The Circle of Synchronicity

Hold on to your mouse, 'cuz this blog gets crazy. It may seem like I'm all over the place (okay, I am!), but I promise you it all comes together. And pardon the dizzying amount of links, but it's all good stuff, and I would be thrilled if they enhance your journey of spiritual expression and growth.

I'm currently working with Ti Caine, a hypnotherapist who specializes in helping people design and create their ideal future. I met him through Christy Whitman, the instructor of the coaching course I just completed (see my blog from September 24). 

Ti recently encouraged me to attend the Agape church here in Los Angeles, founded by Reverend Michael Beckwith, (whom I blogged about back in June), but I forgot to look into it, and didn't remember until last Sunday afternoon, when services were over. "Oh well," I thought, "I'll shoot for next weekend."

Ti also encouraged me to have fun with my writing job search and pursue companies that inspired passion and enthusiasm in me. So far I've submitted my resume to OWN, the new Oprah Winfrey Network, and the spiritual publisher Hay House, as well as movie and TV studios here in the San Fernando Valley.

Last week I emailed Gaiam, Inc., a corporation dedicated to providing information, goods and services to customers who value the environment, a sustainable economy, healthy lifestyles and personal development. 

I receive their company catalog, and I'm a member of their Spiritual Cinema Circle movie club, so they are definitely a company I support.

Siona van Dijk, Director of the Gaia Community, sent me a lovely and encouraging response. She helpfully sent me a link to their career website, and I not only appreciated her time, but loved her enthusiastic energy.

Last week I also received an email from author and speaker Allana Pratt, an empowered woman and colleague of Christy Whitman, about her speaking at the BraveHeart women's conference last weekend here in L.A.

BraveHeart Women is a global community for women who choose to be inspiration in action. I ended up not attending the conference due to budget reasons, but it sounded fabulous.

Okay, hang with me, because this gets better still.

Then I received my new DVD from the Spiritual Cinema Circle movie club in the mail. Each DVD contains several short films, plus a feature-length film, with thought-provoking spiritual themes. Delightful and engaging hosts Stephen Simon and Mariel Hemingway interview filmmakers, guest members, and conduct compelling discussions on each film. There are also questions after each film you can ask yourself or whomever you're watching the film with.

The Spiritual Cinema Circle supports visionary filmmakers committed to creating movies that awaken your sense of joy and wonder, inspire love and compassion, and evoke a deeper sense of connection with the universe around you. The Circle encourages you to start your own movie-watching group, whether it's family, friends or your church or spiritual community, and use the films and discussions as a launching pad to deepen your own spiritual exploration. 

One of the films was a documentary about—cue the Twilight Zone music—Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith and the Agape church here in Los Angeles. 

In my next FutureVisioning session with Ti Caine, he mentioned he had attended the BraveHeart women's conference, and spoke with Reverend Beckwith.

"I wanted to attend that!" I exclaimed. "I found out about it through Allana Pratt, who knows Christy. I just watched a documentary about Reverend Beckwith and Agape from the Spiritual Cinema Circle."

"I was one of the very first Spiritual Cinema Circle members," he responded.

"Oh, you're kidding!" I marveled. "Well, Spiritual Liberation was wonderful! I can't believe we were just talking about Agape and then I get this film in the mail."

In introducing the Agape documentary Spiritual Liberation, host Stephen Simon not only wonderfully describes the purpose of the Spiritual Cinema Circle, but also how Reverend Beckwith's message synchronizes with it beautifully:

"I think part of this whole spiritual thing, part of the reason that the Spiritual Cinema Community is here, is that it is from people from all different kinds of beliefs who are coming together and saying, you know, 'Look, I have one pathway to the divine and you have another pathway, they're all equal. None is better, none is worse. Let's just meet together on the path and do it together.' And I think that's one of the great messages of Spiritual Liberation."

Stephen shares more about his friend Reverend Beckwith, and encourages anyone visiting L.A. to attend the Agape church if they get they chance.

"Michael is such a charismatic man who is bringing so much love and so much of the idea of people from different belief systems connecting with each other. You know, if you go to Agape, you're going to see Catholics and Christians and Jews and Muslims, you are going to see a huge spectrum of people who are getting together just to celebrate life and celebrate God or Goddess or Spirit or whatever you call the Divine, because everybody has different names and different feelings and different experiences they have with that sense of what Divine is and what God is for each one of us." 

Agape, as you probably know, is the Greek word for God's love. At the end of the film, Reverend Beckwith movingly describes how he puts this unconditional love into action: 

"People come in all kinds of disguises. Brash personalities, demanding, hurt, wounded, attacking sometimes. And I just love them, I just love them. But no one has the power to cut themselves out of my heart. They don't have that. I don't care how wretched they act, what they say, they can't dig themselves out of my heart."

Reverend Beckwith's commitment to loving others just blew me away. His words infused my heart with a huge bolt of hope, inspiration and excitement. I am planning on attending the Agape church this weekend, and I can't wait to be part of a spiritual community again and feel that unconditional love in person! 

In discussing these events with Ti, he pointed out that synchronicity doesn't happen by accident, and it doesn't just happen to the few or the lucky. I committed myself to engaging my ideal future, and you can too. Visit his website and have fun using the free worksheets and guided meditations to connect with your future self at futurevisioning.com.

I started connecting with a bigger part of me, something we're all connected to, as well as reaching out and taking action to bring this synchronicity into my life. I do believe I create my own reality—I believe we all do. But we don't have to do it alone! I am working on myself to invite, welcome, and allow the universe to conspire in my favor as I seek out the people who will help me fulfill my life's work—to encourage and inspire others with my spiritual writing and communication.

I want to extend a big dose of Agape love to all of you, invite you to join the Spiritual Cinema Circle, attend Reverend Beckwith's church if you're ever in L.A., and to keep creating and welcoming the wonders of synchronicity into your life.  

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