Can we celebrate our Center history by acknowledging our sometimes awkward survival story and at the same time bear witness to our magnificent growth and achievements?  The answer 

    How could a fragmented band of “religious outcasts,” some 40 years ago, help create the transformation (or reformation) that is our current spiritual creation ?   Good question…. Creating spiritual community from scratch is no mean feat.  If we had a “soul witness” to a 40-year saga of creating the manifested spiritual community, it would record both highs and lows, punctuated by struggles and degrees of pain as well as undeniable spiritual achievement.

    Some history reads like fiction; this is one of them.  If truth-be-told (and please let’s do so), the 40 year history of the Unity Center of Peace  is a tru-story that bears a legacy to many versions of participant memory.  It’s not a seamless account of manifest destiny revealed by a band of God’s “favored people.”  The UCP story contains angst and pain and a few wounds to account-for, amid deserved gratitude for numerous forebearers whose tenacity enabled spiritual flowers to bloom.

   This is a pre and post regale of a spiritual community’s emergence.  Legions of pilgrims have sung, danced and prayed under this banner, each bringing themselves to the table for a spell, short or long.  “We are one” we chanted before closing with the refrain: “and so it is !”  What is the glue that binds this saga of a book about inner peace, service and gratitude?  How does a fledging group of souls join together to create community when their common thread is one of disparity and religious confusion ? 

As any human bean who can read-or-write knows only too well, our electronic world does not need more information. “Inundation” is not strong-enough a descriptor…. !

     So what, pray tell (*), is the rationale for a Unity Center of Peace =Blog ?  In Gaino’s not-so-humble opinion, this here is a time and place to kinda go-deeper and listen to some subconscious material that our wonderous Sunday talks & music invigorate.  Y’all know full-well what  is meant….

    At the risk of making a mild generalization, it’s safe to claim that most of us unity-pickers have done battle with organized religion and lost.  The stories seem to re-appear without end and often carry an edge of anger or latent frustration.  If one were to begin an open-ended question: “How did you come to Unity ?, the responses would, no doubt, support this generalization.  We have some religious history in-common, it seems….  We have landed in a warm embrace of open spirituality.

      During the past two years, while attending the “down the hall in the Chapel” Deeper Dive, this scribe has noted something-of-interest to the “right brain.” (Wanta guess ?).  Every single one of us New Thought types (even Ault) have a deep-seated need and desire to tell our back-story.  The truth. 

    Without as much as a whispered inquiry,  many UCP members love to share their story regarding how, when and where they “got here…”.  A decent psychologist, or shrink, would immediately identify this phenomenon as “latent spiritual identification arising from over-stimulation of the subliminal heart chakra.”                                                                                     Please continue…..