Lovely meditation with the mental images, background music and Lori's soothing voice.

Thank you a lovely meditation for the New Year. Happy 2025 my fellow travellers.

2025?

Summary Reverend Lori Irwin Johnson discusses the origins of the New Thought Movement, particularly its connections to hypnosis and spiritualism, while encouraging participation and reflection. Highlights 🌞 Warm welcome to Unity of Tacoma and live stream viewers. 📖 Introduction of the summer series on New Thought Movement origins. 🎶 Musical guests Matt and Becky enrich the service with uplifting songs. 🙏 Group participation in the Prayer for Protection promotes unity. 💡 Affirmation emphasizes partnership with God and surrender. 🎤 Insights into spiritualism and its links to the Unity Movement. 🌈 Guided self-hypnosis meditation encourages personal growth. Key Insights 🌱 Connection to Spiritualism: The Unity Movement shares roots with spiritualism, emphasizing healing through connection with the divine and the spirits of those who have transitioned. This historical relationship highlights the importance of community and shared beliefs in personal and collective healing. 🧠 Hypnosis and Healing: The script discusses mesmerism’s evolution into modern hypnosis, showcasing its therapeutic applications today. This reveals how the power of suggestion can aid in mental and physical wellness, reinforcing the idea that mindset significantly influences health outcomes. 🤝 Affirmative Prayer as Hypnosis: Affirmative prayer resembles self-hypnosis, using soothing language and rhythm to induce a trance-like state. This connection underscores the importance of intention and belief in achieving personal transformation. 🎤 Influence of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: Quimby’s work on suggestion and healing laid the groundwork for New Thought philosophies, emphasizing that our thoughts and beliefs shape our reality. This insight is foundational for understanding how Unity practices operate. 🌟 Embracing Change: The sermon encourages embracing change as a means of growth, portraying it as essential for spiritual development and deeper connection with the divine. 🎶 Community Through Music: Music serves as a powerful tool for connection and spiritual upliftment within the service, reinforcing the collective experience of joy and unity. 🌈 Visualization Techniques: The guided meditation encourages visualization, enhancing receptiveness to personal growth and healing. This practice shows how imaginative engagement can lead to profound shifts in consciousness.

Great lesson! Thanks Lori

Thank you Unity of Tacoma for having Stephan Plummer as guest speaker! Her message and music is so powerful and I feel a healing right here, right now. 💕

Stephan, What a good message, ❤🙌🙏🌈❤️😇☮️🤗💐faith not fear, “do whats fun!” Trust & action by Gods guidance! Thanks. Blessings, Barb Congrats on going back to school! I did it too. Amazing fun!

Love the music!

Thank you Unity of Tacoma!! Enjoying Stephan Plummer’s musical offerings 🎶❤️

This is totally anti Christ and blasphemy! This is designed to keep you out of heaven and not in.

Victoria did such a great job filling in for Lori last week and this.

❤. Fully human fully divine. ONEGOD GIVER OF LIFE IN YOU AND ME🎉🎉🎉 THANKYOU. Beautiful message beautiful song❤

Such beautiful music Great Nephew!

Thank you so much...I am glad you were blessed!😊

What a great service, talk, and music. I attend and watch a lot of talks and I must say that Stephan's physical voice was engaging and drew me in as much as her spiritual voice, which led me forward a lot. I'm a recovering/relapsing perfectionist and it was so well to just hear her perspective on creativity and letting go into creativity to not only bring interesting things to be, but to bring things to be instead of stressing about what seems not to be going right or what might go wrong. THANK YOU STEPHAN! You led me out of some familiar chains today... Engaging and personal and warm music too!

An excellent talk and speaker! Very well organized and thoughtfully presented! Loved it!

What a wonderful service everyone! Stephan Plummer’s heart felt message is loaded with nuggets and exactly what I needed to remember, which is there is no “arriving” so I might as well enjoy the creative process as much as I can.

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What an instructional message about bringing the spirituality of church to people where they are now. The poem acknowledging our resistance to change but the joy it often brings by James Dillet Freeman spoke to me. And Lori, your story about the help provided by our baby supply drive made the need real. Thank you.

sound seems too echoey. hard to hear

Very nice!!

Thank you to Rick for giving us a glimpse of your life and philosophy. Truly inspiring to imagine the calm conversation you had with the Universe before you went into open heart surgery. And your meditation was perfect, Lori, to help us find that essential spot in ourselves. Supportive music from Nicola, too----what a great service!

What a beautifully articulated message Reverend Lori………Thank you 🙏💕

the light within...solar plexus, electricity and the heart ...and wood. Yes. All of it. Thank you, Stephan. And your songs are wonderful. Come back again. In love and light, Sharon.

Great message Christinaess!

I love this catchy tune everytime Stephan plays it for us. I just can't get enough of it!!

Today is 9/11. Stephen played her song, Heartbeat, about surviving the attack and we all got a CD. Listen for it....Carlton's drum circle was rousing. Glad I went.

Communion and Community outreach. I so appreciate the goals of Unity in the Community. .........Stephan's songs were wonderful. .......See you at the picnic.

😊Congratulations! 🍾

Congratulations to you both. Best wishes now and always. from Evelyn Gelegonya-Babare as well as Matt and Daniel. Much love.

This was so fun and sweet---congratulations!!

Really nice service! Hope we get together again. Good job Linda and Dallas.

So Nice 💘💘💘💘💘💘

This is good stuff. Having Raylene's take on Unity's Five Principles will give a good grounding in our beliefs that make for a grounded life.

Raylene's message was so perfectly worded and delivered for the occasion of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton to help us get through this tragedy. Just what I needed . VERY well done.