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 Science of Mind. (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, I am grateful and receptive, and trust in the process with absolute faith.

How does Spiritual Mind Treatment work?

I don't know that I agree with Leah's answer.

Isn't the real answer that we as Practitioners have complete and utter faith in our Oneness with Source and that with our seeing the Truth of the client makes the outcome of the Treatment an absolute surety?

• 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 of Truth 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?

• An expanded consciousness of receptivity

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

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

It is done unto us as we believe. The Law acts upon 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.

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.

(Prac I, Term 1, A-15)

• The top section (Spirit) represents the part of God that is SPIRlT, thought, cause, idea - the initiation of creation.

• The middle section (Soul) 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 (Body) is the part of God that represents EFFECTS,

manifested reality-all things and conditions.

 • The circle represents infinity, everything-and it's ALL God, no beginning and no end. The doted lines between sections remind us that there is no actual separation between the 3 aspects of God.

• The V symbolizes 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?

• Mental equivalents are subjective ideas or mental pictures.

• Every objective thing has a corresponding mental equivalent. See The Science of Mind Glossary, page 610

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.

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 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.

What did Jesus teach?

(Many possible answers)

• It is done unto you as you believe.

• I and my Father are one.

• As we turn to God, God turns to us.

Write a brief treatment for yourself.

(clearly identify purpose and five steps)

Wkbk Prac I, Term 1, B-4

• Condition (optional) - descript the current condition showing up in your life

• Purpose - State the purpose of the Treatment

• Recognition - For the Practitioner to seek the deepest possible awareness of the Presence of God around you

(I RECOGNIZE the Divine Presence...)

• Unification - For the Practitioner to state the knowledge of the Truth about yourself 

(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 - Express gratitude for the knowing of the manifestation in the Client's life

(I am so THANKFUL for...)

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

(I RELEASE...)

An invocation 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.

Give one statement of identification for:

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

The Father of New Thought

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

Give one statement of identification for:

Emma Curtis Hopkins

Known as the "Teacher of Teachers"

Give one statement of identification for:

Mary Baker Eddy

Founded Christian Science

Give one statement of identification for:

Ernest Holmes

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

Give one statement of identification for:

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore

Give one statement of identification for:

Emilie Cady

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

Give one statement of identification for:

Thomas Troward

Greatly influenced Ernest Holmes

Wrote Edinburgh Lectures

Expanded idea of cause and effect

Give one statement of identification for:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Led the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-19th century

Wrote Self-Reliance

Was a major influence on Ernest Holmes' spirituality

Give one statement of identification for:

Nona Brooks

What is the core function of the Practitioner?

This wasn't in Leah's or the other person's cards so I took a shot at the answer!

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.

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?

The Practitioner will seek a peer session with their Senior Minister, another Licensed Spiritual Practitioner who has served in that capacity for a minimum of five (5) years, another Minister of Centers for Spiritual Living who has served in that capacity for a minimum of five (5) years, or with a member of the Department of Ethics & Professionalism. Likewise, the Practitioner will seek such peer consultation when a personal matter might and/or is impairing the ethical choices of the Practitioner’s role and practice.

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.

It is the Practitioner’s responsibility to stay apprised of the laws of our state in reporting to the appropriate legal authority any suspected abuse issues in regard to children, spouses or the elderly.

• 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

1. Conducting Practitioner/Client sessions
2. Serving as a Teacher's Assistant or teaching 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. Developing a ministry of public speaking
8. Doing community outreach or working in hospice or other volunteer work
9. Serving in the World Ministry of Prayer
10. Performing Platform duties at Sunday services
11. Holding vigil or high watch for events, meetings, service at our local spiritual community.

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.

What is required to renew an active Professional Practitioner License?

Practitioner license renewal is a process of reassessment, recommitment, and re-declaration of intention. It requires a review and recommitment by the Practitioner to a life of spiritual service and the fulfillment of the following requirements every two years.

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 the process 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

CLUs (250 hours)

- Treatment/prayer for others

- Private client sessions

- Teaching (certified CSL classes/workshops/seminars)

- Publish materials related to SOM principles

Professional activities (visitations to hospital, hospice, jail; memorial services, ritual blessings, etc.)

and more!

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 leave, 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

Perfect God; Perfect Man; Perfect Being

OR

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

Perfect God; Perfect Man; Perfect Being

OR

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.

What is a Practitioner of Religious Science?

A Professional Practitioner is:

- 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