Hi-Desert Center for Spiritual Living

The Hi Desert Center for Spiritual Living is an organization that honors all paths to God and can help you experience a personal relationship with God.  When God is the focus of our spirituality, then other areas of our lives fall into place - we are happier, we can do more for others, be better stewards of the Earth, and help bring peace and harmony to the world.

If you are in search of a spiritual community where you are respected and accepted for who you are and want inspiration and support to grow to your highest potential, please accept our invitation to visit our community.

Religous Science was founded in 1927 by Dr. Ernest Holmes.  The teachings are called Science of Mind.  The communities are now called Centers for Spiritual Living, Religious Science exists to facilitate the reawakening of each individual's awareness of the higher self within.  It is not in opposition to any religious belief or philosophy.  Rather it seeks to bring to light the thread of Truth that exists in all religions.

Actually, God is all we believe in.  God is the First Cause, the Great I Am, the One and Only.  God is Spirit or Creative Energy, which is the cause of all visible things.  God is all that we see and do not see.  God is Truth, Love, Wisdom, Intelligence, Power, Substance, and Mind.  God is the Truth that is real, the Principle that is dependable.  To the degree that we can experience the presence of God within us and as us, we shall be whole.

We accept his example and teachings.  We do not deny the divinity of Jesus, rather we affirm the divinity in all people, because God is the Creator of us all.  We think of Jesus as an example, not an exception.  Jesus showed us the way to be free from material, intellectual, emotional, or spiritual bondage, perhaps the most effective way ever known, and it can indeed release humankind from spiritual ignorance and bondage.

Heaven is an inner state of happiness.  It is not a place or locality "out there".  It is a real state of being.  The Kingdom of Heaven is within and can be fully experienced when we bond and unify with the presence of God at the center of our very being.

Hell, on the other hand, is a discordant state of being, a belief in duality, a belief or sense of separation from Source.  Just like Heaven, Hell is a state of mind based on our awareness or lack of awareness of the presence of God within us.  Many people are filled with hellish thoughts every day and therefore experience a "living hell" every day.