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A Centers for Spiritual Living Teaching Center. Founder and Spiritual Director: Rev. Dr. Raymont Anderson
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

“We can find awe, then, in eight wonders of life: moral beauty, collective effervescence, nature, music, visual design, spirituality and religion, life and death, and epiphany.”
― Dacher Keltner

Today, I explore the eight wonders of life.
#contemplation
December 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The script then states that the teacher should tell students, “The first race is Caucasian. The Caucasian people are spread over a large portion of the Earth.” … Co-opting the logic of colonist language…

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#racism #racialdominance
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
It should not surprise that people who feel even five minutes a day of everyday awe are more curious about art, music, poetry, new scientific discoveries, philosophy, and questions about life and death. They feel more comfortable with mysteries, with that which cannot be explained.”
― Dacher Keltner
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The teacher is instructed to tell students: “They are the most handsome, active, wise and powerful people in the world. Their color is white, the shape of their head round or oval; hair soft and of various colors.”

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#race #racism
December 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unravel this. We honor it by letting it be that way forever.”
― Richard Wagamese
December 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Aesthetic judgement took on the character of authority in upholding the racial discourses of domination in American life, then became divorced from it.

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

“What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.”
~Sharon Salzberg

I embody awe’s disruptive power!
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Aesthetics were marshaled to create, solidify, and naturalize the structure of racial hierarchies that we still live with today.

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
As a Centers for Spiritually Living (CSL) Teaching Center, The Spiritually Integrated Arts (SIA) is committed to creating a World that works for all by teaching, sharing, and living in accordance with the Science of Mind and Spirit
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December 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

“Genuine awe connects us with the world in a new way.”
~Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

Today, I connect with the world in a new way.

I embody genuine awe!

www.raymontanderson.com

#quotes #inspiration #motivation #meditation #contemplation
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"A beautiful body will be all the more beautiful the whiter it is,” proclaimed Johann Winckelmann, widely considered to be the founder of art history, instantiating ideals about aesthetic quality that rested on racial observation.

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
December 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

“The essence of all spirituality and religion is to gaze into the endless unknown and unknowable with the capacity for awe rather than terror, for a willingness to feel connected rather than separate from the immense all.”
― Ashavan

Today, I gaze. . .
December 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The standard look of a common soldier monument was meant to align a newly consolidating idea of racial whiteness with citizenship and civic duty at a time when this was being challenged.

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#race #racism #racialdominance
December 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.
~Kehinde Wiley

#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory #blackhistory365 #blackhistoryiseveryday #celebrate #educate #emancipate #liberate #community #Ubuntu
December 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“Capitalism requires there to be someone at the bottom to exploit from. It requires inequality. We can never have collective liberation under a system like this.”
~Mikaela Loach, It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World

#civilrights #humanrights #justice
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I stretch my entire being — from my body to my relationships to my consciousness —keeping myself supple, open, active, and lovingly ALIVE!
~Rev. Dr. Ray

#spirituality #metaphysics #mysticism #newthought #spirituallyintegratedarts #raymontanderson #scienceofmind #LiberationTheology
December 16, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

“God is the ultimate ground of Being, and this ultimate ground of Being is YOU. For one who realizes their true nature as God, as Consciousness, life becomes a joy without end.”
― Joseph P. Kauffman

Today, I embody my true nature.

I embody realization!
December 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Art as alchemy demands a level of authenticity from the artist where the artist is willing to be stripped naked in the town square, ridiculed, mocked, and even condemned for blasphemy... and still the artist expresses truth boldly!”
~Rev. Dr. Raymont Anderson

#quotes #thatartlife #artist
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Science of Mind and Spirit 4.0 gives us the means to actively E.A.T. – Embody, Apply, & Transcend.
Once we learn the truth of our being, we begin to embody it... “By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe!”
~Rev. Ray
#newthought #raymontanderson
December 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Metaphysical or spiritual mind healing is based on the assumption that we live in a spiritual Universe now, that we are spiritual beings now, that the kingdom of heaven is at hand now, ....
~Dr. Ernest Holmes
“Alcoholism (1941)”
#ernestholmes #scienceofmind
December 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
…in the infamous 1925 Rhinelander v. Rhinelander case in New York state, Leonard Rhinelander sued his wife, Alice Jones, on the grounds that she lied about being a white woman when she had black ancestry.

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#race #racism
December 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

I choose gratitude. I choose wonder. I choose awe. I choose everything that suggests I'm opening myself to the miraculous reality of simply being alive for one moment more.”
― Scott Stabile

Today, I choose all that is Life-Affirming as well!
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Eugenics was supported by a coalition of leaders, educators, Supreme Court justices, social reformers, and scientists ... all focused on a so-called science of heredity as a means for so-called social improvement, guided by an ideal of perfected racial whiteness.

The Unseen Truth
~Sarah Lewis
December 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The Month Unfolds as ... AWE!

“I suspect that it was simply that I had admired the earth and the universe. The more I say and think that I admire it, and love it, the more it gives me what I admire, or strange coincidences that leave me in more awe than I was before.”
― Michael Whone
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The tactics of eugenics - legal, social, and medical - focused on “breeding,” sterilization, and restrictive immigration. The tactics were also, crucially, visual.

The Unseen Truth:
When Race Changed Sight in America
~Sarah Lewis
#race #racism #racialdominance #biasedcognition
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM