Rev. Carol E. Parrish, Ph.D.

Greetings friends:

This is the first opportunity that I’ve had to tell people what is going on with me. Twelve days ago, I had a mild stroke and I’ve been in the hospital here in Tahlequah. I wanted you to know that I’m getting much better and hopefully, I will be home in a week or so.

My right side has been affected and I can’t write, so I recorded this little message. It is being typed so I could let you know about my condition, ask you to hold me in your prayers, and remember to send healing thoughts for the next couple of weeks as I experience rehabilitation and hospital care.

I am really doing well, and Charles is doing well, but we need all the help we can get. We appreciate and need your prayers.

As soon as I get home, I will write you a longer little note and let you know that I am well.

Thank you very much.

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When you use GoodSearch a donation is made to Sancta Sophia each time you search, and stores that are GoodShop sponsors will donate a percentage of your purchase to Sancta Sophia. It’s helpful to us and it doesn’t cost you any extra to use this resource!

We sent out an email introducing these services to you earlier this month. If there are any questions about how to use them, please write and we will send you a copy of the instructions. We will help to get you started in any way we can so that you can support us by using these services when you search and/or purchase things online.

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Thank you so much.

Carol

We celebrated our 28th Anniversary of Light of Christ Community Church on Monday, June 1 (actual anniv. date June 2). We now share our fun with you.

At age 28 (2 + 8 = 10=1), a new level of expression opens for us. We thank all of you who have been a part of our church over the years and want you to join us in celebrating.

Enjoy seeing us play. Remember, it is one of the feminine mysteries.

Board of Trustees member, Rev. Katherine Zakutansky assists Rev. Carol in setting up for the big evening. Don’t we look pretty?

How festive the Fellowship Hall looks!

Find your friends and enjoy.

Prizes were given to all present, but the big wins of the night were for four categories. See what you think!

Most Creative Hat won by Christa Lynn. Is this not darling?

Our local artist won Most Unusual Hat. Guess who?

None other than Cedar Carrier.

Winner of the Most Amusing Hat. None other than Marilyn Szoko. And the Prettiest Hat winner, Katherine Zakutansky.

Thank you for coming to the  28th Anniversary of Light of Christ .

Love from Carol and Charles

Friends,

Today for Memorial Day, and the distressful news of North Korea detonating a powerful nuclear bomb in the earth, I want to remind us of the healing power of love. At tough times love is a part of the process, but praying that Love will indeed be directed toward all humanity, our planet and Life in general. I address you and also invite you to join us each Monday at 7:00 p.m. as we do our World Healing Meditation. Thus I send you this notice.

I have written a short, 48 double-paged e-Book regarding Love, thinking about it from any number of angles. It is on our Web site and I encourage you to purchase it as a way of supporting our work. It is $10 and you either read it online, or print it out yourself. If printed, you could then punch holes and put in a notebook, or have it spirally bound.

“In the future people will realize the reward that exists in Love and will turn to it for teaching self and others to forgive, release and let go for the healing of the Nations. As of now few have perceived the Truth of such: millions have yet to do so.”

from Love is a Promise, a Discipline, and a Lifestyle

All of us appreciate your support.

Carol Parrish

You may or may not be aware of the stir caused by the Catholic bishops by sending out a letter condemning the use of Reiki. Reiki is called “Buddhist,” etc. and inappropriate for Christians to either give or receive.

I think we should all become aware of the facts, and so I begin by saying, “It is all the work of the Divine” whether we think of it as Gifts of the Holy Spirit, which is my take, or as sharing natural Life-giving energy. But as individuals seeking to serve others we need to (Continue reading…)

Someone in the last few days asked me, “Why do I do what I do?”

I have taken that as a serious thought and asked myself this question again and again. This morning I ask you also to ponder this question with me. Can you imagine a large number of spiritually awakened persons asking this question of the higher world? Hundreds perhaps, calling down from above and up from below—from their basic self—a recall of why? Why here? Why now? Why am I doing this with my life?

Responses began to come:

First, I want to grow into a greater spiritual expression, to love and to care.

Second, I recalled how lonely I was when I felt misunderstood and my interests were different than most persons I knew. So I know I want to be with others who also are awakening, and I know we need each other.

Third, as I stay with my thought longer, I get less selfish and I know I want to make a difference. I would like to walk through person’s inner life ringing a bell and calling out, “Walk this way,” “Come with me.” I want to share, to serve, to make a difference.

Fourth, there is a secret that only some realize — Initiation is only being given during the Aquarian Age through group work. We must learn to work together. Group work has been underlined by the inner teachers so humanity overcomes separatism. We do not need to be all the same level of progress but we all must work with others. So we emerge our groups and find our way to appreciate the traits in others we find hard to understand.

Thus together we advance humanity. Yes We Can.

Blessings for today, Carol

Chip In: Educate Esoteric Teachers and Leaders.

When I was a student (1966, etc.), I paid $20 a week to study with a teacher. She was wonderful. I also struggled with raising children and holding a job. Today there are still students out there who also, want to know; that are working a “day job” when they know they have a calling to do work in the Transformation of Humankind. We want to find them and to find ways to assist them in getting a spiritual education.

Money can be a challenge to some, and extra may be hard to come by, but if we chip in we can each buy a part of the future: for our area, for humanity and for the needed new consciousness that is to guide planetary life.

The Seven Rays Institute Conference really inspires me by showing how efforts are going on all over the world to make the needed shift in consciousness happen. There were attendees from more than twenty countries with each sharing and inspiring all to work harder — work smarter. The internet has provided new tools to help us; we are all learning, but the basic step is to connect with others in order to receive the awareness the higher world provides.

Each one that has taught for years, listened to wonderful speakers, shared personal visions and inner life experiences know it is the critical time. 2012 is rapidly approaching, but just behind it is 2025, another significant date according to the Bailey materials, Torkom Saraydarian, Theosophy etc. By then we will have come through the rapidly approaching ‘shock’ as it is called. Many of us who have taught for a long time will have gone on, but who will carry our lineage forward? Education comes from “edu-car-e” meaning “to lead” from darkness to light.

How to help? First, keep your own inner life growing. Then consider if you or someone in your area would like to be a student of Sancta Sophia?

Have you thought about coming to the school and dedicating yourself in a new, and perhaps more powerful way, to teach/share/serve in your area? If so, do you need financial assistance? If you had that help could other parts of your life be moved about to allow it to happen? Let us know.

Is there a student already in the program struggling to make ends meet that needs assistance? Would having some financial assistance make a difference for you, for another that you know or feel he or she is called? Sponsoring others for the good of all is another form of group work.

Religious and spiritual educations have always depended upon one’s denomination and/or dedicated ones who see the spirit within the other crying out for expression. The Esoteric group is coming slowly to the realization that this is the next way to provide humanity with the workers that are needed.

A study group can sponsor an individual; you can make a commitment to a deserving student through Sancta Sophia; or make regular contributions to the Scholarship Fund. Make a recommendation to us regarding someone you think is a great candidate for Sancta Sophia; be sure we have permission to contact them. Basically if not us, then who is going to pave the way for the next wave of Light Workers?

As we move more and more from religion to spirituality and an interfaith environment, we need workers that understand the transformation process and they need an Esoteric Education to grasp the importance of group work and to have the Larger Picture.

Monday we enter Grad School Trimester II and of course, we are looking forward to having Dr. Thomas Legere with us. He is a longtime friend of many. Do you remember him from Elizabethtown College? He was there, and hurrah!, he is now going to be at Sparrow Hawk Village.

Everyone has a work to do: hold the Light!

Bottom line: Chip In. The Work: Train New Workers.

You can support the work here.

Blessings, Carol

Hello everyone, Greetings:

Home at last! Home at last! I loved every minute, but I also love coming home. My doggies kissed and kissed me last night as did my sweet husband, Charles. Perhaps that is the best part of traveling. At least I do love coming home.

I have some fun photos of the Seven Rays Conference, and do know it was most enjoyable and very informative. I love being there and soaking up all I can. Dobson Ranch, Mesa, AZ is a lovely place and a wonderful setting for such as this.

Here we are enjoying lunch each day and chatting away.

Our dear friend, Robert Powell, another Sophia fan, greets many and charms all of us.

No retreat or special gathering is complete without its bookstore. This one is always particularly colorful with its international guests and note Rev. Melia Helson is there ready to serve.

We had a labyrinth to enjoy as we walked in silence prior to the beautiful closing ritual lead by Tuija Robbins. (note the orb in the upper right hand corner.)

After leaving Dobson on Sunday at 2:00p.m., I went down the road a bit to Chandler, AZ and gave the presentation of The Absent Mother Returns (a longer version) in a workshop-style with more details and more explanations. It is my favorite way to present it since I want to share more info as I can regarding the divine feminine and not be so tied to a script.

The most exciting thing happened at Chandler.Two friends from some thirty years ago (some of you from Sarasota will remember our fun time at the retreat with Diane Pike and Arleen Lorrance), they came! It was wonderful, and today we are writing to each other and hopefully bringing each other up to date with the happenings of the years. Diane is the widow of Bishop Pike, whom so many loved and cared for those years ago. He lost his life in the desert of Israel and Diane was with him. Her story is a heroic one.

Arleen started the Love Project in New York City, I believe.

Both of these ladies continue to teach and to open the minds of others. To see them again after all these years was indeed a blessing to me. To stay in touch is a wonder, and if I have my way, they will at some point visit us here at the Village and share with us once more. The universe has a wonderful sense of humor and loves to surprise us, does it not?

Next, my stop later Sunday night was for Kathy Manker to deliver me to Carol Beyer’s home, where, of course, we sat and talked. Carol is a dear and precious friend, one of our ministers and teachers, and a nice coincidence is that both she and I are both “Carol Elizabeth,” so we indeed do have a lot in common.

We gather for Carol Beyer’s afternoon presentation; see her welcoming everyone. (note the orb over the ladies.)

Carol has her books out on display in case anyone wants to order. Thank you, Carol, from this author. Carol Beyer will be teaching her Soul Centered Therapy class at the Village in a couple of weeks, and we will all get to visit with her.

I am welcomed by Rev. Anastasia Wilson, another LCCC minister and resident of Arizona who is co-chair with Carol Beyer.

We had a lovely nice-sized group at Surprise, the community in Arizona where Carol Beyer lives, followed by a delicious potluck — the food was wonderful as was the grouping. By the way, while all the rain is in the Oklahoma area, the heat is all in Arizona. The cacti are blooming, and Carol and I took an early morning stroll around her area; everything was beautiful. It was a great way to “top off” the journey.

Here we see Carol’s group and the pot luck at her home. Enjoy! We are all into snacks — did you know talking makes one hungry?

We all enjoyed some time with dear friends of LCCC: Al and Kay Andrews, friends of many years. They were wonderfully present with us although both are always busy; aren’t we all?

Like everywhere, we gather in the kitchen to talk as well.

All too soon we must say good night. Thank all of you for  joining us.  “Adieu”

I am cooking up an idea to share with you — we will have something ready in a few weeks. Hold us in your heart as I develop an idea I have cooking within.

Blessings, Carol

Hi and Happy Easter!

Our day was rainy, soft and lovely. We had a very nice service, and lunch was special with lots of guests and lots of food. Wish you were here.

Please note that on my web site www.caroleparrish.com I have added a 25 page set of Dream Workshop notes to my home page titled A Taste of Dream Study. All of you from Asheville will recognize much of this, although some is new. It is my pleasure to give you this free push toward becoming more aware of the inner life we are all living. I call it the hidden one third of our life here in the dense world.

If the classes in Intuitive Development, Dreams, Symbology, Dowsing, Color and Sound Teachings, as well as Remote Viewing, sound intriguing, please join us this summer between June 22-July 17. Check out our summer schedule of classes, and make your plans now for a visit.

Hope to see you. And have fun with your dreams.

Love, Carol

P.S.

Bringing you up to date on Holly — she is five months and growing! She has a lovely disposition and still thinks she is a lap dog.

Sometimes we can feel we are not being heard, but when we get National News like this, we know we are beginning to make a difference. Enjoy.

A Look at the Future through the Eyes of Nine Nobel Laureates.

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Featuring Nobel Laureates: Steven Weinberg, Jody Williams, Ahmed Zewail, Rick Smalley, Wangari Maathai, Sir Joseph Rotblat, Dr. Harold Varmus, Desmond Tutu, Amartya Sen

For more information visit The Nobelity Project.

Friends,

Many of you have asked me about the Seven Ray Institute’s Annual Conference. I will be there again in a couple of weeks. Would you like to join me there? It is always very good. Here is the link to the Seven Ray Institute and University of the Seven Rays Conference for details of their schedule and registration.

Love, Carol

Happy Spring!

Having just completed a fun weekend at Asheville, North Carolina, and having done lots of intuitive development classes, dream groups and meditation teaching, I was reminded what fun it is to have those kinds of groups. At any rate, Asheville was lots of fun and I love having contact with my friends there. Making new friends is also an important part of the visits.

What we are doing as we open ourselves to higher consciousness is to really begin to know and appreciate our Inner Knower. Of course, this is easier said than done, but it is the great personal goal as we move from “just play” to really learning to follow our guidance.

Almost no one understands the mystical aspect of Christianity which is veiled by all sorts of teachings, most of them false or simplistic. For you and me to develop the awareness needed we must live a life of simplicity, beauty and conscientiousness. This is certainly my goal even if I do it better some days than others — most of us do.

I have had a joyful time the past three weeks teaching the process of how to build a new consciousness. Sensitivity training is the mere beginning from the perspective of inner life. The outer life of morals and disciplines begin with church teachings and social awareness; this is a stage one. The learning of an inner journey is part two; here the work of intellect has to surrender to the inner knowing and without all this we cannot build the relationship to that which lives within. Only when we have enough self-discipline and self-awareness can certain achievement be made.

In due time, the carbon based body is to be transformed into a crystalline body, and it happens through a charted course, not intellectualism, but the “tuning up of the mind body” which begins with understanding the nature of wisdom. Wisdom burns through certain barriers and produces a kind of thinning so we can more easily move from intellect to intuition. It is a mystery, but related to the more simple exercises of dreaming, sensing, and intuiting.

We truly are following an age old formula: so much work, so much study, so much tears and so much joy — all is necessary, and as near as possible, a kind of receipt like baking a cake. We experience the burning ground and as the temperature is turned up, we bake.

At any rate, as I flew home from Asheville I decided to write a new article on Dreams and put it on my personal website, (please visit; it should be there soon). I have enjoyed this kind of work and would enjoy sharing more of this, so it is in process.

I did not get many photos of the Asheville group, but I saw some other cameras about, so I am asking for others to send me some. Here are the ones from my camera for us all to enjoy.

Here we go. The happy evening has begun and we see registration with our busy helpers and friends gather at Jubilee — in Asheville.

Guess who we see? Katherine Hightower, a long time friend who has spent a lot of time living and working at the Village over the years.

Carol greets a friend.

Of course, Shustah Cards were present.

Others joined us. Thanks to the work of Katherine Blackburn, and friends and helpers, we had a great crowd.

Back home again. In the early spring we can glimpse the river from our back yard. It is a silver ribbon laced through the trees in the Valley — when the sun is first rising in the mornings.

Now, Charles’ famous, glamorous Chicken Coop. See the lawn mower in front with which he will pull it as needed. This is high fashion backyard chicken farming.