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