the science of relationship” – a relationship that exists between all living organisms within the universe. Ray energy qualities affect these centers of consciousness, and in addition, they influence the quality and energy of the ruling planets and the zodiac signs. From an outside viewpoint (exoteric) astrology is seen as a vast, involved, and complex subject. Through the esoteric, (inside), perspective, while still vast, all inclusive, and complex, it is also possible to perceive the thread that unites and the pattern prevailing throughout the whole system. A basic simplicity in the grand design emerges, that can serve to interpret the whole.”
Text: Esoteric Astrology by AA Bailey
Facilitator and contact: Margo Rush – margo.rush@shaw.ca
Schedule: Last Friday of the month 10:30 AM – 12:00 Noon Pacific/1:30 – 3:00 PM Eastern
Location: Zoom
Law of Vibratory Expansion: Advanced Esoteric Studies
~Open to: . . . those interested in greater esoteric understanding through the Law of Vibratory Expansion; where, “In teaching others comes further knowledge . . . and, in the play of other minds, the aspirant’s own vibration becomes keyed up to ever higher planes, and thus fresh intuition and fresh reaches of truth pour in”.
Description: To acquire teaching skills in esoteric studies. As Group we are all responsible for the
teachings by which we learn. This course will provide the skills to bring light into dark places through teaching others, which further refines who we are, which in turn impacts upon the Group as a whole. Exoterically, anyone who has completed this course will have the skills to develop and facilitate an ‘All Group’ weekend. Esoterically, and more importantly, anyone who has completed this course will have stepped forward in fulfilling their purpose for being alive.
Lead: Kevin Ronneseth: kdronneseth@shaw.ca
Class Size: 6-12 participants
Texts: Various self-selected source materials.
Schedule: 9 Sundays starting in September from 9am to 1:00pm. 3 of these Sundays
could be All SEQL Gatherings
Location: In person. Victoria address provided when provided when you register or on Zoom ~ to be decided
Agni Yoga Groups
~Open to anyone.
Description: Agni is Sanskrit for sacred fire symbolizing the inner spiritual fire or consciousness. It builds on Raja Yoga, the Yoga of the Mind, and is the path to the synthesis of our being and our divine essence of cosmic fire. This allows us to identify with all Cosmos through the Heart.
The Agni Yoga teachings emphasize the importance of spiritual transformation and self improvement as a means to contribute to the betterment of humanity. It focuses on the development of the individual’s higher qualities, such as compassion, love, and intuition, and encourages the cultivation of a harmonious relationship with nature and the universe.
Agni Yoga places great emphasis on practical application and self-discipline. It encourages individuals to integrate spiritual principles into their daily lives, promoting ethical conduct, selflessness, and the pursuit of truth. The teachings emphasize the unity of all religions and the essential oneness of humanity, transcending cultural and religious boundaries.
The core principles of Agni Yoga revolve around the idea of service to others and the recognition of the interconnectedness of all life forms. It teaches that spiritual progress can be achieved through active participation in the world and selfless acts of compassion and service.
It is important to note that Agni Yoga is not a religious doctrine or a dogma but rather a spiritual path that encourages individuals to develop their own direct experiences and insights. It invites seekers to explore their inner nature, expand their consciousness, and contribute to the evolution of humanity.
Agni Yoga – One Heart
~Open to anyone.
Facilitator: Margo Rush
Contact: Dacia Moss – daciamoss@gmail.com
Texts: New Era Community and Agni Yoga
Schedule: 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month from 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Pacific/12:00 – 1:00 PM Eastern
Location: Zoom
Agni Yoga Contemplation
~Open to anyone.
Facilitator & Contact: Frances Gaudet – frangaudet11@gmail.com
Text: Finishing Leaves of Morya’s Garden II , then Heart
Schedule: 3rd Wednesday of the month, 1:30 – 3:30 PM Pacific.
Location: Zoom
Sounds Like Soul, a Co-operative Group Email Course
~Open to anyone.
You are invited to join a group of cooperative learners in a course designed to increase awareness, sensitivity, and knowledge of the qualities and functions of the energies that impact humanity so that we can live more deliberately and effectively.
Anyone willing to commit to following the course process is eligible to enroll. There is no other pre-requisite. When we have an interested group of five or more, the course can begin.
Description: It is well established scientifically and widely understood that everything in the world is energy in action. Whether an animal, a plant, a piece of granite, a human being, or the air that we breathe, all is energy vibrating at different frequencies and having different effects. Music is one such energy. If we can come to know these energies and become sensitive to their effects on how we and the world around us work, we will be able to create our lives more consciously, with more precision, and with a fuller expression of the love of soul in service to others.
The learning is based on assigned daily listening to a program of music (allowing us to tune to different frequencies) and meditation. You will be asked to keep notes on your experience to share with the others in your group. There are also a few short reading assignments to give some basic background information.
Focalizer and contact: Dacia Moss daciamoss@gmail.com
Schedule: When there are five interested people a new course will begin.
Once a month, Sounds Like Soul course members receive, by email, a schedule of daily, specific music and meditation with suggestions or instructions that all course members follow. At the end of each day’s session, course members make a note of their experience of the session. At the end of each week, they distribute by email, to all other course members, a report of their daily experiences and a summary of their learning for the week.
When you register for the course, we will arrange for you to get the music to download onto your computer.
The time commitment is about half an hour a day – about 15 to 20 minutes of listening and meditation, then a few minutes to write notes. Plus a few minutes at week’s beginning to create a music playlist and at week’s end to send your notes by email to your course group. The exchange of experiences among members is a valuable part of the learning, so any missed assignment means all will lose. However, an occasional missed day will not interfere seriously with the process
Location: online via email
Reappearance of the Christ Group
~Open to anyone.
Description: We begin each discussion with meditation on the music and words of “The Deer’s Cry” as we attempt to live our truth in each moment.
In the words of Master DK from the book “Initiation Human and Solar” p 113:
“Right through later periods of the cycle of incarnation wherein the human is juggling with the pairs of opposites, and through discrimination is becoming aware of reality and unreality, there is growing up in one’s mind a realization that he himself is an immortal Existence, an eternal God, and a portion of Infinity. Ever the link between humans on the physical plane and this inner Ruler becomes clearer until the great revelation is made. Then comes a moment in his existence when he stands consciously face-to-face with his real Self and knows himself to be that Self in reality and not just theoretically; he becomes aware of the God within, not through the sense of hearing or through attention to the inner voice directing and controlling and called the “voice of conscience.” This time the recognition is through sight and direct vision. He now responds not only to that which is heard, but also to that which he sees.”
Through reflective readings and discussion from Ancient Wisdom teachings, we strive to live our destiny, hearing, seeing, being, – living our Oneness in Christ consciousness
We resume our gatherings Tuesday, October 3rd; 2023
Focalizers: Martha Gallahue, Michael Jones, Frances Gaudet.
Contact: Frances ~ frangaudet11@gmail.com
Schedule: First Tuesday morning monthly from10 am to noon Pacific, in person; at the home of Martha and Frances. (experimenting now with a second monthly meeting on Zoom)
Registering Our Place in the New Civilization
~Open to anyone.
Description: This year we will adjust our approach through the increased use of meditation, of spiritual journaling and last year’s syllabus enriched by discourse so that we may refine, clarify and synthesize our registration of Group Consciousness in Soul supporting our contribution to the emerging new civilization.
A few days before the scheduled monthly meeting, we will send out an expansive question to be used as a focus for our gathering. Participants will sit with these questions with the recommendation to journal their insights. You may forward your insights to the focalizers. The focalizers will compile and forward these to the rest of the group. It is not mandatory that you read them. When you register for this course, you are not committed to attending every gathering. This course is about building Group, energetically, through intention and attention to a monthly expansive question. As one group, we see ourselves “In the rhythm of life, ever One ever serving.”
We ask that all participants be willing to share their intuitive understanding of this emerging civilization; dreams, music, and poetry are welcome. The co-focalizers will demonstrate examples from their practical experience of the Ageless Wisdom as envisioned in Lucis Trust’s Arcane School expanding co-creative service through Triangle relationships.
Facilitators: Duncan Mason, Martha Gallahue, Margo Rush
Contact: Martha Gallahue – marthagallahue@gmail.com
Schedule: Last Sunday of the month 11:15 AM Pacific, 2:15 PM Atlantic
Location: We will meet on ZOOM, yet hope to meet in person occasionally throughout this season.
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
~Open to anyone.
Description: The teaching in this book should tend to an expansion of consciousness, bringing about a recognition of the adequacy, as a working basis, for both science and religion, of that interpretation of the processes of nature which has been formulated for us by the Master Minds of all time. It should tend to bring about a reaction in favor of a system of philosophy which will link both Spirit and matter, and demonstrate the essential unity of the scientific and religious idea.
Text: A Treatise on Cosmic Fire by AA Bailey.
Facilitator and Contact: Donna Hemingson – djhemingson@gmail.com
Schedule: Every Tuesday – 6:00-7:00 PM Pacific; 9:00-11:00 PM Eastern
Location: Zoom
Death Dimensions – Embracing Destiny
~Closed Group Available only to those who attended any one of the three previous courses on Death and Rebirth .
Facilitators and Contacts: Frances Gaudet – frangaudet11@gmail.com
or Celeste Vermette – tantracanada@gmail.com
The Grace in Dying
~Open to anyone.
Description: Description: A course for beginners based on the book, “The Grace in Dying” by Kathleen D. Singh. We welcome both beginners and those who have previously attended our courses on Death and Dying. This will be a global group on Zoom — no esoteric knowledge is required; however, an awareness of our ‘Being’ as Soul is essential.
Text: The Grace in Dying Kathleen D. Singh
Facilitators and Contacts: Frances Gaudet – frangaudet11@gmail.com
or Celeste Vermette – tantracanada@gmail.com
Schedule: Tentative Starting Date in January, 2025
Location: Zoom